The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1906, Page 5

<f ie LONESOME TIME AT ANAWANDA HER COMPANIONS ESCAPE IN CAB Gussie Hart, the Famous Topsy, Dies as Re- sult of a Fall. CARRIED TO HER HOME | Was Making Slumming Tour - of the Negro Resorts ‘ in the Tenderloin. Gussie Hart, a well-known actress, ‘while slumming with Blanche Leighton, leading woman of the Russell Brothers Company, and Edward Murphy, a theat- wioal dancing master, of No. 27 West Thirty-fourth street, met her death in @ mysterious manner to-day by piung- ing down a precipitous stairway in what the Tenderloin calls a ‘“black-and-ta honk-a-tonk” at No. 260 West Thir fifth strect. Catherine Annte Ward, the daughter of the dead woman, died in a mysteri- us manner in the Metropolitan Hotel, on Grand street, fifteen years ago. She had gone to the totel with Jack Mc-| mains that the whole Gas House dls- Including Aullffe, then the champion light-weight of the world. She found dead in bed, and the prize-fighter as detained Dy the police, but afterward exonerated. ‘The mysterious death of the mother is Deing investigated by the police as a probable murder, thoug her compan- fons at the time she received her mortal ‘njuries declare that the killing was purely accidental Skull Crushed by Fall. ‘The woman's skull was crushed in by der fall, and her co rushed 24 ‘Weeat Thirty-eighth street Blanche Leighton were the o the cab. © The upper floors of the Thirty-elghth street house are occupied by a thea ical boarding-house, run by Mrs. May ‘Clark. } The door to the room was joked ora the cabman threw his shoulders g ot {t forcing it in. The couple then ran to the office of Ur. Armstrong, No. 233 West Thirty-ninth street. "1 want you as quickly the man told t told Dr. Armstrong , Paid for his work. When the physician hhonse he examined the “This woman s I can get aiclan, He would be is dead a harrying of stairs, and the two men ning behind the Gabm i We street. leaped into the cab and) drove away. | Dr. Armstrong firs! notified an taker {n the neighborhood, tha woman was dead. The undertaker an the © ners’ Ollice, and then the police of the West T Headquarters, When Mahon arrived at the theatrical vo fng-house he could get no infors from any one. } ner Dooley, and la Ward and De 3 Man in a Collapse. Murphy, the dancing-master, was lo- eated through the advice of James Mon- tague, of No. 42 West Sixty-second Girect, a waiter employed at the “Little as the concert hall on West| Thirty-Afth street is known, He was @rrested by Capt. Dennis Ward, of the West Thirty-seventh street station, amt taken to the Werr Side Court, where he fas remanded for the Coroner. The man wa in a state of nerve ous! collapse when Capt. Ward found hi was 80 weak and ghaky that the iceman hired a cab and drove him to © wtation-house. In the course of the| tide he told this story: Last night he had escorted Gussie | rt and Blanch Leighton on a slum- expedition, taking in all the enk-e-tonks and colored dives In the enderioin. They 1 at the “Latile voy" after midnight und had seve Grinks while they Histened to the mace @nd watched the dancing. In leaving Hie place they passed a ‘stairway. well dropped almost sheer to the « Ghent GRE Hoge The eaten ate Diel e head of the stairs and fell hew!- fing’ to the bottom, striking on the back head and receiving a compound ture at the base of the skull. ; A Famous Topsy. aturpny and Miss Leighton SEA Called Montague, the waiter. He Seslsied wont eo in carrying lincon- | fe rom the cellar and plac- ran out rary in the cab. | he. seis master said that when ne hat the woman was dying he be- ape: frightened ‘end ted with Miss jouse where Leighton from the pene ‘they had carried the ‘hen the man was aremtened at the} desk in the West ‘Dhirty-seventh. streat station he wes barely able ty give his gree, when he collapsed and fell inting’ to the ior, te was revive. th some difficul and, when he had