The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 1

War, * } h: > Dmened and cut. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS: __ON PAGE 12 che “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ orld, |NIGHT wenrnon—ralr tonight; wrarmes | EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ir KBRUARY a0 19053. 3. PRICE ONE bessab STOVE BLOWS UPAND FOUR ARE INJURED Dora Goldstein Built a Fire in the Range and Frozen Water-Pipe’’ Caused Ex- plosion that Shook the Neighborhood. FAMILY HA HI dng aa ‘As He Made a Bolt for Freedom Girl Who Started the Fire, Her Father, Mrs. James Maums and/a Baby All Thrown to the Floor and Hurt. Four persons were injured, one seri- @usly, by the explgsion of a stove in the kitchen of the ground floor of No. 168 Hast One Hundred and Sixth street this afternoon. The injured are: DORA GOLNSTEIN, fourteen years olf, face and hands severely ‘Taken to friends’ house. LOUIS GOLDSTEIN, sight burns. Mra. JAMES MAUMS, bruises and shock. Seven-months-old baby of Mra. ‘Thomas Lane, thrown to the floor hy the shock and hend ent. The explosion wag caused by a fire be- ing kindled In the-stoye while the water back and pipes were frozen. When the terrific report was heard by the tenants they rushed to the street in a pantc. The noise was heard for blocks and an immense crowd gathered in front of the house. quidn’t Send Her to Hospital. tAn‘ainbulance was'kummoned from the ~ Harlow. (Heapital, and —De,-Donovan d¥essed the wounds of the injured ones, shock and The ambulance surgeon advised the! 15), Goldstein girl to go to the hospital, but her {pther said he would see that sne family physician. The Goldsteins had just moved in on the ground floorr of the house. Mrs. Goldstein and two small children had vemained at the old address of the tam- ily, at No. 761 East One Hundred and Sixty-seventh street, leaving Mr. Gold stein and his daughter to attend to the woviix in of the furniture. ‘As soon as the furniture van had been dpiyen away Mr. Goldstein directed, his daughter to light a fire in the kitchen stove, as te apartment was very cold. ‘The jaritress, Mrs. Jane Reilly, had notified Mr. Goldstein that the water pipes. were frozen and to be careful In fighting the fire. ‘The girl piled the stove full of wood with a layer of coal on the top. She was standing close to the stove whe! suddenly it blew up with terrific force. ‘Nhe girl wasthrown across the room And was unconscious for a few minutes. CORTELYOU SITS IN CABINET. | § New Commins « Makes Terse Répert at His First Meeting. WASHINGTON, Feb, 20.—Secretary @ortelyou attended Ais first Cabinet meeting to-day as the head of the new wnt of Commerce and Labor. He ven @ cordial welcome by both the t and by other members of the) 1 et, Fand was escign to the seat the foot of the oeraeey table which i ae At eer saeetiog eae there was no was Pre of the details of a new de- me The on Bocretar ted it was in br sHourianing cone ition, cramped for quarters.” ay or the Secretary Cortelyou } o> mNTD meiotic tn Congreae, his Teaoa: tions as to fepartmant, ar eed het ‘usual custom, belng ransmitted through the Secretary of the ‘Treasury. BRYAN iN CONGRESS. Holds a Reception anf Plans for Brief Stey in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.~William PA ’ @ryan held’ an informal reception in the Novby ‘of the House of Representatives fo-day, shaking hands with members, os of whom he served with when he bryan exp opecte to remain in Wash- pater! HARRISON SUBPOENAED. Giicawe’s Mayor Summoned in Al- dermanto Bribery Inquiry. CHICAGO, Feb, The Grand Jury peter levees extapsenas for Mayor Har- Jobn A. Spoor, ey Railway, and mnt in connection with the rmanls bribery ine ‘bribery invest jsstion, Piesident’s Salety ba safety Ball Amreed To, WASHINGTON, ¥eb. %.—The con- foreés on the bill for the protection of . the President have agreed and their re- gubmitted to the House. the House amend- inal bill with somo “wording. , the West. elved medical attendance from his} § SMOKED QUT a Be ae Le NEGRO AND AILLED AIM. The Desperate Man Held Fifty Policemen at Bay for Several Hours and Threatened to Shoot. 3 FIRED HOUSE TO GET HIM. One of the Officers Shot Him and the Rest Finished the Job ‘—Fire Department Helped. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 20.