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

By i ef a _ LEAS FROM CA 8 7 AOBBER OF MAILS Daring Escape of A. E. Bell, Who Stole Letters and Forged Checks While Posing as a So- ciety Man. MAKES THE DETECTIVES THINK HE IS VERY ILL. He Was Known as F. H. Crosby at Asbury Park, Where He Called a Pretty Woman His Wife. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19.—A. E. Bell, Oontessed matl-poucn tobper, check forger to the amount of about $100,000, who with a handsome young woman from Kansas City who sald she was his wife and who {s accused of having as- sted him in his robberies while they were playing the part of rich society folk at Asbury Park and Long Branch last summer. escaped from a Pullman car near here to-day, While in the care of two detectives who were bringing him on from Denver where he was arrested, Bell got into the good graces of his captors by his emooth tongue. He told them all sorts of interesting stories of his past life, of his systems of robbery, of his many escapes from the golice and he fascin- ated them. So fascinated were they that In a measure they relaxed their vigance. They thought him next to a dead man at any rate. He had been dy- ing of consumption, supposedly in the hospital ut Denver, and in strength and endurance was no match for a lit- Ue child. Boll is as clever an actor as he ts forger and robuer. He was very ‘weak, 80 weak apparently that one of the de- tectives had assist him when he walked, “I will never live to stand trial,” said to them In the hospital in Denver, Leaped from the Traln, The Actestives thought nothing of | Rell’s movements when he lef them an started for the wasb-room in the further end of the car. He walked Ike a man Who could barely put on foot after the other. He locked himself fa the room and stayed ‘there, so the detectives thought. for too 1 a time. They thought thelr agreesble prisoner had fainted from weakness, They Investi- ated. ‘The door was forced and an open window told the story. Bell had extped. He 1s s.pposed to have leaped from the train while it was running very fast. No trace of, him can be found, It Is belteved that’ I made food his escape this time, as he has done before when the police net seemed closed in upon ht Bell had many at Asbury Park hi & Fr also been known He was known He H, H. Cros) as Charles Crawford. ‘The i Woman who has deen his companion during his bold operations and whose beauty help: him gain admission to most e elusive and refined etn: of A Park, 6 Eula Carolyn Barnes, daughter of a prominent man, Through her inthnacy with the rich, Bell or Crawford became acqieinted with the bankers and brokers. He also made a study of the mall train. He represented that he and his wife were often abroad and that his connections with brokers in Wall stieec made it necessary for him to leave Asbury Park on various opcasions. It was when he left there that the mall pouches were stolen, Lt is #aid, and he admits jt in his confession, that he dressed 4@ mail clerk to commit these robberies, and had no difficulty carryiig away quantities of mall. it is ebarged by the pollce that te pretty woman who Was entertaining so lav dshly wag the expert wio used the pen when checks came in the stolen pouches. They have not the evidence on which to hold hem, but this charge {a supported dy the Pinkerton mon whe were instru- mental in running down tne forger, Thought to Be Dying. When Bel} was arrested in Denver he appeared to be dying. The hospital physteans held out no hope for hig re: Zovery and sald that they doubted if he Would ever stand the trip to Pennsyl- Vania, where extradition papers were obtained for him, Bell played hls carda with the same wravaco that has marked his life of crime. He laughed at the thought of death and managed to vain suilicient Strength to prove to the doctors that he could stand the trip, is, escape convinces the detectives that he was felgning and that he ts trol and active, ny one save an ac- {lve man would have been killed by the fall from the flying sleeper, ‘The police In every city in the ‘Rast have been asked to look out for the escaped forger and tobber, ‘The fact thac in wife or the waman who posed as his wife was not held a prisoner in Denver convinces the police here that the