The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1912, Page 2

Mi ‘was being done at three other stations on tne bleak sand dunes which efelettetapjatetatantateafetaniaieintetetetet | Streteh from Little Egg Harbor north to Barnegat light. trews knew the exact location of.the ship in peril. They only krfew that None of the A __THE EVENING WORLD, TUHS DA, DE0VRMBER 24, 1912. eee Aelita ttbetattaintetetetotattetatepeh | Dr. Hudson #aid both Mr. Mohr's knee- tFifth Avenue Shoppers Braving Snowstorm, caps were fractured and he would prob- ebly be crippled for lite. to Wed. COUNSEL BLU . Iowa, Dec. A ‘The marriage of Lawrence C, Phipps jt. { Deny e Pittsburgh mill- Dennis Kelly, thirty-fivegyears old, & of Denver, son of the Pitts! somewhere out in the white smother beyond the breaking crests their duty enn Kells, thirty-fvagrears ot Denver, cetera = wie ' called them and they began their fight with the tumbling surf line. laborer, of No, at RleventiP avenue, was lonaire stot manufactures, From Little Egg Harbor and the two stations on Brigantine the ‘surf- boats were pushing from their sheds and into the waves. Time and again Dodging Autos Amid Blinding Whirl of Flakes ‘ freight yards in Eleventh avenue, when, | blinded’ by snow, he was caught be- place at the home of Mrs. Charies Test Stewart here Saturday afternoon, Dee. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Phipps will leave at (Specially Photographed for The Byening World by 0 Stal Photographer. t moving freight cars and Y boats and men were hurled back by the oncoming combers; the snow was - » wanes, a pts removed to the Poly once tor Egypt a blinding; spray whipped off from the tops of the waves mingled with the clinic Hospital in a serious condition, enn or TIDES, ‘ rem i: as ‘now to drive like shot Into men’s eyes. | suffering a int Fs deg sae Hats Water. bow “Ee. os Finally Capt. Rider and seven men in (heir boat G. 8, MeClelian topped We SC ea oe Te ‘pm ig es the surf line and went groping through the murk into the teeth of the gale. om 00 as ; Gled with but little delay. thick-looking scab, only to get rubbed off Z All the railroads and transportation bleed again. i, noos. She was laden with fruit, coffee and other tropical products. lines insisted the expected rush of a poled Balve, but ft was toe % One of the newest and largest vessels in the United Fruit Company’ shoppers later in thé day would be for her : ; service, the Turrialba is a stee! shtp of 5,000 tons came out of the story and crashed Into| minutes. But though he started the first slelgh-|relf with his snowstorm, for the mill- a \d epee Mea, bat in the f- aicaesaaty | , i etal and shopping distric the passenger boat just astern of amid-| The snow shut bells Jingling in :e parks—thin, gnost-|!0n8 of presents interchanged through | 2@¢lal Fs vhipe. shore and river as he ot on the liy reminders of the days before the| the mail and on express wagons will be| But ee sail tera yl ete Le Player-Pianos to Rent > Instantly there was @ wild scene on|fog. When the Brooklyn rode safely |*Utomobile came and tire chains took; Pe! up. The delivery of Christmas| ¥% ina sie ied we piiniead Fc gu Wholesome ut this beautiful Player-Piano in U ' the ferryboat. Women screamed and| into her slip a hurry call wae [the place of runners—Santa brought | Packages may not be completed until | that the occasion had arisen for the Netritious house. Pay a small sum down and have uy men got ready to jump. ‘There Was a| the St. Gregory Volenton: danse auitering and some. inconvenience to | Crista Heol 19 a thige of the past |##r¥ices of the sow removing contrac. ig PSsek ig it dplivered any day you desire. i crashing of glass and a sound of splint-| Dr. Freoman ri rT millions. ‘TraMlc on street car Ines, on| TE letter-carriers, tooy human beasts | tors am ye : e ver New Pi This We U (: tig Wasd 40 tne ears ottie oh ses nce ee Haag ed with an the elevated roads and on the suburban |Of burden, ure facing @ trying ordeal, | #0W-moving force ip the city, were got- Pianos This Week, $98.50 