The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1911, Page 1

STORM WORKS HAVOC IN CITY COL. ASTOR TO MARRY MISS FORCE IN FRANCE WEATHER—Showers probabie to-n' id. fer EDITION. # Circulation Books OpentoAl.”| , [ " Circulation Books Open to All.” Be i ' PRIOE ONE OENT. Crore Utne’ Sow Tart Weea)s NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1911. 12 PAGES PRIOE ONB _OBNT. were probable to-night or Saturday. ee : or Saturday, EDITION. en ASTOR CFTTLES $7 000,000 SOTHERN WEDS 2. #. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, AF AN AND (CHTNING - ON HIS FIANCEE BEFORE TAKING HER 10 SEA TO-DAY Present Cruise on His Yacht Noma Taken to Restore Miss Force’s Health—Nurse Ac- companies Her—Marriage to Take Place Later in France. Col. John Jacob Astor and his fiancee, Miss Madeleine Force, signed the ante-nuptial agreement, by which he settles $2,000,000 on his girl bride, in the offices of the Astor estate on Twenty-sixth street, just west of Broadway, this afternoon, A few minutes later the pair, Col. Astor in the happy, love-all-the-world mood which had engrossed him all day, started for his yacht, the luxurious Noma, which was lying off the New York Yacht Club pier at the foot of East Twenty-fourth street, coaled and provisioned for a voyage to the Mediterranean or any other spot within four weeks of these shores. Miss Force’s parents followed a few minutes later. The Noma had been lying there with steam up all day awaiting Col. Astor's orders. On authentic information, the famtly Céafferences of the last few days have ‘Pemuited in an arrangement that Col Aater and Miss Force are to be mar- ried in France. Members of the hovse- het@ believed, until Col. Astor made & positive statement to the contrary, that the Noma, when she arrived thie afternoon, wee to head Gtrectly for France. ‘The crew of the Noma had believed he was coming aboard this afternoon to be married in tere outside the isdiction of the State of New York (under the laws of which he te for- JULIA MARLOWE, ose Marriage Abroad Is Announce OD STAR, ABROAD Actor’s Cabled Announcement of Yesterday’s Ceremony Is a Surprise. RUMORS OFTEN DENIED. Gossip Started With Letter to Judge Who Gave Divorce to Miss Harned. A big surprise of unusual Interest was occasioned this afternoon by news from London that Julia Marlowe and B. H. Sothern, the most prominent co- stars in the theatrical world, were married there yesterday. ‘The authority for this information fe no | @ person than Mr. Sothern, who sent @ cablegram to Manager Lee Shubert, giving the fact of the m riage without any further particulars. The announcement was the more sensational in view of many denials doth had made of rumors of their in- tention to marry. Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern went to Europe last month shortly after the hot weather brought their Shakespeartan en- Bagement to a close at the Broadway Theatre on the Fourth of July. On tie night of July 3 they appeared in ‘Mac- beth” and were to have continued in a Shakespearian repertory for two week?, but of the Fourth @ placard in the lobby of the theatre announced the sudden closing of the engagement and gave as SWEEP OVER THE CITY, LEAVE HAVOC IN TRAIL i'Bolt Hits Burned Harlem Building, | Knocking Down Wall and In- juring a Dozen Work- men in Debris. . TONS OF WRECKAGE FALL AS STRUCTURE IS RENT. Wind at 63 Miles an Hour Causes Much Damage During Fierce Black Squall. For the second time this week the Hghts in the skyscrapers, street cars and factories of the city were turned on in mid-afternoon to-day, when black clouds, laden with lightning, swept over the sky from the west, bringing « torrential downpour of rain. It was such a storm as threw New York into a panic last Tuesday afternoon and ranked in sud- denness and severity with the succession of near-tornadoes that have { | | } characterized this as the freakiest summer in many years. Many per- sons were injured and property damage was heavy in New York and vicinity. bidden to marry again). Col. Astor, a} qyi 4: ‘ ‘ .