The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1904, Page 12

te ih the T of Grows, pepanene S0a5y ESSES AAT LEFT BEHINO BY LOCALS. : er of =F 32r8 Who | Jam and Strungie Largoly to! . Blame for the Poor Schedule Daring Rush Hours. anne: BE sens exproes trains were a dis-_ @aappointment to a vast army of “Forkers who expected to be from the Ninoty-sixth street “fo the City Hall tn fitteen min- and there was a whole lot x initg from thoughtless people, forgot that while the subway is an 7 ed fact. the operation of It Is In the experimental stages. of people poured into the “uptown station to-day during the hours and afier the fashion of New (A @ crowd, they acted like a of wild children, The result was a ness on the part of the still In the infancy and there were dr- all along the line. The delays were ; but were naturally to be and may be expeoted for the ‘The Interborough ofic'a's were not in Jeaat surprised whon trains that ace to schedule should have got town in twenty-six minutes took forty-two minutes to make the trip from Hundred and Forty-tth street to ‘City Hall. They, expected delays more of them next week, p they say there will be a gradual! it, and ‘that a week or #0 y and locals’ sweeping around the it on time, no matter how great a f# put upon their carrying capacity, such a Jot of Kickers ns the “Sub” at the City Hall! Most every held bis watch on the train il the way down In order to tel! the fellows at the office how he had down In fifieen or twenty minutes, when they found they were about minutes behind the ‘Bud’ sched- fe And really a fow minutes behind the Plevated schedule their disgust was eomplete, The disparngement of the “Sub” that wads hi on every side ut to have made the ears of the In- th oMolals tingle, but tt didn't, Dedause they are old at handling the public and they really didn't ex- pect to-do wonders at the start. _ Why the Difference Bxlats, * Tho explanation of the delays last and to-day in the express service $s that the system Is handling a very Gitierent sort of ® proposition than it i to tackie when it showed Its record several days ago over and over y Phen the pasetngers, although Dumbers ihey ran up to the thou- nds, were guests and they wete tame. vwéat Into the trains like sensible apd, the trains were able to de- according to schedule and get to end of the line on schedule time. * But handling a lot of New Yorkers, fach one of whom has planked down Aickel, is a different thing entirely, | At gome of the uptown stations the were ike those dally at the Folks acted ilke crazy peopie, f onto already crowded trains and At next to impossible to start on time. A. minute lost here and ‘by each train resulted in piling “expresses up on top of one an- * other, figuratively apeaking, and so in- . stead of tearing like mad down tho f thé expresses ambled along at - & moderate of speed. ‘ Disgusted ¢ Expressers, i many instances local trains p expresses, to the intense disgust of on the latter and the correspond- fit of those on the locals, But ity Soon these things won't happen. ‘Was found here and there on the trains Mo-day, who actually said | "t expect the “Bub” to do ached- Fight Off the reel. | This Practically @ n they dared to sentiments metaphorically tamped upon the eatiy rush hour the crow’ Wery large at any of the «ta bit at 1% oclock the people be- o pile in like mod and after that tain was crowded, It was {m- to extiinate the number of peo- etween 7.3 ‘“ 0.30 « nek, officials keep “and will be pr pared to shake ‘inter in the day, 4 a svete Public the evact nigures Back erp to the “1,” here was done by the expresses + Frank Hedley expects will wee an ey ater | i, se Plavatea trains, and he is| ould, | wld. a4 the chief de- y Gen- that i} tal ido “chopping “bo ones put {n. a IGE LIKES SUBWAY, & convert to the aub- sercugh $3 ¥ rs is Celays Along Whole nel Keen Pas- Bohiad and There 4 { Nos. 11 and 12 Cedar street, he ness and I won't stand to have you ne -| The eald broke up the meeting. | charged with violating the law pro- }2, | prove that ¢ Stas crows, comma y Our oF SUBWAY, ' Boyne FoR Lowen OR eeSese 200006 Me 2S OOS CURWAY © RowD E RES HiHG PARK Rew, $00006646-9606008685505 AWAY etesereresesnroreseoe tes reennts ro nooronte ppetnaaaaaa