The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1912, Page 1

probably Thursday The |“ Circulation Books Open to 0 All.” 4 § PRICE ONE rr ENT, Congriaht. 1912, Co. (TI The Press Publishing York World). SIX BROADWAY EXPLOSIONS ‘SHAKE BIG BUILDINGS LIKE , SHOCK’ OF AN EARTHQUAKE Wa Manhole Covers Thrown High and Hundreds of Windows Are Shattered. NOISE LIKE BIG CANNON. Persons on Street Are Flung Against Buildings Amid Hail of Iron. ‘With reports like the firing of an artillery salute six manhole covers) > ‘were blown from their fastenings in West Fifty-fourth street, between Broadway and Seventh avenue and in Broadway, between Fifty-fourth and Fifty-seventh streets at noon to-day. Hundreds of windows were broken, persons on the street were blown against walls and vehicles, horses ran away and the occupants of hotels, \ spartment houses and office buiffings rushed from their rooms in terror. ‘The explosions were caused by the eccamulation of gisolfhe vapor in the sewers. Garages abound in the neigh- borhood their refuse gasvline, wept Into the sewage, has caused numerous explosions in the past. ‘The gasoline vaport seep into the underground trol- ley conduits and are exploded by trom the con! shoes of stro WINDOWS BLOWN TO BITS, SASHES AND ALL. ‘To-day's sewer explosion was the most verious in two years. Although there Were many narrow escapes, no one was injured. Tho greatest force of the blow- Up was felt in the block in Fifty-fourth street, between Seventh avenue and Broadway. Not only were the window sashes shattered in the apartment- houses at Nos, 201 and 215, but the sashes were blown in. was in front of the Broadway Taber- nacle, at Broadway and Fifty-sixth street, Next a cover at the Fifty- @eventh street corner blew up. Then followed four terrific explosions, each| eccompanied by an iron manhole cover gearing from fifty to eighty feet in the air, clouds of steam and atifling odors of gasoline and sewage. ‘Three manhole covers in three blocks along Broadway and three in the ghert dlock in Fifty-fourth street went Ww, one after another, All but one of ‘the manhole cov: was shattered by the force of the explosion and ca: down in a scattered hall of bits of free. The exception was the cover at Fifty-seventh street, which landed in- tact alongside a horse attached to stopped run- ning et) Columbus Circle waeys iy th HOTELS IN A PANIC. }fram torus of one of the explo- folt by the Hotel Carlton, a ory etructuro at No, 203 West fourth street. Every window tn four lower floors of the hotel wero out. A wide crack appears in the work to the west of the entrance. y Anderson of No, 150 West Fifty- 14 street, the telephone operator, was thrown from her chair by the shock. Guests in this hotel and the Cumberland, at the southwest corner of Fifty-fourth atreet and Broadway, ran {nto the halls and frantically rang for women guests of the Cumberland ran down to the office tloor in their night dre: ‘They are actresses and were asleep at the moment of the explosion. Nearly every window In the Fifty- fourth street block, except those in the Carlton, was broken, The tenants in the five-story apartment house at No. /%8 ran into the street to encounter great clouds of steam belching from & manhole in front of the house. Thomas Buckley, a horseshoer, at work im hie shop et No. was blown acrges Yhe establishment. John Connelly, a driver, had just backed up his truck, loaded with coal, to the sidewalk in front of the Carl- ton when the manhole cover alongside thg vehicle went up. Connelly was knocked from his seat by: | pf the explosion. He swears the tron projectile made a hissing noise as it him in its upward flight. Picces ‘the cover fell on his horses and they | @arted to run away, but Connelly 4 Momtinued on Second Pegs) ‘The first manhole cover to sail aloft) the force) SOUTH POLE FOUND BY CAPT. SCOTT, IS REPORTINLONDON But Wife of Explorer Has Received No Word From Him—News Not Confirmed. | LONDON, March 6—A rumor is pud- Ushed here in an evening paper to-day that Capt. Robert F. Scott, the British