The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1904, Page 12

SHOWNTOWN FIRE THREATEN > THE WHOLESALE DISTRICT Brings to Light a Brave Volunteer Elevator Boy. ~ ‘A spectacular fire which did damage amounting to $150,000 started and attic building at Nos. 457 and 459 Broome street, where it _ Started, but only after an hour of fighting from ladders, water towers and ‘the roofs and windows of the adjoining buildings. * ‘The Broome street buildings are occupied by Henry E. Frankenberg, ~~ @i@ealer in cotton yarns; J. K. Strefel & Co., dealers in silke and laces; Jobbers’ Skirt Company and the firm*of Wallach & Nelson, dealer in bons. The fire started in the attic, where a lot of inflammable material ‘was stored, and had been burning for some time when Policeman McCauley aw smoke curling out from under the eaves and turned in an alarm. EF. ES BURST THROUGH ROOF. _. By the time the engines arrived the entire attic and top floor was ‘blare, and flames were bursting through the roof. The flames went down the airshaft and set fire to some silk on the first floor, but the firemen ex- tinguished this without any trouble. They had a bigger job on their hands. however, when they tackled the upper floors. A second alarm brought ief Croker to the scene and he turned in a third alarm. Your patrol ealle were also sent in, because of the immense value of the stock in the puilding. Meantime the 150 persons employed in the burning building, forty ' pf whom are girls, were in a state bordering on panic. The smoke was thick and it penetrated every floor. Most of the girls and men ran ‘the elevator, but there was no response to their ringing of the bell as Yetta, the elevator boy, had taken fright at the first alarm and run ae > Hy OLUNTEER ELEVATOR BOY. _- Joe Doliman, a seventeen-year-old boy, who lives at No, 123 First je, and who was one of the first to get out of the building. realize! @ predicament of those upstairs and went to the elevaor and ran it up- He made ten trips through the smoke and took out over seventy ‘The reat went across the iron bridge to an “L” of the building, h h extends to No. 55 Mercer street, and passed out in safety that way. a Once assured that everybody was out the firemen went at the fire vigor- » They took lines of hose to nearby windows and the water towers ladders were run up. Thousands of people, abroad for the lunch hour, hed them and cheered repeatedly. A little after noon the firemen ai ‘ that they had the fire under control. _ The loss by fire is confined to the attic and top floor, although some dam- was done to the first floor, All of the occupants, however, lost more Jess by the flood of water which went through every floor. RAN AWAY FROM i to-day inthe very heart of the wholesale business, section of the city, and | the firemen a hard tussle. They managed to keep it inside of the| - benes Weise d SAR CMOAL dv auth, suse dl, tod SCENE AT BROOME STREET FIRE WHICH THREATENED THE HEART OF THE DOWN TOWN WHOLESALE DISTRICT. St WERE TURNED BACK Escorted by Troops Over the Colorado State Line They Are Met by Kansas Sheriff and Forced to Retreat. IMAGARY FES New York Man Who Imagines a Gang Is Trying to Kill Him Declared Insane in Catskill, N.Y. 4 Fuse Blows Out and Sets Car on Fire—Workmep Extinguish the Flames with Pails of (Spectal to The Evening World.) CATSKILL, N, Y., June 1.—At the Obert Honse here August Ps er Schnaus, of No, 3% West One Hundred and Thir- v-fifth street, New York, a . Blowing out of a fuse in the rear ently forty-five sears old, and of ood Joftrain No. 187, just as it was draw. SPPeArAnce, besought protection from into the Canal street station. {been threateniigy heat tto Meenas © {ihe fuse exploded with « loud report.'down ance a Sear ago” last, og bar Ny by 8 great cloud of smoke und pen he left the employ of John 7 BOR in pasachaers in. the pamecys & tailor, of No. 292 Fifth ave- ear were greatly alarmed, but owing to, recommendation (ree was a letter of the fact that the station at Canal street! Sclinaus, who was sapere keenly, Was within easy reach there as no panic ¥\" arrested. To-day he was pro: ec icin workiaen who were re-| jounced insane, ing ties at Chatham Square ran! At Schnaur's home to-day cpails of sand to the burning car {old an Bvening Wond report THe Gmanaged to put out the fire without je Nad been rather flighty for a year, ity, Nearly twenty minutes had jo),)° jt fettor ana formerly ‘orked for porrever; before the OOF WAS TS nue | Hig delusion ie thar eietina nee ~ PMeanwhile the trains began to pile up) following jim on muraer bent. ; t 1 fe left home a wi r aoe tte neihened, both trackr ‘he wanted. to eet yen bel Bown to eh and many passengers Schnaus received a letter, from. wim the narrow, Yesterday in which he intimated that fe the protests: his mythical enemies had found hit. and that he would have to go further, GIRL'S HEART ON THE WAONG SIDE Operation Required to Remove the Organ from the Right to the Left Side of Body Proves ratio was entirely suspended on the wer section of the Third Avenue “L" ‘nd thousands of passengers were in stations and in trains for minutes this afternoon, through ing that Mrs. tof and walked alo fathway to aqntions, des ‘of the guards. EWESS TRED TO ~ SMP INTO RIVER img Woman, Who Said Her Name Was Lena Gastorvitz, \Causes Excitement on Pier— Bit Policeman in Hands. a Success. & young Jewess tried to jump into the} SCRANTON, Pa, June 11.