Up, 5s partly carried away: In the somi-dark- | van, No. 8 Amitycatreet, phd tn fonds. whlch pour thelr hundreds. of eaeaaeney Bverwore was one hihi daylight a abe Mex te Bote all New 88-Note Player-Pianos : ; : city wis |20U8 With overwork and weary backs, | 4aylight, i ness Bee neetent to toll what the erie fractured ribs; John ea rate or ns erty e utoway {are being delayed for hours, Imeome| Snow was Ma aces Ae $265.00 be On board the tug bells were rung tol tusions and lacerations: Timiee oom. | “running indoors nued to shuttle | “A#e# On each “run.” ets laird pass Bitar esa Our wish is fulfilled if you only see these Shar ded thee te beck ana the vanes 3 joni homas Hen-} i sardined patrons officeward on | ,72¢ DUAY Weather men held a counctt|Pa-: Baktimore, Mc Inston, Del; Pienon: They sell themselves, You can't Eile iieiah the tadores eret tan cone Sey, Ie ON lakes street, laceration |i Ta " of war at noon and announced at Washington, D. C, and other Eastern elp understanding their exceptional of aid being required. The deckhands| jured live in rookiyn. They ware (2.| HOLIDAY HOME-COMING STEAM- |.” PSEA ta gti Beatty bse Re TE COTS Tee ” ay go balers hehe seahorse We sad 4 . ; nttall and what howe yor § . £ the ferryboat were among the pas-' moved to the hoapital, ERS HELD UP, tbe | York City. At midnight, about an ho! ae sd re pase en A ONO . { beach of Gandy Hook . having narrow | outside the Hook and.two in Quarantine] for his drivers and shovelers and aweep-| TWO DEATHS RESULT INDIRECT- | ——— 4 ee Dag ‘atte ro lige rr bord age from being dashed against her | and one lttle couster, the Ancon, of the| ors, All these were informed ‘esaay LY FROM STORM. | FOUND AND REWARDS, lifted her 20 high on the beach that she | vo ih Nia Vt d st Pan ange reams Uae is in Giele couipany ee vaat luck was against them and they} One death and ‘s of serio q in ~, Lore ame stake from 4 2 4 4 oats themaalves | side and outside, over 100,000 gross ton-} would have to work on the Yuletide, ewan 0 and areat ber of attendants of 84 oo || West, Tth ay, Willi w unis and 4 1 Sp y+ oom teat eae tiie surt and ‘they found |nage te ted up: Cutaide the itook are) ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED 16 a matte tite Lett tene eeSigedee iS Seadaaters =" ye Bra hall a0 - wchooner had worked hey-| the Red Star line Lapland, from Ant- re . 427 Br scahiany toad aoa Wot _ Weve able to drop to the vend and walk {seit ashore and that her bow wee Ling | werd, with 1,000 passengers; Martha GIVEN WORK. U wale ae Win Yceleass De bo Pte i to the two life-saving crews which had and dry. Washington’ of the Austrian-American ta’s crisp Christmas gift was « communi. with GR. §..°115 W. igta bees battling al! morning to reach them| The cargo of lumber on the May will bound fron e with $00 pas end ‘to thousands of “soldlers' : = rece errr when they were further out oa the|all be saved, but the hull iia; wil e; the Hamtyrs-American, Amer. | Wearing the tattered funiforme of ‘the noe _ELP WANTED—MAL | teething shoals, ' Probably Ue where it im until it rots,| ika, from Hamburg, with 1,80 passen- |4T™y of the unemployed. Long before Cream. Ki Capt. vy na lg «cory lg Gandy a Pedder by William ©. stay | gers yllght the Mills Hotels and the mu- | Sine ad Heok Léfe-Sev' Mtation No. 1 was and was bound from] 1,_ tt re the Rotterdam of] PiciPal and Bowery lodging houses were notifies at Gaverenk that S emooner Charleston, 8. C., to New York. Rede erased reigg sig He turning out thelr hordes, Jater. toe was in trou yy ey ese itn tat baie s the George |€dulpped with snow shovele by the the target used ty| GEORGE WASHINGTON Washington, of the Nevth German {traction companies, the clty contractors Business as may the he lnuncted the mote) AND DREDGE COLLIDE | 1107s, with 2.09 passengers, and the | 4, ET en Na. 8 Wealtngtan jlaok, en ctgt 1 | Mtaboat ot the sation afar eating tee| IN AMBROSK CHANNEL | 2°22 £0 Yaama, vith lin panen- | A Brooklyn Rrlage the gituaion was $ja°o'dok eee Pate iB i { ogre cf Station He. 9 to come with wel the