The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1909, Page 1

coronas 6 a OQ $5 -* A =! = go << Love—Hypnotism—Telepathy—Crime— Melodramatic IL (0 bow vewweeree rn rere he Witching Hour By the Great American Playwright, Augustus Thomas. Thrills in the Romance §& eee ~~—_—eeeeee The Opening Chapter of This Story in To-Day’s Evening World Begins 5 in @ To-Day’s Evening World (a) 1d pw to-night and Tnesday, PINAL hy S| PRICE ONE CENT. | 150 CRS RUSH DOWN | O-STORY IRE ESCAPE —> | Explosion of Gas Causes Panic in Workroom) Among 350 Women, FLAME NOT DANGEROUS, Alarm Calls Much Apparatus to Fight Fire Extinguished by Turn of Tap. An open the flow which became ignited, was responsible Jet, of pas from for a fire scare In the workrooms of Ben Levy & makers of wo and Nos. Twelfth street, tnis morning, en's suits cloaks, at 4 an 2% East nd in the | scramble that ensued 160 young women | employed there made the perilous de- scent from the tenth floor of the bulld- ing to the street below by way of the; fire the bullding. More than 3 operatives ployed by the firm, and the work- rooms extend over the entire tenth floor of the Twelfth street building, covering also the top floor of No. 88) University place, which forms an "L." | A presser who was using an fron con-| nected with a gas jet by a long tubs accidentally snatched the tube from the | jet. A lighted burner directely over the jet the presser had been using ignited | the flow of gas and the flame burst! trom the open jet with a roar. One of the frightened girls screamed, | “Fire!” and instantly there was a scramble for the fire escape, One ot ach the sidewalk told a passerby that the entire tenth floor was escape on the outside of are em- on fire, and, although No. engine house immediately adjoins the building from which the ¢ fled, the strange ran to Thirteenth street and Unt t place and tur in alarm, wht resulted in bringing Chief Croker, four engines, two trucks and a fire patrol wagon to the scene, when all that was necessary to check the flame was some one wits presence of mind to turn off the stopcock of the blazing gas Jet Meanwhile the firemen from Engine Company No, 72, seeing that there was no danger, busied themselves in pacl- tying the other tenants of the building and assuring them that there was. neither fire nor danger, HITCHCOCK, THE ACTOR SIVS HE ABINKRUT Dwes $28,294 and Has but} $16 With Which to Settle Up. Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, of No. | 41 West Forty-second street, in a yolun- tary petition filed to-day, gives his lia- | Dilitles as 4, unsecured, with no as- gets save $15 on deposit in the Mutual \. cithk, Hitchcock says he owes the Johnson Service Company of Milwaukee, Wis. $1,000 as a judgment on a note given for fan automobile, which was returned as unsatisfactory; Herman Fromme, of | Cranford © on notes given for | legal 5 i mas Mott Osborne, of Auburn, N. ¥., $1000, money loaned; | Dr. Max Lautermann, Montreal, Can, | $1,500 for attendance at the trial of the People vs. Hitchcock; Carl Fischer West Forty th | Hansen, on a note given egal belle Hitehe } nid stre the Johnson af Milwaukee, 84 for auto- parts and storage. pd SRA The World's Travel Bure: w Pu ra ae | that Theodore THREE FIREME INJURED AT B IN WILLIAMS FRANK NOPE, “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ = | NEW YORK, MONDAY, CHEF GRAMM WES CHOC OF. DED AT ERE TO SECOND HUSBAND. ~——SWVECTHERS. LEASES FRC ‘Rushed in to Warn Firemen, N LAZE SBURG, Miss Illington Couldn't Secure, Better One Than Bowes, Manager Says. Caught With Four Others | Under Falling Wall, SHE LONGS FOR A HOME. “ANOTHER MAN DYING. “Dan Is Thirty Years Older Than I, and That Is a Lot,” She Says, Victims of Williamsburg Oil Blaze Dragged by Comrades From Under Debris. Mict ael Graham, Battalion Chief of 1 Dante! his ite th it 3 men Frohman = announe: to-day his wife, M saw fit to marry e Departmen wh IMington, Raret to save a ot } compar Edward Bowes, of who were imperilled by a tottering Californla, he would approve her 1 at 10 o'clock to-day {n the cholce most enthusiasti District Hospital. His two ‘fr, Bowes,"" he sald, “is young, he and his brother, Fathers, has thrived in the things of the world, nen and Handel, fire chaplains, he !s altogether attrac Ie Mrs. ther Farrell, of the Church of, Frohman longs for a domestle life 1 ter and St. Paul, were with him) could not counsel her better than to at the end approve of her marriage with Mr Just before his life passed, the Chie? Bowes, FEBRUARY 