The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1904, Page 3

Crowds Came Downtown to! Hear the Trinity Chimes “Ring Out the Old and in the New.” BROADWAY LIVELIER THAN FOR MANY YEARS. Tooting Horns and Thousands of Hoarse Voices Combined to Make the Hour of Midnight Akin to Bedlam. ‘The glad New Year had no cause to complain of the welcome it received ‘when the hands of the clock told that 190i was here. New York, always nolay over the birth of a now year, was noisier than usual last night. ‘The din resembled several election nights and a Fourth of July celebration rolled into one. While the welcoming of the New Year was genera! all over the city the great Interest was tn the crowd that gathered about old Trinity to listen to the chimes and sing, whoop. yell and blow bors. From Bowling Green to the City Hell 4 crowd choked Broadway, Through it the cara pushed their way slowly and sarringes, autos and every: form of vehicle crowded. It was a good-natured crowd. Some af come down to hear the chimes be- cause they had done so for years and had a sentimental interest in this form of observance of the new year. Some were there for the first time. Many had been celebrating the evening. Nenrly all had horns. ‘The programme of Trinity chimes war made up of “Old Dog Tray, “Blue Bells of Scotland,” “Little Mag- gle May,” “Since I First(Met You," “Put Me in My Little Bed,” “Auld Lang Syne” and “Home, Sweet Home es a recesstonal, Broadway uptown was more crowded taan on any New Year's evening that can be remembered. In nearly all the clubs there was a crowd of fellows who sat about and watched jho time TORT ; THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1; ae BANKER SUICIDE (BOY LIVES WITH Romance in in the i Life of Otto Ahimann, Cashier of the Bank of Staten Island, Who Shot Himself. COURTED MISS NIELSON, BUT SHE REJECTED HIM. Rich and Beautiful, She Would Not Wed the Banker on Ac- count of the Difference in Their Ages. His heavy losses in speculation, his draining of his bank's to cover Igmself and the inevitable dis- covery of it all staring him in the face were not alone responsible for the tragic suletde of Otto Ahimann, the cashier and practically the,owner of the Bank of Staten Island, at the Albemarle Ho- tel in this city yesterday. This highly cultured mun of the world had a romance in his life. He loved a Woran who wovid not be his wife, but was his companion on many social occasions and appeared to be very fond of him. Miss Nielson, of Richmond Terrace, New Brighton, 8. I. the woman with whom Ahimann was in love, is only twenty-six years of ag Js very beautiful and very rich. Ahl- mann was fifty-five years old, and it was largely because of this disparity in age that the young woman would not marry him, + Social and Financial Ruis. When Animann crossed the ferry to Manhattan on that fest trip he was ever resources LOVED IN VAIN’ BULLET IN aR Charles Brasn sin Aiontaty shot Himself Two Days Ago While! Tapping Butt of Rifle on the) Ice. | BULLET ENTERED NOSTRIL | AND LODGED IN HEAD. Physicians Fail to Locate Ball by Probing and Will Utilize X-Rays—Coroner Exonerates Boy’s Companion. Onartes Braun, the sixteen-year-old] eon of e prominent grocer of Williams-| bridge who was found shot through the| brain Wadnerday afternoon, is stilt! alive and though the physicians in the Tadies’ Horpltal, Portchester, have probed for the Ddullet they have been unable to locate tt. Young Brava, Chiet of Police Dono- van said to-day, no daubt accidentally shot himeelf while tapping the butt ofa rifle on the ice to see if It would bear his weight, ‘The gyn was discharged and the bullet entefed the boy's right nostril, passed fhrough the brain and lodged ‘somewhere in the back of the fread. Bravn has been unconscious ever ainee the shooting, and the hospital sur- feons will use the X-ray to locate tho bullet as soon as his condition will warrant It. Chief of Poltce Donovan says he mado an investigation and fcels certain that the boy was shot through his own carelessness. ‘The accident hagpened on Bilnd Brook | in the rear of the. Milton burying | to make'on Wednesday afternoon he was in a desperate frame of mind. The discoveries which he knew were to be made the next day moant ruin to him. ‘They meant his soclal as well as his financial fail, for they would prove him a defaulter in a great many thousands of dollara, = man who had been false to the trust that had been put in him. ‘With a full appreciation of what it would mean to the woman he loved and had always hoped to win sometime, he decided that life was not worth living. until the hour came, either to drink ‘tha ‘health of the New Year or get on the water wagon. MANY INJURED IN EAST SIDE. RIOT Detectives Eject Unruly Visitors from a Club