The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1907, Page 4

ALL PL IMBIN Blackwell's ~ WORK FOR CITY O'Brien Testifies He Couldn , Get Any After Their Part- + J i nership Was Dissolved. | ND PUBLIC BIDDING _ Bills Were Drawn in O'Brien's Name Alone While Ryder Was Alderman. | Ipeeph W. O'Brien, of the plumbing firm of O'Brien & Ryder, appeared as ‘® Witness to-day in the investigation of the city departments under Borough President Ahearn before the Commis sidners of Accounts. M was this concern that figured so ely in the testimony of Wilkam the deposed Commissioner of lic Works, who alleged that Presi Gent Ahearn turned practically al! of the fn public bulldings over to it the formality of bidding. Dal GOR testified that when President Ahearn ealled for his resignation two weeks ago “to save his own official bead” he of fered to Jet Dalton have all of the plambing work as soon as Ryder, o Wery sick man, had passed on / President Abearn came out with « wweeping dental of the bulk of Dalton's featimony. In reference to thet part of ‘Me concerning Ryder and his antici @eath President Ahearn said tes” E. Kehoe, « hardware dealer. | O'Brien on the witness stand ‘@utifed that for two years he @ land office business with the city | the Metropalitan Equipment y, which appears to bave had eepothine of & monopoly in Present Gepertments. Max Cramer ad- | yesterday that from a tree. under oath he! the Metropolitan Equipment Com- BOUT the most interesting sight in the city to-day ts visible along the Yorkville water-front, where the great Blackwell's Island Bridge 1s creeping in toward the shore, From the terrace be- tween the foot of Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets every move of the workmen can be seen, and a good idea can be gained of the won- derful way in which scientific principles are applied to mechaaics. The middle span of the bridge crossing Blackwell's Island was built upon false work. The two remaining etc are being built on the can- | eai@ that all ef the Metropoli- A Company's orders came to him Patrick Ward, janitor of the Court Builting The witness that all of the bills were paid 4. ty the Bureau of Public Butid- He could not acooum for ue source of the orders—Janitor THE EVENING WORLD, Bridge Building Extraordinary---How the **: Island Structure Progresses. tilever plan, and it ts weird to a layman to see the great mags of steel moving outward day by day from the stone pier like a limb growing At the extreme outer edge of the span now close to the Manhatten shore is a tremendous travelling derrick, beams and supports are hoisted from barges in the river and swung into place upon the main structure. the machinery that controls {t would seem to an ordinary observer to be sufficient to cause the collapse of the whole business. At the rate the work ts progressing the bridge will be completed before the end of summer, but travel may not be {naugurated until the Manhattan terminal is completed. Nearly all the buildings on the terminal site east of First avenue, between Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth streets, have been demolished, and work has been begun on the overhead structure. The “Ob, the bed’s large enough, | | replied Bjelick | by means ‘of which the steel trums. Sornetin me fn the bureau drawer.” “Imp said the Court weight of this derrick and of gach a co, large, woman, too. You 1 every day UNDER THE BED. Unless She Varies Her Humor} | | | reau Drawer. | and Stows Him in Bu- A and-eyed Uttle man, with an un- © Magistrate F day om appeared {ie Court t abandonment. He said his given name wae Joseph. He had been arrested Portchoster on 4 warrant tasued’ at the request of Mary Mary is © woman with an arm many a wrestler might be prc of. Bhé is not very tall, but her wi fs almost the same as her height j arma akimbo, her chubby hands reat 2 on her ding hips, she addressed ne Court rrent words. The gist of her charge was that, two months ago, Joseph had deserted her and her had failed to provide | 1 to wy to Magistrate Finn esked the pensive lit-| Ye man, who was chewing his thumb | reeponded Bieliok, blink-| ng his eyes nervously, as he stepped a ttle away from his wife. “She beats me 3% days in the year and makes steep under the bed Bureau Drawer His Berth. "What?" cried the Court me I have heard wives as @ mat that?’ You amaze! f men beating And she the bed, too? @ trouble? Is the bed nar-| | ad the Magistrate ehut one eye 4 the figure of the c ant with the other. | deate you | +1 do mean oner, as his | “Every time returned the pris- t with an | thing I do she lands on me and }aye me out “Slaps y asked “Battery Dan.” “Blaps on ning,” spoke up the Mttle man # Sne t would bruise the ear o O'Brien on the Stand. appeared in response to a He mid he was « master y Swirly giv ligliaaeadl Patrick J FIRE ON OCEAN LINER KUROKI IN BOSTON ALAFIMIS, PASSENGERS @Brien said that eet Saernseensy wal ved Inst June and that it began | Bince the dissolution he ae hel ip the city repair auld, the necessity obviated. Ryder knew Uti ing about the plumbing im public | while ‘O'Brien sata i | aith Flares. Visits Harvard. | peared to be the on state cabins 3 University flag of Japan was fying in d, were damaged to the extent of he witness appenred bere Ge of the banner of Massachui 4 Juat double