Overed his strength. Wau tuken to rae feat Bide Court. Meanwhile, detectives to find Blanche le “Hant was the leading. woman in Willlam Brady's big “Uncle ‘Tom Cabin". production five years ago, For othe past few years she had played the ing Woman, been sent out TET SO ETN TORIES FRETS ‘Regrets’ Included Those of Mayor McClellan and Others. HANDSHAKING _ AFFAIR. Ratio of 2 to 1 Among 5,000 Who Attended. Fully the Lexington Avenue Opera-House last nught nd the annual ball of th Anawanda Clu, of tae Eighteenth A‘! District, and, of ¢ raction was ©. r of ‘Tammany thousand at the Murp! Hall {f not more leaders of | of the | the etty at least two to one, thirty-five district seven were not ‘The Mayor was not at the ball, was Fire Commisstoiner O'Brien, the Mayor's secretary, Willlam A. Wil- us. The Mayor, however, had a box he pald $iC0 for several weeks ago, before toe breach between him and the jleaver had broadened to The box was oc 2 Commissioner who announced that represent His Honor. If al the prominent town were not present. in he was there politicians the fact re- trict, where C. Francis Ives, men, W nm and children, were there. Biggest Murphy Turnout. Was the biggest turnout that Mur- us ever | but it was not ag merry as in the old days, before he and the or crossed swords for sup acy frost in alr among the pi s they grecte the jeader in the gal- | lery. While C. Francis was shaking hands with his sovla! censor and prompter, J. Sergeant Cram, and his bride, Su- Glegerich came ug. Justin Glegerich reently had to pass on the Hearst application for | reopen of the ba‘lo:-boxes. er that fact bad anything to do h the Incident that followed the Judge's approach or not was a matter j among those who were 2 by. to pay a call at the box by your party and you were “C. Francis sald, addressing Cram as he shook her Gand. The oved bloser. ou were not there," peated, and again he sald and fou were not there.” C. Francis repeated the phrase In the of one who did not know what Mle caught In an embar- occupied not ther Mrs. Ju the leader re- “I went over manner to say rasaing 3 lo tkirg Mrs, Cram by the arm, Women Outnumber Men in five thousand persons went to Most of uie | ball were women. | fair sex predominated at the ratio represented. Neither nor the propor- upled Darlington. to | dat the Anawanda ball, YT TRUITT “THE: WORLD: TURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1906. DAN cay FRieno” TIME —- FRANE G4, QOOWIN THE DESK DOME JUSTICE SULLIVAN DID Some FANCY DANCING | Generar o'B EIRNEGSON SfooD GUARD Alo ft looked as though’ Justice Glogerich the leader's hand. As C. Francis turned his back Justice Giegerich went | the ether Hand-Shakers Lined Up. A little Ja Cc. Francis came back o the spo; that he had deserted and there held an informal reception. The way. leaders and prominent persons who lined up ty shake hands and have a fey words were: ne McGuire, Mike Garvin, repre had been walting for a chance to shake | Bg; Julius Har- lam Dalton, Clerk; City Keenan, Tim s perintendent of A Ahearn, Goodwin, | | Chamt ify s . Heinze, the r er r inine owner; Judge Martin, Charles J. Collin: Robert D. De Witt, Alderman Doull, E. Rush, Frank O*Donn roll’s brothe Sessions, repre: Mike Padden, Johnny eri of the Court of | the Carroll-Van | SKETCHED BY MAURICE KETTEN. avod of " 3 ) 1 Ne ck-Crok: interests; James, |held,"" C. Francis sald. as he adjusted the pair moved off. followed by Mr. | centing Louls S SehisRepubilonn’ leader Ine tie raul ||liscRlagmes™ Cen ken thet che ladies ram, in he opposite direction from | J. t and the ever-cheerful, | stood by No, the ayor ie not wnese Justice Glegerich was standing. BI PREIS 3 od nderstand that he } sev a seve: y seetna ty be having and T am certainly enjoying be Preceding the ball vaudeville show. The grand m as led by iH ‘ The Eighteenth Is well ‘repre Pat W ato Judge burger's 5: P lary, and his sister Fi 3¢;. Mr. -3 re, Everybody