The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1904, Page 1

WEHATHER—Fair; Tuesday moderating, snow. (NIGHT | EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, MONDAY, a JANU ARY a 1904. PRICE ‘ONE CENT. FLORAL TRIBUTES FROM CONS TITUENTS AND ADMIRERS THAT ADORNED THE DESKS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN TO-DAY AT THEIR FIRST MEETING OF THE NEW YEAR.| (PHOTOGRAPHED BY AN EVENING WORLD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER.) 2 LOGAL THEATRES. ' Commissioner Nicholas J.1 J. Hayes, After a Careful and Unbiased Investiga- tion, Says Officially that the Chicago Horror Might Be Repeated in Them. ; Tie startling statement is made to-day, on the author- ity of Fire Commissioner Nicholas J. Hayes, that in twelve «of New York’s principal playhouses audiences are menaced | at every performance by as great a danger as that which be- fell the unfortunates who perished in the ruin of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago. This is the first result of the investigation of New York’s » . theatres initiated on his accession to oftice by Mr. Hayes, | “and it is based upon the report of Battalion Chief Lenihan, t’ an expert in theatre inspection, who has had sole charge o | the work of investigation. that Chief Lenihan has reported on, he says, ought to be closed at once. “The first thing I did when I togk my office,” said Commissioner Hayes to an Evening World reporter to-day, “was to carry out my promise t6 have a careful examination made of every theatre in the city. I ane Obief Lenihan to this work, and he had as assistants a corps of competen men. They did their work without prejudice to anybody, simply noting ne things they saw and making an honest and conscientious report on condi- tons as they really exist. It is no time to gloss things over, TRAGEDY MUST BI? PREVENTED. “Nev York cannot and will not have such a tragedy. Therefore, I say rery plainly that there are twelve theatres in this city, eleven of them on Broadway, and one on the Bowery, in which a panic from a fire or from *any other cause of alarm, would result in an appalling loss of life. twelve theatres are out and out violators of the law and can be reached by the law. 1 have written to the Mayor to-day calling his attention to the 1 situation and hope that it will result in a unity of action on the part of all Sec ond | Page.) LATEST REPORTS _ CONFIRM ALL CLAIMS At the office of the Secretary of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association nothing has been received up to this hour to controvert the published claim of The Evening World on the advertising record of 1903. On the contrary, all re- vorts are confirmatory. Last year The Eveniiig World gained 4,273 1-2 cclumns of paid advertising over the previous year. No paper in the United States, morning or evening, even approached this i figure of growth. In 1902 Tre Evening World gained 516 H\, colttmns over 190i, and last year made a still further in- crease of 4,2731-2 columns. Every regular advertiser ad- DECLARED UNSAFE ] a Eleven of these theatres are on Broadway and one on the Bowery. | { There are others, he said, which are almost equally unsafe, but the twelve! These } MAN SHOT DEAD IN HIS KITCHEN Head Was Filled with Buckshot by an Unknown Assassin, and the Police Arrest His Widow on Theory of Conspiracy. ‘ Mary Cunningham, who refused to SALEM, No-J., Jan. 4—By the dis- to the attention of the police of this city to-day. Nicholson was shot dead while standing near the stove, and 80 far the assassin 1s unknown. All the elements ofa murder mystery | surrouvd the killing of Nicholson. The] UP alter a $ crime occurred on Friday ‘night, but nothing was known of {t until this morning, ‘The dead man’s head was riddled with buckshot ‘The police are acting on the theory | that the man's death was due to a de- liberate conspiracy. ‘This afternoon Mrs, Nicholson was arrested. She was ed up in the Salem County Jail, wed in the light of its used a tre- nt throughout the farmer and resident of the scene of the ng for a man-hunt, The murdered man have sus- guilty person and they ir aid to the county officials unning him down, e police believe there is a man in the case. They confidently, assert that | they will run him down twenty-four hours. ——<———— Nee al Mercantile Marine Company. in the next SPECIAL EXTRA.' WOULDN'T PAY ON COLD TRAIN ‘covery of the body of Duke Nivholsod’| arrested this afterncon by Patrolman Ryan, of the Alexander in the kitchen of his home at Wheat] ayenue police station, on the charge that she had refused to Lane a murder mustery was brought! pay fare on the elevated road because the cars were not heated. | When arraigned before Magistrate Baker in Harlem Court ‘he woman entered into a tirade against cold cars and the 4p ansportation companies, She was fined $3 and was locked truggle with the officers. She declared she had a lawyer on Wall street who hie J fight her cause. LATE FINISHES AT NEW ORLEANS, Fourth—Footlights’ Favorite 1, Katie Powers, King Croker. Ifth Race—Big Ben 1, Scorpio 2, Komombo 3. Ixth Race—The Messenger 1, Lampoon 2, Ora McKinney. A itl ry Easel al GRISCOM TO QUIT BIG OCEAN SHIP TRUST. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.—It is reported that Clement A. Griscom will soon retire from the Presidency of the Internation- her address, was WOOD WINS FIGHT IN COMMITTEE ee ‘Senators Vote 7 to 2 in Favor | of Confirming the Promotion of Army General by President Roosevelt. Committee on Military Affairs to-day | decided to report favorably the nom- ination of Gen. Leonard Wood to be Major-General. The vote stood 7 to 2, Aldermen He Announces the affirmataive Senators being Proc- tor, Warren, Foraker, Quarles, Alger, Cockrell and P the negatives Scott and Tilack' Senator Proctor w zed his vote y and Bate wer LAND, Jan. 4 make when Jespatch from Washington to-day announcing the favorable report mmittes on Military ton with the nomina- rd Wood to be Major- ad fully | not, present, but recorded, autho Haw c Hi “An extensive observa -, Europe an” America has convinced me that this cit CT, WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six ho: 3 ending at 8 P. M. Tuesday for New York City and vicinity: Fair to-night; Tuesday partly cloudy and moderating; probably fol- town. respect of law. “Some evils can be eradicated and some cannot. vertises in The Evening World, because it is the home paper of Greater New York. It is clean; it is sane; it is interest- ng; it has all the news fit to print and prints it fit to read. lowed by light snow; fresh north- erly winde, becoming variable. are incident to human nature itself, "| parade belo, 6 MIAYOR DECLARES WAR ON POLICE GRAFTERS WASHINGTON, gan 4—the sonate|20 His First Message to the Board of that the De- ia partment Must Be Purged of Officials) Who Have Brought It Into Disrepute.|* .jtaless we strive earnestiy to maintain a high standard city like New York cannot be contucted 0. the same plap as Every attempt to so conduct it will fail and will result in a dis-\ | the public, and no partnership should be permitted between FAVORITES’ DAY AT NEW. ORLEANS, Pompino and Reckoner by Win- ning First and Second Races of the Players, THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Reekmen (3 to 5) 1, Bounding (4 to 5) 2, Royal Pirate 3. SECOND RACE—Pompino (8 to 5) 1, Balm of Gilead (2 to 1) 2, Hist 3. THIRD RACE-Dusky (5 to 2) 1, Ostrich’ (6 to 5) 2, Preakness 3. (Special to The Evening World.) NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 4—C. | ven, a well-known Western jocke here to-day of pneumonia. J. J. better known as “Texas Sm very low with the same disease, Archie Zimmer refused to let Jockey Fuller accept a mount to-day, He sald the boy could not win on any of the mounts offered him. Zimmer {3 par- Ucular about Fuller's mounts these days. Last winter he was willing to let Fuller ride anything offered him, It was clear and cold for New Or- leans to-day. The track was slow and jumpy. FIRST RACE, Beven furlongs. Won’ easily: Reckoner was easily the best of the misfit lot that went to the post in the opening event, He was always at odds on in the betting and was heavily backed. Helgerson rode a very con- fident race on Reckoner. He waited until well around the far turn before making his move, and in the run home caught and passed Boundling with- it an effort and was only galloping at the finish, SECOND RACE. One mile. Retting Jockeys. StHit-Fin, Str Pi 0-5 7, F ‘x an! Kity « Nae 1 ler. Fisheria igh “Turn the grafters out” is the keynote of Mayor McClellan's first jMessage addressed to the Board of Aldermen to-day. the message a lengthy chapter is devoted to the Police Department, in j Which the question of blackmail is gone into thoroughly. ion of the moral conditions of the great cities of In the course of The v4 is better than any of jjthem, Novertheless, we canhot boast If its moral state falls below the stand- ard which should be set for the metropolis of our country. “Wo cannot complacently assume that we shall not suffer det-floration A cosmopolitan , provincial CONSTANT VIGILANCE MUST BE OBSERVJ:D, | Some evils, unhappily, | But they should not be allowed to} at every stride. ls Bis See es OF Says: } tolesentt 12 n driving, Time—1.44 4-5. an started out like a win- @ lot of early speed and until around the far