The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1903, Page 6

Fire ina Bish House on Broome Street Drives In- mates of Surrounding Tene- qments to the Streets. QUICK WORK BY POLICE PREVENTS ACCIDENTS. Firemen by Their Cool-Headed Action Prevent Fire from Spreading—Thought to Have Been of Incendiary Origin. Two ‘hundred Italian families Ned panic-stricken in thelr night attire from the big six-story double-tenement at Nos, 143, 145, 147 Elizabeth street and No. 862 Broome street to-day when an ad- Joining six-story business bullding at Nos. 359 and 36 Broome street was de- stroyed by what {5 said to have been an incendiary fire, , edol-headed work by police and fireim prevented accidents during the ee -mell rush of tenement dwellers into ‘the’ streets, Luckily the police were in the hallways before the arrival of tho| ? engines roused the sleeping people to their dange: the stairways were stopped. with babes in their arms were assisted firemen from the escapes. High Wind Made Work Dangeroun, A high wind made the firemen's task more dificult, and a series of explosions | 2 fn a drug store on the ground floor of} & ‘the bailing didn’t add any to their com- fort, Fortunately Engine-House No. 6 was @irectly opposite the burning bullding, the-men on watch caught sight of tb fire and hurried in an alarm. Capt. the building and sounded three alarms, brifiging Chiet Purroy to the scene, After te flames had been partly subdued tlyenty. men of trucks Noy Sand 9 were fighting the flames down- ward from the roof when it sagged and gave Way beneath them. Half of them elangyto the°walls and scampered over to the roofs of adjoining tenements, from which they quickly slid down lad- @ers tothe resove of their perilously- placed comrades. Damage Will Reach $50,000. Dre damage to the building and stock wil} reach 380.000. The ploae has been Partly empty since a fire last September. suratice companies have refused to: take any’ further risks on the place, ‘Phe ground floor was occupied by Dr, Antonio Stella as a drug store. Nathan Bloomfield, keeper of a news- stand on the Broome street side of the Occidental Hotel, says that ne saw a down Broome street, open tl rstof the cellar in front of t building, touch a match to a bundle un- Ee Hits arly and hurl it into the cellar. a. se, he deciares, ure Ege based up. eee is also’ Bre, the fre was led at the ‘District-Attors 10 ask for an investi- e ONgin of the fire. 8 the most sensational incident of tl mee the Overy, of the wat John G. Taylor, of No. 250 ects. of the aed Sandi i @ coal | Broome street. Ca foreeny neue No. 5, while ariving The fire saw the oover of the chute i the ‘middle of the street move up ng at first it was som an force he, shied at ap: proaching © cover mov, Pee ne ordered his isutcnant to ine ‘ves! te. Just then they heard. the led _inoans of a man coming from She same pinae. gpen*the cover, a man all but dP was found trying to reach jeut. Driscoll and Wireman him by the shoulders and to the pavement. The man ‘almost Unconscious, SecunE Tus lunge, full of rest, air a minutes after- hen ary treman went to the where they had left him, he had ‘he “had tried every avenue of escape "from the ‘burning building. and finding his way blocked by fire and smoke, had crawled through a sewer fatto the coal chute. ARSON SUSPECT'S TRIAL PUT OFF Case of Helmer Duncan, the Society Man of Flushing and Yale Graduate, Goes Over for Three Days. Helmer Duncan, the society man of Flushing, formerly of Yale University was arraigned to-day in the Flushing Potice ourt on a charge of arson and grand larceny. District-Attorney Gregg way so busy with other matters that he asié@. for an adjournment until next Bapyrday. Détective Bowes, who has been ic ing on the ¢: wore to the affidavit ex are b: stice of riding ‘on which the ch can, who had a @utomobiles and playing the part of a podlety. young gentleman, was for time the manager of Parson & Bon's @mursery in Flushing. As a university with a salary of $1,000 a year he ilage. ve