The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1903, Page 4

~ i When the Wire Began to I earn BARRICADES AT DOORS OF * FAMILIES IN HAUNTED ROW. _ } Bald-Headed, Fat and Pugnaci- + ous Spirit Stilt Holds Forth on ’ Roof Tops in East Seventy- » Third Street. ; “Shen the members of 19 families in ihe row of nine tenements extending from No. 431 to 437 Hast Seventy-third treet aroup to-day thelr firat act was to femove the barricades they had placed ‘at thelr doors. It might be sald, in Magt, that the entire Bohemian colony : this row of houses is all ‘a-tremble with unreasoning fear and roused by the weird and All night a party of stalwart young SNORE RY NIE ER STE AE HUNTING FOR THE js now termed ghost’s row, literally armed to the teeth. And as they sat ic wire that lay clear and dis- @ plece by itself with no one ‘Within ten feet of it, began to wriggle ‘on the tin roofing, The ghost hunters watched the nncanny thing for a mo- ment with hearts throbbing against thelr adam’ tinently. “\Barnie Yakers, of No, 421 East Sev- ‘enty-third street, has told the forty ‘widows—this house-top ghost has sin- out the forty lonely widows of the for torment—the story of the wrig- Bly wire, and to-day they are buying charms and amulets by tae quart moas- pples, and then fled Incon- AN Had Seen Him. “"Tho ghost-hunting band of last night Lshed made up of Barnie Yakers, nis y othe: Frank, Charies Johelka, Frank ~ \Wokasch and Jerry Jankovski, all of No. 421. These youths had had previous aaintance with tae spook, all of everal of his tai Dy Most competent to conduct the chase. Bhost, ‘They are enthuviastiy about hunting down the chimney-pot banshee. is fact they fell all over the: urging finess as volu arguing that the means of in the hands. of (he oyperienced, hunters gathered about yey at the momentous j { i 5 As tae gio: ya broad chi Bohemigns patrolled the roofs of what 4 strange thing happened. A piece of hat | that Yeaton the nelgtiborhood believed them Phere are other and mahy bravo youths Who live under the roofs trod by (ie 421 Past Cav ggty-trat. street and Prank lafal, atreot, ‘Phe story ts that when workmen be-| gan digging up the ruins of the shanty where Mr. Maloney's shade was wont to flit, one of the, workmen dug up a rusty tin bix, ‘full. of sliver money." ‘The aggregate amount varies from $49 to $4,000 in ratio to the distance to which the news has spread, money was found, however, ts not to doubted, [t {s also certain that five minutes after the find the workmen | quit precipitately, But this is more or Jess commonplace. The workman who really made the find was urged by his fellow laborers | to divide the spoil, He refused, but of- fered to treat. The offer was accepted, and they entered the saloon of Mr. Slu- East Seventy-first street, a widow; Ce-/vonski, The Jucky man placed a silver sak Slavonski, a saloon-keeper, of No.|coin of the bar and muttered the Ho- ‘That some | ground and ST ee ae EAST SE TO 437 EAST 73RD, ST. relatives and hoard in vain, hemian equivalent of “set ‘em up.” tonder reached for the coin it had van- ished, A few minutes later four very pale laborers were sprinting with elec- ttle step toward Third avenue, Heard the Workers. Mra, Baoman says that she saw the | or lees workman pick the money up from the| Into thelr heard him shout at the find. | She declares that she saw the glint, the of the coin. serts that-she heard the men discugaing the find a the spolls. Miss Krouper believes that the money wis part of a hoard of Eddie Becker, a miser. wh shanty be! tenant shado a string. his death many kind picture TPT LESTE TTR OE Te , —. ‘THE WORLD; THURSDAY EVENING, VENTY-THIRD SPREET GHOST AND HOUSES WHERE BARRICADES ARE UP, sought It ts eald that one night the search was abandoned and never re- ; Of No. 410 East Soventy-first| They were set up, but when the bar-| sumed, The kind relatives had dug a ten-foot y when Mr. Becker's down the cellar hole {tm the cell: walked stairs and confron pot of money in his hand. hmong is