The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1903, Page 1

WHATRER—Clondy To-Night « Ter RACING # SPORTS GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ___ON PAGE 10 be “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1903. DELABARRES RICH WIFE TING LEFT HIM HE WONT SAY Wh. ‘She Lives at the Waldorf While He Re- tains His Apartments in Central Park South—He Denies that He Contem- plates Bringing a Suit for Alienation. The Estate of Broker Hagaman, Whose Widow He Married, Seems to Have Mysteriously Disappeared— Mrs, Del- abarre Has Been Thrice Married. Out of a suit instituted by the sisters and brother of Theodore Haga- man, a former wealthy broker and part owner of the Albemarle Hotel, to obtain a share of his $1,500,000 estate has come to light the fact that Mrs. Hagaman, who married Dr. Walter E. Delabarre, of No, 222 Central Park South last July, separated from him after their honeymoon. 4 Dr. Delabarre admitted to-day that he had separated from his wife, but strongly denied the intimation of Henry M. Unger, attorney for Mr. Haga- man’s relatives, that he intended bringing a $50,000 damage suit for aliena- tion against Dr. R. C. Flower, a promoter of mining companies, who figures in a sensational manner in the suit over Mr. Hagaman’s estate. “It is unfair to drag me into this affair,” said Dr. Delabarre to-day. “Money matters had nothing to do with me leaving my wife. The separa- tion occurred months ago. Can anyone, in the light of recent developments, question the propriety of my action? “Now that things have reached a climax and Mrs. Delabarre's attor- meys have seen fit to make public a statement reflecting upon me, I will say that there existed:a/state’ of affairs which I could not tolerate. God knows I did nothing but marry the woman. When I left her I only wanted to be left alone. CONTRADICTS LAWYER HUMMEL,. “Mr. Hummel’s statement intimating that I annoyed Mrs, Delabarre at the Waldorf and that I had to be warned not to molest her is absolutely false. Howe & Hummel never notified me to cease my visits to the Waldorf. They had ceased before their advent in the affair, “Ater what has already come out in the course of the present legal action in which Mrs. Delabarre is involved, no one will wonder at my leav- ing the Waldorf. “still, I seem to enjoy no right of privacy in my personal affairs. Al-| though I have seen no lawyer and have never in my life met Mr. Unger, he. wppears to have taken the liberty of presuming to read my innermost; ‘thoughts and placing a commercial value upon them—something I have not ven had the courage to uo. “Whether I shall employ counsel is a matter for the future, I do not Intend to do so now.” The little transaction to which Dr, Delabarre referred is explained by (Lawyer Hummel, who said to-day; “While Dr. and Mrs, Delabarre were on their honeymoon at Alexandria Bay, Thousand Islands, a diamond and pearl meoklace valued at $25,000 was stolen from Mrs, Delabarre’s room, Mrs. Richman, wife of a wealthy east side furniture dealer, was accused, and the fhecklace, together with a roll of bills, also taken from Mrs. Delabarre’s apartment, were found in her trunk, Mrs. Richman was indicted, but has| not been tried, as a sheriff's jury is now Investigating her mental condition. ‘When Dr. and Mrs, Delabarre returned from their honeymoon they weparated, Mrs Delabarre going to her old apartments at the Waldorf and Dr. Delabarre to his home in the Park View. WARNED DELABARRE TO KEEP AWAY. “Mrs. Delabarre later on consulted us, and we wrote Dr, Delabarre a Jetter Informing him that he was not to call at his wife's apartment, and that he was not to molest her in any way. “That is as far as the matter has gone. Mrs. Delabarre is not contem- plating a suit for divorce.” Mr. Unger admitted to-day that he had simply been on a fishing excur- sion in his proceedings before a referee regarding the probate of Mr. Haga- man’s estate. Here are some of the facts he succeeded in bringing out: Mr. Hagaman transferred money and securities valued at $700,000 to his wife "just before