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} ‘Strauss immediately returned “his Be HiS TWO WIVES. CANNOT FIND RICH LAWYER — Mrs. Strauss No, 3 Discovered that Brooklyn Politician Main- tained Another House in Plainfield, N. J., with His First Spouse. ALSO WEDDED TO WOMAN WHO OBTAINED DIVORCE. He Fled on Learning that His Double Life Had Been Discov- ered, and Wives and Children’ Have Been Uable to Get Trace of Him. —_— Charges that Baldwin F. Strauss, the Brooklyn lawyer and politician, witn an fmoome of more than $0,000 a year, had three wives and maintained at lenst two @ifferent homes, in each of which was a wife and children, made by a woman who calls herself Mrs, Strauss No. 3, were a great surprise to-day to Brook- lyn politicians and the members of tho Bar Association. 6trauss has been missing from his home in Brooklyn, from his home in Plainfield, N. J., and from hin oMce since April 26 last. A few days before that Mrs, Marguerite M. Strauss, who has brooght the action against him, found letters in his pockets Indicating his triple matrimonial alliance. She did not seo him after speaking to hm of the discovery. Attorney Francis William Russell, of Manhattan, will ask Justice D. Cady Herrick on Monday for an onder to Serve Mr. Strauss by publication In an action to be brought by Mrs. Strauss No. 8 for divorce. He will also ask for an erder compelling Strauss to pay Mrs. Strauss $100 a week alimony and $1,000 oounsel fees pending the action for di- vorce and alimony. Names First Wife. , She seeks a decres of absolute Givorce on the ground of her hus- band’s relations with Ida M. Perkins, who claims to be Mrs. Strauss No. 1 by virtue of a marriage entered into in the latter seventies or early eighties. Wife No, 2 is said to be Mrs. Estelle L. Ainsworth Strauss, who secured a divorcee from him, Mrs. Marguerite M. Strauss, the plain- uff, Is @ handsome woman, statuesque of form and a blonde, with violet eyes. Bhe is a member of an old and wealthy Brooklyn family and is independently rich therself, owning among other par- sel of real estate Nos. 631 and 633 Halsey street, No. 314 President street and No. 815 Warren street. She had known Mr, Strauss since she was a child, for he Je twenty-two years her senior, and had been the attorney both for her grand- father and her father. Knew Strauss Was Divorced, “I knew of the existence of the Mrs. Estelle L. Ainsworth Strauss,” sald Mrs, Strauss No, 3, “when Jf mar- ried Mr. Strauss, and was aware of the fact that she had obtained a decree of divorce from him, but it was merely by accident that I learned of the existence of Ida M. Perkins, whom I name in my suit for a divorce ay the co-respondent and with whom I learn that my husband miiatained friendly relations from a period as far back as 1380. “Summarized, the situation Is this: 3880 Mr. Strauss met Ida M. Perkins, No.1. Four children were bora to them, of whom Baiawin #, Strauss, jr., is ihe eldest and is now married. a year or so later Mr, Strauss met and woved Estelle L. Ains..orth and married her. Three children were born to them—all boys, and Mr. Strauss. who ac that time maintained a handsume establishment in London as well as in Brooklyn, had them edicated woroad. * “This Mrs. Strauss heard that in her @bsunce in Europe her husband was liv- ing with ida M. Perkins at Mount Ver- mon, N. Y¥., where they were known as Mr. and Mrs, Frank Strauss and main- tained a fine piace. Ainsworth to this country, brought aa action agauist her husband for an absolute divorce, waich was tried before Jud ‘aylor in Che- inung County in is, she obtaining a decree and ‘the custody ot her tures Children, She was awarded $y a week alimony for life and a lump sum of do, for the maiuienauce of the chile ‘dren. Mrs, Strauss the third says she Was married to Mr, Strauss on June 5, 1891, at Orriliia, Province of Ontario, Canada, “We were camping at the time, ® merry party,” sald Mis. Strauss. “Mr, Berauss Was at the time counsel to the Health Department of te old city of Brooklyn, aud Dr. and Mrs. R. C, Baker, zaso