The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1908, Page 16

LIVES OF 10,000 IN PERIL BY BLACK HAND, tion Without Hindrance From 8,000 Police of City. (~ ‘An epidemic of smallpox, cholera or even a disease less danger- ‘ous than either of these which would imperil the lives of 10,000 citizens of New York in less than a year and a half might easily call for dras- tic action on the part of the authorities. Yet there is affecting New York at this time an epidemic of lawlessness which has extended over five THE EVENING WORLD. TUESDAY, — prophesy that if you fail to rear a fu- | ture President it will not be his fault.” The sudject of this rosy prediction ‘was not in court, but at his home, in the third floor of No. 14 East One Hun- dred and tenth street, he has Seen hearing equally complimentary things all day and 1s the hero of the block. | Jaocb Schwartz went to a lodge| meeting last night and didn't get home until 2 o'clock !n the morning. | Mrs. Schwara Louls, four years old, | and Getrtrude, nineteen months old, | SEABURY A CAD, SAIS JEROME | THOUGHT TUBE AFIRE AND RUSHED TO MOUTH. | in an Unnecessary Stampede. Fifty men at work near the Manhat- tan end of the new Pennsylvania tun- nel under the East River feii info MAY 26, 1906. accord they dropped thelr tools ana| stampeded for the mouth. The smoke thickened as they neared | the opening, but all of them managed In the| nd street, Just over the present en- trance to the shaft. The men had to| run almcst through the fire to reach} safety and some of them~ were scorched and half stified. If they had | stayed where they were not one Would | have been singed. Now Coats Satin Lined. New Plaited or Flare Gored Skirts, Extreme JAMES McCREERY & CO. Ss. We Se t d dee fled to get out The fire was not ome Were Scorched an, tifled | tunnel at all. It had started in a tem- | z porary shed at the foot of Thirty-sec- | 23rd Street 34th St cat On Wednesday and Thursday, May the 27th and 28th. anio this afternoon when smoke be-| The firer trowned out the flames! i C ro q Ay [ess to nom down through the ore in| Tate Citing at enecennag) PAJAMAS. tn roth stores. Hl Hy * }to thelr faces. They thought the| under a falling iron rail, was taken or Women ail nlidren : His Younger Sister, Too, Tried | Workings had caught fire. With one Ae ae a eeergey, Battalion ,Chicr Children’s Madras Pajamas. Size Hard to Punch the — = = ——=— 2 to 14 years. 5oc | Burglar. OSC F eo. oSV05%. 5%, ae Children’s Gingham Bloomers. Size Se. . 14 2to 14 years, White, pink, blue and “Your eon, madam, will go far,” Smart Favorit © | tan. 50c Ci : B O 5 d Earns a eecseuee ’ CNet Ladies’ Bath and Boudoir Slippers. itizens Menaced by Bands Organized |r on eee 2 pvodes et for Murder, Kidnapping and Extor- a Maus SERN Ieee Sa $ 5 Tailored. } Ladies’ Gingham Bloomers, Tan boo man’ will bear watching, and 1, and dark colors. 50c Ladies’ Shetland Floss Automobile Scarfs and Shawls. 1.00 HABERDASHERY DEP’TS. tn roti Stores. Men's Neckwear, Shirts, Pajamas, Night Shirts and Belts, At greatly re- duced prices, 275 dozen Negligee Shirts, Plain and plaited bosoms, with cuffs attached, Width’ years, gaining strength with time, and has imperilled the lives of 10,000| were sleeping in a rear room. A little or plain bosoms, with 2 pairs detacha- BEFORE HEN YERUSY VS me . y . ..,....