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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
LOCKS FAIR ARTIST
IN Her STUDIO
Man Insists That She Marry
Him She Consents Then
Has Him Arrested

HAMMOND. Ind, Nov. 5. = Linden
Erwin, organizer for the Order of Pa
triarchs, was arrested this afternoon
and held under heavy bonds to keep the
peace upon complaint of Mrs. Eottie
Johnson, an artist, who conducts. a
studios here. In making his rounds Err
win dropped into the studio and beheld,
had ever seen. Mrs. johnson is very
pretty, but in Erwin's case it amounted
to mad infatuation. As soon as he
could get his breath he asked her to
marry him.
Good afternoon" said Mrs. johnson,
pleasantly, you are excused
Now, / meant It, / never was more
in earnest in my life; you must marry
me-" insisted Erwin
Mrs. Johnson became alarmed, and
attempted to summon help, but Erwin
locked the door and besieged her for
four hours. She finally signed an
agreement to marry him before Thanks
giving and Erwin departed. As soon as
she could get out Mrs. Johnson notified
the police and Erwin was arrested.
When arraigned before Judge Nc
Mafon, Erwin admitted that he had al
ready opened negotiations with a min
lister and intended to force matters
His only defense was that the singular
beauty of the woman fascinated him
and he was distracted thereby. Per-
sons who heard the evidence believe
the man will persist until he captures
Mrs. Johnson or lands in prison.
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mitted to stick. A great many occupants
of the room, of course, escaped with only
minor accidents or misfortunes, and "a
small proportion escaped altogether. But
the hoodoo was there, and there with
both feet. ss..
AT the end of the fourth year of my
stay with the house an empioye who had
been discharged for insubordination gave
1t away to the Philadelphia newspapers
that the long string of queer occurrences
in the hotel had taken place in the 13
room, and they made so much of it that
the house was seriously damaged in it's
prestige for some time. But right in the
face Of this the old man refused to abaf-'
don the 13 room.
He died short time afterward, how
ever, and the heirs of his estate were
very willing that the 13 figure should be
taken down from that room door onee.
and forever. and that it should hence-
forth be designated as Parlor A
Il was with the house for five years
after that. Nothing unusual ever hap
pened in Parlor A -
1.-The answer? don't know. There Is
nothing else In life or death with regard
to which, so far as 1 know, have a
particle sof superstition. But When it
comes to the 13 thing know, for 1 have
been through it, =
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
LITTLEST HOUSE
in ALL NEW YORK
1t Is Being Built on Tiny Wedge of
Ground on Upper Broadway

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-The littlest
house in New York has taken root and
is rapidly growing on the east side of
Broadway-the boulevard-just below
Sixty-fourth street. There NAV pos
sibiy be a timer wooden shanty some
where on Manhattan island, but this is
no shanty; it's a real, sure-enouph
modern, steel skeleton, brick and stone
alre proof construction, modern New
York house.
The httlest house occupies tinv
plot of ground that faces Broadway for
hffie more than twenty feet. runs
back eighteen feet on the north sid,l
skews along -diagonaiiy on the east
side for twenty-five feet and ,terrf,i-
mates at the south side in a LITTLE
chunk hardly more than three ffef
across. The ground plan of the house
Is very much like a blunt wedge.
The building is going to be two
stories high 1t will be hardly big
enough to turn around in. Many of
the neighbors say it is going to be a
spite house, that the man building il
is angry because he could not sell his
little wedge, of ground for more than
$25,O00. and that he hopes with his
littlest house to compel his neighbor
to buy him out with $4,000 or $50. goo.
Unfortunately for these pretty theo-
ries. there is no other big or substan-
uai building near the littlest house.
L. j.. Philips & Co., at Seyenty-second
street and Columbus avenue, are the
owners - -
Tt isn't spite house at ali. said .
member of that firm to the World re-
porter We are building, as you can
see, substantial, up-to-date house
Al Is going to be used as stndin"
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
FORTY YEARS old;
HAS NEVER VOTED
Supt. Reynolds Hopes to Have
That Satisfaction This Year
for First Time

