The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1904, Page 9

b d Hiram M. Jones, iad, Harbor of the Firm of Koehler & Co., At- tempted to End Life in His Office. STRUGGLED WITH CLERK, BUT HE WAS DISARMED. ‘The Man’s Actions Had Been Such that He Was Constantly Watched—Taken in an Am- ulance to Bellevue. Hiram M. Jones, of No. #7 Dean street. Brooklyn, a member of the firm of Koehler & Co., consulting engineers, attempted to-day to cut his throat in the office of the company on the sixth floor of No. 120 Liberty street. He was prevented from injuring himself by James Beecroft, a clerk. Luter he was taken by @ policeman to the Church street station, and from there in a patrol wagon to Bellevue Hospital. Jones recently had acted peoullarly and yesterday R, Graf, one of the mem- bers of the company, gave instructions in the office that he be watched closely. ‘This morning about 11 o'clock he was seen by Beecroft, the clerk, who with ‘an office boy was the only other per- son present, to open a pocket knife and stand before a mirror. When Beecroft attemmpted to take the knife Jones fought furiously. ‘Though the clerk ts of powerful bulla | Pk! nd Jones a man of less than average physical powers, it was several minutes before the clerk could get possession of the weapon. Beecroft finally calmed Jones and sent the office boy to another office to telephone to the Church street station. Patrolman Rudolph Tesing, in plain Gothes, went to the office and in- @aced Jones to accompany him to the ntation-house. There he was examined by Dr. Gould, of the House of Relief, who hurriendly advised that Jones be gent at once Jones willingly went to that institu- tion in a patrol wagon. At the office of the company It was said that Jones recently has had the hallucination that his wife and mother, who lived with him, were in want, and that the company had thousands of dol- | Jars in immediate prospect which coula not be collected. terday he got to- gether ten laborers and took them to Brooklyn to work on an imaginaTy con- tract. Jones was a foreman for tge Craft Ice Machine Company before he became & member of the Koehler Engineering Company. Capt. Craft, who was decap- Haten ina “Tenderloin! resort wae che President of the former company. DA. WELLS BAKER DIES SUDDENLY Veterinarian and Prominent Figure on Speedway Expires While Attending His Trotter, Royal Prize. Dr, Wells Baker, a well-known vet- erinarian and a prominent figure on the Speedway, {s dead, having ex- pired quddenly while attending his pet trotter, Royal Prize, after a morning spin along ‘the river side. Dr. Baker stabled Royal Prize in the Hamilton Stables, at No, 185 Edgecombe avenue. After driving the horse into the stable he looked the animal over and decided its forelegs needed band- aging. He prepared the bandages and stooped over to adjust them. As he did 80 he pitched’ forward, George Harding, .a stable hand, went to his ussistance, and found him unconscious, An ambulance was summoned trom d Wright Hospital, but i reeon, Dr. Wrenn, was dead. Heart disea nephritis, according jo D: caused death, On State. He came to and had resided 1 t . WHO Was Bastor, of Ay Women's Silk Waist Dept. Special for Saturday. Wash at $5.5 The above are of mor Lord &. Broadway and ‘Twentieth to Bellevue Hospital. | » Silk Watsts in a beautiful variety of colored stripes; shapes and correctly fashioned; value $5, at $3.90 each. Also Silk Shirt Watsts ef Striped and Checked Taffeta, Black and Gun- 1 Taffeta and Polka Dot Foulard; value $7.50, Sart John H. Bradley Con Confesses He Has Been Taking Letters from Mails for a Year—Held In $2,500 Bail. John H. Bradley, a young man Rving with his perents at No, 19 West ‘Twenty-ninth street, and employed ‘a cleric in the mailing division of the Gen- eral Post-Office, was arrested to-day by Postal Inspectors Jacob and