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i f f i i ? z 3 i ie [I | SER FF § 2 E i A i i i & & ; : i t ! " f | 3 E Hi i HEE Ht ty ie ite rif te 5 ir aH i i Er ts ad 3 i i: ee i i§ E fu Ste it ler TE if 5 HH i ra Te i! ( i ' i iat FHSS! = iets aft Lahe i Hj os at i i ri i A 3 c i i hi i i £ Ht E2 § 1 sft We é Hl i i : i i ff i Eats : if Hi F533 3 3 si WMITCHEL CLASHES WITH GANS OVER NEW POLIGE LAWS Ex - District - Attorney Says Force Will Be Demoralized Under Goethals. GIVE TOO MUCH POWER Mayor Suggests That Police Commissioner Be Given a Permanent Job. Mayor Mitohel and former Assistant | District-Attorney Howard 8, Gans clashed tl afternoon at the City Club @uring @ discussion of the legia- lation at Albany which will enlarge the powers of the New York Police Commissioner. The Mayor spoke to several hundred men and women “What the Polloe Department Needs,’ and in answering him Mr. Gans con tended that there wasn't much to pre- vent Col. Goethals, under the new order of things, from making “as ead firs ii! § 3 if sk Hite ial fry flare Hin 1 fi fy Fl? | z : i ie i | | Es ij i j f F > | l f i fi i i § gE fy H Hi il i j j ; j D i 5 i i ; i i i i i f 4 il i fi h | i f i i | , a s i i : g i fl i i q j zs [ | : H iB ae ty j : re it ahi Ht fiy hit! are Be efit y fil; Fig yi a Hel ‘i | “a i f2é ul [i : c a hil pe ft og ity ‘fe Fie f ere ge i f i iil | F i | fy Hee ge z z Building Wrecked by Explosion and Public School Which Was Unroofed by the Series of Blasts THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1914, Drevision in the City Charter the recall of the Mayor op- (Continued from First Page.) a i sei ik 7 if z : : i i i il £ cE 3 ! ef E i H i i il ; t : g 2 il | gt i! ts 5 ri stgibiei BS ke tt EXPLOSIONS WRECK <-OTORY BUILDING; NINE FIREMEN HURT Plant of Walters Piano’ Fat+ tory Destroyed by Fire and Blasts, A five-story building was literally blown to a heap of rubbish by a suc) cession of explosions caused by “dry distillation” of great quantities of i E | FsEE ifsft Ht Hi i AH i ivf sflz ii if E g be | E i iH i i g i H i i if is Fi ATE grafts e 3 § i I ih z 2 g : “ E if i i : ? f : i AY f #5 f FE bt if pl FF i ii ju iE i i i | | | iu sie? H A ite ig ik a Hi 5 H g é i eeee a 7 ef eral iron shutters and the men of No, 39 bad reached their goal and were training lines of hose onto the big stores of shellac and piano polishes that were burning with intense heat. fy | pa HH ; i a8 5 ches gief Tule, at the front of ths building, a] ee PANIC IN A STREET CAR, Flame From Moeter-Bez Startea Passengers im Rush te Seeape. ‘The | gave @ long audience to te Right By ‘Thomas D,. Beaven, Fe eS See eo cures ‘Wen't Be ot HERO TELLS HOW HE HELD WIFE BY THE HAIR TWO HOURS IN ICY WATER (Continved from First Page) — seem to count one way or de other—anctier dont came along. Margaret up to them and @ caller eald: “‘Let her go. She is dead.’ ‘ “‘@he is aot dead, I eaid to btm, ‘and you take her aboard if you do not want to go to hell with murder om your eoul.’ Bo they took her im. And she opened her eyes and smiled at me and I made the saflor turn and look at her, 4 ; 7 “But when they got me abcard the ship they pat her in « stateroom and left her and put me in another. I believe tpat ifs doctor had been with her right away with stimulants for her poor, overtired body she might be alive now. But they were all mized up, and when I found where she was lying all alone she was dead. “That's about all, except that a steward came into the.room and said he guessed wo might as well throw the body overboard and I smashed him im the eye so that he fell outside the door. Then I shut the door and locked {t, and stayed with her until we got to Norfolk.” id ‘The 0.15 (rain for Bridgeport was called and the three weet away to the gates, the father with an arm laid lightly across the broken hearted man's shoulders and the brother eupporting the elbow on the other side. Thomas Harrington, the long strain of his silent grief Oroken by the relief Of telling hie story, was