The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1909, Page 1

= == : = PRICE ONE CENT. CHORUS GIRLS SCARED AS REHEARSAL ENDS BY A BLAZE ON BROADWAY = =) FORMER SE CRE TARY TO BE A POWER IN LOCAL POLITICS. Stage Folk Rush to Street as Fire Starts in Empire Theatre Annex. LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. | | Firemen, Cheered by Great | Crowd, Make Quick Work | Quenching Flames. Chorus girls, gers actors, theatrl ordinary eltizens had a al mana- | and plain, lot uf excitement shortly after noon to- day in the neighborhood of Broadway and Fortletiy street, when fire started! on the third tloor ding. of the Em- | in an ott | Mrs ____ WILLIAM LOEB, JR, and her company {= oa had just Mnished rehearsing “What Kivery Woman Knows,” when some one | observed smoke Issuing from ‘the office of W. EB. Nankeville, a theatrical annex of the Emptre build- an office boy tn ina | Agent, in the ng. Henry Blane of Ale. ler that of arm whose office ts Nankey [layman, > ned {nan There was the greatest kind of con- fi n for the next few minutes. John Ryland, the tor, and Albert Sase- MS nl Of NEW YR ro forced the door to Nankevitles omee. Senate's Action Makes Him an Everything in the room was ablaze, but | I Santa a3 they began fighting tte fames ae bet | Mportant Factor in Re they could with buckets of water. blics State Poli ie ; 7 ican State Politics Quick Work by Firemen, pu Battalton Chief Blins reached the scene in doubte- time, and was} WagHINGTON, March .—The noml-! followed by several fire engines, trucks, | i. of william Loch in ete, When the fire-fighters got under | é way they made quick work of the blaze, | ctor of the Port of New Afterward {t was estimated that the| Beekman Winthrop, to be damage had been about $500, | wecretary of the The flames ate through the flooring to! +. the Senate in executive session to- Alf. Hayman's and Jullus Cahn’s offices, | but did little damage to the fixtures. | 48y- Nearly all the furniture in Nankeville's office was ruined, and many of his Valuable papers were destroyed, Miss Adams's company had left the theatre just a few minutes before the | fire was discovered, but there were some of the chorus girls iy the nelghborhood York, and Asstsant confirmed ow face of a resolution Indorsing and com- mending Col. Fowler's administration, adopted by the Merchants’ Association, the Maritime Exchange, the National Association of Customs House Brokers, Jond other local bodies of New York With a score of actors who were en-| city, but President Taft had evidently foying a side rehearsal in Kennedy's | determined on a change, which will thirst emporium on the ground floor of | make Loeb one of the most Important the Empire Building, and ran out In| poijtical factors in tha Empire State. Great excitement, Before taking action on the nomina- Mais Adams loft the theatre a feW |tions Senator Bailey made a protest minutes before tha fire was discovered. |against stories which were printed con- As there was no one in Nankeville’s |cerning the executive session of y office at the time the cause of the fre {day whon he suggested that Char was not known, although It 19 sup-|Nagel, of Missouri, might be tnellg!bie Posed to have been due to some one {for the office of Secretary of Commerce dropping a Hghted cigar or cigarette on | ' the floor before leaving the office for luncheon, counsel In a suit against Plerce Of] Company, Big Crowc in Street. still pending befor A large crowd gathered in the street} Mr. Failey and the surface cars were blocked for |critictaing sharply publication of al several minutes. Many persons came |lered tnaccurate sto; of Executive from the hotels and resorts around, ex |sessions and lecturing persons who may pecting to see a big fire, as the smoke |have given out information concerning from the eng seemed to indicate. ons. The matter was referred When {t was all over they went on ittee of five. thelr way, some of them apparently nittes wart! isappointe The theatre building | Walt upoa the Preside proper was not dama ee that the extraordinary session of the Senate was ready to adfourn, When a response was received from the White House the Senate adjourned until March 15, The credentials of Sena- tor Stephenson, of