The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1911, Page 3

| 20 EXPLOSIONS IN SEWER START WIDE-SPREAD PANIC | Big Cover Plates Hurled in Ait as the Flames Gush Sixty Feet High. H .CAR WINDOWS BROKEN. Short Circuit in Electric Con- duit Causes Explosion of Gas in East 42d Street. Es THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1911. Ante-Nuptial Contract to Be Good |[IIFS REIFTED Husband Is the Kansas City Idea| BY MRS. LEEDS 10 Sagacious Bride-to-Be In- sists On and Gets an Tron-Clad Agreement to Be Good and Let Her Have Her Own Way. Also Give Her All His Earn- ings, Let Her Be Free to Choose Her Own Com- pany and Never Show Jealousy. By Ethel Lloyd Patterson. This is the Gay of weird marriages; weirder reasons ow A succession of twenty sewer expto- {sions at 7.30 o'clock A. M. to-day, thun- | dering lke Sandy Hook guns giving a residential salute, rolled across Forty: | “second street from the East River to Third avenue and up to Forty-second Career. | » The big cover plates, which weigh 20 M pounds each, ttew into the air and safled down to ground again with a mighty | “succession of crashes. Nobody was hit oyb¥ them. After each cover a burst of “flame gushed up fifty to sixty feet and burning cloud of gas floated out over athe housetops. Motormen and conduc- gtore abandoned their street cars and tan for th» sidewalks and open door- ways, yelling over their shoulders for their passengers to follow them—which Advice the passenger: Thousands of Poured out of the tenements, the New Amaterdam Gas works, the Edison stor- Sge plants and other establishments long the line of the bursting sewer. For a time the explosions were at- iributed to a general attack of the Black Hand on the neighborhood on a greater foale than had ever before been at- tempted. MAN-HOLE COVER RISES JUST IN FRONT UF CAR, The police could not find any one who Was injured seriously. Andrew Collins, = Starter of the crosstown line at the East River, was bruised by being thrown violently’ on his back by the shock. John Jordan, motorman of a car passing First avenue, had his eyebrows singed. A manhole cover rose into the air a few feet in front of his car, sailed up and over the roof and came down between the tracks behind him. When he Stopped the car it was directly over the following gas burst. All the paint was burned from the front and one side of the car, Two windows of a car of which John McNulty was motorman were blown out by the shock of an explosion in front uf No, 213 East Forty-second street, At the Third avenue crossing John Murray Was thrown to the ground into a mud puddle; his feelings were badly dam- sc S804. A number of other persons on the . Mdewalks were knocked over, but the bolice could not get their names. wy: The biggest explosion was that which sgoroke the windows of MeNulty's car. apne big cover whirled sixty feet in the @"ulr. The shock was plainly felt in the East Fifty-first street station and a vad under L it. Tooley was hurried but to find the troubl The first stop of the police was at St Agnes's Church, in Forty-third war Third avenue, where early had been interrupted by explosions an4 the worshippers had run pell-mell Into the street POLICE CALM THE GREATLY EXCITED HOUSEHOLDERS. From that time on the principal work Persons 1 of the police was the calming down of excited householders and the convince ing them that a Black Hand massacre was not threatening them There was an unusual tide In the Rast River last night, and much gas was forced back into the main line of the fewer; to this was added the fumes hundreds of gallons of waste gasoline discharged into the sewers from big garages of the nelghborhood, A sho ttreult in an electrte conduit which had an opening into the sewer is believed to have started che fusilade, Asa result of scattering the heavy Manhole covers along the street car tracks traffic on both the day Thi nue and Fo tled up for fit the tracks were clear t ~ from going thr 1 the Forty-second street surface car by the choking fumes of burnt gasoline and sewer gus. WOMAN