The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1906, Page 3

mI oh @{ together and stokes the tiny fire anew, ah SWOMAN INSANE, STURDY BOY “LITTL ‘ Six Hungry Tracy Chil- _ dren Alone in Par- entless Home. UP TO LITTLE JOHNNIE. 4 He Cooked Cornmeal and Did His Best to Provide for Them. On the top. floor of a three-story slate red rear tenement at No. 311 West : ntieth street, fourteen-year-old ) Johnnie Tracy is caring fbr the five M{ other little Tracys. Once in a while )) He breaks down and epbs silently for mamma, then he shakes himself for Johnnie is gun.e to the core. It’s quite enough to make anybody Blue to have their mamma and papa go away befre one {s awake and stay until it seems quite certain that they are never coming back. It makes it urcomfwtable when the schers begin to ‘wake up and to cry for something to F eat, ecpectally if one 18 not a good cook. Johnnie had B go throwzh all this and mare this mnrning, for there wasn’t a sign of his parents when he awoke. There are five other childrex in the family besides himself, Joey. elght years old; Bella, three; te. two; Katle, one, and the toddler, Jimmie, who is just four weeks old. As there ere only three rooms in the Tracy flat H] it is a bit crowded at times. When } Sonn’ woke up and found that his mamma and papa were gone he Wi ecared at first. Then he began to cry, especially after the Flyns and the Cor- | tinis on the floors below told nim they | had not seen them. Nothing but Corn Meal. It wasn't long before Joey woke up and wanted his breakfast. As far as Johnnie could see there was nothing F but corn meal in the house. He pur ‘a big pot of it on the stove and began to boll it. After awhile he gave Joey fome and it nearly choked him, it was fo hot. Also it wasn't done. ‘Then @ dressed him and started him off to chool. It wasn't long before the others woke, | and then the trouble began. The only thing to do was to fee! them one at a time. They all seemed to like the corn- meal but Jimmie. He couldn't be made to touch it in spite of all Johnnie's coax- ings. So Johnnie put him back to bed and stoked the fire. He told the other children that “they” had gone away A E MOTHER” OF AFFLICTED FAMILY J NUARY 95, 1906. UNAM AUT DASHES WILOL “DOWN PALISAES Driver Steers It Toward Telegraph Pole and He for a little while, and thet “they’ would @ soon be back. This seemed to satisfy all of them but Jimmie, who seemed F) possessed of an extra sense and would } do nothing but wail. Johnnie thought it was because he too knew his mamma wus gone, but the truth was Jimmie ) was very hungry. There was not much to do but straighten up the rooms after the chil- Gren were fed, and then it was all Ry Johnnde could do to keep from blub- }) dering in front of the others. He knew | this would never do, 80 he went out- doors, where he could ory alone, He did not understand what was the mat- ) ter, because him mamma had always F been the kindest person in the world | to all of them. She was usually sing- ing arownd the house and she was al- W) ways in the very beat of spirits. \ Johnnie He Helped. } Lately, though, since little Jimmle come, she had been sickly, and Johnnie had ‘helped with the housework. She had grown worse in the last few days, d this morning when the father woke RSD he fund her babbling hysterically p he nd plucking at the tiny marigolds that down t followed entieth her. 8) IBRARY OF VALUABLE wy OF SERVICES. BY and Helper Leap Out. An automobile of the National Casket Company while descending the pall- sades at Weehawken to-day got beyond the control of the driven and dashed into a telegraph pole at a turn in the Toad. Roth the driver and iis helper were trown out and severely Injured, The automobile was half way down Boulevard Loop hill when something broke and the brake refused to work. ‘The machine dashed outward at a rate of about Afty miles an hour. William Noobey was driving the ma- chine, When it reachedthe turn he started straight for a ble telegraph pole, at the same time shouting to his companion, Henman Werstlem, to jump before the crash came. Both men jumped from the machine just be- fore {t struck the pole, Noobey was badly cut and bruised, but Werstles was rendered unconscious, having mis- guaged his distance and struck against @ stone wall at the side o the road. An ambulance was summoned