The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1903, Page 8

ENGINEER OF BRIGE, DEA 4He Expires Suddenly in the ii Summer Cottage of His Son » |. Kingsley at Far Rockaway \ This Morning at the Advanoed -Age of Seventy-two. END WAS HASTENED BY 4 ; THE TROPICAL HEAT. f Up to a Couple of Years Ago ' , He Had Been in Active Charge * of the Great Brooklyn Bridge, , and When He Was Deposed He Took It to Heart Greatly. {¢ Charles C. Martin, formerty Chtet Wngineer of the Brooklyn Bridge and for the past eighteen months con- | mooted with the Department of Bridges fh an advisory capacity, died suddenly to-day at the home of his son, Kin) \ley, at Far Rockaway. Mr. Martin Was\seventy-two years of age and the exceedingty warm weather of the past few was days in a measure responsible |p forehis death. The funeral will be held ‘Bt Pittefeld, Mass, where the widow is epending the summer. | <A type of the old schoo} of civil en- | gineers, Mr. Martin was particularly klown to New Yorkers because he had @iarge of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Gey it was built untl! January, two Yeats ago. It was eaid of him that he kkuew every bolt and bar in the gigantic structure, the building of which he had partially supervised. Upto the time that the present Com- j Missioner of Bridges, Mr. Lindenthal, tok office, Mr, Martin was in supreme @ontrol of the bridge. Mr, Lindentha’ oH abolished the office of superintendent a ef the Brooklyn Bridge and made Lef- / | fert Buck engineer of all the brida | | between Manhattan and Brooklyn, rele- Be { a Hard Blow. @ating Mr, Martin to a subordinate eapacity. { ‘It was: rd blow to the old man, » | whose life was bound up in his work, ut he did not resign, as his friends ‘thought he would. and continued to de- = vote himself to the Department of _j Bridges. { Mr. Martin was born in Springfeld, 4 Pa. of New England stock, and spent \ Mis boyhood days on a farm. Before he a Was seventeen years old he had learned . @urveying, and determined to become a ; eivil engineer. | He taught u district school until twan- _ ty-three years old, when he entered the 1 laer Polytechnic Institute at Troy. He was a self-supporting student, grad- ©) wating in 1853, after which he remained aoe @ year at the school as teacher. ‘Then fhe went to Brooklyn and became a rod- fan on the Brooklyn water works .n @ourse of construction, Mis Gradual Promotion, “At the completion of the work he had y4en advanced to the position of assist- “wnt engineer. Following this he went to take charge of the Trenton Locomotive | Machine Works and from there became | @asoclated with the Brooklyn Navy Yard. dm 18% he had charge of laying the forty-inch water main in Atlantic ave- “aue, Brooklyn. He constructed the ‘great well in Prospect Park which sup- Plies the lake, After that he was en- gaged as assistant to Col. Washington 4A. Roebling in the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. ‘Ten days before the bridge was 2 pened Mr. Martin took complete : barge of it and in that position he ‘mms retained by the citied of New York and Brooklyn. When consolida- * tion was affected he retained his pos!- 4 tion, superintending the work of lay- 5, trolley tracks across the structure. ings were placed at half mast on top of the Brooklyn Bridge towers this @fternoon in honor of Engineer Martin's memory. ARTIST ACCUSED O ABDUCTING A CHILD, Alfred Caballaro, 43, Arrested In a Restaurant with Minna Armistead, Be 14, Who Came from Australia. Alfred Caballaro, forty-three, an ariist, waa arraigned in Jefferson Market Court to-day on a charge of abduction. Agents Pisarro and Fogarty, of the Childrens’ Society, in Maria's restaurant, @t No. 133 West Forty-firat street, Jast might saw Caballaro with a young girl. Pisarro overheard their conversation and G@rrested both of them. The girl, Minna Armistead, fourteen, aid she came from Merrinorth, Gripps- Yand, Australia, Caballaro was painting gome windows in a cathedral at Mel- © Bourne when he met her, and he lived @t tbe house with her mother and her- self. In Novembes she came to America With him, She said he was her guardian, Caballaro is at present painting a drop @urtain for a theatre. He was held in $1,000 bail for examina- tion on Monday. “Penator Kean aud Other Notables | Are Entertained at Luncheon, L. 1, July 11,—Preat- Roosevelt entertained at luncheon y Senator John