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fp EMT Fs | on Broadway Lift Gives Way, Send- Ing Sixteen Female Employees : Down Five Stories, i FAINT, WHILE OTHERS GET HYSTERICAL, Catches Fail to Work Well, but Victims of Crash ) Escape with Slight Cuts, > Bruises and Sprains. Girls crowded together In an in the big office buflding at W406 Broadway fell five stories ” landing in the basement of the one on top of another, some elous and the others screaming fright. the building, which runs back to 128-128 Crosby street, are employed one thousand men and women, levator in the rear, which Is con- ms with the Crosby street entrance, fused by the employees of the bulld- nd during the rush hours when the fen and women are hurrying to and the building it 4s crowded to its capacity. © At 1.30 o'clock to-day a great crowd ‘Men, women and boys wore pushing the Crosby street entrance to Mhto the elevator, Sixteen girls, all them in the employ of Ritter leather merchants, who occupy eighth, floor, got on the car, The was In charge of Jacob Marks, Counterbalance Gives Way, ‘The elevator clos Up to the fifth floor, when there . & loud report as the elevator | Bs terbalance gave way and crashed . h the aide of the shaft, just miss- the ator in its descent ~ Ammediately the elevator began to The safety catches worked, the load in the car was too great them to hold. Faster and faster oy ear shot down toward the bottom the shaft, the girls screaming aa it SLOCUM QUI AN UNDER WY the cable ropes gave way end fell with ail its weight of the car, bending the top braces. falling counterbalance had caused it among the Women and men and standing in the doorway, and they panle-atricken = When they Rm eoned girls in the ele- hen 5 down tn malt saw the car ator @truck in the ba @ loud noise, throwing the pire thelr feet and piling them ina Considering Reinspection Re- ports of Excursion Boats— Later Will Make Known Find: | ings and Recommendations. | the screams of » ims women, Policemen Hinds and an, of the Mulberry sire: ata. fought t way through tho crowd on the street and ran basement. With diMoulty they oven the, slevator door and one ‘one © stru 1 were unconscious were Unconscious, | Tho special Federal Commission, of | which Lawrence O, Murray, Assistant | Secretary of the Department of Com- merce and Labor is chairman, appointed to Investigate the Slocum disaster and examine into the conditions of the United States Steamboat Inspection aser- | vice at this port, remumed its sessions | rday at t eal offices in the White all Bullding on Battery Place The object of the hearing at this time + i to consider the reinspection reporta of the excursion boats ordered. to made Immediately after the awful dis- aster, which occurred In the East River off Port Morris on June 15. When the Commission adjovrned, several week: ago, the reinspection had not been com. pleted t ar, quickly re. of the girls wo were oan f the elevator wer K ta." These too badly frightened ecg up to work to-day and were it home. The others, after q delay hour, went to thelr employmen: Engineer Bullman, of the butid: Be at unable to explain the accider sald the falling of the counterbat: i and the breaking of one of tio 4 1 Spblenat the same time was very ——- Il probably take until Saturday e reports, and then the n will be finished. Later on mission will make known its and recommendations concern- Bs the Inapeetion service here. B. ‘he reinapection reports, whieh num | -Mheek pepersee 18 Aye Been Fak . are ail tech ® at Malone, nici in detail the condition MALONE, N. Y., Sept. 15.