The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1904, Page 1

RACING # SPORTS. |___Fan Bont Opn a 3 PRICE ONE*CENT. INAL COMPLETE BASEBALL and SPORTING RESULTS EDITION _ | “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ] NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1904. FUND FOR RELIEF OF VICTIMS. GROWING New York Citizens Prompt to Respond to Mayor's Appeal for Aid, and MORE LITTLE CHILDREN MET DEATH TIMES MORE WOMEN WERE KILLED THAN THE LIST OF THE MOTHERS. CHILD VICTIMS OF THE GENERAL SLOCUM ARE GREATER THAN BOTH WOMEN AND MEN. Sr RE TS CHILDREN, 273; WOMEN, 243; MEN, 23. HERE'S THE PITY OF THE HORROR! THESE FIGURES MAKE UP INTO YOUR THROAT AND BRING THE TEARS. OF THE 539 DEAD BODIES COUNTED ONLY 23: WERE THOSE OF MEN. LONG AND STILL GROWING LIST OF THE LITTLE CHILDREN WHICH APPALS. PRICE ONE ee FINDING JURY TO. EXAMINE YOUR HEARTZSWELL THAN WOMEN AND MEN TOGETHER. TEN MEN. BUT 1T IS THE THEN ‘About $15,000 Is Soon Ready for Committee’s Use. €HECKS FROM ROGERS, ; SCHIFF AND FISHER & CO. Two Boys Who Had Saved 85 Cents for Fourth of July Were Among ‘the First to Contribute to the Fund— Contribution List. GOV. ODELL OFFERS AID TO VICTIMS OF SLOCUM DISASTER. nt : ALBANY, Jane 27. ‘Hom. George B. MoClellan, Mayor, New. Yo The cuggestion in yesterday afternoon's papers that you intend | te take some official action in reference to extending aid to those who have been so fell Gate leads offzially oF perso: has come to the o' Denier ete York to arouse sympathy nize te ala those ve the contre! and disposition of such ures ae may be thought beat undor the circumstances, B, 8. ODBLL, Governor, ‘he response to Mayor McClellan's appesi for ala for the tamtlien of fhose who died in the Slocum: horror was prompt and gratifying. _ Betor the first meeting of the committee named by the Mayor was held in Mayor's office at noon to-day. $7,878.60 hia toon - ~toliected, and, offers ot | assistance were pouring in. from every “nond. "Rétore ‘ night the.eum had hached $15,000. Mayor McOlellan added the names of the following to his; committee: Isadc . Seligman, Bugene A. Philbin, Julius Harburger, John Crane, Louis C. Raegener and Hubert Alis. At the suggestion of the committee, the follewite appeal was issued by Mayor MoCielian; Office of the Mayor, y City of New York, June 17, 1904. An appeal is hereby made to the citizens of this city to render any afd in their power to the victims of the Gen. Slocum disaster. The active interest so far manifested encourages the committee to hope that there will be a generous response to the necessities caused by this calamity. Checks shouli be drawn to the order of Jacob H. Schiff, treasurer, and sent to him at No. 52 Wiliam street. GEORGE 8. M’'CLELLAN , Theatrical firms offered benefits, business firms offered provisions and fharitable societies volunteered the services of members in any way to allevite the suffering of those whose families were desolated. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM cagchalg eee One of the first contributions received cam sh the mail with a Jetter written in a schoolboy hand and signed ‘ op Re Boyce, jr.” It con- tained 85 cents in siiver—60 cents that the writer had been saving for the Fourth of July and 25 cents that his little brother had saved for the same purpose. Following this contribution came a messenger from Henry H. Rogers with a $1,000 bill. Two other contributions of $1,000 each followed, one from Jacob H. Schiff? the othcr from R. C. Fisher & Co,, owners of the marble works op- posite the point where the Slocum was beached. Members of the Fisher firm skw the whole disaster from their office, and have personal knowledge wf the overpowering horror of it. Assistant Corporation Counsel Breckenridge has been detailed by the Mayor to take charge of the city’s part in raising the relief fund. He will fevote his whole time to this task. Many of the city oMclals have already made substantial contributions, the Mayor leading off with a $100 bill, ALI AGREED TO SERVE. Acceptances were received by the Mayor from each of (he gentlemen he ‘asked to serve on the committee of relief. Following is the, membership of; the committee: Morris K. Jesup, Jacob H. Schiff, Herman Ridder,’ Charles :D, Dickey, Robert, A. Van