The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1912, Page 1

« Chief Kenlon did splen i } Factory FireF Eaterdnrs colder, INA EDITION. PRICE ONE O FAMILIES FLEE § Circulation Baoks Open to All." ———SSSS SS ENT. IN RAIN Conrstage, 1028: by, The! WHEN BLAZE IN ae MENACES 500 IN HOMES Crowd From “Lobster Belt,” in Autos and Cabs, See soci Fire. POLICE ROUT | ‘CROWD. Grocery Store Blaze i in Thomp: | son Street Also Forces Scores Into Street. More than five hundred persons were forced to leave their homes in abbreviated attire and stand tn the rain at 2 o'clock this morning when fire swept through the three upper stories of the six-story manufacturing building at No. 514-516 West Forty- sixth atreet. Many times that num- ber gathered beyond the fire lines through choice, hundreds being from the lobster belt, some in automobiles &nd others in cabs. “The blaze could be seen from all points of Manhattan and the Bronx. 4 work in con- fining it the buliding, ‘At about the same time thirty fam- fMes,.more.than one hpndred and fifty persons in all, were driven to the street by a basement grocery fire in Thompson street, kindled, it is belleved, by rats gnawing matches. €. Wollersen’s wood mill ts in the Basement and on the first and second floors; A. B. Brown manufactures screens and weather strips on the third floor, and the Newmasz Furniture Com- pany had the fourth floor, which was filled with veneers, dry woods and highly combustible fluids such as var- nighes, shellacs, paints and turpentine; ‘Wilson & Co., wood trimmers, were on the Afth floor, the Brown Company hed part of the sixth floor and Rubin 4& Saedin, clothing manufacturers, the to the upper part of rest. ‘The fire started on the fourth floor and epread rapidly. It was going ‘through the roof, accompanied by minor explosions as the flames found the cans of infammable liquids, when Deputy (Chief Ross sent in a second and a third alarm, On etther side of the building are rows ef four-story tenements. Capt. Day ame with the reserves of the West Forty-seventh street station and im- mediately bogan getting out the occu- ts of the tenements. the time Chief Kenlon arrived seventeen pieces of apparatus were at work and the flames seemed to reach to the clouds, Lines of hose were taken to the roots of the tenements on both sides, the water tower was doing service in the street in front, and a battalion of firemen etretched lines of hose from Forty-fitth street to @ three-story ex- tension in the rear and fought the fire from that angle. A downpour of rain made the task of getting out tenants of rby houses so aiMcult that the reserves of thi West Mixty-eighth street station w called, Many of the scantily clad men and women protested, but all had to go, and soon the street was filled with them, Tee firezien after two hours’ hard work had the flames under con:rol, and the fire had not succeeded in getting below she fourth foor, where it started, While scores of firemen wore !n ting-down the floors the big water tower on the ran? showed tigns of collapsing and falling through ihe root Deputy Chief Ross scembers 0 Yruck No, 4 up with axes, oil they eur # hole In ‘he tank, causing 4 Cascade of gome of the epectacors Falls woul. have seen. The dimage from ‘he fire ts estimated at $60,000, & combination of rats and mate caused a %00 fire loss in Anthony F rara'’s grocery, in the basement of No. FOUR MEN AND GIRL HELD AS ROBBERS Of TWENTY FLATS | Detective Phelan Phelan ‘Knocks Re-| volver From Alleged Thief’s Hand in Raid on Apartment. Four men and a golde@ haired young sirl who were arrested Jost night in 4 plunder stored flat at (No. 811 Wi Thirty-sevent). atret by Detectives Curry, Donohue and Walsh of the West Thirty-seventh street station were arraigned before trate Her- mann in Weat @ide Courfto-Gay. Four were held in $2,000 bail ech for a fur- ther examination April 1 @ @ charge of burglary. Tag ni gave the prisoner ott and of Edward, McDer- ith w re@pid of three prison terms, tives told the Court the gitl acte ‘dhicken stail” for the gang and there wal every rea- son to belleve she had assisted in twenty recent burglaries the west side. Wiillam McPhillips, alles Thomas Welch, allas Gua Meyer, the only one of the prisoners to adfpit that he was guilty. He was held fn ¢1,u00 for trial. Detective Thomas Pheiag faid the raid came as a climax to a week's sur- velllance of the house, Th@ unusually attractive young girl ja the pany of such unattractive’ men, one @¢ them a negro, excited the susp!cion fF the po- ce ofthe West Thirty-sev@nth street station. They waited until ghey were sure of thelr ground and then, led by Phelan, they