The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1904, Page 1

a i) / f U ~ EDITION EDITION > y _| “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. \ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1904. PRICE ONE CENT. <=: ‘FIGHT PERIGA FAOM THE CO ~ALLEVUE Big Hospital Cannot Receive Any More Suf- ferers from the Bitter Zero Wave Until Transfers Are Made to Blackwell's Island— Hardships Among the Poor in the Crowded Tenement Region. TWENTY-FIVE FIRES IN THE EARLY HOURS A NEW RECORD. Seventy Children Imperilled in a Harlem Blaze—Other Fires Caused by the Efforts to Keep Houses. Warm---Trains Are All Arriving Away Behind Time. LOW RANGE OF MERCURY IN THIS CITY. Temperatures taken hourly from the thermometer on the front of the Pulitzer Building are as follows: 6A 5 Below 12 Noon - 3 Above 7A 7 Below 1 P.M 5 Above P.M 8 Above BA. -- 412 Below! 3 pm 10 Above 10 A. cen Below, 4 p.m 10 Above 11A.M. 5 PL M- 10 Above Highest temperature yesterday, 10 degrees; lowest, zero; average yesterday, 5; average for corresponding date last year, 87; average for corresponding date last twenty-five years, 30 degrecs, A TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE. Temperatures in other cities at 8 o'clock A. M. were; Hostonf 2 below; Albany, 10 below; Buffalo, zero; Philadelphia, 12; Wash- ington, 12; Charleston, 28; Jacksonville, 36; New Orleans, Gal- SCHWAB DELAYS « HS TESTIMONY He Was Expected to Go on the Stand To-Day in Shipyards Scandal, but Will Not Do so Until Thursday. NOTIFIED TO BE ON HAND THEN FOR EXAMINATION. All of To-Day Was Taken Up with the Testimony of Expert Accountant Rose, Who Ex- amined the Books. { At the conclitsion of the hearing for the appointment of a permanent re- celver for the United States Shipbuild- Ing Company. held before Special Ex- |aininer Oliphant: in_the Board of Trade 4nd ‘Transportatfon rooms to-day, thg teaimony of Expert Accountant Alfred |Roxe was finished and Lawyer William |D. Guthrie was instructed to age that |Mr. Schwab attend at the opening of ‘Thursday's hearing in order to take the stand. ‘The examination and cross-examina- tion of Mr. Schwab will occupy several }sessions. It wax expected that Mr. |Schwab would testify to-day, but the Jexamination gf Expert Rose was not |Anished In time. | All of the actors in this continuous | jdrama of high finance were present in| jthelr various rples, including C. M. | Schwab and Daniel Le Roy Dresser. | Dresser has not appeared at the| w since he left the stand nearly ® months ago, when he declared he { been wade a bankrupt by the fal the ship mbination and that *. Schwab had wrecked it, befor pedings were opened attorney for the announced that he read an | 1 the newspupers in which ab said he was about to go Sarmuel | bondholder interview 'Mr at event,” sald Mr. Untermyer, SPECIAL EXTRA. PLATT PLEDGE TO ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Senator Platt, of New York, called on President Roosevelt to-day and they had a ‘ong conference cn the political situation in New York. ' The Senator told the President that there was not a note of discord in the Republican ranks of the State regarding th Presidency. He assured the President that New York would send to the Chicago convention a delegation enthusiastic for him. a LATE FINISHES AT NEW ORLEANS. Fourth Race—Hands Across 1, Dan MeKenne 2, Ascension. Fifth Race—Sadducee 1, Tally H. 2, Over Again 3. Sixth Race—Reckoner 1, Kiwasa 2; John Coulter 3. , oo 1 BOARD OF ASSESSORS ORGANIZES. | The new Board of Assessors met this afternoon at No. 320 Broadway and organized. William H. Jasper was reappointed Secretary at a salary of $5,000 a year.. He has been in the . Board for twenty-eight years. . rat CITY OFFICIALS ACT TO. MAKE THEATRES SAFF Mayor &nd Heads of Departments Confer, and Decisive Action Will Be Taken Against All Firetraps. we suspend the testimony of (the rece! expert ac-| nd call Mr, Schwab to the} “L think.” replied Mr. Guthyle, “we [can finish the testimony of Mr, Rose | r. Schwab to the stand. | bing abroad.” lawye planned to! d 10 the stand in the! Court 19 connecuon ‘with York Secur- 3 mortgage of Mi Ume to Mnish his testi- a veston, 36; Cincinnati, 36; St. Louis, 16; Kansas City, 10; Chicago, erate viet nied ata cio on boo 4; Omaha, 6; St. Paul, zero; Duluth, 2 below; Bismarck, 4 below; [maxtaag a Liat Os H9,unnono, 4 5 ; Jand in testifying In the forectu