The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1914, Page 3

) ERO pT CROWD AT ir WEST SIDE BLAZE Weemen Assisted Down Pire- Mary Voldosaro and John Fela. Vustansky arrived at the fire-escape as Davis appeared at the window with hig family and Miss Voldosaro, all in Might attire The policeman lowered the escape ladder and assisted the ‘women down. They were given shelter in @ delicatessen store. MAN FALLS UNCONSCIOUS ON STAIRS. Mareck had broken down the front G@eor. He ran to the top floor, where the parents of Mra. Davis, Rocco and before he was on Bille and Nugent of They stuck bie head and revived him. Th ‘i EyEREESE ER j pune bes EB gt Ef sruggied in the smoke- for several minutes before bven rescued. WANTED TO WAIT UNTIL HE HAD HIS VALUABLES. ‘The room, of John Fela, the Davis Jodger, contained no fire-escape, and as he stopped to dress himeelf was out off by the smoke. One of fire ladders was put up to his room, and Firemen V mo and Kelly of Truck 2% went up after him. He wanted to stop and collect his valu- @bles, and the firemen had to force him to the ladder. ‘The fire destroyed several coffins in cellar and the greater part of the Going damage estimated at $1,000. i : t i : A fire which destroyed the fur shop of Samuel Schiller at No. 2798 Third enue, near One Hundred and Forty- ighth street, last night tied up prac- tloally ali the trolley lines in the Bronx half an hour, The blaze spread to the | picture frame establishment of William | @bling next door, The firemen, after half an hour, extinguished the fire with @ damage of $2,000. Theatres in the district their audiences about that t that took the polles indie, Returning trom work last night Fred- erick Waydell, a boarder in the home of Mra lantha C. Matthews of No. 48 ‘West One Hundred and Fifty-third street, found her apparently uncor scious on the floor of the parlor, W: dell summoned Dr W. J. Alexand ‘who pronounced the woman dead, prob- ably from heart disease, Mrs. Matthews was fifty-seven, widow of a diamond New York Woman Wins in RESWIES Mrs. H. P. Whitney, Societ Contest With Seven Prominent Sculptors and Her Symbolic Figure Will Be Erected in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Jai 1—The Fine Arte Commission has accepted Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's plans for the Titanic Memorial to be built in Wash- ington commemorating the herotem of the men who eacrificed their lives that the women passengers might be saved. ‘The memorial will cost $43,000. Seven designe were submitted. Some of the prominent sculptors of the country were among the competitors, Mrs, Whitney's design is a figure of & man symbolic of heroism. The fig- ure, in white marble, stands with arms outstretched and head thrown back, giving the impression from a distance of the crucifix, ‘The figure, which ts almost nude, will be fifteen feet high, and of exquisite workmanship. The peculiar posture of the arms, the pose of the massive head, thrown slightly back, conveys the im- Pression, of sublime sacrifice, the e’ pression of the face, almost smiling, welcoming death. ‘The base of the memorial will corre- spond in height with the figure and will e@ also of pure white marble. Figures of Lombardi poplar trees form @ back- ground to the whole setting. The dase round the figure on three ving the front open. Mre Whitney was formerly Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, daughter of Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, She te a eculptor of rare ability, and her work has been exhibited frequently in Paris and won many prizes and honore, She has also exhibited her work im American gal- tories. —_——— SUIT TO OUST CORK’S MAYOR. O'Shea In Declared to Be a Nat- eral American. CORK, Ireland, Jan. ~The hearing opened to-day of a sult by which ft ie sought to disqualify the Lord Mayor of Cork, Henry O'Shea, from sitting as a Councilman on the ground that he is an alien and @ naturalized American citizen. Prosecuting counsel in addressing the Court announced that he would produce evidence showing that Lord Mayor O'Shea had claimed to be an American citizen, Keeps the The