The evening world. Newspaper, January 12, 1909, Page 4

) 4 FRE IN PRODUCE XCHANGE PUTS BLINDLY GROPING LIFE IN PERL —>—— William Davis Nearly Roasts to Deiat Shaft of Elevator. NDED BY SMOKE. h in Counterweight WAS BL Blaze Started in Insulating Ma- terial on the Network of lectric Wir a B es, The counterwelght shaft for the elevators in the Produce Exchange Bullding 1s separate frm the elevator shaft, For a little time to-day this shaft was William Davis, the assistant engineer of the bullding, ia congratulating himself that he was and is encased in brick walls, turned into an oven. not roastg! in it Davia went into the counterweight shaft at about 10 o'clock to look over the electric wiring, floor wiring in the butiding runs through the counterweight shaft, and complaint was made that some of the call bells and intra-bullding — tele- | phones were not working properly. He entered the shaft at an opening on the second floor level, Saw a Fire Far Above, In a few minutes he heard a crack- ‘ling far overhead, and looking up, saw @ flame sputtering in a tangle of wires at the sixth level, It looked Ike an insignificant fire, and Davis under- | took to climb up the side of the shaft, | clinging to cables and bracing his feet against cleats. He had hardly reached | the third story level when flakes of burning {nsulating material began rain- ing down on him. He looked up again and saw that the fire had spread all over the top of the shaft. The flames grew even as he watched them, and a great pall of greasy smoke came down and enveloped him. Almost blinded, he. began a retreat. It was much harder to climb down than to get up. He had to feel his way. There was no ladder and he had to feel for his supports for hands and feet. | The brick shaft, though it was thirty feet by six feet, became Intensely hot. Davis was too much choked to cry out. When he at last staggered Into the hall of the building out of the second story his eyem were popping out of his head | and he was reeling, He had just breath onough to give the alarm, The Blaze Put Out, Supt. J. H. Fedeler summoned the Bx- change fire department, which includes all the elevator men, cleaners and hall men, and ordered # hose run to the sixth floor from the exchange auxiifary fire department. Somebody else turned in a regular fre alarm. The exchange's pri- vate pump is a monster and the fire was drowned out before the city firemen ar- rived. Incidentally the basement of the Produce Exchange was flooded and the pump had to be reversed after the fire was out to clear it of water. Deputy Chief Guerin, of the Fire De- | partment, made an investigation and gave it as his opinion that the fre was caused by rotted insulation among the old wires and dead wires bunched at the top of the shaft and was augmented | by the quantities of oil which had been for years accumulating on the counter- welght pulleys and cables and slide-) rails. Businéss around the Exchange was suspended for a time, but no damage outside of the shaft was recorded. Davis recovered after an hour and was able to resume his duties. ——— as MRS, ROOSEVELT'S DANCE. WASHINGTON, Jan, 12—The White House will be the scene next Friday eve- ning of a reception and dance given by Mrs. Roosevelt. On the following Fri- day evening the Fres and. Mra. Roosevelt will xive a small dinner, whtch will be f ve third of | the re g which Mrs. Rooseve on, Instead of her w ales, Help Wanted | | To-Day ! (As advertised for in The Moming Werld’s Want Directory, Ay 3 tri Ad tressers Makers Agents Ww Alt Arpprantioas ’ M4 Artists or “ 4 wositors Gooks (Ma Cooke (Fama: Cutters Day's ¥ Dresses De Drug (\« Electrictine Elevator § Bmbrotderer Teta). The World prit Help Ads, 612, more New York papers All the between | MLIONS SPENT OR NEW AQUEDUC Water Sine Commissioner Shaw Admits Hudson Prob- lem Is Not Solved. THREE WAYS POSSIBLE, Construction Started Without Definite Idea of Cross- ing Wide River. Charles A. Shaw, a Commissioner of the Board of W building the $162,000,000 Ashokan water