Antarctic explorer, has reached the South Pole, Mrs. Scott, wife of the explorer, who Tesides in this city, declares that ‘she has heard nothing from her husband, and there is no confirmation obtain- able from any source. The Central News, which eays that it is the agent of Capt. Scott, issued @ statement this evening saying that it has not received @ word from the Cap- iaip and that it docs not expect to earn whether he was sugcessful or not yr some days to come," y, who te in com- mand of the British Antaretic Expedl- ton, left England In July, 1910, He had plans for the Journey from King Ed- ward's Land to the South Pole included the use of traction—pontes, dogs and motors—and Pontes were to be taken in suMcient numbers to insure a thoroughly ade- quate amount of food being taken to the base of the Beardmore glacter. A dog team, with a relay of men, to transport the loads over the glacie the transport plan, and ho thought that | if the party reached the foot of the giaeler there could be lttle doubt that it would ascend it and thus simplify the diMculties of the further journey. Terra Nova in whitch C xpedition walied left London on June 1, 1919, and was joined later tn New Zealand by Capt. Scott, the lead- Stores sufMetent for three years were carried on board. In January, 1911, Capt. Scott and his comrades went south to ¢stablish depots, the Terra Nova, meanwiile, returning to New Zealand. All through the aummer it was intended to make the final prepara- tions for the last dash toward the Pole which was to be carried out at the end of the year. ’ Before leaving Capt. Scott declared that the entire expedition would hurry back to New Zealand as soon as the Terra Nova could break away from the ice and report the success or failure of the journyy, pel REAL BROKEN HEART CAUSES THE DEATH OF BASEBALL PITCHER. Finlayson, Formerly Brooklyn Twirler, Fails to Recover From Rupture, Despite Long Treatment. Pembroke Finlayson, with the Brooklyn club, which signed him when he w er. once a pitcher National League Norwegian Hospital, Brooklyn, to-day, as the result of @ rupture of the heart muscles. | Finlayson, after loaVing Brooklyn, went to the Lawrence and Brockton clubs in Massachuretts, to the Rochester club of the Eastern League, and then |to Memphis, where he played last year, | He underwent an operation and before completely recovering began pitching again, The wound reopened and Finlayson ame to his home, No, 1282 Fifty-fourth street, Brooklyn, and has been under the care of specialists all fall and win His condition became critical last week and he was removed to the /hospital. widow end two children gurviys| ew: ‘alcon Geott of the! with him ty men, twenty Siberian ponies, thirty dogs and two motor| sledg Before his departure he sald that hie! three means of sledge; | jsurfaco and a picked party of'men an dogs were to make the final dash the inland tco sheet. Motor | were to be tho main agent in |i sixteen years old and kept him under|were held to await tho action of the contract for three years, died tn (he|Grand Jury, ball bonds belug continued | conspiracy NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, of ay © __ Explosions on Broadway Damage Buildings and Cause Big Panic 1912. | ENGLISH EXPLORER, REPORT SAYS, HAS REACHED SOUTH POLE. SCHIFF BURGLAR TELLS HIS STORY TO GRAND JURY Spee ana Brandt Also Has Long Confer- ence With District-Attor- ney Whitman. Folke E. Brandt, the Schiff burglar, ‘appeared this afternoon before the| Grand Jury and was examined at length by District-Attorney Whitman and Assistant District-Attorney Moss. It was expected that the testimony of Brandt and former Inspector of Police McLaughlin would wind up the Grand Jury investigation to-day unless Mortl- mer L. Schiff and Howard Gans should be adowed to appear before the jurors to tell thetr version of the affair, Thus far there does not appear to havo been any conclusive evidence sub. mitted to the Grand Jury to sustain a to “railroad” Brandt to prison and keep him incarcerated for thirty years. Dally insinuations