The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1908, Page 10

aay THAW BANKRUPTCY THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1908, ANOUN INLEAD ("9% ame Dear Ym Married” I BURIED LIE YOUNG STEINERT FLOUR FEE, 1,000 FOR CARNIVAL ~ WILL SPEND TEN | FREED ON CHARGE | BARRELS, TAKES “The Hell You Are,” He Says | And When Eddie Comes Back With Carrie, | William H. Devlin Is Going to Show Him CA ILLEGAL SAYS LAWYER OR te Will Ask Court to Appoint a Commit- tee to Take Charge of Estate and Person and Then Sue for Full NG TO-D Sea Beach Palace Man Pushed to Front, With a New- Comer Second. (Scene—Tive Jefferson Bank, Canal and | Forsyth atreeis, William H. Devlin, Jcashier, worrled looking, examining j checks. ‘Phone rings.) Feminine Volce—Is papa—Mr. Devitn— there? Deviin—Yes, he's here, and-— pS Volece—Oh, papa, dear, this Is Carrie. I'm so happy and Eddie is here and Friends of West Side Woman) Pen't you for -(oause during whlch sub | pressed gutturals from Devlin, sr, are Put Her at Head of List | followed @y little screams through the for Queen. MRS. LEVY’S BIG VOTE. |’phone and a voice saying, “Oh, Ed, papa {8 swearing like fury . Deviin—Where have you been, you— i | Amount He Claims. Items in Thaw’s Fight tor Freedom Which Cost Him Nearly $500,000 Here is how Harry Thaw says he spent almost half a millfon in his fight for freedom: To Lewis L, Delafield Mrs, H. K. Thaw’s expe Mrs, H. K. Thaw's expenses $25,000 12,000 Adolph Marks ” M. W. Littleton (expen Franklin Bartlett .... ses). from June, '07, till Aug., ‘0S. Charles Morschauser Mother, paid for meals, &c.. J. G, Graham Hartridge and Peabod) Alienists .... A. R, Peabody, since Apell 7, Roger O'Mara . IMT seseseere Carvalho (handwriting expert) 1,90 D. M. Delmas Minutes of the trials and cop- J. B, Gleason . : jes .. " is 800 Delafield and Longfellow ...... 2,400 | Pald off one note 8,000 Dan O'Rellly, besides advance Doctors and dentists’ bills ..,. 2,000 from Partridge and Pea- Detectives, and expenses of body . rixtit) sending body of Bedford (his John Iselin valet) to his family, and Sir G. Lewis . Charilosmene tints neti 2,150 Watson and Freeman . John B. Keenan Total The attempt of Harry K. Thaw to have himself declared a bankrupt, tnaugurated yesterday in Pittsburg, will be contested by Daniel O'Reilly, of his counsel in both his trials. Mr, O'Reilly is busy to-day preparing an application to be presented to the United States Court on Monday, asking that a committee be appointed to take charge of Thaw’s estate and person, In Thaw’s list of unsecured claims against his estate, filed in Pitts- burg with the petition in bankruptcy, is an item reading “Daniel O'Reilly, $5,000. Disputed.” The list of expenditures filed with the petition alleges that Thaw paid O'Reilly $11,000 during both trials, exclusive of amounts advanced to O'Reilly by Hartridge & Peabody, original attor- neys of record. “Thaw's statements regarding his! ing, because of his mental condition." payments to me and his indebtedness) Roger O'Mara, formerly Chiet of De- fre misleading, to say the least,” said) tectives of Pittsburg, has been named Mr, O'Reilly this afternoon, ‘Of the|as the receiver of Thaw's estate. His $11,00-It really was more than that~/ bond is $200,000. Thaw says he owes he pald me, I expended a great pert! $133,140, against $128,012 in assets, and for legitimate expenses. Thaw owes that the expenses of his two trials me to-day $37,000, and I intend to get !t.| have amounted to $416,500. I shall have a committee appoinied to| His Fortune Gone. take charge of his person and estate and then sie the committer REG to HN ot CHIT acs neta iow practically penniless. 