The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1906, Page 3

of the lamp that had lit it. WOMAN ENDS LIFE BY FIRE WHER ROOM Deliberately Fires Heap of Papers and Lies Upon Flame. SILENT UNDER TORTURE. Old “Mother” Gormley Makes No Sound While Endur- ing Awful Agony. DISGRACE OF BROTHER. Gamins’ Gibes About Relative Sent to Prison Broke Aged Sis- ter’s Heart. In a shabby little room of the rear tenement at No. 436 West Eighteenth atrest, Old “Mother” Gormley, after Piling about her a great heap of papers, @mashed a burning kerosene lamp over the plie and lay down to dle in the, midst of the flames last night. ‘What her agonies were nobody will) ever know for si made no sound while he fire slowly tortucsd her to death. Persons in the next room knew ‘noth- tug of the tragedy that was being en- acted until they smelled the fumes that brought out t! ntire block in a panic. Disgraced by Brother. For years “Mother” Gormley had been a familiar figure of the quarter, Bho eked out a meagre livicg by work- ing as a domestic in the house of a family uptown. Her only relative was #@ brother who worried her with his escapades. It hurt the more because ‘Mother’ was proud. and would not take a loan from anybody. It hurt the more therefore when the brother, who known as “Leather” among his easy-going kind, was sent to the Island last week. It was the first time {t had happened and the disgrace was more than the old woman could bear. The gamins of the neighborhood heard of the sentence and added their cruel gibes to the already heavy pain. ‘The old woman held up her head and gmiled back, as she had always done, ut she broke down when she gained her room, She sent \a message to her mistress uptown, telling her that if anything happened .to.her to fee that her Body was cared for. ‘The mistress came down post-haste, and after a time succeeded in comfort- ing the disconsolate woman. She leit last night, promising to come again ie! morning. She did, but she was too Said She'd “Go Away.” Tt was after supper fast night that “Mother” Gormley met little Gracie Boyle 1 nthe hall. The child had been ene of the woman's favorites and she @topped her and spoke to her. “You would be sorry if I went away, ‘wouldn't you?" she asked the Mttle girl. “I thik I will go away. My brother has disgraced me and there isn't much more for me to live for any- how.” The child told her mother of the in- eident, but nothing was thought of It until too late. The woman also sent a message to one of her friends, a Miss Smith, who lives at 451 West Thirty- third street. Mis Smith came to the too late. It was midnight when Mrs. smelled a peculiar odor, “Somebody burning steak, I gues: ee said, Then she went to the hall and opened the door. She reeled back nauseated by the reck that drove into the room. ‘The others ran to the win- dows and ssrleked for help. Frome the windows below was polrr- ing a greasy shoud of eddying smoke that: swayed and choked back in. the narrow little court, so that In a moment Boyle Jamp. less time than it takes to tell it When into the dingy ttle room on the first floor, There was little for them to do. On the floor lay the charred remains of the woman, About her were the smouldering fragments of the pyre that had consumed’ her. <A few pieces of half-melted brasa was all that was left The fire- men stamped out the smouldering flame and the.frightened people stole away. Only a few stayed to piace a faded e@ushion ander what had been the head and'to “wake” all that was left of *Mother” Gormley and her sorrows. THE CALL OF Bee tet - ny he 34,080" ‘ork new! fess than half as much ments, 1883 emer... 1885 1890 1900 " 1908 — The World's Want momentum 4 when, according to « on uartred Uttle rear tenement this morning, «lso| | it almost darkened the ray of the gas|provides ‘Phe tenements buzzed and emptied tn) ti the firemen came they had to break | V% GROWTH BY PERIODS. Loot AT. “fe CROSSING: ISN'THE A: SEE THIS WOMAN TRYING TO GET A BROOKLYN CAR, THAT MAN jie! pway ? WK MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1963. THIS WOMAN TOCS The last three months spent by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has failed to discover one hero or WHO DARES GO IN THE STREET Beane NEW YORK IS FULL OF HEROES, MR. CARNEGIE! _ By Maurice Ketten, the Angle-and-Curve Artist.) SStoccewrpyy fb —— UW 7774 WS A ; D THOSE PEOPLE Le 77, nes: ONDER THEG Roont On 7170) heroine.