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on © / covered the lewer end of Manhattan they were _romning for black smoke this afternoon, drew a PAN: ae ——typieat—nedr—_nogn-hour, _dawntorrn r crow! of mastodonie propo: _* Part of the two upper stories of the so to speak | ‘Flames in Paint Warehouse Threaten faum Skyscrapers, While Throng of — Spectators Get Beyond Saie- = guard of: Police. ‘A ‘big, spectacular fire, that started! floor windows of tern Caton fp tHe shadow of Old Bt Paul's Church, * ons employed by yd Island with a great smudge ef thick, | young threatened several modern sky-scrapers{ | 7: and a number of old-fashioned ratile- | Gy traps, and made an empty husk of the | orivg wha four-story building at ‘Nos. 170-172 Ful- street, occupled by the F. 0. 701 ff. Consid- | up against} 4 the sur-| ton ot Pierce Paint Company and the Triune) swarmed to Press, ’ + tone ail Bulldl Tt took three alarms, Chief Croker, | (74. . Bylaw sen Police Inspector Russell, two hundred | ara on the fire firemen and nearly as many policemen | © tor towers two hold down the fire.and the wa. | from Peandieror 1 the west At one time, both of them—fire and |p ¢rowd—almest. got past contro! Team ‘Phere must have been an explorton. | Bu Employees in the office of +! C Company ‘on the ground floor at back heard a crash and the next Instant | t front door, | with the flame leaping at their backs. |, It roared up out of the bottled and Darreled of} stuffs and paints at the rear. There never was a fire that | spread faater or had better material to | jielp {t spread. Before the first engine | {or Puss arrived the whale building was ono of | Jot of flame, the first floor roared like « | policemen Who fous! prasier'a_fyurnaceand flames spouted | {Mt stew by thous from every window and ou: of the roof. | DaUhE juuran yard Crowlds Fou While Cr licemen ¢nd a is directed is mack the crowd | lea minute. BL. WAN packe apectatora. who had the panaest pea i City Hall was jammed Every one of half a dondn side st building were subleased by R. T. Haz-| merachlag, owner of the Tribune Press. | Troadway, and Fulton arene uence Mr. Hammerschiag ran up to the top so ery keen rot, In floor to look after three girl employees | mm. lost thelr hate and thelr tornpe ew of his bookbindery. By the thme.he had Qlyacrapers Purnia guided them to the ground floor the hosts. a javoke was ao thick he did not dare to, Engine No, ‘attompt to return. He had left hix safe, | be the P: centuining valuable papers, wile open. ja burst ¢ Jn Midst_of Skyscrapers. incawals: attalion Chief Graham came with the |{ron fen firet alarm. He skw there was going to | aay ns ey § be a bard Sattle and snapped in the | Moy trolted out of the patn zone, second and third plarms, which brought | q tot Satceasslene 1 ae Ont ee rae|| bil the apparatus and ail the reserves ut the very -front of the building We tn tho downtown territory, The rein- | Dut Me men of Trucks Nos. 1 and sat “forcomenta had: thele work cut ont tor | Wsing out the wat! fee eee ork and them. Nearly everybody in the four | gasoline Pecata: oF boroughs and @ large number of visit- Firemen Scorched In Explosion, ors seemed to wather on lower Hroad-} With pikes and poles they had got way aimultaneoualy. out fifteen cana, when an Iron spike | Adjoining the burning butlding ts the | DUnctured one of the tink There was) biz Mail Building.” Almoat back of it Ie{hack. singed and. biistersd yen et NED | the Western Union Bullding, at Broad-|}y afterward a vat of blue paint bos way and Dey street. Directly behing |*0mewhere back of the gasollne bin and Jt, on Dey street, is the building of the | yt ox, Mue Bream fowed out of the | WW. W. Williamson. Company, manufac- Ws Of a score of Kallery seats for = the firct that ar. directly tn front After a Ame out of the front hie hair off the en- eam tried to Jump th the churchyard. windowa to mingle with the bu: kasoline (hat can down