The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1905, Page 10

7 Sach year has added height to his with Attempting to Fire Tenement, MEMBER OF “40 THIEVES” Began Stealing When Five Years Old and Has Commit- ted Numerous Thefts. HAS STARTED 25 FIRES. Leader of Gang of Thirty Boys Sald to Be Schoolmaster {n Crime. ; } In Jimmy Gaynor, thirteon years old, imu nosed, freckled, slightly bow lege ged, long armed and whose body all awry when he shuffles along side-long galt, the Justice pre- ing in the Children’s Court to-dey had before him the wickedest boy in New York, according to the police of West Thirty-seventh street station, queer-shaped urchin has been ad since he was five years old and Seriminal ambitions, until last night he Woldly attempted to set fire to a tene- ‘Mment+house at No, 310 Tenth avenue. “His purpose was not to injure any of the’ tenants, but to frighten them Into fight from their apartments so that ho “Ymight slip up the fire-oscape and rob empty fiats, + Jimmy began his criminal career be- he was ten years old. In fact he mmitted his first theft when he was eely five and as he persisted in his he! was sont to the Catholic tory at the age of ten. />\ Gharged with Arson Attempt. ygradstated from that institution @ ago, and has since then, according > his confessicn to-day, committed a robber and assisted in setting to twenty-five pa enia. ay iceman Witson, of the West re Sear” roar station, arrested the Aast night after he had watched ‘@rag a mattress under a stairway ‘the Tenth avenue tenement and set “to it, The boy was locked up d with attempted arson, and this he was taken to the Children's ne o’ de main guys of de Forty "8 NO use concealin' things Ing-ollpped; Bo Tl bort me |’ nly sing about meself, - He's One of “Forty T'ieves.” call us de ‘Forty T'lev: an’ about thirty kids in de pugh, ‘em ‘bigge’n me,’ Reddy She an. Fg! We started out for aight pikin' of little stuff, robbin' stores and Chinese laundry Say, suoh dips as dose is only bles, an' we began to smudge te (atart smoldering fires in hall- ), When we'd emudge a flat all nen and women would take it on and we'd skip up an’ glue to MWeot dat was loose, I guess we ged aboutetwenty: flats Inside of months, re’ Was no bad fires dis, for we only got tho smudge jokin’ black and the gum conte en) got dare in time to souse out omoulder,” oliceman Witson drew from the little that he had committed a num- ‘of robberies single handed, includ- ne the theft of $100 worth df choco- late from the Knickerbocker Chocolate y's factory at No, 446 West first, street, Started Twenty-five Fires, % ‘boy had shinned up a fire-escape, 0 fh mA ne of glass and made his wa: reroom, He carried out nent. ‘ pounds of chocolate without ne detected. @ gang this boy belongs to and of the leaders of," aald Witson, terrorized the neighborhood of h avenue and Fortieth street for ly.a your, I believe that they have Incendl: berlos, petty and otherwise, i at out number, (i call themselves the ‘Forty’ and the majority of the sank ¥ er, h ty, When they, get thelr plun= BDL s eS IN ete sh Pale os of it and gives them a few cents thelr share. For his age this little low is the fardest customer on the t side," Mother Has Boy Committed, The boy's mother appeared hofore ice Wyatt at the arraignment and 4 that her incorrigible be sent to ume place where he could be kept un- ley gover’ restralnt, © “Phis ty the fourth time ina been arraigned In this cou re, Gaynor, “and T find i ything with him, Sure, he don’t look lo be over nine Dut In wick= Indes he's as’ old as Methifalem, Judge, where he'll be » Ac! ining that the Jad Is a. si RN, precocious eriminal, ) Avyatt