8 sole “Has No Legal Right | resource Is the ieee from a trust fund “Thaw has no legal right to go into! of $21,000 establ.shed by his late father, ankruptcy. He is in the eyes of the! William Thaw. Jaw a lunatic, committed to a lunatic! Hig assets are $40,200 In real estate asylum by a Justice of the 31 eme| holdings, $3,000 in bills, promissury Court of the State of New York. AS’ notes, securities, é&c., 88000 worth of @ lunatic he 1s absolutely deprived of! household goods, $3,000 worth of booxs control of his person and estate, land pictures, $157.50 worth of shipp.ug “It is surprising to me that ‘Thaw ares, $10 worth of clothes, $10,zo40$ attorney, Mr. Morschaus: w yorth of stocks and negotiable bonus, own brother, Justice Morschauser, de ) in banks on depdsit and eise- clared Thaw insane, should lend him-| \nere and $3,000 worth of property in self to an attempt on the part of @/ version and trust. lunatic to go into bankruptcy, Thaw's wn in the subjoined list his endeavor to avoid ng de are startling. ‘They are far wn forces me to appl nt as regards (he suis paid to Del- ef a commit c d Littleton, of what any one agsregation of legal tale his App. Was ge ‘At Fougakeepsie Thaw gave out the he disputes a claim 4 following, svatement regarding hia the time of the ann tp bankt a certified check ‘ t | due to mother pay eave h ave been P M over two ! Alls and ered ated. To fused t s ed would check is now i escrow His Bill Is $37,000 suv The $11,000 and more Thaw pald icy laws during der «hat oy by me for h ve wusure justice 10 ders. For Thaw Aads to Statement. MeKenzi Thaw made the following statement many other payments, to-day in further explanation of the in themselves, that mot o| scuddules appearag ui fis petition: aggregate. My bill, amo (ube ee ae Sire the column said, to $37,000, has never be FS imexpelinesiital to Mr. Thaw. is money in bank that t have now turn- “His Income 18 $80,000 a year, He geta | ed over to the receiver in bankruptcy fe steady income of $00) a month as| hy Rab eOE SE Gl concerned. share of the Thaw coke lands. ‘ped OL Lby THEW Sno cone 4 paid oul by ‘Liaw un cons b nut this amount wed on @ ole he has really saved lum he i Wilken T ra. phow that his seledules are ears akan in tie and in addition ¢ s to be sf iiaw's saulites, Phe suas mad and the ciasme. of é A BASS are eAaweecaced, will ¥),00, ywn an article attr'but t he actress Ww YOrK U story and at F knows absolutely matter. She never she met Miss Nes- ever knowledge she 4, She » sailed immediacely If she had had Mr. Jerome a witness, That ‘Miss For nothing about et Mr. White only Xv First Met Through » World Advts, WILL THAW BE GIVEN A TRIP TO PITTSBURG? Pa, Aug. &—The order the bankruptcy case of Thaw sending |t to Referee R. Blair, was made dy William T, say, clerk of the United 6tates { Court, to-day. is considerable = speculation w Thaw will be able to Accord: r0- bankruptoy aw ‘od to attend @ meeting of re before the referee in this PITTSBURG, of re cet Harny K W Lin AST week The World printed 1,993 separate Summer Re- wil| be req sort Advertisements. The next six highest New York news- papers all together had 1,802. 7)" World more than any six others | dent ; combined—191. Receiver O’Mara’s sat that all creditors “will slow me [sembivman Greenberg, of the Thirty- Was not | Volce-Sh, sh, papa! I've been getting married, Devlin (throwing $50,000 worth of checks in the waste basket and bowling over President Herman Brosel's big chair with an elevated foot)—Married? The ‘—-l you are! You come home at once! Ough, a man’s in a helofapickle to ha & disobedient daughter. (Aside, with hand over-mouthpiece and fist clinched, ‘Walt till T get Eddie, Vl make an Eddie of him.') No Place for Eddie. Volce (eorrowingly—Can I bring Ed- dle, papa? Devlin—Eddie be hanged! come home and don't let me hands on Eddie, or you'll be a widow. Vokee—Then good-by, papa dear, won't oome home without him. I'm going How Votes Stand for King and Queen of Coney Carnival. KING, Fernand Akoun.... James Faato. Henry Brum! Doc Travers Ralph Sivoane. Cor Payton James Leahy . George E. Bandum. Frank