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a | RELIEF NOT CONTEMPLATED. a i € May Be Kept Secret from Those Most Affected, ‘WILL ADVISE NO CHANGE. Resiilt of Inquiry to Be Given to Interborough and the Rapid Transit Commission, * Dr, Darlington Says His Department | # Hae Nothing to Do with Method x of Remedy, Health Commissioner Darlington to- ©@ay took up the work in earnest of ra investigating the sanitary condition of the alr in the Subway. Chemica! analy- few weeks a complete report of the Feault of the work will be made to the Rapid Transit Commissioners, and to the management of the Interborough Company. There will be no recommen- @ations acompanying the report will there be any suggestions of a . temedy. » thet the nu Phere of the tunnel, be withheld from Thia report may the public, fear of hurting Mr. Belmont's business, "I am in a position,” Dr. Darlington aid to-day, “where I do not think It advisable for me to injure the business of s corporation that stands high in the eommunity for the benefit any newa- paper or newspapers. If I learned that the offices of any newspaper ware breed- ing disease in the bodies of the em- Ployees would tt be fair for me to make that fact public so that business rivals might take advantage of 1t? “From thia time on I expect to have frequent conferences with the Rapid Transit Commissioners, representatives ef the Interborough Company and ex- Dems who have made a study of subway and mining ventilation, When we have @etermined upon a remedy that will effectually purify ‘the alr in the Sub- way as well as It can be purified un- der existing conditions, {t will be Ume enough for the public to learn all about what we have done and what we are going to do in the future to purify the in tunnels that are now in con- templation of bullding. ‘There are several schemes I belleve under way now to relleve the patrons of the Subway. With those schemes the Board of Health has nothing what- ever to do. If we find a man burning soft, coal it 1s only our business to see ce is abated. It is not for us to tell him a scheme by which he can keep on burning the soft coal without detriment to the health of the citizens of this community, “The same rule applies to the san- {tary condition of the Subway,” Dr. Ernst J, Lederie, one of the for most chemists in the clty and forme Health Commisslonor in this city, when Been in his office to-day, said “Phe whole trouble with ihe alr in the Subway fs with the tenes ure and the humidity. ‘These tivo faults must be reileved before there can. be any improvement,’ ASTOR NEARLY MISSED HS SHE Col. John Jacob Reached the Pier of the Kron Prinz Wil- helm Just in Time to Get on Board. The big Kron Pring Wilhelm sailed | to-day loaded down with Summer tourists. Up to a couple of minutes | before she skipped out Into the river and headed her nose for the ocean there was a lot of anixety on board about John Jacob Astor. We had secured claborate aecom- modations and fad not sent word that he couldn't sail, but he had not ap- peared at the pier. And there were others willing and anxious to take his foome Whdh the shipping people had about Concluded that Col, Asior would not show up, he appeared in a big rooting automobile, Wahilie hur gang plank he confirmed the that he had resigned torate of the Equita “My only reason wa T wished with others to give Mr @ free hand." Pay Whitney a ht os rave Hay Wher Budden Iliess « ed them yesterday postpone the trip, celved a loleg he said that } a SAVOY TO BE ENLARGED. Big Anne on PIs cetahih Street avenue and nlarged by N-story fim proot and 986 feot deen, reet, im. Hotel Bolken- to. 000 a He gig sa Fifty-ninth street, the addition of an cley annex, % feet fro BOARD TEST Chemical Investigation Report fe of the air at different points have e wready been made and within the next nor 'The report will merely recite just how tmuch impurity there is in the atmos- as the elty authorities will not give it out tor Give ME THE ea Tommy ? AINT COING PARDON ME Twas 1 THE SAME BUSINESS Te Powe) There are no cores to any apples Ryan gets his hooks on, SET BLAZE IN FLAT NEXT T0 POLICE STATION Firebug Tries to Destroy Five- Story Building in West 68th Street, After soaking the stairways with oll and hanging a pfece of oil-soaked cloth in the uirshaft, an Incendiary at dawn to-day started a fire in the five-story, |flat-house