The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1911, Page 20

nn me i RPE SE AIEEE oo NEW SUBWAY B NOT TERBOROUGH, SPRAGUE ASSERTS eee Identity of Millionaires Behind Him to Be Disclosed at Proper Time. NEVER KNEW SHON | Mitchel Charges Prejudice for Belmont Interests Among City Officials. Frank J. Sprague, Sineer who has put in a did for on operation of @ modified triborough # way, was somewhat over reports to the effect that his p exercised to-day =A osttion is backed by the Intervorough | interests, He prompt en- Phatic denial that the Interborough Is y interested in his bid. nt Shonts of the Interborough,” sald Mr. Sprague It nade and SUBURBAN TRAIN LOOP EEE this offer of mine ever gets to a point where the city wants to close with me I will reveal the names of my financtal \associates. If any of them are found Ro be interested in tho Interborough 1 Will throw up the offer and forfeit my deposit. ‘"It 4s true that my effice is in the City Investing Building, the same build- fhe that sheiters the Interborough of- fices, The President of the owning this ‘butldir of mine, and that is why I rent offices here. Never Connected With Interborough. “Not only am I not now. #4 have Hever been, a consulting engineer of the Interborough Company, but I have fever been connecte’ in any profes. Sonal or ‘husiness way directly or in- @rectly with that company, EXPLOSION ABOARD THE WHEELING IS NOT CONFIRMED Rumor of Accident on Gun- boat, but Wireless Fails to company an NN EF or any of its subsidiary or related interests, or \ with the business of any member of its Rea er. i Board of Directors; nor have 1 a j fusiness or professional relations with = any of the officers, not being eve per- WASHINGTON, Jan, 26.—Th ally known by it# President, » The proposal made Is not as repre- tative of, nor in the interests of, the jaterborough Company or its backers, Department forenoon was without concerning Wheeling reported to be vic the gunboat (oF Of the McAdoo interests, nor of the |“ Presumably erie of contractors waiting for the| Mles off Charleston, 8. C aaperiiy to put their forces at work, | Stories tell of an explosion on the war 3 nor of any steam railway company en-|ship. Although the report {ts dis tering New York, nor any political] credited ali wireless stations were or- . group, nor w any of them even|q 1 to try to met In touch with her. Ware of the fact that a proposal was OMecials of the Bureau of Navi 3 te be made by me. tion strongly discredit the report that 4 “The business of equipping @ sub-| there had been an explosion on the way in every detail, from track to] gunboat Wheeling. They asserted that power house, is the province of the| the vessel wes put of reach by wire- consulting and constructing electrical | tess, and that,” as her apparntus 1s | engineer. That ts my business and] snort ranged, there was no cause for} that of many of my friends, and/ surprise in the fact that she was not! among us we have aMilated financial] reported by wireless last night. ' interests who are amply able to carry| puey waid th a aiei would | out any undertaking to which they | arrive at Guantanamo late to-morrow, : Obligate themselves. and that there was no ground, sé far| i Has $1,000,000 Guarantee, as they knew, for the rumors of a W@My proposition provides for putting | explosion, They admitted they we | Aufs $1,000,000 as surety that the contract | without direct advices, but said they | } up be carried out, and also, If the | expected none. | authority exists to receive the same,| ‘The wife of Capt. Carlo B, Brittain} the putting up of $100,000 cash as a for-| of the Wheeling lives in Richmond, | jure, preliminary to any actual nego-| Ky. She is critically ill of typhoid | jons. This is following the reuire- | fever: j ment exacted by the Public Service| NORFOLK, Va. Jan. 26.—The long | Commission when they recently asked | 7M of the wireless is reaching out over ) for vids for the construction of the| the Atl in a vain hunt for | eatly Triborough system.” the gu eling. All through the | Mr. Sprague, who {s an engineer of the | Might the crackling spark flashed Its Highest rank, says he ix opposed to the | Message of inquiry out to sea, but so far no answering flash the long-distance search SAVANNAH, Jan. %.