sent him to the House o ehrugmed his shoulders ming a tune when he heard J \ tear had moistened js eves throughout the proceedings. ‘ te —— Whe Inreeat Farm Growing, (Yrom the K ae City Journal.) {nv the world, which has been Wwned by 8 » Fr. Rane The ‘elder Rankin and has made it by know! in out 600 per ulation, ee BACI. He’s a Funny Little Fellow, from HERE TO THR ILL the Peril That Is Yellow, and for US You It’s a “Ker-choo’” When He Meets You and Says “Hello,” Hast heard of Bacillus Sneeses, the latest of diseases, much swifter than the breezes on the fastest railway trains? He is vory mean and small, but on the word of Dr, Allbutt, Cam bridge, germs need not be tall, ale though they start 9 lot of pans. Sneezes got here on a iner roundabout from Northern China, where some sickly bodied minor tried to say Yang- tsklang when the temperature was) freezing, The effect was not all pleas- Ing, for the fellow started sneezing all the way to Liaoyang. On the Trans-Siberian railroad where the White Czar’s fastest mail rode then this spectral sneeze germ pale rode till it reached Tsarskoe-Seloc, where It set the Czar a-sneexing, and all Grand Dukes loudly wheezing; Nihilists It soon BOY FINED FOR CHOKING TEACHER. Youth Was Unruly, She Tells Mag- intrate in Childrens’ Court, and Wonld Not Obey Her. George Orange, thirteen years old. of No, 346 East Ninth street, was fined $5 by Justice Hyatt in the Childrens’ Court to-day on the charge of assaulting his teacher, Miss Mary C, Buckley, in Pub- He School No, 19, in Hast Fourteenth street near First avenue, last Monday. Miss Buckley Ilves at No, 146 Lexington avenue, ' According to the teacher's complaint Orange was unruly Monday afternoon and she reproved him. Hen words had no effect and she ordered htm to go to the principal, He refused and when she approached him to make him leave the room, she says, he belzed her by her throat and tried to choke her. She is a small, slim woman and «ould make Uttle resistanee to Orange, who is a sturdy boy for his age, Her screams brought other teachers. The boy es- caped, but was arrested next day, His paronts paid the fine. i ae Irrepressible Youth, (From tho Philadelphia Bulletin.) “Now, children,” said! the teacher, “it's only amphibious creatures that are web-footed. Giilcoly on tan. never have, wen cea’ “How about lens?’ triumphantly shouted litte Jimmie Jones, And the teacher found kt convenient to call the arithmetic class just then. was svizing In its grip of sneezing woe, By auick roule Sneeze then did tour up all the railway lines of Europe; all the crowned heads had to cure up ere they loosened up his grip. By fast boat he soon was filtting to King Edward's fair Great Britain, and that isle he soon was quitting on a transatlantic ship, Fastest bout for 8, Bacillus, ag he hastened here to thrill us and to let the doctors fill us to the brim with rock and rye, Then wpon express train flying, laws of time and space Sethe: for new flelds he went a-sighing ‘neath the far- off western sky. Dr, Allbutt says old Sneezes travels anywhere he pleases, where It shines, or rains, or freezes, if he just can get a tran, But in Hariem he'll not fur- row if he takes the Interborough, 80 we'll walt no sneezing atir, oh, and no Influenza palnis, ASLEEP 15 DAYS; BOTH WILL DIE. Dr, Fisher Gives Up Hope of Saving Mra, Heustis and Daughter, Victims of Gas Potsoning, This is the fifteenth day that Mrs, James H, Heustis, of White Plains, and her daughter Louella have been uncon- ectous in the Presbyterian Hospital as the result of gas polsoning. Dr, Fisher \says they are gradually growing weaker, and he doesn't belleve thelr lives can be