—Annie toRiver to-day at the foot of | Riley, the thirteen-year-old daughter of wenty-sixth street fro mthe gangplank| James Riley, of Jackson City, In ree i to the Charitles Department Sieamboat Fidelity, and. when pre- ented, desperately fought several men several minutes before she finally “an subdued and taker in an ambulance » &@ Bellevue Hospital. ‘The woman, who had described her- Self as Lena Gastorvits, twenty-two eamstress, living on Hes- = (i near Orchard street, obtained from office of the Commisstoner of Ou Poor a pass t visit Blackwell's With a large 1 covering from an operation in which her heart, which had shifted, was moved from her rig@t to her left side. The operatton has caused much dis- cussion among physicians all ov the State, the girl's nerve and re ery being considered marvellous, Di ing the operation It was found nec sary to remove four whole rib ar parts of four others bi The girl lived for a whole year with her lieart on the right side, During that time she underwent two opera ons for the removal of pus that gath- ered at the left side ov, lungs, eh pee le, when she was re- hed by two deckhands. em fe ly, was canried, suil fighting, into He office Of the Commissioner. ‘There le Fenewed her struggles with the two n regularly stationed on the d several clerks. lex she caught ‘the hand arcker in her teeth and and even-| ‘The United States Geo Feports the existence of an extenn! deposit of good Alaskan coal situated from twelve to fifteen miles inland from Controller Bay, in the valley of the Behring River. The coal-area at pren- logical Burvey “|They Start MADE THEIR WAY TO SMALL. TOWN IN OWN STATE. Governor of Kansas Says that Peaceable Men Will Be Wel- comed, but Lawless Element Must Keep Out. HOLLY. Col., June 11.-A train load of deported Cripple Creek miners stopped half a mile west of the State line near here to-day and the prisoner: were unloaded from the cars and or- dered by Col. L. W. Kennedy. the officer in command of the guard, to go to the east and remain outslde Colorado, A volley of shots, It Is said, was fired Into the alr by the troops before they boarded the train and returned ’to the west. The. deported men were met at the State line by Sheriff Jack Brady, of Hamilton County, Kan., and forty depu- DEPORTED MINERS COURT DECLARES | AGAINST KUBELI Judge Goes Into Details in De- | ciding for a Critic Who Com-| mented on Violinist’s Personal Appearance. . | FERLIN, June .—"Suit dismissed with costs for the plaintit,” was the verdict of the court yesterday at F | fort-on-the Main in the sult which heli, the violinist, brought Gehrmann, the music eritic of the Frankfurter Zeitung for what the vio- lintst deemed insulting personalities in criticisms of his concerts. Dr, Gehrmann described Kubelik as a “stupid looking man (bleode drein- echauenden) of superfine, effeminate appearance.” and spoke of him also as A specialist and ‘miracle worker produces nothing but tones’ ‘The proceedings turned p: the meaning of the word which experts testified was north Germany in the sense of who *shy or ‘expressiontoss,"” and the court noted that Dr, Gehrmann came from Berlin to Frankfort Rut Herr Schwarzsohild, Kubelik's lawyer, saw in the word proof that of- fonrlve personalities characterizing Ber- Nn musical criticism were t cuced. The Frankfort jected to the word he claimed was only applicable to a va- tles.and were turned back, The miners struggled into Holly whefe food was furnished them, Later many of -them started to walk to La- mar, Col, ST. FOUTS, June 11.—Gov. Bailey, of Kansas, who is: visiting the World's Fair, stated to-day in regard to a re- port that the striking Coiorado miners Were to be deported! into Kansas that he knew nothing oftclally of the mat- ter, but he sald that if the miners are coming, to Kansas as peaceable and law-abiding citizens looking for.emp! ment they would be made welcome; but,.shauld a body of lawless men seek to Invade Kansas, Kansas would take care!of them. “T believe, that we are able to enforce the laws of our State, and if the occa~ sion ‘arises we will do so," sald the Governor. General Passenger Agent ‘Black, of the Santa Fe Railroad, !n an Interview in Topeka to-day sald: “Our special train fro containing deported min Ww Victor, Col.. then depa ‘ iners went east to Cool- rahe" train ‘three of the (ree he others passing over. the State Jing afoot Into Colorado, ‘The latter finally reached and stopped at Holley Col. @he big Salvation Army station,” —<————— TROOPERS: LEAVE CAMP. and on Horseback Militia Follows on Train, PEBXSKILL, N. ¥., June U.