from St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken, and the unconsclous man was taken there. Noobey was taken home. ‘The, machine was wrecked, == WLOERMEN HEAR MPCALL CONTEST Evidence Presented to Back Up Effort to Unseat the Tammany Man, ‘Thirtieth District at the last election, against the seating of John T. MoCall. Alderman McCall was represented by John T. Dooling. Clarence J. Shearn represented Mr. Slattery, Akierman Charles Kunze (M. 0.) presided; as. Over the objection of the Tammany member of the committee it was <e- olded to efmit the’ tally sheets in the ret, ‘Third, Four ‘ Ey unt eenth, ‘Twenty: "Dwenty-ti - wen! rd election dis. triots and also the returns of the ballot clerks. It was alleged that there were @iscrepanctes in these,returns, be PAINTER GARGENT BEREAVED. LONDON, Jan. %.—The mother of .| John S. Sargent, the painter, ed here last night in her elghtieth y The funeral will take place at Bournemouth, INFORMATION aE FREAL ESTATE| PLACES BARGAINS, TO LIVE, —BY— 1,800 World ‘Want ~—BY—* 2,982 World Want IBALFOUR GETS CHANCE 10 SIT IN PARLIAMENT London Unionist Will Re- sign and Open Way for His Re-election, LONDO? Jan, 25,—Alban G. H. Gibbs, Unionist, has reigned his seat for the city of London in favor of former Pre- mier Balfour, who ha® accepted the committee's invitation to be a candigite to represent the constituency. A writ for a new election cannot be Issued until ‘Parliament meets, so Mr. Balfour will not be present at the opening of the House, which will be his first absence from that ceremony for thirty-one years. Elr Edward Grey, the new Foretgn Seoretary. hasbeen returned for Ber- wiek-on-Tweed Division of Northum- werland by the largest majority ne lever had, This ts typical of the gen- eral result of yesterday's elections. which practieally were an unbroken | series of Liberal successes, Out of twenty-one returns to-day the Liberals take seventeen seats, twelve of which were captured from the Un- fonists. The others were divided— Unionists 8 and. Laborites 1—making the totals: Liberals, 28: Untfonists, 142; Trich Nationalists, 81; Laborites, 48, The New House of Commons already containg thirteen Jews, with several constituencies to be heard’ from. This is a larger number than previously re- corded, There is an interesting contest to-day in the Aylesbury or Middle Division of Buckinghamshire, where the Rev. Silas Kitto Hocking, the novelist, is having A stiff fight in the Ltberal interest @gainst Lionel Walter Rothschild, Un- and Free Trader, supported by eating pare tae hea et out a break since 1 dora Another well-known mriter, R, C. Leh- mann, the oarermnan, who is nell known in the United States, 1s con 0 ‘or Maricat Marborough Division Tiperete against FRIENDLY SUIT AT LAW. Children and Grandchildren Want Clause in Will Interpret All the children and grandchildren of the Inte Mrs. Charlotte M. Goodridge, Isolins, Wyrths, Carnochans and Goodridges, were parties In the trial to- day of a friendly sutt for the construc- tion of her will. The question to be de- ined is whether the magnificent je occupying two lots in ‘Twenty- eighth street, just ‘back of thé Good- ridge mansion, No. 20 Fifth avenue, is or is not Included in the descriptive clause in which Mrs. Goodridge b queathed her house and contents “known as No, 20 Fifth’ avenue" in children in 1907, je Je treated ae & separate property it will go to the grandchildren next year Instead of to thei while the ‘house The children of john H. Isebi Gouvernetir M, Carnoc! Frederick G, Goodridge. They all tes titled they believed the pas (-4 foes ganres E Bic avenue ome Pro) y. Trontin, tide etyeet buck of the hones "fhe Justice Leventritt reserved his de- cision. Get What You Ask for. When you sec an article well . rticte, 25 Moantea marie” fhe” make a specialty of one advertised ar- » Mike ancora, Candy Cathartic, si stable to be al of WOMAN RODE IN AUTO WHICH ~ KILLED A BOY Isadore Goldberg Run Down and Crushed to Death in 5th Ave. Isadore Goldberg, eighteen years old, ! of No. 284 East Houston street, was run down and killed at noon to-day by an electric brougham at Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street. Two women who were | in the brougham fainted, and the driver was surrounded at once by a crowd of workmen who threatened to tear him | from his seat. The