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The evening world., 1903-05-23
Score Of Them Caught In Turn.
bling Debris in West Thirtieth'
Street Blaze and Five Are,
Injured.
THEY HAVE A HARD FIGHT.
Dozen or More Overcome by penee
Smoke While They Are Battling
AGAINST the Flames-Littie oiH
Runs Terror-Stricken to street.

The roof of a burning six-story busi-
ross building extending from No. ia TO
No. 40 west Thirtieth street fell on Q
score of firemen to-day. completely bury
ing them. but only slightly injuring hve.
The fire, which was In the same block
with the Tenderloin Police Station.
started on the fifth floor, which. with
the sixth floor, was occupied by the HOP
kins Electrotypers. 1t had gained much
| Roadway before discovery and when the
nrst hremen arrived the second and third
| alarms were sent in, bringing Acting
| chief PURIFY from the Williamsburg fire.
The vicinity of the Are was chokee BY
n great mass of black smoke. impene-
| trable to the vision and sufrocating in it.
| effect. The fremen had been in the htth
| and sixth floors only a few minutes
when individually they appeared at the
| windows, overcome by the smoke. They
leaned over the sils for a breath of
| fresh air.
In all about a dozen fremen were
| overcome and revived. The fire was ex.
| tinguished after two hours of vigorous
| work and after 1t had accomplished
| about 1000 damage. A score Of fire.
| mon attached to Engine companies Nos
10, Is and "a and Hook and Ladder COM
| panIes Nos. Il and 20 then went to the
NTH floor cleaning up the debris OF the
sixth floor. which had been By
| the fire, when 1t fell in on them.
All Of them were buried in the debris,
but few were injured. Those vino ex-
! tricated themselves first pulled the
others out. Five were taken to Lavy's
drug store, around the corner on Sixth
avenue, where Dr.. Won Kowshy dressed
returned to tho work of cleaning up
Inc building after resting a few minutes.
East of the burned building 10 a row
of thlckly populated tenements, and In
these, as we'll as In the aok
OF the building ON Twenty-nAnth street.
the excitement was intense. Most OF
the families moved their portable belong
Mary Ennis, a little girl. six years
old, living with her aunt across The
street from the ire at No. la West
Thirtieth street, was 80 frightened THAI
she ran from her home In. her night
gown and vas rushing through the
streets in great mental distress when
the police picked her up She had been
old that the burning. building would
explode and she would not return. -
she wa given shelter IN the police ste-
Patroiman Elder. OF Fire Patrol No.
I. after the fire was over. found Q
brindle bull pup swimming around IN
the hve feet of water In the cellar %
the building. The pup Is now cha mas
| cot OF the
The evening world., 1903-05-23
BRAVE POLICEMAN
MODEST IN REPORT.
McNierney. Who oived In Helmet
and uniform and Saved Boy.
Saws Little Of II.

policeman Joseph McNierney is -
modest in telling OF his heroic rescue OF
Max Alberts. a se~ven-year-old boy 10
pulled from the river yesterday, a. u
the meagre report on the blotter at the
East Sixty-sixth street station-houss.
The boy is playing with his companions
as usual to-day.
Max and some other boys were playing
ON the rocks at the foot OF East Sixty
fourth street yesterday afternoon. Nc
Siorney walked bv and warned them
away. telling them that the water ct
mat point was very deep. When two
blocks up the street he was attracted
hy the cries OF one OF the boys. who told
Kim that Max had fallen into the water.
The boy had gone down, but the SCOT
was pointed out and the poneemah
dived In, helmet and uniform. He came
Sown again. II was not until ne third
Ave that he came up with the uncon-
Scious form in his arms.
Hs scrambled out or the water, and
uLth the boy in his arms ran to the
TTn ! HOSPITAL several blocks away.
SS,U,rst ont OF breath he urged h doc
az an 10 use haste, as the boy was un-
otS tous Artificial means OF resplra-
80 n:d strychnine were applied. and
10 ~ f,.ry hours the hoy was sent homAI
mMH,Et.rney's report OF the Occurrences
tha ~station-house blotter gives the
- ~ and residence OF the Albert boy.
With rho brief comment: Pulled the boy
from the water.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
GIRL
IS ON THE WING.
ST. Crowds Trains on Her Way
to Seashore and Mountains
with Gray Frock and Red
Hat.

