The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1904, Page 3

WORLD: MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 8, 1904 4 INTERIOR OF BISHOP POTTER’S SUBWAY TAVERN, IN BLEECKER STREET, AT TRE y BUSIEST HOUR, AND SOME OF THE TYPES WHO ARE THE BEST PA1KONS. FIRE eS Ne u + ~ FRENCH SE Troops and People Admirals in All Day ! Flames that Menace Form = tress—Several Injured, 7° TOULON, France, Aug, &—Fire owt in the arpnal here at q originating in the extensive stores, ~ blaze spread rapidly and late to-day waa still burning fereely, thresteniag entire blocks of buildings, Within an hour after the fire broke cut the entire population was for OATURDAY NIGHT IK THE BISHOPS SALOON Pen Picture of Conditions Just as They Were Observed by a World Reporter Who Spent the Evening in the Place for Purposes of Careful Analysis, Fe Two Gentlemen from McGurk's anda Lady Who Is Flip of Comment Com- pare the Doxology Tavern with Other Resorts and Can't See Any Difference. Guns were fired as signals whieh came from the whole side. Despite the desperate efforts of firemen, troops and sailors, by the’ presmice of gen and other high officers, the tinued to spread steadily, one of waich wes torpedo-boat, toon co! j Several soldtere have been ane of them fatally. Toulon |e & fortress of the first and after Brest the most naval station of France. It situated on a deep and well. y of the Medlierranean, miles southeast of M: surrounded by hills which are with detached forts. Tne arsenal is at the end of and is entered by a gateway Tidy, Tt covers an area of 680 aeree: 2,000 workmen. There Kk yards there, Known Arsenal de Mourillon, where wooden ships are bullt, and timber ar in enormous ——_-— SED FROM FRE W FTH EME | | Awee Bit of TheBest By William P, McLoughlin. It was dull—exeitingly duli—in McGurk’s on the Bowery, Saturday * night. There wasn't a sailor in sight. Red-Nose Reilly and Eat-'Em-Up Jack lounged around the bar, wearily waiting for a “mark,” but there was nothin’ doin’, “Say,” sald Red-Nose, “let’ there's things going on there lik: bells don’t mind it.” | “Bulls,” {t may be sald, is the Bowery designation for “fly-cops," Cen- tral Office detectives, wardnien or policemen who wear ordinary citizens’ clothes on special duty. To be a “bull” {s a snap with something to It. ‘ Eat-'Lm-Up Jack looked out of the only good oye that has escaped a jab of a kuife and sald ‘Wot's on? I don't want no Gospel bug julce—Batty Connors can serve {t up as good as they make !t—if he's right to you. There's nottin’ to it. Bishop Potter muy be all to the four aces In his preaching gag, but when he comes to pushin’ booze in the Bend he's a Bacigalupo—and ‘he's a dead Bago” 4 BLESSING WITH EVERY JAG. “Al, whatje dopin ?” sneered Red-Nose, “Don't you know there's a Vloosin’ wid every Jag in the Bisnop’s, and ain't ye on that Robert Cutter , Fultin is backin' the book, and if he’s In the play good you may be a * reform commissioner some day {f another foolish wave strikes town.” | an a —— ——$—— —_ - ——— Ea -Up Jack thought It over. He chewed on one of McGurk’s and First street, some of them men they never would expect to meet at the Butts the Boy Detective, but he’s too old to be a boy any longer. Put us cellarduro cigars There wasn't a sailor in sight. He hesitated, and was, bar of McGurk's hospice. There were t good to @ game of booze.” | lost! “Crooks and rapscallions, “It’s all good,” sald the bartender, “pick {t out.” | To the southeast corner of Bleecker and Mulberry streets they went. | Chinese Lp Bre et . And Frank-the-Sure-Thing-Picker ordered beer for safety, He drank There, with flamboyant signs to acclaim it, is the Subway Tevern—the el ee Neneh ane Nght, it, looked at his friend Butts, and sald | Whiskey shoy that is to reform humanity—that was launched into existence And sotled Bowery It!lies “This Bishop's beer may be all to Ge good odds, but It aln't kept right—/ by Bishop Potter, whose voice was loudest among the throng who sang at In the Subway on Saturday night.” there ain't enough of ice to t—Mike's knocks It stiff,’ and Frank looked as the opening of the place “Praise God