Famous Chocolate Laxative , EX-LAX Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion Blood Pure Ex-Lax is a delicious choco- late laxative recommended by physicians tive remedy for constipation in all its forms. Ex-Lax has made thousands happy. . A 10c box will prove its a mild yet posi- 25 LAWYERS FIGHTING FOR $11,000 IN COURT) ALONG ON $1,000 A WEEK And What as Many Clients Will Get Is Also Another Story. ‘The Court of Chancerr in Jersey City was glutted with legal talent this morn- ing and piled with law books until it looked like @ country Carnegie library. Vice-Chancellor Lewis gazed down upon a legion of lawyers, There were twenty- five of them from the Blackstone beit, all eager to lay hands upon a poor lit- tle $11,000 roll, which had been dropped into the Court of Chancery by Peter H. B, Frelinghuysen, @n attorney, of No. 3 Liberty etreet. Some time ago Mr. Frelinghuysen made @ contract with John V. Schaefer & Co. of New York to build him « hot at Morristown, N. J., for $70,000. swooped down upon the lawyer for the difference between the cost and the contract price, The attorney got tired of trying to prorate the mon it into the Court of Chai the creditors “to go to ! xpected that the twenty-ai 11 be talking for thre @ will be left of the when the lawyers’ fees are extracted— well. _— SUFFRAGE HIKERS ARE NEARING ALBANY Leave. Ravena for Last Thirteen Miles of March for Votes. RAVENNA, N. Y., Jan, 7.—Gen. Rosalie Jones and her auffragette army were up early this morning. They left this village ehortly after 7 o'clock pre- pared to complete thelr march to the apitol. There were eleven in the little band that set out for the final thirteen miles of the 150-mile hil from New York Clty, All were in good apirita despite sore mu The pilgrims expected to be met a delegation of Alban: with fife and drum corps at Ken- wood, near that city to escort them to the Capitol to present to the Legisla- ture thelr petition for women watchers at elections, es Six Feet Ni Di UL, Jan, 7.—1 Cher- who was six feet nine inches in died yesterday near here, He weventy-three years old, Cherry family, of giants, every imenbe nz more Phan six feet four inches wll. Iis brotWr, Charles Cherry, waa the iy suffragettes Ma: AUROR. ry, ‘ y Leader, Whose Design for Titanic Memorial Is Chosen by Fine Arts Commission : | dition of one of their number, who wM® | seventy-six years old and who had Clerk Carrying {FOUND LATER INTACT. | Police Say He Confessed That | to date This tact was estabtishet when Charies T. Mongreta, twenty yeare old, of No 158 Crescent place, Yonkers, and were arraigned tm Centre Street Police Court to-day charged with larceny ané het in $1,600 ball each. ~ SHE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1914. Cries He Has Been Attacked —Money Gone. He Slipped Package of Cash to His Brother. ‘There te gach & thing as being too UP ie eighteen-year-cld Brother, Morris, erand Charles bad been ‘reading about young women being Jebbed in the arme to the Kenwood Contra: he was emplo by poisoned needles and losing their senses and being carried away by vil- tains. Quick to esise an idea, Charles jeised the poisoned needle proposition eparatory to eeising $2,300 belonging 1 Company. Pearl street, by which concern des jographer. Hie time came yesterday when, with $3,800 belonging to the firm in his pos- | session he started for Hackensack, N. J., tn the company of Charles B Engel, the paymaster. pay off laborers employed in filling « Their mission was to section of the Hackensack Meadows. EMBROIDERED TALE AND 60 ENGINEERED UNDOING. Charles admitted tn court to-day that he had plotted to steal the 2,000 He said he was tired of working. It de- |ve'oped that he was #o well thought of by his employers that if he had eimply | said the money was atolen from him ACTRESS MUST STRUGGLE Jury Refuses to’ Give Bessie Wynn Money Balm for Rail- road Hurts. Bessie Wynne will have to struggle along on her $1,000 week salary (Broadway estimate) as @ vaudevillian headliner, for a jury in Justice Hend- riok’s court to-day declined to add to her income any part of the 5,000 which she sought