The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1903, Page 5

THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1903. ND WERCY FOR (Men of Note Give Answers to the |SONFOIND HS |FLEDFROM FLAMES PIOUS CRIMINAL! Famods Query: “How Olds Ann?”| — PARENTS DEAD} IN SCANT ATTIRE “ Mary is twenty-four years old. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was Kaufman Lang and His Wife Early Morning Fires in Three ld is . How old is Ann?”’ : re bss a corto er wonders “How old js Ann?” many prominent men of New York had an end of Were on the Bed with Gas Houses Throw Tenants Into Flowing From the Tube when| @ Panic and Send Them their striiggles with-the famous problem propounded one month ago by The World. ‘They have réached con- Boy Called Them. Scampering to the Streets. WEBER & FIELDS Asks for an Injunction to Pre- vent Production of “The Sign of the Four,” with Sherlock Holmes Character. Judge Newburger Sentences Frank S. Bilditch, Confessed Embezzler, to Sing Sing for Eight Years and Six Months. clusions which should be of interest to all whdse minds are vexed with the terrible question, “How Old ts Ann?” To such puszied puzzlers there may come rest'and peace if they follow the suggdstions on solving the Ann problem presented by the bright minds.of these public men. Here are their answers to the question of the century, “How Old Is Ann?": On the theory that a piliceman can solve mest prob- Fire caused @ panic In’ the five-story Justice Clarke, of the Supreme Court, apartment house at No. 28 West Twen- on the application of A. H. Hummel, In When Kaufman Lang and his wife ABRAHAM H. HUMMEL. STOLE $90,000 FROM HIS a genie t i esata 41d not appear for vroakfast (0-luein atreet to-day and many of the} |) iti i é vo. 12 eho i 5 EMPLOYERS IN 18 YEARS lems and that the average citizen when indoubt acts on}. rection “x women In ae youns, Raging fn Mea aaa reece eet oes ees ore tenants fed to the street In thelr aignt- | Pehalt feiss apr ae le ci «, Ie ” i 4 Hundred and Tenth street, thelr son/clothes. ordet -day c is the suggestion “go ask a policeman, the questi¢ rm ~— oF carted hid hege argument to ednvince a jury of true) Herman went to thelr room to call| ‘The insulation on the dynamo in the land Walter Edwards to appear before “How Old Is Ann?” was put to several of the city’s |*2m\rers of the fair sex, composed of readers of The Even-| thom. Tne door wae unlocked and at-|basement, which tuns the elevator. | him on Wednesday and show why they ing World, that Miss Ann Is as young as she is Beautiful, and, in fact, even younger than she looks. You see, the problem is mot at all difoult of solution, but, though Ann may have been only half as near the fulness of her sister Mary's charming development at one time, it Is a gross absurdity to suggest that Miss Mery was ever twice as old wore off and set fire to the woodwork. The halle were soon fed with smoke A the night watghman gave the alarm wh the building. Men, women and ren were soon hurrying down the ter knocking without getting a response he walked In. ‘There war an overpowering odor of gas and his father and mother were dead in bed. He ppened tho windows should not be forbidden to present the play ‘The Sign of the Fou Edwants appears in the “Bherlock Holmes.” Mr. Frohman claims that the play now dluecoats, -POLICEMAN BERT GALLAGHER. Policeman Hert Gallagher, of the West One, Hundredth) street station—If 1 catch Ann playing around my beat I'll! Hundreds of Petitions for Clem- ency from Merchants, Clergy- in. which character men and Others Had No Ef- run her In. My family have been all worked up over this! 1, ner dainty little sister.” and move the sie The eritle itd staire ot Into the street. The damage peated ve Mead we Breet Meets) : I asting pape i came in response to a ca “ was small, e, He 5 ment o fect Upon the Court. Pe akan higper tie Heky Lhaye tied nivel WILLIAM 8, DEVERY. hovae said that Mr. Lang and hie wife] 4 few minutes earlier the firemen | William Gillette's play, erlook the ways I was taught at school, and come to the|, “Ann who? Ann Tobin, around the corner, will never see| had been dead for several hours were calfed toa Are in, the six-atory | Holmes.” in which he has an exclusive conclusion that Ann won't tell how old s! eighty again, and although I fixed It so she could grow flow-| Mr. Lang was a retired cigar manu-| rei nT ain the liquor store | MENT. ‘The futility of engeavoring to secure “My boy,” continued the former Captain, “that Is harder | ¢rs on her fire-escape, her three sons and twelve grands }facturer, sixty-four years old. He had gf y. Kelly, on the first floor, and] In behalf of the Broadway dialecti- clemency for a criminal from Judge}'sn4), hunting for evildoers in the Tenderloin. If 1 could voted for McClel ‘This Ann you're talking about