The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1909, Page 1

PRIEST MYSTERY IS CLEARING CAPTAIN TELLS OF WREC i P Wenther—Fair and colder to-night; Friday clear, EDITION — nN us “Circulation Books Open to All.” NEW ‘YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH T0 NEW ea NSH: NO eager trast Blast at Noon To-Day Connects Bores From Either Side of Huuson. TRAINS TO RUN JULY *Projectors, Builders and Guests Celeb-ate Opening of Last Tube of System. CHRONOLOGY OF HUDSON TUNNELS. HOBOKEN TUNNEL Work begun 1878 by D. ¢ and abandoned 183/ Work resumed 19%) by Son ami abandoned Work resumed 1882 by MeAdoo, Tubes joined March LU, 1904, First run Feb. 15, Formally opened Feb. Haskin Pearson & 1 JERSEY CITY TUNNEL, Work begun March 15, 1%6. Cortland street tube cut through Jan, 2s, 1008. Fulton street March Il, 1909, tube cut through The last Adoo blast was fired in the Mc- River | this afternoon and the lower tubes be- tunnels under the North tween New York and Jersey City are The Cortland street tube was finished sey- | eral days ago, The one opened to-day the Fulton atreet the | blast ved | at a point about 9 feet out from the | ‘foot of Fulton street. Chief Engineer Jacobs and 2% work-! men and a party of guests, wore in the | alr chamber on the New Jerssy elde the narrow wall of rock between the tunnel that had been pushed out froin the Jersey shore and the ccnnecting | hole that had been bored from the New Fork side. As the nolse of the explosion died e@way Engineer Jacovs and his men \enade a rush for the opening. They @crambled over the rocks and Into the New York tunnel. As {s inevitable In all auch engineering enterprises the con- | necting ends of the tunnel joined ex- actly. Trains Running July 1. It was a big day for William G, Me- now open all the way through: is tunnel and was fired (inder the river CHARLIE” IN CASI | He's ‘Adoo, whose mind concetved the idea of the tunnels and whore geniua and energy made possible a sudcessful ex- | ploitation of the plan, Just five years ago to-day the wrok of cutting the tunnels was begun. Trains will be run- | ning through the tube completed to- | day and into the Hudson Terminal | Building on July 1, Mr. Jacobs made a speech to the workmen when the party had passed through the opening left by the blast. He congratulated the working force, sald that he never had a better lot of men under him and announced that every man on the job would find an extra day's pay in his wages at the end of the week, It Is perhaps needlegs to remark | that Mr, Jacobs's speech made a great hit, When the ceremonies In the ARE were over and an American flag and | the Union Jack—Mr, Jacobs's flag-—had heen fastened together on the wall of the tunnel at the junction point, there was a celebration at the shore end of the tunnel, where Mr. McAdoo and a party of about one hundred guests had assembled, Among those who congrat-* tilated Mr. McAdoo were Wilbur’. Fisk | and Pliny Fisk, his financial associates former Police Commissioner William McAdoo, E. T. Munger, H. L. Denny, Willlam H. Barnum, J. V, Davies and | W. C. Kinney Mr, Fisk and Mr, Mo- Adoo talked about the tunnels and others inade congratulatory speeches No Life Lost in Construction, Mr. MeAdoo’s remarks were in the na- lure of a tribute to his associates and Nis working force, He sald he was proud of the fact that the tubes had been completed without the loss of a single human life and with a remark- ably clear record for accidents. He promised that trains between New York and Jersey City will be entering the Hudson Terminal by the Cortlandt street tuba and leaving it by the Fulton street tube on the first day of July, The Hudson Terminal is about ready for occupancy All that remains to be done is the Anishing work on the Cort. Jandt street tube and the laying of iracks, OST IN WORK TWIN BROTHER MARRIED HER, NOT. ; George, Chatged With Big- amy, Says Elusive Thomis Is Complainant's Husband, TOO the Man Who Drove Missing Double from Home, George Says. A wicked twin brother was blamed | by who sald George Pligram when he was arraigned | a man his name was | in Yorkville Police Court to-day charg- | fea with bigamy. The warrant upon which he was arrested was Issued for | the arrest of Thomas Pilgram, which is his proper name, according to Mrs, Susan Norris Pilgram, of No. 1161 Sec- ond avenue, But Pligram said that Thomas ts his| wicked twin brother, told apart. He admitted having boarded with the woman who claims to be his firat wife, but would not f quate explanation as to how his twin brother came to marry her, The Magis- trate held him in $0 bail for trial Mrs, Susan Norris Pilgram married of| Thomas Pilgram at anne snug | » 1901, was Harbor, Staten Island, on Sept A girl was born to thei and named Lavinta. gether at Stapleton until a year and a half ago, when her husband disap- peared, Mrs. Pilgram says Soon after her husband left her Mrs Piigram moved to No. 114 Second ave- nue, which {8 between Sixty-frst and Sixty-second streets, And on July 26, 1908, a man giving the name of George | | Pilgram picked the Bast Sixty-first Street Methodist Eplscopal Chureh as tue place for his marriage Tore Her Marriage Certificate. He went to Ilve at No, 30 Hast Sev- enty-seventh street. Mrs. Pilgram, for- merly of Staten Island, was walking up | First avenue last Tuesday afternoon, when she spied him stepping out of a store with a package under hts arm, She followed him to the house at No M1. East watehed there until he came out. He did not see her. By Inquiring in the neighborhood she learned that the name of the man she had followed was George Pilgram, and that he was mar- ried and lived in a flat on the second floor, Mrs. Pligram, of Staten Island marched up to the second floor, rang the bell of a flat and was admitted to the presence of Mrs, George Pil- gram, whom she promptly accused of stealing her husband. The Seventy- seventh street Mrs. Pilgram promptly produced her marriage certificate, which her visitor tore into small bits There was quite a battle in the flat before the Staten Island Mrs. Pilgrany went away, She got her warrant tn Yorkville Court yesterday, and Pilgram was ar- rested last night. The woman who claims to be his first wife laughed when he brought up his wicked twin brother. “As far as I know," she told Court, "he never had a brother. the I cer- |tatnly didn't marry his brother.”” Dr. F. A. Seofleld, of the East Sixty- first Street Church, was in court and testified that the prisoner was the man he married under the name of George Piigram to the woman in court who an- swered to the name of Mrs. Georg grim: The Court ruled that he should go to trial as a bigamiat. He was told that he might save himself h lot of troubly if he could find his wiched (wit brother —— BOILING WATER VICTIM DEAD. | Thomas Breen, thirty-two Sears old, of No. % Boulevard, Laure! Hilt, bt, died in St. John's Hospical, Long tsland City, to-day from the effets of sealds by falling Into} { @ chemical elved some days age vat of bolling wate works where he worked, PACHA SHS and they can't be! The couple lived to- | Seventy-seventh street and | ~—DMOGK’S CAPTAN TELLS OF CRASH AND PERIL OF 100 With Bow of His Steamer in Side of the Hall, He Pushed Sinking Vessel to Shore, TOOK OFF PASSENGERS. | With His Own Steamer Rap- idly Filling, He Beached Her When About to Go Down Spevtal to The BE ef World. ORLEANS, Mass., March 1.—Capt. John A Thompson, of the wrecked steamer Ho F. Dinock told to The Eve « World ” ident the stor ot rof § vessel with |the 1 Hall sl oWe left New York at 4 o'clock |Tuesday afternoon in a moderate fog {he sald. “There was nothing out of the jordinary run until after we reached the Cross Rip, when it breezed up sharply | |from the south and the blackest fog 1] |think T ever saw set in, Just after 1 Pollock Rip Lightship, vesterday |had rounded t about § o'el k morning, 1 first heard the horn of the H Before I realized it ame | together with a crash! The Dimock cut big into the hull of the Hall Held Steamer in Gap. “After the collision IT saw at once |that the Hall was going to go under, and I put the Dimock full speed ahead {nto the eash in her side to keep the water out and to get the Hall tnto |shoal water so her decks would be above the surface. While The! » Dimock In the Hall's Heide w th board the of r the Hall took bottom we » see what damage we passenge) Dimock's bows with Jcanvas us well as I co aft t Ww out of