The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1904, Page 8

ined 8 ye ~ dy heard it all. hallway and unfolded the plot to him. "Fraser went straight to the Butlor Wore aware of Wement about them, but J ; ake Out just What It was” ‘Theclater H Wee At No. Hd Degraw street teptt Tr. : ‘en men were told off to go to the | vkch \ Severely NO DANGER OF A TRAIN EVER COMING OS24OOO0OE 2090005499 9545.% @ Night Vigil in Snow- © drifts for Fifty Policemen, ~ Seven Detectives, Three Ser- geants and Three Captains. From the uttermost recesses of the Garkest dungeon in Raymond Street Jail, in Brooklyn, Skiddy Connors med- Htates to-day on the ingratitude of po- Hicemen. Skiddy is in jail on the com- Dined complaint of fifty patrolmen. feven detectives, three scrgeants and three captains. He is in for ten days, because” that is the limit fixed by statute for his offense. If the police- men had their way, Skiddy would go to | the electric chair. It was all for what Skiddy says was & laudable desire to do a public service. Skiddy fell asleep last night in a sa- Joon in Court street, near Butler street, | Brooklyn, and had a dream. This was | the dream: Skiddy's Wonderful Dream. © 36:80660.54 ON THE WEARY ERIE RAILROAD. 39-994 O944009900O0OOOOOOO0O44 dneurouce A MONTH OY gt p—~t Sx 3 “THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1904. « SAYS ECONOMY IS oooe PHO PHS SOSH ESSOSST GHC SOOTHE GOHSIOOE | President Underwood, What Commuters Cal! It Is Far Different. Economy is the policy on the Erie road, according to President F. D. Underwood, who now announces that the twenty-nine trains taken from the suburban hedule will not be replaced until the good old summer time has threatened to appear. What the long- suffering commuters say {s the polfoy of the road, if printed, would bar a news- paper from the privileges of the mails. That the Erie commuters will have to grin and bear it, move in town or form a train service composed of dog sledges (Nee Fe Summer MORNINGS. to take them to their Jersey homes WO.” THESE GENTLEMEN dors not move the company nor Its EV, ASKIN THEM $ | trains, rs 3. S58 AAS wy commuters have now reached the 008 BRIE TRACKS, stage when the mention of the Erie ne is likely to cause them to froth at the mouth, Even now, according to the 1.2.9648OO06009 0% OOD Six desperate men in skull caps and} Peajackets entered the saloon and sat @t the next table to Skiddy. They Seco CMY COLLEGE KS IMG OF THIEVES ON FOR $1500 MORE, 4TH STREETCARS President Finley Says It Is! Members Pick Out Intended Vic- Needed to Take Care of 625| tims Among the Passengers Graduates from ~-the Public, on Surface Line, Follow and Schools. ’ Attempt to Hold Them Up. they would enter the bank (what ba’ Skiddy couldn't hear) blow the safe And escape with the loot. Murder would be done if any one interfered Skiddy woke up with his dream so| Strong upon him that he made for the Street. where he met Policeman Pat- Fraser, “Dirty work brewing over there," he irked with a jerk of his thumb toward the saloon. . “Whatcher mean?’ “Bl hissed Skiddy. Then he hauled Fraser into a dark “It's to-night, somewhere along Court street, I'm gure,” said Skiddy in con- ehision, and then he disappeared. Whole Pintoons of “Cops” Oat, ‘That there ts a skilful gang of young thieves traveling on the surface cars crossing Thirty-fourth and Eighth avenue in both shown by many made to the police, There in evidence at hand to show that the crooks pick out thelr victims and follow them until they get what they are after or are conclusively disappointed, Walter 8, Rockey, a druggist at Thirty-fourth street and Eighth avenue has had an amazing experience with the gang. Two attempts have been made by its