KINGSTON, N. Y, Nov. 5.-H. G. Rey-
nolds superintendent of the American
Bridge Co., which is building new bridge
over the Rondeut creek for the West
Shore Railroad company at Wilbur, is 40
years old and will cast his first vote this
year, although he has been trying to
vote since he became of age.
With one exception, until this year Mr..
Reynolds has never lived long enoagh in
one place to acquire legal residence en-
fitIing him to vote at any election. Dur
ing that time he has lived in every state
and territory in the Union except Cali
fornia, Nevada and Arizona. His longest
residence anywhere until this year, with
two exceptions. has not been over six
months. One exception was his residence
I'm one of the Western states several years
ago, when he could have voted on ac-
count of acquiring a legal residence. but
no election of any description occurred
in that state that year.
When he presented himself to the reg
fstration board in the Second district OF
the First ward, Mr.. Reynolds told the in
spectoTs of election that one of his cher
ished ambitions since he became of age
was to vote, and he anticipated with
great deal of pleasure the sensation that
he would experience In caStlng MS nrSe
vote this fall
On election day Mr.. Reynolds will
have been resident of Kingston for thir-
teen months and a resident of New
York state for two years. Up to last
October he was kept moving from one
place to another experimenting the con-
struction of bridges constructed by the
company. In some places he remained
for months.
On one occasion, when in q Western
state some years ago, he was ordered to
a distant part of the United States two
days before election, or he would have
cast his first vote then. Other. expert
ences have been somewhat similar
For years he has taken an active in
terest in politics and has discussed po-
litical issues and candidates with all
classes of men, but not once has he been
able to vote. At times he has seen the
hundreds of men who were working un-
der his supervision walk to the polls and
cast their ballots, while he was deprived
of that pleasure.
That men should not take sufficient
interest in their country to vote, on cleo
tion days seems incredible to Mr.. Rey-
nolds. Perhaps that, is because he has
never been able to vote.
The registration in this city this year
has developed another man who is six.
ty-two years old who never before voted.
He is a, native born citizen of the United
States, but has always neglected the
exercise of his franchise either because
he did not know any of the candidates or.
because election had no special interest
for him until this year.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
LIVES IN FAMILY TOMB
AND SAVES RENT
Rich Man starties Town by Smoke
From His New Abode

HOLDEN, Mass, Nov 5.-Residents
of this quiet little town, startled by
smoke pouring through the ground
from the top of a tomb in the old ceme-
terry, found Pennyman Damon seated
beside a small fire In the center of the
receptacle for the dead IS
Citizens demonstrated with him, only
to be politely told to mind their own
business. Damon said the tomb be-
fonged to his family and he had a right
TO it, seeing as how ther rest 'er my
kin's dead and laid away as he ex-
pressed it He insisted that it was
warm. comfortable. and large enough
and saved paying rent. He is credited
with being wealthy.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06

bed and took enough prussic acid TO
kin twenty women.
The summer business was light
that year, and for three months after
the suicide OF the Altoona girl con-
trived to keep Is vacant. On the very
first day when the fall rush began I
had TO put couple from New York
in Is.
'The man got to the room a trifie
intoxicated that evening. and his wife
upbraided him, She had been doing
some fancy work when he entered the
room, and she had a small pair of
scissors in her hand Angry at being
reproached. the husband made men
acing move toward her.
-She put out her hand that held the
scissors to protect herself from what
she thought would be a blow. The
points of the scissors blade penetrated
her husbands right eye and ruined IL.
"A few years later the mans other
eye, through sympathy with the de-
stroyed one. went wrong and left him
totally blind His wife died OF a broken
heart over what she had done, and the
man is now alone, sightless and fig
ure OF misery.
"All of this time the stubborn old
proprietor OF the house was storming
at anybody who even dared to hint that
the Is room was a hoodoo, and every
TINE any (hllE napptEeQ III the Eooifl
he declared that IL was. a coincidence
well calculated to impress the mind OF
imbeciles, but only coincidence for
all that. He declared that he would
tear the house down before ne would
yield to a beggariy superstition by
taking the number off the 13 room
door.
Three Cases of Smallpox
Il couldn't begin to tell about all of
the wretched occurrences that happen
ed in room 13 of that hotel during the
next four years I may go on record
as saying that perhaps not one out of
five occupants of the room escaped.
Three different cases of smallpox 0c-
CURED in the room. All three OF the
victims died in the Philadelphia pest
house One of them was a wealthy
French Canadian, another banker
from Memphis, and the third a young
woman from Omaha, who was buying
her wedding trousseau in the East
The room had TO be thoroughly fu-
migated and completely refurnished
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
YOUTHFUL "BAD MEN"
"5HOOT UP" SEXTON
"Dance, You Tenderfoot!" They Cried
and Drew Real Guns

