The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1904, Page 10

DRIES OUT Fumes from Leak Fill Tenement and Police Arouse Inmates by Beating in Doors with Night- sticks. Ny THREE LITTLE CHILDREN TAKEN OUT UNCONSCIOUS. Women Clad Only in Night- clothes Shiver in Rain—Gas Company’s Men Seek Leak— Fireman Refuses Information. Three children were made uncon- scious and sixteen families were driven into the streets by poisonous gas froin the tenement at No. 292 Cherry street to- Gay. That many persons were not killed wan due to the activity of the police. John Ettinger, who keeps a candy store in the front of the ground floor of the bullding, was awakened about 5 v’clock this morning by the smell of gas. He found hix apartments, which are‘in the rear of the store, stifling, and his daughter, Sadie, a child of one yeur, unconscious. , He carried the child to the street and ran back for his wife. Bhe, too, was half stupefied, but man- aged to get to the sidewalk, where she gat down in her night clothes, the rain eating down on her and her child. Ettinger then went to the apart- ments of Morris Cohen, who lives with his wife and five children in the apart- ments opposite his, With difficulty he poh tto the Cohen apartments. He found them filled with gas, The father and mother and three of the children were then sinking into insensibility. Two of the children, Morris, aged nine, and Hattie, aged seven, were un- conscious. Ettinger got the family to the street and then began to cull for the police. ‘There were fourteen other families in the house, and gas was filling the hallways and all the apart- ments. é _ Police Arouse Tenants. ‘Policeman Moran, of the Madison street station, and two other police- men responded. With their nightsticks they ran through the house, beating ‘fm the doors and calling loudly for the people in the apartments to run to the streets, Many of the people Were too stupid to realize their danger, and others could hardly be got awake ©0 affected had they become by Others awakened with fright Be cert om er ere eo c a ic which was . | Who’ could ‘realize the danger. In the run to the street tho: ho we Blehioned ran past men and wome: Who were staggering from weakness wad sem!-consciousness. ‘When the policemen saw that there Was no one left in the choking Med house they began a search for Hota “not be found” a8 colamunicated with and ‘a gan | Cmorkmen was sent. seems to be the trouble?" the ry Me Evening World." “Porter for 8 this any affair of yours?” the fore- ri it pan usked. can m me. This ha: mete of the public *° mown that the met Spund..to, be in working order. Tt is some of the pipes a et nothing no busi- iy of gas that is being furnished, at Jt quickly poiso: oraons Who breathed much. or tte agit! ‘The persons who were driv: atreets by the leaks nuftered greatly in the cold rain. Many of them tniked about civil damages that would be ‘ked, claiming that the r =| pany ia eed responsible tor the MAAK lsonous quality ey ate compelled co en eee Ge e three children were treat physicians. They will recover" >Y AVOIDING BOY'S Kis, GIRL BREMGS LE _. Ejiight-Year-Old Child at Her ‘. Birthday Party Struggles to ‘Escape Admirer’s Caresses * and Was Thrown to the Floor, Her eighth birthday proved a m anhappy one for pretty Louise Fens bush, of No. 118 Thatford avenue, East New York. While endeavoring to ea- ape. from a youthful admirer, who sought to kies her, Loulse was thrown down and her right leg fractured, The accident occurred yesterday at a _ birthday party given in the little girl's honor, She is a pupil at Public School “No. 64, In Glenmore avenue near Wat- king street, and has been so diligent * im her studies that the party was planned by Louise's parents as a re- A young gallant grasped hold Bnd tried to steg! a Kiss, There ak Slight tussle afd Louise fell heavily. Her right leg turned under her and wi taken to the Bi Street Hospital, ey Bradtory, ———— JACOB HESS 1S BURIED: Many Public Men Attend Services it Masonic Temple. _Buneral ‘services in accordance with je Mie “Masonic ritual were held to-day Peek the body of Jacob Hess, for Hepitblican leader in the Twenty-first mbly District, who died last Fri- In the main’ hall of the Masonic ‘Twenty-third street and Bixih 3 ipeevicen MAdid conducted, b: ; er, and the mei phi Lodge, FF. ys Bed STUDENT GES UE FOR FIEND Louis T. Dickinson, of