Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
JUDGE RISKS
LIFE FOR BOY
STEERS AUTOMOBILE INTO A
TELEGRAPH POLE
Wholesale Slaughter by Ammonia.
Congressman "Tlm" Sullivan Will
Not Leave the Bowery-Wster
From the catskills
specIal to The Herald.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-With his head
in bandages. Magistrate Higginbotham
sat in the Lee avenue police court,
Brooklyn, today, dsposng of police
cases. A few minutes before he went
on the bench he was the victim of an
automobile accident and had narrow
escape from serious injury. The mag
istrate was on has way from the Gates
avenue police court to the Lee avenue
court in his automobile, with Agent
Meyers of the Brooklyn Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Just as he turned into Lee avenue
from Nostrand he came UP behind
truck on which two small boys were
stealing a ride. At this moment the
driver turned around and with his
whip drove the boys from the truck.
George Colberg, 6 years old, dropped
in front of the magistrates autOno-
bile. Without an iistants hesitation
the Judge steered the machine into a
telegraph pole, saving the lads life,
but the magistrate and the agent were
thrown out. one of the front wheels
grazed the boy, who escaped with few
bruises. The magistrate received
severe cash on the head, while Meyer
suffered simply from shock.
Asphyxiated by Ammonia
Compressed ammonia escaping from
leak the size Of lead pencil in
refrigerator plant threw West WASH
ington market into a panic this morn
ing, asphyxiating about $500 chickens,
killed fifteen cats and FIVE dogs, and
gave the crew of the fireboat McClel-
Ian a two hours struggle. Trailing
from the refrigerator in the stall of
Brown & Bingham, beef dealers, the
ammonia spread along the alleyways
of the market like snowladen mist.
penetrating every nook and Granny,
driving stall CIorlrq M
writer's before It, 1t spread over the
floor to a height of five feet and rolled
down the alleys until every living thing
which 1t enveloped was either dead or
had fled or been carried to the outer
atmosphere.
Frank Van Gerrell, a saloon keeper,
closed his doors against the fumes and
attempted to stand the siege but was
finally dragged out by flremen wearing
compressed air helmets. He was re-
suscitated after much difficulty.
"Big Tim" Will Stay
For time today the Bowery was
stunned by report that Congressman
Timothy B. Sullivan had bought a
house on the upper west side, contain
ing seven sleeping rooms, circular
dining room and a library with book
cases built into the walls, but the Sui
livans say the report that big Tim"
Is lo ledNe the 6oWery is a campaign
lie.
what would Tim be doing with
house on Riverside drive?" asked Mike
Lyons. He'd never get home"
The congressman could not be found
around his usual haunts on the Bowery,
but Alderman Little Tim" Sullivan
heatedly denied the story that the "big
fellow" would desert the Bowery.
"He was born down here" said Little
Tim" with tears in his eyes, land he's
going to die here-when his time comes
to die. You might as well think he was
going to move to Jersey"
Known as cupids
Out-of-town visitors to city hall are
often heard to comment on the group of
loiterers about its front doors. With ap-
parently nothing to do, sitting a-tilt in
wide-armed chairs, or leaning at vari-
GUS angles against the wall, smoking
and only moving from their lounging
places to spit with varying success at n
distant cuspidor, these gentlemen of
leisure" offer striking contrast to the
hurry yscurry of the crowds outside.
Yet these men are not exactly idle.
They have purpose in lettering about
the corridor, and by those who know
them best they are called "Cupids."
Although not dressed in the light
marching costume of their mythology
cal namesake, nevertheless they are
Just as quick to act when the time
comes. These apparent loungers make
a business of arranging for the numer-
Gus civil marriages that are held in the
city hail. and they take as fat tips as
they can get for bringing in an alder
man to perform the ceremony. They
know that man just about to be mar
ried is likely to give away money
freely They do not shoot their VIC
Tins through the heart, but through the
pocketbook
Water From CatskIlIs
Plans for tapping the Catskill noun
tain watershed for an increased supply
of 500, 100000 gallons daily at an ex-
pense of $161 .000 900 to the city of New
York were formally approved by the
board of estimate today. Corporation
Counsel Delaney was instructed to pc
itition at once the state water COM
mission for its consent to the execution
of the project.
Briefly, the plan involves tapping the
Esopus, Rondout, Schoharie and Cats
kill watersheds and bringing the water
by aqueduct to New York. A great res
ervoir is proposed in the Esopus terri
tory to be known as the Ashokan reser-
voir, with two other distributing reser-
voirs in the present Croton district
One of these will be at Hill View and
the other at Kensico. A filtration plant
will be installed near Scarsdale. The
aqueduct will pass under the Hudson
river near New Hamburg, and will be
140 miles long, constituting the longest
and largest water conduit ever COM
structed.
Tutored to Steal
Charged with teaching a 9-year-old
boy to become pickpocket, Nicholas
Thomas, known to the police as "Nick
the Blond" 10 years old, of 154 For
syth street, was held in $1,000 bail for
further examination by Magistrate
Whitman in Essex Market police court
yesterday, and George Gordon was held
in $1,000 bail on the same charge last
Saturday, but was discharged yester-
day. as the evidence was not sufficient
to hold him.
Benjamin zirren of SO4 Fifth street
tells the police that for the last six
months Gordon and Thomas have been
teaching him to become a pickpocket.
He was first tried out in Houston
street, he says and was then taken to
Boston, where he was arrested. When
) he was arraigned in court he says that