The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1908, Page 3

TRAP “HUMPTY JACKSON THROUGH PALIN PRISON —_— — Gang Leader Glares at “Squeal- by er” in Court When Charged With | Robbery. ynn Disobeys Order of Si- © Fence When Taken for Auto | ! | x Ride e“Humpt being a nt of Jackson began a bad ae sted the stdewalk in| Markat this orning charge of stealing a ir coat, $1,000, from the dams xpress Company. by Lawyer. Jefferson Court on the valued at “They got me on one charge of sywip- | 1g from the said “Humpty” + Gallagher, To Policemar who arrested Pibim. “Is this another?” Informed that it was, “Humpty” erled; Bo some one snitched, en?” ) "Humpty's" lawyer, Splegel } protested against the arrest to Magis: | trate Barlow in the Jefferson Market Adams, 3 Louis ) Court. He sai | “I am informed that your probation | Officer, Gallagher, took one of Mr. Jack- gon's fellow prisoners, James Dewey, or f Flynn, around automobile, ac- | WP companied by Mr. Vandiver, counsel for | , the Adams Express Compan. tor | feven or eight hours last night. They | him | Mr entertained the at Mr. Vandiver’s home. Jackson, docs not like the active inter- est of your probation officer, and he thinks this would pr e his case, 1! therefore ask that case be heard by nother magistrate Got Information from Pal, rand My cl prison had ) “Tt is true,” interrupted Vandiver, “that we had Dewey with us for sev- eral ‘pure last night, and as a resukt or: informat he gave us we ar-/| rested ‘Humpty’ Jackson on an adii- | tional complaint of robbing the Adams | Express Company. We have been tn- formed by Dewey, or Flynn, that Jack- fon has stolen $100,000 worth of goods from the Adams Express Company. P fhrough his information we recovered | "nearly $10,000 worth of the stolen prop- erty.” This last statement was like a thur- Gerbolt out of a clear sky Humpty ‘who was crouching against the pris- | ner’s rail, turned his deformed body he left, so that he could look at tha! quealer."” Dewey, whose real name is Fiynn, who was never arrested until he was taken into custody with “Humpty” and three others last week, tourned a Hekly white as he met the glance of the imotorious hunchback “And yesterday,’ continued Mr, Var- | io Giver, ‘Humpty’ gained access to ‘Flynn's cell just before L reached Jef- {ferson Market Court Prison and told Flynn he would be killed if he opened dis mouth.” , “Yesterday Offtcer Gallagher came to Ime and said that Mr. Vardiver asked |him to make a certain Investigation, the nature of which I was not cognizant of jat the time. I granted the request and jesued an order placing Flynn in Officer )Gallagher’s custody. Last night 1 was standing in the dour of the Metropolitan Opera-House and he told me. he had completed the itvestigation, I see no teason why the case should be heard by nether maristrate.’* Jerome Was Consulted. “I consulted District-Attorney morning,” said Mr, Jerome Vandiver tt my motion for & change of said Jackson's lawyer, “In view the special privileges accorded to Mr. fandiver, who even went to the extent entertaining the prisoner, Flynn, at his own home, I think that it is only in Justice to my cilent that it be granted. ny one of the other sixteen magis- rates will sult me. Personally I have Ino objection to Your Honor hearing this ase.” 20 you appear for Flynn?" asked Mr, ndiver * sald Splegel said Mr. Vandiver, ‘no n Flynn in the nine days in prison, In despair he He gave $2 to Jackson to but he has never seen Mawyer has se e has been ent for me. ngage a la e lawyer, S!'Do you want Mr. Spiegel to appear you?’ asked tha Court ure,’ said Flynn, he matter of the conviction of these fendants is of vast importance to the said Magistrate Barlow son, from wha of him and know of him through s, 1§ A Menace to soctety, If, nat Of this menace to society, for him and the other de- fendants ask for a change of venue, Tl rant dt But it is certainly an’ ex- ‘ordinary proceeding Mr. Vandiver then who was on mat charge of robbing