The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1912, Page 1

FI EDITION. PRICE ONE O Copyright, 1912, by ENT. Press Ce. (The New York World), ‘The “ Circulation Books Open to All.“ al EW YORK, IN CHICAGO SIX KILLED, TWENTY HURT pa ahs ~ Wild Time as Houses Burn and Occupants Swarm Stairs and Fire Escapes. - MANY itil FOR LIFE. * Only Single Alarm Sounded and Engines Answer With- out Saving Apparatus. CHIOAGO, March %—Six men lost their lives in the fire that destroyed the Barnett House, a ten and fifteen cent lodging house at Clark and Harrison atreets and the Salvation Army Hotel known as the “Evangeline,” adjoining Mt, to-day. Seven others are in the hos- Pitals, four of whom, it is believed, will die. Fifteen or twenty others were slightly Burned or injured in the fire ‘and panic that followed. The dead are Thomas MoMahon, @ixty-two years old; John Collins, fifty- two; J, Dermody, sixty-three; J. Olson, Corty; Carl Wagner, thirty-eight, end @n unidentified man, Early reports given out by Fire Chief Beyterlich placed the numoer of dead at @ght, with three other bodies located in the ruins and seven others supposed | to be there. When the fire was extin- @ished two men whom the firemen had - tried to reach and later gave up for “dead were found alive. Later in the y Chief Seyferlich stated he was ant- isflied there were no more Wodies in the building. i SINGLE ALARM FOR FIRE AC- * GOUNTS FOR LOSS OF LIFE. Only a single alarm was turned in } when the fire was first discovered, and this it ie eakd enabled the fire to get such a start, that it wan later impossible jo rescue the imprisoned lodgers, The } firemen were hampered by lack of prop- @r equipment. The scaling ladders and heavy truck equipment do not gnswer first alarms in this section. ‘The fire caused a panic in the South,| , Clark street police station, two doors ‘way from the burning buildings. Sev- ,enty prisoners were handcuffed and taken out of the building by detec- tives. A wild scramble for life followed the @iscovery of the fire and before the fire department arrived at the scene men were jumping from tie upper stories and crowding each other off dhe fire escapes. The firemen found the stairways in the buildings were choked with frantic men tind women trying to fight thelr way to the street. All the upper etorios were filled with dense smoke and inen were lying on every floor. The firemen stretched life net#and motioned for those who could ee seen at the windows to Jump, Other firemen attempted to explore the second ‘and third stories. Five women, all un- conscious, were carried from the third fMlooryot the Salvation Army building, ‘Two men jumped from the fourth PPetory. One was killed instantly when Hkis body smashed through thelife net eet for him. Another.c!lmbed out of a window and held to the lodge while "erowda shouted encouragement, but the flames burned his hands and arms, ‘Then he let go and dropped to the side- -wailk. His skull was crushed by atriking against a sign and he died be- fore assistance cv reach him, Firemen carried eclous trom the first ef the buikiing. Most found in their bed FRENZIED MEN JUMP ON ESCAP. ING CROWD. A score of men who had climped down the fire escape in the rear of the butid- fags jumped from the second story land- fee and some were soriously injured, i they jumped on top) of the men who preceded them. ‘The firemen were helpless to controi the mob of fea: mostly of homeless and pennil ‘end outs.” ‘At 10 o'clock the fire was under control ‘and the search for the dead began, with ten persons uncon- aad second stories of thedé“were wd onl and tron, Harry Podgar Reps, Marky ota street drank net 3 1 Tae FIRE PANIC AND DEATH LODGINGS: | EAPS FOUR F1.0RS TO HIS DEATH AMID CHILDREN AT PLAY Thomas Cisne a 65, Plunges| From Window and Falls at Feet of Kiddies, HE FAILRD IN BUSINESS. Despondency and Effects of Old Sunstroke Thought Re- sponsible for Suicide, From a fourth-story window at Park avenue and One Hundred and Elghty- seventh street, Thomas Curran, sixty- five years old, leaped to the sidewalk of Park avenue at noon to-day. He fell among goores of children who were roll- er-skating and skylarking on the broad lexpanse of asphalt. He died, fifteen minutes later, in Fordham Hospital. Mr. Curran falled ‘n the produce com- mlasion @usiness five years ago, home, No. 1053 Webster avenue, | said she had feared for the he | would commit suicide and was fright- ened whenever he was out of her sight. He had a touch of sunstroke last sum- mer, and ever since has talked in a de- spondent, hopeless way, Mr, Curran went out a little before noon to take a walk and buy