|the reason that Miss Marlowe had been he started for the Astor estate witn | Victim Bitten in Leg During) made i vy the excessive heat. Miss Force and her mother, denied ; a On October 15 of last year Virginia there was to be an immediate Fight Goes to the Harned, the Titian-haired actress, ob- lage. ‘ Astor earlier had said that the Hospital. » was to last four days, but later was to be indefinite. It end, he added, upon the ree-| prank wate, ‘9 complete health of Miss) perce pattie with a five-foot rattlesnake who has been {il and nervous fi 4 the Hollis Woods, near Jamaica e . * twilleht, such as falla in th the strain of criticism of her 2 F : tae Pe ; nda y ministers, news- | to-day, in which the reptile severely bit Re B Pose ‘ The wind attained a veloc ae Stns alan torage Warehouse tn e by ministers, news- 4 Mange ” fe greentay | ‘Ve-story brick and tron bulldin rs and publicists all over the coun- | his left leg and then rattled off in bares. calles (AD. BOWE Ata 08 reais | ican halts ach i Neniearen tl . autaty, Walls. @avk- Haba aT IAB GR black cloud bank spat forks of white ; throwsa : ; fety. says. he club o a nae Rial Ap corroboration of Col. Astor's state-| the snake and believes he wounded It je ie thy { pa : eh id roof remained bout th rment of 4 D - eval ously the storm raged, the mer- | °" nt about the impairment of Miss yadiy, but as yet no trace of the body BR. ean. 4 { ‘i Joury nt tubes wo (dusters s orce's health, it was noticed that when| ce tho wnake has been found, , Po ond guns MA SULLELT 5 ; and workmen were ser 60-Fes i apidly that the motion was almost ap- | ani a nt to make re Col, Astor, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss : . |ra wi ~ bas 9 Walte had finished some work at ent. The fall in temperature amount. | Pa!rs Force set out from the landing age ‘ Hollis and was making a short cut to oO fer home wat i Grand atcaae gre’ RONEO zzz Jamaica, He selected a path that ts ‘2 Housewree ra, brick er for the yacht after the squall at four AA 50. eptoner fo 018 I ienten wane tive tte o'clock, they put about and came BOLT WRECKS BUILDING, IN-|Penters were ouiy tn the a AAT AROSE SER BOY infrequently used and had gotten about Fes WAND Weed trace pote of 88d OVER Hater tarepiton someting: half way through the woods, he says, eben tine when he heard a pecullar rattling sound ¥¢ pee BACK OF A CUD | gan At, first he thought it @ | Were engaged in tra nurse At aarcr hear as Howp. | 7k then he remembered that|t#ined a divorce from Mr. Sothern in| pearian reper unnoticed i | 5 n . rtory, with $1.50 as tm rattlesnakes Were supposed to inhabit | Reno. highest price for seats. ING HIS HAPPY GRIN, only the eastern end of the island anaé|GOSSIP STARTED WHEN MIS8| In the papers of the divorce | Col. Astor, who had driven his own| paid little attention to the nolse. Mr. Sothern stated that he left si m waa bred Ina high, humt{d lightning struck the northerly perature, The wind, which had been the Guardian Storage blowing stiffly from the south, switched One Hundred and Twenty-fifth stroat, to the west shortly before 4 ofelock, DetWeen St. Nicholas and Elahth ave- Clouds banking up over New Jersey DU% Which was ruined by fre about wars aicdenie awe? (a dat three months ago. The building was | full of housew ers and and a dozen or more were wall of Warehouse in an electrician, had a ed only a 1 car. » when 48 the Hudson hose workmen who xposed f ried for shelter to escap Most gating the wir was out of the | bb H MY DOE, ” yada aainsc guys bay ground the wind dies down,” saia| TONS OF WRECKAGE SHOWER wh “[ shall not attempt’ to tty | UPON WORKERS. bt he Force | N Jenly he felt something bu: ht HARNED GOT DECREE. Harned in 1906, to- There is no use in taking | A bolt of lghtning, reaching out ef le ere cook ccc lib aon cel ta nme Ade just | 2mMediately after the decree was! stisy Harned acted on tour through phances, It is my Intention to Ket to | is low hanging clouds like a Jagged ABA RS AMOY ARS SERINE COR IRL LEE OH ee eae uae Bile (ums awarded reports were circulated that] our last season, but she {8 spending Bar ha Aten coeeatae a tae | jar. Su @ “Neduorabaned: #88 SSRs owt with Mrs, Force and his flancee at|ae th ake entwine self about his! Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern would the summer in the vicinity of New am laid up here for a ' ne Lt think 1} feet high and thirty feet wide at the about 2 o'clock. He was wearing the|arm. He managed to partly shake it!immediately be married. This was Las " aOrnity. 