The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1905, Page 2

Ti Stl 10 SEE REAT PARADE Gather to Witness “the Exhibition, 1K IN GOOD SHAPE, Near | 400 Rigs, Drawn by Most i ‘Noted Trotters and Pacers, Pass in Procession. Whe sixth annual Speedwal ‘parade Place to-@ay on the béautiful con- a6 paralleling the Harlem River. Westher conditions dia not mar the ‘Bheastiveness of the diaplay, which ‘was one of the finest ever witnessed on reat driveway. With many thou- @ands of lovers of horses prasent in |) Wetiiole and on grand stand and con- ane the parade of the Road Drivers’ laation was made more conspicu- thi ‘syear by the large attendance > Of out-of-town horsemen and horse- ‘women; who drove thoir’ finest rigs to | Wie Bpecdway, taking part in the gen- © etal turn-out with vim and enthusiasm, In fio prévious parade were there so i y reingnicn in line or so many spec- ‘bn the sidewalks in grand siands. Who ‘track’ wna in excellent condition sthe kings and queens of the harnees passed in stately review thero ‘were cheers for both drivers and horecs, hg When the time! came for presenting ,Pelgos and ribbons the judges were ® Wondary, #0 splendid were the ee pute, Nearly four hundred rigs of style were in ling drawn hy the py Noted trotters and pacers owned io otty. A million in horseilesh a Wee ripresented, Five Divisions in Parade, ivé divisions made up the parade, ty id Marshal Hiy and his aides had 4G ‘@arefully mapped the programme, In the Aret' division were the out-of-town Rehsenen under command of George A. man as margbel and Chairman ot ‘Hotse Bhow Committee. Then came division, directed by Arthur mochan, The third division, of horses drawing one-man wagons, anded by L. W, Hoynton, and complote or finer assemblage of a steppers and vehicles would " lopeph fey liad, headed by’ Berg, acts es a e Old Guard Band on a ara ive ig Ad earrying city offich judy ieht up the rear, coat freya were Louis F, Hatten, Boren of the Bren Trenident ‘of the 2 Cromw: Of Hichmon "ang t three guests were Gvocates of le The {adisn tno clever yer. @ great and interes » Moa. 1 exhibited Mavaty Ficli o and + eommandin, fi grace in the manipulation » of sper: quine charges, Mrs. Frederick Gerken abared honers with if daughter of the millional t Rt. Mine, Morosini is known patrons of the wa wand her melt and dart and her skill ai Man faye earned fame nnd glory parade started from Riverside and Beventy-prcond areal to One fndred and hi hirty-fifth street way, to One, Hundred and Nery: id atreet, to Bt. Nicholas place, to the Way’ as far as Dyckman street, Feturking for review before ‘the oclals ‘on the grand-stand, SE RELAY RUNNERS SMASH RECORD COLUMBIA OVAL, Bee innate ‘2 York, May 13—A desultory driazle b>.” obaly in the aftornoon marred the High F) Bohool novices championship, held at + Columba Oval, and a muddy track pre- ‘vented the making of good time, but a is. bright sunburet through the i ‘lows’ later in the day and quickly t ehoot Filet H eplay. 1. Vorhis and rah ee oh gages not ony. clot the raw away until the: al Bate keine tape Yand broie the by, rone-atth Bs Mr novond, covering Ma poldon-haired Dewitt an nae of saris ran abreast ; mee in yen, as no4 th finteh, an oe mail the | high hurdles inal t. shoved a foot tS front at the Ani ish, Clanesy, De Manual Erasmus Dash’ Gua Won by G, Prasenus Hass; .. Powell, t Burt, Boys’ Why Not Get I er ii known in this State, tual frienda. “Herbert and I were very fond Mrs, Croker wanted him to marry New York State, to our marriage. Oklahoma, he had no part in it, arrangements, Then my mother and married, that he was in good spirits, “Herbert Croker was no oplum his life, Neither was he a drunkard was good for him, Croker. was arrested to-day. He confirmed