Denver, 20; Helena, 28; Salt Lake City, 30; San Francisco, 62, and |} |*8suings ne would assume the wtdtate Los Angeles, 48. Highest, 62, at Key West; lowest, 24 belo Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. BIG BLIZZARD FIRE RECORDS BEATEN. In 1888, duying the great blizzard, there were 48 fires. During the blizzard of 1899 there were’ 52 fires, To-day 26 fires were recorded. This is the record. Three deaths directly due to,the intense cold wave prevailing all over the metropolitan district were recorded to-day. These, with the five already recorded by The Evening World, make a total of eight victims. Thomas Kelly, fifty-five years old, was found dead sitting in a chair in his room, at No. 16 Colden Street, Jersey City, to-day. Kelly was a mechanic, and withou ves, so far as the police can learn, His death resulted from he cold. His room was unheated, be Miss Elizabeth Barnett, aged fitty years, was found dead in bed to- day in her home in Rahway. She had not been seen by the neighbors since Sunday, Policeman Jackson forced nis way into the house to-day and found the woman in bed dead. She had cleaned out the stove be- fore retiring and had frozen to death. Miss Barnett and her sister had lived 2 very secluded life, scarcely ever opening the shutters to let the sunshine into the house. The sister |! died about two years ago and Elizabeth would hardly let the body be re- zaoved. Years ago the Barnetts were wealthy, owning much property near Rahway Park. ‘ Mrs. Michael -Cairns, of Baldwins, L. I, aged sixty, was frozen to death at her home. There had been no fire in her room for many days, She was an invalid. i BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CROWDE It has been some time since tl Bellevue Hospital authorities have been rushed as they aresat present. Within the last twenty-four hours there have been so many applications for relief that the wards, both sur- gical and medical, are crowded and no more patients can be received, unti some of those now in the institution are transferred to the City Hospital on Blackwell’s Island. The work of transferring will be begun this afternoon, and it is ex- pected that by nightfall there will be many empty beds in the hospital, + The intense cold weather is responsible for the crowding. The ofti- cials say that many poor people who are recovering from illness find it impossible to keep flres burning in their homes, and for that reason apply to the various hospitals throughout the city for shelter. In time they are transferred to Bellevue Hospital. The excessive cold and the consequent efforts of the people to kaep warm caused no fewer than ‘wenty-five fires in the Borough of Manhattan from midnight last night to noon to-day. With the mercury hovering around'5 below zero the sufferings of #.- firemen who were kept on the jump for several hours were intense, {of compla 5 | Mr. Untermyer cleariy blocked this scheme by assuring his presence on the |witness-stand In tie receivership hear- ing tir 1 he must adopt an attl- tude. o! c the expert accountant, mployed by the receiver to books of the shipyard com- ich atartling dis- he stynd for Guthrie, Mr, questions to a nical errors In the wit: | testimony Mr. Guthrie examined the mimitely concerning every det jaudit of the Shipbuilding Company's | }finances. He occupied the greater part | of the afternoon with this examination, endeavoring to forestall as long as pos: sible the calling of Mr, Schwab to the | stand. PUT PLEDGE 10 ROUSENELT Not a Discord Among New! York Republicans and They Will Send a Solid Delegation| to Chicago for the President. | he found witness | of his With the President nd the general polit tute was tt durt; w York politics tion In n. Sensttor ‘ecess had rders of siderat holiday Henn that thy Roun uh Vinit Nome in Hinot Arthur M. Beaupre. the United states Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the United States of Colombia, accompanied by Mrs. Beaupre, arrived in New York to-day on the Panama liner Yucatan, trom Colon, Mr, Beaapre would not discuss the stc- uation in Colombia, and said he was going directly to Washington, whence he will go to his home Aurora, Ill, jus.of the fires was at No. 501 West One One of the most dangero have not fpanlp eg WASHI TON, Jan jubsequent in to the Cabinet meeting to-day Senator | jy Platt, of New York, ha = tlh ‘ lisreger, of the six-masted schooner Ad- S rsident that dle M, Lawrence, whofaighted the Navie yo ay Doing arm! Soliton RAUL #ivlgutor, The latter vewsel was prc -| Pere Be ation i oni ar | him. ‘The HL situation ew | ing her search, Fork wats pretty: Uhorought The Liberty was in commana of Capt.