The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1906, Page 10

~ STORS VISIT CHINATOWN 10 “SETHE HTS John Jacob and Wife Order Short Beers in “Nigger Mike's.”” HEAR “BULLHEAD” SID Swell Bunch” Slumming Par- ‘ty in Automobile Staggers the Village Regulars. Pell street is @ slit in the roofs of Chinatown between the Bowery and Mott street—a canyon path gashed out | of a motley lot of stone, brick and frame | houses to serve as a back alleyway for) the ragtag and bobtall human derelicts | ef a great city. "Nigger Mike" Salter {8 its Mayor, and his mixed ale store at No. 12 its throne room. Pell street sleeps in the daytime. So narrow is the groove between the heuses that the sunshine never hits the middle of the street. But at night it swarms with polyglot humans and hums with a! Babel of tongues. ‘The crescendo rag-| time of “Nigger Mike's’ plano summons | the lowly to pay tribute at the bar. & big red automobile chugged, chugged Up to the door of “Nigger M st night. Chinatown flocked around it. They saw John Jacob Astor alight. inside. Those who didn't have the price to follow made quick touches and joined the slummers. Guards Near By. There is a back room at Mike's. It Is Jong and narrow. The professor sits at ‘the ragtime box in the corner. Tables Ine the walls, and the centre uf the solled pine floor is reserved for spiel- “The “swell bunch" sat down at one of the tables. Assistant District-Attor- ney J. J. Kernochan acted as guide, and two county detectives and two plain- men stood nearby to keep the asked “Bull- head,” the head waiter, in his most Patronizing tone. “Make it pony beers all round," said Mr. Kernochan. “Bullhead” looked as if he was tak- fing the count. He staggered to the bar gomewhat groggy but managed to gasp the order. I tot dem swells drunk nuttin’ but velvet." he said. Despite the stalwart guar’, China- town elbowed <le slummers. Liz and Mag end Annie sat down with their wueal tickets and ordered mix:d ale, $00. Beer will float any buman dere- Heard the Waiter Sing. “Bullhead!” “Bullhead!” the crowd shouted. “Give us a song. “Bullhead” did. He b34 Caruso faded. The jimior society leader of the United States applauded. “The only star that iwinkles on Broadway,” as well, as he put it, “she was feazed,"" Mrs. Astor did not touch her pony, At made ‘Bull sad. “Don't youse like the amber?" he ‘Made bold to ask. Just as “Bull” was getting ready to sing “I'm So Lonesome” the Astor party akiddoced. They went to the Club, climbed the dingy stair- ‘way to the dance hall and saw the prize ‘waltzers doing the dip. When they went to a hop joint. It wasn't a real pipe-hitting room, It wis @ make-believe shack thrown together “ Spr make the rubber-neck wagon folk it up and take notice, A fat old Chil Fwas the boss of the joo. “A dani thick coat of rouge and ™ a wrapper pwred at imaginary dope fe was sll so passe that’ Mr. Aster yawned. the opium party the Astors w! uptown, As “Bull” put it, “they than a in ue Ph ea Stopped ts the ‘Thala ‘Thentre on © way down, where they saw ‘The Stree C4 Drink.” Perhaps it put them on : the auto water wagon. age FATHER STRUCK BY SON. Ola Man Says He Joined Boarder im Assault Upon Him. Jacob Assman, an elderly man, living ith his wife and family at No. 3% Bast Ninety-third street, appeared in the Harlem Court to-day and charged {his gon Peel, nineteen years old, and a young man named Adam Music, a bearder in the Aesman household, with eusauit, The old man said that when he ob- jected to the boarder running through ie house before his wife and daugh- ters clad only in pajamas, Music had Gemped on him and assaulted him with- ut mercy. His son Paul had joined in the assault, and the father was badly eaten before he was rescued by Police- fan Ryan. Though the son's mother pleaded for Magistrate Pool fined him $10. usko was held in $400 bonds to keep Be peace for six months. The boarder paid young Assma: '@ fine. On Stilts! Hee Meagan jag” of -Auoy ord“ sian” Five Famous Beauties G!