place, among them a policeman, dollar tf I would take him there, we started for a place in West Sixth ware, It is called the Tuxedo, bunks there. ‘When we left the hotel T told him tf he had any money he had better leave it somewhere before going to the joint, As I was known as a Coates House porter and had been seen with him I wanted to make myself safe. “He sald he never carried much money but paid as he went by check. To pro- tect me he aald he would leave whatever he had anywhere I enid. He fished out ‘a $20 bill and a little more in change. ‘We stopped at Ccn+Cronin's saloon at Fourth stroet and Broadway and h®| gave the bill to the bartender, who put it in the eafe in an envelope, We had a drink there ena then went to the hop Joint. i “1 went upstairs with the stranger and told Ah Lee he wanted to smoke, ‘Then I went downstairs and eat around the saloon, He told me to be sure and wait for him and not to leave him. I knew ho had to catch the'§.56 train for Oklahoma. “T guess tt was Aen AR hour before he showed up. He wds unsteady on his feet, but talked all right. His face looked kind of funny, like a man’s does when be te full of hop, He remembered that he had to catch the train, . all right. “At the corner of Bixth and Wyan dotte we were stopped by a policeman, I told him who the young man was and who I was, and he let us go after I promised I would surely take him to the train, Then we went to Cronin's and got the twenty dollars, While we were at the bar Mr. Croker mentioned that he had to catch the 865 train, The bartender sald that there wasn't much time and we had better take a hack, We called a hack and rode to the station, No Sleeping Berths Left. “There were no berths left in the Pullman, but Mr, Croker wanted to go on that train so I took him to the chair car and got the porter to give him a pillow. Then I gave Im back what mouey there was left out of the $20 bill, and he gave me a dollar, 1 guess he fhad about $17, I promised to send his things that he had in tho check room at the Coates House to Oklahoma, left him just as the train was ting," Wilson inaists that young Croker did not talk to any ong but the Chinaman in the saloon, which !s a tovgh resort, ‘There wero several ‘negroes in the place and a crap game was running. Wilson says that Croker took no part in this and did not drink there, The theory at first was that tho negroes had given him knockout drops for pur poses of robbery, but it has been es- tablished that all Croker had wes tho $4) bill he left at Cronin’s. Polleeman Hightower was the man who stopped Wilson and young Croker ut Sixth and Wyandotte streets as they were leaving the Tuxedo, Hightower made a atatement of his connection with the case to Chief Hayes this af- ternoon, Policeman's Story. low staggering along with a negro,"’ Ba Hightower, “and stopped them on uepicion, The negro told me he was A porter at the Coates and showed me t for the $2) they had left at Cronin's, ‘The white man was almost speechiess, but the negro promised to take care of him and put him on a train, so I Jet them go," Ah Lee says that young Croker smoked five pills of opium while he was in the place. This is an excessive ount for a person not accustomed o the drug, and especially dangerous ie the amoker has been drinking, Whe Coroner at Newton, Kan,, where the body is, called up Chiet Hayes on the foleplione to-day and asked If he The family home is known Horton and her mother haye been in New York for 8! MRS. CROKER OBJECTED. “I met Herbert Croker,” said the young woman to-day, “through mu- 1 knew his brother Frank also. married when he was killed in Florida four months ago. motiey as the Crokers, but the Hortons, of Horton Hall, are known all over “Herbert wae not feeling well