I know seems to’ be bay did. not take pan in the opening |Paiing one of the lulls In t a 5 Ld did ‘the other’ promi- hing Artist Ketten, of ‘Tho | 1 tHe" iate arrivaln was Gos. staff, Was” Introduced to” C who Was Kept ax busy aw ¢ te the ri ht angle 3 king hands. ‘Thomas 1. | youn yy PMUEDRY toctae Motos ettreank alt hs vou" eal Mr." Murphy” to tie “angle 8 leader the [nde ve he," rancis did not talk much. |eaid tectten Bive 16 to vou steaten, “were times. chat he was ali And he ala wat was when Ue valiicians corks at the bar. Tt wasn't | a wine- coe crowd, “It is the best ball that we have ever ng role 1 productle “ing in walter, corrob: rated | far as tt Murphy's ty tls carrying the injured wotnan fr the gellagito/thejeaby 7 to the ca’ RESERVES TO QUELL DELIA AND SUSAR The Two Women Raged as Storm in Black Until Placed in Cells. Della Grey and Svein Marris, resi- Jents of Harlem's “Blick Belt," met cor the first time in ral wecks at One Hundted and Twenty-sixth street and St. Nicholas avenue lust evening, “You are the chanmer that stole my gentleman friend,’ suggested Delia, You'se is a prevaricator, chile,” ‘Ah don't know what that word Is, but sounds bad,’ said Della as her ston TiC MMvdea squarely un oUsKi : . Susin strucn Out With her ieft and upper-cut ine jaw of Della. vauamay O'prien, of the West One Hundred and ‘Lwenty-nfth Street Sta- on, arrested them, At the station- house they sid more things when, sud- Uenly, Deila pulled a dagger from her walst'and slashed Susan several times in the right cheek. Susan spled a cuspidor, and before the Desk Sergeant or Policeman O'Brien realized what was doing the piece of earthenware had smashed to pieces on | the Grey woman's head. It didn't even | jolt her. Della's eye saw several! other cuspidor’s, and both women gath- | ered several in’ thelr arms, A grand fusilade then followed, Two or three of the miselles landed on Sergt. McKeown's neat blotter which he had prepared for the Inspection of the Com- missioner, The battle was too much for O'Brien and McKeown and the six reserves in the station house were called. After much difficulty the women were Tocked | in separate cells, “Susan and Della to the Island for one month each," was the verdict of Magistrate Breen. ‘Taxes going out; money tied up; not @ cent of rent com- ing in, cation, a. ig eont to he worla tor publi- re- | CUTTING TRIED 10 BRIBE, SHE SAYS “Mrs. Watrous’s” Friend, Mis | Carroll, Makes a Sensa- tion in Court. Margaret ©. Carroll, a witness for the estate of Walter W. Watrous In the trial before Justice Newburger of the suit of Mme, Rachel E. Oatman, a dressmaker, for a $3,825 Lill contracted by Katherine Ballou, who claimed aft the death of Watrous to be his widow under a common-law wiarriage, created a sensation to-day by denouncing Robert Livingston Cutting, attorney for Mme. Oatman, who she sald had offered her $100 to make a statement favorable to Mme. Oatinan. Jing on the subject, and that the offer | fice. fa $10) bribe was made in his o! (leHe had a statement drawn up and 8! it. “when I refused to sign it he in- I was the creased his offer, saying that most Important witness for Mime. Oat- man, I told Mr. Cutting that I would sign It under any circumstances. Called Her “Mrs. Watrous. ‘The witness always referred to ‘Kath- erine Ballou as “Mrs. Watrous." she afd that Mrs, Ballou patd Mme, Oat- | man‘e bills sometimes, and sometimes | Mr. Watrons paid them. “On one occasion Mrs. Watrons had a told Mr. Watrons it cost $100, and Mr. |Watrons made out a check for that) amount payable to Mme. Oatman, Mrs. | Watrons went to Mme. Oatman and jasked her to cash the check, Madam didn't have that mush on hand, bad ine} dorsed the check and we went to the bank and got the mone; Going back to the story of the alleged | attempt to bribe her, the witness said | that Mr, Cutting tried again to get her to sign the statement and asked her | {€ she had seen Mme. Oatman's girl, Om receiving a negative reply, Mr. Cutting ead: “Weil, she will call on you and, and I'she'll give you any. consideration you demand to appear as a witness for | Mime. Oatznan," x “I replied, ‘I'll hurt you and hurt Mme. Oatman if I am put on the wit- ness-stand. You'd better not call me.’ Told Her to Go Away. “Then he sald to me: ‘You'd better Jeave the city, then, and stay away till the trial ts over, Mies Carroll related that after the death of “Walt Watrous Mrs, Ballou went to Mme, Oatman and wanted to Ret a $2,00- sable set on credit, but madame would not let her have it, saying she didn't know where she would deat for her pay. anid he would give me $100 if I would| not sign the statement for $600; wouldn’ Ut new check gown which cost $45, but she ! ting; tha: she was contesting the wit! | ot Mr. Watrous, leaving her only $5,000, claiining dower as his widow. Franklin Pierce croes-examined Miss | Carroll, She said that since 1892 she had been a collector for charity, her | | Patrons being some of the bes people in New York A otter words” sald, Mr. Pierce, | insiduously, “you ‘have devoted initible work and to doing r examiner's purpose. You frequently visited Mrs, Ballou and know tha: Watrous his nights tnere witht the same room? a: No, Q. You knew mous vote the House Committee on In- : : ines | voting her life on ‘ cu ng for cu v3] ter-State and Forign Commerce dectd- ad ety sere saad e fe, 1 uo 0 Men, Al SWGll: (Aika) Faery, 1 uOnit maw Unt Ten saya nuke a favorable reper’ ou larly to Young Men for charity than if 1 was collecting for| the Tillman resolution as amen@ed by 178 & 180 Fifth Ave. @ merchant or an insurance company, Not at All Ashamed. | ren't you ashamed? A, Not 1a at Deas very fond of both of them. Q. You know that they were married and that she got a divore at his re- Quest in order that u:ey might be mar- ried? A. knew that they were told meso, not married e “Mr. Cutting hind several soba ao 4. orl wets, com, rom iteasure ‘ts 5 oom: i reet,” said Miss Car-| the Are A ‘bination of the Tillman, Gillespie an with me on the re Mann ait eOmiapolon| i needed a Tam not ashamed. | Campbell “resolutions. it “retains the Toll, who was a frien I am not proud of it) number and ue of the Tillman resolll- oft Katherine Ballou-Watrou She sald mould ret aaa 4 fae fen ft.) tion, but nese it by striking ut the i "” Cut- De pber we ‘OU’ proposed Investization of monopolies and she had several leters from “Bob” Cuts | oe dat the Grand Union in Seratoce proposed In: Fall ora nete cation jand saw Col A. I never 5 Mann and a rir] there? edd be at tee Grand Valon n Uf she was for the Charity Organization Socle Q. You went to the races, I suppose, and ventured a little flyer on’ the horses? A. I never bet a penny on the horses in my life, I did attend the races once ‘or, twie Miss Carroll, ctor related that on one of her visits to “Bob” Cutting’s office ne exclaimed: “There's $150.00) of the Watrous estate jin cache and Iving idle. T don't ses Wis Mme. Oatman shouldn't get ber bill, The charity ollector said that once Mrs. Ballot-Watrous said resentfully: She Got Her Sables. “Tean't rulge Mene, Oatman’s bil as | I do other bis, thovgh she did get a/ $100 check to pay for a $45 gown.” She said Mme. Oatman finally yleld jand let Mrs, Ballou buve the $2,000 | Sables after the death of Watrous, tak- ing her chlinces of getting paki when | the estate was settl si, She dented tha in the interview with Mr. Cutting she had refused to sign the affidavit he had | Prepared unless he would pay h N, Miss Carro!l said Mr. Cutting had | tried several times to have her taken out of her house. The inquiry along this line was dropped, and whether the charity collector meant an attempt at kidnapping or not was not developed. Ballou's earllest alliance was with ‘Alfred Sully, who now lives. in urope, as has been testified by Mrs, Ballou, who is of Ohic now Mrs. William