The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1904, Page 3

" | | } ( 4 + THE DEADLY WAR THAT IS ON IN THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1904. DHPOOOOHOS PPPOOD NS rbborrrrrereee \ ‘ PEP LSPS SS N view of the fact tha st Russia and Japan. th member, this ix OUR war, The War of the Straphangers is 1 Tespondents ure in the field. Of pecial war correspondents! NSE HORSANWAGON, the PERCIVAL PUNK, COL, JOHN SMITH, U. 8 “How th COMMODORE O' KELLY’ SCHMIDT, Thibet."' E. BASBIN Daily Sui HENRY W. All of these gifted war corresnondents w others write about the Russin When we started our co with Instructions to report as soon as Incredibly short space of time we rece Hamsburg, penned by the fair nand of war correspondent: BY HORTENSE WILLIAMSBURG, 141,278).—Gracious! Blege of Paderewski apanes near the New at Carnegie Hall the Boy Wonder, author of ‘espondeats out we I have done the shopping war THe REAR - * sanguinary confilet, snly female war correspondent. & A. (United States Of America), author ¢ Utes Knocked the P! Out of the Piutes,* , author of “The History of the Navy of lebrated stage carpenter. write accounts of OUR war. Here is a war right at home. gave cach of them carfare there was anything doing. In an almost {ved the following eablegram from Wil Hortense Horsanwagon, ie only femaie Let e War! HORSAN WAGON. Bridge. Feb. 16,,(By Bridge Cable in Twenty-third street, numerous social the engagements in i and ATTACKING THE ENEMY FRom FIRST ENGAGEMENT AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE POPCORN TEMIDD Bibs ENGAGEMENT AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE TERMINAL DOP YDGHE OODLE DOPDDOPWDDDE LODHI OVHGH4 HOS «ly appears to have settled the war between) Fifth avenue, but I never saw anything to exceed In. bitterness the awful c: vening World has discovered another war, Re-, flict of the straphanger We may get reckless and have it copyrighted. Our special cor- ‘They will cover everything. Look at the st of the latter place were getting up with the sun and the nuise of sewing ma. CPE DIEED DOS Pursuant to your instructia cemetery section of Brooklyn by way of chines was almost deafening. Otherwise all was peaceful. |men and conductors on haunted expression, cnrs Soon the streets were Aled with hurr: Many of them curried ler bags, canes und Skirmish With a Transfer ‘The frat skirmisi from thelr faves. | suit cues, black le: TON BOLINGBROKE, the veteran correspondent of the Iceland’ I suw was on a co! ing. “kno! ed the transfer Far down another street I nearer I could see the leg the detachment that had just ¢ track. ‘the car was already crowded. from the windows to make more room. the trying to get to work { made a flank m Now and then a trolley car sped by The Love Letters of a Shesp! there | heard the clamor of an alarm clock. bearing the lew nd a’ score uf ‘people leaped from It with loud cries. agent down and tere most of his clothes off in endeavoring to wrest the Colored sllps’ of paper from his hands. yuld see 4 “Brooklyn quered the transte Passengers on the inside were séraping the front kes than the crowd on the crossing charged, They climbed over the front platform rail_and wormed thelr way into the] NEW YORK EACH DAY: | TO-DAY’S TERRIFIC BATTLE OF THE BROOKLYN TROLLEY CARS VEL ESO EHR SHED ment, coming into the Brownsville. The natives Flatlands an Here and I noticed that the faces of the motor- “Brooklyn Bridge” moi ving throngs of peopte wiping breakfast weapons in the shape of bundles, books, umbrellas, Man. * rher where a transfer agent was stand- They another ear Bridge. pproaching. As ft came With white, set, faces, nt Hned up along the} No sooner had the motorman put on} digging into loose xoil, In thfee minutes | second this fre wome teachers disc had happened and got all « in the building out withou GET AVACATON Little Lewis Lucius Confesses * and Says that Is the Reason He Tried to Burn the Building in Amsterdam Avenue. ‘The origin of a mysterious fire which steurred in Public School No. 74, at Amsterdam and Sixty-eiehth last Wednesday after 400 pupils were still in the ciass rooms was disclosed for the first time this af- ternoon “when Lewis Tatclus, an elevn year-old boy living at Sixty-fourth street, was a Police of the West Sixty: station, on a charge of arson, It charged that this small boy deitberately wet fire to the school because he been detained half an hour after regular time of dismissal. When arrested he confessed that he set the fire, and excused himself by vaying that a big boy, whose name ae does not know, ‘told him that to aurn the school building down would d¢ a fine way to provide a long vaca- Uon for the entire school. It was only by the-hardest kind of a fight that the fire was extinguished after it was dis- covered last Wednesday afternoon, and because of this it has been decided by the school authorities to press the charge against the prisoner despite his avenue stree! pon while Teacher Kept Him In, Lucius is a pupil in the atxth grade, ind his teacher is a Miss Hand. Last Wednesday afternoon