The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1907, Page 1

——_ All ae the Metropolis Inhabitants Were }[ ‘The. explosion of a tank containing 50,000 gallons of distillate in ~the upper bi | ‘the explosion and a: serious fire spread through the upper’séction of the eenews —-plant, there were no_fatalities. “whieh the two-story brick building can -—bt-emptied In forty seconds. aii, TOY ADOUETE, 000 patton of ate- + blown 100 feet in the alr, falling back in — rem tis-leg—broken:-Piria-wis-the ont: ~“spraining his ankle. — ATHER—Snow; colder to-night. Friday, fatr, EDITION fee ONE CENT. __NEW. YOR K THURSDAY, | SCHOOL PANICS FOLLOW EXPLOSION; | { ' _ NEW YORK SHAKEN _. Standard Oil Tank. ‘Blows Up. at Bay-| + -onne and Spreads Terror of an Earthquake for Ten Miles in Every Direction. SKYSCRAPER WORKERS IN FEAR OVER THE TREMORS. Stirred by the Trembling, and Kept Police Headquarters Busy Answering Tele- hone Inquiries—Vessels Affected. ich of the Standard Oil works at Constable He Jn] spread the terror of an earthquake through the surrounding country with- 4n_a-radius of -ten-miles-todiay-and- did-thousands -of- dollars" worth: of damage. A dozén-small houses in Bayonne were blown down by the shock of the explosion and countless window-panes were shattered in that town, in adjoining villages and across the Kill von Kull, in Rich- mond Terrace. Though-an immense voltime of blazing: oil was scattered about by In all of the schools in Hayonno there mere panica and many. children were -fuit_and_brulsed in thelr eiraggls—to- e@ecape from the trembling bulldings. “The. East Twenty.second street eahool has long boasted of {te fire drill by BULLDOG TRIES IN VAIN 10 SAVE “A WOMAN'S LIFE Principal F. H. Briok admitted to-day) that there Was no drill in the mannen of exit of ef the four hundred boys and girls. , The old structure was shaken to Its foundations and the walls appeared to. Be bulging in, 7. Te swooned from fright, and leaderless the pupils rushed forthe eingte-statrwny-ae-there-are-no- Ore‘oecapes..The soteams.of-ihe torr! chiding who—were <tammod —tn—a ting, struggling mass in the narrow ‘hallways gould bs heard over the entire neighborhood, and if Itc hadn‘t been’ for the Intervention of a compiny of _fire- ten “Chore would undoubtedly have been serious loss of life. z As it was boys and girls emerged in the street’ with cut faces, sprained ankies and handfuls of oné another's fale; MAY HElp BIL TWinted and were ayed from. being trampled by the In other-eehoais -within-the- area of #bock there were almilar scenes, 4 "There were also panics in local hotela “and in Hany atoren”and Hactotiee There fw One DUTUIhg of Iase” Twenty-ecoinT airest that was moved four inches on tte foundations --=: a Tngineer Johnson, of the Stantant Ol _Compaay.. explain. explosion on the @ congosiion of gases withla ised -spontanepus..combus tion Tho tank had beon about halt Tull of distiliaty for some Umu™and the AsO AIAN Trom the Nuid had no oe Mistress of Faithful ‘Jack’ ~Burns to-DeathOn Her Own Stove. Despite the efforts of her bull terrier. Jack, to save her, Mrs, Sarah Howes, an Invalld, was burned to death lying acrosh a hot stove in her flat on the second, floor of Ne: B2 Bedford satreet to-day, her-from ‘the stoYe, and filling, «roused the house with his frantic barking, When the door wan.opaned. he rusned| to the atreet ‘and mate his way to. the ‘PINGS OF business of Mrs. Howe's hus- band, four blocks away, where his +f frantic-actiom aroused a suspicion that ho was mud: Ar, Mewes, becoming~-atarmed; Wert the stone and, guided bs the dog, RACHEd home -in-time-to~ tind “firemen Mfting the body of his wife from the stove = Mr.—Howas was,forty-four yeara old and-an-invalld. 