The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1906, Page 3

1 | the weight, * woman was not seriously hurt and took OF SI STORES BROKE HER LE Conscious, Mrs. Hough Directed Janitor to Call : an Ambulance. FELL FROM WINDOW.! Dropped to Areaway Trying) to Fix Shade to Prevent It Flapping. WEIGHS 200 POUNDS. Physicians in Harlem Hospital, Amazed at Slight Injury, Say She Will Recover. Surgeons in Harlem Hospital were as- tonished today while working over Mrs. Elizabeth Haug, who had pitched headlong at midnight from 2 sixth- story window. to discover that al- though she had tumbled sixty feet to the ground sho had broken only a leg and bruised her body. She Is fifty-seven yeurs old and weighs 20 pounds Mrs. Haug lived on the sixth floor of the apartment house at No. 2% Bast One Hundred and Twenty-third street with her daughters, Mrs. Mary Matern and Miss “race Hat. Last as she was s!.\ing in the parlor with her daughter Grace she noticed the curtain in the front room flapping. She went into the room and raised the window to fix it. As she leaned out to tear off plece of weather stripping that inter- fered, her feet slipped and she plunged out. Her daughter was watching her from the next room. As she saw her mother disappear she screamed in ter- for and rushed to the window. Par below she saw a quiet figure resting on the stone vavement of the areaway As Mrs. Haug felt herself 1 through the window she caught e ledge. Her hand slipped, but the at tempt served to guide her fall, go that she struck squarely upon the ‘top step of the flight of steps leading to the basement. This step is perhaps three feet square. It is built of heavy plank, Dut it smashed like matchwood ‘under ‘The shock of the fall threw Haug to one side, 8) that she ten feet down into the basement and up against the janitor's door. He came out in fright at the noise of the crash and found Mrs, Haue serfectis conscious feet. She told him very quietly to hurry for an ambulance. He Summoned one from the Harlem Hospl- tal and Dr. Reed responded. He could hot at first believe that the woman had lien from the sixth floor. After a hasty examination he declared ihat the ry her to the hospital, Haue fairly tore down the stairs @8 s00n as she saw the body at the foot of the areaway. She expected to find her mother dead. and was over- Joyed When she discovered her conscious. Mrs. Haug renssured licr daugiiter. telling her she was unhurt avd. would 00n out. At the hospital it was found that her left leg was broken and ‘that sh had been severely brulsed by fall. ‘The surgeons sa: - ing to recover. i) Ee BROOKLYN COPS NOW LOSE SOFT SNAP JOBS. Deputy Commissioner O'Keeffe Sends Them Back to Do Real Police Work. Following out the !deas of Police Com- missioner Bingham, Deputy Commis- stoner O'Keeffe to-day began cutting down the details of special police “equads” that have been holding down “snaps” in the Brooklyn department. His scythe cut so deep that when his orders were executed there was a de- elded thinning out among the bluecoats that had been seen on “special duty’ throughout the borough, The traffic squad was the one which felt the pruning most severely. Some forty men were removed from it to out- dying districts, where they will report for regular duty, Of the twenty-eight men who were doing “special duty" in ‘the buay sections of the borough, all but twelve were removed to more active flelds of work, These squads will not be abolished entirely, but will remain In suMcient force to carry out the same esults that twice their number have been accomplishing. Five sergeants were found to be In the traMc squad. They were at once re- moved and their places will be taken by the regular sergeants of the yarious sta- tions. EMPRESS OF CHINA DEAD, LONDON HEARS, .. LONDON, Feb. 2%—A despatch trom ‘Hongkong reports that the Empre: Dowager of Chin! dead. This follows rt that there wag an outbreak in the Imperial Palace at rel cat Us) " ind 4 ous 18 pot got, for t good reason that he travels along RE euch, a merry ollp, As ght this goat from one ‘Down He changed hi i! for foar it amlght. let SHELTER FOR CRIMINALS THE WORLD: WEDNESD Section Has Grown to Be the Wickedest of Any Part of the City. Entire Population Would Be Bene-| * fited by Wiping Out the Infamous Dives. Ever since the infamous Mulberry Bend was razed and Mulberry Bend Park opened in the place of those breed- ings beds of crime and disease, ‘The Evening World has constantly advo- cated further use of the Small Parks | law as a most effective weapon in the battle with the slums. The theory up- on which that law operates {s that tt 1s better to clean out a centre of In- fection and make {t wholesome, than It {s to set guards about it and try to remedy and cure the evils‘ that it breeds; that in the battle with crime {t is better to sweep away the slums that shelter gangs and enable them to perpetrate crimes and live lives of vice. The wost of these crime-breeding lo- calities, according to police records ex- lin the district 1s assessed at tending over more than twenty years, lies to the west of Chatham Square, be- tween Bayard street and Worth street, extending to Mulberry Bend Park. | Many of the notorious characters Lio made Mulberry Bend and Five Points infamous in the old days took shelter there when