The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1904, Page 3

9 ) ae “telling to-day of the blind boy's great BLN YES ~SFRNG CH “Groping His Way Gver House- tops in Black Night’s Storm, Frederick Merz Plunges Five . Stories to Instant Death. WIND AND RAIN DROWN FAITHFUL DOG’S FOOTSTEPS. | Pathetic Ending of Friendship | Between Lads Which Had! Continued During Years of | , Perpetual Darkness for One, Ses Young and old among the neighbors Of elghteen-year-old Frederick Mers, of No, 4l1*East Sixty-third street, are love for his phum, Frank Lightner, of No. 421, who lives in the same row of houses—a love that led to the blind boy's death last night while he was making his way across the roofs to his friend's home through a driving storm For weeks the sightless lad had qlowly picked his way over the roofs at ‘Dikht, led by his jittle dog Fanny and pastly guided by an acute sense of touch and hearing that had long been the marvel of his friends and relatives. Leat night the rain drowned the patter of Fanny's paws on the roof, and the ‘boy stumbled over a coping and plunged headlong to the pavement five stories below, The two boys lived at No, 421 E Bixty-third street for many ye: friendship grew up between was light and warmth to the \pelléd to grope through darkness all his life. ‘The Mera family moved to No. 41, on the ground floor, some months * ago, but this did not prevent the chums * from seeking each other's company at every opportunity, , Studied Out Dangerons Path, Lightner was a year younger than Frederick Mera, but of all the children Frederick had played with before the light fatled hjm when he was stricken with a fover eleven years ago Frank had shown the tenderest sympathy, Tag hile friendship increased as the lads cad ap and the sightiess plight of w boy seemed only the more to Vemetit the tie, Lately Frank has been going to High School and working through his after- noon holiday, At night he. hag study and could not visit his chum, as had been ‘his. custom dn thet eunenit months, ‘Therefore the blind boy, Father than lose an opportunity of be- dng with nis friend at least once a day, _ Studied out @ petoway cross the nustC @ and bia chui Uttle Any, dog Soak Rovar Wth od asa wide tye @ay hit signt deft him, made eral exper 1 trips one bunday, few Pits S85, and dince toen th eas lad h ccomplished the dan- ta. Journey scores of times with an nf S precision that had been a de- i to himseit and a wonder to those Wipers watched, path over the roofs led through @ labyrinth of chimneys and over a succession of copings. in some places the roofs are indented and filled with dum; A misstep in the uneven pl Would mean certain death, but the bind y laughed about these dangers and that his step was surer and than that of those who could The little dog became so accustomed to the night! aaa that he considerod pecuntcmed {Mine tovmake the source © 0 Ve ‘anny bat iy 4 shrilly and tugged with er teeth at her master's . f rain was falling an jut these had no tei foi boy. He told his mother that ought Frank would be expecting in. Bhe protested that it would be 4 us walking on the slippery roofs, but he avgned at her and patted ‘the “inte dog 8} renlehing about the jom and ing preliminary dashes Kisses Mother tiood-By, lly the boy got un, kissed Prale sull presenting the and started up tho | stairs leading to the roof. 1 pairs and called to him that ie had tier Bae veotury out io Oe tm rf In reply and soon the wher heard the door othe roof close Behing him, A, moment lat riled & downpour of and a Durst of wind that rattled the window lar moan cas a aln eaid Mrs, Mera to-day, fear that I could not suppres, A strange presentiment of evil filled my art T sat straining my ears to some sou! "et upon the roof tops, though 1 knew how ae be Ri to expect such sounds to “Aithen the. wind died down and fain slackened: But I stl ant tremb'ine ‘and Ii ening ineeyy, Suddenly 1 heard + the ati "k of Fanny at the roof and ime faint and sick. When Lew white ta oe at my door- vt i what had ha: P. ber anything after That until ‘Rey ht In the. crushed body of my ie a Per feel the affilction the more keenly aswe a ey usband, who {s now work ine in & bie Chicago hine shop, and ww other @ machini: nough by take