declares r the nurs- directed him Will De tried Hiktie"Constitutton > ‘ing the degeneracy the society editor wurseres: wowtan ty de man ma eat Jamming and crushing on| « Women| ‘ dowpstairs or taken to safety by the ‘suw' the dangerous location of 3 * Dun-|% in} « Fite quite a figure in the Long Isiand| “'s |RESCUING PANIC-S 6900660040000-06. TRICKEN TENANTS 99-0900 BLE FLAMES SHOT UP FROM 3D RAIL Workman on the Sixth Avenue “L” Dropped a Red-Hot Rivet, Which Burned Insulation from Wires. A rivet-passer at work with a gang of men strengthening the elevated raflroad structure at Wighth street and Sixth enue dropped a hot rivet to-day on the insulated cable which carries the elec- tric current to the third rail. The insulation burned away in a sec- ond, and as the man tried to lift the rivet he dropped the tongs. These fell in such @ manner as to connect the naked cable with the steel structure of «he road. Immediately there was a series ot loud explosions and the neighborhood was startled. Proceedings in the Jeffer- son Market Court were interrupted, while every one but the prisoners ard a few guards and the Judge rushed to the street. ‘A score of workmen employed in the same gang with the rivet-passer Jumped | to the wooden passageway between the tracks, where they were safe from the current ut still in great peril. All trains were blocked. The explosions continued, each one| sending a t ve of dive flime high in} the alr, null workmen below with a@ fJoiat Ufted the tongs from its position. Burning insulation dropped on the cin- vas net stretched below the structure to cateh anything which might be dropped by the workmen, and this caught fire, ex When it that the bis nearly in two, damage had been Jone to the structur 41 thousand .persons | ves from the Charles rsed it. assembled, but 1 street station di CAR CRUSHES HORSE'S LEGS. | Animal Is Shot After Suffering More Than an Hour. An Amsterdam avenue and Forly- second street car struck a team of horses at Sixty-third street and Am- yterdam avenue, at 8.09 o'clodk this morn- ing, and the off horse of the team, big bay, had his legs ground under the wheels, An officer of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals wished to Kill the horse, but James McLaughlin, the owner of the animal, would not give permission. r suffering for an hour Z AST HMA BRONCHITIS CONSUMPTION {is a great mintake fu e “or ittle throat ry Carty Any cough dency « top Woite inthe lunge. Ifyou cannot ih ri! st, for treatment It can Hefo 9 the doctor at 119 piel years old, | MYSTERY IN TWO BROOKLYN FIRES Flames in Stores Far Apart Owned by Same Firm Thought to Have Been Set by an En-! emy Seeking Revenge. Fire Marsha) Beers, of Brooklyn, is investigating two mysterious fires which started to-day in two stores owned by Von Giahm Brothers, wholesale and re- tal! grocers. The stores are three miles apart, the first at No. 51 Tompkins ave- nue, the second at No, LIS Wiyona street ‘The Von Glahm brothers are at a | )s8 concerning the origin of both fir the marshal is morking on the that some enemy of the grocer taken this means of wreaking rey for a real or fancied wrong ‘The first fire started at 2 A the Tompkins avenue store. Be! was extinguished $1,600 damage was done, ‘The store was securely locked last night at the close of business hours, and as far a# Is Known no one was left In the place ‘The yecond fire started at 8.90 A, M., the rear of the store on Wyona atry The fire fighters had hard work in o fining the flames to the ground floor |The entire stock was damaged ‘by fire ‘and water and the loss will reach $2,000. coca ie ea LEG SEVERED, VICTIM DIES. Captain of Scow Was Struck by New York Central Train. As the result of injurtes recetved last night Edward Sundsohn, twenty. the captain of a dirt scow owned by Brown & Fleming, moored at One Hundred and Thirty-second street he Hudson River, died to-day in J. Hood Wright Hospltal. Sundsohn was crossing the ¢ract |the Harlem Division of the New York | Central Railroad