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THE EVENIN FIREMEN DELAYED BY SILKEN HOSE Firemen had more trouble last night with hose, but it wasn't the rotten “TERROR” PICKED. UP BY SLEUTHS isis ciautereabeseracalyee| |potr of ankles as ever shot skyward tn the evolutions of the lofty lilt. Hook and Ladder Company No. 24, with BOSTON'S LITTLE Gav Pretty as a Fashion| ariver spasay aciewin in the saddte,| Plate. the ¥< (Athfatic | was tearing along Seventh avenue on ate, the Hub’s “Athletic the way to a fire in Thirty-first ateeutl Burgtar,” Caught Here. | When the boys on the truck got @ peek) ita tty girl doing a skirt dance in| the t just ahead of them. Whether | the hostery display dazzied the driver IS TOD, SLOAN’S SIZE. stop the horses were unsuccessful, and, to the horror of the crowd, which ap- plauded her terpsichorean efforts from | the curb, the young woman was knocked Used Rope From Roof to In- troduce Himself Into Houses to the pavement. ane eter eman was first ald to : of “Best Families. INorauace thecomubiasmmesnis creates | Bellos arrived with the ambula from | | Bellevue the voung woman had {ust One of the brightest ecate? fish that | regal! consclousness. e sustained | ae ae police net we hear |@ slight abrasion of the acalp. She was] so mueh about Ie Httle Cecil Gavaga, | (ken to the /nospital and placed in the} alcoholic ward, excessive use of stimu- Boston's athlet{e burginr, He's about | iants, accordine to the doctors, being Tod Stoan's eight and wear clothes |responsibie for her exhilaration. She just ns vociferous as over did that |S@ve her name as Lizzie Benning, twenty-six vears old and her ad They zs will never be known, but his effort to Greenwich St. near Warren St. Coward Shoe All Lines— Surface— L”—Subway Bridges—Tunnels—Ferries Lead to Coward's Shoe Store | 5 Minutes’ Walk from Brooklyn Bridge 5 Minutes’ Walk from Subway 4 Minutes’ Walk from City Hall Quickly reached, on foot, from Chambers St. Ferry, (3 minutes) Barclay St. -y, (4 minutes) Cortlandt St. Ferry, (8 minutes) Liberty St. Ferry,(10 minutes) SOLD NOWHERE ELSE, JAMES S. COWARD, | 268-274 Greenwich St., N. Y. | | young person in his palmy days. No. West ‘Thirty-first atrect. ars virions of alls a cen sai! nee A L amount to mush” __Mail Orders Fille. Seod for Catalogue, 4 TH hadtete iWORLD. WANTS WORK WONDERS h lined with the most ex of Cecil's natty | waistcoat ticks a dandy gold watch, | with a perfe: re iful lady don | ‘on st In diamo Cecil's cane ts gold- headed, his gloves are silver and enamel Dittoned, his neat boots are mate to on From top to toe Cecil ts a per- fe al cameo, Yet, sad to relate, he is say the police, aa slick a crook as ever siid down a rope empty- handed ei up again with his at and ue early ay, looking fx- at nothing 4 cular, but paus- | ing now and t emplation to admire the whe: tong came Deter of the Central Office 1 1 over the fashion plate, and they rudely bumped him as they | essed by. . Quick at Repartee. Ie “Well-lel-1? interrugated the ttle | man, switching round on them Indig- “Where are you bound for, you o a urned and looked hard apanes e ina Then Cray said: @t him for a minute. “And suppose you doing here yourse! “Oh, just looking to see if the weath- ers holding up oung Gavaza, rit of repar rong upon him Bo: when you left led Cray suddenly. ooked at him in apparent as- hment. At Exceptio Saucers, Teapots, Chocolate - All at 5O° Each The delightful quaintress 0° the patterns and the and figure decorations give thc Sable porcelains of Japan remarkable prestige. ‘The Sale consists ot many hundred pieces—Plates, Cup Pots, Sugar nal Values beauty of the floral und Cream Sets, loved ae ed ea eet SoUE Dut foundry | Plates, Olive Dishes, Bowls, Footed Dishes, Ete., Ete. ans open In the morning. Boston? ard nd and bu icked lit a cigarette with pen a FP melledRoave much cont All righ din Savage; “but we tl £ Watts over ere would like to see you all the up, old Rough Stuff, and Broadway at said the glittering orter qu drink- | your brain."