—A distinct of the hulls, boilers, machinery and fre- juake shock was felt in this city fighting and life-saving equipment of Py rie o'clock last night. the vessels doubly examined, ing ber nearly three hundred, al, deseribin Do You Use Injustice. Get acquainted at once with Munyon’s Witch Hazel Soap, Powder and Munyon's Witch Hazel Face and Skin Cream. Munyon's Talcum Powder, worth 25c..... 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"| Borated Talcum Pow. | Fine French Per. Orien‘al Crean. der, % 8 Won-| 19e—Pint Dickinson's} cated Soapi—tar, sul-| Imporied Bay Rum, | Yalue. 50c. Sab) Best Witch Hazel; per) phcr and cartolic, per| finest; per pint, 45c; | pas. quat, 33c. | cake. per 4% pint, 2Se. |NO MAIL ORDERS R je--Dr, Earl's Medi- | §9e—Quart St. Tromas ces Good for Friday and Saturday fumes, all odors, in | plase-stoopered botles; ay ee eee Ore Te Oe ABE WORLD’. THURSDAY EVENING: SEPTEMBER 15 BROADWAY ELEVATOR ON ITS DROP OF FIVE STORIES AND THREE OF 178 GIRL VICTIMS, FARE FGT OW OCEAN LER Fireman on the Steamship! Cedric Returns to the Vessel) After a Joyous Night and Makes Too Much Noise. A. |. and DRAWS A PISTOL WHEN HE IS REBUKED. Shoots One Man in the Hand, and Is Overpowered and. Held Until the Police Are’ Called. 1 MY BLUE-EYED SUE THE GIRL YOU LOVE BLUE BELL THERE’S NOBODY JUST LIKE GOOD-BYE, LITTLE GIRL, GOO) LAUGHING WATER SAMMY THE SQUIRREL AND THE Misslesippl Mamie, es of the South Before ar, ta Feeling for You. Panay Play In My Yard. | Grow rT That Little Gir) ts You | Piking th Mareuerite (new ballad) Alexanter. KI Y RPOONING, THE GIRL THAT CARES FOR ME. A STROLL IN TH® MOONLIONT FOR Mf MY HEART GOES THUMPING AND BL UNDPR THE MISTLETOR BOUGH, MEET ME IN ST, LOUTS, LOUIS, Instrumental Hun Dance. Southern Queens, Under the Fims. Water. Nubiana. Valec I'l ue Rae Mon Amour Walt Any Rage Polly Prins. Chartot Roce. Classic Music Intermezzo Cavalleria, Old Folks at Plone, Old Kentucky Home, Over the Waves. Unier Double E Mack Hawk. el # Spring Song. Minuet Paderewatt. tle April Amiles, theautiful? Calvary 's Old Sweet Song. Pilvery Waves. Jerusalem Dream of Paradise. Lost Chord Remember Me. Melody in Fy. Simple Confession. Lare Sweet Senteniber. ehub fellow March Also the hits of the following operas at 15c: Usotko Man. Yeway Heady Message of the Juita. Mi fIc Add 2 cents Vlolet. & 2 xtra jor each p NO C. 0. D. Days of Old. Pecvi Hannah, Won't You Open That * Keop on Shining, Silvery Moon Faces. Dear Luna Park. All Aboard for Dreamland. River | Under the Anhouser Busch. | Salt of the Sea for Ma, 1 Love You (ballad), Dolly (from The Little Princess) ‘The Foxhunters, march, Burning of Rome, 39 45¢ you D-BYB $1.50, 10c 19 2% 4yve. 23c¢ t @ Pike, INE, /MPING FOR YoU. C eal. Palma Pith Noeturne, Monastery Hells. William Tell, Heidelberg Stein Song. My San Domingo Meid. It Gants Te p OnER 1 FILLED. Fulton Street, 30 Trading Stamps Free. $1,00 or more, we will : Good lots we intend to” make selling furious to-morrow, give 30 Blue Trading | 30 if you want to ny ye hale oe’ more grasp this StampsFree, inaddition | Sept. 46,2. W. opportunity, “ones to those you receive on your purchase, Girls’ Dress Appropriate RULNRM Astonishing Clothing Bargains for Boys. Friday in this department means reduction day—@ clearance day for accumulation of the week's odds and ends. Owing to the tremendous selling of the past Week, there is naturally a large quantity of odd Coupon—Upon presenting this coupon at Namm’s Store FRIDAY (Sept 16) making purchases amounting to , : Boys $3.00 Suits, $1. 