The summer exodus has begun. and
the summer girl, who in the last week OF
heat has made New York glorious with
her new hnery. is taking her departure
to the seashore and mountain resorts.
where she will row and golf and play
tennis some of the time and flirt all OF
the time till she r~eappears browned anu
%sunburned in mid-Septeniber.
III the last few days the Grand Ger
trail Station has been a eritaole bower Of
vanishing beauties, a ~dissolving view of
girls, each one prettier tina the last.
The waiting room Is thronged houriy
with smartly clad young women leaving
the city o. their n pleasure ulps.
The ferry-boats between New York and
Jersey are packed with the departing
summer girls. n the Long Island. Hall
road trains are freighted with them.
The pretty girls are leaving New York
that Is. the more fortunate pretty girls
who can put its CRIME and heat ana
subway noises behind them during the
hot weather. But the supply OF fem
mine loneliness reaching from the Hud-
son to East River n the battery TO ta
Bronx rs so great that only when one
sees the departing hosts does one realize
what the city is losing.
AS seen In railway stations and on piers
this week tie summer girl is gray as 10
frock and red as to hat, though she VIII
probably discard her present startling
headgear of poiTdes or geraniums TOT
some co~oler-looking hat when the realiy
warm weather arrives.
Her frocks are OF almost as MANY
VS. as there are suInmer girls. but the
favorite tints are called smoke,
pigeon" and subway gray" the last
named a gloriied dust color. These
gowns show the popularity of the long.
tight-fitting coats with a skirt which
came in this season. The summer girl
who does not wear one Of these IN nit
ting about the stations n piers o
long travelling coat of pongee or pun
check taffeta, the latter Of the prevailing
gray. ="
Already Fifth avenue and sections OF
the upper west side have begun to LOOK
deserted, and the bright frocks and
Eaudy hats and parasols which made
New York crowds seem like pertpatetic
rainbows have been distributed through
the neighborinS States.
The summer girl leaves the scene o.
her winter triumphs without regret HnI
break with her pink chiffon ball gown,
the fortunes that will bow before her
white linen frock, the. obstinate bach
elors who will succumb to the flaming
witc5sry Of Sv her IT, go naest{ CARP Tirls who lcf,
town this week, the summer girl IL pre-.
Isared to STAY her tens of thousands. II
viii be her record-breakins year
The evening world., 1903-05-23
BABES RESCUE
DOLLS At FIRE.
They Break Into the Janitor's
LiIIiputian Hospital at the
Risk of Their Lives and Tri-
umphantIy Save patients"

