The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1909, Page 4

LITTLE WATER 10 FIGHT IRE THAT THREATENS TWO BLOCKS WN BRONX > ! was discovered by his shopmates, who ran back and dragged him out just as Pressure So Low That Blaze | ‘"e fire was reaching for him. He was 7 = z taken to Lincoln Hospital. Got a Long Start in Piano ! ‘Thomas Herlihy, a fireman, was struck on the left hand by a sheet of Factory District. | failing glass, His thint finger was al- | most severed, but Chief Croker had to igive him a personal order would xo home The loss to the Newby & Evans con- }oern ia estimated at about $10),00) Decker & Company and Ludwig & Com pany will be unable to estimate their losses unttl qhey figure the damage done before he CHIEF CROKER ANGRY. by water to their finished product. Flames, Which Started at the | Newby & Evans Factory, [oo THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY § 1908 GIRL AILLS THU IN COURT; SHOOTS EX-WIFE CAN SUE AFTER SESSION TWO OTHER MEN GUGGENHEIM AGAIN AT WHITE HOUSE pes e >- Seeking Vengeance by the Un- Grace Brown's written Law Code, She Fires Into Crowd. Second Suit Scored in Court as Near Blackmail. Senators Have Conference With Roosevelt, Then Wire Legislators on Jap Bills, TO A REFEREE.! wasutneron, Feb 3- Roosevelt to-day sent for Senators Ngw- Aaa) Beati: Salle \VY i " Sy dan sq lands and Nixon, of Nevada, and Borah, Accused Assailant Falls With Mr, Nash Will Hear Evidence | c+ sano, and talked over the Japanese Three Bullets — Shot as to Validity of Her situation with them Through Window. Chicago Divorce. | WOU} |SENT ‘DED IN BAD WAY, President ‘The President yes- terday felt that he would not take any action relative to the work of the lower house of the Nevada Legislature In de- Finally Subdued. Lack of water pressure for the fire Men gave a long start to a piano factory Blaze in the Bronx to-day, and for a time the fire threatened « square blook ef factories, flats end lumber yards, Ohiet Croker, in personal charge of the firemen, sent in four alarms and his language over the shortage of water was almost as picturesque and smoky as the fire itsett, There 1s a big collection of plano feo: | around One Hundred and Thirty: | Among the passengers arriving from | waa {n an ante-room and the prisoner tories fifth street and Southern Boulevard. Among them {s the five-story building at No, 106 and 108 Kast One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street, oocupled by the Newby & Evans Company, The oon- cern, however, utilizes but two floors and employs thirty men. Adjoins Lumber Yard, To the eastward of the building is & lumber yard filled with seasoned lumber, and adjoining the lumber yard fa the three-story frame piano factory of Lud. | wig & Co, Adjoining this factory to the | east are two five-story flat-houses, ahel- tering forty families. There is a vacant lot weet of the Newby & Evans factory, and next to the lot, on the corner of Southern Boulevard, a five-story brick flat-house, ‘CUBA WILL PROTECT AMERICAN CAPITAL Gomez Promises Suitable il islation and Encouragement, | | Banker Says. | Havana this morning on the Ward Line | steamship Saratoga was a party of | New York busi men who had been | | making @ several weeks’ trip through [the Interior of the island, They were Benjamin B. Lawrence, mining engineer | and president of the Cuban Copper Com. | | Dany; hie assistant, J, B, Thomas jr., jand James 0, Colgate, the banker, of No, 3% Wall otreet. Speaking of the situation in Cuba at the present time, Mr. Colgate sald; “I have been in almost al! parte of the ‘sland, and I think thet if over the Cuban people had @ chance to make good and show whether or not they are | ready for self-government ft 1s at the| present time, In the person of their President they have a man who will do | his utmost. One thing the Amorican GATESVILLE, Tex., an automatic Fi i} 108) Justice Gerard, cf the Supreme Court, Verna