The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1903, Page 4

‘| 3 of the Imperial Hurls Work- (1 “men About, Killing One and ,PANIC AMONG GUESTS WHO RUSHED TO STREET. “Wreckage Blown Into the New * and Unoccupied Addition and _ None of the Patrons Was > Hurt. One chan was killed and three others seriously hurt in a terrific explosion on ~ the ninth floor of the Imperial Hotel this oe Esty ic among the hundreds of guests | sinithe place was barely averted, Ey 5 The explosion took piuce on the floor “intow the new nineteen-story addition, which has just been completed. fs 9 The odor of escaping gas on the tenth floor of the main building was \ 80 strong li morning that the men who fwere cutting the opening through had $0 work in relays. ) Henry Butt, the hotel electrician, was Bent up to locate the trouble. Shook Whole Building. _ Whether a lighted match or candle or @ spark from an electric light wire was the cause a terrible explosion, which ed to shake the entire structure to foundation, followed in a few mo ments after Butt began his work. None of the score of men at work there are ‘able to tell what did causo the oxplo- alon. eats ran in fright to the street and ‘were sent out hurriedly for the Police réserves and ambulances. he + Police found, when they were able | make thelr way to the floor, that Jam | Owens, o plasterer, of One Hunderd and © Twenty-pret street and hth avenues, | ‘had, been instantly kille His body - was cruehed almost be: cognition, Butt was uncons: Internally, — Anothe atreet, had his right leg broken and | may have internal injuries «John Lebretios, « laborer, of N One Hundred and Ninth si ea compound f right Jeg and other injurte ‘be fatal, Followed by Vire. The fire thar which may followed was put out wae blown out and we eatire Moor practically wreeked. ne new addi- Yon was not much It tm dolieved ti uk dn and that voen the ceilings Gf @he ninth floor aod the foundations of | the teoth. Pletes of detrix were juried alr chaft t wren the two # breaRing many windows aud adding to the pahie of eats, Who were hurry. dng out of the hotel, fearins thar whole edifice was wi out 10 collapse. explosion was 40 tit was hear et and Twenty. crow! fleeing from the hotel an awnl the sacond “floor of the Broadwo caug | adding 16 the excltement. It was pi % @ chambermaid, who had 1 frightened as much as the othe: who had gono through the hal Ung to quiet the guests and u that there was no ca “riovs alarm. Be calmly poured « pitcher of watur on the blare. puttccS ie out. bur drench- rowd which had gatn- Sho was ape had subsided i mind “that #everal ae plasterers end laborers hud tthe - ‘hey had! blown about ‘ eben, Nene wa Re id} Ws fs | whte| explosion. f met leak has been kno’ ‘out we she said vuld not 2 the trouble, ‘Tere were no takes | is used by the s: 1 electricians | were at work. je force of the explosion was un- into the new annex, and wall was blown into the unoc uple thus ting an even greater) out your brain of the Tend Saar vertigation fis out that he could not Ax the re- F tty, He sald that if he could iy the blame he would mak: an ar Senne oe ONE DEAD, FIVE INJURED. ‘Five Destroys Private sanitarium 4m Kansan City, | WANBAS CITY, Mo. Sep: | permon was burned to death and five Were injured in u fire to-day that de- ayed private sanitarium o Ralph, a two-story frame buntaing ‘souL rt of the city, dead: G. C. Carey, of Wichita, Injured: Mrs. Minnie Loar, nurse .C. Godson, housekeepe Patient. | Hannah injured will die, nes spread Bo quickly that t were forced to Jump from Pesta Windowr. Carey was guffo-|" ‘Two citizens joined the policeman, who drew his revolver, and the three over- powered the man.” At the police wtation ‘Ms room, ee Establishment by Intérnational President P, Br Ph the Internationa dent, weeks, out thia is the first re, # poNce think Dahner may kn: foe tHe of fae oth ta te of BLOWN TO DEATH ATA TEL Explosion of-Gas on Ninth Floor, > here an. opening was being cut, through $OSOSOOOSOS: layne a easily, Tho damage in all will amount) [¥ | to* several thousands of dollars, The} entire top of the main bulding, known} as the “tent” House, was cemolished. celling of the ninth tloor, dtrectly { | Jacl | E IN TYPE FOUNDRIES. ed Men Out in New York branch jn all the New rion Wore