The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1906, Page 3

ey TT 9 & *, "BUILT ON President Bryan us |< The battle is won. and Twenty-fifth street. Through hig secretary Vice-President Bryan to-day authorized The Evening ‘World to announce that he had issued ‘orders for the preparation of plans for ‘an escalator for this station, and that ‘when the plans are ready all that will bo necessary for the beginning of the work of installing the “Lift’ will be the formal consent of George Whret, the millionaire brewer, who 1s the owner of the Berkshire, which occupies the whole block on the east side of Bighth avenue, tween One Hundred @nd Twenty-fourth and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, Mr. Ehret has alrealy signified his approbation of the improvement, on the assurance that it will not encroach upon the sidewalk at Kinsman’s corner more than is now oc- cupled by the antiquated stairways. Escalator by Easter. George H. Pegram, chiet engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany, will prepare the plans as goon as possible, and it is hoped that™by Easter the moving stairs will be run- ning merrily. Willan Henry Knox, a lawyer at No. §9 William street, who lives at No. 12 West One Hundred and Twentieth street, said: “I felichtate The Evening World on its happy faculty for discov- ering what the people want and then turning Jn and advocating it with forca- fulness and persistence until tt gets tt. Certainly no more popular movement ‘Was ever started than this one for re- lief from the weary burden of tolling up those station staircases. The climb ‘winds’ the strong and exhausts the ‘weak, while the effort !s dangerous or disastrous to those afflicted with weak | “I live on the other side of Harlem.” @aid Aqueduct Commissioner John F. Cowan, tho Tammany leader of the Thirty-fourth Assombly District, who made the Tiger rub his eyes by his ac. tivity in ridding his bailiwick of gam- Dlers, und more recently by appearing @s prosecutor of violators of the Sunday Exolse law, “but I think every friend and acquaintance of mine on the west Gide hae spoken in my presence of the villainous arrangements for reaching that station; the long climb, by narrow and steep stairs, end the il! effects upon them. They say that that climb in the morning ts enough to unfit @ man for business for two or three hours after- SCALATOR WILL BE 25TH STREET ening World Secures Promise from Vice. that the Improve- ment Will Be Made. The people of Harlem are to have a new escalator to carry them up from the sidewalk to the “L” station at Eighth avenue and One Hundred In a week The Evening World has accomplished that which the busi- ess Men and women of Harlem have been striving for for years, Vice-President E. P. Bryan, of the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany, has promised to build a hoist which will save seventeen thousand people the weary climb up those endless stairs every day to their trains, ing to the limbs. There should be an escalator or some other device for tak- ing passengers up at least part way to the station, as at One Hundred and Six- teenth street. Everybody Wants It, "I am with my neighbors on that question,” said Aaron Simmons, of No. 1h West One Hundred and ‘Ihventy- seventh strest; “we all want the esca- ngor."" John Garvey, secretary to Edward Murphy. the new Superintendent of tho Department of Buildings, who lives at No, 212 West One Hundred and Twenty- elgith street, said: “Being of sound | mind, and having no disposition to saw wood or shovel coal unnecessa naturally in favor of an escalator | station, If you should happen to run | across any man or woman who Is on- posed to It get his photograph and prin: | it in The Evening World. ‘The rest of | Harlem would like to see It.” “There {s but one voice among | denizens of the west side of Hari | it has been raised In constantly swelling chorus for several years, especially ince the modern inventions of escalators and | moving Inclines, for a lifting machinery of some kind to do the work of thelr legs at that station,’ said Francis Me- Cabe, of No. 4 West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. William J. Roe, real estate operator, No, 20 West One Hundred and Twen- ty-second street, said: ‘The Introduc- | tion of the escalators at thie station | would enhance property values on this | alde of the Harlem, and give a great | relief to all patrons of the ‘L.'"" “The evil effects of the long climb in- volved In the present method of reach- ing the station are well known to Jevery vhysician,? maid Dr. John T. Nagle. “Anything which would elimi- nate the climb or lessen it would be a wood thing." It was by ascertaining and publishing this unanimous sentiment of the peo- ple from whom come the fifteen or twenty thousand nickels which drop in | the coffers of the Inlerborough Rapid | Transit Company every twenty-four hours at this station that The Bven- ng World was able to convince Vice- President Bryan, who, as a discerning, ‘easive, up-t man, realized Mt was “up to him" to please his patrons, and he very promptly pet to work to do it, with the announcement given out at his office to-day. che .and | ‘ward; rattling to the nerves and wreck- -BURGLARS BUSY AT PARK SLOPE | Two More Houses Entered and Police Suspect Use | of Chloroform. ) Brooklyn's fastionable team of burg- 4% lars operating almost exclusively in the wealthy ark Slope district, enjoyed @ profitable stretch of business early to-day at two houses. The latest victims of these hard- working and prosperous housebreakers are Albert Corber, an art decorator, <f No. 10 Wincoln place, and John Pullman, a real estate operator, ving juet back of Corber, at No. M46 Bt Wonns’ place ‘The police say the thieves must have + entered the grounds of the Bixth ave- nue Baptist Church and then, scaling @ fence, got into Corber's rear yard. They Mterally broke a kitchen door into eplinters and carried Ained overcoat, large amount ‘of silverware. ‘After daybreak the cout and the heavier ploces of silver were found led Up against the fence. It is be- Heved that the intruders lef this much 5 an heme, being frightened o Botore they could come back for it at of a ture They broke < low, opéning om the back porch of Mir. Pullman's house. and got away with a sealskin | Bacque worth #0 atid sliver and jew- elry to the value of $300 more, ‘Khe burglars are believed to be the game who visited dence of Mrs, the resi. IT Jessie Leary, at No. Lincoln placo, the other nist and tore the worke out | cussed h and stuffed the box The detectives are | to loro with their spol {Inclined to think the crooks use oh: form in 4 good many of their jobs, Ee iIvoad Must Pay for Refusing Cars to Shipper. S.CT MEE, Oy 2b rf enn # grils ‘merchant, “ot Deung $L000 ‘Cen- ral Railroad for disorimin: Rorted that. the Mahed guia no cara for three months and he was several trinkets and a/ "FRISCO FIGHTING 10 BE KNOCKED OUT ‘Supervisor Would Kill Game on Coast After Young Tenny’s Death, SAN FRANCISCO, March 2.—Many who were near the corner of Harry ‘Tenny during his fatal fight with Frankte Nell heard him eey that he was “all in" and wanted to quit in the |tenth round, but his seconds were \meard to urge him on, telling him be would still win and that hia opponent | was tiring, It was learned that Tenny's seconds jhad @ pool together, in which they | placed something like’ $700 as a bet on |thelr man, They saw thelr money fast | fading away and they spurred the tired and jaded lad to continue the frag, hoping against hope that some lucky lincident might Intervene and save them | their money. The direct cause of death was a | hemorrhage of the bruin, as announced by Dr. Kucich une autopsy nlvsician at the Morgue. The bone above Tenny's ht eye was broken the force of Nel's blows, and the eye itself sunk into the head. Had the little pugilist survived the force of tne blows he would never have regained the slght of the injured eye, Death was in no wise caused by any olson or narcotic, Ahor from a weak heart, His physical condition was per- fect, The Board of rvisors have taken stops to stop fenting ‘on the coast. A meeting was called and the subject dis- for hours, after which the pro- moters of fistic events were notified not pee scoempe holding contests in the Te. AMATEURS IN “THE BELLS.” Members of the University Dramatic Goolety of the Y. M. C. A. will appear in @ performance of ‘The Belle’ at the pornalls Cosino on the eypning of eargals are now under way an friends of the soclety exped 2 tertainment. - ce aiere en SLASHED WITH RAZOR WHEN ti PICKED UP COIN Beatty Didn’t Know the Penny Had Been Tossed to Organ-Grinder. Becaum the picked up a nenny. Charles Beatty, a salesman, living at No. #0 Forty-eighth street, Brooklyn, was to-day slashed across