The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 3

~ INAS. WEDDNG ‘Miss Lillian Bennett, of England, | Was on the Cedric to Meet! Fiance Who Was .Killed on B. and 0, Train at Laurel Run. " DETECTIVE TOLD HER THE NEWS AT PIER. | Her Merry Christmas Now Means Being Penniless in a Strange Country, Her Hopes for Happiness Shattercd. i , ; ‘William Ambrose Good, a successful merchant of McKeesport, Pa, was to Niysad ‘have married Miss Lillian Bennett to- Florence Pilgrim. Who Shared day in the “Little Church Around tne] Her Food in Prison with Her Mother, Is Merry Even in Her @orner.”” Poverty. By letter he had made arrangements ‘with the Rev. Dr. Houghton to perform the ceremony and to have the church gaily decorated for the happy occasion. | Good was hurrying to New York on \@hg Baltimore and Ohio from his home, intending to mect Miss Bennett at th sWilte Star lino pier when the big) (Cedric sould land with her from her ‘pome in Staffordshire, England. It was while in the happy meditation let this approaching wedding that th ltrein was wrecked, and Good was only fone of the sixty-eight who lost their ‘ves in the accident. ( ‘Waved Her Handkerchief. jomte Bennett stood at the rail of the Ina hall bedroom in the rear of the second floor of the big double No. 301 West Porty-third tenement at street a y up to-day to one mases of thelr lives. a shelf he single which both had slept for the night was a small box of crackora, all the food in the house, A worn gocketbook on # chair, the only other article of furniture in the room, was empty, with no prospect of being filled. Outside the children of f the happiest Christ On ov cot on as the giant steamer rounded Into) the nfty other ovcupasts of the house her alip to-day, waving her handker-| were running up and down the hails chief with tears of Joy in her eyes. She} wisning each atner Christmas wes cevtain that Good was on the pier] and showing their gifts jand @hat he saw her. Al! the passengers {on the boat knew her secret and they wwejdloed with her in ber happiness. She Aairly danced with the intoxication of “her, great joy. + When the ship was made fast the gang plank was run up and Miss Ben- nett was the first to come running down the pier. Thengshe stopped. Tare 4 no one to meet her. She looked ‘t Into strange faces. Her throat 1d, and the suddenness of this com- vely trivial disappointment seemed ~ her. ting for some one¥* asked a de- who was'one of the many who incoming steamers. 4" she faltered. “Do you know Good? Mr. Good, of McKeesport?" “@orry, miss, but I don't know him. (Anything I can do?" It surely wasn't the environment cal- culated to make it a nuppy day for this moth and daughter, yet they were very happy indeed, for the morning marked the beginning of a day of liberty for Florence Pligrim, the first she had enjoyed in a long time. Fought Against Fate and Failed. Florence Hilgrim ts the young woman who fought a cruel, nard fight for ex- Istence and failed. Then in a moment of weakness she used the name of a rich man to get goows on credit from a big department store, and of course Was caught at once, for ner methods had all the crudity one would expect from a beginner at crime. Put in the Tombs, the girl was cut off from any means of helping her mother, who sat destitute and alone “I don’t know hardly what to do. He ‘ought tp be ‘here. He said he would tae ne mara aa one Sr take mé from the pler right co the] poy Yitei tee and. ahared: ther meal ue RRGraE ANA? wel would Ge niarried.” daughter and shared ‘her meal of Matha altschebtice abi: coarse prison fare. After that she Dec went to the prison three ‘times a day Then the detective rememberet of|to share the food of the unfortunate reading about Good's death while on} girl, becauss it was that or etarva- his way to meet his bride-eloot In Mew | tlon York. It was Mabel Parker, the precocious “Of-eourse, you know he's dead, {young forger, who first observed this wald the detective. strange couple in the big prison, and “Dead!” ‘There was a heart-rending |¢ven she was touched by the pathos of @hriek from the young woman. With| the situation and called the attention of another scream she fell backward on|the prison mission workers to it, The Baa ass Fandoneal sik Investigation which resulted revealed a A dozen of the ship's officers carried | situation to move a heart of stone, This her back on board und placed her in | young girl had sung for $2 a Sunday in charge of the stewardess and the phys-|the oholr of the Fifth Avenue Presby- fclans, They said her condition was |terfan Church until her votce failed her, serious, and had then \urned to embroidery ee work to support her mother, until even BURYING THE VICTIMS that work falled and she had to face hunger steal OF RAILROAD WRECK.