The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1904, Page 2

“I want to say, however, that where there general, there must be adequate grounds for like a year ago. ‘(4g soon as.t can talk with the leaders o the abuse may be looked into and prevented. ‘WE SCORNS HER BILL TO CURB "PEEPING. HUBBY jihite ‘Mowbray Is Nominally Seeking Only the Custody of ._ 5 Young Son, Proceedings Have Evening World Is Deolded Divoroe Flavor. to Announce that , i Phe various actors in the Mowbri ve ‘Mowbray “Hubby Under the Be dvama appeared to-day before Reforce James J, Nealls, in his chambers in sthe County Court House, Though the action brought by Samuel H. Mowbray against his wife, Grave ‘Yownsend Mowbray, !s really a habe: worpus proceeding to recover the o tody of five-year-old Girard Town Mowbray, the testimony so far given pias more of the fluvor of a separation er divorce sult. Mrs, Mowbray, a strikingly handsome yeungs womun, whose bright golden hair and light blue eyes ure duplicated tn the chubby little boy for whose pos- = negsion sho ts struggling, came to the rH hearing with her mother, Mrs. Town- @ wend, and her sister, Mrs, Beatrice Dar- rin, Mrs. Mowbray wore a black tallor- ~ made gown trimmed with astrakhan, 4, #nd her sister, who bears a remarkable "s “erigtapey to her, except that her iF Will Be Enacted wepeensies expressed’ intention of assisting The avhes 4h department of the Greater City. On the authority of Gov. Odell nounce to-day that a bill will be no’ nes: ; ang Gas Trust is won. with the assistance of the Governor, lature, the first fight has been won. Of the several gas bills now befc to be “strike” measures. Of course, « are open to that suspicion. julr is a rich chestnut, wore a similar ¢ habit, trimmed with gray fox. 4 Mra, Mowbray on the stand. Mowbray, a clean-cut, olive-skinned yoyng man, was accompanied by his _ fawyer, Benjamin Steinhardt. Louis H. “Porter appeared for the wife. ,. Mr. Steinhardt first called Mrs, Mow- bray to the stand. The witness guve| not yet sent mea bill. I have heard AR foe ceeding Graco Ingersoll Townsend) iike them; that is, I do not Uke them .. Mrs, Mowbray said that her husband But The Evening World is author! into the gas abuse in New York City. however, was a salesman and also the organist ". “of Bt. John's Church, Larchmont, He wiplayed in the church on Wednesday and | Friday nights. a Mr. Steinhardt reached the night of wy an. 6, when Mowbray hid under the} From w proper means. * "On, Jan. 5," said, Mrs, Mowbray, “my husband told me he was going * Wut to Allendale to get the baby on the following day, He sald he would not be home on Wednesday night, and he asked me why I did not invite the boys— “Who Ho you mean by the boys?" in- terrupted Mr. Steinhardt. f “Why, the Rickards.” ee se” “ROCKEFELLER OUT in the afternoon Mrs. Mowbray, her sister and a friend went to a matinee. “When ‘ou home to the flat did you Mr. jowbray iol eh Mowbtay got under the bed at 6 “No. I didn't see him. I presumed it he was on his way to Allendale.” Mowbray got her own dinner, pend at 200 mer sister, Mra. Darrin, came ler sister's was felck and had gone to bed. | Mrs, Mow. ‘bray + yand William Rickard “Bill,” she said: she reached this point in her levidence she looked across the table at her smiling husband and said ina loud * “You devil, you!" “After Ade) vame in that afternoon +44 "t you take off your street clothes put on a wrapper?’ Had Only a Kimono. own a_wrapper,” cried . The only negligee wrap I own is @ kimono I used to make up with while on the stage, and that 1s covered with grease paint.” @. When did the Rickards come in? ‘A. About 9 o'clock. ‘William Rickards and Mrs. Darrin left the apartment at 10.30, Arthur stayed until about 11.45, Q. You did not embrace Arthur Rick- ards? A. No. | Q. If you had embraced him would you admit %t? A. Yes. Q. Didn't your husband tell you that he had been under the bed? “A. Yes, ‘And I told him he must have been crazy. Q. When did he come out from under | the bed? A. The first I saw of him he ‘was standing in the doorway when 1 Resigns from Trust Directory in Letter in Which He Says He Has Not Time to Attend the Meetings. Jonn