The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1903, Page 1

Se ee t } { { G a ee eo ON PAGE 8. | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ] PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, MONDAY, EDITION 9, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT. ¢ RUBBERING” AT “FLATIRON LECAL Magistrate Mayo Holds that You Can’t Prevent a Man from Using His Eyes When ~ Wind Raises a Skirt. “ BUT TWO MINUTES IS ENOUGH A Longer Time in Looking at ~ Hosiery, It Was Decided in Julius Ceslo’s Case, Renders Him Liable to Fine for Disorderly Conduct. Tt was judicially dotermined to-day that a fan may stand two minutes in front of the Flatiron Building, Broad- way and Fifth avenue, in study of the wind-blown anatomy of women shop- pers who come scudding up Twenty- third street these fine February days. A longer time than that renders a fan lable to punishment for disorderly conduct. A woman, presumably, may stand there as long as she likes, the pterner sex being discriminated against in the new adjudication. Jt came about in this way,~ Julius Cesio, & Frenchman, with an eye for the beautiful, especially as pertaining to the fair sex, was discovered to-day by Policeman Bennett. of the Broadway Squad, watching the display of hoslery and lingerie and that which these beau tifw! things are supposed to cover more or less. The policeman told him to “move on. He wouldn't and was ar- rested. Charge Gravely Made. He was arraigned before Magistrate Mayo in Jefferson Market this after- noon, The Magistrate listened to Ben- nett's charge with great gravity. ‘He was jeerin’ at the ladles when the wind blew their clothes up to their knees,” said the policeman. “Indeed,” remarked the Magistrate, mith Hfted eyebrows "An! he owas lookin’,"’ Policeman. “Indeed,"’ repeated the Magistrate. “Why, Your Honor,” burst in Mark Alter, the prigoner's counsel, ‘this man 4s so blind he couldn't see a stocking iftyou put it up in front of his face. He was on his way to a doctor to have Ris eyes attended to. He saw a ~ growd watching and he stopped. The Policeman told him to move on, and when he asked what for the policeman ‘rented him. Isn't that so, M. Ceslo?” ““Out, Monsteur,"” exclaimed the Frenthman excitedly. ‘I saw no legs— T'saw no legs. It is a shame. I saw no Jegs. “This ix a very serious matter,” said the Magistrate, without stopping to in- quire whether the shame was In his ar- fest or his failure to have seen every- thing was going. “It is too serious for Joking. I caution you, M. Cesio, that you must not stand an unreasonable Jength of time in front of the Flatiron uilding, Now, two minutes is a rea- sonable time, and you can use your eyes, but at the end of that time you must move on. ¥ "Yes," put in Alter, “and give some fone else a chance, ‘The Magistrate then discharged him, Hard to Round Corner, ‘The struggle to get around the corner the Flatiron Bullding, at Fifth ,fvenue and Twenty-third street to-day Waz an experience that every woman twho easayed the trip will not forget In \@ Surry. The trip is less than fifty (fect. It extends from a point on Broad- ‘way about twenty feet from the corner ot, the wedge of the building, to a point ‘which may tbe marked as the middie of Witth. avenue, going west through Wwentv-vhird street. It is a rounding of the H eo to speak, In that short (Blty feet a woman experiences all the ‘emotions that a human is capable of feeling, Ama%ement, determination, em- arrgrement, shame, grief, rage and joy mre just a few of the emotions that \Bweep over her in lees time than it takes ‘Wo tell it, In Shame and Rage. ” Ghame and rage are exprossed when \ Phe ericounters the gaze of hundreds of ‘waters who congregate néar this corner went on the + (Continued on Twelfth Page.) CLEVELAND DODGES IT. atial Candidacy Talk from Him of No Importance, * GINOCINNAT, Feb. 9,-In response to */& direct inquiry as to whether he was ® wandidate or would accept another thomination for the Presidency, the fol- Howing has been received from Former President Grover Cleveland: : “PRINCBTON, Feb, 6, 1908, To the Editor of the Times-Star, , Cincinnati, “Dear Bir; I have received your letter Pt the 4th instant, asking on behalf of the Times-Btar for an expression re- @trding my intentions as related to the next Democratic nomination ¢oy he Presidency, I cannot possibly bring iy mind to the belief that a condition ‘or eentiment exists that aiakes any ' lon from me on the subject of the