Mise Ware, daughter of a farmar, fired re- peatedly into « killing John Hanes, a merchant Jonesboro, for whom the bullets were intended, and James Smith, a bystander. David Ross and A. R. Wiley jr., also spectators in court, were wounded, ‘The shooting occurred during the con- cluaston of the case on trial in the Dis- trict Hanes was on trial on @ charge of ruining the girl. Miss Ware revolver, No a referee to take testimony and determine by fact and whether the Chicago divorce ob- tained by Grace Brown Guggenhelm, under which she received $150,000 in cash { ilou of alimony, from William Gug- kenheim, and « few weeks ried Jules Roger Wahl, » Frenchman, fifteen years her juntor, was valld or Whether it waa vold and leaves her in |a position to again sue Guggenhelm, |the youngest of the seven millionaire | mine owner in the court-room awalting the calling) The Woman's marriage to Wah! In | New York was annulled by the French courts on his application, but, accord- Ing to the allegation of Samuel Unter- myer, counsel for Mr. Guggenheim, at her instigation, on the ground that he was a minor and that both gave fic- tittous names at the altar. Then she began a new sult against Mr, Guggen- [helm for an absolute divorce, clalm- Hing the Chicago divorce she obtained mber, 1900, four weeks after her 88 Wall street, crowded court-room. oF law seriously later mar- Court. of the case. Approaching a window from which a view of the court-room could be had Miss Ware saw Hanes among the spectators and, before she could be restrained, drew the revolver trom the folds of her dress and opened fire. Three of the bullets struck Hanes, Inflleting wounds !n the back and arms. He died within an hour. Smith was shot {n the head, and died early y. Ross was wounded in the back and arm. | 69 to Guggenhetm in Hoboken, Wiley received a bullet in hie leg. Mise W84 vold. Bhe all that Guggen- heim sent her to Chicago to get the divorce and that neither of them was |a resident of Chicago, and therefore the Court there had no jurtediction Telle Her History ——_————— VESTA VICTORIA When Willlam M. Seabury applied to | Justice Gerard to-day in behalf of Grace Ware and her brother, Charles Ware, were arrested. to-day named John MoLean Nash, of | |nouncing the Japanese, but despite the ‘act that the two Nevada ators would not talk {t ls understood they took away with them requests to get in touch at onca w'th the members of the Nevada State Senate and stop further (progress of the resolution now before that body. The fact thag Senator Newlands is Democrat and & Nixon a Rapub- Moan makes {t possible to influence the State to the extent of holding up the resolution that has gone through the House, Senator Borah's visit was to tell the President that he did not look for any action in his State such as that in Névada, After leaving the White House Sen- ator Nixon sent the following telegram to the President of the Nevada Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly ‘The Japanese question, like the Chi- nese question, is non-partisan to all Ne- vada's citizens. I take it that the ob- of the resolution now before the vada Legislature !s a serious one and was Introduced for the purpose of secur- ing beneficial results. Personally, I have no desire to inject my views, but after a conversation with the Presideng this morning I feel that {t {8 my duty As & representative of the people of Nevada to sugges: to the Legislature through you gentlemen that the very object of the resolution may be Injured by radical action at this time,” Toe President assured the Nevada Senators that his only desire In auese matter was to Directly in the rear of the Newby &| people may be asaured of—the Cubans, Evans plant and facing One Hundred | as @ claas, do not Mke us, Our ways are and Thirty-fifth street, fs the big five: | different, story plano factory of Decker & Co, | “One of the most interesting episodes the new