boy was employed by the Postal ‘Telegraph Company and was on his way back to the office. He was riding on the back of a truck as the brougham |eame along from behind, He jumped |off and tried to dash scross in front jof it. He slipped on a fruit skin that lay in the middle of the street and the next second he was beneath the heavy vehicle. He might,have escaped with jbis Hfe if the mechanism had not hung so low. It extended to within four inches of the street and the boy was erwshed. ‘The patrol wagom of the Tenderloin happened to be passing at the time, and the police, when they saw the crowd collect, ran forward. They at once backed the brougham off the boy, tothe New: Work Hospital He wee e New fospital. Goad before the: arrived. re @ driver of the machine, Aj Johnson, of No. 277 Bast Seventewn street, wag arrested. The two women in the brougham were Mrs. 11. ‘3. Rosen- » of No. 61 Hast seventy-third street, and Mrs. E. A. Delima, of Nix Loe erst Elghty-seventh street. Was an ambit: and been atteniling night bool or the last five months. He had gone to work igre own initiative, as he ie ed to in ‘want: suopordty the family, He lived with his wed mothe} d other children. ay roe FAVORS BEACH FOR CONVALESCENT US ‘The plan inaugurated by Dr. John H. Brannan, President of Bellevue and the allied hospitals, to lease the seashore Property at Long Beach for the use of s! @nd convalescent patients from the charitable institutiona of the city, came up to-day at the meeting of the Sinking Fund Commission. The idea js to lease the hotel and adjoining prop- erty at a yearly rental of $65,000, with the option Gf purchasing later at the price of, $2,000,000, , ‘The plan Is favored byrall the heads of the city department, from the Mayor down, It {Is algo favored by many well-known philanthropists, Mortimer 8. Brown, of the Finance Department, to whom the matter was first referred, ts unqualitiedly in favor it. In his report he sw ‘he property at Long Beach conéists of 1,056 acres. It extends five miles SIX LITTLE TRACYS LEFT ALONE WHEN MOTHER LOST HER REASON. FIGHTS RAD H DINED CLUB FASHON Police Interrupt Parlia- mentary Procedure, Causing Discomfort. A president In full dress calling the club to order, an omission of the rend- ing of the minutes and the subsequent arrest of two boxers are a few of the events which entertained the “mem: hers" of the Central Athletic Club, in East Fifty-vixth street, Jast night. As the Joorman announced that a fll house wag on hand, Larney Lichen- stein, the president and general mana- ger jauntily jumped in the ring, clad ina dress sult and a Lew Dockstader collar. A meek looking gentleman, termed the secretary or amanuensis, followed him and, after laying a hug book on a table in the ring, sat down. “Fellow members, you will please come to order,’ announced the prest- dent in beginning. “I am pleased to inform you that we have arranged a series of interesting and scientific of" — “Mr. President,” was the interruption of an old member in the corner. move that we dispense with the read- ing of the minutes of the last meeting, and that we proceed with our regular programme, which has been so kindly along the beach, contains @ hotel 1,100 feet long,.completely furnished; twenty- two lange twelve-room cottages, com pletely furnished; a small hotel, f nighed; about 500 bath house office, ‘a railroad station, f{teen one-story cattages and. an artesian welll, : “The property 1s also equipped with a pumping Station located at Bast Rock- away, four, Nes! Aone oe sapente, cr mn gallons. oF er fio 'a ohsiating of eight miles exam) ake their ‘whole bi nes: exintance onvit's going what nto: Sywtoen¢ of pipe line. The property also. has a sewer system eight miles long and a plant with a capacity of 10,000 €, thinks that 995,000 In not eer Ss eee provided for by the esteemed boxing members of our club.” All on Motion. The secretary, who had arisen to Degin the “reading of the minutes," sat dovyn with an injured alr and the book. “Gentlemen, you have heard the mo- tion," sald the president. “Without ob- Jectlon a vote on this subject would be unnecessary, but lest some one should feel slighted, I will put the question. All_in favor of dispensing with the reading of the minutes will please say was a thunderous unanimity of “We will now proceed with the en- tertainment. I