The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1908, Page 1

* * y * *” * TO-MORROW-—-Every Day in Th nicht nnd colder; u RESULTS EDITION ‘PRICE ONE CENT. 700 ESCAPE 51,000,000 BLAZE IN gTY HALL Knights of Pythias Holding a Jubilee When Flames Sweep i; Portland, Me., Building. COOL! NESS SAVED ALL. Big Assemblage Notified in Speech of Fire, Quietly File Out to Street. PORTLAND, Me., Jan. “—A fire fwhich caused a property damage of {$1,000,000 early to-day destroyed the City (Gan and police buildings and > ‘anger- (et the lives of more than seven hundred persons, Although known as City Hall, the buikiing was divided between city @nd county offices, while the police building sheltered the Supreme, Judicia! nd Munictpal courts in addition to the police department. ‘The firo was the worst in tho State @ince the great Portland conflagration ‘of 1836, when the city’s business and residential sections were almest cui pletely wiped out. Death was absent from the fire, a fact considered very remarkable, as there were more than 700 members of the western Maine Knights of Pythias Jubilee gathered in the auditorium of the City Hall when the flamea were Giscovered. Only a few persons were hurt, Chief Engineer Eldridge being the only one known to be seriously In- jured, and he was able to direct the fight against the flames throughout, be-| ing supported by two assistants. The financial loss is estimated at $1,000,000, but this sum will not cover fhe loss of papers and documents in the Regist@y of Deeds, where everything was destroyod, Other city departments were swept clear of everything by the flames, with the exception of the City Clerk's and the City Treasurer's of- oes, the money and securities in the latter being believed to be intact, al- theugh it will be almost impossible to ascertain definitely until the vaults hhave cooled off sufficiently for an ex: amination to be made, One of the most vuluable Mhraries in the State, tho Greenleaf law collection, ‘was completely destroyed, with a loss estimated at $10,000, When the flames were discovered MVilliam A. Turner, chairman of the meeting of the Pythian body, was met in the hallway Dy three men, who ac- quainted him with the condition of affairs. Coolly he entered the audi- torlum and ascended the stage, inter- rupting the rites of investiture which qwere going on at the time. He calmly told the assembled members of the existing ocnditions, saying there was mo need for hurry, and himself super- “wising a system of orderly departure, which proved effective in averting a panic and in bringing out more than 700 persons without an injury. Many left clad only in thelr Ight regalia, but later, when it was seen that danger was not imminent, some went back and secured their heavier garments, Earlier in the evening there had been more than 1,500 persons fn the auditorium for the jubllee exer- cises, and had the fire occurred then, packed as the hall was, many lives might have been lost. When the flames communicated to the police building. where the clty Jat ty located, it was decided to lberat; the prisoners, and they were set free ‘These prisoners had been arrested fo: only minor offen: ‘The building, which was a five-story structure of prick, ourned up and down from the third floor, as did the fire in the Clty Hall. ‘Aid was summoned from Bath, Bid- deford, Suco and Lewiston, but the lar ter was the only city lo Ket its appara- tus in the clty before daybreak. When *~ * * « Sninrday Fair. * * * [ “ Circulation Books. Open to All.”’ | : NEW YORK, TRIES 10 SHOOT HUSBAND WHOM ~ COURT SET FE \ | Wife With Pistol Follows Will- | iam Elms Into an Eighth Avenue Cafe. IS QUICKLY DISARMED. ‘Says She Read About the | Shooting of Brady by | Mrs. Clark, | Mrs. Minor Elma, a pretty young wo- man, of No. West Thirty-seventh etreet, to-day tried to kill her husband, William Elms, a clerk in the Criterton | Hotel, She followed him from the West | | Side Pollce Court after the Magistrate | |had refused to compel him to support | ‘her. | “I read how the Clark woman killed Brady," she declared after her arrest, “and I determined to do the same.” Elms, who {s a dapper young person of the