Lucius brought his report. in in a confused condition, and oecause of this was ordered to re- main after school, At the same time Peter Doyle, a nine-year-old boy, who lives at No, 92 West Sixty-seventh street and is a pupil in the eighth grade, was kept after school hy his teacher, Mias l.ynch, for a similar offense. Children detained after hours are left sitting alone in the classrooms while the teachers get together in one room and gossip, So young Lucius was left in’ Room 2, while Doyle was in a nearby room. These. fellows in mis- fortune decided to get together and while dway the period of their dis- oipline. At 3.9 o'clock, about had been fold they the time they uld go home, the ae cet aac) 2, nto the ro and found the teacher's desk and chalt ane Ene: Platform on which they stood laze, A basket full of aiso been ignited, and the faines were spreading rapidly. | Knowing that there were sti pupils in the school the man fought the fire without summon- ing help. He was afraid of alarming the puplis, | He ually {PUL the fire out vernica! t Tor that PUIpON ee ee Ve room Wardrobe Also on Fire. Just as he was jeaving the \ room ea Durst from a wardrobe In hrowlag ope the mi is Ward per and ‘ it ont thin as fighting rea wont hardest kind of work to blaze. While he ing what was going on. the two fires were so palpably incen- | diary that a cid investigation was nude by Principal John D. Robinson |r ebikt who was kept after school | that afternoon and was anywhere near room No. 2) wax questioned, and finally the litle Doyle boy was reached He broke down and admitted that Tai- clus started the fire, He said that Lu- clus told him that a fire would give them ali a vacation, and {t would be a good way 10 get even for being kept latter school It was then decided to arrest the | Tacius boy, and he was taken in custody at the school late this. after- noon “T did it,” Ne said to Principal Robin- son, “but I didn't mean to hurt no one. A big boy told me it would be a good way to close the school and so I piled up the paper and set it on fire.” | Lucius was turned over to the Chil- ‘dren's Socie! d to-morrow morning will be arraigned in’ the Children’s Court: —————[———— NO VIOLENCE, HE SAYS. ir, Benjamin Defends Conduct of Hin Men in Making Evictio Josepn Benjamin, of the New York Honsewrecking Company, said this af- ternoon that the report that his men had used harsh and rigorous methods In evicting tenants from the houses which will be torn down for the site of fe Sixty-ninth Regiment, Armory, on Lexington nue and ‘Twenty-alxth street, to-day were entirely unfounded. Benjamin said that he had per- 1 charg of the men and saw that treated every tenant. who had fullet to obev the thirty-day disposseas. notices which had been served. upon them with gentleness and consideration. Mr. Benjamin sald that no attack had heer made upon Mrs, Stell: and thot she had been all her howise at the: southwe Lexington avenue and atreet without molestation. ee (CAPT. CHAPMAN ASKS 10 GET BACK Policeman with Famous Whis- kers, Who Raided Seeley Din- ner, Says His Retirement from the Force Was a Mistake. j they Former Police Captain Chapman, who sought and secured retirement a year azo, when the alr was full of rumors of police heads that were to fall when the then Commissioner Greene swung his axe, now wants to get back on the force. To-day through his lawyer, Louis J. Grant, he served pupera on Commixsioner McAdoo asking for a reconsideration of application: for retirement. If his application for ac- live service is not granted he expects to Ko to the eo In his application to-day Chapman says that when he asked to be retired last year he was suffering under a severe nervous strain, He owas sick and in a measure not capabt sidering his best inter the same time the newspapers were full of stories that certain police ptalna were to be forced out of the depart- ment on charges, and fearing that he might ba one of these hecretired, In his fervour condition, he aa the ate made nat Ho throng on the rear platform like worms EOS LIFE WITH AION A HOTEL Man Who Registered at the) Broadway Central as “E£.! Baum, Baltimore, Md.,” Drinks Bottle of Poison. A man who registered at the Broad- way Central Hotel early today as Baum, Baltimore, Md.,"" committed sul- cide by taking a dose of carbolic acid within an hour of being assigned to room. ‘The man had no baggage wil him when he entered the hotel at o'clock, He was a man about fort years old, well dress i tall and weighed § After he had registe man stood tn front of the desk for several seconds mutterin “Baltimore! Balti- more!” to himself, He then went to his room on the third floor. An hour jlater a porter passing the hall noticed the amell of carbolic acid 9 enter the room, ‘The stranger was iying dead on the bed. He was fully dressed and had on a pair of glasses. On the bed beside him was a hottle which had ap- parently contained about two ounces of carbolic acid. ‘The man had taken it all, pocket another bottle of json was found. It had not been Jovened, ‘The man left no letters and | jnothing was found in his pockets by | Which he could be identified. On the ning of his coat the initials “EK. B, were embroidered and from this the police conclude he registered under his right name, ‘The police of Baltimore have been asked to help identify the man. KILLED AT BLAZE ON BICYCLE TRACK Fireman Caught Under Falling Grand Stand and Crushed to Death, While Others Had Narrow Escapes. h 39 NEWARK. N. J., Feb, 16.