Davideon. A. J, Gulotta J. P. Fowarty Jere F. Twomey. Mortimer Kaphan 1% “Monopole Jack’ Graney . Willlam H. Prange Dr, David’ Lagarus Louis “Mumny Brook’ No, you try to, won't you? Deviin—Hello! hellot jheilo! Carrie, | Charlee Cranford. . hello! William Doy Masculine Voltce—Well, Mr. Deviin, Doc Mosley Tl Kirby what Is it? | erostans Derlin—Who are you? Where Is my daughter? Donton Something New in Fathers-in-Law. away. Tell mother to forgive me and, | | | Volce~You mean win L,| Thomas, my wife? | Deviin—Oh, you wretch! You bring | Carrie home or I'l beat you te = pa-| | Per pulp. | | Voice—Good-by, dad. We're both | happy and we'll ‘ome theme soon, | Cheer up! Honestly, 1 like you, Real-| ly dv. Carrie and I both send lots of love. Good-by, The first voice was his eldest daugh- |ter, Carrle L, Devlin, soprano in the Trinity Baptist Chureh and one of | Brooklyn's most popular young women. |The second voice was that of Edwin | L, Thomas, of No, 885 Decatur street, | }@ Paper manufacturer and just twenty- | one years old. The young persons had known each other about three years. At Miss |Deviin's home, No, 6 Bainbridge street, | Brooklyn, and at her father's summer home at Blue Point, 1, 1, young Thom: was always welcomed, but |none knew that the elopers were even | engaged. | Thursday night Carrie left the Dev- Hn summer residence, saying she was going down to the post office. Here ahe met Thomas and the two went di- ‘rectly to Brooklyn. Leaving Miss Devlin at the home of }a girl friend in Sterling place, Thomas returned to his home, packed his sult case and in the morning again met his sweetheart, Together they went to Newark and were married quietly! by @ Justice of the Peace. They are now) to be In Atlantle City. Casrie hasn't got but one suit) with her,” said Mr. Deviin! “I'm dead sore about 1 may have to forgive them. | @ nice boy, fine family, well-to-do | and all that, but why did he run off with the girl? I'll give him some pointers when I see him. I'll show him a trick about fathers-in-law he never | dreamed of." ! Mrs, this; de. Fitzpatrick STRING AL CF ANE FD AMOUNT LO Man, Woman and Three Chil- dren Had No Home or Food for a Week. Preqenaer Hansel j, Robinson. . Weorge Crandies M, Weheman.. RELRESSAE<OSSES BRRBAS= Pat) Lrincess. 2: Grace M. Spink. . El Rela Parton: “orinne ‘ee Bina May | Spoor Michael Ryan, a gaunt, big-boned, sunken-eyed shipwrignt, his wife Mar- waret and his three young children, the eldest eight vears of age, were found, famished and ill, in a makeshift hut on BER: ‘The name of Fernand Akoun, proprie- tor of the Sea Beach Palace Skating Rink, Coney Island. son of Mme. Akoun, whose Orientals gave the Mid-|& vacant lot at Henry and Lorraine way at the Chica Exposition its| streets Brooklyn, to-day. The family had been living ond starving, soaked by the rains, tormented by mosquitoes and files, in the poor shelter for @ week, Polleeman MoMiiian, of the Hamilton averiue station seeking to locate the walling complaint of a culld, found the Ryans, huddled away in a damp, not- gome corner of the iol, The father was jeep. The mother, a thin, drooping slip of a woman, was seated In @ corner holding # four-year-old baby in ber erms and the baby was crying. “Piease don't arrest us," implored the woman, ‘We haven't done any- Woman III of Pleurlay. McMillan saw at once that the family lneeded food and medical attendance, a Union| fie summoned an ambulance from Long Island College Hospital. The sargeon found Mrs, Ryan suffering from an acute attack of pieurisy and the children hai dead from hunger, fame. a born showman, with a dozen ventures In all parts of the country. and the handsomest young man and pest swimmer at Coney, heads the list of aspirants for the crown of the Isle of Joy and its Mardi Gras to-day. His patrons. emplovees, his friends and al! he pretty girls foined in a vollev of yallots, sent in « dosen letters and sent \ls score 1p to 1,604. James Fazio, a newcomer in the con- | test, is second, with 836, which ts only) one more than Henry Brum! has, while Doe Travers. popular polltical and s0- Mal leader in Williamsburg, has 75; Ralph Sloane, the road-house man, 31; Pavton. 