he died, Of this amount Mrs. Hageman transferred $260,000 to Dr. R. C. Flower, @ mining promoter, Mr. Hagaman was nursed during his illness by a brother-in-law of Dr. Flower. No trace can be found of Dr, Joseph B, Heald, whose name is signed to Mr, Hagaman’s death certificate, Mrs. Hagaman alleging that her husband's estate amounted to only $2,500, secured signed receipts from her husband's relatives for all claims they might have against his estate on payment of $6,000. IS MRS. DELABARRE A VICTIM? “It seems plain to me,” said Mr, Unger, “that Mrs, Hagaman-Delabarre fs herself a victim of a conspiracy. We shall now proceed for the appoint. ment of some trust company as administrator of the estate, : “I am informed that Dr. R. ©, Flower is @ hypnotist of rare pawer, {What part this will play in the case I cannot tell, : “The next step is the hearing on Friday before Surrogate Fitegerald on the motion to discharge the referee.” Mrs. Delabarre, formerly Mrs, Theodore Hagaman, had been married| to William Smith, of Hasthayen, now of Wallingford, She was divorced| from Smith twelve years ago, after which she married Hagaman. »_. Dr. J. D. V. Young, secretary of the New York County Medical Society, efter @ search of his records, said to-day that he could find no trace of any (Continued on Second Page.) PRICE ONE CENT. LOWS SHLOON POLICY HT BY JEROME, District-Attorney, Speaking to Legislators for Open Sunday Bill, Talks of Juggling Tendencies of Mayor. SEES TAMMANY VICTORY. In Greater New York 160,000 Persons Drink on Sunday and Any Official Who Tries to Stop Them Will Have to Leave Office. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 24.—District-Attorney Jerome speaking on his Sunday opening saloon bill before the Senate and As- sembly Excise committees this afternoon handled without gloves Mayor Low’s policy of “Mberal enforcement,” and in- dicated hls conviction that the excise poficy ofthe present fusion administra- tion would result in the defeat of th anti-Tammany element in New York next November. “The Raines law can be enforced in New York City,’ the District-Attorney declared. The Mayor, through his Po- lice Commissioner, can close every 6a- loon in the city of New York and keep them closed. But while the Mayor may enforce the law, his successor will not enforce it. In the city of New York every ‘time an effort !s made to enforce this law it has resulted ‘n the defeat of every man who undertook to do It. ‘"Pemethepmatical humiliation shown mm the situation to-day. There we have @ Mayor of education and refinement, former president of a great educational institution, @ man from the higher walk of life, and we find him juggling with the Interpretation of the criminal law, talking about ‘liberal enforcement,’ we find him a non-judicial officer, interpret- ing the statute." Mr. Jerome gave figures on Excise ar- in New York City in recent years, showing a marked reduction In the to- tals. This reduction, he declared, meant only an increage in the levying of black- mall and a continued development of the idea “that there can be a liberal in- terpretation of the ten commandments.” 100,000 Drink on Sunday. The District-Attorney declared that 100,000 men drink in saloons and hotels in the metropolis on Sundays and he pointed to the folly of trying to en- force the system. Then the District- Attorney thundered: “Whover tries to enforce this law In New York City will-go out of office as sure as the election is held."y District-Attorney Jerome read letters favoring the Sunday opening bill® from Bishop Henry C. Potter, Gustave Schwamb, William H. Baldwin, Rey. Dr, W. 8. Rainsford and Dr, Nichols Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. Mr. Jerome also read the presentment of the January Grand Jury favoring the bill. Hugh Dolan, President of the State Liquor Dealers’ Association; Fritz Lin- dinger, President of the City Assocla- ton, and others spoke in favor of the bill, piedging that the dealers would observe the law strictly if opening was legalized from 1 to 11 o'clock on Sun- days, Mayor Low spent