—The wireless ‘as in communication to-day with several vessels out at sea, none ot which had been In touch with the Untt- boat Wheeling, reported ident. original Triborough plan because it is NOt practicable from an engineering and Operating standpoint. He has had wide experience in transportation, bullt and operated the first successful trolley line in the country, at Richmond, ant perfected the multiple unit é operation on electrical train q Phe President of the City Investing had rewarded efore us before we make a determi- Corporation Is Robert 1. Dowling. Ho] pete fia very close friend of Mr. Sprague ant | “opyere is no reason why the Bradley commands practically unlimited finan-| uid and the Sprague offer should not ial backing. be run out between the Public Service mmission and those persons for the} % purpose of learning whether an attract» “Tt seems to me that we are neglect-| ive operating offer can be worked out ing consideration of the ulternative of| of th The McAdoo suggestion, mace a city butlt xubway and are paying ex-| recently, shout be run down and ca: elusive attention to the Interborough | fully examined in Mitchel Charges Prejudice. Offer,” wald President John Puroy| “10 other words, if we are to have the ay orld reporter | WHOl€ question before us, we are losing Mitchel to an Evening World reporter | tne in tailing to develop the facts and to-day, when asked for his opinion as ta what was proper matter before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment “This apparent neglect of all subway Propositions, except that of the Inter. borough, is hardly proper in view of | ,P* the often repeated statements of some | Richm pousidilities of the elty built system Well ax negotiating with the Interbor- ough Company.” Cromwell's Modifications. Ident Cro nd euK the members of the Board that we should|!98 ™odifications of the Interborough Have all sides of the subway question | Plan, which he says appears to be the only one under consideration « Operating expense and earnings should 1 over the W xtensions. guarantee a minimum nd take all surplus beyond a maximum fixed profit Construction should multaneously - An innovation ) be begun si- in all of the five ‘bor- | oughs, #0 that all Ines, including ex- wy | tensions, shall be ready for operation | an far an possible at th ime ‘ ‘The project. should cover main trunks and extensions for immediate H | construction and operation, passing i | through or into all of the five bor- | oughe, i ‘ree Interchange of transfers i You can get a complete novel teed wit other tran tation i} FREE with next Sunday's New [}| trot through stock ownership or lease H York World (in Greater New I) plans should copslder a se ond trunk line Manhattan, having i York). Not only Is it ac such connections with the present plete novel, but it is a thrilling system and proposed extensions of + elther the present or new lines as pane—e detective story of the wecure convenient passing of ] most unique style. The master « from one system to the other, ‘We mind of the Great Detective maa tett cine Arowineg Aaeda in i. noklyn and provide for proper {| solves mystery alter mystery in a service to the Borough of Richmond, ] startling manner. Get th's com- the Fourth aver line in Brooklyn plete novel next Sunday free with Poin Whe pont trom with the the Sunday World (in Greater Richmond Ine will branch as a two- track subway New York), ‘It will pay you to (CHANGES MADE INGRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL PLANS Result of Two Years’ Study plains to Estimate Board. | Vice-President Place The archi! new Grand tural Central Terminal appeal to the members of the Board of y when new drawings of the nprovement Were sudinitted President Ira A. Place of tae ork Central explained to the netioned the overhead sing of orty-second street by a symmetrical t the new plans were th studies of the present and $ of the terminal which had een made during the last two years. | deauties hoard, which In progress of the work thw con+ ¢ had been reached, he said, that! by making the proposed changes andj additions not only would the capacity of the terminal be large ton made safer increased, bu and more con- y track plans, the prine clpal change proposedjs a provision £ loop tracks by means of which a tralia, having discharged {to paste can be handled without any back switching. | iN be moved around the loop tracks | head-on to its destination, either In the | terminal or beyond it. ‘his plan neces- | sitated including in the terminal the | vlock between Forty-second and Forty- rd streets, Depew place and Lexing- | ton avenue, also additional lands and subsurface of stre: Important Changi | ‘The most important changes on or | above the street levels are that Van-| derbilt avenue will be moved easterly about twenty-five feet and