The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1912, Page 1

PANIC IN NEW VANDERBILT HOTEL; _ FLAMES BREAK a ON THIRD FLOO Circula She tion Book: Open toA 2. PRICE ONE OENT. HERO'S BODY wen FROMUNDER BIG GIRDER IN RUINS OF EQUITABLE “ANE PLUNG FT0 | DEATH WHEN AUTO JUMPS INTO CANAL ‘The, Frese Publishing fare World). Trapped in Closed Tonneau, | Two Men and Three Giris | Die in Trenton Waterway. | DRIVBR ALONE ESCAPES, Workmen Saw Through Foot Thick’ Iron to Get at Remains of Chief Walsh, Beneath Tons of Debris. Runs Over a Mile for Help in Frozen Clothing and Then Drops on Doorstep. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. —An eate- ‘mobtie containing three men and three} ‘The body ot Battalion Chief William J. Walsh, discovered in the | fwreck of the Equitable Building at a little after noon to-day, | was Te} moved from the tangle of girders, stone, brick and marble under which | ft had been crushed: at half-past 4 o'clock this afternoon ard taken in charge by an undertaker for the Walsh family. The body was placed in a temporary coffin and borne un the shoulders of eight firemen of Truck No. 8, preceded by Chief Kenlon | and Capt. Mitchell, the dead man’s brother-in-law, and carried to the| undertaker’s wagon outside of fire lines, eileen te teety — pst workmen digging on the third removal of a 0 Bliss gisch for etre er wad Gisdlior aacicg Fae jebris around a to-day in getting at tty vaults of the pillar of the staircase balustrade. When a little more plaster and broken stone had been taken away, it wae seen| Equitable Society atm! the Mercantile that the dead chief had been pinned | Safe Deposit Company. down ty @ heavy iron girder as he tried| Thomas Longfield, custodian of the 90 sige trom the floor, to which he had been knocked when the first debris fell. girder which held him down was key piece of a tangle of hundreds of fens of marble and tron and to have Qrted & away forcibly would have fought the whole mass down. & was necessary to shore up in sev- qvad places this girder and other girders on which it rested and then to saw through the twelve inches of irom on dither side of the body. OLVANY OVERCOME AT SIGHT OF WAL6H’S BODY. Deputy Chief Binns and the men trom Truck No, 8 with whom Walsh hed quarters, replaced the workmen in (nis task. Chief Binns took away the mor- far and broken stone with bie bare hands whenever it was possible. Deputy | Commissioner Olvany went, to the pullding to help, but when he eaw the ed form of the dead fire-fighter feelings overcame him and he had @ go away, Capt. Frederick Mitchell, a veteran of he Spanish-American war and a brothe of Mrs, Walsh, was on the spot as the representative of the widow. He said the body would be taken to his home in Brooklyn for the funeral. Tt was at the point where the body was found that Walsh was standing when James Rankin, driver for Chief Kenlon, left him After a third warning fram the Chief that he was in @ very arigerous place. Fire Commissioner Johnson was at onge notified. He took Chief Kenlon with vim and hurr to City Hall to get ftobert Ada: secretary to Mayor Gaynor. ‘They went at once to the Vquitable Building to verify the report and give directions regarding the re. moval of the body Coro Physician Lehane went to the Equitable Building this afternoon and after view: he body gave permission for ite re- moval from the building Dr, Lehane m: superficial ex- amination of the body and wald that tt had been terri! t wan his opinion tha jon of the head, which uncovered, have the | » funera COURT ORDERS BUILDING TORN DOWN. Justive in the Supreme nant, £0 an order directing e Build) nt to raze to the | vel of and all walis of taille HuiliIng, wherever the burned Baul rowers and biggent | i with fee umttl the: Baquitable vaults, after making an in- spection With Secretary #. 