The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1906, Page 10

eat owen ay ~ CHILDREN HELP “BLIND BILLY” AND ARE ARRESTED it Two Little Girls Nabbed by Gerry, Agents for vheir Charity. gia ASSISTED THE NEWSMAN Took No Pay, but Lent Thei ’ “Aid by Order of Mother, | , | Business Rival. | HIS © SACRIFICE © FAILS ' Sightless Beneficlary Tries in Vain to Get Bail With $10 Saved | for Aged Parent. twelve and/ admitted ‘8 Court, Lena and Annie Fagin, tten years old respectively, tearfully to-day tn the Childr: where they were arraigned, that they} Phad heloed “Blind Billy,” the former | | Barnum Circus clown, who runs a news- @tani at Bleecker and Mulberry streets, | but they couldn't see why they should | be arrested and dragged to « cell for} this dafly act of kind J Agents Bizian and C ‘an, of the Chil- | G@ren's Society, locked them up tn the} Mercer street po’ station last night | Becauge the law reauires that children | who sell newspapers must be sixteen | ‘Foare old. | {Tho mother of the girle has a rival ws-stand on a corner opposite that of | IMBlind Billy," but she ts kind to the oor and needy. She knows what !! means to be hard pressed for money to Keep a family, no sho permits-her little @irls to fo over and sort “Billy's” papers for him and ‘help him tn his tlementa|with the delivery agents. “Blind Billy’s* mother, ‘ elghty-stx years old, Iives in Brooklyn. Her son is her only support, and he is as good ‘& "DY," ths aged —witow-eays,ee-ever amused milMons with his pranks’ as a €lown or sold papers on the strect. “Billy” had ial aside « tendollar note Seith which he meant to buy his old mother a present for Christmas. But when he found that the Children's So- ciety had taken his two little friends to Jail he ‘dug out the money and sough to hire a bondsman. : His Sacrifice Insufficient. “Mother would hate me if I'd. spend money on her when my good friends are fn trouble through thelr kindness for me." he said, “Mother knows what Mrs. Fagin and her children @o tor us Gnd she loves them for it. When I take her my money every Saturday abe Waya asks about them and hopes they DIAGRAM - SHOWING STO Sap ae Zz. \ ca. SN ey. 1c to TR SROOKLYN BN TRANCE — REE KEAN ST, or THe SUBWAY LOOP TERMINAL FFIC from BROOKLYN IT “CHAMBERS ST- r are well and progpering."' Blind Billy, whose name is William a Higbee, talked of bis live to an Evening World reporter in his Mitte “news Ress struck me suddenly, and what was “HE FOUND DUNK leftect on Travers. and he fell to the walk, “Leaping quickly PANTANDLER'S = = rar siimmoned a. pol 7 JEFFERSONIAN BELLE -DEAD AT 103 YEARS. awny,,the beg- man. He, teld | Then i lronworker was dying. ay lother, They started toward the police | yyy LPHIA,; “Dec Dre ek Ptiad Aen d eal lA) J Ieeatlon “with him and-tete sr adeyeton eats ater ‘ah ile norady Nig Ah saea Arcot Jering tn the street. y |aeng “or the United States, Mise Ade- people to be too glaq about anything, | - Half an ur later the begear was at | jing Thomson, a belle in the social because they may regrot It. I was one of the same station. He was locked up !n | worla of the pation Inthe efrly ye the old-time clowns in my day, and it cell charged with attempted thett. | o¢ the Jast century, ated in this clty was great money I made. Then blind- PRS kash lea Reabette bes ys yesterday. waa due to old age he had played the same trick befor caarie. from onesof! the Ito do? I was high-spirited enough to rot Aman drunk till he coal ston farmiitess: inizeniindal: I hunt some other way of ASEAN no long febhi tbh aihs aM Cha Sal NwagiheuausNiceioorenward honest living, and selling papera is that. ” would bi T who @1 the ty ginning of the f People around here are mighty nice to | prow win teal the thinks nineteenth century was a+ prominent on Cripple Induced lron-| "ai tiusen’ sean, Vast “el meeene | and w banker ing merchant in “Last night when I heart they want-/ after the ‘o had started away with) this! One of her brothers ‘was ed a-bond for Annie. and Lena I went the tronworke He ach uta bic son, a United States worker to Believe He. Was His Best Friend. out with their other ta find a bonds- man. For a long time F couldn't ‘Then a man I know happened to ace me fidgeting around and asked what mwas wrong. “He-te-wvorth-e-cool-miliion,-and he| James ‘Travers in a big, husky tron- 1 Re th ee ary Rect HAYS | ohronio\ Nabltties liat tHe! Bowers: ene Jct a patie on Ma bee Medion | Pesls singularly to his earthly wants. eo Pad for any mum) Dut Seret. cGloln | Occasionally’ ho fall’ into the hauds!ot Was good enough to let the mirls go) the police and for a time he 1s missed home) with thelr mother. Why, they) trom his familiar haunts, but as) wid: re fine children, ‘they are, and'e great | Genly ua Jie disappears he returna, It} help to me. some ef those acquaintances with} “Annie leads me to my room every he 'y wont to associate had evortng.