the first story of the new station building whl be placed on the new east- erly line of Vanderbilt avenue and on the northerly line of Forty-second street. Over this first story there will be con- tructed an overhead roadway eonnect- ng with a posed viaduct or bridge 0 nd street and Park ave- to hs ne «northerly roadway will come to the connect with Forty-fifth will greatly relieve the congestion in Forty-second street, particularly at the intersection of Park avenue, and prac tically reopen Park avenue as a thor- oughfare. Sections to Be Closed. The remaining portion of Depew place Forty-third street, between Depew | place and Lexington avenue, are to be, closed, ‘The plans contemplate easy access to) and from the existing subway, the pro-}| posed McAdoo subway, the Belmont tun- nel and the new Lexington avenue sub- seal street. This Fifty-third, Fitty-fourth, Fifty-fitth and Fifty-sixth streets are now open to travel, substantially at the normal grade of those streets, and {t is expected Forty-fifth street will be open in about ten days, WAREHOUSE NO. 13 BURNS. ndred Balen of Cotton De- Warehouse No. 13 of the Bush Terml- nal Stores in South Brooklyn caught Ave this afternoon and before the firen: Kot there 200 bales of cotton of the 2 stored there had been troyed, Tae ed in Dien Stores Fire, 4 att / ONT TUBE fone SLANG. TALKS HIGHWAYS ATRST MEETING = Governor Intends to Regular Conferences With Heads of Departments. ALBA Cant Jan, %6.—The held its first meet Hereafter Gov elective officers of th tration, with such others as may from time to time be invited, discuss with him once a week various current prob: lems of Stato government. discussion related mainly to highwa here 18 som sunderstanding re nting my attitude on the highway tm: prov to-day, after the meeting. “My purpose 18 tO] rescue and were insanely bent on kick- - construction and Increase | ing him to death. The police had to mileaxe, The people who pay the money | ght for an hour or more before the | should have all possible consideration, | 8n\. was quelled. and I want /sanag ed Hoey Five or six children with bad brutees : padiasea nda pactaa to the | @2d_ sprained ankles and elbows were DAbutacave rubatny yillsrainte. {9 thal| Caxee cee (ne inospl ala Cor, treatment. highway question, and a ill to carry out his re pmendation ill be e of ) ures" to be Introduced. see who attended to-day's meet were the elected heads of depa President Pro ate, Commis f Public Works ‘Tre man and Forest, ish and Game Com missioner Osborne and Will Osborn, the Governor's couns: — Wagner of th Ly WALL STREET. A slight improvement ovgr yesterday’ were scored by many prominent secu! tles. The upturn didn’t run far, how made targeta for a moveine and Steel almost as much. The weakne of these two stocks temporarlly ch; the upward tendency and in the subsequent rally manifestea the best’ recovering displayed this week, Southern thi tradi pow Pacif American Smelting and Stee Jing was practically at a standstl throughout the afternoon until close, when a sudden y that sent pr at the finish, ¢ ns to 11-2 points, Re yuthern Paclfle, Ste and Western were t! at the end. na ran 1% and Norfol Today's hig and of nel changes as compared with yer final figures areas Lolions Amal, Coppers... Am. ¢. & P'dy. Ay : \ i x oh Gi A Ai, Jace, Am, 8. &, itet Am: Tel. & Tel Anaconda Min, Ay Top. & 8. F Whiya kT ent. Lanther an,” Pact alarm was sent out by an automati © operated by @ thermometer, At a temperature of 100 degrees a bull burats, which starts the automa ant at same t devi lin an ainr Deputy Chef Murray responded to the aterm wir four. fire companies. cotton was blazing flercely y got there, and the work of getting out the cotton that had not yet ‘been reached by the flames progressed slowly beomuse of the narrow area of the building, os a es A complete Detect! In Book Form, will be given free with next Sunday's World New York), As the Sunday World The fare should not exceed five cents for & continuous or transfer trip in the game general: or cross line direction, even though several transfers be involved, is not returnable it 1s necessary to order your Sunday World from your newsdealer in advance, Don't miss this Great Detective Story. Nort | Pe | West rea Ad ati el ‘| LAr ——1} | i NE sont concourst = See [se | = comer ae T EXPRESS TRAIN LOOP o WAST SOR BO PREORLYN | a : pram Vitit ss - — a ar =, X TT pia ae : Have “Governor's Dix intends to have the State adminis- ‘To-day the | nt question,” said the Governor =) RUNAWAY HORSE market was witnessed at the