take pleasure in intro- ducing Mr. Frankie Howe and Mr, Kid Harris, two of our prominent members, who will entertain you with an exhibi- tion of the manly are and how she is fought on the east side.” Raid Also In Order. The table and chairs were removed and the two lttle fellows went atit, At the end of the thirt round a volce in the rear ahouted: “Now, Mr, Chairman, I will take just one crack at this meeting and let it go at that,” With that Capt. Lantry and three plainclothes men marched to the front and placed the eclentific clubmen under arrest, as wel! as the officials of the or- ganization, the president's dignitied pro- test notwithstanding. ‘Phe six’ men arrested together with the principals were arraigned in York-| ville Court to-day. Capt. Lantry,. whose men made the axrests, admitted that they had tried in vain to buy tickets at the door and that membership cards had been refused, although they had offered to pay the regular fee of $%, They had to show their shields before being allowed to enter the hal Magistrate Walsh on hearing the tes- timony refused to hold the prisoners on the ground thet the law permitted a providing no admission was charged and there were no knockouts, MR. FRY NAMED AS ~ PAINTING CURATOR. Robert W. de Forest, Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to- day announced) that the resignation of George H. Story, Curator of Paintings. which was recelved by Sir Casper Pur- | don Clarke, the Director, in November | last. has been accepted, to take effect | ‘on the first day of May next. The Ex- ecutiv Committee, according to Mr. de Forest, will recommend to the board at tts next meeting the appointment of Mr. Story as Curator Emeritus, ‘The position of Curatorsbip of Paint= ings has been tendered 'to Roger E. Pry, of London, the apt critic and expert. Mr. Fry has ed. Mr. Fry is an expert of and Rennalssance 1, fc of the Italian school, He was one of the founders and @iltors. of she Magaaine, Is ts val club to hold glove fights of three rounds| from San Bernardino Co., Cal. HOSPITAL FIR IMPERILS LW OF 40 WOMEN |Blaze Started in Cellar of Mrs, Alston’s Private Sanitarium. |SWEPT UP TO THE ROOF Policemen and Nurses Carry Sick and Dying Patients from Upper Floors. Forty women, all of them {il and uffering, some of them believed to be dying, were threatened with horrible death Ina fire in Mrs, Anna L. Alston's sanitarium, No, 26 West Sixty-firat street, shortly after 6 o'clock this morn- ing, when flames, which gained headway in the cellar, suddenly shot through the airshaft in the rear of the building and puffed up through the flve stories and went above the roof. To sanitarlum {8 a private institu- tion, It 1s a double house, and in the two houses are many rooms. Thirty nurses are in charge of the patients, These nurses are under Miss Barry, superintendent and head nurse, who is on duty at night. Miss Barry, in making her rounds this morning, smelled smoke and bi gan to Investigate. As she went down- stairs the smoke became denser, and when she reached the cellar she was confronted by a roar of flames that drove her upstairs. Woman Kept Cool. Very quietly Miss Barry acted. She realized that pane would mean death to more than one of the suffering wom- en under her care.~ First she awak- ened Mrs. Alston. “The house is on fire," she sald qutet- ly. “What must I do? Mrs. Alston acted quickly. She fought her way through dense clouds of smoke to the auxiliary alarm on the ground floor, She called the fire engines and then returned to her charges. Policeman Grady, of the West Sixty- eighth street station, ran to the house. He broke in the front door and made for the fifth floor and carried down two women, ‘Then came Policeman Ritchie, who went to the fifth floor with Grady. Ritchle brought down two women safe- ly while Grady funda boy of thirteen, who was recently operated on for ap- pendicltis. ‘The boy is in a most serious condition. The big policeman picked up the little chap and was going down the flight 6£ stairs leading from the fifth to the fourth floor, whén the stairs were burned Away and fell under the policeman's weight. The policeman and boy were thrown to the landing below. but he ‘rhe boy the The polloeman fell full length saved the boy from injury. was taken from him ‘one of nurses and carried down to safety. All Out