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-A wad of lft-
erature sentftIed THE Case of Idaho
Ike" tucked in a pigeonhole of the desk
at the East Sixty-seventh street police
station, is4an eloquent exhibit in the
case of two East side youngsters, Jo-
seph Hrabe and Joseph Kluck, who
met disaster when they, with a gang,
started to play Idaho Ike on East
Seventy second street.
Members of ST.. Johns Catholic
church (Bohemian), on East Seventy
seoonts street, near Second avenue,
whlessepgaged in worship on Friday
evening We're startled by wild whoops
and yells in front of the church. Sam
uel Schefick, the sexton, dashed out
among the s:'bad men, on the church
steps.
.'Wow!" yelled the band. "Hey. fel-
lows" shouted Idaho Ike" .'he's a
tenderfoot. Make him dance"
At the same time the leader and
three of his followers drew revolvers,
according TO the sections story, and
pointed them at him. 4
Dance, you tenderfoot.' Bang went
one of the revolvers. Then the, sex
ton dashed into the church and slam
med the door.
About this time policeman rounded
the corner. In the wake of the fleeing
bandits" he picked UP the story of
iAc anu lodueu ftVOlVef.
Yesterday morning Father Prout, of
ST. Johns. called on Capt. Hogan of
the East Sixty seventh street station.
There's regular Wild West show
going on in front of my church much
of the time," said the priest Last
night they shot at my sexton. You
have got, to stop it,
Detectives brought in Hrabe and
Kiuck, who live at Nos. 30S and 80
East Seventy-f1rst street respectively.
The former is said to have been the
gang leader, and is a respectable Look
Ing yonngster of thirteen. Kluck is
only twelve.
Both boys pleaded with the priest
and the sexton to let them off, but they
We're sent to the Children's society as
suspicious persons.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
ODD THINGS THAT
HAPPEN IN SUBWAY
Yellow Dog Makes Limited Ex-
press Time While Pursued
by a Train


NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Talk about
rapid transit.s said a passenger who
got off local train at, Broadway and
temporary slow periods yesterday aft
ernoon- II have been forty minutes
coming up from the city hail in local
train. an I'd like to see anything make
rapid transit through this tunnels"
Just then there was a scramble to
get out of the way, and down from the
street above, pursued by two guards
and a policeman, came a very scared
yellow dog. His tail projected forward
between his hind legs. typifying terror.
The train started-and so did the
yellow dog. In. escaping from the
guards he leaped off the platform in
tS-rily gaining in speed. going toward
the Grand Central.
'Ur-r-r-r-ri" roared the train.
.K-i-ki, ki-i-i-ld." yelped the dog.
The man who had been talking about
slow trains was in the forward car.
Through the darkness fed the yellow
dog like ghost. An astonished crowd
at the Grand Central gaped as the
noisy phantom sped past into the arms
Of a track walker just beyond the plat
form. He tenderly- picked him up and
carried him UP to the street.
"Oh, / don't knowi" said the pessi-
mist. 'Pll admit 1t is possible to make
rapid transit in this tunnel under GER
tain. conditions. The dog did,"
The police at the north station in
City Hall park discovered a way to
make it impossible for pickpockets to
get their work in among the crowd
waiting to enter the Subway. They
made every one take his place in a
single line stretching out across the
plaza. 1t was tough on the pick
pockets. but one bootblack began at
the entrance end of the line and
blacked nineteen pairs of boots while
the line crept down into the Subway.
= Death to sparrows
x Slap. bang! came something against
the forward panes of the head car of
an express train bound downtown at
Cathedral parkway.
Somebody in the Subway throwing
Stones" said passenger.
No. said guard, English spar
rows. There are lot OF them in the
Subway. They come in at the en-
frances along the boulevard and at
Manhattan street, and the trains drive
the poor things UP and down the ditch
TIL they get ratified and are struck by
can't be helped"
She got aboard a train at Worth
street and found a seat. 1t was her
first ride and she evidently expected to
get home to dinner. The train went
a little distance and stopped. Then 1t
started and stopped again. There was
long wait this time while the people
in the trains ahead chafed and slam
med the windows down. The train be-
gan to move after twenty minutes and
the guard cried out:
Next, Spring i".sas
Goodness graciousi I guess 1t will
be. Shouldn't wonder If 1t was next
autumn," she cried in high piping
soprano.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
ROOM 13 MAKES GOOD
ITS EVIL REPUTATION


