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The evening world., 1894-05-29
PLAYED ROBINSON CRus0E.
The Three Baker BOYS Were Cast
Away on Lonely Water Island.
Finally Reached the Main Land
After "a Hours Of Hardship.

SAYVILLE. L. l., May 29.-The three
Baker brothers. Willie. Oscar and
George. aged eight. ten and twelve. re-
spectively, who 1t was feared were
lost in Great South Bay while sailing.
We're brought to their home in this
place last night.
The boys started Sunday from the
landing at Sayville to take a sail In
a small skitf. A heavy fog overlook
them and they lost their bearings.
Oscar and George showed considerable
nerve in handling the boat, and they
finally reached Water Island. The boys
Ven ashore hungry and thirsty and
took shelter in an old barn on the
island, where they slept all night.
Yesterday morning little Willie cried
for food. His elder brothers saw that
there was 10 chance of getting any
thing to eat on the island, and entered
the skin again and started to recross
the bay. The weather was clear then
and the boys made fair Roadway, but a
high sea was running, and they were
kept busy bailing the water out of the
boat with their caps to prevent the
little craft from sinking. When the
three young sailors finally landed at
lslip they were weak and nearly
hausted.
/ Oliver Dow, after providing the boys
with food. took them to their home,
Their parents and the citizens of Say.
vile had searched for many hours for
the missing boys when word came
that they had been found. The boys
were without food for twenty-fouI
hours.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
A GENERAL INVESTIGATION
Navy-Yard Charges May Result
in Political Disclosures.
Complaint that "Ring supporters y
Have Ousted Old Employees.

The investigation into the charges OF
fraud in the Civii Engineers Department
of the Brooklyn N~avy-Yard, made by
Foreman William Mitchell. 1t was stated
to-day, may result in a general investi-
cation into the affairs of every other
department in the yard.
All sorts OF rumors have been fying
around the Navy-Yard for the past few
days. and when Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy william McAdoo made a visit
there yesterday the heads of the various
departments showed considerable anx-
One topic of conversation among the
EMPLOYEES lately has been the number
of places created for ~broken-down poll
ticians. j..
who lost their easy berths when. Mayor
Schieren took office are now well taken
care of at the Navy-Yard.
An Evening World reporter, in a
conversation with one Of these men, was
told that they all had easy times. Moth
ing is required Of them except to make
a bluff at working when some one ir
authority Is about. These men are no
laborers. although rated as such. They
act mostly as clerks. messengers anc
the like.
Old Navy-Yard men, who have seer
their friends discharged, feel very bit
ter owards the ex-city employees who
have taken their places through pc
litical influence. 1t is not unlikely tina
within a short time a series of charges
will be filed in Washington, disclosing
to the authorities the present state OF
affairs
The evening world., 1894-05-29

but afterwards said that SO many po-
iicemen came into his place every day IN
uniform and In citizens clothes. ne
could not remember. He didn't KNOW
IA policeman named u saao
he had a nephew named Frank New
man. who was a policeman. He had N
account in the Germania Bank.
"Did you not draw $500 out OF VOW
bank for your nephew when ne wa
appointed?,,
"When was he appointed?' -.
About three years & / think. Buy
I don't know anything o It; !
know where he got the money. he oions
"Oh, he had to pay money. thenf"
81 don know anything about Z.
Roth said that Newman's father VI
a wealthy and owned sevefS
houses. He was asked II the nous
in-law. was not a house Of m-fame, ana
he said he did not know.
John Hogan, a butcher, OF 81 Chrystlo
| street, testified that his son, Lawrencet
was appointed on the police ice, t 6snied tSst
he had ever paid any money 10 secure
my son was clever and passed q good
examination. and 1 uppose that wa
the reason he got on the Iorcsi - hi.
appointment entirely on his merits"
The appointment was pending a yeafi
the witness said. but he could not Ten
what Commissioner appointed him. H0-
gan is now attached to the EieVentn
A witness named O'Kelly was called
for. but he was not in court, ano. -
there were no more witnesses on hanos
the Committee took a recess.
sioner McClave before the COMMITTEES
| after rpCesS. '.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
BROOKLYN NEWS.
KENN WILL NOT Be PUNISHED.
Locked His Wife Up in an Oyster
Barge Through Ignorance.
She VIII BE Sent TO the Poughkecp-
sic Asylum To-day.

