The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1909, Page 1

en ! JOHNSON SEEKS A FIGHT tn RT ttn ee eaten annie ramen ARRAN RRR th ‘MANY WOMEN IN WILD RIOT fae th nn te Sci WRATH intr to-night and Toesday. "PRICE ONE CENT: Ci are ‘Circulation Books Open to All i | NS 000 P AM HERE TO FHT SAYS JONSON ++ Negro Champion’s Announcement at First Show Here Is Greeted With Retorts of “How About Ketchel?” From Audience. BY ROBERT EDGREN, umpion heavyweight, made his theatrical | | Jack Johnson, the worl debut on Broadway stein’s Victoria were black. The interior decorations of Hammer- hed the bag and sparred three son pur enthuse, one-minute rounds with Kid Cutler, but the audience failed to Then Jo NW made a speech “LT came here to make a match with Je meet him.” “How about | don't you fight Ke | “Twant to figt | “The ' keep prvi ! —| Ovation at tution, = 1 ASB | ~ PALE OCTORS trom Chi- SS Stomach ne said I have posted $5,000 to} from the audience, “Yes, why rose a voice fa dozen cried. id Johnson, ed Johnson. “They or Lin son otham oltizons | cago. Thousa ent th ! Boasting Atri corridors and ete, in th and sight-se ench packet with n and sporting gay co all the world It looked for e minstrel | Salen Also. Misplaced in Ris wife, his new 0 of handlers. ‘Tesa = ‘5 Sa ivateat askin Body of Tailor Who HAO cinneaiiiend ie Lived 37 Years, shaped head » With his wife and| ed at No, 145 Saratoga | Drookiyn, had long complained of acute Indigestion. He treated himself for weeks, put on Saturday his breath- ing b al so difficult that he called ina physician, The physician diagnosed the case as! | pneumonia and ordered the tailor's re- | twa sigh is head up and down aad lifted wis je round de: ss the street from the exit was Sim Langford, clad in a wide ~ ehouldered gray coat and a brown Corby. and grinning from ear.to ear. gam liad becn standing on a wagon, "Val to the hospital. The sufferer lost | for an hour, waiting to have the first} Consclousness soon after his arrival, Jnok at the man who crawled out of aj aNd although every treatment gancratly match with him at the National Sport-| applied In pneumonia was utilized, the fig Club, of London. At first he looked| Patient failed to respond and ied yes. | as if he had some intention of taking a| terday afternoon, wallop at Johnson upon the black cham-| Coroner'é Physician Wuest performed plon’s first appearance, But as the, an autopsy In the presence of the en- visiting physicians, It was found that tho heart rested at the right stde of the | body, Its valves had been pondered | practically useless by the intestines that had been pushed up ust them by the malformation of the stomach, which was found on the opposite side, The patient had been smothered to] the cheers and snatches of coon songs went around, Langford cheered up and. with true African lightness, switched intu a rooter. After all, Johnson wa a man of his own color Parade Throtgh Tenderloin. Now the fun began. The dusky cha plon and his part Tushed Into were an automobile. There, jammed so tight death the wheels couldn't turn around, the — | auto was stalled for a tow minutes. STEAMSHIP RIO GRANDE Johnson stood up and took off his hat! und all darktown yelled. The smile, AGROUND NEAR MOBILE, grew alarmingly expansive, It showed! — | from behind as well as tn front. But) MOBILE, March 2.—The Mallory tine | 1 to-} Defore the consequences were fatal the steamship Rio Grande, out-boun champ's auto started, and with the big | day for New York, went aground tn Mo-| Ly band playing right behind and a pile River herd ond fast, dit may coxen minstrel troupes ging and} po necessary to dlacharge cargo be hooping {n the rear, the procession plarted oft across town on Forty-ss ad nee down Troadway and) 2EPPELIN WP 6.000 FEET. | r Te tos were going | ton their way to Aernonut Makes Reoord Flight tn Hin Atrahip. FRIEDRICHSHAPEN, Mareh 2--Tho | Zeppelin airship made a successful ttight | ‘An the over Thirty Wilkins’s Ja old, of Ni negro waite tion party, lot one of the ca: r Wheel | to-day to height of 6,0) ~feet, tha| \Enige ery his Hee | greatest altitude yet hed. The oe ing both. He hh en | i. ‘and shouting * “where | ing also was successful waving 4 JetrieaY’ esti pene Hrd Succesafyl ju le (gb lenree toe nn to ene ew Kort ina