The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1914, Page 1

b bgt! Sy FINAL ~ WOMEN NEEL “ON BEACH AND PRAY FO ‘STORM WRECKS SEABRIGHT Highest Tide Known, ‘Driven in by Gale, Undermines Houses and Hotels. DOOM ED. h | RESORT Wind Now 60 Miles an Hout and Rising—Atlantic City | i IS Suffers Much, SEABRIGUT, Jan, .—Seadright fs again in peril from wind and tide. There was great anxiety during the| might. The situation is even more threatening to-day. The a was up, to the ordinary high water mark two! hours ad of the usual time. At 2 o'clock the sea broke through the Dbulkheading at, Normandie and cut through the railroad tr 8, cutting off all traM™®. The Cen! -elale with a big. gang of men fought the sea for an hour, but the waves beat hed through, open- until the storm subsides, At the same time the sea became more savage than ever, aud tore under the! Octagon Hotel, which seemed dooined.! Everything that could be moved out of the big building was hurried away, The waves snarled through where the ba Ment used to be and the front supports Were washed away and the walls sim- ply hung from the roof, which {s held in place by the rear and side walls, | ‘The hotel, with the parts washed away ® week ago, was valued at $150,000, WIND REGISTERS 60 MILES AN; HOUR. At 8 o'clock the wind registered sixty- \ one miles afd was out of the due cast, end rising, Atinntic City seat word that « minety-mile gale may be looked | for, If that ever hits Seabright it will be all over with the battered resort, Out on a level bit of sand, in the| abelter of a honse which stands back from the sea somewhat, & group of | women has been preying for hours. | ‘They kneel where the wind lashes them and from the ocean is carried over the building upom them, Twelve hundred feet of the bulk- heiding directly in front of the vil- “a to have been torn out, d in defent and when the engineers alied off their men it had upon the villagers, All of the cottage lawns r tide las hot fallen at atl s {ts highest soon after 12 o'e! looss as if there would be no low tide and (hat tp-morrow morning's high tde will pile the waters still higher. At. o'clock the outlook is black and growing worre every hour, The wind is steadily increasing In violence und is holding from the east- ward, Ax the wind did not fall at eun- risa it fs not likely to grow less until afternoon and everything Is being made ready for (he worst hours the resort| “has ever seen. The street ends which euffered greatly during the storm last week were again lashed by the seas. The highest water of t reached at 1%18 this afternoon, though mt that hour the water was only a fraction of an Inch higher than ft had been an hour before, The sea ry rough at 1 o'clock, and the erious holes in the ocean- hey t away the bulk- n Hotel they eweep, and have po Washed around to the south of hote!, ‘youging out the sand in gr masses and pounding directly against the big flue of the kitchen, which rests in the sand and which may be under- amined at any (ime and collapse. FISHERMEN BRACE HOMES DUR. ING HEIGHT OF STORM. ‘The fishermen vy the use of bra have maint in fair shap e fored severely, The General Fitzgerald ‘enitage, owned by'the widow of the late Gan. Inels Fitzgerald, wae menaced. Tae lawn wai front. heading at the have had ful! Woatinued on Last Fase) ‘ Ag a big gap wile cannot be filled} | laid off in the last three mont, at times even the spume| e fight to keep the railroad open) :/ AND THEN AGAIN—MAYBE! d thelr houses thus fa: | Copyelant, 1914, by The R SAFETY AS BIG BILL” EDWARD. | GETS JOB TO CLEAN STRBETS OF NEWARK. | CENTRAL AND NEW HAVEN CUT WORKING FORCES Constructign. Employee Employees and Shop Men Eeel tie Effect of Official + Retrenchment. Bix thousand employees of t York Central Railroad lines have been and, it Is said, more may be suspended in the months to come if business does not pick up. This is 3,000 more thay the normal number off each win- | ter because of the impossibility of out- | door construction work, \ Tho total list of employees lald off by \all the roads having terminals in New York approximates 26,000, estimated, as it Is Imponsible to get exact figures from each of the roads, Notices posted In the car shops of the New York, New Haven and Hart. ford Railroad in New Haven m @ reduction of 10 p of several hundr: ts, bollermak workers being in- | cluded. ———— THERE MAY BE SNOW Anyhow, the Kerry Prognasticator Says If Not To-Night, Perhaps Later. Umbre!las, rubbers and