The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1912, Page 1

bes. | t PRICE ONE CENT “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | Cooreees, Utne New Vere Werle). NEW YORE, FRIDAY, “ Circulation Books to All.” a - MARCH 22, 1912. SISTERS AND AGED PRIEST FIGHT FLAMES IN CONVENT, LEAD CHILDREN 10 SAFETY St. Albert’s, Connected With St. Boniface’s Church at Elmont, L. 1., Destroyed. BUILDING COST $30.000. Nuns Form Bucket Brigade While Heroic Father Cella Battles Amid Sparks. Father Cella, who is more than seventy years old, priest in St. Bonl- face’s parish at Elmont, L. I., and six nuns attached to the convent of St. Albert, near the church, fought grimly and alone at dawn to-day to prevent fire from destroying the $30,000 con- vent building. They lost their fight, ond with tears in hie eyes Father Cella stood looking at the blank walls of the convent three hours later murmuring, “No mass to-day—no communion to-day. Just this.” The convent building was a four- story brick structure, standing about 150 feet away from the schoo! build- ing. .Behind the convent and at tached to it as a dormitory was the old wooden convent building. There fourteen clilldren were asleep when Joha Stelle of Elmont saw smoke pouring through a window on the top floor of the convent building. He dashed to the home of Father Cella and told him of the fire, then he pounded on the front door of the convent until one of the six sisters. who with Mother Superior Balbina maintain the convent and @ school, came to the door, ‘Then Stelle, the priest and four of the ran up to the smoke filled hall s' on the top floor and began to fight the flames with such puny appliances they had on hand. ‘The other two nuns hurried into the dormitory to still the fears of the girls, who had tumbled out of sleep to see the glare of fire on their bedroom walls, All of the children were dreased and marched out with thelr books in fire drill formation. PRIEST AND NUNS FIGHT DES PERATE BATTLE. Meanwhile the aged priest and the re- maining nuns were fighting a despairing Aght. Two of the nuns stationed them- selves at the pump on the ground floor and filled buckets as rapidly as the @thers brought them to be replenished. The buckets of water had to be carrie’ up four filghts of stairs and down the long hall to the door of the room, through the transom of which heavy clouds of smoke were rolling. Father Cella stood before the door, upon which the paint was blistering, and hurled each bucket of water through the transom. A hand extin- guisher, which one of the sisters had brought, could not {ts feeble stream over the height of the door. Before many minutes had paseed the @oer sank inward and a torrent of flame and sparks swelled out to en- velop the heroic priest and nuns. They had to retreat to the floor below, and (Continued on Second Page.) os - ANTI-BOXING BILLS BURIED IN THE SENATE. ALBANY, March 22.—The Saxe bill abolishing the State Athletic Commis- sion was reported by the Senate Codes Committee to-day. Senator Saxe, the Introducer, requested that it he placed on the orler of final reading, but Chairman &tilwell of the committee objected. This automatically sent the bill to the bottom of the already con- gested general orders calendar and there seoms io likelihood of action upon @t at this session, ‘The Allen bill aiming at the same (purpose, and which passed the Assembly, was also placed at the bot- tom of the list. > Cabinet Om Noble Dead. ST, LOUIS, March Gen, John W, Soble, who wan Secretary of the In- ‘erlor in President Harrison's Cabinet, fied. here this afternoon, He had been dick @ month, FOR RACING @i PAGE 20. IFEAR-MAD WOMEN BATTLE ON STAIRS ASIRLS BURKED Hundreds Fight From Factory Building in Fire Panic. ONE EXPECTED TO DIE. Miss Gaillard’s Injuries Proba- bly Fatal—Blaze Extinguished Before Mad Rush. ‘When Julia Gaillard, a girl operator, all aflame, ran screaming through the crowded aisles between the machinek tn & shirt-waist factory on the fourth floor of the twelve-story Spero butld- ing, at No. 21 West ‘fwenty-first street, to-day terror gripped the hun- dred and more operatives there, Re- membering the Triangle fire, they be- Gan a made scramble for the stairs, the fire escape and the elevators. Their panic was contagious and within five minutes several hundred more fear- mad women were clawing each other at every angle of the etalrway from the second to the twelfth floor. It was in the workroom of the M, J. Nathen Company, waist manufacture: that the accident, which may bring death to Julia GaMard, occurred. The long loft, extending the length of the building, is filled with machines and 100 operatives work amid the piles of