The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1906, Page 3

i % SHOTAT FLA FOR REVENGE O THE LANDLORD Monahans and Guests Kept Bullets Whizzing ty, Over the Place. » fe thirty-six famtites in the a!x-story use at No. 24 East One Hundred Twenty-first street were startled ] fiy by & tusitiade on the top floor. tow vanes dropped, walls were wen- | ted and bullets whizzea down the yWays, through the dumbwalter ‘SS and doors and down the airshatts. | }ehtened neighbors called the police _ Eves {rom the East One Hundred * Twenty-aixth street station, and | pet © vallant charge up the five flights 2 stairs the police captured four of the . pannonaders. “We're just shooting up the joint,” : aid one of them, “to get even with the ) ¥andlord. He dispossessed us, and we might Just as well dispossess him." “The neighbors complained about them rushing the growler all hours of the night,” said Max Garfunkle, the landlord, in the Harlem Police Court, \ “and when I went to protest against it | I found that they were planning to save the trouble of sending out for beer by laying a pipe-line from the corner sa- loon to their flat.” Wanted Beer Pipe-Line. Garfunkle’s troubles with the noisy tenants has been greater than those of the other tenants. When Joseph Mona- \ ‘han and John Morahan, brothers, who | rented che flat, Were arraigned in court with Julius Lundell and James Jost, their guests, Garfunkie said: “Getting beer was not so bad, but | they sent children for it, and the other tenants said tha many nights they had young girls running around without their clothes on. girls m: as “aw, then wasn't little girls” piped ‘one of the prisoners. “Tiey was old- friends of ours who didn’t want to ‘wear out their good rags.” | “T went to the Gemy Soclety and }\ they wouldn't do anything about it,” dandlord continued, “‘and so I got | @ummons yesterday for them to ap- Dy, Dear in court. They wouldn't pay any a Attention to a dispossess notice. They the only way to dispossess them teag the house down and move away. ‘ost lay Li 6 suc- Band had it sorved on them, “What they did to-day was revenge for having them called to court. 6 to repair the dam- their shooting.” Bullet Whizzed Past Her. ‘Myre. Storthing, who Hives on the fitth “was call! I saw these little self once, and they were just as the men.” FF i “44 caulbre $qun Mrs. Storthing® fell { end screamed until every other wonkin 4 in the bulldlog was yell with -her. Then the shooting on thestop floor gen 1 of the* windows shot. ou rs which would doo! ‘with bullets were kicked down. ‘The police reserves arrived before the id ceased, and they writed i hha 1 in the lower hail until the ammunition on the sixth floor was exhausted. Then capture x mor the bail they will probably keep the peace on Blackwell's Island. WALKED ASLEEP four prisoners were placed under INTO FIERY ROOM Dut as they could not provide ‘ | \ & Despite Wife’s Effort to Wake Him, Somnambulist Fell Into Flames. One lone woman saved a tenement from desttuction early to-day, when fire occurred in a big house, No. 27 st. Mark's place, that cut off the escape of every person on the floor, sent the other twenty-two families to the street yelling in panic, and caused the mortal injury of a man who could not be awakened and who walked into a 4 room in his sleep. \ The fire started on the fourth floor ) t I of the tenement house There were twenty-two families in the house, and om the top floor lived Leon Karmoll o salesmun; his wife, Lena, his three ehildren, Rosa, eight years old; Sadie, old; Nettie, eighteen months Solomon Karmoil, the aged Zeon, With the Karmolla liam Brows, a boarder, meelt a hero, Pees) started in @ closet outside of occupied by Karmoil. His the first to detect the smoke Swakened Brows and her children ther husband, but he was hard Brows carried three of the to the fire-escape and got Mrs, the burning i i fF a FA ge & fii Be if bP H oF fotos pea i AS as = = fin * i, it was thought, would / but when he leaped to his fect ee N\ Rot ewake. He groped about the room, Still sleeping, and then made for the \ Allway, which was alive with fire, The ames encircled him and he fell with a poteam a consciousness came to him. The wife was alert. She heard the ‘busband’s screams and went to him. She dragged him Then he was Cebit to the street, yu f y re ing laze, the hall, and when ’ 0 "a0, womat ft out the fire, but che spread to apartments frightened to run, oe AaleeP to ‘un, KK SHOOTERS DROWNED. reoemgaar + Will Call on Mayor Mc- Clellan Next Week and Urge Action. CAUSE OF LONG DELAY. The Pennsylvania Railroad Said to Be Interested in the Hold-Up. Determined to force the tmmedtate completion of the Blackwell's Island bridge a committee of merchants and property owners of the upper east side and Queens will call on Mayor Mc- Clellan to urge him to onter immediate renewal of the work on the link be- tween