8hy had ved with her! huaband at “the Bedford street: addrese three years. The couple — abildren. but both were: tond“ot tho Uttle bull terrier, who was the nolo campanion of the sick woman in her home while the husband was attending to Duainess,/ He ty manuger of the wholesale meat -satablishnient of Ji 8; Daly & Co., at*Christopher and. Bed- ford streets. “AT Mie departure of her husbai to-day Mra, Howes Husied herself In her apartment: When her work was clear ed up she sat on @ chair close to the Kitchen stove, in which there was a brisk tire,-and_began-to-sew,———_— She was subject to sudden fainung -spolla It is plain that one of’ these selzed her unexpectedly, Ag sho rose from the chair she became unconscious And fei] across the stove on her rignt side, Tho dog pulled at her dress, but was unable to dislodge her, ‘Then he ran through the flat, barldng with all the Power pf bie -Jungd!-Mrm.— Charles a aoaeeeee the wife of the janitor, and. ora Fed t0-the Howes, date ta and hur ‘The door was open and three women entered. ‘They went to the kitchen and the sight they saw so horrified them that they made no move to rescue the woman. Instead they ran downstairs creaming, The only man In too house TSS incieateny Ailate were let inte the tank _thpougn -a- pipe entering. at the.base....This caused <€ Compression "of gases Rik wom ettstt shook caused mibustion. The Tid of the tank, whicti weighs ten tons, was a.crumpled meas into the scothing caul. ron of oil A carpenter who was noar the tank at the time was thrown down perious Injury reported ‘by the officers of the company, and they refuced to reveal the namo of tho injured man, nor would they tell the namo of a boy Luckily the penzine tank was isolated from the main group of ofl reservoirs au the Standard O11 Company's own ‘© brigade was able to ‘Dhere was no wind and the only danger was from the terrific heat. This was leseened by turning streams of water on the neighboring tanks and keoping thom oool, No attempt was naturally made to put out the oll blaze with Water, but-a device that-pumpe sand through an iron pipe was used to ad- A half doren tugboats flood of waten on the docks, toward which a river of flaming quid yan, and saved them, The Bayonne ¥we Department was not called upon for assistance. ere were few people in the dozen frame buildings near the Stand- SON wortes which, with five dwelling | i houses on Seventh street, Bayonne, prere blown down. Fulded by. Winchesters went to the acc ond i Astronomical f qulte' vi ‘The-antmal- first tried to- putt} {graph ~ LOOK OUT FOR THE DAZZLING LIGHT | OF THE AURORA Sunspot May Cause the Great. Heavenly: Dis- play To= gilt M. AGNET tes TORM, aT; 00: Expert Points Out the Amazing Causes | of the New Discovery. rR, who yee “aun. Prof, Rrashear, of Pitts: tenlay disco ormous belleras cause earth's disturbances ‘on the The spot, which Is © to the naked eye, covers an out bout tuo. uud eine tte: Hiretehes "an eighth of the way }Across the aun Aocorditig. to Prof. Tien neae the possible electrical dis- Uurbances will probably occur to-night Garrett. P. Serviss, the astronomical expert. gave the following opinions oz the phenomenGi to Tie Evening World to-day: “It Die Influssce Of thin sunspot I» felt here,” sald Profi Servire, “It will prob RdIy-take the form of a magnetic-atornr and of an aurora borealis, By mag: hette—storm—i—to—nt inter that tere will bo thunder anq lghtning or any other visible or-audible manifestations It {s quite common for q severe mag- netie“storm=to-rage=while-the—sity--ts blue and the sun-shining. Its first ef- fects are observed on ‘slegraph and telephone Instruments, causing alternate surges and ebbing of