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a | i } i t t | ‘ PARADING STRIKER emaggiel in dering the night and were at werk. “@torm the mill. Drag them out. Kill the Scabs,” were some of the cries that mete raised by the crowd, which split {ntd. small groups, each surrounding some impassione! speaker who calied on them to prevent this last outrage, to save their own places in the mills And not to allow outsiders to be brought | in to do their work. MOB STORMS MILL GATES To} ATTACK STRIKEBREAKERS, “Tear down the doors. We in,” sereamed the strikers, “ Get the scabs. Kill them. Teach ‘em Throw All Sorts of Missiles strikebreakers into Pi Until Revolvers Are Drawn “ Then and Two Are Arrested. Strikers, thoroughly inflamed, made « dash at the gates. The heavy onken gates resisted the first rush and men dashed off to get heavy timbers to be used as battering Fame while others continued the storm; on the gates hoping to weaken them by | Fepeated assaults. | Inside the mill there was a panic, The owners telephoned to Police Headquar- tere and Sergt. Murner and fifteen men Were rushed to the mill in an autom>- Ddile patrol. They found @ wild mob pushing and milling abou: the gates and as they leaped from the patrol each INVASION OF PARK ROW. Barber Bosses Yield Tribune and Tract So- ciety Buildings, the ATTACK DRIVER OF _ THE EVENING WORLD, ‘Mrs. Ava Astor, Who, London Hears, Has Rejected Hungarian Count FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1918, Corporation, denied to-day that there Was any evidence tending to show that bribe money had ever been passed to & city official in # Yellow taxicab. “The oMctals of the company have assured me that not one cent of bri money ever 4, and there evidence to show that there has been, said Mr. Whiteside, “The Yellow Tax! cab company, under its present man- agement, has never pald one cent of corruption money to @ city official, and ie fs only just to make thie statement Jin thelr behalf. “The officials feel it is unjust to de- clare they have not shown a willingness to co-operate with the District-Attorney in his investigation. ‘They have fur- nished all the documentary evidence he has asked, and have been willing at all | timen ¢@ accept service of aubpodMas and \to tell al they knew. Under the new management the Yellow Taxicab Com- pany wants to eliminate all objectionable features, and to this end has giadly © operated with the District-Attorney.’ —_——_ FOLKS CRITICISES DOWLING’S ACTION ON TAXI RATE LAW. JOHND.'S MILLIONS | MAY BE EXEMPTED ~ FROMINCOME TAX | apresentatve Ful, Hull, Author of. Measure, Thinks ‘Foundation’ Will Not Have to Pay. $4,000,000 IS AT STAKE. Rockefeller Will Save That Much Yearly if Entire Fortune Dodges Tax. man drew hia revolver and rict stick. “Get away from those gates,” shouted “Clear out of Murner to the strikers. here and go home." His words met with hote and yells and & shower of bricks and stones, The Policemen, in line, rushed the crowd, beating right and left with riot and the otrikers, never giving fought back with fats, heels, clubs and misalles, of them were in action, the policenen, ‘8 little group in the middle, lay! them on all sides, Presently, above the roar of the fight- ere came the reports of revolver shots, In an instant the whole 300 about Between 3,000 and 4,000 striking bar- ders, marching behind transparencies, red flags and bands that played the | Maraellaise, # t out from Columbus Cir- cle this afternoon to parade down Beventh avenue to Fourteenth street and some of them compl ted the march. The parade broke up at Twenty-nixth etree, however, when Santa Gentrie, in- wpired by the @reat numbers behind him, tried to play tra%e cop and held up @ truck which he thought was break- which rang out again and again over| ing into the dine of march. ‘the Reads of the mod. 4i4 not dreak, however, and it was only after nearly ten minutes of fierce fight- ing that they finally gave ground and @cattered, leaving nineteen in +) Ul the etrikers ands ‘Th edriver climb 4 off hie truck and was raphily making Gentrie a subject for kindly attention at the hands of nin brethren when many of the latter ef the police. Apparently not one of the| rained a hail of bad vegetad! s, atonen, bullets