from the Pennsyl- vania Railmoad for damages growing out of a fall down @ staircase, ‘The jury reported to the Justice to- Gay after quitting the courthouse about 8 o'clock last night. They found in favor of the railroad. Until near the close of thelr deliberations the jury stood 10 to 3 in Miss Wynne's favor. of tho jurors their Wynne was over- ‘ation for the con- come by their conal his statement would have been accepted. But he had to embroider his plan, #0 to speak, with the needle theory, and that aroused suspicion from the start and led to the recovery of the money, which he had gurreptitiously trans ferred to the custody of his brother. ‘The first mistake Mongrella made was to suggest to Engel that they leave by the Pearl street entrance instead of the one they usually used on Stone street Engel inalsted they go their usual route, Twice he noticed his companion look- ing over his shoulder, but thought moth- ing of tt at the time While they were walking arm-tn-arm down the ramp of the Hudson Terminal Just Uke that. He crumpled up eappar- ently in Engel is @ wise youth, and thp first thing he did was to feel in Mongrella’s pocket for the 62,200. Nothing doing. Money gone, although there was no one within fifty feet of them, ‘The Greenwich street station furnished policemen, and the Hudson Street Hos- pital doctors. Beautiful women crowded about the motionless form of the hand- some youth eo ruthlessly struck down by @ mysterious assaflant. Police Head- quarters was notified and, of course, there was a stir. After a lapse of what Mongrella deemed @ euitable time he allowed himself to be revived. The doo- tor unkindly told the police there was no sign of @ needle prick, and that the young man was “sound as @ dolar.” Mongrella consented to accompany Deteotive-Bergeant Clare to the station, where Acting Captain Tunney and Lieut. Gildea cross-examined him for an hour. Finally he decided the police might be right after all, and the detectives eay he made a complete confession. MONEY WITH SEALS UNBROKEN FOUND IN GARRET, He explained, the detectives assert, that he had arranged with his brother Morris that the latter was to wait im street until the two came out, fol- low them unobtrusively and pick up the envelope Which Charles Mongrella would BOLD BANDITS IN PLOT. They Seize Man on Street and he Gays it te as true as the high ecst o: living, dosen't put it just that way, but the TH 300 Payroll | Here’s Scenario of Two Reel} Captors Tell Doctors They Are Thriller That Starts in Syracuse. Whirl Him Here in Wild CONCORD, was taken to- appointed by Federal Judge Aldrich to learn whether Harry K. Thaw would be @ menace to the community if released on ball pending final decision as to the right of New York State to extra- @te him. The principal witness wae @heriff Holman A, County, who has had charge of Thaw ‘ever since the slayer of Stanford White was thrust over the border by the Canadian Government after hie escape from Matteawan. Thaw had never Drew said, nor had he shown any signa of outbursts of temper; he seemed able to control himsel, even under exciting cireumatances, “He was “pleasant companion at all times,” eaid the big Sheriff. {ng about the nows of the day he ghowed wonderful inaight.” “Would you consider him cheracter- (med by an exaggerated ego?’ asked Dr, Blumer of the Commission. "The sheriff of Coos County blinked a Httle, picked at the kneee of his trous- ers, and then with a dry smile eald: with ing Thaw, sald that he felt no hesite- tion about going to sleep on a cot in ‘Thaw's room. Thaw, rather m facts, but not “If you feel that you opinions, Thaw’s mental condition Not Afraid of Stanford White's Slayer H., Jan, 7.