The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1905, Page 6

ford Fall Between Car and Platform. “WASHORRIBLY MANGLED “But the Train’ Didn’t Stop and ~No.One at Station Tried to Aid Victim. yj Shy} SAY" MfePovans SAVED BY A POLICEMAN. , iameburg. And, for the Lord's sako, It's @ worn! After 2,000 years of search for an honest man, poor old “Di” finds success, of all places on earth, in ‘W4ll- Seco ALDERMEN HIT AT GROUT AGAIN Hie Leg le Cut Off at Hospital, Once More Vote Down the Comptroller’s Application for _ Stet James Ataftord ts ative in Belle- (ue Hospital to-day is partly due to his the Appropriation of $1,000,- 000 for Playgrounds, 4 ‘3 @etermination to be revenged upon the Interborough Rapid Transit Company fer the loss of his left leg. It was @rushed between a train and the plat- form at the Second avenue “L" station, at Thirty-fourth street, and amputated at the hospital, Qrutal treatment accorded Stat- fend would be unbelievable were tt not confirmed rfigied testimony of witnesses, was dragged almost the Jength of the platform, screaming in Spony, the train that was pulling him @id not stop. Nor did the gate- Man end ticket agent pay the slightest @tention to him after tho train had hy ryan He lay at the northern end of Platform for nearly fifteen minutes before Deteotives sullivan a: nd Kane, Walking through Second avenue, saw his dripping into the wireet and went UP on the "'L” wiructure to investigate. Talked as Doctors Worked, They sent an ambulance call and Stafford was hurried to Bellevue, where his leg was cut off at once. He retused to take ether and chatted with the doc. tors whilo they were oporating, For the second time within a month the Board of Aldermen to-day resected the application of Comptroller Grout for an appropriation of $1.000,000 for playgrounds, After the first unfavor- able vote by the Aldermen the Board of Estimate took up the matter and re- passed It with the suggestion that a report as to the manner in which the money |s to be spent be sent to the Board of Akjermen, It again reached the Finance Committee only to be bow!- ed over to-day, "I believe the Comptroller 1s an hon- est man, gala Alderman McCall in moving the adoption of the unfavorabl: report of the Finance Committee, “but that kne’ De- mpite the groat lous of blood an I belleve that this expenditure would od and his ag a he is nearly fitty—the chances Ae fn | let ome one in on the real estate ® © favor of his recovery, Btafford's home 1s at No. 5h) Bast One Hundred and Fiftieth street, He ground floor, What do we know what! this money 4s for and how It is to be| spent? We don’t propose to vote blind-| mat West at No. 8) We | gouds Duginess In TWO MERCHANTS FOUND DEAD Remarkable Colncidences In De- mise of John J. Lambert and Christopher Brazer, Dying at Same Time, At almost extotty the same moment t the children of John J @ rotired dry-goods merchant, found his body in bed at his home, No, 51 to-lay the body of Christopher Braser, also a re- tired merchant, was found in hia room in the boarding-house two doora away, Fifty-second street, men died at about the mame time, thoir deaths were reported at the Coroner's office at the same time anda further re- markable cotnoidence 1s that they were about the same age, Lambert fitty-nine and Brager fifty-seven, Neither man Fifty-second street, w the other in life, Mr, Lambert formerly waa in the dry- New Brunswick, N and lived with his son Walter and his daughter good, heath fof some Ume, Clare, He had not nner of Iiness, but would | how have @ physician. He ‘had a book with instructions what to do for every Whioh he consulted Aoad in_bed_ to-day th sent for James W. Decker, of Non hé Maaine vemie. He said Mr, Lambert had taken an oveniose of nux vomtoa, which had Suey Reem ere eel ker eaya he has no doubt death was aoci dental, a3 Mr. Lambert had oo reason tw all meet, aithougn he hed