The evening world. Newspaper, November 3, 1903, Page 3

{ 4 , ff ) Brooklyn \ Think of the poor that a seaside resort of this description would |’ ha | bthe face of the public that h // the shuro uy Lancasterhire. ! Cats bot a ae as . CONEY ISLAND FO GREAT PEOPLE'S PARK struction of the Buildings on Sixteen Blocks at the Famous Resort Now akes Possible the Great Seaside oncourse and Pleasure Ground First Suggested by The Evening World. It wilt be a resort for persons of all walks of lite, where every ‘mnanner Of amusement and recreation can be had for the trifling \Journey—p genuine salt water park such as the world has never een potory. I will put this plan through.—Fresident Svanstrom, of Be Mouea Benefit. Think of what a splendid breathing place it would be for \the mothers, and children cramped up all day in seething tenements land foul-anhelling streets! I have not a doubt but that it could be made into the greatest resort of the kind in this country, or in the ‘world.—RIQHARD YOUNG, President of the Board of Park Commission- iers, of SRS: \ The construction of such a park will raise the moral tone of . Coney Island, and there will be none of the flaunting of vice in ways been the wretched feature of ji ‘the place.—WILLIAM R. WILLCOX, President of the Park Department pf Greater New York. \ The people cannot have too many parks or places of recreation @o suit the Health Department. The more parks we have the bet- ter will be uhe health of every one inthe city.—Health Commissioner fLEDERLE. } It would, be a giind thing if the city would take possession of \the devastated territory and turn it intoa park. Vice then would te practically wiped out on Coney Island. The fakirs and graft- ters would have to seek newfields. —REV. DR. M’ARTHUR. \ The fire at Coney Island that wiped out sixteen blocks of that section @f the resort known as the Bowery is considered by thousands as a bless- lQng in disguise, for it makes possible the splendid plan to turn Coney Island ‘Into a great seaside park and pleasure ground, that was propose three years ago by The Evening World. ect tw bow Public officers, clergymen, physicians and men prominent in all walks ‘of life in Greater New York declared that the plan was a magnificent one, and that such a park would be a monument to the city. Public mestings ‘were held in ‘all the boroughs commending the plan and urging the offcers @f the city to take steps toward carrying it out. COST WAS A GREAT BARRIER. But there was one great barrier—the cost, Experts who went over {he ground for The Evening World said that the plan in its entirety wou'd jecst at least $16,000,000. Then came the great fire of three years ago, whic\ ‘wiped out a large portion of the undesirable section of the island. This re: luced the estimated cost considerably, but stifl left it at a prohibitive figure Sunday's fire—in addition to all that has been done to beautify and Wmprove the resort in the past two years—has now made this plan feasible, vand it is now certain that the infamous Coney Island Bowery will never ‘glse from its ashes. The destriction of $1,500,000 worth of property was, according to Presi- ent Swanstrom, of the Borough of Kings, really a bles‘ng, and in the near future we may look for a great seaside concourse, where there will be noth- 7 ‘fing to offend the sight or the morals of the young. WILL NOW FAVOR A CONCOURSE. | The devastation of the Bowery han eliminated the chief item of fexpenne that anding in the way of the pl erty-holvers in the neighborhooda: Meenefit that the complete er: whe to them they will be ent for when the prop« brought to re the vast Fe of this blot on the great resort will to stand their part of the @anensment necessary to convert the fire.siricken property into a ‘want pleasure ground, According tc the engineers who have gone over the ground, there is fo need for elaborate landscape gardening. The beach, the public bathing ‘wesort and restaurants, the clean popular amusements—for these there is ‘ample room. Such places as Luna Park are wholesome and beautifying, ‘It is the flimsy, ramshackle, ill-ventilated shacks, in which have been w@rowded all manner of immoral and suggestive ghows, which have given ®o the world an entirely false idea of the great pleasure ground, What the public clamor has been directed against. Now that this one ‘wbjectionable feature of the place has been obliterated it is hoped that the magnificent plan of making Coney Island one great seaside park will reach {its fulfilment. 