The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1906, Page 5

\ ; | ee BESEL, BOS OF C'S Doct, WAN OF IDES Doesn’t Care for Poli- ticians, but Wants to Benefit the City. | HE IS FULL OF ENERGY. Means'‘to Retire from Active! Business When His Term as Commissioner Is Up. PLANS TO IMPROVE CITY. One of His Ambitions Is to Fill In and Bea .tify River Front | of Riverside Park. —— Commissioner of Docks and Ferries) J. A. Bensal may make mistakes as} the head of a big and Important city department, but they will not be made | Deckuse he lacks decision. Sitting in che ante-room of the Com- missicner's wffice on Pler A yesteniay | were a number of men who were wait-/ fez to Bee ‘he boss of Greater New York's water front. One evidently had| never seen the Commissioner and said t2 his compaction pd of a-man is the Com- He's a scrappy litle chap who talks Dusiness straight from the sfoulder,” answered the o! r. And that describes Mr. Bensel who In his five feet eignt of one hundred am} forty pounds carries enough steam to equip a half dozen men, He {s somewhere this side of the fifty-year mark, aml is as full of busi- ness as a floor operator on the Boke Exohange, He { what would be termed on the Bowery. ‘full of scraps," and he can look Very rough or very pleasant out of light blue eyes that peer frankly through his glisses Has Red Hair—Some. His hair must fave been as red as} Bob. Fitzsimmons’s at some time or other. It is not as plentiful as it once was, and has thianed cut to such an extent that It has left a well-defined) space of clean sculp on top of his head. | He has « bristly little mustache ant eyebrows that arch curiously: over his | glasses ina con:inuously inquiring fash- | fon. He has a most pronounced under jaw ond a quick, determined way of yenking. see wears inconspicuous clothing and | shoes of a solid pattern like a pla:n- | clothes man from headquarters. A sim- ple watchehain and charm is the only jewelry, aside from a modest scarfpin, that appears in his personal adorn- ment. He pegan his career in the Dock De- partment as an assistant engineer twep- ty years ogo. He helped carry out the dren enormous task of waat was cailed the “North River work,” in making new Yocks und then went to Walladelphla foricwhile, some years ago he trok the position of Chief Engineer of the Dock Department, and whun Mayor Mc af 4 him to lake the place of Glellancsmumiesioner he. sald: “vhe place does not pay me uny more moasy than the one 1 lad, and It means | {eruitely more work, However, I meant | to reure from active business In a! couple of years any way, and 1 might as well retire the boos of the place As one of the subordinates. I don't neod the money, and t doesn't make any Gifference to me that the salary 1s no wT have here been sdentifed with pol- don't know. what will hap: | ier OM Ine before wet out of hero. ; ‘know. however, that a8 long as 1 am fe the piace shall be run as I think ft ought to be run and so far as I om Able fe will not be p clearing-house for fico! business of any sort. ; Naturally the subject of the city's ies was/ sugested and he said: “iT can't aay whether ferries owned by city are a, £01 ne or not {NSE the “people vote for them there lsn't enygbine to do but go ahead and rin the: Tf it turns out that good termi- nals, good boats aad rapd service, such AB we naturally feel we're entitied to Cost more. than the Income and ave Fun at & loss. then it is up to the suly- ere of municipal economic problems to Gecide how the matter can be adjusted, “yor my part, Iam here to see that they are run as was intended, and I'll do What any anything els in the way of the Job." As to “Filling Ii ‘When asked about the favoritism in contracts, Mr. Bensel said: “Of course, there has always been woritism in. the filling {n contra But it doesn’t appear that the city lost anything. It got all it would have got from any one else for the same money. Col | thinks In the way of fill “We have made land at Riker's Isiand ‘for the city, ne of municipal wet 4 When I disrupt Morocco. ‘The correspondent of the Standard despatches hereto- and whose Algeciras, fore have been authentic, sources of information ané undoubted, cable: “I am in a position to assert that the final will emanate from America. dor Henry White is only awaiting tho right moment to submit a proposal which, {t Is believed, will prove ac- ceptable to both France and Germany. ‘White's authority to state