The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1904, Page 3

é yr and her dres: ught fire, ret exlinguiahed: Siraed there {es as hope of her sesoverr, SLT MITERSTIRPAPANES SPREADNGFLAMES = Cr ae Half a Blook Destroyed in Wash- ington Street—Firemen. Un- able to Cope with Blaze—Fire- boats Assist. WATER SENT HIGHER THAN FACTORY ROOF. Fire Was at Its Worst When New Yorker and Abram S. Hewitt Were Called —Soon Under Control. Fire which threatened for nearly two tours to do great damage on the lower west side early to-day destroyed a five- story building which occupied the block between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets, and ex- toward Ninth avenue, causing a loss estimated at $150,000, Three alarms and a special were sounded before the Fire Depart- ment got @ force out able to cope wth in Washington street, tended to an alley half way the Dlaze. Heavy. manufacturing machinery on the'upper floors falling as thelr sup- ports aided in the destruction of the bull ing. on that side, exposing the Abingdon Warehouse, which Chief Croker de- wpaired of saving. a Like Explosions, The machinery tearing through the flooring of the third, second and first stories made a noise which sounded like xplosions, Until an investigation was made after the fire it was believed that & great quantity of bensine reported to have been stored on the fourth floor in the quarters of the Autograph Register- Ing Company had expteded. Battalion Chief Larkin was in charge of the firemen until a second alarm called Gulef Croker, who immediately ordered @ third alarm and the calling New Yorker and Abram 68. Hewitt. The special alarm was for two water towers, which were in action but a few minutes when a New York Central train in West street ran over their lines and rendered them of the fireboats useless. ‘The Boats in the meantime got into powerful bled the Durning building and send wator higher The salt in the water aided also in the extinguishing of the action and threw such streams that the firemen were e! to stand on the sidewalk opposit than its roof. ore Fireboats Save the Day. The fireboats undoubtedly saved the day and are higaly praised by Chief Croker and insurance men. Thetr utility under the circumstances and the dis- advantag was 4 revelation them. the views of those who bel value of sea water as a fir to those who saw out the city, ‘he fire started on the fourth floor of the burned building, but what caused Tt was in full swing it no one knows. when {t \ \s discovered. Among the losers are the following: C. Deyo, Charies Koster ank, produce merchants; sec- York and West Bide Pincus with the Kitographic. Registering’ Corapany” ‘on First floor, W. and E. F ond floor, the ‘Now Knitting Mills. third, Moor, hoe Manufacturing (ompa: the the top two flooi TUG CHASES LINER DOWN THE RIVER See J. M. Smart, British Railway Official, Misses Steamer Phil- adelphia at Pier, but Catches It Off Liberty Istand. J. M. Smart, an oMcial of the London ind Southwestern Railroad of England,| 9! sried to transact some business in Ceda atreet this morning before ho sailed on. the American line steamship Philadel- the outgoing liner down the bay and was not hauled abroard until that vessel was nearing Liberty Island. Mr. Smart received word that it wa: imperative for him to sall to-day as hi Presence was wanted by the were burnt from under them ‘They pulled in the roof and the west wall and this gave the fire a vent at which they were worked It was also an indorsement of ve in the destroyer and who advocate the establishment of a system providing it for use through- RODE HIS ATHLETIC WIFE GOES HOME TO PAPA David Weis, Manager of Colum- bia Theatre, Brooklyn, and Mrs. Weis Could Not Agree and Now He Wants Divorce. Dave Wels, manager of the Columbia Theatre, of Brooklyn, has advertised that he will no longer be Fesponsible for debts contracted by his wifo and also threatens to bring a suit for divorce. In reply Mra. Weis says she Js able to pay for her own things and {s not wor- & about the divoree end of the ci The Welses have not been married o very Jong time, but have had many & ult nevertheless. The climax came last Sunday night when Mrs, Wels returning from the Grand Central Station where sho had been to bid a friend good-by. found the doors to her No. 62 Clark street, Brooklyn, locked. She knocked, but no one answered, ; Then she took off her skirt and hat) and tried to climb in through