least tnportance, “Yours very truly, “GROVER CLEVELAND.” & Month Amoug Flowers, A HOODOO SALS ON THIS SHIP Remarkable List of Mishaps to the Olivier de Clisson, Now Ashore Off Long Beach, Long; Island. HAS A RECORD IN ILL-LUCK. Although Only Three Years Old, She Has Spread Death Abroad and Has Been Given Up Twice as Lost. STARTLING RECORD OF HOODOO SHIP. Launched three years ago. Ran down two fishing smacks; drowned twenty men. Crew mutinied: captain a pris- oner. Out 217 days; given up as lost. | Run down by collier, | Two men killed by falls from rigging. Captain dies and Is buried at sea, | Goes ashore off Long Beach, ns ‘The French bark Olivier de CHsson is |in trouble again, this time being high and dry near Point Lookout Station, wong Beach, L. 1. It ts sald that she Js sn no danger and can be hauled off, xo {t is likely that she fs fated to end her tempestuous career in some other way. If ever a vessel had a hoodoo this Frenchman has, She is not more than three years old, having been turned out with the first big fleet of bounty chas- ers, but she has piled up for herseif a record of ill-luck and death that makes old sailors afraid of her. In the latter part of 1900 the Clisson Bot @ coal freight from Swansea for San Francisco, Crossing the English Channel she ran down two fishing Smacks and drowned a score of men. ‘After a long delay she sailed from the British port and was supposed to be well on her way toward the Golden Gate, when, one day, three months out, she turned up sat Cayenne, Frénch Gulana, with her chief mate in command, the crew in mutiny, her “old man’ locked in his cabin and short of provisions. The skipper, It developed at a consular in- auiry, had kept up a ith of July cele- bration from the time he left England. A new captain was sent out by the owner: a Nantes firm, the ringleaders mutiny were transport to e for trial and the Olivier de son once more set sail for California. Month after month passed and no word came of the bark, Finally she was posi- ed by Lloyd's as overdue, and from 16 per cent, she climbed in feinsurance as the days went on to 50, then to 8) and finally, when 205 dayé out and not spoken, her funeral notice went up on the boards of the Inauiry Room of the Royal Exchange. There Wasn't a sailor who thought she had a chance, Byery one believed that her > of coal, in her for over @ year, had taken fire, Tt wes within a few day's of phe time! set for to be ‘officially | ba recorded and when she was out 217 days that she was described off the Golden G scur had been able to work her. Her sides looked like new spring lawns, She had been in t rt but a few days when an out bound collier ran her down during a fog and took the jibboom and bowsprit out of her, While Repairing this damage one of her sailors wax dilled by a fall and while bending. safl for a passage to Queenstown, with wheat, she lost another, who fell’ from. aloft. "When she sailed sallors said she would never get home ‘The Clisson sailed from Plymouth, England, on Dec, % for this port, and when she went ashore last night had been out forty-seven days, a very long ate. it was an awful story she had to tell. y man for'ard Was down with and It was marvellous how they re. ‘Vessel now les practically high and dry at low tide, but it Is expected that It will be possible to float her at high water, To the life savers who visited her to- day the crew stated that the command- Cant. Al fteen days ago from naturel causes and was ‘buried at sea, The vessel was in charge of First Mate Loas when she struck “JACK THE HUGGER” CAUSED HER DEATH Mary Sheely Could Not Recover from Her Encounter with the Mysterious Man. Mary Sheely, twenty-two yeare oid, of No, 18 Prescott place, died in the Clty Hospital in Jersey City to-day of nervous prostration brought on bj attacks Phy. “Jack the Weaken by being Mis Sheely was walking along dolph’ avenue one evening about woeks ago when she was suddenly selzed from behind and hi ‘and kissed. Bhe was so fright fainted, and wi eF hoine she became violently cal and had to be removed to the pital Her assailant got away, n he was taki —————— ODELL TO NAME HENDRICKS. Man 4, arance Department, Syrac ALBANY, Feb. 9.