The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1906, Page 10

HL BRESLIN, FAMOUS HOTEL MAN, 1S DEAD Owned the Breslin and Walcott as Last Ventures. James H. Breslin, one of the most widely known hotel men in this coun- try, dled in his apartments in the Hotel | Walcott to-day. Mr. Breslin had been in il] health for a year, and had not been active in business affairs since he opened the Hotel Breslin, at Broad- way and Twenty-ninth street, two years ‘ago. He was born in Waterford, N. ¥., and was seventy-two years old. For six weeks past Mr. Breslin’s in- ‘imates have known that he was at Geuth's door. He was hopeful, cheer- ful and good-natured to the end, tak- ing pleasure in the visits of his friends And laughingly telling them that he ‘was too young to think about dying. in addition to his hotel interests, Mr, Breslin’s financial connections were ex- tensive. He was a director iu the Brooklyn Heights Realty Company, tne Knickerbocker ‘Trust Company, the Gar- fluid Natiouai Bank and many otaer financial insticutions. James Breslin’s death will come as a Personal loss to the old guard of New York's extensive hotel colony, There @re men living in the Hote: diy who Tollowed the popul from the old St. James and Hotes ty the Gilsey House, the Walcott. and finally to venture. tne Breslin. His hotel activi. “thence to his last were not confined to New York. At various times he was owner of the Grand Union Hotel jn Saratoga, Willard’s Hotel in Wash- ington, D.'C., are Southem in St. Leuls, part owner in the Audloriun Chicago; the Digemere, at Edgemer L. i, and at one tims owned an erated the Manhattan Beach, the righton Beach and the Oriental Hotel, He was tuirty years at the Gllsey House, and his fame and fortune grew ont of his connection with that hostelry. Be began hi scareer as a bellboy. ee EUSTS GES UP HS STOLEN CHILD Wealthy Society Man Surren- ders Son to Mother, Now Wife of Josef Hoffman. -Mrs. Josef, Hoffman, wite of the noted Pianist, has won her sult against h former husband, George Peabody Eustis, for the possession of her six- year-old son. A compromise by which Bhe secures control df the child has ‘een arranged and the case was with- @rawn from the Supreme Court in Broci&lyn ‘to-day. = Mrs. Eustis divorced her husband, the wealthy society man, in 1901. By the terms of the decree she was given cus- tody of the child, but Mr, Eustis was to see the little fellow at stated inter- vals, In November, 195, Mrs. Bustis married Josef Hoffman, Then Bustis began proceedings to take the boy away from his former wife, alleging that be- cause of the profession of Hoffman he was compelled to roam from place to Place, and his wife, accompanying him on the trips, could not give proper care to the child. ;The Hoffmans were in Genoa, Italy, last Februaty, when--Mfr! Eustis ap- peared. He segured: the boy and sailed for this city. , Mrs. Hoffman cabled her lawyers, Choate & Hanford, and they met Hustis:at the: pier with a writ of ~\abeas corpus.* This gave them pos- ssession ofthe boy..and-he has been in ele charge everseince, As soon a8.possible Mrs..Hoftman an. fher husband” followed ustia and ‘the boy across. the, ocean. Lawyer Henr' looker, of counsel for Eustis, appeara, +n court*td-day and said that the chila had been given to Mrs, Hoffman by @greement.: Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman and the boy are at Aiken, 8. C. ——- WEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. At the West Presbyterian Church, in Forty-second etreet, between Fifth and Sixth ‘avenues, the Rev. Dr. ‘evans will preach to-morrow on “Communion and Comfort, ad in the evening on “Judas.” The choir will sing the anthem, “O Lord Most Holy,’ by Franz Abt, and “The Souls of the ighnteous,” by R. Huntington Wood- man. The soprano solo will be “My Song Shall Be Mercy." by Bruno Huhn. A, HA MY EADS TD, DECLARES GN, CHAM Talks Like Devery Did, and Says Conditions : Much the Same. In @ long interview to-day Commis- sioner Bingham modified somewhat the trenuous reforms predicted when he took the helm of the