The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1906, Page 4

TENANTS FROM WHOLE BLOCK larlem Blaze Threatens to Devour Many Houses, POLICE SAVE TENANTS. _ Hammer at Doors and Arouse Sleepers, Who Rush Into Chilly Streets. FIREMEN Ys Be 3 Roof Falls During Fight with Flames, in Which New Tower Proves Worth. \ Polfcomen Xrass, Walsh and McCahill, ef the Bast One Hundred and Twenty- sixth street station, ran through One ‘Hundred and Thirtleth street, between Lenox and Fifth avenues, early to-day and rapping at the doors of the private "| houses on the south side of the street yelled to the men and women who stuck their heads from the windows “Get out! There's a fire in the rear, and it isn't safe to stay at home!" \ When the policemen sounded the @larm flames were shooting up from the _ two burning flat houses on the north side of One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, and it looked as though every house on the next block would be in the path of the blaze. Already the up- per west side of the city was lighted up almost as though from an early sun, The private houses were vacated in ‘ jiffy, and men and women, in all sorts of dress and undress, poured into the cold streets, shivering In the biting wind, z, Fire Threatened Block. The fire started in two unfinished @partment-houses at Nos, Si and East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. These apartments are two of geven six-story structures that are be- fng erected by Ltrey é& Weinstein, of No. #43 Canal street, The seven Houses are only awaiting plasterers and painters before being thrown open for wccupancy, “Thomas Hamlin, a night watchman, Was in one of the end houses when Pollceman McCahill passed through the block. He saw that the three upper floors of Nos. 51 and 53 were in fiames. Whe policeman turned In an alarm of fire and returned to the fiat-houses, By this Hime'the flames were bursting from the front and rear windows. The wind ‘was such that the private homes in One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street feemed almost certain of destruction. McCahill callea the two other police- men and began oalling the residents fon the south side of One Hi and Twenty-ninth street from thelr ‘warm Falling Roofe imperil Men. Deputy Fire Chlef Ahearn took chargé of the first engines. He sound- @@ a second and third alarm. The Jast “broyght Chief Croker, and he ame whirling up in his autompbile to ‘take charge. “When Croker arrivel the two burn- ing Siat-houses were a roaring furnace. ‘The flames were shooting many feet above the roof and the wind was un- gertain. Now it would come from the ast, only to swerve around to the west, north br the south. Engine y No. 37 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 14 were ordered to the goof. The men went without so much @s & moment's hesitation, and such was the fire that # is lilly that more than one of them believed he waa going to almost certain death. ‘They ran to the roofs of the burn- ing apartments, and they were there when they gave way and came burst- ing through the rafters to the lower floors. The men, hose in hand, ran to the adjoining roofs and then re- turned, walking across them, ice-cov- ered here and blazing there, and seem- ingly in the very centre of the flames, Crowd Compelled Reserves. The resideats of the One Hundred and Thirtieth street houses and per- sons from all parts of the upper west pide flocked to the fire, The crowd grew until it could not be controlled by ‘the police of the Hast One Hundred and ‘Twenty-sixth street station. The re- werves were called from the East One Handred and Fourth, the West One Hundred ad Twenty-fitth and the ‘Alexander avenue stations, and Inspeo- tor Walsh was in command. The police formed a line about the block and the erowds were driven back. ‘When the flares were fanning toward the private homes in One Hundred and Phisrtisth street there came a change the wind, It ewerv TO) - “4 Rectiecet Tie htens ees 4 style water tower on engine No, is the first time such a tower been employed in Sgning fire any- It consists of a pipe rin rough: "Siam: the driver's seat, into which " streams of water are poured bs ene oc experiment. proved ite worth or, Poy i laounla. mites of water patted the flam.s for only a few minutes thon Chief Croker called to the men and women that the in One Hundred and Twenty- ave btarted/from a drying stove the new apartments, th strest were safe, ; damage is estimated at trom to $20,000. ‘The fire is supposed Photographa of WILD BEASTS taken IN THE JUNGLE. most remarkable flashiights ever taken. SHE NEXT IN DANGER. | GIRL BARRIGADED TW FANCE'S HOME She Defies Her Parents to In-| terfere with Her “First Love Affair.” Barricaded