The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1906, Page 3

Ended So Far as He Is Conecrned. Is Misinfurmed. the latest phase that d bill and chat ts Gy tain ‘of hose opposing with the pool-roons Slicer Js promirest in tae Ni Stute Conference poses the bi urider that Dr. Grege said “He's got to rn make a fool « reporter to-day; Nothing to Retract. “q have not retracted. fing to retrac..” y4 And so it stande at pres : even more serious phase is giv the. allegations o: Av Before the Baptist Minist ers’ ence he said: “As for Mr. Slicer, believe, that he Is iNhescrare cay tions and charges that have been oe Dr. Sicer. But if you \gahs, a you would not Con: the pay of Was found at his home, se East Thirty~ights street, by the dispute. A, siiort, four-squarc, with a big dome-shapea gray eyes, he conveys u aelf-asseriivencss. 0 he big the bony chin still prominent despite he rolls of fat about bis jowis complete the effect. Says it’s All Threshed Out. “86 the papers still while to follow this amuging con| Yeray,” he said as a starter. they must have little enough to do. might be called a one-sided coniroves y no replies in_a spirit of = It Setms to me that the ma was threshed out long ugo. Tho! favor the bill ought to know by this have formed our oninion and Ode it We fe bit off his words sharply a to think the matter ended, “Bat what of Anthony Comstock’ ‘Then he with what looked very like a sneer. “As for that man Comstock,” he 6 T-would say it was ‘Then Dr, Grege’s allogation a letter. not. In all respect to A man ‘anmot retract what he has IS COMING FROM REV. DR. SLICER Racing Bill Controversy HAS WRITTEN TO GREGG Declares that Clerical Advo- cate of Cassidy Measure hes The Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer t retracted, and !t is up to the Rev. fool ou’ t of ned. This ts fn the religious war over the C Lansing racing bill now before the Leg- islature. ‘The Rey is fleid secreti of the Dr. Sicer said to aa Evening World i have noth- Comstock. fer- I have reason to the a few of the allega- di- | saw be Surprisea ‘oti ‘ie seems rather to enjoy the ¢ n= an Hvening World® reporter and talked of plump little man head and keen un impresion of Roman nose think it worth tro- “Well, It ray. @r- ter pa they think of it. We. on the other are ve looked at the mat- 0 further discus- and of him," said was Comstock had chareed him wits belne in, the vay of the rice tracks. Dr. Sllcer's broad face rippled ald. “I pyould no more answer anvthing he nald about me than I would do anv of the things he dces.” “Well,” he Was asked, “if anybody elze-hesiies Comstock said that of you?” licer paused very much brought up, Dr. Gregg had said that Af Dr.:Slicer did not send him a written retraction to-day he would make a werhat retracted,” sakt Dr, Blicer, briefly, « fool He then said he had written those .2 he explained, in reply to questions, “tell you what I said in tt. not Mic- Ethel Green, of “Happy- land,” as -an Expert Ex- plains How a Real Kiss Should Be Given. here is no harm in kissing."” At least that's what Miss Ethel Green says, and if anybody ought to know she {s the Miss G: as many m eight kisses ear shot, too. en gets kissed six times in and there are forty- being exchanged within All of these kisses take Place at the Casino in “Happyland,” | which, by the way, is a very good place for such pastimes. In the + act of | | “Happyland" there is a eong, “There is no harm in kissing.” Miss Green {s one of the eight maidens who are | klased rapturously by the eight gallant | Sodtiers. | “The 1s no stago kissing about it, either,” safd Miss Green to-day. “If you want even a comic opera song to Bo y have to a little realism. ‘Happy ‘’ opened, three months ago, I have been kissed about) three thousand times—yes, and by the Bame man, too, Of course, that is counting rehearsals. You see there are three verses to song and nearly al- | most alluring charm. Q. RETRACTION {NO HARM IN KISSING, SAYS MOST KISSED GIRL IN CITY Tx WRONG, War ways three encores, and then we re- hearse every day, and when the piece was being rehearsed for the opening we had to do that kissing song so many times that, there isn't the number who sn’t an expert on the subject now. he trouble with most women is that they don't know how to kiss. “A kiss is suposed It Is, too, and {t is a shame to desecrate it. Think of the women who fancy a kiss ts nothing more than a puckering up and a pro: froding of the lips. Avreal kiss should be receptive and initiative at the same (ine. Ut Is ridiculous for a woman. to stick her lips out in an ugly pucker when she wants to k “How do I know women don't know how to kiss? Well, I certainiv am not basing my remurze upon my knowledge gained from kissing women. The way a a girl in| of the wa to be woman's | women kiss one another {s—well, it 19 to laugh, ‘There are klsse 1 kisses. Miss Green has consented to pose for of pictures iMustrating a few of Kissing. Series There ts ingenue