found a mark in a man. CRIPPLED BY BLOW OF CLUB, GAVS STRIKER. Jacos Horandt lay groaning, semi- conscious on the ground, his right knee- cap shatered. He was bundled into the Datroi wagon and hurried to the Ger eral Hospital, where the physaians tald he would undoubtedly be crippled for Hite. Horandt said a policeman broke his knee with a club. He said a policeman had been struggling with sixteen-year- old Annie Torricelli and he had gone to the girl's assistance. He had got her away from the policeman, and as she fan the man struck him on the knee, All the prisoners except Horandt were arraigned before Recorder Carroll, who @ave them the alternative of a ®% fine or imprisonment for ten days. All cho’ the jail term. The street outside Police Headquarters was black with strikers, ‘who hooted and jeered throughout the Proceedings and cheered when the pris- oners were led to jail. They ‘their hats and handkerchiefs and the Prisoners waved back, shouting: “Don't give up! We're all right! ‘They've got to feed us for ten days.” The riot threw the already frightened city into @ panic of fear, for last night & shower of bricks, stones and iron fell on an Erie train bound for Jersey City. which left Paterson at 7.01 o'clock. On it was Quinian, ‘The train had reached Rutherford and Was just pulling through the Carlton ‘Hill cut east of the station when the ‘Minsiles fell on it. There was a panic in the cars, for other attempts to wreck Erie trains had made the passengers Rervous, and heavy boulders crashed @own on the roof of the cars with a ferce which theratened to send them down on the passengers. pulled the emer- & Conductor Kimble @ency cord and, with the crew of his train, sorambied to the top of the high He found no one, going back t Rutherford, telegraphed to Supt. J. B Dizon at Jersey City. Rutherford po- Hoemen hurried to the cut, but they found no traces of any one and the train ‘Went on its way. ‘wes to have been a parade of the circus which reached Paterson to- day, but Chief of Police Bimeon refused @ permit. He admitted that he feared the assemblage of great crowds which ‘would be sure to follow the parade. Judge im Kienert, who presided trial, te dotermined to do mothing to increase the tension of the Present situation. The words of the ora- tore at et ere, Oval yesterday eriti- begs Ber and the courts were called to attention, but he sald he had not been officially notified of any such lan- and intended to pay no attention @ituation,”’ sald he. = ny E eons before me rei and 1 think Quini it he may think of jot deny that he w: petal Ese i if at welt that I should be lenient in| rounded »; “A littlo| the rest were crowded in the entrance Ukely now to arouse these! pall, I should be the last to cause| he Mayor listened to a statement of Tt ts my duty simply to ve 8! provingly when told that the boss bar. fairly icks, and all sorte of debris from the street, at the trudkman. . Detectives Conroy, Rabbert, Flood and Bishop of the Tenderloin station broke into the crowd, rescued the truckman and grabbed Gentrie, The crowd turned on them and the detectives, yanking out their revolvers, throatened to ahoot the first man who interfered. The crowd held back after that, but half the pa- rade followed the priconor to the #:%- tion, and on the way the detectives picked up John Palemott, who,, they |) had tried to Isterfere with them. ‘The march to the station was made in & hall of misiles, but no on hurt, and no more were ufrested as the de- tectives had their Londs full with tho prisonera they had. STONES HURLED IN INV. OF PARK ROW 8HO! ‘The striking barbers, following the order of I, W. W. Leader Cancellieri that every shop in the city, whether it was @ 6-cent, 10-cent or 15-cent establishment, and whet! it wasina dasement, on the street level or up- stairs in a aky-scraper, must be closed before any negotiations could be opened with the boss barbers, raided Park Row to-day. A mob of three hundred assembied in Spruce street, near Fark Row, about 10.90, and began hurling stones at tho barber shop of Michael Saracena, which fe in the Tribune Bullding, om the Spruce street sile. One stone crashed rough @ side window, Saracens, seeing there would be eeri- ous trouble in a