The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1903, Page 2

— eatay ORLD1 MONDAY: . GREENE WILL AVENG BEATEN POLICE GAPTAIN +2 INSPECTOR CROSS, WHO TESTIFIED FOR HIMSELF. cel Appears in Magistrate’s Court to Prose- cute Charges Against Men Accused of Brutally Attacking Commander Gorman, of the Mercer Street Station, Pole as He Leans Out of While Making an Excise Arrest. ‘the Window and the) - Royal Blue Express Runs Wild for Many Miles, ie Causing Great Terror That the Poltes Department Intends to prosecute to ¢he limit of the law An golo Tirelll and the ten saloon toung- ers who assisted him dn a almost fatat attack on Pollve Captain Michael Gor- the glass and it cut my hand badly, “I then grabbed ‘Tirelli and got him out On the floor. He shouted to the men in the place to kill me, One of the bar- nders struck me on the head with a Among the Passengers, man in Tirelll's place at No. 149 Bloock-|beer giaay, and another with a club , er street, was evident to-day when|miade of the butt of a billiard cue. The Deputy Commissioner Gherard} Davis, | itty customers in the place went to the the legal advisor of the department, sat hoatde Magistrate Barlow In Jefferson Market Court while te assailants of Gorman were arraigned, Inspector Albert ©. Smith, whFis Cap tain Gorman's Immodiate superior, was @lso in court to oppose an application 'B. Howard, Knowing Some-| $57, tc °stiwonors! attorney form te re “thing Is Wrong, Makes a Per. | duction of thelr ball He sold he hina i a strong case against the prisoners anit flous Craw! to the Engine, Ald of Tirelll and his men and tried to trip me, I fought them off as well I could, dragging them to the door, #0 1 could summon help. “1 did not wish to use my pistol, as know if I fired I should kill some one. and I did not want to Ki a man in making a simple Excise arrest, I felled several of the men who were Intent on, tirowing me to the floor. 1 made uso of mn early trick of wrestling that 1 STER PREVENTED BY . A COOL-HEADED FIREMAN. expected to land most of «hem in the | i ' penitentiary. learned when a boy, and whenever one “Finds the Driver, J. Walter} tnspector Smith told Magistrate War for my antagonists threw out a leg to Jow that Capt. Gorman was suffering|trip me I lifted my knee and jabbed saw several wielding from a concussion of the brain, but «he the stomach. 1 surgeons expected he would be able to him in knives raised, but the men Farley, Dead, and Stops the » Flying Train Just in Time. Appear in court by Wednesday, and ho|them appeared to be afraid to use them BPX = asked that the hearing be postponed|on me. A stout fellow—I think he was x Gnece until that day. He sald it was {m-]an employee of the place—wicided a ° ‘BALTIMORE, April 13.—With the dead| possible to tell when Joseph W. Car-|pilly and struck me several blows on the : roll could be In court, as the hospltal|side of the face and on top of my head. ws body hanging from the cab » the throttle wide open and the Blue Mxpress making fitty-fve les or more an hour, if she were mov- fat all, the passengers of this aria- tic train of the Baltimore and Ohio knew something of the danger hed been in for miles and miles the journey. * rat, they had wonderel why the im had torn through a station at it should have stopped. ‘Then wonder became fear as the train bout sharp curves so fast that it eld to the track by the flanges of wheels on only one side of the train. came as the train dashed over a ing, narrowly averting a collision surgeons intended to remove Carroll's | eye this afternoon, “T want to say for Mr, Carroll,” marked Magistrate Barlow, “that for hia bravery and courage Capt. man might have been Killed." After the hearing had been set for Wednesday, Frank Boland, attorney tor the prisoners, succeeded in having the ball of Tirelli, his barkeeper, Georgians, and a prisoner named Parventint, who 19 rald to have struck Capt, Gorman over the head with a club, reduced to $3,000, The other eight prisoners were held in 31,000 each. Capt. Gorman, who was the first roundsman to be made a sergeant by President Roosevelt when he was Com- missioner, and who then had # record of saving twenty-six ves from fire and water, found ‘Tirelil's saloon open aiser A Brave Man to Min Ald, "I was now covered with blood, and} blinded by it as it trickled into my | eyes. I knew I must gef out into the street, or T wus a deat ian, for several of the men drow pistols. “T smashed the thick glass of the door with my elbows, and found ms in @ narrow yestibule, Men were t ing to hold fie doors shut. Men got against the outer doors, that had gi panels similar to the others, and I suc- ceoded in smashing them, too, ‘The nolse of the glass and the shouts ot) the men attracted Carroll to my ald. He ts a wonderfully brave man, for he plunged into the crowd, hitting right ana left, ‘The crowd, however, turned on him qnd knocked tim down, and kicked him in the face and body. I tried to get to him to protect him, but just then re but or W COURT ACAIN. Lawyer Somerville, Who Is Ac-! cused of “Accelerating” the! Death of Noted Art Expert, Demands Immediate Trial. | CONTESTANTS COMING OVER. | When the Leonhard F. Roos will con- erald test was called by Surrogate Fy ith another train, day Fr very, est the passengers knew that some-| Midnight yesterday morning and or-|1 recelyea a stunning blow from a club] y, an Frank Avery, counsel f was wrong uhcad, ‘hele fears | dered him to close. He was Immediate. |and sank to the pavement juat outside| tay ihe wii, waked. to not quieted until they stepped|!¥ Set upon by all of the fifty men in| the saloon. BigiE Toe tas lwea rae Cit} jtho place, and while the captain is in St. Vincent'y Hospital, where he will probably remain two weeks or more, he is able to describe graphically the heroig fight he and Carroll made. He sald: “When T had taken a drink, to make it m legal case, I told the bartender he was undor arrest, “KU Him) “Meantime some one had telephoned to the Mercer Street Station, and Detec- tives John L, Sullivan and James Wren came runaiig up. ‘Tne crowd scattered and 1 became unconscious. When 1 re- covered 1 found myself in this cot.” Detectives Sullivan and Wren arrestea the following mon, charged with. at- tempting to Kill Capt. Gorman and Ca rol ‘Mreill, the proprietor of the place Smile Georglas, John Bountne, Jose) jouris, Charles Polona and Angelos from the train in this city. Fell Dead on Cab Sih Somewhere down by the Susquehanna bridge Engineer J. Walter Farley, had been hauling the fast trains of PUTpose was to VW to the wit by which expert and dealer ieft his estate to his five brothers and sister fy Zurich, but that he had no official direotion to wit draw the action, and that hip clien’ were on the ocean bound for New York, Surrogate Pitzgerudd left it to Louts J. Somerville, the attorney for the ex- It was struck by the bridge or a pole, and after that \t was all Was the Cry with the engineer. His body fell nilll, all of No. 149 Bleecker street; Em!t] ecuto 1 Shae, Spas Pea kill ot che window. Aaah “He shouted to Tirelli, who called |Grosaio, of No. 47 Carmine street, Cas-| ory) Willlam (A. Chase, the artist, i out, ‘Kill the fellow!’ Tirelll ran up /4to, Rolland, of No. @2 Bowery; Castro |“od James D. ‘Trask, Mr. Somerylile head, shoulders and arms daniled yon vciised tT couldn't arreat aio one Engernian, No. #8 Aiecdougal Street; | objected, sayin y in b; ¢ ofin, Anderson, 0! 0. ireen Wie: Py Te ‘ Fee cat in the eevaree levers [in hls place. T then made a ten at the | treet, und Charles Murray, of No, | UAE Is asking too much, and it will not cau in the reverse lover. sea hee West ‘Broadway, All were held jn Jet-| concede any further adjourhment of bartender and ‘Tirell! and the other z an J. B, Howard was busy at ferson Market Police Court: by Magis-| thts case. IT haye been charged with all Brebox feeding coal to, the fre, \Wurtenders Jumped at me and dealt mo| trite Marlow in $9,000 bail each for furs | gortg vat” grin iJ ee @ fast run like this it is necessary |M¢avy blows, One of them, I don't|ther | exai (nation’ to-day. ‘Tho only |#Pts of crime in this case, including a s8arY | ow Which one, threw a bear glass nt fone, to optaln ball was Tirelll, ifs| murder, and J tnsist that the contost