Fred to + ist who, I hoped, might restore ent. t boy had fallen through the one seed al pet algae ie tape of is raver je was ont * hin reach of the door leading down friend's home when the rain must blotted out the sound of the little natter and caused him to hesit imble against a low copixg 8 hai his | George, jr, John PANORAMIC VIEW OF PATH OVER HOUSETO 4994890 $4400048680466 $4-06:564 006 THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVE G, SEPTEMBER 39, 1904, PS WHICH LED BLIND BOY TO FATAL PLUNGE OF FIVE STORIES Frederick Merz, sightless since babyhood, started last night to visit his boy chum, a few doors away, guided by his little dog, but in the darkness, bewildered by the Timi WE mscounTeD HE ROORD HE THe COMING, DPLEDDD19000609600909009 160 ¢ MAYOR MCLELLAN HLS O PANE Merely Social Visit, City's Chief Exeoutive Deolares After Four Minutes with Democratic Candidate. The first caller upon Judge Parker at the Hotel Seville to-day was Mayor Mc- Clellan. It was also the first call the Mayor has made upon the candidate, Judge Parker, after an early break- fast, made arrangements for a busy He hopes to start back for Bsopus to-night. and had a 4 programme involving numerous Conferences, The | morning Correspondence waa just out of the way when Mayor McClellan ar- rived. He went at once to the Judge's apart- ments, but his stay was extremely | brief. Four minutes measured the length | of his visit, | “It was merely a esclal cull,” he explained. ‘I did not 1olk polities, as you can readily urdvatand from the brevity of iny stay, I ain a work- Ing man ®@ very busy one, and will be until Jan. 1, 1908, at leuat.”” The Mayor, who tnen burried down to the City Hall, will not go to Al, Bk) to SDS the nutification a H@Momow. There too much official business on hand td allow him leave he city just now. Chairman Taggart, of the Nattonal made a jong report to the candidate on the state of the cam- palen He showed Judge Porlter « Clreular issued to-day by the Naticnal Committee and went out in big tow to every part of the country warning Democratic. laboring men aot w vote for Watson, The commlitce charges that the Republican National Crm- mittee is furnishing funds to the Pea- pl's party and that the candidacy wf Watson {9 designed to draw laboring laces | Men's votes from the regular Demo- cratic theket to Republican advantage, To Whoop Things Up. John A. Mason, Secretary of the State Committee, to-day gave out a list of speakers who will whoop up the campaign for the next four weeks, an Fangements have been completed for a Dertect whirlwind of Democratic argu+ ment from the eastera end of Island to Lake Erie, The list of speak- ere engaged Includes; Terese | ce John Sharp lsalppl; Cot i ador Raynor of . Btanchfield, He: Crosby. ard M. Sacra eer He ny Charles M. Bulger, of Onwena, Mam Hi rn Fussell Charles Hy oe oRyan gy Pabl Fg ht land; John Shepard, Ulellan, la Wi Hi leton, Luke and soores of lesser lights, SHATOR OARS NERA MOK Messages of Condolence Re- sod ceived by Family of Veteran Legislator, Who Died After Long IHness This Morning. WORCESTER, Mass., Sept. %.—The bolting of the bells of the churoh towers and fire stations of Worcester com- municated to his fellow citizens the in- telligence Of the passing of United States Senator George Frisble Hoar, At 285 A. M. the chimes on Plymouth Chureh played “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and at 3 o'clock a flag on a manufacturing plant, the first one to be half-masted, was raised. pleton | in the VOTERS BG TRCN MERE Although Court Restrains Action on Consolidation of American, Consolidated and Continental! Companies, a Test Is Made.