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The evening world., 1903-02-27
WOMAN'S SUICIDE
A DEEP MYSTERY
Young Stranger, Evidently of
Fine Family, Found Dead on
Cliffs at Newport, Where She
Prepared for Slow Death.
TRIED TO HIDE IDENTITY.

NEWPORT. r. l.. Feb. 27.-The local
authorities are doing their utmost to
solve the mystery in the suicide OF n
beautiful young Woman who ended her
life by exposing herself TO the bitter
weather on Viewpoints famous cliff. Her
body was found opposite the estate of
Mrs. T.. Shaw Safe. where she had de-
h~berately lain down to die after de-
stroying everything that would give any
Idea of her real identity. 1t is thought.
however. that she was nightly connected
and came from Washington.
The young woman arrived here last
May n went to the home of Mrs
Daniel Walsh, where she ergaged a
room. She said III her name was
Barker. but never talked about herself
and made no attempt to be sociable with
any one.
Near where her body was found lay
an open copy of SCOTS "~lvanhoe' and
n brass-bound Bible. A little distance
off were n box containing some luncheon
and candy. II a parasol and some
extra clothing.
A search Of her clothing revealed two
pairs of spectacles, one OF gold, the other
OF silver; n gold watch, "A purse con-
tanning N.i0. and two parlor-car tickets.
ono from Los Angeles to Washington.
dated June q, 1902. and tine other from
Chicago to Niagara, dated Sept, "a, 1902.
Medical Examiner Stewart. after an
examination of the body. said that
there was little doubt hat tho young
woman had died Of exposure. The body
was removed TO the morgue. She was
short and slight, and weighed 10
pounds, Her features were delicatcly
formed and her form was beautifully
moulded. Her auburn hair was short
and curly.
A week ago Wednesday Miss Barker"
disappeared, and nothing was heard OF
her until a negro. while walking on the
cliffs, saw the body lying just above
hiGh-water mark.
The only tangible clew upon which
tho authorities may work Is a letter on
a printed form from the library OF Con-
gress, DATED May Is, 1893. and which
reads as follows:
Dear Madam-We have the honor. IN
behalf of the Joint Committee Of Con
gress on the Library, to acknowledge
the receipt or
The letter here was abruptly torn
away. The envelope bears these words;
"The Ralclga, Washington, u, c."
and IN the back is the hotel stamp, ac-
~knowlcdging receipt of letter, 'iicaolvai,
the Raleigh, Washington. D.. C., May
II. Z. l.. NJ by c." and In pencil In
the corner is the room ma k, no. $685."
Chief OF Police sylvester, of Wash
has been communicated with and
asked 10 lend his aid 20 the local police.
The evening world., 1903-02-27
B|GAMY CHARGED
AGAINST BARLEY.
The Superintendent of Track
Construction of Lackawan-
ma Arrested To-Day.

William II, Barley, superintendent Of
track construction on tho Lackawanna
railroad, was arrested to-day at bis
home. No. 3l5i Hudson boulevard, Jer-
soy City Heights, on a charge OF big
amy.
Deputy Sheriff Wood. OF Orange
County. New York, made the complaint
Wood says that Barley was married in
1851 In Walden, orange County. and his
wife and four children are'living there.
One Of his daughters is eighteen years
old.
While al Lake. near Walden, in 1892,
Wood says Barley met a h~fteen-year-old
girl named Marie Frances Royce, and
IN June q Of that year was married 10
her by the Rev. T.. E. Count at War
wick, y. Y. lie vas living with her
when arrested.
Since September of last year Mrs. aBr-
ley has been looking for her husband,
Deputy Sheriff Wood said when Barley
was arrested that he knew both women
and their families.
Barley was locked up. and extradltion
papers to take him TO Orange County
havs been applied fOrs .-
The evening world., 1903-02-27
CHARGED BY GIRL
WITH ABDUCTION.
William Boyer, Musician, Is Ac-
Cused of Having Tried to H.
treat Child of Fifteen at a
Newark Hotel.
"WIFE" FIGURED IN CASE.

