The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1903, Page 3

/ INMONTA PIPE ‘SPREADS DEAT NG FACTOR At Least Three Are Dead and) Five Are Injured by the Breaking of an 3-Inch Main in Jacob Ruppert’s Big Ice Plant. SUFFOCATING VAPOR ENVELOPED BUILDING. Wild Panic Follows Among the 200 Workmen, Some Leaping from Windows, Others Seek- ing Refuge on Roof, and Odor Spreads for Blocks Around. An eight-inch ammonia pipe running from the cellar to the roof of the big Jacob Ruppert ice plant In the Bronx exploded at 7 o'clock this morning. kill- ing and injuring » number of the work- men. ‘Two dead bodies were taken out of the building a half hour after the ex- plosion and a third man died later at the hospital. Five were serlously hurt. The Dena. GOBMIDT, OTTO, No. 5% Third ave- aue, engineer, body found on seventh Boor fearfully mangled. VINCINSKY, JOHN, One Hundred and Fifty-second street and Brook ave~ mue, engineer's assistant. The Injured. GOSS, DAVID, policeman, overcome by ammonia fumes while at the rescue work; taken to Lebanon Hospital. MORLOWITZ, John, a laborer, over- come by fumes; taken to Ledanon Hos- pital. CARPENTER, CHARLES, of No. 3 East One Hundred and Thirty-fitth Street, burned and overcome; taken to Harlem Hospital, where he died. ‘TRAUN, HENRY, foreman, No. 4 Bast One Hundred and Thirteenth street, badly burned; taken to Harlom Hospital; will die. IFLAND. CHARLES, Hves at No. 119 Willis avenue, burned about the face taken to Lebanon Hospital. KATZ, CHARLES, assistant engineer, of No. 99 Columbus avenue, burned on back; taken to Lincoln Hospital, The Ruppert ice piant is one of the Diggest in the United Btates. It is located in One Hundred and Thirty- first street between Lincoln avenue and Gouthern Boulevard. and takes up a whole square block. The men had just gone to work when the explosion occurred. There were two hundred in the va- wious buildings of the plant. The ex- plosion happened in the main building. The cause for the accident is believed to have been the blowing out of the cylinder head of the engine on the first Moor. ‘The pipe runs through the middle of fhe building, and this was shattered by the explusion. As the break occurred on the ground Moor the fumes filled all the rooms. Ammonia poured over the floor in a mighty torrent. The men screamed and made a cush for elevators and the stairs. @ome on the lower floors hurled them- gelves out of the windows. Many escuped by reaching the roof, where they were later rescued by vne @remen. Hung from Windows, From every window of the ice-plant men hung by their hands from the sill, trying to breathe alr which was not laden witn tae deadly ammonia tumes, The crowd telow, which was powerless to assist them, yelled encouragement. When the Fire Department arrived on the scene extension ladders were quickly Fun up and the men picked from the windows and brought to the ground, where physicians (ook them in charge. ‘As @ man would be picked from a win- flow the crowd would cheer and urge those in the upper stories to “hang on @ minute longer and you will be gaved.” One of the first on the scene was ACTRESS, WHO CHANGED THE COLOR OF HER HAIR, SUING MISS OSTERMAN AND HER MANAGER Bzaroubi PREPARING NOW FOR CONCLAVE Workmen Busy in the Vatican Getting Ready for the Solemn Assemblage of the Cardinals to Elect New Pope. ROME, July 27.—The Vatican resem- ples an ant hill, so feverish is the work of preparing that part of the building set asido for the Conclave, The section destined for the Conclave comprises, on the ground floor of the Vatican, the three suites of rooms which surround the famous Court of San Damaso, the rooms under the late Pope's apartments | and the tower with the rooms about the Sala Ducale. On the second floor the |roome about Loggia Raphael and the Pontifical offices, comprising all the apartments formerly occupied by Car- dinal Rampolla, who has left the Vati- can altogether, will be used. The whole | will furnish commodious lodging for about 500 people. Sistine Chapel for Conclave. ‘The Sistine Chapel, as in the case of the last conclave, will be used for the) meetings of the Cardinals and the bal- loting. There, after three solemn funeral services, which begem Tyesday, will be | erected a throne for each Cardinal. Over the thrones