The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1904, Page 4

“Borough President ren teen to ra i, Bey pe ot) 04 @Phat common expression “The Great CnWashed” will no longer eppiy In this “city atter the inst sen bathe at Coney Islan Mew being carried along in the mind. Se President Martin W. Litter: 1 of tree whica project is a nm, pT Brooklyn, and a coterie of gentlemen j, EY ARE IN olGHT $e Littleton, of Brook- © tyt, and Other Prominent Men Are, Enlisted in the Cause, and Active) Work for the Project Has Begun. j Brewster, Hoffman Miller, B. recreation purposes the give ts people fresh air Water for cleanliness and health,” said Mr. Li vening World reporter to- day of these should be the sub- exclusively speculative mnedted With the Awsoclation for Im- | Opposition (rom the prexeut estabileh- “ae ondition of the Poor, ‘The, MCnts Is expected Td not see why, mite “Teeny aa for the {2% clty howxe would increase Walh- j ,vening * sag, (INS HMONE people to whom tie present 4 m@ for the peopie for years And this ErBt| prices are a matter to be considered. i anthke Rained Wil! be followed up| For every vustamer drawn away. tos j ou Fomcient beac hs arene un be | Biv Mowld bed athe . sia to my j eltizens of New York to allow all WHO | Aiickiy found i ire to take salt bathe “In fact, Jam satisned | the estab { While bringing up the question of the Bese Of a houre whlch should word [Pelare in providing pudiic amumemerts. iigsmenis hardly at all. There are t she proposition for the bullding of 8) srough pavilions now at Coney Ieland lest DAtHINE-loune in front of th® | tq accommodate the Srowds on & hu! ty’s Seadide Park -nhould arouse Im lass We are faet reaching a period Mh every quarter of Greater New the effy must hunt for reeroation | ‘ork, Mr. Littleton’s office has been fy. 4 Poor, and with the cost of liv- “ With letters commending th? ying higher, and ihe Interio- baths in- , and today he took hold In nee and eonterrea with Park Com- aminatoner Michael Kennedy, of Brook- ‘Tua, in reward to the bullding of 4 $2,000 WALDTNE PAvition on the city’s prone Well-Kaown Men Behind It. dent R. Fulton Cutting, of she Weociation for Improving the Condition the Poor, to-day communicated with t Littleton expressing a desire to co-operate with him in the project. ‘Cutting wpoke of the operation of & ar wea-bathing institution In Bos- + , and stated that he was desirous of; x hing in the work of carrying the YRoleot along here. With Mr, Cut- fing are intersted George Calder, 7. Frankiip Smith, M. D.; William KR. ntington, D. D.; Constant A, An- drews, George Blagden, Willlam Gos- ton Hamilton, Edward Cooper, De Witt MH Seligman, Robert Shaw Mintern, Whtodorus B. Woolsey, Howard Town Rend, G. W. Wickersham, W. E. Bond, |) Ahdtew Mills, W. W. Hovpin. Peroy Te ~ Boyne, John Bancroft Devins, J. Gra- > bynm Phelps Stokes, Leonard KE. Op- dycke, John Greenough, Tsanc Town- wend, Herbert Parnons, Henry G. Bar- they, Charles ner, John Seeley Ward, jy.; Eugene Delano, George B. i auMeiont to supply the demand, and the! park facilities beooming lees each | year, I hold that (t is bigh time to reach out and create recreation opportunities for the poor in the hot months. Moral Plane Lifted, “Happily the carpenter and the con- tractor have taken the places of t ‘capper’ And the crook at Coney Island and have done what previous virtuous trusades failed to accomplish. ‘The moral plane of Coney Inland has been Ufwed very much within the paat yenr, over which the whole communi! ould reinice, But the change has had another result which is most se ous to the poor af New York and Brooklyn tn that it has increased the cost of visiting and enjoying the pin and ham practically crowded out ¢ Poor man with the large family and smail means, “Tt was to ive Unie clawe recrentic and amusement that T recently sug- Rested in Mne with the agitation of The Evening World that whatever Park property the city owned which, had an ocean front should be weed. ont the ocean front side for the purpose of constricting ample bathing pavifions to be conducted by the city government. Seaside Park at