The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1910, Page 22

sr-nrroee tens nate aE Noa REALS * months ago. - and the fifth the J. * Hopkins plumbing concern occupies the * went from | ASTOR BUS GIVE ROKER AND WALDO A CHASE Three-Alarm Fire in Bronx Quickly Followed by An- other in Harlem. TENEMENTS IN PERIL, Many Driven to Streets—! Naphtha in Dyeing House Adds to Danger. | A three-alarm fire In the Bronx early this morning was followed by a four- | alarm biaze in Harlem, and Fire © missioner Waldo and Fire Chiet Croker | attended both. A number of persons | were driven to the streets, and one Dereon, William Kernest, a fireman of Ehgine No. 14, was hurt, while a wateh- man, name unknown, i miasing. Shortly after midnight a woman iiving across the street from No. 491-496 Hast One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, @ six-story brick factory building, hear & crash of glass and on looking out flames coming from the second Windows. The basement, firet and 0nd floors are occupied by the Kni bocker Brass Foundry Company and the other floors by the Lawson Dumbwaiter Company. As soon as the woman could throw on a kimono she rushed to the street and found Policeman O'Malley of the Alexander avenue station. When th Policeman had sent in an alarm he was Joined by Sergt. England, and the two degan arousing the eighteen the five-story tenement at No. door. Imperilied by Panic. Some of the tenants were hard to| Wake. When their fight was well un- | der way many women and children were | bruised and threatened with worse in- jury, as all made @ rush for stairways | And fire-escapes, Those nearest the ground were assisted down the stair- Ways and ercapes to the street, dozens were led over the roof to 470 Brown place, just around the corner. Fire Chief Ahearn found the factory buikiing so far gone he sent in a rec- ond and then a third alarm, which brought Chie¢ Croker. Ry hard work the firemen kept the blaze from spread- Ang, but the bullding In which it started wae practically destroyed, the loss be- ing estimated at $0,000. Toward the last the firemen discov- ered that one man had refused to leave the tenement next door. James Camp- ‘bell, who lives on the third Moor, didn’t ‘think the fire was going to spread, #0 he insisted .n going back to sleep. His wite remained with him. Fireman Kernest was hurt by a two- story fall from the root of the burning bullding to the roof of No. 49. He was taken to Lincoin Hospital with a broken arm and many contusions, No trace of the watchman usually on uty in the building destroyed has been found, No one could be found who knew any name for him except “Pete,” and his address is not known, Fire Commissioner Waldo recognized the building as one gutted by fire eight It has since passed into other hands. Naphtha Near Second Place. The extent of the loss in the second fire was due Inrgely to the first, which had called some of the Harlem com- Panies to the Bronx and necessitated | four alarms instead of the three that! Ptherwise would have been sufficient The blaze started at 1.90 A. M. on t first floor of the five-story brick f building, an irregular structure b West One Hundred and Twenty-ftth street, Morningside avenue, east, and Manhattan street. ‘The flames quickly swept through the building and gutted! ft from cellar to roof, The Fowler & ground floor, the Empire Lazadry Com- Pany the first floor, the Bayer Plano} Company ¢he second and third, the New York Rug Company ar A. Corn pany. ‘This biaze was replete with thrills, and firemen worked heroically under t direction of Chief Croker, who had | ui ried from the Bronx, because of hun- dreds of gallons of gasoline and naphtha reported stored in a dyeing exiaviish ment next door. ‘The police tighten Kept the crowds at a ¢ the fire lines and ance and tire: the burning was left of the structure except the | walla and a few brick partitions, As a precautionary measure ambulan J. Hood Wright an. Jem Hosp! Waldo Gets Drenched. A feature of this blaze was the drench- ing of Fire Commissioner Waldo, who passed in his auto too near the leaking connections of @ line of hose and was soaked, —— KELIHER GETS 18 YEARS | AS BANK THIEF ACCOMPLICE = Boston’s “Big Bill,” Convicted on Evidence of Cashier Coleman, Appeals From Sentence. BOSTON, Dev. —Eighteen years in the State Prison at Charlestown was the sentence passed upon Willlam J ("Big Bill") Keliher by the United States District Court to-day for aiding and abetting Bookkeeper George W. Coleman in looting the National City Bank of Cambridge, Keller at once} entered an appeal co the United States Supreme Court and wil! continue at Mberty under bonds wnill the higher | tribunal passes upon his case. Keliner was accused of framing up | sake gambling games in which Cole- man lost the bulk of his stealings. It | @nd he has done Mr. Smith a great in- lexpect to fight this ow | Ing to the end wh oeaaas asda HUSBAND IN SUIT VALUES HER LOVE, oh dadad Inia AT $50,000. | | MRSLR GAUL | “NEVER OUT ALONE. | WITH MIR. SMITH," SAYS MIRS. GAUL Calls Husband’s Charges and $50,000 Suit Against Bogota Mayor Absurd. “Mr, Gaul has done me a great wrong Justice.” Mrs, Ldilian Higgine Gaul so declared yesterday, referring to the divorce suit brough? by lee husband and the sult against Mayor William N, Smith of Hogote for 0,00 for alleged alienation of his wife's affections, “I will file my ans’ torneys in a few d fo time have I ev gone out with Mr. Smith unescorted, and there are no grounds whatever on which my hus- band's absurd accusations can be based. | Mr. Smith and Mrs, Smith have always, since I knew them, acted toward me as | very kind friends and neighbors.” Mra, Gaul haa been living in Ridge- feild Park, J., with her father aince | she left her husband last spring, Ray Gaul, the husband, is living in Paterson The officers of the Lackawanna Rail- road sald yesterday that Ray Gaul is not a member of thelr engi ing corps | and has no connection with the railroad Mayor W. N. Smith sid last night “IL wish the newspapers would correct one misstatement thus far made, No dl- Vorce papers have been served on Mrs, Gaul and so far no papers have en served naming me as respon ageous proceed- T owe it to my wife, my family and my friends to prove my tn- nocence.” ——_—— WIFE TAKES STAND TO DEFEND SENATOR GORE. | 20.—Mre. Thoman | wife of the blind Senator from Oklahoma, appeared yesterday belore a special committee of the House and dee | fended her husband from the attack | made on him before the committee in| Muskogee, Okla, last’ summer, when | Jake L, Hammond told the committee that Gore had asked him to borrow $5,000 for him. | Hammond said Gore had asked him to approach J. F. Rowell, who was inter- ac WASHINGTON, Dec. Gore, - | ected in getting a town site bil! through | Congress. The story, Mrs. Gore dented {t alto, Tn answer- Hammond's statement that he was received in the e of che after the bribery incident, Mis, ald that Hammond had ¢ he Was an unwelcome V more, the said that the Senator had told Hammond in her presence that he did not need any fi ssistance, Re witness for Senator has denied the in, | Gore. that the Rowell ame bill. ww A Cardift tr wh some mil find When Broke Call on Uncle Ben BENJAMIN FOX . A eliable... Pawnbroker Offers Big Bargains in DIAMONDS and Rich Cut Glass 72 8" Ave., iii s. All Cars Transfer Fet. 1876, Open Evenings Until 10 e'Cleck. | corro THE £ EVENING WORLD, JERSEY LAW HELPS 'HORSEMAN'S MECCA MAKE FIRE TRAPS | IS BUENOS AYRES, | OFTHE FACTORIES CARSON ONDECLARES pace Evidence at Newark Inquest Owner of Dixiana Stud Tells of Sport and High Prices tor Thorqughbreds. Shows That Little Protection Fine Is Afforded Employees, Buenos A Arge PROSECUTOR AROUSED. paradise, according to Thomas J. Car owner of the ed from South | way of Europe =| Declares If Statute Didn't Exist | Pixtana ¢ Ky Owners of Burned deepal \t a iat Me Mr. Ca lay by g-A went rican liner Amerika to Buenos Ayres last 1 fifty-five thoroughbred | he sold for | summer | Kentucky with horses, which in | said Mr. Car- tty well with my ship- “All things considered, Into |son, “L did pre! ) ment, but the Argentine «ovegnment | giris lost their lives, wa 4 | does not encot the importation of | Jday before « " rand a Jury. | North Ameri ores, On the con- | Prosecutor Mott was on hand to question | trary, a revenue tax has been placed on | lithe witht j them. p first witness