members to steal’ hia $250 amond scarf pin, In one attempt the ‘The College of the City of New York 1s in financial distress; at least, it will be crippldd if forced to accept 625 grad- uates from the public schools who are scheduled to enter the college next Monday, Moreover, the administration officers of the college, including President J. H. Finley, declare that, unless the city does not at once appropriate sufficient extra funds, the 625 graduates will have to be dented admission to the college— “turned away,” resident Finley ex- pressed it to-day. ‘There is no occasion for any great alarm over the situation, it is explained, et directions is complaints recently Street police station and told Sergt. Allen. Allen got Capt. Murphy out of and told him. Murphy ordered out twenty-five reserves and notified . Pinkerton, of the Detective Bureau over the telephone. Pinkerton sent out ail of his plain clothes men and then Fang up Capt. Harkins of the Adams street station and asked him to con- te his roserve squad of twen: ve men, Capt. Harkins turned out his Feseryes and got in a uniform himself to|/but the fact remains, the officials say, | Sang made a football rush and fought that 6% graduates will be for a period| with a car load of pussenge By midnight the entire for @ slong both sides of Court aureet, wm Atlante avenue to Butler atrect, ym in doorways, Li fe Dehind aah" parece wad it? oak Ber-r.r-r, but It Was Cold, The snow fell heavily and it got bit- If. ea iceman dared to move calle own by a superior afficer, . ‘The mystery. was so thick tt | could be cut. Men returning home late @ geperal areaway The first attempt on Mr. Rockey was made on Monday night, when five young men boarded a northbound Fighth ay nue car at Thirty-fourth streot 1mm diately after hin. ‘The thieves sur- rounded him and made two efforts to wet = the diamond pin, but Mr. Rock- ey detected them. Seeing that there was no use the crowd left the car. While watting for his car at the cor ner last night Mr. Rockey saw one or gang standing a few feet from hin, deprived of their expected educational privileges if the city doesn’t act prompt- ly. ‘The facts were adduced at the meet- ing of the Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment to-day when President J H. Finley, of the college, appeared be-| fore the board and pleaded for an addi-| tlonal appropriation that the prospective ) students may ved, Mr, Finley tin the last three succesaly priated ea got the heavier the snow fell, ore. i. boca the cold, the ‘more rent of je beca ‘ wforts came the policemen. Mgnt and. ba r. y MK the E knocking the | for the | sald. He added that » entered in sub-f dunted Into thi graduates came from the public schools, { the extra ap- extra students, him to the floor, 4 promptly turned upon him, is an athh and his own, locating Ms shoulder in the fight five fought thelr Way out of the car © women fa d Two n fainted during the disture- | DE. Connor, French E if er iclous looking "ch fords cannot describe the policemen and the détecti .8) o'clock Capt. Murphy Haman ‘Fraser trom a new sald: 7 gave this tin, house surgeo Tass ‘eis tte. urgeon of the pital, had a similar expert VA MRNGS ago with the sam na Thirty-fourth street c d Der of otiie ving business in ighborhood } been robbed or issalilted on street There ts a ed to the duty riding on surface cars und looking out for ‘thieves, but none of them ap- pears to have visited ‘Thirty-fourth street and Elghth avenuesof late, —— $69,000 FOR EXCHANGE SEAT. A Stock Exchange seat has been sold for $59,000, an advance of $1,000 over the lost previous sale. The tendency 1s up- ward, There are sald to be several #is for seats at $70,000. The record made a