few minutes, ordered Ais ei barbers to join the crowd on atreet. After @ hurried conference o: barber was returned to him as a mark of courtesy. This man will be allowed to work until the others get thelr union cards. The same ‘thing oocourred across the treet the shop of Jacob Nicolaus, under the Tract Soclety Building, where siz barbers were callod out and one re- turned, The returned men in these in- stances are to take the place of the boss barbera who are not working bar- bers, After the strikers gained their point they dispersed, Policemen wore later stationed before the doors of the shops which had been attacked. ON “a DELEGATION OF FORTY CALLS ON THE MAYOR. A Gelegation of forty boss barbers went to the City Hall to ask the good offices of Mayor Gaynor, There were too many of them to get into the Mayor's office all at once. “Dr.” J. Browner of No. @ Second avenue, a “surgeon chiropo- wae the spokesman. He was sur- twenty of the committee; the barbers’ troubles and nodded ap- ers were as eager for shorter hours Qs the men if it could be so arranged that afl the shops in the city kept the same hours. He said that he would be glad to act as mediator and that he would ask the journeymen barbers to fend @ committee to him, Cancellier!, when he heard of the City Hall conference, announced that the In- ternational Union of Journeymen Bar- bers, which bas @ membership of about five hundred men working in high Priced shops, could send all the com- mittees to the Mayor's office it pleased, but that no action of auch @ conference would be binding on the I. W. W. bar- bers, who were determined upon univer- sal closing, includi the hotels and clubs, before an ironclad universal Agreement should be made, NEW PLAN OF WARFARE IN THE HOTEL DISTRICT. The heavy boots and stout fists of the Special guards of trunk hustlers placed adopted there, Two of the best dressed and softest spoken strikers at each of the headquarters were appointed “commissioners” to walt on the bosses of the hotel ehops and ask for an op- unity to reason with the working bers, They Were nowhere received cordially and were not joa to talk to the men at the chaire Gome of the strikers were pussicd to- iy by the admission of Frank Canvel- Meri that, although he and Ble assistants have enrolled thousands of barbers as members of the I, W. W. and have a cepted their initiation fees, no charte: bas fpeas sito goatee iuaued pre for @ barber’ shall owt it all right said” Cane REPORT COUNT JUTED BY MRS. AVA ASTOR: ‘WON'T MARRY AGAIN’ Hunearion Noblemuu Devoted Suitor—She Is Coming Here in July. LONDON, May 16.—It ts reported that young Count George Festetics, a cham- berlain of the Austro-Hungarian Km- bassy in London, has proposed to Mra. Ave Astor and has been rejected. His devotion is evident to ull who know the twe, Mra, Astor declared to-day that she has no inteation of marrying again. Bho fe telling everybody of her ac- quaintance what @ good time she had in America. She says she intends to re- turn to New York in July for a tong stay, probably through the fall and win- ter, While in New York she will be with her son, William Vincent Astor. He te by all reports greatly attached to her and to his sister, Mra. Astor has never looked more at- tractive than she looks this season, nor has she ever appeared in better spirits, ‘Whenever she goes to the opera the box she occupies is the centre of attention from the audtence, Cougt George Festetics is the eldest son of Prince Festetica de Toine, He was born in Baden-Baden in 188% His mother is Lady Mary Hamilton, whose marriage to the Prince of Monaco was annulled in 188. The Festetics family is an old and distinguished one in the Hungarian nobility, ao BOY SHOT DURING RIOT OF TROLLEY STRIKERS, CINCINNATI, May 16—One boy was jahot and seriously wounded and several @ersons were injured in a riot in the downtown district when @ crowd of 3,000 ersons, mostly sympathisere of the striking street car men, attacked @ car manned by etrikebreakors th's after- noon. Aa BANKERS HIT IN SENATE. WAGHINGTON, May 16—'The inter- national bankers who furnished the money” for the Brazilian coffee valori- zation scheme were denounced to-day oy Senator Norris during the tariff debate. He declared