The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1904, Page 7

e- OLD MANHELD UP |FLING SPECTRE. ‘ON °L STHRS! CARES BOWERY | Wiliam G. Gessner, . Retired] ciag only in Blanket that Flap- p-| | Builder, Attacked by HighWay-| neq Like Shroud Ghostly Form, men at the Tremont Station’ Fits Atong — Thoroughfare |. and Brutally'Choked. Screaming “Police!” VALUABLE DIAMOND STUD A ghostly apparition fleeing up t Bowery, its one garment Mapping in the , TORN FROM SHIRT FRONT,| coig‘ntent wind like « shroud, scared the majority of the pedestrians on that thoroughfare almost to the point of swearing off. “P'ohee! [t's de ghost o' Dotty Ri- at Bowery | Venerable Victim’s Struggles At- tract Attention of Ticket)» | ® | tre passed Barney Flynn Chopper, Who Rushes to His}ana Pen. “Holy snakes!" gaseped Skinny Lyons, hid and Robbers Flee. “Parkhurst was right. De ild's off an’ a loos “It's the banshee! It's the banshee! | One of the most daring hold-ups ever| Howly Mother, I'm t’ dje an’ I'm not fit attempted in this eity came very near! go yit,"®screamed “Cork” Connolly. | Deing carried through successfully by) And through all the turmoil the spec- + two daring highwayman at the Tremont |'T® fed so fast that the tall of its station of the “I/" road at One Hundred | Qu s™ment only hit the nies Lenina) and Seventy-seventh street, the victim | tones, “Pollce! Police!” | being William G Gessner, a retired| It was this familiar cry that was reo- jbuilder, seventy-five years old, who|osnized by the majority and prevented Mes in Boscobel avenue, near Jerome|the Bowery from going insane entirely. | 7 aenue, Highbridge. They recognized the fact that a genuine ‘The scone of the hold-up was the|ghost would have little use for the Stairway of the “L” station. The police, so most of them fell in behind | tion is between the tracks, and at the/the loping spectre and followed it to | \foot of the stairs on both sides of the|the doors of the Hlizabeth street police ‘etreet hotels which are open station. hightcand Gosens of pedestrians Were | As the stcangs shape turned tn at the \ passing the corner et the time. dor of the station house the garment, Mr. Gessner had been downtown t0/ which proved to be a blanket, fell from see friends and had been dining with |i ana disclosed a man, absolutely naked. them at a restaurant on Fourteenth | rg police discovered that he was Pat- street. He boarded an “‘L” train for the | 14. Brady, a waiter, thirty-four years Bronx, ahd, after he entered the car | o14 who had been sleeping at the Glen- @ big man, about five feet en inches | ore Hotel, No. 4 Cha@ham squa iin height, entered and took a seat beside . No. Bim, Mr. Gessner, described the Miexion [had been asleep at the hotel and had * —“Delng smooth of face, saeraark [heard men plotting to kill him. He nd wesring = sloast Bet wed ike a| declared they were golng to take off verdant. He talke his skull first and then dig out his Westerner. Soy brains, He admitted that he had been ‘Talked with His Victim Grinking hard for two weeks. : ‘Tue stranger entered into convetsa:| 4n ambulance was summoned and he Heniaith Gresensccait asked a he\had || AD) SvOH ee Seo herel ities lived in the Bronk tong. Mr. Gessner.) joi4 he was suffering from delirtum v ‘who has lived {n the Bronx almost from} |e eng his infancy, has built many of the —— houses there and owns a great deal of real estate in that vicinity. He con- JOINS CATHOLIC CHURCH. versed with the stranger, who said he had lately pufchased a home in the! protestant Minister Will Be’ Bap- Bronk, until they reached te Tremont tized Within a Week. * station. sei , owing to his age, is rather] MILWVAUKEE, Jan. M&—The Rev. ee rani vate slowly, using @ cane.