The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1904, Page 3

MGR. FARLEY ON HIS WAY 10 ROME Archbishop Sails on the Prince Adelbert to Pay His Respects to the Pope and Carry Over Peter’s ‘Pence. MANY ‘PRIESTS AT PIER TO SEE HIM OFF. Distinguished Prelate Is Sup- posed to-Be Carrying a Peti- tion to Retain Female Singers in Catholic Churches. ‘Archbishop Farley sailed to-day on the Hamburg-American line steamer Prince Adelbert. On the pler were hun- reds of priests, Catholic men and women, friends and relatives to wish Bim @ godspeed. His departure was in the nature of an ovation. The Archbishop occupied stateroom Mo, 7. Accompanying him on the voyage to Rome, where he will pay his respects to the Pope, are the Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, Chancellor of the, archdiocese of New York; the Rev. Daniel McMackin, assistant at the Cathedral; the Rev. James B. Lewis, secretary to the Archbishop, and his nephew, Edward Farley, who will com- plete his ecclesiastical education in the Holy City. The Archbishop, who has been ill, was still suffering from a slight cold when he arrived at the pier at Hoboken. In his stateroom he received a reporter of The Evening World. He said: “I shall be back before Easter. The purpose of my mission is simply to pay my re- spects to the Pope in behalf of the @iocese and the clergy. It is a rule of the church to visit the Pope once in every ten years, But this is not the regular lmininal visit. I am taking the St. Peter's pence with me, but that it is the largest ever sent is a matter of great doubt. “To tell just what it amounts to would be like disclosing the contents of a let- ter before the letter is received by the party to whom it has been sent." Just then the rector of St. Peter's, B. Is, entered the stateroom. The Archbishop turned to him and sald: “Well, I'm sorry you are not going with me. Father Cassidy was with me on my last trip and we visited the Holy Land ether. He was with me when We paid our respects to the present Fope, then Cardinal Sarto, on Nov. 21, 1901. We spent two delightful weeks to- gether. His Excellency ‘was deeply in- terested in American charities and we discussed that subject fully." “Yes, I remember it very well,” said Father Cassidy. Then Father Cassidy presented the IE with an electric lamp, {hich Uinhts by the pressing of a but- ton,,.The Archbishop found great amuse- ment in flashing it In qe faces of those sent. The Archbishop js carrying ters to the heads of the Church in ome. In this packet is supposed to be one which contains a petition favor- ing the retention of female singers in ehureh choir: “There may be a petition of that sort in the package,” sid the Archbishop, ‘but you may rest assured that the Pope in this matter will carefully consider the Wishes of the American clerg: Mortgage On the Cathedra! In regard to the mortgage on St. Pat- Wick's Cathedral the Archbishop said: “There has been placed a mortgage on the Cathedral. ie purpose of it is to place a marble floor in the Cathedral and build the Lady Chapel. Archbishop Corrigan originated the idea and we are Fespecting his wishes in completing the ee mie h ba mammoth isket of flowers was then brought In. The Archbishop sald that he would not open the letter that anied it until out at sea, as he to defer some of the pleasures of leavetakin; Among those who the Arehbi: hogy off were Revs, pay Evers, M. C. O'Farrell, William Guinon, William Murray, Kx. arney. O'Brien and Apisanio, J. 8S. McGean, J. Ke: n, John Dunn, Thomas Campbell, Michael’ Sally ohn’ Wynne, Jennis McMahon. | Phomas ‘Thornton, Cornelius O'keo William Dorothy, John Chidwicks en” In saying good-by to Fath vel) the Vicar-Gonernl, tears, caine “aye es on his friend's shoulder: ade on hls triend’s 8 ers and bade him rew so great that the Archbishop left is stateroom and entered the ship's friends came in to pay their ri On the pier was_an equal num the reporter asked, The Archbishop put op both his hands Then the gong sounded and the crowd fathered at the end of the pler. Despite deck waving his handkerchlet a the ship slowly drew away from the pier ee of $10,000 for Student of the Royal Academy of Archb| ops Sad Adien, Archbishop's eyes. He placed his hands grew crowd of men and women on deck 4 thin, Then one after the other his “Will you be offered a Cardinalate? and smiled. He made no answer. the cold the Archbishop stood on the | and steamed down the ba Maria C. Sequin Leaves a Fund Music. ry afaria C, Seguin, who died at Svend- borg, Denmark, Oct. 24, made bequests Aggregating $160,000 by her will filed to- day in this country by Orison B. Smith, of No. West End avenue, Public bequests aggregate $30,000, Mr, Smith is to have $10,000 and the rest to rela- tions. Miss Seguin was the daughter of