a window, But It was also locked, so she sat down on the stairs to think over the situa- tion. A wervant of the houve came alot and to her Mrs. Wels explained her pre- dicament, The young woman sympa- thized with Mrs, Weis and took her up in the atUc, where she made ner a bed for the night. Mr. is did not return, and on Monday Mrs. Wels went to his offi at the Columbia Theatre and demanded | an explanation. She says she found a lawyer with her husband, who told her that he was through with her and woulda soon begin sult for a divorce, Went for Her Father. Instead of breaking down and weep- ing, Mrs, Weis went to tne home of her facoer, john F. Weber, at Avenue F and Bast Twenty-sixth street, Flat- bush, Together they got a policeman &nd came back after her clothes. Weis had to unlock the door for hi In her hurry she carried away pair of her husband's socks. She to-day that would return ‘on't darn. the hole that is in them. | Wels may 4 darning nereafter, so far as T| is concerned. ‘Then came Wels's advertisement, ‘which caused Mrs, Weis to laugh. She | was still Ina reporter for at Ner father's house. manson of the Colonial type. Her blue eyes snapping, her blonde hafr waving and every part of her tall | figure expressive of physical strength, Weis came down stairs and freely interview, Before talking hui But Boe phia, and as a result he had to chase sr road in about her matrimonial troubles she ex- Southampton next Saturday, He booked pang that five years ago when she passage on the Philadelphia and arrived with much baggage early in the mor (ng and went on board. He had been, there but a short time when be founa| lt mecessary to go down to Cedar stree' to, up arrived and A, A. Wright, the #) ot thet ee the Secs, Cot @ passenger dopartm tn he dock, but Afr, mart had They decided to Ne the vessel , Wright sti rae the gangway with his watch tn hi A fow tninutes after the sailing ume ‘and Mr, Smart was not in sight | it war decided that the vessel could! be held no longer. The Philadelphia was just be; to turn her nose down stream when /M: Smart, arrived end of th ‘The t gmart end his Ts tug cam: t Liber nd hawled, up the indder: Jade GHILD DIES FROM BURNS. Three-Year-Old Girl's Dress teniten | at Grate Fire. Annie Avyzo, Brooklyn, dled in around a The chil recovery. close some business before sailing, In the meantime the hour for sailing not ar- tonips He. went down to the lock and after a conference Sith the olisiais a signal was hotsted | rulver responded | { yallse was | board. ‘Te Phitadelphin was cate to slow down and 4s soon as Capt. Mills, saw the signal he slowed yeren Chand 4 and ‘Smart vas a three-year-old child, who lived at No, 903 Clifton piace, the Cumberland Street Hospital to-day as the result of | buras puree et eaewead while playing | Mele to u ry some pieces of ane but) Oa was only thirteen she made a Ry 3 ming record from Troy. to Laguna i an oe of four milem and a ah that Nae stood against ail comers, She was then one of the best among {|} amateur swimmers, and even now is @ great outdoor young woman. Again Contented and Happy. "m home again with my parents,” {whe said, “contented And happy, & con- ition of ming I have not experienced wince I was married. It ts true that I 1! married against father’s advice and 1 (am sorry I did ard am willing to admit | that he knew more about the world then than T Poking buck, I don't know how. I could have married Dave Wels. We were not at all suiced to each othe: am a strong, healthy, vigorous girl Who loves to ride and take part in al Gut-door sports. Dave is a weakling and at times very morose. He goon laround with a stock of medicine bot- In fact, he is a regular walkin me store. ‘And none of that for me. |Fregh alr is my tonic.” Mra, Wels also said that her husband | had il-treated her, though at times he shewed some good qualities that, made him ® lovable man, Beonuse of thelr failure to get, along she had lett him twice before, but had always returned at the wish of her father. Bhe sald he ed detectives to shadow her dence that he could use ec! “But i “that ne will fnd me well prepared. to defen enter she added. “My record is c! aia 4 seen at the Colarbin The ed what he eo Aitor pearine’ what his ‘wite nad sald about Bie he sald: t it strike you as a bed bit | ialeu ous. that a man Bed as ea me to be—w cle and stnall—— could hikes £Wa shi here. Dig and str no truth tn what rouble a: o apartments it) a | nights