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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
A0UEDUCT COMMISSION GOES on
Find . New Job which VIII ProlonE It's
Existence Three Year,.

The Aqueduct Commission has taken an
other lease Of life. Last year when the
Croton aqueduct and the jerome PARK
reservoir were finished Il was thought That
the work Of the commission had come to an
end. But the commission found that the
reservoir system Of the city needed a small
dam at Cross River.
Now the commission, which holds some
very wide powers under the act which
created it. Is to begin the construction OF
another dam at Croton Falls. The con-
tract for the work, was let yesterday. TO
Malloy Bros. for s,02s BIS. This bid
was not the lowest one sent in. Ashbel q.
Vermilyea offered to do the work for S2,Sl7,-
600, but the commissioners found that he
did not own q satisfaotory plant.
In the Cross River dam bidding, Bart
Dunn put In the lowest Offer, but did not
get the award because the board discovered
that he had not the equipment to undertake
the work.
The new Croton Falls dam will, 1t Is esti-
mated, impound about 1000, 900, 1000 gallons
Of water. The Job will take thirty-two
months to complete, according TO the time
fixed In the contract, which means that. the
aoueduct commission will be able to hold on
for at least another three years.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
WOMAN CRUSHED NEEEYATOR
ABsENTMINDEDNEss COSTS MISS
FLETCHER HER LIFE.

Che starts 70 Get Out at wrong Floor In
Tovnsena Ruilding and Boy Drugs Her
I,aek-she Bumps His Arm n Car
yIies Up at Top Speed. striking Hef'
Mlsa Sara A. Fletcher OF 10 West ioist
street was instantly killed yesterday morn
ing by being crushed by an elevator on tho
eighth floor OF the Townsend Buildings OF
Broadway and T~wenty-hfth street. Mhs
Fletcher had q small typewriting once
On the tenth floor OF the building.
MIss Flstcher was IS years old. b LETT
bsr home Yesterday morning carrying some
letters she had just received. When she
entered the elevator she was reading one OF
theee. ,..,
There we're seven persons In the car when
Il started. After the seventh floor only
Miss Fletcher and q young girl were lett.
The latter had the car stopped at tho etshth
floor and got out. Miss Fletcher, stu
reading her letter, started out too, thinking
ahe was at the tenth floor.
joseph Brown, the elevator boy, knowing
where Miss Fletcher wanted 10 30, tried
10 block her exit with his left arm. He was
olutching the power lever with his right
hand. She bumped his arm and he Loaf
his balance. He fell to the left and the
car shot up at full speed. The gate to the
eighth floor was still open. Miss Fletoher's
head struck the top OF the frame n she
was thrown forward.
sItried to turn of the power said Brown
.but Miss Fletcher grabbed the auxiliary
rope and l could not move the lever.
Miss Fletcher's body was crushed be-
tween the floor Of the elevator and the top
Of the door frame. Brown lowered the
car 10 the eighth floor and took the body
out. . DR.. Gochle OF the New York Hospital
said when he came that death had been
instantaneous.
Brown was arrested and taken TO the Ten
derloin police station. He was arraigned
before Magistrate Walsh in the Second Dis
triot court on a charge OF homicide. The
Magistrate remanded him to Coroner
Shrady who, after hearing his statement
and the testimony Of three witnesses, re-
leased Brown in the custody OF William. L..
de Bost Of the Cruikshank Company, which
Ia in charge OF the Townsend Building.
The body OF Miss Fletcher was taken to
the Tenderloin station, and later was re-
moved to the Morgue.
At 8 o'clock last night a man came TO the
Morgue who said he was o nephew OF Miss
Fletcher and lived in Brooklyn. He said he
wanted an undertaken to take charge OF the
body, but left without giving him the order
necessary for the removal OF the body from
the Morgue, and without leaving his name
or address. He said Miss Fletcher had a
brother living in Rutherford, N. j.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
TROUSERS LOST ON HIGHWAY.
Found with Money Intact Nicely Pressed
by steam Roller Police Much Relieved.