Cornell, Drowns in Air Hole on Cayuga Lake, After Aiding in Rescue of His Classmate. GRASPS SINKING MAN’S HAND AND ICE GIVES WAY. Rope Is Thrown to Lads, but Fails Him—He Sinks, While His Companion Is Saved. Charles C. Dicknson, lawyer, banker, clubman and millionaire, received word that his son, Louls T, Dickinson, @ Cornell student, had given his life to save his friend, and to-day the father, his head bowed in grief, but proud that his boy should have had such a death, is awaiting news that the body of his boy has been found in Cayuga Lake. Ithaca, Young Dickinson was a senior at Cornell, Next year he was to have come to New York and gone into the practice of law, He was one of the most popular men in the university, und at one time was President of the Cornell Democratic Club, He was a member af the Phi Sigma Kappa fra- Young Dickinson’s Strength| THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 2, 1904, SOME OF THE TROUBLES CAUSED BY UNPRONOUNCEABLE NAMES FOUND IN THE WAR DESPATCHES FROM CONFLICT IN THE FAR EAST, PVGODOOED 00 40600506006400O+ $6-66-0606006000000064 08O090OOOOO0: OWL!- THAT FAR EASTERN ORTHOGRAPHY ES “a THe JELEGRAPH @O/TOR TRYIN TO GET ALINE © TWE eae) exTREE! ALi ABOUT 28 BATTLE A: YANG “T31-10W~ O2OOOOOO OSES ETOH OOOOOOD TYPEWRITER axrioneos “rA9 GOWN Ter OT £00k FAW 7 DEFIES CRITICS Former President of the Equit- ternity and of the Phi Delta and Phi Legal fraternities, He had the rare combination of student and athlete. He lost His life yesterday afternoon while skating with Ames G. Allen, of Chicago, and two other students named Van Nostrand and Ford. Allen skated toward an air hole and broke through into the water, He yelled loudly for help and Dickinson made for him to pull him out. He reached far over the hole ond grasped Allen's hand, and was pulled toward the water. All Fell Inte Wa Suddenly the ice gave way under his weight and he fell\into the water. He clung to the aides of the hole with his now hnif froxen hands and tried to make light of the predicament. Van Nostrand and Ford came to the help- less students. They, too, reached out. to tug thelr companions to safety when the ice gave way under them and they floundered in the water. The situation was desperate. No one was in aight. ‘The students began calling loudly for help. For more than half an hour they called, and then some one ¢ame. A rope was thrown to the now half frozen students, One of them grabbed it and was pulled from the water, Again it was thrown and asecond man's life was saved. The third time it was thrown, Dickinson made no effort to take hold of It and lis companion grasped it in his numo hands and was slowly drawn to the firm toe. Rope Slips from Him. Dickinaon clung to the ice coud his" fant failing. strength hold good even if he could grasp the rove in_ his stiffened palms? ‘The rope was thrown, The boy made an effort to selzc it. Then, with a smile, his Muscles ‘failed him, | ‘The rope, slippet ‘ough his grasp and he Mente He bad died, but his. friends had been saved Efforts are being mado to find the body of the brave student, but Cayuga Lakp is a solid cake of ice except where the treacherous air holes | break through the surface, It Js not thought that the boy's body can be recovered, even after the ice breaks. Students |have been drowned while skating on the lake before. and their bodies never have been recovered. Mr. Dickinson, the father, Ives at the Waldorf-Astoria with his wife and son, Charles C, Dickinson, Both father and mother are prostrated. His law offices are at No, 220 Broadway. He \s a member of the Democratic, Manhi tan, Cornell and many other New Yori clubs, and is a prominent figure in financial circles in New York. Charles Dickinson, the brother, was seen at the Waldorf-Astoria to-day. He sald: The Dean of the Uniyeralty tele- graphed us of Louis's death, I expect to go to Cornell this afternoon. Louts was twenty-three years old and before entering Cornell was private secretary to Prof. Osborne, of Columbia College. He Was an excellent athlete and a splendid scholar, His death has pros- trated both my parents. SUICIDES SEGRE TOLD A LETTE Mrs. Maria Kunzmann Wrote to Her Little Daughters, Telling Why She Ended Her Life by Taking Poison. Mrs, Maria Kungzmann, the widow of John Kunzmann, a wealthy wholesale druggist, committed suicide to-day by taking carbolic acid at her home, No. 496 West Find