saved, "They were found unconscious from gas in the home of Mr. and Mrs, Henry W, Helfer, at No, £34 West One Hun- dred and Thirty-first street, where they were visiting. Every effort to restore them to consclousness has failed. | “Tt js @ plain case of gas polsoning. said Dr, Fisher to-day, "They are Retting weaker and their pulses are Hunyadi Janos A postal request to Hunyadi Janos, 130 Fulton St, New York, will being you free, by. mail a handsome, use fal Hunyadl Jénos Ba. romotor, 5 CONSTIPATION B. Altman & Cn. ... WOMEN'S MOTORING GARMENTS ARE SHOWN IN EFFECTIVE STYLES, COMPRISING COATS OF SATIN RUBBER OR LEATHER, AND OF TWEED, CHEVIOT, MOHAIR, COVERT CLOTH, LANDSDOWNE AND PLAIN OR WITH TRIMMINCS OF LEATHER. ALSO MOTOR CAPS AND HOODS. MEN'S LIGHT-WEIGHT MOTOR COATS *aND CAPS OF VARIOUS MATERIALS; COATS PLAIN OR WITH TRIMMINGS OF LEATHER. Se aap el PIANOS. ABOUT PRICES. Something Profitable t Know. wrat vou get for you: money, It is estimated that not over thousands manufactured annual } placed in the AERA RS CAARAADURRDEVABUEESOEES OUT to preduce and sell, without a The unfortunate feature is t é inspection. Come and hear the ; $ : : Quality and By 3 ken as part payment, including ing ha Chase & market, PATAATAUARERTEAESEES WISSNER True economy in the purchase of : a Piano is not what you pay, bit \ which #he instrument is destined to fill. 0 one Piano in fifty out of the many y in this country could justly be first rank if measured by the highest artistic standard, ‘The prime motives then, of the vast number of ela is ny regard for the ultimate sphere hat many purchasers pay nearly ot quite as much for these commercial Planos as they would have'to > pay for Pianos of the highest artistic excellence, Think over these things before you start out on your tour of Tone of the Wissner Pianos and see what great inducements we have to offer in the way of Fair Prices. Slightly used Pianos at liberal reductions, Used Upright Pianos, celebrated makers, at most aston- for the popular Baker Piano Player, considered by many experts the finest Player ever put upon the Wissner Warerooms s Fifth Avenue, c BROOKLYN: 540 Fulton St. NEWARK: 603 Broad St. or. Fifteenth St. | JERSBY CITY: 138 Newark Ave, 'BRIDGEPORT: 1019 Main St. Lord Taylor, SNATCHEDPURSE Mrs, Cohen Tore It Free and Then a Policeman Heard Her Screams—Prisoner Asserts It was All a Mistake, Mrs. Fannie Cohen, a beautifully dressed young woman, of No, 61 Bast One Hundred and Third street, ap- peared in the Harlem Police Court to- day and charged a youth, who gave the name of Martin Smith, with high- way robbery, Sh: was returning to her home shortly before midnight when the prisoner, she declared, ran up behind her, put one hand over her mouth ‘and with the other grabbed her purse, Tearing it free, she says, he shoved her with all his strength, and she fell to the pavement. She had presence of mind enough to scream, and Policeman Taylor caught the fugitive in @ hallway on Park avenue, In court the young man denied that he had robbed Mrs, Cohen, He sald he was chasing the real thief when caught himself. Gentlemen: | ' ‘ A good many of you don't like the word “Subway” lately—don't blame you —it's not what it’s cracked up to be “after the strike.” Rather funny, but you see, the "L” and “Subway” are not a “Rapid Transit” for New Yorkers just now, bul < sort of “kindergarten” for conductors and motormen to “learn the business.” Now beginning on Friday, at 9 A. M., in my “Subway" Store you will see real “Rapid Transit” selling, The following “Taylor” lots will “go” by “express,” positively no “stop” now, About 300 pairs Men's and Young Men’s Odd Trousers, Friday your