The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1908, Page 2

* kook seo. TO-MORROW—Every Day in Th Clear! ght and colder; ee Sa ee u RESULTS ED 700 ESCAPE 51,000,000 BLAZE IN gTY HALL Knights of Pythias Holding a Jubilee When Flames Sweep Portland, Me., Building. COOLNESS SAVED ALL. Big Assemblage Notified in Speech of Fire, Quietly |* File Out to Street. PORTLAND, Me. Jan. “%—A fire ‘which caused a property damage of {$1,000,000 early to-day destroyed the City (Gan and police buildings and c> ‘anger- | fed the lives of more than seven hundred persons. Although known as City Hall, the builkiing was divided between city @nd county offices, while the police Duliding sheltered the Supreme, Judicia! ‘and Munictpai courts in addition to the police department. The fro was the worst in tho State ince the great Portland conflagration wf 18%, when the city’s business and residential sections were almcst coim- pletely wiped out, Death was absent from the fire, a fact considered very remarkable, there were more than 70 members of the western Maine Knights of Pyth! Jubilee gathered in the auditorium of the City Hall when the flames were discovered. 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 the loss of papers and documents in the Regist@ 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- foes, money and securities in the latter being believed to be intact, al- theugh it will be almost impossible to gscertain definitely until the vaults have cooled off sufficiently for an ex- amination to be made, One of the most valuable Ifpraries in the State, the Greenleaf law collection, was completely destroyed, with a loss estimated at $10,000. When the flames were discovered NVillilam A. Turner, chairman of the meeting of the Pythian body, was met in the hallway ‘2y three men, who ao- quainted him with the condition of affairs, Coolly he entered the audi- torium and asvended the stage, inter- rupting the rites of investiture which jwere going on at the time He calmy told the assembled members of the existing ocnditions, saying there was tho 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 Nght | regalia, but later, when it was seen that danger was not imminent, some went back and secured thelr heavier garments, Ea in the evening there had been moro than 1,500 persons fn the auditorium for the jubilee 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 jai fs located, it was decided to Hberat the prisoners, and they were set free These prisoners had been arrested for only minor offenses. ‘The building. which was a five-story structure of prick, ourned up and down from the third’ floor, as did the tire in the Clty Hall. ‘Aid was summoned from Bath, Bld- deford, Saco and Lewiston, but the tat ter was the only city to get Its appara- tus in the city before daybreak. When it arrived it Was too late to take any @cuve part in the fight against the ames 4 Se ‘he City Hall survived the great tir although it Was badly gutted time, [lt Was first opened in nd in 1867 Was feopened atte lowing th the prop 000, al helt Florida Limited Service, gett cmnee Camden, Columbia, Bhortont rouim OXtive 4308 wwe, ‘PRICE ONE CENT, * * * * Sntarday Fair, ITIGN | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | a Invaluable Advice to Young Singers and Music Students by the Greatest of All Divas Since the Days of Adelina Patti. * * * * * * * ne NE TRES 10 SHOOT HUSBAND WHOM ~ COURT SET FE iam Elms Into an Eighth Avenue Cafe. IS QUICKLY DISARMED. \Says She Read About the Shooting of Brady by Mrs. Clark, | Mrs. Minor Elms, a pretty young wo- man, of No, £32 West Thirty-seventh street, to-day tried to kill her husband, fam Elms, @ clerk tn the Criterion | Hotel. She followed him from the West j Side Police Court after the Magistrate |had refused to compel him to support ' her. “I read how the Clark woman killed Brady." she declared after hor arrest, “and I determined to do the same.” Elms, who {s a dapper young person of the fashion-plate type usually found behind hotel desks, was known at the | Criterion hotel | He has been iiving at No. 69 Manhattan ‘street since last spring, when he left his 1 wife, . Dismissed the Complaint. Mn court today, when he raigned on a chage of non-support, he sald his wife had strayed from the straight and narrow path and for that |reason {t was impossible for him to | have anything to do with her. Magis- |trate Barlow agreod with him and dis- | missed the complaint. Elms left ourtroom immediately, | As he passed his wife the court officers | heard her say: “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, fourth street and Bighth entered the rear door, Harry Leopold, of No. 167 West Thir- ty-fourth etreet, was sitting in the rear room when his reverie was suddenly In- terrupted by an excited woman, who drew a revolver from her pocket and began loading It. “I'll get him,” she mumbled, Her Husband Fled. Leopold summoned the waiter and the Proprietor, “but before they had an op- portunity to confront Mrs. Elms she Tushed into the bar with her piste was ar- avenue, ahe Wife With Pistol Follows Will- | as Willlam McKenzie. | at Fitty-/ MDANIEL RIDES GEO, H, WHITE T9 VICTORY IN FIRST of Horses Go for at New | %,. Orleans. gif tes JiM — M'CORMICK ILL. Easter Owner Taken to Hos- pital Suffering From Fever Attack. (Special to The Evening Wort.) NDW ORLBANS, Jan. %.