will be baldacchinos, or can- oples, attached to“the wall behind. The moment a new Pope is elected he will lower his baldacchino as a token of his new dignity, thus silently announced, ‘The Paulin Chapel will be used for the celebration of high mass every morning of the conclave, while in the Sala Ducal will be movable altars for the masses to be celebrated every morning by each Cardinal. Courtyard Unrecogniaable. The gendarmes and Palatine Guards! will be transferred to the building in| | the Belvedere Courtyard, where the poor| | pilgrims were lodged during the last) | Jubliee, the gendarmes' barracks being | transformed into kitchens, pantries, &c. ‘The Belvedere Courtyard will be con-' verted into general quarters for the carpenters and other workmen. The Courtyard 1s quite unrecognizable, The | long lines of glass windows of the Log- gia Raphael have been painted up to a certain height as a precaution, and | shades have been put on every window better to insure secrecy. Policeman Goss, of the Alexander ave- nue station, He Immediately turned in @ special building alarm and calied ambulances from Lebanon, Lincoln and Hariem hospitals. ‘hen he ran into the building and from the third floor @arried out three men. When he got to the street with the third man he fell unconscious and was hurried in an ambulance to Harlen Qaospital, Tne doctors worked nobly to save the ives of the vict.ms as the police brought hem out, Lt wag hurd work even atier tho suppiy of ammonia had been shut ‘Those who were on the lower floors nd in the basement were the worst ured, There Was no chance for them escape. ‘The first two bodies found were taken out of the cellar. Smith was the first found. He had been burned by the @mmonia as weil as suffocated. also in the cellar. The res- ‘is body without sacrificing thelr own ives. n ean time Police Capt. Geoghe- lephon for more help and re- were sent from a half dozen precincts, tOWA MOB SEEKS TO LYNCH NEGRO, Tfin, file's Fad great dificult, He Is Surrounded in a Hollow by Farmers Aroused by His Attack on Girl. FARMINGTON, Ia., July 27.—A mop @f farmers to-day began searching for a Begro mamed Clark, who is accused of having assaulted and attacked oertraneedaand attack ih ot hought the girl Is’ fa- ob is now in the region of wt an received he Rate ROC they hay ho.low. and 1 in getting out | Assurances haye been given that ev- lerything will be in readiness for Friday night, but there a much yet to be ac- complished. , | The Cardinals at thelr meeting to-day again discussed the advisability of send- ing a note to the powers regarding the |condition of the Hoiy See. Some of them insisted on the necessity of not gllowing the occasion to pass without again protesting against the occupation of pontifical territory by Italy, thereby showing that the Papacy 1s determined |to maintain its claims unabated. No action was taken. Cardinal Cavagnis, In behalf of the other cardinais, to-day drew lots for the | so-called “cells,” as the apartments which the cardinals are to occupy dur- ing the conclave are termed. Cardinal. Gibbons celebrated early mass in the pavate chapel of the Sul- picians and then drove to the Vatican, where he participated ja the meeting of the Cons:egation of Cardinals, He was cordially received. He then took the oath of the gospels, administered by Cardinal Oregu, to maintain strict secrecy 1 all questions discussed at the meeting of the Congregation, and defend the rights, prerogatives and tem- poral claims of the Church, When the meeting was over Cardinal Globons went to St. Peter's and prayed) before the Blessed Sacrament, He knelt before the reeting place of the body of Pope Leo nd prayed for abgut fifteen minutes, Cardinal’ Gibbons” has ap- pointed Father P, C, Gavan as his con- heside whom he will take only one servant {sito the conclave, BATHER WAS DROWNED. Man’s Body Found at the Foot of Pacific Street. The body of a man attired In a dark- blue bathing sult was found In the river at the foot of Pacific street, Brooklyn, tonday, He_was about twenty-flye years ota, 5 feet 6 inches in height, and dark of halr and peli feta @ 5 ‘The bedy was in to the Morgue, good steamer Taurus when she pulled ANAWANDAS ARE OFF ON AN CUTING Headed by Tammany Leader Murphy They Sail with Their Guests on