W, Kockefetler has resigned from} Ute Hoard of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, ‘rne follow-| ing letter was made public to-day by 43. M. Gerry, Chairman of the Mxeca-) lve Committee of the corporation Ww Broadway, Jan, 14, 104, To E. H. Gerry, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the United States Steel Cor- poration My Dear Str: I hereby tender my remlgnation as a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corpora- tion. It has not been convenient to attend the meetings of the Board. My interest in the corporation is represented by my son, and I hope the vacancy occasioned by my resig nation can be filled to the advantage of the company by some one who can personally attend the meetings. JOHN D, ROCKEFELLER Mr. Gerry said to an Evening World reporter: "We recognize the force of Tthur|the reasons set forth by Mr. Rocke- in| feller and must respect them, IT think Mowbray went after tne Board will accept the resignation at hy like wouldn't: speak to me, and. | the meeting to-morrow | Mr. Mowbray app guess it is time for to 60." M righ rthur got asked him if he was crazy, disgraciag |) John D. Rockefeller, jr, and H he Steel Cor jevnefcre the whole house ‘ogers will remain on the m6. find your husband confidence in | R08 dial Gaia ener you before that time he got under the | Poration Board, Wi bea? A. Yes, though he wanted me to| morrow to take action upon Mr leave him and offered me $8 a o get rid : DO month | getters resignation SHIPPING NEWS. aber telling them at! uch fun you coul a didn't ha Didn't you talk could make at We: A julght have said something like that b fore 1 was married, but I don’t reme: ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. Moon rines.. —~ Low Wrom under the “pit night. Spray that riabout PORT OF NEW YORK, nd. ther wister mobody but ria bed and th he most. conte! ARRIVED, rd of § ought he was a gev Bibetian tell about th e olly lt |Oro ioaae Constance’. INCOMING STEAMSHIPS. DUB S0-DAY. La Champagne, Havre, Norge, Christiansand OUTGOING STHAMBHIPS, SAILED TO-DAY, | WRECKED STEAMER nm on the Boston City P GOV. ODELL DECLARES EVENING WORLD’S EXPOSURE OF GAS EXTORTION CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF, Evening World has made against the gas companies, commencing, as I ting commission: is the proper means.'’—Statement of GOVERNOR ODELL. cated by It to Stop Robbery by Trust} the Gas Trust in New York City, he would have the co-operation of every Legislature, appointing a commission with affidavit powers to investigate into the complaints of the gas consumers in New York City. Thus the first great point in The Evening World's fight against the Other and harder battles are yet to be foyght. But Of the genuine bills, however, the Miller bill seems to be the best, but even that has no show to pass. approve a bill which shall permit hini to name a commission to investig™te, gaia, “So far, the two Houses have been very slow in action. of the several gas bills, but Ido not | However, I won't cross the bridge une || Fine Laces, 20c. and 40c. a Yard; where there must wht The Eve: “An noon as I can talk with the leaders of the two Hounes I will de- vine means by which the abuse may be looked into and prevented, now know [ believe an investigating commission is the “However, I shall look into the question at once, and in a few days we will be able to devise a means of action. bility of the Gas Trust more plainly than the annual report of Jastrow Alexander, the State Inspector of Gas Meters. me now, and will be guided by it to a considerable: extent.” is so much complaint, and the complaint so it, I have observed the persistent fight The recall it, something f the two Houses EI will devise means by which From what I now know I believe an investiga= See ee eer ree PAS TRUST COTTON CORNER SHALL PASS, SAYS ODELL ‘SES Suit Abraham M. Banks, Who Had ! ” wan Lost Heavily Through the Authorized by Him: Operations of Danie! Sully, the Measure Advo-| Ends His Life. Dan Sully's cotton corner drove Abra- ham M. Banks, a highly respected and until recently a rich cotton-goods mer- chant, to suicide to-day. Ruin stared Banks in