guy the atte f Skiddy Connors. skiddy | includ He thought it was |c lelegation with engrossed resolutions ‘@ medal for him, and was som ed at being hauled out of be moniously arf ordered to put on ave to ace and pack in In- w un- Ms | cupy ad students In batches of adequate school rooms. fk ix finished we w es. jady got into his clot je Butler Street Hight. There'd have been a lyn my one had dared to start it, As it} Was Bkiddy fot so many pokes with night-sticks that by the time he gor to apurt he was lume all over. y Murphy told Magist of the night vigil of th what it wis due to., He want ¥ Bkiddy could be’ put a The Magistr ste said t most he could give him, so 1 away for ten days and the reserves went to thelr respective station-houses THLS ACCUSE | reached. Teacten the Board resumed tho feation of the and acted iavorably.” At the su of Comptroller Grout the need will, be transferred from the Interest fund and may be made available for im- mediate us, $s sion of the Delay may not SEEM danger- KILLED BY AN ENGINE. ous. Yet it surely IS, In the Ehrlich eye- Evening World.) | testing rooms these Oculists will ex- Sete Oe NT gan a -Adam| amine your eyes and advise you:— HISTRIGT ATTORNEY | ans Mote Genta, Old an one AWW. Brewster, IM, D947, Bway. (| ployee of the WhO ved /8 vesee Rrookten Fue and Hav Disnensary.) ersey Cl by an engive G, B, Brigden, M. D., 1345 B’way. s near Ruth- as } walkin killed. While , (18 years in private practice) jengaged in repairing one of the towers My. Kenyon, M, bos 223 Sixth Av. Hsseur wore a cap which covered his (8 verre Manhattan Eve and Ear Hospital.) rs, not permitting him to hear vee NO CHARGE except fi a body nt Pevor approaching train. The body was se glasses, and that moderate. peer Chrkich Mother and Daughter File Charges in Court Alleging Misconduct During the Prog- a B. R. T. RE-ELECTS OFFICERS. Th annual election of the officers of regs of the Trial. | rooklyn Raid ‘Tranalt Company | tthe “company on. Montag OPTICIANS—41 ears’ Practice, t here were no changes tn 25 Broad St... Arcade, Broad Ex. Bld; ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 29 of the. Board of — Direc 217 Broadway 7 Bale J HL Astor House Block pers 1G. wm behalf of the members of the family to-day made formal c before Judge Trexler against Distrivt- Attorney Edwin Duval, John G. Jenkins, D. Valentine and’ R. Somers Hayes ceeded themselves for a term of t years. 223 ixth Avenue 1345 Broadway i ‘Ss . Below USthSe, | 36th st, a ebiaie Belo OPEN SATURDAY EV: 86™ ST. & 3®2 AVE, OFFER sence | ig his conduct of the prosecution of | the cases growing out of the murder | of Mabel ‘Phamos de a postpone: Of the case by the Court necessary her gharees in detail Ai re ma intoxicated when * me and that his conduct we itiproper, ‘The Dapers we re fic {ie case will come up for a hearin, Of ripple Eiderdown Coke’s Dandrutl Cure,large 45¢ | in all desirable colors, Listerine, large........... 63¢ Mennen’s Talcum Powder., 11¢ Sanne TUGBOAT COOK BURNED. } tial alae | Were $2.95 and $3.50, $1.95 Injured by Explosion of ‘ST. JULIEN ' BURGUNDY men who have books entitling them to go home when they can find a train go- ing their way, heart disease has made its appearance among the commuters due to excitement over getting home on time occasionally, ABEEL COMING BACK. | Will Return from Canada To-Mor- row to Meet “Goelet” Charges, BUFFALO, N. Y,, Jan. 2%—James| Abeat will return to New York from tain trains on the Erie, and many men Canada to-morrow and face the | who live in Jersey, after seeing the con- charges against him of impersonating | dition of things, put in the day shooting "J. Ogden Goslet.” His father has sent him money to pay for his defe up save coal NEW YORK'S FINEST FAMILY TRADE STORES. Gallagher Stores 745 Ninth Avenue. 