The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1907, Page 1

| & Circulation Books Open to Al” |. sarepanet __[“ Cireutation Books Open to.AUL”” aes “THE CRUSHES. FERRY- HTS. ~ CAUSE PANGS Big Double- ieee Washington, (Col- lides with Ocean-Going Tuz, and the Erie Boat Goshen Hits: ' the Baltimore: | CROWDED 34TH STREET BOATS ALSO IN COLLISION. Crowded Decks in Uproar, and People Are Roughly Handled in the Wild Scrambles — Member of a Tug’s Crew Knocked ‘Overboard, but Is Saved. “Thére were three ferry-boat collisions in the Nortii, ‘and East R Rivers to-day when the fog was blackest and the murky atmosphere was filled with the clamor of whistles ad fog horgs. Three tig double-enders were put out-of commission in-the crashes and hundreds of men and women were thrown into panic. Skillful handling of the boats and the cool- headedness of deck-hands prevented any fatalities, the frantic passengers being landed in each case with no more severe damage than scratches and bruises and tattered clothing. Two of the three coltlson “Sea UTTAN cOUSTY TE OM PTET River when the Pennsylvania ferryboat Baltimore loomed out of the fog and struck the Goshen, of! the Fire service ‘and the Pennsylvania ferryboat Ws into“tn ‘cam by curred ; Women were knocked down, tut =r- ¥xined (heir tyet vetore-betnm-sommepiac i Upon. One of Crew Overboard. Thy panic had reached a dangerous SLABS wheb the pilot ordered Gut his a: tant and all of the deck hand tirlve-the-frightened-people-back-on-the upper Jeck and endeavor to sooth them, Upper:Decks ‘Are Jammed. The tue backed away qu'okly ag one of ~The Baltimdre-Goshen Crash-occur-| Tis crew, Patrick Coppinger, had red pibout three hupdrgd yards off the| fallen overboard and bean lost inthe Desbrosses street ferry. The Goshen! fog. His erles were heard and located, jwaa golng from Chambers street bound | however, and he was fished out. for Jersey City ’and the Baltlmore had.| The tug ran alongwide the Wadshing- dunt pulled out of Desbrorsen ntreet_|ton to aso that whe made her slip safel: Both are double-deckers and their cabing| @nd the excitement had pretty thor- lavere crowded: the upper decks being | oughly subsided when the Cortlandt + especially jammed. trext Jepot wan reached. Though badly There was a binre of whlaties all | splintered, the Washington continued on jabout the Goshen and her pilot atopped | her runs. | ¢he-engines-to-get—hls_bearinge.'Tho|_The thind collision occurred at the fog wan eo thick thut objects fifty’ fect |L0ns Island City ferry slips of the awny were invisible. Suddenly the Bal. |L0n# Island Raliroad, when the new ie re climbed up out of the fog, head. |08t Hempstead shot out of the. for Fed-acrose the Erle boat's bow. There | 874 Piled upon” the Frusning, [eas a crash that toppled scorea of |DO%# being so badly omoated by. the Bia aaietbakeenasra bone balhecratthts 7) that tey Were pYL out of com- i i rolssion, . i ie pa maetie Gstaaaye. fans Hempstead had lost_her bearings Ja she—ants twat us ser—headway ‘The Baltimore suffered most. _Her| whet ler 1 ove. poled Aina al men's cabin” was caved “In by the high ‘ Pe fron-shod prow of the Goshen, and|atteam ‘of Passengers pie erea a ee twanty..teetof her upper deck. railing | aboard. Barnes Ponta ware well crowded, was carried-away. The boats had not|>ut there was no }wettted-back-on-an—even—keet-atter-the rious ante, finpact™ before there was & pel. mell See MEMS lower decks. The wcreama of the women and children could be heard at TY, : "The plota Tent Wate wheesl-nouses tor moment to aeeist in quelling the hy women aad. children... When |. he. exclloment-bad nally subsided the na to Ly Vat Déabrosses atrest, “while the Goshen | continued on her Journey to Jersey City} practically unharmed. The Ponnsyl-| esle bgp baasto, be) peat tele Tepe dock at Thirteenth. -atrest Penneyvania Was Crowded, In the name hour when the fog was | plackest there was a wild stampede and panic on\board the double-decked ferry- boat Washington, of the Pennsylvania | Railroad ‘nervice, plying between Jersey City_and Cortlandt street, when” the (big craft crashed into aD. L. & W, ‘tug inthe middle of the river. 