in the home of her sweet- heart in Jersey City, seventeen-year-old Lillian Hartman, of South Bethlehem, Pa., has sent a challenge to her parents defying them to come between her and “my first love affair.” Mr: Hartman ts speeding to Jersey City, and the girl's aunt, Mrs, Mary Post, of No. 65 Nep- tune street, js endeavoring to get the white dove of peace to take wing. Lillian Hartman came to Jersey City last summer to visit her aunt. She met Mr. Albert Galuchle, of No. 130 Manning avenue, and during a visit at the latter's home was introduced to William Nichels, a decorator who boards at the house. It was a case of love at first sight. When Miss Hartman returned home, her father, who is a well-to-do steel worker, told her she would have to forget Nichels. She sald she couldn't, ‘The decorator’s letters never reach her A great sorrow. cama over het tor On Jan. 1 her grandmother died fohis west a Bethicham to trend. =. je went ern the ni “the burlal y he use. had a headache, and ‘eked Lillian Hartman to take her to a store. That was the last the «tri's saw of her, accorting to her relatives. They traced her to Jersey Ory, sent the aunt to beg her to go home. “T will not go home,” said ‘Hart- y. “My parents made me very ‘unhappy by interfering in my first love affair, I am going to marry wees and Twill not leave this house until lo _#0."* tered letter signed’ by Aivert Galockte, and | cleaning out the homes of the members, THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1906. BUAGLARS CALLED ON WHIST PLAYERS As Elmhurst Ladies Gathered for Weekly Game Thieves Visited Their Homes. The Ladies’ Whist Club, of Elmhurst, L. I, held @ seston yesterday after- noon, Go aid a couple of enterprising burglars, Fortunately all of the women left their houses guarded but one, Mrs, Fred Eno, who lives in Sixth street. She lost $500 worth of jewelry. The weekly session of the Ladies’ Wihist Club fs quite a social event, The membership is comppaed of the wives of the first citizens, and it was not hard for the thieves to discover who these were. As they leftdhome yester- day to gather et the house of former District-Attarney Gregg ‘they were watched by the crooks, Bach of their houses was visited. One man rang the door bell. and when it was answered he asked some ques- ton about the location of the residence of some person living in the village and went away. In the one case in which the bell was not anewered the thieves went to the rear of the house and forced the Kitchen door. Thomas Purtell, a achool teacher, who hed been looted when he got home at 4 o'clock. He burried around to the Gregg home, burst in upon the whist club and announced that thieves were Even @ fire couki not have broken up the game eo effectually. The ladies phew down thetr os robbed but Mrs. Tno. been so act! Elmhurst, that the oltisens have forme fe, in which he said that if Mrs. Post “didn't mind her own business he would find means to compel her to.” WANT KILBURN'S boards with Mra. Hno, found the house | cards, pped Ger cam vein Corona.’ adjoining | NAS. THRNLE HARASSED BY BITTER ENEMY Scurrilous Letter Writer Makes Her Victim of Strange Attacks. FEARS TO LEAVE HOME. Threatening Messages Chalked: on Her Door Over Period of Years. PURSUED TO CEMETERY. Letters and Long-Continued \ Persecution, remains secluded in her pretty home to- day, driven to the verge of nervous col- lapse by the persecutions of an unknown woman. For nearly five years she Mas been Growing to dread to leave her door, or even to look at her own front steps or grass plot. Not that she is physically apprehensive, for she has reached a point where she will light if she can reach her persecutor, but the vile words which frequently @ppesr in chalk marks on the steps or uven on the side of the building have proved more terrifying than physical violence, Her husband, @on and friends have been able fre- quently to gain possession ot coarse and threatening letters before she has learned of their existence, but sh is much alone, her husband's business keeping him in the West and South most of the time, and the son, fred, aged twenty-two, being at his desk in a Wall street banking house during the day. WASHINGTON ACTS IN THOMPSON CASE Secretary Metcalf Permits De- tained English Woman to Go to Jersey. Mysterious Woman in Black. ‘This gives ample opportunity for a woman in black, with dotted vell reach- ing nearly to her chin, to pass along the quiet street, write on the house, or throw a letter into the @reaway or on the grass plot. It is claimed that she has been seen three or four times but never at close range. Threats of Death. The letters, all in one strain, threaten death to Mrs. Thornley and tell of the ‘writer's