The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1910, Page 4

| ty Son must SPEED when on pleas- oe THE £ VENING WORLD, RT |Wreckers at Work Tearing Down Walls - FOR TEACHERS IS. CUT IN SALARIES Park Conunissioner Stover oposes “Economy” in | City’s Playgrounds. MEN MAKE PROTEST, | Paint Out That While Their Pay Is Reduced, Supervisor Gets an Increase, | } _- Commissioner Stover, acting on MUKestiON Of Supervisor Bradstreet, Planned to shut down two of the feventeen playgronnde on Jan. 1. | | WIL reduce the salaries of the teacher-attendants jn the re- ining Nfteen playgrounds. cheerful Christmas news conveyed to the women teacher. | coupled with the additional | that Supervisor Bradatreet | have %60) added to his salary. Tt in| ‘at the Commissioner's office that Balaries of teacher-atiendants are to Feduced in the interest of economy, the women attendants express the | that a portien of their small dn to be sacrificed for the bene- | the Supervisor, Will Make a Fight. | teacher-attendants are not going | €0 the proposed cutting of their | jes without a fight. They visited | @ Bumber of the members of tho of Aldermen, who promised to | up the Stover-Bradatreet plan it comes before them for ratifwa- | imtreet, who comes from Roches- | ¢ Feceives a salary of $500 for the! of supervising the playgrounds | parks. He asks that the salary | around attendants be cut from month to fa day. Under the per Fate the most the attendants would monthly would be ®2 if em- nix days @ week, tvut it is Brad- plan to tun the playgrounds on if time echedwe, so that the ac- ‘weekly wage would not exceed 9. Mabel E Macomber, Mins L. Curry and Mrs. A. Peacock, eommittes of teacher-attendants, on Alderman Frank L. Dowling, ratic leader of the Board, to- end urged # public hearing oa the Propored reduction of salaries, Need of Good Teachere. city @hould encourage the em- play of) the best playwround : available,” sald Miss Macom- “The instruction afforded children in) the playgrounds is valuable. It ‘wil not be possMie to get such teach- if the city 4s going to reduce sal- that are already low to pay|° time im the bargain, lerman Dowling promised the com- that the matter would go to a y of the board. YORK CENTRAL STOBLAME, SAYS w | (Continued trom First Page.) ‘ yard. The explosion shows in itself Pintech gas is a powerful and dan- Coroner Acritell!, who is now of the Munictpal Explosives n, is looking over the process nufacturing Pintsch gas to-day. District-Attorney Whitm will have 1k on this phase accklent this evening.” May Remain a Mystery. Attorney Whitman, who tas twelve New York Central offi- gave out the following statement etternoon: &m by no means satisfied that the Of the explosion is known, and It the duty of the District-At- to see to it that a thorough and investigation be conducted to that there be no uncertainty as XMAS SUGGESTIONS. ; No. 10. This is an age of rapid transit. f ae must HURRY to his busi- must HURRY ing; when + wre bent; hter must KEEP PACE h the times when taking her spin through the park, AUTOMOBILES, CARRI- | a For Bargains——— H, or persons possession arrest, of the best experts obtainable on the Use and nature of explosives to deter- mine if possible just how the explosion took place. properly stored oF illegally kept on the premises criminal law, and if evidence of this is developed it is the District-Attorney's duty to bring it to the attention of the Grand Jury." Marshals Kelly and Kilgallon continued ‘The investigation was held behind closed doors, but the result will be made 'public by Commissioner Waldo, cause of give the: the investigation of the bricklayers. scaffold directly above the explosion and testified that the odor of gas was very strong for half the Grand Central 1 structive! THE CORONER = western and northern walls, and on the southerly side there were Obstructions In the shape of long Bast Fitty-firat street sta ing. Shaken by the Grand Central Explosion \ITNESSAGANSI jo the criminal HMability of any person “Aw yet there is no evidence tn my which justifies making an I expect to engage the services “Of course, If the explosive was im- there is a violation of the Fire Marsha! Beer and Deputy Fire re Headquarters they investigation rnine the cause of the explosion, There is Uttle hope that the exact the explosion will ever be The only men who could have ‘absolute information were at work to the leaking gas pipe, and all of were killed Smelled Gas Half an Hour. Two of the witnesses called to-day In ire Marahal palding and Thomas Quinn, They were at work on a nown. ere Joh hour previous to the Whaley, manager of coldent, Bt witness, Fire Marshal Beers attributes the de- 88 of the expioni bullding under wh the under the structure of steel, oncrete and brick was closed on the sides ‘by solid trings of ate The eas el railroad cars. rly side was open. Marshal Beers likens the space under the bufld- ing to the bore of @ cannon or an au- euplosive ‘under certain cond! | cmobiie cylinder. The for plosion was out through the open east. , erly end, und ft was sufficient to blow @ street car off the track 100 feet away and drive timbers into the brick wal! of the fire house at the southeast cor- ner of Fiftieth etreet and 1 avenue, nf the ex- xington The explosive force escaped like the charge from a gun. List of Injured Grows. ‘The list of injured is mi Twelve new names wer anting hourly added to t n this mor Persons living as far as half a mile away from the explosion were hurt by broken glass, falling cellings or fly- ing splinter: There are victims of the explosion in New