7 The upper deck of the Washington mwas thronged with women and children, | "There wap a congestion of traMfc be- | cause the boats were running. at long }ntervals in the fog. The migr was | dense and. black when the Washington | Yet Seraay City and ploughed aheaq (under half speed. It’ was so dark that ‘ail the electric lamps ware lighted and: the! ie horn tcoted incessantly. ‘Whistles Spread Alarm, ‘The crash canie without any warning, “the bie focean-going :tux. coming right out of the-fox_and crashing into tho team-board of the ferry-boat,’smaghing /iitand tearing away several feot of rall, ‘The whistles of both boats screamed | burned out. _ @hrilly-aw thay came together and the} She questioned Hugh, who was sobbing! fries” keeled away over @t the] hysterically, ‘and -all she ‘coukl, get from eae lagher, Fatally Burned, Dies in’ Hospital. Two-year-old. Patrick _ Gallagher, known in tha,netshborhood of his home at No. 197 Firat ue jan the prize baby—hia photograph’ at one! yesr old haying recetved frat AWardin's gallery competition:died In. ‘the Mower ‘Hos- Pitat to-day ‘from-burhs iniiictéd by his brother Hugh,’ three .-y: 94, when thelr mother, was, out marketing -last , Patrick | Gallagher waked her chiidren—High.’ Patrick and Oi) thought they would’ be sife, When the got home she found the two-ycar- old unconsotous on) the: oor, the ci&th- Ing burned, from his bddy, TI was full; of smoke, but tho fire had et. ‘him: waa the words; “We fs burned,*+ hé- women and ‘children on. the up-| To-day the little: bey tid his mother Por deck were atricken frantic, with| that he had eet his brother on fire, He fear and rushed pell-mell for the stair-| 294 found some satchea and nerts- ‘Waya leading bolow. Ab there was only | RAPS Which he lighted. “Then ihe hela deck-hand in, charge kbove «the burning paper to hls) little brother's jer cubiné, there was no one to hai;| crew wall it caught” Are. Wen the Fura) Hse ‘began “to scresm with agony he had attemptedto beat out tho flames hands; and ‘Durned: { 18 ‘| tumble him. in-a-pile-of anow.andslcsh, 8 atreet station, had arrived by (Uila time | ‘MAD DOG BITES “SCHOOL BOYS ~APTERFIRE DRILL Two Lads anda Police-| man Are’ Wounded in Struggles. { \ 1 DOGCLUBBED TO DEATH} | Children Pelied: Crazy Animal! with Snowballs Till They “Found He Was Dead. The puplis of Public Schoo! No. %, Washington and Albany streets, had a {uerien of thrills to-day beginning with a fire from-which the wWell-drilled | yonngsters escaped in fine order and| ending with a mad dog scare when they returned to school afler Cie names had been extinguished. Two boys and a po- liceman were bitten by the dog before he was ‘The $00 pupils of the old echool that Battery Dan Finn once attended and | Fritzi Scheff, Dangerously Ill at the Hotel St. Regis. upp which his popularity: haa \¢ 4 hams. “Battery ig a tor hele class-room when’ Finck-end tat mongret-dashet the throng of youngster on Albany] street, enappitig and barking viciously. ane boys began to pelt him with anow- and” other” intusttes that “came beng until {t became aparent that the & screaming dash for the school. Joveph Caseph, years old, of N 153 Washington street, wan the fizat | Dodging a {ump of Ice, the dog mapping at every object: within ‘reach, finally sto feap upon the Uttle Caseph boy and