Found with Money Intact Nicely Pressed
by steam Roller -Police Much Relieved.
SOUTH ORANGE, Aug. All have lost
my trousers with So in them and I want You
to find them" was the message Marshal
Thomas Mcguire Of South Orange received
over the telephone to-day at police head
quarters.
where are your" asked Mcguire.
SIN in the Village hail. came the re-
sporse.
swell, where do you think you lost your
trousers and who are your queried the
Marshal.
Il am George Keough Of Buffalo. and I
was running q steam roller up Scotland
road. When In front Of the village hall
I missed my trousers" came tn answer. -.
Mcguire detailed q man on the case and
In q while the rousers were found In q
wagon which was being driven along Scot
land road. The driver said he had found
the trousers on the street and had taken
possession Of the money which was IN the
= The point on which the police were
bafled was how on earth keough lost his
trousers ON. the public highway. It then
developed to their relief that Keough was
parbed in overalls, the warm weather
having forced him t. remove his trousers.
They had dropped out Of the steam roller,
which had run over them and nicely pressed
them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
SHE DIDN'T CARE FOR HIM.
30 His Hopes OF Marrying His Landlady
Are blasted.

Policeman Newman Of the Church
street station arrested a man and a woman
ut Washington and Fulton streets Monday
night. The woman was punching and
slapplng the man and between digs telling
him what she thought Of him.
Marry your I'd see myself in a nice fix
II l did. Take that!' and she landed q
side swipe over his right Ear.
In the Tombs oour yesterday morning
she told Magistrate Breen that she was
Mrs. Mary Dewes, 80 years old, Of 81 Allan
ito avenue, Jersey City, proprietor OF a
boarding house. The man gave his name
Is William H. Kephart. 43 years old. He
IL one OF her boarders. He admitted that
he had hoped to become the joint proprietor
OF the boarding house and to make its mis-
tress Mrs. Kephart. but he guessed after
what had happened he would have to call
1t of.
sCall It Off" cried Mrs. Dewes in court,
II guess you'd better. Marry you? Not
II you We're the best man in New York
Discharged, next case said Magistrate
Hreen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
WOMAN WRECKS BEAUTY PARLOR.
Says Operation Spoiled Her Complexion
and DIDN'T Help Her Nose.

SAAo ~ " INV ANoSes
BOSTON, Aug. 21.-"Send an officer down
here quick or our place will be a wreck
Such was the telephone message received
at the Lagrange street police station this
afternoon from q complexion parlor on
Winter street. An officer ives sent to the
scene and found q crowd gathered around
q little woman who was standing In front
OF the door.
Spoil the plaoef. Well, I guess Ill spoil
it. said she. just look at my complexion
nowi And you ought to- have seen It a
month agoi Don't o dare to arrest
mel
After some time she claimed down sui.
ioiently to tell her story. She said she
contracted with the firm about a month
ago for q stipulated sum to remedy lines
in her nose and to give her a new COM
p~lexion; but she discovered to her sorrow,
abe averred, that, instead OF giving a new
complexion, they had injured the she
formerly Possessed, and she was determined
to get satisfaction.
To-day che went into the doctors Office
and proceeded to make a wreck Of the
place. Two employees finally managed to
eject her.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
west Hopoken Butcher Missing.

John J. Hobub, % years old, proprietor
Of o butchers shop at sl2 Summit avenue,
West Hoboken, disappeared from his home
i've days ago and the police are making
an investigation in the fear that he has met
With foul play. Hobub, who is an Austrian
by birth. purchased the store only. recently
Last Thursday night, after putting the days
receipts In his pocket and closing up the
store, he told his ass stant to be on hand
OF $40 the following morning to accompany
him to the market in New York. He has
not been seen since.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
PLAYED WITH DETONATOR.
children Injured by Explosive which The,
Found In Garbage Heap.

