The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1903, Page 2

F FERRY BOAT NO REVOLVER OR WEAPON ‘OF ANY KIND FOUND. Every Artiole of Clothing Brand New—No Money in Pockets Victim. ‘With @ bullet wound In his right tem- Plo & well-dressed man; apparently fifty ther slip at the Battery on her 1.20 oclock trip this morning from Hamilton ave- 6, Brooklyn. died a moment after he was discovored, All the elements of the case déspeak & deep mystery. He was lying with his legs crosted from.’ the down; his bead Inboard and his feet hanging over the edge of tho steamer's guard. NO revolver or weapon of any kina | ‘was found on the body or near tt. None of the Montauk's crew nor any of her Mfteen or twenty passengers saw the! men board the boat. No Weapon Fou Deckband James Mearns stumbied against the wounded as ho opened the gates. He saw that the feet were ing aver the edge of the guard and wet ‘they would be crushed. ‘was backed while he pulled the) clear of the apron and shouted to! ¢ f f the Old Slip st ‘ton, who: it that moment pide the ferry’gates to call an amb * Aange tmmodiately and then bent over Ae sdinces man again. An ambulance the Hudson Street Hospital soo: 5 Sasi or Wells pronounced man deni police. mea took the body to the Slip station, where. the clothing ‘wow searched, but nothing to give a clue . to: whe the man Line a have been was found. » milled to the helmaman and the | Diothing “Euttrety New. » wai not @ cent in a of the} nd all that was found was. ® ‘chse Yoontalning seven cartridges ‘belonging .to either a Colt’s! eee ae magazine revolver, four) 4 ket-knife, a comb, two curt! Piss i ers, wywhite handkerchief and af ; plete of tissue paper i t ‘The clothing consisted of an Oxford fot, mixed black and gray, a chevigt-ault, black satin necktie, : ‘white fold collar marked “Monroe,” Drown socks and lace shoes made by “Bdwin Clapp,” The underwear was white. Every article of apparel was brand new, even to the collar, whieh had not been -worn more than’ two. or ‘three hours at the most. the remains werd, sttipped. at ‘the Morgue the only; mark discovered | ‘was a large mole oof the left ‘shoulder, ‘The man had st pid ut & fect @ 1-2 hyped in height, and-welghed probably Pounds. Thoyihale. ‘is dium matache Saeeie ‘complexion features regular, The of the head as slightly, bald Sains tte mun t a it t aulcl jer going. to tho edge of do #0, with the expectation Hsin bests would us overboard. 1; eat) hapy om Be he felt rs Ws the "vonvulsions of erawecoaching vents his Umbs to work over ‘a oie Spars | in the position in which COURT FAVORS SMITH. Additional Receiver for Shiphulld-, iden | Man Dies While on Bow of Montauk as’ and No Clue to Identity of the. Years old, was found on the bow of the: ferry-boat Montauk as she was éntering | steel-nibbed} mandy, a mer) . TREE PORE SOSISE SSS HOSS SSL SE ote i ° +@:- $0OO6¢Cb6GO08 JAPAN CALLS IN WAR MINISTER Elder Statesmen and Cabinet Ministers. Discuss Czar’s} Reply and Talk of Taking a Firm Stand Against Russia. TOKIO, Dec. 16,—In consequence of Russia's raply, a spéclal conference of the elder statesmen of Japan, including the Marquis {to, and the Cabinet Min- Isters ig proceeding here to-day. It Is understood that the statesmen are con- sidering the adoption of a firm stand| against Russia. Gen. Kodama, the War Minister, progent, for the first time, at the ference, con- (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 16.—Judge Kirkpatrick to-day refused the appli- cation of the Mercantile Trust Com- pany of Now York for an additional re- elver for the inaolvent United States Si> Building Company. The Court ruled that, as receiver, James Smith, jr, Was appointed in the Interests of concerned, Receiver Smith, who wan seated in the courtroom with R V. Lindabury his }counsel, hea ade the object of a Bitter ettack, by William J, Curtis, who he application pik Teta va ILL, HE MOURNS LOST GIRL. duller or Wife Fears He will Die Unlens Niece Returns, Mona Otto, who has been living with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs, Jullug Otto, at No, 307 West One Hundred and fieventeenth street, hasbeen -missirur since Monday, and her uncle, whom she has nursed during several years of ii- hedith, is fretting so ever her absence that his wife is afraid be will succumb Unless she returns, The young woman has complaindd of being tired of working so hard lately. Monday morning’ Mrs, Otto gave the a company td pay pot ko there, nor ha» she sing fla wick returned os F a WwooD ‘ALCOHOL VICTIM DIES. Whe third of fot men “who | rank utities of ches whiskey and wood coho), at No. 2% East One Hundred enteenth street, on Munday, sto tlem Hospital tomy, MeCas‘chy, of apf men dled’ 'vesterday, ineteld, ——— IN FISH 18 OUT AGAIN, Bish, Agaistant Treasurer of d States In New York, ap- i *ahpa all ‘| irl % and told her to go to the ot Ape | ‘There ix renewed activity at the Ad- miralty, in view of a possible naval demonstration, PARIS, Dec. 16.