SAVES HUSBAND THREATENED WITH PISTOL. Mrs. Kingston Spoils Aim of Man With Weapon and Screams Bring Help. On complain: of Charles Kingston, a ‘Merk of > I One Hundred and *Twenty-seventh street, a man who said de was James A. Knox, forty years old H Ker, liv Ka One Hundred ‘and Twe PR rat arrested last night oolwenty-sev st Hundred a t and Pa ana charge of felo assault , With Kingston w cha preferred was his Gusste, wh fold the police the peeat en, 1 tempted to, shoot her husband and # fenocked the revolver in the alr an Qaved him, Kingston corroborated the ed in the ha ox was arres partment n found a fully loaded, on him. Knox denie having pointed the weapon at Kings ton, i} Kingston said be was walking Park avenue about midnicht with hin| wife when accosted by Knox, wh cused him of circulating stories ¢ cerning him, Kinesion sal fented, Then and there Knox tried shoot him. ‘The woman's ecreani brought the polic — Troop Street Cacn, SPARTANBURG, 5 , Sept, %,- Three companies of State militia at Greenville, Spartanburg and Clifton are under arms here by orders of Go Blease, In readiness wo assist to-day In the ‘operation of the city's street car system, which has been tied up for s veral days by @ strike of motormen and 1, Ho attempt was made .o/ erate cars yesterday, | — for divorce and Weirdest matri- monial com tract An artist publicly canes @ woman companion and the artist's wife de- clares he was not “quite himself w he did it." She Intends to cling to him and love him just the same, Probably she feels hat after all, in the strictest sense of he word, he did not raise his hand to 4 woman, and that he {s therefore still a geMtieman at heart. So much for forgiveness. Another wife, trailing her infellcities through the columns of the newspa- pers, declares, she found It necessary to lone with the man ehe loved hee mo Tey cause her husband “‘fished all day ‘The old-fashioned wife would have been only too glad of any simple Amusement for her spouse which kept him from angling in the st of metropolitan life with a little midnight supper as balt. How s0 much for the unforgivable, But im Kansas City tt appears they do not do things that w If one did not fear the accusation of nature fake ing one might say the Kansas City wife feathers her nest before she hops into it, Or, Is it possible Mrs. 8. A. Dickson is a shining example of Western foresight? Ante-nuptial finan- cial arrangements are as old as the ‘dot system. But a contract which provides for the post-matrimonial be- havior of a husband {s as modern as an electric tee box in the house, Hut such 4 contract ts exactly what Mrs. 8. A, Dickson insisted upon before. going (through the charming formality of promising “to love, honor and obey" Mr. Dickson. STRANGE ANTE-NUPTIAL CON. TRACT OF THE DICKSONS, Rejects Prince to Rear Son in America {yacht a glancing blow just at the point where the superstructure of the bridge I Promise never to use my hus-/ projects. The yacht was turned about military brushes for any PUr-/and put into the mouth of the harbor, soever, @ launch rushed ashore to bring never to eat corn on the launch rushed @ 0 ad Thig is the statement, sworn to b fore a notary, that the fond Wei husband signed: “To whom it may concern: f, S. A. Dickson, do hereby agree to all and everything herein men tioned, to allow my wif T. A. Dickson, to do just as she feels inclined to do, and to feel Just as free to come and go and to visit and to go with whom she feels inclined, without giving or showing any Jeniousy to her for such acts on her part, nor watoh or condemn her for so doing. will not interfere with her in auy way whatever, I wish her to feel Just as free to come and go as the day she was born. “E will ke good and kind to her and give all my earnings to ier. She is to keep them as sho ¢ fit aud best. If aould put any of it in the bank it will be so Placed as to require the aigna- tures cf both of us to draw it out, If I fail to live up to thi agreement I will allow her to have & legal Keraration if she no di I further agree to make