Coney Island, of thirty ‘SPOT ALONG NING, JUNE. 11, 1904, CONEY’S ‘SHORE WHERE LARGE: PUBLIC BATH MAY BE CONVENIENTLY ‘PLACED a was formerly for rabbiah, into a mrean o4si« of and could be made fi by the several publ: Conld Buy has been t dotting of tie bathing 1 More Land, vg ground nsformed a dump coolness and quir till more attra 1 beach with iHome, park property fs not sumMetent Y bnt he ot oin full It be- come sty city to wequire aaa 1 property at the Coney TF Loter, the elty ein ost other sea bething pavil- fons on find other points where th © desirable beaches The cost of operating the pavilions would I hos Tepes? terior publle I do not see why the | » ru | of the nominal Ke Would Bs + Dietiln Halling of a bathing pavilion would not be nearly ao heavy or caetiy an undertaking as a recreation pler, as there are no piles to drive. “Tt takes a nickel to And. The establishment of sea barle Would redeem the old popularity of the place for the poorer classes, Of recent Vears the resort his been getting fur- to Coney Ial- Nan Patterson's Missing Broth- er-in-Law, Who Failed to An- swer Simmons, Counsel Says | Will Appear in Court Monday. | —E FACTS ABOUT |’ PURCHASE OF REVOLVER. Plans of Defense, It ls Rumored, Are to Be Changed—Faulty 2 Draft ‘in Indictment Delays Grand Jury Action. “although persons presumably in a po- ‘Huon to know assert (hat the failure q fhe Grand Jury to return an indict- we against Nan Patterson yesterday eas due to a mistake, there are others ‘who insist that no indictment will be found—at least noi on the evidence that bas offered. ‘Thus far, according to all the infor- mation obtainable, the District-Attorney has not made out even a prima facte hee of murder. He has produced wit- fexses who have testified that Nan Pat- terpon threatened the life of Cacsur Young, and he has produced a police- miBh Who testified that he found Carsar ) Young dead in a cab with Nan Patrer- “on, But he has not produced a wit- Viges to show that the Patterson girl Hired the shot. selt appears that J. Morgar Prother-In-law of Nan Patterson. Wit the city without the knowledge — thé lawyers for the avccnset woman Abraham Levy and Dan O'Reilly say fat they ere hunting for him and that hey hope to vroduce him at the inquest n Mond: ‘They run the risk ¢f haying Smitt sentified ax the wen who bought the Volver with which Young was kiNed \Hyman Stern, the pawnbroce who M4 the weapon © few hours before the s&h Was shot, but Bmith's abser “Bimost as damuging us a direct Hi tifeation would be. Vik ease Binith should be {dentifiod as ibe, serson who bought the revolver 1 wild be up to the District-Attorney io show that Patterson was given “Weapon by him or his wife or that took it from his apartments when Re teft to meet Yount. y ia story current that Smith PMline Patterson met Young on Fri- Smith. hi r MRS. CHRISTINA SMITH, BRIDE WHO IS MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING. He js the son of Rey. J. Morgan Smith, who was in his lifetime a noted Preacher with a reputation extending all over the United States, Dr, Smith | Was stationed at Grand Rapids, Mb and there are scores of OT residen of Grand Rapld« scattered around (he country who would go to lengths to shelter his son | Believes Ht Wan Accident. | Capt. Sweeney, of the Leonard strest station, whe has been working on the 9 for a week, Is reported to have sald to-day that he belleved Young! shot himself accidentally while strug ging with the Patiersvn itl for the| Dowsension of the revolver ‘This ts In Mue wlth the testimony of Algernon Meyer, who asserts thai he saw Young and the woman strug in the cab and saw the revolver in] Young's hand when i: was discharged ness for whom the Diatrle 3 ofllce hax deen seeking eve ave the Wagedy on Saturday Jast, t man who was sald by several eye-wit- nesses ty have Jumped up on the step, of the cab and looked | after ine shooting, bas been found at las Lio is Wiltlaay Stemm, jr, who works for hix father, a trackman, and Ives ac No. 14 Wetrfleld «:reet, Brooklyn. commuaicated with tne District-At rey In answer to the published app (or Wis appearanve