was a witness before the Cas- ter Supply, which Is system, aldy Investigating Committee to-day Commissioner Shaw testified that {tein of $130,000 for supplies was pur- chased in open market In $1,000 lots and without advertising. cases the Commission may make ex- penditures in 5,000 lots without adver= tising, “Did you spend that $190,000 by break- ing it up in $1,000 lots?” axel Senator Ca "We did not. We had several emer- gency cases,” answered the witness. “Then you may have broken it up in 95,00 emergency lots?” suggested the Ls an In emergency Board Has Fleet of Autos. Tt was developed that the Water Sup- ply Board has a fleot of automobiles. | Five are used outside the city by the! engineers, Two are stationed at White | Plains, one at Peekskill, one at Pough- | | Keepsie and one at Brown Station, “And I frequently run across an {ten charging $4,000 for rent of automobiles, said Chairman Cassidy. "Yes," anawered Commissioner Shaw "Our paymasters have frequently to j rent automobiles in order to pay the | tional League for Civie Education some Public Service Commission to | Harbor workmen on time, as required by Louls Bedell, counsel to the commit- tee, asked regarding the “Mayor's Monument" erected at Brown Station, “Oh! that's all newspaper talk It's} just a triangulation monurnent, or sta- | tion for giving a fixed datum over mean water, for elevations and depressions.” “Do you not know that such a stand- ard has already been erected by the State?” asked Mr, Cassidy, “I do not,” answered Mr, Shaw: Tho witness testified that the salaries law." of the engineering force on preliminary survey work amount to $1,373,090.65, and fees to consulting engineers already | ald are $36,410.18, | “Why Is It necessary to engage cop: | sulting engineers?” was asked “This Ashokan enterprise presents | greater problems than the Panama Canal. We have been compelled to consult the most eminent geologists. We have bored in one place for one | | year and have not found solld rock. That was done along the Hudson Bier the crossing of which has not been y = have three methods of crossing the Hudson; through solid rock, through a concrete tunnel or through a viaduct.”’ Why was the city’s millions spent in advance of solving the problems you refer to?" “Because we had recourse to three methods. “But you spent millions in actual con- | struction before a solution was had. Was that not giving medicine before the patient grew sick?" asked Senator Cassidy. “Any one of the methods might be successfully adopted,” answered the witness, STOCKS WEAK IN AN AGING MARKET : Stocks’ started under pressure and as the session advanced the weak- ness In the lea railroad stocks be- © pronoun and the entire Ist lined from fractions to two points je lost 11-4, Union Pacific 16-8, sauinecn Pacific 1, Consolidated Gas 2, o-day, le 1 and Steel 34. Trading was ve “mie total sales of sto were i1U,9w shares, and of bonds $3. m0. The Closing Quotations, tays hlgien! ext and tae o ook off we sterday'a final f a Wa tenerel 4 For Ioribee debitis ace tater etatoah | Vote seekers unintentlonally made con- THE EVE MRS, PAL 1, MORTON, WHO HAS BECOME A SUFFRAGIST,| Wal eraliereyese, MRS. PAUL MORTON SUFFRAGE CONVERT» Deserted the “Antis” After Speech by Dr. Lyman Abbott. Mrs Paul Morton, one of the “antis that went back on the falth after br Lyman Abbott's address to the Na+ weeks ago, when his attack upon the | verts of some of those opposed, will be a prominent figure at the suffrage luncheon of @ Interurban Council on Friday afternoon at the Hotel Astor, When Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, Misa/ Ethel Arnold and the Rey, Anna Shaw | are to make addresses. Mrs, Morton | will entertain a table of eight guests. This defection is the more pro- noun i that Mrs. Morton has borne the title of Honorary Vice-President of | the Nat League for Civile Educa: | t of which Mrs, Richard Wa’ ( ris the President and Mrs. bert Jones chairman of the Executi CoG iT Sasa FELL UNCONSCIOUS INTO EAST RIVER