—Henry Young, @ fireman, was killed and sev- eral others had narrow escapes during a blaze which destroyed the grand stand and about one-third of the board course of the Vailsburg bloycle track to-day, “The firemen were under one end of the grand stand pouring a stream on the blazing board track, when the stand suddenly collapred. All except Young escaped safely, but he was caught un- der heavy falling timbers and crushed to death. The wind fanned the flames and the fire spread so quickly that the grand stand was soon a mass of ruins, It was only by hard fighting that part of the board track was saved. The Vailsburg track ts owned by the New ‘Jersey, Amusement Company, ia-estimated af #10,000. ¢44 Araman” killed was @ member of loss mw ¢ at = SUMMERFIELD IN NOS, SPs Sot i ‘THE REGULARS IN PURSUIT or GEN, BET. 'TRANSFERAGENT * OT FLATBUSH FEB.I3U 1904 HEE DDOY eeeee the Impovsible had been accomplished. had taken as A car already loaded to its full capacity yre more passengers on board and was on its way to the Brooklyn Bridge While I busily engaged myself in picking up hairpins, buttons, pleces of cloth and other relies from the field of by the transfer mun, who hud re- freuhed himself at» neighboring place of refreshment, took his atand again. Along came another car and off swarmed uv company of paxsengers more deter- mined and savage than those who had gone before. Woman Chases a Car. ‘The struggle tor places on the next car was repeated. One woman was knocked down in the icy street, but she got up and chased after the ear, while the men hanging to the rear platform by their eyebrows yelled encouragement. | Although naturally opposed to profauliy, 1 felt relleved when the transfer man expressed his feclings, From thix point I visited many others and found the scenes of battle re- peated, Everywhere the cars were crowded to the muzzle, so to speak, and everywhere more people were loaded In, At last I determined that I would take netive part in the hostilities Tiravelled far to the outskirts of the battlefield and boarded a car that had a! Before we had gone five blocks a man was standing nd of © dog-skin stole under my nose aud every time I took a full be » sides of the car bulged out. ‘The cons ductor yelled from the back platform that somebody would have to quit breath- ing or there would be an aceldent . / Gradually, by means of improved tactics, taught to the Brooklyn car con- Mtuctora, Lam told, by the man who Invented compressed air, the car was so! full that 1 was forced out the front door and squeezed off the platform. By the contemptuous laughter of the fighters who remained on board L became! aware that they had sized me up for a person not familiar with their methods of warfare. It was only too plain that I was a non-combatant, By this time the scene was frightful. Car after car groaned by, sengers gritting their teeth and bearing thelr agony like Spartans, Finally 1 succeeded in boarding a car marked “Broadway Ferry,” and by fastening my belt around the brake handle I hung on unul the reet of the crowd got off. Taking up a position in a place removed from the roar of battle, 1 watched the hordes who were charging the ferry-boats for New York. Signs of Battle All Around. on im . a wo the par- JAIL ONCE MORE The Versatile “Larry” Is Ar-) rested in Wall Street and, Charged with an Attempt to! Swindle Texas Insurance Man Detective-Sergeant McConville :was standing in front of N this afternoon when wore a fur-finad Summerfield with a overcoat and a sombrero. man who and McConville arrested him. 4 i The man in the sombrero was] ie ° | shocked speechless for a minute and when McConville expiained to him who Summerfield wae he made a grab for the inside pocket of his fur-lined over- coat, Drawing forth «a large roll of bills he gazed upon it like a ship- wrecked sallor gazing upon a Iife- preserver. ‘here was $4,000 in the roll, and he was just about to turn it over to Summerfield, \ At the Criminal Courts Bultding the stranger in the sombrero described himself as Willlam B. Tuther, an i surance man, from Dallas, Tex. He said he was in Boston on business and raw an advertisement offering a chance to double an investment He answered the advertisement, ad- dressing his reply to “H. B, Morton,” of No, 238 East Fifty-frst street. A man representing himself as Morton appeared in Boston the next day and outlined the investment. Morton" had stock for sale in the ‘Cripple Creek Gold Temple Mining Compan: which he described as a dividend-paying concern, He advised Luther to wire to A. A, Hayden, treas- urer of the Philadelphia Consolidated ixchange and ask about the stock Luther wired and the answer came that the stock was O, K, ‘Then Luther came to New York and Was introduced to other men, among them Summerfield. He was on his way to give up ix money this afternoon when the agile Larry was arzected. After hearing Luther's story Assistant District-Attorney Train formulated a charge against Summerfeld, accusing him of attempting to swindle the ‘Texun oat of $4,900, MOLINEUX AGAIN LOSES. Court of Appeals Decides Against Retura of Prison Recor: ALBANY, Feb. 16.