The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1906, Page 3

if ~ SOME OF THE PLAGUE SPOTS IN CHINATOWN THAT SHOULD GIVE WAY FOR A PUBLIC PARK(O 7 THE WORED: THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1906. Weyor McClellan Gives His Unqualified Indorsement to Evening World’s Plan, CWYS DARKEST SPOT. M Has Become the Centre of Crime in Lower Part of New York. PEOPLE NEED THE PARK. McClellan Says That Is the Most Sensible Solution of China- The Bventng World Int before Mayor ‘McClellan to-day facts gathered by its Fepresentatives In regard to the plan to make @ park of the district lying be- tween Mulberry Bend Park and Chath- @m Square, now generally known as Chinatown. The whole situation was fully dis- | (eeecd ,and after careful consideration | @e Mayor declared himeelf unquall- @eaty in favor of the plan, HE AU- THORIZED THR PUBLICATION OF A | STATEMENT to that effect. and has for. | wmilated plans already for a full inves- | gation of the entire subject with the lew of carrying out the plan. | The Small Packs law, to which the Wayor refers, authorizes the city to ondemn small sections of the city in @y place where they may be needed fr the purpose of providing open @aces for playgrounds for the people. | Under this law a large number of | gnall parks have been opened, Many | @ these have been in uptown districts, ! but the poor of the downtown sections Bave been neglected, and except where the space has been needed for some public Improvement, such as the pliza for Williamsburg Bridge, no small varks have been made. Mulberry Bend Park is one of the few playgrounds that have been and in the ten gurated it has demonstrated that the money spent in the Improvement was the best invest- uent the city ever made. ‘Tne total cost of that park was less fan $1,500,000, counting the enormous gaft that the courts decided had been irluded by the commission in {ts estl- mtes of expense and fees. Of this $4,000 under the law was to be as- seved against the lands adjacent which Wold be benefited by the opening of thepark. The assessment was made agmst lands for about one block on eitar side, and on complaint of the Prperty owners was set aside, so that th, adjacent property owners did not hve to pay one cent for their better- emt 2 nce the park has opened the prop- ery which was assessed for the ad- @omal $500,000 has increased more than $250,000 in value, according to the tax boks, which 1s far short of the aciual ierease, while the property not ad- Jaing this, the only park of that dis- trot, has not increased an average of Sper cent, and in miost cases has atually decreased in value. This 1s prticularly true of the three blocks tht will be razed to make the addition toMulberry Bend Park, according to ‘Te Evening World's proposition, In thse three blocks there has been no inrease, Afty-seven years ago, when the old fain-house now fronting In Pell sireet ‘wa sold to Stephen Boyd, the father of Jaies Boyd, the present owner, the last on sthich the home place stood Wa assessed at $15,000, and thirty years late the books show that it was worth Jum twice that sum. Then It ran rapld- Ty p to $45,000 twelve years ago, and the was the highest point it ever Teaged. To-day {t is assessed at $42,- 9, the highest assessmen: for any @inge tract of land in the entire dis- trie, Decrease In Value, ‘De same ratio of decrease holds good formost ofthe district, and where there 4a m increase it 1s due to some local coniition that lifts it out of the general slowh into which everything else has fallo, One property, and only one, in the district shows an Increase In the fen years last past. That js the land lying south of Pell street, on the east aide of Mott street, and there the in- reas Ja due to the erection of a lange tenemant-house covering three lots and costing about $27,000, which gave a new Yook f the neighborhood, but did not accomplish all that was lroped for It in the ww of improving the population. ‘this, a well ag many other houses, Is @eouplid by people of respectability, @ome lave lived there for fifty years, and some of them have known the district @s thdr ancestral home. They love it, end, uqder other gonditions, they would mever consent to