| While before Mr. Schwartz came in the citizens since Jan. 1, 1907, with not a successful arrest or conviction) mother was awakened by h in, He) One Medel Self! b f C odel. Si Pai 3 ., tumbled out of his crib and toddied le cuffs, oat model. Size 13% to recorded to indicate that the 8,000 police officers of the community | over to his mother’s bed. Fold. 18 1.00 know anything about it. This is the Black Hand menace. A few hundred ignorant, dirty, low-browed aliens, organized in small predatory bands for murder, kid-! napping, blackmail and extortion, haye the metropolis of the United States and the second largest city in the world by the throat. They kill and rob and blow up property with dynamite practically without in- terference. A reign of terror exists in the various Italian colonies of the city. | No property-holding Italian citizen i tortioners or from their vengeance if he refuses to be bled. LIVES OF 10,000 PUT IN PERIL, In the past seventeen months thirty attempts have been made to destroy tenement houses with dynamite because the men owning them} or certain men living in them have refused to pay tribute to the Black) Hand. safe from the demands of the ex-|%md his wite | to investigate. Knew There Was a “Bugaboo” Man.! Action in McCabe Case ‘“‘Con- ‘There's. a ‘bugaboo man’ in here, % ae ‘ | * he said, temptible, Unjudicial’—King | “You're dreaming, son,” said Mrs. | “ Schwartz, "Go back and go to sleep | Charges ‘“‘Hot jand forget about it." But Louis kept | his eyes popped just the same and in| @ few minutes the baby, Gertrude, also | | got out of the crib. “There's a man in here," she whim- pered, ‘I'm afraid,” and she crawied under the crib. About that time Schwartz ELIZBETHTOWN, N. Y., May | | Closing arguments on the charges pre-| ferred by a committee headed by Will- | {fam F. ing against Distict-Attorney | | Wiltam-T. Jerome, of New York County, came in alarmed, told him she | Were heard here to-day by Commissioner thought some one was in the front/Hand, who was appointei by Gov. room. to hear testimony on the “There must be," said Schwartz. “I In addition to the oral argu-| stumbled over a pair of shoes in the|ments counsel for both sides submitted hall,’ and he went into the front room| briefs to the Commissioner. On the oral arguments Commissioner There he was immediately tackled by | Haad decided to hear District-Attor- a big man. Tho noise of the struggle |ney Jerome and after that Mr. Pierce brought Mrs. Schwartz, screaming, and | will make his argument in oppcsition. she rushed into the room and began to | Then Mr. Jerome will have opportunity | | In the houses so attacked and in endangered adjoining houses live 10,000 persons, mostly women and children, Fortunately not more than three or four of these have been killed directly by the explosions—the | Police Department records are blank on this point. The appalling fact remains, however, that any one of these explosions might have killed | from 300 to 500 persons The men who dynamite tenement- houses work as freely and, apparentis as carclessiy as ti men who dynamite the face of the island of Man- hattan in excavating foundations for Tecent dynamite bomb o: Plack Hand: At midnight of Jan. wrecked the lower Story double-deck tenement, No. 332 Seni bulldinest Itiittey/are) uneblo!to Eleventh street, after Ciro Pog- plant their bombs trom the street level Sl0riale had refused to pay $1,0% de. they toss them from “Li trains or|manded by the Black Hand. The bomb street cars. In one day last winter | Was the second one sent to him. Three there were ‘three of these explosions—; Years before he ignored a similar de. one in Little Italy, off the Bowery; ons | ‘4nd and his grocery was wrecked, in Little It in Harlem. and one in} a 29 a bomb was exploded in 5 Fa a |the rear of a five-story tenement, No. ameemenr ett eee ina Twenty-fourth street, A’ man | utrages of the 1, 1907, a bomb floors of the five- belabor the burglar, yeling “Police! | to reply to the argument of Mr. Pierce, with all her might. and Mr. Plerce will close the case in m comin’, Pop,” cried Louis, run-|a final reply to Mr. Jerome. ning in, and “Me, too, Pop," said Ger- trude, rolling from under the crib. Louls Was Helping All He Could. | sald