on the walknne turing chemists, In whose basement are| ier PT antry standing ay opposite the scene with Chief Croke SRNR CS inflammable and dangerous | gig Inapector of Police ussell nen arusa, “jinte.. the, jumbled up. nase of. firemen At No. 176 Fulton strect 1a the bulld-|*prawling on the sidewalk. Croker wan Ing of the Excelsior Fireworks Com: /[7" Oly man of the three who Kot hold *, and beyond that, atrotching weat- and Russell backs ana | is a row of old-time houses with ted barely in time to} hin walls. Only for the fact that there Hit by twenty tins which an excavation between the Pferce and the Fireworks buildings this row of old-tiners would have been sure to go. Women Put in Peril. Ten minutes after tho first explosion Mt looked as {¢ the Mall building would surely catch, Members of the staff in tho editorial rooms, cn the ninth floor, stuck to thelr posts as long as they After twent thing the fi Joining bu! n 4 of this sort o! wr hand and the ad- dings had been saved at the expense of a good scorching for. thelr outer wal The fire in the Pterce Hukding was literally drowned ou |though the ruins burned tn the Jot tie tower floore "all atternes walls stood. Two feet of water got Into the base |memt of the Mail Hullding and. stepped i shelit THe could and then fled from the smoke and ite presecs | temporariiy | Cataracts the heat. Long pennanta of flame (fe %at the openings for the McAdoo | sumped out of the back windows of the house and licked into fu at Church street. | | And 2,00 rubbernecks stayed for the| finish. | ‘Heip Wanted {ID HAYES INTHE” Cnet sone, AINEH SPONLIGHT: World's Want Directory. val = MONDAY, Ave. eee Sat—on-Dock_+-# While Crew Searched. ? #1 _son—Steamer Bindery Help. 40} antry Help, Total Laon . pL I , Every week World prints more “Help Wanuied’ | 4Ads. than any three other New1 4% Bork newspapers combined. a’ k, month and ve The ning tn this 1190 teen Uy Purser and $73 divided beatorrem them, Handsarra BE. Wiener. ewste Who-Felt+From -Hud=; = THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1907. ' _Menaced Big ee ih. 0 GIRL AND RNS Paint Warehouse Fire that i (Photographed tor The Evening World by a Staff Arti BROADWAY CROWD jas INTO RIOTOUS MOB) FIRST DAY AT SARATOGA. TRACK FAST, ne ‘easily { three year Wou ay ott, ria, b'AthiE. True ath broke quickly ai Rite gut. “Green Beal ran 4 distance. RA! about tw Won driving, D miles ‘Time—416. HEATERS Car Had Killed M ue to-day sf « moving va horses of an east The Saratoga Steep Seven: CLEAR Thave—1 aking th Winner, bb, by Carlsbad—L'Orient, | y de. fe good race and was always close up. Spion_ will, improve. do better Maiden x died and WA. arrived a and al FVENING WORLD RACE CHART nix furlony Miss Marton. Simple dowon well Dei sand upward; of The Thistle a pull in the favored by Burtpl Was belna ot race for © child into a A crowd crying from arrested the FERS JUDGE LANDIS A §25009 POSITION, Man following Lis, United States at Poem. ce Own- |ing along the pike i \ | seareh 1 | FOOTBALL STAR LOST, SLING Daughter of Lady Kingston > With Shirley Davidson Missing From Yacht. GIRL FELLED "BVA THUG AND) TAMNED ON MOB THEN ROBBED AT CASABLANCA | Night on Street in Brooklyn. Pringle, 9 MONTREAL, Aug. 5—It is surmised | Alma pretty young that Shirley Davidson, ron of Judge | woman Of twenty-two, ia_in_a_danger- a vidod TRAA Sales! flincaton. datachtes | Omm condition: :tn hee! home" at.No. at hep lle otpata koa rye nter | aitiary street, Brooklyn, as the result of the late Sir William Hingston, Rhe great Canadian murgeon, were drowned in the River St. Lawrence yesterday, Lady Hingston and famtiy on the St Lawrer selow Mohtreal, on che opposite sh Mr, Davidson took Miss Hingston out | for a sail and the boat was found drift. ing about empiy in’ the evening.. No bodies have been found, and in view of | the well known sailing ability of Mr. [Davideon the accident is somewhat tn- | expltoable Mr._Davidson