* | Had His Photo Handy | back you come said rude Mr. Cray za firmly by of a coat). “Our brains are fected to know you're the Boston inup-| per sneak we're looking for. ‘Then Cray flashed @ photo on him. | It was a rogues’ galley one. Not pret- ty or good art, but it was Gavaza. Ne THURSDAY, “Oh!” said Gayaza as he took In the | Photo. » you're a brace of bulls, | UNUSUAL hey? Well, just to help you out, I'll go to Headquarters wit} but T knew GAUZE LISLE VEsTS, Swiss ribbed, you from the getaway big dubs. Crocheted fronts and shoulce’s, by your enormous and at Headquarters was not th ecil Gavan captive w Boston at the pap! last February rope around chimni ft Into the best people's windows. Back Bay section was jolted out of all its philosophic eaim A about every other night some wealthy woman's jewels that she wae sure she laid out on er dressing table so she could put them on for the theatre after dinner were missing and nothing to show how it was done. One night Gavaza, though, thad to leave a house in a hurry and left his rope danging. That's how they got onto his methods. How they got onto him _{s a polloe story, tut they Ghd oo, effectually that he ‘beat it to New York last March and has since deen tn hiding here at No. 211 Ninetenth street. Gavaza belongs to an ordinary class of crooks, “the supper sneaks,” but by this methods he marie his feats amount The police call him the . Gavaza used to chum in with the female servants of wealthy Boston families and get the dinner hour or mise eeremlyy from conversation ith (the ‘slender, stron: Tope te carried, and hii ym getting up and down it, the Feat wae easy for him. He te said to be a fluent linguist and comes of a Nova Scotian family. low neck and sicevel East BROOKLYN GIRL DROWNED AT ESSEX. May 2.—Miss Lucy 29 Unton avenue, . ¥., was drowned last t in the Connecticut River, op AUS the boat tandln While witnessing the departure of {rend on eamer Hartford phe stepped from the strings ot the wharf to the guard rail, @nd losing her balance fell into the ‘water. Felix Tarsney, of New York, here to institute a search for the body. GAUZE LISLE VESTS. Swiss ribo<d, imported, GAUZE LISLE HOSE, black, handsomely embroidered insteps. GAUZE LISLE HOSE, Black or Tan, BRIDGE St. B’KLYN :| All at 50¢ Each, Value 75c to 1.50 Suitable for City and Country Hom:s Basement Sale room A. A. Vantine @ Co. 18th Street so MaY 218T Women’s Underwear and Hosiery VALUES H imported, Elaborately Rogularly $1.00 each. 55 Box of six $3.00 Rogularly 50c. cach, .39 Box of six $2.00 Regularly $1.00 pair, 50 plain. Regularly 50c. pair. .35 Box of six pairs $2.00 FuLron St. Cor A $6.00 Waist $9.97 Thursday Only Made of very fine net, heavy em broidery on yoke, back and front trimmed with raised silk embroidered dots, elaborated with fine al. lace silk lined throughout;.ecr only. A) new model and the most effective! G WORLD, WEDNESDAY, Stern Brothers TO-MORROW, UNUSUAL VALUES IN Women’s Cloak Dep’t x $9.75, 12.00 ASSORTMENT OF IMPORTED AND DOM AMER U EMBROIDERED FILET NET COATS, ALSO A LARGE SHAWLS FOR TRAVELLING, MOTORING AND S1 Special for Thursday Imported [FANCY SILK, at $2.95, 3.25 ue ALGERIAN, dl 1.50, 1.95 Shawls IMITATION