the freman to remain almost con ; Ey hondaman was Angelo Alpi, a dealer In| musi go o: ly at the firebox, continually shov- but up my lett hand to ward off Jal Nowers, 0 coal. And had there been a third es rar - cane Whereupon the Surrogate examined i F the subsoribing witnessea to the will, in the cab, as repeatedly urged by Mr. Somerville, and Miss Ellen Long, of from such a have been ening World, dange: EL Serene i Ponsonnurst, the young woman who re- fused to admit Mie, Marla B, Roos to the Gouse when her husband was dying and tried to exelude her from the fu- neral. This she afterward justified by showing a written request signed by Mr, Koos to keep his wife out. LOCKED UP FOR AIDING MOTHER WIFE, BUT OF THE WRONG HUSBAND ‘Bat with Howerd out of the cab tho engineer was struck unseen. The ti ) man was too busy to notice that | Jey had not whistied at the cross roads ‘He knew that the throttle was open| wy but this was reasonable, as trom By the will Roos left bis estate he Susquehanna up and beyond Chilus abour 0 to his brothers and sisters, yy pereh: uprarade ee ae and explicitly exeluded Mrs. Roos on be eo giiwwering ty. > por cin Us S. Supreme Court Decides Reta Matterossi Was Trying tO esate taiiine Rebeca vie: cited station peop ing (rantical- | , j 7 ron she was Yel , s aaa GEG Barat the wilds that Mrs. Winston’s Okla-| Reach Her with Medicine, but )*'s, nfs Tyoten Ure te, im consequence. Magiy Daxnea vy station, | homa Divorce Is Invalid and} @ Policeman Pushed Her Back |'hat she will was made on Nov. 5, ie, aS Ynside the train the puxsengers—a A . ‘ retina vat ty0R was erfootly healthy in © Pietr class was nigh. as this is a oan! Marriage to Dr. Ludden Null, fom the Fire Lines. ae Wien Besarp ane R: Sy Of Wexury—fe.t secure until the taln} E Surrogate Fitzgerald adjourned the ‘went roaring through Childs station. -_ hearing, incl We ain sa gaying that ' Barve j ; . ; e would allow two days’ grace to the I wished to alight th Un Now what are the Dr. James M, Lud-| After being tooked up for hours In the |contestants, — If they. dhl “not, appear » Sntation: platform could be seen a num ng to do about 1% Much mar-|COMPany of dissolute women: of the be would admit the will to probate. | Ber of Persons, but tho train was FONE) ii ich divorced, litigution-cntanglea) Bowery. Reta Mattorosst. little more nOFVILG. WhO! seemE to derive ma ed ea speck ts ant ‘s E) on he will, wae arreste r peared like a ‘al than a child, was fined $1 In the Centre 8 death, and is on ball on. eo charge nt the Supreme Court of » United States decided to-day that the Street Court to-day because ahe had de- Gitihomn divor Airat adnan ett fied a policeman who attempted to keep Walker Winston, |e ftom her mother, who was i. wp fast that they ap Ben & broad laniscaye. © Several passengers ran for che ) Miduetor to demand why the train ald p Sop at ‘Childs. The conductof ‘accelerating the death of Roos” HER BODY FOUND am h MORMNe bell cord, ‘The train never ts ma fi hie woman tinds Wer | mie ail, Who In weventeen yours of, / He pulled again, anf the tray con: the wife of ¢he man thought | ae eb No St Mott ainoet, Yesterday SF WAinned an, farter now chan it hat ever) Sie was free from years ago, and finds! ® Physician attending her mother, who | \ > Bigune. nefore. ne man with w she has been aving|!8 Seriously ill, wrote a preseription, say {x not her busband at all ing it must be filled immediately, ‘Che for yeurs Ptuinly 16 embarrazsing, but it's ac | tl went to altend to dt at « drug store TAt the firebox, Fireman Howari could mot hear the bell being rung the ~ INTHE MILLSTONE ndugior.. The bell was uj) tho! Jest seitled for all time, for then are | M84) ba apa engineer. But after tne tof of|no ineher courta to 1 to on this}, After @ considerable wait the clerk grade had been reached t , question has been raise | han her the viul and who started on 1 run for the house. As she turned into] ‘ati continued at fui! speed f BevanothercinicthebuurE Ot ; j Sc iitiausht somehing was wr PA nrsa Nm ZEA yr O°) Mott street a crowd that had gathered | Beautiful Woman, Vassar Grad- | lever before had Farley