4 ‘The extent of the park cannot be deterintzed until the Brooklyn Board pf Public Improvements votes on the question, tt, according to Borough \ President Swanstrom, who is enthusiastically in favor of the plan, it should sare in all that section of the island that has been fire stricken and all spther property that could be: possibly added. \ Borotigh President Swanstrom, of Brooklyn, expressed his enthusiasm The Evening World's plan to-day in unmeasured terms. He sald: “1 pledge my word to the people of Brooklyn and the Gre: well that {f I am returned to office to-day I will establish on the of the Coney Inland Bowery—formerly a neat of dives and foul places—a public recreation place second to none in the world WILL PROVE A BLESSING. - “The firc, while a financial loss to a few, will, I am confident, prove B great bless!ng to all, and The Evening World’s plan of making a great seaside park on the site of former iniquitous folly is a splendid idea, and rwill have my kearty and earnest co-operation. This fire, while disastrous to some who are not worth considering, will prove a golden oppor- tunity to the people of the city, for now the land to transform it into a ‘vast pledsure ground can te bought cheaper, and the feature of rentals and leases, which formed so great a barrier before, is totally eliminated— almost, it seems, as if by the hand of Providence. “Tvhave visitcd Revere Beach, in Boston, which a few years ago pre- ented the same disagreeable features that have been the shame of Coney Inland, and have seen the wonderful change that has been made in favor ‘of a clean and healthful resort. If Boston can do this, cannot New York, Uf it follows the plan suggested by The Evening World? In England I isited that splendid seaside resort that stretches for three ‘miles alung This beach but a few years ago hail also ‘is shameful features, but is now a delightful park. I have also visited numer- ; sous other places in Hurope, where the same thing has been accomplished; but nowhere in the world is there such a place as is offered at Coney \Jsland for a pleasure ground by the sea. |\COULD ACCOMMODATE 1,500,000. Ordinarily, when 400,000 people visit Coney I wig day, but if The Nvening World’s project is co: i out 1,500,000 ean be accommodated there without the least con’ m6 It will 5e a resort for persons of all walks of life, where every manner jet amusement and recreation can be had for the trifling journey. It will _,be an Atlantic City at home, and a chance for a genuine salt water park ven aa the world has never seen before. God willing, I will put this plan ‘throu «| Fichard Young, President of the Board of Park Commissioners of [Brovklyn, was just as enthusiastic as Borough President Swanstrom in his ‘adyucacy of The Evening World's project for turning Coney Island into a “reat seaside park” Commilssloner Young has been working out the plan city THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1903. HOW CONEY ISLAND’S VICE-RIDDEN BOWERY MIGHT BE MADE A BEAUTIFUL RECREATION GROUND. (The diagram in the lower right-hand corner illustrates roughly the district laid in ruins by Sunday’s fire. to this space it is proposed to add the sections in black, verting this fire area into an ornamental park.) that the hoJocaust which wiped out the Coney Island Bowery brought his, hopes within realization. He said to-day to an Evening World reporter: “The plan of The Evening World is the most desirable park proposition that has-ever been presented to the people of this city or this country. WOULD BENEFIT THE POOR. “Think of the poor that a seaside resort of this description would bene- fit! Think of what a splendid breathing place it would be for the mothers| and children cramped up all day in seething tenements and foul-smelling streets! I have not a doubt but that it could be made into the greatest resort of the kind in this country, or in the world. “Aldermen Malone and Mundy, two members of the Board of Public Improvements, to which the matter was presented, turned the proposi- | ion down. In defeating the measure they represented the people of| the district that has just been destroyed by fire. T Proposed the along the original lines laid down by The World, and they blocked project. Their constituents have now been burned out, and in this I trust that the fire has destroyed all opposition to th “There was also opposition to the plan on the sompanies and railroads, whose directors also out sections Now this opposition has been re! “Phere were three recent public hearings on the matter, the last aSout a month ago. The proprietors of the dives, their employees and Gihers whose interests were deeply involved in the Bowery appeared at thse hearings and vigorously protested against the Proposition of a_sea- the way | @ magnificent scheme. part of the steamboat! had interests in this burned- moved, plan! which escaped the flames. &y’S put the thing through. “I will prepare a resolution and |the Vocal Board of Public Improvement. jerty that we need ‘to acquire