The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1920, Page 2

only as “Betty. i AS “BETTY JONES”. pen Avenue, a friend of Mra Lan- Peon, anid the unidentified woman Swasdmown to her as “Miss Betty Jone,” althourh she was married. Mrs. Brockdroff said she did not know Married namo. “She declared Mra. and “Hotty” attended a party and shortly after midnight visited an- other apartment at No. 27 West 57th Street, next dor to the burned build- ing. Mra Brockdroft suid Mra. ‘Lus- comb and “Betty” must have been ack in tho formers apartment only \ & few hours when they were trapped ) by the fire. > Ghortly after the bodies had been ro- Moved to the Morgue a woman who gid mie was Mrs. Gendron of No. 19 "7 Bast b7th street called at the burned x and asked for Mrs. Reed ) Bho said the latter was’a close friend ef Princess Fngalichieff, who is stay- fat the Waléort-Astoria, “The Princess called me up this after hearing there was 4 fire ‘ the building,” Mrs. Gendron told the police, “and asked mo, since I jive ‘* fear, to call and see if 1 could do any- S thing for Mrs. Reed. Is there any Service Ican perform?” Mra. Ge broke down when 1 she learned that both Mrs, Reed and her @adter, Mrs, Jenkins had deen ‘Milled, She said Mrs, Reed was not ‘ the concert stage, as at first ro- but was studying grand ‘Mrs. Reed was about 35 years old ~ it is sald she had been divorced. Helen Howard, in a pri- school at 73d Street and Fifth Miss Howard, in, ‘tears, the scene of the fire shortly the secofid floor Lucille Schrier Josef have a millinery ex- p the rear Capt. H. Ross Martin, an r hman, and his guest, Capt. Hayes. They suid when they roused by shouts the flames #0 close to them fhey leaped to irs and fell down most of the Bracy lived on tue fourth ' front; ahd two men named and Lyons in the rear. Dr. Po ved on the, fifth fldor front f nd Mrs. Luscom»h dn the rear Miss “Grace Wilson, who lives in 27, said she was among the first Beized her by the arm, hs Whe smoke waa wo thick she could SS met open her mouth to ur mly Mrs. Liiscomb seemed to pme frantic and, tearing herself fan back as if to get her jewels. 5 th it waa the last she saw of her, John Grossburg, the broker, said fre had got into his room when twelye feet to an addition. d and took him down 4 ladder. No. 3: adjoining is the building the Sohmer Piano Company Kruse, superintendent, says arrived at 6.20 A.-M, and that hing was all right then, A minutes later he heard a peculiar fan out and saw flames leap- from the upper floors of No. 29, sent jn an alarm, firemen appeared to have re- ved the alarm after considerable , a8 the flames had gained great head when they arrived. They “ran up ladders, but everybody who Peould get out had escaped, except the , whom they took from a rear tension. | Phe two upper floors of the building y destroyed, the damage being ; $%,000. Just where the fire 4 has not been determined, The und floor of the building is occu- ‘by the Rose Bow! Tea loom, OYERSEY’S BIG BOND ISSUES. Wudson Tun- : nel and Bo P)) aRBNTON, N. J. ‘ and Tunnel Comm —The fon, tn tunnel and the Cumdon-Phila- bridge, has authorized an insur $5,000,000 thirty-yenr 6 per cent 5 ‘of the $24,000,000 bond issue wu. mt d by the recent referendum. state's war bonus, also adopted by dum. Se See “ He gave the impres- he would not accept @ Cabinet buildings because it was feared an- tg other collapse of the walls might in- jure them were told shortly after noon ler us ee ‘that the work of shoring the walls was Acquaintances in the bulld- gala they knew Mrs. Lusoomb’s UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN KNOWN’ Mrs. Brick = Brockdorff, No. 1,000 at her Park Avenue home last night! Off, Careless in Dumping Requisites. Worker Urge on thé Search for His Body. 4 thirty-foot section of wall in the ninth story of the Strathmore Apart- ments, 62d Street and Broadway, persons were injured and four others who are being searched for may have been killed, was placed to-day by Frederick C, Kuehnle, Chief Inspec tor of the Building Department, on the uneven distribution of materials used in the retonstruction of the building from an apartment house to an office building. “We have learned that the bullding Is fifty years old, that the Moor veams were not bevelled and that the heavy, iron girders and beams were not evenly digtributed in the building,” waid MuKuehnie. “The great weight in-certafn spots caused a great strain on the square-ended beams, which In Mr. Kuehnie pointed out that nearly all similar aecidgnts