waich was lasucd yesterday, His father's place of business in in “evening in Healey’s restaurant In isavenue, Should this prove tu “The ineldent could be used to y that Young was th the company @ man who bought the revolver uf- Purchase as well as the Patter- ny pally org in Binlth decide to re- ‘ fis tial him, Watker street, near Went Broadway Stemm afd tO the District-Attorney that he saw the cab with a man and woman in Jt ning down West Broad- Way and heard the shot after i: passed him. He ran after the cab and Jumped cree gives an al Sims, with the custe on the step to look inside, seeing the man lying across the woma lap. He helped tatry Young to the Hudson Street Hospital, but ald not give his BAMe aw Ne did not wish to get mixed up 1h the case, He said he did not seo lik an tory decree ‘ recommendation of referee, Each anied. his decree the clerk to seal Judge tho revolver with which the shot was fired that killed Young. Indletment Faults. failure of the Grand Jury to Ine 1 Patterson, atter a true dill voted against her and Indictment had been made a matter of caused much comment. ‘Phe rearon riven by the Dis Attorne Was Mat the Hirst draft of the indict- ment had been found to be fvulty and | it was thought better ty let the matter gv over until Monday Nan Patterson was paler than usual to-day when she arose jn the ‘Tombs. The action of Mrs, Willlam Luce, als seemed to have made a deep im sion upon ier Mrs, Luce. like all of Youn lives, seems to have a di Miss Patterson, and on the Jcourt walked clone to the prisoner, }t foward her nnd shaking het j Mager. exe almed ina low votce Nan torsan ke oback and | turned 1 the arm of ; MR. SIMS GETS DIVORCE. I UaenaNnlint recnutions Taken to ard Papers tn Case. Unusnal preenutions for seereoy have ohare divorce wetion ot {George Vernon Sims against Gwenneth }Bims, which culminated in a final cree to-day, signed by Jw Gila sleeve. In the Supreme Cont, Tho divorce to } ndy of his little bi ikned an interlocu- aH the report an Warren Teme, “ti in turn accom- ith a signed order the papers, ‘NO TRACE OF BRIDE WISIN A MONTH |Mrs. Christina Smith Left Her Home in Portchester to Go to a Brooklyn Bank and Has Not Been Seen Since. jo The Evening World) | Port ISTER, N. Y., June 11.—Al- | j though a thorough search has been rs, Christina Smith, who dis- r home here on May 16 woman has been found, | her relutives can account for her nee disappenrance only on the the ory of foul play y five 00 West Sago, left her home. Ni avenue, on the date mentioned, saying she was going to draw some money she had on deposit in a Brooklyn ‘bank vas In good spirits and spoke of gf early, time nobody has been found \y ean give any tdings of her } of Police Donovan, who has bees} art In Ma eearch Cor tue woman, | Wy alasm Chroughout the country Has received, pes espons viows to her aiarreage Smith} was employed by « large Uinware con-| hy at Third ave O12 TE street, Brooklyn, and inqui among the nu- merous employees there Lave been frult- lens. Ver sister, Mrs, Anna Miller, with whom fo Mved in Brooklyn, Is also Whable to give any account of her he wh did not call on the day she dropped out of sight. Ing woman is described as of complexion, Nght wavy brown hatr, fovt 8 inches In helght’ and pounds, When she went Bray skirt, white shirt Mgnt out 5 weighing . White lnen turnover collar, with black ribbon bow, black silk cay, (rimmed wi white insertien end a Wack straw) brond-bfim hat, with * (eniming. oman's husband, "Gus" Smith, who Js employed as a foreman in Town. a & Horton's lumber IM ere, with) family have conducted a spretal search (hemselves, but have learned nothing, Smith and nis wife were deveted to, each otaer, and as theayougs womah was of 4 cheery dixsporition end so far asx known nd no trouble her disappearance tsa mystery The mater of Mrs, Smith ts grieving | eeply, and with the other relatives has ke ‘The Byenig World to try und} get a trace of the missing wife, ————— | IN HONOR OF R. P. SCHWERIN.! R. P, Schwerin, the Vice-President jand General Manager of the Pdtific | Mail Steamship Company, whose shtp, the