The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1904, Page 10

URT They Are Exhibited by a School Principal to Show the Rav- ages of the Habit on Little Children. LECTURES DEALERS. Wains Them of Harm They Are Doing Little Ones and Threat- ens to Punish Them Severely Another Time. ‘The strangest testimony ever labelled fae Exhibit A was produced before Mag- Astrate Higginbotham in tho Lee Ave: nue Court to-day when cight small boys ‘were stood up in a row before the Court + @s “horrible examples" of the evils of cigarette smoking by the young. This remarkable human document fas offered to the Court by John 8. Rafferty, principal of Public School No. 8, South Second and Keap streets, Will- famsburg, who appeared as complainant Against five men and women, whom he Accused of selling cirarettes to minors fn violation of the law. _After the names of the prisoners had een taken and the nature of the recorded, Principal Rafferty led ‘un the elght small boys for the inspec- tion of tho Magistrate. Taking’ ‘the “frightened urchins one by one Mr. Raf- ferty pointed out to the’Court what he termed the “ravages of the poison.” One ans an Example. “It) you will look at this boy, Your Honor,” began the school principal, Teading before the ‘bench a pale-faced Jad of nine yenrs, “you will notice the dull, sunken look about his eyes. Ob- serve his thin little fingers, yellow with nicotine from holding cigarettes. Watch the shifty glance of his eye and its watery look, Take note of those red evelids, the drooping of the corners of e mouth, the dilnted nostrils through ‘which he blows clouds of the poisonous vapor. “Consider well all these terrible symp- toms, Judge, and the hear that a year "ago this boy was a bright, rosy-cheeked > Ulttle picture of health. He began to smoke cigarettes, He became a little fiend. He would sneak out between the classes to puff away at a dirty butt. He would beg, borrow and almost steal to get a bit of this wretched weed.” ‘And look at this boy,” continued Mr. Rafferty, “leading up another youth In was almost yellow and wandered about with ‘a vacuous expression. You will see the fame saffron fingers, but there are | other effects of the ravages of this , ; poison which are very sad, He Become dull-and stupid. -His tainted mind don’t seem able to contain a @oherent thought, He has a wretched /e0ugh-a tobacco cough, a physician told Mme—a cough none should ever have to Apok for in a mere child : Another Pitiful Exhtbit. _ “And regard this boy, your Honor." went on the principal, calling forward another youngster. “Are not these sad pictures?” Mr, Rafferty soon had worked upon’ the feelings of the Court to such an extent that he turned to the prisoners and burst out, wrathfully: “Do you people see what you are do- ing? Do you consider that hapless lit- tle group here before yout, Look at them well and think that for the sake of a few pennies’ gain you are dwart- ing their bodies and cramping their brains. These unformed bables—yes, velalively, they are almost bables— some inté your stores and lay down a few pennies which you greedily snatch Bex jof South Third and Keep ‘street BURGLARS FHT BEFORE YIELOIG Gang Which Has Been Terror- Twenty-second Precinct. . THIEVES RAN FOR BLOCKS WITH PLUNDER ON BACKS. nishing Goods Store and Stolen Quantity of Haberdashery. In the capture of two burglars early to-day the police of the West Forty- seventh street station believe they have taken the ringleaders of a gang which has been terrorizing storekeepers in the Twenty-secund Precinct for weeks past. Ve Policeman Peter Treanor, who has been on the force only about two weeks, belongs the honor of the capture. It was nearly 2 o'clock when ‘Treanor heard the noise of splintering gla Running along Eleventh ayenue toward Fiftieth street Treanor saw two men hurrying down the avenue with bi« bundles on their shoulders, ‘Treanor at once gave chase, rapping with his night stick as he ran. At Forty-eighth street he grabbed the nearest man and, as he did 80, Policeman Cochrane came around the corner and caught the other. The burglars, strong, powerful young fellows, put up a fight at onde, and it Was not until a good, stifr dose of the night stick had been administered that they consented to go quietly to the station, There they gave their names as Edward Martin, twenty-seven years old, of No. 625 West Forty-sixth street, and Andrew Johnson, twenty-eight years old, of No, 637 Eleventh avenue. The bundles were examined and found to contain a great quantity of men's shirts and other articles of, wear- ing apparel. ‘Treanor then went back to the place where he first saw the men and found that the large plate glass window In the furnishing store of Caspar Engle had been smashed. Everything in the window had been removed. and hand over the counter the poison for them to breath into thelr lung: “I conalder you ten times worse than the druggist tbat sells drugs and mor: vhine to the unfortunate grown-ups who have become addicted to fatal hab- its. You are giving th se children the means of wrecking minds and bod- fos before Shey are half formed. 