Courtlandt, Erskine Hewitt, Joseph ©. Hendrix, Thomas Mulry, George Ehret, John Fox, John Weinacht and H. B. Scharmann, On the suggestion of Mr. Schiff, the members of the committee were requested to meet at the City Hall.at noon for the purpose of organizing. Mayor McClellan presided at the meeting. Herman Ridder presided as chairman of the committee; Banker Jacob| H. Schiff being elected treasurer, and Capt. Breckinridge, ,Assistant Cor- poration Counsel, secretary to the committee, Mayor McClellan attended the session and advised with the commtfttes rélative to the means and methods for raising the needed fund for the victims of the Gen. Slocum disasters FUND § WELLED RAPIDLY. - While the committee was in session messengers arrived one after other. bearing letters containing. checks.and. money..contributions to fund, ‘These were all addressed to the Mayor, who Was kept liusy cpantaa! the envelopes and passing money. and checks to Secretary Breckinridge, In one hour thé fund had thus swelled from the six thousand dollar mark' reported at noon to nearly ten thousand? dollars. ... Mayor McClellan urged that immediate. help be extended to those mont se ig E “(Continued on ‘Third. Page.) | Atlantic City Jubilee, ~ 920.00 to onteans pnd Return in MUTE STORY OF A HOUSE OF DEATH: SCENE IN THE STRICKEN CHURCH. , SIGNS: OF MOURNING AT No. 104 FIRST AVENUE. FINE OF IGS OF DIOASTER BEGIN, Tek Policemen: ‘Guard vi Guava Heck Cortege, Which Is’ Followed by Thousands of Mourners and Sympathizers— Many Burials by Electric Light To-Night. The first of the hundreds of funeral corteges which will pass through the east side to the Twenty-third street ferry and thence to the Lutheraw Cemetery at Middle Village, L. I., in the next few days left the home of James Bell, at No. 242 Fifth street, at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon carrying! A great crowd followed the, the body of nineteen-year-old Agnes Bell. hearse and three carriages to the ferry, and of these hundreds there were few whose faces were not streaked with tears, ‘The funeral services were brief and simple, conducted by the Rev. E. Kraeling, one of the great number of Lutheran pastors who have volun- teered their services in behalf of the bereaved families. When the young girl's body was carried out to the hearse in its white cagket the entire street was blocked with people, and the ten policemen detdiled to accompany the funeral procession to the ferry were compelled to summon reinfercemente. BURIED BY ELECTRIC LIGHTS. Throughout the afternoon in different sections of the city and in Brook- lyn funerals of the victims of the disaster were held in rapid succession, and one of the saddest features of the necessary hurry in burying the hun- droda ‘of dead is the fact that dozens of families will have to conduct their “t funerals at night sa have the bodies interred under the glare of electric lights. _The scarcity of clergymen and the conditions in which many of the bodies are necessitates the arrangement of a schedule of funerals which will extend’ through almost every hour of the day and night. The first night] was.working when the boat was under way. funeral will be hetq’at 8 o'clock this evening in the home of George Henken, of No. 169 Second street, who will bury his two little girls in the Middle horror, the flames and heavy smoke filled both gangways." Village Cemetery toward midnight. ducted by the Rev, Hugo Hoffman, Sexton faiper of St. Mark's Church, who was ordered to dig one Continued on Second Page.). The funeral services will be con- SLOCUM ca EAIH ofl Forty-five Experts Have Been Summoned by Coroner Berry and from Them the Men te Hold the Inquest Will Be Chosen. SLOCUM’S HOLD TO BE RAISED BY THE CITY Nation, State and City Will Seek by Rigid Inquiry to Fix Definite Responsibility for the Disaster Which Cost Hundreds of Lives, BODIES FOUND wee voces. 002+ 000% 539 UNIDENTIFIED DEAD.........- 43 © LIST OF MISSING............. 