to-day at the Btate Capitol. He came here on the Empire Btate Express, the same train on which the District-Attorney rode. The Mayor present to appear before the Sen- ate and Assembly committees in favor of the Sinking Fund and other city measures. ‘The privileges of the floor were ex- tended to Mayor Low in both houses of | the Legislature and he took luncheon with the Governor at the Kxecutive Mansion, ‘The New York police situation was the most important subject they discussed, MAYOR GOES TO ALBANY. To Urge the Passage of the Sinking Fund Bill by the Assembly. Mayor Low is not at the City Hall to- day, having gone to Albany to advocate the passage by the Assembly of the new Sinking Fund bill prepared by Comptroller Grout. The latter went to Alba: week ago and succeeded in measure passed by the Senate, In the absence of the Mayor, Presl- dent Fornes, of the Board af Aldermen, is occupying the executive office as Act- {ing Mayor. WEATHER FORECAST. Werecast for the thirty-six day for New York City ang einltys Partly cloudy to-night Fe OE otek ae OU seers hie wife DR. AND MRS. DELABARRE AND DR. FLOWER, INVOLVED IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BIG ESTATE. SOLHSHDHEHHHHHHH HOP HHLHGHHOSOHGOHHGHOHSOHOHHHGHHOHHHHHHOHOHHHD §:906900O0G0006060000-060504 G99900000G09000 0308 FFTGTPGOTHFPHOOSDID OY 9OOOS: 0600606 = ‘CHILOREN PANIG <== STRIGKENAY FIRE. NEAR A SHO Invaded the Class-Rooms, and Only the Teachers’ Coolness Averted a Stampede of One Thousand Pupils. Meanwhile the Screams of Women and Chi- o4 Ae dren Imperilled in the Burning House Added to the Terror, but the Firemen Carried All Out to Safety, One thousand school children were thrown into a panic and six families, had thrilling escapes at a fire this afternoon at Nos 502 and 504 Broadway, Williamsburg. Firemen barely managed to rescue the families at the risk of their own lives, as the elevated railroad stru:ture in front of the building” r prevented the free use of ladders. Pi The burning house was a four-story frame and adjoined the Heywood — street school. The children were only prevented from stampeding by the coolness of the teachers, who locked the doors of the rooms and the wim dows leading to the flre-escapes. The ground floor of the building in which the fire started 1s occupied by the Empire State Dairy, More than a score of families live {n the upper floors. In the basement of the building the Dairy Company stores sawdust. ‘Ihe fire started in this, and clouds of sut- focating smoke rolled pp into the hall- ways Almost before the alarm could be In the rear of the house the polio mounted the fire escapes and managet to break in several of the vaded flats and drag the inmates The majority of them were so fri and so overcome by smoke that made no effort to save themselyes. Fireman Nearly Loses Life, Fireman Conley, of Clymer street Bm 9099609HO6995HOGODHGGOOOHX 9965009 600856408-£099009540-04 0950996 40909-OG090O0O9 DIED AS THEY (CRANK IN CONGRESSIBARNUM'S AGAIN LIVED, TOGETHER) CREATES A STIR. VISITED Bt FLAMES IGets on Floor of House and |Blaze at the Big Show's Winter Mr. and Mrs, James J. Moakley} Goes to Speaker's Desk| Quarters Does $100,000 Succumb to Pneumonia With-| Looking for His Father. Damage. in a Few Minutes of Each Sdo2 Other. (Special to The Evening World.) (8p 0 The Evening World.) . WASHIN' mr There wasa| BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Fed. 4.—Fire big stir in Congress to-day when. a(*tarted In the car barns of the Barnum rank hurried down the aisle co Speaker {4nd Balley show this afternoon and A SERIES OF COINCIDENCES, | ferterson's desk while ths House was] the entire fire department of the city {n seesion and demapisd to see hig | ‘vs called out o fire started un- | er. der one of the new cars that js being The may was not denonstrative, but| built. and painted for this season's The remarkable series of coln-V insistent, and Scrgetniai-Atms Ken-|show. It spread rapidly to several eodatross hedy, who tad reseso) )om ina moment, | other cars, and by the time the first hat filledthe lives of