The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1903, Page 1

hFourteen-Year-Old George PAIS SKULL WAS FRACTURED. GENERAL ‘SPORTING NEWS ON PAGES 12 & 13. PRICE ONH CENT. “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | NEW ——— YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1903. BLOW IN PLAY KILLS ABO. Wallace Dies from Injuries Received While Other Youths Were Teasing Him ;William Bagley Is Said by the Others to Have Struck the Blow. Which Caused the Boy’s Death. George Wallace, fourteen years old, ‘wt No, 698 Hast One Hundred and Wighty-eixth street, died at his home to-day as the result of a blow which he received last night while being teased near his home by a number of other boys. ‘ William Bagiey, twenty-one years old, of No. 2 East One Hundred and Wighty-sixth street, is said to have wiruck the blow. He has not yet been arrested, but the police are looking for him. The police knew nothing of the case until John J.McDonald, who owns the house where young Wallace lives with his parents, went to the Tremont eta- tion this afternoon and told them of the boy's death and the circumstances which led to it. ‘He said that eo far as he hed been able to learn Wallace and his sixteen- year-old brother were sent out last night ‘to buy a tin pan. There were a lot of ‘Dboys on the corner, and when the two ‘Wallaces came along with the tin pan Whe boys took it from them and began (kinking é@t in fun about the street. In the row which followed George wes Knocked down. He lay still for a min- in the State 50 per cent. The mortgage tax measure wa to 20. with the salary of inspectors. IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE DOINGS IN ALBANY TO-DAY, Gov. Odell signed the higher license bill, increasing the liquor tax for it and the Assembly caucus condemning the bill by a vote of 57 Three-platoon plan adopted by the Senate as an amendment to the Finch police bill, which provides for an increase of the force and dealt s killed, Gov. Odell losing his fight ALBANY, April 2.—Gov. Odell has lost his fight for the Mortgage Tax bill. He did not give up without a hard struggle and argued in favor of the bill for ome hours with the party leaders in the Exeoutive Chamber to-day. He proposed compromises, but the me- \Jonity was against Mm and Senator Platt’s influence had the desired weight. ‘The result of the conference was fore- shadowed in the action of the Repub- MORTGAGE TAX BILL IS DEAD. Odell Makes a Hard Fight. for Measure, but Leaders Oppose Him and Assembly Caucus Votes Against It. oan Assemblymen who met in caucus at the same time. ‘This was protracted and ended with a/ © vote on the Mortgage Tax bill. Those against the measure won, the vote deing 9 to 20. ‘When the Senate adjourned at 3.10 P. M. the Republican Senators went into conference on the mortgage tax ‘The Ampembiy un Bieta niet when & tube prop- osbtions will be taiven up, Roel choding a real estat: tax 21-2 mits. . IN PO ‘tute, and this scared the youngsters, ‘He was picked up and partly carried, partly dragged to his home. There he wecovered somewhat, but was too dazed to tell what had happened to him. tHe ‘was not sick enough, in the opinion of ‘his parents, to send for a doctor. He ‘was still conscious this morning, but about 10 o’ciock he suddenly weakencd and died in a short time. ‘The Coroner was notified by three phy- sicians who were called in when it was too late. They expressed the opinion that the boyés skull had been fractured, The other children who were in the street told McDonald that Ragley was the one who struck the blow, but they all acquit him of intent to seriously hurt Wallace. RICH MAN'S BLOW “HAY BE FATAL (Col. Lennard, a Civil War Vet- eran of Seventy Years, Says Gilbert Moore Assaulted Him After Drinking Bout. Col. Louman Louls Lennard, a sev- enty-year-old veteran of the Civil War and formerly proprietor of the Hotel Vimlito, now a part of the Hoffman | House, is in a precarious: condition at the New Central Hotel, Fitteth surest and Seventh avenue, suifariag trom tne ternal injurles and blows on the head. In an ante-mortem statement to Coroner Goldenkranz, Col. Lennard eald he was assaulted by Gilbert Moore, the rich proprietor of the American Car- rlage Exchange, on Broadway. The Colonel said that he met