Kean, of New Jer- iyi former Senator Frank Hiscock, of » Xork: former District-Attorney p A. Philbin, of New York City, Btate Senator Francis Hendricks, of ter. or Kean.came to Oyster Bay to § President to attend the annual tof the New Jersey National : Girt, on July 2. It is ny, tik d bh left to-day on his vy. @ mont! nce he | wurers of albums. i faz tne, Kresident will be able! apartments to get thelr belongin AKER WL G0 AT ONCE TOARLNGTON Man Who Shot Rector Keller, as Soon as His Parole Takes Effect, Will Return to His Former Home in New Jersey. WILL GO TO WORK AT HIS FORMER POSITION. Belief in Vitage Is that Rev. Keller Interceded for Him Is| Apparently Not Sustained by the Remarks of the Barker} Family. (Special to The Evening World) TRENTON, %. J., July 11.—Thomas G. Barker, who was paroled yesterday by the Court of Pardons will not leave the State prison unth Monday afternoan. or possibly Tuesday. He will then go at once to Arlington where, he @aid this morning, he intends to leave in the same piace and In eame way he did previous to his arrest “IT am golng back to work for the Commercial Cable Company." he) added. “My friend, John Mackay, has died since my incarceration, but he left @ aon, Clarence Mackay, who has also proven. himself true and gtanch Clarence Mackay was one of the sign- ers of the petition for my release and he, with the secretary and treasurer of the Commercial Company, haa been over here to ee me." Barly to-day Mr. Barker sent tele- grams to his wife and to John Sumner, of Fulton street, New York. The latter was President of the Thomas G. Par- ker Defense Asociation, and in the mes- sage, the liberated prisoner sald: “I heantily thank you, my dear John for your unceasing efforts in my behalf. ‘Your constant and untiring labors 1 credit with being largely responsible for the fayomble action of the Pardoning Board.” To his wife Mr. Barker expressed the | desire that everybody in Agington, who had alded him, be thanked for their in- terest and encouragement Got What He Denerved. Asked if he had knowledge of any tance from the Rey. John Kellar, by letter to the Court of Pardons or, by other means, Mr, Barker replied: “have not, and do not belfeve he has taken any part in the proceedings. He ot Just what he deserved, and may be have had what I deserved, but I have dismissed him from my memory and will probably never mention the matter again, “Yes, my wife has been most constant I have recelved more than a hundred letters from her, all of which she has asked me to preserve, and I have every one of them still. 1’ consider my wife the most faithful of women. No, there is absolutely no truth In the rumors that she intends to sue for divorce. These reports were merely idle gossip.” Mr. Barker's reason for remaining in prison until Monday ts that he will then ave the opportunity of thanking in per- on many local men of prominence who interested themselves in his case Barker has acted as bookkeeper for the master mechanic. He is an exceptional Penman, and Head Keeper Osborne suys e has been a model prisoner. Believed in Arlington that Rew Keller Interceded for Harker. Arlington is divided in sentiment con- ceruing the pardon of T. G. Barker, who Was serving five years for shooting the Rev. John Keller, rector of ‘Trinity Episcopal Church, Keb. 3, 1901, after Mra. Barker had toid her ‘husband of an alleged assault eighteen months before. is believed here that Rov, Mr. Keiler the direct cause for the pardoning of Barker. It Is sald that had not Mr, Keller interceded for the prisoner he would still be serving his term. Mr. Keller was in his atu this morning preparing the sermon for to He was guarded from callers by his landlady, Mrs, Sands. morrow. ‘Ege instruoted’ iby Mr. Keller’s lawyer that he {s to see no one, 1 must follow those instructions. ite does not been released, No amount of arguing could induce Mrs. Sands to take Mr. Keller a note. Still Hates Kellor’s Name, gilts, Barker was secn as she left Mra. ermond’s house, presumably to go to ‘Trenton. ‘Sho sald” pases “Lam very happy to hear of my hus- band's panion. 