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New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
SHOT DOWN IN STORE.
Ckild's Face Burned by Shots OF
Murderer and Suicide.

Because she would not accede to the demands
Of ne'er-do-wen brother. Mrs. Mary Fleischer
1ffty-two years old, of No. 60 East Third-st
last evening shot and almost instantly
killed ss she stood behind the counter OF the
little candy and cigar store she kept at that
place. Her brother. Adoph Gross. thirty-eight
years old, after :iring three bullets at Mrs
F-1eischer. two OF which took effect. and. seeing
her fall TO The ground. turned the revolver on
himself and sent bullet into his heart. He
died before an ambulance surgeon could reach
his side He held the weapon so close TO his
body that his coat was set on fire by the flash
IN The shop were Nathan and Harry Mos
kowitz. thirteen and eleven years old, of No
- Second-ave. and Fannie Kornhauser nine
wears old of No. ii East Third-st They were
buying candy and slate pencils. Harry Mos
kowitz narrowly missed being shot when Gross
fired the second shot at his sister. So close
was the revolver to his head that the boys
right ear and the side of his face are powder
marked the loIse OF the being full of tiny
powder specks.
Mrs FIeischer was the wife of Joseph
Fleischer tailor, employed by firm at Broad
wsy and Twenty-second-st There are TWO
daughters, Sarah, twenty years old. and Tessle
sixteen. and 4 son. Louis, fourteen years Old
None but Sarah and her mother were at home
behind the counter. while Sarah was in the IN-
inE rooms in the rear of the shop.
Nathan Moskowitz told the police that he
heard Gross ask Mrs. Fleischer. in Hungarian
for some money. Sne declined. saying she did
not have more than she needed for the support
Of her family. She also is said to have up
braided her brother because he did not work
He again demanded money, and his sister again
refused to give il. Then the boy says Gross
drew two revolvers from his pockets, pointed
them at Mrs, F1eischer. and, With an oath, said:
Then I'll kill you"
She had turned TO wrap up parcel for one Of
the children and apparently did not see Gross
when he drew the weapons, for she turned and
asked. in Hungarian:
What is that you said?"
Then Gross fred He missed and the bullet
was buried in the wall back CT the counter. The
second bullet lodged in Mrs. Fleischer's right
side. She turned TO run. and the third bullet
struck her in the back of the head. inlbedding
itself the base OF the brain Without cry
the sank TO the floor behind the counter.
Hearing the shots. Sarah ran out from the
rear room. She reached the door just in time
10 see Gross turn and start toward the street
door. and then stop and fire bullet into his
heart. He dropped and groaned once or twice,
then died
Ten minutes after the shooting. and just as
the ambulance arrived Joseph Fleischer
reached home. A minute or two later Tessie
and Louis arrived. The girl became hystericaI
and the husband raved The streets were
crowded and traffic became blocked in the
streets around the little store. Policemen had
to nc called TO keep the crowd moving.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
REV Mp. CAREY GOES TO NORWICH.
DR.. Huntington Announces Several Gifts to
Grace Church.

The 1902 Grace Church Year Book whose pub
lication was announced in yesterdays Tribune
makes several interesting announcements. After
telling of the extensive repairs the church, Dr.
Huntington. the rector, says:
In the going away of the Rev. George G. Bart
lett now rector of st. Paul's Church, Overbrook
Penn and of the Rev. Nelson Poe Carey no"
rector-elect of Christ Church. Norwich. Conn.,
Grace parish sustains heavier loss than II mas
had 10 meet in many These young men
have been 2 tower Of strength to me. and II VIII
perhaps be the best possible tribute TO the excel
ience of the work to which their energies were
given il I predict. l do that their departure
will work no serious solution of Its continuing
The hest wishes IF of friends follow carey
and Bartlett to their and important fields.
Among the gifts for the year the following are
announced: The Choriste.s' Home No. IS Fourth
ave tho gift of an unnamed person; the Choir
Yestry No 90 Fourth-ave.. memorial Of the late
Mrs Luther Clark: the Clergy House. No. a3
Fourth have the gift Of the late William G
Schern1erhorn: complete electric light and motor
plant in the basement Of the Clergy House, the
gift of an unnamed parishioner; the carved stone
work of the interior of the chanCe memorial TO the
late Mrs Iispelard Stewart. the gift of her chill
drpu: new in the gallery. replacing the
worn ont instrument which had done good service
there for half century. the gift of Mr.. and Mrs
George s Rowdoin in memory of their daughter
Fannie Hamilton Klngsford, and the bishops chair
memorial late Mrs. Henry {. Potter, the gift
of three of her daughters.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
TELL OF A. T. STEWART IN IRELAND
Plaintiff in Suit Against Hilton Estate Gets
Expenses from Lawyer.