ee ad LPOPDLHEDELD ODED OODODD OOO? pl Fel Tey | ™ AS }8] re | we iuas / f 4 “ Onhop MCARREN JUST Brooklyn Senator, After Making National Athletic Club When the Police Broke In. TWO BOXERS WERE IN RING GIVING MILD EXHIBITION. Chuck Connors Had Taken! Them to Williamsburg from Manhattan—Police to Prove They Fought for Money. MISSED A AD a Political Speech, Had Left! SLEUTHS IN RAD HELD PRISONERS Steel-Lined Doors Bar Them as They Seize the Bank Roll in West Twenty-ninth Street House, POLICE OUTSIDE GET “TIP AND BATTER WAY IN, Boyish-Looking Detectives In Evening Dress Had Gambled Heavily and Then Declared All Present Under Arrest, If Senator, Patrick Henry MoCarren had remained a litte while In the club- house of the National Athletic Club, of Williamsburg, last night after making a political speech he would have figured in a raid. Soon after the Senator had departed Capt, Becker, of the Hamburg avenue station, at the head of a squad of reserves, butted Into the club-house| and piaced under arrest John Co'ler and William Dieterle, two boxe: were placidly slapping each other in the} twenty-four-foot ring. | The hall was crowded with Willlame-| burg and Brooklyn poltticians and the! uproar was awful, Daniel Carrol, Sec- retary to Deputy Police Commissioner Farrell, of Brooklyn, was at the ring- side, and his protests to Capt. Becker were both loud and caustic, for r.a'ly the raid placed Mr. Carroll In an em- barrassing posttion, The club Is a regularly incorporaced | organization, In the days of the Hor- ton law boxing matches were held there, and the ring etill stands fn the | vig assembly-room of the club-houne, at A Semt-Polltical Smoker, Officers of the club assert that the af- fair last night was a seml- +political | smoker, It was regularly advertised, and no effort at secrecy was ma | “Chuck” Conners was master of cere- montes, and jChuck” was accompanied by some Chinatown and Bowery taJent | that created great enthusiasm. | Senator McCarren arrived at the ciabrhonte "afer, the fetvities bad | been In progress for some ¢ime, He manuged to push his elongated form through the ropes into the ring, and made & short political speech that was cheered to the echo. After the speech he alfted himself out between the ropes again, partook of some lemonade in the buffet and took his departure. Chuck Connors made a few humorous remarks Introducing Collier and Dte- terle, local boxers, twenty-eight years! old and out of condition, The men were in the middle of the first round when Capt. Becker, who had been wait: | ing outside, having been tipped off tnat & prize Aight would be held at the meet- ing, burat Into the club-house with his! men, Some of the loyal McCarren men pres- ent cast dark and suspicious glance upon Mr. Carroll, who is a Tammany | Hall follower, It waa up to Mr. Car- roll to show that he did not sympathize with @ police raid upon a McCarren gathering, and he certainly performed | his part with vigor and completences. woeee here, Mr. Carroll,” ue Capt. Beeker, “I think I know my bi tate to me, Tam convinced that there has been a violation of the law here and I am going to make arrests.” Boxers Un Arrest. ‘The boxers were taken to the station. house, Chuck Connors, who was act- ing as referee, was not disturbed, nor were the seconds and other offictals Collier and Dteterle were arraigned in kwen Street Police Court to-day, hibdlting prise fights. Mr. C in court, a8 were most of ti ciana who had been prosent. wh rald come off last night. Magistrate O'Rellly paroled the men until; Noy. informing Cxpt. ker that to men violated the anti- w it would be necessary they had rovetved a aes consideration for ther ser: a, Prine Aight to show ti ah Mepis Pee v jo looks ures are 4 fi aS Two alleged gambling-house proprie- tors, who gave thelr names as John Sheridan, ot No, 17% West Eighty-sixth and Harry Johnson, of No, 67 five men in a colored atreet, West Thirty-first street, evening dress, a doorman, steward, four thousand celluloid chips, two soulette layouts ready for opera- tlon, and two other whoels boxed ahd held in reserve, were captured to-day In a spectacular raid at No, 32 Weet Twenty ninth street, men in evening clothes had thelr pockets bulging with bills when Jarrested, and