pick, $1.50. About 150 Men’s and Young Men’ Odd Coats. Iriday your pick, $2.00. t 250. Men's, Youths’ and Boys’ Od Vests. Friday your pick, 50c.” f Just 65 Men's Odd Rain Coats, About half of them “Cravenette.” Friday your pick, $3.50, About 200 Men's Soft Hats, Friday your pick, 0c. About 15 dozen Fancy Stiff Bosom Shirts, Friday your pick, 25c, About 20 dozen Soft Bosom Shirts, Incliding plain and plaited. Friday your pick, 2c, : About 55 dozen Spring Underwear, all colors, mostly shirts, very few draw- ers. Friday your pick, 25c. Postscriptum—There’s method in this “Subway” business. Clothiers and other merchants..are beginning to murmur; “What attracts those crowds around the Stewart Building?” Why, Just VALUES, gentlemen—and plain tall. right from the shoulder. RULES for Friday in the “Subway:” No alterations—no exchanges —no C. 0. D.—no delivery. But purchase orice returned with pleasure. Broadway and Chambers St. Men’s Furnsbings. French » Four-in-Hands, 2 and 2% inches wide, new Exceptional Offering for Glove Department Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25 Women’s 3-Clasp Suede Gloves For early Spring wear, in white and black, black with white sewing, mode, brown, beaver, champagne, pearl and cream; special at cut and All sizes mixed cheviots—the workmanship is the best— until 1 o’glock; choice at........++ 000 Friday 10 Until 1 0’ Clock. No Mail Orders Filled—None Sent C. O. D, Boys’ $5.50 and $6.00 Suits, With Extra Pair of Pants, $3.95 tinvhed for SPRING WEAR, made of ry an (Third Floor.) riday 10 to 16 years—these all-wool double-breasted sults are handsome $3.95 (90c Per Pair. Morning Specials Py Silk and Sateen Petticoats (Second Floor.) SATEEN PETTICOATS—Newest “Sunburst” Accordion Plaited Sateen Walking Petticoats—black, white, checks, d the latest invisible stripes—10 until 1 o'clock. bottom at. and dra! Spring colorings, 50 cts. French Four-in-Hands of rich silks in fine color com- binations, $1,00, English Squares of imported and domesticsilks in fine color combinations, $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50. | Imported Cape Skin Gloves, English thumb, new shades} of tan, $1.50 pair. Broadway and Twentieth Street, | Vifth Avenue, Nineteenth Street. | CC CO eee — ae — — eS | BREAKFAST Qualcer “Oats, Oats and Deg packagu .., Cod Fish—3-1b, boxes Boneless Cod MACKEREL — in 10-1.| per box of 10 cates Kits, i No, 2 Size.. $1.35 No. 1 Shore, $1.75 Rose Bushes We have dormant, hardy Rose, Bushes. These are cach packed s:parately in moss and oiled paper to pre- vent the roots from drying up, and should be @# planted as soon as you get them home, There will be no danger of their freezing if roots are Regular price $1.25, Usually $6.00, Muslin Underwear (Second Floor.) Chemise, all sizes—10 until 1 o'c! ts and aves O9C SILK PETTICOATS—AII Silk Walking and Golf Petticoats, with silk dust ruffle and silk shirring strings—all the latest jonable Spring colors and black—10 until 1 o'clock. » $4.50 Gowns, Petticoats, Chemises, Drawers, Corset Covers and trimmed corey holes 95c $1.00 Corsets, at 59c. (Second Floor.) ith and withos 50c. Bustles, 25c. All our 50c Bustles, in white, drab and black—also Skirt Distender:, regular and ventilating; Friday, 10 until 1 o'clock Linen Department Scarfs and Shams at % Price AT HALF REGULAR PRICES. - SHAMS at 10c. each and upwards. Value 20c. upwards. Value $0c. upwards. 