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( ‘ AE Uae Ls DAUGHTER OF MR. BOARDMAN KILLED BY FALL Child of the Well Known Law-; yer Plunged Through Hotel Skylight. PLAYING WITH PET:D0G, fferrier Was Purchased for Hen After She Had Reached Italy with Parents. HAD FOLLOWED IT TO ROOF. Fenred It Might Fall, and Lost Her Own Life In Anxiety to Protect Pet. ‘Miss Geraltine Boardman, the pretty fifteen-year-old daughter of Albert B Boardman, senior member of the law firm of Boaniman, Platt & Soley, and counsel to the Rapid Transit Commis- gion, was instantly Kdlled to-day by falling through a skylight in the Hotel de Naville, at Plorence, Italy, With her mother and father, the child had been travelling in Burope for several weeks, and her death was due to her fon, eas for a pet fox terrier which her rather bouglit her after they got abrosd. News of the tragedy was received at the offlce of Boardman, Platt & Soley to-day, Mr. and Mrs, Boardman and their daughter sailed for Eutope on March 2%, to be gone most of the sum- mer, Iittlo Miss Boardman was tre- "mendously fond of fox terriers and had a pet one at home, She wanted to take it to Europe with her, but on the promise of her father to buy her nother dog abroad she gave up the plan, Immediately on. the arrival of the Boardmans in Europe the child sn- ‘pisted upon her father keeping jis promise, so a fne litile terrier wae purchased and Miss Bourdman bgcame very fond of it, Playing In the Hallway. ‘The dog was her constant companion, @ud when tho Bourdmans reached the Hotel de Navillo she had special permis- gion to take Jt to her room with her. Whe Boardman rooms were on one of the Upper floors, und early to-day, during a frolic up and down the hall, the dog suddenly ran up @ flight of stairs lead- ing to the roof, ‘Phe door at the head of the stair as open and the dog ran out on th roof, Miss Boardman, wildly excited] | for fear her pot would fall froin th Foot, followed, and while dashing across } the roof fell into a skylight, She went through the glass and down @ phat two floors, When she was discovered she was dead, The Boardmans were completely overcome by the tragedy, and mude ar- fangements to stant home wt once with the body, Mr. Soley, of Mr, Board- man's firm, received a cablegram this afternoon stating that they would take the first steamer home, Father Is Well Known, Albert B, Boardman is one of the t known lawyers in this city, He ts @ very wealthy man and ives at No. © West Fifty-third street, One of his partners {s Frank Platt, a son of United Blates Senator Platt, In spite of his @ssociation with Mr. Platt, Mr, Board- an was a pronounced Parker man in the Inst national campaign, Since he lias been abroad Mr. ‘Boani- tan has been recelyed by the Pope and ‘By other notables. In addition to the dead girl the Boardmans haye a mar- tied daughter, Mrs. James MoLane, of Morristown, N. J., and two sons—Sew= all, who ls & member of his father's Grim, and Philip, who sa student at ale, ae JUDGE FOSTER FLAYS DISTRICT-ATTORNEY. Declares Placing So Many Ca Docket for One Day Is an Ontra, Judge Warren W. Foster, in Part I, of Genem! Sessions to-day, flayed the District-Attorney for what he termed the “wanton and useless waste of pub- non Uo money,’ Although an average of only two @rials are held dally in Part 1, of General Sessions, owing of the rule of the court making it mandatory to have all motions and pleadings heard there, nor than twenty cuses Were placed on 0) Wosket ied, sea were placed on “Phe placing of ‘all these cases on calendar,” Judge Foster sald, ty ne outrage,’ Kach case brings to court from ilfteen to eighteen persons, taking {her away from ‘thelr homes ahd busi "The District-Attorney pot more than two 4n thls court each da, @ts placed upon the knows that casos can be tried ¥, Het twenty casoa lendar, Tt ls a wanton and Useless was 4 Bayern! ey Aste of the tax Assistant ‘District-Attorney _ Robert Townsend, replying to Judge Foster's | eriticism, paid ‘he “was Well aware. o- | fhe court's inability to try more than two caweu, yet It was necessary to put more on the calendar because of Uelihogd of sha ‘two, defendants reads for trial pleading gullty and th One dur breaking down. |) “na the calen: More than 350,000 “Help Wants” in The World every year, “Hanging is the worst use a man can be put to;” and “hang- ing around the house” is about the next, worst. There’s a job for every man alive—and if he 1S “alive’’ he wiil find it through bs iat eanihuuaniin le lb nal Lasse sci g Chapter 1V.