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LOWEST PRICED HOUSE FOR FIRST-CLASS GOODS. JORDAN MORIARTYS,@ 155,157 and 159 East 23d St. (28) ie sara ee" Prices Lower Than Ever. Values bound to interest the thrifty. The inducements not to be found in any other store. ‘In fact, prices are so low that one is almost leompelled to buy. Pay at Your Convenience Snow white finishyheavy continuous bent $a little at a time, weekly or monthly, as pillars, beautiful brass scrollon head you may prefer. and feet, extended foot rail; made in all sizes, ————— Mahogany Arm Rockers, highly polishe: broad comfortable S105 786 FOR FROSSEAU BOY. it Took the Jury Only Ten Minutes to Decide that He Was Entitled to That Sum [rom Rouss Estate. | aya aaa i} Large Fortune for Ten-Year-Old Lad, Jury Believing Statement that Eccentric Blind Merchant _Had Promised He Should Have It. Summer Rockers inmaple,reed, seats, broad flat arms; made very strong and comfortable ; value $3.00; special at $1.17 No ral! or- a ied fr WOMEN WHO HAVE SUED ROUSS ESTATE. Mrs, Elizabeth $20,250, Mrs, Edna Weller McClellan, $35 | week for life. ¢ Mra. John Wilson, rent and al- wance for Eldridge strect artment, Mra, Eya Rosseau settled her 8. Cowen, cial, Bex Couches) like cut, tui size soft spring seats, lined {nterior, upholstered in best quality inal Aetually w worth th $14.0 $38.99 It took the jury before Justice Blanch. | ard, of the Supreme Cour: minutes to-day to a high oval swing mir- rors, large drawers, brass handles; regular price $12; very special, $6.98 We have no b:anch store: All business now centred in our 23d st. establishment. Open Saturday Evenings. BOSTOCK LIONS seers coe= +) ARE LOOSE ACAIN Mrs. ‘Rosseau made a settlement with | There Are “Two of of Them, Ac- Beaten Nous Mae wick an ree| oording to a Truthful Train- Ved $23,000 in leu of ‘dower’ and In man, Who Saw Bunches of Hair on Their Heads. best seasoned oak, highly pol- ished, with 3 large and 2 small drawerSe and compart- ments; French bevel mirror on top; actual value es special father, Charles Broadway Ro M@he verdict was for the full @laimed, with Interest added, in behalf of the natural son of the diind Broad-| ‘way merchant. “Justice Blanchard told the jury in his very careful charge that there were three questions governing the case; Wes Charles Broadway Rouse the father of the Jad, Charles Broadway Rosseau? Was an agreement entered into in Merch, 1901, and renewed in the fal’ of 1901, between Mrs, Rosseau and Charles Broadway Rouss under whica he promised to give the boy $100,000 on his tenth birthday, June 5, 1902, on con- sideration of her rearing the boy as he desired? Did Mrs. Rosseau perform her part of that contract? ‘The Justice said to the jury: Massive Round Top Oak Exten- n Tables, piano potished top, with 5 missive round legs; cannot be equalled elsewhere for less $9. 65 $9. 89 than $14.00; special at... WE GIVE GREEN TRADING STAMPS, THEBIG STORE QP ACITY INITSELF SIEGEL ( OOPERE /0, 000 Feet of Sarden Flose Gg Ge. a Foot, wottlement of all her claims against the estate did not affect any claim which this unfortunate ttle boy may have against the estate.” ‘The ten-year-old boy who wins the Yerdict of a fortune was not in court His mother tried to thank the jurors, | ‘but her voice was too choked for utter- | The Rostock animal show hav come to town again, it opens next week at Coney Island. 4 This afternoom a man who sald he was Word Aer ehe sald to an Evening Gnaries Day, a switchman for the Long it I ee ae any, doubt of the reault, |1#!and Rallway Company, telephoned B Be te for my boy, WoC for inee Tita tathe; (0 The Evening World office that two ecause of the long dry spell Garden Hose is Hons had ped from a freight car at Long Island City, He said the beasts were a part of | Bostock's show, and were being moved from Long Island City to Coney Island, j While the tra! according to Day, | thirty Hons waa overturned. ' “I gaw two of them scoot out of the extremely scarce. Nary opportunity. @lways intended to provide for him Ilb- @ureq?x8 1jKilz etaoin shdrulecmtwt erally, and—he Is in heaven now, I feel @ure—and he is glad with me to-day, ; “Mate to Give Up Money.” “But what 1s it to the millions lett by Rouss? 