The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1904, Page 2

4 Te ee et rrangements for a month's leave after this trip, and on arriving _ &t Now Haven to-day was to have started at once for his home In Albany Me eae on for a holiday. _ ALARM OF FIRE CAME AT MIDNIGHT. 4 Everything went well on tho Glen Island until after midnight. The pas- PY Penaere all retired early, and First Officer Tom MeMullin and Quartermaster Taek McBrien were in the pilot-house, Capt. McCallister had gone down + "toto the pantry to get a cup of coffee, and just before the first alarm came MoMullin left the pilot-house and went on deck to look over the wateh. , Suddenly McBrien, up iv pilot-house, heard strange shouts down below. He didn’t dare to leave his post, even when he heard the cry of “Fire!” but + <> polled to MeMullin to find out what was the matter. He got no answer, for ® MeMullin had plunged into the lower part of che veesel at the first alarm * @ take the post that is always his at the first alarm. LEFT ENTIRE BOAT IN DARKNESS. ‘ Buddenly all the lights in tho ship went ont. Then ‘for the first time _{, MeBtion realized that something serious had happened. If the fire had <«, Péaghed the protected rooms in which the electrical apparatus ‘is kept, he Knew that it must have got beyond control, and he lashed the wheel down _ to keep the Glen Island on her course and rushed to his own fire post he In the mean time Capt McCallister had rushed out of th pantry and vet Rd shouted to every member of the crew who was in sight to take his place. | ‘Then ho and another officer of the steamer rushed into the corridors where) “ "the staterooms are and tried to calm the passengers. oe Among the first to reach the captain's side was Mr. Wallace. Mr. ex» Wallace had been having an exciting time before this, He was sound we asleep in his stateroom, when he was aroused by a terrific crash just out- “Yale his dopr, He know by the sound that some person had fallen and, ‘pe. TUnning out in his pajamas, found the unconscious body of First Officer ip MoMullin in the corrdior. That man, in bis anxiety to get promptly to his had fallen down the companionway. Mr, Wallace roused him after a ‘seconds of work and asked him what was the matter, MoMullin didn't $e, Walt to answer, but rushed on to his place of duty. is ‘The next thing to strike Mr. Wallace's view was the form of a negro * , ai .ene ordered her to watt until he got something on, Then donning a pair ot} © trousers and a coat he ran out again, picked the negress up and carried her | to the deck. The woman was turned over to members of the crew, who ‘VY were lining up the passengers, and was saved, Capt. MoCalliater ordercd the Street family and all the other women into the pt ‘of the two lifeboats launched. “ SURVIVORS TELL OF THRILLING EXPERIENCE. on bey Capt. Charis McCallister, who haa could have been saved had it not been een for twenty-cight years an em- | for her own action, erployes of the Starin Company, graphi-/ “When she reached the saloon deck cally described the burning of the boat | she ran back into her stateroom, declar- to an Evening World reporter. in jot something. That “Tt was shortly before midnight,” | ¥4e the last we saw of her, Capt, McCallister said, “when the fire} “AS we were about to fill up the sec- began. I was in the pantry gotting a | ond boat Miller, one of the firemea, sud | tee when suddenly the lights|denly yelled, ‘T've got to get that | ‘ Foun. Tm gulag back! and dashed | T fused out on deck ausi | Tom McMullen, the pilot. He told | back into the saloon. He never came back, It was the bravest thing | ever he had left Jack McBrien, the saw, * wr, at the wheel. Flames then breaking out on all sides of want Co aiy that every man aboard the bout wad o herd." Arthur W. Wallace, of Wallingford, Conn., who was on his way home from New Orlow, and who is the son of R. Wallace, silverware manufacturer, cor. rohorated 0 pggcalliater as to the bravery of t The purser, R 1). Brimley, of New Haven, of the sudden extinguishing Which he said was indica. of the tlon thal ne p etoatero Night plamt had in the fey started t “I was eiake and sit tlemen's cabin shortly ore midnig ent, when suddenly the lights went cut found It convenlem to do my work tn the cabin, and I was wriung when the darkness came, “Almost immediately the cabin. filled jwith amoke, and I staggered out into | the compantonway. where I encountere the