in- flammable stuff, FLAMING WOMAN’ SPREADS PANIC AS SHE RUNS, Miss Gaillard, who {s forty years old and who lives at No, 1757 Third avenue, went to the back of the room to brew @ cup of tea over a small gas stove, As she turned from the stove her dross caught fire, Invtantly the flames mount- ef in a column about her face and, screaming frantically, the girl began to race madly down the long aisle, the fire lapping out to threaten all the pilex of cloth and paper patterns, Cella Bradford, who lives at No. 1779 Third avenue, and 1s a close friend of Miss Gaillard, and Isadore Nash of No. 299 South First street, a clerk in the waist factory, alone retained presence of mind. Miss Bradford jumped out and with her bare hands tried to tear the burning clothes from her friend's back. But the agonized girl beat her off and fell to the floor. Then Nash seized an overcoat, wrapped Miss Gaillard in it and smothered the flames, ‘Meanwhile all the building, from top to sidewalk, had caught the Iintection of panic, The stairs became jammed al- most immediately, and those who heard the cry of "Fire!" on the upper floors and rushed to the stairways found them clogged by those who were al- ready fleeing In blind terror, The fire escapes on the back of the building became black witn girls, Some threw open the windows on the Twenty-first street side of the building and screamed for rescue to those in the street, ELEVATOR BOYS DO HEROIC WORK QUIETING WOMEN, Joe Lowrey and Joe Paul, elevator boys in the building, ran their machines up and down, trying to take all of the passengers who clamored for admit. tance at every floor, The elevator boys did thelr best to calm excitement and to assure those who were banked before each grated door that there was no fire. It was not until TrafMfe Policemen Connelly, McGuire and Harth went through the ullding from floor to floor that the panic was stopped. Dr. Kutel of New York Hospital took Miss Gaillard to Bellevue Hospital, after giving first ald to Miss Bradford, It was said at the hospital that Yiss Gail. Septonet. on: Stor ¥8 on Second Page.) a to Escape | rlageable, *|sea the four | Mango” with the officers at Fort McKin- «| poo! by the coal strike in England, She GIRLS THE CARGO, NOT EVEN A KISS | FOR LONE PARROT Three Young Misses and Chaperone Circled the World On Cruise of Adventure. CAPTAIN SHIPS ROMANCE Brings Bride-to-Be to Port, but Daughters of Owner Are Heart-Free. Four very attractive young women, that {s, three unmarried but most mar- nd one chaperon, married but quite as young as her charges, ar- | rived here to-day on the steamer Suruga of the Barber line, after five-month: voyaging and adventuring in the Orie: As the Suruga is not licensed to carry wengers the quartet were signed as stewardesses and received a shilling a day for their services during the cruise. As Cupid has long considered young American women particularly dangerous ‘members of his legions, the Suruga was @ ship to make the Orient a oy ane think because she carried, in to these four young ladies, precy pene of dynamite, case of! and naphtha. The four fair travellers were ed Louise Barber and her sister, Florence, daughtera of James Barber, head of ‘the Mne; Miss Conatance Brown, @aughter” of Gerald Brown, comptroller of the Equitable Life As- surance Society, and Mra. 8. E. Me- Intosh of No. 251 West Ninety-third 7 street, the chaperon. Barbers live in Englewood, N. J. d there are six daughters in the family. Three years ago three of the daughters made the same voyage, two have just re- turned and t! xth, who de atill in school, is to have @ turn next. GIRLS MADE HOUSE FLAGS !'OR THE SHIP. The Suruga sailed from this port on Oct. 26 last and as coon as she was at wardesses” began the task of making house flags for the ship, one of these flags, by the way, flying at the main when the Suruga came up the bay. Algiers was the first port made and there the snip remained two weeks, giving the voyagers a chance to make many excursions about the neigh borhood. They had their first adventure there, an Arab following them so persistently in the narrow streets of the city that they were compelled to take refuge in their hotel. At Port Said they entered the Suez Canel just after the ship which was bearing King George to the Indian Durbar, and thence made thelr way to Singapore, where the explosive cargo was delivered, At Singapore they had several days of ‘ricksna riding, which they described a8 much more comforta ble than taxicabbing and far less ex- penalve. Manila was the next port and there the ship remained a month from Dec, %. Christmas Day was truly celebrated aboard, the young women having brought out thelr presents