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= a i i Activity uh the part of Jiu-jiteu teacn. Pers in proclaiming the deadly certainty Yat thelr methods in bandll ¢ old-up ' phen end footpads has uroused xrent Ine * Rerost in the auorect of defense from un Jesirited atiack xperts have formu- Gated a set of rules for you If you are | hela vp in a dark place by a man who edemands everything you have under pen Palty of sending you to the Morgue, and FLAMES DESTROY MANY PRESENTS * Twelve Express Wagon Loads | Are Burned in Brooklyn Stable. *. Twelve wagons, all of them loaded vwith Christmas packages, were do- { #troyed in a fire whidh started In stables } @vcupled by the New York Transfer Company and the Dodd's Express Com + pany, extending from No. 182 to No, 188 Adama street, forming an "L' around | No. W and No, & Naseah street, » Brooklyn. Sixty-three other wagons were also . Durned to ashes, with a large quantity | of hay and feed. The wegons, seventy-five in all, were ie the third or top floor of the bullding. ‘They had been taken there by an <@levator In the front of thp butlding. $On the second Noor were 185 horses, all ‘ot them tethered in their stalls, The | horses were got to the second floor by @ runway, which is connected with the ®econd floor from the center of the ground floor, ‘Policeman Stephen Miniom, of the dams street. station, discovered the + fidmes when they were shooting out of the roof and from the windows on*the j third floor, At the same time Joho @keenan, superintendent of the stables Began to cry fire. ©The policeman turned tn the fire alarm and Skeépan, with other employes of the stable,’ be- {san cutting the halters which bound the horses. When the firemen arrived, under Act- j ing Battalion Chief Fitagerald, they | were met by a stampede of the fright- ened horses, Tire firemen had difficulty { 4m saying themselves from being tram- Fd under ‘ho feet of the animals. ‘hen the horses had been got from the | Mable the firemen found that they ! eowld only get to the third floor by a | pear stairway, which was littered with | hay and which already was in the path | Of the flames, Before a gine ot hose ‘|might, buy xe was active on Tuesday, these rules they assert aré far superior to yru-sitsu. They point ot that to perform his | fenww tho jiu-Steu operator”has to get | his nold. A*footpad will rot stand still ind allow a hold to be put open him. The chief necessity of dotefise against wespected attack is suddenness, In other words, go at your assailant before he gets an idea @hat you are going to! FIREBUG'S FIFTH ATTEMPT FOILED Latest Blaze Caused by Excel- sior Pited in Hallway of Wheelmen’s Club, ‘The fifth attempt to burn the three houses at Nos, 235, 237 and 29 West Seventeenth street was made early to- day, and the houses w only saved from destruction by volunteer fire-fignt- rs who had been organized by the tegants in the house after the fret atteinpts at Incendiarism, houges, all three-story ‘brick #ructures, are leased by Mrs, Martha Hinton, The first attempt to destroy | the buildings was made five weeks ago Monday, The next Monday the second | attempt wos made.- The third attempt | ‘was made the following Monday. and hen: the tenants organised themselves | Into @ fire brigade. A fire plug was put in the hallway of each of the houses and hose apparatus was attached them, A watch was then put on ¢. houses, which was particularly active on Monday nights. ‘The janitor in Mrs, Hinton's employ is George Andrews, who occupies the) basement of No, 27 with his ‘The second floor is used by the C Wheelmen a8 club quarters, and the | third floor ts rented to families for Liv-| ing apartments, The Mcendiury skipped last Monday when he sprinkled the pallway of the h t No, 26 and @7 with kerosene | hed off the blaze, ‘The two fires | were extinguished with little damage. Early to-day the incendiary piled a lot of excelsior against the door of the Wheelmen's Club and lighted it. The flames gained such headway and) the smoke was such that John @mith, sleeping on the third floor with Patrick Murray, was rendered unconscious, Murray awoke in time to pull Smith to the etrest and