never|® wide acauaintance in Harlem and was| spread to the two floors above They clans and Walter Rawards, ©. M, Friend Newburger because of the criminal’s high) eure out that problem I would be an inspector tovay in-| lived in the Ninth, and therefore oes not exist. Con-| Prominent in various social organiaa-| OO SPCI VY fomilfes in the tenement. | insiste that ‘The Sign of the Four" ts standing in cherch circles was illustrated again to-day when Frank 8. Bilditch was arraigned for sentence charged with em- Kullk Treats ALCOHOL and tlons. His wife was sixty-fve years of age. It is supposed that one of them in turning out the gas before retiring by A, Conan Doyle, and has no re+ semblance to Gillette's play, and thet the character “Sherlock Holmes” js only house at No, 04 Forsyth street were panic-stricken by the ery of fire early to-day and fled from the building ax the halls Alled with amoke, The fire started sequently she has no age. That's the answer.” JULIUS HARBURGER. stead of being on the retired list. Talk about Mark Twain's red-slip trip for a three-cent. fare a-ringing and a-ringtng in your head! That Mary Ann pussle has been Mating about Ddezxte: Rilditch. whosé home was “Mary was twice as olf as Ann was whtn she wan as old} jast night accidentally left a jet open.| jn a candy and cigur store on the first | Incidental. Rt Nos sis Dean streets Brooklyn, waa |i My brain for weeks, ever since The World sprung it. Ann! ag Ann Is, It was easier taking my district out of the Low| ‘The key of the gas Jet that was found | Moor. (9 Which tre Aremen succeeded In| | Mr. Hummel told Justice Clarke that rentenced ¢o a term of eight years and | 8 ld enough to know better than not tell her age when she! column and putting it where It belongs, in the column of| open was defective. It can be turned all | Confining tt. jomied the tee of ihe rete ae he aoe ‘ 0 che knows how much trouble her silence is causing. She ough to be ashamed.” POLICEMAN GEORGE SMITH. six months at hard labor in Sing Sing Prison. He was for many years the manager rook-ribbed Tammany strongholds, and, anyway, any man the way round. ‘he bedroom occupied who knows his business will unswervingly refrain from dis- cussing @ lady's age.” of Sherlock Holmes in behi of Sherlo behall of Mr. by the couple is amali, and it was not long after they went to sleep when It oo FREIGHT CARS RUN WILD. at the rican braach of the cutlery firm of 8. & (. Wardlow, of SheMeld, Englan4. His office was in John street. In Brooklyn he was a prominent church member and Sunday-schuol worker, a ™man renowned among his acquaintances, for his austere habits and his apparent predity. ‘The SheMeld firm last March became convince that there was something ‘wrong with their New York office. Their confidence in Biiditch was absolute, They thought he was perhaps the vice tim of a dishonest employee, and Mar- madvke Wardlow, of the firm, wrote that he was coming to New York to straighten things out. Destroyed Books and Fi He arrived of April 35, only to nd that Bilditch had destroyed the books and. disappeared. Bilditch remained ‘away for five months, but the desire to fee his family impelled him to conduct negotiations looking to his return and he came back and surrendered himself. In the hope of obtaining clemency, Bilditch entered a plea of guikty a month ago, confessing that he had stolen $90,000 in eighteen years, In the interval between his confession and to- day, the date set for the imposition of wentence, he busied himself with get- Ung letters and petitions asking Judge Newburger to suspend sentence. These letters Und petitions, a bale of them, were handed up to the Court when Bilditch appeared for sentence to~ day. They were from merchants, Preachers, Sunday-school superintend- ents and men of affairs in the business world. One and all asked that Bilditch be allowed to go free under Suspended wentence in view of the upright char- acter of his life outside of the fact that he was a thief for eighteen years. Judge Wewburger was angry. No Ordinary Criminal; cannot conceive of the state ‘of mind of the men who write me these letters and send me these p he sald. ‘They do not appear to realize my position, They forget that I owe a Aas community, . he said to the prisoner, “are no ordinary criminal, You had the ad- vant birth, education and social jtion in the place where you lived. ‘ou posed as a Christian, when by your ‘own confession and from ‘evidence in my possession you: were a ‘persistent thief for eighteen ye “you stole over #00,00 trom a frm that trusted you. I can see no reason why ‘you are entitled to any sym: hy, what- g@oever. -The sentence of the Court is you be confined in Sing Sing prison ard Inbor for the period of eight years alx months, Bilditch was bitterly crushed by the wentence, He Is