The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1908, Page 1

rer oer Mine | Fire in Harlem School Causes Panic Among Mothers “Lady ET Ad nits pieatas Hostesses’ plewens | w Weather—Rain and warmer ARLE MOTHER N PANIC AT INCENDIARY BLAZE IN A S¢nO0L Frantically Beat Against Police Lines as 2,500 Singing Children (1,000 of Them Under Six) March Out to How New York handles a school fire was practically illustrated just | No. 165, in One Hundred and Ninth before noon to-day in public school Safety. street, between Amsterdam avenue and Broadway, when 2,500 children, without wraps or books, marched out in excellent order in response to an urgent alarm, caused by a fire which Chief Bi More than 1,000 of the children were tots under six years of age. diary. Of all the 2,500 little boys and moved with the precision and accuracy of a little army, corps of teachers lost her head until ‘Then Miss Agnes Dunn, principal of the primary department, which she!ters 1250 children, gathered a couple of round- eyed little toddlers up in her arms and Missed them. Each of the children held | @ Teddy bear tightly clasped to her bosom. “You dartings.”" sobbed Miss Dunn. “Tou isthe angels, all of you.” Im allaytng @ panic, the school officers and teachers and children were ably os- sisted by the pollce and firemen. With- fm = few minutes after the alarm was eounded Capt. Kelleher, of the West One Hundredth street station, was on the scene wah twenty-five men and pad fire lines stretched across Amster- @am avenue and Broadway at One Wanéred and Eighth and One Hundred and Ninth streets. Mothers (Frantic. "he precaution was wise, for mothers, bawe-headed, hysterical, with remem- brasce of the schoo! horror im Cleve- Yand, began to swarm upon the lines. They came from as far away as Co- tambdus avenue, from One Hundredth stvest on the south and One Hundred and Thérteenth street on the north. | With tearful insistence they besieged (em mes of rubber-coated cops, but none was allowed to go through until | the fire was out and danger was over. Deouty Chtef Binns, after a cursory examination. gave it as his opinion that thre fire was incendiary. He said that & started in two places, where a fire eoukd scarcely have started without buman eid Both ‘fires were mm an unused clase room on the fifth floor next to the gymnasium, which at that hour of the; day was deserted. One of them was in| @ locker, The other was in an unused | desk, nearly twenty feet removed from the looker, Stuffed Full of Paper. | ‘Traces of the fire in the desk indicate | | and Chase, ns believes to be incen- girls not one lost self-control. They Not one of the the fire was All o1 over, BALLOT INES. WAY BE OPENED HGH COURT RULES, Hearst Forces Win Point Over | McClellan in Mayoralty | Contest. ALBANY, March @.—The Jourt of aos Peals this afternoon handed down decision reversing the order of the ee pellate Division, first department, and | sustaining that of Justice Vernon M. Davis, who decided that Attorney-Gen- eral Jackson had filed a sufficient pill of particulars in connection with his Supplemental complaint that illegal Votes were cast for George RB. McClel- lan in the Mayoraity campaign in New York City in 1906. Under the decision the ballot boxes | may be opened and the ballots exam- ined in the quo warranto proceedings | brought to test MoC’ lellan's title to the Mice of Mayor, in the interest of William Randolph Hearst, While the proceeding |p technically in the nature of subsidiary aspect of the Hearst-McClellan caso, the decision 1s the first trom the Court of Appeals un- der which the long disputed ballot boxes may be opened, It is a victory for Clarence J. Shearn, representing the people as appellants, The decision is by a digtded court, voting four to three. The prevailing enon is by Judge Haight, a dissent- 1, opinion being fil Phe majority. are Chie? Take: aay 1 Bartlett, Haight Those in the negative ar Vann and Wormer, Uh FORMER POLICE CAPTAIN FRANCIS J. KEAR DEAD, | i and Judges W Judges Gray, that the receptacle was stuffed with paper whtch was set ablaze with a! match. So suspicious were the circum- stances that Deputy Chief Binns sot a guard on the door of the telephoned to the office of Marghal for some one to hurry to’ the scene and get to the bottom of the cause of the