The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1914, Page 5

“ |& ‘ Viotim Was Getting Ready to Be Married Next Week. Marry Halstead ts dead to-day, and, instead of hearing him talk of plans for his wedding néxt week, neighbors in Brooklyn are telling how he lost Bis life in a vain attempt to save Bis/invalid mother from flames that burned their apartment on the top fiber of the four-story house at No. 2 Columbia street, Brooklyn, Mrs. Halstead, who was sixty-fiv years old, and a widow, had been ‘Relpless invalid for four years. Her fom, who was twenty-three, was her sole support. She had been cared for fm her illness by Mi Helen Mead, Seventy-seven years old, who acted aa‘ber companion and nurse. After supver last night, Harry, who had expected to marry Miss Ruth Carter of No, 234 Baltic street, next Week, went to the street and joined Dayid Davidson of No. 288 Columbia street and Francis Fole, sNo. init street y ofsNo. 96 ira. Mead was heating water ral , and in lighting a gas Mave @ match on @ tablecover. ‘The jes btarted, and the old woian, ‘unable to beat them out, hobbled to the street for help. Young Halstead and his two friends ‘Were opposite the house when they saw flames shooting from a indo’ ‘The three ran to the top ‘toot Wi @tead dashed into his mother's hed- room, which by that time was in flames. Guided by the helpless wom- fan's screams, he reached her bed. There he collapsed and the two died together. GROUND 1S BROKEN FOR BRONX SUBWAY Children Sing, Soldiers Parade and " Many Speeches Are Made, The celebration of the breaking of ground for the new Westchester divi- sion of the subway began in the Bronx to-day. © The programme called for the brenk- ing of the first ground at White Plains avenue and Sagamore strect by Borough President Douglus Mathewson at 2 o'clock this afternoon, speeches by Public Service Com- me er Edward E. McCatl and er- issioner John E. Eustia, as well .)@§ & song service by children of Public Behool No. 34. * To-night civic, political and com- mercial bodies, with the Secon! Dat- tery, N. G. N. Y., will parade through Weatchester, ending at Morris Park @venue, where there will be more speechmaking and singing, and a dis- play of fireworks. ¥ can getrid of itching with Resinol= You ‘HAT relief! The very first application of Resinol Oint- ment stops the itching and your tortured skin feels cool and com- fortable at last. Won't you try the easy Resinol way, to heal eczema or other skin-eruption? Doctors have prescribed it for nineteen years, Resinel Ointment, with the help of Restnol Soap, clears away pimples and blackheads, and few most valuable household remedy for sores, burne, boils, piles, etc, Bold by RYING TO RESCUE In Fine Enacting of Wadleigh Pupils Give “Mid- summer Night’s Dream” in Praiseworthy Manner. By Charles Darnton. Y WAY of a’ little Shakespearian B festival of their own, girls of ‘Wadleigh High Schoo! last night gave a performance of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” that delighted an au- lence which taxed even standing room in the sp&cious auditorium of the school building in West One Hun- ‘dred and Fourteenth street. The charm of this production lay ir {ts simplicity. For one thing there was but a single scene, with two Pages to announce the suppose! changes. The stage was a bank of flowers, @ background, by the way, Quite in keeping with the fresh young beauty of the performers. If any of them had heard of Granville Barker's recent practice tn London of putting & bronze finish on the faces of Titania and her fairies they were too sensible to ruin their complexions in, this ridic- ulous fashion. Moreover, they did not Fesort to the spectacular extravagance that marked Broadway productions which they may remember. The fal- ries were not fitted up with incan- descent lights to mako them look like so many electric signs, nor was Puck turned Into a flying fhachine, Not only was everything almple and Dretty, but the distinct utterance of every member of the cast brought out the play with uncommon clearness. Lines were read so that every word could be heard, though occasionally with rather strange emphasis. costurhing was unobtrusive and in ex- cellent taste, and the dances were re- markably graceful. Both here and in their sense of character the young ladies showed unmistakably the re- sults of excellent training, They wero most successful, too, in bringing out the humor of the low comedy scenes, In playing that laughable tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe, for ample, the performers displayed a keen sense of farcical fun that the audience recognized with roars of laugbter. In this scene Miss Lillian Breyer, as Bottom, was even funnier than when wearing the 's head. Miss Rachel Volk was a spirited and graceful Puck, in fact, she gave a performance that seemed to take her quite out of the