the late Edward and Ann Seguin. She waves $10,000 to found an “Edward and Ann Seguin scholarship” for American or English scholars from seventeen to twenty-two years old at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Sila {The will provides for a $10,000 “Ann Seguin Fund" for the Sheltering Arms and $5,000 each for similar funds to the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Blind and the Home for Old Men and Aged Cripples, The will was executed in 1597, ‘The oniy heir at law and next of ts 4, phew, Edward 8. R, in, of Ind! agli who will re- ud $90,000 and residue of the THE WOKLD: ARCHBISHOP FARLEY AND '‘SCENE ON STEAMSHIP WHEN DISTINGUISHED PRELATE SAILED FOR ROME, WOMAN IN TOMBS TREES SUICIDE Arrested for Stealing a Collar She Jumps to Corridor Rather Than Face Ordeal of Trial in Court, It Is Believed. Kate Kelly, forty years of a rested on a charge of petty larceny, hurled herself to-day from the balcony around the second tler of cells in the woman's prison of the Tombs, She fell to the stone pavement, sustaining such internal injuries that she will probably die, The woman was to have been tried to-day in rt III., General Sessions, before Judge™cMahon, Mrs. Looney, the matron of the prison, was in the basement at the time Miss Kelly leaped over the railing, She had Just passed the polnt where a moment later the body struck. As the woman lay prone on the basement floor she writhed in agony for a moment and then became unconscious, Kate Kelly was taken to the Tombs on Jan. 25, accused of stealing a collar- ette from the wife of Thomas Egan, a saloon-keeper at No. 1914 Park avenue. Several other articles of clothing were missing at the time and suspicion fell upon the woman, who now les in Belle- vue in a critical conditién, Ever since being in prison the dis- grace weighed heavy upon Miss Kelly. She talked but little with her fellow prisoners. To-day, while the women were taking their morning walk in the hallway, she separated from the other women. No one saw her as she took the leap. It was the fall on the basement and the cry of pain that first called the at- tention of the prison officials to the woman stretched out on the floor, Mrs. Looney, back was toward her as sho ‘eli. After the fall the greatest excitement revailed among the woman prisoners. rhe matron says that Miss Kelly must have fallen accidentally, The other women in the prison knew little about her. When arrested she said she lived at No 40 East Seventy-ninth street, ‘At Me. 310 Seventy-ninth street Miss Kelly is not knowr CAUGHT AFTER LONG SEARCH. ROME, N. Y., Feb. 4.—Arthur G. Ben- nett, charged with forgery, for whom Tompkins County authorities have been searching since 18%, was arrested here to-day. | the unfavorable weather the only fea- KAISER WILHELM MAKES HER SLOWEST VOYAGE |Constant Battle with Storms and Head Winds, and Captain Slept Only Fifteen Hours in entire Westward Trip. ‘The longest voyage she ever made in point of time consumed was completed personal attendant, Alexander Kar- haeft, x colossal Cossack, whose mus- tachios are more inan ‘a foot long. by the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse when! The Baron left St, Petersburg two weeks she tied up at her pier In Hoboken to- day, The trip took 7 days 12 hours and 23 minutes. Storms and head winds delayed the vessel and thick weather caused re- duced speed at tiines when the engines could have been pushed to the Mmit under other circumstances. Nor was ture of the voyage that caused the pas- sengers to marR it as memorable. An exhibition of physical endurance such as 1s seldom recorded was given by Capt. Cuppers, who did not sleep to | exceed fifteen hours in the trip across the Atlantic, Not once did he take his place at the head of the Captain's table in the din- ing saloon, He was on the bridge save when sheer exhaustion compelled him to snatch a nap of an hour or two in his cabin. Even when New York was in sight and the perils of the ocean had been overcome he refused to desert his post on the bridge until the last line making the ship fast had been bent on the pler and the passengers were on their way down the gangplanks. Long Sleep at Last. Then he retired to his cabin, leaving orders with Chief OMcer Gerdes that he was not to be disturbed, A guard “was placed around the cabin and Capt, Cuppers, relieved from the long strain of anxiety, fell across his bed asleop without removing his clothes. No sound on beard will disturb him until he chooses to come out on deck, even should he sleep for forty-elght hours. Bad weather conditions were encoun- tered Immediately after the ship left Cherbourg. Shortly after midnight on Monday the Kaiser ran into a hurricane, The gale blew with such velocity that the wind gauge on the bridge was put out