Police Depnnt- j ment. He said he didn't care what happened as long as he thought he | wae doing his duty. Also he sald his |hands were ted. Hs manner wae somewhat tame, and he only swore a real swear-word once, end that was chastened and subdued. The first question asked dealt with the destruction that has accompanted some of the recent police raids, “Yes,” said the Commissioner, ‘T mow my captains make a good many raids and the prisoners are discharged {n the police courts the next morning. I am doing the bes: I can with the tools at my disposal. I know the force is criticsed for the frufless raids, but it 1s not my fauit if my hands are | firs ted." ‘The Commissioner did not explain in what way his hands were tied, whether by the Mayor, or politicians, or saloon-keepers. “I've got so now," he went on, “thai I don't came much what happens. 1 am getting like Jerome. I do the best I can and I feel that my duty is done. Of course, it’s not lawful for the po- lice xo brenk into houses without ev dene, but evidence is damned hard to get. There are plenty willing to write complaints about disorderly places, but none want to help the police. “We get no help of any kind from citizens, I am here all day to receive just such comph.ints and to run tnem down, so if the people want to get busy and help they can do a tremendous lot of good. I know what the old story is. They say, ‘It's w the police to get the evidence.’ WV in it comes to @ show down it’s always the same. The good citzien will not help us no matter how much he talks. “That's the wav-Bill Devery used to talk,” said a listener. “Yes, I suppose it is, and like any mon Would talk who was behind this department. We have got to do some- thing or the public jumps on us. I aup- pose my view of the situation ts given in the same old way, for there are con- ditfons that are very hard to change. Remember that it’s the same old question, police force, raid, hardship, citizens and new ‘B. and to face hem all is just a elngle Police Cotnmis- sioner." FOLLOWED WIRES TO HIDDEN GES As “Inspector” for Light Com- pany Thief Was Given Free Run of Rev. Waters’ House. ‘Mrs. Macy McGes Waters, pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, was called on at her home at No. 1400 Union street, Brookiyn, yester- day by an electric Ught inspector. He was an alert, smooth-shaven young man, wearing a blue sult and a biue peaked cap, bound with gold braid, He opened his coat, flashed a shield, and sald he had come to inspect the wires. ‘There had been trouble with the lights. He wag in the house half an hour, en- tering every room. After dinner Mrs. Waters found her jewel box empty. Gems worth $1,600 were gone. Detect- {ves are looking for the young man in the blue suit. —— MYSTERY IN JAP’S DEATH. An unidentified Japanese was found in bed to-day in the boarding-house conducted by J. M. Nakashimi, at 6 Cherry treet, ‘The man, about twenty- |five years old, applied at the house last nigst for a’ room. At the time he complained o fa headache und held his |hand to his head, as if in deep pain. ‘He had no money or baggage. He |aiso had no overcoat, and his cothes |were of the summer texture, Barly | to-day Y. Okino, manager of the place, had occasion to go to the room occu: pied by the visttor. dead. The man was THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1906.’ SQUIRE BENSEL’S NEW DOCK REGIME. Ne 66.074. ALWAYS ‘ADDRESS THE COMMISSIONER, SQUIRE By T. O. McGill. ‘OAT All ARMS]! SPR IMPERIENS MOROCCAN PEACE PACT AGREED ON: TORATIFY TREATY Delegates Settle Vexing Questions That Threat- ened War. ALGECIRAS, Spain, March %1.