oc the department. were of the party. Mr, Strauss had been prohibited rom marrying again in the State of Dew York, but nad for more than a Year been making love to He pro- wed that we be marricd at the cainp, ucquiesced, a clergyman Was sent tor and $0 we Were married “Six children were born to us of this marriage, of whom five are dead one living, a boy named ira Strauss, now ten years of 4 husband was constantly away home, but my susplelons were In Mra, @roused until Januury or February laste when because of his continued absences from home, which he excused’ o ground ‘of politics and business, y fooked through his clothes oe ulght and discovered & commutation. tioket entitling my husiana to travel between ainfleld. N. J., and this city. “1 went to Plainileld the next day and {nguired of the hackmen at the depot it they knew of one Baldwin F, Strauss. ‘Oh, yes,’ they replied. In chorus, mein Mr. Baldwin F. Strauss, tho known Brooklyn lawyer. Yor he 3 &t Grove street and Lincoln place with wife and family, His eldest son, ldwin BF, Strauss, jr, has just beet married, “Drive you’ ub for “6 cents, “imagine my feelings, having peen married to hin for twelve years, Sead never having heard of the existence uf this other Mrs, Strauss, 1 drove up to the place, found that it was all that was meribed, that it Was surrounded by junds and that Mr. Strauss malntained horses, carriages and @ coachman and lved th luxury. 1 re- irned to our home In President street, rooklyn. and awaited my husband's feturn. When he came Ih T sald: “it went var to Plainfleld this after- 'yourdidy’ replied 'my hus- API eeh HH LO “you Well- lives BALDW LAWVER A band uneasily, and then I told him of what T had learned.” In her petition to the court Mrs Strauss says of this inctdent that upon charging her husband with —havink maintained this woman in Plainfleld and with having children who bore his na h weed that it was true n April 2%." says Mra. Strauss % "my husband informed me tha had trouble 1 a lady client money matters and was going to mother's house, | have never seen him since. He left all his papers in) my custody and gave me blank eubstitutions and papers. Upon going through his 1 found photograpis of Ida M. Perkins and letters an closing the double life he had been lead- ing. Life in P Baldwin F. 3 iss, his wife, Perkins Strauss, and ‘his two surviving children of that marriage—Baldwin F. Strauss, jr. and Florence Strauss—have resided In Plainfield, N. J. since Sep- tember, 1900. On April 2 of this yea: Baldwin F. Strauss left Plainfield after telling his wife and family that he was In trouble over a former client, and has not been seen since. Strauss first appeared in Plainfleld in September, 1900, when he leased from L. FB. Rarakatew, of No, 58 Lincoln place, the handsome house and grounds at the corner of Lincoln place and Grove street. He moved in with his wife and family. Mrs. Perkins Strauss was away from home when a World reporter called, but Baldwin F. Strauss, Jr, the missing man's son, said: “Tt is all too true. We have had de- tectives searching for my father ever since his disappearance, but have heen unable to find him, We are aware that Marguerite Strauss claims to be the Inw- ful wife of my father, but my mother has a prior claim, She was duly mar- ried to him by a, priest In a Roman Catholfe Church in 1880, | We never heard of the existence of Stella Ains-| worth Strauss until my father was are rested for non-payment of alimony. “My mother, my sister and T have learned that It was no unusual thing for my father to have all three of his time, and they absolutely in fgnorance of the fact of the relation each held to ticular. when I was present, ja which fice, Stella Strauss was in the adjoining private office, and Marguerite Strauss was {n the anteroom, and he coolly drew checks to the order of each, handed one to my mother. gave two of them to his clerk and told him for heaven's sake to get rid of the two women outside.” TOOK A FIRE TO CLEAN THE SCOW. The Food That Was Ablaze on the Garbage Boat