The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1904, Page 7

> ’ 4 4 4 ? ¥ SP sy, oe FORTUNE WS AT PL HELE Amazing Fortune Appears to Be Within His Grasp When a Philistine, Tells Him that a Plot Is Being Worked. $250,000 IN A VALISE, PART OF IT FOR PAUL!! But It Is Only the Old Spanish Swindle, and Yorkville Is Sad at the News, While Fido No Longer Wags His Tail in Glee. Pay! Hoelfer’s trained dog was wist- fully gasing out of his master’s store at No, 1587 Third avenue to-day. One of the phonographs which Paul has on sale was grinding out that entrancing ditty “There's Wads of Dough for You, if * Your Horse Will Prove True Blue.” ‘The dor’s tall hung limply and Paul was wondering whether there was @ mood thing on the race card, Buddenly the dog barked in elee and his tail wageed up and down as it al- does when he Is pleased, because he's a wise dog and was born In a flat, where he couldn't wag it sideways. A letter-carrier entered and handed Paul an imposing missive postmarked “Madrid, Spain.’ Paul looked puszled. “1 don't know any Spanish greasers, he said. “I know the writing carrier, “I deliver lo f letters with hat @ on the address.” and there mile on his County Kerry map ” sald the letter- as he left Paul opened the letter, His face first wore a pusgied look, Then it relaxed, and presently there was a grin that made the dog's tail vibrate like the tongue of one of Paul's electric bells io more of Frank Jaeger's sure things on the ponies for me.” sald Paul. “Frank jen't picking them right becguse he cannot dream as well ol4, but here's a look-in for fifty thou- sand pounds—$20,000, Gee!’ and the smile that won't come off was on his face as he went to see Neill Price, who knows everything about Investments with or without the element of chance. “Read it!" said Paul, drawing forth the letter; ‘but first let everybody “and then there was @ chorus erful Tale of Wealth, Price read as follows, while the won- dering pinochle club of Eighty-fourth street listened in amazement: “Madrid, 11-10, 1904, —Arresced by bankraptey I aid o rei oa the tek renned ne nt y a eablegram onan, 4 Tienda, Ma- or eo ‘ot by letter a bazs008 to th labuck.” ejacu- wounded Paul ha nish for ‘get oft the track, or you'll be run over.’ This letter Is a con game that was tried on Commis- skeen Sheehy, the oldest living resident of Yorkville, it the Commish didn't bite because there was no vote for Tammany in Spain, Lie down there, 0. And Paul's smile vanished, while the! dog's tail curled into a spiral around Dis hind legs, “Ti expose 1," said Paul. “Maybe A may prevent other men from falling i. . id he brought the letter to the ening World. Our Old Friend, the Spaniard. The scheme is known as the “Spanish Bwindle.” has been worked with More or less success for many years in America and other countries. The records of t United States Span at Madrid are filled with cases ol the victims. It should not be bard for Spanish authorities to arrest the amindlerp, for they imvariably give an address /in writing to victims, but for me strange reason nothing 1, ever, né in that direction. Through the pressure of foreign governments yeara ago the Spanish Forelan Office was compelled to take sume tion, and it ulted in a seandal th Feached, it is sald, to the palace of the Infanta.’ Police officials were diamisned, bur since y have heen restored, to sve the revutations of prominent men amen, re doubtless agents of the ang jn all the large citle ntry, and It ts from thee: a) slaw with thin COKER IN PERIL RACING 10 FIRE Speeding to Water Street Blaze When Big Red Machine Struok a Hole at Bowery and Hous- ton Street. LEAPED THE DITCH AND WENT FIVE FEET IN AIR. |Two Fires Rout Out Tenants— | Milkman Who Discovered One Tried to Put It Out with Can of Milk. Chief Croker and his assistant, Cap- tain Rush, had @ narrow escape from serious injury while answering « fire alarm turned in from No, 3% Water street to-day, Croker in bis new red automobile pays little attention to speed laws in making his runs to fires, and was dashing down the Bowery at a rapid rate when the | machine struck @ hole at Houston street, So great was the speed of the ma- chine that it dashed across the hole, | struck the far side and shot five feet | into the afr, Croker and Rush man- aged to hold to their seats, and the {auto continued on its way without | diminishing its sneed, | The fire at No, 34 Water street started on the ground floor and was discovered by Policeman Ridley. The bullding 1s occupied by Buccolo & | Palmieri, who deal in rags and old paper. Ridley ran to Roosevelt street, where there i# a box, but at did aot work, He then ran to James turned in the alarm, street and In the mean ‘| time the fire had gained rapid head- ‘way, and the flames were shooting through the roof when Engine Com- pany No, 12 arrived. Capt. Lennon | Sureed in the second alarm, which brought Chief Croker to the scene, | Penements on Both Sides, | On each side of the burning bulld- ing, which is four stories high, are | four-story tenements, The pollee of | the Oak street station went through these and routed the tenants out, | The tamemfrom the burning building | it up the lower part of the city, and owing to the inflammable material con- tained on all four floors ¢/ remen had | considerable diMeulty in subduing them. | The entire building waa gutted, and the damage