it is not difficult to knock over a | man of straw when It has once been The nolee of the conflict as the thiet | i Ave aes pe eens, eel tried to break away brought Policeman) as hefore anybody should be called Contuma, and when he entered he found| ‘non to knock it over. He sald that Schwartz and Mrs. Schwartz clinging to| to speak vulgariy, there 8 Toe the man, while Louls was whacking him! tin. tho sucpage briet submitted by on the lege with all his strength, and) counsel for the petitioners than he had the baby was dancing about, apparently| ever geen In that same space. He franulcitojlandia blow. |eriticised what he termed irresponsible The burglar was bellowing lke a wild| editors of yellow Journals. bull, the children were squalling at the! “Seabury a Cad.” top of their lungs and it took a bIOW| sraxine up the charge in from the officer's nightstick to thor-| alleged outrageous conduct oughly subdue the visitor and end the | “vera: SEY Cy TS battle. preme astice Seabu “That's the spunkiest kid T ever saw."| rome said that Justice Seab olying the the Dis- ed Schminger had recelved a Black- | the policeman said, gazing in wonder at| jn the McCabe matter was How many hundreds of Italian citi |1/and letter. |the small and panting Louls, “I'd like to| contem and unjudicial Pe aoa a est tual Glaeiaratllnel Op thelsAmiel days PeteriTlostalal susie |iGent tacit hat he ev and that he left the cal instrument store was wrecked, be- | |eause he refused to bi cause pay tribute to the} it is tm- demands of t possible even to or these transactions aré vet How many men have Seen murdered bv the Black Hand cutiaws in the cits impossible even to est te, bec they have reduced m and successful! of their victims, s: to mock the po! posed and mutilated hallway or a vacant Many children have and returned to their parents upon the payment of rans.m that the police either know nothing about or neglected to inform the public about. Incendiary fires have been started in crowded tenements for purposes of in- timidation, and in one of these fires nineteen lives were sacrificed. Petrosiro’s Squad a Fallure. The high officials of the Police De- partment protest that there is no such an organization as the Black Hand. In the sense that all the blackmailers and murderers and dynamiters are not bound together in @ concrete body this may be true, But that numerous small bands utilize the terror the name inspires as a cloak for their independent operations te also true. The hundreds of Central Office and precinct detectives to whom are en- trusted the fine work of the Police De- | pad no attention to the threatening Io partment do not appear to concern | /:18 athac jpcom ‘ea dhe a disaster if he themselves particularly with the Black |. °u5mn > tag hurled inte ennulyals Hand. They leave the crimes charged | wrecking it and firing the building. to the organization to Lieut. Petrosino's| Gus Honscorwa, an Itallan saloon- staff cf forty Italian sleuths. ale ppanker, of No. @ Grove This squad has proved a complete! Moimachiee (heyy isa failure. The majority of Petrosino's| Hand, and on the night of July 24 the men are incompetent. They can talk | front of his plece was destroyed by and some English, and for | @xPlosion ot a black powder eontaine. ine purposes that lets them out. ‘tof July 29 nineteen per- Every move (hey make is known to the din the tenement house criminals they are supposed to watch. fave been started by Others of Petrosino’s men are supposed of the tenement No. 3:6 rst street. half of which by Joseph Cozzafi, of No. venue. His son haq previ- | kidnapped and returned by | land. rtoa fi e of the bc when they wish leaving them, ex- a tenement % a bomb was exploded in av of a barber at No. 150 Har- | Brooklyn, because he res ¥ $500 to the