The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1907, Page 1

PTON SINCLAIR'S HALL BLOWN UP AND ONE DIES IN THE FIRE | te 1 tor place) Circulation Books Open to All.?* Ew, YORK, SATURDAY, DERBY FEATURE 1§ RUN TO-DAY AT NEW ORLEANS Mile and a Quarter Race| “ Feature of City Park Meeting. NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. te Band 1 to Orderly 3. SECOND RACK—Karn (5 to 2 and even) 1, Dr. Keith (3% to 5 for place) 2, Esterjoy 3. : THIND RACE—Ziephen (1 to 2 and oat) 1, Parininn Model (3 to 1 for pince) 2, Coincident 3, * NEW ORLEANS, March 16.—The City Park Derby was the feature on the fard this afternoon. Thin is the great race of the City Park meeting. A fair Neld of three-year-olda was carded to go A infle anda quarter. The lst of eligibles included Tileing, Judee Tost, Yankee Girl, ‘Teriaceo, Sir Toddington and Pina Star. The race fyrnished a close finish, Judge ‘Post, yao with Sir Toddington Famous Socialistic Colony at. Ee wood Is Piped Out— Children Are. F] THE DEAD. BRIGGS,. CHESTER, found in the ruina. _ SERIOUSLY INJURED. COOK, MRS. GRACE M" GOWAN, sprains, brul and possibly fatal Internal injuries. Taken to Englewood Hospital In an ambulance. M'GOWAN, MISS ALICE. sister of Mrs. wee Injured by ———— tram window. -Eirg:ewous Hospital, nt FRITCHENBERG, MRS. LEONIE, injured by Jumping from her room; Sprains and shock. Englewood Hospital, KIMBALL, MISS HENRIETTA D., an artist; guffering from shock. In Englewood Hospital. M'NIFF, JAMES, shock and bruises; hospital. : There also Were eight or ten others hurt, some painfully, who were hurried to the homes of “neighbors and there ‘cared for by physicians leap ; "Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall, near Englewood, N. J., was burned two uae =the ground tozay following a series of explosions which ripped the front) —part-of- the-buitding-away-and-sent flames to neatly every comer of the} structure. ; ey The fifty-five persons who composed Mr. Sinclair's sais set : tlement, including the author, of “The Jungle” and his wife, were shut in by the flames. Children were tossed from the windows in their night clothes and caught! in thera arms IS Ofs men and women 0 or tn blankets held The explosons coi about dawn. In spite of the fact that: there has been some trouble-between Mr, Sinclair-and-a nuniber of persons who have been termed ‘‘cranks” of late, it was not thought necessary to keer x guard on the house-at night: ~The guthor, who‘ exposed-the- Meat Trust and slatighter-houses in Chicago, believed he and his colony were as safe in their co-operative home as they could be anywhere in the world. As a matter offact, gas probably” caused the its, although this is not yet such force, that they were heard In ceri The explosions occurred directly In n | the front of tho bullding, and were of Enszlewood, & milo away, Houses in the neighborhood were shaken and windows Broken. 1 TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS « MADE SUICIDE PACT. ST. LOUIS...Mareh 16--1t was devei- Juwoay tu-auy we (ue Hat lato ‘the wuldide lat night of Liebling Slocum. aged | ten Years, that bh-vltad entered Into a ail- aide pact with with Gertrude Harper, also ten yeurs old. -Gartrude Harper teatifiend thut yesterday she hall told she was going to take her Jif and—was) prevented. At that Umma) Gortrode ddd “nat rpyent Uist, past Fire Quickly Followed. The fire followed almost befor the Anmates were aroused, and it I belleved + the explosjon wore under the front atoop and that the'flamea were huried through the door, -which wan thrown open by. the concussion, and into: the hallway. The flames shot through the hallway and ‘quickly’ ate their way tnto the rooms on the lower floor, The hallway well acted as a:flue, and the fire was poon attacking the doors of rooms a ie epee the hall on the pecond and third ‘feora, Tho greatest panic ated among the prreons In the colony. Awakened by tha Saploston and trembling of the house, _men and women sought the hallway | to escape'to the open, only to be turned f back by the Dllsteriig flames and hrs hud a i Dean paeeoat tae ence Liebiing, ayaliow ‘ouroglig eel and WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for Now York City and Vicinity: Falroand warmer to- night and Sunday; freah