then to ‘ gould be stretched up these narrow wtairs the entire third floor was ablaze | { perenne in the three fuses. nage the ire brigade attacked the and ner blaze was out when the fren ar. do anything but hand over your w and chain and bankroll, ‘The most effective defense {s, of dourse, tho old reliable. kick on the abdornen, A foot seourety and forcibly appliad to the pit of the atamach of a) Divine Sarth Toe Goes, but She Leaves Sashprints Upon the Mode. IT’S EASY TO* ACQUIRE Combination of Ribbon, / Princess and Mother Hubbard, and Mrs. Harlem Has It. By Alice Rohe, If you want to be do rigueur get 4 Bernhardt figure. Sarah the Divine Great has given our college French a terrible jogging up, but it isn't a circumstance to what she has done to*the form divine, The yery lat: est thing In human “figgers” is the Bernhardt front, and unless you want to openly admit you haven't been among those, present at the Lyrie's shrine of worship, get the effect quick. If you are not up to date--oh, very well—just keep your old hourglass shape and be pase. When Sarah (tlds her next farewell to New York she will leave her "flemer’’ behind her. All you have to do to get a glimpse of what ts coming !s to note the Bernhardt dip that ts pervading the fashion hints for home use. How to Be Bernhardtesque, To acquire the Bernhardt transforma- ribbon, #wathe it around the hips and tle it in a fetching bow, about a foot below the normal waist line Then put & Mother Hubbard front to your prin- cess dreas, loop it up and be Bernhardt- esque. Talk about your French ‘‘figgers?’ No more of those wasp waists and high busts for the déar ladies, Never! No more straight fronts—no more anything but that loose and flowing effect, with the omnipresent sash. The Bernhardt front is espectally | hara adapted to Mght svelte figures, but it doesn't matter much who wears {t. All ic ton told the Fire she enone a8 to ro et @iary the women are wild about it, and the! thon just buy a couple of yards of sash | | again, this time on the face, and battery. if you can't reach the thug’s abdo- men, Kick him\on the kneecap, This hold-up man wil) make him teach over | will give him water on the knee, Even 4 though about to tle his shoes . Lt in| though you misé- the kneecap, he will this reach ho does not grab you by the | suffer severely if you can lend, on the leg ani throw you down, kick him | ahin,eepecially i hele a negro, YOU MUST GET THE BERNHARDT “FIGGER” IH IMPORTER Doesn't my figure look fike Bern- hardt’s? fall and winter fashion notes of the Parisian bazaars published in Harlem will have to take @ back seat, Sarah has simply overthrown all the (ads and fancies of the hard working fashion de- signer. Mra, Harlém Grabs It. Of course Mrs. Harlem hag, up the peruhardi “Rewer a aceres high art wherever m4 it ie Ai 4 look jum she would for a She thin rab) hashes ‘are f Saeah thowe’ 2 dear Hee Real culty fe re cad sie na mad Loves en the ‘Sant have to enjoyed the Bernhatee ae 5 lose ob- | servaton of football games will make, any one expert In tris form of assault In ase he is too close to allow o kick @e’dererived, Sump forword and wmash hin in the foo—pref rably o4 the Point of the jaw or on tite lose. | Should he dodge the blow and grab yeu, mince your riatt fst Arnly against the by side of his neck and steadily push In, at the same time preying Tite Hh from left to right and up and down, er effective xrip at clos) quar fore eagsnes, your humb across thy foot that. ihe can’ to wreaphe, “wnile t the same time you jal the ends of fingers into the soft Dot Mey @ Jawbone and the heck wat under the ear.on either side, DIES IN BELLEVUE Mansfield’s Skull Was Frac- tured by Fall at Union Square Hotel. Burton Mansfield, an elderly tmporter of No, 161 Eckford street,’ Brooklyn, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital on Dec, 19 suffering from a fractured skull yeaused by a falles he wi wing the | Union Square Hotel, dled there to-day, He was seventy years old, wealthy and had for several years been secretary of {the Tandem Club, ¢ It was about 2 o'clock on the morn: ing of the 19th that Mr, Manafield got the fall that caused his