Mr. and Mrs, James J. Mc of 3 Park avenue, found its Ax yosierday wher s arrived It looked as {f another agration was threatened firemen, however, threw a cor- e ather was in the corridor of Ms th died within the same hour who walked Mrs, Moakiey were both born] ¢ , l divided their efforts between pouring in the same small village in Ireland on) | viding of a report on a con-|water on the flames and protecting the the same day sixty-three years 989. ] whey errupied: Sad tits Promione: adjoining building; and, after a hard he Interrupted, as the Speaker rapped the House fight, succeeded in getting the blaze under control ‘The nearest building to the car barns in the big elephant house, and as the smoke éwirled in through the doors entire herd of pachyderms, were exing and trumpeting with discom- fort and fear. Their keepers succeed- ed in calming them down before they n explained. | became panic stricken. Before the fire is George Clark, 4 pa-| was finally extinguished about $100,000 They lived on the same Hotle street and] s their ancestors had been neighbors for generations, They ware educated in the same “school and when they grew up their echool day friendsh'p ripened into something stronger, and they were mar- ried. ‘Dhey came to this country in the early sixties and Mr. Moakley stanted dn bual- b dence Third and C streets, was arrested and held for an inquiry as to his sanity. He was ar- rested on Sunday fast while aueerly about the Capitol. How he managed to elude the door- keepers an police at the entran to the House to-day has not by Clark's fathe acting ness here and in the coarse of Umeltient in the Government Hospital for!damage was done, all of it being con amassed a fortune and retired, They] the insane dacaame yes don. ai have four children, two and two daughters, Ono of the 807 attached, to a. Early tat Ww went out for a walk and both a @ serious cold the following day. Symp- toms of pneumonia set in In both cases nd thety rapidly grew worse. Mr. ley died yesterday afternoon at 3 k. His wife died a few minutes late A doub funeral will be held to- morrow, Th joes will be held in 8 Ignatius Chureh, at Park avenue @| Highty-fourth street, After masses have been said over both bodies they will be buried in the same grave in Calva) Cemetery. Mr. Moakley was Presi of St. Vincent De Paul Conference ta the parish of St. Ignatiue Church. ———— MERCHANTS ARE BEATEN. IVE SHOTS FIRED IN SECOND DUEL TO-DAY ON CHERRY HILL, John Rice, of No, 83 Market street, was shot in the hip this fternoon in front of No. 112 Roosevelt street by John Brady, { No. 57 Cherry street. The shooting of Rice is part of a herry Hill feud in which James Maley and Charles Hartley ere arrested earlier in the day for shooting each other in the ip. Brady said that he shot Rice because he knew that Rice as looking for him. He fired five shots out of one revolver be- fore Rice was hit. He had another loaded revolver in his pocket. aw aaa a'el Sustains Woodbury’s Rule { Removing Thelr Refuse e Truax, of the Bupreme Court, ded this afternoon, in the sult of Retail Dry Goods Association to Bureet Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury to take away their ashes and refuse, like that of other taxpayers, was no help for them; that Court Awa LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Fourth Race—Car! Kahler 1, Ernest Parham 2, Andes 3. COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS DURYEA CASE, Justice Blanchard this afternoon overruled a motion of the : 8, dismiss the aotion for separa: clee his discretion 44 to what to take and what to leave. by ‘The writ of mandamus asived ~ sine No. 113, in attempting to get uy the main stairway of the house wit overcome and was found unconscious across the threshold of an empty epart ment by Chief Snow. He was taken to the engine-house in an where the surgeon worked over him for more Unan an hour before he succeeded in reviving bim. As it is he is in a dame gerous condition. When the firemen began their em deayor to rescue the tenants on south side of the house, those on north, who