918 Ninth Avenue. bb Lenth Avenue. 402 West 39th Street. Columbus Avenue. 4606 Eighth Avenue. 15 West 126th Street. Carmine Street. 883 Eighth Avenue, 1567 Madison Avenue. MAIL ORDERS TO 879 SIXTH AVE,, N.Y. Honest Measure! Honest Prices! Money Back if Goods Are Not to Your Liking, Polite Salespeople. SPECIAL SALE OK, 432 Amsterdam Avenue. 316 First Avenue. 672 Amsterdam Avenue. 1387 Fifth Avenue. 805 Amsterdam Avenue, 611 Columbus Avenue. 8” 879 Sixth Avenue. 327 Seventh Avenue. Honest Goods! HIGH-GRADE WINES AT SPECIAL PRICES. CL ARET A high-grade table wine; special at Te. per gallon; per case, $2.40; per bot- GHEY ARSOLeneSade® ndonnenosua oudueogoog A full bodied, rich sound wine; special at 96c. per gallon; per case §3.50; per bottle A heavy, smooth, highly pala- table wine; ‘$1.50 per gadlon; per case, $5.00; per bottle... | Excellpnt quality, fully matured (¢} RIESLING wine; 98c. per gallon; per case, ‘ $3.50; per bottle ....,...05 seseeees Pure Juice; a fruity wine, rich fn tonic prop- erties; special at 90c. per gallon; per case, $2.40; peribottle: Fcissiiescuecsececseeeenrned 23° Fine flavor, high-grade wine at 98" A rare/old wine at $1.75 and up per gallon; per bottle .. Imperial tmported; this is the best you can ob- PORT SHERRY MUSCATE MADEIRA A Complete Line of the Highest Grades of I Red and White Bordeaux and Burgundy Wines Whine and Moselle Wines Always on Hand. Jerez de la Frontera; gallon; $2.40 por case; special at 90c per per bottle....... Amontillalo; a superior, diy nutl> 4 Star Champagne Cognac, | HANNIS WHISKEY, er tallenlon a0; regular price 0° | rer botte. as, . 1.00 PRIVATE STOCK RYE, Smooth and old, the best of bd | 00 tonics; per gal., $4.50; per bot. te Clover Bottom Whis ccy, Pottled in bond and sold with: a | | premium certificate; per bog. .0 Women’s Dept. Important Clearance Sale. Vesting Woollen Waists SilK and Velvet Waists value 4.00 to 6,00, (Slightly soiled), value 5.00 to 9.50, 1.% and 2,5° 2.% ana 3, Walking Skirts, SilK Petticoats, value 6,00 to 12.00, value 7,50 to 12.00, 3.°° and 5 2° ana 4,78 Winter Coats, Velour Coats, value 15.00 to 40,00, value 30,00 to 65.00, 72 15. | an a et Odd Suits, Storm and Rain Coats, value 18.00 to 50.00, value 15,00 to 27.50, Leak Ss 8,7? aad 15,09 Babeskin Soap........, Fountain Syringes... , Lamp in Cabin, “$3.95 and $4.25, $2,955 “$4.95 and $5.95, $3.95 $6.75 $4.95 |The original prices were low in- ‘| |deed for these qualities; the offering } ars Old, Brook- yng Rubber Gloves. ..++++0 1.00 Sponges, extra fine & large1.75 Harnisch’s Nail Enamel,.,.. 27¢ ‘Emery Boards, .......090¢ 10¢ Furs, Evening Coats, Velvet Costumes. There Are Some Extraordinary Bargains among the above lota—the early comers get them. Yrachkatl Canarls(o. Broadway and 13th Street. nines THE ERIE'S POLICY. That Is the Name Given It by but) ? | Road to any of them forced to use the} | The snow to-day as usual blocked cer- rabbits rather than be forced to get out) f> and pull a heavy engine and three cars| a grade (hat the company might Great News For You in Our Advertisement Next Sunday. Men’s $15, $20 and $25 Overcoats All to Go To-Morrow at the One Price of | a zero weather clearance at zero prices. And it PIT The Greatest and most fascinating O™MAVE 21% 422s DA game of the year. DRY GOODS [Ss 50c. 12,70 TS ought to interest every man who has need for a new overcoat. In fact, it would pay to buy one and lay it away for next season. All sizes We have taken every coat in our stock that has been fairly priced at $25, in this $20 or $15, and marked it $12.50 for this one day, There are many styles—and style, every one good, The assortment