to brisk south to aouthwest winds, _ Rastern New York and New ind there were’ no fire-escapes on building, Men and women began leapli from the windows, A few of the mor cool ‘Meaded:téssed out bed clothing (before This’ clothing xls0 Mra, Sintlair;sayed. was the Burlew and O'Neill entry, was past strong chaice, The balance of the (interesting dnd. furnished hc di fete was Ale; -track-tast and, ‘people filled the lawns and i Beane Satis. {Nees plechal PA; a 65 42 $ ze Mitte 6 HIRD Tce On ores, wach, Joc Pi zienhen, = r 1 ‘ HEL ME GUESTS ROUTED BY SLIGHT FIRE ‘And Though I It All the Heroic Telephone Girl ‘Stuck to Her Post. Something went wrong with the preakfast arrangements of Louis, tie French chef at the Hbtel Navarre, at Seventh avenue und jsVosr Tirrty- elwhth street. to-day; in fact, every- thing on the sto¥a went up the fie when a dic pot of Rfeate caught fire and spilled its contents Into the range, where (he flames reared up the ehim- ney and sot the sont on fire. Bomedouy rushed to the engine company on West ‘Thirty-aeventh alreet and toi them <o come quick They did, aid gor round the corner just in tlmé! for ong cf them to jumble Into a érate of eggs Louis was in the act of revculng. In the meantime the clatter of the en- gine was tho signal for the hallways and tobby-to All with guests, most of ‘then In negiigee of. the simi test: description. Through’ all the ‘éxcltement the tele- phone operator, Dorothy Schultz, stuck to her switchboard and woke up any Guests who: bad Any. chance, of sleeping through the turmodll; — When It wassall/ over an angry man stepped out of thd aining-room, where he had been having breakcant, “Bay, wherd the blazes ‘are all the roared. “Where's my man facing him, a ot'Breaktant's) off ta iiglinel ‘sald the 1, Zick Abrams | “| king, Tlentsta, the ‘China taught: him dust that ‘which Mr. $90 000,000 GIFT BY ROCKEFELLER © TO SAVE CHINESE? Oil Magnate Reported to Fave Mapped Out a Gigantic Plan for Christian- ‘izing the Natién Through Higher/Educational Means. (Special to The < Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 16.—John D. Rockefeller is planning to es- tablish a fund of $50,000,000 for the pupose of lifting Chinese in their own country to the plane of civilization of the American people. He is to accomplish this purpose by establishing unsectarian educational _institu- + tions, The idea of the oil magnate is to. ultimately christianize the Chinese nation. The scheme, which appeared chimerical, is said to be in part in- dorsed by President Roosevelt, while-the authority for the announcement. of the gift for this purpose is given men close to Mr. Rockefeller. _ These men claim that: this is what Mr. ~ Rockéfeller- meant, when, immé- diately following his gift of $32,000,000 of general education, he joped before long to have wotnething to announce which might be Of still greater tatersst -to-the- pudiic, The sum which it Js reported the Standard Oli chieftain will give for the | benent of the Orientals. is the_largest Sum ever given singly fo the carrying out of & philanthrople purpose. The effect of the gift. It 19 Mr, Rockefellers hope, will be to give light to a nation that has_sat in wem!-darkness. If the purpose .of the giver t realized fully a Rew and-an enllgntened power will be added to the world’s nations, Driefly stated. It ts Mr, Rockefeller's intention. to endow-in-the- Chineas” Eni: pire many inatitutions of learning uu- connected In any way whatever’ with any religious organization, at which the Mandarin Classes of the Chinese may Llnarn hy teaching and—arsoriation—the- ‘alue of a higher civilization than that which’ they have yet known. It te thought that there upper classes will by thelr exaniple turn the tower orders into ne path which thelr supertors in rank will te made glad to travel. Institutes pel! pe eatablisbed - at Hankow, Chinantu, In- shantug Province, Changsht, In Hunan Provinee, Chunghing. tn. Western China and In Canton, It han heen-known to-Mr.