raincoats. We'll hava rain or snow before night. If not before, then later, This is the weather man’s prediction, ‘To-morrow It wlll be clearer and colder—another predictio: A storm has 4 Gulf States since moving northeastward. now | centred in Virginia, increasing {n in-! | tensity, and accompanied on the Middle Atlantic coast by ligh easterly winds, | The weather man at Wa that tenperat | Atlantic States and Kies and} Mississipp! Valley. In wind will be brisk and noon and to-night and 1 to-morrow shift to the west. That's like news fi says Brassel of the County » who been pragnosticating for Olu Moore's | Alman: years agone, doewn {ao tw ‘Matt in now app | “THE LOST WORLD" 18 THE TITLE OF CONAN DOYLE'S GREAT- (‘EST STORY OF ADVENTURE. IT | | WILT APPEAR IN ‘THE SUNDAY torn away and tue wa. | WORLD MAGAZINE FOK JANUARY | Yea? j/ AND FEBRUARY, BEGINNING; (NEXT SUNDAY, ye ma Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ NEW YORK “BATURDAY, Bride-to-Be Probably Victim of Murder Near Mineola. jew York Wi “BIG BILL” GETS | jwhlte and four negroes, vit itl ¢ The Prees Publishing ‘Werld). 3 JOB AT BETTER PAY TO CLEAN NEWARK, Street Cleaning Commissioner Displaced by Mitchel Goes to Jersey Town. WON'T HAVE ,A_ BOSS. Will Work for Contractor and Still Keep His Residence in New York. “Big Bill" Edwards, former Street Cleaning Commissioner of New York, who was not reappointed by Mayor Mitchel, has been snapped up by ark, On Monday morning Mr. Edwards will Yecome general manager of the street cleaning Gepartment of the New Jersey metropolia, Nwark may not be 40 large @ town as ew York, but “Big Bill” hae a f better job than he had here. He ie under contract for two years at a con- aiderably larger salary than New York City pata him, No politicians can bother him and be will be under contract, after competitive bid- diag. The present contractor ie & men named Marrone, who has been very successful in @ variety of public works contracts. soon as he heard that “Big Bill" to be let out of the department here, Marrone took a train for New York and began bidding for the Com- missioner’s services, Formal contracts were signed to-day whereby Edwards becomes general manager of the New- ark contract for two years, with full power to run the job as he p'eases, In addition to the large salary, Ed- warda will have an automobile and a chauffeur furnished him, and he wil: continue to make New York City his residence. At 6 o'clock Monday morning "Big Bill” will start things hustling in New. ark and give aome practical demonstra- town. KERMIT ROOSEVELT TO WED MISS WILLARD Daughter of American Ambassador to Spain Will Be Bride of Ex-President’s Son, RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 3.—Personal letters received here to-day from Ma- drid by friends of Joseph ‘E, Willard, Ambassador to Spain, agement of the Am- ‘Dassador's ter, Mias Belle Wil- lard, to Kermit Roosevelt, eon of Theodore Roosevelt. ‘The wedding, it im sald, will take place in the apring, prodably here in Richmond, the home of the Willards, Miss Willard, Kermit Roosevelt and hin sister, now Mra, Richard Derby, were guests of the Willards on a long motor trip through Virginia and end- ay ago. one of the guests lant winter at the wedding in New York of Ethel Roonevelt to Mr. Derby, but the romance between the Virginia girl and the bride's brother Was not suspected. Jan, 3—With a ing a Avizale of five men, one were lashed nine tails in the work- house stockade to-day, The whippings Were witnessed by twenty citizens who braved the cold winds, bundled up in ry Joan Dudley, colored, convicied of highway robvery received forty lashes aud will serve five and a half yeara. ‘Tie others whipped were John Jorien, John Dobson and John Williama, col- oved, and George Lakine, white, all of whog received ten Jashes. ‘They will also serve from nine montis to two 8 each ON, Del, freezing north wind b rain on thelr bare bi with the cat WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS) 2,000: MEXICANS. INWAR PANIC RSH OVER U.S. BORDER Refugees Start Ee hereced Gen- eral Dash to Escape Death by-Rebels at Ojinaga. PRESIDIO, Tex., Ten. 3-Two thou- sand Mexican refugees, including halt- starved women aif children and some Federal deserters, to-day rushed acros: the river to the United States to scex protection from the battle at Ojinaga, Mexico, opposite here. The refugees scatered for miles along the river bank were imperiiled by heavy artillery firing between Federals and