The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1913, Page 3

REFEREE BELIEVES ‘REALTY COMPANY WILL PAY DEBTS Receiver Asks Mortgage Hold- ers Not to Press New York Real Estate Security Co. {S WORTH $20,000,000. Says $360,000 Would Pay Pressing Creditors—Thinks None Will Lose Money. Bxperte to-day are going over the dbooks of the New York Real Estate Security Company, which failed yeater- flay with $3,000,000 worth of property tn ite hands in Mamhattan and owing 136,000,000 to ite creditors. Referee James N. Rosenberg sald to- fay he was investigating the affairs of the company, that he was depending Yoon those directly interested to assist fim, and any one refusing to furnish information would be subpoenaed to tourt. ‘The aim now $e to prevegt foreclosure ot mortgages and thus give bondholders & chance to reorganize the company. Mr, Rosenberg declares that as long as the mortgagees and creditors ere will- tng te extend their patience there ts bewry Indication they will receive full payment within e short time. He edded that the company ts protected with QSmple security, and Chat $300,000 would bay off the rents and taxes and adjust things amicably et present. The news of the faiture caused e@ etir among employees et the various apart- ment and business buildings controlled betiboys and attendants offered to hand @ their resignations. They were as- tured. by the referee that their salaries would continue as usual. ‘The referee. is being deluged with difle, and janitors of @ number of the Apartment house owned by the New York Real Estate Security Company ave complained that they are unable fo obtain coal, the dealers fearing there Would be no payment forthcomin, ‘The experts working on the books tope to have a statement to make to he public within the next three or four ONLY $200,000 WORTH OF BONDS SOLD FOR CASH. Charles Weschler, attorney for the ateree, there are fifty bondholders bho received bonds for thelr property, ind that the bonds sold for cash wouldn't exceed $200,000. Referee Rosenberg says it ts absolute- y impossible to issue a detailed state- gent of assets and Habilities unti the iecountants complete @ statement. A vondholers’ committee has been drganized and it is probable that a jatisfactory reorganization may be ef- fected. The referee has sent letters to the 260 holders of first mortgages stat- ng he beileved that with proper admin- ation of the affairs of the company te would prove solvent but that @ con- \iderable number of foreclosure suits would result in financial loss to all con- terned. Messrs. orrow, Wade, Guthrie & Co. have been appointed the accountants by Referee Rosenverg and he has in- Mtructed them to begin a statement of tonditions, “1 consider the outlook very encour- * gaid Mr, Rosenberg to-day, “and "gm receiving the hearty co-opel op of all the officers of the company, ‘nd the bondholders and mortgagees tave aasurred me that they will do all fn their power to assist me. ————>_—_ LECTURE ON NEWMAN. aker te Dwell on Life. editor of the Dublin Review, eminent publicist and writer, vill make his frst public appearance as t lecturer in this city et Aeolisn Hal, So, 2 West Forty-second etreet, next Friday evening under the auspices of the Laymen’s League for Retreats and tocia) Studies. The subject of bis lec- ‘ure will be “Cardinal Newman and the tritics.” The lecture made @ profound mpression in England. Oxford Univer- dty characterized it as a mi rplece of Méterial analysis and echolariy finish. Cardinal) Farley wit ccoupy a box at fhe lecture, The Right Rev. Mer. Booney will preside. Among the pat- enesecs are Miss Iselin, Mra. De Lan- Mre, Morgan J. O'Brien, Mra. Keogh, Mies McCann, Miss Mes. Conde B. Pallen, Mrs. Wilfrid Ward, WEW YORK WOMAN SUICIDE. Registers as Mee. C. J. Ciiffora— Bande Life tn Albany Hi ALBANY, Nov. %—A well dressed seo Who registered as Mrs. C, J. a of New York City, was found (ead in Ker room in a local hotel last ea al local drug etore, purchased the Yoleon and then retired to her room. thet was the tt time she was seen dive. Nothing ecta found in “At Twelve Years of Age She Ie Seriously Flirt- ing on the Corners with the Boys,”” Saye Emile Deschamps. “Nowhere Else Does One | See Acts as Shocking Under the Very