The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1905, Page 3

Ghief Executive Would | Go to the Mountains | “and Stay There, ALOVES ARMY LIFE, i / His Admiration of © Root and Lamont. Pen Picture of the “Man at the Throttle’’—His Sincerity a Marked Characteristic, Tt isn't every day that one can get ‘ the chance to put himself in a seat in and italk to the man at the throttle of tilings that have naught to do wih @hop, Mayor McClellan js an engineer who belleves in keeping the interests of the stockholders in the Knickerbocker Muntcipal Corporation eversin mind and his eye on tho rails ahead. So if you Would talk to him while he Js on duty, Wale till he takes a siding. That Is not @M easy thing to do for he seldoin leaves the main line, not more than ‘once or twice in a week, perhaps, He took one to-day and Roadmaster John Q'Brien, who, everyone knows as a {Most worthy assistant to the ollef ex- @ewtive of Greater New York, in the capacity of private secretary, kept a Signal set against the man in the cab fong’ enough to get this interview, “IN shunt you right in here for a few minutes between a special meating ‘of the Rapid-Transit Commission and a Qlyil-Service conference," O'Brien, "Of course, you will keep an @ye open for sémaphores,” and he ran Die thumb over the face of his watch, No engine ever had sudh a cab 80 @plck and span. as the Mavor's private pee, nor was ever an engineer on duty go ‘free from olly smudges and Blackened countenance as George B, piciclen, who is pleased to call himself "the man at the throttie,”’ "Has Strong Hand Clasp, tow do you do?" he asked, and with 4 i” | ( a Sesh tion went a rong hand- iD thet. told of tuacle sabove the © Th’ place of blue dunvarees Mr, Mo- Han work a well-fittine cutaway t. with vest of the same black serge astrined trousers of very. dark gray. is collar was'® white wine his ecarft A sag ailk four-in-hand, with a small ire inv ft, ‘He had a tle pin and thin a watch chain, This was all of his ry “visible, except his cuff links, vi they. were most unobtrusive. ithal the Mayor was a well-dressed American, as he stood beside his desk f Boa fa his visitor to a seat, @ did not’take his own until the had settled back at ease, which fe not a dificult thing to do in his Presence, He is a past-master of the art of making one feel at home, "It's not to be about shop, Mayor.” “A emile and a twinkle in the Mayor's ‘@luegray eyes sald, Well?’ “It’s to be about yourself,” , SeeBut I'm shopworn," + “Not yet.” 1 “Very well, then, you may have it your own way,” and again there was a @mile, Perhaps that is an art with the (Mayor, too; it is infectious, “Mayor, what would you do with your- elt if it were possible to put every- thing pray as it exists now; the obliga- ' @lofig you owe your party and the . @eheme of living that has been cut out for you?” {.oves the Mountains, dtr, McClellan swung round in his hair and his eyes went out through the ‘window that gives light on the Broad- ‘way pide of the City Hall, They went through everything in that busy, thronging thoroughfare and saw some- “thing away beyond, He was ilent for a half minute or more, and then, still Moking out of the window, he answered @erlously and very slowly, "I'd go Into the mountains.” ‘There was another 4? ‘i " | Wanted to Go to West Point} A STRONG PERSONALITY: the eab of this great New York of ours| said Mr, | | | Pause, and then he added, “Yes, I am sure I would go back to the mountains anil be content to stay there, "But what is the use of dreaming?” and he turned again toward his desk, his volce more hopefully toned, ‘It {8 not to be, and X suppor just be con- tent. Every one of us has a little un- attainable dream and, perhaps, it {e Just as well that we should never come Into a realization. I shall see the moun- talns now and then and’’— “And?” “Well, Tam going to try to go next September, Since I came into office I haven't been able to get further away from {t than the Jersey coast, but I'm ging to try to get up into Matne in Soptember; into they wodd# and the mountainy,” “Hunting?” “No; I haven't had much hunting since T wag quite a lad. I like fishing— fly-casting,| It's bully sport.’ “Other distinguished Democrats have made it a famous pastime.” “It was a fishing expedition, wasn't it?” and the Mayor laughed heartily, posslbly thinking of a November not long ago, but with never a thought of a renowned resident of Princeton, A Determined Personality, A lull came In the conversation which was filled in by a bugs of the telephone bell, a courteous, orlsp “Yes; this is fhe," followed by a recognition of the yolee at the other end and the making of an appointment for a sater hour in the day, While this was happening there was an opportunity to study the thand that ‘held the telephone recelyer, fnd the side fade, The hand was well- bred and strong in conformation; the nails well manicured, The jaw has a powerful hinge and {s sharply set, of the type that belongs to a man who fights well in a crowd and won't let go until more than fists have made 4t quit, wires of Mr, McClellan's father, and then | began the process of measuning the son of a great’ man against the acoom- plishments of his sire, which ts a very bad habit of tihs old world, In most cases It 18 unfair to both, but in this the comparison was gratifying and— ‘The Mayor had hung up his jelephone and turned quickly, “You will pardon me, won't you,” ne , WORLD Watch Them Next Sunday. WANTS. HE table below shows the number of positions offered and sought in New York's great “House, Home and Business Guide”—the Sunday F World Want Directory, In addition thousands of other advertise. ments—Real Estate offerings, chances to buy or sell a profitable business, Apap to obtain a mercantile, academic or musical education, in- luding varied announcements of furnished-room and boarding houses. in all 5,334 advertisements were printed in last Sunday’s World Want! , Directory, Help Sits waned Wanted 103 —|Improvers 6 The Mayor likes to talk of 14) Janitors .... ll 84} he spent In Congress, but there’ ie ane] 7 47 \Laundresses .... on 90) roubles hour that stands out In all that | 2) Machinists ...., 8 16 | {me., Tt wag the day botore his matden | jspeech, which was on the Pension. bill, | Men v..eees 20) President Cleveland desired that he| 20 |Millinery [should speak on the ast, because he 8} Neckwear | thought tt would be-a most ftting thing ah vasiers al Onericrs for the son of Gen, MeCleliun to-do anvas ‘ perators —| “But it was the hardest thing 1 ever rpenters . _ 26 | Painters 84}had to do,” laughed the Mayor, "qt | mpositors ae 17 | Pressers ‘i — | Yaan't, stage fright, but atten | Hoke lectors . 10 5 Pressmen . 18 | pared Gag ooged over what I had. pres | rie ea) 2 | Porters 19 | tt he told mi that Twould Mave t ; ' sit down and learn that spe ) Cutters .. . ¥ Hy Salesladies Lihenrt, Tala it, but no one wit to lee . on AB TAUD Boy : MW Know What a dieadful task it It esigners ‘) Shipping Cler! Bj took only an hour and wa halt, yet {t Day's Work — 63 Banbarenhers 4 Q7 | seemed Ike a your Never" did Hy J * 94 62/7 RrAp ners! |man feel so hopeless." Dressmakers . ' j Tailors se. 4 Lend how do vou do nowy!" | Drivers .... Ane ks 28! Tinsmiths 4 8) mers ty a of talking work in - Druggists .... ihre 6. 838) Trimmers 11 _ the Mayor's office. but T don't learn Bingineers vsvseseseeeesees @ 2B Tuckers ,. 