fifty-five years of age. |) ——— ARMENIAN SLAYER 1S IDENTIFIED. LONDON, Nov. 9,—A’ formal verdict ot murder and suicide was veturned to- duy ns a result of the inqsest on the Cae of the jatest victims of the Ar- menian feud. The names 2f the two membres of the Hentchak’st Society muriered here recently were doth given rikonian, while the name of the thurderer and sulclde Is now ctld jas Gorgle Ya to be George Smith, policeman in the Dridge squi wrong to ask an old man like me that question. I have been so busy thinking out that problem that I have come near neglecting this crowd, I went to night school and am a good figurer, but that has got me broke. DETECTIVE-SERGEANT PRICE. Detective-Sergeant Frank Price, of the Central can't do that problem like it should be done, but I have shadowed that Ann till I have a line on hor age. Ann has lived about elghteen years, I won't break any bet- ting records that I am right, because women are deoeitful about their ages and I may be wrong, but if Mary owns up| , to twenty-four I guess Ann would claim MUNICIPAL JUSTICE GEORGE F. ROESCH, “No member of the judiciary who must presently be de- |} pendent upon the votes of the brothers and husbands of the Marys and Anns is justiNéd in giving an- opinion on thelr, ‘ages for publication.” JUSTION GIRGERICH, “The question 1s not properly before the Court, and I must decline to pass upon it." JUSTICE TRUAX, “Ask the Indy.” JOHN T. MEEHAN. “Ann was ninety years old. I know, béeeauéd she and her | 20W Old Ann ts, or Mary, or Jane, for that That's JUSTICR JOHN HENRY M’CARTHY. “The question of Ann's age is properly one for the jury, and fortunately so—for the presiding Judge.” ALDERMAN TIMOTHY P, SULLIVAN. “Just twice as old as she wis when Mary was twice as old as Ann, That's wasy. Six years ago Maty was elghteen and Ann was thirteen, To-day Mary is twenty-four and Ann fs nineteen. Figure ft out for yourself, Don't you see that it Mary Is twice as old as Atin was when Mary was—I meat twiee as old as Mary when Anh was half as old as Mary, consequently ‘But there, let the professors figure It out, It’s as bad as when is a mice when: it spins,’ * DETECTIVE-SERGEANT VALLELY. Othee—t I believe eighteen. get Anh's age. i @ mysterious person, and I'll bet whe has @ police It's wrong for her to keep that secret so consistently WR¢a one word from her would olear thé tyotery,’ SENA Fe JOHN FITZGERALD. “How old is fo, You don’t catch me. I've bit be- fore, and f Was aearly driven into the bughouse trying to figure it out. Talk about that nut-sinashing and brain-ate- organizing old-time fifteen puxale—why! it isn't in it with ‘How old is Ann? Now, I don't care a snap of a finger er, I nearly drother shook hands with Lafayette on his vislt to New| Went nutty trying to Mgute ft out. Please don't revive the York in 1824. Old Peter was the stewani of the beanery for | °!4 nightmare.” forty years, and he was ninety-two when he died. Ann was three years younger. Peter was the oldest exempt fireman when he died, and Ann used to pride herself-on keeping the| —this way. X;Ann's age now=Mary's age wh. ALDERMAN JAMES OWENS. “Why, Ann is elghteen. It's just a case of simple algebra len Ann Was moths out of his red fire shirt. He and Ann used to sell|i2. Savey? Then %-X=difference in ages of Mary and Ann apers: Why," ‘etrect in the beanery. Ann was— “What? Oh, that World question about the girl who is twice as old as herself—I have no time to fuss with that. thought you were talking about old Peter Rose’s aister Ann.” PANIC CAUSED Bt BG FACTORY FIRE Dwellers in Tenements at the Rear of the Herman Behr Building, Brooklyn, Throw Be- longings Into the Street. In a fire which destroyed most of the big sand-paper factory of Herman Behr, on Tiffany place, betweem Harrison and DeGraw stfeets, Brooklyn, to-day, 10 men were ir peril, but all are believed to have escaped. The loss wns about ‘$100,000. The fire started on the ground floor of the five-story brick bullding which forms half, of the factory. The reat consists of a six-story building. Men repairing electric wiees had left n light- €d candle near the doors, and this set fire to the structure. 2 The fire was discovered just as the men were leaving the place for lunch alk ng ‘ ice. testified that "e aesassin'e was Dickrin, that ho and that ho had re- me at" Middlvourah, Middlabaro, . were made ica, Were quite new. MANY NEW LAWS PROPOSED. Suiser Wants Monuments to Tilden : and Cummings. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9,—Several hun- Gred bills were introduced in the House to-day. A statehood bill for New Mex- foo, introduced by Delegate Rodey, was the first. Representative Barthokit (Mo.) ted a meagure restoring the army ess the ¢ight to by, Rep- hropree| ft 4 |. Representative Greene eT L sass.) introdweed & bill Yo induce Werable employment of American tative Sulzer 5 PEO hour a for thy “3 Samuel J. "hiiden atid Amos J. os tive (@em., Gol.) Fee cmtavlistiog te mere eymom of weights and moasures, ———— LOW BACK AT HIS DESK. ——= 1 Mayor Low feturned to tis desk at the City Hall to-day from bis country home at Rye, where he had spent the days sinee his defeat on Nov. & regent election ‘or. “Will SE Se ater? Wage Hnfor im the said yu outiine your & reporter. 8," he sald. that his name is be- mbassadorship for an Ai " The alarm was shouted throughout tl ‘oullding and all hande piled out. Wh on the streets there was a report that two who had been in the bullding were not accounted for, By the time the first fire engines ar- rived all of the five-story bulking was filled with flames, and two, three and four alarms were sent in in quick su2- cession. A Fireman Injured. In carrying a line ‘of hose, Mireman MeCoskey, of Engine Company No. 108, fell and was seriously injured, He was burried away to the Brooklyn Heypital. Five men were on the top floor of a stable next door to the burned bulld- ing. They did not seem to realize their danger, and the polices under Roundy- fan Boyle and Patrolman Woods, car- ried them to windows and dropped them to the street. Back of the burning building in Hicks street are several tenements o¢cupled mostly by Italians. ‘The residents of Vesey street corner in Jackson's first) now. And X—i2=difference in ages of Mary and Ann these old structurey became’ pantie stridken when the flames were blown toward them by the winds, and most | of them threw their pousessions from the windows. All families moved what| fine ait ’ Beware of U H strbstittite on the unsuspect HUNYADL who endeavor to palm diff an inforior and often harmfat ANOS—not simply Hany adi—wher you tal laxative waterknown to the wart when named after Ann Rose, and we} Ann was 12. The difference, thet, in the ages keep her name green in our humble way by calling ‘wee! es 5 pee iaiwaye f an'’| the same, therefore X13 I Ann's a t that a cinch?" = SHOT DEA WHILE CROWD LOOKED ON Pittsburg Robbers Held People at Bay in Street, While They Killed Grooer and Plundered things they could from the neighbor+ hood. 5 While the firemen were fighting the fire an explosion occurred on the top floor, and the roof fell In, carrying al} floo ith 1¢ to the basement. Soon af- ter this the front wall fell In, sending a great flery columns of burning embers {nto ¢he aky and distributing them as they fell over hundreds of bulidings. Forty minutes after the fire started three walls of the five-story bufding had fallen and the fire had spread to His Store. ment# in the rear, and the tiremen ot began trying to save the factory ot Me PITTSBURG, Nov. 9—Alexander Ja- Walton Paper Company, across Tiffany | #inka, a grovet doing business on place from the Behr factory. Police Capt. Campbell, who with Capt. Toole, had charge of the 1% policemen Wayne etreet, in the Lawrenceville dis- trict of this city, was shot and ki early to-day by three men who ‘attempt: tenements in the rear of the gutted ed_to rob th tore, ‘at the fire, said: The "hol up. “happened about 6.30 “This i@ the quickest and hott coe wis withowrea by & gumber ol fen om hed in. Brookiyn tor interfering by two Of tha men, who held them at bay a£ the point of revolvers, Sprena to the Tenements, Aftet the shooting the men esoaged in Despite the efforts of the firemen, the |{he heavy fog without having secured was full of gas. —— DROPS DEAD NEAR HOME. James Ahearn, sixty-five years old, a ship carpenter, living at No, 380 Ham- fiton avenue, Brooklyn, dropped dead from heart diseass within a few doors of his home this morning. Ahearn had just started to work and reached the corner, about 100 feet from his home, when he fell. ————— AN EARLY MORNING FIRE. A fire started early to-day in tte base. ment of the two-story joining the New Star Hundred and Beventh gton avenue. ‘The. bul = with scenery of the thentre, “Phe wed Was put out after doing but ilttle dune Sixteen Gondolas Cause Heavy DRUG Damage and Block Traffic. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Nov, 9.—Sixteen gondola cars broke from a construction train in the Mulberry street freight yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad early to-day, and tan away, causing da: estimated at $1,000, ‘The acci- dent was due to the breaking of a coup- ling pin, Four of the runaway cars| 4 were amashed and traMc blocked across Mulberry street. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. it James F. Vallely—I have solved human mystérieg and dug bome deep into the mythical, but I can’t Underwear Gowns, Skirts, Chemises and Drawers, 98c., $1. Eiderdown Robes, $2.95, $5.45. Eiderdown Kimonos, bound with fanc Exderdown Department. 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