unopenod, Incidentally, while they were at Manila, they learned to dance the “Manila ley. They described the dance as more | dignified than the “Turkey Trot," and | probably all Englewood will be dancing | it In a short time, ‘The diversions of the party between ports consisted matnly in playing “Jacks,” playing the captain's plano, sewing on a machine and walking four miles a day on se marked out oy the deck, There was a parrot aboard who contributed with oft repeated cry of "Give us a kiss! The young people said that he did not learn it from them. BE TO PORT. Romance was not lacking from the Suruga’s cargo when she came in be- cause her skipper, Capt. Harry Arm- strong, brought with him js bride- elect, Miss Clementine Campbell of Glasgow, who joined the ship at Bo: ton, They are to be married t lrow if all the arrangements c made, The Suruga's chief George Chamberlain, r be officer, has a sweetheart too, and he had intended being married n at the same time as the skipper, but the young lady in the case had not ar- rived from the other side, her ship, the Philadelphia, being held up at Liver- will be here on the next vessel. The Suruga was met at Quarantine by a tug carnying Mr, Barber and Mr, Brown and about twenty-five friends from lewood, and ch a hugsing and kis as there was when the Su- ruga docked at the American Docks at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, Incidentally it may he stated that the young voyagers said that the things they Missed most during the voyage were baked beans and candy. All four of CAPTAIN BRINGS HIS BRIDC-TO. M them were chewing gum when they ar- rived, the pilot who brought them having supplied it Carnegie’s ‘‘Prettiest Girl in World’’ Compared With Other Noted Beauties GARNEGIE'S PRUE. | BEAUTY 1S AFRAID SHE ISN'T PRETTY}: Pittsturgh’ Girl’ He’ So Desig: nated Modestly Fears Public May Not Think So. (Special to The Evening World), PITTSBURGH, March 2.—It will next be in order for Andrew Carnegie to establish a Medal for Martyrdom and the first recipient should be Virginia Lee, the little Pittsburgh stenographer who has been designated by the Laird of Skibo “The prettiest girl in the world." Miss Lee, a modest, retiring and thoroughly businesslike young wom- an, is attracting as much attention in this, her home town, as would a suc- cessful White Hope. Three days ago she was unknown out- side her circle of social friends and her associates in the office of the Lough- bridge Engineering Company tn the Oliver Building. Now she is pointed out in the streets, Crowds follow her when she goes to lunch. If she attends a theatre she overshadows the show. i Vaudeville agents have deluged her With offers to wo on the stage, artiscs have implored her to po: paintings, moving picture concerns want her 4 the subject for a set of films to be shown broadcast, department stores have made overtures to her to act as, model for the display of gowns and} millinery. { At first Miss Lee was am Now | she 1s displeased. She feels that privacy of her Ufe hax been Invi fae Miss Lee, besides suffering the unwe come attentions of the thousa flack to see her, dwells sl waking with @ particularly fe prehension, She 1s afraid that after the extravagant praise accorded her looks by Mr, Carnegie the curtosity secker will not endorse his judgment | Mr, Carnegie has never seen Miss Lee. | His enconiums of her pulchritule were | delivered under an influence of a photo- | graph. Miss Lee is a graduate of the | 1 ds who rgaret Morriaon Technical Schools in this city, one of Mr. Carnegie's philan- | throphic enterprises The retired steel king Is tn Springs, Ark., and there he met Lee, Miss Virginia's fat + who occasion to thank him for having gi the girl an opportunity to secure a busi- | ness education which has established | her in @ paying position, Mr. Lee wrote | to his daughter, telling of » meeting | with Mr. Carnegie, and aM Lee wrote Mr. Carnegie a letter, adding her | thanks to those of hi father and in- closing her photograph, The photograph 80 impressed Mr, Carnegie that he showed {t to many persons in Hot Springs and his expres sions of appreciation of the beauty of | the original were widely quod, Meet. | ing a reporter whom he knew Mr. Carnogie gave him the photograph for reproduction. "I think,” said Mr. Carnegie stroking his beard, “the people of Pittsburgh would like to know what Bonnio Vir. sinta Lee’ looks Uke. “It I were not already happily mar- ried I would cut short my stay in Hot Springs and go back to Pittsburgh to aes this young lady. But I gueas some en- | terprising young man in Pittsburgh has already seen what I have seen in Mi Lee—that she ear! beyond price,’ ; He | Wor iman ie