Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-09-21
NBW YORK As seen DAY BY DAY.
NEW York CRY. N. Y.

! by I9-year-old Helen George, OF 81 John-
son street, Brooklyn, who has been SO
violently beseiged by score of admir-
srs whom she never saw or heard OF
before that she has been driven i'll by
| heir attentions. For more than 10 days
he girl was unable to set loot in the
street without being logged by one or
more of the men, who waited for her
1t darkened corners and even campcd
Ill night on her doorstep. The fact that
ler two brothers thrashed one of her
iuitors SO severely that he almost need
ed the services of an ambulance SUR
! gcon, and the arrest Of another of the
nen by the police seems not to have
,bated the fervor of the remainder, The
nan arrested was Antoine Bardare, 40
years old. The police believe that some
disappointed suitor has hired a num-
Der of braves to persecute the girl. De-
ectves have been detailed to solve the
affair.
As crowded Ninth avenue elevated
train reached the fatal curve at Fifty
third street, where the a. tragedy oc-
CURED on Monday, at the rush hour,
shortly after o'clock, Elizabeth Smith,
an operator for the Western Electric
Company, who lives at u East One
Hundred and Twentieth street, began to
scream and cry and to throw herself
about the car in the widest Mysteries.
shrleking that she saw the victims OF
the disaster in their dying agones. Her
condition grew more violent and dangtr-
Gus, and those on the train failing to
control her, the motorman blew the
police whistle, and at Fifty-ninth street
Policeman Holland boarded the train
and sent her to Roosevelt Hospital
There, in her lucid intervals, it was
earned she had been on the doomed
train on Monday morning, and escaped
from the third car, the one which hung
over the structure and whose trucks fell
into the street, killing those below, She
declared the glimpse of the scene OF
the tragedy had brought the whole hor-
ror of Monday morning back upon her
with uncomfortable force, and she sut-
fered ten times the anguish she expert
cnced in her escape from among the
dead and dying.
Thomas French, u years old, and
student at the High School at East
Orange, N. J., has been arrested by
postoftice inspectors charged with send
ing threatening letters to Valentine XII
ker, also of East Orange, an officer OF
an insurance company, and with mailing
to Mr.. Rikcr three internal machines.
These contrlvanceS are said to resent
bic the ones received recently at the
offices of Jacob H. Schff and NJ. Gug-
genheims Sons in this city The boy
has always borne a good reputation and
has never been away from home. In
the garret of his mothers house he had
workshop, and there, according to ad-
missions he is said to have made to the
officers. he constructed the three ma
chimes which he mailed to Mr.. Riker
The boy, it is also alleged, showed the
postofice inspectors card bearing the
numbers and locations of all the fire
boxes in East Orange, Against some
Of them he had made check marks, and
it is said he admitted that fires had
been rung in on these boxes, and that
| he was fond of fires.
Historical and typographical circles IN
the Borough of Queens were agtated
| by rumor that the new plans tor lay
ing out streets in the western halt OF
Jamaica provided for the naming OF the
new streets after eminent Japanese sol
| iiers and sailors. a map of the streets
had been made under the supervision OF
Borough President Cassidy, to be pre-
sented before the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment at a public hearing on
September 22. Besides naming some OF
the new streets after Togo, Nogi, Oya-
ma Oku and others, several OF the
streets which formerly bore the names
Of American Presidents have been
changed to names adopted from tore,gn
countries.
! A neatly dressed woman who regis
.ered at the Hotel Manhattan, Forty
second street and Madison avenue, as
! Miss A, W. Widey. Washington, ID. w.
was later found dead in her hoom, She
1ad shot herself through the right tenn
Die with a new 81 callbre revolver OF
,heap make. On the dressing table lay
plain white card on which was writ
ten with a lead pencil in a neat hand
This body will be called for. A. W.
w." Miss A. w. Wildey or Wllday is
unknown in Washington so far as could
be learned The name is not in the a.
rcctory and the local police are unable
to locate her.
A burglar with distinctly humorous
vein visited the historic home OF DR..
Joseph Hasbrouck, on North Broadway
! in Dobbs Ferry last week In the din
INC room he left the following note:
Dear Sir-Why the dickens don't YOU
hire man to look after your things
| while YOU are away? | read in the pa
pers the other day that the police blame
the public for all the burglares, and it IS
right. 1t is your own carelcSSnesS; you
can only blame yourself for it. 1t is no
| use to tell the police. Don't bother
! them; they have enough to do already
The second case within two days of
masked man walking into woman's
apartments while she was in bed and
robbng her of diamonds occurred III
Brooklyn. Mrs. Bertha Lazarus of 327
Winona avenue, was awakened by
man, who, after telling her to keep
ouiet. drew $500 diamond ring from
her finger, went through the bureau
drawers, taking her valuables and es-
caoed