the throat within an eighth of an inch of the jugular vein, by Francesco Scibell!, un organ grinder. The razor was very dull. Otherwise, instead of seven- inch cut Beatty would have received his death wound when the enraged man attacked him. ‘The assault occurred within a hun- dred paces of Police Headquarters, Brooklyn, and Scibelli was at once taken into custody by two detectives who happened to be passing. On his person were found several counterfeit ‘soins, and the Secret Service men be- leve his arrest may lead to that of throughout the City. Beatty in employed In the Cowperth- wait furniture store at Fulton street and Flatbush avenue. It {s his custom to walk to his mother's home, at No 22 Smith street, for lunch every day. To-day as he was passing along he saw @ penny guttering in the sunlight. Beatty stopped and picked it up. There was a wheezy organ out in the street. It ebopped with a shriek in the middle of a bar and the next thing Beatty krew an untidy and swarthy man was plucking at his sleeve and effervescing Itallan verbs at sixty the minute, Beatty stared at him in amase- ment and when the other began to fum- ble through his pockets he shoved alm into the gutter, Beatty went on his way without giving the matter ancther thought. He had gone perhaps a block, when he heard footfalls behind. As he turned, the or- gon grinder with a curse launched him- self upon the unprepared man. Beatty threw up his arm. The organ grinder shifted the atsick beneath the arm and slashed the blade full across the unde- fended throat. Beatty turned and fled at top speed up the atreet, with his assailant in ad pursuit. Detectives Byrnes and Finnegan came ground the corner from Headquarters, They saw the ilesing man «tae ee swey from loss of from the throat. and swarthy organ his victim, and then him. He foyght for a moment and then gave up. |. The detectives hurried both men to Headquarters, where they called In the pollee surgeon. hasty examination showed that Beatty had escaped death | by the smallest fraction of an inch. MISSING BOY MAY BE THIEF’S VICTIM. Disappeared Making Round of Theatres with Tickets and Cash —Honest, Says Employer. ‘The police are today tooking for Anthony! Thode, a fourteen-year-old errand boy, who disappeared fast night with a pocketful of theatre tickets and others who are passing spurious coin CC MEry Bacco Ang Won’t Women Wear Queer Looking The Kettledrum Effects This Spring the Funniest Since the Fifties. Look out for the spring hats! They are wonders! The Easter parade will be dotted with the funniest little kettle bottom effects, surmounting the top- Knot of My Lady shat has been seen since the early fifties. The accompanying uketches give an idea of how they will look on the pert Uttle woman of two hundred pounds or more, and also how they will lack ‘on the woman whom any fashton make pretty. Along with the kettle bottom hats the lady of the spring of 1906 will wear pumps on her large and little feet on the street, in the house, and every where else that hosiery looks good. To offset the Uttle “ds” that mak FEARS YOUNG WIFE IS HELD BY SOME GANG Mrs. Bracco Mysteriously Disappears from Oak Street Home. Mrs, Mary Bracoo, pretty and etgh- teen, has disappeared mysteriously from her home at No. 4 Oak street, and her husband, Tony Bracco, belleves she nas been taken away by for The husband hus searched New York. Newark and the Oranges, and has not only neglected his business and closed- up his little home, but has expended all of his small savings in trying to locate the missing wife. Whether it ts the “Black Hand" or not ‘Tony says he does not know, but of one thing he 1s certain, uls wife has been taken away by force, and ho sus- pects a gang of toughs in the nelgh- borhood of his home may know some- thing about 1 Mary Bracco !s an ex-j ceptionally attractive woman. She mar-) ried Tony three years ago, and they have one child, Vitantonlo, aged one year, Since the mother's disappearance the chiM has sickened, and although It is being cared for by {ts grandmother the father, himself half frantic with grief and apprehension, fears {t will die. “What maddens me more than any- thing Is the thought that my wife may be the victim of evil people and is being detained in some house,” he suid to- day. “It is not an uncommon thing for young girls to be lured away, and al- though my wife is a married woman she was innocent