trom whom all blessings flow,” and Sam Devere, the most indecent monologuist on the variety stage, used| if the last of his money had gone over the Doxology bar and he would, Where tr “blessings” have flowed in a continuous stream of highballs,| (o sing a song of which the foregoing verse was a refrain barring the last henceforth go to Mike's, wherever in Yorkville that ts. rickeys, flzzes aud growiers ever since last Monday, | line, which ho rendered as ‘the Bowery on Saturday night,” but it fis the “All Aboard for Dreamland,” began a printer with a AS GOOD AS STEVE BRODIE’S, awful jag and @ voice that would jar the third rail. Subway Tavern to @ dot. When Red-Nose and fat-'Em-Up Jack wandered into the place there was| THE REFORT EFFECTIVE. ARAP AT THE AUTO PIANO. arush on, ‘Truly there never was its like near the Bowery aince the night In a moment the sleepy-eyed crowd who sat at the tables that constitute! A wise man at the end of the bar, who talked like an auditor, sald: of Steve Prodie's opening, Men were lined up three deep against the bar.| “Is thie whiskey 90-proof?” and he smiled because he was brought up on! the brary of the tavern joined in the chorus Mon and women oveupied every stool before the scda fountain. Men were | “Cut it out,” sald Clean Shave. figures, jammed iu front of the cigar stand, “The proof of the whiskey is in the drinking,” sald Clean Shave, “Cut out the plano—it's worse,” said the printer. Hehizd the liquor bar there were three men dressed Hke plain, every- “well, that’s harmony, anyhow,” sald the precise auditor, i go over to Bishop Potter's joiat. I hear wan-to-twinty sbot all the time, and the wat? k oie |Aged Woman Rescued by Fire» THE WATER WAGON. |=—™ . ‘ - } | man, While Her Nephew Tries ; to Enter the Houce by Way@t Skylight. ree! any, Arriving home and seeing the Ni ablaze, Percival Marshall, of No. Fifth avenue, attempted to enter make his way to the fifth floor, Where he knew his aunt, Miss B. A. ‘ seventy years old, was asleep, He. stopped on the stairs by « fireman a forced to get out. pe Marshall made his way into the ‘ house and to the roof, and then to the root of his own house, & of (ifteen feet, the house next door ing one story higher. Moc. He got to the apartment and hla aunt gone, tt was then he it the window to shout for oe re w Fireman Corbett carrying : lative down the front sti ra found a in the it and was that part of the building, LOSES BOTH LEGS. Thomas Walsh Ran Over by a Cae in Brooklyn, Bh Walsh, thirty-three yea old, of No S18 Melrose avenue, DRANK 9 QUARTS OF WHISKEY THEN DIED | night off anj Hardware Salesman Is Said to Have Consumed that Quan- tity of Liquor Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. “Throw {t into: you and find out." day, ordinary vartenders. They wore white Jackets and white ties and And tho humorous auditor never utered a sound, but Eat-'Em-Up looked “Rats! murmured the girl with the shoelace stock. “You want lots of | a limost unconscious, and. wr lovked as it they knew they were there to sell booze, One of them had a] at him and sald: “Ob, you'll bitt in too, will ye? See where ye got off?” harmony, don't you? You want the good old Liowery coin, and you'll get it, W a man, believed to be Mred | out red mustache, On: had an Kast-Orange horseshoe black mustache which e c a hardware salesman, was found And there was silence save for the unending clash of glasses betng! y nile the Bishop's blessing lasts, Say, d’ye keep open nights?” | ‘The fire was in the plano pessed to and from the bar, which was Interrupted by an admiring remark “No, we cloge at 12 to-night and keep closed al) day to-morrow,” vn dead tn the root Mary Costello, in East Forty-first sti the woman tod thy pollee the man had consumed nine quarts of whiskey during Saturday night and Sunday morning As proof her statement sit display the nine “soldiers” that were acatt about the room, and said Casey had orsumed ther contents. The Coronar will make ap inves'igy wight indicate that its owner was a bad man from Rocky Gulch or @ sport- ing parson from Speonk, L. I. ‘he other bartender, clean-shaven, looks like . Tommy