45% N SALE FROM 8.30 TO 11 A. A value without precedent; perbaps 160 sults in all, accumulated from our stocks of $2.49 and $2.98 suits, made of excellent materials, in various pretty mixed patterns of cheviots and cassi- meres, thoroughly made and sewed, for School Wear. will pay you to inspect our line of Children’s . |] Dresses. Exceptional care has been taken in the se- ech ditice, iol warn: Tealan ihe One man {s held @ prisoner in ft. lection of style, material and color combinations. Fac aking a) ie all Agits 1 45 Vincent's Hospital and three others are|] QGir]s’ Suspender Dresses, 6- T4e mendous bargain, sizes 8 to16 be under arrest at the Charles street police || Made from a tine quality of cashmere, in pretty new ’ * station as the result of « fight on board shades of red, blue and brown; they come variously Boys 5o0c. Pan ts, the White Btar liner Cedric trimmed with fancy braids, gilt buttons and silk * || embroidered stars; regular value $2. 1 95 25¢. J rina gre apr Lig | is special at . =. $ In all about 28 dozen palrs; every one —_—->—- returne to the t ter a foyous : , * h 60e, t ir; rhaps 25 pat- na | MIRE and began to wake his fellow. Girls Fancy and Tailor-Made terns all told; of nny tained ‘chevlot fabrics, tn Ad. spies 08 etl agene say tye workers in the hold, Willlam Frackle- School Dresses, taped seams, all reinforced deep hems; the most Metsinger for aepuration ngainat Join | 08 told him to go ‘0 bed. Dillen atruck | These dresses come in an excellent durable pants that, money can buy; sizes 25¢ J. Melsinger, a dry goods merchant, of | Frackleton in the face and the tight quality of cashmere and bi aff: 410 1G visccereveerererneererssrteemeanene i No, $19 Broadway, Brooklyn, now pend-| was on, In the midst of it Dillan drew | wool plaid gibeline cloth; the ’ : ing in the Supreme Court there, 8ome} a sevoiver and fred, the bullet just colors are blue, brown, red, rose, Boys Winter Overcoats. aimee Haines Mad eer pa grazing Frackloton's lip, i green an Sorte bee bly it hy ved to buy one how [ou Gea srs at least mestig conditions of the Melsingers,| The other men in the hold ran to | ei huey braid aot ipead lal UN oll edlntlll abt 50 up. alma Barig - The original action was on the grounds) William Highton, a coal-passer, tried sizes’ 6 to 14 yeara; of cruolty, William Highton, a coal passer, tried value up $4.95; special rs Laer: Ma Pigsiye cae . pis Be anes te take the pistol from Dillon's hand. BE vecdgnesgaanstacusase 3.95 This Great Fall Sale Brings You ny Mra ety 4 bn ition fired at him, the bullet striking | : : POLICEMEN FOR |inuband ‘came’ heme at dA, Mf) ¢| fit Bass fading 8+ painful Children’s Rain Coats. |) yatoniess Carpet Offerings. |‘ Nt Om rtlema: wound, | ‘oats are made o} Fr resem Re nstse cied: only | Peter Murphy, twenty-three years Lb tihigge Mpeg) material, in Every offering ineans a money-saving that wil! sur- {u her night clothes, A Melsinger old, also coal-passer, then tried to blue only; new military effect, prise you. pogeed, 10 be agtect Mean Seanatuntt | Bet the pistol. Dillon struck him on trimmed with velvet collar and 69 per yard for W. & J. Sloane's All-Wool Vel- refused by ‘Mr. Melsinger, the head with it, The three then buttons; all sizes; regu- C “vets, in parlor, library, sltting-room pat Melsinger, on the other hand, says his) threw Dillon to the floor and held him. | lar value special 1 95 terns, This offering In itself is sufficient to crow? — wife sof 89 Sore rayon bere The police had been telephoned for, | at. e our spaclous carpet section, These goods are sold hia Vfe was endungerst, and arrived while the three were hold: |{ larly everywhi $1.10. ‘ ’ rf now he has to keep himself locked up| * ed regularly everywhere at i M’Adoo Will Add Squad of Five |‘; at of, oe ae Sisere tell He Sen OR a8 ye Ad four reve | 24c per yard for Heavy Granite Carpets, yard wide, ened to stab him once, 5 placed in the patrol wagon and taken ible; value 35e, per yard roughfare from) now he ts in mortal terror that some- . 