York, Presbyterian, St. Vincent, Flower and Bellevue Hospitals. None of the injured died during the night, but @ number are in @ critical condi: tion, and that the death list will be swelled before the day is over there ts hardly doubt, Various theories have been advanced by Fire Chief Croker, experts in the employ of the railroad and ot the cause of the explosion, 1 from the accidental dropping bar on the third rail 1 the yard to the cross in the sub-station structure, which was filled with gas. It also is suggested that the flame from @ lantern or lighted Jet of a live wire caused the explosior own that @ runaway train tn Albert Seagroatt, a _ through a bumper and broke « gas pipe. Then it is belleved that one of the workmen dropped a drill Acroas the third rail and the sparks which rose ignited the gas « the ex plosion followed. However, ofticials say nothing can be known at this time. Most of the men who could have ex. plained the ac ad. Dynamite Not Exploded, William A, Withall, the man in charge of the Pintech gas tanks, no 6 o'clock that the gas was escaping rap- idly, He went to the power house to make an examination, but before arriy- ing there the explosion occurred, He aid he was ‘unable to find where the 6 Was e#caping from, » 18 wes suggested alsg that ident are ed before she’ sxgio- | y Ms ot on t ‘Tia morning's stock market offered . — | strong resistance ty s % H sin evidence durl ne fil s sion was due to dynamite, but this is| Wat eR ve Renin ae, Sites g not credited by Chief Croker. It | prices ee ob % found that within 200 feet of the serday'h cloie; “Lehigh y was the | mitt : plosion was @ cont Weakest stock, losing over 1 point y more than $00 sticks of dynamil An| speculators, nut expecting the dividend st examination showed that this magazine | rate to be changed at the forthcomin Foal passed through unscathed. Had this ex-| meeting of the directors, were heavy q| ploded it is impossible to tell what} sellers of the stock at the outset | | would have been the result, for there| Trading ruled quiet in the later period | ix plenty of combustible and explosive material stored in the vicinity under the proper legal permit. jt LORIMER IS EXONERATED ! BY SENATE COMMITTEE. Report of Sub-Board Freeing Ilinois | Senator on Charge of Bribery WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—A report ex- onerating charged with having been elected United States from Ilnois through the use of money, was formally Senate stions tox Senator Flee that and submit to the Senate a report tn ne with that which had been made by Lo minal, was also | mone to the fact |it might be finished this Is Accepted, Senator Lortmer, Committee on. The committe Chairman sub-committee which was constructed so solidly, ‘The | unanimous, Burrows should write but prices held finn, Pronounced weakness in Lehigh Vi ley pulled prices down sharply in th c ‘| final hour and low prices of the aay | Advance Decline were recorded at the finish, Lehigh Val- —_————— | ley was 27-8 points down, and | pane anion aausled ts ata -PUGILIST KAIN FREE | The Mat ruled steady throughout the ————e greater part of the afternoon until con-| Coroner Exonerates Him tm Death ntrated selling of Lehigh ey broke out, and about everything traded in was)| eel daeae falling at the last. | PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29.—John Total sales of were 300,40 n of this city, nt (Kid Gardner), goxer, Who died follow onparell Club las shares, and of bi «to the jury Coroner ionse as holding Am, ews toward at the tests, stath e voted Am. | % | that Soxing matches were no worse Amn Ni than footbal or baseball, He in Am: 4itained that when a@ person ¢ Ts a vi 1" | boxing contest it is with the knowledge Investigated Balt Th) tage he me Akely te his life, | verdict of the latter was without | Pumibinte, qualification in Lorimer's favor, the ¥., Dee. 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"Yes He lives fi my papi The bey was shown a pi the three tenement hooses ow: * house ograph "d by ot | tis father and he pointed out the houre in which tia man lived, “Where did you think he was going?" » a Moving pleture show,” 1 you say anything? “T said I wanted to go home, and they j#uld this car would bring me home | Was crying @ little bit. They took mé ON DOOR,|'®* house and they sald I should siay there, Marie (meaning the Rappo wos man, whom he potnted out), said her husband was going to the corner and the other man woult back. Slept in Kitchen. “Where did you sleep?" “In the hen.” “Did Marie make a bed for you “Yes, she put rage down on the “Were you alone in the room?” | “No, me and Marie and the two kids | (the Rappo woman's ohildren) —w there."" The boy identified brought from his ce had taken his name and written it in « book, and told how he had cut off a lock of hair from his head. The hall door, the boy testified, fastened with a rope tied to the be room, and no one was permitied to sword, tective came T cut the the little feflow sain, It took just twenty minutes to get «a jury, the first twelve men: being cepted, Then District-Attorney Clarka! told the story of the kidnapping. Tha boy's father, Francesco Longo, took ti and the lock of hair sent to him by the kid told the story of the raid on the E was found. Six-year-old Michael Rizzo, the other kidnapped boy, was not sworn becavse he did not answer when asked if fa a He was. Fle eatd that on was taken away he was put and one night tater a mo t and Jeft him by a eman tound him. the day he in a house, were then read. the lad if hie warning. 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