The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 10

~ GUN AND FOUND HE WAS BUNCOED ‘Here’s a veanitee of a Hold-Up Yam From Jericho Turnpike. QUAKER »MAN TELLS IT. Pointed Weapon at Highway- man, Demanded Money Back and—-Well, Read It. Here's a thriller of a hold-up, full ef dramatic: Intensity, set on nature's ‘own stage, near the village of Queens, | Long Istind. It happened onely to- day. 4 Leander Smith, sald ¢o be a Philadel- phia merchant, visiting relatives in Queens, was returning home on the Jericho Turnpike, a favorite auto- speeding route. According to his state- ment to-day he had been to a theatre in. Manhattan with friends. “dt might bave been 1 o'cloak when * @mith, absorbed in thought, crossed the road only a few hundred “teet from his destination, His hands > were in bis pockets as he passed & "large tree on the roadside, He did not eee a tall, well-dressed men, wearing patent-leather shoes and kid gloves, giep out behind and follow him a f NN He Was ‘‘Short” Sixty. _“QMornin’, suh,"* saluted the stranger tm distinctly Southern dialect and bow- tng profoundly, ‘*Morning yerselt,”” “what d° yer want?’ “pardon. please, suh, but I'm right whort of money just at presen. My accounts are all tied up and I wieh to @bligate myself to you for a small v@mount.’. ‘The language was well @mith was interested. ‘Well, that's too bad, friend, but how "mitch do-you want?” he ‘sald, returned Smith. used and The Mranger apparently began to ‘prepare for action, His hand slipped Tuto his hip podket and Smith saw somothing glitter. “Come ‘on, now, toss over.that sixty before this thing wocidentally goes off,” quietly sald the highwayman as he \ poked the metal close to Smith’s chin. The Funny Part. “I'll tell you what 1'll do,” finally sald the Philadetphian. “It you give me the gun I'lj hand you over the money. I + peed the gun to protect myself the rest of the way home,” - ‘It's a go,” snapped the stranger. ‘Tha exchange| had no sodner been made than Smith wheeled on the hold- ‘ip man and shouted exultantly: “Hand back that money before I bore @ hole through your villainous carcass— quick!"* The stranger playfully punched Smith jn the ribs, laughed a Joud “ha-ha!” and in a minute was dancing down the toad. His farewell words to f-lth are atill ringing in his ears: “The gun isn't loaded. pistol.” a2 It's a toy — CAPTAIN DEAD IN SHIP'S HOLD. back touched! at Colombo for the first time.’! he sald to the ehip news reporters who | had gone to Staten Island and found the Gordon Castle tied up to the Amer- was all different. | his ele EVENING ee and “Mrs. Monk, Sure} Enough Affinities, Call for Your Tears: Mr, HE WAS A HERO, TOO. Saved the Good Ship Gordon Castle, but,:Alack, Lost His Helpmeet. Here's a tragic tale of the deep blue wea that wafted in from the Far East on the British steamship Gordon Castle, which ealled from Caloutta on Oct 2 last tt It fas to do with watersvouts—not one, mind you, but a whole school of *em—and @ couple who, the entire ship’ company declares, were real amnitics The pair were notion the ship's articles, Ror were they passengers—that 1s, the strict meaning of the term. They were recruited from the simian quarter of faraway Colombo, Ceylon. in But let Chief OMocer Laroca, of the Isle of Jersey, where they raise Jersey Lilles, tell the tale, for hia, brother oMf- cers declare him<to be the most truth- tul/man on board. “To begin my story right I must go to the last, voyage, when we jean Docks at Tompkinaville. “There we took on board—no matter how we caine to ship him—one of the most progeny of our original ancestors that I have ever seen. Why, that ‘monkey clad excuse me, Mr. Monk—had more intelll-/ his family. gence than half t island where