4 ’ reversible; . per yard, te Patrol Thorcug ; 7 Viing of the sort wilt pares te. oe sal Aye ane | Women 8 Shoes at I.49. 98c per yard for $1.75 Savonnerie Axminsters. The Fourteenth to Fifty-Ninth) count ton tor ange in his 80! and ene other three were taken to the|| REGULARLY SOLD AT $2.00, $2.26 AND $2.50, finest plush earpet manufactured; exqulate “ Streets, - ihe" wife rh counsel foea and % & week| station. ‘They were charged with dis-|| gale to-morrow of the entire Surplus and Fall Sam- Fe Tite, ee ee ROOMBA) "OF FLTE ' allmony, orderly conduct. || ples of Morse & Co. 9 aren Ma hie ook was 49e sae yard (the: Hac and the: cael Toute = a=---=---_: Ra} J Hurehaned at a figure that w Brussels, guaranteed all-wool and worsted; Police Commissioner McAdoo said to- Half Prices To-Morrow. - beautiful ght and dark colorings and designs. day that he will fix definitely the plans t the latest Fall stylo and every size ‘ . for tho extra roundsmen transformed | On 125th St | [Near 044St, tA ta Be et es clas anioue hundreds ¢¢ News Extraordinary. wm detective-sergeanta as soon a near || on | Tattractive bargains are these: 1 . r unttor f T “ | sof wimeleay ered Ceara teams, -ManHOR | Columbus Women’s Shoes. 150 Roll Car pet L inoleam the force, Avenue | 3} RO S } Avenue Fine black kid and patent leather Lace and 9 At Less Than Half Price, The new police arrangements Sebald Le ! Button Shoes, sizes 2% to 8; at hig at pn A great purchase of the finest Carpet Designs, tor five straightaway posts on Broadway ther Shoes, in lace and button; dining-roome, , kitohens and halls ever from Fourteenth to Fifty-math street. | Bygpything That's Good in Parnitare and Carpets Pe ee and tips; very swell; sizes 1 79 exhibited of the best quality Cork Linoleums; the} + Five policemen will be taken from the 2% to 7; worth $2.60; at + Be regulur $1.10 grade, with a cholce of patterna 9, various precinta and stationed on] R Carpets are the product of such 7 ie '; to select (rom; at, special for to-morrow only 5 Cc Broadway nine blocks apart. Their mills as the Bigelow Carpet Com- Children’s Shoes. ; mie’ ative beinx included ae neteto: | pany, Alex. Smith @® Sons, Senford @& Viet id, ince aud button, sizes 6 to 8; worth aq, ‘Wilton Rugs. fore. One policeman will he assigned to . $1.26; At srcecceceeerereees eaaseevanevesonss On Sale Between 8 and 10°A. M. the circle n Sons and the Hartford Carpet Company, Vici Kid Shoes, in button and lace, extra good 150 Wilton Rugs, with or without fringe, 36x63 1n.; ‘The seventy-nino detective-sergeants : 60; at. are ‘now ‘with ut uniforma and ae it We quote below special prices on these ol soles; sizes 8% to 2; value $1.60; at..ererere paseo ade UR arr oe or to- 2.50 il ‘be impossiifle to have the ne SAS ey Meg Bbiaanys Ether made vi oe en of tne month] standard makes. RT| Boys’ Shoes. Not C. 0. D, No mall orders. Only two to a duty until et, A ay wa be divided $1.50 Axminsters ateese 98c —es Satin ealt Lace Shoes soanniah laete 308 8% 9Ge| [costomer. nto squads going on duty fro ' 50; ‘a Me’ unt it tnidght and from mil-| $4.75 Wilton Velvets at., $1.39 to iy beer eet ia anaes bal Wy 1 A. 3} fd & mt oaks wer, inka that the] 8150 Velvet ats ssesessesres $10] Ae poe Fane ee GO EIA! apecial li sovtorasetssesy 620) pEmmnoeemnnsse seiastnssesnsnssesssssssseesssasist big * e Ne wk" automobiles are b bs Sauer bined ipeuge that they Interfere $1.00 Tapestry Brussels at...... 70¢ Oak, Leaded Art Glass in U holste Sale with trafle, He will investigate this Cabinet Door, highest grade - F | Rane ee es A Home Complete, Cash or Credit, $118) constuction inna ae Milliner nest nt tates and Conch Covers, | ; sign re y us at half price, an WORK FOR STEEL MEN. | Freight and Carlare Allowed on Outrof=| worth $65. 