—After hold- ing half a hundred policemen at bay for several hours, during which scores of shots were exchanged, Lafayette Sims, | a desperate negro, was killed by the police to-day {n a negro boarding-house on South Rampart street. The room in which Sims was be sieged had to be set on fire and the Fire Department called out before Sims could be driven from pis post. As he| attempted to escape. still carrying his shotgun, he was shot down. | The body was taken to the morgue without any demonstration from a mob: @ of several thousand negroes who crowd- ed the vicinity of the tragedy. The origin of the trouble was trivial. Sims occupied a room In the boarding- } house in which here were seven beds. | On retiring last night he locked the! door, and when the landlord early this morning asked him to ope it so that another lodger might be admitted Sims refused. Then the landlord sent for tho police. . Opened Fire on the Police, ¢ Efforts to persuade Sims to open tre l¢ door fatied and a hole was smashed in | 4 it. Mhrough the aperture Sims agen | % shooting. One bullet knocked. a. pistol from the fingers.of OMcer Winstein, and a seconW sflajtered the “ianterd | @ which the officer Carried. Pnereupon | Additional police were sent for and the $ ouge Was surrounded. 58 en the reinforcements had arrived | the negro landiord and an officer ap- proached the foom and pleaded With ims to come out and surrender. “No, 1 won't,” he answered, with an| Oath, “I'll shoot if you don't go,away: Iam not going to leave here. They'll! « burn me in oil. They'll fry me." Sims piled some of the furniture tn the room against the door and war prepared to fight for his life. As the landlord and the officer retreated tne desperado fired at them, without doing any damage. All cttorts to induce the prisoner to surrender having proved ineffective, Supt. Journee decided that there was nothing to be done out to smoke the ceeee STEL Fi Coe OLELOL606640O0OO04 TWO ORDINARY SIZED TROLLEY CARS CAN ENTER 3 99446 46 THE CEPRIC GIANT LINER ‘CEDRIC STEAMING INTO PORT AND A COMPARISON SHOWING MONSTER PROPORTIONS. | ©6S90844490066O% DEEOEEDEDEODNEDHEDESSEDIOGESOGNOOGDE HEDOODHERLDEGS TS HOEDODGOH 'S SMOKES OOS OPO. DOHOEEDORE GES a 8Ot-S39% Se ee ae a EDLPHE F9IGO394072H9 060999690359 95 PPHMEOHIRISS SRSA DISOOIREDS SOS | > » | é | $266006809464006" negro out. Smoked Out to His Doom, An alarm was turned in and a portion of the fire department brought to the scene. A quantity of cotton, ofl and Sulphur was sent. for, the cotton rolled | Into balls and saturated with match applied and the blazing substan hurled into tae room, every avenue of escape being guarded. The furniture in| the room caught fire quickly, filling the | place with smoke and flame. Sims hung on to his piding place until} he was fiearly suffocate: made a break to escape. the door Patrolman Fred The negro rl a gered, mortally nstantly other policemen fired on him and he feil MONSTER CEDRI HAS ARRIVED, Biggest Steamer in the World Reaches Port and Throng Awaits at Her Dock to Give The firemen extinguished the flames and the ‘holy was draggd out and taken through a lane of excited negroes Oe Po att On. roam following} Mer Greeting on Initial Voyage: the tragedy showed that Sims had got | possession of Officer Winsteln's reval- ver after panting tts treet it from his hands. SHIP HEPLESS 00 MILES OUT The Bovic Reports Having Pass- ed a Single-Funnel Steamer} in Distress Far East of) Sandy Hook. | { OD TIME ON THE TRIP.. Tae new White Star line steamer: Cedric, the largest vessel afloat, reached! here on her maiden trip from Liverpool late to-day. She was sighted off Sandy Hook at 3.09 P, M., and was expected! to reach Quarantine in time to pass the ‘Health’ Officer and go to her dotk to- mght, | Preparations had been made at the compapny’s piper for docking and a big throng awaited her coming there. ‘The Cedric was expected yesterday, but she encountered rouga weather, and sides, baling a new @hip, Capt. Haddock | did want to push Her to the iimit. | Tho (bic is capable of making 2| | knots an hour, power being furnished | to two sets of quadruple expansion en- gines vy elght double-ended steel boli- ers. To appreciate her great size it is neces- sary to see her in compariaon with other craft, In harbor she appears like « floating island dwarfing tugs and haroor craft to mere specks, She has two enor- mous funnels and four masts. ANOTHER VESSEL STOOD BY. There is a single-funnel steamship tn distress 600 miles east of Sandy Hook, The White Star line freight steamer Bovic, that arrived to-day thr late from Liverpool, sighted the disa-| Capt. Haddock is evidenuy proceed- bled mer with another steamor| ng With auton along the Long Island coast and th ugh the crowded ship- as nied ont Na standing by apparently about to throw ny The Ce Hicker Lighten good time to pi The Cedric has’ ten separate decks— stories one might call them, Imagine an and made leamer in trouble was in lati- tude 0.50, longitude 66.43, The boat that was standing by ready to give aid to the| Linmense travelling dotel’ ten “storie disabled craft le thought to be a Bristol] Pixy, weventy