The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1903, Page 3

., Mol i ai int has ruined atroet foe f3 bio ble ‘aie hat tel has not been the ly Ls Patronage has been | Fi fortunes, fered. reat ae t ante te ental pasha hems eee ita stn fs ven to move to void ‘bankc- NO OCH Work Shall Be D Eorings, and Says Skyscraper Foun- dations Will Not With the official declaration that roadway will not be ditched for the ‘building of the tunnel, owners of sky- Borapers and office buildings and busi- Bess men generally are much interested to know what effect the tunnel will have t on the foundations of the big bufldings, and on the cellars and sub-cellars under the bulldings. Tf the tunnel is to weaken foundations of any of these buildings it will mean a Joss of millions of dollars and a danger to life of hundreds of persons who go in and out of the buildings daily, or have their occupation In them, “Set all these fears at rest,” Chiet Engineer Willlam Barclay Parsons said to-day. “I have looked into this ques. tion and considered it from every eng:n- eering point of view. I can say with perfect safety that not one foundation will be molested in any way. I will add that not one sub-cellar or basement will be touched, except at some of the bta- tions, and then it will not damage them in the least. “In the first place," the engineer con- tinued, “the foundations are safe for} this reason: The tunnel will be twenty Teotsfrom the surface of the street to the bottom of the tube. office bulldings—the Bowling Green for fnstance—have foundations that sink down eighty feet. Most of them go down sixty or seventy feet. Six Feet from Carb Line. “The tunnel does not come within six Or seven feet of the curd line, except where there are stations, and then it does not come to tho curbing. ‘The will be only two tracks on lower Broad- fway, except at these statlons, and they will not take up much more space than the present street car tracks, “Most of the sub-cellars or basements tof the big buildings on lower Broadway extend under the sidewalk to the curd Hine They will not be interfered with In the least, except where stairs run ‘through them to the stations.” This statement coming from Mr. Par- sons following so quickly his declaration that Broadway shal! not be ditched and | travel interfered with, and that business interests shall not suffer by a strewing ef dirt on sidewalks and in doorways, will meet with the approval of every business man and property ownertion lower Broadway. The determination of Mr, McDonald, the contractor, to ditch ‘the streét, no matter what the cost to | ‘the busfness-and property Interests of | the city, would have meant a practical) paralysis of business in a great part of ‘he financial district of New York. Mr. McDonald, until Mr. Parsons took this determined stand, sald that without the ditching the tunnel could not pos- sibly be completed In ten years, Mr, McDonald now {s willing to bow to the edict of the chief engineer. In his stand against Mr. McDonald, Mr. Parsons had the backing of the Rapld’ Transit Commigsioners to a man and the present city administration and! the edict has gone forth which, will #eve business men millions of losses and which will protect scores. of sky- scrapers and business houses from al- most total destruction. “1 whull haye no ditching aw 1 as I am engineer for the Rapld Transit Commission,’> Mr, Parsons declared ‘ “Mr. Parsons is our chief e: wineer and we shall stick to fecision,’”’ declared the Rapid Trasit commissioners. “There shall be no ditching if he opposes it? Mr. McDonald Silen' Mr. McDonald will not say why he so strongly favored ditching at the cost of millions to business men and prop- erty owners. as the cost of impossible traMfic along lower Broadway, but the fact remains that Mr. McDonald wished to save time and his own pock- et was interested. To ditch and thereby destroy business would have made the bullding of the twenty-foot deep ditoh an easy contract for Mr. McDonald. The dirt could have been thrown to one side of the street, on pavements and in door- ways of banks, business houses and office buildings, and street cars coul stop if the dirt piles got too hign. pea TY apera very es could seek ut Mr, Parsons thought differently, is