The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 9

> MISSLOFTIS + UNDER THE KNIFE Sothern’s Leading Woman in “If | Were King” Breaks Down and Is Operated On at St. Vineent’s Hospital. ey } hy FOR A LONG TIME. Actress Knew for Two Years that \ Knife Was Necessary, but Was Kept Up by Her Remarkable Will Power—To Rest for a Month. Cecelia Loftus, the English actress, Aho has been leading lady for EB. H. Sothern for two seasons and who was Qbliged to retire from the cast of “It I Were King,” now running at the Garden ‘Theatre, {s lying il] at St. Vincent's Hospital. On Tuesday Miss Loftus un- @erwent @ sertous operatBou, which Was performed by her physicians, Dr. Clement Gleveland and Dr. Bissew, Gnd It will be several weeks before the Botress will leave the hospital, To an Evening World reporter this morning, Miss Chandler, companion to Mins Loftus, raid that although the star was rallying most satisfactorily from the Operation she would not try to take up her stage work for at least ® month, and would spend sme time &t Lakewood after leaving the hospital “The operation which was performed oh day," said Miss Chandler, “is the culmination of two ycars’ {lnese, AU SFO Nee we te sac oe but for the last month Misy Loftus's fulferings have been so intense that Mfr. Sothern fnalty notice’ that she was | Keeping up under 4 strain and advised | er to leave the comp: fora time. | “It war Miss Loftus’s dosire to post- Pone the operation uatil sie returned toa England, but her condition betame ‘Policeman Bongard, of Brooklyn, Arrested Edward Bongard on @0 alarming that an immediate opera- Mon was necorsary. She has been ao a Charge of Attempting to Rob a Show-Case. Nervous for the past few w.eks that it Was only her rema‘kabie will power that kept her up at all “Overwork had nothing whatever to do with Miss 1 known Would During we pert on of CHASED TWO OTHERS ALSO. ‘om the + but it was Rot until Sunday ment that a complete collapse came. While oitertalning a | ——e dinner party at her ‘ I riments, No. West Forts-fourth t duccumoed (0 an att tration and Mouda % Bt. Vincent's Hosp Miss Loftus s operation as eo to resume her an Matthew Borgard of the Yveaue station, Brooklyn, arrested {his own brother, Edward, and arraigned ay in the Butler Street Court harge of attempted theft. ard Bongard is ninetcen years old, 8 no occupation, and lives at No. cot | Sixth avenue. Yesterday afternoun he 6 In company, with John and Joshua ark, chaps of about ize. Some e reported to Capt. Reynolds during reet, the actre: k of Nervous pros- Putty orniag was taken Tegarda the, him to: wtahe hopes} on a a month's thme, : OFFICE TOWEL DIES {the xfternoon that three young men re trying t» force open a sidewalk | showeans belonging to Rabinswith, }a dreswanuker at No. Fifth avenue, i ber of costly silk gre: case, es wer ex- Policeman Bongard sel In The Ancient Rag Suddenly |=" sent out to investigate, ‘The three | jyoung men had deen frightened away, ii i put Bongard 1 them walking up in Lurid Flame ju. Bongsr sireet. He did! not then recowulze his brother, Bongard walked over co Righteenth street, then ran to | Sixth. avenue, doubted on the trlo When they saw the policeman they {dived Into @ hallway, Bongard followed | and as he entered the place hls brother | recognized him eX not golng to pull me, are you, edd, ne as cull go . Evaporates and the Presses Mourn. The ancient hand-press in the’ printing ahop of Albert B. King, on the second floor of No. 10 Witlinm sircet, rattled ite grimy roller In a dozen attempts be- fore it finally succe®led in engaging the attention of the aristocratic Httle Hoe machine and directing it to his old triend the office towel. A shudder p: through the Hoe maciine ihat s! with 01 you'll have to ‘The trio was so dumbfoun idea of a policeman arresting his broth- newer. HInto trowbl Fs nded @t the |@r that they submitted to being led 3 every casting, but it finally re | Jaro Hike fo the station. In ithe, water With a click and said: treet Court to-day they pleaded no “My old friend, 1 wish you would not | SUi¥ and were remanded under bonds. oo distarb me with your maudiin sentiment. ZT have told you again and again that that disreputable person on the hook ts bencath my notice and fills me with disgust every time I look his way, You that he was once bright and stift ia'shimmery whiteness. But, though my Memory only goes