28. and inspector James the candidate of the meseenger has 24. junny Brook” Levy and member of the Demo-j at the same time, an Elk} da good fellow, gets a start as al h 146 votes, and) e best bet for Inee for he crown Leads List for Queen. owed enough mi re of hunself and \raniuy to Brookiyn, hoping to get work 9? St.|in the shipyards in the Red Hook ds- trict. ‘On his firs: day in Brooklyn Mrs. x st place !n to-| Ryan and the children remained on @ lav's ¢ the various kinds of pler, hidden away from prying, eyes friends of herself and her husband, As-| while he looked for work. The family slept that night In a hallway and Ryan ‘epent his few remaining pennies for food the next morning. Vain Hunt for Work, Ae Levy CON Inter, and Sea Gate | Dainty Pen N.cholas avenue In w! ner first; Leader William J. Wright, John F. Scanian, of the Cayuga Club: Alder- man Sam Marx, the Irvin Brill Asso- i Then he located the hut—a lean-to, See ee a ets Se ae old schoolmates open on one side, which had been used : 88 | as a playhouse by boys. There he in- Hettle Murohy, heloing In the Joyous) gtalied his family. Day after day he work. tramped the water front in a vain Mise Mina Phillfos, leading lady at|search for employ’ t. His family sub- sisted upon What scraps they could pick up and upon fragments of free lunch ne could ey from the counters { Red Hook saloons. Of Red evan ie comfortable to-day on a clean bed in the hospital. She !8 wor- fied about ner children, despite assur- Corse Pavton's. and who will be modern Magdalen" of the vlav next veek. was boomed {nto third place with 83, while Mss Grace M. Spink, cashier Janes's drug store, Broadway anc ty-sxth street, and the fair dol o For from te pol ce and hospital au- 1@ voune men of the nelehborhood | thorities that the Children's Society will was introduced with seventy-three | not take them away from her. an, es. through the a0 3 fhe plies, nee Ios patie late Job in a dry dock in Erie Basin. Reducing the list to those only who| cured & 38m Ite SO onday morning ad twenty-five vores or more sent] after food and drink have renewed his strength. In the mean time he will have ‘a little money in his pockets, furnished by the kind-hearted policemen of the fam{ton avenue station. ee jELECTRIC LIGHT TRAP more than one hundred other candidates into retirement while their yotes grew. hey will come to the surface again prese-tly and thelr names will reappear on the list, Some of them are men- din the letters to the Mardl Gras vr, a few of which are printed here. an. odd eters error, Chie? Clavton was T sierday to ’ vison “Grantita. the “hive cenenen)| CATCHES MOTHS BY TONS. Brooklyn contractor, who include a fleet of steam con ottvas in his work- ——— i t of too an ult the 7 ny, boiend'd Brooklyn and Brighton Beace| 2ITTAU, Germany, Aug. 8—The Saxon Railroad to Coney Island. as “poten-| authorities have discovered what would tate” (natead of “Illustrious ye of the Mystic Bhrine, poventste Con.est Closes Sept. 10. At @ meeting of the executive com- m oF the Mardi Gras Carnival fea Fal! Festival Association on Thursday night, » motion was adopted chan, (the closing date of the election con for King and Queen to Sept. 10, {net ‘ot Sevt. & The oMclal danet in Evening ere has been amended ac- rdingly. campalaners racine’ ot the chanae. A hereby Voters write {n or | each ballot the name of veaseldons voted for, Bome voters oe & bunch of pallote think that writ! he name on the top one fe suMcient It ts not, and blank ballote will be destroyed Vote for a king Or @ queen on each palit. Do not try te vote for beth on the same ballot. Yor Veting Coupon, fee Page? geen to