The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1905, Page 1

\ ») PRICE ONE CENT. IX, WIFE SAYS, blers Engaged in All Sorts of Wild-Cat Ventures. — INHERITED A BIG FORTUNE -At Once Became the Prey, Mrs: Felix Asserts, | Gamblers and Sharpers with Various Schemes to Get His Cash Both in of ‘ . This Country and Europe, 'r—~ John Bugene Felix, the German merchant who proved si dupe’ in the hands of “wire tappers” and New York gamblers] gether $96,000, hut according to a statement made by his wife to-day, Mre, Felix declared, when seen by an Evening World reporter at her home, No, 823 Lexington avenue, that her husband has launched-into all » manner of wildcat schemes for a period of ten years, losing on one occasion $250,000, Now, sho says, he fs ruined, and she fears he may do some harm| ’ to himeelf, Mrs, Felix is’ sister of Dr. Charles H. Yaeger, of No, 24 West Fifty- ninth stree‘, She is a black-haired little woman, with @ nervous manner and a rapid way of talking, Twisting her fingers together wringing her hands, she told in jerky sentences of her husbatld’s remark: able career, . “My hushand,” she bewan, “has lost ‘we are ruined, {Wt the neighborhood of $1,000,000 In yar= ae at Yous wildcat schemes since our hgh hero i} tinge fourteen years ago, His home 18 clear, The lawyers who’ 4) * tn Letpalo, Germany, and he 4uheriled @) my husband In court yeaterd .000 from ‘his father, The: represent him. silk matufacturer “ehe’ Continent. pasar a eethre wore four children, thrée boys | that horseracing scheme. anda girl, The two brothers of my eet camermanel a guneel Sisband are dead and his sister is the rite him iH ‘afternoon, only living relative, They were all left aagt something fortunes of. over a’ million each. Wepe sy e. were married at Trinity Church, this ~oity, and right. after the wedding Mr. + Felix took me to Germany, There we port that 1 att t fs a very pal lived at Lelpsic and it was only a few eae ak fan realise ui i ht dete ikem Ings, Now d } years atter our marriage that my hus-|1 think only of my children ad what inet RAGE—Garrett: Wilton (8 HOT SPRINGS. Rea re is gehamee co huge iad kG FINGT RACE--Three turlonas, ‘Time—0.12¥, 0,95 4oB, 0,88, Pr | aren sin mem ry | Catan arp, (tacocacn ee O° 9 © EA a ate aa Patt i EMG “he wilder the scheme the better he by , ec i jesse “to Ike it, and te went into Pa Re Rose, of Hoge & Puteel, ‘ —_— | it at. CS o = a, everything blindly, refusing to take #ny’| counvel, expressed mutpnse to-diy whan]. SECOND RACE—Huleon (26 to 1) ince i ty h ei wavice or act with any caution, A/he leamed ‘that Mrs. Felix sald her t, Dapple Gold (9 to 5) 2; Glendon 3.) ii? H M ay 1 { Py, nian namog Schwendle, at Coblents, ee Repeene had engaged a personal attor-| ’ tk ‘iia vent + # ' ; 5 ie wale UN tai pa ae Roser eained by Mr. Felix.” eald) THIRD RACE—Miss Gomez (13/2 Beihai et eee ie Moyer, mittee whore he 6) 2, Beratched—Maaeum, wha m 00 the marke, They wore golng to make|& Moyer, his brokers, to 8) 1, Floral Wreath (8 to 6) 2, ; ' Millions out of it and my husband.| 4tew ‘the $00 the witectaes ate ' Mathie uae guntoped, Cal Haak WAU Weak Coa ht ge tae ‘eurned over \$260,000 to this one schemer alone, ! “When the Bank of Lelpsic falled af- iterwands it was found that Schwendle was @ bankrupt and that in the wreck) of his fortune overy cent of my hus-| ‘pand’s $20,000 had been stwallowed up. | The man had alsd lost a groat deal of | money belonging to his relatives. | Working Men ne in his interest altorney, an t) them, and iM recovering the gambllig-hoi and Preemane ome will devote all of Loi which we this money fore, Mr. Felix has In fact, known I ‘ yand it did not-serve as any warning to ‘him, A man named Newman persuaded fhim to put £60,000 in a South African ‘periodical, This money also went down) when the scheme foundered, my hua- and losing every cent of his invest- iment, | “But be’ did hot lose it all in these sa- eqied pusiness