seemed to take the pro- | ceedings as a huge Joke. They retured to give their names to the police. One of thom, displaying a roll of bills whici }amounted to $2,000, sald ne was Harry ln " Lehr, of No, 90 Madison avenue. no way does he resemble the man whe does s0 much to amuse society In the Jefferson Market Court the whole story will be gone over this morning from start to finish. The lop floor of No, 32 ts the place where the gambling outfit was found. Nos, 22 and 4 is a double building, The first and second floors of No, 4 are occupied by the Cairo Cafe, The en- trance to the top floor of No, ® ts through the hallway. There is a large) room in the rear and a smaller one in the front, separated by a heavy oaken partition with secret panel-like sieel doors operated on a slide, Boy Detectives Get Busy, Capt. Cottrell has had the place under suspicion for some time, and has been! | trying to get evidence which would permit him to make a lawful entry, He sent citizens there, but what they di covered was not reported to the Cap- tain. Instead {t was taken to Com- mitstoner McAdoo. The latter then call- ed for his private detectiva, R, O. Win- throp, who, after some sleuthing in dress clothes, managed to gat a view vf the general layout in full opperation Cottrell picked two boytsh-looking de- tectives for the heavy work. On the pollee books they are known as Thomas “allahan and William Fitegerald. Flashing thelr spotless linen on the doorke Callahan gave @ signal that was acceptable and were admitted to the gambling place at 4 late hour last night. They found five men playing roulette. Stack after stack of chips was passed out by the dealer | and nothing but bills of bie denomina- tion were given him in exchange, The vlay progressed some time, when two of the place grew sus- n to eye the strangers. ‘ veral for the dealer's | vol and Fitzgerald shouted ou're under arrest! We want all of you! wine five men he rere playing tried jo reach the doe w stopped by hreat from one ot the detectives, fore the patrons of the house and the dealer could line up & volce rang out tr the other room which changed the aspect of things, Meel Doors Hold Detectives, “If that's the cuse, you're under ar heard. The tke the a He! 1d rolled together plaves, the dealer, tye men who are u.4-o9ed 10 Onn the place and te two detectives were in the rocm and > way to beat the barrier. eald one of drink,” chaff continued for lotectives man- chimed In ang The good-! nt ward and found themsely tof the pings loowl dows at the other side of Twenty- qinth fe oye tt The men in he big room eared make a break (or the street and held & counctl of war. Note to Captal Viask, Fitagerald, who had @ whiskey Mask | arce Fitzgerald | there | Everything ts oom despite Ma | Ed WORLD: “SATURDAY ‘EVENT! |RBROOKLYN CAR HOG MEETS WATERLOO AS HUSKY SUBWAY THRONGS ARE TURNED LOOSE ON PARK ROW. | ooo ad tay POSCEE ODTOED SOOdooOe Lede bebeoes deeeeetess HHbset4es bone SOURT HousG {Ub Lytar em ly ORIGINAL BRIDGE HOG O44 9449004 oo 990000 DoDD BRIDGE <Rowe OF RUSHERS, Janeen Eunferet ts, towrtnh se AND HOGS, UMAnKt nusce | om | $ nl @ deep black pencil, hastily lan » Capt, Cottrell, This he placed in the bettie, corked it, and opening} f the window looked around for some one to carry the message to the Weat ‘Thirtleth street station, There was an equally bovish-looking young man on| the other side of the street, han got Ma atention. dropped In his hands, note and disappeared. Waiting in the stat Winthrop who hed ou himaeif into 4 minature smokestack walting for word from the house which he knew was to be raided, None came, and his impatience @rew. He took a look things himself and found was something of. a sul olng on In the hous turned to the station and told 8 Wall that a force was needed to | the place, The patrol wagon, carrying | plain clothes men, bieycle men and the | regulars, was sent out. Winthrop did] was Detective |Mtehed, and the policemen said many unpleasant things about prime detec- tives and specials, The boy with the bottle had vanished, never putting In Jan appearance at the station. Pretty soon Cupt, Cottrell came m and took a hand In the proceedings, With a squad of mon, he went to the ‘Twenty ninth [street house and began