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THER WORLD: FRIDAY ‘evdinite MARCH 13, 1903.° WAITER SAYS, BUT FALSE SYNTAX ISN’T TOLERAIED, ms FRIEND WELCOME SMOKERS AT WOMAN'S *. IOTEL, COLLEGE-BRED i You Xa Kellerts So Charmed Mrs. Coe that She Will Have Them Sent to Eu- 4 rope to Be Educated. 4 PLAY AT THE WALDORF. ‘Three penniless boys, encountered in Thousand Islands last summer by Henry Clarke Coe and brought @ New York as proteges of the well- woolety deader, are to be the of @ musical breakfast to ‘given at the Waldorf-Astoria to- , the ticket sale for, which has * proughnt nearly $5,000. ei imoney is to be used in giving the h, Mitchell and Charles Kel pay respectively eleven, thirteen m years—fine musical educa- “tons, to attain which they will shortly “be sent abroad to the Brussels Conserv- idea has gone forth that the ladies ob- Declares Ladies Like Odor ot “Good” Cigars and Denies He Murders His English. do us harm. As a matter of fact, there is no rule against smoking. “In the public dining-room on the first floor we welcome all the men patrons make them as comfortable as they can be anywhere else, The ladies who live at our hotel and use this public dining- room are of the same enlightenment and just as modern aa those who patronize any of the other large hotels, and not one of them objected to the smoking of “J should Ie very much to correct certain erronéous impressions concern- ing elgars and syntax at this hotel,” said James Augustus Hughes, head waiter at tHe new Martha Washington Hotel yesterday. “I am afraid'that the ject to smoking. That tmpression might) f that will come, and shall endeavor to/ w coffee on Monday night. he gentlemen smoke. “My experience has been that women cigar as many men are. On wore among to have them. in_ the private dining-roome upstairs, which are run men are not invited by a be very ple: sone piss smoke his cig one. He Salt uae see some mighty ine-looking women here. The boys are musical prodigie, one the violin, another the ‘cello & third the plano. the strolling musicians of Italy, ‘the gifted trio went from hotel to hotel tine Thousand Islands, playing for ‘What the guests cared to give them, and @earcely conscious they were musicians extraordinary talent, ®heir Muste Charmed All, / Where) was a delicacy, a sort of im- “Mature charm in their playing, which it an exceptional quality of sweet. and a plaintiveness which appealed larly to all who heard them, smallest of the lads, a mere child, y Mth @ vale, pretty face, would take a “Passed little cap from his curl-crowned bead and timidly pass it about among ‘the resorters. The clink of coin played merry tune during the long, warm but the boys would tell one an- | Other that summer was short and winter _ long and that the wolf which came with sthe fall of snow was merciless and hun- | Sty and must be fed. 80 they, lived Smengrely in summer ond put away thelr / Uitte store for a day when the not be empty and the windows ‘3 soya up. _ But one day they became aware that i winter to come would be different ‘ny winter they had ever known. | They Found a Friend, ~ whom they were sure must rich and who told them ehe that great big city New York, eked them, after she had heard them and learned something of thelr Ute, how they would ilke to study in a conservatory and become great BATTLE ON ROOT WITH POLICEMEN Charles Jones, Who Wore a Fac- tory Inspector’s Badge, Was Caught After a Chase and a Desperate Struggle. PRINCESS DIED ON DRIVING TRIP, Wife of Prince Bernard of Saxe- Weimar, Who Had Romantic Career, Met Sudden Death. BPRLIN, March 13—Princess Ber- nard, of Saxe-Welmar, died suddenly while out driving near Hanover, She was seized with convulsions and ex- pired two hours later in a wayside cot- tage attended by her husband, who was exceptionally devoted to her. The Princess was of obscure origin and was born at Lubeck. It was for her that Bernard, second son of the late Prince Herm of Saxe-Welmar/ renounced hts name and royal rank about two years ago and recelved for himself and his male descendants the name and rank of Count Von Crayen- berg. The Princess was, before she married Prince Bernard, the widow of the Mar- quis Luchessini, an Ttillan. When the Marquis married ther in London in 1900 she was thirtyra@ven years old, but a graceful and a hed woman. ‘The faznily,of.the Marquis deslined to recéive his wife, whereupon