The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1907, Page 1

Dead Man at Lever, Subway Trains Crash on Tr estle Thirteen Lives. Lost in Incendiary Fire in Harlem Shoppers Meet Death as Fire Sw -eeps Department Store C= ee ESULT Sino SA ee ty ONE NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOUSND OL 25. L907. ‘PRICE CENT ati TATE NE TE HOSPITAL Evening World Investigator Reports That Inmates of Ward's Island Asy- lum Are “Hanged,” Choked or Beaten for Trivial Offenses. Curve Near 174th ve Station, Injuring Many Passengers ——in-Rear-=nd Collision. ) DERAILED. CARS TAK2 FIRE _ HANGING OVER STRUCTURE, AMAZING RECORD OF CRUELTY IN WARD 40, Employed There as a Keeper, Dr. John C. Mc. Carthy Kept a Diary Which Is an Astound- ing Indictment of the Methods Practised on the Island. ‘Meyers, Veteran Engineer, Believed to Haye Been Stricken in Sight of Danger—Cars Speed On With No Control of = | Mechanism, 2S ie Reports reaching The Evening World during the three months pre-| | An cight-car north-bound Bronx Park Sub ceding October of the ill treatment of insane patients by attendants in the f Ze : jelther dead or in a helpless state from paral or fright in charge, jcrashed into another train bound in the same direction’ on the elevated Manhatan Sale Hosp en Wars sland jedi ihe Cee gantuli ch atn | | ‘ ~|POOS ;structure at One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street and Boston road to- agent to investigate conditions in that institution, This agent has had ex- day. Nanies Meyers, the motor engineer of the rear train, was cut to” Perience in the treatment and care of the insane at Bloomingdale Asylum Geol and Bellevue, and he is a physician. | pleces i in his little box in the front car, and a dozen or more passengers a wae of ones ne) an attendant in a ward in the| i |; Y It is the’ belief of Meyers's employers and-fellow workmien, and of anhattan State Asylum. is report shows an amazing prevalence of it | G r’s Physician Curtin that the motor en; vineer was a,c be! brutality among attendants. While his observations covered but one CROWDED TRE | LIP Of A COIN: aa Neue ve ee tlit scolliston) TI ney base ithe Galan) upén several circumstances, -ward, his experience may be accepted as a reflection of what was going on} - Zs ==} Meyers was an old and careful em= * all over the asylum. | | = | Plovee, a man of ood habits, He had? He found that it is a practice to hit inoffensive patients in the face, to At keast One Person Met en hite House Lottery Held o CAPTURES PAIR jun trains of tho station at: One” y 1 n | jeaunaten and S ty-fourth street hanes drag them about, to slam them into corners, to kick them in the abdo- Death and a Number Injured | ‘ Eon ck \ | Seitle South Dakota Pa- dreds of thes and } that there was! men and, occasionally, to subject them to a treatment known as “hang- : ne : fonaeetois He lie to be unothr train just around the ae 2 at Blaze in Cincinnati. — | spmtat to toe Bening World) BENNINGS RESULTS. ES [eater ihe aioe ETE Toe aT : ., . . INGS RACE. TRACK, WASH- This is nothing less than strangulation with a towel. The patient is 2 a i : De pete Siena PRET Pa teh F Ran Past Signal- sh : CINCINNATI. Nov, At least one INGTC . . Make Father Bill a | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%5.