The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1910, Page 1

SUBWAY GRAB UP TO THREE ‘WEATHER—Fair and warmer to-night; rain Fri __ PRICE ONE CENT. » (The New York | GREAT SUBWAY at HELD UP TWO WEEKS BY ESTIMATE BOARD $o— Sent Into Transit Committee by De-| sire of Mayor, After Five Borough | Presidents Ask for Consider- | ation by Entire Membership. The offer of the Interborough system to operate the proposed new subway extensions is now in the hands of the Transit Committee of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which committee is made up of Mayor. Gaynor, Comptroller Prendergast and President Mitchel of the Board of Aldermen. The committee is to report to the Board at the next meeting, January 5th. This action was taken at to-day’s meeting of the Board of Estimate, | after Mayor Gaynor had been sent for to preside and after he had grace-| fully sidestepped and allowed Mr. Mitchel, who had been in the chai during the transaction of routine business, to remain there. It was the first time under the-prevatent form of government that the Mayor, being present at a meeting of the Board of Estimate, has fai The Board was iv das to wise} oa commit method should be w are tion of commun! oft arent ¥ in favor = te t Transit ( Commiss! fer, which w Board yeu Tue for to- f Comp opinion miasion had sent the Board for th a definite stand elsion on the I omMciais of the ¢ was willl commun! the sentiment of ‘hia e against him on that the communicatio to the transit co: McAneny for immedi Borough FP “Am that the com the Board ax a Co ther step in the Mayor was ap- the mat- ee and that Ned to order was in the ed him to when {t up, summoned if any (Continued Gn Fourth Page FRE'S HOW SUSMAY OFFERS ARE HANOLED IN NEWARK —— pee Transportation Company Offers to Build Im- " ‘Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Coprright 1010, by The Frese Pablishing | wireloss—wireless {that it's almost_impossibje—forma CITY HEADS Che World) naw “YORK, “THURSDAY, ‘DECEMBER 22, COOK DISCOVERS. HIMSELF AT SEA BY POLELESS-WIRE |Great Explorer Clk Clinches His Identity, Approaching on Ship | Not Named for Him. 1910. a2 PAGES 38 KILLED FIGHTING BIG. FIRES a IN CHICAGO AND PHILADELPHIA ! Thrilling of Disasters in Two Great Searching Ruins of Philadelphia Factory Fire Chiet James Horan and Twenly ot His Men, Fighting Stocl Blaze, Seek Sheiter Under a Huge Canopy, Which Falls and Crash Them to Death Comrades of the Vic Victims, Appalledt ty the Loss, Tear Frantically at the Blistering Bricks with Their Bare Hands in Efforts to Save Even se Bodies. Fireman William Giazier, Caught in Ruins of Quaker City Factory, ts PROMISES NEW rinos| } May Start at Once on Trail of | the Source of Great Sub- way Bunk. The steamship George Washington— named for the man who could not tell a lie—having on board Dn Frederick Fed Througha Tube and Stimulated A. Cook, the man who could not tell a Ci : With Oxygen for Twelve le elther—successfully—arrived off ities Until Rescued. 5 sland this afternoon, Realizing sibjlity of Interviewing the good Doctor in person between then and nightfall, The Evening World got in touch with him by means of private | and Poleless, too—| and the following conversation ensued: The Evening World—Hello! Is that! Dr. Cook? A Vole—Yes—no—yes—I mean no.| You see, I've got so in the habit of say- | ing things and then taking them back | a Thirty-seven firemen and one policeman were killed and at least 100 the victims were crushed under falling walls. The Chicago blaze threatened to destroy the Stock Yards. Fire gerald and eighteen men were crushed beneath.a heavy canopy which fell on them while they were fighting the flames in the beef house of Nel son Morris & Co, The number of injured will exceed fifty. focus on anything. I think this ts I=tt fe The ing World—Thanks. Well, | | Doc, everybody in New York is walt-| ing for you. Dr, Cook—I am a modest man, as you may know really, I would prefer not to hay rge public receptions given in my honor. I am travelling bringing with me as | nt engrossed copy of the of the Clty extended to me on | occasion by the Board of Al- ‘graphed photograph nan, the only Arctic ex- | self who went | Anyway, like it. tion in ithe Stock Yards district. There was not enough water to fight the flames. By 1 o'clock the firemen had the flames hedged in, The Philadelphia disaster was in the Friedlander Leather Works, in North Bodine street. Many of the dead were in a rescue party, who sought to enter the ruins when one wall was still standing and were crushed under it, Thirteen firemen and one policeman were killed and ‘more than fifty injured. Many bystanders were hurt. | PHITADELPHIA FIRE. south the le. The One fireman was manu ¥ sion re- HIS| LAST CHANCE AVIATOR RACE rescued alive after being pinned under the wreckage for twelve hours, ner confessjon re 8 sions, and | ir gumdrops, York fell for re. Tam also next greatest of discovertés, over the source of the I shall trace it to its lair either way. ber that on my last arrival