we got him. hadn't been for poor old Monk—Mr. | aay with ons much ceremony as was Monk, I mean—we might all now be at | ever accorded any seaman who went to | remarkable specimens ‘of the he humasis on the Why, tf it the Dottom ef the Atlantic. “But from the time we left Colombo | on the passage to New. York it was ap- parent that something was wrong with him. He was morose and melancholy and most of the time kept to himself. | None of us cared much whether he de- nerted or not after we reached New York, but, strange to say, there was no driving him off the ship. Happy When He Found-HIs Affinity, “On the return passage to China !t Mr. Monk changed demeanor entirely and became 80 Capt. Marvin Creppan, of the freight! \ompanionable that he won the ‘heart of steamer Obedient, plying between New | York and Oriental ports, was found | oes in the hold of his vessel, at Pier| No. 4, Brooklyn, to-day, It is’ believed | to which he was subject, while walk: | ing seross the deck and’ fell down a | baich. Capt. Creppan was forty Bidcanaineds Nosmminicommandys Obedient—for. fifteen yours. was in Glenns Falls, N, Y. spondency. every man on board. “It was not until we put Into Colombo again on the return passage that wa that ho was attacked by heart failure, | learned the real cause of his early ‘de- : A boat's crew took Capt. | Bury and myself ashore, and Mr. M ie) set up much an infernal racket at His home rail that we carried him alone { SAT [was quite hazy when Mr, Monk. fret '¢a my attention to the whirling. co Omns cf water, and they wers not morn than five miles distant. jVe were right’ in thetr path and running at reduced speed. You may bet it did not take me many seconds to signal for full speed’) ahead, for they were comlha-on at the gait of a twenty-fve-knot steamer. “The old craft rasponded quickly | enough, but we had a mighty narrow escape. There were five of the water- spouts, and they passed not more than @ short half-mile astern of us, It was the most wonderful aight I ever enw. They were continually changing pos!- tions and their movements gave the ap- peardnce of an actual race, ‘They had not gone three miles. to leeward when ‘something happened. There was considerable. electricity in the huge cloud which hadefucked up the columns of water that formed the spouts. Buddenly there w atreak of Lghtning which the cloud, and at the samen: five columns seemed to merge into one and burat. If we had been in the mbist of that inael well, It would have been Davy Jones's locker for this crew. | Affinity Gone, He Died of Grief. “And now comes the saddest part’ of my tale. Mrs. Monk—I'm sorry now we never gave them a more dignified name—had crawled up on the bridge with mej. dnd when ’the great -crash came ‘wis. cowering .against my leg. The furlou¥’ din. must have been too much for her, as the next moment. after lettings out one frightens! screech, ahe sprang overbo sure you, Jowered a boat for her as quickly aa for a human baing. “From his lofty perch Mr. Monk wit- nessed the fate of affinity, and down he tore, uttering of} woe that were almost human. ‘I caught him in time to.prevent: his leaping over after his companion, but. my. efforts served no good purpose. -From that time on jhe was a broken-hearted anl- Kent! {mal. He) went Into hts berth, and we [could not coax him out" for several days. When he appear he was a oe Wore such i physical wreck, and hi a t we were all pression of grief t | depressed and sorry. : e all felt that poor old Monk's days, were numbered, and Cupt. Burt | mated Copper 1, Union Pacific, Balti- ‘STOCKS LOWER, MiTh | Smelting, ieee Cop- | per, Steet and Union Pacific in Evidence. 