1 im not a sentimentalist. 1 recognize the necessity of selling tobacco, but I also recognize the necessity of keeping it from children. this crusade’ against selling tobacco to minors, and 1 am going to exercise every. weapon of the law in an effort to repress this traMc. in olgarettes among children, There is a law on the statute books under which I could send every oné of you to prison for the offense you have been gullty of. Then He Let Them Go. “I trust, however, that what you have ‘seen here before you will be a lesson to uu. 1am going to let you go, tre ever arraigned before me on a similar charge you will receive the, ex- treme punishment the law provides.” ‘The prisoners who received thin se- vere lecture from Magistrate Higgin- batham were Isare Seldman, of South Fourth and Keep streets; Mrs. Kelly, Doc, of South Third and Keep street; Mrs. Pratt. of South Fourth and Hewes orlng the source from which the puptl and immediately seek the arrest .of |those who sold them. Police Capture Twa, Leaders of izing Storekeepers in the; Robbers Had Smashed Big! Plate-Glass Window of Fur-| COLUMBUS KNIGHTS. TO GE lG BALL Madison Square Garden Will Be Elaborately Decorated for the’ Event, Proceeds of Which Will Go for Charity. | Dancing and charity will go hand in hand under most enjoyable circum- ‘ances when the annual Knights of Columbus Charity Ball takes place at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 1. ‘The big ball this vear will surpass in elaborate details any of the preceding vents which have made marks in the history of the Garden's big gatherings. All the arrangements for the ball, the Proceeds of which are given entircky to |[¢omPored, charity, have been completed and the ney, committee judge from present indica- ||slori, tions that over 15,000 will attend the | More than usual interest has been | taken in the ball this year, owing to the applications for deserved assistunce that have been increasing. ‘The big bali | $#lvador is for the purpose of Providing funds eee nne. the work of the Hospital ie Fund Association and of the Knights of Columbus Bree Employment | BOURKE COCKRAN’S LECTURE The Hospital Bed Fund Asso- elation has during the three y “Lam going to join Mr, Rafférty in |its existence furnished free medical aid to many members of the order who {| were in need, Elabo: the dancers throng into the Garden to help the cause of charity they will view a beautiful scene. The decorations will be elaborate and will be by Kofter, who has hud chargo of | &¢nization Chureh, the Society of Bt. ‘but 1{!naugural balls and big events of sln- want to impress upon you that if you|ilar nature, ‘The dome will be decorated with the| It 1s particularly appropriate National colors, and this same effect | what will probably be one of.the grec est perorations on the greatest of the graces ever delivered will be for the in- tellectual and financial benefit of an or- whose splendid werk well known in every part of the coun- will be carried out in the Garden, while the arena boxes will be decorated in al colors, yellow and white, A programme will be given, the concert being urranged by Prof. Charles | ganization The dance music will be under the leadership of Prof, McAullft. try. the interesting features of} Mr, Cockran has denied himself to sc celal nd business catiers and has tan- ; John | Eller, mittee, workers an; Ki EVENING, JANUARY: 16, 1 NT KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OFFICERS WHU ARE’ WORKING _ TO MAKE THE ANNUAL BALL FOR CHARITY; A GREAT SUC THF, WORLD: SATURDAY- and Madison avenue, at 6 o'clock. 3 At the ball Dr. J. J. Shea will be floor dircetor, and Justice Leonard A, Gie- xerich Chairman of the Reception Com- The boxes will be filled with leaders In New York Catholic circies, Fatrick H. Dunn, Chairman; O'Shaughvessy, Vice-Chairman; Joseph H. Cagn ey, Secretary, harg, Treasurer, are at the head of the jor the ball The committee of arrangements composed of P. and J. V, Relen- . McGarvey, Brend ||Tunhey, De Soto; J. J. . A. Downs, Widdecomb, b 1 Tremont; B, P, Clark,’ Castilian; 'T, Dunn, Harlem: 'T. J. |Jslde; “H.