the electric cur- rent, In other wonds, there js a serios of electric waves, with x slackening of power Jin the Intervals, These gray interfere with telophone and _telograp service. At times these ‘‘waves" are accompanied by thunder-storms, but not asa rule. ‘Tho Aurora ‘Borealis, too, In an ac. companiment—to-such—magnetic storms. Even tn broad daylight this may be ob- rm of longitudinal drins clouds, — seen Ai ETE Upheaval on Sun's Envelope. we alnapot is a-aign of some disturd- ance or upheaval upon the surface or ‘envelope’ of the sun. Probably a mass ot heated -gases_are releaged from the interior. ahurface. where the colder air con denses them into a cloud. The cloud of partly cooled vapor settles back upon-the sun's surface, absorbing the light that pasees through it and form- we know as @ ‘sunzool.’ parts of the sun's surface are more liable than others to these eruptions, just ax some parts of tho catih are volcanic wille others are not “Ther isan undoubted: cléctro-nag- | -netle—comneation—det wets the -aun—anit cur atmosphere; but i does not atways | manifest Itself at the Ume sunspots ap- pear, That we shall recelve any no- Uceableeifects from. the~present—-sun~ Spot-seems tomo Joubitul; “Any eloctrical disturbance from such spots is not usuil at their climax but At the dme the spot ts first formed, Al very lange sunspot 4s {mposing, put siduui éffecia Mie earth in any way. ‘or do T think sudh manifestation, I vidticed “ar all, Would necessarily be observed to-night. For the spots gen- “auY EO pawa” woTvsE thi Look” Yor “the” Aurora” To-Night. If, to. Or Loemorrow_algltany- great Maronil- display -le- observed: tran Ula particular pot -may—be—the- cause of ito It no such ‘dispiay doca oer-and-tf-the -telephone=aid= telog?: Senna alent of @ magnetic acorin, hen WOW we ni fe to wipposes the apo hus fad no effect. on the earth, eat plays a large part in’ electric phenomena, The solar upheaval that responsible for the -eunspot itself also Fiction -or_otherwieec}incresse. elect pas to- the beast. trons — wh THTOURT- HpAE, tale -O6-- aa ater: charge of Positive: electricity. “Thi is an unusual for sunspots, The maximum period tor. them js Aup~ Dosed to have passed, But there Is no rule for determining where they nyvay. ‘or/may_ not appear. “Tt thero s tany - clectrical ance to-mght "or to-morrow and.tal aos first to find tr out. But I do mor think sich phenomena will occur," MISSED. LARCHMONT. BY -PAUSING TO DRINK. -That'sthe-Slory—Told—by— ‘Two Passengers on the Tennessee. " Frank L. Patten and A, W. Hennessy, of Somerville, Mass., arrived on the Joy Line steamer Tennessce with ‘an odd atoryof how they just missed the Larchmont... They. said they had left Boston Monday afternoon for a week's vacation in New York and that on ar- riving at Providence they ped & cafe to colebrato thelr holder, sped cheer ried Wine of time, and when thoy remember it they found thatthe Larchmont had started ten minutes before. ‘The men have been fortityii solvon ever since, and said to-day thay a drinking had saved thelr lives the more, nots oing to ignore 1 e futtr Degas NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. Aletiirb- Tie’ tele: them- floor of the house, Bho ‘hed! fet. no “pal ‘woman bebe Sead: ain aa ren ly, for Great Column of Smoke. Se FIR8T RACE—Roseboro (8 to 1 this prenomenon may These force their way to tie) erally take about twelve or, thirteen-|, sun, Fonien (8 to 6 for EVELYN AS AN ACTRESS: FEBRUARY EDITION _ AGS _ Howard ‘Nesbit. Brother of Evelyn Thaw : Sketch Made in Court, by Artist Perley: HOW SB, AS x SCHOOLBOY. — Governor Who-Wwilt-Be= Among Mourners. ALBANY) — Feb. 14 —Gore former Gay. David BH, ‘Lowia Stuyvesant _Chanler, ci stice M. Lin: was Lieutenant-Governor with Hig- glar, and a Joint committes represent ing she two Houses of the L Licnt.