captain and pilot, They were hunt |ing for the passengers, and the ship was orackling from the fire. With the officers 1 went to the berths) and Alded them in calling the passen ers. but when We approached the mid- le of the boat the flames were so flerce that we Were Unable to pass them | am certain that the electric plant was Fesponaible far the fre, which probably ted in the proximity of whe engine- wie it had now been for the dense) emoke and the darkness we might have! been able to get everybody off the boat ¢ McCallister and his nate the ship the made effort to the rest of th but the tire had made such headway) that they were cut off, and to have gone back would have been fatal. PASSENGER STOPPED LEAK IN LIFEBOAT WITH FINGER Among the last to reach the second) water, » and investigntion showed it w: ost leaving the Glen Island was Nathan | pouring in { yt Ny hal rom the hole in the boat Dubin, of No. %2 Cedar street, New| usually stopped by a small plug and Haven. Mr. Dubin was a passenger 00 | used to drain the boat after a rain Vthe trip the boat made to the city in| Dubla kept his finger in the hole until ‘The morning, and, having purchased! was almost frozen. The passenger jaome goods, returning on the same| | oe had Sayed the rales ipea br 5 wght of rth a handkerchlef, and this was twist. oat. There was another passenger in |e4 up and calked into the hele by Dubin. ‘the stateroom with him, Dubin emelled| Those in the boat were nearly froaen mmoke and was awakened by it. He| When Tescued. The boat was partly i. the f calling outside the led with water and the passengers }door, In the darkness ho was unabdle| Dost. “MoBrien was ringing the fire-alarm and the passengers were rusting the deck In all\ sorts of attire. | “The amoke was dense and #0 thick a@iMeult to breathe, Mo- and I ran up to the saloon deck for the passengers to follow the women who were on deck boat, as well as « number of ‘men, persons in all, and low- it jutlen in the mean time run upstaira to the hurricane deck ‘tried loosen one of the small S doing It he fell to the saloon He was on his feet, however, and went upstairs again, He} small boat into the water and | away seven persona, to the action of the crew and the too much cannat be said as Coolness, There has been a ‘on the boat every week. and fire-alarm gong sounded every ‘man of the crew went to his post, but Bt wes of no avail, J "Stewardess Goes to Rescue. “Barah Smoot, the ardess, went Rack into the cabin for the woman who ‘was lost and dragged her out. Sho FF 13 PLABen gers, were baling with the only hat in the party. to get any of his clothing and rushed |,,Amons the women in the boat with férom the stateroom, followed by bis| tra Uni” rere thd Sweets, Mins Hames ser, Who in going grabbed tella of her experience thus: "EW were awakened by father rush- @ valine. ing ate ons Materoom ami telling us ‘The pair made the deck, being guided “ something Ik Ri 4 ‘by the purser, whose coat-tajls they a rH Aghttul, beonues | es The second boat ay. | fat was 80 pe put on a rain | i yang ae ceint Was Just leave | cout and helped mather and ‘aleter | z tng and they were hustled into it, Dubin | throw wrapa on them and then we fed ‘aa placed in the bow clad in his night | If we had Feprained to dress we would @lothes. An instant after the boat was | lave perished. There was a lot of con- an T will never Taunched she was found to be making | firvee dies erupts heard THE COMPANY S STORY OF GLEN ISLAND DISASTER ‘The following statement of the burn- ing of the Glen Island, was issued by Mr, Parker, of the Starin ‘Transporta- tion Company, this afternoon: SAR lsvight, while the Glen Istend S5r Hine Ave. Laie was in charge of Capt, McCallistor, and | “OWins to the discipline, coolness and Passing Maitinecock Point, oft Excw | 10S experience of the crew, t ven. The second boat carried seven passengers and was in charge of Capt. MoCallister and Capt, McMullen, boats tion Light, smoke was noticed in the; Were Able to leave the Glen Island Wtohen by Capt. McCallister, who haa | Without excitement or accident of any gone in! to got a cup ot coffee, At the | Hid There are nine persons now mss: | ipame tims the siroke was noticed in the | !8 but the company still has hopes pilot house by Capt. David Marcus, |tBAt wome were able to | Capt. MoMullin and Quartermaster Mo. | *#lves and have been picked up by some Brien, who were stationed there dur- | Passing