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FIFTH AVENUE BLAZE PUT OUT BY ONE WOMAN Mile. Weber Broke sl Door With Axe, Got Busy and Also Stopped Panic. {THEN FELL IN A FAINT. | | Firemen Had Nothing to Do Except to Make Compli- mentary Speeches. Helene Weber (pronounced Ve- | aire), who makes corsets in a Fifth avenue shop, showed that some pumpkins as a fire extinguisher to-day, and {s as handy at wielding fen axe as she ts at manipulating the | ‘Mie. she was whalebone. Incidentally she saved the building wecupied by James McCutcheon & Com- pany, linen drapers, Nos. 341-347 Fifth venue from destruction, and quelled the panic of several score of squealing modistes, milliners and ot young women who work In the establi Milp. Weber went to work at § 0 Bho got out of the elevator and was ¥ ang down the hall on the second to her room, No when she no emoke curling gently from the tran- fom of Miss Victo 3 dress- making F She tied the door, found tt locked. rushed baek to the tor shaft vell- fing to Jue Nash, the elevator boy, that | the house was burning up, and was a glass case containing an tugging at THE EVENING WORLD, ee Richest Woman in the World and Master of Finance Is in Process of Transformation From a Plain Old Lady to a French Marquise. APPLICATION A SECRET OF WOMAN OF SOCIETY Mrs. Green Made a Careful In- vestigation of the Method Pursued Before Paying Her $300 Cash in Advance From a Huge Roll! of Bills. By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. The world’s greatest woman financier, Mrs. Hetty succumbed to the purely feminine Green, has ‘desire of looking younger than she does, and she {s taking beauty treat- ments. When Mrs. Green her simple flat in Hoboken for the luxury of the Plaza she sald it was si a matter of business. She could s1 her bank account faster by being in a fashionable centre than by remain- {n:; in the wilds of Hoboken. Perhaps Mrs. Green figur is a matter of business to look young- er, and {t is for that reason that a few weeks ago she started In the process of rejuvenating at one of New York's most expensive Beauty Par- abandoned that ft faxe and a pick on the wall, when she} was jqined by Harry Angelo, who ts a | lors. man modiste and excitable Mrs. G followed in the footsteps “Mon Dieu. cried mam’zelle, “eet ees {of Mrs. Ogden Mills. Mrs. George Gould, fire!” and she the door | Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont and a fow others Jamb Jot the most fashic women who ‘orpo di Bacco!" yellel Angelo! were treated by the t hands Bringing up the rear with the pick and | which are now occupied In erasing the @ancing frar about, “I am nex’ (lines etc! in Mrs. Green's face) Geor. My bea kowns—they will be [ler years of toll and money-making acorched! 1 4m! 3 See Is Not Far From the Plaza fetence, for she swung away until the |'"e Pla: walled oor was just a plie of Jing and | there wi ance 19 at the side of aven' in through then she and Angelo 3 ke. ch cost are exhibited, were Diazing away, and the alr was full of © smell of singetng silk, lace and lin yerle. So earnest were Mile. W end her companion. the time the ether tena et what was going on the tlre was out. | But the halls were ull) of scared | gmx down t here ees no dangaire,” cried the | brave Helene, coming out of the reek ng room with the axe in one hand, mangled remains or a manniqul in the Ober and her pompado work.” T 1s Deputy tered that axe #0 eprinkling ments of M place w ina b sth first thought, and so did that the fire was ing Where some turning alarms lately heyehing on We coming out the swindow The di :mounted to about $1,000 uid ted a big crowd of men and going to work in the shops along the avenue. | ——— MAURETANIA COMING WITH a mod- hment is run by lata that she ‘The es ho one 4 Frenchwoman, is almost Mes. Green's age, but looks at least fifteen y younger, gnd this ledy, outside of business life, be interesting many so- the most New York's ongs to one of and exclusive of clal sets fitted up with ex shaded id are strewn wi! One can tell ata gla expert is a Eren caters only to the rich women ¢ York, biighment br uxury equalled only by the same kind of establishments Is and in Ly don, which are also run by women social standing. It was fnto this charm om that Mrs n entered and met by Mme. L., who is @ most erved por. s with new customers. Mrs. Green made many inqutries about the tment Can jou gaurantee to take the lines my face and to freshen ay the woman wt niilions by her own sagacity “Yes,” madame, “1 ¢ 0 Mrs. G sa reader of madame. Soon Understood Each Other. ONE PROPELLER IDLE.