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| pas I >= Among thoas where and do anything. OBCCOSOE St DLSoaCaecoeeseCosN Nt ROOSEVELT’ GOOD-BY -TO THE PACIFIC FLEET. “Isn't this-a great fleet anda great day? Weshould all be proud of our navy. I! tell you the enlisted men are bully. | Good-by and good luck. 2 They are ready to go any- “RESULTS EDITION. PRICE ONE (CENT. NEW YORK, "MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, | HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS MARCH OUT AS FIRE RAGES NEXT DOOR One Thousand Pupils of Wadleigh} * Obey the Fire Drill Order With- out Alarm—Blazes Drive 20 Families from Homes. Three Harlem fires—two of a, serious nature—gaye the firemen a busy noon hour to-day. More than twenty families were driven into the streets or to neighboring roofs, and more than 1,000 girl pupils of Wadleigh High School responded to the fire drill, under the direction of | Principal John T. Wight, and filed out, when a blaze next doo) threa- tened the school building. =~ Ten families tn the big apartment-|small one In the basement of this num- house at No. 21 West One Hundred and| ber caused by a child of Patrick Gil- A hooley playing with some matches. person passing the building shortly er tho fire started quickly stamped it) out. man on the next floor and resulted jn another divisio of the fire brigade be-| ‘ig dispdtched to this number, ——_—— GIRL BURNED TO ATH WN FIR SET BY ROBBERS Body of Deaf-Mute Found in -the Ruins of Post-Office New. Jersey. Fourteenth street were aroused about noon by the shrill whirtle of fire en- «ines in the street, below, On opening Meir doors volumes of smoke and em- bers: poured in, throwing the inmates into consternation, Cool heads in the flat house prevented & disaster, Women and children were Jed down the staircase and up the fire- escapes to places-of safety, The work of ‘Yescue was prompt and the speed of the fire apparatus directed without loss of time on the burning rooms of Edward B. Cuney, where the blaze originated. When the noise of the fire gongs and bells sounded throush the Wadleigh School the pupils became restless. The smoke filled the schoolrooms and threw many of the pupils Into terror, Prin- cipal Wight and his teachers held a hasty consultation and tho fire drill bell followed. The evacuation of the schoolrooms was orderly, Gave Alarm as She Ran. While the fire fighters were busy op this building an alarm rang from No 201 West One Hundred and Eleventh street. Flames were seen issulng from the curtained windows Peter Sharp on the fifth floor of the Laurel Ap: ments, Mrs, Sharp ran screaming down the staircase when sho ‘saw her Tooms filled with smoke, arousing other tenants as she ran. ‘ Part ofthe fire brigade was burried!y ispatched to this block: a sauad © PATERSON, J... Dec. 16.—Couniy Physiclan- MeBride waa notitled to-day ofthe death of Mary Carrigan, a deat miite, meventeen years old. in w fire that doxtroyed the post offi ing | blue coats being In time to lead more %. Keke a he than wenty Irightened women nd at Haskell yesterday, The Victim children out of their apartinents and|lved with the family of Moses Clark to the roof, ‘The origin of the tre t8lin a house opposite the Laflin-Rand a mystery, Owing to the delay tn piloting mem- bers of families to safety streams of water were not playing on the blaze until some time after {¢ had gained a Pronounced start, The blaze destroyed the staircase between the fourth and} powder works, on the main road, tween Pompton and Midvale. On the ground floor was the post of- fice and a fenerai store, and the Clark family occupied the second floor, be- fifths floors, forcing persons on the} Early yesterday the members of the lower fights to makg their ape oY) Clark family were awakened by fire, Way of the tron ladders In front of and hardly had time to make their