of commission, Seven of the big ventila- tors were wrenched from thelr fasten- Ings and some were blown overboard, Russian Baron On Board. ‘The saloon passengers who attracted the most attention: on the trip were Baron von Fersen, of Russia, and his ago and is on his way to San Fran- clsco. He stopped in New York only long enough to arrange for tickets on the first fast train leaying for Chicago. Alexander Karneaff commanded alt the attention of the Hoboken pler with his long mustachios, his sheepskin cape, reaching to his ankles; his short sword, with a jewelled handle, and the flerce expression of his eyes. Cossnck Carries Perfumery. In the bosom of his blue Rannel shirt are miniature pockets to the number of more than a dozen. Six of these con- tain little cut glass bottles with gold stoppers containing perfumes, Accompanied by a score of secretaries archit and experts, Theodore Le- wald, Commissioner from Germany to the St. Louls Fair, came off the Kaiser. He says that Germany's exhibit will be most magnificent, far surpassin; the display made by that nation in Chicago. Herr Lewald after looking over New York, will proceed to St. Louis, where he hopes to feel much at home. Frederic Thompson, of Luna Coney Island, arrived after one Ughtning tours of foreign lands, bring- ing promise to New Yorkers of a series of bewildering novelties to be exhibitea next summer. Mr. Thompson drank Scotch’ highballs with the Sultan of Morocco, whom he describes as a thoroughly up-to-date young man who has scandalized his People by adopting automobiles and other evidences of advanced clvillzacon, Mr. Thompson made quite a hit with the Sultan, who gave him permission to bring to Coney’ Island a troupe of. twenty-four Rimlans, or members of the Sultan's bodyguard. Mr, Thompson has secured the twelve plunging elephants that have been cre- ating a sensation in London by shooting the chutes. He has also engaged a herd of sixty Indian elephants, which will take part In a reproduction of the historic Durbar, A special ship will be chartered to bring to Coney Island all the novelties that have been secured for the coming summer, Another big steamshi her record for slow tin which was due yesterda Not since she was built has the Oceanic fatled to arrive within a few hours of noon on Wednesday, She has no wircless ap- paratus and has not been heard from ithe officers of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse report that they saw nothing of the big White Star Iner. She passed over the same routy and encountered the same weather that delayed the German steamship, so it is fair to assume that she will land after a trip Insting more than seven days, Parr, of his that has broken Is the Ocean: PALLAS CUTS WAGES OF PARK EMPLOVES New Commissioner Reduces 300 Men on the Ground that His Appropriation Is Not Suf- ficient to Meet Demands, Park Commissioner Pallas to-day re- duced the salaries of 300 employes of the Park Department, In spewking of the matter this morn- ing, Mr. Pallas said: “In ordering this reduction I feel bound to explain that it was necessary on account of the de- Plorable condition af affairs which 1 }found in the department when I as- sumed charge. “The annual appropriation for the Department 1s $430,000. Against this there is a bi-weekly payroll, a menthly Pay roll and a weekly. payroll, The weekly payrolls from 1893 to 1903 were as follows: #698, $4,492.10; 1899, $4, 1900, $780.05; 1901, $5,715.16; 1902, $5,524.74; 1908, $11,104.18, ‘There was also in addi- tion to these payrolls $75,000 worth of supplies which had to be purchased out of the annual appropriation, On Jon, 1, 1994, there was nominally at the dispossl of the Department n special appropriation of $175,442 33, but not only is this sum practically mortgaged tor the completion of work alréady Begun, but it has already boen depitted to the extent of $30,000 by the’ wasteful organi- zation which I found in vogue when I Assumed control of the Department Not Jess than $125,00) was wasted dur- ing 1903, 1 larger sum than has been thrown away since the million-dollar appropriation of 1M, though that ap- oropriation was made jn order to fur- nish employment during a time of gen- eral suffering and hence was justified. It also seerhs strange to me that im- provements should be bogun during tho month of December of last year when lt could not be continued advantageous- ly or successfully. “During November, 1908, salartes and the pay of men in the Department were increased by $23,322.75, notwithstanding the fact that the Department was ai ready embarrassed by lack of funds. The only expienaian I can offer as to why these things should haveb een done is that the heads of the Department were grossly inefficient. It also seems to indicate either a lack of public spirit or a desire to embarress the pres- ent administration. VANDERBILT'S NEW YACHT LAUNCHED Conqueror that Took the Water To-Day Will Be One of the Most Sumptuous Pleasure Vessels Afloat. ‘TROON, Scotland, Feb, 4.