The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1904, Page 1

"RoE TEIED—Snew! ‘Wednesday tatr; iINIGHT EDITION cold wave. Che _[“ Cireulation Books Open to All.” | | PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, TUESDAY. JAN PRICE ONE TOGR FATAL LEAP 10, ~” ESCAPE ANGRY WOMEN Intruder Breaks His Skull in Jump from Window When Cornered by Mother! W. WIGHT DES AFTER SENTENCE London Promoter Hears Penalty of Seven Years Imposed and Expires Just Outside Court- Room Door. and Daughter, Who Sought to Pun- His 81¢ SWINDLES COST ish Him for Entering Their Home. (Spectal to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Jan, %.—Frightened by the determined effort of a woman nd her daughter to punish him for en- tering their home, a well-dréssed man about twenty years old leaped from a second-story windo® of the fine resi- dence of Mrs. L. Lichenstein, at No, 205 West Kinney street, this afternoon and fractured his skull. He |s now in St. Barnabas's Hospital, and, according to the physicians there, will die as a result of his injury. Mrs. Lichenstein and her daughter, Miss Gordon, were returning from a shopping tour when they encountered the stranger at the corner of Fifteenth avenue and Bedford street. H did not molest them, but followed them to their home several blocks away, and when they entered the front door pushed in after them. The women, indignint, man out, attacked house with ordered the him. He ran through mother and daughter in close purauit, dodging in and out of rooms until ‘he finally found himself cornered In an apartmewt on the second oor. Whien the women were about to seize him he raised a window and leaped to the ground, He was unconscious when picked up and was hurried. to the hos- tal. Pishere was nothing about him that would lead to his identity, GIVES HALE A MILLION TOWELP TINY GRIPPLES Miss Emily Watson Donates that Sum to the Orthopedic tle Sufferers May Hospital that Lit- Get Fresh Air, A gift of 3570,000 to make little crip- Hes yell and strow and capable of in the world. This is amily Watson, a white- pan of wealt! who knx long ted in «uttering children, The gift lings been made to the Orthopedic Hospital, of which she js a member of the itoard of Super- visors, Already up at White Plains a beau- tiful building of brick and stone known ne the Country Branch and Industrial School {x nearing completion, The Dullding cost $300,000, and Miss Watson s promised $350,000 more for its en- ment. “I cannot discuss my gift,” said Miss wi ion to-day. “What I have done is for love of the children and I do not want it discussed publicly. I am «lad to help little children, that Is all.” Kept It Secret a Year. Although the gift was made over a year ago, !t was not announced until last night at the annual meeting of the New Yorke Orthopedic Hospital, Miss ‘Watson's endowment has made it pos- sible to realize the long-desired want of the hospital to establish a count branch of the institution, where the lit- tle cripples might grow strong ip the fresh alr. hen surgery has +done nature can take it up and ma tle patients into straight heaithy men and women,” said O. Edgerton Schmidt, the President. “At the same time we realized what a blessing it would be to give them instruction which would en- y {treated in the hospital able them to face the world in the struggle for a livelihood. ‘Miss Mmily Watson heard of our desires and like a good fairy, or rather a good and noble woman, she has made {t possible, The building at White Plains will have accommodations for fifty-two children, Fifteen acres of high ground surround it Facilities for Many. “Of the three floors of the building one will be given up to the patients, one ta the nurses and one for school and dining ¥ of country air for restoring the and the giving of education vantages will bring about the greatest advantages,’ said Mr. Schmidt. ‘The country branch Is run in addition to the regular work of the Orthopedic Hospital, where the num now treated—about four thousand a year—ig three times greater than that f three vears ago, “If only people would realize what the curing and care of cripples means to the ublic,” sald Dr, Russell Hibbs. surgeon- in-chief. “The financial condition of the hospital was shown to be in need. of help, With a few thousand dollars the number of cripples r could be Aiminished, Surely such qn investment must pay a good divide: Eline