-Gov- 0 will leayo here at 11 o'clock to-night) on-a—special_train—tor Olean to-atiend | Tho! the funeral of ox-Gov. Higgins. train Is scheduled towvuch Olean at JL A.—M._to-morrowi dt _will_run_as_th necond section 0! reulgr. woatbou! train? Goy. Hughes, who extends special.in- yitations to former Governors to attend the funeral, has heard from all of them and Senator Hill alone can make -tho! replied | trip. President Roosevelt dbrough Secretary Loeb that he could. senda wreath, Former Gov. Frank §. Black replied in the following mes- i thenk the Governor for hia thoughtfulness and courtesy, and I re- wret ‘that I am unable to attend the funeral of ex-Goy. Higeina. Former Gov. Odell talked with Becte- tary Robert H. Puller over tho tole- phone and said that he was sorry he could not fo, A personal dusinesn asso- Glate died nuddenly in Newburg yester- ay, ho eald, and he folt that It wan nesossary fot him to stay for the fu- neral, which ta to ocour to-morrow, Former Gov. Morton telegraphed: David —B=Hill-Only—ex-|- Supreme} not attend, but-thathe- expected to WASHINGTON, Fed, 14.—It known to-day are bt ‘pending in” Conk w = now in [ in'ta that t t, Iie sta laubjocts to foreign landa, to-day after the dlaposal of | busine: JAPAN FAVORS PASSPORT) Hearing Is Just Ressmedeneetags ~-Gourt Hastily: Takes a Recess to Give: __Mr.. Bolton, Who Is ‘No. 11 in the Jury Box, a Chance to Reach His Spouse's’ Bedside Before End Should Come, but She Dies as He Arrives, THAW BREAKS INTO A RAGE. — WHEN CASE IS POSTPONED, Becomes Furious in His Cell and “Raver About His Hard Luck—His Wife Is— —Brought-toHelp-Soothe- ‘Him—Trial— posponed Until After F *uneral of a The death of a housekeeping. unknown little- woman -at-a little cottage above thé Harlem River has thrown its shadow~ across the greater tragedy. of. Harry Thaw’s fight for ated ‘Joseph_B, Bolton, the trial af Stanford White's slayer was broken. this afternoon and the remaining jurors, who had been In custody gether since the beginning, had been allowed to go to their homes ‘over Sunday. _ It is believed that the case may be taken Up on ley morn. ing where it left off to-day. For a while it was feared that the death. of Mrs. Bolton might lead to a mistrial. Harry Thaw almost sufferéd‘a collapse at the PIDs peo His fears were for his wife; not: for himself. But-this afternoon the lawyers on both sides seemed amply satisfied that the trial would go ahead as before after the funeral of the bereaved juror’s wife.” bart COUNSEL SATISFIED WITH BOLTON. ~~ What they had seen of Mr. Bollon’s dmgnined;~sensivte behavior under the blow of his affliction convinced them. that he would hold his duty asa citizen tbove ail personat consiterations, ant that-wherr Monday — comes he will tell the Justice he-is prepared to give his mind over entirely to the evidence and the arguments. Misfortune had made the litte white-haired juror for the time being the*most ee figure sin: thn: great-trial. The counsel on both s‘des held a short conferen chamber just before 2 o'clock, then. they went to their nee iookiig more than ontinarity-comemed;— There-were-two- vacant-phices “hr the= RULE BARRING COOLIES | woo ER oot es ret o, =e ( HIGGINS = e= Advanced--Idea Bmbodied= in ee : “ment to Immigration Law, Washington Hears--Senate Action-Blocked, became jters of this kind the House cannot act this country of Japanese coolles that the sugrertion s be done first came from Japan, which-country sneverhas—approved~ ot} Japanen the emigration of large numbers of her through information: Im- Hnghes:{btted-tn official ctroles