of teeth are in order In th lers |thetr jobs would last at least until Mt mero windilena itcie PAYROLL JS GUT AT HEADQUARTERS OF 1. R. BOOMERS penses at Manhattan Tower to Be Reduced From $7,200 to $600 a Week. G-1 double o-m—! thick and sticky, prevailed to-day in the Rooxey dquarters in the Metropolitan Tow has gone out that the bank roll has given orders for radjeal re- trenchment and that the payroll and lother expenses are to be cut from $7,200 4 week to $00 a week or less, varly all the employees are to be Jdropped and they number about 200. ral, Mgh-priced practical workers eon the axe Mat. Wailing and gnash- Tow the confiding and enthustastic totl- for the Roosevelt boom felt | for that the June convention and salaries were quite Mberal, ‘The Roosevelt headquarters ail the rooms but o1 urth floor and a sui on the twenty-fifth floo twenty= rooms on the politan Tower, On, next Wednesday morning-the day after the prinartes- all the rooms on both floors but four or five will be given up and the furniture will be shipped to some mysterious place George Manchester, who got $19 a week as an organ is to feel the Welght of dismissal, and with him wi }go a staff of about thirty well pald eutenants. Lindon Bates Jr.'s canvass and petition bureau Is to be wiped out, together with Mr, Bates and a staff of 00, ‘The mailing department, earvying a staff of thirty more or lem beautiful stenographers, |3 to be abolished. Prace tically everything ts to go but the bare ecessitics of office room and help for a small staff, consisting of Committee Chairman Duell, Treasurer Hooker an George Henry Payne, who has earned the everlasting regard of the Koosevelt nomers by promising never to cut his whiskers off unt& the Colonel ts nom- inated. Oliver Cllnton Carpenter, the young Wall sireet lawyer, 18 not to be so busy around tho Metropolitan Tower after (eae AE PRR pA BACK TO HOBOKEN GOES HETTY GREEN TO OLD FRIENDS acai camel America’s Richest Woman Seeks Cozy Flat and Old Fashioned Tea Parties. Mrs. Hetty Green, the ever-young old lady whose fortune, mostly self-accumu- lated, 18 generally estimated at §75,000,- 0, has gone back to her flat In Ho- 1, leaving the care of the brown- mansion at No. 6 West Ninetieth street to her stalwart son, Col, Eddle, If {t Were not Mrs, Green there would |e cause to wonder how anyone with seventy-five millions and a town house just off Central Park West could vol- untarliy give up Hfe In the city for a Hoboken flat. But to those who know Mrs, Green's fondness for her old neigh+ bors across the river her longing to get back to the quiet little home of #0 many years seems natural enough, n given by Colonel “Mother never wanted to live in the city, I got her to come with mo in the uptown house last August and at [first she seemed happy and contented. But she soon grew lonesome for the old friends in Hoboken and all this winter she has been looking forward to the first days of spring with the view of going back. here is nothing in New York life to Interest my mother, She prefers the simplicity of her apartment and loves to have the old nelghbors around ja the evening to sit and chat in the good old fashioned way. Mrs, Green's Hoboken home ts not the firat one she oceupled there, For many years she lived in a $19 @ month flat but a few years ago she rented a $0 flat in the same neighborhood and had it furnished si but expensively, It than the first fat and nfortable, She enter. xlbors at tea two or in the evening jis either receiving callers or visiting at nel#hboring homes, New York, however, her Ifo was terribly dull, She never cared for the theatre nor would she ever invade so- y cr Col, Green spent most of nings home, like the dutiful ‘boy’ but once in a while he had to out Green aid not although she is a little larger mwre © her old n In stay Mrs. alo Colon Uke being left insisted that tho 1 should not tle himself up in the house on her account, But she quietly made up her mind to go back to the hills of Hoboken and when the first breath of spring caressed New York several daya ago ‘Mrs, Green packed up @ few belongings and took the ferry over the river, Wednesday. him to do, Further particulars were unebtainable this afternoon, Those woo felt the weight of impending disaster were too depressed to try to get any more par- They had enough, iclans of the Old Guard say the determination to #wing the axe in the Roosevelt Headquartsre means that the Roosevelt managers read crushing de- feat in the primaries next Tuesday. ‘There will not be much for ins Ap tre a0 “sokaneus a8 Ye 1 nen MPU os cea 24 PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. TERMS OF SURRENDER OFFERED BY QUTLAWS AFTER ONE IS CAUGHT When Sid Edwards, Whose Bullets Helped Kill Court Victims, Is Seized, a Courier From Allen Gang Hurries to Roanoke. FACING DEATH IN TRAP, THEY MAKE BID FOR LIFE | Agree to Plead Guilty to Second De- gree Murder and Escape Extreme Penalty for Assassinations ROANOKE, Va., March 22.