vessel, dng the temporary absence of Capt, Mc-| “The two boats stayed by the steam- | Callister, er for an hour and saw her burn prae- S Within s very short ime all the lights | teally to the water's edge The woman Mists the wicemner. The office secrmor who was lost would have be ly made for the lifeboats ved, but she broke away from a to remove everybody from th ee fwenty-oue members mt the crew on boar and ten passengers, The boats Semple to tke care of them «il deat’ thatowent away carricd © them: | en ntew Magaifice n, ‘ot Mattes by nd. Peele te Raver be Gaul. Jewetey 3 and Mat: ‘Th gil of this time he has had less than, three vacations, but had | {Patewardess, Tho woman bad run from her quarters stark naked. Mr, Wall- | 00 Quickly ran in.and got his overcoat. He wrapped this around the woman | NATIONAL BALL PLAYERS SIGN ee tk Prowdway — She had a crew of twenty-one men, and carried ten THE BURNED GLEN > Capt. MeCallister, who was in command of the Glen Island, is a vet- v ns {a the'servics, having been a Sound commandér for upward of thirty- his NAN PATTERSON TO 60 ON 1 ON STAND “lorodora” Git Has Girl Has Deoided i Testify, Although One of Her Counsel Is Opposed to Her| Being a Witness. Nan Patterson will take the stand tn ber own behalf, Bhe wants to, and, from present indications, her wishes | will be complied with, notwithstanding the fact that one of the lawyers fours the defense ts opposed to her decision, The pretty Florodora girl is anxious to tell her story of the shooting of Caesar Young, of whose murder she 1s accuted—a tory wirich ahe hag not been permitted to tell before, There has been much disoursion | among Migs Patterson's counse| as to advisability of permitting her to take the stand in her own beialf, One ie absolutely against the proposition, Claiming that the girl's past, ‘vilen Diatrict-Attorney Rand is certain to 6° OVer, Wail Guake & bad lmpreasion on tue Jury and do more to convict ber than ihe evidence the pi 100 bad suu ut Yi Lie other hand, the other counse: poms Out Chat in nearly ail toe prom Heal Capital trials Where (he Gefendant did not go Upon the stand conviction inevitably followed. They cite tie cases of Molineux, Patrick and others. mt Nan Patterson will probably be the aviv Wiese Lor nerseut, the fow other persons her = counse) OA count on having omy an indirect knowledge of the relations ‘be- tWeen the Florodora girl and iin book maker, The testimony of eye-witnesses seems to have dissolved into the uncer- talo story of an vld man who some ume go called upon Mr, Rand and related that he had seen the shooting in the gab and that the revolver with whic! Young was shot was held by him wuen the fatal shot was fired With the exception of her aged father, who haa been with her thr ordeal , Mids I serted ‘by frien Morgen Smith and by the prosecutor to be fugitives, bench Doe Iasudd for warrent havin arrest of mith after he failure to ond to a Grand Jury subpoena. The other sister referred to In letters as mn hag not beon see or heard we the proces it from her since the pi ings against Others who might throw lght on the ease nnd come to her defense remain In absolute seciision, and have at no time yo! ered to come forward %o her ald. President Pulliam Gives Out the and Traded, Harry ©. Pullman, President of the National League of Py sional Rase- ball Clubs, announced the following changes to-day among the players: Comracts signed With New York, \ B. Mertea and George Browne. Cincinnati Joveph T. Hagh, W. A. Kellum, hey. d "gtelntelay 4 Seymour, James D, Sebring and T. W. Corcornn,’ Releases: By Pittaburg to Philadel phia, Willlam ‘Branesfield, Otte and Merry MoCormick. List of Them, Along with the | ® Names of Those Released| al | it tse . tectives LOST $3,000 IN “STUSS” GAME Dr. 1. Mourdant Sigismund Causes the Arrest of Julius Keller, Alleged Proprietor of the Seneca Hotel. —— Dr, I. Mourdant Sigismund, of No. n) Lexington avenue, lost $3,000 at stuas without #9 much se a whimper until fome one told him that the dealer was using marked cards, Then he put up a holler which broke up the game and resulted to-day In the arrest of Julius alleged proprietor of the Senoca Hotel, at Dwenty-seventh street and ‘Fourth avenue, on a chargq of malntalning a gambling-house. Dr. Sigismund didn't lose all’ his money at sitting, He says he was @ “sucker” on many occasions before he got wise to the fact that It was a ow sume, but aa soon as he