plan is a most “eink shafts an Baa Se a one. ist he glrt, be ta 1e St. Paula Chureh and at Pine street. These sbafts are to be covered during the day. ‘Travel will not be fmpeded 18 and there will be no acoumur lation of dirt or stone. There will bo ho carts and tfucks loading from them aot) the dav'a rush Is over” During the Shay Santion tom the bavine: peice fal 4] in the'tunnel to the mouth of the shaft: |” Dirt Hotsted at Night, the dirt representing the day's labor “hilt berveady for holsling to the rest. aurtace and the moment dark Neva faile there, wilt be ‘wagons ‘there a maps. *O.fOf course, want the tunnel finished a8 soon ae {t can be done,” said Mr, Par- “but I don't want hurry at the ex- of the business interests of New I,won't have this hurry at and leaving ardly broad | greatly, IN BROADWAY: - MERCHANTS DELIGHTED| ‘Chief Engineer Parsons Insists that {BfoBons id explained, Some of the big Mc! > one with Shafts and Be Injured, them a second entrance thoroughfare. Ch (Rents on Forty-second street have to @ small percentage of what they were. PA? artim! formerly brought hat their owners are nov wanted wih a the doorway which cannot be In, which has been a ditch for ears and which promises to be one for three years more. Unhealth fases rises from this onen ditch whic! penetrate the whole neighbo: At tmes the water mains are cut and at other times the gas and electric Il conduits are broken, making the houses waterless and dark. iT. ‘Donald has shown what the ditching of a street means In the work done by him in Forty-second street. and the Broadway merchants want none of it. They have profited bv the Forty- second street example set before them. How Plan Will Work, The plan to sink shafts and carry the wings of the tunnel through It is fxemplified in the shaft sunk In Bo ing Green for the East River tunnel, Little has | was Les 2 ing on the tunnel. Its building has inconcenfenced no one, yet three hundred feet have been dug and wiready the bottom of East River has been plerced by the tube which le fast making its way toward Brooklyn, But you can't ditch a river,’ Mr. You must have 8] Welther can you ditch Broadway,” spas Mr. Parsons. ‘You must have Forty-second street has been torn w such a Jong time,” explained Mr. id, “because there are tracks under Forty-second street. ‘There Wi be only two under lower Broad In an interview to.day Mr. McDonald indicated that he was not’ willing to abide by Mr. Parsons's decision. “If Mr. Parsons Is right we will cheer- fully ‘go to work par his plan," th: ald. letermine what pl: Mid added smiling. is and the men ready to work, and the minute permission given wo will start In, T have attempted explain that my plan and the plan of the company was to bulld the tun- en known of how work for. r Logis See VON RS Y L \ ARTIST BIEDERMAN SHOWS HOW LOWER BROADWAY: WOULD LOOK WERE IT TOBE DITCHED FOR THE SUBWAY. ae mi mal Hy, ¥ t at 1 fel with as little inconvenience to the public as possible. What we wanted was the permission to open one side or both If necessary of the street dur- ing the night. We had hoped to have the openings planked over during the day when traffic was heavy. Difference of Opinion. “Between myself and Mr: Parsons there has been simply a difference of pplnica. That ts all. The tunnel is ing built for the convenience of glx million persons and its building must HOTEL EMPIRE TO BE TORN DOWN Which Dime Savings Bank, gause Incanvenience to, some, “though | 2 Venlence ag emuch as possible.» nees| Holds Mortgage, Will Sue to “understand that Mr. Parsons wantS us to have two shafts sunk—one at St. Paul's and one at Pine street We have the permission for the St. Paul's shaft, jt as yet we ven't permission for Sinking ‘the one at Pine street. | As understood him yesterday, he will de- cline to lysue the other. will is e to sink the Clear Title and Then Clear Land for Modern Hotel. Title to the hotel at the intersection TITLED GUEST HOTEL GUESTS ARE WAS EL WAITER) SCARED BY FR Greeted Effusively at Bar Har- bor Until it Was Learned He Had Served in Gerry House- hold and Hotel Ritz. that Floor. BAR HARBOR, Me. Sent 18—A]! Contrary to the usual order, @ fire Early Morning Blaze on Eighth) Floor of “Fireproof” Building | in Union Square