of the pitfalls set by these people. “An acquainience of mine who has just returned from Hridgeport says he is sure he saw her in that town, She has a small scar on her right cheek just below the eye, made by a burn she recelved when a child, She has an- other scar on her neck. The police told me I had better go to Bridgeport, but Ihave spent every cent of my money lcoking for her, i have to work now to support the baby.” The last the young husband saw of his wife was at ll o'clock a week ago Tuesday, when she brought him hia funch, as was her custom. Tony works as a hatter at No. 32 Henry street, “On that day my wife came to the store and seemed {n her usual spirits,” he said. “She started home, for shi had left the baby with my mother. She go away of bee own sooord at all She tan acket and a 8) a T°Gh sure ‘sho aidn't' oven dream of Hats? jteantiaaaa ss y saw her walking Wi slong Franklin street later. She never ty ‘went away of her own accord, for she py. Why, she was so Hae go out on the Little COURT HANDS IT OUT TO INTERBOROUGH. Magistrate Crane to-day in the Mor- risania Police Court, gave the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company a@ plece of his mind, when he discharged James Healy, of No. 81 Hast One Hundred and Thirty-third street. Healy was ac- cused of stealing a piece of copper wire. “I believe thia man !s innocent," sald the Magistrate, “and I am going to discharge him. Here ts this company stoaling mijlions of dollars’ worth of property belonging to the people eve: year, and they come here and charge this man, who. Is an electrician in thelr own employ, with stealing a few feet of wire that he had in hts own tool chest. “If they, could be made to give up thelr etealings by some such simple mscedure as this It would be a great Blessing to the people of New York.” ge HURT BY PREMATURE BLAST. Vincent Devato, of No, 655 Tenth ave- nue, ard Joseph Salvatore, of No. § Forsythe street, were at work In the ex- cayuuon for the new New York Cen- tral depot to-day when a prematire ex- ploston of a blast set by Devato in- jured both men. ‘There were twenty men at work near by, and several of them recived shght {ojuries. At the Flower Hospital, where NOTE THE PUMPS FoR. STREET WEAR the Injured men were taken, it was sald that Salvatore would lose his eyesight _as_a_result of the accident. A NECESSARY EVIL Experience of a Minister Who ‘Tried To ‘Think That of Coffee. “A descendant of the Danes, a na- tion of coffee drinkers, I used coffee freely till 1 was 20 years old,” writes a clergyman from Iowa, “At that time I was a student at a Biblical Institute, and suddenly became aware of the fact that my nerves had be- come demoralized, my brain dull and sluggish and that insomnia was fast- ening its hold upon me, “T was loath to believe that these thigs came from the coffee I was drinking, but at last wus forced to that conclusion, and quit it. “J was so accustomed to a hot table beverage and felt the need of it so much, that after abstaining from coffee for a time and recovering my health, I went back to it. I did this no. the spring lady look as though she Was Wearing hor little sister's hat Will| soyeral times, but always with die- be the large ornamented parasols which | oo, results. I had about made u, are to be very popular, They have pea-| astrous i P cocks, ostriches und every other, bird| my mind that coffee was a necessary nd beast of plumage hand-painted and | 4 embroidered all over them, In all shades although widte will prevail in household where the price can be duced after the grocery bill is pald. There js to be a plethora broidered wns for summer wear and some of them look like the dress of the princess that rides the big cle Phant !n the spring circus parade. vil. “About this time a friend told me that 1 would find Postum Food Coffee very fine and in many repects away ahead of coffee So I bought some and, making it very carefully accord- ing to the directions, we were de- lighted to find that he had not exag- Woat Thirty-etxth atreet, Mr. Parker “ ‘was a perfectly honest lt- Barker to-d y, and made our returns to the t the office with all aml wae not ar i not seen after Ieav- ing the Princess Theatre, the first house he was to visit. I believe he was fol- lowed by somebody who knew he ha money and tickets. The boy ts light haired end of light complexion and haa brown eyes. ‘wore a Dive sult with