operations, | The storm doors leading Into the up- In his pocket and some notepaper geen finally battering them down after inseribed & lot of hard work. They then found themselves in the front roo! was smashed, Prison ‘e with the sliding steel door, Cheered in Street, There never was a happier wt of! m face to This) jetting men on the Police and Fire de- | man than thee hs een Ie Duke and Emil Bonner, Three promi- arrested. They were having the time of | Pent Republican politicians at sald to bhetr Mves. They took the breath out | be implicated, but Smith's testimony is of Capt. Cottrell with evident oncern, vhen down the stairs one sugges Kame be continued tn t the stri the prisone like a hotiday for a time. ‘The five men who were t fortiines at the wheel when the raiders their right arrived refused to giye names. Every effort of the wet them to disclose their failed utterly, Prison son, of No, 67 West Thirty-first street, were heid on a charge of keeping a) higher up by devious channels, Rambling-house, Frank Johnson, tho ‘ nearo porter, was held on a charge of| *m™lth Was the Main Onerator, violating the Excise law, It appears that Smith was the man Peter Brown, the doorseeper, was dis- | to whom politicians sent applicants for charged, his lawyer, Daniel | O'Reilly, | showing he was not engaged in Jobs on khe Fire Department or the Po- breaking the law. The your heir raillery and women and men cheered as were wheeled away. a Court, lghty-fourth street, and Harry John- hecessary, and it is feared that he has arching a departed for good, that the ‘ation. On) |cusations against Smith, Duke an others some months 1 to the effect that he had paid $600 to get on the Fire Department, and that he not, only fatled | to set the Job, but was done out of his | Munev, there was @ vensation in politi- joul circles, This was added to when Lure, In what he said was a full con- Th was ing their Hee to identities nol accompany them. ‘The elght persons captured in the reld f 4 When the dotall arrived at Nos, 82-31) Were arraigned in Jefferson Mar! et | pee ~ rege Spa berets agp they found everything quiet, and re-|Vourt before Magistrate Mayo this af-|@m pal by aspirants for positions on turned to the station-house in disgust, ynoon and five of them were dis-/the sire and Pollee Departments and The horses of the wagon were un- | charged, John Sheridan, of No, 17% West | thet this money, leas commissions, had found its way into the hands of men men ar-| tice Department tn certain contingen- | per story were reinforced by a Wire| rested for playing In the place wern also | cies, Smith always arranged to get all| sereen, This was quickly torn away, but when it came to the ork doors the they gave the assumed names of John work was not 0 easy, Cottrell sent Detectives MeGuire and Kirk to get hammers and axes. ‘The men banged away at the doors at the top of the! ‘RECEIVER: NAMED FORB. 8, TIFFANY Edward S. Hosmer Appointed by Judge Holt in United States, Court on a Petition of Invol-| untary Bankruptey, Edward 8 Hosmer was to-day ap- pointed receiver for tho creditors of | Burnett Young Tiffany by Judge Holt in the United States District Court. A} petition of Involuntary bankruptey was) | vesterlay filed against him, The pa-) | Pers Med state that the household ef- fects are valued at $10,000. The re- | celver's bond was fixed at #2. | Burnett Tiffany, who lives at No, 125| | Weet Elghty-eghth st recently browght action against the custodians of o trust fund left for him to obtain an increased income, claiming he could | fot live on leea than $90.00 0 year. As }1f to prove that olaim creditors began to make things hot for him, Horner & Co.. furniture dealer on | | cures Judgment against him, an | Thureday deputy sheriffs entered Me | house and attoched the furniture. 