bitten: raced round in a’ circlo As the boy fell the dog fastened his teeth in his inatep, ana. made an ugly wound ~ An vider boy clubbed the dog off and Iragged the. Mured youngster to the echool. The dog continued to dash about wildly until he aspled a litle @yrian boy at the corner of Washington mtreet and- made-for him, . This Uttle cbap was breaking woot on ths pave- ment and did not ace the dog until he was_selsed bythe ankie and bitten Seeverely, He-kicked tha dog off, and fled into a basement, wherp he was lost sight of, Pottceman. Frank-Bishop, of the Church and started efter the mongrel with his] club, He wes bitten on the foot before /g—welt-atmed-blow=shattered tha dog's ‘skull, Tho fire in the morning started in a pile of papers’ tn the. basement and ‘ead to the woodwork ot the vetling: ‘Thougti the school filled with smoke the onter. ROCHEFORT 10 FIGHT © ~——DUEL-WITH LAWYER, Paris Editor Likely ‘to Settle Court aa —— Quarrel: on gestae: z Morrow. : PARIS, Marsch '18.—Henri Rochefort, tho’ well-known editor’ of the Intransi- geant, and Michel Pelletier, a lawyer, will, probably fight @ duel..to-morrow morning in.consequence of an) exehango Pantmat—was-mad;—whereupon there wary YOUNGSTERS IN STAKE FEATURE AT NEW ORLEANS The Louisiana Brings Out Fastest Two-Year-Olds at City Park. NEW ORLEANS—WINNERS, FIRE@T RACE—Royal River (7. tc! 5-and-1-to-2)-4, Molly. Ball (4 tot for ptnce) 2, Dorothy Duncan s. SECOND RAGE—Auiitor (8 to 5, and 8 to) 1, Goldway (8 to 5 for plnce) 2° Gult-8.% -NEW_ ORLEANS, March I3—The City, Park prarramme was diznified ‘by the Louisiana stakes for two-year-olds to- day.—The tld included Notasulga.the $5,000-youngster-“and-Barney-Schrteber-s beat, EB. Wh Fry, There was also Black Mary, a very fast Allycand Ziephen, who | has rum several good races, The bal- -lance-of the-card was-made—up—of—rune- that furnishod sport of thé week. Tho sprinters’ race promised well, as did also the race at @ mile and a six. teenth, The ‘weather was, fine. track the! most Interesting fast and attendance“ «ood. FIRST MACE Five furlongs. tartera. vt Jockeys. of reeriminations in the law courts this afternoon, ASKS $30,000,000 FOR ‘STATE'S PROSPERITY. * (Spectal’ to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Marvh 18.=-'Dwo lila, call. Ing for an expenditure of $90,000,000 for the purpose of “andancing. the genera prosperityot the ftatc;*-wore Introduced ty Senator Ackroya. of Utica; One bill appropriates $15,001,000 for extending the crannel and docks of the BMck River Canal from the ‘village of Carthazo. to Backetts” Harbor, other appropri- ates qus.obn,cat” tor reopéning and im- proving. the whhndoned Chenango Canal and extenjiing it te the coal regions of Peensylvanta. v SECRECY. ON. SPECIAL CABINET MEETING. WASHINGTON, Marth 1h—A ‘special meeting | of Gis ‘Preatdent. and ie Cabinet waa held tithe. White /Houso | So-uay but ne information qwas PI 1. 81 73 10 % roe to 6 He 6, 100, Coole. 8 Ey rice eat to 33 jelmina. 100.) A_ | WIilt Fs ‘Annie Donohu 100. A. 3 1B) Royal River went to the front at th ptart, made all the running and won In a drive hy a neck from Mollle Ball, who closed fast and beat Dorothy Dun: ean-a_longin..forsthe place. Enfinwas | Second into ther mtreteh and then died away. SECOND RACE Milo and a sixtes Shree ant pang & alxternth ighta, Jockeys, i i “arra . tear ‘3 1B ts seat Henneany age ios. "'Kever i 43 ior, “Foy 18 ok Lope 0345 oa ieee ork Apin3¢ Auditor Went to the front at. the start, made ail the running and) we cleverly, bya length trom Goldway, wi was off slow, cloned a. big gap and just got up in time to beat Cull a neck. Ter amass occekeeetiio’ i FRITII SCHEFF DANGEROUSLY TLL AT ST. REGIS - | Manager Summons Physi- cians to