ventures, He gambicd a engaged anoth When Felix ‘hasard, He ‘never told me about his | security, gambling, and 1 never questioned him Nery closely about it. 1 learned from ivlends of fits, however, that he visited all. the Dig ; and that he Jost heavily, | John Felix out of “Whether he lost $100,000 at Monte ‘Carlo I do not know, but I would not) be surprised if he had. As I sald, he Mr, Rose sald th Knowlidie of any. auch’ lonn Fret Willams king, two of the Barone Judge Newburger to 1 to be run off to-day, Index. at r Mever discussed his passion for gam- | be deferred until Monday, ang el abc i was. still heavy. The at- | sage : 4 Fin bling with me, end even had he jost|!nal ball be fixed, Assistant’ Date: tate programmes 18 usual brought } (i197, POT oe te a Ahat sum at Monte Carlo he would not Attorney Miner asked that bail be! out Brother farge crowd of Tacegoers | yyy y, § iN hy, any iy Have told me about It. 1 know {his} 695,000 each, and In wpite of the mteate| oo eee, Aus +Goodohtit ; A Be get UM Peg Loa edn ey it Hopi Thea Court decided on thet “ernst RACE-—Selling; three-year-olds and ph Bertani’ ‘aiken we ie x H a i fe i : 4 env ny ne P 0 3 Be = nt, Hes “doke watery. te Now| en were taken to the Tombs. | upward; one mile, ‘Thne-rl.O4 ae Gat Hoe kat it mu Tes Jookeva, Whts, 444 Excentral ry 4B Th 8 Fern @ way I blame myself for these| for I induced him to come to Yellow Hamm i Hag ome a, ta Mat ae ey eT a Dee ci | lok to see my, people, and at last 1) pn taats Bank Suet pockout, Ron: ier. " Deeg) fprevalled upon him to come over. here | Three-yeur.ola Boy Taken a Kath udge Bau igntmare iso Tals 7 ‘and live, 1 suppose, however, that had | Plunge Into Boiling Wat BROOND RA jelling; four-year-olde We ntayed th Germany he would have| | ahh) ib and Up; alx furlony i ’ ‘ost me none Pd BUS quits 80 Wee | Dr. RK. Parker, of No, 155 Lexington ie doaksva: wnte Pua ahy ‘These New York gamblers seemed ‘to Avenue, repor' f jterters, Shot "4 nv b a It rleht away from him: v ported to the Coroners’ office | Hudwon 4 Aub! fie 109 A is to-day that Ralph Pavero, le has always been a good, King one-half years old, dled at ) fh} id we have lived hap- usband to me, and we have ip | ply together. We have ‘two children, | tor whom I had great hopes. But how'—and tears came into the little | i woman's eyes, and she almost sobbed-- | from burns received by fall boiler of scalding water. “IN HIS GAMBLING "Merchant Who Declares He Was Robbed by Wiretappers and New York Gam- FROM FATHER IN GERMANY. been swindled ont of $1,000,000 in the last ten years, All of o} don't know what Ite’ fd 6 one thing T' wight capt 1 the Yrokers trom whom Ne "ot the ci aptle with and from the money bsbely he I q yang ay. and be aeolng: if the! ‘ing, he can, Saye trons hie fio not care ito talk about the re- ited to commit sulcite, ‘ul subjeot to me, but persons who ‘know my ‘huebard's ruin We, of courve, believed that we werd Bite ay getting another engaged George Gor The ein Pio Rosalsky Ne aneeiele ‘minal prosecution, In’ fact, a have turned that matter entirely ‘over voting $46.00 Mr. Fellx lost in and Charles F, ‘tomp- gambling places in Hurope| tappers who are c hareed with eaaaina $50,000, were arraigned Thelr counsel abked that the pleading BABY DIE6 OF BURNS, {| of his parents, No; 412 Pearl street, Che 8 plastic ing alto- Sliding Bo 221 Base , NORWOOD OHIO - IS HOME FIRST Favorite in. Fifth. Race at New Orleans Beats. Out Evaskill and Queen Rose—Erste, Platz bya Nose, at times jay Eat whom 10 has aie NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. Filla 3 d had ~ no FOURTH RACE—Bellindian (8 to FIFTH RACE—Norwood Ohio (11 to Wt Ludlum) g) 4, Bvaekill (6 to 1) & Queen our efforts “After working up thi " “But thia was only one of his ventures| have devised nn ab porat way: el Revers believe the greater part of 0 will be recovered, There- WO are astonished to learn that SIXTH RACE—Laura Huiter (9 