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} { q Activity un the part of Jiu-jiteu teacn- Pers in proclaiming the deadly certainty Hag thelr methods in handil.g Sotd-up | \ ten and footpads has aroused xreat In- * erost in the suoyect of defense from un T enseited attack. Experts have formu- + fated a set of rules for you If you dre i her up in a dark place by @ man who ‘demands everything you have under pen faulty of sending you to the Morgue, and FLAMES DESTROY MANY PRESENTS * Twelve Express Wagon Loads Are Burned in Brooklyn ' Stable. * ‘Twelve wasons, all of them loaded vy with Christmas packages, were de , Stroyed in a fire whidh started In stables: } @ecupled 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 ; to No, & and No, 62 Nassah street, + Brooklyn. / Sixte-three other wagons were also . Burned to ashes, with a large quantity of hay and feed, The wegons, seventy-five in all, were Sed the third or top floor of the bullding. They had been taken there by an jMlevator In the front of thp building. 4On the second floor were 135 horses, a ‘ef them tethered in their stalls. The ! horses were got to the second floor by ‘@ runway. whidh is connected with the second floor from the center of the ground floor, “Policeman Steghen Mintom, of the Adams street. station, discovered the ‘fidmes when they were shooting out of the roof and from the windows on*tie third floor, At the same time Joho Bkeenan, superintendent of the stables began to cry fire. -The policeman turned in the fire alarm and Skegpan, with other employes of the stable, be- { gan cutting the halters which bound the horses. ‘When the firemen arrived, under Act- ing Battalion Chief Fitageraid, they ‘were met by a stampede of the fright- ‘ened horses, The firemen had difficulty { fn saving themselves from being tram- under the feet of the animals. { Rrnen the horses had been got from the ‘table the firemen found that they ! gould only get to the third floor by @ | rear stairway, whioh was littered with | hay and which already was in the path | of the flames, Before a gine of hose ‘ gould be tched up these narrow gtalrs the entire third floor was ablaze }und the flames were sunning back to ‘@he “L"' extending on Nasswu street. ‘A second alarm was counded, bring- fog Fire Chief Lally, and when he an {rived he sounded a third alarm, which “brought Chief Croker from Manhattan. The fire was stubborn, For wo) hours the firemen baktied with !t, te before it was under control the light, with supports burned away, tell. Many firemen were directly under it ‘when St crashed through the third floor , @nd then to the stcond, None was hurt, but their escape was mirsculous. ‘The damage cannot ibe ascertained, The | firemen and police roughly estimate the dumage at $2,000, but the express com- panies say that thelr wagons alone ‘were valued at $10,000 more than this |emount,, and {t is Impossible to place ny sort of value on the thousands of packages that were destroyed, The fact remains, however, that thousands of Christmas packages, con- signed ‘to Brooklyn homes will not be | |and touched off the binge, these rules they assert aré far superior to jiu-jitsu, They point ott that to perform hie | feats the Jin-ftau operator” has to get his pold. A*footpad will fot stand still and allow a hold to be put Gpon him. The chief necessity of defefise against uneapecthd attack ls puddenness, In sther words, go at your assailant before | he gets an fdea @hat you are going to! FIREBUC'S FIFTH ATTEMPT FOULED Latest Blaze i Coed 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 were only saved from destruction by volunteer fire-fignt- «rs who hed been organized by the te in the house after the first three atteinpts at incendiarism, houses, all three-story ‘brick structures, are leased by Mrs. Martha} Hinton, The firat attempt to destroy! the buildings was made five weeks ago Monday, ‘The mext Monday the second attempt wos made.’ The third attempt) ‘was made the following Monday. and chen the tenants organised themselves into @ fire brigac A fire plug was put in the hallway of each of the houses | ond hose apparatus was attached to them, A watch was then put on the houses, which was particularly active on Monday nights. The janitor in Mra, Hinton's employ is George Andrews, whé occupies the! basement of No. 237 with his family.) | ‘The second floor is used by the Chelsea Wheelmen as club quarters, and the | third floor is rented to families for liv-) ing apartments, The icendiury skipped last Monday night, bu. xe was active on Tuesday, when he sprinkled the hallway of the house at No, 26 and 27 with kerosene The two fires | were extinguished with little damage, Barly to-day the incendiary piled a lot of excelslor 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 