16 eae Re Bi Mins Oeer peprolnerees Nalini i — Upholsterers or two and then the ornen| rrand Girls..... ‘ | Washing 1 vn down from Feeders’ ..4..., y 8 5 Waist Hands, 10 SHRP eRVFanMans CoTEIEG eat Foreladies .. mals =| Waiters 4 noon wondering ever since how J GES cise ap ecgatiahinrie OR — | Waitresses 6 Qi muny ti have made dear old ! Housekeepers 2 87) Laundry yy © Ohuteh street or Grea treet lank at Houseworkers ’. A 72) Miscollineaus. (iT ede 493 “ie minute hand of the Mayor's dea * : ‘ ‘ R " elock Was rapidly tilting the propor. | On last Monday morning the numbey of answers received froni Sun- Hons, OF Te ea ett ial | day World,“Wants” in the previous 8,069,,or 4,457 more than on corresponding, Monday last year. Help Site Wanted Wanted Sunday's World Want Directory wa ‘World Reader s Answer Ads,"’ wa hi ian aA A cd Ph i el ‘That jaw ‘brought to mind the feat. | t ” | his hand, mn | sala, “That was just a bit of shop that belongs to the man at the throttle." | “One often hears the wonder ex- pressed, Mr, McClellan, that you did not follow in the path of your fathor| and become a soldier.” Had Soldierly Ambitions, Tt was a. sudden way. to go on that ground, but time was pressing, “Yes, I know," came the answer, and |a@gain the Mayor's eyes went out Into! Broadway and beyond, “I wanted to | Bo to West Point very much,” and the) words came with an almost imper | [ceptible sigh, “Do you know if I had, and if I had graduated at the bottom of my class, | | that I would, following the regular line | of promotion, just now be coming into | the command of & battalion or squadron? |I know I should. And In these days I think an officer of such a'rank holds a most enviable position, “IT have always taken a great interest In military affalrs, When I was In Congress I was on the House Commit- tee, and { was forever, during that time, getting mixed up with the army in one way or another, 1 feel quite lost Jnow because that work {ts gone, but I |stil follow the ermy and the staff, and In my opinion things are not what they should be, The United States is forget- ting the leseon she learned in the war with Spdin, just as England Is forgeting the Boer war, Nations which have had such lessons cannot afford to forget.” The Mayor, warmed to his subfect and spoke of many foat who at one time and another have held the port- follo of Secretary of War, He thinks that Elihu Root was one of the hest Beoretaries of War that the nation has ever had “Root Kept 'Em on the Jump.” “oat kept them on the jump.’ sald he. “and that Js what the staff needed When he took the helm, He put him- self to the task of getting the army out of politics and when he got through he had @ staff of which the nation could be proud, ‘The army needs @ man like Root at the head of ft, every dav. ee” hour, but Roots are hard 0, ket. “An instance of the way he struck terror In the men who) have never been of credit to the servied concerns a lit~ tle door which is In the Secretary's of- fice. It ‘was what might be called a side entrance, and through jt all the big nobodies used to go In and out Wien they wished, and oo the Secre- tury didn't meet those who should have had ‘his ear, What door lasted about a week witn Mr, Root, He shut it up and locked {t from the Inside,’ Dantel Lamont won the McClellan ad- miration for the policy he followed when he was Secretary of War, Tho Mayor doesn't think hé had the opportunity (hat came later to Mr, Root, for ding the first ‘two years of Mr, Lamont’s term there was a Democratic Congress that wanted to stger just as far away from doing anything for the Army as oseible, and In the next two years there was a Republican Congress that Was bound to undo everything that the Democrats had accomplished, The con, Noquence Was. that polities ruled ngein In the estab) Aieate Feaeiahment and made Russell) An Appreciated Compliment. "The greatest compliment bin not long ago," continued the Mayor, Tt was ata dinner, und he referred to father of the general staff It ds true I did fight for it, and the ensure aa It exists tomday, w | the exception of a few changes, {s. | 1 know my father would. like ite cette | 4m rather proud that I had a hand in ii 32) IALS—MAYOR