that Japan re- (°°. and {ch in effect prevents the entrance to Owing to the fact that Senator Knox 4s enUtled to the Noor In the & r Senator Dillingham was pré- ine lvented from bringing up the conference report on‘the immigration bill as early In the day as he had expected, and un- der tho regulations controlling in imat- With-faver-the amendinent witoh ts It is proposed to add to the immigration on the report until the Senate has done Bovy tatirn and tho “House {impressed to secure early jort, On uccount of the issport featurd on the au 7 2 ition to the immedtate coastdera~ conference report on the Im- migrate S lobed ta ati Tey ham made Al effort to sooure a vote onl ort ors Thicon and ‘Tilman objected 4 time for the vote, and the a point of order agalnat the Opp: tino of th: ¢ President overruled Mr, ‘Till. int of order, Ing G character and the long and to the State.” Wormer Prosident graphed: not avatl myselt of thoughtfulness, {¢ tf were posable." Cloveland oy. Hughes in attendance at the Tunecal of the late exGoy, (Hiegins, and atone prevents such an expression on my part of my appreciation of hiv hint distin: guished public service he has rendered tele- Both houses of ‘the Legislature to-day adopted concurrent resolution of sorrow on the death of ex-Gox. Higst pointed ‘a Joint-committes to attend the funeral and adjourned until eye ‘Tam exceedingly sorry thet I can-tat the convenience of the family, the Governor's I certataly would do vo of respect. N,N, ¥ Feb. 14. life in Olean 1a” practical: , 80 deep ts ath of former Goy, Higgins. Mensa. Frank W. 4 of condolence are helng con- elved by the family, o'clock to 12 o'clock n det aside for those the body of the ei Governor, and the burial {s to be private All tho business h f the city will be closed to-morr ernoon, es DIED FROM HIS FALL. Joseph Absdesen, of No. 4% East Ninaty-fitth street, died to-day in 9 Vincent's Hospital. He wag admitted on. Monday, euffering from a fractured ekull sustained In a fall from a window: company Juror Bolton to his house. scowling’ and" preoccupied. { Juror No.5, Mr-Har thes selecied ju overcoat and slid into his seat without a word 16 his Sousel, He. was JEROME’S-PLEA FOR-THE-JURY— see As-soon-as-Justice Fitzgerald had mounted the bench, District-At. —— tomey Jerome arose, Ina voice surcharged with feeling, he said: Tat htry cit ptease-the-Conrtssinee-tiesatioumment-of-thismemings in the course of nature, the wife of the eleventh member of this jury has passed aw A sorrow has come into «the lite of this gentleman whicli-must-be borne as best it may. It-is obvious that we-cannot_pro- ceed: —The-elementary tes-of humanity demand=that=this—case— pe Stispentted at teastumtt “Monday. —‘T thatthe remaining “jurors~shoutt~ be required to remain together until that time, and that the juror into whose life. the sorrow has come, should be required to remain under” guard_in-the-hour_of his afiliction, are_greater hardships than the ‘State has a right to impose. Counsel on “both sides have agreed that these jurors should be allowed to LoS Pas No doubt was-felt in the -begin- Wanted One, Could Have: Had Fifty! LEVI & FOLLMER, ADOLPH L. P. FOLLMER. Vaudeville Attractions, 1416 Broadway, Room 415. - New York, Feb. Advertising Department, Now. York World, Gentlemen; Last evening we left a small ad-for-a strong man for the stage, and much to our surprise as early as seven o'clock this morning about one hundred men answered the same, and we could have selected at least half of them for the position-if we so, desired, This sort of advertisings certain}y pays, and you-are-at Wberty to use this letter as you see fit Very: truly yours, LEVL& BOBENERS eta ARTHUR C, LEVI. 7th, 1907,