tt (7 to 2) 2 her lawyer, te PE ero : } Then the | clroumstances tire] Princess Atheling 3. : don't think any lawyei care to Inject limself tito: tee caeetis Prisoners Under Heavy Bail, asked if it was true that Mr, had borrowed everything in which there was alSellgman @ Meyer. Lipo eect Owing to the crippled condition of the telegraph wires charts of the races at Ne obtainable to-da They wttl be he had no] morrow’s Evening World, : (Special to The Evening World.) RACE TRACK, NEW veel . X—Not In some time, has thera ban such large fields as those which Pia to made itp the six'races which were card- starters, Garret Wilkon. nin 1 fartin iB three and| the home one 12 4 A totic and Emerance alee ran, THIRD RACI—Three-yoar-olds and up; ing into aj six furlongs. MRS, PEACE WINS IN DIVORCE SUIT. Pence's sult for a separa Peace, the husband, who replied to Mrs, i counter-suit for absolute iyorce, donted tlon by al bat aml a sixteent It Is Announced that Shamaa‘: Sugim 6) 1, Sarah Maxim (B to 2) 2 Fav) (dia) rleans were not | ©, found in the early editions Of tor |, a Flying Charcoal, An- —Betting,— | Jockeys, Whts, Sir, Pl. Sh, {achat Gomes. ...Aubuchon 103 48-0 Tot — 1 it » Baird 5 25 ~ Ryan 8§ 15 8 Selling; three-year-olds *. |“ Ciroulation Books Open to All.” | ie EDITION l v a 2) NEW YORK, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1905. PUT ALCOHOL They Found Asleep in a Badly Burned the Hoboken water front, were ar- rested to-day for a brutal practical joke that probably will result in the death of John Hanson, a young ‘longshore- man, who has been hanging around the saloons of River street for the past week, Hanson was asleep in @ saloon on ‘River ‘street, between Fourth ard ‘Fifth streets, when several men entered the place, They were all more or less In- Jing and began throwing things at the sleeping. man, He did pot wake and one ‘of them: suggested that ‘alco- hol be pot:ved.on’ his\téad ahd) set, ablage, when i | OA bothis or tte apirit dee & poor a Teh ‘yet .and> the tah's tend wi |. Al hid sufferings will beaver?’ He recov. match was applied and the 6 sre consciousnehs tpng. teomake Nquld ‘blaved up, wheleking with pain!nn ante-tnortem tatemeit’ on the the man jumped up and rushed out of HEAD AND SET IT ON FIRE i MR AE Ae pega ee Drunken Sailors in Hoboken Cruelly Treat a. Laboter: ‘Whom, Half @ score’ sailor, who work atong down into his ears and ‘on the back of JU JITSU FOR THE NEW YORK BASEBALL PLAYERS, ota Will, Train with the Giants in the South on the: Club's” Coming Spring Trip. ON A MAN'S Hoboken’ Saloon—Victim and May Die. his neck, i ‘He danhed across the atrest and rolled himetif: in @ snow bank, at first the drunken shlifs roared with laughter at hin agony, but ‘when they saw his clothing: catch fire ald heard his ories of agony they fled in’ all directions, Whén the police arriver the man lay: unconscious in a snow dnitt) His hale was burned completely off and his féa- tures had almoat béen erased’ by the flame, His eyes had also been burned and’ if, there were any: chance of his pavers, fe would be: totally, the place. The flaming. alcohol, had run ENG 6 WORLD ANGE CHAT 546 SaCONT RACE—Hix furlong FarundolomTurtle Dove. Ownet e—U), Sst SSS olds and upward, Bare ee ge alee Biber Ming "Winner, we ky by re Ti eee a A Fam a an a ee s ian =| 4 45 3 BS =| 47 “THIRD Ta + bly and one-halt furl Her, ch, gy dy Quidy--Mvelyn, Owner it Hie geal index. Horses, Jockeys, Wt. BL yy fenrick WM) lenges 409 ry 105 Byer 110. Macey 13 ottman 10 iohtld ed, vinn “lasted, FOURTH RACH—Reven tus 548 Popa RAcw a rn at a Won, easily; place Winner, bi Wi oe ‘Index. Horses. Tookey. Wit, At. % pit Als Gi Bt . ee GB SEO ER PA aa * Mamie Worth opgerly Wo. 4 0 iy & ge Re (821) Van. News her 100 1 ae Te yy Bcratched—, nes, lat Winner improved, With a hush "Aster Mamie Werth. 8 rush Aster {ok gained final furlonee, ‘Woikht iitied off 2 sa i ¢ FIFTH RACK—One mile und on 549 Purse $100" threecyeatcoldy ana vy nel & 00. 