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——— ne “THRIVES ON PERIL BIG BILL SHEA he Enjoyed Life When He Was in Constant Danger in South America. CANADA IS TOO TAME. | He Wants to Get Back to the Country Where Hades Is Popping. Tf Big Bill Shea, now sojourning in Our justly celebrated midst, wasn't the Original party of that name who is famed in ‘song tn conjunction with BMesors. Kelly and Burke, woil, he ought 2 have been, that’s all, and it's an act Of pure caretessnens on b: "t. Mr. Shea, who mahes hin head- jarters when in New York at the Ennis | Hotel, ts @ springy six-footer, built on the general lines of @ cantilever bridge, iis hair te iron-eray, hin eyes are steele blue and he has a chin suggestive of the Griving power of ar cight-wheeled high Pressure, compound Mogul joc @Nd Bill has had good reason to Of all these metallic qualities, For 4 human kaleidoscope of adven- ture Big Bill has Capt. Kettle looking | Ake a jerk water Central Ame: boat stacked up against a dou €d scout cruiser, Turn the conver which lad tion, you will, Big BUl presents a of life, ae she Is ved in which, as everybody knows, is Central America and the coun- ry vouth thereof, more particularly Where raiiroads are being driven through dungles, and Indians and parchment: | faced oMclain devoted most pestifer- ously (and also to help the plot along) to fostering the Interests of the rival e@ompany, | Bil! Shea hails from Knoxville, Tenn., Dut the blood of the Emerald Inle flows, or bubbles rather, strongly in hin veins, 1 to use wh phrase, “born fa @ railroad camp,” and has been care ying paralie! lines of steel through Uncharted jungles for more than @ighteen years, Frum Mazatlan to the Mosquito Coast and from Kingston, Ja- Maica, to Quito, Keuador, and alsc Many other places touching on and ap- Pertaining thereto, Big Bill's name is, * @® well known as—as, well, say Uncle Bam's, and possibly he Is liked a heap Detter, for the “gringo,” with certain notable exceptions, is not beloved In the, regions south of the Tropic of Cancer, ‘THIRTEENTH DAY SEEMED TO BE UNLUCKY, Big Bill's first introduction to South | American railroad buttding was in 18M, ‘when he helped to pickaxe and dynamite @ road through Guatemala from Puerto to Guatemala City. The read ‘Was being built for the Government and all the labor wan drafted. However, | every laborer was furnished with a! Guarantee that he was not to work for | More than thirteen days, At the expira- | * tion of the thirteen days he was fur-! ished with papers showing he had worked his thirteen days and was turned. loose. But, unfortunately for the turned joose one, there always Happened to be | “lurking near a band of native soldiers Thelr job was to grab the released borer, tear up his papers and set him | adrift. He was usually recaptured few days again, 5 NO papers he had done his thirte: struction work. In work, when everything was going finely, along came a revolution, and the Toad way not completed till ten years Mater, was not long after this that a firm meriean contractors got the Job to k @ road through Ecuador. Jt was impossible to get laborers for the work down (here, as the native Beuadorian har an unconquerable aversion to work | the Catania, biunt-nosed old tub, fixed her up with clearance papers, | placed Big Bill in virtual command and told him to go knocking round the Wet Indies till he had rounded up five hun- @red husky Quatties for the work. The Catania steamed out of New York Ha ber with Big Bill, expecting to clean the job in @ few weeks. It w months before she poked her nose into Colon with five hundred grumbling blacks on board for transshipment @cross the Isthmus to Panama and thence south to Ecuador, During this time she had had many adventures, She Ten into hurricanes that sent the blacks ig her ‘tween decks into spasms of fear; she had been held up by British colontal authorities as a “blackbirder,” and grounded on shoals in the Bahamas, Not the least of her troubles was the aimost dally burial of the dead, Shud- der not—the dead were-the pets of the blacks which they insisted on on board with them—after the fashion of the contractor, who shall be nameless, who sloped with a senorita and a cana- ry bird. Every quattic that boarded the Catania for Ecuador had either a Durro, @ parrot, a monkey, # rooster ur @ pig. PETS UNFIT TO EAT WERE “LOST.” “When we got to sea we lost what we couldn't eat,” said Bill reminiscently, At Colon all the five hundred w placed in the old slaughter house, « Stockade structure outside the city. In the morning {t was found they bad all broken loose. eade with giint in his eye, He ssid he wanted those men—wanted then badly, 2 red negroes were ready for the long train of freight oars by which they were bringing | Big Bill went (0 the al- | round Tampico wa he bow wher: regrading to Senora would be shot if they tried to esc: and knowing that gringoes were not an, too well liked down there they obeyed ordera. Haytl is another place in which Big Bill has erected monuments of at and steel to himself, opinion of the Black Republic, serpent worship and the ing of hearts of children, victims of the st common In the jd mountain country of the Interior, onding to him, } “South America, particularly Colom bia, Is the richest land in the work tam, a t Diaz, Yotlow- | sacrificial altar, are THE MAN WHO SEEKS REAL FIERCE TROUBLE. topped the train we'd have whole #hooting » town and buliding rks which Porfino Dias, dent, hud ordered de who . ‘The. ext Jump) r btoke out on the id hla companions were mateh,” de- onstruction Job ater y were told they ° has not evou he wald, In discussing that country, “but the Germ | Mark my ords, aro going to grab it all, before ne she will test the Monroe doctrine with the ware ships she is now building. That big navy | iM for that purpose and not for attack- ing England. You won't see an Amer!- Ip ox we can flag on a steamer south of the Ine. , Park lakes wi Americans think ther e's nothing in} South America but revolutions, guitars | and bluck-eyed senoritas, They're dead wrong, and some day we'll find it out} Why, in Mexico th alleged antiq: Made Big Bil is at pres oth which hav rowd work © been k for the Canadian Company tn Ontario “But, “and Um something firm of 8,008, real weation. ates jan keep the the joy ‘The result was that by noon five hun- | }* to be transhipped, Some complained that they hadn't come on the Catania at ail. | oP led the bea: doul A deli hell! L PR the apples! me doin, gives his experienc ray Immediate?—Yos! of it. ightful too back > -— IMPORTER HELD FOR FRAUD. | Accused of Undervatuation im Straw Goods, Robert N. Dearbergh, Dearvergh Bros. straw goods at No, % held in %,000 ball for trial by Judge veifle Instance on which the in document is based t# alloged to ha of any kind, The contractors chartered |C¥red on March 2, 1910, Mr, Dearversh | Feported on that date the importataion | of straw braids which he ‘The Government asserts that the vaivatlon was $1141, It is charged by the customs authori. | Go Dearderwh firm haw protited extent of about $4,000 by undere tes thar the tou vatuing goods tmpor furnished batt, FERS PRUNES, Brom ihe Magvolia (Ark,) Banaer,) The editor ot a nelghboring paper thus e: “Somebody ta writ- ing for the papers that apples eaten just before retiring are a gre We tried tt we dreamed that a a green tail and carving a mword, We finally awoke to find our good wife fanning wlat and trying to get th the coal scuttle, where n from getting It Give us prunos.”* - Your fluf alt, | fy, a well Idols and } to Americans in Germany. engaged Pacific | slow,” saya he, | where there's | | Im! head of the! importers of rince street, was 4 District t charging wuding the Government. | chi fh i® aceuned of undervatuing | | a valued at ted. Dearbergh 8 Koup at saw THE TAFT WELCOMED STAY IN AUGUSTA Ex-President Still Has His Smile and Says He’s Happy and Eager for Golf. AUGUSTA, Ga, Murch 5A welcome As demonstrative as William Howard Taft ever receive! in Augusta while President-elect or President of United States wan giv Jay upon Ove thousind school Waving an American flaw chmod Academy 9 military formation tizens, inc of the Union Station to rrival here the Mayor and Connell, ton of amile Was much in ¢ ne he left hie private car until an automobile carried him, Mra, Taft and ‘ft away to thelr hotel | Miss Hole “Tam impatient to said Mr. Taft, 1 of the for a few week ft private car, tty my golf atick deed Au The ehar carrying Mr and Mrs, ‘Taft and Miss Tatt, Mrs 4 K. Loughlin, Mr, and Mrs. aries PD. HM W. Mixehler, the stenographer who las reported al: most all ¢ ances: from ti nt-olect, ached to the Athintic Coast Line ching here at 8.00 o'clock this In another