closed to-day 4 strike ordered yesterday Oe Rage eee Hee AUTOMATIC ELBCTAIC STOVE~ STRATS COOMMO BREAKFAST WHBN THE ALAA CLOCK GOBS OFF AT S/S AM. THIS ENABLES THE COOK TO _ SLEEP THK Jo mom, 3 THE COMMUTER NEEDS SOME TRAIN-CATCHING DEVICES LIKE THESE TO HELP HIM GET TO HIS CITY JOB IN TIME. 1bo29berssboonereor SS B CUREMENS APPARATUS = OVERTYRNING G80, WONG, BTC 78 ROUT mit ev on Aco IN THe eRNING OFFICE aor C10E FOR THE TRAIN ONES UP M15 NERVES FOR A STRENUOUS DAY AT THE OFFICE USING THe MaTIBURG 0 THE 70 G0 OUT To guvcnaon- €2T3 TAALETS+ MRSTATION. SS coy WASTER? | Iow, Justice Henry J, Bischoff, Jacob A. SoD shows 2] Cantor, Siate Nathantet. lls: inmre | Charles aerone 2 A. Glegerich, Teaiw 3 Van eene, Louls i. He Reus SS Times tice ‘Theodore I. Huseall, Gov es Hunt, i. J. Lavelle, of a a le »3 ‘K's C. Rey. Robert 8. egal fecath, Judie Jo- Se ‘ orman Ridder, Tate wad : el George 1. Rives, J F8OGDELEEE FOPEDORHIESOOEESE ‘PROMINENT: MEN HONOR EDUCATOR Remarkable Gathering at the In- stallation of John Huston Fin- ley as President of the College of the City of New York. ‘With all the form and ceremonies of An academic installation John Huston Finley wns to-day invested with the WOENSAD | rights and privileges that go with the 8000 Faaie7s 2 | title of tho President of the College of the City of New York. Every manner of men of mind was at Carnegie Hall, where the installation took place, to . givé a kindly word and gdvico to the new President. Some taiked of educa- tlon, others of state affairs, others of the growing youth, but in one thing they were all united—the fitness of the man for the pos'tion, @| It {x not often that so many distin- | sulshed men gather to do honor to an @ | individual. College president, statesmen $| an ex-President of the United States, 54 Cook purs vA WIS Lenen on SESS IHOPIEOHECESHOG OOD Inwyers, doctors of science, philosbphy and medtcine, masters of arts, soldiers, diplomats were present to speak and to Usten, The hall was decorated with flags. and the college colors. In the auditorlurr © |wers the friends of the students and tie 2 [student body Itself. Cleveland's Phrase Applauded. The ceremony began with a prayer by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, of Prince- ‘Then Edward Lauterbach, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, resented the seal of the college to the new President, and Adolph Werner spoke on behalf of the faculty. During his speech he used former Presiden: Cleveland's famous phrase, “innocuout desuetude.” Mr, Cloveland smiled, so did many others, until finally the recog niton of the phrase brought 4 round 0: applause from the assemBlage. Other addresses were delivered by J. Hamp- den and Kenneth Groesveck, the latter speaking for the students, the former © | for the alumni There was more speechmaking by President Hadley, of Yale; President Butler, of Columbia; Present & man, of Cornell; President Remse Johns Hopkins University; Grover Cleve- land, Chauncey M, Depew and G¢ Odell, z Among the guests seated on the plat- form were: A Remarkable Gathering. Ex-President Cleveland, Daniel $8, La- mont, Charles §. Fairchild, John G. Carlisie, Oscar Straus, Gen, Young, Gen. Chaffee, Gov. Odell, Mayor Seth Low, Chauncey M. Depew, John Bixe- Goon-aya On mIs WAY To EME STATION. ct WIRELESS OUT AIT 47 THE OPAICE FO WORK THE IL OG9G ON WIRIB, mg, Charles Ro Sk ate Suporintendent of Public In m1 Charles Dahner Boldly Attempts a Daylight Robbery in Long Island City, Hammering Fein- berg with a Pistol. joob Peimbers, a Jeweler, of No, 48 son avenue, Long Island City, came y losing his life to-day while de- fending his property against a thief Who: beat him into unconsclousness with i | the butt of a big revolver, 1 War captured after a tight wit iceman and two citizens, Feinberg was restored to consclousness after emisiderayie effort. He told t police © remarkable tale of the attempt at daylight robbery. He said that short. ifier 10 o'clock his assailant, who Was fasdionably clad, entered his store, his on Long Island City's busiest street, a block from the Borough Hall, and asked: at engagement ting. Feinberg placed a tray containing three ¢ mond rings on the show case, Then he came from behind the counter to close the door which the prospective customer