—In which is 11 was after I had sent M. Tartarin, | tho painter man, back to Paris that | T became so ennuied as to make it! necessary to do something, It is not | have sald, that I conld not paint a picture, I laugh at the suggestion, | No, my good friend Marryman wished to discover on the sea of politics | some haven where he would be, He | {introduced me to ship builder Dotell, | but I found him to be such a dull) personage that I turned the whole! matter over to Monsieur Violet, | BREEN SCORES A POLICEMAN Magistrate Censures Edward Oneil for Arresting Man Who Discharged Revolver to At- tract His Attention. “If any one violated the law in this case, you did, and this matter ought to be brought to the attention of Com- missioner McAdoo," sald Magistrate Breen, in Morrisania Court to-day, cen suring Patrolman Edward Onotl, of the ‘Tremont station, for arresting Jullus Goldschmidt, a butcher, of No, 67 East One Hundred and Highty-fourth street, eatly to-day, for discharging a ne- volver to call the police, when he learned that a burglary had been com- mitted next door, Goldschmidt sald that Onell refused to Ilsten to him when he explatned why he fired the revolver, and culled him drunk and crazy and locked him up, Magistrate Breen discharged Gold- schmidt and severely censured the policeman, declaring that he believed the butcher's story, and that there had been & burgimry, Which O'Neil through his mistaken understanding of the situation fatled to detect, According to a policeman of the Tre+ mont station O'neill was “broken'’ dur- Ing the Devery regime, for an illegal arrest for yiolauion of the Sunday law, Ho obtalned his reinstatement, however, through the usual medium of the through the meditm of the special act of the Legislature, ilearid Nt CAE GIRL KILLED BY FALL WHILE CLEANING WINDOWS. Servant Drops 0) Second Story of West 25th Street House to Her Death, Lizsie McCaffrey, thirty years old, who lived in Twenty-sixth stroot, near Becond avenue, lost her balanze to-day while cleaning windows In tho rant uf ory of a bourding-nouro it Twenty-ffth scveat any THE SHIP OF STATE WHICH MONSIEUR VIOLET HAD BUILT. runt ed u TURES OF J. (OLET WAVES of the $400,000,000 of other people’s money. “How much wil! it cost?” I asked,| Worth the milliors of other people's| the press. money I had paid for It, My chief halcyon and banyan days all rolled wearily. M. Violet cast a violet-ray glance draughtsinan has made a beautiful) po) ter, at an abacus on the wall, He made, picture of it, which I append. some rapid gesticulations, marks as “1,000 a head but-—-$500 for pilot. Monsieur nis vote—8200 for'’—and #0 on Then he turned to me, “It will cost,” he said, ''$9,231,653.13." ryman as gines, which worked two screws tho stern, These us to vreate a val during board T found Dotell as steersman| true, as the scandaleors of the press which I heard such disconnected 1e- and my famous financial friend Mar-| | Violet went down below and started the en- t ‘evolved so rapidly wun, and hence a Toul of life, but we be not they, As Ai sath dueicicd sian) ios 6 toga IN FIGHT WITH GILMAN HEIRS So Lawyer Explains ‘‘Agree- ment” on Which Mrs, Hall Sues Hartford. Helon Potta+ Hall was on the bin as leading witness in her own behalf be- fore Justice Fitagprald to-day in her eult for one-third of 700shares, or about $60,000 worth of stock in the great tea company formed out of the estate of the late eccentric! George Irancis GH- man. Shevalioges: thateas an inducement for her to nettle her claim to Gilman's es- tate as shissadopted daughter, George H. Hartford, GilmAn's partnor, and, like him, pest three-score years and ten, had agreed to give hor one-third of his share In thetea corporation, Her claim fe estimated at about $260,000 by her counsel, Leavis L. Deladield and ox-Jus- tle Keener, Hartford huving recelved $700,000 worth of the common and $180,000 of the preferred stock of the conpora- tlon, which was capitalized at $2,1W,0K Helen Potts Hall, who lived with the aged Gilman in Black Rock, Conn., and ministered to him until he died in March, 1901, claimed his estate under a verbal adoption, She settled her claim after three years of tigation for $00,000, and explains why #he Kuve up the fight for millions