The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1907, Page 8

MILED HINSEL ATER QUAL Eyer Since’ They Bought a New House They Had Bick- ered Over Money Matters, NLY 2 SHOTS NEEDED. |The Old Man’s Aim Was Ac- | curate -,in Each Case— Tenant Discovers Crime. ver since ‘they bought the neat three- igtery house at No. 653 Putnam avenue, | Sgwookiyn, and moved into the lower of, it Peter Vogel, fifty year old, Some. of the changes recommenJed | American Tobacco Compiny was fe- were made bys him to the Commieaion-/ sumed before Unitet State Commis- lors. : 5 .,| sloner Shields. The Mayor likes the home rule plan| Lawyer MacReynolds. the Govern- TNE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1907. “i SCHEME OF NEW ~ TOBACCO TRUST — COTY CHARTER AIDS GOVERNMENT. “PLEASES MAYOR INITS PROBING Many of Mr. McClellan's Sug-) Vice-President Hill Testifies | estions Incorporated: in. That He Turned Over . Commission's Report... _ All His Letters. | Mayor McClellan aaid to-day that | | Vice-President, Perclval 8. Hill. nf the | he approved nearly’ all the suggeations | American Tobacco Company. wan again made by tho Onarter Revision Com- | & wit to-day hen the hearing In miasion in its report to Gov. Hughes, | the Government's’ case against tha ment’a chief counsel. made tnadirien ‘about the very sharp. competition be- tween the American Tobacco Company | and the Queen City Topacoo Company “Witt did {t cost you." asked Mr \acReynoldn as he turned the leaves of personal letter Imvression books of Prealdent HM, “to finally «et the Queen City company tn line with your com- that: the Commissioners have récom- mended so warmly: He ta at one wilt, them in thelr dubbing of the tink ing of the Legisiaturé with New Yo! affairs as “‘logisiative- Interference,” which has resulted in much of the In- crease In the budget, from $79,000,000 to | $143, 060,000. : ee forty-five-yoar-old wife, Minnie, (ned been quarrelling. Thure were rows jedenoet daily. s ‘Yall ef yesterday morning the couple Jqere quarreling. About 1 o'clock in ithe afternoon Peter Bongart, a music texcher who has rooms on the second floor, heard sounds which he took to ‘be the violent slamming of a door twice jm rapla succession, He made no in- [veatigation. ‘ ‘This morning John Lixotte, the tenant the top floor, went down to the cel- her to turn off a broken water pipe. On ithe way back to his irooma he knocked lat’ Vowel’s kitchen door in the basament, jmeaning to,tell the owner of the acct- lent, 7 Getting no answer to his rape, he tried ithe knob, and found the door unlocked. He stepped inside and stumbled over the < Weody ‘of Vogel, which lay face upward jen the floor under a window. In the ht hand was a revolver and in the right temple = wound. - Lizotte guessed there would be an- er chapter to the. tragedy and he ed a search of the basement. He lant have far to go. In the passage- tway between the kitchen and the éin- jng-room he came upon Mrs. Vogel's ody. Bhe had been shot in the right) ide of the head and. as in the case of | r husband, probably died fustantly. | TLigotte left the dead where they were| “jandran out to find a policeman, Dr, | incus came from the Bushwick Cen-| 1 “Hospital but went away again| ter a giance at the bodles, and the} Coroner's Office took charge. | ‘I certainly do think,” said the Mayor, commenting on this phase of the report, “that legisiative Interference with home rule has caused the forcing of an in- oreased expenditure upon us. We are able to govern ourselves. We've never | shown we're not adie.” The Mayor gladly weloomes the criti- cism of the mandatory increases placed | on the city by legislation calling for! qalary increases anhually in certain de- partments, Smaller Estimate Board. The form: of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment recommended by the Gommission is approved by Mayor Mc- Clellan. He would like to see the Board made up of the Mayor, Con- troller, President of the Board of Alder- men or Vice-Mayor, and four elected members, This body would take yp the Quties of the Sinking Fund Commission | ‘and .would have charge of all expendi-} tures of moneys. A smaller Board of Aldermen and a Board of Education of ftteen mem- bers, as recommended by the Charter Revision Commission, are both Ilked by} the Mayor, and he hopes the changes | will be made. { The Commission did not seem able to| get away from government by borough | pany.” Lost In That’ Deal. Mr. Hill asked that the letrer the lawyer had before him be read. and thin showed that the American's lossex footed tp to $90,853. 