| Charles H. Schultz, formerly of the Pho stranger assisted him off the train,|Jittle Church Around the Corner, tm us owing to the old man’s Infirmities| New York, has been converted to Cat tnéy were almost the last persons to|olicism and will be baptised into the puts through the ticket seller's office|faith within a week. He has hande@ ‘and walting-room. One young man, | in his resignation as rector of St, hom Gessner could not describe, came Sere ee to take t is com- | fes after them. As Gessner and hi hac ate aaae a panion reached the tamding half way J own the enclosed stairway, the latter| Studying Catholicism — under Father . turned and grasped the old man by the Henry W. $tting, 8. J., of Marquette . ‘i College, and the priest will baptize throat, throwing him backward. His head struck one of tte'stairs and the|/ him «¢ the Charch ofthe Geew tt blo walmoot stunned him. has not been eclded whether there wilt ‘As he fell the younger man rushea| > % public ceremony. . forward and tore @ diamond stud, val- a. ares tued at about $100, from Gessner’s shirt MRS, ROOSEVELT INVITED. front, The big man held him by the] BOSTON, Jan. %—The Executive throat and tried to hold his arms, and| Committee of the National Woman's the younger man then attempted to g0| Rellef Corps has invited Mrs. Roose- through his pockets. velt, wife of the President, to be their ‘Micket Chopper Gives Alarm. guest at the national encampment of Gessner's struggles and attempts to the corps which will be held in connec- ‘ery for help had been heard by the| ton with the national encampment of he G. A. R. next summer. The G. A. ticket chopper and he started down| 1! ‘ stairs.’ When the highwaymen saw}R- Committce already has invited the him coming they tied. President to be a guest at that time. ‘The ticket chopper, George Hoffman, an ran down stairs and yelled for the} Gary IN GERMANY'S IMPORTS. police, Roundsman Florsheim, of the a : : Premont station, an a number of spec-| BERLIN, Jan. 28.—The Statistical of- \ators came up and Hoffman told of Germany's imports during the: otaup. ko was eurtering trom | 2 it $1:574.760.000, an increase of $125. r. Gessner, who was suffering } 7 athe shock and. excited by ‘the cccur= | 00 and the exports at $1:278,760,00), an rence, Was taken to the station-house, but. {t was nearly an hour before he | could tell a coherent story, He gave a description of the robbers and a Beneral alarm was sent out for them, ‘The neighborhood was searched by the Police, but no trace of the men coula found, "There have been numerous ‘holdups and petty burglaries in the Bronx of late and the police seem to have made Uttle headway toward capturing the men who are gullty, REAL MR. PEWEE WILL SOON BE SEEN, He Wit} Be Mayor of Littiputia, | the Midget City, Which Will B ‘ a Dreamland Feature at; | Coney Island. pa iin ee aes arc! it, » Lee, Scion Increase of $70,500,000 over the figures of sonable designs and very fine Large assortment of women’s fine, fancy colored and black Lisle ‘Mr. Peewee in real life will be seen at Coney Island rext summer. They are \umerous Mr. Peewees in real life, but the Evening World's origical Peewee, dearing aji the scars {xflicted by brutal Park Row kidnappers, is the one that #iit we on exhibition, Me Feeweo will be Mayor of Lilli- yutla, the Midget City, which ix to be one of the featires of “Dreamland,” | the gigantic amusement enterprise to, be opened on Surf avenue. Lilliputia will be a mini city, peopled en- rely by midgets from all over the world and governed by Mr. Peewee, the eS great little man. * \j— run of fancy sam TAliputla was incorporated at Albany | Ples; regular price, ] 8 yesterday with a capital stock of $10) 35c.; sale price.. 