avenue. She left a letter to her three young daughters explain: ing her reasons for suicide, but the Jetter has not been made public. Mr. Kunamann died three years ago, Following his death Mrs, Kunzmann developed melancholia, and in addition she suffered from asthma in a evar jorm. it became necessary to keep her in charge of a nurse. This nurse, Emma Horn, left Mrs. Kungmann alone tn her room for a short time to-day. When she returned Mrs, Kunzmann was unconscious on the bed and the room was filled with the odor of carbolic acti, . Dr. Julius Stegmayer, No, 201 Weat One Hundred and Sixth street, the familly physician, was called, When he ot to the house Mrs. Kunsmann war jead. It is not known how she secured pos- sion of the acid. She had not been out of the house unaccompanied for a of » F. and A. M., wo . Hess had belonged, Many and Democratic politicians @ services, m were Justice Blanchard, gent, Edward Lauterbach, Boyle, Barney Biglin, William ‘ormer Bridge Commissioner 7 Cantor, General Ai Ajenator iitsgery, Lauls ib, Timothy J. ex-Alderman long time. Ealauieeeesenmnnmnnel MESSAGE FROM MINNETONKA Tele- Steamer Signals by Wirele: graph Off Nantucket The Atlantic Transport line steamer Minnetonka, from London for New York, is reported as having’ been in communication by graph Atht- able National, Whose Late Cashier Is in‘Tombs, Asserts that His Record Is Clean. Charles A, Nones, former President of the defunct Equitable National Bank, came to town to-day from the residence of his father-in-law, George B. Jacques, at Manasquan, N. J., to answer certain intimations which have been made against his character in connection with the arrest of Charles F, Broach, who was cashier of the bank during Nones's term as President and who is now under arrest for raising a one- share certificate of the bank stock to ninety and securing a $3,000 loan on it from the National Bank of Northport, Lb it has heon charged that Nones in- dorsed two notes, one for $15,000 and one for $10,000, which Broacn made and secured money on, and this was the only capital that the two young men had when they bought a controlling interest in the Equitable Bank. Directly and indirectly the bad loans made by the bank during the two months that Nones was president and Broach cashier have been attributed to Nones by members of the present di- rectorate, Among other things it was charged that last August, when Broach was cornered in his crooked transactions and made a clean breast of it all, Nones went to Manasquan and styed Nones went to Manhattan and stayed anybody know where he wi and was only found after a search by President Carl R. Schultz, who succeeded him in the bank, Mr. Nones, who is only twenty-six years old, went to the home of his father In the Lenori, at Madison ave- nuo and Sixty-third street, on his ar- rival here to-day and when seen there by an Evening World reporter said: “I shall make It warm for thé people who are attacking me," said Mr. Nones “The statement that I indorsed the two notes for $26,000 on which Broach got money from a ‘Connecticut bank is false. My name is not on those notes, and I defy Mr, Schultz or anybody to prove that it Js. There ts nothing in my connection with the Equitable Bank which is not all right. I went in fairly and squarely and I came out fairly and squarely,” Statement of Nonens's Lawyer, Later in the day Nones saw his law- yer, Alfred Lauterbach, at the Savoy Hotel. Mr, Lauterbach, In the presence of Mr. Nones said: “Five years ago Nones met Broach at Lakewood. Broach knew of Mr. Nones's scheme for getting control of the Equtable Bank and suid he could raise $25,000 toward it. He did borrow the money on notes from the National Bank of Norwich, Conn., and turned it over to Mr. Nones, who gave Broach his own notes in return, These notes haye since been made good and <here isn't anything coming to the Norwich people from Mr, Nones. “The first that Mr, Nones knew of Broach’s raising money on forged stock certificates was on Friday night last, when Hroach aent for him and told him, He said that he wanted soine help In the matter trom Nones because he had been oblized to resort to crime in order to Ket money to settle the Connecticut bank people. Mr. Nones told him that washed his hands of the entire affair. “As to the big drop in deposits in v Equitable afttr M*. Nones he: Srosident, we have only this tos