as to indictments to come have leaked from |the District-Attorney's office for the past three weeks, but it 1s asserted by persons familiar with the proceedings |that these {nsinuations have been un- warranted, Members of the Grang Jury are anx- fous to question Brandt. They want to know !f he alone was responsible for the |letter sent to Gov. Dix in which charges were mae against Mrs, Schift. And if Brandt did not write the letter the durore want to know who did write it, For the first time since the opening of the Brandt affair Assistant District- Attorney Moss began to take an inte: in the investigation to-day and yester- day. Mr. Whitwan and Mr, Moss are now working as @ team in the exam- ination of Witnesses inside and outside the Grand Jury room. aa GARDNER’S FORMER WIFE ARRESTS ‘HIM AT COURT. Claim for Arrears of Alimony Faces | Former Senator Held in Will Plot Case, Former State Senator Frank Gardner and George H. Decker, the nurse of Samuel HE. Haslett, the recluse, into whose house at No. 108 Remsen street, Brooklyn, Chief Magistrate Kempner and policemen forced thelr way to take poesi against the two of conspiracy to de- fraud, were in the Adams Street Court toeday for examination, Further examination was waived, counsel announcing that they would not roduce evidence for the defense, ‘They for Gardner and $000 for While Ing of Sheriff Jonn 1. him in the corridor with a jardner Was awalilng the sign- the new iball bonds Deputy Bulck was Waiting for order of arrest obtained by the att * of Mra, Gardner No, 1, who divoveed him, accusing him of belng $W {n arrears ip payment of alimony, There were only two courses open to Gardner~ r to file a bond for the payment of sum or to settle it out of hand, ‘The alternative was Raymond Street Jail Gardner refused to settle and was went to Raymond Street Jali. —— 5 ea ra aad as th 8, ion and to bring about charges| SAVEFOUR WOMEN FROMFIRE SET BY BEGUN TWIXT SOBS TINY ALTAR LAMP Firemen Take Three From Window as Flames Set Clothes Ablaze. | | HANGS TO |ONE LINE. Aged Woman Overturned Light in Room as She Com- pleted Devotions. The religious devotion of aged Mra Mary Hayes, who lives at Mrs. Zwiner's boarding-house at No, 121 West Sixteenth ctreet, led to a spectacular fire in the house and the thrilling rescue of four women early to-day. Mrs. Hayes had @ little altar in her room on the second floor, and before her crucifix kept a tiny sanctuary lamp Perpetually burning. Before going to mass at St. Francis Xavier's Church to- day sho knelt at the altar for her morn- ing devotions. As she rose she must have accidentally upset her lamp with- out noticing it. The altar draperies soon flamed up and Mrs. Hayes wi hardly out of the house before her room Was all ablase, In fhe room above Mra. Loulsa Devine was dressing, ler two daughters ‘arma; nineteen, were sttll abed. Mrs. Devine smelled smoke, and when she looked over the railing on the landing she saw the flames coming up the staircase, Mrs. Hayes had left her door open. Mrs. Devine pulled a cord and opened the scuttle, thinking to let the smoke out, But she created a draught that brought the fire tp at @ furious pace. As she rushed back to her room Mrs Devine left her own door open, and as her daughters jumped up the fire entered the room. The three women fled to a window, and, as the flames gained on them, climbed out on the sill, Several times they were ready to throw them- selves to the pavement. but the crowd below cried to them to walt, as the fire- men were coming, TRYING TO SAVE WOMEN WITH ROPE WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVE. Several men in the crowd tried to « into the house, but they were driven back by the fire, There was no ‘1 | escape elther at the front or back. So:n men got @ rope and, reaohing the through an adjoining house, were try- ing to rescue the women. when Capt Hanley and Engine Company dashed up. Driver Arthur Boylan get hls hors: on thelr haunches and with a scalin ladder made for the threo women. As he took Anna in his arms the fla:nes ‘burst out