MCLELLAN. “THE MAYOR AT HIS DESK IN THE CITY HALL, { (Photographed Expressly for he Kvening World by Staff Artist.) making the law, ory $2" and he smiled hela ou “Lm glad you dropped jn, And as the office door closed noiselessly lone felt that Mr. McClellan meant that Tt Ja the sincerity ry the 8on of “Little Mac" that men giv as their first and dost reason for liking "the man at thi throttle.” ol) INSPECTORS Prosecution . Opens Against Fleming and Lundherg—For- mer Is Taken ill and Case Is Adjourned, The trial of John W. Fleming and Henry Lundberg, former \inited States Inspectors of boilers and hulls of steam vessels, for manslaughter Jn connection with the loss of life on the burned ex- curation boat Beneral Stocum, was com- menzed to-day, before Judge Thomas and a jury in the eriminal branch of the United States Ciroult Court,, The Government has subpoenaed over’ fifty witnesses to testify against Fleming and Lundberg, and the alleged defective life-preservers, rafts and fire hose will be ewhibited ty Special Assistant United States District-Attorney Bald- win, who is prosecuting the case /for the Government, Before putiing the first witneas on the stand, Mr, Baldwin described the duties which under the law the ac- cused inspectors were expected to per- form, “It was woon the report of these men,” said Mr, Baldwin, “of the ex qmination of the General Slocum, to the effect that the equipment was perfect, the Icense was granted by Messrs, Du- mont and Barrett,. This inspection was fA joint one, and, being a negligent one, Lundberg and Fleming were equally gullty, We will show during the prog- ress of the trial toat since 1891 only 280 new Ife-preservers were supplied, yet the Slocum was licensed to carry 2,500 passengers, and that the life-pre- servers were not made of block cork, Which the kaw requires, but were filled with granulated cork, and in some tne stances only the pulp of rushes,’ The prosecutor deseribed the fateful trip of the General Slocum, on June 15 last, with over a thousand women and children aboard, He said also that ac that time the Slocum carried hundreds of life preservers absolutely madquace for the purpose of saving life Mr, Bald- win sald the Government was pre ed to prove that. some of the Slacum’, drowned passengers wore fake life pri servers when their bodies were recover- Robert Rodie, who was Supervising Inapector of Stam Vessels for the Bec- ond District in May, 1904, was the first witness, He identified the instructions given Fleming and Lundberg in May, 1904, to Inspect the General Slocum, then in the Erle Basin, and the reports made by the accused inspectors, During the examination of Rodle for- mer Judge Tompkins informed the cvurt | that his client's attack of acute gastri'{s had returned, and that Fleming was too sick to remain any longer In the cous room, Ag the trlal could not proces without. the defendants being present, Judge Thomas adjourned court until Monday morning at 10,80 o'clock, Ee GIRL’S CRYING SAVES FRIDAY EVENING tba his 7 BY ANS he ¥ e dye in = |TWO KILLED IN FIGHTS OVER WOMEN | | Quarrels over women were responsible | for two heavy sentences !mposed in | General Ses#ions Court to-day, Jesse | Pittman, of No, 30 Weat Thirty-ninth | street, was sentenced to Sing Sing Prison for the rest of his life by Judge | Cowling. Pittman, who is only thirty- five years old, shot and killed George Johngon on Oct, 17 last, because John- son had “interfered” with his sweet- ear, Judge Foster sentenced Herman Mil- ler, aged twenty-two, convicted of man- slaughier for having shot and killed John Martin at Second avenue and One Hundred und Sixth street on July 23, to twenty yours’ imprisonment, "Mik ler's common-law wife claimed to} ive been insulted by Martin ond three companions, Miller went out gunning | for the four men, killed Mardn and | wounded, the others, ——— WOMAN