The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1903, Page 3

“) he RECCIE IS BACK IN THE WHIRL) UP FOR AUCTION Festive Young Vanderhilt Re-|Count Von Seldemec’s Posses- turns to Town After His Long Exile Caused by the Raid on Richard Canfield’s Palace. COURTS MAKE WAY CLEAR FOR HIM IN THIS CITY. He Visited “Erminie” at the Ca- sno Last Night and Watched with Interest the Glistening Teeth of Marguerta Sylva. After remaining In practical exile for almost a year, Reginald Vanderbilt is Dack in New York enjoying himself. He @ttended the performance of ‘*Erminie” the Casino last night and gazed with dnterest at Marguerita Sylva's teeta, He ds once more a familiar figure in the fashionable resorts that knew him weil in his college days. Mr, Vanderbilt need have no fear of the attentions of District-Attorney Je- Pome's sie is. The final decision of the courts in the Jesse Lewisohn case makes New York a safe place iwi him to live in. Ever since his return he uate veen congratulated by his friends on the fact that he kept away from New York Yather than go on the stand and be questioned as ( his operations at Kich- @rd Cantield's. Mr. Vanderbilt was reported to have Jost all the way from $6,000 to $100,000 @t one session with a par friends ai Waat famous house. @ppeared to care much aoout Disirict-Atiorney Jerome, who Tooking «tor evs to duck up it but was hus Bensational raid on the palace of the king of gan waua Sur elty after he h biers. Vanueroilt remained In this, urd of the contemmitted ection of the District Attorney he Would have been suuporna 41 would | have been compelled ¢9 go <0 the Iriel hai Courts Buliding tions of an embacragsing nature. ® thrifty youth he improved pent in exile by geting ma have taking a honeymoon trip abroad, tis upparent enjoyment of in town} thows that after all New is better | than a farm in Rhode istard —— [10 MEETING OF ALDERMEN. e.sbers Too Busy with Politics . to Attend, flew York's Boars of Aldermen were W, 0 talklag polities and working SMravorlth Gdndidites to mect to-day. hen Prewident sfofnes chilled the| of Cepia Sardar CUCL Se Gitg 5 Are tS Jupor the Coit they were met by fero- gene to) order. eine Bae A) ooking dows of foreign variet wn pretent, and Mr, Fornex ad- kept guard of the big home »: Mo «1 the meeting, , jel the grounds as well. ‘The — fan hour afterwart there was a was seen at the time and he» A xathering. but ut was then too lite. Fretused to <ay whether the dedt stung yw the Aldermen talked politics. Tupon Its iets or not. {hés liking the Count agreed to pay the ind ifs to qnes-|bim sufficient revenue to undertake the ART TREASURES sions in Magnificent Staten Island Home to Be Sold Un- der the Hammer. WAS GERMAN COLONEL, BUT FLED COUNTRY. Then Came Disastrous Specula- tions in Wall Street and Six Months Ago He and His Wife Left Their Home. The ant treasures of Count Von Seldemec, housed in his magnificent home on Manor road, New Dorp, 8. I., will be eold Thursday morning by auction, Collected from ail parts of the world they wére valued at $2,000. This figure was set not by the connolseurs, but Sy appraisers whose work it Is to settle upon marketavle value of art odjects. Six months ago the Count. his wife and ohild disappeared from their home on | the {sland, and to this day none of the inhabitants of New Dorp know where they went. Their leaving was no stranger than their coming, as rumor had {t Count Von Seldemec quit his n: tive country to live in peace and quiet in America, He was a colonel in the Kaiser's army and a man of lofty po- socially, politically and martlally, man that fell io his steady a:m died. ‘The Count was told tat he must leave the country and wipe out the stigma upon his name by an apsence that would bring forgetfulness of the deed, Finding an estate on Staten Island to vice asked $51,000, On this he paid 000 down, the resitlue to be paid In installments, Hjs yast estate in Ger- many, not entirely confiscated by hig banisiment from the realm, brought ‘building of a fine suburban home in America, Staten Island was near enough to New York to please his wife and himeelf, and he determined to live there as long as he was not to return to his own country. It 1s sald that the fever of Wa!l street speculation blew over the bay and cavght the Count in his country home. Then ine visita to New York became more and more frequent. Losses from (his soutve are believed to be the cause of the Count’s financial entanglement. In uly, 1992, there was much ado over a failure oi” process: Count at his lone Both he and his wife wer note for $809, and when the mi 1 HAT this Administration “W THE WORLD: beauty, more scenery, 89 to speak.’ bi Aay ’ x “CouRT K PHYSICIAN Te B00Y-GUARD THe concnnAn THE INSPIRATION. needs, J.oeb,"" sald the President, “1s more color, more “Yes, sire,” assented Loeb. “Rut how?” mused the President it. “Let's paint the White House red,” suggested Loeb, “Good Idea,” said the President Loeb thought hard. , “but we won't do It until my second term.” Loeb thinking hard reminds one of a cuckoo clock. “Ha!” said the President, hitting hisdesk with a gold-plated axe some admirer had sent him from Maine. “I have it! We'l “Great!” said Loeb, “Great! we'll put a drum major’s cap on ar 1 put-ur ‘forms on the varlets around the place.” We'll get a zouave uniform for Uncle Jerry Smith and thur Simmons, and Capt. Loeffler can wear my old uni- form of Albany Hose No. 1, and"+— “Stop!” thundered the Presiden details of this reform,” Loeb laoked out of the window. “Here is the plan: We will put blue uniforms with silver but uniforms with gold buttons on the t. ou talk like a string of fish. I will work out the The President wrpte hurriedly. After a time he sald: ns on the ushers and red messengers, and white uniforms with buff trimmings on the stenographers, and yellow uniforms with gold slashes on the servants, and’’—— The President stopped. Then he jumped to his feet. idea is too great to be devoted to mere servants. costume for the government clerks Senate. I will get up something bri! “Great!” said Loeb. “By Godfrey!” he shouted. “This We'll uniform everybody. We'll devisea and we'll rig out the House of Representatives and the Mant for the Cabinet.” “And what will you wear?” “T think,’ announced the President, that my dress uniform will be a combination of the striking features of the uniform of the General of the Army and the Admiral of the Navy. “Great!” shouted Loeb. I'm boss of both, you know.” “Hey!” peeped an unidentified man who had pushed his way into the room, “Ilow ubout a striped costume for those Post-Office thieves?” Great excitement prevailed, The unidentified man was iurled out on the $3,000 tennis court. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, love. THE WICKED LOEB AND THE DISILLUSIONED ROOSEVELT; OR, THE ABANDONED PLOT TO PUT THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF IN LIVERY. With the Conbincing Moral: “They Also. Serve Who Stand and Take It in the Neck.’’ aS Il. THE REALIZATION. EVERAL days were given to completing the plans. Inasmuch as the uniforms for the S ushers, blue with silver buttons, were simpler than the others, it was deited to get that lot ready frst. Work progressed rapidly. The Presidsnt was de-light-ed. “Won't it be fine,” he asked his visitors, “to see the stately Senator Hoar In @ shad-bel- lied waistcoat of drab, with a purple coat and pink small clothes? And Joe Cannon tn top boots, red breecnes and a lavender o-at with stock and a brass helmet? Hi yi! Fine!” “Great!” said the visitors. The uniforms for the ushers were ready. The story was printed. came forcible remarks from all parts cf th» country. “Is this an empire or a republic?” some of te questioners had the nerve to ask. “When did you get to be King?” was another distressing inquiry. The malls were flocded. Some editors went so far as to say the scheme was “silly.” “fia,” said the President. “It is evident the proletariat does not appreciate the artis- tic touch T sought to give to my Administration. I am a candidate for election next year. T must desist until I am safely in the White House for a full term.” That evening the blue uniforms were sent to the attic. Il. THE CULMINATION INES day there was much activity at the White House. Newspaper reporters were told something important was about to