6. McCurdy to-day, announced that the vaults on the Pine street side would be openal to- | morrow and $70,000,000 wort. of policies, | held as security for loans, remove to the office ob erate arose No, 165 Broad FIRE CHEF KENLON GETS OFF LUCKILY ~INAUTO SMASHES Has a Narrow Ey ft in His Own Car. and Another in | | | | Commissioner Johnson's. ot Kenton wae in two autos collisions to-day and ercaped Tn the first, white!) ova he waa hurrying to @ fire pe he narrowly rcaped injury ae t in which hie Fire mobile unhurt, when town, | | er Winterbottom and Coroner's 1 monthe ago, [im the second emasii he was with Cor | miasioner Johnson and Robert Adam- jon, the Mayor's secretary The fire chief'a automobile, with the ohief and his driver, Charles Rankin, tn ft, at Broadway ani Thirty-Atth street struck @ Hmousine car driven by Paul E, Mettecherg and owned by Adolph Gondorn of the Langiam apartments tn Central Park Wert, Tan Chie('s ear ed sideways after the crash and iran up on the @ldewalk within an inch Lown. Jor two of the Herald's show Kenlon was making good | Broadway to a fire in West Morty. Jenth streot, Hie disliker to make a grea | deal of noise and neldom ringa the big [belt which emings on the dash of his | oar, A® reau + vehicles fre. | quently fa Nong ago his lew Maion 1 Mettachers: Just turning his oar to [eo weet on ‘Thirty-ffe street when the \ Fire Dep: automobile hit the Hmousine ‘Piere was no one ineide the car. The running boam) and paneling lof the imousine were emashed. The radiator and mudguard of the Catef's var was dented and tw'sted. Less than three hours later, going \from City Ha!) to the Hquitable Butlé. the driver of Commiastoner Joun- ye alet Kenion and Secretary | Adamson made # quick turn to avold | a wtreet and crashed into the rear | wheel of the car of Hattaltion Chief) Rinne, which Wae «oing slowly, AM the | osoupanta of the Commimtonere cor | were thrown forward from thelr seate, jut yet en! nard enough not to be #1) out, Beyond a mevere enading | Were nok hurt jor HMattersall, driver for Chiet David Calvary, a fireman, | ut whieh was struck, Sorta | driven | inches women skidded from the road en the! way to this city ‘rom @ joy ride early to-day, fel! ou the ‘ce covering a water Power canal ind broke through. Two {oft the men and the ‘hree wemen were érowned. The vtotims were: DONALD RMBS, aineteen years off, eon of forme: Supreme Court Justice Alfred R. Reed, end a student at Lew- renceville Acsdemy. CHESTER 4 VAN CLBPF, an au- tomoble salesman MARGARBT TINDALL, yeare ol@, ef New Haven. HELEN MULVEY, aineteen years old, of Trenton. veventeen 0 % Fredertok Foater, owner and driver ot| $5647 IN RELIEF FUND FOR FIRE HERO'S FAMILY the car, escaped from the onnal ané ran a mile and « half with his garu-nts | { solidly frozen, to summon aseststance. When the men Foster had arouseg got te the scene of the accident there was ne sige of the victims, Two of the bodies were quickly recovered. The body of one of the girls was not re- covered until late this morning. | FIVE VICTIM® TRAPPED IN IN. CLOSED TONNEAU. Reed, Van Cleef and the three wom nm were in tha tonneau of the car. The 1p was up and the ourtaina were fast- oned. When the automobile went [through the tce they were genned tn a trap, but apparently the two men fought thelr way out, for thetr bodies were re- ‘overed under the tce hours after the | aeetaen’s at @ considerndle distance own stream from the wreck of the oar. “Gtie Mulvey, who came here from New Haven a year ago, and Miss Tin- dail, were employed in thie city, They were very pretty young girla and well known, Young Rf: and Van Cleet moved 1n the dest noctal airele sof the city. Foster, who is only twenty-one years 0M, has had 4 most unfortunate sar- reer as the owner and driver of an au- tomobile, Last spring # car ho wa: driving ran Into a telegraph pole at | Asbury Park and one of the passengers, la girl, wan killed. A few months tater Foster ran a car in which several men were riding off the road near New Brunswick and one of them, Jack Col- wan, was Killed. in the New Brunewt jast night was the first