Mr, Nones found that certain directo: owed the bank monew ami tnat cand R, Behultz owed 1t $13,000. He called all of these loans at once, Ax he called each one a dozen of that man's friends who were deposit ora withdrew thee counts, When he called the loan held by Mr. Schultz, Mrs, Schultz, Schultz, sr, and the Schulte Mineral Weter} Company all withdrew thelr accounts, That's why the deposits shrunk.” When Carl R, Scaultz took charge of the Equitable Bank he found a lot of worthless paper- there, This accumula- “tion he blamed on Nones and Broach. The’ bank |was unable ‘to carry the weight and asked the Comptroller of the Curerncy to close Its affairs, This was done and a receiver now has charge. Since the arrest of Broach on Saturday and his commitment to the Tombs in $5,000 bail revelations of his crimes and of the way in which the Raultable Bank was run while he was cashlor and Nones President haye fol- foved thick ané@ fast on one onother. President Schults'’s Charges. President Schultz said to-day that Nones and Broach got hold of the bank without the expenditure of a cent of mone id, hoped to use it In a finan- cial scheme which they had for get- ting rich in Wall street. Mr. Schultz admits that they might have succeeded had Wall street gone thelr way, but it did not. When the street againat Broach he took to raising mock en and some acid and securing loan Sh'them. This is what has now landed | We him in. jal None: es of Broach, sald to-day that when| run down. to $160,000, MAKE NOMS CHESSER LORTIE'S TALES OF SPOOKS ~AINFUL NIGHTMARE *T WESTCHESTER S) pirits Tell Brooklyn Man 200,000,000 People Will Soon Be at War and 66,000,000 Will Be Killed— Warns President Roosevelt and the Pope. Chesser Lortit has had an awful nightmare or something. He is a Brooklyn man, who lives at No, 157 Miller-avenue, and he says that spirits have revealed to him dire disaster that {s to conyulse almost the entire clyilized world, The war between Russia and Japan, the spirits have told him, will soon involve two hundred million people. Two hundred milion! Count ‘em! To forestall this awful horror Lortle has written to President Roosevelt and Pope Pius and warned them that the Russo-Japanese war !s the beginning of a contiict in which Japan, England and the United States are to be ar- rayed against Russfa, Germany and France. Austria, Spain, Italy and Turkey are to be involved, and China is to run with a free hand, sticking a knife wherever she can. Had Another Dream. Mr. Lortle told an Evening World re- porter to-day that he had been. called upon last night to write another letter to the Pope and President Roosevelt, warning them of this great world war that the spirit had foreshadowed for him. Mr. Lortle says that he has become imbued with the spirit of prophecy. A great light has shone in upon him re- Vealing.& universal contest In which w third. of 200,000,000 men will be slaugh- tered. In the letter he wrote to tw Pope to-day he culled the Pontiff's ac- tention to the fact that he wore the red 3 of a cardinal when he was oa and not the white stockings of a Pope. He warns His Holiness of his dedugtion that he will therefore stand knee deep in blood before his reign is ended. Mr. Lortie has written a book called the Leviathan,” in which he draws) his gloomy forecasts from the Bible, He takes the terror-strising chapters of the Book of Revelations for the basis of his general predictions of a world} war, Before this war is ended he pre-; dicts that ‘Turkey will pe dismembered and England destroyed. He has not yet figured out-how the United States Is coming out of the conflict. France, however, will recelve a terrible jolt. ‘The war will end in 1108, when a new) prophet wil appear in the world and straighten matters out. Mr, Lortle says that until the spirit) came to, him he has pecn hiding his Nght under a bushel, and the devil has) been sitting on the bushel. The levia-| than of the scriptures, he says, was! merely the foreshadow of the modern| warship. ‘The spirit, though Lortie, says the vital change will occur on’ or before’ March 10. War will stalk rampant through the world after that date, and Sheol will be cut loose with brass band accompaniments. Lortie is thirty years old and lives with his widowed ‘mother and brother in a flat at the address given above. He has been a clerk in the employ of the Long Island Railroad thirteen