—The White rendered insensible, revived and beaten. It is all carefully and Scientifical-| pocgon was killed and a large number} Daly’s record for the season four vic- l7 fanen pacers ‘er Ween rouse Was the sccne of & lottery draw- | After rounding the curve he had a. ly done, The pattents are kept in abject terror, infured in w fire to-day in the alx-|tofles, Winning Star won the fourth) 101 Spanker 3, Place) ling to-day In’ which the Fedural pat: [clear view Of the train ahea and, tp TMT SESE GUNS SSSD APD AFP Dery | story brick block at Twelfth and Main|PUF® of the xeaeon for the old wage of erat of the State of South Dakota | adult m ® mlgnal was set agalnat’ hint. liltam Wind-|Hartford iu the fourth raco here thal SECOND RACE—Economy (6 to 5; Wax disposed of. The President of the | He horat Compa goods firm. | Afternoon, Winning Star was) pounds! sq 4 to 2) 1, Monkey Puzzle (2 to "I Vacated in a crowded retail section, the|the best, but she nearly lost by a wide j atrecta, nN past the signal and, without is The Evening World investigator was in a ward whero tho patients, while considered “violent,” were in no sense dangerous or disagréeable. The “system” followed by the attendants renders them careful to hit pa- tlents in the jaw or In the abdomen, where no contusions will show. When an attendant makes a mistake and marks a patient anda-complainy se-made- | Ualted States turned the wi ing off the current or applyingr the! - shu | tune and Senators Kittress: -| Jumped Bail Here an Here and Went to|air brakes, smasned into ‘the obsteues ment. Many em-|turn into the stretch. She swerved| !'for phace) 2. Fin MacCool 3. | ble. drew out the prize pac! i ion. Had he been capable of. action fiway over to the outside fence, but There was a large number of vacant} Canada, but Were Caught | he would have shut off the power and closing fast, managed to rot up to win] THIRD RACE—Greeno (3 to 1 andj omens in the State due to the fast inet ‘ | put on the brakes by instinct, it da as: by a head even) 1, Bonero (8 to § for place) 2,|the two Senatora have been ‘unable to in Chicago., eveds fnge dura} ith anybody but Karke oun she els of the: Bay Si 2 | agree:upon:appticants/=thua” permictiiet: eceeneees PRSoer oS oaam aE ORE Ante nid have won by hereelf. zi : AB oabsidas. : : : ras sucisatiaed wie eevong, 17 OUATH RACE: a pormer Deteuiive Lieut Frank: Pea “AX ty-2-and-7- WO" TOY, Kingeasing Ut who Is operating a private detec. mt x : =: ie 3 Heh id.the~Pranident-s. eetroatth Mena Selby we “pHeH Ty et —for--plece) 2. Gay-Grywe ite SE ie tn: any Dy APPANIHERE WO agioe: ir Doasible “upon a-distrbution, fire caused much exctt ployees and an Indefinite number of customers wero in the bullding at the the collision. or_was-desd—or-aa-goed. dledgi- before tt happened o colliding traln was. moving. at Rare published with thin: z ia an SNOT RUST Sealui tose t : : wlion ayenué and Forty-second street, figured | t ne = anchor titers nkle Ww FIFTH SRACE—Monarodor (3°to Ty wiowhentys tay in the Tecaptare of an inte spesd-and thu shock was ry ir to-morrow. they confronted tb dent they | "a> uss) vier i ¢ the entire building was ablaze tke tira | money tthe Aral paceueiiocnilese and even) 1. Higginbotham (3 to 5) {found themselves just as ape ae | IR pair df alleged singe people who are eee ee car St ae Reba ae) L ; This diary Is a plala recltal of the moat striking cages of brutality that | Ft e SEAL ETS PATE Gea me IA SER AE: eae Sip Phe} for place) 2, Ballot Box 3_ they have been in his absen | wanted in’ New York on the charge of SNR OE TG. Pees ray ik the investigator observed. Minor incidents of a similar nature he dig not} 20°" tt Severs i were of steel construction, but they. wan so) Dished a favorite, President Noosevelt saw the difficulty (having robbed wealthy Southerner of /crumpled like paper, Had they been the windows. Ono saleswo eet down, nor was he present in the ward all the time. baaicansaned «tint atiddiedsithinua Marrone Denied Admission, SIXTH RACE—Berkeley (7 to 5) and proposed: that they draw lots. he} diamonds and money to the amount of wooden cars, Uke majority of thise me. while others on that floor] ‘The sun shone to-day for the firat}and 1 to 2) 1, Killlecrankle (7 to’ 5\Semitors agreed, the position of | $25,000. In use in the Sub they jiaust have Manhattan State Hospita] 1s the largest intitution of its ki seriour Injuries Urns singer ial eT nesdayserhe: tracks! (or