The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1909, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1909 No American Except in Consulate Known to Have Died, Says M Mr. Griscom (Bpectal Cable Despatch to The Evening World) ROME, Jan. 1.—Replying to your telegram, would state that | have received telegrams requesting information concerning seventeen Amerti- can citizens, supposed to be at Taormina. The names given are Mrs Herbert, Morris May, D. Deahart, May Sherman, Margaret Mendell, Mrs, Martha Kittridge and daughters, Ethel and Clarissa, Lillian and @lizabeth Wiggin, Elizabeth Pittield, Henrietta L. Stadleman, John B. Wright and wife, Miss Florence, Bayard Kane, Miss Moss, Miss Eleanor Wood and Florence Clarke. T have just been officially informed by the Foreign Office that Taor- mina has escaped without injury. No report has reached Rome of any American private citizens be> ing killed or injured. The Italian Government has recetved no official information as to condition at our Consulate, but there are three reports from different sources that Consul Cheney and Vice-Consul Pierce and Vice-Conaul- elect Hudton and their families have perished. 1am endeavoring also to obtain information conrerning Episcopal Bishop David Sessios and daughter, of Louisiana, supposed to be at Messina. The wires to Sicily are clogged by Government messages, and private telegrams do not pass through. The magnitude of the disaster continues to be verified. T leave for Messina to-day to search for Americans in the earth: quake zone, ‘ The Foreign Ofmce considers that 100,000 dead {s not exaggerated, Foreign relief is badly needed, and the Italian Government has decided to accept all foreign ald. GRISCOM. the work of destruction. The tottering family, the Duke of Aosta Wa (A ant Ne the seene, 4 i ierc se collapsed devotin walls of the Pierce house collap Wee ie on and the entire family was buried De jas yjej neath the ruins. hin yimer Si tin Mr. Pierce was the Messina corre: a rae uttered. nee a spondent of the Associated Press. of the aides with him strophe, indeed, — is Griscom Takes Action. scourge fron ROME, Jan. 1—The first cheerful en eee longe penal ule : news since the devastation of Cala: All hope of saving any of these bria and Eastern Sicily by earth sed sine: quake and tidal wave last Monday is ust We was received to-day by the Minister of Marine. A despa from the Worse, if ndition is poss wounded In Vlew conditions the commander of the torpedo-boat sent eriment hax decided to cor ( ’ posthaste to verify the report that points wher the Lipari, or Aeolian Islands, had SSE keoeaiee af {He davnabete m been engulfed and all of the popula: te'fitory, and it is hoped that In tht become Ing th way serloux epidemics can be avoided tion, some 28,000 persons, annthil- Fighting Pestilence, ated, brought the grateful informa: The colossal emjgrant steamships , that for years past have been { vhile a : 3 past have been en tion that while the islands had ex- | jy transporting the surplus population perienced the earthquake only a few Of Calabria and Sletly to the four cor- ners of the world, but especially to the buildings have been demolished and Halley jptates, are to-d: | ployed in removtr no lives have been lost. ugees to DlaneavOE RE rery But otherwise, the story coming| Kegel nelle lay being em- ittle remains—heaps of shattere of the previous recitals of devasta-| sonry covering edu lone ded ined tion, sorrow, suffering, starvation} ty prevent’ the ara fiuieck ‘ The system of gathering and horror. vivors on C Griscom Starts Search. steamers Lioyd C. Griscom, the American alll Gn i I solve: one of 4 Ambassador, has decided that he had| {yonte better not go to Messina personally’ Imposs ble to shore. at present, as he had planned. Hej are r ed, th tles—namely, th. the land ace filling up witi will await the expected arrival of the °),1,," pvaretean jpeate Kg American battle ship fleet, now ap- tury jays! Tatlone for a ful ger list oway proaching Suez from the Red Sea in oe Por cata fin the stricken district. The warships d best ultimately be lar " fs feeding, how probably will get to Messina next, applies ‘ors of R week. Mr. Griscom will then go to Sh Mess OCA the south j where it Is The Ambassador this m prune sent! e patring, The Landis, the American Military At| be ssible to Kindle t jority have but tattered rags for tache; Bayard Cutting, jr. the Amer-| clothing: {ean Vice-Consul at Milan; Winthrop! peg eit Chandler, of Philadelphia, and the tn. the de terpreter of the Embassy, with full insiructions concerning the methods to be adopted in the search for Amer. tlone tha ave been destr 000. Wh {eans supposed to have been in Si i ing. oe and Calabria at the time of the earth-| Two angels of aMeseys) The Ambassador has communicated | treat th to the (rovernment the receipt of a Europe, t contribution for Of) $50,-) 0, RS paar 000 from the American Red Cross, well as a first