ca? was a local committee who went on to W ington to Mr. Taft “back homo” to Augu oe DRAG CENTRAL PARK LAKES FOR THE BODY OF SUICIDE. Note Found with Coat and Hat on Bank of Reservoir Identifies Man as Adam Fink. A policeman found a man’s coat and hat @ path near the southern of the reservoir in Central Park to-day, In the pocket of the coat was an en- v on which as written: his had to be done, 1 couldn't d it any longer. If one should make a mistake In life he should pay the munity. ADAM." On another slip of paper in the coat was written the address, No. 1519 Glover street, Westchester, A policeman sent to that address found there William identified the writing am that m, an eccentric man, mimunicat with hia i owas last Con. who had not family for some heard of in Bridgep The reservolr and the lower Central] j agged this afternoon, but no trace of Fink's body was found, Sis sen Stet HARVESTER TRUST DEFENSE. ify That They | | Were Not Coerced, | Western Dealers 1 OMAHA, national Ha) x in tal exam- vernment sult charging of the Sherman law mtmint of trade, With nty-five witnesses it with viola! through illegal one hundred and t to hear in this cliy, the defense ex- Pects to occupy two ks taking tes- Umony, Later testimony will be taken at Wichita, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul and Central Western clties, Three Wwithesses, implement dealers | of Western iowa, and Kastern Ne- branka, testified they were not coerced Into handing manufactures of the In- | | ternational Harvester Company exclu- [Sively, but none sold harvesting oma- called Independent man- atified, on © x » that there was no in his town, pale SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAO FOR ‘TO Sum riven, 0.0 | Sandy Moot i omnor's Island; | Mell Gate s ror or NBW YORK, Motterdam INCOMING 87 | DUK TO: \iipneapotie, South’ m'ton, Melita 0} januel Kleist, with baby out bed of had put tt to Darn M erm % BVeninG@ WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAbUM 5, 1913. YOUTHFUL BURGLARS HID STOLEN JEWELRY ON ROOF. Boys Confess Cracking Safe Musante’s Factory and Reveal Loot to Police, Two young safe crackers who made their way into the jewelry factory of Joseph Musante at No. 168 Centre street chose the roof of @ building at No, 9 Hester street as a depository for thei loot. Most of It was found there to- day hidden bettind a chimney. Musante found his safe open yerter- day morning, Two hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of jewelry was missing ‘To detectives of the Elizabeth street po. Nee station Musante confided that he suspected John Albino, elghteen years old, of No, 217 Mente reet, and John Colombo, twenty yi old, of No, 121 Baxter #' The lads had formerly ” ed for him and had been seen about the place recently, in Detective Manson found both at At- ‘ino's home. Early to-day they con- fessed and told where the stuff was hidden. story implicated a third youth, for whom te police aie looking. WF BLEW WHISTLE ASHE PAD STOR LEED BLACKMAL Handed Over Marked Money and Detectives Pounced on Supposed Black Hander, Vincenzo Piscolo, twenty-nine years old, of » Arthur avenue, was held without ball by Magistrate Her- bert In the Morrisanla Polleo Court to- day on charges of extortion and vio- lating the Sullivan law Lonige Parepucel, Jeweller and bank: er, living with ‘is wife In a pretty: home at 8 Villa avenue, the Bronx, had received several threatening letters and paid no attention to them. On the morning of Feb, dhe received the last, which directed him to place that night 40 in an empty lot at Two Hundred and Second street and the Grand Con- course, That afternoon, he says, colo called and told him he kne all about the letters and could fix the mat- ter up for $14. The banker pondered over the offer and told Piscolo to vall next day, ‘The bankef resolved to lay the matter before the police, but hesitated, fearing the consequences. He kept putting Pise colo off day after day, and finally mado up his mind to act. He made an Ap. bointment et his home with Piscolo for last night, aad said that he would give him the money. Piscolo called and the banker ke is word. He handed him 8 in marked bills, A® soon as the man had the money Mrs, blew a police whistle es Rapetti and Remey ap. neared from another room, Piscolo had the money and also a loaded revolver, the detectives assert, veaton, iveeton, GIRLGL GIRLS! 