1 am sorry for Pete; they ‘a0 hate to give up money. Consequently this is an extraordi- On sale in Basement. AAR! RAN! Blt “Pete” is Rouss’s son who is now run- | ; ping, the Site eoneeaht ee ee und mill: | car and take to the woods,” said Day. i ! tal fm that| “They were ions, all right, because I t siness (hel saw the big bunches of hair around t Elina? eretant {oid im, fo act what, 00! tnete heads There waa’a crow stands ove Lepl, he found that that one item|ing near at the time, The crowd yelled 4 9 and ran one way and the lions roared « a1 4 very much the necessity and ran ‘unollier way, ‘The “trainers we them expect. there ‘ Ga rights in the will "be some doings around Long: Is. D > We are showing a com- <o $ ) do Clty ow thoge lions get Bi H * wre that, had Mr. Mousa lived, | an every’s Boom Will Be Started! - vein euch betes for ne, Toned | MuDETy: y plete line of Gloves for Sum indeed. e for Dower, Charles very muc Wonldn’t why, I loved that man so devotedly por could not bring myself to sue my dower rigats “T am grateful to the Court, the jury pd particularly to che press.” Al have treated me fairly and 1 am happy ‘Mrs. Rosseau lives with her little boy | icholas avenue, near | y-fifth street. mer wear, DoubleFinger Tipped Silk Gloves. Fine Mesh and Sitk Filet Gloves. in the “Nint’” To-Night with Bombs, Fireworks, a Parade, Oratcry and Other Things. | IMPOSING SERVICE IN TRINITY CHURCH, Fifty-fifth Anniversary of Its Conse- cration Celebrated in Connection with Ascension Day Ceremonies. Big Bill’ for Mayor!" wn with the dock grabs!"? “The Chief—our leader first, last aad all the BANK CLERK NOW Hon the and UL anal} wii iam Stephen Devery's boom fur ec roorn ayor Is soheduled for launeht: to. i IN MARINE.CORPS. nly heen carotally pro-| Oper work and Suede on exhibition Liste Gloves. And a beautiful assortment of Lace Mitts, in silk filet and real laces. Lord & Taylor @ first me. Nint!'" proposes to turn the boom and ald In the t einco the exciting deya ip campaign last summer, raions, torohlight Weird Phillips Blagden Is Found at Charlestown Navy-Yard Wearing Uncle Sam's Blue. {ere James C.. Blagden went to Boston to- | the altar, vala and other @sy in an effort to secure the discharge Siecle offi were daily occurrences, has from the navy of his brother, Phil!ips imple anc t propared fot a gathering Blagden, the young clerk in the Na-| ,ti the san tional Bank who dii York on April 29. day that he ha ion such as will be witnessed. If is coming up from 0 take command of men ppeared frees New | af the listed at the ch First a Parade. There ts to be a monster mass-meet- coded by a parade aa big as any- ite Kind, “Bill's Heutenants e, that was e ulled off in tho | etart promptly at 7.9% ‘hth avenue and Twen- The starting signal will twenty bombs fired in No explanation of the young man’e|h h action has been received in this city, Nee ‘ His uncie, E. C. Converse, who 1s Pres-| Soer, dent of the bank, reaffirmed the former statement that his accounts were In pers fect shape. He could account for the | @udden change in no other way than | that Blagten’s mind had been weakened "by overwork. /Phe young man's brother left for Bos- FATHER'S ESTATE, fon soon after word was received froin EB. Mosely, a travelling salesma ei) tcopaized him from « newspaper) Daughter of William Jex Sues Her jption He will inquire there the Mother, the Executrix, for oo ggerg to gain the you Ct ee aniAccountlDs: the, fesular term ag a marine, orked in the bank on Ape ‘B-untlt a inte ‘hour Pat ae Imperal Hotel that ing up the rear, At the “Warn —_ HEIRS AT ODDS OVER ‘rheso include Kmanuel 't’ be @ salvo of ° George W. Gibbons, John k, midatr, A huge truck bearing transparencies ¥ nk Bul- colored orator, and dee is the “hottest ned his face in Lawrence Phillips. Of “het himsel twill be heard wood effect. He has been in ng for severa the place of honor in the ng the Devery cohorty, who on foot, The big Chiet him- isptouovs figure in the ng caictum | 3% for to-ntane's event = say it is a alclums Hehting up the trans-| Ostemnibly the “Dock Grab,’ and He has Heirs of the late William Jex, who ch and his teu ied in December, 1896, are having al tions, ihe «: spirited contest over his estate, Mr.