The evening world. Newspaper, August 25, 1908, Page 14

CLERGYMAN ENDS HIS OWN LIE AS SIGHT FALS The Rev. Albert Trick Kills Himself With a Revolver in Mills peal FOUGHT | WITH POVERTY Leaves Pathetic Letters to Children and a Friend De- claring Himself a Failure, Leaving a letter In which he declared there was no longer any truth In the Church and denouning America’s “Trinity” as “Success, Pleasure and Gold,” the Rev, Albert Trick, once pase tor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, blew out his brains in Mills Hotel No, 8 Thirty-sixth streer and Seventh avenue, to-day. ‘The clergyman, in the letter In which he bitterly bewalled the worldliness of the Church, explained that he he fought the battle for existence and lost. His eyesight failing and without abil- {ty to earn suffolent income to support himself and children, he had abandoned t the struggle. Since last May he lived with his two boys at No. 145 Lef- ferts Place, Brooklyn. A married daugh- ter lives near by. Fully dressed In clerical garb the Rev. Mr, Trick lay down on the bed of his Mttle hotel room and shot himself in the mouth, He was found at 9.30 A, M., when the housekeeper, Mrs, Camp- eli, rapped on the door to ask him to leave the room until evening, accord- ing to the rules of the establishment, He had then been dead an hour, Be- fore shooting himself he hed pulled the bedcovers up to his ears, and it was not unt!i a policeman came that the revolver was found, clasped in both hands under the cover, Left Two Letters. The clergyman left two letters ex- planing his motive for suicide, one to hjs children and one to Dr, Charles M. Dowd, of No. 127 West Seventy-second In the letter to his children he “Dear Children: I did this because I am despondent. I could not withstand the financial strain any longer, Con- Unue this life as I taught you. Be al- ways good. “YOUR UNHAPPY FATHER. | “Pp, S 1am golng to join mother.” In the letter to Dr. Dowd the clergy- | man wrote: ‘My Dear Carl—Yours and other gen- erous loans to me I fear are gone. I am weary of it all, and must give it up. It has been a long and bitter struggle— just a prosaic struggle to provide a| decent existence for my family. It |s; useless for me to try to make money | enough to support my children, and to! live apart from them would be intoler- cble, as I love them dearly, I am too | | ine young atore-keeper, strest, Brooklyn ves are Albert, six- fourteea, By sellin clergyman man dis three children ved In doardin, The ffer i" hore ‘the Rev, | had two roms, jmeals nearby, They were inseparable. | The devotion of the (rlo was a subject | of neighlcrnord ecmmment, When news ot the father’s suicide | was broken lo the boys this afternoon they became hysterical with grief, On the envelope of the ietter which he left them he wrote: Trick and his boys Na It {s all everlastingly true, y. and we shall shar | again, UR PAPA.” The daughter w 8 father's death as she erated on and is danger ly slick. The clergyman arrived ¢ Buds ell Hotel No. 8 last night, regis! full -name and going room. TRAC SQUAD SQUAD MK SET FREE IN COURT Victin Who Was Abused in Street Suddenly Repudiates Identification, Fred. C, Struss, the TraMc Squad po- Iceman who was arrested yesterday ‘on the charges of doing a war dance !n full uniform, waving @ revolver and mis- treating citizens Saturday night at James Slip and Water street, got off to-da; so far as the Police Court Is concerned, as the result of the fallure of his alleged victim to positively identify him. He is yet to have @ hearing before Deputy Commissioner Hanson at Police Head- Sea ‘ailing, in charge of the Traf- fio: et vad, had five witnesses In the Cen- tre Street Court this morning. All of them nad been spectators to the weird conduct of a tniformed man near the river front Saturday night. Two of them thought Struss was the offender in question, one of them wasn't cer- tain and a fourth felt sure Struss was not the man at all. The last man to be examined frank Sanfilipo, a marble dealer, of 6 James street, the orig- inal