The trial of the suit OF John Stewart, who de-
ciares he third cousin of A It. Stewart TO
gain from the Hilton estate one-sXtieth part of the
Stewart property continued in the Supreme
Court yesterday. Witnesses from Belfast, Ireland.
told of visits paid by a. T. Stewart TO the old
Country when he called on his relatives and
trbuted to their support and endeavored to patch
up differences between some of them. Thomas
Bagley. a Belfast man, seventy-fve years old and
80 deaf that the questions of counsel had to be
shouted into his ears. said he remembered discuss
ing with Tom Stewart. uncle of A. 7. Stewards.
the success which had attended a. T. Stewart in
New-York. William the first, A. T. Stewards uncle.
present, and said, He Is my brother AleXan-
derS SON.
The plaintiff recalled to the stand. and testi
fled that about two years and eleven months ago
he Mr.. owens in Belfast, who introduced
him to VI. D'Artigues the French lawyer who has
for years been hunting for heirs of A. T. Stewart.
He gave D'Artigues power of attorney to act for
him. The lawyer was to supply the money to
carry the suit and was TO pay all expenses. in
cluding his clients.
Stewart said he receiving his weekly wages
as a paWnbrOker'S clerk while away from his busi-
in connection with the suit.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
THINK IT HOSTILE TO GOULD PLANS.
Rock Island-Union Pacifc-Southern Pacific
Alliance Confirmed

The report VISA practically confirmed yesterday
that the Rock Island company is about TO enter
luio an alliance with the Union Professionalism
Pacific system Although official announcement
may be made for several DAYS il is understood that
Tho alliance is 10 DC in the form of comprehen-
SiIe traffic agreement. resembling the arrangement
already existing between the Union Pacific and the
81 Paul and the Chicago and Northwestern roads
These traffic agreements are in furtherance of Nfr
liaTriman's policy Ia promote a community of in
1erest among the railroads of the Mississippi
River The Rock Island and Southern Pacific roads
have been exchanging business for time
There is disposition in Wall Street TO regard
the Rock 1slaud-Cnion Pacific agreement as move
hostile 10 the Gould interests. The Missouri Pa
clfc has traffic relations with Union Pacific
and therefore cannot get to San Francisco from
Ogden over the Central Pacific tracks: hut il is
credited with the intention of reaching the
Coast over The line of the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient of which road several Missouri Pacific in
terests directors
There was no activity yesterday in the stocks
of the Rock Island. the Union Pacific the South
erD Pacific Rock Island common and preferred
stock each made net gain Of = per cent. Union
Iacl1c common and preferred each "a per cent and
Southern Pacific = per cent.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
BLAMES SIX SECTIONS.
Patrolman on Way to Sanatorium Becomes
Violent

PstFolman Samuel Levy or the Madison-st. sta
ton, while on his way 10 the Flushing Sanaturiun
At Flushing, Long island, where he Was being
10 he cured Of temporary mental arrangement,
grew violent in Delancey-st. last night and was
taken 10 the Deiancey-st. station by his "a ther.
two brothers and 4 patrolmsn There he quieted
down. and was later taken 10 the sanatorium His
Father blames the establishment Of the twelve
hoar, Subsection system FOR the police force by
Commissioner Greene for his sons trouble saying
that he had lost so much sleep that his minl had
given under the strain.
lie could not get 10 bed under these conditions
much before 12:3o or O'Clock in the afternoon
Then he would have 70 arise O'Clock in ordor
10 cat his dinner and be back at the station in time
% aut patrol again o'clock He was
practically duty sixteen or seventeen hours
every day, and without any chance to rest in the
mean time, except during his four in
The station house The loss Of sleep began TO
en- him, and at the end OF the first week he acted
strangely one morning when he Went horne he
threatened 10 shoot his father
Mr. Levy went TO Captain Creamer. at the
AadiSon-st station. with The result Patrol
man Levy was examined DY Police Surgeon Brown.
DR.. Brown advised him to take q months Vaca-
UiOn. Dr. Browa in his report said that Levy was
suffering from loss ~ rest. and that il had af-
fected his mind.
His father had him examined Dy DR. Glass of
and DIR. Dana. OF No. 80 Nest Fifiy-third-St a
specialist. They declared him De suffering from
mental excitement due to loss az sleep, and ad-
RtS.d that he be sent TO the sanatorfum.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
OVER s14,ooo,ooo FOR WATERFRONT
Commissioner Hawkes. Asks Sinking Fund
Board for Appropriation.

