The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1903, Page 3

FELL 6 STORIES But Being Just a Baby Alligator It Only Was Stunned a Bit and Is as Lively and Chipper as Ever. IN CENTRAL PARK ZOO NOW. Friend In Florida Sent Hardy Young Reptile to Clerk Kennelley, of the Yorkville Police Court, Who Took It Home, ‘Twice did this little baby fall from the Bre-escapo on tne sixth floor, and yet it fs alive to-day. It belonzs to Courtney Kennelley, Clerk of the Yorkville Police Court, and he not only vouches for the truth of the story, but Director Smith, of the Central Park Menagerie, stands with him. ‘The baby being an alligator, the story ef its narrow escape from death may be told without shivers. It arrived yes- terday morning, consigned to Kennel- ley by a friend, H. W. Bearman, of Nv. $36 West Thirty-third street, who has deen spending the winter in Florida. He caught the animal in Lake Kissim- mee, after a hard fight with its mother, 4n which ne would have been killed but for the help of two guides. Kennelley put the alligator on the fire- geeape at his home vn the sixth floor of West Thirty-third street. It was iva bon He tnienaed giving it to the Menagerie at Central Park. An hour after he put it out he went to get it and found that it had pushed the top off the box ar Kennelley hurried downs' dt lying in the backyard. conscious and to all appearances dead, "Tha cour clerk carried it back ut etairs and again put It on the fire # eape, Intending to take it later to Dire for ‘Smith and have the akin auuted, ‘Whea he went to look for ft ft eauin, “This time he thought the. find had blown it off. He found it in the yard, wrapped | in u piece of paper} and ‘stuce it In his pocket. Then he went over to the Menageri He pulled forth his package ana toid| Mr, Smith he wanted, the, skin stuffed, @ director looked it over and con- Gluded that there was life in it. There wasn't a mark on it anywhere, and to ke sure whether Jt was alive or deed} put near a stove. Nina iittle while It began to wiggle and soon was able to amble across the floor. The director then took ft out to the alligator pool and tossed it {n with the others. It paddled about -atefully, and to-day it seemed abso- firele hone the worse for its double fall ries, ofl at Smith said that an alligator fs so tough that unless it fell on {ts head it might go through the same ex. y erience every day without bein; Semaced. e baby alligator twelve inches long. “BIC GUNS” FLI FROM WCLUSKY Crooks Who Have Infested the} Grand Central Station and Nearby Hotels Leave for More Congenial Climes. THEIR CODE A QUEER ONE. 1 Inspector McClusky's efforts to rid the city of the hundreds of crooks and @rafters that could be seen on upper Broadway every afternoon and evening for the last year have apparently been Of some avail, McClusky'’s repeated remarks that he will go on arresting and detaining the crooks until they make up thelr minds to leave town has made several of the “big guns” depart hastily. “There is no use bucking against him,” said one of these “main guys’ in theCentre Street Court this morning, “for he won't stand any ‘bilking’ (fool- fng) and unless we all go we'll get a ‘ducket’ (ticket) for ‘down below’ (the Penitentiary). Prominent among those who have left town and who have promised not to come back for three years or more ere the “sure thing’ men who for months have loitered around the Grand Central Depot and the adjacent hotels, These are the men who approach a sivanger and “hand out a con,” and when they get through with you you have been thorou; “trimmed,"* tlusky’s threat to lay the “heavy hand" on theee crooks unless they leave town recalls some of the vernacular used in “grafters’ parlanc: fesu of this parlance is hens. mg ne safe and made a good haul," Trani dated into the crooke’ parlance “thls “A beterman got into & peo and made a good derby." 2°? 