|jauencies and the le of march with i sth a wa ext Morning’ | Jex,a native of Hondurus and a wealthy'| flood of lumluosity tailor shop in Twenty-third | produce dealer, bad one son and three} ‘iwo bands—Merrick's and Bauer's—| © "ssonct, orem aeuln untlt word | caugniers, At bis death his widow wax| which were chartered tor every day of| K fiscees it ally and a qrone| nue, executrtx of his estate valved at] Devery's campaign of @ year ago, wil ‘@ gradu fams #2100 Several months ago Mrs. Ida Bayne. 1 en two divisions, aking at Farm, ¢ jf is § to march the Devery| along on irmy through the principal streets of | ANd read, the district, the colored Democrats with | (nomen thelr Kymed drum and tite corps bring- Oiiirles one of the daughters of Jex, med nor Spc e for an accounting of the estate, evading ibe story on the ant'a lawyer allexes he cannot flid Mrs 2 Hillam Jex Uves at No. ok aE the sult lags because the contust iy itty ff M Ba IA ane Pu bith past, Ms aac < reat Sater kn and Tammany a, . Murphy’ will be scourged, nd or gyre eo THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1903, weeks at Far Rock- | phones + i oo) os 4 ke Min ABRAHAM ~° STRAUS HE greatest store and the greatest business in Brooklyn hive risen here on the foundation of PUBLIC SATISFACTION with the best service, the best assortments and the lowest ; rices. The Third Great Friday: :Record-Breaking Values js series of great sales githere impetus as a snowball gathers weight. ‘Two weeks ago every branch of the Abraham and Straus store joined in determination to demonstrate without possibility of quibble or question that Monday is nof the only day of great bargains here. The response was instant, inspiring, tremendous. Again last week the whole Store made supreme effort at value- giving—and there has never been such a Friday in the history of Brooklyn merchandising. But To-Morrow Will Present Economies Never Matched in Brooklyn. For to-morrow from more than a hundred splendid offerings, each striving for announcement, we have selected as many as the page will hold. There is interest here for everybody. It is an occasion such as Brooklyn has never known before. Read the details: : — _ Pillows Less Than Cost. Buying the materials in immense quan- tities and doing the work as economically as can be, it is yet impossible to make such dainty, soft and perfectly finished Pillows for the prices they will cost in the Art Needlework Store to-morrow: 79c. Uncovered Down Pillows, 59c, famous “A. and 8, Special" Pillows, 2 s square, that are unusual value even at the usual price. 89c. Silk-top Pil'ows, 69c. Handsome Pillows as anybody need buy. They are covered with figured silk tops, bound wit cord and tassel and filled with the very best sllk floss. $1.29 Summer Pillows, 98c. Dainty and useful Pillows, covered with dain- tily Mgured dimities. Gecond floor, West Building. ee ee ee a Ting-a-Ling Candy--I9c. Lb. “Rat-a-tat”’ it is called in some places— acrisp molasses chip, shredded and held together by a vanilla flavored chocolate. A better hot weather candy than Fudge and usually sold at 39c. a pound, To- morrow 19c. Instead of 39c. Swiss Milk Chocolate. Pure Swiss milk, co- coa and sigar are so combined as to make @ smooth and toothsome dainty that is also very nourishing. Grison Chocolate it is called—here exclusively in Brooklyn. Croquettes and cakes, Be., 10c, and 15e. a package Candy Btore—Main floor, Ceutral Building. Dainty Lawn Kimonos at 98c. fo )RESH, cool and comfortable wear for the hot days, of which already we have had a taste. Much less than their worth. ‘These Kimonos are made in full length of fine lawns in very pretty patterns, finished with tbe band border of plain Jawa to miatch. Second floor, rear, Centra pee $l. 25 Bed Spreads at 95c. EADY with the sort of Bed Spreads that prudent housekeepers will buy for Summer homes, Full size crochet Spreads in the Mar. seilles patterns, ready hemmed, 95c. Main floor, rear, Centra! Bullding. Men’s