amateur class, She never for a moment betrayed the least self-con- sciousness, acting for all the world as though she were born to the real talent for droit characterization was shown by Miss Catherine Duff as Sno. In short. very ‘creditable: work = (WOMEN WILL AID Fi 3 Sho te Thespian Skill Shakespearian Roles enh rdt FIGHT TO CUT FARE ONL LEE FERRY Bergen County Housewives Will Attend Mass Meeting to Be Held in Leonia, Not content to let the men of Ber- gen (County do all the work in the fight for a reduction of fare from 6 to 8 cents on the Mert Lee Ferry, crossing the Hudson from West One Hundred and Thirtieth street to Edgewater, the women of the county east of the Hackensack River have Indeed wi by the whol - pany. This was the cust: eG Herald... Davey Been oF (tae ire Lynandsr Puck. roome at joon House at Gorham, H.. for the summer. Sheriff Drew alldruggists. For sample writeto Resinol, Dept, 2-SeBaltimore, Md. Million A for thi clear dizzin ind Small s Thankfully Praise Carter’s Little Liver Pilis Liver Pills if GENUINE myn bear signature has custody of Thaw and wants him near his home in Berlin, six miles away. vigorous stom: perfect iver and soma Date bowels belong to all who are wise enough to use Carter’s Little Liver Pills. vegetable. Imitations are numerous—look our ly Insist on Carter’s Little you want food health, a and freedom from iliousness, headache and em, complex ess, igestion, Pill, Small Dose, Small Price nd | delegations jumped into the fray, To-day the good housewives of a dozen commu- nities in Eastern Bergen predicted the mon folk will get the surprise of their lives next Thursday night, when d|the big mass meeting is held in the Leonia High School to protest against the five-cent ferry rate. There will not be a mere scattering of women in the audience that is ex- pected to pack the spacious auditor- jum of the public high school, Not by a long shot. They are going to attend en ma if you please—whole from practically every woman's civic and social organiza- tion in Bergen County. Wilbur PF. Osler, President of the Eastern Ber- gen County Improvement Associa- tlon, and leader of the “Fighting Mayors,” made this plain to-day. Mrs. Osler, tho President's wife, will lead the biggest delegation of women—the Hourewives’ League, a State-wide organization. Mrs, Osler, as State Chairinan, will assemble her forces early Thursday evening with the help of Mrs, John A, Williams, head of the Leonia branch of the league. HOSTS OF WOMEN EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT. Representatives of the league from every community in county east of the Hackensack will be present, Mrs. Osler promises. A reservation of a large block of seats in the auditori- um will be made for the women, Then there will be a large delegation of women from the Women's Political Union, another county-wide organi- vation, with a membership of 700 women, Mrs. Horatio R. Reed, head of the Leonta branch, will handle the delegation. Tho women, it appears, are even more enthustastic In the | campaign for cheaper ferry rates jthan the men, since with the three- cent rate they would find it far more convenient to do their shopping in the big Harlem stores.along One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth at Plans for assemblying a represen- tative County citi- sen at mating we completed to-day. In response to in- vitations practically every civic or-| ganization in Eastern Bergen, frot Ridgefield up to the State line, hi sent word to President Osler of intention to be represented by a dele- gation. Each community and_ bor- ough has caught the spirit of the demonstration and there is much good-natured rivalry among the as- sociations as to who can get out the bigmwest delegations, As_ the eh school building in Leonia has a s ing capacity of only 500, there is a strong likelihood that overflow meet- ings may be necessary. AID OF SENATOR HENNESSY IS LOOKED FOR. Charles O'Connor Hennessy, Sena- tor from Bergen County, is expected to be present. Senator Hennessy, a brother of John A. Hennessy, the New York graft hunter, has been’ appealed to by the “Fighting Mayors” to enter the campaign for a cheaper ferriage rate, and ft looks as If he intends to. It was on their appeal that the Sen- ator Introduced amendments to the Hudson River Bridge bill, which has been passed in the Legisla- ture and signed by Gov, Fielder. An- other service Hennessy rendered Ber- gen County was putting through the $100,000 appropriation for Interstate Park. In view of his past achieve- ments the “Fighting Mayors” appre- ciate that once they have enlisted the aid of the Bergen County Sena- tor the way for the three-cent ferry rate will be made comparatively easy, aide ACCUSED AS PLOTTER FOR $5,000 BLACKMAIL Domenico Ciccone, Arraigned in Court, Admits Serving Term in Prison. Charged with complicity in the send- ing