happen, Precisely at noon Secretary Loeb camé out and handed the assembled news- gatherers typewritten s!ips of paper. The reporters read: OFFICIAL STATEMENT. “In view of the criticism of the plan to uniform the attaches of the White House and some others the President feels impelled to say that the plan originated with Secretary Loeb. Immediately there The President originally gave some slight consideration to Mr. Loeb’s proposition, but maturer reflection causes him to announce that the proposition made by Mr. Loeb was IIl- advised and {1l-considered and he has ordered Mr. Loeb to discontinue the preparations and to drop the matter entirely. “The President desires to state that Mr. Loeb acted in entire good faith in the matter, but as the plan wes wholly Mr. Loeb's and the President disclaims all responsiouty, Mr. Loeb wili, of course, accept whatever criticism there is, although the President feels con- strained to say the plan must have been an error of the head and not of the heart.” MORAI—They also serve who stand and take it in the neck. DA. WESTON WHS BOWERY CRO WD TRIES TO LYNCH A MOTORMAN WV CORONER FIGHT vellev =, xtést Attempt to Oust Him His Car Ran Down Jacob Gross, Killing Him, and One Man, Who Constituted Himself a Leader, Urged the Mob to Vengeance. from His Office by Injunction , Proceedings Meets with the Court’s Disapproval. fhe latest attempt to oust Dr. Albert ™. Weston from his place as a Coroners’ Physician, which he has held continu- ‘usly for fourteen years, was relegated to the list of failures in that line by Gustlce Barrett in the Supreme Court to-day. Theodore Crohn, suing as a tax-payer, epplied for an Injunction to restrain Dr. ‘Weston from claiming his salary of $250 © month and the Board of Coroners from euditing his salary bill and certifying It] to the Comptroller for payment. Justice Barrett dentes the injunction, on the ground that, a:though Dr. Wes- ton's term of office nas been declared to have expired with that of the Board| of Coroners which appointed him, he ts not now holding a newly created office. @s claimed by Crohn, but Is a “hold- over," and his title ts good until his.' successor is appointed and has quall- fled and he fs entitled to his salry. Jus. tice Barrett adds: if “I do not mean to intimate that Dr. ‘Weston's title fs unquestionable, or that # successor can ibe appointed upon the theory that he !s a hold-over. Indeed, my impression 1s quite the other way, namely, that his title js valld and that he can only be removed for cause.” Justlee Barrett says a taxpayer can- not oust an officeholder who is perform- fing his duties properly by an injunction ‘to stop his salary, for he is not injured ps the officer 1s concededly earnin ghis ealary, If Crohn's contention 1s other- wise correct he will have to proceed In quo warranto, which is an injury as to tthe title to the offic —_— | HEALTH MEN IN SESSION. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2%7.—The first wegular session of the thirty-first annual Jacob Gross, a young factory worker, of No, 156 Lewis street, was killed to- day by a Third avenue car In the Bo ery, and the throng of people who wit- nessed the accident would have lynched the motorman, John Cashman, had It not been for the wit of a pollceman, As soon as the accident occurred—it was at the height of the early rush hour —the curs plied un in a long line, and their conductors and motormen ran for- ward to learn what the cause of the ;Dlock was. There were nearly a hundred men in uniform around the spop,in less than two minutes, and the crowd could not distinguish ‘the one in that number whose car had run Gross down. Cry of “Lynch Him! 8t Some one started the cry of “Damn the motorman!" which in a moment was changed to “Lynch him!" at the sight of the victim who lay beneath the car wheels, There was a leader in the mob who went from one to another street-car man asking, “Are you the one that killed him? Are you the one Policeman John Butler, of the Eldridge street station, had seen the trend of the crowd's temper before this, aad unob- served had taken Cashman into a door- way some distance below the scene of the accident and there held