is known «jl through America as a hockey and: footbalF player, and safed with Duggan on his victorious Seawanhaka Oup defenier, }He Is an engineer and has held im- partant positions with the Jamatea Railway Company, the Dominion Steel Sompany nd other large concerns. TWO LITTLE GIRLS ~ VICTIMS OF FIENDS ON STATEN ISLAND. (Continued from First Page.) now—!It swarmed about the policeman land his prisoner Walsh did his best, but was «iving grouna When another }policeman-and—a-clerk-in-the Coroner's office, both armed, went to his ansist- anc They took the prisoner to the Magia trate’s office and held him there until [other policemen arrived. Then the man was hurried, under guard, to the Weat | Brighton lock. ( LITTLE VICTIM IS FOUND IN THICKET. Angeline Condart!, a six-year-old chiki, wmall for her age, was found tn a thicket flanking the Richmond Turn- pike in the outakirts of Linoeleumviile, B. L., jate this afternoon. The ohiid had been torribly mistreated. Her body was fadly torn and she waa covered with Drulses, The police of the West Brigh- ton and New Drop Stations are looking or the assailant, who le believed to be an Italian. About the middie of the afternoon peveral persons sitting on the porch of a hotel fa the town saw a man who looked like an Itallan crossing the rosg into the bushes. He was leading by ehe band the Hite Condart! child whose parents live In the vicinity, Supposing that the man was a visitor at the Condarti home the persons on the porch made no at- tempt to halt the ill-assorted pair, ‘An hour later a party of men pase. toward Rosaville heard the chill’ cries. They discovered her in a thicket where the assallant had left her ‘The little «ir! waa in a semi-conacioua state from fright and pain. At the hotel where sie was carried Dr. Smith dressed fer wounds “Tt ts said whe was lin a dangerous condition. ‘The police have only the vaguest de- scriptions to guide them In their for the suspect, 28 the child is half senselena_and more than half de- rious., Anotherbrutal attack on a two weeks ago. TWO LITTLE GIRLS ACCUSE LABORER. John Albertero, forty yeara old, a laborer, who lives somewhere on Fam New York avenue, Brownsville, wax to- day arrested by Detect!’ Burke and Beyer, of the Brownsville ation, charged with attempted assault and kidnapping. Amanda Barbier, nine years old, of No, 190 Herkimer street, and Grace Winters, seven yeara old, of No. 1si0 Herkimer street, make (he acrusations . Albertero worked on a buildin construction on the opposite side o in the | otreet from their homes, and on Aug. 1 Is accused them during of ‘having laid hands on lunch hour and offered | them a quarter apiece to meet him later, The girls did day Mr. Wi the Ttallan a at meet him again. To- ers heard of it and had sted. ee |\OoKEEFFE WANTS Determined to do all possible to stop the present wave of orime and appre- hend the many assallants of women ang children Acting Police Commiastoner O'Keeffe today Mayor McGowan that he al ‘oncé™ be for | the [force ithat |xtven $09 more policemen. | woes over to Aug. | Board of Estimate, | Earlier in the day Mr. O'Keeffe in ac- cordance with the order ismiéd on Sat- jurday)nag) all the Inspectors of eater City assembled at Headquar- ws to dis: with hie the crimes that niarmed the city and to consider {methods of combating it, After the conference, It was said at Headquarters, an announcement ot a drastic plan to remedy prevailing con- alt would be made. With 1,000 de- toctlyos spectall” assigned tothe task of stopping the crime wave, Mr. O'Keefe was quoted as saying that he looked for Ja speedy improvement, although he did not admit the possibility of any police putting an end to all the villian. {es perpetrated in dark cellars and ten- ements of the crowded disiric The matter FAILS TO DISPROVE WAVE OF CRIME, Assistant District-Attorncy Manley, replying to-day to the asnertlon of Gk eral Beestona Judge Warren W. Foater there {# no crime wave In Now York, stated that never in the histe ly of the District-Attorney's office have eparts repreae over two buns ircd oresnizallons In Greater fork, (0 offer You (he weneral coun sip of the same at an annual salary of | 329,000, Have written full’ parttouinrs, (Signed) “FRANK A. ACER, | “General Maitay: there been s0 many crimea the perpe- trators of which escaped aa during the month of July, 1907, Mr, Manley ts em- platically of the opinion that there Js ‘a crime wave in New York. Judge Foster gave his opinion en the pabjest to the August Grand Jury as he was @wearing thet body in to-day, yer le leveniny any summer at Varennes, a siynmer ‘resort| on; © about twenty miles iid occurred ih ulmoet the samme spoT} 500 MORE POLICE. demanded of Acting ZT for action by the} the | Jot an attack upon her last night bya thug as she was returning from church, | The y had attended the ng woman cart Chureh, e Heights, at Clinton andj event of a reneyal of the attack on [Livingston ‘streets, Stic. was. passing | Europeans. ~ 2 Ithrough Clinton, and when a'few doors| ‘he French cruiser Du Chayla. has |trom Fulton a tian leaped from a door- way and ewung a bludgeon over her | head. f Attacked by a Thug. | The weapon, she said, struck her on lhe head and glanced down tne rignt [side of ber face, stunning ner. Ax ane fell to the pavement the highwayman eoized her léft arm and wrenched tne [shoulder out of joint. Then ne struce {her again. and she fell back uncon- scious, The thug stole her purse and ripped off her jowekry, When she recoverea consciousness two men were bending hover her rubbing her hands and wriats. | They revived her and carried her to the stoop of her home, where they fei. her and ran away. Or. Wilkie; of No. # Schermerhorn street, who was called In to attend Miss Pringle, sckt—th—the weapon with which she was stricken down was pol- roned. Blood poisoning has set In on the right site of her face. which turned dlack In a few hours after she was taken home. The fingers of her right pand also turned black, Her shoulder waa badly distocated and she wus sul- fering from concussion of the brain, Police Late in Getting News. Though the victim of this orutal at- tack lay on the sidewalk fully Saif an hour no policeman pounded by on nia beat. No report of the howd-up was received at Headquarters uni{l almost ten hours after the attack. At Intervals when she recovered con- a sciousness the girl was abie to gi fairly accurate description of ner a’ | gallant. He {s about five feet six inchet tall and weighs pounds. hi in | was dark and his black. 19! |aure he is an Italian, He wore no collar or necktie and bad a short. stuobly mustache. ——— POLICEMEN ACTED FOR MAGISTRATE Discharged Prisoner They Had Arrested for Excise Violation. Magistrate Corriqn. in the West Sie Court, who on Saturday sent to Com- misrioner Bingham minutes of hin | recent investigation of alleged collusion betwren certain court policemen and lawyera_practicing in the West Side} Court. to-day denounced four policemen the and mid he would haye charges pre- ferred agains: them. Pollcemen Willlam Longuet and l-Thomas J. Brown, of the West Sixty- }elghth Street. Station, tiad .Viliam, Mo- Donak,-a bartender in Keily's saloon, | No. 18% Amsterdam avenue, in court this morning, because they *hought he had eold beer In violation of the regulations, The Magistrate waa perpiexed, and Jand finally they admitted that they had | nO case against the prisoner. Magistrate Corrignn told he police- men they ought to be back in the} Behool of In-truction of the Police De- Ment Wietsad” of making exctse ar-} “Lm not satisfled with you,” he “and I'm golng to send the facts this case to Commissioner Ling: ham," He then discharged McDonald! ‘Two other policemen, 0" herty and | MeGuinnes, had stood with a prisoner |nearby while the Magistrate was ar-, salgning Lenmiet and Brown. They! suddenly disappeared. ‘The Maxistrate