4 Mr. Hill sald that*his company some- times wuaranteed the real. estate leases United Clxar Stores Company. still the custom of the American Tobacco Company to give Increased al- Jowances ta jobbers for ad increased amount of business?” It was-fearned that the -allowance av- eraged & per cent. Junius Parker. attorney for the Amer- fean Tobacco Company. then began the cross-examination. The witness safd the {mpreasion books to which Mr. Mac- Reynolds had been referring for several days past represented all of witnosi personal letters since 1902, numberi over 6,00, These had been turned over to the Government's representativ without reservation. In ‘addition, he hi turned over all the gencral business | tors he or his associates had °writt Mr. Hil also explained that he kept coples of all the !mportant letters recelved by him from hin correspondents, ond these letter-press copies, \to the number of 2600 or more, had been turned over to the Government. Gave All the Facts. lor four love-letters a day, presidents, It wants more power for ea peared ni the Mayor, especially fa the matter “You gave the Governmen ‘ appointments, but says there must Tot | asked for?” asked Mr. Parker. * eeenuance, of borough officials to en. | “Yes, even more than it asked for.""] th courage economy, proper civic pride, replied Mr. Hill and the Interests of the city, but rec- ACED SPINSTER CHARLES H. BECKETT. | THINKS SHE IS. MADE SURROGATE | Death Made Vacant. Queer Hallucination of Miss Elizabeth Quick Is Brought : Out in Court. ALBANY, Dee, 2-Gov. Hughes to day apponted Chartes HH. Beckett, | Republican, to be Surrogate of New | York County in place of Frank T. Fitz gerald, Democrat, who dled recently In an application for ‘a committee of Mr. Heokett ix a member of the law | thin of Hamition & Bookett, ts forty: | person ook after the affaira of Be, y ae (ua seventyralpnts| Tents year or ve) of Vermont} | Mins Elizabeth Quick, « seve al eeaieniss year-old spinater, living at No, 255 Car-Ognq of the roll street, Brooklyn, the fact has be- | School: | Admitat George |, About twenty Years ago he served for | Se ea ae PRS |: year or two aa Probate Clerk under Dewey has an admirer why labora under |i Fr gaces Rollins and Hansom. the hallucination that she*is his wife nas continued his law | and who writes him aa many es three |~ Solumbla University Low | bate and surrogate spe: ei lines: ever e. Surrogaie Ran- om, after he Iwft the venoh. was for one of the partners in Mr: ‘Miss Quick bas some property and a four sonra lIttle money, Her nephew, George Mor=| Th"! sx tis, of No, 53 Sixth avenue, made the | application for a committee of the per- | yon before Justice Burr in the Supreme | Court to-day. that bla aunt contioually talked ef Ad- miral Dewey and of how he loved her, Morris's wife submitted an aftitivit in which she tells of seeing Mins Quick write many letters during the course of a day and address them to the hero of Mantla Bay, According to Mra, Morris, these missives wore of the gushing. love-sick vartoty. Mrs, Morris also set forth in her affadavit that Miss | Coreen ad suggested to her once _# very! New York, Se erratmnoleon as a good thing (ON Fee gee a a gminister to Georxe Morris. remark-| thrown into the sea by a lurch of the ing as she did so "Get k cod hurband | tug, He was a native of Marlboro, | Uke my Ad Sion Quick had a hobby nnise, having many large the coins in her home, was feeble mn. President Roosevelt, then’ sovernor, appoiited Mr “Beckett one o: he managers of the Elmira Reforma- tory. which position he held for about four, years, eventually “beconting the He stated to the court] president of that board. It was during ihis administration that muoh ‘of tire) reconstruction work at the reformatory was bexun or planned. Mr. Beckett fs @ member of the Bar Association, the| University Delta Kappa Epsilon and Dartmouth clubs. | Sa | NGINEER LOST AT SEA. | NEW LONDON, Dec. 2—The the West Side Republican tug from Feil River to} Quick; Cora L. Staple: arrived with Chief| hes for saving poxer friout as eviden brought out as the aged spinster’s mind. oes OF er Mecided that Miss Quick's sonity tei for the purpose and he set lecige date for the Inquiry to begin. —_—$—_.