on peed ee er or street. band played and the flags waved and/ tre staff of the hospital and several |‘! } beyond recognition, BABY PANING “MCTHER” SETS DRESS CN FIRE I Mrs Spicer’s Child Fatally Burned in Spite of Frantic Efforts to Save Her. With a which was enveloped in flames, wrapped in her Mrs| Katherine her two-year-old haby cer dashed | ay. ans who had followed ut the fire, but not unt! had beer urned, Mrs, Assisted by a number of she beat) the ch pine core, wide ¢ , Smile Threatened His Soalg eae is cats vamiae ENG tee autopsy on the body of a man re-| Ninth stro « ane of ihe cently taken to the German Hospital, | ef her little Howd. | Joonson was in a seventh ny supposediy: suffering trom an! Oeed two Cae ee eae ant persed cnt icuin “Vin the kitchen of her basement fat, Bae core AEN Ese ted cas Onia, to-day) while she went up stairs to sweep off Fay an reer : tha eart was located on| the sidewalk oh. ‘In elai t side he body, while the; Bertha proposed that they play Sate to a Ks at the extrome left! “Mother,” and set to work to prepare nen brenkfast. Rose becan : 3 a tailor, thirty-| ed In the preparation of the morn- ing meal that she stood too close to the gas range and her ffttle frock caught fre, Screaming with fright, the dashed up the steps to the fire! and there she was met by Mr. child floor, and Mrs, | Goldberg, who with thelr five children occupy @ flat on that floor. They selzed the child, and were about to wrap her up in blankets when Mrs. Spicer, hear- ing her baby's crics, ran in from the Selzing the child in her arms, she dashed off to James Kirkeley’s drug store, at No. 1515 First avenue. A crowd, heating the screams of the mother and child, followed, at the drug store, which was set to to. extingui * playing about two, Was so ndly durned that che ped off in flakes from her waist to knees, and it Was appa:- ent to al that she had iittie or no chance to recover, Her face was burned but all the while cried piteously to her mother to save her. Mrs. Spicer was badly burned about the hands, arms and bre With her little girl she was plac byterlan Hospital ambulance ntee and taken to the hospl ohild dled this afternoo: | will recover A few months Mrs. Spicer, wh: fever, lwaped i dow and was kil Ven ehilaren to vk about « Weeks BO pF itress tenement pleced in | Bertha and vushand of “ago tho at the ba Five hom oxe—she kept with her BEVERIDGE LEAVES HOSPITAL. BALTIMORE, March 2 t teveridge, of Indiana, left J spital to-day, after ha @ patient these for several weeks ator Beverifee, Woo unuerwens & Gal operation, was reported to be in ex- callent health to- ins Hop THROUGH SKYLIGHT, | Sadle Bell, "door open, but tt was locked P recover. GIRL PLUNGES TS NAN IN B Tighe to Get Into Room Through Window, Falls Two Floors, Ct PATERSON, N. J., March %,—Miss eighteen years old, of No. 16 Market street, is in the General Hoa- | Neighborhood founded and haa since supported, early this morning while she was trying | they must find some persons or persons who will assume the annual burden of visited friends Yast evening | $25,000 to keep the Institution alive, as The | he 1s no longer disposed to make this In consequence there | pital suffering from Injuries received | to get Into her home, Miss E and reac! her home at midnight. aid good oor night and left her at the the bell, but there was no answer, peated ringing failed to arouse sleer frighter remain outdoors all night. After she had tried for nearly jour to awaken some one Int decided to try to get house through a window, Re- the she into the yoling man who had accompanied her | Yearly outlay. J JON, TES His CrAR TI Rockefeller. About to With-| | draw His Support of West Side Neighborhood House. John D. Rockefeller has notified the | | steering committee of the West Side Hour, whieh that | is grave danger of the collapse of one hattan, Miss Bell expected to find the! of the most far-reaching charitabe or- She rang ganizations on the west side of Man- John D, Rockefeller erected the West is in the rear of the third floor and It | its advantages. is possible to reach a window opening| Its day and night nurseries proved in the rear from the porch. While stepping from the porch to the window sill the girl lost her bal- ance and fell. She went through a skylight and landed on a bed tn which first Joor. but was badly frightened. Bell, shock, Was hurried to the hospital. It! was found that her Jett knee was | broken and that she had lacerations of the lecs, face and body. ———— FLORIDe. RESULTS. TACK SONVIL. Fin, Mareh e to-day resulted as follows RAC Five 10) (Chartrand), to 1, $ tol) One ile. —Jeanette 3 to S$ and out, frst ny Abe, ( 5 anc third Time Charlotte Hamilton and ran fur LAUER SS yngs.