escape was planned and that he joined her after his leap trom the train, FN dnoueke that she awaited him, ‘After Beit Was told by the doctors that he was dying it was discoverea that he had $800 on deposit In a Denver ban- ‘The woman hnd already secured $500 ball for her appearance, and It is Said that the couple were supplied with lenty of money. Mrs, Bell left Denver immediately after her release. She is helleved to have communicated with her husband through a third party. CITS STILL NEED $40,000. EE R. Fulton Catting Says the Money Should Be Sent Promptly. R. Fulton Cutting to-day said the {Cfunds of the Citizens’ Union are still 940,000 short “Among the encouraging signs of the time,” sald Mr. Cutting, “ls one that gives me special gratification, and that the fact that Tammany Hall is mak- ing an involuntary tribute to the effec- ‘thveness of the Citizens’ Union cam- paiyn work, It should serve to further fxsure the public that we are spending ‘our campaign contributions to great ad- wantage and should'help us to raise the large dum, approximately $40,000, that fwe necd to carry out, our plgas, We must have this money and should haye it promptly. “The registration of the last two days has relieved our anxiety, I am con- ‘tinvally rece! from our dt ving ‘trict leaders of the falling off of tu “an the! atrongset iFlots, while ia t «thy remietration ‘amman: to. jagalast her by Detec A. E. STARVING, LEAVES “GABE IN CEMETERY Mrs. Ellen Brown in Court Ad- mits Abandoning Her Six- Weeks-Old Child on the Su- perintendent’s Piazza. Mrs. Ellen Brown, the divorced wife Stevens ani widow of Osear Brown, who abandoned fier six- weeks-old bady In the rural cemetery on Oct, 13 beeauee she was homeless and starving, was arraigned before Judge Stagord to-day at White Plains and re- manted back t> the County Jail to awalt fi r examination The ehild was found on the plasza of, the residence of Willlam Shampnols, the Superintendent of the cemetery. The dave was cleanly dresaed and 1 found was wrapped up in a heavy black shawl and feeding fron a boitle of milk. Tae infant. was taken to the County Almzhoise at Eaat View. ‘The police in Mount Vernon, New Rockelle and Yonkers, ever since the bande nt of the child, tried to find the mother, Detective Fee located her at the f of George W. Smith, ia Armonk, near the Connecticut Ine, When accused the woman at first denied she had abandoned the child, and when presented with the evidence ve Fee, she broke down ani admitted she had abandoned the child at the cemeter: Mrs. Brown was taken in a closed carriage to police headquarters, With was her three-year-old child Lillian, She crested a scene when she was ar- raigned before’ Police Justice Stafford and was td that she would have go to jail, and that her lttle girl would be committed to the Westchester tem- porary home. She was allowed to gu to the home with the ch.ld In a carriage accégnpan.et by an officer, who later took the woman to the county jail, Mrs, Brown told the following stor$: Sald She Was Starving. “LT was driven to the act by starva- tion and. desperacion. Last Sunday f Went lo New York to try and put my babe jn a ‘home, but no place would accept her. 1 aixo tr.ed to put It in a nome in Mount Vernon, where 1 was born and brought up. “1 tried in’ New Rochelle. Ite Plains and Pleasagtville to get some one to care for my babe, but no one would take It, Then I sat down to reat at the cemetery and. half crazed with hunger and desperate, I left it at the Superintendent's residence and with my other child In my arms walked five miles to the home of Mr, Smith, who took me in.” Firat Husband Killed Hiniself. | Mrs, Brown isan attractive woman of thirty years, Scme three years ago she married Oscar Brown, a farmer, of Armonk, Brown 1s supposed to have committed suleide by shooting ‘himself at his home with a revolver, Mrs. Brown a ‘few years later married Farmer George W. Smith, the man who took her in the night she abandoned her baby, He obtained a divorce on the ground of Incompatibility of temper. e AGAINST WHITAKER WRIGHT. London Grand Jury Advised by Conrt to Indict the Promoter. LONDON, Oct. 19.