—Troop of Broklyn, left the State camp at 5 o'clock this morning and began the homeward trip. The troop will go into camp near Yonkers to-night and reach home to-morrow. Sauadron A left the camp at 9 o'clock. for its homeward march. The squadron encamps near Tarrytown or Dobbs Ferry for the night, ‘Troop B, of Albany, and ‘Troop D, of Syracuse, were the ‘last of the cavalrymen to break camp. They left together for Peekskill, where they boarded a train for home. Nearly the whole of the Twenty: ent recognized includes about elghty-tive square miles, The coal resembles th sick at the station. [harder bituminous kinds of th t Ei Packer arrived at the pler|more than it does anthracite, SGauae estraining 7 “Ro meverely that later he had the hand dressed ut the. hos- ‘reported fi - cae menerne ee ordinary handling it will probably nee eh eo con. {crush to almost the same extent ns the in the Jharder grades of sem{-bituminous coal. ough this will not, of course,, imbuu iypteria,” its value an © steusy: funn cue: Maou third Regiment bivouaced last night m the woods north of the camp and this morning a sham fight between three battalions—two against one—is part of the programme, ‘The Twenty-third left for home this afternoon on the trath that brought up the Forty-seventh, of Brooklyn; the nteenth parate Company, of Flushing, and the Third Mety performer. Dr. Gehrmann’s defense of the word | “bloede” wax that he only meant to say that Kubelik riveted his eyes on one spot when playiitg, The presiding Judge took a hand In the proceedings an pointed out that he possessed @ pamphtet writtén against Wagner during the great composer's Ufetime and designed to prove that Wagner was crazy, Yet Wagner never once brought suit against his erltles. The juge also clalmed that Kubeltk in- yited criticisms on his personal ap- paerance by having full length por- traits of himself displayed in shop windows as advertixemnts Experts who were called to testifled that Kubelisk possessed astonishing technique. but that he almed moro at externa] effects that artistic depth, His whole program was arranged with the view of displaying virtuos ty. The court in explaining the reasons for the dismissal of the su% sad the word “spectalist"” was Justified, since vel “cultivated the break neek of & anini,” adding: it is ‘how customary for describe the. personal ri describe, ther readers who Were not present at tire com Subellk brobably would hay ronal desi 0 sald that’ the expres- was not insulting, and wer to the Mrs, Agnes Thompson's an complaint of her husband, Edward G, ‘Thompson, a promoter, for an absolute divorce charges in an affidavit that her husband has nsyer contributed a dollar to her support from the date of their marriage in Boston in August, 1899, al- though he has $0,000 In bank and an Income of $10) a week. are both living in the 229 West Thitty-At together, She say took her dia- worth tully $10,000, leaving her de frien for support, ont ae ans gene all her allega- FOUR KILLED IN STREET EXPLOSION City Engineer Miltimore Among the Victims in Sewer Blow-Up in Chicago That Caused Gen- eral Wreckage. HOUSE DEMOLISHED AND THE ROADWAY TORN AWAY. Manhole Covers for a Distance of Several Blocks Hurled Sky- ward—Crash Caused by Ac- cumulation of Gas. CHICAGO, a June 11 huge -By an explosion sewer being con- atong Thirty-ninth street, manholes. were blown up for many blocks, the street was badly torn and a frame bulldig demolished Four persons, including Clty Engineer Miltimoro, killed. An accummulation of sewer gas ap- to-day in atructed parently caused the explosion. Three workmen, accompanied by City Engineer Guy Miltimore, who carried a. gusoline torch, were going down, Into the sewer when they encountered sewor cas 1 the explosion followed, All four men were killed and thelr bodtes ertombed, In addition to sewer gas It ts thought possible that petroleum had leaked {nto as for fifteen minutes after the ewer, the explosion tre burned fereely. It was: two hours before a successful at- tempt could be made to rescue the bodies. BOSTON POLICE SEK MISSING MAN Frank Ford, Lawyer, of Canada, Left Sister in Railroad Sta- tion to Get a Cigar and Has Not Been Seen Since. BOSTON, June 11.