—Siskin Kir a | METAL EXCHANGE ELECTION. At the annual election of the New York Metal Exchange to-day, P. R. was elected president of the and along with didates for offic hin other on # uel to be ers {n Nbrary contained a wealth of valuable Information neig'! tor those inmates, and the girl became! side Neighborhood House on \ plot of pd at the prospect of haying to, ground he owned at Tenth avenue and | Fiftleth street about ten years ago. an | was equipped with everything that such he house an institution should have and been éstimated that at Her room| and girls annually avati themselves of It it has veritable boon for poor moth- the hborhood, and ite in quest knowledge whose circumstances would a man Was sleeping in a room on the | not permit them to purchase the books The man escaped injury, | they needed When Rockefeller founded the Insti-/ An ambulance was called and Mise |tution {t was with the understanding who was suffering severely from |that the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, of which he js a member, was to op- erate the house and pay ning expenses all its run- Three years ago the She will |memberg of the chureh arrived at the jconclusion that this was too great a burden for the church to assume, and they Rev, pastor Chureh, of work, {zation to | she operat at reclaimt: Uinue to put up each which to operate the sett! he had alr with ‘addition to what oe 20 notified Mr. Willard §. Richardson, asso the Fifth was made chairman of a c furlongs.-Lamp| mittee of ten, and they market, Grif-|elther some person or charitatfe or take th shoulders and asstime all penses, ng ng ep Rockefeller, Avenue Bap continued th . first by two lengths; Sep-) Recently Mr. Rockefeller signified to! * Burnton), 19 to 1, 4 to | Mr. Richardson that the affairs of hie ji). second; Calabash, 105 | settlement, and especially Its finances, street f three b to 1. § tol and 4 to 1,/had become irksome to him. He wan she wa Detective Rey he burden from or a part He had no i roperty, year the WESTON PEGS ALONG FRANKLINVIL Edward way cit expects to ary ning he loft £ | Fas Pays to the re Varrl tals mort Coast Afte , place t ~_—— @ New ntoun owe ‘urkiah Bashe th Bulidi fatvollanment sModers and he! least 19,060 hoys of m+ ARREST OF WOMAN WO FLINCHING FIVE WOMEN Set MRO, FARMER D Agnes Baird, One of Those Who Un- derwent Terrible Ordeal at Call of Duty, DescribesScene in Execution Chamber for Evening World. IN SWORN CONFESSION, WOMAN SAYS HUSBAND IS INNOCENT. | Autopsy Shows She Was Physically Normal and Perfectly Sane—Meets Her Fate Calmly With Prayer on Her | Lips. AS FIGAPOCK STARTS A RIO Hundreds of Shoppers in Wild Panic as Detectives Chase Fleeing Prisoner. The arrest of two young well-dressed arge of picking pockets) , Brooklyn, department women on a ¢ in a Fulton str s afternoon almost caused) storpilaies at the corner of Fulton street and th avenue, Shoppers who saw a weinan tective felled by a silver mesh purse in| the hands of one of the alaier pockets suried forward and tear her weapbn from her hands The res had to be sum could get thelr 7 ddquarters. Tneidenta.ty arrested broke from her with her light: blond ne out behind her, for sev- Be ved bes sone one of captors and hair st eral blocks before she was the wild riot hundrec thelr clothes almost backs and not a few men were roughly handled by the pollee. The mel mpletely suspended all traMlc on Fulton street while it la To add to the turmoll, the matinee crowd from a Fulton street vaudeville theatre became tnyplved in the mob. The trouble started when two young women detectives In the dep: store noticed two other women ing a well dressed customer fron ter to counter The detectiy Jater they not shadowing women shopp prured said at Headquarters ed the two they. were ng, Into the handbags of the women to the street ‘and we 1p to Detective