The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1904, Page 5

| a \ we © vandle. ‘CRIPPLE FOR LIFE > TD SHVE CARFARE | Tiny Messenger Boy Who Could) Not Pay His Way Walked Till! His Lower Limbs Were Par-| alyzed, Perhans Permanently. TELLS HOW HE WORKED TO EARN A LIVING. Was Afraid He'd Lose His Place! \ and So He Plodded on Seven! ’ Days a Week. Sixteen Hours| { a Day. Paralyzed from his foet to his hips, frank Depold, faced ttle fel- | jow, less than fourtcen years old, told to-day how he had walked, in deliver- Ing messages for the office of the Po: Telegraph Company, at No, 3196 avenue, until he had fallen from haustion. He told how he geled to his feet. knowing that fail to deliver the messages would mean his discharge, and how he had fallen the second time, It was then that he| lost control over his muscles. This boy is an orphan and Ives with ing been taken the . His knees and We terribly swollen, and the bottom « Bis feet ure cut from stones that wor put his shocs on his long tramp deliver ing messages. “Do you think I will lose my Jol he asked when seen by a rey The Evening World to-day. “I'd hate to lose out. My aunt wanted me to Ko on to school, but I had no business at school and letting her support imi five weeks ago I got a job from Man- ply eger Dugan, at (ie Postal Telegr: office, at One Hundred and ty-fifth street and Third avenue. told me he would give me $3 a we The first week I went for my money but there was none for me. Took Out for Uniform, “‘T took that for your uniform,’ he told me. The second week they took but 20 cents, and when I asked about it he said again: ‘That much comes out every week for your uniform. Then they transferred me to the office at 9% Third avenue, of which Miss G! ton is in charge. None of the boys wants to get in that office. You don't et Sundays or holidays there and vou have to work often until after midnight T got to work every morning at § and f1s supposed to be off at 9 every nicht. | s: So.) Maria F, Kunzmann, suicide at her home, No. 8% West End {through the marriage ceremony. The avenue, . r THE WORLD: TUFSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 93, 1904, SAYS SHE HAD TO FIGHT OFF HER BRUSBAND WITH A SPEAR. HEA TO EAD LF cide Not Due to Loss of For- tune in Wall Street Specula- tion, Says Her Son. Joseph Kunzmann, the son of M. who committed yesterday by taking carbolic acid, declared to-day that the stories about his mother's fortune of $400,000 belng swept away through Wall street peculation were absolutely without but Miss Gleason would hold back mes-| goundation. sages until 9, and then start us out with them, 1 didn’t complain, though. [ thought some day I would xet to be 2 raptain, my own living, and I didn't mind not], having Sundays or holidays, “Yesterday Miss Gleason made me de- | { liver nine messig73 tp to S o'clock snd tf last night £ starced out at 7 to do- liver seven imore. I didn’: have Luc 10 tents, and I had to walk, The clo vated trains are free t» us boys, but the surface cars are not. {£ dont know | how far I walked, I ran sometimes. { thought my job was at stake and I Udn't want to lose it, “Last night at 10 o'clock I had de- avered all the messages except one and was crossing a vacint lot for a short rut, I was awful tired and I was hun- try, too, but I didn't have time to stop ind rest until that message was de- dvered. Then my knees began giving way. They were all swelled up, any-| © way. 80 were my fect, Shoes Were Worn Away. y shoes had worn through and my feet were cut from the stones. I fell | fown nd it felt good to lle there on the | tl t 8 sold, wet ground. But I didn't have: Ume to stay, I got up presently, I fell down agin, This Ume I souldn't get up. Some ladies came a‘ong and helped me and then a man crrried me to the Tremont police statlor, Later they took me to the Fordham Hospital, 1 wanted to go out and deliver that message, but they wouldn't let fter a while my uncle came to se He took me down here and I tell ts fine to be resting this way, I w ome one would deliver that mossage back ay soon as my knees and feet get all right, I don’t want to lose - Job. WViten’ Miss Gleason was scen and asked why the boy had been made to walk such distances without car fare and why he had been permitted to wort @uch long hours she became angry, “Nobody's Business,” “I am in charge here," she sai these boys as I thould be handled, It is none of the yublic’s business and none, of yours. L tm responsible to no one.” ‘Miss Gleason Is a young woman with business appearance. Wren she fant Irecting the three. little ‘messengers who serve her'she is sitting at the tele: faph Instrument. anager