Wisconsin, falled to arrive in timo to permit him to be sworn fn, ———— ——— PORTRAIT OF WILLIAMS TOO BAD TO GIVE HIM. WASHINGTON, March 6—Wh Sharp Williams, for six years minority leader, left the House to rest two years before coming to the Senate he did not the Waters- whioh Htigation |s 4 Federal court do an extended snecch, len appointed to und Informa him SUED FOR $20,000, G-] $700: VERDICT City Loses Suit to Long Island | Company Over Grading Contract. take with him, agter an official presen- tation, any memento of the esteem in . which his fellow-members held him. It A sult for $29,000 Against the city,| was not the members’ fault, however which was begun on Monday tast, ter- They commissioned an artist at a fancy minated this morning, when Justice | price to paint a portrait of the noted Garretson opened Aa sealed verdict, | Mississippi statesman, but the product which was in favor of the plaintiff for} wag so disappointing none had the $760. heart to present It. The sult was brought by the Long| «7 know I am not handsome,” com- Island Construction Company, which Olaimed it had been given a contract to Teguiate the grade and curbing of Dit- mars street, In Astoria, * Later on the contract was taken away from the company, and sult was brought mented Mr, Willlare as he looked at the portrait, ‘but they could not have a worse if they had been painting m." AM wouldn't h to be Col-, Tho appointment of Loe! was tn the! and Labor {f he had been interested as | en John | ¢ i] [ “Circulation Book: 1 Open to All. iv GIANTS DEVELOP ST LANES DRWE BULLDOGS FIGHT ~ FIFTY FAMILIES | A SECOND ROUND QUTIRTO SNOW, IN GOURT-ROOM |Renew Battle fecenn by Raid | When Arraigned With Human Prisoners, Tenants of Grampion, Roused | | From Sleep, Flee Half Clad to Street. | ELEVATOR BOY HERO. i] arm and Keeps Car) Canine Trio Mix Up Savagely | in Utter Contempt of Law’s Dignity. “AFFINITY” JOINS FRAY, | Gives A Running Till Shaft ° Is Ablaze, | in the Wes though not When a, cry of “Fire! sounded, There was a dog fight Side Court to-day, fought to a finish, to forty through the Grampton, an apartment whieh, Jhotel at One Hundred and | second street and St Eighty- gave unutterable Joy Nisholasvavente: or more court hangers-on and ning Atty families | mild-eyed, Innocent pollcemen who had never before heard of the gentle sport— Jof course. The dog fight was the sequel of @ really naughty, criminally con- cocted dog fight at O'Rourke's saloon, No. 827 West Ninety-sixth street, which was ratded last night by Capt of the West One Hundredth street sta- jtion, after a horrifled preliminary look- see by Detectives Skelly and Ferguson, Forty prisoners were taken in three patrol wagons to the West One Hun- dredth street station, They were as mix- up a lot of longeshoremen, off-duty bar- | tenders, coal truck drivers and assistant | Janttors as ever were herded into cells, The dogs were also put in cells. Combatants Had Class, Jat 1 o'clock this me Jrushed to the halls and fled to the | streets, A few men and women stopped for fur ec but | the the stairs in their night clothes, not walt: ing for the ind waded bare- ot in the snow | Mrs, Lydia Walker, whose apartments are on the second floor, discovered the blaze, She was aroused by the smell of nicated by ‘phone anager of the ats and other coverings, majority seampered down Shaw, | uy Lutz, ke, and \ with Charle | house. Elevator Boy Hero. Louls Henderson, an elevator boy, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, te got busy, He went from floor to floor, beat on doors and eavellh e alarm: The dogs behaved quite reapectably | 1909. CABINET SWORN AND CONGRESS SN CHLED —— Taft in Summons for Special) pxPLORER WHO S Ays | Term, to Open March 15, | ROOSEVELT WILL DIE , AFRIC > Does not Mention Tariff, ON AFRICAN TRIP, | FULLER GIVES THE OATH OS 7 ey MacVeagh and Dickinson Have Not Yet Qualitied—Callers Storm the White House. WASTIINGTON, bers of President Mareh 6—Six T the oath of office {n the Cabinet room at the White after 19 o'clock | this m the ¢€ was edministered by Ch ler, of the Suj States first to Ph of State KL. Hitteh sworn as Poxtmaster-t Von L, Meye Richard A Interior; mem: | 8 Cabinet took House shortly nto uphold nstitution and