The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1904, Page 4

= Centre of Minneapolis 2 with Destruction “by Flames Which Destroy Costly Structures. FALL INTO BUILDING ALL ABLAZE. Poles Burn and Dark- | ness Envelops City—Dead- Live Wires Threaten on Side—Tratfic Blocked. OLIS. Minn, Dec, firemen were kilied, three others ‘burned, and property valued was destroyed by a fire which CANNOT PAY OLD CAS BILL Injunction Preventing Comptrol-| ler from Settling Gas Trust's Claim of $1,200,000 Against w Juatice Dickey in the Supreme Court, | Brooklyn, to-day continued the in- junction restraining Comptroller Grout from paying the $1,200,000 back claims of the gas companies on street Hghting bile, ‘The effect of the decision is to keep the Injunction In foree until another sult, which ts designed to bring out all the facets in connection with the Oakley contract, Is decided. This mute cannot be tried for at least a month. Arguments on the motion to continue the temporary Injunction were heard uy Justice Dickey inst Friday, He made flo comment upon his decision, nor did | late last night in the heart of Wulsiness gection of the city, and ‘ot under contro! until this morn- Tho dead are Jacob F, Miller and “J. Buckley, insurance patrolmen, Fohn Fellows, « pipeman. Phe flames started in the basement the Peok Building, at First avenue th and Fifth street, and spread to adjoining. Although the bulld- ‘Was heavily stocked with chemicals, fire-fighters had little doubt of thelr to coi the fiames to that oy attacked the fire on 4 ily the wires that controlled the 5 sprinkler syatem in the bulld- tured a dull red, and in another it the whole interior of the butld- buratyinto a blaze, q, Dropped Into Flames, ‘wprinkler wires had in some way @ heavily charged electric light nd the great volume of super- brated air mingled with gases from var- and baking wood was instantly set ‘Three firemen who were with Pipeman| succeeded in making miraculous Gown the fire-escapes from the) floor, but Fellows, running to the| | shaft, alld down the cabies, in| belief that the lower part of the| had not yet begun to burn. dropped into a masa of tlame and no more, H. J, Buckley, a of the Insurance patrol, was Dy 4 falling wall, Tacob Miller, :the third victim, stum- Into the elevator shaft and fell floors to the basement. Effort made to rescue him, but in the flood of water and the roaring of flames his body could not Jorated by his comrades, City im Darkness, | The electric lights all over the clty were 4 as a result of the fire, all poles bearing electric wires In the of the fire having been de- Live wires caused great dam- A atroet car on First avenue was ; on ite tracks from a@ live wire, several citizens in the great crowd Phe street cars of Minneapolis run to Hixih streot on a loop parses up Firat venue, and ail lines are blocked to-day @e a result of the fire and the amaghing | Of the wires in the nelgtiborhoot. _ The Ipternrban line, conecting 8t ~ and Minespolis, also runs around this loop, pasdne down Firat avenue. ‘This fine ta blocked. The , Which are olmost fully re: O. H. Peck ra, bulld.nga d Dullding, all owned by the Hae ged Company, of Minncapolie, Mercantile Company build. . H. Peck Company stock uuppites), & (furniture), KO, 0% jg. Co, (picture trames and etn, $80, (06 * seg Merointile Company (depart- it store), #25,000; Northwestern Na+ jini, Savings ‘Bank Inases, $6.00 — OWL STOVE Is FATAL TO SIMON HOPPER., to Warm and fim Burned to Death, Bimon Hopper, of No. 759 Driggs ave- } Williamsburg, was burned to death He had been sitting near an oil Btove trying to keep warm when the Diankets around him caught fire. Mopper retired to his room shortly at- Qf