Said that 4, Dr. 78 patients were iat year an that 8M were restored to Wehen pana tion of health that they needed no fur- ther treatment. Miss Watson lives in clegant apart- men on Central Park West and while she has devoted much time and money to charity it has alws the unheralded ‘kind, Her great inter est hea always been in crippled children id her belief is that the welfare of the e depends largely upon the proper e and curing of deformed and help- less little ones: RYEUALE WINS AT LONG PRICE | 8 to 1 Shot Shows the Way. Home in First Event at New Orleans—First “Ladies’ Day” Finds’ Cold, Dreary Weather. | THE WINNERS. % FIRST RA‘ E—Ryevale (8 to .) 1, John E, Owens (20 to 1) 2, Ov hand 3. NEW ORLMPANS, Jan. 2%.—The cold- est weather of the season put a decided “frost” on the first "Ladies' Day" of the meeting. The manzggement hired a brass band and had the grand stand fecorated with flags, bunting and potted plants, but the cold spoiled the whole show. * at drigied some last night, baut not enough to injure the traci, which was fast, J, BE, Madden has bought Imp. Plan- ades, by St, Simon—Lonely, by Hermi, from Ed Corrigan and wil! use the norse for breeding purposés, Corrigan paid’ $1,000 for Planudes in England, ‘The Debutante, the first two-year-old (take of the meeting, will be run Wednesday, Arch, Oldham, by Gal- lantry-Pearl Barnes; Modredlaw, by weather | 5, Bassetlaw-Miss Modred, and Lady Sor- cere, by Sorcerer-The Dreamer, are among the new ones entered. J. W, Bethum has bought Major Man- sir from Albert Simons for $1,500. —— “WEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. — RACE TRACK, NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 2%6.—The entries for to-morrow's races are as follows: Firat Race—Seve Marionetta Milad! Love do hy n 12 “Sadducce Boorse ts \ suing oo ‘third Race—Sellings “gn ce—Sellings one mile and un ‘Nibany Girt ARInY. Cis Hive “atint. . Compass urth Rack Debutante Stakes. nkie . Far Una: dy Horee: Hannibal Bey \iperin Han All Scarlet’. Floyd K Port Roayi . Col, ‘Tay Bard of Aven’! )108 60. 9 and Hannibal Boy ax rine and All Scarlet as yi Stetla Allen and : Woyd i. and ee CAR BROKE HIS COLLAR-BONE, Vatrick J. Ienny. of No. 29 East Ninety-third street, while attempting to board a car at Seventh avenue and Vifty-ninth street to-day was thrown down, Hix left collar-hone was frac- tured and he was taken to the Presby- terlan Hospital. : eee Father John's Medicine cures colds, prevents pneumonia and consumption, % | He refused to go and they | the | mitted, |W THE PUBLIC $100,000,000. Court Denounced His Companies as Gambling Concerns—Had Talked of Suicide, but Died of Heart Disease. v LONDON, Jan. %.—Whitaker Wright, the corporation promoter, whose fail- ure four Sago Is estimated to have cost Enslish investors $10,000,000, Gropped dead to-day just after being sentenced to. seven years’ penal servi- tude for fraud In connection with the collapse of his companies, He had threatened his friends to com- mit suicide should he be found guilty, but doctors who attended him said he died of heart disease. His health had been very poor. London ts aghast at the sudden death of the man who only a few years ago ranked with the richest the kingdom. He dined with King Ea- |ward, then Prince of Wales, and on the directorate of his companies ap- peared the names of the highest noble~ men and the most distinguished com- moners. The satisfaction expressed at his conviction has change@ almost to sorrow for his untimely end, for un- doubtedly he was a man of immense power and magnetism. Was in Poor Health. Wright had been in poor health ever |since his -eturn from the United States and throvshout the trial suffered from What appeared to oe Indigestion. ‘The charge of Judge Bigham to the jury and his remarks upon passing sentence were most severe upon the prisoner, Two doctors who attended. Mr. Wright say that the shock of sentence, coupled with the severe arraignment. of his methods, was too much for the pro- moter's heart,, ‘The last wotds of Mr. Wright spoken in public formed a declaration of in- nocence of Intent to defraud. He made this declaration {ust before sentence was passed. ‘The term of imprisonment im- posed hy the Juntice was the limit of punishment for the erlme with which the promoter was charged. eat Crowd In Con A great crowd, made up largely of persons who held worthless shares in the