Mr. Alfred A. Newby, head of the of our trip was a visit to Newby & Evans Company, left his| president, Senor Jose Miguel y Gomes. private office, on the ground floor of! His face {a weatherbeaten and strong, the factopy, at 11.80 o'clock to mal and the features denote perseverance! tour of the workrooms, closing the door! and determination. We felt at onoe behind him, When he returned, two) that we were in the presence of a man! minutes Inter, and opened the door he | of power, and that if his administration was met by a rush of hot smoke that! were not successful there was little, almost knocked him off hie feet. hope for immediate self-rule in Cuba, | Entire Office In Flames. He listened with Interest to what ar, | | Lawrence had to say in regard to the As soon as the door was opened We! nining interests in Cubs, and told ue ch terlor of Mr, Newby's @ffloe j / shyeae a.) that he cally) epprecis ted the need of burs o flames. An alarm wes soun foreign capital for the development of Bal tror box in the factory, | Cuba, and that so far as lay in his hur iy the time the two engines re: | power he Intended to encourage foreign : “ Investment by the enactment of sult sp & reached the acene the blage| ity leginlation and by the fullest pro had spread up the elevator shaft to the| tection for capital invested in the root. island.” 1 — Sc alcolm Ray on Ms way home| to h jumped to eater and pulled C DON’T KISS IF YOU VALUE Bec alarm when he saw the size of the t ‘Then he summoned the po- HEALTH, MINISTER SAYS. | Hee es, Deputy Chief Ahearn, re- ag to the second alarm, turned tn to which Chief Croker reapond- @ third, When the Rev, John L. Scudder, of 44, and he sounded @ fourt! as soon aa | Jersey City, announced that he waa be arrived from his headquarters in|Séalnst klesing he started trouble in [that burg’s social circles. The Rev. Mr. East Sixty-weventh streot. a For ten minutes after the first detatt | Scudder ts pastor of the Firat Congre- | of firemen reached the scene only a|ational Church, of Jersey City, and a trickle of muddy water could be forced |!¢ading member of the local league to .trom the hose, Without any opposition | Prevent the spread of disease. He ad- whatover the fire enveloped the whole | 4r¢! the league last night In Newby & Evans factory and, borne by | People’s Palace, and startled them with & strong wind, lapped the surrounding | lis denunciation of the gentle art of buildings, | kissing, Fortunately the Newby & Bvans| “Bisep with your windows open, sat plant, being open on four sides was «| t fo tooda tne cold baths and don't fair mark for the firemen, Whan the, And to make thie stronger he even is water pressure finally died arrive there alleged tolhave added: = at { j Hapee Sritrs h the shut tf you wag w sufficlent fire fighting forces On| wane to, or don't sleep at all; eat any- the ground to utilize all of it, and the thing you Ike In preference to wha Teal fire was confined to the factory in| you don't Ika; leave off cold baths if whioh it starte!, you will, but in the name of all that's (healthy, unless you put no value on your Other Factories Damaged. health, don't kiss.” the a8 _ Tae Tadwig & Co.'s frame factory w. = Dadly scorched. The rear of the Decker | OAKLAND ENTRIES. factory was bllatored and part of the building was families | OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. §—The en- were drivsi trom the | tries for Emeryy! fiat 3 gered section. At One hirty-fifth street | ss Public Scoot largest tn the Bronx, shboriood 4 up with | ACH sig furor 108, Loule co) the! th bareheaded, 1 the police hud e tho fire Insted |‘ end tinnge done, there were mur- 7 pr w aockdents, Nicholas 2 Yarden, te e e6 of the Newby & Kvans ly War rene c LY, Was welued with an eplleptio yivy HW RAGE mn the building and | jf Weld Hiway, His abeonce i TAMPA ENTRIES, Sidewalks) "MAENRES to-morrow follow! three-year-olds and OND wae fhresy (Griten, YAH