will now amount to only about $1,400,000, | destroyed by fire,” he said, “but und this sum I think we can obtain The main picture is a suggestion by Artist Biederman as to the possibilities of con- for the past three years, and could not repress his delight when he learned! side park. Now they are out of business, the real people will take hola | present it at the first opportunity to The assessed value of the prop- without any great difficulty. “We would Ike to make the park the most nseful in the world. It will not h rine and fall. second Seine: but I shall ase the foremost in the world for the President William R. Willcox, of the Inndscape effects of Central Park; it wi not have not be a jand Park Coney Inland Creek m uence to have © plensure of the m the Park Department of the “Greater \City, said to-duy that he has always been in favor of a grand concourse and park at Coney Island, to be built after the manner suggested by The Evening World. “Tho only objection has been,” said Mr. Willcox, “in the matter of cost proper' dives accom convert the fire-stricken district into in the country, “What will ty desired, this feature, I think, ; but as this great fire has made much easier the purchase of the! MINISTERS ALL FAVOR IT. , has been practically eliminated. The that were wiped out are well rid of, and if it 1s within our power to plish it, we will carry out to its entirety the plan of The World to the greatest_s casas pleasure ground become of the hotel-keepers who now control the ocean front? ‘There is plenty offoom for them between Coney Island Creek and | Surf avenue, and it will be a better location, for all the transit companies now land their passengers in that neighborhood. ‘amusement which those places afford will not have to walk far to get it.” Those who want the found a revolver with all of the cham- bers empty. Mrs. Lupo was revived for a few. minutes at Bellevue, and when questioned concerning the tragedy she said that her husband had shot himself, and that when she saw he was dead she did not want to live, The police say that it would have been Impossible for Lupo to have shot him- self both in the head and in the breast, Mrs. McWilliams told the police that the couple had rented the apartment from her only a week ago; th#t they HUSBAND SLAIN, WIFE PRISONER Morris Lupo Was Shot Dead, While Mrs. Lupo Was Found Unconscious from Poison in an Adjoining Room. seemed to be plentifully supplied wiih money, and had many trunks of tine clothes. “Very Jate last night," she said, “Mre Lupo t é Id me that sho adh i jusband al thor mame put toe other woin= the store and that she was afraid something awful was golng to happen, Sho asked me to get her some morphine or Jaudanum, that she was very sick. ‘used to get the drug for her and ad her to get a doctor, She must left the house later to get the pol- | Morris Lupo, a salesman for a sew- ing-machine company, was found dead on the floor of the front room of his apartments, at No, 270 West Fourth street, to-day with a bullet hole in his brain and anothor in his left breast. On a divan in a back room was his wife, Della Lupo, a handsome young woman, unconscious and suffering from @ poison she had swallowed from a vial at her side, After being attended by a surgeon from St, Vincent's Hospital, the woman was sent to Bellevue Hospital to be held as a prisoner, charged with having kifled Innocent, Woman Said. At the ‘hospital the woman declared sbe was innocent of murder, “I loved him," she cried. “i loved him better than I did my own life. Do you| I would have killed him? “He killed himself, and I would have killed myself If T had been permitted to."" | Phe police do not believe the woman's} statement. ‘Their theory is that the woman fired five shots ht her nusband| and that In her excitement her atm was poor and only two took effect, ‘Nney say that the shooting must have o:-| curred soon after the vouple came from} the street, as the man’s body was fu her husband. A charge of attempting | dressed, save for the coat, when It was] to commit siffitide was also placed| found to-day. head’ rested on a pillow, ‘The ‘condition the room in against her, which the shooting ¢ Mrs. Lupo was a saleswoman in a night of horror t ved the Broadway department store, and be-| through. She had tumoled the bed and| cause of her beauty had many admirers, | disarranged the fursiture in h Her husband 1s sald to have been Jeal-| IE ty tenderly paised ous, In the same storé worked another nd placed a pillow under it. She woman, of whom Mrs. Lupo was jealous, the shirt front and attempted to th flow of blood from the; aunch woung! In the chest and she washed the blood away from the wound in the side of the head, $< NEW ITALIAN CABINET. Sig. Neighbors Heard Quarrel, Neighbors