him until ‘he could get him to the station-house. Every expedient was suggested to re- lease Gross, but not until the man who would have led the crowd to a lynching came to the front again did any one think of anything worth doing. Hundred Men Tilt Car Over, “Come on!" he shouted, and sulting action to his words he put his back to the aide of the car and began to push. In an Instant more than a hundred men had united In their efforts to move the car, and then it went over until only Its plat. form steps kept {t from turning a com- plete turtle. Gross was lifted from the street and hurried to Gouverneur Hospital. “1 know I am golng to die,” he “1 want to go quickly.” ‘A moment after that ne only had strength enough left to tell his name and his address, He was horribly man- gied, ‘Aécording to the police they have many witnesses who will swear that Cashman was driving his car at an unusual and dangerous rate of speed, ‘The motorman says that he was not. “The young fellow seemed terror stricken," 1s Cashman's explanation, “He started to turn one way and then another and then stood right on the track. I rang for him to get out of the way. It is not true that I was going too fast. 1 was too close to him, though, to stop in time.” Cashman was northbound at the time and Gross was struck {n front of a store at No. 283 Bowery. DEATH NOT READY FOR HIM. Man Cuts Throat, Jumps from Win- ad Will Recover, low Predazo Carlo, an Italian laborer, who lives at Sixty-fifth street and Fort Ham- iiton avenue, Brooklyn, came to the conclusion this afternoon that he didn't want to live any fonger, so he slashed his throat with a big dirk. Then he lay down to dle, but the end was not com- Ing swiftly enough, ‘so he to bat- ter his head against a wall of hfs room. He got tired of doing this when he found that it did not produce the desired effect and jumped Into the street, land- sae one ey but still had ans moeeting of the American Public Health (Association wus held here to-day, ‘prominent bacteriologists and students f sanitation from the United Stat anada, Mexico and Cuba being re ent. After the convention was called to Wyman Surgeon- Gen, Geonge M. Sternberg delivered an address in which he dealt at length on the efforts which haye been made tw, ‘out disease and to guard against epidemics. ——=—=___ BARON GEVERS MAY CHANGE. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—A diplomat fwho ‘has just -returned from Europe Btates that Baron W. A, F. Gevers, the Netherlands Minister to the Untted [ieesterthime tcay Penge att coi cll or Constantinople mission, lenty “of life fe heb an arubu ‘ fe left when a: Pime'along and took him to a hospital, It fa thought that he will recover, SHIP'S CREW SAVED. ) GROST, France, Oct. 27.—The crew of thirty one men of the French bark yesterday Ferries ckehiee feeeeds Sacualt peo ee we been saved. Goard, the veawel 7 ce | FeBpOI SULTAN REPORTED ILL. Frequent Fainting Fits Give Hine to Fenrs for HisLite, LONDON, Oot. 2%1.—A despatch from Constantinople says the Sultan is seri- ously ill, All information {s refused at the Porte but It {s sald on good authority that he fainted while eating dinner and his condition has caused the gravest fears ‘on the part of his physicians. ‘The Sultan hae been in poor health for a long time and has been subject to fainting Ms of late, | The Grand in, jer has ordered that no news regard- condition be given to the cor- nts. ————__- MAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER. “he body of a man about forty-five years old, 6 feat 6 inches in belght and Freighing about 100 pounds, was found in the North River to-day at the foot of Twenty-seventh street. His clothes geouied of @ blue serge sult, striped Slowly it gave way to the pressure, | | DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING THE WAY JACOB GRUSS WAS KILLED TO-DAY BY A THIRD AVENUE CAR, , ‘ADOSEVELT IS. 45 Country. ‘BIG SHOW OF FLORAL GIFTS the White House, ! Oot w.