—Frederick W. Vanderbilt's new steam yacht Con- queror was launched here this after- noon, Mr, Vanderbilt practically gave the designer, George L. Watson, a blank check as regards cost, so the yacht is a palatial vessel of 1,200 tons, provided with a shade deck amidships, which iy unusual on private yachts, The new Conqueror is a powerful and handsome twin screw vessel, with the’ traditional clipper bow. She is 239 feet long on the water-line, with a beam of %@ feet 6 inches, Her screws will ke driven by two mete of quadruple expan- sion engines of about 2,700 horse-power, Internally the vessel will be fitted in sumptuous fashion. The furnishings and decorations of several of the larger cabins will be intrusted to a Parisian firm. The principal sloep! ing acommodation is on the lower deck, uy here is a large deckhouse on the main deck, contain- ing dining saloons, boudoirs, galleys, pantries, &c., with’ a long passage to ests to from end to end of the ‘eens! Gndar® abetter ‘Accommoda- m for the officers and crew {s pro- vided forward, "MONK" EASTMAN NOW INDICTED Grand Jury Finds Two Counts Against Gang Leader, One for Attempted Murder in Third Degree, Other for Assault. “Monk” Eastman, the notorious leader of a eang of cutthroats, crooks and murderers who have been terror- izing the city for months past, was in- dicted by the Grand Jury to-day on two counts, one for attempted murder in the third degree and the other for as- sault. It is alleged that ‘The Monk," who in private life is sometimes called William Delaney, on the night of Feb. 3 shot at twice and tried to murder Harry Lewis at the corner of First street and Sec- ‘ond avenue, On the same night Monk" and his gang, after trying to rob a scion of an old } York family who was being watched by George F, Bryan and John Rogers, both detectives from the Pink- erton agency, engaged in a running fight with the Pinkerton men and later that the “Monk” assaulted Bryan, Inspector MeClusky appeared before tho Grand Jury, as did Lewis and Bryan. The Inspector told the jury- men the reputation of the leader of the gang of crooks and an indictment on both counts was brought in at once. ‘The District-Attorney's offico will ask that a high batl be put on both the indictments and will hasten the trial of “Monk.” It is the purpose of the Dis- trict-Attorney to send the gang leader to prison at as early a date as possible. The law under which Eastman was in- dicted for attempted murder in the third degree has been on the statute books for less than two year 1s Tun penalty is twenty-five years in tne a | penitentiary, | | | | | HURSDAY. EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1902. FAMOUS TEWKSBURY MANSION THAT WAS GUTTED BY FIRE TO-DAY. TAMMANY ASKS REAL HOME RULE Raines Law, State Election Bu- | reau and Albany Control Over Local Civil Service Wiped Out ; in Legislative Bills. | FULL SCOPE FOR ALDERMEN IN FRANCHISE GRANTS. | Power Demanded for Mayor in} Appointing Excise Board and Collection of Excise Fees Regulated. (Bvecial to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 4—Mayor McClellan having taken Gov. Odetl at his word in the matter of favoring gas legislation, Tammany to-day had a home rule pill Introduced in the Legislature in which the relief sought Is covered in the sweep- ing provisions of the measures. Senator Dowling introduced the bill in the upper house und Assemblyman Palmer in the lower. Senator Dowling said tn a joctlar way that he did not know that {t car- rled out the ideas of Gov, Odell, but he thought if there was going to be home rule for cities it should be the full measure. Election Law Repealed The bill generally provides that the citles of the State, after the first day of May, shall be vested with the entire management of their local affairs; that all jurisdiction of the Btate Civil ger- vicg Commission over municipal ser- vice siall be abolished; common coun- cils or boards of aldermen shall have power to regulate the amount of Il- cense fee for the sale of intoxicating Hquors, ix the hours during which such liquors may be sold and turn into the city treasury all moneys received from fees, forfeltures and penalties, Also that the Mayor of each city shall be vested with power to appoint a local excise commission, The MetropoNtan Election law Is re- pealed, and the city of New York per- mitted to conduct its own elections un- der general faws. Control All Franchia Common Connells, cr Leger of ovat men are given power to regulate the boundaries of wards, not oftener, how- erer, than once in five years, The local