of the Lupo family last night heard quarrelling in their apart. ment and commented upon It sufticiently to ask the landlady, Mrs, Mary MeWill- fams, to have it stopped. After the ob- jection was made by the neighbors Lupo and his wife went out, but returned in an hour and resumed thelr quarrel, The wordy argument was ended by two small explosions, which the residents then believed to have been exploding rework of the political campaigy. Mrs. McWilliams saw nothing of the Lupo couple to-day, and hearing groans, I she called up the police and asked them to investigate. Detectives McKenzie and Carmody broke in the door of the Lupo flat and nearly fell over the dead body of Lupo, One bullet bad plerced his brain and another had lodged tn his breast near the heart, He had been dead many hours. Investigating further they found Mra. Lupo, clad in an Oriental wrapper, un- conscious on a divan in a rear room, It was evident she had taken polson, By her side was a botile which was aid to have contained some kind of a trong narcotic, Empty Revolver Found, On the floor near Lupo's body was Members Sworn in with Mtth as Premier, ROME, Nov. 3.—The new Cabine constituted as follows: Six. Glolitt, Pr mier and Minister of the Interloc; Si ‘Tittoni, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sig. Ronchett!: Minister of Justice; Sis Glo. Minister of dmiral Mirabe! Minister of Marine: Sig. Orlando. ter of Public Instruction; Sig, 1 Minister of Public Wor Minister of Agriculture: Six. Miniate Posie and ‘Tele The Ministe the oath this afte ————— BODY FOUND IN EAST RIVER. Capt, John Laferty, of the tugboat Boy, found the body of an unidentified man in the Bast River off Pier 65 to- day, The body was that of a man about thirty-five years old, 5 feot 8 inches in hegat,’ weighed 150 pounds, and had brown’ hair and It w. sed in a brown rs, white shirt, black te and laced es, In the pockeos was found a chock marked "No, 293, Union se sho brass Hotel, 84 Bowery,’ ~ y| her name was Mill 2] girl, young as she is, must know m: RLS CALLED | SAFE ROBBER She Is Only Thirteen Years Old, but a Baker in Jersey City Mourns the Loss of $517 in Cash from His Strong Box. The Jersey City police are looking for a thirteen-year-old girl, who Is accused of having robbed the safe of Henry Eisel, a baker, at Webster avenue and South street, ‘The girl was engaged by Elsel at an employment agency in Hoboken two days ago and she went to work for him yesterday morning. The morning the safe In the bakery was found with the door open, the contents, $517 In cash missing, and the girl disapneared When Bisel engaged the girl she said and that she lived 913 Washington he police say nothing with an aunt a street, Hoboken, is known about her at that address. neat tn The girl was good looking, appearance and Mr, Eisel says excellent salesgirl, She wo all yesterday and Bisel was ing himself upon having se- 8 she quickly made About 4 ured her friends wit o'clock this of the people in the house heard a noise in the bakery as 1 some one was moving around there. el was among those who heard the nolse, and he thought it made by the Miller girl. He thought must be very industrious to get up so early and start to work, and he again congratulated himself upon having got much a treasure, He took a different view an hour later wi he went into th found the safe door open and the money gone, He suspected the girl at once and hurried to her room above the store, but found it empty, ‘The police were at once notified, It is belleved by the police that the a wwout safes and how to open th gafe had been opened by th tion, and Mr, Kisel thinks mentioned the numbers in presence, —<—<—— THROWN FROM FIRE ENGINE. While answering a false alarm . John Ward, of 47, at Ono Hundred the girl's *! stomach is as sound and well as ever PLEASE DON’T TELL MOTHER. Four-Year-014 Girl, Badly Burned, Thinks Only of Parent. Ellen Farley, four years old, her body 80 terribly burned that little hope is ex- pressed by the Harlem Hospital phyal- clans for her recovery, had only one tear in all the agony which she suffered to- day after being enveloped in the flames of her burning night dress, “Don't tell mother,” she cried, "She has enough to worry her now, Please don't tell mother.” ‘Then the child be- came nuconscious and she was taken away in tne bosgpital ambulance, Margaret Farley, Ellen's mother, lives in a small flat at No. 179 Bast One’ Hun- dred and Twenty-third street. She leaves her home every morning to work in the Harlem Opera-House. Mrs, Farley lett child to-day as usual, About 10 Mrs, Connolly, who lives on the the child screaming . Rushing into the room she found Ellen in flames. Wrapping a blanket about the ohild Mrs, Connolly smothered the burning gown. Then she called for an ambukince. Mrs. Farley was summoned trom her work to the hospital where she joined her dying daughter. SHOT WIFE AND HIMSELF. NORWICH, N. ¥.. Nov. 3.