|NQ PROFESSIONAL COACHES. PREGA IA OEE t ne non Lerenus. Peter Shipp, who had with him a crew ama 4 ss of four men, Capt. Elmer Hammell was! ANNAPOLIS, Jan Aslastseaiine| = paster of the New Jersey. and 1s) of the Navy Athlet aieinton tink BEAUPRE HERE ON VACATION | crew numbered three men tor this voy-}night steps were taken) to abandon ibe football ooac:ilng by professionals, It = age. was decided to request Dr. Paul J Minister to Col wit The Navigator left here with her tow! Dushiell to act as head coach, to be a: Friday evening, but w: outside until, Saturda; unfavorable weather, carried 5,000 tons of apal for Providence. The three ships were coffins of the s “I jit be in this country at least twoland Sunday night searching without ef-| to-night snd art months," he said, and’ probs wi ; Abba Facey, aoe an extension or leave. There | fect, and was still at sea on this mix- Wednesday, - followed by y my coming [rion when spoken by fpplted for }Other tugs will be sent to sea in an ef- eon In’ this) fort to Jocate the missing barges, Mayor McClellan took active action in the movement to insure the safety of patrons of New York theatres in case of fire to-day, -After a conference held office with heads of departments hay- ing power in’ the matter he announced that within a short time he would be in position to take docisive steps against theatre managers whose houses do not comply with the fire, bullding and health laws. The department heads who met the Mayor at his office to-day were*Fire Commissioner Hayes, Health Commis- joner Darlington, Police Commissioner Adoo and Borough President Ahearn, we could do. Health Board Depai instructed to make inspections of eve and public hall in all five Similar instructions have to the Department of Buildi Inspections ate to be and the reports. will ‘As soon as I get t take Immediate action, Spection is being rush sary few days I will be . Where the theatres and lails of New York stand in the ! public safety. There Is just as anger from fire and. paiie in ‘ire and ve complete | re. The work of in- and within a | in & position to public | matter mitch | ublic | Assistant Corporation Counsel Conolly| Peter J. Collins, Supermtendent was present to give legal advice as to aes Cot eerooklyn, Fecelved ‘a re-| the power of each commissioner to en-| who have been investigating the'eevens| force the laws regulating theatres and|teen theatres in Broi ‘He wii publics ialiae hald a conference this Tnoon. with Pe |Fire Commissioner Doyle and Borougl The subject was gone over thoroughly,| President Littleton, after which actio: | will be taken, ie It is belleved ‘that six. theatres will be put under the ban entirely. The other four have been found to be Inad- equiite as to thelr galleries and ‘wil be | artially condemned, ‘Theatrical managers in this elty have made no protest against the edditional firemen: being placed In their theatres, and as a matter of fe the extra firemen as a but it was decided that the time has not arrived to take action against any | single violator cf the law, When the} reform {s inaugurated It will be directed at all vidlutors at once. “This conference,” said the Mayor, after the discussion, “was called to take precautions against any such catastror phe as that which happened in Chicago. 1 called the Commissioners and the As- welcome | eRsAry pre- fl confidence caution calculated to in the public. NINE MEN ADRIFT AT SEA ON TWO MISSING BARGES - Big Coal Carriers Broke Away from Steamer in a Blizzard and May. Have Gone Down with Those Aboard. NEWPORT NEW! oul barges New Jer! Jan, 6.