Despite Wounded Head and Icy Bath Quinn Wanted to Go Back to Work. About as hardy an olf citizen as lives | in New York ts John Quinn, of No. 1018 Avenue A. John ts sixty-five years old, his hair ts gray and he Is @ Iittle stift in his movements, but every day, rain | or shine, he works at unloading coal barges for the Curtls-Blalsdell Com- yany at One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street and the East River. He was at work to-day tn the driving drizzle of rain, standing on the edge of a barge guiding a big bucket full of oal, when one of his feet slipped. Over- board he went, striking his head against the dock as he fell and cutting a long deep gash over his right eye. The blow rendered him unconsclous, Instinetively the surface of the moment and then sild out of sight. Christopher Ketzler, of No. 431 Con- cord avenue, the Bronx,,a four- hard-finished, complete and admirab! s on the dock when old man spped into the cold water. Orff went Kretzler's coat and hat and into the water went Kretzler. By rare good luck he caught Quinn at the> first at ' ‘Ait him to the surface and | pported him unt! workmen hoisted | to the dock. n was apparefftly in a bad way, hero w NING WORLD, T UESDAY, JANUARY 12, 190». MANY KLLED BY HOW $70,000 WAS. MORAMET ON THE SEGOND CRASH EXPENDED UNDER STAND NUNN} Ano IN COAL MINE HAPFEN IN BRONX From Fifty ron One Hundred Charge Then Before MacFar- Reported Dead in Colliery in West Virginia. BLUPFIBLD, W. Va. Jan. 12—As the} result of another explosion at the Lick Branch Mine, at Switchback, about twenty miles from here, between fifty and one hundred miners were killed al sO Ais morning. The number nay be largely Increased, as from 230 to 20 miners were at work at the time, and It had not been ascertained, short- ly before noon, how many had survived. | On Dec. 28 last an explosion oc- | curred in this mine, which up to that time had been regarded as a model. On that occasion the cause was not as-) vertalned, and the death list reached | fifty, The last body in connection | with that explosion was brought to the | surface only last Friday, after which the State Mine Inspectors declared | that the mine was again safe and that work could be resumed. The majority of the miners who were engaged to resume work at the mine were Americans, with a few for- eigners and some colored workers as laborers. It was stated that the mine was ex-! mined early to-day before the new itt went to work and that it was re- ported to be perfectly safe, In spite of | ith {s, however, soon after work had be- gun the explosion occurred with a death Tet uae will Calpe fae exceed that | f the December ‘The: mine {s the spent “ot the Poca- hontas Consolidated Collieries Company hese streets to make and ts situated In the Tug River dis-|adam was put on the i trict, a territory that until the Decem- Len ee teeta Commas Honan stitehel hat ber explosion had been unusually free), (Vell, Hf you are going Oy iteal pur: | pone pose should have stated so in your charm retorted Van Doren. Much of the tes at the WANT RECEWVERS 10 PUT ON MORE CARS H, Joline and Douglas Robinson, and the Hnes which operate on Fourteenth street, one of which crosses the Will- iamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn and ¢ other to Avenue A. It was the cond tions on the Eighth atreet line to Brook- lyn and to the East Tenth Street Ferry which stirred the recelyers and the Commission to its recent interchange of hot letters. ° The object is to find out whether the Metropolitan Street Hallway Company, or its receivers, operate cars enough on f | this line to accommodate the passenger traMe offered and to determine whether the jee on that Ine should be in- ea by the operation daily, Includ- ing Sunday, past certain restrictive points of heaviest traffic, Including Marginal street, Elghth avenue, Avenue ‘A and at Delancey street, during all hours of the night and day, a sufficient number of cars in each direction to pro- vide at each of the polnts named a number of