fashion-plate type usually found nehind hotel desks, was known at the| jon hotel as Willlam McKenzie. | been living at No. 69 Manhattan | ince last spring, when he left his | Dismissed the Complaint. i Jn court today, when he was ar- | raigned on a chage of non-support, he sald his wife had strayed from the straight and narrow path and for that ason {t was tmposstble for him to have anything to do with her. Masts- trate Barlow agreed with him and dis- missed the complaint. Elms left the courtroom tmmediately, As he passed his wife the court officers \ Heard her aay: “I will get you yet." |She followed him to the street and | When she saw him enter the front door | of William Morris's cafe, at Fifty-) fourth street and Bighth avenue, abe| entered the rear door. Harry Leopold, of No. 167 West Thir- ty-fourth street, was sitting in the rear room when his reverie was suddenly in-| terrupted by an excited woman, who irew a revolver from her pocket and began loading it. “I'll get him," she mumbled. Her Husband Filed. Leopold summoned the waiter and the proprietor, “but before they had an op- portunity to confront Mrs. Elms she rushed into the bar with her plsto raised and ready for execution. “Where is he?" she oried. Elms dashed out of the front door and ba:< to the court-room, leaving the waiter and bartender to struggle with the excited woman, He came back with Policeman Burlington, who placed Mrs, Elms under arrest and took her back to court. Mrs, Elms said she had purchased the revolver in a pawnshop determined to ‘fix him if the law didn't.” She was held in $600 ball. ——.__. FROM WHOLESALE HOUSE DIRECT. Guilt or Overcoat made to measure from any material in our house, $12.60; regular $25 values. 8, J. Singer & Sona, 588-590 Broadway. Take elevator to Open Saturdays 8.20 P, M. %* third floor, There’s Not a Fumished || Room in This Great City But That Can Be Rented |) If You Tell | || All New York {| its location, size and price through A “Furnished Room’ Ad, || In The Morning World if you have failed to secure a tenant | | through advertising in minor | newspaper:. rrived 1! c late ta any , . eect neue ayae ayant the [LES the Fault of the Medium, | | sew Halt survived the great ire || Not the Fault of the Room. , al jt was badly gutted | of t ted on the prop: f $240,000, all held MORE THAN THE HERALD WORLD "To Let” Ads. printed last year or any other newspaper on earth, atc MDANIEL RIDES GEO. H. WHITE T0 VICTORY IN FIRST Cheap Class of Horses Go for ~ Purses at New | tj, Orleans. _afi3tes JIM M'CORMICK — ILL. | Eastern Owner Taken to Hos- pital Suffering From Fever Attack. (Special to The Evening Wort.) NDW ORLDANS, Jan. %.—There was more than a touch of frost in the alr Park today, and many of the Northern visitors were p utto wonder- ing whether they really are engaged tn winter racing in a sunny clime. The thermometer took a decided drop, anc only a few brave ones outside of the regular band af racegoers made tho journey to the track. ‘The prosramme offeerd was about on @ par with the weather. The races wei cheaply framed to let in cheap horses and again the entire card was made up of selling races. Half the card was given to distance horses for races at 1 mile and a sixteenth and two at a mile and a quarter. James MoCormick, one of the most prominent of the Eastern owners and tratners, was taken to a hospital to-day suffering from an aggravated attack of fever. His condition !s considered ser- fous and all his horses entered for to- day were withdrawn, The track was etl vy and lumpy, but with the eirong north wind blowing there was prospect of good going within a few days. FIRST RACH—Purse, three-year-olds; selling; one mile one-sixteenth.George HL. 10 (MoDaniel), to 2, 3to 2 and 4 to won by three lengths; Bulkhead, 102 (Gloss 15 to 1 6 to 1 and 3 to 1, 2 Sylvia 10 (W. Ott), 7 to 1,3 tol and 3 to 2, 3 Time—1,66. Speed Marvel, Brakespeare, Sundart, Mannie May, Calvin, Dorot! maiden and $490; | Ann, Bitter Man, Yankee Rose, Mexico |OMfald and Henta also ran, LIFESAVERS CALL. HELP FOR SHIP A WRECK IN STORM Unable to Reach Vessel Them- selves, They Telegraph for Sea Tug. HULI, Mass., Jan, 4.