The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1904, Page 5

ee WOMAN STOLE I > FR CHUON Annie Meyers Admits that She} Fascinaling, Indeed, IsThis Spring Collection of Dress Materials. he Ny Erie RAG Y Paris, true to her nature\has turned the fashion-decree that great quantities of material . Serts that She Has Been a stall be used in the making of the spring cova ict soeano great rejoicing, a ee By the aid of her clever weavers, she’s evolved myriad ideas in light, airy, fluffy, illusive LD My i mae aa textiles, clever both FA weight and tone effect, that inake it seem ag those these voluminous folds, pleatings, tucks and gatherings on Dame Fashion’s dress were the natural outcome rather than the cause of this'conjuring, Our showings of dress:gpods this year were never surpassed. We invite your viewing. Of special-price interest to-morrow is the following list : Black Dress Goods. Colored Dress Goods. ts All-wool Suiting Cheviots and _-Mohair Sieltian, black, '39c. yd. | f ¥ 39c. yd. 44 Inches wide; mel All.wool tweed suitings, in new | Sedans ade +1 $1, $1.40 grade. { mixturés—30C. | No mail orders or Black Serge, strictly all wool; 4 inches wide; $e, quale a $1.00 yd. Black Suiting Cheviots; strictly al 4 wool; 50 inches wide; 65c. quald STP el amperes Geen de Fine French Nub \oile, 42 inches wide, in pearl, biscuit, cham- pagne, helio, royal, navy, ciel, cream and black; $1.39 and $1.50 qualities, | $1.50 yd. Fancy’ striped Loliennes, 45 inches wide. Polka dot silk and woo! Eolienne, 42 inches wide, Fancy silk and wool Voiles, 45 inches wide. Plain silk and wool Eoliennes, 44 inches wide. AM new spring qualities, Main Floor, near Rotunda. HAS 15 YEARS TO SERVE ON LATEST CONVICTION. |f x 4, »Worked for Three Cents a Day and Later Was Forced to a Steal, She Says, to Provide! for Her Little Ones. light Spring uatity. | Cfepe Mistral Etamine, strictly | ali wooi; in handsome colors— | | mples. 44 inches wide—75c. quality. Shepherd Checks, in blue and white and black and white, in ity. Black Nun's Veiling, strictly alk checks — 55c. wool; 38 inches wide; 59¢. quak: ity. —Black Mistral Etaming; Adc. yd. excellent for weay; 690. Gg Jitack Broadcloth; st | — Blac roadcloth; Si} | yd. inches wide,$1 quality. French Chiffon Voile, fine quality): beautiful deep black dye;~ 44 inches wick, Su quality. ven —Black French Voit 79. yd. crisp finish; 30 inch wide; $1.25 gear. BPatnicth —Frene! jroadclot $1.00 yd. twilled; with _hig! satin finish; 52 inches wide; $1.. quaiity. RT I PEL EEE CA EE ES TD ’ In a cell in the Tomys, Annie Meyers. convicted of grand larceny, {s counting | the minutes until the Sheriff comes to take her to the women's prison at| Auburn. There she will begin to serve! ‘ @ aentence of fifteen years. Tho ox- perience will not be new to her. She has been an inmate of Auburn before, he considers that she has beon dealt with too harshly, and blames clreum- stances for bringing he? to the depths to whichishe has fallen. | Annie, Meyers cried pitifully when she | told the story of her life to a reportor for The Evening World to-day. It was not acting, She ts not clever enough \ for that, even though the police can- a sider her a dangerous criminal. 