followed MoPhifiige up to the fiat and broke tn. He wa @arrying | & sultcase filled with plunfey. Mc- Dermott came to the door With a re- volver in his hand, but Phelap grabbed ffs wrist and disarmed him, SEVERAL COMPLETE burFiTS OF BURGLARS’ TOOL& wife wil the police found several complete jof burglars’ tools, searchligtts, |aeks jimmies, skeleton utfti lack: Frank Wilson, the negro priboner, has served half a dozen prison terme for burglary. The only prisoner Who gould not be identified at Police Headquarters harles Mydomas, nineteen years old, who said he lived at Noy a6 West Thirtieth street. ? When the detectives had s@rted’ out all the plunder and compare@ it with {tems scheduled in the Headquarters “squeal” book of recent robbejles they deduced that they had evidence of at st twenty robberies. One griptul of clothing had been stolen in the same building where the is lodged. A suitcase found in the @pn wa: {dentified as the property of Mrs. lea- bella Powers of No, 400 West Fifty- eighth street, whose home wag robbed on March 18 last. Among the house plans found was an interior désign of home of Augustus Bloodgood, at No, 1628 Avenue C, Bayon t Quantities of pawn tickets were dis- ‘covered in the rooms, gold watches, sult cases and artides of wearing apparel. The negro §voman who rents out the apartment told the detectives that the lodgers hag been with ber about tree weeks. : faite ihe oa DOUBLE LYNCHING BY MOB IN SOUTH CAROLINA TOWN. ’ Two Negroes Are Put to Death for Vicious Attack on a White Man, | BLACKSBURG, 8. C., March %9.—Two negroes were lynched near fiere early to-day after a Vicious attack on & white 1% Thompeon street, at 1 o'clock this | man. morning, and sent thirty famille: one hundred and fifty persons all told, out into the rain, Ferrara makes a specialty of eggs and nd tapers on a latter he awol of the store to of the keeps matches, candies platform near the Cent make teats to determine the egg (A rat gnawed one of the maton easty to-day, according to the theory of and 1g id it flamed some ” tapers Laie. tela about | roes—Joe Brinson and Frank | *?! are alleged to have forced man to drink whiskey and 1 thee when he was intoxicated, to ha’ ed him, He reported thé affal . ‘The negroes were ar- | sted. Early to-day several men broke into the clty Jail, took the prisoners to @ blacksmith shop and th, He. aa Baees them, HERO | The n | Srpisoo In the midst of al! sorts f plunder | | ye and four GIRL CAUGHT IN’ RAID ON LAIR OF ALLEGED BAND OF BURGLARS. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1913, eT Lae ea LO “ WASHINGTON SHIPS ‘ARMS 10 YANKEES IN MEXICO CITY | Madero, Fearing Own Down- fall and Riot, Agrees to Plan of Foreigners for Defense. SIGN OF INTERVENTION. In Addition to Sending Arms, United States Has Troops Ready to Cross Border. WASHINGTON, March 2.—Communt- {eation with Mexico City, again restored to-day, brought fresh confirmation of persistent reports that the Madero re- HELEN Mc DERMOTT. FREEMAN'S FRIEND READS OF TRAGEDY AND LOSES MIND Léo Mars Carried: From Hotel Rector to Bellevue Strapped to a Cot. Max Freeman's tragic death yesterday by poison and the rope was the final strain added to the overwrought mind of Leo Mars, a close friend of Free- man and well known on Broadway as leading man in various popular musical comedies, Mary was carried from the Hotel Rector, where he lived, to the psychopath!c ward ‘in Bellevue Hospital securely strapped to a cot. The hospital authorities say that the mind of the actor has given away com- Pletely and that at present he suffers from violent dementia.’ It 18 too soon, they say, to determine whether Mera's |affiiction ig only temporary or likely to be permanent, had been appearing on the American stage since 19, returned to New York from a year’s stay In Paris a tew weeks Ago, and with a friend named Mercer took rooms in the Hotel Rector. The actor had been studying a great deal, and when he returned to New York he complained to his friends that he was suffering from nervous rtrain, the fect of overwork. This disability, which prevented Mars from securing the post- tion he had hoped for, weighed greatly on his mind, so his friends sald to-day. Day by day he grew more nervous and distraught as he realized that his career seemed to be slipping from him, The climax came yesterday when he read of the suicide of his old friend, Max Freeman, in the Hotel Grenoble. Mars retired to his room, No. 506, in the Hotel Rector, about 10 o'clock last night. At 11 o'clock bis friend, Mercer, who occupies the room adjoin- in rd gioan!ng and sobbing ex- clamations coming from Mars's room, He went in to find the actor