etreet and then to awaken the persons in the three houses. Agata & re brigade attacked the flanea Rar blaze was out when the firemen ‘a ton told the Fire Ha ogy panies as to eye: Nara do anything but hand over your watch and chain and darkroll, ‘The most effective defense of course, tho old reliable kick on the abdornen, A foot seoureby and forcibly applind to Lhe pit of the gtomach of a hold-up man will make him teach over | 46 though about to tle his shoes . this reach no does not grab you by the ws at WORLD: sxyiinay EVENING, DHE: , Again, this thme on the face, servafon of football games any one expert In thts Stona of assault) for and battery. If you can't reach the thug’s abdo- men, kick hina" on the deseecap. This} tt will give him water on the knee. Even | id If fn.) though you misé- the kneecap, he will suffer eeverely if you can lands on the totaal chatye ob- | 1 make, tev ae’ deveribed, Sump forward and leg and throw you down, kick him | shinespecially i hes & negro, Divine Sith ams 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 & Bernhardt figure. Garah the Divine Great has given our college French 4 terrible jogging up, but it 1sn'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 Lyrfe’s shrine of worship, get the effect quick, If you are not up to date--oh, very well—just pon your old hourglass shape and be Wvhea Sarah tlds her next farewell to New York she will leave her “figger’’ behind her. All you have to do to get a glimpse of what ts coming Is to note the Bernhardt dip that 1s pervading the fashion hints for home use. How to Be Bernhardtesque. To acquire the Bernhardt transforma- thon just buy a couple of yards of sash ribbon, @wathe it around the hips and | tle it in a fetching bow, about a foot below ‘the normal waist lines Then put & Mother Hubbard front ia your prin- cexs dreas, loop it up and be Bernhardt- esque. Talk about your French ‘figgers?’ No more of those wasp waists and high | an 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 especially adapted to Meht svelte figures, but it doesn't matter much who wears It. ALL the women are wild about it, and the! hardt's? will have signer. Of course Mrs. up the ador ait she, se = would ertoctly. nee culty ra ia is style, iv HA haat a Bernhardt set | brunetie worsht Sarah Bernha' aries ee ard art wherever 4! on look nog for Bhe ae > tear at rah bashes ‘are aind gute quite ben} Loves hat oe bY Sua have #o enjoyed the anon. Even over on Rue Fifty-third a few rs have taken wu; fashion. There Doesn't my figure look lke Bern- fall and winter fashion notes of the Parisian bazaars published tn Harlem to take a back seat has simply overthrown all the fads and fancies of the hard working fashion de- Sarah Mre, Hariém Grabs it. we ae i “Sica | of Bre hin in, the fer—pret rably O4 point of pS | tite lose 1d he dodge the blow and grab you, is) your rlatit fist Armly against the lef] wey of his neck and steadily push t the same time mol 1s rail trom ‘ere to right and up pe down, Ravither effective engages: a a nel ROKE Of “course, we actresses must get the Sarah shape. fa oes ft, now that the divine one's wpe erful presence la permeating our mie Nethersole bray eh pe Dene Fox curl, the pene their vogue, but n Dake The Bernhardt front In cae he 1s too close to allow a {the Tandem Club. * te the proper | fe of the hour, 80 don't be surprised en You see it coming down Broagway, ‘The prosecuting authorities of Ocean County, N, J, and detectives of the Metropolitan Lite Insurance Company elivered. | ELECTION CANVASS IS NOW COMPLETED | McClellan Wins, but by the Smallest | Plurality in Fifty Years, The canvass of the election returns was completed to-day, and ght to-night the entire tabulatisn will be entered on the certit handed to the Board of Wie @uy moroing. Tre made public until then, but Alderm Reginald Doull said to-day that Completed canvass shows a decrease 4 the plurality given to Mayor McClellan Dy the police returns The polica muras showed a plurality for MoClellar Hearst of 4,765. The Official returns, i was hinted, would Dring thie down below 8000, the small ext margir Mayor ha been elected fifty years. This rtifleate of potion will be ‘Tursday, and the Mayor's slate e announced either oy that day Wednesday a ‘FIRE DRILL SAVES FACTORY, Spark Starts + Base in PL in Twine Works. ates >» be ous Tues- not be figures over ich any the sued of Blox \ A spark In a mel of the Commercial Tw! fea) tg Sh Weat Firay-ne tho to a pile of Mux and threatened the at plant with Westruction to-day. A H Ffect fire drill by the employees pre Yealed a Garcwous White, The fire startet on the third floor Sgames Keovan, foreman of that floor, firo alarmo three strokes eso Than @ minute factory’ wie. 0 Was out When the are so sure that they have unearthed | Jan amazing polson plot revealed in the | death of Mrs, Carle Brouwer a: her | "ted that in certifying Bright's dis- home in Tome 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 recetved to-day by Prose-! | cutor Brown, of Ocean County, in which several noted physicians declare that | eath was not due to Bright's disease, as the death « cate of Dr, H. H Cate stated. ‘The suspicion of a poison plot has been furthered by the stngula Misappearance of Dr. Cate following immediately upon the inv stigation into the death of Mra, Brourer and t} mance of an order for the exhumin) of the body Immedtakely Dr, Brouwer, husband of the dead woman, learned of the result it wutopsy and of the activity on | the part of the authorities In edt efforts to get ace Of Dr. Gate, he hurried to the office of his lawyer, Ed- mond W at Red Bank, and had a long conference with bim, He refused to-day to 4 amy statement bearing mn the ‘of the autopsy; nor! would hel make aby. remark ncerning the decloration of Dr, Cate made be-! | fore his disappeanmer, that he hed Aiagnosed the case as one of Bright's | disease as @ remit of Dr. Brouwer's | ammertion that his wife had beer ® suf forer from that malady Cate Missing Before, It 49 polnted ont that this is not the ime that Dr, Gate has disappeared, er Gooasien he was found 4, when it was p wad he wa = from a los mory It that hie pre ppear Is due to the sama condition, Hows of Freehold, who was | cal wit with Dr, Brouwer, | gated the authorities would Hke to ques. | phon POISON PLOT ALLEGED IN MRS, BROUWER’S DEATH Authorities Order Seagching Chemical Analysis Following the Autopsy—Search Fails to Locate Missing Dr. Cate. Bright's disease, and after her death he refused to sign thé death certificate, Dr. Cate Blames Brouwer, Before his disappearance from Lake- wood, about three weeks ago, Dr, Cate 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 Mra, Brou- wer'a life was insured. The autopsy Yurther showed that death was not due to spinal meningitis, appendicitis or anevriam, such as might ave been indicated by Mrs, Brouwer's *ymptoms during her final illness, The ‘ane found an inflam- tomach and bowels and anges In the Hver, pancreas, and kidneys. They falled to state r oMeial report of the autopsy ir opinions had produced Specimens of tho oved and will be sub- 1 to an expert for chemical and 4) analysis in order to de- ; e true cause of death,’ T topsy was performed by Prot. Henry W. Cottell, of the University of | Penosylvanta, Dr, Brouwer was reprey sented by Dr, J. McLean Forman and Harry Shaw. I. B Hyre, of Long 4 brother of th sked dead woman, the death be invest! vas repregented by Dr. Scudder J. Wooley Chemist to Be Engaged. Prosecior Brown, of Ocean County, Who is in ¢uarge of the Inquiry: wag also present, I:amediatély after the autons which lasted about two hours, the Pr osec went to Red Bank and com sulted Wh Judge iendrickson, of he Suprem ‘ourt, H’ later came to New York to make ‘final arrangements with iti believed that Jur, Ernest rie will be en.eamed esult of the autopsy was com- d to Dr, Brouwer over the tele- night, but he declined y comment, Since his. fir who that munie make MSCLELLAN © | SBBNOrSStheWOD chine, will Jean street. eighth birthday clay to wh ladies took Ger oul on ition at noon Fer ‘unt aimost art tun to the house #he . published exclusively in The he hag en; F ed course) and d the polley of silence, tervi Was postive bis statements that Mra, Brouwer was pot @uffering from last night to the Chapel Cemetery aL p Mrs. Brouwer's reniaine Were retutete unt Hope the door by Mrs. ‘Ono’ te led her into the drawine ‘ner friends were Many, beautifal 204 Mra. \x tie ero A PLEASE-ALL COMMISH, | Tt@akes nine tallors to make a man. We are told by a person that knew He doped ft out on his own good » But I've something harder to do, * As Mayor of Gotham I'm on the job, And it's far from a foe, youll allow, To make a Commissioner out of a slob— That ts just what is orzasing my brow. It there's such a thing as @ man ma- Then I pags out my dearvet wish— That Santa Clans one ‘galnst my Fit to turn out @ please-al) Commish, Bie Aad McClellan, SURPRISE PARTY FOR BEST WOMAN BOWLER; Many Friends* Met Mrs, Suesskind When She Returned from Shopping Tour, The many friends of Mrs. Adolph Suesskind, wife of the senior member of the firm of Suegskind .