1t waa only the one bit of womaniiness left in! fl her that was sveking to reveal iteelf. To most persons Annie Meyers would be taken for what she has claimed to be—merely a German sorvant, willing to do the most menial kind of labor about a house, Her face has a stupid * look and lacks all signs of intelligence. Criminologists would call her a born degenerate with a desire to possess roperty that does not belong to her, different size quality. Strictly all-wool serges and chey- jots in all desirable colors— 5c. quality 59c. yd. . Silk and wool Sublime. Fancy mottled Briljiantine, All-wool fine French Voile. All-wool Etamine. ¢ Cloth. silk and wool Ali-woo! Nun's Veiling. | Allewoot Crepe Leypta All-wool Grepe Cheviot. All-wool Fancy Armures. shades—$2.75 War Books and War Maps ‘to Keep You Posted. Here are b of special interest for folks Black Tafieta Silks Specially Priced To-Morrow A chance out of a hundred this to secure elful'edie of Methane: eer ware who are keeping in touch with the war events. staple black taffeta at remarkable price-cuts. ut Ann The maps will show the modus operandi of the two nations, while the books giwe ideas of the characters and fighting propensities off the countries, ye Meneses. tke aus | even Wy eacede ate, El Noto, an\Udexpiored Corner of Japan ..p-+ . Do Women who appreciate extraordingry value- giving will be quick to take advantage of this sale’s good things. For instance: — 55c, quality, 39c, yd. |79c. quality, 59c. ya. 19 inches wide; guaranteed, \23 inches wide; guaranteed. 89c. quality, 69c. ya. | $1 quality, 75c. yd, 27 inches wide; strong and | 36 inches wide; very strong lustrous. \and justrous. Main Floor. near Rotunda. Women’s Silk Gloves, 50c. All pure silk thread, with double fin, js—two-cl le. war Uy) wo-claap aty! interesting.« It begins elghteen years Ago when she came to this country with her husband from Germany. Worked for Three Conts a Day. “We got work®’ she says, ‘on a farm in Westchester County, and I worked from sunrise to dark for three cents day! Yes, for three cents a day, and it was hard work, too. + “EF lived with my husband eight years and bore him five ehildren. ‘Then he took to drinking and loafing and I bad to support him and the children, It was hard, but I did tt. After a while ne began ‘to beat me and I left him. T took him back three times on his prom- ise to do better. Then I jeft him for ood. He is now a bricklayer over in rooklyn, “It was in 184 T left him and the first time I did anything wrong was in 1897. 4 was sick then and the children were starving. I could not work. so I went * to a house of some people i knew and took a dressing sacque, I pawned and used the money to buy something tojeat for my children, ) ME was arfested for’ this and served fen, months in the Kings County pent: tentiary. While there the keeper broke my arm and it never was set right, Bee, the bone shows the bump now, “My children were taken from mo and sent to somo home out West. T don't know where, When I got out 1 asked for them and was told T would have to make them a home first. I got work as a janitress and sent most of aftattoa sh Diag a white, f iuntantee Mokat with eas + should tips Sear Outs popraps a hee baltide Rien i should finger ’ Sik Mulls al 12%c. Yard. The Prettiest and Newest. Nothing timelier or better int thessvay of a bargain could be offered than this. re ; its another of those Bloomingdalettrade- chances that’s account- able for it. For instance: Sheets and Pillow Cases—at less than cost of actual material. Tea Re hwyorn But ‘he told. me These dainty sik mulls are shown tim the prettiest of colors— ff - Sheets, Pillow Cases. they must have mare. white, cream, pink, light blue, navy blue,helio, Nile, cardinal, gray, SA x90) ave oh x 3, ane Stole for Her Children, champagne and black. Cae age x £36, 10¢ “T couldn't make it, so T stole to get qi 36, Other stores sell the same quality at)18c,.\and 20c.a yard. Yard Wide Suslin—Bleached Mail orders promptly filled. and unbleached; excellent qual- ity; special per yard, it, T would have done anything for my children. I went to work in a house in Lexington avenve and stole a wateh and chain. 