The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1908, Page 11

| NINETY PER CENT, OF KNICKERBOCKER ASSENTS IN HAND Nearly $38,000,000 Guaran- teed to Trust Company’s Reors SOLICITORS ARE BUSY. anization. Major Woodbury Says Justice Clark’s Requirement Will Be Met. ° acere Woon nounee nave ns- fente eorganization y was loaned tion plan to sg, which m Major Woodbury has solicitors ca fnz upon depositors who have back from assenting to the plan. an withdraw ety the doors of the Knicker- bocker reopen. New Board of Directors. The Depositors’ Commitiee re- Ported to-day to have made a partial Ust of prominent men who are to be submitted as suftable directora to the Henry C. Frick, Myron ard. was positors, two being m he old board, who placed t ations some days ago in Frederick G. Bourne, chairman of one of the depositors’ Mr. Bourne is sald to be old directors who is butn a de robable new di He on deposit in the Knic bocker Trust Company, against: which there 4s no loan standing. Eldridge Again Active. Frederick L. Eldridge, former first Vice-psesident of the company, has re- covered from fis mé. Which dis- abled him Knickerbocker Trust susp nd is a organizers. It out of complin to Mr. Eldridge’s father that Mr. Pierpont Morgan & Co, kept un acco of 70,00 with the ‘Trust against which a check was ne drawn. (Mr. Pldridge has refused to serve as a Girector, although asked to do so by 3. He ts i h obtal Knickerbocker to t fnfluential depos: in companies wit the 0% on Cuban properties. Two mill- dollars been paid on these; n $2,000,000 are still William 4 ker, of An- thony & Co., bankers, of pn, 1s. eaid to be the other old director bevide . Bourne who will be asked to serve | on the new board. Mr. Ker is a Jarge depositor, and represents a wide | Interest The dental was offictally made to-day | @hat the presidency of the Knicker. | docker had been tendered to former | Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, who has resigned from the pres- (dency of the Carnegie Trust Co. LOSES WORK AT 84 HE JUMPS FROM WINDOW. COXSACKIE. Y., Jan, 22—Henr: Cheritree, aged elghty-four years, killed Aimself last night by leaping from third-story windov the Eagle Hotel The old man’s mind had been fall for some time. A few months lost his position with a local firn whom he had been employed for many years. —.——--- PSYCHO KEEPS CROWDS GUESSING ON BROADWAY. Many Sure Figure in Window Dis- play Is Human, Others That It Is Clever Mechanism, The weirg picture of a mechanical| man or a human mechanism playing on a Regina plano in the window of the Regina Company fs causing no end of worry to Policemen Rehan and Lubeker, two giant members of the New York TrafMflc Squad whose duty it !s to “keep |’ things going’ at the corner of Seven- teenth street and Broadway. The sight of a dead man or a live machine which sits for hours, without the quiver of a muscle, running a player plano {s of itself enough to make an active policeman nervous. But the case | presents graver aspects, Not only do the crowds which gather about the win- dow keep the aforesaid promoters of activity busy in clearing the way, but they have serious thoughts of reporting the case to Mr. Jerome, for the situa- tien is assuming the proportions of a menuinely iniquitous betting ring. Some aro sure it Is a inan. Others re ct it 18 an automaton, 1 Feady to back their pions alte eene | od “long green." Oo matter which | je of the case you wish to take, or | Waat the sum you wish to wager, you ores Who are Will. s tu vover | your inoney and give you odds besides. If “Psycho” isa man, his his facil muscles, woleh ne or twitch from hour to hour, 1s tru markable. If Psycho” is merely a’ chanisin, Is still wonder f leg is ce i looks as thougi “ehis halr grew and we can prove it L. C, Wilber, the manager of the Regina Company's store, said Youter= ay: ‘Of course, I regret that our window display 18 causing undue trouble to the already overworked members of the ibe’ everyone into tie st one into the no ‘odenission we feel sec! diss snd thal coaliate ths @| missing, but careful inquir: brot Planter, Worth $10,000,000, and Young Bride on Honeymoon Rican planter. | bride were the port to-dav THE EVENING W 2 LD, SHES WIFE'S ‘HEAD WIT HU PAR OF SHEARS ) ( u Saves Mother From fact that his ten- is probably due to t rgil, a | year-ola son, V he had slashed his wife's alp with a huge wallpaper she was unconscious. Jaway after shears unti Mennecoce! was Third avenue py sui by 1 by a dozen per- atrick He was Jothed in trousers, slippers and shirt nents were spattered he His face and gt th blood still carried Yorkville Court. Judge, very bad me die. I want ) be sent to tle electric cuair to-day, @ shouted, as two officers held him » was sent to Bellevue Hospital for lan. cocet was in court, on! s visible beneath the r A physician stated that in her head had been y had veen severed. n two to ten years re Pour dr sat near the mother. STOCKS DECLINE IN SLOW MARKET Reading, St. Paul, Baltimore! and Ohio and Other Leaders Losers, | | | | | i Stocks started to-day dull and irreg- more and Onto fractions, to hold, | showed an average loss Reading showed the effect of prevsure, but held just above the protit level. Later dealings were a-bit more brisk Prices see-sawed u on, when but this 1 wed sellin clined to vere owas a r Ltr Central, Atehisor preferred. Pittsburg, sold up 5, and Delaware & Hudson lost 41-4. The cl maj Reading, showing xed, but with the © issues, including The Closing Quotations, To stocks and yesterday's 3's highest, Jo: of net c final price Amal. Anvr. Amvrican Amer Loco, wu Copper... & ‘Amer, 5. & Ro pe Aner, Suse M M. K K West, Wis. + Adval HURRIED FROM STEAMER DAMAGED IN COLLISION. ROTTERDAM, Jan, %.—The steamer Amsterdam, belonging to the Great Eastern Rallway Company, and the Rritish «teamer Axininster, from New York, Dee. 99, for Rotterdam, were in collision last night near Nieuwe Water- weg. The Amsterdam was badly dam- aged and proceeded to Maassluts, where she has been beached The Amsterdam was coming from Harwich and had fifty-six passongers on board. A dense fox ‘9 Steamers came had time to &! vst that the captain decided his boats and transfer his passengers to the Axminster, is Was done sup- posedly without mishap. It was reported here ‘at on¢ time thi afternoon that one of the Amsterdam boats, containing twenty persons, was 'y at coast the information that all the steamer had been old | Mrs. Mennecocei told how her hus- {uand had wandered about the house | accusing and the children of try- ng 1 him. Early to-day he > P N 1. Ja awoke and forced her to prepare coffee hat SPOS Y chet hi He then awakened all the ren and compelled them to dress, PRS a |The family was seated about the Joe HH . {kitchen table when Mennecocei jumped eae from his seat, shouting: i ‘You know the children put some- thing in my cup!" He then attacked her viciously with his shears until she fell in a faint on | The screams of the child- neighbors into the flat and fled. 1 SEES ee QUARRELLED OVER FARE, the floor, n_broug Friend of the Motorman, Who Got Mad About It. e, this whole trouble started be. nductor tried to collect a any nan James ‘ate to collec! Murphy n Devanny, ed and ty-first street, quarrelling with the conductor 1 blocked the E ny said y denied Magistrate Kernochan him, He lives at No. 47 West redand Thirty-seventh street gee DISHEARTENED WIFE TAKES CARZOLIC ACID. | Care of Family During Husband's [Slow Recovery From Illness May Have Leranged Mrs, Silva. Disheartened by the slow recovery Jof her husband from an operation per- |formed some time ago, Mrs. Elmer . 