Eyes of Promenaders.”” “In the Name of Love, the Word Most Used After ‘Dollar,’ Everything Is Permitted in the United States.” It a Mother Warne Her Daughter Against a Worthless ‘Beau,’ the Girl Tells the Parent It Is None of Her Busi- ness." ie ook in this country. CHAPTER I. Uncle Sam's Terrible Young Giri. Wheo ship of her parents, nothing ten or & dozen years ahe is al- ready engaged, with ir claws. mates and young nelghdo in Sima stripping he flow- ers off the romance of love. A child, she is already @ Uttle woman fMirting seriously tn the corners with the boys, eager for thet Uberty’ which her mother allows her in order to preserve her own. She as gumes quickly that impertinent, aude- ctous, “wise” alr which the discovery of her influence gives her. Something which amazes the traveller who believes in the sincerity of Amer- ican Puritanism is the absence of re- Int, which goes from HMoense to in- decency, among young men and wome ‘There are flagrant examples of this in the big cities, both day and night, at the public gardens, and, generally speak- jing, at the resorts for rest or recrea- tion. Nowhere else does one sce act as shocking, frolics as free, under the very eyes of promenaders. In Pari shameless young people nothing but disapproving the public. At the moment when I was ia the United States the municipal authorities of the beaches near New York— Rockaway, Atlantic Oity, Brighton and othere—were trying to take measures to atop a state of things so scandalous that it had become ineupportable, There re pursuits by the police, arrests and fines. EASY MATTER TO GET FINED IN ATLANTIC CITY. Here te a acene of the moment trom fan Atlantic City police court. “What have you to say in your 4 fense?" the Judge questioned severely. “Judge, I was helping the young lady to walk along the beach, She was tired,” repiied a young man brought with his companion before the bar of Justice, “Beg pardon,” interrupted the police- man who had arrested the couple, “but he had his arin passed tn an amorous fashion around the lady's waist.” ‘Fined fifteen dollars for hi arm passed in an amorous fashion around a young lady's waist,” sald the magistrate. “But, Judge, she's my wife, and nat blvd 1 embraced her," pleaded the cul- Fifteen dollars more for embracing pau fis wife in public,” replied the repr sentative of the law imperturbadi; “That makes thirty dollare, Next case, “L don't defend myself," aid tho young man, advancing deliberately to ung girl beside amusing our- selves.” "WMfteen dollars for amusing your- selves in this fasion at the beach, and the two young people retired, laug ing. FORBIDDEN TO HOLD HANDS OR | kisses and engagement parties, ts one of KIss, At Far Rockaway, another beach dear to New Yorkers, the police captain lost patience about 1! order forbidding ing hands, moonlight or in shadowy corne! these were purely local and exceptional Measures, The beaches were deserted by the young people, who went where they could frolic freely, as they had been acoustomed to a In the name of love, the word most used, after “dollar,” everything is per- mitted in the United Stages, lovera are perfectly free and easy the public highway, one may imagine their Mberty inuide the wells of th homes, Generally speaking, the family } lovemaking, hold- which is for Americans the corrupt and) corrupting town par excellence, all these | ould =meet One of the reasons why we always welcome so sincerely Euro- Peans who visit ue to write we up is because we know they will tell us 80 many interesting things we should never have found out for ourselves, Emtte Deschamps, man of letters, traveller, member of honorable soctettes, ts no exception to the rule of our discoverers. Uniess we read his just published book, “Les Femmes d' Oncle Sam" * (Uncle Bam's Women), we shall prodadly never learn that the wives of Fifth avenue miluonatres emoke pipes or that Snéth Colle stract of his wise and otherwise data, taken very young the morican| re he: by the company, and many porters, |sehool girl ts freed from the guardian. | her. ing nie] apostrophied a man who, furious at time and issued an] taix of love, of flirtation, of courtship, kissing, meetings in the) commonest and the most interesting, But If tho) from