| Although a restraining order against | | action on the merger of the American | | Consolidated and Continental Tobacco Companies, signed by Vice-Chancellor Pitney, was filed in Trenton, N. J., to- | day, @ meeting of the bevospering Meal | the American Company wag held @ort- ly before noon at the offices of the con- corn at No. 104 First street, Jersey City, ‘nd &@ vote taken on the proposition. The result was almost unanimously in favor of the merger. When the bal-, lots were counted it was shown that 1,187,214 shares ha dbeen voted for con- foliation, while 1,720 were cast against | it. There are 1,280,000 shares in all, and {t Is sald that who did not attend the meeting may possibly vote agains: the inerger. Court Not Slighted, ‘W. W. Puller, counsel foy the Amert- can Tobacco Company, said that he had heard that an injunction had been got- ten out In Trenton, but that he had not een the papers.: He sald, however, that he had commiuntexted with the Chancellor and learned that the order Was not against the meeting held to- day, but was asked for to prevent the merging of the three companiés. Hence there Had been no contempt of court in the holding of the meeting. The vore showed the favor with which the pro- posed merger is regarded. The stockholders of the Consolidated Tobacco Company met at the same place at 12.9, and on the motion of Mr. Wileux, the holder of numerous proxies, adjourned until Oct. 17. It is supposed that the reason for the adjournment was the issuing of the restraining or- der by Vice-Chanoellor Pitney, at Tren- on, Richard D, Lindabury, of counsel for the tobaccy companies, suid that a in New York on Charles M, Schots, secretary of the American Tobacco Company. He added that the effect of the Injunction would be to [orrein, the companies from certifying the result of the meetings to the Secretary of State, ‘The merger Is an eoonomicas consolidaton of the three cancerns with & totes bond and stock liability of about $24,000,000, somevbing lke $10,000,000 less Tobacco Company's collateral trust bonds shail be withdrawn and that the be the 6 per cent. and the 4 per cent. direct fons of new com- pany. The 6e will rank ahead of the #. Basis of Exchange. wi’ ers ¢. the collateral trust bonds on the propo 5 bonds and stocks Ronde of the public will receive Beyine of the new company as fol- we: Exchange on this basis will call, for fesue ot fhe lata Me nigh . 00,416 6 “per cent. A 4 per cent. bonds ee leet ts Cee | Hock; tock jor ie favor of prefe: stock. tles but the Consolidated ve been closely held, but an effort to float these was not successful. The total jesue was $159,000,000, but only a com- paratively small Proportion, it, 1s sald, waa ever absorbed by pubile, According to estimat dasis of ligt bag agt pe companies last year the will leave mote than $10,000,000 applic- able to dividends on the common stock, showing a wide margin of security for the bonds, {COURT RESTRAINS ACTION ON MERGER. TRENTON, N. J., Sept. %.—Vice- Chancellor Pitney in an order made in) here to-day restrains action at the mect- DED EL £4 9SOEPOERIDDESDINGHDIG 1 OG05-0 storm, he missed his way aad fell down an airghatt. melt yeaa - —— ——| om ree - 9 Fal aes wer S<SmboiG om [| Fs ZO SVEPS OAR AS OROPS SAFELY. Roor comme ue vy awe Yo Tae HD DE DEEEGEE1GEO10-.94-606-4-46.06-06-006-40494.0506 P| at No, 1591 Lexington avenue cums VE LIGHTS OF §) AND WALKS OUT an Roof HHHNDLD H54: Od 00 0-09-4-000-4 06. 500008 D0040 “Don'ts” for Black-Eyed Girls on the Question of Flirting. Intrepid Chicago College Professor Lays Down These Rules for the Frivolous ‘‘Co-eds’’ Who Sit at His Feet, and Speaks Them Out Loud Before a Class of One Hundred, Too. Prot. Robert 1, Cumnock, who teaches oratory and music at the Northwestern University, Chicago, has had the hardihood to deliver a side talk on flirting before his class of young women, His remarks were directed particularly to the black-eyed girls, who, he declared without a tremor in his voice, attract the most ettention and admiration from men. At this about fifty little noses underneath double that number of blue eyes were elevated in what appeared like disdainfully superior knowledge. ‘This was the learned professor's “don't” Itet: Do not seek the attentions of young men. Never notice young men who look at you from the cor- ner of thelr eyes. Do not stroll on the campus with more than one escort. Don’t employ little devices to attract men—a man of real worth will seek you for yourself alone. Never epeak to young men you don’t know. Don't encourage the attentions of too many young men; such conduct cheapene a woman, DRAGNET OUT FOR HAY WILL KOT MINALLY INQUEST] GIVE. UP.OFFICE Forty-five Witnesses Called for! Secretary of State Has Monday fo Tell What. They/ *ised to Remain in the Cabinet Can to Throw Light on Mys-| in Case Roosevelt