ward the thirteen superstition he saw
to it that the Is room was one of the
most desirable in the house.
{. 1.-The head clerk whom 1 displaced
told me about this when went to
work at the hotel.
You needn't ever say anything
about 1t TO the old man-it would make
him boil-but don't give that 1s room
to anybody you know and like, the re-
firing head clerk said to me-
Il took the warning rather gayly.
The room was vacant on the day !
took my new billet. That evening a
bridal couple from Pittsburg came
along. The young man wanted the
best accommodation to be had. of
course.
The 1s room happened to be the
best. and put the pair in that room.
ON the following afternoon. while the
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06

each time, but still the stubborn old
proprietor would go up I'm the air and
all but foam at the mouth at the very
suggestion that the number 13 had any
thing to do with the rooms bad luck.
"A wealthy young Philadelphian, IA
nous as whip and all round sports
man, after having been Tilted by a
Philadelphia girl who is now the wife
Of an Austrian nobleman who black
ems her eyes every little while, came
down to the. house one night. joked
with the night clerk when he was
handed the 1s key, took a drink or two
at the bar, went TO the 13 room, and
was found on the bed with a bullet
hole in his left temple on the following
morning
"a Harrisburg girl who had been re-
fused admission to a sisterhood the
headquarters of which is in Philadel-
phia. on the ground that the veil
wasn't her vocation, drew the Is room
that same, evening and left a call that
would enable her to catch an early
train back to Harrisburg. She changed
and when the boy reached her room
to call her in the morning he smelled
gas and had to climb over the tram
som. She was dead on couch, with
all OF the gas jets turned on full force.
Those Go by ChIoroforn
"a rich Australian and his wife. on
their way TO England. were chloro-
formed in their sleep in that 13 room
by thief. who used a skeleton key TO
gain entrance, and robbed of $4,000 in
cash and jewelry which had not been
deposited In the hotel safe.
"a woman and her little girl who
occupied the room while waiting for a
steamer bound down the coast were
visited there by some young Philadel-
phia relatives. boys, who in entering
the house, smuggled huge mastif in
with them. They got the big dog up
to the Is room, where they were TO
make the call, without being detected
by the hall boys.
ssThe little girl angered the dog by
pulling or twisting his tail, and he jump
ed at her and all but tore her~to pieces
before her mothers eyes before he could
be beaten on by the hotel help.
These are only a few Of the evil oc-.
currences in the Is room of that Phila-
delphia hotel while the number was per-
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
Candidates for the Hospital

The young woman's screams aroused
the entire floor. The chambermaids
found her rolling on the floor in agony.
the hot curling tongs still soaring the
flesh of her back She was rightfully
burned and had to be taken to a hos
pital. a'-
"A week or so after the bride had
been taken to the hospital a couple
from San Francisco. with a two-year-
old boy, came along, late at night, and
the night clerk put them in Is. The
young one swallowed a big brass pin
on the following day. The pin stuck
In the child's throat, and he had to be
operated on by a squad Of Philadelphia
surgeons. They got the pin. out, but
the use OF HIS voice for several years.
i Not long after the first president
of a railroad running into Phsiadel-
phia took the room one night after a
board of directors dinner-his room
at his club being torn up in the process
of refurnishing-ard. having dined
pretty well, he left one OF the gas
went TO bed He was found. black in
the face and all but dead, in the MORN
ing and had TO be hustled off to a
hospital to be brought back to life.
THE 13 room was beginning to get
on my nerves by that time, but there
was nothing could do about il, know
ing, as I did, the old genflemsn's vio-
lent antipathy TO the 13 superstition.
"A few weeks later a wealthy young
woman from Altoona. whose fiance
had died under the knife in Philadel-
phia hospital some months before,
came to town. ostensibly 20 do some
shopping. The Is room was the only
thing ] had fitting her requirements
Il knew nothing of her history then,
and. as she seemed to be a self-con-
tanned young woman, I couldn't figure
out how anything could happen TO her.
/ She spent most of the night in writing
letters. and then she lay down on the
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06
GNn o." said the manager of a high
M grade hotel I'VE have nothing

Il ENU W Sdiu tiIc ifioIietScf VI q Hie
M grade hotel I'VE have nothing
: numbered IS in the shop, not
even bellboy. What do j myself think
of the thirteen superstition? Well.
you've addressed that question 10 a
nom superstitious individual. who, new
ertheless. is victim of prejudice
through experience.
For nine years ] was head clerk of
sone of the leading hotels of Phiiadel-
phia. One of the finest rooms in the
house was room IS. And that room
Is was. seemingly, there to stay.
The proprietor was a shrewd but
very testy business man of Quaker
antecedents. He was violently OPP
posed to all manner of superstitions.
and he was particularly grouchy over
the prevalence of the thirtesn super
stition. To indicate his hostility to-
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-06

bridegroom was out, his bride was
curling her hair. using a gas Jet by
the dresser to heat the curling tongs-
She was crimping her back hair when
the hot curling tongs slipped out Of
her hand and fell under the collar of
her combiDg jacket.
The Washington times., 1904-03-08
ARTHUR REDFERN
IS REINSTATED
Jockey May Ride, But His Father Is
Still Ruled Off-JOckey Man
ayers Nuisances.