pod humor to-da: fea led | the time she was aris is Ween ditebemt Pt WORLD: SATURDAY KVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1904. SE TROOPS LANDING IN NORTHERN COREA! ara fh ‘Photographs and cabled descriptions for The Evening World by Artist George N. McEvoy.) G0GO94-OO$60O69OOHOH60O69H6O040566OG8OSHFO FO OOH9GO SD aS POLICE HUNT FOR WEALTHY WOMAN}: Miss Flora Bauman; Her Sister Says, Has Been Missing from Her Home in Jersey City Since Feb. 7. Charles Armstrong, of No. 283 Thirty-ninth street, was in the Side Court to-day on a simmons issued by Magittrate Wittman at, the instance of Misé, Tillie Bauman, who wanted the physictan questioned about the divappearance of ‘her sister Flora, forty years old, On Feb. 7 Miss Flora Bauman was last scen in Jersey City where she lived. Miss Flora Bauman has an income which she receives from St. Louls Dr. monthly, an interest in a large hotel in that city and property in Jersey City. A general alarm was sent |throughout the country for Miss Bau- jman, and Detective-Sergt. Franney |haa beet at work on the case in this | elty ever since, Dr. Armstrong gave what information he could to the Magistrate, but his tes- timony in no way removed the mystery of the disappearance, His examination by Magistrate Wittman brought out the following story: "Ten weeks ago I re- ceived a letter from Dr, Taylor intro- |ducing Miss Bauman to mo, Taylor had advertised in one of the papers that he would like to meet a young woman with {$2,000 for matrimonial purposes, Through some religious scruples Dr. Taylor could not carry out his original plans and he sent Miss Bauman to me. “After that Miss Bauman visited my home frequently. She seemed to be willing to get married, but when I asked hor about the $2,000 she said she did not have that much money in ready |cash, On several occasions there were Present at my house on these Sunday Mr, Marco, of No. 160 West ‘Thirty-fitth atr of No, 2%) West Thirty-seventh street. We amuned ourselves in innocent ways, niusic being the chief feature of our eventn for hiss, Title Bauman | said ste fad $100 in p family, Fie Is at a ioe tor any direc! ing information which will lead to @ aolution of the matter. ‘Three or four days was taken on some woman owns in Jersey bott) were signed a tow Gaye’ “before the oman's disappearance, The detectives have been unable to find the Dr. Taylor mentioned by Dr, Armatr although the latter has made arrangements @ number of times for the meeting. Irish Poet Will Be Heard at Acad- of Mastic, At the Emmet anniversary celebra- tion in the Academy of Music to-mor- row evening, to be held under the aus- ‘pices of the Clan-na-Gael, the leading attraction will be Willlam Butler Yeats, the, noted, Irish post and ensayist, who clation was represented by Stephen H.| fim w aiso head of the National tre Soctety, Dublin. i Mr. Yeats has been lecturing be- fore the leading universities and col- leges throughout the country on the intellectual revival in Ireland, and has postponed his departure for Dablin— | which was to have taken place this week—in order to pronounce the pane- gyric on the young Irish patriot mar. Comptroller Grout will ‘eatde, and a fine military band noted singers will add to the in of the occasion. pape EE HONOR FIRE COMMISSIONER. Veteran Firemen Make Nicholas J. Mayes a Me! re A certificate of honorary membership in the Veteran Firemen's Association was presented to-day to Fire Commis+ sioner Nicholas J. Hay He is the first Fire Commissioner to be so hon- rhe present dent. Dan! rent tion was mi by Presi and a commaties of ‘he certificate is fram: and Mr, Whiteman, ! Ti Bees YATES TO LECTURE SUNDAY.| ‘ et iad ponies rece no Res ctely SESS OOO OOS 0S OOOOH OEEDOSTIIOOOSOSENOS 0946008006000 DRAG RIVER FOR BOY HERO'S BODY Brave Twelve-Year-Old Frank Caffrey Drowned in Passaic River, Near Spot Where Three Times, He Rescued Comrades. More than two hundred persons, many of them women and school children. are to-day engaged in a hunt for the body of twelve-year-old Frank Caffrey, of No, % Ogden street. Newark, who while at play on the jce that covers | the Passaic River back of Mount Pleasant Cemetery late yesterday atter- noon, fell through and was drowned. |. ‘Tho Caffrey boy wan the pet of the ‘neighborhod in which he lived and by his pluck commanded the affection of those who knew him. On three! occasions he saved thg lives of com- panions who were in danger of drown- ing