The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1905, Page 13

7 7 ‘aa HAMMERSTEINS NEW PLAYHOUSE VIOLATES LAW Building Inspector Reports 22 Charges Against Lew Fields’s Theatre, EXITS OPEN ON STAIRS. Aiele Steps of Balcony and Gal- lery Obstruct the Emer- genoy Exits, DRESSING-ROOMS SHUT OFF Vestibule and Lobby Sald to Be Not In Accordance with Plane and Specifications, Chef Inspector P, J. Gorman, of the Bureau of Buildings, to-day sent to Distriot-Attorney Jerome the report vf Special Inspector J, 1. Lucke on the alleged violations of the law in the construction of the Lew Melds's Theatre on West Forty-second street, Mr, Lucko found twenty-two violations of the law, the exact number of exits through which Oscar Hammerstein, the owner of the theatre, declared he would Kick Mr. Jerome if he ever came around the theatre with any of his criticisms Qbout its construction. The report 4a concurred in by Chief Engineer Miller and Assistant Engineer Roth, of the Bureau of Butldings. The investigation was made by a special In+ Spector because Mr. Jerome's own engl- neor, H, de B, Parsons, asserted that Mr, Hammerstein woutd not allow him to make an exaniiiaiion of the theatre, The condemnation of the theatre by *y My, Lucke and his associates is divided into twenty-two specifications, as fol- lows: 1-The door exits open on stairs, &~The doors from the balcony to the @taire were ot first tung. to open in- ‘ward, but have.gince been altered. The Present objection to them ts that they are apt to interfore with @ free passage « from the gallery. = | ° vs ry v 4 , in Nf tf hon h they have plvare carried a Alsle Steps Obstruct Exite, The doors at the head of the stairs, frora the orchestra to the mesmnine Jevel, are so hung that one door of @ach pair elthor protrudes into tho stairway or interferes with the use ef the hand rails. 4-Risers have been placed in both the east ani weat statronses, which @re not shown on the approved plan. B-The emergenoy oxits in the bal- @ony and gallery are partly obstructed by aisle wteps. These steps do not ap- pear in the plans and are encroach. ments, which were never @pproved by the Building Bureau, The passages at tho rear of the gal- ery and balcony are not of the dimen- elons shown on the approved plan, be: {ng much smaller, In the balcony the @pace is further encroached on by steam oils, 1-Gtaircases at the sides of the or- Chostra are not according to plans, and the width of the passage at the back of the orchestra has been reduced. On the plans this should be inclosed by a “) partition with fire-proof doors, Dressing-Rooms Shut Off. Bpecifications Nos, § and 9 denounce the vestibule and lobby In front of the theatre as violations, also the doora in them, and specification No, 10 com- Plains of the presence of @ box oftice whera none is provided for in the ap- proved plans The other specifications deal largely with the lack of fire-proot @oors, Specification No, 18 is the moat dmportant of all, It is aa follows: The dressing-rooms th the basement @rc not seperated from the stage by & fireproof wall, and have no direct ‘exte- rior outlet, The exit fron these drese- ing-rooms is olther by stairs to the atige, by door through the proscenjum wall under the east end of the stage, thence across the stage to the enet gourt or out of the windows Into @ nar- Tow area abo two feet wide, from which access ia had by an fron ladder to the emergency court of thy American Theatre adjoining, In order to get into the eroergoncy court it Is necessary to climb over an iron fence along the property line, Other dressing-rooms are shut off in the same way, which have ‘windows #0 emall that egress from them fe impossible, fication No, 15 declared that the ¢ jr At the foot of the staire leading from the space under the audltorjum 8, the past court had been nadled up, a jas wince been opened, 9 other specifications dea) with vio- lations in the placing of olectroters, Outting off of aisle exits by columns, oe ing curtains at the head of atsl prevent draughts and registers in the floors, Four registers