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oT ae 10 “THE WIDOWS SOLD, BUT BUY CANT CLOSE | Plucky Mrs. Clemens Says She'll Keep Roadhouse Open Until Ousted. JOSTLED BY PALACES, Prettiest Site on Riverside Drive Held by Landmark, Wanted for Lucrative Use. The march of progress along River- alde Drive has overtaken “The Wid- éw's,” that One Hundred and Twelfth street. on a beautiful terrace and commanding me of the finest river views in the city, A speculator, working to have an apartment-house vesidenve erect- ed on the plot, has bought from the estate of the late Collis P. Huntington the block fronting on the Drive he- tween One Hundred and Eleventh and One Hundred and Twelfth streets set On that grassy, shady and shrut-en cbosed plot is the roadiouse of Hla: beth A. Clemens Widow." Vari- @us organizations, property owners ana | residents In the neighborhood have been trying to get her to move for years At one time her license was revoked but she is a spunky old woman and she She says y before she fought hack and remained ft will be many a long Moves, even now that the propert sold Will Stay Until Ousted. “T have rights,” she said to-day, when seen in her kitchen, wi a lot of dren around her. “I know what my rights are. They can't put me out of j here until I get ready to go, no matter who buys the place. ll be it eee | taking care of my friends 1 my | rights run out, and inaybe after Sao i} You can’t tell what they'll do with this | property “You go and soe ting | Mr old frame roadhouse at! THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, “The Widow’s, ” Picturesque Roadhouse NN GOD OF GEN, BINGHAM on Riverside Drive, Reported Scld DAMAGED IN FR Scorching — at Police Makes Public Headquarters the Only | Known Cause. JANUARY 9, 1909. SOF WAR His Lette Carolina Senator. WORD F--N-N. BLAMED, i } ‘Blaze Had n Smoullering | Several Days, but Smoke Seemed Natural, | Daa Lee Tillman to Answer. | Nine gods of war were badly burned | about the head and body in a fire which infiloted $16 other damage to the office of Police Commissioner Bingham, Police Headquarters, No, 80 Mul- last night, The office of WASHINGTON, Jan. at berry strect, health, ROOSEVELT GIVES QUT HIS CHARGES AGAINST TILLMAN t Hale Attacking South to) {ALLEGED LAND DEAL Quotes Secret Service Spies’ | and Senator’s Own Letters— 9.—Expreesing regret that the President should have | selected a time to attack Senator Benja- mia RB, Tillman, of South Carolina, when | the Senator is not in his usual rugged friends of the latter are pre- that he oan be of great he! matters started from roa cause the Government see do someth! slong 4 a sire, Me set u) ww fs a ‘new that it vill be impossible to do otherwise. | ‘Thi be very important for your joheme to have @ man of his in- here to ald you at thi By all means savi lot of Hea ata te he, Carte tatna’ tobe of | eae value eae any one of the others | Has Photograph of Letter. | "On Feb. 15 Senator Tillman wrote to Messrs. Reeder and Watkins. A pho- tograph of this letter 18 alao attached jas Exhibit D6 In tt I call your at- ‘tention to the fact that he speaks | again of Mr. Lee as agent and of the correspond Aon through Mr. Lee. He ‘states that what he nas done in stirring up the question of the Oregon land grants to railroads has | been done entirely apart from any per. sonal Interest he has in the matter and adds: ‘Although I never would have had my attention called to it but for! the investigation as set on foot In con- | nection with the proposed purchase by me of some of the timber land In ques- | tlon. Of course, If T decide to make | | the tender and go yey the Jawsult, [ | will bear your proposition !n mind, but T would “have you understand ‘that ; nothing I do here in the Senate will | | be done because of any personal pur. | chase of any of the land. If I can suo: | ceed in causing the Government to in- | | stitute sult for the recovery of SBe land uy make it easter for other Ag WELL AS MYSRLE the ftalics e@ mine) to obtain some of it, f shall) ry it without any regard to the doal- awa