that a successful issue Is confi- “f have Mr. mmis: ALWAYS IN ARUSH. “L have been talking er Woodbur; 2 2 g 5 3 8 5 5 RE: ° 5 zi iy 2 & 3 = = the gre ity like this partments to work fet sone of the many small te- ROOSEVELT LOOMS IN MOORISH BROIL HE WEARS THE SOLID LOOKING SHOES OF A PLAIN CLOTHES MAN. ing in. $8,000,000 worth of new Make Peace. whose and troubes in a bi ‘oul is that tt is hard together. “at | crooks early to-day. “He's A. SCRAPPY LITTLE CHAP WHO TALKS BUSINESS STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER (wus vif my bands I hope to be able 0} take up with Mc. Woodbury the prob- lem of making Riverside Purk, ‘trom Seventy-seco! Street. up, something like what it was Intended to be. “While the railroad 1s there it is out of the question to make It a real park, but we can certainly make it avatiable for the le. “If Mr. Woodbury can get money cnough for an incineration, plant, he can turn out enougii ashes to fill up all that ground west of Riverside Drive. leaving acut for the railroad, with brhlees over DROVE THUGS TEL LT ER TRY MRE NRT IT 9ST ZTE orgygeren ary CRIN SENT 10 ROUT IC WN TENOERLOW Appearance of New Czar Causes Flurry in Resorts. TO TEST “IMMUNITY.” “Farmer” Dooley Deposed in Moment of Boasting of His Work. With the appearance of Police Captun Stephen O'Brien as commander of the West ‘Thirtieth street station-house to- day word was passed through the Ton- derioin that resorts of every kind which have been practically !mmune from in- terference would begin the hardest sea- sor: of troubles they have ever known. Capt. O'Brlen moved up to the station at $ o'clock this morning, but the fact that the former police sergeant, who got his kmowledge under Inspector ‘Thomas Byrnes, was coming to enforce every law was heralded along Broadway last night. Lights are expected to be put out or turned low in back rooms to-night, and@ the corners of streets 4t. This is, of course, in the event of the burk iment rating with us, which we think st will “In addition to making a new and comforcable park the inciueration of garbage will do away with the street- cleaning dumps, whish are nulsances and the flotsam and jetsam that covers the buthing beaches that comes from the street-cleaning dumping places at sea. “A lot of these things I speak of will not be popular with the rank and file of’ politicians, but they will be good things for the city.” AHEAD AS ° HE HALF-CARRIED VICTIM —— Ambassador White Said. io] Policeman Williams Herded Prisoners with His Have Proposal Which Will Pistol While He Bore Aged Man They Assaulted Toward Oak Street Station. LONDON. Feb. 14.—President Roose- velt and the American Government are expected to bring to a successful ter- mination the crisis now threatening to the Algeciras conference on Supporting with one hand the aged Victim of an attack of footpads, while in the other he held a revolver with which he cowed two prisoners, Police- man Williams, of the Oak street sta- Uon, effected the arrest of two alleged “If either one of you fellows attempts way,” sald the policeman, who declared he meant every ‘ll bore a hole through you. hands up,” he commanded; ‘Now, “right about face, and get a move on.” Down the terminal block of the Bow- ery, across Chatham Square and through two blocks of New Bowery on the way to the Oak street station, Williams, his prisoners and the agéd and feeb! tim, proving an added burden at ry step, oroceeded. Then the old man de- cleared he could go no fupther, moaned and sank to the pavement, Daily Lessons in Profitable Advertising ! LESSON IV. . AS a great body of water may be traced back to a small, trickling stream, $0 may many of Life's greatest object-lessons be accredited to, the nimbleness of the flee, to the patience of the spider, to the recklessness of the moth, to the industry of the ant, or to the fidelity of the dog. & From whence, one might naturally ask, comes ti success? Let's ask little Cupid, art of executing matrimon! Just think of rest to this clever matchmaker, St. Valentine picked out Cupid to solve the’ secrets him to be possessed’of keen insight into human nature. were the only words of advice the elderly father had to offer. gether,’ - That's just exactly what Cupid does. ‘That's what The: World's Want he keynote to advertising who is with us to-day. He is a past master in the 1 contracts. It's easy for him to find one’s affinity. je kind of wife or husband you would