Moore after the Corbett-MoGovern fight was over yesterday and they drank to- gether. They went to a house in Fit- tleth street, where Moore ordered wine, When Col Lennard xefused to pay the wine bill, he says, Moore assaulted him. The Colonel managed to get out of the house and to Roosevelt Hospital, where his wounds were dressed, His jaw was broken, His physician, Dr. Weilgert, of No. 401 West Fifty-ninth street, found the Colonel so il! to-day that he notified the police and Coroner's Oflice. Four detectives of the West Forty-seventh treet station are looking for Moore, who lives in New Jersey, Col, Lennard's brother, Dr, Amos L. Lennard, is @ wealthy physician in Chicago. The Colonel was Commander | of the Third Louisiana Volunteers in the | war, alde-de-oamp to Gen. Robert H. Lee and wea with Gen. Stonewall Jack. fon when the Jatt killed. Colonel i» the heir to @ big estate in Lincolnshire England. He was to go there next week. WEATHER FORECAST. “Werecast for the thirty-stx hours ending at 4 FP. M. Friday | fer New York City and vicinity: Partly cloudy to-night; warm. ont Friday showers) tresh (Special to The Evening Wort.) ALBANY, April The three-plateon Police plan was fought out In the Sen~ Senator Grady offered it ate to-day. as an amendment. when the. Finch Police bill was reached on the calendar, and after much discussion It was adopt- a. The Finch measure is an Administra- tion bill, increasing the force and changing the power and salaries of inspectors. {it has bee passed by the Assembly. Senator Disberg, who hed charge of the measure, objected to the three- platoon amendment. Senator Grady denounced a sugges- tion that the platoon scheme be hand- Jed in a@ separate pill. He declared that Republicans, as well as Demo- crats, demanded the passage of the measure, and averred that the Republi- Senate Adopts Plan as Amendment to Mease ure Indorsed by Mayor Low—Grady Wins His Fight. LICE BILL. can party would get the credit for its passage. )» Senator Eleberg retorted that the Democratic leader would be given oredit, and would be entitled to it, if the ‘three-platoon amendment ehould be adopted. He held that it would be ® gross violation of home rule for the (Legislature to force this plan on the pollce department, over the heads of Mayor Low and Commissioner Greene. “All I know about Gen. Greene,” said Senator Grady, ‘is that he is in favor of working policement twelve hours a day.” ‘There was a lengthy discussion at the end of which the three platoon amend- ment was adopted 2 to Zl. All of the Democrats voted for it, as did W. L. ‘Brown, L'Hommedieu, McEwan and Wil- cox, Republicans. The bill will be re- printed and its friends have enough votes in_sight to pass it in the Senate. Senator Hawkins spoke in favor of the amendment, ‘He accused Mayor Low of breaking a solemn pledge to the patrol- men to support the plan. “CAR AHEAD” GRAB | MRS, NEWTON SCHOONMAKER, WHO DIED FROM COVERT’S BULLET. >|Prayed to Be Spared for Her DIED VOWING HER LOYALTY Mrs. Schoonmaker, Victim of Covert's Bullet, to the End Protested Her Faith- fulness to Husband. BEGGED IN VAIN TO LIVE. Children’s Sake, and to Prove Her Innocence of Any Wrong- doing. Mrs. Newton Schoonmaker, who was shot In her home by Percival Covert, @ bank clerk, because he loved her and she could not be his, died to-day in the Bradford Street Hospital, Brooklyn, She was conscious almost to the very end and her last thought was for her husband and children, Her grief that they might think she had been guilty with the man who not only #hot her but killed himself in ‘his mad love, was piteous. She begged the doctors to save her that she might live for them and prove to them the sacred- nesa of the love she bore them, but they could not. While she persisted to her husband, her father and her sister That she had deen guiltless of wrongdoing, she did not choose them to recelve the details of that last ecene between her and her mad lover. she chose Covert's own sister, ‘ham Debevoise, of No. 173 Buclid ave- me, East New York. CVE TRANSFERS Municipal District Court So De- cides in Test Suits Against Interurban Railway Company, but Appeal Will Be Taken. ‘Transfers must be given by the Metro- politan Street Raliway Company at the intersecting points of every one of the lines owned