years, In his spare time he has di Voted himself to the formation of friend- ships in spirit land, Owing to his strong pull with the shades of the dear departed he is bled to give the world the first warning, of the confilct to come. He refuses to say what his diet con: sists of before retiring at night. Tyere is a strong suspicion of mince pi lobster a la Newburg and Welsh rare- bit, however. Get. ready for war! ‘AULE CHILDREN BY “SENSE OF TOUCH’ In Other Words, Spank Them Good and Hard, Is the Advice of Mrs. Silas P. Leveridge to Her Hearers. Mrs. Silas P. Leveridge, of the School Board of District No, 4, Is of the opinion that the only way to manage children and teach them to be obedient Is to spank them good and hard. This was the tenor of her remarks in an address on “Coporal Punishment in the Public Schools" at the Henry George Memorial Hall. “Science,” said Mrs. Leveridge, “has proved that ‘touch Is the one essential means of stimulating dormant faculties of the brain.’ We have heard a. good deal about ‘moral suasion.’ I would ask how it can be applied to a child of two or three years whose cbullitions - of temper call for discipline? How can the sensibilities of a child be reached without the sense of touch?” Mrs. Leveridge is of the opinion that children ought to experience this “sense of touch" a great deal more than they do at present, RISKED HER LIFE, SAVED CHILDREN) Mrs. Maloney Run Down by Car Holding Little Boy in Her Arms—Both Escape with a Shaking Up. 1 ‘Thinking only of her children's safety, and heedless of her own life, Mrs, Mary Maloney Wus struck by an Bighth ave- nue car litst might. She was walking west on One Hundred and Forty-sev- enth street with her sun Joseph, six years old, and her daughter Mary, ‘nine, each holding one of her hands, ‘Bending her head to talk to them she did not see the car going north until it was right upon her, ‘There was time for her to jump out of harm's way, Sne threw the girl backward and’ then caught her up in her arms. The litle boy was on the slde nearest the car and tried to run ahead, The car knocked her down, but she managed to fall on her back so that the boy was uppermost. ‘The pushed her more than forty feet alo: the tracks before the motorman coul stop it. any spectators ran to help, ‘they and the child frightened out of his wits, but sound as a dollar, The woman was almost in a swoon. An ambulance surgeon from the J. Hood Wright H pital examined her and discovered no broken bones and no sign of Internal in- tiriea, Nones and Broach decided to get hold of the Equitable Bank they decided to borrow $35,000 and use that as a basis of operations, ‘This 1s the transaction that Nones now denies, Mr, Schultz says that Broach was known personally to a number of Gonnectleut bank presi- dents, and from one of these he secured the money on two notes, one for $15,000 and one for $10,000, both of which notes were indorsed by Nones, That state- ment Mr. Nones also denies, With this money Nones began _nego- tlating. for the purchase of 1,000 shares bf the Maultable stock, ‘says Mr. Schultz. “he directorate offered them to him av 107, and he accepted. He took $12,600 and placed it with one bank and the other $12,600 and placed i¢ with another bank, Then he arrany with these tw banks, according to Schults, to advance him’ $107,000 with which to purchase the 0) shares of stock, he to deposit $00 of the shares with each of the banks as ‘security for the loans. It was understood that the $12,500 each bank received was a little present in return for the accommodation. When this transaction had been com nleted, Mr. Schuks says, Nones and went | Broach found themselves in control of the bank ‘without the expenditure of a certificates with the ald of a brush, algingle cent of thelr own money, but two notes aggregating $26,000 out inst them. Nones immediately made There {ts no intimati ‘was in-any way patrestoaas| Rimasett Teoecent, of the institution and ‘his was in June, 108. and in three weeks the deposits Schultg, was the result of the methods adopted by Nones and Broach, He says that old depositors in the bank were unable to get loans, and were treated curtly by the young men when. they domanded exnlanations of their treat-\ ment. One by one they withdrew thelr accounts until the bank found itself in a verv shaky conditton indeed Broach's case will go to the Grand Jury