place) 2, DArkle 3. Denk: in Im-] James Edwards, known to the police been totully wrecked and possibly world, sheltering almost 5,000 insane patients, It {s a charitable institut n ts panicky crowd It was almost | Seine incimure Golo I oe ae ———_ a P freane | Pe secs gat toste GORE Ten Heelers cronpeds (oy Dinh ecinataeha to find those who had ¢s- awaner whose horse St. Joseph |. oindimin cand: ctatiase RNOWn. BS Hoste: Gaven | f Sie anteel. from one. of the cara’ ald ifallii under State contro], and most of the patients are from this city. Dr. Mabon | Ree eran bettart allie ad iwere LW ared to: have been doped in the athe ene turing up tn | that Senator Gamble. should aime the Falwanta, sald fo be members of a bik through the thes to the pavement, forty: iq the superintendent. : ee at put it was belleved no . veterinary, | Dantel,” Tony: Bonero ope RAtpie caln at colored road show, were brought trom! geet “ SeoROU ER nee alte Hull Vader ar ‘Taner ip [Bete start, but he wha onugnt on the | ,,2P2, Digns Of money fell heads up, and |Chicaga by Peabody and turned over! Subway service In thé Bronx was s podle: ein the rulns o} f " Uhad > ; h 4’ thus a ed to 5 ‘ buth i Aiea ait a PATIENTS. VICTIMS OF A V. (0) ‘SYs = sumber of dead wilt not | yexte Murrone ‘promises to make | Bist re by Fuallade, who led to the | sir Kiced myarded 0 lto Central Office siduths. ‘They were | totally suspended «for almost three ny y wretch by a narrow’ margin, In. the Ul the ruins are searct ed. property loss bse re from $110,090) to #2 The casual visitor to the asylum will Inevitably conclude that it iis a BY model institution—as probably Gov. Hughes concluded when he passed what he says ta ta rigut atreteh SfaDaniel. moved” up. with | Both appoaring bac hw }arraigned before Judge Rosalsky In| nours after the accident. The traln track follower whose Greeno, oon parsed methad of disposing of the Goseral Seastons to-day and hold in} tute Ave Ntate ts sald to be Schweltzer, iiled Tdmecle| win ae olelt aa inte Sete ‘ony | President Alugwested tha te! schednles) on} the-Meno: avenue” branony \ ‘ ! to-day In Lincoln Park. A Rrooklyn | Bonerd ea aleat ane Bay, Tony mec. [do filled alter the samo a 310,000. fae I between Ninety-slxth street .and. the ; ee bank book Was found la Le pécket tng the pla head. accordingly. the names of ML | A month ayo “Shine” and the woman] yrariem River, way dlsatranged salle throug \t the other day. It 1g fact that even the superiptendent and the NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. One of the dost things of the moeting XRing" Gatere elt: were ‘written upon spe ofp wern iriesied on complaint of 8 I1N| ternoon—in, tach the entire, Bubwey doctors do not know the brutality and misery that is hidden behind the! = was put over in the opening dash, It The two Senators then p the name of Robert HH.) darvice auftered Yittdo, a 2%-to-1 shot. Bonve of the, Tho ring lost heavily. as the result of vith th t da ON oora leading away from the long, immaculately cloan corridors, This jg} NIV ORL! Ae races ated ileal entra her Raut acai ee bYoriter tana Alecaccdce altel stared ; ARO AMER Ok Rei eees hatter Argumenticfalwenlcana r : i orney | § prominent real aia Q © printed in justice to the higher officials. “ [conde eteaulves ie follows fan: nve|it, fFORt irl Kept him there all” the |aecond choice. ‘The latter carried the|for the Blate. Collector of Internal| cetloe of New York. He chargnd them, To-diy’s accident brings up again the FIRST RA Two-vear-olds; fivelway, winning easily from Bill Daly's {Most money, however, ‘The race. waa | Revenue Registers at the land bbing him of ble diamonds and~@sttation for an® additional motor en- They as well as the patients are the victims of a system that commits | {uonme—Ylorence. Niv 105 J. Sumter) | Tistiess, with "Di Spanker third, | between the two all the way, Thoyal-[at Aberdeen and Cham| nates | avith robbing n Tak Nn the uolap hoe cer een 13 to 1 and § to 1, rat; Lasour, 105 (V.