es- sane. When they discovered that Max Carrigan had not got out of the’bulld- the building. Japanese Escape. who. scampered ‘up the Ing, it was too late to go to her ald, as fire escapes were two Japanese ser-| ne house was In. flames. nts of Miss’ Herta Cleary—A. Kupz} yynen the rains had couled search sial and qi. Takiha. Misn Cloary’s| was made for the girl's body..and tt apartment) oh the fourth “floor | waa] was foimd burned to a crisp. Miss Car- wrecked gompletaly, Jacob Knelff on| rigan’s parents lve in Midvale, the sume |floor Jost-all of his furnish- ings. be The third blaze at No, Hundred ‘and Thirteenth Tt is auld, that‘the Indications point toward Incendlarism, and itis thought probable that the bulding was set on jfire lo cover up robbery. 22 Wert One street was Some Advertising Facts. |’ till che vacancy. ‘| and disc Jbe het ling any one. (From the Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot.) Not the least noteworthy event of the year now rapidly drawing to a close is the loss by the-New. York | Herald to>The. World of the distinction of being this courRry's leading “newspaper, It was ‘but natural that the Herald, which is a three-cent newspaper, should be outstripped in the matter of circulation by {ts lower Priced con <mporaries, and for’ years after this took place the Herald contimued-to’ lead in the matter of advertising |, Patronage and in the estimation of the public, Last year The World-was able to show a larger total of advertise- ments pees but not much significance was attached to | this, This year, however, according to a,table printed in Newspaperdom, a Journal devoted to advertising interests The World has been gaining steadily on last years’ figures and the Herald has been losing as steadily. Ce The World Is the only newspaper in New York tha: is credited with gains during the eleven months. of ¢! year that have passed, All others show losses of vary. ing degrets. * * ‘ ‘ Newspaperdom, ich discusses the matter tn an | articleven-He edita Page, makes the statement that The We his been able to increase while all the other news: Bi papers fell off in advertising because it: produces 2 | lvartices | his mother and slster lintormation {n connec! | BROKER NAMES CHAUFFEUR IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE. | feat (HEARN MUST CO, IS DECISION ON INJUNCTIONS Justice Greenbaum Dissolves Two Writs and Aldermen:’ May Elect. GOVERNOR HAS POWER. Court’s Opinion Concedes That Removal Is Warranted Under Charges. ) 4} Juste Gteenbaum this afternoon va- ‘ated “both Injunctions in the case of Borough President Ahearn, of Manhat- tan. The one was to restrain the County Clerk from recarding the certificate of the Governor from the Secretary of State that he had removed Ahearn, and from notifylng the Mayor, The other restrained the Mayor from calling a meeting of the Aldermen of The alarm was sent In by ® wO-| \tanhattan Borough to sivect a man to Justice Greenbaum finds that the Gov- ernor had full power, thus dispdsing of {the objection that the iaw was uncon- Jatitutional. i e Governor Has Power, three thousand word opinion, Jurtice Greenbaum reviews the de-| cisions in all the previous cases of Temoyal by the Go nor In this; State, ussed them bearing upon this He concluded with the decision while the Legislature could not confer a pow of arbitrary’ removal upon the Goveronr, it had the un- doubteded right to confer the power of removal, for cause, authority, or upon the ‘Governor. “Bearing in mind that the Intention to make provision for the removal for cause of the Borouxh presidents, the Legisinture did not {ntend to make migratory tt home rule vouchsafed by the constitution, the charter pros vision under consideration may fairly be Interpreted as conferring upon the Governor at least thé power oYremoral | for cause, ~ he conceded facts biforn me rec In a ‘one. that, that charges of misconduct in office and neglect of official duty on the part of the Borough Prestient were Ind t: fure the Governor, and. th 1 and that the Gover- nots order of removal ts based findings that these charges were weet Ther Is no alternative but yor “MoClellan this afternoon ism a call’for a apectal meeting of the ee dermen of the Borough of Manhattan to 1TH raday afternoon for the pur- 1 A successor to fi Rorough President Ahearn. removed hy iov here Aldermen In Manhattan. | Ut (=#even oe WOUNDED'MAN DIES, SAYING ASSASSIN WILL BE CAUGHT. Doxe Augustus Rose Said He Had Been Shot on’ Day Edvard E, Jef. ferson’ Was Slain, BURLINGTON, N_ J., slistus Rone, who ailegea opty TAU: been shot by 4& highwayman ae pag same day that Edward E, Jefferson oe found murdered, died to-day from Bena poisoning. KS was dying Rose asker jprayers and sald: “With Gane ansin will yet be ‘caught. Ie de lelare@ that he wax Re innocent of wrong- Ge shooting of Rote 100k place after Were reported Lo have, authorities given the ton with the kill ig Of Jeflerson, The authorides m+ — : Sry ed to have belin told by a woman wnt Threatening Fruit Di ene KW Rose take off his coat and f oT , shout himself. It was further learned for Three Years. Pit a) tal the mew wao | killed Jefferson after committ tt by One, oO} vo a Phir- | tuurdorsran' throug the vard of tones tous Atnone, of No. 34 East Thir [home Tt wuoid bave been much | Ceenth, ho hee made. sonyy for them Lo baw ye money In the fruit business, told Judge rears conniden Nery. strane: | Crain in General Sexsions_ to-day how that they. should “have gone toward | members of the “Black Hand’ society | Rose's homme. Rove has been consider: | triad’ ¢. blackmall Nim.~ Three mem- od weal pinded, og b of the society, Vincenzo Cambone, 5 . 164 given to-day before Su- me Court Ju 5 ye trial of the ai 7 iam Lim AM, i York broker, ii Lanham, # "Ey Plains an chaut charge of Mrsc Lanham’ nated as co-respondent, upon some local, important} | Palo Castellano and (Hrnexto Calella, Hpleadod guilty before Judge Crain of trying to extort #0 from Arpone by FREEBOOTER MND UNA WIN RACES AT NEW ORLEANS, Good Weather and Fair Trac Help the Sport at South- ern Track. HANDICAP. IS FBRATURE. Right Royal Makes First Start} With Heavy Impost Against Good Field. | (Special to Tho Evening World.) | NEW ORLPANS, La., Dec. 16.—With handicap to grace tt the pro- gramme at th Fair Grounds to-day | took a reat upward stride. Two days of hard work had brought the track back Into fair condition. In the handicap the fleld framed. It could not well, otherwise, ax there were named to go. Righ Royal made his first start here, and was given thé im- post of honor with S17 pounds. Of the other races four were under selling | conditions, and the remaining one was; a sprint for Owo-year-old maiden Allle: FIRST RACH—Pursé $400; four-year-| olds and upward; five and. oné-hatt a real mtood as have been only four furlongs, sellink—Freebooter 127 (Pick=| ens), 7 to 2 and $14 5, 1; Magic, 18 {Koerner}, 20 to 1 and 8 tot -2~“Tobog- gan, 10 (Mountain), 3 to 1 and 8 .to a 3% Times 1-6. ' Gauze, ‘Jerry | Sneer, Perkins, Masterson, Light- | burn, Chieftain. Mazonia, Kilidoe and | | Martun ‘also ran. wit ROOSEVELT'S “GOOD LUCK BIG BATTLESHIP FLEET SAILS “19073 )OCTOR TRIES T0 PUT Has Delusions, LUNATIC ASYLUM HIS WIFEIN He Says, About aj “Woman in Brown’ and Has Left -Him—Now in Bellevue for The Ansonia Hotel_is all a-bubble over the report that Dr. Walter Hastings Jones, who up to two months ago was the hotel physician, is trying :to send -his beautiful wif tat: present.in. the psychopathic ward i in Bellevue Hospital under examina, tion, having been arrested and committed last Saturday on a warrant Observation, E eto an insane asylum. ‘secured by her husband in the West Side Police Court.. Tithe gossip, "The Woman In Brown 3 maiden | furlongs.