to-morrow. Meantime additional evidence of his wrong-doing “i« being collected by Assistant District-Attorne: Krotel. ‘The delay in. arresting Broach is sald to have been due to two things. First, that he promised to make good the money he owed the Northport Bank, and, second, many bankers who were caught his raised certificates be- Neved it inadvisable to make public the way In which they had been Imposed upon, It Is even sald*that one or two couniry banks which were’ induced to lend the man small sums on worthless collateral are on the verge of fallure in consequence, It was learned to-day that for several] weeks now Broach had been acting as the cashier of @ bank at Caldwell, N. 900 worth of stock In a bank now be- NK organized at Jamaica, L. 1, which| 1s to be known as the First National Bank of Jamaica. Broach had agreed to take this stock, but had insisted on| being made Vice-President of the new forgeries, = _ Ce hie Meanwhile he had. subscribed to| pad Colored Occupants of the Old Robert Finley Mansion, on Prospect Avenue, Watching for a Tall White Phantom. Because Mrs, Mary Hicks, an aged woman, gave up her residence in the ancient Robert Finley mansion, now a dilapidated, crumbling house on the corner of Prospect avenue and Fort Schuyler road, Westchester county, and moved into the city some of her former co-tenants started the report that Mary packed all her household goods and fled the wrath of a tall white gho: Now all of the colored society of that part of Westchester is laying for that same ghost, and if it ever shows him- self or herself—for they say it is the hold-oyer shade of Katherine Reilly who df@d just as the present year was born—the reception will be marked with sights and shrieks unholy. ‘The Robert Finley home was a long time ago a favorite place for ante- bellum festivities. Later it became a school-house. In recent years several of the best negro families of the West- chester section have lived in it. Into their midst came Katherine Reflly. Her coloring was snow white and she w A woman of fastidious taste. She al- ways sald she did not harmonize with her surroundings. Saw the First Ghost. One day after grumbling at her lot for an hour or two she startled the other tenants by declaring in deep sepulchral ‘tones: “I heard strange noises up and down the great hall last night." x “Was it a phost, a real live one?" asked Mrs. Hicks. “It certainly was," replied Mrs. Reilly, Every day for a month Mrs, Reilly repeated that “strange noise” episode, improving it with filtting creatures and weird, shadowy things holding court on.the hall balustrade, She even told her friends that the ghosts cried out for chocolate. When she offered them milk they declared in diaphanous concert: “We don't like that color, We're after something darker.” This was a sure sign and up the spinal columns of her hearers creeping currents went, Then Mra. Reilly Died. But before the ghosts materialized Mrs, Reilly passed away on New Year's Eve. Then were heard noises liké the blasts of many tin horns. There was in the alr the smell of. alcohol and all around the old home strange, uncanny things were seen, It is the potential ghostly remains of Mrs. Reilly that ‘have scared the colony these last few days, The fear isn't over anything that Mrs, Hicks or her friends have seen, but what they might see. Mrs. Reilly having been so proficient! in ghost materialization in the quick, the good people of the mansion that was think she will certainly show herself now that she is dead. The moving of Mrs. Hicks, who for twelve years never, left the Robert Finley place, gave rise to all the dead ones. Abe Houston, the sceptic of West- chester County, said: “It's jes’ this way ‘bout dose gos’ ‘When man dies) an’ he goes t’ ‘ever he sure never comes back, an’ when he goes t’other place dey don’t let 'Im.” —————— ‘LOTS OF SMOKE; NO FIRE. Old Broadway Building Breaks Out in Cold Sweat. ‘The old Broadway Bank Building, at No, 237 Broadway, got Jocular to-day, for an hour or more had fun. with the police and firemen, ‘The building, long since neglected on the upper floors, played like it was on fire and celebrated George Washington's birthday with vhat appeared to be real smoke. Wmoke rushed. from. the. windows on ifth, #.xth and seventh floors os Waste pluce side of the butld Some one ifn to City Hall police ata- tion and y 2 Broadwa. ‘the ‘police Idoked