contribution of $20,000 from the C ian Herald. nacions have been received with th highest app: At Taormir iation s are spending the winter, at the town escaped with it is s : CIC an, who has taken ever Americans Give Aid. from practical, pecunia American and tourists who ear tion for the s 1 Teedy they have given splendid a tance to the sufferers, and thelr have called forth than admiration and gratitude. | The headquarters of t are at ( dina Messina comm Hill noble wom Taormina d «| ARCHBISHOP FARLEY | ORDERS COLLECTION ‘or of the injur lehurches to-day at | A 1 Calabria th King and Qiieen Still Active The our ts, wh ave reache The King and Queen Ita a up tot tinue t was onc asters day is lated reg of unfortuna the ruins of the The presence of Italy in the str done much to infuse ¢ different relief commitices the means at the disposal eue work ers are hel, The Queen looks from is exhau: uhe has witn strongly. She w on more than one ered the hands Woman with her tears | ‘The King desired the Queen to return | { to Rome, but this she ref saying | he could not » from thinking of the miseries of her subjecta By re. | maining on the spot she feels she can | @0 something to relieve the general is pilgrimage along w i ‘1 ae the beautiful and smiling |in ¢ eof cat pls ‘| sw the terrible scenes affected y. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Apother member of the royal | ised sverw Con of agg ROT. Used Crowd Watching Sixty-seven Long-Distance Runners Start in Twenty-six Mile Yonkers Marathon Race To- Day ‘The me has come four days that aster: must Joned. AML our vd to earing for otherwise SES OOO NECKLACE. OF RARE PEARL - LOST BY SHOPPER Ir, Parser Offers $2, 000 Re- ward and Asks Police to | Seek Wife’s Jewels. Dr. George D, Hamien, a wealthy phy- jsician, who Ives In handsome apartments hat 60 Central Park West, has asked the Police Department to help find a handsome pearl necklace, yalued by him | at $45,000, which his wife lost yesterday /afternoon during a shopping toum Tite fany’s has been authorized to pay ar | ward of $2,000 for the return of the mise | ing Jewels, | The necklace is described as being made up of six rare Persian pearls of the weight of one grain each, and sixty- one Australian pea graduated In weight from to seven grains each, jall praotically perfect as to shape and | color and all spheriods except one large ‘oblong pearl, which was worn as a pendant in front, The string fastened at the back with @ Tiffany gold button set with @ flne diamond of one and a half carats. Wire String Was Chafed. ; Just before Mrs, Hamlen left her j home, yesterday afternoon at 2.0, ~her | mata clasped the necklace about her | throat over her street dress, but amtel the fure she wore, gitl remarked that the silk-covered wire upon which ‘the pearls were strung appeared to be badly chafed at @ potnt near the button and-told her mistress so. Mrs, Hamlen 1 (0 stop at a jeweller’s and | aU With w new one, t Hee With woman frlend she visited ;Sterns’s, Schwartz's und Le Boutillier’s FAL Twenty-third street shops, and the Went to the Cafe Ma at roadway and Twenty-slath street, before diving | FIRE ON STEAMER PERIL TO PASSENGERS jSavannah Department Sends Aid to Texas, Burning, Near That City, SAVANNAH, Ga,, Jan, 2—With sev- enteen passe ‘@ aboard the Norwe- gian steamer Texas, from Christiania for Havana, when five miles below Sa-~ yannah, early to-day, caught fire, The flames were discovered in the after hold. The Savannah fire department sent apparatus to fight the blaze. Capt. Peterson commtands the veasel BABYS ITCHING ‘WAS INTOLERABLE Girl of Six Months had Fearful Attack of Eczema—Spread All Over Her Face and Eyes Began to Swell—Scratched Till Blood Came— Relieved in a Night and ——— CURED BY CUTICURA AFTER LONG SUFFERING —_.+-__. “When my little girl old I noticed small’ red any attention to loc eh uealiek \ em vt finally the | ta fe Fpots grew 69 large a) thatI sent for the doo Oe tor who gald ip was ot reworm, He pre- oribed an ointment trate its injured to lve proper 1 survivors also YONKERS - Wis i us wi Vors-and ref. Messina and Ypical southern cities | and the other tn from the south to-day is a repetition} Calabria, are to-day no more. What AMERICANS CABLE NEWS OF SAFETY. huge emigrant put into effect aul is problems that ” ing the people. If it t¢ found as: the refugees on nodations the wound- ed on board Usual Reception. In_ the inland villages surro inding te t ADT nE sul others from cope of Governor's Powers, $100,000 TO FUND. possible form hep or actual x to the kindest’ demonstrations Ay ND CONG? mS WITH GAS U:NE IN THE CHURCHES. | The following letter from Archbishop | Farley to the pastors of the archdta- was read in the Roman Catholic | Dear Father—The appaltin 3 Ne Extra Shares for It, 9 et aay American Disiriet Messenger Otties ue P.M. some of her young friends earfy in the | ew the city day. , lyme. dow was still in thy *8 | found and sear p This