midnight. He must have suffered 1d, for when found showed that they losely to his body, slove overturned and spattered on the Blankets Ons of the inmates of the house of Hopper's room was opened the man was Deyoud help, An alarm was turned $B and the fire quickly extinguished i a DOKLYN FIREBUGS "START ANOTHER BLAZE. we District Inside of Tre | Months Drives Out Tenants, the tenement district in Brook- Suen the Fire Department hos thirty-five times within | fa & pile of rubbien in the ‘® four-story apartment bulld- Bt Mo, WA Third street. Is Hooke than @ hundred occuoants #t, Dut by the time the sire- ‘an alarm Ahad Janivor « at “7 pe: | Weetor Babel th ya 3 49- | & ton to $85, and ¢ wires. LA trolley line on which neurly all ot | 1" 944,000; Routeil | Mmelled the smoke, but when the aoor! th Incendiary Fire in) ‘Was another incendiary fire to-|* two months. This latest blaze | us claims lnat Saturday Comptroller | of Justice Dickey's aman who has| holding the back claims until the whole | Both Mayor McClellan and Comptrol- not at his office, and It waa said he was | All Advance Prices and Blaine ne hand down any memoranda, rout got out from ¢ the full torve| the injunction app! matter of the street lighting a ler Grout declined to discuss the injune- in Brooklyn. The Retail Dealers Throughout Condition of Streets, By reversing his position on the back | 6 ision, Therefore | e(ready announced his intention of with. ean be sifted. tlon to-day. Commissioner Oakley was) Greater New York Suddenly The price of coal was advanced to $6.50 a ton yesterday by the retail deal- ers throughout the olty. The excuse iven is that snow and tee makes de- Very more costly by twenty-five cents & ton, The Coal Trade Protective Associa- (Won denied that prices had been ad- vanced, but sald they ought to be. ‘n- quirers were left to believe that every | Fetal) coal dealer in the olty had been | suddenly stricken with a common im- the price @ certain jOUNt at a certain time without sug: ion from others Tho increase principally affected do- Mesic Mges of aniivacte Lhe price | Of pea sige Was increased ten cents hat of buckwheat | ten cents to $9.45, Dealers said the increase would re Main in force unt the streets are cleared of snow. It was noticeable yes Werday, however, that (ow extra horses Were heeded to haul the coal, and it was pointed out that the price had been after the atreeis ha, be | Ually cleared dll og Alired Murber's Sona, of No, 377 Water aires. whe helped the poor two yeurs ago When opal went 10 Moa | Zesteetay “f » ents a | thout and weather ceases, ee BALL AND RECEPTION |4Non-Come” Will Tey Thelr Hand at Affair for Firat Time Saturday Night. | hold a reve 1 at Sulaer's | Hurlesn River Park on Saturday night Tk will be ihe frst sucka envertainment me “non-cunis’ of (he service lave oF tal He 4 | Frederick @, | the New York ¥ |th eBuckingham Hotel, was fined $% City !s Continued. ie ‘ir, Nassau St., OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS.| secvaded i the work In hand by der Contos, of tho su Irish Ladies’ Assure | irae Interest Abers are hard a ‘amme for the | mee will be ma DK fen. tores, but the principal one will be an Jexiibition of Irish dancing under the Jauspices of the Gaolic League. The Teish Volunteers have done much to popularize these old Irish dances ————— ee Timely Alarm Fuables Family to } Excape from Biase, Tenth street, to-day, saved Mr. and vanta from injury and possible deatn in flames, Mr. Benkarg is a broker with offices at No, 6) Brondway. Uving next door to the Benkarg fam hy, were awakened early to-day by smoke and found th Benkare house inf 4 basement of the nes, The police moers of the JEWS DENIED A