were found fh the floors which were overlooked at the timo of the original Inspection, be« cause they were covered with paper, oCmplaint te also made that the steam emis are not protected In any way, Steam Colle Not Protected, fleven of the violations complained of thave been made since the theatre was Hoonsed. ‘The rest existed all the time, Mr, Jorome,\ smiling grimly as he thought of Oscar Hammerstein's open letters to him, said of the report: "Tl have no comment to make; tt epeaty, for itself." { a NEW STORE ON SIXTH AVE, GQaesar Misch, Well-Known Credit Merchant, Opens Eatablinh= mont at Now, 241-243, Tho lotest acawaition {n modern stores and as evidence of progressive policy when applied to a credit busl- mos (9 stown In the now and com- mendahle growth which has attended the entablishment of the Cacaar Misch gtores in New York City, ‘The poltey of this well-known and Nightly sucopsstul merchant has already attained remarkable growth in ten of the principal cities of the Bast, and it ‘was only to be expected that the pop- arity of the same methods in lozal Circles would spread to enormous pro- ns. or Misch, when interviowed regard- me the posaibility of more extended the larger quarters, stated that complete representation of wearables , | records, and lived in the boarding-house for man, woinan and boy the new etore low & more oxtonsl: Rwy Hejter Tucan for thetpaaed [it ate an While She Was a Student in This Country Sho Visited Phitadelphia and Beoame a Presobyterian, (Rrecial to The Evening World,) NORRISTOWN, Pa, March 9%.~The records of ‘history Christ Church, in Upper Merion Township, just below Norristown, vielded intoresting infcrma- tion In the course of a casual insptw- tion to-day, They show that the wife GIRLS BEATEN AND ROBBED BY "MASKED MEN Two Visitors from Mauch Chunk Attacked by Ruffians in Boarding-House, ese Army, ‘Obristian faith in that edifice, |, The ceremony occurred in 1876, when tho present Marquise Oyama was Miss Bonohita, a Japanese student at Vas- She visited the Centennial at Philadelphia, where #he wes the gucst of the Japanese Minister, who was a BIGAMIST MUST REPENT IN JAIL. John Stefier Sentenced fur Two sar. fler, the one day, 4a Native Costume of Fleld Marshal Oyama, of the Japan: baptined into the was Years for Marrying Two Girls fn Oue Day. Judge Newburger sentenced John gtet- man Who married two girls in , to an indeterminate ¢erm of hot less than two years nor more than three years in Bing Sing to-day. BSteffler was foreman of the atables of the Wirth sree Parry ina ug. 18 last be marti ne established them BAe Som households and lived with each as he husband, Neither of the wives kney of the existence of the other until a short time ago, ‘With thelr faces cut and bruised, thelr halr matted with blood and in places torn out by the foots, Margaret Fritz, @ gil of eighteen, and Anne Williams, one year older, both just from their homes et Mauch Qhunk, Pa, id a story of brutal assault and robbery jn “I have taken pains to investigate this case," said Jndge Newburger, in sen- tencing Steffler, ‘and I find it the worst cage of bigamy ever brought to those courts, This prvoner deliberately mar-| pail ried these ‘women and deceived them, | of at thot time rector of Christ Churoh, Miss Bonchita visited the family of Dr, Perrinchiet here with a girl friend, also from Japen. Miss Bonchita be. came interested tn Obristlanity, Hor baptism followed, Upon her gradua- tion from Vassar she retumed to Japan and soon afterward was married to Marshal Oyama. 5 Dr, Perrinchief’s widow and daughters now iive in Woeet Philadelphia, The church {n witch the baptism tobk place way founded about 160 years 4g by the carly Swedish settlers of Penz.- syivenia. It hos been served by Bpis- copal rectors for more than @ century. Rreve 4s not the slightest cauee for clemancy. | ramret that the law compels the imposition Of such a light sentence.’ a re LANDLORD ADMITS HE PUT ACTRESS IN TRUNK. Joueph Prossard, in 6500 Ball Must Face Charge of Assault ‘When Edna Merrill, of the “Mantana” bstacgy Court other day that her landlord, Joseph |, of No, 257 West Forty- fifth street, had forced her into @ trunk and cloded the Id on her there were goma disposed to ecoff, but in court to-day Progeard admitted the truth of the story, He explained that he was miluh excited, He did not mean to put the young woman Jn the trunk, he eald. ‘ “She fell ascant ty hand," declared Progsard, ‘Then she fell. Anto the trunk. Without thinking, I put the tray on top of her. I am very sorry, Magisttate Moss held Prossard in $800 Pe i be tried in the Court ons for aemault, Jofforson Market Police Court to-day in pressing the charge ist two men. The men, James ley and Josevh Patterson, ate both #ald to have police at No. 4 Commerce street, Where the two girls shared @ room, Sought Employment, ‘The girla only arrived in New York on March & ‘They came here from their home village to #eek employment. At ‘dawn to-day the young women werd asleep whén there came » soft knocking at their door, Too frightened to creas, the girs ran to the window and were about to leap Out wher the door was forced end two men rushed in upon them, They wore hankerchiefs over their faces and dis- guised thelr voloes, Mice Frits fought with all her strength, Time and again she was felled to the floor before she fell uneonsolous, her face and head cut and bruised in many Places, Her companion had already been beaten Jnto ‘Insensibility, The men then set abot fobbing the girls, They secured their jewels ana all thelr money and then quitted the Toom, While tho police were inveatiga: wos learned that James Breet twenty-four, end Joseph Patterson, About tho same. age, two young men who occupied rooms in the same house, had suddenly run to the street atter the girts had fled from thelr room, and that one of them was in great suffer: ing, There was a smell of carbollo acid in the room of one of them, and the Police at once determined to arrest one or hoth of them if they could be found, Messages wore sent to the hospitals for & watch to be kept for the ap. pearance of such men. Hudson Street Hospital soon reported: “There are two auch men here now, One of them has been badly burned with ocatibollo acid, which ho split th an effort to get blood off his clothes,” The polloe were not long in arrest. dng both men, When artalgned before Magistrate Bavow, Bradley ana Parerion were eld in $2,600 each for examination to- se in morrow morning, MUSIC UNION’S HOME. Corner-Stone of New Building in Kighty-Sixth Street Laid To-Day, ‘The corner-stone of the Musicians’ Mutual Protective Union'a Butkiing at No, 912 Hast Mighty-sixth stroet was laid thty afternoon by tho Prosklent Maurioe F, Amith, In the presence of nearly op mombets and friends, Former Justice Alfred Steckler deliv- ered an ee And a band of 250 members, Ted by Anthony Rell’, one of the first Presidents of the union, fur- nished musto, A LITTLE OVER 13 MINUTES FOR EACH DIVORCE, The divorce statistician, attor taking records of the proceedings of the last fivo Wednesdays In the undefended al- voree court. has the following to an- nounce; Highty-one applications were filed and the total time consumed in the hearings was 18 hours and 19 minutes, Tho avorago was 18 minutes and 94 geoonds, ‘Thirty applicants wore men. Fifty- ) The Fost had an aggtegete of 44 ohildren. GENERAL, OFFICES New York Telephone Company, 15 DEY SY REET. _ ‘The NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY announces revised schedules for telephone service in Manhattan, 4s below: RESIDENCE RATES New schedules for service TELEPHONE RATES friend of Rev, Dr, Ootavius Perrinohiet, |’ complained in the Weat Side, 86MSr 5 SW AVL, BOYS’ CLOTHING Covert Cloth Reefers ° Military button, emblem on sleeve, $to 10,, seaoaseeseressays Russian and Eton Suits Serviceable Serges in Solid Colors, meres and Cheviota in neat mixtures, 3 to 16 .sereveccess Washable Suits An exceptional opportunity to choose from the 1905 sample line of ‘The Mother's Friend’? make, A comprehensive variety Sizes teeeeee Cassi- Sizes in every color and style at one-third to one half