william Boyer, a musician. was ar
raisned in Jefferson Market Court to-
day on a charge OF abduction. Agents
Pessaro and Fogarty made the charge.
1t appears that Boyer advertised for n
companion to travel with his wife. He
called. rugged out in a gorgeous uni
form. on Yarda Jacobson, at No. l5S
East Thirtieth street. Yarda. who is
only fifteen years old and has been going
to school, answered the advertisement.
but Boyer talked with her mother and
made representations that seemed sat
isfactory.
The agents say that Boyer look the
girl to the Palace Hotel in Newark.
y. j., ostenslbly to await the coming Of
his wife, His wife did not appear. and
Boyer attempted to detain the girl In
his room.
She cried. and the hotel people put
them out. Then Yarda went home and
told her mother what had happened, and
the police arrested Boyer.
The agents say that in Boyer's room.
at No. S5 West Fifteenth street, they
found letters from young girls out of
town. Boyer says his home is in San
Francisco. The wife" appears to be a
myth.
The evening world., 1903-02-27
NIAGARA
ON BROAD WAY.
Water Main Bursts and Pours
Into 80-Foot Subway Excava-
ton, Giving Uptown Residents
an Impromptu Waterfall.
ARID IN MANY HOUSES.

Houses along Broadway Boulevard be-
tween Seventy-ninth and E~ighty-sixth
streets are without water to-day because
of a break in the big main at Seventy
ninth street. For two hours a stream
OF water WIS spouted into the air, form
ing a great stream down the boulevard
and a waterfall of more than miniature
dimensions Into the subway excavation,
which is so feet deep at thai point.
Policeman Bevan. OF the West Sixty
eighth street station. was on post when
he was startled by a rushing sound. and
looking down the street saw paving
blocks and gravel hurled high into the
air. The water. he said, spouted to a
height of fully forty feet.
He teleDhoned to the stAtion-house
and the water department soon had a
repair gang at the scene OF the break.
Wlen they arrived a wide stream was
running to the edge of the subway cut.
fifteen feet away. 1t tumbled down the
rocky bank, forming a picture thai
looked entirely natural.
The gates at Eighty-sixth and Seventy
ninth streets were shut off and the re-
pair men started to uncover the break.
Upon Investigation IL was decided that
the break had been caused by constant
blasting at this point. Almost over the
main Is a large derrick weighing about
two tons. The blasting and weight of
the derrick had caused the main to sag,
causing n break.
Before the water was shut off there
were several feet of 1t In the tunnel,
The evening world., 1903-02-27
NO JOKE.
But 90 Lbs. of Solid Flesh.

II Mark Twain should write a story
about a person who weighed 80
pounds and increased her weight to
$50 pounds Tor double) in one year by
quitting coffee and drinking Postum
Coffee, every one who read 1t would
say. There's a joke behind that
somewhere"
There Is a well-known lady in
Coraopolis, Pa, who actually made
this gain in weight as the direct re-
suit OF leaving off coffee and taking
up Postum Food Coffee. II was a
very earnest matter and far from a
Joke for her. Her gain In general
health kept pace with the increase in
weight.
She says: For many years I suf-
fered with stomach arrangement and
violent and oft-recurring headaches.
1t was not an unusual thing for IL
family of four to use 2Ha TO 3 pounds
OF coffee a week. / was suspicious
that my troubles were due to coffee.
but as I did not like tea or cocoa or
chocolate, there seemed no palatable
hot drink for me to take at my meals.
Then it was I heard OF Postum
and decided to try 1t. | vas just con-
valescing from a serious illness and
was very weak and emaciated. |
know II sounds like what people
would call a fish story but actually
went from 80 pounds 10 $50 pounds
weight in one year. All the salloW-
ess disappeared from my skin and !
now sarry my 40 years very lightly
indeed. My change In health is so
great that many OF my friends make
a Joke OF 1t to this day, but my nerves
are good and / am happy and con-
tented, SO can AFFORD to laugh with
them.
II first learned OF Postum from a
in indianapolis. where | saw
the mother OF six children emerge
invalidism 10 perfect health ON
Postum after leaving on coffee. Soon
that another friend made a re-
markable recovery by dropping cof-
and using Postum, and when |
moved here a neighbor shook of cof-
fee and nervous dyspepsia and built
himself up on the food drink. So !
heard OF one after another until !
don't know how many ] have known
u who have recovered from disease
Df some sort by leaving on the drug
,offee and using Postum Food Coffee.
You are at liberty to use my
Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich
The evening world., 1903-02-27
DEAD N FIRE,
FOUR MISSING.
Several Lodgers Penned in Up
per Floors, Badly Burned Es-
Gaping Blaze That Destroyed
Big Building in Lowell.
M WRITER A VICTIM.