ive. leet wide, and three City line steamship, probably the Boston], Broadway she would a the City, whiob mailed from Barry on Jan,| buildings on either side, ax he ts wid 2% and should be in that latitude, than the atreet, of her tunnels Would be about 160 fect from the around ‘There funnola are sixteen foet In dii eter, large envugh to be used for Honk In the rapid transit tunnel, Capt: Jones, of the Bovic, says nelther whip displayed ignals, but the sup- Powed Hristo) Clty t had weveral aailors on her after-star with ANE WAY se! Pon seemingly anout to es and PR for i Fea an run laweer to the Ah A ™ RG ot ee fie . Jones thinks ‘crippled sup will be towed into Hall towed’ into Halitax: snd fest thres- gpatters ana a Festus Roane ET 2s io 2 TOOK SIX OWN A FIRE-ESCAPE. Thrilling Rescue of Two Women, and Four Children by Bioycio! Patrolman Liebold in a Burn- | ing Flat-House. i | | Yesoued this afternoon from a burning | flat house, at’ No 208 Eighth avenue, ; by Bicycle Patrolman Liebold, of the West One Hundred and Fifty-second Aitreet Station, They were carried down the front fire-escape by the policeman while the flames raged in a saloon which occupied the first floor ‘The rescued were; Mrs, Euguene Me- Gulre and her three children, Jerome, mond and Bugene, aged 5, 3’and £ ars respectively, who live on-the sec ond floor, and Mrs. Kate Brophy and her four-year-old child from the third floor, Mrs. Brophy had been overcome by W.K. VANDERBILT, JR BETS ONE DOLLAR. Multi-Millionaire’s Commissioner Is Followed | tore the Grand Jury, which meets next Tuesday, and demand that the wreck Around Ingleside Betting Ring by ‘‘Rub- ote bers'’ Who Expect to See a Plunge, but He Only Bets.a One-Spot, | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. man worth many 'tor m: they b da nger. Meehanus, 20.— ar 4 to 1 on When a } millions bets on a4 HE IS NEW TO THE FORCE, |"or%¢ ‘he “ise ones’ at the race track |rubber to beat, the band. The supposi- jtlon 1 that there is “something doing’ Two women and four children were/@né that perhaps a “killing” is on hand, t millionaires are plungers if t all-on the "ponies," But W. K. Vanderbilt, regulars at the Ingleside track yester- He made a unique record as a He called a club-house com- missioner and sent to the ring a bet on which wa’ fooled the the slaten, ‘The many men who watch the club-house ‘bets followed the comimis- sioner. To thetr amazement he bet one silver dollar for Mr, Vanderbilt, Moehanus won. Encouraged by his success, Mr. Van- derbilt again called the clu none @ com: miesioner and again the : followed him into the ri they thought a big play To their disgust the bet w Andrew Ring to run xecon4. Andrew Ring ran second. That ended Mr. Vanderbilt's plunging for the day, on time | surely on. | 6 to 6 on smoke before she was reached by the brave officer The fire started in the basement from an overheated furnace. The damage is $1,000. Liebold, a recent appointee on the police force, distinguished himself several weeks ago by recovering several thousand dollars’ worth of goods stolen from the New York Central, Rallrosd cars. 3 WASHINGTON, Feb, 2.—The House Committee on Insulay Affaire by a party vote to-day authorized Sble report oo the Philippine Currency: bill as it pagsed the Senate, but recom mends that it be amended’ by striking out the Senate provision for an interna tional commission, also by inserting the end of sect the followin, “Provided thai debis contracted prior to the Siwt day of r, 1903 be paid in legal tender ¢ islands existing at the jog of sald contracts, unless other expressly, provided By contract." wae Wennavivenia Lan a Ldpeltee ioe ta atid Sie BOARD OF ESTIMATE VOTES | BIG SUMS 102 IMPROVEMENTS, The Board of Estimate and Apportionment to-day author. | ized. these large issues of revenue bonds and corporate stock: For repaving streets in Manhattan, $3,150,000; school sites, $2,000,000; Department of Public Charities, $250,000; Carnegie Library sites, $250,009; Denartment of Water Sup- | ply, $1,270,090; park improvements, $250,000; building public bath in Borough of Brooklyn. $90,900; new buildings for the Department of Health, $250,000: Dock Department, $1,000,- 000; stock and plant for Street-Cleaning Department of Rich- | mond, $100,000 ina ot bi LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race—-Alfred C..1. Chisckadee 2, Vesuvius 3. ‘ { OTHER NEW ORLEANS RACES | AND ENTRIES ON PAGE 2, + ite ae i taidbaly SAMA ni a ha | PUBLIC INDIGNATION GROWS. | fixing the blame. 