they were driven out of their dens at the time Mulberry Bend Park was begun. Shelter Close at Hand. The locality was convenient, and the streets of old rookeries, built without reference to the needs of a clty popu- lation, furnished exactly such shelter us was needed by thoee who had found congenial homes In the stale deer joints and cellar bunking houses torn down. Ever since the dives of Chatham Square and Mott street have been infamous, and the district, which also includes | Chinatown, has furnished. more work | for the police than any other area of twenty times the population or fifty times the extent in the city of New York. Assertions similar to this have been made so frequently that they now scarcely attract attention, but their truth can be demonstrated. The Evening World has caused an in- vestigation to be made, covering the en- tire district, and conditions were found to be worse than uny representations that havo been made. even by the most rabid reformer. The only effective remedy for condi- tions there is the removal of the dens and warrens that make such conditions pessible, The law provides a way in which this may be done. The entire | maze of dens and dives can be torn out | and the land given to the people of the crowded district that surrounds it as a lreathing space and playground, where they can find pure air and sunshine near thelr own homes, Mulberry Bend Park 1s the only space they have, and that is utterly insuf- ficlent for the demands of the crowded population. Every bench in this park ig filled with tired men and women, and every available inch of space is taken up* whenever the weather fs such that a person may remain out of doors. This Is the only breathing space that these people have, and to get light and air elsewhere they mUst go as far east as Corlears Hook Park, a mile away, or north to Union Square, nearly as'far. No other part of the olty lias as little space, and no other part needs it more. Expense Would Be Justified. To raze this district and annihilate the worst slum in the city of New York would swquire the purchase of only ithree blocks, with less than reels of property and the entire cost, m the experience alread fashioned houses and hovels that have « since the days when the land was a farm. ‘Th: largest and most pretentious house | leas than $45.00 and the general average is less | than $7,500. Many of, the frame houses which Were built when the cit was far away toward the Battery atil] standing, and the bullding laws have been evaded by building shacks of packing boxes and olf lumber in’ the courts of the old ramshackle bulisir, there fs nearly as much fran) truction In the district as brick and 2. The old house that was once the home of, Charlote Temple. y Noe, & Doyers street, sh ie Chatham Club, and has been ¢ of nightly debauch, accom frequent raiis of the police, for man: years, ‘The old farmhouse that on Stood alone at the top of tho ‘bil! be- tween Fresh Water Pond and the Bowerte, still stands in Pell street, and {te courtyard, now a storage place for trucks and surrounded by stab! one of the most notorious spots criminal history of Chinatown. ‘These two old homesteads once stood tn beautiful orchards. with thelr mead- ows sloving down toward the Fresh Water Pond, now the site of the Tombs and Criminal Courts Buliding. (Tt was afterwan the vleasure walk of am's young folk. They sailed and pac dled around on the pond in the co evenines and strolled across to the farmhouses for homely refreshments. Mulberry atreet was a lane that reached far away out of sight. and lovers named {¢ for themselves and clatmed it far their own even as far as Greenwich Village, until a in the which {t reached through Bleecker street of to-day. Now a District of Slums. Then came the days of crowding, and the old places and the little houses that were newer and did not fit tomevher, and the maze of streets and alleys sheltered people that made them notorious, and the history of the district Is the his- tory of crime in New York. The old brewery that was built {n the bend, and the stale beer Joints that came after, made ft untenable for the fine old fami- Mes that hed called {t home, and it was given over to the denizens. and their Ways became the ways of Five Points and Mulberry Bend. and later of China- town. All the present district ts lumped tomether In the name, thot town proper covers only» third the space, and Chinese furnish about one-fifth the population, | same conditions that attracted the Chingse from their temperament and habits attracted ‘the criminal classes | that made the old Bend haunts Infa- mous, and now the most notorious dives in Chinatown are kept by white men, and many of the worst of them ars | not in either Dayers or Pell street, Tho | history of Chinatown ratds shows’ th such places are found all over the d t, and they shelter as many white} criminals as yellow. Just one year ago this week, four) dives were raided by the police, and} ainong the arrested were found’ nine young girls under sixteen who had been lured from good homes to a life | of shame, and boys less than fourteen were found in the same\place. Sightseers g) through the streets and look at the silent Chinamen and think they have seen Chinatown, but the sterion hd Dafiind those ‘walls, the e-pollutes