car eince. time he had ' night and (he latter proposed @ ride in ue. big touring ear. The three young men met Mise Hetzel and Mise Tindall and Invited them to mo along At the suggestion of Miss Tindall the car was driven to the home of Mra, J. T. Temple, where Misa Mul who was to have returned to New Haven to-day, war boarding Temple save that Miss Mutve om the ride, At Iwet | Sow told her jandlady | peated one of the young mea 1) the party to propose to her. PARTY STARTED HCME UNDER BLANKET OF FURS. Foster took the party (o a roudhouse north of Trenton on the Delaware Itiver. ‘The start for home wae made early this morning. wero dressed !n heavy fure and wraps and covered with blankets and robes The road te Tronton taken by Foster | rune along the banks of @ power canal that ekirte the Delaware River, Near Brookvilile, three miles north of Tren- ton, there is a curve in the high- way. When the car, running at ligh| epeed, took this curve er Wer Ue) lable to ewing the ateering gear, The front wheels atruck an obstruction, the car skidded and shot down the embank- iment te the {co covering the waters of | the canal, turning over in the descent, Although the tee was more than off thick the heavy touring (Wor ined on He Hevond ma Page.) pees ee romans a use tickets vi se cadet Nea na tet behtetoee e J and Van Cleef met Foster tast | All the oocupante of the car) ot bent Es NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, Three Checks ‘Received for Walsh Fund By Evening World; Two Generous Givers NEW YORK ee i Yorkyv 10 the order of. Lama. q JALO' Rupee OMe BROS All Walks of Life for Chief Walsh’s Widow and Chil- dren. } The Evening World's Reliet Fund for the widow and six children of Battalion Chief William J. Walsh, the Equitable fire hero, amounted at noor to-day to More than 609, The contributions range from checks for $1,000 from bank- Ing houses te dollar bille from persons who vannot afford to give more but wieh to uhow thelr appreciation of the bravery that prompted a New York fireman to #0 unhesitatingly to his @eath in the performance of his duty. Many women are in the list of con- tributors, Women sympathize with the | widow and the #ix children cut off trom the love and support of a big, kind, | helpful husband and father. One sign- \ing himself “A Buff” sent $20, Another | who wished to be known an A Friend of the Firemen," sent $10, A telephone operator at Fire Headquarters sent $5. Former Fire Chief Hdward Croker aent his check for %i to The Evening | World, with @ letter praising the dead oro. “I was personally ualnted with Walsh for many wrote Mr, Croker, ‘I consid bravest and best offeers ay | ough fireman,” Joun J. Egan contributed %, with the | wish that he could make !t dust dewler away out in Hast New York gent in @ contribution of a dollar, Wolfson, a newadealer with a atand at Pine and William <greaty, kent #), to the fund. wi Read & Co,, bankers, who uitable Butla- 1 to Fire Com- jam A. an oMce tn the nent a check for #1, missioner Johnaon to-day. Another contribution recetved to-day was $20 from Col, Jacob Ruppert, the | prewar, Father MoGean, the Fire De- Partment chaplain, culled on Col, Rup- | pert this morning aml suggested @ check for the relief fund, “Mow much?” asked Col. Rupper! “& lot of help could $100," sald the priest. “TU jnet double that,” eafd Cal. Nup- William A, Read @ Co, In edition to giving 1,00 to the Walsh family, : jalse sent a cheek for 61,000 ta the Fire- men's Pension Fund, This wae firemen. Pat Casey, booking agent, and Witiam | Vox, vaudeville manager, are gettin \ogetner one of the etrongset bills ev. Evening World Receives Con-' | tributions From Persons in| he dene with! wot Now Vor. JAW42 191, Presented for wiven on the next Thursday which are to go to the Wal the performance to be ew Y, ‘Theatre roof fund 4 managed | the recent Newaboya Borafit at the New Dheatre, and that alove ix a warrant of thets ability to get together a wonder: | ful