The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1907, Page 3

INCENDIARY FIRE IN HARLEM COSTS ~~ THIRTEEN LIVES One Family Is Wiped Out and Only ‘Two of Another Escape Death in - Building at Second Avenue and 109th Street. Sa ae, Fa " An a fire undoubtedly of incendiary origin thirteen persons ‘died In: the four-story tenement, at the northwest corner of Sécond avenue and One Hundred and Ninth street carly to-day. All of the victims prob- uld have been saved had not the adults among them lost their FARRAR shies ably cor heads, © The dead were confined to members of two of ‘the six families that lived in the building. They were Mrs. Catharine aBrracca, twenty-seven years old; her three children, Jennie, aged seven, Guissette, aged four; and = Marie, aged ore, who lived on the third floor front; Pasquale Cardenale, thirty years; his wife Nicolina, aged twenty-eight; his four children, ~ Guilletta, aged eleven; Guidita, aged four; Rosa, aged three, and Luigi, ~ aged four months; his unmarried brother, Giovanni Cardenale, twenty-five; his father-in-law, Domato Cardinale, aged sixty, who was _Also his uncle, and his mather-io-law, Guilletta, aged fifty-five. In the lower floor of the tenement., the street. He opened his door, as the é fronting on One Hundred and Ninth| *#!oon-keeper had done, and the fire, at: Glu: Ye Cudemo, a prosperous swirling up the stairs, almost enveloped shea Arahat Las him: This shows how fast the fire o RaepRal had a saloon, = nd his three| Climbed. He made first for the cot children he occupied the whole second| Where his sick son, Doméiico, aged ter a long lines, Tne lad was reduced to & skeleton and he made @ light load for the grocer. With the invalid in his arms Barreca rront escape to the red back down the floor. Pistol ehots awakened Cudemo, He sat up n bed to hear the flames crackling evidently in the hallway of the firat floor, the fre had instantly up Delow him. climbed up the been drawn ? eaildren ‘gouy, of the burning house, and now he wtood a ahirt-sleeved, red-faced ngent nt, A: tes hati-mad Letiss, below him. to quit @ropping thelr bables and come . Ganger. The three ‘holiseholds clinibed ~ hain acnenbe tars, and was filling every corner of Tims after time he tried to the building with a thick, acrid smoke, force his way into his flat. Smoke and tied his -outer-door-epen:—A-} flame pushed -him-back. He-hung-ther. screaming for nia wife and his three iit- tle girls, until his big mustache and his hair singed away, his garments dropped in charred rags from hi burned as black as a negro’ Engine No. 3 and Truck No. % wi the fire companies to ai firemen found every windo; flame or smok je top make out whi looked lke the figures of women and 1 Firemen Couldn't Get Ir, ‘The firemen knew there were perso! stil in the house, Hundreds ‘talians surrounding them over the’list of names aud do something. inside the house. nie uggan, there was Oo wave. Bo they just turned it the mre out th record mounted their. house, drag- m1. , gust of fire bellied into pis face. He slammed the door, ran through the rooms, awakening his family, and In a minute or two atl of them had climbed out Gropped Into One Hundred and Ninth street half clad and barefooted, but un- injured. S Policeman Saves Child. Two pollcemen—Gibson and Dugan—| child © heard the shots_and ran to the house. Gibson got there first, He ssys the lower hallway was roaring like a prasiers furnace. Through the smoke he saw a little girl clinging, stupefied, @ the stair rail ten feet up, Givson muffied his facd, dived throush the fire grabbed up the’ child and got ‘out. with her, ‘This, seemed inconceivable to those - who knéw how fast the fire spread, ‘ut Gibeon showed a burned coat and smoke tarnished badge for proof. tried to get back into the building the second time, but the fire wouldn't let him. . Bo he pulled the firebox on the ~ @orner, shoulders and ing The firemen couldn't the ‘fire-ee- | N®2121,-2NS. AVE— Inch inch the; to the top of th ja} fol ten fire-escaps, thewo Fits fiele Vibe had nae REMOVING THE EAD — =: WANTS NO DELAY OF THAW'S TRIAL Martin Littleton’ Objects to Je- rome’s Proposal.to Post- pone It Until January. Gardenaies iy J saw at. sgtimpse that there|on them, leaving treeacu was no entering the building. do his overcoat and his helmet, raced up the stepe of the house next door, at No. 21M