The evening world. Newspaper, May 30, 1903, Page 8

HIS COOL WAYS WON DAN SULLY. As Information Clerk at the Wal- dorf-Astoria Young McCusker Impressed Cotton King with His Nerve and Knowledge. NEVER ONCE GOT RATTLED. Attracted the Millionaire’s Attentio and Now the Hotel Has Corps o Experts Breaking in a New Clerk While the Old One Is with Sully Daniel Sully, the cotton king, has a new secretary and the Waldorf-Astoria has a new clerk of the Information Bureau. It is because Mr. Sully has a New secretary that the Waldorf has ite new clerk, the king of cotton having taken from the hotel one of the most widely known of its employees. For eight years, ever since he left school, William A. McCusker has been behind the {nformation desk of the hotel. From a boy who told the patrons where they would find the barber shop and wondered if he would live to see the time that he would have to get shaved every other day until a few duya @g0 young MoCusker met all comers at the desk. It might be 2 woman who wanted to know a dressmaker that could fit her figure, a man from Llewel- lyn, N. J., who desired to learn where he could buy the largest gold brick, or just some person who wished to know whether the Prosident of the United States was staying in the hotel. » Alwayn Looked Plensant. Drilled in this school, Mr. McCusker Iéarned always to show a plens- ant countenance. It was the samo to the millionaire with an absurd question as it was to the millionaire who wanted real information. In the course of time Mr. Sully came the young man's way and watched him, He discovered that he possessed a wonderful control over fis nerves and never became rattled. It was at a time when Mr. Sully appre- elated persons who refused to become rattled, and the more the young milllon- aire saw of the pleasant-faced informa- tion clerk who was an encyclopaedia of information the better he liked him. The climax came when a woman waltzed up to the desk and inquired of the clerg if he knew how to spell “ptomaide” and ‘“ncurasthenia,"’ out turning a hair the information clerk wrote the words for her on a card and then sent a boy to put a dictionary on ‘the table in the writing room. Mr. Sully Made an Ofter. wet Bully learned that Mr. Moc to alle Inst Tad. tert cgiiege and gone dl; HT aor in thehotel, ® soma would you like to leave here and be- ene, private secretary?” asked Mr. need one. There was the usual talk about money, f. Bully wanting to show he was & ness man, and Mr. McCusker gave hotel notice. Since then a private tutor, a man who wrote an encyclo- a and the allthor of a cook book been engaged breaking In a new @ani On June 3 Mr. Sully and his sec- retary ‘will sail for Europe on the REV. DR. STUCKENBERG DEAD Latheran Clergyman Died During Throat Operation in London. LONDON, May 30.—Dr. J. H. W. Stuck. ‘enberg, the well-known Lutheran cleray- man and author, of Cambridge, Mass., @ied suddenly here on Thursday. Dr. Stuckenbers was visiting here and was preparing a book when he was taken {li with an afflection of the throat and died during the operation. The body will be cremated June 2 and the widow will take the ashes home. With |1 WM. A. M’CUSKER, COTTON KING'S NEW SECRETARY. WHILE GIRL SANG A THIEF HUSTLED. Negro Servant Entertained Mistress with Operatic Airs While $3,000 Was Being Made. Mollie Peterson, a negro servant, was arraigned In the West Side Court to-day as a suspicion person In connection with the robbing of her employer's flat on Wednesday afternoon ‘The woman was employed as a servant in the household of James J. McCullum, at No, 927 Sixth avenue. On the after- noon the robbery took place, McCallum left his apartment and went away. His wife remained at home with the servant. (During the afterngon Mrs, McCallum went Into the bath-room and the servant closed the door, ‘Then the latter began to sine, “Why are you making all that noise?” Mrs. McCallum called out “Oh, I'm fecling happy," was the reply. (Mrs. MoCullum soon heard some one walking avout in the rooms of the flat, and as soon as she left the bath room went into her apartments and discovered jewel box was minsing. Bhe the servant at once. The po- notified and later the key Pro box was found In but jewels had gisappeared. Magistrate Flammer postponed the woman's examination until Monday, ‘The police believe that the ee sweetheart ‘committed the robbery In concert with the servant, and that the latter admitted the thief to the apartments. The va mie of phe stolen property 1s placed at $3,000 MOTORMAN OF FATAL CAR IN POLICE COURT Man Who Was in Newark Crossing Accident Picked Up Here . Intoxicated. Peter Boady, who sald he was the motorman of the Ridge avenue car in Newark, which slid down an fey incline and was knocked to pleces by a D., L. & W, train some time ago, a number of school children being killed and injured, was arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court to-day on a change of intoxico- tion. rries deep soars in his the accident. Sixth avenue Boady rived was picked up in last night very drunk. He told Magis- trate Cornell that he had come to the city to buy flowers to put on the graves of the victims of the trolley accident, and had taken some drinks. He was discharged with a reprimand seer Became yor ad .