Dugan sald that he had taken money from the boy's salary, but that it was no fault of his, “Tt is one of the rules of the mes- er service,” he sald, “that the boa y cents a week for the thelr uniforms." | ep yaiolans in attendance upon Bepold say that he will never en ‘trong enough to be a messenger again. | ¢ fn fact, tt is possible that he will bs | t partially paralyzed for life, 75,000 TAILORS TO STRIKE. Cloak and Garment rece think ‘they $ ja Trade Em- ployees to Go Out July 1. OMictal announcement has been made | by President Benjamin Schlessinger, of| the International Ladies’ Garment ‘orkers' Union, that 7,000 cloakmak- | * and ladies’ garment-makers would girike throughout the United States on uly 1, The strike would tle up shops In this fe: Detnands. will be for the closed-shop wystem and were weekly wages instead of plece scale. a NEW GERMAN NAVAL ATTACHE. BERLIN, Feb. 23.—Capt, Hedbinghaus has been appointed German Naval At- tache at Washington, in place of Com- ler Erwin Schaefer, who has been Bavigned to duty on the Baltic station, | n 01 u and during able to lie down once to rest. could remain in only one attitude, sit- | became despondent and melancholy. Sh lations originated. money ments, but the statement t vested in United States Ste Regarding t gage on the house, it was an amicable agreement between Willlam F. Have- | meyer and Mrs, Kunzmann, of the family for some years, Kunzmann could have continued to live me.| in the West End avenue house as long, as she desired. | more than anything else was the cause of her taking her life.” ROBBERS RICH HAUL no one has yet suce found tho job an easy one, ne of the veranda pillars and entered! a dormitory at a time when the pupils’ were all ac the trunks and dressers and left the John Mehi @ Co. will hold its annual mask building by the same route he hud and civic ball next Saturday at Pohiman's | eral hours later that one of the pupll missed her jewelry and the police were ~"It 1s true my father was a partner | of Elihu Root,’ { wanted to work and earn] “but {t fs not true that he left any- ia Mr. Kunzmann, hing like $600,000, As for losing this ortune in speculation, that is also alse, My mother never bought a share of stock in her life and knew absolutely nothing about Steel stock, “She had been an invalid for the past hree ye suffering from asthma, She ing upright.in a chair, Of course sho G na bright or cheerful mo- he became a sufferer from hat terrible dise I cannot under tand how that story of unlucky specu- Frank Kunzmann, the brother-in-law f the dead woma “Tt is true that Mrs, Kunzmann lost through unfortunate _tnvest- t she in- tock or hat Mr. Kunzmann’s fortune reached rd and false, ‘To my a& not more than $50,000, foreclosure of the mort- “Mr, Havermeyer has been a friend Mrs, Continued Il health AT GIRLS’ SCHOOL “Twentieth Century Burglar” Obtains $3,000 Worth of Jew- els at a Select Establishment in Pelham Manor and Escapes The “gentlemanly” crook who has' Counterfeits, Sald Street-Cleaning §) heen dubbed by the citizens of Weat- “The has made Mrs, Twentieth Cen- John hester County ury Burglar” Cunningham Hazen's select school for. pury girls, at Pelham Manor, the scene of gress to Magistrate Zeller to-day In the his la + exploit, He got away with bout $300 worth of Jewels belongins | to the pupils, According to those who have caught a glimpse of this burglar during 8 ellers called at No. recent robberies, he ts a gentlemanly, fourth | appearing fellow who wears clothing esembling the gurb of a clergyman. | He works with an electric lamp instead kK lantern, and vd in getting f the old-fashioned ¢ He climbed dinner, He went through sed in entering, It was nat until sev: all that time she was un-} “ILL-HEALTH CAUSED {THIS BRIDE WAS ~ HARD 10 PLEASE “Obey” Be “Cut Out” of the Wedding Ceremony, and Had Her Way. Justice of the Peace Henry Bossett, lof Newark, N. J., was rapidly rattling bride and bridegroom stood eager, expectant and blushing before him. ‘The bride was answering in the affirm- the marriage ceremony until the word “obey” struck her ear. She stiffened . looked hard at the Justice and losed her ps. Justice Boasett knew that there had been an interruption somewhere, but he did not know just where. He looked up at the bride. "What's the matter?" he asked mildly. . “That word ‘obey,’ suggested the briue. “Won't you please cut it out?” “It 1s in the ceremony,” suggested the Justice, “I know; but it {s not in ine," ed the bride firmly. ‘The bridegroom, confused and red- faved, whispered something into the pretty pink ear of the brid “I don't want to say ‘obs torted with some 5 “AN right," sald band; “cut it out.” The