opening this morning, when fractional advances ever, because Reading and Steel were moterate selling t. Reading came down a point ed In other issues first to point the way upward, was closely followed by Copper, St. r the ding, Union most conspicuous |Grand Central Terminal, With Its Subway 'FRENZIFD WOMEN Connections and the New Train Loops ieeaieiesimaamatamsiemaiaiiaieaian "Ore eee ~WSEHOOL PAN |Followed by Men Rush Over) | Little Girls in Causeless Scare in Newark. ‘There was a full-fledged panic at the | Seventh avenue public school, Newark, this forenoon, which for a moment | threatened the life and limbs of the thousand puptis. Principal Edgar 8, Pitkin was sitting | at his desk on the first floor when he re- cetved a tele ne message from Mise | Mary Mahan, the vice-principal, whos office is on the fourth floor, that there was a bad gas leak in Room 33 on the fourth floor, occupied by Miss Florence Lundy's class of (Welve-year-old girls, Several of the children had been taken sick the vice-principal said, and one girl nad fainted. | Mr. Pitkin stopped only to telephone to the Janitor to ehut off all the gas in the bu og and started upstairs two time. On the third floor Miss Landy's cl n upon him. TT! Ute | reaming at the tops of | rom other classrooms on fourth and third floors he heard an- | steps at a landing stampeding do’ tle re their voice the he met girls w } |swering screams, | | | Some of the teachers took stern | | lcharge of thelr classes and kept them in fire drill formation. t the stream- | ng, yelling little knot of children which | }had dashed by Principal Pitkin had | spread the alarm. It reached the street \in a flash, ‘The school is in the midst ot factory and forelgn tenement distri er than it can be told b and hundreds ming the school, Policeman | 6 was at the main door with the | of them and slammed the doors and held them back. Fleeing children banked up against the other side and shrieks and screams | told him that there was a dang |crush in the vestibule. | to out the fittle ones and keep | the mothers iback. Men almost as| frantic as the women burst in the win- dows of & first floor classroom and, clambering over one another's should- - |ers, poured into the room, Somebody in the school had rung the fire alarm, and firemen and the insur- D| ance patrol and ambulances from two N | hospitals and the reserves of three po- - | lice precincts came on the run, They were just in time to rescue | Policeman Shupe, who had rua in at the -| alarm and had been overcome in the -|nall by nearly a hundred fear-crazed mothers who had forgotten all about ‘ous | He did his best pass TO SAVE CHILDREN Guides Dashing Team Down Amsterdam Avenue Hill Be- tween Trolley Cars, s 7 James Hasney of No, 39 Eas! Ninety fourth street, a driver for the Hinds Express company, proved himself an able charloteer to- when the heavy team he Was driving dolted and gale < | loped biindly down the long Amsterdam avenue hill from One Hundred and Thir- ninth street to Manhattan street. 1,| ‘The runaway started when the traces parted and one of the horses became | entangled in the harness, Hasney clung to the reins and struggied to pull the | animals up. Once they! had broken, they carried themselves on down the hill as fast as they could gallop. Hasner stood up, yel like a maniac and throwing his whole weight back on the reins, He could not check the run- aways, but he managed to guide them in and out between the trolley cars, He also succeeded in swerving them round when he had reached the foot of the nin, Although the animals obeyed the rein, they continuea their headiony dash east- ward along One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street. They were approaching a school house from which hundreds of hildren were pouring when Hasner limbed out on the pole and so manipu- lated the reins that he threw the off- horse. This stopped the runaway and probably saved many youngsters from injury. ik eee —__——_—— ..|MURPHY’S MAN FOLE g WANTS SALARIES RAISED. * Piri aba it] Assembly Bill Favoring Dock De- | partment Heads Also Provides 4 for a New Deputy. 