30,000 ACRES ABLAZE. New Jersey Forest Fire Sweeps Mountaina Cannot Re Checkd. BELVIDERE, J., Cot. 9—The big} fire now raging for a distance of twen- ty miles eastward from Winf Gap, af- fects a very larg? portion of the Blue Ritge Mountotns. The blazo first started on Wednesday and has been fanned by the strong winds until now lat some points it is @ roaring fyrnace. dry as tinder and anes and | { | Sames rug th your the leever as th en soaked fy ofl, Te be seen flying from the burning nd much of It will be d: @ fire wardens love several hundred | mer at work fe tering. to stay the prog- of the game put thelr efforts are oat futher. Fires have been started in an opes'te direption and It le hoped A gre hls Wi At it wil) be overcom: ‘deat of fine timber haw be ete aces m: and the seme! of == | Roman Catholle Chureh discharged. At the time of their arrst | Boyd, Robert Gillan, Henry Charles Eliiutt. ‘The examt the three men held wit take Noy. 10, SEXTON SAYS BOYS TRIED TOSHOOT RM Lads Gsiviasa tok a Pistol and with Pooketfull of Lurid Literature Arrested—Longed to Slay Indians. ‘The Rev, Father Prout and Sexton Samuel Shesick, of the Seventy-second street, have noyed seriously by two small from time to time exploded | In dangerous proximity to them, and to- the police boys deliberately shot at his head. He In Dispute Over Location Street! they had loaded car-| day the sexton told was not sure tridgea, East Sixty-seventh street a1 tectives arrested John Black, years old, of No. 410 East first street, and Rudolph twelve years old, of No, % same street, Each had Ing the wild West, and the “heroes” of this adventure on | a .2-calldre revolver, The boys were sent to the Society, while ‘thelr valued station store. the priest or the sexton, ——<—___ FAST TRAIN WRECKED. One Passenger Killed and Several Irdnre? on Northern 8 ONA'E, Wash, OF Coast Linited on the Northe: Was wrecked near Lind, In t! rey ved engine and four whole vali Aevamaied ied 3 as fe arty over Bie acres, rats hurt, Bohnovaky, his pockets crammed with lurid literature desorib- y that during their chase for the two_ the money the candidate would give up | and then called in Duke. Duke bad on bis staff Emil Sonner and Rudelph Byers, a policeman. These men, according to the confessions on hand, were the go-betweens reaching the depariment officials who did the veal work, More or leas complete con- fessions have been obtained from Son- ner and Byers, who are serving a term on Blackwell's Island, The District-Attorney was not content with getting the amall fry in the plot. He wanted the dig fish and has laid Lebr and} ination of | place on | elaborate plans to get them. Finally, | oy (ete prom! of immunity, | plicated three prominent men, but whieh | |was not telling the truth In his con- fession. Assistant District {Garvan and Kresel reported the facts | gj MIAN WANTED IN GRAFT GAGES HG LEFT TOWN James J. Smith, Implicated Implicated in Connec- tion with the Purchase of Fire and Police Situations, Can’t Be Found at His Home by Detectives. Wken William Dovanny made his av-| | | active In polities, | close to the powers that be in the Re- | publican party, Detectives with a warrant are seek- j{s¢ of immunity and ordered that Smith ing James J. Smith, the man who, tt is be arrested and prosecuted, alleged, holds the key to the graft in| Now He Has Lett Town, Everything was done quietly, but in partments, partial exposure of which some way Smith got wind of the affair has already been made by William | "4 skipped. When the detectives got | to his home at No. 194 Fulton avenue, Bronx Borough, last night they were told that he had been out of town since Thursday, and would not be back for several d: “I am sure,” said the informant of the detectives, a wec.an who desciib- ed herself as a relativa “that if Mr. Smith learns that there je a warrant yor him immediately. he often es town on bi and this is one of his regular trips ‘The District-Attorney. is. deepl Appotiited but will net relax hi wet at the bottom of the revelations ready made by Duke aid others, Duke is awaiting trial, The trouble is th while Duke and Sonner and all the re mention freely the names of the sus- pected politiclana their evidence can be substantiated only by that of Smith, which leads the Distriot-Attorney to be- fleve that they have been instrumental in getting Smith out of the way. One of the Lil we men higher Who was tormerly connected with ie Police Department, is beyond the Pack of the law. Another, who wa formerly connected with the Fire Dey weiitd is while ¢ third is Hunting for the “Leak.” Assistant istrict-Attorney Kresel) sald to-day that he belleved that the information which gave Smith the eue to rum away