see their old homes torn down. It ds this element af respectability thar jhas saved the district from demolition for yeara. The Church of the Trans- guration, in Mott street. for over halfa ues that condit! y. Now Father Coppo, rector of the of the Transfiguration, beliuves x ith the horrible hat The ingtrumentalities of Ghristian- | by to cope wi iwi Re Fae pps Bae "8 ey Xl de Chinat het have made Cl Own He has been ‘many”3 th at It ie. a8 years ing this concluslys, and it mas jat reluctance that he madé the to, representative of The ion, We “T have had the matter up in map; B Pana have id Father heart. ‘than ut the condition: iy, Immediate gearcl e applied If any good ts to be .,I have apent ver it, and fori's Pro} bi be spared its work here as [ have plugs I the let any mer bot conepeaetione! Ronaiderations interfere, ant ts necessary, to carry out the ‘work, that mv church whould be tn own,’ am even the aA 0 vee it go, that | town Problem. | i DOYEP ST. LOOKING.JOWARD ELL ROMIWELL AD NORGANSTLL W CONFLICT Senator Hints at Glos:- ing, While Lawyer Talks of Failing Faculties. ‘WASHINGTON, March 1.—Senator Morgan to-day began his examination of William Nelson Cromwell Poxa'ra affairs by inqudring concerning the financial diMcuities of the old Panama Canal Company and the ex- tensions granted by Colombla to the receiver and Inter to the new Panama Canal Company. The questions particularly had ret- erence to the five million francs in stock set aside for Colombia in the new company in consideration of the formation of the new company. Mr. Cromwel sald he had no part in getting that concession, and after re- plying to several questions that he had no knowledge on the subject, said, finally: “I can claim no credit for that." “If there was any discredit I presume you do not wish to claim 4t,” said Mr Morgan. “I cannot see that there was any dis- credit in the oompany getting an e: tension and paying its money for It rejoined Mr. Cromwell. “You don't?" asked Mr. Morgan. That very extension cost 100,000 lives and six millions in debets. “I have seen no trace of the horrors you mention,” said Mr. Cromwell, Returning ‘to the history of the Pan- ama Canal’ Company, Mr: Morgan read a letter written by a former President of the Board of ‘Trustees of the old Panama Company, and Mr. Morgan took the witness to task for his alleged failure to remember It, “I have memory for what I can re- member and what I have not you can- not make me remember,” said Mr. Cromwell Mr. Morgan referred to letters and telegrams sent by Mr. Crorfwell to the former Secretary of State, Mr. Hay, prior to the last extension by Caom- bia. The Senator held these in ‘his hand but did not read them, ir, Cromwell admitted writing the letters, but declined to say whether the comuntcations were true and would not say he remembered their contents, correspondence contained — thi 3 e 0, 4o1 in that republic, Agter the witness had declined to dis- cuss the letters, Mr. Morgan asked ff the declination was because of duties to his cHenta. “You knttw that tobethe case, Sen- ator,” said Mr. Cromwell. \ “T don't know it and I don't believe it." said Mr. Morgen, t a “Then your faculties have not their full power."? replied Mr. Cromwell. “T should y n caused me to gloss ‘wer the truth t manner,” eald Mr. Morgan. the in. The Old Homestead ! Many country home sites that looked like this a few years ago are now cut up into city blocks. The springing up of new towns |, and the expansion of great cities have wonderfully increased their monetary value. Every day a number of un- usual investment opportunities, such as this, are offered throvgh ‘MILLIONAIRE SUES _ ST, REGIS BUILDERS Home Uninhabitable, Family Had to Move to the Waldorf. Twelve thousand dollars hardly mere than luncheon money to John H. McFadden, the famous cotton op- erator of New York, Liverpool and Widladelphia, and perhaps he doesn't care so much about the money as he does to “get back at"? the Thompson- Starrett Company for evicting him rudely from his home in BYfty-fitth street by dropping pieces of the St. Regis into his house. Anyway, Mr, McFadden demands only $12,009 damages in the sult brought ts trial by Bugene L. Righards this af- ternoon