The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1905, Page 3

“TROUBLE - s ! ‘MTR WORLD: GIRL WHO WAS SHOT, AND HER SWEETHEART. SCANT WATER TO FIGHT FIRE SAYS CROKER ed Chief Asserts Weak Pres- Sure Responsible for Half Million Blaze. IS GENERAL Department Handicapped, He Declares, in Many Recent Destructive Fires. NOT SO, SAY OFFICIALS Engineer McKay Denies Charge, and Says Trouble Lies with Croker’s Men, Not His. The statement of Chief Croker, of the Fire Department, that the blaze fn ‘Wooster street last night, with a dam of half a million dollars, was caused by the want of proper has stirred up @mong the officials of the Water De partment, These officials claim in effect that the fire chief does not know what he {@ talking about, and that while he may know all about fires he knows lit- water pressure, considerable trouble tle about the water system of New Tork, Not gnly is it the claim of Chief Croker that the biage of last night would never have got away from them but for the want of water, but that of recent date there have been a ium ber of fires which gathered headway from the same cause, There was a 90,00 loss in plano factory, Nos. 644 to 535 West Fifty-eighth street, yes terday morning, and ome week go a4 Vito Golonell. MESSENGER BOYS. THREATEN STALE Say “Piggy de Boss” Plays “Swipes” and “Gibby the Skiver” as Favorites. Fifteen messenger boys of the Mart- { ‘ TUESIA.Y EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1908. td TWO KILLED BY per viene Bete a wat time Exchange, at No. 9% Broad street, | : ‘ h y| arroeat nd street. Only a short time| thteaten to strike to-morrow, r pay ) oo the far east sida in Grand] @ for higher wages and shorter! ole pam there was a five-alanm fire. hours, The intending strikers comprise . Engines Sent Back. For the want of water, howe’ many ef the engines that responded on the fifth alarm were sent back to quarter “Had the water pressure last night ‘even been normal,” Ohtet Croker said, “the fire never would have got up & the sixth story, Under the favorable eonditions {t should never have gone beyond the second floor, We had to end in five alarms which brougnt twenty-six companies, when half 4 dozen ought to have been able to do the work. t the hydrants the pressure was 60 k that the engines could not do f@pything and in fact there were cer tain companies that came on the fifth alarm and could not get water at all. O'Donnell, He ain't no rest of us, all of the force, except the boss, and two others who, the rest say, are bis 0 tavontes Elec ances behind the threatened strike, ac- cording to He set forth these to-day Ike this “Der worst trouble is der way Pigey ft de boys, vider than he's only bigger And the way he treats his brother,| poaq'g Swipes, 1s what galls us. too. Bwipes, he | weg, Killed Instantly last night Ww gets all the cinch messages while the rest of us has to hike it all over town.! crossing at Brooklyn Hille. Swipes gets all the near messages, “There's another of Piggy's pets. (messenger boy for loafer). There's « “Micky” Alk the bo Gibby Gihso: le lot of griev- in Buggy on Wyckoff Ave. Crossing. the leader, er, treats ny of the all Apparently unaware of the swift ap- | proach gf one of the Long Island Rai! gly Island new electric trains, m: twe driving across the were identified later as \those of Jah: Kelly, forty-five years old, of No. nm, too, He's tric Cars Run Down Men Wyckoff! avenue The bodice! ACCUSES GAFFNEY —_s——_ Says the Tammany Leader's Partner Whipped Him in Private Stable, A street plano in front of the York- Police Court played "Tammany" and vigorously while Charles Francis Murphy's private coachman, William Buckley, told Magistrate Cor- nell that his bumps and bruises were Caused by ex-Alderman James E, Gaft- ney, partner of his employer and head loudly He's a skiver| Liberty avenue, Brooklyn, and Harry | of