by the alleged agree ment with Martford, | Hartford Signed Papers. ‘The allver-hairel Hartford on the |stand admitted slaning the agreements, but declared it Was under a misappre: | hension. ank G, Potts, a brother of Mra. ) Was called and testified about cons versation he had had with her law about hor clulms immediately after Gil | a hody was belng was up in Tack and you arrang- be a to hh m me?” asked Mr, Wollman ford’s counsel sir," replied the witness, fed hero your els | Rock with her ot ‘These were salad and into one, We worked the policy- 8, and they worked the ship of On | state, One day as I was standing at the toffrail looking into the violet waves Marryman came to my side. ‘What are you thinking of?” he inquired, “I was thinking,” I said, sadly, “that there be many pikers on the “(s that all? Cut off the 12 cents; |sirong breeze, which filled our sails, Confucius remarked, @ man can do thirteen 16 unlucky,’ I replied, In three days and ten minutes M. | Violet took me abosrd the ship of atate, It was a gorgeous affair, well | Some lapsed policy-holders of the In- Most anything with $40,000,000 of equitable were put to work at the other people's money, even buy a oars to give verlsimilitude to tho | Ship of state. affait, and we sailed along for many a day, in spite of the scandaleers of Marryman smiled. (To Be Continued.) ST. REGIS BAR FIGHT ON AGAIN Property Owners Have Prepared ROOT SCORES akes from the Board of Aldermen power to grant {ranchises. A marshalling of the members of board and thelr friends, Elthu Root, and Fifty-fifth) street, have again mar- shaled thelr forces In the fight against the operating of a bar in the hotel. ‘The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on the opposite corner has been called upon to onpose the selling of liquor there on account of alleged violations of the law when the Iquor license was granted ing the Mayor to sign the moa sure. Judge Dillon spoke against the fight on the ground of illegally issued jlcense, Papers are now ready to en- | Join the Astor estate from evecting tho Raflrond Compan pany was endeavoring to "get back’ station, and he was retived on half pay, Capt, ear had been found unfit for pointed @ patrolman on May 28, 188, a Poundsman on aMreh 38, 1885, a ger- geanc on Jan, 24, 138 ,and a captain on Dee. 27, 1100. crate § ————__—_ MAGISTRATE'S WIFE DEAD. sures, The grabs are being held back Mrs, Lowisa Barlow, the wife Police Magistrate Peter T, Barlo at her home, No, 55 Bast TDwen t, lavt Meht of heart trouble, super- sneale show, Legtlation wtands To-morrow will ra be a sort foll fourtoen feet to the cemunt puve- ment below. She struck on her head, |had THE SUNDAY woRLD Me RECTORY. fracturing her ak ui, When bic ambus lande. physlolan sae sho wis stead, i induced by the mrippe, from which she ner, the daughter of i taahewe, a eee Rony a ChAT Re. Th lagara Power grab leads ated he the I THE ALDERMEN Ex-Secretary of War Uurges the | ke Was who declined a nomina- tlon for Governor, appeared In favor of the bill, scoring the Aldermen and urg- ded by the «aldermcn| Alexander Maitland, John R. Drexel, | @"4 was aprls Henry $, Redmond and Dr, Robert p, | 8d their friends, ‘ Weir have written to the church au-| Alderman ‘Timothy P, sullivan de- thoritles asking for a reopening of tho| cred that the Republican Legislature was controled by the Pennsylvania nd that the com- i’ at the Aldermen because that body” had READY FOR GRABS, ‘iy over the Lower House dur- ing tho final ten days of the season, prepared its first calendar to-day, put- ting on about twenty moffensrive mea- ‘the whirl of the lasrt few days, when otter field day for grabs ordered on te calen- dar before the Rules Committee took we NI |. ‘Thisy measure is not likely to b> moved, Oa ts still in bad favor with HAY WAS NEAR Officer of Cretic, Just Back, for New Battie on the Ground! Mayor to Sign Bill Cutting Off} Says Hope Was Almost that the License Was Illegally} the Power to Grant Fran-; Abandoned—Mrs, Hay Col- Issued, chises. lapsed. The property owners Jn the neleh- Mayor McMellan to-day gave a pub- According to the officers of the White berhond the i Ttegis, Jonn Jacob | te hearing on the Hisberg bill, witch|Star ner Cretic, which arrived here Astor's $3 iM) hotel at h avenue | from Genoa and Naples to-day, BSecre- the tary of State John Hay, who galled on the ateamer on the