The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1909, Page 16

THE EVENING WORLD, eer YaRVARS 5, 1909., President of United German Societies Re ITY BOARD. Parmer WALL NOT BUY THE. STENWAY TUBE Refuses to Accept Proposition | That City Pay $7,239,476 for the Tunnel. “ALLEGED IR HELO BY CORONER | mi | >—- ‘Inventor Lumsden's Counsel) Gives Hint That Defense Wil! Be Denial. | REPUDIATED UNANIMOUS DECISION. PIs Commissioners Find That City Would Face Annual De- ficit of $400,000, Witnesses Agree There Was a} | Scuffle—Prisoner Said He Was Attacked, | The Public Service Commission has Politely but firmly refused to purchase ‘ourt was crowded with Jay when Coroner Har- curb brokers te burger began an Inquest into the killing ej of Harry B. Suyé who was 19 by from the Interborough Company Steinway tunnel. The Commission's decision was hand- the | a broker, shot Dee, John C. Lumsden, an | inventor. Alfred Myers dam's oflive A, Collins, ¥ ed down to-day, It was unanimous. It held tn effect that for the city to pay $7,239,4 for the Steinway tun- nel was to purchase something in ‘the nature of a lemon. The Cemmission’s decision Is lengthy and covers every feature of purchasing the tunnel to Queens and operating it. an office boy in Suy- 19 Broad street; W. | m © rented office room to Suydam A. Downes, an assist |; ant of Suydam: Edward F. Hennigan, a | salesman, and Policeman John L. Cor-| Dang shechaniVasiaulratrol: urenaauite neler Acorns § aaa wen the sisters superior of the Little Sisters T OL.| NIECE Claims When old Dan Sheehan died in St cent's Hospita an honest policeman who did his duty tn the Oak ing Jan. 9 last year. cent’s, It will be to rest in Calvary.” tation drew up his will, of his brother daughter of his brother Cornelus. There was $0 to Me McFarland and $20 to her brother Cornelius, chil- in which he Ach to his nieces, | New, | meee House of the G of the Immaculas St. Joseph's Hospital, Bronx; spital, the Dominican Convent of Our $5,000 each; $500 to Father Doyle, of es for the repose man for Forty Years in the Oak Street Station, BRINGS ¢ eph's, for mas soul and the souls of his dead SUIT: | 26,3 brothers, and all the rest of those $43,000 jsaved by a frugal policeman from his eae arnm! in more than fifty years, ueathed to the Soclety of St. t S| Vin ent de Paul, That Old Man Was van Sheehan laboriously amMxed his |siuature to this paper, and asked his a nate, Tim Golden, who was con- 1 with the Wall Street Detective Unduly Influenced by om its establishment, thirty- ‘8 ago, and Arthur McKnight, Interested Parties. — of the hospital, to sign as “subseribing i ' “Rive days later Sheehan witnesses, Vin- died, at the age of seventy: THere was Niece Begins Sult. Now Mary MeFarland, | diss with her $59, is suing before Maclean and a jury tn the Supreme | Court to k e Dan's will, nrging that he was unduly: influen ile weak physically and inentall ght years everybody said, eet precinet for forty years er had a complaint against | \ 5 ever Ki J.B, O'Beirne, with Thomas J, O'Neil | Ikea Christian, never Bote es counsel) ing the will, in be- | arried and saved his money WTonttaitne i Riewaxeanine: did. There were forty say- and the sever Old Tom | s dks hoarded up in his board. | Holden teatitied as the tt house when he went toa hospital on jay was perfectly 8 Old Dan elan was n he asked him to witness his To fulfl the terms of purchase pro- coran were the witnesses against Lums- | credited with $63,000 in those forty bank equally certa Core) Gi ely Cau) Ee to HEH cs den, whose counsel, James J. Fitzgerald, | yooks, and on Maren M4 he sald to Slater ti . el Mary Ny “one senalt in operating the tunnel of about Charles W. Harris and Oscar Berg-/ ponten, who been his