did ve went wo Magistrate Mayo in the Yorkville Police Court and got a war- rant for (he arrest of Keller and an- tiwr man, The othea man is the deal- vr who manipulated Ue “phony” decks and he has not yet been caught, The | game Was “e(use,” How Me Met Keller, When Keller was arraigned before Mag.sirate Mayo today Dr, Sigismuna said that he first met Kaller by going (requently to his saloon, He finally | aried thal one Could gamole there! adualiy drifted iat it, Umi} AU btst he| nis lo pases | a kJ saya, | ed & small ¢ @ Inconglueradi Keller toM hi and come from that time his ‘tr : wo iid | lose as much wcung. of she dae re marked and that the alert didn ant t ¢ old decks, He atigated, he said, and found that the only deck that wasn't marked right trough wus the one tat the aoaler| phumied Keller, Awyer, made a general urges, Tt came ital « out in examinath dean stuss, but w alked around man for whom tamed, clptoentifanniere’ SLOCUM'S ENGINEER GETS HIS LICENSE BACK, ® warrant has bias Supervising Inspector Ma: He Was Not Rew for Uscleas Hone, Ira Harris. United this the At a hearing before Capt | Supervising Inspector of the Steambo\t Inspectors at ay Benjamin F. Conklin, of the ill-fated retur Capt againgt Mr, Conklin were 1 Harris held that the charges Tie principal charge agatiat Cr kn was that ho Was respovstble for. the kinks In the hose ay of the Aro, the hose | making: It le Le ( Harris found, was This charge. unfounded. JEROME GETS WORD | DODGE I$ COMING. Assistant ot-Attorney Garvin ree ceived a telegram from Galveston, Tex, in which it was stated that Charles F, | Dodge, the Morte divorce caso witness, | who was yesterday turned over on ex- to detectives from 8 5 dia eave Galveston by ted that and the de- il reach ity newt @at- By Pitsburg 0 Cincinnat 004 ‘by Bow hi ttonger parse as we Be “i Saat Fil 7 3 lords he was gub the rooms making chang: for those who did want to play, The examina: | Won was put over until Monday to ive the police a chance to get the ISLAND, HER CAPTAIN, RESCUED PASSENGER AND A DECK HAND BEECHAM. A Dollar Heart Remety MORMON WOULD DEFY SENATE TO KEEP SECRET Declares He Would Go to Jail Sooner than Show Books Un- less Directed to Do So by President Smith. — WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—When the Smoot Investigation was resumed to- day Charles H, Jackson, Chairman of the Democratic State Committes, of Idaho, was again called to the stand, He Is the witness who testified yeater- day In -regard to Mormon Interference in political affairs, The examination followed similar lines to-day, The influence of the Mormons was shown, sald the witness, by the fact that the Democrats and Independents were unable to got chairmen of pollti- cal meetings held in Mormon counties | without the ald of Mormons. On crows-examination, Mr, Jackson sald that Apostles Matthias, Crowley and John Henry Smith were among | those who went into Idaho and told the people that there had been a reve- lation that they should vote the Re- publican ticket. Defeat Anti-Polygamy. Mr, Vay Cott brought out the fact that there were about 2,00) Mormon CHOSE DEATH RATHER HAN ge Little Children, Accused by Two Little Girls, Ended Life by Poison in His Home. Rather than face in court g oriminul charge preferred by two little girls, Branch Harrows, ior many Years a re- spected citizen, of Flushing, L. 1, com> mitted sulcide by poison, dying to-day in the Flushing Hospital. One of his fons, In a statement to the pollee, sald that Barrows took carbolic acid, but the dectors say death was cavaed by a polson In which the powerty! element was opium. Barrows was fifty-two years old.) He lived with his wife and four children at No. 13 Farvington street. Years dgo he’ Wag 8 stable bose with Barnum’s Cireus. In Flushing he was engaged in the ox; press and livery business. A warrant was sworn out against him on Nov, 17 last by two Flushing children, ghe eleven, the other twelve years of The hearing was for month, and ball was fixed at $3,000, which was furnished. Upon hia release from custody under votes out of a ‘total of 0 votes in tho State, He asked the witness if it was not ¢rue that, although the Gen- tiles were in a large majority and that the Democrats put an anti-Mormon plank in thetr platform and the Repub- licans refused to put in such @ lank, the Republicans carried the State by a very large majority, “That is a bald fact," resonded the witness, but he