the New York Contracting and Truck- When a| Galway, nineteen years old, of No. 34/ing Company bunch er boys goes out and he one| Shepam avenue, Brooklyn ct ‘em, he always walts when he gets! Kelly and Galway did not observe the | disorderly, Buckley was under ar Test on a charge of being drunk and with an added charge of One of these days New York will wake| back to be the last In line, so’s he|oncoming train, ‘Their carriage wae} assa ult made by Gaffney, who was not up to @ big conflagration because of | won't be sent out again tll the last, | across the track® Lealh ney A The Magistrate ordered that this.” He ain't wid us because he's a shiver, | danger, It welt cra ratty be summoned to-morrow, and When Chief Engineer John FE. McKay, “We works from §.30 In the mornin’ pC a was smashed into 1 Buckley in $100 bail of the Water Depariment, heard of] to 590 in the night, and all that for 8%) wood, t = a : F the story of Polloeman tai Chief Croxer’s statement he was indig-| per. What we w {s to work from vy It appeared that Buckley cele nant. Ie got down his maps showing Le af elit tb ort Phat aint int XMAS AUTO INITIATED, brated Christinas by getting drunk aud the water system of the city and|much for fellers {ike us. We work inp then dropping in at the Murphy stables, pointed out the various mains in the section where the fire occurred last night Says Mains Are All Right. “In Bleecker street, he sald, there is a @welve-inch main. In Houston street a @imilar one, In Wooster street a twen- ty and a six-inch matin. @venue there are two thirty-inch mains and one twelye-inch main, On Greene street there Is a twonty and a twelve, and this is in the immediate section of the fire, “There are double-nogsle hydrants all} d& over that section, one on the north side and two on the eouth side of South Fifth avenue, several on Wooster and Greene streets and all around there. “As & matter of fact, the water waa never turned off, and it never is turned off except in the case of a broken main, ‘There was no break yesterday and there was plenty of water wo fight any fire. “Of course, if they put all their en- aines to work in one immediate locality you cannot expect one or two mains to give the desired pressure, “There was @ complaint to this office Jess than @ week ago about low pres- gure opposite No, 22 Wooster street, ‘We eent there at 3 o'clock tn the after- noon and found thirty-one pressure. Mi pounds Always Plenty of Water, “That does not look as if there hot suM@Mclent water there leat cventnge As a matter of fact, there is always plenty of it-enough to fight any fire that will ever start in this city, 1 would like to know what time the en- fee got to work on that blaze, Per- haps it might explain how it ot #uch beagway. The fire last night Is nevertheless re ported to have been discovered prompt. y., as there js an engine house alm directly in front of the building, and the lieutenant of the company firs! the alarm. Incidentally the Board of Fire Under. rit Mi 0 get busy. The fons is upon the insurance companies, and ey propose to know something more bout this controversy, st at DIAMONDS WATCHES JEWELRY DOGS BIRDS CATS FURS CLOTHING FURNITURE FIXTURES TYPEWRITERS REGISTERS BILLIARD TABLES PHONOGRAPHS AUTOMOBILES HORSES CARRIAGES PIANOS PAINTINGS Ww ni but On South Fitth| want, in.’ we can “Den dey back roan wen we're off duty. a fine library of Nick Carter ani Din mond Dick an’ Frank Me do us na harm to read ‘em, emok!n', too. I don't amoke, but some of de do. and dey ain't no harm in dat w'en you're off duty,” These boys carry messages 0; dents and other maritime {ntelligence from the eamship work, fell ‘o'r all sore, but Piggy UO Donnell and is brother Swipes and Gibby Gibson, the skiver, and we're all golng to strike don't ‘get . And whether we wit and Swipes and Gibby are in for a Ii It we don't win