Becond -avenin, reached the rosf, found ladder lying on the house’ top ond used {t where {t| would do the most al aot. roof, had mut in door ¢o suck it in, it ‘ardinales and the Ba: store they could reach the si iat outside the window, = they tred to resch fee ‘| MNSTERIOUS FRE WAN OLD HOTEL Blaze Starts in a Bed in the Stevens House, With No One in Room. suffocated the beri t Aa they awakened the occupants of the'rear rooms of the third end fourth loore—Mike Sagaria, his wife and his) arms family; Luigi Donnasila, his wife, two and two boarders, and Glo- -yanal Delago, his wife and familly of five or six xiddies—tought their way | from through the smoke that made. them @boke and blinded them, to the rear fire- ROS Pee Wemen in Panic. Fhe mothers, frantic with the sende- fees fright) of the Italian peasant, @arted to drop their bables into the outstretched arms of the neighbors who ly smothered as they hwelorers several things that mace | u ‘ofice, think *Rre- ponsible for. the horror, rst | 0} ss rived another fre ‘arted in the. tone. Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Har- [ry K. ‘Thaw, will make a vixorous pro- test In the Criminal Branch of the Su- premo Court this week against the poat- ponement of the second trial to the Jan- wary term. Mr. Jerome will ask delay on the ground that dt would be a hard- {al‘p on a jury to lock it up through Mr, Littleton issued the follewing statement to-day as indica- tive of tao stand he hag taken in the Robert Flaherty, who is employed. in Wall street. and for the past fifteer yeara has occupied Room No. 65 in the something behind him this morning that caused a fire to start in the mattress of his bed. What it was is a mystery, ‘The chambermald smolled smoke just before 11 o'clock and gaye the alarm.) Policeman’ Foley, on duty way at this point. Abe the Ireinen Morris street, ‘A couple of babies had already been Col, W. F. Cody Pitched off the iron balocnies, when je paying: hinine! ber and is two boarders in his pt Were singed. lef Dougherty an, of the Bast one Hunt Street Station. thieves had ‘set: bo: the holidays. cago and in the assiated by the hotel attendants, thréw the blazing matcress out of the window, and with several of—water -ewtingulshed” what jo tire remained In the ro dred and Fourth once decided that Intending to loot. fats Was sure to follow. urpoee.__ Ca "On account of an accumulation of morea> less groundless rumors which Feculied = meine —-Interestay of old Stevens House building {s 110 years # and ,the Inst fire forty-five years xo, xcited riot. wo mon who called mn tnd Eaward in’ the act. of cellar floor into irety’ Five “weeks ago themsalves John Johnson” were capty boring through the demora.-waloon- Thaw "case one day beyond Dec. will I consent to it. there occurred and come .out of and wha extin- No suggestion of a tryin, t i Ropes Barreca), was.-just getting out of Wed in his room ‘at the third: floor fronf to go ‘Gown and sweep out his lit- tle ‘grocery. ‘stofe ‘in ‘the same block when be heard’ a pisto! cracking across Genaral 8: It has been # hostelry for about eighty years, haying becn orlginally “openod honico| restaurateur, It was once New York's! leating tote and was Jenny Lind x AL account of! from bank and wo men were demo Catt bo at the instance of the District torney and not of the defense. The trial of this case haa already been delhyed beyond all reason," BAT ASKED WHY IT TES OF CARS Rush-Hour Service Not Con- tinued Long Enough, Public Service Commission Thinks, the frat Del: was Fretheee them at th fayorite stopping ee GILSON S. WHITSO! ay Vice-President Rank Victim of Typhoid.” Gilson 68, Whitson, vice-president !of the. Nationa! ity Bank. died yerterlay afternoon [i hie apartmenta tho hei ton fever, He had been four weeks and was He was cashlor of the Duk for many years and was made president upon its reorwantzation ‘under the administration of Jaiies. Stillman, Whitwon was president pf ithe Bankers’ Association, president of tho Fearon ow and stor of the New York Ath- rit Sub. His widew and two. sons! survive. . rt YOHE NOW PLAYS... * INA TEN-CENT SHOW. SACRAMENTO, Cal. Nov. 35-May fourth week Miss. from him a letter th Waa mich that she refused to-tetl-its gontents to the referec. Miwa Mar said ahe described a mus- third bath she had seen Mis Katherine Glemmons administer to Cot. Cody tn | Qhicago. On