The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1904, Page 5

MEDIUM BROKE THE FURNITURE: Sames K. Thompson, in a Trance, Mistook Favorite Pieces for the Spirits of Fa- mous Men. HE ATTACKED AND BIT SON OF THE LANDLADY. There Was a Lively Fight, but the Fighting Medium Was Fin- ‘ally Dragged Away to Court and Held. ‘There wos a hot time to-day in the Spiritual Science Institute, as Mrs. Emily Schneider's boarding-house 1s known tn West Bifty-seventh street, be- tween Eighth and Ninth avenues, all because one of the mediums, while in a trance, mistook the landlady’s elegant parlor furniture for the spirits of ta- ‘mous men, He broke the legs off George Wash- ington (g fine settee), sent Napoleon Bonaparte (a teakwood stool) smashing against the wall, decapitated Queen Victoria (an onyx table, the head being & lamp that sat on the table), and he was about to annihilate the shade of Bismarck when Mrs. Schneider's son came to the rescue. “Ah,” cried the medium, whose name 1s James K. Thompson, “Ah! You are the flend incarnate coming from His Majesty the Devil’ hopin to destroy me. Now (in real stage guttural tones) it ts your life or mine.” Fight with a Me Young Afr. Schnelder was cornered. He grappled with Thompson, and the two rolled over the floor, knocking over all that was left of Thompson's collec- tion of famous spirits. Finally Thomp- son burled his teeth deep into Mr. Bull elder’s wrist and ipficted such a painful wound that the young man is under a ductor’s care, Mr. Schneider yelled with pain, ana from above came more mediums and spiritualists, including Mrs. Stoddara Gray and her son, DeWitt C. Hougn, who give seances and materializations for anything from $1 up, and Mrs, Schneider, who has not yet been far enough advanced in the sclence to be x medium, although she advanced her money freely in its interests. Medium Hough got a policeman, while Ure ‘women in the house belabored Fhompeon until‘he unfastened his teeth, ‘The policeman came and lugged Medium Thompson, off to the West Fifty-fourth street court. where Medium Hough and Medium Gray appeared against him. He was held in $00 bail, M and Inventor, Too. “You see,” Mrs. Schneider said after the had sent for a doctor to bandage ner son's wrist, “Mr, Thompson fs an Inventor. He invented a patent for burning up smoke, It didn’t burn up the smoke, but it burned up my money —money that T advanced on the strength of what he told me had been communicated to him from the spirits of great financiers. When the millions edtam id not materialize, 1 let him earn his) board by tending to the door, helping with the disnes and doing odd chores Whenever he had any money he uid go out, and when he came back he seemed to eo Into a trance range the parlor furniture and designate each piece as t of some famous person, ‘Then Ww the ‘spirits’ failed to respond to his questioning his own spirits would. g the better of him and he would tea around smashing everything that breakable.” “Infleed he did." spoke up Medium Gray as she pushed one of her cards into the reporter's hand, “I'm glad he's in jail, Ie was always breaking Np_our manifestations and Reance: "The ¢ard set forth that Mra, Stod- dard Gray and her son, De Witt C. Hough, give “seances anda full form of materidiization and conversations with spirit friends on Sundays. Wedne: days and Baturdays at M, for $1 Further it read: The Spiritual Science Institute, Private Seances by Appoint- ment. Mra, Gray and her son give neances in, private daily from 10 A. NM. i A , Thompson, it seems, was the “slate Writer’ of the Sctence Institute. The physician who attended Mr. Schnieder cauterized the wound, GAS OVERCOMES FAMILY; TWO DING Aged John Finn. His Wife and Son, All Unconscious When a Neighbor anda Policeman Broke in the Door. A family of three were overcome by gas to-day in the second flat of the tenement No, 292 Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn, Two will probably die John Finn, seventy years old: wife, Mary, nixty-elght, and their Cornelius, thirty, were found uncon- scious by Mrs. T, Kelly, a neighbor, whd went to cal on the Finns. Mrs, Kelly noticed the smell of gas escaping jm their apartment. She beat at the Moor, but was unable to force the lock. Mrs. Kelly then called in Policeman ins and the two broke down tho door. . ‘The father and the son were lying on the bed, Mrs, Finn on the floor. When the Kings County Hospital ambulance surgeon arrived he revived Mrs, Fin but found dt necessary to send t men/to_the hospital. Mrs. Finn sald that Cornelius, non, was the, last to go. to tl TI is her bed, ana he must have turned sthe gas on len’ ifter putting out the light. doctors at the hospital think there mall ohance of recovery for the two THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1904. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR SUFFERING SUBURBANITES WHO TRAVEL ON THE ERIE’S JERSEY LINES. a OVE SURE war To commute Te WaW oa “1OnagP An Uf 9SO2S-908039 0086-90684: é eo © cuxoniovs sar on 4ACB CURTAIN WHISKARS AND AYALAGR GROWS $SD-8490O906S0OLOS S402 S ¢ HEOTIGEG- 26 POdSE WP SURROUNOING 13 NoMa DODDDDADLDLODODHODDDOHDDADD HHLDODHP OH OH IDHOHH DAN DIGS © SENDING mronvar Wome ay Ca 9 RIMR */GBON, DSO945-99G95ODHHOHHOHHG STRING “LIV TO SAVE Trolley Company, Kno Restraini Hill has joined forces with West Hobgken, Hoboken, Jersey City and other New Jersey cities by threat- ening to revoke the franchise of the Public Service Corporation unless there fs an immediate improvement in ‘the trolley service or some good reason is given why such improvement cannot be made. Ata meeting of the Board of Council, at which many complaints of inade- quate service were received, a resolution was adopted to the effect that “oMficials ‘of the corporation must appear before the Council at next week's meeting and show cause, if It can be done, why the jocal ordinance giving the corporation the right to use the streets of Union Hil should not be revoked. This action followed a temporary victory by the corporation over the Township Committee of North Bergen. It had been announced that a line of pales in Paterson avenue crected by the corporation would be cut down. To prevent this, the corporation obtained a reatraining writ from Vice-Chancellor Pitney yesterday afternoon. As soon as it became known to the Vownship Committee that such a writ was to be sought plans were quickly made to hurry the necessary procecd- |ings through and to lay the obnoxious poles low. All that was necessary was @ proof of publication of an official notice in a newspaper which Was Issued at 4 o'clock, Mou Were Ready to Act. Men armed with axes and a squad of policemen to protect them from possible interference on’ the part of the cor- poration had been ordered to assemble at that hour, and all was in readiness for quick action when a copy of the Vice-Chancellor’s restraining order wi served on the township officials. Three minutes later the proof of publication arrived, und it was by this margin that the township authorities lost and the corporation won. ‘The chancery writ is returnable next Monday. Meanwhile the poles cannot be interfered with, but the township authorities declare ‘that upon the first opportunity they will be levelled, It is said that severa} of the poles had been strung with “live” ticipation sof the expected onslaught, und that the axemen would have found Union Cut Down in North Bergen Township, Adopted Heroic Measures—Got narrow | wires in an-| E” WIRES | THEIR POLES wing They Were to Be ng Order, | their work not only exciting, but de- cldedty dangerous There are persistent rumors In New- ark and other places that Walter W Wheatley, gencral manager of the trolley lines of the Public Service Cor- poration, ix about to lenve the service and a new man be installed in his| position. The story was based upon the | fact that neariy all the hostility to the | Public Service Corporation has grown| from the poor trolley service since the) advent of Mr. AVheatley: At the main offices of the Public Ser- vice Corporation, in Newark, Secretar’ Evsns, whu does whatever talking President McCarter thinks necessary, | sald: | "We have heard the story. but there! is nothing in it.” Beyond that he would not discuss the matter. [the Kast Evening World Cr dew t | Although President Thomas N. Mc- Carter, Manager W.,W. Wheatley and other officials of the new Public Service Corporation refuse to acknowledge it, 1t is said on good authority that the rea- son they have been making {mprove- ments in. the trolley service in Jer: ity Is because of the crusade by The Evening World. \ During the past few days cars have been heated and there has been less d lay in the running of them, especial on the Bayoune, Summit avenue, Union Hill and Court House lines. | ‘There are inore car operation on |the Union Hill and Bayonne lines now than e ihe new corporation took ‘hold of the trolley system. | The agitation of The Evening World jfor better trolley service, which has lasted more than two weeks, has caused rush work on the new cars cars are of expensive muke and best in use over any of the lines, anxious was President McCarter and the +) trated The new | So! Manager Wheatley to get them on the, road that some were sent out all the trimmings. The crowding to board [ferries Is daily. becoming less. At the |termital in Exchange, place, Jersey tity, cars are run on better time an the crowds that come off ferry-boats are more easily handled. Street aid Water Commissioner John | Sullivan, Alderman Carlock, Assembly- an Myron Ernst, Justice of the Peace Lehane, Aldérman William ex-Alderman James Mc- Court Clerk, B.A. Ran- Finance Commissioner | Jacob | Kingle. Thomas 1°. Carey and ex-Free- holder Edward Kenny are some of those who scored the trolley company for giving bad service, and say now that rellef ix apparently in sight ng a result of The Evening World's crusade. , without cars at the