chort pants and $15 belonging to his employer, A. D. Pi ho has theatrical thoket had on a gray overcoat. World Wants ASPHYXIATED IN CHURCH. Janitor of Synagogue Found Un- conscious from Coal Gas. Adolph Rall, janitor of the Hebrew synagogue at No. % West One Hundred ‘and Eighteenth street, was found un- conscious in his room in the basement of the church to-day with the gas es- caping from a stove. He was taken to Hartem Hovpital, where it was said he would likely die, ‘The polloe cay the gee Teak’ fn gerated in the least. From that day to this we have liked it better than the old kind of coffee or anything else in the way of a table drink. “Ite use gave me, in a very short time, an increase in strength, clear- ness of brain and steadiness of nerves; and sleep, restful and restor- ing came back to me. “Tt am thankful that we heard of Pestum, and shall be glad to testify at any time to the good it has done me.” Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. eacaged | ‘There's a reason, Read the little Road te Wellville,* in had no hat on and wasn't prepared to|f BULLETS FLY A FREMEN FH ARSEML BLICE Philadelphia Force Have a Lively Time Dodg- ing Explosives. PHILADELPHIA, March 2.—Fire In| BE: the artillery bullding of the Franiford arsenal to-day ondangered the lives of the flremen. who fought the Names while Krag-Jorgensen cartridges, shell fuses suffocating smoke and gases. . When whelming volume of noxious gases and the fusilade of bullets. By creeping upon the floor they suc- ceeded jn reaching the portion of the roam which was in flames. Mthough nearly overcome by smoke and gas and constantly in danger rom the expl cartridges, the firemen finally extin~ guished the blaze. “ The extent of the damage dene to the hullding and stosk of ammuaition and the orkxin of the fire could not’ be learned, the arsenal offictals declining to give any information. Kaf_ir King Beit Gives 9500, for a Hamburg University. LIN, March 3—Alfred Beit, @ well-known London merchant, and heavy owner of South African diamond and gold properties, has Fl peed 9600,000 to found a university in Hamburg. bis. native city. op Goat Sale. $9 Spring Coverts § i} Corset Models 5 =, Saturday’s Special, Richly Satin Lined. Makes important coat history— finest English Covert garment ever ( put forth at $5—and satin lined ¢ throughout. Glove Fitting Model, ' Mellow Fawn Tans, ¢ ChicTandem Front. (Exactly Like Picture.) Spring's smartest and newest style \ i hip length with oo Tailor Strappings, 7 Fancy Collar Effects. § Snug tailor-mede rance not sure posal’ by $15 coun Ly wi geomee'$9 value. At Satarday’s Sale, $5. Remember—Alterations FREE. SALE AT BOTH STORES. HLER BRO Sixth Ave. @ 31st. St. A Strikingly Special Sale of Ss. ve coomBOYS' SPRING SUITS! ntinue to emphasize the supremacy of our Boys' Clothing Dept. 4 by offering Nalues Impossible elsewhere. Te open the season we uote these superlative speci Men specials: , cf) Boys’ Busterand $-§ .35 . Russian Blouse Suits Fi lish tweeds, alro blue and black, in leading spring combinations; guaranteed al! wool. These jaunty sulte have bloomer pants, TRA SILK TIE WITH EVERY SUIT. Sizes, 3-8 years. Every garment perfect or money refunded. Norfolk @ Double- $-§ .35 Breasted Suits, worsteds, cashmeres and tweeds, in most approved r orings. Finely tailored coats, trousers with taped All approved styles for Spring wear at equally attractive SATURDAY EVENINGS. SATURDAY, MARCH 3D 2 , Children’s Dresses New Models 4 to 14 years, ie CHILDREN’S WASH DRESSES, Guimpe Model, Exceptional Values Actual values $5.50. ‘ancy cheviots, cassimeres and hand embroidered emblems, patent Tots belts. AN BX- FOR LARGER BOYS. Excellent all-wool fabrics, including blue, black an? . and elastic waist bands, Sizes. 8-16 years, Really worth + CHILDREN’S WASH DRESSES, Cotton Repp, Russian Model, embroidery collars, 4 to 12 years, 4,50 CHILDREN’S WOOL DRESSES, Panamas, Challies and check Mohaire, Guimpe Model, 10 to 14 yea 10.75 CHILDREN’S DRESSES, Mohair and Shepherd Checks, Russian Model, 4 to 10 year: 5.75 Sdroadvvay & Igtb Peet. Here is the daintiest confection ever made, with a great many mouthfuls to the pound. It is a PURE, CRISP, POROUS, Molasses Candy thickly coated with the VERY FINEST CHOCOLATE, Look for the words Greenfield’s SPONGE on every piece. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. E, GREENFIELD'S SON, &:CO,, NEWYORK,