The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1911, Page 2

ROKER OvT AS NEW YORK FIRE CHIEF —_—>—— Quits the Service After 27| Years on a Pension of $6,000 a Year. ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS. Will Head New National Bureau for the Preven- tion of Fires. BAward F. Croker, chief of the New | York Fire Department, with which he 4 been connected for twenty-seven Hie resignation was accepted and Commissioner Waldo placed acting Chief John Kenion in’ charge of the depart- Acting Chief Kenlon has recently been @ deputy chief in charge of the Ma- rine Bureau, with headquarters at pier A, Battery Park. He will serve as act- ing ¢Mef for about six months, when an examination of the fifteen elixibie deputy chiefs will be held. Mr. Croker, in a typewritten state- ment, which he had prepared in advance of handing in his resignation, announces is Intention of engaging in the work of fire prevention by means of a Bureau of Fire Prevention, national in iis scope. the headquarters of which are to be in thia city, The plan has the approval of | Fire Commissioner Waldo, Mayor Gay- nor and the fire underwriting interests. To Employ Retired Firemen. It contemplates the employment of re- | tire@ firemen as watchmen and fire drit| masters. The detain of the plan have| Not been worked out, but Mr. Croke wil be in shape to make them pubite tn| & couple of days, ‘I resigned from the Fire Depart- ment,” said the former Chief, “of my own free will. There was no friction be- | tween me and Commissioner Waldo. ‘The friendliest feeling prevalin between us, Ihave had this step in contempla- but my determination to devote, myself to @re prevention wes really brought to | « focus by the Aach Bullding fire.” Commisioner Waldo was informed on @aturday the Chief of the depart: | ment wanted to get out. The Commis- Stoner’s information reached him in tho @hape of the following communication; BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, April 14, Rhinelander Waldo, Fire Commis. sioner, Sir: Pursuant to the provisions ef Section 790 of the Charter of New York City, and in compliance therewith, I hereby respectfully make application to be retired and Giemissed from the uniformed force and service and placed on the roll of the relief or pension fund and ewarded and granted an annual pen- ston amounting to one-half my pres- ent salary for the remainder of my lifetime, the same to take effect at 8 o'clock A. M. on May 1, 1911, Re- epectfully, EDWARD F. CROKER, Chief of Department. Pension Will Be $6,000, ‘The salary. of Mr. Ci the Departme: $10,000 w year. ‘This salary was specially fixed for him re- cently when the salary of Deputy Chiet Lally, in charge of Brooklyn -ad Queens, wan m © $97,000. Under the rule of pensions amous i¢ to half salary Mr. Croker would get %,000 a year, but Commi. toner Waldo has fixed his pension at $6,000, with the approval of the Mayor, It is In the power of the Commissioner to incipase the mandatory pension provided by law. Fie Mr. Croker was an early arrival at the | City Hall this morning, reaching there some time before Mayor Gaynor ‘The Chief was shown qnto an anteroom of the Mayor's office. He was joined there by Fire Commi what he was to expedt. Commissioner Waldo handed Chief | Croker's resignation to the Mayor, who expressed deep regret a: the necessity for accepting it 00k the etiring Chief by the hand and wished him success in his new venture. In giv news of the retirement, Commissioner Waite said: “It ts with extrome regret that I have accepted Chief Croker's request to be retired. I have the greatest admiration | for him as a Chief of Department, a fire fighter and a man. The city of New York sustains a loss in the sever- ance of the relations between Hdward ¥, Croker and the Fire Department.” Mr. Croker then handed out his type- written statement containing hts 1 wone for retiring from active fire tig! ing. The statement follows Takes Up Cherished Duty. It is only after long and careful consideration that I have decided to tender my resignation and rewire as Chief of the New York f parte ment. While such « ny part ts accompanied vy t the Keenest regret at separating from the brave and splendid body of officers and men forming the Fire Department of this city, which heen and always w my priae, I fee! that duty to perform to t which ba long 4 THE EVENING ACTING FIRE CHIEF HERO MEDAL WINNER. Acting Chief Kenlon, head of the Fire Department, awarded a medal fgr bravery on {all along that Chief Croker was going \to resten, adding that when the Chief ay and stated that “the plan {had now matured and hy