or leased by it, Immediately after the decision was rendered Ambrose F, MeCabe, of coun- sel for the Metropolitan, announced that an appeal would be taken to the Ap- pellate Division of the Supreme Court. This appeal, he thought, would be reached by June. In the meantime, the status as to transfers will remain the same, in all probability. ‘The decision was rendered in the suits brought by Paul Blume against the In- terurban Street Railway Company as the lessee of the Metropolitan. He s to recover the penalty of $60 in four The}. PUSHED IN SENATE Lobby Working for Measure Which Puts New Yorkers at Mercy of Metropolitan Railway. / ALBANY, April 2.—The Senate Committee on Railroads did what it could to-day to place New Yorkers more than ever at the mercy of the |Metropolitan Street Railway Company. It reported the Foley bill, which takes away the only chance abused patrons have of Tecovering damages when they are ordered out of one car into another, instead of being given ® continuous trip, This is one of the grab bills of the session. Under it a passenger ordered to. take a “car ahead” must repeatedly submit to this annoyance at the pleasure of the company. His only redress will be a suit for dam- | ages instituted by the At present a passenger who fails to get a continuous trip may compel In future he can recover not the company to pay (Special to The Evening World.) Attorney-General of the State. $50 for each failure, more than #100, no matter what he suffers, This is one of the five grab bills sent here by the Metropolitan. It ts itke the Mullaney measure, which was sneaked to a third reading in the Assembly before any one knew it applied to New York City. The plan is to put the Foley bill through the Senate, and then substitute it for the Mullaney bill. The Metropolitan lobby is very strong. This and the other four bills are worth hundreds of thousands to the company, which hes a monopoly of surface transportation in New York. It is probable this Foley bill will It fs also probable that Gov, Odell will veto it. Lemuel BE. Quige is credited with directing legislation for the Metro- pollian syndicate, SUICIDE IDENTIFIED. (@pecia! to The Evening World.) SEVEN KILLED IN RIOT. Woman Who Killed HerseBt in|Meny Others Wounded in Revolt Boston Was Miss Bully Ohase, cases where he alleged the railroad com- pany had refused to give him transfers —vhis penalty being attached to the re- fusal by section 104 of the railroad law. The point set up by the plaintift and on which the Justice made his de- cision favorable to the plaintiff is that the Interurban Company is @ corpora- Uon operating 4 railroad in contradis- tinction to a mere rallroad company and must therefore apply the same rv ito its leased lines as to those ow: it. Px nthe opinion of the Justice the trans- fer contract of the Third Avenue line with the “L" has no bearing on the question, State over corporations cannot be lim- {ted by private contract between two if jon is a sweeping one for Mr. Blume, Justice Worcester at the conclusion saying: “Thé law is compulsory that transfers must be given, and the fact that giving them might cause undue crowding in the street and at the crossings is no exouse for not giving them toned by legislative action. a Unless sanc- Knight of the Garter, Benckart. as the police power of the | The five men arrested March 27, charged wilh ou eggs and vegetables at the performers of the Flats” company in the New Star Theatre, were discharged vy Magistrate Deuel in the Harlem Co, not proved whether the men hissed the players or throwers. The prisoner charged with resisting an officer was dismissed the policeman saying he coutd not identify him, es yon At Washing‘'en—Philedeln his (N.L.) <a t etrne AUS W STEEPLECHASE Favorite Got Home in Front After All the Contenders Had Fallen at the. Barriers—No One Hurt. THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—8Ix and one-half furlongs.—Louise Elston (10 to 1) 1, Mezzo (12 to 1) 2, Trapezist 3. SECOND RACE—Four Furlongs.— Peter Paul (3 to 5) 1, Pleasant Mem- ories (9 to 5) 2, Sunglint 3. THIRD RACE—Steeplechase; Twi and a half miles.—Arius (3 to 2) 1, Gold Ray (5 to 1) 2, Strike-a-Light 3. 3 FOURTH RACE—Six furlongs.