LOWELL. Mass. Feb. 27.-one or
more persons lost their lives In the fire
which broke out in the Burbank blooL
here early to-day.
The building was used for bus,nss.
iodsins-house and social purposes. the
street hoor containing stores. the sec.
ohu' third and fourth floors, lodging
rooms and the top floor. a dance hall.
There were seventy-fve dodgers in the
mouse when he fire broke out and al
various times II was reported that lives
had been lost, but at daybreak IL was
sald that all the dodgers had been ac-
counted for.
Still, a search of the ruins was made
and after several hours the body of
Mrs. Sarah r. Kittredge. a magazine
writer, was found.
Later 1t was reported that four other
persons were missing and search OF the
ruins was continued.
There were a number OF narrow es-
eapes and several persons sustained
burns and other injuries.
The total damage. which involves
Horace Shattuck. owner OF the block
the proprietor OF i've stores on the
street floor, and Blanche Foster, pro-
prietress Of the clearinghouse. is esti-
mated at $4,000, partly covered by in
surance.
The nre In its progress threatened the
Beivldere Hotel, which stands next TO
the Burbank block. bun a heavy nre
wall proved an effective barrier. The
Howe Building. which stands next 10
the Burbank block on the other side
from the hotel also was protected from
damage by 4 thick wall :
The evening world., 1903-02-27
R|SKEO HIS LIFE
FOR CH|LDREN'S
Seeing Six Little Ones in Peril
from a Runaway Horse Po-
Iiceman Michael Kenny Brave
Iy Sprang at Its Head.
KNOCKED DOWN., DRAGGED.

At the risk OF serious injury Police
man Michael Kenny, OF the East One
Hundred and Fourth street station,
stopped a runaway horse at loon to-day
within n. few feet OF where n half-dozen
children stood directly in the path of
the horse. p~aralyzed with fear.
The horse was attached to awagon
driven by John O'Brien. 1t toofr, fright
Mt One Hundred and Sixth street and
Madison avenue At One Hundred and
Seventh street O'Brien was thrown out
and the horsa ran on.
Kenny saw 1t at One Hundred and
Ninth street street. At TIA moment
about fifty children from the One Hun
dred n Tenth street school were
crossing Madison avenue. Most of them
ran otu OF harms way. but six OF the
smaller ones, paralyzed with fear. stood
as IL riveted TO the ground directly in
the path OF the horse.
The policeman leaped for the bride.
He was overturned by the onrush, bul
chung TO the reins. He was dragged al
most n block, but stopped the horse
within ten feet OF. the children.
Kenny's uniform was torn and he was
badly shaken up.
A horse attached 10 a furniture van
took fright In front OF Public School No.
40, on Norfolk street. this afternoon.
and knocked down Della Katz. eleven
years old. of No. 1879 Norfolk street, and
Bessie sadadusky. nine years OFF. of No.
I27 Suffolk street. The children were not
seriously injured and were attended at
home. The driver OF the van Is Bern
ard Scraohman. twenty-seven years old.
OF No. 100 Ludlow street.
The evening world., 1903-02-27
DEATH ENDS A
SCHOOLBOY LOVE
Young Robert Stockton Pyne,
Fiance of Miss Constance
Pratt, Dies at a Connecticut
Academy.
THE GIRL is FRUSTRATED.