Arthur Redfern was reinstated by the
stewards at Los Angeles yesterday, and
the crack little jockey is now sure 10
be seen on the big Eastern tracks this
summer. although action against him In
the West would not have prevented him
from riding in the East.
Redfern's father is still ruled off. and
IS likely TO stay in that lost and IN
done state. Nor is II likely that the
Eastern officials will be any too quick
about letting the father play promi-
nent part around their tracks this sum
mer. The father is one OF the class OF
guardians and managers OF 1OS-eyS VINO
never know when to keep still, but get
the expanded Uranium over the success
OF their charges and try TO run the
whole outfit. Trouble has been created
by men of this class on numerous oc-
casiOns, and the stewards have shown
a constantly growing tendency 10 sum
MARTY put an end To the nuisance Gre
ated by these persons butting in on eV-
cry proposition and interfering between
Jockey and employer.
The Washington times., 1904-03-08
CONFLICT OF DATES
BETWEEN REGAT TAS
American Rowing Association and Har-
lem Regatta Association Both
Want Memorial Day.

Trouble has been kicked up IN rowing
circles by the action OF the American
Rowing Association IN taking Memorial
Day as the date Of its second annual
regatta
This day has for years been the date
OF the regatta Of the Harlem Regatta
Association, and clubs and associations
all over the East have courteQusly re-
Trained from selecting Memorial Day
for inter-city regattas. A strong appeal
has been made by the members Of the
Harlem Regatta Association. which met
IN New York last night, to the oars
men OF Philadelphia 10 disregard the
new association and follow their usual
custom Of taking part in the annual
Harlem regatta.
All OF the Harlem races will be at
one mile on the Speedway course.
The sympathy OF all sportsmen will
be with the Harlem clubs in the protest
against the step OF the American Row
ing Association In jumping their date
The Harlem regattas have become ma
uonal fixtures IN rowing and have done
great deal IN the way OF building up
the sport. not only IN New York. but
IN other cities. Two big regattas may
be better than one. but nothing Is TO be
gained by dividing the forces OF the
oarsmen by conflicting dates
The Washington times., 1904-03-08
Former Champion Was
In Middle of Street
liCeman--BIOCkS Broadway
for While.

dared to dispute his right to tie up the
whole surface system
Even the police seemed to think L
was the proper place for this swaying
colossus to wave his hands until Broad
way looked like = deep canyon with an
unbroken stream of yellow cars flowing
along the bottom like muddy stream.
Delayed the Cars.
Presently the large. stout man con-
cluded that he would board one of the
cars. but he found the iron gates OF
both locked against him. How long the
tie-up on Broadway would have con-
tinued no ore could guess.
The motormen seemed TO be paralyzed
and the police appeared TO be hypnOtized
when q party Of yong women, anxious
to get back to their work after lunch
con. surrounded the swaying figure and
gently pushed it into a Battery bound
car. amid the cheers of the populace.
John L Sullivan looks as fine as
ever. don't he?~ was the remark Of a
policeman as the procession moved on.
The Washington times., 1904-03-08

NEW YORK. March 8-A large, stout
man stood in the middle of New York's
Broadway. near Twenty-arst Street, at
p. m. the other day.
He occupied the space between the
two car tracks, and. what Is more, he
filled it. His twenty-one-inch neck fell
IN billOwy folds over his Undetermined
collar, and the ample cut OF his new
overcoat showed mis- eight feet Of girth
measurement to the best advantage
Firm in Demeanor.
His knees were firmly fixed together.
and his wide-apart feet gave his sway
ing body a broad base within which its
perpendicular always fell.
The severe black Of his garb stamped
him a man in professional life. the
firm set of his jaw and the command
ing glance OF his eye showed him TO be
one accustomed to sway millions.
So commanding was his attitude, so
firm MS demeanor. so strenuous his
rnien that neither the motorman Of the
north-bound nor the south-bound car