The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1909, Page 16

at BENSEL IS OUT AS A CANDIDATE FOR MAYCRELTY -_—_— President of Board of Water Supply Announces That He Would Accept Nomination. FRIEND OF M’CI.ELLAN. He Is Credited With Restoring Peace Between the Mayor and Leader Murphy, John A. Bensel, president of the Board of Water Supply, former Dock Commissioner and righthand man of Mayor McClellan, made it clear to-day , that 1% the nomination for Mayor Is tendered him by Tammany he will ac- wept it. fn the subject. “I do not state that I am a candidate the President Bensel spoke frankly fh the sense of pulling wires f Momination,” said Mr, Bense}, “but I do say that many friends—and numbe! fot them are influential—have urged feandidacy, If the 1 for the Sigh office of Mayor were tendered me by the Democratic party I would ac- cept It, of course, I would estcem it @ high honor. “I am not a politician. T am an en- Bineer, first, last and all time, I am mot seeking a nomination, but I would fmagine myself silly were I to decline @ nomination, I imagine I have as Much human nature as the average fan." Mr. Bensel was then asked if Mayor McClellan had suggested that he be- ome a candidate. "No," he answered, emphatically, "T. Mayor has not suggested anything, This 4 Matter has been suggested to me quite : as unexpectedly as was my appoint- i Ment as Dock Commissioner and later j as a member of the Board of Water | fi Supply. | i I have been in the service of the i \ t he eity nearly twenty years and have nat- urally been drawn into politics to a cer- And I haye found politics & Very interesting game. Still, my busi- hess is that of engineer, and ch Mnight be fitted to accept a Mayora’ nomination.” * Local politiclans declare that Mr. Ben- Fel's knowledge of the political game ls More thorough than his modest claims reflect. | It was Mr. Bensel's clever handling | of the situation that again brought | Leader Murphy and the Mayor together | Again on a basis of peace and harmony, and already Tammany men are hailing | Bensel as the “great pacicator,"’ ea tain extent Wal Aty | ROTERILAWS SMOTHER Mrs. Schneider Dead of Wound, Her Slayer in a H Critical Condition. ——_ Mrs. Bertha Schnelder, who was shot Mey her brother-in-law, Robert Schnelder, erday afternoon, died in the City ‘wlospital at Newark to-day. Schneider, fwho, after shooting the woman, shot Bimeelf, 's {na critical condition, The shooting occurred at the home of an- other brother, Herman Schnelder, No, $1 Runyon street. Robert Schneider boarded with his vic- fim and her husband, Carl Schneider. tHe BVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAROH 2», 1909, Salvatore Melara, Slain in Flatbush, | and Photo That May Clear the Mystery DESERTED ON PIER HE ORDERED THE BYA SMUGGLER SECRET TUNNEL ‘Customs O Connection Between Subway | Left as “Sleepers,” It Is and Steinway Bore Made Under His Supervision. SHIELDS INTERBOROUGH cers Seize Trunks | | | | LIKE MAGIC, Names Give Clue to Vigilant Watchers on Trail of APPEAR Asserts That He Gave the Or-| der as Officer of the Stein- | Owners. way Company. | bebe — | Piled tn the Appraisers’ Stores at | The Publi ission to-day Christopher and Washin, streets, is Started an to the con- 4 collection of 150 magnificent gowns, Structiol rough Rapid Transit C ny of an elght-foot tun- laces, tr g8 and waists, valued at £20,000, for which there is no clatmant; nel « § the subway at Forty. Moreover, the Customs aulhorities do §toue et with the Steinway Tun- hot expect that ar nt will ap- | Rel As constructed this tunnel cuts he route of the proposed McAdoo | , and it {s sald, would serve to! the col- | . ‘i | ea Coie the \ line Pier, | It is also sald that the Interborough | where they ran aga’ & lino of in-| possesses no permit for the construction | RICTURE FOUND they could not | of t point. It has a permit | action of an elevator shat: | the Steinway Tunnel and the OY HURDERED AAT | | % em 18 commission was represented by | | tC. Semple, LeRoy T. Hark: B. Seam hief engineer, and | | | ' fom eats neat & those several members of the engineering | ! Waring, there George H. Pegram, chief engineer, Impressed Finds Secret Tube, Chief Engineer Seaman safd that ursday he made a tour of the He found a tube ar the curvature of the rd at an angle of | feet to 6 feet in| 40 feet in length, with @ 20 feet. Then tie tunnel S to $ or 10 feet, ascends a dis- e100 feet at an angle of ees, coming into the man- ISDUE IN LEGAL CUNTERFEITERS 1S BOUT THURSDAY TP TO POLE Negro Champion to Answer! Flatbush Murder Vi NYRR TDOAY Father Hickey Intervenes for | Two Young Women Held at Ellis Island. from 6 brought in, on the New Y tim Was 3 I ate Aaa cert ent subway about 30 Year-Old Charge in Spe- Believed by Some to Be | the south Ine of Forty. (s ri b Fother Hickey, of the Mission of Our | He believed the work | cial Sessions. Secret Service Agent. | Lady of thg Rosary, on State street, ST ere teks | 1 were to be com- | ret in ing from Lawyer Walker, “it There appears to be an Impresston | That Salvate TERRE ATENDIGE order for the release of e, would it not, with the abroad that Jack Johnson, the negro} Kingston av BARD $e ispy Re a arpeoe champlon heavyweight pugilist, came by counterf: elon ia tee “It would nted from entering | parce ere to New York this week expressly to | betray their secret was the clue that s Gil) (td Wi CY fulAll @ vaudeville engagement at Ham- gent a dozen Brooklyn d of Commissioner ttan Company." merstein's, The fact 1s that Johnson the hunt to-« rol raledeadiion veonaltion |v " Homan ite, ie came to New York expressly to keep aj dead tn a pi mane i marry at once, and the y the searching | most pressing engagement with the! avenue and Ma n arrange. | by Commissioners Court of Special Sessions which was! Pasquale 1 OW EEL contracted a little more than a year ago, | 174 Hester On March 18, 1%8, Johnson, who was] fed the | fi rete then sojourning luxuriously in the pork | to-day ki: ¥ t erie i ) ean chop and gin belt on the upper edge | cated Calab L 1 ‘ae eg : Mite et of the Tenderloin, appeared in West 1 if A 4, rv I t After Slde Court as complainant against a [ put [ tn | famentha M There negress named Amy Douglas. He ac- M AL | L rn} s aia a cused her of separating him from cer- t ; : : p tain Jewelry while they were occupying i) | (i “Wel ue jae ne Laas . }@n apartment at No, 181 West Fifty- | } f ( (| ; ; Le ane idieees third street, rained A) HH QI, ; tr ites Johnson admitted to the Court that ' Inte ; Finally he was married and that Amy Douglas PAS. ¢ a he 1 & each word "This was not his wife. On his own t mony, corroborated by witnesses, a oharge of Infidelity was made against) af p eet of-some-two to wed guilan| Company Gui posed the cons 1 him and he wag held for trial in the: Melara’s wi Giving Freight Relat not made, Court of Spectal Sessions. Fall was! Two paper od | i , Ly OL fixed at $1,000 and was furnished by| shot were found Ucenses will be procured on Cooperage Supplies hiventna Baron Wilkens, the neero saloon-| white «ilk he keeper, who stage managed the recep | pT Bt." tlon to Johnson at the Grand Central velopes fc Station to-day, Special arrangements and anoth were made to allow Johnson to go to Spave officer of the n officer of the Interborough | GIAL'S STORY WINS ipacity did you act when | Australis to fight Tommy Burns, upon leaiher pene cota to ay his promise to retur; for trial tr baa) 1 | his promise to return here for trial In HaaRleahouls ep consideration this the week beginning March °9, So the exuberant joy of Mr. | body was f day morn Wilkens tee of the On Wednesday last Robert and his 8: ferin-law quarrelled. Carl sided wi