Dock Commissioner Hawkes. yesterday asked the
Sinking Fund commissioners for s14,0Ss,S51 21 of
bonds for piers and the Improvement OF the
municipal waterfront. OF this more than
s95o,00o is to pay for wharf and waterfront prop
erty. The remainder is for the building of bulk
heads, walls and piers. The area proposed
in the departments plans to be taken by the city
lying between Eighteenth-st and Twenty-third-
ST. will alone cost 100000. The Clyde Line of
steamers is 10 move from the east to the west side
OF the city after the piers are built.
William P. Clyde appeared before the Sinking
Fund Commission last year and severely arraigned
the city administration for failure to provide ade-
quate pier accommodations for the shipping busi-
ness of the port He limited hat if the city would
not spend the money necessary for the improve
ments needed private capitalists would be glad TO
do the work. Last year S6.oo0000 was appropri-
ated for dock department purposes. Mayor Low
this week went to Washington to see Secretary
Root with reference to pier lines and other af-
fairs incidentally involved in the Improvement of
the waterfront AS the Sinking Fund Commits
sion is limited to s5 CO0G0 for single appropra-
ton. the Dock Commissions application was re-
ferTed to the Board of Estimate and Apporuon-
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
NO 1NIICAN4L PLOT.
Charges against Republican Good
Faith Emphaticaily Denied.

The charge Of insincerly in dealing with thu
canal question in the last Republican State Con-
vention, made by John +. Platt Of PoughkeeDsis
against tho Republican party. at hearing in Al
bany on Tuesday, drew out protest yesterday
from Edward Lauterbsch. who chairman Of
the platform committee at the last convention and
from John A. Sieicfer. who also member of
the committee.
II was chairman Of the platform committee.
said Mr.. Lauterbach last night. and there was
nothing sinister or underhanded in the platform
adopted There nothing 70 initiate against
the 100o-ton barge plan We simply pledged our
selves to build the canal with the greatest possbls
expedition allowed by constitutional restrictions.
We silent 10 dimensions and'tonnage. but
that was with no idea Of opposing the cotton
plan. We endeavored not to promise more than We
could perform. We did say that would try to
build the canal without imposing direct tax
John A Sleieher said:
The ntimation that the Governor was willing 20
run on platform which did not mean what It said
tho canal question has no Justification in fact.
John 7. Platt was a member Cf The platform COM
mittee at Saratoga, and took decisive GROUND
against the proposed canal plank when e. was
brought up He stood alone In his opposition.
however. and at time was so vehement in his
declaration that would be injurious 20 the party
and unsc Septable 10 Its voters. that he almost
threatened to withdraw from the deliberations of
the committee The advocates OF canal enlarge
ment- who were represented by distinguished gen
tlemen from New-York and Buffalo, were admitted
10 the meeting Of the platform committee aud
apparently satisfied with the form IN which
the plank was drawn and in which II substanti-
ally adopted, with other opposition than that
which John /. Platt expressed
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
ATLANTIC TRANSPORTS PIER NO 40.
AIIan-Statc Line Fails in It's Attempt to
Gust It's Rival.

The AIlan-State Line Steamship Company has
failed in its attempt made through its attor-
neys Morris & Fay to oust the Atlantic Trans
port Company from continued possession OF Pler
No 40 North River Not long ago, Robert T.
Morris wrote to the Dock Commissioner request
ing that a lease of Pier No. 40 be not granted to
the Atlantic Transport Company, on the ground
that they appeared to be subletting pier privl-
leges TO other lines.
I'VE investigated the complaint" said Deputy
Dock Commissioner Wallace yesterday, and
failed to find that the Atlantic Transport Com
pany had done anything that would warrant
the cancellation of its lease. The Allan Line
people for some time have been at the Twenty
frst-st pier and on account of the city's re
building the piers along the old Chelsea water
front they were crowded out temporarily. They
wanted Pier No 40 The Atlantic Transport
people have allowed other steamers to use their
pier, but the privilege has been granted accord
ing the departments rules.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
KALEIDOSCOPE WEATHER.
Fog. a Thunderstorm and Clear, Cold Skies
All in One Day.