DIES FROM DRINKING POISON, Mrs. Jane Husi fifty-five years old, of Hast Thirteenth street and) Shore Road, Sheepshead Bay, dled to-day = fcoting material, which, members of her family say she took, accidentally, Hor son-in-law heard her groaning shortly after dayltght and found’ her uncon- sclus in-bed, She dled while two doo- tors, were» working over her, One of Mrs, Hussey's daughters was arralgned in Coney Island Pollce Court | yesterday on a charge of Intoxication, |and the mother felt the disgrace keenly, | {She crled and lamented all of yesterday Alternoon, but wien she reltred lust Hight it appared to her family that she was more composed, ‘The | poiyon that killed her was in her room, Bho drank it some time during the night, fldscafbn EU | MRS, MAYBRICK VISILS SING SING Seen the Denth Ch » Work shop and Cells in Collecting Data tor a Book, GSSINING, N, Y,, Jan, 20,—It became | known to-day that Mrs, Maybrick, wao | was confined many years’ in’ British tkons on a conviction for poisoning her husband, paid a visit to Sing sing Vrigon on Wednesday last, It is sald that she Is writing a book on prison life and that It was in connection with [tds weer tend the visit was made, She Was accompanied by Superintend- Jeni of Vrisous Collins, ana was shown j thre workshops, where hundreds lof couviets were busily employed, Ss! » visited the death chamber and was shawn the working of the elec- j trie chair, | —— ey TOOK THE PREACHER'S HAT. But the Minister Did Not Prosecute nnd Shen Wan set Pree, Jonni Shea, of No. 24 Wart One Huns dred and Twenty-sixth street, a char. typleal of the ocupanis of the cheap lodging houses in that nelghbor= Nord, Wier a odin Harlem Police Court toed somal Seully, ot une Bast On and LWentyesiXth weet station, on the ¢ 1 balvoanks, of No. nplaint of Key. 3 West One Hundred and Twenty-third street. Mr, THE LIVES OF THREE, (i2cnk® Js one of the spaakerg fn H e)suries of revival meerdnas being held at the I Light Mission, at One (fundrot and ‘Twenty-ninth street and Finds! avene, ‘The preacher charye Awakens Drother, Who 3 with taking sew hat from a Children Almost Overcome — | ee! in tho misston ball and leaving in from Gan In Their Room, | ' Pa recor 2 ed Neal Gag escaping from a leaky Jet In the soit in the apartments of Louis Needleman, at No, A A {4 Sixth street, to-day rendered thre 1 lott, It was only @ hat of the nine children of Needleman i ear’ conscions, ‘The children were the minister did not appear to nearly unconsetous, ‘The ehildren wer SR eee ee Tere ite Israel, geventeen years okt; Abraham, reed Shea iufter lecturing hiny on eleven years, and Ruby, five years, toe sin of mistaking other people's buts wore qttenced by Ambulance £9" his own Surgeon Hooker, of Bellevue Hospital, | Sara win, ase E uid remained at home NEW MESSENGER COMPANY. the threo chubiren sleep in the front yoom of the four-room apartment with Brooklyn Men Geta Charter (o Do a young brother and sister, Tn an at Business in That Borough. Joining room sleeps a son named Max, ! ap yan 2.—The Brook: the client Of the clare. nd, hear: |” ‘Telegraph and Messenger Compar Max awoke early to-day and, hear: | seals ey sorcoredmaecosaas ing his lktle alator cryiag, went into [Of Brooklyn, was Incorrorated to day her room, Soon after’ another mem: | with a capital of §10),0%, to maintain her of the family smeiled gas and|{n that borougt a telegraph, telephone |throw open the windows In the apart | and messenger service, inent, Max then an out on the street} ‘Th directors are M. Ix, MacDonald, A, and told a poligeman, wno sent in 4/1, Grmnell, BE. W. Hunt, L, MacDonald, | cull to Behe Hespitul for an men | Albert T, beamed pnd A, BF. Kelley, of, ulance, ‘y (Brooklyn, and M. G, Clum, of Yonkers, | “ JANUARY $0, 1 from the effects of swallowing diuin-| de ‘ ' TUCKER TRYING | Defense in Page Murder Case Introduces Evidence Show-| ing Accused Man Was Not Near Scene of Crime. (Special to The Evening World.) RAST CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan, 20.