—News Item. aur suar: 17 el Lees edi | fa Hae 177417717 WHAT couRace! E ARE gouSy ET, naaT-FOR SECRET SESSION ON Members of Rapid Transit Commission Discuss the Pro- posed Substitute Franchise. Behind closed doors, in the offices of the Rapid Transit Commission, at No, 3 Broadway, to-day, the Committee on Plans considered the proposed terms of a franchise for the New York Connecting Railroad. Represen- tatives of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and of the New York, New| Haven and Hartford Railroad Company) were present, but the puplic was dented) admittance, Later on there will be public hearing, as the Mayor and mem-| bers of his cabinet are anxious to have the matter thorougibly ventilated. ‘The connecting railway proposes to get Pennsylvania Raliroad into Brookiyn by means of its tunnels and ries of ‘nkils’’ beginning at Bay connect with the New Haven Riad, which will cross the new Black- well’s Island Bridge. There is in coi templation by both companies the ex- penditure of nearly Fivy,vvy,u00, more than haif of which ‘will be sent in la- bor. Immense freight yards are to canstructed in various points not only jn Brooklyn but on Lng island. The Bureau of Franca! orga: submitted a sudsiltute fo. the franchise applicd f.r by tae vom panies, ‘Talis supstitute requites | ta the company vhall pay ny the contract is r for the first ten yesrs and |for the next filtern vears, At the end of that ume the terms of the contract are subject to f Besides the city proposes <hat the companies shall be Hable to a fine Ot° sih.00b for failure to comply with Rny of the provisions of the propostd ‘at, and within thirty days from the me the franchise Is signed, the com- it §6U,00d trom which ‘shall. be collected. It also hat the railroad oc panies late that it will not discrimin- City of New York in revision, FY the Mayor and testing agatnat, it. M MoCilan was asked to- ent he hade to mak terms @re too. When sege ae what com! oh president Cagsott’s letter, he Aa "Nothing at Lam et this time, av ‘& member of the Rapid ‘Transit Com- misston."* DR, DADIRRIAN FOR LOST WIFE Thinks John Whitson Is the Man to Pay it and Sues Him. Dr. Dicran L, Dadirrlan has lost his wife. but considers that 960,000 would settle the damage. Accordingly he has sued Jobn Whitson, whose real name is said to be Edward R. Copple, for that sum, alleging that Whitson lenated Mrs. Dadirrian's affections. order has been Issued requiring to furnish $5,000 ball or go mdlow street jail, and a deputy sheriff is hunt- ing for him. He has been living at the Hotel Savoy. ‘Whitson has a wife and two children. He formerly lived at No, 650 Madison avenue. Mrs, Whitson joined Dr. Dadir- rian in securing the evidence upon which the sult was brought, She Is now living with her children at No. 26 Lenox Dr’ Dadirrian's home is at No. it One Hundred and Thirteenth 625 street, and his place of business Is at No. 73 Lexington avenue. Quick Action All Around. Dr. Dadirrian was married in ‘March, 106, to Virginia A. Crowe, a daughter of 5 member of the pa- toring firm of Perki & Co, Six mouths later, he al- left him and for ‘this he Dik who ls president of the Whitson Auito-Press Company, at No. 114 Liberty street, a. $1,000,000 ‘cor- oration, In which, It is alleged by Dr. adirrian, some $200,000 worth of stock has been ‘sold, Dr. Dadirrian in his petition says that his wife Knew Whitson before her mar- lage, but that he was not aware of the fact until June 17, 1905, about three months after the wedding. With Mrs. Dadirrian he was taking luncheon at the Claremont. A stout, dark man was sitting at an adjoining table, Mrs. Dadirrian, the jeasantly to the stout, dark man, who itened to