Meyer and looked up in the Ludlow Street Jail in default of $2,500 bail on a charge of stealing letter from the mails. - ‘For some time Chief Postal Inspector Mayer has received complaints from Maiden Lane dealers that packages and letters containing cheap articles of Jewelry, failed to reach their destina- tion. Jacobs and Meyer wore assigned to the case and discovered enough to fasten suspicion upon Bradley. ‘A “test” letter addressed to John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, L. 1, and/ containing two marked one dollar bills was placed in the mail {t was known Bradley would handle. The letter disap-| peared and together with its marked | contents was found én the young man's possession when arrested. ‘The inspectors found in Bradley's pocket half a dozen pawn tickets, « ver, match box with the monogram | ML and several cheap rings, ali | of which "he admitted having abstract- ed from packugus and letters, Bradley had a letter matled Wednesday Ifrova ttauea orU tion endtbenc to New York. by mi and which originally contained $1.50. A fully loaded pistol of emall calibre also was discovered in phe uceueen clerk's pocket. oung man was taken before Chist thopestor where he made 1 confession. said he had been loters for a yi he obtained. aad his record inthe past hes ‘al ord in the past has alwa; boon of the best. > a SUE EnEEEGaeEEeeeee COL. ASTOR’S HOUSE AFIRE. | Biase in Chimney Quickly Extin- guished by Chemicals. Fashionable residents in the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Sixty-fitth street Were thrown Into much excitement all | | breakfast hour to-day by calls of e!" which emanated from the man- i of John Jacob Astor. Mrs. Astor was at home at the time and was just about to have breakfast when the alarm was raised, Col. cE Ie At Prosent In Europe. The butler discovered ‘smoke in apartments and turned in an ainvin at Gnee, The fre started in the big brick chimney and was aulckly subdued with the ald of chemicals fire department arrived. TELLS HIS STORY. “I had consumption; my doctors knew it; all my neighbors knew it. The best doctors in New York sald tt was incurable. “A professor of the Cornell University #d- vised me to be examined by the Anderson X-Light in order to find out positively If I could be cured. ‘The examination by this| X-Light, at 50 West 224 st, New York, showed Instantly that I had consumption of half of the right lung, with ulceration and ome breaking down, “I bad chills and fever and dreadful night sweats, When I coughed I spit up blood with the hemorrhages, had short breath and no appetite, I rapidly lost flesh and strength. “The Koch Inhalation was a healing balm to my poor, sick lungs. As the wonderful vapors reached down through my alr tubes and soothed and healed the sore spots in my lungs, It gave me new Iife and hope. | My pains disappeared, ‘the night sweats stopped, my cough gradually left me, ang 1 | continued to gain in flesh and strength un- Ul L was cured. In four monthe I bad gained 22 pouads, and now I am well and strong. “The Koch Inhalation Treatment, at 30 West New York, certainly saved me) from perfect fitting 5°, oO each, e than ordinary merit, Taylor Street and Fifth Avenue. Two Schoolboys, with Older Leader, Accused by Class- mate of Holding Him Up and Robbing Him in Street. Nearty forty pupils of the pubite school at Seventy-seventh stret and Amsterdam avenue, led by their prin- cipal, appeared in the Children’s Court to-day as witnesres against three boys who were charged with the robbery of Ralph Weeks, fourteen years old, of No, 108 West Seventy-fourth stroct., ‘The defendants were John Fits gerald, fifteon years old, of No. #1 Amsterdam avenue; John Ennis, eight years old, of No. 8 Amsterdam avo- nue, and Edward Fitzgerald, eight years old, of No. 25 ‘Weat Sixty- seventh street. These boys are sald to