The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1907, Page 12

; Father Levont and ‘Is Be an -# Wevont Mfartouguessian; the Armenian priest who, 1s’ accused’ by Armenian ‘"merchants of being the head of the ‘Hunchakist, was indicted by the Grand " Dury this afternpon on a chrage of at- tempted robbery in the second degree, “and bail was fixed at $25,000 at the per- ‘sonal request of District-Attorney Je- rome. 1 “\ ) Five other Armenians, arrested with Martouguessian last night, were held fm FT ball as suspicious persons and 2— sent to the Tomb: “E ask that heavy ball be fixed in the case of Martouguessian.” said the ~ Wistrict-Attorney, “because he may be accused of a crime more grave than this. I fear that !f small ball be fixed the will make his escap: Martouguessian said he would rather ‘ee in the Tombs than at liberty just mow. He professes to fear that some fanatical Arinenian might kill him. The Diatrict-Attorney and the ‘police expect ‘that they will be able to connect Mar- ——yesutted in— the assassination of —Tay— shanjian, the rug merchant, in Union Bquare a week ago. Appear Against Priest. Martouguessian and his fellow prison- gta were arraigned to-day in Centre Btreet Police Court. The priest and two ef the men under arrest were taken to Headquarters together. The other three. from whom ine detectives expect to ob- tain some important Information, were | gent down by another route and will be| Kept away from the more Importam prisoners. Bedros Kayanian, of No. 2% Unton Square; Mirlm Hartoc ‘an, of No. 54 Un- fon Square: Houratisn Gulbenkian and | Mittm Karaguzian, of No, 25 Fourth avenue, wealthy rug importers. teatilet in the police cour: against Martougues- ian. Each said he had received letters threatening b)m with death If hie did not Pay large sums to the priest. Kavantan and Karaguzian xere asked for $25,000 each. All compromised for gums smaller than were demanded. They produced the letters they re- ceived in which threats were Incorpo- Fated, and these documents showed that Martouguersian made no attempt to hide his identity, evidently Aguring that the Hunchakist was so powerful that the men he threate: would never dare ‘complain. After Martougueasian was dispored of hin five fellow-prisoners J. TAizh touguessian with the conspiracy that} {at least cne branch of the Hunchak: Paes! ARRESTED AS HEAD OF BLACKMAIL BAND (i) SO Five Others Caught in Raid on Hunchakists—Con- ~~». fession of Plot Near, it: lieved. raigned in the Police Court and from there they were taken to the Tombs. Have a Clear Case. Fourth Deputy Police Commissionez Woods says that from evidence at hand the police believe there 18’a clear case against Martouguessian.’ * It has been discovered that the real name of the man who killed Tayshan- j dian in Unton Square ts not-Hampart- | zoomian, but Bedros’ Khachadorian. He comes from Lowell, Maas, and wa: visited in that city by Martouguessian shorthy before the assassination. "From documents found last night.” | sald Commissioner Woods at Headquar- | ters, "we mre led to believe that Mar- j touguessian collected and diverted to his own uao over $53,000 which he ex- torted from wealthy Armenians in the past two years. It ie amazing to find how many contributed to him. We have a record of one instance where he tried to shake down a millionaire Ar- menian for $25,002, - “We want the press tu say: that we have these people dead to rights. The Wealthy Armenians who have been the vic f the blackmailers for so lons nee ve no fear about testifying. ir evidence we can make « good case, but we want them to be sure that we can send the conspirators to a place where they will be unable to do anything In the way of blackmail or murder as long aa they live. Booty Found in Raids. “Thousands of dollars worth of rugs silverware and jewelry was gathered In The more we go into the matter the more we are convinced th was worked wolely in the interests of the head men and that they engaged tn ckmall. robbery and even murder