—A vessel, be- Heved to be a three-masted schooner, was discovered ashore in Black Rock Channel, on the Lowell Island side and opposite Bug Light, In the lower har- bor, shortly after 2 o'clock this after- noon, The weather ts very thick and it is not known how long the vessel has been In her present position. Capt. Sparrow, of the Stony Beach Life-Saving Station, telegraphed to Hoston for help, saying that his crew ould not get out to the vessel on ac- count of a storm prevailing. In re- ponse to Sparrow's message a tug was despatched to the scene, It was learned later that the vesso! was the schooner Fortuna, bound light from Newburyport for Bosion. The anchored In Broad Sound early ut slipped her chains. ‘The tuge and Confidence picked her up were lowing her lo port when the hawser parted, and the vessel brought up on the ‘beach on the back side ot Lovell’s Island. ——S ARGENTINE WARSHIPS TO ESCORT YANKEES. MONTEVIDEO, Jan. warships passed here to-day on thelr way to recelve the American tor pedo-boat flotilla on the high si °4.—Flve Argen- Mal They will escort ing vessels to Buenos Ayres, ——_——_.—__-- “I WAS ALL RUN DOWN aa Se et * e Eve Invaluable Advice to Young Singers and Music Students by the Greatest of All Divas Since the Days of Adelina Patt -MOR * * * * ning World, Beginning TO Talks to Girls by Mme. TETRAZZINT, * * * * 7 * * ROW Mother of Dowager Duchess of Manchester, In Her Youth OLD OOMINIOY —|MIRS.E, Y2NAGA LINER CHGHT I 5 -MILE GL Steamer from New York Head d for Norfolk, Behind Time and Not Sighted. at 29 P. X The New York, Philadelphia and Nor- folk steamer Maryland, Cape Charles, Va., had a severe experience in crossing lower Chesapeake Bay to-day and was several hours Inte. All Ches- apeake Bay steamers in from Baltl- more and Washington had hard going. ee FOUR OYSTER BOATS LOST IN STORM? ‘om ub iy St two days of ur ity and ok, Bray and NBWPORT NEWS, Va, Jan, 2— Four oyster schooners are eved to} have been lost In to-doy orm off Brown's Shoals, The body of a man, supposed to have from one of the vessels, was swept by a Newport News dock in a heavy current this afterrnoon. ‘The sea was so hich that the body could not be caught, brown, er double breasts inet. “Open is 3 a» Clothing Corner, Broadw lay st. 8 | ‘A World “Help Want” brings @ good cook the same day, ES IN SOUT OF PAEUMONA Was the Mother of Consuelo, The Dowager Duchess of Manchester. NORFOLK, Va. M—With the News wi q ¥ NORFOLK News was recelved here to-day of the Os rupnisi a temperature down degrees the death of Mrs. Ellen Yanaga, which oc-| pur a mat Virginia and North Carolina coast curred at her estate, Lake St. John,| what he dues to-day swept by a severe storm, ac-! Concordia Parish, La., after a briat/denies that he kn companied by a blinding snow and in-' jjIness from pneumonia. ee alleged relationsiip, and as hich th witnesses who may ind creasing northwest winds, which this: W\ ¢uneral arrangements will be| “vos ay «| ac’ r \posiuon to know say ot tell afternoon had reached a maximum 4 il woralligiveccivedidromther'| ' I i velocity of sixty mfles an hour at Cape Made un ‘ord is him, and aa there {8 absolutely no evi- Henry, [daughter, the Dowager Duchess of dence to show thee Be did know, it The wind, while blowing coastwise) yfanchester. Mrs. Yznaga was in her nee ED Geet Gp EE a that he vessel shore, {8 believed to have) - e ° eats ae aauees to shipping |Seventyisixth year, Referring to the letters which were | ee, pee Ellen Clements Yznaga was the widow | round in Herree’s room, and which the ap egos PAREN ETON AW eee wealthy Cuban | prosecution intimated were written by pope Old Dor hah aati The capes | WHO dled in this city in 18%, She wae) Are, Detsch, Judge Bregy warned the Bay Maul en atiene a a the descendant of a Yankee family jury not to guess or wonder what was at § A. M. to-day, had not been sighted | S415, settled in Loulstana early in the|jn them. He instructed last century. She was noted not only in the South, but also here and in New- port, for her wit and beauty. She loved the negro melodies of the South and won much admiration In her rendering of chem, The Yznaga home at Newport nd- jolnet that of W. W. Astor's a decade ago. The house