kept taachiuneits and Connecticut, and tre | i Wateh @ fre in Nos, 7 and 9 blocked 4 | Prete wide on tho dows grate sachuuseiie and Gonnestiout, and H'8| yor way, Attor mrugsiing for halt al Uate,»Thought to Have Killed Vipoked around the corner of the fire NIL the knotethat prow with every | Meck the girl reached the edge of (hey Hergelf , © (bom and saw the engineer, and tis} iin sy ino cue PY") Crowd and attempted to pass. | rselt, | Pemasition looked natura eat ee ere anaeried in 1500, | oq Het Baek there!” sald the poltoeman, | yawn «rade the throttle was on bie meyer sires “You can't go thre here.” She was| ' wid the train kept going eae eee mene ney eRe | shaved be "k Into the crowd, te pevia 40 The World.) aater, Jf 1t were possible irs; Walker went 10 Okld-|" yrantio. at the thou, her ther] NEW BRUNSWICK, April Whe iy, when the carcening about tne | got a divere loging that| mien then be in a dying cor thy ad clowk of Mrs. Mary Sundford, ; Adige ving condition, the | at a irves came and the train plunged over ge ate nae jibe Fie irl forced way through the crowd | W!f Daniel Baudford, were found Onging without stopping, as required f neist Sty . 1 A tng in the Millstone Riv between Weer Twei treet And into the open space in which were daw, Howard knew someting was ker ¢ the firemen and policemen. 1 Princeton and King ay) She hud | w avd climbed up into the engin: | Patrolman Heffernan caught her py Bech missing come dours from her home| arm and forced her back, saying: | 1°?" " . lim a savor Muse he) “You can't go through here."* Searchers at once set (0 work dragging ned. his charges. | “But 1 must,” pleaded the vty | the river and finally Mr, Packer a Another mother ie ij. ‘Bec, 1 have medicine tor * found tle body atter Ht had be the body back Into the her,” aud she held up the package to ti the wa nine hi fan the wruin to erris J | 9% Mra, Luda 1 rrewted he poll ema! vida aed ; alts, us tord |b to» weil- Another engineer was securod.| and’ this aclion War Tan’ 'm (all therein about tte seaid the polices | thirty-six vend af Unie Of there on the Wain bad to) heat # the (on-year-old ehild \¥ Wom 1 hae K was away ahead of ume.) Walk s away from the mothe i thro J only live at’ eititure and great pore : Dery Pile proceedings, but sl the wi sides her husband she leaves oven small by the Busquehanna Kiver vridge 9! ‘® hat was found, Thore op his forehead and his skujs ured, Jt was evident that he) § wned too far out at either the! m or a signal pole near It, | Wagain and again by the *hildrs policeman, yy took her by t There is Mele doubt that rm to the Blzaberh street police sia. ford cominitted suicide while nh. She wae bailed out later, ily deranged Heffernan sald jn the Tombs to-day ——$——— that she Nad used vile language and 1 nad threatened him, | nitted #he was mad and might | 4,400 WANT TO BE COPS. ald, cho policeman Was 4 mean | Dut ¢ id not swear, she aad, Applicutions Poar Into De: ole it back and got arrested for kid ppl In Masstchwacts, She was arrested in pectlout We to have her trie erasy for bigamy, whe havin parried a second time to Dy in that Blate to make the Knot 44 Ught ax was posuldle. dition failed en Winston brougt corpus proceedings in the New York courts to Mra. Sand- temporar- udden, habeas aaa AAMAS RRA Ys FF ied He Paid Thousands of Visits to | quarters, Lawyer Abram I. an inspector in that part of New Yo: Cross showed real gentus In narrating the | people there are mostly foreigner: jhardly speak our Bnglish tongw have Ittle respect {pera for the most part, They barter ti “1 suggest, Mr. tlkus.” here inter. rupted Assistant District-Attorney Mor. gan, “(iat we eliminate these adjec tives and get down to facts.” “Mr. Morgan objec O your adjec- tives,” said the lawyer to his client, morrrow morning. It was finally agreed that Mr. Lord should examine Dr, Paddock this afternoon, ‘The examina- tion of tha Inspector will be continued at 180 a! ook Lo ‘ow morning. Ex-Police Commissioner — Partridge eame into the room during the atter- noon, After a whispered conversation with the lawyers, Mr. Partridge went out, but returned in a few