Carrie Galled \ Ox’ the Engines. It came nearly being “Good morning, Carrie,” with the good garbage scow Carnie at the foot of West Dhirty-first street to-day. Carrie being loaded with grub- that-was, when an Itallan, who was smoking a spaghetti, dropped a spark into the breakfast food. ‘A couple of minutes later there was a smell. Smells are scarcely a novelty on the Carrie, but this smell was companied by smoke, and even the ow attendants noticed that It was different. ‘At this thrilling moment a garbage expert who was loading former self-re- Specting egss into Carrie's bow distin: fuished the smell among a thousand others, otbpening his mouth to its widest ex- tent ie yelled: tthe “Gunery, tongues of flames were ing into. the Watermelon rinds ant ner seasonable delicacies when eight re-engines and two flreboats came tear- fhg and puffing to the scene and poured several tons of water on Carrio. Carrie hasnt been so clean for years, MOUNT VERNON GIRL STARVED IN WOODS. ©: Wandered from Home and Police Alarm Sent Out—Believed to Be Demented. MOUNT VERNON, Aug. 1.—For three days Matilda Romane, a Mount Vernon girl, wandered through the woods around Sherwood Park without food and finally, when almost starved, she walked back home to-day. She did not seem to realize what she had done and could not tell where sho spent her time. All she knows ts that she was in the woods and that she slept under a uee. The police had sent out an alarm for Matilda, who is the daugh- tor of a well-to-do merchant, and search was made for her everywhere. It Is be- leved she is demented, MME. GADSKI’S NEW ROLE. She Will Appear as Branhilde tn Thin City BERLIN, Aug. 1.—Helnrich Conried, director of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, has contracte) with Mme, Gadsk! to appear as Brun- hilde in addition to the previous roles for which she was engaged Edith Walker, of the Vienna Opera, whom Conried & gaged for Wax- nerlan roles, js American, who made her debut at the Royal Opera in Berlin several years ago. Court (Mra W. R. Grace” Arrives. “Mrs, William R. Grace.", the South American condor, arrived in this olty to- day and was sent to the Central Park Menagerie, It was placed In the cage with the American eagle. 1t is valued eo sands mi at $100, wives in his office at one and the same | hack and buck the stuss game. him. I remember one occasion in par- | my mother was In his Inner private of- | | Regulating Traffic at St. George. TTT, WORLD: BATURDAY EVENING, ACGOAT 1, 1900, ND POLITICIAN, ANT SILLA LAINSWORTH STTAUSS WIFE No. 2. LOST AT STUSS, TOLD THE POLICE. ‘They Gave Him Marked Bills, Which He Lost, Then They Raided the Place. Having lost $175 and his wife's diamond bracelet in a game of stuss 6 Chrystle street to-day, M. Rosenblum, No. 219 Rivington street, proclaimed that he would go out and get more money. Instead, he went to the EI APPROVE PLAN FOR FERRY TERMINAL. Committee Recommends Commis- sioner Hawkes's Suggestions for Dock ‘The committee appointed by [commissioner Hawkes to decide be- tween the two plans for the St. George Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, re- Their report fa- ported to him to-day ed under the direc vors the plan prep all rajlroad tracks Janit level with the rry-bont, It ts th mittee that the prine the movement of passenger all trains on the upper lev {hg on the same concord fs sin the plan of Borou ssident Cromwell ———{—_—— HEAT PROSTRATION CAUSED HIS DEATH, Manager Brice Refused Medical Aid, hut While His Wife Went for a Doctor He Died. Walter Bri manager for R. F. Wheeler, a contractor at Third avenue and Twenty-cighth street, died suddenly from what is thought to have ation, Brice was weak- Ing his home at No. 165 on Thursday 1 how upper opinion of the com- to-day been heat prost ly, and on reac: East Thirty-third street evening complained of the heat and it affected him. Last night he was found at the corner ot Fifth avenue and Twenty-elghth strect leaning against a lamp-post and was taken home. Brice refused medical attention, and his wife attempted to