he gave up bis family. WOMAN'S “SHADOW TURNED OUT OF CELL; Charles G. Peabody, Sleuth, Dis- charged Because Mrs. Hem- WOMAN. GAVE THE WARNING. Policeman Uminger and Detectives Dooley and Collins, of the East Bighty- eighth street station, to-day told the story of a desperate fight with an al- leged thief on the roofs houses when two prisoners were ar- raigned In the Harlem Court. ‘The pris- oners were James Jackson, twenty-elght years old, of Lent's Hotel, Coney Isl- and, and Charles Jones, twenty-seven years old, of No, 215 West Twenty-fifih street, e Uminger was aprpoached ty Mra, Jane Williams, of No. 65. East’ Ninety- third street, about 11 o'clock Inst night, who told himythat she flad seen two men enter the basement of No, 72. Unnnger rapped for assistance, and then wentiinto the dark basement. He was nearly knocked off his feet by a man who rushed past him. The man ran into the arms of the detectives who had responded in answer to Uminger'a rappings. ‘This man proved to be Jackson, and Detectives Collins and Sheridan took him to the station house, Uminger and Deteotve Dooley then agcnded the basement stairs. They saw another'man standing in the hall of the ground floor, The man ran up to the roof, Uminger and Dooley following. He proved to be James The offices Zt was In the concert-room of a hotel |) that Mrs. Coc had this first talk with She lads. A rather unusual incident, B addition to their beautiful playing Foused her incerest in chem. were playing a concerted number, suddenly the lights went out, Tea e hall in total darkness, The audi- me nervous, not to say a trifle Hened, fear belng felt that the dark- Be "mint be due to an accident wihch a ed their safety, at “be ae the darkness and the three young musicians iayed on as though iothing had haps presently cue FAA of worked an absolute silence. At the conclusion of tie co +s of severaly Coe taiked with them. Theirs wa: very wimple story, wy lived nD , in a narrow, winding back street, father had once been a fine tenor, he had lost his voice, and siness ming Fails to Appear in Court. chazed him over roofs to No. 60. Jones trled to go down’ through the souttle of the house, but {t was fastened, The man then turned around and drew a leather s misfortune had come. To earn a Wing for ihemacives ai parenta- they Went to the ‘Thousand fsiands, each Litt and played at the hotels for Charles G. Peabody, the private detec- tive arrested last night at the Grand Central Station on complaint of Mrs, H. Hemming, was discharged in Yorkville covered sandbag from his coat pocket. Detective Dooley said he made @ rush for the man, but was beaten back re- lever people were kind enough to them. Have Made Good Progrens. Before Mre. Coe came away it was that the boys should come to Rew Wore this winter and begin pre- ites no udies. They arrived here months oo and have made e: ominently and aati bated in the welfare of the bo Delle Fay Morris, President ‘ot tne York City branch of the Vassar mis’ Aid Society. Another friend ‘Miss Laura Sedgwick Collins, y Ansteumental with Mrs. Coe in She boys here. for _to-morrow's concert are which will fol- | mi those who will ute to the fine ents, ‘are Mathes "ef the a Company three boya will also play~-Ral; & Hom Stradivarius, “which ned to pick up while tryin 7 fe Dhivd avenue shop of od Hans nm. ‘Nhe old violln-maker was so ed at the artistic touch of, the hat he and the lad bec Hans says when the violin, to Raph ng he hopes to be it'betore that tine. ——————— IRATE OVER LETTERS. Halls at Those Who At- i ‘tempt to Swerve a Court, ). Hecorter Gof, iu Part 11, of General melons, to-day declared that it was ai outrage that friends and relatives oners should flood the court with for the purpose of attempting to the ends of justice. He said that pught to be parsed forbidding the Court to-day because Mrs ‘There was great mystery case In court, papers, uon. annoying ‘her. Peabody jhe was locked vp. but discharge him. 128 West Forty-fitth street. lived tifere. GOVERNORS FIX cably. Hemming failed to appear to proscoute him. about the Peabody refused to talk and seemed anxious to keep a repurt of what had thappened out of the ni He was arrested by Policeman ‘Thomas, of the Grand Central pub-sta- Mrs. Hemming said he had beon showed badge as a licensed detective, not explain why he had seemed to fol- low Mra. Hemming. On her complaint As she did not ap- pear