The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1903, Page 2

LOCKOUT HITS 200,000 MEN. Seventy-five Thousand More Workers Are Thrown Out of Employment in City by Ma- terial Dealers. CARPENTERS NOW AT PEACE. Lumber Bosses Appeal to All Mills, to Shut Of Supply of Lumber| from New York in Order to Aid) Fight on Unions. the ‘Though the reinstatement of been | | Brotherhood of Carnenters has ne fayorably acted upon by the Cr tale Committee of the United Board of Building Trades, it is understood that the war between the rival carpenters’ unions is at an end, and contractors were to-day employing members of both wnjons indiscriminately in accordance with the agreement reached through | the good offices of the Civic Federation, All the carpenters cannot, however, return to work immediately, as the Ue- up due to the lock: dealers still continues. Instead of looking for peace the ma- terial men are determined to make their Jookout entirely effective, and circulars have been sent out by the Lumber Trades Association asking sawmill men and lumber dealers throughout the gountry hot to send supplies to New York while the existing diticulty lasts. ‘The sircular says: “We want to impress on your minds that the question of closing the lumver Yerda to contest the unjust demands made by the United Board of Walking Delegates is something that vitally in- Aerests any man who qhips and every @ewmill that cuts for this market. “It ls the first step toward compelling the uae of union lumber in this city and none Other but union lumber, and union means union labor in your saw- the domination of the walking f t by the material mille delegat Extends to Brooklyn. L coal THE WORLD: THUR! DAY EVENING, MAY 21, t RELIANCE AND COLUMBIA OFF BEFORE THE WIND IN THE FIRST OF NEW YORK YACHT CLUB'S TRIAL’ RACES---RELIANCE IN THE LEAD, POSTAL DEFICIT OF $221,000. Postmaster - General Payne Criticizes Machen’s Bureau Work and Says the Methods, Were Lax. Tha lockout which heretofore extendea | WASHINGTON, May 21.—Congress only throughout Manhattaa and the | Wil be asked at the upening of dis next Bronx will now be made effective in |#e#sion to make an appropriation to Broo! nm and all parts of the Greater | COVeT defictencles in both the regular City and will result in throwing 76,000 ad- | fee-dell ver: vice and ithe rural free- itional skilled workmen out of employ- | livery service ofthe Post-Office De- / ment, All mills, yards and supply plants |P’runent. wtmaster-General Payne 5 fn thd Greater City have been ordered to [tay announced that this deficiency be ehut down at noon Saturday. ‘This wil) |BOW ABsregatos exactly f which of am active campalga Lian lo volce thelr | views which were expressed in their in- RICHMOND TO NEW YORK IN A TRANCE. Prospect of a Diploma So Elated Young Thompson that He Disap- peared Before Commencement. A young man of genteel appearance, | who Claimed to be Hugh K. Thompson, President of the graduating class of } the Medical College of Virginia, who disappeared from Richmond on Thurs- day last, when he was to have tended the commencement exercises ai t Tecelved his diploma, turned up in New 7 York to-da ia “All I can say about myself,” sald : the medico. is that 1 Kot co usinkin — ada little money, but how I 4 if Away from Richmond’ ts a blank. ‘The sg frat that I remember since leaving the South was when | woke up in York yesterday without a cent. 1 want | jet back home now as fast as I cun| have sent pees BAF son called at the office of “ine Evening World with a clipping from a Richmond paper. He seemed exceeding-| Ae penitent and was put in communica- a with bs family at thelr home, ville, NC KILLED BY ELEVATOR. Resident of Cherry ill Meets sH"Ceutral Park Went, Wright Hospital has reported Foner's office that March G to my peopl a to the eas, thitty-four years old. of No. Cherry street, was crushed in ar Yator at No, 404 ele- ion" Central Park West to- day and died later in the hospital. ——— SHIPPING NEWS. ease ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY, Bun rises. 4.39/Sun sets.. 7.14/Moon rises... 131 . | greatly 40 9.13] + Swansea INCOMING STEAMSHIPS. DUE TO-DAY. Evelyu, San Juan, Sobracnse, Para. OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. * SAILED TO-DaY. Yrvadad, Bermudy lenfuegos, O. lasiburs. #1 Dorado, Gaive nial Sick Babies, very laa 4 make over 200,000 men idle next week. | 410,000 {# in the free-d branch ‘ ij ‘The Emergency Committee of the new |@"d $121,600 In the rural free-delivery b Hmployers’ Union after a three hours’ |service. 