The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1908, Page 14

SOME PUSH MARION BETTING CISE "Moffman House Stakeholder Threatens to End Her Life and| They Will Also Be Abandoned Coat of Mail fall Stoned Thrust President Gara Bennet Promised to U ‘va Took $60 to Place on ah: a Horse. ACOURT WANTS BRIEFS] *Byidence Not Clear That Be *4. Was Made, Justice Zeller a Declares. \) charlie Mahoney, of fhe Hoffman (House, who has been makihg bets, tak- ‘ing bets and holding stakes ever since be was four years and seven months fol, was a perplexed and interested epectator in the Court of Special Ses- sions to-day. His old friend Willlam , Travers Jerome, District-Attorney, was * trying to send him to Jail. It appears that on July 18 Mr. Ma: { boney committed the heinous offense of | taking $60 from the hands of a specu- | + latively inclined gentleman named Her- Bog. This Mr, Herzog had an {dea that a horse called Enfield would win at Brighton Beach on that particular day, He happened to be in the Hoffman House cafe and Charlie Mahoney hap- “ pened to be at the cigar stand trying * fo keep one of his sore feet off the * ground, he being afflicted with gout. Mr. Herzog handed Mr. Mahoney 360/ ‘with a memorandum specifying that | $30 was the bet upon Enfield straight pend $90 place, Wahle Let Him Go. But it 80 happened that two plain- clothes policemen were in the Hoffman House cafe at the same time. They «@aw Herzog pass money to Mahoney, beard the conversation and pinched Mahoney, much to Mahoney's dismay, “Borry the day!” ejaculated Mr. Ma- honey, “A few short weeks ago it was no crime to take a bet or make a bet. Now It fs a crime to take money to be given to somebody else. Mark you,” GIRL WHOPASSED D CHECKS UP ON NEW CrARG s Jerome’s Chief Clerk to Aid Her, Yorkville Court this afternoon complainants appeared against Harriet Cohen, twenty-six years old, of |No. @ Cherry atreet, who has been employed as a stenographer by the United Hebrews Society. According to the police the woman passed about four- teen worthless checks. The arrest wae made on complaint of F. T. Lantry, of No, %3 Grand street, who alleges that she gave him & worthless heck for $% When arrested last the prisoner sald she would kill herself, as she could not survive the disgrace. She aiso asked that Oblef Clerk Henne- | berry District-Attorney Jerome's | omoe, be notified Mr. Henneberry last night sald that | he prisoner had at one time given a| small check to a poor girl employed in the District-Attorney'a office. The | Amount of the check, he sald, was paid back in weekly instalments, and he } Supposed that the prisoner thought that | Because he had befriended her once he | would aga DROWNED AS 4 SWAM RACE WITH THREE FRENDS Anton Bewald Seized With Cramp and Carried ie It continued Mr. Mahoney to the police-/ men, “I did not take this money per-| asonally, It was handed to me to be) handed to another. Anyhow, they took him to Jetterson | Market Police Court, where he was! promptly discharged by Magistrate | Wahle. | District-Attorney Jerome, upon whose election or defeat Charlie Mahoney held tens of thousands of dollars as stake-| holder, was not satisfied with the Mag- istrate's action, He had Mahoney ar- rested again, and the case came up for trial in Special Sessions before Justices Wyatt, Zeller and Hoyt. Policeman Claire recited the facts attending the trausfor of the $60 between Herzog and Mahoney, | John B, Stanchfleld moved for the | discharge of the defend on the wround that he had o1 n placed dn jeopardy and cleared a magis- trate of competent jurisdiction tion denled. Mr. Staschfield then moved for the discharge of the defendant on the ground o vion denied. to submit briefs thended down on sufficient evidence were decisi Mo- Both sides d now A Wants Better Evidence Justice Zeller was outspok ing that he was not satis! evidence. It was not ead "Is a man to be helt ora bookmaker « acts as a frien sk ur_ Hon there was a i julved Diss trict-Attorney F re decision at Magis the hands of the against pool-room ky makers. He seovred t honey, he sald, as a test CLUB OU ED OF BALD MAw'S DIME Bungling Burglars Failed to Shatter Cashier's Head With Slungshot { | J STRUCK BY F FLYWHEEL, a fra Buffertr Manel! street, was pita! this the basem i‘ aken ing at the ad- dress in anell slipped and fell against a flywhee) of an electric dy- namo. hurled to one side. to the institu. he man probably would \ of No, | one Under a Barge. An endurance race in the East River, starting from the foot of Bast Beven- tleth street, had a @ad ending this after- noon, Anton Bewald, twent 415 East Seve of the contestants, His three compan dove many times efter his body, which was taken by the Ude