at One Hundred and rhirty-arst and the Hudson River, when he was struck by a freight enginé and hie loft log was severed. shock in the hospttal M at 50c. Bow,” -00. value 50c. to } Sets, value 75c, to went aa a throat troubled The ry great deal, always dry and painful, took dd easiiy, and hi ich Was ‘etting ire nol to wee ye Mra. Laut Deafness, ey Troubles Calor write’ D Tt Sundays 11 tod. DR, Reding ahtraliruah Incorporated, 119 WEST 22D hetween bd THM aya ant ehrich's Store, ¥. "Phone Degt to He died from pias A. aha: AM FIRE aN bide aghid ade hi sad $5090O94OOO094O060440OOOG4 HALIFAX, N. 8., Nov. that effect read as follows With Deo. of the emplo: and Steel Comp 10 to 33 Bibs wil be patd eee SERVIA TO EXHIBI BHLGRADE, Servia, Nov. cent per diem." osldion. At Riker's Drug Store They condition tn probabl cough which ts hard people ne Riker Company, Mra, Buros, of Memp! a WEILER: Havers cold which 1 ine to get rid of. T Jont_my appatl and irrital it cortainly worked wonders for couRn and nervousness, an iy, to cure, overwor! too close confinement (to business. aid a member of the Yand' the following letter Is only one of many which we are constantly | Pesghyummgg ton what Vinol with creased my appetite, cured my indigestion, dT sleep sound. 1 consider Vinol a wonderful rem Vino cures wuch conditions becauee It is PAY OF STEEL WORKERS CUT. 18,—The Do- minion Iron and Steel Company, Byd- ney, has given notice of a general re- ? |duction in the wages and salaries of all its employees. The notices posted to “Beginning 1, 193, all wages and salarise of the Dominion Iron ny will be reduced from Common laborers T. 18.—King © |Peter to-day received in audience Com- > Imissioner Cridier, of the St. La ‘The King sald he woul gladly see Servia represented at St, Louis and) promised to recommend the Ministers to) favorably _consider_the question. Is Ex- RUN DOWN AND NERVOUS. “| VINOL COMPLETELY RESTORED MRS. BURNS'S HEALTH. Agree to Return Money tf Vinol Fails. any people right here in New York City are all run dowa, hardly able to drag about, don't know what ails them. ‘This used by a cold or ik or Such ‘Tenn, who te national Drews correecpudent of ene C. ‘Last winter 1 caught a seemed Impossible for came much run down, ite and flesh and felt nervous | Vinol was recommended, and me; it in- and without one drop of useless emulsions, strongth and, vier blood thing ts printed on the bottle; liver oll. It ts delicious, stomach can retaln It tated. aged or person, in |born colds, hanging-on coughs, It costs nothiny iker's ‘antec, our xu to have V) Jungman, 6 Drug Ladies’ Ketter: Dept. Attractive Neckwear at Attractive Prices. Vesting, Chiffon, Moire and Taffeta Col- lars, all the newest effects, usually sold Special 25 cts. Latest Fad in Stocks—The “ Tailored in good quality Silk, hemstitched Sets and fine quanty Ecru Lace Collars, Special 29 cts, Fine assortment Tailored Stocks in Pique and Linen, handsome Vesting, Silk and Velvet Collars and extra good assort- ment in hand-made Stocks and Persian 1,50. Special 50) cts, Yauckatt Carhart so. Broadway and 14th St, Vinol_ is not a patent, medicine, it contains Hfron’ andin-a higily concentrated form alt of the vitalizing properties contained In cod and the weakest Br “conventence of people in and 601 8th Ave. the only preparation in the world that con-| tains every one of the fifty odd medicinal | Cirative elvments found in fresh cods vers oll, which characterizes old-fashioned cod liver ‘oll and it imparts In a natural manner or to every organ of the ‘Aide digestion and makes rich, red every: We ask every run-down, nervous, debili- | New York | City and every person suffering from stub- bronchitis | or incipient consumption to try Vinol on if it fails) ug Store, | and 429° Columbus Stores, cor, FAMILY i oH OVERCOME BY GAS Young Woman and Little Child Are Taken to Hospital, Where It Is Said They Are Likely to Die. Maggie Rogan, twenty-eight old, and her niece, fda Fitzpat- rick, three years old, the two most ser- tously