__THE WO) TALLY THIRTEEN FOR CARBERRY. Captures the Hoodoo Number of Prisoners and Makes a Rec- ord that Knocks Out a Patrol Wagon Team. CAUGHT ONE AT A TIME. Sergeant Who Tried to Keep Up with His Calls on the 'Phone Is Over- come—Carberry Had the Only Prisoners of a Day in the Borough “Who's this?’ asked the Sergeant, taking up the telephone recefver at the Adams Street Station In Brooklyn, at 3 o'clock this morning “It's Carberry—send the patrol, Got a prisoner at Hudson and Dekatb. The saddest drunkard ever seen was rolled in a few minutes later Bing-g-g-«! went the telephone again. Who's this?’ asked the Sergeant. “Its Carberry—send the patrol. Got a prisoner at Fulton and Myrtle.” A man with a singing Jag was carted from that point and # calm Brooklyn quiet settled over the e«tation-house for a few minutes when— Bing-5-s-8! “Who's this?” asked the Sergeant. “Ita Carberry—send the patrol Got a prisoner at Washington and Hudson.” Another man who cvuldn’t stand up was brought in as a result “That fellow Carberry {s thot stuff,’ said the sergeant as he booked this third catch, “He'll be @ captain some —"" Bing-«-6-«! “Who's this?’ and the sergeant trem- bled. “Its Carberry—eend the patrol to—" ‘The sergeant fainted dead away A roundsman took the desk and sent the patro: to Carberry. Sure enough he had another prisoner. Nine times more did the patrol turn out for Carberry's ring at the ‘phone The horses ble.- so hurd on the last run that they were taken out near the station and thres fat policemen pushed the wagon the rest of the way. There were omly thirteen azresta made in the Borough of Brokiyn In twenty- four hours, and Detective Richard Car- bury made them all single handed and *pne. s the thirten were aralgned in the A hms Street Court one of them struck that justly popular ditty: hey. pulled the dumper out, Brey Aaya the damper out, smoke went up the chimney eat the same.’ MISSING MAN HERE, HIS MIND MUDDLED. Alphonse J. Meyer, of Buffalo, Is Lo- cated In This City Through Letter to Wife. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 90.—Alphonse Meyor, former City Treasurer, who dis- lappeared five days ago, isin New York, presumably in a demented condition. Mrs. Meyer recelved a letter from her husband last night. It was postmarked New Yark. The contents were almost unintelligible, about the only thing that could be gathered from It’ belng that Meyer was In New York and without funds. The New York police were noil- fied, and Mrs, Meyer and her son left for that city at once pede Mate Drowned on Voyn NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 30.—Capt. Glmore, of the schooner John L. Treat, just arrived from Fernandina, reports Pei80 6 Yet a ey ee +g,” oe SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1903. PHILIP REILLY, FAMOUS AS A DETECTIVE, IS DEAD. For Many Years He Was One of the Most Pic. turesque Criminal Hunters in America. Philip Retlty, former detective ser- geant and Byrnes’s right-hand man. is dead at his home, No. 218 West Twenty- second street, He was ll for a week For four years preceding his death he had been confidential investigator for the Trust Company of America. ~ Reilly was the last of a world-wide known pair of Central Office detectives whose names were almost inseparably linked together—"Reilly and Von G {ohten.” Jacob Von Gerichten retired and died in September, 3901. Phil" Reilly, as he was famillarly called and best known, was almost as well known among the criminals of the country of high and low degree as was Inspector Byrnes himself. He was a clever de- tective, and his services were made use of in nearly ever case of importance for a quarter of a century Reilly wa 1863. He wa came a policeman. the Detective Bureau after brief service as a policeman, and proved himself tho shrewdest and most trustworthy man of Byrnes's staff, A full account of his arrests and the famous