in court there was novhing to do At but did Mrs. Hemming said she lived at No. that house it was sald that no such person BOUNDARY LINES, Old New Jersey-Delaware Fish- ermen’s Quarrel Settled Ami- peatedly by blows from the sandbag. Dooley was considerably bruised when he appeared in court. Ak last, Uminger succecded in knocking the weapon out of Jones's hand, and the man was arrested and taken‘to the station house, In Jones's pockets was found a bunch of skeleton keyg and pinned on his vest was a odge With the words, ‘Fuctory Inspector, State of New York, No. 22,” engraved ‘on it, After Magistrate Cornell had heard the testimony In the case he said to Mrs. Williams, who was fn court: you are a very brave woman. If ali women were Ike you, we would not haye 60 many thieves in our fat- houses, Mrs. Williams blushed modestly and then sald: “I thank you very much, Your Honor, but I wish you would say’ something to Foliceman Uminger, He je the bravest man I ever aw, “He went into th basement in the dark by himoelt, tot knowing what he would meet. Twitch the Commissioner would hear of it and promote him,” "I find Unat most of the policeman tn this city." anewered Magistrate Cornell, “when brought face to face with danger alWays perform thelr duty and generally perform it well, Policeman Uminger is av brave man and you are a no less ¢ woman," eistrate Cornell then held Jones in ball for trtal and Jackson in $1,000, THEATRE WAR IN COURT. Argument Made for Receiver for Pan-American Amusement Co. When the motion of Herman Oppen- heimey, one-fourth owner in the Pan- Amerlean Amusement Company, for the appointment of a receiver for that stock company came up for argument to-day his ABSURD, SAYS MISS CRUGER'S MOTHER But Neither She Nor Young Van- derbilt’s Mother Will Deny or Affirm Reported Engagement. Mrs. J. Frederick Tams, the mother of Miss Violet Cruger, reports of whose engagement to Harold 8. Vanderbilt youngest gon of William K, Vanderbilt, have been industriously circulated, was asked by The Evening World to-day If the young people were really engaged. “It {s too absolutely absurd to be dis- cussed," replied Mrs. Tams. ‘In fact it ts 80 absurd that it does not call for an affirmation or a denial from me." Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the mother of young Vanderbilt, was also asked about the reported engagement. She said that she must refuse to discuss the subject. Harold Vanderbilt lives with hig mother, but his father is\very fond of him. He is ecarcely out of his teens and attends @ preparatory school at Southbridge, Mass. He expects to enter, Harvard, although his relatives have all attended Yale. It is not likely thet he will com- plete his college course, asthe ts not Temaskably proficient as a student, and hip engagement tas it that te Ty within two years. Sains Violet Cruger isa beautiful girl, nineteen years 0}: debutante of this he is the rote hier, of Eugene is yale in Paris, le Olga Heitz, vorced him season. He has been tn New York al- most every Saturday and Sunday, and ‘his devotion was so apparent as to cause comment. ‘L! STONE-THROWER CAUGHT Bey Who Pelted Houses Along the Way Is Arrested. Wiliam Scher, fourteen years old, of | No. 105 Starr street, Brooklyn, was ar-| raigned before Magistrate Dooley in the Adams Street Court to-day. wits throwing missiles from a car on the [Ridgewood “L’ Une, After giv allowed kim to leave the court under a! ded anntence, | rrest_of the boy was the result ARISTOCRATS Should Be Allowed Good Things as’ Well as Other People. A Chicago lady visiting friends in Leon, N. Y., heard her hostess say one morning: “‘All of the aristocrats on Allen Hill have discarded coffee} and are using Postum Food Coffee in its place.” It seems the doctor had advised the change as a remedy for different stomach and other disor- ders caused by coffee drinking, “But when I firet made it I was) careless. It was only half boiled and drowned In water, eo husband, after sipping it, pushed it back and said ‘no more of that stuff for me.’ I con- cluded it was not properly made and examined the package carefully, find- ing that it must be boiled 16 or 20 minutes after the real boiling ee “Next morning husband said, don’t mean to tell me thi same coffee you gave me yesterday? Why this is fine,’ He drank two cups, and since that time we have used no| other coffee, and both of us have) made ® decided improvement in| health, “Lt had suffered for a long time from dyspepsia, nervous prostration, | poor appetite and the usual disorders of stomach and bowels, not knowing that coffee was the cause of the trou- In nk a good many of them liked | {mpression that we sin against syntax. bY good taste are as fond of the odor of | posted vot, you sce, an: good Tuesday nisht ‘three or four gentlemen cigars after dinner and we on tae American plan.| the % amitted unless they aré| would be impossible for me to use @ La guest, but we will! double negative. oO have any gentleman public ‘ining-room. and| know that we like ciga he will only smoke a| at this hotel, and that “And won't you kindly correct the assure you we are guiltless. Some one has quoted me as sang ‘No rules Is don't want to make she frat night, marm?’ That is en error, Of course, ead walter need not be a literary ugh I don't see why he sho fan't a peak 004 English. a.) art to be a college radunte, no mi! “So won't you please 1et the He ad we jon’ re use Sen tans gise that would make good old Lindley lurray turn in his grave?” of complaints received at the Brooklyn Police Headquarters from residents along the Ridgewood “L" line, who said| that stones and other missiles were thrown from the cars, breaking win- ell and Sa eee en pereetries ‘ay curdy’ aoe Buon to tive complaints, and to-day, they poarded train at the Ridgewood station. There yee about ‘men and boys on br a he TWO BIE FREIGHT TRANS BLOWIN UP the Collision was inbvitadlé ‘and summed 4nd ran. None was injured. Bits of fron bolts and labs of wood were hurled a quarter of a mile, break- ing windows in the City Hall. The en- tire side of the powder car crashed Into the house of 8. J. Besseker, aneay a nae hone from the rail on bed Explosion of Dynamite Follows a * Collision at Olean, N. Y., and Every Car but Three’ Is Wrecked. ENTIRE TOWN IS SHAKEN. Bits of Iron Were Thrown a Quarter of a Mile and the Side of a Car Crashed Into a House 100 Feet from the Track. (Special to The Evening World.) OLEAN, N. ¥.. March 13—Early to- day this town was shaken to its bed- rock base by the explosion of a car of blasting powder caused by collision between two freight cars. Several houses. along elther side of the railroad track: where the explosion took place were wrecked, but no one was injured. Four- teen freight cars were blown to splin- ters, but three cars om one of the trains | that were filled with dynamite were not even deratied. ‘The collision was between the fast freight that runs between Buffalo and Olean and a train of freight cara that were being switched on a siding. The fast freight was going about twenty miles an hour. It struck the train that was switching In on the siding in the centre, The force of the impact set off veral tons of powder stored in one of ¢ cars that was struck and both trains were blown into kindling with the ex- ception of the three rear cara on the yo e train, and after it had gone a little distance they began throwing stones and pieces, of wood at the houses along ne and down on the street. fast freight, that were filled with dyna- mite enough to obliterate the town. ‘The crews on both trains saw that escaped a broken window. pire SERVANT FRIEND OF THIEVES Sentenced to Penitentinry for @ Year and to Pay $250 Fine, ‘When Mary Burke, charged with petit larceny in stealing a $2 dress from her employer, Mrs. Margaret Gross, of No. oo fie Twenty-fourth street, was ar- for sentence in the Court of Gare! Brealons, to-day, Justice Fos- ter, in passing sentence on her said: “T regret that the law permits me to gentenoe you (0 omy ome year in the ary and to pay a Bre of _oniy Langan has informe? me that la) “have been an: associate of nd I have a friend, Mrs. Stiv- ers, of Fifth avenue, Into. whose home you went as a servant and then left She windows open for the thieves, your lends, Dr. Greene’ s Nervura MANUFACTURING JEWELLER, 231 Eig Eighth Ave., aha fit OPEN EVENINGS, A very handsome 1 RING, == monogram engraved tre way for ') these ei *n Mail Orders Seucaply. “Attended yy WHEN YOU MOVE ‘ EQUIP YOUR OFFICE WITH Modern Furniture’ And the Best Facilities for Come ducting Your Business. Our Prices Must Interest You, The Most Convenient Shopping Place “In all New York. SP altliie fo tet LOWEST PRICED STORE IN NEW YORK FOR FINE GOODs. Ehrich Bros. 6TH AVE.. 22d TO 23d ST.. NEW YORK. All Cars