CHUDDA, “ 1.95, 2.75 Women’s Neckwear Dep’t Exceptional Offerings Batiste Bows with hand embroidered dots, in all desirable shades, Jabots of Net and Lawn with Valenciennes Lace Combinations, at Values 38c¢ to 85¢ Value 38¢, 25¢ 25¢, 45¢, 55¢ Real Point Applique Scarfs, Value $2.95 to 4.50, Hand Embroidered Colored Linen Collars, at Values 50¢ to $1.25 31.45, 1.65 38°, 45°, 68° Special Values in Ribbons IN WHITE, BLACK AND ALL MILLINERY COLORS 514 in. Satin Taffeta and 6 in. Lustrous Faille, at 25c¢ Yd. 6 in. Moire Taffeta, ue hits Silk Washable Ribbons 3-16 in. 4 in. ¥ in. 1 in, at 22e Ske 45c 65c = 8Sc Piece of 10 Yds. West Twenty-third Street | May Sales o Brill Clothes : Savings of 30 to 40 per cent. would be of little account to you who want right clothes, unless the savings were on clothes like Brill clothes—clothes that ave advance in model, fabric and construction. Prices quoted in these May Sales result from Brill trade ad- vantages—from large purchases of piece goods under price; from large tailoring “orders executed between seasons, and from the Brill policy of turning to the customers’ benefit every trade Journeyman advantage. Tailored Briil Suiis, $13.50 $18 and $20 Including tan, brown and blue suits, gray suits and black suits Including smart, semi-conservative and conservative models. In fabric, tailoring, style and fit these garments are regular 318 and $20 values. Foremost Makers’ Suits, $ v4 $22.50 and $25 Values, Tailored by organizations that are nationally known for the excel- Here are Suits that cannot he duplicated under re suits in the new smart, hard-to-find color- browns, olives and smoke shades, as well as in the popu mixtures, blues and blacks, newest models, including the $11.50 goodness of the fabric, the thoroughness of the cel Hence of the trimmings, these Blue Serge Suits have the appeara service of the best $15.00 blue serge suits. The fabric, under market value, was. made by a famous mill and is of the standard used in $18 serge suits. The tailoring and trimmings are of usual $15 standard. Tae models are correct Brill models Brill stores warrant these sults to give suit free. Zr ouR uh Bicthers open evenings 279 BROADWAY, n. Chambers St. 125TH STREET, cor. 3d Avenue, UNION SQUARE, 14th St.,n. B'way, 47 CORTLANDT, n. Greenwich, ings—tans, lar grays, most extreme shown in New York Serge Suits That Are $15 Vaiues, Because of the tailoring and the full $15 Service or a new THURSDAY | SPEUIAL Tuispa| SvECIAL Women’s Street—West. and Misses’ Tailored Suits Closing Out at a Great Reduction Women's and Misses’ Tailored suits, Several of the very best and most at- tractive styles of the season; suitable for present wear, all the fashionable ma- terials. Regular prices $25.00 to $35.00, | A» Is Your Home Lite Dreary? When the dollar-grasping draws to a welcome close, And you hasten from the car-l!ne in Search of calm repose, Are you thinking that this life for you has quite a hollow tone, Or are you happy, knowing there’s a Piano in your home? daytime Have you ever stopped to realize that life is what you make it? Like bread, its worth depends upon the way in which you bake it So if your nights are lonely and Dull- Care makes dark your way, Just order a Piano “bargain” through World Ads. to-day. Music Is Food for the Sou’. MAY 20, | Bust Supporters, x PADEELAES 4444646: eo ees : Remarkable Bargains in !'illinery Bice Lieb A MeN 1908. uinuies trom Hoboken to The 14th Stieet Store Abbas SASAREORERAEAERES Jasaeesessadschbiscssecsaaccacucceasces T THE public Auction Sale of BLACK, WHITE and COLORED RIBBONS (the celebrated PHOENIX BRAND), by