legislative authority is given power over franchises in public streets and places and ferry and dock privileges 4nd over compensation therefor. The same authority is given full power to declare and specify what property shall be subject to taxation ‘or local purposes, and in what manner assessments for’ local improvements shall be levied. They also have power over the haurs of employment, rate of sation and duties of officers and employees of departments, including the police and fire departments of the city and also over pension funds. Raines Law Wiped out. In Bection 9 all laws of the State, | cluding the so-called Raines law, 1 consistent with the provisions of the Proposed act, are repealed. A lively tile followed Mr. Palmer introduction of the bill in the Assembly, Mr. Palmer had obtained the consent of Majority Leader Rogers, but Mr. Bostwick objected to the introduction of the bill. Mr. Rogers said that in all his five years cxperience in the House the courtesy had never been refused and he desired that Mr. Bostwick withdraw his objection. Mr. Palmer announced that henceforth he would refuse similar consent to any bill of the majority. At length Mr. Bostwick was persuaded to agree to withdraw his objection. MORE TAOUBLE FOR NEW HAVE ROA Freight Brakemen, Conductors and Flagmen Complain that They Are Forced to Work Too Many Hours a Day. The striking freight handlers of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, aggravated by the threats of the company to replace them to-morrow with new men if they do not return to work, declared to-day that ,they would organize a general strike of freight handlers along the entire water front In this city. Grand Master Connell, of the Freight Handlers’ Union, left Chicago yesterday and {s expected here to-night. When he arrives he will look into the sltuatto and decide definitely whether « general strike shall be ordered, in addition to the freight handlers’ atrike, the New Haven road is now con- fronted with the prospect of more trouble among its employees along its lines. ‘The freight brakemen, conductors and flagmen complain that they are oblij to work too long; that not only are they exhausted at the end of the long trips they are obliged to take, but that the travelling public is endangered by the lack of vigilance inevitable among railroad men who have been over- worked, ‘They do not complain of their y, which they say is the highest paid in the country for their class of labor, but they do insist upon shorter hours, ana have asked for a conference to-day In New Haven with the officials of the road, P. H. Morrissey, of Clevelana, the representative of the freight men, will meet some of the men this after- on and a set of demands will be mulated. The men say that tne freight service of the road is complete- ly demoralized, that worn-out engines and inferior coal are used, and thet be-~ cause of the delays coused by these shinee. from thirty to fifty hours are required to make a trip of 185 miles. | Meanwhile the road is making small retain settling ite. strike In. this | ity. Agent Connelly said this morn- | ing that 10 men were at work at the Montgomer: street plier, handling freight, and that most of the tally clerks. who went on strike. had been ro- placed. By to-morrow, Mr. Connelly | said, he would have @ full force of handlers on the plier and that none of the strikers will be missed. Th strikers were out In force again but attempted no violence. Po- | were everywhere and they had, to use thelr clubs at the first signs of violence. he new men secured by the com- pany are mostly inexperienced, and are | ag: aki) low pt pare tote relieving the con- TINY FIREBUG SMILES IN COURT Twelve-Year-O'd Russell Luck-| enbauer Is Not Disturbed, When He Is Sent to the Brooklyn Disciplinary School. Russell Luckenbauer, twelve years old, who lives with his parents at No. 352 Linwood street, Brooklyn, was to- day sent to the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training School because he set fire to Public School No. 108 at the corner of Arlington avenue and Linwood street. ‘There were close to 2,000 children in the | school at the time beside the fifty odd | teachers. Russell was as easy of manner in the Children’s Court as any old hardened criminal, He looked straight at Judge Wilkin without a wince and when his playmates gave the testimony which|at No. 405 Grand street, and climbing | ¥°! pada she tee, them was responsible for his sentence his} ver the root made his way to the bumn- | KeeP thelr heads an tow as nostitiey ta bright blue eyes twinkled and his lips|ing building. On the second floor he | 20! hands an er, Then curved in smiles. Not only was the boy charged with setting fire to the school, but another case of arson was made out against