gelling t nae @ (uy d. 295,936 separ ade gf verilscine veur—126,131 me than Herald or ANY OTHEK New York newspaper, | TET BALK —Pupeo inaitan thre yay With World “Wants” to Guide || [sy kre Toh Mere pat Marte, | You Can Taka'a Cir Direetly deepal Yeas ve we) Duley Giles, 3 | to the Place You\Seek, da Tocrong silo Uieisnit Mah | il Wa aati | hal welfare, and he ality of avoiding all sible in absolute divorce, Guaeennel Actes |e SACRAMENTO, Feb, $—A A. Samuel Untermyer denounced {t as merely an attempt to get more money | from Guggenhelm, because the woman London Concert Hall Singer|wno nad divorced tim twenty de Be | after her marriage to him, when he was Asks to Have Them Con- | put @ boy, had epent the $150,000 she got ; ‘trom him then, Mr. Untermyer gave Solidated Into One. WU FQUR LAWSUITS i ae counsel fees pending her eult against en anti-Japanese etved to-di ’, ter from the Pres! dent, in which e latter gald he was not opposed to the Drew bill prohibiting all allens owring lands, When the Antl-Alien Land bill was taken up to-day Mr, Drew wae recog- niaed, "It ta most {mportant for Calt- fornia to do her part to protect the in- tegrity of her soll as it fe fur the Na- tlunal Government to preserve our tn- tegrity,' sald Mr, w fe denied that } labor or ures at thi nen) a} | her history aa follows; | Born in Chioago, her first matrimonial | venture was with a young Ben Fran- On behalf of Vai Victoria, Charles | olsoo man named Herbert. That mar- L, Hoftman appiled to Justice Piatzek riage was broken up by her running in the Supreme Court to-day to have) away with an aotor in the “County the result Excluston four suits brought by Bert Cooper| fair” company, and Herbert got a di. ee ition Against the London music hall anger in| yor ‘Then, while living at the Wal- oe eg e the City Court consolidated and (rane) qort.o\vria, sho attracted the atten- TIFFANY STORE IN ’FRISCO. red to the Supreme Court, there to be) tor, ‘WII! Guggentelm, and they tried ae one suit. Mr, Hoffman also| were ; icried, A divorce twenty days asked for wn injunction restraining| inter sich hie gift of $180,000 left her “ew York Firm Sald to Have Le: Cooper from proceeding in the City! free, nocording to her own view, to @ 18-S8tory Bnilding There. Court, where one of these cases was| marry Jules Roger Wahl, Then the an- | BAN FRANCISCO, Feb Co, of New York, have Head Building, a thirteen-story struc- ture In the newly built retall district, real estate men say, and wil establish & lurge store in thie city. The interior of the bullding has not bean comple bur D, O, Mille furnished (he owners with money to hurry the work and complete ft In the manner required by the New nulment of that marriage, not because the Chicago divorce was yold, but for | other reasons, | Want More Mon: “Inahe meantime, on Oot. 17, uggenhelm, relying on the he Chicago divorce, a ntil she saw a chance of getting mora . money from Guggenhelm, he married ‘These sults are based on an aewer-| \imen Lillian Blernberger, a moat eatl- | Yon of Bert Cooper that | employed tii | mable young woman, and they are now y n fi » mated, Their marrt as my manager in 1Wi, and that | was to Ss Ra HN tried a year aKo. The judgment there given to Cooper was reversed by the Appellate Term of the Bupreme Court and a new trial or- dered Veuta Victoria sald In an aMdavit pre sented by Mr. Hoffman hee pay him 6 per vent. of all inoregae he | Mae solemnised in Eine yer to | York tenants Tifeny that any such contract ever ex. | Tage Seabury! of ered 26 At this point Mr. withdraw the motion for allmony if Mr, Untermyer would agree to send the uestion of the validity of the Chicago teted, and I claim that avy increase I day have had in my woekly salary was Bort C004 i his complaint that ((/\rce to a referee to be determined on Miss Vicrorla had never commanded | waence and on law. Mure then $1.00 a week, which she Was “hig was ayreed to, receiving wnen she enpaged him as r oo FIND NAPOLEON’S HORSE. Emperor's White Charger, Stuffed | manager under the 6 per cent, arrange ment, and thut he tmmediately secured ngagement at) t before ourt, Cooper Paid nin BS 4h | With Straw, tn Cellar of Lonvre. | n him diamond cuft| p i vat vhite | Tpke ana PARIB, Feb $.