The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1903, Page 9

QS BRIGHT AT 100 AS A WOMAN OF gE Mrs. Anna Betts, Though She Has Lived a Centary;» Gives’ Many Beminiscences of Early Days in New York. ina. CWIN SISTER DIED, AT 80. Bhe Used to Walk Along the Bow- ery When It Was Like Going Prermey wr ys as , x saat eal THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1903. MRS. ANNA-BETTS, 100 YEARS OLD, AND TWO GREATGRANDCHILDREN, T0 BAR AMMAN OUT OF CONTRACTS Mr. Lindenthal to Receive Bids on Blackwell’s Bridge Towers that Will Cost $8,000,000, Before’ He Leaves Office. Gridge Commissioner Lindenthal will forestall Tammany in the matter of awarding the contracts for the building of the towers and superstructure of the great Blackwell's Island ‘ridge. Before his term of office’expires it is his inten- tion to award all the contracts for the work, Into the Country—Pensioner of War of 1812. One hundred years old and as bright , Mentally as a woman of fifty. This is the remarkadje record of Mrs, Anna Betts, of East Orange, N. J. “I know a hundred seems old, but fthe Lord has been kind to me, and I ope he will spare me a little while fionger,” said the aged woman to an Evening World reporter. Mrs. Betts, who lives with her grand- ughter, Mrs. Anna Turner, was to we been the guest of honor at the {One Hundred Year Club banquet at the Hotel Majestic Monday night, but a 14 kept her at home. “I believe the reason I am in such d health and have such a clear emory is due to the fact that for igbirty-five years I have been drinking Hight gigantic masonry towers are to be erected for the bridge, four at each shore, and hundreds of thousands of tons of steel will be required for the structure. The contracts all told will require an expenditure of more than $3,000,000. The Commissioner's desire to get these big contracts under way before he quits office took mmterial form to-day, when he advertised in the City Record for bids. The contracts will include furnishing “all labor, materials and plant” for the construction of the towers. No bids will be received later than noon Mon- also called him a “Jaffe once. Some 3 one in the rear of the church did not| “ay, Dec. 21. The Commissioner also catch the word and asked to have it re-| advertised for bids for the installation Deated, of the electric wirings and fixtures for ae ‘ mh ‘nffo™ onceman idiot, vou might pa Ne} the lighting of the new Williamsburg [barsunay: I have my port wine, too, but I don't drink much of it. It seems burgundy refreshes my memory, jand I love to sit and think over the when I was young, and I can Wecall events that happened when I was ‘only three and four years old. “My nephew, Alfred Speer, who lives ft Passaic and is over eighty years old @imself, sends me the wine, and I am ‘always supplied.” 3 i Lost Her Eyesight. Up to twenty months ago Mrs. Betts 4s blind. Before losing her sight she sewed and made all of her Jown clothes. Now she loves to alt and talk of her long ilfe and to dream of the days that have made New York's past history. | “I was born Oct. 7, 1808, at Graves- fend. L. 1," said the eprightly old ladv holding @ tiny great-grandchild on her fap. “Later we moved to Belleville, N. & and it was while there that so many teresting things connected with the jar of 1812 were impressed upon me. Sho young man who afterward became y husband was in the war of 1812, and get a pension of $12 from the Govern- ant now. "I remember the day my father went fio war. He wore such a beautiful uni- my sister end I thought. Why, remember it just like yesterday. “It was after we moved to New York, I was seventeen years old, that (nteresting recollectioris begin. I 't believe that the New York bY) to- Bowery Out in the Country, “My father was a shipbuilder, and We always lived near his place of pusi- wess. I used to walk along Grand Btreet and up the Bowery 1 Head Inn used to stand, and I can re- member walking ‘way up there some- mes with my elster, ‘I never went to the theatre in those ys, but I attended church regularly. used to belong to the Dutch Reformed ik street, but I was baptized in the old urch in Jane street. I cam remember ‘well the balls I used to go to, and I oe oe any Statement