eacaped from the D.strict- Attorney's office. District-Attorney Je- rome is out of the city. but will return Monday. The facie will be laid aatire him, and he will inaugurate a rigid in+ Vestigation. “T am certain,” said Mr. Kresel, “that pablstty was not given this matter hrough the Court, Magistrate Whit- man certainly roves. no one the afM- davits, and [ am e that Detective- Sergeant ‘Meconvtli who was given the warrant to serve, is in no way cul- Smith | who would do that | made f& confession which partialy im- | mitting information to a person agat Attorneys that pable. Semenoey in matter to the whom a warrant has been obtained. New cases of graft in the Fire De- could not be used without Investigation. | partment under the Smith-Duke-Bonner ‘This investigation revealed that Smith | arrangement re coming to light el A discovery was made yesterda @ fireman who paid Smith $700 in cash to get into the department, had ven a note to Smith for $00 to be ap- along, |to Mr. Jerome, who withdrew bis Ledheal polnted an assistant foreman, Bohemian | GREEK MET GREEK; at No. 34 Bast been an- boys who, revolvers the Venders Drew Knives and Break Up Stands for Weap- ons and Four Were Arrested. tation de-| thirteen Seventy- 8 on tho tug of war.—Anctent law, Groek met Greek at Twentieth street | detectives ie dropped | and Sixth avenue CHESTNUTS FLEW | When Greek meeta Greok then comes the Mitchell Day Ge: location and upon resistance by the Papos Brothers attempted to take it by: force, Peter Papos picked up his ecestnut roaster pan and hit Nichola: Pelligardis in the face with it, John) Suovells and James Papos drew knives | @nd began to decorate each other with) simple, but effective, designs. The o.her Gresks tore their chestnut roast-| @:s to pieces and ustd the fragments as weapora of offiise, into Pollceman Kingston ruaning Policeman Farrell Regn tate aioe ran up and got the other two ‘The smal boya of the neighborhood got nuts, of which there was @ [MINERS WIN STRENGTH TEST ally Observed and Only Two Mines Open, WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. %.—The this afternoon, and in coal operators’ eflorta to-day to test the | a few minotes the alr wag full of hot atrength*of the Union by endeavoring, Children’s | roasted chestnuts, hot Greek blood and Mtewiry hot Greek curses, | street: Nicholas Pelligardis and John | Secrets ot No, pollee. mt appears that Twentieth street and Sixth avenue |s one of the dest loea- tlonain town fo! chestiuts, The Papos Sith 4 chestnut roaste:, noe thore to-day. ite. The North m Pacific bis State, cars are} eee ant sv: other cheatout merchants, ‘The tour vos, of No. 24 Roosevett big com | street, were locked up In the eTnderloin | panies Station, Two other Greeks escaped the fone on — © ha ante of wot reested |The parade was ety hers, each | twenty memo men, Woo 0 wp in uel par ancees In 219 course vf | orenso tn tio along came Polligardis, Suoveis aa" t déepite the fast that it is Mitehell In consequence of Day, to work some of the mines of the treasures were consigned to the police, the encounter four chestnut ronating Dela They said tt was true! emporiums wore wrecked, divers and ¢ that thelr ambitions wore Inclined tow- | sundry wounds were Inflleted and Peter of the ard the West, but denied shooting at/ and James Pa ware, Lackawanna and Western and the Detawore and Hud Coal ‘ompany showed them that the th cr@vaization {8 not wantin, @ nies were able to te only one colitery—the Woodward, the ‘Delaware, VT ackawanna and ern Wi East Fifteenth | Company—wnie the sndevendest eames had onty the Oxford, at Scranton, @ both these col- ‘The seneee. in the “<4 of the coal region took Place st this etty, elghty thousand workers be- ing represented by mi ene. iy carried ing. wages an he tarate @ masemes women nn te, witaea qhie st ate gh rae eth SUBWAY THIRST SET THEM DRUK. Eight Prisoners in the Yorkville Court Attribute Their Undoing to a Queer Appetite Devel- oped in the Tunnel, | | J MAGISTRATE LETS nie GO AND PHILOSOPHIZES. If Ratio Keeps Up He Suggests that a Publio Water Tank Be Erected at Each of the Subs : way Stations, That a trip through the creates an unquenchable thirst is latest excuse offered in the volo courts in palliation of alcoholic