The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-09-28
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
NEW YoRK Cry. n. Y.

bred and fifth birthday Monday at the
nome OF her niece'S husband, J. w.
Brownlee. of So2 PaliSade avenue West
Hoboken, with whom she lives.
Living the simple life is the reason
she gives for her longevity On arising
she lights pipe filled with choice to-
bacco and smokes. Then she says her
prayers, reads a chapter from the Bible
and has cup of tea and toast She
smokes between meals
As owner of half dozen houses. she
collects rent and walks in making her
rounds. She does not use Il stick or
::rutch. Healthy in body, her mental
faculties are equally strong While her
hearing is slightly affected, her eyeSight
S remarkably good. She has never been
sick, and does not know what it is to
have a physician call on her
Hemmed in by smoke and flame and
seemingly cut off from escape, 81 fam
lilies in the big double decked tenement
house at 22o4 Seventh avenue were
thrown into panic. and but for the
timely arrival and the courage of FIRE
men many probably would have perish
ed. From a 6o-foot ladder raised in
front of the building within a few sec
onds firemen plunged into the second
and third floors, and after the hardest
kind of work in quoting the frightened
| tenants carried them down on the lad
der. Women and children were so ter
ror-Stricken that the firemen had great
dlthculty IN getting them TO the win
dowS. The children refused to go down
the ladders, and the rescucrs had to pick
them up and pass them out, despite their
struggles.
In this weeks issue of the Bulletin.
weekly paper published by ST. Johns
Protestant Episcopal Church of Jersey
City, appears an article from the pen
Of Rev. L. l.. StOddard, rector Of the
church, on st Paul and Hats" in
which he urges women to wear their
hats at all church services He quotes
St. Paul, and says that the glory of
woman her haid, abstracts the attention
of men from the sermon. He says: THE
attraction is personal and physical. which
is precisely what St. Paul objects to
that IS, the display of any personal ply
steal attractions in the church There
fore, feel sure that the congregation of
81. Johns will not need anything more
than this gentle hint"
a general alarm has been sent out
for Clinton B. Fisk, of 10 Central Park,
West, well-known newspaper man. who
has been missing from his home since
last Saturday morning. Mr.. Fisk was
obliged on account OF i'll health some
time ago to go to a sanatorium at River
! crest, L. l., whence he returned to town,
apparently cured, about FIVE weeks ago.
When Frederick Krugal and John
Monahan, mere boys both, were before
Captain Brennan in the East One Hun
bred and Fourth Street Station, the story
OF the strangest thief chase Harlem has
known in long while was told Police.
man Lawlor saw them steal a pocket
book from baby carriage, drew his pis.
tol, and showed its muzzle into Krugars
side
You chase your pal" the policeman
directed, "or I'll blow a hole through
you"
AT One Hundred and Twelfth street
krugal was neck and neck with Mon
ahan.
Grab him." Lawlor shouted, cor III
| shoot"
Krugal grabbed. The next instant
both lads were under arrest.
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Within IS minutes after Maud Will
Iams was arraigned in Adams Street
Court, Brooklyn, on a charge of intoXi-
| cation the charge was dismissed. and
Patrick Hunt, the policeman who arrest
| I'd her, was a prisoner, accused of felony
in beating her with his club and kicking
Ter. Two policemen held her by the
| he IL I
Williams is 20 years old and lives at 736
| Chauncey street Mrs. Hatfield, proba-
ion officer and police matron, took Mrs.
Williams into a room, examined her
thoroughly, reported to the magistrate
that she had never before seen on a wo-
nan prisoner such cruel bruises, which,
'he said, could only have been made
With a club. The magistrate ordered
hat the injuries be photographed at
once. 1t was proved by others that the
woman was not intoxicated.
After being tempered with an old
fashioned spanking prescribed by Re-
>order Stanton, of Hoboken, Frank Led
!ng, aged II years, is expected to wake
up from his love dream. He is in a cell
IN Hoboken police headquarters now, and
| m the detention ward, where she can be
looked after by the matron, is Mabel
Pierce, an attractive girl of 10. They
were arrested in Hudson Square Park
after All elopemcnt and several days Of
wandering. Recorder Stanton said he
thought the best thing for Leding was a
| spanking, and if the youths father would
| administer it the court would permit the
brave but penniless youth to return to
The parental roof. The girl will be sent
| back to her grandfather.
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James Hazen Hyde, recently high in
the councils of the Equitable Life AS
'urance Society, has been thinking Sc
riously of selling the family property at
} and II East Fortieth street. Oil
yer II. P. Belmont, James S. Inglis
and Mrs. Edward II. Perkins own
property on the same block Since the