the eas Company, he held in $0" bail on | je short affidavit charging him with je theft of the $1,000 furscoat, Magis- | te Barlow, in transferting. the cases Magistrate Krotel, who will sit Inthe Het Court to-morrow’ night, fixed ball 000 in “‘Humpty's" case. Mir, Vandiver then called hey Jerome on the wi rmission for. Maxistrate arole Fiynn in his (Mr ody till to-morrow night. ee HRISTMAS RIDE AT DURLAND’S BIG SUCCESS ‘The crowd’ was so large part of the Mring was given over to the boxes, at the twenty-first annual Christmas ride nd masquerade at the Durland Acad- femy iast night. The event eclipsed anything before altempied along the ame line, ‘The decorations were beau- Uful and the crowd fashionable and thusiastic. , More than’ 100 men part in the brilliant yQuerade, commanded by Charles FH uss, Mis. S, 1. Watton won the @ilver (rophy ‘fcr the handsomest cos Htume, and Mrs. Von Kiein the pri for the inost comical, Before the close of the ride W. HH. Miller drove into the ring in front of @ huge Christmas ivee, and each participant received from Mim’ @ silver souvenir, Miss Margaret Weyner won for stalls, wn J in race.’ V. Me: s pony Bu F. won the in aiid out rave, and John) VDay the steeplechase, n'a game of lo the Wandevers won from. the rlands, Willian Carr won much ape | Sy the clown in the stone wail | Ive asked that 1 under the | Adams Ex- District-At- | and obtained Harlow to Vandiver's) | and women took rand Entree Mas- the race the mani- | well |can be self-supporting | without Injury to her unborn child. That | THE EVEN mw oeny - sme a panna bee poesia eke ING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 381, 1908 | “Self-Support for an American The Happiness of Her Home, Say o4e- She Combats Mrs, Gilman's Theory That Woman Who Depends on Her Husband Is a Slave. PEACE IN CARING FOR HUSBAND AND CHILDREN “The Woman Who Wanis to Be a Man Should Wait Till Her Next Incarnation.” Nixola Greeley -Smith. “The woman who wapis to be @ man should watt un- her next incarnation. Then possibly her wish might ve realized at the expense of no one elée.” So Mrs. Henry Siegel, society woman and mother of two of the most beautiful young girls that have appeared in New York in recent years, answered me yesterday when I asked her what she thought of the charge of Mrs. Oharlotte Perkins Gilman that “the wife who ie self-supporulng is @ slave.” A woman slave is not a wife,” Mrs. Gilman said be- fore the American Sociological Society, now in session at Atlantic City. “The economic dependence of the wor militates against true marriage, love being commercialized and the fami Jured, The higher marriage toward which we are striving requires a full- grown woman, no one’s property or servant, self-supporting and proudly independent. I saw Mrs. Stegel in her beautiful home, at No. 26 East Eighty-second Sureet, under conditions of unusual distress. Her daughter, the Countess Dentice de Frazzo, known to be in Southern Italy during the earthquake, had not been heard from since the catastrophe, and inquiries by cable and through the State Department had so far been without avail. In fact it was only the hope that I brought news of her daughter that led Mrs. Siegel DRINKING A PINT UF SWEET WINE ewer tt said: “No wife is a slave except to a God- given duty, that of car!ng for her hus- band and children. She who does that Alfonso Drawbone Broke Off Neck of Bottle While Step- father Was Absent. is more than self-supporting, for By not she contributes to the welfare of the en-| tire race instead of merely safeguarding her own, | Flies Off at a Tangent. | “Mrs Gilman files off at a tangent,” continued Mrs. Siegel. “She lets mere ab- tract ethical considerations blind her to woman's first duty, which ie not to her- | self but to her children. No woman} after marriage is the only argument necessury to refute M Gilman. ia n some few individual instances Mnancia! independence might develop the wife's personality to her own advantage, but ft