Confined to! ree! nm Pi at St. Pai Grareb: and That A way I will insist that !t be done through lower Broadway." work js owners his olien' had faith is and were more Fnan tl Be victory In opposing the ditch. “There would have been to the tunnel had the stroet yA and traffic inter! i" ON tinued Mr, aBtes. “Where the shaft is Duried at Gt. Paul's the sidewalk Is broad and the consequence Is that it does hot cause any great Inconventence. The burying of another shaft at Pine ition street wou more in the way be- cause the, sidewalk ts not as broad. However, 7 49,not belleve that the mar- chan! raise great objection ihe burying of the second shaft. bo jong as ther tor ° eat, teal there Will no great ng fro eo pro} Swnets and merchants in lower rioad- IN MEMORY OF EMMET. Great Celebration Planed for To- morrow Night tor Irish Patriot, | League, with its twenty branches teat: | tered throughout New York City, actively at work completing it | ments of the ceutennial commemoration of the miartyrdom of Robert Emmet, which will be held at Carnegie Hall next Sunday evening, Sopt. 20. Hon. John BF. Finerty, of Chicago, and Charles R. Devlin, M. P. “for Gal- way city, will be the principal speak- Boone's. full orchestra will play pat- joule aire, have fered ied ae ota 3 ‘The vocal it incl lag Adele abate ata He of no Bt Rees Sapa rom ci ators ‘Orange ‘end’ Brook. m torn n-| Brush, who built the hotel, and then! handsome. his manners are polished. ‘The Municipe! Counell, United Irish! of Broadway and Columbus evenue and Sixty-third street is to be cleared by Utigation, and the bullding wili then be torn down to make way for a more the Dime Savings Bank, of Brooklya, which holds a mortgage on the pryperty, | will be the medium, The defendant in won 2) the action will be the estate of William | ‘ntroduced him, but he was picked up Nob! No! who has been dead since 1903. sold the land to Thomes H. the property reverted to Mr. Noble un- der foreclosure. He mortgaged tt for $450,000 and tr, 1895 sold it for $900,000 to former State Senator William Ceuld- | well, taldng in part payment the old Daily Mercury and the budiding it oo- cupied at No. 3 Perk Row. He thought the paper could be, made profitable run as @ Free Silver organ under the au- tborization of the National Democratic Committee, After running it for seven- teca months, at a loss of $00,000, he stopped publishing it. Senator Cavidwell, who, with his son- Snrlaw, Thomas Rogers, had charge‘ot the Jason Rogers estate, had trouble ! with’ the nitration, and to avoid ligation turned ever the Empire Hotel Sw, to the Rogora heirs. The ‘8 forectonure js purely technical, dn order to wipe out this equity, ee oad NEW SHIPS NEED GUNS, WASHINGTON, Sat. 19.—A report to the Navy Depart- Kress must riations for the un-@hops to meet the Gemand for naval vessela now’ on. the wave, einen SOCIALISTS IN A ROW, DRESDEN. Sept. 19.—Toward even- ing the Soolaliet Congress was the scene of violent altercation» between the deputies Interea sais Se eee ae pouailuse’ wore 4 great etir has been created by the Giscovery that one of the social lions of the season, who came under the guise of a titled foreigner, is no other than @ former servant in the Gerry household, New York, and @ one-time waiter in the Cafe Rits, in Paris. | Scclety is now seeking to learn who so quickly and universally that the Dlame cannot be fixed. He ts tall and in a “fire-proof” skyscraper to-day ald not destroy the whole building, but was confined to the floor where it originated. Tt was discovered at 6.45 o'clock by John McKeon, @ watchman on the elhth floor of the building at No.