before Justice Amend and a jury in the Supreme Court. The cotton magnate tives in Phile- delphta now, where they don’t build milion dollar hotels every day. He and this wife came on to testify about an iron girder that dropped into thelr home, smashing things, a dig stone that shattered the windows and lodged in the drawing-room, filling the.r house with soot, until they were finally forced to put their furniture in @torage ana move over to the Waldorf-Astoria, be- cause the plumbing, disarranged by the workmen on the St, Reg.s, made them all sick. The McFaddens, five in number, and thelr three servants, were at the Wal- ur days, and the (blll for what they ate alone was $79 a fi ts, i eee ove She lene aoe ne end r, Bache is counted up and agreed in the bills quite amicably, leaving to the jurv only the question of whether the bullkters of the &. Regis were to blame for it all. BARGE CAPTAIN DIED READING HIS PAPER. Sitting in his chair with his nands folded in his lap and a newspaper lying at his side Capt. H. L. Carey was found dead to-day in the little cabin of the grain barge H. H. Baker;\moored at the Troy line pler, at the foot of treet, North River. Heart dis- ease had killed ‘him so suddenly that . Z0BBY Gow OMDUTS day. A. B, Brandman showed no disposition | i MAYOR IN FAVOR OF PLAN TO MAKE A PARK OF CHINATOWN. ' BY MAYOR G. B. M’CLELLAN. The Evening World's presentation of the proposition to make a park of the district known as Chinatown is strong and convincing. The reasons given are unanswerable AND | AM DECIDEDLY IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSITION. 1! do not want to commit myself as to the ability of the city government to do this thing, BUT ‘TIF IT CAN BE DONE I WANT TO GO ON RECORD AS ‘} FAVORING IT. { I believe the plan of The Evening World to make a park out of the district, now undoubtedly the worst plague spot in the city, to be ‘| the most SENSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE PROBI.EM that has yet been presented. We have done very little under the Small Parks law during the last two years or more, and The Evening World is right, I believe, in advocating that law as the most potent weapon in the hands of the |] city in its battle against the crimes of the slums. HECHANGED $1,000 WIFE GETS $8,200 CONFEDERATE BILL FOR HUSBAND'S FALL Right Here in New York City OPper Jumped from Bulldog in the Year of - and Fell to Death Through 1906. Areaway. ‘The widow of Henry Oppe. a Jeweller, will receive $8,800 damages for its loss by the verdict of the jury before Jus- tice Glegerioh in the Suprame Court, to- day. Opper lost ‘his life under strange eir- cumstances, He was walking In Third avenue when he met two boys leading @ savage bulldog on a leash, It was di- rectly in front of the sporting goods store of Isaac Deringa, at No. 8 ‘Dhird avenuo, In a bulkding owned by Leopold Helinger. The bulldog’ rushed at Opper, and Op- per leaped back to escape him, Opper fell Into an open cellarway and recetved injuries from which he dled. When Niles Jorgensen, a salesman for a silk and embroidery house, who lives at No, 21 Weat Forty-thind street, ap- peired in Special Sessions to-day as a witness against May Woodbury, charged with keeping a disorderly house, it de- veloped that ft isn't always necessary for our local gren-goods artistes to send thelr Iterature all the way to Tigertall, Tenn., and Rising Sun, Ind. ‘Thero’s plenty of material nearer home—right at home. Jorgensen testified he met May Wood. tho body had hardly settled forward in the chair, barge ‘The grain Charles street last empty, landed at night. "To-day the jAmboy, “drew man street atation, St. Vincent's Hospital, wtio said a weak artied off heart had carcied off the man as he cana old Hie adarees Charles sat reading hi about sixty-fivd years waa not imown. ——_—>___ Inter-State Match for Xaviers. lngn, of the called Dr. Corcoran, of}, bury on Broadway and she steered him | J. O'Neil sued both landlord and tenant around to a flat at No. % West Forty- fourth treet, where quite a bunch of merry villagers were thaving fun. Jor- gensen hauled out @ roll the size of a bill to the bank. ‘The teller gave it a cold look and shoved it back wt him “Not good?" faltered Jorgensen, “Well, not since Ulysses §. met Rob- ent E, ‘under that Mitle appie tree at Appanatox,” said the unfeeling bank man, ‘That's Confederate money. ‘Tho priscner dented the whole story in wourt to-day. She ts a self-made blonde, not more than twenty-two years old. She gaid she was a milliner. “For a living I trim hata," she ex- plained. “Trim suckers, too, don't your’ ask- ed Aaulstant District-Attorney Krotel. Bhe suid she didwt’ know what ho bill, May Woodbury, he said, leaned over bis shoulder and tol dhim the bait aethey made in any mint, @o as far as he hiked. Relying ‘tiie eivics, he pecied ten one ‘Thomas | AWG GER MUSES DIVES LOCKED-IN BABY FATALLY BURNED Peter and His Brother Played With Matches While Mother Was Gone. While his mother was at a meat mar- ket in the same building two-year-old Peter Burton wos fatally burned to-day as his four-year-old brother Albert stood by helptess with fright in the flat of the children's father, Patrick Burton, at No. 1806 Amsterdam avenue. Mrs. Burton left the ciilldren locked in the kieehen on the third story, ‘Thoy played with matches and little Peter's dress caught fire, Mrs. Eva Stelmbrunner, a neighbor, heard the screams of pain and tried to break in the door, Failing in this, she ran to the street and catled Policemen Burne and Grey, of the West One Hun- dred and Fifty-second street station, who turned in an alarm before running |{nto the house, Thoy burst open the \door and found Peter unconscious and Albert speechless with fright hiding in a corner. Voliceman Bure was rolling \the injured baby in his overcoat to ex- |Ungulsh the smoldering flames when the lmother came In, She had noticed the policemen rinndng past the butcher {shop and followed, little thinking of the significance of their visit, When she leary what had happened she fainted | Dr. Coraner was summoned from J | Heod Wright Hospital He took the lehiid away to the hospital, but seid there was almost no chance of recovery: | BRITONS URGE FISH TO KEEP UP FIGHT. As Policy-Holders They Want Mu- tual Life Saved from Trust and Wall Street Control, Stuyvesant’ Fish, who recently re- signed from the Mutual Life Insurance ‘Company's Investigating Committee ‘rather than be a parttotpant in a white- ‘washing report, recetved this cable ¢o- day from Lord Northcliffe in London: “British Policy-Holders’ Protective As- |gociatinn Committee view with appre- lhension your resignation from the In- | vestigation Committee. Does this imply dontng your strenuous efforts for a thorough Investigation and genuine re- form? They urge you to continue to support with all your power and inthi- nce the general movement to Mberate the Mutual from trusts and Wall street, making It once more mutual and managed solely in the policv-holders! in- lita 7 “Chatrman: CASTORIA For Infants and Qhildren. The Kind You Have Always Bought INSURGENTS HURL A BOLT AT HIGGINS | Juggling with Appropri- ations to Make Fake Economy Showing. (Special to The Wvening World.) ALBANY, March 1—The insurgent Republicans in the Assembly made first real show of fight to-day when the ‘ill framed by the Higgins-Wedeworth managers for the maintanance of the Government came up for fina! passage. The bolt wes led by Assemblyman Rogers, the old chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, who was “turned down” this year by the “Now Deal" faction, Rogers change? that tems had been surreptitiously put in the bill by Chairman Moreland, of the Ways and Means, and amendments had been offered, increasing certain items, without the knowledge of the other members of the committee. The bill, he said, was draftet and consklered in Star-chamber fadivion. The showing of economy marte by the bill was pure ¢ake, he declared. Appli- cations for State departmenta had been slashed with the Intention of replacing the deficiencies at some future time. ‘Tho people, he satd, sould not be hum- bugged by such a game, "In their pruning process they have ven invaded the department of lunacy, 0," declared the for- This sum, I am informed by the department, must be restored or else the unfortunates wards of the State will be denied comforts to which thoy are entitled “This ts fake