—The able, and ft is feared that even though and the Li6-| the barges survived the blizeant which | y, both: heevily. jaden and pound | Darted thetr hawsers they would be un- as M. News 10. Providence, *Bi¢ t© withstand another storm vom Newport Ne ‘| Capt. Withe, of the British steam- broke away from the towing steamer |wiin Chesapeak: Sunday , morning Off | pass for London, either ot It is be- ed that both went to the botrom in bl which mwepc this entire iat as a rewult nine men bound ‘from Sabine reports passing, 3%) miles south of Dfimond Shoals, the 182- | ton vessel Abbie Bowder. The vessel had been ant byeiby- nine days, but re- fused assistarice and asked to be re- ported, ‘The three-masied schooner Josep! Pharo ls a total to ard and the zection lost thelr The Na Ator Is willl at sea searching nk bargey, ‘The news ot brought here by Capt. \5 for the the-loas was sisted by former stars of ‘the navy team only. Mr. Dashiell is chairman of the Intercollegiate Rules Committee, He Is a professor at the academy, umable to pass owing to the The two barges aught in the lizeard off. Hog Island and the two arges tossed and strained at thelr hawsers to such an extent that the hawsers parted WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Wednesday for New York City and vicinity: Ris- dealing Ing temperature with fair weather means of Navigator spent all day Sunday The dS the Lawrence. | I now; winde becoming south to east, mostly fresh. rte | recta been issued | on the ex ‘ dra was as good ns left at the post. Bishan Soto and Se WANKEE MARINES UMOED AT CORE Situation Grave, and Force from the Vioksburg Sent Overland to Guard United States Cit- izens- at Seoul. FEARS OF MORE RIOTING. Washington Informed by Command- er of War Vesse! That He Acted After Consulting with the Ameri- can Minister, WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 —The Navy Department 1s in reosipt of two cable- grams from the commanding oMfcer of the United States ship Vicksburg at Chenmlpo, dated to-day and yestes day. The first read: “After consultation with the American we are of the same opinion aspect of affairs is very grave ‘There is much fear of riot by 1 have completed ar- rangements to send the company of ma~ rines overland by railroad at the critical moment; also about thirty-five men and field gun from this vessel at Chemulpo if deemed necess y 'Thé second “Two officer : at 10 A. M. (for Seoul?) The remainder of the guard Js prepared if there ts any j demand. There Js little change In the paneeatie 2 | FAVORITES HAVE ANOTHER Bi DA Inquisitive Girl Manages to Beat) Out Tom O’Day, a 60 to 1 Shot, in First, and Second Goes to Stonewall. THE WINNERS. Inquisitive Girl (7 to 1) 2 First Ra 10) 1, Tom O'Day (60 to Arthur 3. SECOND RACE—Stonewall (11 to, 5) 1, Lee King (5 to 1) 2, Blue Vic-) tor 3, THIRD RACE~Exclamation (4 to) 1, Noweta (2°to 1) 2, Ralph Young 3. FOURTH RACE—Hands Across (3 to 1) 1, Dan McKenna (6 to 2) 2, Ascensioin 3, : (Special to ‘The Evening World.) RACE TRACK, NEW. ORLEANS. Jai. G-—The track had dried out con: erably und was in fair shape to-da, The weather was still cool, but the warm sunshine brought the regulats out in force for the races, | FIRST RACE. $400 | Bix furlongs; purse Betting. Slartern, whts.. Jocks. StI¢ Fin. ‘Str. Pl Inquisitive Girl.i08 Rone 28 fly 7-10. 1.8 + 0b, 3 18 gh 40 a0 Plerott B 5% 3 4 Biayberry, 101, Phil aM 4 1} h a 8| 3 40| ‘ Lady Walter, 100, J. i Start good. Won ‘o o' Day rushed to the front at the rt. He . running, apd soon couple of lengths advantage. « the far turn Inquisitive Gi entering the 1 e * carried to the extreme out- Th the eun home she was bumped but the end drew Arthur came and beat 4 200 ing. Thine—T 1S rT sta strete! shie. The a “good thin ots of ea for He showed speed, but weakened in the final test. SECOND RACE. One mile and @ quarter, latter waa b. fn ‘by his people. rly Starters, whin, J vewali, 198. W. piel 6. Jenkins 108, 2 1w! ite Ele he atart and led | when He begat to tr run home there was a ger dt at the end Ston nud won with com, Boaster | closing drew away ‘ease from out of it until over, when he fetor just man- lp censio ‘not seem to have struck home, because the apparatus for dighting fire is a drying room. It appears that it is the custom to allow the women who their tubs and frons. tailed to the island from the Department of New York City yanked out the engine, connecte/i the hose and prepared to extinguish the blaze. ENGINE went like the One Hoss Shay. Pleces of it rained all over the grounds, In the mean time the fire was doing great execution in the west wing and the superintendent was learning that the telphone wives were out of. ordem shores were suse that the whole structure was ablaze. The attendants kept’ their heads,, and as rapidly as possible patients were removed from the west wing to other parts of the asylum and those working about the | so much possibility that other fires would occur that no