ci leys an lars, dungeon dives, the secret life of ™ ci the thieves, the feuds, the common that it is not r accompanied by some ap: ive Getall or furnishes gome particular. ly interestin, mystery. There they will | sty until the law Js evoked and the slum torn down and in {ts place a park made for a playground for the people. KILLED BY A PLANK THROWN IN AIRSHAFT. Edgert Sawyer Came to His Death By a Peculiar Accident. Bdgert Sawyer, a plumber, thirty years old, of No, 687 Third ‘ayénue, Brooklyn, was Instantly killed to-day hen he was struck on the head by a heavy plank thrown down an airshaft by, & nolaa. were employed on a fin ‘course of construction at fellow-workman, Thomas Rey-| 4, reet and Beverly Road, yn. th du gained ih the formation of Mulberr! id Park, would ‘be ii ificant i Jills ‘ataticas Brooklyn, Sawyer was passing tl the alrshaft at the bottom of the cell when Reynolds, ing, threw down some plank: timbers struck the plumber on the top of the head and he fell senseless. B lance was call tape and several employees. slectrical and mecbanien,: depen EW STRING CHR OF ON LONG TAP Electric Motor Run by Storage Batteries Starts for Pa- cific Coast. With seevral prominent raflroad of- ficlals on board the new Strang electrie car Omerita left the terminal of the West Shore Railroad at Weehawken to- dya for its long journey to the Pacific coust. When this strange little car was baout to pull out from the station it was surrounded by many railroad om- ployees, including engineers, conductors, flromn and brakemen. wiho inspedted it closely and with interest, ‘Say, bays, if this run is a success and the raliroads adopt these cars for their suburban business {t is all off with some of us," was the remark of an en- gineer. “It will mean.” ‘he continued, “that If the cars are put in service on the small branch roads about half the | engineers, conductors and other employ- ees now employed on the steam trains will not be needed," And the fears of the railroad em- ployees were well founded, for George H. Daniels, manager of the Bureau of Publicity of the New York Cetnrai lines, tol an Evening World reporter to-day that W. B. Strang, inventor of the car and President of the Strang Electric Raibway Car Company, and other prom- inent railroad officials felt certain that the long run of car would be a success and that it would probably de put into general use for suburban service in the near fucure. Run at Small Cost. Mr, Daniels said that the new service would not in any way affect the em- Dloyees of the road. “He said that the new electric system would be run in addition to the regular service. “This new clecinic car can small cost," I believe that @ comparatively . earepas Rin woul a investment for railroads. Lt will robably ‘mesa 2 evolution In raflroadii The peculiar feature of the new in- vention aht the robty 4 ated by gasoline. is a combination of a gasoline engine, a dynamo and storage battery, The en- e furnishes ‘the power to run the es the eli the The system a five. ¢o Atty miles Oo ‘ym! Eaton our 1 acapebict of 5 carrying two ci or three trailers, ee Stops on the Road. Mo-day the car made its Initial trip. It will make several’ stons along the moute, and it will probasly be about four woeks before.!t reaches the coast. At Buffalo the car will proceed by the Lake Shore route to Chicago, From there it will go to Bt. Louis over the Chicago and Alton «allroad, From Bt. Louls to El Paso it will run via the Rock Island system, and from the Int- r city to San Francisco over tho thern Pacifi f 1G, nm the car started y there «were on board A. H. Smith, general manager of the New York Central; C, F. Smith, assistant general superintén f'the New Yi tral: C. superintendent of the West pasgen- ger department of the New York Cen- led | traw@liinos: the inventor of the oar, Mr. of the, rtments 1906. ‘Y fVENING, Poo SAY es/ TEAR DOWN THE DENS OF CHINATOWN AND MAKE A PARK OF (Photographs Taken Yesterday by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) SCHOOL. BOS TAKE FCAT TO MAYOR Will Convince Him To-Mor- row They Are “Proper Per- sons to Run Their Alumni. From Erasmua Hall High School, Flatbush, and other High Schools in Brooklyn a delegation of pupils will at 4 o'clock to-morrow descend upon Mayor McClellan in the City Hall. They | will be “looked over’ by the Mayor, as | he can decide whether or not they are proper persons to run an alumni! as- sociation. ‘The visit 1s due to the opposition of Principal Huntley, of Public School Nv. 9, Church and Bedford avenues, to the association, as already told in The Evening World. The school has been im existence over thirty years and many j af the graduates are now in business | and of high standing in the comnwunity. Recently the younger element, most of whom are in the High Schools, started the Alumni Association, Former Prin- clpal Sprague, naw of Sdhool No. 139, was, among others, made an honorary member, while for reasons best known | to the graduates, the name of Mr. Huntley was omitted. Since then, according to the gradu- ates, Principal Huntley has declined to recogn: the Alumnue Association and has sald he would do everything in his power to make the association a failure, He caused the koora of the school- house to be locked against the alumni, and on Friday