eastern trip, almost died on the way overs Mr, Hay col- lapsed just before the Cretic mailed, and it was because of ¢his that the fact he was to sail first became known. He had intended to keep his vacation a secrot, After the Cretic got to sea wire- leas despatohes from heresteted that Mr, Hay was very much better and that his indisposition had simply been Epeeele Til ff the Gretle mad. core of th as ape Toitowing statement to an Hvening Poporter to-day’: yee ot the stoves thet focretaty, the bin | rf PASSUKE Hae taanes eS PUUNAIN FOBT RIETY ALE ened eo henw (he connecting: ronal Staten ene dlew on the way out franchise, which, he declared, was ob- {There was wne UNS WEA ve lore Jectlonable to the people of Brooklyn, | {tity Secrgtary Hay was taken to, his POLICE CAPTAIN Mayor MeCiellin gave no indication of | stateroom and put to bed. Mra, Huy What ection he intended to take regard- | Went Wien ime ae aie ane collapsed F. J, KEAR RETIRES.) ing tre moasure, although it is expected on iia to, be put in bed. Our phyal- petaE RCSA ty that he will retum dt with his veto, |cian, Dr Alfred tieen. waa saa Commissioner McAdoo this afternoon — ao stant Aton whether Secretary Hay accepted the resienation of Captain So onli tiga or Not, Francia J, Kear, of the izabeth street | ASSEMBLY GETS Naa Fey eee eect un tor tne He went to the dining-room, d_and Lady Gordon polioy duty by the Board of Surgeons, lee Hannon, it HO a ae ne ieaa When thiy finding was announced he (exeolal to The venting: Ware, {hehe Worked wonders with him, but tondered hia tesignation, Capt, Kear] Apisrmty, April War Abeoreopia | Ut Fee A re eres hak m Ni wi - i Lm bah e Assermbly | whether he would survive It wz not, was born Nov. 7, 16, He was ap-|puios Sommitteo, whlch Holda: aude Stal NEW FIRE CHAPLAIN. Rey, 72. MH. Knapp WH Succeed Rev. CB, Ackley, Fire Commis: pointed the Re of the Protestant sion, the Protestant succeed the Rey, Charles B. Ack Grace Chureh .who had filled the since November 1, 1003, Rey ‘was recommended by ckley resigned in or- harme of p>! anglish for of the | Potte The Rey, Mr. ler to take the DEATH ON TRIP: y jand Tella of Agreement. | Maward Sargeant Hateh, former cot | sel for Mrs, Hall, testified’ to the agree c Mr | mont made with! Henry Be Knox, | Hartford's attorney, on which the pres Font anit is based. A letter fram Mr, i & Knox power ts act irs, Tall claimed the J whole estate aa an adopiot a 1 Jor Giiman; Hartford claimed as his squal pariner tn busin @kroement Was a compromise, a con nation of forces to fight. the Gliman |helre, The agreement. provided hat Mrs.’ Hall should receive one- of whatever Hartford got by his to the toa business, TELLS JURY WHY ‘SHE SHOT SONTA \Mrs. Tolla, on Trial for Murder, Declares ‘He Annoyed Her, and that Wife Gave Money to Buy Pistol. The trial of Mra, Antoinette Tolla, for the murder of Joseph Sonta at King- land, N. J., was finished In Hacken- sack to-day, and the caso waa given to the jury, A verdict Is expected to- night. The speed with which this case has been tried beats all records evon for Jersey, where Justice Is notoriously swift, It took twenty-four minutes to get a jury yesterday, and at noon to- day the testimony was all In, Mrs, Tolla was on the witness stand hereolt to-day, @ho testified that Sonta inoyed her for weeks with hie ad- vances, and that she finally complained Jof tho matter to Mrs, Sonta, ‘Tho lattor, she snid, told her to buy a re- volver and protect herself, and later, sho declared, actually lent her money jdo buy, the pistol. On March 4, tho day of the killing, she sald Sonta called twice and each Ume made proposals to sher, She or dered him from the house, but the ond time he refused to ‘go and. was | about to attack her when she pulled out a revolver and Killed ‘him, | Mrs. Sonta was put on the stand and dented ‘that sho had given Mrs,” Tolla money to’ buy a revalver, or that th, prisoner had ever commlatned to. he Qbout Sonta, Other witnesses declared that Mrs, Tolla had been In loy n Sonta and had made no secret of {t, ~ HONEST, CONFESSION ‘A Doctor's Talk on Food, There are no fairer set of men on earth than the doctors, and when they find they have been in error they are usually apt to make hone:t and manly confession of the fact, ARDY C ‘4 Ps /| Thousands of People Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know It Is Catarrh, | ‘They have