Anquired about them’ and asked what had become of their prisoner. ] “The policemen haye gone, and their prisoner was discharged," sald Court Interpreter Lebrino. | Sa) ho hadn't discharged the prisoner, he hadn't discharged the prisone: whose name was given him as William | Schuster, owner of a saloon at No. 480 |Amaterdam avenue, The man's dis- | Giarge was then. stiown the Mugistrate, filled out by the policeman, and in the | space in witch 4s indicated’ the dimost- «bon of the case wua written Wie word “Discharged. Magistrate Corrigan immediately se: Lieut. Delaney, of the Court latter Polloemen. ‘O'Fixnenty 5 Guinnes, and (hey wore brought before him. The policemen explained that the excias case before theirs wan sim: {lar in many to the cage they had worked up knew the prisoner would be discharges, 20 they had 4 Cided to close the matter up themaclyc Magistrate Carrigan sud he would r ore the proceedings to Commiastoner ingham. and ordered the policemen to find Schuster and bring him back to He blamed the newspapers for the ac- counts of crimbs, To prove that there tan no wave of crime, he quoted the records to show that the number of in- Jalcted persons awaiting trial is smaller than usual and the numher of persons awaiting indictment !s also smaller | Oian peval, | Whioh Mr. Manley admits, ts all true, Bur the trowbio is that the police are not catohing the criminals, Srimp fol- lowe crime, hut arreat docs not follow arrest. If all the men who should be awaiting Indictment were in the Tombe, 3ir, Manley says, the records quoted by Judge Foster would establish a wave of rime without a shadow of a doubt, HARE Set MRS. THAW AT MT. CLEMENS, MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Aug, 6.— Mrs. Wiliam Thaw. mother’ of Hapry KT At, with Mrs, - Prxioria at the Colona Hotel here ict ss or St. ‘Ann's Episcopal } on Moors if Europeans Are Again Attacked. ° | TANGIER, Morocco, Aug. 5.—The Ist tot edvtces-from Casablanca say that ymoat of the. hostile Moorish triesmen surrounding the town have retired after a bloody fight with the natives -inside. Signals have been arranged by which |the French cruiser Galtlee will. bombard the nitive quarter of Casablanca in the gone to Maaagan, ‘off the, west coast of Morocco, in answer te the appeain of Europeans there, Who teported that the natives were greatly excited and that it, was feared that there would be a duplication of the recent massacre at Casablanca. Advices from Rabat, Weat corst or! | Morocco, under ‘the date: of Aug. 1, [were received here to-day and reported ithe situation there as belng disqute: ng. The neighboring tribes were oving around the tow, and the | French residents declared unless ja warship was sent to Havat they would leave that place. as the number of troopa guarding the town was in- adequate. PARIS, Aug. 5.—The expeditionary force to be sent to Morocco by the CCRUISER'S GUNS ECDEMA NEARLY REACHED EYES Disease Spread Over Whole Body— Face Was in Awful Condition— Itched So that Baby Could Not Sleep—Doctors and Home Rem- edies Failed—Mother In Despair. CURED IN THREE WEEKS BY CUTICURA REMEDIES “1 take great pleasure in droppin you a line to tell you rebar stvend Cuticura Rem e-~ dies were for my baby. ib wae suffering from that terrible tore ture, eczenia, It. was all over his body ‘in patches, but the worst was on his face and head. His face was’ awfully: bad; ‘the eozemia ex- tended up to the lower eyelids and I was just about sick for fear it would get into his eves before T got icatopped.. Tle cried and scratabed. the time and could not sleep night or day from scratching. I took him to, the best doctors, and one of them said that ho would keep the disease till he got all of his teeth; but if I had de- pended on the doctors, I guess my bo would have been laid at: rest by thi time. My friends told me to try many, k of remedios, and I pestered the child to death with all the different s, but-could