the roof on No, $33 West One Hundred and Fifty ‘aixth atreet. | THE “EVENING ‘WORLD, ‘American Girls as We Don’t Know Them, Seen by Frenchman Who Thinks He Does SATURDAY, NOVEMBER R29, | 1918.7: LIES! SAYS WOLFF BECKER'S LAWYERS, a OLN. | B* me HaD HISAR AROUND OWwle are the beat kiesere. It takes a French tourist to unearth that ‘und much other remarkable information. What follows te an abd- from the only copy of If the parents sometimes become who oppose her in| &cquainted with the callers, oftener they grevideg | do not, not becaw that ehe does not|® meeting but becaus: interfere with their | of either, existence and does| Friendships begin outside the home, not become @ bur-|!n the street, a den upon the fam-|4* the homes of My resources. At/tinue in mother’s parior. ither party avoids it dant the affair chool, in the studio, irl friends, and con- There the young girl receives, and receives afon». If epace is lacking in a poor apart- ment, where there are often several daughters, one stays at home with her fellow” while the others go to walk or to the vaudeville. She who semains Denind and her “fellow occupy the reception room, which her parents hasten to leave on the arrival of a visitor. And One beholds the curious spectacle of the father and mother shivering somewhere—in the kitchen during the nrer—longing te go to bed and about the Intruder, who 4s not at all tired of the daughter's companionship and é in no haste to depart. This is called “keeping compan: mi from the age of thirteen girls * because it would be Not to do so, And t's of no use for the parents to show the young man the door, or being f the opinion that thelr daughter's beau" is not @ desirable acquaintance, to seek to persuade her to give him up. Then they will see to what Umtis may be carried the temper and independence which they have allowed to develop. EVER KNOW OF A GIRL TALKING LIKE THIS? “Kate,” the careful mother might aay, don't Hke this young man.” ‘But I~I—iike him, mother," the child would reply. “His appearance ts against him, daughter. "On the eontrary, mother, I think he appears very well.” “He ts lasy.” “Oh, he will work eome day." “Come, try to get another ‘beau.’ “Thet'e my business, mother, and no- body elne'e, I am old enough to take care of myself." That 1s the supreme argwment, which admits no reply. Even the law allows {t. Perhaps young girls in America would occupy themselves with house- hold duites, if local ideas did not au- thorise them to gtve preference, before every other occupation, to the court whioh thelr admirers pay them in their homes, even against the wishes of their parents. A judge from the bench thus eful for them his daughter refural to mend his trousers because ehe was entertaining & young man, threatened to kill her. “You had another pair of trousers and sues waa no immediate necessity of fixing the firet pair. You should leave @aughter to her ‘beau’ and not in- rrupt her for mending that might want” If mother or father dared to enforce the fudement of their prudent exper- fence, if from advice they passed to threat and from threat to action, closing the door on the Intruder, little daugh- ter would disappear with her lover. They would go to filrt at thelr ease where !t seemed good to them, or to get married in the next town. Thia subject of love, from the official presentation of the “fellow” to the the things tulked about most. The pro- feasors in the colleges, the pastors in the churches, the editors in the newa- papers, the young folks in their familiar of marriage, an of a topic at once the —_—_ HER DEATH NOT SUICIDE, ‘The inquest by Coroner Winterbottom into the death of Miss Anna Burnett re- ovit.. In @ verdict yesterday that it was accidental, due to @ fall on Nov, 12 ¢ the apartment house The police reported the death as a suicide, Miss Burnett waa a Public school teacher and lived with her qoes away, leaving the young people parcnta on the top Door of the hous, “aTTTweWe SHE A ALREADY A LITTLE WOMAN FLIRTING / SERIOUSLY OW THE CORNERS wrth Bovt* ROBIN OUT OF PRISON, HOPES TO RUN DOWN MEN WHO RUINED HM Goes Out on Long Island to Rest Before Beginning War on Bank Wreckers. Joneph G. Robin, the ex-banker, left Blackwell's Island to-day, after serving out