15, 19 clress Who Seeks a Divorce From Manager to Wea Californian 09, Chief Burns, Investigating the manner | t of Chlet Gri » found that l!fe—was when the walls of the Pratt Oll Works! the stage. It was the common purpose building at North Twelfth street andj of our lives, When illness finally in- Riv. fire in| tervened and I realized that her morning, buckle | cess on the stage was endangered, that | ; 3 y_ | ambition came to an end. Chief Graham sent a man fn to tell the | ee | men of Hook and Ladder Company No. | i) 58 to get out, The messenger did not return, the men did not come out, Chief | “He 1s a splendid fellow and! Graham went In himself, and the wall/a very dear friend of mine, He has'ny ae ‘ fell just as he was within reach of the lived here under my own roof, Yes, i Negress Pays Another men, His back was broken and both first met Mrs, Frohman here. Te his legs were crushed. | eit she decides to marry again and Walks From J son Market Prisor ie years— one passion of my to promote nam's de: her success on ROM COURT the East which caught he early began to “Do you know Mr, Bowes?" asked the well, indeed," replied Mr. Heardithoiwallalorackt , couldn't secure a better husband. tainly, If she makes up her mind to! Charles Hildebrcnd, one of the men settle down to a domestic lie in prefer- | ot Compan No. 38, said that he #aW ence to a stage caregr of great di (Chief Graham's face appear through) tinction, the selection of Mr, Bowes will Viana ihe art raat hurry,” an yen Ye Hay ald by rohan edd heard the wall crac way in my power to secu yore Wats Hildebrand said that he owed his own! sna. 1 tape that the pina Bue pg] Hon Market Police, Court life to the fnst! which led him to! made as little irksome to her may It developed this afternoon other prisoner, a woman this escaped from the prison of t oceurred last Friday night In much the same philosophic spirit, ex-|to the underkeepers, Meehan UUSEVELT 10 VISIT THE PO 1 {hurried to the hospital, Then the free} put Mr, ¥ | Mr. Frohman would not let me jmen, many of them with hands bils- | | stop. He kept driving f AND (TA Y S KING {ered and burned) returned tolttie hose, [merece tn iteslireonla nor hewn ce ——. President to Stop in R View Earthquake Ruins on jerat manutactu Way to Africa. ROME, Fel —The Roosevelt w an Naples on his way to and will remain in Italy eleven days has been received here with great sat-| shifted due cast, and the flames were Isfaction. Although It ts re Mr. Roosevelt will travel as quietly as unconscious when he was rescued, —* All the men were caught under a fall- Jing wall, which collapsed without warn- ing. For a time they were buried under tons of brick and mortar and burning timbers, and they would have been [roasted alive had not their companions deserted their hose and gone to their rescue, The men worked as they have never worked bofere. One by one the | | unconscious men were drawn forth and cept that she seemed to be a little less | and Tucker enerous than her husband in refrains | “s Capt ing from criticism of their home life. | tieth street Indeed, she life, “Mr. Frohman,” she sald, “drove me on and on to satisfy his ambition for| ‘The my stage success, All I want, all I) something that sounded 1 ever wanted, was a quiet, happy home| Lord." life, Ldidn’t really want a stage career. /to answer any questions an Once I learned this I wanted to stop. | into the room of Head Keeper Kane, of the W fon, has just t Headquarters regarding the ne an that beat it out of here P suddenly dumb. Walsh sald h The work In itself would not havé been opened his eyes and said to Father ‘Whatever satisfies Mrs, Frohman,"| ~ McGronen;: sald the theatrical manager to an “It's all right, Father. [t's all right. Evening World reporter, “also satisfies Deputy Chief Lally and Battalion! me, Our one common ambition of all AS HARRIS DID he saw the veporters and uttered Walsh and the keepers refused | PEN, | ’s Fine | efler- HOUSE PASSES THE BIL HELPING Measure Had Previously Been Rejected, but Rules Com. , . that an time, has | he Je This escape | ator Knox assuming the ottiee m ch the | + Sheehan | est Twen- gro Wom: mittee Found New Way. WASH at 440 1PM Keb. 15 to-da WTON The House Dill passed the removing the constitutional bar to $ Dill had been pres tary of Sts ump toward the falling wall Instead \ he, We understand each other perfectly same manner that was employed when | viously rejected under the two-thirds | of away from it, He pulled his helmet. jn the