—Gov, Odell will send| mestt the Se nigh Hott authority, the silt Hace si & Hendricks, of Syracuse, to if Blate 8 msl a uperiatendent ot 1 -POUND BABIES NOW IN BELLEVUE Master Joseph Flanigan Is the}: Latest Arrival in the Always- Popular Incubator Colony at the Big Hospital. EATS LIKE A GOOD FELLOW. Doubled Up with Little Knick-Knack Because the Goldstein Baby's Fists and Feet Keep Moving. So| ‘ There Was Danger—All Three Fine Incubator babies are the rage at Belle- vue. . Little Knick Knack Has been forced to share his tiny glass house in which he bas been lord and master for the last few days with a new arrival, who makes the third of the most interesting trio cf pationts recently demanding the attentfen of the nurses and doctors at Bellevue. Mother incubator's newest baby can | boast a mark of distinction over the two previous arrivals which further dis- tinguishes him from nearly every former | resident in the glass house. The new baby who joins his feeble cries with the sturdy ones of Baby Goldstein and the less frequent ones of Knick Knack arriyed at the hospital with the full dignity of a first name, Alvhough welgh- ing only @ pound, like his two predeces- sors. and being but four hours old when he was consigned to the incubator with the Knack infant, he was registered a Joseph Flanigan and already the tiny chap has ha@ the Catholic baptism ceremony performed by Father Corvett, of St. Bridget's Church. Driven in a Carriage. Joseph was rolled up to the hospital yesterday noon in a carriage, attended by his anxious father, Matthew J. Flan- igan, of No. 117 Avenue B, and his aunt, Mrs. Ellen Kerrigan. Little Joseph wi merabie blankets, nally unrolled and his tiny pound of red flesh and bones was reached the father and aunt tood by with the great- est fear and interest lest something evil mes ‘happen. V Shep dggemh was washed and put into his tiny Wrappings of sheet linen the first Intention. of.the nurses’ was to ‘put him in the incubator with the Goldstein baby, but this sturdy infant {s so free with his fists and feet and keeps'up such an energetic eerles of infantile move. ments that it was decided to place th: new arrival beside little Knick Knack. When the Knack baby was asked to share his home with a stranger he at first gave a few tny yells at the Intru- sion, but now he has become resigned and ‘the two tiny infants lle side by side in the greatest harmony. He Ents with Relish, The little Flanigan baby, Dr. Sherer says, is in good condition and takes his food with relish, The Goldstein and Knack babies aro making remarkable progress. . “They are all that could be expected, said Dr. Sherer to-day, “and tiough the mortality among these tiny Incubator bables {s high, we may prove exceptions to the rule with our interesting trio.” Perhaps no one-pound charge of the incubator has ever been consigned to her tender mercies with the heart yearn- Ings that follow Joseph Flanigan. dis mother, Margaret Flanigan, lost her only son bait q short time age, and she hopes to seq little Joseph grow take the place of her dead boy. Mat- thew Flanigan is a factory Inspector and the family is In good circumatances, To an Evening World reporter the fond mother said her greatest fear Is that by some mistake the bables may get mixed up in the Incubator, ‘The dlet of the lit- tle one-pound son iiterested her greatly, and when she was told that he appar- ently enjoyed his diet of modified milk with the zeal of amuch larger baby she seemed greatly comforted, —- “Even if he is only a pound baby, he is my only boy," she said, “and it 1 Could Just believe that he would grow up to be a man I would lie here contented.” EDNA'S RACE HORSE ENTERS DUTY FREE. Congressmen Get Up Early to Pass on Miss Hopper’s Blue- Blooded English Nag. wrapped In Innu- (Special to The Evening World.) Feb, 9,—Edna Wal- e Hopper ean bring race horse into the United States without paying any duty on it, This race horse caused the solemn Committee on Wavs and Means of the House @ whole lot of trouble to-day. It made the elghteen statesmen compris- ing the committee get out of bed early to attend a committee meeting at 10 o'clock The committee &t once went into ex- ecutive session, and the question of making Chester, Pa,, a sub-port of en- uy and everything else was dropped while the conimittee considered the case of Miss Hopper’s raca horse. ‘Her petition stated that she wanted to use the horse for breeding purposes; that he wat of the bluest aorse blood of England and would prove @ great addition to the horse family of the United Btates. After the case had been properly ex- ach committeeman voted Lo let rae Into the country without the payment of duty. Miss Hoppers press Agent did not attend the committee ee