The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1911, Page 12

FREMENINPER Bevan weal, BAsuwbasd, vung ad, ~_ ASBLAZING WALLS FALL; THREE HURT Bucket Brigades Prevent Spread of Fire From 5-Story | 2 Factory to Tenements. t By Eleanor Schorer POLICEMAN LEAPS ON HORSE'S NECK AND STOPS FLIGHT JPuBERaY pinot 3 }Daring Halt of Runaway on | Fifth Avenue Made by Traf- | fic Squad Member. RUSH SAVES MANY LIVES. Trams Policeman pher Ochrtes se t a at Thirty-second nd Fifth avenue, showed today i “i { what materi e rank and file of Snaking Hose on Fireboat| thi: Molle Dapartinent 18 tide 86,00 Willett Tears Off Heels of tan nacts public. Unalded, tay horse that more of persone er bit of horsemanship, idened animal. The feat y hundred of persons, fun Acting Chief's Brother. | | ‘Phe Ailiigent work of countless bucket | — brigades as auxiliaries to eee at tte ou ae end firemen saved a large se Manhattan early to-day from being er 10 o'clock whet devastated by a binze that bw aght | nd street, drive out one-fourth of the fire-fighting ap-| ve th reat ue Paratus, did $200,000 damage, sent two, mene the SfOiee men to the hospital badly injured, tm- the horse 48 perilied the lives of scores of firemen, Wm UreanialiKh on ran into a store burned eleven horses and left the dig | five-story pullding, Nos. 619-025 West Fitty-fourth street, a pile of debris. THE INJURED. JAMES KENLON, forty-eight, Stoker of the fireboat Willett and brother of Acting Fire Chief Ken- Jon; both heels almost severed, tn- terna} injuries. Flower Hospital. JAMES TAYLOR, forty-six, en- Bineer on the Willett; left arm broken, internal injuries. Flower Hospital. ROBERT A. FOWLER, fireman attached to Engine Company No. %, assigned to the marine launch Velox; cuts and bruins Went home. One of the heroes of the fire is Capt. John Rush, former Chief Croker’s chauf- feur, now tn command of Company No. %& But for his wonderful knowledge of and prompt, heady work the lives of scores of firemen would have been snuffed out when the walls of the bulid- ing fell. big building extended from Fifty- h street to Fifty-fifth street. On the east side is the Bigelow Lumber yard and on the west the plant of the Sicilian Asphalt Company. The butlding ‘was filled with plano factories, cabinet ghepes, brass polishing concerns and other industries using large quantities ©f vesin, alcohol, explosive acide and other inflammable materials, ‘William MoLoughiin, watchman for the Mehlin Piano Company, on the third floor of the building, smelled smoke and Giscovered the fire on the first floor, oc- cupled by the Richards Laundry and Supply Company. On the sme floor were stabled eleven horses. TWENTY-ONE ENGINE COMPA. NIEG CALLED TO FIRE. Capt. Rush was tho first to arrive, He tried to get out the horses, but the fire had too much headway. Acting Bat- talion Chief Corcoran sent in @ second alarm, and when Acting Chief Kenlon came he turned in @ third and fourth, This brought out twenty-seven pieces Of apparatus, representing twenty-one engine compantes out of Manhattan's to- tal of eighty-nine, The fireboats Willett, New Yorker and Duane also responded, ‘The firemen saw the building was be- yend saving and set about to prevent the fire spreading, Huge sparks were hurtling upon scores of tenements in Ninth and Tenth avenues, and hunireds @f men and women formed bucket bri- gades, forgot the threatened water famine and kept the roofs and ai walks drenched. Capt. Rush had assigned to him be- sides his own company Nos, J, 8 and 11 and Truck No. 4 to fight the flames trom the dumber yerd and keep the stacks of lumber in the latter from catohing time Bazplosion after explosion shook the burning building, and suddenly Capt. Rush heard a roar from the interior of furnace and saw tho hot wally wavering. Hoe knew the voloano was and shouted to the e BIREMEN ESCAPED JUST TIME AS WALL PELL. hey got out just in time. Phe hot and sparks showered their coat. the last reached the street. fell on and melted thalr leaving the water pouring into of debvis that sent up clouds of IN itt i" most exciting feature of the was far from the scene, and only a small crowd could witness The fireboat Willett was working the foot of Fitty-fourth street and two lines of hose 1,780 feet leag under %0 pounds pressure. ‘A length of hose on the after deck feet from the water @ un- coupled amidships on the starboard ide, For threo minutes fifty feet of gnake-like rubber thrashed about un- M0-pound pressure, offering certain to any one who came withia of it or tha doadly stream sboot- from it n was or the after deck when Et thof + the sinuous bludgeon same down and Going out of town for the sumer ey have she Nord World