Attend Noted Prima Donna. Mas_ Fritz! Scheff, [prima donna, who waa compelled to| abandon her tour in "Milo. Modiata." jis seriously {I] with ‘peritonitis at the | Hotel 6t. Regis: | Mins Scheft'a manager, Charles B. Dillingham, 1s alarmed by the develop- |ments of the past few days, and four physiclana are giving Miss Scheff the { élaaiar atteatinn. Dr, A. G, Gerater, one of the physi- cline tn attendance, sald this afternoon: “While Mias Bchiff's condition fe ex~ tremely serious, there has’ been & marked improvement that makes us | hopeful, She-was better yesterday than, on the previous day, and there ts even a greater change forthe ‘better to. ay.” Would you say," he was asked, “that Mias Scheff's recovery 1a now as- sured "No," he answered, “I should not care to say that. CONSOLIDATED BROKER FAILS IN STOCK WHIRL. hn, nh jmember of ths New York Consolidate! Stick and Petroteum Exchange, was to-day suspended from that Institution, he having given novice | of his: insolvency, { Rich has a suite of rooms dt No. 43 Qxchange place. The extent of his la- bilities {8 not known a: the present um», byt ft ie sast that none of the mem- bars of the exchange are affected by Rich’ adility to meot his obligations. Rich it wih be recalled, was’, the toriker through whom J.T. Havilind, {of No—® Broad street, who has been conducting a discretionary pool, co: Gucted his business on ‘Change, 71 at Scran- on a cha ‘aud, and ty held there pending exotina- land was arrested Saturday tony ee —_.—__ — BOMB KILLED SIX DURING POLICE SEARCH KHARKOV, Russia, March 13.—Whilc the polloe to-day were searching the rooms occupied by a student a bomb savloded sku wuling £2 oMcer of tho gen- and two ely+ injured. | “AS PRICES SLUMP | —fand-Northert Pacha. the _com{c_operat {pect of Tellef. STOCKS PANICKY. TO LOW RECORDS Money Stringency ‘ and; Foreign Scare Prompt Flood of Selling. 5. CLOSING A WILD WHIRL. Reading and Hill and’ Harriman Shares Hardest Hit in Sen- sational Decline. Conditions bardering on demoraliea- ton, with panicky declines In prices, marked to-day's dealings In rtTe AUER following lower quotationa tn London. Heavy selling developed at once on the exchange hére and grew in volume until at one time the quotations were rs, sensationally lower than In_y: Northern Pacific sold below any price within six Union Pacific got tower than at any time alnce before the declaration of {ta 10 per cent. dtvidend, and Amalgamated Copper and U, 8. Stee)-preferred. wold below, par, “Reals Ing dropped 12 1-8, Great Northern 1 35, yearn: ‘At the low point a buying demand de- veloped which caused 2 rally of pdinte from the lowest. This wa: ceeded by another break, renewed rally, “which, howevei to hold, and jUxt before the clo: was another aittmp in the markét, rying_prices_in_nome Instances to the lowest of the day.’ ‘ The total sal 2,000,000 shares, The nelling movement took form tn: mediately the m jn-the- featur. bands, and this tained during the day. Seenes-on-the floor of the exehanse trenous as at any timo during week's sluinp, the depression pro- and panicky car- of the day were over was main- average ducing a- more feverish tone as the day grew, Wild Fluctuations, Fluctuations were wid inthe warty afternoon, atid Néavy blocks of wtock® were thrown upon the market indfa- pty os for what they would bring. The slump in Reading was espectally violent, while” Unton Pacific was —with~ out apparent support and fell away firist-points. ‘Phe Hill stocks made @ momentary stand and rallied soyeral potnts,but; piumped-again,-and—Amal- *amited Copper was unloaded. $11 frightened baste for a decline of 9 1-8, In many ‘of the most active stocks the efforts to sell found practically no wads Th Wie Mnarket, pnd torced —eates under these clreummtarces caused the sapid—offering-downof the picloe Malt The shorts were the oniy buy, nd heir occasions: purchuscswarelost in the toed “ct continues —tqutdation: Many selling orders were fr executio atthe market, without spy ton {o prices, ald sie added aatorca ly 70 the demoralization. Bank clerks were busy watching the downward -piunge-of prices with a view to the yilue of collateral In loans and selling out of such collateral was an additisnat_burdon on the market. ‘The enormous shrinkage In values was an unmistnkable-evidence of losesen tn. curred: and attention “was -clearty ntert for any news of embarrasaments, Such rumofw as were in circulation were gen- eral and did not point to specification Foreign Houses Beseiged. Tho forelgn banking and commisaton houres wots besieged for information, aa the Impression was general that tho source of the traible was abroad There were reoorts of embarrassments In the Industrial world in Germany Serra nking-houses deprecated the rum: took a mederate view of the Berlin aittiation, which wax Wald, fn fact, to be somewhat Improved to-day, ‘Advices from the London market were not so reassuring, and the state of the London stock arket was reported in A state, of demoralization bordering ony that of our own. Arbitrage brokers were ‘sellers. of stocks on an enormous ale, and avery largely Influential tn demoralizing the marke The dimeaity, there and” In. Germanye as well was Raid to be similar to that PETAR, Caldtal reauizemente end reatricted money markets formin, Geadlock and neceaaltnting the. selling curitieg to. take "cara ‘ot London | prote: quiet also over a grospect. t York wag about to make. large calls upon it for gold. York got no uh Ns supposed vfoa- encouragement fr Money at 18. ‘The special weakness of the Hill stocks was attributed to the fact that stockholders in those companics have made large commitments to take up precast new iesues of stock, and are jeft without adequate resources to ab- word market offerings on the present scale. Northwestern same way, the f aS Affecied in’ the ing due of subscrip- "(Continued ‘on Becond Page.) ‘WHITE'S BROTHER-IN-LAW ol the stand. He Is Allowed to ate Alter Vigor- = ous Fight .vBetween Opposing Counsel, But He Is Halted — Early by Objection, ALSO CALLED AGAIN. Brief - Cross-Examination _ Follows, But It Brought Out Only the Fact that He Has’ Not the Telegram Calling Him to the Trial. Abe Hummel, laden chock-a-block with wise knowledge about things bearing on Harry Thaw and Stanford White, was called to the witness- stand again ‘to-day when the murder trial was resumed before Justice Fitzgerald in the Branch of the. Supreme. Court. There was a strenuous time between the counsel before Abe “was dle lowed to testify. District-Attorney Jerome availed himself of ‘that shrewd but time-honored ‘subterfuge of telling the. jury_in-his argument the points that he expected Hummel to relate in his testimony. Though the argument of the District-Attorney, which lasted forty-two minutes by the clock, will not be presented when the Justice charges:the jury, it i safe_to presume that they all will have a re aspniable knowledge of ‘the story of Abe Hummel, whether the convicted lawyer. will be allowed to {ell itor. not. When Delmas assailed the right_of » give testidiny ba the alleged statement made by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. there were authorl- "I ties quoted by Jerome, and Delmas asked for a recess to get some on his site. This ted to an Slourmnent Until to-morrow, with Abé still on : gait Senenonelaes | { ABE HUMMEL AGAIN CALLED. As soon as court opened Jerome ordered Hummel to the stand. Ths —— little lawyer was clad in black. He had been on the stand once before, but hadn't been permitted to testify, The District-Attorney began in this wise: “Did you see Evelyn Nesbit at your office on Oct. 27, 1903?” ~ No objection came’ front Deninas.