In the big fire in Pler and 15, North River, on July 1910, Kenlon, with Battalion Chief Worth, three firemen and a pilot, ran a fireboat into a maelstrom of fire and smoke and rescued two men who were in the water cling- ing to the supports of one of the burning pliers. gaged in this plece of rescue work wore blistered by the intense heat. was appointed Mayor would say nothing. CROPSEY WITNESS AT GRAND JURY'S tion for some time, as the need of fire | Prevention grew mors apparent to me; | United States Navy, in 1887. he was made a dopay chief and placed in charge of the remained ever since. one years old. | Asked ig fie He Held Months — Findings O'Brien Case. fighting and extinguishing or- cities have reached a high state of abreast of the de them. our citizens have been paying too little attention to the vital mat- ter of fire pr have been for years a consistent ad- hands made upon unexpectedly Police Commission: United States, ing a! 000,000 lonses which affect our economic bé measured (Che the Grand er us chief of | those unfortunates or friends have suc deplorable calamitic Fire Can Be Prevented. It has been my observatic Jarge majority Preventable causes, whose relatives ‘umbed in many of fires arise and that if pro- of the inquiry. Prominent among these witness Deputy Commissioner John applied there wo decrease in th the inexperienced were He ‘ . ~ ovprien| Lieut, Rodney, Second Caval- Kast One Hun-| ry, Run Through by Native station, whose was recently laws on the of fire-prevention Fourth street rrived. | to completely « Gus William Sylvester ose dis- rfront of Chels joner Waldo, and | they remained .ogether until Mayor | Gaynor gave them an aucience. The) Mayor had been advised in advance of | e duty oF opportunity | trtet includes th | where so many robberles of suilags bh of some other who had with } in two years of vandalism 4 n the service ¢ thievery been ng out the | Of putting that e Mediate disposal « perience at the tm even citizen Witnesses were also on em victims of burglartes other end of our c for which no one| "@¥ know no fe r been arrested at the coming to be haa! +» rewarding » evi-| confident that f ¢ hief © 8 greater fle sub the a for the pres: » from _ pecoonlinness WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL - SHOT DOWN BY NEGRO DRIVER [Sapee of John Harris by | George Davis Staris Riot on West Side. POLICE SAVE SLAYER. | Victim, Who Lived in Ruther- ford, N. J.,"Alleged to Have | Started the Row. John Harris of Rutherford, N. J. was mhot and killed in view of scores of Derson# near Sixth avenue and Twenty. ninth street this afternoon by George Davis, « colored truck driver, whom he j had reviled after bumping into him Davis 1 by Poltceman O'Leary nderloin station, who witnessed the shooting, Only the presence of half a dozen poticemén tn the Immedate neighborhood prevented A race riot and Davis was dragged to j the Tenderloin station through yelling fighting crowds of blacks and whites. Bumped Into Him, The colored man is employed by an auctioneer named Seligman, who has a place of business at No. 100 Weat ‘Twen- ty-ninth street, Davis lives at No. West Twenty-ninth street. This after- noon about 4 o'clock Miss Seligman, who act# as bookkeeper for her father, sent Davis out to buy her some candy went to Twenty-ninth street and Sixth avenue. While turning the corner the Rutherford man and a friend—Frank Cassidy of No, 319 Seventh avenue umped into him. Davis and the pollee say that both ready to| Harris and Cassidy were intoxicated. the | Davis saya that thoy reviled him with than this the| references to his color, He sald noth- ing, but ran back to the Seligman stable and got a 38 calibre revolver, Going back to the corner he looked for Harris and Cassidy. ‘They saw him and turned on him again, Policeman O'Leary, who was across the street, sald afterward that Cassidy lunged for Davi whereat Davis pulled his gun, Then Harris jumped ot ween and got bullet in the left breast that pierced his heart. A Rush at the Colored Man, ang across the the gun from his hand, struck him down with bis club and stood o: him. Every white man nearby tried Up for] to got at the negro and there were shouts of “Lynch him!" ringing from every side when the other policemen arrived, Cassidy was arrested as a witness, and the prisoner was surrounded and dragged through @ yelling crowd to the Tenderloin station. Harris'« body was taken to the station house, found | Seized With Religious Mania, ng MANILA, April 17.