12h gesnioii in the Bullding Trades Club an-| ‘The Postmaster-General said Hounchd the solection of committees, but | gretted the ence of the de paid they had gone no further in the way | for tae first time publicly eriticts astra tien al suporinte de terviews in The Evening World. very system, who is otu on Indefinite All the members say that they do not |leave of ubsenc intend to wage war on unionism, but to) “This ts not the first Ume that a de- protest themselves and thelr business | ficiency hy rred in the interesta by forcing their men to make | ery ser sald Mr. Payn Feasonable agreements with them und regret fis existence, At the opening of PAPE ny chai decisions of boards > of ‘ngress Mr. Machen pointed Without additfonal appr i work could iw continue Dos f fiscal ye 2 “This appropr tl made, but ‘it w spite this fact the very office) was K¢ on increasing the de- flolency, and we had to take steps wo ail the expenditures and suspend the blighment of routes until the begin- of the t fiscal y the deficit Would have ir Tt was not good ad Contivuins f the Postmaster-General art of the deficiency was dis- e Mr, Machen was allowed Teas sof absenc fe ed ‘a part, of {t himself,” | 2 added, "First Assistant Wynn atly reported to me that "10000 ney existed In the rural Mr. Wynne and 1 agreed! vhi mica] measures the de- partment might ellminate that. 1 sup- pose that was the amount reported to Mr. Wynne” SD RAL DIDN'T KILL THIS CUn. Stepped on the Current-Con- ductor of “L” “Road, Jumped Into the Air and Ran Off Up Footway at Top Speed. A cur dog sat on the sidewalk at Fitty- ninth street and Columbis avenue to- day. A guard in the Fifty-ninth street station the Elevated road leaned of over and t to him. ece of bread down evoured the morsel tal and lo. for mor wbout 1 iting expectantly for several dog p tation, That of-} the outcast a kick that sent nd of the platform, dog recovered itvelr and then to see what bowl- animal t had a t Itself upo: Look out for t yelled the guard. But the dog heeded not, With careful precision it put one on the (rack other Ward the thi ‘ay with jou os. Men waited with rail, foot to- «of anguiah on ee happened ated. It was hurled into the air, was standing on the The course towe plank walk. Sick Bables co like an eager racehorse, letung out a and smooth. yoach, bound: Por Fast traine came - a man was killed three blocks away by explosions in the Pintsch gas plant. » the! turned thelr baited breath t down n Something mi- The dog was not And when it pulled \tselt together axais Harlem was straight he dog started along it but none of them. caught the POs Bushy, EPy one knows it may AUTO BLOWS UP: 10 PERSONS HURT (Continued from First Page.) many whose names were not learned rushed to their homes. Thy frantical- ly beat out the flames jn their clothing as they ran. Ambulances were summoned from the Flower Hospital, and the three firemen, th policman, a blind newsdealer who was in the crowd and Richard Cone were taken to the hospital. Others were put in cebs and hurried to the offices of nelghboring physicians. Policeman Toomey will die, and a fireman, Kindrigan, has but a slight chance to recover. ONE KILLED, MANY HURT BY GAS EXPLOSIONS. THE DEAD: skull fractured; died at Fordham Hospital. THE INJURED: CALLAHAN, CAPT., Engine Co, No. 41, struck by falling beam, STOKER, LEONARRD, No, 56 East Thirty-ffth street, dislocated shoulder; Lebanca Hospital, WEYLER, JOHN, No. 721 Bast One Hundred and Seventleth street., fatally burned; Lebanon Hospital. WEGNER, FREDERICK, No. 298 East One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, carpenter, burned about head and body; at Lebanon Hospital. CARENO, JOSHPH, | One hundred and twenty men working in the Mott Haven yards of the New York Central Railroad had narrow escapes from death to-day, while Besides the man killed another was probably mortally injured and ;many were bruised and burned, The gas plant is at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street and Sheridan yjavenue, at the foot of a high bluff. Close to it, on the east, was a long frame building used as a carpenter and machine shop, and north of this a@ roundhouse. In the repair shop at the time of the fire was the private car of Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis brewer, sald to be the finest car in | the world. When the noon whistle blew men who had been filling storage tanks on flat cars from the large gas tank in the yard dropped their work and forgot to turn the stopcock governing the flow. The gas leaked and finally reached a small bonfire of rubbish burning about twenty feet away. |BXPLOSION SHOOK NEIGHBORHOOD, The fire spread to the carpenter shop unnoticed by the employees, | Then an of] tank exploded with a noise that shook the neighborhood and broke windows for half a mile in every direction. Yardmaster Boucher and other employees tried to put out the flames. They wevo driven back within five minutes and forced to flee for their lives. All got away but John Weyler and Leonard Stoker, who were caught in the boller shop. Following the first explosion the top blew off a tank forty feet high an! sixty feet in diameter, which was full of Pintsch gas, A piece of this tank flew with the speed of a cannon ball clear to One Hundred and Fifty-third street, where it struck Joseph Careno, who was working with a shovel on the raflroad track. He was 6o badly injured that he died on the way to Lebanon Hospital, TOWERING PILLAR OF FLAME, Flames from the open gas tank spouted {fn the air to the height of 100 feet. The wind blew this great torch this way