been scmmmwhat despondent ince the deat fis, wife some months ago. led 2 he where Mr. Braper died is ise kept by Mise Tella Brager had suffered from y some, time. He. failed breakfast to-day and ss Requa sent a servant to call him. q Sicaan eamrag him dead in \. ion who was sont he'died of heart decane’ mild that —— FEUD MURDER ON FLYING TRAIN, oardin 3 Lambert | lnovsToON, Tex. May %—Faward Calhoun was shot and killed on board an Incoming San Antonio and Aransas Pass train at Wallis to-day by W, T. Eldridge, of San Antonio, formerly vice-president and general manager of the Cane Belt Rallroad, Calhoun {s a brother-in-law of Capt fam Donovant, who was killed by Eldridge about three years ago on a passenger train on the same road, Pl- dridge was recently acquitted of mur- dering Capt. Donovant, Today's wagedy grew out of the murder of Donovant and subsequent at- tempts made on the Mfo of Plaridge, J., | pidetdge was shot through the lungs by an unknown party, but recovered. Dts- | sension over the control of the Cane! Belt Ralirved, in which Pldridge ana Donovant were jointly interested result. in the Killing of Donovant, since The been in MAJOR FISK’S | WIFE FATALLY HURT IN AUTO New Machine Smashed by Fast Train on Crossing Near Rahway. Mrs. Willard ©, Fisk, wife of Major Disk, of the Seventh Regiment, a mill- tonaire lawyer, of Jersey City, was prob- ably fatally injured to-day, when an automobile her husband had purchased and was driving from Philadelphia to Jersey City was struck and demolished by @ Pennsylvania Railroad train at the Iselin crossing, a mile from Rah- way, i George BH, Blakeslee, the chauffeur, Whose home is in Jersey City, was alec buy AUF AD wbteupuly 10 bem Mars, Diy Major bak and bis sun, Vhaton UC, elisa, ewcmped injury by Wns IO Lue Gul Just We Lie ex press Lwin Was sWeeplg duwn upon it Hardly) @ bolt of Une big Louring ons Was leit iuiwot after the wal had erapbed inty it At laeiin the Pennsylvania hae prac- (leally ius only sharp curve between Now York and Pluladeiphia, and at the crossing there there are no guard rails, but there is a . Hie box, where he elite most of the time, te so situated that it obscures the view of southbound trains until one ia mght on the track, As the touring car aped toward the crossing Major Fisk put his hand on the chauffeur'a arm and sald to be careful. The machine was almosi tracks Waen the quick ear o on the My Fisk caught “the dull “rumble of a heavy train, “Dhere'a @ train right down on usl” he erled. ‘For God's ake, stop ‘There was @ bare six feet in which to halt the car, The chauffeur, however, seemed selzcd with punto and ran the machine directly onto the track, stop- ping with tye full body of the auto across the rails. ‘Tho train Was not @ hundred yards away when the automou'le stopped In a moment Major Fiske had cried to his wife and son to jump and himeelf vaulted clear of the track, Young Hisk also leaped safely to a ditch, but this mother swooned (nd fell upon’ the floor Ot the tonneau ‘When the train hit the car Mr, Fisk was etruggiing frantically to pull the heavy, automobile off the tracks, and the chauffeur had climbed back Into the tonneau In an effort to rescue the unconscious Mra. Fisk, Just what hap- pened in the next second or two no one tell. omy ior Fisk saya all he saw was the pody of Nis wite as it shot Into the alr Pad in the direction of a ditch. Ho on thrown, to the ground under a heap MMaebris, Blakeslee was hurled” tutte hirty feet, Nut had no bones broken, SONY, Mrs) Fisk was ploked un ft was na her Jett leg and both arms ware fn and she was also injured Intors nally. in Witch time a ©) t@ employed at Ravenswood, LT Las, |!