delayed vessels ere heavily|ensineer in charge of both t Ca gee IM Se tet Sister Bente ’ “tilele beat, which they dragged wp the| The George Washington was feeling| iasen wih Chrisrnes math lyn and Manhattan Bridges. Subsequent fgg By Olco. a = @ qruck. her way through Ambrose Channel to- BROOKLYN “L” TRAINS MAKE|'° 43% when @ string of milk trucks Peppermints. Pe ais Ueltine, STRAPP<—On Dee. 28, 1013, JONN B. @ene were running 6o tigh and\day when had @ collision with the was stalled on the south roadway, |i Teens. Proacn, Steams, ote 15¢ EUGENE STRAPP, aged ‘30, beloved wih ep many choppy sano eteam dredge Raritan, the force of MANY 8TO there was little congestion. This was Lan UND BOX ton of John Strapp and Rese McSherry. changes of direction that meither lép-| which made passengers reach instinc-| The first crowds to strike into the|due to the fact that Mr. Crocker gave th NBON Funeral trom bis late residenc 3 j pineott’s crew mor the io. 3 boat could | tively for life belts, wri" | storm before the anow waa packed down | orders that no vehicle except passenger ie New ENGLISH Model Ma Oey a aLAG 25c get near enough to the vessel to get a ese dredge was badly damaged, but| vy tramping feet were a bit grouciy. | automobiles should be allowed to cross — Positively Correct ~ FRUITS, ete. .POUND BOX Mme aboard. The schoonér was pound- wait ner Sopernuy escaped iujury. | The: early-to-work pedestrian were | Brooklyn Bridge, drivers and chauffeurs \ Aen De 2 ing wo beavily that the; Aid from Capt. Polack of the| frced to wade through damp.*elinging | of heavy trucks being sent on @ detoui e oes. Cc might break wp at any moment and Washington, Capt. Clark, in that came Well above thelr shoe |to the Manhattan spi Ver command of th snow that ca 1 above thelr shoe 7 ry : were eager to get the breechce buoy | safely to dry dock nt ad He crest tops and, in drift reached thetr knees | A few minutes before 8 o'clock, there e Z. IMPORTED FaeNcn GLACE Faults, NEW working. ty-sixth treet, Brooklyn, Struggling through the heavy going, | was a near rlot when a West End line CROP, JUST ARRIVED, 5-POUND BOXES e — buffeted by @ forty-milo Kale and with | train pulled Into the station at the ars eres ° e ' flying snow sweeping inside overcoat | Brooklyn end of the bridge. Men and dors to be ued kranting every em-| collars and muffors, they reachod sur-| women, already late and fearing they || SPECAALOFELR fv SUNDAY SUHYOLS, CHURCHES, Ete, a aZin { = DEPRIVED OF HOLIDAY oguttatanas holiday away. {ce lines and * to find trafic al-| would not be able to get on the train, || with LINOCORD Buttonholes PUNT eoeranent tare Candy when, axon net Lai Pare aa Broke } x @'clook thi i | Most Paralyned. | ze8 8 FOR rook —ene ee AEAVY SHOWTALE 7 tall of anowe Hae a2 ,'214 | howe coming Into the elty from C las 8 Ge, Trev Ne. “a POUNDSOF “METROPUL, TAN” MIX- 4 dreds of men at wo: y ress Hills and such outlying sections of ‘The @mow King’s viet has upset the rk on street corners | DI TURE, Al ln turn Capt. Holscomb and Capt. Smith got their boats on even keel be- yond the surf line and joined the search for the stranded vessel. COULD NOT GET NEAR STEAMER. Capt. Rider and his men were the only ones to come in sight of the ‘ig white tropic ship. They saw that she was not breaking up, and did not risk the extra danger of drawing closer than a half mile. In the midst of the lifesavers’ difficuities one boat bad to turn aside to render aid to the powerboat from Atlantic City. Near noon the powerboat was seen to be steering for sheltered water inside the shoals. distress were waved from the powerboat to the nearest craft of the Li Beach lifesavers, and they put over n making repairs, Their engine had ocean's pound! R.W. Bolssevain, general tra Mc manager of the United Fruit Company, | Signal to assist the crew of the powerboat broken down under the strain of the received the first wireless report from the Turrialba’s commander and as so6n as the Merritt & Chapman wrecking company could be communicated ‘with he ga‘ orders for the