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ye mat VICE IS WORSE | ugh Drills Incompetent Men » Public Suffers—Delays and s Inctease Daily and All Lines “Proof of Mismanagement. ING FOR GREAT DISASTER EF OF HELPLESS PATRONS “L” Lines Practically. at a Standstill t Side Lines Slow and Irregular— ng Delays and Slow Trips the ‘Rule in the Subway. the strike. ended a week ago New York suffers more incon- the Initerborough tines: 1 cutin; the height of the conflict. m cars ' needless delays are the rule, Instead ta since the strike was broken, conditions on: both “L” -havé: grown worse until it is doubtful if there is another ‘country to-day operated with such litle regard for. the Interborough, ‘million people who depend upon the “L” and Subway between their homes and their business tew were on Sixth and Ninth avenue “L” roads were running them- die ‘Was running backward and the Third and Second aye- t running at all, from a lon standpoint, Traing a @; bound downtown during the rush hours, ran from os | to halt an’ hour spart and at halt apéed, APY ANGEROUS TO LIVES. 01 payee py Be outrage, and the lose of time need people &re arousing wi nhattan ing widespread ‘ hiting : } old Manhattan. system that the life of a passenger way ptan|anywhers else has boon discounted since the recent among persons experienced in the running of p Interborough system is in training for a great dis. Raeetlig tn one Ot tha ca ns press that left Ninety-aixth peg iE ‘ we. look and ate ‘up thirty-seven min. ‘ ntosin the trip to Brookiyn By: indred and |man whove appearance led to ir eoyct lock that Hed to the beuet sae femme eppeananoe he'was a banker shout “The Mayor Would be fustified in nels. {ng thin road and puting 1 In the ‘Jhands of, 1g efiag! fun it,” a ‘ren mh was dected with is ri" He repented It at tiequent In. sii peal tervals ‘ali the way downtown, Bh cine Bad. ag ne wore” in the ‘Sub. ete. way, \'the “or? ‘turnivhed {ed or pried aie dynaly The Bide were to egal all’ prac. ithe “p,” The, the ign of | ontly placed of the ‘Thin avenue tine Of ine for las ai venue line wed by the danger to life accompanying LIGHTING CONTRACTS) CITY iw? F Talk about Bleeding DOWN HILL AND THROUGH STORE Brake Broke on High Brie _ Bill and Vehicle Got Beyond Control, Rumnisg trolley. car of the Union Railway Com- (pany dashed down # steep incline on atthe junction of Fordham and Tie- bout avenues, left the tracks and wideged ‘Yhtough @ grovery store early || ductoF on the car, was in charge of Motorman Gootshow, the brake broke at top. of the in- cline, Gootahow tried to atop the oar by reversing the.motor, but his ef- forts were futile, and, gaining mo- mentwin at every turn of the Wheels, ‘were | it sped down the, bill, r= mo- at tl] Hundred an ateeok tae Ral mk ‘not stand on his feet, Was 80 anxious to | i the Superintendent had him meee Lan Tr eit Hos) SAVED FROM DEATH ON “L,” —_—.. County Detective Reardon Rescues Passenger and Makes Arrest, County Detective Hdward J. Rear f lon, of Distriot-Attorney Jeromo's staf, @aved @ passenger on a Second avehue elevated train at the Twenty-third street station last evening from injury {and possible death, | Another passenger, whom Reardon ar- Tested, pulled the-signal rope for the motorman to go ahead before the gates | were closed, The man whom Reardon | Saved clutohed the rail of the platform of the second car, but slippod and would have fallen under the whoels had not the detective grabbed him and pulled him aboard, Then Reardon ar= Tested the passenger whom he accuses of pulling the bell rope, Robert Bar- |nard, twenty-one years old, an élec- \aniclan, of No. 1742 Bathgate’ ayonue, | Magistrate Ommen, in the Yorkville 1 Pale Court to-day, held Barnard for rial, ct 0) Pf there is a conseq! ot | threatening their destruction. | There bas been a recrudescence of ‘of competent | plaintiff. ens biaesalalig b DAY, A.GUAR., OD OU, yo 1 eee ech ory 4 e " e vr adn At the very bottom’ of the Incline fp turn in the tracks, and 150. feet distant stand the gro- cery store of Holland Brothom, . at No, 686 Kingsbridge road. When the oat bounced from the tracks the four passengers and conductor were fight. .