their trip to Europe, anid, "Big BM" Hawley was atte: tg them and Grove them to their hotel and took them around London. He dis- @ppeared suddenly, she sald, and they dara he Huu \v Bo Parin on acount ‘ote stabbing affray, Bhe and Ass Ciemmons, she said, t [avers wbanded in Landon once, and ahe ‘| acpported hersell. dy nowmpaper worl. Misa Mar sald Mr. Gould's attorney tried to make her wdmit that bh = tlons with the late Steele pavers beun improper. She said ahe was with pe tera absentminded:| IS a paradox in itself, Person, for exam net rget all’ about brella, grip er-overcoat hurries Out “of a restai Car, while ‘at the med full tients oh else, not thruthfully sa “absent minded.” ply a case of forgetfulness—| Syuptom That Indicates” ‘ formerly, waa The Public Service Commission to- @ay made.an order directing the Brook- lyn Union Elevated Railroad Company to show cause, why 1t.ahould not con: tinue the, maximum service, over the Brooklyn Bridgo fora longer period at rush hours. ‘The order indicated that tho maximum service at rush tours was Hot continued long enough, the result being that people are cotipelled in large number to stand, with\Putnam Bradlee Strong. of | sloped, orks and. went tong sino jaying in @ ten-cent vaui ere. — Oo ‘The order waa based on a report by Robert KE. Anthony, ony'of the commia- an EVENING WORLD. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1907: co ‘Taking Out Bodies of pie Victims, and House in Which They Perished, | = = - CAUSED BY FEAR ~~ ceit No Longer Possible. ‘| magnificent home in’ New Rochelle af-| OF EXPOSURE Coming Division of Bulkeley | Estate Made Woman's De- HUSBAND BELIEVED HER. | | { He en a |Despite Denials; Credited Tale of Connection With Con- _ Necticut Family. Facts which came te light to-day con- | cermng Wie AmaAring life story of Mraj Nicholas M. Smith, jr., who fired her | ter iiliing her husband and then turned | j the platol_gn herself place her romance | lin the regions of fact that in far |atranger than any fiction, ,The fact that when the estate of the late Licut.- |Gov. Willlam H. Bulkeley, of Hartford, Conn., 1s divided arong hia children text week the—whole—ateryof the ex-{ ltraordinary deception she practised on! ther husband, who, despite her repudia- ones his daueners—Cax-—Batkelers + still believed her to be Grace’ Bulkeley, woukl come out and she, would be branded as an imposter after all ‘the! care she had spent in bulldjng up her | ; ve her to! strange falsehood, is what drove her double crime none of her friends | doubt tottay. Even- Smith lent himself, though 00 | years, and on one occasion thateia Fun to the rowboat and the man wae wittingly, of cout to her deception |cnown of she faced the Lieutenan Rind toe wary eahaustear =, Tee for it was learned by The EveniM¥) Governor and told him she was his! Brooklyn early In the morning to tow. World to-day ho lived with her §n-a| qaughter. She had fold him beforehand) to the schooner Willey, “anchored tashionade apartment-house at No.l!) in letters that he had cast her off b Tee eee Sa apt) ahi ek Riverside Dri ber brother when icausc of a girlish indiscretion and hud |hours trying to negotiate the. chanel she was known as Mrs, ‘Dayid Van | mubstituted in her place a cousin, also alnat the stift win Hamed Grace Bulkeley. welts, cutter gave him a tow to the: i Scheack. The real David Van Schaack er newspaper_man, ‘who mar- B et STORY TOLD IN GOULD CASE BY MSS MAR FILED Actress Herself Makes Public Story She Says She Told Referee. - ios The deposition of Helen Mar, given before Referees McClure in the Howard Gould divorce case, will be fled in the Supreine Court to-day, The deposition, which will be fead to the jury at. the trial, according to Misd Mar, dencribes the allexed rela- tions between Katherine Clemmons and Buffalo Bil"). Mien Mar profeases to have personal knowl- edge of certaln incidents, both In Chi- Hoffman House, in this clty. Bhe testified to this also, and also that Col. Cody once accused Kath- erlne Clemmons of tryin to poison him. Bhe sald she testified that Max _.em- told her that. although Col, Cody exppnses; that sho was afraid he was i to cast hor off, and that rather tet—him. get a hous giving: Sa rerstix: Sac 1 ‘also knowl in a theatrical company, she would sit on @ trunk in front of the Hoffman House amt-tel-all the reporter the de- tails! of