The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1907, Page 1

: ———— fig ids eared Meme about, boring te op the spread of the fame: e erent “rhe cause of the explosion had not be EVEN KILLED, 3 £ : AY EAPLOGION California Powder Company’s Judson: ' Plant at Giant, Near Oakland, €al.,, Blows Up and Sets the Town on Fire. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., er one hundred were injured in an exph plant of the California Powder Factory in Giant, a suburb of Oak- , this afternoon. The other houses in the little town were set afire by the blazing Aug. 24.—Seven persons wede killed and ion and stampede at the Jud- mens *hrown out by the explosion, a ascertained when the first tis: explosion eame)to|the city, aa the| Ses “= y6 HER HUSBAND news| INUURED I « Circulation ew Books Open to All.”’ ] YORK, EVENING WORLD RAGE GHART EIGHTEEN TH DA AUG. 24, three ye! Winner The for earoids’ and upwar Start_ goods. yWon.-eaaity. ‘Thine Owner—F. A. Clark a [odex St Wr Mek Te } Commodors Fontathe 14 Tones 149) 14 1s 506, Seratet ‘Saratoxa Winner, br. Robador, CLEAR, Y AT SARATOGA. TRACK HEAVY, 8000 Added: aix ! by ‘Toddingjon furlonge. Oxcuia mr 3 ch Jockeys... Open: Nighi Clos, sepiechase «Handicap with $2.00 adde two jules and whale eh... by Goodrich Jockeys YG'rien. Open Hixh hihald 5 64 Wilson! 4070. fakes, of $10.00), for two yearo Commande—Dancing Water. Time. Tdockeys, and upw t Dixon—Breakwater. Time—3,08 15, “Turns Garner E Dugan Henry oF Grand 6 Brungel 2s 71) Miller: Ss § Bockman Furepiden, Yada, EVENING YG WORLD RACE CHART AUG, 24, *Indicates, Empire track. RACE~-Selling; for tro-year- THIRTEENTH DAY AT EMPIRE CITY. CLOUDY. TRACK HEAVY, Ss $500 added: © aix furlongs (about ited—eand—«—epeciat—train + wth Oaklend physicians and was started for the scene. From the little news received it was jeved that the part of the town n: “powder works would be a complete though the frantic messages indi- fed that the whole town was doomed. Fall Force Was at Work. ‘Hpne terrific explosion came at a time when the full force was at work. Sey- ) men are reported an known dead fle it 18 feared that other bodies may found buried in the ruins. Tho tre- jous detonation wrecked the bulld- ike. Doctors and fire-"ghting appar| ST HivaCE rnp Tavpe cee = | Int Private Detective Confesses That He Lured Mrs. Day Into Predicament. Day, of No. treet, to-day. her answer In Mrs, Nancy Twenty-third counsel, filed for absolute dlvore bustand, Henry 1 Dickey, in Suprem: Mra. Day says ber of the Prod hange, but and drag. the: injured. out of the: he. denias. axving fatherts zone. The loce: doctors could|memter, Justice Dickey granted jot begin to meet the eltuation, The|§is per week allmony and # c lant fire brigade was augmented by| fem for her attorney, Sam P. injured and setting fire to adjacent Ndings, vThe employees and townspeople Forked heroically to save thelr com- Court, r husband {s a mem- Brook 0 E: thy her e:townspeople, who fought desperately | man, pending hearing The husband hases breakine into a not Avenue and Twelfth street on the ment of Apnl 2 1 Ing iis wite with Robert Was accompanied By Gor id Another man. “hire Day charges that she is the vi tim of a! cOlssiracy., She was mari ten yea ago and five vears awo tf Day taking their elrht-ye On the night tn question, sne | She Went to a museum where a but gentlemanty looking verson to her and) made hemerous so funny that! 9 tease: hie quit room. at Manhat find- ‘d. Day dd Hovdridge °Phie In the Sixth Explosion, _ Giant Js a station on the Southern ic. Railroad a few miles north of | land and across the bay from San sco. The only buildings there ‘those of the powder plant and the of the employees of the factory, th a sprinkling of stores. was the sixth explosion within Period of ten years. Tho death i mink out of the blow-ups that