1 know nothing beyond what L saw In the papers.” Mr. Keller have anything to do with his getting a panion? “Don't mention that man's name to me," she cried. "I hate tt. 1 despise it, It reminds” me of that’ distressing tme I am trying to forget.” She refused to say what her plans for the future were. Mrs. George Wilson, a member of Mr. Keller's church, wohse husban¢ before his recent death spent money and Ume in trying to keep Barker in. jadl, was very angry when she heard of his pardon. ; ; “It 14 an outrage on the communtt to have ‘this ‘man at large, she sald, “and I hope he will not have the au- dacity to remain here.” eS FIRE EMPTIES WHOLE BLOCK OF TENEMENTS. Scared Italians Give Pollce and Fire- men a Lot of Trouble at Grand Street Blaze. ‘Two alarms were turned in early to- day for a fire that started on the fifth floor of the six-story building at Nos 154 and 156 Grand street, which és occu- pied by J. Alzonman & Co., manufac- know yet that Barker has od." In spite of the efforts of the firemen the flames spread to the six-story build ing at No. sol-ibo Bim street, which is Ped by Several small talloring firms 8 budiding Was only siighuly damaged y the fre. ‘he ire spread with such rapidity that the tenants in the neighboring’ tene- ments for almost the enure block w ordered into the street by the freinen. | Most of them had been sieeping on tne| rovfs of the houses and they made their way to the street without trouble. When they were in the street, however, tne firemen were caused considerable trouble by the Itallans becoming ex- cited and trying to return to. thelr in about an hour the fire was out, ‘ne flames destroyed the contents of the Ntth w#nd sixth floors of the Granda street building. causing a damage or about $5,000, ‘Khe cause of the unknown, |She In Found Dead and THOMAS G. BARKER, PARDONED, AND H. 8 PENNEDIN CAR FOUR HOURS Rejecting “Car-Ahead” Passen- ' \ gers on Madison Avenue Line | Are Hauled Back to Harlem and Held in Hot Barn. Suit against the Metropolitan Street Railroad will ‘ve started at once by the twenty-eight passengers who were car-| ried back to One Hundred and Forty- fifth street on the Madison avenue line | and switched Into the car barns because they refused to submit toa ‘‘car-ahead”™ order at Grand street, Counsel has been engaged and an omnibus bill ts being prepared, demanding damages from the coméany. The southbound men and women work in the heat, Centre streets las! filled with after a day's 1 at Grand and evening the conduc- tor stopped and ordered them to go ahead. The car was marked plainly “Brooklyn Bridge," and the passengers decided to stay until they were taken there. A heat argument with the em- ployees followed, and finally the car was switched to the northbound tracks. Northwami to One Hundred and For- ty-fifth street the car sped, with ly stops at the car barns along the way, where the passengers were subjected to Insults from hirelings with “Inspector” on their caps, At Fifty-ninth stre squad of policemen were in waiting. The inspector asked that they force the pas- sengers to leave the car, but <he police refused, At the end of the line the car was run into the barn and the Inspector de clared the motor box was out of order. For three hours the passengers sat In the barn. <A lawyer was finally called, and when he had taken the names and addresses of all present they boarded ay “L" train and went to the bridge. Those in the party were Jamos Cou- tard, No, 246 Clinton street, Brooklyn; G Edwards, No. ‘519 Butler J. ar was No. 300 Kniekerbock A. Dean, E. Bene street eel) Second A," Mrs. EB Brooklyn; n Bleklen 407 Sev- enue, and Mrs, Fitzjohn, N: enth avenue. MYSTERY ABOUT THIS GIRL’S DEATH. ‘Tornea ut Brother Says It Was Accidental. kk, twenty-five years old, of East Sixt: street, was in her to-day. The n policd of the th Station re- ¢ as one of suicide, nk woman lived with het rles Heeck, Beeck said } rath of his sister must On, Anna Be No. 14 found TOE AT JUST PASSENGERS HURT ON BRIGHTON TRAN An Open Switch Caused Head- On Collision at the Beach Ter- minal and Several Passen- gers Received Slight Injuries. Six persona were Injured to-day In a head-on collision between two Brighton Reach trains near the Brighton Beach Hotel. Patrick Riker, the engineer in charge of a train bound for the beach, ran into an open switch on which was a train ready to start for the city. Riker reversed the power and Jumped and was uninjured. Both motors were badly damaged and several passengers were injured. Walter Edwards and Thomas Watson, of Sheephead Bay, recelved painful con- tusions; Dantel Logan, of \No. 71 East lwhian and a graduate of Amherst Col- One Hundred and