The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1908, Page 1

Captain of the Gen. Slocum Must Serve Ten- YearTerm Qii Fire on East River Front Causes $500, ooo Loss Senator Rayner Blames Wall Street for Causing Panic WEATHER. Fate; probably rain to-morrow. NY FINAL i R ES U LTS N) E j | Tl 0 N i “Circulation Books Open te All.”” | a —=—= _ PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY nz, 1908. “PRICE ONE CENT. 1 FR DESTROYS PART fevowrsF CAPTAIN OF THE SLOCUM MUST GO TO PRISON; UF GREAT OlL PLANT Tent ‘vers Foutow tater, Satled To-Day tor Training Ground. Than a Thousand Lives Were Lost ” Streams of Blazing Fluid Scattered by: Iden, Macias Ol | Loses in Fight to Retain Sefleso! Dermiie|Hxplosionsim tHe) | 0) ay) Nevcoaper | Liberty. Filling House of Pratt Men Creole’s Passengers Astral Works. ‘PUNISHMENT OF OTHERS STILL HELD IN ABEYANCE, Fire, starting in the filling room of the Pratt Astral Oil Works, Principal plant of the Standard Oil Company on Long nd, whic tends along the water front from North Eleventh to North Fourteen streets, Williamsburg, threatened de and was only six gas tanks of the Brooklyn Union C \Sole Penalty Meted Out to Man of Seventy | Who Sailed Floating Firetrap on Which \ Life Preservers Sank Persons Who Used Them. ruction to the entiré plant to-day, prevented from spreading to surrounding factories and ‘five of + Ke history as Company, by change in thes around t direction of the wind and hard work of firemen. fone) Guts ag | The filling room {s a one-story struc-j of water keeping them cooled by this tivities ny als | ture in which were housed 101,000 cases | prdcess akan hieaiee + eel | of ll, At one en of oe eee aine |i eet tieera ees PSU Gene Ces OC ee taUtey | Captain William H. Van Schaick will have to serve ten years in or ber, te) orm ita ae ine rclere oF Its eon: Fire bya . : | \ prison because he commanded the excursion steamer Gen. Slocum when 39 ree nas . Seactte : she burned in the East River on June 15, 1905, with a loss of more than Ing when the ‘fire w i ut ot. thousand lives. { tthe bulld- precinets and formed fre could be) burning plant and the ot off made) Ambulang Vlaze worked to be ing before an alarm o} wounded. Bursting ¢: streams of fire i these stre others trailed ating the st y or more The sentence, which was imposed at the time he was found guilty, of neglect of duty in the United States Circuit Court, a year ago, was affirmed to-day by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Phe sole punishment for a disaster that overtook an unseaworthy, ast plant. y afternoon © Ollowing mutinued a} all that se unprotected firetrap, carrying life preservers that actually drowned pere ns who fastened them on, falls upon a man who is over seventy firemen arrived. thrown on the ese is pie eee fs seemed to make the fire more f ss fasedus i years old. Another was indicted with him—lInspector of Hulls Lunde Four alarms * sent in Eye workmansitti|r, Who dropped solder LF ¢, who certified the rotten life preservers and inadequate life saving HERZOG. MSKINNE™ O BRIEN: RNS 1 ap eaeron Lundberg has escaped conviction in three trials. == || : =) Th pre three ounts in the WOMAN'S DRESS J.P vOncl [3 | | ‘ : | with falling to train ©) MDANIEL UP, 100 ih IN TUB CATCHES FIRE AS | SHAN ae em are prepared for shipment in cases con iy ‘ der the statutes ¢ fcunuelnelaiaaiion On this point t oll was severe,| Sze {uly half a million gallons ti oats in Greater Into a filled gation moned. Some nnd al} t an of gasoline. In- fl stantly there was 1 the ¢ nones aeen viet antly there was an explosion, ana| Ue ‘ous for the fire- | Ho gallons of naphtha and 15,000 gal- Vee of gasoline stored in the building ACU: sioke distance of two and a i ing that thelr|-rhis butlding contains y task was most dangerous, as the foreign dem Gas Tanks Were Menaced. dreds of thousands of the tanks ee ment upon which Capt. Van Sch. tried. He was found guilty on th charging him as master of the Slocum ekiy, ing is ¢ at