aid him with home remed Barly to-day ne became alarmed ut her husband's ane sition and went in search of « phyat- 1 When she returned with Dr. W. Be Jennings her husband was dead, js Investigating —$———— C. H. CAREY ARRESTED. Accuned of Forgery by the Ke! . Aug. 1—<. G1 Carey, gg at the Victoria Ho- seve Walton, charge of yn FL Moore, re tor-Loamis Company, The Core as are forge re. the aam tovday ferred b. enting t on a Jose Ki °8 Kast Twenty-second street, York. It ja sald that Carey made an assign- ment nse urer of t om p lege y rat e employ of the con- ne officers of the was never ta t vr at No. 176 ¢| town, dridge Street Station and told his story’ T weeks un-| qt THK MISSING BROOKLYN 1N1s THREE, WIVES CORK: WELCOMES _ - THE BRITISH KING. Streets Filled with Sightseers and Decorated with Bunting In Honor of Their Majesties. CORK, Ireland, Aug. 1.—The firing of royal saltites and enthuslastic cheering welcomed King Edward, Queen Alexan- dra and the royal party on their ar- rival at Cork to-dav on board the | royal | Berehaven, | bunting, the decorated, with jubilant sightseers. The Lord Mayor and Corporation of Cork welcomed the visitors when they landed. Their Majesties drove through the decorated streets, which were lined with (roops and bluejackets, to the race course, where the King presented colors to two Irish regiments. The Catholic Bishop of Cork was in- ‘The vort was bright with whole town was well vited to assist at the ceremony of blessing the colors, most of the men beings: Catholics, but he refused to be associated with the Protestant chap- dain. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 1.—Thelr Majes- tles subsequently returned to Queens- where they recelved further ad- dresses. The King tn has tarewell reply said that the people could rest assured that he had the interest of Ireland at heart, ‘Phe remark elicited vociferous cheering and much waving of flags and hats. to Capt. Flood. t The royal visit 9 poane as ee Capt. Flood gave Rosenblum fve| brought to a successtul close, Tho King Aare hath enchanted 4 matied\§] bille-and inatructed him) tol@a) Are avert ane tout qucban cen wish) the Just as|hands, as enfevad more foward the Roeenblum was losing the Jast marked|*ettlement of che existing Irlah gev bin Flood raided the place. Harry| Snces,than ieniniation bau hop White, alleged to be the proprietor, was} Whe ed cn arrested, and will be arraigned in Essex] {)? 00° UAT 2 rains Market Police Court tomorrow morning.| °C)” ty Erin” mingied wilt. He had the marked bills, Rosenblum] *@lute ©) recovered his dlamond Uracelet. SENT TO WORKHOUSE FOR INSULTING GIRL. The City Parks Will Be Free for a Time from One Miscreant at Least. On the complaint of Alvina Boden- stein, a pretty girl, sixteen years old, who came to this country for or fve | weeks ago from Hungary, Jullus ‘Meyers, of No. 34 East Ninth street, was sent to the Workhouse to-day for nonths. girl is employed as a nurse with ja family Ub On Thursday. siren Ste; Wheii home that night she her brother and he Instructed her t) call & policeman if Meyers spoke to ner again, hetiitna was in the park yesterday | when Meyers agaln approached her, sho! says. She called, Policeman Cassing and [had him arrested. Meyers put in no de fense and Was sentenced to six montis in the workhouse, VANDERBILT WARD FOR NEWPORT HOSPITAL. ‘The $250,000 Structure Formally Transferred by Widow of Cor- nelius, Who G Generous Endowment. YPORT, R, L, Aug, 1.—The trus-| from Mrs. Vanderbilt to-day, a for transfer by letter of the $250,000 w which she has caused to be erected upon the hospital grounds as a memorial to her husband, the late Cornelius Vander- pilt Accompanying the transfer was n of @ generous endowment of the b: ing, the amount of which the off are not privileged to make public. ward is for the needy poor, with mater- nity. and children” departments, — and rooms for those who can ¢ nominal sum for treatment. ——— PARK SLEEPERS ARRESTED. Charged with vagrancy, five men and one woman were arraigned in the York- ville Court to-day by Patrolmen Roach and Nealis, attached to the Park De- partment, The policemen sald they found them asleep tn Tompkins Square Park. They were all sent to the W house for six months, Patrolman Roach told Magistrate Sar~ ow that complaints had been rece) ved the Park Department men sho bathed early in the morning In Tomp- kins Square Park fountain, a Roch and Nealis were sent to the park and told to arrest all slec They say that they warned a nu of men and women not to Ko to sleep there, but the six arrested disregarded the order. BIG STRIKE IN PITTSBURG. ay PITTSBURG, Aug. 1.