near the spot where he himself lost his life, and once he endangered himself by plunging overboard to res- cue uw pet dog that had fallen from a bridge. Every effort is being made to recover the lad’s body. Women and m: distributed over the ice for a distanc of a quarter of a mile, chopping holes in the floe and dragging the river as best they can. ‘he grief-stricken par- ents of the boy are on hand watching; the work vi A@nguished expectation | and assisting wherever their aid is re- quired. It is feared, however, that the body will be carried down stream and can- not be found until the ice disappears. ALE MACY & C0, WIN FROM PUBLISHERS ‘Court of Appeats Decides that ; They Have the Right to Cut Prices on Books and Have Cause of Action. A decision has just been handed down hy the Court of Appeats in the litigation between R. H. Macy & Co. and the ‘American Publishers’ Association in fae vor of R, H, Macy & Co. John G. Care Male and edmond H. Wise appeared for | Macy & Co., while the Publishers’ Asso- Olin and ‘Thaddmis D. Kennerson, The American Publishers’ Association is composed of about 9 per cent. of the book publishers of the country, and was formed for the purpose of regulating the price at which books were to be sold by retailers, Macy & Co, refused to sign an agreoment not to cut prices on ¢ books, maintaining @ right to sell books, s other articles of merchandise, » any | Price they saw fit, and as @ result the publishers refused to continue to suppl, ‘them, and went a step further and cu AG the a aUEDNY, and severed business rela any other concern through whom peor s procured them. pd in their retusay bound, “bya agreenrent Brice pelogn, took tho matter into court, 1 the decision of the Court of Ap- Reals, confirming the decision, of, ‘the Appellate Division, ‘hem, thelr contention, nd’ declares they bavel ave UP © associag Uetle eavil F action against thi ee SUNDAY WORLD WANTS & cause tion, are| ‘WOMAN FACES HER TWO HUSBANDS |She Is Held on Bigamy Charge and No. 1, Whom She Thought Dead, Announces He Will Stand by Her. Mra, Lena Smith, twenty-six years old, ‘declared in the Grogory Street Police Court, in Jersey City, to-day that when she committed bigamy by marrying John Baker four weeks Ago she believed her first husband, William Smith, had been dead two years. But Smith was [Present in court to-day, apparently In ‘good health. | Mrs, Smith testified that this was the ‘frst time whe had seen him in three |vears. They were married nearly four years ago in Jersey City, She was in- formed by several persons, she said, that her husband, under the name of | Anderson, had died in Paterson of amall-pox when it was prevalent there. She had heard nothing about him after that, and was married to Baker by Justice of the Peace Edward F. Mark- ley Jan. 21 Inst, She and Baker have ‘been keeping house at No. 72 Morris |stree! Mrs, Ethel Finn, of Black Tom Island, | mother of Baker, swore she heard her |son's wife bad a husband living and a few days ago Mrs. Finn had Mrs |Mm'th arrest +d on a charge of bigamy. Ps Smith at the time deposed that her |firet husband was dead and she was |paroled in the custody of her lawy?-, Patrick Dooley. Yesterday Mrs, Finn found Smith, the first husband, and ‘Mrs, Smith was rearrested last night. James Baker testified that he married the defendant on Jan, 21, but he sald he could not give the name of the Jus- tice who performed the ceremony. He was a reluctant witness and refused to sign o complaint, but sat with his mother throughout the hearing and left the court-room without speaking to the defendant, William Smith swore the defendant was married to him April 21, 1900, by Justice of the Peace Conrad, in Hen- Gerson atreet, Jersey City. ‘Miss Annie C. Florence testified that she attended the first wedding. Judge Frank J. Higeins, after hearing the testimony, held Mrs. Sinith in $1,000 bail for the Grand Jury. Lawyer Dooley said she would get bail, William Smith had a conversation with pis wife after the hearing anf he tld. the police he “would stick by her rough thick and thin.” It is true taut HoWWas nica two yeare ago in vatereun with smail-p0x, Tor nis face is pock- Inarked. After ‘his recovery he went to work a# & boatman and ne has been from Jersey City much of the He returned 4 Mre. Finn found him at the home of mother {n Jackson avenue. SUICIDE ON WIFE’S GRAVE. August Spelimach: Cemetery to D' August Spellmacher, a shoomaker, seventy-three years old, was found lying dead across the grave of his wife in Lutheran Cemetery, in Jamaica, rly to-da: old man entered the cemetery late He went straight ing night took eas nar a half empty bottle of the pol- son was found nearby. A picture of his wife was in his breast pook... Spelimacher had been despondent since the death ete nia wife, & year ago. He his rhs and pedually his polled net? rintandent of s heme je superintendent of m home vege By in this borough for ad- mission and i was le Tek the Si ast ie oe, Bee for hy “ - , WORK MONDAY WONDERS! Shewae ers ‘ i MISSING FROM HOME NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 27.