— ~~ “1 did.” “Did you have conversation with her?" Still no objection. “| did.” “After that conversation, did you or isl you not dictate one Aa XE- E1040 (0) CY of ene = Now. at last the expected objection came booming forth in Delmas’s , deep, well oiled throat notes. Before-any argument could, be made on the point Hummel was asked to step aside temporarily so that his place might be taken by- Stan. ford White's brother-in-law, the lanky clubman and wit, whote testimony ~ ; yesterday afternoon so. strengthened the prosecutor's claim.Af premédi-. tation-and-jealousy._Smith had come back for the last_of jis amination at Delmas’s hands, DELMAS ASKS FOR CABLEGRAM. “Have you,’ asked the Californian, “brought with you, as you promised todo, the_cablegram which you_received.in--February from-— Mr. Jerome askltig you to return here and_testify in this case?’ .Have not the original," sald Smith brusquely.. “I have a_ POPP: but. L did not bring tt With me.” ‘Can you recall its contents?” {-think-so.—-According-to.my_memory, it read_as follows: “Your ovi- dence most important. Your attendance 1s desired.’ " “who did you first see In reference to this case upon your return from Enrope on Feb. 17?” “sy lawyers on Feb. 18." 3 “when did you first see Mr. Jerome or his assistant, Mr. Garvan?!" “The next dayI called on Mr. Garvan at his office. The date, as 1 Tee. call, was Tuesday, Feb. 19."" “Did you ever make any récord of your testimony for your own use?” “Yes, 1 wrote out my recollections of what I had seen-before I went abroad. | took this memorandum with me, and when I saw Mr. Garvan i to! showed It to him.” “Did you leaye this paper with Mr. Garvan?” “1 think not.” “pid you afterward show that paper to any one?” “1 don't recall.”” “Did you make a aligned statement to Mr. Garvan?” “1 signed no statement. A astenog- rapher may have taken, down what t sald." fyhis finished the crosa-examination, and now Abe) Hummel, little and. wiz- ened-and sadly brooding, came back to {ho witness-chair, which he had evaded onge before when he had been the pris- Abe Hummel until Stanford her to his office Europe, Second—That she did align an affidavit in Hummet's office. Third—That in that amdayit she ad cused Thaw of horrjbly - mistreatiny - her in Europe; by. boating her- with @ dogwhtp, and that she charged him with taking away from her money and) Jewela and with taking morphine ant, cocaine, Jerome won White ti ‘@fter her 1908 se } the. opening skirmish, Sher at the bar, He perched himsclt | Justice Fitzserald ruled as proper the Hike u xmall, sdmire screesh owl” upon | qhestton”he-had caked, of Hummel; » the stand, with his tiny feet, ax thy] “Did you after your conyersation with elyn .Nosbit dictate something to @ ; ographer?" eu, I dld,"’ ‘Did she (n that conversation tell you that. ‘Thaw; wanted to Injure White and » put him in the pénfteritia Did she 7 tell you Thaw had prepared documents Accusing White of Having @rugmed and ruined her? Did ie tell you Thaw hid beatea her because she SOE ts as a woman's, dangling a foot above the floor, clasped his plump hands upen | » the chatr arm, hunched his ‘shoulders ke a man trying to keep raindrops ont of his collar, and ‘walted, For Ahe Hunimel’s story-—-it) Abs’ Hummel could tell ft—would go far toward strongthening: the case of tho State agains’ Harry Thaw. It would have a threefold purpose as Latte! to show all theac things: oy ot is apcuments BA Bho bald Firat it redigede Nesbit Thaw Tea c it wullty when . a aver am, Her fe. athe amg {t9, ei nagtctne 1 i =3 i