| &1 Union Square North, occupied by 8. | Cottle & Co., stlversmitha, MoKeon, with the janitor, Emmanuel | and bis apparent acauaintance with | Prominent persons both tn Kurope and | America made him a welcome guest jin many exclusive homes. | He was fond of music, and was often |seen with a Philadelphia widow, who |4s an excellent musician. It was even! |rumored that thelr case was not a/ mere summer flirtation, and there were not a few who privately envied her, | AU went well for woeks until the other afternoon he attended an afternoon re-| ception, He was talking gayly to a party of friends when a New York wo- man, who recently camo to Bar Harbor. entered the room, She recognized in him a former servant of the Gerry fam- and hurriedly called the e558 de. There were frantic conte until at lest the ex-servant was told hat he had been discovered. He left tite same day. | Some Vears ago o similar affair oc-| ocurred at Bar Harbor, when a Washing- ton girl was about to become engaged to an Italian barber. ——=>___ COY SHOT BY FRIEND, JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Sept. 19,—Clareney, O'Nell, aged thirteen years, was accl- tally @hot and inetantly killed py flurry Harsibermer, a companion, six- teen years of age. a DEAD MARINE BLAMED, WASHINGTON, Sept. 1%.—The report lof the board to investigate the alcohol Sais Gl Seva i Fred. tried to stop the blaze unaided. but it cot away from them. and two alarms were turned !n. The fire was! but two doors from the Everett House, at Seventeenth street and Fourth ave- nue and the guests there were aroused { STATE TORT r | IN-BROOKLYN FIRE} WIFE SCOLDED HIM { a Turn Verein Building in Atlantic| George Engert Wound Up His Avenue Gutted Early To-Day} Bibulous Birthday Celebration and Inmates Have Difficulty) with a Draught That Killed in Getting Out. Within an Hour. The dullding of the Brooklyn Turn Verein, at Nos. 91-93 Atlantig, avenue, was gutted by fire early to-day and six persons had @ narrow escape from death in the Names, The structure is almost an entire loss and the damage Is esti- mated at $20,000, ‘Dhe cause of the fire ts not known. It started on the third floor in the gymnasium. Three empoyees wero sleeping In a room adjoining, and when one of them awoke he sme led smoke. Going to the window he saw the reftec: tion of the fire in a window across the street. When the other men were aroused they found that escape by mean the stairway was cut off. They ¢: through the smoke to the roof and down the hatohway of the adJoining building. The fire had not yet been neen by persons in the street; and while one of the men ran to turn tn an alarm the other two ran into tho lower rooms to arouse Frederick Kramer, the man- his wife, deught e rooms where y were already filled with was with diMculty that they fought thelr way cut. None had time to drese, ani everything was fost in the fire. Thoy wore careq for by nelghbdors, When the fire department hrrived the flames tad made great headway and entire inside of the building was troyed. Smartine under his wife's reproof, George Engert, a carpenter who lived at No. 612 Bast Thirte carbolic aold early to-day, and died in Bellevue Hospital an hour later, The Dollce failed to notify the family of his death. and they were in ignorance when an Evening World reporter called several hours later, Engert made «ood wages as a car- enter, and with hia wite and thres dauehters had a comfortable home. Neighbors say he was seldom {dle and was sober. He was thrifty and had Managed to put aside some of his wares, Yesterday was jis birthday and he determined not to work. Inatead ne sought out a number of friends and pro- posed a celebration. In a cafe not far from jis home he and a number of his cronies played pinochle and dominoes until a tate hour. When Engert went home he fund taken more Nquor than was good for him and the neighbors heard his wife scolding him. A few minutes later they heard Mrs. Engert and t! sleet daughter scream, and when they ran in the man was writhing on the floor. An ambulance was called and Lngert was taken to Rellevue. He died in a few minutes after reaching the hospital, TURKS. BAKE EIGHTEEN CHILDREN IN AN. OVEN. This is the Declaration of Dr. Haupt of the School Commission. LONDON, Sept. 19.