—The committee af the conference on Moroc- can reforms to-day reached an agree- ment on all points. This agreement will be sanctioned at the plenary session of the conference this afternoon. The complete accord resulted from a long conference held at eleven o'clock this morning between M. Revoil, head of the French Mission, and Count von | Tattendach, of the German Mission. The division and the policing of the ports of Morocco was arranged as follows: Spain polices Tetuan end Larache, & Franco-Spanish mixed police will be established at Casablanca and Tangier, and a French police force alone will have charge of Mogador, Saffl, Maza- gan and Rabat. This gives France four Atlantic ports. The duration of this police agreement was fixed at five years. The plan adopted {s that as re- vised by the American delegates. ‘The settlement of the question of the Sate Bank of Morocco gives France hree shares, including those of the French Syndicate. The other nations have one stare. Four bank supervisors will be appointed by the Bank of ‘Eng- land, the Bank of France, the Imperial cas of Germany and the Bank of TAK BOOKS CLOSED, LST HOW STANDS Figures Show $750,000,000 in} Personal Assessment Sworn Off by Individuals. . The tax books were close) to-day and the assessments levied by the Tax Commissioners on personal and poration property for the taxes of 1906 stand now as liens against the pmperty asseased, It will take the Tax De- partment) three or four weeks to enter the items up and to figure, with any de- gree of exactness, the collectible total The iniitcations now are, according to the tax departmen!s figuring, langely estimated, that the present rate of 1.49061 for 1905 will be reduced a couple of points, It 1s estimated that 89,000 persons have visited the seven commissioners, Of those %,660 gucceeded in getting their assessments corrected. The figures | completed to March 27 show that $700,- | 920,000 of individual personal taxation | oor. BEWARE! DON’T KICK THAT HAT! IT HOLDS A BRICK. et es 4 Bewnre of flannel pancakes And the pocketbooks so fat; Remember bricks cause awful aches, And so just “pass the hat.’ And once again we remind you that to-morrow, no matter whether you are @ deacon or not, you had best pass the hat and pass it on the run at that. which same greatly annoyed Methuselah when he kicked the hat, is just as insidious and in those primitive For the insidious brick, ache-ful as it was days. For to-morrow is April First, when teick-coficeating! ‘nts! blossom) like | ME/NOGS Tee nt no mushrooms over night and festoon ody ties a tin can to him by way of @ every sidewalk, Fortunately and the bui to-morrow is bing friends in a spirit of jest when tight-wads send around presents of candy that develops Sunday, bling wight wae: sends a | large box of bricks C. 0. D. will be eliminated by the fact that the express companies don't deltver on Sundays. Otherwise this pleasant oustom of rob- and swelling the receipts of the express compantes might flourish with its at- tendant good cheer. Looking over this year's possibilities in the April fooling line, we observe John D, need not fear to try picking up a pocketbook only to find in it a subpoena for himself with the usual $2.50. Mr. Jerome should te careful that no- body sends him a loaded cigarette that will wake him up—and yet he should be careful about snoozing in his easy office chair for fear some playful sprites tie @ rope to the chair and draw it hom unger him, or sneak in and paint bit tof a joke. Coinmissioner Bensel | should beware of any C. O. D. package addressed ‘jEsq.,'" which may turn out red-penver inflammation: when break- to contain’ sure-cures for reducing fast food proves to be plain sawdust, and fxell head. | Commissioner | Bingham | 7 howd beware a_ tel e alarm | pancakes are lined with flannel. Also SLCINg foc lice reserves to quell | stand back when you open a door of a riot at the corner of fifth avenue and | room wherein some merry jes*>r holds peur pe: pore Platt m1 etswexAll should be careful not to fall fof any | forth, or you are lable to brag a tin Froud, “eiatered inaih packages “tor | shower down on your defenseless head. Which they would have t sign and| then re-sifn, But the great public should look out for a brick hiding under the hat of | promises. That hat and brick thing al- | Ways goes strong around April 1 year in and year out. Mr. Jerome tried kick- Ing Judge Seabury's hat and Justice | O'Sullivan’s headgear, and he has an | awful swelled too to show