JAMAICA. L. l., May 9.-After having
been "a prisoner In a dark. damp oyster
barge for a year Mrs. Paul Kenn. the
demented wife of IL fisherman near
Jamaica, will to-day be removed to the
insane asylum at Poughkeepsie.
Fol nearly two years Mrs. Kenn has
been mentally weak, and a year ago
her husband, finding that to watch her
was too much trouble for himself and
children, hit upon the e~xpedient of lock-
Ing her up In his oyster barge, which
was hitched TO the piles upon which his
hut stands. where. she still might. be II
the ~neighbors had not interfered. she
Is now at the Emergency Hospital here.
Mrs. kenn is. thlrty-nine years old,
and physicians think her mental trouble
caused first by sickness, has continued
on account of malaria and privations.
Her usband' hut Is on a marshy spot
OF Jamaica Bay. reached only by a BOAT
from Broad Channel, or Goose Creek;
There are two other huts near by, n
recently some of the fishermen told Dep
uty Sheriff Hesbach. the keeper of a
hotel at Goose Creek, that Mrs. Kenn
could often be heard moaning In her
miserable cell.
Hesbach found the loo to the barge
fastened with Il paddock and kicked 1t
open. Inside the poor woman was
lying on n ough bed covered with rags,
damp and widowed. The room was
small and the deputy had to stoop to
enter. Where windows had been boards
were nailed to make the prison perfect.
The little light that filtered through the
cracks, covered with cobwebs, was all
the cheer the woman had been getting
for months. She crawled to a corner as
the officer entered. and when he spoke
to her she did nothing but humble
about her children.
Hesbach did all he could for her that
day then notified Poormaster Abra-
ham A. Wyckoff, who yesterday went
out to the marsh in a boat and re-
moved the woman to the Emergency
Hospital.
Her daughter, Mrs. Smith Mart. still
only a child of seventeen, although mar
ried a year. was with her mother this
morning and said there were four chil-
dren younger than she.
81 wanted to stav with mother" she
said, but father would not let me. The
other children. except the baby. that is
about two years old, helped father fish
so there was no one to take care OF
mamma, and she was locked up"
Mrs. Smith Mart lives at 1nwood. and
claimed her father had not beaten his
wife. She thought he acted all right ir
locking her up. MIR. Wyckoff said this
morning that Kenn did not know better
than to act as he lid, and that he would
not, there fore. be arrested.
Justice Hendrickson this morning signed
an order for Mrs. Kenn's removal tc
Poughkeepsie.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
METROPOuTAN's BIC GRAB
Traction Syndicate Absorbs Sew
eral More Street, Car Lines.
Underground Trolley to BE Used on
All Except the Broadway Line.

The Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany is now the biggest surface car line
combine in New York City, having
gobbled several more ines within a few
days. 1t now operates 40 miles of single
track in this city. and 20 miles more are
being built, while other extensions are
projected.
All of the lines now operated with
horses and proposed extensions will be
operated by means of the underground
trolley as soon as 1t has been demon
strated that the new system Is all that
is claimed for 1t.
A certificate of consolidation OF the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
the Metropolitan Crosstown Railway and
the Lexington Avenue and Pavonia
Ferry Railway under the name OF the
first named Company has been filed at
Albany. -.
tai of the three companies consolidated
Shares OF the Company are to be given
share for share for those OF the COM
are rhf He aisset0f Il. q Vre shs ae% The%as i.
Ryan, Il. S. Hayes. Albert w. Fletcher,
and Charles L. Warren. Of Brooklyn
and Henry II. Robinson, or
Charles e Warren, the Secretary, OF
the Company, said this morning that
the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany had absorbed the Metropolitan
Crosstown Railway itself and two
leased lines, the Belt line and the Green
line, and the Lexington Avenue and
Pavonia Ferry Railway Company, which
Is constructing extensions OF the So
called Metropolitan system.
There were too many companies in the
system, Mr.. Warren explained, and
they were combined simply for the pur
pose of concentration in operating the
various lines.
The Metropolitan combine leases the
Broadway cable road. and now has al
most "A perfect network of lines running
up and down, across n around Man
haitian Island
chief Engineer Pearson, OF the Metro
politan Company, when questioned con.
corning the underground trolley, said
that the Company was daily consider
INK this system OF rapid transit. They
had something like 1000 plans. but nj
one plan had yet been adopted. In NJ
event, he declared, would the under
ground trolley supersede the cable OF
Broadway, as the cable was the cheap
est to operate when ratnc was heavy
but would take hte place of horses OF
various lines and would be used for ex
tensions.
Mr.. Pierson thought II probable Ina
the underground trolley company, which
succeeded in having its system adopte,
by the Metropolitan combine would hav,
to equip a line of its own expense an,
demonstrate that II could be success
fully operated during all seasons.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
IDENTIFIED BY A PATIENT.
More Mystery in the Case of Van
NauIt.

Isaac Van Nault, who was found un-
conscious on the track of the Glendale
dummy road, Is still in the Eastern Dis
trict Hospital, Williamsburg. The
physicians have discovered that his
skull was not fractured, but his condi-
ton is very serious and he will probably
be a maniac for life.
ON several occasions since he was
taken to the hospital Sunday night he
has recovered consciousness, but all
that could be learned from him was his
injuries Van Nanlt looks puzzled, curses
and swears, and then relapses into in
sensibility again.
Van Nault was identified last night by
Daniel Davis, of 307 Henry street, a pa
tent in the hospital, who was suffering
the esult of being thrown out of his
buggy. He was placed in the same ward
"Hullo. ! know that fellow Davis
said this morning when he had rec3v.
Van Nault. He is a laborer and has al
ways been a steady man
Davis was discharged from the hos
pital his morning as being completely
cured. After he had gone: investigation
Davis lived at 37 Henry street.
Another peculiar fact is that the buggy
which he owned is still at the Clymel
street station, and Davis has .apparerSlI
gone away without claiming his rig.
An effort Id. being made, to connec
which the engineer OF the dummy trail
saw crossing the track just before h
discovered the body Of Van Nault;
1t is said that Van Nault has {
Maspeth, L. 1. He has been communi
oatad with
The evening world., 1894-05-29
V|G|LAMT IN HER SEA TOGs.
She Takes q Spin in the Bay to
Test Her New Gear.
To BE Escorted on Thursday by
Namoose and Other Craft.