complainant, Although yesterday Sanfillpo had seen able to pick Struss out from a line of thirty men and positively identify him as the man who choked and threatened him with @ revolver, he now contented himaelf with saying that he wouldn't be positive in his recogintion, adding that there was a doubt in his mind, and he didn’t want to take any chances on ac- cusing an jnnocent man wrongfully. Under the circumstances Magistrate Cornell sald there was nothing for him to do except to discharge the police- man. Struss was not called upon to furnish any testimony In support of his allbi, He had claimed that he spent Saturday afternoon and evening at Coney Island with his wife, ——»——_—— CUSTOMERS SEEK KING. Disappointed | Magistrate Sends Women to the Civil Court. In the Jefferson Market afternoon a dozen women wanted hear from J. H. King, of the Nattonal Trading Stamp and Supply Company, of No, 18 West Fourteenth street. Hej falled to appear in @ summons case, King appeared a few days ago in court In reaponse to a summons issued ‘oy Magistrate Crane in behalt of a woman. His company publishes the Woman's Own Magazine and she stated that she thought by buying ninety-five fr zines and securing nin five much handicapped. “When I left theh West in ‘91 I was! suffering from a severe attack of neryous prostration, which induced th misfortune to my sight, Melancholia has grown on me yearly in spite of everything I could do to overcome it. | Then I have never been able to conquer! an inborn contempt for the place money | has in this world, though knowing 20! well how absolutely a fair amount of it} at least Is due all of us. “America’s Trinity.” “T could never adapt myself, In view | of my early ideas, to the methods by which money is made, They are all so transparently selfish and more or Jess unscrupulous, whether used by the church or so-called world. I never could worship America's Trinity—"Suc- cess, Pleasure and Gold." I ant too old | and settled in my character to change. though my eyes have jong been opened to my delusion } “I took deeply to heart the teachings { of Jesus and tried hard and long to square my very suul by them. I found | ' @t last what a made and how lonely I was even in the church, The average man cares little ahout what Jesus taught, and it makes one heartsick to hear ecclesiastics r about it, I think ft ts rank hypocrisy for the average American to claim his leadership. “Every sensible American admits he wants to Vanda to enjoy life reason- ably in eve ; not what 9 I gannot change, but 1 rejoice in the bets ter day dawning in a world with ity superstitions and errors like all the other religions of man that are passed away And religi simple—rel!zion, tha love It twists all the f expressions of histo ye th fquare with thelr petty traditions and systems of the day Precepts of Ingersoll ‘The day world plac es. ind by will come when the will know that sacred as that Jesus holds in tne w teem Is, they are no more what He tanght, did and thou they ar» by the pfecepts of Ro gersol “IT wish I could live and preach this I am broken too much and the of my of tragica long life seff-dan suffering—a!w 1 do not I feared cause t) Wr hetween th € rs n afl ALPEN T H, TRICK Went to Saratoga The Rev, Mr. Trick gave up his ( PAR) pos orate thirteen years ago and ratoga. Hed yrtnern New York to fail. His wife died. a Mand searcely any mane the burden of supper: bi t aes tiful mistake I had | ing stamps that she could get 8 | sldebonrd She claimed that she was put off, and the Magistrate ordered Hill to return to her the $9.50. Later Mra, M. Lewls, of No, 38 Stagy street, Brook- | n, and other women appeared and al asked for a summons. When King falled to come to court Magistrate Barlow handed each woman a card to the Legal Ald Society and all said they would go | there and institute a civil suit. ee oe iWAITERS STRIKE WHEN TIPS ARE DENIED THEM. BUFPFAIA, N. Y., Aug. %.