kiss, the tlmid, half-frigitened, half-awkward first kiss of the voune cirl the sort There is the perfunctory one woman giv: t | T-suppose-I-n: sort of kiss, Then there Js the coquettish kiss; the anticipatry Neht in the oye, the tempt- ing fulness of the Ips, Phere {* the kiss for the rleht man. Miss Groen in posing for this vfcture ys it is the only way to kiss the man you love She also gives an {Hustration of the Wrong way to kiss It goes without saying that Miss Green knows what she ta talking about: ‘SMATHERS DENIES THE “DOPE” CHARGE New York Horseman Files His) Answer in the Gold Cup Suit. Ex-Congressman John J. Adams to- day filel the answer of Elmer EB. | Smathers to the suit of the Memphis / Trotting Association for $3,500 dam- ages growing out of the alleged “dop- ing" of C. K, G, Billings's world cham- pion trotting mare Lou Dillon so that she lost Gold Cup offered by the association in October, 19¢4, to Masor Delmar, then owned by Smathers. Mr. Smathers enters a general denial d sets up as a separate defense these allegation: The Memphis Gold Cup was offered in 18@ as a traphy for free-for-all trot- ters to wagon with amateur drivegs @t the Memphis .rack on certain pub- lished terms and conditions, Ono of the conditions was that the was to be competed for annually until woi twice by the same driving club, 0 become, the property of the club, “uth 1002," says the answer, “Smath- cre, representing the New York Driv. ing rivi its horse Lord Derby; In 108, C. HG. Billings, rep roventing or” preten represen the Memphis Driving lub, ani rive ing Lou Dillon, won, the contest. | In 1904 Smathers drove M: ator Delmar and again fairly and lemmete test and Ayied oy cup as the reprecenXitive of the New York Driving Club, and "dla receive tt nd he now lawetul owner NOncintermation ana belief,"" he con- tinues, “this action is not brought by the Memphis Trotting Association, but {x being prosecuted by one Murray Howe, claiming to be secretary of the Association, without le.wful author! Gnd that the sesociation never, author- ized it by resolution Board of Directors or otherwise, then a KAISER WILHELM II, SPOKEN. SIASCONSET, Mass., March 20.—The North German ' Lloyd ‘steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, from Hamburg for New York, was ‘reported by wireless from the station here when the vessel was 190 milleg east of the Nantucket lghsship at 6.20 A. M. to-day. both daily and Sunday, prints more offers of employ- 75), ment than any other Directory THREE New York Want Mediums COMBINED the contest for the Memphis | THROUGH Streets Col. Spring rendered prodigious service to Commissioner Woodbury to-day in dlssipating the combined product of two near-blizzards. But it is an exe:rable day for pedestrians. Slush, muck and rivers of melted snow made thousands wish they had been | born with webbed feet or flappers that make aquatic pedestrianiam easy going. The greater city was a greater pud- @ie._ Myriad lakes formed in the parks, @quares and main thoroughfares, and the sewers were soon Clogged with an overflow of slush. The Street-Cleaning Department got to work with 10.000 men on the job immediately the rain ceased after midnight, but a haif day's toil found them with the task not half done. ‘The residue of the earlier storm had not been cleared away after nearly a week of carting and shovelling. Con- tractor Bradley had three thousand trucks out Icng before .dawn, but the thousands of tons removed in the early tbours of the day seemed ohly a scoop- img off of the crust. He said that in all his experience with show storms and city contracts he had never been con- frontea with a more difficult job. Snow Heavy, Work Slow. “The snow is frightfully heavy,” said Mr. Bradey, “and a truck is hardly filled before halt of it is melted, Of course the thaw is helping us out a lot, but the welght of thé snow makes it extremely diMrult to cart it away Quickly, I am hiring all the men and trucks that I can engage In the Greater City, but even then it {s slow and dif- ficult work, With the sun up, however, And 2 lift in the temperature we expect to make it much better going afoot by night, and if no more bilzzards come smothering down on us another day ought to see the city fairly clean. I feel sure we will have it all cleaned up by Saturday, “qt ia true that I have discovered a scheme to rob me of thousands of dol- lars through the fraudulent sale of snow dhecks by my foremen. So far I figure that I have been robbed of Something like $15,000, but before this Job is done I expect to get the thieves with the goods on and make an ex- ample of them for good and all. “I belleve there is one man at the head of the gang of workmen who have deen robbing mo, and I um after him. In former years I discovered in scat- CITY FORCED TO WADE SEA OF SLUSH and Crosswalks in Many Sections Almost Impassable—Thousands of Men at Work on Snow Removal. | their snow tickets to che truckers and | then splitting with them