AV. OF A, GREE MADE BISHOP Dignified Simplicity Attends the Ceremony in St. Bartholo- mew’s Church, Where Many Episcopalians Gathered. | With all the dignified simplicity of \¢ Protestant Episcopal ceremony. the Rev. Dr, David Hummel! Greer wan to-day ordained as Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of New York by the Fy. Rey, Henry Codman Potter, Bishop, in St. Bartholomew's Church, Forty-fourth street and Madison avenue, ‘The ordination ceremony began at l o'clock, when the organist, Richard Henry Warren, began the Processional. Already the body of the church was thronged with people, save for the pews reserved for the lay deputies and vei 1 BaeAan of the diocese. * Without the church a great throng of people clamored for admission, while twenty ushers, assisted by Capt. Tighe, of the East Fifty-first street police st ton, and fifty uniformed patrolmen, held them in check. ‘ At the vestry te on Forty-fourth street Capt. Tighe atationed two men to assist J, Plerpont Morgan, who was passing on the personal invitations sent! men and women offeritfg all kinds of excuses to gain admittance without go- ing through the crush at the door. Vested Choir Heads Procession, Orgahist Warren played Processional Hynin No 323 as the procession entered the church from the vestry, The vest- ed vholy of St. Bartholomew's headed the procession Following the echolr came the lay deputies to the General Convention, lay members of the Standing Committe, the vestrymen of St. Bartholomew's | Chureh, the lay trustees of the Cathe- dral of Bc John the Divine, a ons, clergy from outside dioceses, clergy of the diocese xecording to their seniority, clerical deputies to the Genera} Convention, * clerical mem- bers of the Standing Committee, the Rev. Drs, Samuel Hart and George F Nelson, the Bishop Coadjutor elect and the attending Presbyters, the Rev. Drs WR, Huntington and Morgan Dix, the bishops, and aishop Potter. ‘The lay- men (Wrned dito pews in the centre isle. while thy clergy proceeded, to the ‘ue ordination service was conducted | by Bkshop Potter. Bishop Burgess read {the Epistle, and Bishop William Hobart ture, of South Dakota, the Goapel. The ioling Bishops at the ceremony were hop Willan Croswell Doane. of. Al- ny, and Rishon Ot Wi y , of Pennsvivantay aera Wilks owing the communion serv: Bishop Doane, of Albany, began. the or dination sernion, after which. the co Secration office proper was commence Dr, Greer, wearing the ordinary ves ments ay Used Dresented to Bi ake similar services, w: hoo Potter by the Riche |to wrap up. | FLAMES. MENACE MANY FAMILIES Gnly Quick Work on Part of Po- lice and Citizens Prevents Loss of Life in Fire in Park Avenue. ‘Twenty-three families were thrown into a panic by a fire which started in the dry-goods store of Alexander Doockler, at No. 1340 Park avenue, to- day. Only the quick action of the police and citizens who gathered and helped women and children out of the threat. ened buildings prevcrted several deaths from suffocation. Two employees of the Consolidated Gas Company, D. F, Nesbitt and Samuel Berger, were passing the store and saw smoke coming over the door. Nesbitt ran to turn in the alarm and Berger called to Policeman Clancy, of One Hundred and Fourth street station, who was on the cor- ner. The building is a five-story one and the top four floors are occupied by thirteen families. Many of them were still tn ,bed, Those on the top floor were piloted to the roof by Clancy and Berger. On the top focr Clancy found a Mrs. Eldridge, who Was overcome Ly the smoke. He wrapped a mackintosh about her and carried her to the roof. He then returned and carried a Mrs. M. H. Shuttleham and her two smail boys, all of widm had been overcome by fright and smoke, to the roof. In the meantime the smoke had pene- to the hallways of the next building, No. 75 East One fundrea and First street, in which ten familles live. ‘The ground floor 1s occupled as a deli- catessen shop by Charles P, Jacobs. ‘The police and several neighbors ran through this building and aroused the tenants, and it was thought they were all out when a Woman announced that a Mrs. Sophia Basson, who lived on t second Moor, was still in the building, ‘The smoke was pouring up in clouds, but the police got to her and found her and her baby, which she had_ stoppea both overcome, The baby had been iil with pneumonia, and she had stopped to dress it before leaving the building. Roth were carried out MOONEY THREW COP DOWN THE STAIRS Then They Fought All Over the Street, but the Disturber of the Law Got Six Months for His Pains. When Policeman Buckley arraigned Peter Mooney, of No. 459 West Fifty- seventh street, in the West Side Po- lice Court to-day, both men were in ad shape, Buckley had gone to Mooney’s home to serve a warrant for threatening the other members of his family, including his aged mother, Mooney threw the policeman downstairs and then the two fought all the way up ‘Tenth avenue to Sixty-second stecet. Mooney was sent to the Island for six monthe. INDIANS THREATEN FIGHT. Cherokees and Snaken for Attack on Wh MUSKOGEE, 1. 