was about $12,000. Croker was somewhat shaken up by his jump in the auto, but was un- | injured, | Twenty-four families, Including sev- | eral score of children, were thrown Into |@ panic by a fire that started on the ve | Erpund floor of the aix-story brick ullding at No, 2 Rutgers place, The fre waa discovered by @ milkman who was delivering mUk to Slorris Sodel, who runs 4 commission egg, but- ter and milk shop oa the ground floor. | This milkman, Edward Levy, and io |Heeman Fields tun through tha tene- ment attey turning iy an alarm and rowied the iwenty-foyr familics out in their night clothes, z The smoke roiled up through the hall- ways in heavy clouds and many of ihe women were practically overcome. Tried Milk om the Blase, Solomon Groas.vin, dia wife, Yetta, and their two sons, Jacob, seven, and six, were curried down by Levy, and Policeman Connelly, After rousing the tenants Levy, the milkman, tried to put the fire out by throwing several cans fof milk on it He was driven back by the heat and smoke, however, and the fire was not extinguished until the firemen arrived. The damage was slig Another alarm called the department to the runway of the Street-Cleaning Department at the foot of West Forty- seventh street A number of Ttallans are in the habit of picking over the refuse dumped hi by the cl yi and some of them haye been sleeping under the runway for some time, Owing to the objections of residents in the neighborhood the police have been keeping these ‘s!eepers” on the run for some weeks, it ta believed the fire waa started in reve The firemen had to stretoh a line over ac feet in order to eet water for the flames. The Italians who were sleeping under the runway were cut o! and had to either run the «antiet of flames |p the runway of river, Four of them fumpe: were pulled out by the firemen e damage to the runway amounted to bout 41.00), as it will have to be prac- 'eally rebuilt Upbolstery Department. We wish to direct special attention to the stock of Upholstery Fabrics suitable for Furntlure Coverings, Draperies and Wall Coverings, which we are at present showing, as we consider it the most complete and well as- sorted collection ever presented, Following are a few of the strongly represented prices: Furniture Verdures, $1.25, Gobelins, $2.00, Tapestries, $2.75, Coverings. 42,00, $3.00 yard. $2.75, $4.00 yard, $4.00, $12.00 yard. Drapery Materials. Armures, 95¢., Moires, $1.65, Damasks, $2.50, $1.25, $2.25 yard. $2.50, $3.50 yard, $3-50, $5.00 yard, Lord & Taylor b> "Broadway and Twentieth St., Fifth Ave., Nineteenth St. $110,525,259 TO RUN THE CITY NEXT YEAR— INCREASE $3,850,303. In accordance with the Charter requirements the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment met to-day and formally adopted the Bud- Get for 1906, The figures show an increase of $3,850,303.95, and a total aporopriation of $110,525,260.04 as against $106,674,955.09, the Budget for 1904, The increases range from $17,074 in the County of Queens to an increase of §3,519,650.28 In the city of New York. Richmond County alone shows a net decrease in the amount of $975.96, The only decreases shown In the city department ‘ein the Board of Elections, $396,354, and the Armory Board, $8,280, There ia a decrease of $2,368,300.63 in the funds for the redemption of the city’s debt. That is accounted for by the lack of an issue of bonds during the past year for new street openings and improve- ments. —-. Te The largest increases to any of the city departments are $1,- 084,000 to the Board of Education: $198,803.01 to the President of the Borough of Manhattan; $178,900 to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity; $150,000 to the Department of Health; $378,966 to the Police Department; $245,200 to the Department of Street Cleaning; $297,564.46 for the Fire Department; $115,000 for library purposes; $252,106 for charitable Institutions, and $229,187.90 for miscellaneous purposes, including the fund for street and park ASKS FOR WAGES, CAUGHT WITH BAG lac agachial , ‘THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER But They Find Their Victims Too Much for Them, and Are Land- ed in Jail, Where They Con- fess. | (Svecial to The Evening Word) MOUNT VER “. ¥., Oct, 31 Charles Alllager, sixteen years old and Arthur Schrameck, fifteen yeare old, who were arraigned in the polles court here to-day before Judge Simp son, confessed that they were juventle Lighwaymen and that they bad mate @ pact to hold up women and divide the spoils. Bohrameck said he tried to snatch a woman s’pocketbook In Sixth street, but whe held on to it so tightly that he could not get possession of it The downfall of the youthful high- waymen came when Allinger, as he ad- mitted to-day, seized a purse of Mrs. M, Johnson, of No, 26 Franklin avenue was carrying and passed it to Schram eck, who fled. Mrs. Johnaon chased the Allinger boy and captured him in the shrubbery on ‘Third street and then forced him to accompany her to the polloe where he yas locked up His companion was arrested late: Policeman Conklin, and he confessed THEN NOS LF OFSMUGLED ORS With No Apparent Motive Boy of Nineteen Shoots Himself in Temple—Always Thrifty and industrious. with Large Amount of Duotal and Creosote Taken from a German Vessel, Nineteen-year-old Frank Shellborn, employed as & baker by J, C. Bchinkel,| No, 18% Clinton street, Hoboken, was