be members of what isknown among the schoolboys as “Gallagher s Gang,” of John Fitzgerald is the al- leged leader. Weeks, the young complainant, charged that Ennis and Edward Fitz- gerald, with other members of the gang, tripped him up and then went |through his pockets. It came out in the testimony, that Fitzgerald, the all jeader of the ng, stood at one side and directed companions. His “gang’’ is sald | to consist of from ten to twenty-five boys of tender years, who obey his commands Implicitly and who are ao- cused of committing muoh mischief on the upper west side. Justice, Olmsted ‘termed John Fitz- the “biggest coward of them He was remanded for sentence; 1. Prints twas sentenced to the Catholic | Protectory for six months, and Edward Fitzgerald Mead paroled in the custody of his pa’ rent Young Man Trying to Pawn Cortents of Suit Case Is Ar- rested — Two Companions Also Taken to Station. Detectives Enright and Summers, of the East One Hundred and Fourth street station, while walking along Third avenue near One Hundred and Tenth street, this afternoon, noticed a young man who was making frequent trips to pawn shups, He carried a suit case to which he olung with peculiar tenacity. Their suspicions aroused, the two name. He sald he was Bdward Walsh, of No, 17% Pr avenue. They then compelled him to show them the con- tonts of the bag, consisting of # purple surplice and much jewelry. Pressed with questions, he admitted jthat the jewelry and surplice had been given him to pawn by two men whom he met in a room at No. 1990 Third ave- nue, The detectives went to the room and arrested as suspicious persons Joseph Solomon, alias Gonib, eighteen years old, of No. 164 Fast One Hundred and ‘Twelfth street, and Frederick Willlams, elias Hughes, twenty years old, of No 036 East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth istreet. The three men were taken to ithe West One Hundred and Fourth street station and from there to Police Headquarters, —<—<—<——_—_ Tawyer's “Refroahe (From the Wichita Eagle) These are the times of big lawyers’ fees from big corporations, The sala- ries paid lawyers by most of the railway com jes and other corporations are annual fortunes equal to a Ife-long assets into immediate cash was 1 finish | buttonholes than $5. put into. vests, single and double breasted. We guarantee the making an Marvellous Purchase and Sale o Garments Which Cost to Make $3, § Sroand $12 tobe Sold To-Morrow at The Overstock of a Fine Clothing Maker, Bought at Just Half Price. One of the biggest and best known clothing makers hereabouts, who greatly overestimated his season's demand, has sold us sixteen hundred suits—at practically half price. chase we ever made, and we've sold acres of clothing. Materials comprise Hiue Serges, Black Thibets, Homespuns and $3.00, $4.00 & of his wardrobe. ther sole object m teking a iost. have obtained full prices for them. We have looked over a good many vests in our time; but never have we seen so mag- nificent a collection of fabrics and designs and patterns as are represented in this lot of three thousand five hundred—to sell at $1.50. The Washable Vests are of Pique in both light, medium and heavy weights; white grounds, with neat and refined patterns woven in black. and worsteds i in patterns that will appeal to retined 1 tastes. and real pearl buttoi guarantee the fabrics ¢ a to Ready Ty To-Morrow Seine the Third Floor, ote__They are PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, The Shortest World’s Fair Line Three Perfectly - Equipped Trains Every Day to St, Louis The ST. LOUIS LIMITED is a DUPLICATE of the FAMOUS | PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED—No Extra Fare. aatURDAY, APRIL 23d Speoclal Sale Ce Men’s High Grade French Four-in-Hands Made of best foreign silks—smart patterns 65¢. Value $1.00 & $1.50, Sdtoadway KH 