{ {ng to jump from the rear of the cat, but ao fast was it going that they had not time, and when the car rattled over the cobblestones they were thrown violently to the floor. ‘The motorman stuck to bis post, and as the car made for the front of the NEWRUSSIAN RIOTS |LOSESIN WALL ST., AND, BLOODSHED. Strike Agitator Killed and Others Wosnded in Fight at Lode. Threat to Blow Up Bridges, WARSAW, Russian Poland, March 18. The Directors of thé Vistula Railroad have asked for troops to guard the bridges between Biedice and Malkin in uence of the receipt of letters atrike agitation in the Lode district. A party of strike leaders tried to force 4 workmen at the mills at Pablanice to leave their work, but the men refused. ‘A fight followed, an agitator wae killed and others were wounded. ee TROLLEY DAMAGE SUIT WON. Steoklers Get Verdict Despite Oral- nance of Aldermen Againat Drivers, Herman Karp ‘while driving a wagon through Bast Thirty-second street wae struck by a southbound Lexington ave- mae car on April 28, 1908, and was In- jured. He brought sult through his ooun- gel, Alfred and Charles Steckler, and the case came on for trial yesterday In the City Court before Justice Conlan and a jury, ‘The lawyers claimed the accident hap- pane because of the noglect of the motorman In not stopping his car tims to prevent him from colliding wMh tho plaintiff's wagon, which was al on the track, the horse havin Bag over in gafety, The Compas claimed that it was the fault of the laintif. Ordinances adopted by the Boar of Aldermen, which «ave north and south ound cars the right of way over vehicles at intersecting astroets, were offered in evidence, but the steck- lets contended that this ordinance did not exouse the Company for neglect, The fury to-day after a short delibena- tion rendered @ verdict In favor of the PILMS, MRE, YOUR OWN STREET CLEANING Done ° at torrific speed, a surface REMUNERATIVE DEPARTMENTS! * ie ee cir Demenes 9 3) Kansas! Just take board. The front of the grocery was of @iaes, and the car went through this as | if it was paper and rolled to the back of the store, wrecking counter and scatter. Ing groceries in all directions, The rear of the store {s inclosed by a briok wall, and against this the car jammed itself, smashing in the front atid pinning Gootshow between the car \ @a a Igok at-Murphy’s pipe lines! Oan you beat ‘em? upper part of the grocery were awak- ened by the crash and ran to the street. Then an effort was made to release Gootshow, Every one of the passengers and the conductor were out by broken slase and the splintered woodwork of the car, §o badly hurt were they that they could not render assistance to the unconsclous motorman, He remained ‘ 4: iCF.M. TOU.D.R: “THERE ARE OTHERS!” Ly T, &. Fowers. POLIGE BELIEVE [BURGLARS LOOT. "BOY A FAGIN BROADWAY SHOP Prisoner Charged with Attempt-| Goods Valued at $2,000 Stolen ed Pooket-Picking Thought from Sidney Lyman and Co,, to Be Leader of Gang of} Just After Patroiman on Beat — Youthful. Thieves, Had Passed. . ‘4 § & The police helleve that John Westy, @ighteen’ years old, of No, 1763 Madison avenue, under arrest, sooused of plok- Ing @ woman's pockets, Is a ‘Fagin’ Hy 8 ! .|'who has deen preying upon the people | through the medtum of a gang of boys grocery he bent low under the dash- and ‘the wall. Persons living in the; pinioned between the wall and the car until the reserve polloe came from tho Kingsbridge station, The four passengers and the conductor were treated oy surgeons from Ford- ham Hospital, Gootshow was taken to the hospital with many bones broken and internal injuries, He will die, The accident, it {s sald, was caused by &@ defective brake, ATTEMPTS Olvil Eugineer Uncomacions in Room with All Gas Jets Open— ‘Wilk Recover, Newton 0, B. Pestorius, a olvi! engi- neer, with an ofMfvce in the St, James) Building, fe a prisoner at New York Hospital, charged with attempted aul- | olde, He tried to kill himself by inhal- ing gas to-day in the boarding-house of Lewis Metra, at No, 217 