0000 400 Coroner Berry this afternoon sent out summonses to | forty-five ot the leading experts and business men of: the iBronx, from whom he will select the jury which will hold. an inquest on the General Slocum disaster. He will choose especially experts in the building and equipment of steam ’ boats, so that their verdict will be accepted by the public 3 s reasonable and just. Among those who have been summoned by the Coro- ner are George L. Seabury, manufacturer of naphtna launches; William H. MacCracken, Chancellor ot the Unie jversity of New York; Congressman Joseph A. Goulden, ee |John E, Eustace, ex-Park Commissioner; Thomas Chabot, Wile various county and city officers and his employers have been ‘of Lyons & Chabot; John C. Heintz, of the Eichler Brew searcling for Chief Engineer Frank B, Conklin, of the Gen, Slocum, an|jng Company; John E. Kirby, at Fortieth street and Fifth Evening World reporter found him to-day in his home, in lower Broad | a venue; Enoch Vreeland, of the Board of Assessors; Robert street, Catskill, N. Y. He was much annoyed that a search had been made | for hif, and said he was wi and ready at any time to tell all he knew. | | Jacobs, yacht builder at Citv Island; ex-Judge William G, In one statement he fs a little contrary to that of Capt, Van Schaick, | McRea, Jacob Stahl, the cigar manufacturer; Capt. Benja- each of them asserting that he was the last officer to leave the Slocum. {min F. Perkins, secretary of the Pilots’ Association, and “I know I was the last officer to leave the boat,” sald Conklin, “I lother leading citizens of the Bronx. The Coroner is look- held. the Jevers of the engine until she beached on the rocks. Then I turned | ing for some expert in fireproofing wood to occupy a chair streams of water on them. That was to aear Fa senieatie’ Ghee oeitn Henry ‘Lundberg, the United States Steamboat Inspec- tor who inspected the Gen. Slocum last, appeared before Coroner Berry late this afternoon. He was asked several | questions by the Coroner, but refused to answer any of ‘them. He said he acted on the advice of his counsel, ex- | Justice Mayer, and refused to answer questions on the ground that to answer would tend to incriminate him. If there is any evidence of criminal negligence against the owners and crew of the General Slocum in the hulk of the wrecked vessel the authorities are going after it. It has been decided to raise the wreck at the expense Evening World Finds Fra Finds Frank B. Conk- lin in Catskill—Says Neither Capt. Van Schaick Nor the Other Officers Shirked Duty or Deserve Criticism. . “In my department and sticking with me to the last were my assistant engineer, Everett Brandow, who lives here in Catskill; Elbert Gaffga, of Brooklyn, an oiler; and four firemen, John Tyson, Michael Lee, Jerry Mul- ler and Frank Salvino, all of New York City. Tyson, who was with me fhe last two seasons, was lost. The others have reported. CHIEF ENGINEER THIRTEEN YEARS. “The Slocum would have seen thirteen years of service the middle of July. I have been chief of the Slocum right straight through from her first trip between New York and Rockaway.” “Were you on duty at the time the fire broke out?” “T was, As chief I was always on duty while the boat was running. The Gen. Slocum left the pier at the foot of East Third street at 9.30 A. M. I think it was twenty-five minutes of 10 o'clock when the mate, Edward Flannagan, rushed up to the engine-room and shouted: ‘Chief, the boat is all afire forward!’ “T made no reply to Flanagan, but I hastily called up Engineer Brandow and ordered him to take the engine. Then I ran to take charge of the fire pump, which was right aft of the cylinder of the engine on the main deck. “Not a moment was lost in getting to work, as the fire-pump always In an instant the greatest There were shrieks and screams, and, to add to the of the city, and the Merritt-Chapman Co. has been retained for the task. The work will be done under police protection. Diver John Rice brought up a standpipe from the boat this afternoon. The valve showed that it had never been turned. For thirteen vears this pipe, placed on the boat for fire protection, had never held a drop of water. excitement prevailed. “Why did the burning vessel continue on her course for a mile or d d red to-day. more?” was asked. Six more bodies were recove “Y want to say,” replied Conklin, “that it was utterly Impossible tor }of three boys were lying close together., There will ke nO 9% (Continued on Second Page.) difficulty in identifying one of them, fg phe hada clubs 4 tities A »