The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1909, Page 5

tnesree olin HORSE IS SHOT AFTER RUNAWAY ON THe BRIDGE Animal Broke Leg in Third} “Bolt” on Williamsburg Structure, SMASHED INTO. GATE. Policeman Clancy Proves Bravery and Strength Stop- ping Second Runaway. This started out to he Runaway Day on Bridge, hn were two of them, fg you prefer ft that way, both bad ones —within the first half hour of the morn- ing rush. Isaac Blumfield, of No. 96 Canal street, was bringing a delivery wagon belong- ing to Freedman Brothers, of No. 92 Bowery, across to Manhattan when his big black horse took fright passing tho tower on this side and started for Palm Beach, Fla., at a high, !mpulsive rate of speed. Pollesman Clancy saw the outfit coming, with Blumfleld c perilously to the seat and “Whoa!” In a tone that didn't seem to have the slightest deterrent effect upon the black horse. the Willlamsburs. 1 both good ones—or, There was no time to send a "C Q b” to the man at the street end of the driveway to close the gate, so as the rig roared by Clancy, who fs large man, att mself to the horse's bits and swung on, Desplte his welght the Norse carrfed him off the bridge and along the wide Delancey street plaga, from Clinton street to Essex street, before he got tired of Pulling one load 1 toting another, and halted. Although the bridge ap- proach had b full of pedestrians | and teams nobody had been run down and nobody Was hurt. However, Isaae Blumfield Jost several years’ growth, | which he could turd, being but short of stature. Fifteen nutes later the second r abutme the Linmed sent the dled ws stopped roadway on nd holding a bteed- WHEAT PRICES AGAIN SOAR IN EXCITED MARKETS, Bulls in Chicago a Still Kiting the Ma Options, CHICAGO, Feb. ket continued i This City and July ‘The wheat mar- ord-breaking ascent to-day, May sing at $1.19, and the July at SLi shortly afte e session of the Board of Trade ope The pit was in a ferment of exc dent. The New excited re NEW BATTLESHIP ARKANSAS, WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—Arkansas hay been assigned as the name of one, cf the new battleships authorized by | Congress, The monitor by that name | kw ealgnation, iil be given @ suitable d ~ | Fully THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 190y, BUILDERS WIL MAKE 1909 THEIR BANNER YEAR Outlay in Entire Metropolitan District Is Estimated at $300,000,000, IT MEANS LOW RENYS. Conditions Favor Discounting Several Years of Future Requirements. Builders are planning to make 1999 the |leader of high records, Conditions of all kinds favor a huge Volume of construction, according to those who know. Money can be had in Almost any quantity at low rates Prices of structural steel have fallen sharply, and those of other materials are expected to follow. Even lbor to some extent may become Merlo | cheaper, although @ boom ta building would tend to hold up wages as a ro- sult of widespread demand. Above all, New York is at the start of |@ new era in transit, and It 1s eager to |readjust both {ts home centres and its, [business districta to the new situation, | There is need of larger structures in| the old busy central localities, and the Breat expanse of cheap lands opened In the suburbs by new rapid transit roads offers an almost limitless fleld for small home-bulldera, $105,000,000 Planned Already. | These facts are not alone In suggest- a |{ng great building activity for the com- jing year. More than $75,000,000 of work has been projected already In Manhat- |tan and over $3,090,000 in the suburbs, | It has been walting for the most favor- able time. The trend of development | seems to Indicate, according to the best hand. | In the entire metropolitan district | more than $200,000,000 Is the estimated total of the coming year's work. This | will be fully $50,000,000 above the record- totals for both below $20,000,000, In distribution the year's outlay !s ex- | pected to be divided equally between Manhattan and the suburbs. That Man- hattan will spend $150,000,000 this year, barring acctdents, 1s considered certain, a (00 will go into business construction south of Central Park, b far the larger part into office bulidings south of Thirty-fourth street. Down- town centres will take nearly $50,000,000 alone. | | | 1907 and 19 fell back For Masses of New Flats. Plans are being filed in great volume for large apartment-houses on Wash- on Heights, and §2,(00,00 is the es- nated outlay for the year's construc tion there. The Bronx ts hurrying plans almost as enthuslastically as are the Heights builders. Veteran oper- ate filed plang this week for one Bronx house which {s to cost $200,000, Other equally radical