was recently Taunched | on her way from New| » San Francisco, around the) penter the Pacific Mal service, night the guest of honor at a home of Frank Seaman, The guests were: bs eat Whithey, . Underwood, SMarehall “P: a . Hatch, Manchuria, now Glonheim, Cc. 5 x. Frank A. Munsey, F. Jonn Brisben Walker. port Charlies A. Moore, ider and Edward P, onkers, Curt {to have gone to the park af | these words ther and further away from the poor, and while more attractive has become leas possible for the poor, ‘The public fea bathing Js a project thnt needs the pinport of the preme. and 1 commend The Rvening World's constant interest in public affairs by acain setting forth Its wosrtbilitles and advantazos Need Parke in Brooklyn. “In Brooklyn the park facilitics are not Jaree enough, being only 2's per cent. of its total area. We are rapidly filling up. and unlese we take care we shall Rave the xame conditions before us whieh faced Manhattan sev years aro. In one week recently building per SHOT HIMSELF 1 POLICESTATION Joseph Paulson, After Wander- ing About Central Park, Goes to Door of Arsenal and Fires Bullet Into Brain. Joseph Paulson, a young man of twenty-five, who lived in the apartment- house at No. 18 West Tenth street, is ying In the Presbyterian Hospital to- day, he having abot himself with sul- cldal intent In Central Park during the early morning hours, Paulson's wish to dle {a a mystery He has Ween tn excellent health, and he end his brother-in-law, Louls Roey, with whom he lived, have a successful book bindery, Paulson is In no sense a dls- | Sipated man, and If he had a love affal he has Kept It secret from his sister and Roey. Taulson ts suppoeed to haye decided to cad hin life Inst night. He ts said dinner, nnd is believed to have wandered about Und Just before dawn to: lie then walked toward the police station in the arsenal, Police Bergeant Howard was on desk duty, and in the station-house was Policeman Sruith, There came a pistol shot in the doorway of the stution- house, Smith and Howard ran to in- vestigate. They saw a man staggering uway from the door, In his hand was & pistol ‘The next instant he had placed the pistol in his mouth and fired & second shot. falling unconscious, ‘The man was carried into the sta- tion-house and Dr, Nines called from the Presbyterian Howpital, ‘The physt- cian found that the man had shot Imeelt dn. the temple ‘and in the root of the mouth. He will dle, He was taken to the hospital. Not until the man’s clothes were closely examined was his tdentity es- tablished. In a note book was found “Nobody to blame." he note Was rigned Joseph Paulson, Ne. 185 West ‘Tenth street,” Paulson's brother-in-law and sister were greatly shocked When they learned pf his act. They hurried to the hospital oning to «et some statement from him. This. however. the physicians say will not be possible. ———a—— @ CZAR’S LIFE NOT IN PERIL. +——— Den that Two Infernal Ma- chines Were Found in Palace, 8T, PETERSBURG, June 1i.—Inqul- ries made In official quarters regard- Ing the statement made by the Mail, of London, te-day that tw fernal machines were found at the Taarskoe Selo Palace June ¥ elicit a positive dental of tts truth. ‘Whe statement made by the Daily Mall was as follows: “Two infernal machines were found on the, ght of June 7 concealed. In tobacyf boxed in’ the ‘Tadrakoo Selo Palace, where the Ruastan Emperor Is now. residing. "One of the machines was jp the @ining-room, the other In the audience chamber, The mechanism In cach was wotkiig them discovered. i erved, in Sena ip'sure to be cavegorically SHEN CTIM OF THUG, PRISONER SAYS Jersey City Man Held in Bail Charged with Keeping Money and Inventing Story of Attack to Cover Stealing. pee Ss PS DISCOVERED IN A SWAMP WITH HIS HANDS TIED... He Declared He Was Lured Away in a Wagon, Chioro- formed and Robbed, but His Story Is Not Accepted. Adolph Schuber, the saloonkeeper at No, 164 Fremont street, Jersey City who Was found !n a swamp at Pacife avenue and Ash street, with his hinds tied. und who eld he was thrown there after he had been chloroformed and robbed of $1.22, was arratgned in the Firat Criminal Court to-day and held by Acting Justice Ransome {n $1,500 for Texamination Tuesday morning. ; Patrick Norton. a brewery collector, Who nays he lives at No, 2 cewett uve- nue, Jersey City, and who advanced the ' ones Sehiber ito caah Peansy! 