—With Sidna Edwards, one of the Allen outlaw leaders and a nephew of Ployd and Skina Allén, under arrest and posses closing in on the mountain strongholds of the Allen clan, an offer to surrender has come to this city, by courler, frum the ‘The iman-who brought'the message ts trusted alike by the ASlens and the State authorities and his mission is accepted here as serious, Probably the capture of Sidna Edwards early able to defend himself, has warned the outlaws that to escape. At any rate, soon after the news of Edwards's here there came into Roanoke an emissary Skina kinsmen, who have been hiding since the house last week. SUFFRAGETTES IX CHINA “ALLE SAM ———LIKEBLITISH Dissatisfied With Votes for Women Bill, Wreck Parlia- ment, Hammer Police. = hii i i ii il i i 3 F side F fe ! | | ii f I are wo : No action until it is formally brought to Is attention, The courier says the Al- lene are strongly snteentns and will not allow themasivcs to be alive If thelr offer to surrender ‘ refused. ‘They are all dead shots with rifle and _— revolver and the poexs must suffer if it ‘ < March 9. Chinese Suffra-{/8 found necessary to attack them, ‘a LONDON eae ee lafled with the, Detective Baldwin this afternoon eat@ i geites at Nankiag, tenis rewols.| 20284 relected the offer of surrender % National Asembly's demic resol nd was in favor of continuing the pure tion favoring woman's suffrage, accord-| sult, ‘The matter however, will be fe ing to advices received here to-day, | ferred to Gov, Mann for a final deciaion. Fs ve fi rl dee 4) prs , SIO EDWARDS, SURPRISED, 18 othe ern) | TAKEN WITHO! re o down the polles’ On Quand smashed the ppd HILLSVILLE, Va., March 22.—Infor- mation received here by telegraph and | telephone establishes that « posse has ptured Sidna Edwards, one of the Hen outlaw leaders whe took part tn tio assassination of Judge Masate, other [officers of the court here a week ago. | She news has come trom Mount Afey, » and Richmond, Gov. Mann Rae reat & telephone message from De- tective Feltz, In charge of one of the | posses, that Edwards was captured allve © and uninjured, He was surprised in bis hiding place and overpowered before he had an opportunity to make any fe |” sistance. Other members of “ie band are said + to be (rapped in the same vicinity, and 4 roundup of the entire Alled crew oo. pected. The capture of Edwards was made |near Lambsburg, @ village In the faot- lls of the mountain, about twelve miles northwest of Mount Airy, N.C, Re ports state that the posse, avoiding Mount Alry and Hillsville, struck out over the mountain roads for Galax, @ railroad station, with the intention ef taking a train to Roanoke. Sidna Edwards ix @ nephew of Floyd and Sidna Allen, He ts young and ven- turesome, and is believed to have been acting as a scout for the fugitive mem windows of the building The meeting had to be suspended fo a time and was re mit protection, SAN FRANCISCO, March 22.—Equal suffrage was granted to the women of China yesterday by the Parliament at Nanking, according to a ca recelved here to-day. come effective tmmed! ypened undor Women voters will be subjected to the same re- and must be able to pe Property owners and at least twenty years old, Yik Yug-ying, who has been called the Mrs, Pankhurst of China, was elected a member of the Parliament yesterday from Canton province, She Js a college graduate. strictions as men _ > | COFFYN DOING: WELL, | There ts good, news t Yrank Coftyn, the aviator, who was lujured in an automobile accident tn Central Pi on Wednesday last and ty in cai the surgeons at the Presbyterian Hos- pital, It le belleved his injury ts a Slight fracture of the skull. Last night he slept well and suffered Jess pain than at any time since the accident. In fact, s0 much improved 1s his condition that] pers of the Allen clan. It le known that - Mrs, Coffyn, who has been with him|ne was tn thie vielnity three or four constantly, went to her home to-day for | gay, her first rest sinco Wednesday, Kdward L, Harvey, who was in the motor car with Coffyn and was injured, le also at the Presbyterian Hospital, ant to-day was reported to be suffering POSSE HAD GOOD LINE ON CAP. TURED MAN. The fact that young Edwards was, captured at Lambaburg leads to the much with @ broken rib and/[ilef that the whole band ts in that sprained wrist and ankle. His condition "seston, te mot serious, scadeatiantiiehemmend eet etaanieds