~-Una, and 9 “9 10,1 to land § to 3) n#), 15 to 1 and | Miss Boh tcher, Bitter |My Love, 104 cw, oO 1. iding, Balt nia, Mii tion, Varalty amd Mes, Cook also, ran, THIRD RACE—Pyrsc $0); for three- | jyear-olds and rd, sixteenth —Hal land 5 to 2, 1; ter), 4 to 1 and 6 to 6, 3 . Sto land 5 ti ‘Time Naney. Wabas! en also ran. RIOTERS SHOT IN STRIKE CLASH ON HAVANA STREETS Number, Fall with . Wounds “and T ae May Be Called Aid Police. HAVANA, Dec. 16.—Seyeral persons were shot in a riot of striking masons ae The entire police reserves of the’ clty were called out to quell the uprising, and succeeded in clearing the streets after a deaperate fight, during which many arrests were made, Further trouble is threatened, “ang the police will not be able to cope with the situation if the disorders continue. Goy, -‘Magoen is accordingly prepared to assist them with> troops on short potice —_——>_. BLACK HAND FRIO GET HARD SENTENCE, Admitted to Court They Had Been threatening to kill him anu his fa 1 have been & years,” Mr, ting lotters for two Arnone told Judge Crain, “threatening my life land the tives of my ‘children, aid they would Kidnap my children and cut them to pletem! ; Judge Crain sentenced Cambone to Sing Slag prison far tive years, and tho other two to, the Elmira /Ieforna~ tory, J, frequently mentored. She In sald to) {be a wealthy society woman of the up- | Side and the cause of the; Ber West one mile and a/selyes-in her behalf, while she {s naturally nervous and wor- \rlea over her domestic troubles, Ansonia a1 his wife board wit Reynolds, Street, He Parra or Clark, [9 West Sixty-fitth street. Married Nurse Three Years Ago, handsome man, He wears a dark the Yolande CoaCi and Coke Company Dr. forty-three rat street, Jones is a big, jdomestlc trouble of the Joneses, .-Honta, Auspiclous, Redemp- | Jones has many friends who have de- lclared their intention of exerting shem- They assert that Capitan and | not Inzane, Dr: Jones disappeared from the Hote! | a short time afte mn Oct. 1, had left at No. years old. him and gone h Dr,-and Mrs, 173 West Siehty-first From the Ansonia ;the doctor went to the Greek Hotel In East Yorty- where he lved for a time. is how living with a family named in a flat house at No Mrs. Jones is Mra. she ‘s MINE EXPLO to} Samuel M. Crash Brings Ruin BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dee. ty-sIx men are buried in No. 16. 1 Mine of 76 MEN TRAPPED UNDERGRCUND BY Stan ‘ape of Victims Cut Off as in Alabama Workings. Seven- PRICE ONE CENT. Te PresidentAboard the Meyigdeae Mighty Array of Battle-Ships From Hampton Roads Out to Sea.on Mission to the Pacitic. BRILLIANT SPECTACLE AS_ - 14,000-MILE VOYAGE IS BEGUN, Admiral Evans With His Officers Say Good-by to President, Who Sets the Signal for Departure—Perfect Weather and Great Throngs. - (Fivm Special Correspondent of The Evening World with the Pacific Fleet) 7 OLD POINT COMFORT, Va., Dec. 16.—“isn’t this a great fleet and a great day? We should all be proud of our navv. 1 tell you, the enlisted men are bully. . They are ready to go anywhere and do any- thing. Good-by and good fuck!” : It was’ with these words ‘that President Roosevelt sent away the greatest fleet ‘of war boats that ever left this country. He spoke to Ad- teen battle-ships headed for the #acific‘on the deck of the Government yacht Mayflower at 9.20 o'clock to-day. The Admirals and ship com- manders boarded the Mayflower from their little steam barges as soogr as she ropes 3K: hor in the centre of the great war fleet. As they did so the bands on all the warships and the Marine Band on the Mayaowee crashed’out “The Star-Spangléd Banner.” & With the ceil were Mrs. Roosevelt, Ethel Roosevelt and Assists ant Secretary of thé? PNavy Newberry. Secretary Metcalf was on board, but remained in his cabin suffering from a well-developed case of