4 (Spee og World.) ‘| ALBAN Jan, 26, — Assemblyman s|sames A. Foley, representative of Charles F. Murphy home district, to- 4 ]aay Introduced a bill adding another art. It also gives \ | deputy to the y York City Dep 4 | ment of Docks and F %| to the Boant of Estimate and Appor- tlonment the power to increase the sal- i$] aries of the Commissioner and hiv dep- uties, i | The present law fixes the salary of the AAO 9 me an tem oe THE EVENING \WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1911. Wreck Caused by Falling Nerrick In the New Municipal Building. f t ‘The third accident in of the new municipal b at 0 this morning fell fre PARENTS FURS AND EN 2jrd Street Lads Arrested for at Night in The arrest of Isaac nine gum late at tion entrance at On Tenth street and Leno brought before Magi: the Hai ourt a re} The v Polite over to the ¢ grave, an agent tigated an ing the parents into c of permitting the late at nigh ld, for night at em diamonds glitte stein was also expenst' stud. House Finely dred and splendor. ‘The parents pleaded chewing gum selling the house and were night they were out. Officer Reidel, howev had been found at were esp the coldest nights, » as Lo'clock, He desta @ nuisance as their pi excited the sympathy ly in evi Notwithstanding the Mag! y Special clety for a further 1 the case. vestigation to-day of ferred at the Sinking meeting yesterday Goodacre, collector of Department of Financ clared to have favor Republican Federal C Simultaneously Com counts Fosdick, at the Meyers. ‘The lawyers at the Prendergast though they had been Commissioner at $6,000 and that of his only deputy et $4,600, out the day, n the second floor of the struc- BOVSINRAGS, Stations. thir. teen years old, and his brother, Ha i boys to from her ears and | her fingers covered with rings. wore a diamond pin and a dimond shi Blumstein conducts a large housefur- nishing store at No. 57 East One Hun- Tenth street and Cosgrave saya he found their home to be one of when Isaac was called to the stand he | said he and his brother sneaked out of along Lenox avenue many nights, and Parents Are Held. trate Breen held them each turned over TWO INQUIRIES ON FAVORS FOR FSHPE Comptroller Prendergast began an in- | against Marks Graff, examining inspector in the providing they became members of the | conducted a similar investigation. ‘The investigation will continue through. the construction | ture. building occurred When a derrick | no one else === |ton girder. A guy rope slipped and jlet the mast over with a crash. As it |fell it buckled and the girder went | through to the nm beneath, The derick h the end of it's boom w One man had his shin barked, but was | Reserves from t were immoned ut there w WEAR Selling Gum | Subway Blumste! « chewing the © Hundred subway sta- and enue to-da Breen in ox a strate mi nye e for bring urt on a chars: sell g& Mor- | The appearance of the parents ris Blumstein, and his wife, was amaz- | ing as compared with that of the boy who were in raga and unkempt. Mrs Flumstein wore an expensive long fur | eoat and was bedecked with Jewelry, | Blum- H vely dressed Furnished. Ignorance of the by the boys and | caught the only aile JUNIOR SUIT DEP'TS. Lawn and Chambray. SOROSIS SHOES. agrd Street o a NARY PSS EXAMS FOR EAPTANGES 13 TO GET 08 Mayor Promised to Support Ten Police Lieutenants Who Head Civil Service List. | Mayor Gaynor recetved from the | Muntetpal Civil Service Commission to-day the names of the first fifty police Heutenants to take the present severe Civil Service examination for captain, attaining marks warranting their names |to be placed on the eligible list. Neariy | 850, Heutenants took the examination, | but only 188 passed it. |, Lieutenant Edward J. Bourke, who is acting captain in charge of the | bridge squad, heads the list. He scored a mark of 9.95 per cent. There are thirteen vacant captaincies. At the time the examination was held, about two months ago, Mayor Gaynor Jaddressed the candidates for captain- | cies, He promised them that he would appoint the first ten men on the Het, and expressed the hope that the first ‘ten would be first clase policemen. Resides Bourke, who is now in com- | mand of the Brooklyn and Manhattan | Bridge squads as acting captain, the lucky men who will be promoted at +, once If the May rries out his prom- | ise are Acting Capt | Lieut. James Dunn of the Detective | Bureau, Lieut. Frank Peabody, the de- \tective; Lieut. Matt McKeon of the | Harbor Squad, Tieut, Cornellus Caha- \lane of the School of Instruction, \T4eut. Henry Cohen of the Centrai \omce, Lieut. Joseph Faurot, in charge of the Rertillon and finger print bu- reau; Lieut, John levers of the Mor- risania precinct and Lieut. ‘Thomas Meyers of the Trafe Squad. Albert W. Thor, * Coats of Cheviot and 6 to 14 years. : Boys’ art. | spector. hanging a 30- h street sta. | inspiration “Yes; I an ambula didn't ry's Ho Ishers got t JAMES McGREERY & CO. 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