at the window beneath hin Frederick Baumann in escaping from that room had not closed his door. With the flames snapping up him Boylan turned to lower tle elder sister when the younger one, crazed jwith fright, threw herself upon his neck powerless to move, Seeing Boylan's plight, Fireman Po lock mounted to @ next door window, but before he jtwined from Boylan's shoulders, the Hames had caught her nightdress and | were burning Boyian's clothes benesti |his rubber coat. Truck No, 11 came jup as the two girls were Fireman Henry Goulden quickly |up his ladder and brought down ran he Meanwhile Mrs. Mary Gordon, the housekeeper, who had rushed up to the second floor, thinking Mrs, Hayes able to get back, had elimbed out of a side window. As the flames reached her whe threw herself out to @ clothes: line and clung screaming to that thirty feet above the ground. Fireman Martin rescued her just as she was be exhausted, Dr. La Rochelle, ambulance su |from the New York Hospital, a Mrs, Gordon, who was badly jand Mrs. Devine and her daught {or whom were overcome by the ‘The fire, whieh was soon got under | control, did damage estimated at $1,000, | oo eee eee | WOODRUFF TAFT’S GUEST AT THE WHITE HOUSE. WASHIN: publican hairman Woodruft of New York will be # house guest of President ‘Taft overnight at the White House. It 1s uald that details of the President's campaign in New York wil) be discussed, mothy L. Gitte | twenty-years or, ahd” Mercedes, } No, 11/ toward | and clung to him so tightly that he was/ could get the girl un-| ved and! | mother, who by that time had become | unconscious. | |HANGS TO CLOTHESLINE 30) FEET ABOVE GROUND. was in her room and then had not been, y NEW ANANIAS CLUB BY MRS. ABRAMS She Elects Hubby President by | Unanimous Vote of One in | His Divorce Suit. /HIS WITNESSES IN; TOO!! And Club’s Password Is “Aftin- ity Party” —’Cause That’s Biggest Lie of All, She Says. Mrs, Amella Fendler-Abrams, testify- Ing In her own defense to-day in the Supreme Court tn the sult for diverce | Drouwht by her husband, Dr. Alexander |Abrams, dramatically dented she had} ever acted improperly with Henry M. Wolff, @ San Francisco merchant, named epondert by Dr. Abrams, “It has been testified you proposed hoiding an ‘affinity party’ in your home in December, 1907, at which Mr. Wolff was to be the guest of honor. Is that true ked Mra. Abrams's counsel, “It 1s a le, @ miserable lie!” cried Mra, Abrams. “I did not know Mr, Wolff at that time. I met him, through @ relative of my husband in January, 1908.’ Mr. Wolff he tried to bring @pout @ veconctilation between yourself and your husband?” hat 19 trua.”” “L ask you now," éontinued the law- yer, “whettier Mr. Wolff ever remained Jovernisht in your home, as has been | testified?” “Tt te not tru sobbing. “Did he ever breakfa home’ “Did he ever bathe in your home?’ At this juncture Mrs, Abrams broke down and sobbed aloud, “Oh, way do you ask me such ques- shy demanded, crying. “It's * yeplied the witness, in your tion terrible! “I have to ask theso questions of you, madam." explained the lawyer. “What! You have to bring me here to be insulted?” |MRS. ABRAMS’ HYSTERICS FORCE ADJOURNMENT OF COURT. | Mrs, Abrame became so hyaterical | that Justice Newburger had to ad- jgurn court for five minutes. Miss | Lillian Abrams, the pretty elghteen- | year-old daughter of the defendant, hurried to her mother's sido and fin- ally succeeded in calming her. |see Mr, Wolff when he came to New York from his Western home?’ was | | the frst question asked Mra, Abrams on cross-examination when she re- turned to the witness stand | “Because he was my only salvation; | because he tried to help m: 1d Mrs. | Abrams, | “When he was in San Franctsco did you write to him?" “I did occastonally.”” “And he wrote to you?” “Yes,” “Have you any of his letters?” Mrs, Abrains had tesified that wien) she married Dr. Abrams, twenty years ago, she wan herself a physician. She continued her practice after she and Dr, Abrams parted tn 1907, and at times | found it diMcult to earn a living. Wolff, she added, did what he could to ald her ressionally, so she was very grateful toh Ihe Mra. Abrams,” said her lawyer, ‘It has been testified that when you were ving at No, 1391 Mar | Wolff called to see you fri ou always greeted him wii thet true?” “No,” she replied emphatically, “Did you ever call him ‘darling’ or sweetheart?" “Certainly not." ACCUSES HUBBY OF HOLDING LONG DISTANCE SPREE RECORD.