5 and work ‘upon the miniature cit awready been inaugurated. In addittion to editing the Evening Fudge headlines apt writing the editorials and booming himself for President, Mr. Peewee is looking after the ements for his future comfort, travelling between Park How und CoCney each day in his automobile, which is freshly paintea for every trip with real red ink. 4 ‘So contident are the men who are put- ting up the ntoney for, Mr. Peewee's adyputia that he will be a success in Coney Island that they have arranged to squarder everything he wants on his xurroundings. He certainly can be de- | separa upon to keep his midget subjects ys * The incorporators of Liliputia are Ed- wan Burke and George Cona the broidered goods and new, stylish effects; our regu- lar 69c.and 75c. Cc hosiery. Sale Women’s imported plain bla Cotton and Lisle Thread Stock- ings; also a large heels and toes sale price .... ‘Men's 50c. blacks and fancies. 25c, 4nd 35c. goods........... | Novelist said Chuck Connors, as the spec- | 4 In wildly excited manner he'said he| © CAMMEYER Our Great Hosiery Sale Jo IS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS. We Are Selling High-Class Hosiery FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN | At Prices Cut Almost in Half. TE! Manufacturers’ Samples of Women’s Hosiery. crOON SEAN ARLE All sizes; extra high-class novelties in new, sea- aul ; black laces; the Cc cheapest stockings in the lot made to sell for $1.00; sale price) coerce seecccnesescvercvere Thread Stockings; handsome em- | s $ %~ Black Cotton Stockings, the Children Ss strongest, stoutest stocking made; we guarantee every pair double knees, izes 6 to 10;-regular price 19¢. New, nobby goods in cotton, lisle thread and cashmere, both plain _ Men's fancy and plain black Sox, of the regular 6th Ave., Corner "20th St. DILURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1904. «HE ~ et HELD PRISONERS “TWA BURNING CAR Hawthorne’s Guest Could Not Open Doors of Trol- fey Because of Electricity— Escaped Just.in Time. Miss Beatrix Hawthorne, daughter of Julian Hawthorne, the author, and sev- eral guests who were on thelr wi Mr. Hawthorne's home in Yonkers, Passed a most uncomfortable quarter o} our in a trolley car of the Jerome brasswork on the had become charged with electric- | ity and it was impossible for anybody | to touch them without getting severely | shocked or burned. Mr. Hawth who lives at No. ‘Warburton Yonkers, had tssucc | invitations for a dinner in honor 0 Capt. John Sanford, U. 8. N., who re-| cently returned from the Philippines. | pt. Sanford was among those on| board the car when it was stopped at One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street. ‘The conductor explained to the pas- sengers that the motorman was exam- ining the electrical Apparatus, which ed to have and the passengers saw a tks, Some one tried to open the rea oo La ching the brass handle, . k with an exclamation of the brasswork in the car had electricity. en t was either e and smoke omen inside. engers finally forced putting his hands on lass and carefuly avoiding, the ‘The passengers stepped out thelr way through the wiush stat jon. . ‘but a short distance hh Gates ate thelr way through ry 1 nd it the flooring of oo Mar Nenc brea