relatives, who stood in more | ence with her. etrified attitudes, and poured hands. generous scoops 0: he retreated to mounting he u motion like pulling] the writing. Oe few bee ie fie A arguing over a division of pot and settled with an unmusical clink. Cones Mtr, “Becker kissed his hand to his rela= tives and evanesced. These are but a few of the ghostly 1 lived and died In the|storles that were flitting about Little Mr, Maloney became a Bohemia to-day and being repeated with que variations, ed them. clinking coins. stairs, but Misa Josie Krouper as-| stopped and made The co! PLENTY OF WATER FOUND FOR CITY. Special Commission’s Report to, Mayor Will Embody Plan of | Building Dam in Esopus Creek | Near Kingston. That tn ten yeats the city can obtaln | EARTH MORTAL 10 Myon!’ in Luna Park at Coney “hous of midni, their faces vet in grim {as as they talked ey wuriier had se at their eves at every shadow, und iphe time tae wire wiggled Pwore sirange, fearful cxpressions, (Rate, a widew of the row, was Mirst to be annoyed by ¢ Thad beat out a favo.tiy (dead husdand on what washboiler. This wan seve tane of uinded ki weeks a Derg was arouved from her slumber Mthe sound of a trolley car With an ice wagon, followed by fe fala in the hall, This roused res ;memorles of her deparied spouse, phad been a motorman. ‘These ty Ret see the ghost, but the EeGhei gas somewhat. annoyed ‘Mays later by vesing a long form ha jand’ juggting a full relay of kite! iful clatter. Retella Weird Tales, Barnie Yakers slowly fly retold these smail ¢. ‘ous detail of Aeserip leave out that the W with nn nor did low Guttell | Aad seen a long, thin hand, decorated with bells and tin whistles, grasp Mwindow sash amd rattle it until | casings creaked for mercy. Various other widows had been f scrup-iron tiipon 1a investigated. He saw !t standing to that rattled not ge: y faces } At worked up in this way. Handsome On the next night the Widow Watten- colliding Widow Ving: by its tyes to nothing fn particular | bottom, (utensils that smote the air witn a fear and impresslve- “tured by hearing it denco on heaps the purest and greatest water supply It ever has had, and all at a moderate | will be “consummated “next Tuesday R ost, will be the gist of the report of| Hight when the midget ‘Moon ¢ * | Investigation,” sa’ the Commission on Water Supply ap- rely 2 feet 11 inches wil rb AW day jy} Polnted by Mayor Low to report on the GHAI MO! (6) feet, At ainshes Mn, Fone NS se possibilities of a water supply to moet ‘ . pers 7 Moon Queen Pour! Robinson. | letter on the sut he are dem ot ely and} Q Ne aR ne Nee ney a cymes from Buffalo, ip twenty | structs the ations. to make recommend | Columbla, Pres!-| * Prof W. H. Burr dent of the commis who with oth- era hay been golug over the ground bias decided that the Esopus Creek near Kingston, below Bishop Falls, can be domnéd and a great reservoir created there, 68 fee; up in the mounto where there will by pressure sumiclept to send The ¥ nosed would ‘cov elght ques miles aad the coat the city would ve reasonable. The plan ts to let the water rea Kingston from the dam and from ihe conduct it across the Hudson River NS} this side by laying mains oa the river the fio her on 180. by oot- tive 20 dd few hen|, If this supply, which comes far back in the Catskills as Pin ever whould fall, there i» Sone Creek. which could be eut Into wit Ue diet “'0L0 BEGGAR FROM dis- * SHOPPERS ARRESTED ntly Un roof, Barnle Yakers then|Blind Louis Reinberg Ordered the pounds. “T welghing devoted to) her since, J wo, thy j nuuliated Tull of its seven fect of stateliness he- fore the scuttle of No. 429, whence it ad risen silently. He had hearad it jidrop a plece of wire on the root. The wea of the ghost hunters looked about roof, epled the plece of wire and Hisaked away quickly, wll of the band by Court Not to Solicit Aims in Broadway and. Twenty- third Street District. janieing: c and it had # bald head.’ Byiy tin, vp hero, breathe: jm lesa Jerky way the weirdness of vinnatury! “jesavaoter in spite of the fact that e mia of the band kept repeating ‘}there was the wire wriggled and t journed, and without motion or ren of the ‘the haunted row and watched Mo, #6 wast Seventy down two Ghost Tale. ough 4 hea teagea that) againat the law. At the request of rae | faded ‘Mopseton ow, This ut by ed its head with a plece of ded a hitherto silent house- ‘Then in a more visitor was discussed until there wae no doubt of his uncanny no such thing as a ghost. eeaion rethe garty part of the evening mome ‘ hundred women and obtl- ood stood in front gooupled the) time. I do Mt t Lous Reinberg, the little old blind beg- gar, who for ‘@ has appeared tn the shopping district with bis cane, camp-stool, accordeon and tin cup, was ‘And the Melting alms on a pudlic wory |thorousbfare, His home is No, 482 Weat that] Porty-ffth street, Reinderg was arrested by Detective Clagper Platte, of the Central Office, Who Is specially detailed to look out fo) mendicants, . aec- the| blind man’s tin cup, The deteotive told New| Magistrate Hogan that when arrested had Reinberg declared ho was playing his accordion for pleasure. ¢| ‘That's right, Your Honor," ald the prisoner. ‘I only do {t for pleasure. gan't eee like other people, and I would go mad if I t in the house all the eid have something to Keep me outdoors. I don't have to do it, as ays} my brothers will take care of me tf I wish them to." ‘Magistrate Hogan explained thet dex-| 30° the Maloney ghost | ging for pleasure or anything else was! | Ung of not only having forged checka, WED “MOON QUEEN” ~ Midget Less Than Three Feet Tall, Coney Island Attraction, Will Marry. Man About Twice Her Height. . publican made clear ‘mistress of The first Fomance of the “Triy to the | Island | man. years old and weighs just eighty-six | ve Arguur Ralsamo, twenty 160 pounds, at years’ Sold, West Seven- nis rst ree months agd, and has been fe sight of the ng woman fully three feet n her escort, has been one Island's “outside attractions” yther the prop r) Tespects. the’ West who has xed fortune marpiage ceremony will be i the Gospel Mission on § i the Rev. \ Hughes. will ate as a guard of TRAINED NURSE:IS SAID T0 BE FORGER Police Believe that When Na- than Was Called to Attend Patients He Devoted His Energies to Robbery. USES | manuel Nathan, a trained nurse, of No, 54 West Ninety-ninth street, was held for trial in the Harlem Court to- day on charges of forgery and grand larceny th $2,000 bail, He ts alleged by the police to have coupled his profes- sional duties with a scheme of syatem- atic forgery for the mulcting of his pa- tients. The police think that whenever he was paid by his patients in check dorm he used'thelr signatures for ¢or- gory purposes. On June 47 Nathan, who wae formerly émployed at the Riverstde Hoepltal, and is watd to be @ graduate of St. Luke's Hospital, was called to attend Thomas ‘W. Conkling, @ real estate man, at his home, No, %4 West One Hundred and Twenty-first etrest. Mr. Conkling died and his widow paid the nunse by check. Nathan is now acoussed by Mrs. Conk- which in the aggregate reach the sum of #8, but of having rifled ber bus- ‘band’s safe the night before the funeral, Jewels valued at $1,000 were stolen. But Mrs, Conkling is not the only suf Charles Reinders, of Peterson's Fiats,| new! Jorsey City; @ broth it {a} paroled in his custody. Miss ego Reinders -was Work-Hovse for begging ny were 4 ized. ir. Todenworth ic out $29.40, and Mr.’ Cooman Suffered @ lom of sho by 0) t. MoClusky thinks We will hea the prisoner was! sour other paticnts who’ found the gore | vices. re expensive thi et thle nurs k! y “@ reputation outside of ats. Sia shee term ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR | ®. REPORT ON MISS TODD Is the Delaware Postmistrs Removed by Payne for Senator Allee. President Roosevelt received few vis!