| Mrs. mon vas Abrams Was excused and Solo- Abrams, brother of Dr. Abrams, called by the plaintiff. He told of | \oalling in one of the witnesses in the ease in behalf of his bre \that the witness had r, adding intimated he | wanted money from him, and that he! left him. Mrs. Abrar as a sult for separa- tion pending st Dr. At It is successful In having his divorce dismissed, the other suit will then ed. In her complaint she de 8 Abrams holds “the long-distance ree record,” having been almost con- tinuously under the Influence of Nquor rom the tne she married him up to the time of their parting, @ period of Oiteen years. “Isn't It a fect that after you met! Why were you always so glad to) Weather. PRICE ONE OENT. SUFFRA GETTE LEADBR WHO ELUDES POLICE ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE. | Wise CRISTABEL PANKHURST. WHAT RYPNOTIST COULD RYPNOTIE AN UNDERTAKER? Bayonne Man Tries It and He Makes Costly Exit From the Town, After reaping a rich harvest in Bay- Jonne, No J. as @ hypnotist and fortune teller Zeslaw Petroski bumped succession of Waterloos’ that nuted his career, no far as verned, in Recorder M Into a m, ‘The firat bump came last night when Stephen Jewslka, an undertaker of 6 Proe avenue, Hayonne, called on the mesmerizing soothsayer to vuy $1 worth of future dope. Jewaika has had little businoss lately and began to worry about the future, | A friend suggested that Petrosis jsive him a Mne on tho summer death rate, and tell was likely to hav) a brisk trade, | ‘The fortune teller had his whingle out Jat No, 24 Prospect avenue, whither the | undertak r journeyed (rom his shop. He | paid hds $1 und told Petromk! he was ready, ‘Tho Petroski method Js to his customers in & trance and the: burble of the future to them. He dis jointed both wrisis trying to “fade” the Bayonne ©: Jewaslke refused to trance, Petrosk! gave tt up and told |Jewsika that he was a “rotten” subject, probably due to tie nature of the vu neee he was engaged In | “AN right then," sald Jewalka, me iny dollar back.’ Petroskt laughed at hho, “L ought to char eive| «on you," Fura et ski spon ore ow a warrant and in a cell, This warning he was are| raigned before Recorder Mae's, | “How about thls,” said the dtecorder, you engaged to hypnotise tile mun| and disclow the future. You took hiv money under false pretense: “He's an undortaker,” "L didn’t know tt or 1 woulda't have taken his money, You can’t hypnotiae jan taker | jluw about Judges?” asked tne tee | order, “SHINE YOU hy pnotia me you trosk you succeed L , sald Petross | ously aid Fe] and eros of mivemerls Jand cracked his fingers until he wa |nausted, ‘hen he dropped his arai | sald “Your Honor, you are not in a re tive mood to-day." "Wrong." suid B am just going And after you have pald [ wilt twenty-five minutes to wet out of Hay. onne, oil deni minutes, r Mara, “fo: #35 from you roski paid his fine from a roll of six inches in diameter, and be had Bayonne inside of eighteen | skirted KNOX THREATENED the night} =. (NOON POLIGE SEE $900,000 WAR FUND UF SUFFRAGETTES English Authorities Will Draw on Cash to Cover Riot Damages and Records Also Taken to Form Basis for Conspiracy Charges. TRY LEADERS AS FELONS; FACE SEVEN-YEAR TERMS. ‘Christobel Pankhurst Dodges Police, Who Hunt Her With Warrant— Others Arraigned in Court. LONDON, March 6.