under a barge, With his roommate, Christy Hughoff, t No ast Seventy- and Walter Murra Seventy-third stre pining off the ventiet street, An enduran as pasciged upon and ali tour two years old, fourth street, was drowned, of , Be- foot of match starved | erms until Sey | Service Board is assured that the con- THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1908. TRANSFERS ON ‘SULTAN FELLED BIG SHAKE-UP 0 TH STREET —BYANIFEBLOW OF PENN, RAILROAD ASE TO-AIGHT | On the Bet Line | Cr TAX ON PUBLIC. ew System Will Cost) Every Person in the City $4.a Year (BIG At midnight to-night the issuance of | Inth street and! transfers on the Fit Belt Line cars will cease. Lawver Van- derpoo!l. for the Fitty-ninth) Street Company, made the snnounce- | ment this afternoon at a hearing before | Chairman Willcox, of the Public Service attorney | Commission The hearing was the one of vesterday purpose ‘of determining that thi should be no diminution of the se on the lines because of the surrender the lease by the New York Citi! allway Company “A contract has heen prepared with| the recetyers," sald Mr. Vanderpool, | Whereby we are to be furnished with| power and cars. The service will be as good as It ever has been, and on the Belt Line it will be improved transfers, that matter has not been taken up and we have n 0 nay on the subject. The Issuance of trans-| ters stops to-night.” | Lawyer Ralph A continuation and was for | Wolf, representing Fifty-ninth street property owners, an- | peared and protested against the abol-| ishment of transfers. He asked {f the Public Service Board did not have| power to stop the surrender of a lease | that would work such a hardship upon} the people. Chairman Willcox replied that he knew of no authority that the) Board had in that respect. The hearing was continued until 2| o'clock to-morrow afternoon and will not be finally adjourned until the Public tract with the receivers {s duly signed. | The abolition of the transfers will cost | every man, woman and child of the 2.541.004 In Manhattan and the Bronx an average of about $4a year. The trans- fers have been cut off by the eminently lawful vrocesa of disintezratine the en- ormous street railway combine built up by the late William C. Whitney, and| looted so successfully by Ryan, Widener | and other high financiers associated | with him. Statistics prepared for Oren Root, | general manager of the bankrupt sys- tem, show that last year there were 194,785,842 transfr passengers, and they saved by the use of the uitere |* white, red and blue slips the great sum | of $9,738,207.10. As it is estimated that only about 1,60,000 of the population of the two boroughs are occasional ani habitual users of the street cars, the that + reached and tnen | : His strength ap- him, for he started for nis friends that | gone fifteen feet be- Was seized with a c nilons for hel lead above he sank, h ter him. The tic ald was carried niu DEATH AEE" Public Commission Is Ordered to Show Why Tracks Remain. In the Supreme Court to-day Justice Goff signed an order directing the Pub. Service Commission to show ise on Aug. 7 why a writ of peremptory should not be issued re- mandamus nn all ra he rigits | and Hudson ise of tracks to conde by t Bargains state can be had World adver. isements. Last week The World printed 1,427 sep. arate “Realty Offerings.” They grew 232 over same veek last year. The Herald New York's only other im- portant advertising medium, lost 178, TN Real E through doing away of transfers will mean an average loss of about §7 yearly to them, But it ls upon the working people who ride on the street cars every working day of the year that the pinch comes, To thousands and thousands of them tt means an extra ten cents a day In car fare. This is &® cents a week, or $0. a year, excluding ndays and ho days, ‘There are on an average three work- ng people ina fa i an added ex- p comes as a great sehold, 1 oth ends'a gre aes COMMISSIONER CALLS PROTESTOR A ‘‘CRAZY MAN.” ion against Hudson Ri Sompans, The former maintains that two flagmen t to be kept at stead of one. erman C. Doyer, a former Oo put in statistics of Sil to the present time, uled out. He also w 1 and to be no mmissioner or- nt?" shouted f that sioner’s term of ome en. the Commis- as. PALACE PLOTTER of Would-Be Assassin and Saved Ruller’s Life. LONDON, &—A special despatch | from Geneva te the Exchange Tele- HGH OFIIALS Said to Be Due in Sixty Days REA MAY SUCC | graph Company, recelved to-day, tells! | of an abortive atempt to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey, The autocrat was) | waylatd while walking In a corridor, ot! the Yildiz Palace and stabbed in the| breast, Only the fact that he was protected by the