were free to escape by @ rear ‘staircase, persisted in throw! thelr furniture’ and trunks out the Ni dows, and in this way many of the given a wall of smoke cut off every exit on the south side of the bullding and rolled.into the apartments filling every nook and corner. Women and Children in Peril. The women and children in these apartmenta rushed to the hallways, but were driven back by the thick smoke. When the firemen arrived a dozen women and twice as many children were lean- ing out of the upper windows screaming for help. Because of the narrowness of the street and the width of the “L" struc- ture the firemen had great diMculty in| curers were cut ane bruise ‘end tothe 1 urning buildings exten getting up the ladders, and time and} 17 Be Oe oa aaa again when a ladder was adjusted at an acute angle It would come toppling who attempted to mount st. Finally, |in from the burning building in waves. when all tho reserves of the Clymer tatel ‘uproar, Mreet stat‘on had been called to the as- ul sistance of the firemen they managed to get the ladders up by lashing them to the “L* structure, In this way the Imprisoned women and children Were car |Caging to the fire-cacapes and ried down, many of them unconsclous,)them. In this way what would have: Two ambulances | undoubtedly resulted In a fatal stam= as on tne Heywood I-house When me fire 8 the windows of the clase= n ‘children to keep Seals, ished to the doors and i them’ and then went to the windo’ overcome by smoke. ip ' = a A. were summoned and the hospital doctors | PC itt ne wooden Me tucceeded in restoring the stricken ones| way finally put out neatly $10,000 dage age had been done by fire and water, to consciousness. CAPT. W'CLUSKY HASIALDERMAN FOR QUARREL IN COURT, SPANKING BILL Police Official and ex-Magis- trate Brann Have a Warm|M’Carthy Introduces Resolution Discussion Over a Prisoner.| !ndorsing the Famous Deoree omni of Magistrate Connorton De- fining a Husband’s Rights, —— Former Police Magistrate Brann, in the Harlem Court this afternoon, ac- cused the police of the East One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth street station of “pounding” William H. De Witt, a hotel-keeper, of No. 143 East One Hun- dred and Twentieth street, who was ar rested last might charged with keqping a disorderly house, by Capt. MoClusky The fame of Magistrate Connorton, of Long Island City, penetrated the Alder- manic chamber to-day. His unique de cision, in which he contended that # husband had a right to spank his wife {f she kept late hours and the parent the commander of the precinot De Witt has been arrested throe times on a almilor change, and according to Lawyer Brann was fined #100 in the| Court of Special Beeson a fow days] ‘The hotel had a bad reputation re De Wiit became the owner, and ting to Lawyer Brann, the police De Witt for the other had the privilee of exercising the same authority over the daughter, no matter how old she might be, caine defore the Aldermen in the shape of a resolution calculated to be laudatory of the Solos monesque decrees from the Long Island City bench, * Alderman McCarthy introduced a te 9m solution requesting the board to indoram y Magistrate ( judgment es garding the rig usband or parent |) ughter, Before ading thi 0 Hon man MoInnes’ banged he shouted, ‘The clerk went on reading. ‘The clerk Wil cease reading, manded the Acting Chairman, Clerk Martin looked up won “Plvave 1et him go on. pleaded man Frank L. Dowling. |" pared (o offer an amendment Fesolution authorising the of brawilng wivos ing gloves, man 1s keeping a respectable house,” said Mr, Brann, He does not allow any women in the place.” “Pais man runs & dive," interrupted Capt, MoClusky, "I have warned him several times." “It looks very much as if you were pounding him," said Lawyer Brann vn can run.& disorderly house if the captain doesn't stand for it.” ‘nis remark brought Capt. MoClusky to IMs feet. He denied the truth of ic | Brann retaliated by saying, know what Iam talk: ae jtaken about that,” re- tocted the Gaplain. “There are’ other a ; alg: dn