—Militant suffragism has received a severe set- vack in the seizing of half a million dollars, the war fund of the move- ment, which the authorities, announce will be used to reimburse shop- {keepers whose vindows have been smashed and property damaged by the raiders during the last week, The Government officials are busy going over papers seized at ‘ Suffrage Headquarters. Among these complete plans of a campaign as prepared by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and other leaders have been found. These plans, it is said, will be used as ihe basis for conspiracy prose- cutions. —* ‘The omlzing of the $500,000 is a se vere blow to the suffrage cause. Un- der English law it !s permissible to use this money In eettling the claims of all who have suffered injury es a rewult of the destructive tactics of the suffragettes, Premier Asquith be- Neves that the selsure =!) put a aquietus to the strenucus tactica ef the militant: ‘The police admiteed to-day that they had not captured Miss Cristubel Pank- hurst, a daughter of Pankhurst, an yet, although they expect to arrest her shortly, Last night they had sald that the militant leader was a pris- r, but she eluded the police drag- ON MANAGUA VISIT FIFTY PUT IN JAIL Nicaraguan Leaders, in Anti- American Outbreak, Called ‘ “From now of all women who break ; ; he ta ill he treated the same es for Use of Dynamite. sve one ur Mix wacrraiiet crime,” declured Inspector MeCarthy of the London police this afternoon in out- lining the plana of the city authorities | to stamp out the property destroying tactics of the militant sui tes. MeCarthy engineered the raid fast nignt on the suffragette headquarters und i in active charge ef the work ef repression, ; WOMEN FACE FELONY TERMS OF SEVEN YEARS. This announcement brought home te MANAGU extraordinary out: fevling led to the ay fifty of the more pro who 3 ng held In de Secretary of State Knox has leparted. This ts the first indication publicly exe pressed of oppor! American trip of t Nicaragua, March t of antl-Armer! Jawt night of are Dy on until of it The persons arrested Inciude the wiole| wl" Yueragettes, today. the seriousness of the editorial staffs of the Dario De] op nein recent demonstration. It ts to Nicaragua » Diavlo Moderna war hereafter and every woman who, Which had puvitsied a number of Tet-’ tyeoigh devotion to the cause, injures ters and placed headlines over them |) cperty o jeopardizes any pereon will suswesting that dynamite should ve face a felony prosecution, Conspiracy againat the State Secretary. All des) charges will be lodged from now on, ace es leaving this city are subject va cording to McCarthy, against every ant suffragette, nalty on conviction may be imprisonment. The first son that charge are Pethick swrence and Mrs, Pethick Lawrence, editors of the suffragettes newspaper ar- » years f rled out Dronkdent < at which held a re addresses were ton va ésted on warrants. y will be tried erod, At welt @ Bala banduet) specdily and if convicted will receive was given, f # grand ba the felon sentences, The friendiles! appear Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs, Em- vall amo’ ne Pankhurst and Mrs. Tuke, the Dressed | attire, the peor ligase two of whom were’ brought from ple are #! selves up to the en litojoway Jail, were araigned at Bow joyment of t HEINIE” ZIMMERMAN HAS SIGNED UP WITH CUBS. |,” t Police Court this afternoon om @ © of conspiracy and inetting to Ait inaliclous damage to property, \¢ four prisoners were remanded by Magistrate for @ week, bail being Stre cha refused. a Vitti’ Zim AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE AT kbd ahheamezake conet WORK IN JAIL, - vrding to announce-| An effort was made by the United nt by Presttent: Murphy sa correspondent to-day to see Miss n reported n to-day, sald © Morgan Weight, the young Ale glad to report and we are delighted. . girl sentenced to two will not be ut Will stare for the prison, ‘The au- training y ow night," symit her to be the president 4 underst £0 and the others arrested im ity Intlelder secured no chan the | the London suffragette raid are held figures of Sis contract as the resuit of | ine adv and all are being foreed his hold-« 1% Wee Miss Wrisht, whe graduated from. A Pe, ‘Smith Collegefhs a member of the hax the wide of 1001, and a @fpiptor of wide reputation a" “ack A} will have dg cavers showm: OS +