thrash- ing about in bed, raving snatches of French and English. Mercer summoned Dr, Wiliam H. Leszynsky and the lat- ter administered a narcotic which sent Morris to sleep. But between 1 and 2 o'clock this| morning the effects.of the drug wor joff and Mars to show violent tendencies. He stood on his bed and }declaimed snatches from parts he had! |played many years ago in France, In- terapersing the French with bizarre bits of song from “Mlle. Modiste” ara other English musfcal which he had once had parts, ‘The man's appearance was so menacing when attendants of the hotel tried to Approach him. that. the management called for Dr, Semple to come up from Bellevue. i any re areated glme is tottering. The gravest fears a: felt here that the revolution-torn repu lc 4s on the verge of another govern- mental upheaval, and that the United States may be forced to yet intervene to protect America ‘CAL OUT MINERS FOR GREAT STRIKE; Order to Anthracite Men To- day Affects 175,000 and Soft Coalers Ready to Follow. MORE PAY. REFUSED. Bituminous Forces Make Des- perate Effort to Settle—Ap- . ril 1 Is Quitting Day. CLEVELAND, March 2.—Formal or- desis for a suspension of all operations {n the anthracite mines, beginning Apy) 4, Were Issued by the United Mine Workers of America this afternoon, jual to a strike, except that the men at the pumps and others Recessary to protect mine property would be kept at work. As the old contract expires April 1 500,000 MAY JOIN The State Department to-day oMcially |and there being no prospects.of a set- announced that a shipment of 1,000|tlement the miners have been ordered Krag-Jorgensen carbines and rifivs, to-|dut, Many, of them have already re- gether with many army tevolvers for|Moved their tools and very little coal hand-to-hand fighting, and a plentifyi| Will be mined to-morrow, which J» the rf Mare, who !g a Frenchman, but who ig | 18a ‘atop supply of ammunition, was despatched yesterday on the Ward liner from New York for Vera Cruz, consigned to Am- baseador Henry Lane Wilson at Mexico Citys whe arms are to be distributed by the Ambassador to responsible Americans in the Mexican capttal, who will pre- Dare to defend themselves in cage the half-expected outbreak of anarchy oc- ¢ Department to-day it was emphasized that the arms sent to Wil- son are to be used only in defense of life and property. The Americans do Rot expect to take sides in the revolu- tion and the arms will not be issued un- less the mobs menace the foreign sot- tlement. President Taft waived the recent nou- trality proclamation in the caso of the shipment of atms which left New York yesterday. The Government's action tn supplying arms to United States citizens in Mex- Ico is believed apt to be the forerun- ner of American intervention. Such a step was noi taken during the Madero revolution, Should the news be flashed to Washington that the 10,000 Americans in Mexico City were engaged in a des perate conflict with loot-maddened Mex- the Government will send troops t DOCTOR, DRIVER AND BABY HURT Wibclipintens Trolley Crashes Into Vehicle and One Victim May Not Recover. year-old Charles Whippen of No. Fitty-thind street, Bay Ridg Norwegian Hosp! Fourth avenue and Forty-sixth street, collided with a trolley car at Fiftieth street and Fifth avenue this afternoon and was demdlished, The trolley car, bound for Manha jtan and crowded with passengers, |smashed head on into the middle the ambulance ae it was crossing Ambulance Surgeon EB, V. Car- the worst of the {mpact and was badly injured, Fred Thorson, the driver, got @ broken nose, but managea to extricate the infant patient from the wreck of the ambulance,’ and ran with the child in his arma to the hos- pital. The child suffered only a few scratches. An ambulance from the Seney Hospital took Dr, Carter to the Norwegian ‘Hospital. He was injured internally and hed three ribs broken. The horse that was drawing the embu- lance ran @ mile from the acene of the accldent before it was caught. At the point where, the trolley car banged full tfit nto the ambulance there sign, but the motorman, John Ryan, evidemiy paid no attention to it. ‘The driver of the ambulance had the car would ‘aot pull up bis m7 to the IN AMBULANCE: An ambulance that was reshing two- | last workday under the old agreement. The anthracite mine owners and the miners are deadlocked ov: question af a new agreement, the featura of which 14 a demand of tye. men for higher wages, Leaderéjof the miners! Union gay thht negotiations Were broken off by the mine owners and that over- tures for resuming the parley must come from them, ‘The order caliing out the anthracite miners affects about 176,000 men, A desperate offort was being made this afternoon by mine owners and men in the bituminous field to reach a set- tlement. The same deadlock is pending there, a hitch over the demand of the men for more pay. If negotiations between the soft coal men also fail all work in the bituminous mines will also cease on April 1, and & total of 600,000 hard and soft coal miners will quit. WASHINGTON, March 2.