48" & pete Hach paruoular line of r ery has its rig is the M othterise sep nus the “din ‘better Known ae the 3a, hotel man" name fed to a hotel thief, "doit Cun ae # among women, rob- bing ‘the er purees, “Thon ‘there are'the second-story men, the under: und’ men and the door-openets ainong urglart Besides heving qu the different 4 oh on of tes ear of news, the ‘crooks have SPpropelate names for those Ne to keep track of theif dot eisotive is calied an Valbow,' while uulformea ‘pol oicemal Ie called ‘a. “har® t orpaat ls es heriff, qooaby, whil “mnitch" oj app is @ nan A why prey ot PATERSON TO NEW YORK. Residents of Paterson, N. J., are look- forward to the opening of the new ley line between that city and Hack~ prints THE WORLD: ‘FRIDAY Y EVENING, MARCH 20, 190%, THS BABY TWICE,TORN-UP PARK ROWA MENACE TO LIFE (HESOME SHE | NOTED MINING EXPE AND A DEEP DISGRACE TO THE CITY. PYPLROW SHOWING TD5 TORN UP CONDITION and CROWDS at ENTRANCE TO BRIPGE Yawning Subway Ditches Delay Traffic and Constantly Put Pedestrians in Peril, but President Cantor Says the City Ad- ministration Cannot Remedy the Condi- tion, “How long, how long?’ New Yorkers may well cry out when they contemplate the condition of Park Row. Strangers marvel that the Greater City should tolerate its being cut up and filled with obstructions as long as it has been. The congestion of traMe caused by the subway excavations andthe debris re- sulting therefrom puts one's life in his hands who is compelled to tise the sid: walks of the thoroughfare or to cross It. The Evening World Is in receipt of com- plaints of injuries sustained by pedes- trians in the throngs which go through the Row, which, in its natural state, ‘8 none too large to accommodate all those who must tread it. The protest of citizens grows in volume, with the days, and they want to know how long the Rapid Transit Commission have been on my knees for months past| partment of Public Works is practi 1s golng to permit the sub-contractors in of the work to dawdle along ing as they please and at any time they choose regardless of public comfort or, safety, Long Torn Up. It ts thirty-nine months since the first” earth was turned In the park to mark the beginning of the subway. Nearly two years have elapsed since the Row was turned into a Babel of obstructions, me odors,,rotten wood, broken pipe and decayed ground. Overhead, as one goes along, are the great swinging buckets, apparently none too well fas- tened to their pulleys and hoisting gear. contents fall and ruin a beautiful gown or a silk hat or expensive suit or the best dress of some poor little stenog- rapher or shop girl? What does it mat- ter to those responsible for this condition of things if a child or two is caught and crushed in the dashing crowd of bury workers who have been turned by them into a way not a hundredth part big enough to accommodate the army that travels it? It would seem that they didn’t care at all, Cautor Says He's Helple: “Ever since I have been in office,” Borough President Cantor told a. re- porter of The Evening World to-day, “I have been after the Rapid Transit Com- mission and the sub-contractors with a sharp stick. I realise what the condition of Park Row !s, and there is no one in New York who would be happler to-day -|than I to know thet they were through with the work and that I could go ahead and grade the sireet. “You must realize how helpless we are, Under the act of the Legisiature which permitted this work to be carried on the authorities of the municipality are help- leas, The law ts sweeping in its pro- visions, and, in consequence, we have had to practically get down on our knees and beg the Rapid Transit Commission and the contractors to remove the few obstructions that have been taken away recently. Iam going to keep after them as long 1 remain In office and to the end of the chapter so long as I eany authority, At present they are the mas- ters of the situation. We can do noth. ing." “Who ts responsible? There must be There is nothing without me kind. You know that.” way in Ha “Yes, that ts quite tru President, “One might Rapid Transit Commi: , but one must keep in mind their stupendous task and think of the conditions which they have had to contend with. They met a great deal of hard roo! wy in the age st th did hot £ohgi and nel hem bac! How Nr actors could ave! en "ite he Mae, them. You cap Feat aoe was iy snterent that Ay Mine wide he,was thinking seriously about tt. conse, the condition the Row is in, Be aid. “No one understands it ony better than I do, but what can I do? the Rapid Transit Commission e contractors to remove all un- Inecessary obstructions as rapidly as pos- isible, I’have made some headway, but and th {nothing like I sou, Be to accomplish. Un- der the law that je Rapid Transit Commission its fisnt to constr cr the subway and make excavations | nothing. We must wait on them. One |day they any st will be so many months/as President Cantor said to me. ‘or r day it/keeo after them until we get some im- Ihave pleaded ‘provement.’ e they are through; anot | wut be so many more. GIRL MOBBED BY ‘STANDARD OIL {COLD WAVE TO with them and begge!d of them to im- prove the condition of the Row ever little and to no purpose, except in instance I have mentioned when I g: them to remov> a lot of broken pip However, | am not going to despair, rail IRATE WOMEN.) PENSIONS MEN.’ BRUSH FOG AWAY What does {t matter if part of their/Fair Driver of a Runabout Pur- sued and Stopped by Angry Shoppers After She Had Run | Over a Boy. “ARREST HER!” THE CRY. A crowd of indignant women shoppers gathered about Miss Millie Denis, @ pretty and stylishly dressed young woman who said she lived at No. 240 West Eighty-ninth street, late yesterday afternoon. §he had run over a boy at Twenty-fourth street and Sixth avenue and kept on without looking behind. The boy is Abraham Cohen, twelve years old, of No, 131 Goerck street. Miss Denis, in a runabout with two women and & man, drove Rhrough Twenty-fourth at Sixth avenue. The boy tried to run ahead of the h, but was not quick enough and was hit by one of the wheels and rolled over. Several women screamed at the sight and then called after Miss Denis, who did not know what had happened. A dozen women In rich costumes ran after her, but anather up the street who had ween the accident ran and gelzed her horse's bridle, “You hold up!’ she cried, run over @ boy.” Miss Denis and her friends walked back to the boy, Women looked for a polloeman, but none was found for ten “You've minutes, Ther Policemen Stamford came up. ‘ “Arrest her! Ghe ran over a boy! She| 4! tried to get away!" from the crowd, over anybody," sald one woman. Miss Denis asked the policeman to take tha boy to the New York Hospital in her runabout, and she soothed the lad, who was in pain, She was told to get in and ride afterward to the West Thirtleth Street Police Stati - plain, Miss Denis found if ‘a he? toe bruised. ay Be i jainst ef and deote away with nev Blends were suggestions “These people drive Between 500 and 600 Thirty-iIs Coming Out of the West, Year Employees in Long Isl- and Refineries to Be Retired April 1 on Half Pay. APPLICATIONS ARE FILED. Between 600 and 600 men who have bedm in the emplolyl of the Standard OM Company in the refineries in Long Imtand City, Greenpoint and W'itams- ‘burg for more than thirty years will be retired on April 1 on half pay. To-day all these old employees were notified to file thelr applications for re- tirement and, though many of them are still young, they all complied with alac- rity. This will not effect the men in humble situations, but all the heads of departments who have seen more than thirty years aervice. Guperimendent Dixon, of the refining department, who has been with the trust for forty years, filed his appitca- ton for retirement to-day and hes ar- ranged to #pend tie remainder of his Ufe on a Long Island farm. The decision of the Company to retire ths old employees on half pay wae reached at @ recent meeting of wie Boar of Directors, but no one thought then that would be put into effec ouch an early date, The any {aw never Gechanged tis men who have ome mn old i its @ervice, but has Keue work about the yards on half 7 have done simple chores chat Pi ‘ire eourcely any piyaioal exeriion i'these old men will now be reared ————_— SET HIMSELF ON FIRE. street, Arlington, N. J., 1s in a Newark hospital, suffering from burns received Ler MGaihoun hi witvoon complaining of painn in the neck and shoulde: 4e Was ad- iy te ce these pari with alcohol, Hl 8 ‘ae aboul to retire at mid- minh fae ‘suplied the alcohol in abund- hie, then Ht by pe, and & epark from it i's ov his chi niting the alcohol. ihe lied ‘ne ieee saith alien 3 Boa iin i We Says the Weather Man, and Is Due to Reach New York To-Day. BETTER GET OUT YOUR FURS, The weather sharp from his high perch in lower Broadway has sighted 4 cold wave maying ewiftly on New York out of tho Middle West. The tem- perature Is Mable to take a tumble any time during the day, and those who came dawn to business with light over- coats and epring sults will Ko home this evening with their epinal chord shrink- ing and their nerves all angle. Just how