blaze. The locker in which started had not been used for weeks and was supposed to be empty. The desk, also, had not been touched for many days, | The door of the classroom was not room and one of the fires locked, and it was possible for a prow- | ler to have entered It from the hall Starts an Investigation. Fire Marshal McGuire led to the message of Chief Binr had an Investigation inaugurated pre the remnants of the fire were cold, He Yoarned that a of boys had deen in }4Continued on Second Page) § ah ieeermreicnnttons the Fire, Former Police Captain Kear, fifty-two years old, ¢ 9 to-day at his home ighth streot. He Mra. Kear, two sons, t rs, and a daughter Capt. Kear was a wide! PoDiAE policeman, Haw Francis J. paral- known and jointed May 12. 1 the B He was made a of ne, 113, a Moutenant 18S, and n| captain Dee. 1100, | a Trade Winds Are Thay “ Circulation Books Open to An.” | | Vidaver. lin the capacity of counsel for the and retired | er, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. MARCH oO, 1908. ‘Room. Found Ablaze in Harlem School, and Pupils Singing in Yard Atter Escape (Photographed by a Stu! Photographer for The Evening World.) (ARROW TV DICATES ZOCATION, OF FIRE. Room In wriicr THE FIRE CDE CRIES VIDAVER IN COURT FACES AGCUSER aH EXTORTION cue i FAIR GRCUNDS . CAILDRE DL IN FRONT OF /65- Mt fr IN GAS bY UEUHING i le U Bch Former Deputy Told Attorney-Gener= al of Overdrafts Made in the Ham- ilton Bank, W. R. Montgomery — | Bookmokers at New Orleans Fas! Time Ms Made by Mecticciat i | Are Hit Hard by \ Given a Flying es it Hearing: | Plies: | Start. The examination of Nathan Vidaver, accused of attempting to extort} money trom WilHam R. Montgomery, former President of the Hamil- ton Bank, * was begun this | ot afternoon before Magistrate Herrman in the private examination room| juinner ot men cy en wh of Centre Street Court. jot laying agai Ww Marc there | ‘by threats againsi his person and property,” min dt unprofitable iam M. K, Olcott and Frank Moss appeared as counsel for] la Howard Gans, formerly Assistant District-Attorney, appeared | mplainant and created some excite-| ™' from time to time “to keep the District-Attorney Kresel appeared for the ment by butting into the proceedi record straight.” Assistant prosecution. Mr. Montgomery was the first wit-) could find any over drafts against me ness examined, His mony was a| White didn't find them f. but |e © enous | repetition of his afdavit published in |‘ ck#on told him where d them, |at hand enous i i comin ofl ans son had no means knowing | with Uae aha Even! orld of yesterday, with | nnout them unless Vidaver told him.” | It is a ve Hishment here and t : “Mr, Montgomery confessed, in Believed Vidaver Was Unfair, |) are only i jof lavers off to questie nt Vidaver had not tressed used im tn contin iad paid Vi account and soles ae =a F x ne Hb ‘i ; i va N Mr M tin i s i 4 volt 8° GENATE PASSES BILL Clee alles fanning kia Nan ves two "108 RAISING PAY OF ARMY MEN, “6 * tune saying and making advices see The World's Want Directory next Sunday.—Advt. a he couple of ‘months end see if he passed by UL WASHINGTON, AL &—The Senate ia Ren Pield with rank, 4 and [da May also r sue Senate to-day by in [« Ciretlation Books Open to All.’’ ] erp eth dib, i Ul if Cedrino PRICE ONE CENT. HANCELLOR DAY, ROOSEVELT CRITIC, COUSED BY CHURCH ae ——o $9 Called, Under Charges, to Account to; Methodist Episcopa! Authorities for Strong Language and Comments 7 on the President’s Acts. ANARCHY IN WHITE HOUSE | MvoTl DANGEROUS, "HE SAID and ‘*Unchar. ‘ itable and Unprofitable Conversation” Among ‘Speaking Against Magistrates” | Specifications ia Charges Avainst the fread of Syracuse University, : As a consequence of his attacks upon Pre Roosevelt, charges Day, Chancellor of pal Church. The charges “speak- James R. urch, wl hp he has been guilty 2 and unprofitable conversation. The following extract trom at interview with Dr. Day forms the he asis of the charges: pH QHIENTAL Wak 2 | De wre made by Fev, Geol the judi- law of Hay, ale roof Syra= oft ummon n five and hold a ident t Roosereta ut there is small J being dismissed! estisation Rocsevelt’s Severe Critic. " arges ninisters limes, among then Rev, towne, of Hoston Univers saitor off ‘Rev. 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