criminal my's- teries he assisted tn avelling would fill_a volume, an engineer before he be- was in send- One of his greatest, fea ing to the gallows Prof. Edward How- ard Ruloffaon, | philologiet, | linguist thief, murderer and forger, whom Reilly alweys said was the most remarkable criminal he ever dealt with Ruloffson, with two confederates, went to Binghamton to rob a store in appointed to the force in| He was assigned to}/ which two clerks slept. They chloro- formed the clerks, but not sumMciently, and in a pistol duel that followed Ru: loffson's tw erates and one of the clerks Ruloffson was arrested, re ted later, y thing located in Brooklyn, got Into the pro- found ¢ his hi fessor’s cabinet and unearthed the facts of his criminal career. Reilly had one mishap a_tiver catcher, and that was his attempt oring William A. Bushnell, the forger, back from Peru, Bushnell had stolen $75.00) worth of stocks from a. iirm et Wyers and hypothecated them for sto, He fled the country and was not heard of from 187s to 1888, when Lnspe tor Byrnes received word that he Ww: in Chill, Reilly went there and locat him. “Through the courtesy of, {ne Chilian Government ne prendered ‘and Reilly started bask with him, Bushnell had attained great p»pulartty and influence in Chili, and at every port that the steamship Imperial, on which he was sailing, put in Bushnelt At one piace the me to. vist At quia ds or tush ell thed rims to'the Aagpole at the stern of | the vessel, while others ran a gis under the stern he captain of the vessel, {who had given Bushnell the freedom jof the ship, got Reilly into the canin} and kept him busy sod the rope and dropped into the sig and was rowed away Reilly came back! to New York empty Hanae and with a poor opinion of the Chillans. Preity as born on June 10, 1839, In County. Cavan. Ireland, and ‘came to this "country. when eleht years old. He was a widower and leaves three sons, Henre, John and doseph, and a daugh- ter, Miss Ella Reilly WIFE ATE BREAKFAST AT PISTOL’S POINT. Mrs. Graham Alleges Her Husband Mr Forced Her to Eat Food She Did Not Want. In asking for’a separation from her husband, Mrs. Frank B, Graham has filed fa petition in the Supreme Court, Brook- lyn, In which she says that one of his that on May % the mate, E. L. Dix, of Rockland, Me., was lost overboard and drowned during a gale. diversions was to eit at the breakfast table with a loaded revolver almed at ner. threatening to shoot her unless she ate food and drank coffee for which she had no appetit Mrs. Irv ham Js the daughter of a wealthy Ta nd is now here with her aunt, Mrs. Barnes, usband is sald to own $100,000 property along the Hudson. nas with worth of Mrs. Graham says that they separated last January after she found In his pockets a love letter from ‘a Miss Winther. She wrote a reply to {Ruse Winther, and she says that her and then induced Miss Winther to » her arrest. She Was discharged utter a trial In’ the Court of Special Session Gra who has been ordered to pay his ¥ % counsel fees and $5 a werk jalimony. has filed an answer in which he enters a general dental. until Bushnett sita | > | TRENT TE Me ATR EO OT VET'S MARCH WAS TU DEATH. Samuel Collins, Old Soldier and Once a Millionaire, Passes Away on Day When He Hoped to Appear in Parade. LIVED ALONE IN POVERTY. Fortune Swept Away in Wall Street Years Ago, He Earned Scant Liveli- hood and Hoped for Luck to Re- turn, With the breaking of Decoration Day Samuet Collins, old soldier, recluse and formerly wort $2,00.000, passed away in a dingy room on the top floor of No. 93 Maiden Lane, Collins was seventy years old. Dur- ing the last twenty years he had earned a scant Mvelihood by selling an ink eradicator. His office and home were in the little Maiden Lane room. There he sat day in and day out “waiting for something to turn up.” He always thought that a stteak of luck would the hundreds of in Wall he would get back thousands of dollars he lost Street in the seventies. Two weeks ago his health began to fall, so that he could not leave his little Still he would not ask for help, and he lay in bed waiting for a customer to visit hint. Old Friend Nursed Him. While he was in this pligat Samuel D, Wilson, an old friend, called at the room, and perceiving the aged man’s \condition, remained there and nursed of Vicksburg, where he fought under \Grant, and from this his ravings would ‘change to the stock market and tae pioodless but tragic battle that was fought there on “Black Friday," Just after midnight Collins seemed to regain his faculties. He looked up at Wiisca