James D. Reynolds, uf the Rroo ntral Office, and told him of their s tons, owed the two suspects for til they reached Fulton Reynolds {¢ several block nd Flatbush ave: Then he ip and told them they were arrest we are. are we? younger of n Miss to the uta deep gash dand she fell SHIigs's idewalk nis other woman nd thelr t gine ~ the chair, his D « mide r When Mary Farmer went to the electric chair at Auburn Prison to- day ior the murder of aged Sarah Brennan three women were present as witnesses, while two others, the i:egular prison attendants, escorted the Condemned woman to the death chamber, The witnesses were Dr. Helen M. Westtall, of Moravia, N. Y,, and (vo nurses, Agnes Baird, of Troy, and Miss Margaret T. Byrie, of Aus burn, The story of the execution is thus told by Miss Baird in a special despatch to The Evening World: By Agnes Baird. (Special! to The Evening World.) | AUBURN, March 29,.—It was hardly daylight when silent, dark-eyed men and three women, two nurses and a doctor, took their station in Warden Benham’s office, Few words were spoken, A door opened, and the group walked silently behind the Warden to the death chamber, A deputy warden asked the witness to be seated. At once every eye was fastened on the chair, Hardly had all been n) seated than State Electrician Davis appeared trom his small cage back of stant, E, B, Currier, aiding in making ready for the final ncandescent bulbs were placed ina board and then put on hen the dynamos seemed to hum a weirdly, yihing) was all right. testboard was placed In the cable the two electricans working lans, quickly connected the | test, Thirly the arms of the chair. plaintive note of death Eve “CUSTOMS INSPECTOR lynamo wires with those above the Warden Benham stood im- vable, + Patterson, who notified ay liam Kemmeler, the first man to die | : t by.electricity, to “prepare,” Went to the condemned row door, tapped four times with his stick and the door opened, Those Hollow Knocks. Events moved with lightning rapid- j ity. The ghastly sound of those hollow knocks I shall never forget. Capt. Pat- terson stepped aside. Every eye was fixed on the door, Heading the ten step death march from cell No. 7 to the chair were Father Hickey and his assistant. Preceding Mrs. Farmer were Mrs. Dunnigan and | Miss Gorman. A ghost-I!ke color overs s. Farmer's face. She had McGuire Is Rescued pultost Exhausted and With a Bad | Wound on Head. \ James McGuire, a Customs inspector, fifty-five years old, while boarding the steamship Anita at pier Il East River this afternoon fell from the gangplank into the water. sank, but came almost at Laan sh sted Oh hen Ee ai a neat fitting black dress for her once a horted £ tine Se Teammate he wore new shoes. The gown swim, hut fe ae cea eh acsidvan fitted loosely about the walst. Below the aneen B nctl/@> PORUED Nak at" the right knee was a silt which made rived ae * vasy the applications of the leg clece Dan BO Naser strc Jes by Capt. Patterson. who was were closed. Her Ips moved in prayer, her voice sube dued, but the supplication “Jesus, Mary and Joseph" being plainly audible. In her right hand was a prayer book, in her left a rosary. She seemed devoid of consciousness and only for a second cured at 11 “ to MeGulre, but the latter was so elums. the overbo! ander MeGuire's Andrew Viola ‘ope at n his ate ive about and Peter ) assisted. in dragging him out. He was rushed to St. Greg- raised her eyes in part token of gratle jors's Hospital, where a severe *P tude and farewell to Father Hickey as wound Was dressed ile hud struck his head on_ tt Nort in_ falling. Ninety-ffth street his hand touched hers, She seemed to divine his tntentions, and after 4 slight clasp released her grasp on the rosary. The Las. Moments. Everything was then In readiness. The ferve crucifix New Serial Story To-Day Incidents were passing rapidly, Hee arma were strapped, electrodes were By pr leg, arm and herd In seo witnesses instinctively r urderess from the @nze ju witnesses, as the electrodeg | | E. Phillips Oppenheim. | THE LONG ARM | the woman's volce AN cached the w of the well iMumf- i death ch r, alternating now OF MANNIS with Father Hickey’s quickly failing ants. Then the executioner, Mfr, zine FP ’ Davis, waved all away. Warden stood Sve feet away te en nnn