cold we are going to have it the official forecaster does not venture ‘That it will be cold again he ts positive, though be cannot promise any more skating or a serious blast of icy weather, The first observation to-day showed the temperature at 54 degrees, With the return of cold weather {t ts expected that the atmosphere will be swept clean of the heavy fogs that have been sifting about tae harbors and riv- ers, hampering traffic and causing n> end of Inconventence to suburbanites, and incidentally the grip germ will be come less active. Fog began to settle about the Greater City early last ewening, Toward early morning it HMited within the cfty but still hung low along the netghboring waterways. Shortly after dawn an impenetrable curtain fell about Hell Gato and none of the Sound steamers were able to make the passage through the strait before 8 o'clovk, Then they slowly got under headway and came down in a stately procession until the narrow with die rushing swirdog 0 parsed, The terry r ninth atrect to crosses the inne tw ) wieamers, did rot ma tte 10% day uatil 9 o'ch hate pathway, the Bound st trip almost two hours from ‘Thirty-ninth street, the Buttery, Was aleo de: fom untl 1A late hour, and The ferry TRIES SUICIDE. Mrs. Alice Kline, Who Was Not Permitted by Her Husband to Join Him in the South, Turns} On Gas. HER PET PUG GAVE ALARM. | Dog She Intended to Kill with Her | self Saves Her Life, but the Canary Bird She Had Willed to Neighbor Dies, Lonesomenees caused Mrs. Alice Kline to attempt her Ife to-day. Her hus- band, a violinist, ts with an ofchestra at a South Carolina winter resort. 6he has not seen him for months. Yeaterday she made a will, leaving her canary bint to a tenant across the hall. Tho canary bird died ‘from the gas she turned on, and a pug dog ahe intended to kill gave the alarm that may eave har Ufe. Mra. Kline {ts a handsome young woman. She wanted to go down to the balmy olime in which her husband has spent the winter, but he would not al- low it. Day after day she eat in her little flat, her work @fl done, and lis- tened to the singing of her canary bird, Her sister, Mrs. Elsie Giesen, of No. 318 East Twenty-seventh street, w the only person who called to eee her. Mrs, Kilne grew thin and careworn. Sometimes her husband did not answer her letters, Yesterday she decided that she would end the Ife that had ceased to Interest her. She was devotedly tached to her dog and decided to kill the animal when she killed herself. Dressing herself in what ehe delieved would be her grave clothes sh» took the dog into her bedroom, closed the door and turned on the gas, On a table in an adjoining room she had left a letter disposing of her effects. The canary bird was tu go to Mrs. Knopf, who lived across the hall. The other stuff was to go to Mrs. Glesen. With Intelligence not commonly ao- corded to pu, the dog of Mrs. Kitne realized that something wis wrong and pushed open the door of the bedroom, which had not been securely fastened, He managed to get out into the hail, where he put his snout against the bot- tom orack of the door and in that way Bot enough fresh air to keep him alive until he was found to-day. The gas pouring out of the bedroom filled the house and quickly suffocated the canary bird, FOUR WOMEN HIT i BY FAST TRANN =: Three Killed and Other Fatally |< Injured as They Stepped Be- fore Engine and Were Swept from Tracks. HAD DODGED ONE ENGINE. PHILLIPSDALE, R. 1, Three women were inst a fourth was probably fatally injured to-day while walking from Pawtucket to this place on the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Ratl- road. The victims ¢n trying to avoid one A FAIR TEST. See if Coffee Is Really the Cause of Ails. Some coffee drinkers think they can get on without being sick by limiting the allowance to just one cup a day, and some people can stand this all right, but others cannot. There are many people where the poison of coffee is so marked and Birect that one cup per day if fol- lowed up steadily will surely and cer- tainly put the patient in bed, or pi duce chornic, fixed disease of one or more orgaus of the body. When a person suspects coffee to be the cause of his or her stomach, liver, kidney, bowel, heart or eye dis- turbance, it is well to test the case by leaving off coffee for ten days and using Postum Food Coffee in its place. It