Elghtéenth street; Dantel Nugent, No. 404 East Seyenty- ninth street; Arthur Gilbert, of No. ‘11 West Thirteenth street. all slightly in- Jured, and Josoph Storlitz, a brakeman, of No. 123 Orchard street, fracture of the oulder. An ambulance was called from Coney Island Hospital and Storlitz was taken there. e other men were em- ‘ployees on ‘their way to the race track. ——_ HEAT-CRAZED, HE BLEW OUT BRAINS After a Day’s Fishing Under the Broiling Sun William Davidson Returned Home Irritable and Complaining of Fever, the A day's fishing in an open vont tn the Intense heat of yesterday 1s supposed to have deranged the mind of Willlam Da- videon and caused him to commit aul- cide. Davidson was a collector for the American Ice Company, and lived with his wife and ‘brother David at No. ast Park avenue. A few days ago a younger brother came to visit him, and yester- day {t was arranged that the brothers would have an old-time outing. They spent the day at Jamaica Bay, and William in the afternoon seemed particularly irritable. He complained of the heat aad the failure of the fish to ‘bite and the dinner did not please him, After a swim in the bay about § o'clock the three brothers starts for home, When they arrived, soon after 11 o'clock, Mrs, Davidson was sitting up for them and.prepared a lunch, David- gon was cross and fnally sald he thought the only place for him was in bed, as he felt like he was burning up and’ bis head ac He left the others and went toward his room. In a private hall of the apartment-houee he had a trun| He was heard about this and a minute | later the wife and brothers were startled by a stot y rushed to him and celdental, He sald he knew son for her to commit suicide, —— Pui 2 Cally Special Meeting, President Pulliam, of the National League, has called a speclal meeting of the organization to be held at tha Vic- te is torla Hotel, this city, on July 20 at 10} with the ice company were all o'clock in the morning. found him dying, He had fireq a bullet into his head just back of the ear. ‘To-day members of the family said there was no cause they could assign for the act other than that he must haye been crazed by the day in the sun, They said he had no domestic or financial diMculties and his accounts right, aa they were balanced every day, THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, AVICTIM OF GAS Stove on Which the Rev. J. C. Wilson Was Heating Water to Drink Before Retiring. HE WAS A YALE GRADUATE. First Reports Had It that He Had Committed Suicide, but Coroner Says Accident—Same Stove Near- ly Caused Another Death. A certificate of death by acctdental gas polsoning has been fssued by the Coroners’ Office in Brooklyn in the case of the Rev. John Churchwood Wilson, assistant pastor of the South Congrega- tlonal Church, who died at his home, 3 Strong Place, on Thursday. This appears to dispose of the rumor that the minister had committed suicide. Mra, Wilson, the widow, was unable to see reporters to-day, but sent them a note in which she said that she had authorized Dr, Edward Chapin, of No. 21 Schermerhorn street, to make a full Wind Blew Out Flame of Small) 1909, The weather's warm, But do not fret; Mayhap ‘twill storm And cooler get. Diary of a Man Who Froze to Death. A Sallor Abandoned on statement concerning the death of her husband. Dr. Chapin told the following | story to The Evening World: | Hiv Death an Accident. | “There is nothing to conceal about this. I was the family physician of| Mr. Wilson, attended him In his last) lliness and know that he came to his| death by accident. “Last week, under my advice, his} wife and his two-year-old daughte: went down to a summer resort on Long | Island. He expected to start on a busi- ness trip to Chicago on Monday and on| his return it was bly intention to Join his wife and child in the country fur| the rest of the summer, “I had been treating him for stomach trouble and a cold, He called to see me last Friday night and spoke of his coming trip to Chicago and also of two calls to Connecticut churches which had reached him. He was in the very best of spirits. “I did not see him again until I was called to attend him, but I have learned that Dr. Lyman, the pastor of the| church, called on him Sunday evening and talked about the Chicago trip. Af- ter Dr, Lyman left it is my bellef that Mr. Wilson went to his room and lit a small gas stove he kept