—Pr WASHINGTON, Roosevelt to-4: Ath anniversar: beautiful and t event reached him from every part the coun hundreds o telegrams an. letters of congratulations having bee PATRICK LOSES IN COURT OF APPEALS Court Concurs in Judgment of the Lower Tribunals That Will He Offered of William M. Rice | Mother of Victim eee President’ fa “an honorary " member lear Her Home, called to convey. him the annual ex: i i" 6 pression of the Qlub’s good wishes and Is a Forgery. >» Craft. to congratulate him upon his birthday. s fe _ | a AUBANYSN. ¥)) Oot, #1 The, Court| ADUENTOWN: Pay /Onts.27,-2abel We) apa ‘rhe Court ot Ap-| MR. MURPHY WAS COLD. Bechtel, twenty-one years old, was MUP | Leais to-day aMrmed the conviction and a eee of Appenis to-day handed down a deci- SLAYERS BROUGHT GIRLS BODY HOME | Men Carry Corpse from Car- riage and Place It in an Alley, dered and her body placed tn an under-! day hea the members sembled for the usual meeting, they dial congratulations TOBIN MUST 0 to the President A huge basket was sent to te President from Government poopaduthaz gardens. Watched Two The Court of Appeals Decides that He Must Die for the Bru- tal Murder of Old Captain rc coloring. Kary In the executive day a commit tee representing the Hungarian Repu”: ean Clud of sentence of death upon Thoams Tobin} AND CELEBRATES ‘President Gets Many Birthday Favors, and Greetings Reach Him from All Parts of the Cabinet Members Add Their Good Words and N:w York Delegation Follows ..nnual Custom and Visits ent celebrated the forty- his birth and many hing reminders of the Tecelved at the White House during (he f the Cabinet as- sem!-weekly joined in extending cor- President's | The cabinet room and the | private office were filled with exquisite! floral offerings, —— of chyrsanthemums the It} alned about two score of handsome specimens, many of them as large as tay n of a derby hat and of splendid ima -| man Hospital, Brooklyn. -| ated on last Friday ‘New York, of which the| CITY AMAZES Will Take Care of Hi the Old Prisoner’s Fi Are Dead. When the oxpress train fr arrived.at the Grand Céntral 8 |afternnon an old man stood plate ing of the car and gazed him in opan-mouthed wonder. : ‘It's more than wonderful,” he said? — “Look at those great buildings. Look at this great station. New York is not the? New York it was thirty years ago I went out of life and looked at the’ shine through prison bars.” ‘ The old man was ‘Martin’ Gill, 4 for thirty vears has been in Sing! prison, With the old man was Bro Jerome, of Manhattan College, The’ priest looked upon the old man ¢ emiled. ca “Are you enjoying it all, Martin?” asked, ‘It doesn't seem so strange persons who have lived in ‘God's sut shine and breathed God's fresh alr liberty." When the train stopped “old stepped to the platform.- He about him, as though he didn’t {what to do with his liberty. He to miss the presence of the keepers: flanced at his sult of dark and he appeared to miss the has worn for so many yea! Sentenced for Life im Gal, then a young man, waa visted of murder In New York 1874, Four days later—justice was tn those days—the prison bars of Sing grated behing hm. He wae tenced to apend the rest of his life | the penitentiary. Martin Gill donned strizes, Never once since | went behind the bars has there been int about him or ais work. | was obedient to the guarés and ii showed a sympathy wita tre other oners that brought bim to tae dtte |of Brother Jerome. Who is this man? tho geod ked. ‘A murderer doing a Ife sentencé,* was told. x Yeeps When Pardoned, | Brother veome vhen set agour . gee a parton for the old man, The pardon came to-day and the priest went to fing Sing and asked to cce GIL When Gil was tod that he hat been pardoned, |that his ie was als own afd that he” would come into Now York at oma” [Se wept. Tie news ececied to be tow g001 to be true, " In his now salt of stothor and” wails |) ing by the side of ..