The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1907, Page 1

3 sepa actaca si LT TP PTT KL. ‘ Cirenlation Books Open-to Ali,*. THE GREATEST FIGHTER ++ 1 | ‘y + THAT EVER LIVED, STILL z HOW HE SMASHES JN PLANK WITH A BLOW OF HIS FIST. ene -READ ROBERT. EDGREN’ Ss INTERESTING” INTERVIEW W1TH THE FORMER CHAMPION ON PAGE 4. — PRICE ONE CENT. D NEW YORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1907. KNOCK-OUT BLOW it PARISH HOUSE 2 MAY KILL CLERK —+$> ~ *Jack” Mason, Caught by Right-Hander ina Friendly Bout at St.Bartholo- _ mews Club, Has-Been-Un- - conscious for Days, DEATH OF ATHLETE WILL BE es FOLLOWED BY AN ARREST: Victim Declared Before s Becoming Unconscious ' That His Antagonist Was Not To Blame, he But Case Brings a Rich Church Into i Unpleasant Notoriety. Not until to-day did it develop that “Jack” Mason, a- young athlete ‘who is now unconscious in an uptown hospital; -,-foing to.cause his death ina boxing bout at the parish house of St. Bar-|> “Churches in New York. —“tholomew's Church, one-—of the [richest and —most -famous= ‘Eplscopat Le ‘For over a week the case of the handsome young victim has been an enigma to surgeons, who wonder that, he is complete stupor so long. ° But this afternoon there is a n factor in the case, The police have Capt. Lantry, in comand of the East Fitty- precinct oon as begun. an ofMcint investigation. and his As first street station, _ _éetectives_are at work. Mason succumbs there will bo arsests exctusive end: fashlonable congregation Into unpleas- which must~ brite un ant notice. — For a week anda half Mason, who was the champion of the Mott Haven Ath- gina stupor, jarient aaa result-ot a blow wnich Tie Kot on Wednesday aight, Jan. 2%. He bas been wholly or Jetic-Club, has been ly firat at bis father’s home in Hi and later at a hospital, | ipartly unconsotous for 235: hours. 73 Condition 2-Puzzie. —--—~Hia.condition {s a profound puzzle (0 ince the chac ‘rit bean the medical profession the leading nervo experts in nols’s leas vice ave cole frém_Rellevue. Rooxevelt and the Poly- fram the Cornelt Medi, stom ‘These_visitora al} agree in two things that it f# a marvel that young Mason ota stil alive only be~ cause of his magnificent phyalcal condi- He twenty years otd-and-he has “never tasted. tobacco. or liquor in any forni. Nourishment is being administered ¢o-him-through a-tube and he may last. physicians. .to be talked about among Manhattan haye called at St. Hospital to examine thes tlm. Delegations of surgeons _olinte Hospitals, eg) Un versity and “other {hate 2 te allve-and-that. ars tor-days.¥at. Bince he graduated “with the honors from Public School No. 69, yn has been a clerk for the White an official of. the Metropolitan Life Insur- lye in at Thirty-ffth Thee tather hed a natural love for sports and he -young » Gane Spool Cotton Company” in _atreet, Hin father, R. ¥, Mason, {1 ance Company, The family handsome apartments street and” Lenox ayentb. encouraged the son in athletics. Best Man In His Club. It wasn't Jong until young Mason was ecknowledged as the best all-around man of his weight in the Mott Haven Club, On Wednesday of last week he went with a squad of his clubmates to the St Bartholomew parish house, In Forty-second atvoet, to meet men from ‘ll over the city, the purpose being to ‘peloct a team to’ represent Now York at ‘fa serics of amateur ames tn Boston. | —Phe-senior Mazon, proud of his boys went along to ace f: A ptrongth and skill, the elimination ocntests, The acene of the contests was the dix, dialy)\eaulpped pariah jhouse, NOs. ele 36-213, East Forty-second stres . a omew's Church, which 19 It, building, fitted up with Ae aaame: -rooma and parlors for the var’ ous clubs and societies of St. Bartho! Jocated ~at Forty-fourth street and Madison ayo- p, the Fev, SDr. Greer, as rector of the church, was prominent in the conduct’ of tha