— Geisha Girl (6 to 1) first, Pearl Diver (11 to 5) second, and Plantagenet third, FIFTH RACE—Mrs. Frank Foster (1 to 5) 1, Shrine (5 to 1) 2, Lady | Welbeck 3 ning World.) TRACK, WA8H- I . April 2—There was a very |lange attendance at the track this after- noon, oblefly because there was a stee- plechase on the card. Washingtonians appear to be steeple- chase mad. They dearly love to see the horses go through the fields and take the jumps. engaged in this race are quai Washington all winter, and this serves (Continued on Twelfth Page.) EGG-THROWERS ARE SET FREE wing t to-day. He said it was BASEBALL RESULTS, ATLANTA cease anccceee tt £00010 3'0-¢ NEW YORK ...ce-cccceree 91214004 12 5! Ws AT BENNINGS, Mrs, Debevoise went to the hospital yesterday afternoon after Edwani Ed- wards, father of Mrs, Schoonmaker, and her sister, Miss May EXiwards, had been there and been forced to accept only a sad denial of wrong doing. But to Covert's sister the dying woman told her story, and to-day Mrs. Debe- volse, in. justice to her memory, has made it public through The Evening World. Dend Woman's Account of It. ‘The dead woman's account of what happened ts as follo “As God is my witness, no criminal acts were committed by mo with your brother. There was no occasion for him to commit thia crime. He came to my houre at 8 o'clock in the evening, it had been his habit to come there, and I looked upon him as the friend of both my hueband and myself, When he rang the bell I admitted him aa I had done before. “For a few minutes his conversation waa on commonplace topies. Then he suddenly drew his revolver and said: ‘1am going to end it all. I am going to take my life, and as I am infatuated with you I am going to take you with me." “With that, before I could get away or even scream, he pulled the trigger and shot me in the breast. ‘Then he put the weapon to his own head and fired. He fell across me as I was kneeling on the floor, I crawled away from him, but was too weak lo get help, After about ten minutes my husband came and found me. “1 know nothing of any trouble Co- vert had, I had no reason to suspect that he loved me, and I certainly hg | never encouraged him in any way.” Husband Stunned by Dincovery, BILL to one-half. and is now in effect. / OA HIGHER GENSE I$ AL New Excise Measure Increasing the Cost ¢ Saloon Certificates Fifty Per Cent. Sign WILL DRIVE MANY MEN : OUT OF THE BUSI Places Which Have But Trifling Traffic Will” Suffer, While the More Prosperous Estab- lishments Will Hardly Feel the Brunt of the Heavy Increase in Their Expenditures, SOME THINGS THE NEW EXCISE BILE WILL. Increase the license cost of selling liquor in this State 50 per Increase the license in Manhattan from $800 tg $4j200. Increase the licen: in Brooklyn from $650 to*$975. Drive from 20 to 30 per cent. of the small liquor dealers” Greater New York out of business. : Reduce the share of the city in license receipts from Increase the revenues of the State by more than $5,000,000. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, April 2.—The amended Raines Law bill increasing the 1 tax throughout the State 50 per cent. was signed by the Governor to-dis ‘The Governor believes, now that the Dill is a law, that excitement cerning the alleged attempt on the part of the liquor dealers of New Y¥¢ City to bribe legislators to vote against the bill will subside, f Suspicion surrounds sixteen members of the majority in the but nothing definite can be learned concerning thelr identity. That ‘ (Continued on Second Page.) i ae % CROWD GETS A SLY PEEP IN SUBWAY. Laborer Leaves Opening at City Hall Park Entrance and Hun- dreds See the Station. ‘ Nearly a thousand persons got a good look at’ the newly completed City Hull station of the subway this noon at least @ month in advance of the time the con- tractors had planned, Her husband was not with her when she died, but he had spent an hour at her bedside earlier in the night. Stun- so lcved his wife that he sought to take her out of life with him, yet firm in his belief in ger fdelity, Schoon- maker haunted the Emergency Hospital terday. not allowed to see his wif ning, when the doctors, realls ing that her condition was hopeless, ad- | mitted him for a last farewell Bchoon- |Inaker waa told to control himself or he | would hasten his wife's death, He obeyed, and, whiie the nurses with- (Continued