—The’ Recorder, in charging the Grand Jury at the Old Bailey to-day, advised finding a true bill against Whitaker Wright, the company promoter, who was extradited from New York July 29 to anawer charges grow- {ng out of the fullure of the London and Glgbe Finance Corporation. Limited. Commenting on the “noble directo- rate.” including the late rquis of Duf- ferin, eto., associated with Wright, the Recorder said he hoped the facts which had been disclosed would serve an a solemn wa.ning to persons of high po- altions against lending thelr names eto Commercial enterprises of which they had no. prastical knowledge and i which they became the prey of wicked men, who. by means of thelr names, vic~ timized the public,”” —_———__— SAYS DOCTOR ROBBED HER. Dr. John M. Meares, who formerly lived at the Savoy Hotel, was arraigned pefore Jydge Warren W? Foster, in General Sessions, to-day on an indict- ment alleging grand larceny, Dr. Meares was arrested tn Philadel- phia by Detective-Sergt. Wakefield on the complaint of Mrs. Alice W. Smith, ot the Hotel Endicott, who all that Dr, Menres called on ‘her mal it. 12, . Smith's maid in an) aMdavit made she SSN eee office 5: “44 ea) Meares take a Blan Me 44 from a& iwuols Mrs. n in put it-on his finger, vaiued at $3 to} ~ (HE WORLD BEL L, KNOWN AS CRAWFORD AN. 'D CROSBY, MAIL ROBBER, WHO LEAPED FROM TRAIN, AND CAROLYN BARNES, WHO POSED AS HIS WIFE. Scant Oa - MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1903. FLOPING GIRL ~ FOULS HER FATHER | Alexander E, Clausen Arrives at MURDER OF BABY MYSTIFIES POLICE ——oo |Mutiiation of Infant’s Sody Found on Tenement Stairs Shows Attempt Was Made to Twist Off Its Head. The body of a child, the head of which had been partially hacked off with a hatchet or cleaver, after an attempt to twist the head off had fatled, was found to-day on the bottom step of the s on the firat floor of the tenement at 1:9 Second street. It was Ia such a posl- | tion that a perfon descending the derk stalrs would have stepped on ft. ‘The infant apparently was on days old when It was killed. ‘The body was nude and wrapped Ja a newspa dt was found by Mrs. Mary, Reischow, .the housekeeper of the tenement, while sweeping out the hall, She called a po MceMan and it was taken to the East Fifth street station, “Whoever killed this child," sald Sergt. | McNaught, “first tried to wring its head | off like they would that of a chicken. Failing in that—and ft must have been a Weak person—the heavy blade wi iysed. Tt may have been a hatchet, af cleaver or a heavy Butcher knife, Anv- way, the cords, muscles and fleshy past, are hacked and severed and the bones bruised, a fow “We making a careful inquiry in that loca L ar we have little vuluable my mind the jwork ts that of a although dt |may turn out different! | According to Mra, Reischow the body {wos placed there after 8 o'clock this, morning, as at that time she came down the stairs and it Was not there then, “TWO YOUNG GIRLS AUN DOWN BY CA Turned a Corner Swift No Lights and Boré Down Upon Them Before They Had a Chance to Escap’ Seveh-vear-old Minitie Bertch, of No 405 West Fifty-third street, and her lit- tle playmate, Ida Rupprecht, who lives in the same house, are dying to-day as the result of the heedloss driving of Cabman Andrew Elilott, of No, 435 Weat Fifty-second street, last night. The two girls, who were playing in the street in front of their home, were run down and terribly injured by Elliott's came upon them without warning. Minnte Is seven and Ida ts five, Min- nie’s frail body was broken and bruised by the hoofs of the cab ‘horse, the shoe of the horse shattering her breast and puncturing her lung. When she recov- ered consciousness to-day her first thought was for her little playmate, gnéd sho murmured in a. pitiful ttle Whisper, “How: is Ida?” ‘Then the pain in ‘her chest gripped her and she dropped into the sleep of utter ex- ustion, from which the doctors say sho will never rouse. The younger child, who’ escaped the hoofs of the cab horse, but whose leas were run over and crushed by the wheels of the cab, was also In a dying egndition, though’ the physicians who ¢ attending her say that she may. Ive If she can withstand an operation, fron ia the only hope of saving her @. The parents of both children declare that the cabman was wholly to blame for the accident, They say there were po Ughts on his cab, and