| she didn't know how to. steal—she rn ee soon showed that-—but she did her best BOE SiUevilLe. Fa, Ue and failed. Her #tory moved Judge Me Another time bas been added tafe mega hen at once) Jong deaths list resulting from the Du-] SE test nl ng neemarner Quesne Limited wreck on the Baztimore | WOE back to thelr poor Ittle room, no & Ohio Railrond at Dawson on Wednes- | Better off than when they last occu- MaseHtet® “utnres “Devilic one oe tie it together, but very much hap- three remaining putients at the Cottage State Hospital, died to-day, The total} Evening World reporter found dead now number ty-tive, and ais| them) together in. the nom to-day probably completes the list, as the two] making thelr modest meal from the still at the hospital are doing well and| box of crackers and apparently quite will probadly recover. Devlin’s home| content. Mrs. Pilgrim's eyes filled with was at Lonaconms, Md tears wh ked how they were suing Phere was one Christmas fneral—that] to get along now, and she could not of Edison Goldsmith. Goldsmity was a k, Lut siqrenco talked very popular young man, and/an knmense mn » course Jed the servi - Her Hopes for the Future, ' he er Connellsvide vietin Baparee of ovosher Conneltaviile victl We are going to get along now, I'm will be held until to-morrow or Sunday ‘ OW Before buvlal, in tr@t chte tem necec. | 2Ult Aud xo Is mother,” ahe sald e Pee seen ‘ made our big mistake—1 mean I made a : fakers are too overt mine-and now that it Is over and the worked to attempt os *.funcrats tn a day, Syectal services for the dead were held vonduct sovera tw so Kood L have hothing but for the future, Um not the first girl who hus succumbed to a big temp- én all the Protestant churches of the coke baiona’ tasda: ‘atter the oural o¢| (ton or who hay made a mistake, 1 Rev. Father Fienello, which will take |M4de mine because it was getting so place to-morrow, the Catholle churchss| 0a Christmas that our poverty seemed ‘witlehold nasses for the dead much worse than it ever had be- The body vt Father Flenelo wa You see, I lost the Sunday on | whfeh we lived for so long, and then my | emorotdery work didn't bring in enough ure py or the room, and L had to men of | 2A veyed to the m: the Immuculat Where ft will r funeral rervices The bodies Conce; an HOFYOW tims were taken ww ao something. We pay $150 a week for day, The remain the room, und for a long time got along shipped within on the other fifty conts for food, but hovrs. ven that was cut off LT was in a President George Porter, of the Hor- position, Buc even starvation ough Council, has called” a special ith Wouldn't tempt me again meeting to take ures toward ¢ e not going to arve, for gounarion cs i relat committee my now and am € some 0} a Odies: unidentified or un ive me something to when they se claimed, ‘The citizens will see that the| ho: vux Lam and he tle Victims: are not consigned to Potters| miner t will work for, Cow very Meth Field. ‘The ralhinad company will con | ple thouuzht it strange that I gave mn will y tO. th fun ms mother half my food at prison, But 1 he decently doand the! } knew she had to have it or starve. Christian ourial service will be per: |‘rhe keepers were very good tome nid formed, the tunerals partaking of the | when they saw mother eating with me form of the town's tribute to the mem-| they alwaya gave me A Mttle more than 'y, we whone lives were sacri-|my share, so-we did very well . fh the wreck ihe giticlal Investigation ws (othe Hind Stew ‘Three Times n Day, % of the disaster Is be prose-| “We had coffee and stew and bread % i pees ne aes or: te threo: timer ‘a day. more than we. had if any individual’ Witt be Blamed for | natacer Ie nee else