79 West One Hundred and , drank a small bottle of 1 solution to-day while her was in another room rong enough to her screams r side. He ambulance. the NOT A PIRATED EDITION. 1 to the ward at Bellevue Hos- 1, ay Mrs, Silva has. been struggling for atten “of tis music nonths to keep herself and two. chil- | fA newspal PIRATED and incom | aren alive while her husband was in pete, Get the muste of the Merry the hospital and {it is belleved the Widow Waltz In The World next Sunday. strain temporarily deranged her. mind Lord & Taylor have arranged a few Special Sales as follows:— 1,500 yds. Wide Blick Tiffeta Silks, regular $1.50 quality, at S8c. yd. 1,200 yards, 54-inch English Mohair Sicilian in navy blue, brown, black and ivory; regular $1.50 quality, at 98c. yd. Wash Goods Dept. Special Sale of Plain Colored Voiles, Printed Plume tis and Printed Batiste large variety of attractive designs and colors at 15c. yd. White Goods Dept. Special Announcement Sheer White Liembrovdered Batiste and FinelVhite Madras Cloths large assortment of desirable designs, suitable for waists and dresses, gt 25¢. yd., value 4oc. to 50¢ Broadway & 2oth St.; 5th Ave.; roth St. the igned before Mug-| | | | | | Ten-Year-Old Son of Madman Aged Millionaire Who Left ‘neighbors to frighten the crazed father | LAMPORT SANE, he made will now under contest her residuary legatee of the! | SAS MINSTER AND A WOM “Was Mr. Lamport liberal tn his con- tributions to your missionary work? “LT never asked him for a contribution, Money was never mentioned.” Mrs, Maria Augusta Morse, of N testified Riverside Drive, then Nurse Thousands Was Lamport | solation he craved.” she} took luncheon with Mr. | | Murderer. Religious. ins Smedley at the Murray Hill ——_— 3 the eve of thelr departure | ee for Europe, in 1906, and we taiked That Orestes Mennecoccl, a decorator.! aye Rev. D. Wilson, an Episcopal] about that trip. I took Mr. Lampor: | y 32 5 ee! te " Oo e' if oO ns of No, 482 Hast Seventy-ninth street, did ininister, engaged In missionary and | {0 ® mectng of & woniin A not to-day duplicate the murder of his| oso. work, knew Hiram H. Lamport eyretn a iste wife and ciilldren as the Orestes of old guring the last five years of his Ife, UCT seyaill Vownsend. ed he was not only rational, Le retandrap n of vigorous mind for one of |, Lamport was elghty-six when ‘On as wide told several mm a funny stories during : i : | t house on one occasion.’ nl in January, 1906, and oon * eighty-five he transferred $40,000 | contessed to jto Mary Cl ine Smediey, who was taught the caught fleeing down | | ah is BLOCKED TROLLEY LINE. 4 | Conductor Tried to Collect From | end of mine, though he from his own | Kernochan 1 wtih intox!- who ar. | ath avenue and One | anny sald he captured Murphy as | zhth avenue | | nklin irse, companion and daughter to him, and to whom he bequeathed $18,000 mot After bestowing $41,000 on his relatives, a New York and New Jersey Car Ser | Assoctation, followed on (he stand with similar testimony. Dr. Wilson stitied Ahat he often | called on Mr. Lamport, and discussed | rellg’ 4 questions wit him | Mr. Mooney cross-@vemined “And | you, an Episcopalia sinister, didn't) you know that Mr. Lamport was al Baptist?" | “Oh, yes; but that made no diff cn. | T gave him that spiritual aid and con- | oi | Stern Brothers Womien’s Shoes To-morrow, Final Clearance Sale $2,905 Black Russia Calf, Button and Lace, hand sewed and Goodyear welted soles, Formerly £4.00 to 6.00 Pair at Classique Corsets DESIGNED FOR THIS SEASON'S MODE OF DRESS, INCLUDING THE SMALL TAPERING WAIST, STRAIGHT HIP AND CLOSE FIT- TING BACK EFFECTS IN EXCLUSIVE MATERIALS. at $2.50, 3.50, 4.75 and 5.50 Art Needlework Shirt Waists and Underwear stamped in various new designs to embroider. Nainsook Chemises, 58c, 95¢ 98¢c, 1.50 50c, Lawn Shirt Waists, 50c, 85¢ Lawn Dressing Sacques, 40c, 75¢ Nainsook Corset Covers, 28¢ 40c Nainsook Gowns, Nainsook Drawers, 7c | oan Including Embroidery Cotton to finish. Annual January Sale Blankets and Comfortables At Greatly Reduced Prices Blankets, Single Bed Size, Pair Three-quarter Bed Size, O Double Bed Size, ee $3.50. 