Laue, who shakes hands with everybody In the Tenderloin, and who fs so typicul of the art of slaking thirst that when a jaded soul is worked Out south of the Filly-ninta street dead line he invariably says: “Let's go we Tommy Lane, Red-Nose and Eat-'Em-Up Jack lined up in front of tne bar, heir right feet on the brass rail. They ordered two nighballs of rye. from Reilly, who sald: “Just Ilie they freeze fresh guys in McGurk’s,| one of the bartenders. iat ie "So does Oscar Lipton, and he ain't got no bishop back of him,” sald It lagged a little, but the automatic plano at the parting of the whiskey the girl, “I don’t see that you've got anybody skinned elther In tooze or and sods departments began to dvle out “The Gir! with the Changeable religion in this shebang. You're got a bar, so bas Pat Farley. You sell Bye.” Two root-garden victims looked at Clean Shave and sald: “'S that 4! pooge that is fulr, So does Tom Foley, Vou have a automobile planny, $0 bik has every dago joint, and you charge just as good as anybody else In the “Hymna? Suro!” he rapped beck. “Billy Sill wrote {t for the sacred! business, Ta, ta,” and They got Thomas I don’t see much ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ tp that ton. lyn, was thrown from a Flushing Fa What brand?” asked the Tommy Lane chap. concerts they give on Madison Square roof Sunday nights, Everything's! she flounced out nue car at the corner of Grand etredt, sacred there—even the girl usherm’ Alrican Mow $ nd the bartender actually laughed, the first time a traincd bartender ever laughed at a joke unless It was told by the district leader. But he's wise! | that borough, jast night. The car over hia legs and an ambulance eon who was called had to both legs below the knee on the el. )UBLE BEING HATCHED, “The best—what d'ye take us for—two-spote?” asked Eat-'Em-Up, who gurely but slowly was working himself into a spirit of hostility. “Don’t “Ie the Bish’ around?” asked Eat-'Em Up-Jack. “Not on yer life,” sald Clean Shave, “he's up in the woods Figg Alec Fichge ae ee “Sorry,” said Eat-'Em-lp, “! wanted to give him the wave from &| 1.4. were bitten by mosquitoes which ask no questions--put the goods out and collect. Dat's how!” And there! A girl with one of these new neck stocks that carries a shoelace in brother in business. Say hello to him when he comes to ot vee they. allot Mu, and, with ite bites We ah was uneons ous at ras u look ip bis good eye that meant he wanted Bowery ethics regardless, front came in to the soda fountain. She asked for beer. The deputy assist- register,” and he and Red-Eyed Reilly staggered forth towar 1 | coe, Mdtvu, rhe stokmess being no other | where ft was tald Pde the ther ba wf religion. |ant manager or some such official—there are iots of them--took her order Connors's, ‘than malar probably recover, to one of the bartenders and went back with a hish hat of foaming lager. (lean Shave in a voice so gentle and yet so firm that it chilled one like the “That's the goods,” she said, ‘you can't beat that much in McDonald's demark of the gambling joint proprietor who says to @ suspicious-looking| 4nd she gulped it down slowly. Cisitor, “We don't want your game, sir.” ' LADIES UNATTENDED WELCOME. Somehow there is no appeal from that “Don't want your game.” Nefther, = “No, an’ you couldn't get served in McDonald's if you went in without $s there from the quiet bartender who puts the first two fingers of hie right! @ man to make you look decent,” said a walking delegate. who doesn't like Land on the counter, locks straight at his objective and says, “Cut it out.” | reform saloons and who was just passing out. | $ And so Eat-'Em-Up Jack cut it out and said: “Make {t good rye—don’t The piano was playing “Down Where the Wuraburger Flows” when|& care for the label’ and the drinks were served just as In McGurk’s. two men entered, It was about a quarter to 12. ———_—— There were queer people all around the two gentlemen from the Bowery “m= Frank-the-Sure-Thing Player," sald one. “My friend here ta, LIGHT AGAIN FOR PATERSON. Wires Damaged by Fire Will Be Replaced by Niaht. “Say, cull, cut ft out—don't talk quick or I'll be there with you,” said) splendid We will eps in pmiina= eration Chatham Squares” 98 YFAR 121st St. @ 3d Ave. toa Ne oft y Jpg to hs home #0 many Roma | ths co-operation of the Roman Catholte | jca dignitaries te responalble for | pretates, which” Mr. Mali the meeting that has been planed for |to-day, Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop cupying #0 high a position in a Christian church was concerned. ‘ party had so opportunely Mt | A friend of the Cardinals, who has| PATERSON, N. J, Aug. &—The Edt- “3 7. 