The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1911, Page 5

AFTER NTA "I SIHOL FRAT Bplscopal Academy Student’s Head Soused in Alcohol and Match Applied. BANDAGE SAVES EYES, U. of P. Sophomore Conduct- .ed Affair— All Supposed Liquid Was Witch Hazel. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23—Victim of @m accident hat occurred while he was Undergoing an initiation into @ frater- _Rity connected with the Eplecopal Acad- @my of whioh he ie a student, Henry Beeset jr, of wealthy parents, was a0 frighttully burmd about the head, face, Reok and shoulders that his physicians fear that he will die. Basset, who is a atripling in his "teens, was a member of the junior clase @t the fashionable educational institute. Fer a long time he had begged his mother’s consent to his becoming « Member of the Alpha Phi Epsilon “frat” @€ the echool. For some time she with- ‘el it, thinking her eon too young to $elm &@ wecret organization, but finally the consent was forthcoming, and on Friday of last week the youth duly ap- Peared at the fraternity rooms, No, 217 South Broad atreet, to undergo his in- itlatton. BLINDFOLDED AND HEAD SOUSED WITH ALCOHOL. MB the course of the ceremon! Moy was attired in a harlequin costum Wis eyes securely bound with a bandage and he was led into a darkened room. T. Judson Myers, a graduate of the Wplecopal Acaderly and now a sopho- more at the University of Pennsylvania, and a crowd of other boys were present. Basset was told to bow his head. He 414 80, and a cold liquid was freely ap- Med to his hair, face, neck and shoul- “We are about to put you to a severe ” said one of the boys solemnly. “It fe emo in which you must qualify in to become a member. You have ‘washed in alcohol and @ match new be applied.” ‘The boye now declare that they fully contents they had poured on young Basset con- tained witch hazel. But in reality it contained aloohol. It is denied that any one of them detected the differ. ence in the odor between witch hazel and alcohol. And ¢! boys further deny that th had any notion of directly applying a match. MATCH BROKE AND FLAMES EN- ELOPED BOY. ‘Young Bas: standing in the dart- replied laughingly to the solemn vole “AM right. Go ahead; touch it of A boy struck a wooden matoh. It split, the lads apy, and the lighted and fell directly on young Basset's head. Im an instant a flame shot up. The boy stood completely enveloped in fire. Young Myers tore 4 curtain from the window and wrapped the Jad in it and beat out the flames. The bandage on the youngeter’s eyes prevented his be- ing blinded. But the pain of the burns was #0 shocking that little Basset @oreamed in agony. Frightened lads ran out of the place seeking a physl- clan. Baeset was carried to a neigh- boring barber shop and oll lotions ap- piled until an ambulance came that Dore him to his hom a result of the accident it was red that the head master of the academy had issued an order pi torily abolishing all fraternitle: Dr. William H. Knapp, who holds that Office, said to-day that the matter was in way officially before him. “The parents of the students must decide on the advisability of their boys belonging to these secret societies,” he declared, IT WUZN’ ALL, Christmas has come, it got A bringin’ me memories out of the past, And a pair of galluses, a necktie sad A gray nightehirt, and a paper pad; Useful presents, but nothin’ gay— Veoful presents! Dum ‘em! I I wanted some jewl'ry for the brether- en to see, Bet it wusn't to be, tt wusn't to be. Ministers preach ‘tis a blessed day And go it is in a meetin’ house way, But to me it bas been a day of gloom, Samantha, I eee, didn’t like the broom ‘Amd mopastick and pair of cowhide whues, It took me'the heft of @ hour to chuse It made me deprested, and mournfully I mused on the things that wuzn't to be. Yes, I guess old fate made a slip of her pen When fixin’ the lot of the children men, It wus bad for the world and for me, I ween ‘That I wusn't born a king or a queen; My bald heed shines out bare and cold— Or wears @ hat, or a crown of gold ‘Would ect it off fur agreabler to me, But ét wusn't to be, it wusn't to be, in darkness and Fate sete a writin’ night 'Tain't spozeable To the poor she senda ten children or more, Crowdin' in through famine wolves found the door; ‘While for one kid the rich may vainly oigh— But she flirts her skirts and passes "em bie ‘Why hain’t villians shot while the U \ smaecs en ba, 1-srumnit 00 hes iJ) [Fw FORDEVELOPMENT OF HOME SUBURB Rapid Expansion of Metropolis Has Absorbed Record Break- ing Sum of Money. $505,000,000 IN SALES, Builders Spent $126,000,000; Railroads, $50,000,000— Loan Total, $277,000,000. Suburban development in the metro- Politan dustrict during the past year has involved close to a billion dollars, Private builders have spent nearly $126,000,000, Lemiers on