is owned by the Inger- sols, of Phuadelphin. Before Mr, Yznaga's death the family met with many financial reverses and went to live at Orange, N. J. When the father of the present Duke { Manchester visited this country in IST7 he was taken {ll and was nursed in the Yznaga home. During this flness he discovered his love for Miss Con- sucta Yana were martied {in| Grace Churcii, this city, in May, 18 Yanaga, the oldest daughte Sir John Lister Kaye. Fer- na fa, the son, married the) |, daughter of Murra: Smith, of Ala- ¢ Mrs. W. K. ed a divorce Vander- and mar- Att rnando Yznaga he left all nore than Duchess of Man waa left to his mother Mrs. Yznag : several times fr t years ed severe iineases, but Alwaya recovered her health owing to the remarkable vitality she possessed. $$$ DON'T BE MISLED. Cook! Utensils, if ONT Eke GEMANBRY on the label. *0! {WAY ACQUITS. ETSCH OF Ti FERRE KILLING Judge Favors the Prisoner in , Charging Jury in Phila- delphia’s Thaw C RULES OUT JEALOUSY Se, Also Declares that a Verdict of | Murder in First Degree Must Not Be Considered. Late thin afternoon the jury in the Detach cane rendered na verdict t its (Opectal to The Evening Wert.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan, &4—The ease | against An J. Detsch, Jr. charged | wit shooting and killing H ‘Arrea, was given to the jury to. pris- oner have full assurance that he would | at lenst escape the gallows. | Judge Bregy charged the Jurors to jdismiss all thought of oting of murder tn the firs re | Judge in his charge tn the trial that Haison between (he wife of Detseh nust be eliminate: unless {t was proved that the had knowledge of such relat his ruling took away the best weapon of| the prosecution, kept Mrs. Detseh from the Witness stand and robbed the case ure, namely, | | rn | and her | expected acous on that the slain man | had blackmailed ber after they quar- relied. Police Theory Failed. The ruling nt that the prosecution could net. pro the theory the po- lico that Detseh's mo for the Killing Jealousy and revenve and that hts wife, as a lure for the havi rok with erree, acted | i vietim, his address to the Jury | Judge Bregy sald: Phere have been insinuations here and some side lights have crept in from the testimony, that this defendants wife occupied un improper relation to Ferree In other words, that Uie woman was worthless wife. As I told you, & men, yesterday, that if that were ao, amd the defendant knew of the fact, it might be some cause fur establishing a motive for the Kelling, but how could it be a cause if he did not know it? “Are there no men wio have faith- less wives and do not know it If th faithless 4 krew defendant rive at their conclusion by evidence only The Judge's charge was res some as an an. up of Asstetant District-At unable to get the rne late lane, who being son testimony In, alluded to it in his address, saying | “The law pronibits us from calling | the wife. But you no doubt that she looms up big in unis a It {5 | within the power of the di mee to Cu her, and Where a husband is on trial | for murder every human impulse tm pela a wife to take 1 and tell Why not call It is be lithe « tears to nave the wW | story Krowh. : | tell what took place Who can be In that room « ut Harry | Ferree was murdered? ot fair to bu that told, and there your minds | that if we had ere we would | ab ative for the Killing of Ha | The jury appeare: teeply impressed | by Mr. Taule & conviction | that Judge fF Warned them against y had heard forming an op the ari for the prisoner and his | 1 Mrs. Detsch's ons wi under of the case ent was sh ated by th fact n allowed to keep her seat jury box. On the f day of Bhe sat with the defending attorneys but yesterday and to-day she was keep far in the rear of the obliged | Jersey i RES EDITION. { “ Circulation Books Open to All” ] ; _ : FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1908. PRICE 0 a aS UEATH IN oTORM THAT PARALYZED TY TRAFEIE ‘Hundreds of Thousands Suffer Delay and Many Are Injured as Result of Sudden Coming of Wintry Blast. STEAMER IS DRIVEN ASHORE ANDLINERS HELD OUT AT SEA: Local and Suburban Lines Stalled, Bridges Tied Up, and Subway Transportation the