1 was cought and sent to Auburn for two ¥ This was tn 1901, late in the year Main Floor, near-Rotunda, Be! amy aia coe mee etl Spring Curtains a-Plenty at York four days when T met a man } knew. He took me_around to bis board- * Ing place and there T met another man and a «irl. “Just two weeks before list Cliristmas they wanted me to help them xt 1 refused and the T wanted to do i! me until I joined them, &in then we have robbed four places. Hut of all the things that we took I never got any- thing out of it but a waist and a skirt. Unmatchably Low Prices! You don’t need to think that newSpring curtains mean ex. travagance when such really remarikable prices as these prevail. Nothing more necessary in the Spring fixings to give the home a bright, fresh look than new curtaims—so buy them here, all you want, at sharp savings. 5 of the new colors and styles. backs—soft and pliable skins. ! Lonly helped in two, of thene house, Also some of cre RET? "THM! WORLD; MONDAY EVENING, Mustlins and Bedding Needs Frice-Cul! .___ All shortcomings in the way of “domestics” may be filled in at Bloomingdales’ to-morrow at prices hard to believe in these days when cottons are so high in price. Seeing is believing, though—and here you've a chance {o replenish stocks at the smallest outlay. $1 To-Morrow for $1.50 Kid Gloves for Women Just opened—this lot of elegant spring gloves, in the smartest They're of P-K glace kid, with pretty Paris point embroidered lace kid in two-cla: MARCB 7, 1904. , ae : ALCARS TRANKER TO eee A Veritable Flower Garden/: Is the Ribbon Section--- Radiant with a myriad of color rainbows—for every creatién of the ribbon world that is to be at all popular is here insalmostyitbund= less profusion. Some of these sori are: In, polka-dotted Taffeta Ribbon, 29c. yd. 4-in, Satin Taffeta, with gilt polka dot, gilt edge, 59c. yd. | All-Siik Chiffon. Excellent quality~in only the most desiree colors sich as ligh blue, pink, lavender, brown, navy and black and white Regular Price 50c. yard. foemorrow at Bloomingdales’, 29c. a yard. . 3 Laces Galore and | Glorious— Fashion’s Edict for 1904. Have you seen any of the new spring gowns from Paris? If you have, you'll vow you never saw so much lace put on gowns so tastefully, Takes the French to do that, but America can come pretty close to her in the matter of draping these days, too. So we're booked by Fashion for a great lace year, and Bloomingdales’, always alive to style-trend, has gathered as beautiful a collection of laces as is to be seen in America. Lierre, Point Venise and French Drop Net Top Laces in White Main Flo St. Section. \ D | Sin, covored Satin Libegty iftbbon, » with striped border, 75ch yd, ’ 6-in, colored Loutsienne, »pithychiffon | applique effects, Z5c. yd.) y, 9-in. brocaded Taffeta Sabht Ribbon, ani Real Shades, from 10c yard to $2.2. Gin. colored Louisienne, with em- | “544g yd Colored Novelty Effects in Gailoons and Insertions, $3.98 to $7.50 yd. hroidered polka: dts Bde: 9. | 10-in. Roman-Stripe Saslav Ribbons Point Venise, Irish Crochet, Black Chantilly and Point de Paris S-In, Persian effects, 85c. yd. $1.98 ya. 13¢-in, Persian Bandings, 2c. each, 3-inch Satin Taffeta Ribton, 12%4c. yd.; regularly 20c\ yd. 3\Meinch Sat Taffeta Ribbon, 15c. yd ; regularly 20ch yd. 43-inch Satin Taffeta Ribbon, 18c. yd.; regularly 49en. yd. Main Floor, 0th fit. Section. Saeed All the New Season’s Silks. Here at Very Little Prices. Though the war has had a tendency to advance theapricesson | raw silks, there's no advance here at Bloomingdales’. ; ee On the contrary, here are these ever-popular and alwaysewanted _ kinds at temptingly little prices, for to-morrow: ue 69c. Taficta, 5c. yd.