and that, threatening prop- erty on all sides, The ojl-soaked carpenter and machine shop went up like tinder, but quick-witted employees managed to get out the private car and four locomotives, Owing to the intense heat the firemen could not get close to the blaze. They were compelled to carry their hose 1,000 feet from the nearest engine and then 450 feet across thirty railroad tracks. At first trains passing by at top speed cut the hose. Chief Purroy or- dered all trains held up. The cars making up the twenty-hour flyer to Chicago, which were to have been shunted to the Grand Central Station at 1 o'clock, were held for an hour, but the traia go: away on time finally. In all there were about twenty explosions, which were heard all over the Bronx and upper Harlem, These explosions were caused by the blow- ing up of tanks on flat cars in which the gas is transported from the fac- tory to the Grand Central Station, The big tank held 200,000 cusic feet of | gas, and had it exploded instead of blowing its top off the entire neighbor- hood would have been wiped out, FAMILIES FLEE IN PANIC, After the third explosion the people living in the vicinity of the fire began to move their houshold goods out of their shattered dwellings. This .| explosion hurled blazing oil clear to the bridge over the railroad tracks at *|One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street and knocked out a plece of the wall of a building near the bridge. Hundreds of families fled in panic, getting as far as possible from the scene. The firemen were powerless to do anything but stand off and direct streams of water that turned Into steam before they got to the blaze, It was nearly an hour before they could get near enough to do effective work, aud then water had but little effect upon the blazing oil, Besides the fire danger, there wa another more terrible. Some of the gas tanks remained intact, and it was not known what moment they might explode. It was sure death to be in the vicinity, but the firemen did not stop to think of this. It was mantfestly impossible to extinguish the fire in the place of Its surrounding property, A roundhouse filled with locomotives was in danger. The roof caught fire several times. Messages were sent to the Mott Haven |F. M. Tucker & Co., Boston origin and the entire efforts of the fire fighters were directed to protcting yards for locomotives with which to draw out the cars endangered by the fire, but the engineers could not run the gantlet of flames, Inspector Titus with reserves from all the Bronx precincts took charge |of the police arrangements and drew fire lines three blocks from the blaze. It was dangerous to approach closer because of the likelihood of explosions | in four gas tanks that survived the first explosions. FIREMEN BADLY HAMPERED. It was necessary for the firemen to drag their hose over thirty tracks to reach the blaze, and this placed the long lines of cars extending from Mott Haven to Melrose In danger. As soon as it was possible, locomotives were put to work dragging away the loaded cars. Special efforts were made to get out tank cars containing Pintsch gas, A train loaded with kerosene war also in the danger limit. Before it could be removed the cars caught fire and a series of minor explosions resulted. The Central Park View Hotel, at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street and Park avenue, got the full force of the explosion. All of the windows were blown out, and those in the hotel were driven to the street. Tall tenement-houses to the west of the scene of the fire shook under the force of the explosions, and the blaze from the oil train at times threat- ened to set fire to them. 2 The loss of life would have been appalling but for the fact that the explosions occurred just after most of the men employed about the gas plant had gone out to lunch. Those injured were workmen who remained to eat their lunches in the yards or whose duties would not permit them FAILURE DUE T0 | COTTON BOOM! A THIEF CHASE. Twenty-third Street Car with Detective-Sergt. Becker After Them. Bankers and Brokers, Unable to Meet Their Obligations, Owing to Slow Collaterals. Detective-Sergeant Becker, who was on a Twenty-third street oar, saw two men acting in a suspicious manner in the front of the car. The men saw jecker, They went out the front door }and he out of the back. ‘Dhe pair starte ed on a run, one going toward Lexing- ton avenue and the other toward BOSTON, May 21.