—Well-infokme! diplo~ matic circles belleve that despite the discouraging news regarding the Russo- Jupanese situation that war will not | cour, It is sald that Japan has in- Produced into the negotiations new wands, which Russia did not exp when ‘she presented dit te added that the Cza Would have made the concessions tn pect to Corea unless he had b Vinced that Japan would not ex demands ‘The sympathetic attitude of the Brit h press toward Japan is regarded, alng. country, has not changed its policy and ix work ing to prevent war, o far ax known In| | Paris. WOMAN FELL DEAD WHILE SHOPPING Stricken with Heart Failure at Kosciusko Street, Brooklyn— Body Awaits Identification. While &htedink this afternoon a wom an’ tell’ dead at tho corner of Broad and osctusco su Brooklyn, ay et, pre- 4 | sumably tr ar ive years old, jof stout qd and wore a gray. shawl peat @ dark wrapper. She china bowl under her arm. gogempanicd her, and those who ww ia ala hot. know “her boay. oe faathelnaipn evenup anton’ ————— FISHING STEAMER ASHORE. 8T. JOHN'S, N. FF. steam Mashing vessel Aliog Jacobs, Capt, Solomon Jacobs, bound from Gloucestor, Mate: for Bay of Islands, to toad froaen , went ashore to-day near Cape] £°x#er has been formed which has been) ring, |e nd will probably be ® total loss, bHSOEOFESOOO ES the Corner of Broadway and, Dev. 6 —Pha) es ‘CHILD KILLED WHO LOOKED FOR SANTA Little Henry Wright, Told that! the Christmas Saint Was Next Door, Leaned Out of Window and Fell to Death. a H Wright, four ye: 1d, haa) been told that Santa Claus was in the show window of a shoe estore next door to his home at No. 59 Grand street, Brooklyn, and in his eagerness to see the dispenser of gifts the lle fellow leaned out of the window on the third floo | He could see nothing and he stretched} a lttle farther. Then he fell. A man was passing on the sidewalk below and the child struck him in his descent. aside and the being instant= The man was knocked boy struck the sidewalk, ly killed, Harry's mother heard his frightened Jory as he plunged from the window sill Jand r od the window in time to see his 1 shed out In the street below the Mrs. Wright was climbing over ledge the window herself and also would have made the leap had she not been pulled back by relatives. Then the grief-stricken mother raced hack and forth through the house shout- she would Kil horself, and it Ity that she wan with great aim: was restrained. Au ambulance camo from St, Cather- ine's Hospital, but the doctor said that tho ebild been Kill hashioeen Killed tnstantly, FEARY-HOUSE MAY FALL INTO TUNNEL Five Hundred Square Feet of Space at the Battery Has Been Fenced Off Because Piling Is Insecure, Five hundred square feet of the South Ferry house at the Battery has been cad of because the piling under it is ¢ of collapsing unless the break In the rapid-transit tunnel at this point Js soon repaired. > The New York in ‘Tunnel Company, wate) of compressed alr around the break, order to prevent the tunnel filling with | Zu) itis had to keep a steady charge g MABEL PARKER; JUST TRIED FOR FORGERY, FROM A SKETCH MADE BY HERSELF IN COURT. BOEROROEDLOOLOOOOOEDO98 COOO0O9OOOOH | PSH ISHHSOH 2994099 9 3 : ” POD POCHOPIMIOTE 82 ¢ $oo > oe 9E-39-99-3990G9009H9-9F-9F-L-9HOIO DID DOS 1g WANTS crv TO OWN THE STATEN FERRY Contracts for New Boats to Be Received,- Leaving Question of Final Ownership for Future Consideration. Alderman John T. MoCall made a strong plea to-day for enuntelpal owner- ship as the only solution of the Staten Island ferry problem, When the mat- ter of consMering the awani of con- tracts for. the purchase of fast new boais came up before the members of the Sinking Fund he declared that in his opinion the only remedy for fnal improvement of the service between Staten Island and ‘Manhattan was the ownership by the city of the ferry ser= itself, terminals and all. He said: “At a former meeting of this body I offered as an amendment a resolu-| tion contemplating the final ownership NEW FORCE OF FIGHTERS FOR PANAMA SERVICE}. Navy Department Organizes the Caribbean. Sea Battalion and Cruiser Dixie Hurries North for the Men, WASHINGTDN, Dec, 16—At the in-) % | stance of Secretary of the Navy Moody: | Brig.