faithf: + twentieth as much of t si $400,000 a year. strom, put in no ns Md not gorter during his decline in the b s did her ea The Belmont trolley Une, ove allow their client to t Aaslatant | hat he would like to make his wil » that Uncle Dan. was not tn hig ueens, would collect b . : yee ite ' 4 Ch Ad hag, i richt mind, and insisted on. telling o| Q would ¢ the t Distriet-Attorney Symonds conducted sy gel that this Is my. last lone conversations with various people | fares pald on the tunnel, and the city wo the prosecution Mr. Downes d get only the told the most graphic meagre scrapings of local fares, The mlerOuCel thal ahootinwi tia (teat (non clty would pay for the operating of Dr. Henry A, ©. Anderson, a proml- with two friends at Aschenbrodel Ver] ey aciay everything. to whieh | cars that carried the through fares,) nent pliysician among Ger- rein, No, 18 East Highty-sixth street, NMC’ Be! ferred and went into | but would not be allowed more than the) man res Wied sud- His denth fas cast a gloom to-day | “ner Witnesses Telewen Wht Went | minute details, Mr overcome with emotion while t | and his exel way In whieh Ls during the recital, ‘WS DEEL YOUNGERBALEY, oe ASSN UE ee before 12 over the United German Societies, of ying cards which he was formerly president. Pleasure of seeing the fares poured into| denly of the palms of the trolley people. [a kK No Subway Connection Then, again, the experts employed by the Commission find that the way" tunnel could onl ne trolley cars, and would not 1 ake a Good connection with the pres. way nor with the proposed ieexlingio i avenue subway, The radius of the end | loops 1s so small that only single cars could be operated, and the grades are @0 steep in places that only motor cars can be operated, Furthermore, the tunnel {s not fin. | fying, y the dat him aceon Downe with him. low him and drawing a ‘evolver | from his pocket. Suydam ce: ‘My God, he is going to sh Ashed by $310,040 worth of necessary con- and threw his arms vind Lumsden's Biiuction. The Manh an section of neck. There and Suydam the tunnel Is objected to, because It is a | | sank to th between Third and Lexington svenues ! Mr. Collins leaped upon Lumsden and and sixty feet underground; therefore Acts the ee on Witness To Be ener at Sing Sing | puted nim packward and then caught | too far east to connect with th Grand | him by the wrists, calling to Downes to Central Station of the present subway. | Stand and Room Rings With | for From Four to Six |take the revolver from him, Lumsden | Concerning the proposed terms of pur- | . wouldn't let go and Collins twisted the chase the Commission's decision says: | Her: “I Shot Him.” Years, murderer's wrists until the gun fell to What the Plan Provided, | pee the floor. Downes picked tt up and| pointed it at Lumsden, crying: “The proposal made by the company | | He 373 | was that the Commission should pay) MEDIA, Pa. Jan, 8—Following a} Justice Davis, In the Criminal Branch | move T'll kill you!" 9.476,0, the ‘actual cost’ of the dramatic climax produced by the of the Supreme Court, to-day sentenced | Mr. Suydam, Mr. Downes continued, tunnel) We rcomnany to, \ ake: foun neg story told of the shooting of | Albert W. Bailey, of Pirate Ship fame, | Tore from the floor with as NB cent. city bonds at par, the elty to black hole in his coat over the left operate it Jointly with the New York |CaPt: J Clayton Erb by his stster-tn-|to an indeterminate Imprisonment in| ienage, He fell again, ant Collins knelt Sing Sing of not less than four years and six months or more than six years jand eight months The Justice sul he believed the pris- oner’s brother, Francis G. Balley, was | | called to Downes, PRO CHIET Of SO Cte n TATEAGUOnELOA