your frm. still want @ of the timber land, " it ie} all @, Wand as it 1s probable that Mr, or some other representative of | mine will be In your country in the! next two months, we will leave the| matter of payment for the Initlatory steps and subsequent proceedings in| j abeyance for the present. Any con- tract we might make will be entirely eo Santa’ Savant | cuarked mani D gr eTene 40PT “The assault by Senator Tillman upon Mr. Dorr was, according to the report of the inspectors, @ wanton assaul! made to cover up Senator Tillman's own transactions. "The report of the inspectors seeme to | Indicate tials this young man, Mr. Dorr, acted ‘in wood faith, but that he used iman's pplication for lan Senator as an advertiseme: truly yours, g 2 “THEODORE FHEODORE ROOSBVL LORD ANGLESEY ERE SOON FOR LONG VISI He Will Come With His Coue sin Bertie, One of Lady Paget’s Twins. ( LONDON, Jan. 9. ~ The Marquis Anglesey, with his cousin, Bertle Paget, one of Lady Paget's twin sons, wilt sall for New York Jan, 20 for ® pro- longed Amertoan holiday, ‘They will spend some time In New York and then go out West and later to Cana Lord Anglesey will cut a figure in New York soclety, having met most of Its leaders on this slide, Both Lord Anglesey and young Paget are credited with unfortunate love affairs. Angles, sey Is said lo aspired to the hand | Deputy Commissioner Bugher, on the, dicting to-day that le will, neverthe- apart arene end Independent Oh, my [of Princess “Patsey" of Connaugitt and . i . riya the Senat ores poor been: was fee ee me seater Gnd | tess, stir things up tn his charactertetic Paatserisoants eae Ate. J 7 she hat se atau nemtineel je flooring was burned through 5 “| . oan x Perera coe Way when he delivers to the Senate on | Of the best quarter sections of whioh | mance in the bud, The Princes | Although of mysterious origin it {9 ; you have definite information and 1) the romanc n i rincess Fiinted about headquarters that tne) Monday bis carefully prepared defense, j Will in the meantime pres is now looking very wearied and bored ite rae eT ye Tiree Mr. Tillman discussed to-day with es ‘ation and other work and prematurely: sedate. Lozada emince pcr aun ab Dem Ot interes Wcaranana ravity the charge i facilitate the final purch: and | oer h ( jamns that seepad through the cracks 2 8 set amect obviate the necessity of your| Bertie Paget had a desperate love - n the floor and colected in a combue- made against him. He did not manifest iat g any, ces {fu Nnelcourtalat oh affair with beautiful Millicent James, a AprTANyS et hroday (te his ordinary fire and vehemence, | in which Senator -}daughter of Queen Alexandra's friend, “TEE TD OTS | ible mass directly under the Commis-| vi ig very serious matter for the | 28 the baat [Sirs White James. Neither had. any [stoners fine young swivel chair, The! mart for} fortune, so Miss James's parents ob- | word Finn fell among them and in- | President of the United States to at- him was written i a“ four. dayc before jected. The young couple swore unal- tempt to hurt the honor of a Senator of be announced in the Senate that he had |terabie fidelity, bul Miss Millicent ts | stantly there followed the fare 1 The fire liad been smouldering severat| jays and had eaten away a good sect en of the beams and other wood wor Jow the floor, Bingham, in his chal he United States,” he said, * Wh 5 HUSBAND j convicts me. 1 | slowly and carefully, STATEN ISLAND ‘and there- | fore I suppose he must have secured ‘some evidence which In his own mind am going to proceed so that the whole sa owing right above the hot- A ALAMO RPOU LATE eee | Matter may be handled in as grave a test part of she blaze. Smoke was de Patanvakaaviorst ne tot was re-| Manner as It deserves. tte he | garded ag at 1 e Finn-| The President's Letter, j ‘Anselm, Chrts The President's cor patd| Bingham contr yeray tion to Sen- fi ION ilane: Durkin, aguat {much attention to it. tor Hale follows tn rand Gustav Btrdass ng his office the commissioner had been| “The White House, Wasitington, Jan. 5 ICH sters of |taiking