they had sought to stand at the door of every home demanding an unjust tribute from “God's poor.” “In my opinion @ man who has wealth and would do that has more to answer for than the man who violates man-made lawe,” the ator, piste elena GRANO STAND COLLAPSES; MANY CHILDREN IN PERIL to The Evening W: AnuaNTic ‘CITY, "No J. Slay 6 Three persons were injured—one seri- ously—and @ ecore of children het nar- Tow escapes from death late thie after- noon when the steps leading into the Dig grand etand of the Atlantic City Daseball park, collapsed under the weight of the youngsters participating in the big May day exercises of the pubd- Mo schople, =e cellierl, “When? Oh, next week, I hope.” State Labor Commissioner John J. Bealin sald to-day that he saw little ttlement of the strike 4 Prospect of a this week, Tho strike leaders, he said, Tefused to treat with individual bosses or with separate organisation of bosses, and the master barbers are preparing to amalgamate thelr four associations in order to wet peace as soon as possible, ‘The separate ageociations are Peele} in saorness to grant a thirteen ho with a full da; r wr oy WASHINGTON, May 16.—The Rock- sensments under the income tax law, day by Representative Hull, of Tenn- ensee, who drew that portion of the ath WILL TAKE OFFICE OF LABOR COMMISSIONER. le Deciding to Accept Job De- nied Him by Senate He Confers With Sulzer on Department. ALBANY, May 16.—John Mitchell of Mount Vernon, former President of the United Mine Workers of America, has decided to accept a so-called receas ap- pointment as State Labor Commissioner, Mr. Mitchell was nominated twice for this office by Gov. Sulzer, but was re- Jected by the Senate. The Governor holds he has the power to name Mr. Mitchel for a term to expire twenty days after the convening of the Legts- t January. organising the Labor Department, in accordance with the pro- visions of a law passed this year, Mr. Mitchell to-day conferred with Gov. Bulser, Others present Abram I. Elkus, counsel to the State Factory In- Commission, and Henry Morgenthau of New Yo John Will- ams, the present State r hago sioner, is expected to ret ut Prod. ably will be retained in the depancue bee cine Keath des GRAND JURY FOR SING SING. 2 Will Or. jal One ¢ Investigate Prison, ALBANY, N. May 16.—A epecial Grand Jury will be ordered by Gov, Sulzer to consider the recent criticisms made against the management of Sing Sing prison by George W. Blake of New York, Francia A, Winslow, District-Attor- ney of Westchester County, informed the Governor to-day he did not believe the present Grand Jury would have sufficient time to go Into the disclo- sures. made by Mr. Blake, ‘The Governor told Mr. Winslow he would accept his judgment in the mat- ter and would designate counsel to as- sist him if he ao desired, ———_____ HENRY M. FLAGLER DYING. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 16.—The death of Henry M. Fi of New York, the Gouthern hotel and ratiroad magnate, io momentarily expected, ac- cording to @ statement attributed to President Parrott of the Florida East Coast Railroad Company. Mr. Flagler bas been critically 1) at his West Palm Beach home for sey. ora) weeks, Ss LOUISVILLE WINNERS. FIRST RAGE.—Selling: year-olds and upward; six furlonge— Lady Lightning, 10 (Gross), frat; Strong, Wi (Loftus), second; Merrick, 11 (Glass), third, Time, 1.13 4-5, Bh Thistle, Milton B., Chapultipee, P tander, Kiva, Tactlese and Rex also ran. & mutual; Lady Lightning, 9.40 straizht, 6.60 place, $3.90 show; Strong, %.70 place, 610 show; Merrick 2, show. for ‘three- THIRD RACE—Belling olds and upward; stx furlonge.