and he was worried over the opposition If the intention was to separate us by sending him to WEDDING PLANS MADE. “We reached an understanding the night before he left. It was agreed that he was to write to me as soon as he reached the ranch and made his I heard from him after he left New York and his letter denoted He was a good, honest, serious-minded young man, and had he lived would have been a credit to himself. The news of his death came like a bolt out of a clear sky.” Miss Horton has not decided upon her actions in the future, She will be guided by the advice of her mother. misfortune that has attended the engagement of her daughter to Herbert PORTER AND CHINAMAN TELL OF VISIT 10 OPIUM JOINT. KANSAS CITY, May 13.—Ah Lee, the Chinaman in whose place Herbert Croker smoked the opium that caused his death Thursday night, | gro hotel porter who escorted young Croker to the opium joint. Ah Lee said the young man was intoxicated when he reached the A combination of whiskey and opium is often fatal, especially if | the person indulging in both has a weak heart. Wilson was closely quostioned by Ohief Hayes to-day. together, and received confirmation not only from Ah Lee, but from others, WANTED TO “HIT THE PIPE." “Mr, Croker,” said Wilson, “came into the barroom of the Coates House, where I was at work, about 6. drinking, I thought. He spoke to me, saying he wae a stranger in town, abd wanted to go out and have a little fun. I asked him where he wanted to go, and he said he wanted to ‘it the pipe.’ “T told him I knew of a hop joint, and he said he would give me a T was on duty until 6 o'clock, and then There {i men go, and the hop joint run by Ah Lee is upstairs, They have four be is not Nkely that Richard Croker “I noticed a well-dressed young fel- be ‘ THE “WORLD: SATURDAY. EVENTNG, MAY" 13, 1908. rhanat (Continued | from First Page.) Horton Hall, months, Frank was engaged to be of each other, me, I do not believe that I were to go to him and we were to be flend, He had never tasted optum in although he at times drank more than That lady ts prostrated by the the story of Charles Wilson, the ne- His story heid 80 Thursday afternoon. He had been Of course we have not as much |, \ miss TOINETTE HORTON, YOUNG CROKER’S FIANCEE. street, between Wyandotte and Dele- saloon downstairs where colored Newton has embalmed it. There were no bruises or other marks of violence, Although no autopsy was held, the Cor- oner gives it as his opinion that young ‘roker died from the effects of a drug. ‘The Coroner says that no letters were Wedd on pea) Dereon, but two let- were awaiting his Ranch, Bites, Oklahoma, aes barton Miss J. Horton, of No, 1883 Weet Twen- bathe mie by! the other from q for, No. #0 Rast Seventy: street, New York. sii —-—. FATHER GETS SAD NEWS TO-DAY. News that hie eon is dead will reach rd Croker, the old Tammany Chief. tain, who is on his eatate in Ireli to-day. It ie the second cable that bya iedad to Mr, Grokee telling of the @ gon in the past tour months, ‘The first told of the Feats of his vest Frank, who was injured in the automo- bile races ‘at Ormond, Fia., in January, and who died a few days later, Father Not Likely to Come, 11 come to New York to attend Her- ert’s funeral, Réchard Croker, jr,, be- fore leaving tor Kansas last night to obtain; possession of his brother's body had @ long talk with John Fox, President of the Democratic Club, and bhey agreed that perhaps it would bo remain in Ireland. The shock of the death of Frank Croker and the trip Across the ocean to attend the funeral had a weakening effect upon the father, It is not belleved that he Je equal to the strain of another voyage under the circumstances. “We'do not believe,” said Mr, Fox to-day, ‘that Herbert was drugged and robbed. Ie did not carry muoh money, His heart was not strong and the ex: cltement of his trip undoubtedly brought on heart failure. If he was addicted to the use of oplum I never ‘heard it and I am eure his ¢amily knew nothing about it.’ No Message from Richard Croker, No reply was recelved thie afternoon to the cablegram sent to Richard Croker yewterday announolng the death of his son, Cbarles MoCann, hie nephew, who called upon Mrs. Croker to-day, sald thet he does not believe Mr, Croker has recelved It, "We don't know just where he { explained Mr, McCann. ‘The cable: gram was sent to his Irish eptate, but ne may be in some remote part of tho country or in ingland, Indoubted! he wili answer ea soon as the sad news reaches him, mrs, Croker Js bearing up under’ her great aftiicuon.. 8he. was ited to-day oy her pastor and her family physician, Jdohard Croker, Jr. lett last night for the Weat to back the body of his bro i a that he hed Wired to the wuthorit wton Ine structing them to, send ai apertura to the famlly. This a lef has iverwhelmed sara, Croker and her phy: clan was in attendance for several hours last night. Herbert Croker bed been in ill-health for mare than a y He had ‘lon of the heart that ve been brought on by with the football saad at the Schoo) about four vents the star fullb: win during that {natitution, Le tifourh his “bell: liant ploy the won the inter- ggholantic ohamplonetip in 1901, At Cornell One Y Ha iimy he Was siudent at Cor University with his eldest brother Mudhara, oul Ghey reuidineuciere less (hath w year, ‘fae brotners left the Veralty purtlediy, not even waiting 10 notlty ‘There was much eh ee ny gyi? seat departure, Bae, it od sald a me Pati should send the body here for an au- topsy. Chief Huyes replied that he did hot vee any use in bringing the body to J antes M Clty at all An-undeupeker at winnl tot fram ins ead that their ‘! Pook “ane Bile A cara ‘nolorl aly ee es best for the old Tammany leader to| '*t, A t6 hard training | % STABBED HIMSELF ON STAGE, AUDIENCE RUNS IN PANIC (Spectal to The Evening World.) PITTSFIELD, Mass,, May 13.—David Leahey, 28 years old, of Glendale, a yil- lage in the town of Stockbridge, at- tempted to commit suicide in the pres- ence of three hundred persons in Cool Hail, in that place, last night during aa entertainment, Following a recitation® leahey, who had @ front seat, mounted the platform and drew a knife, which he held out ftretched, while he shouted dramatl- cny: “No one is to blame but myself. They are all against me every one of them No one will kill me, so I will do it myself. Drink did tt.” \ He then stabbed himeolf three times in the breast and fell to the floor of the stage, blood staining nis clothing, Women fainted and childre from the hall, while earried Leahey to a s secluded from view o sent for a physician, Being left alone for a moment, Leahey arose and staggered away, Later he was found at his home, where his condition was pronounced sorious, The knife had penetrated one of his lungs, Two of Leahey's sisters, Dllsabeth, of Glendale, and Mrs, Dennis Broderick, of New Haven, were in the audience when | Leahey made his _sensatignal attempt at suicide. RACERS WORKED IN SOFT GOING e (Continued from First Page.) t on the the crow: ‘een and . 49 2. ing, 105 pounds up. Look SPECIAL LICENSE—105 pouns very thin and ‘a complete reat should | four Zuriongs, 0.14, 0.28, 0.42, "0.60, Breed do her a lot of good. Don't expect to | ing, we, trainer Ro’ Boutin BELL pounds up, mile, 0.1 rnlle, 0.184. 