when the tick- Jets were casa, kuch foreman gots 1,00) tickets at che rate of &2 a hundred. carrie! a load of snow to the dump; | then he cashes {t in with us. How Swindle Is Done. ‘fhe scheme that 18 being worked is in the salo of these tickets by the fore- men at the rate of $10 a hundred, When they are cashed in for $32 there is @ profit to the foreman of $22 a hun- dred, or $220 a thousand, [I do not ex} to Make any arrests to-day, ag I think it would be wiser to walt until after the work of getting rid of this fall is completed. ‘Chen 1 am sure 1 will get the head of this gang of swin- diers with the goods.” Ail aver tho city to-day men and boys were renting out temporary bridges over the river-running gutters. On the east side shop girls were charged @ penny each to cross over the big puddles and | water-clogged gutters. Youngsters in rubber boots ran about with planks and offered them as bridges for so much a head. In many cases the water Wa: so deep that the women had to b carried over the big wastes of slush, Men dia this, charging a penny for each person oa Tn the Dig aquares of the clty pollce- men offered thelr services ag rescuers, and carried girls and women across the lakes of slush. All along Broadway, Where the melted snow hail clogged or dammed, policemen could be seen carry- Ing women across the tharoughfare. At the entrances to the Subway the snow had melted very rapidly and in many cases the water overran the curb and flowed down into the stations, b'rom all of the Subway exits planks ‘had to be laid from the curb to bridge over the slush and wate: Ofticials ‘of the Street-Cleaning De- ‘tment sald to-day they were makin: every effort to clear Fifth avenue an Broddway before the slush started to icy condition of the walks in City Hall Park to. apd caused annoyance to | thou: ands In section water and slush wan ‘ankle deep. Tt wae Impoasible to escape it, and those who travelied through the park were com- pelted to Invite Invite wot pete Apparently: Up no ployees to Bene a oaesnre. —>— SNOW A BLESSING IN THE ADIRONDACKS. MALONE, N. ¥., March 20.—A heavy northeast storm has prevailed through- out the Adirondacks for twelve hours and more snow has fallen than at any previous time this year. A few days of sleighing will be worth thousands of dollars to lumbermen who have logs yet on the skids, FLOOD HAS CHARGE OF ALL: BRIDGE POLICE DEAD, LYING IN A SNOWDRIFT Commissioner Bingham Turns Over Regulation of Traffic to Him. Inspector Flood was given entire charge of the police regulations of trat- fle on the Brooklyn Brldge to-day, He has this charge in addition to his com- mand of the Trafflc Squad. Coinmisaioner Bingham took Inspector Finod out of the First Inspection Dis- tee or gave him seeprona of the on Feb. When Ti sung World pointed out to Coumtee Unfortunate Had Crawled Into} af a West Side Lumber Yard to Sleep. When John Kilkenmon, watchman in a lumber yard at Sixty-fourth street and Eighth avenue, opened the gates to-day he saw what he thought was a bundle of clothes half covered by a drift. He poked the bundle and it moved feebly. Kilkennon ran out into the street ‘of more po: and called a policeman. They found the bundle to be a man. An ambulance was called, but the man was dead before its arrival. ‘The body was taken to the! West| they SUED FOR ALIMONY DUE TO DEAD WIFE} SAY BLIND MAN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Became a Newsdealer Two Years Ago When He Lost His Sight. mes White, a rs old, Is in Fy his throat gast fon a char J man, forty-eleit evolt Hospital with half way attempted sith > by the West | enth # His tule | Forty-second street and) Hi avenue ig deseried and his wife, | three-yea daagh In the squalid flat | across, a de Forty newsstand at vi with his pretty Ros mournir at 5) Tenth avent the neigiborhond Waite | Up to two jovial truck sat dally be- | and and cried his papers |’ gs tone that he once used cltrant car get his Alt ani hi wae r side the new bellow! ecting remarks at re: ctors when ha couldn't in th Ind thre -horse truck out of a jam, Blind in Four Weeks. White became bling in the short space of four weeks. Mrs. White, a pale, thin woman, with sad gray eyes, told to an ening World re- She was sitting in the en of the flat from husband, bleeding and un- hag been carried but an nour} Besile her was little Rosy, a| ecked girl, too young to at had heppened to her) the story which her conscious, were happy," she sald, “for years, and Jlin had eigh 1 gvod job as a truck driver \ rs this moath, wh kept on working, Wen: to his eyes. ‘He didn't of it for he was big and strong and had never had a sick day in his life One morning when I'd got his break- fast I called him, and I remember how he sat up in bed and asked what I meant by gettlag up in the middle of the night, 1 thought he was joking, for that was a way le had, But he wasn't. He couldn't seo, My Jim was biind.”