The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1904, Page 5

| 4 i THREE AMILES LE TO OO “Fire In Apartment Beneath Routs Panic-Stricken Tenants Out of Bed—Some Descend by Fire Escape to Third Floor. : BLAZE STARTED BY MAN WHO WANTED ‘TO SMOKE. ‘Struck Match, Which Ignited : Fringe of Couch on Which He ‘ Was Lying, and Then Blaze | Began—Damage $2,000. ) Three families on the top floor of the ere graystone flat-house at No. ‘West One Hundred and Nineteenth jet were routed out of thelr beds fend forced to the roof by a fire in the Ppartment occupied by Nathan Levy jand his wife on the floor juat beneath hem. Some went out on the fire-es- feape and down to the third floor, where hey entered the house again and de- ended to the street Nathan Levy SS this morning and decided to @ A smoke before going to bed. Qying on a vouch in one of the rooms ‘he proceeded to light a match. The came home about fartch fit, and so did the fringe on Phe bottom of the couch, In a mo- ent the couch, Which was stuffed fwith exceisior, was blazing. 3 Levy gave a yell and ran out of phe apartment and into the street, where he made for the nearest fre- . Mrs. Levy, awakened by her usband’s cry, jumped out of bed and led to slap out the fire with her bare ds. She succeeded only in burning fone of her hands severely. Meantime Levy ‘had sent in an alarm a Fire Insurance Patrol No. 5, from st One Hundred and Twenty-first treet, was the first of the apparatus arrive. Policemen Schumm ana} Beactioase, of the West One Hundrea | Twenty-fifth street police station, jerrived at the same time. The flames then shooting from the Levy ment windows and it looked as it @ blaze would be a big one. Stackhouse ran up Into No. 311 ana Mmroused the tenants, Schumm went into fehe flat next door, at No, 309, ana j&woke the tenants there. Insurance Patrolmen Michael Whalen and Frank tepatiick ran into No. 309 with tire tinguishers, but- the moment they pened the door of the Levy apart- tt a wave of flame passed over m, scorching thelr faces and singe- thelr hair, They were forced to tire to the roof. Schumm was Stack- 1 who had come down into No. ‘from the roof, also were caught the trap, but they walted to see tr feveryone was off the top floor before f@oing back to the roof. The engines which arrived soon after- ‘ward extinguished the blaze with little rouble. The Levy apartments were jwutted and they Inst all they had. ‘The LITTL E JESELLA MENSNALY, CHILD OF SEVEN, A HEROINE. MISSING WIFE SAYS SHE LOVES ANOTHER |Started Away on Visit to a Cousin and Writes Back that She Has Concluded to Extend Her Journey. OSSINING, N. Y., Feb, 5.—Walter W. Law's large private estate, Briarcliff the !Farms, has a sensation which Is exclusive topic in the gossip that has been buzzing all through this section of extensive suburban estates, Snow covers the golf links of the Mount Pleasant Field Club and Briar- cliff Lodge has a dearth of winter Kuests, but the disappearance of Mrs. Julia Coddington, of Briarcliff , Manor, and Frederick Weaver, wio was for short time an employee of her father- in-law, ‘the general superintendent of the Law estate, has furnished midwin- | ter talk for a week now & Briarcliff Farms covers some seven thousand acres and the estate is four |mfles from north to south and extends |three miles back from the Hudson | River to the beautiful Poeantico Val- }ley. From an eminence the manor house and Briarclif! Lodge overlook the Hudson River and. the private grounds of Mrs, Elliott F. Shepard, Mrs, H. Walter Webb, James Speyer, William M. Kingsland, Gen, Edwin A. Mcalpin and many others, It is about the household. of Albert K. Codding- ton’s eldest son that the story re- volves, Albert K, Coddington, jr., whom every one in this section knows as “Bert married four pars ago Julia, the beau- ful daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Washburne, of Pleasantville, connect- “damage to the buliding was about $2,000. TT fl PERIL IN BURNING AUTO. | {Women on Way to Theatre Have. ‘ Marrew, Escape. Mrs. F. S. Hastings, of No. 15\West| Fiftieth street, and two women friends | / had a narrow escape from being burned | 4n sh automobile which caught fire at heepepeuren street and Sixth ayenue. | ibe party were o way to the | Belasco Theatre when the automobile | i@aught fire, n Griffith, of the | ‘Bast Fifty-first t Statidn, was Metartled by secing the automobile MAS, ane h 1 ly, nge’s dl Hastins advocate it to my lady friends in need of medical help." — ,od with one of the oldest and most prominent families of Westchester County, She was only nineteen, ana had been a great social favorite. The youug couple went ‘to live In a modern cottage on the Law estate, and Mr, Coddington plunged into hard wo as his father’s assistant in the manis ment of Briarcliff, which has as many as 500 employees