The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-11-23
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
NEw YoRK CIrr. N. "

NEW YoRK CRY. N. Y.
Anson Rhelps Stokes, the millionaire
philanthrophist, has announced to the So
ciety of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers that ne mas succeeded in so i'm
proving his floating fort as TO cure its
instability and render it by far the strong
est lighting ship in the world
Mr.. Stokes has christened his new
monster the Ultima. 1t is 20 feet long
100 feet broad, has a displacement of 3o.-
600 tOnS-twice that OF the greatest bat
ueship-has 10000 horsepower. and can
steam, under freed draught, eight and
one-fourth knots an hour II will carry
two !5-inch guns, 10 I2-inch guns and 20
3-lnch guns. Each of the I5-inch guns
VIII weigh I35 tons, or as much as the
famous Io-inch guns on Sandy Hook
Thus equipped, Mr. Stokes SAID. the
Ultima could destroy any battleshio in
the world before the latter could get
close enough to bring her own guns in
range.
AS result OF racing, an empty train
on the Second Avenue "L." ran into an
other train at One Hundredth Street and
Second Avenue, and several persons were
injured. Henry Copell. motorman of
the empty train, was crushed between the
cars and taken to the Harlem Hospital
with compound fracture of the right
leg and internal injuries. The race was
between the empty train and i south
bound train carrying passengers. Only
few weeks ago a similar accident oc-
CURED on the Third Avenue Line aear
was also caused by an empty train racing
between stations with one carrying pas
scngers.
Captain Mark Z. f. Kerr, of the Brit
iSh flagship Drake, has sent a letter to
Commissioner McAdoo complaining of
the conduct Of the police on board his
ship. The brakes officers said yester-
day that the police infested every part
If the ship and irterferred with the
routine work, and that a number OF
them were found drunk on board in the
early hours OF the morning after the
Princes ball.
William Waldorf Astor. OF London,
formerly of New York, is going to build
the largest and finest apartment house
IN this city and probably in the world.
Il Will cover the entire block from
Broadway way TO West End avenue, be-
tween Seventy-eithth and Seventy-ninth
Streets-in all, twenty lots Plans for
this big structure were filed with the
Tenement House Department The cost
OF construction is estimated by the ar
| chitects, Clinton & Russell, of No. 81
Nassau Street. 10 be $3oooooo and the
land is worth $I,5oo,ooo. The building
VIII be OF eleven stories, ten 10 be for.
apartments, divided into suites of from
| three to fourteen rooms. and the top for
servants quarters and laundries. There
will be accommodations for eleven fam
/ lies on each floor. Including a number
of ventilation courts, the house will have
a frontage on the open air equal 10 seven
city blocks, which is double the amount
required under the provisions of the
/ the Tenement House Act 1t will be an
apartment house, pure and simple, as
each suite has separate kitchen and
dining room
/ Henry Arthur Jones. the English
dramatist, who has been in this country
yhree or four weeks, sailed for England
TO rehearSe his new play. which James
| WEIGH will produce at Terry's Theatre,
| London Mr.. Jones will return TO this
country in April, when he will deliver
lectures on the drama at Harvard, Yale
and Columbia Universities.
Four detectives were attacked while
raiding a disorderly house in Twenty
fourth street by three savage bulldogs
and in trying 10 kill the bruteS one OF
| the detectives shot a negress iii the head
wounding her seriously. Panic reigned
1 among the raiders and the inmates Of
The house as soon as the dogs were let
loose. Several women narrowly escaped
bting shot during the fusillade OF bull
lets that were fred at the dogs. One OF
the beasts was killed by bullet, and al
ter a desperate battle the other two were
| beaten senSeleSS. The dogs were let
loose by the negresS. acting under instruc
tOnS from her miSVree, who reSorted
to this means 10 put the detectives TO
flight when they rounded up all the in
mates OF the house and placed them I'M
der arrest. The raiders were taken by
surprise by the attack, and in defending
! themselves drew their revolverS and
bazed away in the crowded room where
all the prisoners and their captors were
gathered. The negreSs and one of the
inmates OF the house, who was bitten
by one OF the dogs in the course of the
melee, were taken to a hospital Two
OF the detectives were also bitten.
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DR.. Douglas Hyde, the distinguished
Irish scholar, orator and poet, and presi-
dent of the Gaelic League of Ireland
! arrived on fhe White Star Steamer NJ