vue Maes Aaabet e acckient. It S apparent we her very ‘than! pas stbor c train and | see, a. ane un i rere Wore strewn upon the pursenger track | jist times Gots Uist we en Oe one eeuers the fying cxpreay to 0 de- eron this Christmas day in our littl as pee = if we only have cracker: — no money, but soon tw aa © and owe have mo ‘FELL DOWN WAITER SHAFT 1 tga Very, vere Mort Riz *| Christmas i eo — — —— rpenter May Die an Renult of His QUIET AT PANAMA. Christman aces arora the Isth » One of Pence. Leavitt, a Russian carpenter 7 Kast One Hundred and Ninth i down a dumbwaiter shaft at Fast One Hundred and Bighth | WASHINC Dec. 25,~Secretary And saustained injuries | Moody to-day received the following > eave falea hie ita: w pee ey era frou Admiral UJ or le as} Glass, dat Janama; | ‘Harlem Hospital, Xo wows. a Fiat vO ? i we LEFT TOMBS FOR ang girl and her mother woxe | in various parte cf Greater New York there are 1,000 poor families en- joying either in antictpation or wth fond memories the dinners provided by The World. Many of thene people have heen on rt rations for months, owing to the main supports of the facnily belng un- able to obtain employment Christmis comes but though, and in this great little room for sorrow and none at for empty stomachs when the Yule 10, | begins to burn All over the being served for t once a year, city there Is M y to-day dinners are poor, for newa- boys, for school children, factory giria five cents a piate. and thore without classification other} Agents of the Society for Improving than the fact that they need the food. the Condition cf the Poor and the Char- On Murray Hill and upper Fifth ity Organization Society are having nue dinners are being given at a cost of/ their busiest time, ‘but even these hard- |anywhere from $% to $100 a plate, andj working ngents ure happy, for every | they don't taste a bit better and are) call they make means cheerful “‘mer- | no more enjoyed than those on Cherry |ry Christmas’ and a hulf-dozen/hapay Hill costing from ifteen to seventy-| hearts left behind. FATHER FRACTURES HIS SON'S SKULL Rum-Crazed Parent Beats Boy| with Club Because Chiid Up- braided Him for Not Bringing Home Christmas Gifts. | (Special to The Evening World.) i NEWARK, N. J., Dec, 25.—Cornellus Malley, thirteen years old, ts in tho City Hospital. He has a fractured skull. | That was his Chriatmaa present from his father. Cornelius and his mother sat in thetr | home at No, 31 Wickliffe street last | evening. Cornelius was wondering | whether ‘4 father would bring him a Christmas gift. ‘he mother made ex- cuses for the father's non-appearance, saying that perhaps he had stopped in the si to buy them some surprises. They walted and watted, and still the ther did not make his appearance. Mrs Malley knew what that meant The boy knew also, and he began to give up all ope of celebrating what to him was the greatest day, of the year. On the floor above the Malley ilved Mrs. Charlotte Herold, Mrs, Herold had provided a Christmas tree for her little ones, and their erfes of joy and give} could be heard by Httle Cornelius on the floor below. Cornelus Hetened to the sounds of merriment for a while, and then, creeping to his mothers aide, he threw his arms about ber neck and cried bitterly. Mrs. Malley comforted the boy and finally made up her mind that ho should nav Christmas celebration whether the father sanctioned It or not. She put on her hat and Jacket and went out to buy a few presents, The bey brightened fand capered about the room gleefully. ‘Phen he lay down on a sofa, and waile waiting for his mother to return fell asleep His father came home, He was drunk What happened in the room no one Knows, but ft Is Mkely that the boy onided his parent for being late and not bringing him any Christmas pres- ents. The father, rum crazed and en- raged, seized a club and beat the boy frightfully The screams af the child were heard vy Mrs. Horold and she went down to ingerfere. Malley told he would brain her if she did not attend to her own business, and she prompuy went after A policeman, The police were compelled to break Into the apartment They. found father and son on the floor. Malley was in a drunken stupor, but the boy had been beaten into