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Blue Wolf Set........ 35.00 ° JUSTICE GOFF SAILS TO THE TROPICS FOR AFIVE WEEKS REST Jurist, Worn Out by Work at Recent Trials, Helped to Stateroom by Son. Justice John W, Goff, worn out by his long and arduous labors as presiding Justice of the Extraordinary Term of the Supreme Court, niled to-day for a four or five weeks trip to Central America and the West Indies. He had kept his Plans secretin fact It had been sup- pored that he would sit in one of the civil branches of the Su; ‘eme Court dur- tng March, Justice Seabury having taken his place in the Criminal Branch, A-companted by his son John W.*Goft jr, and his olf crony and former law partner, Francis w. Pollock, Justice Goff boarded the Zacapa of the United Fruit Company, Just before ITis name was not on the p ntly hoped to wet away aged feele and jis #on agsisted him on board | and he had e undetected, and to hs “Tam to an B need a good rest. the warn we think, do ni ‘They will sper Panama Canal zon or more In Cartages & world of good. was accompanied on t Mr ng time. wenger List Jurist Is very ul ‘The sea voyage and ock, with w aw in Is Meter Thiet Cai A gas meter was home of Burrell West Fourth street, Gas escaped through the | Monday night stolen from the colored, on Id, Ne dy house, and when Harvey returned home and struck a match there was a tr mendous explosion. His wife was also hurt, The first store to open in the Woolworth Building, Broadway at Park Place, sells 6th Avenue at 31st Street $20,000 Worth of Furs to Be Sold Made to Sell at . 300.00 . 275.00 - 190.00 - 175.00 . 125.00 95.00 + 75.00 - 75.00 - 40.00 Fur Sets "ie Bat Genuine Mink Set,...250.00 125.00 Genuine Skunk Set. ..140,00 70.00 White Fox Set.......100.00 50.00 Mole Coney Set....... 35.00 17.50 17.50 » brocaded and too large a stock made up. Our Price 150.00 137.50 95.00 87.50 62.50 47.50 37.50 37.50 20.00 Fur Sets Black Fox Sets.. Blue Wolf Set.... Red Fox Sct Persian Paw Set...... Caracul Set........... 10,00 te N | Harvey was blown | his oh)nh fifty feet and perhaps mortally injured, | te at Exactly Half Price A bona fide sale brought about by a purchase from a small dealer, who, anticipating a severe winter, ‘ " He had to have cash and so offered us this splendid collection of Reliable Furs at Half Price Although it was late for us to make this investment, we seized the chance so as to be able to give you the benefit. Fur Coats made from selected skins in this season’s three-quarter length cute away, also conventional iull length models; lined with Skinner's sat two-toned taffeta silks. These few items tell of some of the | BOSSCHEITER MURDERERS AGAIN PLEAD FOR MERCY. momar TRENTON, N, J., March &—Andrew i, satlex J. Campbell and William A. Death, two Bery After Police Sup. of the four Paterson men convicted of, pressed News. murdering Jennie Bossohelter, the Pat A robbery, news of which has been | erson mill girl, in 1900, have petitioned Suppreseed by the police, became a the Court of Pardons for a commuta- matter of public knowledge to-day when , ton of sentence. Alexander Hechts proprietor of Hecht’s| The men are serving thirty years each. Magneto Exchange at > 2% West For-| Both formerly were prominent in Pa ty-ninth street, sent out notices to the erson and through friends they have trade that burglars carried away twen- |@#ked the Court to Mberate them on -elght magnetos, fourteen colla, @ veral previous occasions. tity of spark plu and other auto- le appurtenances from his shop on Monday night. The value of the loot was $5,000, Entrance was procured by the burg- lars through a rear window which was supposedly protected by heavy iron bars, One of there bars was sawed through. The thieves must have used an automobile or a truck to remove their booty, which was bulky tn the ag- dregate. The police have been unable to pick up any clue to the robbers and Heeht has gent the numbers of the petos and other infor jon regard> | tne the stolen goods to all dealers in aus fi ; tomobiles and automovile materials. | Groult, Marie Guy, Virot — iin TOOK REVOLVER TO COURT. BURGLARS NEEDED TRUCK TO CARRY $5,000 HAUL. ro | Auto Dealer } ifies Trade of Rob} = Bronx Woman Told Mag band Threatened to Shoot MH van, with a shawt over Millinery Salons An excited w her heal, ‘ the Morrivania court