Is Re- terious Murder. elected. Forty-five witnesses have been sum- STOLEN COMBS \Detective-Sergt. Edward Murphy Saw Two Well-Dressed Men Going Into a Cheap Jewelry Store and Followed. Detective Seret. Edward Murphy. of | the Brooklyn Central Office, Is chuckling over his success in tracing the loot from | several burglaries committed in Man- |hattan, for which the Mulberry street | detectives had been vainly searching. ‘The Wagner Manufacturing Company, Jewellers, with an office at No. 41 Union | Square, @ome tine ago discovered a leakage in thelr stock of ornamental combs, and other tenants of the same office buildings likewise had occasion to Teport losses to the police, While the police mvestigalon waa going on a firm which had an office In the thief- ridden building, closed tts doors and no trace could be found of its members. Detective-Gergt. Murphy's attention ‘was yesteniay altrwlted by two well- dressed young men whom he saw going into a chap jewsiry story on Atlantic avenue, near Court atrest, Brooklyn. | Both men had an air of refuement, their clothes had evide itly como, from a firet-clans tailor, and ncir = d: gerin | gloves were ‘the, thing.” One of the pair who wore spectacles and had & scholarly, aspect, carried a new and expensive leather handbag. ot) Se the Sleuth Fellowed. Wondering what men of such type could want in a cheap jewelry storé storekeeper costly looking bavk and side combs, which he was taking vut of his vailae in handfuls, Murphy entered and questioned the CAUGHT SELLING. [FIGHT Bl FIRE FAM "TRAC Ninth Avenue Line Stopped for Three Hours—Chief Crokef Called the Searchlight Into Play. Nothing but a heapg of smouldering | ay mized with ‘crnsked and em glass, remains to-day of the five-story brick Warehouse, Nos. 76 and Te Nocth Moore street, cornar of Green- wich, owned and occupied by J. Fita- patrick & Co.,. glass dealers and im. porters. The bulkiihg and its contents were completely destroyed by fire early to-day, and there laa erent suspicion that Jt wae due to incendiarism. The Jone ts estimated at $100,000, Murphy and J. O'Redily, the two wateh-' men stationed in the building, The blaze was only small at that time, but the arrival of the engines which responded to the alarm, was delayed because a small fire on the east side had drawn the engines from the im- mediate neighborhood. When Chief Croker arrived on the scene of the fire hd had the searchjight the source of the;fire was quickly and third alarm in quick succession, following it ‘j after @ little while by @ fourth, Vought Vire from “i? Tracks, To obtain access to the seat of the fire thi firemen ascended the astruc- ture of the Ninth avenue elevated, re- | gardless of the danger from the third | rail. Hose was @regged across th Pion t turned on the bulléing, and by its ald |’ headway, and ti copy of the injunction had been served ‘ only bonds to be left oustanding shall ;, be be quite unanimous | ani ‘he moned to appear at the Inquest Into the murder of Frank McNally, the Brooklyn liquor dealer who was shot & death in his bedroom eight days ago, All of these Witnesses have been ordered to appear at Brooklyn Borough Hall, where the inquest will begin next Monday morn- ing. Tho policé cling to the betief that Me- Nally was done to deati by a jealous woman or that @ man who was jealous of McNally because of his attentions to @ womal mitted the murder, That there is a, woman in the murder it jurder wi rs. ‘a by Olive e, until Sleek “he t wi fohnaon, 4 deputy sheriff, who @ week before the shooting amused tmesit by shooting wp MoNally's sa- Joon, has proved that he waa not In the reighborhood when the killing occurred. He slept on a benoh in the Court-House, a Dee. Amandor and Mangan saw ‘him on the atreet at 490. The shooting occurred at 420, according to William Here who heard the shots fired. Alfred Marshall, McNally's barkeeper, who found his employer shot, proved that id not leave hig home until 4 o'clock on the morning of the bey oy Toole, of the Flushi 5 » hes and nearly all McNally's friends have been summoned to appear at the inquest, GURNEY RELL NT LECH British Do Not Look for Positive! trosk: Declaration by United States ¢ in Case of Embassy Secre.| x: tary—Waiting for Report. LONDON, Sept, 9.