love for Mr. Thornley. ‘The family say that at no time have the communications attacked in any way the character of Mrs. Thornley. But almost more trying to @ sensitive woman they speak constantly of her dead son Percy, whose loss at the age of fifteen, just Before the attacks began, WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Uniess Seo- retary Metcalf, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, orders the !m- mediate discharge of Mrs. Lydia M. Thomeon, who, !t is alleged, went in- sane on the high seas in coming to the United States from England recently, and who was placed in the care of friends pending an investigation Into her metal condition, the case will as sume an international aspect. In fact a protest already has been made to the British Ambassdor|had left the mother ill and nervous. against Mrs. Thomson's further de /| ‘The letters warn her against visiting her tention, von's rave: thé flowers she takes thero Mr. James Wood, of New York City, @ friend of Mns. Samh M. Soull, of Overbrook, Pa, whom Mrs. Thomson was to visit, has arrived bere armed with a number of letters from noted New York allenists, declaring that ex- aminations of Mrs. Thomson made by them es late am yesterday disclosed the fact that she is perfectly sane and competent, Should the immigration officials tn- | sist. however, that she fs not sanc, and Socretary Meteadt coincides with this view, it is the purpose to take the cuse to Secre! Root and even to the President, If necessary. Information received ‘by Senator Met- calf from New York establish have been destroyed. and once, while there with her remeining son, a strange woman appeared giared fiercely into her face und was gone before she could collect her thoughts to action, The next post brought her @ letter saying that if she had been at the grave alone ahe would have been done for. Once she answered her door bell, when a man reached inside and struck her. Neither Mrs. Thornley nor her family seem able to find a motive for the at- tacks. Francis J, Mills, a prosperous decorator, of No. 8 Nostrand avenue, who has boarded with the Thorniey's for two years, sald to-day to vf ing World reporter: Co war, who was deprived of his place as Chairman of the Committee on Bleo- real boss here now, went to the Speak- Porhtion legisietions.'’ Apgar lat the Senate and one was atgned by the Governor, bas imposed on me the duty of fighting Woman Made Ill by Anonymous] #4 “OLD GUARD PLANS WAR ON HIGHS Apgar, Bedell and Fish Will Take an Independent Stand in Albany. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 11.—Assemblyman Ap tricity, Ges and Water Supply, by the new Speaker and Gov. Higgins, the er to-day and demanded the reason for his ration. “Tt ts because,” the Speaker is re- ported by Mr. Apgar to have said, “you were too much identified wito cor- “My record] is open,” explained Mr. “and while I admit I in- troduced a New York Central tunnet Dill and one or two other corporation measures, yet they were also offered in Inasmuch as the Speaker take a plain ins-Waedsworh mai- HW fight every Adminis- measure that does not meet with is i That there I or tor, tie wvernor lot of trouble ahead . Who was remo’ the Judiolary and given the chairman- ship of Internal Affairs, consented to- day to take the He did so, though, with i Teluctance, and gave no promise of standing by the Avdministra- Uon this year. ‘chairmanship Education, res! been givea wh to Assemb! , one of the! mem! Superintendent FELL DEAD AFTER HIS LONG CLIMB. ————> Paul Tensel Was Just Promising to Go on Diet When His Life Passed Out. ‘When Paul Tensel, fifty-five years old and 250 pounds heavy, reached No. 767 Broadway to-day the elevator wasn't running, and he had to climb laborious- ly up five flights of stairs to the es- tablishment where he worked as a tailor, His face was an apoplectic purple and his breath ceme in whistlin ps long before he reached his wor! feneh. As he curled his legs under him and opened his needle case he remarked wheegingly to a fellow-worker that he supposed he would have to go on @ diet—he was getting too fat. ‘A moment later he fell backward off the bench. An ambulance came St. Vincent's Hospital with Dr. Halpin In charge, but the surgeon said Tense! had died ‘almost instantly. He was a German and lived with his wife and three children at No. 193 Bed- ford avenue, Brooklyn. Everybody at his place of business had a good word for him. He been there seven years, never missing a day. ( —\—_>——_ ASTORIA CLUB MEN TO GO DRY ON SUNDAYS. They Pass Resolution Prohibiting Sale of Liquors and Billard and Card Playing. Astoris, I. I., is all stirred up to-day over the resolution passed by ee Saag the Astoria Club at ite anni