of threatening letters demanding $5,000, and in exploding a bomb which injured two persons when the demand was refused, Domenico Ciccone of No, 419 East Elghteenth street was to-day arrested and arraigned in Es- sex Market Police Court. Hoe denied any knowledge of the letters and the bomb, but admitted that he had served seven years in Italy for burg- lary. The man to whom the letters were sent was Giuseppe Gaetano of No. First avenue. The last one stated that a failure to pay would result in the blowing up of his home. The blow up did follow last Sunday morn- ing. "The day before he received the laat letter Gaetano met 4 man In the street who asked him if he intended to pay. On the day after the explosion he met the same man at Astor place and Broadway, Then he went to the po- lice, and Detectives Bonano and Gro- tano were sent out on the hunt. Early to-day they found Ciccone and when he was taken to the Fifth street police station and confronted with Gaetano, the latter sprang upon him and tried to throttle him, Gac- tano accused Ciccone of having wrecked his ‘s helath with his letters an dthrea >_ A complete novel each week by a fa- mous author in the Evening World, See ‘AVEOONE MEHUP” SAS WEE THEE George Copinger, Little Old Burglar, Thinks He’s Not Such a Bad Un. JUST LIKE NAPOLEON. “"E Wanted ter ’Ave 'Is Lib- erty, hand So Does I,” Declares the Dwarf. Tf it be fate's decree that some time your home Is to be robbed, cross your fingers now and pray fervently to the god of luck that your burglarious visitor will be George Copinger. George is sixty-four years old, 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighs less than 100 pounds. He is now languishing in the Tombs, but bas high hopes of getting out. ‘The dwarf was arrested carly Thurs- day morning covered with coal dust in the cellar of No. 626 Sixth avenue. A burglar alarm gave him away when he tried a door, and when he was lined up at Police Headquarters he was recognized as an old offender, hi spent more than a quarter of a cen- tury In Sing ‘= Prison, He was held in $8,600 bail for a hearing next Court. jeorge, with o notable rec- servitude and s unusual features, was visited in the y an Evening World reporter, He is a mere wisp of a man—short, thin, narrow-cheated, bleary-eyed, a remarkably small face, white hair— indeed, anything but a burglar to be afraid of. The dwarf in proud of one thing— he says he isn't an habitual criminal and he is mortally in fear the police will try to hang the hateful charge upon him, He declares righteously he always took what he could get and never, never “hurt any one's feel- ings;" he insists he made it a matter of principle never to go into a room “where there was life,” for he didn't want to frighten anybody, and inci- dentally he didn't care to be fright- ened himself. You have to see the dwarf face to face to gather the full humorous effect of thone stated prin- ciples. WILL NOT ADMIT HE 18 SUCH A BAD UN. The little man peered through th bars and carefully ‘wmedup the jr rter before saying “alfything al imself. Finally he said, compla! dngly: “I dunno whether to talk of not; you bloody reportera. are such fil bera and J hain't never ‘ad a square deal. I think ab ‘ow yer ought ter out I hain’t such a bad un arter Thursday in Yorkvil Bo Gi rd no all.” George is excessively English, hav- ing been a butler in his younger days although he knows more about tatlot ing now, having learned the trade ‘up the river.” He came to America when he was twenty-two and says he did some “butlering” here, but never so far forgot welt to plifer from his “marater's ‘ouse,” Now his language is a queer mixture of Cockney and New York east side jar- of of Rum done me hup, young feller he continued, “rum—and wor see, L thinks I kin drink, but it allus takes only about two drinks hand I'm hunder the table. Then I hatn't responsible. I hain't never ‘ad no control of myself that way. Then I allus was a devil for the ladies—bleas their ‘earts jest the same—hand I'd get into trouble talkin’ to them when T'ad oughtor been seein’ arter me own getaway. 'Yos, | was sixty-four years old the night tho bobbles got me. young feller, I don't want prison. I ‘ave more respect body than that—wouldn’ too? Yos, I spent a long ‘ard there, twenty-five or thirty years, T guess—but I never thought as ‘ow T liked it a little bit. Liberty, yer | |Building of Operator Who Has Devel- Home builders in the Now metropolitan district are faced with! the boom ta apt to be followed by & more profitable opportunities to-day) collapse. This is true undoubtedly In than at any period within the past generation. To inform myself in detail as to} with ita rapid growth of population the situation, I have been making an|and business the boom ts apt to reat exhaustive study during the past months through practically all of the | gtrong to admit of serious