have “et the Calrorma— Comper numbers hundreds. Most of the} her work fa done by Chinese. Only ere expert handling is required are te hands employ soparated old son. save, Jovian) sald that she had two “light which she belfoved were drugged, and ‘she knew no more dntil she woke ‘ago the insurance people re-|up in the hotel room, her hat off and to take any risks on the foundry {her husband and two mea clamoring the damage will be a clear lo at her and the stranger, who “was Ward. After they bad loft the room, Ward went out and never came back. Attached to her aMdavit, 1s one by| Ward,“ saying that “te ‘sn private de- fective and that with his partner. Holdridge, he engaged cr $100 to get the evidence, —tHotdredee = Tot} sont for Day, he sald) He Holdridge got’ $100 from<Day for and later got another $100. (ALGER DINES AMERICANS. SWILHELMSHOHE, Germany, Aug. Qu-President Nicholas Murray Butler >John —Witiiam—Burgess,—of- + University, were the guests x Willism at dinner yes- them me: BM Phila, Bat St. Louisa Second game—End. first St. PAT Detroit} (AL) and fifth: Was hing! Or, 25 a Creveland (At)=-End fifth: Boston, 2; Cle SIXTH RACE E AT SARATOGA, “Fh }-1, Pater Quince 4-6 pl. and Orfaho alsé ran, ‘ ; ®LAT- FORE ERIE. - Stern 4.5 C. Gilpert 7. 10 a] Solon Shingle. Pee pL Frank Collins. Husted 4-5 pl, Glena MoBride.. Nn stop awhile, Nicola halted, Site ie ety one with nis kaise for three-y Post time. 4 oureyear: won since Aug Post ear-olds. non-winnera since Aug. 3.1007; pen. High. Clos 1110-4 Pl 310 a DO added; one mile and Start Good. Won eaat Pe ANE IN HAND, CHASED THIEF ROM HIS HOME Nicola Mastriano Didn’t Wait to Dress When He Went After Robber, Nicola, Mastriano, the biggest grocer in the Italian colony of South Brook- lyn, was asinep in the Hving rooms back of his store at No, 178 Twenty- fret stregt, early to-day, when his wife nudged him in the ribs and told him she Was positive ahe heard somebody in the house. The akepticd! Nicola was Just telling her to forget it when he huard a wusploious sound, As he sax up \in ded he saw a figuré gilding @oroas the doorway. Tho grocer Jumped out of DEA, grabbed a big knife with a tong blade, which ho Uses for alicing cheese and sausage, and started hot foot nfter the Intruder overtook the fugitive In the backyy while his wifo poked her head out of} the front window and aroused overy- body in the populous nvighborhood with hor yells for the police. Being in-a fair way to be cornere! the thief “Ure a revolver and told | | SATURDAY, eens Twenty Thousand Raceroers| Flock. to Yonkers Course Despite Rainy Weather. GETS ONE. Clements Made a Show of the Field in the Fifth Race. STANLEY FAY FMPIRE CITY RACK TRACK, Aug 2.—Moce than 20,00 persons journey to the Emptre City track to-day to piel: mud-runners. They were mucceasful in the feature. the East Vier Farm Han- dicap over the short six furlongs .with 12,00 added money. when Royal Onyx. Moline good gelding, racer over Goldproof, one af the added sverters, 1 the last alxteenth, and won in 1.102 me for the track. Goldproof got nning when the barrier went up ned up a ble gap. solng to the ‘ipper turn, where nis horses began to lose un en him. Round into the stretch Letbert brought the favorite Into position for his run, when he det him down TavstRe _the pacemakers nv ro. in the early stages of (he race, came «ith a rush at the end and Jandod third money. Edwin Gum, on/ the strer of-a persistent track Up, wa well backed at lorg odds, which before this has shown ability to run {n the mud, was tupporte) suf ficiently to force her price down 2 point. She could not go fast enough to -keop warm to-day and finished a poor fifth, , Outsider Got the Pirst. The day suirted inauspiclously for the favorite players who thought [naugura- tion had at last found a spot to her Mking. Att ne of the worst