the face. Money was owed | him by cotton merchants all over’the | by the Legislature Mayor McClellan said to-day that if Gov. Odell is in earnest in his}country, but they have been failing and it was only a matter of time before Banks's place of business would have! been closed. “I see tt coming.” Banks sald Satur- | day to several of his friends who were gathered in his office and warehouse, | “When the time comes for me to fall you can’ depend upon the failure being | done in the right sort of way.” “ “What do you, mean?” one of the | frieuds ‘asked. | ‘I mean that I will never live to fail; that’s what I mean.” Banks laughed as he made this threat |against his life. Then he talked of business and the #mount of money the aders in the bull cotton movement re making at the expense of the eral public. Depended on To-Day'n Market. Evening World in its tight against ll, The Evening World is able to an- t only introduced but passed by the , who absolutely controls the Legis- ore the Legislature some are believed All bills aimed at private corporations #'T have placed a lot of orders on the market for delivery here Monday," he “The goods will be here early | | and I will be here to receive them. They They have! may be the last I will ever receive. ized *o say by Gov. Odell that he will He said: 1 get to it. A good deal depends on the opening of the market Monday.” Banks expected that prices would be high to-day, He was down at his office at 7.80 o'clock, leaving his home, No. | 110 Kast Highty-second street, 1mmedi- y after an early breakfast, Banks ent to his office, which is in the rear of the warehcuse. He 4s supposed to have remained there for nearly two hours. Shortly after 9 o'clock Hammond Cohen, who besides being the manager of Banks's business, wus a close per- xonal friend, went to the Hrivate offic . There he found Banks unconscious in a chair, The room was filled with the | fumes of carbolic acta and on the table was a vial, half filled with the poison. Cohen remembered Banks's threat fo | end his life, He ran, acreaming, from | the building and cailed a physician from | St. Vincent's Hospital. ‘The physician | began working on Banks with a stom. ach pump, and to help his circulation WIFE CLAIMED BY the bullet passing just above the heart, As a Result Men Are Held} tiuden among papers on the floor was 3 found a@ small pistol. on Charge of Assault While Banks .dled while | the doctor was working to revive m. t is thought the Woman Is Accused off that he rst used the pistol, whieh was too small a calibre to produce death, Bigamy. and then he swallowed the poison. Two Letters Addressed to Wife. On the desk in the office were found two letters, both of which were ad- dressed to Banks's wife. he police took charge of these and refused to divulge their contents, Ranks lived with his wife and one child. He is spoken of as a good hus- band and father. At Banks's home it was said that Mrs, Banks ts in a sérious state of health and that knowledge of the suicide would probably prove fatal to her. The news was kept from her. ————— TAFT TAKES THE OATH. He Assumen Office in the Presence of Members of Cabinet. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—At noon to-day William H. Taft, of Ohio, took : thi8 | the oath of office as Secretary of War in the presence of several members of the Cabinet, the general staff and a number of personal friends. Tha cere- | mony occurred at the War Department. from what I know of the} Nothing showed the culpa- I have that report before Godfrey Andreas, of No. 78 St, Ann's avenue, and Charles Bliss, of the same address, were held in $300 bail for ex- amination on Wednesday in the Mor- risania Court to-day on charges of as- saul. Mra Pauline Andreas was hold in $1,000 ball for examination on a charge of bigamy, Bliss has been the “star boarder” in the household and, according to An- dreas, he objected in. vain, Andreas finally left the house, and, he alleges, returned yesterday and demanded ad- mittance and was refused by Bigs. “This is my home, and Mra, Andreas is my wife,’ Andreas declares he sald, and he further alleged that he was dumfounded by Bliss saying: is my home and she ts my wife ‘This declaration led to blows be ween the men, and the three were finally ur- rested, the men for assault and the woman charged with bigam; Women’s Suits TO-MORROW a Sale—the smartest Ready-to-Wear Suits obtainable AT ANY PRICE will be offered TO-MORROW considerably below the lowest you have ever known. 