there for the purpose of heating water. He had been in the habit of drinking hot water be- fore going to ved. Wind Blew Out Gas. “A window In the room was half open. Mr, Wilson probably fell asleep walle, waiting for the water to get hot, the! wind blew out the gas and he became unconscious, He was not found until the next morning. Although heroic | remedies were tried, we were unable to restore him to consciousness, and he! died on ‘Thursday. “I telephoned to the Coroners’ OMce, | and was told that Coroner's Physician Hartung would attend to the case. Dr. Hartung came to the house last night, made an examination and issued @ death certificate saying that the death of Mr. Wilson was accidental.” Dr. Chapin was asked concerning a rumor that another person was over- come by gas in the Wilson household last winter in the same room and with the same stove that figured in the case of the minister. “That 1s a mistake,” sald Dr. Chapin “Mr. Wilson's mother-in-law, who was visiting nim, lit the stove for the pucpuss of warming the room and went to break- fast. While she was gone the flame was blown out or died out and the room be- came full of gas. Mr. Wilson smelled it, entered the room and turned off the stove, It was the same stove that he used to heat water with,” A Yale Graduate. Rey, John Churchwood Wilson thirty-one years old, a Philadel- ‘The was lege, class of '85. He was graduated from the Yale Divinity School in 188 and had charges in Stonington and Merl- den, Conn., before coming to Brooklyn, where he was pastor of the Puritan Congregational Chureh from 1896 to 1901. In 191 he resigned and went abroad for a year, He came back to take the as- sistant pastorship of the South Con- sregational Church. FINDS LODGER WIT BULLET IN BRAN Woman Boarding-House Keeper Discovers Charles V. Wood- bridge in His Room After He Fired the Fatal Shot. Why Charles Victor Woodbridge should wish to end his life when he apparently had everything to live for 1s puzgling the friends of the young man who died In the New York Hospital this afternoon, He shot himself to-day {n his room in the boarding house kept by Mrs, W. H. Downtng at No. %& West ‘Twenty-seventh street. ‘The police have about ten letters writ- ten by Woodbridge just before he shot himself, but they will not be opened unless the man dies, ‘Woodbridge evi- dently spent all the time after his break- fast this morning unt!l about 11 o'clock, when he fired the pullet in his right tem- ple, In writing these letters Mrs, Downing heard the shot and found Woodbridge unconscious on the floor, He had not even locked his door. Woodbridge was about twenty-six years old and had @ good place with a big. furnishing goods store in Fifth avensa, No one there can account for his at- tempt at suicide, Americans First in Ascent, ZERMATT, Switzerland, July 1.—The Alaska’s Icy Shores Writes the Tragic Story: of His Sufferings. BBE LEP ALLEL! PPP Ge ZZ Bravery and Bigamy Strangely Blended. The Extraordinary and Inexplicable Double Marriage of Lieut. McCue. LLL LAP ELLE LILA va The Won- derful Things a Nickel Will Do. Astonishing Purchasing Power of a Five-Cent Piece In New York City Proved by a Sunday World Reporter. YEE PLELILE SE AEE OPE LEEE: The Awful Tension of the *‘Auto”’ Face. . How the Strain of Driving Whirlwinds Develops the Features of Devotees of the Sport. HOW THE NEW POPE WILL first ascent of the Matterhorn for the present season has been accomplished by two Americans, George C. Hillman, of Buroty, N.Y, 3 a Perry Smith, of Blas odla wiih thal pois. in H Delegate - Apostolic. to. The heat don’t he>1, Your rage keep furled; Keep cool and read The Sunday World. eet ee one Unearthing a Wonder City of he Pest. Recent Discovery in Mexico of a Wonderful Buried Metropolis Big- ger than New York. a ie Dancing in the Shadow of Death. ° The Frightful Agonies Undergone by a. Girl Who Would Win Fame as a Professional Dancer. SSS The Treasures of Sir Thomas © Lipton. The Millionaire Sports- man’s Wonderful Collec- Won of Trophies Exhib- {ted on His Palatial Steam Yacht. Three Beauties Blooming on One Family - Tree Remarkably Interesting Social Histories of Mrs. Ollie Harriman, Jr., Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. C. W, Hargens. The Election of a Sue- cessor to Leo XIIL; the Manner of His Selection Described for the Sun- day World by Most Re Dio FALCONIO\ the United States. «> ° d