attacking rebels, The little minsion | church hore wag crowded with wounded. Those not wounded who could be in dnced to go set to walk th to Marfa, stzty-seven miles ‘AM deserters who crossed the river were held as prisoners instead of being jsarmed ond sent back ax heretofore. genera} assault upon Ojinaga by Gen. man rebels began before nd although this forenoon the Federals stil! held the town the enemy had advanced on every side, In some casen the rebels even invaded! the out- skirts of the town and engaged the de- fenders hand to hand. 1 ‘The rebels opened their aaxault with | @ terrific cannonading and for hours | thereafter * deafening artillery duel continued, Both Wederal and rebel | shells burst on the American side of the river, however, and Major Mc- Namee. the commander of the United States patrols, twice was compelled to send Warnings to both Mexican com- manders. His warnings were heeded immediately. No one was hurt on the| American aide: Ortega deolared he intended to push the assault to @ conclusion before night, but -the defepdere were holding ga! ,| down a tree | the JANUARY 4 gamely. There has been no decrease ‘tw tie volume of the Federal cannon id It Is believed they must ved a fresh supply of ammu- nition since yesterday. Judging from the reports of wounded men coming to Presidio for treatment, the Federal loss must have been heavy, Many of these refugees are semi-hy: ical. ‘They say the streets of Ojinaga are “filled with dead” and that many troops are so badly wounded ‘by burat- Ing shells that they cannot attempt to reach the American side, American army surgeons attending thene wounded ay they now estima’ the Federal loss during the five da: fighting at 400 dead and 450 wo and the rebel lows at 300 dead and 600 wounded, Fifteen prisoners captured by rebels during @ sortie last night summarily executed after a court-mai tial which convicted them of being Fed- nnected with Orozco's Francisco Madero, and herefore traitors to their country, Thin ction followed similar executions by the Federals Friday afternoon, when Gen. Orozco brought these prisoners be- fore him and ordered them shot In the Plaza at Ojinaga. The order was car- rled out. RUNAWAY CAR KILLS MAN. Hight Others Injured When Trolley Jumps Switeb. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.—Running wit down the steep ‘oushohocken Hin with brakes refusing to a trolley car to-day jumped a tch, tore through the corner of 4 store, knocked and ral man and hijuries | a poles brought death to one to elght other persons Maker Getty, (ie molurman, had his head torn off \ the wheels, | Jamen Collins, the conductor ritical condition, nis body rushed. The other and acerated b ty COAST TOWNS SWEPT BY HIGH SEAS | “Circulation Books Open to All.’ 10 PAGES |VIGTIM OF MURDER 1914, WHILE GOING HOME PREPARED TO WED Girl Found Dying on Trolley Tracks, Trousseau With Her —Farm Hand Arrested. A BLACKJACK IS FOUND Among Effects, of Suspected Man, Who Also Had $90— Girl’s Money Missing. Sheriff Pettit of Nassau County ar- rested John Szablinsky, a farm hand, to-day in connection with the mystery of the death of Olga Zaretaky, who was found Unconscious on the trolley tracks between Mineola and East Wil- liston last night. The girl died without recovering consciousness from the ef- fects @ fracture of the skull at the base of the brain and other injuries, \Miss Zareteky, who had been.in Brook- ‘The Sheriff learned by inquiry that Ssablinsky had been an admirer of the girl and found persons who sald that tuey ‘had heard him make threats of ve co when he learned she was to marry Laer, Szablinsky om- ployed as a frm uy on the Cushing the¥crime was com- place near which mitted. b Saebiinsky, when arrested on the farm shortly before noon to-day, was found to be possessed of #0. He sald it was his savings from his wages, but the sum fe just $10 less than Miss Zerotsky is known to have had when she left her home to go to Brooklyn yesterday. In Sszablinsky'’s room was found « blackjack, made of a leather receptacle, filled with fine birdshot. As there ts no direct evidence as yet connecting him with the death of Miss Zaretaky, Coroner Seaman held him on « charge of having concealed weapons in his possession, “L am convinced that this is @ cane of murder,” said Sheriff Pettit, “The injuries to the girl's head were in- flicted by some instrument and the fact are missing took them the person who took nt, for there w people around right after too she was discovered on