about tle Board of Estimate; 1909 ‘ “F land Apportionty and {t is believed; "My Dear Senator Hale; * © © On a 1} that further t & (sea exiitblt A), Senator \the floor cracks @ the attention of the Sen- Mrs. Tow mae of Sheftield, f the lehat dt burst out not long afterwe ate to a ci of @ syndicate firm for IW One stt'l alarm) bro the firemen | the sale of lands in Oregon, particularly Eng., Has Him Arvested in « deluge of water, aa tn Coos and Douglas counties, whicl : noes inj had been granted to corporations ¢ Governinent, the ular stating Conn. for Non-Support. not undertaken to buy any land in the, Used a Franked Envelope, “It is unnecessary to comment upon | already all but engaged to Lord Bury, eldest son of the Earl of Albemarle. He also {8 poor, but the Jameses are willing to make an effort to provide adequately for his future, his proposal, ma tm this letter, to |The Countess of Anglesey dined at use his influence tor to force jad Pagers on New Weare Eve, and the Government to i tute @ suit) some of the older men of the party, which would make it easy for him per-| when the ladies 1 withdrawn, were sonally to obtain somo "ot the land. interested by leaving both Anglesey This letter, parely ips pesrsaing to Mr.jand Hert! ng English girls Tillman's person bil: | unfavorat int of steadfastness ness, was sent in a “iean By elope, with Amet an girls JAMES McGR 23rd Street | SILK DEPARTMENTS, | “McCreer: fo | Spring, EERY & 60.’ 34th Street Jn Both Stores, y Silks”? ir 1909, | Complete assortment of the latest ary Silks, On Monday January the | | | | silk. Black Satin 19 inches wide. .......55¢ per yard ton. He'll tell you what my are. | veh at _fpeciat sermor t the company in possession of the Trun a quiet, decent place ey | i were lands Was bound to sell them Cor $2.5 have put up apartment houses ail vey BRITAIN, Conn. Jan 9 Atte Ws at Me pet 1. Miss meelves | an acre, or upon their refusal, would around me, but I'm here in spite of | catent fi $ again at her home in Bu j be prosecuted by the Government, and them, and I'm not worled about the) ™ year chase, ending tn a mid- that ‘among those who have spoken for | place being sold.” 2 across the A Mrs. | ent a part of this land ts Senator Tillman, | Although “The Widow" is hopeful and | William ‘Townsend, of Sheffield manuel | Were resc by of South Carc the leader of the Bugnacions, it 1s not likely that her tana, found in this elty yesterday : Folks’ Lodge, | chair was burned emocratic party in the Senate, a man| little roadhouse will be allowed to re- |, 5 i Ta ‘ PADRE TRG brooms <= who usu $ what he goes after.’ main long. The property is high and, | ")°® pave ndy anne ied Mt ui U PIG’S BLOOD HIS CURE. “Senator Tillman denied the statements being located just above the One Hun- | chance at @ great fortune by marrying i Tre of this circular, and expressed a wish dred and Tenth street curve, has a Net y for an investigation, and upon his re- 1 + ° en It as Remedy magnificent river and Palisades out. The couple. owing to the lapse of time GhicagoiDocton Urs! est the Post-Office Department, look. It would be an ideal place for a | Since thelr separation, could har » | for Tuberenlosls. through its Inspectors, made such ar Tesidence of a rich man, but will prob- ognize ane ah when brought v CHICAGO, Jan, &—Pig's blood, medi. | gation, ably be used as an aportment house | face at the police station in the pres. vally red of the he! a " site. The Hendrick Hudson is directly | ence of Chief Rawlings. Two detectives cally prepared, {s of the highest y Quotes Tillman's Letter, Acrovs” One Hundred and Eloventh had arrested ‘Townsend at his home on| yf ; in the cure of Incipient tuberculosis, ac- “it appears that on Oct. 2, 197, Street, and a new, towering structure iy i Miss Anna enue, tas announcer e cording to an announcement here by Dr. genator Till wrote a lett hibit Washington stre Where he and ham J. Rose, of of her daughter, Feavette, to AEM y BUM LO Wat) CSUR (COIS af yin Creare enn Ora: woman ne caiis his wife and their child f nt langbeln oe Daniel