his sentence to the penitentiary, following his plea of guilty to a grand larceny charge growing out of his transactions with the Washington Sav- Inge Bank. Justice Seabury » him to prison on Jan. 10 las! was taken to the Island ten days later. His release at thia timo wns due to the usual two months’ commutation for good behavior, Robin was met at the ferry by his at- torney, Hobert D, Ireland, of No, 1 Liberty atreet, and as soon as the ferry boat reached the Manhattan side the freed man hastened to a taxicab, dodging the cameras, and was driven a For the next two weeks he will | remain with friends on Long Island, | resting himself and, perhaps, conferring | from tim> to time with his counsel, be- cause Mr. Ireland says that Robin has by no means done with the men who, he says, “brought about Robin's ruin.” “Mr, Robin needs a rest,” Mr, Ireland explained, “and if he takes my advice he will do nothing save rest for these two weeks, Hefore belng taken t Blackwell's Island Mr. Robin spent nearly two years in the Tombs, When he comes buck he will make his home here in the city, probably in some hotel. And then I expect to begin work on the several sults Mr, Robin will institute against the men who brought about hia ruin, As to the amount involved in thene aulte I cannot speak dofinitely at this time, but I should way tt embraced all the mo ys lost in the transactions wrongly accredited to my client. He {# devermined to run down the men who looted the Washington Savings Bank, and they are to be made to disgorge, because these moneys must be recoy- ered. t prgsent there is only one sult on| the calendar, to which Mr. Robin ts # party, It te for $240,000 of the aay- ings bank's money and will be brougit tu trial some time within the next two —_——— Keronene for Fire; Dies, Stephana Nadelano, fitty-two, of No, 47 Avenue C, Bayonne, N. J., yestorday of injuries received when she poured kerosene oll on the fire to hurry her husband's dinner. She had $% hidden in her stocking and tie money was burned up. City P. 0. Open. new $1,000,090 post. office at Montgomery and Washing vi esterday. superintendent of the building. He had been transferred from the Theag- ury Department o} Washington, MN) youse hainberlain was sworn in as — FATHER AND . MOTHER HAVE NO RIGHT, TO, CONCERN THEMSELVES 4] | COURT GIVES NOTICE HE'LL 60 THE LIMIT IN PUNISHING CHAFFEURS “Pass the Word Ato Around,” Says! Magistrate Krotel to Squad of Reckless Drivers. Notice wan issued to-day by Magis- trate Krotel to the automobilists of tho Broadway motor sales district between Fifticth and Fifty-ninth streets that reckless driving and speeding auch as have made the section @ terror ta going to be an expensive luxury for a time, Before the Magistrate, sitting in the West Side Court, were twenty-five per- sons—taxicab and private chauffeurs and owner-drivers—eummoned by Motor- cycle Policemen Kerrigan and Coffey, He fined twenty-four of them $0 with an alternative of five days in jail. One was fined $%. Few of them had the money in their pocke:: and those who were short—whether they wore furs or canvas—were sent to the court jail while messengers acurried out to get ransom for them, “Because there many automobile establishments in your section,” ald the Magistrate from the bench, “you people think that you own tle etreets and the lawn are suspended there. This ts to !m- press on you and persons like you that the nothon is a mistake. “fam to be right here for some time. T give Motice now that peraons proved! to have been driving at a dangerous speed brought before me next wook will be fined $0 and the alternative will be! ten days in Jail. After that I shall im- pose the limit—i0 or fifteen daya, Paus the word aroun John Emerson, an actor, did not re- spond when his name waa called. A ich warrant was Issued for his ar- It was reported that he had been in court, but on hearing the araount of | the fines being Imposed slipped out to} avold the weit” of missing a mati- hee engagement, STERLING RILEY MISSING, | fee Anked to Look ot Syracuse Noy. The police of thin clty were asked to-dgy to hunt for Sterling Kiley, four- teen-year-old son of Bonsamin Riley of 407 North Salina avenue, Syracuse, ¢ boy, Who was @ student tn the acuse