1., Jan, 26.—Runners from ‘Texanna report an uprising arnong the full-blood Cherokees and ask protection for whites who live ii that county. The-Cherokces belong to the Ketoowah band, which has opposed the Government in the allotting of lands ‘They have left their homes around Poorman's Gap and have gone to Green- et Ready on. ht Rev. Alex- wrence, Bishop of Mas- nt Coadjutar of of that the ners, Beaun g atoal end ta leat Mountains, where they threaten to attack and to “leave hoth' T pi es ge eee sec ¢ Hake Indians have ther- tg, at lat Hook and drilling, ike ldiers for two wee! t is reported yey sf |now it Js sald that June 15 * the cartt- est possible date that can be considered CARS NOW BUILT Copper Sheathing on 500 New! Coaches Already Delivered, Said to Be Considered Dan- gerous in View of Paris Horror. DENIALS BY OFFICIALS, June 15. It Is Said, Will Be the! Long Tunnel’s Formal Open-' ing to the Public. j Chief Engineer William Barclay Par- sons and Contractor John '!. MeDonald have abandoned all hope of Ketting the | subway in operation by March 26, the | avuiversary of the beginning of wor or the long hole, Tt was hoped to make this fourth | anriversary a notable nevasio’ end for} six months the engineers ani contract- ors have bent every energy to the nc- complishment of this one thlag, Mut for the great event A vurlety of rensons are given for the delay, But tt {s “Se. on Rood authority that the main reason ix that the 300 hew cars, many of which have been tried out during the last few weeks en | the Second avenue elevated rallrond. ; are not up to the requirements @ that they will have to be rebullt Not Considered Safe, These cars, it is said. are well up to the standards that prevailed a year ago, but since the Paris subway horror cars of the copper-sheathed type are not considered safe, All of these new cars, It is sald, are copper-sheathed and not adequately protected fvom the dan- rer of contuct with the third vail, A car of this type, completely charged, {t is sald, might kill or seriously injure every passenger in It. Engineer Parsons sald to-day that he had heard no complaints about the new cara and understood that thy which had been tried out on the Second avenue line were to be used without change. As to the opening of the sub- vay, Mr. Parsons had this to s Impossible to Fix Date, “It is simply impossible to fix the date for the opening of the subway. w could use the section from the City Hall to One Hundred and .Fourth street (o- morrow if we had the power, but of course the power-houre is not finished. We did want to open it on the fourth dhniversars, of the beginning of work, but what with strikes, cold weather and ‘a million other things which no one can comprehend, we have veen delayed in ‘ways that we could not foresee. 1 would not say that it will pe June before we open, because I cannot tell. It may be in April or it. may be tn M ‘One thing is certain, we are not ing to let any grass grow under our feet, but will open the subway to the public just fas we can. “Stank Hedley, general superintendent of the Interborough Company, sald to- day that the cars to be used in the subway were all ready and that the fact that they were copper sheathed jection to them. wag no objection {ars lias been con- ‘ed,’ he said, ‘The copper sheath- fie ia what makes them safe, You can depend upon it that ample precaution has been taken to prevent the sheath- ing from coming in contact with any charged rails,” BONDHOLDERS WILL AGREE WITH SCHAB Negotiations for a Settlement of The Shipbuilding Litigation on a New Basis, but Will End This Week. Interests identified with the United States Shipbuilding Company stated positively to-day that negotiations for a settlement of all pending litigation are still on, and that a compromise | almost certaln before Friday, when the Sheldon syndicate expires. The fact that the Bondholders Pro- tective Committee has refused to ac- cept the proposition advanced by Mr. Schwab has put the negotiations on « new basis instead of having ended them, ‘There are now four conflicting inter- eats in the litigation which have to be consulted before a compromise can be reached and a s€ttlement effected of all ext: ng suit ‘The most powerful interest and the vith greatest cash holdings is that Schwab a one represented by (Charles M his associates, ‘They shave inter with a par value of $30,000,000 In company. ‘Through their possession of | the $10,000,000 secor guge bonds they control the most valuable agset or cond large Interest is that of ion Syndicate and the Sheldon Reorganization Committee. in each of which the same group of capitalists have large interests. ‘The third is the Comonwealth Trust Company. the individual comprising | the former board of directors of the! 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