Black Hand, | Feb. 24 Michael Angelo Alonge, of | gt, eilzabeth, street, failed tormeet demand for a Ay racked by dynamite. eee ee Ont Aue 18 a bomb was back stoop of the hous No. Sixth street, Hronklyn.. An Ttalisg iat Ing in the nelghborhood had hreatened with doath a few days before unless he pata $1.00. Child Killed by a Bomb, en kidnapped exploded on were badly injured @ bomb in Mott street by the explos! gh can tn front of No. 72 jay On June 8 Joseph A. Maro: 2 North Fourth street, Mount Vermer lost his wife, mother and child by the explosion of a bomb in the cellar a¢ his home. He was a wealthy saloon-keeper and had ignored letters demanding that he pay $00 to the Black Hand, wife of Glovann! df No. 62 Leroy street. founagaguoreber the door of her flat on th the doo @ Morning of Marxo Latadubo, a grocer at No. a2 the building at No. to know a lot more about the Black | which swept Steep! Hand than they report to their chief. | “hase 9: in Ing parte of Coney iniang ing of July 2% fol- | Of Petrosino's honesty and ability there can be no question, but hts spectal Italian staff has failed to make good. May Invade Fifth Avenue Next. In the terriMec dally panorama of events in this city the Black Hand dynamite outrages occupy public inter- est only a short time. From present appearances it will be necessary for the outlaws to completely destroy a tene- ment-house and kill hundreds of trmo- cent women and children some night i Han on George Jwner of the park Two lives were lost Inthe fires Antonlo Spinolli, who lives at No. 4 Rast Thirteenth ties! aid ‘no attene tion to a letter direetin hii $0) under an L, pillar aisha ene of tke Third avenue line. At do'clock AO Me Sopt. 1%, the fourth floor of the buliding in which he lived was torn up by bomb explosion, Slain Man’s Blood Extinguished Fuse The body of Vito Grimaldi, of 15 Cont » Broviiyn before the poitce wake up to the fact hacked ms stilettos a wae ‘ant lot at that lawlessness walks abroad without | Noll street, between Centts avenue and hindrance in the guise of the Black | Evergreen avenue, Brooklyn, on Oct Hand. | Buttoned under his coat was @ bomb, thi lighted, b ‘use of which had been the spark extinguished by lug life blood + a tailor on the ground MS East Twelfth street, Tt is onty a question of time when the Black Hand extortioners, finding thetr game so profitable and safe, will expand from the Italian sections of the etty and begin to work In Fitth aven Y 0, the, thet toes and Central P: é which he Hved was, the scene of B Whomb,, explosion 2 tnorning of Nov. %. Two fate. w Wrecked. ay ht Om Jan 5 10h « bow Pyews o a bomb was exploded tn | less. | fering from a compound fracture of t left leg, sustained in fa Lael | elevator shaft to-day from the sixth t Jeromo for floor to the basement of the building ‘ Hist tne ice No, % Fourth avenue. |Coinuine @iu alr. serum. uccepimice Jof an invitation .o dine in the City Cub been | | with, , Phones, and says: One child was killed and five others | prison {| buildings were No. 518 East Thirtenth | UY East One Hundred and Fifth street, | © end of the; ring because z like a ca District-At The prisoner said he was Arthur Ea- wards, twenty-four years old and home- He had entered the flat with a Justice Seabury was| y Jerome will occupy pass key and had packed up a bundle of about thre® hours in his opening argu- Mr. Schwartz's clothes when Loujs| ment to-day. The hearing will be con-| heard him. Tow. ———.6].