order of the Phoenix Silk Mfg. C6., Greeff & Co., Sole Agents, several days ago, THE ® sands of dollars’ worth of Standard Quality All-Siik Ribbons Made Expressly For the Summer Trade | One-inch All-Silk Taffeta 3 Higsinch All-Silk Brilliant @ ¢ | 15a: All- Silk Taffeta Sct | Cc | iatfeta Ribbons, yard.. Cc | Ribbons, yard. ce | at 6c, 7c, 8c, 12c, 18c, 18c and up to 2ic a yard Q | stsasvsnssussvasunsamiagsobnscensectea resunaeneenses sie sstuesoessesettas | Women’s Lingerie Dresses EC AU SE of recent trade conditions, a Philadelphia manufacturer of , much prominence offered us his entire made-up stock at about THE COST OF THE MATERIALS. The illustration gives you some idea of el J600 LINON PRINCESS JUMPER White, Pink, Blue and Laven- “THOUSANDS OF YARDS OF THE FAMOUS PHOENIX BRAND ay (4TH STREET STORE was the largest individual buyer in the East, purchasing thousands upon thou- Ribbons, yard Linen Jumper Dresses | freshness, daintiness and refined prettiness of these Dresses. der; prettily trimmed with DRESSES. Colors are Tan, $1.98 -! Fine quality Batiste and Lin- from; all daintily trimmed strappings of white; wide folds, waist pear! with piping of white; prettily trimmed with buttons. $4.00 values 1,000 LINGERIE PRINCESS DRESSES gerie in all colors; 7 models to select with Valenciennes laces and edg- ing and prettily tucked; others Lingerie and have panels of Swiss embroidery on waist and skirt; very full skirts; guaranteed to wash; all col- ors, including Pink, Blue, Lavender and White. Values up to $6.00. 1/0 LINGEKIL PRINCESS DRESSES. Mull Batiste, in all colors; beautifully trimmed with Swiss yoke Imported This embroideries; V shaped Lingerie of Val. laces <i edgings; sleeves and skirts prettily trim- Press med; all colors. One house GES advertised a similar model at $7.95. Here at ..ceceerereeee eee ces a So eee aaeeeeeees SILK Misses’ Suits Reduced SUITS, smart, styl'sh and we'l tailored, in single and double-breasted effec’s. Pashioned of two- tone gravs with pretty stripes anJ che ks. ts line! throughou with good quality Satin. Full plea od skits witi o'd st bottom. Sires eb 16, $7, 75 18 years. $12.50 values... Children’s CLO ‘$1. 98 Fancy Ginghams, ‘laids and all-whie tavne in’ the newest guimpe effect. Full pleat:d sk'r.s. - $i. 93 Sizes 6 to 14 years. $3.0) value LOMA AINA AAA | (Second Floor.) DURA DERE AUEARDERDT ONSITE Anna pbah siete VARS WR AAMAS j Hats Trimmed Free of Charge—Main Fioor. wees INTRIMMED FRENCH CHIP \UNTRIMMED — STRA HATS ‘A HATS, ad quality; the | Me mplete assortment in latest Summer shapes; me-| smooth and rough Jap Qh i dium csmait; in | bratds) i il este SRE "> O8¢c Ostric meee 3 eee ay mported Leghorns den! 4 hand 3 “4 Miahnels telonmell erithr, dunce Ldtaesy Piumes $ tron. (THE MATH STRELT STORE, ROA NAAN ET ABIMAVO OTE EEE ONTEN! F ‘AN 1 UN Denkwhar San weights for men. women and children, all of depenc: able make ond remarkably 8 SLR WEIGHT MERINO UX White and Natara ry Whe, quali and Corsets. LARGE ASSORT- teat OF BUST | WOMEN'S FINE ' TED IM. ED LISLE AND COT. In all WISS rand exten amed and Imported with CHILDRE: RIBBED COTTON VESTS. Low neck sleeveless; airs’ | | COTTON 8, reinforced 14TH stkeet STORE, Second Floor.) (THE (PHB 14tn SPKebT STORE, ) > BOYS’ HAY 39c lors. The very best mate- jals; “Hydegrade Galatea”—nothing stronger made. {ark and medium colors, some shepherd plaids. ives 2 to 7 years. Limit, two to a customer, Boys’ ‘uits, with Extra Trousers coats; strong materials; good Double-breaste ind neat made; size $2.25 values Third Floor a bargain Slaes #ax34 inch (THE 14TH STREBT STORK, Third Floor.)