occur at fter quitting time. he added, “to the fact that workmen, anxious to go |home, leave materials scattered any old way, trusting to luck that noth- |ing will happen. The fault in the Strathmore building is due to the “, | foreman, Aobiishinent. On the third floor front! = Tived John Grossburg, a broker, and |™#terials were uniforraly distributed. dancer to keep up with her, and! {and on of the New York-New Jersey i Pe) The Soldiers’ Bonus Commission has is rized a dond issue of $12,000,000 Pe twenty-year 5 per cent. bonds coyering negligence of the resident or local who failed to see that the “There is nothing In the pbuilding laws which prevent the reconstruc. tion of old buildings if the plans are feasible.” * TO DECIDE FATE OF REST OF BUILDING TO-DAY. Whether, the reconstruction of the Strathmore will be permitted to con- | tinue whether the Building Depart- | ment will order the demolition of the structure, he said, will be determined after a detailed examination to-day, Meanwhile work on the clearing of Uhe debris and the search for the es of four persons believed miss- P: abe. fet out after the alarm, and that) bo 2% nh into Mrs, Luscomb's room | !hs are being continued with the shoring of walls to prevent a fur- ther upse, fear of which caused the| the police to stop traffic on Broad- way between Gist and 63d Streets d Street, between Seventh and Bighth Avenues. ‘The bodies of (wo women may be found under the heaps of brick and rubbish on the 62d Street side of the | building, was the statement of John Wwoke. He ran to the rear and| Ericson, Superintendent of the New- tments, 206 W. band port Api 6 he remained until firemen ar-| Street. EMtcson sag a man whose finger had been cut off by falling | glass ruwhed into the hall of the | apurtntent house crying that he had | seen two women pedestrians leap into a doorway on the 52nd Street side with the first avalanche of brick, wwich was immediately followed by another completely burying the door- way, The man was somewhat hysterical, The father and wife of John C. mith, thirty-three, a welder, of No. 162 Mucomb's Place, who is the only urging the workmen to speed up thelr efforts in an attempt to find the body. Martin Ke Acting Buttalion Fire Chief, sent for additional men at noon to assist in the search Although William, J, O'Gorman, sales manager of the Capitol Auto- mobile Exchange, who sent in th alarm and sent for the police and ambulances yesterday, told that he noticed a big crack in’ the south wall of the building all the me the con- struction Was under way, no other persons who would admit they saw it could be found to-day Jumes Shields, a bullding inspector, stated that he examined the building officially Tuesday und aguin Wednes- day, and that he found everything all right at those times, yue Hospital followink the col- Ridgewood Ayenu of the Strathmore, was still at the received when he was pinned under the wreckage. ESCAPE Elizabeth Kine, seventeen, of No, leave the hospital last night, Persons who were ordered out of the Official blame for the collapse of yesterday afternoon, when twelve | person definitely believed to have been | killed, were at the Strathmore all day | Of the Injured who were taken to ly Harry Spangler of No, 156 Brooklyn, man- ager of the Sydney Bowman Auto- mobile Company, the only occupants hospital to-day. He was suffering! from cuts and bruises about the body | Of thelr m MISS KINE HAS MIRACULOUS 35 W. 46th Stret, a stenographer of the Bowman Company, who miracu- loudly eacaped death: because of the! “T haven't any money to retain a» mysterious arching of the brick and | ‘@¥¥er,” he aaid, “but 1 love iny wife mortar over her boy, suffered slight | injuries in one leg, but was able to|Lryw how int MATERA PILED ON FLOOR OF STRATHMORE CAUSED. COLLAPSE, FAPERT FOS wrest" PROESS SERVERS Father and Mother of One) FOR MRS. GIBSON nally Get Authority From Court to Slip Summons | Under Door. Supreme Coyrt Justice Leonard A Glegeric ended jay year’s vain endeavor of process servers, private detectives and the Sheriff of the |County of New York to find Mrs. Heatrice M, Pratt Gibson, of No. 159 against her by the Jacques Gems and | Prectous Stones, Inc., of No. 651 Fifth Avenue, by leaving the same at her home, Mrs, Gibson, who was married to Preston Gibson on Dec, 11, 1919, against the wishes of her parents, and who subsequently brought suit aguingt he father, Wilftam E. Benj- amin, is being sued by the jewelry firm upon a promiasory note, with interest, for $2,589.54, which, accord- ing to the complaint, was delivered fby her July 18, 1919, for goods pupr- chased, According to an affidavit by Myer Boskey, attorney for Jacques, two procews-servers were looking for her when, hea marriage to Preston Gib- son was announced, ‘The affidavit details efforts of process servers to locate Miss Gib- son in New York and in this city after her return here in the fall, She Was located at last at No. 14 Kast 60th Street. One of the process serv- ers is represented as saying she told him she uld not have the money to pay the note until the sult against her father was settled. The sult 4a based on her claim for $60,000 from the estate of her grandfather, the late H, H. Rogers of Standard’ Oil tame. After this Deputy Sheriff William Lee attempted to serve Mrs. Gibson, He met with no greater success than process servers and private detectives who had preceded him. He wrote to Mr. Gibson and recelved from him on Noy. 23 « letter saying that Mra. Gibson was in the hospital, On Nov, 24, according to Lee's affi- davit, a pleture of Mrs. Gibson, stunning costume, at'at the Ven Ball at the, Ritz-Carlton Ho! carried in newspapers, So the case was placed before Justice Glegerich. ‘The process may now finally come to reat by slipping in under a door, SENATE FOR SOUTH IRELAND IS VOTED BY HOUSE OF LORDS Vote is 120 to 36—Regarded as | Paving Way for Better | Feeling. | LONDON, Dec. 2—The south of Tre- |tund is to have a Senate by vote of | the House of Lords, which has defeat- ‘ed the Government on this important point in the Home Rule question, ‘The vote was 120 to 36. ‘This ts regarded here as paving the way for a better feeling on the Trish issue, which has become more and more bitter every day of late. Lord Birkenhead, Lord High Chan- cellor, for the Government, opposed the | amendment on the ground that such a Senate must be preponderantly noml- native, and there was no hope of fore- ing such & second chamber on sout \rn ireland, He emphasized the Gov- .| ernment's desire that the question of framing a Senate should be left to 94 the Central Councit, —— LEAVES SICK-BED TO FIGHT FOR WIFE Young Husband, Opposing Annul- ment, Blames Trouble on “Too Much Father-m-Law.” Jack Schechtman, 21, a salesman liv Ing at 104th Street and Madison Aw nue, left a aick bed to appear in the County Court House to-day, to figh for his wife, Mra, Rose Karger Schecht- man, 17 years, old, who ia suing through her father, for the annulment rringy, which took place ¢| June 8 1918, when she was scare fifteen years old | Sehechtun Houmg that his wife's case will be called tomorrow. The caus of his do mestic trouble, he said, “was too much father-in-law.” and am going to act as my own attor: ney and pul up aa sti a Aight as 1 ——_—_ neighboring apartment houses 4nd | Rev. Mr. #pracklin Held for Killing proceedii ably be allowed cork bin this aft WINDSOR, Ont, Deo, 2.-—Rev. J. 0. otal, Was to-day bound to the Court Hast 634 Street, by allowing service | of a summons In a sult brought | ieurnea at cmv courr|| Our Two Big Week-End Extra Specials © hope of winning her \ L Sprackiin, Methodist minister and| Canadian Mquor Meense inspector who | shot and killed Beverly Trumble, inn) eG all Seay weait: Brose jotor, during # raid on the latter's THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920. FALSE STATEMENT os ADNISSION HEARD Photo-Diagram Showing Section Of Strathmore That Collapsed | reaumed M Mr. Mooney attacked the passed as a warmeasure, under W | Mr. Backer was rney Gene tion. Committe« that part of the defendant's, testl- |mony which referred to the examina Judge Rosalsky called the attore neysefor a more of the ques (od that all of them be ruled out | use the gary might think that the | Attorney General's offic 5h} (Continued From First Page.) east side barber shop, spending his winnings on clothes. He made no mention of his losses. In one of the érap games he met the young man who was described as hig confederate in the bond robbery and broached to him a plan to w lay messengers of his employers as they were carrying bonds for de- livery. The other “fell for" the scheme and it was arranged that An- tonio was to tip him off when a big | bond delivery was contemplated and | the other was to attend fo the strong~- | arm’ details, | “The plot was perfected Monday night when D! Gregarlo told his con-| federate he chad heard the cashier for Keun, Taylor & Co mention a bond delivery to be m: the follow- ing day. 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