West Forty- wecond street, Pestorious jived with Metra for two years, but neVer mentioned his business | or private affairs in the house, Re- cently te has been despondent, and| Metra learned from outside sources ttm,| he had been speculating on the wrong aide of the market in Wall street, An odor of gas in the Metra house to- day was trased to the room of Pes- torlus, and he was found in bed un- conscious with évery gas-jet in the room open, Prompt action by an am- bulenice surgeon waved his life, purine GAS PRESSURE FAILS ‘ BUTLER IS ASPHYXIATED. Lighted Jet Goes Out While Man Sleeps, Then Gas Flows Agaip with Fatal Result, + Felix Barock, thirty-three years old, employed as a butler by Mra, Johneon, of No. 216 West Seventy-elghth street, was fatally overcome by fllu- |minating gas In his room there to-day, | He arose about 5 o'clock this morning | to attend to the furnace and then went back to hig room, on the top floor, for a short nap. He lighted the gas and lay down on the bed, While he was asicep the gas went out for: some rea- gon, Then It. poured out again and Balock was suffocated. One of the maids in tho house found SUICIDE. ina | Balook doad. tlafie goles Baler sed. Ths pains, Ae saulted 3 i li a dk tts A bid A ia iii il Sak kA AS a it od ihe aia Nc cea aac He | would KIM ‘tim, Loulse| | [In contrast to the body, that wounds POLICEMAN FELL DEAD ON HIS BEAT. Member of Milsabeih, N. J. Force Had Served Forty-five Years, (@pecial to The Svening World.) RPLIZABETH, N, J., March 18,—Poloe- man John Desmond, sixty-five years old, dropped dead on his beat last night on ‘Trumbull street as he was shout to leave for the night, He was one of the first policemen appointed on the force and had served forty-five years, I mom leaves & widow and seveial ohjl- had always ald heart disease SUPPOSED MURDER VICTIM PROBABLY DROWNED. | Police Changing Theory of Woman Found Dead in a Sewer. (Special to The Evening World.) CINCINNATI, Maroh 18,—The police are Inclined to change their theory of the death of the woman found in @ Sewer outlet, At first they thought she Was a vietlm of the man supposed ito have killed ‘three women at nore ine revels i the mecion here known as 4overs’ Lane,” what was supposed to | be a stab wound in the heart Intrength: ening the conclusion, A” examination of the bedy to-day,. however, ealed the face what the 4 und was caused by the 4 of those who made tho ‘overy to remove the body, There | wins the, powsibility, sugested bv | fan’ of the condition of the head Cincinana in © wero Infilcted on the throat, but {t will| ve linpowsible to prove ‘this fact. | The body js badly decomposed and the head entirely disintegrated, no ves- tige of feature remaining. A post-mor- tem examination of the skull disclosed no wound, The police say the corpse was in the water about three months and that the woman was olther a suicide or was LIFR-SAVERS OFF TO VESSEL IN DISTRESS Schooner Sighted Of Massachusetts Coast Flying Siguais for Help. ‘CHATHAM, Mass, March 18,~A three«masted schooner flying signals of distress wes sighted off Orleans to-day, and Capt. Charles and crew, of the Or- feans life-saving station, went to her asalstance, It looked from @hore em #f the vessel was leaking badly. The sea was calm, but the weather was rather thick, and the identity of the schooner was not learned, Later, the schooner proceeded north, with the Hfe-saving orew atl! on bow, and it ts Hour that whe might be able to make Boston, Several aij set, but on account of the they could not be read, us wane hick haze HB KIRK & C0, New York. rowned, They, however, will mak oataal esparedoe ‘Until the Coroner Dykes, his rt. body haa not heen identiqed, FOR. FACTS AND FIGURES ORE 1905 WORLD ALMANAG, — Hl it who did bie bidding, West was er fil efi i i i ii a f k if it ung peclalsts. and Bf fake ant retain the dinlaton Cod Liver Oil Sih Pantie, ant Satna preparation Caswell, Massey Go's LAUNDRY WANTS—MALE, |, . Old Quawren, uarrel. ON AWRINGERSt, Mutual 1 ‘ne ‘The homes of the two Conrad broth- Se gomery County, i : Lest ae apliprak Conrad drove att ‘ « the