Ricardo, By exper/ments car-| D3) to Messrs, Reeder and Watkins, of | dred and Twelfth and One tiurd have been living. The second wite ls I agua antertalninent tied on independently, Dr, Ricardo says| Marshfield, Oregon, who were appll- Titre l ne Hundred and | giso a native of Shetheld HeO HALA SUBARU GEOR al at the same conclusion as(cants (or the purchase of a certain rteenth street ‘Nuneteen years ago, 1 suga Club, of TTS OS EEG: NAS) wagon road land grant; Dorr was a An Ancient Landmark. | disowned by his wealthy first Assembly *, Rosenberger, of Philadelphia, land Be Bis his DUT EER ACOUEn in 4 a" orke e ¢ Tnattiauarcuiogl manitests it Rees) vatkins, Senator Tillman’ mbasmldeaiiaricanditladi iene whom he worked, He cam hat tuberculosie first manifests iteelf in| Reedet and Watkins. Sénttor s house at the One Hundred and Twelf Street corner for twelve years or more Previous to taking the place, she ran @ little liquor store on the pler at the foot of Ninety-sixth street There js nothing pretentious about “The Widow.” The louse is ro old ft sags. There are wagon and nutomobile sheds behind it. In summer tables and chairs are placed out on the lawn un der the trees and an orchestra plas: evenings. There isn't a finer place in New York for view and atmosphere on A warm, moonlight night. It ie a favorite place of resort {& for Columbia College students, In 1902, when the residents of the neighiic od began a ert nade, th ia ual on The Evening World Coney Island” resorts Anal “On e Hundred and Tenth street and Broad- Way, some of the milllonaire prope owners along Riverside Drive tried. to put "The Widow” out of business. The license of the place, then held in the name of her son. Kyrie, was revoked but was later reissued to ow’ herself, Four years ago Ch young woman was fot » Wide erside Park. with her neck opposite “The Widow's" place police said that the dead woms Bpent some time in “The Widow's" before she met her death, but this de proved tington purchased the Phe Widow's" road- when ground. Later on, he and built the Hu alae Fifth avenue, ink wever Roverside Drive fot ————— TEACHER SAVES 35 LIVES, Entire School Overcome by Coal Gan from Leaky Stovepipe. POTTSVILLE, Pa. Ji five pupils of the Mount south of Pottsville, and the Miss Laura Deisher, were o coal gas y erday caus stove pipe, and It was roug the prompt action of the yo that the her saved Noticing several of the p and herself the children and carri and tn re urning for a f ome and fe Several women living ir borhood saw the four little ones Physicians from Pottsville a suse i SIX SAVED FROM FIRE, HAMILTON, 0., Jar three me make favorable | eovery. Dr James Is EG surgeon, regards h md danger. the biood of the patient. T have found pig's blood to b culos “EK wired you from Wat “Willlam 5. usan, Wis, | £) ae follows poe write to confirm it: | 27 “ “a | 35 “ | Shantung him asa mode ed tl . Lee, my agent, will see i Th ralahy a are arty a sictan, "The reason you about land. wantenine quarters eof hon-suppo: ainst hat is pig's blood contains resery Will forward signe RP sendy though the latter, according t hemoglo no than s blood. cations and money at once, Me Chief Rawlings, admitted le was mar Ce ee eet et ce eran (Oh aay. femuy, ents yan ea Letter | ried to his New Britain cor n daught fs a heavy strain on cows follow! (Gleayd) i a J Wite Nu. 1 ounces she would like to/man m being milked. Cattle also are sub, ee wrote to Reeder and Watkins: jtake the next steamer back, but. wil, 1 to tuberculosis, while T never ha “En case Senator Ti gets in on ee hareaieamenthnelchneeer il Heard of a case of that disease among| this deal with some good land in the order to make Tow bynsend au 5 is) swene we want, I am satisfied SORTOH WAS MADE. = BY OW, NOT GIRL ey Wife Doubted Story, Sued for! | Divorce, but Husband It. m4 Ple Butler Mat j JAMES MeCREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street TRL oa FR FM REINOLIATIN Though Both Were at Moritz for a Few Days, They Did Not M OB ENJOINS POLICE ed of Having and Doors 34th Street Store, FURNITURE, Semi-Annual