despatching of two big wrecking tugs to the * scene of the big ship's peril, The two tugs cannot make the trip much un- der seven hours, particularly since they will have to buck a head wind and % sea during all the trip down the coast, At the offices of the United Fruit Company, No. 17 Battery place, it was said no complete passenger list of the Turrialba was available, Traffic Manager Boissevain refused al! inform ation concerning the vessel's plight. MANY SHIPS WRECKED WHERE THE TURRIALBA LIES. The Turrialba left New York on Nov. 30 for her round trip through | Caribbean ports. She left Port Limon, Costa Rica, for the return leg of the | trip @ week azo yesterday. touched at Kingston, Jamaica, five days ago | for service in tropical watere. As a@ carrier of green fruit, bananas, the boat was fitted with a complete refrigerating plant with an| arrangement whereby the cold air coul bot weather. "irden, specially designed particulary id be carried through all staterooms in The place where shé now les, battered by the mountainous waves, |s sm historic graveyard of ships. So many wrecks have there been “along Barnegat way,” as the natives term the strip of treacherous coast, that the old fishermen and descendants of wreckers who make their homes there count epochs of time from the dates when this and that boat went ashore. INSPECTOR HUGHES ON TURRIALBA. Commissioner Waldo received a wireless despatch to-day from Inspector Zdward P. Hughes briefly stating th at the Inspector was on the United “ruit Company's steamehip Turrialba, and requesting an extension of his leave of absence. Hughes left for his vacation on Dec, 2, being ordered to report again for duty tommorrow morning at 8 o'clock. Commissioner Waldo w: lessed back that his request was granted and he made the extension indefinite. Ponie Aboard Ferryboat : : epartmen: Vf High Bridg Th tor like. In Brook: e w le. Eight Thousand Homecoming Passengers Are|Depriment, was not convinced by 4) At Oth Tecause of the ariving | “trp fundee™ one the wroteg” cx nmie! A ‘ pi ee : snow. igned to dro; tact wi " When Hit by Tug in Storm. Tied Up on Steamers Held at Quarantine [sum '2 very much He sald the |r sone, manager of a restau: | fornicate citacn Somact with any un- The ferryboat Brooklyn, of the Atlan- ‘tle avenue line, was run ééwn in the Snowstorm and four persone were hurt, thig morning. The vesee! landed at her Pler at South Ferry an hour late on the rum across the river. The blinding snow made it impossible to eee more than a few feet aw in any side and a tug- hom with t lumber barges in tow sengera giving assurance that every- thing was all right, but the women kept level heads got among them and quieted them with their surances that the vessel was not dam- aged and that they were very near the ferry slip, The Brooklyn had then been out one hour on her usual run of a few Schooner With Eight Aboard | east gale, nearly 8,00 passengers, hur-|who assured Big Bil Edwards, who, as abave zero. Bion atler the storm a me ———— Open Evenings rying home for the Christmas holidays, | Street Commissioner, suddenly ‘has |!" there was a drop of two degrees an Driven on Sandy Hook Beach are held up outside Sandy Hook and in| loomed into greater {mportance than| After that the thermometer remained THE SCHUBERT PIANO CO. The three-masted Quarantine. stationary at 28 degrees until the day lumber schooner John H, May was driven ashore to-day | They tossed along, ide of her, ¢requei stern e along- plan of “Big Bill" Edwards to afford plan of “Big Bill" Brwards to afford the 6.4 employees of the street Cleaning De- irtment and the 3,000 horses of the de- partment @ holiday to-morrow, It had been planned and the order gone forth that “not @ wheel would turn” in the Street Cleaning ii stations to-morrow. man had informed “Big aesurance that was that there wasn't a pint of snow Jn signt for these latitudes and, banking on this empert official information, missioner Wdawards ca\ in itself, 1MA CUBED IN 10 and crossings in the business districts by dayligh in Manhattan, Bradiey