é "06-26, gon They saw Mra. John Jacob Astor and “@ lady friend’ get out and disappear the world, four of whor MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER. ngured in the nows of the day. ‘ eauties in | | m are Amer.cans, Five of the most fanic: passador, bas been completely cured of since childhood. PTE Ee formerly Miss Mary Langham, of Lou! Zam y ek George EU CUPWOMS IE beauty of the British court, has distin- guished herself by making political speeches to the dock laborers of West Ham in support of the labor candidate for Parliament, “Wall Thorne. The Duchess of Manchester's hus- band has juwt been mide Lord stew- ard of King Edwant's Mrs. James Brown Potter (who was Miss Handy, of Baltimore) has made aa effort to prevent her husband's first The Baroness Speck von Sternberg. | wits, the actress, {rom using the name - | "Mrs. James Brown Potter.” The first ville, now the wife If the German Am- | Mr. Potter ts willing to give up the the lameness which she has suffered nany for $200,000. Mrs, Cornwallis-West has, lke Luiy Warwick, been electionee: for her sc., Winston Churchill, who ts run- Lady Warwick, long the reigning © ning for Parliament. O'KEEFFE FOUND LID RIVETS LOOSE Commissioner Took Walk and Made Bets in 2 Brooklyn Pool-Rooms. Commissioner Arthur J. O'Keeffe has adopted Rooseveltian Brooklyn captains. Annoyed because immerman persisted that there thing doing” street precinc, despite repeated complaints that the off there were received by the Com- thyaded the two poolroc:ms then filed charges against Zim- | dent Roosevelt, the Post-Offi | Medical Socte | cers of a medical concern, are seeking | two others, and thr walked unmolested ig by “Bullhead,” O'Keeffe took office he eent for all the captains and gave them @ plain :alk. “I will stand for nothing," he said. “If you take a chance you must take; the consequences.’* H The next day a complaint was received | about the Butier Street Precinct, Capt. rn |Zimmerman told the Commissioner there |‘), “Nothing doing.” plaints brought the same assuran Repeated com- Witcout escort, 3 They knocked at the door of a nouse said to be a poolroom. “We want to mak missioner to the lookout. “We are right," the secretary assured the men were sent , where they found a pool-room in full They made several bets and lett, Then they visited 4 second building. The doorkeeper there was suspicious. But when the two persisted he let wiem pai They made seyerals bets and had Ate the street they ating handbo: Headyaurters © No one knows just what the Com- Captain. but when ‘the latter came from the office he looked Pale and careworn, missioner told After he departed Commissioner ordered charges filed HELD CROWD WITH PISTOL. Pelice Couldn’t Learn Cause of Trouble and Arrested Tremin, Walter Tremain was held for trial in $100 ball in the West Side Court to-day on a charge of carrying a concealed | He was arrested on Seventh avenue Inst night by Bicycle Policeman Crawford, who apparently beat on He wae holding them off with a pis- ittridge had been Nobody would the trouble was, out two negroes said they would certatnly settle with Tromain when he got out again. pocket was a screw driver and a bunch of skeleton keys, pein a Oe, SHIPPING NEWS. FOR TO-DAY. Sun rises, 7.23|Sun sets. 4.55/Moon rises 818 NEW YORK, tol from which on: DUE TO-DAY, Amerika, Hamburg. Le if OUTGOING STEAMBHIPS. BAILED TO-DAY, ja. South’t'nZulln, sntwerp, Gon ROOSEVELT CAUSES ARRESTS SEVEN BURIED IN BIG MEDICAL SCANDAL ———— Up.State Republicans Likely to Be Involved in| Affairs of ‘‘Force of Life’’ Company Officials Held. On the personal suggestion of Presi- authori- ties, advised by the New York County . have arrested two off!- aten to involve Re pubtt politicians and Federal office- holders in a scandal. Dr. William Wallace Hadley, Medica! Director of the Force of Life Chemical | Company, and Mrs, Laura M, Wilson, | contide: tlal manager of the company lay out on $2,000 bail, having are been to obtain money under fulse pretenses by the use of the mails. ‘The authorities hold warrants for E, | Virgil Neal, the alleged moving spirit the concern, who has figured in er affairs demanding the attention jof the Post-Office Department, and for Arthur H, Williams, styled treas- urer of the concern, for whom Mrs. Wilson acted as secretary. A Qspaten trom Syracuse says that a Deputy United States Marshal to- day went through the home of Neal, im that city, but was unable to find him His mother said he hud left for Wash- | Williams, Treasurer, and Frederick H. ested on charges of conspiracy | w: nd Champe S. Andrews have been | secking evidence. They claim to have) ‘he medicine which the con-! $3 was worth abour 39) stimonials were fraudu ‘The literature of the company gives the (ollowine ie ite officers James R. O'Belrne, President; James A. ‘Tedford, Vice-President; Arthur H son Secretary. The directors are, besides the above, Edwin O. Keeler, ee Badgley and James F. Plerce. Mr. Pierce was formerly State Superinten- dent cf Insurance. Gen. O'Beirne President. | Gen. James R. O'Belrne for years has | been more or less prominent in Repub- UNDER AVALANCHE Five Others in Party of Students Exploring Aus- trian Tyrol Escape. INNSBRUCK, Tyrol, Austria, Jan. 13.