—A general coal strike, involving between 500,000 to 600,900 bituminous and anthracite miner was oMeclally predicted to-day by the American Federation of Labor. “From present indications there will be a general suspension of coal mining in both flelds," sald the Federation, in an offictal nent given out to-d ‘Efforts to reach an amfoable adjust- t have thus far failed. “In some parts of the anthracite |felds preparations are already under |way to employ ‘strikebreakers,'" the atement declares, “but it is not thought by elther President Gompers oy Secretary Morrison that this will be | ®enerally done.” | President Gompers of the American | Federation of Labor sald to-day that organized labor was doing everything it could to avert a general strike, but that {conditions had changed so radically in jten years that the men could not lon afford to work at the old wage scale. “The high cost of living will be directs ly to blame for the strike,” said Gom- pers. The men cannot work at the present wago rate, There has in nO Increase given the coal men in ten years. errs JEWELLER QUITS WORK JUST TO HANG HIMSELF, “To Hell With It “All!” He Cried, and Shortly After He Was Dead. “To hell with it alll" remarked Charles Segna, a jeweller, throwing down his tools and stripping off his apron in the workshop of Engledrum, Zimmer & Co, No. 41§ Fifth Talking to himself and | Sena passed by his: wondering shop- | mates and entered the washroom, When half an hour had passed and not reappeared, the foreman seat Theo- dore Mayer, an apprentica, to inok him up. Mayer found the door locked. He re- ported this to the foreman and the door was forced, Segna was found hanging by the neck from a water pipe and quite dead, Segna's home was at No. @ Park aven' It was e@nid at the shop that he was a good workman and made food pay, but was understood to hav some domestic troub! —_————— IT CAUGHT THE TOWN. What do you think is the latest alo- ig ete iy ron, Spoke « Circulation Books BROOKLYNITE CHOSEN BY DIX FOR PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. GEO.Y: 3. WILLIAMS WILLIAMS NAMED. BY DIX FOR PLACE ON SERVICE BOARD Brooklyn Ally of Murphy’ Chosen for Vacancy on New York Commission. ALBANY, March 2.—Gov. Dix to-day | __ sent to the Senate foe confirmation the nomination of G. V.‘s., Williams of Brooklyn as a member of the Public Service Commission, First marae Bins Williams ts counsel to the servation Commission, Mr, Williams's nomination was con+ firined by a vote of 27 to W. ‘The divis- fon was Im party Ines, except that Sen- or Cullen of Brooklyn voted tn the negative. The nomination was crit- cised by other Brooklyn Senators, Mr. Williams succeeds William McCarroll of Brooklyn, and hiv nomination was sent tn to tako the place of Edward G. | Riggs, who was rejected by the Senate recently, The position pays $15,000 « year, Minority Leader what he called Brackett critlelaed “an unholy compa ‘xy The Governor and Tame . Williams has been familiar in politics for inany years, He has bi a leader of the Democratic party in Lsrooklyn, und In that capacity first bo- came friendly with Charles I’, Murphy when he waxed bitter warfare on the late Senator P. H, McCai The re- lations of the two men ha en very cordial ever Mr, Willla with an Commission he fought the Adirondacks Electric Power corporation in its ef- fort to organize @ trust of the lesser power com| on the Hudson. In this work he had the sympathy and support of Gov. Dix. The indo: is forty-two ye L, I, and amon, family of cocker spaniels of which Mr, Williams very fond. pla eS WHITMAN PUTS NEW KINK IN CHARLES H. HYDE CASE. Gets a Writ From Appellate Di- vision Restraining Justice Wood- ward From Taking Action. Whitman, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Department, this afternoon granted a writ of temporary prohibition against Bupeme Court Juse Uce Woodward in Brooklyn. The writ restrains Justice Woodward from taking any action in the habeas corpus proceedings brought by Charies H. Hyde, former City Chamberlain, The writ is returnable on Tuesday, = Elevator Bey Crushed to Death. John Donoyan, 17 years old, of No. 304 East 59th while operating ‘an ele' ors in the Adams Expr: Dullding at Madison avenue and 47th street this