Sf No. 819 Ninth avenue, dled in Ro00e- | arrested in that city encly today as velt Hospital to-day from a bullet | he was walking through Hudeon Square wound in the temple, having shot him-| Park with a large bag over his shoul- self with a small calibre revolver last} der, Policeman Rabold held him up night. because he was coming from the water. ‘Why the boy ended his life is a mys front, and there has been a good deal tery. He had been employed tn Schink- of complaint of smuggling from the ¢l's bakery « year and always has been | German ships that dock at Hobolten, an industrious, thrifty Ind. Yeaterday| Tn the bag were found twenty pounds he asked for his wages, though they of duotal, a 4eug manufactured in Gee- were not due until to-day, He did not Laoag for fd egg and « large quantity of creorote. Duotal ts wort say for what purpose he wanted the | iy since, When Gustacson” wes money, nor did he repeat his request | srraiyned before when it was at first refused, sioner Stanton Hie asking for his y was con- sidered as an offer of his resignation and a man was wed to take his place, When the baker went to the room the boy had occupied last night he found him unconscious on the te Dieeding from a bullet wound in the temple, The youth was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died a few hours later, John Gustafson, forty years oh, of unknown, to him, had thrown the bag in his beat. He had been instructed to go out and get the bag, he said, and to take it to @ certain place, He declined to tell what place he was to take it to and was remanded until next Wednesday, Gusta(son's wife and four children were in court end they je such an outery when Gustaf: ae } sent se Aenean shee tney to be removed, le Mrs, Gustafson SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK [fo ted and an ambulance surgeon MONDAY MORNING WONDERS. summoned to attend her, re eR ee ene are erm | reat ee When it is evident that women need compe- tent advice about their health, is it not well for them to Know how to secure it? Tell your story without ‘reservation she never breaks confidence, and her advice is the best in the world, letters show how helpful it is. (PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION,] Dear Maa. 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As striking examples of this as we could print are mentioned below: é 79c. buys a $1,50 Switch, 16 in. long. $1.49 buys a $3.00 Switch, 18 in, lon3. $2.98 buys a 56.00 Switch, 24 in, long, Folks with scanty hair will find these swite r so much 4 hair Just the thing for the low ha vogue Just now, where an a necessary, ‘Seed Wale. 8 Fyeglasses and Spectacles 25c That Would Easily Sell for $1. And we'll warrant that you'll The spectacles may be had with while the eyeglasses are ditted with pat rests. These eyeglasses and spectacle as | veight. To-morrow, special, per All Cars Transfer to Bloomingdales’. | Sunday World Wants Work Monday Wond Lenser 10-3"°Ate 759" 60° Orchid Show. During this week the Bloomingdale Green houses on the Roof are holding an exhibition. O8 Orchids which is one of the finest and most ele orate shows of its kind ever seen in New York. — There are thousands of orchids on view and nearly every known To give those of our patrons who missed the regular Bloom- ingdale Fall merchant tailoring sale this year 1 chance to take advantage of this offer, we have decided to hold a supplemen- tary sale for ten days, We will take orders to make to your measure during the Héxt ten days—until Hwy. 0 These Suits and Overcoats wll be cut by expert cutters, thus guaranteeing a perfect fity and made wp rs, thus assuring you the best possible workmanship, The Fabrics are not the accumulation of a season's odd$ and ends, nor goods carried over {rom last ut a brand new all-inclusive assortment gathered by months of searching for the best of the new, this season's creations in dependable material of standard make. ij Our Guarantee shields you absolutely from any dissatisfaction—if not entirely satisfied with the gu Mter they are made up you may return them, in which case your money will be refunded without hesitation, Bear in mind this offer positively ends Thursday night, Noy. 10, and it will be the kist time this season you may have the opportunity Bloomingdales’ for th, i y= | 4 variety if Suit, Overcoat or Prince Albert Coat and Vest to Measure, $11.80. off choice patterns a $11.80} Second Floor, @0th St, Seetion, Very Special! $2 Leather Hand Bags | 88c This remarkable value is for one day only—so don’t miss Blox jales’ to-morrow d take advantage cf it! bags are perfectly very particular and measure ‘ to 10 inches long. nclude hand, carriage, auto~ al “Vanity” bags im the hapes, with braid handles, ‘covered and gunmetal trimmings, with purses irames and card cases to match, You may select from walrus grain, seal grain and various other smart leathers. Any one in the lot 88. for )-MOr}row. Ms Women’s Knitlled Underwear, 39c. n Floor, SOth St, Section. a dollar for them in any ¢ 3 dealers’ in the city and not get them |] This is the famous Harvard give any better satisfaction than |] make of underwear—all the rn ades, made of the best Egyptian cotton, with fleece backs—vests and pants to match underwear that’s worth 59¢, sizes, at Bloom- 9e . per garment, 3 Main Ploor. 30th St Seetion, Main Phoor, Front, Centre i