The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Safe Guarding the Life of Psince Henry-Wik
 liam Cullen whitney's Latest Stroke of Genius

six and seven thousand a year are iuehy if they can obtain one half or tnat amount. Between the rich ana the id- boring class there did exist well-to-do class of small merchants and professional men; but it is being crushed out very rapidly.
 In A. city of four millions of popula- ton it is not su4pnsing that murders take place at regular intervals; indeed at rate setting up a percentage. It is not often, however, that murders are Inter esting but at the present moment there are two One is that of a widow who was stabbed to death in her humble apart ments She kept newspaper stand on a street corner Her son was her pusl- ness partner and lived with her. lie IS mere lad. No c5rcumstantlal eVloehce
 has yet been gathered to indicate the murderer. Suspicion surrounds the poy'
 The other is that of a young man under 91 who was found in a small hotel with a bullet hole in his head. He went to the place with a young woman. Previous to going to the hotel young woman n whom he had been interested and from whom he sought to free himself, had been at his office. They left there to- gether A colored boy claims he served the companion of the murdered man In
 
 that night with lemon soda. The girl with whom the young man left his office says she was home at g o'clock but the colored boy identified her as the girl in the hotel She Is under arrest.
 In both cases the murders were done in cold blood, and in each the murderer
 made escape without raising any sus- l picions or attracting attention. h the
 widows apartment the furniture was l and ffJF11 l fight. Twenty-six stabs and cuts were on her body. In the young mans case l there was but one wound, and that | scarcely noticeable. He lay almost un- dressed on the bed: but both gas jets un- | lighted, were turned on. filling the hoom
 with gas. It was at first thought by the
 visiting doctor that he was asphyxiated. l Whoever shot nfm turned on the gas to | finish him. In both cases the instru-
 ments of death were removed. Neither
 knife nor pistol have been found. In
 both cases there is every indication of l cold blooded nerve and in both cases per- | sons suspected and arrested are under | twenty years of age.
 | That something must be done to secure l the safety of pedestrians in the public
 streets Is becoming more and more trag- | ically apparent. Not a week goes by 1 but the automobile finds it's victim The l latest occurred in a street little trav- ersed by vehicles, and consequently much occupied by children. A little fellow was
 run over by the White Ghost" now
 owned by Edward Thompson. It is the
 machine formerly owned py young Willie K. Vanderbilt. Thomas was driving his
 machine at a furious speed when it struck | the little lad and crushed his life out of
 him. Convent Place, fin the uppermost
 part of Manhattan Borough, Is like many | others of the uptown streets much used | by children. Indeed. these streets are so
 generally believed to be safe, as they
 have little traffic and no cars, that par | ents advise their children to take them l on their way to and from school These automobiles have now taken possession
 of these streets for speeding purposes | and thousands of little ones are men, aced by them. Naturally, parents have become very anxious.
 Two factions are rapidly forming in | Tammany Hall. The Nixonites and the
 anti-Nixonites. In spite of all it is hard | to believe in view of all the circum-
 stances attending his appointment by l Croker that he is not Croker's man, one
 ready to serve and be loyal. More than 1 color to this was given by his determined | effort to keep Andrew Freedman in the | Finance Committee: and. indeed, Nixon
 suggested appointing Freedman his depu- | ty while absent. The anti-Nixonites re- | joice in finding District Leader Martin
 coming forward to root up Crokers an-
 chors to windward. He overthrow Crok-
 er'o plans by reducing the Executive | Committee to membership of thirty-sev- i en district leaders. the Chairman of the
 Finance Committee and the Chairman
 and Treasurer of the General Committee. Croker's scheme was to have an Execu- ] tive Committee dominated by appointees who could out vote the elected leaders
 DaIzelI Has Stage Fright.