regular price .,.,,,eeeesessessseerees In nN ‘ In the New Store for Men Lt el In se, Finally, we have made the prices as small as possible, usually done—starting the season with prices pretty high. |] The new T unfinished worsteds, The brlces i Dan i in Floor, im Place, pearl, pink, black and turquoise, Also 79c, New Fancy Silks at 59c, Aci Silks, A most desirable selection for shirt-waist suits, Main Wloor, Bond Street, New York, March 29th, 1905 at residences have been adopted to take éffect May ist, 1905. The principal items in the new and old schedules are as follows: DIRECT LINE SCHEDULE. te) BR | a 600 eH The new residence Rates offices and at private stables, PARTY .LINE SCHEDULE. wesiXGs| ade | Rath 600 | 964 | 945 800) 68 | oa 1000; 78 | 68 1200; 90 72 will be applied also at physicians’ All subscribers affected will be billed at the new rates from May 4st, 1905, regardless of existing contracts, BUSINESS PARTY LINES Party line business subscribers in Manhattan will be billed from Ma business. ieptones, announced ticable after’ basis as direct line subscribers, CHARITABLE RATES Charitable Institutions (regularly incorporated as such) will be allowed a discount of 50% of the standard rate for local mes- sages from stations placed in such institutions larly ordained clergymen will be allowed a discount of 25% of the standard rate for local messages from stations in their residences, Such institutions and clergymen will be billed accordingly from May ‘st, 1905, regardless 0 exiting contracts, NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY CHARLES ¥F, CUTLER, + President. These subscribers will also be relieved of charges for certain extras heretofore made, and in all respects will be put on the same Ast, 1905, at the new schedule of rates for direct line March 24st, and as soon as prac. ay Ast each of such subscribers will be provided Pith direct line service, This will Improve the working of the system as a whole, provide a higher grade of service to the subscribers directly affected, and reduce rates to those in thls class who send more than the minimum allowance of messages, as follows: 153 , as heretofore, Regu- U. N, BETHEL, Vico Pree. & Gon’l Mer, |] ored borders, Women’s and Children’s Hosiery and Underwear. that's all, For Women. oo Sc. Stockings a Fast blac! ' ‘ Basten le; also medium weight ae fine cotton, all have spliced heels and toes, Underwear at 48c. Medlam weight cotton Vests, high neck, long and short sleeves; alto knee and ankle length French band and: Tights to mateh, The Vests are trimmed with ty hand crochet. Stockings foi misses, sizes 4 1oB%, $1 Panama Canvas, 59c, FINE FRENCH DRESS PABRIC—-and one of the best values, at to-morrow’s price, that we have had all season, It combines style with durability, is 44 Inches wide and comes in ex- cellent shades of tan, gray, castor, hellotrope, cardinal, navy, royal, cream and black. Price up tonow has been a dollar a yard, Choose to-morrow at 59, a yard, Second Fluor, Mim Place. $1 Hand Bags offered for,.., They are made of blac! A good serviceable size, Maln Floor, Chocolate Fruit F* had for the money, too, {8 usually sold for 40¢, pound, Handkerchiefs at 12ic Regularly 19c. and 25¢ IN'S AND WOMEN'S Handker- chiefs, in a wide variety of styles. Women's fine quality, all linen, with all size hems; also neat and pretty embroidered patterns, with scalloped and hemstitched edges, Some with colored embroidery and printed patterns, Pretty {nitlal Hand. kerchiefs of medium and heavy linen, Men'§ Handkerchiefs, In a large va- riety of styles, all good, liberal sizes, in all width hems, Some are plain white and initialed; others with col- in our own Cand sugar, with chol if chocolate, Come earl SOP cise Main Floor, Main Floor, None sent C. 0, D, $1.95 Ruffled Muslin Curtains, $1.25, OULD THERE BE BETTER news just when everybody is thins. ing of prettying the house up for Summer than this of hem- |, stitched ruffled muslin Curtains under price? morrow at $1.25 Sofa Pillows at 59c. Each, 1 We have taken a lot of short lengths of fine figured