Manhattan and Long Island. President Crimmins, of the East Side Improvement Association, will head the committee. The committee will also call on Corporation Counsel Delany and Bridge Commissioner Stevenson. Secretary Kenny, of the East Side Improvement Assocation, said to-day that he would communicate with the Mayor at once and find out when it would be convenient to receive the committee. It is probable that the call will be made on Tuesday. It was said to-day that Bridge Com- missioner Stevenson is busily engaged in preparing the report demanded by Mayor McClellan. This report will give the entire history of the Blackwell's Island structure from the time the plans were drawn until the present day. In it the Eridge Commissioner will attempt to justify the many vexatious delays which have driven the citizens of the sections the bridge 1s to unite to the present action. Blocked by Pennsylvania. ‘The men behind the probe now being put into the Blackwell's Bridge matter say that it is clear to them that the Pennsylvania Railroad will eventually turn up as the real cause of the delay. They way that it {s the rallroad’s intention to te up the bridge until after the Long Island tunnel {s finished and in working order with khe cream of the Long Island traffic. The Pennsyl- vanla now practically controls every avenue to Tong Island. They own the Long Island Railroad, the James, Wall, ‘Thirty-fourth and Ninety-third street ferries, and with the control of ‘the Pennsylvania Steel Company, which has the contract to supply the steel to be used on the Blackwell's Island bridge, they have the city at their mercy. ‘At the office of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at the Manhattan end of the proposed structure to-day, the employees were painfully reticent re- garding the strike. They would not dis- | cuss the matter, | The Pennaylvanta Steel Company ts now installed in the same bullding with the branch office of the Bridge Com- missioner, in which the engineer and his assistants do thelr work. The ity owns the building. “They are hei rent to the olt gineer, Wouldn't Pay the Scale. The members of the Ironworkers Union say the men quit because the| Pennsylvania Steel Company declined | to pay the new scale of % a day. Tip old rate was $4.60, No effort is being made to bring about a settlement of the differences, and as long as the op- Posing forces remain obdurate the ridge work must remai and still, It 1s. pointed out thas this ed; serve the Penn:ylvania’s urpose to de- | lay, the ‘butlding’ of "the Bridgersae Ges 5 o powe: jake sttlke indefinite, pence nea che nder e city’s contract wit Pennayivania Stest Company, rt ta gee 1s not responsible for delays caped trikes. ‘The city 1s therefore helnless, Bennsvivania people mmealty: All, the reniat “the Ironworkerg,Y° ‘© 40 t to @ contract time for the work ends in March of next year wen Sook it the superstructure should be fin Ishel at that time it will be, mocording: to James Murnane, lke a house nite out’ doors and windows. ‘There: watt pe no way 10 get to Te without otimbs n it without falling: off nmereny St Cig is is due e tallure ‘ portion’ Counsel's office to tales peor. Tess with the condemnation prososd. ings. Mr, Delany says the petition for the appointment of commissloners isin the Shands of the Ceourt. Me.” Mure nane ead the procee been started long ago. —” “Pould have They Want to Know. ‘When the committee calls 01 tion Counwel Delany they Will nae onee the gity proposes to do at the Mant hattan end of bridge. The mer- chants and property owners want to know. So far as cam be learea, the lans at present ure Indefinite, and is a on at there is a with us but they pay sald the assistant en- CITIZENS SAY: PUSH WORK ON BLACKWELL'S BRIDG (a, Lies ning y3 dest 4 Dae val HOW MANHATTAN Possibility of a great and beautiful ener a — _! } ch a APPROACH TO BLACKWELL'S ISLAND BRIDGE MIGHT LOOK. The artist shows how the great bridge that is to wed the boroughs of Queens and Manhattan might be made a continuous parkway clear across the “Heart of New York.” sarily favor any of the plans of widening suggested for the approach, and is merely a suggestion of the fore eTaago31 thoroughfare for an up-to-date city. fe HOUSES SMASHED | BY MASS OF ROCK AS PEOPLE SLEEP | Score of Occupants Pen- ned in Wreckage, but Taken Out Safely. YONKERS, March 31.The giving way |of a retaining wall at the Croton Aque- uct caused the partial destruction af| | three tenement-houses on Garden street | | early to-day. Although the buildings | wrecked were occupied by a number of | families, all of whom were in bed at =| the time, nobody was injured. A num- ber penned in the wreckage were res- cued by firemen. ‘There was naturally much excitement, as it was supposed some must have been kcttled, | ‘The retaining wall ts bullt over the Croton aqueduct between Garten street and Carlisle place, and