eobbing ang the tears were rolling down his cheeks from eyes that could not see where hie father and brother were guiding him. Actor Tells How He Was Saved. Wkh Harrington, George Mario, an actor of the Macaria troupe, which bad etarted North on the doomed Monroe, arrived at the Pennsylvania Terminal to-dsy. He was @et by Edward W. Finley and Miss Dorothy Dally end taken to Finley's rooms at No, 242 West Thirtyeighth atreet. Marlo chared his stateroom with George Lewis, the stage manager of the company, who lost his life. , ; “Lewis waked me,” he sald, “and told me there had been an soctdent. He was oo excited that he couldn't fina the button to switch on the electric Ught, and when I found it he couldn't unlock the door. He ran out half. reseed just behind me. We bad no time to get life preservers. 1 never thought of a life preserver untti after the ship had gone, We clung te the rail until the ship careened so that we had to climb over the ratl and the netting became a sort of hammock in which we walked, The ship lurched from one side to another. Once a woman and baby were awept almost within reach of us and then caught and sucked back into the stairway well.” Marlo was told of Harrington's seeing the same two unfortunates awept into the back cabin. “I thought that was what became of them,” he sald. “I think I was in the water about half an hour. I saw Jeleff, the dramatizer and manager of the show, swimming. He had no life preserver, Neither did poor Jim Moore, who passed me once or twice, I saw the fellow who was trying to keep his wife's head out of the water by holding her hair in his teeth. The look on his face gave me nerve when I was just going to give up. He is the kind who can't be stopped while there {6 life in his body.” Marlo sald that he looked out of a porthole just before he left the state- room and saw the bow of the Nantucket drifting away from the Monroe. A negro made a fiying leap for the rail of the Nantucket from the deck of the Moaroe, landed on the crumpled bow of the Nantucket, and ecrambled to safety, The survivors were accompanied from Norfolk by Assistant Passenger Agent D. W. Forrest of the Old Dominion line, Others in his care were George EB. and John Williamson of Brooklya and their brother-in-law, George Williamson. The three said that while they were waiting for the women and children to be put into the boats the ship sank. They found an empty lifeboat beside them when they came to the surface and climbed inte it. They saved Marlo and several others before they were taken aboard the Nantucket. rj 1 held Deated the two biaste twice, and al- most before the last one, had died @way the bow of the Nantucket ploughed its way into the Monroe's starboard just al amidships at an angle of about forty-five degrees. The Nantuc! began to list and in ten minutes had sunk. Department of Commerce yesterday ordered that a sweeping inquiry be directed along three distinct lines, as follows: 7 “Whether the masters of’ both Vessels uned. every ution to Prevent the tragedy, Including a low speed headway and continual use of fog horns. ‘Whether the terrible death rate among the passengers of the Monroe was due in any way to @ lack of discipline among the wrecked ship's crew. Whether the two vessels were fm their proper positions prior te the collision. ‘ The questian of 9. pogsible panic on the part of the crew ie one to which the Federal authorities will di- rect their attention, Survivors, how- ever, declare that little, if any con- fusion followed the collision. All of them praised the crew for their splendid behavior. H. B. Walker of New York, presi- Resinol Ends Skin-troubl BESaeS eee , Seid by ot Dresatns, OFFICIAL LIST SHOWS 41 WERE LOST ‘ON SUNKBN MONROE. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 81.