projects are to be advanced in that section. In fact, flathouse building in all the | suburbs pro 3 to be @ striking fea- ture of the year. Flat builders are se- curing sites along all the new rapid transit lines in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey. Their work during the last two years was designed solely to supply current population de- | mands, but conditions are becoming 60} favorable that they are figuring now on discounting several years of the future. y belleve that they will not be able to get ey, land, materials and labor such reasonable tes one or two y look for good specu- | lative profits from houses started this! year Flat builders in Brooklyn, 4 Richmond spent § | mn alone last year, Thetr out- ated above $50,000,000, amily and two suburbs are re- to exceed all former records, family dw led on | means also large judges, that the proper time ts near at gtrec: breaking totals of 19% and 1006. The) | ‘STOCKS STRONG ON \pHoMmAs KREKELER HEADS 8,000 UNITED REALTV OWNERS. BURGLAR IN FLAT: HE LANDS IN JA | Mrs. Rooney Keeps Namesake | Busy Until a Husky | Policeman Appears. When a man giving his name as WilUam Rooney, of the Kenwood | House, Broadway, Brooklyn, was ar- raigned to-day jn the Morrisanta Court on a charge of burglary he still! bore the marks of his encounter with | (Mrs, Carrie Rooney, of No. 1222 South- jern Boulevard, who 1s as plucky as sho 1s young and pretty. The two Rooneys are not related Mrs, Rooney saw a man tn her din- | ing-room when she returned from the theatre last evening, leaving several friends at thelr homes nearby. She made straight for the intruder with- out wasting time calling for help. The man dodged and started for the front door, but the woman headed him off and he ran up the front stairs, Gain- ing the second floor he jumped Into the bathroom and tried to lock the door. Mra. Rooney, who was close at his heels, placed her foot between the door rs will spread, land the jamb. Then she forced the door yes and grappled with the stranger, COCR Vidords fem STARE Then she began to scream “burg: Some of te big projects in Manhat-|jarsi"" but ahe never released her hold Baie RTUmicta te Baiieres jon the man. They fought for several to Whitehall Bullding, | minutes, when Mrs. Rooney tripped her y for the clty, $1,00- | opponent and both fell. Both scram- ‘ 0, Sano 1fiseo,ai0 bled to their feet, and the fight con- tinued in the dark hallway. i Patrolman Cramb, of the Westches- | ter atation, In passing heard the wo: man’s screams, She had forgotten to close the front door, so Cramb rushed in. He drew his billy and grappled ‘with the stranger. A viclous fight fol- lowed, and the policeman was not get- ting the better of it. Then Mrs, Rooney went to Cramb's assistance and the jman was overpowered and taken to the Tremont station, “What 1s your business?" asked the Lieutenant. THOMA KREKELER He is president of the United Real Es- tate Owners’ Association, also of the Taxpayers’ Association of the Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth Wards, In private fe he ts a Brooklyn lumber | merchant and builder | That would mean an output of 2,000 houses at a cost of over $60,000,%%), Such heavy construction has one great significance—cheaper home rents, It) increases in value for which the home- | outl dull ng lands over 00 Grand Central Station, fice next to Pennsylvania station; $5.50 lilding site at Nassau streets, $3,500,000 offices on site at Nos, 44-50 Broad- Hotel Ritz for Rk. W. ison avenue and Forty- (09,000 hotel for Alfred G. Park a nue and Thirty addition to Emi- ngs Institution, on $1,500,000 ferry terminal and Libe: Te ‘ower Bu Yan herbilt fourth stre ant Industr hambers tree southwest corner “at Fifth avenue and on the old Lortl- 1» $1,250,000 offices for northeast corner at Fifth avenue and Thirty -firt atreet $1,000 Mmralnes fos] “Why do you ask me what I work at? Hing (1 tveet growin sew {You know T'm a burglar, That's my il Seminary on Broad- | trade,’ answered the man, Th from One Hundred and Twentieth to One Hundred and Twenty-second street About twenty-five pleces of small Jew- elry, a watch, two pocketbooks and a number of knives and forks were found in the prisoner's pockets The watch, pocketbooks and knives and forks were {dentified by Mrs, Rooney as hers. _—_— sa | RUSSIAN TERRORIST HAD AMERICAN PASSPORT. | ey A BRK DEO | Moscow Police Say Prisoner Imper- sonated Washington Man—Agency Here for Bogus Papers. MOSCOW, Feb, 27,—Following a police investigation the statement !s made ;that the man arrested here early this month with an American passport bear- On & briek demand stocks, especially |ing the name of Richard 1, Stevens, the