be an excellent way to put an end to the caterpillar plague which {5 having auch a disastrous effect on tha local forests, They have found a« |method to catch the brown mun inoths lay the exga from which the cater- are come im enormous quantities. hey make use of what they call the Fe | it trap. This consists of two large powert@ roflecters placed over a deep receptac! rfl heust fans. ‘and The whole been erected? on top of the nmyuntolpal elec- trie ple 9 on | wooded mountain aides half a mile di tant. The mothe, drawn by the bri liancy, come fluttering in thousands along the broad rays of light and the currents of air the fans ee been NLS MAN HS HS TORR BRIKE “Death Better Than Living In These Hard Times,” His Last Message | | | When a freight train drove into the) Pocahontas cut of the New York, New | Haven & Hartford Railroad shortly after dawn to-day the engineer spied the figure of a man suspended to the bridge that spans One Hundred and Forty-second street, near the Southern Boulevard. It looked to the engineer as !f the man were hanging by his hands, so, without slowing down, he blew a blast on the whistle. The figure did not move, how- ever, so the power was shut off and the locomotive stopped just as the smokestack bumped against the sus- pended body. Then tt was seen that the body was suspended by the neck with a rope. In- vestigation disclosed that the suicide was Robert H. Miller, forty-five years old, @ carpenter out of work, Until two years ago he boarded with Mrs. ‘Louise Degouse at No. %) East One Hundred and Forty-ninth street. He j had boarded with her nineteen yeara | and then went to Albany. | She heard nothing from him 1 | vetterday when she received a ; telling her that by the time she got he would be dead. The ¢ nter ‘aid that he was uying the samp for } the letter with } two ding, "I can't stand this any longer Death {8 better than lying in these hard times,” When the clothing of the suicide was is last ents, ad tion an empty pay envelope was found across which was written “Your ser- vices are no longer required,” The man had hanged himself with a clothes line, which he attached to an | iron beam beneath the bridge. then | tying the rope about his neck and drop- ning off into space. Mrg. Degous noti fled the police that she would take charge of the body. DAYS IN OFAN Hypnotized by Hindu Mystic, She Is Lowered Into Grave and Viewed by Thousands. HAS NO FOOD OR DRINK Toledo Humanitarians Fight to Stop Gruesome Show, but No Law to Cover Case. (Special to The Evening World) TOLEDO, O.. Aug. 3 —Nailed up in an ordinary coffin buried six feet deep, Florence Jessie Gibson, a pretty eighteen-vear-old girl, is sleeping away a ten-day hypnotic slumber into which she was thrown by Bunda Kupparow, a Hindu mystic, while about the grave in Cedar Point Park, @ pleasure re- sort near Sandusky, Q, thousands of persons gather daily to take turns peering down through a glase-covered chute upon the face of the young and woman, This crowd may de roughly divided Into three camps—first, the physl- cians and scientific investigators, who nave gathered at the place from all over the State, giad of a chance to study the case; second, members of hu- mane societias who atv making a de- termined effort to have the exhfoition stopped, on the ground that it ls bar- barous and cruel, and third, this last being the largest group of all, the mor- bid and the idly curious who have come ‘rom the Same impulse that causes so many peraons to filock to the funeral of a stranger. Still In Perfect Health, Unless the humane societies succeed in their crusade Florence Gibson will stay where she is until Aug. 10, The date of the interment was the first of, the month. The box that holds th girl is of the ordinary casket design, with a satin Mining upon which her head rests. The likeness to the coffined dead !s ghastly. To satisfy the humanitarians that Miss Gibson