The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1911, Page 1

DREAMLAND IN ASHES; LOSS MILLIONS; GIANT COASTER SAVES REST OF ISLAN D “ Circulation E Book: Open to All. Che (SLoo os ALY omer 9 191: PRIOE ONE 1 le 7 The be Mine) New ork Wer Werle). NEW YORK SATUR DAY, MAY 27, 1911. HOW. P.MORGAN 20,000 FANS SEE. BALKED CARNEGIE | GIANTS FIGHT T0 WITH STEEL TRUST © HOLD THE LEAD Millionaire Gates Testifies How | McGraw Sends Matty Out to ster Was Kept Out Down the Quakers in of Railroading. Deciding Game. CHW AB WAS THE LEVER BATTING ORDER. York Philadelphia Knabe, 2b Paskert, rf Welchonce, of. Magee, If Loderin so eg ese: Jronir Also How Frick and |: 1,000,000 For- Reveals Moore Lost $ it for an Option. WASITINGTON, May -How Wo 1h] a Moore and H. C. Frick lost $1.00,00 to) AsteRICAN TH PARK, NEW Andrew Carnegie tn 1897 igh the! yori, Ma attendance records forfeit fa e of American League ee rks, were smashed afternoon, Pierpont M more than 20,000 people crushed J Aimsel? cot Way onto the Hilltop grounds to the game the stands were packed could not bave squeezed a He between the spectators. a olld bank of people John W Trust revealed to-day by the House “Stee Committee. F The price of finished st he said | twenty deep around the playing feid. became badly demoral in 1895 or} eral tinas Secretary Gray started 1897, Mr. Frick and Judge W. 1. Moore] ty close tie x but at the urgent got the option for $1,000,080 from Mr. | request of the nowling fane he changed Carnegie for his steel plant, Soon after-| his mind and allowed them to come in| ward demoralization ef the business be-| "4 stand on the grasa. The new field ‘bleaghors, which ‘hold 2,500, Ike a drop in the bucket, rmed up for the Phillies and eat howl of approval went up as y stepped out to do the trick for came so great that they could not put ougn, The price, | think, », ‘They had to forfely tha the deal tu wae $160,000, epiion Kept Carnegie Out of Railroading. Soon the Federal Steel Company was 4 t quickly put on the brakes and re- formed with the consolidation of the tired the P..fliies withour a ran. Knabe Loraine Steel Company, the Minne} 1 w nto the left 3 o ‘ow and went io yn Company, the Illinois Steel Iron Company, the Hlinols St ‘on bid wants pany and the Elgin, Jollet and Eastern grabved Welchonce's sharp @rounder Railroad and nailed Knabe at the plate. Mague In 1899 or 1900 J. Plerpont Morgan ‘hen forced out Welctonce at second > ed the National 5 na grounder to Devlin and retired ss Was maniny money, SF Also failed to score in their then determined to butid Niclitaate maa aes from Lake Erle around his plants to the fans, Snodgrass, Mur- Bis’ to" eeact a. tube Works. at erkle got on the bases with bed oP RIt RiRCaEA Wenslvont 1 Bridwell smashed a low bile, ts ; iA : ane aetna ight which looked good for a onanited Jam ° " n Paskert dashed in and by a Northern troad. Mr. Morgan ex- aught the ball on his #has laces that if Carnegie ad pusiness he wo went in- retiring the side, Id de- In the second Matty cleaned up the d situation as he Phillies In quick order, striking out Lu- a5, and if he built derue gnd Dolan Walsh singled but iM pail ge tee} WA* cdught napping off first dase. je mill he would demoralize ste In the last half half of the second the Glants failed to reaoh first base. Moore “After considerable (alk Mr. TI! #ug- had his cross fire delivery working itke gested to Mr. Morgan that he tall to a charm and nobody could touch him. me about Mr. Morgan asked me No runs. how to stop Mr. Carnegie. I told him ‘The Giants fatled to soore in tier tne gnly man who had any influence half of the third, ut there was two sie Guatlsa to Hone al. nutes of violent argument when Um- with Carnegie was Char Ugler refused 10 allow Doyle a ab,’ Mr. Morgan told me, an for a wl that was hit Into ence.’ I got Schwab and we centre flekl bleachers. There was a onferre) with Mr. Morgan all that ground rule whieh Mmited all nite to night unt!! 6 o'clock the next morning. 