to hleve thelr ends.” It ts expected that Khachadorian will soon make a full confeasion of the con- splracy that Jed to the murder of Tay- shanjlan. He {x ‘beginning to under- stand that he was ured as a tool by mien who played upon his patriotism. Away from the influence of Martouges- slan he ts gradually beginning to real- ize that hie crime was uncalled for. ather Lovont was arrested laat nig! feat dng in tie Ararat Cate, I> East Twenty-seventi said to be the headquartery of the New Hunchakist Society. In the cafe was found calendar of significant design. A Little “Reminder.” On It was pictured the heads of three Armenians who haye been assassinated the Boston editor; Chltjian, York merchant who was ht w Inspeowr McCafferty asked that tey | trailed to Odessa four years ago and be held as muspicious percons. They are} killed after he’ was horribly tortured, Patkos Fappasian, restaurant provrie-|and sShiran‘an, who was also killed for at Twenty-sevonth sireet and Talrd) Byenue; Nicholas Malish, restaurant Proprietor at Twenty-seventh street and Lexington avenue; Souran Souranian editor of a Hunchakist newspar erik —Ashften a nchtiviss, of Ds East Twenty-cighth street, oo Abseaptan, x —baker—of Ho + Washing— id ton street, who is 42 have b: the Hunchakist repr in the Armenian colony in Uie region abutting Late t Jerome went and asked to yroad, hearts, in each of which a dag- sticking, are-shown under the Blood {a flowing from the Nicholas M trate Cornell prisoner, saying: <I hope Attorney all peas,” He ts honor; { the in. Hr——vereme—4Fr aeom th dn’ arre Nine Gathered In. st night in a Moartougesslan and menians were captur raid made in the glustered Twenty-seventh » “and Third avenue. Tires or me oners were discharged within a for the Hogues’ and then| Martou, who are fupposed to have b “eomplices| were taken to the Criminal who hooted and hissed. Workmen on a | building across the street sioppes work | and-gathered on the scaffolds The detectives and thelr prisoners walked to the Criminal Courts Building and went 1o the Diatrict-Attorney's of- fice. After some delay they were Courts Biulding. it yesterday by threaten- The thrte prisoners were In charge of | from the Hunchakist. M Inspector! MeCaffe and 1 De | 4 ent nded Vacation, Guldo. Ak t ft the M r ing to t estination. and entrance of Headquarters they were |George went to Chi ran ‘indetl- Breeted hy q great throng of Italians \aite period, leaving t tore, at N of letters, sald to be of ae aha i $s 190, the year a Father I and others were expalied trom iginal Hunchaktst Society, an organization interested le ja wae ef Armenian ( ATap arrested by was sent Detective waveral Deter: to. bri excitiig meeting: : lea ters great amount of ev!- arrest of the my: Central Office se chin terio the Iollowers Square ¥ OW Kk at the time of the murder ¥ ror ants of Mount and Ge Hoyijlun, w OTK hi Fourth ayenue, in charge of r ‘They Maver More in Chicago, and for a month’ have been recelying letters ng for t hakiat, both In Mo! rman and C 0 A stranger called on them in Chicaxo and axked {f they were prepared to give the ;, }money A House, Room * ior Apartment. and Apartments World Wants last week— 770 more than in any other ‘two * New York morning newspapers combined, Houses, Rooms World Wants Lead in Numbers ~ Because They Lead-in Results’ was #0 threaten- * that both brothers becamo alarmed. KN SMr Pavahanian was shot (hey \ded to get ax far away from New rk as they could suis languag: | Z |ACCUSED PRIEST SENT JEROME CIGARETTE | yarola Spielberg. Father Martougues- sian's lawyers sid last nbeht that when | die priest wan examined by Actipe Dis- (rigf-AUorney Smyth last webk — the wine letter was shown to him: > Weur Mr. Jerome—A particular 4 OF mine asked me fo send to Lund mweet ‘Turkish clxurettes, {trust you will accept with my ments, Sincerely, VONT MARTOUGUESSIAN.” voul want to curry favor wer Distrigt-A(torney asked = Mr. “A. frend THE EVENING WORLD. TUESDAY, JULT SO, ‘The Evening can be bought by