him, The first was the burning of the bakery of Willlam Leddles, No. 3001 Fulton street. No defense was put in and in suspending sentence Judge Wilkin took up the more important of the two charges. Louls Hayt, thirteen years old, of No. 42 Richmond street, was the first witness in the school case. He said “Russell told me that he was going to sot fire to the school. Charlie Herbert also heard him say that. When Rus- sell went to the cellar he called to me to come down with him, I saw the Ughted paper thrown Into the coal box. Mary Linsky, who owns a candy store at No. 218A Linwood street, sald that Luckenbauer and Hayt had come into her store and asked for matches. She gave them three, ‘Then Hayt told her that Russell wanted them to burn vp the school. Mrs, Linsky then wanted the matches back but the boys refused 10 torney David Spero asked that aen- tence be pronounced at once. ts he wish- ed to take the case to a nigher court. PATROL WAGON OUT TO WARN GAMBLERS Inspector Schmittberger Sends One to Round Up His District and Stop in Front of Sus- pected Places. Inspector Schmittberger, following the plan of Inspectors Walsh and Brooks in their endeavors to close the pool shops of their respective districts, sent a patrol wagon out to-day to round up his own district, Under the command of Capt. Joseph Burns, of the Church POLICEMAN SAVES: THREE FROM FIR Rushes Through a Smoke-Filled Tenement to Kescue an Un- conscious Woman and Her Two Babies. Policeman William J. Harrigan, of the Ol4 Sip station, saved three lives in a tenement-house fire at No, 167 and No. 169 Clinton street at an early hour to- day. Harrigan was on his way home after a night's duty at the Delancey street station, where he had a special assignment, when he saw that the tene- ment was smoking. Almost immediately flames burst from the stairway, cutting off all chances of escape for some of the inmates, Harrigan ran through the tenement found Mrs. Harry Friedman uncon- scious from smoke, The woman had tried to make her way to the street when slie fell from weakness. She was carried to the open air and at once re- fained consclousness, “My children will be killed!" she cried Again Harrigan entered the burning tenement. By groping through the apartments occupied by the Friedmans he found a boy, Jacob, eighteen months eld. ‘The child was weak from smoke and unable to cry. He was carired «to the street and given over to his mother, “But my baby ts stil! there! the mother cried. “He is being burned to death!" For a third time Harrigan made his way through the smoke, The Fried- man apartments were dense with smoke and hot by this time. Harrigan found the baby fast asleep in a cradle, It had been protected from the smoke by covering. Harrigan carried the child to the street and there found that the mother, frantic from fright and: grief, hud become so hysterical that friends took her to their home. With the baby in his arms th; man wert to the D ne y steer "the firemen had put out the bla: Harrigan's services. were. no- longer needed in the tenement. For the rest ef the morning the life saver acted as nurse, Mrs. “Friedman thought. for hours that her baby had perished. When she learned that it was at the and station-house she rushed there and claimed it. The fire caused several thousand dol- lars’ damage. Shortly after the. fre- men began work an explosion of ga occurred in a synagogue In the building, blowing out the windows and cornices and extinguishing the lights in the xtreet. Morris Brandosky, of No. 8 Madison street, who was standing on the oppo- site sidewalk when the explosion oc- curred, was cut about the face and neck by flying glass. JOHN L, SULLIVAN'S TRANER A MARIA cial to The Evening World.) AUGUSTA, ¢ Feb. 4—Pat Don- nelly, once the trainer of John L, Sulli- van in his successful days, is bounding a cell in the Aiken County Jail a ac, making the waHs of the abou bullding ring with loud cries Donnelly has been a plumber on the new hotel in Aiken for some time street station, twelve plain-clothes men are having a free ride from Franklin street to the Battery and back again, Every place that is suspected in the slightest as harboring a pool-room celves a visit from the, patrol wagon, the Captain and his dozen ununiformed men. By this scheme Schmittberger hopes to Intim{date the gamblers, ri ¢ to-day the wagon stopped ta front of No. 6 Dey stree yhich was ularly belleved to hav Deen closed "tothe gamblers a’ week TMtaybe it was,” says Burns, “but it till suspicious,” ry und only a day or two ago was {t no- ced that he acted strangely. Yea- terday his mind gave way and he raved on the street so much that he was ar- rested. Then he made desperate efforts for lberty, cutting his wrists with the handcuffs. He will be tried for lunacy by Judge of