reactions. big ‘cities of the United States from | Whether people like the word or not, New York to San Francisco. aimed esrectally to ‘compare current | Seain by veritable boome--but booms market prices in those c oretical real estate values am figured | foundations. from All the fundamentals which a recognized as controlling factors from | gom lake divestment and speculative at Point. Compared with the New metropolitan diatrict, there are few if any cities ‘that can offer such induc ments te meseekers. On Long Isl and ir gw¥icular do present. prices look ren for loweg relatively in regard to intrinsic | F' value than are land prices suburbs of any city in this country, My operations in the Metropolitan | scale, district have been confined to New Jorsey and Long Island because I! there has increased enormously—that have regarded the east-and-west line | it is increasing steadily each yea: ing development. ') my first fleld of activity, largo residential tracts which I devel- oped known now to need further intro- duction, That my judgment was good then is proved by the course of New Jersey land prices during thespast/the world, with the huge sums of few years. ary tendencles In the general sub- urban market, New Jersey prices| tire zone for express transit, the im- have been now in ‘certain classes of property they aro as high as prices on Long Island. ‘Through a close study of the sub- leader, > a YCOTEC Tome a Matte¥ of WEEK'S NOTABLE REALTY OPERATION: a ef cITY, Republic of Panama paid $711,000 under forecionure an ploint twelve-story Prasada apartments on the southwest corn irk West and Sixty-fitth street, Gotham Realty Company sold the elght-story apartments, 100x100, on Pierrepont street, Brooklyn, and Graydon on Montage 76x100, in an $800,000 trade. R Benjamin N. Duke sold at $1,300,000 the tweive-story Prince Hi bert and Marc Antony apartments, Nos, 214-220 Cathedral to Dr. Paterno, Beth Israel bought 14,000 square feet surrounding the corner of Livingston place and Seventeenth street as the site for a teen-story building to represent $1,000,000. Aaron Coleman bought the now twelve-story lofts, Nos, 115-126 Twenty-ninth street, in a $700,000 trade with John La Spina for six-story apartments, Nos. 240-242 West Forty-ninth street. A. 1. Mordecat & Son sold the twetve-story lofts, Nos. 121-128 Twenty-fourth atreet, to Edward Mommer at $260,000, taking in excl the nine-story lofts, Now. 40-42 East Nineteenth street. SUBURBAN. John E. Sullivan traded fifty-four lots on Kighty-first atreet, lyn, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, for the dwellings, Nom. 147+! Remaen street. Adolphe Qu Barry sold his thirty-five-acre estate at Madison, N, Charles Ewing bought four acres on Milton Harbor, Rye, part of the John Jay estate, at $20,000 as the site for a renidence, 4 Borough Asphalt Company bought five acres on North Hem turnpike, Flushing, as the site for a plant to employ several hi a men. f Dr. James Porter Fiske and Mrs. William Grant Brown beim 5 Colonial residence with acreage at Greenwich, Conn, with t Henale for the new flats, No. 152 Sherman avenue. wrong times. It would be muah ter for the mass of small if they could act upon their own & itiative in such matters as real Just now they are in a condition mind that keeps them aloof La wonderful opportunities that He Be doubt they have fore them. } hurt in the past by the operations unscrupulous, Incompetent 4 and they are shy about brane out on thelr own convictions. the big money made in real ‘* goes to those who move ahead of the crowd. On L ‘ to-day the crowd la not act! It is just the place for the oat % Investor to accumulate land upward | gain prices for the next swing. jew laws will do much to real oeatate buyers in the fut Operators who- have ced the lic will not be able to repeat exploits and the next recu the wide buying movement is rest upon very stable foundat! cause New York minimum of business mense volume, and developers run thelr affairs upon correct ners principles, giving lot buyers value for thelr money, will be able to find good mar matter what outside business HES 7 SOHR Af! Pure Nou BUILDS .YOU..UP. urban situation as tt appears at the opening of the 1914 season, I have been convinced that prices on Long Taland for high-class properties do not average higher than prices in oped Big Residential) New Jersey tor corresponding prop- erties, This is in conflict with gen- Tracts on East-and=| rai opinion, which holde that Long West Line of Expansion | tsiand iand prices are several times Says That the New York aia ih ae ag fag Suburbs Offer Now the | the iimits of Greater New York, but Best Opportunities in| toc sot hold. outside of the. city the World for Profitable boundaries, Homeseekers and builders should Real Estate Under- takings. make careful investigation in re- gard to the movement of suburban