hor refations with him. | \Bhe testified, sho says, that she went mmons to Europe’ after Fair, and that Miss Clem- mona there told her she had a letter from Col, Cody telling. her Uiat-he was through with her forever, and that ..6 Clemmons recalved @ phrasing of whién Bry Muicnaye Wictihe dled and that ~ecit : Font her and gave nee lesaong‘in them. : Ailsa Mat ed aha had. deen assured: er name. would not be brought inte the (case, but learned that "her teati- ied contrary, Courts and decldnd® wi lead friend, make pul =e | paisontig, wort hie triende: hate DEW) yet bound from -QusrAT Reto stat Hs lackaye had —the-rea}. Grace Ghetwotds— y-and—restdes—at—Hariford_Conn.._A0- that even here the woman who is de- clared to have posed from her teens las the Lieutenant-Governor's daughter kept up her strange deception, —Gen= Bulkeley on that occasion de= Rounced the young woman as an im- postor, and Inter, when ashe pleaded with him for recognition, he paid no attention to her appeals, Devid Van Shanck, the man who Knewn as Her: Brother, inated the Grace Bulkeley now living rtment- |!" Hartford, was eniployed on a New. @upt. Anderson, gt te orld reporter | York evening newspaper until the spring houme, told an Eveninm ty duties there {Of 1897, He and his wife and one child that when he assum then lived in Brooklyn, When he left “ vai jin June of Inst year “Mrs. WS" New York Van Schaack went to Hart- Achaack"’ and her “brother ford, and for @ tri ‘ A AGont aparte b ie was employed-on | dome eee aia pt was sum-|"*ewepaper there, Later he became ment, One day misrent to do some |connected with « trade paper, mone! Introduced by | THAt the woman confidently believed trivial repaira he awet fo the male oc. |heFaelt Gen. Bulkoley's daughter 1s not iDare, Van Bonet te rhs ia my] doubted. Although she was apparently, fee it ee Gatiny pete insane on that one subject, she was per- rother, Mr. 2 fectly sane on all other q that time on Anderson di4 not saat twuch of “Mrs. Van Schaack, sheng such beauty that a er, but hé‘remembera that as he ene i torthe houseino tar It was learned to-day that Mrs. Smith| na malice ee Sieh was addreased |S married twice before she became colved 0 Te leet aa @ineer, of No..# East One Hundred “Mrs. Van aay and Ffity-sixth street. Medhurat met] All you, have to do’ writ 4 of time’th her automobile, bars oo ie the girl in 11, and believed her to be| “Send mp your KREW THEATMENT am the car almoat all crery day. On Grace Bulkeley. He mavcied her inf Hiatal’ Book days Smith would accompany her! is put two yeare later sho ran away ! penny of costs ‘sumtvions aeantion et DR.» ¥ They left the Riverside Drive Apir™ bwith another man, and he divorced tier, | WIt11? NURVE | AND” FLESH rent in March lest, about which date/oi 0) ¢oiowed her marriege to Dr,|BUILNER to convince you How to Get a Snperb Figure Without ~~ i emmy, Paying noHinsle Pr n % Use, you may quickly secure a firm, Smith nnd: the woman were married in} yo Acton, Hercule sdavelantdEiicceeaeepelaeaea New York. Betore her marriage to Medhurat-the+-heuldery, handsomely molded arms anf Despite all these apparently wnac-| girl und Smith had lved together, and Properly developed! limbs. countable moves it yas evident. that|he wanted_to marry! her. His tather. |, by jehyleteyen ei hang? Smith still betleved in her allege. {4en-|Nicholas M, mith, of Baltimore, hadjtauce. Dr. Whitney's nd Flea ith Gen, Bulkeley at the; Bullder acts directly on the thy. He trusted In her story of ‘being/a conference w: Pll dec ACRE GINS YE cae te helen Grace Bulkeley even after Gen. | Colonial Club, and Bulkeley declared | nigcen, . irl un impostor. Mr. Smith and}" Ai nny rate, the trial coste ou nothi Bulkeley bad seen his) father at cee] HIG. Bulkeley “then, went to Whe wirl|—we take all the ‘tisk—you are ‘not a. oam Colonial Club In New nee Fy aad Bulkeley again denmunced her as| out i Ks mnether benea bed oe snp Bmith that the woman] unsimpoato ‘ jvinoed the elder Xiter tue death of Dr, Acton; Smith, | which & better tnt to the com=, waa an imposter. jr aguin hecame attentive to the girl;| plexion And ja finer. texture to kin, Gen, Bulkeley died five years ago. He | abi their inurriage followed, Sie per Ua blood making, The sam- 7 a rr le. A left lan eatate valued at over, 00M.) suaded Mi Maley, Bile persuaded his it advertising this free trial vere but {t developed that halt of thig | : us, {twill ho withdrawn, ro don't delays owsd, The: rest was to be divided) * Ar "smiths of vary | write NOW THR 0.1. JONER” CO dat . hat Mr: among his’ children equally five yeara| positive in thelr statemante, phat Mra: after his decease. The time for the divi- tte prages BuiKels exteliry lene ‘gion will arrive in a few'days, andi Qinitne’ family physicinn, says Mra. . there isviittle doubt in the minds of} smith told him the history of her lite, those who knew t:e her confidant she ad-|— , : couple that It wad | i re ie ald aot love Smith, buc| e the knowledge that she would be finally |haa married him for his money. unmasked before the man she. decia: ee | | she loved best on earth that led Mrs.) ADRIET FIVE HOURS «+ | a rt o take her husband's life and ‘ hoo IN NEW YORK BAY. ! Plan Enables Men and Women One Husband a Suicide, ee | mo further complicate the ‘extraorai. | Man in Rowboat Struggled: Help-| nary tangle in the life of Grace Bulke-| jessly Against Stiff Gale Until jey'e_impersonator, Dr. Rodert Actor} 7 | by R viwmsnemarried secratly in 1s, DY_KE 3 Sen MtebeaS yeatubadeinel..oxDbIaN |...crbse-plbet ofthe revenun cutter Cx SCLC tvs Bulkeley, of Manchester. | tery to-day, saw a man In a rowbont off | a M mes who, the southern end of Governor's ‘Island | England. y te No reference or securit fhysician and bis wife in ¢ * - etc the yours Thouse at No. 18 East WHAT WAS Tee quired—no investigations or de- Beventy-ninth street. Acton, once a The Woman Fenre liveries made—make your pur- ‘and prosperous surgeon, and aes Ak Gee on the--Hervard footbal| what a comfort to find it Is team in 188, was) a man who ruined|not “the awful thing’ feared, but jis prospects, vo dia friends declared: /oniy chronic indigestion, which by drink. i nroper food can relieve. 4 ft was W 4 aloon on the corner. of|.-a-woman in Ohio says: Highteenth street and Madison avenue “T was troubled for years with In: | that he borrowed $8 with part of which] digestion and chronle constipation. he purchased the morphine with which| Ar times I would have such a gniw- ended tls life onthe morning of jing in my, stomach that I actually 23, 1900, Ac.on oamagto thin coun- | feared I had a—{ dislike to write or ‘ry from Kinsole, Ireland, and in 1891) even think of what I feared. entered the Harvard medical achool. He/ ‘Seeing an acocunt of Grape-Nuts thirty-two years old when he dled, | | decided to try it. After a short time was at the time a visiting physician |; was satisfied the trouble was nox the penitentiary on Blackwell's /the awful thing I feared, but was stl!] Island. ee bad enough. However, I was relieved Undertaker Davis, of New Rochelle, of a bad case of dyspepsia by chang- Buildings, Ce tn whose establishment the body of ing from improper food to Grape- EN EVENINGS, Mrs. gmith ls still Fyne puncte ned. by | Nuts. es : } “Bulkeleys, said to-day that he| ‘since that time my bowels haye . me Beautify me Co chase, pay your first deposit and take the goods along with you and pay at your own conven: ience, Lenox Clothing Co. 2:78 Sixth Ave., near 17th $$, 2274 |hirdAve.,nr, 124th St, w and mplexion IN TEN DAYS 1% expected the Smith family to claim itibeen as regular as A clock. I had shortly: jalso noticed before I began to eat Members of the Bulkeley family, in-\Grape-Nuts that 1 was becoming: for- | 2 a cludiig Mrs.\David Van Schaack, whofpettul of where I put little things Nadinola a was Geace Bulksley before her emar-|apout the house, which was very an- 2 e riage, are most pgaitive in thelr state- | noying. Gated eae uutiee nae ments that Mrs<Smith was an impo: “But since the digestive organs (rag Morsed Bs tor, They tell also how fr years she;haye become strong from eatin \ haa posed us Grace Bulkeley frst ond|Grape-Nuts my memory is good arc later aa Mrs, Van Schasck, and how|my mind as clear as when I was on more than one occasion she has) young, and I am thankful.” Name caused embarmasment to the family. {given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, ‘According to information received by Mich, Read tha little booklet.)."The $h by bpera | The Evening World, Mrs. Smith “has|Road to Wellyille, in packages, Hous, posed aa Grace Bulkeley for twenty “There'h a Reaso.. S NEA MaRS SR NCR Ae Batata le SETI TL col kee Nad le Meg POPE Oe ET ER MIO P UES ress NBII STRONY eyo NC