would always be at the cost of her home. If women follow thelr natu- Mother Risks _ |{IUIAN RUSSELL TO PUBLISH HER LOVE LETTERS 7 Has Full Th Some Serious and Some s Mrs. Siegel runks of m, Funny. DID YOU WRITE Heart Throbs Will Be Ex- posed to the World Litian well haw another surprise | A rma) Dsemont tire which poured aj Mins Fllmbeth Thomas, a writer af in store for her friends and the publle [dense volume of smoke through the six-/ Some note, is in Washington to-day 6 Has Just announced that the love |*tory tenement at No. 91 Hidge street. spending New Year's eve with her par etters which ehe has received during {this morning discloxed that the fire-es- ents, who are well-known in society at her long and wonderfi) stage career Capes were cluttered with every concelv- the capttal. Before Miss Thomas took | dak 2 > ies r will be published within a short time. /able utensil and obstruction that cowd @ train for there yesterday, however, . Ve Fee: Y . In between performances of “Wildfire be piled on them. That more than one fhe hat some excitin ae ures in) jel $18,000 worth of jewelry a hand- | Mis Russell is busy arranging the let- {hundred women and ehidren managed) pag arated with bills ava tw maak { ters for publication, ‘Thetr number ts | to eseape oN) » smother of amoke | quarters detectives played a pa fon, and ulrendy the beautiful actress | py way of the rear fire-escupe of the| Miss Thomas, who lives at the Rute as decided to divide the epistles into pufiding was due to the herole efforta|jand apartment house at No. 38 West wo volumes, one of a serous nature, of Patrolman George Pate: Fifty-seventh street, lost her jewels ‘ther of a humorous turn, fer was passing the house when he |and money for an t 1 5 ; r ; aud money for an hour and then found That the letters will make interesting | saw smoke belch out of the basement |them again. It happened like this reading gues without saying, for no one land heard the cries of “Hire!” ting! The authoress had arranged to take on or off the stage, has been the re- the building. Only stopping to!the % o'clock train for Washington and of more attention and admira- tn a call, he dashed back to the shortly before that hour she and her tion than the eternaliy youthful Lian tonement two mialds took a taxteab from the Rut- Russell. By the publishing oe pees Crush at Fire Escapes. Jand to the Twenty-third street ferry of tera the actress will give the pu The fire was in the storeroom of the Pennsvivanta Raltroad. knowiedge of her Jove affairs, the num: her and fervency of which have kept the world gaping for many a year Saved All That Were Sent to Her. “pver since I first went on the stage live saved all the letters that were writ ten to me, and I have trunkfuls of thom," Mise Russell said in explaining her purpose. “Pm going to puhsh many of the beat in two volumes. One volume will absurd, hence delictous, letters I have | AGAINST POLICE. | Soe) delicious letters) bere : : | Yr A chile travelling I gather | (Continued trom First Pagey | AGAIN SMASHE every tad) and while travelling 1 eusher day and read them out. They are & the bud,’ and to do this without war- eye rants, enter with force and remain there Offered His All—$25 Per. Jas long as they deem {t necessary to | «gor instance, one young man, badly Combi). Saleiae Gy ett Ot) svat smitten, out in Kansas, wrote me, baring ng that If they deem misdemeanors are being com. his bieeding heart and de i d have ery cent he mitted or are Itkely to be committed,” | - {iid be Wiad) should nave evel caste the Justice says. | Week! ‘But there were ‘nrogpectal’ | i h amains } 8 i o 4 A er man, in Bulfalo. this time, pauclicen Become Wrengdechs mel RemMAins iNPAITee yt OUTSaNclO)mAnethermman mineisuite eM aoee Bhe duty of pollce officers is fixed . 