4 nia Raliroad employeon’ checks, mad & compiaint of emvezgiement against ’ the prisoner. Bonu told the Court a story to the effect that he had cashed ail the Taitroad checks and went to the bank to the inoney for them. On bis way home he scpped In a saloon at Con streate, he de- pet a man wao talked the 8 or a saloon on wright street, near Van Vorat. He Bald Ue man hud a wagon outside the pl. and that he could drive him up to Bright street. ot Inco the wagon,” said Schuber, “and had only riden a’ short distance when 1 Was struck in the face by the driver and knocked backward. [ was York wad Wasp clared, and the to him coneern stunned by the blow and started to shout when I smelled something Ike ; chloroform. A handkerehief was thrust into my faee, and T knew no more until T woke up in the swamp at Pa- cific avenue and Ash street, with my hands tled. 1 cried for help and a man, whom I have since learned is John Ma Allister, came to my ausiatance and Went for the police, “When my hands were released 1 dis- coveted that I had been, robbed of the monéy T got at the bank.” “That's a good fish story," sald N t ton. who stood near the Judge's de: jlts€or $1,700,000 In small buildings were) establishment of public wea baths willl “He has that money and is hiding {¢ |tssued In the borough of Brooklyn, In| be a certainty. somewhere. Yesterday when I ad- Manhatiinn 1¢ per cept. of tte area has! But the project ts one that should | vanced it to him to cash checks I bes | beeen give ‘er to park improvement, | Interest every voter in all five borou; came somewhat suspicious of him and while 13 per cent. ef the Bronx has al-| Manhattan would be the chief gi fater hurrted to his satoon anf found | re: been devoted to recreation pur-| in the end, with its crowded lower ad gone. I know he has the mone: Dawn, fast, wide and. thickly-rettied porttons | 8, he need not think he can fool me. Brooklyn ministers are taking up the | of the west side. Now ts the time for) Senator Hudspeth, who represented public sea-bathing project, and are | the city to provide for the future by | Norton, said he was of the opinion that falking thelr views from ‘the pulpit. | acquiring ocean frontage for recreation | Schuber was not telling the truth and Dr. Ne Dwight’ Hille. of Ply: | purposes, and. the opening of a. tree |asked that he be held ‘for’ further ‘ese | Mouth Church, and Dr. Lindsay Park-| public bathing house ut ey, datand | amination: | er. Another leading member of the| {a a long step taken in the Girection| ‘The police discredit Schuber's story | clérgy, have openly expressed them-| of — providi much-needed summer | because, as they say. he hal $20 In his | selves in favor of free sea baths Re-| breathing places for the poorer classes, | pockets when he was found and ther fore another week has closed Mr. LAt-| and an opportunity for wholesome} do not think ft Ikely that the robber ‘fleton expects that the project for the cleanliness. ‘Would have overlooked this money, ABNER M’KINLEY, ing contracts with the Government for ‘ WHO DIEDSUDDENLY I! M'ADOO TALKS OF BURNS INJUNCTION Says Court Order Will Be Obeyed, but Police Wil Keep Close Watch on Washington Street Saloon. Pol'ce Commissioner McAdoo this af- ternoon issue a statement which I In+ tended to set people right in the mat- tor of the Injunction granted by Juatiee Gaynor agulnst Police Capt. Burns of the Shurch Street Station this week. ‘The statement In part as follows: “This Injunction was issued aga‘nat Capt. Joseph Burns, and enjoins him from pleketing the saloon tn premises at No, 19 Washington wtreet, ‘This in- Junction will of course De observed by me and by those under me to the very porter as long as it ts in force. The ap- peal which Was taken from Justice Gaynor's decision in granting this writ does not operate as a stay, and, there- fore, the injunction