like to have, and leave the f the’ hi “Bring the people to-. To be sure, he takes occasional strolls along moonlit paths, but as a rule he accomplishes his work by con- centrating humanity at parties, balls, dances, Summer resorts, aboard ocean steamships and on diplomatic trips around the world, So “Get the people to- gether,” is Cupid's theory, “and they will do the rest.” lrectory does evi -y single day in the week, Through it thousands of employers and position-seekers meet, landiords and tenants “find each other: buyers and sellers shake hands, ci " ers touich elbows, and merchants whisper “inside Hl i P '¢ italists and. prop- ices" to bargain: Held Prisoners at Bay. ‘The prisoners, noting the new dim- culty of the policeman, were on the point of trusting thelr legs to a dash for freedom when Williams, désigning thelr purpose, grabbed one of the after allowing his patient to drop gently to the sidewalk and pointing his club at the other said, “If you move a stop I'll kill you sure.” The fellows made no move, ‘Williams banged his club on the pave- ment and brought Policeman Montgom- ery to his aid. An ambulance wi um~ moned and in it the aged witness and victim was taken to the Oak street sta- on. He revived suMciently to tell how he had been brutally beaten by the two men after being held up and robbed, Policensan Williams 1s assixnea to the downtown “Flatiron”, or land’ post Which includes the tfrlangular biock bounded by Mast Broadway, Catharing! airect_ and Chatham Square, Ho saw two mon rapidly walking away. frum the figure of a nan lying prostrate on the sidewalk “near thie deep doorway 1 ot a bullaing on He was Dleeling from cuts on the head and face. The pockets of his vlothing “were turned Inside cut. He lad been accosted by the two men, he fiuld, who ksocked him down, kicked him’ and then robbed him. ‘He hi run the gauntlet of “Panhandlers’ Para- hse’ on lower Bowery and had deat iollowed by the men for several bocks, he declared. "whe old man, who managed to give his name as John Castman, saying that ue hind been ‘celavrating the sixty-third Anniversary of his birth during the plght. reeled after telling his story and {ell t5 the pavement, eviderdly serlousty hurt. ‘The prisoners described themselves! as “Dan” Kelly, of No. 8 East End avenue, @ bricklayer, nineteen ot ‘ge, and Joseph O'Rourke, a_ sailor, living At ‘'the foot of West Bleventh, Pehl GB “L” TRAIN PARTED, TYING UP TRAFFIC. Cars Plumped Into Motor on Third Avenue, Throwing Passen- gers About. Souths ound traMc on the Third ave- nue “Li!” was blocked for half aa hour during the rvsh hour to-day because of the uncoupling of the motor car from the rest of its seven-car train at the Grand street station. ‘The coupling-pin slipped out ana the front motor car ran uhead of ite train, ‘The motorman, unaware of the break, put on the brakes for the station, stop: ping suddenly, ‘The six cars, unbraked, bumped inte the motor car with @uch force that many passengers thrown from thelr feet, strap-hangers being hurled intw the lups of sitting men and women, ; No one was injured and the train was recoupled as e0on as another coupling- pin. Was obtained. During the delay toilns piled up north of the Grand street station as far as Fourteenth street, and scores of belated tollers got y, downto the path beside the tricks and walked? to thelr stations, ee Américan Girl Dies in Rome, ee tin. em ‘ran itis, Ghe was twenty. where crooks congregnte are expected to bo deserted. When Capt. O'Brien was made an acting captein and put in charge of the ‘Traflle Squad by Commissioner McAdoo the tattor planned to- remove Capt. Looloy, known as the “Coney Island Farmer,” from the Tenderloin Precinct and put Capt. O'Brien in charge. Tis post Capt. O'Brien did not want At the time it was sald that things would have gone hard with him Ind he waged war on certain resorts which have run night and day and which are frequented by politiclans who boast of police influence. Bingham’s Faith Strong. Under Commissioner Bingham things ara not like they were. Commissioner Bingham has gone deep into Tenderloin conditions, and has chosen Capt, O'srien to close up immune resorts, because he delieves that if there is a man in the Gepartment who can accomplish it O'Brien is the man, Capt. Dooley had hardly given ex- pression to the great work he had done in the Tenderloin last evening, saying, “Tals precinct ia clean; I am going to keep it #0," when orders came for tim to prepare to move back to Brooklyn. Capt. O'Brien 1s probably the most hated man by the police in the depart- ment. He ts a disciplinarian and keeps the closest watch on every man under him, He is hated, too, because of his statements made before a legislative committee ‘at Albany, when he said things that reflected upon the integrity ‘of men In the uniformed force. Capt. O'Brien's present post is ac- kmowledged to be the hardest he has ever had. Those who know him say that under him the Tenderloin will dither be closed as tight as a drum or else he will dig his own grave. Other Transfers. Commissioner Bingham has also made other transfers of impértance. The men transferred are: Nicholas Brooks, relieved of Borough Inspectorship and made District Inspec- tor for First District, lower Manhattan. Moses Cortright, Chief Inspector, made ‘also Borough Inspector. John F, Flood, Inspector. transferred from First Inspection District to com- mand of tramMfc squad and Third Pre- cinet (City Hail) and put in charge of School of Instruction. Patrick J, Harkins, Captain, made act- ing Inspector and transferred from Rapelye street to command of Eleventh Inspection District, Queens, ‘A report that the new commander of the Tenderloin precinct is soon to re- sign from the force was ff circulation to-day. This was bared on the fact that he had applied for ‘his twenty days’ leave of absence; He simply followed a rule of the Department in handing in on his vacation before May 1, Cannot Retire Now. ‘The former Acting Inspector could no; retire on @ pension until next No- vember if he wanted to, as he will not be fifty-flve years old until then, | He has been on the force thirty-one years. The switching about of Inspectors Brooks and Cortright meat that Cort- Fight will now be regarded as the rank: ing inspector and right hand man of the Commissioner. He will have charge of the information bureau which hag a its working staff yas been some talk wishing to re- sign. He been a iceman forty- y say. however, jong as he re- ia immensely po the father of Inspector (cLaughlin, as head of the Detective Department, is becoming & terror to transient ‘Last night his men picked up teen men, the majority of them on suspicion. Scarcely a day that ten or fifteen crooks are not caught in hi et. His pur- pose is to hound them out of New York. | ——————— KILLED COUPLING CARS. (Special to The Evening World.) i BARANAC LAKE, N. Y,, Feb. 14.— Frank Olney, a trainman on the New oYrk Central and Hudson River Rail- road branch between here and Lake Clear Junction, was instantly killed while coupling the New York sleeper with the branch train at the latter place early to-day. Olney was thirty- eix years of age and married, is a food beverage— Coffee a stimul ‘Read. Road to Wellville’ tn MERA tae LE THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 14, 1900, ~ i 3 STUDY OF JOHN A. BENSEL, HEAD OF DOCK DEPARTMENT. EXPLOSION MAY SHOW PLOT 10 DESTROY MEADE Box for Company on United States Trans- port Blows Lp. ONE MAN BADLY HURT Can in Soldiers’ Chest Con- tained a Mysterious and Powerful Explosive. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb, 14.—A board L. D, Cadbel, made public yes- as tollows: : ““Phat the fire: Wag confined entirely to hatch No. 2; that this hatch was loaded with baggage pertaining to the Second Infantry, officers and men; that the origin of the fire was at ® point re- mote from tie hateh and at a vonsid- ‘able depth in the hold; that the fire arted in one of two arms chest, containing ri tity 9¢ mosquito ne-ting an taining mirror, provably former, ‘Tho rifles were generously ofled about the metal parts and the mirror was wrapped with a blouse and poncho and Wrapped about with loose hay. “The board finds nat the packages mentioned belonged to Company A and Company C" respectively, and. the In- terlor of each was charred throughout, the halves of the boxes which were ad Jacent being, entirely bummed away. sowing that the fire originated within one or the other, presumably through spontaneous combustion, the remote end of eaoh box being ‘entirely clean and, burned or charred on the exter- for." Lieut, te of inquiry conatsting of Capts, &mpson and Nixon and Lieut. Cabbel. the first and last named of whom were mem- bers of the board of inquiry that in- vestigated the fatal fire on the trans- vort Meade, has been appointed by Major Duval to solve the mysterv