In a fire In the fat building at No. III
East seventy-seventh street to-day. from
which the frightened tenants fed by
way of the roof and nre-escapes. the
little children OF the neighoorhood
stormed a DOLLS Hospital" OIL the sec,
and floor to rescue their invalid doll!es
from a horrible fate.
Louis R~osenblatt, besides being janitor
Of the building. conducts a repair shop
for lame and halt dolls. for dolls with
broken eyes and cracked necks' with legs
which leak sawdust and arms which arc
dislocated and have loose scalps. He
called his repair shop a Dolls Hosp
tal." and In the wards he had dois
from most of the little girls OF the
netghborhood.
As soon as It was known mat the
place was on fire the children started
for the hospital and while the hre was
so hot that the families yin In the
building had to escape by the scutue
TO the roof or down the rear Microscopes
many of the children ran past the fire.
men and mounted TO the second moor
ITO perform heroic rescues.
She Dropped Her Doll out.
A child who had reached the floor
appeared at the window with a tri'
umphant CLEAN In her eyes. The nre'
men shouted at her not to jump. Sls
beckoned them TO com closer n when
they were on the sidewalk she pressed
her lbps to a small cluster OF golden ou'
| dishevelled curls to which was appended
an array OF Mliputian lingerie and Their
ldropped her precious doll into the arm
of IN. hremen. Then she ran back ant
doNn the stairs TO the street. where
sne quickly found the battalion chic
who a taker charge OF the rescued
doll.
| The building. with the one at No. Il.
is owned by John McGurk, OF Suicide
Hall fame. and he has called tile tive
"Avondale,' after the country home OF
the late Charles Stewart Parnell. The
| lire started in the collar. presumably
from not ashes. n assembled to the
roo. through the dumb-waiter shaft he
fore II WAS llscoverei.
Mrs. Charles Young, on the top moor.
awakened her husband and he broke out
the from; windows and yelled the alarm
through the neighborhood. After sending
in an alarm Policeman Kline and two
other patrolmen ran through the build
ing arousing the tenants.
They Tried to Jump.
Mrs. j. c. Gillette, living next to the
| Young family. and Mrs. Young tried to
lump from. the fourth story windows.
but were restrained unul the rremen
reached them and look them down the
Microscopes.
Emil Mertzel took his family from the
| second hCor across the 1re-escdpe plat
form in the rear 10 the house next door.
In. The family there thought he was a
burglar and While they were preparing
| and took his family IN.
Twenty-Five men and women who had
| reached the rear yard by the tire-escape
found themselves hemmeo In and the
| flames getting closer. Their only escape
wus by breaking down the side Fence
ana getting into the. next yard. whici
they did by collectively hurting them
selves at the divisional structure. The
damaSe was estimated at 1900.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
NEGROES PUNISH
CHAMBERMA|D.
Woman Who Refused to Make
Booker T. Washington's Bed
Is Chloroformed and Robbed,
Police Say, by Blacks.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 2s.-The Booker
T. Observation-Disclosures incident
has gained fresh interest. Retribution
has overtaken the Prof. Washington
hotel maid of the sheet and pillowcase
who refused to make the bed of the
a who obliterated the ,.ulor line In
the tablecloth at the White House.
This chambermaid, Mrs. Lulu Hadley,
awakened from a dose of chlorororm to
discover that robbers had despoiled her
house of all its valuables, including
$1,000 in cash.
Since the day Mrs. Hadley declined to
shake a sheet over the bed or the pres,.
ueht Oh TusKegee institute she has been
In receipt of anonymous letters warning
her that her atfront to the distinguishes
rsnrasanta,iyo ~ tho oo,auus -aas-E.,.
pe He eoioreo ace "ouio
COST her dearly.
For several nights dusky hadows Nit
tad throppb the y,rd ~ NJ. u,s,.,,,.
~ yate MS Fhau'eys
aoooe ana the nrst thing the threatened
chambermaid knew she awakened In
the early morning IN ash. herse,y uhetbar
The evening world., 1903-05-23
NEW ATTRACTION
At THE AQUARIUM.
An Angler Fish, a Denizen of the
Deep Sea, Placed on Exhibit
ton in the City's Collection.

One Of the latest deep-sea curiositles
added TO the Aquarium collection IL III
the pool on the main floor with the
Skates and young sturgeon. The speci-
men Is known by several names among
fishermen. Some call II angler be-
cause Of its peculiar habits. 1t In nat
like a skate or founder. Of a dark
brown color, and has a mouth whoh
extends across the entire width OF us
big fat head and back on either side an
unusual length. Along its back is a
flexible, spike-like attachment which
ordinarily lies 50 close to the back as 10
look ike the spinal column OF the hsh'
The angler lies fiat on the bottom VI
the sea, and its color. together with IL
peculiar fringe like tufts OF sea moss
which run around its entire body. help
to conceal from other fish the fact
that It 10 a live object. waiting for prey.
When the angler" wants TO cateh d
Sreahk ass a Il er sets. The e fsst FOR WAKE WAKE OF 81
its mouth. The fluffy, moss-like fringe AZ
the end of this spike waves gently back
and forth in the water and attracts other
them to his hook. When they come
near they are promptly swallowed by
can dart TO the surface and catch a
goose or duck which Is resting on the
surface. Another common name among
fishermen for this queer FISH is AL
mouth" ,
The specimen al M aquarium was
caught by a local fisherman at the Fish
ing Banks recently from the deck OF the
steamer Angler and presented to the
aquarium. Soon after It was placed In
the pool It disgorgei q large roe shad
| which II had swallowed before 1t took
THE tisherman's bait and had not yet
digested.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
FELL THROUGH A SHAFT.
Rivers,s Presence of Mind Saved
Him from Serioas Injury.

While working on the roof OF the
three-story building at Nos. SO and IS
West Forty-seventh street to-day Fred
ericis Rivers, of No. 2sis Eighth avenue.
lost his balance and plunged through a
light shaft.
He fell feet hrst. md. keeping his
presence Of mind, grabbed a piece OF
coping around the shaft on the second
floor, Tut was unable to hold on only
bottom of the shaft, and was surprised
to find tina he could get up. An am
bulance surgeon from Roosevelt Hos
pital found that Rivers's only injury
was a fracture of the left arm. He was
removed to the, hospital.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
ANOTHER BIG FIRE
IN WILLIAMSBURG.