—Calvin T. Wade, of Guilford Contre, in this coun: ty, shot his wife to-day and then blew his own brains out, Mrs, Wade Is still allye, but will probably dle. A FOOD RESCUE What @ Physician's Wite Found Out. The wife of a well-known physician of Oakland, Cal., was brought back to health. and strength by food alone at a time when she had prepared to die. She says of her experience: “I am the wife of a physiclan and have suf- fered from catarrh of the stomach more than ten years, during which time I suffered untold agonies ot mind and body, for I could not eat solid food and even liquid foods gave me great distress, “1 was brought at last to confront the crisis of my Ife. I actually made ready for my departure from friends and husband, for I expected to die. When in that state I was induced to try Grape-Nuts, and the wonderful effects of this food prove completely that all my trouble was due to im- proper feeding. “I began to improve immediat and my weight increased until I have gained twenty pounds since I began the use of Grape-Nuts, while my it was, and my husband gives all the credit’ for my wonderful recovery to Grape-Nuts. I have no set time for cating Grape-Nuts, but just feast on it whenever I please, ‘I wish 1 might tell my sisters everywhere of the marvellous health and strength giving, flesh building elements of Grape-Nuts.” Name given by Postum 4 thrown from the en ned injuries to his left le rear Wheel of the engine came off the engine dragged some distance dee fore it could be stopped. icrttesitliidiae Ub MaucEe, ‘LWeilville.” Co,, Battle Creek, Mich, Look in each package for a copy of tho famous little book, “The Road to | ney remedies largely advertis Alison! 7 The lightly shaded part was completely fire-swept, and Health Commissioner Lederle, when he heard of the proposition, was |enthusiastic over the idea. “I don’t care whether it is a park or a concourse or a city resort of any kind that is established in place of the ramshackle buildings that were the people cannot have too many parks or places of recreation to suit the Health Department. The more” jeer we have the better will be the health of every one in the city. | “I purpose to give this matter my earliest consfderation’ At present |T am enthusiastic over the plan to prevent the saloon-keepers and small |hotel men from erecting flimsy buildings on the old sites, Hundreds of |lives might ba prolonged by turning the Bowery section of the island into a public park, with trees and grass and ben The section is large |enoueh in area to erect a t.emendous bath- i, Where the poor could | get bathing costumes for five cents. I think that there would be sufficient revenue from the bathing-houses, soda fountains and a restaurant to compensate the city for its investment.” ‘ All ministers in the city, regardless of their respective beliefs, were glad to-day that the fire ba’ swept through the-worst part of the island. Time and again the Rev, Dr. Parkhurst, the Rev. Dr. David H. Greer and the Rev, Dr. Rainsford have advocated the abolition of the Bowery on Coney Island. They are all in favor of turning the ruins into a great public resort. The Rev. Dr. MacArthur has been particularly bitter against the dives in Coney Island. “It would be a grand thing,’ he sald to-day, “if the city would take possession of the devastated territory and) turn it into a park. Vice then would be practically wiped out on Coney Island, The fakirs and grafters would have to seek new fields. MANAGER . AND €0.'S WAREHOUSE MARSHALL FIELD Cured of Catarrh of Kidneys by , , Pe-ru-na. HON. JOHN T. SHEAHAN, OF CHICAGO. Hon, John M Co.'s wholesale following lett shall Flotd & G,, Writes the who has been for orpornt han, warehous avenue Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Gentlemen-~ t summer Icanght a cold which seemed to set~ tle in my kidneys and affected them badly. I trieda couple of kid- 1, but they did not help me any, One of my foremen told me of the great help he had received BE — using Peruna in a similar case, and I at once procured s “It was indeed a biessi: ,» asTamonmy teeta and I would not be witho; T. SHE AUAN, bottles of Peruna cured me entirely for three months’ salary.!’-—JOH) Mr, Jacob Flelg writes from 44 Su avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y of seventy-five years, than your wonderful remedy Peruna. —Jacob Fleig. Jatartha! {uflammation “of the mucous lining of the kidneys, also called “Brigh may bo olther xcute or chr te form prpduces symptoms of such ce of the frat syinp e taken, ‘This “a co at the very Footlof disease. hook on catarr! A rung, Mediclae Co,