1 Stocks to-day moved downward at the outset under a mderate volume of of- ferings and, following the tendency of the London market, American Smelting Geclined 11-2, Reading and <Amalga- more and Ohio, Brooklyh Transit, United States Steel preferred and Ana-} conda large fractions, American Car pose 18-8, Western Union : and Inter- national Paper prefered 3-4. >There was a rajly later, but prices stil ruled low, with the trading fairly ‘active. A strong-rally led by the Hill stocks in.the last hour gave place to renewed Weakness in the copper group whicit| pulled back the whole list. Northern Pacific had risen 21-2, Minneapolis, St. | Paul & Sault Saint Marie 23-8, Grea | Northern, preferred, and Brooklyn | 1 | Tranait 11-8; General Chemica} sold at] an’ advance of 41-4 and Western Mary- land at 55-8, On the break American Smelting fel 33-4, Amalgamated Copper 13-4, Ana- conda_2, 5. Rubber, Ist preferred, £1-% National Lead 13-8, Union Paciae and the Ii t the outset. Cleveland, Louls, preferred, sold at ‘and Pacific Coast, some ‘decline of preferred. sh rallies the market a 2d" fever t The Closing Quotations, like wax losing a member of He breathed his last on i tho 18th, and we all knew that he died j ofa broken heart: “Well, we buried him at nea the next | [ihe bottom ‘sewed'in canyas, with a) lwolght at bi! [A Did T tell it straight, “That's | mates i Hy jared his brother listening at- 1 AIG, str," dec OMmoers. whoy had been tentively. is CAUGHT WELT, HE WAS NEAR DEATH Engineer Whirled Two Min- “utes About Shaft Escapes With Bruises. too. | | We scarcely had reached the little pler | John Bloom, an engineer In the Ar when into the boat jumped” another ‘tean Sugar Refinery, at the foot SHIPPING NEWS. specimen of the monkeytrtbe which South Thid street. Williamsburg, was Re caught in the belting of a fly wheel AUMANAC FOR TO-DAY. Gun rises. 7.10j8un sets. 4.33/Moon sets. 7.00 which would have been in skirts ff Ir had been human, Mr, Monk and the newcomer were bill- In another instant THEETIOES. in’ and cooin’ just ite lovers. High Water, Low Wi ". me ‘ +s ¥ DOs Gee AmMnities,’ saya I, and Capt. Burt rile Peer both back to the shi : : “We took them to the ship Pasa : (27 5.17) Joa had the carpenter build « special PORT OF NEW YORK. cabin on deck for them, When I was ff ARRIVED, t INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, DUB Longon City, Barry: Mgiorte castie, ich, in the paaseriger service I saw some | happy honeymoons, but that peir outdid anything in the hyman line, Mr. Monk Sights Waterspouts. “And now comes the tragic part of he story. We ran into a wif south. | erly Kale on Noy. § while crossing the Atlantic, neaded this way, and while ° nields 4 ra lawine fincas’ Gi Girlie. Phila, outrages |the wind slackened @ following Bkiyn ¢ agi nen Agertica, an | day, the seas were roaning mighty Tadalfania, ive ouralne | Hl ‘ister City of Atantas | high: Savanan,| ‘‘Suddcnly-we heard a terrific chatter- 1 i! {t . Bermuda. nagua. 3 xy Kr, der Grosse, Naples maaan Mimehaha, London. Comanche, a N Jacksonville. Princess Anni “Norfolk | [the bridge where I was stati | tail wound ro jto windward, Indicated. Ing from aloft, and | ie up from Mr, Monk clinging nd t nead violently and I look: and. what do you think I Ww? Not one waterspout, but a whole nol_of ‘emt “We were heading west, you are, an the wind was from the southwest with his Suny ‘will show what and w~) pee Dies Dees Ks axe blown up with airs So ce Lots Q Or Count: -seart- lots ole Alels, ed I saw | revolving at a terrific pace to-day and for a couple of minutes was whipped & to floor. was stopped rubbed his about from ceiling “When the machinery Bloom arose to his feet, | head and remarked: “Well, that was a pretty close call.” Tt wes about ax close a call as \man over had,’ according to: the fellow-workmen who suw his. body re- lyolving about the big wheel, Other workmen have been caught in belts in the refinery and-not one. or them has Uved to tell the tale, “1 suppose 1 have a charmed life,” instant EEL tO “iinally, vay ¢ ground “foo the wi | With the boss now," sald D spoke. | ot to its feet. looked dazed sort of way and a ix forty t ff to tell his Juries didn’t amot iNO» RACK SOL, DAY*DINNER HERE ores to py + Wort was recélved in this elty day of the death on Thursday fam EB. the army transport service, Mr, died at Newport Cue Va, where | Ee es of Wi Be B. Nye, marine superintendent of | 7 b-8c. m ¥ 1-20.; Today's highest 1 of stocks ead neschangesy as compat final figures, AM Amai Am. Am. Am An An An PELE pence REE URDAY, tm bb Anh CS SO | ‘Chairs, Low Seated Dressing Chairs, TRE TRADING FAIR tongue, per pound, 13 1-2. a 1Se, per Dressed Poultry—per paund—Jersey per Ib.. 2% 1-2¢, 0c, Cheese, Butter Cresnery, 1, aN | turkeys, 142, a 20c.; Weetern turkeys, | be Wc, a ie. Chickens—apring ‘broilers, Good to fa 3 to 4 ib) pair, me. a me; | oles, to extra Tetrigerator, | chicken, roasting dr: Me oa ne arbe Craniitated: joone, Maryland, 120. a | pondered Aitc, Molasses, per gallon ja rage Western, $c. a lL; s ew. Orleans, prime, Zo a se: [dozens $1.75 0 94.00. Rabblis— tes fancy pair, “300, a 6e.; jack rabbi tic. prime to a pair, at ree be. to 6 Per bbl.—Spring patents, $5.35 Gi | winter patents, 4.30 20; buokwheat, $3.09 a 8410 per 100 Ib.; rye flour, $4.85 a $5.40 per vbl.; com meal. | #285 "6 $3.65 per bol Beans, per bushel, | ionk. marrow, 196, $2.3; 1907, $2.25 a] per box, $1 Q 3 my $2.00, white kidney, 186, choice, 52.70 al per bas a 8.35 3:78; red kidney, iwi, choice, 32.35. per carrie JAMES MOGREERY GQ 0 23rd Street 34th. Street FURNITURE. In Both Siorea. Holiday Novelties. Art Furniture, Gold Parlor Cabinets and Tables, Mahogany Writing Desks 1d Tables, Morocco Covered English Reclining !Chairs, Fireside Rockers and Secretaries, Book Cases, Racks, Tea Wagons, Trays, Lunch‘ and Card Tables, Morris Chairs, Desk Chairs and Tabourettes, Various styles in Cellar-. ettes; Colonial and Sheraton reproduc tions—many quaint and unusual articles suitable for ‘gifts, prizes and ~ favors, ART DEPARTMENTS— _ Novelties,—on fine materials embroid- ered in ribbon and lace, Glove, Handkerchief, Jewel and Sewing Cases, note Frames, Engagement Calendars, Hair Pin Boxes, etc.. Lace Scarfs, Centre Pieces, Leather Covers,cPillows, Mats and Scarfs. Fourth Floor, ,Twenty-third Street Seventh Floor, Thirty-fourth Street, r BLANKET DEPARTMENTS, In Both Stores On Monday, December the oth, 250 Scotch and American steamer or Travelling Rugs. <A variety of Tar- tan Plaids and other desirable Patterns, 6.50 and 10.50 values 8.50 and 12.50. 150 Down ‘filled Comfortables. Covered with best quality Silk. Full. size- 10.75 and 14.00 unusual values RUG DEPARTMENTS. tn Both Stores. Commencing Monday, December the oth Sale of 2,000 Oriental and Domestic Rugs and Carpets,. as follows : : roo Afghanistan Carpets, | | | 70.00 former price 100.00 India Carpets, 100.00 x ; usual price 150.00 500 Khurdistan and Mosul Rugs 200 Mahal and Average size 9x 12 ft =| ul 145 re asl sat +8 = sh a Et irs as Y eR prosirh Pac. st Nat. Lead sti? Nort. «ww. w NY. Ped rth. | Pads ret Ont ae We 218 Pacifig. Cov aay Pennaytvan! = ul People's G + ¥ +8 —% nee) South -Paritie a if South Pac. ptiss. 