4; | signa) system and derailing switches, but the contract, was repudiated when |NO WHITE WASH, | AGAINST THE | North Jersey Street Railway Company, \to make Clifton avenue crossing safe. the overloading of qare had been frequently made and thet Ge! ANOTHER CHILD TROLLEY VICTIM UEADIN NEWARK, Jennie E. McLelland, After Many Hours of Suffering, Dies in the Hospital from Injuries Received Yesterday in the Awful Grade: Crossing Tragedy. Public Indignation Against the Railroad and Trolley Officials is Growing, and the Cor- oner Has Called a Jury to Begin an In- quest To-Morrow. Jennie McLelland, who had been suffering intensely since the frightful accident in Newark yesterday morning, died at 3.30 o'clock in the City” Hospit! this afternoon. be! Miss McLelland was the first of the girls injured when the Lackawans engine ploughed its way through the trolley car to receive medical aid. She was operated on by Drs, Edward J. and Charles Ill, who believed that the patient was her niece, Viola Ill, whose body was at that time among the unidentified in the Morgue. The indignation of the residents of Newark is constantly growing. County Prosecutor Ohandler W. Riker announced after Miss McLelland’e death that there would be a Coroner's inquest to-morrow with a view of This will be the first Inquest held in Newark in tem ~ Years, i )» Subpoenas for thirty talesmen were issued late to-day, and from Annee eight men will be drawn as a jury. Prior to this action Mayor Doremus and the members of the Board of Public Works held a conference. Chairman Garrison said that his board Proposed to compel the trolley company to use deralling switches at every grade crossing to avoid another scimilar accident. Superintendent Young, he said, had made a contract with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Road in 1899 by which both companies woul share the expenses Of a new President Truesdale succeeded Sam Sloan, THEY SAY. The County Prosecu.or was called upon to-day by a committee of twelve named by President Edward Campbell, of the Newark Board of Trade. The committee, which included the leading business men of Newark, notified the Prosecutor that they wished a thorough inevstigation of yesterday's trol- ley horror. “Let us haye no whitewash,” said the spokesman of the party, Prosecutor Riker assured the Board members that he had pushed his investigation to a point where he could go before thé Grand Jury to-day if necessary. He also reminded the committee that it had the right to go Dé be investigated. | EXPECTS TO MAKE AN ARREST. The County Prosecutor said to-day that he expected to make an arrest in the ense before nightfall, From his investigation he h ad learned that the trolley company employed an Italian to keep the tracks on the hill be- tween Orange streét and the railroad crossing properly swept and sanded, This Italian when seen after the accident yesterday said that there was no sand on the track because (he sand was frozen, | The Italian disappeared after the accident and the county prosecutor haa ordered his arrest. Mr. Riker's theory {s that some one “higher up” is re~ sponsible for not having made proper provision for the sanding of the \tracks at a dangerous crossing: TROLLEY COMPANY. Statements of eye-witnesses thus far place all the responsibility on the. The facts thus far gleaned are Insufficient car service caused the ill-fated car to be crowded beyond the danger point. There were 128 passengers packed into a car designed to carry fifty com= fortably. The car welghed 29,000 pounds and was equipped only with ordinary hand brakes. There was no sand in the box provided for that purpose. The rails were slippery and the overcrowded condition of the car, cous pled with the fact that there was no sand to enable the car wheels to grip the tracks, caused the car to slip down the steep grade to destruction. CROSSING ALWAYS A DEATH-TRAP. That the Clifton avenue crossing was a death-trap had long been recome | nised by the citizens of Newark, but no effort was ever made by the trolley company to provide for the safety of thelr patrons. On Jan, 2 Mayor Henry M. Doremus in his first message had this to say concerning the Cliften beh nue crossing: While it is true that railway tracks are being elevated and grade crease ings are being abolished there should be no halt until every death-trap Phi this nature has been obliterated. The grade crossing at Clifton avenue i# dangerous to children on their way to school or to play in Branch Park, to drivers and passengers in trolley cars. Whil: this crossing ts mitted to disgrace our city there should be no rest for those In aul In the face of this plain and prophetic warning no effort was ever A deralling switch auch as is trolley roads in other cities where there are steep and Gangerows would have prevented the horror of yesterday, COMPLAINTS HAD OFTEN BEEN MADE, | Members of the Board of Education in Newark say that: a 4 is “aia ‘a ai