bis brother, and Mrs, Schnelder said whe would leave the house and nog mr turn. She went to the home of Herman @chnelder, On Saturday night Robert went to the Runyon street house and fried to indlice his elster-in-law to re- furn home, but refused. It 1s alleged $hat he then threatened her NHfe. He Nppent the night at Herman Schneider’ home. Yesterday afternoon, while Mra Mohnetder was talking {n the parlor with her cousin, Mrs. Sharks, Robert Veave the room, and he went out, but Teturned in a few minutes. It is said that he had the revolver with which the shooting was done concealed in the cellar. As he entered the parlor Bfrs. Bchnelder ordered him out, and he at once opened fire. One bullet grazed her Jeft arm, a second struck a window, and the third and last bullet fired at her entered the breast, near the heart. Schnelder turned the weapon against himself, sending a bullet into his ab- domen. Mrs. Schnetder was twenty-nine old. She was married when s years old. en Don’t Bother avout trying to find a way to sent vacant apartments or to sell jiouses, lots or farms. Cut the whole proposition short by illus- ivating your “To Let” cr “Real estate ror Sale” advertisement in next Sunday’s World with a picture of your property. That's the way to tell your story instantly and conyine The World kes no e charge for ill 1 adver ments. Write for a World Advertise- ment Writer to call and help you —free of charge—get up an at- tractive announcement JUST WRITE and See What Happens, gntered, Mrs. Schneider asked him to | 9; ears | FATHER A OIVOZCE ore | when he saw Johnson step off and Railroad ‘nished cars this morning w together unselfish, It meant $1,000 bond which he had posted were heard the Interborough? to arantee the appearance of Johnson) John F, Lozier Gets Decree ; Be ; the New York and | Was vate, Mainly on Evidence o' UY out | Astlstant District-Attorney Dana ap-| Soe Mainly on Evidence of i ‘begin this work? A. | Peared in the Court of Spectal Ses-! secrat ( gr ter ‘ esirable Sona to-day and moved that the trial States Treseui Young Daughter ntel bots of Johnson be called on Thursday morn-| stelara's tody was paid to ( Witte ue pus fully what | jing. Frank Wheaton, a negro lawyer, | lan was murder: Miss Lila Lorter sing girl oe purpose The purpose i representing Johnson, aid he had no/ In that case the salseaee aN pal he rey Pt oat ane necinaerisitel | objection and the date was so set. [eee iN ; ‘av tunnel for operating | | The Special Sessions Court officers j{s pas: pumps and to maintain the lighting |are making arrangements to take care | stem. This seems to be the beat i ; He Senegambian riot around the Now, Mr. Hedley, by what au- court room on Thursday morning. The |occasion wil furnish many negroes | who haven't the price of a ticket to Hammerstein's an opportunity to see their hero without expense. Ree seen |BATTLING POLLOK was that tuhe constructed? A. street's, who I sand that any author. Hundred and ‘WIFE A LEGAL INFANT, BOTH PARENTS DEAD — UP HS HORTAE ¢ Johnson, of Bloomfield, N. J., SPEEDING CHAUFFEUR RUNS DOWN A OY. | WINS ANOTH T, Hands Over $1,660 and 5 Rue ‘ Ve Hantly Obj he Plight of Young Bride Sued Avoids Action, aeeheee Jallantly Objects to “Improper} 6. the ent of ie side Drive Resident. é Presence | Language in of a Lady.” Her Mar! - Fone oF aie le tly, twenty-alght crn s " who ¥ chauffeur employed by Harry Pollok (weight 142 at 2A. M) | ee aie n, of No 110. Riverside Rae as Fonerein snare 1 teen Altar sicuth Sau tite ed Intg | Drive, Manhattan, was arragned be- Tal- Rualiwleanneld Nal hace fore Magistrate Connolly In Flushing when ar i thane Peery Git eTniak yrne ig (2-28 charged with reckless driving nell in t annule paying tel this afternoon and hand- |? automobilo In Elmhuret last ; ed hits itoae (he ful MrouRWIeE tal iene He Nas paroled in the care of 1 i Vormeritawalcleck's ‘5 gounsel for further examination on The as knocked down ture of the nose, and possible ins s hurried to St. mained In ¢ cessor 1 was disc Walker song Island City, is were encountered between Cleves eda, t 2 r prepare his case. \Jend and Tol che. Gt Monrce On arisame, Demerara, Herninivs, Guiana. 