Clothes :: Three Bargains.. Three values as notable as any of the season. And asto details, just this—the Suits are better than you would expect to find even at the full prices: $12.00 Blue Serge Suits at $9.85. $15.00 Fancy Suits at $8.75. $18,00 Fancy Suits at $12.00, Second floor, roar, East Building. Men’s Suis to Measure, $19.50. $25.00 and $28.00 Were the LowPrices So many men were enthusiastic about this chance to get smart Summer Suits at a cut price last week that we make, the offer again for to-morrow. At $25.00 and $28.00 these Suits were unusual val ues—ine sinartest of the new seagon's fabrics— the best making this Talloring Store knows how jow—because the man who selis the Cloths has Cut his pri h the same Suits for... Second’ floor, ‘rear, East Building. [$4 & $5 Sailor Suits—$2.95. For Boys of 3 to 10—Fine News, Stock readjustment brings forward sey- eral groups of the finest $4.00 and $5.00 Sailor Suits we have had this season—at a sharp saving. Made of fine serges and homespuns, collars tastefully trimmed with several rows’ of silk braid; s.lk embroidered shield, ‘The blouses are ‘handsomely finished with a sill scarf and the trousers are durably made and lined throughout. Just as jaunty a Suit as you can puta little fellow into for the Summer—and $1.00 to $2.00 saving at $2.93. Second floor, rear, bargain. There are splendid Relts, just an inch wide, which is whag dy wi ear this Summer. lenther {a russot, of bluck. Dridie Jeathe o English hogakin. ‘Some are stitahed, others pl wiain. ee 9c. &75c. Neckwear---29c. ea UNtTy Collar and Cuff Sets for women—the cool, smart wear tor which such weather as the past week brought demands, Some are finished with hand bem with drawn work, some with Fre they have ever cost to-morrow Maln floor, centre, ching, Some 9c, a set ullding Three Basement Bargains. Practical helps to the housekeeper that are smartly under even the usual low pricing here. Window Screen Paint—Third Reduced. Leggett'’s superior Paint, in black or iereen will stand exposure to the rainy M-pint ran, Hest pint can, 26e.5 quart can... Ae $15. 00 Vulcan Gas Cookers, $10.00. A junior Range, in realty. ‘The oven ts, 18 Inches wide, threo single and one icale top burner, also simmering burner. A with which an unusual amount of cooking hey Se well done: 5c. Hand Si'exo, 2 Cakes, 5c. Is invaluable for cloansing the handa of sticky, erimy or greasy substances, value be. a cake, now 2 cakes for. Se Dasoment, Hast and Contra! Building. ————— ’ Men’s Soft Hats, 98c. ‘KE down from $1.90 and $3.00. Most of them are tho low crowns with wide brims-exactly the shapes tht men are picking out now at the full prices for out or ied “ow Bast Butlding. Summer Gloves at Savings, The cool, ' retty fabric Gloves that women will wear all Summer. 25. Lace Linle Gloven at 17. Women's 2- clasp lace lisle Gloves In all the new season's colorings, French grays, slate, mode, plastique, black and white. 1.00 Kayner Lisle Glove: reinforced with suede leathe able Gloves ever devised for o Main floor, centre, Summer Robes, $3, 98---Half | )U can keep their prettiness fresh all Summer by an occasional tub- bing. There are eight designs, suitable for street, seaside and mountain wear, in white, pink, light and dark blue, gobelin, tan and Paris shades. They are halt made alreudy—enstest thing in the world to complete th ahalt price to-morro These are t servite- r, — Men’s 50c. Underwear, 24c, More—and plenty this time, we think —of the very best bargain of the season in cool baibriggan Underwear. None sentC. O. D. These garments are mado of pure Bayptian yarn—the softest and yet the strongest yarn that is put Into balbriggans. In every respect. these Farments are up to tae toc, standard —excent that hey have slight mili imperfections that in most cases you will never discover, Shirts’ have ribbed bottoms ‘and flat, never rij seams, Drawers have he double seat, which means double wear for men who alt much, Full boc, value for #4e, a garment. Main floor, front, “Resurrection” at 29c, Count Leo Tolstoi’s famous novel, that in the dramatization has won such unusual success, has