1 Import the cloth and my’own custom tailors make up the garments, insuring AT ALL TIMES the best styles and the best tailoring at a considerable Saving. f New Model Suits, New Model Suits, New Model Suits, New Model Suits, New Model Suits, New Model Suits, New Model Suits, STYLE and ECONOMY, regular price $22.50, regular price $25.00, regular price $28.50, regular price $30.00, regular price $35.00, regular price $38.50, regular price $45.00, To-morrow, 12.50 To-morrow, 14.75 To-morrow, 16.50 To-morrow, 18.50 To-morrow, 22.00 To-morrow, 29.75 To-morrow, 34.00 “Merritt & Chapman wreck- began work to-day on the m.CHy, which wax sunk Hamilton, Newport Talisman, Martinique, News. Nordkyn, Brazil ir Histon with he mteamer| , ra a wie for eet % . 6 oF Protrudin, he removed and then ! Piles. 4 y ‘efund é made to raise the PAZO ONUIMENE fails to ‘Sure you in'S to 28th Street, | Corner 6th: Ave. THE WORLD: MONDAY VENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1904. HONeill & Co _ (Third Floor.) Women's Coats, $20.00 & $22.50, at Women’s Coat 300 Pieces And Bandings. Rare Values Tuesday Morning. | (On Sale 9 to 12 o’clock only.) No mail or telephone orders—None sent C. O. D. Women's Waists of fine figured Mercerized Madras, plaited yoke, box ) plait in centre back, stock collar and large *pu' (9 to 12 o'clock) Value, $1.25. Black Chiffon Hats, All new goods in a large variety of spring sh (9 to 12 o'clock) ..- tine (2nd Floor, Millinery Dept.) Value, $1.45. Madras Suitings. 400 pieces Madras Suitings, 27 inches wide, suitable for rounds, all th new spring shades represented (9 to 12 o'clock), per yd... shirt-waist suits, medium, light and dark (First Floor.) Valite up to 25c. Black Taffeta Silks. A splendid lot of C. J. Bonnet & Cie and other cele- brated makers of Foreign Black Taffetas, wear guaran- § teed (9 to 12 o'clock), per yard (First Floor.) Regular Price 75c. and 85c. Dinner Sets. sold edges, beautiful decorations (9 to 12 o'clock),... (Basemerit,) , Fine French China Dinner Sets, 100 pieces, clouded 1$19, 00 ° Regular Price $29.98. 50 Dining Chairs in solid quartered golden oak, very highly polished, feet (9 to 12 o'clock), cach (Fourth Floor.) Regular Price, $3.50. bannister back, cane seat, French leg, massive chw $2.25 Table Oilcloth. The very best quality of Table Oilcloth, solid colors or figured. (9 to 12 o'clock.) sleeves, apes west O5C Per yard—1% yd.) ° 14¢, width, b 1% yd. width, J (Fourth Floor.) Regular Prices 20c, and 29c. , 19c. Worth from 48c. to $1,75. These are sample pieces gathered by our European representative from leading manufacturers abroad—none . in the lot sold for less than 48c. and some of them as high as $2.25 per yard. Point d’Alencon, Point de Venice, IrishCrochet,Re- ~ arte pousse, Oriental, Lierre, prea Valenciennes, Escurial, Chantilly, Spanish, Point de Paris, and other styles. (First Floor. Special Table No. 1.) — —} Black, White, Cream, Butter, Arabian and Paris Shades, Black and White. _______| Sixth Avenue, 20th to 21st Street. 79¢. {12:c. 58c. Final Clearance Sale of Entire Winter Stock of Women's & ‘Children’s Winter Coats, Fackets & Wraps At one-half and less than half original prices. Women's Fackets $16.00 & $16.50....... . and Kerseys; formerly Women's Evening Girls’ Coats Girls’ Coats and Carriage Coats Liniment of Broadcloth; colors:—white, champagne, blue and black; also Imported Lace Coats in white and black, These coats represent the entire balance of our high class Imported and Domestic Garments at exactly 14 for- mer prices. $50.00 Coats at $25.00 $75:00 $100,00 $150.00 “ $200.00 “ et $3730 50.00 ot Kerseys and Cheviots; formerly $12.50,! $7.50 26, 30 and 40-inch lengths, of Broadcloths| 0, $10.00} of Finest Broadcloths, in 30 and > s lengths, elaborately braid trimmed=-9-4 aaa fitted effects—mostly sample coats, only one