—The Court of Ap- peals to-day affirmed the decision of the courts below in refusing to order the Superintendent of State Prisons to re- turn to Roland B. Molineux the photo- srmphs and Bertilion records of hin person made in connection with his im- prisonment under conriction of the murder by matied polson of Mrs. Kate Adams in New York . 48 Wall street along came | “Larry: Summerfield, chatéing affably | of the men had four-cornered faces, Continuces skirmishes like those experienced by the straphangers who travel by trolley makes four-cornered faces by the process of evojution, I am told that All bore traces of the batt Many WOMAN FALLS FVE STORIES a Aged Mrs. M Harriet veurs old. of No Debrevett street, vnumit daughter-tn-law involved. are included. Harriet Debreueil , Discovered by Her Daughter- | in-Law Lying Dead at Bottom of Airshaft Under Window. 7 West One Hu was by falling five stories 1 mite Mrs. # 0 Hives with her, ix Saks & Company BROADWAY, 33D TO 34TH STREBT. For Wednesday, February 17, We Announce” AN IMPORTANT SALE QF... Leather Hand Bags. Regular prices $5 to $9. Five hundred bags of the highest grade are, They came to us from a manuface: turer with an enviable reputation. models of Carriage and Automobile Bags of” walrus, seal, sea lion and polar bear leatherin™ blue, green, red, tan, brown, gray, plum: or « black, in a most impressive variety of styles, The frames are of German silver, gun metal, gilt or leather covered. Not” a few are fitted with card case, purse, vinaig- rette and memoranda book. so Worth of S, & H. Green Trading Stam ps Given Pree for the outside Wrapper and Label taken from a 20, bottle of her, missed her mother-inclaw at 7 Jock this morning and finding the window of the alrshaft open, looked down it and saw the old indy lying at the bot- nm She was attired only in her might= dress. With the janitor, James No Me- Garrick, she went into the cellar ahd arried Mrs, Debreucil out. A doctor who % « simmoned said that the wom mer, $ ble with her eye nen han been gradually CT The police nd in these things ground for the belief that Mrs, Debreuelf killed here Young. Mrs, Debrovell, however, saya that the woman was cheerfal in aplte “was a stif- ferer id the young went to the aire nigiit to cet a breath cldentally fell. ———___ COLD KILLS TWO MEN. eb! 16, —"Thermo- \ to 10 degrees Pittabure toe 3) degrees below found frozen to and another at shatt duciog 0) of fresh alr and At $2.95 ‘ The new” HOLBROOKS SAUCE e are € yorm the car lines rune whi law u lively series of fights, there are even worse on ne to Brooklyn Br from the Greenwood and Prospect Park section. If you ning to Brooklyn Bridge k want that covered you will have to send @ boifermaker and an automobile, (Our next despateh will be from Commodore O'Kelly Schmidt and will de- seribe the Commuters Assault on the Ferry-Boat (the only imported Worcestershire) When presented at any of the Stores owned or operated in any part of the U.S. CAL CASES. ‘ire Commissioner Hayes has orderet | all the truck compantes to be equippol with surgical cases, This is the mate- rlalization of one of the suggested ideas of Chief Croker. Dr. ¥. P. Romadell, the Medteal In- spector of the department, hax drawn up a design for the surgical pucket and has made out a list of the materials which it will contain, ‘There will be bandages, lodoform, otlier disinfectants readily applied to wounds, salves spe- cially used in the dressing of burns and all such articles usefut tn the time of aceldent Chief Croker impressed the Commi toner with the immediate need of such provision on the part of the Fire De- partment. He recited a number of inci~ dents which called for tmmediste help. ‘The firemen will be trained to the scien- Ulfic use of such medicines and material x are contained in the cases. FOUND AT 70. The Power oi Food, An Illinols lady who never knew what health was until she reached her 70th year presents an unusually convincing case of the power of proper foad. She says: “Tam 74 years old this fall and I never had good health that I can re- member since I was a child until T commenced to vse Grape-Nuts four years ago. “From the very first I could feel a vast improvement, and now In four years I have gained so that I do all my own work, and feel I cannot say too much in favor of Grape-Nuts and what this grand food has done for me as old as [ am. “] have recommended Grape-Nuts to several and they all have been benefited by it.” Name given by Pos- tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 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