in the busy season and includes one of the largest and | finest dairies in America. f: A baby son was born to them, ‘and so far as the world knew, thelr married Ufe was of the hipplest. There were rnation when, on ‘s. Coddington left home, days later by -se hus- bafd, who sold all his belongings, dis- Nashville, Tenn, Marvellous cures are reported from.all parts of the countr have recognized the virtue in Lydia E. Pinkham to be frank and open, hund: cases of female ills, as they know by e d with painfu and restoring health and yigor. Women who are troubl tion of the uterua, o jinto the louse to $5000 The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not because it is a stimulant,— not because tive, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and reconstruetor ever discovered to act directly upon the uterine system, positively CURING disease mantled his house and announced that he would never return to Briarcliff to lve. On the same train with Mrs, Cod- dington went Frederick Weaver, whose attentions to the pretty young wife had been marked. The husband drove his wife to the ation at Ossining and believed her departure was’ for tie purpose of a short visit to her cousin in Newburg. He saw Weaver on the train, but thought nothing more of it until Mon- day, when his mother received a letter | #toop to oll the machines. His tieara from her daughter-in-law supported the family and it was needec “E have decided to go further than | badly. = oe Newburg,” the letter ran, ‘I have| “I can doit, papa,” said Jesella, “If found a man whom I loye more than Bert, and I am going to be happy at last. I shall never return excey claim my child, Tell Bert good by. Mr. Coddington, so his father said yesterday, was so unnerved by his wife's desertion that he declared he would make no effort to bring her back, but would go out Into the world any try to begin life anew. FLED FROM FLAMES WN NIGHTCLOTHES Twenty Inmates of Fashionable|« Boarding-House Routed Out of Their Slumber by Blaze] That Was Soon Extinguished. |: A fire in the fashionable boarding- house at No. 131 East Thirtieth street ent fourteen men and six. women fi to the street Jn thelr night clothes early to-day. The fire was discovered by the night watchman of a new building which 1s being erecfed near the house. He saw smoke coming from the basement and notified Policeman Aliso: ‘The building is a four-story and base- ment brownstone and is leased by Mrs. C. A. Walsh, The only person awake in the house at the time the fire started was Dr, Ford, who occupies the parlor floor. He rushed through the house arousing the other guests. Policeman Allison assisted him. and together they got the twenty boarders to the street. One woman, who ran in her night clothes, no sooner reached the street than she turned and ran back get some valuables she had left in her room. Allison ran after her and dragged her out aguin, By the time the fire nugh the woodwork of the kitcben to the floor above. The back of the kitchen range. ‘The to about $1,009), dam- age amounted department | hed the spot the flames had burned | fire started | T-YEAR-OLO GIRL DID A MAN'S WORK: Performed Duties of Her Father Who Was fl, to Prevent Him: from Losing His Much-Needed! Situation, ek, Ses i} THEN TENDED SICK MOTHER. When Finally Left Alone Telephoned Brother in Hoboken, and Now Some of Her Heavy Duties Have Been Taken from Her. “Privation and poverty have pro- duced and developed more heroes and | keroines than all the wars and dan- |gers of the world combined,” writes great philosupher, and little seven- year-old Jesella Mensnaly is a living +| proof of his statement | The Mensnaly family 46 East One Hundred and Ef{hteenth street, Jesella, although the baby of the family, for three weeks has prac- tcally carried the cares of the house- hold on her young shoulders, Al- though pretty, her face shows the pr mature lines of age, which come fr quently to the children of the very poor, and there is a shrewd look in| hor eyes that belongs by right to fur | later years. Her father, Rudolph, was a machine oiler in a nearby factory. He fell {ll with rheumatism of the heart three | weeks ago, and feared that he would lose his position because he could not | lives at No, you'll just come with me and show me tyhere to put the off, ‘The pain in can and do It, You won't have to stoop, papa, Just tell me.” With his brave little helper the father walked to the factory and showed her where to put&he all, The pain in} his heart was frightful, but he never { had to stoop once, Little Jenella did the work and tended the machines «us he told her. For three wee’ + she kept this up. doing a man’s work jike a little ‘Trojan, : eather finally became worse and was taken to Bellevue. Of course, I wast out of the question for the i fory to employ a lttie gitl