reom wrt through the leading to the benoh and threw a | bund » the lap of Warrant Boil who was sittifg inside the jumped as if it had been » while a couple of policemen| styles in I shy LA coats and Princess Slips, hand Inside the box was a loaded revolver. | man sald her name was Julia) and that yr husband was ry Dundak. who up to a few weeks n employed as an ace Twelfth Want Bank In th that he had @ fall and been continued to their Me hi ago hal b tant in the he thre: #y this morning while \Night Robes, ‘y. nuwana, (Combinations, at ive it «8 | Chemises, Re ana ine Stowist : to} Drawers, onteted Corset Covers, Petticoats, Alpha | of Broche, Batiste, Suede, Tricot, SonnDonirell Ssbions TABLE DAMASK—Very fine qual: ity, all Irish linen yards wid 10 beautiful patterns; regu- 95c larly $1.50 per yard; sale price. NAPKINS TO MATCH 22x22-inch, $2.85 24x24-inch, $3.25 Formerly $3.98 and 4.50 TABLE DAMASK—Half bleached, | heavy weight, 64 inches wide; very durable; regular price 65c yar 39 sale price.. ane Ic NAPKINS—Mercerized, size 18x18 inches, peracands 5 very rests, de. igns; regular price 5 HUCK TOWELS—Size 17x34; firmly woven and heavy weight; red borders and all white; regular I4c each; sale pri es TURKISH Owe —Size 23x45 at our regu ale price. CRASH TOWELLING—17 inches wide; a quailty of exceptional dur- ability; very al bent; regular price 12}4c; sale price........... COMFORTABLES—Full size, line covering; attractive Persian and floral patter ae dark lors; scroll etit« ular Pr wt 89c | price $1.35; sale pric | COMFORTABLES—Full size, finest white medicated cotton fitting, silk mull top and border, silkoline back; regular price $3.98; sale p) rd 5 Made to Our sell at Price 30.00 15.00 ++» 30.00 = 15,00 +» 24.00 12.00 19.00 9.50 5.00 ko- | To appreciate the convenience and great value of the Sunday World’s Want Directory—READ IT, cape eceamcaielipanpaanen A. Heals Inflamed Gums A Perfect Dentifrice |. Forhan, the discoverer of FOR- PVORRMEA, ASERINGENT (used. 9 only), is responsible for @ remarkable: er years of Tod Heats main eee a ac se a Hroney. bleeding’ or receding guna, checks inflam: matise, x IAN'S DENTAL CREAM fo an te tae tt tage a ’ vn Wdoneh Sof bacteriat old tp. tubee at cents each, fn ajuality f) Sent Ti | STERN BROTHERS | Spring Opening of Paris Model Hats from Reboux, Suzanne Talbot, Jeanne Lanvin, Lewis, and other leading French |. Modistes, also the creations of the foremost London Milliners, together with exclusive styles from their own workrooms and adaptations of foreign models. Third Floor French Handmade Lingerie | Spring Importations are now being shown, introducing exclusive ight Robes, Combinations, Chemises, Drawers, Petti- embroidered and trimmed with effective Laces, also Dressing Sacques, Matinee Suits with Boudoir Caps to match, in Chiffon, Crepe de Chine and a special display of Complete Bridal Trousseaux For To-morrow, Exceptional Values in from $1.95 “ “ ; “2.75 Also the very latest Paris Models in Classique Corsets embodying the ideas of the most skillful Paris Corsetieres, including the soft flexible model, giving the uncorseted effect now in vogue and adapted for every type of figure Special Values in the most approved models in their new Corsets, Elastic and Coutil, Walohn boned, at $4.50, 5.75, 6.50, 8.75, 10.00 West 23d and 22d Streets Special SALE Table Linens, Towellings & Domestics Clearance of Blankets—Decided Reductions SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES— paneer of the teliehie oites brand an iow ses of t! Armorside, | at the following reductions: Size. Regular Price. Sale Price. x90 53c dle 63x90 58c he 2x90 4c Ble 81x90 69 Séc | 90x90 75c ble PILLOW CASES, 45x36 loc 12¢ SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES—Ot he renowned Dwight Anchor brand, itandard of quality—at these con- fe Si 54x90 BLANKETS—All styles and qualities | to be closed out at prices in many cases below cost, |Formerly $2.85 to 3.50 per ic | Pair; sale price........... 08 Formerly $3.98 to 4.75 per pair; sale price. epvese | Formerly $5.98 to 6.75 per sibel 4.75 pair; sale price.. | Formerly $7.25 to 8.75 per 62: portionately re- pair; sale pri Other qualities duced, pre ‘CROCHET BEDSPREADS — Full size, well raised Marseilles patterns, Stsevanteprice Sw Pree] 19 Mail or Telephone Orders Promptly Filled, Broadway,Sthand 9th Sts. poole Soe aes a