afternoon, wa: tween the floor and th tor and ond | crushed to death. orces Hanarede 70 Flee From Homes in Rain WRATHRER—Cloar to-ntamt and Saturday, to Al?) | 24 PAGES Condition Like ye ees Tie ‘PRIOR ONE 01 CENT. FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE My me That, Lawyer Says, Which Caused Her to Shoot Helpmate. HER SORROW HAS PLACED LOOK OF “MADONNA” ON HER. Calm With Which Woman Fa Ordeal Gives Her Striking Re: aces sem- - blance to Raphael’s Portrait. After a mental and physical collapse: at the night sesslon of ha) y which this and other nominees were} On the application of Diatrict-Attorney | trial before Judge Rosalsky and a jury last night Mrs. Genevieve Nico, demus, on trial for the killing of her husband, Prank Nicodemus, last Oc | tober, was unable to appear in court to-day and the case was put until Motday. ade “78 In the opinion of Coroner Feinberg, who examined Mrs —_——e in the Tombs in the presence of her counsel, Abraham Levy, the woman is now in a condition of hysteria very much like that which, her lawyer says, husband, VOTES FOR WOMEN BILL PASSED, THEN PROMPTLY KILLED | Assembly Plunges “Phixighs atiadate in Gloom After Giving Brief Spell of Ecstasy. ALBANY, March 2.—Advocates of woman suffrage had a brief spell of stasy this afternoon in the Assembly, when thoir bill was passed, and then gloom came when the House reconsid- ered {ts action and killed bil. The bill passed by 76 to 67, Just a constitu: tional majority, This action was met with applause from the suffragettes who filled the chamber. Their joyful ex- pressions had hardly subsided when A: semblyman Cuvillier moved to reconsid- ALDERMANIC HEAD SHOULD GET $7,500, SAYS MAYOR. Gaynor Says He Wanted Mitchel to Have Larger Salary, but It Was Left Out. According to Mayor Gaynor, the sal- Board of Aldermen should be increased | | trom $5,000 to $7,609, equal to that of the [head of any city » wpproved @ legislative amending the charter fo the salary of Vice an of the Board of Aldermen may be 35,00 and, that of Chairman of Alderinante Con mittec $5,000, At pres or these offic men 4s elected by the boroughs. Prevident Mitchell personally, sayin, so as to include Mr, Mitchell, the Pre some reason that amendment was not put into it. How does that happen? The salary I wanted to have him re- ceive was $7,000, But in some way or another it was not done. I do not know ‘that I care to veto the bill on that srount, but the President of the Board | SSeS she was undergoing at the time of the Shooting of * naee Girl's mother, Mra. Ida le, Was telling last ni doughter's are bables every man and womea Z eure which filled the court © force of her sobs loosened beautiful, wavy black hal: about her shoulders, Even Judge Rosalsky recognised the ness of ‘the situation by court Mra. Somerville, the mother, from the witness chair to her ter'n wide with her arms outs! big ad pet names pathy. back 4 fainting. The jury, with cympatheete lly averted faces, fled out past The cheeks of several of Jurors were glistening with tears, Under her mother’s comforting, Nicodemus braced herself to partied control, and with bowed head an@ strange stately watk which #0 great sorrow that she seems @ living portratt of the Madonna, mere than human, she followed lormed court officer to tl back of the court roam. ee oT COLLAPSES AS SHE FACES tron. BARS AGAIN, There her courage failed. As the ef — Cer opened the door she seemed to ese. ® Picture of the lonely cell beyond. She turned quickly body crumplingy, — . Once more her heart-brealt> ing Walls Milled the silent buflding, whieh except for the court in whleh bee casey The Criminal Coartiips of New Term’ County ts a place of cynics ana at emotion. Spot who frequent it too often calculated, torced Y All that sort of thing was biotted memory last night, when one into the griet-stricken face of Gat Nicodemus, ary of the oMoe of President of the) There was written there not omy mourning for the husvand who had @ after sae had shot him, but the °: oO had been of mother! veutalty +, and once ting that iy » had failed an se loved: in’ . There was mn on ‘ he kicked her dellsevmt the shock of Her ye ‘attempt to kill herselg had also killed ty spite of every this |strangely beautiful face, too, the 1 the people In all/ of the wom The Mayor referred to | wa who said to her has testified yesterday “He told me he wanted me to @o “I requested to have thie bill amended | Atlantic City and do wrong for | >fuch es I loved him, I could not ident of the Board of Aldermen, but for | that; because I loved him too mane j The report of Dr, Feinberg that ‘Was not in any condition to att trial, to-day, much less in