—An order officers claim that the arrest Je} general lockout of the building tales ane of the most important In years, an | was issucd to-day by the Builders’ Ex- Inquiries concerning him have “been CE atanplens made from 4 number of elttes. change League. It will’ take employ ment from %,000 mon. During the day strike sympathizers coneex and. friends of” the non-unton men Concerts will be given Monday evening} clashed several times, A riot was in Washington Square and In Corlears ‘The concert in Washington | "Clark Hook Park. Square will be given by the Old. Guard Band, under direction of Frederick W. In Corlears Hook Park Max Frey wilh direct Frey's Band. £ averted, near White's Opera-Hous Jor the easy destru yacht Victoria and Albert from | } and the atreets were filled {| Woman UNVEILING OF ERICSSON STATUE Mayor Low. Who Bears the Same Name as the Great “ngineer's First Monitor. De- livers an Addre + atatie of de eaon, thet ve Prevented to the v th syloter J Booth Hartley for unvetied this afternoon Part A crowd of 10,00) persons witieawed the ceremonies and the 1 f Sweden Joined in the winging of folk snes that 1 of the pro. «ramme. A parade of wediah organt aatione of thie and Yonkers and an excort from the Marine pa atarte | from Union Squar Jock and marched by way of Fifth avenue and Froadway to the Battery, ‘The spew) ntation was made by Park Com missioner Riohard Young, of the borough { Brooklyn, and was r nied to by Mayor Low, The Sixty-ninth Regiment Land furnished the muste May: benn r of statue itor lutionized (he td was towed to with the M called the Seth Low ike myseif, was named {¢ fath J it belonged to the f for many vears towed all thi cilpper ships of my father’s fleet in an out of the harbor. Perhaps for this reason, I remember an though {t were yesterday—though I was only twelve yeirs old at the Ume— the feeling of dread, akin to panic, t pervaded the city when the he on that Cumberland and = the Congress in hampton Roaus at the hands of the ferrimac and 1 recall with equal Vivianess the thrill of joy and graticude with which the city the next day wel- omed the news of the timely appear: ance of the Monitor in the Roads and f her successful battle. [do not know that the city, in all its history, ever ex- periensed such a keen sense of rellef from imminent and wppalling danger that the Monitor Jhen it ix recalle York may Well rejoive to give an hon place to a statue of the great engin to whom the city owes this signal deliv- erance. "As Admiral Lace has Mon.tor, in a certale Norgeman's contribution. war for freedom, and for the preserva- n of the Union. Her designer, Capt. gricason, was himself a Swede by birt! though & naturalized citizen of York, and the guns she carrie made by Dahlegren, a man of Swedish descent. Her comminder on the dateful day of his victory was Lieut. John J Worden, whose name, at least, suggested a Swedish orlgin’in the remote past. All hail, then, I say, and gratitude without stint to the men of the Northland who have done so muh for us. “But Capt. Ericsson's title fame and to the gratitude of the city does hot rest wlone upon the Monitor, He built the first steam fire engine, and he devised and introduced the screw as a substitute for the paddie-wheel for the propulsion of steam vessels, He was the first one to introdyce forced draught on steamships from an Independent en- gine; and he was also the first to place the engines of eteam vessels wholly be- low deck, By these various