—Testimony by the commission Drew of Coos ecomed = irritable, “In talk “No, a! Policeman Stevens, who has shared rift Drew the duty of watoh- he eald, was kindly in deposition than most men and never showed signs of becoming violent. a3 5f “Here’e the qink’s grub.” whiskers, brings in the Mver, &c., and On Sale in the Young Men's Clothing Dep't—Thursday, Janwary 8th weakened on the atrain of the eight hours’ deliberations. Mias Wynne claimed that she had been damaged $5,000 worth when @#he tum- led down one of the staircases at the Pennsylvania station, She alleged that her injuries had tmpaired her dancing skill and caused her to lose valuable engagements, WHITE SLAVE MOVIE CASE IS TRANSFERRED Hearing Will Be Held in General Sessions Instead of Special Sessions. Justice Vernon M. Davis, tn the Crim- ‘mal Branch of the Supreme Court, to- day transferred the canes of Samuel H. London, Harry C. Jewell, Jullue M Kenney, John J, Heagney, Henry ¢. Bohm, Benjamin Nussbaum, William Hurley, Max Frick and Frances W, Pierce, held by Magistrate Murphy for trial in connection with the production of the moving picture films “Inside of the White Slave Traffic,” from Special Sessions to General Sessions for trial, The transfer was made upon the re- quest of John B. Stanchfleld, represent- ing the Soclological Fund Committee of the Medical Review of Reviews, under the aumices of which committee the films were produced at the Park and Bijou Theatres, Assistant District-At- torney Wilmott did not oppose the re- quest, Mr. Stanchfield declared that case involved substantial property and prosented intflcate and questions of law and fart come, Mr. Stanchfleld asserted, the hi ie cit would man who ever ciaahaty far-reaching in it effect and would se regulate @ mater of Qublle interest, drop. Charles Mongrella was locked up on @& charge of grand larceny, while Deteo- tives set out for Yonkers im search of Morris They found the peckage of money, in @ small cabinet in the garret. been broken, When he #1 in the detec. tives’ hands, they say, Morris also con- fessed, his story corroborating his brother’s. ————— WOOER’S SON ARRESTED. Visited Widow's Hi ed Aged Romeo Home, Peter Lochman of No. 671 Palisade avenue, West Hoboken, is elghty-three years old, but that didn't prevent him from taking candy and cakes to Mra. Sarah Aberly, who is sixty and « widow, Mving in Dodd street, West Hoboken, Peter Loohman jr, fifty-one years old, resented his father's ap- parent courtship, His father te righ, Last night Peter jr, went to the Aberly house, where Peter ar. had pre- ceded him, He insisted upon his father leaving the house and John Aberly, thirty-eight, the widow's son, ordered Peter jr. to get out. Peter jr. wouldn't and the widow's son had | him locked up for creating a disturb. | ance. Tofore Recorder Vollmer in the Woat Hoboken pollee court this morn- ing Mrs, Aberly told of the old man's courtship, which sne declared wasn't | any courtsiin at all, She bad no de eo and Or- signe on Veter srs wealth, #he emil- | ingly said, Yes, he brought her cam y and cakes, she admitted, She took | them from him as she would from a child, Peter jr, wi ven ® suspended | yentence. i 2 UNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY WONDERS| e 525 Young Men’s Overcoats Divided into three lots for quick selling Lot 1—150 Smart double-breasted Overcoats, fitted and belted-back models, of fine Meltons, Chinchilla and Shetland cloth. Regularly $18.00 and $20.00 notch coltars. woolen fabri effect: Mr. Jerome saying that he did not feel ‘The commission received @ letter from and New York’s NOW Only hotel Vanderbilt and Streets, adjoining 190@ ROOMS OPEN OPPENHEIM, CLLINS & 34th Street, New York Extraordinary Purchase and Sale of $2 to 42 Chest Measure Lot 2—155 Overcoats in a wide range of standard all » in rough and smooth surface several of the newest English models, with silk lining in yoke and sleeves. Regularly $22.50 and $25.00 Lot 3—220 Finest Overcoats, fashioned of high grade imported fabrics in rough effects. Vicuna coat- ings and Donegal Scotch mixtures; swaggere fitted or belted models. Velvet or self collars, Strictly hand-tailored garments. Regularly $27.50 and $80.00 None C. 0. D. No Credits ye Figure This Due From Young America’s Latest and Most STAs 0 WITH ROOM RATES FROM 62.50 PER DAY Suites from 2 te 18 reoms fer permanant companey Large and email Bail, and Dtatag pas and ules spect eerenwed GUSTAV BAUMANN semie Shawl and Mrs. Van Ness, Who Unexpect- ij i nt rial eoishl gt t Hi “ey 5 i . é i u if e i Centermost OPEN TO BA’ 10.00 13.50