for his trou- ble. Rut all others aside, look out what ‘you do to-morrow, BUAGLARS IN HOME UNCLE SAM AFTER OF MARS. FP. OLCOTT, “HUMAN SNAKE” HOW Broke Open Trunks and Chif- foniers, but Did Not Take Anything. Dudley Olcott, a broker, at No. Exchange place, living at No. 16 East | Sixty-fourth street, reported to Sergt. the East Fifty-fourth street |tainer and that the home of his} 8. Frederick P, Olcott, at Fay in station mothe to-day No, 4 East Fifty-third street, had been entered by burglars last night. Segt. Fay a detective to sent througa lock. A trail of burned matches was found all over the house fcom the basement Trunks amd chiffo- niers were forced open amd ransacked. But Mrs. Olcott said she missed nothing. ransack- ing the house Mrs, Olcott and her fum- uy and servants slept undisturbed. No one in ths house realized thaa it had the usual waiting &o the third floor. While the burglars were tir been entered until hour of the household to-day, Sergt. Fay thought the burglary done by a professional wino ‘had ailtes in the . Oleot: declared he had confidence in the servants aml he re- to allow the police to question house. But M! fused any of them. a ETRURIA NEARING PORT, ‘The Cunard line steamer Etrurk Liverpool and Queenstown in- . It was found that the burglars had cut a hole in a window pane, next the rear basement door. They reached hole and unfastened the from for New Federal Warrant Accuses Him of Impersonating Special Treasury Agent. Deputy United States Marshal Blake turned up in the West Side Court to-| day with a warrant for the arrest of John Wilmer Martine, soclety enter- “human snake,” charging him with atttempting to defraud the United States Government by unlaw- fully and falsely acing as a special treasury agent. Martine only a few min- utes before mad been held by Magis- trate Wahle in $3,000 bail for trial in Special Sessions on three charges of larceny. Blake sald the warrant was obtained by United States District-At torney Stimson. It was his intention tu take charge of Martine, but as be was on his wey to the Tombs he de- cided not to do anything until Monday, when the case comes up in Special Sessions. F. A. McLaughlin, his former em- ployer, sald twenty-four other charges af larceny would be made, Just before being taken to the Tombs @ man who sald he represented a Balci- more newspaper, declared he recognized Martin as a Baltimore theatrical man named Roschenbere When asked about it Martin turned red, then white, and denied that such was his name. He seemed much perturbed about it, MRS. JANNETTE GILMAN’S AUTO KILLED CHILD. “4 TE TT re | Sixty-seventh SHOT A GIRL, HER DEFENDER AND HIMSELF)“ “= Ahearn Evaded Police Guard to Carry Out Murder Plan. After luring a rosy-cheeked, laughing girl to America on the promise to make her his wife, James Ahearn killed the old man who -nad come between him and his abuse of this girl to-day, then shot the girl four times, and as ahe feil dying he stuck his smoking revolver into his own mouth and fired. Ahearn brought Margaret Woods here eight years ago. When she landed here tt was her understanding that she was to be the wifs of “Jim” Ahearn, She met him while he was a private in the Eighth Royal Hussars, stationed in her native town, Hounslow, when she was merely a chiki. Ahearn de- serted from the army and came to this country with his parents. He wrote to the girl to come to him, and she came. Wanted Slave, Not Wife. Ahearn had changed since he had come to this country. He wanted no wife. He wanted a slave—a woman who would work for him and who would not want to take his name or to give it to her children, Margaret got work and, when “Jim'’ was out of @ job se a cabman or a coachman, she brought in her wages. Ahearn developed the brute instinct last winter, He would retum to his flat, No. $40 Seventy-fourth street, and demand money. Then he sought to send Margarédt out to the streets to earn money for his drink and gambling. She rebelled, ‘The girl in a moment of confidence told Joseph Black, of No. East Sixty-third street, how she