49, $4,000
" .esohea h..e to-uay OF inc
uoatn u Hooert stochpon fSne' nineteen
years oiu' at Fomrret S>hool Pomfret'
Conn., ana there Is intense sorrow both
at the nome OF his parents. No. 1853
sion. at No. a West Fftv-t third streat
Al ,ba ,atter aadras. H. III. 60
- u s "'eS mo- |oh-
Bache Pratt, and only a short time ago
~ ,,o,,aa, ,.ahtonn "s'
rne younsei iasn'napie set was great
ment OF younr pvne - Nc pr
Roth Mrs. No. Tovtnn iIA-
The evening world., 1903-02-27
PIucky Western Girls Adopt a
Novel Means of Getting Rich
Quick in the Wall Street Dis
trict.
TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST.
Brokers Surrender to the Pair from
. Illinois and Invest Their Dimes at
a Great Rate-Had to Work to
Earn a Livelihood.
This entities the holder to one shine a.
the EAGLE Tonsorial Psrlor. No. n wal
street, on Monday, March 3

The very newest get.rich-ou:ok CON-
Germ that ever struck New York was
launched in Wall street to-day by two
pretty young girls from Illinois. Marie
Forrest and Belle Forrest, two sisters,
the one only eighteen years old. the
other two years her senior, invaded the
financial district before the bulls and
bears had begun to shout their wares
on change.
These two enterpriSng maldens, both
attractive brunettes, with the red rose
bloom OF country on their cheeks and
smiling mischlevously, we're busy all day
distributing tickets bearing the above
legend throughout Wall, Beaver, New
and Broad streets.
At hrst the brokers and kings of
finance turned to them the real Icy
countenance.
Don't want any wosnen -canvaesers,"
was the brutal answer that the Illinois
girls had in the offices. BY and by 1t
was learned that the maidens were en-
deavortng to earn an honest living by
shining shoes. and that. too, with dainty
white hands.
Then the street. fell. Before noon
a thousand tickets q been paid for at
10 cents each, and the question now Is.
How are Belle inc Marie going to keep
the contractH
What they offer TO do is TO shine for
n day the boots OF every customer
who enters the barber shop at No. II
Wall street. While Marie is at one foot
Belle propose shining up the other.
I'll Just tell you how IL was said
the latter. as she spread out fifteen
tickets fan-shape for speedy purchase by
gallant brokers in the CONSOLIDATED Ex-
change. Marie and l just came from
Champaign, Ill-accent on the ILL.,. II
you please-and we had a notion TO start
a manicure parlor here. Everybody
seems to get rich in this place. We
thought. 1t would be easy to earn an
honest living.
But In about three weeks we had not
found a thing to do and our funds were
on the last ebb, We were living then
at No. 249 West Twenty ninth street,
right in the Tenderloin. and the things
Marie i said one day, when we
didn't know whether TO have Inner or
breakfast-sure, only n meal per for
us-'Ill do any mortal thing rather thar
live like these women around her. I'll
black boots
Let's black boots and now you know 1t
Monday bright and early-practise up
in the mean time-and I'll bet W. mak
q lot. Just see the way they're buying
tIcketsI"
The evening world., 1903-02-27
STOLE PICTURE OF PIRATE.

An artistic thief got into the "a room
OF Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, yesterday
and stole an oil painting OF a pirate.
Combining the useful with the orna-
mental. ne tool away a $40 overcoat be-
longing to one of the students.
The painting is the work OF Howard
Pyle. and is the property of Scribners.
It is valued at 500. In view OF the fact
that there has been a long series of
thefts at Pratt Institute. the police are
mailing extraordinary efforts to discover
this thief.
The evening world., 1903-02-27
ROOSEVELT IN WASHINGTON.
Presidents Return Trip from This
City was without Incident.