turn, her. set the Baim Oe hallenged “Baim (of urlong and in a driving | him, getting up in the | THIRD RACE. Six furlongs Rotthae. colt to the home, despite a weak WoL Help to Swell the Bank Rolls| -jhas been invited, but as Senator McCarren, just now the not attend, is 3] animal back up into here.” 4) close Watterman rolled himself 0 ball, wadded himself into a corner and vc Jover the guard railing jsounds of pain were ties | }iudson Street Hospital FLAN FEAST. — WILL Moo PARKER ND CLEVELAND The Former President Who Was to Have Been © the Star at To-Night’s Dinner, Sends — Word at the Last Moment that He Cannot Attend, {BUSINESS IN COURT OF APPEALS WILL KEEP JUDGE PARKER AWAY —— |Ex-Senator David. B. Hill, Senator Gorman and Other Democrats of National Impor- tance Are Expected to Congratulate the New Mayor and Deline the Party Issues, Ex-President Grover Cleveland and Judge Alton B. Parker will not at- tend the dinner to Mayor McClellan at Sherry's to-night. Mr, Cleveland's determination to remain at home was reached to-day, and a despatch from Princeton was the first intimation that the movers of the banquet had thats he would not attend. Mr. Cleveland was to have Ween the star at the dinner. It was wre that he would make a speech of national importance, with particular refer- ence to the Panama Canal situation. * The absence of Mr, Cleveland will not dim the occasion, however, for others of prominence in the Detaocratic party will be at the table. Senator David B. Hill, Senator Arthur Pue Gorman and probably ex-Secretary Olney will be present, and are down for addresses. It was reported at Princeton late! this afternoon had never made any plans to attend the dinner, Judge Alton B. Parker will not be present because the Court of Appeals. did not convene in Albany until 3 o'clock this afternoon, owing to the lateness of the trains, Judge Parker could not finish his duties off the ‘bench and catch a train for New York in time to reach the banquet hall. Hugh McLaughlin, the veteran Brooklyn leader of Democratic forces; “big man” of Brooklyn, will be an important figure at the dinner it is probable he will that Mr, Cleveland HORSE TUMBLED IN ODD WILL LEFT BY OVER WATERMAN © OLD HARRY GREEN | se But When the Stretcher Was) “Plant Me Between My Mother Brought to Take Away Corpse| and Wife.” Read the Memo- Flanagan Yelled: “Where Was| randum Which He Left in a) the Red Flag?” Desk. Charles Watterman, of Richmond| “Plant me between my mother and Hill, L. 1, was connecting telephone | * fs the last clause in a paper found wires in the bottom of the manhole at {n the office desk of Harry C. Green, and Trinity place and Liberty street this] offered to-day for probate as his will afternoon, when he was startled to see| tt was typewritten on one of Mr the rear end of a a large bay truck! Green's office blanks and undated, It horse come down through the thr foot circular opening at the street lev: “I left Jerry Flannagan on watch up there with a red flag,” said ‘Watterman, | “and it's careless of him to let that read as follow: But when the horse's hoofs cam waited. Jacob Stinel, of No. 12 Greenwich street, was driving a truck toward the Liberty street ferry, when at Trinity place he had to back up to avold run ning into another wagon, aa ae e bay hol ‘on the off side, backed} ete want and into the command without any the same In the ‘and profitable, with as 1 con 3roen died at Bath Beach lust He was an old man. Min- an is his granddaughter, Grace D. Dougan, of teenth street, and El- 224 West Twenty-first isters. Tho will was from E. R. Bekley’s eccentric Gree manhole. ath His hond feet went down, and thi A his whole body up to his shoulders slid into the hole, so that nothin fore legs and his head and neck pro | street, are t in we said jan became greatly cx [left tio estate t Watterman must be was verified when no heard from the ousand person man In the hole. ‘The thousan who gathered, heedless of the ant cold, were equally certain that Watte geed a block and tackle to thé railroad structure and possibly |man was dead An ambulance war called from the ts the horse out?” came the an-/q ‘om. the bundle In the dark cor 7 eo ccompanying its aan ot \ the menhole, r ds a rand ny | “Well, what did you mean by ished’ strong and was catching Dusky —<——>__— Consumption gives fot im Cases’ of Gougta end colds. Al Sears St in here? him to the hospital. that animal come down Foliceman Cornelius O'Brien called | ave you got that red flag for 2 out Hook and Ladder Company No. 10,| , But he couldnt ge the fia, A block away, and after the firemen had! “Watterman aid nog have & tried several times to get the horse out neither did the hy