had been betrayed. Black was a man past the half-century mark. The girl went to lve at her home. After Margaret left Ahearn, the latter got a job as a cabman and stuck to it Ho didn't seem to mind the girl's leav- ing hin until late last night. Ahearn, flushed with drink, rang the bell of the flat occupled by Black. It Hee aE om In_ bene, opened and Aliearn broke the glass aug un-/ locked it. He burst in, to meet Black, and opened fire. Black fell with a bul-| let woung ia the nor ‘The girl was) awakened and fled by the rear fire- ran to the home of Josepa; in the adjoining tat, and walch was given, and asked protection, was barred Ahearn, wao had followed, out. | Ahearn returned to the Black home, | Biack had regained consciousness, and there was a hand-to-hand fight. Ahearn was pusied down the stairs and Black went to the Presbyterian Hosoital for treatment. He returned to his home after his wound Was dressed. a Detective John F. Bonsor, of the East street station, and Mar-) hour in looking for waret spent an Ahearn, Black, the girl and the detective re- turned to the Six! ird street flat and | Bonsor said he would stay during the) | ight, ne called Miss Woods and Black | at 4A. M., and sald he would make | @ searon of the aouse and then go back | to the station house. Returned to Do Murder. “Please make a good search of the house,” Miss Woods said. “You don’t) know Jim, He will be here again. | ‘Phe detective searched the house from | rovf to cellar, but diin’t find him. H Hardly had the detective c.osed the doors of the apartmemt house when | Ahearn came again. ‘The marderer made careful aim this time. He sent a bullet through Black's | brain and he fell dead. Behind him! cume the giri. ‘As she tumed to run, | Ahearn put a | bullet .n her back. Bhe fell, tnd he/ saot her again three times. | Leaving his fallen victim, Ahearn | walked back a few feet into the hall, reloaded three chambers of hig revol- ver and then, poking the muzzie in his mouth, pulled the trigger once and cropped with a bullet in his brain. When the police came they sent the girl and Ahearn to the Presbyterian Hospital. The man died; the girl can- not recover. ‘Miss Woods has been employed in the erlan Hospital. Her fresh beauty “acted the attention of an Italinie some time ago. The Italian wanted to marry her, but she refused, saving she was the promised wife of Ahearn. ‘The Ttallan, nearly mad with jealousy, one day on the street drew a stiletio across her cheek. He was sent to Elmira Re- formatory. ————____ —E—E Japs Welcomed at Manila. MANILA, P. I., MARCH 31,—Two Japanese training cruisers, under com- mand of Capt. Schimamura, Chief of Staff of the standing squadron, have arrived en route to Australi: The cruisers will remain several days, ‘and N-8 THE WORLD'S “GIBSON GALLERY.” (Copyright 1901. R. H. Russell.) This picture drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. (New Gibson Heads will be printed in the Morning World and Evening World several days each week. Watch for / for your scrap book. : ; 3 3 3 % & MatINEE Girts.” It has been selected as one the ten best out of the 100 drawings for which Mr.J | Gibson received $100,000 from Collier’s Weekly. It is one of the set of ten the Sunday World is giving to readers for purposes of home decoration. “‘ The Matinee Girls” will be printed in artistic fashion, upon art paper, the sheet measuring 10x15 inches. il The Sunday Worla Magazine Section TosMorrow 12 PAGES IN COLOR. | The Terrible Jests of Lightning, told by Camille F!amarion, the celebrated French Astron- omer. ; The Telephone Ferret—that does eight men’s work, The Phantom Fire Brigade—that guards Bellevue Hospital. Love Letters of To-Day—Some of the letters in the Sunday World’s Prize Coritest. Do You Believe in Fairies ?—The children; | do anyway since “ Peter Pan” arrived. ; If Anyone Wanted to Murder You,} *.’ or at least to “beat you up.” Do you know there . are thugs in New York who can be hired to murder? The Nameless Horse—No. 297—that has saved the lives of 5,000 children. The Olympic Games at Athens, described x by Robert Edgren. York, Was in communication by wireless telegraph with the siation at Slasconset, Mass., at 2 A. M. to-day, when the ves- sel was eighty miles east of the Nan- ‘was the amount sworn off. Last year the amount sworn off in the like class ‘was $691,245,000 out of a total assessment 31~.An automobile in NAPLES, March which were Mrs, Jannette Gilman, her Victoria with good bags of fish to show, for their two days’ fishing In Cowichan for personal taxes of $3,401.620.171. Thus | fvoxet South Shoals Lightship, She will |Gaughter and a French chauffeur, to- Ok st year’s assessment was $5,456,750,122, reach her pier about 8 o'clock to-night, Lake. At Vancouver to-day the main "| day ran over and instantly killed Glo-| ovent was the inspection of the Duke vanni Fera, thirteen years old. The] cr Connaught's rifles ’ ladles *'nted from fright, and the Ui a or 2 chauff ~-an away. He followed Terome’s Dual Persona lit y\ iris ste siccsia” 0 ponce| 10.000 Saw Man Hanged. seized the automobile. AUSTIN, TEX., MARCH 31.—Fully ‘A threatening crowd of people sur- rounded the party, but the ladies were not molested, SIX MASSACRES OF JEWS ARE PLANNED. ST. PETERSBURG, March 51.—The League of Writers clatms to hold proof that massacres of Jews have been planned to take place in six towns at Eastertide, and has issued an appeal to the Russian people to unite in the name of their consciences and self-re: vent the outrages, erage ten thousand persons witnessed the public hanging of Tom Young In Will- ijamson County, ten miles north of this city, yesterday. The execution oc- curred on the open prairie, and spec- tators came from a radius of fifty miles. Young was thirty years of age, and was convicted of murdering a eixteen- year-old girl whom ihe had adopted. —$$<_-_—_——_ BELL PIANO COMPANY QUITS. ‘The Bell Piano Company, manufac- turers of /planos at No, 653 Hast One Hundred and Pontieth street, to-day made an essignment for the benefit of creditore, BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR. As a man, says Jerome, I feel bitter, As bitter as any one can, A regular knock ‘em out hitter At Graft—Understand, as a man. But when in my wrath I grow mighty And vow all the graftens I'll show— Whenever I feel too indict-y— The District-Attorney says: ‘“No," As plain Bill Jerome I'm a wonder At seeing insurance graft clear,— Same Bill who at graft used to thunder In days when election grew near, I etrangle with right'ous emotion. At graftere 1'd fain take @ hack. They prosper or eail cross the He'll show that he isn’t « quitter Attormey Janome holds MH bask. Restrained by AttomeyJerama Oh, could I but act on my feeling! The feeling, that is, of Plain Bill, For action none would be appealing; Td act on the Plain People's will. But I am not running these workin’ No matter how harshly it pains, When I'd jump McCurdy or Perkins The District-Attorney restraine, Oh, ‘some shining day in the future— Of course, not at present, but soon— I may turn off something to suit you, Then we'll sing @ different tune. The Merry Marceline—A comic series} edited for the Funny Side, by the Famous Clown of} the Hippodrome, i 4 Panhandle Pete, Snoozer, Bill = and EA THER—Se how he enjoys his “aay oft" You can get a house like this FOR NOTHING. There is no “catch word” about this statement, and you won't have to buy a lottery ticket or sell “so many” packages of tooth powder to win the prize, If you are paying $40 per month rent, apply this amount in monthly payments on one of the many beautiful homes to: be offerea to-morrow through Sunday World's Want Directory. At the end of 10 years you will have saved $4,880, or the price of this handsome home, many festivities have been arranged in honor of the visitor Prince Lucky at Fishing. VICTORIA, B, C., March 31.—Prince Arthur, of Connaught, and members of the Garter Mission have returned to Plain Bill will have grown over-bitter. ithe League claims to have creditable idence that the citlee wher ‘The dreams will clear out of hig dome, iSoves oe Lp (ee Brest - Litvesk,