Capt. Hank Han took the yacht Vigil
ant down the bay to-day for II test OF
her new toys, in Il brisk northwest wind
The vessel was got under way before
noon. and stood over from the Erie
Basin for the T~ompkinsville shore under
her fun yawling.
Crowds OF spectators saw the yacht
speed across the bay, and captains OF
tug and harbor vessels quickly rccCg-
nl2cd the flyer in her businesslike rig.
and salutcd her with blasts OF shrill
whistles. Capt. Har had the wheel. and
the crew were as lively as in Il race,
while Capt. jeffrey. who Is to start for
the other side in her early on Thursday
morning, scrutinized closely the stand.
ing and running gear unde tho condi-
tons to which she was subjected.
The yacht was tried on every angle OF
wine and tack, and handled quickly and
| easily under the yawl rig, showing great
speed and sadness. She stood across
the lower bay, and will have her com
passes adjusted before her return.
Unless she will need further alteration.
the vessel will probably be anchored of
the Staten Island shore tonight.
II Nigilant encounters the Atlantic In
an angry mood at any time during her
trip across the Atlantic her nimble
sailors will have to bring all their agil-
ity Into play to stay on board. She
shows less than four feet Of free board
and has practically no rail. A temper
AIRY rail of light spars was erected from
the main to the mizzen rigging ycster-
day. resting on stanchions bolted to the
deck, n Mate Ham says that in addi-
ton life lines will be stretched.
Thursday will see her fairly on her
way across. unless something unfore.
seen arises.
Namoose will be one OF the many craft
that will see the champion sloop off.
Namoose will take "a party down the
bay, and will act az escort to Nigilant
as far as sandy Hook. Nigilant will
probably leave at 3 A. NJ. Thursday.
There Is Il strong possibility that Nigi
liant Will make a bid for a new transat,
lantic sailing record on her trip across
Mr.. Brooks's lively schooner Lasca ha.
set a pace which challenges an at
tempt at reducing, and certain prepare
tons among the many new fittings or
the cruising rig of the Gould flyer. carry
certain portentous s~ignificances.
She Will take three cruising gaffs along
ranging from siXty-tive down to thirty
five feet In length. 1t Is obvious that sh,
will use the shortest to give her a gooC
peak in weather that has usually called
FOR a run under trysail only abaft tn,
mast,
The evening world., 1894-05-29
CONTRACTOR Dustin
INTERVIEWED.
His Long Suffering
AND
Miraculous Cure.
A Reporter Interviewed Mr.. Charles
&. Dustin at His Residence, No.
1853 East Gath Street, Con-
corning His Recent Cure.


Reporter-I would like n s,atem.nt FROM ~
~, u sVs
resarh 10 your long SUFFERING and reputed curA
Would you kindly favor me with n brief explaus-
tion, !.
Ut bustln-WeN. my case was considered hope
less. In fact, my suffering was 40 ureat TINT seatA
uo,ld b,va h.on . rou., ~, :. .-.-,-
800 INV '''" NV U 1 Am enursS
we'll.
Rep.-Hoy were YOU nficted7
NJ NJ h,, ~. -, H.,
I" D. tne worst kind OF stomacn ana
liver complaint. 1t was indigestion, with all its
disagreeable concomitants bpnoered for sood
81, - 49, :" 49,
o' u eat brought me unspeakabie agony. NJ
nights were sleepless and my days were full OF
gloom. I suffered IN, ,orments NJ bsd.s ana nv
~ '' 100" -"u -
lilo was without hope until I found q savior IN
Dr. Spreng, the famous specialist, ut No, 143 West
rw.,....,, 80,
~" .''"' e''ee''
Rep.-For what were you treatedf
Mr.. ri was treated for stomacb and liver dis-
go. ....- ,n,-s--
eAse' oyspeps'a' o''iousness' rheumatism nervous
ness. sleepiessness, low spirits and other diseases
too numerous To mcntion hut nil was vain.
' 'a""
Hep'-Wha was your condition when you places
yourself under the care Of DR.. sprengf
MIR. nj had 4, vivs nj, nv business 7 ,,ou,r.a
'ne eohs'ant care u my fanny l was = purueh
The evening world., 1894-05-29
NEW JERSEY.
ALMOST KILLED A HORSE.
Now Frank In Held ON u Charge of
Stealing the Animal.