0 $0 46,08 RanBIy, see her race very good until she gets a hatf- “pOFiMIA—One, mile in 1.49, breeaing, }08,pounda up. | Likes a woft footing and) ,Aea1h 4 Amit oReinds Mnpeady ot tan gee, 277 piven c, CAL He Se furlongs, in 0,52, | Hania, tral on is wp. Four furlongn, Jabie. O28 $5, ate Oe oaally. Can corthanly Plough through’ the mu 6, ‘prin train 125 pounds up, iA het Has been. on, FF. Gananer, 4, mile in 0.38 breeaing slow ‘side ail spring. "AYES, 115 mds wp, Ong pounds up, 'DGN—Five furlongw | miler oi met 1.0826) nandliys 10, pounds ups e This ally” 1 looks aw te he colt should race better than his la Hitenopee Terman bie Sa hdl effort, aa he ceetainly had some bad |” yfig SWRPA Tel unas AAP ge luck in that race, and one-quarter illes 1 408, RAINH—One mile in 1.62, breez- 1. 1, 1%, 084 6a ing poundaup, Looks like a good 5 teria trainer : horse and will improve on hia last Face, ‘pounds uy clever, Matt ae Le | at 7 very 114 hau Ov! waue RD Sol Pour DON 012, nandtiy 100 KNIGHT pout i ‘pound tip ine | Suncney 663 an ordinary colt much, handily, 100, onan up, nary colt, but should last race, W, B, FASTG—@ix furlonas tn 119 2-5, handily, 110 pounds Hp. L200) i) wei but of very’ ordinary calibre at best, HOORAY—Five furlonga in | 1,06 2-8, handily; 9% pounds u ‘Will improve ee race, which was very Cli nly an improve on ile furlongs in unds up. Only will not improve na. pale. were eniy breesing ne Peake thither ‘ ——-— 0 tT a APRICANDER 15 FIT, | 94,48 ah ae tee sate te (Special to The Prenii I te Sas SHEEPSHEAD BAY, May. 18--Dark, ey a up all the in all through the dant olghehe cloudy weather, and a track that was Kanne ae en fetlock” Geep in’ mud were the training he wf, tr crane tin wut a oro | OR. ar a ee ‘The trainers were out at an early hour, J. spit it trainer. and many racere splattered over the furkgnens A iy i, “Roa 8 sluahy going at good rates of speod, J.| handiy, Kansas Price i B, Huaggin's Africander galloped LORD OF THI pay Pounds ny mile and a quarter tn 2.15, It wan the | Oo¢, and one-quarter mileg, 018 most pretentious move over a distance of ground the racer has been asked to make in stme time, He revels in the mud, and his work was very satisfy. ing to his trainer, Africander's first engagement of importance is in the Brooklyn Handicap, The gallops of the morni GO BRTWEDN—110 mille and en, leith, of, ots oua'et wealiopip Re } my Joyner, train era ae ‘i =: ratte, TABONTAIE pounds up ane BAN'TON, 216 pounds uy woven 5 0.04, 6 1.00%4 4.34, 18 rellopine: Tint a9 Min stent bréese ‘for this pair, C. four fur. ‘Siebalne, one mile; 188 a a A 0a rhs a4 ba Sad loyner, trainer, DRADITION CUB pou a 3.08, a perform up. One 38, preening up, Five tur- 1,10, ‘brees- BRIDGHMAN--110 r year-old Wek hi 8, $1.14, $.221-2, on os mitoping, au, aa oyner, trainer P NN DIBGO—16 nglinds up, half-mile ¥ Ng ORs, Oe 0d 080, bree Cami Al, gut of ils ask ace In mood condition. acorn, wralne afi ai eae om ee faaity.. fellow. gows asam ee trainer, s Joyner, mi be te fore ‘le: up, four fure i furlongs in YALE AND TIGERS AT ATHLETICS Elis Outclass Princeton Track and Field Team in Annual Dual Meet This Afternoon at| was “Old Nassau.” (Gpeciai to The Evening Wort.) PRINCETON, N. J., May 13,The an- nual Yale-Princeton dual track meet was hold’ on the university track here this afternoon, Yale was generally con- ceded the Victory in advance, owing to Yalo's acknowledged strength and Princeton's showing against Cornell last eek, Following 1s the summary of events: 100-Yard_ Desh—Firet heat, Torrey, Yale; Robinson, ale ‘Time, 108, Lowe, Yale; Miller, Prince- 10 1-60, prMile, un Wiewt, Hale, Yel chapan Pripecto a ly Ba eat m.. 49 8-58, SvOOTd) NMC was Ory, BE ¢ Pet aed Time, 880. Run—Fi! Parson, Yi ond, Rees, Yate; urd, ioar vale im,’ 64 4-60, Hurdie—First, Port we TODA, Princeton: thind, ‘Neulle, yah Twitchell, fg 1-50, Dakh—Firet, Yale; 4-58, —1 eat. —Firet, pean Lower "alo third, opine hy Yard Dash—Firet, Coholan, Yale; rr Vales third, yin ‘yale’ nite, She. Burnap, (42 ft. eet “e i yBh i ong "anevune bit) ne oe at 148 it pha eit ta ca Bint ‘polnte— ‘ale, 80; on, TIGERS AT CORNELL, (Special to ‘The Evening World.) ITHACA, May 13.