~ Louls, here, ts elghteon. Ho's for him yesterday they would their brother. He helps me, too. I Essex Market Court, think the Children's Soctety ought be able to find other children to pro he was arr Signed for drunken- tect and let th Fagins help a poor ly magistrate ‘ep fmandeail eld blind man. lectured him on sobriety ~and| Louls backed up Bily, and volu; told him ‘10 go home. In-thed tosred that the old newsman !s one of| evening he found his way back to the ‘the squarest men he ts acquainted yw Bow In the rooms of a lowly lods- “Billy has taught me and my sisters) is ‘house he met Jamos Rellly, a about all we know,” said Loula. “Wren } © who told him he lived tn the girls come hom™ from sohool they, Twelfth street | help him, and then he teaches them Rellly’s left leg te shorter than hia | their lessons, ‘They read to him and| ght. hia beck Js silghtly humped, hia he correcta thelr mistakes,” face te drawn and he hag all :th girls r Sat @ blind man pay my 6 0 tra.” weld pike the courts Be eee are alo him, Kure bes myself I can't see what it ts for | them to sort hia papers. ey are under my eyes all the time, ft to the big “I wae ouce hay But now I'm a c to do. compelled to ask jstrax ance to sive, Bogpiease, give me some rm ve ‘ Used Orunk as ‘Stall.’ “Start Work When he had fiulahed reading other wich Yorees he Stigled a handful of cash, 99 fp rmiiinety anid “hee Monda A M Travers out to drinks with fromwerker, Ho ujr man of somo sympachered wi ertppled. Reilly laughed away HOW CAN 1? drunk’ tind ae Just: Have your “Situation ‘dead Wanted’’ Ad. Printed in To- Morrow's Sunday World Want Directory, tomother Bowery “I am golng to take you to bed,” sata | Rellly, When they reached a furnish. | toe xtore wk No. 7h the whiskey had le “Bills so a well-known character, He | pearance piaui begwar pas deen blind for, pixtesn year, and | never w he told Travers, ) roi!” pest veg nats Vollomman are his triznds | Wben be! was ort of caan he 60 kna hie sgn, "Blind Telly alma on tho! Bowery corners, He had tand send "Tala Band “Reape "Bits fl which, he “haa been over hie wtand for Z a and wan aun armful Hof Cheap show window w other was Kdward Thi driiral in the American a. first cousin to Mra. Astor and "John “Blind Billy’’ at His News Stand in BleecKer Street. tie arandenother of bo te THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, BEING ORGANIZED HOW IN CHIHED [Force Will Be Affiliated with American Federa- tion of Labor, CHICAGO, Dec. &--Chicago'a poll: en are to be unfonized and aMllated with the American Federation of La- | Por. A high Chicago official of the Fed- jerattion says the organization will | completed by Jan. 1, The benevolent order maintained fo: ¥earm by the police force is to be di | The city carded. hremen .and’ schoot y Organized and af- IS BNGHAM ONLY | Audience Understood Rey. Dr. | Niles to'Say That’s What | General Told Him A mesting of the Broadway Board of | Prado, of Willamsburg. was addressed by Rev. Dr. Niles, pastor | of the Ww at Bushwick ayentje'and Stantiope street. The + arkn ‘of tho reverend gentleman, who sa leader tn the projact to close tho of, New York on’ Stinday, cre- \ted sothewhat of a sensation, partic- ularly as itiey applied to Police Com- misifonér Bingham, Dr. Niloa wae one of a commtttes ot ministers that called upon Commtsmongr Bingham a\few days ago to ask his uid tn clo Sunday theatres. In his apeech to the Broadway Hoard of he minister conveyed to hi the {mPreseion chat Comin tas: um told the comznittes he was ice Com joner at all. TS ukderstood (her mmissioner sked the ministers to get aj fs $assed by tha: Leminatare that. would make him Pollce Commissioner in tant | as well as in nan it he tolaathem | Dr. Nile to way th him Bingham was nothing more than « rubber | of the matter at his honk to-day, Dr. Nilew said that jis rematkn| had not een ao atrong as some at those ‘at the meeting had made thom appear. Ho had almply asked the Hroadway Board of to help Commisstoner Bing ine enforcing the laws, —__——____ | ROSCOMMON MEN’S DANCE. | | leat Dall of Soolety Promt, To-Night’s Functio The etand annual pall o: on Men's 8) & B. Asvoc! to-ni@ht at the