it'll et odder jobs. them, hard and we deserve tt. (the superintendent of the don't give row we strike aa soon as we gets our pay, us what we shy on C! it we won't let Dey wont to 18 read Jn the Chauffeur Tried Ht Qut on Broad way and Was Arrented, lf Mr. Bundy Exchange) want to-mor- Olga Furst, a ome new atreet, made his wife, Christmas present of a hands which to-day landed the French hristmas, too. auto, what we i t Plegy | West Sixty-fifth street, in the West K-| gide Court, charged with trying out the 0 all right, | gift on Broadway at the rate of twenty miles an hour Mra, Furst ew toy and In it ft to-day was anxious to try the took the first spin After returning to ner We got | a 28 West Seventy-ninth 't | residence, 128 West Seventy Tet us amare | street, she ngne along with the ‘odders | machine, eclded he'd see what | the new auto do in the speed line | according to. iceman Kupfin, who stopped the Frenchman at Seventy-fitth street, while the red devil was streak- | ing along, Mrs, Furst went to the West furnish the $20 ba‘l and th: Bun various ha | Side Court pt aug! , at thelr threats, and says they will stay| the Christmas auto was properly Initt- ated, YOUNG WOMAN ATTACKED BY A NEGRO wisi", sil tie cosine | Banker Alphonse Furst, of No. 10 Wall chauffeur, Murel Coulogne, of No. 19] No. GIT Enst Seventeenth street, where he began to throw things about until jGaffney appeared, There was a fight, and vahen the policeman came Buckley ‘was in bad shape. In court Buckley Wear and tear. He did not sport the Mnrphy livery, Instead he wore the fundress uniform of the Tammany lead- jer's stables, a drab whipcord riding jooat, pearl gray riding breeshes and purtec leggings of red pigskin Still bleared and soggy istrate sald: | "Who gave you | head?’ | “Hit wuz Mister Gaffney, sir. 'E did! hit me with a pitchfork, your worship . showed signs of He was whenethe Mag that lump on the} "Your hands are all cu. ug and scratched,” obverved the Magistrate, leauing over the bench to see them bet- jter, Buckley held them up and looked j them over gloomlly. Yos,"” he said, “‘an’ y Mister Gaffney, too, your worship. eli,’ said the Magistrate, that wuz done erely for being drunk on Ohristuias,” Mister Gaffney," was the answer, To @ question’ as to his employer | Buckley replied In a loud voice and | with an alr of pride: Hi am Mister Chaley hown private coachman, id that had hit him, and thet he did not remember having done anything. — MAN STRICKEN. He Fell on the Street, Presumably from Apoplexy. Be Murphy's beggin’ your MURPHY’ DRIVER DANCE TRIED TO RANG TOKILL SISTER NEGRO BRUT -—FORVENOETTA. TO LANPRST Young Italian Fired Five He Had Attacked Young! Shots Into Girl Be- Girl on Her Way side a Child, Home at Night. MET FOE IN BALLROOM SCREAMED AN ALARM. | | | Wrote His Will, Tossed It to Small Boys Scattered for Aid Partner and Went Home and Angry Crowd Quick- to Murder, ly Gathered. Caesar Torerinni, recently from Italy, | For weeks, so reskients of the neigh: Well dreased, was dance at No. 8% | borhood say, a lot of young negroes | Bast One Hundred and Fourth atrest /have been lurking in Weet Bleventh early to-day, The dance had continued | street just east of Sixth avenue, insult. ; all through the night, ‘The young | ing unprotected white girls who passed | Italian was from Genoa, and many | ang once or twice even laying detaining | mes during the night he boasted of /handa upon them, Growing more dar. his family and of the position they ing, one of the gang, a light yellow mu- held in his native country latto, tried to Crag pretty Blaabeth Wi. Caesar seemed to have plenty of |lentucher into a blind alley last night money and was willing to @pend !t./ Her screams and struggles saved her He was in every sense the beau of the /for they brought a crowd, The crowd ball, Hig clothes, his manners, hi8 werted to