is in a good physical state the Hindu last night had the sand that fills the hole shoveled out, At his re- quest physicians unscrewed the coffin itd and examined the subject. The sleeping girl's face was white and pinohed looking, but she breathed regu- larly and her pulse was only slightly ‘mal. ab @ lol of excitement during the exhumation, as it had been reported that the society would make an effort sleeper by main force to rescue the fre he East Indian. The body, how- ever, Was returned to the earth after Kupparow had demonstrated that no imaginable defect could tle up the auto- matic pumps and valves by which fresh air is carried down Into the grave Mrs. Fannie Everett, President of the Sandusky Humane Society, has been working hard to stop the show by legal means. She has asked for an injune- tion, but Court could find no law to cover the situation, as the girl is of age and voluntarily submitted to the burying allve ordeal. Miss Gibson {s a Pennsylvania girl, @ fragile, blond little thing, and by the side of the bushy-bearded chocolate colored East Indian who controls her, she looks like a child. She has been travelling over the country with him for some time. Usually he displays her in a show window after hypnotizing her. But the present interment has made him ambitious for bigger and even more sensational triumphs, and he announced to-day that In two weeks from now, he will put her into an {illuminated glass case ard sink her twenty feet into Lake Erie. If he tries !t there will be riot- S g. ‘This is my way of making a living,” sald the Hindu ay. "T don't know vhat business it Is of any outsider as ong as Miss Gibson {s not injured hep experience. She Is out of mischt for ten days and she earns a good sa $100 for the Job, and t way to earn that much than by sleeping, as far as J money know." Se ey SAVED SWIMMER TOO LATE. Bauer Died After Being Brought Anhore by Rescnera, Selzed with a cramp while siimming at the foot of East One Hundred and Twenty-third street to-day, George Bauer,- thirty-five years old, of No, 264 Fast One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street, became uncom@clous and was carried to the pler by Charles Golle, of No. 288 Alexander avenue, and other swimmers. With difficulty the rescuers get Bauer to the pler, where efforts were made to ravive him. Dr. Herrlty worked over the man for some time, but his efforts were of no avail. a3rd Street DRESS GOODS, In Bot Exhibition Satin Cloth, Silk Cloths, Cheviots Broadcloth, | a3rd Street | of Autumn ‘Dress Fabrics in the latest weaves and colors, such as Side Bands and Borders in various materials and designs, Silk and Wool Liberty, graduating Stripes, JAMES McCREERY & C0. 34th Street ‘h Stores. On Mcnday, August the roth. Novelty and Wool Cashmere, two-toned diagonals, Chevrons, plain and checks to match, Bayadere Satin in combinations of colors, English and Scotch Suitings and 34th Street NDE BY WN Proves He Was Caring for Her Jewels at Her Own Request. Charles M. Steinert, a nephew of Mag- {strate Joseph Steinert, who was ar- rested last night on the complaint of Mabel Wilson, of the Hotel Bayard, No. 2 West Forty-ninth street, who said he called upon her and took away $1,860 worth of her jewelry and $74 in money, was honorably discharged when arraigned in the West Side Court to- day before Magistrate Corrigan. It was shown that the young man was the victim of a strange blunder. He is employed as office manager by the Ely J. Rieser Manufacturing Com- pany, of Twenty-eighth street and First avenue. Yesterday Miss Wilson called him up on the ‘phone and asked {f he would come and take charge of her jewelry, as she was afraid some one would get it away from ‘er, Steinert complied with the request and found the young woman in ,an ex- tremely nervous and shaky! condition, He took the jewelry from her and carried it to his office. She evidently forgot all