and Commissioner Edwards Department or any of /Fesched the Fifth avenue snow head. The weather WFters early and began the direction Bill,” with an! 2 removal operations from that point. candor jth Belmont Trucking Company has the contract for snow removal at a uni- | form rate of 48 cents a cublo yard, Tho ‘Com- | *Ward was made after competitive bid- used genera) or-| DS, in which the largest contracting and trucking companies participated, Commissioner Edwards estim The Commissioner also got in immediate touch with Frank Bradley, who le managing the work of snow re moval tor the Belmont Trucking Com- pany, which has the snow contract work ad the | AND SPOILS + out his own particular scheme of Chri noon there, spires, mi With the snow scurrying in blinding masses before a forty-flve knot north- Three big mall steamers are anchored Brooklyn found their usual half-hour run had been doubled, Express trains on the Brooklyn and New York “L” stopped on an average of twenty times between stations to make sure there would be no accidents, Buburbanites fared rathor better. The roads, taught by many eostly lessons in the pi ad out snow ploughs and gas-blow long before the inbound traffic ha gun, So when the morning rush was on in earnest there was little delay—hardly more than might be occasioned by a heavy rainstorm. The department stores had thought they would have to carry over until Next year almost their entire stocks of BG SNOW CRPPLES TRAFFIC. LATE SHOPPING and Sandy Hook While Storm Rages. Santa Claus droppef into New York early today and began to carry as something over ten inches of snow under foot and atop tle rets and roofs of the city, wnt the limbs of the big Municipal the contractors, Otherwise, 'll merely Christmas tree in Madison Square Park had room for no artificial tinsel. istmas decoration. Consequently at vther. Doors and windows were broken, Dut none was hurt, go far as the police were able to learn. FIRST “WHITE XMAS8” SINCE 1909, «The snowstorm, which came out of the South, was general over this sec- tion, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary- land and other States in this part of the country Were all in ite grip, but no- where was the snowfall heavier than HERE in Greater New York, It gave the city the first “white Xmas” since 1909, The streets were hard for sMooth-shod horses to nexotlate, and every little in thoroughfares where driving tengive, a horse or team was dowa on the pavement. . Superintendent Dunphy of the Snow Removal Bureau of the Street Cleaning posed fo go to work until thi more inches had fallen, He was not sure they would be needed, 1'l_watt," sald Dunphy, “until I get an official report of the depth of the snow at 6 o'clock, | If that report is of a Ughten so the total fall would not be more than a foot, Suil, it was the same weather men he has for months, that he would be safe in declaring Christmas @ holiday three-inch fall or more, then I'll get out send men and sweepers from the depart- vefore the descent of the first flake: the thermometer registered 30 degre was pretty far ady, fought with and trampled upon eidents reeulted from the storm. Peter McDermott, fifty years old, of No. 2% East One Hundredth atrect and Lexington avenue, One Hundred and Second street and Lexingion avenue early .this morning. The snow had made the boardwalk slippery and McDermott fell. When Policeman Hamst of the One Hundred and Fourth street got to him he was unconsciow Hamat sent in @ call for an ambulance to the Harlem Hospital. Dr, Hill satd Mr. McDermott was dead from concus- sion of the brain, due to the fall. Tony Matto, forty years old, a labor- er, of No. 108 Lind avenue, the Bronx, was run down and killed by a southbdund electric train on the New York Central rant on Broadway downtown, left his home at No. 1064 Bergen street, Brook- lyn, early to-day, and was hurrying to his ‘work. In crossing Broadway at Worth street he slipped on the cartrack and fell forward on his knees, Pollce- man Flood of the Leonard street sta- tion went to his aid and