entor the laws Ful Unite Lnistered C. Knox as Seeretary fet Justic me Court of Ath was ad ce and Labor, Taft's Prociarnation George Wickersham took the oath of office yesterday as Attorney-General Messrs, Dickinson and MacVeagh will not reach the city for some days, The fire ery was soon taken up from TIA the police station. They: weer Rob. |g rator Trianon wn eee CRREDERUGIK STARR the first oor to the roof. Henderson 4M eighteen-month-old white bull, owned Fy Wan URON IGE Aialice ‘i ae i tried to calin the excited tenants by bY Norman Wilson, of No. 24) West Fla AER TaRe tae a saying irty-seventh street, and valued at $760, falelel We ; Shirt qi FON, DI. { ain't much of a fire, but if you @Md Paddy, a mottled t AWN te ing wave citeie nee eae r want to come down you better come on. year-old pup, owned by O'Rourke, and publics, were present during the cere- i TNeralavalenie ne valued at $4. They were accompanted j MOMS: | The elevator was soon Jammed with bY Molly, Paddy's attinity, a vrindie bras) *Novtly after the ceremony President tenants. Ie.derson made a dozen trips Mette aoe Issued his call for a special res- lin his car, and each time came down! O'Rourke, Wilcox and the thirty-eight | S!0n of the Sixt y-first Congress to con- lanebacarhewenen abitle and bectatora, all rather the worse for wear | Yee on March 1% In the call no object ‘children wrapped In blankets, Some of att T frantle struggles to get out | WS stated of e dog-fighting arena at the the saloon last night, were tak We roe to the! Side Court this morning under a guard of detectives and polices the tenants had a collection of hastily tnatched baggage. { Down the Fire Escapes, 4 | The elevator shaft vas soon so filled,” oke thi an Wey was casler and safer to e Everrbody was angry with everybody | ttairs. Some of them took to the fire: (8: Scully and Ferguson had discov- | : ered fight and had telephoned tor, scrambled down the Ice- t A Capt. Shaw and the reserves. When 3 the saloo The last of the tenants on the escapes | the saloon (ad not reached the ground before an larm had brought the Aremen, and a fireman yelled to them was surrounded the detec- tlves smashed a rear window and burst | in upon the fight. The ensuing \ceedings brought bruises and cut Come down the stairs, They are) every one in the pl facet | While the princtpals and At specta- '\ few of the men and women on the! tors Were betng arraigned in court, the BbEeA ORI ERG back | U0gs Were out In the earehion each on Bienen lows: ng down) long leash, at the other end of which Buline ime Was a large, bashful policeman, When », O'Rourke, in the courtroom, raised his volee, proclaiming that it hadn't been 4 fight at all, but just an attempt to, pro- | aces | ou through th Salrs, |to listen to by the | ter ankle deep and free: from the firemen's hose, compare the tivo dogs as to breeding and | The firemen t the blaze for fif-| points for a prize, Paddy rose up on his jteen minutes b " ndor con) hind legs bounded into the air, trol, W t el e shi The p an who held him says he ering tenants abo e snow, !/didn't mean to let go. The policeman jA study s Worn by the| was not under oath when he mide this nark that! te on] atement Iceman, ¥ Age startled by Neither was the ya that he was so the Insurgent Paddy that our|he couldn't retain his grip on Bob's Hleash, Just for good m @ the po- |ilceman who had Molly on a line let her Bo, too. |wom other po- DICKINSON A DEMOCRAT; wollyvemnea'ihe ey DENIES DUNNE'S CHARGE,! Peasy roger att atose Oftecrke and jhis plaintive plea for release, Bob had Just one fixed idea, the same being the annihiliation of Paddy, And as Molly, all she wanted was about seven mouthfuls of both of them. They rolled down the hall In an tn- club is Tembers, has long been a| gstrteable tangle of howls, grows, legs " ie Ztovat-[and flashing teeth. They rolled’ Into Judge Lieut. “Billy” 1b his desk. Ennts's office and under ‘The ordinartly self-possessed Heute Bot up so abruptly that th desk tipped over, and he went down Into the midst of the battle, Everybody in the courtroom piled ont. and women walting for an accounting with their abandoning husbands and all sorts of Whiskered coniplainants went out and down the stairs, shrieking. ‘The! court