across City Hall Park, Sure enough, there were vol- umes of smoke coming from the buil ing, Some firemen were called. They rushed up the rickety old steps and into the smoking floors. There they a. “ohhis’ old building 1s simply ‘got a sweat on,” one of the firemen said, and he shouldered his axe and made for the street. ——__—— CATHOLIC CHURCH BURNED. Building at Van Nean Damaged to Amount of $3,000. The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Solace, at Columbus ayenue vlg fire over here on and Untonport road, Van Ness, was ly early to-day, by fl Before the fre was extinguished $000 ‘The pariah of Our Lady of Solace ras founded only siz months ago. The building will eventually be a atone and struct Bet ‘80 rats only, The fire was! in DEATHS IN FIRE ROUSE LABOR Brooklyn C. F..U. Demands that Responsibility Be Placed for the Fatalities When Brooklyn Chair Factory Burned. SAYS BUILDING WAS NEVER INSPECTED. Officials Are Called Upon to Take Immediate Action and It Is Believed the Grand Jury Will Take Matter Up. The Central Labor Union of Brook- lyn demands of Brooklyn city ofMfctals the placing of the responsibility for the loss of six lives occasioned at the fire in the Brooklyn Chair Company's fac- tory, on Waverly avenue, Feb. 9, Dis- trict-Attornoy John F. Clarke. Borough President Littleton, Superintendent Col- the members of the Board of Coroners j each received to-day copies of a denun- clatory resolution adopted at the meet- ing of the Labor Union yesterday, re- quiring that an immediate investigation begin. It is understood that the matter of the death of the six ractory employees will he brought to the attention of the Kings County. Grand Jury and that State Superintendent™John Mackin, of the Factory -Department, be summoned | before that body and questioned. The charge made by the union is in effect that, although the factory which was burned out had been tn operation for a number of vears, it nad never been tn- spected by State factory inspectors in accordance with law, A representative of the Wood Turn- ers’ Union, who had made an investign- tion on his own account, brought the’ matter to the attention of the Central Labor Union at the regular Sunday meeting, He declared that the factory had formerly been an old church and had been reconstructed for factory pur- poses without regard to the factory or bullding laws or the protection of the several hundred men and women em- ployed there. The stairways were nar- row and no fire escapes had ever been placed in position, he said. Because of the highly combustible character of the contents of the bulld- Ing, he added, it was the moral duty at least of the inspectors to have made a careful inspection of the building and to have demanded such improvement as would at least have secured some afety to the factory hands. ‘There {s no existing report, he stated, | ment of the Alhambra restaurant. ‘ ; ~ 3 DEW CCIE “THEATRE BLA Another Playhouse Is Burned with Loss of Life, and Occu- pants of Hotel Adjoining Had Narrow Escapes. ; FIFTY CARRIED DOWN. LADDERS TO THE STREET Two of the Victims Were Over- come on Top Floor While Try- ing to Save a Woman, and Al! Died Together. CHICAGO, Feb. 22—Three’ persons were burned to death to-day ina fire which partially destroyed the Alham- bra Theatre Hotel and apartments, st Archer avenue, Staté and Nineteenth streets, The victims, who were guests at the hotel, were William Fisher and Frank Beekman, of Cincinnati, and Anns ling, of the Building Department, and} Wells. of Chicago. ' Their bodies were found in a room on the top floor of the building. From the position in which they lay the two men apparently had attempted to assist the woman to escape but had been overcome by the smoke. All the clothing was burned from them. The fire Is believed to have started from an overheated furnace in the base- The smoke soon filled the halls of the upper stories, and but for the night clerk, Philip Vingo, the firemen asserted there probably would have been a | much greater loss of life. He ran through the halls awakening the 200 guests, A moment later the halls were filled with half-clad men and women whu Broped their way down the stairs to the snow-covered streets. and sought refuge in neighboring stores. Others ran to the windows and th firemen carried at least fifty women down the ladders to the street. The Alhambra Theatre Is owned