a ee its the pla; x cards and Tie atnking of liquor in the elud house on Sun a. ‘The club is the so hi juarters of Astoria, and all the lawyers, doctors and inent business men of the locality, AiS patetiat quariers on Remsen ‘strest uarters on here the members hered last it. A Devoted Family. aa the fact that the voyage of the Minne- eh ip Mra. ing the landing lens. Pending further consideration of the} an, case, however, ty Metealt to-day directed that Mrs-Phomson should be Permitted to go to the home of Mrs. a vigilance committee to patrol the streets at ht. Police protection in that part of Queens Borough Is entirely inadequate, AUTO EXHIBIT 10 AFFAIRS AIRED (Boectal to The Evenine World.) ALBANY, Jan. 1L—A resolution call- ing for an investigation of the Depart- ment of State Superintendent of Banks Kilburn wil! be offered in the Legtsla- ture next Monday night. The measure will reeite the facte and charges made against Kilburn in the cases of the Ger man Bank, of Buffalo, and the Mer- chants’ Trust Company, of New York. Tt was charged in the first case that Kilburn allowed the bank to remain open after its insolvency was known long enough to permit favored depos- {tora to withdraw over $300,000. Higgins was twice appealed to by de- positors to remove the Superintendent, but the Governor each time dismissed the complaint. Ki¥ourn is a member of the Governor's Cabinet.” ‘The charges will be aired in the Legislature and sme evidence not yet made public §s Inoked for, sessed 2s Sr CROWD SAW HIM KILLED. ge! Sullivan, sixty years of along the walking ‘ifteenth whi! co Legislative Investigation of |Notables from Out of Town State Banking Superin- Expected to Attend During tendent to Be Asked. Week at Garden. After a service of twenty-five years as track-walker in the employ of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Mich- ke, was down and instantly killed to-day railroad at Street crossing, in He was hurled some ANAL HORSE SHON Judging from the reservations made at the hotels, automobile week promises to eclipse the Morse Show @o far as concerns the attendance of society peo- ple from out of town, to say nothing of prominent New Yorxers who are plan- ning to spend a great deal of time ex- amining the latest etyles in motor cars at Madison Square Garden. Notables from other cities will join New’ York enthusiasts in visiting what promises to be the finest industrial ex- hibiton ever given in this country. The army of workmen that have filled the Garden since Saturday will complete vhelr labors Friday night, and ‘when the doors are opened Saturday evening bvon the most’ optimistic admirer motor cars is likely to be astonished at the superb decorations and the glit- tein. combinations of mechanism on view. ee LEFT OUT THE WORD OBEY. Magistrate Said Bride Wan Able to Take Care of Herself, “Battery Dan" Finn as a City Magis- trate is original. He performed a mar- riage ceremony to-day and when he came to the word “obey” left it out. Lou're big enough to ltek, two such fellows " the witty Magistra‘e told the bride, “ has prom- ised to hove id cherish you for Ufo 1 guess you won't ‘have to promise to piviineit Tein of avait all quiet. Now they have hung crape on the door dur- Boutl, her cousin, In O1 ing the ht, and written agai; fee ce aceaiee ocean tee ne tleceing with her dead eon.” DPPEN BLL AGAIN emer PUTIN BY BRACKET sess Senate Must Go On Record F on Resignation, and Fight Starts Next Tuesday. ALBANY, Jan, 11—The Brackett rea- CUT olution pele tor ba nyrignatics ri NEW FIGHT TO Coneneas ey ‘mee | L, L RAILWAY FARES. Senator will be voted upon next Tues- day. The bill was offered again by the Genator to-day, who moved to make it a special order for Tuesday. Mujority (Gpectal ¢o The Iventng World.) Leader Raines, the chief opponent of| ALBANY, N. ¥., Jan. 1L—The agita- the measure, agreed to the proposition, jtiea for a reduotion in fares on the who said: “Many Senators are not here to-day, oe and in view of that fact I concur in| Dill providing thet rates of fare the motion to put the resolution over, |charged on steam, ralionda | in 1 give notice now that I shall move a| gvHcit’ shall be \call of the house Tuesday morning to|jn effect on Jan. 1, ‘bring in all the Senators, present high schedule Senttor Brackett anticipates a per- @onal attack on him'by the supporters of Senator Depew. It 1s understood that a letter, which, they assert, the Saratcga stateuman sent to a New York Central official requesting » pass for a constituent, will be produced and read. Threats of beginning proceedings to oust the Senator have also been made. Brackett, however, is apparently not alanmed. He said to-day that no threat could scare him out of hie punpose to yut the m Ea Senate on record on the Depew before the wae’ established. Sbrusk Qnaret cs win lew rapes ama LOE 15 CENTS HACE; 3 FOR A QUARTER LEGISLATURE ADJOUARNG, OLUETT, 2 oo, nr era i bs a the |they see it, and couldn’t see Queens, Nessau and @ game as the rates wat! to thi the 01 ization ut equally divided. on the rese- ‘and it was only after the hot- ind of @ session That it wheoone: the membership for. The fact that our regular know a good thing when any reason why these hats should be seconds, j jumped at the chance yes» terday. 