death, ‘The old man Grove up to the Union Square Hotel in a hansom and scemed to be almost helpless from drink. The clerk of the hotel would not give him a room, and Carl Ferndank, a porter, assisted him out. Ferndank was Jater arrested as the result of @ report that he had thrown Mr, Mansfield out of the hotel. Proprietor Neumuller stood by his employee, however, and declared in the Yorkville Court that no violence had been used. On the strength of this Statement the man was paroled, When Mr. Mansfeld was taken to Bellevue there was found in his clothing $780 in Money, a gold watch, a diamond stick- pin and two diamond rings. a ——— TRAIN WRECK BLOCKS RUN. ae Freight Cars Thrown Across Penn- sylvania Tracks if Jersey, (Special to The Evening World.) NEW BRUNS WICK, N. J., Deo 3- ‘The derailing of several cars of a freight train, east bound, on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Princeton Junction, blocked all tragks of the main fine of the divi. sion early to-day, Half a- dozen big | Afty-ton steel coafears, known as bat- tle-ships, were piled across the tracks, Exoress tralos were sent arou: wren ek anal nd the ROKE Of “gourse, we actresses must get the Sarah shape. ing it, now om the divine one's wonkerfa presence ts permeating our mine Netherasole bracele' Fox curl, the Edna May the Della it, all had their vogue, but now it's Sarah's tum, Even over on Rue Fitty:third « ¢ew| The’ Bernhardt tront. te the proper | Amboy. While wosckera were called from brunette wornhippers have taken up the | tle of the hour, 60 don’t be sutprived | Gir, Hn te-up last fo y Sarah Bernhardt fashion, There fs no! when you see it Giening down Broadway. | FW, tn known yg one The prosecuting authorities of Ocean County, N. J., and detectives of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company are s0 sure that they have unearthed @n amezing poison plot revealed in the and the flames were punning back to A second alarm was counded, bring- fog Fire Chief Laily, and when he ar- { rived he sounded third alarm, which “brought Chief Croker from Manhattan, hours the firemen baktied with it, and Nefore it was under control the sky- ght, with supports burned away, fell. Many firemen were directly under it . end then to the stoond, None was hurt, ‘Dut thelr escape was miraculous, ‘The damage cannot foe ascertained. The | firemen and police roughly estimate the panies say that thelr wagons alone ‘Were valued at $10,000 more than thi ;@mount,, and ft is Impossible to place any sort of value on the thousands of ‘The fact remains, however, that thousands of Christmas packages, con- | signed to Brooklyn homes will not be delivered IS NOW NOW COMPLETED | | lellan Wins, but hea, bit by the Smallest Plurality in Fifty the “L’' extending on Nassau street. The fire was stubboro, For ‘wo ‘when it crashed through the third floor dumage at $2,000, but the express com- packages that were destroyed. ELECTION CANVASS Years, ‘The canvass of yas completed te the election returns day to-night the re tat é@ntered on the flea handed to the Board of | day moraing. The fig made public until then Reginald Doull said to-day completed canvass shows a decrease | @he plurality given to Mayor McClellan By the p inne. The polics rm showed a plurality for MeClellun ¢ Hearst of 3,76. The official returns, i was hinted, would bring thie down belc tom re! elected for the mea certificate of @ipetion will be Tuesday, and the May © announced either oy Wednesday Spark Starte Blaze in Pic of Flax Jn Twine Works, ‘A spark in a mah of the Commercial T Bi te, GR Weat Fx | fite to a pile of fax and th “Y@reat plant with Westruction to-day ory ned the A pettect fire drill by the employees pre Pealed o Barrwous whice. The fire started on the third fi {James Keevan, foreman of that floor, Boudsed te fire alarmy three stroke € Pian 4 minute © factory wos on was out when the death of Mra, Carrie Brouwer at her home !n Toms River, that thousands of dollars will be spent in making an elaborate chemical analysia of the vital organs of the dead woman This decision is due to the report of! | the autopsy received to-day by Prose-! cutor Brown, of Ocean C y. In which | |woverad noted physictans de lare that! death was not due to Bright's disease, as the dean ate of Dr. H. H The suspicion of a paison| wthered by of Dr the sini fi Cate upon the inv of Mra. Bro j an offer for the exhuming| suance of the body. Immeditakely y- De Brouwer, husband of learned of the result and of the activity authorities in thelr | efforta to Mt Dr. Gate, he} hurried to the office of his lawyer, E mond Wii at Red Bank, and had a long conference with him. He refused to-day to make any efaterment bearing on the its ‘of the autopsy; nor | would he € remark concerning | the decoration Cate made’ be- | | fore his disappeanmee, that he hed diagnosed the case as one of Bright’ Aisease as a result of Dr, Brouwer's asnertion that his wife had been » suf. ferer from that malady. Cate Missing Before. It ts pointed out that this ls not the first thine that Dr. Gate has disappeared, On the other Oocasien he was found afler a long p |, when it was wald he was suffering from a loss wf momory, (tt be that hie present disappear same condition, How- es would like to ques- POISON PLOT ALLEGED IN MRS, BROUWER’S DEATH Authorities Order Seagching Chemical Analysis Following the Autopsy—Search Fails to Locate Missing Dr. Cate. */ appendicitin t of Freehold, who was Bright's disease, and after her death he refused to sign thé death certificate, Dr, Cate Blames Brouwer. Betore his disappeas @ from Lake- wood, about three weeks ago, Dr. Cate stated that tn certifying Bright's dis- ease as the cause of death he had been governed more by what Dr, Brouwer told him than by his own observations. This statement he made to a detective employed by the Metropolitan Lite In- surance Company, in which Mrs, Brou- 8 life wag insured. @ autopsy Yurther showed that death was not due to spinal meningitis, or anevrism, such as might ‘ave been Indicated by Mrs. Brouwer's sy 2m8 during her final lilness, The clang found an inflam- stomach and bowels and sin the Mver, pancreas, and khineys. They failed to state official report of the autopsy What in thelr opinions had produced these conditions, Specimens of tho ‘Baus were removed and will be sub: {0 an expert for chemical and BOC analysis in order to de- e true cause.of death,’ @ Bulopsy was performed by Prot. Henry W. Cottell, of the University ot Pennsylvania, Dr. Brouwer was reprey sented by Dr, J. MeLean Forman and lungs Went to Red Bank and com , Hendrickson, of ale later came to New ‘ana arrangements with It is believed Wat /yr, Ernest Lederle will be encaged. ‘The result of the autopsy was com- dto Dr, Brouwer over the tele- * night, but he declined to ny comment, Binee his fire, In- published exclusively ip The consult with Dr. Brouwer, tyo tn statements that Mra, Brouwer was not muffering from Ch he has en; aged counse) and iy the poliey of silence. ; Mrs Brousins rental) ‘oars returata jas night to the grave count Hope ape Cemetery EUdewood. |r. Hurry Shaw. T. 8 Hyre, of Long When She Returned from | Branch, a her of the dead woman, Shopping Tour » Who asked that the death be investl- ‘ | gated, Was represented by Dr, Soudder| TH many frienda of Mrs, Adolph . nm i ind & Rehfei Chemist to Be Engaged. prietore of Terrace Garden, gave nea Prosecwor Brown, of Ocean County.) surprise party yesterday afterpooh «at Who Is in Guarge of the Inquiry: wag also! her residence, No, 145 Bast Mitty-eighth Present, lomediately after the autopsy,| street. The vcasion wes ‘her thirty-| which |asted about two hours, the) eighth birthday | He doped it out on his own A PLEASE-ALL COMMISH, MECLELLAN + Tt@akes nine tailors to make a man We are told by a person that knew; goo! plan, But I've something harder to do. * As Mayor of Gotham I'm on the Job, And it's far from a joge, you}! allow, To make a Commissioner out of a slob— That Is just what i ny my brow. If there's such a thing as a man ma- chine, Then I pass out my dearvet wish— ‘That Santa Clans one ‘galnst my door will Jean Fit to turn out @ please-all Commish. Bi. McClellan, SURPRISE PARTY FOR BEST WOMAN BOWLER; Many Friends” Met Mrs, Suesskind Mra. Suesekind the champion wo an bowler of me ow fa‘. and the was arranged b; mbors of a bow! \ she belongs. Ono .of bho ies took Ler out on A shopping, gion ‘at noon erry, J until almost ture to the the door by Mrw. led her irto the drawing ‘ner friends were Many, beautlfal zed M ‘SKIPPER SAVES. A LIFE Operated on Sailor with Aid of Chief Engineer and Did a Fine Job, Winning Family as a Reward, sald Capt. Chubb to the engineer, The engineer—bis name is Saunders Bub and swears upon lite looked wise, “Hi should aay," he ald, He'll take Hop tat It was a hard-boiled hostrich's Bat he'll a ieee, only we ain't had none h’aboard Ea if he likewive takes Ling's wife. Lee Soupper Lurics. thts #hiy,”* “Well, it's got to come off,” said’ Capt, Chubb. "You ought to be pretty handy at this, sort of gay Didn't ‘6 axsist- - Let's look aver the tool chest." 't Was a Great Operation, Considering the meang at hand the two of them did mighty well, They sharpened a pair of tin-cutter’s ohears to @ ragor edge and with it they scls- | Pored off the lump on Hop Ling’s aide. But firet they soaked him ina solution Of carbollc acid and ship's grease tor a antiseptic. hey wiped off the blood with @. bunch of, oakum-everybod: known oikturi 1s 'véR healt, It not eaten—ut théy knew, there was some- thing else that oughtto.b@ done. Here the enitheer’s early. in hand. ‘He heat 4 0) No more will Capt. Chubb take Hop Ling’s interesting fadly of three small, malaria-colored pagans—not if he can help himself. But Hop Ling can’t seo any way around ft. Acoord- ing to Hoyle (Chinese version), he be- longs to Cal Chubb—he and his worldly chattels, consisting at last ac- counts of Mrs, Ling and the three little Lings above menttoned, It's ali along of & plumbing job or surgical operation that Capt, Chubb hed this ready-made household {n Can- ton sawed off on him, coming to New York from Yokohama on the steamship Satsuma, It ¢ a moving tale, and by rune like this: Hajf-way actoss from Japan Hop him iron Hop Ling took @hy a Bag intereat ih these proteed| “prom Ot well, iB ee rid nly tracted no’ more attention fran the other Chinese members of the crew than a white chip at the Millionaires’ Club, They didn't so mitch as lok him over for symptoms, it seem (nat {nthe province fram which he. halla, if ope man saves ancther man’ trom th, the sever and all’ his: pomeesslone thereafter become, the property of the vior, to haye and ‘tp ‘hold. None or them wanted (0 Hop ing ana take over his tammy, Bo they were going to let him die, Determine to Operate, But» Capt, Chubb: -obuiae's’ afford fo becaiwe he was ah Trenton and South | Ting, able yellow seaman, fgll very ul and: caitabined th i ° and lolled about the dook like ® Weary | An ihiog ie ind. Tt was'e tiger ly on lazy stalk.” He at- Job when he Bot through, , A Good Christmas Gifé that Costs Only 5 Cents Is i til & had ahd hdl & fe Ube Issued the day before Christmas, To-Morrow’s Sunday World contains many special-holt day features, including : \ New York’s $18,000 Christ: Picture. Itis a reproduction In four colors of Lhermite'’s beautiful painting, “Among the Lowly.” A’Remarkable Christmas Ghost Story. “The Portent of the Shadow,” by E, Nesbit, tells a mystery tale you can’t explain,’ . nh - Another ‘‘ Bing’’ Game. | If you*haven't played this fascinating comic crea- tion, try it this time. Five Real Christmases. including a vegetarian Christmas dinner, The Child Santa Forgot. A true story, full of pathos, told in her own inimitable way by Izola Forrester. s ww ‘Even if there were no:special features To-Mor- | row’s Sunday World would be a good | Christmas gift, for it contains also : A DOUBLE PAGE PANORAMA, OF MISS ROOSEVELT’S ~ ’ whew To-morrow's Sunday World has a great vatiety of interesting subjects, wall ilustrated; ROMANCE-“Won by a Uniform. > \ |, The story of an heiress's wedding, |SUCCESS—"Throvgh College on Nothing.” Describing some Columbia boys’ OX- perlences. —'To Circle the ty ADVENTURE A 2 pom piekity Amunds: Sen's trip. Sa NOVELTY- 1m Folding Fla” A marvel in invention New ye . } ' will like, KF —“T ree Trolls.” FICTION A ase bedtinte story by Forrester. sth HUMOR Posten Pas Odd and unusual experiences graphically told, | 4 ‘PICTURESQUE ENGAGEMENT. - WITH PAIR OF SHEARS