is in full force and will be observed, “On the other hand, good reason in belevin { Code is being violated | day, and that a pen: the police have that the Penal nearly every commitied there, Jt ig thelr sworn duty (0 use y legal und proper ineans to apprehend one gulity of crime. and t will not, of course, re- Jax any effort to tha tend, The Commixstoner said that owing to numerous complaints he has found { neeesnaty to detail special bieyele po- omen to duty on Atlantic avenve, rookiyn, in the yleinity of No. 2¥oLe where conalderabel atoningwof automo: piles hax taken’ place, ———— offence Is being] P| country lawyer, ‘ABNER MPKINLEY DS SUDENL Brother of the Late President, Who Had Been Ii, Found by His Wife, Lifeless, Sitting in a Chair. NURSE HAD ATTENDED HIM DURING THE NIGH While Attendant Slept, the Pa- tient Arose from His Bed, and Death Came as He Sat by a Window, SOMERSET, Pa., June 11.—Abner McKinley, the only brother of tho late President McKinley, was found dead in a chairin his bedroom to-day. He had heen ill for almost @ year with Bright's disease, most of the time confined to his home in this place. A trip to Florida last winter failed to benefit him, For‘some weeks Mr. MoKinley's con- dition was extromely werious, A negro valet slept th the room with him and was at his call every minute. : ‘The servakt was awakened by Mr, Mckmiey thik morning at £ o'clock, and remained atvake with him for about an hour, Some tme after the servant wont to sleep Mr. McKinley got up quietly and sat down at a chalr at the window, There his wife found him dead when sho ontered the room at § o'clock. The body of Mr. McKinley will be taken to Canton for burtal beside his mother and fatter in West Lawn Cem- etery./ The widow and other members of the family accompanying the body will deave Spmerset @unday evening for Canton, and while there will stop at the home of Mrs, Ida 8 McKinley, widow of the Jate Prosident, The funeral ees, It in expected, will be held at.2 o'clock Monday utter- noon, Mrs. Ida McKinley tecetved the news ot the death of her brother-th-law on returning from a drive, Imme- diwtoly telegraphed her condolences here and tendered her home to of the funeral part and mergers Up to a yrar ago Abner Atokintey lived in this city, He moved here tron Canton, 0., In 1887 and Was admitted to e bar. Somerset, Pa., Is the home of ‘his son-h-law, Dr, hetmanus Buss, and Mr, McKinley ostabitahed a coun- try place there Wfter the marriage of Dr, Baer and Mabel Mokinley, Up to the time that Wiliam MeKin- ley wan elected Prowident of vite Tntted States Abner MoKintey was a plodding He nol heard wf partiontariy Atti after Une Bpatien- Atntrican, war, When Tt was charged that the Jaw firm with. which he was favored concerns. An Investigation of the charges failed to show that Mr, Me- Kinley did any more than was allowa- blo under the ethics of his profession: Mr. McKinley's wife and daughter Weng in a room at the Windsor Hotel when that structure was destroyed by fire on March 1899, and were rescued by firemen. Mr. McKinley was at his oMce when news of the fire reached him. He hurried to the hotel, but did not find his wife and aaughter for an hour, and the strain he was under in hat’ time told upon him. 0. t © was Rtricken with wha’ a Mi iggteyeee as "ide ota peta at GRRtrE ete, Riayat We alle fie issepianeen'® . va prenident: F nite ushter is a singer i igh v1 Se om i mposer of ereat abllicy OP a DOWIE FEARS A MOB. Keeps tn Touch with Police After Betng Refused at London Hote: LONNON, June 11.—John Atexander Dowle arrived here this morning from Holland and made a tour of the hotels, : accompanted by his wife and son and! escorted by deacons, in search of ac- commodation. Ever here he mét with» a refusal as the hotel managers are, Afraid of @ repetition of the ramdyism | which marked Dowle's former stay here. Ultimately, being unable to find lodg-| 8) co! ingn, Dowle proceede dto the Zi headquarters. "These Nave been wea nected with the police telephones tn all ticipation of a possible onslaught by the mob. 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