and smiled « he whispered, “you're looking entirely too serious. ' You're fretting about me. I'm not going to die. I'm ig to live and get back the money ce had. ust to show you how spry Iam I'm xolng to get up to-day and march in the Decoration Day Why, bless you, Vm just as young as those chaps that fought down In Cuba. I'm—" Silenced by Death, But here he stopped. He had been arlzed with a hemorrhage. Wilson ran and as de for a, doctor, sald Collins Collins wa: imade most \s mn) ‘latter the war. Wileon said he had @ jdivorce’ wife and daughter living at No. 27 Union Square, WOULD REVOKE THE PILOTS’ LICENSES. when he came he He ediately Towing Companies Lodge Complaint with United States Inspector Because of Strike. ‘To aear the application of the New- town Creek and the White Star towing Companies to have the licenses of four- teen pilots revoked, the United States |Iaspector of Pilot Licenses will sit ia |the Whitehall Building on Monday, A month ago the engineers of the fourteen tugs went on strike and the pilots went with them. Since then twelve of the boats have been tled up. aa companies say the act of the pilots olng out with the engineers was a ite tion of their articles as pilots. It te the first application of its kind ever made, and both sides will be rep- resented DY counsel at the hearing. come to him before he died, and that} jhim Last evening Collins became delirious. He talked of the civil war, of the siege| " SAMUEL COLLINS, VETERAN WHO LOST FORTUNE AND DIED. WW CUE HELO FOR $10,000 THEFT. ress Driver Is Accused of Being Responsible for the Dis- | appearance of a Package of { Valuables. WERE DELIVERED TO HIM. \ STABBED HIS VICTIM IN A DARK HALLWAY. Man Said to Be an Anarchist Under Arrest for Attack on a Saloon Keeper, Charge@ with felonious assault, Bu- gene Gernier, sald by the police to be a French anarchist, was held in $1,000 bail Yorkville court to-day to await the It of injuries inflicted upon John Jordan, a saloon keeper, of No. 120 Fourth street While Jordan was closing his place at 1 o’slock this morning he went into the folding-bed, which stood beside his desk.! dark hallway. Those in the saloon heard a scream and found him with a knife, toe handle of which had broken off. sticking in his back. He was taken to his homé, No. 406 Fifth street, where his wound was pronounced serious and perhaps mortal. : Gernier was arreatéd by the police and \dentiNed by Jordan. The police nay the object of the attack was rob- r waited in the belleving Jordan, who {8 an old man, had the receipts of the place in his possession. Gernier in court feigned insanity, and said he had Two Servants Testify that He Re \ celved the Gems—Young Man’e Father Says the Accusation Hag Been Trumped Up. James McCue, the Adams Express Company driver, accused of stealing a package containing $10,000 in jeweiry and checks committed to his care to be shipped to Chicago, was arraigned in Centre Street Court to-day by De tective Sergeant Price. Mr. and Mrs. David Strauss, of No, 711 Madison a nue, were In court to appear against him, with two maids, both of whom made affidavits that they saw the package delivered to McCue at the Strauss ‘resis dence. On an affidavit reciting tho allegae tions against McCue,‘made by A. Y. King, superintendent of the Manhattan Delivery Company branch at No. 105 Third avenue, the accused man was com- mitted to the Tombs until Monday, when he will be called for examination, He was represented by Abraham Levy. President McWilliams, of the express company, {s said to ‘have obtained a confession from ‘McCue that he received and recelpted for the valuable package and delivered it at the branch with other stuff. The father of McCue said after the court proceedings that his eon had had some trouble with the company a short time ago and that this charge had been cooked up out of spite. In the mean time the Jewels and ohecka Killed forty-nine men. The police say Gernter, who is fifty years old, is an ate of the an- arohiits of the city, and was recently releared from the Island, where he was sent for raising a disturbance, CENTRE STREET FIRE Asso EMPTIES TENEMENT. Tenants All Get Out, but Are In No Danger—Second Fire Near By. There were two fires early to-day én Centre street, which did more than $6,000 damage. The first aze started at about 5.30 o'clock in the four-story structure at Nos. 136 to 14) Centre street, occupied by George Schlegel, dealer in art goods and lithographing «work. The firemen’ soon extinguished the blaze. An hour later a street sweeper notified Patrolman Langan, of the Blizabeth