The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1911, Page 3

4 i H} some of them, perhaps two hundred, > fragments of any old thing they could | cable to a iton's tooth. | Wit’ 390,000 SEE RUINS OF DREAMLAND AND COLLECT SOUVENIRS Vietims of Coney Island Blaze Open for Business Amid Debris. , THRONGS CHEER icc “Down but Not Out” Senti- ment at Every Stand in the Park. “Deventr-r-re of the great fire—great “‘Vtunity vu lifetime—all tha's left of Beayuttful Dreamian'—ten cen's—right Gy way, ladies and gents—the only Gencowine reilots of de fire—picked out @ the roons red hot—greates’ ‘p'tunity ‘va Mfetime—sumpin' to han’ down to yer @reeveran’ chilrun—an’ all fur ten eeats, Pick ‘em out wile dey las ‘p'tunity va lifetime.” ‘Thes Coney's hustiers «rested the fwemendous mob of %0,%) who had) hestied down yesterday to see what the Httle old Island tooled like after | AMaturday’s fire. “Booltan, right this way to see Sooltan, the ferocious, man-eatin’ king of the Seugte—step right inside and see Sool tea, who gave battle to a dosen pollc men, holdin’ dem at bay on the hig! @ag along the Rocky Road to Dublin— only ten cew's to ace this feer-r-roshus beast, now so tame that the chil'ren or yous bee’ giel kin twist his tail—only a ten cen's to ate dis nint’ wunder @e world.’ Amé there, in front of a tent which Ca Ferran, who was burned out along weth the rest of Dreamland, had rigged Up nearby, stood one-armed Bonavite, the Mon-tamer, fondling « lion cub, the Detter to ture the crowd under the can- vas, where the undismayed Ferrari was etving @ show of five acts, half his| weual programme, with new performers, | Nona, leopards, ponies and monkeys, heetity recrutted from his winter show. Wanted to See Rulis. ‘Those who couldn't get in to see the animats, and to greet Marguerite, the baby Moness, who was reported dead, ‘but turned up as frisky as a pup, got im ander the tent, where the tattooed la@y and the other freaks were exhibit- tng themselves with their usual air of patronizing superciiiousness. If thelr | queer thrones made cut of rough pine boards hastily knocked together ruffied their dignity, they aid not show it. ‘They went right on selling their photo- stapbe of their usual aloofness. But for the most part yesterday's crowd—one of the biggest that ever vis- ited the great resort—sweltered and saped and pushed and jostied along the! five blocks of Surf avenue facing the) ruins. They hed come down to see. | What they expected to see they didn't | know, but whatever there was to sec they wanted to have a look at. I€ they fainted from the heat,. if garents lost children, if husbands and Wives and eweethearts were separated, it emde no difference. The it crowd wem right on staring at the twisted girders, the charred lumber piles, the Piles of ashes, the mud, the soot, and mostly women, got right down on their knees and rummaged in the muck for point to with pride later on and say: “Yes, siree, that comes from the Dreamtand fire. I picked it out of the ruins myself.” 2 Souvenirs for All. But Coney’s game business men had eaten them to it. They were ready to greet the mob with everything con- cetvadle in the way of a souvenir, from & twisted strand of half molten wire New canvas and boards everywhere that Coney's undismayed citizens could squeeze into. The Steu- Dendoris, whose hotel and restaurant S went with Dreamland, were gelling hot roast beef sandwiches and “hot dogs" from the brick oven which was al! that _ remained. “Down, but Not Out,” ecritled on a doer, rigtt over the brick oven, told the whole story. Coney Island was pioking up just where it stopped short while the fire was in progress, and al- ready they wore talking of a big ‘mid- way" along the big, bare, black space, right down to the ocean front, with side shows and freak rides and what not ——. CAPT. EMERSON DIVORCED. were up Application for Decree After Husband's mit In Granted BALTIMORE, May -A decree of divorce was signed to-day for Mrs. Isaae HB, Emerson in her action against Capt. Emerson, the milifonaire drug manufacturer, This decree, which grants an absolute divorce, is understood to | be agreeable to both side Capt. Bmerson first instituted actiin against bis wife, making statutory | cn , and this was followed by @ cross Dill, A second vill was tiled b: Mra Emerson, asking for a divore on | the ground of desertion and decree was wigned on this action, The Emersons are parents of Mis Hollister-Bmith-McKim, we reve secured a divorce in Reno. | ——_—_—_—>——_ POULTRY MEN ON TRIAL. a of Protective Nineteen ™ Association Accused of Monopoly. | The taking of testimony began to-day in the trial of nineteen members of the New York Live Poultry Commisston Merchants’ Protective As-oclation, who were indicted for violating the State | Ant!