is twenty-two | | feet high. | About 4 A. M. people Itving on Garden street heard a rumbling nolse, followed | by a crash. A policeman hurrying | toward the aqueduct saw about sixtv- J777 | fve fest of the retaining wall sliding | toward the rear of the houses, Nos. 33, 35 and 87 Garden street u He fired his revolver eeveral times to NY] | arouse tho Inmates, and then sent In y aff | call for the fire department. ‘The entrances to the second and third floors of the three houses are from the rear, and when the mass of stone wall| | and about five tons of earth that broke, away with !t smashed into the back of | the houses, escape was temporarily cut off. | ‘The rear walls of the houses, clap- | boards and beams, were crushed in by| | the descending mass, but none of the occupants were in the way of the great slide. ‘The firemen arrived in quick order, promptly put up extenston ladders and y ot out all of the imprisoned tenants, 3 Thomas Murphy and his wife and = nine children were among those res- cued fn this way. The collapse of the retaining wall is attributed to the thawing out of the ground and the giving way of the mor- | tar, The break caused no leak in the! aqueduct. House No. 83 {s owned by Alderman A. W. Nugent and the two other bulld- ines by James Terwilliger. ‘The butldings wer occupied as fotlows: No. 33, John Walsh, William Horslan, A.W.’ Nugent; No.'85, Dennis Cronin, | Thomas Humphrey, John Lyons; No. 87, Charles Ven Scoy,’James Golden, Alice Connors, “rhe damage was estimated at about SLEUTHS APOLOGIZE FOR ILLEGAL ARREST. Bronx Detectives Had Promptly Nabbed a Man Over Again After Magistrate Set Him Free, Detectives Dondere and Gavane, the two Bronx Bureau sleuths, who ar-| rested Benedette Raparino as he left) the court-room yesterday after he had been discharged by Magistrate Crane, appeared to-day ‘n the Harlem Court, humbled and repentent. They told the Magistrate that their eyes had been opened to the enormity of their offense and they wanted to apologize. They ” were more than profuse in their regrets, To second them, appeared also Lawyer | Le Barbler, attorney for the defendant in yesterday's action, 'He seconded the detectives’ appeal " for forgiveness. Magistrate Crane heard them through and told them he was willing to overlook thelr offense. The sleuths. who had visions of @ call to the carpet in Mul- berry street, departed with broad smiles of relief. —_— MANY NEAR DEATH AT BAYONNE BLAZE. Twelve Families Escape Dressed — The design does not neces- WHO OWNS LITTLE EDWARD JOHNSON? there, “nigi¥r in the Tt was recalled to-day that the De- Jancy street approach to the Willlame- burg Bridge was not “arranged” until in «ome time after the hridge was on the 5 wv, Tt that case th Lpprons elim! to vhe burning apart- pebep by cutting throug 2 pease on the ie i 7 Roajeut anv aretenence: to the bridge. men. were : Sy tig Pail and returned | ping, end it was ala that Pee Foll'in the lap of those who ‘were 'om ting inside, But the members of the E: \- rovement Association say they nat ae el from the Black- Dita MISTAKE CAUSED DEATH. (Spectal to The Bvening World.) NEWARK, N. March 31.—Henry Clemens, fifty-nine years old, of No, 11 Hartford street, died in an ambulance which, be had taken tn “inietake for He’s a Bright Chap of Five, but Doesn’t Know Father’s First Name. If the parents of Edward Johnson, one of the brightest little chaps of five years the police have picked up in a| tl long time, want to save him from the Gerry Soclety—which to most chiidren is the Bogey Man—they’4 better hurry up and rescue him. Eddie knows nearly everything in the world but his home adkiress and the first name of his father. He knows where the Eippodrome is, when the cirous leaves town, and a multitude of other things vitally important to boys, but he never learned the number of his house. (Patroman @trubd, of che Kast Fity~ first street station, who has a few chil- dren himself, saw Edwart in mach |Mstress at Fitty-fourth street and | Third avenue at 9 o'clock last night. The chitd was wringing his hands, valiantly trying to suppress the sobs which would well upand was hystert- cally asking everyons where his moth- er was. Strubel sent him to Matron ‘Travers, at Headquarters. refuse to be comforted and al te eae fs, Stn to, his @rief and } until Mrs. Traver aN Heart would breaic Brongn Is police stations were not! the presence of Master award sone. son at Police Headquarters, but no one even asked for So to-day he was, sent to the Children's Court, and unless rescued from there, he 16 fan untaawed ‘dow 1p picked er aka huss un log is pl up and led off to the & Po A. TP nd hus ard wears a suit of fine blue cut Into a Russian blouse and shoes and a Ronvy lightecotorsd hate is “bob” gue hoavy, le a “bob! out, and “if his eves were not red from crying they would be large and light blue. He can talle a blue