—Fred Levy, 103 (Wolfe), frat; Brynary, 108 (J, Wilson), second; Perthshire, 124 (Robbins), third, Time, 1,14 2-5, Blue Crest, Star Gaze and Glint also ran. $2 mutuels paid; Fred Levy, $9 straight, $3.90 pice, $2.30 show; Brynary, $5.60 $2.70 show; Perthshire, 2.30 three-year- Wite ¥: (Special to: YORK, Pa,, May one of York County's prominent mer- chants, ogmmitted suicide to-day at his home in Shrewsbury, His body was barn by Nis wife, He was about forty- elxht years old. Mr. Klinefelter had been despondent for some time. pais Aa toe SHIPPING NEWS. PORT OF NEW YORK, (AR! Treruia . weno Sreausuirs Sa = oma found dangling from the rafters at the) Wilson-Underwood tariff bill. “If I understand the purposes of the foundation aright,” he said, “it f# or- Kanized for sociological work. Under the proposed income tax law only cor- porations created for profit are to be taxed, so that would exempt the Rocke- feller plan.” When the Rockefeller foundation plan was broached to Congress two years ago big opposition developed on the ground that it was a seheme to grant Federal incorporation and under this| @ulse to exempt the Rockefeller millions from taxation. Following receipt of the opinion of Representative Hull, expreasing his be- lef that the new Rockefeller Founda- tlon will be exempt from taxation, off!- began to wonder to-day whether the whole of the oll king's vast for- tune may not escape the Income, in- heritance and other taxea in this way. From Albany came word that the question probably would be tried out in the courts, It is pointed out that John b, Rockefellers donations now are sald to total nearly $200,00q@00. If these are combined in the Foundation, accord- ing to the announced plan, they would represent an annual income tax of 400,00 which would not have to be paid under the exemption clai If Rockefeller chooses to place his tire fortune in the hands of the Founda- tion, it 1s estimated the total sum would represent an annual income tax of from $3,000,000 to. 4,000,009 which would be exempt. : GRAND JURY HUNTS $900,000 GRAFT IN TAXICAB STANDS (Continued from Firet Page.) day to complete other phases of the examination by the Grand Jurors. No member of the Grand Jury would speak on the question of the alleged perjury, and Assistant District-Attorney Joseph Du Vivier, in charge of the investigation, was equally reticent. ALDERMEN WAITED LONG AND WERE THEN EXCUSED, Aldermen Cunningham, Coleman and McCann, who, with Aldermen Grimm, formed the majority members of the special committee of the Board of Al- dermen, were again’ present to-day, but were not reached, They voluntarily agreed to reappear Monday, when the sessions of the Grand Jury are re- gumed. Albert E. Hull, Committee Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, who Participated in some of the famous wine inners, will alao reappear Monday for examination. “Circular Joe” Vendig, who aroused the anger of the Grand Jurors yester- day by ‘his unwillingness to testify, was kept in the anteroom of the Grand Jury all day and then excused until Monde: of the Mason-Seaman Cor sistant District-Attorney Du Vivier, in charge of the Grand Jury investigation, that thoy will be glad to co-operate with him fn any way possible and will fur- him with all the records he may Service of subpoenas for records voluntarily accepted by the cor pany, While no Investigation of the books of this corporation has been mad: | it fe understood the company had a “free riding lst’ similar to that of the Yellow Taxicab Company and that the , | ames of public officials appear on that Nst, All the records will be produced before the Grand Jury on Tuesday, , | TAX! COMPANY OFFICIALS DENY BRIBE iN CAB. Harry R. Swarts, vice-president of |the Yellow Taxicab Company, and W. Whiteside, counsel for the Blood Needs the purifying effects of “Hoods *Sareaparilla NOW. Get it today. efeller Foundation ts exempt from as | according to the opinion expressed to- | Ralph Folks, majority leader of the Board of Aldermen, in statement of Tammany | Board Frank L. Dowling in The Even- ing World, that Tammany would have passed @ taxicab ordinance if it had | been in power that when Tam- many had i majority the Board actually pigeonholed a proposed | taxicab ordinance. Alderman Folks said to-day: “Alderman Dowling’s reference to the responsibility of fusion for the failure jto report promptly @ proper taxicab ordinance would come with better grace if elther of the two Democratic mem- ‘bers of the committee had supported the three Fusion membere—Bolles, Marks and Brush—who were in favor) of @ proper measure, The signature of either Democratic member would jsecured a majority report. taxicab measure should not be ma & partisan {ssue. It i# fundamen- tally @ measure involving the pub- Uc welfare. Members of the committee, whether Fusion or Democratic, cannot