parish house. ‘The present rector, Rev. Leigh- Gans aes ‘D,D., is wow a moving fig- Les mamaaseec 7 Among the Bosnia Abbott “still alive after lying in a ew fich and well-known men who have a hand in the parish house affairs are Willism H. Butterworth, Anson W, Hald, William D. Sloan, W, W, Apple- ton, Frederick Cromwell, John G. Wing, Joan Cunton Gray, Dr. E, R. L, Gould and Willlam M. Green, ‘Phe —athletic—-director—ot—the—Men' Club of Uie Parish, imder whose -acts- DIC Die fatal bout took place, is ALG, Harvey, ‘The referee on this particular night, was" Thomaa Sawtelle. About 10 o'clock young Mason was matched to spar with a youth of his own wetght-14t pounds, ~The name “oF. [ihe opponent ts belng withheld The-two were to go three rounds. They seemed! io be evenly matched. In the third round during ade: termined rally, in-whloh-Jack slipped and _wentto the foor,...hla opponent | excitedly followed up tho sé se; and; -as the yout Finite, belly a ngireaand AlMAs00 On the side Of Lhe toppled nim bdoxwara, bas heanea rine Ing the hardwood fiocr He rungined Se ea ies oes DibuLGa,— asd-—when “revived —-deciarat (iat ue Waa ube 64 Hun wuver Sarereerycameeere rer TT YTrT"} Sane qOHOWing Youny™Asson Wwe seized With severe pulns Inthe head | and-took-to his bed---'he-tamilypiy~ sician, Dr, McFee, when called” found the-young* man-in-an-unconsctous” con’ dition and immmediately pronounced } thie thee -cmcussiot-of-the-brain-— Young “Mason had. a premonition ot Beer sere einen SINK IN he; comathiat nas lasted #0 long he said wea D ad. ie -anyththg ahOukl Tapper to don't want FHL te om KS RTS Toubie fd the chan fat WiCine.. don't even him arces! H fae or eungrelcig) vestena ae yhen he first-becamo unconscio} the “family fearing death Was near, called in Father Keane, of St [EE OCT att red vid Forty-second “street; which youn; Mason was a meniber, to administer the last rites”: Yesterday ths patient rowing worse, Dr, -Mefee advised his removal to the hospital. that the younc man chance of recovering, SUCCESSOR 10 WENDEL NAMED, ALBANY, Feb. 2—Gor. Hughes ‘to- day granted the request of Capt. Louis | Wendel, First Battery Light Arullery, of Now York Clty, to bo relloved from sommand until further ordgra, and 8p- pointed First Lfout, John F. Ryan, Second Battery, Light Arullery, to suc- ceed Capt. Wendel, and has ‘directed | Lieut. Ryan to report to the command- ing oMcer of the National Guard for} further Instructions, SS ~ SEMBRICH “HAS RELAPSE, - Bembrich has! had a relapse in’ hor dronchilal trouble and will be wnadla to wings at erator aU Opera-Houge to-ni Violette Verat Traviata’: wilt ve taken i hes almost no / Te struck There, it was said to-day, | ao =e JACK MASON, CLERK, WHO MAY DIE FROM A KNOCKOUT BLOW. |_| Doxey, George W. \ years ol a ,foreman of No, 1792 Amsterdam avenue. fell from a soait TING STAG AGES FEATURED ———APNEW-ORLEANS) Destroys Interest in Youngsters’ Event. NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. FinsT NACE—Nefined (7 to Band 1 to 2) 1, Dapple Gold ( to 2 for pluce) 2, Mafalda 3.° SECOND RACE—Monthert (2 to 1 and 1 to 2),1, Rubywick (8 to 5 for place) 2, Whiakbroom 3. THIRD RACE—Tileing (4 to 5 and ut) 1, Granada (4’to 5 for pince) 2, Glamor 3. stone ct NEW ORLEANS, Feb. ©. felds were small at Fair Grounds this! { afternoon, the card wan high-class and | turnished—cracking good racing. ——T new Bt Charles 1olét Ttamticnp—ot mile and-a- quarter was the featuro. of the afternoon, bringing togethor Bester ing, Missourt Lad, St. ~ Valentino, Marvin Neal and other Kood long dia- tance performers, ‘There was also ap DINNER T0 TEN CHORUS GIRLS “Nat” Moore Celebrates 23d Birthday at an Ex- _ WRECK pense-of $7,000. 