sea- sickness, The reception on the Mayflower lasted for twenty minutes, duping which time the warships grouped*about her in two long columns, prepared for thé voyage. The day was a perfect one, the sun shining brightly and the waters of Hampton Roads cut into choppy waves by a ripping wind. i ‘ The start on the 14,000-mile walk was made at 11.15 the. Presi- Van Dyke beard and Ss well known Jn at Yolande, thirty-five mile” fro} “ ” the nelkhborhood of the Ansonia. He yirminghum, in Tuscaloosa eal dent himself shaking aut the signal “Good-by and good luck on n the was graduated from the New York! | — fe so > Homoeopathic Hospital In 1888, and was following an explosion to-day. Ninety Mayflower, installed as bouse physician in the An-!) men were checked in for work. * varsiips, presen: “} a Neves peed Fortreas Monroe, ec long Meet of battles & 4 being dre N| ships were nar ( sonia when the hotel opened. {Within an hour -a(ter the explosion | Plocure. .eark ails Heine dressed. Ik0es |. shina, were, parror ine ine ated of Two years nro he married Kya! stern wita «ay bunting jack smoke. In the crowd’ Rathere Fales, ‘a. beautiful trained nurse to | ourte: en inen hid crawled out of the]; steamed to her anchorago| on t! jovernmont Dock at Old Point whom he had been engaged for five, mine, all burned Reports from. the batore the start the warships fired tho,// aw the Warships sall away were She ta a French Canadian, and | scene vary ad to the number of men in| Presidential salute of twenty-one xumal several hundred wives of the men Sores apred 6 the mines and they will belat a signal from Admiral Byans, ‘The | sboard the ve anols of the feet. of the wan considered one of the best nurses In Griswold, a well-known) the city, 6 West F! surgeon and heart specialist, ployed her In his practice. It- appears that wife Hved happily In their ap: the Ansonia until something leas than a year ago, when frequent vivits of, a! woman richly clad in brown to the doc- tor's office began to Dr. Henry ifty-fifth street Dr. cause comment, | found dead. (White a rescue party | way into the mines, Gren and Yen sood des: of No.| wome often em- Jonen arid his| ride the mines it is feared tent at of those still th j death, Little houses just oi mines wyre destroyed by mmount of dust and tim df the mnines. A reef train ne this afiernoon, her husband | the was, forcing Sts that fe | te torpedo boats Tingey and Stringham *The departure Ds was alao min- sannonading continued for. seven Vitnesaed by the last four Japanese utes. After the reception the admirals | W » 2 ns returned to thelr slips ards who were left In the fleet Pod eel PSlyestonday afternoon. ‘hoy were do= 4 the Mayflower; closely followed by and the; Mexnow i tached inte Jast night and ordered to fon thelr ninety-elht countrymen ‘who had been previously” taken off and annt to the receiving ship Franklin, her nose toward turned and pointed two torpedo-boats the open sea, lent_a sombre folich. to the procession! “44°, “naval paveant, te review ahd in 1d? 0¢ lored war-| 4 food a eC creat: pee ane core soeeie. atlg| departure of the fleet vo-day was the at ‘ most notable in American history. There and es. thr-hat- masned by sallors and marines. thr bats lV boon woveral Presidential reviqws of Rake GALES Va okt | 2 1 and. fallowed the May- ! and, after several quarrels, left himand| At 2 o'clock forty cofllns wee sent tw age turnense. ering and the] te Atlantic fleet durink ns past ordered a lawyer to‘draw up papers ina) Yolande. The rescue party atitbat time] Neh oe rinsing, up. the] sianteen|imonths, but in/tlose jngtances sult for separation. wan rapidly Ing out the dead.and) four-mile ainale column formatton, Se Eesansahlvafwe ates ne) ce) 8) aot The frlenda of tho doctor tn the hotel] jnjared. he colline ordered Is Gken| Pragidont Roosevelt stood In tHe bow] tne seeing yueut panned