—Seven theological students out of a a party of twelve were overwhelmed and killed by an avalanche to-day while on an excursion in the Hall Val- ley. 2 =e 1 paid for, and that the com- y ys 1 Dr. Hadley claimed to do {t failed to do and could not perform FOUGHT ALL NIGHT m F. Acton, EB. Virgil Neal, R.'7.|20,000 Gallons of Oil in Eighty-Year-Old Building Makes Fierce Battle. Not until early to-day did the firemen pclitics In this city, and has|feel up their hose and rattle off with held w number of offices under the United States Government. He has been thelr fie-figiting apparatus from the blaze which started last evening at 5.30 |a Special Agent of the Treasury De-|0'clock in the plant of the New York Supreme Court, in Brooklyn, restrain- | Ing Compirol bonds | stand on final hearing, will invalidate | doubt upon the validity of nearly every |standing. It wM!, they say, partioularly | shal issue partment, Assistant Commissioner of|Lubricutiug Company, No, 3 Water | Immigration at the Port of New York | street. This fire started In a buildtig: ington wbout midnight. The deputy and a Commissioner of Charities In this; @®%tY Yetrs old which shelterea barrels marshal was unable to find Arthur H, ‘city, He became president of the con-|f 2 ou every floor There were abou: Wiliams. It was said that he also|cern in September last, when E. Virgil °%%0 gallons of oll in stock, and wien had gone to Washington, both Teceived by telegram the news of Mr. Hadley's arrest, Neal, it ds reported, | has gone to explain to the Federal au- thorities his connection with the Force of Life Company. Within a few weeks Neal and Will- Jams went to Syracuse and organized another company, im which they inter- ested several of the prominent busines men there. , State Politicians Involved. Gen. James R. O'Beirne, a Congres- sional gold medallist and prominent in the Federal politics of ‘ithe city, is President of the Force of Life Com- pany, Through him, the officials say, other politicians, mostly up-State, are involved. It ts, believed, however, that Gen. O'Belrne knew nothing of the af- fairs of the company, and was used as a figurehead, ‘The arrests were made at the offices of the Electr4-Vibratory Company. No. 164 West Forty-seventh street, a con- cern in which Dr. Hadley {s sald to be interasted, The building was formerly oceupled by Dr. F. Gray Blinn, who is now a fugitive from justice on a charg@ se criminal practice. Dr, Hadley and Mrs, Wilson were taken before’ United States Commis- sioner Ridgway by whom each was held in $2,500 bail for examination one week from to-day, Their counsel, John J. Vanse, of No. 198 Broadway, provided the bonds. The prosecution was made by “Assistant. United States District- Attorney Clarence 8. Houghton, as- sisted by Champe S. Andrews and John 8. Cooper, of the Medical Soctety. Claimed to Raise the Dead. About a year ago President Roose- velt received from a woman in Ohio a letter which inclosed Ilterature of the Force of Lafe Company, which occupies an extensive sutte at No, 255 Broadway —mostly devoted to stenographers and the mailing of letters—an@ saying that the company was a fraud In these letters Dr. Hadley claimed the marvellous power cf raising tre dea} and curing or preventing disease, He could arrest time, it was allrged. ‘The President sent the letter to Post- master-General Cortelyou, with the re- quest that he have the company inves- | president. resigned. i EB. Virgil Neal, with Dr. Hadley Will- |{ams and Mrs, Wilson, according to formation in the possession of Champe | 8. Andrews, furnishec the real brains | the having | Neal, who was its organdzer and first| Chief Croker came after the second Jalarm he said: ‘Yhere wiil be hell:here goon," amd he in- |*ent his smoke¢eaters into the midst of fhe buliding. 4s no dang of the concern, Neal, for about ten |Murrolniling buildings. years, was known as X. Lamotte Sage, |¢hrow wa and under that name, Mr Andrws says, |@ through the night. travelled about the country giving ex- ‘bibMions of hypnotism to 10, 20 and 30 © audinces. A little later he went into partnership with a Prof. Atkins, one of the proprietors of the Institute of Physicians and Eurgeons, in Roches- | by a fraud order Issued against Its lit- erature by the postal authorities, ‘Then he came to ‘ ES reading and hypnotism. This concern re- celved much ‘attention in the newspa- | | Pers in June, 194. In the mean time | Neal had become President of the Force \of Lite Company. Banking !iouse Adjunct. Shortly att ingil Neal became ablished the banking house County Medical Society to gather in- formation regarding this banking house, reported that its principal line of bus! |ness was to give loans to small pul {that