Technical High School, exhib- ed hin father's re’ rand @ box of rtridges to his mates Nov, 21, and said he meant to Ko forth into the world and make 4 name for hitnself. No The boy's mother t# very 1 from vorry © 4 absence. Young Riley was dresaed In a blue werge suit with a eroand a Self After Leaving Wife. Frank iy furnished room house at Twenty-Afth street, was fe his room at § o'clock this inorning by the Johnson, a clerk, ng in a 823 Weat und dead in Janitor, Albert Eske The room was led with gas, which wan excaping from 1 Jet and the re clomed. heros vat th ir dns ago a the had quarvel it in said, tives at 1 with hie wife w AL Went ; TOO ILL | Wolft by a relative of thi OF REPORT THAT HE INAPPEAL, DECLARE | Dying fortune Tile Teller Declares He Named No One as Graft Taker. TO BE SEEN. S| JODONPOLICEMEN, TRIAL A A MOREY Justice Colt Atma Assailed in Brief Filed Before Argument for New Hearing. CONSPIRACY CHARGED. | Almost Dead With Cancer, but Admit That Lieutenant Was Doctor Will Take Mes- sages to Him. | Frank Henry Wolff, to whom were at- tributed yesterday confessions which In- captain, Into the wiretapping-clairvoy- ant graft eitvation, sent word to-day from his eick room in the home of h mother-in-law, of No, 19% Franklin avenue, the Bron, that most of what had been published ae coming from him was false, Wolff in dying of cancer of the stomach and hia end is a matter of daye only, per- | hapa of hours, according to Dr. J. Gorms Simmons of No, 2133 Westchester avenue. Thy physician refused to allow vis- {tors to see the men to-day, but con- mented to carry messages to him. Ac- cordingly he returned from @ short conference with the sick man to say: “Mr. Wolff is too il! to insue @ real atatement. has read aome of the if he te atrong enough, I will let him make a statement. It would be sm: him to do #0 now." rested on Thura on an old warrant charging a telling” swindle. Ills condition was euch he wan taken to Fordham Hospital instead of jet, It was hinted that bis rrest was of great importance, and after Chief Magistrate McAdoo and Aa- stetant Diatrict-Attorney Grohl had talked to him it was announced he could turnin corroborative evidence of graft: paying by clairvoyants and other fake: In looking into this phase of police graft Mr. Whitman found several wit- Neeres to tell of money paki by wire- \tappers for “police protection,” but not | until Wolff talked a!4 he get much defl- nite information about the olairvoyant- fortune tolling end of it. Wolff tn implicating the police captain whose name had not been mentioned before said this man’s dealing with the ewindlers had been @o careful that only one er two knew of bie participation in the graft. ACCUSED BY WOMAN WHO LOST of swindling her out of $10,000 she was induced to invest in mining stock by fortune tellers. Wolff's wife died eigh- ‘go and he livew at the home of his mother-in-law, Wolff is said to have made. two statements, In at least one of thet, made to Assistant District-Attorney Groeb}, he is sald to have declared that he was permitted to run a fort! by paying tribute to the police. Ile te quoted as suying that before he took the place two other men hud run it, but had been raided and put out of bual- Bese bovause they did not pay protec- tion money. It is understood that Wolff told the Ansintant District-Attorney he pald police %% a month for hin priv! According to Mr. G@roeh! he frety cor. roborated the “ow ives “wireless wire-tapper,’ former eity detective, cation of the police im these schemes. He aleo assured Mr. Groehi that the police might have executed the 014 warrant © half @ dosen times in the Jeet few months. He alleged, Mr. Groehl said, that bo had met policemen who knew bim roveral times and who knew that the rant Was out for him, hey did nut seem to want to arr Mr. Groehi says Wolff told him. Mr. Groehi ssw Wolff in the bospital after Wolff had been interrogated at ngth by Lieut. Dan Costigan of the jecond Specie) Squad at Police Head- quarters, Of this statement the Chief Magistrate said. “What Wolff sald wae of euch a na- ture toat 1 think it should go frat to the District-Attorney. 