up and Gown busted) themselves wuccedded in eftecting a reconciliation “woman in brown" Bur the to call on tember hist wife packed up her belong- ‘ ingr and went lo live with Dr. and Mrs. Reynolds, Troubles Due to Nervousness. in the Dr. Jones and | to Maleate the number of dea MRS. RUSSELL SAGE matter and continued late it Re Five Dollars ce to TO GIVE AWAY $1,000, ch Park sWhile she Was nervous und worried Employee Earning Less sald Mra, Reynolds to-day, “she was ax an $3.a Day. Sune np 1am, The doctor sent us a , check every week for just enow to Mrs. Russell Sage was a visitor at cover her board and room rent, When]the park department quarters in the « she wanted .mbney for clothes she had! senat in Contral, Park ¢ where to gO to him for 41 and he doled OUCl she announced that she would give a a little at atime, Of course this tended | 45 Kold pl . or crisp n to saedsane to Increase her nervousness, peel plowegs whose dally stipend is She feared that her husband would|),., nan $2 There are over two hun attempt to Lave her declared insase ey oe toca Shortly betore she left him: she told!” tre Sage. eons. me, she was called to Dr. Jones's of-]), he lands: fice one day and found Dr. caja | ater nel an M Hammond time and voman im brown.’ Later Dr, Hammond, the allentat, the to ber for some Iittle talke questioned her wrote Dr, Jones ao letter sa is Judgment Mra, Jone: (Continued on Sgcond es of Ale there alee td ne Park To Dr, DF | reas about ¢ of tho Mayflower and doffed his hat as the guns at Fortress Monroe thundered out the natlonalisalute. The ‘shores of| cost vom ¢comitne shore: and waa’ outs Hampton Roads were denge with peonle| ward bound on a cruise which, as the and hundreds of excursion boats hugged! Predtaent himuelf expressed {t, ‘no fleet thelr line ‘To-day the Meet was under way, had eter ele Tae oe Donaee tent as -by tribute as they passed the May- Plan Aled Gr Cete MOS ate his ane |fower outward bound. Tho salute of the Maxship.” and wish aeons tice | Welcome had been pald Jn unison; the Hs cee oene ai caurmed |#orawel! tributd was un Individual af he 1 re ing “Nage shinu se, ring from each one of the sixteen ships. toward the Capes, (WPPresident’s yacht leading and the torpedo boats and the! ig fleet passed out in single column, the big Government-vullt Connecticut, preas boats between hls yacht and the ; Meet. At the tail of the Horse Bhoe, | fagship of Adinira) Wvans, leading the which was 11S the May flower and her escort dropped back and) the warships, thelr ralis lined deep with ters and steamed ahead at a ten-knot clip. ; each warship passed the May- + {ts saluting xunm crashed the reached at Tho vessels were 4 yards apart, and from the Connecticut to thy Kentuckyy which brought up the fear, the “ine ched a distance of more than four of tlme there was the ade between the 16,000 Hamftho = re | President's salute. dipped ttn colors and Vion of the Connectlout to the litt! aying tin Safe MUk. a sed out, on its Journey half around | mors than 11,000 of the Kentucky. Five * should Ths atorivarins and. tral ne world. Ax the Kentucky. winding |ytages of American battle-alip cons eeruundy tong re Danwed aint | Tirvetion were Fepresented Jn. the lke, Page.) Bar eo ee a Waahington, fanaa an object lesson In the growth Hurdon' Aun sel endk Pang Naar ARN ot American navy. the apeataals ee Halries TSTEE ELE ANA Mee ‘ +I found one of tts most striking features: Mey'ANB!, 14. slarllized: siaas, batt whch are eenle ners ne President's boat headed for A Iarge aumbar qt yachts and exowre \ 2] mirals Evans, Thomas, Sperry and Emory and the captains of the six- : the outskirts of the Meet, waving hand-!o¢ such size has. ever before. under= Kerchlefs and flags and gheering. \faken'" The mune whlch had voleed) & =p Get Under Way, weluome to the President upon hjs ars: rival) in Hampton Roads uttered -@