4 Sts aa Naullys Blase” ising ; quit ins M'ADOO ANGRY AT PARKHURST LETTER Declares Statements as to Politios and His Work Are 3 alictous | ers, mr Pe m } . | the story of conspiracy and drusging. | meter ania, Bare Bh Wel Sate gad. | Mach also denied haying ever eeen or | Baran Maxim Ww itis 10s be | . , , et Mra, Martha Carter Penco won her heard of the. Mr. Lewis, Mr. HII and] iy 'RanccRaibert, Male Hanlon, Dusny,| Police Commiastoner McAdoo | was soparation sult by the verdict of the) sigy Le Hoy named by Mrs, Peace in| Tristan Shandy. Misanthrope vely Abardioday over Dr: Barkhneal's 1 v! i by PET Of—Bellink) threo- BE ee inte fee denertion ana Net story pt the theatre party, the lig Yorn Ye charges that he was trying to get Borst. Dames allt: the. verdict alao: ene | crumses atiorry Gnd the trapping At/th6) pila, Jockeys, Whts, Bir Big, (Cray, brother-in-law of Charles ¥, pice daa Morton House, Norwood Oblo, Wi. JdHen'ey Wes og | Yablishey her Innocence of her hus- \ctcheieseealiaia scene Bvaskilly 103 i 4 “3 | Murphy, in the position of Chief In- 4 soared DK Hann He, 5 1 | spootor and was ordering only Repub- Daind'n charges declared, Dr. Henry B| on Gugen Hore iO, Nich}, 8B OT) spootor and. i oAie Ras Hobson was the last witness tan tate Aone aka, WWheatens for break~ | AP clover Hampton and Pawtucket aro | leans before the Board of Surgeons * tied the wag called ay conclusion, fave the pioture certifica: ms for physical examination. Dy, Hengen testified that h to attend Mra, Peace on May 3 and Sald Mr. McAdoo: ‘ found hot suffering from acute gastritis due to some polson, Then Fred, 8. “yhe Return of Sherlock Ho! The Eventne Work for three. A THRILLING MOMENT, Many such moments awalt reade: Saturday. @ first glory of the series will popear ‘| A new Sherlock Holmes story a }, months. TO-MORROW'S ENTRIES, im New Orleans, Hot. Springs, Los An: e Page 10, Entries for tomorrow's races at and Oakland will be found on} “The statements and Insinuations tn this letter to-day are absolutely and unaualifiedly false in letter and spirit. No one, and especially not Mr, Murphy, knows anything about the Nst of om. lip _ to nes, { Paenns save myself and my secre- “No member of the Demorratio party | Consulted me or was. copsulted by ma} {in making up the Ilste, Ag to Serat | Cray, I would not know him/it 1 j him, and his fortunes are not | cerned in any way in the legisla {we have asked for,” JEROME BEFORE The Committee of Nine selected to Suggest some proposed changes In the Pollce Dopantment met again this af-) ternoon at the City Club, ! ‘ormer Deputy Police Commissioner rand District-Attorney Jerome, who had been invited to ‘ave to the Committee thelt views regarding the! Lptyot chankes In the Police Le- partment, ware on hand and were ad- eotlng-room.. oor seein before the Board of mithed into the m & i Pam nd srnttncancieetvtaibatrned yorierte torres *~ at Loiig:Prige, Beating Good Bh, warm raya melted the -g | of racin| PHRESHIF LEADS : NORRIS IN TOURNEY. “NINE” COMMITTED t | Circulation Books fainted, ih "Field. atl HOT SPRINGS WINNERS, FIRST RACE—Mathie’, (even): George Shell. (20 t0 1): 2 Calpbat 3% GRCOND RACE—Tiirrando (7 to] | 1) 4, Ingolthritt (8 to 2) Joe Goss 8, i THIRD RACE—Erak Platz (18 to 6) 1, Cornwall (18 to 6). 2, Amon ous 8 t Waa FOURTH RAGE—Gye Heldorn (20 to 1) 1, Asterisk (13'to'10) 2 Martie Worth 3. FIFTH RACE—Momphian (8 to 1) Remorse (8 tot) 2, Namdoki 3, SIXTH RACE —Operstor (8 to 1) 1, Barak (31-2 to 1) 2 Ciiftén Boy ( ja} to The Mvening World.) Hot SPRINGE, Ark, Fab. &—The sun shone brighily here to-fay for the second time in three weeks and its Ww, And {co ot Essex, Park so, that the resumption é wae monde porsible, ‘There was a good card with a atale feature in the Hot Springs Handicap at seven furlongs. " The other races promised, keen con- teats, Tho track had a hard bottom with a covering of sloppy’ mud, The