economy we are asked to approve. It means that this or the next legislature will have to restore the cuts now made." Mr. Rogers then made an indirect at- tack on the Governor, referring ty the tact that Higgins had asked for his de- jurtment this year a sum $4,760 more than the appropriation made for the same department during the last term of Odell. DAILY NEWS OFF THE, LIST.) PA | ‘The Board of City Record met to-day in the Mayor's offlce and dropped the Dally News from the list of newspapers for elty advertising. On motion of Corporatton Counsel Delany the Globe was substituted, the }a quantity of carbollo ack, LNEY BUTLER CARRIED AWAY. $4000 SILVER yy Nabbed asHe Carried Lied from Lawyer’s Mansion to Pawnshop, Detective-engeant John.Boyle mate @ record capture to-day when he ar reated the Norwegian butler of Poter B. Olney, former District~atterney of this county amd millonatre lawyer,. within an hour after Mr. Olney had re- ported ithe theft of $4,000 worth of mile verware from his home in Lawrence, LL Two weeks ago Mr. Olney engaged a3 & butler a young man of neat and ecgaging appearance. August Larsen’ came with good recommendations from & steward named Peterson enpleyed on the Oscar Il, of the Scandinavinn- American lime. Though only twe months in Amenica, ihe spoke very dod Engileh, having lived several yeess im England. He made @ fine appearance, was acat, deferential and seemed to be entirely trustworthy. Mrs, Olney turned ‘over to wim the custody of the family he paw that shone yen Pel t it with ‘ ut 5 o'clock this morning, while all the family slept, the yor ig Nor. Wegian slipped downto the silver chest and dumped lta contents into a large satchel. Altogether he about three hundred pieces.” 2 the foresight of a trained oreelmen he out the telephone wires of the house and took an early train 0 the city, Mr, Olney had reached his office fore he know of the robbery. Ws: wake called him up on a neighbors tele. Dhone and informed him of tie cases ing of tho silver and the butler, The lawyer immediately went to Police Headquarters and saw Sergt. James Dunn, who has charge of the Detective ureau in the absone : Egichian ¢ of Inspector Mb= He gave Dunn a good descri; the butler and also of the silver: Jennie Bovlo. the swiftest sleuth of the state was put on tho case. By the time Olney was returning to his office was roaming through the pawnshop trict of Sixth avenue, Passing Twent eighth street and Sixth avenué he po- Uced a very noat appearing, light= haired young man _ staggering ong under the Weight of what seesied'to be. @ heavily laden grip. The young man steered for the near est pawnshop and went in. Boyle tole owed and when the butler dumped this plunder on the counter nabbed. him, ‘The thief was beim micnsured in Police Headquarters before Mr. Olney had set- tied down upon ‘his return to the office, When told of the arrest and the reooy- ery of the silverware the lawyer sald to Sergt. Dunn: “ Congraitulatio In a he tong of my experience I can years end he wil be KILLED HIMSELF, DREADING ASYLUM. Koherrherr Drank Acid Before His Friends Could Have His Mental State Examined. Michael Koherherr, sixty yéars old Idlled himself to-dey in Jersey City be- cause his friends were to have his mental condition inyustigated by @ physictan. Koherherr, who livel at No, 92 Web- ster avenue, had been In ill-health sev- oral years and, after haying hts mind fri contemplated to have been taken 30 Converse to-day, Rising before another member of the household to-day Koherhere_ewallowed . His groans attracted @ young man who was sleep- ing In the hovse and he called an am- bulance. ‘The man dled on the way ta the City Hospital. ' ——— Miss Mamle Sewt, twenty-etght years old, committed sulcide early to-day by inhaling gas at her home, No, 909 Leon- ard street, Williamsburg. Other persons in the house found her with the turned on and called Dr. Nichols, of No, zi Leonard street. ‘The physician said that she was be yond his aid, 16 Cents each, 2 for 25 Cents CLUETT, PEABODY & OO. vote being unanimous, Makers of Clustt and Monarch Shivty. NEW PUBLICATIONS. | OUT THIS ‘TOWNTOPICS contains a very positive statement by COLONEL MANN a NEW, PUBLICATIONS, MORNING iia iit