the.city at a moderati chance will never occur again. The Eventhg. World has fought for years and years. Through tht efforts o! Now there ts another chance—a cha frontage into a free bathing beach. day’s fire, is for sale. New’ York ever had a chance to make. This Land Also Available. If more land 1s required there {s plenty of it to the weatward. This com- prises the part of Steeplechase Park untouched Sy the fire; Ravenhall's, which covers the square block from Surf avenue to the ocean between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, and the next Dlock. running to Twenty- first street, owned by Desmond Dunne. of Brookiyn. ‘Twenty-first street {s thée‘only thor- oughf{are on Coney Isfand that is cut It takes in a stretch from Suri URED WER ALLING WALLS, SCAPE UNHURT Seven negroes, working in the base- ment of the four-story bullding at the northeast corner of Forty-sixth street and Elghth avenue, had! a miraculous escape from death this afternoon whi the three floors ve them caved in and deposited them under tons of tim- ber and mortar. The debris fell tn such_a way that It arched over them, 2 and fiot one was scratched early Sunday morning and left nearly thirty acres of land available. The rest can be condemned. 1907. Opportunity Is Offered to Carry Out ‘World’s Plan. Another opportunity to utilize a part of the west end of Coney Island for park purposes is afforded by the fire that wiped out scores of flimsy structures’ This land fe price, considering the location, and, the ‘ a big seaside park at Coney Tsland for f this paper tha city mad¢ an, appropria- tion of $250,000 In June, 1899, and began the work that has made a beauty spot of the park at the end of Ocean Boulevard. c The improvement plan contemplated a big public bathing payiion on the beach, The Influerice of bath-house proprietors on Coney Island kept the city authorities from carrying out the bathing pavilion scheme. ince to create right in the heart of Coney Island. the prettiest park in the world, and to convert a quarter of ‘a. mil¢‘of ocean With the exception of a few upstanding. brick chimneys and several tons of twisted tron and charred timber, nothing encumbers the ground covered by Sun- f avenue to the ocean. Much of the land It is the best investment the city of through to the ocean. It is the design of the city authorities to run Seven. teenth, Kighteenth, ~Nineteenth and Twentietn streets through from Surf Avenue to the beach Jn the near future. Unless tne land is acquired there will be heavy expense connected with con- demnation proceedings. This expense can be saved by purchasing the whole ocean frontage ruhning along Surf ave nue from. Sixteenth to Twenty-first street This Showa What Can Be Done. +|'the patrons -of othor bathing houses of Beautifying erty In the way of making a park of it | !s shown in the Ravenhall tract, whioh is @ stretch of fine lawns and flower beds, sheltered by trees on the Surf | @¥enue side, The surf bathing along the | beach that shouldbe acquired by the city Is tne best on Coney Island, Visitors to Coney Island from other cities are amazed when they find tha they are practically cut om from. th ocean. The éntire peach frontage fram the Concourse to Norton's Point \s in the hands’ of private individuals save for the .aiort stretch of sand owned by the city in connection with the new bark. Bath house keepers have con- structed barriers to keep thelr own pa- trons from other beaches’ and to keep. out. Between Tilyou's and Ravenhall's, for instance, there is @ stretch’ of barbed wire fence. ‘The*sandy stretch of ocean front that should be as free to: the people of New | York as the alr they breathe has beeh | devoted to private uses through the, | connivance of schemirig politictans, On | all the miles of ocean beach tn the city [there ts not a spot where a poor man jan bathe without paying some one for the privilege. Beach Monopoly Bars Poor, So complete is the monopoly of the beach that it is utterly out of the question for