intnutes, 2) 8 GROSS I HI NWN DEFENSE Police Inspector Takes the Witness Stand at His Trial for Neglect of Duty and Denies Ail Charges. | | RED LIGHT HARD TO RULE.) | | Station Houses, Investigated Complaints, Ordered Disor- derly Houses Suppressed. | When the defense of Adam A. Cross! was continued to-day at Police Head- kus sprung @ startling surprise upon the Diatrict- Attorney's office by calling Cross him- | self to the stand the moment Deputy Commissioner Bostein rapped for order. Inspector Cross stepped briskly to the chair and answered every question In frank tones. “When were you appointed a patrol- man?" asked Elkus, “October 16, 1878," was the reply, and then: “If I may volunteer, let me say that [ was a patrolman until 188, then advanced to roundsman, to sergeant in 1884, captain in 1890 and inspector in 1807."" Q. You were acting Deputy Chief, were you nol? A, Yes, for a few weeks. Q. And were there ever charges pre- ferred against you? A, Why, yes. I was fined $5 for getting a bite to eat one day, by Commissioner MacLean, the same that afterward made me captain, Just Like Telling a Story. The Inspector gave this testimony like a man telling a story, being interrupted but seldom by elther of the attorneys, He told about the crowded east side, Brooklyn Bridge and the ferries, He gave statistics of traMe and population. Everything was adjusted by hig astute counsel whereby the presiding Judge might be impressed us to the duties of | k the Battery, from Fourteenth street to conditions of squaifl life in the former | “Red Light’ district they they for the police. ‘As for the women, they wear wrap- the streets Instead of In stores and in fair weather that great population is filling all to be seen of sidewalks and | stoops.| Such testimony as this, of course, will be summed up later to show how difficult ft has been (o distinguish decent places from disorderly ones, Objects to Adjectives, “Confine yourself to plain angi Cross was not exactly disconverted, but his feelings were hurt a litte and Ais Voice took on a tremulous waver that would have moved @ tax colle to tears, he most minute details of an_in- epectors hardships were all recited at length, By charts he showed that he ad made 8,440 visits to station-houses and received 4,000 complaints. By way of showing Uhat the captains aid not the Inspector should be held fur any neglect of duty, Elkus asked Cross whether he had not dismissed the ! officers who worked under his, did," he sald, “after talking tt over with Inspector Cortright, We de- cided that the responsibility should not} be divided. 1 gave orders to the cap-| tains to instruct their men to arrest | every woman, whether on, a stoop, in & doorway or on the st were she dis- | orderly, and to use ey press disorderly houses.” Torts to Suppre: Mr, Elkus then referred the Inspector the year 190 when forty men d from various precincts through- eater ew York were sent to ip the Twelfth Precinct. It waa in the Twelfth Precinct (Eldridge Street Station) from which reports of flagrant feltation had come. What the men molished he did not say. Ks of type-written reports were submitted in evidence. These reports were not read, but examined by counsel and showed the exact number of arrests at these houses at different times when Cross was in command, ir. Morgan announced received a sudden and asked for an tor that he had all out of the city, adjournment until to- ‘ol. Partridge came down at any own request,” hi Inspect bes tO in Eveninw World reporter, “and he | will take the etand for on He is on one of & number of import who will Luke the stand," Rev, Dr, Paddock Ventifies, Dr, Robert 1. Paddock, who had been xamined by the pr ution in thle u, and who was one of the chief wit- Nessés against Capt, Herdhy, took the d, slimmoned by the defense, this Dr. Pad- the young on ‘dates, nt withesses vent at ok hammer and tongs, divine, though was ‘hy made @ rather bad Winess for Q. Was Lisp ross Courte polite to you at all times? A I did not hold hin sincere: ? bok sald that vice along ton xtroet was no great that he blamed Cross for not suppressing it, The un- reasonable