railroads, advanced a point and) Washington, D. C., on the charge that over In the early market to-day. | he had associated with revolutionists, Union Pacific Jed with 11-2, while Read- | {8 In reality @ Russian. His name tA Ing, Erle, St. Paul, Atlantic Coast and} Moses and he comes from. Berdichev eported to Siber! Loulaviile and Nashville averaged a| Ue,Nae once deported to Siberia, but Point. The industrials shared in the, The incident points to the existence rise, Amalgamated Copper and Ana-|in America of an organization that | ry conda going up 1 and Steel and Smelt- | Vndertakes to obtain fale transports Ing 24 Prices held well in later trad- | es Railroads Lead in the Trading While the Industrials Get Good Share of Profits. jing, which was active. | | In the late deadings Northwestern DIED IN HALLWaY. | gained 2, Utah Copper 15-5, Mercantile | a | Marine preferred and U. 8, Rubber first | Upholaterer'’s Body Found by Po- WOMAN TAGKLES JURY DISAGREES BLACK HEND'S N FORGERY CASE | AGAINST BROKER Samuel M. Biddison, Accused by J. Montetiore Meyer, Remanded to Tombs, The Jury {n the case of Samuel M Biddlson, the note broker, who has been on trial before Judge Cr n, In General Sessions, for forgery in the first de gree, announced at 10.) o'vlock this ng that they could not agvea and Biddison was remanded to th to awalt a retrial He was a and indicted several montis ago for forging bonds of the Central Coal, Lum- ber and Construction ¢ Washington corporation. It al leged he loaned these bonds to persons, who sold them as “bluffs” on whitch to obtain money, Biddison had an of- fice nt No. 116 Nassau street Biddison's downfall was due to the ar- rest of J, Montefiore yer, the self- styled Rothschild agent, on’ the note- broker's complaint. aused Meyer's arrest on the charge of stealing of the bonds. Meyers then told the Dis- triet-Attorney the bonds were forgeries. Blddison asserted he had a power of attorney from the men whose! names were signed on the bonds to sigi thelr names, ———_____ CHANGE AT HOTEL LAFAYETTE, Raymond Ortelg and Antoine La- blanche, who have for seven years con- ducted the Hotel Lafayette, Ninth street | and University Place, and the Lafay- ette-Brevoort, Eighth street and Pitth avenue, have digsolyed partnersti!p, and hereafter Mr. Orteig will be the’ sole proprietor of the two hostelries, ‘The partners are said to have disa n questions of policy In the m of the hotels, some | THREAT FREES 7 PRISONERS Grocer, Once “Blown Up,’| Afraid to Testify, Accused Are Released. The prestig j1lind rule on the upper east side w junwillingly tncreased Magistrate Bark to-day fn Yorkville Court. He jdid not want to help the game, but under the law the Magistrate could not help himself, by night by Detectives Micerr and Degilio 1 evidence obtained by the Bin vaely paid secret police. It was be- Hiaved that the seven had something to do with the blowing up of Gluseppe Ca- \valacci’s store at No, 85 East Sey- \o enty-flrat street, The deteotlves told | Magistrate Barlow this morning that | while they had no personal doubt of the guilt of the seven men, there was no evidence to be produced against them, because witnesses were afrald to come to court. Cayalaccl, the grocer, they eald, re jcalved a noto last night telling him that jhis Black Hand assessment had now been ralsed to $500 on penalty of another bomb explosion. Moreover, the writers of the letter felt that he ought to be tne formed that If he appeared in court to- day as a witness against the seven ao- cused men, the Black Hand would be put to “tho unpleasant neceasity of re- moving him," ‘e and authority of Black | ven maen were arrested last Sunday | TWO MEN MURDERED FOR THEIR WEEK’S WAGES. Victims Tell Story of Hold- up and Killing. 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DEPARTMENT FOR YARD LACES AND ENGLI The grocer was frightened and would not even talk to the doteotive they went to bring him to court t Magistrate Barlow eald he cholce but to discharge the Prigoners, 3 Lord & Taylor Comn lencing Monday, March 1st, 1909 March Sale of Muslin Underwear, Silk Petticoats, Corsets, Kimonos&8 Dressing Sacques Broadway & 2oth St.; 5th Ave.; 19th St. Lord & Taylor when | fad | preferred 11-2, and Toledo, St. Western preferred 11-4. A decline in Reading to 8 under yesterday due to the dread of a dectsion on Mon- {day by the Supreme Court against the | railroads In the commodities clause test case, The whole list ran off In sym- pathy until advances were largely cut. Brooklyn Transit fell 1 below yesterday, When Reading raliled 1* points prices hardened again, but the demand was languid. 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