—A atraw-atufted white | horse which has been found in the cellars of the Louvre, turns out to be) Napoleon's famous charger Viair, pre-, said In answer to 3 that Mise Vi inka, oth ») Was bis per ¢ @ wine bill he evidence lof the Second Emplr double knees sizes 6 to 10. Extra sizes trong yarn, double kne: tol How Can We Afford to Give Skilled Ocullsts Without Cost? A competent ocullst, tM a private office at considerable examining at most three or four patlents dally, 1s com- J to charge comparatively high prices, T dur publeity department, coupled with our reputation, | gulned hy many years of successful business, wwe soap our eculists continually occuried With examinations, Dividal ainouy the bumureds of patients served daily the of our Oeulists tor each Individual examination is very Night Gowns, 2 to 16 years, Nainsook or Cambrio, Drawers, 2 to 16 years, Embroidery or lace trimmed, Skirts, 2 to 16 years, Embroidery or lace trimmed, peti. Dutch and Eton Collara of Batiste and Lace. | Real Irish Lace Bton Collars. comperisit small, profit charged for the glasses—while extremely reason- able—!s suiticlent to cover ALL operating expenses, hus the pattent shares with us the advantage of our enormous brustness > assured perfectly prescribed and fitted glasses at a reasonable cost, ( sses—if need #1 and unward Wittowis HESS of striped or plain talfet neat Joba Street. ice sufficient Women’s and Misses’ Nechwear Values SOc. to $1.25 Hand Embroidered Linen Hton Collars. Women's Silk Petticoats in new shades, also Messaline silk, in black, white, street and evening shad ein gener neers meer amemartmereeren Pe A Mere n eamceree ere tmetttiendnn: ar serene tae enema PARI Ro oo ATEN Ro Nr TE IRN RN YN ied plana REE RANE I WILL DECIDE F NEVADA WARNED SUGAR TRIST SUIS. == ARE READY FOR TRIAL aes Testimony in Government’s Actions to Recover $2,124,- 000 to Begin Friday. Six of the seven sutts tnstituted by the Government against the American Sugar Refining Company to resover customs duties agregating $624,121.16 were to-day marked ready for trial before Judge Holt, in the United States District urt. The taking of testimony In these proceedinus, In which the United States seeks to recover $2,14,121.16 on allega- tlons that the American Sugar Refining Company produced “such devices and practices to be used on the scales on which the goods were weighed by cus- toms welghers as caused the said scales to register less than the true weights.” will begin on Friday morning, John B, Stanchfleld, Henry F. Cochrane and the firm of Parsons, Closson & Mclivaine will represent the defense, The seventh suit now pending tn the United States Cireult Court ts to re cover back duties eince 1901, amounting to $1,540,000, for alleged violations of section 9 of the Customs act of July, 1890, The complaint In thet action al- Jegea that the Sugar Trust's checker at the Williamsburg sugar dooks juggled with the scales used by the customs weighers #o that the sugar company was enabled to sell & greater amount of sugar than had apparently been weighed by the customs men at the Brooklyn docks. —_——>—_—— WIFE ASPHYXIATED CHICAGO, Feb. &—Mrs, Cora Belle rife of R. T. Forbes, president drovers’ Deposit National Bank, id dead in her bed yesterday Death was due to at Jation by gas, supposedly accidental, Mr. Forbes is in Texas on business. FOR @ prains Bruises Wounds OmesaOil Sprains, bruises and wounds heal | icky when treated with megs il, Itis antiseptic, preventing the growth of microbes. It is a stim- ulant and promotes free circulation around the wound, thus quickening Yhe healing process. 