matter, and I would be very Benny Harris, one of the best known | " jority on passage under down over cars and the falling, sorry to have our understanding In-|members of the younger pickpocket set, |‘recal ute was V8 to i bricks and plaster buried him to the terpreted in such a way as to be got away last December See NEAT RaE Mpalll Ti hips. He bought his leg was broken, | enbarrassing to her." FEI TICE AGS MUSIC CREE rota ee but succeeded in moving it. Then he (fre HOS Wd uae ene OME Li eanestae i remembered the fireman who was buried Wanted No Stage Career. Hieanmeuneltine Wareliia Hien ; jtive Mann, Republi any oe Ain under the debris of the Pearl street fire} tn gan Francisco Miss Illington ex-|Sergeant Walsh, of the Court Squad, (eee tue MBSHAKS ean 4 sal ae ARG ee Misa reacted tventy [plained her side of her mutual agree-| Walsh came Into the prison pen, and eee tes ay PT taS CEREP ET four hours later and made up his tind! met to dtsagree with Mr, Froliman in wot teeing two reporters, he called out | menattutional whether the Mil was! said there was no home |to ask if any rep as been made to | © home to ask if any report has been made to | ine pill, speaker Cannon declared that |, NT. PRICE ONE CE PASSENGERS TELL OF SCAPE FROM DEATH IN WREGK OF FLYER Eighteen- Hour Pennsylvania Train From Chicago Bumped 700 Feet Over Ties Before It Could Be Stopped. | ‘WOMEN REFUSED TO QUIT | CARS BEFORE THEY DRESSED. Allon Board Loud in Praise of Work of Crew in Transferting Them to Train Which | Brought Them on to New York. The passengers ot the Pennsylvania eighteen-hour train from Chi- , before day- cago which was derailed at Newton Hamilton, Pennsylvani i KN X 10 CABINET ' this morning reached Jersey City this afternoon at half past 3 | | lovclock. 17 hey had all been yery near to death, and were rejoicing over oO their escape, The only man hurt in the wreck was the baggageman, H. H. Mingus, of Jersey City. He is in the Railroad Hospital at Altoona, Pa. ‘ ‘The prinetpal sensation of the pass- were screaming and (elr children cry- en ns to have been startled ling, while men were running to see it surprise When they learned how easily an yone had been killed, they had eseaped, Headed by James “Quick Work by Crew. Michaelstetter, of the Wisconsin Unton «1 pelteve I can truthfully say that we zine Company, and his assistants, ClVil/ait owe our fives to the magnificent | Engin Arthur Fritseh and C. 8.) equipment of the train, which we at ray, a committee of the passengers | once dubbed as wreck proof. The began getting up a fund for the £aM- | coaches held together, despite the fact e engineer und fireman WhO that the Impact against the ten-on orted killed houlder whleh w shed Into was suf- rat neither had been | Auiont ttered: an ordinary ilies of werd re It was learned to have she seriously burt, The passengers did 10) oooh to splinters Hiet this make any difference, but divided | opye crew was so splendidly trained so which had already been collected, that in no time they had restored order e two men. between Women Couldn't Believe from chaos, and so impressed were we all by their fine work that we raised a 6 It. 1 Afr, Michselstetter sald that when le | purse of $0, which was divided among lies ; jrollet out into the aisle after the shock | them 3 Tis attention Was engaged by U J. K, Joice, a lumber merchant, with Bank were the First National Chicago, and his wife, offices in Building, between a and thelr whieh started passengers hus women passed o: not, He sald he did not in-ypands, ‘The men wanted to get the wo- | others seen by an Evening World re lend to be a party to a conspiracy tolimen folks out of the train the | porter to tell of their expertences, Mr, Violate the Constitution men refused to stir from the cars| dolce sald that he had frequently been ‘Aa the resul of a viva voce vote on}intil they were dressed, saying that | t Coney Istand and there bumped the didn't believe that there had been | bumps, but that he had neever hawt ft had been carried, but Mr, Rueker| 4 serfous aceident with so little dam. | 4 perlence along that Une to equal rallied the opponents of the measure jay, that of this morning | "We must have skidded along over ike “Oh, | a hurried | Dermott When they came out they had become | prey e couldn't jand forced a roll-« By a yote of 3, in which all party lines were broken, the bill was rejected, the necessary two-thirds re- quired to suspend the rules not being ming. Twenty-six Republicans voted against which had been left to curl and snake |.) nay, i. i talk because all telephone communica: |). 