—A brief report of the incident growing out of the arrest CHICAGO, Sept. %.—That Secretary of State John Hay is to remain at the head of ‘he state Department in case been settled, according to President Ben- | Jamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, who was in Chicago to- day on his way back to California from the East. “The best news I had while in the East,” vaid President Wheeler, “I had from President Roosevelt to the effect that John Hay has now definitely con- sented to remain at the head of the “This will be heard with satisfaction by ajl American citizens who ry how important the international two or gd oy ne mn goprel son petural iikine for & attet im of ache aa ie ac 'e iW leisure might withdraw trom oftce. to was therefore very much t Jearn that the matter was sete TANK EXPLOSION INJURES FIREMAN 4 Foreman of Engine Knooked Down, Cut and Burned Trying to Extinguish Fire in Automo- bile Garage, Foreman Charles Costello, of firc engine No. 10, was knocked down, cut 4nd burned by the explosion of a gaso- lene tank of an automobile in a one- story wooden bull on East re enue, Parkvil near Foster ie used as an automobile mm) we by Charles Totnes, smoke coming 0; ® and turned inet ia m. 10 responded and Fore- the head of his men, door and entere:t, woline tank of an ar th ¢ door exp . Costello was knocked down, cut and burned. His oe ed summoned Dr, jeeeldort, yn. | .rhq buliding estan it at about 5, ingine pa Costello, at vi President Rootevait is re-elooced a3 | bore State Department in cpse of ident Roosevelt's reelection so tte Grose by are questions likely to arise within the next | men, und failing to get any satisfactory tracks, and soon sevéral streams exp:anution, took men, combs and grip| Playing on the fi to Hrooklyn Plice Headquarters, | ‘The burning straw and packing-boxes ‘There it wis found that each COM | sored the Istuely W. M. Co. and Jewelle:, wow re Rg rngl yee b tombe were, 0f Genuine tortoise shell, | Unreatened to oversome them. Shortly many of them god and silver mounted. | bgp Moree yMhgg) Foot ot the elie 1 we tl ir names as S rank io ‘4 Hotel Bt, | could be ceard several biocks away. feeney, N», 32 ) and Even then the dai was by State street, The house at the latter as the from address \s unoccupled, and at the Hotel Bt, George no Frank Morton is known, ‘The story told in the police station by Frank Morton was that he had bought the combs from one Everett, whose ad- fog $0, Com: with Mulberry street, how- Brooklyn Hi from the standpi; nd the deck pipes on the ‘burn! iin and atier another boas of ha a A [4 was der complete cont Dut two or the engines could de withdrawn, Origin of Blase « Mystery. Max Ams's wholesale jelly and pre- serves store, adjoining the destroyed ‘Quidding on ¢ urh side, and W. F. Dean & Son's wholesale mustard | Weortee store, dn’ the north side, were but slightly damage! by water. The yatery. \d a member of that 1d for, identi beer fled th tel from thelr premis Reeo Following the trail. the Brooklyn po- lice recovered three doxen tortoise shell origin of the fire is a combs with W M. Co. on them from a| When the buliding was closed Fulton street eweller, who declared he | o'clock there was no light or fire in the had bought them from a man of Frank | building, and when the watchmen fin- Morton's description for $12. ‘They were | ished their round, about Dalf an hour) eeen more thas ten time x, ie before the fire was detected, they could ¢ two prisoners an jot of test (race ane. ecldture erautnente were pot | Rot detect the slightost of a bi fore Judge Tighe in the Court ang by him turned over to th Manhattan authonttes. been look M of | first time used hie new exiemobile, | horse-| er jum! ' ar, | The latter have | Rrtecd ts 40,8 speed of fifty -Ave ‘lied | tel a hour. machine weighs 2,900; Q | pounds. intssine, cig era scripe! bef Mahe inth avenue elevated was cd ts alleged to fit Morton and 8: 4 than an hour, JUST 1WO PRICES, $10 and $15. Just two qualities to BECAUSE we have just two grades to buy for we can carry the larg- ‘To reach the fire Chiet Croker for th| f b: FIREMAN RESCUES 20-L0, WOM Floor of Burning Hou Ladder at Risk of. His Own Life. MS Oue woman ts dying and suffering terrible agony in thay