she to I Wil} Attend Next Year. at the One Hundved ‘reat ay whi dio: 0 | pisses elt | fopsgres foe eno f aaa "| Flushing, acquitted their pastor, the After the pustor was retained in h for the Fire Department, the buildin| "1 and I say that such’a term is disre-| bridge. Spectful to the honor of myself and the| Equal aotivity is shown by other of office I hold in this church, the Fusion Commissioners. Mr. Sturgis testimony ‘was ‘all in, the} Invites Ida on heavy orders for hay Fr is Office by a es fote of 13 to 10. The minority resigned | of new engine houses, the bullding an “C’momber of the church whi eatchalve repairs to department hous 101 of who was not] extensive r rs it lepartment | 5 Rev. Mr. Rathke, Accused of|attowed in at the trial said after it| Commissioner Woodtury” wants ‘bids for Minere never would ‘have been any | mere Thin ee set eae epee: wih % Brora ts Being an Anarchist and Offeroume ic it was not for that Lena| Mesos, “enc bullet ofan incinerating Drinki te h Fai Hnoosel. ‘The pastor aaked her, to joln| plant and iabor and materials for shoe- hur ‘choir, er A coul th i a rinking Beer a’ ch Fair, If she wouldn't (be Kept by rehearsals eae ees ssa er than 10 o'clock. One Is Cleared. was home only by 11 o'lock, an . The Oceanic Of Nantucket. sel blamed ithe pastor. The pastor suid} The. steamship Oceanle, bound for this Pe eee eT oe Bees lock | port, was reported off Nantucket at 7 had besrr-the rest of the time. [t's ali] O'clock this morning. She will not reach @ woman's fuss, anyway. here until later in the day. No sooner had the trustees of St. John's German Lutheran Church in Rev. John J. Rathke, of being an Anar- chist, of having expressed glee at the assassination of President McKinley and = of having referred to Trustee Knoesel es a “laffe,” which means idiot, on Tuesday night by a vote of 18 to 10, ‘than the defeated minority sprang two new charges on the pastor, which it had kept up its sleeve in anticipation of a dismissal of the more serious charges. Tt was fonmally alleged against Pastor Rathice that he had done twelve things unbecoming the dignity of a preacher of the gospel, on two of which the mi- nority insisted that he be immediately Men, Women and Children Exposed to the Morphine Peril. tried. Ons of thess was that he tried] Morphine s a deadly narcotic drug. ate effect. Probably the majority of fatal It ie taken from Oplum—polsonous and phoumonia canes hi M to buy @ tox of cigars at a local cigar] qdtai!® taken pre Feckleas Uso of Morphine oF other colsonday store on the credit of the Ladies’ Aid to cover the tip of your finger narcotics in so-called “immediate relief Hoough will kill a man. . cold cures. Whi ‘th + Soctety and tho other that at the church |” "the naime- is taken trom that of the etre. ces tho Bocets SP oeneten ie the cesta goun’ meantag tho Ged of ploy. oun aio eal SOM WEY, bedh: Ty causes sleep by paralyzing the worves, membrane of the three te steed ae oF weeks ago he did publicly drink a ginss}and ‘at the expense of a serious shock 9 tem Is polsoned. conpestion or lnfaireation Deer consternation of his} tbe system. sets in and extends di Lachenged saad ind Dcied iueeaneek of] 4i%1 dangerous for man or woman, and thon it js pneumonia," ‘° the lunge partshioners an « deadly to children—it elther kills ‘This information is of vaiue to you, and Salo wnt wOLL. or by the development of diseaso a" "ly may save your life, aside from sue ourmine : dy, because. of the in writing this to Pastor Rathke, flushed with the vie~)deadentor thove ‘forges tipou which tho Father Johns hegicia Zgue, attention to hn tory he had just won in the small mat-| system and all throat and lutig troubles ‘without ter of an Anarchist, laughed merrily at the use of these polsonous drugs, alcohol the new set of charges and soon e 2>- ly, morphine is used @ which the majority of patent medicines de. majority called “cough syrup pend for theli ‘Ushed his innocence of the first and the/ pa} of this ‘and’ baisams-of-that—used ous~and “which you” Care ach det: sed 0} utter harmlessness of the second. By aj because of its power to create an immedi- against. strictly partisan vote he wus again ac- quitted. Then the disgruntled ten