New-York had several varieties or weather yes
terday not the least striking Of which the
thunder shower which occurred at 6:45 p m. and
lasted for a quarter Of an hour. On an average
there is one such storm every winter. but there
had been none in any winter since 1900 until last
night. a February thunder shower is said to
presage the prompt arrival of spring. The shower
did somc damage points outside Of the city. and
il was accompanied by blast of wind out of the
northwest which whisked along AT the rate of
forty-eight miles an hoIr. and drove sheets OF
rain into the faces of those who CHANGED to be
Of doors at the time.
Early in the morning there was dense fog
which Was augmented S:32 o'clock by the pas
sage across the heavens above the fog of "A dense
black cloud that brought with it inky darkness
However. the darkness passed almost before the
electric lights could he turned ON. There were
the usual delays of ferryboats and trains, and
the fog which settled down over the harbor again
late in the afternoon prevented the sailing of the
to secure enough coal TO get away. The fog
lifted at 6:45 O'Clock last night, when the wind
suddenly changed from the south TO northwest
and increased to forty-eight miles an hour. The
atmospheric change produced the short thunder
shower. The temperature fell steadily throughout
the evening the skies cleared. and the official
forecast prophesied much colder weather, with
fair skies. for to-day. the storm from the Great
Lakes having passed beyond Block Island.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
SAY HE TOOK MONEY FOR HIMSELF.
Members of Birth Abraham Sue Grand
Master for Endowment Fund Shortage.

Abraham ]. Dworsky. OH behalf of himself and
all other members of the United states Grand
Lodge Order Birth Abraham has brought suit
in the Supreme Court against Samuel Dorf, grand
master of the order and the order itself to ascer-
tain what has become of 5000 of the funds of the
order.
The complaint declares that after the death
of Meyer Sternberg, the endowment secretary of
the order, September /. 1901, the 5000 was
missing: that trace of it could be found among
the papers and books used by Sternberg, and that
a certain book kept by said Meyer Sternberg, con
tanning entries of his personal affairs and loans
made by him to Samuel DOrf, disappeared from a
safe in the grand lodge office Immediately after
its opening by Samuel Dorf on the death of Stern
berg.
The plaintiff asserts that the shortage of 5000
is largely money borrowed by Dorf from Stern
berg and that the defendant, while acting
grand master fraudulently and i'll violation of his
duty borrowed money from the endowment funds
through Sternberg.
Dorf it is declared appointed Louis Borowsky
endowment secretary. receiving from BOrowSky as
a consideration for appointing him $3.50.
The plaintiff further charges DOrf with taking
from the endowment fund $3.50 counsel fee
for Ex-Governor Black in connection with the
incorporation of the association under the Insur-
ance law of 1892. and approprating the money, and
with using $500 of the endowment fund to pay for
a luuor tax certificate for Il saloon owned by
him.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
FLOODS FEARED UP THE STATE.

Saratoga. y. Y. Feb 4.-The ice and log jam
at the Glen. where the gorge has damned the
upper Hudson River to the depth OF thirty feet
and Inundated the back country for miles again
threatens to yield TO the enormous pressure and
sweep down the valley. The present danger is
caused by the heavy rainstorm that mas prevailed
in the last twenty four hours. with no signs OF
al atement Notice OF danger has been sent TO the
settlements below the gorge
Schenectady, y. y. Feb. 4.-The fcemen in this
vicinity have about abandoned hope for good ice
crop this season, because of the weather OF the
last week. II some places along the Mohawk
River The water has flooded the ice making IL i'm
possible 10 work properly. River men declare that
if the present warm weather continues a ,lav or
two longer the Mohawk River will break up caus-
il the usual losses by food.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
REFUSAL TO GIVE MONEY CAUSES IRAGEDIEo
BROTHER AND SISTER DE4D-HtSB4ND IND VIfE
HOTERYN6 BETWEEN LIFE IND DEl7H.
U4NT.S TO P4UN JEWELS
Husband Bends Ouer- to Shoot Pros
trate UUe.