uncon- sclouaness, Malley war locked up. Cor nellus was taken to the City Hospital, where the physicians found that his fractured, skull had been SHIPPING NEWS. FOR TO-DAY. 4.36)Moon sets1111 ALMANAC Law Water AM PM. San Hell i» island ¢ Ferry PORT OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED. Gafrla: pseetsranpesciarstesnegaawe Liverpool Anehoria Glasgow Byracuwe Navigator Mara INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, DUE TO-DAY aples braltar, nve, Omkar, Uyron, Pernambuco, triphos, St. Michaels. Vigilancia, Vera Cruz OUTGOL STHAMSHIPS, SAILED TO-DAY, Monroe, Newport News — A Guaranteed Cnre for Piles, Itching, Bilnd, Bleeding or Protrudine T fails to cure you in 6 to | FLORENCE PILGRIM, WHO SHARED HER FOOD IN JAJE WITH HER MOTHER, AND WHO IS NOW FREE, EARNED A FORTUNE Although Blind Since a Boy, John Alexander Whitaker, Friend of Grover Cleveland, Was Worth $60,000 When He Died. The will of John Alexander Whitaker has beon admitted to probate tn the Surrogate's oMfce of Nassau County, Long Intand, Although blind since a boy he bullt up a fortune of more than $0,000. He was perhaps the most re- markable biind man on Long Island After leaving tho New York Inatitu- tion for the Blind, where he formed a close friendship with Grover Cleveland, then a bookkeeper there, he went to Hempstead and built up a prosperous Teal estate business. He collected his rents and went everywhere without an attendant, His friendship with Grover Cleveland continued during all the years ADMIRAL WHITES GOD SENT HONE Officers of the Brooklyn Navy- Yard Pay a Last Tribute of Respect to the Dead Sea- Fighter. ‘The body of Roar-Admiral Edwin White, who died suddenly last Wednes- the Brooklyn Navy-Yard, was removed from the Navy-Yard Hospital where it lay to the Baltimore and Ohio station and forwarded to the Admiral's former home, Annapolis. ‘The commandant and chaplain and all the officers acted as an escort, Rear Admiral Rodgers and his family were a day In part of the cortege it passed out of the yard Rear Admiral White was formerly Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and was for many years in oharge of the Annapolis station, His naval career began at the beginning of the War of the Rebellion and was active until 189) when he was retired, at which time he was appointed Rear Admiral oe ee Holleben to Live tn Berlin, BERLIN, Dec, 2.-—Dr, von Hollebden, former German Ambassador to the United States, now Chairman of the German Colonial Society, Intends to reside in Berlin instead of Carlaruhe. DOCTOR'S PISTOL AWES ASSHILANTS Hoodlums Try to Prevent Am- bulance Surgeon Rossiter, of L. |. City Hospital, from Treat- ing Two Asphyxiated Men. BEEF Stew 1S VERY Goon WHEN ONE 1S HUNGRY Ambulance Surgeon Rossiter, of the Long Island City Hospital, was forced to draw his revolver to-day and threat- en to shoot a crowd of hoodlums who tried to prevent him {yom attending two men who had been overcome by gas. Two policemen came along and, under their excort, Surgeon Rossiter removed his patients to the hospital. Rossiter was called early to-day to No. 306 Canal street, Long Island City. where he found two men named Ander- son and Thomas, stretched out uncon- scious on the sidewalk. They had been carried down from their hall bedroom where the tubing from the gas stove had become loosened. Twenty or thir- ty men, many of whom were ‘Intoxi- cated, were gathered about them. As Surgeon Rossiter Jumped from his ambulance the crowd jeered and laughed at him and tried to keep him away from the unconscious men. But he pushed hit way through the crowd and tried to revive the patients. Then some of the bystanders seized him and pulled him away. He again made his way back to the two men, only to again be rough- ly dragged from them. Seeing that he was in danger of injury Dr. Roselter pulled out ‘his revolver and threatened to shoot. His action cowed his assatlan Dut a few of them at- tempted to rush upon the surgeon and wrest the revolver from him, At this point two pollcemen from the Butler street station appeared. Dr. Rossiter then took the unconscious mea to the hospital, where thelr con- dition is pronounced ‘serious. FIRST XMAS FIRE: LOSS $150,000 Memphis Department Store De- stroyed Early To-Day—Origin ONLY ONE STRUCK IN HAIL OF BULLETS Joseph Pedro Accused of Being a Spy in an East Side Sa- Unknown—Most of the Dam- age Was from Water. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 25.—Fire early this morning in the large department store of B. Lowenstein and Brothers, on Main street, between Jefferson and Court streets, caused damage approxi- mated at from $100,000 to $160,000, fully insured, ‘The Bre started in the basement of the retail branch of the company near the engine. B. Lowenstein and Brothers conduct both a wholesale and retail business, being the oldest dry-goods dealers in Memphis or West Tennessee. The chief damage was from water, The origin of the fire is unknown. ARCHE ROOSEVELT AS SUNTA CLAUS President’s Son Will Distribute Christmas Gifts from Tree Which He Decorated Surrep- titiously in His Own Room. WASHINGTON, Dec. %5.—Mrs. Roose- veit's decision not to have @ Christmas tree for the children in the White Hot never feazed Master Archie Roosevelt. With the ald of che servants he smug- gled a six-foot tree up tothis own room, and for the last two days has been ft- ting it up with the usual ornaments and zathering up all the presents that have come to the White House. Archie will distribute the presents thts evening, and his will be the only Christmas tree in the White House. One hundred and twenty-five turkeys were given to (the employees of the White House and the special policemen ond Secret Service men on duly tere. The married men received the turkeys and the single men were given aut graph coptes of ‘The Strenuous Life and other products of tne President pen \ ‘The President has promised to take part in the children’s party which is to de held at the Wotte House to-morrow. About six hundred children will be pres- ent. loon, and a Shooting Match Follows. Suspicion that Joseph Pedro was a spy was the cause for a lively fight in which many shots were fired in the loon at No. 418 Enst One Hundred and ‘Twenty-fourth street early to-day. Although the place was riddled with bullets, the mirrors broken and the lights shot out, Pedro was the only one hit. His pcalp was grased by a bullet. Pedro went Into the saloon and order- ed a glass of beer. As he raised {ft to his lips Nicoln Papato dashed the glass from his hand. “I think you're a spy," he said, “Get out of here." Both men got their revolvers Into pla’ and others joined in until the alr wi thick with powder smoke. ‘The nolse was heard by Policeman Farrell, who ran into the place and with his revolver levelled threatened to shoot the first man who moved, i Reinforcements came from the East One ‘Hundred and Tweny-#txth street station. Papato had escaped and tho only person Pedro could point out as his assailant was Frank Church, « contractor of No. 411 Hast One ‘Hundred and Twenty-fourth street. Church was Jooked up charged with carrying revolver and under suspicton of shoot- {ox the Italian, Pedro's wound was dressed by an ambulance surgeon, —<— GRAFTON HALL BURNED, LEESBURG. Va., Dec, 2%,.—Grafton Hall. the beautiful régidence of Richard Hunter Dulany, near Upperville, was destroyed by fire ‘last night at a loss of 380,000. An explosion of @n oll dank parted the fire. ‘The entire mansion, With Its Hoh furnishings, was dosiroyed ne of, the greatest losses being, Nols sonier’s picture of Charlotte Corday, purchased tn Puris by the late Henry Grafion Dulany. sen er ar APT ASE TO SIE The Effects of Op HAT INFANTS are pecullarly suscep! emallest doses, STOPS [EVENING WORLD WAGONS BEARING BASKET-DINNERS TO THE CITY'S POORIMAS. STOR ‘COP 1S ACCUSED BY SALOON MAN Reiily, It Is Said, Arrested Mrs. Adelaide Rice After Hav- ing Spent Hours Drinking) with Her in Back Rooms. When prepossessing Mrs. Adelaide Rice left her ornate bohemian highball boudoir in West Thirtieth street, just off Broadway, to welcome the Yule- tide In the back rooms of ordinary Yorkville saloons she laid the founda- Uon for all sorts of trouble in the East Fifty-first street station, Her Christmas Eve celebration has rounded out astounding accusation ainst @ policeman in uniform, by name Thom- as Rellly, and may implicate at least one roundsman and probably other members of tne untformed force ‘The saloon