Ey Ee as ent “sew World, 12c per wee Evening World, 6c per wee Sunday World, Se per Sunday Send your remittance to the Cashier NEW YORK WORLD, Heatly clipped off both heels, The next instant the stream had catapulted him overboard into the water. It Heved he was lost, Lut he swam to a hawser leading from the fireboat to a brick scow and dragged himself up above the wator level. The flayed the deck until En- gineer Taylor way struck and knocked several fect, breaking an arin near the elbow and probably injuring him int nally, ‘The fire wac confined to the oullding in which it started. It was one of the hottest its glow could bringing thou- sands of persons to the scene, The dan- fer of its spread was not past until about 3 P.M, Half @ dozen or more firemen wore overcome by smoke during the progress of the blaze, but were treated by ambu- lance surgeons and returned to work. — BRONX MILK FAMINE was be- DOWNTOWNKIDS INVADE BRONX 10 FIGHT FORGOODIES Hungry Horde Overwhelms Borough Day Parties for Share in Icecream Orgy. ‘The children of the Bronx celebrated Borongh Day to-day. There were over CAUSED BY $150,000 | 4 bundred thousand of them yelling, WAREHOUSE BLAZE, | "8 *tvping and tumbling over the lawns of the Bronx Parks from noon until dark. They were as happy An 123,000 bricks of ice cream, 12,000 pounds of cake and 27,0 quarts of milk could make them, The only un- happy persons in the Bronx were the marauding bands of outlanders from Hoster and Rivington and Mulberry streets, who came in hordes seeking what they might devour. The invaders presented an Irritating nd at the same time a pathetic problem ‘to the grown-up committees who were managing the Bronx celebration, The downtown youngsters had come to a Party to which they had not been asked and with all the good intention world, there were not goodies enough |to supply even a small fraction of them— | though nobody could dony that the out- landers were as hungry for ice creem and cake as any of the Bronx kids, So to offset the mollycoddie joys of dancing on the green and playing ring round the rosy, the sturdy little boys of the Bronx had the more strenuous Boeing there was no chance of saving | light of an occasional rally to repel the butiding, the firemen threw up a|T@lders, and in the different parks curtain of water that prevented a spread | “en for of the flames to the grain elevator in| Which were alinost as quickly —sup- the rear, ‘This ie of sheet tron, seventy- | Pressed by the arrival of flying squad- five feet high, and ts filled witty 100,00|TONS of grinning policemen, flustored bushels of grain and other fecd. They | School teachers and growling he-com- also saved the storage denot of the An-| Mitteemen sent from the political clubs, hausersBusch ‘brewery, both Republican and Demoeratl:. ‘The Bronx had a milk famine thie Morning as a result of the three-alarm fire that destroyed the feed warehouse of George N. Reinhardt & Co., No. 43-51 Brook avenue and did $150,000 damage, In the rear of the big two-story brick butlding 1s the Bronx depot of the Slaw- #on-Decker milk concern, where many trainioads of milk are unioaded on the Pocohontas out of the New York Con- | tral every morning. A milkman was waiting for a load of cans at 3 o'clock this morning when he smelled smoke and put his hand on a shutter of the Reinhardt building. It was eo hot he jumped, He sent in an/| @iarm that brought Deputy Chief It took the firemen twenty minutes to break open the thick iron shutters. When the air got in, the building went up with @ roar, the flames mounting 100 feet into the air, There were about 1 oarloads of hay, grain and other Kinda of feed inside. ‘Three alarms wore sent in, bringing | DOWN TOWNERS' FRENZIED thirteen pieces of apparatus, ‘The amoke was thick and of the kind that groatly eaeedd ICE CREAM, punishes firemen, and at times they| But tho downtown and vandals had to work in relays. Thirty horses | Would not be discouras wed into in @ shed back of the Reinhprdt bulid- | 4 reckless frenzy by the thoughtlessness ing were turned looso soon after the fire was discovered, and ran wild through that section of the Bronx for an hour before they were rounded up. Beveral milk trains were on the tracks deing unloaded when the fire started, of the proud Bronx comm e 120,000 br young mountain of cake, they ‘normed one fortress after anotier in constantly growing numbe} Bome of the oars got ao hot before they | Borough President Miller, who was were shunted out of the danger zone the |chatrman of (1 . thanked his stare milk was #polled. None of them could | m tines e the was over be placed back in position for ui for the forethougat wi a him to for three