The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1909, Page 2

conan © ' nate vw o--—= The Witching Hour= Creat IC) By the Great American Playwright, Augustus Thomas. Play The Opening Chapter of This Story in To-Day’s Evening World The ©} Love—Hypnotism—Telepathy—Crime—Melodramatic Thrills in the Romance verre ee eee ~~ How to-night and Tnesday, FINAL] eee [TION || [*citesiation Books Open to Ai” PRICE ONE CENT. | | THREE FIREMEN | INJURED AT BLAZE | IN WILITAMSBURG, RUSH DOWN ID-STORY. Re ESCAPE “> | 5 iI s Causes Panic Explosion of Gi in Workroom Among 350 Women, FLAME NOT DANGEROUS. Alarm Calls Much Apparatus to Fight Fire Extinguished by Turn of Tap. An open Jet, the flow of gas from which became ignited, was responsible for a fire scare $n the workrooms of Ben Levy & § and cloaks, at Nos. 21 and 26 East ny makers of women's suits Twelfth street, this morning, and In the | scramble that ensued 160 young women | employed there made the perilous de- | ecent from the tenth floor of the build- | ing to the street below by way of the | fire escape on the outside of the building. More than % operatives are em- 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 tron con- | nected with a gas jet by a long tube 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, ire!” and instantly there was a scramble for the fire eseape, One of! the first to reach the sidewalk told a passerby that the entire tenth floor was on fire, and, although No, 72 engine house immediately adjoins the building from which the girls fled, the strange ran to Thirteenth street and Universit place and turned in an alarm, whieh 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 fone wits presence of mind to turn off the stopcock of the blazing gas Jet Meanwhile the firemen from Engine PRANK AN MOORE Company No. 72, seeing that there was no danger, busied themselves in p HITCHCOCK, THE VISIT The POPE AGTOR, SAYS HE AND ITALY'S KING: NEW YORK, MONDAY, CHEF GRAHAM WIFE'S CHOICE 0 DIED AT FIRE TO SECOND HUSBAND SAVE OTHERS PLEASES FROHIMAN Rushed in to Warn Firemen, Miss Illington Couldn't Secure, Caught With Four Others Better One Than Bowes, Under Falling Wall. Manager Says. /ANOTHER MAN DYING, SHE LONGS FOR A HOME, Victims of Williamsburg Oil “Dan Is Thirty Years Older Blaze Dragged by Comrades Than I, and That Is a | From Under Debris. Lot,” She Says, M ae] Graha Battalion Chief of Dantel F; an announced to-day the t, who lost his Ife th if his wife, Margaret Ilington a company of his men! saw fit to marry | who were imperilled by a tottering Californfa, he would approve her |r died at 10 o'clock to-day tn the cholce most enthusiastically | Fastern District Hospital. His tw “tr, Bow | brother, and Fathers, has thrived In the things of the fire chaplains, he {!s altogether attractive, If Mrs. her Farrell, of the Church of, Frohman rs and orld, MeGronen and Handel, | and ‘st. Peter and St. Paul, were with him) could not counsel her better at the end, approve of her marriage with Mr. Just before his life passed, the Chie? Bowes, opened his eyes and said to Father ‘Whatever satisfies Mrs. Frohman,” McGronen: sald the theatrical manager to Deputy Chief Burns, investigating the manner | these years—the one passion of my of Chief Graham's dea: When the walls of the Pratt Oll Works! the stage. It w building at the East River, which caught fire In an to buckle | cess on th ye | Ambition cane to an end, he early morning, be Chief Graham sent a man In to tell men of Hook and Ladder Company No. | reporter, 88 to get out. The messenger did not! “Very well ret Indeed," replied = Mr. Graham went In himself, and the wall/a very dear friend of mine. He has fell Just as he was within reach of the lived here under my own roof, Yes, he men. His back was broken and both ‘first met Mrs, Frohman here. his legs were crushed, | ert she deciles to marry again Meardithenwallaicracie ;couldn’t secure a better husband. Charles Hildeb ot Gears GS, sald that he saw ence to a stage caregr of great (Chlet Graham's face appear through! tinction, the selection of Mr. Bowes wi ui! the smoke, heard him cry: * out] be an excellent one, jof here, you men and hurry,” and then) «r shall aid Mrs. Frohman In every heard the wall crack, way In my power to secure her divorce, | Hildebrand said that he owed his own! and I hope that the process may life to the instinct which led him to! made as little irksome to her as may ump toward falling wall Instead he, We understand each other perfectly of away from it. He pulled his helmet down over his cars and the falling, bricks and plaster buried him to the hips. He hought his leg was broken, but succeeded in moving it, Then he remembered the flreman who was buried Wanted No Stage Career, under the debris of the Pearl etreet fire four years ago and was rescued twenty- four hours later