The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-09-21
NEW YORE As SEEN DAY BY DAY.
NV YORK CITY n. Y.

he oldest penalty for being pretty
heard of in many years is that suffered
by Io-year-old Helen George, of OIL John
son street, Brooklyn, who has been so
'iolently beseiged by score of admir-
srS whom she never saw or heard OF
before that she has been driven i'll by
'neir attentions. For more than 10 days
he girl was unable TO set foot I'm the
street without being logged by one or
more OF the men, who waited for her
dsrkened corners and even camped
all night on her doorstep The fact that
her two brothers thraShed one of her
'uitorS SO severely that he almost need
I'd the services of an ambulance sur
geon, and the arrest of another of the
men by the police seems not 10 have
Ibated the fervor of the remainder. The
nan arrested was Antoine Bardare, 40
Years old. The police believe that some
disappointed sutton has hired a num-
Der OF braves to persecute the girl. De
ectiveS have been detailed to solve the
affair.
AS a crowded Ninth avenue elevated
train reached the fatal curve at Fifty
third street, where the 81" tragedy oc-
CURED on Monday, at the rush hour,
shortly after 9 o'clock, Elizabeth Smith,
an operator for the Western Electric
Company, who lives at II East One
hundred and Twentieth street, began to
scream and cry and to throw herself
about the car i'll the widest Mysteries,
shrieking that she saw the victims of
the disaster in their dying agonies. Her
condition grew more violent and danger
those he e., 10
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
learned 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 suf-
tered ten times the anguish she expert
enced in her escape from among the
dead and dying.
Thomas French, II years old, and 4
student at the High School at East
Orange, N. J., has been arrested by
postotice inspectors charged with send
ing threatening letters TO Valentine Ri
ker,. also of East Orange, an officer of
an insurance company, and with mailing
to Mr. Riker three internal machines.
These contrivances are said to resem-
bic the ones received recently at the
Offices of Jacob II. Schiff and NJ. Gug-
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has always borne a good reputation and
has never been away from home. In
the garnet of his mothers house he had
a workshop, and there. according to adj
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
poStofhce inspectors a 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.
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Historical and typographical circles in
the Borough of Queens were agitated
by rumor that the new plans for lay
ing out streets in the western half of
Jamaica provided for the naming of the
new streets after eminent Japanese sol
diers and sailors. A map of the streets
had been made under the supervision of
Borough President Cassidy. 10 be pre-
iented before the Board of Estimate and
Apportlonment at a public hearing on
September p. 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 foreign
countries.
A neatly dressed woman who regis
.ered at the Hotel Manhattan, Forty
second street and Madison avenue. as
Miss A. w. Widely Washington, ID. c.,
was later found dead in her hoom. She
lad shot herself through the right tenn
pie with a new 81 calibre revolver of
cheap make. On the dressing table lay
plain white card on which was writ
ten with lead pencil in a neat hand /:
This body will be called for A. W.
W." Miss A. w. Wildey or Wilday is
unknown in Washington so far as could
be learned The name is not in the di-
rectory 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
ing 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 burglaries, and it is
right. 1t is your own careleSsness; 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
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