when the black vebicle swept around the corner into the dark street the children, though yy could hear the clatter of the horse's ao could not make out the cab or a in time its direction, The cabman OLD LION KEEPER ENDS LIFE BY GAS Friends Believe that Long Asso- ciation with Various Kinds of | Wild Animals Had Turned the, Head of John Bloch. John Bloch, fifty-seven years old, for years a keever of varlous k' the Bronx in his room at the many of animals {found dead to-day | Entrance Hotel, opposite the park. pouring from a | gas Jat, and both window and transom Deadly were ght. chs in Jy closed, tr: For the past few fearod hia presence, fumes were Zoo, js believe ho was victim of that terror that often enters | the minds of men who have to do with ‘wild animals for long periods of time. been weeks he had keeper of the Hon house. After the closing your of the antelope house yesterday Bloch left jhis place | wanna and Western, on the Jétsey side with the Hons to see if he could not get) “Stop them he crigi ougkide the|!nto the water. His crushed body was ane uciosure qmang the ae\elonss: closed gute. “They are eloping, they] ken out later, One man was at work ate Iaton, railing at the keeper man, woman and child he met he ry. At the hote where he liv | acting in a pecullar manner, and once or twice some of his ecerpantons have Lately he was’ the veal Station Too Late to Prevent His Daughter and Sweetheart from Starting for Buffalo. Inside the gates, ensconced In a Pull- man car of the Delaware Lackawanna train bound for Buffalo last night, were two young persons congratnlating them- selves that go far their elopement was moving without a hitch Outside wax the trate fathor of the girl, Alexander E, Clausen, a wealthy hardware deater of No. 414 Central ave- nue, Brooklyn, beating against the gate and shouting to the trainmeh nut to al- low the train to leave the depot. The bell for starting had rung and the @ate was closed just as Mr. Clausen Jhad drivep up to the depst. He had pursued his daughter Alida, who was then eloping with Walter H, Scott, a élerk in Mr, Clausen's store in. Wil- Hamsburg, all the way from his home. Baffled at the moment when be thought he was about to overtage the couple, Mr, Clausen spent his anger in tm- potent shouting, even after the trath was speeding on Its way. Mr, Clausen was angered beyond measure at the action of his daughter in leaving her home to rai away with the young clerk, Hayling a suspicion that all was not well last aight, he followed the couple from Brooklyn to tho station of tie Delaware, Lacka- 3 the and to every }are going to Buffalo. My daughter ts d if old his inn sto 1 to in that frain, Sfop them!" When quieted down Mr. Clausen sald he was very much averse to the mar riage of his duughter with Scott, who Phygician sald to-4ay | waw a young, ny pecunious clark In hie the body whe found that he had]own ottice. He also jd that the «int dead several hours. In Bloch's| was engaged to a wealthy man, one of as a single gas pipe with A his friends, and she vught to marry ending. One of the spréad tubes was] iitn. 1 for heyting purposes. This WAS] Mir. Clausen returned to his home ted, but the other was turned onforestfallen. Happy over the parental Un etiam ia charried gran, bub ald nob Lice ts RON TORe leimmeree ee och Was a 4 ork ou . live with his family, pee cunt aeeda tres JOurie rato But DRANK ACID, FELL {POLI IN HUSBAND'S ARMS CEMAN SAVES DROWNING BOY Mrs. Mary Allen, Despondent; John B. Goldhammer, in Full Uni- Over the Death of Her Young- est Child, Swallowed Poison and Died Before Aid Arrived. Mrs. Mary Allen, thirty-one years old, N73 ‘Third avenue, of N the Bronx, form, Plunges Into Pelham Bay and Rescues Robert Campbell as He Was Sinking. Mounted Poffteman John B, Gold- mmer risked his life to-day in res- cominitted suicide to-day at her home|cuing from drowning Robert Campbell, by drinking carvollc acid. Three months | geyenteen years old, of the Pelham Ray ago the youngest of Mrs, Allen's five] potel, where he is studying to be ca ohildren she a room, while led, her his coat to go out. (ng done. husband, but before It arrived she was dead. SUICIDE OF NOTED WRITER. eld, Author of Rare Ab ity, Kills Himself in Sanitarium, 8, Canfield, author and