41) and 91 Democrats for it as fol- and spurt water at will iso Hate Many women have anne More | tions touching on police business were ||. : b and have not broken down. But this | ye Der y H my the fire sta ’ q regarded as confidential, McDermott |p... Pingel HeedeAlinnenol When ¢ ¢ rted the wind WaS was all done against my will and I|admitted that « negre iventbanas Republicans against: Beed, Ming a OMe and | from the northeast, and the flames | couta not stand {t oe ial A e 8y | pirdsall, Lowa; Caiderhead, Nansas; {began leaping In the direction of sey-) «1 wa ¥ | from a court pen, but 4 cd thet w Missouri; ng concerns and t 1 want a home and friends and some} jt was not the pen of his court . ; ng Sand tene-\ Kiddies, I don't want to spend my Ite| At the West Twentleth street station Cook, Colorado. Den: ment-houses !n. the neighborhood. Rain! jn grease paint and the glare of the (the desk man declared there was no rec- | by, r, Ulinols; Gilhams, was falling, and the isl ait down footlights. ‘The learning that 1 really |o%* CE eC Nace Indiana; Hayes, California; Kuester- like a blanket over the Aremen, So wanted was a long lesson and a wear-}conversation which Capt. Kane Might man, Wisconsin’ Lindberg, Minnesota; dense was the smoke ie ae, MN ine one, But I know now, And know. | have had with any one. Met Massachusetts McCreary, nouncement |could come close to the burning BUG sng, how could 1 go on living with the| , Atom an oMe! nf the Jefferson Mar | penneyivania; Mann, ; Marshall, il stop at) !ns only in relays, man who Was responsible for helping | fa ere learned. A negro woman | Nortn Dakota; Miller, Kansas; Mur- Big Tanks Threatened. me make that mistake. had been convicted, tn the Night Court, dock, Kansas; Nelson, Wiscon ast Africa of disorderly conduct, and ser six months on the Island amart enough to assume the another woman who had just tenced to five doliars or flv Mrs, Frohman was quite emphatic in her denials that she Intended ever to return to the stage, She admitted that while she had not finally agreed with Mr. Bowes as to the time and place of Then as the fire gathered the wind fanned out over the river. The big Standard Oil tanks, containing millions ported that possible, it is expected that he will visit | of gallons of oll, and which extend over C out, i jage her {deals ut : Rome, both the King and the Pope|a radius of a mile and a quarter, were ‘heir Sue Ayn BReSTHIne Nik eetes Weaeenathtnm occa dads We having expressed the desire to meet ordered drained. The oll was gent Into ree eT trom Me. Frohman, © After) Haland,, where, it seems, the him subterranean pipes leading to the com- |" Setar yap. and araerrel Arrangements also are bein ty Jaks sevelt to visit the earthquake and City, Tana young and want a home that is an|cinct, the missing negress having been eae ake [ee tanks Ob es awrul lot, And we lived with his three | locked up vriginally in Capt Kane's tse dle unmarried sisters, station- : j S 4 ere ord Pin It was impossible to secure the name} TAMPA RESULTS. they were ordered drained, The gas)" srpink of what life was with those| of the escaping prisoner or of she) Sa | was quickly sent through buried pipes tree matden ladies, for a healthy, ac-j woman whose substitute she became, | Virgin! TAMPA, Fla, Feb. 15.—The results {to tanks In Gee of the ty tive, normal woman of my age. Oh, | ——=——— | to-day were Battation ¢ ie erat ae i four | now L used to envy them when I had to| B, ALTMAN & CO. INCORPORATED F RACE ~ Three-vear-olda and | other firemen buried in the Collapse of |g out to the theatre and they could] ALBANY, Feb. 15—B. Altman & Co, upward selling five furlongs.—Arthur | the walls, Were lost In smoke as they fo, at home and sit by the fire and AU PLigiiecaital laine OOOW ete aE | Stillwell, 1M (Dale), 7-1 ° close to the fire with the hose. |” h S of New York, capite HOW, 000, organ: | won; Tres Joli, 10: came arn stockings and do other housework, | ; youa ral merchand ; ap Tay fs hey coujd not see the walls as they |. aia zed to curry on & & bial rtinn Mg HLA My noe fan to Ailves and then wobble, i stag Sa Eat aL ey ne mi 43, was incorporated to-day, 7 Neale, Alegra, Slagea, Reticent and Odd | peputy Chlet Lally arrived in answer | tonmen NOUS DO me have. $0} diccctors are Benjamin Altman, Michael EEL EE Oe | la coraka argc ried: Prank L. NI Milton eee Ne to the third alarm, @tanding on one 01 é Friedsam, M. | “Burns), 