The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1907, Page 4

tl BACK AFTER Injury, They: Play at Matinee. vors of: Fatal Blaze-in Chester, Tk.was m and entry that the ‘Vanit: Fetr’ Theatrical Company made into Newark th-day, leaving betrind nt| ‘Chester, Pa.,- one dead, two danger ey Anguured-in- the hospliat, eight over: a fea the fire atthe Arcado Hote! & Cheater, early, yesterday. | Goad and injured follows, DEAD. Conley, John ‘thirty-nine years @14, comedian of the show; unmar- ried. INJURED, i. Dovgiash, Bonnie, chorus. girth —_ furnet about an and suffering "| from‘ shock}’not serious. Hadrie, Ada,’ chorua girl; contu- GEG ‘@nd-face burned; not. serious, Reed, Mra. Fred"O., wife of mem- _“ ber of company; burned "about ends and ince. Reed, Fred 0., comedian in com- —pany|-bands burned. Reed, Fred L. and Everett, chil- @ren “of, Fred 0.; hands burned, chorus git; foot sprained, burned about face and “Gandss inlernal sitter may ote Comedian’s Stirring Story. Gos ‘HIN, of this clty. Hotel when the fire occurred. Fred 0. the affair: ameli of smoke. jumped out of bed and started to in- vestigate. Tho instant I opened door ie flames and smoke rushed in upon us, and I elammed st dack and turned the key. My thoughts were first to _get_my wife and children out safely, ‘and then before dolng this I shouted a! ‘atire, J opened a window—we were on tJump meant possible death and certain- “ty—brokentime.~ = never arrl _‘shots fired, but the Aremen did not ap- were fast beating GEN Us door or my room the children, and my wife placed cold _room tor thelr_moutha Girls Shriek for Aid. “The giris of the company, who oo- eupled adjoining rooms, yelled for hotp, “andfrom.thab.time-on.mymind Js not clear. Finally.afiro ladder. ovas raised, which reached about eight feet from the window Jedge. I dropped my infant ft to another man at the botiom of the ladder. ‘Thig was reprated with my eldest son, Evdpi ed ‘five “years, -I-then -held-iny wife by the wrists. and lowered her to a fireman on top of tha EST KOE Gut Just as Vie Names Were” singing my hair, wets scorched already.” “all” hie elotpt Shi wite and —cilkiren Wae—burmed— He being treated at the Emergency Ios- pital, Newark; Shaw, the gymnast of the show, had a experience. He Was rouned by «thin; cries of fire ond —ran—ta:-te—room of . the comedian, ‘Tha latter waa | ~ HOTEL TRAGEDY Weakened by Death and ‘FIRE CAUSES A PANIC. “Thrilling Stories of the Survi- ‘et. the szatecaiion bummed. all the re-! The Hse ot, ‘The Vanity Fair show ts owned by Most of the players were sleaping at. the Chester! Reed, tomedian, gives this narrative of Twas awakened” at-$-o'clock- by the! ‘My wife and two chil- | dren, two and five yeara old, were in the same room with me, and I at once the _tho top of my voice that the place was the third floor—and saw at once that to “Tt seemed as if the. fine Bella were ringing..and towels over thelr heads with breathing ohild_first_to a fireman and he drovpes: adden, Next I held to the window leago My hands-and-face } Reed had on a pair of pajamas, and! ing, together with that of: | S Lid ZILLA agus DL nas ODELAS I~ WHAT! A SWEDE! SANDOW. WASNT. Mrs. McCormick Fainted in Court When She Realized It. Young Bandow, who delights audiences by. ifting pianos, drny_h Pound dumbbe was a defendant tn the West Side Co to-day charged | with abandoning, Mov, Bridget McCor mick, of No.4 Woat Dittyasteth mreet who alleged she marriey him elgbt years ago, just before hoe set out to be a There Tk Ge Spanht-Ameriean War, Mars, MeOormick —deciares that: Mr ‘BMeCormtex Tel hiv abode five ‘weeks ‘after the wedding and neyer returned, Yast week” ter sister visited “a Your- + teemth—street—imuscun where Young Sandow was. colng. Uiiung stunts _sbe hurried forth to her kinewoman's home and eatdt “Casals MeCormick ts found. Tes a —tieeping: soundty, mnd Binw