4 [Beers ios: Walker “That willbe all—for the time being. The reat fight-by the prosecus—— 3 | = sorry ie jon willbe in’ rebuttal of the defense’s claims of provocation and emo- Pe. z cae h rhs is rere ine alienists will-have-theirtitte-d attired tn a gory ote r a ; tional Ins nity. =A inal acoensDitnremene HIEVENt Passarigers ‘Asleep in- Berths! eas 4 court oe pthantel F. Moore, son of James H; ps efined watted on Dayne and j weeks i in pening its case. fMoore, of Diamond Match and Roel Injured When Manhattan Limited pene aneigathe inane ae eal According to one report Mr. Delmas [4sland, iailroad fame, rose fron Jength-¢eoin -Dapole Gali. 6A9, in piesa pecnny ne et ee eee ea! 4 ah ha Y, head, forthe defense. “Ati an to anot Risa ermaieet ar ites Train from Chicago Crashed ina ie We g acta re eran er Stontbert. 104 2 iE = \e U — + counctt-tn-annttetteats-andt mtrkyc tae Ke ng this afternoon to tell the story of | May night atk to. ten -‘ohor: Te-nnd-tensmen- friends. — | The favors at te dinner were gold) nd-gearl necklaces with 12%" lackete orthe girls and gold ang. diamond cure puttony Inserssed 23"-for'the men, The occasion wax yung Mr, Moore's twen- ty-third birthday, “Yewas just a sony ue aratr that 4 -we—won_into_In_cold_blaod." said Mr, Moore. “We went in for.a Kood time and” then “Were Ne” preyed one hind emphatically on his brow—"'we had tt. ive faust Had TOO Wurth oF weep—ant Wa Ue SUSTAINS mond than the-rackst, ORT Mes { men weré injured. sultered sprais, either of neck or back, ‘or_both,_pwing—to the sudden “stop of | The young Chicagoan In New York presced hande_over hls eyes 20-as,to not| the trata, which. threw, them, against see the awed look on the reporter's face. | the ends of the berths, are as fol- Then He continued: tena aches WILLIAM P. HENRY, New York: ~, F. MARTIN, Washington, D. C, “HH. NORTH, Cleveland, 0; W. F. NEWBERT, Chicago, ursda net No PAE and} Sam Bernard, Sam sal ‘Your're 23 tov lay? Yourre wite'stwenty: Give-a idoo party.’ S80 we called in some theatrical men—ten of ‘em and ten of Jou Weber'a giila. Two't tell you any | w, F, WEBB, Jr New York. Tamas exoopt. Eva Frances ‘ na TnR aOR LEY cdraitiee Ane #6 || HLUENORA DOS ORTH, Crestiine, 0. J. R. STOUT, Princeton, N. J. MR. and MRS. A... ABRAHAM, Du- luth, Minn. J. ULMAN, Philadelphia. JOHN WEAVER, New York, ‘The trainmen hurt were Engineers Bond and George and Firemen McKee un became strong, Sam’ Yelled, ‘Skidoo tho table,’ and wo all grabbed it and carried It out. Then we #inded the floor, called in the: string orchestra and had a sand ance, We became so nolsy the Rector } people told ust enim. do Bo We ad- Journed to, Ghurchit! #1. sort of ont track of thingy after that, I don't! " ow show tho, others eame out, Tjand Wiilama, Thew were removed to laven't geen them since." f Aftor, imparting this _ intelligence thejnospital, ey sume Ar, aMoOre wank down exhausted Baratietls fing to thor, roporas the ad journed ov Schaw meating at inet | HIGGINS IMPROVED, hureni's didn’t uD Goo yesterday morning, Mr. Moore Was accompanied by nis wife, who was | fsa Helen Fargo: before jin nutome- Nie collision threw the two. together. SPECIALIST DECLARES. They were married in the ruins of st. g Thomas’ AGI 2 ticinive ain, Prof. Schott, After 2 Close Exam- | enta a me Teports, cost ination, Says\ex-Governor P08 w el {a have, marked: his! cone ( oy from his father, Jamon Is Making Gains, to 57 ies into Some years ayo. the art fothers—James FL, and Wiitam Doors eupbosedly ruined, ‘Thelr mant- piietions. n_Digmond Match and Rock Tn jo then tremendourty wealthy Snore time. in wing “Nat” Moore has shown leas Ananclal coups, than a, for OLEAN, N. Y., Feb. 2—Dr, Hibbard reported to-day that after a very care- fal examination, Dr, Schott, the Ger- man speclaliat, eays~ the~condition-of ex-Gov. Aten TD aalatecanh Jn somewhat improved. abe mean 1 oy Fahey It io mua iy “ikes "to a or. ees eae ate a) e time pea 2 fed, He ee 42 . NEW YORKE lthe $7,000 skldoo dinner he gave Thurs g Into Engine. JOHNSTOWN, Pas Feb. 2. —While the first séction of