entertainment, Among the artiste who have alraud: volunteered for the heneft are Bonita | und Lew Hear, Amelia Bingham, Ray | Cox, Ci Gordon, May West and com: | pany, and Carrie Mills, More than a doaen others have volunteered, but an Aouncement of thelr mames cannot be made until! they have made certain of heir ability te cancel other dite next ‘Thursday evening. Seats for the New York Hoo! venetit | Wil) be sold at $1 and jn order to ke: the price at that level Mr. Fox has Placed them on sale ut all nis t Reservations can now be made the Fox places of amusement WHITE RATS SHOW AND “THE TALKER” WILL AID TOO. The date and place of the benefit to be given by that famous vaudeville or- ganization, the White Rats, will be an; nounced later. In addition, another benefit is an- nounced fo-day. Henry B. Harris, man- ager of the Hudaon and Harris theatres, will give a special performance of °T Talker” at the Harris Theatre on ne: Friday afternoon, Jan, 1% and donate the entire proceeds to the h Reltet | Fund. ‘The managers, actors, musicians and theatre employees who have teered | to assist the Walsh Relief Fund by henefit performances will bo materially helped by the action taken by the lead- ing blll posting companies and the Metropolitan Printing Company. The New York Bill Posting Company, the Van Buren Bil, Posting Company and the Sulllvan BU Posting Company will post all paper advertising benefite rev of charge, The Metropolitan Print! Company will donate ali Walsh bei printing ordere@ from the concers. The Heffley Inetitute of N arson street. Brooklyn, sent the folto att tng letter to Fire Commiastoner Jon won to-day: Dear Air; We note that a move- ment fs being inade to of Rattalion Chief Wal ye always had conslderad e from the Brooklyn mem- the Department, and fee! fe a good opportunity to offering yo siet the bera of that th reciprocate by scholarship for « of the Inte Chi the young lady to ft herself for « good office position at a salary the! will be more thun self-supporting. ‘Phe cost value of the #holarehip te epproximutely 81%. Any further par- Houlare will be gladly furnished, NOMMAN P. }RFFLRY, Prinelpa!. Joner Johneon referred the vation to Mre, Welsh and her o ag. | acknowledgment of the work of all the LETTERS RECEIVED WITH CON. TRIBUTIONS TO FUND. Some of the letters recetved by The * night, the proceeds of! i} for i Circulation Books Open to An! nde 1 oO P AGES. GE 1912. he, RHINELANCER, Wave ieaw. SELIGMAN s co.. JACOD RUFPYERT . WILLIAM WOODWARD... BEBIPBLBACK. ICKELEDIM- BR & CO. cOwPnarEWarr @ soms Fa aati ‘TMBEBAD COM Pa NATHAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY : MB MAX waTMaN. oe MARVEY FISK & SONS. RUWRY SUCKEZMAN 6 CO. HARRY CONTENT WILLIAM Z. LAUER & CO. VAN ECMBURGH & ATTZR- BunY ABKINSON « BUBR NEWBOR@ & CO... i POST BROTHERS & CO. EDGAR J. KORLD! . EENRY KONIG & SON J, @. BACHE & CO | RILIABH 6UVAN roy |zauee LEB BARON JouN- som | BNWARD ¥. CROZ: joucam x. miqmano. . Ww. \a “purr” | WaLTER KOBBE \f, 2, SRRIOSBERG | JoamPR MAN ime JOSEPR M. LICETEN- aums \a. m | varrs STxINFELD |. | MRS. MINNIE H. CARE |3. 3, RAGAN ; |", = PITTINGER | FRANK BIROCK.. MBS. LOUISD RANSON. \anm M. GACHS.. \3, m. WOLFSON A. D, PACMTES. A SYMPATRIZDR.. TURR—Colder: INA EDITION. PRICE ONE Car ee = ANG IN VANDERBILT TITEL AS FIRE ORES GUESTS INTO STREET — Blaze Starts Under Floor in New Thirty-third St. Hostelry and Gains Headway While Red Tape De- lays Turning in of the Alarm. WOMEN. HALF DRESSED. FLEE IN DENSE SMOKE os Streams of Water Drench Fleeinz 3 Guests, Who Jam Corridors in si Mad Rush for Safety. Defective insulition caused. fire this afternoon in « hallway on ft beg third floor of the new and magnificent Vanderbilt Hotel, at Thirty-thi tog and Thirty-fourth -ireets and Park avenue, which \is opened to tl id public only a fev Despite assurances of the holel en 99 ployees thai the bh ilding is fireproof, the guests swarmed from the ap. rooms io the elevators. The corridors were jammed