The third big fire In Williamsburg
within ywenty-four. hours occurred
early to-day, four alarms being sent
in from the blaze In the Atlantic Color
Works, al Nos. 3o4-s10 North Seventh
street. The building was almost wholly
destroyed and che burning oils made 10
one of the hottest blazes with which
the Williamsburg fremen have con-
tended.
THE fire was discovered by Policeman
Mcdonnell, of the Bedford avenue sta
ton. who aroused the Waterman and
sent in an alarm. The blaze started
in the drying+house; but Taptdly spread
to other parts Of the building. II wa
away from a row of tenement houses
in North Sixth street. The tenants
were all driven to the street by the po-
lice and several streams OF water were
played on the houses until the fire wal
nut out.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
D|SCORD MARS
LOVE SYMPHONY.
SoIoist Luttich Tries Duet OF
Marriage and Lands in the
Divorce Court.

The Ballings were musical, and Ed
ward Hugo Luttich played divinely on
the piano and the violin. captivating the
whole family. and capturing Miss Cath
crime, a susceptible girl of eighteen. in
the matrimonial net,
But dIscord married their connubial
music, and cut short their 'long, sweet
song" and to-day Supreme Court Jus
tice Truax cut the gord.an knot. sign
mg an interlooutory decree OF divorce
In OF the wife.
Hugo Luttich had been aeader OF the
Imperial Band of the German Army
He was soloist in a concert at Stein
way Hall In 1851 n Catherine BallinS
was the most delighted auditor. she
came again and again. They were In
tr oduced. She presented him to her
family, and In due time they were
married. She said in her complaint,
however. that for. ten years the solois'
had been too attentive to other women
She left him in June. 1901, going tt
live at Sixty-ffth street and Amster'
dam avenue. Mr.. I.utich remained a.
No. I4s West One Hundred and Thir'
teenth street.
Mrs. LaStttch said that Hug was or
rested in Central Park n night foi
hugging a governess and fined IS In The
police court next day. and that this re-
suited IN the rnccent goyerness dis
covering that he was a married man
~Whereupon she brought e dose OF poison
md codnI 10 the house whore he lived
swallowed II. Blu: 3 physician n >
etonta pump saved her.
"a VA then that Mrs Luttich hac
Melvin q. Winstock institute a suit fol
Jiuorcs resulting In to-day's decree
me papers were sealed by order Of th'
The evening world., 1903-05-23
Fire Started by Explosion Of
Ammonia and vitrioI Carboys
in East Side Drug Store Un-
der Well Filled Tenement.
|FIRE-ESCAPE IN FLAMES.
Tenants Had to Crepe Their Way to
Safety Down Stairs and Halls
Clicked with Smoke and Fumes
Of Ammonia.

Forty. persons living in the tenement
house over the drug store NJ Frank
westlake, at the corner OF Essex and
Stanton streets. had a narrow escape
with their lives to-day during a fire that
started with an explosion OF chemicals
In the rear OF the store.
Flames enveloped the fre-escapes and
the tenants had to make their way down
the stairways which were choked with
smoke and fumes OF ammonia.
A succession OF explosions OF ammo
MIA and vitriol carboys added terror TO
tho flames. and II VA remarkable that
all escaped safely from the burning
building.
Was Serving n Customer.
Nathan Applebaum, the clerk in the
drug store, was serving a customer.
when there was a terrific explosion in
the rear OF the store. When he opened
the door OF the storeroom he ound the
entire room abiaze. Knowing that a
large quantity OF chemicals were stored
there, ne ran to the stairway Of the
tenement-house over the store and
called out the alarm.
The flames. aided by the exploding
chemicals, made tremendous Roadway,
and by the time the tenants realized
their danger the fire-escapes were en-
| veloped In a roaring blaze.
Policemen Knause and Anderson ar
rived before the engines, but owing b
the OF the stairway they
we're afraid to go up for fear of block
ing the way of the escaping tenants
| ~ - t1..lr .tapA 80 tha fAof ~
the stairs and roared out commando
not to delay q moment to save any
thing n they wished to get out with
their lives.
Before half the tenants were DOWN the
Railways had hlled with dense fumes OF
ammonia and vitriol and several wom-
en- who had made the descent tainted In
the arms Of the awaiting policemen and
were carried to the street n revived.
When the fremen arrived a dozen car
boys Of vitriol had exploded and ths
acid IA iowed out into the street ant
holes eaten into their rubber boots ans
suffered from severe burns. Severa
lbarefooted children were badly burne'
by the acid and had their injuries
dressed at a ne~tgftboring drug store.
Series of Explosions.
Among the tenants who escaped wa
=, Il Mrs. Gersche Fischer, eighty years oil
She was living on the top floor with hi
old. The daughter, despite her ag'
practically carried her mother down I'll
hve flights of stairs and handed her owe
to tho policemen.
j. Before the FIRE was put out the entir
drug store and the lower part of tn
tenement was Quilted. The partition
and walls in h drug store were blow
out by the exploding chemicals. TIL
, damage RAJ 5000.
Just to one side of the drug store. OF
the Essex street side, was q small sod
water stand kept by Mrs. Sarah Pierson
Though walls Of ire shot up on all side
of this stand II was not even singed an
not 80 much as q bar OF chewing gun
was stolen In the excitement. After tn,
fire was put out Mrs. Pierson invited tn
hremen to drink her fountain dry an
they did.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
BOY HUSBAND IS
REAL, REAL MAD.
Thomas w. Brown Thinks 1t
Was Mean of Josephine Alien
brand to Take Him to Jersey
City and Wed Him.