1,000 Dozen at 38c. per dozen or 3.for 10c, $5.25 Onyx Tables, $3.50 (Basement) Kraemer’s Wash Boilers, $1.38 (Basement.) $2.25 Toilet Sets, $1.65 (Basement) C. BP. N. W. B., and Thomson's Glove Fitting Corsets, in white n ut, hose supporters --size 18 to 30, ‘ included—regular $1.00 Corsets; 10 until 1 o'clock.......4 §9C 25c We offer a manufacturer's sample line of Irish Point and hem. stitched plain and embroidered Scarfs, Shams and Squares in very ~wdtestrable sizes fl EMBROIDERED SCARFS AND SHAMS, 25c. and upwards, Woven Sanitary Wash Cloths We have received another lot of Onyx Tables, brass frames, $ all in good order—regular prices $4.50 and each; 100 1 O'CIOCK Only. seeveesseerrseercessrreeeee * $3.50 Made of extra heavy charcoal annealed tin—with 16 ounce copper bottoms—full si.es—choice of No. 7. No. 8, No. 9— regular price $2.00, $2.50, $3.00; 10 to 1 o'clock only,,, $1.38 We have just opened up 150 Toilet Sets, ane American Porcelain, underglaze decorations, choice of 4 colors — regular $2.25; 10 to 1 O'CLOCK Onlyceeesersssesveverers sarees $1.65 Grocery Department (Basement,) Special Prices for Friday and Saturday. 25c. Coffee 15c. per Lb. ¥.0.0 D—| SARDINES —{mported tn Columbia! ofl (4 can exception- 10c O Bee, 9c elly fine fish), tin... got ROAP—Babbitt's Best Soap |—box of 100 cakes, 10c 33 $3.85, 9 cakes for... | Fatrbank’s Manoot Soap, 5c per roll Fish. . 65; 8 caker fol (Basement.) just received our first shipment of planted deep and well covered, Varieties clue Paul Neyron, Crimson Ramblcr, Persian | Yellow, Dorothy Perkins, General Jacq, La France and many others, Your choice, 12c. each, | Sixth A b.—-Special Luncheon Coffee, fresh roasted, granulated or pulverized—our regular price 18c,, sold elsewhere at 25c, per II at $ lbs. for 70c.; per Ib....++ l5c LUNCHEON PAPER — 2 sheets waxed or rolls for home .. 4a 4c JAMS—Banquet brand etrlotly pure Jams, | ported fof H. O'Neill & | Conone better at uny price; per Jar... PICKLES — Pint bottles Chow Chow or mixed, tn | ders with ¢) im: 18c venue, 20th to 21st Street | Now the Best Shirt News! 95c. White Plaited Shirts, 59. ‘OST MEN like the pure white, soft-finished, cambric bosom Shirts with muslin bodies that have come into favor in the past year, They are cool and fresh and comfortable—we have sold th dreds, perhaps thousands, of dozens at 9Sc. each. Now come 900 straight from one of the best makers in the coun. try, and to-morrow’s price for them will be 590, each. The bosoms are plaited—300 with four plaits each side of the centre, 300 with five plaits and 300 with nine plaits. Making and finish. ing are absolute perfection, Sizes 14 to 17 in each style, The 900 Shirts ought not to last the day, Fancy lisle and cotton socks in a variety of good patterns, HOUSA been sold here already, and we know there will be prompt wel- come for these. In blue and white checks of different sizes, and Main Floor, Elm Place, Men’s 75c.to $1 Underwear,39c, EDIUM WEIGHT SHIRTS AND DRAWERS of the finest and softest cotton and merino—just such Underwear as will prop- erly take the place of the Winter-weights,as they are laid aside. They are in the natural color and perfect in every respect. A bit of good for- tune brings a limited quantity here for a remarkable price,... 88¢. a garment 25c, and 50c. Hosiery at 19c, Main Floor, Mim Place, 4,000 Yards More of the Apron Ginghams at DS of yards of these splendid checked all perfectly fast color, None sent C, O. D. ous uses for, quality at 8o, 12%c. Printed Batiste at 8c, Just enough, we believe, for one day’s selling, It is a splendid lot of Batistes, ina variety of patterns, such as all women can find numer: lot lasts you can secure a regular 42/20, and’ while tl a yard, Becomd Floor. Notions—Special Prices. ME VERY USEFUL things, when Spring dressmaking plans are under way. And quite remarkable economies to be made on them, to: NOTE—Whenever you see Notions, Toilet