3 Tecate wont} they were about to fall. He yelled, but rRae Thompson, Mount ‘Alfred J Reinette, 9 » 1, 3 to his yells could not be heard above the Fine Rew aeiae Les dieed Roehm, Montclalr Bahisan Mea ire Tee hi — pec | a fe cr ae ville also rap (Con@nued on Second Paga) at 04 | Longon Realty Co., 1205 B'way, D1, 52d at,t4e “Dan is thirty years older than id Miss [ington n, inside the department, w said Misi 1 4 t ‘And when you are| from the West Twentlet!i ng made for | pany’s tanks in Blissville and Long Isl- patd the five dollars and walked apparent ntenced to She was name of been sen- | lays. She almly | ent to t acovery | invest | as st treet pre Roberts, Wisconsin; Prince, Illinois; Stafford, Minnesota M Achuse New k; Wheeler, Pennsyl- moerats for: Adatr, Indiana; Bart Nevada; Broussard, Louisiana layton, Alabam Alabama, Crawford, North Ca Missouri; Fitzgerald, fogle, New Y Hackney, Hammond, Minne A Lever, Maynard, Caroline Virginia Tennessee; Ransdel na Alabama New Alabama; Tew Obio, Wat kins, Louisiana; Wiley, Alabama, and Wilson, Pennsylvania Immediately nounced the after this result was an- ommittee on rules held a session, with a view to bringing in a rule whereby the bill could be passed by a majority vote. After being In s a few moments the committee reported a rule to take |no up the bill late to-day and dispose of it. if {in said There was a general meeting of the passengers alongside the Wrecked train : at which were passed | fore the train was brought to a stop. We thanking the train crew for their cool-| Were all badly shaken up, but tn an tn- credibly short space of time order was the ties for 700 fe Mr, Joice said, “be- resolutions jn and bravery. The Manhattan Limited coming along an hour after} restored and we were seated at a {dent tuok on the passengers hastily prepared breakfast ecial and delivered them at) ———>— Jersey City, The Manhattan Limited; 2RAIN HURLED FROM was, the} due at 11.90 o'clock this morning, four hours account of wreck, Joseph Morton, of Huntington, L. Ty was {n the first car of the train. TRACKS IN A FOG, ALTOONA, Pa. Feb. 15.--One of the most remarkably fortunate accidents in “It was just a great, big bump,” he|rallroading history occurred early to- sald ve first thing [ knew | was;day to the Pennsylvania Railroad's piled up at the head of my berth and! Pennsylvania Special, the elghteen-hour then the train was standing still, As/ flyer between w York and Chicago, soon as IL could get out [ found the en-| The locomotive and four of the five gine lying over the side of the tracks |cars of the east-bound train were de- and a great big) hole in the sround/| railed near Newton Hamilton, a stam where the boulder which we had struck | tion fifty miles east of Altoona, two of had beon pushed {nto the ground. That/ the four derailed cars and the locomar was all there was of {t, except our|tive were overturned and not one of gratitude for being alive the fifty-one passengers was injured, All Confusion Outside. Of the train crew only one was hurt, H. H. Mingus, of Jersey City, the bag- late on The Rev. Bernard Mackin, rector of ane st. Paul's Parish Church, at Burling- ay and ehis (Utes ae may ton, Ia, ts to safl on the Caronta| Sr ; { unning forty-five miles nursday, when he will go direct to| The train was runn janes tira? i ; an hour or faster was ‘de- ) the interests of the Catholic Chureh Extension Soctety of Amertca, Pn discussing the wreck, Father Mack- } Rome \palled by a landslide, All the railréad | men who have witnessed the wreck re. port that they cannot explain how thd who were caught in it eseaped ex upon the proposition that the cars com- posing the train are so strongly coms structed as to be practically wrecks proof. 1 was reading n my berth shoritly) before 8 o'clocka when I felt a crash} threw me to the floor of the car, 1 was in the rear of the fourth car. Th as a series of ‘chugs’ like those lot an automobile before the train came toa p and these were accom- ed by a series of jolts that gave us| leghany ul a lively shakng upl, A8 soon as [| misty rain was fa Crashed in a Fog. ; ver the Als ning and & g. The train, which lay afternoon, had There was a heavy fox Mountains ould recover my wits I left the coach| left Chicago id made my way through the train,|lost time steadily climbing the slope : aad, much to my relief, ascertained that | {rom Pittsb e crest of the one had been Killed or injured. ii! — F wihout, however, was confusjon, Women (Continued on, Bec ond Page.) gy