added that the infer- ence drawn by the attorney from the question Was not justified, Mr. Jacksan contended that there were “Jack Mormons,” or Gentiles who are Mormon in political affairs, who are able to gontro! elections. An effort was made by Mr. Van Cott | to show that the Mormon delegates in s Btate Convention anti-polygamy unfaithfulness the last Demoe agreed to vote for an resolution Jf the crime were Included also. Mr, Jackson declared the reverse to that, In fact, the Mormon, dele- feated the resolution, John Nicholson, chief recorder ot the | Salt Lake Tompl, was recalled and ex- arined tn regard to the marri ree- penaed to bring to Washington, He stated that the record he brought contains all of the marriages that have been solemnized in the — nce 183, when the book was ope: Woald Go to Jail, “Is the book you have here the only one in which marriages have been re- comed in that period?’ Mr, Taylor asked. “T have no recollection of any other.” Then the witness explained that there fe another book In which are ogg sod the sealings of men and women w! have been married outslde of the church, He was asked if there was eth othér | books, and replied that the various religious processes each have « book. Considerable time was consumed in an attempt to get from the witness infor- mation as to ber books. He mld that the books could not be noved without the consent of the A of the church, and that the latter hy could notgive them up without @ vote e chur Mr. ‘Taylor ‘took charge of the exami- nation again. and bringing out the fact that the witness helleves the records are still within the asked: “If you were fold by President Smith not to bring the books ve Would refuse to touch, them, wouldn't you?" “Ten, “and if the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate should call on you with @ war- rant and demand the books and arrest you and put you in iall 1f you did not xive them UD. You would stil) refuse to wlyg them up, wouldn't you? ot ke the Agreement, Charles W. Penrose, editor of the Nesert News, who was elected one of tae twelve apostles of the Mormon chureh last July, was sworn, He sald he Waa @ poylgamist with two plur wives fiving. He has children by h firet plural wife, but none born since the manifesgo. When elected to an - present bul jaa gent for by the first ut Ww lor by sidenoy and inf of the election. sald he could @ot say whether Reed Smoot Was present or not. “Did you A og 2 epecial_amnest, bond, Barrows went to hie home ant sidifally, and shunning’ his oid trienas, He appeared to realise his diagrace and became deapondent, To those who called upon-him with @ view of offering assistance or sympathy, he asserted that he was the victim of a mistake, and could clear himeelf at the trial. Magistrate Smith, in Flushing, cajied the case yesterday In its turn on the calendar of the police court. An at- torney appeared for Barrows with a doctor's certificate stating thas the ao cused man was too slok to leave his home. No imtimation of the nature of his ness was given, An ambulance was called to the Bar- rows home from the Flushing Hospital late Inst night-and the man was re- moved io it, He was suffering great agony, & was apparent that he had taken polson, and M was admitted by his family that this was the case, but there were no traces of carbulle acid, which waa the drug named by one of the children, ‘The case of Barrows was called in the police court again to-day and stricken from the calender forever. LITTLE FALL KILLED BOY. 18 Inches from Horizontal Dies in a Pow Minutes, Nathan Goldschmidt, thirteen years old, of No, 34 West Bighty-ninth etreet, fell a foot and a half from a horizontal bar in the gymnasium of the boys’ de- partment of the Young Men's Christian Association at No. @ West Fifty-sixth street chis afternoon and died before the arrival of a physician. The boy attended the Collison School, at No, 18 Weat Seventy-tirat street, a private school managed by Dr. Ullman, who had him enroled in the ¥. M. C. A. boys’ department In West Fifty-sixth attest The boys started to uge the ymnasium apparatus to-day when Baischeny fal He sat tely an thought po. the. aul jel Hepllowea' st heart phd Bs it Etruria Meets Rad Weather. QUpeeroee. B Deo. 17.—The ar Line steamer Et from ew you Dee, 10, jeenstown at 6 to-day but did not communicate Ey “the shore owing to the severity of the weather. 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