admitt the by anh ie ara % ny oy pol io the House om mat on Ways nd when he was} “ ment | cha, | and Means” gt the 53-98 | 998690004-4066409606585:564649606486408 4051084800600 6 POLOEM DHE EEO DODOHHE TOOK ROO OH HRE YOUNG, THE WOMAN SLAYER, LISTENS TO JUDGE HERRICK SENTENCE HIM FOR LIFE. FDOEG8-OOO-4G §05.O-8-H9-000-0606.0-6.64.6.8..690.04 OUT HS DEBTS. jOld Scrapper Goes Through the Process of Being Discharged in Bankruptey and He No Longer Fears the Sheriff. “GEE, A RELIEF!” HE SAYS. | | John 1, step er. Tod) Judge Adan in the United States Dis- trict Court, discharged him as a bank rupt and thereby wiped out the fear of the bailiff that has been rankling in his heart. Sullivan was accompanied to court by his counsel, James F. Mack, and when the Judge signed the final order the big man heaved a sich of rellef that went thundering out into the gloomy corridors, ‘Then he smiled broadly and said . “Gee, but that's a relief, 1 feel like @ man who, after goin’ down for the count, comes to and finds the other man out. I ain't as young as 1 used to be, but I guess I'll stay in the ring for a litle while, an’ now I got a chance to begin fresh an’ new I can take things easy, anyhow, an’ say, “To the woods!" to them sherift fellers. ‘The ex-champion filed his petition in bankruptey on Noy. %8 last, He placed his Habjlities at $2,658.78, all unsecured and due to four creditors, ‘The creditors were: The Auheuser Brewing Company, $1,500 on promissory notes; Jullus Palm & Co, No, 669 Sixth avenue, $558.78 for liquors; J, H, Lewis, No, 417 Washing: ton street, Boston, $150 on five promis- sory notes, and Charles H, Stevens, No, 95 Park avenue, $19 on @ promissory note. | Bultivan has no need to wld his creditors any | ——— Workman Gets « Hard Fall, William Bennett, thirty years old, laborer, of No. 189 East One Hundred) street, fell from the second floor of the new building at Seventy-seventh street and Broadway to the basement to-day. le was picked up and found to be suf- fering from internal injuries. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospita —————— WEATHER FORECAST, | Forecast tur the thirty-six for New York City a: || Paty to-migut | | to-day ORNL KNOCKS [ROCKEFELLER’S SON SWEARS OFF TAXES TO $30,000 Then He Imitates a} Pierpont Morgan and te Agrees to Pay on a $50,000 Assessment. John D. Rockofeiler, assessed on $500,000 of pers had Jr, who his asses reduced ta § and then agreed ty pay t on $50,000 personality, Mr. Rockefeller declared that he owed $400,000 and did not $30,000 worth of personal property, James Henry Smith, possess more nal property. aa.oao | CePt $100,000, | Smith's uncle, who died tn Parts,| defense, that the man was not legally ingane. than whose personal Was | assessment was $1,500,000, fax Office to-day and swo-e off ail ex Mr. AXES Thee him several atitiions 4 dollars: It was said that the Jagal representa: | tive of Reginald Vanderbilt had at tho tax office for the purpose of hay Ing bis assessment reduced, but none of the Commissioners would admit it. WOMAN CONFESSES SHE AidED: DR, SUTORIUS IN BANK FiAUD, Gertrude Anderson, the stenographer. arrested at Richmond Va., for defrauding the Trust Company of the Re; connivance of William Grebe, a clerk, and Dy. Francis Sutorius, made a confession this afternoon to an Evening World report- ér and her mother. She said that she went into the scheme |wnich the Justice was shown a letter from Young and a report from some last September at the solicitation of Grebe. checks against her false account, one for $150, the other for | he was bronght back to the court-room She drew two $90. Out of this Grebe gave her $50. According to the Ander- son girl there was another ave the ellow conspirators. Miss Anderson is willing to be a witness | for the State and will probably be paroled in the custody of her | ¥ | trate. | counsel, Daniel O'Reilly, man in the scheme, one Cook, who bank the information that led to the arrest of his| BROTHER AIDS HIM TO STAND, a LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Fifth Race—Blennevis 1, Right and True 2, Josette 3. f WITNESS IN YOUNG CASE ARRESTED ON WIFE'S CHARGE. | Frank Engelhard, who was to have been a witness against) * William Hooper Youn ona a warrant sworn our two ote ere minor point was arrested to-day on and a half years ago by his wife sessi¢, charging him with non-support. He was arraigned in the Harlem Court.and held until to-morrow by Magis $500 bail, Engelhard says he