morning Dr. ture with few excep ul administra n maki ie is Wve. Recponsibility to People, palnbeatvbse Bye at wiv ug. el penris af here t that of the Kederal Gove 1 Prestde ) is et, has ' at | \ rt Ml me ntal reasons, it Hee ily heirloc mother = was 4 little girl, and was so muc t and day t hot think si Loser Was Mrs. Barckmans t t » her marriage + 7 t ! to Mrs. Hamien Oren \ iekmans, ne. iat t f Gusta ts s Were marr andsome 1, THALEUIEET This second t t fer undue | wa figured ext t iohinery r a s f y But it oned one af the Chief) distribution stiages and stables in the city, of powers f cember, 19, she declared she had 1+ : anoalie relative the. proper ved three! anonymous s e Ereaponsibiiltsueieims Ing the lives ‘ Loto require that the executive | Bruce, then t rewere ft Hae tare the appointiy r check, she no which WY Limitations of Office. o “take care that y executed’ But} duty there are nage. those invelyed | Rien intive officers. land th es men guard patriotic sentiment ot subject pheres moat im ist not-act capriclously. or freedom of critlelsm This may ba realized to some {ts subj on’'t be too Old at Forty But Fortify Yourself Against Everyday Ailments Next to exercise and fresh air, Beecham’s Pills are the safest, quickest and most natural means to keep the bowels open and the body fit and healthy. Sluggish or constipated bowels cause more illnesses than any other one thing under the sun, and it is important, very important, that the bowels be kept healthy, regular and active, When the bowels become clogged, do not resort to vio- lent purgatives and cathartics, Take a gentle, thorough and natural tonic-laxative, ‘To get the best results se DEECCHANS PUS Sold Everywhere in Boxes, 10c. and 25c. Mrs. Hamlen dis- ap sgon | to make it worse, Then I went toa Tt was | baby said it was ec ie necklace, she sald, was works a | paid eat deal more to her than It would | w hin open market because of senti- having been a fam- me to her from her he had owned it sinc i it she wore {t most of th t could have been | fir tds enou, nt for Tiffany & Co, § tration and arrest of el kK peal was shaiowins appealed ty the police and plain her house was rs, Berekmuns announcement of ment to Dr, Hamlen followed degree through that sell-restraint wh juatica should impose critics which should make them caref against prejudgment and slow to bring | {nto disrepute those charged with public uke the responsibilities, But on the other hand State In its prov-/our safety largely depends - and in the main | e with the the public officer though from time to| sovevning his at- | time unjustly accused, {sonable appreciation of his work. mpovtance than the American people are 1 ation Js the proper minded, and in time a course of unjust | on of the dignity of public feneu regia the purveyor more than | So | An Apartment $96 C ul the will secure rea- | The essentially fair- a DE S Which I ised for two They use! the same cab during all the te iS hay ks, but instead cf? Ae 7 i trip, They reached the Hamlen apart- ments about 6 o'clock HEDEE, tof overed the pearls were jas she had taken off her hcab which the two women neighborhood, ed without results. LACAN helping the eruption, PA the ointment seemed | second doctor who xamining the ie also gave mo an ointment which did not help to| either, The disease in the meantime the | Police Headquarters and ‘asked Inspec- Has tor McCafferty to send out a general alarm for the pearls, spread all over the face and the eyes began to swell. I became yery anxious, His wife was Ligallaanivantre eaie var @ The itching grew intolerable, I had to s told an Evening World reporter Hid not thin 1408 MTGE Le Seuer nes Kluwer | wore covered with viood and it waa a though she admitted she wa-4 terrible sight to see. I consulted doo- hazy regarding the price of | tors from pte pmber to scone er, but tie the baby’s hands to the cradle to prevont her scratching. The cheeks they were unabie to cure (he baby. 1 put from twenty to thirty dollars ut relief, One of my friends told me of the Cuticura Remedies and I sent at onco for aset which I began to use that even- ing. The next morning the baby's face | was all stead cf red and youcan prised T was, Tcaraot for it, Dusee 1 ints the eceema entirely disap The child is now three Lused three tra Seap, two bozes of Cuticura Oin and one bottle of | Cuticura Resely and I never use any other soap, Talwi them i Look on Sain Diseases, — - — - — e Furnlshed Complete YOU CAN PURCH Grand Rapias Furniture LIBERAL CREDIT. SYSTEM D 0 worth, $3.00 down 78 u 5.00 7.50 Inen Mvenines Cntil 1 0 took ART THE NEW YEAR A WIHWER ‘Steeplechase Park Co, CONEY ISLAND, $B Makes You a Partner ou GEO. C. TILYOU lin this great money-making, tunny place that paid 8% dividend in a dull season jand will get all the business next season, | We are inviting sou to make money, | Write and learn all about it tor | GEO. C. 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