08: Ne can make up Jost hours in more . ‘ork. game happy grin with which he had|off and then it wound itself about the vorable weath: part of the north B | top out of the upp: Moke. ts . brought to the attention of Judge Pike — ‘The wind was directly from the no rh | i Wall, Bricks and mortar by the ton entered, saying "Not yet” to all ques-|arm again. This time Waite hurled it : . Afkbned this Hach : : tions about the date of the wedding. |to the ground, and as he was tn the act peeeltapd Lanka d os divorce pro- | 3Q INJURED IN SMASH BEFORE HE FLIES : —ASKSI POLICEMAN Peer wultsiere tena nate eer Miss Force and her mother did not| of grabbing a stick to beat It off the| 79 veceived an unsigned communica: OF NEW YORK FLYER | been foolhardy ¢ out port of the rear. Wall vaine weakiiie’ share his good nature. The little nose| snake turned on him again and guvelagr in which it wee nerves cee ine over the lake in th Ei ie (fie 4 og the former was tilted at a con-|him a severe bite in the left leg, just! \eriowe and Sothern hed returned | COLETMRUS. O. Aum. 1.—Thirt . venaiy Gane Wake os témptuous angle when the reporters|above the ankle. Waite, unmindful of] tom thelr usual summer trip abr ; uM ah . ANG: A hirty td approached the group, and her mother’s| the sting, made for the snake with the P abroad, | sons were injure: ne ' and the writer add sualy, today. w ; more mature features had the same [at ek, and says he struck tt a couple of [1g jhe it ee Jae a | ously, t nt when Big Four tre general slant. , but {t finally got away from him ple sources that, | 46, one of the fastest trains In the the third floor up were blown over by the gale, eh eee | Thirly-Five Mile Wind Of NOW PLAN TO ADJOURN |Fearing Pet Is Going Mad She a SPE eb Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, shout. GONGAESS NEXT MONDAY. Halts Car to End Danger ing that the building was caving in and r as soon as Sothern and Virginia Harned | vice, was ditched the Oho § Lake ie Keeps Hi many of thelr mates had been killed, “He to bh e, Ci fe in the thick grass and brush of th ' ake E eeps m ar “Don't know,” was the reply.| Waite eyed to Jamatoa, but nis A" Snnouncement will be forthcoming | Columbus The injured in Clevelanc u the extra seasion of Con-| close by. One turned tn a fire alarm, i ys Jamaica, nis a é \ 4 and, maaiaeantins th th he other an D1 ce call. “Couldn't say really, you know. Miss swollen to such that Sothern will take Miss Marlowe to | are: s mtirely with rt the her an ambulance ll, Soon there . . chu Mra. C. FE. Rough —_—.- Representatives, Chatrman| ay, a ae were fire compantes on the scene and cK t been ell. Doct 8 it to the Jamaica Hospita re To Pol Schlett of the East wepee Hees RAR wells acer Saye lok treetae kt n “The understanding is mutual, so far] Miss Minnie Shary ! ison # . of the Ways and Means valid ; A three ambulances, she neods a change. We'll stay out|sSmithwick treated him and put him to| z= pectal to The Frening Wo: tk Fifty-first street station, standing on|‘™ until she's better. That's all, Until| bed as I can gather, for when Mr. Sothern| Mrs. Callie Wuest tl LAND, O., Aug. 18 ‘ f a ee iret reer nite vente ana |,The firemen were the same who hed ag better! |sold his home on Sixty-n street,| Albert Drodall, Cincinna awe ser AME 2h h 7b at Losiagven arian aint} oust the blaze in thot a a ot Miss Harned signed papers accepting a J 8. Noe, Columbus, 7 in halter ah fty-second street, to-da joa months ago. Their © hinge Tine aantan trip. Just to AMERICAN LEAGUE. ertain share for her Interest Stanley Dickerson, Columbus, fire. | At¥00d here inh Feet maa tra A a ae | touring car in which Were @ithem the danger linked i i} J » - wigee enn roug c from St. Louls to Ne “4 ew nd two p e! * if { away from everything and get a HOUSE WAS SOLD BY SOTHERN. | ™ ugh’ i ula to Now) sible by Moi lay. | Yeur and two passengers, @ man) swaying walls, and they . Don't know yet where we shall AT CLEVELAND. >| ‘ th ‘ No, 46 New ¥ and | ¥Ork. At noon there was a thirty-five! 4 aside that the me | a fashionably dressed woman about the work of rescue. go. Couldn't say, honestly.” © | HIGHLANDERS— ie Pike snoned Re gommunteation | New England special, whieh lett Cin wind blowing off Lake Erle and|the Senate amendment t tion] ‘The woman got out cautiously, lea@- | Was run against the front of the build- 4 Mg Fhe : o Miss Harned after sig de {at 8.30 A or New Yor | acide "i ; | thus expediting the final ges-| ; ope (ft a tha ahaa dans: ‘All this time Col, Astor was smiling 000 = ‘Icnas. but aha denied tt Serta | nat a 0 \ iu: aN fork att Atwood decided to pow! until to- | bill | pediting the ff Be | aw w fox terrier on a leash at arm's | 106 0 th third Aes . but as two fire Force, but failing to get her to rectp. sal eatate! galas ragoran of Gael’ shawed next scheduled stop. | she