>__—_. _MAURETANIA DOING WELL. A gift of 2 day—a remembrance | for many days— Kerkoff s Djer-Kiss te i nad best be determined by a jury the daintiest of perfumes, bears its, message of love with every breath. | Delicate — elusive —yet highly | concentrated and lasting. Violette Kerkof |: another new creation — very delicate tnd refined. Kerko@'s Sachet and Pace Powder—elihet Vielene @ Dier-Kies. t For sale everywhere. | | averame Speed for the Firat Thous- rand Miles Going East 23.21 Knote. © es OMcials of the Cunard Lino recetved a wireless message from the steamship Mauretania, via Cape Rice, to-day, eay- ing that at noon to-day the ship was 1,062 miles eam: of Sandy Hook, and that her average speed #0 far was 2.91 knots perhour, Since leaving port. the: message said, uretania had met strong easterly ‘AN on board were’ well, WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS ommends the continuance of th. yi! fo a moaified form. ee Gome Other Changes. A-Department of Gtreot Control, a Gupetintendent) of Poticc, a Central Bureau for the purchase of ail city supplies, a City Record that shalt be “a modern municipal newspaper | | = | } ;of daily value,” « Board of Condem- Greenhut The Store of Fifth Avenue Qualities Two Blocks on Sixth Avenue 1 Ie ADs . Girls’ School H ars Trimmed Re: Value. 95 Se PRESET TE TIN MS RUILDING ONLY ‘ ady-tO-\Wear Hats—lwenty styie select from (two of w trated). sulle able for girls from 12 to 18 years, all colors. Only fifty dozen in the lot: travellers’ samples and odds. and ends from our own lines. ONel Established 40 Years hich aré-illustrated), suit- 25c, radical price redi 1,000 Suits In the Greatest Clearance Sale of the Year Good Suits for About Half A great bargain event—an absolute and positive clearance at under current prices until the month of January. the lot is a splendid bargain. The occasion is altogether unusual— in fact, unprecedented—and every woman who reads this announce- ment should make it convenient to aitend. ; We habe arranged them in four lots as follows: IN EITHER BUILDING for Women uctions of garments that are not. usually marked Every Suit in Lot 1—300 Tailored Suits Made of ali--wool cheviots, shadow stripes and-mixtures, excellent ma- terials, lined with satins, Hereto- fore $14.75 to $20, Clearance sale price. Lot 2—200 Women’s Suits . Made of broadcloth, imported chev- jots, shadow checks and_ stripes, excellently lined with taffeta and satins. Heretofore $22.50 to $30.00; clearance sale ee "$14.75 Lot 3—300 Women’s Suits Made of chiffon broadcloth, velvets, rringbone cheviots and ta suitings, finely trimmed, coats satin lined. Heretofore $34.50 to $39.00; clearance sale free $19.75 Lot 4—200 Very Fine Suits Consisting of the tinest grades of chiffon broadcloth and dark suit- ll-Adams Co. “To Christmas Shoppers Buy your presents carly—Early in the day and carly That will be your big; , holidays—to the workers behind the __ counters and on the delivery wagons. “Publiahat by reauest atthe Tational Consumers’ League — = $9.75 |: — _ 20th, 2ist & 22d Streets» in December. gest gift of the Feather Boas | i : In Trimming Dept. : A special safe of Coque and Marabout Mixed Boas —In white, gray, light blue, pink, garnet, navy, brown, green, Javender, taupe and black. They are 72 inches long. Value $4.98 and $5.50 each; special at..... $2 75 — |. Holiday Handkerchiefs Complete Assortments Splendid Values (Women's Plain Linen Handher- chiefs, | Positively the best value offered, considering fineness of weave, evehness of hemstitching and gen- eral finish, at the price we quote. They will appeal to every 9c economical buyer; at Special Values in Better Grades Unmatchable for the prices we mention, considering quality and finish, Special at $2%c, 19c and 25c Wonien’s Initial Linen Handker- : chiefs Several styles of finely embroid- ered letters, made on extra grade nare linen fabric in com- : plete assortment_of initials, = : Bee 