10c., 26c., 60c A big sale for little folks at little prices, Suits and overcoats for the youngster of kilt size up tothe long pants age at a price reduction of 25 Moe Levy & Co., 1439 Broadway ‘1196125 Walker St. New \ork New York 380-382 Fulton St., Brooklyn Franklin Simon & Co, Fifth Avenue—37th-38th Sts. SPECIAL SALES THURSDAY Hosiery : a tented t0 hin Dy UO EME Ce He Women’s and Misses’ Pure Thread Silk Hose asa) nothing tohdg that the horse died in 1824 on the estate In Black, Tan, street and evening shades, 95c Aa y dof De Chaulaire, the peror's que: ik is did not pay” tim ‘Napoleon's horse, whieh had’ boos cotton or silk soles, Value $1.45 7 because he kept | J, finally reached the Manchaste r; ’ tig, me for money, He ts a AEA History, foclety. At hevatse ag Women's and Misses’ Silk Lisle Hose 35c or lution of the society O38, the horse hi dimitted that he once drew «| wus “forwa to Napoleon Iil, and In Blaok, Tan or White, Value 50c ‘ and threatened to blow hia) waa rel to. the cellars a fratng out unles# Miss Victoria married | Louvre, Tt way. forgotten “faring {2 Women's and Misses’ Embroidered Lisle Hose 35 P him, but thie wes stricken out of the! critioal period preceding the downfail In Black or Tan, embroidered insteps. Value 50c “ Cc Girls’ and Boys’ Ribbed Cotton Hose Black, Tan or White, broad or narrow ribbed, 29¢ | Boys’ Black Ribbed Cotton Hose | | | BROADWAY AT THIRTEENTH ST, WOMEN’S DEPARTMEN! Have Deferred Inventory One Week From Feb. Ist to Feb. 8th In Order to Close Out Their Entire STOCK OF COATS for Women & Misses Satin and cloth capes Long military coats Closing Out—All Girls’ Goats $2.50 $5.00 Values to $15 $7.90 / Values from $25 to $50° Full length broadcloth Full length seal cloth Full | Full length kersey Full length caracul Perper Full length mixture cloth Long seal and pony cloth Full length plaidback tt embroidered satia Long peau de sole Full length caracul ‘and embrotdered cloth — Long pastel street coats i cloth Full length broadctoth Military broadcloth capes fi Short length caracul Full length covert Imported evening wra cloth Light color evening coats Imported street coats HE OUTER GARMENT SHOP 12 West 23d Street ABSOLUTE AND FINAL CLEARANCE Coats and Wraps QbD LOTS AND A FEW OF A KIND TO BE DISPOSED OF Pbilipsborn AT_ON (HAN THE COST OF MATERIAL. er At 7.95 were $20 Odd coats and broken lines of Broadcloth, Cheviot and mixtures es long, and Directoire in three-quarter and full length and Empire models in tine Broad- models; ajority guaranteed cloths; also various styles in ting Skinner lined. imported mixtures. 11.50% 22100 m8 | Odd Goats of Broadcloth in Em- Full Length Goats of Velour, ire and Directoire effects, and Chinchilla—Caracul and Broad- Tourist Coats of imported fab- in various colors; also rics: 0 «Evening Wraps of iffon Broadcloth and Sattn Broadcloth in pastel shades. ng Wraps in n¢w models. ~———— SPECIAL PURCHASE 1 85 Gowns at 11.75 | Value $24 Messalines and new Spring Foulards in all colors; Empire and Directoire etlects; elaborately trimmed. 14,75 we 92 Imported Caracul Cloth Coats, | SPECIAL SALE OF 50-Inch Pony Skin Fux Coats 34.50 42,00 55.00 Value $65 Value $80 Value $110 ES th Ave. th Corner 17 Street Suit Sale For Women and Misses : Room must be had for the beautiful new incoming Spring stocks—out tnust go the present stock—the whole of it to the very last suit, This determination places our entire stock of suits before you at amazingly low prices, You may buy a suit now—when Winter's just begun, wear it 'way into the Spring and at the same time make a phenomenal saving, Value 0c Sults of Values Reduced Prices Broadcloth 5:0 Value 25c 19¢ 30 Chevron 7 Misses’ & Girls’ Underwear | 85, 45, 80, 35, .48, .65 1.95 145 Value 63.05 Value $3.38 9.75 11-78 12-40 14.% Li Worsted Cheviot Wide Wale _ Diagonal PAYS FOR A POSITION HEN secured through a 18-word- for-a-quarter “ Situation Wanted” Ad. in THE WORLD. wai illegal ictihiceli 5.