mortgages have invested over $277,000,000, Buy- ere have taken realty valued above 9606,000,000, Raliroade have spent « round $60,000,000, and over $40,000,000 has been consumed dy general public improvements. Outlays have been distributed gen- erously in all directions, The largest part, howe: has been “used for the benefit of the further outlying sones of small dwellings rather than for orowd- od contres nearer the old city business districts, Both private investors and corpora- tion promoters have poured millions into projects for extending home areas, Nearly half of the outlay has gone into operations based upon future Conditions rather than upon those of the present or past, although builders of both business and residential struc- tures have not taken many speculative chances because there has been urgent demand for even more new bulldings than they have produced. The process of discounting the future has been con- fined mainly to the transformation of old sites for higher utilities and the Gevelopment of lands for popula: tion that has been awaiting opportunt+ ties to overflow from congested cen- tres, $321,000,000 NEW MONEY HAS GONE INTO BROOKLYN. Brooklyn has taken close to $190,000,000 of the capital that hes gone into real est Purchases during the year and $96,000,000 on mortgage loans, Builders have put $36,000,000 into new structures and alterations. Operators in that borough estimate that more than this total $931,000,000 has ‘deen added to the real value of Brook- lyn property, although market prices in all sections do not reflect a uniform enhancement over the figures of @ year go, Localities to be opened by new jubway lines and their connections, hows ever, showed marked advancos. Rallroads in Brooklyn have spent $7, 609,000 to improve their facilities daring he year, Fully as much more has gone into general public works. High tax assessments have taken from owners some of the usual yearly enhancement in value, thus reducing thelr Ohristm: gifte from the unearned increment; but overflowing population from Manhattan has created new demands for Brooklyn Properties, and there is no doubt among careful students of the situation that actual values in all parts of Brooklyn are at lecat & per vent. higher, on the average, than they were last Christmas, BRONX INVESTMENTS OF YEAR TOOK $196,000,000. Tho Bronx ranks next to Brooklyn in the year’s absorption of realty capital. Tt has taken nearly $196,000,000, Buyers of Bronx realty have paid Close to $108,000,000, Lenders on mort- age have placed $7,000,000 there. Bulld- ers have put $24,600,000 into new struc- have taken $6,600,000, The main aspoct of Bronx develop- T TO BE A poet comes with his dreamy way Tught into a nest of common clay, While in pious home @ soul gits In ‘The size of the hole in the head of a pin; So it hatn't #0 strange some feller and I Should git mixed up on our way through the sky; If I had to been born why not been he It wugn't to be, it wusn't to be. Fate sort o' yanked me and throwed me down On @ Yankee hillside bare and brown, And gin me a chance to die or live Acconiin’ t bor I had to give; I couldn't eat stuns or a burdock burr— 80 I had to hustle and make things purr, No bread fruit round nor no custard tree, No, it wusn't to be, it wuan't to be. Ment during the year has been a rapid spread of the larger flathouses. It has Provided for @ wholesale movement of Population from old Manhattan districts where rentals have been moderate. Builders of private dwellings have confined their activities chiefly to outs, lying parts of the Bronx. They have cheter and Boston Railroad and close to the New Haven and New York Central nes of electrification for express sub- urvan service. Trains on the new Westchester road will be in operation early'next spring through the Bronx to White Plains and New Rochelle. The spread of home bullders of the better class through that section has been a feature of the year’s suburban growth, The New Haven and Westchester Rail- Toads have epent nearly $15,000,000 this year on thelr suburban systems through the Bronx and Westchester. home for Christmal.” QUEENS AND RICHMOND BREAK |p: OLD HIGH RECORD: Queens has taken $12,000,000 of the year's outlay. Private _bullding BOYNTON ADDS HENDRIK HUDSON TO BIG HOLDINGS. operations have EDWARD B. BOYNTON As President of the American Real Estate Company he has acquired the Riverside landmark in a $2,000) tradge for vacant lots in northern sections, “farm SORT O YANKED MB ANOS SET mE DOWN? Now that other feller that might have been me~ | By a turn of fate’s pen, oh in luxury He laye and counts up his millions in bed, With his crown on the bedpost over hia head; I wonder, by Gmim, if he thinks it etraight For me to be email and him to be great; When I might have been Lim and he might have been mo— But it wuan't