4.75, 5.98 4.25, 5.00, 7.35 5.75, 6.65, 8.25 FRENCH HAND-MADE CORSETS Comfortables, Double Size, Silk Mousseline Centres, Plain Silk Border, Cotton Filling, 4.25 Figured Silk Centre, Plain Silk Border, Down Filling, 6.65 Another Offering of Muslin Sheets, Pillow & Bolster Cases At Special Prices Sheets Hemmed Hemstitched | Single Bed Size, 48c, 58c 68c, B82 | ‘Three-Quarter Bed Size, 62c, 86c 88c, 96c | Do.bie Bed Size, 7ec, 95c 92c, 98c | Extra Large Bed Size, Sec, 1.10 1.12, 1.20 Pillow Cases, 21x36 ins, 2214x36, 25x36, 27x36 | Hemmed 14c 16c 18 a 19¢ | Hemstitched, 18 20 22 23 | Bolster Cases, 21x54 ins. 21x63, 24x72, 2213x76 | Hemined, 28c 30c° 34c ~ 38 Hemstitched, 37 39 43 47 Also 250 Doz. Pillow Cases, 2234x36 in,, Hemmed, 14¢ Hemstitched, 16¢ Brass & Enamelled Bedsteads Greatly Reduced toClose Out Discontinued Patterns BRASS BEDSTEADS, Round Tubing, $19.00, 22.50, 30.00 Formerly $24.75, 30.00 and 38.00 WHITE ENAMELLED REDSTEADS, $4.00, 5.25, 6.75 Formerly $5.00, 7.00 and 7.75 WOVEN WIRE SPRINGS, $3.50, 4.50, 6.50 Formerly $4.50, 5.50 and 8.00 UPHOLSTERED BOX SPRINGS, $10.00, 12.50, 16.50 Formerly $12.50, 16.50 and 12.75 (THIRD FLOOR, AMNEX) West Twenty-third Street R.H. Macy & Co.'s Attractions Are Their Low Prices, 34th to 35th St, B'way at 6th Av, ooo yiaoxse Fur Underpricing Remarkable As This January Weather. Trade and weather conditions combined to make the manufac- turing furrier’s lot an extremely hard one this season. Three dif- ferent concerns met ‘he emergency in fashion truly businesslike. They passed along to us over $100,000 worth of Furs of various grades to distribute for half and less than half usual prices. Two of the stocks were made up of popular-priced Neckpieces, Sets and Muffs. The other embraced very fine Furs, including some particularly fine Coats and Sets. To-day you can gratify any Fur fancy you may have at the lowest price quoted in years. Typical instances:— Coat of selected dark Eastern Mink; loose model, finished with animal neck scarf and lined with heavy brocaded satin, made to sell for $900.00; this sale.... weee- +» $396.00 Coat of fine Bolivian Chinchilla; skins cut V-shape through- out the garment; embroidered velvet collar and cuffs, heavy brocade lining; imported to sell for $1,000.00; this sale $389.00 Dark Eastern Mink Neckpieces, various shapes, includ- ing throw scarfs, pelerines and shawl collars; some double fur and satin-lined; values up to $198.00; this sale...... $98.75 Dark Fastern Mink Pillow Muffs, trimmed with natural tails; value $100.00; sale.......... és ++++ $49 7h Fastern Mink Pillow Muffs, $65.00 values; sale $29.74 Scarfs of clear Bolivian Chinchilla, $95.00 values, sale $39.74; Muffs to match, $100.00 values; sale..... $46.74 Scarfs in various shapes, of broadtail, $60.00 values, sale $18.74; — Muffs to match, values up to $95.00; sale $39.74 Scarfs of natural gray squirrel, lined with gray and white squirrel, value $30.00, sale $12.74; Muff to match, value $27.50; sale ++ $13.74 $16.75; sale. $6.74 Other Pillow Muffs, of gray squirrel; value \S Nee Model Suits and Drewes for Girls and Misses. Suits at $9.74 Fashioned of fine quality novelty mixtures; : ~ the jackets double-breasted, finished