8 excepting those Into the cen- When we left we had formad the tenta- arry’s drive iit the the bleachers, he didn't see to merge the steel corpo: United Ad concern, th id not allow the pro- Stee! Corporation. ‘Tuereupon Murey ast w tbuee on Unila for the United States Steel. the excitement ad subelded, but on was drafted Merisie popped out and retired the side, Soon after that, Judge Moore weat — In (ve fourth Magee hit to centre for see Mr. Carnegie and said to nim: (Wo bases, but there was two out at If you are going to take bonds for ‘he time and Luderus oun peer take them cover the &fa4s. retiring the Phillies r In the last halt well was hit by © p! next three men died 1 1 Steel Company as well’ Mr this advice, thereby tio Carnegie followed aulck order vetting for the National Steel Con Granta took the lead fn the iast any $50,000,000 more than it was of the fifth, when Larry Dayle by orth.” stiful ‘base TuNNing Rot over the pan. Mr. Gates said the Steel Corpora. \tter Devore had gone out Doyle aasied ‘ion paid $48,500,000 for the American fi! Went to second on & a paso. ue Steel and Wire Company, of which he nae. walked, and lie and worked vas the presiding gentus. Coal and linen Deal, Mr. Gates tesiifled that the a ton by the Trust Company 4 double steal, Larry xrase going to second. 3 walked, Bridwell filed to we One run } mee nd Snod- cumula, of America sf New York in 1907, of a great block ¢ the collateral of the Tennessee Ones, NATIONAL LEAGUE. 4 Iron mpany made possible ¢ quisition of that company by ine ed States Steel Corporation. Mr. AT NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA— Gates sald he ragarded the transaction a* a forced sale. 00000 Stanley then took ap the letter of ex- GIANTS— planation sent to the Senate by Preat- 00001 demt Roosevelt, in which he sald that — patteries—Moore and Dow ithew- he gave Frick and Gary penmisston to son and Wilson. absorb the Tennessee Coa! and Iron - Company because they told him it was AT BOSTON. bad shape and !ts absorption might BROOKLYN— a ® panto, 0-:0240 ‘There are @ great many underground aos TON— wires In New York," wad Gates, “Iwas °°" 9 g 4 4 9 9 told that a certain bank or trust com- had fe pany went to the Clearing Io for Aes avrage and Miller; Brown cip. ‘Phere Was @ run on the bank a ih \ committee from the Clearing House went over the bank's collateral and re- Arar ie ted that too much was loaned on T, CINGIN' & 1. stock, The bank needed 9100000 10,000,000, PITTSBURG— This situation wae taken to Morgan, ovudooood o ested that the steel corpora: Ratteries—Fromme and Clarke: Ua dou (ake over pig Z, C, d& L.Company,” | aits and Simon, pres on wate) y ee ” | epaeiiontvencone tee! Corporasion | the 4 the Phitiies fight | Carnegie from engaging t second battle for the leadership and tube manufacturing t f the Natio fue. An hour be- LAGOON WHICH BOILED DURING THE FIRE (Photographed Especially for The Evening World.) | RUINS OF PLATFORM. OVER THTELAKE sh HORACE WYLIE'S WIFE TAKES BY CORNELL MAN CROWDS ON LINER ; Washington Man Who i ee With | nectacular Fire at Dre: | John Paul Jones Runs Distance e ; : | Spectacular Fire at Dreamland | in 4 Mi 152-5 S Mrs. Philip Hichborn Last Winter Recon- | Rouses La Lorraine's Pas- | in 4 Minutes 15 2-5 Sec- ‘ i ; ses La Lorraine's Fas- / ciled Since His Recent Return to America. ahokaRe onds at Cambridge. sengers From Bed. | Horace Wylle, the wealthy Washing: | mitted that he was leart-broken. He! STADIUM, Cambriige, Mass. May ton clubman and scion of one of the/ went into seclusion and saw no one. He | Of the thousands who witnessed the John Paul Jones of Corneil was the! most aristocratic families in the South, | has not been in his law offices, nor has | !0rning of Dreamland early to-day none J etar of the intercollegiate champion-| Who last December abandoned his fam- nin any of the many clubs | had a better opportunity to see the apec- ships here to-day, He earned the | fly and went abroad with Mra, Philip|iie Pelon 4 taclo than the passengers of La Lor- age) m the Arst, It ts said, he sough:|raine, the Prench liner, which arrived plaudits of the thousands present vy |S: Hichborn, wife of the only son of} ||) il tte ln : , ahh af a nesond Uf Tomms {the late Rear-Admiral Philip Hichborn,| t® Bring back his wife, Ail his plead: y Inland shortly after mid clipping one-fifth af ond ’ a @ family | 228% 1 Was sald, were in vain, From | night and anchored for the night at Am- Coneft's sixteen-year-old revord tor tie | aalled to-day with aie wite and family tig very strat nix raintly Tave been | brase Chatinel Lightahip mile run. Jones covered the Atatance | aboard the Vaderland of the Red Star} againgt a reconciliation and it iw stated | The fire was just starting when the lin in 4 mimites 15 5 seconds. ; | ua Wylle and Mrs. Hichborn’ re-| now that they are urging him not to aes |€! GFew hear the seaside resort. George The time was qu artened as follows: | turned on Wednesday from the limbo | ils wife axain or to consider such a step | Costello, one of the passengers, who is 66 2-6, 2.08% and 3.16 1-6, Hanavan of | that had hid them for four months./ as Mrs Wylie has taken, connected with the McClure Publishing Michigan was eecond, Paul of Pennsyl-| yy Hichborn went at once to the| Until a few months before the dis. | Company, and lives at Sheepshead Bay, Vania third and Lawlegs of Harvard |i one of her mother, Mra. Henry M.