5 But starting with. 3800 Derbies which started ont for our regular $3 and $4 stock, every size is still left. $1.85. : : Rocers, Perr & Company. Three Broadway Stores, t by : 258 | B esi ae Warren st, Our lines of Semi-Ready Garments are still un- broken, Same scale of reductions prevail, Men’s Suits. gut ee In Overcoats. Regular made, full just! Winter and medium weights, Tailored Coats for Women and Misses Will Go Quickly at These Low Prices. Coats Reduced from $15, $20 and $22.50 to Two hundred and fifty Coats’ of models, with satin girdies, and 24 and 27 inch Coats in fitted and half-fitted styles; also novelty ve! gray and black, with embellishments of braid, &c. All silk lined ALSO Hip-length covert Coats, taffeta lined, in fly front, button through roughout, and notch collar models. Tourist and checks, 48 inches long, loose and half-fitted backs. Loose, mannish Coats of blue, black and brown kersey. Tight-fitting Coats of broadcloth, kersey and cheviot in blue, brown and black, satin lined, Hadett CohaittS@ Broadway at Thirteenth Street. $7.50 velour and plush, in blouse Jour Coats in mouse, bronze, Coats, of gray mixtures, plaids Coats Reduced from $39.50 to Covert Coats, 52 inches long, loose back, velvet collar and cuffs. Tight-fitting, 52-inch-long corset Coats, stitched stra back, Skinner’s satin lining, of same style in covert, Half-fitfing and loose Coats, 52 inches long, of black broadcloth and kéersey, Skinner’s satin lining. Black and colored velour Coats in blouse models, outlined with braid, military collars of Persian, satin lined. Pony and tight-fitting Coats of velour, trimmed with braid and velvet in pastel shades, satin lined, Evening and street Coats of broadcloth in white, helio, Alice blue, red, reseda and brown, in Empire and straight, loose models, satin lined throughout. Velvet collars embellished with braid. $13.50 and $18.50 Tailored $8 50 e Shirts Reduced to Silk-lined voile Skirt with cluster of taffeta. Also about twenty odd models in plaited effects. Gored box-plaited broadcloth and cheviot Colors blue, black and brown. Skirts of chiffon Panama and batiste cloth in circular models, with broad fold at bottom, panel circular and full plaited models. 50 white chiffon Panama and batiste cloth and serge Skirts in corded circular styles, with broad folds at bottom. Also cluster mel circular models. Plain circular and plaited Skirts in gray mannish mixtures. And bias pe Skirts in green and blue, gray and black combinations, circul tucks, plain and lar models with broad fold at Light and dark gray mannish mi Broadcloth and cheviot Skirts in circular plaited and kilted effects, $10 and $12 Tailored Shirts Reduced to 450 plaid Skirts, green and blue, red and gray and tone: circular models, with broad fold at patton » He oe front, circular side and full kilted models. $15 front and heavy black broadcloth only; fancy buttons, braided girdle, tucks over an excellent quality kirts in all sizes. bottom. $5 ixtures in circular plaited panel blue and brown and bfack, in CLEARANCE SALE (Continued) i A coabeed or, Worsted of superior fashion- Sizes 30 to 46. 1.45 Per garment value, 2.25 to 300 Twenty-third ‘Street. | Alaska JAMES McGREERY & 60. Furs. Large, brown Fox Muff, Two stripe... Black Lynx Tie.....2 16.50) | Muff +6 16.50) Sable ‘Tie, Lined! with Satin ...006 ¢e0s 3-75) All fur Scarfs with head and! tails. 72 inches....18.50 Large flat Muff........ 15.001 | Natural Squirrel Scarfs, ro. 5 renee Beton, 7:50 i if “Shak ues & = x | Muffs,. 02«I0,50, 7.50 20.0, reduced 8 issr tt Mink Tie. 2 stripe,-58 inches Long o's 0.5 00+ oe 2000 35.00 50 inch, Tie. Trimmed with tails,, © seen + 19.50) Muff, 3 stripe......++-18.50l Chinchilla Scarfs, ‘ 35.00 45.00 .60.00 and $4 Derbies are so tes is the very reason a front and fitted both why we have “seconds” : kk, Fico if tal eiwhy they all 0) JAMES MAGREERY 2 Uh |penian tac, coaia ‘agen Unless we'd lots more of 96 inches. Vari 94 them than ever before, we Men’s Haberdashery. i ious models, shouldn’t be able to adver- ay ae 130.00 to 195.00 tise them to-day. English, natural wool, Shirts i For hundreds of men who| «and Drawers. ; . ‘Dwenty-thind ‘ DIAMONDS| fe ~