inventions he revolutionized both mercantile and naval construction and gave to man a mastery of the ocean such as he never 1 out, was the also, lo our had before. “Well may Ertesson's statue stand here in Battery Park, where it shall ever verlook the waters Of the proud harbor which his genius did so much to velop. The beat of every propeller taat lashes the waters Into foam will, bring to him its song of praise; and the in- coming and the outgoing tides, as they pass this spot, will shout in ‘turn the chant of the world-encireling oceans as they pay tribute to the memory of him waose mastery the waters of th recognize to earth's remotest sea." PASSENGERS HURT IN SHUTTLE TRAIN, Cars on the Thirty-fourth Street Ele- vated Line Crash Into Long Island City Ferry Station. whom were women, were thrown from Who Attempted Suicide Screamed When Hart. Bertha Schmidt, attempted to commit suicide at her home, No. 212 Afth street, this afternoon by herself on a hook in the closet of bed leather belt about her neck, and tying one end lo a hook kicked the « from under hh The belt cut # ain. and her cries summoned a neigh or, who cut her down. An ambulan, was called and she was taken to Bell Vue Hospital a prisoner ——— Asthma Can Be Cured ‘Yhe statement of Mr. F, Homan, 20 E. Adams St., Chicago, proves that the worst cases of Asthma in the world are not only relieved, but are readily cured by Dr, Schiffmann's Asthma Cure. He say “Asthma kept mo in terrible misery for ten years until [ used your Asthma Cure. ‘After the first trial 1 was a changed man. I went to sleep that night and awoke next day much relieved and [ have gotten entirely over the Asth~ ma. It {s now nine years since I was cured.” Sold by all druggists at 50c, and $1.00. Send 2c. stamp to Dr. R, Schiffmann, Box 894 St. Paul, Minn., for a free trial package. the timely arrival of the police, A Sark Herguer,. a. mill-wo- ker Dac-T-Ra Eyeglass Clip, SOc, considerable excitement on Fitth av Doce not silp, pinch oF leave marks, Sokd only nue by’ drawing a revolver, | Berra It | que west 12h S512 Madieon was har ho was disarmed apd! ave,, aim & 424 its: 150th & 5iet Placed under arrest, F Gia. DACHTBRA BROS., opticians, cole patentess ba Slab ii via i 4 {i |later he called at the house. Bast Forty- honging room, She stood on @ chair, fastened a after that she screamed with} BROOKLYN VIDOCO SI OLDE He Followed This Clue Along Its | Shimmering Length—Prosto! He Has Two Prisoners En- meshed for Jewel Robbery. | Pant Reynotie of the # Hawk ehaww repeated mansure ment seat ile chest. High | «made a remarkable | se] « urst within ¢ trookiyn De. | renu. By 1 Reynolds traced the Mlums luetion | the| tneriing upon the fair head of one Mary Schmidt Reynolde sat up. Mary avelied a story of a desperate rob- hery at the home of Mr and Mra. Otto K man, at No 872 ‘Tenth street |Hrookivn, ‘The Kettlemans were apend- kK the summer in New Jersey, and Mary wae in charge of the house, While she slept two men entered the house and stole jewelry Capt. Reynolds Istened erimiy. He recofled ¢s a thought struck him. “Ha,” he wh d huakiy, “there jis momething suspicuous about this woman's hair. | Presmins a button he moned De- tectives Morehead and Wise. “While [engage this woman in con ration,” her hair olden Clue Obtained, | While Marv repeated her story three times a golden clue waa obtained with a pair of marden shears by Detective Wise, Mary being none the wiser. Capt, Reynolds put the clue in a bottle and told Mary to go home. An hour He bega: his search in the front parlor, Upon a sofa he found six strands of Mary's hair, | proved beyond doubt by comparison with the bottled clue. The brain of the sleutn he hissed, “snip a lock of throbbed as he reasgned. Girl—sofa— headrest. Ah-ha, ah-ha-ha. In the next hour the plot thickened ke furniture was designed in New York; that she waa | glue. Mult in New. York: that her engines! Morehead and Wise, armed with and her turret wer made here, NeW/ strands of Mary's har, searched the Finally they came upon John Norwede, a grocer, who