Armures, striped Tapestries, H Bagdad Tapestries, &c., and covered fat 24-inch Pillows with them, The Pil would be $1.25 lows are filled with the best silk floss, Ordinarily the price but doing it in this way we can make it, for the 300 Pillows ready rE ‘Third Floor, Front, |SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY MORNING WONDERS, every detail the Leading Retail Establishment of Brooklyn, Men’s Spring Top Coats, $12.50 to $35. : [Main Floor. E NEW FEATURES of this Men’s Clothing are as noticeable in the great assortment of Spring Top Coats as in anything the first place, you can be fitted—fitted as perfectly as the best custom tailor would do it, and with a great deal less fuss and trouble, In the next place, you will get as smart a Coat as you could anywhere at any price—and the man who knows what's what is man whose judgment In this matter we especially appreciate, In the next place the through-and-through good workmanship means that these Coats will give long, satisfactory, unusual wear, Coats include Box Coats, the conservative knee-length Coats, Pad- docks and Surtouts. The fabrics are coverts, cheviots, viet thibets ie 79c. Colored Crepe de Chine, 49, MOST UNUSUAL offer from our fresh, new and complete stock of Spring Silks, There are 1,500 yards of this fine Crepe de Chine, including the } most-wanted colors, such as white, navy, clel, brown, tan, cream, violet, hoice assortment of check, stripe and figured Taffetas and Lo LL ARE FINE and perfect, and such as we would be glad to get|]|{ _,cugmisettes of lawn and, pique od Batiste Patter, to sell at full regular prices, Special good luck came our way, isd ibang areal hapewats i bie pink mF tal Ks \ For Children, Stockings at 12%4c. Fast black ribbed cotton Stockings, with full tash- foned feet; spliced heels and toes, 500. to 90c, Stockings at 35c., or 3 pale for $1) Bink and sky ailk {IY plat t children and Underwear on Second Floor, on Main’ oon ITHOUT A DOUBT these are the best Hand Bags we ever walrus grain leather, with 9-Inch ine lald riveted frames, Vienna handles, extra tipped and fitted with purse, 25c, a Pound, R THOSE whb have been In- quiring—another fresh supply and the best Fudge we ever |) We made this Fudge up specially factory, of pure || e French glace fruits, cut up in good sized pieces, and flavored it with Baker's rich There are nine kinds of fruits used in the making. y if you would have your | are 45 inches wide and three yards long. Made of fine, sheer cloth on ich is worked a varlety of dainty patterns, Two hundred pairs to sell to- $1.25 a pair i Special Display and Sale of “i Women’s Linen Riding Habit and “Star” Equestrienne Suit: This event introduces a collection of Garments hig new tn th list of ready-to-wear apparel, Heretofore the individual tailor pra duced apparel for the horsewoman, To-day larger manu interests have va . taken up the work—just as simi plore launched Into go mal women may “por purchase thoroughly excellent garb of this character for a full hal than the Individual tallor's commands, if This exhibition will be a Thurs day and Friday feature in the Cloak and Suit department, second floor, It will include: Linen Riding Habits, comp regular riding skirt, breeches and Also : “Star” eer leey age of tweed mixtures, chee! broadcloths and tan, white oe eel linen, These are Suits adapted riding astride, There are three mo coatt-a fitted hip coat, @ short away and a box model, all tallored and taffeta-lined, The skirt has an apron front, which * gracefully when the wearer is in saddle,'and when dismounted it fastens § be irmemtbeet acd 0. | kit 2.98 2,98 98c Women’s Neckwear. lst Now on display a choice selec: tion of Chemisettes, Yokes, Guimpes, Plastrons, Blouse Fronts and Fancy Stocks—many with’ separate cuffs and ¢uffs to match} Reefer and Stock Collars and Cuff Sets of the most favored materials, introducing laces and embroi« ~ Veils and Veiling Int Fi, Bway, ,, Tuxedo Velling, colored and bi dotted and plain, 18 inches wide; regia larly 196, to a9c. @ yard; spectal, », 4) A ba Hemstitched