—There was more than a touch of frost in the alr y Park today, and many of the at © | Nortnern visitors were p utto wonder- ing whether they really are engaged in | winter racing in a sunny clime. The thermometer took a decided drop, an only a few brave ones outside of regular band af racegoers made the journey to the track. The programme offeerd was about on @ par with the weather. The races were | cheaply framed to let In cheap horses and Again the entire cand was made up of selling races, Half the card was ,glven to distance horses for races at _ mile and a sixteenth and two at a mile }and a quarter. James MoCormick, one of the most prominent of the Eastern owners and trainers, was taken to a hospital to-day suffering from an aggravated attack of fever. His condition {5 considered ser- fous and all his horses entered for to- were withdrawn, The track was gl hc vy and lumpy, but with the ‘trong north wind blowing there was Mes. Tzvcagia. * * * * e Evening World, Beginning TO * -MORROW ix Talks to Girls by Mme. TETRAZZINI. * * ‘Mother of Dowager Duchess ot Manchester, In Her Youth prospect of good going within a fow = = = days FIRST RACE—Purse, $490; maiden i three-year-olds; selling; one mile and H one-sixteenth._George HH. ite, 107 i (MeDaniel), 7 to 2, 3 to 2 and 4 to 5, won by three lengths; Bulkhead, 102 (Gloss. 15 to 1, 6 to 1 and 3 to 1, 2 Sylvia G.. 100 (W, Ott), 7 to 1, 3 to1 and 3 to Time—1.66. Speed Marvel, Brakespeare Sundart, Mannie May, Calvin, Dorothy j Ann, Bitter Man, Yankee Rose, Mexico | Maid and Henta also ran, LIFESAVERS CALL HER CAUGHT ‘MILE G Steamer from New York Head- ed for Norfolk, Behind MARS. £. VZNAGA DIES (N SOU Was Th OF PNEUMONIA the Mother of Consuelo, The Dowager Duchess of Werld Ads, Succeed Where Others Fail, of gine inertness = @ good cook the same day, { “ Circulation Books Open to AIL” ] W YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1908. WAY ACQUITS. ETSCH OF Ti EAREE KILLING Judge Favors the Prisoner in Charging Jury in Phila- delphia’s Thaw Ca RULES OUT JEALOUSY. Also Declares that a Verdict of Murder in First Degree Must ot Be Considered. Late th’ in the Detach of ‘Not Guilty.” afternoon the jury ane rendered a verdict (@peotal to The Evening World.) PHILAD! Jan, %4-The ense against And Detseh, Jr. charged wit!) shooting nnd killin was given to the jury to. ry ra the pri rea, lay, omer have full assurance that he would At lenst escape the gallows Judge Bregy reel the jurors te j dismiss all thought of convicting Detseh of murder Tr | Judge in his ct rut in the trial that to Halson betwee t fm, and e wife of Detsch must be eliminated that the prisc unless it was prove knowledge of such rel ruling took away the bes the prosecution, kept Mrs the witness stand and robbed the case (nal feature, namely, | cone © and {n man ey quar- m= mailed ber af Police Theory Failed. The ruling meant that he prosecution could not th th smi the k and rever d that his s broken ¥ ree, acted been insinuations } ts have crept in from here have and some side | the testimony, that this defendants wife oceupled an improper relation to Ferre¢ In other words, that the woman was ss wife. As I you, gentle men, yesterday, that if ulat were #o unt knew of t tor and the defen might be si motlve for me caus he ie 'T BE MISLED. Cooking Utensils, if guanine, Dave STRANGKX oa the label. %s* raised and ready for execution. = nes be a cause if he did 1 “Winere 1s he?" she cried. Time and Not Sighted. Manchester. Reet eblier night ale GuAGE tele} Elms dashed out of the front door lees wives and do not know and ba:< to the court-room, leaving ras ! Wesrendaae ‘ek ‘Sulake wus te the walter and bartender to struggle NORFOLK, Va. Jan the | News was received here to-day of the eee ee ne nia with the excited woman. He came back temperature down 40° 22 (deeroes thellaentn of ars: Bilen Yanaga; whlch ool fore 4 with Policeman Burlington, who placed A a : Sbiat Was i : ; | ial Elman idindeniarresss ana tool her Virginia and North Carolina coast was curred at her estate, Lake St | what he back to court. to-day swept by a