back seven years, it recalls to me distinctly how, when 1 first saw that Ink-stained and acide desmirched rag, it caused a quiver of re- pulston to twemble through my bear- is The Unexplored Universe, (Abbe Moreux In Cosmos, Paris.) Nature is ke a plano all of the notes of which we cannot hear, We are sur- rounded by mysteries. We know very little of nature's laws, and the “win. dows” through which the mind looks lout are neither numerous nor wide oper. | The works of God are even more beau- tiful than we are pleased to imagine, and in this life our fettered souls musi be content lo see only a feeble part of the marvelous picture thar we call the universe. SISTERS FAINT AT SENTENCE. They Had Brought Brother's Slayer to Trial, and Became Hysterical When He Escaped with One-Year Penalty. OUTRAGE, THEY CRY IN COURT! Aftee fighting for a year to bring the slayer of thelr brother to justice, imma and Louise Werner became hy terical ona fainted in Recorder Goff's court-room to-day when Willfam Leon- ard escaped with a sontence of one year In the penitentiary. In April last Albert Werner, nineteen years old, went to the Harlem Lyceum, where a dance was In progress, to dis- tribute curds advertising a dance to be given by his labor organization, Werner, who was acquainted with Leonard's wife, tossed a bundle of the cards Into per Jap, She claimed to be 4ffronted and her husband, a very pow- erful man, steped up to Werner and dealt him a blow on the head. Werner ieft the hall and went to his home. In a few hours he became un- conscious and dled before the day was d skull. ted visits of Werner's sisters to the police aud the Distric: Attorney resulted In Leonard's arrest, Tho girls claimed that the police were friendly to him, and had given him every chance to escape. After hig ar- rest by a county detective the girls visited the District-Attorn ‘epeatedly, urging that Leonard quickly be brought to trial. . They expected that he would be given a long sentence, and when Recorder Goff announced that In conetderatton of the fact that Leonard had spent ten | months in the Tombs awaiting teial he| would sentence him to only one year oth girls ehrieked hysterically, “It 1s an outrage to let the munverer of my brother off so lightly," slputed Emma Werner, | The young womefi raised much a dis- turbance that court officers ordered them to leave the room, They promptly fainted and were carried unconscious into the corridor, ‘And jn these last seven years 1 have @eey that low fellow submit day after day to the greavy, acidy, inky and mirky hands of every lite devil in the shop without cry of prosest, You toll me thet he i falling fast and that decomposition has begun to set in and OR YOu talk thus you actuuily allow ur #eAile senilment to move you to fears, | say that his end cannot come i a 3°, Kt cb ciarapucable character A Loa look, ancient hand-| Epidemic Causes Grave Fears—WellKnown Drug ke, i, press, “hy has begi a ste a few tae before the ni ime and the Hoe ma- onwed Wimucit with a crisp rate i} Rt exclaimed: atever can ‘be the matter Then was no Soubt aout ay An nous Vapor was rising out of tne Sitios lowel and iittle threatening flas % from its sti and motley surtac Ittle handprets was just on the 6 Of calling out In solicitous Inquiry en Joba whe waichman opened tho ice door. He had ahrdiy got in the door When there was 4 blinding Hash and t flare of yellow smoke unfolded, Ing every nook and corner. John rush: ‘out crying “fire,” and a few minutes later the John street engines were on ah scene. ‘hen $e firemen entered, the oP Ver, ky anor tihng throug “he Ashe Ithe grip situation, suid: thes gna bag ie athiel4 Foun a tow “It cannot be denied that grip has hid. ‘eful exami erpenel lan awful hold on New York. We a9 ofion"towel had been ed 8 When people are in a state of great alarm it is a newspaper's duty to look into the canses and the means of escape from the danger which threatens. We have made inquiries and we have reassuring news for those who fear grip and its results. A representative of the great drug concern of Wm. B. Riker & Hon Co,, 6th Ave and 23d St, in discussing know this all the more since so many people come to us for remedies for grip. They ask for quinine, headache cures, laxatives of various at /#0re lungs, They buy tons of cough syrups and balsams, too, “Sometimes a man dvesn't know He's all over the rip, he