the tracks to have permitted the theft of her rings. “L think that after tbe murderer left he she was struck by an automo- many bile whion sped on. This accounts for the bruises on her leg and body ahd one of the cuts on her head.” ‘Three boys met Miss Zaretaky on the road in front of the Cushing pirce a fow minutes before the tragedy, They were responmible for the theory |that the girl was killed by an suto- mobile. POLICEMAN DI DIES Ih IN STREET. the Eyes Sinks to Pavemen ef Fright Children playing in G Attorney atreet, shortly before | day saw Voliceman Cornelius Rene- han of the CUnton street station grab an iron railing at the stoop of a house and cling to it an instant, ‘Then |aunk slowly to the sidewalk, The chi dren ser and men ran up and }carried the-policeman into the haliway laut No 2 Attorney street Pollve ann called 1 tte | trom r Hospital, and Rene- deed when the surgeon av said heart disease had prob. tor Hold 1,000 ta Cheek as Fire te) ably Killed him Fought. | Renehan was thirty years old and BOSTON, Jan, 3. rh entire execu. | lived at No. ® Henry street, Corona, tive force of the House of Correction, | Queens, with his wife and two children n Deer Island, four miles down the| He had been @ policeman since May, h a Che Hae, HA tneh Mae: EAE had nen et fought & rusien’ [tached to the Clinton street station In check one thousand prisovers early | ba t adoined WINTER CRUISES ed; with Me aman Canal Weer tnaiee, a) , MAL _WEATHER—Rain or cnow to-night; Sunday clean, PRIOE OWE CERT. THRILLING ATTACK KILLED KM Syracuse Man Grew Nervous Over Jests and the Doctors Were Unable to Save Him, @YRACUBE, N. Y., Jan, 3.—Hydére- phobia, brought on by fright, killed J. B. Hutiell, former Clerk of Onondaga County and prominent in polities of Syracuse and the Gtate, Hubbell died this morning at the hospital after eutfer ing mental and physical agony, He was bitten in the face Nov. 30 le teasing @ pet bulldog, The wound was immediately cauter \sed and tater us antitoxin was ad- | mintatered, Examination of the dog by experts showed him free from rabies, No alarming symptoms developed until to have trouble with hie throat and showed symptome of fear of water. It became known then that friends had joked Hubbell on the possibility of hy- drophobia, and being of nevvous tem- perament, preyed on his mind until the dread malady really became manifest. Diagnosing the case as one of auto- hypnosis, attending doctors used all psychology possible, but their efforts failed and death ended hie sufferings, ——aeatinniesent MAN FROZEN TO SIDE | OF SPEEDING TRAIN ! Stealing Ride, He Is Covered With Water, Which Freezes Him to Car. TRENTON, No J, Jan. 3.-Numb with cold and with his clothes covered with lee, Harry Steele of Philadelphia | Was saved from almost certain death |when the New York-Washington Limite + | ed exp train wae flagged at tho main *| station wed from | the eng tealing @ ride to Philadelphia. the train passed « watering trough at was covered with water, diately frome, and whe: car here he Was on th rge of collapsing. 4 bia clothi FROM BLAZE NEAR THE GAYNOR HOME Policeman and Auto Employees So = for Improvising Life Net and; ” ts. Beguelin Drops Two Chilw’ © dren From Third’ Floor. AIDS IN SAVING MAID BEFORE FIREMEN ARR Acting Battalion Chief Walsh Ni Loses His Own Life, But Keeps Hold, 4 3 of Young Woman as Ladder Falls. ’ A window on the third Sape at the home of Henry R. Bugvetin of the fowelry firm of Cross & Begueit, Maiden lene, witch ts at Ne. 69 3 avenue, Brovklys, a dock: away Sear Ge vesitenen ‘ot ‘tis’ tate Gaynor, flew open shortly after pees to-day. 1” ehouted Mrs. Baguelip. “The house is on fire.” last Monday, when Mr, Harbbell began | she RESCUES a Inte Ge window with her reed od her etu-year-ol4 hee € cron Ie Veale OF ret ire and dropped her, The. [ote aa she fell, but she heada, they crowded close to ‘and got the upper end of it almost in reach of the window. WHITE WOMEN AID IN R&S Us” CUING COLORED MAID. Mrs. Buguelin and the French’ were calmer than the negress and assisted her to climb over the Elizabeth | t ail, Her feet touched the top ot) ladde! 4 with the hands eg: women above te guide her she ave descended in safety, but eke her nerve at the jest minute sad her feet already om the ladder cast self out frem the window, She crashed down on the men the ladder, Knocking them dows | s breaking her own fall, but her. was fractured and she was senseless. Others carried her away. Reick, Blake and Miller were