-Gen, George mandant of the issued orders for new battalion of marines to be known as the Caribbean Sea Battalion, ‘This body of fighters will be regularly | puttuched to the Caribbean Sea squad- ron, although {ts immediate destination | is Colon. It will be assembled at Philadelphia as rapidly as possible, and the Dixie already has left Colon to return to, that place with the new battalion. Rear-Admiral Coghlan, in a cable- «ram to the Navy Department, Colon, Dec. 16, says that all is quiet on the northern coast. It {s assumed from Admiral Coghi F, Elliott, Marine Corps, com: | nes \the department the formation of a jregarding conditions on the northern dated still on board despatch that the Atlanta and the May- lower have completed their reconnoiter and that he is thereby enabled to give positive information jcoast. COLON, Dec. 16,—The United States auxiliary cruiser Dixie to-day disem- barked her marines, numbering $30, Paey all boarded a train for Empire Station, near arhere they wilt 2 quattered, in the ‘canal ©. houses, which “atready have been, fe~ pained’ and made fit to Tecelye them. Hixteen machine-gune edd six auto- Matic-guts Accom |. The rematnder of eh hyo United States }euxdi: ‘ary, cruiser eta marines are that vessel. It is prob- able that they will be landed in a day or rae °Dixte salied this afternoon for Philadelphia, BRIDESMAIDS WILL | They Were Made for the Presi- dent’s Daughter and Another Young Woman, Who Found They Couldn’t Serve. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—A burning question in Washington society to-day 1s, who is to pay fur the beautiful pink creations which Miss Alice Gordon ‘Tucker ard Miss Florence Field wore at the recent McCauley-Tuckerman wedding? One would naturally expect that Miss Field and Miss Gordon would pay for them themselves. They were bridesmaids at the wedding and brides- maids usually pay for their own gowns even when their cut and color is dic- tated by the young woman they serve. But in this case the situation is not ordinary. Mies Alice Roosevelt and Miss Carolyn Postlethwalte were oniginally members of the bridal party, and the gowns which have created such a disturbance were ordered by them. But as the day of the wedding approached Miss Roosevelt and Mies Postlethwaite found that they would be unable to serve. They Acted as Substitutes. Then Miss’ Field and Miss Tucker, frien ls of the Lride, who had not been asked to serve. as’ (prideamaids, good naturedly stepped in the breach and agreed to be bridesmaids in place of the two defaulters. It was too lute for them to order gowns of thelr own, go they Ynustled down to the dresmmaker who was making the gowns for Miss Roose- volt and Miss Postlethwaite and had her fit the.garments for them. instead, ‘The gowns were adjusted to the per- sons of these youns women, and the wedding went along all right. Miss Field and Miss Tucker gent the gowns back to the dressmaker after they used them, Dill just the same, Miss Field and Miss Tucker declined to pay on the ground that they didn't onler the gowns and that they were just filing in any way. Miss Roosevelt and Miss Postlethwaite will not pay the bill because they didn't use the gowns and have no use for them now, ‘AN four young women are determined to maintain the stand they have taken, and the dressmaker {8 in a quandary, he says she will sue some one, but just who she hasn't made up her mind yet. Now, Who Should Pay. of the Hine by the city, In the report! submitted to me by the Dock Commi: sioner [ find not one single word ap- proving or opposing Municipal owner- ship, I belleve that the only manner in which the people of Staten Island can ever get a proper service is through | ferry system owned and operated the city, I will not vote for any other project, for it seems to be the desire of the Dock Comrfisstoner to put up this important franchise to tho highest bid- ‘Conside ble discussion, followed. Comp! Grout ‘declared that the people Staten Island should recel mmediate rellef and that the only to secure it was to award At once the gontract for bullding the Improved fast boats. Alderman MoCall answered that he was in favor