re- signed. The meeting of last night was called to thragh out the charges of anarchy against the pastor, he specific charge against the nastor was that on the anniversany of Presi- Gar: h he gaid in the] concave yA srownyel ‘rustee Knoesel, Shoulder. Q\ cotta: joesel_and Fraulein Kn ‘that he was glad McKinley had been shot. The witnesses were the sels and Herr Trustee Mehske, who was also pres- ent at the Knoesel home on the day the pastor was alleged to have made the ‘anarchistic remark, Pastor Rathke said ‘that he never made such a remark and that on the day in question he was in New York and had not visited the Knoesels, Herr Knoesel, in giving his version of the affair, said that the pastor had | WAS DEAF. My hearing was so bad that I could not periacorewarel ba in Shy “ear to” make me understand. My mn sh coal that unless i e' PS wate tg : ured completely. iH ant Usual Defect— Slopin, Shoulder. ne did mi Gardner. He has hearing is as good as ever, 1 watch tick when held two feet away from MY gavive every one who is Deaf or Hard of He 0 fead-Nolses to: go to a eve he can ‘or very The Newcomers in Winter Suits and Overcoats with Our “Concave” Shoulder & “Closefitting”’ Collar. To-day we touch upon the broad scope— the variety—the ever-newness of our stock. The man who saw our goods in November will find almost an entire new line here now. There are new models, new designs, new DR, GARDNEWS OFFICE, color effects. Every day brings its supple- 8 With Ay, 1 Seo) ment of new ideas. Every new lot brings a ; pouch cf picennees Fe lis poe: Suits Bnd mn pocenathy : vercoats with an air of distinctiveness quite esaiitios “dreate mite ts ding arene! foreign to the ordinary kind. Our ‘*Concave” sinful in eny way. but on the coal Shoulder is their distinguishing feature—its plete, chen Lwpntte Dr) «broad, high, graceful effect is obtained in the ad_ sory, I oould: not even bear the’ ght on skilful modelling by hand—and it will always fees Cai Sacee| retain Its shape. $15 Winter Suits & Overcoats t, nas| Single and double breasted sack suits of cheviot, tweed, cassimere, ; eryibing. Thibet, undressed and finished worsteds in plain colors, two tone ef bent, raw tomporsry rai Di fects and fancy patterns, Ha ¥° was “edine down 'nilh pretty. Pont Hl Seatuen tengter vercoata, (Chesterfelde and extra. long’ overcoats of i? think the Suslie ity year. capautth“or "SowicH. Ht Loree well now and Oxford and black velours, kerseys and meltons. vie vuney wee EKONS., §~| Other Suits and Overcoats $12.50 to $50. Broadway. ; Houston St. sD R OARDNER WM. VOGEL & SON, EEO E LN TRY ER TIT ween nnn nn nnn BLOOMINGDALE BROS.,, { ALL CARS TRANSFER TO j elt INGD ks BROS, } ALE CANS Ask to Be Shown the “Amaranth”Shoe For Women at $1.98 a Pair. You'll Be Impressed by Its Many Good Points. Christmas But Two Weeks Off.! Of course this year, as in the years of the past, you'll see some people putting off their Christmas shopping until the eleventh hour. But they, as usual, will be the hurried and perplexed ones, the dissatisfied and pleasureless shoppers. It will be “must” with them then, and, of course, nobody takes pleasure in doing things of sheer necessity. Just this or that, that they saw a few days ago, will be gone, They won't | machinery never ran more smoothly and you can’t be surer of comfort in tind anything to take its place, and yet something must be bought. your shopping, prompt, accurate store-service and the quick delivery of your Don’t you be one of these, purchases than now, This store was never better able to serve you than now. The greatest Good judgment and the lessons of the past prompt you to get as much holiday stocks we ever gathered are here conveniently arranged for you to | as possible of your gift-buying done and over with at once—and to shop in make gift selections from—and prices are unmatchably, little. The store's | the morning these days if it is anyway possible. Good Clothing Specially Priced. |This Table, 50c. Just 275 of these. solid DB The sale of Clothing, Men's and Boys’ Over- los oak tables a BE coats, Suits and Trousers, which we are going to : like picture .y hold to-morrow is an instance of the value-giving re- to go onsale sponsible for the vast and