Sale Imported Furniture or Prov St. An unusual collection of Fine Draw- ing Room, Dining Room and Bedroom Suites and odd pieces. Drawing Room Suites, with hand- carved gold frames, upholstered in hand- woven Aubusson tapestries. | Red Ravens, LOS ANGELES, Jan Furniture the nose of Harry E. > My led b > Ty a see Smashed, They Say. eet. Viola B. Myers, to sue for di ay before Judge Monroe parture of | 16 is of Blar with his] the ford, | Marq tion of a re ote ra eaeheek 3 Feventh street i fo ritz, where the Duchess (nee | 1,500.00, 1,650.00 and 1,800.00 : i t with fi cat abeen for former prices 2,290.00, 2,400.00 and 2,600.00 Circassian Walnut Dining Room Suites, finely carved in Periods of Louis story ation be : fe tial Seer XY. and XVI. 1,350.00 and 1,550.00 J nd his brother early former prices 1,825.00 and 1,950.00 ae ater Wes UA ae Circassian Waluut Bedroom Suites, floor of t Aidayits of the |! Headey richly carved finely figured wood, A 4 én acting St Moritz. correspor = . STEAMER ANGLO- AFRICAN ‘ re Deity Woe dent wires that the Duke stayed at 750.00, 850.00 and 975.00 IS GOING TO PIECES. 0 ‘ eet Pereencer enue aLMORda ys sonly| former prices 900.00, 1,075.00 and 1,350.00 € Taro eon Ren herens the I s# has a villa, which | Q the Luke did not visit, nor did the tata 7 4 Destruction of Vessel and Cargo Duke aiid the Duchess meet during iis| MAHOGANY FURNITURE. J Both Stores, 1 Entail | f $1.000.00 stay i ; ; Will Entail 1 f $1,000,000 |! The Duchess gave out a couple of | Library Furniture, Colonial repro- —All Hands Rescued H days before the Duke's arrival that : . e airy ae: | she had sprained her ankle while skat- ductions. rae ted on | istrate ing and was obliged to r ! e me recumbent position Indoors for a week | Bookcases...,..35.00, 45.00 and 60.00 ‘ : z s es of vi a a i ut se Maer curlously coin. former prices 48.00, 60.00 and 78,00 i cided with the Duke's visit and en- “1 e i ‘ ot abled him to have his. sone. with. Nim Tables........,.32.00, 45.00 and 58.00 t ‘i A ‘ i uring his ALY neue any presets former prices 44.00, 60.00 and 72,00 A ' s i ve Juchess., The pays ¢ theo vanes = 4 assured by a close friend of | Writing Desks. .18.00, 27.00 and 35,00 oh ‘ WALL ST. PROBERS BUSY Pay a of : ere ees nom and former prices 25.00, 33.00 and 43.00 : Votin reconciliation thoumitheliuverte Models to be discontinued at 10% to of 4.185 giose Gov. | ve r one that would leay i ‘ i : Sih) bats ea] 334% less than former prices. ‘ D ver, infinitely prefers | Mission Furniture, Brass Bedsteads ire, though an arrange- Duke presses for and Bedding. ‘ cial position of both » of Lu | B of Feta hess is seen at the St. Mo- | iene iat rink day, except when ahe 23rd Sircet 34th Street . x- fAccompanies bob sleighing parties up| t ‘ tton and the mountains. Sheds a very graceful he Exehanses, will thea com-, skater and is taking lessons in difficult figures. | Sale of Eighte the new Spring wide. BLACK DRESS GOODS. Second and spot proof. | Second grey, blue, brown WASH DRESS GOODS. Sale of Whit Dress Fabrics. Ivory, sky blue, pi black. , 32 inches wide. French Crink 23rd Street Ecru, White and Black. On Monday, Black Broadcloth,—sponged, shrunk 52 to 54 inches wide. On Monday, | Sale of Imported Skirt Patterns, woven in one piece. On Monday, Silk and Cotton Pongee. JAMES McGREERY & CO. | weaves and colors in Plain and Novelty and Tuesday, 11th and 12th. Sale of Seven Thousand yards, all Duchesse. former price Meee ocapenavard former price 1,00 90c per yard former price 1.25 Pongee Silk, en Thousand yards in Colors, also natural 27 inches 55c per yard dn Both Stores, Floor. January the 11th. 1.45 per yard value 2,00 | COLORED DRESS GOODS. Floor. January the 11th. Chevron weaves in and green mixtures, 5.00 each former price 15,00 In Both Stores, January the 11th, e and Colored Wash Colors: nk, Nile green, helio- trope, French grey, Alice blue, rose and 25c per yard value 4Sc White Corded and Fancy Madras. 18c per yard value 30¢ le Crepe, pure white, Desirable for waists. 40 inches wide. 68c per yard value 1.00 34th Street