‘ | 45c. Tatletatine (2967s In all colors, including black ; In all shades, including white; 19 aps Ie white; suitable for tiningsystrletly all | pure silk. ra 45c. Corded Wash Silks, ‘ é 33e. 79c. Lovisine, 59. yds In pretty checks off brown, bing i | helio, black, and whife: and black== | dunt the thing for separate waists andl shirt-waist suits, Main Floors Near Rotunda. Those $30 & $35 Mink Scz Are Going Quickly at $10! — Lace Medallions, 150, to $5:75 yard. tn brocadiea CAR aia Ribbon) Beye White and Butter Colored Point Venise Insertion, 1@c. to $1.50 yard. Wide Imitation Torchon and American Laces, 5c. a yard. And all other popular styles in endless varieties. Main Floor, noth st LT EE Good Choosing Still Among Those 50c. Mousselines at 19c. Though the selling was extraordinary yesterday—as brisk as we could attend to—the assortment was So large and well selected that to-morrow finds plenty of good choosing yet from the balance of the original fifty thousand yards. : All of the designs are exceptionally pretty, Of colors, you may select from cream, light blue, pink, champagne, navy, gray, ete. Main Floor, near Rotunda. Values Extraordinary in Pretty Decorated China. A list here that just bristles with the sharpest money savings of the season in elegant china. Housekeepers alert for Bloomingdale trade chances will be sure to make a note of this. Dinner Sets—Of American porce- lain, with pretty floral decorations and gold edges; 100 pieces, includ- ng. soup turecn and large size meat dishes—special per set. 5 Tea Sets—American po Seotion, Extra heavy quality; a full line of choice colorings. 75c. Pongecs, 59c. yd. Gun metal and natural color—24 inches wide. Fish Sets—Of decorated china; $21 value—special per set..... $14.00 Fish Sets—Of decorated china; regu- Jar $18 value—special per set $8.98 | Oyster Plates—Prettily peceratec ny with dainty floral decorations and’ gold | tegular 3£c.—speclal....... Through a “quick-cash” transaction we got hold of*these hand- 6 pleces—special ty | Pi WV ’ idiculously edges 56 p eager saree oy petted iy polled Lp some fur neck scarfs, which are now selling at the.abovesridi ON Fish Sets—Of Limoges decorated | Same without plates. china; $6 value—special per set $3.98 a, small price. 34 Floor, 50th et They're of beautiful Eastern mink, made very long, with furon both sides, trimmed with six handsome tails, silk cord and silk frogs. — The lots are dwindling fast, and to-morrow may be yourtlast” chance for this bargain—don’t miss it! Genuine Sable Fox Stoles— {Long Double Brook Mink Very handsome; squirrel-lined, | Boas—With fur on both with two large and two small sides,8 fox tails; regularly sold fox tails,four paws and silk ore at $6.50; choice while the lot, paments; regularly sold for $39, | lasts, at '$3.! choice while the lot lasts at $19.50 | $1.88 To-Morrow Buys Fine Umbrellas of Pure Silk! — Umbrellas made with a special eye to their service-giving qual ties as well as to their good looks. They're made with Paragon frames and steel rods; roll tightly, and are finished with case and tassel, 26 and 28 inch sizes. The women’s umbrellas are mounted in a beautiful assortment of pearl, ivory, horn and sterling silver trimmed handles, The men's umbrellas have handles of horn, ivory, buckhorn and natural wood. a They're regular $3.50, $4 and $5 values, ¢ .75 “Gladiator” umbrelt for $2.00 “Ironclad” umbrellas $1.65 (or $2.75 “Gladiator” umbrelias | QS, for $2.00 