hours, so those milk ask for ail vie police ret.ven to be seni to get thelr regular supply of to the parka, delayed several! hours in delivering it, while others could not get any # eil for thelr customer: po in 15 FAMILIES IN PERIL WHEN GAS JET IS STOLEN. Thief Rips Off Fixture In Bast Side Apartment House and Deadly Fumes Fill Building. John Quest, who lives on the ground floor of the large apartment house, No, It was the first "Get Together Day” of the Bronx. The unanimity with which the borough Joined in the cele- bration almost overwhelmed te com- mittee, The firet plans called for a more or lees solemn and conventional programme with speeches, But the set plane went by the board as the reports of the numbers of ohiid- expected came pouring in. Th Joy of the two score prospective orators was ruthlessly sacrificed to the fun of the children and as the plans of the ay finally took shape there was some eneral dancing by regiments of child- ren with a band to keep time (insioad M1 Hast Fitty-third street, was awak- |of the hurdy gurdy) and a genera) riot ened by the odor of gas early to-day, |of tas and prisoner's base and all and when he went out into the hall |kinds of prom:tacuous Facing and chi found that a gas fixture had been |!" | renched from the wall. He stuffed POLITICAL “JUNE WALK6” HAD | up the pole with a bundle of rage, but TO BE GIVEN UP, | the gas had penetrated to all parts of| There were eight bands in all. The | the building end pretty soon nearly all | committee wanted ning, but couldn't Ket | of the tenants—there are fifteen fam-|the odd one, They would have been Miles housed there—came running ovt of |short two more had not the Van Ness their rooms. Democratte Club and the ‘Thirty-second District Kepublican Club postponed their One or two children were overcome |? “. oug! '- and a woman wae made ill, but none |June walks” for the Borough Day fos tivities, They really had to postpone, went to a haspital, Quest sammoned |tor the Borough Day entvusiaam robbed the janitress, Mre. Mary Lurke, and them of any prospect of an attendance she reported the theft of the fixture let political sideshows. | man wave no satisfactory explanation of how be got it and he was taken to tie station, There it was found to be tie | | bracket that was stolen from the Bon Vilty-toird street apartment house, up, and as the skipping, cheering mobs salled along through the streets, fathers ang brothers and mothers a? auntie 4 ty thelr shops and offices and ‘itahe The prisoner ix Theo: day, waved handkerchiets a ty-one years old, of D hats from windows and. Aoorways, | third street, a work: fn side atrowts lowered the ma- ‘the New York Con‘rat rauding downtown banda, bly | v bef n@‘rauttering with pent up rage a rekviile € gmeed and gathering wrath for the con. thought some « ne, kas fixture im. 3 est crowd was at Crotona | said he had n drinking all nigh nt wid Park, where 21,000 school children, to | didn't remember where he had been. way nothing of toddlers toe eo Mes to | He was held in #0) bail Mary's go te school, were gathered, Ot. in the | 1a- | ys ended in quick, sharp battles, | far ie | Park haa 19,000 schoot children. Bronx Park had 18,30 the rest from 1,000 to 1,600, These were Claremont | Park, Pelham Ray Park, Park, Courtlandt Park, St. James's Park and the Macomb's Dam Park, Public School No. 10 had the largest attendance of soholars, with in line. MANY UNIFORMED CLUBS LIME BESIDES, Besides the school organizations there were hundreds of clubs in uniform, a cowboys, May iris, baseball players, shepherdesses and every out- door occupation imaginable were repre- ented by costume, Many of them were headed by drum and fife corps of their own membership which kept the streets of the Bronx booming from early morn- in “Let anybody any iter *his that the Bronx is an outlying disirict, a de pendent provinc> of Now York!” ex claimed President \.L'er as he paused on his darning needle fights from park to park In his automobile. ‘We're here because We're here’ and ve ure proud of it.” to help the school teachers. A medical committee under the supervision of Dr. Stratford F. Corbett volunteered to stay at the parks all day and attend to ac- vidents or illnesses. The hospital corps of the Second Battery was on !and, and | battery men put up tents tn all the parks for shelte The park foremen, under the direction | of Park Commissioner Higgins, ‘who Was flying about just as fast as Mr. Miller, had all thelr men out with tn- structions to look pleasant 14 confine all thetr effarts to secing to it that the children had a good time. Howard Bronwen, eight years old, of No. 2418 Cambreliing avenue, Petham, was Killed while stenling a ride to get quickly to the Pelham Bay Park cele- bration, He hitehed on behind ar mobile delivery truct bounced over the bridge leading from the Parkway into the park he was ed off and fell in the track of an automobile driven by Henry Bent, a} salesman of Ralkley Manor, near Rye. | BRAHMIN ASSASSINATES A BRITISH OFFICIAL. Prosecutor of Rioters In Indla Shot in Revenge—His Slayer Kills Himself, TRICHINOPOLY, 17.