embraces _ Medium length Oxford and Black Frieze; blue and black Kersey and Melton (many of them silk lined - throughout); also Tourist Belt and Paddocks. Sizes 34 to 44. We can fit any man in New York, which is the broadest way we know of putting it. So that the sale becomes of more than pass- ing interest. Ready to-morrow morning as early as you care to be here. Rr nn ee a Cravenette Rain Coats—the Annual Sale. 6 We're selling the genuine Priestley & Co. Cravenette Raincoats this week at the lowest prices ever quoted in New York. Made 12.50 from the originat Venetian cloth; half-satin for lined, with satin sleeve lining and satin piped $2500 Seams: : Coats | $12 Coats Are 9,50. | Boys’ ‘ Boys’ } Ragin Overcoats, | Wim; Overcoats, extra long, with or without | * ith: Choose ae ene ae 8 ue | ae belt, 8 to 16 years; regular, At egular $3.50 values, | bs ie (MeGooBowe a000 | “depsocsustdanonenason | [Eee | Runian Over coats, 75 Soy’ ~Qvercoats, | sizes 3 to 8 years; in blue, | Ruslan ——_____—— | Oxford and brown ; hafid- | military style; dou ble- Just | somely trimmed; double- Just breasted, '%-belt back; | © Seturday, breasted ; %4-belt back; brass | Saturday, brass buttons; chevron on sleeve; at... Extraordinary Clearance of Men’s Furnishings. 75c. Shirts, 35c. $1.50 Shirts, $1.00. ; 12 1-2c. Collars, Sc. OT all the good news is told in the headlines, The story is an event without parallel in the trade. It means a great saving to particular men—men who like natty, stylish fur- snishings at the cost of decidedly inferior sorts. No other sale in New York will be half so import. ; ant this Saturday—for no other lots of merchandise could possitlly be so low in price. NEGLIGEE SHIRTS of fine woven COLLARS—A clean up ofall broken lots in men’s and madras, in medium and dark effects; good boys’; strictly all linen; mostly straight stanting and range of patterns; one pair separate poke styles; our regular 12%c. kinds; boys’ sizes, 12 Xe cults: sizes 14 to 17; regular 75c. 35¢ to 1344: men’s, 14 to 17." Choose Saturday ‘at,......4.. Shirts at 3 for a dollar, or, each NECKWEAR — Stylish Four-in-Hands and Tecks, 25s WHITE CORDED MAD- in light and dark grounds: lined and reversible....eees RAS SHIRTS, with neat NECKWEAR-—Finest silk Four-in-Hands andl large English Squares in light and figures and stripes in the agers bist and La Cae eee ioaad I) with separate cuffs. ie ects, including tloth c the popular Persians..., 50- Last week of the sale of cloth is equal to the sort that goes into dollar 50¢ our regular brands of White Unlaundered Shirts at cut buttons; chevrons on sleeve; Ales wesices elesecs coe J eee shirts, Saturday at.... COLORED SHIRTS with tiff bosoms; tan grounds ae 42 with line stripes in various prices. No more this year colorings; madras cloth; de- at “reduced _ rates.’ All tached cuffs; also plain standard qualities — bes ty mode with pleated bosoms Bi shirts in New York for the and attached cuffs; also Columbia, 49c. | money, fancy stripes; shirts at... Dartmouth,70c. $1.50 fa eed Yale, 65c. Premier, 85c. | Harvard, 75c. | Cornell, 90c.| Amherst, 90c. | PN RRA RAPA AAA AAA RA AARP ARAN AAR A AAA AAA AAA Nc We Continue To-morrow Sale of Women’s Footwear. | $4 Shoes at $1.89, $5 Shoes at $2.25. $5, $6 and $7 Samples at $2.45. Saturday’s. | Music Specials, 12c Mail Orders filled if 2c. accompanies | for each piece. None C. 0. D. In the Village by the Sea. Trixte (Harry Von Tilzer's Intest), A Birth of Love Walts (the Parisian sen- Saturday Sale of Misses’ Garments. ORE NEWS to attract young women folk who look to secure as stylish ready-to-wear Garments as their elders. These are superb kinds—at special clearance prices, In mate- rials, making and build they are faultless. SHORT AND % COATS, sizes KERSEY COATS in sizes 14, 16 14, 16 and 18; fine Kersey and and 18; lined throughout, Re- 98 Zibeline or Cheviot; cape effect. 