concerns promoted by the prisoner, gathered at the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice to-day to hear the conclusion of tthe trial, which had lasted twelve days. The pleadings of counsel were concluded yesterday and Justice Bigham began his charge to |the jury without delay. | Proceeding to deal with the charge, comprising twenty-six counts, Justice yea Bigham said he would ask the jury to find a genera] verdict of guilty or not . if they were satisfied that on one or more of must not be de- tery yom figding a verdict of guilty by suggestion that such a verdict would cast a slur on the memorles of Lords Dufferin and Loch. It would not do anything of the kind Their conduct was consistent in their having honestly muade mistakes, _ led It @ Swindle, Dealing with the evidence, Justice Bigham described as singular the way in which thousands of pounds sterling became millions on paper, so far as the Lakeview shares were concerned. The London and Globe and the Standard Companies were gambling concerns which excited his indignation. After an hour's absence the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and Wright was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude, the most severe pen- alty within the power of the Judge to pass, Mr. Walton's plea in mitigation had no effect. Justice Bigham, in passing sentence. said he coull see nothing to,excuse the criine of which Wright had been con- victed, and he could not conceive a worse case, He must therefore allot the mort severe punishment the law per- guilty Wright these ‘ht, who had stood up to receive his eentence, sald ALT can say ix that Iam as’ tnno- cont of any intention to decelye as any one in this court immediately after leaving the court- room the prigoner staggered. and would have fallen but for the support given by the officers, He carried to a bench, and doctors wi nt for; but they were unable to do anything to save thelr patient. eeeaeeeee WRIGHT FLOATED MANY, “GET-RICH” SCHEMES Whitaker Wright was an International promoter, and the magnitude of his {operations has been equalled by few in hin particular line, in a few years he bullt up a fortune of millions by daring operations in mines world, For a time his. En panies paid enormous dividends and’ in- vestors by the thousands clamored to invest. The Boer war brought on the (Continued on Second Page.)) — cee Colds in Chins. financiers in| SPECIAL EXTRA. MAY CRIPPLE | THIRD AVcINUE © SURFACE ROAD. A defective channe! rail on the Third avenue surface road disabled a number of cars between Twenty-third and Thirty- fourth streets late this afternoon. Unless the trouble can be | located the entire road may be tied up to-night. | hee STORM TIES UP TRAFFIC IN CENTRAL STATES. ‘Dispatches from Celveland and Detroit say that the worst snowstorm of the season is raging in that section of couniry. Steam and electric roads are in a bad condition, as the snow is drifting. Many ct ihe reads in Ohio had rot tully vc- covered from the effects of the recent flood. et LATE WINNERS AT NEW ORLEANS. Second Race—Falkland 1, McWilliams 2, McKinney 3. Third Rac—Malster ‘1, Clanger 2, New York 3. Fourth Race—Port Royal 1, Bon Mot 2, Tribes Hill 3. Fifth Race—Stonewall 1, Major Mansir 2, Vesuvia 3. ee eee DOCTOR ENDS HIS LIFE ON LINER. BALTIMORE, -Jan. 26.—Dr. J. J. Arthur Liebertarz. of Zu- | rich, Switzerland, a passenger on the North German !.!ov" steamship Hanover, from Bremen for this port and Galveston, \Tex., and new in this harbor. was found dead to-day in his stateroom. A vial half filled with morphine was on a chair be- side his bed, and it is suposed he committed sulside, Or. Ligbertanz’was bound for Astin, Tex. : “ 15 MINERS ARE KILLED IN FALL OF 1,500 FEET. Jan. 2%6.