at No, 148 West Sixty-elghth xtreet, which adjoins the Wont Sixty- elghth street pollce station and which is directly across the street, froin the | house occupled by Engine Company | No. 40, | This is the fourth incendiary fire that | has occurred in the flat-house since | December, The fires have apparently been started by some one who tg sock- | ing revenge. Because of the former fires the agent for the flat-house han ordered that all of tho gas Jets In the! hallway be kept burning through the| night. ‘This order has bean obeyed by the janitor, ‘The incendiary to-day waited until th engine company had beer called to emall blaze at No, 227 Went Sixty-firat | street’ He then gained an entrance to the hall of the ajartment and, going to | the stairs between the fourth and fitch floms, covered the carpets with ofl, From the alrshaft window which | opens into the hall he took a large! plece of cloth, and, sonking it with oll, he attached Mt to a string, set it ablaze and suspended it down the shaft. The | oll on the stairs was then touched oft and the incendiary supposed to have left the hou ‘The blaze was discovered by Mrs. Fila Walters, who occuples apartments on the fourth floor. She called for the five men, who had gust come in from the Sixty-first street blaze, and IMroman Mc- Donough witn a hand grenade soon had |the blaze on the stairs under control | Later the burning oloth was discovered | in the alr shaft and tt was extine guished, In bis haste to the firg the incendia bottle half filled which had von These were wiv © after starting a the Fire Marshal, | TWO INCENDIARY FIRES, Discovered tn vlem Tenement by th pHee, The Fast One Hundred and Pourth reet Station police disvovered two Ine ndiary fires arly The walls of the house at No, 216 Haat One Hundred and veestory ) street were found smeared with Kene oll, and newspapers saturated | with the sume inflainmable stuff were Phe police wore able to Jacne was } nue five also, of the » police the culprits, ted incendiny. apture in Harlem's y dast One Hun- Vourth street police are now y tind the flrebuge. Ared and getually tryin | BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED. Man Missing from Pler, Cap Float- | ing Im River, employed by pany at Pie is supposed to hay early to-day panions who were with him on th issed him and later his cap wax found r o end of a Ktringplece, who Mved at Henderson and ets, aerney Cty Is believed ave waiked off the end of the pier, nether he Wd this dental, onully de not known, es sia, the No. 2 fi org nth 8 | Nuts food as one of my articles of tenement | “on my recommendation, among whom POLICE CATCH ROBBER WHILE BEATING MAN Highwayman Resists Arrest and Is Clubbed Into Submission. Koswisky, forty-three years old, no home, was arrested to-day by the West- chester police on a charge of attempted highway robbery end asault on John Koasler, of Thos's Neck, Westchester, Koswisky gave the police a long chase and put up euch a hard fight that he had to be clubbed Into submission by Policeman Dillon, who found him jiding behind a troe in Prospect street, At the police station the man admitted the charges and sald ho was starving and dilacked Kessler to get money With which to purchase food, Kessler, who had $500 In hls posses: sion, left a saloon in Main street, Wast | Onester village, at midnight and was | stopped by Koswisky, who asked him the direction of Prospect street. As he turned to point it out Koswisky knocked him down, and was beating him when Policeman Dillon, hearing Kessler's cries, came to the rescue, Koswis\y dashed away, but was later cornered | in Propect street, — FOOD IN SERMONS Feed the Dominte Right and the Ser- mons Are Brilliant, | A conscientious, hard-working and eminently successful clergyman writes: “I am glad to bear testimony to the pleasure and increased meas- ure of efficiency and health that have come to me from adopting Grape- diet, “For several years I was much dis- tressed during the early part of each day by indigestion, My breakfast, | usually consisting of oatmeal, milk and eggs, seemed to turn sour and ‘ailed to digest. After dinner the headache and other symptoms fol- Jowing the breakfast would wear away, only to return, however, next} morning, | “Having heard of Grape-Nuts food | I finally concluded to give it a fair) triak 1 quit the use of oatmeal and eggs and made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts, cream, toast and Posturm The result was surprising in {mproved | health and total absence of the dis tress that bad for so long a time fol- | | lowed the morning meal. M tlon became once more sa the headaches veased und th ing of energy returted, Since t time—four years ago—I have al had Grape-Nuts food on my breakfast | | table | “T was delighted to find also that whereas before I bexan to use Grape- Nuts food I was quite nervous and became easily wearled in the work of rmons and In study, a improvement in this respect resulted from the change in my diet 1am convinced that Grap.