hang the negro to a mines money and his dancing aM lent to Hi9 post, and they might have done it If @ | Popularity, Caevar came | here five |policeman hadn't been big aid. strung months ago. Afier he had @ lot of anti last night he told why he came. | ‘You see, my fittle sister is here," he | ald, “Millie ts only twenty years old lend she fell In love with a Neapolitan, |hink of a member of my family mar- ryirg @ Neapolitan! We are Genoees and we hate Neapolitans, We sent her here a year ago ‘Then she met this Neapolitan, Vito Gialanella, of No, 818 East Thirty- | first street, and she ays she will marry an? willing Had a Half Hoilday, Miss Willenbucher is employed as @ house maid by John H. Dye, a well-to- do real estate operator who lives in the Larchmont, at Nos 27 and 2 West Eleventh street, She is as pretty a Christmas doll, with the flaxen hair, ohina blue eyes and plump pink cheeks of tho typical German madolen, Yes: erday she got @ half holiday and went je ahead ‘oat 'a HUM na] UKown to visit friends, twas late tum, We have ait a@ husbane’) when she turned out of Sixth avenue for her and she will never live to matty | Oe way home this Vito | As she passed the house at No, 8 Toreginni then burst from the dance vn a p aT scene Y Ag ee A hall, He walked rapidly to his home, | sai sink were wanting Ww tate |No, 908 Hast One Hundred and Sixth) joo way suddenly darted u nf eet, There he and his sister lived) Oiaiying one hand across her mouth with Enrico Morese!, his wife and Luigi! , Moresel, a boy of eight, | She soon met Vito and fell in with him, After the arrival of her brother she went to @ room occupied by little Luigi ed to drag her inw a little bricked eway leading to a rear Lenement She managed to get her mouth free and gave one cry for ald after another all tne while fgiting desperately, Scattered an Alarm. love | Morese! and herself, Her brother sivpt in a front room and the Mgreseis in @) A dozen boys, all little fellows, were rear room, grouped In an areaway nearby. ‘loo fhe Moresels were awakened early to- small to tackle the negro, they ran day by the voices of the brother and|in every direction, seeking reinforce- sister ments, One of them told a cabman, "You are determined to marry are you!’ the brother asked. “You say you will marry him in spite of me and in spite of our father and mother?” The girl was heard (o say; “Tl do as I choose." Then came five revolver shots, The brother must have held the revolver close to the head of his sister as she lay in bed, for every wound was pow- |der-burned. The girl died instantiy The child sleeping at her side snuggled close to her and her blood covered him, | him,|who whipped up his horse and drove down Sixt avenue until he found Po- liceman Boyland, of the Mercer Street Stato: Boyland responded at @ gallop. He found the girl, with torn clothing and brulsed lips, lying In a faint, while boys and men scoured the neighborhood for the negro, The negro had released his victim and fled when he saw grown men approaching In the cellar of No, 8 somebody spied Boyland ciung to th swath whuh bis nights. ¢ disregarding He dived for the front window, over- turned a Christinas tree his way and then dived through a closed window at stood in head first He fe a coalbox that was In the street Goctors at Harlem Hospital say that will not live to be tried for the murder of his sister. | nip-post, A big follow had g ope {ron somewhere anc’ Wed a noose it, At the sight of this the negro's S fillet him. He wilted into a shiv >», The men pummelled and | ing hi eked ht Hoyland alternately }ing for ald and the heads of the men-| Vito is near crazed from grief, \" jacing mov, When it looked as it he |Would be overpowered, reserves arrived | MOTORMAN ESCAPED, land drove off the men After running down a brewery truck, | Got His in Station-House, and nearly killing the