asphyxiated of a family of six in the ground floor store and living rooms at No. 7% North Portland avenue, Brooklyn, are at the Brooklyn Hos- pital, where tt was said that both might die. Mrs. Delia Fitspatrick's husband, Eugene, Med two weeks ago at No. 32 North Portland avenue, and last Fri- day the widow moved into the store and rooms at No. 78, starting a candy store for the support of her family, which consisted of her three children, Daniel, four years old; Ida, three, and John, ten months old; her father, Dan- fel Regan, sixty-eight years old, and her sister, Miss Maggte Regan was awakened at 2 o'clock this morning by @ smell of gas. He roused the rest of the family, and they all com- plained of sickness. A search was made for the gas leak, but it was not found, and all retired, They were awakened again at 6 o'clock, and this time several were unable to leave their beds. Miss Maggie and little Ida were the most seriously affected, and a policeman sent them to the hospital. The house was aired, but the minute ft was closed | there was a smell of gas, It is believed that a main passing under the house had broken, and the gas company was notified. Doctors attended the family at the rome to-day and said that had they re- mained an hour longer without medical attention their condition would have deen serious, ————— A Most Useful Book. ‘The World Almanac and Encyclopedia is a most useful book of reference on all manner of things.—The Freemarfs | Journal (Cooperstown, N. FIRE SCARE GIRLS IN BIG WORKS Several Go Into Hysterics as Engines Arrive, and Friends Flock in Alarm to Small Newark Blaze. (Spectal to The Evening World.) NBWARK, N. J,, Nov. 18—Fire broke out In Clark's Thread Works here at 8 A. M, to-day, a half hour after the 4,000 employees had begun work, and created considerable excitement among them. The greater number of the work- ers in the mill are young women, and they became nearly. panic-stricken, sev- eral going into hysterics. The fire was among a lot of olled waste in the engine-rocm, and those in parts of the big building remote from the blaze were unaware of Its existence until the fire engines drove up and sur- rounded the structure, The girls in two or three departments made a rush for the street, The fire did little damage. News of possible danger to the work- ers in the building epread all over the elty, and hundreds of persons who had refatives employed 'there gathered In ex- cited crowds near the place. No one was injured. a AN OLD FAMILY. In France the family of Crony Chanel boasts of descent in direct Ine from Adam's third son Seth. ‘They say at the ily deeds into the ark. At their chate [may be seen a, pict ure of that eviat, wherein one of the drowning men waves \sorlbed: “Save the title deeds of {house of Crony.”” res yah: SSS His Wifely Treasure. (From the Boston Transcript.) Hall—I suppose Owler has the most indulgent wife man was ever blessed with. t 1 ‘Ball—Doesn't scold him when he comes home late at might in a condition? fi Aesdonaele Hall—She does better than that. She even so far as to have stories made up te exmiain his staying away. It Front saving of Owler’s inventive tasule Broadway, 33d to 34th Street. Value $27.50. Value $19.50. Rain Value $13.50. About twelve hundred below their true value. Value 10c., Thirty inches long, satin lined, fancy velvet collar, trimmed with black braid and buttons, of Oxford Cloth, shoulders, fastened with belt. 30c., Saks & ne Suits and Coats for Women at Special Prices for Thursday. Coats of Black Zibeline, strap seams of plain cloth, full back. Special at $19.50 Special at $15.50 Coats cape over ONC |PLEURISY, PNEU time of the deluge Noah took thelr fam-| U! a scroll above his head, on which is in-| CONSUMPTION CURED . George G. 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CAUTION.