1 T rye ot tans and Saturday regardless of original cost; every pair PITTSBURG, Pa., mat na Soho Town Orders. Special at.. Beautiful Rr bly Galea shad er tevene and 3 y new and bright alors; Reversible Atmore Pehiige: blast furnace, of the Jones & Laughlin wool cro r in, wide and 3 yds. long, deep e fringe top vd Steel Company, has been ordered in 50 Other Patterns from $7.75 ornaments, all colors; good value at $5.00 00 and bottom, in rich red, green, olive and 89 ‘ blast at once. The furnace has a ca- Handsome readyto-wear felt Turbans, completely brown; sale price, @ach........scsesseeseeee (of pacity se Soplepment to ee een ent trimmed in cloth, and all colors; worth 1.25 Silk Mercerized Portieres, beautiful rich colors and have been idie four months, ‘The third $2.25 Pete ‘teh felt Drees Shapes Empire designs; reversible; 3 yds. long and 50 in, Hiensemer ateel converter of the Jonien & Complete line of ladies’ sera vie i J wide; extra heavy lattice fringe top and bottom, pinced. on fulltime after an idleness 1a all the dean ory ae ee, 5Gc|] snd wold regularly at $4.90; sale price, 4 49 Br aia, months. | Worth T5C...++000 esibckbebctnnaseavenia pair, $2.98, or, each crepeecia ae ‘ mer department of the works in full Beautiful assortment of every desirable kind 10} | gjisik Merverized Portteros, beautiful and glossy, SEES a Mourning Millinery, looks like pure silk, full width and length and the grandest combination of colors ever shown; fully pie F 98 pair; sale price, pair, $3.98, 1 99 : OF, OBC vers. reer Sastaieees hivisueneuess AO Sheet Music Sale fp ee oc ree non se | Mecertcatriaa pemren oatat. $ fancy stri ribbons, Notice the time lim! you want these bargains, “ai peietfed ag is, at aby oe 10c 8,500 pairs of Armure Portleres, full 2 yards long, Saturda i reversible and deep lattice fringe, all colors; 59, ' All Day Friday and y regular price $2.25; special for 2 hours, each (oa The most popular New York vocal and instrumental successes and this season’s new hits, which sell regularly at 50 os 60 conte News from the { per copy, are offered at 9 cents cach. i : . A BIT 0; BLARNEY Housefurnishing Dept. || Money Savers for Early R tor large size heavy galvanized Iron Wash Tub; worth 69¢, for Willow Clothes Basket; made of best quality selected willow; worth 190. 49 tor solid copper bottom W: c Boller; tight - fitting co worth 75¢, ; for medium else square 89c Clothes Hamper; made of fine full willow, with cover; worth Shoppers. Friday Till Noon. 25¢ for 50c. Toutsine Silk, bright messaling in pink, Hight blue, olf rose, reseda, laven=- der, maize, royal, cardinal, gun metal and trory white; if interested think quickly, for 50a, silk will hardly last the time Itmit when sold at. 1/, tor Wool Crepes, in brown, bl 12% tans, cardinal, old rose, pink, cream, white and black; limit 20 yards; In spect- 12% 2 fied time, at ...... for Mohair Granite Cloth, 36 in. wide; note 1 fintyh, seesese HEEODO TESST e ewe ee tees ee een eee for 12 cakes of Armour’s best quality Laun- dry Soap; worth dc. a cake. for 6 cakes of “Scouro” Scouring Soap; worth 4c, @ cake. shadee—Golen brown, royal tad navy blue, tor double-coated gray-enamelled Dish or hunter's green, cardinal and black; limit, 15 1 i Rinsing Pans; worth 39c. yards, in specified time, at.. 2 5e \ for 5-qt. double coated Tea Ket- tie, with enamelled cover; worth 29, for 5%, silk finish English Brilliantines, in C royal and navy blues and rich jet black; remember theve goods are 45 inches wide and pers fect in every way, and our 69. cloth; for Friday, in time limit, at....+.ssesseeseecene k. |. Namm, for medium size Japanned Bread § Boxes; worth 48¢. k. |. Namo. USE THE 3 AND 7-TIME RATE FOR BEST RESULTS IN WORLD WANT ADVTS, 4