ELIZABETH. n. j., May 2a.-Louis
Frank, nineteen years old who lives
with his sister Mt 1908 First venue
New York, was locked up In the County
Jail here at noon to-day. being held In
SEQ bail for stealing n horse and wagon
helonHing To Eden Laing. II Railway liv-
cry II
Frank and another New Yorker who
has Tot yet been arrested. came to
RahWay It week ago and hired the rig
TO deliver samples of Colgate's soap In
the city. They had the use of the rig
for nv" days, and instead OF paying for
II they drove to Elizabeth, tied the rig
TO IA tree in a ralnstorm and abandoned
the horse to his fate.
The animal stood all night in the Sc
we're storm and was found in the morn
ing. half dead from exposure. Mean
while the Railway police were looking
for the two men. The rig was restored
to Its. owner. A charge OF cruelty to
animals will also he made against
Frank. 1t is alleged that Frank and his
companion have worked the same game
successfully in other places. Frank
throws all the blame on the fellow who
has not been caught. Frank was ar.
rested yesterday in Newark. where he
was peddling soap. The two men hav,
quite n lot OF the article stored In tina,
nif,
The evening world., 1894-05-29
CAUGHT IN THIS CITY.
Robcrtazzi. the Newark Knife.
WicIdcr, Traced TO New York.

NEWARK. n. j.. May 9.-Guido Cara
madello, the Italian saloon-kceper. OF 6
Railroad place, this city. who was
stabbed by Geregorro Robertazzi, of 20
Canal street, is resting easily to-day in
the city Hospital. The physicians think
his chances for recovery are about even.
ON Sunday evening Nita Jagernio and
Robertazzi, who We're playing cards in
caramadello's saloon. Quarrelled. and
the sa~loon-keeper acted as peacemaker.
During the fight Robertazzi drew a
razor and slashed Caramadello across
the chest with II. After the stabbing
Robertazzi escaped and went to New
York. Last night Chief Hopper. OF
Newark, wired Inspector Mclaughlin to
arrest RobertazZi, who. II was thought,
was stopping at "a Mulberry street. Two
detectives went to the place and arrest
ed RobertaZZi.
Chief Hopper has sent officers to New
York with requisition papers to bring
C~aramadello's assailant back for trial.
Headquarters Detectives Mccarthy and
Cary arrested RobertaZZi. who gave the
name Of LobertoZzo, at "a Mulberry street
at midnight. He was drunk at the time.
In the Tombs this morning the prisoner
was held to await requisition. Detective
Carroll, OF Newark, brought over Chief
Hopper's affidavit for the commitment
OF the man.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
urookIyn Briefs.

Bernard shine. aged twenty-six years, resld-
Ing on Eleventh street, Brooklyn, was arrested
th's morning charged with st" ling $3.50 worth OF
FURNITURE from the house OF Charles Mclaughlin,
LOT II East Sixteenth street. New York. The
|burglary was committed Jan. 5, when the com
Iplainant resided at 81 Columbia street, during
" o WAS with Shine at the time, IL now serving
a nlnc-yelr sentence for the crime.
Burglars on; AIRED the home OF Ernest Trautman,
|124 Stockholm street. early this morning and
I1tole iewelry valued ut S2j,
"a Dominica Crcnonda. thirty-hve years old. OF
ga Park avenue. was held by Justice Walsh this
morniRl, charged by F. {. Harrison, Of Az Full
ton street, with stealing shoes valued at $40
Die hid been working In the cellar Of the house
Mrs. Kenny, OF 24s Grand street, reported tc
BE Brooklyn police to-day that while riding ~
money. The money was wrapped Ia paper and
was mostly In 81 bills.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
THEIR WAGES RAISED.
Third Avenue Line Agrceably sus-
prises Conductors and Gripmeu.

prises Conductors and Grfpmeu.
Since the cable was put into operation
on the Third avenue line, its traffic has
greatly increased inc so has its prohts.'
The Company has decided to share
it's earnings with its conductors ana
gripmen, whose labor has been In
creased by the Increase In trafhc. The
men, so far as known, are not organ
lied, and, did not demand an increase.
which the Company made purely OF tts
W volition.
The old rate of wages which pre-
vailed on the horse cars and continues
until Yesterday was So a day for con-
| ductors and 81 for drivers. These rates
have been Increased to ESQ for conduc-
| tors and $2.25 for gripmen. There Is no
Increase in the mems hours OF labor.
They are on duty eleven hours, with
one hour Off for meals, akin the
number of actual working hours ten.
Five hundred men are affected by
this raise in wages. The Increase Will
cost the Company an additional $4,000
Conductors and gripmen who talked
with an Evening World reporter to-
Company, which they say treats its
men better than any similar corpora
ton in New York, and never bothers
them as long as they do their work
properly.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
WOULD NOT PAY CAB HIRE.
urs. Moore Changed Her Mind After
Getting to Court.