alronclad” wa : Feather Pillows—Filled with 3 Ib. of live geese feathers; covered with best A CA tick- ing; have sold at $2; special, cach, $1. Canton Flannel_Unbiéached; extra heavy weight; in lengths of from 2 to 10 yards; regular price, 1244¢.: special, yard, Diamonds al Less Than Cost! Soon after these were purchased up Went the price of diamonds—neverth Unbleached Sheeting—9-4; { 2 beavy quality; value, 20c.; special, per yard, 14y%e Siikoline Comfortables—Full size; filled with good white cotton; all pretty designs; have sold at a dollar; special, 79¢ Main Floor, near Rotunda. The Ri th 3 fine real ruby Present value... Qur regular pric Reduced to. Grpay I $35.00 Set with one fine cut rt i: i of yarn-dyed silk taffeta, tape though I the Judge told me 1 : =; : ' kid i style, with Paris point em- ne dine 0 ; rateal i ‘a steel rod, tight roll, selected Neaone more. han uh the Hak meted eorlregepery anaes ” laslvdelt a taeteesdrere frit broidered backs, They're light weights—in mode, beaver, cham- Prevent one ery fie, Taragea | paneer 38 | wood handles, In 26 and 28 inch, for. age an advertisement for a. servant {nt speclal, per pair, 396 insertion, @dged with laces pagne, pearl, gray, tan and black and white, Reduced to.” "$20.25 inch, for men and women. yen a ror oath et. Bectiem, Hae Fare ane, ould int the two man | Ruffled Curtains—Of dainty worth $2.50 pair; special, per Maln Floor, 0th Bt. Section Main Floor, Front, Centre, : = and the girl know about It. I would swirs, in a variety of pretty eer pecsecenes + OOo — Hook ‘through the house 6 see how figured designs, tull lengths, coe } Nottingham Lace Curtains i \ svat ine rene nO teil ule. aan special, pair, —Very serviceable quality; R R R Se \n the: woman ‘St the “house would ba Tn Rutfled -appet Curtalns—in new sens sec per pair, uffled enaissance ed. [s. e kitchen or some part away from ed ani ed ettects,so! SBSCHANG chum ee usaess Ft ype the front rooms. tigewhere for. $1.40, special, poe (fNottingham Lace Curtains zheyiein full ans seein ped sizes, et rae > ° Escaped with Regularity, per pair, ic —In exquisite designs; heavy e centres are of exquisite Renaissance, with insertion and ruffle H acd Sutck when thal tease Swiss and Dotted Muslin sbiead: [eish polpt. and ised edged with lace. ’ (‘4 pi mg e 0) ' v1 urtains—In very pretty lens; special pr: y x3 re ) ) Ben they would use a akeleton Key Se Aare raelinny old’ alles pair, $1.25, $1.39 and... $1. We quote the following very special prices for to-morrow» (ti but i always left the house on where for $1.50; special, per Irish Pojnt Lace Curtai 50 6 vi d 9 1 Fee Teas FE mysait were |p Pills Cetus |) Gam race etcgt ene emt rey ae an i @ rin nto rame Ps fn Avenue and Second street. 1) § Rattind Ramee cas eed AACHHHOL Guay, Aid oe ‘Thard Floor, 60th Bt. Section. e 6 @ servant, got what T could — w roidered; spec! pal i . ‘ s * SREY MaMEaMeemanr ones cold. the her | lace edge, fully worth $1.75 | $298, $3.40 and....°.,....$4.00 With one big, glorious bound, like the monarch of sales it I never came back. T turned over the pair, special, per pair, . Third Floor, 60th St. Section. : s : . * ani &c., has jumped into x things I got to tho girl, and ehegwould d ee Shirts 39c always is, the spring sale of Toilet Needs, Medicines, &c., has jumpe pawn them. C.an ¢ 9 ° H . “When the detectives arrested me and fame again. : locked me up in. the Tombs thi ot me to tell them what I have told yout 1 fmave them the names of the men and tho girl I worked with, and the names of the pawnshops where the goods were pewned, Then these same detectives Went on the stand and told the judge thay had found out all this by them- A know I havo done wrong, but NY} * don’t think I ought to get fifteen Pears 38c. Buys Copyrighted . BooKs To-Morrow in the BooK Sale. Many of the following volumes~are of the original $1.50 editions, They're nicely bound in cloth, with handsome orig- sizes, 12 to 14. No mail orders filled. 