some tobacco, About twenty minutes later At his! 18 widow | LADY WARWICK ARRIVES, SCORES SUFFRAGETTES Titled Socialist and Woman's Equality Advocate’ Decries Rioters in London ‘Mob. SET BACK THEIR CAUSE. SATURDAY, MAROE 9, 1912. “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 10 PAGES. Titled English Woman Socialist Who Arrived gislorgsa to Lecture er Mauretania, Says Battlers Imperilled Him. Owing to a storm which prevailed clear across the Atlantic and the fog encountered last night off Gandy Hook, the big Cunarder Mauretania arrived in port a day late this afternoon. It was the first time the four huge stacks of the Mauretania have been seen in New York harbor for three months. During that period she has been undergoing re- Pairs at Belfast and Liverpool. ‘The 624 cabin passengers were glad to get ashore. Big and steady as the Mauretania 1s, she was considerably buffeted about by the continuous gales and head seas. Her best day for speed on the voyage was one in which she covered 580 knots as against her record for a day of 676 knots, Neverthelens, Capt. Turner the conservative oom- mander of the vessel, would not admit that the trip had been stormy. “We had a gentle breeze,” hie de- clared, “languishing into a calm. LADY WARWICK HERE FOR LEC. TURE TOUR. Lady Warwick, one of the leading public women ‘of England, tall, hand- some and white of hair, was a distin. guished passenger on the Mauretania, She is to make a lecture tour of the United States and Canad, extending over six weeks. This will be her initial ex- perience as @ pubilc lecturer, although she has frequently appearsd on the platform both in England and in this country. Her Ladyship 1s a consistent and mill- he appeared at the home of his niece, Mrs. May Tefft, No. 441 East One Hun- dred and Eighty-seventh street. She lives on the fourth floor. He walked | in quietly, kissed his niece and petted | the baby on her lap, set als cane care-| fully in the corner and hing up his hat and coat. He t down and was silent | for a few minutes, paying no attention | to Mra, Tefft’s questions. think it ls about time,” after a while “For what, uncle?” Mrs, Teftt asked. “To end all this," he said, and walked into a bedroom facing on Park avenue. Mrs, Teftt laid down the baby and sprang after him, He slammed the door and locked {t before she reached tt. Mrs. Tefft ran downstairs and called William Keck, the janitor, and his ne- phew, Frank Weber. They went up- stairs with her and broke in the bed- room door, Mr, Curran was on the fire; es-xpe looking down, As they broke tn} he climbed over the rail. The janitor caught the bottom of the old man's coat, but missed his hold, Mr. Curran dropped to the sidewalk and the children ran screaming in all irévtions, bumping inte Jamp-posts, areaway railings and walle in their terror, Detectives Mec One Hundred stree and nui he said yn and Marton were nd Elghty-seventh onto Park avp- Surran to a te an ambu- r came from the hos- nu n died almost as soon as he was removed from the ambulance. His skull was frectired and almost every bone in his body was broken, pA cali aldse O |POPE AGAIN REFUSES CASTELLANE’S APPEAL ROME, March 9.—Pope Pius again y refused to dissolve the religious | marriage of Count Bon! de Castellaine |fang Anna Gould, now the Princess De fagan, To-day’s action followed the appeal made on behalf of Count Bont | |to have hia union. with the daughter | | of the late American railroad king set aside, and is believed to finally nettle the matter, Both De Sagan and Bont, it je said, were anxious that the Vatl- recognize the legal divorce granted dissolving the de Castellane-Gould unton, De Sagan especially #0, as his present marriage is not recognised by Catholos, In the Vatioan decree it is atated that the Ties Pope | mae Count Bont fatied to @ contention that Anna re- = at carried ‘by store and sent af tant Socialist, She makes a spectalty | of talking socialiam, but on this lecture | tour she will not deliver any address exclusively devoted to the subject. She Intends to touch upon socialism, how- ever, in her addresses on “A New Lra in the Old World" and “Persona! Rec- “I am often asked,” said Lady War- wick to an Evening World reporter to- day, “why I am a Socialist. I am a Scclalist because in soclaliem les the only road for the alleviation of condl- tions as they exist. “Present conditions of life are hope- less for te many. They cannot endure at a level. ‘They must get better or worse. Soclallam will improve them; Soctaliem will stop the amassing of im- mense fortunes for the few through overreaching the masses. “The enrichment of the few and the impoverishment