hor the legal heir to all my life insur- ance or whatever may accumulate in the way of property through our associations.” Yet, after this, {t seems to the casual ovserver that Mrs, Dickson for- got a few things. To be sure, one ams to admit that she had an eye for fundamentals, but is it not the ttle things which cou »st? Would she not stand @ be chance of happl ness had husband signed a con- tract which would read something after this fashion?: SOME VITAL POINTS THAT SHE OVERLOOKED, promise always to fasten my t grumbling, with- nd without putting back of her cola: r what she did my wife, I realise 7 business only etey marry somebody else. I shall n prov forke: !me never to ing with ee my wife wat she wanes is a mea- her, no m. be, at iny huico m of ' | vagant, becau cab when “Pinaliy, I she takes w omise to allow my wife the choice of States in geting | ‘ her diverce,” | BUT WI\Y HAVE THE CONTRACT D ONLY ONE? Bu all, such t of rut mi man at nta and ern woman @ Nd sires to “play f 6, 0 wend wuggon @ wot hg Mr. Dickson's favor to be signed by Mra, cob where he can see me do it. tor to the injured skipper. “I promise to bs reasonably on time| Mr. Baker's women guests were great- for all theatre appointments with him ly alar i by the crash and were in that !q to say not leas than five min-| such a@ nervous state that Mr. Baker utes late nor more than half an hour. chartered a special train to bring them I shall let my husband smoke in|to ‘New York. He remained at New any part of the house in which he/ rondon, sending word to the First Na- Lari Cre ida) oe tional Bank that he could not reach his homer to ake mover to say "TAM BIE! o¢tice until to-morrow. He stated in % per 4 [ his message that the injury to the ‘I promise never to cold cream Mite had been more alarming than my face in my husband's presence, “E agree not to wear shoos that run- MR. BAKER'S GUESTS ANXIOUS TO REACH CiTy. ‘The fog that shut In New London har- bor at the time of the accident was the els. mni: aver I shall never wear anything to breakfast that is not| thickest this summer. Mr. Baker woula potlessly c and provided with ali | not have ventured out in it had pot his nd its tapes t | guests been anxious to reach this city to-day. Miss Kane, who 1s to marry Mr. Baker next month, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Kane of Tuxedo Park. A 2 Eta AGONIZED MOTHER SEES ORUGS EASE CHILD'S END, CHICAGO, seve ex to two s| courts. w. # fade And th 1 echo ush and the love airshaft of ev to soft words and 6 F BAKERS VIKING DAMAGED BY ASIN Fg Fiancee on Board When Yacht ept. 25, — Earl Barnes, suffering from hydrophobla, was Into de. yesterday by opiates when convu indicated that his affliction had reached a crisis, Dr. Schaffer and his assistants tn the County Hospital made every effort to save the little fellow's life, The child was strapped to a bed and beside him, Witnessing the death struggle, was his @ poor widow. ates were administered from the The drugs would halt the con- ions for a time. With the latent influence of the drug in his system and with all symptoms of acute rabies, ease the child ed at no The weeping ‘ AacVaeeal: cps collapsed under stress of wit- Is Hit by Unknown Vessel [reine inane throes of her only boy. and Captain Injured. —___. FAMILY OF SIX ILL AFTER DRINKING COFFEE, Word was received to-day at the of- fices of the First National Bank, of which’ GasraaW uaker in, iw ¥inesDr An Investigotion 1s being made to-day Ment, that a inant aten: acht | to determine the of sudden Mnegs Viking narrowly r 1 disas early | that ertook ¢t amily of Joseph in the day when in collision with an un-| Gold) a painter living at No, 5l known vessel near the entrance to New| East One Hundred and Forty-etghth London harbor, \s soon after they returned yester Viking, in which Mr. Bi 88! day from a holiday out of the city and Edith Brevoort K to wh ‘| drank coffee made in a pot that had now be married Oct + Mra. Jame | ed in some thm chaperone, and sever es — Goldbe 1 his wife, their b cruising the gre par th and