ay was, DU The, car was totally destroyed before the fire engines arrived. — MAIL STEAMSHIP LOST. The Staclin Twelve Days Over— Fear All Have Perished. cial, Friday, ‘WALL PAPERS for upstair: feared here that tl lin, for the past five years operating on the mail route between Juneau and Deen last with all on ee Sy were on her lst board. ey (Sek when she left Windham Bay. Her crow \bered me! a, under date of for 6c. a roll; to-morrow, : poll; to-morrow, fi So ‘Owing to the great vio- lence of the Wweathor recently Sone, t southeastern Alaskan coast, but little ‘hoy for the safety of the Staolin is entertained. us ANOTHER EDITION READY. Fresh feby clean and of sea food, de Owing to the very large demand for peg hy our "Artistic ‘Portrait Calendar, we | 9 <0'7 ths Fore. found {t necessary to discontinue our | J fancy Chicken, Halibut Steak, offer for a short time. We have just completed another edition and shall be pleased to renew our offer and send to any address on receipt of a two-cént stamp for postage. The Portrait Calendar is a reproduction of an oil painting and is enclosed in a gold oval frame, emvbossed, and mounted on a crimson .background, 4% by 7 inches. Enclose stamps loose. Address Art Calendar Depart- ment, Father John's Medicine, Lowell, Mass. Extra Choice Butte: Extra Choice Floun: Extra Choice, Haddoci Extra Choice Codtish, Fancy Néva Scoila Herring, Call your attention to the merits of Father John’s Medicine. It has been in use fifty years and money is re- funded for any Cold, Congh or Lang Trouble that it does not cure. Prevents Pneumonia and Consump- tion. Fifty years in tse. dependable wares. or Satin Gngraved. nisiet a hi styles, CADRUPLE PLATED SOU ENS AND BAKING DISHE SUGA RES, BO TOMATO FORKS; «i | Woinen’s thinnest gauze weight isle Thread Stockings; never Id fer less than | 50c.; also fancy lcolors and em- Cc i broideries; wortli | 59c.; sale price.. | 4 pair for $1.00. Women’s black Cotton and j Lisle Thread Stockings; also many lace ef- - fects; regular ] 9! c 2 12i° 2 iprice 25c.; |sale price... . Sox for 24c , inadvisable to quote prices. Directors’ Gables. $17.50 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, $22.00 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, $28.00 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, 983.90 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, $36.00 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, $40.00 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, 850,00 OAK DIRECTORS’ TABLE, 00, DIRECTORS’ TABLE, 15° f Ib. Xb. Extra Selected Whi 1 cream pitcher Rhly polished; «57 Wall Papers. Go-Morrow’s Speetals. roomsor kitchens: have been selling 92 5 a2 ‘WALL PAPERS for bedrooms or halls, never sold for less than 1234. 6c te Je i». 6e ATED 0TS 2,25 Sterling Silver Gableware. 1 D ng AND PICKLE ys, LE PLATED FRUIT 9 95 SSESSSSS4SS86, 16. Women’s Flannel Waisis Speetal Sale of $2.50 Srades Go-Morrow at $1.45. Balance of the stock of ail-wool FRENCH FLAN- NEL WAISTS in several very desirable’ styles. Side or box pleated; some with clusters of tucks; others have vel- vet or’silk band trimming in round yoke effects. metal buttons; Bishop sleeves. Black, white and all colors, including light shades suitable for evening wear. Velvet or Verve L, JD oond Floor, Front.) ‘WALL PAPERS for parlors. din- ing-rooms, reception-reoms a! uae all isl acer hey ne igns. were selling ic. aroll; to-morrow, 5c Papers Having Borders Sold in Combination Only. (Third Fi Centre, 18th St) iday Fish Spectats In the World's Greatest Grocery. table. Our