Their Annual Ex- cursion, 3,000 Strong. Leader Charles Murphy, of Tammany Hall, took the Anawanda Club out for its annual outing to-day and In conse- quence the Gas House District 1s de- populated. Of all the excursions of the year Murphy's is the one par excellence. It's the one where all the tribes of the party foregather and swap stories of thelr wards and oll the sheaves over which their wires run. ‘There must have been three thousand men, women and children aboard the out of her berth at the foot of Hast Twenty-fourth street for Locust Grove, where the lunch baskets were to be opened and the young man and his “bes: oil” do thefr “four steps back” and swing partners.” It was worth many hard miles of! defeat. She must go boldly to tae front, | walking to behold the scene on the pler and this she did. for departure, and the preparations President Phil Donohoe stood at the Jands light had but died away in the; color of her hatr. gangway coileoting tickets and John gray dawn when Mother Jones and her | Maokin and Dominique Henry helped him stand off “rushers.” ‘They were on «uard more particularly to see that no undesirable persons, likely to make a “rough-house" at the grove, smuggled themselves in with the party. “Aw, let a feller aboard, man witha peanut derby cocked on one side of his head and his hair puffed, plastered and shining like a clean duck shirt Just home from John Chinaman's, “Say, Mugs, get out,” said Henry, ‘I've told you once you can't some. You can't be trusted to keep your hands in your own pockets.” ‘The young man slunk off In the crowd with his Jaw a foot long. Henry 4 this and called him back. “Here, Mugs," he said, “here's a dol- lar. Go off and get some beer for your- self and the ‘corner,’ and instantly tae sald Mugs's face was wreathed in a emile that spread and rippled from ear to ear. Barney Burns, the oldest employee in the gas house, was there, seeing to It thats young wife, “Mrs, Bernard F. Burns, sir,” and the three kids got aboard safely and were supplied with stools, He had to stay tehind to keep time at the gas house, but he saw that s the ‘missus was safely fixed before he pade her good-by ‘The ‘Taurus was just drawing away from the wharf when calamity was narrowly averted. “Let me oft Hed _a brawny son of the * Let mo off! Sthop this dommed boat: I'll not be sailin’ under any flag ike thot,” and he shook his fist aloft where waved. the hated. red | and cross of St, George from one of the four picnic poles, “For the love, of heaven get it down quick, Captain,” begged Jack Murphy and Alderman ‘Gaffney, “Anything but that there, or we'll have a riot.” down it came to give place to the colors of sunny Italy, FALLS FROM HIGH And a PLATT OUTFLANKS “MOTHER” JONES The Senator Waves Her Good- By from Hurricane Deck of Trolley Car Just as She Takes His Citadel. Mother Jones and her "army" of fifty the Oriental This fact stamps Mother Jones as a stretgist of no mean ability, for to get past the guards that surround the other side entered the precincts of Hotel to-day. the exclusive property of the more democratic Mannattan Beach 1s a good deal like breaking into a citadel. But Mother Jones knew her business. She wanted to have a talk with one Thomas Coll! who lounges at the Oriental | do something original or she would fail of her purpose. To go meekly to the outer gates of the Oriental with a non- descript cohort of textile workers and | humbly beseech admission would mean ‘The flashes from the Atlantic High- followers were up and abroad at Coney Island, They straggied into the wooden city from somewhere and were received by the press agent of an animal show. [he press agent was leading a large elephant, He was.a wise press agent, id a young | and he wanted to get into the publicity | game with Mother Jones. “Bee, mother,” he said, as he stroked the elephant tenderly on his broad, intel- lectua] forenead. “See what 1 have brought you." “The very thing,” said Mother Jones, as she playfully chucked the elephant under the chin and wished him good morning. “With this little fellow as an advance agent we ought to get a hear- ing.” At 7 o'clock Mother Jones called her lads about her, and the elephant havin the right of line, the procession fo and started. It was decided to walk all the way to the Oriental, as it was feared the Long Island Railroad would compel the elephant to pay excess bag- Sage on his trunk, and the Jones family Js Tong on nerve and sti neash, 3o the cephant started out frst, with the es Teat behind. Mother Jones walked ahead of her young men. jown the Ocean Parkway and through the solid wails of mosquitoes that hung t a > heart-to-heart Platt, the good old summertime, and she knew sac muct | balr, is not a THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1903. 