25¢ at Women’s Novelty Handkerchiefs New effects in embroidered and printed combination designs, ies of French Art Nouveau pat- terns; also embroidered dots and figures and lace trimmed Handkerchiefs, a 5c Women’s Embroidered Handker- chiefs Immense variety of patterns in Swiss Embroidered Handkerchiefs, embracing both hemstitched and scalloped edge borders; patterns 1 Police Theory of the Murder. As the police figure it out, the climax of the constant ‘bickering came after fg dispute that lasted probably all of ithe ‘forenoon. They think old Vogel \rot his pistol, and standing in the Witchen called his wife, As she opened ithe door the husband, standing against the wall, probably levelled the pistol fand fired at short range. She fell Ibackwerd into the passageway. Then the went to the kitchen window and Made as thorough a job of the suicide sis he had made of the murder. (:lt waa about two years ago that the ‘couple moved into the Putnam avenue house, wife's taxes, fought to transfer the property to him, ©, (He also wanted his wife to sell some Yealty which she owned at her former ome, in Norwalk, Conn., and use it to get him up in business, These things ‘qnd the wife's extreme frugality In the ‘matter of household expenditures for- ished material for the daily_rowe:~ Vogel, who was a frame-gilder, didn't work regularly at his trade. He spot, ‘most of his time at home. The tenants ef the upper floors didn't know much bout the pair's past life. ) The Vogels lived on North Sixth street, in Williamsburg, before they moved to _ Brooklyn, ‘and one of the pair had five grown children, money. The husband paid the which was purchased with the| and he thought that his wife) nuvion Commissioners. for coudemning property, putting all ‘hospitals and wards for the tredtment of tuberculosis in) oharge of one department, giving Charge of ail bridges to be built here- | after in the care of the Bridge Depart: | ment mre ae abe internad samin-"| istration .of the Law Department, the creation of a Department of Ferrica, e | tk police, und a single-headed Park ent. the gradual advancemen! | . of the time of collecting taxes unt!) | It. coincides with the commencament of the fimcal year, giving the city power to Issue ‘short-term note. and | the abolition of the Tax Board, the | ' Coroners: the Aqueduct Commission | and tho Board of City Record are some | other changes recommended by the Cammixaton, | and Dry Goods Men's Silk Umbrellas MAN DROPS DBAD. | Unknown Falla from. Chair in Roothlacking Shoy. A man whose body has not been saen-| j tiled fell dead from a chair in the boot-| blacking shop at No. 62 Ninth avenue| to-day, Dr. Engleson, of Roosevelt Hos- | pital, sald the probable cative of death ‘was Jieart disease, > | The only things about the body were | some papers, which Indicated that he might have been a collector for the Bronx Photo View Company, No. 114| Fast One Hundred and Fifteenth street. | He was aboht forty-five vears old, 6 feat) 8 Inches In helght, welghed 220 pounds, | and wore a black sack coat and yes | and striped trousers, He had gray halr mustache | } * | : | Trimmed : Millinery The Leading Specialty House. A CF BROADCLOTH SUITS noe Women’s and Young Women’s Sizes Handkerchiefs GENUINE "Salea are not,very nu: merous—ae you knord And a Genuine Sale fn. Staple Broadetot) | Of Enelts Suits ts an exception Regular even more rare. to $40.0), If you are at all. ta- millar with what our Droadcloth: Bult stock means the merits of this offertne witl leave no doubt in your mind Of Wome Regu t an to WHERE , you Regular shall buy, \ 1 With a Of Junio! BALE tn Sults, Coats and Girls’ Bults at prices that You will quickly want them, ye Urke our customers , to. make their shopping early in the day and early in the weak, Regular to fio, Regular John Forsythe paaues i — Wraps . Special Sale © of Women’s and Young Women's 7 WALKING SUITS ai and French. Stripes. Of Juniors’ ‘and Girls’ Suits IN ADDITION 200 DRESS WAISTS Net, Lace, Silk, &c. orcs sue} $9.85 || Waists Furs | Women hh Mixtures vot ES | $22.90. Utility and Storm Coats: 2+$16.50 ni pri price $2.60. {$13.75 | rs’ and Girls’ Coats }. $8.50 | A Special Sale of prices $1 John Forsythe at 18th St. | i sali aSRSCLARG ES to ti and