—-On fhe | trip of the steamer Northland, wh arrived here to-day from Chi ag0, twenty-five walters refused to serv | meals tecause of the lure of a ni ber of students of a jamong the passengers D m. The demanded an increase of wages n lieu of the tips, and on being re- fused they declined tn work. Taey were arrested on arrival here and taken before Deputy United States | Marsnal C: nkllng and charged wit Th I be returned to De- leged. mu saving taken in Mi place an wal Pl lie brownstone structure | The three got their | “Remember that your father taught! you words of gold and counselled you the wisdom that has cost him so dear- Good- Tam going to your dear mother, notified of her recently op- vo to his Court this to} mn. { old, THE teas WORLR a REPRE TD, AUGUST 25, 1908, GIRL STAGGERS ~ TROUGH SMOKE TO SAVE LIVES Young Teacher Awakens Fam- ilies as Flames Race Up | Hallway. Tt takes plenty of courage te face smoke-filled hallways and tread over burning floors in bare feet, but Miss Lillian M. Kuhnert, @ pretty twenty- year-old graduate of the New York) Training School for Teachers, was equa! to the occasion to-day, She red | twenty persons from a fire in the five- story building at No. 1522 Third avenue. | Time after time she ran through the smoke enveloped hallwa. tapping on doorways and ringing be the ful heat of the increasing fire bilstered her feet and forced her to almost shriek with pain, She clung to her task until she saw every soul leave the building, Then she joined her mother in a door- way across the road and watched the firemen run hose inte the building. Mother Discovered Fire, | With her mother and two small ste- ters Miss Kuhnert, who will be ae signed to a public school position this term, occupies three rooms on the first floor, She was awakened by her moth- er's anxious Inquiry; “‘Lillle, what's that?" * In an’ instant the girl was out of the bed with both her sisters in her arms. She threw open the door and a cloud of smoke set them all coughing. While Mrs. Kuhnert ran around the corner to a fire house the girl pressed every button on the door. Miss Kuh- rt reached her room, seized her watoh and chain and started a remark- able round of the building. Through Dr, McEachren's door her yolce rang clear and unexcited: ‘Come, doctor, get up, your office is burning!” From floor to floor she staggered, As the families would appear she directed them to the hallway and hurried to the window for a fresh breath of alr, Here's what sie says of her efforts to awaken persons on tne third floor: Floor Burned Her Feet. "I could feel the hot floors under my feet and I knew the smoke was getting thicker, I couldn't get my breath up there and had to stagger to the win- dow. Pollceman McGrath helped me arouse the Schaffers, Sheehans, Keat- jneys and Fredericksons, Then I thought of the cellar way and of the open door. I ran down there to close, the door so that the smoke would not jcome up. I saw the flames like a huge! | bonfire, but I managed to close the door XK them. Then the firemen | came.” —_—. GIRL DENIES BURGLARY. Little Miss Says She Bought Jew- | elry for Seven Cents. | Thomas Callahan. thirteen years old, and his sister, Julia, one year his jun- for, who live at No, $6 West Sixty ninth street, were arraigned in the Chil-/ {dren's Court to-day, charged with bu: ary, !t being alleged that they en- \ |tered the flat of Mrs, Elizabeth Pla, ! in the same house, and stole $# worth of jewelry, The girl sald that she did | not steal the things, but bought them | from a boy who lives In the house for seven cents, She said she had given the ring to r brother. Her father was away fish- ! . yes@rday, she said, and had given twenty-five cents. Part of this went |r can and the rest for the jewelry ic paroled the youngsters lin the custody of their parents until , | thelr story can be gnvestigated, | SS ele DIED IN A RESTAURANT, An unidentified man, about sixty years dropped dead this afternoon in a at No, 26 Hudson street was taken to the Leonard street station, The man weighs about lan pounds, \d gray hair and mustache and was partly bald, He had a scar | restaurant The body nthe right side of his nose. He wore black coat, black striped trousers and a black derby GERMAN COUNT WANTS CROWN OF MARDI GRAS KI “Willie Witt” Hides Identity, It | Is Said, of Noble Who — | ambulance” arrived from Dropped Title. OW VOTE STANDS FOR KING AND QUEEN OF CONEY CARNIVAL. — KING, M. Pott M. Kati Fazio Sloane Lewis Alfred James Ralph Loula Levy ‘Doo!’ Moseley Jamea Leahy Andrew J, Frank A. Mill 1 sat Joe F. White, + ar00 | | “Doc! + sass [| 1 sou 2783 ani 227 38 eetataad sa is SRRSESBS 25 Frank“ Davidad) Wille Witt Henry Brum! S2E35) Ald. Herman’ W. PHI TT. Ornateln Arthur Levy Raron Autenreith . QUEEN, rey Ben lary, Mean Mecut euay Grace M. Spink. Beatrice Morgan . Princess Rajah . Mildred Gideon Mrs. Fannie §, mpances Brooke The nobility of Europe hae {ts repre- sentatives among the aspirants for the crown of Coney Island in the person of | Baron Autenreith and Count Wilhelm Adelbert Stettin Witte, Along with a portrait of the Count, who !s styled | “willle Witt" on the ballots sent in to) ‘the Mardl Grae Editor, came « slowing | | biographical eketch of the romantic | | career of this “‘Ceseendant of « noble | and iflustrious German family.” | His blographer wrote that he {fs the! | youngest of ten children, and unmarried, | that he tired of the eazy life of @ noble- | man, renounced his claims to the entata| of his parents, and became a soldter| of fortune, incognito. He served as a private in the Boer war, according to his sponsor; was nearly shot to death; went to Australia after the war and herded | vheep; visited Egypt, Russia, England | ‘and America; became a lecturer, then a porter in a silk house, and is now a) silk merchant. Coupon See Page awe. For Voting —_————— DUTCH MINISTER HOME AFTER ROW WITH CASTRO, | THE HAGUE, Aug. %.—M. de Reus the former Mnister of the Netherlands nezuela, arrived here at § o'clock ing from the West Indies. go at once to the Foreign Of- fice to report concerning the diffcilty Tack This Up in Your Real Estate Olfice. BASEBALL, ETC. WE LET WANT ADS. IN THE WORLD DO MOST OF OUR WORK. ON’'T HURRY AWAY. MAKE YOUR VISIT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO DISCUSS POLITICS, THE WEATHER, THEY SELL OUR HOUSE, LOT AND FARM BARGAINS SO QUICKLY THAT THERE IS LITTLE LEFT FOR US TO DO EXCEPT WRITE WORLD ADS.,DRAW DEEDS, SIGN CONTRACTS AND TALK PROSPERITY. i een hig Government and President) 25c. Linen Wash Belts, 9¢ White Linen Wash Belts made of Good quality linen in pretty embroid- ered allover patterns and mounted with gilt or pearl bu kles; asc, and some even worth S0c, ESTAoLISHED FIFTY YEARS. en WE SELL MORE REAL LACES THAN ANY OTHER STORE IN AMERICA Ehrich Bros 61H AVE,, 22D TO 23D ST., N.Y. 39c. Bow Pin Sets, 15¢ 4-picce bow Pin Sets, daintily French enamelled in all colors Very pretty se‘s that retail tor 39. regulirly marked special for Wednesday at, per Set, 13¢. Bros|: Our Great Annual This sale has not only proved a record breaker, but has established recor Housekeepers’ Sale s of sales and bargain giving that created wonder in trade circles. These splendid values for Wednesday show that we intend to continue the remarkable values that have 6» far accompanied this sale. No mail or C, 0. D. orders. At prices that hardly cover the freight and cost of delivery. announce these sensational prices for Wednesaay: Cook’s 85c Famous Cork Linoleum, Cook's linoleum, slightly imperfect; reguiar 85c. quality; special to-morrow from 8 to 10 A. M. and 2 to 4P, M, at,a yard, 28, 65c American ve | $1.10 Inlaid ST Oilcloth, Linoleum, yd., American Olieioth, In lengths from 5} Inlaid Linoleum in tile and rant e to 20 yards; and from 2 to 4 P. Ic. $1.75 Axmin $1.45 Velvet Carpets, yd. sed §5¢ Carpets, yd., 69e ra to match: | Velvot ts in hall, room and stair Dae Ste rai mae, veld and | patterns; thie #146 quailty at, «yard, \s21. .98 Body $10, 98 Brusse s Rugs TeTmported to sell at Bi; aietiSk fide $15.98 Brussels $8. v.45) Rugs at Brussels Rugs; and size $xi2; neat pat- coloring: to-morrow terne We are determined to outdo all Remnants $1.50 inlaid Linoleum, $1.98 inlaid