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10 THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1903. — Y, DECKMAIR 26, 100857 2 Oa ee eee LANTRY IN FAVOR OF i ea ica alc IP WOULD. 100k As. a PU BLIC PARK ACCORDING TO ARTIST BIEDERMAN’S DESIGN MAKING A PARK OUT OF as : ees nee BLACKWELL'S ISLAND. + New Commissioner Announces that He Will) Favor Continuation of Filling in Riker’s Island and Removing Penitentiary There, Interviews with the New City Commiss‘oners.—No. 1, a “The Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, as well as the other institutions there, will all be removed to Riker’s Is'and in the near PRUOSED Future, That is a scheme I looked forward to when I was Commis- é Miss src ] stoner of Correction under the last’ Tammany Hall administration. Salas £4 ev rey ‘ Jt: was with the expectation of seeing this hope realized that I a 053 Lincrneces 4 | succeeded in having the work of filling in Riker’s Island taken up. th joss \ That work has progressed so well that we may exject to see ina NIGGER 5 BITE { reasonably short time all the buildings cleared from Blackw:l.’s * Island and that delightfu! spot converted into a beautiful public } ! park,”"—Statement by Francis J. Lantry, newly appointed : Commissioner of Correction. 1 & Wl try to continue the reforms I ners on good days, and { sarted when I was a Tammany t : i . Gommlssioner of Correction a few years] gyi ip S00 &0, twke up thie work Nipped at Heels of Engine Horse said Francis J. Lantry yesterday | office expires 1 hope to have Tukers | i i , hen h that off Jan, 1 Inland in Bret od nape Peer j LB Xiseeo - - : 4 . ee te i ‘when he resumes thet office on Jan. ° under. > \ 7 % 4 + . rext under Mayor McClellan. ee meee leh oan! he reciainied) and : i ee Bs f uN yi AWS a His Firemen Friends Are NE : ey, Sy in Mourning. : “There's lots that can be done, and 1} tional crib-work started. It can de 2 ‘ | ‘am going to try and do my share right} cribbed in for half a mile yet i ‘ ww J E A . \ : | up to the handle, I'd rather have peo-|, "Some day the penitentiary and other i; a i 4 NCI Tae a ——<— i kindred institutions on Black ple think well of me than not caro how There {s crape on the door of Engine they think of me either as a public offi- Company ANON T ial eeiane eee celal or a private citizen. . > + a g ) can't be done ina hurry, for Riker's Isl- : 6 brqhtean “In this department there are lots of and has Kot to he built’ f : $ APRA s x > Nigger’ is dead, at ving in the]/the new buildings. T take a pride in at , Y “Nigger was 0 ordinary pile ait vty He CLL tke ae 2 ‘ fe that Biker's Island profect, for started (ey L A abc dereaee { } Fight direction will help to make exist-| {Mt Filters inland project, for 7 farted . Z - yellow cur, bearing in his make-up lence a little more endurable for the] planned {t when T was Commissioner, fee i " Z B by 5 traces of a vari ~ unfortunates who come under the ban Ceol ox OeaaE EAB the land has sae Z \ mn, : | , wee ee jegated ancestry, but be of the law. I will not go into tho| Deen sing SS bf Oo y) Flames in Paper Box Factory] "** * "a! fre dog and the men of merits of the civilization that finds it . at ve / No. 7 loved him. He was killed Christ: Necessary to keep men and women in| «another improvement effected during Z Next to a Hotel Send Guests] mas Eve. Jails, but no matter what my opinion| my administration sas the considera- 3 SS, og. tp Scampering to the Street “Nigger Mmped into No, 7's quarters ‘ Consideration for Prisoners. fs mb; I feel that] tion which I demanded should be given A 2 g Rearouisvare)at isnt human ane Petey Biiepmere 0) itieiny Keepers) att, VE” +e Z D Lightly Ctad (to Years ag0, ie bade place of winat ¢ ofmcials. ’ 4 Goserve decent, {f not kindly, treatmem. | "1 nlithed a pumping system on y oa gntly Grad. eens tect Gian ane ee a res: } een a wad neces: YJ : ray A a. SEER ear ersre tho reticent sity Some engineers sald It : ; \ CAZ Ly 2 KILLED BY LOCOMOTIVE. — weeks was as good a fire dog as ther i couldn't je, Dut took the bull 1, A 4 —— was in the city. He never missed « fn yogue there then were little short|by the horns, and the thing was ac- 6 rs - % 4 An alarm of fire created a panic in of orate ‘There wae only one bath | complished. This ayrtem includes the y ] G ‘a Man's Body Carried on Cowcatoher| Newark this morning and sent dozens | Call, and never ran with any company Ga the isand, and thet was a wretohed | 2UTpIng Of walt water, whish le