3 store; that it was a ‘nice, clean bust- and defined by law, and when they act Minutes and Practically hesw:! that if ['@ settle down with bim contrary to their duty they become : I might aspire to become co-manager of his ‘clean’ business and thus be rescued from a very different one on the stage. | He really and sincerely was out to save me froni the hell of the stage! Covers 90 Miles. Iselves. It ig an essential of tree gov- wrongdoers and violators of law tien official is himself | ‘ernment that every is ral duty, that of caring for their hus-| When Tonlo Sessa, driver for &! subject to the law and that none are) ) 2 \y.xe Gepance, Dec, 71.—Whhur | This Came From Pittsburg y will find peace| Wholesale Niquor house in Williams- | apove che law. r x bends amd vehildren.iUey wiliene so. 19 S| Wright, the American aeroplanist, beat “A Pittsburger gave me a always, if not happiness. burg, left his home, No. 19 Skillman; “4 misdemeanor must be committed | 'Y , mperean laehgulentataitee tl Macaw eINebur eae ayer alata ten tio “Possibly some women may possess| Venue, to-day, he took with him his tn the presence of an officer, to give | tl) Previous aeroplane reoor yi Pe Sto his need, sald he was married, in bad the souls of men and therefore find|little stepson, Alfonso Drawhone, seven | nim authority to act; mere, even rea- Ge ae with am tea ftp ees health Mt about to Nowe hls Jon, He oe ta q 1 ; c! 1 . 4 iH asted for two hours and nine minutes. wanted a vacation and wrote p themselves miserable in the frames of (Years old. The boy perched beside his gonanje suspicion, that a misdemeanor iu wante aerate iE women, Let them wait then for some|#tepfather on the seat of the truck, future incarnation, when this error will be rectified, and |: ead of being the inspiration of their husbands and moth- ers of beautiful children they will real- ize their crowning ambition and become police captains and ward politielons. Imperil Thei> Happiness. “If they endeavor to live the lives of men now, it must be at the jeopardy of about Williamsburg delivering wine for the New Year's festivities When the wagon was empty they went back to the liquor store and Sessa bade he Alfonso remain on the truck loaded it for another trip. oase of wine he brought out while The fir was an hour before he completed hia load. thefr homes and children and at the} eee ee eines last case out he peril of their own happiness. linatlasaleiasetaittie Gee IRR cent “A great many women follow the Will-| friong the boxes. Ike called to the o'-the-wisp of theory and are led into} 1 \r{ child, but received no answer, and when social and ethical quagmires, whens if] h6 rook hold of Alfonso he was horror- they followed the light of their own) goyen at the sight of the little fel- firesides, they would find happiness and) 104. face, Tt was blue, hia eves seemed peace. Nine times out of ten the wife! starting from their sockets and the boy who works means the child that works. | couidn't speak Surely a woman contributes more to the Beside him was a pint bottle which race by caring for and educating hes} nag contained a cheap, sweet Italian children to be honorable men and wom-| wine ‘and the top of which Alfono naa en and useful citizens than by continu-| avigentiy knocked off. The child. had ing after marriage a self-support which and for a couple of hours they drove cient opened one, and it was nearly half an/ | He covered officially a distance of sev- | send me $40 for thre: a pec ed is not sum jet a vacatio dome $00 and T la about to be committed 1s not sue ee einen nis, dit Aw n. matter of wea vacation, Send ane $8 and I ipeicename aan let june | fact, counting the wide curves, he made | bad.’ That is ridiculous enough, but it | “Police oMcers have no right, with= | over ninety miles. Mr. Wright's feat | isn't even a sample of some of them. Tout @ warrant, to enter upon private| the more remarkable hacauae of the |K But 1 lave also recolved thousands |property, such as dwellings or club- "as the mo ase of beautiful letters thom, xreat and de. pause they suspect th az |ntense cola tinguished persons who have be demennt ech muy pe ca ta ‘jms singing and acting, and’—she did therein. syant M. Barthou as a |) *hor beauty, but she meant It. Miss “It would be dificult to imagine a 8s | Russell ts refreshingly mor | > a | more odious form of oppression than DSTRBVTES GIFTS. SEE RAL IN JL Spanish Inquisition law, a most daring attack upon the liberty of subject. | “The act of the police in entering the Two Thousand Baskets Given “He Beat My Girl, and She’s to Families 'Who Live clubroom of the club is without justi- | | fication unless they can point to the law | j which sanctions it. If there is no such jlaw, and none has been cited, then ‘the | silence of the books’ is an’ authority | | against the Police Department.” False Idea of Their Rights. a Going to Die,” Taylor Ex- taken the bottle from the opened wine| ‘At common Jaw the King had no Salers Aste Re 4 unfits her for motherhood. FT AE a LE rath OLE cation cher ote South of Canal Street. plains in Police Court. "Mrs. Gilman says ‘the home is a] tenra [house of the humblest. sub) ston the | H mere clon that he had’ committer —. place where the man has his meals Sessa screamed for help, but while he or was Sah to commit, a crini® Th 7 ay pct, || cooked and served by the woman; she is etl} held Alfonso in pis arms the boy nor of this State has n such Ww n the business of the New York Sam Taylor, a six-foot, jet-biack West his servant. This 1 a very narrow view. | became unconscious, The man ran to It seems, however, that in the | Produce Exchange stopped at 1.90 to-\ ain Secale San ar aa aa we AOLYONG TUHRA Nery x his home, which is near by, and Dr. | opinion of these derendant police oft | proce Exchange stops i Indian negro, entered Keeper Alfred Warriage $s an association, @ partner |Mtraone, or No. 667 Lorimer etrest came Chmion of these defendant police offt- aay there were Reveral hundred children yatta ome in the West Side Prison ship, In whieh each partner performs) in a hurry, but Alfonso was dead be- actions of kings and Kovernors are but about the doors walting for their yearly jto-day and asked to see George Dixon fore the physician arrived Dr. Virdone said death alcoholism. “The wine was sweet and agreeable to the little fellow's taste,” he said, ‘but his heart wasn’t strong enough to stand the sudden effect of so much alcohol.” ——__—_ KOENIG'S FRIENDS TRAVEL TO ALBANY the service for which he or she is most ted for their mutual good. “Only in fulfilling her God-given duty to her husband and her home," Mrs. Sie- gel concluded, “can @ woman find peace, Gnd it is a ‘peace with honor to all{ womanhood —__—_»—__—— ACID IN EGG SHELLS THROWN AT DRIVER a was due to| Fopes of wand to a New York policeman. | presents from the members of the EX-| who was arrested yesterday: hey seem to imagine that because | n eA ae SE free | change - “Have you a permit?” asked Hall, from all ‘constitutional restraunt und) In all between 1.5 and 2,00 baskets | offore ft in,” answered the negro, and have a commission that entitles them | were given out to families and children, necaneed a permit aigned by the Com- to rove at will Into the private houses, | vy ere a epee produced a permit sig Clubs or places of business of citizens, | WMO reside south of Ca ere | missioner of Corrections Tt cannot’ be too, often reiterated that | were family baskets and baskets for| "stave you got @ gun or a knife or a they have no such right. the girls and boys. nant “Phe act of Capt. Post in forcibly en- ae Diemer fee iPass : ; tering the clubrooms of the Fairmount | In the family basket which was given | «pord, 1 ain't got nothin’, ‘boss,"" said Kinietle Club with a squad of policemen|to mothers were a can of soup, four|payior. “T Just want to soa my trien'.! rrant of arrest was an and without aw pounds of steak, one quart of p Hall was about to allow the negro act in defiance of the law ‘impr tan be no question as to the|? Pint of onlons, one pound of mixed|tq pass when he suddenly decided to illegal cl the acts committed |sandy, a pound of sugar candy, one|paye