specials for to-morrew comprise a selection le. Lovers of fresh fish always find their desires grati- Animal Crackers, 5 Pi 2507 w. Ze ifornia, J | Loins of fresh Jersey Pork. | i | Extra choice Short Native Rib-p, /2@ | Roast, j . Bmalk fresh Ci (Foyrth Floor.) Silverware At J-8 Of Ohe Sale Progresses Spiritedly and Offers Many Bargains. Bright and beautiful Table Silverware at what are probably the lowest prices that have yet been placed on such desirable and Everything Almost That You Can Want at a Considerable Saving. Rogers Quadruple Plate BisMye satan. box lon White Wotat; Burnished vitcunns, **” ) FER WATER 7S QUADRUPLE PLATED sour TUREEND. 4.25 srr SILVER TEA patiorn; set of 0. ead SILVER BUTTER SUGAT. SHELL in’ 7 gg RAPE SCISSORS; sterling sliv nile. Rierling (PuIeS OSe | FRUIT KNIVES, aterit handle, ern a OSe LING SILVER PRESERVE fancy’ handle, 495 a SILV' SOUP LA- DEES taney: handle, 5.00 STUNG SILVER SALT AND PEPEE Re: eacke 98e UT GL AR SIFTERS, LIS with sterling silver top. GMain’ Floor, Front, 18th St.) “Syger of This is particularly true in relation to Directors’ Tables, Office Tables, Revolving Chairs and Press Stands. Interest in this very remarkable sale has been most marked since the entire stock of the r cale last Monday morning in the Furniture Store on the Fifth Floor. A Chere Are Still a Great Many Ex The demand for Roll Top Desks 1s so brisk that jt is Double ‘‘S. @ H.’’ Green Trading Stamps Mornings This Week from 8.30 to 12 o’Clock---Thereafter, Single Stamps Until Closing Hour. 899 99CTSITIIISIS FOVSIOTIIISIFTS TSS SISFSTIHTSSSSSISIF BOFITSIIVSIITIIS SISIIIFIFTTISISIS FEIFISIFIIEGIIG: Imported Gnamel Saucepans. Two special lots for Friday. Double-coated: in turquoise blue. 4000 Carpet Rugs. Exceptionally Attractive These prices are the lowest yet named. Bertin Saucepans, Convex Saucepans. Offerings. 2eqt size. FO2 2-y. size, These Carpet Rugs are made 4-qt size, F5e 3-4. size, from Wilton, Axminster, Velvet and Brus- 53 i sels Carpet Samples and are neatly bound Sas ee CLAN Cee and fringed. They're very prety and | All of the above Saucepaus include Evamel Covers to match. durable floor-covering. The following prices to-morrow : 30c.,35c., 40c.,49¢., O5C., ° 1.10, 1.35 and 1.75. (PYtth Floor, Front.) Sood Cigars crew eleee West clear Ha- JONTI Gabard Inn itis Siti, See SPR nee 7g] ge. Exchange Your Books at io pects piiaciepare a 2 00 Ponto "™ate) * The Siegel Cooper He, paar stern ae basen, 22 OD) eee Store Station. All you pay is 5c. IF you are not a member, become one without delay. by all means $1.18 is such a small amount, and it brings you such a wealth of delightful reading. Upon the pated Ct the sale to-morrow. i the most ski for they will be fitted by experts. YOvera Stasses. \ GSO EM ASSES, Vendone . TI-ligne, fully achromatized lenses; pearl. fine gilt nish. OPERA GLASSES.” 2. IS Dersine.” very five lenses. fine Morccco cover} equal to 1 13-ligne. 9.007222" Oriental pearl fine gilt finish. all the new books of the day. Further particulars upon re- quest.. Or call at the Tabard Inn Station, 2d Floor, Centre. GLASSES, “Le- Wines-Liguors Pe Friday's Special Series. IMPERIAL | PORT, | ANGELICA and SHERRY: walion. $1.76; full quarts, OLD FRIARS'| SWEET ‘AWBA. (CSCATEL. PORT and SHERRY: pin 1-08; full auarte, 12 years old; 1.25 7.50 Si ity, black Morocco cover. MOUNT S RYE. gallon, $4. full quarts, i HERMITAGE RYE, 10 years ol; allen, ‘GO; full Quarts, 1.00 MONOGRAM PURE RYE: gallon, $3.00: full quarts, CABINET PURE RYE, ver gallon, $3.76: full quarts, o ri ROW: WHISKEY. per