Ww t is known} o here hun-| L Mons of oils prepared ‘ . and factory bulld:| f for shipment when the ra even at this d t in the vi “i | ne eyes of the law buildings the firemen sent streamo | Van Schaick was gu and the | urt to ch he can appeal ~~~ Overcome by Smoke. ae = == | Imnediately there was a series LAMY WINS THR t s if ~ . - ld th: verd'ct of the jury. |explosions, whieh sent brands of ce | ‘Gets Home a en in Bee ee rae vende and streams of ‘urning oll in every di. | Owners Never on Trial. Daily Man Oy ER eae 2 0D Hames | SKATING TIL | of My Love in New Or- * Herself, Lett Alone at Into Child’s Arms and \With Finest, Ex-Secre- | xone ot the + erent é 4 dense, thic rah ware Y | Gen. Slocum ever peen Suggestions “a ctane curtain and swept ont ues ES leans Second. Her Bath. Runs Into Hallway. tary Is Quoted. Sal Rete sat ae alert ee acer OuE as Bood river, ,fnveloping the fireboats| SSeS ons cody, MeClellan and Hewitt, which | had taken positions at the wharf edge, alytic, Unable to Help) Mrs. Stanton Throws Infant! Administration Would Rank es native of lost ng his means of li OIT, Feb, 12—The Journal to-| T About How to Make Money law of evidence did not allow the ith paralyste of the intestines Easily and With But land whose | Takes O e Eres! stop Tieb evenlnwa wordt) 1A Dozing in a chair with her fifteen- Uae eat ie {tiiote_ revs ware saluantly nent akes Quarter, Half-Mile and! yew orve Feb, 12, — The was given as the cause of death in thé) months-old infant in her arms Mra. cints an interview with former Sec- luction of testimony to show that ii the’ decks of their fry ptwatin aay Fie Oa ng at ie aa i Pea ane Senay L sien me «paw, the Gen, Slocum was no worse than @ Sa a |vessels. So danse was the amoxe tet Mile Events at Or- Mississippl Selling Stakes added some- case of Mrs. Catherine Fay, of Newark, Mary 3 of No. 129 Columbus ave-| retary of the Treasury Leslie N. Shaw | ict of other excursion boats in. this TEPPER eee RAUL ToRr Many of the members of tho crews of | 1 thing to the quality of the programme who was buried to-day, 1t was admitted yuo, was awakened to-day by thelin which Mr. Shaw etates that he would) harbor and better than some. has been said that “New York- || the fireboats were overcome. ange Lake. at the Falr Grounds this afternoon, It! at the County Insane Asylum, in that gcreams of her sevon-vear-old daushter |jike to sea J, Plerpont Morgan Presi-| Capt. Van Schaick’s lawyers could 4e ers are real estate crazy.” The sup- || Chief Croker hasteng to the scene ———— was at six furlongs, and while not city, that the end may been has-| to Gyr 1 Helen, “your|dent of the United States, no more than plead that he did the best nly of houses, lots, bus ness pron- Plover the Willlamsburg ridge in nis BT AeinT enon tthe sprintslitenedl by.) allaovere'(s wlilehirthel Gace dul oe h Oe hi) neicoulal erty, ete., in this great metropoli uto at th e and toc NEWBURG, Feb. 12 the tae ngingoub tha con: lnersio€ the sprint: rs , Ee COE. equal the Gear | Mee PEA is ls LES aS Re late iy Breton ehipoay @afow, WRONIANE RCEIRSY ALS Ai) whieh T might Stuck tele hoet Re aaa la ea LS a |! that the hundreds of thou. | amateur skating races at Orange Take MMEaS RYT Sinan Ane TAlstin ans mein tall aN tie pene 4 as ei the EIGoupl CaUahe Are itn hee LOH Wners wishing to sell J {sands of gallons of oN in the big tanks|to-day the quarter-mile char ' lerself while en a - fi i! Mr. 3 A much mis- of women and are always willing to pay a liberal [!bo drawn off. The company's pumps pote teh : ' Re Lain Teednnarorae Se vag President ! commission, 2 OFTEN A HAND- ayonne MPS atl was won by Edward Lamy, of Saranar maton yath Db e asylum was oy infan » Helen| understood man, If he was uick took c / nne and intermediate — stations Sl oen en Hison mare | momentar lanucan tment would give an administration that the wheel A,, time A. C., set C., third SOME BONUS the man who J{/were put in operation, draini | . draining the finds them a customer. One real [/tanks. Tweive powertul tugs owned by ¢ concern in 34th st. paid over J] cae company, together with tive hum + Joseph Miller, n, | U0s®! A. G. Stolz, Riverside xk with the best in the history although until he returne? she fo er turned on and t the tub When line seal e boat agrour Island. ecutives. shout was deeidedy Morgan {s a dig man, morally on the The weather was clear and $250,000 in commissions to its sales. }|dred employees, aided the firemen jn |® large crowd saw the races, | aqet ¢ ! of “ lly. If he were in the White S asserted that for the sale of property last J{the atiack on the biaze. ‘The em-| Halt mile champtonship won by ene nat iitetanigcald eat ; ze | ia wld sink his own interssts! the ‘ one of its hustling represen- [| ployees hustled thousands of cases of | W#td Lamy, Saranac C., time 1.39; 1 i ‘ ied three days|< ines Te AR erence Te atte Gere tatives making, single handed, more JJoils from the neighboring buildings, out | Foseph Miller, N ‘ cond W Ih las Me entrelyang:¢ rae ne ache coun 4 than $27,000 in such commissions. of the path of the fire. Supt. H, p, | Sutphen, Sarat 8. C., thir One inenotiimonnleehoncumeanonnen | moun’ i It is not nec ry to rent an of- [} smith directed the work of the em.| Mile novice won by A. R New- | | wom viet uieatwea lot ne fice, or assoc! yourself with a 7} pioyees. burg, N. Y., time i Me-} now soon they we | ——— | HEAP AR FEAT EN real estate firm, to make a hand- While the fire was kept, after harg! Devitt, Orange Bee Howard |), y vena LIGHTSHIP WIRELESS “WORKS. hy 4 etait i some income through negotiating [| work, within bounds, it will be several | Conkling, Washingtonville, N.Y. think. |yry, r Por th | Mts: Star Sano ted cee real estate sales or exchanges days before it is finally extinguisned in | One-Mile Championsoip—Won by jWv ie weanet Ren ATER EN TER REACT SE ETE ee “REAL ESTATE WANTED" ad- Pine ofl-soaked ruins ward Launy, Saranac Sk vertisements ive Morning or Sun- -_or— 3 ; Joseph Miller, day World will bring you directly rone . Sutphen, Saratoga s. C. in’ touch. with property owner, [FALL FROM CAR KILLED HIM, | <ica as who wish to sell. ——— — “REAL ESTATE FOR SALE” aq- [| Skul Fractured at ‘Tenth street! SHIP SUNK IN COLLISION. vertisements in the Morning or Sun- Curve Broadway Line, | day World will bring plenty of re- forty-five years old, | recent pantie, For confident that the v¢ int Appea en to the in| upheld by t companies M PIRATES ‘SEIZED HIS SHIP. sked iM .000 COAL MINERS | i STRIKE IN ILLINOIS. stcn nan a e Was Presi _ Captain Ordered Off OW John EB. Fogarty Hark He Had Abandoned, perso | oLES z sponses from persons who have f} a iaborer, who has been making his!,\.) 4. w | ANTON, Miss, Fob apt money to safely and protitably in- me at Mills Hotel No. , on Bleecker 1°" 1 a | ung and crew the ves! lreet, died in St, Vincent's Hos; he 000 TOBAC $s i 5 i ; street, dle e PIAL Jriorida, bound for New Y ; $30,000 CO SMOKE. dauck ieee Ale replies ah receive you {ils morning as the resuit of a fall Plorides bpeaeas is ea pnarthe fy WAND, Conn., Fé hick’ a sae ee tee ate ging together |{ from a Broadway car at Tenth street, | od alight so of C.K was wrecked tn the A sched without delay, an owner who is |] vogurty was riding on the back plat-| ine tne Se eth nce alll ! sandy anxious to sell and an investor who m of the car about 1.25 o'clock, wher, aed Manees wareina rent pa New is desirous of buying. it shed the Tenth street curve. He” mae Perea eal wese Gil yes ee i PRD RAC . iy pt ta A . } was thrown to the street. Dr, Frawley, A tapi eek 8 nid Allien: ft ; ntel by + was built at Glasgow in 1583, and w iH (Notte re oe teatroyed, $3) umage Ww Just Give It a Trial and See J | oy3.. Vincent's Hospital, found that be| Qwned by. the Navigusione’ Genera]? tot und ovens W ee ofthe | Uy atmake and we There was , : PNG had @ fractured skull, | Mautana, of Genoa. Male ‘Hamilton, a c Koerner), bt the result worth of tobacco 4a the bara, ; ber atter Le arst abandoned hey, ‘ .