Only Method Not Seriously Affected by Near- Blizzard. The tail of a blizzard that has been lashing the Northwest with its icy fury for the past twenty-four hours fell on this city and the sur- jrounding country to-day with disastrous results. ‘Tratfic was paralyzed throughout an area of many square miles; there was untold suffering among the poor, and an appalling amount of discomfort for the millions of toilers who left their homes in a blinding gale of snow. Four deaths were reported as direcily sive { there were scores of minor casualties, The Sound steamer John H. Starin went ashore in the blinding mist of snow off Whitestone and dozens of other steamers were storm-bound above Hell Gate. Incoming ocean liners did not dare the Ambrose Chan- nel, three being held at anchor off the Hook, The steamer Massachusetts, of the outside line between New York and Boston, is anchored off New London Lighthouse. The steamer Edgemont, of the Joy line, is anchored under the lee of Fisher’s Island, and nearby is an outside line steamer of the Portland-New York line. The havoe with railroad schedules Eighteen Lackawanna trains were stalled for three hours west of the Hackensack Bridge and a Long Island Railroad train was crippled on the Jamaica Bay trestle when the locomotive jumped the track, has rarely heen paralleled. Brooklyn was in sore straits, with every line of the B. R. T. practt- cally out of commission, and the Bronx was almost as badly off as if it had been lost in the foothills of the Adirondacks. Staten Island was not only snowhound, but all ifs telenhone and telee graph wires were down. The eastern section of Long Isiand hits not been heard from. New still on the map, but badly smothered under the snow blanket. Beginning at 7 o’clock last evening In) side there was so great a congestion a mild, wind-tossed snow flurry, the| that the reserves of the Bedford avenue storm gathered fury with each succeed-| station were called out to handle the ing hour, and long before dawn there | crush. were all the features of an old-fash-| As usual in all paralyzing storms in foned howler present. In the open places | this city the officials of the the gale swept the icy particles of snow | surface lines declared In a blinding mist, p! up drifts alons | was moving as smoothly the thoroughfares to the depth of three | blandest spring morning or four feet, ert of atton Delan 4 was no comfort or conventence| New Railroad, issued a anywhere above ground, and those who| statement in which he made the as managed to plough their way throug) tounding de ition that not a lne the drifts and across trafMe jammed! of his cars was Ued up. Reports trom streets tramped to the subway, where | passengers and an Investigation made tratiic was slow, but sure. Hundreds| by reporters showed that practleally of thousands living tn the remote places every crosstown line on Manhattan Isl jependable entirely upon surface lines | and was totally out of service. had to walk miles to elevated roads and| The One Hundred and Twenty-fitth subways Long Island Railroad] street crosstown line ran a few cats moved its trains at a snail's pace, and| behind snow ploughs during the early all the suburban roads in New Jersey | morning, but at less than a foot pace. suffered from the same hamper of snow | Amsterdam avenue cars were unable and piling drifts. to run up elther of the hills from the Bridges Out of Business. | Manhattan street hollow. No cars were ‘The Brooklyn Bridge was bdlocked|Tunning on the One Hundred and For completely more than an hour dur-)ty-fifth street crosstown line. early rush period, and the Will-| Mr. Delaney admitted that the scheds amsburg Bridge went out of commis-| ules had all gone to smash and that altogether as a means of transit | the cars could not be relied upon to 1 the Long Island tenement districts| muke any sort of decent s © the workshops on the east side of] “But this is not due to the storm,” Manhattan. At 9 o'clock fifty cars were|he said. "The congestion of vehloular stajled at the Manhattan approach to|traffic is entirely responsible for it. ‘Trucks amd other vehicles ere blocking f a the) bridge, and on the Williamsburg en