'SAD, SAD STORY OF HUSBAND CLEARS (SHE DANCED 10 MURDER MYSTERY DEAT Woman Victim in Morton House Susie Lukliacipi Suddenly Fell) A CHANGE OF HAIR, Josephine Victor Turned Hers! from Blond to Black, but Even Then Failed to Get a Theatrical Engagement. THEN SHE LOST HER FIANCE. Indignant at the “Perfidy” (Her Own Word) of Manager Rosenthal and| Kathryn Ostetrman, She Hired a Lawyer and Brought Suit. | Six weeks ago Josephine Victor was a spirltuelle blonde with regular Mary J Holmes golden curls, She is to-day a tplauant black-halred brunette, Thereby |nangs a story of manngerial “perfidy, ja broken contract, a sadder Sroken en- agement (and he was such a lovely young man, ) automobiles and horses! and lots of money. too), and loads and loads of chagrin and mortifeatiton, A %,000 da ge sult Is the result: of the change of hair, and J. J. Rogenthat ad his wife, Kathryn Osterman, are} the parties who have roused Miss Vic- tor to take recourse tn the justice-deal- Ing law courts. went to Mr. Rosenthal's office on May 15," sald Miss Victor, “to see about being placed as Lucy in the Kathryr Osterman production of ‘Milas Pett coats.’ Mr. Rosenthaal looked me over and sald he thought I would fill the dill, but he couldn't engage a blonde in his company as Kathryn Osterman, who stars In the production, Is a blonde. the engagement, so I told Mr. 1 1 would change the color of | We made a yerbal contract Osterman, who was in| seomel pleased at the ar- | hair Kathryn ofilce, rangement my and the Changed Hair, Lost Engagement. after 1 had had my hair ned black 1 went back to Mr. Ro- thal's office on July 3 and he In- formed me that the place had been | fiited. Oh! 1 wes eo nngry [didn’t know! what to do. Just think of my turning | my halr black for and then hay- | ing him ak the contract! “It was bad enough to have my hair ruined, but there are other things to be considered, too. My hair was a very striking feature, for my eyes are black, and 1 prided myseif on my Ught hair. Tama Hungarian girl, and I was | by no means a ‘chemical’ blonde. | “When I found out Mr. Rosentnal's | ‘perfidy’ 1 consulted my friends, and they advised me {o inetitute a damage suit. Aside from losing my blond nair I have lost the best man in the world, and my changing the color of my hair has stirred up all kinds of family | rouble.” | Miss Victor, who appeared in the role | of Ange.lca,. with Howard Kyle, in Nathan Hale" last season, is a Colum- us (Ohio) girl, and up to two weeks ‘0 ‘Was engaged to George Mattaews, a ‘oung business man, of that place. When George came to New York to visit his golden-haired sweetheart and found her converted Into a raven-haired incarnation of Injured indignation waxed wroth and proceeded to censure instead of condoning. “He wouldn't stand for my artificially changed hair,” said Miss Victor, “and MI feel that Kathryn Osterman ahd her Manager, Mr Rosenthal, are responsiole for marring my theatrical career, my personal appearance and my love affair.” She Hired a Lawyer, The black-haired beauty who says her dark as Manager Rosen- thal's and Miss Osterman s has he | retained Attorney J Broadway, in her Miss Osterman and ns “pertidy oel Krone, of No. damage sult, 320 while Rosenthal ure represented by House, Grossman & Voor- woman should not feel so Mife and Drum Corps’ about 100 “The young bitter toward me,” sald M who as Agatha Renler plays the tit role in "Miss Petticos I'm sure she used her own discretion 1n changing the The fact that she made it black instead of blond should not discourage her, She has established @ precedent in the theatrical profession which ought to distinguish her,” Manager Rosenthal sald he admitted having mado a veroal arrangement with | the young woman, but he had no {dea she would change the color of her hair, and when she did not appear in the course of a month he engaged another young Woman to play the part of Lucy In “Miss Petticoats." “Of course Miss Osterman and I will fight this ridiculous sult,"" ho said. “The young woman no written ci tract, and I am not to blame for her broken engagement with the young man of her choice. | WOMAN'S BODY 15 FOUND IN CISTERN. 