4 It's too | fi t ti , e. Tree wenin for Hitteen sears”. "te!" | Ml inal decorated cover designs; printedéon first-class paper, from large, eel Fn ce ee ? i clear type. . $ { O li Book lovers will not miss this sale—it means too much in Couch over 1.10 economies, : ? W i cu ists. Tp ,Missgsipp| Bubble. | Truth, Emile Fore. ea a TAtal Tho orth $1.50. } Pel : Ae | Maining P * ny one having need of a icarS| Misa Petticoats, Dwteht ehn aiding of &, Marchlonoss. viel 4 Our Four Optica Stores are easy PELORTL wea mene Th Bower Honry Beton Aunt Libby's Nelghbora new couch cover and willing to sy to reach, | Each has well-equipped Ex- on me mene eO, B Mecuteh-| Quine, Anthony Nowy 2 ry ou toe pctase ek . } amining Rooms containing most ad- Benato forth. FON | Re Cares Care | Hee ene ember~ save ic) s aticed 1 ; "Atherton. en. jar a , ? , certant ey ae Peel BAGH eu Ug oopadey aha rhea, B. Le Voy- evi para. Wem better take advantage of this amination by an Oculist of ripest ex- ba ae cae a Sipeesn tow 8.3.) ne Subeae ni special for to-morrow. e—Ce ary M, Blos- @ Manxman. aine, t Fequifen Gags be de conta and rane am ns the De A"urtan’ witch: Cpskett | Dr. Nikola. Guy Boothby. These couch covers are in } at maderate cost. ‘wfloushby Claim. ane Bete BT: Bentom vie beautiful combinations of tich "INO CHARGE for Examination. The ait of Lith, Marie | | tru RF sit. 0. m: oner- A Create Oe vie a decided Glasses, If needed, $1.00 up. med ‘aatie. re loot touch ot riental harmony— # j 3 ai "uch Yara. | Gr Makes tt India oe theyire full size, 50 inches wide, e rok tattle IO. B.. by ria oe Anelit H with heavy knotted fringe on all ( o . ww, | Hag Giants Bate” Max fT sides. f Mal 2 Bt. Seetion. ‘Third Floor, 60th Bt. Section. CIANS—41. Years’ Practice. 5 Broad St....Arcade, Browd Lx. Bidy. 7 Coty a 4 tits 39h A These shirts are made of imported oxfords, cheviots and a splen- did quality of domestic woven madras—in over a hundred good designs, on light, medium and dark grounds. ‘Men's sizes, 14 to 17—and some 17%, 18, 18% and 19—boys’ ansicr to Bloomingdalcs’---Economy’s Headquarters. ell us why? Is it just a “happen-so”? Or is it because people know these toilet needs sales to be the greatest chances that are offered to buy the freshest, purest and most popular drug articles at a saving * k Come here to-morrow, when the following list goes on sale, and ast any of the thousand and one people you'll find busy buying what they think! Ayer'a Cherry Pectoral..150 Black, Prince ‘Tar Sosp, | Bath Hmonces, lars site, rg pmulaion of Cod | Bricks. wer doz. Main Floor, 60th St. Section. CAE 2S Here’s 19c. Hosiery for 8c. A lot of samples which we bought at a really dargain price, figuring that we could give our customers a splendid value— Ile re Imported Halr Brushes, wich pollsed | “Decks E and here 'tis! r : eck ate.” penetra Women’s stockings ®f good be aT Ra black cotton, with double Sal va ks Aes Soap oles; ost! all nine-inch f+ LANA Pores 3 imported Russian Tollat on ls ; ay are “ription: | * Bony Glo Peagea—Spectal, ee The men's socks are in plain and ribbed cotton; black and colors, Children’s stockings of heavy ribbed cotton, with double soles. Main Ploar, 60th St. Sret Paper Be rolls, per dosen. Ti: | Atain Floor. son St. Sections Telephone or C. 0, D. Orders Filled, ee ition