Jaycox, Chaplain Clar- ‘and Chaplain G. Ay Ro. Oakland, Cal, writes: “Taman old war veteran, IT contracted severe bladder and kidney trouble. I spent hundreds of dollars and con» sulted a host of doctors, but neither did me any good. “Poruna has proved the best meticing Lever used. My palin are gone and hellove mywelf to bo cured, T feol well J would not be without a bottle in {ine of Need for ton times its cost." hay. con sulto all schools of medic Tt waa not undl Pom mt came into use howe ve that those old soldiors und remedy Mor tat wourd actually cure them, neys atises of catarrh of tday) eh find bladder have been medi te, Peruna than all other’ ctnes combined, sige. | AUUi OB LIP, oy 4 aoe sian iount og! ‘The Hartngi Sentai, Colutaoaee, Ohiee und ho Will be pleased’ to give yOu b fit of hin medical advice grat pondonee hold strictly confidential» UGLAS 350 Hundreds of war veterans have kidney and bladder trouble. Impure drinking water, sleep- ing on the ground, and all man- ner of exposures to wet and cold weather produced® catarrh of the kiducys and bladder, Appt ~ a" é UNION $ MADE a SHOES: Men inevery walicof Ife,” In all professions a trades, the gentleman of leisure and the workings — man-all wear W.L. M4 las $3.50 shoes because tl _ are the best in the world, 1. Dougias makes and setis more Men's $3.60 shoes than any oihar manue —-— facturer In the world. 4 $10 000 REWARD to anycne who can disprove this statomen he reason W.L, Douglas $3.50 shoesare the great sellers in the world is because of their excellent style, easy filting and superior wearing qualities, If | could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those of other 4 makes and the high grade leathers used, you would /i7f understand why W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe on the market to-day. W. L. Douglas guarantees their value by stamping his name and price on the bottom, Look for it. Take no substitute. Sold in W. L. Douglas ex- clusive Men’s and Boys’ Shoe Stores in the prin- cipal cities and by shoe dealers everywhere, Boys wear W. L. Douglas $2.80 and $2.00 shoes because thoy fit hotter, hold their shape andwear longer thanother makes. Fast Color Eyelets will not wear brassy, Ki Write faciory Show at Any Price, W. L, Dow Coltskin f DOUG eteton, Mw ow Y. .. W.L.Douglas $3.50 Shoe Stores In Greater New Yorks 3 Uroadway, corner Howard Street. 8h6 Bixth Avenue, corner 22d Street, Broadway, corner 8th Stroet. 345 Eighth Avenue, Broadway, corner 14th Btreet, BROOKLYN. 9 Broadway, corner 36th Street, 1449 Broadway, corner 41st St. 8.710 Broadway, cor, Thornton St. 67. Broadway, corner Gates Rip haa . 4 aeen Brtae Fulton Street, corner Pearl Stree! 240 Wost 126th ‘street, street, O2 Third Avent THRSHY CLITY— 18 Newark Avenue, NBWARK—766 Broad Street. Avenue, cor, 120th Rt, R779 Third Ave., bet, 146th & 147th Sta, A case in point {8 that of an emi- school, who lives |plain, unvarnished dressing wp: 1 had always had an intense preju- in tale Texas, needs His no | dice, which T can now see was un- warrantable and unreasonable against all muchly advertised f:od.. Hence, I never read a line of the many ‘ads,’ of Grape-Nuts, nor tes:ed the food till last winter, “While in Corpus Christi for my health, and visiting my youngest son, who has four of tho ruddlest, health- fest little hoys I ever saw, I ate my first dish of Grape-Nuts fcod for sup- per with my little grandsons. I he- came exceedingly fond of it and have eaten & package of It every week */eince and find tt a delicious, re‘rosh- Jing und strengthening fool, leiving |no Ml effects whate easing no ernetations (with T was for- moerly much troubled), no fe.8> of fulnoss, nausea nor distress of stom- lach In any w: “There {9 other food that agrecs * | with me eo well, or sits as Hghtly or pleasantly upon my stomach es ‘hi does. 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Ail 25¢, coilars are made of /iven and stamped “linen.” If your coll sn’t bear the word “LINEN? itis positively cotton, That /inen perior to cotton goes without saying, Triangle collarsare made off — amas the 25c. hind, Triangle collars are made 4-ply—same as fi hind, Why then pay the price of /vie# and take cotton Triangle collars, legally stamped “Linen” can be had for the Learn to know the difference, They cost no more, 4-ply Linen, 15¢, Each—Two fos 25¢, __VAN:ZANDT, JACOBS & CO» TROY, ~ 3 Sizes,