driver, the motor- | + ine station the negro regained His man of a Madison avenue car put on all |nerve and fought viciuusly, He got power this morning ‘and escaped. such a drubbing then that he was most- ‘The collision occurred at Sixty-seventn |!Y bandsges when he came into Jeft ion Ma et Court to-ds a Vimo! street and Madison avenue, James Hes. (fp Market Court (any as prisoner. | sek, twenty-elght years old, was driving | walter, twenty-tl He north with the truck When the troiley | Wouldn't tell his addres | car, in which were & half dozen passen-| After Miss Willenbucher recovered her | gers, came behind. The. driver was| senses her employer took her to the thrown out on his head, but the trolley | station. ‘There she positively {dentified | kept on |MeKline a8 her assailant, She did tne rapped the curb: | MeK line, years old ‘Many persons witnessed the accident. |same thilig again to-day in court, Mo but the police say they are unable to/|live denied his guilt, but Magistrate | locate the car. Hessek is in the Presby- | Barlow held him, In $600 for attempted | terian Hospital. ‘ \ mult The Unuaual Store Very Special Sale (Second Floor) Model Gowns and Coats Marked at Decided Reductions to Close Out, A well-dressed man about seventy years of age was found at Warren | and Chureh streets to-day. Dr, Will- | fams, of the Hudson Street Hospital | found that he was suffering from ap- | lexy, He was sent t) the hospital fothing to indicate his identity was found on aim A sum of money and a peari-hantiet knife were found in his pocket, The nan, it 18 thought, is of good ‘family 1 refined. a LEWIS N. MEGARGEE DEAD, (Special to The Evoning World.) | PHILADELPHIA, Dec. %6—Lewis N Megarges, eltor of Seen and Heard, and well known In literary and newspaper circles, died here at 8 A. M. to-day | Alveolar Dentistry, originated, pat- ented and exclusively practised by Dr. G. Gordon Martin, is recognized [ns a distinct advance in dental No necessity for Plates or usual unsatisfactory — bridge work. Loose and falling teeth saved, \made strong and firm. Pyorrhea and| lall diseases of the gums cured, Ex-| {pert epecialists in each branch of| \dental work. Hours, 9 A. M, to '6 P. M., week days only. Examina- |tions and booklet on Alveolar Den- tistry free, G. GORDON MARTIN, |. D, DDS, Inc, Suite 704, 320 Fifth Ave, cor, $24 St, New York, intments by letter, tel Es cote) iy i spe ead jscience. |the Afternoon Gown, Mauve color Japanese Crepe, dainty Eton coat effect. Was $135.00, now. inaeeiewanert COO Afternoon Gown, Mode color Crepe de Chine, ap- plique of white lace, Was $135.00, now .. vss ee0eB0,00 Dinner Gown, Pale blue chiffon cloth, with medal- lions of lace. Was $265.00, now 175,00 Dinner Gown, Cream Crepe de Chine, trimmed with thread Ince, Was $200,09, now, peeveeces © ven 150.00 Gown, Gown, Pale blue, Crepe de CWHf@™ Was White Cashmere, Was $75.00, $80.00, now 150.00 _NOWrts verses vests anes eee eA 5,00 Street Gown, Theatre Gown, Dark green silk Was $95.00, Black Velvet. Was $350.00, now 175,00 _NOWerse sre eseee 60,00 Gown, Suit. Blue Crepe de Chine, Was $80.00, iack broadcloth. Was 75.00, [ now eves veeesvesse 60,00 NOW. ser eses ooser cee ss 0000 40,00 Gown, Suit, Ligtt gray Crepe. Was $140.00, Blue oroadcloth, Was $75.00, NOW verses seeereeveeerss 75,00 NOW + ” ++ 40, 80.00 Black Silk Evening Coat— Was $155.00, now. 100,00 Broadcloth Coat \ jength—was $100.00, now., ..,. 