—An of- cially, revised death list shows to-day that forty-one perished when the Old Dominion liner Monroe went down im fifteen fathoms of water off the Virginia co@at after colliding in a fog with the Merchants and Miners’ steamer Nantucket. “Of those whe perished nineteen whe passengers .and:\;\twenty-twe were of the Monroe's crew. There wef abéard the Monroe 189 persons. The total number saved were 98, of which number 38 were passengers and 60 members of the crew. Of the 48 first class passengers aboard, in- cluding one child, 84 were saved and 16 lost. Of the Monroe's nine steer- age passengets four were saved and fave perished. Investigation of the sinking of the both ships, some of it taken while the Nantucket was bringing in the gurvivors, ie being kept secret to- day. It atill is in the form of stenog- raphers’ notes and will make fifty or sixty typewritten pages. No official statement could be ob- tained to-day about it, but it ts said that witnesses testified Capt. Johnson stopped the Monroe's engines when he heard the ‘Nantucket’s answering siren signal and that the lost ship was practically still when the Nan- tucket rammed her amidships and sheared her in two. ¢ DIDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO SIGNALS. : Other witnesses testified, it 1s said, 1016, JOHN A year of his ogo. late real- Brookiya, NW. ¥., P.:M. Wuneral at family, backed away, the Monroe | be. hi ) iis lait FUGITIVE VO THREE YEAS FR GONG BAK FEE Ex-Councilman of Camdén Surrended in St, Louis, Say- ing He Was Wanted: ST. LOUIS, Jan. 81.—Elwood ©, Williams, former Councilman of Cam- den, N. J., who surrenderéd to the) local police force a few days ago and sald he was wanted in his home city }I for passing three forged checks, will depart for his home probably to-d or to-morrow, a free man. Z For almost three years Williams tramped from city to city, conscience- stricken and longing for a gi of the faces of his wife and child. it he dared not return to Cashes. Thursday he walked . into Headquarters here and told the of detectives he could stand the - tal torture no longer. * PREACHER 18 WELD FOR = ABUSING CITY OFFICERS Was Distracted, “He Says," By Noises of Lexington Avenues Subway Work. The Rev. Alton Z. Stevenson, Whe asserts that he is an ordained miniater and head of the Society, Inc. of New York, gras in $100 bail by United States Con missioner Shields this morning for sending scurrilous postal cardia’ {% Edward E. McCall, Chairman of ¢! Public Service Commission. Inspector O'Brien, who made the Bs rest, charges that the minister similar cards to Mayor Mitchel, the Police Commissioner and the Meaith Commissioner. The clergyman was broi A”) Commissioner Shields's office at nese to-day. A long, white beard 4 half way to his waist line; hie was bowed with his seventy years, and he was trembling from exeit- ment. “I can't talk,” he protested. “My health has been ruined by the sub- way construction. I don't know wha! I may have done!” st ‘The letters were said. by Inspector O'Brien to “tend to reflect upon. amd defame the character of the pergps to whom they were # *" €o 7 sioner Shields ordered t! take place next Wedn oT men ahd women Wen United States Hay ion, commonly knows , “gneesera,” held their. midwinter vention at No. 124 Hast Twenty-digh street last nigh various wi and hay fever were di d ents were perfected con’ he a, in Bethichem, Pa., on ratory ‘open! Ing season on the Aftesnth of No perman: dent and general imanager of the Oid Dominion Steamship Company, 6F- rived here to-day from Wy ingf Prepared to take up the investigntion While it ie generally admit the Nantucket's aificers ‘and everything to yd 7 tucket's steel prow had cut into the Monroe amidships. The view is by many that had the atate pulled loose, the Monroe would kept afloat until everybody , What do «>u suppose thf ad {s shout? Would you think, by looking at the picture, that it pertained to A COUNTRY HOME FOR SALE 4 VACANT COTTAGE FOR RENT—= AN AUTOMOBILE BARGAIN, | «24 Well, to be explicit, It ts to call ate tention to all three opportunities” 43 are offered through World’ ade after day, week alter week and yegr af year. See Sunday World To-Morrow and See Or, if you would examine: vous t ‘ y Y y