— Charles Tucker began In earnest to-day his attempt to prove an allbj in the Page murder trial by calling several | witnesses, who testified that they had | | | | jelther seen him a distance from the|t | Page home in Weston at the thme | Mabel Page was slain, or were at the {scene of the crime and had not ob- ecrved him there, Of these the most Important was | Daniel Connolly, who said that at 10 o'clock on the day of the murder he was [at work jn the crchand of Mr, Cutters |Pace, He left there at ve minutes to | 12, canrying his lunoh and went down | }to the cider mill on West Newtotn jstréet to eat it, It took him only a | few minutes and he then went to the) | barn for & few minutes and smoked, | He looked at his watch when he left | the barn, as he had to be at work at 1 o'clock, “Wihen you went ult from the barn 48 la Lucker,’ "Where was ‘he?’ | "About by Leet from Cutters corners down dec Newson street,” | “Now, give me your beat Ag tot judgment e ume You suw Tucker,’ ut 2 to Ys minutes past w othe nree ume wnat ‘Tucker en triced arvund Cutters Cor- has nare, { Connolly ‘saw no one \crossing — the Mendows from the diraction of the Page ‘house, but did see a man going aloux |idgeway road waom he did not know, Came the Other Way. Mr. Parker crossrexamined the wit+ ness, ie deked hin ut ne nad not sad he did not 100K ai Wis Waxen on Lie day OL the murder petween tive minutes of 2 und Hive minwies ut 1. ‘ne witness suid ‘he’ atun't 100K at his watch bevween tie Unes named, AS a mater of Lac, Conno\ly had ajreaay said ne iooked at nis Watch at 12.30, He coud not. say whether the man he saw on Kidgeway tyad was ‘Tucker, He wient new enough, He was sure it. was ‘Tucker ne saw on Kast Newion gireet, He came trom the direction of Auburndale, “How do@you know didn't come from tne direcwon of the je house?” “He couldn’s have. He would nave had a long sweep around the corner to et AS) ovner ae Wy the #treet, and would have no! te" ‘ne imporvance of Connolly's ts mony to the defense is ‘Pucker came direct from Aburndale and turned the corner away from the Page: house and one-thid of a mile away witain. Fer as utee of the tme ‘he left Weston bridge. Attar er Parker attacked Attorney-Geners Connolly mercilessly, trying. to make him say that he was not sure about the time he saw ‘Tucker. Arthur H. Wiggin, a court bicep in the Cambridge Court House, testified he lives next ‘ker's bh Bourne street, ri ae Euaret alnice te 8 H ae caw. Tue ‘A and: later, at 10 o'clock, ny raking his lawn, still work: . L, Ballou, ® rural mail carrier, testified that he had a route through some parts of Wellesley and Weston, He left the mall at the boxes at the gates of the estates on the road, He remembered March 41 last; he passed the Page house about 12 o'clock, and saw nothing unusual to attract his at- tention, After pnssing the Pi house he turned down Ridgeway toad to Welles- v. He saw no one on Ridgeway road, He had a clear view of the fields be- tween the Cutter house and the Page idea Ha got back to Wellesley at 1 ofa! ‘The purpone of thie testimony ts to xhow that Tucker was not seen near the Page house during the noon hour, Pin Again Identified, ‘Mie brother of the defendant, Walter F. Tucker, Was cailed and testified that te brother hal a Canadian pin and one had a Spani@h coat-of-arma on it, Ho saw the disputed stickpin in his eS THE FRIEND MAKER. Food-Drink That Does That. In the 9 years Postum Food Cof- fee has been on the market it has made many thousands of stanch friends, but apparently none better than the Clerk of the Courts at To- ledo, British Honduras, who has sent a list of names of people in Central and South America who now use Postum in place of