daily increasing number Ay t of our clothing corner’s regular patrons. Y ae arise ursday, Prices a Third Under Regular( W<Jionly at soc. fr Prevail. oe oe for Men's $10 Over- for Men’s $16 and $18 aye : $6.95 for Me Wess SAL ooior Men's) $16/a0 1 z, inch top, Rigs. shelf and In all smart shades, thorough! y ‘ tpend upon them for entire satls-) terials; in black, blue and gray. O.D., but mail orders when $8.75 for Men's $12 Over-| $6.95 for Men's $8 and $10 4 accompanied eoatey a | aiden tEieet herb price will be filled, inches long; of | All-wool fabrics; t hly well 5 Pyaeitiee ‘all desirable Hades made and “devendable; fine "bast Fourth Floor. smart and correctly cut. ness suits. $11.95 tor Men’s $18 Suits. $1.69 tor Boys’ $3.50 suits. We unreservedly recommend sted; in plain diagonals, velour | Wool cheviot; made double-breasted jacket 5 uae carats style; sizes 8 to 15 yes; es “Worthmore”Shoe $1.80 tor ren’s $3 Trousers. $2.95 tor Boys’ $4,50 Overcoats. For Men at $3 a Dair ‘ Excellently made and tailored throughout; parently, made, of new Oxford gray ma-}] 4 . A ektain high-; shoe, splendid materials. erlals; sizes 4 to 45 years, ; wear-cqaeine ah the Boys’ Highest Grade Norfolk Suils, 8 to 16 Years, $4.66. |] best anos value obtalenble, Second Floor, 60th St. Section. ] Half-Price Suit Sale. Reavtiful Fur Scarfs, $12.501, Sample suits and suits from our regular Regular $25 Values! eSeas EE Oe These elegant, stylish scarfs are of Regularly Priced either Isabella or able fox, and are in at $14, $16 & $18, 5 one of the season’s smartest and most to-morrow, special, popular styles, é We want to make to-morrow a banner They are fully 80 inches long and day in the suit section; we want to add seule sell for $25— new friends to our list—we want to prove ne offer them while again, as we do to some one every day, the lot lasts at the 12 50 that Bloomingdales’ prices mean savings in really [sale eta) 3. every instance. price of, each, The suits in this sale are of fancy mfx- tures, plain cheviots, canvas cloths and Isabella Fox Boas—Two skin dou- ble boas, with four tails and four paws, value $20; sale price,... . $10.00 velvets, in plain black, blue and brown and Long pean } we Bons wit 4) 4 rs ur on bot sl , ten tails and cor mixed colors 4 . value $20; sale price. So $10.00 i 3 Each coat is lined with satin or taffeta, Mink Stoles and Peler- Flat [ink Mutts—To match and the making alone in many cases cost imes—With fancy silk and scarfs; eee mink; more than our sale price. satin linings; 18 large fluffy value $30 and 3 Sale i fox tails and cord; value $25; DHCES ics eeke $15.00 and $25.00 Sizes from 32 to 44 bust measure, sale price......+.....-+....912.50 | Plat Chinchilla Mutts—To Isabella or Sable Fox Flat match boas, stoles or scarfs; a Stoles—With 8 large fluffy value $58; sale price.,.....- $39.00 » 0 ortune Watch S ecials, tails and cord; value $27; Round Chinchilla Muffe— PP }) e sale price... $15.00 Value $35; sale price........$17.50 | 7 “ 4 cally pt Black Lynx Stoles and Pel- Isabella Fox Fist Muffs— Right at the height of gift-buying time, | “erines—With 8 lynx tails Values $17 to $25) sale. prices : ‘ou might well expect full prices, we value $50; sale $8.50, $9.50, $10,50 and $12.50 @ o when i, are holding a special sale of watches at prices which mean saving a full third. Every watch is guaranteed, remember, to HW be a perfect timekeeper and to give entire long; value $50; sale price.. $25.00 H349 to tomen's $10 Enamelled Quality HandKerchieis Here. . $12.00 and $25.00 | Four-Stripe Isabella Fox toles—36 inches Flat Mutts—Value $31; sale y Quality and little price have again won a signal victory in the handkerchief store. f Never has handkerchief selling been so great throughout the first } week of December. Only the very best quality in every instance—all pure linen is | the watchword, when the price permits—and when it does not, onl: the finest grades of cotton are offered, and these NEVER masq as linen. Here are a few prices on the most popular sorts: For Children—Beautiful assortments of fancy Boxed handker- chiefs, at 10c., 15c., 25c. and 50c. box. 5 In all the daintiest colorings of green, garnet, turquoise, &c.; chatelaine to matche-all in a Valet 4 pretty box, as illustrated. $3.75 for Mon's and Women’s | $6 50 for Women’s $10 and $12 $10 Watches, sh Gold Watches. ~ Size 6 and 18, with seven-jewelled celebrated standard American move- ments; stem winders and setters; gold-filled cases guaranteed for five years by manufacturer and our- selves — warranted perfect time- keepers. $24.50 for Men's solid 14 kt. Gold Watches. Thin ‘model, fitted with Elgin or Waltham movements, Values up to $40.00. $9.95 Small sizes, gold, stem winder, with fine Swiss movements; richly engraved, engine-turned or plain polished cases for, monogram. 