—By the falling y in the Stratton Inde- | pendence, mine. located near the centre of thix city, fifteen men are dead and one other severely injured. In the main shaft sixteen men were being hoisted in a cagé from the sixth VICTOR, Col of cage to- venth and @ighth levels. When the fe reached the surface the enginee’. some unexplained reason, was wi able to stop the engine, und thi with its load of human freight wan arawn up into the gallows frame, where it became lodged temporarily. | MORE CASH FOR THE FAIR. Aldermen Wri le Over Addit Appropriation of $25,000, Alderman McCall. Chairman of the | nee Committee; moved at the | meeting of the Bonrd of Aldermen to- day for an extra appropriation of $20,000 SILK CASE DRAGS ON. Prooseceton Has Hard Work'to Fill the Jary Box, With eleven provisional jurymen in the box the so-called silk fraud eases were resumed to-day in the United States Chreuit Court, Crimina! Branch. $95,000 hud been appropriated and that in the Appraisers” Stores, came in | ee aii Accompanied hy ther counsel Nicoll challenged Mr, Dilworth,; Alderman McCall said that former who ocoupied the foreman’s chair, and) Mayor Low had told him $50.00 would Mr. Dilworth was excused. Charles & be needed, but as he had but two Bailey, proprietor of the Rockingham months tore to serve he thought he Stables at No. 1721 Broadway, was ac- Could only use $25,000 and the rest could Capted and tok the seat vacated by Mr. | be ‘Appropriated ‘by. the new Roard. The: now asked for was this 340 East Seventieth sum. He resented the state- , Was’ accepted ax a juror. The, Alderman Meyer that his ‘annotinced It was content with was at faul ffs as it stood, ‘The Government! | Alderman Sullivan ke in favor of excised the- ith juror, Charles Sule: | Poung tne sum, gypeating that Mavor A corpora: | i he resolut.on backer, a. former inspector of corpora-! Way pan Natned s70N. | The rewluten tlon Improvements. a Wal 4 ; The hunt for the additonal juror was ppt ee ving failed by three voies at onc eresumed, ‘ a A CONCERNED ABOUT PANAMA.! 3 MONTHS FOR EXTORTION. — : President and Cabinet Officers cretive After Meeting WASHINGTO: Jan all memory’ ‘Former Maunger of a Mercantile Amency Ie Sentenced, the st. Joseph D. Stinson. formerly manager menLers of th xcept of the Chicago branch of the Interne retary Hay, who is in the South, wety tional Mercantile Agency. was to-day present at to-day’. ‘She ses- wentenced to three months in the pent- flon lasted about ind a half, tentlary on a charge of attempting to but at its conclusion * \n® ‘extort $100 from his former employers. Ita dealin was discloaed. Considerable While, Stinson wes working for the time occupied in. & discussion Gf company he obtained information, which the Panama situation, both. as rewards jhe said later he would sell to a rival the treaty pending in the Senete «nd a8/untess the company paid him $3,000 for regards the situatign on the isthmus, He was induced to come to New v! iy serious complications While no Vey sericted, information (York, and after several conferences in has reached the Government, presitin- ‘consented to accept #00. When tie tbly through official channels. that In-/ money was paid, in the office of Charies Guces a careful regard for the devel- D, Henderson, No. 8 Broadway. a de- on the intnmus, “Neither Mec. tective came trom his hiding-place in a fetary Root nor’ Becretary Mooviy |roli-top desk and arreated Stinson. vera discure the matter. Acting Hec- | In passing sentence to-day Jud retary uf State Loomis hada confer- ter, In the Court of General on, ence with the Predident immediately had received many letters from prominent per: son and askin, a APPOINTED BY AHEARN. | Borough President *hearn to-day ane nk interceding for St'n- after the Cabinet meeting, but he, ra ight sentence, was uncommunticative, fatinalbt st GREG SISTER MARY DAVID DEAD. Mother Supertor in Charge of Hos- 10! PI! jcoumbs to Heart Fatlure. | :|’ Sister Mary! David, mother. superior | 3 of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who have | Both are charge of St. John's Hospital, in Long | Ber, made Superintende! a8. av A. Hope of Buildings *\Ieland City, died to-day from heart ras failure, She was. seventy-three years ear ee old and had in health for! GOV, MURPHY NAMES JUDGES. euffering, a serious attack TRENTON, N. J., Jan, %.--Goy. Mur- established in 1800. phy went the following nominatlons to fnroush the efforts | the Senate to- Judge First Dist that.the it | Court, Jersey Clty—Charles 1. C ve Clreuit Court Judga to succeed the |. she t of late ix | guano Nixon—Willlam B. Endicott, A about MK month ago. On| Pee 3 of the lent Judge Atlant | that re: ihe two paerendanis ayant for the city's exhibition nt the St. 1 inion member of 0. tym eupatian nthal & Co. and Cha " ne, the ‘suepended examiner of 9 fderman Mexer ob ae claiming MERRY WAGS ARE “The American Children Are So} Vivacious,” Cried Alphonse. | “They Are So Interested in Foreigners,” Echoed Gabriel. “WE ARE PLEASED,” THEY SAY | [res or Eight Cherube Put Their Arms Around Our Necks and Tie Our Exclaimed Al- phonee in Great Glee. You remember the Italian twins in | ‘{Pudd'nhead Wilson?” They had their troubles—Mark Twain knows!