¥. This is @ legislative body; it must | when he felt he heeded medical atten- | feud is sald to have ex: FP) Wade ne was detained by extn work | Mt intelligently and with a Knowledge {ioiaand he awry kept hla own modi: | ised yorveen relives of the donraaad | } @nd did not reach the Thirty-fourth | Of What tt ts acting upon. The Comp-| When Lambert's children found him | prominent. troller appears to be vitally interested. street side of the ferry until 10 o'clock. Only a very short time ago he wanted He caught the shutile train, got off y @t Second avenue, and walked cur | 8 Board abolisied. We can't forget i to the platform. A train had jus: | Mat" ¥ ‘eed ‘This is another echer to bi p j Pulled in and he ran for the platform | tho c qd Alderman Dowlag kt a of the last car. the } Comptroller is going we won't have enough credit in Ket to bulld a chicken coop,’ went GETS $5 EXTRA WHEN HE WORKS Herrmann Says Allowance from Stepmother Is $250 a Month ‘The guard slammed the gate as Stat- the mar- ford was about to step aboard, It ap § Pearse the signal to start had been given before any attempt to close the gute had been made, and the train * Btarted just as Stafford, knockid oft | hls balance by running against the gate, slipped between the car and tho platform. Left Mangled on Platform. Both logs went through, but he man- aged to drag the right out before it wea badly damaged. Then he was a rolled and dragged along the platform unvll tho whole car had pased. A few feet more and he would have peen| | pulled over the northern end of tis| if He Keeps Busy and a Paltry tition and dropped to the rtreat, ‘The | Gecond avenue line there runs on a| 200 When He Loafs, level with the fourth story of the a Re buildings. Ih >, 4 a Although the rear guard on the train) Gevrge Herrmann, under cross-ex- PS new Stafford had b ished, he did|@Mination to-day tn the trial of the | i Not pull the bell, ‘Th: few pas-|Separation sult of his wife, Florence | 4 fengers in the lust oni ne on the| Crosby Herrmann, went over agai! MIE} platform, A train. ps tno one|his scory of several assaulis made upen dt BaW the injured man lying in the se al- Bm) taanness of the platform. | iq e prompt accion 0 him by his wit the detec Herrmann has been eredited with an t Prevented the death of Siaftor {neome of $1400 a year, but has stout. Platiorm. He was auite cy fly asserted tus abject poverty. ‘To-day i owp | we Salt his income Was o i 4 among the surgeons, ’ ! 3 q Mevesaw a man with sy much neve, | Mem the Herrmann Lumber Biafford hav wlvaly had hquivies Ine) Ky deat SE Blituted to trace the waln by which he! & tone Na sano Ha ) ann, allo 26 waa cripplod. i menth—when he works. When he $ mre did not work @ho cut his pay, |°"ylow much?” demanded Mr. Young. bi } "Well, she allows me only $20 a i a jimontth Wien 1odon't wari," guid Her i “When your wife was hargh and spoke with bitterness you return soft. answers only Ietnd words. te toving KILLS HIMSELF < | F § Wife Stumbles Across His Dead to, fee Body on Cellar Stairs of Their 4). © Home—No Motive Known for’ ': His Suicide. @ and again Mr. H Max William Lubosn, a letter-carrier |! ny el employed by the General P Mfoe, ta twas found dead on the cellar floor at Mo, 1285 Second avenue to-day by his ‘wife, who had worried about his absenos 4) @ll night. He had shot himsele throu ‘the | have we nuked stehed the “angel, ay The owar CORN AND BUNION PASTE HT wher T knew,tt -_ vd two years wife and her two brothe third floor of the Se use, As he was of exemp! wite became alarmed w! veturn jast night. Alter sitting up all night of the window for him, the thad ocoasion {0-day to & cellar, Sh bhid look & ie CURES CORNS AND GUNIORS, |! as Nothing Like It, NOTABLES ARRIVE Ask For It. Price 28e, | JAMES S. COWARD, 2068-274 Greenwich St., N.Y. [ey FROM EUROPE, mong the passengers on the Kalse fihelm U.. whieh ved this after, loon from Byenien and Mrk. | —oeecscmeasecomee om apending a up fo Hang Coats Sults Skirts owns 4 up for! Hang @pate Sure cananter and a dull Ree tie author of . panvoed eit! | MOTE Bate’ 10) chow at C rKe } raBcors” Spuniyy aluintect: =| He oa eat Peer © om be of fine French Flowers . Unlooked for trade exigencies brought this mammoth collection of French flowers to us at a sacrifice just in time for our annual May flower sale, Don't need to tell you that flowers are the favored trimming for women’s, misses’ and children’s importers who overbuy—overestimate—their season's sales, and these same importers must go to Europe now in order to make their purchases for Autumn, The retailer with the largest outlet is always sought, Simpson Crawford Co,, because there is no quantity too large for us, provid- ing the merchandise (s right, of a good duality, and what our patrons desire, That's the sole reason this great quantity of flowers came to us at such low prices—the rea on we ffer these remarkable bargains, Imported cherry sprays, soft to touch, true to nature, hats, but there are alw: French crush roses, 28c, retry 2 \Imported crab apple sprays—a| tose montures, 2 full blown roses | '™P: pp pray | French bluet sprays....... 88¢ and follaye..... 250 straw braid turbans on wire frames, just what you | ee anacinreast want for immediate wear, Fisk %8 @ partner of Allen Mow mott In the law firm of McDermott ‘wk, He has been a major of the nth Regiment for several voars ‘Mr. Dert & When Moxie comes in at the door is the time that care flies out of the window. It is a great convenience to go to the ice-chest when one is tired or thirsty and get a nice cold drink of refreshing and invigorating Moxie. Moxie is a genuine nerve food. Those who drink it and enjoy life to its fullest extent, eat better, sleep better, To Moxie drinkers cares that to others seem mountain-high, sink into insig- nificance, Health waits on people who drink this delicious beverage, that con tains no alcohol, narcotics, poisonous drugs or chemical preservatives, $2.50 per case; 25 cents per bottle; § ce nts per glass at all fountains, annual May sale 1,000 cartons of fine French flowers, very much underpriced. I} Beautiful La France roses, 460, each, 25. . . Large (single), crush eC, rs roses each, 20 trim= 48c much favored Paris MING eee Suinmer teveee 480 In connection with the above we offer sections 80 silk straw braid and chiffon combination ture in our untrimmed hat value 1,75--at, @AChieeeees 75°! 4 4B aNdsees veveee PA PD, Naturally they turn to Js laa til oh IME Ma fo it Silk poppy wreaths (12 pop- ples in wreath), 27, pes—value 3,25 to 3,95 eacl a6 B28 ¥ — oh Cy | ‘e STH AVE: 19% TOLD“ STRELT e 2 household linens A T Drice, but because they are the linens in greatest demand, 10c h 1,000 Summer sheets for 3-4 or twin beds: value 75¢. each—-special sale price...+... Bc, for 43c, single bed sheets, pri le decorativ [e} Others are paying full prices for round and square pleces which those who come here recetve at half price. $3.50 for $7,00 centre-pieces. $1.50 for $3 lace doylies, scarfs and shams—scarfs 54 in, long| damask, pure linen, heavy, sery ¢ —extra heayy-—2 yds, wide—new a 4“ Y 200 doze s-bleached all-linen table napkins, break-! $00 doz. 17c. hemmed huck towels, 18x36 In. fast MAS aL OF hate ? vee B15! 250 doz, 25¢, hemmed huck towels, 20x42 in, 17 | 2 emmed pillow cases al 7}4¢, 50c, for 63c. 3-4 size sheets. 5Se. for 68¢, full size sheets. N CRAWFORD CO, must be cleansed and protected from the dust flurries to preserve their beauty, and hang these beautiful, light, Summery Irish Point and Renaissance curtains In their places. They are not only crisp, new and dainty, capable of USAND sample pieces of fancy Unens—the finest Renaissanee lace with linen centres in doylies, Main Floor, 55 for our $1.25 lace doylies. $50 c $6.50 for $12 centre - piece shams 32 In. sq—value 50c.... @5c| quality—value 60c, yd.—at. «+ A8¢) terns—value $1.00 yd.