Inertia. Four men and four women were atw, raigned before Magistrate Breen in tha! Yorkville Court to-day charged being drunk. Strange to say none We the prisoners had been disorderly. The, stimulants they had taken to overcome: the subway dryness that parched thei: throats had had an overpowering effea® In every case. The elght prisoners were well 4: and seemed unfamiliar with court proceedings, They were yew up to the bar seriatim and told in vidual stories of how they had quired the “subway thirst" and ite Qstrous effect. Michael Pollock, of Kingston, the first, of the eight, had been found sitting om the curb at Fourteenth street and A nue A moaning feebly, “Look out fo# the third rail,” He was limp, as he had been sitting on one ol with the full current, fubway Develops Thirst, “Your Honor,” he sald to Magistrate Breen, “I came all the way from Kings | ston to New York to ride in the Subs. way. I rode for a couple of hours, an@ , when I came out at Fourteenth street I found I had a terrific thirst, My. lungs felt as if they had been slake@ with lime, The more I drank the more I wanted, and before I knew & I wag down and ow Miss Frances Romain and Miss Flore ence Monahan, two n’cely dressed an@ well-appearing young women, had also foundered in the drink they absorbed , to quench their Subway thirst, They declared that they had only taken @ few drinks, but were immediately over+ whelmed and imagined that they had been buried alive. They were found, sleeping softly on @ doorstep locked tm each other's arms. After discharging these three prisons ers the Court began to sit up. Hi gasped when Mrs, Kate Gaffney, of Newark, declared that her misfortune’ was also due to a ride in the tunnel, “When I got out of that underground tube at ‘Twenty-third street and Fourth aven' she sald, “I felt awful close, ; It seemed to me as if I would smother if I didn’t take some stimulant, but the more stimulant I took the sandler my’ throat got, and the last I remember was grasping at a lamppost for supe | by | “will have to disoharge you, I sup> pose,” sald Magistrate Breen. "This: Subway thirst Is a new one on me, and seems to have some’ foundatioa im! truth." One Drink Did the Business, Mics Jessie Meyere, who had been dion, charged from the Post-Graduate Hos pital only yesterday, was the next to come forward and prociaim that the | Subway nad made her disay. "I juss* | took a little one to Lrace me up, Your Honor,” she sald, “but 1 got more ar ?. wore dizzy, and drier and 4rler, ad when 1 got off a trolley car Twat right down and equidn't get up.” She was discharged, as were also Henry Cordan, Michael Tierney ana ¢ riteher, who had lost a diamond pi cer dg coat as the result of his Cordan said his under | made him Bryiies ¢ parched,” Tierney said he felt as i¢ “was suffoeatin’ an’ L hit up a high one, to get my broath.” Many high oneg + had Hailed tf overcome the “suffocatin’ feeling before he pi into a gentle sleop in front of the tal Palace, ‘The last “undefground jag.” Priteher, who had had plenty of money, bougig « champagne to wash the dust out of it throat, When he revived his dtamon stick-pin and a new overcoat were among the missing, All three were Cocnereet, the Court remarking if the subway thirst became general it might be necessary to piuce water wagons at every kiosk on tet line, PAWNED R RING TO PAY FINE, Nrookiyn Man Punished for ta« sulting Woman in Car, A man who deser!bed himself 4s John | Charles, of No. 4 Bedford avenug, | Brooklyn, Was arrested yesterday on an Orange and Passaic Valloy, car on the complaint of Mrs. Berjha Ham mer, of Bast Orange, wyo charged Mm with acting in @ disrespectful maboer toward her, When arraigned before Recorder 9 remus he pleaded guilty and the ju Imposed @ fine of $25 with the alte; | tive of twenty-five days In jail, | "What!!!" sald Mr, Chartes, ‘The justice hy seored bad borg and Police Bergeaat y wil ie “ant Be i. on his to refund early iy ate te, W. H. ELLIS WON'T TALK. Kent ieomion. Companion Arrives from Visit te King Menelik, W. H. Bilis, who was a travelling. ( companion of Kent Loomia, brother of | the Assistant Secretary of State, oS was lost from the Katser Wilhelm treaty made With this countrs, teturneal teaey ped the ge line steamship pa, ee