train No. 22,-Manhattan-Limited,-the twenty-four-four- flyer from Chicago to New York, was speeding east over the Pennsylvania Railroad early to-day it ran-into-a-light-engine-near-Conemaugh. Eleven passengers asleep in their-berths were injured and-four— tral: owners’ handicap at a milo and a saco at two miles, Interest In the two-year-old race was romowhat destroyed by the withdrawal of G. M, Fay, his owner declining we Masao’ with Whisk Broo. The balance af the card wan very Interesting and provided & good arterisonrs sport. ‘Phe weather was cloudy and the trace very i} heavy and lumpy. The artendance wan | carellent acing will be wontinued at City Park on Monda FIVST- NACE TP Name, Weigand, Refined, 04, RS IN OF FLYER =| Withdrawal of G. M. Fay). Chum-of. Prisoner’s-Wifeto Be Called as Wit. | tedious. i | ford White, and that he shot White. tol these threats willbe May McKenzie. 4 Slayer of White Declares that He Will. ‘Go on. Stand Himself. and by His Story Justify Killing -of Architect. = MAY M’KENZIE WILL TELL COURT OF THAW’S. THREATS. ness for State and Forced to Tell of, Events Preceding the Roof_— : Garden Murder, Z May McKenzie will probably furnish the chief sensation on Monday when the trial of Harry Thaw for. the murder of Stanford White is to begin, if that perishable jury does not again disintegrate and slough off, a-momber-or-two.Itis.the present intention of District-Attorney J Jerome ane to drag May McKenzie, the former show girl, to the witness-stand Opry very first day-and-force her to testify. for- the: “Prosecution. against. sr-the = husband. of her dearest friend and patron. At the District-Attorney’s office the statement was made to-day that it would probably not take the ‘State more than three hours to offer its evidence in chief, unless the cross-examinations were unusually long and Mr, Garvan, Assistant District-Attomey, will outline the case for the Stale_as.soon as court is formally opened Monday. It will not take him ¢ more than ten or fifteen minutes, Then the District- Attorney will prove. by-about_five witnesses that Harry Thaw had made threats against Stan One of the witnesses to the making Nahy erst the Way and won ¢. ay from Ruby wick, who peat whisk Broom five lengths fo rthe place, Band.out 5 4 Rlacerity etl, 107, R, Lowe... 10 Peer 101; Van (Dusen +00. 40. Tielng Wont-to- the front oat, “mak Ing val. Mo running, —won-eenils by 6 Jongh ¢rom Granada, who beat Glamor for thé pice. —ES ‘The- injured. passengers, all of whom | === ‘BIECUTION OUT ~ |DRYDEN 10 WITHDRAW. IN FAVOR OF BRIGGS? NEWARK, Nod, Keb. 2—Thére ts a strong rumor liere to% tat walter States Senator John F,°Dryden will at the conference In Trenton next Monday the ..deadiock that has over the choice of his rt withdrawing from the race a Ing his strength to. State Frank C. Hriggs, of Mercer, This would insure Brixgs's clection. "The rumor ja given credence by many Dryden js at pres- ACANST BIDDER ON CANAL WORK Ap execution for $4000 against the partnerstilp property of Anton M. Bangs and James Hughes, contractors, at No, Ul Pine street,was-recetved by the Shor: Ife this aftesnoon. The excoution ia In favor of the Sohn A. Roed!ing's Sons Company of New York, Mr. Bangs’ was a member of the firm of Oliver & Bangs, whose bid ta. build the Panama Canal for 6% per cent. of tho total estimated cost was recently rejected by the Government. Later Mr, Oliver was’ given ten days in which to make the necesgary ar- rangerents, financially, to assume tho contract. .A‘fow days later it was an- nounced that Mr, Oliver had made a Tangements with Frederick C, Stevens, President of the Commercial National (Bpecia} to Tho Evening World.) Bank ot’ Washington, D. G., and who| RED BANK, N. J., Feb. 2—Tue body Was” recently-appotnted-Superintendont | 2 A man Nas found near the sand fort of Dryden's friends, ent In Washington: MONTREAL SKATING RACES. MONTREAL, Feb, 2.