Chitfon Vella, crepe fintshed, In black, brown, navy and white; also Mousseline Chiffon fe derles; Tallor.made Stocks sultable} veivet: spotted, ombre shades—all fobsae'le for riding and golfing wear, yards longs reyularly 746, and Friday and Saturday [ech; specil,...,.... : Specials; Collar and Cuff Sets of English eyelet embroidery, fine tucked lawn lace, gti hye in open Work drawn effects, with, i ne ees ana 246 Ascots (tallored stocks), made of lain and fancy madras and pique; Pinon Stocks, hemstitched and med with pearl buttons; Lawn Stocks, trimmed. with Val. lace and embroidery; Stocks in all-lace and em- ‘broidery, Brussels net, crocheted rings and in linen and fancy madras, hem- stitched and finished with lace medal, lions; White Linen Stocks, hand embroldered in fashionable colorings; choice of the above collection,, 22c and 24c Collar and Cuff Sets in linen, with Hardanger and English eyelet ef- fect embroidery and in tucked lawn irlmmed with lace embroidery; choice of the collection.....,,.446 and 46¢ 50 and $31 Pattern Shirt Wals dm Fi, Seth Bt, In this department we are es the new {deas in separate | cluding embroidery and lace Batiste, fawn and sheer or | Of particular, (nterest--a rece ment of Chinese Linen Waist ter in'white and Blue, elaborately ered; offered special ate. ulsin Embroidered Linen Walst Paitoras, tight blue, pink, cream and white, {95:59 to 44c and 466 SUinbroldsred ‘Turn-over Collars, "$9 too mbro! Ith silk tle in four-in-hand or bow de as +296 and 34¢h = Many of these Linen and rolde! : lars, ¢l voraily ie Ki {a Patterns mies wii 0 lace and crepe ine in the ise-—-quite elaborately. shades; each + 696 i! ly \ Girls’ Coats and Dresses, 24 i, For this sate we offer, at very 1 prices, a well-known facturing firm’s sample lines, as well as a cancelled-order Coat$ and Dresses from the some concern, They are garment questioned merit, ‘The-majority of them were made to special or but’ because the manufacturers took extra time for making them in faultless manner they were finished too late and the order was celled, F ee Half and Three-Quarter Length Coats, made of tweeds and homespuns; new “boyish” models, in Norfolk and plain box effects, finished with embrojdered emblem and gi-t buttons; si 6 to 16 years; value $12.00; Pres .sseee sonnei ey Mame | Half and Three-Quarter Length Coats. made of ho mixed tweeds and: blue serges; somé broad shoulder effects notched collars and embroldered emblems, others plaited || shoulder, with strap; sizes 6 to 16 years; value $13,50; sale prtoe Children’s High Neck and Russian Dresses, in canvas, serge and cheviot, trimmed with fancy braid and buttons; full and | skirts; colors blue, tan or brown; sizes 4, 6 and 8 years; value $ Sale prices o.. eee Men’s Suits and Top Coats | Spring _Models— Ready-to-Wear, rw, 5 $15.00 Worsted Sults at $12.49—Made of pure all-wool tab apmesanumueniecienrmuncesteasintrocs imioe! (fe!) x8). | Babi, ray | overplaids and checks, as well as neat dark patterns; single or do ie |} breasted, e Others $14.96 up to $2849, | fe. a pound |) Top Coats at $14,96—Short box models, made of tan | ——————— lined with silk serge; also knee-length mod« els, made of bla:’ and Oxfe.4 unfinished worsteds, lined with mei illeux silk, Finer Grades up to $27.49, Paddock Overcoats at $19,96— Perfectly tailored, Coats § ote sm mS aaa alt made of smooth finished Ox- at 69c, ++» 69¢ id brown mi) Fudge, POPE eee eee eee ee een ee eb Onis bea gal Better than and $0c, a ford worsteds, all rainproofed, Finer Urades up to 28,49, Men’s Black Suits and Overcoats, In fabric, fashion and finish they must be regarded as standard qualities—worthy of their makers, who rank among the foremost || producers of high-grade ready-to-wear’ Clothing, i Suits $9.95 to $24.00—Including both single and dou! eae se TT; breasted models, made of guarant |} fast black Thibets, cheviots and wnfinished worsteds; the coats cut |] over a new model, with centre vent or closed backs, full or half lined, | Overcoats $9.96 to $22.49—Knee-length garmen TTT a ee h to-morrow, 59¢, apiece,