1 believe it will aid bim in @raft inquiry and that it will prove of the utmowt importance in bis investigations. With Costigan when Wolff first talaed were Philip Bloch, chief clerk of the Board of Magistrates; Joseph 8. Rosal- eky, a lawyer, of No. Broadway, who had been employed as counnel for latter, and « very weak and stenographer Wo! furety Com atreet provi Chief Magistrate demanded. At 7.40 jasc evening Wolff was removed oy relatives to his Franklin avenue epart- ment. caeeeiponet STEAM ROUTS TENANTS. Explosion of Pipe Causes of Fire in Dig Apartment, Tenants in the five-story apartment house at No. 4 East One Hundred and Alarw Nineteenth street were aroused early to-day by a roar that could be heard uli over the neighborhood, and fled to the etreot, Further excitement was clouds of what appeared to ng from the windows on had ry Fire. atone, @ lawyer in the fe Depart- ment of the city. There wan {lttle dame wixth street. The po un apparently com: v Joba | and the tenants were allowed to tolling place on Weat Forty-fifth street! | troduced a new name, that of a policn Becker, now tn the death chambér is murder of Mra, Caroline Schacfer Court of Appeals In Albany Mont | | stance Always Condemned Before | the Bar of Public Opinion. Arthur Palmer and Joseph Shay, ai torneva for Police Lientenant Chat Sing Sing, who are te from the eve the appeal tter'e conviction for the man Rosenthal before tl coriate Supreme Court Justice Jol Goff, before whom Recker was con- vi In the brief prepared to support their argument, They sum up Justice Goffe conduct th Hecker wae not given a chance for | hie life; the effect of the ruling of the Court made the trial a mockery. Two daye—Monday and Tuesday, it is expected—will be devoted by the Judges of the Court of Appeals to hearing of the arguments, Arthur Palmer will make the main argument for Becker. DECLARE THAT SAM SCHEPPS WAS MUROERE.,.'S ACCOMPLICE. Counsel for Becker present twenty- five reasons why, in their opinion, the conviction should be reversed. The first cites it the probability of Innocence outw the probability of guilt. Point II, deals with the testimony tending to show that Bam Schepps, the chief corroborative witness for the State, was not an aocompiice, Thi: Mr, Palmer maintains, la incredible as & matter of law and manifestly in- credible ae a matter of fact, “The provision of the Constitution trial was grossly violated by the Trial Justice,” Mr. Palmer etates in hia mov- ing papers, scores of Justice Goff's rulings. In gupport of his ansertion that the Probability of Beck innocence out- weighs the probability of his guilt, Mr. Palmer has thie to say: * mi thal became public, condemnation im- mediately fell on Becker, gulit was fixed fn the mind of all. He adduced; and his life was Charnes by the deceased of @ serious nature had been pubitehed against him in a newspaper which, 'f tained, meant his ruination. Not the charges but tho publication of these ch created such @ glaring motive that the murder, under man. SAYS BECKER !8 VICTIM OF THE GREATEST CONSPIRACY. Mr. Palmer charges that the District. Attorney went to Induce such testimony than has e before been done in the history of the State, by giving Rose and his com- jons immunity, making the motive contemplation,” Mr. Palmer says, “that even though Becker is innocent, the evi- | dence which waa given on tho trial was certain to be forthcoming under tre- mendous bribe to the witnesses of their Mvee and libert: Mr. Palmer goes on to say that Becker ie the victim of the greatest conspiracy of the age, Regarding thie the brief contains thie paragraph: “It may be wel te that from the very date of the Rosenthal murder the public enemies of the city adminis but to inflame public opinion thin defendant, in ord against to weaken the "| Mayor with the people in New York. Wo nay this because we have been per- mitted to see that this man, who has eo shame! y assailed even in the enadow of the chair, is absolutely innocent of this murder.” Referring to Justice Gotts condyet of the trial, Mr. Palmer contends that the Justice did not act the judicial role contemplated by law. “It is clear from the reading of the record,” Mr. Palmer says, “that Becker was not given @ chance for his life the effect of the ration of the made te trial mockery.” pail AL CASH POURS INTO Y. W. C. A. Although the