the loans mostly were paid by ad- Arthur H. Williams, Treasurer of the id to have taken a leading paré in ‘the | conduct of its aaffirs recently, He is |Securlty Corpany, a trustee of | Washington Savings Bank and a di tor of the Co-operative Buildin, in this city. He ves in Mount Mrs. Laura M. Wilson was private secrsta |in the Columbia Sclentiie Academy, and went with him in the same capacity to the Forse of Life Chemioal Company, She Is about thirty-five years old, and ls said to be @ woman of great executive ability: Say Woman Ran Concern. tes, Mrs. Wilson practically ran the business end of the concern in poo one: tion with Neal, and also assii Dr. ‘Hadl Guly eeteteres phyel- medical end. ley. who is ‘clan in es cendin , on clan, but b of N.Y, President Roosevelt requested The institute wus put out of business |Shaw to continue at the head oe the York, where he oecamo han ago that mixed up with the Columbia Scientific pe ins a ba thn orn Atsidemy, a school of palmistry, mind- | {nyleation and will remain, Mr, Olive Bi ‘orce of Life Com- |directors there is a smattering of Repub- qi Neal & Co, A financlal | Pierce, Frederick H. Wileon Is Su; in this city employed by the |itendent of United States |lishing concerns that issued periodicals |and_ex-Lieutenant-Governor of the ;with large out-of-town circulation, and | of Connecticut, vertising space in ‘thelr publications. |#tatement In regard to the arrest of ‘The concern advertised widely with good | Hidley, but he would say nothing until | results, Veen : tor of the company, Later, ‘i gomany and one of the dineagors,, te DRAG Cn eon es ; active running of the compan. President of the Bankers’ Realty and ' Belleve that after a thwrough Investiga- tion has beea made the affairs of tre company will be found to have been conducted differently than reported this | morning. ry and stenographer to Mr. Neal | tio.) Fy Spector received hb According to tie Post-Offlce authorl- jagainet the concern tron Ot pene Suey In every case ‘there was no then $6,00). The firemen continued to SHAW WILL REMAIN. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Durt egular meeting of the Cabinet yesterday the ‘reasury Department until Maroh & 1907. This was because Mr. Shaw signified He has accepted the President's Andrews says she Is a sister of Oliver, the actress, Her husband, who now lead, wis a nephew of ex- Cae Superintendent of Insurance verve, Throughout the list of oMclals and ican politicians. In addition to Mr. Mr. Keeler was asked to-day for 3 aa ‘consultation swith “Di fam FF. Agton, ‘diag’ aires eacnce of Mr. Keelur, Dr act : "We don't have anytiing to do with tie but T The concern ts bus! Whon-he arrived at nt two sult cases ot over to the Pom-Office In- Dae County Medical Society No. 211 Nunda stre nor any one else," declared Mr. Nun- ase in Sponsible for that advertisement, an whatever punishment the Jaw provides have been acquainted for a long time and are in Deputy Commissioner O'Keefe Or- ton, Brooklyn, was draped last night in mourning for Detective Wiliam J. Daily, who committed sufcide Monday when suffering from ineomnia. ‘There had been much discussion o terious order forbidding the hy osis, aocordins to Mr. Andrews. leas hae about ton offices weds ait aala eae bt THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1906. 5 Figure in To-day’s News. INJUNCTION 10 TIE UP ISSUE OF CITY BONDS Validity of $915,000 City Stock Is Specifically Attacked in Court, A temporary injunction was granted this afternoon by Justice Kelly, of the + Metz from issuing city unting to $916,000, or paying them or any interest on them if they have already been issued. Prominent bond dealers in Wall street say that this injunction, if allowed to millions of city bonds and will cast a bond teswed during the last few years. of which there are over $490,000,000 out- affect the Issues of the last two years. ounting to over $96,000,000, The sult was brought by Willlam 8. Van Clief, threagh his attorne A. Davis, of No. 13 Broadway, presented the petition for the injunction this af:ernoon agminst Herman A. Metz, Comptroiler, and, Robert W. Heb- rd, Commissioner of Public Charities. Bidding on Trust. “For a long time,” said Mr. Davis, “the brokers have Lsen making thelr bids for city bonds and taking them on trust, without Investigation, for the reason that they were not allowed to make their bids subject to an examina- tion by counsel as to the validity of the issue. For apparent reasons, there has been great hesitation in making any move that would attack the validity of these bonds. Such an aitack, if sus- tained, would undoubtedly have @ very bad