him searched, Taylor objected Oe tine kn Iniunstion Ieneveanars |Pownd of Kranulated sugar. SIX apples, | but when the prison keeper clapped and T grant an Injunction restrain ix oranges, one-half p afeicaiteadll hanaliatina aneniamhinipaaketiie tale them from entering the clubroom8|q can of milk, t Neerotinncea HE er He-rr arity PN ae Pee without a warrant or entering to make. °O0 Oy 0 ng 88-callbre revolver, fully loaded. Tay rrests for alles Two men, supposed to be strikers, are! Hundreds of Republicans trom the lower committed or attempted In thelr prear) In the baskets malo ware riven, to tor wax aera aaa being sought by the police to-day east side will be in Albany to-morrow °?% ne. Boy BDA OS AOUCY BBRLER:) ROKge TUESH: WOM 10: Rented te hurling egg shelis filled with carbolic|t gee that Samuel S. Koenlg receives, TfY!n@ to Suppress These Clubs. one-half pound of mixed candy, one! see, is also a negro, and was arrested acid at James McGregor, @ chauffeur, | proper honors whoa he 1s ushered into , the Jecision granting the Injunction pound of sugar candy. (wo apples, four charged with beating Amanda Berk employed by the New York Cab Com-|o¢tice as Secretary of State, Baked fen ce sambury aaye 4 oranges, @ baseball and a jackknife. |tey, a negress, with a club last night y. oar 1 yay vit of an Inspector of Pol girls were given @ pair of roller in her room, at No, 241 West Ninet pany Several automobiles belonging to pros- | An affidavit of an Inspector of T e! The gl A MeGregor said he. was driving a enb |peroun enst aiders, incliting the 40 Avera tat We properly eiforce the wy /akaten, ane Nolf pound of mise candy, ninth atreet. ‘The wornan ts In m how nue, last night when the men threw the |horse-power car of Jacob Lesser, aro frequently. to make inspections to asces- |One Pound at war eandy, two apnien pital and max not lve Dixon was missiles, lie dodged, and whipped up {already en route with flaring banners, tain whether the law is being evaded, |@ workbox, four oranges and a do held by Magistrate Cornel hin horse, ‘Then he detected the odor of | rooting horna and floral ploces and the polior complain that the City | Following thy ribution of the ba: An the SN BIRR OTe arore the he acie a, cing ds strates will not ald them in violat- |, Paella antanalimant ena a pion wae ArrAlansy hefore. the the cab wi Ieave at midnight to-night In six \UMrhue Inspector Thompson swears that band concert wos given ‘The tekets and Dixon were tals fo k Se ee ae ishing itm a gose (ay coaches. Hosides the delegation (the eee tie eee or ae ete chien aad Chutiabie co“Inixon beat up. my wir)" sald Ta Gescription of the men. eight immense floral horseshoes will be Gity Magistrates requiring specific evi- | organizations lor, rng, “an's she's goin’ t carrie e ® v . ch dt is extremely diticult to] During the afternoon fifty child die ee arrled on the rear platform of the end dence, which i sisi who attend Cilldren'e Ba —_— var, very frank declaration throws | Side 'Sehoo Henty. ate B "We deckied to keop the Sawara out cri ita the wine substan naw tien | mice, monook at wo. AM ones alr PETRIFIED WHALES ON HILLS egili in the alt a0 they would by frosh,” waid tinsiderntion. 1 shows that the paler |mabfies, owned by nimbers'o¢ tha'ias | LONG BEACH, Cal, Dee, 8 Petr 5 gon wi are engaged essing hese |change, All were given presents. fled remains of huge whales on the hi THE NEW YEAR Herma Sehwarts, tiabes ani tt alwo their in [cops overlooking the ocean near Ban ; “We were golng to buy the flowers in patience with the city max! tes who | 32 euro Pea eines 1 oa With Albany, but finally devided to patron- aire unwilling to conyiet without specific | denying tn unetions to the Nat nat |! ogre I the remariable find whieh Len district florists, #0 as to keep evidence: i 4 1 | Atheltte f lane wenty fourty | asadena, has mae. Many heads and TOLSTOY. He Abe GIG COCA 88. 