Imperial Ly. Fir th street ani Third aye-| large number of tickets old. and the ball will un- best ever held th Fasare ercseeee sis) be A RUBBER STAMP? last night! “1906 PASSENGERS. IN “ANOTHER WRECK |Only Two Persons Hurt, | but Superstition of | Trainmen Verified. | Slway. bound for New ‘York from New| | Orleans, was wrecked tn a collision in| the yards at Danvile, Va. The engineer of the passenger train vas! |fatally injured, the fireman painfully hurt and other members of the crew [Were shaken up, but passengers | | escaped, | The frst adrtces York indicated that the wreck /ap- Feeached in horror and extent of ata Mes tha: at Lawyers, Va, on Thanks- giving Day, in’ which Sampel Bpencer, | President of the Southern Hallway, and Philip 5 yler, of New York, were d with six others, As in the Law- One caugnt fire t the freliht train was f and had not cleared the | when the passenger train Sound for the Danville ining at reduced speed. and tender of the pas- | eer train and several fre'eht cats Were derailed. Fire from the boiler of | Jocomotive “set tho freight oars Tho Danyille ‘e Department ed to the wreck. ! | received in Now ‘Cd in the wreck at Lawyers, |¥here ts a superstition amons railroad at when a passenger train Is 1 dm Wek fe ch I th ponding tra: on will In this ion Was Verified. HEKNDWS NOTHING OF MISSING BOY Dr. Gardiner Angry at Use of His Name in Connection with Garrett Case. Dr. Willam F. Gardiner, of No. 9% | Prospect Park West, Brooklyn wus tn- Gjgnant to-Gay when he learned that Jwith the disappearance of Seymour Gar-| rett. Jr, the twelve-year-old boy. who vanished from lls parents’ handsome| home at No. 102 Prospect Park West. The boy's father, who tras tried every | ficlue since young Seymour disappeared | | Monday last. to-day raid that t kK Dr. Gardiner knew anv- hing @boUt the cazo, asked the, police to was rofumdt, the police say Gardiner was a reputable: phys It's ridiculous,” day, “Ll know nothing of the boy's W douts, ‘Last mummer the boy an-| hoyed iny servants conatartly, throwsng | alones and refure Into the yard until one ay 1 caught hin at it, drugged him | eo house and ‘turned him aver to © policeman to taket 1b parsers. For this Mr, Garrett sual the doctor Dr, | MO, the mult at!!! pending. he boy Was stage siruck and had also inventigated the street-ainging Dusiness with great Interest when h (wo boy singers. Willlam B, \vat- son, ® Brooklyn theatrical’ tat, who Know the Garretts, wire the die appearatice that seen Bey since Etectlon Vanderbilt Vanderbilt, jr. r of the principal prizes tn | i to Oouny Poultry Assostan| ton, whose nis now In ‘O- at pce ea as ¢ Here’s a New Plan for the Relief of the Oppresstbe fam That Congests the New York Terminus of the Brooklyn Bridge I\fEXTRANCE to SUBWAY | SLOOP__srom BROOKLYN OF 89 CONDUCTORS SAD “TO AOBB. . 00 A OY Company Alleges It Has Unearthed a..Plot to Get Rich Quickly. Four B. R. - cond | tors were ar- | ralgned to-day in Butler street court, Brooklyn, charged with being inyolved fn a gigantic transfer trading scheme, by which the street car company lost $5,000 a day, ing an investigation crease of transf of cash fares. ers The campany discoverad during November fares had increase! of Chiuf Agent Bradley rested Bennie jarkows years old. of and from him & confexsion thas a day acting as wo-between ductors alleged to be in the charge, doaml a car on the d such lines, secure and Ket off at section, passing the transfers ductor’ on some cross Ing ap the According wount Lorimer, of transfars, to \ng @ bunch in return, recelve one cent for each transfer thus | 1 fl Busa 1965 | number of transfors issired this early to-day. / ber wns 79 per cent. mors than Issued and this last ‘The arrest and arratgn-| of the conductors ts the result of instituted | company’s secret agents, when t! 5 over Passenger train No. 4 on the Southern | failed to show a corresponding increase the in- years the ‘ovem= the cash 10 per cent week are th: ic evenus, maid 10 have secured mp. b the he w aM ne $6 @ con- ote the bo; Nostrand. bonoh inter- to a con- recaly- an w passed, while the conductors In the plot ‘STOCKS SLOW IN —AMIXED MARKET —-.__. Prices Move Range and Trading De- void of Features. Pr ea of stocks | within a narrow range in tt | market trangactionx to-day and trading moyed was on a small scale. There was a a rise of 3-4 ti Mexico preferred Insignificant. 