exhibl- tione of riding xeen here Musgrave suc- ceeded in getting her be by Mins Mazzini, the rank outsider in the bet- ting. Laying behind the maker to (the stretch, he never made a move when thewinner got up behind him, and lost by a head, Wester Zorra cut out the pace to the stretch turn, where she blew fin, g third. Blember, who kood play at the last mo- }ment, could not untrack himself and Sarees avers-rierganotte be Beret bw hte carried a lot of money, never for a mbment flattered her backers. La Velita Pinched Off. Coltness, which went begging at even money In the ke in front in the second. raney~and, leading all way, stalled off La Vietw on the wire and won hand-ridden. Lee, on La Viet was pinched off at the first turn by Lelbert on Muck Rake and Masgrave on Thomas Hay, and was forced to pull up.and go aro d his fe! There no doubt -that a as the int of Orange, n second to La Veita received but UD, recelved a steady and not get v GIAL FALLS ITD THAP OFS Saar “hard backing, AUGUST 2 4- UN WTR ETS SP LP: “ROYAL ONYAX WINS AT EME 4] the} could | IRISH A. A. C. BOY SPRINTER DEFEATS Fen rarer Te Jesse Lewisohn. and Followers Bet ‘Heavily on Mc¢Ginnis Horse. KEENE CAPTURES STAKE | Res igouche Takes United H [)Y FIT 7 Hotel Event, Jim Gafiney Getting Second. | (Special to the Evening World.) BARATOGA RACE TRACK, Aug. '%4. -The bookmakers at the Spa had &@ fleld day of It this afternoon, when two of the most Newvity-winyet favorites of the meeting were “knocked down’? in the Valted States Hotel Staxes. the old feature. Fully $100.00 was Keating Captures 100-Yard Dash— Sheppard Outruns Field in Halt- Mile, Making Good Time F the ring on Jim Gaffney, the Farrell It, which w#ilthed second, nosed ut by Hestizgouche, with Mik on Slow Track. up. In the Saratoga Cup Frank Gill was e one selected for the plunge. Jesse © biggest operators went to Gill toe TRAVERS ISLAND, Aug. 24.—Wilbur J. Keating the boy sprinte of ‘the Irish-American Athletic Club, furnished the surprise of the Metr: time| even money for hundreda. ortunes, At was being post krabbed politan championships to-day by easily defeating Charley Seitz, the A alon, opening almost on even terms A. U. champion, and a big field of ‘the best sprinters about New York. | © eee eat aida KasA eek Keating also won the 220-yard dash, Keating has been the special p ady, although backed by the fives of Bernie Wefers, the Irish-American’s trainer, for weeks. Wefers taugh si u hartanuseaant Hen a ts ae the sprinter the flying start which enabled Wefers to clip seconds off the) .na the books kept It. sprint records of his day and which are still standing. ih fs Mateo a aaaestae Matt McGrath, in the hammer throw, easily disposed of his rival} \icap, coming from hehind In the John Flanagan. Both men were }elow. form shonw during the week. | ‘irre to Dost ou Ate ae eo McGrat 170. mi Mc- 1( wasn't good enough, The bad field had a deal to do with Flanagan's poor showing. 1 got third, ten lengthe back in trials during the week, frequently put the metal about the Flanagan seemed to sprawl in his heaves and repeatedly fouled. Sir Toddington Wins. Grath’s throw is considered good in view of the conditions. oem RUE Tt Uaeun ey Keating's race is considered remarkable in view of the ground con-| dash. but Sie bmsbiony As tose ditions and the class of men he teteated: His time was 10 1-5 seconds. Bought mays meron sey Sateaas “Ho's the champion sprinter of the) = SSer Wan nextiito last th Flening world rt now,” en asinastically ex- sailing “4 y , and Momen- claimed Trainer Wefers as he led hin ae EMAL: At the. eighth pupil off to the dressing-room. “Ho Pala BELRte will lower the 1M-yard mark before the Behind Bota seuson ts-srer oa eR litt F let wp uittil Sheppard Wins Half-Mile. and set sail tor I Melvin Sheppard showed his old-time b Nek aN pee ehaed