and made up his mind that he had a chance for life, He was unconscious When he was rescued, Ali the men were caught under a fall- sorry to have our understanding in- jemb ssing to he In San Francisco Miss Iilington ex- ing 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 | hurried to the hospital, Then the fire- | men, many of them with hands. bils- tered and burned, returned to the hose, | which had been left to curl and snake and spurt water at will | When the started the wind was ing from ¢ m of their home life. Indeed, she said there was no | life, “Mr, Frohman,” she sald, “drove me ever wanted, was a quiet, happy home life. I didn't really want a stage career. Once I learned this I wanted to stop. But Mr, Frohman would not let me stop. He kept driving me on and on, |The work in itself would not havé been ;8o hard. Many women have done more and have not broken down, But this was all done against my will and 1 IS A BANKRUPT President to Stop in Rome and) from the northeast, and the flames ahaa eta | | began leaping in the direction of sey- . a ; View Earthquake Ruins on Owes $28,294 and Has but WESTON: $16 With Which to ROM Settle Up. that Theodore Roosey ate : : Dos bilities as $23,204, unsecured, with no as-| Rome, both the King getyy save $15 on deposit in the Mutual paying expressed the desire » eitik. Hitchcock says he owes the Johnson Service Company of Milwaukee, Wis.,| Mr, Roosevelt to visit the $4,000 a8 a judgment on @ note given for, zone. fan automobile, which was returned as Sa Se unsatisfactor Horm Fromme, of | TAMPA RESULTS. Crantord, N. J. $6,500 on notes given for | legal se ; Thomas Mott Osborne, . of Auburn, N. ¥., $10,0, money loaned; |, TAMPA: Fla. Feb Dr. Max Lautermann, Montreal, Can, | us were $1,500 for attendance at the trial of the| We People vs. Hitchcock; Carl Pischer- | Stillwell, 14) (Dale), v ty-seventh | Won: Tres Joll, 10 him. money loane Johnson Service Company, af Milwaukee, &4 for auto- mobile parts and storage. Re to 1, 3 to Feb, 15.—The announcement will stop at Naples on his way to East Africa Big Tanks Threatened. me make that mistake.” and will remain in Italy eleven days; Then as the fire gathered the wind Mrs. Frohman was quite emphatic in Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, of No, | has been received here with great sat-| shifted due east, and the flames were 41 West Forty-second street, ina yolun- !sfaction. Although It ts reported that fanned out over the river, The big tary petition filed to-day, gives his lia; Mts Roosevelt will travel as quietly as | Standard Oil tanks, Ible, it 18 expected that he wiil visit of gallons of oll, and which extend over ind the Pope|@ radius of a mile to meet Arrangements also are being made for | pany's tanks In Blissville and Long Isl-\ iy sis Tlington ‘The results {to tanks In 1 Three-vear-olds and | upwardly selling five “furlongs Arthur! the walls, Were lost in smoke as they nd out, N ear-olds and i selling: five furlongs Airship, nd Lto 2, third. Time~106, I want a home and friends and so! Jeral manufacturing concerns and tene- | xiddies, don't want to apend amy lite ment-houses tn. the neighborhood. Rain / 4, n grease paint and the gl was falling, and the smoke came down Far eel like a blanket Byer te, Bremen So wanted was a long lesson and a wear- dense was the smoke that the men jn. one, But I know now, A. y \ ea at ee rae one, ow. And know- could come close to the burning bulld- j45 how could L go on Iving with the ‘ng only In relays. man who was responsible for helping 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 their marriage her {deals would be best met by becoming his wife after her divorce from Mr, Frohman “Dan is thirty years older than I," And when you are ntaining millions | nd a quarter, were oraered drained oll was sent Into ! subterranean pipes leading to the com- rthquake | and City young and want a home that is an The tanks of the Brookly Com: | pany were also dangerously and they were ordered drained, The gas | was quickly sent through buried pipes other parts of the city. Battalion Chief Graham and the four other firemen buried In the collapse of awful lot, And we lived with his three ried sist Think of what life was with those three malden ladies, for a healthy, ac- tive, normal woman of my age. 0} unt go out to the theatre and they could stay at home and sit by the fire and darn stockings and do other housework. came close to the fire with the hose. aie ‘That was what L wanted and what Mr Th yjd not see the walls as they xiven for lemat [second; Herlida, 1 hee h f i Iitcheock, Sal | third, ‘Time, 1.06, Brown jug, ‘Rosé | began to shiver and then wobble, tp an would not let me have. $uw tor | Arkle, Alegra, Mages, Reticent aid Odd | peputy Chiet Lally arrived in answer El! bed to the third alarm. Standing on one ©. the