—The police of this city are seeking Frank Ford, a lawyer ot New Brunswick, Can,, who myster- fously disappeared at the South Station, Ford came to this city with his sister, a college graduate, ‘They were en route to Bridgeport, n., where he was to engage in business, They ate dinner at a restaurant and then drove to the sta- tion, Ford left his sister in the watting room and went out to buy some cigurs, He did not return and has not been seen since, His sister remained in the wait- ing room all night. It is that while Ford and his sister were dining he spoke somewhat loudly of the money he had with him, and two men at an adjoining table ap- peared to take considerable interest in his conversation, It is belleved he was followed by these men, who probably murdered him, ——==—{—_T Advertisers In World Wants get a targer circulation than any other suo- cessful New York medium |Exhibition sale of 'WESTERNACHER 1S ANOTHER VICT Deputy Bridge Commissioner Is the Fourth Brooklyn Office- Holder Sacrificed to Cause of Political War. STUCK TO M’CARREN’S COLORS TO THE LAST. Comptroller Grout Sorry for Of- ficial’s Removal and May Make Place for Him in Fi- nance Department. Deputy Bridge Commissione- Gott- fred Westernacher is 10 longer a city official. He was made to-day a victim of the political fight waging between Tammany leader, Charles F. Murphy and Senator Patrick McCarren, he being the fourth Brooklyn office-holder to be socrificed to the cause of a politica! war. Westernacher stuck to his McCarren colcrs afd would not be induced to Jom the Doyle forces in Brooklyn to the detriment of his leader, Vor weeks Tammany Influence hus been exercised in the direction of obtaining Wester- nacher's abandonment of McCarren, put tho former Bridge Commissioner said from the outset that ne would “stick to McCarren, Job or no Job,” Finaliy the order for his removal went forth, aid Commissioner Best received Wes- ternacher's resigr.ation to-day, Mr, Westernacher is prominently known in Williamsburg, where he 1s applauded by his large German con stituency for refusing to “bend the knee” to Tammany. He is rich, and sought an official position fur the honor of the berth, He said to-day: “I got out when it pleased me, but no amvunt of pressure could Induce me to abandon Senator McCarren, whom the Germans of my district regard as their leader, The enforced retirement of Mc- Curren supporters from office means the defeat of Tammany in Brookiyn. Grout Prisen Wensternacher, Mr. a year. Westernacher's salary was $4,000 It is now expected that Comp- troller Grout will make a place for the former Bridge Commissioner in the ¥' nunce Department. At least, Mr. highly prizes Mr. Westernacher, dicated In a statement replete with casm which the Cemptroller for publication to-di ‘Of course we are # official so capable Gottfried Westernacher we flection, ether dificult, police problems on t bridges of the city will be easily solved, This same method has proved so effective In meeting the police diffi- culties in the Water and Dock Depart- ments that we cannot doubt the result in the Bridge Department. Besides, Mr. Murphy says 0, and that ought to be enough to convince any Prooklynite, even though others may doubt it. ‘This method of dealing with police problems has many advantages, In the first place, it is the most logical and effective way of keeping Brooklyn clean from Tenderloin evils, particularly that portion of it known ‘as Coney Island, situated {n Mr, Doyle's district. May Teach Brooklyn a L m. “Secondly, and | inetdentally, of course, its author hopes that it may reduce Brooklyn to a proper and be- coming sense of its naftral subordina- tion and prevent It from any independ- ent expression of opinion or policy, least except on Election Day sibly he expects that it will pfevall on rooklyn to discover before the Fourth of July—Independence Day—that Judge Parker is not the best nominee for President. “Tn addition, this course 1s well eal- culated to make everybody forget that there is any police dereliction in parts of Manhattan, ax the newspapers have Sometimes foolishly said. And | last, but not least, It induces us to forget that Mr, Murphy publicly proclaimed Mr. Doyle as leader in’ Brooklyn in place of Senator McCarren, deposed by the same proclamation at least ten days before Mr. Haggerty was re- moved. “Still, all this ts plainly necessary. and the most ordinary observer can see that by means of this course the police conditions of Brooklyn have been so regulated that he can detect no: differ- ence In them under Ebeteln, Haggerty ov Farrell, “[ saw Some tewsboys throwing dice on Corporation Counsel Delany's door- steps this morning as T passed his of- fice, and I fear that it will be necea- sary to remove Assistant Corporation Counsel Bell from the Brooklyn office ff he thus shows his Inefficiency in dealing with police problems,” —— Koepping Must Di sure 0 falihful |: removed, but can console ourselves with the re- that hereafter gambling and a ALBANY, June 11.—There will be no executive interference in the case of Koepping, the Port Jervis man under sentence of death at Sing Sing. 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