—Robert William Collec r the n ‘Tinnevelli, was assassi a Brahmin attorney, who then com. mitted suicide, With his wife, Asche Was sitting in a car of a railway train at Maniyacht when the Brahmin ap- Proached and without a word shot the collector ds . Asche inducted the trial of the Tut!- cornin rioters last year, and his murder fe attributed to revenge British India, June D, Asche, British time district of d to-day by $100,000 IN ADAMS ESTATE. wi Gives Almost Unt to Wife ai (Special to The Brening World,) MOUNT VERNON, N, Y,, June 11, ‘The will of the late Charles L, Adams of Mount Vernon was filed for probate to-day with Surrogate Millard at White Plains, Tho estate totals about $100,000, Mr, Adams was @ prominent member of the firm of Wilaon, Adams Company of Mount Vernon and New York, To his wife, Holen T, Adams, he left nh house and all the furniturs carriages and automobiles and $5,000, The residue of the estate, with the exception of @ few mmall bequests, a to the five children, milly A, Patten, Maria A, Luce, Edward Adams, Mary A, Parry and Charl ‘Adams, The executors of the estate are Charles L. Adaina, Jacob 8, Cur vaiho and John |, MeKenna, the last two being former businane eanocistes of Mr, Adams. a STEALS LOVING CUPS. at the Kast Fitty-first street ation, In nine different Alstricts near the (Rpectal to ‘The Kvening Word.) About an hour after Quest's disesy- | nine parka of the borough the chil¢ren MONT Alt, N. a, June ery Policeman John Rafiey of the Maat | aeeembled at thelr school houses, eh |toving cups Uiat he had won in various | vitey-firat street static woe man with CH tee, sr eat and neta tag mae tothe ineets wore stolon to-day fr jwreet with @ brass gas fixture, The | went around them y diet ‘The burgiac whe got the cups also got the rest of Me household wiiverware, 4 fur coat, from My, Yolsom's trou- born and the cufl butions wad studs from hia ghiet, ‘She total plunder is valued a: 00, ‘The intevder got in through @ dining: room window, stepping noisalassiy ove: 4 colle dog, Which sape throughout the rolmery, Mr. Votsom, who is a law) and hag an office at No, 10 Nagsay street, Manhattan, hud undressed in @ room adjoining bis bedroon is POW and the dining room were the only Franz Sigel | 10,000 | auto- | As the big car The boy was kn ed down and} crushed, Mr. Bent Hfted him into his own ma- | | chine and hurried with 1 | police station, where Dr | Fordham Hospital was ented | | Over a thousand women volunteered | | | | | | | | BOY wo DECLARES HIS PARENTS HIM ALONE IN PARK. LEFT ml STREET. LOST BOY TELLS -PITIABLE TALE OF PARENTS NEGLECT Says They Left Him in Park and He Returned Home to Find Them Gone. At the rooms of the Bi dren's So s pokiyn chil. stres ty in is a ten-year-old boy who, accordthg to the best opinions of dians, is monumental 8 present custo- of a juvenile romancer attainments or a_pitia victim of aggravated parental neglect. He says his name is George Rounds, and he is a sturdy, stolid little chap, with blonde hair and blue eyes. On the evening of June 3 a truckman driving his team along Fort Hamilton Parkway saw the sitting on @ curbstone crying, The neighborhood is sparsely settled and darkness was boy coming on. The driver halted his horses and hailed the lad. Between sobs the youngster said he was hungry and tired and lost besides. The truckman offered | to give him a ride. He brought the lt- | tle fellow to the Atiantic avenue sta- | ton, where spe the night. Next day be was sent to the Children’s So- elety rooms, where he has been ever since Georgie sald that on the morning of the previous day his mother and father told him they were going to take him int's to spend the day. The home and ied him to a park hood and left him there | Saving they would return tn a few min- | utes. When four or five hours had d and his parents did not appear fe said he grew tired of watting and made his way back home ‘The early stock market this morming,| The house, he said, was at No. 106 crop news, con- New Utrecht aven No found the dency that has locked and he peered through a reater part of this ve empty and of fractionally from last He didn't know t lived. In fact he had idling, A sudden spurt In copper r the highest of the tone war evinced 'm the shares ¢} Bo he wan- bout until he was overcome hy wearlnesa and weakness, Tits wae the original story of the nee the close, ‘The finish was trrogu ungater, Bo Agent Erbrecht took advances slightly in the ma. jworgie to No, 1945 Now Utrecht av tin Amalgar nue, Thera wasn't any } int net lee. at that a seaston were| lot. Georgie na must entirely professional only thm ave heen 18 Ald the market showed any activity. was] even know near closing time, oped wh Aacided strength, Coppers dove The Closing Prices, lowest and “final figuras, eo law iy smarans comer MA “ig last prices of het changes, as gon ared With: yor 3 foliowe; Lay. 1 ‘ 1 BSS Soha ee rece 141 That tha soctety's he recalled that he lved on alrect Just off the BR, 7. Gulled by the boy's more or of | }08# Vague descriptions another agent took him tn hand on the following morning, All day they crutsed back and forth along Fort Hamilton Park- way, Invading every cross street from ‘Tirty-woventh to Fiftieth, Late in the fiernoon Georgia decided that Forty- sixth streot had a familar look to him, Nobody in the vielnity could be found ever seen lilm before, Since than Georgle has had no mora sugges |iions to advance regarding the location lof hia former hone, but he aticke to ve story of hie desertion, As be tells it, his parents were Engtist Jews who eame to America two years ayo, He gaid they would out to- gether every morning and come back in ihe evening With bundles of clothing, upon which they sewed unui late at vigit, ‘They both drank hard, ha says, sud often fougit each other, Thay went |to the synagogue regularly on the Jow- lish sabbath, but he never went with them except onee, Ha was negivated, — &/he claims, and often had not enough to ~ ®! cat, During the Caytime he etther % — + is a A ‘Disconsiori After Meais | alte sy i issed thw amcaalon of Silnem oa + “ r “r wa of Fm pts ft indigestion. + ee Dhga o Loe Piattenng "of (hb HY wees eg ie king Pag! mere Bind, ry iy Me] tog dig oe ea of ited d st en ve Rant suzptas $88,931,760, a ayey The etatement af Clo = anks for the woels, igeuod taday, shows | hat «he bar i more than! per cent, re- es compared with last crease of $2 roome ip the eottage that the 441,560 in the proportion to cash reserve te or burglar pond Ges ae free | we nystemn, Varely na od ae a 0, Mow Bat, $ 29),- rorabaet | two about in the streets or romaine Record Passenger LU morning with a record gers. So busy ng packages and pres were all ands ri for the m Louis Felix, aged fifty-six, maker who has been out mon: committed suicide by inhaling gas Carte Mansbach 4 tleth street. She went ont today ast Nine: an hour and when she returned found him dead. He had siutl of his room and turned Mrs Mansbach said he had despondent about not find work ‘A Very Strange Affair ANOTHER Sherlock Holmes Detective Story “The Missing Three And Two That Appeal “The Steady” Harvey J. O’ Higgins THE VERY OF SUMME In Separate Pocke FREE WITH vepunday pty rooms alone. sree when an Evening World re-| In a second the ani!mal reared an@, porter kaw hin home Georgie | slipping its br off un a wild said he didn't eare lie was never | galiop the swaying claimed. He of food now! wagon parcels along and a nice be in and other) the boys to play wit and “L like it fine e added, “and 1) jicen a t want to go k to my momm a nd popper. T hop ey don’t find From which utterance the society of-| stop flcers ‘e rather inclined to believe that @ the crowded ¢ for all of Georgie Rounds's simple ex- ay the horse contint preasion and seemingly slow working | to Thirty nd street, mind he m er than he looks. drivers of other vehi ae curb. ’ LINER SAILS, CROWDED FULL. | “eisricter was poepared for the ruahe ing horee. Bracing himself he walted i fee Bavepe With | the animal nt abreast of uimal with The Red Star liner Lapland sailed @ perilous posl- from her plier at the foot of West several rods, Twenty-first street for Antwerp this his hold. He of passen- . . | shaft, re than seven hundred cabin passengers 1 wionae that it was impossible to count the f-4 ne mi steerage. On the first cabin list were wa finally 260 passengers, end 375 safled second cabir. Many who saw the occurrence declare ——— > of the finest pleces of good Cigar Maker Ends Life with Gas, cigar of work for He boarded with Mrs. | lay for alt | Henry BY SIR A. CONAN DOYLE TO-MORROW’S chauffeur of @ then, gave hi startled the rhe 1 h | finally up on the over the nd seized orse’s neck rf anship and work displayed by @ of the T d since its 4| Y.. 4 and xercises this yea 1 doosts of excellent COMPLETE Quarter” Romances to the Heart “Miss Phoebe” Katharine Tynan BEST SORT R READING t Supplement Form World oh 6 iRet? wa |f d ' | i |