—_ | Mr, Pierce said | Your Honor, Just concelve of| LONG FALL THROUGH SHAFT. | HeenatvieckacntncNotsshn et-Attorney of New York 1 ree phe ly Shaning Gice Wil Lue Bole us street, is In St. Vincent's Hos ide Ps yan [OF $i @ shake, ecluany Oredning tue saw eat ibe in u yuolle restaurant wae rovelyed right leg and a simple fracture of tle ling down an ii Hcense unuer Me | “Could unything oe Worse (nan a dis- attorney inviting to dine wita him n under cha:gos of crane, and tuen walle he Waa the guest of the District-Atiurney, under sucn cireum- an L road train at Forty-second stra &nd Second avenue injured two perso: and wreoked @ tenement. Two arrest | were later, and a search of tho jot dyna atte and bank-books, showing | stances, that he discharge bie attorney | | dep of $300 in Rome and other And employ anotier suggested by the | cits | Dintrict-Attorney 2” im Criticism was also made of Mr. Jerome dining with Bani Mont: womery after the latter had been tn- dicted, accompanied by his lawyer, In soneltisios counsel for the petitionerr | said; “Muoh has been said in this hearing | about punishing rich criminals, and perhaps my words have been subject Your Honor to misconstruetion, I Would mete out to the wealthiest man in ail the land eactly the same punisn- ment as to the poorest man for the | samo offense, Thero never was a time | in the history of our county when it} was #o important that a District-Attor- | ingured ney whould ba anxious to wee that n Feb. 8 a bomb was exploded in| {here 18 no discrimination between men the vestibule of No. 8 East Decsn| in the execution of the criminal law | ‘shor ter midnight. — Ty because of thelr wealth or social posi hundred persona were asleep in tion, It is just such discrimination ae | tenements adjoining Jcreates Socialists and Anarchists, Dynamited Three Times In One Day. On Jan, 13 three bombs were exploded in tenements and 200 persona driven into a panic. The tenements were Nos, 46 anq 418 East Sixty-fourth street, two Soora trom Flower Hospital. On Jan. 2 three bulldingw were dyna- mited and wrecked in one day. ‘The |streat, the Home Garden, Set for Children at No. dia East One tent red and SI and No. 319 F nme Hund Torty-aixth Hundreds of windows were broken. by. the explosion, and many persons were t On Fob. 12 tne tenemont No. 309 5 “ * One Hundred ahd Bont em East | “An Advocate of Laworeakers, was wrecked by a bomb. “No just man, no reflecting man, On March 1° the tanement No, 244| Wants Mr. Jerome to punish tne inno- Elizabeth street was wrecked by a| cen to still t ot public clair, bomb. This place is withi | but we do want, and we nave begged | throw. of Pollen Headquarter him to punish the guilty notwithstand- On March 2 the handsome apar ing their Wealch and soctal positivn, house > 3 Lincoln place, “Becsment | and to all our cries he las turned a| was destroyed by an. tncendiare deaf var and has practically na | [because the janitor had refused to be) ‘he advocate of these great lawbreak- |victimized by the Black Hand | ens.” gard to the Wall and Cortland erries pad | Paper se Hrs rst exposed in The Evening Wor! ground. floor. | MF. Pierce suid explosion on the| “Our contention here {s that that tea- wn as “The Bartel alone, with such facts as Mr. | easily have ascertaine ing limsel F. F on M loded in th | Both street banker who vecupl: the fourth which is farch 27 another mony 2m: T elving Black Ha ored. Most of the | occupants © were injured by ave gone at once oefore a | the explosion. Grand Jury and to have procured in- | ,On April ui the gro ry store of Jose) dictments Mr. Ryan and ob: lgchilape, No. % Reaver famsburg, Was wrecked Schilape had ignored + letters, the last one mand for $1.