Linoleum, yd., 85c Inlaid Linoleum, Imported grade: many neat pattems on special sale to, morrow from § to 10 A. M. and 2 to 4 P. M. at Sc, 95c Brussels Carpet, yd,, 45¢ Wool Brui Carpets in patterns suitable tor, Teng tee toome and stairs; special, a yard, $2.25 Axminster 69¢ s at Axminster Rug, aise 27x54 inches; 6 grate: patterns; o-morrow, each, Thousands of yards of inlaid linoleum {n rem- nant lengths; colors go through to the back; from 8 to 10 A. M, and 2 to 4 P. M., a yard, 29¢, Two Carloads of Linoleum our previous efforts and, the 29¢ 49c Cilcloth, Special, yd., 4c Ollcloth, half yard wide; same qual+ pecial from 8 to # M. and 2 to 4 P. M, at, a yard, 4c Ever Hear of Such Carpet and Rug Prices? 49c Ingrain Carpet, yd., 16¢ cut a well woven; extra Bae at Smyrna Rugs, 6x9; marked for toe Morrow Toweling=——— Extra heavy all linen toweling, with A quality imported All linen finished neat red borders. to sell for 2d¢. that sells for 29c, regu: marked for to 1 larly; marked special morrow only at, Ly SCRCinnndbadiins 2 DOr Be) Table Oilcloth Table Damask 25,000 yards, A quality table damask; just Striped Table ollcloth, 1% yards wide; neat Augustine corsets, of good quality oak patterns and plain batiste; high bust, long back and enough white. Regularly lic. a small waist; garters at- yard; for to-morrow only, tached. $2.00 values; a yard..... teeee 8¢ special ...sesseeveeeee 95e Silk lisle hose, cobweb weight; has a lus: tre that cannot be told from silk; double Children’s ribbed cotton hose, solid black; double heels and toes; sizes 6 to 9, Reg: sucker, soles, heels and toes, ularly 19¢, and 25¢.; regular 65¢, quality; all marked at, a scallop. special, a pair....., if} joogoouudn doocob C special Big —s parasin M 9 $18 Suits, at 4600 A large lot of Men's Suits far Wednesday that have retailed fer $15.00 and $18.00 at $7.50. Made of band- some gray worsteds, nobby choviots, Llack Thibets ~ Men's 's $20 and $25 Suits, fancy _worsteds, vlack Thibats in Men's Suits of the finest serges cassimeres, tweeds, cheviots and all the latest Fail styles of the famous Rochester make, 7 Men’s $4 and 1 98 $5 Trousers, ‘#e Menls Fina ‘Trousers of fine worsteds In nobby styles, About 200 pairs In this lot, and they come tn all sizes from 29 to 50 Welst Boys’ $7.50 to $10 Suits, Suits, tn odd lots of not more all sizes from 7 16 years. Every wad Knee Pante sult the lot ts guaranteed a bargain. th fa syle; $6.25 RED OUTFIT—Censisting of one all- white Enamel Bed, with continuous posts; latest camel-back design; one all-lron spring, double weave, with centre supports, and one soft-top mat- tress, covered In A, C. A. striped tleking. HAIR MATTRESSES, of extra qual- ity soft hair; 40 Ibs. 10 the full size; one or two parts; § 5. 98 | Mest tickings; regu- | forly $12.88; special price . . COMBINATION vo $5. * cotton top, tottom and sides; T-Incn horder and diamond tufted: covered with A. C. A of sateen ticking: made in one or ae pirts; regularly Ltd 9 price ... sBtriped effects; inches wide. 14e, a yard; marked for to-morrow at, a yard..., day, Marked spectal for tomorrow, 9 cakes..., ished with mercerized Curtain Swiss curtain Swiss, in many new 40 Regularly 1 2C Babbitt’s or Kirk man's soap; just to last for one 295¢ Women's washable petticoats, of seer- with deep umbrella ruffle, fin. _d0C 79, at.. values; g.|| $12.98 Outfits, | $7.00 Couch Beds, $1.98 Illustration shows two beds. Frame $s of all steel, gold bronze finished, fuaranterd National springs; outfit Includes 1 distinct mat- tress and 1 bolster; $7 $1, 98 value; special price, | $2.50 RATTAN MATTRESSES, «isag 3.6x6, diamond hor- $x6 feet or tufted and fuil 6-In ders; special price. : 98¢ MATTRESSES, filled with oxcolatar, mixed with rattan, covered wih A. / A. striped ticking ard 1 ¢c $ £8 have 5-Inch border; regu- Jarly £2.98; special price | S12.98 FRLT MATTRESSNHS, perial edge, extra well mie tufted; one or two parts; cholce of any ' ticking; sale price nS, tm. Alnnont $4.98 ae American Ingrain Carpet, the full rolls; 49. grade, at, & yard, $8.98 Smyrna $3. 