called Dr. Hud- fon from the Hudson Street Hospital. the wind, a few doors from his place of business, at No 632 West Twenty-fitth street. His back was broken and It is probable his skull was fractured. He was taken to Bellevue. | Commuters from Jersey suffered only | minor inconvenien: result of thi | storm, Most of the trains were a few | minutes late, but there was none of the j delays of olden days, when a six-inch | snowstorm was due to tie up suburban | traMe for hours, All of the railroads jhad their snow plows out within an| hour after the snow started to fall in| ; Quantiies, a with four or five hours’ leeway before the beginning of the rush traffic, able to have their j lines shipshape. The Long Island Railroad and the Westchester County lines also were able to take care of the without unusual delays nd tried | {out @ machine for melting tce which | might accumulate on the tracks. Fall- ure of the mercury to take any decided drop with the coming of the snow made | tts use almost unneces: Ferryboats were delay tent by the thick weather. Jersey terminals of rallroads to the | West was particularly Ught, commuters taking to the Hudson Tubes by the | thousands, The result was increased crowds there, but these unexpected ad- ditions to the day's business were Traffic from handled without difficulty. Incidentally, traffic experts inaisted the weather would have no effect upon the looked. | for throngs of women shoppers. BUSINESS BIG ON THE SUBWAY LINES, Interborough experienced several but none of them serious. Em- Ployees were more inclined to blame their troubles on the usual Christmas eve rush than on the weather. They grumbled a bit, ho ever, that both Should come at the same time. The subway had to contend with In-| creased business. Thousands who or- dinarily use elevated or surface service sought the underground to insure Against running into blockades because of the weather. From Jersey City, Long Island City, the towns of Staten Isiand and other communities came tales of woe from operators and patrons of traction lines Th proved a stumbling block to: traction, Cars equipped with it often were halted @ half dozen times in a block, the dell- cate but brainless apparatus not difter- entiating between contact with flesh and bone or with a snow bank. In each case the motorman had to deseend from his platform and put the fender back in jon A.” 30 30 FO POUNDS: ALL OUR STORES CI. SOME C CANDY, AND 60 HALF-POUND POUNDS OF OLD FASHION CLEAR CANDY AND 60 HALF-POUND BOXES OF “MANHATTAN MIXED,” CONSISTING OF CHOCOLATES, CARA- CREAMS AND 20 OTHER KINDS, AND 60 HALF-POUND BOXES, $2.70 $3.30 $3.90 O8ED CHRISTMAS Day, SKIN TROUBLE LIKE WATER BLISTERS Spread Over Side of Face. Itched ‘ike lery Badly, Had to Keep Hands ler Tied. Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment Cured in a Month. 3 a z =ijte ri | i se Lf face, and then dry in a nasty, yellowish, to Cuticura Soap and Cuticure Oiatment are sold throughout the world. Liberal sample of cach mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad- reas post-card “Cuticura, Dept.T, Bostoa.” a Tender-faced men should use Cuticura: Soap Shaving Stick, 25¢. Sampte free. eave you money, Illustrated Catalogue Free 6 West 334 St., New York Handy Size 24 PAGES Free \ . \ Ti pln STORES OPEN T0- 7] ; ALL OUR STORES OPEN TO-NIGHT UNTIL MIDNIGHT With Next TO 20 DAYS. jot time muses, ehlef arteries of travel, Broadway, Fifth avenue and Sixth avenue, together with the important downtown and uptown in- sieds, but in the early morning rush hrf tinag-#hopping-late pa everything on runners was com Vals Medicine Co,, shad Ao. Maautetucere 64 BARCLAY STREET ‘Cor, West Broadw 206 BROADWAY PER WEEK sitar sat fersecting streets, will have been Macie | teeta i 29 CORTLANDT ST. S u n d a y . with (he , " Ne ae Cor. Churcis eases atta aa une Ore el AT ORM WILL DELAY xmas || ih iM leet 100 can't tere Lk; po ie Li 425 FIFTH AVENUE Katrance 88 Gt. N. ¥. Clty PRESENTS. Fone rcaaat “AE MOEt BT | ante played bit of & joke on him- B48 Bd Av.. cor. Td KN. Voce Evan,