land prices and values before under- taking their operations, Real estate prices—especially the market values of suburban lands—do not rise stead- ily year by year. There are long periods of stationary conditions, then | comes a sharp movement. People do not like to hear of booma because By William B. McLain. Yor! | communities where population doce not grow as fast as the ideas of real entate promoters, but in New York, few | Upon very aubstantial foundations and to be maintained in a manner too T have|the movement of New York lan values ta accentuated time and tim \ in with the- of the kind that are based upon solid . Real estate lies dor- re | mant here, especially in the suburbs, for a few years, tren the movement and it is usually large enot nd- | to called a boom. There have ‘ork | been {pnw ble booms of this kind in the past and there are sure to just as many in the future, NEAR THE START OF ANOTHER ‘a sty RISE IN VALUES. rtiality for’ Long Teland Kably tempting, and E'have | ens’ moment tx due to the fact thi hesitation in stating that prices|jand prices on Vong Iaiand n ren don Lo land to-day are| mained stationary since the last big rath pean if ine of values culmipated in 1906-1907, In the mean time general develop- ment and house building have been progressing on an extraordinary and the commuting records of the Long Island Ratiroad show thi the number of permanent residents REAL EGTATE FOR SALE— NEW JERSEY. in the All indications show that Long Is! and is at or near the Veerpiges 4 of another rise in land values, which Jersey was! should outdo what occurred from 1900 and the two] to 1907. Few persons realise the transfor- mations that are to come in the Long Island section of the Great New York suburbs and even throughout the districts far beyond. The outlook is incomparably more attractive than can be found in any other place in residentig! expansion as the gone largest opportunities for enhanc- New there have become too well money to be spent on the new sub- the Long Island Ratiroad, the the electrification of the en- In spite of the reaction- trolle: increasing steadily, and] mense aggregate of operations on the art of private interests, both for Rome building and for general public occupation. Investors are apt to follow the’ like sheep, and be led at the know, we hall wants ter ‘ave libert remember, Napoleon hoff on that hi: and by hisself—he wanted ter ‘ave ‘Is liberty, hand so does I.” George grew reminiscent when his long record wan recalled to him and he told of his promise to Gov. Flower back in 1890 never to get into trouble again; the Governor pardoned him, but three yeara later he was back in Sing Sing. Just before this | ho had eacaped by secreting himaelf | in a basket of old bread, covering | himself with the lonves being carried out of the prison, and got away. Three days later he was captured at a dance ball in Chatham Square—that's one of the times his love for the women proved his undoing he sald. LONG PRISON RECORD OF A SHORT MAN. The dwarf was first sent to Sing Sing for two yearn and six months on July 16, 1877, On Oct, 26, 1880, under the name of James Holland, he wi sentenced to fifteen years by Recorder | Smyth for robbing the home of ex- Mayor Smith Ely at Fifth avenue and ty He escaped ir, the bread basket Noy. 19, 1890, bur was captured Noy. 22. On April 10, 1893, for burglary, he was given years by J Re was a No. 11 Kas having been discovered there by the Re Willlam Vibbert with gold watches and lockets belonging to servants in his pockets. He got eight | years for that | On July 16, 1908, he wan sent up for four rs by Judge Foster, after having been arrested in Thomas El- | der’s coin shop, No. 82 East Twenty- | third street, tryti ‘0 well some coins | stolen from the shop of Samuel Prosky, No, 858 Rroadw. ‘Two | young women alone in the shop See | pected him and “jollied” him until wl police ‘score another | against the dwarfs love for women. In his pockets ing Th jay lucky daya and three, five and eight ; ‘The nu the store he robbed was th bination reversed, but the chi dently didn't taki escgpade until bis TATE AT AUCTION. ~eeee 6,000 PEOPLE Move into the Bronx every month The Trend of Population is northeast, exactly in the direction of the PEARSALL ESTATE THAT IS WHY THIS PROPERTY bd WILL INCREASE 10 TO 20% IN VALUE EVERY YEAR: 420L0TS ONBRONX & PELHAM PARKWAY Anp witiiamsaripce RoaD HAVE GOT T0 BE SOLD at Auction without protection DECORATION DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 80TH, 1914 IAL ESTATE AT AUCTION, TO REACH THE PROPERTY 70% can remain on Fi Fordham Station of 2nd or 3rd Avenue Titles guaranteed by bs mortgage for five years Elevated” Raliroad Rute Stay if will Cur Title Guarantee & Trust Co, te Send for Maps to J. Clarence Davies, 149th St, & 3d Ave. Joseph P, Day, 31 Nassau Se. ts Agente and Auctionsers: aa rt]