-Monoyoly law The trial is before Judge Rosalsky General S¢ and former Distri ‘Attorney Jerome $8 defending the mem- in alone 7 |tocated on the beach | ardly be expect 2aB EV Aldermen Will The Evening World's proposal that the City of New York take over at ® fair and reasonable figure the beach | front at Coney Island which was de- nuded of butldings by Saturday's fire to-day received the attention of the Board of Aldermen. Alexander 8, Drescher, Chairman of the Aldermanic Committee on Parks, has called a meeting of his committee for next Friday to consider the propo- aition, and he.says a resolution will be | Introduced at the next meeting of the board, June 6, calling upon the Board | of Eatimate and Apportionment to fur- nish the necessary money, which Mr. Drescher saye ought to be less than $1,000,000, ‘T have called a special meeting of the Aldermante Committee on Parks for Friday at 2 P. M. to consider the ad- | visability of recommending the acquisi- | {tion of the district at Coney Island | destroyed by fire,” he sald to-day. this district adjoins the municipal baths | front now owned | by the city, I am tn favor of the city's proceeding to acquire it, If the price| asked by the pfoperty owners {ts too high !t would be well to acquire it through condemnation pgoceedings. | Need Grvater Free Beach. | “The needs of an-enlarged beach free | to the people at Coney Island 1s ad-| mitted. Now that the city has a chance to acquire the property without the! buildings It behooves it to extend Sea- | side Park westward to Tenth street, | as suggested by The Evening World. | Formerly the presence of buildings upon this property made the proposi-| tion of purchase by the city a pro-| hibitive one. “Our first move on Friday will be to visit. the site of the fire at Coney! Island, and I have asked Comptroller) Prendergast to send along with us his real estate expert, Charles A, O'Malley. | Commissioner of Public Works Pounds | of Brooklyn will accompany us, also! Chief Engineer Charles R. Ward of the| topographical bureau of Brooklyn, “After we have completed our invest!- gation a resolution will be introduced in the Board of Aldermen by Alderman Frank Dowling next Tuesday calling upon the Board of Estimate and Appo> tUonment to furnish sufficient money to carry out the enlargement of Seaside Park. “Last March Alderman Dowling put in a resolution which can be amended to meet the pi ent situation, I person- ally favor the city's buying the burned tract, but I am opposed to the city's paying more for the land than $1,000 a foot, which in my judgment is a@ fair market value for it. Ought to Cost Under $1,000,000. As the burnt dis offers about 88 feet of beach front it will be that at my proposed figures. the cost to the city for the land will than $1,000,000 The uplands north of | Surf avenue will get the benefit of the extension of the city’s beach property | to Tenth strees. These uplands are the | natural place for the amu nt paris, | and as there are many acres of vacant uplands, there is no reason why the taking of the beach fr rhould inte any with the ures of the !siand made by The Evening uins were stil seen | total | be less | re nt re in entertains | fea The suggestion, World wiitle the way me smoul- by the dering, was immediately followe declaration from former Senator Will-| fam H. Reynolds of his willingness to sel] the ocean front of burnt-out land to the city for park purposes M Reynolds did no, name his pri for the Dreamland property. That could oon after n> flagration, but