ut he Is awfully, Fast the’ same, He coughs, he's weak, he's nervous. Some doctor or friend has told him cod liver oil will help him, He doesn't want to take it cause it smells and tastes vile. we just recommend our Vinol, ime! he printer: and hy th fi, fioughte we was! fteen years ago, En tT hat murder Was once done fi ‘owe A furiou ; i @ comrade with it, Primer —— A Neceunity, The New York World Almanac for wears has ‘become a necessity as a Mndard book Of Feference, and the te tally the eat fo} what he wants, all those who ask our advice Vin- NEW YORK IS A GRIP-RIDDEN CITY. People Interviewed—Riker & Son Tell Remedies Folks Buy Most. kinds and all sorts of plasters for | sore lungs, stops coughs and creates strength and ambition. Makes any one sleep and eat. “Vinol contains all the curative |@lements of cod liver oil and does not contain the greasy, fishy, oily part. Cod iiver ofl is a grand medicine ‘and our Vino! is the best preparation of cod liver ofl known, It tastes as delicious as a glass of port wine and the weakest stomach can digest it. Littte bits of children can take it with perfect safety and pleasure and they thrive on it. Any one who is |ru. down and ‘miserable’ needs to take Vinol, especially tired, thin wo- | men, “Cough syrups don't cure a lung cough—they only stop the tickling \little, Vinol never fails to cure t! |sore spot that makes that ‘hanging- on’ kind of cough, “People can try Vinol at our ex- pense. Wo will let any one judge for himself whether {t does him any | good or not, and if not we'll give the ae THE WORLD: FRTDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1903. MISS CECELIA LOFTUS, THE ACTRESS, WHO UNDERWENT AN OPERATION RS. THOMPSON ITEASED,SHE SHOT WAS THE DONOR, SOLDIER LOVER She Gave $250,000 to Teach- ers’ College for the Study of Hygiene and Will Give $100,- 000 More. He Had Given Her His Pistol and, Told Her in Jest that He In-| tended to Marry Another Girl. SECRET WAS KEPT A YEAR,|BULLET FLATTENS ON SKULL When the commanding officer at Fort | Wadsworth read in the papers to-da that Private Charles IH. Helm, of the Coast Artillery at that post, war in Reading, Pa. with a bullet in hin head, put there by his sweetheart, Sallie Sau', he sent for the man’s captain, When he was told what sort of a chap Helm was, he ordered him accused as a de- serter, and tho young soldier will most likely be sent to the military prison upon his release from hospital. Hix furlough expired last night, and ho should have reported for duty at roll call this morning. After suppressing for one yen the iden- tity of the person who gave $250,000 to the Teachers’ College for the founding of a building for physioal education and the atudy of hygiene the donor was an- nounced to-day as Mrs. Frederick F, ‘Thompson, of this city Tt_was further stated by Dr, Thomas D, Wood, head of the new department, that Mrs. Thompson's gift is to be in- creased to $900,000. as the revised plans call for that expenditure, ‘The hore of this Institution will he on One Hundred and Twentieth strect, be- tween the new Horace Mann School| Heim went to Reading to see his and the main Teachers’ College Build-| sweethcart, a pretty girl of eighteen ing. Ground has already been broken, | years, and epent all of yesterday with and construction will proceed immedi-| ier. When the time to part was near ately. the boy in blue was gelzed with a de- Mes. Thompson, who is @ trustee of | Site to b@ Tunny. He tensed Miss Baul the fnstitution, as was her husband,| bY saying that he was going to bring who recently dled, makes a departure | ®nother girl to New York with him to in educational endowing, for though | Make her his wife, many persons have given money to es-| “Not if Sallie Saul knows herself,’ tablish hospitals, gymnasiums andj *e sald. “TM kill you before I'l let another woman get you." Helm thought this was a real good Joke. He wanted to hear more talk of the kind, and thinking that he would did to dramatic features of the ooca- sion he handed the girl his pistol. “Here's my pistol, {f you want to kill me.” he said, “but the cartridges are only blank ones. He laughed deeply at this. It was another joke. ‘The girl was very eeri- ous and Heim left. The soldier could not resist taking one more glance at her before returning to his post. He| returned to her house, As he entered the girl met him. “You back here! "Come back to