to it wuagn't to be, 14 ask how he'd like it to take off hie crown And to good hard hoein’ knuckle down, Or plantin’ or hayin' or a weed pullin’ bee In onion begs, (Dum ‘em from A te Z!) been prominent along the new West- | broken all former high records, the total reaching $22,500,000, Outlays for develop- ment in that borough are practically double what they we the sum invested Di all form s Close to $60,000,000 was paid for Q' realty by the year’s bu loans made a total of $3: where total outlays ran near $25,000,000, Nearly $19,000,000 was Invested in the pur chase of realty, While $11,000,000 was luaned on tmertgages and $4,100,000 went into new buildings. The sums put Into railroad and general public works reached 9,000,000, Richmond kept pace with the other small-house suburbs in the year's ox- sion. It took more than $40,000,000 al- Buyers put $17,000,000 into their purchases and lenders on mortgages vanced close to $10,000,000, New bulldings and alterations took $390,000. Ratlroa and public works contributed 96,100,000 more. JERSEY’S $200,000,000 DUE MAIN- LY TO BETTER TRANSIT. New Jersey took almost $20,000,000 within the metropolitan section. Ite growth has been hastened by the trunk line railroads, the pew McAdoo and traction nes, all ¢ ly to trai factiittes, Total outlay exceeded $15,000,000, and $8,000,- 000 more went into general pudlic works, Bullders tn the New Jersey commut- Ing zone spent $27,500,000 on new stru tures and alterations, Mortgage borrow- 8 got $62,000.00, Buyers took realty at @ total estimated market value of $101,700,000, Rapid « together. owth of the more suburban communities has been the year's fea- ture in the Jersey section, Small houses have been built In larger numbers than b atimutated strongly the extension of the McAdoo service, ral costly business and apartment structures » been built in the city itself, aithough the main force of the movement has been exerted in its out- lying home sections. Jersey City and Hoboken have not produced an exceptional number of fla Their small house suburbs have spread fast. Much capital has been Invested in thelr business districts, Went to Buy Land, Disappea Jaco Friedman, fifty-nine, a doc. orator living ut No, 65 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, has been missing from home since Tuesday when he started Forest Hill, 1. 1, to arrange for the purchase of land there, His wife notified | the police and a general alarm was sent out for him, A Melancholy Christmas Owed By Jostsh Allen's Wife. He'd up and divide a part of his heap, Jet a thinkin’ of how he might ha been me— | But it wurz'nt to be, It wuan't to be. Now that feiler's wife I presoom to say That wome of the tine he has his way He's so tarnal lucky and happy and fat, 4 [It would be Jest like him to git even that; Ob I'd dearly jove to have it to say That once, jest once, I'd had my way When Samantha and I didn't chance to agree, But it wuzn't to be, it wuan't to be. Note by Josiah Allen's wife, QPPRAIN'T SO! Josiah has had his way, or that is, he’s thought he had It time and agin, And I don’t Jine in with his mournful de- prested sdees at all. He wouldn't have writ #0 agonigin’ only he eat too much Christmas dinner, tt wuz bis liver! It wusn't principle but ple and puddin’ that alled him, and I told him so, If folks will gorge themseives till their eyes “stand out with fatness” as the Good Book ees, how can they see the blessed Christmas Usht, the brightest light that ever @hone on the world? And how can they see piain ¢o count over the blessin’s the past year las brought ‘em, and lay plans to Pass on some of thelr hollduy cheer to them that set in the shadders of grief and poverty. Josiah will be all right in a day or two, If he hain't I shall soak his head, and give him @ dose of pikery, tor I ain't goin’ to ha anybody round writin’ sugh mournful and ongrateful poetry. Lots of times if melancholy and de- Prested poets would git their livers to | workin’ better, they wouldn't harrer up | their reader's feelin’ Pikery would help ‘em to look on the brigiter ang Ades Loould work up bis teelin's eg deep better side of lise, ex thorough work, MUST PAY OVER $45, Dr. Haub, After 14 ¥ Must Clone a tton, After fourteen Joseph M. Raub, strect, Brooklyn, a CECE MYSTERY VEILS Into Back and Killing Her. HYDE PARK, Dee, B.