of immediate rellef, but declared that he would not vote for any favored corporation getting the fran- ghise oventuatty. thus compellig the eaple of the island ¢ fo gue UB with the inconveniences they have suffered years, It was finally deolded to receive the contracts for the boats at the next meeting and go ahead with thelr build- Ings, Teaving the matter of their even- tual ownership by the city a well ams the ferry system Itself for furthgr con- sideration, ——— GREECE'S CABINET RESIGNS. ATHE Greece, Dec, 16—The Rall Cabinet has resigned, the Premier being unable to find suMcient support in the polley. SHIPPING NEWS. NAC FO! DAY. loon Fines, 4.08 Low Water. | ; Be nay Tooke AX Gvernore twiondss 85 13m is Mell Gate Ferry. PORT OF NEW YORK, [Ogiveston Workmen have been piling sacks of gand around the breax, but the air has found, 1ts way through and a powerful forcing itself againay the eo) of the terry-house, There is.no sign of arakaning in the piles yet, ‘but beonbee of the crowds jn the ferry-house at rush hours’ it was thought best to fence off the dangerous | INCOMING eames |teutonte, Lavectool Belaravia, Hamburg, OUTGOING STE STEAMAHIPS. SAILED TO-DAY, verpoo!. Chamber of Deputies to carry out his! leanwhile, ag a pure qugetion at othe fone “the matter esting society ‘greatly, Many thing tt is up to Miss Roosevelt and Miss Postlethwaite to pay for the dresses and others are equally | sure that the expense ought to be bor ‘Dy Mixs wield and Miss ker, The outcome of it all is looked forward to with great interest. C -SPECIAL NOT PAY FOR GOWNS; but the dressmaker sent each al ANDY FOR THE ENTIRE. WEEK. ODS, COUR EST cine in mma ory, ‘HURLED HERSELF IN FRONT OF CAR rename Woman Who Says She Is Mrs. Mabel Beaukamp Saved Only by Prompt Action of a Trolley Motorman. ee A women, dressed neatly in black and evidently suffering from great mental trouble, stood for half an hour to-day at the corner of Twenty-third street and Highth avenue, walking now and then to the car tracks, looking up and down the street and then returning to the curd. Eighth avenue car No. 1101 was ap- proaching from the south, when the woman ran to the tracks, and when the car was not more than fifteen feet from. her she stretched herself out across the tracks and with a free hand motioned for Motorman James O'Brien to come on. O'Brien yelled to her to get out of the way. He tirned off the power and sorewed on the brakes. The fender caught the woman's head and rolled ‘over it, but the car was brought to a step before she was seriously Injured. Carried into a drug store, the woman told Policeman Otto Wagner that #ehe was Mrs. Mabel Beaukamp, of No. 307 Weat Twenty-seventh street, She refused medical agsistance and was taken to Jefferson Market Court, where she was charged with attempting} to commit suicide. denied that she kill herself, but she had fallen over the rails in ¢ront of the car. neh ‘The woman who conducts @ board! house at No. 91 West. Twenty-seve! street, sald that no such woman ag Mrs. Bi Mrs. Beaukamp was held until to-morrow to give the Portes in which to investigate. —$———_— FREE ON THE CUBAN BILL. | |Demoeratic | Caucus Agreement, WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The Demo- cratic Senators continued their corifer- ence to-day with a view to reaching a conelusion on the course to be pursued regarding legislation. They decided that the caucus aotion in deciding that Dem- ocratic Senators shouid vote tigether on party questions in the future should not be binding in the vote upon the Cuban Reciprocity bill, but that each bad) ce time Senator should vote as he might prefer on that measure, ‘The conference also decided to post- pone its decision as to the course Spo! a reued with reference to the Pans Eiiul treaty and decsded to hold_or meetings for the consideration of ti and‘other questions as wey may come up for consideration. is2O0c SPECIAL FOR hel dala SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY. had attempted to aid that “whlle drunk | Make Your Selections banat ays a Deposit We Will We carry a tremendous stock of over $250,000.00 worth of diamonds, watches, jewelry, silverware, &c., which we are Selling at less prices than any other house in New York City. A guarantee given that every article is as represented. Below are a few illustrations of our great ae It Will Pay You to Come Miles Out of Your Way. 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