-W, Herbert Deegan, Corrigan; '. Mystic Rose: C. J J. MeMurrough, Vincentian; | J. P, O'Brien. New York, % Smith, Ave Maria. ‘A. M, Kane, Don- J. A the Pi Paul. stroet, and Jane Doe, of South Third | the ball will be the exhibition drill of and Hewes street. the fourth degree. Victor J, Dowling | celled. all of his engagement during the Mr. Rafferty said that he was going |is muster, of tho drill, which will be|past ten days #0 ts to give Ms entire to use the utmost vigilance in discov entertaining. The ¢orps| time to the preparation of his Iée in evening dress with He wilt bo cone school secured thelt cigarettes | cna belirickas ne Orcas With awords A nday a sale of boxes will take place at Tuxedo Hall, Fifty-ninth street | pretiminar ts of] Orator WIIL Discourse on Charity for Chareh Society Benefit. n's lecture on ‘Charity’* at Carnegio Hall to-morrow night will © Decorations, be one of the greatest efforts of his career, He consented some time ago to deliver this lecture for the benefit of rticular Council of New York of the great charitable and benevolent or- Rourke Cockra He Bo introduced, by. Are! ohn M, Farley, who will presi Rathering and ‘will also maken hgler| ‘The office of walking delegate has PARKS NO LONGER Convicted Walking Delegate, To- gether with Tim McCarthy and William S. Devery, Is Dropped * from Housesmiths’ Union. If Sam Parks, or Tim McCarthy, or William 8. Devery ever assists in the |1aying of any more tron beams or pipes it will be as non-union men, as the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union |'No, 2, of which all three were shining tuic | lights, has dropped their names from bishop | the rolls. | been abolished and the name of Robert former president has been added to that of the strike committee, and this afternoon an effort will be made to end the fight that has kept the unfon men out of work since last spring. ‘The members of the union, by elim- inating Parks, McCarthy have shown a disposition to get rid of all the old Parks crowd that ran things with a high hand, and thus hope now that things may’ move on A UNION WORKER; d the Employers’ Association. Lane aro Phe names of the 1g accompanied by cheers. a LIQUOR DEALERS TO DANCE. ‘Whe Independent . Wine, Iiquor Dealérs' Association ‘twenty-second District hold their an- nual ball Monday night. ‘The commit- tee of arrangements have worked hard to make the affalr a big success, There will be plenty of music for dancing and {t should continue until the early hours. i The affair will be held at the Araster. Opera-House, fourth strect, SFE ROBBED, PLCE NR ‘With Station-House100 Feet t Away and Headquayters Two Blocks Off, Expert Cracks- men Operate in Safety. WEIGHED A TON, BUT THEY EASILY MOVED IT. In Another Room They Turned It Upside Down, Knocked Out the Bottom, Took Contents and Blithely Departed. Burglars danced quadrilles with a safe weighing a ton in the cafe at No, 225 Mercer street early to-day, and when they tired of the sport moved it to a tollet-room, took out the bottom with chisels and abstracted several hundred dollars. The) Mercer street police sta- tion is half'a block away from this cafe and Police Headquarters is two blocks to the eastward. The police have a clue. They found footprints In the snow leading to a box factory next door to the cafe, Investi- gating the footprints, they found two sectional jimmies, two drills and three chisels. This proves to the police that the work of cracking the safe was done by experienced burglars. Policemen Everywhere, Louls Engelking ig the proprietor of the cafe. He closed the place at 1 o'clock this morning and went home. On his way he met a policeman at the door, a roundsman in front of the sta- tion-house, a sergeant and two police- men on the Bleecker street corner, and another policeman at Broadway. The burglars—and there was.a crowd of them evidently—entered the box fac- tory by prying a padlock from the front door. Going through the factory, they reached a yard in the rear, climbed a fence ‘and gained access to the yard back of the cafe. It was eaby to open a window in the kitchen and climb inside. Close to the front windows stood the safe, in plain view from the street. The burglars rolled it from a platform, down through the main room of the place, up two steps in'the rear and into a tollet- room, The safe was three fect square, of the latest manufacture, witn chilled- steel doors and a ,composition lining guaranteed to resist \any drill ever ‘Knowing all about chilled steel doors, the burglars did not attempt to «et into the safe by the ordinary method. ‘They turned the heavy: cash repository upside down and went to work on the bottom, chiselling out the entire plate around the edg This left the interior of the safe