walls Lally could se@ that they were about to fall. He yelled, but (Continued on Second Page.) we EE EE, a aalpablenaees Burns), 3 to § and out, won; ‘The World's Travel 0: # (Bannon), 2 to 1, % to 5} his yells could not be heard above the Fin New vt. rk jh Bathe es orld's rena, d out, second; Alamo, 10 (Picke at ew Pulitzer Building, Onl second Arcade Booth. New Pulltzer 2 ain a econ Alm exon § roar of the flames, and the five mex | Rim efans domntonn satabllanment. Sectors Bull@ Seok fale a ae mie " Drafts Velce ‘anada, St, Magnet and North- ‘he bath of waret oe ville also rap ery di (Condnued on Second Pags) FEBRUARY ‘15, 1909. ‘Actress Who Seeks a “Disa From Manager to Wed Californian tdward Bowes, of "he sald, “is young, he 8 for a domestic life I han to MARGARET ILLINGTON, HOME PASSE Tne BILL HELPING KNX 10 CABINET | Measure Had Pre Rejected, but Rules Com- | mittee Found New Way. “It's all right, Father. {t's all right." Evening World reporter, “also satisfies ef Lally and Battalion! me, Our one common ambition of all = OMAN ESCAPES. FROM COURT PEN, AS HARRIS DID poe EES Negress Pays Another’s and Walks From Jefler- son Market Prison, » found that iife—was to promote her success on the common purpose orth Twelfth street and jof our lives, When illness finally in- tervened and I realized that her suc- stage was endangered, that ; “Do you know Mr, Bowes?" asked the he men did not come out, Chief | Frohman, “He Is a splendid fellow and! viously Been engers seems to have be surprise when they Learned how easily lan y tainly, if she makes up her mind to! id, one of the men settle down to a domestic life In aut Tt developed this afternoon i q ee of the passengers a woman this tne, Gray, a committ V escaped from the vent ili werd reported killed, boulder which we crashed Into was suf- prison of the Je: the constitutional bar to Sen This escape | ator Ku occurred last Friday night In much the | ssuming the ottlee same manner that was emp! Harris, one of the members of the younger pickpocket s terpreted in such a way as to be got away last in the matter, and I would be very; nis atter plained her side of her mutual agree-| Walsh sate ment to disagree with Mr. Frohman in| not seeing two reporters, he c ‘much the same philosophic spirit, ex-|to the underkeepers, cept that she seemed to be a little less | i generous than her husband in refrain. | came Into the prison neonstitutional +yhands, The men wanted to get the wo- | othe to a conspiracy tolinen folks out of the train and the, porter to tell of their expertences. Mr, Kane, of the West tion, has just tel report has been made guarding the negro wom- | As the resul of a viva voce me Cannon declared that | Headquarters an that beat it out of here.” Then he saw the veporters on and on to satisfy his ambition for | my stage success, All I want, all 1, something Walsh and the keepers questions and Into the room of Head Keeper Derr came out they Walsh sald he eaiiantt talk because all telephone communica- | tions touching on police bu, \r Jand forced a roli-cali. , in whieh alll passengers at which res , thanking the train crew for their cool-| Were all badly shaken up, but In an fn- two-thirds re- quired to suspend the rules not being ' forthcoming. Twenty-six Republicans voted a nd 8 Democrats for suddenly dumb Jersey City. T due at 1.3) o'clock this morning, was ; eees four hours late on account of the TRACKS IN A FOG, |from a court pen, t it Was not the pen of his court Twentleth street station the desk man declared there was no rec- on the blotter, and 0 At the West any such case he professed ignorance conversation have had with any one, From an official of the Jeflerson Mar- however, some of the footlights. The learning that I really | tn the Sight Court, of disorderly conduct, and sentenced to sinart enough to assume the name of | another woman who had just b tenced to five doliars or five days, She | pald the five dollars and walked calmly gratitude for being alive.’ the who apparentl knew nothing of te deceit, I St. Paul's Parish Church, at Burling- ton, la, is to sail on the Caronia Thursday, when he will go direct to | Rome in the Interests of the Catholic | 4 Church Extension Soclety of America, In discussing the wreck, Father Mack- flin said was first made inside the department mreiwaael npossible to secure the | rears oy how I used to envy them when I had to| B, ALTMAN & CO, INCORPORATED | Te , F Altman & Co, capital $3,009,000, eral merchandise of New York, {zed to curry on & Duelness, was incorporated to-day directors are Benjamin Altman, Michae! 