|@ppearance of Mrs. Michborn. ana | *#W the start of the blaze, and he thinks bir 4 r “ r Hoyt, who has been in her Rhode|Horace Wylie, both families were re- bt By soa oc polit about @ half a Coneft made ints arent mark at TS") tang avenue, Washington, mansion | fended as ideally happy. Hoth were [be Phavetiaean 3 aaa ore Mert ta Angues,. Ie ever since her daughter's disappear-| Vlessed with beautiful children and | f have J 's90n 9 more weudertw Purther record breaking was Indulged | | everywhere it was known that Mrs ectacie, Hie do 1 expect ever to ner in when Young of Amherst equalled } % oyt publicly an-| Wie adored her handsome husband | *¥thing eclipsing tt." sald Mr. Coatetlo world's recor in the quarter inte, Pr eer a echt gh gree in {ahd that Philip Hichborn idolized his | on shipboard tile morning, when he navigated the distance in 48 aah he Rett autiful wife. Both famiils denied ‘The beautiful tower, a remarkable ‘] ¢ Michigan | Wednesday, the name of Horace Wyle) that there had been any wu thing as | sieht under any circumstances, was seconds, Joe Horner af MeHKAN | wag not mentioned. Mrs. Wylle and/an eiopement, the relatives of “Mrs..never more beautiful es it stood out made a new Intercollestate record in the | her three young were In|ilichborn insisting that she was an against the background of fire, end aa W-pound whos hie inbse 4) Washington and several weeks ago|invaltd in a santlarivm the flames began wreathing it and then eet 7 les es former recon yh gaged passage on board the ea ialh Se aa cous ain Ichioe they had engaged passage on board the} running toward its top ft made @ sight ‘Another new intercolleglat apland of the Red Star Line, which | 1s beyond human description, The wan established for the two wailed last Saturday. It was reported) to Gl ee a aes ae when Boir Cornell did then that Mrs. Wylie and her husband | dleplay of pyrotectinics, in 9 minutes and 25 1-5 sec : had arranged to meet in London and Myriad of aparka fiaaiied io the oky former record was ¥ minutes and 27 that there was every likelihood of 4 ke #0 many twinkling stars and then seconds, New of Hilams *- | reconciliation i u ou be replaced by othe n ond, Hamburg of Michigan ¢ | | Hed out, to be repl od by thera even lin oe ciarvard four Lapland Bookings Cancelled. | more brilMant nally the place be Withington of Harvard whe book I ar ware | ame one vast sea of flames, extending Summary ye ROOmNgE Of alan: Jeary to the top of the tower, com- suddenly canedled abou: the time pletely engulfing it." a vessel that would have brought Wyle | and Mrs, Hichborn home on Wednesaay | ~ would have sailed from Southampton (THIS TS a | In cancelling this booking, Mra. Wyle THIS Is CONEY Wylle an a member of the party pen ep - “PIRE IN 18 VEARS. he booking from Washington simply b ee ee ® OF Aes mee pr 1 arcommodutio Mrs, ald employed by Mrs Hecke ] 1993, January @ $200,000 Wwyt rochildren and two matds. OF No. 488 Rogers avenue, Flatbush 1893, June 17 50,000 Wednesday Mr. Wylie wa noked vas nd and gagged this afternon || 1894, a ; ‘ 50,000 telephone, Yesterd h nt to the * a man ransacked the house in | 1885, 16 . 359,000 offices of the ied 1 and Bou t valuables. 1896, September 28 25,000 the tickets for himself and family Hesker “ls orepating ta. move (Aen en a 800,000 | AMERICAN LEAGUE The name of Horace W not Kets preparing. ta. move’ tee fase af yo . |appear on the passenger list, but he in the ho had been | 2900 J 12 +e 960,000 ee jandh iggaKe WV abourd the Vader+ » @ removal. Short 1903, November 1 1,000,000 | LADELPH! land this morning when Mra, Wylle ar- wk this noo : 1907, July a8 1,200,000 | AT PHI A. efternoon Mrs. Becker y . | FIRST GAME rived with her children and maida, He nouse with no one except t is | HIGHL ANDERS ia wife's statercom “ry re- | ne 1 rooms. Total $3,960,000 n ' ntl the ‘ ayned halt OO a | 