language of the Inspector did! not worry him, only his indolence cleaning the district, Q. How long did the improvement in the First District in the spring of 1900 to which you have testified continue? | A. Just as long as Martin Engel sald so, Mr. iikus on his feet with spring. ‘T he shouted, "this has fone cloth, Bay, jfar enough. T have respect for t R wel tho child back, but failed, the Court Tefusing to interfere until the United Biates Supreme Coun had passed on he validity of tie Ok.ahoma divorce, tls now probable t Winaton will sa i |. Beat asta ate ir harge wae Gleorderly conduct, for Places on the Force, May aie Mayo fined her « dollar, whieh was pald by her father, ‘The Civil Bervice Commission has been eee aan cantata flooded with applications for appoint- NO SLUMPS, BUT DAILY, REGU. | ment to the Police Department wince the LARLY, month im and month out, 10 | inissioner Greene had asked the Com- but 1 must say this man is Costifying in & Most Unsalivfactory: ner, mand that he be instructed to answer yeu’ and ‘no an alr bis views ip wale Me iat aerate ' "ax “ie (ING, APRIL 19, 1903, |PANIC {ft Carroll, of BLAST SHAKES MANY BUILDINGS One Rock Weighing Half a Ton Crashes Entirely Through a House, Smashing a Piano on the Way. IN NEIGHBORHOOD. | Several Persons Have Narrow Ee-| capes from Sprious Injury, a Child Je Hurt and a Woman Nearly Dies from Fright. A child was injured, a woman nearly whiened to death and damage amount- Ing to 10,00 was caused by a blast this afternoon in One Hundred and Seventy- cond street, between ‘Third and Fulton avenues, Houses over an area of sev- eral blocks were shaken and fragments of rock were hurled many feet One rock welghing about half a ton went clear through the two-story ¢rame building at ‘No. 215 Third avenue, smashing a plano and otherwise creating hayos to the ¢urniture. It tore throug three walls. Several persons had a narrow escape from being serlously hurt or perhaps killed by the flying rocks, and for a time great excitement reigned In the neigh- borhood. ‘The one-year-oll son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Welthman was sitting In a ol with as face pressed ugainst the r window pane on the ground floor of his home at No. 1620 Batngute avenue, two blocks from the scene of the blast. ‘Dne window pane was smashed and the baby His fac showered with pleces of glass. Was, cut slightly in two or three pla however, and the family phyalcian was he wourmls., On the top ouse Was Mrs. Welthman. Shie is been troubled with fheart dis- eas for several years. Wien the blist shook the house she fell on the Noor In frixit and her sister-in-law foand nh lying thore, unable to speak. A physi- can was hurriedly called, and after un hour's work sitccveded in restoring her to conscousness. ¢ The blast was set off shortly before 1 o'clock. Workmen are opening One dred and. Sevent ond = street d avenue to Fulton avenue, thoroughfares being separated immense wall of rock. ‘One Hundred and) Soventy-third and Fulton avenue Publi? 3 enlled 10 dre floor of th Lwo is 63. ‘This is known as the remont School and is the Jargest In Behoo! bE the Bronx. One thousand three pupils attend the achool and mont ndred of “Tt Is the most crowded spot on the |them were on thelr way there when face of the earth.” aald he, ‘Two hun- | the ‘biast, wont off. | Accosding t9 Jt: Ml peo yre- | trolman Peterman, of the Tre a dred thousand people live tn one pre- | it). iany of the children were thrown jeinct; there are iwenty familles In lo inetr feet by the cowncussion. ‘The house; twenty persons in a room. The | policeman said he only saved himself From failing by clutching a railing. Peterman arrested the foreman, John No. 68 Wales avenue. ‘The prisoner wae tken to the Harlem Court and arraigned before Magistrate Hogan... He was parolled until to-mor |row after the policeman had been scolded for not bringing witnesses, ACCUSES FRIEND OF STEALING GEMS, Olive Wilson Is Charged with Robbing Family for Whom She Sewed. Olive Wilson, twenty-four years old, a prepossessing young woman, living at No, 20 Third avenue, was ar- raigned in the Harlem Court