—Efforts able activity to~lay In an endpavor locate the slayer Miss Prite! clreumstances, that ft was an to the identity of the slayer, wirl died in the arms of he; hed a mots as He was from Montgomery, Ala., and Was worth $87,000, A will appointed Dr. Rawh exbcutor and> named Harriet Loulse Mitchell and Mary Ann Donohue sbabenhbincdtd Datetntlen ae Sal Estate. Jas heirs, Many claimants appeared, bi ome th New werner: years! litigation Dr, | the two Brooklyn women finally were| tra C. Road and his wife, Ida, wore ot No, 2% Clinton | Fecognized. burted in the same grave at Hope, N. J, William O, Badger jr., of No, 100 Wu Mra. Ro has been ordered by to-«lay. epirit of Christmas fe shown in the happy facce of the people we meet on the otrect, in the jolly, good-natured bustle of the shoppere and in the mysterious hiding of bundles. It fo in the very afr we breathe and it dvawe us closer to friends and relatives. Alt through the Bolidays the telephone will be flashing millions of greetings and good wishes far and near over ite net- work of wires. Le will be carrying the slightest inflection of the human voice out to the far-away friend and relative. Kindlinese and forgivences and laughter will be on the wires. Old-time friends will be reminded that they are not for- gotten, and where in the old days one Christmas visit was made {n person, ten now will be made by telephone. If you have a surplus of happinces during the holiday ecason, why not tele- phone a part of it to some one who has leaa? Che telephone, you know, ie the great and almoot limittess roadway over which the Christmas spirit can travel. “The very book I~ wanted.” of you,” NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY “When you were a little boy you looked just f like him.” the police were renewed with consider- Bridget ‘d, an elghteen-year-old girl who Was stabbed to death under mysterious Because of the girl's dying statement Htalfan Who attacked her, the police visited the Italian seo- tions of Roston and Hyde Park, but their search failed to reveal any clue The rosidents of the town are deeply stitred over the murder. Less than five minutes after being stabbed in the back lon the West Glenwood avenue bridge the unt, Mra, Thomas Pritchant, to whose house she hag feebly walked after being attacked. Near the apot where the murder fas | committed the handle of a knife which apparently was used by was found, the assailant may that robbery could not for the murder. COUPLE BURIED TOGETHER. i, who wan seveniy- “Thank you \ “Auntie, I just love my mew dollie,” "Old man, the Perfectos SKINNING THECAT” STABBING OF GIRL | A NEW INDUSTRY. ON ROAD AT HT} HOT CHL PLA Attacked by Man Who Van- ished After Driving Knife But Mr. Bergh of Humane Society Likely to Give Co» rona Company a Bump. In dead of night, the horned moon all Dale, hath gentie sleep been ever bam ished from your pillow by @ sound ike thin: Minourw-w-w! Sphiss--9! Then, in the appropriate language of the merry, merry Yuletide, rejoice aad be exceeding glad, for they are going to have a cat farm at Corona, L. Ly where they propose to raise cats, gathay ay cats, skin cats and sell thelr enterprising furriers. ‘The company was organized yesterday. Right away soon, it is sald, @ charter will be applied for im the name of the Corona Cat Skin Company. Its pte. moters will plunge briskly into the tur trade, and they expect to make @ tune if nobody interferes, Like all reforms, however, the Gag Skin Company appears to have bumpe Wwalting for it, for the Soctety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals te ak ready on the job, Henry Bergh, tress urer of the society and one of its Board of Managers, questions whether the e& Ject attained by killing cate by whole sale would be justifiable, doubt,” he says, ‘whether it would be justifiable to kill cats under any eome sideration unless the flesh of the animal be used as food. Otherwise I think st | would be unjustifiable cruelty to antmals, If this organization becomes effective the society will certainly investigate #t’* Mr. Bergh admitted that there were ot to oad oon ot, the . Se nte Bou Mork $6,000,000 was} vurrogate Ketcham to pay over to the tam street the Women's attorney, says |five years old, died of pneumonia two| many blocks In New York tn which he Small se bullding has been @ fea-|legatees $45,000 which the tate Thomas |?" eit made no accounting, but oc-\days ago. Every effort wax made to| pad not sought the benison of sleep im ‘ture, although there was an increasing | jrizzey left to two nieces castonajly advanced the! 1 sums. [Keep her husband, who was also down | wai ‘ voluthe of flat construction in Long Ne hie cite The will was r on the | with pneumonia, from learning of her Ft nay that while trade in est lIstand City, Flushing and Jamatea, Hussey @od in this city in condition that Dr, Raub rewian aa ad- | qeath, but he guessed the truth, He skins 1s not general, it is nothing new. The Queens movement extended natu- | his Pockets were found to be ministratorship to which Mra, Mitchell gunk rapidly and died yesterday, He A good many of them think the enters rally into Nassau and Suffolk Count with money, bank books and securt had appointed him, was three years hia wife's junior, | prise could be made very profitable, " Y\ SAA 10 much, They are delicious.” are great.