7 . ify, | Cummings in explaining the matter to| talked with him since his vislt to Mr. 80" Electric Light Company has had sart, of Kentucky, were Invited to @| “Jlshop Potter's action was the sig-| however, that the Cardinal had ex-| wires In th < nal gun from @ masked battery that will draw fire all along the line In the pressed wonderment and amasement at | house party at Mr, Maloney’s summer the step Bishop Potter had taken. In residence, Cardinal Satoill, who will GREAT CRUSADE Bishop Potter’s Dedication of Subway Tavern Rouses Church and Temperance Peo- ple to Prohibition Movement. Bishop Potter's participation tn the opening of the Subway Tavern has t nd temperance peo- nd given a tremend- he prohibition moves ment. j A direct outcome of Bishop Potter's Action will he the exrravrdinary meets ing to-day between the highest dignl- sall fof Rome this week, planned ta {stop to-day at Spring Lake and join | the party, Archbishop Ireland ar- ranged to come from New York and accompany the former Papal Delegate back to the Archiepiscopal residence in this city, At Oceun Grove on Saturday & score of Methodist bishops and clergymen met ty discuss action on ilshop Pot- ter's participation in the establishment of the Subway Tavern, It was de- cided to name a committees to draft a resolution denouncing Bishop Potter's action, When the Methodist prelates | met yesterday, however, the committe } had net completed {ts work and the choirman was unable te attend, Wher yesterday's mecting was called to order by the Rey. 8, H Cummings, of Baltimors, he sald: taries of the Roman Catholic ayd Mithodist Churches at Spring Lake, N. d., to-day | The plan that was arranged in Ocean Grove last night calla fe meeting | detween Cardinal Gibbons, Cardinal Secnil, Archb shop Ireland, Iwood, of New “As long as nu set of resolutions has | ben presented I think tt would be wiser t to dignify Bishop Potter with a# a sotice of his strange con- 4a bishop and @ minister of the tant Episcopal Church.” i} i4 suggestion met with unanimous warfare againgt the saloon that seems to be cavturing even bishops tp its talons. “It is high time some concerted ef. fort was made on the part of the Church in controlling hut not extolling the sale of liquor. “I will not say that Bishop Potter by his action has started the movemont we will institute to amand the Con- | stitution of the United States so that intoxicants cannot be soll aa bevera, | but 1 will sav that he has given it @ tremendous Impetus 9 new force # nev nergy. “Learning that there men occupying the highest stations In the Koman Catholic Church at Mr Maloney’s residence in Spring Lake we will visit thom and seek their co-opera tion In the movement we have started | toward the suppression of rum-selling | As a Baltimorean, IT am = secquainted with Cardinal Gibbona’s splendid ree lord. bis hich Christin purpose for the | abrogation of one of the greatest socta! evils, and I bellove he will co-operate with us in our areat endeavor. are #0 many “Such opportunities to mi et #0 many fact, since Cardinal Gibbons and the others have been guests “Ballin. garry” the Subway Tavern and Its dedt- cation by the Bishop of the New York Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church have been frequently discussed, good enough repalr by t nish lights for the city streets and In @ private houses and busi- managed to keep the pany day, but they trolley cars running yest Father MeLaughiln. of Bpring Lake, eee unable + repait enous wires ¢3 vs it the city last nig! be sald to an Evening World reporter that | OFT) ‘iene and the fet