newspaper man, committed sulclde last night at the West Chicago Sanitarium by cutting his throat with a razor while temporarily H. 8. Ca CHICAG had been Thursday, Mr. country, brillant, pointed and vigorous, He also] death beln wrote several volumes of fiction, scenes being usually laid in the Sopth- f west, He Brann, many abc M ilies Riad sabato as Be 0, Oct. taken wai 19, to —H, the Insane. sanitartum & great admirer the famous author of “Teonoclast,”” with whom he worked years, Canfleld wns one of tho dest ee known wrfters of short stories in the| sidewalk tm frout o Hig work was exceptiona) sae) Bare the] at Since the child's death | actor. Ween very despondent. The woman took the acid in her bed- who had cAb, which, dashing around the corner,}come home to dinner, was putting on She came stagger- into the dining-room and, falling into his arms, told him what she had He summoned an ambulance, “| Young Campbell was fishing on the Pelham Bay bridge, In his excitement at getting a bite he fell into the water. Goldhammer, who was riding near the bridge, heard the boy's cries, and, with out removing aay of his clothing or taking off his heavy riding boots, jump- ad into the wiser, 4 strong current was carrying the boy out {nto midstream and it was only by an heroic effort that the policeman ot to him. ‘The boy seized hia Kerer around the throat and was dr. @.ng him down with him when (wo fishermen in @ boat came to thelr na sistance and Kot both men out safely, —__ IDENTIFIED FATHER’S BODY. ead Man Who Starved to Death Was Thomas Tiaght The body of the man found on the saloon at No, zy Jy{ Broome street, yesterday, the cauge of ig starvation, was identitied the Bellevue Morgue by William Tischler, of No. 7 Avenue B, as being that of his father, Thoms, Te son said he had not seen his father for a tong time and beli¢ved he had become Strpented. The son will sake charge of body, He {nara to bec NINE HURLED FROM | BRIDGE T0 DEATH Traveller Crane on Structure Falls and Carries Down a Section on Which the Victims Were Employed. FIVE OTHERS BADLY HURT. Accident Takes Place on the New Span Across the Monongahela River, Which Ic Lelng Construct- ed for the Wabash Railroad. . (Special to The Evening World.) teburg, Pa, Oct. 19.—Nin teen recovered from by the collapse of a travel t the Pittsburg end of the new 9 over the Monongahela; Two men are missing and hers have been dadly !n. Work on the bridge has been ruse, | and the e! © swarmed with men at | ope operations to-day, The Pi have caused traveller crane was at the completed end | of the britze, oxtending over the fa'se | work for n that was being | built up to support the: steel and tron work, * The crane was swung around to the completed structure and loaded with an enormous mass of beams. girders and frames to be lowered to the false work Just as the great welght reached a position over the river and as the sig- nal wan given to lower away, the sv ports at the base of the crane parted and crane, load, platform and motive pow weighing hundreds of tons. | dropped onto the false work, carrying {t all {nto the river. Crushed by the Enormous Ma It {s not known how many men were | at work on the section in which the Steel was to be deposited. There were at jeast ten men on the crane and all! of them went down with the wreckage. Those who were directiy under the load of steel were crushed beyond recog- nition, Alongside the falee work was a barge loaded with steel, on which a number of men were working. Those who hap- pened to be on the end of the barge furthest from the orane escaped by Jumping into the Aver, although It ts feared that one or two were drowned. The barge went to the bottom. The United States snagboat B. A. Woodruff was near the bridge and was Tun up to Assist In the work of rescue. The crew of this boat recovered four bodies from the river. One poor fef- low. with his legs and body crushed, had managed to keap afloat in the water, but be died before the boat could be got to shore. Story of an Onlooker. John McTighe. a cousin of the Super- Intendent of Police, who is a_black- smith's helper employed at the city ma- chine shop, happened to’be dn the M nongahglt wharf watching the men at work when the accident occurred. Me- Tighe, in mivng a description