seats at least equal to the number of passengere at such points The number of cars passing each of the points named, It ts held, must never be less than six per hour tn each Idreciton, or @ minimum number of fifteen cars in one direction past each of the points above named,” ——e VANDERLIP PROMOTED. Elected President of the National, City Bank, - Frank A. Vanderlip, formerly vice- president of the National City Bank, was to-day elected president of that institution to succeed James Stillman, who remains a member of the board of di rs Mr. Stillman, who resigned on account vf ill health, pt The elec- ton of Mr. bank’ wala e been at My ft elected chairman of which is a new t bloud down h face A fui of rash hospital TURKEY ACCEPTS AUOTRS OFER a lement of wa. Will Prevent War Over Balkan Annexation. he Aur jung r of § 4” Inder for t a f vania and t eBay ng every pos- ty nd Vieter, A. ais Halla ingarian Anibassa: BROOKLYN MAN APPOINTED ALBANY, Jan 12 —State Comptrol- lier Gaus todar an wnced @ ap: 0) ohn ive tock transfer tak | showed lane That It Was Used to Pave Uhimportant Streets Spoctal Commissioner MacFarlane, appointed by Gov. Hughes, continued today his hearing on the charges against Louis Hasfen, President of the Borough of the Bronx, whom the Gov- ernor ts waked to remove. The testimony to-day brought out de- talls of the expenditures of $70.0, which was appropriated to pay for street pay- Ing. The complaint filed with the Gover- nor recites that the appropriation was authorized by the Board of Estimate and the Board of Aldermen after cer- tain important thoroughfares were en- umerated for repavement. It !s charged | that the money was expended on unim- Portant and little used streets and the main thoroughfares originally enumer- ated were neglected Examining Engineer Walton described in detail the streets which were mac- ;adamized out of the appropriation and noted the importance of those neglected —Boston road, Fifth avenue and Kings- bridge road being among them. Mr Van Doren, of counsel for Haffen, want- ed to know what was the purpose of the testimony, am nthe maps would readily show what was done ut think” we will show that the mac- | morning session ary evid tional dent Hi const that s Ww i na altogether over $800,000. The Buck's aine, Ua 4 the one which favored in Hold Hearings to Determine | ana “intra «ite, pecifention : bans CPUS enitgy OME aon os Needs of the Public. | _ KILLED AT ASTOR ANNEX, The Public Service Commission in a SS public meeting this morning followed ron Worker Falla From Tenth the letter sent to the receivers of the Floor to Broadway Sub-Cellar, Metropolitan Street Railway deal with conditions on Its lines, by adop fel an order for hearings to begin Jan m the at 2.3) PB. M. The question tu be con- now sidered is the adequacy of the service was provided by the Metropolitan Street , : lRatiway, through the receivers, Adrian Nee mNlOhahaTeeit utes evelt. Hosp!ta! arriving ath man was c! g up a ladder when he toppled er backwards and ptehed headlong down a. shaft. Hie fall was not broken until he struck a wire screen on the firet floor, PACIFIC PROBE come Former Chairman of Atchison ?xecutive Committee a Wit- | ness for Defense. Viet witness stand by or Morawetz was called to the former Judge Lovett, Pacific before United States Spect Sylvester G Williams, in the Custom House Mr was formerly and then chalr- | man of the Executive Committee of | the Atchison, Topekd & Santa Fe Rail- | road Company, but resigned last Oc- tober. It was the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad which sold to the South- ern Pacific the ‘connecting line’ be-| tween the Phoenix and Eastern Rail-| road, and a Southern Pacific branch | road. The witness was subpoenaed by | the Government, but Mr. Severance | falled,to call him to the stand Mr" Morawetz told former Judge! Lovett that he had been a member of th ecutive Committee and of coun- sel that reorganized the Atchison in 1895 The witness said that he was ite familiar with the affalrs of