With two bullets imbedded in her brain, and
hovering between life and death. Mrs. Lena
Helm. forty-two years old, Of No. al East one-
hundred and -ffth-st lay in the Harlem Hos
pital last night while in another part OF the
hospital, under arrest, charged with attempted
suicide blind from the effect OF two bullet
wounds in his head, Emil Helm, her husband.
dying.
The couple had been married seven years.
Mrs Helm had been Mrs. Beck, and mas
son. Herbert, who works in a downtown office
Her first husband was a jeweller, and left her
diamonds worth 1900 which she kept in
stocking According to neighbors, Helm, who
was A locksmith by trade had been out of work
so long that he disliked work, and lived on
the earnings Of his wife and stepson
Last night the neighbors heard crash OH
The floor in the Helm rooms, and the souho OF d
struggle cry for help was followed by two
pistol shots and Mrs. Helm ran out into the nan
screaming:
oh Mrs. KatzensteIn, have been shot Get
a DOCTOR" and, with a stream OF blood noNlhs
from a wound under her left eye and anotheI
from the right side of her head she staggered,
half blinded down the two flights of stairs from
her home on the third floor. to the home Of
Katzenstejp. the ianitor in the basement where
she fell on the floor.
Then the house echoed with the reports of two
more pistol shots. and neghbors, rushing into
the Helm apartment found the husband covered
by his own blood, with bullet wound IN each
temple He was unconscious. revolver lay
by his side
Mrs Katzensten called Dr. Brothers. of No.
I:,41 Madison-ave., who revived Mrs. Helm, and
when Policemen Nehil! and McGraw, of the East
One-hundred-a nj -fourth-st. station. arrived,
they were able to get a story from the wounded
woman.
Her husband she said. had asked for more
money He wanted her to give him some OF her
diamonds to pawn. She refused, she said, and
then after an argument he sprang on her,
threw her to the floor and attempted TO strange
her. She. being stronger than he, resisted and
threw him off. He to a sideboard drawer
and took from it the revolver. which had heeh
kept loaded as a protection against burglars
When she saw him take the revolver and point
IL at her Mrs Helm said she threw up her left
hand TO shield her face He fired. and the
bullet struck the palm Of her hand, piercing 1t
and lodging just under her left eye She sank
To the floor. and there, bending over her, her
husban she said. fired at her again inhictlns
the wound on the right side of her head. The
second shot aroused her. and she sprang TO her
feet and dashed for the door
Her husband did not attempt 20 pursue her
but turned the weapon on himself.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
BAKER AGAINST TWO ENGINEER PLAN
Railroad Commissioner Says Chief Work
Would Be to Draw Pay.

State Railroad Commissioner F. NJ. Baker, when
asked his opinion of the agitation for third man
in locomotives, to watch the road said yesterday:
There was similar agitation few years ago, be-
cause of a tragedy II was then proposed that the
fireman should have speaking tube connection VIII Win
but engineers objected Gtrenuousy. They said they
couldn't stand having the fireman call them up
and ask. Are you dead YETI"
Engineers say that If anything did happen to
them the fireman would he fool if he didn't mo
it out at the first crossing because of the failure
to whistle ] have had them say to me- Ibis Ihis
is all very we'll but the engineer is looking out for
himself and he knows the safest place for him is
glued 10 the lever and that faithfulness to duty
5 the road 10 safety
What would the extra engineer do besides draw
his pay? Consider the construction of a Mother
HIhbar nd engine The second engineer is isolated
from the levers by the oil outfit. that TO
reach the throttle and he of any use he would
have TO go away around back the outside
Similar legisia ton opposed few years ago
by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
THE EoUfTABlE'S STATEMENT.

The forty-third statement of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society will be found elsewhere in to-
days Tribune.
The success of the past is shown by the out
standing of 81 22 4i65 595 and the OF
s59 395 537 r. The stability of the present is
in it's financial condition: Assets. $3.50 537 a. la
bties Ss4 $40 90 surplus in of all Iabili
ties $40 27 4s6 II. In 1902 the income amounted
500 0l2 25 and there paid TO policy holders
dividends SAT- 924 10 Since its organization the
society has paid to policy holders the OF s0s.
O2 COL 90 and holds $3.50 % so 72 for future pay
ment thus making the total of the benefits to
policy holders in fortythree years 65 ios S9 s. The
security of the future OF the Equitable is shown
ment.
At a meeting of the board of directors OF the
Equitable Society held yesterday Henry Rogers
winthrop elected assistant secretary of the
spCi
New-York tribune., 1903-02-05
CITY CLUB TO HELP MR. MONROE.

Health Commissioner Lederle talked 10 the City
tlub Hast night aDoat The wOrK done in his depart
ment the Work doing and that projected. His ad-
dress Was condensation OF his annual report
and included his appeal the Board of Health
for funds Cor the Improvement Of North Brother
Island and the other hospitals and places Of de-
Ienton for contagious disease patients. Before
DR. LedeTle spoke there regular meeting.
al which Horace f. Deming. for the committee
wafer supply. told OF what is being done by Com
missioner Monroe and Of the in which his
department Il hsmpered by lack of funds MT.
Dem5ng declared II poor finance and bad politics
stint the dcpa rfmcnt TO keep the tax down.
and showed hy the statistics of the department
that II turned into the Sinking Fund last wear
than te0e0eJ0. Tho club adopted resolution
authorizing its president 10 address the Board
~ Estimate and AppCrtlonmenf request TO fur
rish the Commjssionsr Of Water Supply with suf-
~cient resources for the prosecution of his work
{ larger snJ more comprsh hensiNe scale.