Ms | Hoepital as the result of @ fire ¥ | eulted the top floors of the flat = it aes Thy injured are: « » Mrs. MARY PABB, bummed sbowi) hwad, face and body; dying in 2 Hos; ety a sate MARGARET BROGAN, : Tn Harley se arms, back and head. Hompital; will recover, 4%, The fire was the scene of one most daring rescues ever att young fireman having swung @ weighing 200 pounds from story window, where she stood rounded by flames, to the top of a (ler which reached only te floor, 3 Severni children were fmoke and a number, of the | ceived slight burns, * There‘are two flats on each the building and ten famiMes them, The flat on tne top hand side, was occupied by Pabb, an eccentrié woman, years old. Mer brother-indaw with her, but was not at home wi fire started. eae i ‘The eause of the fire is a my that Is known of it being that it in Mrs. Pabb's apartments, ~") i Started by ah Across the hal on file lived John Brogan, hie wit end their five children, two years to sixteen in dee, The house is not far from, ington avenue cat barns, and Mot Jamen McCarthy and Chartes, and Patrolman 0" were togetheq when they heard ed like an explosion “¥ire:” coming from ran f, broke open up through the tenants. Be ‘ei sactad ‘The fire was discovered by Michadt'|’ doorway. Mra, Beloned oad They, hustled the other and in Uae night di aught fre. H -drese , burn to the . iy. a away in, Three of the top of ¢ . Chrystie eat teeen them they carted the ground, ¥ cl was taken, rogan WAS but will recover, ‘Other firemen had house below the t driven out t! The fire th floor and only = Se ‘A New Shop With New Ways Opens To-Morrow. WE consider that $10 and $15 buys what $10 and $15 deserves to get. Jersey City on Wednesday and filed ang fining at Lee, Maas, of Hugh Gur- | Pir Ce ney, Third Secretary of the Britlah Em- | were atten match the prices and est assortment. All garments sold by. o's injuries The veteran legislator died at and he was sent back to the fire During the day hi is of mi ing to-day on the merger of the Am# jundred: sages of condolence were received bassy at Washington, from Sir Henry) ean Tobacco Company, Consolidated | if the | Where he was put to bed Durand, British Ambassador lo the! "The building and six automobiles Me de rs s Is ‘el at tl ‘ the family residence on Oak avenue. Tobacco Company and the Continental) United States. hae been revolved at the | stored init were destroyed ity the Aire. do the selling in, i | sc . A meeting of the Foreign Office, but no action has been : ; ern Meee i grag os tesh haba ct Gee at tn tulad She Prats TRIBESMEN SLAY GOVERNOR. § Our lowest price is '§ $10, because we don’t the Church of the Unity and that Rev. | ratify the proposed merger was sched | action could be taken until the Foreign Then Release Prisoners from Mo- ‘ : | think a-well made suit American Embassy, in reccam Jail and Kil Citisens. scarcely thought hei TANGIBR, Morocco, Sept. %.—The or overcoat can be tailored for less. just now two stores to = When you comehere you know the most you can be induced to spend and the least we can be induced to take. If you don’t like the us kept in repair Freeh) Our two stores will lead such a busy lie’ that more of them will be bound to follow.” 40 East 14th Street,” lls, tovs and wagons of his lute He rag cults a famous car- eel igh oth eae"by Toads broken bric-a-brac for the ‘Was @ great fisherman could Pare tee Se hice luck, and pany, of the Hed at ih Secretary the townspeople. walle at Araiia and | there Rave appealed to he Senator's lifelong friend. will be pending a disposition of the rule to aed te ‘oMelate | Piney. ad’ seh acne hee. wa sot ine atk on E a J RORAEVELY SENDS. {ere ane duane ieee, Sent ur Gunes nake meen whan, thon’ Fenster tent lof jew ork; a wi / 1 “ergee Ney ihe "complainant re auieee tare 6 8 ave. | mura ‘atatle te pasok Our highest price is garments as much. a naier, one 3 awted Her, o onie ntar| Gace he en eras entahg! BE Atue anki ost of runes fo ies $15, because we know the price you Paid» 443 Nassau s Harty rc i foi me | PE ang cme |tett om iane haat Hon atone Se ees Fhe tues Ha BEST suit or overcoat come and. get YOUT ~ "Nase Section ‘ a 0 shouldn't cost more. | money back. o Open rar ai ee Suits or Overcoats, $10 ¢ Cg ene k TAS ME RP