he made the point that tt] would be cheaper for the city to acquire harred and twisted ruins than a prop- erty covered with buildings, subject to long time leases, The late fire has termi: | nated all old leases, i Until this newspaper won Its fight ten years ago and forced the opening of | Seaside Park, the ocean at Coney Island was shut off entirely from view, and | eee betbie’in’ onfatt only siRouAa so tere of the so-called Chicken Trust, The jury, was accused leat Weel, voll-wates of private bath i The | heartily | tions for that y Consider Seaside Park Extension Evening World Proposed Purchase of Burned Area of Dream- land at a Fair Price Receives Hearty Commendation. Park {s now too small for the city's needs. It has a meagre ocean front of 1,400 feet, with the magnificent new Mu- nictpal Bath Bullding crowding its west- ern extremity, Extend Park Five Blocks. The Evening World, long active in the advocacy of more ocean beach for the People and a five-cent fare to it, voices Public opinion in urging that negotia- tions be opened with Mr. Reynolds and his social as well the estate of the late J. F. Balmer, and the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad Com- | pany, LOOKING TO THE EXTENSION OF SEASIDE PARK FIVE BLOCKS WEST ALONG THE OCEAN FRONT FROM FIFTH STREET TO TENTH STREET. President Steers of Brooklyn and Al- derman Potter of Coney Island are both in favor vf The ening World's {dea of extending Seaside Park, and {f t! + land can be secured at a rea- sonable price will vigorously press the matter in the Board of Estimate and the Board of Aldermen, We are not seeking to unload our property on the city,” said Sam 8, Whitehouse, counsel for the Dreamland directors, to-day. "Mr. Reynolds, how- ever, thought it would be a good idea to give the city first chance ‘at the property, which may go upon the mar ket. We own 420 feet ocean front, ex- tending through to Surf avenue. We value it at betweer. $1,800,000 d 2,000,000, Mortgages are outstandin the property against which bonds have been issued in the sum of $1,600,000, Our mprovements, which cost us $1,000,000, © been wiped out. The advantage to the city in nego- | lating with us now Hes in the fact that al! of our leases were terminated by the fire. Experience {s that It 1s cheaper te buy from a landlord than from a landlord and tenants, There are no tenants in the burned district at Coney Island, as the leases made by the Prospect Park and C Istand Rall- road Company and those of the Balmer estate are identical with ours in re- ‘spect to fire. Totai of 850 Feet Front. “The B rty has an ocean front of feet, while the rallroad has about feet on sea. The combined ocean frontage of the three strips of nd 1s about 80 feet. The Prospect Park and Coney Island Rall- road Company ts owned by the Penn- lvanta Railr¢ It owned the de- 1 stroyed fron pi T do not know what these two other Interests would ask for their property, but I think they would bo fair in thelr terms !f dealing with the clty. Our directors are Mr Reynolds, Joseph Huber, George F. Dobson, James Lord, who is a son-in- law of Thomas Lawson and myself.” But for continued and persistent pro- crastination in the past, on the part of paid ofMictals, the city wevld now be In possession of the ocean beacher from Brighton Beach to Sea Gate. The last opportunity the city acquire ocean front property at Co Island at bargain prices was imr a following the destruction by fire in 1907 of Steeplechase Park, This news- Edward Burke had to ey paper urged the laying out of a elty park at the West End, with the view of working from both’ ends of Coney Isiand along the beach front toward the centre. George C. Tilyou offered to sell his burned 25 a a free city park site sto the city fo provided the ma ter be taken up and settled within a reasonadie time, The city officials dal lied, and Mr, Tilyou, recovering nerve that he los hase Park g the ureat fire of that Island, Bird $, Coler Comptro! advocated the pur ase by the elty of a strip from Ove Parkway to Sea Gate, extending f the Gravesend nal to the ogean. Coney Island had not attained tts pres- nt popularity at that time, and