effect upon the city’s credit, at least until such time as a better system of issuing the bonds can be-made effec- “ernie partic.tar issue wae aes Q 5 i Estimate sad Appor- Ranta Seat att adhe Board of Alcormen an ord hance approving the issue on Octo 1, just three days later. re ution of the Board of Est! jonate did not fag bultal ular form, w to, A Charifonds That Are Attacked. “ef cit: ouldiugs cuntemplated wore ‘those of the Tuberculosis’ Hos- Disa, on Staten. Island. another issue ol wes aut sed at the sate meeting to pro- Vide for, a. city lodete-house, We e the of Nah approval, however, though we Sontena “el ata, could not bee ‘under. the platediction of the ‘Department ie by any d inten, OU a ihger ‘tha Hepactmont of Feaith. “Ww! ect he the issue he provisions of the charter clearly’ require that a day shall be definitely fixed more than one week after the Board of Estimate and Apportionment ‘pass @ resolution authorizing any ‘of bonds, and that the matten and not before then, can be con- regular custom. The Board of Estimate 1 Apportionment y, and the next Tuesday the Board of Alder- ted without first fixing a day, men acted wi ne iving no opportu pose per ewowel Of the issue of these bonds or to present any cage for or against them. “Before filing this complaint and ask. ing for this Injunction f wrote to the Comptroller and asked if the $200,000 fasue and the $115,000 issue were in- cluded In the sale of $12500,000 of city bonds made Nov. 23, 196. It showed the lumpud with all other that no segregation was . made. This clearly shows that the entire amount of outstanding city bonds may well the be open to jame question as to their validity.” phi AE eas DENY WEDDING ANNOUNCED IN “‘AD.” Prosecution Threatened for Person Who Sent Bogus Notice of Marriage to Newspaper. MARRIED, NUNGESSER—DIBRMANN—Mire Julia M Diermann and Mr, George Nungeasor were married on Monday, Jan. 8, 1906, by Rev. C. B. Rabbow, of Jersey City. The above advertisement was inserted in a Jersey City newspaper on Wednes- day. Half a hundred friends and all the relatives within speaking distance of. the young people, who are well known in the Bergen section, called at thedr homes to offer cougratulations, ‘They were astoaished by the denials of Miss Diermann and Mr. Nungesser. An investigation is being made and some punishinent is threatened for the per- sponsible for the publication of tice, if he or she Is discovered. Miss Diermann |s highl state as @ result of the affair, and is denied to all callers, To an ‘Bvenii World reporter Mrs. Daniel Grimiths, et, W o1 whom young woman. lives, said: fhe “There is no truth whatever in the announcement of the marriage of niece, Miss Julia Diermann, a3) Georks Nungesser. “tam not married to Miss Diermann tend ‘to find out who is re- iil be intlicted.’” Miss Diermann and Mr, Nungesser the same set. pense chat lay MOURNING UP FOR DAILY. ders Drapery on Station-Houne. The front of the Fifth Avenue Sta- ver a mys- draping of jon-house, the Capt, Carson, commandt the pre- cince, was surprised, bbe the order. ‘Merchants tua ‘realdenta. be nape 7 a Some of the Best Features i | To-Morrow’s A Woman Who Isn't Wanted Anywhere It is an amazing and Pathetic story ably told in to-morrow’s Sunday ‘World, ‘When the Flash- light Went Off in the Jungle The most remarkable photos ever taken. See \ them in Sunday’s World. A Story With a $10,000 Idea for a Play a 2 It’s by O, Henry, and that’s the comment made on it before it was put in type. What American First Preached “Success” To-morrow’s Sunday World tells all about the founder of the cult we would join, How “Society” Is Weighed Each Year It is a description of an experiment that is actually made to find social centre of New York. What the Cat Can Teach Us Human Beings A novel feature on a novel Home Page, Has New York ‘la Light Side? Where ? The Metropolitan Sec- tion of the Sunday World is the best place to. find it, How a Grocer’s Daughter Won .a Millionaire Four years agove vil- lage. girl, then a comics opera queen; read: Sunday’s ‘World. A Show House Where SeatsAre $100,000 Each “ie Sok Exchange, where there is always “standingwoom ticle about Trained Nurses for the Babies in Ant Homes If you think--tt-tsatt so, read the article by Miss Adele M. Fielde, The New Yorker Who Fooled the King If you want to-know who it was and how he did it, read the Sunday The East Side's Greatest Social Function A wedding, of course, but whose? Read the story in the Sunday A Recipe for © Making $40 000 by the Maker The man who sold a pink for that’ price tells how he grew it, What the Ter- rible Twins Did to the Tramps And other good comic