—The races of the Canadian Amatour Skating Association wore held here this afternoon, Morrin-Wood-did-not compre, having of bein called home on account the death ( hie father, ‘Sucomary First Heat First, F Adolf Anderson, Cliteago; th Montreal, Time, 15% secon Second Trial “Heat—20 under 16)—First, —Woodwa Verona Take; serond, Take; ehird,” We. ‘ime, 211-5 ‘seconds, ——>__—_. MAN'S BODY WASHED ASHORE. . Low Smith. Siontr Pleased with-the Jury. « To-day through one ofthe lawyers 4} forthe defense, Mrs. Willam Thaw + | = made this abitement to an ening S ¥ | Worta reporter: “AI of -ua-are pleased “iat a jury" of a = 3 }-R00d-—menhne—been-seeures—1t~ TiF jana that the tral propar is" Analy to = a — — 7 bags Be Bat cea the last juror —-—- ‘chosen, but lke the rest of my family TI any eMbly pleased with thn Abpea —|ance_and_the demeanor of/ the -other Doctors -Fear-Diphtheria | te'etgwe wrens sua ave tay so Wifi Wipe Out the peal that he aaks—a fair hearing.’ Eleven Heimans. “T—am— pertectiy—eatiatied —with—the— juryoaciteted,* sald Thaw shimacif> Sand= t-exprct-to-go-tree-—f-shait-recetva—a fair trial, I believe, and shall be ac- quitted.” Thaw haa cust aside all doubt about. his taking the stand in his own defense, It haw been a question from the day of his arrest whether or not he would take the stand. Should he go on, It has beer oe pointed out that his past life would ‘bo laid aa bare as an open book, and in exposing his own career ho must ex~ poso much of the career of his young wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, It has been suggested that for her sake, If not ven children of Ernest | of No, 47 Grind Hoboken, who with thelr father Tro_ofthe so! Heiman, a_ tatior, street, sinicken with diphtheria yester- day, died to-Jay. The dead children were Julla, aged five, and Anna, tro. An undertaker prepared the Httle bodies for burial Immediately and the mother und two ‘otlier brothers—there are nine childron in the family—who have not! for his own. he would not go. on the Yet succumbed to the diseass followed | stand and subject himself to the prose thelr dead to the grave. - | cution’s gruelling, het and “the five surviving} It ts evident that Thaw doesnot moan children who were stricken are believed | {9 *Pare himyelf or others; that he to be {na dying condition, The home | Means to gv to te very bottom’ of tho of the tailor has been strictly quaran-| fHendship his wito had with Stanford Wianaranav anette ta two brothera | White bofora Thawes marriage to her are-heiping-nurae :the- sick. The-physl- | suc: afterward. clans who have been tn attendance fear| |, Thaw to. Testify. that the'dlssasc, which has taken a pe-|_.“t shall certainly’ take the witmoss- cullarly virulent form, will stand in my own defense,’ he declared. wipe out | san ‘ +s tho entire fareil Bron poraddeds pe am confident. that it will be the y o of the Jury that I was justified.” STEAMER A WRECK. | ASSAU, New Providence, Feb. So certain fy Thaw that he {a all but ; freo from prison that he wil talk of Rae mate of the Norwegian steamer ‘ Moyer, from Bal(imore Jan were ne the death ohalr without go much as, & quiver of the oyelids, and he will spe 4 Of Public Works of the Btato of New| Snore The min, who appeared tobe York. about thirty, Feary old tnd slender, iy —— thought, to have been a araaitor, There World Wants Work Wonders, > aries not stil ginny him thay would lead with coal, arrived . fe ve { hore Ewith, (goal, urrived | of a madhouse with equal ndifteren¢o: Rteamer ran ashore during the night of He aeclared: } Jan. # on Fish. Cayg, ‘sland, a fear neither the death chair nor. f where she remains. Beyond the fact thats the Sra wale Con partners sdetails of the grounding a Eva wore ob- talnable, ho madhouse. I will gladly place myn) pelt in the hands of this jury." - Thaw declayes that he tain ee: iS +