of the explosion in the chest belonging to Cumpany B, Second U. 8. Infantry. now on the Meade, which exploded Monday on a dray at the Southern Pocific freight station. The board is meeting to-day, Harry Loughran. driver, handling the chest at the time it ex- vloded, and who was painfully hurt, has recovered sufMfctently to say: “The box was handed to me by one of the Southern Pacific warehousemen to see what company {t betonged to, I threw the box to the bed of the Wagon. when the explosion ooourred. That ts all I remember before I was taken to the hospital.” Cover Hurled Far, A clue to the explosion is a oviindrical tip can, the top and bottom of which were blown out and the curved aldes of which are twisted. This can, which was blown across the rafiroad tricks, 4s clean on its outer surface, but its inner surftce is covered with an odbr- ous soot closlely resembling bumed pow- der. Chemical analysis of this soot may disclose the cause of the explosion. The chest was thought to have been intended for transportation on the Meade, and in the light of the fire in the hold of that transport it was be- Meved that there might have been « plot to destroy the Meade. Such ideas seem improbable, as the chest was plainly marked for storage and could not ordinarily have gone aboard the Meade. Meade Fire Findings. The facts concerning the Meade dis- aster, 80 far as they ‘can be known, ere Set forth in the findings of the Board of Inquiry, composed of Capts. Wendell L. Simpson and A. BE. Willisms and “LOOK FIRST TO THE EYES.” It was Dr. Savage, an American, who first said that eye strain is the REAL CAUSE of sick head- ache. Now it is recognized the world over. Eyes examined by Oculists who are Registered Physicians of experience: A. W. BREWSTER, M. D. (11 years Brooklyn Bye and Kar Hospital.) EDW. JOHNSON, M. D. QMany years in private practice.) MARCUM KENYON, M. D. (8 years Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital.) MARTIN LINDEROTH, M. D. (Late of Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.) son Only if Needed—otten as low as Gluw Ono Dollar—always at moderate prices, Oculists and Opticians. 43 Years’ Practice. 223 Sixth Avenue, 1345 Broadway low 15th St. Below 36th Bt. 350 sixth Avenue] 217 Broalway Below 224 St. Astor House, ’ 25 Broad Street Arcade, Sale of All Silk Umbrellas. 26-inch for Women. Handles of fine English nat- ural wood, plain and sterling silver trimmed and sterling silver caps with partridge mounts, 28-inch for Men. Handles of fine English box and furze. $1.95. . value $3.00. Lord 87 Taylor, Broadway and Twentieth Street; Fifth Avenue; Nineteenth Street: Dress Goods Dept. F wr waa| 44 Wool Henriettas, a special lot.on sale; inches wide, in street and evening shades, includingivory, cream & black; value $1, 78c. Lord & Taylor x Will Offer Thursday Morning the Following Values:— Silks Greatly Under Priced. Destvable Fancy Silks, 12,000 yards, suitable for gowns and waists; value $1.00 & $1.25; offered on our Special Silk Counter at County Chairman Says Repubticans Favor Measure and Believes It Will Go Through. (Spectal to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 14.—"While I @0 not desire to criticize the State Gas Com- mission, Ite course, {t seems to me, has demonstrated he hecessity of passing, at once an 80-cent gas 6 lioan organization of New Coeaty is heartily in favor of it." ‘This the statement made to-day by lican County Chairman arsons, of ‘ork. Mr. Parsons believes that pitt will rough. th 0 th rf 68c..a yd ayd = White Goods Dept. A Fine Madras Cloth and Swisses, 10,000 yds. large variety of attractive designs in figures, polka © dots, striped and plain; special i : values; on Special Tables at... Broadway and Twentieth St., Fifth Ave., Nineteenth St, -- 25c, & 35¢. yd 18th Street Section. Formerly 65c. and 75c., LINEN SUITING, white only, A . Constabl,. %* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH Black Dress Fabrics FRENCH ETAMINE VOILE, SILK AND WOOL, 4g inches wide. Regular price $1.50, SILK MOUSSELINE, large and small floral effects, q wiowe. Vadh 756, yard, Wash Dress Fabrics IMPORTED SILE GINGHAMS, large variety of colors. 35c, yaré. * 220. “ 28c, « Tar prices oh Contiabl ce THURSDAY AND FRIDAY IMPORTANT SALE OF Fine All-Over Embroideries Consisting of 1,000 yards Nainsook, Swiss and Batiste, 45 inches wide, fashionable and novel designs. 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