Brown, go. She had three children by Sul Mr. Sully and Miss Carroll sald Ballou for thelr support, or °° ee eee VACATION FOR DR. SAVAGE, Minister Freed to Take a Rest to Regain Hin Health, The Rev. Dr. Minot Savage, of the Church of the Messiah in East Thirty. | fourth street, ahs taken an indefinite and eg probably protracted vacation from his ministerial duties in order that he may regain his health, It ts sald to have It been Rndarcuned ‘by a too arduous at- tention to duty. “Accompanied, ‘by his wite Dr, Bay: now on his way to Californi Will stop at Cleveland and egal ae | Toute, returning to New York, a ter dle at rengin hes mended, Dr. Rovere Collyer with ouside alas mi t the services in the absence o} | ite good gs to earn my living; to earn | my nissio returned the witness, smilingly und as if fuly undersianding that answer defeated the cross- at! , | all other food. “ Ornatus et Bonitas."" CONGRESS VOTES FOR RAILWAY PROBE | Tillman Senate Bil Bill Accepted ; as Substitute by House Gives Full Scope. | | unant-! t WASHINGTON, Feb, 20.—By Correct Hats in shapes and the sub-oymmittee, consisting of Con- gressmay Hepburn, of Iowa; ‘townsend, | Michigan, and Adamson, ( a. 567 Fifth Ave. In its amended form the resolution : | he Hab G [provides for the Investigation by the | Get the Habit. oto Interstate Commerce Commission of | | “railroad discriminations and monopolies in coal and oll. discriminations by_ratlw Bicthers CLOTHIERS. SURPRISED DOCTOR. : — Iustrating the Effect of Food. WEST 14TH ST. COWPERTHWA)7 Reliable Furniture . 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Even the various kinds prescribed by the doctor produced most acute pain. | | “We then got some Grape-Nuts | food, and you may imagine my sur-| ‘prise and delight when I found that! { could eat it with a relish and with-| out the slightest distre: | “When the doctor heard of it he told me to take several small por- tions each day, because he feared | 1 would grow tlred of it as I had of “But, to his astonishment (and that of everybody elee), I did not tire of Grape-Nuts, and became “better day by day, till, after some weeks, my stomach entirely recovered and I was able to eat anything my appetite craved, . “My nerves, which had become so fy, KOCK! weakened that 1 feared I would be. 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Broadcloth and velvet Suits, long and short models, finest H materials in the season's best styles. Heretofore $30.00 and $35.00, at 15.00 Heretofore $40.00 and $55.00, at 25,00 On sale Friday me Suse at 9 o'clock and until sold. New Covert Coats---Special Four new models in Women’s Covert Coats, 16.75 finely tailored with straps, &c., silk lined. Value $10.00 each, at A Number of Evening Coats. H in choice colors of Broadcloth, richly embroidered and trimmed, lined with Peau de Soie. Heretofore $50.00, at 25,00 Heretofore $75.00, at 35,00 (Third Floor.) Wednesday, February 21st, Special Sale of Corsets. W. B. New Spring Model—Made expressly for us; | j79c long hip, nicely trimmed with lace—regular price St. 25; special at F Batiste and Coutil Corsets —Long ‘and new } short hip styles, with two or four hose support- | ers; prettily trimmed with lace and ribkon bows; { ‘$1. 00 | sizes 18 to 30—regular price $1.50; special abies Brassieres —Ferris H. & W. and B. & J. new Spring styles, sizes 34 to 46, 50c. to $1.50 (Second Floor.) Sale of Partly Made || Embroidered Shirt Waist Patterns. Partly made Shirt Waist Patterns, embroidered lawn and hatiste, finished with medallions and Val. lace, with separate half cuffs for short sleeves—value $3.00, at 1. 75 \ Embroidered Shirt Waist Patterns, also tucked with lace, {1 epen front or back— | Value... 2.50 3.50 4.00 4.75 | 2,00 2.50 2.95 3.25 | | Handkerchief Irish Linen, Swiss and Japanese hand-em- Hi broidered Waist Patterns, 4,50 to 15.00 | (Trimming Department.) 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