ES winch Don rien as! Downes stood guard Reteel, who with Florence Erb, Catharine Mrs. M charged with the murder of the latter's law, Mrs, sister, and Queens County Railway Company for twenty-five years, half the opevat- ing expenses to be paid by the clty and half by the company; a single fare of five cents to be charged between Forty- recond street and Fourth avenue, Man- | the | him while | over Lumsden. | Policeman Corcoran, who had heard the shot from the street, ran In and “pid you do this?” | he replied, "No, | her are husband, the defense closed its case in nsational trial this afternoon, fhattan, and any point on of Mrs. Belsel, In her story of the shoot: ‘the Export Shipping Company, and |y qian do any: shooting,” and indicated (dita Ste) 9d Ginenate 1. ine, corroborated the testi ven | would therefore not be so severe on the |r mejen as the muri \ CME ho Geetlag all fares |¥’ Mes. Erb relative to the cruel treat- younger brother, who was treasurer and | oii ar to the pol | until {t shall have been reimbursed for ment inflicted upon the wife by the secretary rE an be iain away after Mri Suydar amounts advanced for operating ex- | Caplaln eos ele a eonea een ntasitherman.tholned 0 penses, interest. on bonds, a sinking |. Mrs. Belsel was followed on the stand Justice somewhere In Honduras, having | 17 pes Mt moe at ay mlciaie. p ed escaped fre e@ ship ol c| fund of one per cent. per annum and bY Several physiclan: The medical escaped from th ip on which he was Said It Was Broker's Revolver. to have been brought north by De. tective-Sergeant Peter Beery, of the Dis: trict-Attorney's staff. The detective sergeant’s trial on the charge of allow- Ing him to get is still to be con- cluded. to The nized their flem last lated that they got eftund men told of having treated Mrs, Erb ex should for injurles she said had been Inflected > lty and Upon her by Capt Just before resting its case counsel for the defense in all arrears o! when the su be divided equ the retaine t he had found | a bullet on the fle r the shoot: | Ing. Mr. Collins, on cross-examination, sald that he had never known Suydam | Mr. Carroll testified t! n fares to be ompany."* awe Iver carry a rev’ ceman Cc | an sald that Lums- | Fear Increased Deficit sald t s ti My— re- from opera r 389,00 worth of Koods Hae START et rieI IAC would increase from New York merchants, They ec ran said that Lumeden fined thelr activittes chiefly to machin- | exhitited a pawn tieket for a revolver table houses. Then the & ‘3 At of hell.” she * palate ‘ ncreith seed as mship G! ough, which year to ve the a came the pirate ship, was subsidize the New 1 4 etn ali tne goods loaded into Ce ble wee In the meantfn peopte to F : t J on the bills five ce sec ae ae was not at once the eity will be fortheo! vald's cross-examination The Commiss b had been i 1 to establish the fact aie _mereh hante Was armed and was the outlet for Que Ouse eusie cons dered In bridge that w 5 sisters room, and $20,000.00), on vinut sister went to st charged will be t r hat 000, While it may t the she would te b beat- mara Steinway inel_ would ribute mor in an tal nd s tried betore } to the development of Queens thar Erb t a loud voice d | in which they | bridge, a e with her | Aves nannce: thereon would ¢ lon, then =| 000,00 upon that the money’ ¢ ; mauail lan came 1 Consolidated Again Heavily more be “ - fore the Cor gapea; Slashed and Entire Market A Tremendous Problem, ge Suffers, “The city is face to face wit Mendous ro! h need for addit! na jem, sa Pere er aor Consolidated Gas shares made another Sted and are mo- | | a : thent 8 sengational decline in the stoc to be c She to-day. The stock oper way tunnel that would Le Me to 11), as against yeater’ ale tae ity an tw ; M1. [t moved sluggishly urther, If some subways tr e during the early sess built and owned should the ct ment of p . profitabe, or Produce a defict come in, ough but this afternoon on 7 tlon it sold as lo price the stock ebly the day was 13 points The loss Yesterday's to take the | price for Consol.dated Gas was the unprofita BS 1-4 and keep the | The remainder of the market was {n t] fuenced by the stocks were § y to the Atlant be taken ¢ foresight? Does an if the company expected Profit from It they would gel] it to the city?” In conclusion, the ¢ that there Is no “insupe to private operation of tie funne * In other words, if ature of a “le Taterborough people we unload it on the city The Steinway tunnel will no pelf-sustaining. Therefore the desires the city to n DR. D. S. QUIGLEY DYING. Police Chief Surgeon of Depart. ment Has Cierhoats of the Liver, e whole depa since is af and the taxpayers to pay / ‘| potntment ams 1“ High Cage cht Weetingnouye s tenance, rather than thev, ‘ommissioner Bingham made lim citef! Amal. Copper Ril; BiTy 82% We Ceasers: d of the laterborough, urKeon in 1801, Am. Car @ Fey. Wy 4 OQ — %) LAdvance. Decline, ; i Seats! Settee: os 1 it 23rd Street 34th Strect JANES MCREERY BC. | On Wednesday, January the 6th. In Both Stores. UNUSUAL SALE. COLORED DRESS GOODS. Consisting of Bordered Cheviots, Cloths, Silk and Wool Mixed Fabrics and Printed Broadcloth in Bayadere and graduating stripes and various other 75¢ per \ord value 2.00 to 4,25 weaves, In 1 oth Stores, LACE NECKWEAR. Imported Novelties in the latest de- signs,—Irish Crochet Jabots, Stocks, Collars, Yokes, Guimpes and Blouses. ' Fancy Lace and Tucked Net Neck- wear, various shapes and new patterns, Silk and Chiffon Scarfs for street and evening wear. All the new shades, Real Irish Crochet Bows, | 35c, 45c to 1.50 Real Irish Crochet Jabots, 50c, 75c, 95c to 7.50 Bows, 25c, dn Both Stores. LADIES’ SUITS. Advance models of three-piece Tailor-made Suits, coats interlined. Suitable for immediate wear, 37.50 Lingerie Princess Dresses, trimmed with lace, 16.50 Remaining stock of Tailored Suits, Costumes and Evening Dresses, at great- ly reduced prices, din Both Stores, BOUT STOLES. 70 inches long. MARA Black 2.50 value 4.28 Black 5.50 value 7.50 Black 7.00 value 10.50 Coque Collars with ribbon bows, 3.00 value 4.25 4 strands, or natural, ~ on 5 strands inches long. y g or natural, 7 strands, 88 inches long. or natural, MUFFS. Marabout, black or natural, 7.00 value 10.50 Coque, 3.00 \ yalue 5,50 | SOROSIS SHOES. In Both Stores, Men’s Sorosis for sport or business dress are flexible, durable and assure permanent comfort. JAMLS McCREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street z | lagher [they had ratded the place, FIGHTERS DISCHARGED ——_[they, ha ratte. th IN THE POLICE COURT. |**!"*»"" Joseph Farmer, og No. 496 West One Hundred and ‘Thirty-third street, @ Arthur Connolly, of No, 182 West One Hundred and ‘Thirty-fourth streec, the two fighters arrested last night in the | ing of the Olymple Club, No, 38 and 38 Manhattan avenue, with their second John Daly, of No, 1524 Amsterdam a nue, and Willlam Disbrow, of No. West One [lundred and Twenty-first street, as well as the referee, Dan Dev- In, of No 455 Amsterdam avenue, and Edward McMahon, the door keeper, | Were discharged when arraigned in the Harlem Pollee Court to-¢ Detectives and LONDON, Jan, 6.—0 leading newspaper of | White House. The Kind You Have Always Bears tho | Bignature Keenan, ( Connolly t nnell, Gal- Magistrate ny Harris that they had bought tlekets of admission at the door for $1 and how | JAMES McGREERY & GO) 23rd Street CHINA DEPARTMENTS. 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