- tors at Sagamore Hill yesterday. That the President has his eye on the Re- situation Delaware was nouncement of the day. he had instructed the Postmaster-Gen- eral to investigate and report upon the | removal of Huldan 8. This was that Todd gs posts leged, to make room for an Addicks “President Roosevelt has ordered an Secretary Loeb to-|% merchants, are In peril chiefly—deal- “He never hoard of Miss Todd's | /D& With preventable causes—becauso of |removal until he read of it In a news received a and now he in- General to in-| Versities competing wit rict-Attorney Loeb said: of Manila y. of 8 of the Noy, York, visite! the Prosi amained but a few] Britain respec nents ai Sagamore Till, Just long | Brean resnectl igh for the Archdisho) pw pay hs} OCT: TRIED T0 GET CASH FROM MRS.POILLON? Woman Who Sued. W. Gould Brokaw Testifies that Potioe- man Culhane Tried to Extort $200 from Her. HAS CARDS BEARING NAME. a The Officer Made Complete Denial Before Inspector Schmittberger but Handwriting Elperts May Be Caled on to Testify as to Writing. Further investigation, perhaps neces- sitating the services of handwriting ex- perts, {8 to be made in the charges of attempted extortion brought by Mrs. Katbryn Pofllon against Policeman Cul- hane, of the West Sixty-elghth strect station, in connection with her $500,000 cults against W. Gould Brokew for breach of promise and slander. Culhane is the officer sent to Mra. Pollion's apartments at No. 200 West Highty-sixth sreet, when she asked for police protection from Mrs, Annte Or- tiz, whom she later had arrested. Mrs. Poillon compiained to Inspector Schmitt- berger that Culhane called on her aev- times and finally suggested that she pay him for his extra work on the case. She sald thatshe gave him % at the time. Later, after Mrs. Ortiz's arrest, Mrs. Poilion avers that Culhane asked her for $200, alleging that for this sum he could fix the case in the police court #0 that Magistrate Hogan would decide in Mrs. Polllon's favor. ‘The woman shows three slips of paper with Cuthane’s name on them, which she says he used as,cards to get an audl- ulhane denies that he wrote the cards, and as he was supposed to visit her but the once on police bus!- ness much hinges on the genuineness of for his He had a He went Culhane denies all of Mrs. Pollion's allegations. As irs, Potllon was cor- roborated by her sister, Lottie, Culhane asked for an adjournment until to-day to get witnesses. Inspector Schmitt- berger will continue the case In his office at the Eldridge street police sta- Mrs, Poillon has also made sim- tharges ashinst PoYceman Me- Hugh, of the East Elghty-elghth street station. LESS SEA-POWER; MORE BRAIN-POWER. That Is Britain's Gre. it Need, De- clares Sir Norman Lockyer. SOUTHPORT, England, Sept. 10~ The British Association for tho Ad- yancement of Sclence met here and Sir Notman Lockyer delivered an ad- dress, entitled ‘Me Influence of Brain- Power on Histery.” He said tn part: “Our position as a nation, our success offictal an- Del, as“ al- our lack of completely efficient universi- tles and our neglect of research. “We In Great Britain have eleven unt- 34 State and | Privately endowed In the United States personal Of Use resignation of United States) and twenty-two State endowed in Ger- in Delaware, res'dent Roose- decided not to take that mat- y until his return to Wa chbishop Har ed by Patt many, The German State gives to one university more than the British Gov- ernment allows to all the universities and university colleges in England, Ire- accom-| land, Scotland and Wales put together, Louls,| “These are che cor 18 which regu- Paullsis’| late the production of brain-power tn the United States, Germany and Great , and the excuse of the Government is that this is a matter | for private effort.” hingto SEPTEMBER 10, 1908." agian This Ie the Claim of the Prisoner, colored, a driver living at No. 269 Sixty-third street, was arraigned in the Magistrate Barlow, charged with stab- bing Charles Oakley, of No. 48 West $1,000 baiP for examination Saturde ‘deen employed as a driver In the coal- ‘twice in the back and once in the arm. STRIKER STABBED tempt of Union Driver to Make Negro