always é Halt'a Mite. of guests in‘Seldler's Hotel flying to the| but No. 7. Even at a fire he would i. v oxes and 4 Gbing. ‘The prisoners had to carry water| In use. I like to, do things firgt,, then ( > Caught on the front of the locomotive | street in their night-clothes, fallse {ag cue] buts the een loc neler ; quite a distance and bathe in old wash-| tél! about them if Tam asked.” iy p ot a New York, Naw Haven and Hart-|_ The fire started in the five-story brick | Company. ‘ y re 4 bullding occupied by the Specialty Paper} When the men were working in @ { tubs. I changed that by equipping the prisop with individual bathtubs Carried Like Sacks of Flour, ford train, the mangled body of Martin | 314% sfanufacturing Company, ut-No. 72| 8Moke-filled house “Nigger” would fol- i _ - se <A a Scenes Dengter, a gardener, was carnied for) Mechanic street. The flames spread | low them, and with his nose close te OLD HOTEL MAN BURIED. MYSTERIOUS JEWELRY THEFT. | SUICIDE CLIFF’S THIRD VICTIM, Dhif a mile, It fell off near Hunt's | quickly and three alarms were turned the floor seemed to smell out the near- Sererenr cep umuns cts Renedl) soOr ste) ‘The funeral of Thomus A, McGlade, a| 1A local Metective agency has reported| NIWPORT, R. 1, Dec. 26.4Mrs,| Point station. Dengler was run down | in, est way to an exit. On the way tos earry invalid or sick prisoners up long | A ly Ne A veteran hotel man, of New York, Who] to the pawnshops the thactlatra large | Sophia Engstrom, fifty years old, a resi-| On the east-bound track at the Spring-| gejdier'a Hotel adjoins the building, | *¥@ he would bark at the heels of the Peialits nt alrsion' the backs of fellow | abot an ey ea eae. Hus fed in his room in the Putnam Iouse| quantity of valuable jewels, ‘The name |dent of this city, Is the latest victim of| hurst omeding, whioh ts called ““Si0U8h- | and smoke from the burning boxes soon | Meine horses, and try to make them prisoners. The poor sick falows would] Pocame uw buyer fo0 4 ‘Thursday was held t 1e| af the person from whom they were|the famous Newport suicide cliffs. She! ter-House Cut.” lied the vorci@ors and rooms of the | 0 faster. be hoisted on thelr backs lke sacks fh J. J. Barringto 3 5 stolen 1s kept secret. The lst includes | disappeared from her home last ‘Thurs-| A brakeman on the cowcatcher of a) hotel, Christmas Eve “Nigger” ran with the of flour. I got a few elevators put in Mcameo breastpin with pearls, a gold|day afternoon. -After a search of two| yard engine saw spots of blood on the| ‘The guests were quiokly aroused and| engine to a fire, and on the way nipped and stopped that business chain with three small diamonds in each |days her body was discovered at the! rails and stopped ‘his locomotive. By |ran to the street, many of them not stop-| at the heels of the horses as usual. j “I got all the healthy prisoners out on Ink, @ woman's hunting-case gold | foot of the cliffs, just In front of the|a lantern’s light the epots were traced | ping to pick up ‘thelr clothes. ‘The hotel | “Paddy,” the big off-norse, resented his \ Biker's Island one day when he wun watch, a pearl and diamond croma pin, Jestate of Witlum Gammell, ‘The bor} until they ended halt @ mite away, at | did not etch fire, Lut it was impossible} actions and kicked him under the Darel oeniariicroulraitetsnannnregne a 0 With diamonds, turquolsetand dhamond | jumped ftom the clit, Sie is the third | the spot where the mutilated corpse was | or gome time on account of tue smoke, | Wheels. They passed over him befory Bee tay ne cul treeta “and roads ho was fine, a Be e lady's chain and sev: | woman that has committed sulolde in| discovered, Dengler had been employed | ‘There were no injuries reported. ‘The| the driver could stop and “Nigger Ine work era) other articles the same manner in two years, on the Fales estate, at Springhurst. loss Is estimated at $50,000. was killed, GOOD ADVICE IS ALWAYS TOBEHAD| ||. No better business adage can Yj - be adopted than the famlliar Yj, “USE WORLD WANTS” UY ‘About a million people observe it with profit f YY every year. - New Year is six days off, but there's UW. no harm in starting early. ia Better take Time by the forelock and the New f Year by the hand. ae) / y) ; Yi Start Advertising in to-morrow’s Sunday World Want Directory—a complete, compact, correct register of all The World’s. wants, all in one sheet. SURE TO REACH THE READER. <3 | Make’a Trial of the Popular Three and Seven Time Rates