coffee, explaining in detail their cases, He “Have much pleasure in writing you this letter for the good Postum has done myself and friends in this district, The attached list of persons to whom I have recommended P tum will, I venture to say, give you great satisfaction, I have given the names and addresses 80 any one can verify my statement by writing to them” (full particulars with names and addresses will be sent by mall to any one), “On the list the persons marked from 1 to 11 were confirmed | tea drinkers, and when I spoke to them about drinking Postum they, {laughed at the idea of giving up tea, | But I insisted on their giving Postum a trial before candemning it and went 80 far as to give some of them a package, They all use Postum now and nothing else. “From No. 12 to 19 were coffer | flends, my wife included, and they all) also thought {t absurd to try to re-) place coffee by any other drink, but after some persuasion I got them to try it, and now they all use Postum, “Nos, 14, 16 and 16 suffered from) nervous prostration and sleeplessness | when they drank coffee, No, 10, Mr, Lucas, had been ordered by doctors not to uge tea or coffee and had been | experimenting to find something to{ drink, Postum has filled the bil!, and | now he not only orders it for himself | but for sale, Some of these people | did not like Postum at first because | they did not know how to make it,| but T Invited them to my house and) ‘gave them Postum, making it ac- cording to directions on the packige:| and they all found it delicious, “Now, I will tell you how I came in contact with Postum, Mr, Wells, | Hving in Toledo District, mentioned; Postum and gave me a package for | trial, he was so sure {t would help} me, as } suffered from coffee drink- | ing, From that time J became a con- vert and thought I could not do with- out it. “Lam also Assistant Collector of | Customs at the Port of Punta Gorda, and } know how the popularity of Poatim is Increasing.” Name given by Postum Co,, Battle Croek, yich. : f ; a ina Bs A a le i tt il A ii kin lc Nd Ab Nh evil i dict MS i a a i | Knocked Down and Trampled Upon Pto-day, He had ‘on | minute brother's possession) 01 they. were bowling, the: | Wig released. Since my br | rest he had procured in Moan jaimilar in sage and shape to He had seen h Wear repeatediy a pin very efmilar to Miss Ethel Osborne, a dater of Tuck= ler'n dead wife was next called, The {witness testified that she Been icker wearing a pin shield, shaped and th a crown at the \on, "Did your elster give It to.Tucker?” ‘Yea, “Where did she get Hef "She found it in Portland,'Me., In the summer of 1902,"" Charles L, Tucker, the defendant, will go on the witness-stand as the last wit- ness for the defense, It was decided by ‘his counsel this afternoon to put him en, Search for Mabel Walker, Charlea A, Badler was the next wit- He | In charge of the B, A. A. Grounds at Riverside. The witness saw Tucker with a young woman on tlw afternoon of the murder, He was stroll. ing deleurely in front of the Gun Club iy “LPs, William 0. Gould, employed by the Pinkerion Detective Agency, was called | and asked if he had made a search for | Miss Mabel Walker, the young womet ‘Tucker was with on the day of the | numer, »The Attorney: eral would no? permit the witness ell in detail of his search for the young woman, | "You searched and could. not find | er?” asked Judge Sherman in settling | Ispute, | ‘e4," replied the witness, "That te all’ a WOMEN HURT IN CROWD AT FIRE, in Nassan Street — Windown Broken and Trucks Upset, A fire at No, 7 Nassau street this | afternoon resulted In a jam of pedes- trians in which women were knocked down and trampled upon, men had,thelr coats torn off, windows were broken and trucks were overturned, The blaze in Itself was Inconsequ®ntial, The alarm was given at a time when ; the street wis crowded) with clerks