20,000 GOWNS HEDLEY ADMITS FATS WHILE | Work while drilling a class of forty | Third avenue, to-day and fell to the 8 Johneon had b {1 2 o'clock t night Bently was running rap- ——_—_ this afternoor ood the de- ugh Elmburat when hie ma | one Pee emer Piha Fae Ole Clanser. fifteen PORT OF NEW YORK, to do #0 rs of age, 0 5 Bowe) street, {d his condition Is se- ; zi A aaterit plice say Tentiy has heen are * = rested for § Queens before. ¢ J t OSTPONED. tha ~— ————— { > r Sica “PATHFINDER” AT TOLEDO. oh t Zi dennis, F 2D0,\0, March %.—The big t t0% ‘a s flyer, “Pathfinder,” which ts acd this ] y Hambare, Sonus the way from New York to G i SAD : ; le, “ocean to ocean" auto Magis Potsdam, Rotterdam ee > >» June 1, arrived in| 1 a lot of word slinging on Se any land at 130 In the a ne one a discharged Pollok and 1 ari maater, 0 com: bation to-day mble after School of Instruction as 1 ad 4 aad of fo Bingham at noon. en through DRILLING CLASS OF POLICEMEN ay ai pete Lieut. Day Collapses as Forty Probation Men Prepare to Meet Bingham. | Lieut. William F. Day succumbed to/ the strain of excitement and hard men tn the Police Department School of Instruction jn the old Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Eighth street and AN ODORLESS AND TASTELESS S PURE COLD PRESSED Bim ccAstor oi.) 6 DOSES IN A BOTTLE floor unconsclous. He was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where the doctors told lim he would be as good as ever in a few days. Msi Miauieoaydwesnastarttarceam test PRICE 30¢ duty in he old FORSALE BY three weeks ago an. ALL DRUGGISTS, JAMES McCREERY & C0, 23rd Street J4#th Street On Tuesday, March the goth. EMBROIDERY DEP’TS. Sale of White Muslin Embroideries,— edgings, ‘nsertions and beadings in various widths and designs, yards. In Loth Stores, Strips of about 414 25C, 35¢, 45¢, 55¢, 65¢ to! About one-half 50 Se ART EMBROIDERY DEPTS. An unusual collection of hand-embroid- ered Imported Novelties, suitable for Easter Gifts, Favors, Prizes, etc. Sale of Three Hundred Stamped Patterns. In Both Stores, and Fifty dozen Shirt Waists, on sheer linen.............1.00 Gowns, on nainsook....................65¢ Chemises ‘‘ ° ul aMiooU ibe nuNonsele Drawers “ x GHdnoooOvOOUNHOdHOgRe Corset Covers, on nainsook ... eri lOC —_— In both stores, All Corsets Carefully Fitted. La Vida Corsets. ‘The coat model is ex- tremely long, cut on st lines, greatly reducing the figure into slender proportions, and is so constructed as to give a smooth, un- broken line to the form. Especially designed to be worn with gowns of the most fabric. La Vida Corsets. of figure, with the requisite lines for the pre- vailing mode of dress. JAMES MccREERY & 23rd Street clinging 5.00 and 9.50 Models for every type 5.00 to 12.50 nm OJ. 341") Street oo ae preene JAMES McGREERY & C0. | 23rd Street 34th Street | CUT GLASS. In Both Stores, | On Sale Tuesday, March the joth. 6 inch Nappies, with handles. Rich designs. 1.50 value 2.00 8 inch Bowls..... puone paoononnato | value 3.50 Flower Vases, 16 inches... vooovnleh@) yalu¢ 20.00 | Oval Salad Trays........... Taio | value 5.00 | Fine China. Ramekin and Plates...............1.75 doz. | value 3.00 | French China Dinner Sets. roo pieces....... ‘ 42.00 value 75.00 Austrian China Dinner Sets, 3 designs, 100 pieces. 22.00 valucs 33.00 and 35.00 Quadruple Plated Silverware. | Tea Spoons............-...1.00 per doz, Table Lae ee Ore PG) iy | Dessert Forks......... Gna piste) 1 Stigar Shells, s,s. cscs eee ees .20¢ each 23rd Street 34th Street } , |