WASHINGTON. Feb. e7.-President
Roosevelt and his party arrived here on
a special train from New York over the
Pennsylvania Railroad at 100 o'clock to-
day. The trip was without incident.
The President alighted from his car
as soon as tho train had pulled into the
station and. after shaking hands with
the engineer and sfireman of the loco
motive. entered his carriage. which was
In waiting. Accompanied by Capt.
Cowles. he was driven directly 10 the
White House. He expressed himself as
greatly pleased with the meeting In
Carnegie Hall last night. referring to It
a 3 great ana inspiring a~ssemblage.
The evening world., 1903-02-27
Glad II Was over.

7 am glad. +" said ths, bluesoat family.
II suppose I had better" Eeplieq
The evening world., 1903-02-27
ROBERT EMMETT MEETING.
Wolfe Tone Club win Celebrate
Anniversary OF Patriots Death,

A public demonstration will DO held
under the auspices Of the Wolfe Tone
Club. Of jersey city, 10 celebrate the
ono hundred and tweRty-hfth anniyer-
sary of tho birth OF Ireland's martyr,
Robert Emmett. az Elks' Hall, corner
OF York and Henderson streets, sunday
night, March 10, al S o clock,
John N. vale, OF this city. ,. leak
on Life OF Emmett" and James a.
Murtha, IT,. of Brooklyn. viii speak on
'Irlsh Freedom" Celebrated singers
will enllven the meeting with stirring
patriotic songs. .
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-30
MAY CHANGE NAME
A0E MARKET STREET.
AA.&A SsTS@ :
Bill Introduced I'm Council Provides
That Thoroughfare be Called )
Central ?

/ President Horns6y, by request. intro
duced a bill I'm the evuncil yesterday which
provides for changing the name of Mar
ket street to Central avenue.
President Hornsby said the bill had been
handsd him by Attorney E. c. selvin.
SOM of the reasons for asking a change
in the street were because there IL no
longer a market on the street n the
name Central is appropriate because the
streets are numbered from 1t, north and
south.
The concurrent resolution which passed
the House last week to adjourn from Octo-
Der 8 to q was referred to the Committee
on Legislation. The measure passed the
House because the Sanitary Commission
dates.
Members of the House do not look IA
yofably on the action of the Council in re-
Ierring the resolution TO a committee, and
they fear it Will not pass.
Inc Council approved the bono of David
P. Bull, appointed deputy city jailer by
Jailer Dawson. The appointments by
Mayor Wells of E. NJ FGfessman and w.
Shristy Bryan as member of the Board
also approved.
Acting Chairman LAWYER of the Com
mlttee on Engrossed and Enrolled Bills
idNOf uDiy vi three DIS. Two
provide for the new engine-houses Nos. 6
and 20, the combined cost of which Is to
be SSSQOo. and the other for an appropria-
ton of $500 for Light Battery A.. The
bills PASSED.
Chairman Davis of the Railroad Com
mittee. who has been in Europe during the
summer, attended his first meeting yes
terday. He said that he was not in a po-
sition TO say anything about railroad leg
isiatlon at present.
There were nine CounSllmen at the meet
inc Tho n-.nafI aItA,YrNnI ,,~4fJ ~4.f
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. instead of
> because of the Yelled Prophets parade.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-30
WASH DAY ARGUMENT.
IN WEST BELLE PLACE.