Mrs. Stella Moore, who says she is
fifty years old and lives at 22S West
Fifteenth street, was arraigned in York
VILE Court to-day. charged with re-
fusins to pay cab hire. She does not
look to be more than thirty years old.
The cabman, Hiram Frost, of 452 West
F.fty-second stree, said Mrs. Moore en-
gagged his hack at Thirty-second street
ana sixth avenue at 10 O'Clock last
nignt.
1t was storming at the time. and she
asked him to drive her to Eighth ave.
nue. and Thirty-sixth street. On arriving
there she told him to drive about.
He said that he made at least a halt
a dozen stops ut her request. When he
finally asked her for the fare, after
driving her about for three hours, she
insisted that. she had paid him. He
then caused her arrest.
When arraigned before Justice Feitnel
she said she ave Frost a dollar. FrosI
said she owed him 50, and that she die
not give him n money. She finally
agreed to pay him what he asked, anc
was then discharged.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
MRS. BURTON LOST HER SUIT
Went to Her Husbnnd's once
Against the Courts Direction.

NEWARK, N. j.. May 29.-The suit
for support. which was begun some time
ago, against Oscar Burton, of Belleville,
by his wife. annie Burton. was dis
missed by Nice-Chancellor Green this
morning, on the ground that Mrs. Bur
ton had not attempted to live with her
husband or taken advantage of the hos
pitality extended her. Two weeks ago.
when the case came up before the Vice
Chancellor. he told Mrs. Burton that II
she went to Mr.. Burton's home and was
not properly treated, he would grant her
alimony. but II she did not go the case
would be dismissed. Mrs. Burton did
not go to the house. but, as she alleged.
went to her husbands office in New
York. She said he old her he did not
want her to live with him. and that he
only made the offer because the Court
compelled hin to. The Nice-Chancellor
ruled that an office was no place for n
woman to go to try and affect a recon-
Citation with a husband.
The evening world., 1894-05-29
MARY ARRESTED AGAIN.
alleged Parkhurst Detective SEN
fenced to the Island.

Mary Rockberry, of % Third avenue,
was sentenced to the island for six
months by Justice Hogan in the Essex
Market Court to-day. She alleged that
she was a detective in the employ of a
Mrs. Ruggles, of the Parkhurst Society
when arrested on May 10 for dlsorderly
conduct by Policeman Bush, OF the
\ Fourteenth Precinct. She told him that
\ she was gathering evidence against the
police.
She paid the fine of s. then imposed
and last night Policeman Bush saw her
acting Improperly on Third avenue, nea
Thirteenth street. and placed her undeI
arrest. n claimed that when ahe wa
arrested her husband came up and in
terceded for her Policeman Bush re-
} sponded by kicking HIM In the abdomen
Police mnn Bush denied this and said
he watched the woman for over al houi
and saw her accost Il number of Inen
The evening world., 1894-05-29
Newark Trolley Enjoined.

NEWARK, n. J., May % An order was signed
by vice-Chancellor Green this morning granting
a temporary injunction TO Jennie S. Condit. wife
Of Louis Condit. OF West orange. against the
suburban Traction company, preventing them
from building their road TOR electric cars along
COndit street. on the ground that the law allow
ing this To be done without the consent Of the
property owners had heon annulled by the last
Legislature. The question II an interesting one.
as II viii effect the building Of many electric
railways in this county which have begun with
out the consent Of property owners.