-Rockefeller, as tt has been known to all reading Americans. that the Christian’ miuslon- aries In China have Worked nobly’ for years upon years with but lttle—com- paratively Httio<to-show-mx—the trattr: i tholr labora, and his plan x to re- verso the general method of procedure jh educational eMorts und to work= trom the top of soclety down to the bottom of doolety. AVR ME the “detatte of Mr RoeKa fetlec’a plan have not yet been worked out to completion, tt has been decided, no it Is stated, “that he will establiah and endow at many different points throughout the Chinese Empire educas onal Inatitutions modelled on the plan of that at Soanghal, an institution Wherev the Mandarin classes have een taucht the ways of higher ctyiliza- tlon of the West. A mpecial feature wil be tho teaching of the-bonefts of the home life of the enlightened natlonn, in addiiton’to this everything pertain- ing-ta-ctyiization- gt. tte best will) be imparted by meana Of lectures, books and actual demonstration, Religion Hot enter into the acheme ot enlight ment even by intimation, > It is hellef of men who have studied the Chinese situation at frat hand, however, that Christianity wil follow the enlightenment of a reallxa- iJon, and that in the end the purpose Gf the mirstonaries. willbe acoom- plished, Qiough by means different from (hose that hithetto have been _ ert- ployed, Pit Ia understood In Washington. that {f@dtporation papers will be taken out hefora long in the State of New Jersey. Charles Dendy, who epent yeara In China;: ix lending~his hearty co-opera-~ ton In working out the plans. Mr. Denby kiows thé “Chinese people as they are knowrt to few Americans. He belleves thoroughly that the only way to bring the, Chinese to the. higher civilization te by beginning the work ‘of education’ with the upper classes, Mr, Denby's years of experisnce, in Rooketoller ‘haw* been: lutien of the Chaees as ex-Minister to China Denby and Problem—that .the upper classes ‘must ‘be Reached first, The Imperial Government will be asked to sanction the work which the oll king intends to inaugurate. Haste tunity will be given the Chinese upper classes-to-tearn- juet-what-the atms-of the Institution are, in order that jeal- ousies may be averted. ROOSEVELT READY WITH LETTER T0 THE RAILROADS @ Has Another Talk with -Banker—Speyer;—-Appa- —rently-on-His-Stand. WASHINGTON,-~ March —1¢—James Speyer. of the firm of Speyer & Co., Ananclera of New York, waa at the White House to-day and had an inter- view with the President. Mr, Spoyer declined to Intimate In any. way what the-natute-of-hie-interrtow was, batty tu presumed that ft touched upon the financial situation,” On Wednesday fast-Mr-Speyer-eatied > on the President, and his visit again torday caused much talk in offtelel clr- eleg jr Breyer would. .noteay. what hin! future movements are tO by oF whether of not he would sea the Preal- sat again before he returns to New York, A rumor “SD Thur) ow during the forenoon that die riefident has pre- pared an important letter bearing on his AUude toward the rallroad corpora- Uona The rumor further asserted that thin letter haa been talked over be- tween the President and Mr, Speyer, during the latter's Vinit to the Wille Houre, and that the sentiments therein expressed had met with the approval of Mr, Speyer, Fie report could not be confirmed. —_-___- ALLEGED ENGLISH ANARCHIST DETAINED. Sent to Ellis Island.from the Cam- pania {a Be Examined To- , Morrow. Charles Harrington, to be an’ ahurchist, was detained for examination when tho” Cunard Mner Campanta came (o her plor this after- noon. He offered no reelstutice and wus taken to Lillis Island. Hid case Wil come before the Boanl of Inquiry of London, sald to-morraw. Inapector Kcarlett ald ho knew nothing | about the complaint beyond che fact that he had recelved orders from “Washington to. stop . the Lon- doner, Fro, a Cunardér detective {i ied that, Information nad been laid--weninat the man on. the gother side after sailing, The charges were wag tea: haved upon utterances of an incendiary. hatore ‘attebuted to him. beatae 1 be made slowly and ample oppor- | T! THAW CHER Le IN TOMBS, SURE ELL G0 FEE nas to Offset Hum- mel's Affidavit Story. With the end of hie long trial for the murder of Stanford White ® fairly in sicht, Harry Thaw arose In the Tomba this morning and took his usual shower and —exereize. He wai -cheerful- and confident of acaiittal After break- faating he busted inaclt reading the newspaper acounta of hid trial yester- day, and read some of bis mall. Shortly