proceedings suspended themselves automatically Wiison and O'Rourke came into the ;hall and began pushing everybody back, exchanging mouth t high rare of speed, Ennis « of them by the acruff of the neck and told them fa eoparate the dogs or get the eye. The two feil ine mess and the abandoned the Judge Dok Dunne's @ WHITE POSSUM FOR TAFT IS SENT BY TEXANS. DALI. Tex., March 6—A large white posum. captured In Commanche County this week, was last night for- warded to President Taft. A letter to fad apart ‘Sho: et standing ti A gies for his i four policemen | Standing that you are fond of were detailed to hold Nelson's Rob, Pery rare specimen, ald are sending the | Arter shee demonstration of the amia-| fame to. you to-day. by express. Feith | Mult of the rivale which had been the rubject consid ran the ae ile he As a etee Neos | O'Rourke association for the improve. | Conner, A.C. patrick, P. C. Vines, D. oo CAROLINA AND FLORIDA RESORT ATLAN RAMEN GHAR MEMPH ment of the breed of dogs, the arraign- ment Was resumed. O'Rourke and Wilson deemed tt wise to walve exam- {nation an’? were held In $200 each for The thirty-eight spec- in $0 for the same of them had so much Oppenheim.” cal Soret tators were hi The following is the text of the call: “By the President of the United of America “A PROCLAMATION, OF ROUSED “Whereas, Public interests require that the Congress of the United States should be convened tn extrt session at! Prof, Starr, E xplorer, Says He 12 o'clock soon on the 1th day of March, 1K9, to receive such cor ation as? Cannot Live Through np }may be m iT the Executive; “Now, therefore, T, Willlam Howard He Has Planned. Taft, President of the United States of America, do hereby fm mio clare that an extr sof thet CHICAGO, March #@.—""Theodore Roose= quires the Ce will never velt urn to the United conve ates allve {f he carries out ©* an nounced Intentions In exploring the dark regions of Af In quest bic game, Such ts the hereby requir of Prot. F prediction "Given : the Unite ertek Starr, of University of Chl- day of M y cago, whose prophecy i d one thousand nine hundre nine, | his. i lingers of ¢ ndence of the Untted | countr from Ired rty-third, | fevers, iit “by the Pr nt Roosevelt, accorting to Prof. P.C. retary of State.” will Ei n where Great Many Callers, Tae ey aici Proside t later gave himself! Abie k h Iits danger,” says the professor, re will not He In the ferocity of t ant bl which dwell th but In the outer 4 which every expl has come ine pass ight Cabinet room] to fear and which have t the lives whe the President io 1 was in-} of mar adventurers, trod nd shook with each| “I juve visited Airiga and known the person, Senator ldrich, of Rhode] extent of th T had a fever pe Island, to that portion of the country I vi nk my life The ex-President has not n the temper a stand the ¢ the ten Aan needs gers of mL in the wn he c ns to brave, fret} we cit 8 ray > Room ——-_.>—-_ whore the aking cons ACCUSES A BUTLER. | Real E With Taking Plece of Silver, John Iverson, a butler employed by the family of Willlam M. V. Hofman, @ wealthy real estate dealer, living at 5 West Fifty-frst twas ar ane int) to-day charged tinued for s time LAST WEDNES SAY OF APRIL | FOR INAUGURATION DAY. | HINGTON, Ma e Man's Servant Charged .—The towlay sugs Sy late on which to ent, In last ex Market a joint reso- tion Iiced by Senat Depew, a silver sugar tong from war in the form of an the Hoftmans. He was held In $57) bail | i Congress for hearing to-morrow i { President, Detective Spiro, of the Centro! om and VI continue unttl gays he saw Iverson & pawn shop the last Wednesday of Apr, 1913) at eee eee cera venues and orate | noo silver sugar tong for sale. It had the The resolution was referred to the, is of Mr, Hoffman engraved on it. Commitee on Privileges and Elec! n, § confessed that he ——————— took It. —————— The World's Travel Bar | Second Arcade Dooth, New Iuiitzer a | Eulleat information. . Tieketa, Fine New Turkish Baths Quy ure, barber shoo ben ‘day Bik ig a eeepc = WOMAN FGHTS WITH SHER T) ESCAPE ARREST ON PIER cide last night by inhaling Miuminating ent times and narrowly es-| Bul ti * KETCHELL HERE TO FIGHT WEATHER rn y RESULTS apie PRICE ONE CENT, $e Rich Mrs. Ethel Murtha Clarey