8 y Shwe have nat vet reached the, point |atmmet, “and the Tucker A Ce ee ear Beh oysp tar pitir Waa fered His "Daily Prayer The Feleral Chib, of Koentz’s home dispenses with the necessity, for it 7 Justice McCall, makes it plain in aj complete, i Book" or “Cycle of district, 160. strong, the Hungarlan impatience of the police with the City | vcry brief de hat ea With ie Headings,” covering all Foung! Mena Amoclation, with the Magisiraten, whe metually roquige ext: | Tuatiee eabury’n view ae given above. | LEADER PRENTICE RESIGNS, : _ Royal Hungarian Pand, ia ‘also to pro dence before they con vic i very but that the two cnses mowere | pera P, Prenticn has resigned as Re- Mterature and th wighit, ceed to Albany and will be accampan- strongly to the necessity ror the inter ased on different gro’ that the Tha PALE AITO TI NA Will beyin in Phe Byen- fed by the Maurice Graffff Association, vention of a Court of Equity events, which It wus songiit’ to protuct | publican leader of the " i 01 0: ‘ow, ri >} ‘deail, @ar ' ) interference are past. and adds | sembly District, and to-night his suc ng W id nerraws Heliem Bigu. Heney 8. Dirdeall, Sam; Justice McCall's Views. at “should any legal acts be thre casor, Alderman Tristan P, Johnson Ane SentaNe 2 Schwatts, Jeading Republicans of MMe! Simultaneously wich Justice Seabury’s | ened or attempted In the future the re- | will be elected, Mr, Prentice Is to he a dally, ‘ " 0 i vision tn favor of these three clubs, rellef can be speedily Deputy Attorne eral in charge of ‘sixth,’ ‘wilt protveed AlbanyWard | decision in fay p with thel Wives. P| Justice McCall Handed down an order the’ New York offic % UTTERED FRE ESHPESIMPERL NES AT BLIZ Refuse and Furniture Piled on Balconies Cut Off Flight in Panic. to Roof and Down Ladder to Next House. Neestadter Brothers, who have a eta- tionery shop on the ground floor of the | butlding, and the smoke that went up Into the narrow hallways was black and stiming, The frenzied women nd ehildren first attempted to “mht their way to the front fire escapes and some jof them had bec Jamined there when Pater went to guide them. The smoke ‘was all in the front of the house and the situation looked dangerous. The big pollceman managed, however, to drive the frightened persons to the rear fire-es where he found diffi- culty clear the platforms. They were luttered from the first to the top land- ge with rrels, baby carriages, ex- press Wagons, mattresses, igeboxes and jal manner of gear, Furthermore, the jwells were boanded over. Pater liad to ash these obstructions with hie clib and force the panto- stricken tenants to flee to the root in- ad of down to the basement, where the fire was sending out its thickening \oolls of smoke. | Dragged Fugitives to Roof. ards Pater had to do some fanning with his club, but at last managed to clear a way and drag the women and children, old men and babies up to the roof, Theré the panic Increased jwhen it was found that on one side was a two-story drop to the next roof and Jon the other sid fifteen feet. Pater was qual to the emergency and, dropping to the roof of No. 98 Ridge street, he got a fire escape ladder from the rear of that building and put 1p to where the shrieking crowd | Was marooned. Then he brought them Jal down without mishap, and’ by that time the firemen had begun to drown out the blaze in the Had_ ne he fire be the yuld undoubtedly of life. ‘BOY DRIVER DYING AFTER A RUNAWAY Sis s gee Frightened by an Auto- ay To hurry the lagi na slo condition of the fire escapes -burning have caused con- mobile, Dashes Down Eighth Avenue. A horse attached to a grocery wagon driven by William Behrens, sixteen years old, and owned by Henry Ing- mann, of No. 106 West Sixty-thind street, took fright to-day at a puffing automobile in Columbus Circle, and |dashed down Highth avenue | The street was crowded, hut Behrens succeeded in avoiding a colitsion till he reached Fifty-third street, where the elevated structure crosses the avenue. |The wagon struck a pillar, throwing Hehrens out on his head and scattering