—but goodness, their case isn't a marker to that of Alphonse and Gabriel ' gracious! | Alphonse and Gabriel are as polite as ra nbe, and oh! so unfortunate. Their nom de Chauteau— no. not chateau. story of landed estates or an Alexander Dumas tale. Its @ true tale of the reception of the twins by the small boy of Columbus avenue and contiguous streets. Although painters, Alphonse and Ga- briel cat—for they are such good paint- ers that they get real money for their pictures. It ts of special importance to men- tion here that they not only eat, but that they eat at No. 11 West Sixty- fourth street To-night a strong, ged-headed French policeman will be standing in front of aurant to protect his twin com- patriots. “Qui, c'est vrai.” xald Alphonse to-day at the studio of the twins, No. 139 West Fifty-ffth street. Gabriel corroborated the statement with a low bow. The twins were dressed just as you see artists in the back pages of magazines, all in black velvet and white linen. Showed Good They displayed good team work in telling thelr cxperiences at the hands of the self-constituted reception com- mittee of Smatier New York. “A beautiful littie boy with golden hair, be hit me on the elbow with a brick,” remarked Alphonse, in French, with a happy smile. “And another child, with a face like an angel. he chuck me in the ribs so, with a pointed stick,” enthusia: y coher ayy atioally “And then two, three or six or jcherubs thes put their arm sroune Sun necks and tie our whisker exclaimed Alphonee. in great glee ‘Team Work. The twink laughed so heartily over the recollection of this lugentous. pr that the janitor stuck his head in the or te it Was shaking tie Hiding. “Th Was roared Alphonse, i el, “and you A brother, when that antique {tomato can hit me behind the ear and pounded off and almost tripped vou rhe twins gave way to fresh parox- “amis of mirth. “}iow do you like America?" asked line reporter, convinced that for onee this question was the right ore. “Ssagnificent.” exclaimed Alphonse, juperb!” added Gabricl. he children are so vivacious!” said e hone. Alppomees ake much an interest in the foreigner!” remarked Gabriel. “Wwe are chimed the twine. However ring the dit French p man ‘NEW BRIDGE A PROD TOSTIATHEB.RLT. Comptroller Grout Suggests Plan for the Interurban Com- pany to Run Cars Over the Williamsburg Bridge. Comptroller Grout has suggested to the Interurban Ratlway Company the advisability of running its cars over the new Williamsburg Bridge and returning in a loop at the Long Island end of the structure, ‘This plan is sald to be under consideration by President Vreeland, Paul D, Cravath and the engincers for the compan: As an outcome of the Comptroller's suggestion he said to-day he anticipated that within a few days the Interurban would file an application for the privi- lege. “If such a step is taken by Mr. Vree- land's company," said Comptroller Grout, “it may result in at least stir ring the B. R. T, to action, The situa- tion at present {s intolerable and de- mands radical m jures.”" It is belleved that the Comptroller's suggestion paves the way for a similar privllege to be gra the BR, T, fo that both compan! return over the brid traffic, to the detriment f the propored WEATHER FORECAST. Frvecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Wednesday for New York City and vicinity: Snow to-night; Wednesday. gen- erally fair, with a cold wave fresh to brisk east to south winds, becoming west. FOR THE RESCUE. OF MEW WN MINE. +o It Is Not Believed that Any of the 181! Miners Is Still Alive, and Explorers of the Net- | work of Tunnels Expect Only to Find the | Bodies of Former Comrades. ; ENGINEER SELWYN M. TAYLOR LOST HIS LIFE, A MARTYR FOR EMPLOYEES He Had Planned the Mine and Rushed to It as Soon as He Heard of the Disaster— Insisted Upon Descending Into the Shaft and Was Quickly Overcome. : (Special to The Evening World.) PITTSBURG, Jan. 26.