on Becond Page.) ——_—-— MRS, PAINE SAYS SHE WILL QUIT BUFFALO. Has Made Her Notorious and Neigh- bors Treat Her Rudely. (Apectal to The Evening World.) BUFFALO, April 2—-Mrs, Seth T, Paine, of “The Elmwood Set," who has achieved notoriety through the Burdick case, Wil leave Buffalo soon never to return. She has confided to intimate friends that in future she will make ber home in Batavia, where her husband is “MoFadden’s | # dentist. Tam going to leave Buffalo within a days,” said Mrs, Paine to an Even- jag World correspondent w-day at her home in Elmwood avenue. ‘The Burdick murder mystery has made me notorious ie this olty—yes, ruined my reputation and standing in th y tam foing 40 Beavis and drop from public there to live down the dij Beat naa come to me through the of Burdick, whom | knew well, L-Burpie here do not treat me aa they @hould. The Burdick case has ruined me, and I am going to start all over,” ——_—— One Way Weat ned by-the discovery that another man } It all happened because one of the | aborers employed in the station cleaning | up the debris fongot to nail up the board | fence which pens up the stairway en- | trance to the station when he went to | his favorite bench in City Hall Park to eat his luncheon when the 12 o'clock | whistle blew. A half bour later a neweboy digcov- ered that the stairway was open. The news spread and a big crowd collected. Finding no hindrance a venturesome lad ran down the steps and disappeared around the turn, "Gee! Ain't dis great!” came his ad- miring volce from the cavern. It was a signal for a general rush down the stairs. Men, women and children, supposing that the station was open for inspection, took the opportunity of sec- ing what all hoped was to be the be- ginning of real rapid transit. Despite the dirt and clutter of the place it was admired very much. Approval was given freely. When the laborers returned at 1 o'clock thelr surprise at finding the crowd ia the station was as great as was the crowd surprise at being there, able tu ve every ‘There wit when the men one out, but with the assistance of a couple of park cops the Unronn was informed of the mistake and the station was cleared. The feice was nailed up tight and fast 4 lew minutes before the bosses showed up, This will provably be the know that tation was means of letting the bosse their formal opening of forestalled., rr Fell trom Ladder Broke Skull George Schoffer, seventy-two years old, of Forty-second street and Ninth avenue, fell from @ ladder while at work on a house at No, 68 Hast Fit- teenth street, to-day and fractured the base of his skull. He was taken to the Harlem Hoepital. oo the Peonayivenie idmited edie to the at- sh.ngton (A.:..); 6, ye or etioad, thy satura Berar Tas zoriag, “hea “autre le Pee te i) f butld toe subway, for which a presented by Memars and Gablatin, of No. # Broadway, [are financing the project, gow offer jbulld the eubway, provide for {to the eunface road for the single cent fare, agree tyn MRS. M'KINLEY Widow of the Late President In TRANSIT ME = GET NOVEL W The proposition to operate @ ing platform or continuous a subway starting from Bowling and extenBing across the new Mamsburg bridge, made {ts ance at the meeting of the ‘Transit Commission to-day, This ts the scheme for cheap continuous transit in which Co Vandoibiit is Interested. To, strate the practicability of the tinuous train plan, the projectors the scheme gave an exhibition of the: the ing pictures for the edifiestion of commissioners. The pictures showed: moving platforms crowded with ‘s proceeding et uniform rd z ep Under the terms of the previous osition the compeny proposing the tinuous traim lan requine@ tae otty rental was to be charged. With rejection of thin cuggewtion the cate, rej wo the ‘the continuous train plan on the Eeetect kag awiing Green to f two-cent fare. . Bridge Commissioner tlon of the traffic problem, Lingentpal ie favor of the continuous?! ides. tt will apply both to the Bridge and subway itself, He says it is) the tan, i in At the meoting to-day \k Dykman Commmletions: ¥ Thomas . Peters, Alfr ee | Tho Alderman Peter Holler and o! in favor of the plan. IN_A RUNAW. While Driving to the Come tery In Canton, #4 CANTON, 0., April 2M Monet in peril this afternoon ceenetery, the and th