| Raynor was put up on Comedienne and | termated in making the pace, until they | eeivera. at, the land om soney if a hetel near Thirty-f Pee ea URGE ct , athe direct. handing (pe insane to more or less ignorant and brutal attend- Powers); 13, to. 6'6 to 5 place, second: she ran a miserable race, being in the | ached the stretch, whero Monacodor | City, Pierre, Huron and acd Broadway. At that time MYA Y SCCM Oe NAP Pee eee Georgin Girl, 109 Games. Hennessey). 8) ruck all “the way. This’ @howing waa [few away <9 win. by’ two ‘lengina, | Indian agent at ee Brule. Ag fhe pale were heldsin $2,000) ballil, They. to automatically stop a. train ents, rid 210 i tnird. | Time=106. (An: | nothing: like her ast’ winning perform: Bist lengine atk Rel ont and Bal- env aadition to National eacaped and headed for | Winirinex, |» motor cnginees dle at hie ina, Anna Sanders, Cantie ey mW tohed, for third money, | Bank Examiner ke dr » womun, {tis aaid by tne aoe The Evening World investigator found that the attendants who came|miver Cup, Unadina and Caure also | 7 Boy ‘Wine Second Fest iver truee. pute Hingtasoue Ah | the fol g ape t ise, attracted te, aman's. attention My: ri aan py? b fi rs i oO Int at Deadwood it e confede! went to his hotel under lls ebservation slugged patients as though slugging constituted part NBECOND RACE-Five and a half fur-| Economy waa the favorite in’ the exried big cotnaiasion Prat “am shell, “Raph Gity; | Plerte’ ang “Mturon)* pom ee ee eee eat hagacel ndwi ini operationsal davicGlthatipeed 8 “sy m erly, tie make: elvere at itchet fo ita pe fons. None of the stolen for the stricken motor engineoy ef the day's work. They appeared honestly to believe that it’ longs: ‘$40; for four-year-old. Steoplechane and after the first Row oe Hpi noes aes! ‘ ba) forthe , their duty to torture and oppress the unt G Mra ces (sem Ses i money Sas ‘bef on Toucnwood, dat he ST SR Ey thes auiitorely 3, Tr 7 IB eaboay nian ch oaubeatiniwardal had ra |aropping his. had Atoba the cantraan, ty. PP! je unfortunates committed to their care, |% i } [fell searie And the, books Rept it. [EXPRESS TRAIN DROPS Depart eg «| guators of visiting Chicaxo owoh Sutur:| seven and release is Beco y ere ins lonkey Puss well played, wan roc> he result otters: will be that | 4, He left New (York with a Central| clfitéh, But tho device failed to’ wos RAINED IN THE SCHOOL OF BRUTALITY. R! Creel Greet Dapple Gola, font: with Fin McCool played bythe FROM BRIDGE TO RIVER, | Presiaent, noorevel be mulded hy] Gree sleuth Inst Wednesday and After | jn Afegern'a cane, If, indecd ho. wad reals ‘When the attendants are employed they are told by the euperintendent Nomo wnd Kramenha’ also ran, aT raphael arn rea Gena everaa one PAE CO ra ke eee the fate and “Rag | ly helpless and not simply so paralysed ‘ Balt ert cla ‘ < 080! pund uy ir ai} iS that they Pues beeen and kind. Then the influence of the superintendent TD ite E—Purne 3600; three-year rims MociN. tel during: theorace, but} BARCELONA, Nov ing for the oMces wht: row and al Them aereited, whey were turned over| {rnin {ght that he allowed “bls train to ok i ayer ionkecccopy! onville, |e icir ridnes landed in soft nvots. train! from? Valencia,’ i Sehator Gamblo “for, i 18 ators. etective and the Central Of-|rush’-on unehecked’ {nto a collation Pawerns ba! ay mt Greeno Geta the Third nengera on. board, fell from) a bridge [Meme ani in pin mation af nod fica, man wind Brought ere, to penwieln, of No. 1786 B 8, Perkins eRe Col nd Mri, 8, Boriven, of the masekt elon om the outskirts | tion. each Senator ri ‘ "| i Pe PPAR macy AS AS i elty to-d eect Of the ‘tn oppose the contrnation of. a Gi 0 BORE Ot the inrtance, OF the vote alt, jead.ege BYENUC, in Open haye stopped It,