1 of 5-8 in At National ¥ “Other cl JUDGES ARE LAZY, (SUBWAY LOOP ACROSS CITY 10, END BRIDGE JAM /Engineer Proposes New Plan For Curing Rush-Hour Evil, [TO DIVERT CROWDS Brooklynites Could Be Taken On Board At Several Stations Instead of One. At least tient mnitted to tment and Rapla-T) solve the n of the ple say wide t 5 are ti y meet all ob- s, and even If it @%d, it involves ling an tmmense st © to carry elevated tracks, and this will obstruct Surface traMc and make an unsightly mess of three whole blocks that ought to be an ornament to the elty. This ts the argument of the opponents ° plan, and one of them has pro- posed an a substitute a subway loop, which, he says, will settle the question for 4&1 tlme. He prop trains trains, w is end that has beeh contended for by B. BR. ‘LT. ever gince the transit prob! jem nrose. These through trains ought to be run all the way was the city and back again, taking on and dischar«ing te at, several stations, How It Would Work. WU be possible then.’ ia the Who proposed the plan, “to ‘passenzers ‘at Park Tow, crowd coming up Broadway elovated r streets to go to Brooklyn j Would -be taken on at Broadway and | Clty Hall Park, after the trains had gone around the loop. The loop shoulda pass down the bridge and dive down Under Oe Subway, it should pass west along the line of Chanmers street, with or station at West Broadway an. a: West street, which would oe te.the Brio‘ Ratiroad Ferry. her stauion would be built at Barclay street fronting the Ferry there, and a big station. at Greenwich and Barclay would accommodate a large proportion of the ‘rush hour crowd, Tho last stop on this side be- fore starting for Brooklyn would be st City Hall Park and Broadway, where accommodations could be built for at least as big a crowd as is now handied on the Bridge platforms, Wi the additional facilities at the other stations, there would be no bridge crust, ang the problem would bo solved. The elevated station, as it | now Ja, coulg be uaéd for local trajna and traMo in dull hours, !f necessary, lor st could be utilized to double deck the surface trolley track loops, whioh would effectually dispose of the aurtace car problem, ang instead of making the unsightly mass of buildings and trackage that is now contemplated, the city would have the space which it. s acquired for open spacea.oe offlce buildings, and the neighborhood could. be made beautiful.” ¢ | The plan has met with some criticlem, Jaa enginecra say that the grede would be too step for safety if the loop must | were ablo to substitute the transfers | Pass under the present stibway, but the thus recetved for cash fares. | proposer insisis that such is not ite |case, Ho saya that the grade for the, subway loop can be started far enough) + | back to make It very easy. | The grade now on the Bridge ts 4 per , Which engineers conaider the |tumit of safety in handling terminal | business with great speed, but the ad- | vooates of the aubway plan say that 6 } per cent, might sm Used arith. aacaty. | and they’ contend tnat 1t would be suth- Jclent Lo gain enough depth for the rs LOSING QUOTATIONS, Ya bighest, lowest, closing prices net coariges of stocks from yesteniase | | ina Guowtions are am follows: | Ni | /, High, Low, Clos. Chas, id Copeer.! 14k. “Gy ay — Car Se oun, 4 Ha ‘Oh Np xt Balt.“ Onbo use f eR? 5 {piu IS LAWYER’S PLAINT |". 7 ie ‘ ‘ rn. 1 — iy ¢ is 5 eit Me — uy ? 20° Behind and Bar Makes De- oi ory + mand for Reform. hese Ary thi PITPSBURG, Pa., Dec. 8 Judges ase re the bench of Allegheny County acoused Ot of Iazines: two more’ courts to be ho | awked for in the next Legislature and the charwe that the present courts aro ant | but part of a sens: Wald’ the Goctor to-| to the Alleatieny C inty tlon by @ committen esp ape |e, poltited to look into the™matter of the | Nat omunty courts. z Salt ‘The association wouredited with | holng gnfuential tn the segection of the appointments to the bench, and tho Pennayivania report carriew through It an-expromion Peoples OAs %: of diseatistaction with the work of the j{gntig ¢ prety organimution. Hep, Stoel pee Ft ey All. the judges are member: the Rovk tnand. fae 87, & that tt is hi Maliwes cs ez ze » three! fudees hy pealiway M ng chats fh ih — 3% rendamd tin | 7 Bare ; ee Two Robbers Exeouted, 1 i TIFLIS, Transcaucaala, Doc. &—Twoj U of thie robbers WHO attacked (ho extity | 1 +% Princess Avalova of Des. 3 and 1: at Dar residence assault. VY Nave been executed | 41 ca gan pent to mines, | sortie > “Ys 1h) it Us &re enterod” 1 report mad: Bar Axy that te had) “three and a half yours baltld® Gieiv investigate ‘This | work if no new ov ts TES Sua re Fe NACE RUE CT