will not support his wife's family. ‘aio Zeller in oun pean Seer Gerd neeoeper eenese i 4 ra > 4LIADDAILEYEOLLO DEO called at tho ated raiture. fic with the | der in the second degree? ‘tion and then weakly came from the prisoner these words: "SULT PLEAOE YOUNG WHOGDES. TOA FORUE —_—__—_— +4 |In Order to Spare the Public the Horrors of — the Recital of the Killing of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, Justice Herrick Suggests a Com- promise of Murder in the Second Degree, Which Is Accepted. : Lawyer for the Wretched Prisoner Declares — that Saving His Client from Death in the Electric Chair Is Only the First Step To-— ward Securing Him Absolute Freedom Eventually. 4 In the belief that William Hooper Young is medically insane and in order to spare the public the horror of a rehearsal of the ree volting crime he committed in the murder of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, Justice Herrick, before whom Young's trial had been progressing, r to-day decided to accept 4 plea of guilty of murder in the second — degree. j 33 Justice Herrick immediately sentenced Young to imprisonment. for life, Stine The plea was accepted after a long conference between the District-Attorney and Lawyer W. F. 8. Hart, counsel for Young. The Justice discharged the jury after passing sentence upon the ~ prisoner and took upon himself the full responsibility for the act, although it had the indorsement of Distriet-Attorney Jerome, Mr. Hart was greatly tickled over his client's escape, He did not hesl- tate to say that, now that Young could get nothing worse than life imprison- ment, he would keep up the fight in his behalf, expecting to first get him into an asylum, and after a time pozsibly get him out and back to full free dom, ! STOPPAGE OF TRIAL A SURPRisr:. The sudden stoppage of thetrial surprised almost every one, most of all | the jury, Young was evidently greatly relieved that he had been permitted to escape so easily, and when he left the court after sentence had been paszed upon him he walked with a firm step, and apparently felt Uke an- | other man. | In explanation of Young's determination to change his plea of not gullty {to the indictment charging him with murder in the first degree to one of | guilty in the second degree, it is said that both he and his lawyer realized | that there was no hope for him to establish a case of insanity. 3 | All the experts were agreed. both those for the State and those for the That he was medically insane wes another question which, however, was not st issue. ye Young realized thet his efforts to felgn insanity had been a lamentable | He has been a close reader of the newspapers, which had unanie mously ridiculed his tricks, and he saw that the jury was likely to take the samu view of them. * FEARED THE ORDEAL OF A LONG TRIAL On Saturday he sent for his lawyer and told him that he could not stan@ the ordeal of a long-drawn-out trial. He wanted to plead guilty. Mr. Hart jtalked it over with him, and concluded that his best chance was to plead to murder in the second degree if the District-Attorney would permit it, Nu- merous conferences wereheld secretly over Sunday,and when court convened to-day it was all arranged between Hart and Jerome that should Justice | Herrick consent the trial was toend, Meantime nothing had been said about |the matter, for if the Justice refused to listen to the proposition the trial would have to continue. 4 Young was brought over from the Tombs in good condition, He was cheered up by the hope that his plea would be accepted, and as there was 80 cleaner. He had brushed his hair and beard and also put on clean linen, After several conferences between the lawyers and Justice Herrick, in ‘of the experts who have been examining him, the clerk called his name Finally the Justice called “Young!* © The prisoner did not seem to hear him, 4 “Young, stand up, Young.” repeated the Justice. + J. Wesley Young caught his brother's arm and lifted hi mto his fee, 1) ) here he stood with his face very pale and his bleared eyes on che’ magiae | “Willam Hooper Young,” went on the court, “T understand that you desire to change your plea of not guilty to this indictment to guilty of Is that right?” ; No ahswer came from the prisoner. The Magistrate repeated his “Yes; murder in the second degree.” “J am willing to accept that plea on the recommendation of the D uy Attorney and of your counsel for reasons which have develuped in this ri