canpu'en i over, money im etill pouring into the campaign ead: quarters of the ¥. M. W.C. A. at No. 2% Broad atreet. Three auditors are working ove.time on a Mnarmal report for the public, Mise Grace H, Dodge, President of the National Board of the ¥. W. ©. A. who with her brother, Cleveland H. Dodge, contributed $425,000 to the fund, sald she was particularly pleased with work done by shop girla for the success of the campaign. “1 feel confident in saying that if it had not been for the kindnese of the nvwapapers We never should have been 0 get any thing ike what we got,” ATLANTIC ciry, Ny Mra, J. Charles Weschile of West One Hundred and Tenth atrent, New York, asked Detectly: Whalen this morning to as No, 627 ip out of the rain and retura to bed, | that every man is entitled to a fair No other theory wan sought or considered. His ood convicted before any evidence! | whatever w by Mrs, Francesoa Groehnert of Astoria | demunded. the clrcum- | could be traced to but one! tration have not only sought to mould) BITTEN AND SEARCH | Neighbor's Dog, Which Bit One of Them, to Be Seized for Board of Health. Four children were bitten by two doxs which were running loose in the Atreets of the Hronx to-day. It Is not | baleeet that either of the dogs Was | Suffering from rabies. Joneph Tuott jr, seven years old, of Ne, 1538 Madison avenue; Rose Lone- arin, twelve years old, of No, 103 Lock- wood atreet, and John Kraus, aged five, of Walton avenue and Helmont street, were playing with other children fm the Atreet tn front of the Tuot! home at noon when a black and brindle bulldog that had never been seen in the netgh- borlood came along. One of the chil dren threw a stick at the dog, which turned and anapped at Rose Lonegrin, @eratching her wriat. ‘Then the dog bit the Tuoti boy on the face and the Kraus boy on the left arm. John Tuot!, the boy's father rushed into the atreet and drove the dog away. A Roronugh-wide scarch for the dog was ordeord later. None of the children was badly bitten. ‘The parents refused the ald of an ambu- surgeon and had the wounds cau- ted by their family physicians. Nine-year-old Vincent Brace of No. 686 Eagle avenue, playing tn front of his home this afternoon wae bitten on the left arm by a dog belonging to a neighbor. This dog will be slesed by the police and turned over to the Board of Htalth for observation. ‘The boy's wounded arm was dressed at the Le banon Hospital. _— HELD MAYOR TO BLAME FOR FIRE-TRAP PRISON. Queens County Grand Jury Places im! Responsibility at Door of Kline in Presentment. ‘The Queens County Grand Jury handed | Presentment to County Judge Hum- phrey to-day declaring that the Queens County ja) in Long Island City was a fire trap and that the lives of its 200 occupants were in constant danger. Be- |caume other presentments have mot fe- sulted in action, the Grand Jury to-day cated on Commissioner of Charities Patrick A, Whitney to remove all ta- flammable material, and put itself on record as saying that a continuance Present conditions must be accepted ag @ personal responsibility ‘oy Mayor Kline. Tho jail was built In 1875 and was re built about Aftecn years ago, when pria- oners acquired the habit of escaping whenever they pleased. Onc man, in for | bigamy, wae arrested In Manhattan one night, and he told the police the Sheriff would be peeved if he didn't get back in Jail In time to prepare breakfast. wan cook and had every evening out. pecan dtc tht OLD WOMAN KILLS SELF. ' Willtamebers a Tures on Gas, An old woman past seventy, who teld her landiady that she was ‘tired and in need of a long reat,” found to-day what she sought, but left her body behind in ed room at No. % South Bighth street, Williamsburg. Her identity rests, probably, upon the initials C. B. F. on her sult case and s email birth mark on the right side of her neck. Her sore stralte were betokened by @ pawn ticket showing @ lean of 78 cents upon a dress skirt on Nov. 17% The eum ef 63.61 was found among her scanty delongings. The old woman weat to Mra, Julla third floor, To-day the odor of gas crept through the house, Pollceman Hennenlotter of the Clymer street sta- 7 First dose of Pape’s Cold or ts at drug stores. 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