as oler, even though she could do the wor The job was lost, On Monday ¢ r died. ; fone, news of his death wae suc he k to the mother that she, too. be-| Her, mind. became unt on Wednesday she too W wa ue. =n left at home al Little Jeselin was left a ig) .all one. he first two days 0} alone; For. tly wo ny 8) Of J her mother as rould. ale was left al ‘Aightened up the house sean 40 100k for the address ‘Mt her brother, John, who worked some- eee ie Hoboken. She couldn't find the address anywhere in the house, but, that never daunted her. Hl corner drug store the ae through the telephone book | Siti she found the nome of his em- nen she telephoned him. nd ther and searched plover, Pia Stent nn came home in w hurry: a melee iz message ina childish treblé he "phone: jo“irather {8 dead and mother ts sick all alone.” ane gether John and Jesella went to Yellewue, and finally were allowed to take the mother, who was on the road to recovery. home. rocday Hitle Jesella is doing the hakework and ‘helping to nurse the tet Tesella is only seven, "Most near eight,” as she says h elf. THREE MISHAPS ON BLUCHER \satlor Drowned, Man Broke Lee and Boy Injured, One seaman was washed overboard | during the rough and tempestuous voyage of the steamer Blucher, which arrived to-day: another fell and broke his leg, and a boy was injured ‘The steamer encountered w succes- sion of high westerly gales and very E. T. Phillips, Deputy Coroner, Winnebago. from Menasha, Win., writes “I have been troubled with a very serious case of catarrh of the head and throat for a number of years, and I |trled many prescriptions from good physicians, but inthe end I found my- the advice of a friend who had used Peruna with good results I purchased a hottie, and the effects from that one bottle were so en- couraging that Icontinued its nse, aud Co., self no better. Tehink I “1 can, recommend it, and “am a firm believer in the power of Peruna to effectually cure catarrh She went to] £. 7. Phillips. GREAT many remedies to temp fly relieve catarrh from time to time, snuffs, creams and other local a. but, as a rule. the medical profession has little or no enthusiasm in the treatment of A catarrh. It 1s generally pronounced by them to be incurable. It therefore created a great sensation tn circles nounced that tie had devised # compound which would cure catarrh permanentiy, The remedy was named Peruna and in a short time became known to thousands of eatarrh sufferers medical west. ‘vHE-WORLD: FRIDAY ¥VENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1904. > . After All Other Remedies Failed Pe-ru-na Deputy Coroner of Winnebago County On jed about si the) which Tam glad to say cured me com- | pletely: of this troublesome disease. | therefore, when 1 north, Latters testifying to the fact that Peruna | ts a radical cure for catarrh began to pour 1} directions. tmilar to the follaw- Suffered With Catarrh of the Head and in all its Saved Coroner Phillips’ Life Throat for a Number of Years— Pe-ru-na Cured Him. » Wisconsin. ire mre on file In the office of the Peruna Medicine Company. | Rey. E. Stubenvoll, Pella, Wis. writes: | ‘I feel obliged to extend vou my personal | thanks for my complete restoration, All through the winter I suffered with throat and lunk trouble, .but recovered my entire health by the use of your excellent remedy. | Peruna. Rev, E. Stubenvoll, | The following letter from a prominent| kentieman of Los Angeles, is a case in point: Mr J. Wo Fuller, President of Jewellers’ Association, of Los Angeles, Cal., hay been in the business in that city for | seventeen yonrs out of the forty-five that he has been engaged {n business, Concerning | his experience with Peruna he says “Twas troubled with catarrh of the head ror many ye: It affected gny sonse of smell, hearing and aight. I Spent iota of | money with doctors and the use of local ap- plications to reliave me, but to no purpose, until my attention was called to the won- derful eftects of Peruna i “I must ay that 1 met with most sur- prising aud Satisfactory rosults, Peruna milaint and drove it st of my svster, h Weil nlong toward the allotted span of man's life T am pleased as a child over the resuits and feel like a young man | again,” Falter | ‘Such lotters ‘as the above are not used for publication except by the written per- mission of the yriter. ‘A pamphlet filled, with such letters will be sent to nay address free. This. book should be who doubt the | the ix bottles in all, 1 conscientiously forms."?— been de h oan sprays. Hartman curabllity of catarrb east and satli south, If you do not © prompt and 6 0! Vv factory ts from th write a full ata pleased gratis mi: o rive you his Dr, Hartman. P. restdent of The! Eaniterinm. 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Prvxwam: —I wish to sme to acknowledge the great express my gratitude for the restored pound.