|}, madame aia not vat a Jtomer was the wor YONDON, May {%8.—The Cunard Mne Amertea, but she saw at a glan @eamer Mauretania, which left Liver- was a shrewd one, one whom tt would pool yesterday, four days 1} than ve foolish to flatter wo women her usual sailing schedule, owing to her stood ¢ other. Mrs, Green isabled propeller, passed Fastnet at nd the price of the treatment, which 19 ALM. to-day, Tr time, The $200. ‘Fhen she sald she would try weasel Ia going direct to New York it, and to the Frenchwoman's amaze- without calling at Queenstown ment drew forth a roll of money from ‘The offetals of the Cunard Company hiding place and pald her in $00 way there 1s no possi of the bills Mauretania making a record on thi# Macaume called her assistant, and a trip as the repairs to her propeller were beautiful, dark haired young girl came not finished up to the time she left out) from bel 1 a curtain, clag in a ZAverpool. They declare that only three dainty, Usht fttitg gown of cham- propellers will bo used during the pagne colored cloth. The apparition woyage, with which an effort will ushered Mrs. Green Into a smail apari- made to keop up an average speed of ment and helped to remove her twenty-two knots. Suit onnet, cape and waist. Then madame Ot Pe ery pace wedihere says entered, the treatment actually be- fastnet. at noon. ‘This position gan an average speed of over twent The particwlar treatment which has knots an how effected such a change in Mrs. Green's eee NEW STRAWBERRY RECORD. BRIDGEVILLE, Del, May 38—A new record in the sltpment of strawberries gas made in this section yesterday, when seventy-four carloads of berries were shipped. The previous record for one day was fifty-five cars, made last sum- mer, Growers belleve that the record qwill again be broken before the season 4s over. The price of berries has faco ped, many farmers eelling as low four cents a quart, which they claim 4 not a paying price appearanée that the woman who a fey weeks ago would have been taken for an onlinary looking old lady is no Mkened to a French marquise consists of the application of strong astringent lotions to stimulate the circulation and then of a darkish ointment, the secret of its maker. It is claimed that this ointment is similar to that which the Egyptians used in the unguents made to pre- serve the skin of thelr dead for cen- turles. At least It was on this casa In Search of 3 Square Meals a Day! Upon WHAT one eats, WHEN one eats, WHERE one eats and WITH WHOM one eats depends the success or failure of one’s meal—be it breakfast, luncheon or dinner, If you haven't been feeling well of late perhaps a change in your boarding house will do” you more good than medicines will do you harm—and that may be saying a great déal. (Let World “Boarders Wanted” Ads..Solve the Problem! fiarszs tc Hetty Green Endears Herself to Women by Taking a Course of Beauty Treatments \ EX-WIFE ATTACKS ~BOOKMAKER OUT | WITHAN ACTR ay ' Miss Lillian Albertson Swears | Mrs. “Abe” Levy Wie!ded an Ice Pick. WAITED AT | Discarded Spouse THEN’ TRE. Thinks It! Over Two Weeks and Then Makes Complaint. Oh, an teo plek Is a nice pick When tt But o lady wi Should neve: ith an ice pick f care to roam. In dealing with an tce pick, I've heen there ‘The thing t Is rough a p ittempt to calebrate it is inder $1.00 hat sauit in the Cour! charge of i era! Sessions, Mrs Levy, who Hves in {at No. 1 Wes © or twlee, stab with an ice pl Too! Ice! Levy ne Boat roceeding 11 Vand wil! pe Righty-fitth used around the home ek Bot Wert Side fee Court to-day the fact becam! | public that on the night of May 14 Mary Levy, who recently secured a divorce from “Abe Levy, one of our wading kers, and & onthy alimony, met her for sband on Broadway with one of the female companys playing the Astor Theatre chip some pleces rather generous figure with 1 owas the twenty-seventh anniversary af the marriage of the Levys and the result of Mrs. Levy's Lon of Gon in