Articles or Patent Medicines advertised elsewhere at cut prices, come here and you will get quick seryice and the goods always at the same prices or less, We guarantee our prices for everything to be as low as or lower than the lowest elsewhere, Se, Ginghams have Hose Supporters, silk web, sew-on or clasp top, re Shawl Pins on white,tregularly 4c, a paper, at.. 2c Corset Steel Protectors, re at. Hook and Ey regularly 12c. Coraline Dress larly 20¢, a Set, at..sserseevees gularly 49c,, at... ,.25¢ green paper, black or yard, at ‘ Fancy Dress Jetum, for dyeing ape, lossy black or na a yard, at......., L.] fre, Stays, in sets, rey Main Floor, Rear. An Underprice Sale. "| Curved Dress Binding, regularly 50, 8 be used on Noawork or leather, c ite or black, felting, w regularly $1 a piece, at. +, Ale Fancy Whalebone Casing, Tey 25c, and 35c, a plece, at........ 5¢ straw hats a blue; cansalso 2be. a bottle No Mail ephon: Filled, None Bent C, 3. B i -_ Towels and Bath Mats. ‘OST BROOKLYN HOUSEKEEPERS know the reliable charac: ter of the Linens and Towels that make up the Loeser Most Brooklyn housekeepers, therefore, will be interested in , news of special prices on several groups of ToWels, At 7c. each. Snow white Turkish Bath Towels, red borders, fringed ends, size 17x36, None sent C. O, D. At 9c, each. 20x40, None At 12%e. each. ity, extra value, size 20x43, | bleached huck Towels, red and blue borders, heme At 9c. each. Snow sent C. O. D. Part linen med ends, size 17x32, At 12%c. cach. heavy weight, c. each. Part linen huck Towels, hemmed ends, red and blue bor- At 12% size 22x43, ders or all white; a durable Towel; size 20x38, At 19c. each. Part linen hemstitched Irish huck Towels, quality; size 24x41, These Mats are subject to an occasional dropped stitch or a little rough snot here and there, Only enough to last through the day, fain Floor, Rear, 50c, Turkish Bath Mats, 39c. Imported Madras Curtains—Under Half, O GIVE A SUMMERY TOUCH to the city house or to make the rooms of the Summer home more attractive, the effective Madras Curtains are specially desirable, an important group of them—some fifteen different: colorings altogether —that we can sell for * $3.48 a Pair, Regularly $6.50 to $8.50, One to six palrs of a kind; mostly on sheer cream nets, with figures of rich red, green, $4.50 Folding Screens, $2.25, A little lot of three-fold Screens, covered with plain and figured burlaps, nen 25 taffetas and c gold and blue tones, retonnes. Marked for quick dispersal at..... Third Floor, Front, Brass and Iron Bedsteads * : Bargains, HOOSE FROM THE FINEST stock of Bedsteads in the countr: and PAY A FOURTH TO HALF LESS THAN USUA PRICES. Briefly, that’s the news of the annual Sale in prog: ress now. It is the biggest Sale we ever had—most thoroughly pre- pared for—and most successful in getting great values together, sare are more hints of them, Teon Bedsteads, Springs, $98,00, regularly'$120 $2.65, reg. $3.80, $1.85, reg $2.50. $145, regularly $a $3.15, reg. $4.00. ue ag ie mt gett io 3,95, reg. $8.00. rass Beds, -65, regularly $8. sa75, ie Ha $19.75, regularly $27. | $9-95, regularly $44, $6.35, reg, $8.00. | $24.75, regularly $33. Pillows. $8.25, reg. $10.00, |$27.75, regularly $42.) 98c,, regularly $1.40 $9.60, reg, $12.00) HAG repay $7. 85, regularly HH Sie b0' ree $16,00, |§89.00, regularly $85. Te a it SUNDAY WORLD*WANTS WORK white Turkish Bath Towels, fringed ends, all white, size Snow white Turkish Bath Towels, fringed ends, heavy qual- Cotton momile Bath Towels, very absorbent, fringed ends, all white, splendid aceful and lere Is quite MONDAY MORNING WONDERS. ‘ FT eT OT ho OM Mn NINO A Sc ON OOM MCN nr nr Tw