of the ac- eldent, sald: “The mics were preparing to ram In one of the pins on the bridge when the acciient took place. Before I knew What had happened I saw the entire top of the ‘traveler’ collapse and the next moment It was falling through the «ir. {t wns a térribe sight. The mea turned over and over .as they fell and their bodles looked like so many files, One of the men who fell from the top of the structure alizhted on his head on the barge and reboundad several feet, falling somos Ustance atiove the barge, having hold of 6x6 of the ropes which was used in holgting. Te mmged to escape ahd + him about the place tater.” ‘Two bodtes are at the mormue uniden- tifled ani one of them Ig thought to be William Kempfon, of New York, 4 card numbered 2.031 was found tn his pocket. Tt bore the name of Kempton as a mémber of Local No, 2, United House- {ths and Bridgemen’s Association of New York. Death was due to concug- ston of the bral TWO KLLED AT GRADE CROSSING Father and Son Met Death at Spot Where Many Other Lives| Have Been Lost During the Year. Arrangements were made to-day for the funerals of William Barnett an@ his son John, wealthy contractors of Winfield, L. I, who were killed by a Long Island Railroad train, which struck thelr buggy at the Maurice ave- nue cfossing. Gus Schroeder, a son-in- law of the elder Barnett, escaped death by jumping. ‘The three men were on thelr way home when the accident occurred, They were chatting end laughing and did not notice the train until It whirled around the curve and was almost upon them. | ‘The oldest man yelled to his gon) and son-in-law to Jump and the latter | ‘obeyed in time. The engine struck the | bugey and the younger Barnett was hurled 200 feet. William Barnett was killed owtsight and the pleces of the dugsy strewn along the tracks for sev-{ oral hundred yards. The horse was un- injured, Nine victims have been claimed at the Maurice avenue crossing within a year and a movement is being atarted to. day to force the railroad company to Keep & watchman there constantly, i HIS LONG REST. | | “HARGE QUEEN" LOSES HER SUI Court Dismisses Action of Doro- thy Agan Mason Against Ed- mund T. Mason—She Failed! to Appear in Court. SHE DEMANDED $15,925. Swore that wompiainant Had Agreed to Pay Her $35 a Week for Life— Wer—Exhibite “Genera! Release.” One of the vagarics of woman was Mustrated in Justice Clarke's part of the , Dora me C Agan rt case of en against Edmund T. Mason wns called for trial The of “The Barge Queen” last epring by w thy Mason woman, who acquired the title “mannin * her 60) ton coal barge with | assert ed that she secured a divorce him In Oklahoma in 1893. Mr, Dorothy Agan never were married, ands Mr. Lessler exhibits a complaint drawn by Congressman William Sulzer { in which Dorothy Agan sues Edim Mason for $0,000 damages for breach promise of marriage, with all the allen called phan Fifty- from tured mA Le, socloty women and fighting the effort of the “Barge Trust” to oust it from its dock, sued Fdmund T, Mason for $15,933, which she said was due as “arrears of allmony" on a contract dated tn 1893, under which, on consideration of her “Mecontinuing a certain sult against Mason,” he agreed to pay her $4,090 cash and 85 a week f the rest of her Ife. She is a slender slip of a woman, with sharp eyes dark hair and was beautiful, She once Her She hay been an alm Ly visitor to the court-house for a long time, but to-day, when her name wag called, she Mid not answer and on the motion of, Mason's counsel, Montague Lessler, her complaint was dismissed Mason scorned the woman In hls anawer, calling her “Dorothy Agan," and denying that they were ever mar- ried, He admitted that In 1893 he il my her $1,000 on an agreement by her to discontinue a sult for breach of promise of marriage, but that the $35 weekly allowance was a creation of her imagination, Mason, who {* a wealthy Japineso allk importer, living at No. 52 Convent avenue, was.on his wedding journey in Japan when the rge Queen's sult was brou; his bride being Miss Mande E. Thomas, a former wife, Miss Catharine Campbell having dled. Arrested on Bigamy Charge. The Warge Queen had Mason arrested on a charge of bigamy Saturday last, and he gave $1,00) bail in Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court. She