to-day charged with grand larceny, ‘he com- plainant was S. W. Monson, of No, 16 Wert One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, who alleges that while she was employed by bis wife to do some sew- ing some $20 worth of Jewelry was tlpsed. Mr. Monson explained to Magistrate Hogan that as the git] was a friend of the family In reduced ciroumstances, he aid not wish to aaye her arrested, but tpon going to her old address found she had moved, and no trace of her could he secured, She was located at the Third avenue address last night. Whe detectives who made the arrest alleged that they discovered a, stolen frooeh in a pocket of an apron. ‘The re- MAYOR'S SUBWAY ALLIS MILLE Mr. Low Announces After Con- ference with Assembiyman} Bostwick that Rapid Transit Measure Will Not Be Passed. CAUSED MUCH CRITICISM. The Whole City Was Aroused by the Charge that the Bill Would Give the Belmont Syndicate aComplete Monopoly of Rapid Transit. As a result of a conference between Muyvr Low and Assemblyman Charles H. Bostwick, the amendments to the Rapid Transit law introduced at Albany by the Assemblyman at the request of the Mayor will pe allowed to dle in committees. This measure aroused much adverse criticism because {t practically left the fichl to the Belmont-McDonald eyndieate to construct branches of the! Rapid ‘Transit Underground road to the boroughs without allowing others pportunity to bid, the criticisms were ma the sald he would take ail respon- for the amendments. Then he} had Interviews with President Orr and | other members of the Rapid Transit announced Uiat the bil in several respec! but he Inti ted that ft would not be passed tw the Legisiature during 1 present vexalon, which will end nex week. was, therefore, something of a suy- prise when the Mayor announced (o- day that he had het a conference with | Assemblyman Bostwick acid that the bill will be allowed to die én committee. id be The vill,” said the Mayor, now itt a condition of statue quo, Jt will re- main in that condition, Tt has been de- elded not to urge its further passage. We have decided that it ix impracticable and the erticism which it has recelved may in @ measure be merited, “Its framing was an outcom bill presented at Albany a year ago to prevent a re-occurrence of the catas- trophe which took place In the Park avenue tunnel, ‘That bili, too, was vetoed fafter numerous conferences with the management of the New York Central Railroad. We decided upon ch construction and grade and tution of electricity as a motive power “The Bostwick dill, which was intended to safeguard other tunnel projects as well ag develope our rapid transit system, is now declared, to be impracticable, Well, we shall now have wu full year in which to. better study the demands of the situation and for the preparation of a bill which will protect the city and afford best results."* This is beleved to be a complete sur- render of the Mayor to public opinion. R. Fulton Cutting, President of the of the Citizens’ Union, when apprised of the Mayor's surrender, sald: “That ts in- deed good news. I am glad to learn that the Mayor has yielded to wise council and agreed to let the bill dle in committee.’’ TWO FALL WITH STAGE. Breaking Hopes Drop Painters in Midst of Children, Through the breaking of the ropes holding a stage on which Emil Bienen- hauer and Arthur Wagner, painters, were at work on the house No, 105 Gra- ham avenue, Brooklyn, both men sus-) tained injuries to-day ‘which are oon- sidered mortal. ‘They are now in the Hastern District Hospital. Children on their way to school at the time of the accident narrowly escaped being struck by the falling stage. Among the first to reach the injured men. waa Rev, Father James McGuire, of the Church of the Transfiguration, who did all he could for them until the arrival of an ambulance surgeon. —$———__ GOODY-GOODY CONEY CROWD Coney Island had a record day dn some respects yesterday. The number of visitors was about 0,000. ‘There have been bigger crowds, but there never was a crowd 80 nice and orderly. A squad of Pollce Headquarters detec- tives looked the visitors over and didn't