in His Plaoe Quit Job. RAZOR FOR SELF-DEFENSE. Who Landed Twice on the Strik- er, When Arraigned In the West Side Court, Henry Thomas, twenty-nine years old, West West Side Court this morning before Fifty-elghth etreet. eH was held in Oakley told the Magistrate he had yards of Curtis & Blaisdell, at Seventy- ninth street and North River, until the strike commenced. He said that he went to the yards yesterday and asked Thomas to stop work. The negro, Oak- | ley @aid, commenced to abuse alm when he tried to urge him to stop and finally Thomas drew a razor and stabbed him Thomas then jumped into a coal wagon and whipping the horses with a shovel started down Riverside Drive. ‘Three policemen chased him and Policeman McGiny, of the W Sixty-elghth Street station, managed to overtake him at Seventy-third street. Wakley was! taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where nis wounds were dressed. In court to-day Thomas, through nis counsel, sald he was acting in self-de- fense. BURIED WITH ELECTRIC LIGHTS AROUND VAULT Mrs. St. John Had Requested that Interment Be at Night the Day After Death. “I wish to be buried the day after I die, and I want the funeral to take place at night,” was the last request of M Joseph C. St. John, who died Tuesday morning at her home in Hackensack, N. J, In accordance with this eequest her funeral services were conducted last | evening at 7.90 o'clock and the Interment wasrat Hackensack Grove. The body | was lowered in a temporary vault light-| ed by electricity, Connection had peen | made with one of the street wires and a | tap wire led to the vault, about which | wer laced numerous” incandescent | lights. y member's of the family wit. | nessed the interment. | Mrs. St. John was prominent in Hack- ensack and conspicuous in charitable movements, SPANKED WOMEN IN STREET. BOSTON, Sept. 10.—William Atkinson, of Beacon etreet, in the Back Bay dis- trict, a well dressed, well spoken man of dignified deportment, has been ar- rested as a “Jack, the Spanker.” Yeeterday he walked up Washington street and several times used his right hand vigorously on women whom he passed. At the corner of Bromfield street one woman, blushing furlously, complained to a policeman, The spanker was mak- ing tracks meanwhile, but the police- man overtook him in a trolley car. At West street Mr. Spanker again used his hand. The woman jumped ané screamed, Another woman in front turned to see what the trouble was and she was swatted just as the policeman's hand shot out for the spanker's coat collar, Atkinson was fined $26 In the Munici- i pal Court, be no exception. To- Morrow seen these grand values, Men’s and Youths’ Suits, $15, $18 and $20, for. use Men’s and Youths” Suits, The First Call. ° Our first announcement for this fall we propose to make notable. We have the reputation of always doing some- thing surprising, and at the most unexpected times, and this shall and Saturday We Will Inaugurate An Extraordinary ADVANCE SALE OF Mens’ and Youths’ Suits We shail place on sale all broken assortments of last season’s heavy-weight clothing, and augment it with the advance shipments for Fall of 1903 at fractional prices for FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, Don’t spend any clothing money until you have padded shoulders, swell suits; grand values in Scotches, tweeds, black thibets, serges, $ .00 worsted," single,and double breasted, hand- : equal to the finest custom work; actual in all colors and fabrics, {imported worsteds, cheviots, Scotches, tweed: thibets, in single and dauble brea: styles; they are correctly taflored and values $20, $22, $25 and $28; yours at... e “TON THETRALOF BY WORKING NESRO| MANHATTAN POLE === Fight in-Coal Yard Follows At-|Sergt. Duffy, of Brooklyn, Comes | sisty-eevents wirect tation, go into ® “It Was Not Really a Saloon,” He Says When Arraigned, for a Real ® 2 and Cashes Checks for Pollcemen. | j\im. It took a sergeant of police from/er tiat things in that di Brooklyn to catch a Manhattan rounds- man going into saloon and to bring him before Deputy Commissioner Davii These intermediate Suits (technically called “Junior Suits") are particularly desirable for Misses of ten to fourteen years. UNIOR SUITS, of mixed Tweeds, Norfolk Jackets with | belts, lined with satin, sizes 10 to 14 years...