after the Tombs Police Court this morning opened Lawyer Henry Clay McPike, partner of Dephin M. Delmas, chief of counsel for the Thaw defense, called at tho court-room, He was held up at-the gate by one of the court-efficers. Mr. MePtke explained that ho-wanted some subpoenas, waa told that he was in the Ste: place, but the lawyer’ wan insistent and Clerk Anthus. was called to explain to him thut he ought to get the subpoenas in the Bupreme Court Sent to Right Court. s finally directed to the Court of Spectal Sessions, but court had not yet opened. Ty wyer would not say for Who:n the subpoenas were desired nor upon whom they were to be served. Evelyn Nesbit Thawartived at tne Tombs alone to sce her ‘Nustand Tater ‘jn the rorning. Airs. Wan attiréd if a new blve spring dress of becoming moda and wore a blue veil. . Bho re- mained with the paisoner for seme time. discussed the ataggering blow thi defense received yesterday when the tes }imony_of Abe Hummel. wae _admittec at the trial of 1~aw for the murder ot Btanford White, *_To_Discredit_Hummel, Ww that District-Attorney Jerome ved the Way for the admission Of the photographic copiss of the now famous _Maavit- made by Evelyn Nea bit Thaw's harrowing story of her night her marriage, lawyers for the accused Pilleburgmillonaiceomust. oght..bard to save him from the electric Ap pour alter evelyn iNaw Mrs, Wiliam C, Thaw and the Countess of) Yarmouth arrived at tho ‘Tombs. While the mother’ talked to Harry the two young women, about whose differ- ‘ences #0 much has beon speculated, walked up and down the corridor. ‘They yemainet—severat-hou: AL the cme, time. the lawyers for’ auaW wilh sudeaver to prove tna mmel, 4 disbarred lawyer, now un- Humipnvicuon tor. oonspirac with churge of xubornation of: per, jury ing Seer fis head, ja not a ir He wa: Credible at “ell be Up to the pouty to dedde Ate LU. Evelyn Nea: whether bit. Thaw is th Nef, and upon tle Navel Te NLA OUTED “AT THE FUNERAL. more worthy. of decision, Ita ant aerate} French President in Eu- logy Calls on the Dead for Aid in Sorrow. | TOULON, France, March 16.~THe vice tlma of |the explosion on board tne bat- tle) Jena March 12, were givén an Imposing national fypiefal wo-day, Au business was suspended, ‘The public and'many private bulldings were draped in black, and the street lamps were crepe, The funeral procession was extremely long. carrlaged draped. with tae tri-color flag of France and almost "te whole popila- tion of Toulon, dressed fn mouralng, Mned the route, At the Placo d'Armes Presiderit Fallleres, in the course of a touching oration In which he expressed his high apprectatton of the defstion of sailors and soldiers teady—te—t- for duty, recalled Abrabam Lingoln'a* fa- mous Gettysburg speech, saying: | “Eiko Lincgin, ani the glorious, | dead, whomywe slit h norrow in our hearts dnd teary In our eyes, to strengthen ua in reliston of gouraga | ant love of duty. “Tha'Cabinet Ministers, reproscitatives of nll countries and many Deputies and Senators and officers of all army at- tonded_the funeral. ‘The President conferred a number of decorations un the Injured membera of crew. of the Jona itt the course 9} which ‘he pala to the hospltat we w fan and Keats, OF JENA VICTIMS Mghted and covered witn | | The coffins were piled on gun: | Police Go “Through Houses in Wes One Hundred and’ Forty-Fourth Street and Order Ten- ants to Hurry Out. GREAT STRUCTURES TOTTER. o WEAKEN a F DL! : When ¥ Women Were Rescued—Fore- men Arrested After People. Are. Stee Sent to Points of Safety. : With the roar of a geyser the same main-that<burst in Febriaty, blew out this afternoon at the northwest corner of Broadway and West - One Hundred and Forty-fourth street. Within a few. minutes the neigh borhood-was inundated by a Niagara of rushing water which threatened to undermine two big apartment ‘buildings and the new retaining wall'ot the Riverside Drive extension. The workmen employed ‘by Andrew Kell, under the direction © ‘ot Forman Elliott, had just touched off a dynamite plast_in the building joe 8 being cleared on the northwest corner when there was a crack under the ‘ sidewalk forty feet north of One Hundred and Forty-fourth street on the west side, of Broadway, and the column of water spurted up. : ut HICHUNDERS = eee AND ATUINTA LINE-UP-AGIN ahGeate and Sen One Hundre Griffith Tries Out Young! See ea ie a reete ere in a roaring 22 ‘Pitchers Against South- | -vellcermen' Bilitvan vend Ringwelseer | Waded through the atrong tde Into the ey Gil Sosa 13 from the rapidly widening holedn wvement,_rushed~downhtltto= thw _west,| sweeping upon the two big new. y {apartment-houses that are the) only” | bluldings on the ‘block. ‘They :are-the i Cory and Elise, Nosf 613-619 We: {Hundred and Forty-ffurth atreet, hous- jing twenty familled ‘each, and it was |from the baseinent of one them that | Several women were rescued during the abe: em Nines. building and went throdgh the houses to the roofs, calling the tenants to tity ——> doors’ and ordering them — from i uses at once, The buildings were ni hate dain Atlanta’ and the police feared that they mig! Feommanie: be undermined. Their action was no} Eiberfetd, smittosb. ——-toe-nbon;tor—within So Moriarity,4b Hasket, If. jiwater had risen to the level of the Williams,’ 2 3 fh LaPore, 4 eare iB Conroy, if, When the onrushing flow etruck th Klelnow, c. retaining wall eing - built for Zeller, Hughes, 'p. ke Attendance $0. “umpire Riggs. Riverside Drive extension atthe of the street the water it ~~ wee rewstance—and—commenced 1" ® BY BOZEMAN BULGER. In deep. poole, which quickty fotned | <4@pectal to The Evening World.) into a. big! Tike, PIEDMONT PARK, ATLANTA, Ga..| cn ue covering the whole } Aletriot,—Pollee—reaerves —ruardet— ait: March 16—Overcoain felt very comtort-| Points and. kept back the curd able to the crowd.of Atlanta fana that! oroway. hE aN turned out this afternoon to cheer for Atlanta tn the second game with the | Highlanders, Except for a cold wind wildly importuned to send up and tif? conditions were perfect for a Kame. off the water rushing from the %-ingh! Manager -Griftith_tnapected all of his yain——The BunlaMig Departinent Me — pitchera and then decided to divide DY) sar youined that there might e work between Hughes, Bargar, Clerk: | need ‘of: the wrecking auwreckingl wagon N WINNER WN RACE WITH OXFORD more ¢ LaPorte waa relieved by Brockett after he had practiced-awhile at third pase. The former's shoulder pains him England, March 16.—Cam! with practically tho same crew aa the one! which defeated, the Harvard men last fall by | two when® he makes a lone ¢hrow, Griff told him not to play If he felt that he j was taking any chances on his arm. | Conaihs, to-day defeated Oxford by four’ And a halt lengths over the same court from Putnoy to Mortlake, a distance: ef AOBBED BY CHILD ‘ON THE SUBWAY Meanwhile the Department of Water Hupply, Gas and Electricity why being, | a) PUTNEY, bridge University, “It's a framed-to bluatered out seven-year-old. Jokany: McCabe, of 149 Amsterdam avenue, when he sen before the norgeant at the West 0: Hundred and Twenty-fiftn Street Station this. afternoon, Mrs, Emma’ Boan,. of No. 527 West Ouse Hundred, and Twenty-trat street, was wiiking along the platform at the Manhattan’ Street Station of the sub- wats when a lad darted out from behind a pillar and snatched her hand-bax. |The attack was so sudden that for the | Inwtant. ic rendered her’ specchiess. | “stop Unler!!” aie shout and with uw ommpanions atarted after Lie youngater. The chase led down the jstulra to Broadway, and Johnny was |caught by @ man. who joined In. the | slic. ‘Phe bag contained. ¢:8°4pd yatu- able ed trinkcis, Aira. Bean mado te charge “of robbery and declared aie would appear against the boy to-mor- row in Harlem Court Tho police say they have received similar complaints during the. laat hirty days. Youn: pecs was, taken, vo ‘the nlidrsn'e, Spelety. = x w between crews _repropenting Universities of Oxfort and Cam bridge. Tha time, 2 minutes veconds, was somewhat slow, a gusty, wind and rough water destroyt{ng "Wi chances of beating the record over cours, Hahed by Oxford in 1883 and equatied! Cambridge in 1909), ‘The Oxonlans Wan the: toma and c! the Surrey side of the river. whicl View of the strong southwesterly) wing) blowing, experts calcwlated waa wort tyo lengths, Pyen with this ‘advan however, the Oxfurd crew had no ober gqalnat, Cam ars whieh probably the finest sh crew, ever pull vans ‘wight, and all of eho, tbe he ee 18 minutes 47 seconds, tet %