water. “Then I got up anchor when the fog | lifted, and as the sea was rising, «ot | hoard at this time, and as I had only two lifeboats of my Horatlo Hall. Clear weather disclosed the upper deck and pilot-house of the) from the Dimock, who came ashore early this morning, took a morning train from Orleans for their destina- Itions, leaving the two steamers in the! handa of the wreckers With the Dimock ashore on Nauset Beach, the Hall sunk {n Pollock Rip Shue, the steamer Massachusetts ashore | on Martha's Vineyard and the tarken- tine Ladysmith the beach at Fisher's Island, tt was apparent that the fog was unusually baffling to} » and that © would be wrecking op ks to come | The five men who rema on the iia after the Dimock her were og off by the Greeam early to-day, tions for some wee! ned t: Id and filled our | own and one of | [ON CORNCE “IG BLOWN FROM. == BROADLY FOO | Two Persons and Two Teams Injured by Crash From | Seventh Story, MAN OFF Gale at Fifty-four Miles an Hour Wreck Through City. | HURLS HOUSE, Causes A gale that blew out of the nort west at fifty-four miles an hour did lots of minor damage among New Yorn housetops tu-da cau it le two serious accident A big cornice was torn off the « Jing of the Broadway Trust) Comp Bullding, It dropped into Bighth | stree| niuring two foot tray iting yuple of delivery Wagons out of business and tyi fare for half an hour In Harlem the the thoroug ked up @ man and threw him bodily over the edge of a roof, but he tit on a cushlon of softened earth and was not killed The fall of the cornice from the top of the seven-story building the trust company at the northeast cor- ner of Broadway and Highth street caused a big scare In the wholesale dis- trict, Fell With Mighty Crash. Under the pressure of the wind the tin gingerbread work which ran around the roof edge of the building began to tear |loose and curl up, Strip by strip the | heavy ornamentation became detached, ! bringing its backing of planking with It, and at Intervals of a few seconds the entire mass on the Eighth street side, weighing probably three tons, dropped jwith a succession of mighty crashes upon the sidewalk and roadway below, ballooning out Into irregular parachute ! shapes. Fortunately, most of the passing pe- destrians and teams, being warned by | the tearing sound above their heads, | So Scene of Wreck on Broadway Caused by Fail of Cornice’ for The Evening Workl by a Sta Photographer | | « ‘Circulation Books Open to All.” ' bit 1909, |had a moment or two of grace in which to leeward of the Ha so her men, |to get to shelter. Two wagons, both be- who were alongside her in the boats, ;longing to box manufacturers and both could drop down to us, and we took |loaded with pasteboard cartons, wera them aboard. ‘Then I started north, Atjcaught. One, belonging to Hendon & | the end of an hour's run from the Pol-|Rappaport, No. 9 Jones street, was | | Jlovk Rip Lightship [ round more water |broken down so flat tliat the horses | | jin the old than the sounding tube had {could not run away, but threshed | shown us, as the tube had been stopped ;around blindly, half covered by debris, | | up There was seven feet of water injuntil somebody cut their traces. The | the forehiold, and it showed there was|driver, Frank Ferrell, of No. 6+ Jack- | an unsuspected hole somewhere in the |son avenue, Bronx, was tung ten feet | bottom, away, but got off without a scrateh. | | “I had over one hundred people on |The hood of the wagon saved him [Poor Man, 7 from death, | Crushed Truck in Debris. the Hall's 1 See ne Dimock for} The other wagon belonged to the Jo- nearest land at full speed. |seph Walter Lox Com No.4) Mure . ma A “Before we got Into seven fathoms |ray street. Driven saward stein,! Work To-Day, After Long | the ship was five feet down by the|of No. H8) Boone avem mx. the | ‘ i head, and was listea to port 30 de-| team had just rounded the comer Hard Luck Struggle. \5' ‘The Dimock went on the beach | when the cornice began to come down, a easily at 1.45 yesterday afternoon, and} The truck was erumpled down flat jWith all those people aboard st was al on tts flattened wheels and one of the rellef to hear her hit the sand Vhorses was completely buried under e