The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-08-25
SIDELIGHTS OF new YORK
NEW YoRK Cry. N. Y.

4 HS HSIolslH OI lille SlIi u Y, VIII
grabbed burning flag from the wall
when it threatened to start conf1agra-
| ton, saved a congregation of 5000 per-
sons Sunday who had packed themselves
into the synagogue Beth Hakneseth BIZ
alystok to attend the dedication cere-
monies.
The flag was hanging over the gall
lery seats, and was half consumed be-
fore anyone noticed it, so intent were
all present on the cantor Then a dozen
eyes saw the curling fame.
Police Captain Joseph McGlynn, in
charge of tine reserves, saw it and sign
ed to the choir to sing. He had started
| for the blazing flag, but before he could
| reach it Gertrude Rosenbaum of 10Y
East Eighty-eighth street, had climbed
on a chair and snatched the burning
cloth from the wall
| She burned her hands severely, for
the staff resisted her attempt at first,
but it gave way finally, and she cast the
| flag on the floor, where man stamped
out the fire.
Isaac Ludlow's airship No. S, torn and
bedraggled, is a wreck, but she carried
human freight 100 feet into the air at
the foot of West Seventy-eight street,
and her inventor is happy man, for he
declares that it is the first time in his
tory that an aeroplane has risen from
the ground with man on board. In all
other experiments the inventors leaped
| from high places. In this case the aero
plane was attacked by rope to an au-
tomobile, which at the proper time start
ed full speed ahead, the third attempt
being what the inventor called success
full. Thousands of people witnessed the
experiment.
| After IS years of separation and the
filing of cross suits for divorce, Alois
Suss, 4o4 East Seventy-6fth street, and
| wife have become reconciled because
his physicians have told him that he, at
60 years of age, had only short while
to live. Statutory grounds and cruelty
figured in both suits for divorce. Now
they have been dismissed, the reason
being that Mr.. Suss desires his wife to
have full rights to portion of his es-
tate, on behalf of their daughter.
Loaded with returning tourists, the
Deutschland and Baltic have arrived,
the Deutschland with report of suicide
at sea. Off the Banks Lewis Jansen,
deckhand shipped in Hamburg, APP
parently jumped overheard while the
ship was in heavy easterly gale. 1t
was rumored that he had been logged
and committed suicide for shame, but
that was denied by the officers
In squeaking old cart which re-
sembled the familiar hand-delivery cart
of the corner grocery in Harlem, two
laborers employed at the Custom-house
pushed $1,1oo,32o in gold and gold GER
tihcates from the Custom-house up Wall
street to the Sub-Treasury
That amount represented the intake
of one days business of the New York
Custom-house. The amount taken in
Wednesday was up to the highest rec
ord ever touched. Usually the amount
of money collected at the Custom-house
day by day averages between $4,000
and 100000. About 4 o'clock the days
collections are deposited at the Sub
Treasury, farther up Wall street.
Mr. Charles NJ Schwab was a passen-
ger by the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
H., which sailed for Bremen Wednes-
day. Accompanied by several friends
Mr. Schwab went over in an automo-
bile to the North German Lloyd pier
in Hoboken at o'clock. He went to
his stateroom, and had not again
appeared on deck when at 6 o'clock in
the morning the vessel sailed.
Gunda, the pride of the Bronx Zoo, is
rapidly learning to play the harmonica.
Cunda is an elephant. He takes his mu-
sic lessons daily from Keeper Gleason
and seems to like it. 1t is vehemently
asserted that he has already mastered
the first few bars of 'Tamnany," and
he'll have the song from end to end by
a1act,n, 1ay-s,tra