of the many cannot continue under true democracy. S0- clalism is true democracy and its growth {s really quite remarkable. SUFFRAGIST HERSELF SHE ‘SCORES RIOTERS, “The Soctallste are not sgnorant “or reckless, You will find that the leaders of the Socialist movement are meff and women who see and think. The study of Soctalism {a an education, and I be Meve that tt become the standard & governments will be adm! Lady Warwick 1s a suffragist, but she was unsparing in her attacks upon the militants who have been rioting in London, She says most of them are women Who are seeking notoriety. “These women," she de hurt the cause. They have set back that which they) claim to be working to accomplish. They have been very fooltah—indeed, very stupid, and I am sorry for thetr actions, The destruc- tion of property cannot be excused on the ground of the righteousness of any cause.” Howard Gould, who returned from a six weeks’ visit in England, had some- thing to say about the rioting suffra- gettes, too, Hewae riding along the Strand in a taxicab on the day of the big disturbance and was caught in a whirlpool of stone-throwing, police heckling Suffragettes, “The women looked to me as though they were temporarily insane,” said Mr, Gould. ‘Certainly there was no eign of the gentleness and reserve we are ac- custemed to associate with womanhood, I am @ sympathizer with woman suf- frage, and I hope tho leadere of the movement will not countenance eny violence eush as that which I wit- te Lenten” J Howard Gould, Also In on the} jared, “have! “HYDE ISHONEST,” SAYS PRENDERGAST, NOW RECONCILED Shakes Hands Publicly With Indicted Former City Chamberlain. The bitter controversy between Comn- troller Prendergast and former City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde, out of which grew Hyde's indictment, came to an end to-day when tho Comptrolicr and the former City Chamberlain met accidentally in City Hall Park and shook ‘hands. Later Mr. Prendergast announced that he believes Charles H. Hyde to be an honest man, who can rightly be charged only with @ techni- cal offense in the eunduct of his im- Portant office, Mutual friends have been talking to Prendergast and Hyde and straighten- ing out some misunderstandings of late. In consequenee each man began to the other in a new Nght, and when they met to-day they simply walked up and clasped hands and called bygones bygones, Comptrolier Prendergast way to the City stall when he met Hyde, The meeting was witnessed by gossips and in the course of a short time Mr. Prendergast was asked about it, “Yes,” he sald, hands und had a fri ik. If Hyde had consulted me a year ago his trou- bles might have been avoided. I ad- vised then that he had too fons of the city money tn I did not consider safe, and I so noti- fled Hyde's office, was on his 1 had tnside knowledge of the con- ditfon of certain banks carrying city deposits, Later came the fallures, At this time Hyde, I belleve, was in Eu- rope and his office did not take advan- tage of the information and counsel 1 furnished, “[ do not regard Charles Hyde as a dishonest man, He was guilty in a technical sense only, [ That ts |! all there {8 to the matter.” ————— A FRAUD. It t# reported to The World that stock subscriptions to a weekly pub- Hcation are being “BO! 2, on the representation that this paper ts tne terested in the undertaking. It Is a fraud. The solicitor telephones in the character of Mr, Ralph Pulitzer, asking for an appointment, Later he calls as “Mr. Pulituer's" representative, ex- plaining that his principal is unable to fil] the engagement. ‘The scheme of the stock subscription is then unfolded, Neither The World nor Mr, Pulltser has any interest whatever in the publication. The solicitor making @uch @ representation ts @ fraud end and Stateroom i should be prosecuted, wings Cant Bo cad. Hermiae LOOKED IN SAFE FOR‘STOLEN’ GEMS; Mrs. Aroused Police by Reporting $48,000 Robbery. Mes. H. S, Kingsley, who occupies an apartment in the Grosvenor at No, @ Fifth avenue, set all the machinery of the New York Pollce Department to working yesterday in an effort to unravel the mystery connected with the disap- pearance of $48,000 worth of Jewelry from a bedroom in her home, She found the jewelry to-day In her sate, which she opened at the suggestiun of Deputy Commissioner Dougherty. ‘Mrs. Kingsley was almost hysterical as she told over the phone yesterday that a chamols bag of costly baubels had been stolen from her room on the third floor of her home between 7.90 o'clock P, M, on March 5 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Lieutenant Detective Farley went to the Fifth avenue mansion with @ staff of assistants. ‘This morning Farley reported to Mr, Dougherty that the case was most bamling. “Has the lady looked in her safe?’ asked Dougherty. Farley sald no. He had asked her that and she was very indignant. He hurried up to the house and suggested the safe as @ possible re- tacle for the Jewe Jractous! 