by Stairs & Haviland, owners of the Bijou, Columbus and other theatres in Chi- cago. , The theatre around which the hotel was built had just been remodeled in compliance with the ameaied theatre ordinances, and new stage littings aud furnishings had been installed. The loss is estimated at $75,'00. So FED ONIONS TO MONKEYS. Dad Boy Fined $2 fer His Central Park. It cost $2 and a severe lecture to feed onions to the monkeys in Central Park Menagerie and throw snowballs at the ducks in the Park pond. Joseph Vent, seventeen, East Houston street; Charles Becke! twelye, and Herman Levine, twely a” im of No. 240 that the factory was ever inspected. The resolutions were adopted after a spirited discussion. The Brooklyn ofi- cials said to-day that they would act on the suggestion of the union without delay. PRESIDENT OF RACE TRACK DING Thomas D. Reilly, Head of the Queens County Jockey Ciub, and a Well-Known Politician, Is Critically Ill. Unless something in the nature of a miracle should intervene, Thomas D. Reilly, President of the Queens County Jockey Club, will not live to see an- other day. Three physicians who have been attending him at his home, No. 143 East Nineteenth street, have given up hope. Whatever chance of recovery from a severe attack of pneumonia Mr. Reilly had was qjssipated by the rain and for. Ug to last New Year's Day Mr, Reilly had never experienced illness of any consequence, He was big and strong and had become convinced that he was immune from physical Ills, But he caught a cold, and on the first day of the year was selzed with a hemorrhage. This weakened him so that he was compelled to take to his bed, and for three weeks’ he was unable to move about. Then he went to Lakewood with Phil Dwyer, and the change and rest svemed to work a great Improvement. Pneumonia From Exposure. Business matters connected with the opening of the Aqueduct race track in the spring called him back to New York and exposure caused pneumonia, His case was desperate from the begin- ning. Dr, Huboard, Dr. Williams, a third physician and Katharine, Mary and Madelive Reilly, sisters of the sick man, cared for him continually, It was thoughe yesterday that there had been a change for the better and hope of recovery was held out, but the change in the weather operated to aggravate the disease. Mr. Reilly ,was born fifty-two years ago in.a house standing on the ground occupied by his present residence. All his life he has lived In East Nineteenth street near Third avenue. His father was a well-known herse- man and had a horse market in the trading district. £oung Reilly went into the horse business when a youth, Nat- urally he drifted into politics and was for years prominent In Tammany poll- tics In the old Eighteenth Ward, Ho was identified with horse racing for many yeurs before he took an active {uterest in the management of a race In 18 he secured a controlling t in the Queens County Jockey eareful management he succeeded in oullding up the track until it ranks with the first-class courses in the me- tropolis. Many improvements had been planned for the coming ‘season, ' The death of Mr. Reilly would prob- ve noe upon the Lists 4 this season, as the antes hay ed. and the. main ypara- aid both of No, 264 Cherry street, were in the Park yesterday, and to have fun with the monkeys fed them onions. The monkeys falled to see the joke and howled so that Keeper “Billy” Snyder had to act the part of a physician in eusing thelr pain, .The boys then bombarded the ducks in the children's pond, and one duck had its neck broken by a lump of hard snow. The boya then fell into the hands of the police. ‘Vent was arraigned in Yorkville Po- lice Court to-day and. fined 32. ‘The younger boys escaped with lectures in the Children’s Court, a ———— DIED AFTER OPERATION. Wife of Senator Wilcox Succumbs to Heart Failur: AUBURN, N. Y., Feb: 22.—Mra) Renja- min M, Wilcox. wife of State Senator Wilcox, of this city, died at midnight in the hospital at. Troy of heart failure following an operation. . ee NEW GERMAN ATTACHE, BERLIN, Feb. 22.—Capt. Hedbinghaus has been appointed German Navel At- tache at Washington, in place of Com mander Erwin Schaefer, who has been assigned to duty on the Baltic Station, * World Wants Never Decrease . in Volume! THERE ARE 7 3 1 Paid Help Wants in: this morning’s World. 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