Word Was Cat Ont. ‘The word was out,” mony proceeded the ring was |slipped on the bri finger as the | Justice sald solemnly an and wife. ly-made husband waited for his young wife to make a move toward a deperture, but she did not stir, She | was evidently wating for something, vhat's the matter now?" queried the i return- 6 he re- it, “and I we 4 prospective hus- | the "replied the new {" echoed the Jus- don't give any trading stamos here." “Oh! ain't that mean?" exclaimed the young wife, “If I had known that I wouldn't have veen married here, 1d have gone to Jersey City." Will ‘Try Another Justice. “Perhaps the Jersey City Justice might have made you agree to obey dour husband," slyly Observed Justice Bossett. “Not much he wouldn't,” sald the jyoung wife. ‘Never mind, Next time I get married I'll go to a justice who ts enterprising and gives trading stamps.” ‘Then tossing Her head she left the of- followed subtaissively by her i ne} ude husband. The justice said later that the mar- rlag ruficate he gave them bore the nam of Miss Mabel Dalton, twenty- two y Ni Union street, Union rr Scoll, twenty- th ars old, who lives at the same Jaddress. It is believed they eloped, for they peared at Justice Bossett's of- te last night after his office had i {been closed for business. ‘ ee TORE UP SNOW TICKETS. Department Contractor, Sixty Itallan now shoyellers ‘ork for the during who blocked in- snowstorms, Represented by Jo- seph Dagrese, of No, 106 Mulberry | street, the Itallans kept up a concert clamoring for justice As Dagnese told the story these shov- 16 Bast Twenty- street, one of the branch offices iam Bradley who has the city ot for shovelling away th had thelr tlekets with ck of which was printed Yorkville Court V nt snow. snow Storm.” When they the Ucke e man in chi branch office quietly tore them up hol vent All thone Ity,” Chicago, Baltimore. Cleveland, | close enough to him to wet a good look! win Nets aNtiously. waiting. fer thels riladelphia. Boston, Pittsburg, st: | at his face. | pay" tert Mice in a hurry, Moat of Placo”and Montreal ‘and’ many ‘other | , MTS. Hazen’s school Is patronized by thee tiK ce calan raure ‘the mate ine it? ; the daughters of the wealthy and ae Charge of the office claimed that the ic lirkets Were counterfelt. 2 EMPLOYEE TO DANCE. ‘The Employees’ Mutual Ald Society of 0 halls, No, 190 Ogden avenue, Je ‘ity. Souvenirs will presented’ to won ne ard to the ‘reesed masked man" s ee ative all the promises lai@ down in} n : Mf uy cured me of poor digestion, coated tongue and loss of appetite, of many = years’ the cere- ‘I now pronounco| ity’n good and Mr. Wood- | ol HUSBANDS AIS Mrs. Von Pusch, Like a Cossack. with Such Good Effect that Her Spouse Withdrew. Beeaus cording to the allegation of Mrs. August George Willlam Leon von Puseh, her husband pulled her ou of bed by the hair of her head, she jabbed him. ibs with aspera running tt hh the folds of f which he had wrapped ar na armor is pul upon a xh! She doesn't want to lve wi to Jab spears she applied to-day to Justi the Supreme Court for alimo: unsel feex pending @ hearing of her for divor The von >. No less personages whom she Pusches are no ordinary people Baron and Baroness von Koy with up m when t 8, 1900, in thia city, by the Rev Elias 8. Osborn, Von Koppen and Vo ney Ww on Dee. | | hasty meal from a tin pail. \stand the strain no longer, the railroad men know where to find new strength and energy. Thestatements printed below tell of wontlerfu Wielded Her Novel Weapoi * Motormen and Cond The daily work of a motorman is enough to break down a constitution of steel. i h . \Cooped up on his narrow platform, he must stand while the bitter winds pierce him to the bone, no matter how heavy his clothi Mrs. Maria F. Kunzmann’s Sui-| First She Insisted that the Word, Every minute he must be on the alert, and in the midst of suffering his judgment must be quick and sure, for an error may cost a hum life. " Tired and hungry after hours of work-that keep his nerves tense as fiddle-strings. he sits in the corner of acar to devour a rel: m ath Koppen bad the spear jabbing took phuce in May ni what Mrs, Pusch says} Was 1, and t insisted on with me My hu Wait ermined i nd » rolled a and jab be nature that I felt it my duty to Teave} hin The baby. a boy, is in the custoty Of enue the imosher vieiing bhin me day and talking English to the n the nes GURAED TO DEAE Tried to Right a Lamp She Had Overturned in Her Room and} Her Clothing Caught on, home, N 1S ce her bedroom Whi her t “. Amy |, PUPILS IN PANIC Traier and Students Teachers Thrown in a Heap and All Suffer Shock. 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