of the day wax State Found Government Lenient. Labor Commissioner Louis T. Tryant] gupsequent to my atarting from New of Tren ». He said his interpret | wi my ntine w was that one fire ¢ pvernment pass ing a no matter how tk hund on each y be, was all that was nece into the untry. That ly with the statute. I got there, but asmuch as I had sailed before it was passed they rescinded it in my case on the ground, of course, that It could not I suppose they could it, but they are on the! tuenos Ayres Is one of the most de- |lightful cities in the world, They, have a racing plant hat is not equalled anywhere on Kio and their race horses are as fine as de found any- Races are he on Thursdays and are social events. The enormous, The parl- of betting 1s used and responded the witness. “Oh, ¥ know that as well as you @o, Mr. Commisisoner,” said the Prosecutor, “but don't you pers: jell, X think it Prosecutor. “If th such « law on the Grand Jury could indict the owners of buildings for reckless disregard a to for the oconpants. It | could be done under the common law.” Bryant testified from records of his | department that the Hi Pe ing had been inspected about twice a| rs ral recommendations of the | s for the safety of the em- | had been complied with, among them being the erection of the fire- escape at the north end of the building, Instructed as to His Power. Witness then testified that since the pidly expanding, | lish and other taking the trade | An | een New York | and Rio de Janetro and B would hi FALLS IN| TRIAL FLIGHT. | Badly Hurt Quall- a License, %—Aviator Foln, while attempting to-day a series of flights required by the Aero Club of France to qualify for an aviator'’s 1i- fire he tad consulted with Attorney-| conse, fell with his aeroplane, He was General Wilson concerning the number | padly injured and his machine wrecked, of escapes that should be on buildings, | and he sald he had been advised to) ayy onder as many as he thought necessary for the protection of the occupants. Attorney-General Wilson, he sald, advised him that if the owne ings questioned his right to ahings, to let them fight It ov William Schlatter, the insy the district where the disast followed hia chief on the stand, fying fo CHARTRES, T % | 24 Barclay St. Dainty Holiday Presents. Lundborg’s Perfumes. and ine prated him in regard to inspec. | 0 tlanm, recommendations and the com-| Ldandborg’s Bon Bons and plance with these recom a Chocolates. = William =P. O'Rour ty Superin- London Sweets—Special tendent of Buildings of rk, test! up to his E 2b. Package, $1.60, De- livered Anywhere in Greater New York, Mail Orders Filled. Zatek Chocolate Billets, did not have Surtedtiaion over factory buildings. His command is law in this establishment, and Holiday Merchandise is radically price-cut, in order to this house to carry no Holiday Merchandis fice, it must be sold. And so The Mark-Down Man Has Cut Fancy Gcods and Bocks, Men’s Furnishing: Nothing at all bearing a holiday : the “Mark-Down Man” skirmishes thro they should—down lower go the prices. instances spect or flavo This is the frequently find marked $2.50. eyes of the *Mark-Down Man” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, In ne of 8 BWHe h by ¢ Things formerly marked $5.00 are now reduced to as little as $1.50, $1.25, or $1.00 in many cases. are closed to loss or cost ance of all Holiday Merchandise with the close of the Xmas season, 1910. candle power each along the thorough- fare. The Concourse, which hae been years BRONX’S “WHITE WAY” OPENED TO-MORROW. under construction, hes cost the city $6,000,000, and will, it te declared, by | $6,000,000 Concourse to Be Inaugu-] Bre iter, be another ‘Great White rated With Ceremony, Fire- works and Electricity The Grand Boulevard and Concourse in the Bronx, 20 feet wide and two and a will ‘be formally = by the turn- mmissioner Thomp- ment of Water Sup- tricity. This ewiteh rent from the power e Hundred and Eighty-ninth ) are lighte of 600 opening will be attended by many | city officials. Firworks and addresses wiki mark the festiviti Ask More Police for Bronx, Alderman Abram Herbert, who lives 1072 Hall place, Bronx, told at his district was ‘Thereupon the Bot olution requesting Mayor to instruct Police Commissioner Cropsey to afford better police protes- tion to the Bro son of the Depa ply, Gas and will ¢ house at street JAMES ‘McGREERY & CO! 23rd Street 34th Street On Wednesday, December the 21st. 