1916 St ze, BT AVE, 2187& 22" STREETS M DRY GOODS CO. Tremendous Purchase and Sale of 3,500 Washable and Silk Vests for Men. 0 Distinct Patterns. Guaranteed to Be Worth 0 $5.00, It is a necessary part the fancy Vests are ‘made from finest silk Every | Vest tai tailor-made, with There is not a’ Vest in the entire collection that can be bought in any store for less The greater part of them are worth $4 and $5. identical patterns are being shown in exclusive clothing stores and haberdasheries to-day at $5 and $6, Yet we own these at such a favorable price that we can Say: Choose from the Entire Assortment at $150. What is more—and better; we can tit any man, whether stout, medium or slim; and we can fit any boy in his teens. This lot includes 200 Full Dress White Duck and Pique Vests. We're enthusiastic, you see; very much so—in fact, Every vest to be brand-new, and of it season's cut. We know that some of the We Sprin S Suits Men's Fine $5 and $750 It is the biggest and the best pur- cut in the latest atyle for spring. in both All sizes from 84 to 44, in both regulars and stoute, $5 and $7.50. salesmen to serve you guise homespuns; all sizes. = We guarantee every garment to be exactly as represented, an Clothing ever been sold at a sacrifice price before. Also Double-Breasted Two-Piece and Norfolk Blouse Suits in blue Serge; light and dark colored fancy Waelder also four styles Bloomer Norfolk blouse suits, 7 to 16 years, $4 and $5 kinds—for Saturday at.......... ++ Boys’ $3.50 Two-Piece Suits Saturday 174. ‘ Norfolk and nel breasted two-piece styles, made of light colored wool Cheviots. in ayes 7 to 16 years, A great bargain at $1.74. All are $3.50 values. . Instead of making three ur four prices—as we ought to do.-we have divided them into two lots for quick distribution—at and we add that nowhere, in any store; has this strictly high-grade Ready to-morrow morning (on'the Third Floor) with plenty of extra Boys’ Russian and Sailor Blouse Suits: 34 and "$5 k Kinds at 2,95, In blue, red and brown serges (with extra white Eton collar), Light colored fancy cheviots and 2.95 Four styles i The Washable Vest or the fancy vest performs ant unusual function of dress for men. If he has three, or four, or a half dozen } of them, he has none too many. When the biggest manufacturer in this city came to us with three thousand five hundred of his very finest ones, and offered to take a big loss in order to convert them into ready cash, we had no hesitancy in gathering them into our fold, believing that such an offering would be appreciated by men-folk who aim fo dress well. The ‘maker’ in ths tistance is @ partnership of two, one of whom 1s about to fave the concern, To convert their With time at their commana, they coald readiy $e “Viteihe the Euance of is the Essence of Good Advertising. Won't you please keep the advertismg of Adams Dry’ Goods Company pity Bt other advertising. Try to think of it as appealing to your senses—to your better judgment. Above all else, remember it is not pretense or shai We teil vou frankly what we have (0 sell, and oftentimes, why an under-price is made possible, We are not mind-readers ; nor have we the vision of Second-sight, to fait you m advance “how- many"’ of an artcée we dispose of. The only bid we make sor your patronage is the thoroughiy honest one of always offering to Jou the very best of merchandise, for the feast you can possibly pay and be assured of quauty. The history of the store is a succession of merchandising achievements, about which itis impossible ta write chapters ahead, but with a past record that {s tied to pour confidenc tnt nt tne tn ttn tnt en tented Greatest Sale of Sheet Music Ever Offered at the Price. By Mail 2c. Extra, each plece. 