-Nuts food produoed this result and helped me to a sturdy condition of mental and physical strength, have known of several persons who were formerly trou led as I was and who have beeu helped as I have been by the use of Grape-Nuts food may be mentioned the Rev, ———, | now a missfonary to China.” Name given by Postum Company, Battle Sreek, Mich. ‘There's & reason,"’ litle Peas “The Road to BeiVdibiets. Jb A man who gave his name as Michael | ROJESTVENSKY IS GETTING BETTER, TOKIO, June 2%—Noon,—Admiral Vis- count Ito, Chief of the Naval General Btaff, has sent his aide to the naval hospital at Sasebo to visit Vioe-Ad- | minal Rojestvensky. j Admiral ito, through his personal representative, inquired into the con- dition of the Russian commander, ex- pressed his regret over the suffering | Jhe had undergone and his admiration at the desperate defense of the Rus- slans, Rojestvonaky ts progressing well, and ent hin thanks to Admiral Ito for the vielt and Inquiry. THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVE TOMMY, GREEDY BOY OF THE EQUITABLE j with apoplexy, | ‘CARRIE NATION’ LET | AGED WOMAN’ FALLS DEAD “ATA DANCE Mrs. James Kirwin Stricken with, Apoplexy in Ulmer ark Pavilion. While scores of handsomely dressed | young women and men danced over | the pavilion floor at Ulmer Park early | to-day Mrs, James Kirwin, of No, 43 Fifty-ninth street, Brooklyn, who sat | watohing the young pcopie and laten- tng to the atrains of the music, sud- denly rose to her feet and thon fell forward to the polished floor, The Rey. Father Willam McGuiel, who was among the guests, raised his hand and the m coated, Young women who had seen Mrs, Kirwin fall Tushed to her, One of them raised her head and othera pressed their wraps | under her prostrate body, Then Father MoGulrl came forward, and, with young men and women stand. | ing about, he administered the last rites of the church as the breath lett her body, . Tho occasion was a barbecue given by Bt. Michael's Roman Catholte Church, of which Mrs, Kirwin was a member, She had taken the sons of | hor niece, Mrs, Rose, with her to the | parbeoue, After a feast early in the | evening Senator McCarren and Deputy Fire Commissioner William A, Doyle arrived and both made speeches | Mrs. Kirwin, who was fifty-five years old, 19 said to hate been stricken | ——— OFF WITHOUT FINE, A woman armiigned in Adams Street | Court to-day on a charge of intoxica--| tion astonished Magistrate Tighe by iving the name of Carne Nation, She insisted that It was her real name and that ehe lived at No, M8 Avenue B, Manhattan. | “I'm not Nation that smashes up saloons,” she sald, “but I'm not a drmking woman either. 1 came over to Brooklyn to look for work ina laundry and got tired, 1 sat down ‘on a stoop and dozed off when an offl- cer came along and arrested me." Magistrate Tigh» save her the benefit of the doubt an° discharged her, with the semark thar * would be too bad to fine a women bearing her namo for intoxication, * JS nae, SAFE BREAKERS GOT CASH AND STAMPS. J, June %—The sate tn ELMER, N, the Elmer post-office was wrecked by dynamite enrly to-day, and postage stamps and cash amounting to §800 were stolen, There 1s no clue to the robbers, to eat. not expect you to bert soll use of what the rings are, the high come Fourteen karat........ 83.00, $4.50, $6.00 to $12.00 Eighteen karat........$4.00, $5.50, $6.50 to $16.00 '$5.50, $6.75, $8.00 to $20.00 we shall be pleased to show the bridegroom appropriate gitts for the best man and ushers, Pins and Rings for Graduates, The largest stock of class pins and class rings in New York We make special designs for Twenty-two karat. Solid Gold.. 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