find @ pickpocket or confidence man. Acting Captain Sheehan claims that five men arrested for intoxication brought thelr Jone to Coney Island from Manhattan or Brooklyn.” One. arrest mainder of the Jewelry was not found, ‘The girl said the brooch was her prop- erty and she denied any theft. She was remanded for further examination to- morrow morning. | was made for ylolation of the Sunday law—that of Charles Pampas, who was cnarged with keeping open ‘a billiard room, All the dance-halls were crowd- ed to thelr capacity. ———s CA NDY SPECIAL FOR MONDAY ONLY. MAPLE DATE CREAMS. seeeeeeeeeeeeeseerer sly 100 ASSORTED FRUIT AND NUT CHOCOLATES. ++-++++++++++++.1b+ 150 SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY ONLY. CHOCOLATE SAN BLAS BONBONS.- CHOCOLATE CREAM PEPPERMINTS. Lo; ‘We will deliver any or all of the above mpecials at the fol Jowing rates; Manhattan Island, 100.; Brooklyn, Hoboken, Jer- sey City oF the Bronx, 150. No goods went O, 0, D. hb. 54 BARCLAY ST. COR. WEST BWay. 29 CORTLANDT ST. COR CHURCH sold PURE HIGH GRADE COFFEE [4 pert. Wedge This is ohe of our highest gr by us at 18 cents is sold elsewhere as Java and Apri Peoria Beyer ocha at 25 soit per Carpets for little money. Just at present you can buy the best Ten-Wire Tapesiry ‘Brus- sels, regular 85c, Ic yard grade for.. 57) And the best 4/l-Wool Iné rain, regular 7oc, c oa grade for .... 49 ' Of both kinds we offer a liberal assortment of pat- terns. A Notable Rug Value is a line of Best Body Brussels Rugs, size 9x12, regu- 418 50 e° lar $23 value for Of both Carpets and Rugs our stocks are complete, Qur patterns and qualities are dis- tinctively superior, being the product of our own looms, and, for the same reason, our prices bear no relation to the usual charges for high-grade goods, You are always welcome here, whether buying or not,” |MATTINGS. Big stocks; all grades | up to $20roll, Japan, roll 40 yds., $10 value...$6.90 China, roll 40 yds., $5.25 value. $5.85 J. & J. Dobson, Corner 14th St. & Fifth Avenue. Laundry Wants—Female. kern and receivers, Past 43d at Yale CLASS Washer; steady work, Baldwin Wea ath nt ‘ LY “TRONER, Sit Sth ave. on soft negligee THD—Good pay & ~ Empire Laundry, 951 Fulton Eirent ‘Apply Pineapple Brooklyn. st 2 foners after ‘Tyler tl shirts a day. Steam Laundry, 449 We STAROHERS on suirts, collars and cuffs, 2:60 woman wash flanne! Kaeppon Laundry, 449 West Both rt rl on collar-tros « Brooklyn. ie WANTED—A girl (o work on sirt-lroning ma- hine; also other work, “Twin Steam Lawn- 418 Concord Your 3 Call ready for work, Laundry, Rood writer, correct wages $4. Laundry, $42" Columb GIRLS WANTED, Collar and Com Steam Lage Sey, 19 ond wt, Ist Moor (a at, Bowery and Broadway. big, strong woman, good worker, $17, Sunday off, room and beard. A house. 45 W LAUNDRBSS In hotel: all amali pleces: pladn Work: wages $2); room and board. Barring- ton, 1497 Broadway. LAUNDRESS for plain work and €o make heraelt een: useful in the restaurant, Schumann, i —ite-cians laundremt, papkins ap@ 4. The Royal. 278 6th ave.” DRY GIRLS on collar and soghtens,, tite, imarnera, Jugharss'a yrile ave. Brooklyn. ASSORTRR—Collar and cuff amorter and bundh- {experienced preferred. | Palieade Steam Laundry, 2315 8th near 125th st. Laundry Wants—Male. SHIT IRONER; wendy ri ra ai rr 7 Heath's Standard Laundry, 254i 8th awe. SOL erat ‘boy wanted, Bmpire Laundty, 106 n BOY ‘TED Ia jaundry. ii Clinton w., _Brooklyn, i rands to laundry, Oo ; for Iaundry work, Lexington LAWi—— . and Laxington a Boy 1b, for er wi Laundry, rity DOY WANTHD, ary jd, in laundry; abort shoures $3 weekly. Apply’ 2483 Brosdway, inher BOY WANTED, about 16, to work | chine, Palisade Seam Laundry, Dear 126th Boy, sir cor. 324 ay BOY for i ‘dry, 507 Amsterdam ave. BOY WANTED, about “tle Laundry, 1463.6 with reference. Mi Ma, th’ aves, bet 11M BOY, U4, carry out ‘coud _reteren DRIVER—A colored Griver; a Want Bide Laundry, 163. B4th, Auction Sales. RICH NERS ROGET oo otcase wna earget eal commencing at “I do not know of anything here or in your country eo touch it for information, a gentleman in London, speaking of the World Almanac, 4