Antht and Stork “The Vimock could not have kept | twisted tin and’ sere and shat: | Society, thinks he has more hard luck ! afloat Ave minutes longer tered boards, ‘The animal was #0 bads! than should properly he passed out to a | Both Steamers in Bad Way. ly cut and scarred that a policeman) nian who has so literally obeyed the “The life savers of the Orleans sta-| shot him. in was gashed about the tion promptly came to our assistance, | face by flying scraps. (se ptural quotation touching on multi- and Capt. Charles landed the passen-| Two Brooklyn — passer Dayid | Pileatton of the human species gers and crew quickly and safely." Goldspaul of No. 9 Bushiw } Last call his © over In Bast New CHATHAM, Mass., March 11.—A rous-| a clerk, and Michael Pleree Yor 1, /with no insurance, He Ing gale from the northwest to-day was | St. Mark’s place, a helper, \ moved Harle sweeping the scene of the collision be- | under one segn of the | he los tween the steamers H. F, Dimock and) cornice we faet that the vit balloon fasiton as it down possibly saved ther Hall just above the water in Pollock | ‘rushed to death, As it was, they es.) Rip Slue, with the steamer North Star, | caped with cuts and bru: | 1 {the same line, standing alongside the} Am ambulance — surgeo patched 4 sunken vessel, Fifteen miles away on je two up and took them bot | hi and s the off side of Cape Cod lay the strand-; ‘0 St. Vincent's Hospital, suffers) Klein, wit pa ed Dimock, her stern swung around, !né from shock, Reserves from the! wardrobe op tearing up to broadside to the beach and the tide|!ifth street Station, the Mercer street | Herman Garriga to-day and t flowing Into a great gap in her star-| station and the Trafic A's sub-sta-| him th a was wanted right board bow big enough for a horse and] ‘ion in Ninth street, took cuarge of the! away in k Nat on the fou wagon to pass through. |situation, closing Eighth street until! foor of 2, and would Garrixa The passengers of the two ateamers| temporary repairs could be made. The) please ring and the crew of the Horatio Hall, who| remaining section of cornice on the! is by wa 3 were landed through the surf yesterday | Sreadway facade Was securely shored nan himself | by the Ilfe-savers with six coal-passers| up before travel was resumed along the| He and Pie pavement below. Jnext beat, got Dr Smith ¢ ry ‘ yer After a while Dr Smith came into FELL, FORTY FEET, {havhallway Of) the wparlmanct BUT WILL GO BACK | yiiere tie two policemen and Kein were) TO GET THE JOR, waiting and tod them tt was e boy | gia saa “land Mrs, Kien was doing well You deer ave some hil- If Antonio Laritona doesn't get the| gene judging. from. signs 1 thel Job he sought in the Bronx to-day! piace?” sald te ambulance surgeon to kome troupe of tumblers may pick him | Klein. : | si te nl heGard Sort of.” sald Klet the young fale up, as he made a g record thist ig who's juat arrived makes the fif morning. Antonio plunged for fret e hem are alive Y into a cellar, with three somersaults rteen, and various ricoehets against beams errno and scantling. When he got througi Travel Bureaa, he announced he was ready to go to (Continued on Second Page) E § i Hag C necking. | public convenience, ia the path of travel, | companied GRLS SA i Ber \Vere way the Napevon-tha ng. The We the ke the trip of rilth avenue, had sa ° to be thelr escort, Mrs en i, and under physicians, was to have on the Prince G a Line, e sailing hour tty misses are in Manhattan Margaret are not Their foiks by AWAY; THEIR CHAPERSN Not. to Bert at-Wwas-10 two a st One Ad eo. onl ap © of the advertisements 1 it marked fe I[sses O'Connell were oF {ght and early, ‘They had raps and things helr yndered why the ¢ Just bet the a look over hack aboard might have on deck when the I out Into the strean’ to the bas Twenty thin passed minutes Jupto the pier and Mrs by her Maude Odell, of Fe Madison avenue, Mrs ng tli but f ng Mrs ther Ince Ge a and § iter aca Br husbar y-fourtt steppe Brainerd will take O'Conne AMERICA A Magaming | Emil ¢ theland kill \ifred, anu on the FT BEtiIN ‘oo, Who Expected Mrs, Brainard Too Late for Boat, but Charges 1 he M reet ering Listes who edth Wo CLES ~AT BIER OF PRIST: GIVES MURDER CLE +++ “I Must Tell,” Mrs. Samsen Sobs as She Gazed on Slain Newark Pastor— Husband Had Overheard | Plan to Kill in Church. ‘TOLD NAMES OF PLOTTERS TO | WIFE, BUT SHE “FORGETS.” She Is Detained and Detectives Hunt the Hus- band—Girl’s Story of Previous Attempt On Life of Father Ansion That Failed. In the midst of wailing hundreds who thronged the rectory of St. Stanislaus Church in Newark this afternoon, after the body of the murdered pastor, Father Erasmus Ansion, had been laid out in state, a al than the others, who was sob- bing, “I cannot keep it back any longer. 