form when ho easily finished frst in peas ae henchmontel }the half-mile run His time was 163-54 ¢ ton: over-the Hox g Sheppards made 3 Jumpea-Pretty-Race: a show of his fleld, winning the event iitedeeeiws Hacer by more than fifteen yards. pleoh: 1 Old track man who saw’ Sheppard's round j tidy effort to-day say that under One ey |vorable conditions and with mors op? , : sition he would likely have equa led Chariie Kulp e's record of 1.53.25, a r Sheppard’ speed in the first quarter| iatty Is ‘Thumped Hard out. Palin was phenomenal. He ran away from wis ig z : hia competitors and when he saw that Times, but Does His the victory was easy he finished look- running hur backward oo Prickvat Bat. Ot OF J. P. Sullivan won the mile ¢ it after an eciting contest. Harvey Coh the former stay, lost hin ahoe half way around but BATTING ORDER. con- ieseohor sey | ‘The dreary day had the effect of keen- hy ct rOpartiiigta Choe ling the atte! down to 6,000, but} (larke, If. Tae | dd to b 1 ffect on the en- PNY aeH en aes: x 3 i Bates Fait. |acomed to haye little effect o € atichio, Statwe Hotel . at yat Brntah H Sidewalk Sinks ‘Gale Victim | fyusiasm of the multitude. The Into. Bore, 1b Ite yeaa ou th 4 Lycureus 5 rior of the fleld ts heavy and soggy, and | Sheehan, 3b. Pie Sacha : me : or 0 e ; Brith when Jim fi Tumbles Into Tunnel the weight men were forced to compete] } nillbpe. p d De y Were fighting tt jana the other with his gun, unti! the ey ne under remely unfavorable conditions, | ~Umpires--Johnetonos and ODay: na the- start; neighbors began to. arr! Then the Fifteen Feet Deep, More than 1 automobiles were —_—— | cuentas ive to the Blah ae burgiar—jumped-over—the-fence-and got — ~—[ronred atthe “Fs—M-—C.~As'# HERO POLO GROUNDS, New Forks Ate nin away. ‘nome, and all during the afternoon a]—Wet grounds failed to stop the Glants| fom or i 7 | . : a front of Fair P rest of About the aame time tt came to Nicola aa net Sa intaed Cod fell naion of umbrellas moved between |and Pirates to-day, and they begen thelr | eld. was rine bunch that he was not exactly dressed for re-| Of ay S, or even (011). club-house and the stands. fight to hold or regain second place he- | ensths pack. Res SUR SNS LAYS celving callera because his chiof articie| the Adirondacks or the Catskills for | hy Ariioriteneret ress OF a the of attire was tho knife blade, #0 he| exercise in falling int es or | Summartes, fore a crowd of 8,00) persons. Mathey on | non: went non Jim Gaffney. . clo in falling Into crevasses. 0 : Mae {tched. for New York and Deacon Pt ee } }20-Yard Hupdies—Won by W. Ro MeCul- | P! ° n Phil bela aaa an eel dodgine avalanches or climbing peaks, | 1 N. 2a ded Blier, 1. A AC. |Mppe waa on the firing line for Pitts-| of glass out of & back door: also that | YOU can get all that, sort of thing rig Net the ¢ * | pure ho was shy a watch, &‘scarfpin and| here In Manhat anywhere al pil Round wehetaivens bys Mat) |S Ares renortedsto ithe Nan cork bench: reaveralvasliare’ Gsiknay alee trem ike Hewenr 2 GE Ge ESE Ge inchea noe to-day that Fri Bowerman, the in-| But ho had a good took at the tmef 4 hi G.. 42 feet 0 | Jured catcher, was entirely out of d and-when’ Policeman “Martin. arrived | Ste Hiamebure Bridre, 64 pees ger, and, in fact, had not been » f a arrived ron bY A. Daily y it ‘3 is i Nicola was ablo to give him informa-| Take the case of Grace Dough aed 1 ALAS Ce neo, | Ously Injured, He may not pl | y Yon which led to the arrest of ¢ 2 moanebes "AUG thicat dene 3 Re 4 | Bae ele ciey artent ots Cano] weienpindloatas|jrhats (twill aden de- 0 EASA G, third; ‘time, | however, until the Glants go | \ atreet, a friend of the «rocer's and a/ Come necessary to establish a system | Won by J. P, Bullivan, 1, | Next trip. customer desides, of Kuldea In Delancey stre Mina] Rodgers, N.Y, A. Gi, sec First