VOTE. ELISABETHGKAD, Ruasta, I Teckin in favo m of ieve to parte elections "S LYMPH INHALAT.ON | PROF. KOCH ! AND THE Colorado Air Cure sumption the thine. of, ROCH OF BEKLOH {abled Se ia Timely discovery of fire in the home | of Henry Benkarg, at No, % West | Mrs, Benkarg and thelr child and ser. | Servants in the famliy of G. C. Dut. | Hen. | made thelr way to the | | ed the biage THE WORLD: FINED FOR SPEEDING AUTO. Downe Among Commodore F. G. t Club, who lives at to-day tn the Court of Special Sessions | for speeding his automobile on Nov. 17 Ah penal Por- x With Half An Eye any man can see double his money's worth in this sale of the surplus stock | of the famous “Peck Clothing.” Of the four lots into whieh the purchase has becn divided, perhaps the most im. portant offering isthe $13.50 to $15 Suits and Overcoats at Men's Suits in single and eae breasted styles, in wiaes to fit men ‘every bulld and In a vast assortment of ect and most-wanted fabrics Overcoats of the most popular fabrica— long swagger affairs with belted backs and those very fashionable box effects, sites which mneke cloth! nM AMES Toit fone. lite aml Food appearance are noticeable about fevers warment tn thie sale, i| J. GUMPEL & SON, | Sixth Ave., + « Cor, 16th St, Sixth Ave., = Bet, 23d & 24th Sts, + Cor, Malden Lane Eighth Ave., Bet. 36th & 37th Sts, || Eighth Ave., + Cor, 47th St, | 2. coaneer ERE . Special in ‘Silks and Dress Goods. We have almost 1,000 Remnants of Tangeawns, wid he is betng ably that we want to close out 2 He quickly, at Greatly Reduced Prices, Sold at Specia! Silk Counter. Also a lot of ; Check Chiffon Velvets in good, desirable colorings, NEIGHBORS DISCOVER FIRE. | to be closed out at $1.50yd., former price $2.50 yd, Dress Goods Depariment. Dress Patterns Jor the Holtaays in large quantity, from $3.50 up. Wash Goods Department. This assortment of Boxed Goods tor the Holidays, j is by| Bronchitis far the most extensive we have ever shown, $1.00 a pattern up. nT TP SPT TRERwE RES Lord & Taylor Direct attention to an ‘Important 5pecialSale of Girls’ Winter Coats &3 Dresses At Greatly Reduced Prices, Reductions which afford an | Opportunity to buy coats and dresses right now in the height of the season for Usual January Prices, Girls’ Coats heretofore $12.50 to $40.00, reduced to $8.75 to $25.00. — Also — 200 Girls’ Woolen Dresses, Mixtures, Plaids and Serges, fancifully trimmed; sizes 4 to 14 yrs.; recent prices $5.00 to $6.59 now $3.95. Broadway and Twentleth Street, Fifth Avenue, Nineteenth Street. i Sale of Sash Ribbons, | Thursdayand Friday. 1,250 yards DresdenSash Ribbons, all light colorings, 4sc. & 75¢. per yd., value 75c, & $1.25, Extra Quality Taffeta Sash Ribbons, |" all colors, 55c. per yd, value se. Fringed Sashes, $2.75 & $3.75 each, exceptional values, Lord& Taylor, Broadway and Twentieth Street, Fifth Avenue, Nineteenth Street, Room for some more boys to hitch behind, A good many three-piece suits — mostly blues and blacks, and a couple of hun- dred double-breasted mix- ture suits were left in the $4.75 sale this morning; sires 8 to 12, Perhaps 150 Norfolk suits too; sizes 8 to 14. For atout boys of 13 to 16 years, there are some of the best three-piece suits in the sale, $4.75. Rocers, Peat & Company, a0 ormemey, va Walrem, a 42 By te 14 fo iah ath Ave 1 Ieee Sod 34 Wrest Ld RT wr: WrNXFENaY EVENING. NVCESER 14, TOOL Le Boutillter Brothers Important Holiday Sale SILK WAIS TS, Women’s High-Class Sitk Waists—Peau ce Chine, Crepe de Chine, Chiffon and Taffetas—hand-made yokes and rich lace nsertions— Reduced from $22.50 and $24.75 Women’s Crepe de Chine, Chiffon, Taffeta and Peau de Cygne Waists—white, black and colors~-open work lace