see no improvement. ally I got disoc about to give up all h getting cured, when I wonderful Cuticura Remedies, which came just in time to saye my. baby {rom the terrible torture. I used Cutl- of his ever ad about the and was just - French Government will consist of two | oura Soap und Cutjoura Ointment, and battalluns of Algerion Sharpshoo: gave him Cuticura Resolvent, and I battalion of ¢he Foreign Logion, making }saw sn improvement in_threo days, fa total of 2,400 Infantry: two batteries | and in three skin was as of t was six or cavalry and half a squadron of and I haves not Algerian cavalry In the Frenci service poe aR Ti Part of these troops will be embarked Ge dako BOGE at Oran on bo cruisers and th rm. I shi iticura from id to the other. Mrs, W. Crosier St 1 Aug. 11, 1906." atment toe lira, snd “Aguits coo pe Ski ship, and ‘Chocolate Y the Blood, voter Drie & Checm, on, Mass mainder at Algiers aboard transpo: MOTHER AND SOK - PLEADED GUILTY Two Members of Freeport Burglar Gang Will Be Sen- tenced Wednesday. n, O., Jul external and Internal Tr f infants. Chi be British Medi reported that Eaglis er than the inen. ds. Wonder if {b strong (Rpecial to The Evening Wort MINEOLA, LL, Avg Mo rand non stood before County Judge Edx EX d Jackson In the Nassau County Court |} Cm oo oc cee 10c to-day and pleaded guilty to bolng |” PATES (go KINDS). POUND 19 members of Uie gahg Of Durgtars that} SPECIAL FOR THIS TUESDAY had been operating {n Nassau County - i ~ fal ne past-year and got under worth || SURAWBERLY WALNUZ | 1Q¢ Ny #ACO. They: were Mr CHOCOLATE COVERED CREAM ei ers yeara old, and ‘ ESEYERMINTS Sous 19¢ J. Bohang, nineteen. Mrs. Sching gload-.| o'clock wa gultty to Teoriving atolen goods. She | 54 BARCLAY. was Indicted-on two counts, < COR WEST BWA While giving her pedigree. tn watel, X29 CORTLANDT ST nhe refused-to tell where she was—bor > COR CHURCH ST, her son broke down and wept.e He «x he did not care what became of him so jong: aa bis. mother did not £9. to prio! He was indicted an eleven counts ar : nec- = — PARK ROWS HASSAU ST. COR. SPRUCE ST. pleaded gullty to burglany in t husband and father of aaty in court weeping. ba ‘sentenced Wedoesday, when Morris Derakwits, another mem- ber of the gang, wil be brought up. August L. Von nrig, tie alleged leader, ‘peaded not guilty to fourteen indictments and will be tried Wednes- day on three of th. His counsel will apply for a venue. FATHER AND SON DIE IN WELK BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug, 3.—Jamfs Garrity and hts ‘son, living at Keruge elevdn miles from town, Feom\ by gus and died In a sixty-foot well yesterday. They were engaged in clean ing the well were Parched streets shed dust in clouds. White Rose _ Ceylon Tea n Lane, N. X. TAHOME'S COMPLETE Sealed and Protected. OPENS AN MORE STE: STATION chiveon 5 Errors of Refraction | And all optical. defects treated by the most advanced methods known to the profession, NO CHARGE except for COLUMBUS AVE BET.105 & 104 ST. glasses, and that moderate, DIED. s. DOYLE.—On Aug % 1907, PATRICK 3 Rn Be DOYLE, beloved husband of the late Hane - ESTABLISHED nah Doyle, nee Shea, Nearly 50 years, Funeral from bla late residence, fa Plymouth at. Brooklyn, at 10 A, My ap 223 Sixth Ave, Below 15th St. een ib Bt. Ann's Church. Interment, 350 Sixth Ave. Below 22d St. Calvary Cemetery. YAGAN.—On AvE JOHN T, FAGAN, 1226 Breed wey) Belew S34 2; mean of the [ate John and Sulla Fagan 217-B'way, Astor House Block, | and brother of Willlam and of Sergts u St, near‘Ann $t.| James J, Fagan. Fucersl from his ale residence, 425 yoart 16th at. on Tuesday, Aug, 6, at 030 A. M, and thence ty the Chureh of the Immaculate Conception. ron Kaet ith at, where a noloma ree Qiap mass will he offered for the re= por of his soul, Relatives and friends fare requested to attend. _HELP WANTED—FEMALE, . x LL (at BEER che, i dle eee : i .

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