-Lieut, Walter H. Rodney of the Second United States Cavalry, stationed in the Augur Bar- racks in the Department of Mindanao. Me- | Was murdered to-day by a Moro Jura- et, | mentado, who, crazed with religious ‘im records to show that] passion, ran amuck thirsting for the ed | vlood of a Christian, in belongs to the Moham- nedan sect of Juramentados, who rave { he die The asi aken an 4 of the ristians Y, dolleving tuat the pauce of what they coneder a eligtous duty, if resulting in their death, will be rewarded with eternal bliss, The fanatic was armed with a volo, and as he tore through the streets those who saw him fed in terror, He ‘| tered Rodney seemingly by chanc | struck him tefend himself, Lieut. Rodney was a native of Call- | fornia, thirty-two years of age. He was h to shed pert 4 v Y 8 Cavalry some years ago and was ade first Heutenant in Lae Second ( wiry on Aus. 2 la “ntados com religious d action of killing their Gebtor Who by the laws of Sulu, when ipt, becomes with hilo wife and en the slaves of a creditor. He e the per with git that he Hberate bis facctly idaxe only by the savrittce of wn lite murder of a tae jan ‘The panditas encourage him and adise, 4 ual Ppiness and ul hourts, yree| When ‘is religious fervor has become a fi madman acne hl and Chris to slay the His} after-| identity was established by a commu-| March | tation ticket in his pocket. Cassidy | had | was only @ casual acquaintance, 1 the case of “U.S, ARMY OFFICER District-Attor- nk Moss and Special Prosecutor ‘don Battle, who are in charge leruetty, | house and having $1,000 ¢ oun: | wn before the officer could | appointed @ second Heutenant in the| Ex-Fire Chief and Acting bens WHITE MAN — WIFETHREW EGGS “TWO AVIATORS : Mal WHEN HE SCORED — FALL 100 FEET; ONLY STUNNED Hilliard and Stevens Escape !F ONTIDY KITCHEN That’s What Price Says; Wife Alleges 57 Varieties of Cru- elty, and Then Some. HE CALLS HER’ “LEMO} But She Declares He Kicked Her, Beat Her and Tore Off Clothes. A sult was begun to-day in Jersey City for divorce on the grounds of cruelty in which the bill of particulars of alleged cruel acts surpassed in| minut wa of detail anything along the same lines that has ever been heard in a New Jersey court of law, Mra. Ada Price was the alleger ex- traordinary tn this unusual sult. Henry R. Price was the defendant, and let it not be thought that he does not do some little alles 1 his part tn a counter- sult to his young wife's action Price is a clerk in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rallroad Company. Mra, Price's allegation 1 fs that Henry's salary is $57 a month, and that such has been his stipend since they were married and set up housekeeping on June 13, 1909, Some of the “Cruelti “Out of this a month,” said Mrs. Price, “he gave me % @ week to keep the house going and then kicked because I bought tough steak and eggs that were | no ‘longer young. He not only kicked with language but with heavy boots. He slapped my face, he boxed my ears, he ‘puiled my hair, he pulled my ears, he gouged me wth his elbows, he slammed me about, he knocked me down, he grabbed me by the throat, he choked me, he throttled me, he pulled me about by the hair, he thwacked me, he mauled me and he was altogether hrough about it. “On June 1, 1909, 4 asked him for $1 to have my shoex stretched, “Never, he cried, and rushed at me. He grabbed me by the throat and wrenched me about. I waited till he lept and went to his trousers, 1 took $1 from tiem, J my shoe: and it cost me it would p n to return the I gave it to him. Instead of Pleasing him it made him wild. Ie Wedged m. head between his elbows and rasped my ears. “In the following June he took to gouging in the side with his el bows. He gouged my ribs awfully and would not let me send for a doctor. In that same month he noticed marks on the dining room table, charged me with mutilating it and seized me by the hair, Holding me thus he dragged me round and round the room. at No. i Danforth ave: suddenly decided to rent it an awa went bit me.” Pric Denials. In his counter suit Henry Price dentes in categorical detall the alleged acts of denies that his sa $37 a month, It i) only $% charges that his wife ts a poor hou keeper and lazy, t she has no idea of economy and is extravagant. she ¢ {fave anything out of the % a week he gave her to ran the house and she bad tne nerve, he declares, to com- plain that she had no pin money, “So I raised her allowance to $10 a week,” he announces, she couki have & to spend on herself. Naturally | was peeved when she asked me for $1 to have her shoes stretched. I did not strike her, though. I merely chided her and a in the atr at this and swore at me. “She was a lemon as a cook and she couldn't market