7:98 Gina east ae ine 1 Brink ot You by Day (latest balled out) 5 a? Reduced from $18 and $20to “\ | some with emblems. Cheviot and A'Frinceton Tiger Two-Blep” Claseettwo- GIRLS’ LONG COATS in cloth kersey, step hit in years), to... I Could Love You in a Steam-Heated Flat ‘or velvet, with cape and box back. “ Kersey or Zibeline; also Cheviot. (very popular), } Under the Anheuser Bush { Longing (beautiful high-class balled). GIRLS’ DRESSES, sizes 6 to 14; of cashmere; trimmed with silk Sizes 6 to 14. Reduced from O98 ke effect; also Sailor Suits. Bedelia Song and Two-Step. He and MBLornnenrcens De | Rebectdiromposotor es OOS | Mun ae Mea hae Beta GIRLS’ LONG COATS; odd GIRLS’ VELVET COATS, our Naw 3itien “Hay Tntdrmegs> (better: than lines and sizes, me trimmed, others in plain Go 5 iad ain line with cape. Formerly $1 and $18. Reduced eee ‘ 7:98 entire stock of magniticent gar- Dear Sli ing. Up tn t ooanut Tree. Stories That Adam Told Eve. , He Was a Sailor, Pisage, Mamma, Buy Me a Baby. Hfal Selections. ments, in sizes 6 to 14 years. Re- ~ Originally Published 4 5 *" duced f 25 and §30 t: $16.98; $1408 ant fi 12.98 NG Great Sale of Books #**" This is a popular edition of certain books that have created a furor in the literary world; but instead of the price pene $1.50, we are able to sell them to-morrow at 45c. They are well printed on good paper, handsomely illustrated, and bound in silk-finished cloth—appropriate for any library. The titles inchide those you know best: Graustark. G,. B. McCutcheon. Castle Inn. Weyman. Maid of Maiden Lane, Amelia Barr. Sentimental Tommy. Barrie. Tommy and Grizel. Barrie. In the Name of a Woman. Marchmont. The Jessamy Bride. Moore. The Gadfly. Voynich. The Sowers. Merriman, In the Fog. Richard Harding Davis. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle. | A Lady of Quality, Burnett. Manders, Barron. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim. Mrs. Burnett. For the Freedom of the Sea, Brady. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box, itarland, Damnation of Ther n Ware. Frederick. Second Thoughts { an Idle Fellow, Jerome. A Dash for the Throne.’ Marchmont. | In the Midst of Alarms. Robert Barr. Making of a Marchioness. Mrs. Bur- nett. ‘ Saturday's Specials in CANDY. Pure satin Honeycomb Candy, va- nilla and strawberry; regular 15c 25c, kind; special at Our delicious after-dinner Choc- olate Peppermints; regularly 39. Soc. Ib.; Saturday *Assorted Nut and Pruit Glace; 25¢ | 19¢ Underwear and Hosiery Specials, "RE-clearing away the heavier weights of Underwear, at big reductions. Two lots are very special for Saturday. Soms Hosiery, too, is very much below regular, Men’s Shirts and Drawers, Men's Hos » imported fast fine pure Lamb's Wool Cash- black cotton; plain, or with un- mere; full regular made; abso- bleached split feet; also plain lutely non-shrinkable; light blue, black cashmere-or natural wool; All sizes to 50 inch, Reduced 445 + all sizes, Reduced from 5c. 1 from $3 garment to....,...« to 3 pair for 50¢........... 9c Women's Fine Ribbed cash- , mere %{ Wool Vests, Pants and ‘Women’s Hosiery, fast bi-ck Equestrian Tights in white; also \uze liste thread: full fashjoned, natural in some sizes; long and ble toes, soles and’ high regularly 39c.; Saturday at.. Assorted Nut and Fruit Choc- late; reg. 29¢, to 40c....... short sleeves; ankle length Spliced heels. Splendid wearing Assorted Nut and Fruit Butter- At di fi stock Always sold at 20¢. y ee esesc ee 19 | separ Reductdts,... LOC | GAPh Reeulary 2065 Sature 15q |