Sixth Avenue Prices Pure Silk Umbrellas, tape edge; natural wood iI! handles. Usually sold at $3.00 . Pure Silk Umbrellas, ribbon edge; exclusive noyelty handles in gun metal, buckhorn and Capehorn, sterling silver _ trimmed. Values I $4 and $4.50 $2.95 a A comprehensive showing of all the ‘newest shapes of the season is now on view in our Millinery Department on the Second Floor. - | For special selling on Tuesday: Street and semi-dress hats, at | Dress hats, in all the favored colorings, at | Fur model hats in mink, lynx, chinchilla, sable and caracul at very reasonable prices. Sixth Avenue, Eighteenth to “Nineteenth: Street; New (Formerly occupied by B, Altman & © price $250 $750 and $10.00 | $15.00 The unusual price-savings on these handker- | chiefs make it well worth while to buy them now for holiday: gifts: i Women’s embroidered and lace trimmed sauup!e handkerchiefs of sheer linen and shamrock lawn, each mounted on a card. ‘$1.00 . Women's plain white Irish linen handkerchiefs, | narrow hems. doz. ’ Men's French lavender, gray and all the desirable shades. | Value 50c Values 50c to. || . . 25c, 35c-and SQc each | Values $2.00 to $4.00 ‘|| ~~ $1.65 doz [ blue, brown, handkerchiefs in 25c ‘each York Most_Sensationa Russian Pony, Caracul $9.50 qualities, at IN ADAMS BUILDING ON. Largest assortment “we haye ever shown, ¥ less than real value. ~ . white; value 10c. pe. 10 yards, at, per yard SATIN TAFFETA RIBBON—No. $—7% inches wide, blue, pink, cardinal, Nile, lavender, orange, gre: at DRESDEN RIBBONS—4, 5 and 6 inches w pink and light blue. Value 39c., 50c, and 65c. ings, richly trimmed and_ finely i poe ‘ fa DR querens Herelohgr $37.50) to || {2eest and: best describe; the $55.00; clearance sale collection in this aa $24.75 || Sysitn a 18c, 25¢ “IN O'NEILI. BUILDIN' LYa A Magnificent Offering of The Highest Classof Dress Goods 1 Sale ever held in New York of Over 2,000 yards of 50 inch wide, regular $5-50, * Ribbons for the Holidays BABY RIBBON—No. 1 satin’ faced, in cardinal, pink, light blue and 8c ” 29¢, 39, 49¢ and Persian Lamb Cloths Dress Suit Cases: Special at $4.95> and many items at in white, cream, light jue 7¢. per yard; 5 Dress Suit Cases, sole leather, ite grounds, edges of | |. - brass spring locks and catches, ard.) |) | 5 $0 yds | {2¢ 25¢/29¢'39e |65c Ribbon Novelties—Interesti Three hundred: pieces uf ribbon fancy own stock, on exhibition during this sale, made up for Christmas presents. Expert information is at. you! how. much ribbon is needed. ng work, from Ribbons from our showing how Ribbons can be r disposal about how to make them and per yard; special at .s,resererertsserertsnes -|slinen lined, iwith shirt Satin Taffeta Ribbon ; pack t; size 24 $4 95 Perfect colorings in white, pink, light blue, cardinal, green, lavender, | 4 Inches ..... c *, orange, mais and old rose, ie es ae Ee Number... i/133| 2/3] 5|_2| 9[ 12 | 16 | 22 | 30 {100 Pe r [Sc | 7c |'9c! 12c dc} 1é6c 19¢| 24c} 33c 2.30)3.20 Display Come in russet, sewed edges, leather lining and inside pock- Bows of All Kinds Are Made Up Free of Charge tf handle and lock. = Sizess— 14 15 16 17. 48 $5.00 $5.45 $5.95 $6.45 $6.95 Hide ioe N So Great Sate of tains at much less than usual wholesale prices. Ribéons Are Purchased, Here. ottingham Lace Curtains -At Extraordinary Prices ide We purchased from a prominent manufacturer an enormous quantity of these popular Cur- -Fhey come in a large assortment of designs, and from {wo to fifty pairs of a kind, Remem- ber, they are all fresh, new goods, and from three to five yards long. ‘ , They go on sale to-morrow-at the following prices: $1.75 | $2.50 $2.95 | $3.50 | $4.00 | Pair, Regular | 65¢ 1.9) 50 special | 39c| 59c | 9c $1.15 | $1.40 [$5.75 $5.85 92.25 | $2.50 | $2.90 | Pair. made of superior hound down one side and across bottom with ) Bees) you can have the colorings fo match thé room, : Silk Velour Portieres, Value $40.00 a Pair, at $27.50 To-morrow. and the balance of the week we will take orders to measure, make and hang. quality silk velour, interlined with double-faced teasled cloth, Tined wi Portieres, hoarmure, $27.50 edging to match, Being made to order, egular price $40.00, special at AA EERE IN EITHER BUILDING | et, ‘brass trimmings, strong | fe |