groceries in every direction ‘The horse was stopped ther on orgeant st Side Court squad. Elis turned the horse over to a bystander and sum- moned an ambulance for Bebrens, At he Roosevelt Hospital t was said Beh- rens's skull was fractured and he would Ale. a tow fect Ellis, of the ~—o THE BARRIER! ‘The strangest barrier ever ratsed be- tween two lovers’ hearts 1s described by Rex Beach in @ thrilling romance, The Barrier,” which will run serially n The Evening World, beginning Mon- day, Jan. 4. Read it i | BOATMAN DROWNED, The body of Martin Van Alpert, a soatman, of Staten Island, who has en mussing since last Monday, was | recovered to-day at tha foot of wave street, Stapleton START THE — NEW YEAR RIGHT BY ORDERING A SUPPLY OF Evans Ale N $18,000 FOR AFEW HOURS SNe BaP Bitop Hotines, | AUTHORESS LOST 1 GEMS i) a Miss Thomas Called in Detec- tives to Chat With Her Maids and oe —— Taxicab Driver. HER? WELLS BOARDED OVER. II (EN SHE ‘REMEMBERED,’ Well, the Expression of Your Heroic Policeman Helps Crowd | Jewels and Handbag Full of Money Are Found in the Bathroom, When she alighted from the cab Mise Thomas opened her valise, in which she expected to find her bag of jewels and her pu » but to her consternation they were not there. Miss Tiiomas almost in ears, ordered the taxicab driver to eed back to the Rutland, Before she left the ferry-house, however, she tele- phoned to Police Headquarters, and at the Rutland Detectives. Donahue. and Thomas. two of the smartest men {n the Sixth avenue branch of the Detective Bureau, met her. Third Degree for Three. Miss Thomas told and they went with ment, where the two maids and the taxicab driver were put through ug gruelling cross-examination. 1 While a erioy were protesting their nnocence Miss Thomas suddenly | ed eo her feet Belen |_ Stop one moment, gentlemen, please,” | she exclaimed. “"T think—1 believer am almost certain” — She vanished through the portleres |while the amazed detectives “and. thes | frightened maids gazed after her. She jreturned In a few minutes, one hand full of glittering, flashing jewels and | the other clasping a purse, ve found them," she cried, ly, “and I'm ever so sorry jyou all this trouble, but jmow. ‘Thank you ‘so much | "Ono moment, Madame," sald Dono- |hue, but T should like to know a few. |more details. “Where a more. e did you find them of her loss hor to her apart joyous- to have given it's all right Miss Thomas Blushed. Miss Thomas blushed - pies blushed and looked em. “Well,” she stammered, “the fa I-I_you seo I was taking a path ana | I laid my jewels on a shelf in the bath- room. My purse I left on a bureau, and quite forgot it in my hurry. Please |thank the inspector or chief or whor jover it was who sent you here and say I'm very sorry to have been so much trouble—good bye.” and bowing sweetly, Miss Thomas told one of the maids % | show the detectives out, | Miss Thomas caught a later train, SHOT BY ROOMMATE, DES HOSPITAL Herman Goss, who was taken from No. 2% Washington street, Christmas morning suffering from a gunahot wound tn the chest, died in the Hudson |Street Hospital to-day. Fritz Stelling, the Janitor of No. 27 Washington street, |1s tn custody, charged with the shoot jing. They say Goss identiged the pris | oner as his assailant hefore he died. Goss, for three days before the shoote ling, Mved with the prisoner at the | Washington street address. The two men had a row over some matter, and Stelling 1s accused of firing a shot trom a .22-callbra revolver at Goss, Policeman Robert McNish arrested the janitor and charged him with felont- ous ‘assault, which will now be changed to hometclde, ‘The prisoner is in the Tombs and Coroner Dooley is making @ fuxther investigation Late hours are less trying when one drinks White Rose C ylon Tea A 10c. Package makes 40 Cups, LYDIA E. _PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. oer svc MAAKUL REMEDY VOR Pe ie aN uN WORLDS CASH OM CAMDIT, Poet iat ay ogy Ma 8 Maiden sane. Cart, |