and stenographers returning to their offices In the Wall streot district from lunch- eon, Two engines, with thelr tenders, a hook and ladder truck and a water tower effectually blocked the street, and police Iines were formed to turn the current of trafic to Broadway and Will. Jam atreet, But the crowds overwhelmed the poilcg and in a few minutes progress tor two blocks was impossible, Not until the fire had been extinautehed and the ap- paratus had been fairly squeezed out of the neighborhond could pollee pet the blockade lifted. Many young women were forced to f°. to their homes to nurse brulses and repair torn clothing, ————- FOUND DEAD BY HIS STENOGRAPHER. e Disease a Few Minutes After Reaching Hin Oftice, Oswald Samuel Asch, fifty-five years 1d, president of the Aech Manufactur- {ng Company, No, 24 Ohurch street, was discovered by his stenographer, Miss Smith, lying dead in this office tered the place alone eet of health a few Long, of the Hud- ronounced heart in apparently the fore. Dr, von. Street’ Hospital)! failure the cause of death, and the Coroner's office was fied, sch wan a Grand Army veteran, javing entered the Union army as’ @ rummer ooy at the ig of fitteen, He lived at the Hotel Brunswick, Bighty-ninth street and Madinon ave nue, and leaves a widow, at both stores is the greaté: $18.00 and $20.00 Suits and $22.00 and $25,00 Suits and $27.50 and $30,00 Suits and +$35,00 and $40.00 Suits and Cortlandt St, No. 34, Just a step from’ 6th Ave, “L” Station, wee, wee ad alraad writ was sworn out at the preserve the interests of Shuai en. until Monday, saying physician to see Mrs, ‘on her condition, GSR SHELDON WANTS. ' |@whats the Covntitutio: a member of the) Assembly trom Higgine's county, held two State last year Jn violation of the Co t notary day a 1 Leader Palmer ment on the grount a two offices oe tution and that hia acts, coil friends SMART CLOT And FURNISHIN history, The price on everyt! That you can see from the ee English Walking Suits, Cutaway Coats and Wai: Prince Albert Coats and Waistcoats and corr All our smart Furnishings at surprisingly small BYCKBRSS “The Smart Clothes Shops.” yay eh ane * Charges fy. Keeping Hin Drina Relatives to Iniiuenge Charging that her nd heing kept a prisoner by | Robert H. Hall, of ,.0. nite, weit of haheas corpus for tl tlon of Mrs, Hall betore th in the Supreme Court 10+ Bronx, Caroline Ex-Justive Alfred Steck! preme Court, stated In) behalf, Witt that Mrs, Hall waa op for cancer last ‘ls "i Malt a Witt ere eter, Mrs, 1, fitlen,’ and ‘that her te Bia atte ch. the. pu A Of preci a new wilt, 2 the Witt children. July, after hich the sion from | a her beneficlery and, “Judge recited that! Mir aah Stranpferted most roperty, about §70,000 in: vade and, ‘M's, Hall Is dying of cane u ni 1 for Robert H. Hall ¥ Jounse! Mrs, Hall Ix too far gone to to court in obedience to the that Mrs, Witt's allegations out meri Justice “soott adjourned ti Hall a HIS ACTS LEGA Friends?” Assomblyman Whon Objection Is M ALBANY, Jan, 2.—James 0. He was an Assemblymai ublic at the same. tim uli to legaliee his note am ni wembly, and jected to I A that had yio ton, ve up inthe A alized. vs Constitution protested Sheldon, Assemblyman Palmer re: draw his objection, and the over til] Monday night, us 2» ARRO | COLL Tika Overcoats Overcoats, Overcoa Overcoa ‘Bast 425th § Nos, 154+ OPEN EV! uy YOU BAT Ni NOH OLRBOME, DELICIOUS, LARGR PACKAGES, BACH yee CHAMPAGNE WAPERB seen lB, VANbn peertn B | ASSORTE! 1D SHOCOLATE LOG, CHOTRN ABLANTATIONS, « iw, 19¢ We will deliver 1 to 10 Iba, fat tho following rates: Manhatton Island. 10e Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken or The Rronx, tho, No coffe went C..0, D.’ CAN ANGELIC BUTTER CRISP 1 MORE YOU WAN'T." on APPETIZING. CHOVOL Ta xy, SPECIAL for ERIN SPECIAL for SATURD! 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