—Cornell met Prince- ton on Percy fiéld this afternoon in their second baseball wonther brought out the largest base: ball crowd of the season, The Princ ton team had a goodly number of Tla- WANT TO MAKE MONEY Hae Raby to Live: R CIRCULAR, AND VIEWS or BAST ELMHURST IROMANCE IN DEATH OF YOUNG HERBERT: CROKER DODGERS AND PIRATES MEET ACROSS BRIDGE McIntyre and Fathert Both it Hard in Early Part of Contest. BATTING ORDER. (Bpecial to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON PARK, BBOOKLYN, May 13,—The Pittsburg team, ex-cham- pions of the major league, made their firat appearance of the season in thia) borough to-day, where they encountered Ned Hanlon's Trolley Dodgers io the initial tussle of their eeries of four games, Firet Inning. Ctarke hit eafely along the third base line, Beaymont bunted to Moln- Yate; | tyre, who shot the ball to Owens, forc- ie ang Mg second. Howard oi i 10 ehort promoting eauimor) thint. Wagner also singted wren scoring Beaumont. esiald filed, to Owens, a grove long ie to | Dobbs. o} : es fee = Second Inning. ¢oBride \aryw 0 pte to ie, gna $e odttd on Felta'a, ence! Nt forte Bago. | Blanerty doubl to the fence, scorin Elathera ign foul hy aa t Eton of tT range epee, Eo deed centre, trikes. sheckard ‘was calli out 1 Wwe A Boer le. Ral Rit- h foward pathered in ove high “ope. "8 dard woe, oa Peits to Wagner to Clancy, NO Rune, Third Moidildea i) Howard was disposed ‘ot by MoIntyre ‘Wagner and Babb, Spowed too a: a free a oe fast Bare Seats: rd, Ritchey promoting Waar MoBride ‘was a victim of iach ONE sy es one reat ae we out to ce 5 eset HUN. Fourth Inning: Petts reacted Sigs op mat psy ‘qed 09 y Beh Oe pa & att a tes at Of one ut ee nis ast 18 wie i Bfolntyre CN ere) Pies: Bete Tames hit eae sees, the Bits ard reaching Beco} Basch al out to a vine to ofeach third. NO RUNS Fifth Inning, Bare & oBride to fred four wide bails, Bavbe, ete fy Baie ty Trant of the plate ing for Plets, ir was Was can Pine ee oy wlaberty, NO. R ee 6 Swab moth hits to Bheck- PETERMAN’S ROACH FOOD, A BOON TO HOUSHKERPRR: ‘QOACH F000 ‘The most improved method to free @ house of {arge or small roaches is to wi AD contents of a box of Pt ° Roach " at one ti hake on te and res Joints wo ome of it will pe ily free, chew ea oe a f the oat destructive retedy on And. it will not acatt Bain vo keep the cera Ae ‘nu this earth to to other pI B (tht cream, is br bet on hye) ot ee ‘ wil abeord brand x Kt it has boen te: i sri ‘Srunhed oh, oa ee not rust torn D rniture or b it a) ban na Ga om. Sold in every princi} United States, terman’s Roach Food, Peterm: Peterman's by covery (thick), Ciquta), a Fost” Ratmouse Food, P man's aint 173, ‘ny male by 8. Albert, 114 Tonos a, At Little’s You Don’t Pay More but You Get More. - This Buffet Sideboard at $42 proves it. In fact, every, item in Little’s store proves it. For Carpets you give Little about two-thirds the prevail- Ing prices and button up your pocket. The bill’s paid—“‘in full.” J.H. Little QCo., 6th Av. and 18th St, Oldest and best cough cure Jayne’s Expectorant LAUNDRY WANTS—FEMALE, RP APRA DD PAA EDERS AND FOLDERS Ew ANTED. MODERN Steam LAUNDRY, 108 BE, 48D S' FOR oe ae eA ak ee WANTS! WANTS! WANTS! Branch Offices of THE WORLD wor she Reern, gta! MATTAN, every, logo hpe ey, neta, Tolearaoh of, Wvaate ab peoaal as 1981 Brosdway, 38), 801, ments af ates, Peterman, ag TB i humor from and cobstitu- tional treat- Een to bogey from infancy to of Curicuna Soar, Gaver and Pris, may now be © twain "gals ie) brrsclbvsl na cebu nisee | hin 46, 08, 519