Appre» hended at Instance of Actor Will- ' jam Stuart as She Was About | to Sail for Europe. POISONED WIFE'S MIND, HE SAYS, « AND ASKS $50,000.. |Lived Happily Until They Met Detendant, He. | Declares in Suit—Woman Deposits $2,000 Cash Bail and Is Freed | After Ship Departs. Named as defendant in one of the most remarkable suits ever bre ugh | Jin this country, Mrs, Ethel Murtha Clarey, a Wealthy woman of this city, y Deputy, was arrested on the pier of the Atlantic Transport line to-day Sheriff Rader. The arrest was not made until after a struggle, Mrs. Clarey seratehe ing and mauling the deputy and screaming for assistance. She was about to go aboad the steamship Minnehaha when Rader stepped up to her and showed her an order of arrest: signed by Supreme Court Justice Fitzgerald. NEW YORKER'S WIFE he order was based on a suit for 0,000 damag brought) by Willla who swears that tne Stuart, an actos rich and handsome Mrs, Clarey poled soned the mind of his wife, Anna Hole: Unger Stuart, against him. Tried to Get Away, ' Mrs. Clarey was accompanied by ans other woman, said to be the actor’ wife. When Rader had explained wh he wanted she and her companion eneg deavored to brush by him and darted mi the direction of the gangplank, The deputy antleipated the manoeuvre: and Jumped to the gangplank, blocking (he way. Then he lald’his hand on Mrse Clarey’s arm and told her she would} have to obey the order and abandon her gea voyage. The two richly gowneds, women screamed and rushed angrily, upon the deputy, He warded them off and caught the, ndant in the suit firmly by the army! Her struggles and the pulling and haule. ing of her companion were in valine | They fought until thelr strength wade exhausted, however, and then consented to oby the order of the Supreme Courts Happy Until Woman Appeared. In his complain airt sets forth thaé he married Auina Hollinger on Aug. 24g and that thelr married lite wags INFRIGO HOME Mrs, Alexander Jones De- spondent, but Friends Here Know No Cause. March 6—While Jones, aged SAN FRANCISCO, ‘cespondent, Mrs, Loulsa thirty-elght 9 Jones, of New York City, committed sul- rs, wife of Alexander was found tn her home She left three notes, ne addressed to her attorney, Edward | 1 Johneton, of No. Broadway, | 5¢renely happy until *they met Mra, York. jClarey dn April, 1907, Both Mr, ang — Mrs. Stuart were on the stage then and Mrs. Clarey me a member of thee body here this morning New Jones {8 an Invalid and as had Mrs. Alexander Jones. travels extensly | in which they were playing. When they were not travelling together | wears t directly after TODS NSE to Mrs, Jones from her | his wife met Mrs, Clarey she fell under we through Attorney | hor Influence and he characterizes that rs offices to-day | Influence as malicious and 1, tt was eald that while ho had been ad-| Stuart goes on to state that the vised of Mrs. Jones's death he was un- | strange Intlue ctandant istaee a | Aly reasons for her act LUpon hia ile | Mr Jones vag aald, but his present focas (27d that Mrs, Clarey tion is unknown. Mrs, Jones was a Con- male nectleut woman, FLOODED COFFERDAM Three Others Rescued From |°"’ Wreckage at Liverpool | BINGHAM OFF FOR A REST. Bfily Injured. Gotng to Washlvuton to See Tate and “The Boys.’ | Police Commisstor Ringha LIVERPOOL, March 6—Sixteen men Poll oF ur nat ies . las eH iy were drowned early this morning In the pee apnn eater: flooding of a cofferdam used In the con- | city to-nigh struction of a new dock at Birkenhead, |® Week's rest. He sald that he had been ; 1 shape his plans to get down, nree men resc' the wreckage | trving t | Three sea i sce from th Be to the District of Columbia to see “the PSIG ALER ae, i | boys for some time past, but that une clear, til now he had not seen his way Aaked if the retirement of Mr velt had anything to do with re the situation, he put the question aside with a smile. He sald he would cal on President Taft and at least leave hig) card. He exp to have a pleasai chat with Maj. Sylvestor, chief of AVALANCHES KILL TEN, VIENNA, March 6—Toelegrame re- cetved here from Carinthia, Austria, re- port that a series of avalanches have occurred there and that numbers of houses in the different villages of the ay. Tt is eesti