—The Hardwicke mine is tre tomb of 18% {men who were penned in its network of tunnels by the exp‘osion yester= day. All hope of rescuing them alive has been abandoned, and ths men who are going down into the deadly gases are voluntver searcers for corpses. _As they penetrate the mine they expect to find scores of bodies, lying prostrate with faces close to the ground, for in this fosilion mners di struggling to the last for a gasp of fresh air. = Michael McQuaide, one of the leaders of the rescuers, came up from the shaft and said it would be late to-night before they would be able to get out any of the bodies. “We have at the bottom of the shaft,” eaid he. “a pile of legs and arms and trunks that resemble anything but the remains of human bodies, It is the most gruesome sight I ever witnessed.” FEAR TO VENTILATE TOO SOON, If it is once settled beyond doubt that all the men are dead the vork of ventilating the mine can proceed more rapidly, but that s the trouble and has been since the work of rescue began. To work the fan in-a way to quickly clear the mine of the foul air would drive #he afterdamp in upon tho men who have found a temporary place of refuge and it would mean almoat instant death to them. The only hopeful ones about the mine are the women and children, and they will never be convinced that their husbands or their fathers have perished until the corpse is brought from the opening. Their hopefutnese is sublime, but it is none the less pathetic, and doomed, it is feared, to the direst disappointment, Contributions to aid the families of the entombed miners are alreaty coming in, ‘© are more than 190 widows and probably 400 Ww Ore phans. They have been living on the.Svanty wages of the average coat miner. That income 1s now cut off from them, and it is sald imineaiate assistance will be needed to prevent suffering tor the necessaries of 11e. The Coroner's jury was brought to the scene of the accident this after noon under the charge of Deputy Coroner Campbell, A thrilling feature of thg- work of rescue was the voluntary martyrdom of Selwyn M. Taylor, the mining engineer. He gave his life in a vein effort to save the men tmprisoned. He had designed the mine and he knew every foot of its drifts and level! He knew full well when he descended into the shaft that the chances were against bis coming out alive. He braved the chances and lost, sacrificing himself for the mine he had planasd as a cap- tain sacrifices himself with his ship on the sea. FAMOUS AS MINING ENGINEER, Mr. Taylor was one of the best-known mining engineers in Western Pennsylvania, a man of wealth and influence. His first intimation of the Cisaster at the Cheswick mine was obtained from bulletins in front of news- paper offices which he saw as he was on his way to his office in this city yesterday morning. He telegraphed to the Clevelant) members of the firm and took the first train for Cheswick, where he assumed peisonal charge of tie work of rescue, Knowing the mine us he did he was the first to reaiizo the full extent of the disaster. He knew tbat an explosion 220 feet underground of sufficient force to hurl a mille to the surface and destroy the buildings at the mouth of the shaft left i/tt) 1 baiowW. Two men who had been at the mouth of the shaft attending to the holst- ing machinery died of their injurics received in the explosion just afier Mr. Taylor reached Cheswick. He superiatended the ripping out of the seats in a little schoolhouse near the mine and the arrangement of the place as a nospital; he cirectedthe work of rigging up a temporary hoisting apparacus ta the wrecked shaft and instructed the first man who entered the mine—@ miner named McCann who was lowered by a rope tied around his body. McCann could not remain long at the bottom of the shaft, but he was there long enough to rescue Adolph Gunis, who was unconscious in the wreck of the hoisting machinery. s BEGGED FOR RESCUE OF RELATIVES. Hundred: of sobbing women and wailing children gathered on the coll, — bleak hillside begged that some attempt be made to rescue husbands and fathers and sweethearts imprisoned below. Mr. Taylor knew that healong = could load a rescue party with any prospect of success and he knew that ay that prospect was small indeed. But this did not daunt bim, bf Down he went, to his death, with three volunteers—the brave McQani ae Henry Baker and Thomas Wood. Once at the lower level he pushed # ward as though walking the streets of Pittsburg. Past five heading - men who had gone with him to assist remained close behind, but the ues gas made them sick and they were forced to flee. The last seen of him he was pushing his way across @ the direction of the mon imprisoned Deyone pet