—at. sce 150 doz, $2.35 table napkins, 181.95 S00 dozen Meached Turkish towels—hemmed or 76x90 in| 500 dozen hemmed plllow cases, good quality—2 slzes— Irish point and renaissance curtains /3 off | maintaining the exclusiveness of your home, but they are priced at less than the regular cost of importing. Usually | ‘ centre -pleces and tea cloths—selected for this important sale, not only because they were available at halt for fine $5.00 centre - pleces. 7c, tor $1,80 lace doylies. 250 dozen sample ombrotdered| 50 pleces full Dleached table, 50 pisces bivdvhed table damasu ° ins, Towels. Napkin: site “frlige 150 doz, $3.75 table napkins, + 83.25 ends—extra large size—value 40c, each—at.. ++, 48c | 42x36 and 45x36 inches—value 10c, each—at..... OU will be complimented on your good taste when you take down those costly Winter curtains that $2.50, 63,50, $4, $5 and $7.50—to-morrow they are Fourth Floor, sd | 50, 1-95, $9.50, $9.95, Paice: 5 @ yard for 1234c curtain scrims for Summer curtains, 40 inches wide. Read on—come to- Cc morrow and you will see ALL the proper Summer upholsteries priced to insure you a saving of vast importance. . for $8.00 Oriental tapestry portieres Tog for 25c. Japanese pillow tops—cool look- $3.95 La las and very Ae talas) Sum- | 12 2C ing and artistic prints, for the home or pinzza mer draperies, reversible and richly fringed. $2 9 $3.95 and $4.85 for ruffled Renaissance for washable tapestry couch covers; . bed sets, made of good bobbinet with Renais- pestry id a pretty, cool-looking cover that will wash | sance medallions, insertions and edges, and deep, full flounces—worth fully one-half more. Ike Unen table cover—hand-knot tassel fringe all around, <= SIMPSON CRAWFORD CO, Moth preventatives | 40 yds. matting, °4.45 to protect your Winter apparel; garden tools to OW that you are ready to select mattings, rugs, cultivate deliciously flavored vegetables possible only | © cilcloths and linoleums for your town, country or when home grown; refrigerators to keep the foods sweet | Summer home, it {s imperative that you know we are ind fresh; ice-cream freezers to make the richest confec- | specialists in these lines and have only the fresh, new tion; lawn requisites that make it easy to have a well- | qualities in a great diversity of new designs at the lowest kept lawn; Welshach HSE) psthroom fixtures, and i Tabs for which they can be secured. ‘Thira Floer, thousand other articles needed for town, country an lapanese Artistic carpet patterns In 40- Summer homes, Our greatest sale starts to-morrow. gapa' lese mattings, yard rola tte rie % price This space js small because values are so exceptional they = $7 25 tor 10.50 $Q.50 tor 12.00 do not require wide publicity. 8: fer te. 8¢ HOF fos China mattings, -65 tor 9.75 § Basement Salesroom, mattings. 1b. for Campherated Garden tools. ae for 8 1-Ib, boxes Moth m) tate lawn mags for Ppoire ioe Z New bluck, pin and striped effects. BD for Empire State lawn $4.45 for 6,75 $695 for 8.95 39 50 tor 12,50 ame bah | Lu ee SAE mattings. mattings. mattings. Standard oilcloths and linoleums. FOP Se 1b. for Ta na camphor fag tarine moth | S86. 44. yd for 506, Sump- 49c. sq. yd, tor o5e, Scott & : han'a ta noth «.? ie r wath Rooke loede. ty 5 s No, 4 oilcloth. West's imported cork lino- { goof onsale | ° put atze, 24x07, | 99c. sq. yd. for 55 ott | leum noages. | Bie. & West's imported cork | 81.28 linoleaum—2 yds. wide. Overcoat size, 80x50. 400. gL IME OF Faian “viz, 0% Nt iy | best inlaid linoleums. at gaypet and rum AG, Sie, 2, anned ot ft tering canal. Bile for 19 40x86 Tar $ . aate,, [treatin Sewing machines, 17.65 Bath room requisites. Loe cream) aeegt room requis! HY PAY $60 OR $70 when you can get one of freezers are| > bars America’s most prominent and representative sew- tho best—| Bike for nickel-plated tumbler | ing machines for $17.65? We have contracted to ln apaietee| for standing soap dish | sell a carload of these, and as an introductory, offer them make delicious cream from 3/41 for haneing soap dish— | atanominal