& Rebfeldt, pro» prietors of Terrace Garden, gave her a surprise party yesterday afterpodn ‘at her residence, No. 145 East Fifty-eighth The occasion was her thirty. Mra. Buesekind the champion wom: on bowler of Now York, and th was arranged by memborts of a set he belongs, Ono of ih He'll take Hop Ling, But he'll he ding» EA if he likewine takes Ling’s wife, Lee Soupper Lurics. No more will Capt. Chubb take Hop Ling’s interesting facdly of three small, malaria-colored pagans— it he can help himself, But Hop Ling can't seo any way around it. Acoord- ing to Hoyle (Chinese version), he be Lings above mentfoned, It's all along of & plumbing job or surgical operation that Capt, Chubb hind this ready-made household in Can- toh sawed off on bim, coming to New York from Yokohama on the steamahip Satsuma, It @ a moving tale, and 1 runs like this Half-way across from Japan Hop Ling, able yellow seaman, fyi very Ut and lolled about the dock like @ weary tiger Mly on 6 lasy steik.” He at- tracted no’ move attention from the other Chinese members of the crew than a white chip at the Millionaires’ Club, ‘They didn't so mitch as 100K him over for symptoms. it seeme that {nthe province from which he halla, if ns man saves another man’ trom es the suver and all) his possessions h ereafter become the “property of the vior, to haye and'tp ‘hold. None or them wanted 10 take over his family. Hop Ling and Bo they were going to let him die, Determine to Operate, But: Capt, Chubb couldn't afford to Jomo a setior, Docause he wan Bhi jonr a gD it wt ber ote SKIPPER SAVES, A LIFE WITH PAIR: OF SHEARS et te $ ‘Operated on Sailor with Aid of Chief Engineer and Did a Fine Job, Winning Family as a Reward, longs to Capt. Chubb—he and his) worldly chattels, consisting at last ac- counts of M . Ling and the three little | sored off the lamp on Hop Lin 1905. : A Good Christmas | Gité that Costs Only | 5 Cents Is r | ‘ 3) TO-MORROW’S| Sunday World Ww Issued the day before Christmas, To-Morrow’s Sunday World contains many spectal-holt day features, including : ‘ New York’s $18,000 Christ: Picture. It is a reproduction in four colors of Lhermite’s beautiful painting, “Among the Lowly.” See &&ee See eeee we, ends of ee ot ee fingers into the pets Jawbone and the heck tse widen the ear on either DES 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 Deo, 19 suffering from a fractured skull caused by a falles he was leaving the ie mas vventy Yous oi, weaty wa | A Remarkable Christmas Ghost Story, had for several years been secretary of “The Portent of the Shadow,” by E, Nesbit, tells a mystery tale you can’t explain, ye It was about 2 o'clock on the morn- ing of the 19th that Mr. Mansfeld got the fall that caused his death, ‘The old man drove up to the Union Square Hotel in a som and seemed 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, Feradank was er arrested os the result of a report that he nad thrown Mr, Mansfeld 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 sirength of this Statement the man was paroled, When Mr. Mansfeld was taken to Bellevue there was found In his clothing $19 in Money, a gold watch, a diamond stick- pin and two diamond rings. enema TRAIN WRECK BLOCKS RUN. Freight © Thrown Across Penn- Another ‘‘ Bing’? Game. If you*haven’t played this fascinating comic crea- tion, try it this time. Five Real Christmases. Odd and unusual experiencés graphically told, including 4 vegetarian Christmas dinner, The Child Santa Forgot. han eeat ie A true story, full of, pathos, told in her own (Gorcist is 7 hive or) inimitable way by Izola Forrester. toe "Sty as Even if there were no:special features To-Mor- andthe were sent around | row’ 8 Sunday World would be a good | Knooy, walle wigexes pore cing eon ONAStmas gift, for it contains also : | Ciw. The te-up lastet dy r far as tn ksown bere no on A DOUBLE PAGE PANORAMA, OF MISS ROOSEVELT’S PICTURESQUE ENGAGEMENT. - wb ae To-morrow’s Sunday World has a great variety of interesting subjects, veell ilustrated ' MA —'Won by a Uniform. D the. eagigencgie ath is andes RO NCE The story of an heiress’s wedding, looked wise, “Hi should say," he paid, that It was a hard-boiled hostrich’s ‘see, guy re nak a tone vaimaet) SUT CCHS S—"Through College on Nothing.” “Well, it'a got to come off,” said’ ¢ Describing some Columbia boys" OX- perlences. ADVENTURE™ "10 Cite Poa sen’s trip. Bi VE —"The Folding Flat,” NOVELTY A marvel trie! New Yo knows oiitum ts vel Healthy, if not | eaten—but théy khew, there waa some- 7 will like, ; ‘thing else that ought to b# done. Here ¢ Oh ates geass BICTION’Testiaten Forrestor. as —Panhandle "tn HUMOR" oneiiian Capt. Chubb. “You ought to be pretty handy at this sort of game, Didn't you \sed to be a steam-fitter’s assist. Gnt. Let's look over the tool chest.’ 1 Was a Great Operation, Considering the means at hand the two of them did mighty well) They y sharpened a pair of tn-cutter’s ohears to & razor edge and with it ¢ “= But first they sbaked him in a solution Of carbotic acid and ship's grease for An antiseptic. ‘Niey wiped off the blood with @ bunch of Yap ineagererr boty rat Antehed Job’ when he Hop Ling’ took 2 ih these robendtina: ‘ # ‘wot! well, nm he and the lute BF utieed on