exposed, with a foot of com- position protecting the cash box. ~fhe burglars went through the im- pregnable composition as though it had been sawdust, accumulated all the cash and papers and took a few drinks and cigars and then went into the box fac- tory, where they divided the loot, It appears that something occurred thero 0 scare them off, for in thelr they left their tools behind. f Larrea Safe Wan Missing. The robbery was discovered b: Schultz, a bartender, who opened op tat duy. He was greatly astonished to find the safe gone and hunted: all over the place for It before ‘he found: it in the tollet room. Neodiess to say,. the police of the Mercer street station ‘were stonished when Schultz. re; nano i ported the nly a week ago a gang of b broke into a house-at ‘Third street und First avenue, stole a safe, put it on a truck and’ burgled it while: drivigg uptown, ‘removing the bottom and ex. tracting the cash. When through with the safe they dumped {t from he truck fat Fifty-third street'and the East River, A month ago burglars eniered a grocery store In Mott street, turned the |#ate upside down, removed’ he bottom and pulled out the cash drawer and its jlcontents. It appears that the bottom of modern safe Is the vulnerable point Or attack. SOFA AINE AN TO MURDER | Philadelphia Rich Man’s Devo- - tion to Chemistry Dethroned His Reagon So that He Killed His Wife While Demented. DOOR-BELL’S TINKLE ~- BROUGHT ON TRAGEDY.’ . It Aroused Him from Sleep, and! After Shooting His Helpmeet ;. He Turned the Revolver on’ Himself and Ended His Life. PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 16.—A more} shocking tragedy than the murder of | Mrs. Edward Kneass Landis by her ’ husband, the noted chemist, who fol- lowed his crime by suicide, has never occurred In this cliy, That Landis was mentally irresponsible at the time of the tragedy there Is not the slightest doubt, Those who know anything of the dreadful gutferings of the man dur- ing the past few years nave been sur- prised that his mind did not give way before. A pationt sufferer always, a devoted husband and father, this man in @ moment of madness committed a cold-blooded crime, and his suicide afterward 1s generally looked upon a9 @ fortunate thing, for if le had ever! awakened to the realization of what he/ had done it is belleved he would have. gone permanently mad from remorse, In his deyotiqn to science Mr. Landis? wrecked his health years ago. The in- halation of certain poisonous fumes in: Micted upon him a number of distre: ing fillments, the most nerve rackini of which war insomnia. Possessed o enormous wealth, a beautiful wife and) i a fine home at No. 40% Spruce street, | Landis was the most miserable of men.) The crime of yesterday was the di-: rect result of a sudden shock to his nerves caused by the simple ringing df} a bell just as he had fallen into the first slumber he had had for days, Landis had given orders that a third’ floor bell, just outside of his bedroom, should be disconnected from the front door, Through some oversight this was not done, and when a peddler rang the door bell the sharp jangle outside his door roused Landis. He went to bed a weary, nervous man, but sane, withal. He woke up a madman, with murder in his heart. Tn an adjoining room were Mrs. a sister-in-law of Mra Miss Margaret R. Pattory a dressmaker, who was fitting a gow te Mrs. Landis. Landis opened hig door and glared in at the three women ‘Then he called Mrs, Landis, and in. ealm voice which gave no hint of hif condition, asked why the bell had iol been disconnected. Mrs. Landis tried to explain, but Landis would not listeq to her. Mrs. Potts tried to calm Landis, who wut beginning to show signs ul excitement. § Suddenly Landis turned to his bed, took a pistol from under the pillow and fired'a shot at his wife. A steel stay in her corset deflected the pallet. Mrs. Landis fled then she might have been all right, but she ‘stayed, fearing for her husband, Landis then ran into the other room after her, grasped her > halt ulled back her head, and as she lool into his eyes and begged him to spare her he put the pistol to her tem- ple and sent a bullet crashing into her brain, She fell dead on the floor beside the two horrified women. Mrs, Pot had made an effort to stay the crim but she was no match for the powerful man, - Landis glared at the body of his wife without a sign of emotion, then went back to his bedroom, laid down, and a few minutes later shot himself, He died enna The only child of the couple, A daifghter of seventeen, is away at boardhg school, but has been } summoned home. 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