the ag Harry M@mith directed fire-| Pu the ease pole of the State iouse TE yeas apy yee ae Y Brien maid he could not|fehters anu the stewards devoted them- | when Gen. Kuroki was escorted up the| one “ " ale yoo UD what the additional $18 repre-| selves to quieting th engers. They long flight of stone steps to the front} of the bones o got it a mot 4 vet ° ee re portico, Crowds thronged the State| Edward Reilly, of No, 883 EB that there were other | “*T* watul’in preventing & panic, approaciies, and the! inird street, of paralysis f is on board were excited © Was greeted with en | Hospital. Captain announced that the fire was ° 4 Moers of th Ke! lerbal orders and that ¢ foe them were made out later Were listed as >_—— WALKE PR TELLS righ, order "order 3) MARY GARDEN CONCEDES | RANK TO MELBA, | K eaving Gov sin Japan pleaved the be way as 10 para Reilly § Senate where F TEROME OF ROW Hammersen Stil Bus in Par ears te Hck FLOOR COLLAPSES; 3 HURT. ges re igaging Stars for Next — ) raging & Perintendent of Publi Butiding ges: sain TO SAIL OVER NEW YORK. 4 wen | District-A oft ve . e ‘ Acromanut to Try to Bring His Air- rye Phe former superine wan ques peda AD ph aa , Re t naut who eniled ote whines Ke fo ete aa By aa Mine, if fname Hames | Wh of ‘cde 2 ni ¢ * * a t Their ager ora froma pa " Sone . n es ere a Boe is now ¥ Hosp: FIVE BILLS BEFORE MAYOR. abiic Meariug Important Clty ARCADE J that 1 fe ents on “ , in AN I | in’ a World r co AR minds the ks rs The Giupeco process, an exclusive Arrow feature, insures long life J ge and I seven judges and most accurate Quarter Sizes 200 STYLES IN QUARTER SIZES; Ibo EACH; 2 FOR B80 Civett Peabody & Co., Troy, N. ¥., Makers of Cluets Shirts the Alth’ is te wequ Progpect Heights In Brovkiya cotiqne! purpowee. y was injured by « falling beam | tod to eet hie fractured arm. | It is believed defective electric nd the surgeo! me blaze. The dam- Prenid: rccupled n hie frm tong list is aa remained twen A section of the rvea ip such Affidavits Denying Mrs, | Wieland’s Story. | | & special study of it for mix years 2 Kuroki arose! Lawyer Lewts Goldberg on behalt of ite this fact he could ge none of| The White Star steamship Texto: & long programme of |Léebowits & Co, manufacturers of sousiness aiter he gx out of tae| which arrived to-day, had quite a fire bee! i na! cloaks and suits at No. @9 Broadway They even had @ shop rent tree re abua while off the banks on s 2ther| who own a fat at No. 622 @. Ann's eapeeener: ortho, County Cour ay ta day of similar experiences still to come. | avenue, declares that the state: ft - oh » of the stewards while ringing tt The Japanese milit leader passed | ire Florence 8 Wieland to the eff: stoner, Mitchell brought out fy Alicea of orders that had been gives ke coming f} nigat | %®. | thar the death of her ehild was ¢ iP tytn nd Ryder in 1h to ahow a me ehlet n* | inck of theat in the fiat ai pled is PS and he | withou © slightest foundath p's fire Mr, Goldberg has ten aMdavite of i that ants who awe the Liebowits Q of three are well b We Bille bia ene acta way | POoms, waa filled with smoke and that Wieland has no cause for the years thet] a ively little fire was burning. Owing b Fespo gel wn Fe rtald the | to the fact that the flames were fe r easty tan tdlmeatoad eae Bridged the bills were Dal tn “tity | mont inside the woodwork, it t isyestPes fap here | Magist:ace | lar firm nar Ryder could not| three-quarters of an hour to subdue nd two repre b | in the business We did with the| them. The celling and wall, or bulk- yin aes cured | Kighty- | Bellevue at Belle tit | rs Two days NOLACK OF HEAT IN-2-CENT FARE BILL = =: HAS A BUSY TIME LIEBOWITZ FLATS UP TO THE GOVERNOR lange has been able io me ney true, madam, the | ieee meen sree $h0 department 5 Mayor,|Lawyer Goldberg Has Ten c, Leng: “that you treat y sband | it neeine from the cevaremense] it. at Sea the Crew of the|/145 Breakfast fast with the Mayor, A 3 g Senate Pst gear Measure Fixing ' tilde, etgtea Ppeeaiy tr ean Teutonic Has a Battle Meets Governor, and Passenger Rate on Rail- rate gry Ay en ere pe eae wn wrinkled her br to 9 the Senator when T lick im | cents am r h 4 a toe primed’ on‘another woman’ and thats i starve ar »W goes to the Governor. 4 unds that fitted w ors Agnew, Cassidy, Fuller, Hi ia Just that Page, Raines, Saxe, Smit aod iy £ Pi Woudn't orale Mis Word. Oldest Druggist in Massachusetts But I wouldn't take bis word for it HAV A said the prisoner, “If you make her The police have issued promise not to beat me any more, -aleo | warrants charging manslaughter for the | Mot to make ine sleep under the bed." arrest of Charies E, Judkins, of Merri Will you agree to iat, madarr?* rho jie alleged to have been op-| asked the Magistrate. "And remember trating the car ‘which struck How that if you break your word to the {mn | phant ana down I go. If f make even | le I get another wallop that Jars | tilt my bones rattle." And when she * you to get under bed; do yo! > "Do | at else is there for | me to di I a want to be gro a into ‘powder | “He Deserves Licking.” it tea very serious thing i t@ peat her husband. 1 o gentleman would strik roads in State. “Mire t quite grasp, this Killed by an Auto belick, “and he can't give's KRIULL, Mass, May 2. 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