stated positively that only the ovening before |he had noticed a strand of golden hair upon the shoulder of one Charles Westh, of No. 137 Twenty-third street. Gold Hafr on Gold Wateh, Meantime Mrs neighborhood Kettleman had come home, All her jewelry had been stoien except a gold watch. Upon the gold | ch she found a gold hair, Reynolds, ‘Wise and Morehead questioned Mary, and she admitted that she had worn her mistress's watch. More golden hatrs were found in Mary's comb, and Rey- holds staggered under the blow of a other {ea he refused to divulge. He sent his men to the home of Charles Westh. Following a tratl of | golden hairs they discovered a quantity lof Mrs. Kettleman’s jewelry in the man'e trunk. Thereupon they arrested him. They also arrested Mary in the act of hing her hair, ‘To-day Mary and | Westh wére held for examination on Monday in the Butler Street Court, charged with grand larceny. Since her arrest Mary's hair has gradually dark- ened, and ¢ ynolds has employed a chem’ how much there ts In his golden clues, which hi marked as exhibit A “EYE-BAR” DEFEA MAKES MAYOR SAD. ‘Aldermen Acted Within Their Rights, and w for a Campaign of Education.” Mayor Low to-day commented on the action of the Board of Aldermen in re- fusing to appropriate $6,000,000 to carry out Commissioner Lindenthal's plans r buildifig the Manhattan Bridge with -vara instead of wire cables as lows: A score of passengers riding on the | "cy am worry that the Aldermen did shuttle car from Third avenue to the | 4) authorize the bond Issue for the Thirty-fourth street ferry on the "L" | Sanyattan Bridi for their action de- had a severe shaking up this afternoon, |jays a great public work which ought and several were slightly injured. The | to be ¢ } to completion as soon as brakes ‘falled to Gatch) and aa (the car|pomsnle: Lam copident, also, that the il by ar) tians prepared by Commissioner Lin- slid into the ferry station it collided |denthal and approved by the commis. with the bumper. sion of experts, of which the ate oe passenge: . ot |eorge 8 Morison was the chairman All of the passengers, the majority of | HOR" A aha. and that they will make nt and a beautiful bridge; eal voth an effels OFFERS OF WORK ANSWER HIS PLEA Leonoe Testus. Who Wrote The Evening World of His Un- availing Search for a Job, May Now Pick One. f Leonce The family . f wrote to The Rventng World walling search for work to # wife and nlx ohtidren, was busily paring a bountiful meal to-day Jeat boy gat peeling a dozen large po tatons for stew My husband hae ted out to-day with brighter prospecte of getting some | wort ai tae mother two promtana of work, at least temporary have come thig morning. Alta we dreaded to have our misfortune made | public the result hax given us new | courage, and 1 meant to write « letter to the editor of The Bvening World to say that T am thankful for the relief that has come to us, We have had about a dozen letters from kind readers of the paper and help from nelmabors, 41 promises of further asmistance “Lam sure we will now be able to get) along wntil my husband gets steaty | work. Three business houses have sent | for him to call prepared to work—the Havemeyer Sugar Refinery, an umbrella manufactory and a lumber-yard. And now, rough The Word. « hotel pro prietor offers him a chance ‘We had been helped sometimes by | the clergyman at the little —mixalon w the children go to Sunday-school. | The Charity Society also sent a woman to Inau bout us, but he felt) that through the letter might be able to get some stealy we HIS CRUEL WIFE CUT OFF WITH A DOLLAR. William’ H. Miller Declares In His Will that She Treated Him in an Inhuman Manner. (Spectal to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, Aug. 1.