engine could be Leonard, were overcome by the cold and were carried into the hospital un= conscious. Their clothes were frozen stift. to wrap them in blankets and dose them |w. L. Strong. \galt water. | prom the West the great pile of buildings would have been licked up by the: ‘fire unless the apparatus inside could have been utilized more successfully |than was the eng! ’ Great Concessions Made by Russia in’ Reply WARD'S GLAND INSANE COLONY IN FIRE PERIL Defective Apparatus for Fighting the Flames — Results in Grave Peril for All the Inmates — Drying Room. ANTIQUATED FIRE ENGINE Bai Island Was Covered with Smoke, and Had the Wind Been in a Different Direction in All Probability the Great Institution Would Have Been Destroyed. bs, The Providence*thht watches over the mentally deficient -was alert when a tire gained headway in the big insane asylum on Ward’s Island this afternoon, else the stupendous -pile must have bee. destroyed many hundreds of lives of inmates sacrificed. The lesson taught by fire seven years ago, when the east wing of the asylum was gutted, 06s proved to-day to be entirely inadequate. In the west wing of the asylum is the laundry and over the laundry “aif work in the laundry to go to the dining hail in a body, At any rate ne é: women Were at dinner the walls and ceiling took fire. ’ The blaze was not discovered until the Jaundry workers returned to — ‘They gave the alarm and the two lone firemen. de+ WENT TO PIECES. One of the joints of the engine blew out, and then the whole engine By the time a message for help reached Fire Headquarters the island, was covered with thick smoke. Observers on the Manhattan and Brooklya buildings were placed in their quarters. There had been so many fires during the day in Harlem and there was spared for Ward’s Island, but six men were sent by the ferry-boat trom, the house of Engine No. 16, in East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, By the time they reached the Island the attendants, with a bucket -brigade, bs had the blaze under control. ‘The attendants worked liked heroes. Two of them, named Kelly. and To revive them it was necessary h hot drinks. With the firemen from Harlem arrived the fireboats Zophar Mills an@: ~ Lines of hose were laid from the fireboats to the hospital, wn away by the powerful streams of* nd the last vestige of the fire was bic The total damage ts estimated at $5,000, Had the wind been strong Ine pitted against the flames by the two city’ firemen, CZAR HOPES FOR PEACE: MIKADO’S ACTS WARLIKE ++ to Final Proposals, While Japan Orders Army of 36,000 to Corea. : ‘ -In he jan squadron there ts prepar+ action extra edition of 't has been tssued containing army* the Ru: ing fo A ST PETERSBURG, Jan to Japan, Russia made great cc Ometal Ga- pl nd hopes her proposals will out for third money | prove acceptable to Japan. and navy orders prohibiting the publi= . THIRD RACE. a to-davycation of any reports of the move- Seven furlongs. The Foreign OMmice stated ments of troops or war vy vin REt2& | chat instructions had been sent) this time on, Otherwise the Japanese St.HI¢-Fin str, pi | thal shich the | #Uthoritles are not taterfering with om SUE nee 8 . Ol to Viceroy Alexieff, on which | press messages. coung. si Netnt’ re i reply was based, The latter was: tyeubel ss awn up in the most concitiatory | JAPAN'S TROOPS ARE Tine 1 ed his feld allowed him furlongs In. b a el he moved up and ithout un efarc and it eo was under gallop, Noweta drive to beat Ralph Young nd money, the latter was | me outside the entire trip|e him as a ture, Sabot na race that stam) m1 ikely winner. in the near Father John’s Medicine cures spirit, Some of the Japanese proposals | wore accepted, while others were made the subject n ‘Tie flurry on the Bourse yest the annual settlement they add that it was w! bs Japan has not yet been received, Tela reported HEADED FOR COREA, | of extended observations nd were met by counter-proposals, ‘There are strong hopes in many circ! Thursday next, the Russhin) ese , the Czar may be able to an-| ' believed nee that peace is assured . . WA —A despatch from Tokio The preparauons for tie” ition of two divisions of Japamye nat on they ports in South bankers as det operations, ly uninfluenced xplained by andjt expedi quires arrangements, whic} Diy townrd ‘com ination of this" armyhiNe tern situation. 5.—The Russian veply y the Far Ei TOKIO, Jar