1 never thought wate,” said Mra. Kingsley. {t and there were her Jewels, BOILER EXPLOSION KILLS ON DESTROYER PAUL JONES, One Man Meets Death and Two| Others Are way i by Warship Blowup on Racific Coa: WASHINGTON, March 9.The blow- ing out of @ boiler aboard the torpedo at destroyer Paul Jones at San Diego, , yesterday caused the death of Al- bert Grau, @ fireman, and serious in- jury to Peter Wiera, fireman, and John J. Eberlein, coal pase 9) thot 1? SESS 35,000 MILL WORKERS TO GET RAISE IN WAGES. of the She opened BOSTON, M hh %—A general . vance in wages will go into effect in the cotton milla of New Hampshire and Maine next Monday morning. The ad vance fa expected to be about & per cent. and In some Instances 7 per cent. The change In the wage schedule will affect about 35,000 operatives in the two States, thus bringing more than 100,000 hands under the influence of the general upward trend now in progress in Néw England cotton and woollen mille, ——— When you don't advertise aobody will know that you are seine a ae seas, and it won’, Se ine you wit) a ‘an a Nail THERE THEY WERE| ‘deebiageddins H. S, Kingsley First] CONNOR & CO. FAIL IN WALL STREET; TO PAY IN FULL Head of Firm Fifth Oldest Member of Stock Exchange; Illness Forces Assignment. $3,500,000 INVOLVED. House Before Reorganization Acted for Jay Gould and Russell Sage. The suspension of the Stock Ex- change firm of Connor & Co. of Room #6, No. 31 Nassau street, was announced shortly after the market closed to-day. Although more than $3,600,000 1» In- volved it is declarad no losses will be sustained, The firm was blished in 1886 and has been doing a big, though quiet, business, The members are Esra 8. Connor and Charlies E. @ilkworth, who to-day’ made a general assignment for | the ®eneft of creditors in favor of James I. Kernaghan, for several years | the chief accountant of the, firm, Lawrence & Lawrence ‘ot No. 1 Broadway, attorneys for the assignee, this afternoon issued the following statement: “The Connot’& Company firm has been in the process of Hquidation for over @ year and the protracted iliness of kts eenior member, Mr, Ksra 8, Con- nor, necesaitates this mode of winding up its affairs, The labilities amount nominally to $3,600,000; the assets are ap- Proximately the same amount, but these are merely the footings from the books of the firm and these figures will be much diminished, Mr. Washington B, Connor, who is the principal creditor, will take over many of the Mabilities, He has also directed that his own claime be deferred, thus making it certain that all others will be paid in full, The as- sanment ts made without any prefer- ence, The amount due to Stock Ex- change creditors is small ana will be paid in full.” Before the organisation of Connor & Co, the rm was known as W. B. Con- nor & Co., with Washington FH. Connor, 8. Conmor, ita head. W. HB. Connor & Co, acted for years as Stock Exchange brokers for Jay Gould, handling all his raflroad deals in the days when the Gould fortune wan at ite height, For years Gould made hi headquarters in the offices of W, B. Connor, Later W. E. Connor & Co. acted for Russell Sage in all his Stook Exchange transactions, W. HK. Connor, who to- day is the chief creditor of the as- aigned firm, was @ close business asso- ciate of both Gould and Sage. Ei 8. Connor, who with Charles A. Bilkworth took over the firm when W. E. Connor retired in 1886, is the fifth oldest member of the New York Steck Rachangs, He joined on July oceeamctitieaionines AMERICANS IN PERIL CANNOT LEAVE MEXICO. Many Marooned at Different Points Form Organization to Resist Raiding Rebels. Special to The Evening World). Mo EREY, Mex., March 9.—~Ar- rivals from the south may that Aimeri- jeans in that ection are pante stricken and that hundreds who have not the means of getting out of the country are forming organizations for protection in | came attack Is made upon them by the rioting rebels, In the City of Mexico on the departure of a train for the north a mob of Mexicans thronged about the railroad tation crying ‘Death to Americans!” and “Down with the gringos!"