—In the will of William H. Miller, a prominent resi- dent of Vathalla, Westchester County, who died several weeks ago, his wife | cut off with only $1 because she treated him cruel He left an estate sata to be worth $75,000, The will, which was filed in White Plains to-day, ts dated May 16, 1900, and la very brief. It says: “As my wife, Alice A. Miller, haa an estate of her own of $20,000 has treated me in a ervel and inhuman manner, I direct that she shall only receive the sum of $1 out of my estate.” ‘The remainder goes to his children. Another pecullar will is that of Anna K. Fair, who died at Lewiston, Idaho, of aid) Woo OWN wOOUL $9,0% Worth property in Westchester ‘Count gives $1 to her husband. Henry remainder to her daughter, in accord. ance, she adds, with the rule laid down by her antecedent HOW FASCINATING. BARBER GOT A He Was From New York and Married a Woman in South Africa and Stole Her Fortune, It Is Charged. A New York barber, who went South Afriot a vear ago to week hin fore tune and found tt, 1@ engaging the ate tention of the pollee all over the world to-day ‘The name he went under {s Willian 7 and there [sn Mrs. William Timble, of No. 11 West One Hundred and Seventeenth street whose a ce with the engaging baroer $40,000 Ambaswardor Choate has been in com- munteation with the Detective Burcaw of this city about Timble, ‘The English ‘onsul in this city and the British Bm- basny at Washington are interested. Here in the story of the finding of ‘Cimble’s fortune as told by the police: He went to Johannesburg a year ago from this city and there became we: quainted with a woman whose first name is Rachel. Concerning the rest of her name detectives of New York are not informed. Suttice to say that She imarried ‘imole, and thut she had Te aucceoied in borrowing $1000 Crom hen fein aided, Ol Lae prewuse oat ne had «fear wstate Invesuaent 1% New ric thik Would pay doy per time he cold aer taae i Wound sary to to tis eily lie investment, Lae we er remaining Jortune the excepuon of ®, Lubes Wy ACW YORK WL posited in the Garfield Ban! hue pie atiyeu vi New Lorik somen thing over a monti ago, On the day fol Jowing Unelr arri mole, + wait ere spe a de- Wheedled the woman out of a ch #0 on the Gare 1K wd oem ae to 4.900 and casnes the bank. Ther cl is alluged, of the jewels. womai hax not seen ene Wert to Consul and, ational diplomacy was set In Mm ry er remains at large. Wits what has spent In entertaining hee hug band and) oringing him to New York ail Mis. Timbie nad ete wibs the $100 remaining jn the Garfleld Bank after the $4,900 check was cashed. This money has been nearly used up and she iw left practically penniless and thou- sands of miles from home. ——$—$—<— PRESIDENT HAS QUIET DAY. Naval Yacht SyIph Repaired and Ready for Executive's Use OYSTER BAY, L. 1, Aug. 1.—Prest- dent Roosevelt passed a aulet day at Sagamore Hill. No formal callers were received. After disposing of routine business brought to his attention by. Hecretary Barnes the President de= voted the remainder of the day to children ‘The naval yacht Sylph, which has been undergoing repairs at the Brook- wn Navy-Yard, haa returned to Oyster Bay to be at the «disposal of the - dant The quality keeps the price up. The Largest Selling Brand of Cigars in the World. ther seats to the floor of the car, Mrs. | more economical in conatructian- cape: sis *. [city considered, and more rapidly erect- Hillard, thirty-two years old, of No. 124 sae than any ‘other suspension bridge Webster 4 nue, wae badly bruised |}that has been designe for @ Bast avout the back and left side. Alexander | River. The Al howe have Wells, thirty-sev: y s old, ¢ No. |acted entirely within thelr rights, and 269 Seventh avenue, received a sprain of| it remains woto begin @ campaign the left ankle and contusions on the lett | of educa side, Both were attended by an am- ibulance surgeon and sent hom —<—<——— and all adv’ agen cae poked SLY OPPORTUNITY. THEY DOTH KNOCK BUT ONCE, SAY. THEN HASTE AWAY. BEHOLD THE PICTURE OF A MAN WHO GOT RICH BY THIS SIMPLE PLAN: HE HEARD THAT KNOCK IN WORLD-WANT TOWN AND PROMPTLY RAN THE GODDESS DOWN. OPE EYES AND EARS, ALL OTHER MEN,— (Oppot Adyts. rec'd at The. ar sith; Harlem, 211 WRONG, SHE'LL KNOCK AGAINI ity’s first name ts Business.) iu’s Pub. Office, Park Ro hear 7th Ave.; Dis. 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