never before sold for less than 44c, in the authorized edition. To-morrow we shall have a number of copies at 29c apiece. $3.91 Main floor, centre, Central Building. $6.00 Silk Petticoats-$3.98 MART, rustling silk Petticoats to go with the new Summer suit and a saving of a couple of dollars in the bargain, ‘These Petticoats are of fine taffeta silk in many Bretty, colorings, mad with « graduated accor- jon pleated rufie, finished with a double ruflle. Full $0.00 value at, $3.98 Main Floor, Rear, ast Building. Past Building. Ingrain Art Squares, All wool—some five hundred of the finest Rugs of the season to choose from, and a distinct saving in price. If you Friday Grocery Bargains. Four of them this week—and they come about as near meeting the notions and needs of the most of Brooklyn housewives as any list we could print. Such articles for such little prices are enough to make an carly trip to the Grocery Store worth while to-morrow : 6 pound bag Plain Mountain Buck- wheat, 9c, Presto, 8c. a Package. Cleaned Currants, 7c. a Pound, Granulated Sugar, 5 Pound Bag for 23c, Grocery §tore—Third floor, West Butlding, All Wool Albatross---29c. Cream and Light Summer Colors. =| LIGHT weight all wool Albatross that sells just as fast as we can get it, Anideal material for cool wool = Summer dresses, in cream, or the light shades of ecru, gray, sky blue, nile green, rose pink, castor and light pink. Double width—a record breaking value at 29c, a yard. have a summer cottage or city bedrooms to buy for, this is a chante not to be missed. 3x43 yar 3hox4 yards $5.75 3x5 yards $6.25 4x5 yards . $6.75 Third floor, Main floor, Se eetrasunmnnsttasensmmeereetrcdl 14 Ounces of Listerine, 49c. Fm STERINE in that quantity here is usually 66c.—and even that is less than is generally charged. To-morrow this antiseptic, dis fectant prophylactic will be here for a record breaking price—49c. a bottle, No mail or telephone orders filled, Be, jin than one bottle toa customer, None sent , 0. D. ‘Main floor, front, cen Building, 98c. Made Veils at 49c. ACTLY the sort of Veils that make the most effective trim- ming for the Sailor Hats begin- ning to come back into favor. Immense var.ety of them—white, black, oom bi- nations of black ‘and white, snd cardinal little a ia'fora Main’ toon, centr West Building. It is because we are proud of the way we make Shirts—of the fine materials, the exclusive designs, the perfect shirt-tailor- ing in every detail, that just now we are offering to make our regular $4.00 Shirts for $2.38) We know that every man who buysa Shirt at $2.38 will know that even at $4,00 he cannot match it outside this Store and so will come back when he needs more. We will make these Shirts of the best and most ex. clusive madras—and make them any way you want them mede, $2.38 Men's $1.00 Negligee Shirts---49c Exactly the sort of Shirts that thousands of men are buying every day now for a dollar apiece in lots of good stores—the same new patterns, the same excellent workmanship. To-morrow they will be here for half price—49c. apiece. Not sent C, O, D. Made of splendid madraa in white grounds with nest Rgures. Pleated Yosoma'and & pair of de- tached cuffs with each Bhir! It is the best of all the fine Shirt offer. ings we have made this Spring—dollar value for 49c. Main floor, front, East Building, 5c. Smoking Tobacco at 3c. The list makes the bargain plain enough without further words ; Bult Durham, Kozy Gut, Honest Long Cut, Duke's Mixture, Seat of North Caroitna, etc., etc. er, limited. tain floor, treat, Mast Batlding. el $1.75 Batiste Corsets---79c. No use of waiting longer for the Sum- mer’Corset—Summer is here and so are » A cool and fra, ] eXmorrow's “record. brewing. values | | the Corsets at a smart saving, ~ ; and popular and ing aie half, In bit Th the nr ites mel traight front No mail or ateertnant of fe ropa Mid Quantities to a customer Hmited. ‘Main floor, rear, Central Building. Central Bullding. Corticellj Spool Silk, 5c, No mai) or at at the liste price, Cutters, 12¢. A small lot of Cigar Cutvers and Ash Rooelvers ‘will be halt price to-morrow. Tobacco Shop—Maln floor, East Balldisg,