village Canajoharie, and ta mai ta aye oat an at otal dnder| WANTS! WANTS! WANTS) the influence jor and in company | - 5 Of several other men. Some time dur- Branch me fog the night his horse arrived at his own home without a driver and was THE WORLD ‘To-@ay the body of the missing man was /found in this’ brother's cowshed. MANHATTAN, “ Bloodstains were traced from the cow- | ¢ Bow? American et ee hed toe point near the reatdence of | tag,Jttbe sty reottves @ neighbor with whom Conrad is said UETOWN OrqeCR He. 1908 Beatowy to bave trouble and who was once | _ between 87th and ‘Wte. arrested at Ye oOmplaint that he | 7IRST ant 120, # ‘waa concerned in a chicken-stealing paoale 1713, affair, Veit Neo, ” on | Gakic | KILL6 HIMSELF WITH RAZOR. te AV —at Nee, 171, 258, om, ; Brooding over poor business, Bebee-! 010, 1163, 1841, 11 sea | bape arcana re hi fev years od, a] 1 Im yes 1a m110, \ | delicatessen dealer, of No, 1561 Avenue Crea) A, committed julcide to-day at ble home ae Me Nos. 18288, 1360, 1468, fils thtoat witha tase” oY OR Ae ete ee ae A i A AY. See IE Food Which Does Not Nourish. How Dr. Greene's Nervura| tanru armas Ne. 38 Makes Appetite and Strength. | “mwt4e wee TWENTI-THIRD @Tee-at ie, 108 Rat, "t eat 8 mouthful; (fT did It would | TWENTY-FOURTH ST. and i ny god How many women | TWENTY. Mo. 167 Wy th ehetaee ey have to | TWENTY-RIGHTH ST, and Ninth Av. it th comes from food. If you | can't get strength that way re never hag oh Fenn Js kw raged forvura |” West, uilds people up pcause it makes you fe et the benefit of your food and drives nu. | FORTY RIGHSH #T—At Ne. 800 Beaty triton to the limits of your body by curing | Feay GEV RNTH 6 oad poy i) Tour nerves, One bottle will show you this | aixry-GKVENTH ST—At Ne, 108 Weed {s #0, Call upon or wrke Dr, Groen bis office, 101 Fitth Ave., New York, SEVENTIETH ST. and Woet End Av, OT, aad NINETY-SEVENTH 8T, and AY. 116TH BT—At No, 260 West, 308TH BT, and Amsterdam 112TH 8ST, Lenox AGTH ST.—At No, West. 117TH 87, Lenex Av, HARLEM OFFICE—Neo. 211 West TRC Bt. bet, 7th = Sts Avs, a rt —At Nos, East, we 120TH ST, and Lenex Av, bi 145TH ST.—At Nes, 304, 340 Wen, 146TH ST. an4 Amoterdam Ay, 185TH #7, and AY. AVEAUE A—At Nos. 2, 86, 52, 82, 1551, AVENUE O-—At Nos, 17, 127, 162, AM jes. i —— | jon, 2274, 2831, 4021, 4 SLARORER ST—At Nos, 122, 194, art, oe BROOME BT —At No, #43, BROAD 8T.—At No, 89, COLUMBUS AV—At Nos, 20, 68, 15%, 241, 350, 576, 708, 852, 900. ' CENTRAL PARK WEST—A$ No, 406, CANAL BT-—At No, 53. COLUMBIA 8T,—At No, 76, CLINTON ST.—At No, 109, DKLANCEY BTm—At No, 184, DIVISION ST—At No, GB, EAST BROADWAY—At Nes, 117, 197, 168, 220. HAST HOUSTON 8T.—At No, 817, GNAND BT.—-At Nob. 202, 428, 464, 527, ORKENWICH AV—At No, 70, HUDSON ST/—At No, 84%, LEXINGTON, AV-—ns Nos 646, 758, 1284, 1402, LENOA AV.—At Nos. 114, 470, 474, { MADISON AV—At Nos, 1270, 1470; 1604, 1631, 1692, 1756, 1848, 2089, ORCHARD 8T.—At Ne, 172, RIVINGTON BT—At Nes, 86, 168, 804 $22. RECTOR ST.—At Nos, 21, 28, STANTON ST—At Nos, 28, 218, " COLLARS mist ARE 4 PLY MARK, ARLOR*MATCHES, vet KILLS NICOTINE POISON, prevents CANCER, It has just cured a painful case of Hen tongue caused from Incesont SOUTH STm-At No, 11, sare inne Romorubes the, oad expaticuce of | UNIVERSITY PLACE—At Ne, 114, Gen, Grant, INSTANTO 1§ THO ANTI.) WAVERLEY PLACH—At 222, DOPE, Koop It in the house A friend, yReT HOUSTON BT At Ne, 62, , that Killa pain Instantly, 10c,, 8c, bottle, |. nen BROADWAY—At No, 524, ‘Ask your Drumglst for It, Doo et — nei: BRONX, DIED, TURD AV.—At Nos, 2841, 2000, 8104 BARRY.—On March 16, Mrs, HANNAH] i 8700, BANRY, beloved wife of John Barry, + Funeral from late residence, 8 D 1471 ST, and Brook Av, i 111th at, Sunday, March | aor ST and Third Ay. CAHILL,—RICHARD J,, beloved husband) 156TH BT, an vs of Elza Cahill, | BOSTON Baa At Be ieee. \ 4 i Funeral from his late residence, 422| CROLONA, (Nive Se ey Pratl ft, city, on Sunday, March 19, 1903, | FBMEM sey » at 2 P, M. } FAIRBANES.—Yriday, March 17, 1906, > VRANCES W, FAIRBANKS. f Funeral services at residence, 412 ft. Mlaholsa av., Bundey, March Pn Be | wy ay