Clara, twenty summer, was headed out of the harbor| - ively, in a thick fox Ww a large hull sud 20 denly slid out of the mist and cr nAnon st the yacht’s side Hoapita t an h the Ot. Masicell of the Viking, |, 1 and son may was on the b time, H ie, t hors are dange the nown v nie tha tp f the doctors that the it UNKNOWN Vessel AWAY INTO FOG AGAIN Viking’ The unkrpwn vessel had struck the REAR SON HERE Wants to Make Heir to $25,- 000,000 Fortune a Good American Citizen. PRINCE MURAT SUITOR. Lord Falconer and Many Oth-| ers Courted Rich Widow, | but in Vain. Declining offers of marriage from Prince Murat and others of high social rank abroad, Mrs, Willlam B. Leeds, young widow of the “Tin Plate King, has decided to abandon a successtui social career in Kurope to return and bring up her eight-year-old son, William Bateman Leeds, as a good American citizen. The boy inherits an estate of $25,000,000 from hie fatier, who ed in Paris in 19. “A unton without love Is not my {dea of a marriage," said Mrs, Leeds of her titled sultors, The Newport smart set hope that in the end her cholce will fall on James De Wolf Cutting, one of the most popular bachelors and cotillion leaders of the Four Hundred, whose regard for her has never been ques- tioned. Mr: Helleu, sessed ninety-elght of the points that make for phy: tlon During the past season Mrs. Leeds leased the house of the Hon. George Keppel, No. 16 Grosvenor street, Lon- don, and there, guided by Lady Paget, daughter of the late Paran Stevens of New York, and Lady Sarah Wilson, an aunt of the Duke of Marlborough, she entertained all the notables in English social life and was entertained in re- turn, She was one of «nly twelve American women in the royal enclosure Ascot week, Within a short time of her arrival in the English capital she was the guest of the Duchess of Mari- borough, the Earl of Winterton, the Farl of Kintore, Lady Lister-Kaye and of Ambassador and Mrs, Reld. In the end all of the exclusive London set wel- comed her, ALL HER TITLED sUITORS WERE DISMISSED. Among those who danced attendance on the charming widow were Princ: Murat, the Prince de Faucigny-Lu- cinge, Lord Falconer, hetr to the Ear! of Kintore;, Lord Alexander Taynne, uncle of the Marquis of Bath, and Sir Abe Bailey, the South African million- aire. Une by one Mrs, Leeds, with every as- surance of her high regard, disinissed them, saying she preferred to remain single because of her sinall son, untli only Price Murat remained, Ils is thirty-nine years old, 4 grandson of that’ Lucien Murat, | third Prince of Naples and Ponte Corvo, who married @ Miss Fraser of Baltimore, the Princ has American blood in his veins, He proved for *Irs, Leeds far from easy to discourage. A general of cavalry in tue Kusso-Japanese war, who led the Cossacks times without number ains, intrenched Japanese, 1s not easily pu off, Prince Murat firat met Mrs. Leeds on Anthony J. Drexel’s yacht, the Marghe- rita, during Cowes week at a reception given to King Edward, From that um he was never far from her side. The following year he followed her from London to Paris and through Switzer land, and though Mrs. Leeds k ng "No" he would not take “* an arawer. bs PRINCE WILLING TO WAIVE A CASH SETTLEMENT, In the London season Just past, say friends of Mrs, Leeds, the Prince made his final proposal. He !s comparatively wealthy and he ured her he loved her for herself alone; he wanted no here Leeds is the young matron whom. fled pos- e hundred al perfec- money settlement; he was willing to live in America six months out of th year for the sake of Mrs, Léeds's son Mrs. Leeds consulted Lady P: Lady Sarah Wilson. Then she turne to her brother-{n-law, Warner M. Leeds, a former Vice-President of the Amert- can Sheet Steel and Tin Plate pany, who at that time was a visit. To him was deley of assuring Prince Murat, as tactful fs possible, that there was no hope for him, Com- aoaaiiainmemane ROBBED OF $1,000 IN RINGS. “ Britten Accuses Youth She Employed to Wash Window Mise Laura M. Britten of No, 1 st Thirty-third street, who 1 