coat of woven chain he always wears saved his life, The would-be assassin was a minor palace official. He was arrested fleeing from the scene of the outrage, It {8 certai that the attempt on the Sultan's lifs which was made Monday night is the result of another poltical plot. That the stabber wae hired > murder the Turkish ruler was made manifest when his were searcied and a lar yund packed up w The palace was thrown Into the greatest confusion by the attempt on the §: fe. When the knife of the assassin fell upon his breast he ried out in alarm, and members of hig personal bodyguard rushed to his his clothing. | assistance. The impact of the blow overthrew the monarch, but he scrambled to nis feet and retreated to @ shelter behind ards. His aseailant wae imme- y Seized and manacied. Tne most diatel degree will now be employed to learn the names af those implicated in the plot. STOCKSSTAONG AND THE BUYING HEAVY Smelting, Copper, Reading, Canadian Pacific and Wa- bash Market Leaders, Large buying orders gave a strong tone to the early stock market to-day. | The advance in American Smelting reached 14, Canadian Pacific and! American Locomotive 1%, Reading, Wabash preferred and American! Woolen 1 and St. Paul, Great Northern preferred and Amalgamated Copper large fractions, in later dealings the strength was heid ana tae trading con tinued active, Strength in special stocks contended in the afternoon as an influence with| news of bad weather conditions in the} Northwester crops, Price fluctuations were irregular, St, Paul got up 2 and American Sugar 11-2. U. Steel pre-| ferred touched 1117-8, On the reaction | | Reading, Union Pectfic and a few others got below last night and Missouri Pa- elfic lost 11-4, The market closed mixed and slow. The total shares and sales of stocks af bonds $3,851,000, 411,900 The Closing Price: ‘changes as $ay'* ‘inal fieures, are Low To & Vi+t se ee Ontario & West Pennsylvania... twel Spring. i+11 ++44++ aeere i Sree r Lei ++4 NEW MECHANICS AND TRADERS’ DIRECTORS, | | Nine Men Selected to Take Office} at the Close of Business on Next Tuesday. ting of the Mechanies and | k to-day steps were taken {th the Bank Superin- name of Bank of s place of fon Branc hosen to ess on Bridge mea W. 8 H. Le esident of the Broad-) vay (Brooklyn) Foard of Trade; ex- Congressman Frank L. Wilson, Jacob I, Greatsinger, former president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit; John R. 8tine, president of the New York Leather | & Company; Thomas J. O'Dono- hue, William H. Lynn, E. J. Staller, formerly cashier of the Chase tional Hank; William H. English, vice-presi- dent of the Empire Trust ‘Company. ‘ ingenious methods of the Turkish third) Ped Trouble in Board Over Alleged eas Losing Contract With N. Y. Central. Wall street !s holding its ear to the ground to-day, Istening to rumblings that come trom Philadelphia telling of big row on the Inside of the Pennsy!- vania Railroad. Accdtding to the stories that are be- ing ctreulated tn the financial district, James McCrea, the head stem, is te resign within sixty days. of the big The same report has It that he is to be | succeeded by the vice-president Samuel Rea, The trouble in the Pennsylvania has apparently been brewing for a while, It came to a head a week ago at a meeting of the Board of Directors, when President McCrea been taken sharply to account for r long is sald to have |Ing a freight contract N | York Central by which the Pennsylva- | nia Is claimed to be losing at the rate with the of a million and a half a year, It is also said that Mr. McCrea, | term of his failed |show the borrowing abilities of | predecassor, the late A. J. Cassatt, had a marvel knack for pu hand on money whenever it 1 required, The Pennsylvania needs 1 ready money for improvements wal {t 1s now putting through, includin great New York terminal. Took Wizard Cassatt's Piace. tn presidency, has who There was opposition to Mr. M when he became president. His ele ton followed the shakeup that resulie from the exposure of reba Pennsylvania. When he went place that had just been made vacan by the death of that master wizard | railroading, Cassatt, lesser officials wi had figured In the exposure w Some of the deposed men stockholders in the road an nto t they tained their holdings and stayed on, hanging on the flanks of the system, no longer to take an active land in its affairs, but determined, it {s said, to tear down if they could, en who jhad walked over them to official pret- erment, Much of the hostility has been directed again Crea, it is said. They had a in the Board of Directors, for a chance to reach the of Heh w dent, It is said their cove came in the losing deal wh ne made with the New York