4 result was an- on rules held a y to bringing In a could be passed | nounced the rule whereby by a majority vote After being in s the committee » Montehatr, N. J aad, much to my relief, ascer ho one had been killed or injured. Ai! ——— up the bill late to-day and dispose of It, |wihout, however, was contusjoa. Women (Continued on, Second Page) aap on a few moments 1a rule to take hed Immediate! ity Co., 1205 B'way, or, Riectric and. Turkish, bathe PRICE ONE “CENT. ASE It ESGAPE FROM DEATH IN WRECK 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 Prais? of Work of Crew in Transferring Them to Train Which Brought Them on to New York. The passengers of the Pennsylvania eighteen-hour train from Chi- cago which was derailed at Newton Hamilton, Pennsylvania, before day- sreak this morning reached Jersey City this afternoon at half past 3 o'clock. They had all been very near to death, and were rejoicing over | thei ¢ 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 princtpal sensation of the pass- were screaming and Uieir children cry+ n startled Jing, while men were running to see tf ye had been killed, ded by James «Quick Work by Crew. Istetter, of the Wisconsin Unton | sr pelfeve I can truthfully say that we Company, and his assistants, Clvil/ait owe our [ives to the magnificent Arthur Fritseh and C. 8: oquipment of the train, which we at Jonce dubbed as wreck proof. The etng up a fund for the £aM-) coaches held together, despite the fact the engineer and fireman WhO inat the {mpact against the ten-on it was learned that neither Had been) tejent to have shattered an ordinary yusly hurt, The passengers did not) couch to splinters Jiet this make any difference, but divided | pye crew was so splendidly trained 80 whl between the two men from chaos, and so impressed were we teh had already been collected, that in no time they had restored order Women Couldn't Believe It. all by their fine work that we raised a Mr. Michaelstetter said that when le ) purse of $0, which was divided among ried out into the aisle after the pek — them. 1 Was engaged by the quar-) J. K, Joice, a lumber merchant, with els which started between a number | offices in’ the First’ National Bank vomen passengers and their hus- | Building, Chteago, and his wite, were < seen by an Evening World re smen refused to stir from the cars | dolce satd that he had frequently been dressed, saying that | t Coney Island and there bumped the didn't believe that there had been | bumps, but that he had neever had 4 s aceldent with so little dam- erlence along that Ine to equal MeAsttre | gy that of this morning ere was a general mecting of the! “We must have skidded along over ked train [the tes for 79 feet," Mr, Joice said, “he- fore the train was brought to a stop. We alongside the wr lutions were passed | ey Chal TERY ‘The Manhattan | credibly short space of tlme order was Limited coming along an hour after) restored and we were seated at a the accident tuok on the passengers hastily prepared bre: the special and delivered them at | SS Manhattan Limited, | [RAIN HURLED FROM wreck, | Joseph Morton, of Huntington, L. &,{ ALTOONA, Pa. Feb, 15.--One of the was in the first cur of the train, | most remarkably fortunate accidents in “It was just a great, big bump,” he|rallroading history occurred early to- said, ‘The first thing { knew L wasjday to the Pennsylvania Railroad's piled up at the head of my berth and} Pen then soon gine lying over the side of the tracks| cars of the east-bound train were de- and a great big) hole in the ground where the boulder which we had struck tion fifty miles east of Altoona, two ot had beon pushed {nto the ground. That | the four derailed cars and the locomar ylvania Spectal, the elghteen-hour 8 train was standing still, As/ flyer between New York and Chicago, s L could get out I found the en-| The locomotive and four of the five railed near Newton Hamilton, a stae was all there was of It, except our|ttve were overturned and not one of fifty-one passengers was Injured, All Confusion Outside. Of the train crew only one was hurt, : ' |i. He Mingus, of Jersey City, the bag- The Rev. Bernard Mackin, rector of) eeeman, and his Injuries are not serious. The train was running forty-five mites hour or faster Q |ralled by a la! | men who have witnessed port that they cannot explain how thoi who were caught in it esc aped exc; upon the proposition that the cars com- posing the train are so strongly con, structed as to be practically wrecks proof, 1 was reading n my berth shoritly| before 8 o'clocka When I felt a crash hat threw me to the floor of the car. { was in the rear of the fourth ear. was a series of ‘chugs’ like those before the train came] | stop and these were accom-| There was a ! panied by a series of jolts that gave us| le Mountains this morning and a shakng upl. A® soon a8 I|misty rain was falling, The train, whieh cover my wits [ left the coach|left Chicago yesterday afternoon, had my way through the train,|lost time steadily climbing the slope Ained that} from Pittsbur ) est of the Crashed in a Fog. j avy fog over the Als