streak, and his ‘manners indicate he {8 from a Same of refinement, bedlcbi 5. aaa Sunday World Wants Work Monday Wonders. Ww: cloth, Only in Nightclothes—Seyv- eral Scorched, Several persons narrowly escaped death at a fire early to-day in the row | of tenements Nos. 482 to 438 Avenue D, | Bayonne, N. J. There were twelve fam- {Iles in the four houses and they fled in their nightelothes When the fire was discovered one of the houses was a mass of flames. A policeman roused the tenants and furned in an alarm. Several of those in the houses were burned and scorched, {put none seriously injured. ENGLISH LIBERALS STRIKE A SNAG Chancellor Asquith and Other Conservatives Hamper New Administration. Don’t Tire Easily when you eat LONDON, March 41—The new Lib- eral Government 1s not having smooth sailing. Advanced legislation has been greatly hampered by the conservatism of Chancellor of the Exchequer As-! quith, War Secretary Haldane and For- | elgn Secretary Sir Edward Grey, ' ‘The influence of this trio so emascu-| lated the bill demanded by the Labor party for immunity from clvil suite for lamages in trades union fights that dis- satisfaction was outspoken, and the La- bor party's substitute was passed to a sr-ond reading by a vote of 456 to 66. ord Elgin's backdown from his stand against the Natal Government's execu- Grape-Nuts Trial is proof. “There's a Reason.”’ F BACK FROM | GRAVE “MINERS TELL OF TORTURE ong Thirteen Who. Escaped From Caving Mine After Twenty Days, Declare Others of the 1100 Victims Are Still Alive. (Bpectal to The Eventng World) LMNS, France, March 1.—The thir teen minera taken yesterday from the Courrleres mines, after twenty days of starvation, are recetving every atten- tion in the hoepftal, They are all suf- fering from ptomaine poisoning as a result of eating hay, ois and dead horses during their terrf>e imrpieon- ment. All are nearly blinded by their | er experience and are not allamed to face etrong iight. ‘There ie the greatest excitement here, owing to the reports from the rescued men that there are many more in the pits alive. A few hours after the rescue of the thirteen a party of workmen came upon seven bodies tn one of the bores. They were shrunken and dried like #o many mummies, but the doctors who examined them sald they had been dead not more than twenty-four hours. This has added to the feverish hope that has apread through the desolated and mourming homes of the mining Nemy, the intrepid genius who with ago, They drank the ofl from thelr They sucked pebbles and got from the bearings of three oat care they passed. They were et the acute stago of starvation and lenced the most excruciating pain t_was Nemy, the giant, who kept om from sheer mad- ete Gin tae ae eo aets e wi haye when they escap Trwaye a told then. of some new some new olue to the opening. He became Big he to dren them, who were as little chi him, Chewed Up Their Shoes, During those last tergible jthey chewed up their shi these were apportioned by theif leader, In a niche of the wall they fo a ‘wooden latform on which had 2 stored oll for the oars, and consumed every drop o! facing the under Ten ima later they were | last horrible alternative of the In the darkness of their endless oe a Nason gholce, Tie horrop ort dig: ous etoloe ° Fresh them, and a eer. Then No fell the dark, “It proved to be ed and blackened body of a mule, the explosion, Such as were able of the feah. They were od and enabled to help thetr weaker panions onward. Rey "wete ell coolness and bravery led his comrades to safety, declares there are many more ative in pit No. 8. Engineers Weise and Leon have offered the most serious ob- Jections to the further exploration of the | pit, as tt would be playing with death! to venture in. Despite their fears, volunteers have come forward and the! § galleries will be entered to-day. | Bitter Toward Officials. | All the terrible scenes of grief and (iapatr that accompanted the first shock of the tragedy are being repeated as the stricken famiites, buoyed up by the | possibility of again seeing those they | ‘had given up for dead, gather about the mouth of the pits. The gendarmes are ume in Pith femy heard notses through walle that night when went to. aloes They were very faint, but tt wee enough to encourage the dy: men. Another day and night they along. It was with th thateNensysooulds paves trace shouted to the others, an beasts. they fought amd’ atrhexted | through the hole into the presence of thelr fellows end the iblinding day. MRS. THOMAS H. BLACK SEEKS NEWS OF FAMILY constantly on the move breaking up/Is a Patient in City Hospital and meetings, for violence 1s anticipated. The workmen are very bitter against the company because {t gave up the work of rescue while there were men below alive. ‘The news of the rescue spread quick- 1x, Workmen who at first thought the Door creatures who tottered out of the