led We way {Prone man. to the window Tames - were TuAping. Fittest feet fram: the winds and a fow fect below were a number ¢ telegraph wires Which led to an arclight Shaw, who tr fraites-nitets and trap: exe performer, gauged th udled apring Jenne Ubi Uie wires He and ‘waited until dangerous): “ATE. wire below, from which he dese the! iy neat before | mada swung for | fully—4 miniite-and- then dropped tow] jeart thrilled, tho Mra. MeCormick'a An elabarate down to the evening lup mith her sister before ¥ [dowd platform, ang Ban: © took one look at sarlbien: re owne true it on pul exen bat Went ne on sehr wad oon te} mage and our to hin plano-ttting. aa nd Loo. | ing from. the Queens at the Battery { 1 boat. ‘The runaway was a lees to ah express wagon that had een—ieft -stemting on W: at W pas anit seslp the hofse plunged foped Gown the bridge Ing Prom the Queens. is a wild sorary © lll of the eun Rieti of the eu on Ct “6 Ten Persons Injured Scramble to Get Out of the Way. Ten persona were knocked down, and trampiet upon to-day whtle disembark | muntelpal way dashed down the ferry-alip bridge | othe midst of the crowd leaving the iz bay horse at- | Brighton, &. 1. belted an-a-ter ting forthe Staten Isl The gates were Just delng opened and through and gal- » ALLEGED FORGERY BY ROOMMATE. ‘hich Involve Nedaht sou may thane and those THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, Survivors of Theatrical Company Who Had . Exciting Escapes from Burning Arcade Hotel MAYOR ADMITS NATURE MST. CLEAN STREETS + Problem Is Too Great Despite Millions Spent. { Mayor MoCletlan—frank!y..admitted| to-day that the problem of cleaning the sMrewts In too Ulg for the icity Street Cleaning Department under — present | condKiona,—weether-and-otherwise, and! that hundreds of miles of streets in| Manbattan-and the other boroughs-will have to.wait until nature does the work that-the-city fs epending millions of doliirs to have done by its. pald| | verrante: = = Untit—eun—end—rain—hare—washedy away the loblolly of muck and sludge that how covers the city from end to end, tt will remain—es_t andthe! whole effort of the department will be directed to “keepting—-the—qeutters and crossings clear. The manner In which even this is done can be secn all over! the upper part of Manhattan any hour | of the day, A ang of white wings can be found; maul and garbage cans, tho white wing ts an| unknown bid; ‘An ordinance requires the householder }to clean te gutter'in front of his prop- lerty, but according to Commisstoner } Craven, the whois cvatizble force-of the Btreet Cleaning Department ts at work [tecdny-cieantng gutters, and he-docs not intend.to attempt anything. more than ferry-boat nen @ runa- shall street | potxsodine | Cetin Siw way OG chee: Behaedler could have made the dis- Th ro | strects. tance In one-third of the time. fite engine and | Whole Scheme a Faifure. “EL heve been riding dayoand might, Mayor Bretsctinn today aaained tak the whole scheme -of-cieaning-the streets: as applied to such conditions aa prevail now_is_a total failure. nnd that there ts on which there |no hope of relict unless It 1s revolution Wasa Hack-ot-men-nnd wonten- CMeTs- TEE. ania-the f stzeots And no at- ime, Instantly there} np: ta._eecane. trem | 3fay } | were kent o he the Waring and thw eit snow ex of atreets, Tho to ho negiected a dite deg mck sone It ls the tas soon a a mtre to put keer with th pt acti ot busy on the » to-do something lot clear the gute ow provides merely. a and Its costs penalty tha it 4 to, Wh a Ue require AW Totter, > result Ia th nt hid to do the work or Two Separate Would Cost Three Times as Much. “If all the streets we Would Coa thie elt Would be AS Hein Tt eait te Wes s amount would | taxpayers if all the str to be clear three thine nd, while willing for the alking at the p vuld bu & different up later it mu be Can enor taddled on the ele Werg ached nisvloner Craven Is now at work additional a work who it who ne months. tl for genbral treet cleaning. ult-would-be-better-than 4 ayn and the 5 7 fe-now. | Sunway-and on ere eet [ta ecore of dally expnoss trains Siz MARCH 4, 1907. 