hid left open, Confronted with Pistol. “Hold up your hands or t will blow vald the mau. Fein- berg’s hands went up. “Now open the safe!” commanded the rtranger, holding a pistol to Feinberg's Ace. “Take all (he jewelry in sight if you will," sald Feinberg, “but 1 won't open the safe. ‘Take ft and get out.” he highwayman advanced Closer to ‘ender: Upen that safe,’ he cried, but Feln- berg grappled with htm Instead. Round and reund the shop the pair fought like mad men, Feinberg ushny hie fists and the robber striking with revolver, afraid to shoot lest the | alarm pedestrians on the tree: ‘They backed into a showcase and fell holt Feinberg, Was on. the bottom, hd 4s the stranger regained nie fect s dealt the jeweller a terrift fell in a hep to the floor, | His Escape Shut Of. robber, made for the back door, had Attracted Policeman James McGill Whe, the robber on the sidewalk. ” shop, drew swore he would shoot the first to enter, he gaid that he wae Charles Dahner, atreet, Philadelphia, mer. Philadelphia, but that he lived at pres: Mat No, 417 Weet Iorty-ninth atroe Manhea B for photogravht Today's hold Up was the fourch in| oursions run there and getting mactr will loc: er t about! Long Island Clty within the past Chive |there becwuse no marriage Hoense is Cc fee rea sree, patice ic blow on (he temple with the revolver. Fenbers but it wax locked. He started to the front, but the fall of the broken glass] perse them, Shote from tho crowd the tht darted bac! wo th Min Wevolver again: and] kilied, ‘the Armenians carried’ off twentyetwo years old, of No, {66 Ray don't live In, Phila ia now,” pt, Cooney. "I have seen you at tack Many Umes this sum- Dahner then sald that he was born in He was went to the Brooklyn detectives |voung people have been going to New THIEF KNOCKS QUT PRESIDENT'S PET HER HAIR TORN OUT [TWO MEN BURIED |. JEWELER WN STORE JOSIAH ON VIEW, BY A BIG MACHINE Badger Played with by the Roosevelt Children Evicts the White Raccoon Dog at Bronx Zoological Gardens. There is conswlerable I feeling in the Bronx "Zoo" to-day, and all of It caused by the advent of Josiah, the badger which Prestdont Roosevelt pre- sented to the city when he left Oyster Bay for Washington. The white raccoon dog was coldly thrudt out of his cage near the yard this morning in order that Josiah might be displayed as conspicuously as pousible. The Morga t was evloted from he home to make way for the raccoon dug, and the European badger, the only other badger in the gardens, wae told (oRake « back seat for the new arrive! Al plate nearing Joslah's name and IMstory Is lo be put upon his cage. Jor had been a pet in the Roosevelt family 4bout six months. “He was given to the President by a little girl at Bharon Springs. Kan.. wnen Mr, Roose- Vell stopped Mhere oy ius tour through the Wert, At that time the badger Was only a few weeks old. The President had just finished delivering a speech from ‘the rear platform of a car when umd ape the little girl raised (he badger up wo} ‘ROCKEFELLERS T0 BRAVE WOODSMEN Millionaire Will Go with His Family to Adirondacks Pre- serve to Show that He Does Not Fear His Enemies. him ina basket He was taken to the White House after the Hresident returned from. the West, und vas then brought on to Oyater Bay, All the Roosevelt children grow to bé very fond of Josiah, and the President himself had loty of fun. with him during the vacation. The badger grew fast during the summer and had begun to show Bi at of being ugly, and President hewitated about letting his children play with It any longer” te haan't told them. though. that the title whership has teen transferred ine conditlonally to the “Zoo. —— ARMENIANS FIGHT COSSACKS, TIFLIB, Russian Transcaucasia, sep: %,—The enforced transfer of the Are menian Church property at Shushy to the Russian authorities brought on conflict. Armenians front of the stoned the trom balconies and roots ya vouley from the Cossack ewacks and one rioter were the darkoess & number of wounded, /” Himilar Moting occurred recently Near Bllmabethpol, and at Baku and Kars. — TRADING STAMPS FOR BRIDES WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 2).