that no stores the Cardinal and his friends, who were erday caused con: were open ‘Mia fellow guests, would not care t0/Inconvenience in many of the dwellings make any pubite that are lighted by electricity. The oc- sentiments, however view Bishop Potter's conduct The committee of Methodist prelates who have planned to visit the Roman Catholic Cignitaries at Spring Lake to day include beside Bishop Fitagerald, cupanta of the houses were even unable ‘eeantat canities. and they had to hore tow or buy kerosene ol! from their more fortunate ne * ee COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENT IN. Wike Wine, denen tap atti Ratael Reyes Assumes Oiler, with tanooga, ‘T the Rev. Dr, Bullard, New Cabinet, Second Vice-President of the Ocean Grove Aa ation the Rev. Dr. el Burnett, steward of the assoctation; ' the Ror. Dr. J. H. Russell, the Rev William Hawkhurst, PD. D, the Kev Dr. Robarteon and the Rev. Dr bes. well, ot slew Jersey. Ali of ehese clergymen were at the meeting yesterday Pinan Is Feasible, (Ow 121st Street pERTHWAL] & SONS 2226 to 2234 Third Ave. \ Everything for Housekeeping. We announce a Special Sale for this week only of CARPETS, RUGS, OILCLOTH, MATTING, Etc. Each line of goods in our entire Carpet Dept. being offered at 25% DISCOUNT from REGULAR PRICES. Two Establishments. Chatham Square: 193 to 205 Park Row. "Lf a Methodist bishop.” sald the Rev. ; The Rev, Mr. Cummings, who this meeyng which was primari president | alte Church | Me, Cummings, “had dena this thing | but prelates of the Roman Cat do not occur often, and as we are We also offer the same deduction, % off, on all Ice Boxes, ——— | vice-president of the assocla-| he would have been impeached by his lee from th 4 as their | the discugalon of a prohibitory amend- MILLIONS FOR NEW SCHOOLS f ‘ C ‘ G Cc Uns nnd the Kev. AH. Cummings. ct | Church. Me would havo been” ime] Sict"a"tn'ba Sport we wit strive we | mene sates. had. een received | Lv na Refrigerators, Baby Carriages, Go-Carts, Grass, Baltimore, at the residence of Martin) peached and thrown over the fence. ” from distinguished jurists all over the! . | re 1 Reanta- Daloney. ialliyarev, textoy. 10 dlacnas| "sue 2 understawd that there ae ng mee with them Immediate tountly sosaring. s0ch an emandinans| A*tiae Mayor Forars sians Resale Reed and Rattan Goods, the attitude the religious world should | jaw in the Bpiscopal Church that tor. Cardinal Is Sitent. take toward Bishop Potter's action IM bids a bishop to take part in the dedi. dedicating the Subway Tavern, and @\*2 | ention of a saloon, untens it be an une upon a proposed any nt to the | written law, and that unwritten law | United States Constitution prohibiting | Rishop Potior has house | the sale of Mauor extent for medicinal | "phen ihe @ncussion vat taken was perfectly legal and also feasibie He said Chief Justlee Lore, of ihe Supreme Court of Delaware, had pre pared an elaborate brief for the con-|! ference In which he carefully set (orth that the National Congress had a pet-|}yiy and chemical purposes, and even then Q t tee. right _to submit su a austin | fe the wate to have its sale controiled by tae Gov. | Une the line of a united church action | approval on a saloon he sald he did not | to the suffragiats of the country, und bullding of the Brooklyn Ins’ eroment in favor of proinibition. feel he rhould make any publle staze- | that if they ied deg she, sunandennat | Arta and Belences: 62.99 for rer Ask All to Help, ment in the matter, The Cardinal added! [Naa tes except tor medicinal and|{n defray. the expen that he would be distressed to discuss Ciunital ‘uses. | teaeacane of tne Fecurds cf the vartss| work with all de departments in the new Hall ¢ Records For Actlog Mave } lution When Cardinal Gibbons was asked by an Evening World reporier who saw him at Spring Lake yesterday if he had any comment to make on Plshop Potter's action In putting the seal of CASH or LIBERAL CREDIT. 121st St. @ 3d Ave. Park Row, near Chatham Se % Noted Catholics Gather, { he coincidence of Mr. Maloney in-' The result was the decision to seek any such subject where a man Oc “We propose to 7 ~