Mr. Coler ascertained that he could have purchased all of the property needed for park purposes av $9,000.00, oF about five times the amount of the tax valua- ar, Grout Defeated Plan. The project was defeated, largely through the efforts of Kdwant M Gre Borough of Br pleaded and | urged alternative propositions, as un ocean-front boardwalk or fe acquisition of a portion of the Isl- and for park purposes, Nothing was done The next blz Coney Island fire, tn 1998, found Richard Young, then Park Com- missioner of Brooklyn, upon the Aring LNING wubb, line advocating the purchase by te | city of all the land from Fifth street | to Sea Gate lying between the oceay And Surf avenue. This tract comprises 132 acres, and Mr. Young estimated he| could get It for $5,000,000. He proposed & great free city park, amd he was backed by The Evening World, as was Comptrotier Coler four yaars previous. | But interests hostile the project suc- ceeded in ttmiting Mr. Young's efforts to the improvement of tiny Seaside Park, Is the city of New York going to let sip another opportunity to open a larger way to the sea for hundreds of thousands who need Its free fresh air in the hot summer months? ROROUGH PRESIDENT STEERS of | Brooklyn—I am in favor of a Greater Seaside Park if we can get it at a rea- sonable price. We need all the parks we can get, but I don't believe In fotst- ing upon the city for millions a piece of land that only cost $600,000 originally. If miftions must be spent, let them « to the erection of a new cules bullding for Brooklyn. Company Willing to Sell. The directors of the Dreamland | Compamy held a meeting this afternoon | at their omces, No. 22) Fifth avenu to discuss the altuation that has grown out of the fire's work. President Rey- nolda, Attorney Whitehouse, George F. Dobson, Joseph J. Harber and Bugene Wood were present. James Lord, son- in-law of Thomas F. Lawson, and Kd- dle Burke, the bookmaker, were the only absentees, ‘There was an executive session which lasted more than an hour, At i# con- clusion Mr. Reynolds gave out an inter view, “The statement printed in some of the morning papers that We had asked the city $3,000,000 for our holdings Is abso lutely false,” he said. nat would be @ ridiculously unfair price. The prop ferty is not worth that much money, and we are not asking any such figure for tt We are perfectly willing to sell the land to the clty at a fair price, the amount to be fixed at private sale, Or, if pre ferable, the city can condemn the land and pay us {te appraised value.” Mr, Reynolds added that the directors had adopted a resolution empowerlig him as president to settle the fire losses with the {nsurance companies and 10 draw up a plan for the future us the property, which plan ts to be p sented at a meeting called by him with the next ten days or two we pa lia M'NAMARA “KIDNAPPING” REJECTED BY CONGRESS. Act Rules Committee Refuses to on Plea for Prisoners in Dynamiting ( WASHINGTON, May will not investigate the “kidnapping” of J. J. McNamara from Indianapolis on a charge of being implicated in the alleged dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times plant. The Rules Committee of the House, at the conclusion of to-day's hearing on the resolution of Representative Berger (Soc., Wis.), decided not to re- port tt. The committee concluded Representative Korbly (Dem., now pressing a resolution House Judictary Committee, adopted, would amend the laws to prevent @ repetition of the Congress that Ind.) before as is he it M Namara Incident, an investigation would be unnecessary Pal iL PLAN FOR FERRY SERVICE. Nonte May Run Again Between Gr Street and Hroadway, Brooklynites will now get another chance to urge city officials to comple plane for the resumpt ferry vice between Grand street, Manhattan, and Broadway, Brooklyn he select commit | President Mitchel, | Moore, Chairman Frank L. Dowling of the finance committee and Dock Com iissioner Tomkins, will hold a publi hearing W morning in Pres dent Mitch °. The committee has prepared a plan which may permit of an early operation of @ Grand street-Broadway ferry consisting of Chamberlain aw ing. Spectal to Tho