—Squire Burnett, of Nanticoke, has offered trad. Ing stamps to the amount of every mar- rlago fee contrasted before’him, He has found to bis sorrow that lately many. York State on the numerous railroad Delleven it will be an Incentive to Yawn town it he omens taatg ow ere tr with which they, may pet hag % | Tlizabeth Murray Caught in the |One Probably Fatally Injured Belting of a Button Factory and She Was Whirled Around in a Wheel. factory at No, 1153 nearly sealped to-day in the belting of the ma- woman was working in an of the factory when she too near the was unusual) whirled around Her screnins alarmed other employees struc: Uon; Isidor Straus, Spencer Trask, Judge J erally Col. Albert 1, Mills it of the West Point Mill- y; Henrich Conried, Tromain, Byerett 2. Hampden Dougherty M. Davis, award Charles ard and Ee . Iogers, the Hoard of tion, President Roosevelt sent a letter. | Mr. Cleveland on Eduention. over Cleveland waiked to the uge he was ri ved with Vernon the applause. His was the “Democ- racy of Education, 4 part he sali tion which does not man who works in the While at Work in a Ditch Six- | treaches on a level with the sou of tie magic ne te not e right education, Eve human being should be able to teen Feet Deep and the Other | pirticinnsu'in enw advantages of an ea cation rhished by the cl or the i i State, and any educ ich its Slightly Bruised. owner hides with a’napkin or hugs to his breast is a monace to the welfare of thig nation He gaa Tey. b ve 4" “Such educations are not to be found Two laborers wore nearly killed to-! in ‘gis Institution. I myself have been day Dy the eaving-in of an excavation | a resident of this great city, and | know they were working in Hast] (hat whe. n steps out of the ‘The me = Michael | Collese y of New York he is The men were Michael] aauipped for. the broad duties. of lite. Ambrosia, of No, 4 Essex street, and) fis mind ix democratic if it follows the Metro Anglaneo, of Pacific street and] teachings of his college, and he $s Stone avenuc | trained for the higher duties of an hon- Both were takon to Bradford treat | “Aner tue cormonies consequent upon Hospital, where it was said that Am-| eno Installation of President Kinley were b: ‘s injuries were protably fatal. | completed the second part of the day ra clans SOMBRE TTY programme was carried out. The laying Anglaneo was not hurt #o seriously, | Orta eornerstone of the new bullding The two men were working in an/ Or ie Goltge of the Clay of Now bak | elghteen-foot ditch, laying a s@wer.| took place during the late afternoon, hed made perhaps revolutions around a big wheel. dropped to the floor at the stopping of the machinery. She wax removed to St iMeal condition. air remains on her head and her scalp Was nearly torn from her skull, Mary's Hos- 1 to The Evening World.) PLAINS, N. ¥,, Sept. 2.—It was reported at Rockwood Hall, the bis country estate of Willlam Rockefeller a Beardorough on the Hudson, to-day tha Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Rockefeller, Mi William G. Rockefeller, Mis Hthel Rockefelier and other members 0 the Rockefeller famlly will leave early next week, possibly Oct. 6, for the Rock vfetler preserve in the Adirondacks. special train a night and will arr Lake next morning Mr, Rockefeller and hia pariy will gc to tne Adirondacks simply <o prove that they do mot fear tha woodsmen, @ grievance ure landowner, against the milli The shootlag of Milllonatre Dexter has not frightened Mr, Rockefeller tn thy least, and ne Intends to spend two weeks hunting on his ten game preserves during October, have a conion o a tect hasefamily whith thoveand acres 0, “js aWwats. when without warning the sides caved| Gov. Odell and some of the prominent, tn. Ambrosia wa completely. buried | SUucntors present delivered addresses. from sight, while Angianeo's head was a the only portion of his body iat was free. His screams attracted the atten- tlon of a passerby, who notified the po- lice, but whey were unable to extricate the men on account of the dangerous condition of the sides of the hole. Firemen from Hook and Ladder Com- pany No. 37, in New Jersey avenue, were! | then called. Capt. McGregor und his i men managed to put a life belt around Anglaneo's shoulders and stopped his Henry Sicgel, Acquitted Last! sinking further; but as fast as the fire- men dug away the dirt over the other! Week of Alleged Burglary, Is man {t slumped in