Reception and Fight in Street Follows— Shots Were Exchanged. ‘With @ bullet wound in the back of his dead and death threatening him, Thom- aa Walsh, of No. 2148 Second avenite, ts tn Harlem Hospital to-day. Four de- tectives of the East One Frundred and Fourth street station are scarred \and bruised, probably thirty more men are nursing bumped heads and black eyes, and the members of the “Kid” Baker (Association, an off-shoot, it is sald, of the Paul Kelly Association, are keeping put of the way of the police, All this ls the result of a riot at Lexington avenue and One Hundred and Fourteenth street. f ‘The trouble started at the Uptown Club, an organtzqtion of good repute, which was giving = smoker at !ts quarters, No. 1848. Lexington avenue. Detectives William Moore, William Gauser, Jesse Brenner and Frank Con- boy were sent to the club to prevent boing, and when they were asked to out out a number of “Kia” Bakers, who had forced themselves in and who had become unruly, they complied. Christopher MeGutfe, of No, 2148 Beo- ond avenue, hung back, and Hauser hurried him, whereat, it {s alleged, the young man hurled a heavy beer glass t the detective’s head. It struck him in the face, cutting his cheek and black- ening his eye. It was the beginning of @ fight which became general in othe street @ moment later, when McCulre waa thrown there bodily.” ‘The compan- lona of.the latter, who had preceded nim fn leaving the club, were waiting lowngtaire. ‘As soon am the detectives appeared hey were attacked, Conboy realizing that the affair was going to prove se- ‘ous ran to a Orug store and telephoned ‘or reserves. When he retirned he found Frenner backed up against a wal with pistol drawn. Before he coul m there was a saot from the revolver and then weapons wore throughow the crowd and shoot- reach= I oft ine dkearaéy general, Those who. did not have pistols threw bricks from a bullding in courte of erection near by. ‘All this ume the crowd wan growing larger and larger until finally the streot cars had to stop. were reinforced by two motormen, who attacked the mod with their brass cone lore. When it scemed that the of- S must go down, the reserves. ap- peared and there was a sc Waleh's wound was not ere lintd he was taken ta the’ hospital, wire Was arrested on a charge of felonious assault, 80 far ‘alsh was the only person pea aad BULLET HIT CELEBRATOR. known jot, ‘The four detectives! In the sad little poem which was found in the room where he Killed himself there was the embodiment of his own feelings that night. He read it, ap- parently over and over again, then went into the bathroom and killed himself. The bank examiners are still busy at the books of the Bank of Staten Island, and so hopelessly involved have they found them that there appears to be Uttle chance of getting any intelligent results from them for a couple of weeks. That the lose is a big one there is no doubt, for it is positively known that $250,000 worth of the securities of the bank are missing. They should be in the vaults of the bank. They are not there. Every place where they could Ponsibly be has been searched, but no trace of them has been found. It is be- Heved now that they are in the posses- ston of some other bank or some broker with whom Ahlmann did business, hav ing been used as collateral by the sui- olde. He Pi ed Recklessly. It has been learned that AhImann, al- ways considered a large but prudent investor, had plunged recklessly for over @ year. Some of his friends say that the crash came to hin cuecoe hi ¢ over- confid: in Steel ge @ cotton bew Caught Ha the recent rise in that: oStamodits: Rut alt ever it was, it is certain that the must have been in desperate traits, for he bad a large, private fortune and must have used tha and every other he touched the ban! 3 made by the bank officials to find out through what brokers Ahimann id his recent heavy Seecn ls Ue As yet the firm or firms been found. It is hoped that When these brokers are the whereabouts of the bank's May be learned, and perhaps « large art of them may be saved. Ahimann'’s rokers, if they have the missing se- curities, of course had no idea of the means by which Ahlmann came tu pos- seasion of them. Glooi in Society. Aliimann's death has caused a general glaom in soolety ciréles on Btaten [sl- and. He was one of the most con- spicuons figures in the exclusive Rich- mond County gst. He belonged to all the cluos ond wes an ustastic achtemen, Ginter and golfer. He wa ighly es' by everybody and remanded @ in all as the biggest finan- cler on thé Island, There i considerable anxiety among the Gepositors in « yank over the outcome of the examination of its nffaire “Hundreds of th are farmers, ike laborers, The i - Island apparently what col they drew ail