Central AS a result of what sappened a last week's directors’ meeting, Wa Street hears that Mr. McCrea {s ure from the presidenc months, ‘The victorious ta {s credited w undet strong enough, so the repor elect in his stead the vice Worked His Way to Top. Mr. McCrea was elected pre |the Pennsyiva had been with the road { pacities nearly all his | years he had entire chi "i west of Pittsburg, He started rodman with a railroad constr crew and worked up, step by ) the lofty po: on which he n Vice-President Rea, who is s. ed for the succession, is « Qi big men of the Pennsylvania syste He has been the most active official % [the building of the Manhattan termina a |and tunnels. | Rallroad Co. Denies Beporty | PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5.—At joffice of the Pennsylvania Ratlroad was stated there Is absolutely foundation for the report of gen ‘@hanges in the executive force of tho company, The report of President Me Crea’s resignation was also deciar be ridiculous, Any changes would necessarily come |beYore the board of directors, and no meeting of that body te sched | September. away from MRS. PECKHAM DIES. ROYAT, Aug, 6—Mrs. Walton M. Peckham, of New York, has died of injurles sustained tn an automobile ac- cident. ‘The brake of the car failed to | work while descending a steep hill and @ machine crashed into a tree. Mrs, Piekham's husband and son and the other occupants of the car escaped with glight Injuries. ————»>—_—_ SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TODAY Sun rises, 5.00Sun sets, 7.11 Moon sete 11.92 THE TIDES. High Water, AM, PM Low Water A M indy Hook. ernor'a Island Hell Gate Valaeques | Sarina abana | Avalon INCOMING STHAMSHIPS, DUE TO-DAY Hudaon, Havre hotel us tren Kin Arapahoe, ouruc ING & WT HAMSHTPS SALLED TO-DAY. Lasitanta, Liverpool. Tennyson. Santos Teutonic, Southampton Lampasa. ny Martha hehaaaiy (ee Monrot, P Naples. G) aint Comfort, Russia, Rotterdam. Comus, New Orieaan, ton HIM | Aapet 1] © side of the iher side. the subter- out to TRUANT STORM HAS SPOST WITH BIG LING ATS old, onthe Jump of the achoma were heard surgeon persisted mication of an 1 | Brankte Oo start for Youngs- a! examination, were dpa * AMERICAN TOBACCO DECLARES DIVIDEND. ors Ves: waves swept the by Weather Bureau Bat ters the Bulow. Two of trom Company. to- jend of 9% a on the aves with 2% nt. extra three nt. and 2% per the ago and nine vl ly per cent and 7% extra a year ago. iy When oft Nu quariers Rerorts. w storm labor tr tay « com: saturday and 4 New line te havi kod up ng y $10.00 All Hair ~Mattresses ALD. WAU ink. ene NO MAIL OR TELEPHONE ORDERS ON ADVERTISED Goons NEW YORK'S FASTEST GROWING STORE WEST I4" STREET B SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY PROMPTLY REFUNDED | NEVER BEFOKE SUCH OPPORTUNITIES To Save Money as in This Great Mid-Summer FURNITURE SALE We're as busy as we can be; tho usands of approved, up-to-date pieces of furniture, beds, te idinz, unishings Imost too good to be true. $35 Brass Bed Guifits at $20. cicious home-outiitters. We i a of thrifty, {i e'll hold del LINOLEUM SALE 75¢ Genuine Cork Linoleum, 33¢ Linole- P an s, jinding their way He Pp Buy now. floor coy sand hou Underprice avant aces prepay freight, This $16 Round Ex Extensi epies up to Oct. 1. in Table,$10 M This $2. 50 Dining Chair, $1.25 t 39c Floor Oilcloth, 25c 2 English Enamelled Floor Ofk sloth, in 4-4, 6-4 and 8-4 dths, new Fall ne terns; has been very special for to- imore Cc r square yard. $1.10 Inlaid Linole eum, 5T7e Best quality Granite Inlaid Linoleumg go through to the back; green or slate ; the e ther Dk regular price “Morrow, $q. Heavy Immense Stocks With Superb Assortments of Every Grade at Breaorlery Rug Selig § Ariat $18 Smith’s 9x12 Rug Rugs, at SAL |, 84 hominy, See 325 9x12 Axminster master Rugs, $12 gS, $14 ie | : nix (S12 9X12 Drussels “Rugs, $2.50 190 S173 8.3x10.6 Wilton Rugs, $10 ve AUC} Great Mid- Summer Sale of The Sin Greatest Surprise i E hi Women’s Sample] House urnis lings resses at 1.98 kyery Dress worth from £6 up to $10. Handsome Oriental pat- te Wh On sale walt 98¢ 5€c Rex F bre hat tog a Genuine 1.95 Rissell’s Standard Car- net Svrenera, 4 Heavy Iron Flat We reserveda Wick stoven, et) strong, thousand dresses pane: ° 1 special sees for to-morrow's } | mtn Colle sale. ie bow Millay) ase BOD the good people did grab for those _ We on sale Monday ond Tuesday. Kyerybod: th em, Cholee of These Dresses at 81.98, They are daintiest of silk bati tes, Stripe or plain linens Sheerest of lawns, richly tri mmed wth | on Sink Clean- || IMPORTED embroidery. Skirts. are pst plaes Palle ale Vibee ware, color ne ne Brey; speriai special 4 and § all sizes 3 ards wide, plaited 4 to 44....