severe storm, ac-! Concordia Parish, La., after a denies th 4 —_—s } 8 4 Mra, Elms sald she had purchased companied Oy a biindive anow andlinel ines trom pneumonias ltiis saltezed the revolver in a pawnshop determined easing northwest winds, which this une = J witnesses w to “fix Mim it the law didn't.” she| Unable to Reach Vessel Them-| creasing noriiwest, Wands, we mum | Ne funeral cmsesaete Ail ste oaon Aan AG ee : was held in $500 ball. ee vag Made unt! word is received from her! jim, and as there is absolutely no evi- i veloc! ixty miles an hour at Cape aera were selves, They Telegraph for | velocity of sixty daughter, the Dowager Duchess of {dence to show that he did know, it FROM WHOLESALE HOUSE DIRECT. ‘The wind, while blowing coastwise; Manchester. Mrs, Yanaga wae in her|ca’not be stated or believed that the Guilt (oF “Cversons snade, to measure Sea Tug. yoassis off shore, ts believed to haye| 2. i Helin prea ccone oy ey eee from any material in our house, $12.50; caer samage to abipping|venty-sixth year. Referring to the letters which were regular $25 values. 8, J. Singer & Sons, WTOUR SE em Ellen Clements Ymega was the widow | found in Ferree's room, and waich the 588-1 7 HULL, Mase, Jan, 4.—A vessel, be- | caught at sea. sew Of Antonfo Yanaga, a wealthy Cuban | prosecution intimated v written by Bering LBroatway 2) Take ei svetcr The Old Dominion steamer from New p i third floor, Open Saturday's 8.30 P, M. *e*| Ileved to be a three-masted achooner,| (rio Gi Vomh en MeNaNe Uo. who died In this city in 18@, She was} Mra, Detsch. Judge Bregy warned the York, due to have passec : the descendant of a Yankee family | jury not to guess or Wi <== | was discovered ashore in Black Rock | at § A. M. to-day, had not been sighted | My etica in poutstana early in the |e anne ate nstracted Channel, on the Lowell Island side and{at 2 P. M. L | ltaatcenturys (Gte wasinoted not only.|/sive at cheln conciislon by Ju 3 ; The New Yori, Philadelphia and Nor- iB REET ATO: K = 5 : opposite Bug Light, In the lower har- in the South, but also here and in New-| evidence only i) Th Not a F hed folk steamer Maryland, trom Cape) oore gop mer wit and beauty. She loved] ‘The Judge's charge was © ere s INot a Fumis! bor, shortly after 2 o'clock this after- | v; 1 vareromnerience in| roc: F AULY.: he Judge's ch ‘ : : —_ ENG ah OnarlesieV S.No somavete se 0eh Il the negro melodies of the South and/ some as an Room in This Great City }/n97-_ 7° weather ts vory tick and {crossing lower Chenaneaie Hay to-44¥ | won much admiration In her rendering | up of Awslata: ? it 19 not known how long the vessel] and was several hours Inte, + Resi eet oe Goingr unnole Colas But That Can Be Rented | tias neen in her present position. apeake Bay steamers in from Baltl-| a1 yonega home at Newport ad-}son testimony in, al to it in als | Capt. Sparrow, of the Stony Beach | more and Washington had hard going. | 0% that of W. W. Astor's a decade | address, saying lf You Tell Sener Frauen sree phe’ to —>— ago. The house is owned by the Inger-| "Tho law prohibits us from leaning | POetOn OR SRE) D/ Rasy Neeru athe Chews ry, STE 2OATS | solls. of Phuadelphia, the wife. But yo! » doubt tha pa jcould not get out to the vessel on ac-| HOUR OYSTER u ea aS Before Mr, Yznagu's death the family | she looms up big in thi ir, Itt All N Y k count of a storm prevailing. In re- LOST IN STORM? jie with many fnancial reverses and | within the power of tae : Usepatchen (to) the \ecene: NPWPORT NEWS, Va When the father of the present Duke | for murder every its location, size and price thr It was learned later that the vesse!| Pour oyster schooners are jof Mancheater visited this country in| pela a wife to take ws Ue ough ||| was tho schnoner Fortuna, bound light have, been lost 0 rm off {isi he was taken ill and was nursed | eyery word sie cai in bis « “ ‘9 ” from Newouryport for Boston. The own's Shoals. Th ft i ne Y 101 | nit ag | Why js sne not calle : ne A “Furnished Room’ Ad, | fortuna ancaored in Broad Souna earls Bee ee eT Saaen Or Ce UCe a eee eee ees eee teaedesenma’ reary| (0), Rayesiehe IWhe) In The Morning World } {2.028 U6 slipped her chains. “Phe tuge | SuPpowe’ 00 e ofl he discayered his love for Miss Con- | story known. ; n The ring Wor and Confidence pleked her up| the vessels, was swept by wport}aucta Yanna, ‘They were married in|, "Wl can better tell what took plac « ; > towing her to port when the ws dock in a heavy current this] G: Church, this city, In May, 1873. eee rae under fale if you have failed to secure a tenant J | oan" parte ang Me vgawel Dicuant| atterrnoon. ‘The wea wax so ish that! “Hmily Yenaga, the oldest daughter, | you that the through advertising in minor Lovell's Island. the body Id not shit. married Sir John Lister Kaye, For-; and there newspaper:. | ea nando A pars e i ried the] (int iH j daughter of Murra: Smith, of Ala- ling of arry errs *s the Faul A | ARGENTINE WARSHIPS Last Two Days of Big Sale, | oanerer oe ee sts, We Ik. Vandene | eis saey an “ ly impressed It’s the Fault of the Medium, 4's Winter 0” 5. d babs ee ad eee {by Mr. Taulane's plea for a convictior ; | TO ESCORT YANKEES, |$12 Men’s Winter O’coats,$5.95 | 8 Alfe divorce |and|/nar-|t patentee ue, con oonyleHon Not the Fault of the Room. Tub Cloth 227. ftany rming an Wnt they nha heard ¢ 2 ES A a r At ando Yznaga he the argume the mer and his | | MONTEVIDEO, Jan, 24.