Innin pensitne Fitth Avenue Polles! ‘Court| Dougherty 1s seventecn years old and) 90 Yo ALC thirds 'thme | A erent bate te | Disuetat aN Magistrate held him. Tw hei iyn, She works in Manhattan with her|I. A. AW: J. Else YT. A. Cs, socons; | hit for two bases. Doyle threw out 5 * Ateleneroe ithe: Sty whe rere Maer | ntteen-vear-oid | slater, Florence, and |7:,Coliina, i NY Rains ensctasmenta | Clarke valiowine cAndscron’ rte omcorss | plaint of Pretty Young Wo- robbed lately were in the court making| they are compelled to vai aa | ima RPT ratA Seat ane BOE LT Ghee TAY Fag . , amibure Bridge, |*'Shannon walked. vas forced on | Leeatithurraperiitereaa eertan el Pad More walking along the sidevalk Me PINE, 10-Pound AEs Heh QF | Browne's’ grounder, st srke to Wagner quette. in front of No, 115, noar Ludlow street. | nches; gonn f See TE thot | Deviin smashed 9” double to left, and | ‘if ae a a to-gay, when one of the fagstones sud-|6 Inches, second; D. Horm Fett Brome nwentiig ITOH Sey TP UnAR Al eee eearer teint epee that KILLED BY THIRO RAIL. denly gave way under Grace's fect. Sho | 12 feet. finches. thirds | Mone “Wagner tabby. hur Browae No. «0 West Fitty-seventh street am PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4A man| ‘OPPed into an excavation for the Bub-|1. A. A.C; Lawson Roberteon, 1. A. A.C Rechan tosaed out McGann. | her address, red Dr. Edward stipposed’'to be Fu My Barton fermecty | Way. OOP ttteen tent deep. In igolng| seconds Uy J. Balte. N. TA C., third : © league, of No, 32 Weat Fitty-elghth jot this city and recentiv Of Punsey.|20%R sho made a grab at Florénce’s Miso be Moe Second Inning. the West Side Céurt to-day tawney, Pa. was instantly Mdlled ta-day bi Gah Ry Smith jit, robbing: her ots ansi40/ dlemons: on the’ third’ rall of the West Jeraey| Policeman Jamies Conners rescued the singled, bulk h and small amount of cash, and Seashore Railway's (racks! Meat| girl, unconaciois, after a lot of search: FORT ERIE RESULTS. | Daitien to lox heft, Mis a Rnd c Besmhore ytellwayiey (racks girl, unco fer t | alleged theft, Mis# Tillman nate, Woodbury ON. Ji avhen the body was! ing around for ropes. She was sreated | = S ‘dla: Doyles| about 3 A. M. at the Hotel found ik oma ining morpss one of thei uy a surceon {rom Bellevue Hospital| Btario, Aug. M--The oaths Seventh avenue and Fitteth the hody, was burned from head to foot.! gent home n ambulasce suffer. | ay as follows ve anal wave her occupa- rece: TS al Denies, RST RAC (6 tof and 1 Med to An- —— won, Marimbo (6 Hace) 2, Quinn and Fitse |THE SUNDAY WORLD’S NATIONAL LEAG UE. hind Time, 1.28," Helen std Teague. ed GIBSON BATHING GIRLS | i Sremeuiueering teed: es fora diamona D RACE=Flying Plover (to sner's trip Maik Miss Tillman as. MOVE. TO LIBERTY THEATRE, | the Boston va. Chicago oI) 1 Little Wally @ to 1 for pices tetiel alate me | po ea edd gullants a cnxaeall May re repre Pan nee, out Storke we (bby took | was held GBI batt for rad tn the* j ese thing hh tie sunday Aorta CN Navan ATs UTA TonseHtart and Bank Holiday also anc’ /secand. ,Sheetan lined to’ Shannon, | Court, of Generel Boselowe te og: pera Baia adtineteadt eee nee | rhs Netaa .,|, THIRD RACE~Bewitched (8 tol and} Devin Med to Clarke. Beymour | pital eiwollves | told Magtateate ne a u {Cinotinatl s.61660 0 0.0.00 0 2 2-4/2 to 1) won, Freacatt (@ to 2’ place) 2, ‘ b t, Wi brovas,, had complained of 4 “Dr. KY Root Garden. che: Gibkon” Bathe | py angled. Brosraban went out, Wagner Ibe atop hare a earea Unt Philadelphie 1.06 400 1.1 0 0 8) Terah 3. Time—L06 1-6, Interne, C,H: Segue” passing. worthless checks ind i x7 fore es fa Pollen of 100%, Hakteriesiitt-MoLean, Moren-Jack-| Schilling, renee ttton Btltch, Tom Shaw ‘and ia representing. himself as attached to.tha. Usaoh. (Contloued on Second Page.) institution. fa not. known there, aitiidniiti