tell mi away with another woman? that!” | The girl aimed Heim's big army pistol | at his heart and his pecullar sense of humor made him laugh again, because he was sure that it was loaded with | blank cartridges. He atooped trom torce | ot habit, though, at sight of the weap and lucky for nim that he did. A bullet schools, she 1s the first to endow a school for physical education, ‘The trustees are confident that, al- though a perfect novelty, an inst!tutlo of this sort will be @ boon and a great credit to New York. Mrs, Thompson inherited from her nu! band, Frederick F. Thompson, an estate valued at $8,000,000. To his memory she erected @ handsome chapel for Willlams College, and in the last year she has given generously both to Williams and Vassar Colleges, In devoting her weaith to education Mrs, Thompson is but following the ex- ample of her husband, who in a period of waventeen years made gifts to Will- {ams amounting to $25,900. He regularly Supported for many years four students each in Vassar and Williams. Mr. Thompson founded the National Currency Bahk, of this city, was in- terested in the construction of the Nicaragua cantd and made his fortune through successful business enter- prises. she eaid angrily, Consumption Peril Subject Before, Medical Socicty. ‘DR. LOOMIS’S WARNING. One Hundred New Cases Developing Bach Day in the Me- tropolis — One-tenth of the Total Number of Deaths in Greater New York Are from Tuberculosis—Urgent Need of Institutions for the Care of Those Suffering from the Disease in Its Incipiency—A Campaign of | Education Urged, At m meeting of the New York Academy | ot Medicine, which was held in Weat Forty-| ™ third street the other evening, the subject | 1 of tuberculosis engaged the sole attention of those present, A number of papers doal-| {1 ing with the dread malady way read by eminent physicians and the subject matter contalued therein was Glscuseed by thelr contreres. The rming spread of pulmonary tuber- This nad state of affairs could be greatly | 4 ry 0 Is troubled with | @ slightest intima tuberculosis bacilli, or of consumption, exist in reapi rt would Dufty's | Pure blespoontul four «i of mifk; within a sh ld be killed, th ag be healed and the entire’ wystem butt t and healthy condition, an: cousumption would be reduced ma. 4 the deplorable lack of facilities] 1t is neglect and the fear that extsts'tn flowing onevell to think that he or abe chre and treatment of ite victims in consumption that causes sD many fa- have aroused the greatest Interest among! fatten If oyery one Would: pee tenor At. ‘the five thousand doptors of Greater New! tention to their health and not le! Tok ease gerins lurk In their. system Dr. H. P. Loomis, professor of therapeu- | *¥stem becomes comple! tics and clinical medicine in Cornel! Medical d this to say in regard to con- wngted wi Feports that 33 1-3 athe in Groater New ‘ork aré caused by consumption Hundreds of thousands have testified that they ha en cured of consumption by Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey in the past! forty years. Duity's Pure Malt Whiskey is abeoliitely pur ¥ other dungery medicin re im thi dise erent ever kind Pupy Malt fad wasting If you are Int Whiskey Company, t on consumption aud ‘Their doctors will send ooklet and advice free of ¢ 4 ity f ation, The ie om 001 im ption is checeeventh ot the total number of death and represents twenty-seven deathy from this disease. CAMMEYER 6TH AVE, COR. 20TH ST. FEBRUARY CLEARING SALE Women’s and Children’s Hosiery. Magnificent imported sample and regular lines of leading Euro- pean Hosiery manutacturers—to be sold at less than half prices, Women's High Cl Lisle Thread Fancy Hosiery, New novelties in black and colored hose lace Biot and all over lace effects, stripes, jacquards, embroid- eri¢s and boot patterns, Every pair this season's goods. Value 89c., $1.00, $1.25 and $1,590, c a 59™ Women's fine Fancy Lisle Thread and Gotton Hose, handsome effects in laces and vertical stripes; black and white patterns, Exceptional values at 59. and 75c. c Price 39 . CHILDREN’S COTTON SCHOOL HOSE. Heavy weight, double knees, heels and tozs; sizes 6 to 10, Regular 29¢. value, q ally money right back. Vinol is sold on |the fairest and truest guarantee pos- sible~any sick person is foolish not to try Vina) on sane corere terms. 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