18c All the New and Best ‘ue here quoted. Instrumental. Vocal Parsifal. Seleo- | Meat Me in st ale Louis, fas'ippl (A blz dourtsran. *nter- meso by be ue Bont Korin- y Prin wit Mer" tep. heart. by Bousa.) Garden of Baden. Monkey Faces, keys.” (Grand Two-atep. (A big 4 hit. Mother Baitsfed. (A won- arits You Home, derfal “mig-tuma | Boy, and Wants two-step, All the rage.) Suclety Belle on iets Walt, (A big hit at Palm Beach.) Mamma, Ons ontario. Buy Me a Baby. step, (Betior than | Buy Mes Baby. His wastes) (Beautiful song.) Dancing | in the Susie Ante Moonlight Grom Pit, Paff, (Dance.) Dancing Topsy, | FO" Prttie creole (Two-step Inter- | irae, messo.) ‘Take Me Back to Under the Rose. | My Loutstana Waltz. Home, Sunny Sussa. | Rosel My Two-step. SPECIAL OFFER. We will present to-morrow to every customer purchasing music elther from above list or from our departs (Ey mail or in person) a copy ¢ pre! of the ate 2 ale entitled EASY MARI Don't fall i Fes a copy to-morrow. eemarmerunemarener eens eo Candy Specials, Assorted Nut and Fruit pole Assorted Nut and ‘Fruit Glace; Ib. Fine Vanilla Marshmallows in round tin boxes; box. 9c fine Marshmallows: oC ocolate Very box Toasted Marshmallows; Try our After-Dinner Chocolate Pepper- mints ; special, Ib 39c Chocolate covered Figs s Ib.. 19¢ Buster Brown Boxes, filled with bon- bons and chocolate; DOX..++..++0.25€ A large and select assortment of Favors, for dinners, teas, children’s parties and cotillons, at very interesting prices. Mottoes, doz, from 5c. to... Ice Cases, doz., from 106, to, cecenenenenenentn 98c . 2.50 Orr AVE DAI ADA GoopDs mS Girls’ Box Coats in sizes 6 to 14 years; of cheviots and | Girls’ Box Coats of fine covert cloth; also blue cheviot covert cloths; odds and ends in a variety all lined throughout, at . sere Misses’ Suits in sizes 12 to 18; all Jacket and Eton effects; some trimmed with silk braid; all odd lot: preity styles. Formerly $14 and $16. R Silk Coats for little tots of ages 3 to 8; finished Special at... with large collars trimmed with lace. Misses’ Jackets of fine covert; all lined throughout finely tailored, Sizes 14 to 18, at... omave DAM ADA GooDs ca Men’s Negligee Shirts, pleated, champagnes and grays, all in small, neat designs and with separate cuffs, 65c¢ shirts that sell regularly tor $1,. : com, At the present momont in| ing a_ “refresher* of one hundred r tiger nd there is much, comment putts utc © day. Mr. Balfour Browne, ix. r pon the heavy fees to be| C tal ore the tribunal which Is avbitratiog| a similar “retreher"” to that of, his on the purchase price to be paid by the| learned friend, That word “refresher? London water board to the water com-| 1s a delightful. word; lawyers need to paniea, Mr. Fletcher Moulton. wha) be otten refreshed to stimulate them to 6 water board, 1s 0: t to receive from $78,000 to $100,000, Includ-| endeavor.” “> °° thelr highest pitch of 263 Sixth Avenue. Only Entrance to Clothing De; rt it Th: Furnitare OPEN SATURDA' VENI ron EVENINGS UNTIL 10, The Triumph of Artistic Tailoring Ts reached in our work. rplleredlpedlt vratlagretl elf eera dh etmere on advantages of our easy credit system you can dress equal to the $1 DOWN ON A PURCHASE OF si $10, Mene(Mens $ID Suits, | Top C Top Coats. $]9| See by his Overcoat. This yas styles are particularly noticeable, broad shoul dered and full chested. Our $12. Suits that give] the wearer that comfcrt- special tan covert equals any able feeling! custom coat enjoyed by oO Men’s put well dressed Store. Trousers, Choice of fancy striped worsteds and ah cassimeres, newest effects; $5.00 would joulder and! fall chest ef] be the right price, fect. Choice! ® im an| Men's -& 3 50 tures and black cheviots;] SOCS> e a custom tailor] would charge 25.00 fi like to pay) £25.00 for mol Shoe in the mar FURNITURE AND CARPETS, Brooklyn Store, 470 Fulton Street. ‘The kind yon wank ot 8 pee Offer To-Morrow in Their. Big SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WorK