claimed that she married Mason in 189% In Chicago, and ¢hat riage to Miss Thomas tn 1900 was big- amy. ‘This in spite of the fact that she : The carded for improved methods, land States, being particularly Boston and New Haven. brand by a leading manufa any of the essentia! features. portant details only, $400.00. Start a Deposit Account at Macy’y KNOW Our Depositors’ Account De; credit system, with all the out at a moment's notic daily until spent or withdrawn. temptation to spend money promi: make up for bad debts by He is not called upon to pay PARTMENT, the store's expenses, “1 suppose your son Is still studying © a doctor?” taking a Rood lon, to Ao. He has to’ practice."= “Oh, no, he's ith not! he m ze: Thousands have o times” saving met! 50 Lord & Taylor, cuously, Macy's sell only for cash, At MACY'S THE higher prites, for the expensive machinery of a GREDIT R. H. Macy & Ca’s Attractions Are Their Low Prices, ACYS B’way at 6th Ave. Don’t Buy a Piano Until You Visit Our New Piano Department and See What We Are Offering.—» ». x Steinertone Pianoforte. . It is constructed on new and’ scientific principles, being the only Pigno in which the primitive Erard action has been dis- Many of the best musicians before the public have tested it in a of complete scepticism—and in the amazement of its exquisite tonal gradatiqns have become stanch champions of its merits. tone is well known and universally prized throughout the New Eng- popular in the highest musical circles of There are good reasous to justify fhe belief that such an inst combined with the Macy policy of retailing, will create fruitful results. The manufa¢turer’s warerooms at. 130 Fifth Avenue have been and Maoy’s is now the only store in Greater N Steinertone may be examined and bought. Uprights, $450,00—Diminutive Grands, $750,00. Boudoir Grands—$800.00. Parlor Grands, $850,00—Concert Grands, $1000.00. The “Straus” Pianos. They are reliable and beautiful inatcaenants, made for us under our own rer—oa. The ones at $125.00, $150.00 and $175.00 have not been slighteg in Economy has been applied to the unim- The acticn and other vital noints are perfect. Our “Straus’’ Pianos at $225.00, $250.00 and $275.00 are the equal of the sc-called high grades that are sold by others at $350.00 and No store that sel’s on credit or on the instalment plan approaches our prices for Pianzs—or anything else, The Emergency Arose; The Depositor’s Acct. Dept. Developed. tan Watch It Grow How Much You Spend. For What You Spend It. Put your money in our DEPOS,:TORS' ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT. We pay 4 per cent. annually, compounding the artment gives CONOMY of a C. O. D. system—AND YOUR MONEY IS EARNING INTEREST WHILE IT IS WITH US. You can deposit as much or as little as you please. You can take your money Every penny and every dollar carns interest for you, We run no regular banking business, there is no drawing of checks with the, MAN WHO PAYS HIS BILLS does nob] You know that no store cam sell goods as cheaply in proportion to: quail acash store. (No argument Is required to prove that the customer must including its bad debts.) AG ned accounts with us, realizing the value of pe p-to-the gations usual to such cases. Along witht © this is a “general release” signed Dersie thy Aga RS These t Mason's defense in the suft whicn wae dismissed because elected not to come ¢o court. BROKE SKULL, ARM AND LEG. ° Leon Luparo, twenty-four years old, to the window. An am>wance was sumay and he He Denies His Alleged Marriage to | \Wright Hosp! Mason still insists that he 1898; Ts 9 were to be the baels of Mp for trial to-day and whigh wid the Barge Queen rr . living at the Hebrew Ore! @ Asylum, at One Hundred and first street and Broadway, fell, the third floor of that institu reet to-day, while repalring’ & was taken to the. J !, suffering from @ frac skull , arm and leg, Women's = eckwear Dept. 5 doz. ‘Silk Stocks, > all colors, : 25c. each, * value 50C, s» a all colors, Soc. each, |, vaiue 75¢. a doz.Jap. Silk Tres, hand hemstitched, ; soc. each, adway and Twentieth Streets” and Fifth Aven’ ie 8 S4thto3stk ste e Steiner- ew York where the | mahogany and walnut cases. interest every three months, you all the CONVENIENCE of #