hide behind party lines to escape re-| sponsibility, whatever its nature may ‘What could lead Alderman Dowling to believe that Tammany was anxious to act I cannot understand, and enpecially in view of the fact that, although the Board prior to the present Board had a substantial Democratic working majority, of which he was leader, nothing was ever done about the taxicab situation except to pigeonhole all measures intended to provide proper relief. Alderman Nicoll called the at- tention of the old Board to the necessity ot proper legislation, but his measure killed in committee. ‘Alderman Dowling combined with Alderman Downing and one or two other membere of the Rules Commtitee to force the selection of Alderman Grimm as Chairman of the Taxicab Committee, The Rules Committee ts charged with the responsibility of nam- ing spectal committees for the Board. Alderman Downing is the Brooklyn Al- derman who has voted with Tammany agaifiat the motion picture ordinance. As Chairman of the Rules Committee I op- Posed the selection of Grimm and fa- vored Alderman Bolles or Alderman Marks. Aldermen Downing and Dow- Ung finally succeeded in naming Grimm @s chairman after a delay of two or three week: “Action 1s now needed and not discus- sion of past performances. I am | formed that all the members of Taxicab Committee will be ready to port a proper ordinance at the meeting next Tuesday, A proper report should receive unanimous support. In the mean time partisanship or prejudice will not be accepted by the public as a proper exouse for unwarranted opposition or failure to act.” en KILLED HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. (Bpectal to The Evening World.) MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. May 16— Harry Dewitt, a farmer living near Unionville, N. ¥., shot and killed his brother-in-law, Robert Constable, this afternoon in a fit of Jealous rage. Dewitt fled and Sheriff Mains of Newton, with deputies is hunting him, | | Shot Three Killed Himeelt, GLOBE, Ariz., May 16.—After killing ital unrse, and wound- mother, Mra. W. J, the latter's daughter, and Mrs, Winnie Rowe, George Hampton, a miner, placed the mussel of a shot- gun in his mouth to-day and view off the top of his head, Hampton and his wife had been separated come time, ‘Webber, He went to the Wabber house to-day declaring he would ‘wipe out the whole for Frid OLATE. COVERED’ CAE CREOLE CPEPPERMINTS— oa eS ar 100 cHOCS COVERED CREAM- Y CARAMELS—, eomarge ad 18] 2 MILK CHOCOLATE COVERED MARASCHINO CHERRIES— Maraschinees, ine PENNY A POUND PRO. Se watches: aL | | MiSiesSutate Go-mie limit on enpiicarien, Forel ore mow. cxstenas sot rn TD WOMEN IN FIGHT OF 300 STRIKERS AND 300 DEPUTIES (Continued from First Page.) within fifty yards of the Mount Hope line, and a@ rain of lead pattered against the brick wall of the company's office, J. A. Brauman, a guard, fell, shot in the forehead. The deputies were returning the fire when W. H, let and Ernest Heft, two of their men, dropped with body wounds, Then the Goputies charged, firing and swinging clubs, The net result wae the shooting of two more deputies, J. H. Ackerman and Franklin Dowell, who were nut riously wounded. einforcements for the guards were summoned and are expected to-day in the shape of 200 newly-sworn deputies, with Winchester rifles and sawed-off shotguns. When these arrive the nu! ber of guards will be 600, who mostly enlisted In New York. A mob of coal miners attempted to wreck the Erle station here, but was driven off by Sheriff Gillen and fitty deputies, hastily immoned from ai other part of the town. One bullet striker smashed a window in falling ri Shortly afterward the strikers, realizing that news of thelr movem Whether or not State troops will be called out dépends on the ability of th deputies to handle the situation. It is thought the 600 be Sore ed to the scene. Adjutant-General Wilbur Sadler arrived to-day with instructions from Gov. Fielder. He went into confer with Sheriff Gillen after the battle at the railroad station. The sheriff begged Gen. Sadler to give! @ troops, which he believes will him t be the only 5 ordi Gov. Fielder's repreventative lett tor Trenton without expressing his opinion of th® situation, Many of