Safely. By this time the thirty nurre: acted with sich bravery that woman on the two Upper floors nad been taken to the reception room, The flames seamed to be doing most dam- age in the rear of the two upper floors, No life was ost in the dire bute the effect of the fright on the patients may result seriously In several cases. Mrs, Alston's sanitarium has a fong list of tragedies and sensations, The police and Coroner have Investigated feaths there, but each time the man- agenrent exonerated. Hard luck seems to follow the place. in July, 1902, Isabella Earl, nineteen years’ old, fed there while undergoing in operation. Coroner Goldencranz in- vestigated. and {t'was satd a prominent civil engineer was responsible for the Geath of the girl, who was a Sunday- teacher, Dut ved away from Of trouble with her fam- No arrests were made: ‘August, 1902, Viotorine Raedle, a girl, plunged down the elevator and was killed. She was @ patient and at the time of the tragedy exp under the Influence of an anaes. thetic. ‘Dae management was exon- erated, but the investigation revealeg that the elevator h put in a shaft formerly used for two dumb- waiters. ‘When. the sanitarlum was at No, 18 ‘West Forty-seventh street in Novem. ber, 1890 James A. Cook | the fourth-story window and killed, ‘ench att Disabled by Mensl %, DENVER, Jan. %—Orders have been received at Fort Logan oe serge in- definitely the departure 19. Second tor Philippines. The regi- front, was ‘ordered to start autardey, ‘postponement was necessitated by the breaking out of measles and mumps among the soldiers, ‘They will be quar- ani THE LITTLE WIDOW. A Mighty Good Sort of Neighbor to ia “A little. widow, a neighbor of mine, persuaded me to try Grape- Nuts when my stomach was so weak that it would not retain food of any other kind,” writes a grateful woman, “T had been {ll and confined to my bed with fever and p~'vous prostra- tion for three long months after the birth of my second boy. We were in despair until the little widow's advice brought relief. “T liked Grape-Nuts food from the beginning, and in an incredibly short time it gave me such strength that 1 was able to leave my bed and enjoy my thtee good meals a day. In 2 months my Weight increased from 95 to 118 pounds, my nerves had) steadied down and I felt ready for anything. My neighbors were amazed to see me gain so rapidly, and stilt more so when they heard that Grape-~ Nuts alone had brought the chang>. “My 4-year-old boy hat eczema, very bad, last spring and lost his ap- petite entirely, which made him cross and peevish. I put him on a diet of Grape-Nuts, which he relished at once. He improved from the begin-! ning, the eczema disappeared and now he is fat and rosy, with a delightfully sott, clear skin, The Grap:-Nuts diet quiries.” Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. ere’s: book, “The. Road to. Well in did jt. I will willingly answer all in- AMAZONS FIGHT AT ‘DUMB-WAITER SHAFT F athouse Encounter Ended in Calling Out the Police Reserves. The details ef @ modern battle of the Amazons were brought out i tie Mare lem Poles Court to-day, when most vf the women residenis the fla house at No. West One and rty-fourth street appe prinsipals and witnesses in ti that brought out all the res Niock®and the reserves est police station before it was « compla Mrs. who weighs about 300 pounds. Sho ppeared with a set of luxurlous furs 1a badly seratched face, Her good right arm was encased in a large and aly bi h she alleged cov Her re- rom the near. Hod nnie w ered seven ghastly Knife wounds. her, huzband accomp also splendent in fu The priso rmott years old, two. The ed Rose Mo- sixteen swenty- arged Jonn, were twa women with felonious assault and the son with assault. Young McDermott bore as his share of the injuries a badly black- ened nose and eye and a split tp. From the testimony of the witnetses and te principals 4; appeared that the trouble started when Rose, the daugh- ter, started for the dumbwalter last night ‘with a hod of Right across the hall lives the Killea family, As Rose came out into the hall Mrs, Killea appeared at her door wits an- other scutue, The only differen was that hepa was empty dd that she wanted to send down «after coal. The two reached the shaft at the same moment, Each claimed the right to send down the waiter first. Rose emptied the contents of her scuttle upen Mrs, Killea’s head, ‘They clinched and wrestled alt over the hall, “fheir sereums brought t Mrs. Mecbermoit, who had been carving a plice of beer. All the Killeas and the MeDermotts then joined In the row. When arraigned in court to-day Mag- ixtrate Crane held the two women in ashes, $500 bail for tral in Special Sessions, ‘he eon who it appeared had entered the {ray for purely impersonal reasons, was fined §. 