Either Pass Our Doors or Transter Direct. : | \ Every Fall Suit and Overcoat Must Go \ 34 to 50 Chest, charged | | the boy a sharp lecture the Magistrate | Boys’ $2.50 Suits at a 19. ‘The best val- ue ever of- fered; 2-piece double breasted suits in ‘excellent cheviot fabrics, strongly made, with wide facings; sizes from 7 to 15 years; ou sale at Suits. Quantity, 387, Sizes All Styles. Be on Hand Early for the Greatest Sacrifice Sale We Have Ever Had. Men’s Men’s Overcoats. Quantity, 265, Sizes All Styles: We Do This Every Season—A General Clean-Up—We Carry No Goods Over. vad Clothing Dept.,| 4th floor. Men’s $10 Spring Overcoats at $6.50. Just 100 of the light top coats, They'll go in a hurry. Made of covert cloth, cut in the new short box style, loose and jaunty, well made, stiff fronts, sizes 33 to 41 chest; $10.00 coats 34 to 44 Chest, * $4.00 Norfolk or: ° Double BreastedSuits, with Extra Pants, at $1.99, Sizes to fitlads from 8 to 4§-. years. Each suit has a pair rs Racxtray ts Pan atoll “6.90 Celebrated “Mizpah” Shoes for Women, Never Cut Below That-.--Now 1.50 .Theay celebrated Shoes come in Patent Leather Lace, bright and dull hop sey Viel and Dongola Kid, hand-turned light soles, lace and button; Velour and Box Calf mannish shape, hand-welted I Nichi “vj handed Lace oto et oxen Raha (Speciai io The evening Worls.) TRENTON, N. J., March 13.—Gover- nos Murphy of New Jersey and Hunn of Delaware, with citmissioner ap- painted by the Legislature of thelr re prctive States to fix the boundry line between New Jersey and Delaware, which has, béen in dispute for a long thme among the fishermen of the Dela- ware Tliver, met to-day and came (o an agreement which will be signed by the comameconers of the «wo BStatea to morrow Tt was decided to establish a common right fishery, protect the present dition of the oyster industry, and in sort time to do away with all the Metrothed 0 | dierence and diMculties that have for 4 Yeary agitated the fishermen of both Marapait Q.| commonweatths, " Vivian, | It was also: agreed to abandon the t tee Of | technical quarrels reepgoting titie to thé / maser New © before Bupreme Court Justice McCall, H..O, Soheurman, appearing for George W. Lederer, ho was named as @ d fendent, ed that Lederer fe! as mrongly wa Oppenhelmer shat “‘some- thing ow to be done to take the troahinntte ou of tha mendes of vosspa V. Jordan. John T. Litt polmtment of a heimer's complaint. pf such jetters. poorder made this extraordinary when Kate Hickie, a woman me Bintan ble. Not getting any coffee from my hostess except the Postum I not only, found it delicious, but my appetite improved, the flatulence and stomach | distress left me and I quickly began to gain in flesh. Now I am enjoying a degree of health that I never bial pected to attain, “After I left home my brother, ‘ah has been an invalid for some time, | broke down entirely. He was a cof- fee drinker and had distress in ef stomach always after meals. Finally his stomach refused to retain any food then the doctor insisted on his ing off coffee and using Postum. He drank Postum four times a day with rich cream and) some sugar and posalutaly no oth food for several days, then be care- tully aaees other food in smal) quan- titles and gradual, to get rp, Was arraigned be- san seo ratte sald: this case for ge Rael may find tune the innumerable seisera it to me in behalf fet tT were to take eas ie Pe, Sones 5 an outrage ad » 5 SATURDAY only for for Men’s | 69 Shoes worth $2.50, A full Une of Men's Fine Satin Calt Lace SHOES, bulldog, cap-toe style, medium and heavy soles, a shoe that is superior in style, fit and wear to any oh ena ae Bude jr, applied for the aj receiver on Oppen Me latter allege that the ac Sur in the Alley” and * companies ¢ pald with checks on the Monmouth ae 2. MEN'S $3.50 SHOES, | A genuine Hand-Sewed $8.50) SHO, made of finest viol kid, velour, patent leather, Made to Sell at $3.00 a Pair and $ written to tng rary Shadi ih pening “Rhe ‘propery or jane’ is ine waste beron ge Compan ¥, uf which he {8 treasurer, and to his own credit in the Hank of ‘New Amsterdam, and that Jordan so interfered with the stage productions that actors have quit the companies. clalon was reserved, —————— Heriah Wilkins Metter. Saiah, Wilkinn, une of the. Wraan: | See ane or ington Post, Healy il at the! W: Waldort-Astoria with sai ane shee eats, 9 q aascrtaie ee tae