o hands with her. She tl stranset 44 Mr. Whitson, ir. Whitson -w: him, After a few minutes, Dadirrian al- leges, Mr. Whitson announced that he joctor says, spoke:| Amal STOLE COP'S SHIELD CONNECTING ROAD} WANTS $50,000 | 0 GET BLACKMAIL Cabman Taylor’s Easy Road to Wealth Led Him to Prison. " OHAPTER I. “Dere's nuttin’ in this oharioteerin’ game," lamented James Taylor, of the Bronx, as he turned in his hansom at midnight and drew his slender pay. “Wot is dis fer a roll,’ he sighed, as he twisted the bills around the third BRAVERY OF ENGINEER SAVES | COULDN'T PRESERY FLYING EXPRESS Badly Hurt in Wreck Near Plainfield, N. J., He Alarms Flagman. (Special to The Evening World.) PLAINFIELD, N. J., Jan, 2%.—An finger of his right hand. Ah! Why 4ld|east bound wildcat engine going at the he twist the long green around the; rate of sixty miles an hour dashed into third finger? Because (heed well!) the index and middle finger were bitten off by @ sorrel horse three years ago, Leaning upon a polished rail James Taylor pondered. He cogitated, rumi- nated and thought, elpping the while from a mug of black-and-tan. At last an idea surged upward to his brain, and he exclaimed softly to himself: “I will rob a policeman! Bloated coupon cutter, I will filch me their gold and precious stones!” CHAPTER I. For Jim Taylor to think was to act. especially when the mingled ale and porter supplied the proper thrill to his sou. Bold-hearted, fearless as any Knight errant of ye ancient days, he attained the handsome apartment of James Donovan, the taliest policeman of the Bridge Squad, at No. 300 West Fifty-first street. As the Amateur Cracksman @nee cabman) softly kicked in the doof Constable James Donovan awoke and caled out drowsily: ‘Is that you, Mike?" (referring to his brather Michael). “Ls me," replicd the intruder, shrewdly suspecting that Mike would not have replied, “It is 1.” ‘Thoroughly deceived the Policeman relapped Into sonorous slumber. Keep- ing time the music af the sleaper Cracksman swiftly cleaned out the flat; making a neat bundle of $00 worth of Mrs. Policeman Donovan's furs, a quantity of silverware and some pretty jewelry. And as he ‘burgled along ie @look in. the neighboring steeple truck 3A. M. nt ““iremor pavaed through the nerves yn. ‘Comptroner: Metz said he believed the terms should be fair 5 and the clty. Mr. ‘8 Imp! latter that if the city persisty In the ees scheme some of the works will abandoned is not taken seriously. THE WORLD. of The World's contini growth since is iy morning ad’ Sunday ons only, of advertising, an increase of 9; dvertisements, a over per closest to, World columns and increased bul iat of Bogie, - abit ingle advertise: ‘ Advts, Publishéa. 86,577 448,793 782,794 874,958 1,184,959 the wife of This cara, © had a_new horse outsld hours, he says. Bobbed Up Every Time. te. ‘ding to Dr, Dadir- rian, Whitson bobbed up nearly every time he took hia wife to & place of pub- i jrement or enter! Mra. Dadtrr! hi they would While the doctor wi out and fearing — ance of Whitson, Mrs. she prefers to be n—Mi Was proving a Oe all usband’ i “but had n unable to he identity of the writer. oving: @ new nd Mrs, Crowe were irop2 and would rent their ‘The tiame Crowe tn- her. She terest deughter name Virginie, who was then ft Dr. J rrian. No Escape from Him. rtin Hewitt, He solves a ae ee Re 's pocket, Investigated and found that Mr. and Mrs, Crowe had a Investigator.” ‘That's tha! teur.Cracksman as the bell broke je a Kicked in the door of the policeman's flat. Anon Constable Donovan awoke nae eee ie ai t Letind Mike?" al tition. 