last, over two hundred @raduates, finding themselves locked | out, walked down to the Catholic — Bast One Hundredth street, wus charged with having hit Henry | Schwartz, of No, 83 ‘Third avenue. GT ON CAR PART OFA PLOT, HE Sit George Martin, Arrested with Florence Barrett, Accuses Striking Ironworkers. Stil another echo of the troubles growing out of the strike of the fron- workers of the Post & McCord Com- pany was heard most unexpectedly to- day in the West Side Court, woen George Martin and Florence Barrett were arralgned on charges of disorder- ly conduct in an Eighth avenue car. Martin was alleged to have drawn a revolver on the conductor, but his de- fense was that he was empkyed bY the Post & McCord Company, and that there wore strikers In the car who, to «et him Into trouble, conspired to maxe it appear he carried a gun. Miss Barrett, who fs a tall, auburn- hatred young woman, living at (No. 319 with another of No. asa Schwartz was in court passenger, Raymond Ramelle, 13 West Twenty-eighth street, witness. Asoording to the story of Edward Poly, the conductor, Martin and Miss Barrett got on the car at One Hun- dredth strect some time atter midnight When they reached Seventy-second street Martin rang the bell. Poly sald Martin wanted a transfer back to Nine- ty-sixth street, When refused the con- ductor says Martin became «abusive, Schwartz told the conductor to siant the car and then, according to the charges, Miss Barrett knocked Schwartz off the Church of the Holy Cross, of wi the ‘Rev. Father Woods ls pastor and asked him-to give them the his | schoolhouse, witch he did, e Mayor, when the facts 4 ted to him, fook immediate acon so t/the next meeting, oalled for March 6, will be held in the old i 5 retted, school. That is j r, Huntley, however, than mere op- position, and ‘there is ‘the trouble, "4 formal application to the Board of idu-! cation for the use of a school building {must be indorsed by the principal to the effect that the building will not be in @ on the evee@igs namedOn the alum- application he wrote to thie effect, The officers of this assoctation are not of the kind who ought to be en trusted with the managemen’ of tts! affairs. I do not think the seag.1 bulll- ing will be ut to proper uns jo, there {8 war in Fl. .tnisa, The of- ficens are sons and daughters of some of the best known residents, and above reproach, f Mayor McCsllan was to-ézy informed of the latest phave ef the situation, an dthen @rranged for the meeting to- morrow, ‘Then he made the one re- mari “They will ect their permit.” ——___ ALARM SCARED BURGLAR. Michael F. MoCahe, of No. 09 Enat | One Hundred and Twentieth street, told | Policeman Wolf early to-day that bur- | glars were in his house. | ‘The policeman found that a parlor window bad been jlmmled open, which caused a burglar alarm to sound, seat. ‘The fight and the car started about the same time and continued to Fifty-fourth street, where Martin and Miss Barrett were ‘arrested by Policeman Goetzer. The conductor and the two passengers who were in court said that Martin flourished a revolver, but was disarmed by the motorman before he was arres! ed. But the motorman was not sum- joned as a witne: and the revolver as not offered in evidence. Martin, who !s twenty-three yeara old and lives at No. 4171 Third avenue, was indignant. He told Magistrate ‘hit- man that he had never carried a re- volver. “There was a bunch of strikers in the ‘and they wanted to do rove they put up a job on me. Prine case waa continued to give Mar- tin time to get witnesses and counsel. SUBSTANTIAL FLESH and good, working brains are made from Grape-Nuts ‘This must have frightened the would- be burglar away, for no trace could. bo 2a found of him. id he saw two men walking ‘the etrest, © FIFTEEN CHILDREN SIVED FROM FIRE NEW YORK’S DARKEST SPOT “HEWLY-WEDS” BAND AGAINST BURGLAR RAIDS, Forty Families Organize to Stop Thieves’ Visits in Harlem. nrty families In the big apartment: houses, Nos. 215-221 East One Hundre@ and Sixth street, are banding for mue tual protection from the predatory burg lar, They already have held one meete ‘ng for the purpose of organizing the “One Hundred and Sixth Street Tenants? Protection from Burglurs Society,” ana agreed to establish night watches, am well as to arm themselves. ‘The meeting was held last night, when a delegation was appointed to call at the One Hundred and Fourth Street Station to-day and obtain permits from selves. They want permission, too, to shoot on sight, the marauders that have bees Invading their apartments nightly for the past two weeks, In that time half a dozen flats have been entered an@ robbed, and there's no telling when the next burglarious visitation fs scheduled or whose flat Is going to be robbed, is the way the teniints put it. Newly-Weds Are Afraid. The situation 1s rendered more em= barrassing from the fact that the flate shelter miore than one hundred newly- married people, who are afraid of their a suspicion that a yonng m visiting the flats Is . who has be s began, has beem working in league with the housebreak- ers, and that it ts part of her job to ‘spot’ apartments likely to be ape proached without fear of interference during the operation of looting. Girl Suspect Is Eighteen. 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