the any, except as to trae and pas- in the Union mercer hearing al Examiner Morawets | counsel senger matters, more famillar am to| policies than any one else As to the Phoenix and astern mat- tern matter, he suld “In 1901 the Atchison Company Jbought stock and second mortgage bonds on a Fe, Prescott and Phoentx ay Company. Mr. Fra | Murphy was stdent of the com: pany. Because of his abfiity and ou confidence we asked him to Thts he has Ad a project to huild | a road front Phoenix to Benson. T Ald not think the spect A good one. Local business was small, mining tual | ness was purely prospective. Twas not nding money for In! Murphy sald he we If tt to a bulkl ft ourrelves. d tt to Dudley was or winter nego- | tations were entered for a settlement of differences bet and Atchisoi HH i Clearing Sale January 4 to 16 DR. REED Cushion Shoes LADIES’ $5.00 BROKEN LINES, $3.45 | i Men's $5,00 Patent Leather Men's $6.00 Broken Lines Men's House Siippers, Broken Sizes . Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoe Co., Ltd., 1352 Broadway, cor. 36th St. Small sizes 3.55 Iii 4.85 2.85 oe JustGOLD MEDALFLOUR IF MAKES LITTLE DERERENCE WHAT YOU NEED this afternoon, | J Our Great January Sale. a/ 10,000 Lingerie Waists $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 where to approach these goods at our prices. F FINAL UNCEMENT Concerning the Sale of the Bankrupt Stock OMMERS Mercantile Co. 23a st, Cor, oth Ave, We are forced to vacate this store by Thursday, Janu- ary 14th—as the entire stock on hand has been sold i ' bulk at a tremendous sacri- fice. The conditions of this transaction allow the dis- posal of garments at retail until Thursday, Taking Advantage of This Clause We Have Cut Prices to the Lowest Notch—Giving the Following Examples of Unheard i of Bargains in Every Dept. Dressy and Tailored Suits for Women | and Misses \ Street and Evening | Coats for Women aid Misses Suits now $7 were 315 Coatsnow $3 were $15 | Suits now $10 wre $25 | Coats now $10 were $25 | Suits now £20 were 849 Coats now $16 were $35 Suits now $25 were 859 Coais now $20 were $50 Suits row $35 were $95 Coats now $50 were $200 | Gowne and Dresses | ' forWomenand Misses Gowns new $5 were 315 Gowns now $10 were $20 Gowns now $15 were 835 Gowns now $25 were $50 Gowns now $50 were 3/50 | Belts Soiled Leather Belts. Were high as $2.50 Far Coats for Women and Misses | 50 in. Pony, $42.50 were $75 36 in. Caracul, $45.0) were $85 48 in. Caracul, $73.00 were $125 50 in. French Seal, $89 were $125 Natural Mink, $285.00 were 8400 Hudson Sable Sets | Hudson Bay Sable Set $175 .10¢ | Silk Directoire Belts... 35¢ | Value $350 Were high as $1 | Hudson Bay Sable Set $395 Studded Elastic Belts.. $1 | Value $625 Were high as 85 | Hudson Bay Sable Set $500 Lace Chemisettes and Coat | Value $950 Collars...... Were high as $2 Irish Crochet Bows—3 for $1 Silk Directoire Stocks and Irish Crochet Collara,....... $1 Were high as 83 Trimmed Hats Waists Black chiffon, lace and taffeta waists, short sleeve mod- C18. cececerersccecee | | { Were high as $26 | Skirts { | Hats, now $1 were $8 | Navy, Brown and Gray Pan- Hats, now $2 were $12 ama and serge skirts, new Hats, now $3 were $15 | gored model......005 Hats, now $65 were $25 Were high as $10 No C.0.D.’s. No Exchanges. No Alterations SHOE SALE Women’s Low Shoes SWEEPING REDUCTIONS Desirable Goods—Grea} Variety ead TIES, ETC,—Gan Metal, Patent Leather, and Tan Russia Calf, Regular $1.45 to $4.75 prices $2,00 to $7,00, SLIPPERS—Black, White, Pink and Blue. al prices $4.00 to $2.45 to $4.75 1000 pairs Sample Ties and Slippers, sizes 4B Socgoe * $2.75 and $3.45 | Corresponding reductions in Women’s Boots and Men’s and Children’s shoes. ° Alexander SIXTH AVENUE AND NINETEENTH STREET Hundreds of Exquisite Designs. Advanced styles at from one-third to one-half their actual value $4.00 $4.50 $5.00 $7.00 to $10.00 and Upwards We recommend early selections, for we belleve nothing can be had any- BROADWAY AND BIGHTEENTH STREET. A SUNDAY WORLD eer Wid Oc eee care