65.00 Black Coat-silk tining—was $60.00, now... eeseeeeeee 35,00 Among the assortment will be found many that have been made up as exclusive models, all of which are now offered at great reductions. -A. A. Vantine @ Co. Broadway, bet. 18th @ 19th Sts. 2 RTT TTY YS Ur UNTO rrRe s eeneceemermes ee enmer mee mee mint encima #| AN | nival oe eeeseneneonenoes The Superior Credit Store. MAUDE ADAMS KS QUEEN OF FAIRIES eae Holds Christmas Carnival on Stage and Helps Make All Her Company Happy. Our entire high-grade as- ‘There was a genuine Christmas car | ¥ #ortmont of Ladies’ Ready- during the matinee of "Peter | @ to- Wear and Trimmed Hats Pan" yeoterday afternoon, and every| ¥ reduced to close to half member of the company and stage price, and some less than half—to sell quickly, 91,98 %2,98°3.98 4.98 % Smart Winter Styles. g MEN’S OVERCOATS $, r Extra fine black, long- cut styles. Tailored and trimmed by Journoymen» foros received a remembrance from Mise Adams, When the five young women who Are little boys in ‘Peter Pan” went to thelr dressing rooms they found huge bunohes of violets each bearing Miss Adams's card, ‘The little children in the play all re colved splendid toys, Little Michael wot @ Ane doll’s house and small Aug Usta, the little girl Miss Adama brougm’ from Buffalo, the finest pair of skates in New York, Hut this was only ber : Violet Han, E la torapetlan Aterm tary 3° pe mA but they arene snot the only ones who ee Tat SAIL Fo 4 When Miss Adame went to her dre uced to close lines quickly, } 3 ing room fore th verformance she Our “Cheerful Credit'! makes @ buying easy and pleasant, No © necdiess formalities, We wel- ¥ come new accounts, « been at work The whole place was decorated with Christmas greens and holly, while American beauties were in every corner, The members of he company had got togetlier to give "Peter Pan” a little surprise themselves, Misg Adans in | vited the young giris into her dressing. room W hear all about thelr Chrutmas | presents and yp aul, Peek's new fur coat and herine Keppel s new fur set It was a Merry Christmas for every. body In the company, but there was. one 0) found that fairies H 3 Ka | k 241-243 Sixth Ave, | member who will) remember Mies | 3 Retween rsth on] c6th Strests, Adaina'# kindness Mm ¢ vthe| ¥ ‘ est. Th ie Kathe Ka s ee eae en le anttens Stew her | OOVOPOOD O9OOFPOFTHVIIIT® etlasy and had $16 besides to. buy | ===------sesenensenss== Christmas presents. She went down town, laid her pocketbook on a counter and {t disappeared, She went bac 'W. L. DOUGLAS” the theatre after the matin {re ar tara, f go home: $3.50 SHO UNION. When Miss Adams returned to the MADR. theatre In the evoning s neaee about A tial, Phisaune Miss Kappel sitting up in her dressing 4s room without supper, and her secre mee you that W. bs Jou slas $3.50 Shoes tz the best in the about the girl's loss, ere was a knock tary also told he In a few minute at Miss Kappel's door, She opened it ald and there was a fine supper sent from bain some unknown hand, A little later there was another knock and @ White en velop was handed to Miss Keppel “+ Across {t was written Cor, Bh ats; Aa I was afraid you would do some. road way 14th thing reckless, so I lald this aside fu, Thi) Broadway you (signed) ‘T Heil BOth at 4 the amount Isroad way The envelope contained of money lost As everybody who has seen the Barri play knows Tinker Bell is. the Fairy who watches over the in Never Nev land, tt wasn't hard to guess that this was Miss Adams’ way of doing a kindnoss. wail Ei Senerous Piano Germs will prevail during this week, and all instrument purchased (please make selection early) we will en deavor to deliver in time for Yew Year's Day Remember, wo are selling what we consider the ver A man crouched in a corner They best piano value in A on the m liberal ar Cuesar made for the hall, Then he/yarked him out. He was a “white ne- rangements for payment—at the same time givine turned back. gro and whiter than u through fear your family the use of the {nstrument immediately ‘They'll get me If I go that way,” he 1 didn't do it." he yelled as they | to enjoy while you pay for it mumbled, aa he saW a great crowd jdiagged lim for : , | gath Let's lynch iim!" erled some one, | ©. 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