Young Mr.. Thomas w. Brown. who
has had growing pains and whose moth
er wishes his marriage to Josephine AL
tenbrnnd annulled, was playing tennis
to-day at the home OF his mother, No,
BAL Linden avenue, in F%latbush. when he
was asked to tell about his TRANCE
wedding
Mrs. Brown n her son before JUS
tlce D.ckey In the Supreme Court OF
brooklyn yesterday and the young man
was examined by the Justice as to the
acts leading up to the marriage. He
said there that he attended a wedding
reception and that while there was Ill
and Miss Altenbrand gave some pills
to him. Later. he said. he went with
her to a drug store and drank some
calisaya. After that he remembers noth-
Ing until they were coming home from
Jersey City and he vas told he was a
married man,
II was alleged In court that Mrs.
Brown, jr., was t~wenty-nlne years old,
while Mr.. Brown was only eighteen
when the marriage took place in De-
cember last.
Angry with His Wife.
IT was very angry with Josephine for
marrying me the n she did and
told her 80" said the young man today
n told her tina ! was afraid of wha'
would say, SO she went nome
and / went home, too
Where Ia your wife nowY' lie was
asked.
''she is out West travelling for a Wa
A.o.. Io,,,a I n.y.r gaty haf. hnf tuir,
after we were married. She should no
have treated me the way she lid. The
idea of her taking me way over 20 Jersey
City and marrying me! Mother was 81
angry!'
lii was this sort OF talk that Justice
Diokey listened to yesterday and ther
remarked, after questioning tile husband
that there appeared to have been q
well-dehned courtship, and that after thu
marriage the young mans ardor had
cooled.
Thought he would permit a physician &c
examine the young man. but as 10 hS
talk that he took a lot OF drugs an
them Was led to the altar of a Jersey
nor see ii. When he said 10 Mrs. Brown!
sr.. walked out Of the courtroom an"
tainted. -,
Mrs, Brown. IL, wno Is SMu 10y nv
som few years the senior of the boy,
looks about his age. She lived at No
2) Winthrop street.
Nonsense, Says Her Lawyer.
Yesterday she wa not in court but
her iawyer said the Idea that she
had caused the young man 10 marry
her by doing anything more than any
other girl dld-merely being sweet and
Observation-Disclosures all nonsense.
The marriage Of the couple was ru-
mored about the suoaz'b OF Brooklyn
for some hime before Mrs Brown
heard OF IL. Then she called her son
IN her. This was ONE time In Febru-
airy. He admitted the main fact. that
he was married; but as % the respon-
sibllity for the act. III admits he told
Ma mother when she became angry
mat Josephne was the person re-
sponsible. Since then he has stuck to
the yarn.
The evening world., 1903-05-23
BIRD FAMILY. IN THE PARK.
Wall street Man Interested Enough
to Stay Mt Home.

III anybody should ask you, Just
say that I intend to spend a sensible
summer in town, with occasional side
trips" said a Wall street man to a
friend on an elevated train yester-
day.
you need not look surprised" he
added: Il have tried every other
place but the city during the heated
season, and would like to know II
New York is entitled to the deslgna-
tior OF summer resort. So | looked
through The Worlds columns OF
Flats and Apartments TO Let and
found a peach of a place just off Cen
trail Park West. Come up and see
me and I'll show you a family OF
hirds I'm supporting tnsthAQAEk."