—Five Argen. ‘engltere which amounted to Own cha tine warships passed here to-day on | $20! Wangimore his sister, the... The. persiste attorneys | 9 H 9 thelr way to receive the American tor-| Brown Duet Not a penny the defense ta. tee Mrs e pedo-bout flotilla on the ‘ wa onnections with e WORLD “ToLet”| MORE THAN | dedocboat Hotlla of the Mgt Seas oft | aaraay Ba out of the case entirely was, sharply Adds. priatedlaat year! THE HERALD Je \osScis to Buenos Ayres, Corner, Droadw: parel vet Ye : Ugry NALA ns Ge fal hat, aue US i i ———e. eer) r i emarkable vitality she possessed. Jury box. On the first day of the tria or any other newspaper on earth. “ ” the rer she sat with the defending attorne: fe re \ ug vest RAS ALL nun Down 4 World “Help Want” brings —_ [Aa CE ee eure ae ob! no to keep far in the rear of the | Four deaths were reported as directly dive tv » stern DEATH IN STORM THAT PARALYZER CTY TRAFFIC | ‘Hundreds of Thousands Suffer Delay and Many Are Injured as Result ot 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 jicy fury for the past twenty-four hours fell on this city and the sur- rounding country to-day with disastrous results. Trattic was paralyzed throughout an area of many square miles; there was untold suffering among the poor, and an appalling amount of homes in a blinding discomfort for the millions of toilers who left gale of snow. 1 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 M 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 ide line steamer of the Portland-New York line. paralleled. achusetts, of the outside line is an ou The havoc with railroad schedules has rarely ighteen 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 trac Brooklyn was in sore straits, with every line of the B. R. T. practi- 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 snowbound, but all ifs telenhone and tele. ph wires were down. The eastern section of Long Isis has not been heard from. New Al Jersey is 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 res 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 ol As usual in all par: & storms in | tonea howler present. In the open pl. this city the officials of various | the gale swept the icy part of snow | surface lines declared th Jin at is mist, p' up drifts along | as | the thoroughfares to the depth of three ng morning, perintend- or four feet. mtation Delaney, of the 1 ¢ was no comfort or convenience York City Railroad, Issued a anywhere above ground, and those who ment | which he made the as- managed to plough their way through tounding declaration that not a line |the drifts and across traMe jammed | of his cars was tied up. Reports from | streets tramped to the subway, where | passengers and an Investigation made ratilc was slo t sure. Hundreds | by reporters showed t practically | of thonsands Hving C te pea | eV crosstown lise on Manhattan Tale dependat entir on surfs ines | and was totally out o| rvice. had to walk miles to elevated roads and| The One Huy Twenty-fitth subways, The Long Island Railroad | street crosstown a few cars moved its trains at a snail's pace, and | behind snow ploughs ring the early ‘ban roads in Now Jersey | morning, but at less than a foot pace. | suffered from the same hamper of snow Amsterdam avenue cars were unable land piling drifts. to run up either of the hills from the Bridges Out of Business, Mantattan » hollow, No cars were The Brooklyn Bridge was bdlocked| running on the One Hundred and Fore completely for more than an hour dur-)ty-fifth street crosstown line, ng the early rush period, and the Will, Mr, Delaney admitted that the sched- amsburg Bridge went out of commis-|tles had all gone to smash and that sion altogether as a means of transit| the cars could not be relied upon te n the Long Island tenement districts; muke any sort of decent speed o 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 vehioular traffic is entirely responsible for It, Trucks and other vehicles are blocking stafied at the Manhattan approach to tack been and on the Williamsburg