* | ‘The situation in Guadalajara, Agua! lcallentes, San Lute Potosi and Dut ango 1s reported to be critical, and the anti-American spirit le spread Torreon several hundred are marooned, No word has been re- celved from there for #ix days. The jtown was sur nded by four thou. sand rebels at last _nocounts, |NEW YORKER FATALLY HURT IN ALABAMA TRAIN WRECK. John Bryan One Victim of Colli- sion on Louisville and Nashville Road at Mobile, MOBILD, Als,, March 0.—~A northbound Louleville and Nashville passenger train crashed into a string of loaded om, aye thle monning ia the. Moblie aeyet of New York was etend ae em and Velnay was imajred, FOG HELPS CONV IN DASH FOR LIBER OVER ICE ON HUDSO Murderer and Burglar Ran Past Guards, Dodged Bullets and Dis- grounds to-day, ran out up in the fog before HIT WITH HUBBIES Feminine Dee Come. to Judgment in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, March 9.—Justice tempered with mercy was the policy pursued by who were given legal authority to in- fiict sentences upon their recalcitrant husbands in a police court here. The offenses charged by each wife were de- sertion, here are the sentences they imposed: Wie No. 1--Hubby to spend three months in the House of Correction, Wife No. 3—diubby to come home and be good, Wife No. Magistrate Morris is the local Dog- berry, who found himself facing three acoused husbands with three ac wives standing by. showed the husbands were rightfully ‘acouned. “Bentence them yourselves," directed the Magistrate, to inflict punishment on your spouses.’ “Thre rection, “But, ‘you wouldn't" — “Three months in the House of Cor rection,” Patriok was led away talking to himself. complained her husband had abused her joven years, was disposed to fr worse half the same dose inflict upon Patrick Mackin, but she couldn! bring herself to say Gegenhelmer promised to reform and his wife tou As for Mra. displayed bruises band had utilized her as a) sparring partner. ‘Thoma: drunk, beat her up, failed to give her enough money sometimes apparently forgot therwise, good husband, so I think T'll give him|iron picket fence in Actent barrier to escape on the It happened that Donahue another change.” Magistrate Morris {9 disposed to con- tinue his policy of allowing wives to|jinsky found ti sentence their own husbands. He thinks|the iron fence that, in course of time, the wives may iapiiene cate pe Mi 2 x appeared in Heavy Mist ing Low Over River. POLICEMAN SHOOTS ONE - AND TAKES THEM B ~ Sudden Dash for Freedom the Daring in History of Famous Prison. ahve: tong teen colic, ooking: natin ai lll dj slipped over the fence along the river side of the Sing Sing prt the ice covered river and were sm*" uit could be organized. Although shiocs : fired at them and the alarm was given within a minute by the nce os env ued gars Viol ca SG ad LADY JUDGES ARE Knowing that they would be to head across the river to the Rockland County, the Fagttives down atream until they felt they out of the prison sone. Them they Hane: the ashore and struck off inte convicts met two WHOM THEY FREE at Court’s Request. CBoactal to The Krenine Word Briarcliffe Manor them. three complaining wives |, field, non-support and cruelty, and nors to come up, 3—Ditto, ditto, ditto, “I ain't Dan ing The testimony Warden Kenned: Afteen minut whistle fire "1 deputise you wome months in the House of Cor- cried Mrs, Patrick Mackin, woman," interposed Patrick, MOST OARING repeated Mrs, Mackin and prison. Marle Gegenheimer County in 1908 to the cruel word: lary. ay Tha away with her, nas Murphy, she had Indicating her hus- pulse born of she sald, cme home| ice of guards, Th wel for her support and she was'The high \prison on ¢ 4 pretty {aiong the -val mupay in the direction of Passing through at the point where t! Donahue stopped and af-afrald of he gasped, “but I'm www. With some pride of Connors marched hie through Briarcliffe Manor end cliffe Lodge and across country te front gate of Sing Sing Prigon, © turned over Donahue and Hudjingky | ae just two hours after the prison sounded the newa that @os victs had broken Uberty, ‘The escape was made at 1.45 trom the yard on the river aide — the most daring in the history of: ‘Thomas Donahue was sent from thie city for manslaughter ia O The men separated and Hudjinsky headed road track for a clump of Donahue struck out ecress em | Connors drew his revolver fired at Hudjineky, who stopped bullet wound in his right han@ Determined to land both men forced Hudjinsky to run along while he chased Donahue. at the flectng waited jour IN nieToRy. ve me Ts eerve a term | twenty to twenty-five years for Up to to-day Donahue and Hi had been model prisoner, It ip that thelr escape was one one suddenly portunity. Practically they ran Py passing with e gang through a yard close to the river one walls that nd ee do net ¢