5 fully VeVi -S CAC. ed Cl Ong Be eee a Aveavce Spring Coats. $12 New Covert $ “Tandem” Coats, “Yy Friday’s Style Offering Always alert for the very latest thing in Coverts in England, we have made pits special line for Friday's selling. styles of very toppy effect—the newest coat in it Double Twist Covert, Latest Pastel Shades, Friday Only, *5°* With spring weather ail about there’ days and the brighter cool weather. agmple lot of wnloh we are very prowd— enw Remember—Alterations FREE SALE AT BOTH, STORES. ! FORMS A DRUG TRUST FOR THE ETAL TRAE ‘George J, Whelan Or- | ganizes It on Lines of United Cigar Stores. Now comes the retall drug store Jer the nime of the United Com J. Whelan, of the ores Company, who ore moking combination four shind the United Chem- » ind will he its directing ted Clear anized that years ago. is ists! Company | spirit. ‘The principle which he has fol- lowed In his wholsesale-retail system of tobacco trading are to obtain in this latest venture The new trust is capitalized at $10,00,< 00 And is in rated under the laws, Forse It is to begin operas} 1 with the five big drug, |sSiores owned by William Wilson ing | various centres of the clty. Wlison ish |to be a big stockholder and one of the’ officers of the com ation. . | Whelan has the experience of trade % jing along the lines which he has made | 80 successful in selling cigars and and Wilson has the experts ence of many ye drug store at a protit. Beside e Wilson drug stores, {t was | jearned ay by a reporter of The |Evening World, that options had been }obtalned on other valuable drug-store = |tocations, negotiations’ having been ‘beef | gun towurd this end more than_a véear® |ago. This was the way George Whelan figated his cigar stores trust when he in conducting #& drifted into New York four years ago? |from Syracuse, with big ideas and a! | very Uttle capied. | It is the purpose of Wholan td have | It accepted as a fact that his associates in his drug trust are Western capitale, jists. who have been heretofore, con- ected with lirge copper and lead in- terests. In some quarters this Is de- | nied, and it is cafd that tie people with | Whelan are. the ones at present inter= ested with lilm in the cigar stores com- pany, with the excepti drug store men Hie Willia of a fow big m Wilson, a3 of those chic, attractive jacket the city. ] y Silk Lined Throughout. Has the ultra-fashionable Ostend collarless effect—strictly new to this| country—well-fitted, back with the tan- dem-box front—flap pockets—beauti- tailor strapped; , us "3 no use to walt—a cont for cold A Ine $12 values, uplifting began in 1883, it 1,184,959 single paid ad: The New THE CALL OF THE WORLD. In 1905, the twenty-third year of The World’s continuous growth since its. rinted, in its mornin, 34,680 columns of advertising, an increase of 6, artisements, a gain ovér 1904 of 206,316. ‘ork newspaper closest to The World in total space grew much and Sunday editions onl 8% colums divided into less than half as much in columns and increased but 7,911 single advertise- GROWTH BY PERIODS. Advts. Published, 86,577 448,793 782,794 874,958 Di <= 11 34,959 The World's Want momentum reached its greatest force in the last half of the year, when, according to a count made b & Co., chartered accountants, it printed 817 printed by the New York Herald, printed for the six months from July 1 Messrs. Barrow, Wade, Guthrie 611,215 advertisements, against 555,- leading it by 55,398 in the aggregate to January 1. No other newspaper ever before made such gains in a similar period or reached so vast a total. More than 75 per cent. of The World's Want advertisers give their business addresses, but, despite this, over 870,000 replies came to the box numbers tn The World’s own post-office, The Skill of Editing is made manifest in the 1906 ee 7] ae World Almanac & Encyclopedia. ar 25 Cents. : By Mail, 35 Cents, 4g a ine