with excited patror a and a condition bordering on panic reigned when the firemen arrived, ————_-—---- The = HAD TO SAY “GBEY" the he 3 ago. blaze stacted tn a floor und carpet and near th ator shaft, Was discovered ambernvald sd War ablaze and flee we rated the red reporting manage the fire had « fair eta third ih windows, ry Anu alarm was sent inf + how: 19 ea A and my was turned it r Mada © British Law Barred Omission |avenue. Pon. on from t ol o woke t W tesa fre to! by Niece of Viscount Peel, | ie nen Se “at London Suffragette. from a marriage seus ia cee : Shure ia (tema Tiana edtigaeie’ Ps coremmony, sooordiny . found usely \ of be § 4 Announcement nade Rev. Huga\ wa nate g Chapman, Chaplaln of thw Chapel Hoyall i n Savoy, Unis rie | ta 1 wughivr of & vander Dagdatc woof w ‘ 1 © of Vine with Viet . Ad 4p DB, Dayal waiting t« ried, Both | Me thet val |wO-pars TOTAL. 93,017 | are prominent supporters of the A wn ns. The i} | Suffragiets and they di decided that) © nt ‘i a PREVIOUSLY RUCEIVED. | cine yoy" whould Ye oimttted from | 1) ove contra HROUNTZE BROS + H,ca0 | arriage services 1 commu: | WOMEN Guests FLEE, SOAKED HD PRLERI. oo. : 20 sicated thelr decision to the chaviain. | WITH WATER FLOODING HOT | Commivtourr KHINELANDER Hint before the tine appointed for} yy Vile Manton and sub-managers | WALDO. : Ris 109 | the ceremony the Rev. Hugh Chapman! on. main floor were protecting. the {RH MACY & CO 100 songla sivice and oot dar ane} \rikNn TRUMBULL 1A elie Mr A acim i no fire tn tel, tloods of water Da. L. TREIT! mve ‘an to toe elevator sl MRS. Th MAT und and pile [MRS BML MAL Mies Dugdale and Mr Duval aftey the | W. A. DAY o t jain di N0 | splasl and florine RKADI CONSTRL THON oo announcement by meen 7 ould clad in a ADURE PUR? o waive thelr objections and the mar: | Ky in thei aaee I Mins. 8. NRUSTADT. lage carer ~ oa ieee “ EN ‘The chaplain disapproves of | jo, wt ae zn Y' the compulsory use of the word, and rug ee B orior to the worvice expressed the hope |! ve aide. go chat there would soon ¢ 4 ta 49) form of m wervice we or: Pee $O) PORNMDLe fc sixteenth floc Harpeth, VK PRANK TMLINA. F i Lome NareIN | the blessing Ab wrt wo thelr tor ai MANHOLE LIDS D$ BLOWN HIGH, apart PLAYS TO STOF TOTAL, + 92.61 PANIC, BUT IS UNAVAILING, GRAND TOTAL Meda | eaten piovane’ a un Raison’ Come |\ wettie tie tance tenes restau 1 pany in Brookly: injured thin {rant and tea reom were grinding ou MORSE EAGER = MOVE, atternoon while repairing wires in al ively tmusic, guess were rusting down { |conduit on Court, between Livingston! from the upper Moors by the stairways | ATLANTA Gu. Jan. M—Overioyed at) and Bohermeshorn streets, They were | j Phe in Ge ae ithe prompect of Navin rere for the | @harles Conley and Michael Lavin, | who sald he was asieep on the eleventt | lee prieou-like sur ndings of the | torty- two yeare old, of No. 14 Luqueer! oor when a chambermahl awakened i Government hospital Tot Sprit atreet Brooklyn ie id told hint a Gaon tana Ark, Gharlee W. Moree and ile wite and Lavin had gone down into ne | ee a eit cide ae daugiter to-day began preparing for the a“ “ # man-|was oniy naif lad eater “The former banker und preg. (Hole when an explosion wan caused by! "1 came down |i an elevator” he lent convict was disappointed when| leaking gas, ignited by a short ¢ said, “that Was 4 shower bath, Water Phyaiclans told him thet the oold waath-{cuit, Four manhole covers were | noured in through the roof and drencket er here would prevent an immediate de- parrure, hurled fifty feet in the air and several houses had windows broken, everybody, ‘The smoke on the upper floors was so thick we could hardly If permitted sernment, |. Lavin Was removed to the Brooklyn | “ Moras will prob 4 private | Hospital w a broken leg and ine breathe and the Conley was cut about All the gugats in the house were Tear, with bly wite Orieon guards. ternal ingyries. tae face not taken to the hogpitel, warned to lajve thelr rooms, $Rey_