street station, that there was a fire in the five-story building No. 214 Centre street. Langan turned in an alarm. When the firemen arrived they turned in a second alarm, The building extends to Baxter street and adjoining it is a! five-story tenement, No. 14 Baxter] street, ‘The occupants of this building don reached the street without injury. fire, which started on the) third o by Miller & Reisman of paper _ bo: two upper floo ng shaft and did use is unknown, spread to of the hois' age The c irl 81,750, —<—__ Man of 70 to Pay Jilted FRANKFORT, Ky., May Fannie Shields, ot Ohio County, has warded, $1,760 damages in her 1] dence?” remain out of sight. . ——<—_— John W. Gates Goes to Parts. LONDON, May 80.—John W. Gates left London to-day for Paris. —<———__—_ BACHELOR MAIDS HAPPY. Each Has ® Night Key, Which Is‘ Really Not Needed. One of the charming new features of New York life is the bachelor girl, and the two fair young creatures who recently exchanged experiences | on a Third avenue elevated open car will forgive the man who sat behind them and heard this bit of conversa-/ tion, because it is for the public good that it be reported: “Oh, Grace, I have found just the loveliest double room you ever saw, and I have been waiting to ask paid if you would join with me. rooms—there are really two, as there is an alcove—can ‘be fitted up splen- didly with what we have now, and we can have delightful times by in- viting Annie in to spend the even- ings. Only to think, she lives within two blocks of the place.” “Did she tell you about it?” “No; I saw it advertised in The World, and I saw that it was near her. In fact, she found her rooms in the same way. Isn't! it a ocoincl- “Isn't it! Well, dear, I'll join you, as I have been camping out long enough. Just go ahead and engage it, Annie has been telling me what = nice neighborhood it is: around er.” Here the guard called out the sta- against 8. M. James, aged seventy years, for breach of promise. tion, and the bachelors alighted to look over thelr new home, In the Sunday Magazine. MARVELLOUS HAPPENINGS IN REAL LIFE. ‘The Wooing of Chief Prettyhairs Forbidden by the U. S. Government. With the Story of How an Indian Chief Goes a-Wooing, by Chief Red Shirt, of Cummings Indian Congress, Now In New York, A Mother’s World-Wide Search for Her Lost Daughter. Amazing Sequel to a Girl's Abduction and Her Strange Return After 23 Years. A New Clue in the Celebrated Borden Murder. An Axe Discovered Which May Prove the Mur- derer to Have Been a Man. Popocatapetl, Mexico’s Great Volcano, to Be Sold. The Man Who Has a Mountain on His Hands Wants Some One to Take it Off for $5,000,000. » Advance Order with Your Newsdealer Early To- “Day. Kind on for The Habitable. sively to The World. Pen-Picture of Former President Grover Cleveland’s Home Life at Princeton, with Striking Photographs, Bishop Potter on the Relation of Labor and Capital and the Solution of Present Difficulties in the Labor Field. Thomas A. Edison on.the Possibilities of Wireless Telegraphy. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis on the Divorce Evil and the Necessity for a Uniform Divorce Law. Inside Facts About the President’s Trip—the Most Remarkable of Its Record. Illustrated. Real Meaning of the Mars Signal. World. Kate Carew Interviews Leader Murphy of Tammany Hall. AMERICA’S GREATEST. NEWSPAPER. No Doubt Now that the Planet Is Views of Eminent Scientists on Latest Discovery. Former Supreme Court Justice Roger A. Pryor on Divorce. Inside Story of the Great Gould-Cassatt Fight Which Led to the Destruc- tion of Western Union Poles and Wires by an Army of 8,000 Axemen. First Authentic Interview with Richard Canfield, the Famous Gambler. Auto-Mania—A New Disease Which Threatens Fast Automobile Drivers. Opinions of Experts Here and Abroad. Some “Pump Philosophy”’ from William S. Devery Specially Written A Statement Made Exclu- Special Features of TO-MORROW’S SUNDAY WORLD. Cardinal Gibbons on the Labor Situation. In the Sunday Magazine. ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR AND HALF-TONE. The Prettiest Girl in New York Contest. A Page of Pictures Treated in Colors, by Dan Smith. Mrs. Osborn’s Fashion Page. (lustrated.) The World’s Free School of Health. (illustrated.) Beauty and Rest for the Summer Girl. (illustrated) by Harriet Hubbard Ayer. All of the Funny Folks: Tidy Teddy, Clarence the Cop, Phyllis, Lady Butch the Bully, The Jackies and the Filipino and the Chick Sua Funny Bountiful, Turns to Amuse. Each Dealer’s Supply Is Limited . Order To-Day. / 0 Jolly bd | | \, | } | | }