Shoe Department Some Excep- ” tional Values in Very Newest MONDAY MORNING WONDERS. orave AW ADA GooDs ca Styles, Shoes and Oxfords. vogue; kinds that arrid wes regu: larly for $2.50 and 2.00 | ot ister ceding pstons: Resa , inclu ‘ent | iad ve isa nds, a ia | mar! Women's Shoes, both button and ‘ace; very stylish and com. fortable lasts; three different shapes; regu- lar $2.00 kinds, at, Pair...see 1.50 Oxfords; Boys’ Shoes of satin call—the hard. thirty distinct styles in every sort of leather bene pedi alsa from 13 to 1 50 that is worthy and all i patent tapes eal the dideoeet pitied Ha Ra ai Sh it ‘at 2025) ouwe ‘Offer To-morrow the balance of } D AM Sims, Wilson & Sims’ wonderful # atric. Stock of Books; fifty cents on the dollar. in Women’ sold at a forced sale for less than A collection of Books, the setting ow of bahay reobyed pebee widespread attention. Some of the cream of the stock r The following Jota are the original Publisher's Sale, Adventyres of Oliver A 5; cloth-bound ed FH & ey rn BH. Davis's Novels, and 1% ‘ orles, 5 volumes, $ cloth. (Scribner's.) ne eues (Scribner's) se... Andersen's Hairy Tales. piesa Over 200 Illustrations. Taree cloth .... ld's ‘The Voy. age of Ithobal, Beautifully justrated . trated. bound and illus re" Dictionary of Cla Shakespeai Uguities, Mytholo; cloth volume. ligion, Literature, &¢. Byron's Works, « Oskar Seyfert. Over 450 {I- gloth volume. Only lustrations. Large quarto Samantha cloth (Macmillan), Net ++. 22 1,49 ALOR SDILY, as a Fi t, C. H. Coma, Quarto Page joday, 5.00 50 Mugenia iniulallabersa tee 1.15 | oe Dail, Marion’ Mariana 130 Flats, 2 volumes, (Serib- ‘The World of Wit and Hur | \e 2 Large octavo volume. ‘The Mcorish E: Bs No gurronder: With Moore ett Meakin, Octavo, 15 at Corunna. G. A. Henty. see gee, aimemmiltan).-;- 00 1.25 | (Boribnerss edition.) Each. 1.80 Scott's Kenilworth, The Head of Pash. Willis ames, Octavo, Boyd Allen ois.csseceeesesesee 400 2.00 | The True Annals of Fai ume.” Beautifally ue rere ea and “tit” Ht 4 trated edition.........,......5 159.98 ira te Wir ettin eN 5a Offer To-Morrow (Saturday) Two Newest Importations of ’ Spring Gloves at prices ee Special. The “Tapuna”—a special Glace Kid for women; light in weight} All the new Spring colorings: OT AVE a100: DRY GooDSs ca two pearl clasps; overseam Paris point backs. also black and white, 75 Cents the Pair, Suede Lisle Gloves—extra fine weave; one large pearl clasp; irapari Mode, beaver, tan, slate, black and white; 29 Cents the Pair, 00 Gas RangesTo-morrowat?S. a They're the famous “20th Century’’. See nt aa at any price. Perfect for broiling, roasti: toasting. te te maker And we're likely to get roasted for selling them at this Saturday price, Just a hundred of Anche een one complete with six feet of 1-2 inch best quality rubber tubing; 5. the entire outfit for.. 08 pene—eeneneenentretnt toronto Offer to-morrow (Saturday) in their Department of § Misses’ Ready-to-Wear Apparel the following at prices decidedly' special. points. nal Chaiilu's The Vik! Age. 2 large volumet Se The + prettily trimmed in a novel mann sizes 6 to 14, Special a 6.98 F: Girls’ Wash D: ia ‘Russian, ‘Gibson ‘and blouse stale checks and chambrays; sizes 4 to 14. Reduced gg | from $3.50 to... teen eenar “2 8.98 | Girls’ Sailor Suits and Russians; also fancy dresses; sizes ® % to 14 years; us) a reel, of styles. Reduced 3,98 6.98 | to 14,3 iste me sehen if t loth; lined with sat 9.98 | inst faa seapres cath eel vn sa Offer To-Morrow (Saturday), in their Department of Men's High- -Grade Furnishings, The following ‘ut prices decidedly special : Men's Suspenders: liste web, with kid | Men's Neckwear, all ak, lari ends and patent button cast-offs; neat | four-in-bands and in. A patterns on white and tinted, 25cm pores ste worth 50c., usually sold for that. of Byles 4.98 sand very ‘educed to