'SHONTS GIVES HOPE TO- Relief on Transit Lines Is Promised by New Head. q | 18,000 COMPLAINTS The Evening World’s Readers ~Furnish Shonts With Prac- tical Information. future for the patient straphangers of New York if only a fow of the transit reforma now contemplated. by Theodora P. Shonts, the new head of the Interbor- ough-Metropolitan Myatem, :are accom- plished; and'he says they will be. Mr. Bhonts haa taken the only couree by which he could find out just what the evils ef the present system are. For the last ten days he has been quietly conducting an investigation of the city’s has made gome startling discoveries. Ho | admits that the conditions he has found tend to warrant many of the thousands | of compluints that are registered almost | dally against the service in the Subway and on the surface and elevated cars. | For the epecial information of Mr. | Shonts {t may be said that tn the last | two. weeks The Evening World has re- celved something more .than eighteen thousand complalhts from the people of | New York concerilng Uié evils of tie) trapsit ayatem, \\ Every one of these complaints {s based | on, some apecific case that a worthy of! thd attention of Mr, Shonts. They are Not nierely— Wis petty complaints ot chronic kickera.. They come from repu- table _men_ and women, who for years have been submitting with more or Jes grace to transit abuses that can hardly have a parallel on the globe. Glad to Oblige, Mr. Shonts. All of these complaints have been carefully tabulated, and if Mfr. Shonts desires to make use of them The Even- Ing World will be glad to eubmit them to Him for such consideration as they There is a giimmer. of. hope.in the | transtt ‘factittes on. his own hook, and! “!_ Out Deputy—Assistant-Di OPPRESSED TRAVELLERS PROTEST AGAINST THE POOR TRANSIT SERV! the service on the Soe 1 Signature. |] 4ddress AWDGE DRAWS THE LINE ON JEROME Tells Grand Jury It Must Bar 3 trict-Attorneys. In empaneliing the Grand Jury for the March term of court to-day Judge Ho- salsxy, In General Sessloz . warned official the Distri:t-Attorney’s OMice fr the I membera against allowing any of appearing before them exces mn inay merit 1 hls estimation, The large bulk of them reiate to the palpable overcrowding of cara in the Subway, on ithe—elevated-and—mm the -aurtace cars, During the rush hours of the morning and evening there ix such a Jam, every- where that there Is eyer.a ‘menace to Ifo and limb, Even the man who tx 60 lucky as to find a deat ty in peril of being trampled under foot in the mad struggle of the public to get from one point to another. Next after the com crowded cars comea t Walls about delays. The ‘man or woman ng hy. some extraordinary from Harlem to the City Hall, or vice Versa, under an hour, con- siders himself rather lucky these ‘days, Several thousand complaints on. t have been registered Tho. Of others Co the incessant war over the “car ahead’ outrage that has been practined for years on the surface lines, Carried Beyond Stations. Another: frutttal sources of compiatnt {a in the skipping of stations in the in -elov abedehn- Tine al ne again every di no wi Out proper warnin travelling public, and hundreds of passengers are carried beyond their stations at the will of some petty official who fancies that pthe-traina-are-being-run. to-euit hike. whitns. Hundreds of other complaints have poured from passengers who” have been subjected to the brutality and in- role of employees of the various Anes, In the Bubway, for example, there are-scores-of station men who are wont to drive” the ‘people’ as if; they “were sheep. They