8 Osterman, Mrs, Cain Disappeared During the Night and at Daybreak Husband Started Search for Her. ‘The ody of (Mrs. Louise Cain, of No. 9 Collins avenue, Ket Williamsburg, was found in a cistern at the rear of | |No. 8 Collins avenue, in Newtown to- about the hotels of Bheepah fay | day. Mrs. Cain and ‘her husband, the army ma’ ywhore Uiey ree George Cain, returned home at 10) ceived “an ovation. And when they! o'clock last night and Mr, Cain at | reached the outer portals of the Ori- ental the gate-keoper was too astonished to siy them nay once retired, leaving his wife with their | children, | With the, elephant beating time to the! During the night he was feexened | ains of “Murching ‘Thro’ the/ by his wife moving about the room. army marched sp. the driy and | 3, Hy ‘ halted In front of the main enteaiice, || When he arose at four o'clock ahe was At that mome: clothed tn black making for a wa of this figure t a tall, lean as seen in the offing Ing train. The head bent low, as if the figure misaing, although her clothing was the bedside, Search was made and ally the body of the woman was found | ern by Henry Heller, of No at| in the cist eyes were sear for pennies In the| 108 Collins avenue. Mr. Cain says roadway, and t enin was covered by) that his wife, who was twenty-nine A sparse growth of gray whiskers | years old, had been acting strangely for Mother Jones esp it at once, and she some time. It is supposed that she | ng to the senior) drowned. Coroner Ruoff has taken kK, his portrait: in led frame in Dr. foe she had & beautifud Parkhurst's | charge of the case. Tragedy Was Wife of Hugo Quittner, of Schenectady. and | Her Slayer Was His Friend. | RECOGNIZED AT . — Qnittner Expe Him Here and Knew Nothing of Her Doings Until He Read of the Case in the Papers. | ’ At the Morgue to-day the todies of the men and the woman who were fount dead ‘ny the Morton House yester the man having killed the woman and then identified. The committed sutcide, were woman was Mrs. Bertha Quittnor, of Passaic aveaue No. % Villa road, The CREST ne anon Saas man was Christian no nt Bhe was wa Dock street, of the same The 1 yhen se suddenly re | / 0) Oh a. Ta lox identification wax made by the woman's 274 fell. | PONG devia aie VA cr ry. husband, Hugo Quittner. to heart ‘bro! by over. | Quittner had an engagement to meet | exertion of d Y es his wife in this city yesterday. He sti Tis had preceted her here on business, RAM), Ppa Weiss, who poved as Quittner's best Lroke up, friend, made an excuse and accompan- fed the woman to the city. When hia wife falle. to keop the en gagement and Quittner read of the murder and sulcide he went to the morgue. At the sight of the bodies ho tainted, He sald he could offer no reason as to why Weise had killed his wife, unless it was the wife had turned on Weiss when she what she had He said she hac that Welss had Weiss, Wav was marri Schenectady. In a vorced wife in 5 GAFFNEY WILL | FIGHT FOR LIBERTY. | ——— | Alderman Proposes Testing the Law! Under Which He Is Held. Lawyer Peter A. Hendricks, of cou for Alderman James E. Gaffne: for a misdemeanor In connection the Dock Board Investigation, had a eo: ference with Assistant District-Attorney | Clarke and Justice Mayer this morning in reference to a civil proceeding in the | case to-morrow is held on two charges sim- He was Indicted on one Gaffney far in nature. and is at libe: In order to t the jaw under whi latter charge Gaffney, torney, has obtained a writ of certiorari, |which Is to be argued to-morrow In the \ Supreme Court Chambers. JAMES MoGREERY & CO. Ladies’ Suit Dep’t. 3rd Floor. \ Blue and black Mohair walk- ing Skirts. | 5.00, 7.50 and 9.40 Tweed walking skirts, 5.50, &75 and 850 Cotton and linen shirt-waist Dresses. \ 7.50, 12.50 and 14.50 | Bathing Suits. 4.25, 5.00 and 7.00 | | | Bathing shoes, caps, etc. Remaining stock of cotton |) negligee Robes. 