—The police of this city and New York are search- ing for pretty nineteen-year-old Annie Urban, of East One Hundred and Twen- ty-ninth street, New York, who left her home last Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Julia Stark, who lives at No. 41 Jackson street, this city, carrying with her $€00 In money. Since the girl left her Harlem home she has not been seen and her relatives fear that she met with foul play. ‘The girl wag dressed in mourning, Bhe has made the trip to this city a ber of times and never onrried the police to. s here, elther In New York or Newark, sho fell into the hands of sharper: robbed her and may have done with her. £4 LS4D9GO9DID 96 4E8OOOSOE FOOOG06-960698058 6900500 % GIRL WITH $600 IS |AUNAWAY BOY ae Meyer, a Driver, Hurled | from His Wagon by a Collision ¢| with a Lexington Avenue Car | and Thrown Under His Team, 3 os + é FOUR BIG ANIMALS $ STEPPED ON HIS BODY. 3 <2 Ss ~ the 3) Samuel Wasshauer, Also in the | Wagon, Was Knocked to-the 3 Street and Badly Hurt—Mo- >| torman Lost Control of Car. e Four big, powerful dray horses poun@> ® Jed the life out of Peter Meyer, of N@ &|4t East Forty-sixth street, a driver $ for Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, to-day, at the corner of Lexington avenue and ‘Thirty-eighth street. The man was thrown from his gea® on the truck on which he was driving in a collision with a Lexington avenue car. Semuel Wasshauer, of No. ‘it East Forty-sixth street, who was with Meyer at the time, received internal Ine juries from the fall which necessitat his removal to the Bellevue Hospital. | Meyor was crossing Thirty-eighth street with his team and thought he ‘ had the right of way. With a crash the front of the car, south bound, caught the hind wheels of the trueW and threw it around with a Jerk, hurling the two men from their seat. Meyer landed under the hoofs of the forward animals, Wasshauer being thrown to the side. 7 The horses took fright and before uny one could come to the rescue of driver ho was trampled upon first BY one horse and thon by another, he waa pulled out the life had crushed out of him. The motorman of the car, James © Wallace, of No. Sl Lexington avenue sald that he lost control of the car and’ although he saw the big truck in front ef him could do nothing to prevent the collision. He was arrested and arraigned in the Yorkville Pollee Court on charge of homicide. In the car were a number of passeny gers, but they got out unscathed, al though the windows were broken by the crash, a ‘ CAR PLAYS HAVOC WITH - LOAD OF PICTURES. A north-bound Second avenue cal dashed into a wagon loaded with crayos portraits to-day at” Twenty + street, Frank Wetzell, of No. 128 ‘Third street, employed by the New ¥; Portrait Company, was driving the wagon. He.was thrown to the round. LANDS IN JAIL Seventeen-year-old Frederick Hulman, who dimappeared from the home of his father, No. 444 Ralph avenue, last Tues- day evening and was supposed to have eloped with sixteen-year-old Gertrude Curth, whose parents live In the same house, was arraigned in Gates Avenue lay, charged with va- grancy, er, John Hulman, re- fused to furnish bail for him and he was sent to Jatt. According to young Hulman, ho left hoine with the Curth girl and they spent Tuesday night in Manhattan Bor- qugh, after she had pawned a ring, On Wednesday morning they went to|but was not seriously hurt. For tio. Comack, L. I., where the girl has rela-| hours that part of Second avenue was tiyen. littered with about @ hundred crayon « Hulman was married last No- vember to. Georgiana Potts, who lives ,Portralts of man,, woman and child. The portraits were ruined. in St. Mark's avenue, near his home. DR. PETTINGILL’S KIDNEY-WORT TABLETS. 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