00000100 o—- ailed. | Mra, W SfuAOG ta leche and “dound aha tele scan | ATHLETICS: t ning th n ind wrists a and he " | 1 00412 econ with-« ribbon, 1 the room, Jie. al ; | Batteries—-Caidwell and Blair; Plank Hichborn Has Not Seen Wife. rs. Heol 8 told that a few min-| times, The maid says tha and Thomas | Philip Hichborn, who ts associated in | view 4 mistress of the house a pistol which Was kep: For Other Sports Feo Page Twelve | 18W practice with Samuel K, Swayz 4 the street bel but that the inan took the rand knocked he! rte He at Black Rock, Conn., with ‘ ton whieh un and kno yorld ‘Tray daughter. When seen there « street door and then went to ne arcade, Wath Wasihe! Aral F eae Maia, Bil aac he AnnlasaA' hae ha wad tare ; ara ee who Was aR Tickets and informatio for Hu River aad a t the ane. W eee eamanie Ba ‘heck | his wife's no AL the time ‘ tha atin njen day aud wg ee Wiles disappearance Wis friends aq: | Pea AAs 48 Gpened soe dor, said bie maid, valuables, nothing was imaging. — 7™~ + : OFF CONEY ISLAND HO EUROPE WT FAMILY Seu " WEATHER —we0s) warmer tr-mevrew. _PRIOB ONE OENT. ———————— POOR WATER PRESSURE BLAMED FOR BlG LOSS ~ BY FLAMES AT CONCY Wild Animals Are Burned and Shot in Streets as $3,000,000 Blaze Wipes Out Huge Amuse- ment Park. SIX INCUBATOR BABIES ARE TAKEN TO SAFETY. | | Fire Starts in Hell Gate Show— Plan to Rebuild on a Grander Scale. $5,104,900 Estimate of Loss at Coney as Made by Police A conservative estimate places the damage at $3,000,000, but the police estimate, based upon the claims of losers, which are probably exaggerated, totals up $5,101,900. Following are the police figures, which can safely be shrunk: 2,600 7,000 Dreamiand Company Frederick Schue, hotel Pike's Peak Kaliway L, A, Thompson Scente way Deep Sen Diving butlding Halmer's Bathing Pavtite Stedman's Pavilion Wart, restaurant Herman Kassen, knife cane rack Inaddore Solwarts, souvenirs. wis Potash, restaurant Meriseh, souvenirs Sisters, candy amiand Photo Company... Oreation Cafe rill Hros., souvenirs Johnson's Pavilion Whirlwind Scenic Ratiway. George ©. Tilyou Sanguinetta, photographs #00 | Giant Roller Coaster 1,000} James Faveo, stand 160,000 | J, J, McCullough #0001 Gypsy Camp . 6,000] Myrtie Cohn, restaurant .. Max Herkowitz, souvenirs . Louis Greenberg, new ne pler.... Hostwick! astrologer Col. Ferrari, animal show. Stubsnbord's Hotel Stratton Hotel . and shop Total loss .., \ fire that started in Hell Gate, one of the shows at Coney Island, early to-day wiped beautiful Dreamland off the map and devastated the urea lying between West Fifth and West Tenth streets and Surf avenue rnd the beach. The loss is estimated at $3,000,000. This is the property loss alone, ind does not include the propective profit for the season eliminated by the fire. There «1s no loss of human fe, but nearly 100 helpless and terrie tied animals were burned to death in Ferrari’s animal show. A lion, a tiger, a leopard and a baboon that escaped from the building were killed outside the inclosure The tire originated within sight of half a dozen workmen who were engaged in waterproofing with pitch, tar paper and felt one of the canals Instead of turning in an alarm these men and the park e d to fight the fire with the apparatus at hand. When the arrived Hell Gate was living up to its name, being ablaze from | pit to pinnacle, in Hell Gate. employees tr firem SURE VERY POOR. | WATER PRE | The water pressure was very poor, else the blaze might have been |contined to Dreamland. So dangerous was the fire that the rare Two- Nines alarm 1 he last thing in fire-alarms. It summoned West Fifth and Surf avenue, Coney Island, all the Brooklyn paratus that 0 ordinarily respond to a three alarm fire at Presk tent eet and Sixth avenue, Chief Lally sald this afternoon that the new Giant Qoaster on tg 4 of the old Loop the Loop should have the credit of saving Feltman'y mmonec catablishment, Had the fire reached Feltman’s {t would have w ¥ Bowery, because the water pressure was all gone by the ' \ to West ‘Tenth street j - ) of the coaster, rising #ixty-Ave feet in the ain, ae arrler over which the flames could not reach and through which h i foree thelr way. Under the supervision of Arthur Middle- on, the employees of the coaster fought the fire beck from the steel ' vurh the firemen resented the activities of Middleton's j men, turued the hose on Chem aud hurled bricks at them. At 8.30 o’cloek