MAY 28, (19008. Actress Who Swears Bookmaker’s ex-Wife Attacked Him With Ice Pick f thne More pre yin BE, Pinke s Vegetible Compound ree rs Women to normal healths Hiered from the ills, until | was me. Lydia E. Pink- ompound brought me ) ade me ® woman should ham trom r tandard ubled with laimmation, ulcer- Wh ft hemiunte am ott rae treat your ndvine You az Neowomnn and OT Wit hls = D SAVE SHANLEY oss GHTED MANY WHALES. Ran Past 2 oe Co. 13 Stores, New York and Noy Wiis Lit) BEA nt Light. Cornell to- bine still loved hin She mad, r ea last Paw ries at the Hotel Knick j ‘crak ‘ed the after: nm, and learn rab said thal air ols ceenroua attena) help xa {{ Enables Men and Women thee E ie dace pac hud | S | thoy | To Dress in the Finest of Spring | WaltearingvarGat Judge ster Sentences t | ry At about the time the final curtain! Lawyer for Forging Name | | |falls on the play Mrs. Levy appeared | i ° °. | in front of the theatre In a cab. She | of a Client. \A Bad Habit and | saw the audience disperse, but waited We require no references or secu- and waited. It was long after 11 o'clock | d R d ty, we no investigations or when her husband appeared with (wo Shanley. a : ¥ | a Goo eme y| deliveries. Make your purchase and | tadies ed to Sing Sing to-da a bad habit take the goods along with you. is point Mra, Levy's st ; eee - Toridectaerals We are the only concern in the her husbund. As to ee aS eM, || country that extends credit to every- proceedings there is aw 7 ene S in spite of the} f jody in our liberal way—cash price | divergence between thelr statement fice 5 > tent 1 both are dingerous poisons} | with an easy payment method, that sts i lay in ” and as Mr. Levy's evidence was cor- ut re d liable to cause the death of any |} 273 6th Av., near 17th St. cis ‘i 3 | CHAM EXULT A porated it took se tn the She of the family who might be caretess.| I 9974 $d Av., nr, 124th St : i ie was " Min f using either of these, an ex-] 5 bicstaSmootn ed OUtaWininkles i ’ n) The ladies were Miss TAltA 11 fectant one that is non-)} Brooklyn Store, 1129 B’ 4 intl cell nfectant and way. ora soaGhs : and her mother. An automobile was | Weeks ae ‘ r nfectant, as it (Near De Kalb av.) i ie ok and | walting for a RR ea BOLE | former ns work: & aA Nias Uetaanece OPEN EVENENGS, Byery one knows th | /| just assisted Miss Albertson and her |! i| it also used in many wa oaayed i parent into the car when Mrs. Levy = . about the house, and is economical as - | jumped from cab got geet Cael! i | tae oa erat AHOME $f This w » foal ~ - | Ria P i 4 for A te 5 a5 = etd tien wi vi amtea! Tickled Because He Gets New |. uaa attics wirls who bear eat The Non-Poisonous Germicide meen | Station-House Despite Mr. pane ean poate nelh aed 10. § felt Witherington. Levy, att memories of Oe aivarce de- | : ee eee Dear |25c. irationalet é cree ordering him to pay $60 a month | Nnsins Mi 3 ) dabs of i | alimony xo fresh In his mind, was a- | Tried Hard to Save Him. f 50c Reseed ounded. He was almost paralyzed. | shaniey iin ne ybars old and Stores| ce. \anenanan thors Sein Miss Albertson vividly described Wie qye Heth are en and / FING co. (Inc.) Asati | ESAT ral ove in the little drama nether has worked in pd delightfully ¥ and Nd Sip s§ of at and ined to stab him Z ery new pt bea vil Eng s 5 I Mr. Levy caught her lace ; enka aeit 8. Green rejoice vat the jor the Fi e then uffeur ‘ran ou 3 new linoleum or oil el Sreteh cr uaumon vent cane awl be Awe . a letter! town to the next eorner ond reserving and rejuvenated fa by t atininy ion, Bnghain's Ideas for| waited. nish which gilt mirrors « itt -roon : patie On nollRmner wer 6) Fe Says He Threatened Her. ei wanarmvorn Began Some Time Ago ‘ that If carried out In all the! wy¢ 1 hadn't caught hold ¢ —— @Hb Wa at (ib fi p PANES aH je COKE Would have Killed m: declar inva \THER BE Dr 4 aS would a “0 more than 1 7 a we Green has had il F ft te srowdagauicred ty did fang 1 2 . hy COBH Ightly, call for actions language caused ine} wa 5 ments bemanunone Nevertheles ing Fund author- embarrassment. I succeeded at ghaniey when it a a plat i e Beuy tion ae baa @iast in escaping from he: nd got out gi ymiended me ) rat ing th ow models accordance with Bing- | o¢ the neighborhood : ont i | A Gi bebe Kes wit | om's design | Mrs. Livy vigorously denied 1 aR iGT 4 outa! at Water Bag EA ces business, for next the beaut nivlor 4b lay sin, am no his) exuberance, S SNOUT E i‘ L | * | had a icepick when she we! y ry q a broker's oftic eularly [dictated Uns remarkable statement 106 | mind her husband that Sa ETA pea ant uc each, sprit oman ("| MAINE: by women. N ld matter ; Publica ’ | married twenty-seven y einen He Hrant ares Lash Wa CONVENIENT SANITARY particularly to the master of | “In Witherington, of the) she stmply called the attention he ma Mans Oi eel Sia ata SAFE AND PRACTICAL finance whether it manntedl (Ge) the Sinking Pund Is) Levy and ladies to t ite suppers and th it on the frames. It gives them new |} potded in soft sik case. Slipped in pocket, brokerage or not p Pp station sie was Mrs. Levy. i ; mpanying d tons of high life and the wire ¢ is protected | or Jn pocket hook y should have Sinner ri Mr. Withering: | My husnand caught hold of ma," s au from rust one for traveling e Best toilet brought herself clr » he Ntriewitherlagtania a asserted, nd whispered my Jrroadway pees ee accessory ever & . Endorsed by physi- women by siecumbing to te Me Witherington and | re ie the miteet, was. dark and. qu Gives Him a Long Sentence PORCH FURNITURE should be pro- | fated povlet fee one hen Bae Ha. t my way Beale lat blocked the north Long. | '@s t And to_use the color |] The Western Specialty Manatseanie Consent ul, I'm responatble to] 2¢re Saunre, there was no police inter. | ter Sing, and if you wish to Fuarinon Guitoinc, NEW YORK ‘itherington 4 lrerence. Mr. Levy kep! r n volt ght have received a wy Det Oni a nel lays ago, when he wer st Side ios UsciRe ms oha. to" er, He ¢ Policeman Alfred M who on the night «f Oct and killed Alfred Jasse. old, in Saratoga Pa | and Saratoga avenue to-day relieved of th he has been under | duty at 6 |¢tenant in charge station. In addition to worth fs under with) manslaughter Shy nin VICKSBUL Steplien 1D Jer In chief of | Vet a} Phursday tnt 2 reqinion o the boy. He has been out on ¢ 8 of th and has had (o report to the at about house daily, Shut as nilowing the recep: family. ‘Finding that hin rexo Niinceeinarehion rapidly being eaten up by Reuliyy pady Ary cite period of idleness, he made RACE REL 0.7 8 Teel Commissioner Bing is an attack of acute indigestion Ing that his children wore in i later rallied and during the last being able to apply for an outside | week showed mueh improvement. Yer ho, felt that he must ket back terday he again collapsed and grew Featored Ghuttleworth to Kradualiy weaker until his death this morning. not art and swe rested at her g his wife with agsault pre out a W home this FISCHER-HANSEN’S TRIAL SET FOR JUNE 10. Jury, When Chosen, Will Be Kept | Sha ane Incommunicado Until Ver- dic arte Smyth se will be time the until the verd John F. nnoun Flecher-Hansen, ade a long ar vefore Justic Gort this suppart of @ demurrer to th ment which was filed Court overruled the Fischer Hansen then entered not guilty, nee 1, Assistant Dis kept inconn t Is Reached need that the Jury last memier is ket is rendered. Molntyre. The trial of Carl Fischer-Hansen, Jiawyer, on two indietmer narging n with the extortion of $15,000 from ph O'Brien, a Philadelphia up> sterer, Will be called before Justic of in the Criminal Brane) of the Sit » Court on June At the time was set by Justice Gof thx fot- Attorney tr th nleado fr ounse! tternoon’ in indiet - yesterday. The demurrer and | ea of | the = NITURE Meatton from burning jand Blood coated Red, Malach with ‘ WATER PIPES, turnace \s rs, hot water tanks eserved and beau’ 1 and recelved i [ieescanse mn i Smith. sae 1, Dead Blick kK | tae BROOK his at JOPEN: MON. & SAT. PICTURE FR ———— fixtures, lamps. f ETB TATA, 9N. Alun ‘hel: |] FURNITURE, CARPETS, Etc., Lhe Liver is : hee beautiful AT LOWEST PRICES, seldom healthy OLD A S. carriages, wag while coffe: {5 the daily rink vee ant Black, 8 ee) Gr E look 100% HO Down 100.06 Doctors recommend t ti new | fe n i rienced person. an aus : ae ! . - Foe a ene R Raed andere ON EXNIBITION= THIRD FLOOR ways, from “cellar to garret,” and is es-| = - “ . ” pecially adapted for finishing oll or Tperels a Reercy new floors and woodwork. Ask your| WORLD WANTS YORK WONDER: paint dealer, Paenie: ia F é