1 must tell.” The detective, John Smith, of the Prosecutor's office, had noticed the detective noticed a woman, more hysteric: 1 must tell. woman as more vehement in her lamentations than any of the other Through an interpreter he learned what she had been saying and placed her under arrest. He led her quietly out of the church and took her to the Fourth Precinct station, There she said she was Mrs, Adam Samsen, of No. 27 Jones street. She said that her husband, who works ina Bloomfield mill, had overheard / threats against the life of the priest on Sunday night while at a meeting of | the St. Kazinierus Society, made up of young men, in the church base- ment, He told his wife that there was a plot to assassinate Father Ansion and me pillones some names which the woman could not recall. =| Detectives were immediately dispatch- ed to Bloomfield to find Samsen and gét from him the names of those he had plotting to Kill the priest. wife wil) detained as witness, Planned Death in Church. the assassins had planned to Father Ansion fn the chureh early as Tuesday night e belief of the police, who have stioning hundreds of parishione nurder, Groemack, an eleven-yeare No, %4 Prince street, parishoners. AULLED BROTHERS “IN BATTLE OVER WIVES QUARRE erheard Dorothy EB old little girl, of Newark, toll a story to-day which - sroms to back up this theory of @ Coroner’s Jury Exonerates tmwartca ambush in the chureh itself, . : Is Taken She said that at § o'clock Puenday ag antr y ‘ase Is Take she entered the chureh, thinking a Mantrin; BULA cholr rehearsal was to be held, She | scarcely got inside when she saw & th-faced man enter and hide be- to Grand Jury hi 1 pillar, He wore a brown ovete Although a coroner's jury absolved coat and was well dressed. ‘The child A Vautrin from blame today for #Md that soon after the stranger ap- Nitreul Veutring tom ‘ peared Father Duga, the assistant of killing his brothers Emil and Victor at jscier Angion, came in, ‘The man bee No. 42 West One Hundred pind the pillar looked closely at Father Duga, and then went out of the church, Others Saw the Man. his home, ast month. Ward and Forty-first street sistant District-Attorney would not consent to the discharge of the ex-+ Father Duga says he too noticed the Jonerated oman man, and the child’s story is also con- | 5 firmed by Miss Caroline Michnoskl, who bakeni (tome ste < was with her, Miss Michnoskt says \Grand Jury ro further that she saw two men running that he would try to have Alfred away from the rectory yesterday after SMP | tein indicted for murder the shooting, and she thinks that one tr hot them was the man she had seen In j|_ The testi sha the chureh on Tuesday night. chot at Emil in defense of ; ind | Detective Shutsky, of the Prosecutor's nc |B Me, and aes me ‘ sist i ys tH statt, to-day arrested William Olesesk!, yor Emil was fustifahle ord that Alfred na at Sa eos ae nuateulaome dteposttion, | thing of the r, but the police tor 7H Duda de alsa 1 day, acting on the advice of Prosecutor 1 ace and Alfred Bott G ete perry Nott, discharged four of the prisoners Miss | The Hite act tale rerio Hie nt! e will be held untll « ean v Castizntionnot ik ove- fee hate remark about Emil's wife which | thorough: inves! ga i Ne nae aes ext boat |the later announced would have ; the recanted or blood would Thite rter, of the et along | victor, who waa unmarried, | bimatetps reste BAHL | Alfred {na flat at the West For Heer iaeCinight as PRUTRSR latreot address) They had been told He bs ea tas Mae ad threatened to visit their } 3 ake any 8 Newark only started for Alfred had Ue f od on Second Page.) 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