8 gay. that’ the Amateur ctacksman ‘had ie ae iceman fel. He from the head of the bed and ‘remove the insignia of police authority. He did so and Was out again into the night. CHAPTER IT, + It ts morning—a Sabbath morning—sul- | f° -onpressive—verily a ing. James t thirsty morn~ waloon at ith nue, tiveaty. Hs Hips 0) @ Tirty-thied atree 3 _to the bar orders “one beer.” The beer 1s irawn, the froth scattered in. an encir- and the liquid drunk, tre! ry. hes le le is zi fas Grant, Nae ans ee mi Y ne oC ei mi allows them to bo ‘drm fer ahinld” shining on the breast of M TCE Aolarall about. ttt" the Amateur erackeman, “Aein the Taw me intoxioatin’ liquors. ‘Ten 1 or-t-rerun ves in." Li the “R's finally on. $5. ~ CHAPTER Lv. ir James Taylor Ganymede of eyes wn to a glistening remarks | 3 @ drill engine on the Jersey Central here early to-day, the engineer and fire- man of the former being seriously in- jured. The lives of several hundrod passengers on an Baston express travel- Mog west at sixty miles an ‘hour were saved by the presende of mind of Bn- gineer Murphy, of the drill engine. When the wildcat smashed into the drill train, which was on the east-bound passenger track, four cars attached to the latter were torown over into the eust-bound freight track, colliding with a freight train going west. Several of the drill train cars then careened over toward the west-bound express track, endangering the fast train which was approaching. ‘The drill engine was a total wreck, but Engineer Murphy, who miraculouslx escaped injury, clung to his post and turned. on his ‘whistle, notitving Flag- man Frank Hageny, hear the Nether-| wood station, to stop the Eagton ex- res, which ‘was due to pasy the spot at that time. Kngineer Mahoney, of Jersey City, of the express, xaw the signal anl reversed | his engine, but the tracks were too sllp-| pery to alop the train in time, so he} Jumped just as the fireman's cab was torn off: The left side of three pas- senger cars and ithe baggage car were | Tipped out, Glass flew. everywhere, and a dozen passengers were cul about the face and arms, One woman fainted, Dut owing to the cooiness wf the men there was no panic. * James Vannatta, of Jersey City, en- aineer of the wildcat engine bound for Communipaw, stuck to his post and was so badly injured: that, he was removed to. Muhlenberg Hospital. Vannatia, tt ta claimed: is rea ponaible aving disre rdered him to . who did his Robert Loash- rr, the fireman of the Wildcat. was caught In the wreck and was seriously injured. He, too, is in the hospital. i feol at SS, SOLD GUN SUICIDE USED. Mrs, Annie Burgess Bought Re- ' volver from a Pawnbroker. Joseph Anderson, a pawnbroked of No. 301 West Forty-second street, vis- ited the Coroner's office to-day and told Coroner Shrady that Mrs, Annie Burgess, the young woman who killed herself. at No, 317 Woe-t Forty-second street yesterday, bought & revolver of him last, Friday, She asked him how to load gnd fire it and he expinined item ism. nit cartridges and hi to an ammunition denier. wh Ant nm read e story, [Mrs Burgess’s death ‘he thought she be the womln he had seen and @ Coroner his information. Coroner Bhrady held Anderson as ® whneas for the inquest In $100 ball, which the pawnbroker readily ave. for the wrec 3 1s which of the time he had reached Fifty-elxhth streot, hat roamed through many adjacent avenues. He was wlso a, trifle unsteady, ‘The mist had thickened: be- fore his eyes and he mistook a livery ble at No, 2 West Fifty-elghth et for @ valoon, ." Linner- the threat ‘the. bar- Halt an hour later Eplicesen Dono- ba) Sega! 1 Gout charged wit In all there in, st him.to send tell whére he disposed rot tromn the police: "LIFE PRESERVERS” Canvas of Those on the Slo- cum So Rotten Fingers Percied It. After one week of cumulative testi- mony, showing carelessness and neglect in providing against just such # catas- trophe as ocourred, the trial of Capt. ‘William H. Van Schsick, of the Gen- Slocum, was resumed before Judge Thomas and a jury in the United States Ciroult Court to-day, Still further evi- dence was Introduced by the prosteu- tion to-day showing the uselessness of the Ufe-preservers with which the Slo- cum was provided. Coroner's Physician Philip O'Hanlon was the first witness called. He test!