waid, 1 a Pr Y remove ie Har Panay 2 La peal Ontate Wales teogrdl Of TF GOWER) The wrecked. train is wn ue t 3h rf \HILLTOPS PURCHASE TWO | og le going mad. I must ask you! While the firemen were getting rea@y rocate is amiability. eerpie sney:|the house wan'sold by. Sothern, ; ect ee Shortly noon the wind be; | Batte er and Sweeney; | the a York and New Engla ai and | ROCHESTER PLAYERS hoot him. to find a way into the building, men “FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, MAN,|iKyapf ant Fische Mins Marlowe and Mr. Sothern haveljory cincinnati at 8.20" fo Vint tg dle down, At vio had ar-| JS, Jt. shoot him." 4 . she held the still further away, |Dleeding from cuts or nursing bad START THE CAR!" been playing together since 194 when | yeing due in Columbus at DA, M ranged to put his atraiip under cover ¥ P 7 s si 4 eyed < " bruises staggered out. They ART wars neve seated} BOTH LOCAL GAMES OFF. became co-mtara under the man-| It was made up of a mail car, vage|changed le mind and got ready the New York American League Clup| The dog was wild-eyed and alavering, | brul Kaered out. ‘They said that er Wee ee She Barky Were Aeate agement of Charles Frohman. This ar-| gage, three day coaches, a diner and|gtart, He sald he was de has further fortified Itself with players] sontect got out his revolver as quickly |#° far as they knew, no one was dead, in Col, Astor's machine, The chauffeur —— a : vo Pullmane, As the train ro 1 the | oer te desirous of} tor the coming season by the purchaselay he could and sent @ bullet through|but several had been caught under went around to the hood to crank it} A heay deluge a few minutes be-|rangement was continued until 19 at Rha cacana View aver roa, |™Making Fre to-night and would Of if! of Second Baseman mons and Out- |, mn, falling debris. Up. It wouldn't crank, Wrath was| fore Ume for play caused the post-|when Sothern and Marlowe put. them. Rx JAY SUE. ocebe iia gava® ih’ © hance 2|heider Osborne of _he Hoel un Salat ait heel a oe fe: ” ponement of both the Glant-Cincinnat!| selves under the Shubert management | o contempt on the features of | Ponement « he 5 freee ya and the Brooklyn-Pittsburg game this}and appeared in “The Sunken Hal | nea We, SE “are you going to be married?" asked | {yyTnOOk Jeanne d’Are" and ‘John the Bap |the car was derail ; in addition to a series of Shakespe: avr Bumping over the Y'reporter bluntly sna 4 ; Bao, iy dear ¢ gasped Mrs.|yrurt at ys, In April, 1907, they played anjforty miles an th ten or twelve of the A atoliok wa tavereaia” man, crying @ Httle as she Jooked|injured hurried to their homes, Four ther conditions were idea! in the} Last Two Days ‘of Big Sale [it ine timp little body, “She was three |men who were among the first to get 1 ours, and Atwou! was! $12 BLUE SERGE SUITS, $4.95 | yours old and I nave had her since she out of the butiding were treated by ly engaged In making preparations | TH "UB" Clothing Cor was a tWo-Weeks-old puppy, But @hefambulance surgeons, ks of th switch p oka the front tt two games at the Polo The first one will . a | c ied th ‘ sive the people of Cleveland ay ex-| N&y: Cor is better dead than mad, poor thin, Three of the men—Harry Strauss of Force, “This rrible, ‘Tell - — engagement of six weeks In London. | pulled t pare tne Rene 6 ane :y i took & newspaper from the ton-| No, Law street, Thomas Leone our man to start at once | GRAND CIRCUIT TROTS OFF, [During | seasons following the i a Wibition when the sky clouded: up and Me th W 1 “gf of No. 20) Third aver 1 rani Col Astor made deprecatory motions! BUFFALO N, Y., Aug. IS—The Grand| starred se but tn autumn | into @ diteh: the first exes began to puff off blues, blacks, ° oe car Wrapped the dog’s| o! > 208 avenue an oy 1 Hi; fast colors; satth fined: 1 $12 In any other store! the lake, Within an hour there was a| as jnid It in the gutter, | Atassi of No, &@ Eaat One Hundred Circuit races scheduled for to-day have|of 1909 they once more became co-stars, witb both arms in a general norche World igiiding ith 4 ¢ dy “ee? nore in force, whe returned to the car and drove} and Twelfth stret—were sent to Har- — con postponed on account of rain. fo-! since then they have enjoyed gr 9) stead ne t a special tea tae day und Saturd (Continued on Second Page.) day's card will be raced to-morrow, popularity in an exclusively Shakes- iy noon the wind had grown to half a gale, ale 94.05. ‘Open’ Saturday aight ull 10, jem Hospital The doctors wanted ?