have not the least consideration taints of overs alanche of in almost any block that ‘fs clean of| for any one, and assaults of one kind snow, industriously awoeping up Jor another are of common’ occurronce tant ir snow] MTMRhOUt the roan “hours aoenr= to Peete LOR ne S00W-t sorting ain ot fat wheets ts another ja piled breast lig, und every stoop | trouble, and then tn the mlscellancous ta decorated with {ts snow-covered ash | list are scores of others that Mr, | Shontw should consi A -apecific cay that-appears to. merit ithe attention of -Mr-Bhonts-ty-that of David. Schaedler, who has furalshed The -Ryening Workdan_affiavit cover ing only one of hts many dally journeys from Fifty-thint street to City’ Hall on the Painb avenue “L' He sweats that It took him exactly forty-three minutes to make the trip. and that was not an. exceptioa to the rile. "The distance is a Uttle leas than. four. milos.On-any one early and late on the Blevatedty_the Sabway: and on the surface cars,” says ¢ Vand tadt-thate tine treme a big one, Without the co- the press and the people It would he jnesemountable, but thig--wih. be given, I am confident, and that will mean-a-speedy solution of the trouble.’ TRIED-SUICIDE-WITH: CHAIN. Eugene. Kauffmann Twisted It + -Aronnd Neck in Cell. “Bugene Kaufmann, a musician’ on the Hamburg-American Mner Petser,| wastetPagted -endtocked up in-Hoboken Police Headquarters to-day, having been found ina -danvivial condition: Hr his.ah before court time to-day. Whe ‘coutined 16 hia cell he became morbid. - Taking his: long gold watch chain, he twisted tt around his neck and Sean to tighten ft, Ho was unconscious on his cel! Moor when Doprman Dinan found and revived him. arralened with un “added charge d_mulelde before New corder Stanton: the musician was BEn- fenced to ter dase in-intt pleaded fo be allowed to go, saying that & Thot-ATlorney himeeif oF elght statutory asstvtants “I have learned,” Jude Rawalste satd; “that turing Wis” past Tew Weeks ne of One of the Deputy Assistant Disirict- Attorneys has been advising the Grand Jury. That ts _agatnat the Jaw, Regarding the work outlined for the month, Judge Rosaleky sai: “It ts my Intention to call your a tlon to the recent disaster on the York Central Rattroad, which dten Tewulted In thé Toaw off t a view of ascertaining | ts reeponsible Yo the Jaw “The law tmpos: mon carrier to use such cate na a pru- dent person bestows In ng in own concern and when thet duty violated tt ls incumbent upon the Grant Jury to make an Inquiry to ascertain prhetheror-not_culpsble negllgsnotiex= dated_and if a0. to bring those reapon- sible to Justice. “Binoe other public authoritles 0 how- AND- In the World ty Dentif Te the Only pita Wore 9p Cleanses Witt Dr. V. C. Bell, A. B. ,D. Sold Everywhere. AMERICAN AN DENT! Sa I Tuesday, Wednesday Spring Millinery Exhibit. Thursday, March 5, 6 & 7: PIUl-ep and Matt to ‘Transtt-Rattor, Evaufag World, Park now. | SAS A Ris} Will Positi Loose Teeth. ASTRINGENT ANTISEPTIC Prevent Decay and Purify ‘DR BELL'S TOOTH POWDER. Books onthe Care of the Tecth which habe been adopte by the Vartous Boards of Education and Used \as Text Books in Public Schools Throughout the Country. | CE. T hereby sign my.uame in protest against Avenue Elevated Rail- Subway. Surface line, and designate the following specific complaint: ———$—_____ ever, } 4 and an Inyostiguiion Ju now ponding, I d3 not fect callel to charge, you specifically u t upon wh becomes necesy ter on I will charge you spect sIpable negligence with a view bf o8¢ Tesporisible for the dis Brewater, of solected District) pplied to Justice Lisl —Bhreeped—of Courts corte Supreme ry during tb Fitz, Richard _T, atre u Ry was of man Jerome to-day jg——prernl tht Jury Sup: Gmnd J qSueties rald ¥: It ts asserted that th u 6 ce matters. 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