Probate to-morrow and sent to the asylum in Columbia, ‘ ‘ation. | Famous Mansion in West Sey enty-Second Street Gutted Fire that Puts the inmates Grave Peril of Their Lives. IMANY ART TREASURES GO WITH BUILDING, - Leading Them to Safety Through the Stifling Smoke, The famous Tewksbury mansion, at No. 29 West Seventy-second street, op- cupled for less than ten days by its new owner, Hyman Sonn, the wealthy real-estate operator, was almost Ge stroyed by fire to-day. Mrs. Sonn ana her two children, Edna and Sidney, to- gether with a half dozen sérvants, hag & narrow escape for their lives, afia that they got out at all was due te the cool presence of mind of Mra, Sonn at a trying moment and the opportutie arrival of Mr. Sonn, when, cut off OF flames and smoke and facing a tightiy locked tron gate, the little group of women and children seemed lost indesm, The famous mansion, the climax ot | the ambition of the brilliant yonme | Anencier of a few years ago, Lewin G. | Tewksbury, bulit and decorated by: him at a cost of $500,000, was completely — | ntted, and with it went many valuable — | works of art recently put in by Mr, Sonn. It was Insured for less than @ ~ quarter of its value. oy Electric Wire Is Blamed, | — The origin of the fire is a mystery) but 1s generally credited to a defective electric Ught wire. When Mr, Sonn bought the howe recently for $135,006 he immediately began an elaborate re- arrangement of its electric equi At 2 o'clock this morning when Edna Sonn returned from a reception — everything was all right. She had not been in bed an hour before Ella Salley, a domestic, who was sleeping on the top floor, smelled smoke and sounded the alarm. ‘Without waiting to see the extent of — the blaze, Mr. Sonn slipped into some clothing and rushed downstairs and out into the street, yelling “Fire!” at the top of his lungs. At the same time, Mrs. Sonn got up and started to rouse her children. Sh dragged Edna, who is eighteen years old, and Sidney, who is fifteen, their beds, and then she called uj 3 to the servants to get into their o! as quickly as possible and to follow tier. By this time the house was so full of smoke that {t was impossible to vee five feet down the hallways. On the upper floor the crackling of the fiames could be ‘distinctly heard, yet Sonn | never lost her head, although trembling: servants hung to her skirts and Her — children were crying for her to saye them. Mrs. Sonn @ Real Heroine, As soon as she had her little a alt. to : I led them through the smoke-filled to the main staircase, up which huge volumes of black smoke were coming, Time and aghin the line broke and Mrs. Sonn stopped until all had joined hands again, Finally the little party, led by this heroic woman reached the ground floor and started toward the front door. Opening this Mrs. Sonn led all hands into the vestibule and reached to open the iron gates. Te her horror, they were locked. The key had disappeared. Mr. Sonn 1 out a few minutes before had slammed the gates shut behind him and the key had evidently been thrown from its place, the gate fastening itself by & spring lock. ‘At this critical juncture the brave woman spoke reassiqing words to hep children and the servants, and, worked meanwhile at the lock, She had made little or no progress when Mr, Sonn, who had returned as soon as he sa} the extent to which the fire had spi to ald his family, appeared on the ow side of the gate. With him was a neigh- bor, and the two men with a few vigor ous kicks managed to snap the lock ‘The gate flew back and Mrs. Sonn and her chidren and servants passed out to safety. ‘They were taken at once to the house of J. Van Vechten Olcott, at No, West Seventy-second street, where Mr, Olcott's brother, former District-Attor= ney Olcott, made coffee for them while Mrs, Olcott provided them with cloth: ni Mtr. Sotin’s alarm speedily brought the firemen to the scene. The fire had gained headway In the | mean time, and the flames were shoot~ | {ng up through the elevator to the root and extending to every room in the house. Explosion Did t Damage. Vhile the fire was at Its height there mien explosion. Every window in the house was blown out, and the slimes was followed by valuable bits of statu- ary and art curios, Huge pieces’ Af marble were hurled Into the street, One piece, weighing several hundred pounds grazing the knee of Licut. Hennessey. Later there was another but milder explosion, which brought the rook ‘a handsome cupola just over the matn — hallway down on the heads of (he firemen working inside, —<—<—_—- ———— Director of New Hayen Road eteran In Railway Affal lam D. Bishop, sr, Vice-Freside the Boera of Directors o! York, New Haven & Hartford road and for many years identified with the management road, died at his realdence: * ye