1.25, 1.75 and 2.50. Twenty-third Street. JAMES MoGREERY & CC. | MORGUE. HAD DANCED IN EVERY SET. cted His Wife to Meet The Over-Exertion, the Doctors Said, f anve of the | Owning a Piano -: Silks. Hl Continuation of nS ‘Furniture Sale. H AT WEDDIN While Waltzing During Fes" psi Annual Clearenss aaa pay 7 jeg of Furniture continues dui at pies le and Died this week, at Reductions of ~ & 25% 10 50% off regular prices. Several of the lines offered have been considerably de- |pleted, we still have fairly ‘complete stocks to offer in Summer Iurniture, wer pa| eed Chats, Siam i Porch Chatrs, and in the higher grades Mission Furniture, Caused Heart Failure—Merry- Making Stopped by the Sad End of the Young Woman's Life (Rnetal (9 The Even foxtivith * made reducticas in prices of remaining stock of Mens Neqligee Shirts, Leather Belts end Summer Neckwear, MEN’S MADRAS NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, WHITE AND FANCY, CUFFS ATTACHED AND DETACHED } 68c. Ea Regular Prices. $1.00 and S145; Eich cemh Street, Mine cents Size: ard Sixth Avenue, - Store Opens at 8,30 A. M. and Closes at 5 P. M. Closes Saturdays at Noon The Easy Road to This is vacation time, and everybody should take a vacation; but it is so easy to be wasteful during this period. Itwould be easy foF many people to save fifteen to twenty-five dol- lars out of their vacation spending money, with which to make their first payment on a piano, A piano is a splendid possession. It is a safe thing to put your money in. The buying of it on ourclub plan will give you full possession before you know it, and you'll not miss the money that would have gone for temporary pleasure if not so invested. ' You can make your selection now, and have the piano delivered at once, or later, as is convenient to you. : A splendid array of Pianos is here to select from: CHICKERING MASON & HAMLIN VOSE CROWN KURTZMANN MERRILL J.C. CAMPBELL FREDERICK DOLI. and you can buy either the Doll or Campbell pianos for $10 Cash, and $6 a Month and any of the others on easy payments in proportion, Don’t you think your vacation will be of more per- manent satisfaction to you if it starts you to the posses- sion of a good piano? Plano Store, Pitth Meer, JOHN WANAMAKER. Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co., Broadway, 4th Ave., 9th and 10th Sts, 5000 yards,—Imported black | Taffetas. 21 inches wide. | 55¢ per yard | Twenty-third Street. | | ran in swift pursuit, Just! at itor was swinging aboard a i ax . ~ s— 7 ok WINDOWS KILL TWO. cosied him, He turned with | ] ela wy In his éyes and took her | | | tnd, with, the, other alg | coil os abe B, Altman & Eo, Man and a Woman, Slecping On ‘itt ike to talk with you,” sald | Pic | cy Jon n | Sisis; Fall to) Death Moin’ Very, worry.’ waid the Senator, - in Street. pol tey, agid | € | |) Mother a wily diplomat her- | Bevo nergors lost tele, lives, today, 96 We ainoat iar nracenaeatts | Ombrellas of twill sik with natural by falling from the fourthestery win- "for she remarked . } ; 28 inet ror dows of buildings In which they wero *® Pera eraniet interview: with | wood handles; 26 and pone ah sleeping. Their mangted remains were you? a | Men and Women; regular $2.85 icKed 149 by the police. quite Impossible. legret to say 5 erst ait victim was Barotha Rashova.!answesed Me Piatt, 1 have @ very iin prices $4.00 and BO, at sixty-six years old, who was found on the pavement in front of No. 1836 First avenue, dressed In his nightclothes, | Kate Duffy, forty-two years old, lost her balance while asicep in tho fourtn- tory window at No. 631 West Fortieth treet, and was instantly killed by the t business eagagement dn porta: t Otherwise I spould be delighted.” city. By this time the train was under way, and all Mother Jones could do to re, hb hand, im farewell fie the Benator sank In his seat with smile of contentment. | Eighteemh St, Nineteenth $t., Sixth Alventie, New York. It ake ahah Lala a safe aleahAlies ibs ea ala eR: 6 Sapbed' oo RANAMM, Fulton St., Elm Place, & Hoyt St, Brooklyn. : $3.00 Worth of Stamps FREE Tuesday |. Upon presenting this coupon at A.l.f . —~) Namm’s Store, Tuesday, July 28th, ; and making purchases amounting to $1.00 or more; we will give three dollars’ worth of Blue Trading Stamps Free, in addition to those you receive on your purchases. (Good July 28.) EB. W.