attendance: was gcod, Coemiblere ASCOT WINNERS, \ ¢} ACK, ASCOT, Feb. %—The anaes nine races here are aa fol- lows: ‘ AT RACE—Declino (7 to 5) 1, Aly ee (6 to 4) 2; Casador (6 to 1) 8 ‘Time—$,08. ————— CHICAGO, Feb, 9-In the afternoon imatch of the amateur billlard tourney | here between Charles Norris, of New) York, and Charles Throshie, of Boston, | ‘Threshle led by a score of 10 to 41 In the first ten innings, j Flay in the tournamen: Is expreted to be roncluded to-morrow night, wheh » ©, F. Conklin meats the whiner of the | Gantner-Sigournoy, match, witeh takes | tonight, ‘Then the title will be! y hive men are jn che | nklin, BigoUTNey And Gardner, | he defeat of Gardner laat nlaht by Kun, the tournament’ commis: vioner decided that Gardner and: Big. | ourney should play ‘to-night and that) wine’ of the matoh eneuid then quy! Cunkliin’ for first. place. The: winne, of ths final mateh whl camty off fret hion- ‘ars ind tte loser second honors, The fosat ¢f the mateh this eventhg will bs pushed Into third plice, en ESP Re road at One ‘Hundred north-bound trains, both, packed with home-going i the: street, full of waiting, passengers. trains were thrown intoa, Ther was a rear-end golision on the: Third avenue’ e ‘and Forty-ninth street bet The impact smashed the platforms and @ part of of both cars, smashed all the glass in every +2 Ambulance calls brought surgeon Bronx, ‘andthe surgeons’ Had ; their, hands (wounds of the ‘injuredias fast: a& they There had been’ into LAURA HUNTER A fout was allowediin the six brid ‘diequalified, whioh ang Similar ‘creased Fadilities Will Be nished Beginning M The efforts of The Kvening World to secure tor the patrons of the Third avenue “L’ an {improvement upon the, prosent, inadequate: conditions have heen! crowned with success, and more traina.will be put on next Mon- day, | , The State Railroad Commisaton, etirred up by The Evening World's exposures of the poor train service, has conducted an Independent inves- tigation and found that every charge made, by this newspaper ‘was, well substantiated, ‘Tho report of the State Railroad Commissfon haa not been prepared and Commissioner Baker refused to-day to make it pub- No, f General Manager Hedley, through one. of his subordinates, telephoned to Tha Byening World to-day and asked that ‘a reporter be sent to see him with’ Teference to. remedying the state of affairs that has mrade life a horror for patrons of the Third avenue lines. He frankly admitted that The Evening World bad just. ground. for ‘complaint and pledged himself to, afford reliet.ad rapidly as possible. on State Board's Action, ne cut By. the ‘time Mr. Hedley inaugurates | Subway, his reforms he will have received some recommendations from the State Rall- road Commission directing . improve- ments not only upon the Third avenue ie etna system, but upon that in Second avenue i aa’ Well, m frank to admit,” sald Mr.) Hed: i ‘that the service on the Third Ave: nue Wlevated road is not what, I would Uke to have It. [ft Js the best that Could be arranged under existing facil- fila, UT have now planned to add four mere trains to the service on next Monday and will Increase the num ber ae rapidly ae possible, “The ‘new trains will be of six cara |. eveh and will run during the morning gestion.” “Lag oR v Lise) venerey. i Aire Hedloyy "The five 1, from sixth Monday. Febry, In the evening f Will run fromiOhati will atop at atu do much to fae th poaltlvely declined | to’ shai thelr’ that th tog took, but I have tranater them. to- hind avenue 'L' effect next week, ‘gervice. Not Gut. Down, Wiah td etal -agsertiony to the contrary, that ‘shit ented AY Soarn For the | wi | openine of tbe Runny tl iplloage per week fron. Tan 3 Ore yer day—an Incess Subway, tons, e1,ue 0) ‘bel ting” ews i teresting pun een a in a as @ ut I can tguan that in hunailng let have noi a single Nig fromy Ines) FAY Ha « d and “if Vv. or re only, (Continned on Beoond pelo