18.50 for Men’s solid 14 kt, 5 Gold Watches. 12 and 16 sizes, thin model, open face, with Elgin or Waltham move- ment. Values up to $30. for Men’s $13.95 and $16.50 for, Men's solid Gold Watches. Thin model, fitted with Waltham For Women—Either plain hemstitched, initialed or elaborately embrniderest ior lace trimmed handkerchiefs, "from 5c. to $7.98 each. For Men—Plain hemstitched, initialed or colored border Hand» kerchiefs, at 5c. to 98c. each, for Women’s solid 14 kt. es. Gold Watcix ‘Main Floor, 50th St. Section. Hunting case, fitted with fine Swiss | or Elgin movements, open face or News fromthe Upholstery Store. movements, Value $25. bunting case, lain Floor, Front, Centre. If you’ve a front door that needs new curtaining, or if you can Men’s and Boys’ Bath Robes. make use of another depirenin or some silkoline, eretonne, China : 5 silk, denim or the like—or if you wish draperies of any kind, don’t Nine out of every ten men—and boys nowadays—appreciate } fail to read the following news items from the upholstery store: something that will add to comfort. A bath robe certainly will—so if } riantte Lambrequins — Of Lace Panels—Nottinghamsize, you've a gift for man or boy, why not one of these? yards long, 36x54 inches, worth 75¢.; spe- $2.98 for Men’s Eiderown Bath | $4.98 for Men's Satin Bound trimme: h ball fringe, cial, 39e Robes. Eiderdown Robes worth 69c.} special, 39¢ | Rope Portieres—Inall popular Lambrequins—Of silkoline, colors, value $1.25; special, cretonnes, y Value $3.98. Excellent assortment, All-wool brush back eiderdown, V y ; : f , vith Ph, 89 ut full, with heavy wool girdle to entire front, collar and cuffs bound | {ull length, trimmed. wit | _ ¢ach, match, with satin fo match, Value $5.00. f fringe, rane special 59° | rhree-Fold Screens—in oak, *, ? ‘iderdown aE DE = mahogany and white) enamel, : 98 for Men's Heavy Elder- | $1.98 for Boys’ EI ‘damask, plain ana two tone Antes $3 dow Robes. Robes. eftects, value $4.50; special, 2.98 filled with silkoling, special, 75¢ Curtain Poles—In oak, Value $4.98. Material is extra heavy Worth $2.50. Very good quality with, ied back, heavy worsted eiderdown, robe cut full size, with girdle and neck cord to match, girdle to match. Colors red, pink, . 2,98. blue and gray, Boys! sizes, $2. Malt Poor, 60th St. Becton. es White Swiss—1 yard wide, mahog- value 12%4c, yard; special, | 8c | ny and walnut, with trim- Cretonme—in pretty effects, mings, complete, § feet long, Ld value 18c.; special, per yard, 1234¢ | Striped Couch Covers—Ori- ental effects, 3 yds. Jong, fringed all around, value La Sikolaee in vial AEDS, 36 ne inches wide, special, yard, 10 Vestibule Lace—trish Point, Breen tach . 27 inches vides single and barsstna ret id carping, ve double borders, value 69¢,; lace inser! special, yard, 30c | withlace, yd, 35¢., 30c. and 28e ‘Third Floor, 59th St. Seotion. | Holiday Ribbons Galore! Our usual assortment has been malay dneteased ane we have e popular holly colors gifts now an extensiye collection of ribbons in t rh which are so much in\demand for the doing up of Christma: and the making of holiday fancy work. i The prices we quote are lower by far than those elsewhere. You mayajudge from the following: No, 1, all silk ribbons ; 10c. for a piece of 10 yards. No, 1¥, all silk ribbons ; 10c. for a piece of 10 yards. Main Floor, 80 Section. Women’s (5c. Hosiery, 29c, Excellent quality, lace lisle thread stockings, openwork through- out, in six dainty patterns, — aut aap : We must restrict quantity sold to six pairs to any ue co BLOOMINGDALES’. id Avenue, S9th and 60th Streets. 3d Avenue, 59th and Goth ts.