—The suspension of F. M) Tucker & Co., bankers and brokers, of No. 60 State street, was announced on the Stock Exchange to- day. The firm has been doing a heavy commission business in cotton and slow responses to calls for the Hauidation of | Fourth avenues F S raliane ici vel ee Recker followed the one who went collateral are given us the cause of the) Word Lexington avenue. He called failure to the man to stop. ‘The thief didnt stop and Becker fired a shot in the alr. ‘The man continued and Becker fired a second shot at the fugitive, The firm Includes Frederick M. Tucker and Tracey H. Tucker, They hold two reats In the Boston Stock Exchange and| Jn an instant tae fellow turned and have connections with the New York/ran his hand back for a revolver. The and Chicago Cotton Exchanges. detective came up on the run and closed with him, ‘There was a struggle for the possesison of the revolver In which the detectives won. Patrolman Ringler, of the Rast ‘Twen- ty-second. atreet station, heard the shots and took after the otaer man, who was caught at Fourth avenue, The pair were taken to the Hast Twenty-second street station and later Becker took them to Headquarters. ‘One was John Kelly, whore picture in the Rogues’ Gallery ‘Is an the other was Daniel Cherry, No.’ 6,64. The men will be arraigned in court to- morrow. The members of the firm can make no statement of its financial condition At present, except t express confidence that the assets are in excess of the Habiiitles and that the suspension will be only temporary. it was said in Wall street and on the Cotton Exchange this afternoon that the failure of BF. M, Tucker & Co., of Moston, would not be feit here.’ d}room in a few care At present he ts SKHRTW. Vcc RUNAWAY HORSE] Special Animal Frightened by an Auto-'! At Piftean Dollars mobile Ran a Mile in Brook- lyn, Finally Dashing Into a We are selling high-grade Sack Suits that will quickly open Lamp Post. your purse. They bear the ear- marks of the usual $25 custom- made apparel, and are made from guaranteed Cheviots and Worsteds in plain and fancy patterns and of fast color blue Serge. The style, workmanship and fit will please the most critical i] men. If you'll first look else- where and then come here; you'll agree with us that these Stylish Sack Suits are the big- gest values ever offered fh New York City. For Fifteen Dollars Fashionable Hats and Haberdash- ery of the best quality at moderate prices. BycKk Bros Downtown Store: _ Uptown Store: S.W. Cor, Fulton 154 to 164 E. and Nassau Sts. 125th Street. 125th St, Store Open Evenings. HIS VICTIMS IN HOSPITAL. A Woman Was Knocked Down, Po- iceman Injured, the Driver Was Thrown Out and a by Carriage Overturned and Wagon Wrecked. Frightened by an automobile, a horse attached to a delioutessen wagon ran| for nearly a mile along Seventh avenue, Brooklyn, to-day, leaving in hie wake a half dozen persons, some of them ser- ously injured. ‘The horse was being driven by John Brooks, of No, 413 Fifth avenue. At First stragt and Seventh avenue tne! | animal t fright and at Fourth street! Brooks was thrown from the wagon,) sustaining contusions of the body, At Seventh street John Wright, twen- ty-three years old, Mving in Windsor place, waa knocked down, receiving a fracture of the knee and the arm. Patrolman MeQuihn, of the Fifth ave- nue station, attempted to catch the animal. He was knocked down and bruised about the body. He sent in a call for an ambulance for Wright. ‘At Ninth street and Seventh avenue Mrs, Mary Mawoon, of No, 192 Fifth street, was wheeling @ baby carriage. She was knocked down, the carriage wag overturned and ae ohild thrown out. When the wagon peactiga ‘Thirteenth street the horse ran it into a Inamp- post, splintering portiona of the wag- jece of the flying wood struck DIED. i ed down and received a fracture : of the collarbone. The ambulance that | SAVISOKN—On Tuesday, May 19, 1908, puma, ad] been. gelled stoma: the Gene Hos- |" veloved wite of William Davison. Rites in Windeor place. ‘The sur- Funeral services at her late residence, @8i eon came along soon after the acci- Wen 404 st, Friday ot 3 P.M. lent to Salmon and took him to the|LuNNY.—on stay tal. \ At Fifteenth street the horse start- ed down toward Sixth, eH wes caught by Michael Curran, of No, 401 fth street, who held onto the lines and a Bice s before e dash 20, MARY LUNNmY,) frienda invif®a to attend Inte residence, 284 West dist st, Friday, 9.30 A. M.; thence $0 St. Ger | briel's Chureh, $7th st, Ist and 24 avep | Interment Calvary, LENAHAN.—At hie residence, 681 ast 13008} ., JERWMIAH, beloved son of Jeremiah Lenahen and Hennah Gelvin, in hip) 19th ear. Funeral from the Church of Our Lady @t WARRANTS SERVED ON TROLLEY MEN. Good Counse! Saturday, £34 tnst., at 10,00 Were| MARDLE.—At hit residence, 101 mast 920 LAWRENCE E. M'ARDLE, eged 49, taere husband of Delia Waelan, was dragged nearly Shere came. to nin aid; and ¢h ot the horse was stopped. Waterbury 8trikere Who Bound Qver on Assault Charge, Arrested on Bench Papers. WATERBURY, Conn., May %1.—Bench warrants. have been issued for the ar-| xauenton, | rest of all of the local trolley strikers Notice of funeral hereafter, * : who were bound over some weeks a0] sxigLps,—sARAH, beloved wife of Wiitiom to the Superior Court after a trial in| gnieids, Mey 19, at S17 East 494 ot. * the City Court on a charge of assault! Puneral from Si. Agnes's Ohureh, i 400 committed upon a non-union motorman| treet, Friday, May 23, at 9 A. af, Teter and conductor of a trolley car at| _ meat Calvary. Waterville on thé night of Feb. 26. Deputy ii shierifia) susyed.) 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