—When vou eak for Dutly's Pure Malt Whiskey be auro you get the genuine, Inecrupulous dealers, mindiut of the exch ration, wil try to vel you fi || tations and matt whis dubetituves which ave. put so fae mere rafit only, end fer trom relieving ‘the sick, are positively harm! « ‘and be sure eget tte It a the only ‘absolutel ‘Whisk contains medicinal, health=giving qualities. Dafty's Pure Malt Whlekay j9 ond ln sealed potties only: never in flask or Dull. Cook tor tive the label, and be certain the seal over the cork Is unbroken. Beware of Felllied otties, Bold by all druggists and grocers, or direct, $1,00 a bottle. Interesting inedicab books tes tren fanyerss Du ay ‘alt Whiskey Co., iitoeten New York. ber the [Cosine Brsae (nem Cures a Cold in One Day, a RIPANSTABULES aro thi Dest ¢3 ae ‘wer mde. a Nome onev ery | | within twenty mi: or. -28e | ora order ves. alae Broadway, 33d to 34th Street. Tailor Made Suits of Cheviot, in black, blue or brown, long coat with lap seem Value $30.00. Speci 21.50 Of Broadcloth, in black,blue or eae long coat effect with blouse, cape over shoul- ders, elaborately trimmed with braid. Value $40.00. Sp Costumes for evening and Receptton Wear in Crepe-de-Chine, , with taffeta silk lining, elaborately trimmed; colors white, black, at $9.75 pieces, in a large variety of designs, in Doylies, Tray Cloths, Centre- pieces and Pillow Shams, at prices infinitely 50c. and 85c. Ss lat 5c., Value 50c. to 75c. At Special Prices for Irish Point Lace Curtains in long, 50 inches wide. |] Renaissance lease Curtains \} cable netting. Mercerized Armure Porti riety of colors. Value $6.50. Beds, Springs Value $30.00. | ee SEWAC | “40.00. | “45.00. Value $18.00. “91.50. Box Springs, best cons Value $11.00. 15c,;, 29c; Value $5.00 to $6.75. Spec wide insertion an At Special Prices for Thursday and Friday. Brass Beds, excellent models, well constructed, best lacquer, 1% or 2-inch posts. and 48c, ies, all lace or linen centre, sizes 9 and 12 ins. Special at 29c. Sofa Pillows. Thursday and Friday. ished Sofa Pillows of Tapestry or Satin, plain back or tapestry both sides, with cord and tassel, Value $2.50 to $3.00. Special at $1.45 Curtains and Portieres Thursday and Friday. a variety of designs, 314 yards Special at $3.15 d edging, heavy Value $20.00 to $25.00. Special at $12.75 full size, new designs in a va~ at $3.95 and Mattresses Special | at $22.50 26.00 32.00 36.50 “ “ “ Mattresses of black hair, soft and sanitary, full 45 lbs., one or two parts, fancy or plain tucking. Special at $12.50 in 15,75 truction, rabbet edge, all Special at$8,50 _ ‘Stamped and Renaissance Linens. Speci pink, lavender, brown and black, At $32.00, $45.00, $55.00 and $65.00 Oriental Rugs At Special Prices for Thursday and Friday. bagh and Guendije Rugs. average sizes 4.6 x 3.2 feet. Value $8.50 to $14.75. Speci ‘Belustigtan Rugs, sizes 95 x 3.7 to 3.6 x 4.10. eit Value $13.50 to $22. 50. Speci shirvan, Kazak, G i eR \ sizes 2.7 x 2.10 to 3.6 x 8.5. Value $16.50 to $20.00. Special at $11.25 Daghestan Rugs, sizes 3.5 x 4.9 to 3.5 x 6.10. Value $27.00 to $37.50. Special at $21.50 gh $, sizes 3.10 x 4.10 to 3,11 x 611, Value $37.50 to $60.00. $31.25 5 Bokhara Rugs, sizes 2.10x3.1 to 4.1x6, Value $37.50 to $49.50. Special at $31.50 Kermanshah, Sehna, Tabriz, Saruk and Feraghan Rugs, sizes 4 x 5.10 to 4.3 x 7. 5 Value $115 to $175. Special at $97.50 |! Kazak Rugs, average sizes 9 x 5 feet. f | Value $47.50 to $72.75. Special at $35.00 K ets, sizes 7.7 x 7.11 to7 x Il, Value $72.00 to $87.50. $ $61.00 : Blankets and Comfortables 8, with plain or inlaid border, fine cotton epee filled, various styles. Value $2.25 to $4. Down Comfortables, covered with figured satin. | Value $5.00. Special at $3.25 Blankets, 72x84, wool filled, silk bound. Value $3.50. Special at $2.65 Blankets, 72x84, of California wool, with wide silk binding, a { variety of colors. ¥ V Value $6.00. Special at $4.00 Blankets, sizes 72x84, of California wool, in silver gray or mode with figured border, Value $9.00. at $6.75 White Crochet Q: i Value 75c. White Marseilles Quilts, hemmed, Value $2.00. Value $3.00 White Crochet Quilts, fringed. Value $1.75. hemmed. Special at Spesial at Sp ecial at