'S GLOVES. 2 clasp, fine quality Glace Kid Gloves, Paris point embroidery. Tan, Brown, Gray, White or Black. 1.00 per pair value 1.50 WOMEN In Both Stores. WOMEN’S HOUSE GOWNS. Im Both Stores. Embroidered Silk Japanese Robes 14.50 and 19.50 Flowered Silk Kimonos.............. 5.00 WOMEN’S DRESSES. Of Messaline or Serge...........5 + 624.50 SHIRTWAIST DEP’TS. In Both Stores, “50 dozen, tucked white mull Shirtwaists, *| MEN'S HABERDASHERY. JAMES McCREERY.& 0 23rd Street 34th Street © » On Wednesday, December the 21st. In Both Stores, Suitable Holiday Gifts. 400 dozen Scarfs, end Four-ine hands. Made of English and French er 5c value 1.00 100 dozen Shirts, of Scotch embroidered and Russian Cord Madras. Made in work- rooms on the premises. 3.00 values 4,00 and 5.00 75 dozen Pajamas, of Scotch Madras. Regular and extra large sizes. 2.00 value 3,00 ‘TRUNK DEPARTMENTS. in Both Stores, Travelling Bags, leather lined. Tan, Brown or Black, in various leathers. Sizes 14 to 18 inches. 5:73" value 6.75 to 8.25 Russet and Brown Cowhide Dress Suit Cases, with double steel frames. Fitted with shirt pockets. Sizes 24 and 26 inches. 4.75 and 5.25 values 6.00 and 6,50 A complete stock of Travelling Bags, Dress Suit Cases, Overland Cases, Week-end Cases, Trunks, Luncheon and Tea Hampers, etc. 1.00 50 dozen, all-over eyelet embroidery Shirt- waists, trimmed with valenciennes lace. Suit- able Holiday Gifts 2.95 SILK PETTICOATS. In Both Stores, 25 dozen, Messaline Petticoats in colors and black. 4.95 25 dozen, Black Wool Jersey Petticoats, with taffeta flounce. 4.95 The regular stock includes a large assort- ment of Taffeta, Messaline, China Silk, Pom- padour Silk and Silk and Wool Jersey Petti- coats. At moderate prices. SOROSIS SHOES. In Both Stores. Suitable Holiday Gifts. Boys’ and Girls’ Shoes for Dress or School wear,—designed for the perfection and com- fort of youthful Hote approved by orthopedic authority. JAMES McGREERY & CO 23rd Street 34th Street Mail.Order Customers and Out-of-Town Patrons who are unable to personally visit our store, with its enormous and com- plete Holiday stocks, may send their orders to us by mail, and they will be filled the same day received by men and women in our shopping department who have had many years of experience in making selections of Christmas gifts and in filling mail orders. the Tholark- Down mMar SAYS- ‘(CRASH GOTHE PRICES | 7 On All Holiday Merchandise must be obpyed—that’s why every remaining piece of ure its removal before Xmas Day. It is a rule of No matter how drastic the sacri- Deeply Into All Holiday Stocks a over from one season to another. Jewelry and Leather Goods, Stationery, Cut Glass,.Art Embroideries, Handkerchiefs, s, Gloves, Umbrellas, Silverware, etc., ete. r has escaped his keen eye and blue pencil. Every day 1 the stocks—and if things are not moving as quickly as he thinks harvest time for belated holiday shoppers—as in many 25c Has the Buyiug Power of $1.00 $20.00 Holiday Goods are cut to $5.00 in many instances; $10.00 Holiday Goods you'll The his only thought is a complete and absolute clear- CHINA DEPARTMENTS. Portables, Floor Lamps and Domes for electricity or gas. Marble and Bronze Busts, Groups and Figures; Marble Pedestals, Hall ‘ Clocks, Jewel Boxes, Dutch Silver and Carved Ivory. In Both Stores, English, Limoges and Bavarian Dinner- ware. Limoges China Dinner Sets 25.00, 30.00, 40.00, 72.00 and 100.00 On Wednesday and Thursday, December the 21st and 22nd. Fern Dishes.......... 2.75, 3.00 and 4.00 Compotes........00000008s000000004.,00 value 5,50 8 and g inch Bowls.......2.75 and 3.75 values 4.00 and 5.00 JAMES McCREERY & CO: 23rd Street 34th Street ‘ After Breakfast, on Christmas %& morning, it is customary and highly proper, to assemble about the piano and start the festal day, as it should be started, with A CHRISTMAS CAROL Just such a carol as will be published words and music in NEXT SUNDAY*S WORLD “FOLLOW THE CROWD” into The World’s “Want” columns.