there is an improvement in health the proof is absolute, and common sensé will naturally guide any one who values comfort, ease, content and ability to do things, to make the change permanent and continue the use of Postum instead of coffee, tor it means that life is worth the living when one can be well, Now aud then will be found a de- generate who really prefers sickness of some eort to the comfort of good heaith, and such persons will con- tinue to use articles of food and drink that they know do not rgree with taem. In this land of liberty let every one choose his own course, but one great, staring, pertinent, absolute fact stands out: that coffee does cause misery and distress to thou- sands of people who do not suspect the cause, and the quitting of coffee and taking on Postum Food Coffee will return the average person to health and comfort, This fact can be proven by any coffee drinker. Saved from a Life of Suff Suffering from Catarty of the Bronchial Tubes, Exposure and Dampness Set Up Catarrhal ~ Disturbanées, _ While Still in the Bronchial Tubes Pe-ru-na Never Fails to Cure Catarrh. y \ rulned my Btatement that occurs fi nin the immense cor- {I} which Dr. Hartman conducts Wt hit, patients, Hast and West, North Ni “ean catch a cold. They neglect. to haa possibly thinking they will t over Fhe cold settles on thotr, chee They find. themsol cough or ghronte*eatarrh. They call the doctor, per: my expresses the fear that they are go- fiat ‘ino rn fol ta es ccoslty on the road toward pei eh sumption is simply eatarrh of the lungs. Catarrh is creeping slowly but surely teward the lun) lett jes the lungs it will be consum| was aul ip Hip the brouchial, tubes Pe- ine never fails cure these cases. be a ba f, ugh bottle of Per ou! MZ ae ree tied the ad jraaiter. Sylvester E. Smith, Mining Expert and Superintendent of Mines in Utah, in a letter from 311 Chestnut bee: ’ Louts, Mo., saya: ““Peruna is the best sick man can have. A , mouths ago I came here in # wretched condition. Ex and dampness had ruined. my once robust health. I had oa- tarrhal affections of the chial cubes, and for a ti there was a doubt as to my re- covery. My good, honest old doctor advised ine to runa, which I did, and in @ short time my health hegan improve \ery rapidly, bronchial trouble gradually disappeared, and in months my health was, full restored. Accept a grat man’s thanks for his resto ison Cu fhe aie Nl descendant of of my friends have Py atarrh with bene cit ‘tath recominend- Teenie’ co Palle pe suftering with that complaint at ah rite ties Ieeeet Deitees, Aleeey ve, Green Yeland, N.Y, follow!ng: ‘Ae my ‘work ccmpels me to spend a ner MN it of doo: T bave Uri "Sean arse reached, by’ sudden rainy extreme cold, ‘soon fount ching Bs, sted cies’ ot or mapa Le ” fal tu tH rs and medi- mete nothing 1 aid Romed to help ms of fendi medicine, took right hold me, anon disease out of me, tia eis r than T had aye, been ex ag f doses of Perona eruns is an ideal pro: |» tector tn ail sorts na ‘weather.”—George A. TDougias. Gerive prompt end satis- o sou - 105" trom the te of Perun it of id he i Sata give Fou bie Valuable sgvies its absolute roar in Vi oee and alone conveys nothing. You must’ Wen’s $ Q% 00] Rain Coats, see and judge the merchandise thus Gop Coats As we have often quoted: Priee. priced. A brief description: Oxford Cheviots,) SILK Gop fea Thibets, (Romaine) Coats, | Oxford Twills, 1 LINED. Also Top Coats in gray, brown and tan shades; black and dark gray coate-_ ings, serge lined. 3 Guaranteed Rain Coats || That combine style, grace and utility.” Sizes for all builds of men. Choice, Tine Dotars Saturday. 12.00 to 23. 50, Gop Coats and Rain Coats, vss ve s Spring S Suits, (Now Ready) Six entire sections of the Men's Sigg nde HM Store Within a Store, | Don't let the cook serve Postum underbolled, 1 t that directions on the pack be followed; then Postum is delicious, having a flavor Brokivn. \ when by t an come over It f acoom- the Inodation, Slaten | portaiton wae Bye thed oe, Funtil the congestion at Keg fips rise toa bation met tie Hast all its own, not so rharp as “drip coffee,” far better than ordivary cof- fee, with uiuch the soft, mellow flaver of the most expensive srades of Java. Ix voued 0 Trousers, Nenana i mameres, in newest is 5.00% 3 " (The Men's Boe, if showing every gcod soft of Won's Sa Grousers| f