Bveakng W ELIZABETH, N. J., May 29.Two mon were hurled from a road wason by @ train of the Long HRrane | vision of the Centra) Ratiroad Jersey at the fayway grade crossing to-day and landed several hundred feet away, One of them, supposed t be a man named Moroski, was killed tr stantly her, an italian, Was te: moved to the General Hospital with a fractured skull, This ts the sixth d in ala weeks t m OND > AY, aan = The building in the centre ts the right, extending to Tenth street, suggested recreation pier, Municipal Bathing Pavilion. is the burned district, To the left of the pavilion is the present publte | beach, and direc By behind it the cultivated ote of the park. THEF IS CHASED TO EUROPE AND BACK HERE AGAIN ‘Adolph Pricken OU Ladi Detec- tives a Merry Jaunt Before His Capture. After a chase which led all Europe and back again half-way across this Continent, Adolph Pricken arrived in town to-day handesffed to Lleut Barney Flood of the Divtrict-Attor- ney's staff, After tarrying | in the Criminal Courts Bullding to i arraigned, he journeyed on to a cell in the Tombs, where he will stay until he comes to trial on indictments chars! him with thefts of $30,000 srom Park & iford, the grocers, Flood caught his man tn St. Paul Sat urday night after tracking him through Canada, Pricken, who {8 an Intelligent good-looking chap of — twenty-nine waived extradition and sented to return at once to New York, On the way back he told Flood, so Food sa that he expected te plead guilty In the ope of getting a comparatively light sentence. Pricken came to the United States from Germany a h. For two years ho was employed by the firm of Jacob Koch & Son, importers, in Mur ray atreet, Milladelphia, confidential clerk and taken adv of his position to $12,000, by He lost the in speculation, was and went to the Pen prison for a six-year te leased in May, 1908, He forgery In January of last year New York. By means of a purporting to come fro Congul's office @ young man o: a arrived in America he se in the importin, runent Tilford, He ted a spoke five ges and alert nw t supe vf the Shortly thereafter I & Tilford dis MK Fr yan trade at les. » Imported for firm went t perfumeries to ssto: tiled to estigate, It wasn't K until aptured a 1 ona 1 ds and then Park & Tilfort 1 fresh shock Shields confessed that he was mel ernment, chased him. and the Federal age! and the local Lieut. Flood Montreal to W devious course can border. When Flood followed not st Paul hotel traps to start He Moc had sp w he fled and Ucket rty-fifth street | He was arralgn ween tn Part 1. of the day rem te without Th im to Germany, where he doub! paught 4 ship for Mont tropped Te selling agent and — go-hetween Pricken. Every night, he said, Prt | would carry away from the sto | sult case loaded with fine perfur Pricken took alarm in time to Imself. He fled on the nigh Shielda's arrest. Aschner and O° nell, secret service agents for the ey Pricken walked tn on ken was packing his Canada, nt what funds hi him took Great Popular Seaside Park Now Made Possible at Coney Island: Project Already Started by Evening World May Be Widely Extended ry 7 we o the Here is shown the for cken a ries. save of t Don- Gov- ‘hunt authorities took it up. from , and thence by a back across the Amer|- ata with money for his his travelling ex sent to him by a womad 408 livin re Judge Mule 1 Sew had ng in slo oi | WINTER GARDEN MANAGER WEDS AFTER MIDNIGHT.) Atlantic City, Attending Dinner at Sharpe and Miss Ca ble denly Make Up Their Minds. welal to The Evening World.) ATLANTIC CITY, Nod, May 29. Flore Cable and Stantey ‘ sistant manager of the Win or n, New York, were married | ne wt night by Magistrate Jagnetty Hack of the stinple announcement Ix uid to be a rapid-fire courtship, With 1 part? of friends the couple attended a dinner at Young's Hotel last night tn nor of the Frlers: Krienda say there was not @ thought Mf Danny Cupid in the minds of eithe! when th convened. Shortly af- Jter midnight they suddenly announces t © Koln out in search of 4 ttrate to be married. ‘The others dW assist In the search, and after | ‘ fn discovered the lorks and secured a roused Magi