case, $2.50; full ‘quarts, tended for this season of the year. SELECT QUALI RUINE WIND: BOWMORE 8¢ old; per ci per’ bottle, BRAND OLD TOM GIN; ber gallon, . $8.15; per COTCH WHISKEY; 10 0.50; per gation, & At IS8e. MISTLETOE IRISH WHISKEY: per case. $12.00; per gallon, $4.25; per bottle, 1.10 IMPORTED HO! medicinal quality; big to at $1.50 and $2.00; kid or patent leather; ‘one or three straps. leather or French heels; all sizes. Ht ISc. THE; domeatic, 0c. a bottle, 11S natural, effervesces RED FOX A nce: Ferfectly brilliant; delightful flavor; per toner, 1.50 SPECIAL BREW PALE EXPORT and 1B SPECIAL (DARK) BEER; (per ¢ and $2.00; kid, button and lace; all sizes. Ty c HEMIAN EXPORT and BAVARIAN (DARK) BEER: per dozen, ‘Be DOUBLE STOUT; cne of the best tonics: ver dozen, BOC (Fourth Floor. Take 6th Ave. Elevators.) a SoH ea 0 a If you want Filing Cabinets or Costumers here is your opportunity. 27.50 20.00 38.0 48.00 | 858.00 MAHOGANY DIRECTORS’ $55.00 MAHOGANY DIRECTORS’ TABLE, $57.00 MAHOGANY DIRECTORS’ TABLE, $05.00 MAHOGANY DIRECTORS’ TABLE. 43.00 | $28.00 OAK OFF 74.50 | 627,00 OAK OFF! Revolving Chairs. 3.85 | $10.00 REVOLVING CHATR, x iG CHAT Ortice Cables. * 1.50) $5.00 OAK OFFICE TABLES 30.00 $6.50 OAK OFFICE TARLE: . 88.00 K OFF ABLES, Y 34.50 | $8.50 OAK OFFI 6.50 | $14.00 OAK OFF 41.00 | $13.50 OAK OFFic 42.50 $ $24.00 OAK OFF 7.75 | 8.0 ‘G CHAIR 11.00 ‘CRAIN CHAIR, G CHAIR 10.50 if 13 Underpre At th i Hcan afford to smoke GOOD Cigars. Graaea' oe acrtieal with those sold at much higher pri NTAL CIGARS; Per- eprint, ERFECTOS; box of 5 EST EXTRAS; bos of NA 'STOGIES; wooden box 3 Box of BO: spacial, MAIL ORDERS SPLICITED. 7 Fast, 18th St.) Ghe Optical Store. Important Specrals Go-Worrow. Theatre-goers or tourists steking handsome as well as ser- viceable Opera Glasses will find their wishes thoroughly antici- And our Eyeglasses, made by: led opticians, are bound to give perfect satisfaction, EYEGLASSES AND I. 95" tactes Patent offset or adj with straight or ricing coy semples set] wit first quality periscopic lentes. EYECLASSES. solid tex madt: J, OO” soring, framéess, set with quality periscopic lenses. EGLASSES, Coquelle! ‘ound hel‘ew to conform to the shape eff | the eyeball and are set in the ¢ RA GLASSES. “LA mcunting, so constructed that the IE." folding, fines: qual | will not loosen: perfect in every respect. Front, 18th St) EY I3eligne, white <& | Fo OF fn Yo Other Shoe Sale Gve Ggualled Ghis One. First of all, bear in mind that the Shoes we offer are sea: sonable; in fact, the very grades and weights that were in Styles and workmanship aré beyond fault-finding. such as you would willingly pay full prices for. |. “Double Value” Sale price atiractions: are such as cause sling : seine od Shoes for Men, Wotnen and Children at about 16 Regular Selling Prices. At 1.95. : WGMEN'S SHOES; regu'ar'y sold at WOMEN'S SLIPPERS:. regularly sol 07 $5'00 co $5.00; hid. calf’ and patent Veather: all the desirable styles and sizes. At 1.95. MEN'S SHOES: regularly $3.50; sand ftrd makes; all leathers: for dress or street: WOMEN'S SHOES; regularly $1.50) Wear; welted toles; some have leather ining throughout; Also other special lots of Shoes, Slippers and. Rubber Overshoes at greatly reduced rrices. (Consoildated Shoe Stores, @econd Floor.) Big Bargains n Oftice Furniture. Balance of the Stock of | Yew York’’ on Sate Friday & Saturday. ecent 23d Street concern went on traordinary Offerings. | Press Stands. OAK PRESS 87.80 OAK PRESS #450 OAK PRESS 39.00 OAK PRESS 2389 | tto.00 oax PRESS 16.60 | £10.80 OAK PRESS STANDS.