conducted by Mrs. Rice ts & prosperous resort of the Tenderloin, and her bank roll ts unusually robust. Policeman Reilly, after escorting her into Yorkville Police Court to-day, as- sured Magistrate Mayo that she had $20 in her stocking. In the dim light of the covrt-room the diamonds with which she was decorated sparkled and police an / FRINTS? AT OPERA-HOUSE Many Other Women Collapse from Heat and Fatigue During thé Long Drawn-Out Per: formance of “Parsifal.” The intense heat in the Metropolites Opera-House and the long drawn out- performance of “Parsifal” caused no less than twenty-five persons to either faint or come #0 near collapse that they had to leave the houte. One of the first to be affected was Mrs. John Jncob Astor. Most of the other victims were among the standees. Hundreds of these stood in line arouna the Opera-House for hours before the box oMce opened and there was @ wild scramble for places when the doors were opened. There were fully as many men as there were women in the crowd and no favor was shown by elther sex in the rush for good places. jome of the crowd brougit dinner and munched it Rage waiting for the performance to SMOKE MARS XMAS Puffs ig Through Window of New York Hospital and Causes Slight Panic—Fire Found in Adjoining Cellar. ‘The authorities of the New Yi - pital are to-day conktatulating thea: selves that their babies are all st and able to have a happy Christmas. Last night the usual Christmas tree was trimmed in the hospital and the chil- dren all were gathered abont it, watt- ing for the physicians to distribute the gitts. Suddenly @ puff of thick smoke came in one of the open windows. The phy- siclans took alarm at once. They snuffed out the candles on the tree at glittered until she looked like a Christ- mas tree. There was no question about the con- dition of Mrs, Rice. She had been look- ing on the wine while {t bubbled. Magls- trate Mayo thought It best to send her back to a cell for twenty-four hours. Saloonkeeper's Story, After Reilly had gone to dis home and Mrs. Rice had been escorted to the dun- geon, John Flanagan, a saloonkeeper, at the south-east corner of Fifty-seventh street and Thind avenue, appeared on the bridge with the statement that he had some information about the case. He told Magistrate Mayo that Reilly and Mrs. Rico were drinking together in the back room of MoGovern’s saloon at Wifty-third street and Third avenue at 3 o'clock thls morning, and that they re- mained in the saloon until 7 o'clock. The saloon, according to Flanagan, is on Rellly’e beat, but he dit not lenve ft to 80 on post for four hours. At 7 o'clock, Flanagan oontinued, Reilly and the woman left McGovern's and went to Lynch's at FYfty-ninth street and Third avenue, where they had more drinks in a back room, Charles Lynch, one of the proprietors knew Mrs. Rice and wanted 10 send her home in a vab but Reilly demurred. “Do I owe you anything?" asked Mrs. { Policeman Reilly, according to Henagea Weil,” Flanagan said Reilly replied, “rye been taking care of you-all nig and I ought to have a Christmas pri ent.” At this, Fi€nagan asserted, Mra, Rice drew a $& bill trom her stooking and offered It to Reilly, but Lynen wouki not allow him to take it. Finally at 9 ‘o'clock In the morning Reilly left and Lynch called a cab for Mrs, Rice. Reilly Arrested Her, Reilly had gone no further than the sidewalk, and when Mrs, Rice stepped out of the saloon he arrested her, | Po- liceman and prisoner rode two blocks to Fifty-seventh street on a Third ave- nue car and walked to the police court. Lynch was in court, and, when called to the bridge, corroborated the state- ment of Flanagan. Magistrate Mayo ordered the woman brought before him she again and questioned her, All would may was that ane had been ¢ brating ‘her thirty-second birthday and was feeling fine. She was paroled in once and calming the children oarried them into another part of the building. Seurch was made for the origin of the smoke and it was discovered that some rubbish in @ cellar of No. 106 Fifth aye- nue was ablaze. The fire was extin- guished and the children in the hee pital were taken back to the tree, pants Sete Ee COBURG CONSUL RESIGNS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The State Department announces the resignation of Consu!