| health and happiness Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound has struation,| brought into my life. “Thad suffered for three years with 1 terrible pains at the timo of menstrua- tion, and did not know what the trouble was until. the doctor pro- nounced {t inflammation of the Lydia E./ ovaries, and proposed an operation. “T felt so weak and sick that I felt sure that I could not survive the or- eal, and so T told him that I would The following week I ead an advertisement in the paper of your Vegetable Compound. in euch mergency, and fo I decided to try ( my joy to tind that I ually improved after taking two hotties, so 1 kept taking it for ten weeks, and at the end of that time I was cured. I had gained eightcen pounds and was in excellent health, and am now. "Vou surely deserve great success, and you have my very best wishes,”” 50 North Boulevard, Atianta, Ga. 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Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound in severe Xp 1 or irregular menstruation, backache, bloating (or flatulence), leucorrhoea, falling, inflammation or ulcera- rian troubles, that “ bearing-down ” feeling, di i take immediate action to ward off the serious consequences, and be restored to per’ Vegetable Compound, and then write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., fc benefit of.a wider experience in treating female ills. u to health. Every.suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice. ion or the blues, should aN a Miss Atier Barner, 3a pallia- f physicians dared BROADWAY, 33D TO $4TH'STREET Beginning To-Day We Present The. Final Clearance Sale of Suits and Overcoats for Men : Single and Double Breasted Sack Coat Models, of Cheviot, Tweed, Worsted, or Cassimere in mixtures, and of Cheviot, Thibet or Serge, ir black or blue. To augment the above garments we will also. offer several hundred light and medium weigh: suits for Spring wear. Formerly up to $20.00, At $11.00 is OVE Belted Tourist and Box Models of va- rious high grade fabrics. Of the Tourist Coats we have all sizes. Box Models are for the most part from 38 to 48. At $13.00 : For Friday and Saturday We Present A Clearance Sale of Shirts for Men At Prices Extremely Reduced. Of Madras, in neat wovenor printed designs, attached or detached cuffs. Formerly $1.00 to $1.50. At 65¢ in neat designs or few attached, At 85 Of Imported Madras or Cheviot, i stripes, mostly detached cuffs, a Formerly $1.50 to $2.00. Ss Of the very finest Imported Madras, mostly dark effects, attached cuffs. Formerly $2.50to$3. At $1. White Plaited For Tuxedo wear, twenty-six plaits on each side, pure linen bosom, cuffs attached. Formerly $2.50. At $5.45 _ FINAL CLEARANCE SALE OF Suits and Overcoats for Boys At Extremely Reduced Prices. Boys’ Russian Oxercoats of frieze, kersey or cheviot,’sizes 244 to 6 years. Boys’ Reefers, of dark gray frieze, or blue Formerly chinchilla, sizes 3 to 5 years. $4.50 to Boys’ Double Breasted and Norfolk Suits 56.50. of mixed cheviot, sizes 8 to I€ years. At Boys’ Sailor Suits of colored serge or cheviot, in red, blue, brown or royal, sizes | 3 to 8 years. Boys’ Double Breasted Suifs of Scotch tweed, im- ported cheviat, cassimere or worsted, sizes 8 to 16. Formerly $8.50 to $12.00. At $5.75 $2.95 Boys’ Vest Suits, three garments, of blue ] Formerly serge, or fancy cheviot, in plaids or mix- $6.50 to tures, sizes 10 to 16 years. $9.00. ‘s' Chesterfield Qvercoats of dark olive or brown cheviot, herringbone weave, ner- | At fectly tailored, sizes 8 to 16 years. | $4.85 Boys’ Knee Trousers of heavy or medium weight cheviot or cassimere in plaids, checks or mixtures, sizes 4 to 16 years. Formerly 95c. and $1.25. At S3c Shirts and Blouses for Boys. For Friday and Saturday. Plaited Besom Shirts of woven or printed Madras, or Percale in figures, or stripes, coat or open-front effect, attached or de~ tached cuffs. Formerly $2.25. Ar 98: “Mother's Friend’ Waists Of fine Percale, or printed Madras, Byron collar, at- tached cuffs; sizes 7 to 13. Formerly 95c. At 48¢ Unlined Waists Of Flannel in dark blue; neck band; sizes 7 to U1. Formerly $1.25. \ At 48c Unlined Blouses Of Flannel im blue, with neck band or Byron collar of the same material; sizes Zto 14. Formerly 95c. At 48c Of Domet Flannel, light and dark colors; sizes 4 to 10. Formerly 50c. At 32¢ High Grade Shoes for Women y. and Saturday. Th Our sale has tapered to about four hundred pairs” of shoes, slippers and ties. what broken, the narrow widths predominating.’ If you are fortunate enough to find your size, the saving will warrant the trouble. Formerly $5.00 At $2.45 Shoes, Slippers and Ties. Formerly $3.00 to $5.00. Formerly $15.00, $18.00, $20.00 and $25.00, ie day and Saturday We Present the The sizes are some 3 M v s al