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{ 1 E HANGS Y TE H Wi E farm clung to Deviin until he could raise | him sufficiently for him to reach the wire with his hands. Then, one after TRAPPED 75 FEET IN AIR Steeplejack Fails in 600-Foot Slide at Coney, and Is Rescued When Near Collapse. ANAMAICA BAY OF TWO MARINE LEAGUES) itt ite Waterway Fleet of New Jersey experience In his first atte: pt at Lana Park to slide 60 fret by hanging by his Combines With New Yorkers in Two-Day Fete. the other, the two steeplejacks were rescued in a boatswain's chair. ——as——: Port of New York, | ANHIVE! teeth tn the air, Little things like that ‘weren't going to deter him, he aatd. A crowd fof fifteen thousand cheered vociferously yesterday when Winnie Leona, another steeplejack, rescued The greatort feet of emall motor bouts) Devlin at the imminent peril of tin life. on record walled out of Jamaica May| Mr minutes they had held their breaths yesterday for the first annual parade of Ja terror watching Devlin dangle by his teeth seventy-five feet in the air and the Waterway League of Greater New expecting each moment to see him fall York and Long Island, All were dresse@ to death. with flags and made a brave showing! Devlin, unable to follow hi old call- under the command of William 6. Boyd!" having lost his leg in a railroad of the Great Kills Yacht Club, who te! Accident, was to do a glide of death President of the League. from the top of Luna Park tower. The ‘The first parade was made the occa-| Wire proved to be too slack and he ston of a reception to the kindred league Cow not reach his landing platform of New Jersey. With Commodore Will-| He dangled helpless and there appeared fam Gherman Rauch of the Newark to be no way of saving him until Leona Yacht Club controlling, the squadron of Velunteered. Leona alld down the wire Afty boats railed over from Newark | hanging on his arm, and with his other SAVYPREE MORTAR, Saturday afternoon. Forty more boats joined the fleet from the Gandy Heok division of the league, @o that there were 30 eager to attest g etrength of this comparatively new or-' 9 @anization. | ¥ _The rendezvous was off the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club, and at 11 o'clock in the g Morning the poate weighed anchor, While thousands watched from the north | shore of Rockaway Beach. | a ‘The fleet sailed through Jamaica Bay _,.,B and visited the Belle Harbor Yacht Club, Beach Yacht Club, Dia- mond Yacht Club, Canarsie Yacht Club and Old Mill Yacht Club, The fleet dis- wanded off Rockewry Point. ‘While the main squadron was making! te way to the respective home ports Cammodore Rauch in his boat Duegee ‘was being escorted to the Jamaica At All 80 James Butler Inc. Meat Markets Choice Loin Lamb Chops....lb..22¢ Choice Loin Mutton Chops.|b..16¢ Sugar Cured Hams .. Selected, lb..21¢ Sugar Cured Bacon In Strips, Ib. .22e Corned Spare Ribs. ...Meaty, lb..10¢ Cooked Pigs Feet... din. 268 At All 230 James Butler Inc. 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Choice California Claret.) for DH Stamps with case 24 bottles 50 ions BecenLicbmacn’st trorperes l | . price for this lot will be $10,402. ot LD, Mieinn Ee Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co, TOMORROW---First of “|THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1913. Three “Days of Courtesy” , Preliminary to the Opening of the August Sale (Original) ECAUSE August 1 comes on Friday, when so many people are going away over — the week-end, we offer this year these three ‘“‘Days of Courtesy”’ preliminary to All stocks will be assembled on the Galleries, duly tagged and marked with the August price. Advance selections may be made, the transactions the August Sale. to date as of August 1. The Furniture 1. Purchases of new merchandise for account of the August Sale now on hand and to arrive during August to the value Of ............cccccssssses $319,000 2. Regular stocks now on hand in our show- rooms and warerooms, all of which are included n the August Sale, to the value of................0000 602,000 i] Total in this New York Store alone ..........,.... _ 3. Additional stocks of furniture. in the Philadelphia Wanamaker Store, interchapgeable at will with the New York stocks and always on call, including the special August purchases........ Making a grand total Of......0...cceeeeees $1,671,000 This $1,671,000 of furniture, now owned and o for August, is the power behind the Wanamaker Sale that makes it beyond competition. ” Volume—of business being done and of stocks on hand —means capacity and power to serve the people in the highest A trusteeship (like this store) to buy merchandise for a pried avcgeend upon satisfying the public in that com- munity. is trusteeship would never have grown so large unless the public was being satisfied with what we sell. If we ever fail to satisfy, the patronage will be withdrawn and the trusteeship will collapse. $750,000 of Furniture me The Economies Reductions on the furniture as a whole will average a fourth; on at least $400,000 worth the average will be a third. ® To those interested especially in our regular stocks, having perhaps in mind particular pieces of furniture they have seen on our floors, we give the further information that reductions on these regular pieces range from 10 per cent. (on staples) to 50 oc Riaaae on show. pieces) —many pieces being marked just . : The Warranty All Wanamaker furniture, whether sold at reduced prices in the August Sale or at other times of the year at full prices, is warranted to give lasting satisfaction in the home. We are constantly told by certain manufacturers that My are too me 7 _ bgt olny we oe igs r the r line, sell cheaper les of furniture, ani us hp les our sales, : Such blandishments may catch other stores, as no doubt they do, but we are deaf, dumb and blind when they are made to us seriously. gag ii _ Deliveries Deliveries may be made in August or later, as desired. To distant points the Wanamaker free delivery will be found to be liberal enough to cover all shipments of fair size. What the Special August Purchases Include Bedroom Furniture Matched suites, matched bureaus, chiffoniers, dressing tables, odd bureaus, chiffoniers and dressing tables, with four-poster bedsteads, tables, samnoes, hall stands, cheval glasses, costumers, chairs, in all $80,627, which we shall sell for $58,580. From one of our regular manufac- turers, with whom we have been doing business for many years, we have se- cured $15,790 worth of moderately priced bedroom furniture — furniture that is well manufactured, thoroughly finished and of good style. The August Another lot of moderately priced bed- room furniture in a limited number of styles, from one of the good makers of the counter we have secured $10,262 worth to sell for $7,998, From another maker of bedroom fur- niture, one of the most famous in Ameri- ca, we have secured some choice exam- ples, amounting in all to $14,800, which we shall sell for $10,000. Brass Bedsteads At least 25 patterns—$17,723 worth*to be sold for $12,703— the most comprehensive collection of brass bedsteads of good quality and finish we have ever shown at the low prices they are marked. Hygienic Bedding Many grades of hygienic bedding—mattresses, pillows, bolsters and springs—will be offered in the August Sale at great reductions in prices. $36 Hair Mattresses $28 Hair Mattresses 24 Hair Mattresses 920 Hair Mattresses are examples of the lowered rates. Feather pillows and bolsters and wire springs at corresponding economies, Seventh Gallery, New Building. $28 $22 $19 $15 for for for for —is of fige Kewerdoae sk an assemblage Other Furniture For the library, living-room and hall, and including fancy furniture—fine ma- hogany library tables, Mission living- room tables, tea tables, tea wagons, bookcases, book magazine stands, gate- leg tables; upholstered library furniture, consisting of matched suites, daven- ports, easy chairs, lounges and fine decorative as well as useful chairs of almost every description—$94,293 worth to be sold for $65,811. Fine mahogany library tables, cov- ering almost every desirable size and style— $9,162 worth to;be sold for $6,871. Upholstered library and living-room furniture in Spanish leather; every piece of the choicest construction and: all leather, including outside arms and backs, the leather itself having been specially prepared for this particular lot—#9,812 worth to be sold for $7,359. Another lot of upholstered library furniture, consisting of most luxurious kinds, covered in Topas, that are the most recent productions of olden types, to an amount of $12,754, to be sold for $8,922. Leather Furniture We shall offer in this sale a special lot of our American Morocco furniture. This American Morocco Leather has now been brought to such a state of perfection, that it is the nearest approach to genyine English Morocco er that has ever been made, and we are able to sell it for less than two-thirds the value of the imported leather, Tn this particular lot there will be $14,874 to be sold for $11,115, esi , Filth Gallery, New Bidg, Dining Room Furniture . Matched suites, odd sideboards, china cabinets, serving tables, extension tables and chairs—a total of $69.950, to be sold for $46,464, m dining room chairs in fine Colonial and Period reproduction: 682 worth to sell for $5,688, An ample supply of each of the five patterns so that no one may be disappointed. From one of A ery makers in America comes $24,568 worth of dining room furniture, all of the very choicest design and manufac- tured by a factory whose js we have sold for more than twenty- five years. This entire lot will be sold for $14,491. Sixth Gallery, New Bldg, In the Wanamaker Auditorium (First Gallery)—in addition to the furniture on the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Galleries ture and furnishings from our regular stocks, making in iteelf a unique and beautiful exhib 4, \ vw .e - peereeeseteh() [1 Broadway, Fourth Avenue an | Hi Eight to Tenth Street