- fled as to the examination of 200 bodies, all of which he found had died of sub- mersion. Among them was the body of Michael McGrann, the steward, who had on a life preserver. The defense has tried to bring out that MbGrann died of an injury and was not drowned, in spite of the life preserver. Other physicians testifled to the large propor- tion of drowned. Dr, Thdmas J. Physician in the Bronx, had examined about 80? bodies, tified that only eighteen or bodies were burned. Mrs, Meta Delbenthal, who had charge of the lunch counter, testified that her five fingers broke through the canvass of a Mfe-preserver when she tried to pull cne down. Miss Minnie Koch, one of two survivors of a party of stx, told how she had tried to pull down Iife- preservers and the granulated cork fell out all over her. Otto Gamers, who lost his another and cousin, testified that the whole promenade deck was coverel with cork before the Slocum was pecauTe. ee WORKS WITHOUT PAITH. Faith Came After the Works Had Laid the Foundation, A Bay State belle talks thus about coffee: “While a coffee drinker I was a sufferer from indigestion and intenge- ly painful nervous headaches, from childhood. “Seven years ago my health gave out entirely. I grew so weak that the exertion of walking, if only a few feet, made it necessary for me to lie down. My friends thought I was marked for consumption—weak, thin and pale. “I realized the danger I was in and tried faithfully to get relief from medicines, till, at last, after having employed all kinds of dru; the doc- tor acknowledged that he did not be- lieve it was in his power to cure me. “While In this condition a friend induced me to quit coffee and try Postum Food Coffee, and I did so without the least hope that it wou do me any good. I did not like it at first, but when it was properly made I found it was a most delicious and refreshing beverage, I am especially fond of it served at dinner ice-cold, with cream. “In a month’s time I began to im- prove, and in a few weeks my indi- gestion ceased to trouble me, and my headache stopped entirely. I am so perfectly well now that I do not look like the same person, and I have so Curtain, Coroner's testified he He tes- twenty 'Y|gained in flesh that I am fifteen pounds heavier than ever before. “This is what Postum has done for me. I still use it and shall al- ways do so.” Name given by Pos- tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, There's a reason. Read the little book “The Road to Wellville”> in pkgs. ‘ peor / MOE PH: ee malts att Ramo SUN Cae AUT — aed? Sample Surts. 19° $20 Spring Models, Big Tuesday Sale, Advance Spring Styles Absolutely new creations— costumes later in fashion than any of the Winter styles—out- fits with which you may relieve the constant wear on your Win- ter suit. New Spring Weave West England Cheviots Beautiful long coat saddler- strapped suit, glove fitting and tailor stitched, coats being richly lined with gray satin. Cheviot, has the rich: exture of Broad- ‘Also $20 New Pony Box' Coat Suits, with new style jacket—swell, natty, new designs in stylish Rughy' Spring Mix- $40-98 tures, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23D, Corsets NEW MODEL of fine Coutil, straight front, supporters attached Volue $1.50. 95c NEW MODEL, high grade Coutil, medium high bust, supporters attached. Value $2.50. 1.50 NEW MODEL, fine Mercerized Batiste, eupporters attached, Value $4.00, 2.25 Sale of Satin Foulards is Will Be Continued Tuesday and Wednesday. SINGLE WIDTH. Regularly $1.50. 95c yard DOUBLE WIDTH. « — $5.50 and $6.00. 3.50) ‘* i Feather .Neckwear MARABOUT STOLES, Muffs to match. Regularly $24.00 12.00 Set COQandMARABOUT NOVELTY STOLES. Regularly $12.006.00 Each MARABOUT MUFFs. Regularly $7.50 3,75 Each Broadway cLeakib, Street Last Week of Sale SALE CLOSES TUESDAY, JANUARY 30th Final Mark Down of great variety of styles and leather produces following offerings Men's, . 4 $1.00 to 4.75 Women’s Boots 4 + 1.90 to 3.45 | “ . Ties and Slippers 1.45 to 3.75 Young Women’s . ° 1.95 to 2.45 Boys’ and Girls’ . . 95 to 2.45 Children’s . . 65 to 1.45 i AN EARLY CALL AVOIDS THE RUSH Sixth Avenue, N. E, Corner 19th Street Alexander J.MORRIS. ey Pa | Re S90" c) > 2 WRITE % 12.98 Siiic'dax ———" W OF OUR Grand Rapids Qourrits ST NEAR « EIGHTH AVENUE