(*#. On April 2 a bomb was exploded in lthe five-story tenement at No 47 6 ably aga i A. B. Widener f “With Mr. J | was not subject prosecution, and send back any tnd containing a di tment found against |Twelfth street, owned by St) him and that he would not consent 1 Sportaro, who had detted such an indictment, Mr. Ryan could Fland to do ite worst. The y wafely x0 before the January loded in his face, mortally rand Jury. Shall Mr. Ryan, who takes | hin. over from his ‘ation ‘$111,00, go |"Gh Apri 18 the grocery ipunished vise Mr, Jerome | |tonfo Gallano, No. 124 thinks hig id knows the! Brooklyn. was” wrecked young Rvans soclally | The usual Black Hand thre “ — | |ceded the 5 ‘On. May a nidaatroviiha | tenement Noatrest with BUC ) TECTIVE pinck powder while the place was filled with children frustrated py a young girl. The Black Hand had made thremle saeines be Of the ocoupenis 21 PARK ROW SERVICE, Manche. Detasiire Marries | Exact y Like Picture. Extra Quality Shadow Stripe Mr. Jerome in opening his argument ¢ SB AUSH— VS AP and plain Chiffon Panama. Women's and Misses’ 28! Sizes. Three Stores Wednesday All \Fashion- able Colors. Alterations FREE, 4-T6West 14th Strea NEW YORK. SOK 651 Broad Street PY ( ny JAMES McGREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street On Wednesday, May the 27th, In Both Stores, LADIES’ GLOVES. 16 button length, Silk Mousquetaire Gloves. With double finger tips. Tan, white or black. 1,00 per pair In Both Stures. NOTION DEP’TS. Bathing Articles, Caps, various styles........20¢ to r.90 SHOCK ecsle -1s'¢/s ses 8 5C)tOns.00) pair Combination Sets (shoes and cap)..3.50 Sets of collar, belt and cap..2.75 and 4.75 BagBn ccc seieln seisierieies 00C AUGI7.CC MEY nedbna marines dooaddnnnsonnad MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Ja Both Stores. Sale of Gowns, Chemises, Drawers, Combination Garments, Skirts, Corset Covers, Princess Slips and Sacques, Ranging in prices ag follows: Gowns... eeeeeeeees ee eee Q5C tO 12.75 Chemises ......+50+00000095¢ 9.78 Drawers.see seeesececseee se 50° 475 Corset Covers .....:...., soc 4.75 Skirts. “ 18.75 Combination and | Corset Cover...........1.65 “ 6,95 Combination Corset Cover and Drawers ..........1.65 “ 7,75 3-piece Combination Suits..295 “ 8.75 Princess Slips...........195 “ 12.75 GSacques...........++-e+ O5C 19,75 All garments made of fine materials, Excellent cut and finish, A large assortment of Domestic Garments, includ- ing many new and exclusive models made in work- rooms on the premises, 200 dozen Scarfs, Made of Foreign and Domestic Silks, The new narrow and wide graduated open Four-in-hands, Latest colors and designs, 50c each 75 dozen Pajamas, Made of madras, neat figures, Military model, 1.00 go dozen Pajamas, of Imported Madras and Soisette. White and plain colors. Military and low cut models, 1.35 50 dozen Cow Seal Belts, narrow and wide, with full Harness Buckles, soc roo dozen Night Shirts, low cut, Made of light weight cambric. White and colored trimmed. 54 inches long. 75¢ 25 dozen, all silk English Knitted Four-in-hand Scarfs. Plain colors and cross stripes. I.00 JAMES McGREERY & CO. 34th Street 23rd Street JAMES McGREERY & GO. 23rd Street 34th Street Wedding Gifts and Cottage Decorations, Exquisitely hand-painted Minia- tures and Carved Ivories, Cloisonne and Dutch Silver, Vienna, Italian, French and Japan- ese Bronzes, Vienna, Royal Worcester and Sevres Vases, Vienna and Dresden Plates. Art Potteries from the best col. lectors in America and England for decorative purposes, Clifton Indian Pottery, richly dec. orated. Hampshire and Wemyss Pot- teries and English Wardleware. Odd shapes, Lamps, Sterling Silver Tableware, Hall and Mantel Clocks, 23rd Street 34th Street JAMES McCREERY & GO. Dressmaking and Tailoring Dep't. Fourth Floor, Models of Tailor-made Suits are now being exhibited, from which copies will be made at short notice... 65.00 Linen Suits....... 2002 45,00 The remaining stock of Imported Gowns at greatly reduced prices, Thirty-fourth “treet, JAMES McGREERY & CO. 237d Street 34th§Street About the only “guessing” feature there is to a World “For Sale” Ad “Who will get the bargain by getting there first?”