1 Routh 404 South t2 + —1% + Bar +8 — 2 =oK — 10 + oy + i} = 4 Wheel & 1. +Advan i se \ Current wholesale market prices, ‘cor Fected daily: as a gulde and guard 2 The Eyentr household buver: Dressed pee ‘alr to choice, 1, 120, 7) No. c,; beef toiny, fo ATS 1-2c; rounds, Ber pound--City, tern, T0 1-20, ail? 1-2s, ed spring Iams per pound, Ie. a } 10c, a 10 1-27 mutton, a0 Livers--Calt, each, 30. i beef, be. w pound. Oxtalis, each, ‘ic, Dressed ‘hogs, .per pound, Ye. pork loins, 1écy a Bc. ‘emoked “hams,_per pound, 1 14a @ 12 1-B0.; #houlders, to, a 9 1-4¢.; bene- BRS AI nl yee dt A eed Me eters (many rare antiques). Average size 4x8 ft. 3.50 to 30,00 200 Kermanshah Rugs, Large and small sizes, 45.00 and 75.00 former prices 75.00 and 100,00 400 small size Rugs of various Ori- ental weaves: 12.00: each 200 superior quality, seamless Ax- minsier Rugs. Size 9x12 ft. 25.00 ‘200 Royal Wilton Rugs, Size § ft, 43 in. x10 ft 6 jin. 25.00 200 Best Body Brussels Rugs. Size gx 12 ft. “4 | 20.00 200 Brussels and eae Rugs, Size 8 ft 3 in. x1ro ft 6 in. 18.00 3,009 yards ‘extra heavy, plain ‘ “Wilton Velvet Carpet. ° New colors, 1.00 per yard usual price 1.75 | JBMES McCREERY & GO, 23rd Street 34th Street N JAMES MGREERY Re, Holiday Notes, Every department is complete and con- tains various articles suitable for Holi- day Gitts:— Jeweled Novelties, Sterling Silver Articles, Brass: Desk Requisites, Sta- tionery; Leather Goods, Fans; Art im- brcidered Noyelties, imgluding stamped Linens, Copperware, Fine China, Cut Gl ss, Potteries, ' Marble Statues, Br nzes, Lamps, ete. 98rd Street S4th Street DECEMBER 7; 1907. —— | _ WASHABLE DRESS GOODS. JAMES McGREERY & GO! 23d Street / SILK DEPARTMENTS. In Both 8teres, “McCreery Silk.” Complete assortment-of new weaves: and colors in Silks and Velvets, includ- ing Satin Messaline, Majestie, Marquis- ette, Chiffon Cloth, Pompadour Satins, ~ - Mousseline, Chiffon-and Paon Velveta, On Monday, December the oth. Sale of 5,000 lengths of Plain and Novelty Silks in waist.and dress pat- terns. Considerably less than usual prices, Selections made will be, upon request, suitably packed in boxes for presentation. In Bot& Stores. ; “On | Monday, December ‘the gth. Printed Organdie—fine, sheer ma- - terial. Neat floral designs in various colors on white grounds, x15c per yard Mercerized Poplin—permanent fin- ish. Colors:—Navy, cadet and sky blue, pink, heliotrope, reseda, white, cream, tan, grey and black. a5c per yard First Floor, Twenty-third Street. Second Floor, Thirty-fourth Street. meet DRESS GOODS: /2 Both Stores. ~ Black and Colored Dress Goods, On Sale Monday, December the oth. Dress Patterns. Wool and Silk and Wool weaves. Medium and light shades. Suitable for Holiday Gifts, 3.50 tO 12.50 per pattern Imported Embroidered Cloth Robes (unmade). A variety of street shadss and black. 22050 former price 35.00 to 50.60 Colored Broadeloth—a complete assortment of dark, medium and pastel shades, including i ivory and white. 1.25 per yard Imported Black Broadcloth, chiffon weight. Sponged and shrunk, spot proof. 50 inches wide. 1.85 per yard value 250 SHIRT WAIST PATTERNS, In Both Stores. On Monday, December the. 9th, Embroidered Batiste with plaited ruffle. 1.75 Hand- embroidered Batiste and Linen ~ 2.50 to 6.75 - Japanese Embroidered Silk, 4.75 and 5,75 Boas. Coque Feather Boas.: Light blue, _pink, grey, white, brown, heliotrope and black. LINEN: DEPARTMENTS, Ja Both stores. Second Floor, Sale of Decorative Linens—D'Oyleys Centre Pieces, Tea Cloths and scarfs, On Monday and Tuesday, December the gth and roth, Trimmed with hand-made Cluny Lace. D'Oyleys.e.-2.-+..3.50 ‘and 10,00 dor. Centre Pieces......3.00 “ 4.00 each, Tea Clotlis....... .7.50 ‘“‘ 12.50 “” : Dresser Scarfs..,...7.00 “ 850 ‘“ Scalloped and hand-embroidered. D'Oyleys.....+4.50, 6.50 and 8,56 dos, Centre Pieces....1.50, 2,25 ‘! 3.50 each Tea Cloths......4.50, 6.50 ‘' 850 ‘*- Sideboard Scarfs, hemstitched 1.25, 1.40 '! 3.75 JAMES McGREERY &CO. 23d Street 34th Street “ (ee ! ie an 34th Street ot