thel deoosite out’ of tho bank the day betore ‘Animann’s death, IRE VICTIM DEAD ~TN-RUINS OF HOME Alérm Would Not Work and De- partment Delayed in Reach- (Special to The Evening World.) MOUNT VERNON, N. Y,, Jan, 1~ William Brown, a Grand Army veteran, Ney ait He Whe Firing {n the Shot Himself. While celebrating New Year's, shortly Mier midnight last night, Anton Rocco, fixteen years old, of No. 221 Bast One Hur and Firat street, accidentally shot “himpelf “with a revolver he was Iring Into the air from the stoop of his jing bullat entered bla abdomen and Sell to She. ae wilk, screaming, uley. Of the Bast One Hun Fourth atrent “statlon, um: n ambulance from the Harlem Hospital. Rocco, it ts said, will recover, was burned to death to-day in a fir j whi h destroyed a cottage he occupted on North Sixth avenue. Brown's body was found in the ruins ing Blaze That Destroyed) ea; House of Army Veteran. ‘ after the fire had been extinguished, ‘An oll steve lying near the body in- dicated that the old man upset it, either in bie sleep or as he walked about in the darkness, thus starting the blaze. When the flames were discovered the fire’ alarm 4 failed to work ane At “wae nme minutes” fs yetore: the . call reached the engines, ~ ao eta ground at Rye-on-the-Sound, and the! Ohlef saye he fas found no witness who | eotually saw the sacotlng It was! leamed that whe wounded boy, who was} visiting the home of Dimer Gedney at Rye, in company with Daniel St fa rhe a 0 rE ate HS email rife, which Braun carried. Pounded on Ice with Rifle. Praun separated from hts compantons and started to waik on the fee on the brook. He carried the rife with ¢ thock down, and he was heard to pou una | on the ice with it. A moment later there was @ report, and young States tarned around just in tUme to see his eompanion fall. States ran a mile to the Gedney House for assistance, and Elmer Gedney, jr., accompanied him back to the broo where they found Braun lying unco scious on the ice. He was taken to the Lyceum drug store at Rye and later re-| moved to the Ladies’ Hospital at Port- chester, where Dr. Db. M. Griffen at- tended him, ‘The physicians probed for the bullet} and found that it had followed a re- markable course. After passing throug | the right nostrit tt took a downward course and, so far as can be determined, passed through the brat and then ail trace of it was lost. Bullet May Have Split. As the bullet is very small, it 1s thought perhaps that the little ball of Jead may have split and spread to difter- ent parts of the brain, It is considered remarkable, however, that the boy should have lived so long with a bullet in his brain and little hope Ys enter- tained for his recovery, At the hospital this morning one of the nurses naid: “Th Is atill unconscious and the doctors believe he cannot live. It is a most unusual case, Oecause thiy boy | was shot through ‘the prain, >! has| lived more than forty-eight nots oniy | an autopsy will determine the \ ‘act | course the bullet took.” Commer nger wan called ‘o day Porisunoter i0" to make investiga: Gon, and, matter hearing tue stories of Gedney, jr., Mrs. Gedney and) vane States, ‘he was of the opinion that the shooting was‘ accidental, but ‘heid open bis official inquest witte | awaiting the result of Braun's wound. ! | taker, | George SHE LEAPED FROM WINDOW IN FIRE House Was Filled with Smoke and Widow Jumped Into the Arms of Men in the Street Be- low Despite Warnings. 6moke and fire to-day on Me flodr of the three-story house No. first Jay street, Brooklyn, Blocking her exit} to the street Mrs. Mary Fallows, whose room was on the second floor, rushed to the front window and jumped tnto | the arms of several mon on the street helow. Sue escaped without a scratch, ‘The fire was caused by the burning of a Christmas tree in the nooma of Mrs, John H. Farrell, widow of an under- ‘The house quickly filled with smoke and the inmates on the upper floors were unable to reach the street by tho stairs. On the top floor were Fisher and Harvey Farrell. They crawled out on the ledge of window and jumped to the roof of the adjoining house. By this ime « crowd began to collect on ihe street. It was then that Mrs. Farrell was seen crawling out of the window the second floor, The men shouted to her to wait, as the Fire De- partment had just arrived. She paid no heed, but leaped Into the outstretched hands of those who were counselling | her to abla on until a ladder could be against, thi aes iltvan and’ Walter Fi who live in the neighborhood, into the building, and making Buckley, rushed thelr way through the dense senoke, res- | cued eho three Ll children of Mrg. 1, Metseleky, who lives on the third floor: ‘Doe damage was MARIE BILLINGS. DRAGGED WOMAN FROM BLAZING BED. Police Rescue ae ‘Slattery from Room, Which Was a Mass of Flames, and Save Man—Woman May Die. Ad \ Laine. John A fire in which two pe burned, one perhaps fatally, covered at an early hour th pedestrian w DAD'S KID,” M. QUAD’'S LCE RICE, WHO WAS LOCKED UP LAS ST NIG Jams street, Brooklyn. house occupied by Mrs, 3 who Fents rooma to lodgers, Soke was pouring out the secand foor, floor, Walsh lying of ar pled by EL mn on| n Slat tery Rourdsmen King and MeKenney heard | the alarm, dashed Into * house and awoke those who were sleeping, They were told Mies Slattery was sill! in her room, which : taking off their coats, they dashes and grabbed the bedelothes, pulling them, with the woman inside, out Into the hall. Miss Slattery's clothing Was blazing, and King quickly beat out with his coat Policemen Mason and Bohn had also answered the alarm and had gone up to the third the flames where they found unconscious, They started to carry him down, and on the wa: blazin, second Wal, body: So the Brook if , bedclothes landing. ah was badly He and Miss, his clothing caught fire from the in the hall on the burned about the Slattery were Laken lospital, where it 4 uid the woman may die, she lodgers had pen celebrating Now Ye rs in the apartments of Mrs, Lane and 5 Ing. after. etired about The fire was lock this morn- discovered shortly r. DAD'S KID! WASH'T ~ DUNK, JUST DIZZY Miss Buin Whe Who Is Suing M. Quad, Joke Writer, for Dam- ages, Denies Triyng to Slide Down “L” Stairs. | | | as | Graying with indignati Jor teas |J. F | Latety: [appeared os (pet name m licular Billings, a famous as the plaingirt “Dad"'), ste Flammer in t terary Madame, why did you get d nicht? saat, I any @tory like that, 1 {man thix time, out if this | Wan Never Arrested Before. Milliice er arte: Rillin I mean- Court (9 Mr y er. ite xho: ruge I will discharge you thin | may go ty young woman, with ch | Burning and with breath ning In} wasps, turned and fled p nitagely from | the court-room, At the dogtway ae stopped and hurriedly told her story to an Evening World reporter. {owas no’ intoxicated,” she declared tearfully. “It was this way: For the jpast two days I have jmove. 1 have been ght packing my tr Hi and sent King day and Last night y mald out for Ja dittle whiskey. 1 drank a Tittle whis- key and a little cotoa, The rest of th Whiskey I gave to the men who were helping me pack my trunks Jast Stumbled, Thut's All. “Then 1 started out to find how my case was coming along against M Lewis (M, Qi When I reac felt a Uttle dizzy affect me u know, B elevated station 1 maybe the whiskey not used to !t not toboggan down the stop reac the m some huge stepped on my toes and 1 fell | next thing I know, I was being whirle to the police station in a patrol wagon. Oh, 1t was dreadful! Miss Billings heaved a long sigh, smoothed out the folds of her long brown coat, adjusted her wonderful blue hat. Then, with a flutter of her shoul tuded am going home to p fast as 1 ean —— FATHER AND SONS OVERCOME nt Suffocnted hy Xmoke Dur- ing Fire tn Thete i NEWARK. NO J, Jae 1 O'Toole and his uo grows dand Edward in pa in Newark An Rc How bw nity pital, suffering from the sof amoke Inhaivd at a fire which dumaged heir home. at No, 4 Bergen street |-Phey are in a sertous eonditian. | Pra 1 ned up to \« y after tn of zhe fire te nok KNOW ——<—<— WOMAN SHore ACCUSES MAN. NEWARK, . Jan. L—Miss Mattie Ellis, twenty-one years old, of No. 106 Nassau street, ts in the City Hospital with a shot wound in her shoulder. She told the police that an Itallan had shot her and !entifed a man brougnt before Ker as the guilty person, Her is not dangerous have done for me. time. mington, Del.” respect. ache, backache, prins all over. 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He keeps it « nh ardent ers of conxratulation and com- | fn continually Addreas Dr vondition | Ask Your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904, FIRE HESTRHS PRINTING SHOPS Origin of Blaze a Mystery— Damage to Building and Stock Variously Estimated at from $5,000 to $15,000. ed from an unknown xck to-day caused estimaied at from brick Fulton the five-story ents at No, 138 rvered by a oftizen, vliurm upon seeing & from the windows of th cupied by the trade v9 of Walter Vinten inelpal damage by fire was wo estalisnments, while the I Koliseh & Co. blue prints, on mid’ floor, and HLT. Dewey de the first floor, ator, « qe the damage at pe ana $10,000 7 the ce Department esti- \. j 000. cee ° Itow Much Work = Man Stand? 1 the man. Rut of average. Some uch work the machinery others, theorists, nk 1 should be g nday's Wort Maw think the, ix canabie of ton Ble to da. ine. RS CAPITOL BY. ILDING, SALEM, OREGOS A Letter From The Governor of Oregon. n the house. 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