the Injured strikers have not been caught by the authorities, as the strikers seize thelr them off into the The presence of a women among the rioting miners is con- sidered a menacing factor. These women hurl stones at the deputies, who have orders not to tno only woman tered ® broken arm in rfl we Frested and ea A jail under 2.000 ball each to ction of the Grand Jury. One striker arrested had two of dynamite “and a loaded revolver. PRISON FOR WHITE SLAVER. Morris Levine was sentenced to ten years at hard labor in the Federal Prison at Atlanta to-day in the Crimt- nal Branch of the United States Dis- trict Court by Judge Hand, when he pleaded guilty to an indict: ing him with being a “white i In passing sentence Judge Hand flayed the prisoner, declaring he was not deserving of the sympathy @ “beast or a brute might be given." Levine was Indicted for taking Rona Friedman from this city to Pitte- burgh and later to New Orleans for im- moral purposes, 400-LB. MARBLE SLAB FALLS. Lande im Street From Second Story of Morgan Bank. A slab of marble weighing #0 pounds toppled from the Drexel Building at Wall and Broad streets—once the home P, Morgan & Co. and now being razed—and crashed to the pavement two stories below, after striking on a scaffold built to protect the sidewalk &nd bounding from it Into the street. Wall and Broad streets were crowded at the time the sinb fell, but by a miracle no one was hurt, though the Stone narrowly escaped hitting a truck which was passing. ——>—__. Little Girl Gets Fractured Skull. ‘Whi laying on the second floor fire escape at her home, No, 831 West Gixty- ninth street, to-day, Helen Willlame, four years old, slipped and fell to the sidewalk. She was removed to the Poly clinio Hospital euffering from a tured skull, Special for Saturday, Th VAN. CREAM PEANUTS—rry tnt —it’s the peanut treated ta 10c © mew and eriginel otic, POUND BOK SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY CHOCOLATE COVERED BUTTER- aler — pet sozertentz, | te wet our SUGGESTIONS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY VERY Head GRADE CHOCO. LATES OR BONBONS AND CHOCOLA "A tetal will oreve, IT PLUS PARCEL POST REO IPE eto Se wurreney must’ scecmn= 12 o'clock, 206 BROADWAY' tar Pesan RIDDER REFUSES OFFICE HEAD OF STATE PRI Ill-Health and Business Reason Prevent Him Accepting Sulzer W Appointment. ALBANY, May 16.—Herman Ridder of New York announced here to-@ay that Prisons to which he was appointed recently by Gov, Sulzer. Mr, Ridder's nomination was confirmed by the Senate, At the conclusion of a long talk with the Governor, Mr. Ridder said he had decided not to accept the position be- cause of ill-health and for business rearons, He said the Governor had agreed with him that under the circum- stances it would be advisable for Bim not to take the oath of office, Gov. Sulzer says he has been advieed he can legally appoint a Superintendent of Prisons to nerve until next year with- out the confirmation of the Senate. George W. Blake, who has been making &n investigation of the State prisons and reformatories by Cirection of the Gov ernor, is being considered as @ candi- | date for Superintendent of Prisons, Mr. Auburn Prison, were among the Gover- nor's callers to-day. Front 2 In, city fete tho sevost and, 08 2 ave cauai-ase: Spring and Gummer season's thea Ide Sayer Bas the Secours Caprenkante Becteanetes, found im no other Gao. P. Ja Ody TROY, Hs Vo Also Makers of Ide Shirts Borden’s =} Ice Cream 430-440-442 RUG*°CARPET CLEANSING in Prre-Proof Building. FIRE PROOF STORAGE fer Household Goode. founded In 1863 TELEPHONE MITCHELL, THE THE TAILOR (OTH ST. AND BROADWAY $3.50 92th» GYPSY RING, $1 ee Health Hint for Women Havide, hold gormicide or wash, Zhe and $1.00, All drugs sists, Booklet and Sample free, 3. 6. TYREE, Chemist, Washington, D. ©, | —_—_—_——______ oreo. Ni—On Wednesday, May 14. eNO’ Joskpnis C. SCANLON, daughter of the lato John and Mary Boanion (nee Quinn), native of County Limerick, Ireland, and sister of Mra, LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. DRT Wie Trias ialie ani Vain Oath ate Ei email, ‘Columb: Coes siameatey “balk, Sunday World Wants Work Monday Wonder iti “

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