or two of a kind, but many kinds and sizes, ranging from 34 to 42-inch; formerly $40.00, $50.00 & $60.00, at.... $1 $125.00 Coats at $62.50 Girls’ Winter Coats Less Than Half Prices, Gen oe orld 25 Moll 36 of Kerseys, Zibelines and Fancy Matertal, alli sizes; formerly $9.60, $10.50 & $12.50, at.. Almanac @:Ency Cents.. Rv Mall 36 Cents, $25.00 "$5.90 of Heavy Zibelines, Kerseys, &c., &c., fancily trim- med; formerly $15.00, $17.50 & $19.50, at.. R.B, Macy & Cov's Attractions Are Their Low Prices ACYS B'way at 6th Ave. $53,000 Worth of Furs At Less Than Forty Cents onthe Dollar. The entire manufactured stock of the largestimporter and manufacturer of Fyrs in the city. The same .manufac- 7? turer sold us his stock last year; last year at 50c. on the | dollar; this year at less than 40c. on the dollar. | Sets, Separate Muffs and Boas,: ‘ | Stoles and Long Effects in Neck Pieces. Ermine, Mink, Sable Fox, Isabella Fox and Black Fox, | Natural Squirrel, Sable Squirrel, Black Lynx, Alaska Sable, Persian Lamb, Broadtail, Black Bear, White Fox and Mole. Natural Russian Sable Set, scarf made of six skins, round muff of four skins, worth $575.00; our price $2 | 0.96 Natural Hudson Bay Sable Set, worth $420.00; our price. . Fos ole cine eee ce tae $164.74 i | Tipped Russian Sable Set, shaped scarf made of four skins, fat mufl, worth $400.00; our price. $l 59. 74 Dozens of the choicest are single pieces and are not quoted. Of each of the following we have quantities. Mee AS rmi n : $ 14.96 Blended Huds on $44, 96 Misses’ va Sau Scarfs Ermine Flat Muffs, extra large size... $49. 96 Gray Squirrel sia iee® $8.74 Scarfs, wih tange.. 90-24 Persian Lamb Tie Scarfs, puepined with chin- $ 1 6.89 Ermine Tie Scarfs. $48.96 Mole Flat Muas.. $14.96 Mole Flat Mutts.. $16.49 Mole Flat Mufts.. $19.74 Mole Tie Scarfs, tined withimaleskin $ | 4.96 Mink Flat Muits.. $15.96 Mink Flat Mufis.. $18.96] Persian Lamb Muffs, extra large Mink Flat Mufls.. $21.96 ca pera) ite bet a Mutts, large size. . $7.49 White Thibet Pel- Mey ata long.. $ I 7.96 re Lynx Flt €26.96 Persia s Mink Flat Mufts.. $24.96 Two-stripe Round Mink Muffs..... $8.49 Mink Maks. $9.96 Three-stripe Round Mink Muffs $12.79 Black L: Stole, with fines ' $38.96 * Isabella Fox Flat MUfIS: corns s se $9. 34 Isabella Fox Pom- adc: Scarfs $14.96 Eastern Mink Tie Scarfs, long . = age $34.96 Eastern Mk $49. 9% Eastern ‘Nik ¢79 96 Isabella Fox Scarfs, lined with | ae Le el}, extra $22.49 Black Fox Rever- sible Scarfs $22.49 Mink Stole Cottars $34.96 Black Fox Flat S $14 39 Muffs .......+0- $15.96 Sable Fox Scarfs.. "e Like Seal Round Sable nes Scarfs, $3 1 06 IMUfS cusaiiecn $ | .96 extra long ...... ° Like Seal Tie Sable Fox Flat Scarfs ocr cceoe $5.24 Mufls so... $9.96 eaute Fox Flat $14.96 Big, Oo Ket $16.96 ound ie Bear Roun $ 1 7.96 sate!" $20.96 B dtail Flat Mune ae fate! $ I 5.96 Black Bear Scarfs, $26.74 The Midwinter Furniture Sale Will Start Monday, Feb. 8th. New Goods, Larger Assortments Than Last Year. Better Values Than Ever Before. Usual High Standard of Quality Maintained, CANDY SPECIAL FOR ENTIRE WEEK Assorted Frait & Nut Chocolates; Skunk Scarfs, shaped, Shape Sloan's Ib... 13 SPE FOR MONDAY Glace Figs and Daten; Ib......- 10¢ SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY Chocolate Orange Ice Creamn ++ 10 Kills Pain. | ” eae Try it for Rheuma- f 29 LORTANIT ST tism, Neuralgia, Sci- Pe atica, Lumbago, suitt (ane Bese’ Gis Joints and all Aches, "3" t Sprains and Strains. Ch bg IE Sure—Safe—Scientific, PILE OL eee rf ‘tts St., No Be Penetrates Wonderfully. ero THE AN WITH THE 1904 $8.75) All Dealers. |World Almanac Lord & Taylor, Broadway and Twentig¢th Street and Fifth Avenue, and Encyclopedia ‘DOESN’T GUESS. HE’S SURE. LLLS 0 Teara, abled froning ‘| He is sure because The World Almanac pr Cine a a gives actual facts on all subjects that Te tonke tvisinese boom during the are liable to comé up for diseussior. n ‘}@ull’ peagon it ts only necessarysto | The 1004 WORLD, NAC apd ENCT- ps in the Bet place. - ‘The stantially. hound in or b. * v1 BW RONDR on fine custom shirts, NP Nundne, 10 one: ihird floor. BE Oy) 42 suo: 10 600 in ee al ewer > ae wy ry - 4 ‘ ‘ e.