—"'The Turks burned eighteen children to death in an mn at Pisoder, near Armonsko, Sept. 12," wi.es the Dally Mall correspondent a: Monas- tir, whose expulalon tas not been en- forced as a result of the intervention of the British Ambassador at Constantl- nople. Other atrocities, which the correspon- dent says he thoroughly verified, are the massacre of 200 women and children at Jervan In revenge for a defeat at the hands of the insurgents; the mur- dering of fifty women and children re~ turning starved from the modntains to their devastated homes, and the de-, struction between Sept. 10 and 12 of four villages noir Krushevo by Bashi Ba- zouks. The correspondent adds that the massacre and mutilation of the inhabl- tants was done under the eyes of tue Kalmakan or administrator. The correspondent says that a reign of terror exists throughout Monastir. That suspected Christians vanish utterly and that sples abound on every hand. Nasir Pacha, the Turkish commander at Monastir, is reported to have de- clared to the consu!s tac by have had one Insurvection, It will be the last in this territory.” ry. Correspondents at, Constantin: that the Porte is ¢ shed with Bul- garian assurances that the mob/fizatio Sf the Bulgartin forves in only }aten vent rom ne Ut tate a YHdR Wha eesti nm le: B plan for the invasion of Basser Mou. Inguiries made, rey ing the massacr al toria tend to stiow that the num- ber of killed hus been: exagrerated. th treet, drank | FIRE STOPS CARS) ON ELEVEN LINES —— Passengers Forced to-Watr Miles When Big Power-House of Huckleberry Road Burns at | New Rochelle, WEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Gept. 19.0 Tire early towiay destroyed the Power-house of the New Roche! branch of the Huckleberry Bleetric Ratiway system on Leathers Hilj, en- talling a oss of mors than $100,000 aim? stalling hundreds of trolley-sars on eleven different fines, ‘The power-house generated eieetricity Gs the running of cars from Mount ‘ernon to New Rochelle, Pelham, Glen Is:and, Larchmont, White Platte and ‘Coopers Corners. Tt is delleved that the fire was caused by one of the large supply wires, aa the fire > rapidly that the git engi- ‘eers and firemen in the dollding had warely time to draw the fires under the boilers and escape. Chiet Engineer Bissert, who his Ife in ehutting off the ped «| 50% about his cont. containing $960, @ur- ing the excitement, and {t was burned, while car-cleaner Rufus Johnson tome ds clothing and $70, i In addition to the lose of the buttaing, two lane new dynemoe, several engines and five boilers were ruined. Chief Ross and the New Rochelle fire men tried bard to save the building, Gut the fire was fierce and rapld, When the blaze started many of the cars were making thelr last (ips, amd they were stalled in various garts of the city and along country roads, ao that motormen and conduotora had to sleep in them while passengers watked miles to thair homes. ‘The Huokl in eration. as New York power I that Ine, a | INJUNCTION STOPS SONG. Pro i Server Has Hard Time in | Circle Theatre. : Handing a small piece of paper, Miss Doris Wilson on the stage of oe Circle Theatre last nigat a server stopped the performance Miss Wilson waa singlog “Anoua.” , The song was written vy 4} Mee | Kinley, and Miss Wilson, fae has no right to sine The process server walked gown the aisic and banded the paper to ber over the foot Then the us fell pon him, leader fell off high chair where. hi wae directing che orvhestra pa geet : women, who at sight of the fi thought Twas a piatal aut ihe ad Wan ns to shoot the actress, ins In Mise Wilson must now tell wity ais ie singing the song without z There are some who have rh enough to ask why she sings it at ai Can You Cut Out ‘by the clamor of the fire apparatus, but they were kept from panic by ha boys going the rounds and assuring the guests that there wus no danger, | The floor abvve the fire is occupied by John Black, carpets, and the upper! floors by Everybody's Magazin ‘either | suffered loss. The Cottle loa was es-| timated at from $1,000 to $1.00. Cars on the Broadway limes were held up for a half hour. Car No. 2649, of the Columbus avenue line, was stalled at Eighteenth streot. It was jammed with | ee early morning passengers on thelr way! to work downtown. One of the blg linea of hose from Engine No, 16 burst near) the car and nearly every one of the passengers was drenched to the skin, ————— PALATIA CRIPPLED AT SEA. LONDON, Seot. 19-The British steamer North Point, Captain Rohert- from Philadelphia, passed -he Hambure-American Line steamer Pi latia. for Now orm, betel ‘ote ee as steam! x nue main shaft boing broken. pocadiaied cated ets BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED. nineteen years old. fell off a truck to-day a! ferson 8! : os Mahala make money and fame? 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