95. Rugs at thats ‘ ' BABY GIRLISBORNONA | r Peters," a the other tenants in the! The son, who iad yeen reared to BROOKLYN FERRY-BOAT | ' house called him, was sitting In a chair fathers trade, hail olen hout yt q ; = dead, Between lils lips he still held the. Were whony eatatae ‘haan Serer arerne | end of a rubber tube that had been | old man mus ave killed hin ay ji y ney vt out 0 | Mother Was on Her Way to This j Used to connect the gas stove with a Ne ‘lett two notes, | Borough on a Hamilton Avi [eee fh agente orough on a Hamilton Ave- ‘The suicide's name was Henry Peters, baried with ag Utts aue Line Boat, | Which ts also the namo of the son witi| PUDty bie, and the Ona) 4 4 whom he shared the dismal rooms.| we'ghed do n gold rin ten-pound baby gi 7 t hie wa with a worn gold rings as me Aner? Teateave cane Formerly, au a maker of delicate olece] Translated It read as follows: ) i da Anion, -five yi * r . 1 F ee ginal ae navendane could for you | old, of No, 688 Henry street, Brooklyn, cnmreaead of David W ‘arfield g| trical Instruments, he made a fine living} and for the others of my own blood, Weday Whilk Ohe Was “baroure’? id N ? f “land was happy and prosperous, But| but I never got any thanks, So I tell €4 | oraay hla pe tad entire tron pet)| “Music Master” Ended Mise [81 vears ago his wite, a good looking, You good-by., He a good, honest mar Mrs. Gunda was in the woman's cabin | ih ams | pleasure loving woman, took tho boy,! was too wordly and too giddy for such j Perepont Hult a deentioneneent | fortune With Gas, | Henry, Jr, then fifteen years old, and) roar cannot bring myself to toll you ‘unteered their services and the pilot of | | the daughter, Julia, three years youns-| () le 180F or desertion. of ‘ tue. peat hastened to make his Manhat- | er, on a visit to the old home in Ger-| vou take to the rey } | tan many, From the other side the mother) With Bey OUA He) Li There the boat ‘as hel {that I gaye } t e yea og i Free held up uatll an FRIEND STOLE HIS WIFE) | acne the boy back, With him she sent| (tis aft’ He acd f Street Hospital. Mother and {nfant this message to her husband: Hyde NHAPPY PATER, sorentaben there and are getting along “You will never see me or Julla again. ee { 0 pe ‘Lived in Poverty With One Son I have found a man who cares more CYCLIST FALLS 60 FEET: \ for me than you do, and I love him.’ u \ SLAYER STARVED HIMSELF came a Until Life Became a It broke Peters's heart. He lost in-; WIFE HAD SAME ACCIDENT. TO DEATH IN CHICAGO JAIL. Burden ‘terest in his craft and became an in- puis payer idifferent workman, He heard from) pHorNent, —Thomas CHICAGO, Aug. 2—Clayton W, Will-| SNSTE WAL TueaN fe had Joined a aN | hileviva (risk white at the Hams, colored, who raurdered Mrs, | Et, his best | ton of mak! ’ Pe red, who taurdered Mrs. L. B.| tm the makeshift kitchen of a dingy ¢riond, and that after staying a year or! y 0 MAKING TeRae | Briggs recently by beating her over fat on ‘the top floor of the old hous y for at to-day fell to he head with a clair, died of starva- *, two in Germany che pair had returned 1 fon inthe cotinty fail to-day, Will. at No. 08 West Forty-first street a/io America and settled in Chicago, | Su? sro fr ea ams's mind, alread red, zave way human prototype of David Warfeld’s | where they had two children, Peters | St James's Mercy Hospital It was found junder the excitement of toports of the great dramatic creatton of ‘Herr Von |iade no attempt to find the faithless | that both ot legs were broken and jrace war at Springfleid, ll., and the Barwigy ended his life to-day, woman, He wrote to the daughter, | le was intaved int | ninder of Mrs, Brizss’ foliowed. At Bart |Julta, begging her to come to him, but | Hurley hod jus returned from Albany ye Jail he raved continuously, refusing! When his son came home at noon'he never got an answer to see his wife, who f: ng from the |rood and fighting his guards, vafter a vain search for work “Old Mr.| For a year he had been out of work, leffects ot a acoldent, SS ———nana eee ry