bore were the ghosts of the dead, after realizing the truth, ran through the town shouting the tidings. The res- oued men were nearly mobbed by the Joy-crazed multitude that poured trom every house in the colony. The swaying wrecks would soon have been killed by the lavish supply of food and wine brought, had not the physicians called upo to guard them. Even then their wives and mothers contrived to amuggle to them meat and dainties, ‘Tie story of the sufferings undergone by the thirteen has never been equalled ig the annals of mining disasters. ‘That they were saved at all Is due to the leader and hero who is found in all guch disasters. His name is Nemy, giant In stature, fearless and coura- goous, When the first blinding shock of the awful explosion came it was Nemy, the obscure and humble miner. ‘who rose to he situation and quietly took the lead. Need Brought a Leader. There were twenty of the men to- gether. Nemy apportioned the scant provisions they had. ‘Then began the search for an opening of escape. The shock had obliterated miles of tunnels. Bores were falling in and burning on all sides. No one knew what minute the root would crash upon them. That night seven of the men wandered away aud were never seen again. All tho next day the ilttle party wandered and twisted through the toriuous bores. Time became a cruel thing to them. ight and day were as one. | The only way they knew when the white sun was shining far above was when Nemy felt the hands of his wateh, The food was eaten the first day, Alter that ati thye had was @ bus which had been dropped fr car, It was soaked and they fell upon It ereedily keep them alive until, they groped their way to the stables, Here thev found a veritable treasure. It was @ measure of carrots. Carrots and Oats. Nemy took charge of this and all each unan 4 daily share. Taen found wome oats that tha trampled under the fodder trou q tures ther 7 ng ot the mules. ‘The starving cre n scratched and picked in the dirt tll they had gathered every last grain Collecting ‘thelr little ore, the fet out once mor Yemin’ leadership find early guifer! st fifteen 8, agonies were cused was not a drop of One of the men in maniacal despera- tion slit his arm and was sucking the blood when discovered by Nemy. The pitiful helplessness of thelr predica- h into frequent fits ‘ot ving insanity, Tt was Nemy, always Nemy, who calmed and cheered thelr terror-stricken souls. The stronger were detailed to watch and lead the weaker. Two of the strongest men walked at the rear to keep the others from wan- dering or falling in thelr tracks Hour after hour, mile after mile Uttle band groped ‘and fought thetr w nt sent t through the walst-high, twisting tunnels, Constantly they stumbled ove dead bodies. Thelr pitiful Ittle suppl ons of hay_and oats had given out in ‘the gendarmes | Wants to Trace Husband, Daugh- ter and Grandson, ‘Mrs. Thomas H. Black, who fs a pas Ment in the City Hospital on Black- well's Island without a cent that she can call her own, has written to ‘The | Evening World asking for the ald of the general public in finding her hus band. She has no idea of fis present Whereabours. Io hor letter she says lank is a painter and that the seo- | retary of the brotherhi fc belongs 1 communteation with her daughter, an goles Known on the stage as Syivia ‘ornigh, and her grandson, Thomas Fal street-car inspector. * | years she says she lived tn jone flat in Sixty-sixth street, and hep’ | former neighbors can vouch er Tes speotability, When she is discharge from the hospital «he will have no | money and nowhere to turn for shelter, Sho has hardly enough clothing to coves er. | ‘The Evening World will fonwarditgl Mrs. Black any news of her husbi | which may be Furnished by readers. GAVE WOOD ALCOHOL TO BABY BY ERROR. | Sixteen-Months-Old Child Poisoned, While Ill with Pneumonia,. Through a Mistake. Nathan Kushstein, a sixteen-months- old baby, was taken to Gouverneur Hospital from hfs home, No, 134 Canal reet, carly to-day, suffering from wood alcohol poisoning and pneumonia, The child wus desperately 1 about midnight when his uncle, Reuben Pol- lock ted to give him medicine. He mist the alcohol, which was used for other pu for medicine to be taken {nternall: oses, I BARGAINS IN MEDICINE, A woman once wrote us that she was not going to 1 buy Scott's Emulsion any more because it cost too much, Said she could get | some other emulsion for less /money. Penny wise and pound foolish. Scott’s Emul- | sion costs more because it is "| worth more—costs more to ‘make. _We could make Scott's Emulsion cost less by using less oil. Could take less care in making it, too, If we did, however, Scott's {Emulsion wouldn’t be the standard preparation of cod liver oil.as it is to-day. ! SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Peafl St. New York. 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