-General Olver J. D. Bugbes at Coburg. Germany. and ‘the eaepton of Henry D, Saylor, now Consul na ouo- son City, Yukon Territory, as cessor. ; WAP, After Theatre have your photographs taken at ‘Our Broadway Studio. We employ an entirely new light- ing process—equal to daylight. Open tilt 12 P. M. Imoeria! Folder Platinum raph 00 Der dozen. the moat up-to-date style Ish. No better Photos can Photo- ‘This te ns had anywhere at any pri STUDIOS: Brooklyn. 489 Fulton St New York. | 22 Wost 23d st. 1162 Broadway. 256 25¢ D-Y-S-P-E-P-S-1-A_ RIKER’S DRUG STORE, 6th Ave. & 23d St. OUR NEW YORK AGENTS: y of Flanagan, who sent GEMAN #@ CO. (ms corporatign), 200 peccuetoay 5g = OO Nee | ae ca wey: 205 Broadway, 2a We Tatth Duet fe, of the West Ficty-firnt | Ameterdam ave, and 153th ety 14008 street station, was summoned to court S“prua and: told of the reported aotions of Rollly. He gald that the policeman had an excellent record and was re- nowned for ‘his bravery. He could not understand how it was that Reilly was hot reported at the sbation-house for being off post and not showing up when the ‘hour of relief arrived. A close investigation was set on foot, and to-morrow Mrs. Rice, Flanagan, Lynch, Policeman, Relily, the roundaman, Capt. Tighe and others will endeavor to make explanations to the Magistrate. KAISER AS SANTA CLAUS. Me WIL Give a Five-Mark Piece to Every One He Mectx To-Das, th ave.: GOL ath J. JUNGMAN, Dru: Columbus ave. Get “Bedelia,” Cocoanut ‘Tree,"’ den of Dream: “Red Feather’ ler's Daughter’” “chres Lite Mat PIANOL PLAYERS BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Emperor William| ,, i I and hia sons were present last evening | “ait! NousToxe® (from, "sliver, Slipper at a Cliftumas tee party for the venefit h, post} fa Satisfaction, 5 of tne families of one of the Infantry pied Als cih tld mt Rae ells) regimen’ ~ Mis Muctsty will take his usual walk in the neighborhood of oPtsdam to-day Serer Baers mt oor and will Rive new ily are (about $1) ists or W, J. Quel leces to those he meet. 439 . F ' Pitiae is feature oF Christmas. time w. sah . We wherever the Emperor is. tut no one = beforehand the route he will take. 5 edie DIED. EGAN.—Suddenly, HUGH J. BGAN, at 3 . iates. tible to opivm and its various A. M., Dec, 25, beloved son of Catherine and the Iate Thomas Egan, after a short illness at his residence, 84 Catharine at., New York City. Funeral Sunday, Dee, 27. paration®, all of which” are narcotio, is well known. Even in the 7 i py if continued, these opiates cause changes in the func- | “US14i —Om Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1908, at to become permanent, causing Funeral from 1041 24 ave. Friday, Deo. tions and growth of the cells which are like! imbecility, mental perversion, a craving for Nervous "Ussensen, such as intractable nervous dy: lcohol or narcotics in later life, and lack of sayin pone are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children qui their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should never receive opiates in the smallest doses for moro than a day at @ time, and only then if unavoidable. 25, at M. MARTIN—MICHAEL MARTIN, beloved hus- band of Julla Mead, Parish of @nnis, County Leitrim. Funeral from hin late residence, Mm 161 President street, Brooklyn, "The administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing Syrups and} NOLAN—On Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1008, other narcotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strong}; deoried, and the crag need the attention dose them willfully with Castoria contains no ature of Chas, H. er, should not be a party. to it, physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to Children who are it narcotics if it bears the narcotics, Gas Castoria always bears the signature flldia ALICE E. NOLAN, beloved wife of Pat- tick F. Nolan and mother of Allee and Lillie I. Nolan. Funeral on Saturday, Dee. 20, from her late residence, 130 Hudson at., at 9.80 sharp: thence to St. Alphonsus's Church, ‘West Broadway, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose.ot ‘hay soul. Relatives and friends invited @ attend. ar ‘ TREE CELEBRATION -