about the transaction, for three hours later she telephoned to the West Forty-seventh street station and chases that she had been robbed. Deteotives Heine and Hegene were sent to the hotel and advised Miss Wil- n to send for Steinert. phoned to him and he came immedi- ately to the hotel with the Jewelry. He turned {t over to the manager of tho hotel, saying that in Miss Wilson's nez- yous condition she better not have it, Then while he wes talking to the manager the two detectives rushed up to him, and Detective Heine struck him in the face and called him “a dirty thief.” Miss Wilson was in court to- day, still {In @o nervous a condition that she could not articulate clearly or sign « complaint, Max Steinert, father of the man, sald he would prefer charge: brutality. against Detective Heine to Commissioner Ingham, Magistrate Corrigan denounced the young man's arrest as an outrage and severely lec- tured Mise Wilson. Bhe tele- 1 f\ of ~FUEINHRLEN ‘Floor of Warehouse Gives Way, Surprising Watch- man and Horses. Residents of the neighborhood aroun@ One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street jand Manhattan street were aroused at about o'clock seemed to be an explosion, and those 5 to-day by what who popped their heads out of the win- dow and gazed in alarm at the old car | barns on the corner evidently thought that the end of the world had come, or that they were being featured in @ new Kind of Black Hand outrage. From the big doors of the old barns }ran a man yelling. He was all watte | from top to tow, and had it not been |for the very material manner in which jhe cried “Help!” one. might have thought him a spook. From the inside of the ramshackle building came @ Sreat sound of neihing and kicking, and In a few seconds the man was fol lowed by half a dozen or so of horses, | all thoroughly made up to resemble | snow-white palfreys. The explosion had taken place inside the barns which used to house the jhorse cars of the Forty-second street line. They are now occupied by Jonn C. Bogert & Company as a storehouse for flour, and until to-day there were 000 barrels and SW sucks of flour on the second floor, The man who ran is George Cum- , the watchman, He was taking on the ground floor when sud- there was a creaking . the flooring split as if been slashed with a elant raaor, parted and down came the avalanche of flour barrels and sacks. It was so sudden that Cummings didn't realize all at once what was the matter, therefore he ran. On the bottom floor tn a double row alls there were kept about fifty horses and In the rear were about sixty wagons. The falling timbers released some of the horses, who, covered with flour, dashed frantically out into the street. JAMES McGREERY & GO. 23rd Street RUG DEPARTMENTS, 34th Street In Roth Stores, On Sale Monday, August the roth. | | Oriental Rugs. Large Kazak Size 4x7 ft. to 5x8 ft. roo Persian ft.) 40 India Car; Domestic Rugs. Seamless Wil gx12 ft, 280 Fine Wilton Rugs (large variety of patterns). The remaining stock of Fine Straw Matting, consisting of 225 rolls, 23rd Street JAMES McGREERY & CO. INTERIOR DECORATION. Orders taken during August for Autumn delivery. Draperies ai Decorative Lace Hangings. Contracts accepted for the com- plete furnishing refurnishing, An extensive collection of Fine Furniture, Drapery materials and Laces, Representatives requirements and submit suggestions and drawings for 23rd Street JAMES MeGREERY & GO. 34th Street a3rd Street and Khurdistaa Rugs, 20.00 value 40.00 Carpets (about 9x 12 75:00 1,00 per sq. ft. value 4.75 pets, ton Velvet Rugs. Size 20.00 25,00 value 35.00 8.50 and 10.50 per roll former price 12,00 to 15.00 34th Street nd Wall Coverings; of new houses, or sent to study consideration. 341th Street SOROSIS SHOES, Jn Both Stores. All the staple styles of high and low Shoes for Women, 350 and 4.00, Regular price 4,95 per pair. ajrd Strect 34th Street