fi e thrown at me, I'l be satis- |iea this time If nobody throws fruit, Enthusiast Awaits Him, The Evening World—Quite #0, And what are your immediate plans, Doc? Doctor ¢ pose to Ki Chicago Fire Chief Killed With 23 Men Under Canopy CHICAGO, Dec, %—Fire Marshal) fighting force, James Horan, twenty-two firemen and a) Side heard t 1 to-day in a fire which | paratus an 000 damage to the TO EXPLAIN WHO GOT STOLEN CASH Wider, Looter of the Russo-| Chinese Bank, Appears Relatives Makes Round Trip | oklyn—my 1 Brooklyn, the home of the Before O'Sullivan. Trying to Win $20,000 Prize. | plant~ at Yorld—And from time to See |, FLIES CHANNEL THEN GOES BACK Englishman with New York subway bunk Pronoun at his home on the West © second call for fire ape ted to the stock yards numbe more than} the rash of fire toward other buildingse AMeult they IF: umes were billowing out ef several the Marshal was bistering pipemen an@ ng to thetr nt of com- nil ‘ roy and the heat and faces of the "THE CHIE » but in a try-out sp! mediately Under Any Terms or Plans City Might Make or Suggest— Mayor Acts at Once, {Speci ateh to The Wo NEWARK, N De offer wa McCarter of the P Serv oration day, to relleve existing trai jon and ty ruction of a subway system in th a that aking, by the con Mr, McCarter st finance the ent fair t c ton ts willing f the city deeme it be 1 and ow the subway, the company wil and ope rts; The plan. s sforth by Mr. MeCarter embraces the construs Wey in oRd from Bridge st to Clinte the a t of the Morris Canal and for an ubway Py the use of the part of the plan, Mr MoCarter 1 the Pennsylvania Railroad depot to f that onnsylvanta apex the military ferred by | subway Would cross, ‘The vard of Works er will be re- Mayer to the B $11,000 VERDICT FOR LEG. vy Gane | the burstin Mine In the Taun apartment house, street and Central Park Cleary was given $11,000, it was filed against I, Hains en | was argued four days, Mrs, Cle was Jury Given M ages for Acctdont tn the Dakota, pore inte One of t') heaviest verdicts fy sonal Injuries awarded in the elvil for months was found for Mr Severn Ch owner of the ens aceldent which wre * were burned er : oe aterala ie He had @ narrow ¢ » ! Bld pent & Injury he awning, whio way, 1 ”, a gentleman Ww ‘ 1 Channet day 1 ning, which labep hed: 406 toward ‘ Hohn s wenlthy and pr desiroyer of a score of Ivem, is waiting at the pler wi s pap 5 sit by firemen, led by Horam se for you. The package t# la about nin 1 ayia and i ring in a de belled “Rots and Sf time and won man © ¢ from England + lous to hand ' the — secon | eR ENCH f James Jon't know 0 ' 1 hr VIATONS {tie canopy gobng Se att Anew: Prutva : W RLCOKDS. 2 arsine ee ¥ ie r hy Ho you ke We : wn e i‘ ———- i ihe men below §he nething of that sort had been , walled a by cotlapatng New York, + ad i ie sta had his Firemen Are Driven Back. lor perfect rol and hia} 1 who knew nothing! return trip over uhe water | is dd er, aummented by Cotte yn where you formerly e landed at Deal in Eng is, were standing im 1 and inf ti ariy all t » rer 1 bes » ed. Ahem ny | Second to Perform Feat. on fell were reas was At as Leen performed death before belp could reach aly to ven back eag Capt i and with & q i tume ta se ch, a sen in the the blaging structure and | W ny « ad, reall n ranges thelr bare handy to drag saving property tinu 1 the body of thelr chief vuted - And what does jt say? 1 retu and his companions. We'v t t the rest of her ing World—It says “Cook at A Finding this a vain effort, th ed | men. ¢ , and we'll make ; ns ae fl again the direction of Ass. ‘ Sound of Dr. Cook ringing off, r Dusan Cup hal Seyferlich and redoubi 4 acknowledged — Siete ‘on de Fo! ffered ap miles) in 76 minw: forts to shut in the spre \. M at whole steele ayor of 0 for § * t, Including Lats» MOULIN IEA »| fame 8 district was in : a BUFPALC Dec r annel, made in Explosion Starts Blaze. We've got no Wa at Er In an English The fire was first discoverat abou do nothing ¢ y of Willam F | « by a watehman in thé Morris i) ve * ed States tor to aviators hed been wa a "|& Co. beef house at Fort ad of (hat fre aces every mam M. Depew, whose ortu compete and Loomis streets, An a the departmen: > nd of the present pwith hax already set am ipe, bursting, ‘apt. H. MH. Fuchs of Eogine Compang fot 290 mile dso quickly that th » Grace Has Many Priz barely had turned in the alarm before e- White, who wo: aha for the flames began bursting from the Cleary by a jury pdefore Justice jp the Supreme Court to-day, For the Wheeled into court each day on an in- valid’s chair, ation cup at Belmont Park, planned to try for the prige on of Conductor J sand Bralces man H, H, Rowzee, early this morning, Po accel ved ‘he | building Wire Marshal Horan, head of the fixe! arol 4 opy of nex OF at your newadealer : sana a a a = were injured in fires early to-day in Chicago and Philadelphia. Most ot ‘ Marshal James Horan, Battalion Chief William Burroughs, Lieut. Pitas — The blaze spread rapidly and at noon threatened widespread destruc i a a i is 3