* At the recollection the little woman began to cry. “He went to the hospital,” she sobbed. “and thev sald he would ‘get well. Wu ablel te sas denis forsee while nue In four weeks he was stone blind.” Were Getting Along Well. Then sha told how the big fellow Novel Action Against J. Wes- ley Rosenquest Grows Out of Separation Suit. J. Wesley Rosenquest, mamager of the Fourteenth Street Theatre and one of Mr. Thaw, who is nparly related to | tered cases that foramen were selling OUt|the best-known the:trical men in the country, ls defendant in a novel action growing out of the sult of his late wife, Minnie Coote Kosenquest, for @ separa- Bach driver geta a ticket when he has|tfon, She was a member of the chorus in the Lydia Thompson Burlesque Com- pany when he met her. The sult was never tried, but in Feb- Tuary, 1902, Justice Truax ordered the manager to pay $35 weekly ailmony bo his wife until the suit was tried and de- clded. Mrs, Rosenquest died Aug. 1 last, and her executor, H. 8. Dermitzer, got an order from Justice Greenbaum directing Manager Rosenquest to explain to Jus- tlee Clinch, in the Supreme Court to- day, why he had fallen in arrears sev- enty-four weeks in payment of allmony at the time of Mrs. Rosenquest's death, or be adjudged in contempt of court and punished. The hearing was adjourned by con- sent, probably to arrange a settlement. 's. Rosenquest commienced ther sult for @ separation in December, 1901. She sald she hud to leave ‘her husband in October, 1900, “in fear of her bodily safety,” for he “stormed and raged und wound up by assaulting me und tearing my Clothing and driving me out. Rosenquest’s repiy and the counter charge f was extravagant, wore with her sister, Lucy Coote, of Weber , was living at the rate of $20,000 a year, Mis. Hosenquest left a son under fourteen vears of age, and his executor says that she had contracted more than $3,000 of debts on the strength of the gxPeoted alimony, but that after paying it regularly down to Feb. 25, 1 Rowenquest suddenly stopped tending the $25 enclosure to her and was seven- ty-tour weeks, amounting in all to $2,590, betund when ste, died. she died. BROKER'S HOME SAVED BY “TICKER” Fox Terrier Named for Busi- - arss Adjunct Detected Bur- glars in the Hall. The acute ear of “Ticker,” a Uttle fox terrier, prevented burglars early to-day from looting the home of Augustine Smith, a wealthy broker, of No. 829 Lenox avenue. The house Is filled with valuable silyerware and Jewelry, and tthe thieves would have had a rich haul had they not ibeen in- terrupted. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were sound asleep when they were awakened by the nervous barking of “Ticker.” He retumed to be quieted, and at length Bmith got up and’ peered into the ali, oie saw two men standing In che Mr. Smith ran back for his rarer and the men, finding — they Were discovered, male’ off downstairs, When Mr. Smith « reached the lower floor there was no trace of the in- truders e t a dadder placed against which they had gained en ‘The thieves had gone at once to fourth floor, evidently with tho {de of systematically leoting the hew from top to bottom, They sound not ing on the fourth floor and then de- eoended to the third, on which Is the When they entered It. they Ute six-year-old Gladys nit “ane thought when she saw two fig- that they were her father and ‘and went to sleep again, The continued thelr depredations and took from the dresser id huirping, valued at $20. ‘This il the loot they oould find, and ‘went fo the second floor, where ay, were a god gt ae the oe ‘Headquarters and fen Ce the man | bureary te 2 found found that eee the, f thieves had ue vee tad nursery. awakened Soe pest house to send is a poeeutcery brokers, 3 {ond avenue. 3? /and alweys shall be, a staple article found there were few things a blind nan could do to support a family and how at last he started the newsstand. “And we were getting along so weil,” she sald. “I know Jim didn't try to kill himself, He must have done it whea he was shaving. We oouldn't afford to pay 4 barber, and Jim wouldn't raise a beard becaue ‘ittle Rosie here is afraid of men with beards. I went over to the stand first this morning, and he stayed to shave. When I came back to lead him there he wes lying on the bed Rosle wag beside him, and she was crv- ing, poor dear, for she didn't know what the blood meant." She began to sob again. When told that her husband will recover, accord- Ing to, the hospital surgeons, she wiped away’ hen tears and, sald “know they can't prove he tried to kill himself. “He was too brave for that. Wesides, if he ‘had done it he would have killed Roste, too, He loved her so much he wouldn't have peen able to leave her behind.” REFUSES 10 TELL WHO SHOT HIM Gutsep! Mapletan, a well-to-do Itallan grocer, was shot to-day by a man whose name h erefused to disclose as he was leaving his home at No, 6 Elizabeth street. The shooting followed a dispute over some letters. 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