business offfto at No, 137 } sixth complained yesterday that she had beer $1,000 worh of low whom she and Saturd dows, becau wanted to earn Jewish » She had placed on a tat work a silver mesh bag hres diamond rings and a ing, a family heirloom, 1 afternoon the nuked for rings by a your el ad employed on Friday to wash her ofico w had 1 her Hetle mone to scrape one and } one, Soon rings, CEYLON TEA MODEL MAID WHO WAS ARRESTED WITH LOOT OF ROBBERY. JOSEPHS WOMAN JAILED FOR TURNING REVOLVER OVER TO POLICE. "Twas Her Husband's; She Feared He'a Use It and Carried It Along Street, If the word “reasonable” isn't, read Into the Sulliv nN Weapon law pretty soon the petty courts will have a curtous jam f enses on thelr calendars. Rose Bon- Jainin, a nexress, of No, 1833 Third ave- hue, came to the Kast One Huudred And Twenty-sixth street station to-day with a little revolver neatly tied in brown p. She said her husband had b quar- reling with her and she thought it best to turn the familly jewels over to the pol Vor trying to get rid of the revolver, the woman was thrown Into a cell\as a violator of t ivan law, ‘The interesting question t# presented in her case she has vi to her hush and she carried tt along the streets to the station, —_—— INSURANCE DONE IN 1910, ALBANY, { opt. ~ According tb thé répdrt of State Superintendent of Insurance Hotchkiss for 1910, the ftty- four casualty, fidelity, surety and credit companies in the State did an tne of business during the year but much less profit. The ten real estate title and mort- axe guarantee companies showed an increase of more than $1,000,00 in their surplus of assets and abilities, but and disbursed more than @ less than in 1909, MODEL MAID HELD | WITH ESCORT FOR $1,500 ROBBERY | ETE aT EM Couple Arrested at Dance Afe | | ter’ Girl Disappeared From Mrs. Stanley’s Home. | ,;LOOT IS RECOVERED. | jHad Fled Over Roofs, Police | | Say, After Three Days | in Household, | | Never again will Mra. Alexandor 8. of No. 24 Cathedral Pa “way | believe that she has found a model ser- | vant girl. Her faith tn human nature | has been shaken by Ellen Joseph, twen |ty-two years old, sweet and buxom. |For three days the girl was Mra. Stan- jley's treasure, Then she disappeared, over the r¢ the police say, with two | | sult cases and $1,500 worth of the Stan- ley household goods. Now she is un- der arrest and #0 1s @ man companion, Petor Sehwarte. Both were arrested dancing together at Detectives Quinn and Fay sat in the | balcony with Mr, Stanley and watched the crowd until Mr. Stanley recognized the missing treasure. The girl is locked up at the West Forty-seventh street Station and the man at tho West One Hundredth street station. Both are charged with grand larceny, police belleve We girl w tool. Quantities of goods have been re- covered from the homes of the two, the Stanleys having Wentified practically all their missing property, except some allver, ‘The girl went to the Stanleys to work Stanley last night when | Terrace Garden. | only the on Sept. 1% in response to an advertise- ment. She gave her name as Anna Mein, She well dressed, neat and attentive, and inside of three days Mra, Stanley was telling all her friends what @ Jewel of a girl Anna was. The fol- lowing’ Thursday Mrs, Stanley So did tho new girl, later, ley carried her tapestry bag, but Anna, or Ellen, having no tap ry bag, ried, according to the police, two sult caves full of stuff that wasn’t hers, At any rate, when Mrs, Stanley returne & lot of her table linen was gone, ti gether with lingerlo, a family quilt that Mr. Stanley values at $1,00), a lot of silverware and even Mr. Stanley's best it of clothes, When arrested tha girl dented know- ing, Schwa: she Brat said sho lived at No, 22u East One Hundred and T ty-first strect, with a Mrs, Lowenger, but when the detectiv: went to the house they learned that she had not lived there for some time, but was ‘aying at the home of a sister, Mrs. Bundy, at No. 18 West One Hundred and Seventeenth street. 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