with notched velvet collars, lap pockets and tailored sleeves; . lined with satin; skirts full pleated, finished with stitched folds and deep hems; 12 to 16 eu zes, mA Dresses at $2.24 Advance Spring models—high neck, jumper, ee kimono, Dutch neck and guimpe styles, made of plain chambrays and pretty figured and checked percales and ginghams; effec vely trimmed with white pique, fancy wash braids and embroidery; full skirts fin- ished with deep hems: 4 to 14 eat oe co Dutch neck styles, made of sheer white lawn, Dresteveesele w ith faticy bertha mmed with SmerOUeY insertion and edging; necks trimmed with embroidery eine nd ribbon; s4-length sleeves; full skirts, finished with several rows of tucks and deep hems; 4 to 44 year ’ Seys : Sale of Women’s Riding Habits. s-to-wear Riding Pabits of Corduroy, including several of aseeeenateaole styi:s of Coats, with safety side-saddle, divided or shell skirts; designed particularly for durability. Were $44.74 and $55.75. Sale $29.74 od Fl. Nees cee 1 cr =aanemN <= Bargains in Low-Priced Curtains. a °5 of this sort been normal this sea- 2 demand for draperies of this sort s son eat not have faced a problem of over-production, He assumes the loss :— of ruffled muslin; figured, striped and dotted; 3 Cottage Curtains HA yards Jong and 40 inne ee $1.65 $1.90 $2.15 $2.40 pair Usually e009 «1.29 81.50 81.74 $1.98 Rulfied’ Bobbinet Curtains, full length and width; finished with fancy tae insertion Gil Ge 7 rer Hire 265 sso pat i aie Ak i $1.18 $1.34 49 $1.98 $2.74 Swisses, fancy dotted and figured, 36 inches wide; regularly 18¢. a 14 yard; sale... es ngecnnnng Mae Fancy Plaid Swisses, 40-inch; 2Sc, quality; yard. ...... : S wii p! f gured, 30 inches wide; regularly jc. to 28¢ ene SAcee om ae A ee ee 10c ,14c,, 8c! and| 1c Nottingham Lace Ci in novelty and all-over effects. ee Netting ete cies “135, 4 2 ey $2. 75. $3.00 fe $3.75 pair eee 31,24 81.49 $1.74 82.24 $2.49 $2.08 Underpricing of Couch Covers i Fancy Striped Couch Covers, in Oriental colorings, finished with inches wide; usually $1.65 and $1.90 each; sale, knotted fringe; 50 inches wide; usually $1.63 and ep g1as in popular colorings; 60 inches 1$2.24, $3.24 and $4.48 Reversib'e Tapestry Couch Covers, wide, usually $2.95, $4.00 and $5.75, sale China, Glass and Lamps: Stocks and Values Competition Proof. =x) HE stocks, you must concede, are truly enormous—assort- | I | ments on displ ay and accessible for selling larger than the cys.) combined stocks of all 'the other department stcres in New York City. J ; That is the eflect—the cause you readily find in Mz lessly low prices. Worth remembering whenever a Cl or Lamp need—or any merchandise need—arises. Half a Dozen Basement Specials. Porcelain Dinner Set, 100 pice esign, regularly $6.49; sale..... Field Haviland Dinner Set, 100 pieces, decorated ec ys, handles with gold; regularly $17.87 , natural coloring: anna green floral di Chas. with floral des special ....+- Eight-Inch 2.23; sale... 5 Cut Glass Olive Dishes, regularly 7 Pressed Glass Water Tumblers, first quality; regularly oe a dozen: sale. ; ee aise Plain Blown Water Tumblers, a dozen; sale... own Water T first quality; regularly 48¢ 38 main floor tables. The lot comp ports, Baskets, L Candles’ é ing half ses such articles as Flower Vases, Wine Glasses, Com ygne Bottles, Water Bottles, Pickle Jars ny, from 15¢, to $6.89 each; represent 5, Oils, C the prices rang ai values Silk Candle Shades Half and Less. The stock originally embraced about $2,000 worth of shades, Th manufacturer was satisfied with half and less than half his usual prices hence this remarkable sale. Too widely varied for details, Shades usually . In thjs sale. 59c, £3) 69¢, 88 19¢. 290, 496, . Se We { 85c