" Pc .. -
A controversy about wash day caused
Mrs. Philip Brockmap of No. 421t West
Belle place to be fined $40 in the Dayton
Street Police Court yesterday on COM
plant of Mrs. Charles c. SPHINX of the
same number.
Former Governor Charles p. johnson
prosecuted the case, which was appealed
to the Court of Criminal Correction.
Mrs. Brockman.1ents a second-story fiat
from Mrs. Sphinx and her husband, who
occupy the first floor. The trouble oc-
CURED a week ago last Monday.
Mrs. Sphinx testified that 1t was specified
in the renting of the fiat that she was to
have Monday for her wash day.
On the day in question her ervant In
formed her that Mrs. Brockman's girl
was Stringing her clothes line across that
of Mrs. Sphinx. The latter went into the
ylrd and told the servant not to interiors
with her line. =
Mrs. Brockman then appeared and told
her, girl that she would put up the line
herself.
Mrs. Sphinx stated that Mrs. Brockrnan
called her names and threatened her. She
sent for g. policeman. who advised the
ladies to settle the difference "
themselves.
Mrs. Sphinx appealed to him for protec-
ton. stating she was afraid of Mrs.
Brockman. it was stated. The patrolmal
said he would keep q watch TO see that
nothing would happen. He then departed.
Mrs. Sphinx had a summons issued for
Mrs. Brockman.
The latter denied that she called Mrs
SPHINX names or threatened her. 1t was
her understanding that Monday was to be
her wash day.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-30
MEMBERS OF JAPANESE
COMMISSION ARRIVE.
Imperial Envoy Goes to Washington
and Is Expected to Join Party
Here In n Few Days.

s. Tejima, Imperial Commissioners from
Japan to the Worlds Fair, has arrived in
America and will reach st. Louis within
the next few days. With his suite. he ar
rived at Seattle on the steamer Aki-Maru
on September %, Int proceeded at once to
Washington. D. C., to pay his respects to
the Japanese Minister before coming TO
the Worlds Fair city.
The journey tc Washington was made
by way of Chicago, at which city two
members of the party left tho Commits
sioner and came direct to st. Louis. arriv-
ing here yesterday morning. They are H.
Foukouba, Director of the Imperial Park
at Tokyo. and Kojero Suzuki. representa-
i've OF t. H~ama2uchi, who mas charge or
the teahouse TO be erected on the japanese
site.
Mr.. Foukouba is a nobleman of the
japanese Empire, his father being the
yiscount F~oukouba. He Is one of the lead
ing landscape architects in Japan, and
Will have charge of the gardening work in
connection with the japanese grounds and
national pavilion at the World S Fair.
MeSsrs. Fouhouba and Suzuki visited T.
J. v. Skiff, Director of Exhibits of the
Exposition, at the Administrator building.
fhey informed him that Commissioners Te-
jima would be here in six DAY. Until the
Commissioners arrival they will not visit
President Frances. such a visit beng con-
trary TO japanese etiquette. They will
enter at once, however, upon the work to
which they have been assigned.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-30
CALIFORNIA C0MMISs '1NER
HERE TO AWARD CONTRACT.
j.. A. Ti1cher Promises Large DeIegn-
lions During the Worlds
Fair Period.

J. A.SF1lchar, commissioner from Cali
fornia to the Worlds Fair. arrived in st.
Louis yesterday to let the contract for
his State building. He says California will
send more people to the Exposition han it
has ever sent cut of the State at any
time.
Business and social associations, he said
will come to st. Louis. Many of the lead
ing organizations Of the State have al.
ready commenced preparations to attend.
a monster delegation will be sent by the
Native Sons and Daughters of, the Golden
West, which, with its branches, includes
nearly every native adult of California.
According to Mr.. Filcher. that organiza-
tion will send the biggest excursion that
ever crossed the continent. He is not able
to state the number. but believes that 1t
will be well into the thousands.
Committees have already been formed to
secure transportation and commissary
stores for the trip.
CALIFORNIA; building will be a reproduc-
ton of the old Mission building at Santa
Barbara. Mr.. Pitcher says the States ex-
hibit is progressing satisfactorily. Special
ties will be made in the exhibit of for
estry, horticulture. agriculture, FISH and
game, mines an0 mining ard education.
One of the displays in the forestry de-
partment will be a plank of sugar pine
60 feet long, Il feeI wide ana 4 feet
thick, containing 81 COO feet of lumber. MIR.
Pitcher says but few States Will equal Cal
ifornia in mining and horticulture exhibits.