figure, They're ball- to 6 miniter—epectal at the} age to ovat bran holders: | bearing and the lightest running « wif following prices: shes, machine ever made—fully war- Size 1qt. @at Bat: NF ble shavink | ranted, both by Simpson’ Craw- Price 1.49 1.79 2.28 aie ihe fate Val lord Co. and the ase das ake PRN alUe factory—a double fo tuatened to. wall uarantee, It Is a rein. Price 2.73 3.25 for ‘60. shelf and -drawer auto- In our light dept, St" 24-tn, shelf and matic - head ma- HES 60.15, whol and | chine—solid, dark, quarter-saw- “brack a) Re Tor 1 8-in, wlaee towel it 1.05 tor 24-in, lame towel tare. 4 wh A great sale of screens, {;:" ed oak, French hand polish— self-threading shuttle, latest im- Proved side tension— equal to Sewing all fabrics from the finest of silks almost to a car- pet, and Is surely quite an acquisition to any household, . axe . Price. | Heteht his machine is conceded to be the best in th fi yet Hee aE in AS an’ Introductory to-morrow, 17-08 thee key ee ain 4 to 87 In: 0. which you'd pay the agent 60. Fourth Floor, PSON CRAWFORD Co, Grocery specials for to-morrow—also wines you do not find lower prices with a GUARANTEE OF PURITY, backed by an old, established name like Simpson Crawford Co, The Model Food Store \s firmly intrenched among those who have the best on their tables, because it never deviates from a fixed standard, and this standard is the highest. Every time we publish a list of specials like this we add scores of new customers, and they stay with us. One order is enough to convince—to-morrow a good time to be convinced. Mall orders will be filled promptly. Sixth Floor, Phone 2100—Chelsea. — a ee See OC rere eee eee ee cr ee ero mI a , ous 1M SARDINES DAN") LAUNDRY SOAP — FAIR. bar An PA das 376 jo Gaudin's: 10g pank’s “Dandy; 10496 | ' 76. FRESH RUTTER— ‘A CLARA PRUNES | OATMEAL “9 Hew) UoNOGRAM BUI YE Seth MOR sme, ree BGG | Ghd Btns. a08. G6] MONORNAM GT RUE 7 WAVERL cor E is additional for’ sealed | ky i ' 8 Bibs. 100 ti TOMATOERS—FANCY DELA- 088K i ICH LES CROSS Maes egg Packed goeane | CHA GE how or White On-, Ggoi full Bspow (Vj tons, Johnnie Cake: nest Import- 1 9G, and Currant) XAT, HTCARE TEAS— FORMOSA | 001.0NG, atent 751 Mnelian Tireaktast, Thdin no oand a our 5° 606 Wa er's Peart; r Belb package A $450 Chickering upright used piano to-morrow $100 Frenzied Finance. “Before the advent of the ‘System, In the year 1880, the total wealth of z ; the country was $40, To. z Sarre: For Raa the 10th. day it {8 100,000,000,000. be Se amount stocks and bonds ro down New York Stock Exchange in 1880 Salo Original was _$3,000,000,000,_T is Price, “Price. $20,000,000,000, In 1880 the amount 2 Chtckering Upright, 100.00 480.00 of money of the people was ardman Upright..116,00 050,00 1 Steinway Upright. , 500,00 Bi s00,000 00), To-day, th i Bg: (00,000,000, In 1880 the amount of deposits in the national and sav- ings banks, trust and Insurance com- panies belonging to_ the people WAS $3,000,000,000, To-day It ts $11,000,000,000, “Ll haye taken these figures from the ordinary sources, Treasury and Stock Exchange reports and statistl- cal works, Most of them dae can find for yourselves in THE 1905 WORLD ALMANAC.” THOMAS W. LAWSON, The price of the Almanac te a cents; hy mail, 35 cents, 1 Knabe Upright, 1 Wagner Upright, 2 Drucker Upright 1 Wobstor Upright... 650.00 800,00 820.00 400.00 400,00 1 Pease Square 15,00 40000 2 Needham Organ.. 10,00 76.00 Also 29 other great bargains to-day 125.00 1 Hehr Brow, Upright. 160,00 May sale of used pianos. eaeeere re you buy will be taken back at full amount paid to date eerily in exahange for one of our twelye new pianos such as Packard, Chickering Bros., Schubert and H, & $. G. Lindeman. The original Simpson Crawtord Co. plan of selling used pianos will be carried out to the letter inthisaale. No instrument will bedisposed of untiltheday for whichit wasorl ginally advertised,