¢ cries: GIN walle from the orison, .c gave one WRB look at the barred wncos* and high) walls, “If boveve I have oad what | owed," he sald. ‘ Tt was when tee tre'y coos and saw the nusting crow's art engine wih the model cars that Le ves He jooked at the # & tiueon and je He co. x o1ser.cse. York Cen pen ten ste 'e= ot ars fi seen the ee: trolley cars! tures he. had *, he siv ripe bit!h we taken ¢ Pe ts pow exty a le ser tenn F convict vs lecn w Jorome. the 1 than any ell n ‘arty “They river, all dea DEATH OF HENRY GUYER. For Years He Had leew Employe — in World Press Room, $ y Caye who has deon assistant an of The World press room for veare, died last night in the Ger- He was oper- Hen | fore: Mr. Guyer was forty-three years ad and lived at No. 6% Euclid avenue, | Brooklyn, with his wife and three chil- laren, He had been a printer all hin life and until two years ago. was an unusually robust man, Then he begun to auffer from an Internal troue that rapidly sapped his strength and Anal: ook and laced shoes: “Where we note Sake neces oe ground alley adjoining her home, where \tt was found to-day by her mother. Her skull was crushed, but there wore other marks of violence on the body, M!ss Bechtel went driving yesterday morning with David Welsenberg, and this was the last time she was seen alive. Mrs, Bechtel, mother of the murdered sion denying the appeal of Albert T. Patrick in the matter of the probate of {the will of Willlam M. Rice, of whose jmurder he stands convicted. ‘The Court concours tn the Judgment of the lower, courts that the alleged will offered by Patrick ts a forgery. The Court affirms judgment without opine jon. josday by the barking of dogs, Upon ooking out of her bedroom window shi saw two men carrying an object from carriage and place it In the underground alley near the Bechtel house, Mrs. Bechtel made no investigation, but upon arising this morning sho found hor daughter's shoes, hat and coat in the dining-room. Later the Vody of Miss Bechtel was found in the alley where it had been carried by the two men. The frontal bone had been crushed as if by a heavy hammer, No arrests have ag yet. heen made ELKINS GROWS WORSE. Doctors Have Little Hope of Sav- | ing Philadelphia Milllonatre, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. —The condi- tion of William L. Etkfns, the financier, 4s reported to-day as being grave. Ho spent a restless night and as a result is sald to be consid Ny exhausted. His physiclans suy there is but ttle nope of girl, was aroused shortly after 1A. M.| for the murder of Capt, Craft In a Ten- derloin resort in New York City last fall. Tobin attacked and hacked to death Capt Ci retired seaman, in the he Empire, a dive on West street. He cut up the Durn it in the furnace, failed to carry off the @ Was discovered vy & Twent HDody and tr uit the chti | smok Tobin’ nel, Messrs, Le’ hant fight for the convicted evidence Was so conclu- sive ‘against him and the erime of such a revolting character that even their persistence falled to secure a reversa of wentence. ————_—_—— COTOPAXI VOLCANO ACTIVE. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Oct. 27. reported from Quito that a den: umn of fire ts visible from there, etn: ing from the crater of the Cotopaxi volcano. The neighboring villages have damage, pot guetained apy. .|than he had ever been in his life. har Pajteanctvee ne "P necessitated the operation from which re. he died, When Cornelius Murphy, employed by the Manhattan Lumber Company at Thirty-fourth street and Eleventh ave- nue. reached the office of the soncern to-cay he was cok and started a fire In the stove for the first time this season, It was a good, earnest fre, and within half an hour Mr, Murphy was warmer ne ‘office caught fire and the flames » |to the lumber. ¥ rd. Quick work Bpreed | plosion of dynamite that shattered e firemen confined Diage to a limited |dows in scores of houses and ‘area, but for a time the entire neighbor. |rwrectod the Roby race track early hood was threatened, ‘Tho damage wilifgay, ‘The crash was caused by Ah = mature olast where the Dlinote amount to about $1, MACHIAS AT NAPLES. Company is filling in ground south ¢ NAPLES, Oct. ‘The United Btates [Bota Chicago. The shock was felt] nboat Machias has arrived here from | Hammond, Iné., and in Blue D ‘Three fishermen and Sl eae cates Anam DYNAMITE CAUSED WRECK. Six -fea Thought to Haye Beem Killed by Explosion near Chicage, CHICAGO, Oct. 31—Six men [are thought to have been killed by an emmy 1) taking United States Consul Mareellles, and his expedition to Frenah, Somatl h whence of 10 Machias Tope to be Bois: ra Mt ae ph tect