ef fects— 7,75 Women's Chiffon, Taffeta and Peau de Sole Walsts—white, biack and colors—in all the new lace and tatlor-made ef fects— 5,95 Women’s Crepe de Chine, Taffeta and Peau de Soie Waists— black white and colors—new shirred yoke and sleebes— °3,98 Women’s Black and Naby Biue Mohatr Waists—latest tailor. made model—specially adapted for maids and nurses— *2,98 Women's Black and While Nun’s Vetling Waists—new tailor °3,98 Le Boutillier Brothers West Twenty-third Street, model—lined— Lord & Taylor Announce Inviting Reductions in Smart Evening Wraps. Women of discernment are properly discriminating in the matter of Evening Wraps. modiste may be ruined by an awkward Opera Coat. As an inducement to their purchase as oni in our exclusive designs ordinarily made in Jan- —so that ladies may have the use of them during the idays. The Original Prices were from $50.00 to $300.00, The Reduced Prices are from $25.00 to $150.00, — Also — Women's Fur Lined Coats of finest Black Broadcloths with superior squirrel lining; 50 inches long ; Special $39.50. Broadway and Twentieth St., Fifth Ave., Nineteenth St, Special Suit Offerings That Unnecessary to be a judge of values to know that these suits are mony, it’s evident at the first glance, and the knowledge becomes more certain as the examination becomes more close. The broad variety comprises all that is desirable in suits— thorough in workmanship reliable in quality of mate- rials, beautiful in attractive colorings. Liberal Corpeienn )ottns. 3 BROOKLYN] Fo MPANG® GME THe PARLOR A TOUCH CF NEWS, Are onsen combinations of exquisite arrpactive PARLOR sUIT— Three pieces; well The Public Is Cor- mahogany dially Invited to Ine upholstery, fine grade damask spect Our Exposition covering, of Christmas Goods— signs and colors, Reduced Buy or Not—All Wel- ae: hi Credit MADE-UP COSTUMES. (Second Floor Dep't) A NUMBER OF TAILOR SUITS, AND DRESSES OF VARIOUS MATERIALS, INCLUDING VELVET, CLOTH, SILK, CHIFFON NET, AND A VARIETY OF SEPARATE SKIRTS, HAVE BEEN REDUCED IN PRICE. Were $10.50 SHAWLS. Value $7.75 B. Altman & Go. OFFER FOR SELECTION, AN ASSORTMENT OF SHAWLS, WHICH INCLUDE DESIRABLE STYLES OF THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES. INDIA CHUDDAH, PLAIN OR WITH CASHMERE BORDER ; CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK SHAWLS; DOUBLE-FACED VICUNA SHAWLS, HIMALAYAN SHAWLS IN SCOTCH TARTANS, AND OREN. BURGH SHAWLS. QUILTED AND CARDIGAN JACKETS, FASCINATORS AND MOTOR HOODS, Value $5.95 Were $4.50 Value $5.00 RUSSIAN SABLE GARMENTS, NECKPIECES AND MUFFS. B, Altman & Ga, oFrer a seLect MENT OF RUSSIAN SABLE FURS, AND HAVE BESIDES A COLLECTION OF MATCHED SABLE SKINS FROM WHICH SELECTIONS CAN BE MADE FOR GARMENTS, NECKPIECES AND MUFFS, EXECUTED SPECIALLY TO ORDER. JAMES McGREERY & GO, Trimmed Hats, Elaborate or simply trimmed models showing the latest winter trimmings and shapes, Toques, Turbans, Bonnets, “ Continentals” and many original designs, 8.50 Value $15.00 to $30,90 The finest efforts of the gifts, we have made the Twenty-third Street, B. Altman & Cn, WOMEN'S GLOVES AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES FOR TO-MORROW (THURS. DAY), AND FRIDAY: , GLACE AND SUEDE KIDSKIN GLOVES, AT $1.00 PER PAIR. $11.00 PER DOZEN PAIRS, WOMEN'S SILK HOSIERY. TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), A SALE WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS: WOMEN’S BLACK SILK HOSE, WITH OPENWORK EFFECTS; REGULAR PRICES, $2.50 TO 3.75, aT $1.00, 1.25, 1.50 and 2.25 per pair, WOMEN'S BLACK SILK HOSE WITH EMBROIDERED EFFECTS IN WHITE; REGULAR PRICES, $2.50 AND $5.00, AT $1.00 and 2.75 per pair, finisoed reliable frames, broad variety de. ” $12.00 Tape!