from the top, mak- ing thelr work not only move dimeutt,| Found to Have Served Six, but dangerour. Ambrosia's head was uncovered, how-| Months in Penitentiary. ever, after nearly a half hour's labor, He was unconscious. It was more than five hours later when the two men were fully released, Whiskey and coffee were administered to them by ambulance sur- geons, who with the firemen rieked their own lives to save the imprisoned men, George Lunz, the contracto® of No. 18 Alabama avenue, was arrested, charged with having allowed the shoring of the ditch to be done carelessly, Henry Seige! was tried before Judze Newburger in General Sessions lastj week on a chargo of burglary. He! established such good character that he was acquitted. A few seconds after the jury had filed their verdict Assistant District-Attornoy Nott ascertained that Selgel had served | six months in the Penitentiary for | Be = burglary, although he had sworn that he STUDENTS ANGER STRIKERS, | haa nover been convicied, “It's too late now," ejaculated the MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 2.—The first} Assistant District-Attorney as he saw hreat of the striking millers was made | Seige! leave court, "the jury has ac-! esterday when J. M. Finley, President| quitted him.” | £ the Mill Employees’ Union, sald that] Mr. Nott, In a conversation witt Dis- he labor unions would go to the next|trict-Attorney Jerome, expreseed his ession of the Legislature and prevent | chagrin at Soigel's acquital, he passage of all Vills providing for| “Do you think fe was guilty?" Mr. ppropriations for the State University | Jerome asket his assistant, f the strike-bredking students were not| “I certainly do," replied Mr, Nott, “he atied out. wouldn't have cacaped if he hagn't de- | President Northrup, of the University. | 24 Maenin wag a material tesue, eplied that the faculty has no right to] Mr, Nott anniled for a warrant, for | nterfere with students who are at work | Gc}el's acroat ww th, charge of perjury. ; the Sprke te nanerabic, elit was arrsated thin morning of the | (as long @ vp) rable, erly charge and is again’ in” the ‘The students continue to work in the me, | Alig. ore. malls Have begun operations I with mons ‘(oo barrelé of flour were ground yese| MRS, DAVIS IMPROVES, To Mr the. strik ve been orderly, havoc even. helped the 6 Bike toxicated men and unrul way ao i he fi BUFFALO, Sept. %—It was reported at the Castle’ Inn to-day that Jet. ferson Daviz hed pansed a restful night ssekT >: tt NN ere aed ne 5 el “, ne, 44 NEW. PRESIDENT OF CITY COLLEGE INSTALLED. T0-DAY, President Crty College. | MOTHER GOES TO PRISON. SLEUTHS CAPTURE TWO FLAT THIEVES, Burglars Had Just Come from) Committing a Robbery on | Twenty-first Street and Were | Caught with the Goods. a saleswoman in New York City, taken from Mr, asked permission c parents In New Central Office Detective Keog) making the rounds of vesterday afternoon in sear YOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Doctors recommend walk- jing as the ideal exercise, Good walking peeds good wenty-third str Keogh says the men carried bune containing clothing Kelly admitted were tt daylight burglar: West Twenty-first s Just one shoe that will al- ways ensure good walking — the “Coward.” \ The shoe planned on the man foot lines, The shoe to fit all feet. upled by Patrick Isery jiea tad been entered by means of false keys and plundere suits of clothes, zor, pair of gold slee coat and some smaller article: nder was found in the p' the prisoner and Kelly stolen overcoat. was wearing hei SOLD NOWHERE ELSE, ‘JAMES S. COWARD, 268-274 Greenwich St., near Warren St.,N.¥” Mail Orders Filled, SEND FOR CATALOGUE, morning before Magistrate Pool In the waived examinatio! each for trial B.Altmandéo. are showIng in their MEN’S FORNISHING DEPARTMENT, HIGH-CLASS MATERIALS FOR NECKWEAR, MADE TO ORDER; Colored and Dress Shirts, Pajamas, Underwear, Hoslery, this department, ments of Men’s House Steamer Rugs and Carriage Robes. B.Altmanéo. continue, to-morrow (Wednesday). their WOMEN’S KID GLOVES, $1.00 per pair, in Black, White and colors, regular price $1,580, at NOTICE, commencing THURSDAY, Octo- ber ist, and until further notice, store will be open, as heretofore, until SIX P.M. Tingteeuth Street ey anicre hen feet)