eremony was Melmont Hotel as twenty-six aN y-two. afternoon, Sud _—_— FIGHTS WILL OF MAN 93. Charges 1 Mind, Packed Where Grown. - LhiteFrose CEYLON TEA PALL OF SMOKE | | | | | TRIES SUICIDE, _ IS STOPPED, THEN WRECKS A STORE oo | Brooklyn Young Man Becomes Crazed When Gas Tuve Is Pulled From His Mouth. | After being prevented from kitting himself by Inhaling gas through a tube to-dfy, Abraham Kaplan, twenty-one years old, @ salesman of No. 13 Mowe. | Tole street, Brooklyn, brushed aside the | members of his family and rushed eut |Iinto the street Turning into the drug store of Max Lullman at No, 11 Meserole street, be proceeded to wreck the store, He fe A big, powerful youth, and before Lull. man could get out into the street he had been hit with half a dozen bottles and say hie showcases and counters in rulns Patrolmen Wilson and Schaeffer of the Stagg street station came im and sought to subdue the young madmen. He fought them = with hairs ent brok bi but they finally got him down and called an ambulance from St. Catherine's Hospital broke 1 straitjackets before they got him to the hospital and locked him in a padded cell in the observation ‘pavilion. Members of his family aay that he has been acting queerly for a week FINE TEETH will not last long if your mouth and gums are un- eet po jleed easily? Do bi Areyourtecth locsa? Have a dentist remove the cause then wee after exch meal, ¢ suppl perf t neces” tary’ in all diseased. coudie tions of thegums. free argues pan and saree f ‘patnea Setter jee Vern ig Lie Co, WISSNER _PIANOS represent ice dollar for dollar val- ue. We can prove conclusively to IN MURRAY HILL STIRS CITIZENS York Edi Haled Into Court on Com- plaint of Business Men. on Company Members of the Murray Hill Taxpay- ers and Business Men's Association are complaining of smoke and cinders they | say float In abundance from the power- house of the New York Edison pany at First avenue and Thirty-ninth street. They tried to thrash the mat- ter out the Kville Court to-day | through a summons on the company, but Magistra Special dward (Nelli, counsel for the asso- elation, «aid to-day that the men of that district who hav torles and homes, In some Instances, om- House sent the case 0 busines offic in the section, are constantly bo re by smoke from the big power house | YOu that they are the most expen- ring in their rooms and on the roofs, | Sivély built pianos in existence, but he corp at red in court! not the highest priced, which in con- through unael, Robert Redleftfen, He 7 walved on examination and the Magu, |Jumuon with thelr superb musth Mane tha’ Chie AG WHERE | qualities makes them the choice of aswoctation will have a meeting | far-seeing piano purchasers, night in St. Gabriel's Hall, No, 908 Send Postal for Catalogue. cast ‘Thirty-*1xth street, at whic ro. | WISSNER WAREROOS fe bod be | 96 Sth Ave., cor. 15th St., N.Y. ev Haldliae ta edna || NEW LOCATION , a widow, of No | 100 West On street, who charged with Mundr was arr ehloroti anor 1 and Forty-second ted yesterday | ming and mutl-| marder in her John Nower, twenty-nine years a salesman, was to-day held with-| out ball by Magistrate Corrigan, In the BROOKLYN. ONARCH lating with a a 80, M in avn tn i no EMS FURNITURE co - WE TRUST YOU DINNER B> § FURNITURE, Rugs, Carpets, Bedding. IBERAL TERMS IBERAL CREDIT OW PRICES 161 EAST 125 ST BT 37 & LEX AVES GULDEN’S MUSTARD 4 Fino Ratad Dressing by adding vincone,. At Delicatessen and Grocery Sta 40 CENTS, Boon with each butte ~ PETER DOELGER foe aaa ae BOTTLES. BEER fees fel $5 ZXPRESILY FOR THE HOME Value Sunt eas $1.25 the case of 24 bottles ky one cent a bottle more than the ordinary beer. A little higher in price —a great deal higher in quality. | | | | BEST WORK at LOWEST PRICES , ‘ , leliveret with rd Chelsea, | Wert 11th St. itcupnoisteri For sale by all de lers 1103 W. 14th Ste enone 4TH ST; UPHOLSTE! iW eae ING CO, ‘Sue COVERS “43 EDDYS Old Englis: SAUCE Sold by Grocers and Delicatessen Stores 10c Per Bottle, , PIROR PARLOR ST EDS Fi KEUPHOLSTERED RHEUMATISM Acute and Chronic | u sleep without medicine, Send | cee THe EMP” ORY TS Bay 26th at, Brookly NX. | PATHOL CO,