for a cent. One day 1 was in the kitchen premaring to cook exgs. She couldn't cook them to sult She came didn't keep the Kitchen tidy, She picked up an egg and said, that.’ 1 repeated it and ve let go egg. Tt hit the wall threw another exe. It hit the ceiling, She threw halt a doz- eh ees Gil arom: the kitchen and it cont me $12 to have the kitonen painted I did not strike her, however, merely talking at her.” Mrs. Price does not mention the’ eggs except tow she was unable to purchase the fi quality. She allexes that her husbind ig a wonderful economist, owning a ton bond and, i] a month mortgage on @ salary o epeniateieimtes | FIRE MARSHAL SUSPICIOUS. Investimates Three Blazes in One Brooklyn Butlding. Three fires within two weeks in the same four-story bullding at No, 182 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, have became the subjects of investigation vy Five Marshal Thomas Brophy The latest blaze was found to-day tr a pile of wall paper in a vacant apart- ment on the third floor The Fir partment confined the loss to $200, house ts situated in one of the bi sections in Brooklya nd is owned by Otto Burkhardt Hood's Sarsaparilla Curee All Spring Allments, rion Bru T have taken Mrs writes the best blood medicine In the world, it both pring and fa winter aud epring 1 was very pox health, 1 was weak and had lost all my ail run down, Am anon appetite and Iw I began to take Hood's Barsavarilia engt came back and my appetite re. turned. 1 am now well, do my housework and no longer have that tired feeling." et it to-day tn usual Mauid form or cr) tatters called arsataba, Death Miraculously in Long Island Flight. » had a remark- pe from death to-day when the ub on Long Island two aviators | received no reports of the cor when they fell. Hard was ser- ling cing automobilist and gone | ask Drop Without Warning. Hilliard and Stev mous as a balloonst th had been pl some w ioee eond ” wane: Moraine they tHousiit they had it SE ‘a party of men field, and shortly sent the machine out and tuned it accompanied the MS passenger. didly and were ¢ height of 100 feet. below believed e ambition to make the point and return enough gasoline emed to be gliding steadily along at a rate of Only Stunned by Fall nents of an aeroplane Stevens barely was out of o Sherman and an automobile. plane a little aviation field, its elevating We were living in a house he owned but tte When the tenants came I had to go home to mother. Sometimes he and was lying near Both men were revived and sald they felt little incon- » from their tumble, unconscious. a CHAUFFEUR DEAD, GAS ON. “and told her ed what she did| With her #2 allowance. She went up slept much of the day pody Was sent tc in and I asked her why she years old and eit Prescription for RHEUMATISM SCIATICA» NEURITIS A Guaranteed te that upon her allowance dorsed by vai MAGISTRAL CHEMICAL Co., Suite TI Platiron Building, New York, Removal Sale | PIANOS eedingly ie prices, vce $140, $175, $190 Wissner Warerooms 538-540 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN New York, 96 5th Ave. Cumberland, Me. ood's Sarsaparilia for a great many years, and 1 think tt is 1 This last LAUNDRY WANTS~ FEMALE, ‘ “Avply Mowpita | TAFT DEMANDS DEFINITE WOR FROM MEXICO ident Tells L Diaz He Must Give Assurance That Ameri- for pleasure and commercial} purposes. The severe storms of last win did not effect it. The horse-dr and gasoline vehicles were st many times. Its control is very simple can be operated by women children. ig Its upkeep is nominal and) expense ceases when not in It is free from noise, dirt, ob ious odors. 4 can Citizens Will Not Suffer. WASHINGTON, Apt Taft is anxiously aw ports of th 17.—Preatdent iting offictal re- second battle between the Mexican Federals and insurrectos « Agua Prieta wires at the White se were busy all morn- ing, but 1 offic! ind the this afternoon it was y that the War Depart ate Departn st mer ent had iet action which the President may take | wilt await official despatches, Previous to to-day's battle, in which the Mexican Federals again fired across the international Hne, sho: American and doing property jas, Ariz, the State Department 1 the Mexican Government. for definite assurances in advance of a formal r © the representation t the Douglas in the United States eldent would not be repeated department > requested 4 ation as to what preventive meas- had been tak NATE INQU. IRY ON MEXICAN SITUATION. WASHIN, nquir demand April 17.—Searcht the situation in Mext inar ition offered Stone “of Missou @ An 4-Inch Snos, MONTICELLO, N.Y. 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