++++ reese sree $11.90 UNIOR SUITS, of navy serge, double-breasted effects; Mien plaite and belts, tinished with gilt buttons, saslined $16,50 coats, sizes 10 to 14 years.--+++sse+++0> of woollen mixtures, in novel-shaped Jackets, with patch pockets, an entircly new effect, sizes 10 $18.75 tO 14 YCaTS.sseeeeeeeeececece ee Boys’ School Clothing. Unusually Fine Values for Friday and Saturday. (New Location, Third Floor, Rear.) JUNIOR SUITS, BOYS’ A FIGURED DUCK WAIST, in all the new colors, solid tucked } rae aana plaited effect, fancy stock collar, strictly tailored; special HL-95 MERCERIZED DUCK WAISTS, in all white and black and ) white stripe, made in the new box plaited effects, full sleeves and $2.50 Wiberate chock collaty gpectal ascssiscCsossscrs anes Ceesss sah) MERCERIZED MADRAS WAISTS, all-over figured, solid front Mar na in clusters, French back and fancy stock collar; special at }$3.25 Sixth Avenue, 20th to 21st Street. Exceptional Alteration Sale Values nue district. At Sixty-seventh street and Thifd avenue, he says, he saw Roundsman Joan Finley, of the Bast back room of a saloon. The, ‘lon, Over the River and Discovers | snoreman’ followed the roundsman and, Roundsman Finley in Third Avenue Saloon. , disclosing his identity, told him his mission. Ho also wanted ‘to know what the table with men around it and glasses upon it meant. Finley told the Commisstoner that he wont in the saloon, which was not really @ police officer named Lynch, and that’ a man who dealt in real estate made this oom his office. This “real estate dealer,” he said, was e habit of cashing checks for the tment men. Miley had a roll sev- eral sizes too large for a vest pocket at ‘EXPLAINS TO COMMISSIONER, |® setoon, to cash 2 check givenhtim by Estate Agent Has Office There |{he time, This bunch of bills he took out and held in his hand when Duffy found ‘The Coramissioner reserved de- elsion. ii Inspector Albertson, of the Upper East Side, appeared ant toldtheCommission= t were In & pretty bad shape, many men not only Violating rules. ‘occasionally, but it teemad to him that they made a habit of es doing. He cited theindividual case of Kouudsman Hanley P. White. For Friday and Saturday. New Suits for Girls. meres and navy blue cheviot, cut full an loose, sizes 7 to 16 years. breasted Suits, made of same materials as above, sizes 8 to 16 years. Suits, handsomely trimmed with white red and biack soutache braid, cut full and loose, sizes 5 to 12 years. LL-WOOL THREE-PIECE SHORT PANT SUITS ) (coat, vest and short pants), of fancy tweeds, cassimeres, worsteds - $4,48 * and navy blue cheviots, sizes 10 to 16 years, special at......++++ YOUNG MEN'S LONG PANT SUITS inan elegant assortment \ of fancy mixtures (light and dark), also navy blue and black cheviot, sizes 15 to 20 years; special at........-++ . Always Interesting arc The New Fall Waists. (New Location, Third Floor.) More attractive this season than ever are the Waists for Fall and Winter wear. 5 rately represented, and they are prettier than ever. Some of the favorites are herewith described. SHEPHERD PLAID WAISTS, in black and white, with three } Seer ATin front; French back, fancy stock collar; special at... § $1625 (Third Floor.) Boys’ Norfolk Suits, of worsteds, cassi- Boys’ all- wool two-piece double- Boys’ all-wool navy blue cheviot Sailor Choice of any of the above styles at $2.98 Every Suit good value at $4.50. $6.75 Cotton fabrics were never so elabo- To be tired out from ly exercise is natural and rest is the remedy, but \\ | there is an exhaustion without ide tired newer-rested f hatd work or bodil; the health, Oneof the chief causes condition’ is blood and bad is nourished with rich, pure blood there is I % % we