a poor mother of the tene- ments to take her children into the surf on Saturday or Sunday. Even if she had batthing suits for all of them she would have to hire a place to dress them in from a bath-house keep- er. On Saturdays and Sundays the charge for a little wooden box to dress in and keep the street clothes in while CITY SHOULD BUILD SEASIDE PARK ON BURNED-OVER SITE OF Land Is Now in the Market, and a Splendid. Lawns of the Ravenhall Tract Adjoining Show What Can Be Done in the Way TILYOU'S the Waterfront. \fe owner {x in the water ts from 5)| jeente: to a dollar. \ j }_It In estimated that of the millions who visit. Coney Island every summer not 2% per cent. ever see the ocean,| The city's park is at the extreme east: p2Fn part of the West End—chat part! of ‘the island given over to cheap and (Popuine amusement. All the waiks ter ing {rom the Bowery and Surf’ ayenu: nd: yo at the: ra saloon, It ts an actual fact that outeide the park the Eyening World’ secured. after avhard fight thens 1s no place on Coney Island where a Ured woman or child may. rest without paying for the priv- lege. Untess advantage ‘Is taken .of Hunday’é fire, the: time may come when Now Yorkera visiting Coney Island will have to pay-for the privilege of look- ing at the sea. Ss Park Should Have Bathing Pavilion, ovean sin. a bath-hoyse capable of accommodating thousand: 1s urgently needed.' A charge of 5 cent or en cents -eould be made for the use of bathing sults, towels and rooms to dress in. ‘This would pay the expenses for Washing of smufts, attendants and } Care of the property. ‘By a proper sya- |tem of checking and inspection the re- | turn of every, bathing sult and every towel given, ou't ‘could be Insured. The bathhevse proprietors of Coney World's tree bait posing the Evenin, fat It would ainount project, claiming ¢ to confiscation of their business, The foolishness of this argument Ip ap- parent, Bince the changing of Coney Island from 'a tawdry collection of shacks ing facilities have been and again. Great bath houses the Parkway, the Brighton and Dream. land have been built. Balmer's and others have been enlarged. And the bathhouse people have more they can attend toon busy days, tha demand for bathing spits incre: and bath-houses {sso great that a dollar is obtained without any trouble for a sult and a place to put’ it on. What can be done to ocean front prop- the way to Roosevelt Hospital. His jame is Henry Lambert, and he ar- red in New York from Bermuda only w days ago, The building, which was occupled by a wholesale grocery firm for many years, 1s in course of alteration. It will shelter the frat department store ex- usively for negroes ever projected in the North The workmen employed In making the tions are all negroes. After the collapse, which was caused by insuffi clent braces holding up the third Noor beams In bu , th the the rear of whole gang knocked off op. erations are at a standstill, wo of the foremen were arrested. —_—_.___— BROOKLYN MAN DROWNED. July 9. ohe years, 0! Brooklyn, N. ¥., was Hudson River this © New- NEWBURG, Holtrock, ak 18 Bleeker #t drowned in morning burg Canoe the the dock of and Boating Association, Orun 3 and bad b 0 “ A carpenter who fell from the second floor with the cave-in wis so seriously; that he died in an ambulance on + who heard that of elearettos him; that's a! re | Smyth severe! ‘No.’ answered the priest. Mr. Jerome was fond {iiked.me to send them to err é Copyricut, (AW, its Publishing Oa inn Jaoncs fifteen feet 0 MANHATTAN TO OSE FOUR TS ALDERMEN The Board of Aldermen met this af- ternoon to out the law passed by the late Legislature for a reapportion- ment Alde) nic Districts, The Re- pub}icans and Democrats agreed on a redistricting plan proposed by Chatr- man Herbert Parsons, of the Republl- can unty Committee, Later, the plan was formally adopted by the Board, . By the new law the number of Al- o—Grenter New. Fork remains, ) Manhattan vn _galns’ fwo. Queens four, poliicians are still tigurin, Ww: wving lo lose and gain. nd tej Fak The Court of Appeals ‘handed down a decision last yeur nuilifying, the rea pordoament of districts. Tae Thirteenth Senatorial District of New York County was one of thoi held to’ be uncon- sttutonal and 10 make the change of boundaries to conform to tne constitu- | Uon it was found necessary to make changes in the boundaries of the Eleventh and ‘Cwelfth Senatorial Dis- trtets. All these He souin of Twenty- third street on the east side and ‘Thirtleth atreet on the west side. These bounds will not be affected much ex in a few instances, and the Assembl Districts in these Senatorial bounds are | the only ones to be changed. They are | chlefly in the “Bowery section and the} old time boundaries are to be brougt: back again. By the reapportionment the Assembly | District lines will be in almost all in-| nees_ conterminous with the Alder: | manic District boundaries. These sets ( districts will be exactly the same | from the First to che Twenty-second | districts. The Twenty-third Assembly | District will have two Aldermanic dis- | trict, or the Twenty-third and Twenty- | fourth, The Twenty-fourth Assembly | District will become the Twenty-Afth | Aldermanic, and so on In sequence the | Aldermanic districts being a number} ciead to the Thirtleth, when that Assembly District will have two Alder- manic districts within Its boundaries. | 3 x] water The bod was recovered i one. Bronx gains one, complex chat the —— = — This will make thirty-three Aldermen | for Manhattan. ‘No advertising on the picture to be given away. Island have always been active in Seer” to @ xem of light and tnusic the bath-|° PETTIBONES PLEA FOR RELEASE BL 1S DEN Banker Signs Moyer’s Bond and Miners Back It with $25,000 Cash, BOISE, Idaho, July 39.~Formal appll- cation was made in .the District Court to-day to ‘have ree A. Pettib 2 motion was s mitted sument sand was prompuy dented by Judge Woad It was announced that bond for | Charles H. Moyer would be ready late | to-day. (It will be signed. by: Timothy Reagan, ‘pre tofthe Firs Nation- a] Bank of Bolse. ‘The bond {a guaranteed by $25,000 cash on deposit by the Butte, Mont., local of the Western Federati Miners, ‘ eres edie TAKES FAREWELL DRINK — AND KILLS, HIMSELF. After drinking with several friends at the barjot the hotel at No. 33 Green point avenue, Willamsdurg, to-do Hew Carlo, elderly enetl- Uscer/ hurrledly excused” himself, matked into the back room and. blew out Ws ibrains, He was unmarried and for Aeveral years had occupled a room inv4the hotel. Worry over 4 chronic ness is aesn to ha onsi ble ide. an d’hote or a- memory of ended with This Gibson Bathing Girl picture;on plate paper, size 10 by 15 inches, will be given free with every copy of next Sunday’s World. Order to-day. Edition Limited. All newsdealers, Dine as you may —table- feast will leave an endearing NABISCO SUGAR WAFERS Jn ten cent tins, ale ta twenty-five cent tins, NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY lS BURSTING BOLLE TUBE KILLS MAN ONULS, UNBOAT A mington in ‘Chinese Waters —Smallpox on Ship? WASHINGTON, Jnly 9.—A ‘despatch received wt the Navy Department to- day from Commandet Boush, of the gunboat Wilmington, nt Shanghal, says fa baller tubs of. the “vessel burst yer terday while the: Vesse) was at Nane | ieing, ® | Tires men were scalded, one of wiiom, Fireman Philip Hind, subse giently died. The other two were not seriously bored. P id. was p Native of Maryland and d tha navy May 10, 8%. Hig next of Kinvis x brother, J; E. Hind, whdie address Is Chester, Md. deaths [inoMo‘al ‘reports’ of several Wilmington from small-pox on the have reached the Navy Department. ep FINDS SON'S BODY IN RIVER. Dennis Exan, of No, 511 Weat Nine |teenth strect,, to-day found the body of [his nine-year-old’ son John floating In [the North River off the foot of West | Fourteenth ntreet. near where he. felt J overboard. .The drowned lad had been missing since Inst Friday. la-carte, the its own if Two Others Scalded on Wile