Children Injured by Explosive which They
Found In Garbage Heap.
while playing on the garbage heaps at
Fifteenth street and Jersey avenue. Jersey
City, yesterday, children found q railroad
detonator. Not knowing that 1t was filled
with an explosive the boys and girls tossed
IL about In playing O game OF .catoh.'
Suddenly the decorator exploded and three
Of the children were painfully hnyt by
Mary Gowan, 1 years old, sisters, living at
GAS Fifteenth street, were wounded about
The head and shoulders. Daniel Sullivan,
IL wears old, Of 24s Fifteenth street, was
cut on the left leg.
The wounds Of the. children we're dressed
at At. Francois Hospital. The Laokawanna
Railroad tracks are within a block Of the
scene Of the explosion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
AGED WOMAN DEAD IN YARD,
Bones Broken by Fail From Room in lsa-
bella Heimath.

Mrs. Bertha Almroth. 70 years old, who
had been an inmate in the Isabella Heimath
at 1sOth street and Amsterdam avenue
for eight years, was found dead In the yard
Of the institution at s o'clock yesterday
morning by one Of the ~watohmen. DR..
Rainey, the house physician. examined
the woman's body. and found that a num-
The woman was In the habit OF going
from her room on the first floor TO- window
on the third floor, where she sat In a rock.
ing chair taking the fresh air. Some Of
the attendants in the home said that they
did not see how she could have fallen out
that the oma jumped out Of the window
while suffering from the heat. She had Q
sister Mrs. Heoht, at Gil East 164th street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
Fraud Voters PardOnrd,

ALBANY, Aug. 2l.-At the request II JUS
tioe Davy and Attorney-Generai Mayer.
who took part in their trials, Cos. iilEg'ns
has pardoned Thomas McCebr an mar
tholomew Wallace, convicted Of VI lIths
the election law at the MayoralN lection
in New York city last fall. Mct}tn. " ierIa
would have expired next month am "hia.s
IL serving an indeterminate sentence ID ""
Elmira Reformatory
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
CHARGED WITH THEFT HERE.
Bookkeeper Who Disappeared Last No
yember Arrested In Worcester.

vember Arrested In worcester.
WORCESTER. Mass, Aug. 2i.-Deteotive
Sergeant John Leonard OF New York to-
night arrested Frederick P. Willard, for.
merly Of New York, on a charge Of grand
larceny. The charge is made by A. Solo
mon OF A. Solomon 4 Co., Of A Harrison
street, New York city, for whom Willard
worked as head b~ookkeePer for two years
and a half until he disappeared suddenly
last November.
His disappearance led to an inspection Of
his books. According to Solomon, who is
here tonight, Wizards populations reach a
considerable sum.
Willard took his arrest CALMLY. He said
he would waive extradition and 60 to New
York tomorrow morning.
The technical charge In the warrant IL
the theft OF $500 last November, which
willard was supposed to have deposited in q
bank. Willard Is 80 years old and married.
In March last he opened a large grocery
house which didn't continue long.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
POLICE HEAD ACCUSES HIMSELF.
Park Patr oiman Reported Him for Speed
Ing an Auto.

pfTrssuRo. Aug. 2l.-Superintendent Of
Police Thomas McQuaide is preparing an
information against himself and Director
Of Public Safety Frank Ridgeway and Fire
Chief Miles Humphreys for auto speeding.
Humphreys was new In Q machine
before Mceuaide and Ridgeway took him
out last evening. He says they travelled
100 miles an hour. McQuaide says they
went 20.
Anyhow; a park policeman saw them
and, not recognizing them, turned In their
when be learned whom he reported.
The swiftest thing Chief Humphreys is
used to 10 the apparatus going to a fire. He
never wants another ride in an automobile.
He declares he is willing to pay q fine for
made on Beechwood boulevard, which
Is recognized as a sort Of speedway. and
they speeded.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
OLD MAN KNOCKED DOWN.
Waterman Wilson struck by Wagon Driven
By Lad.

W N8us
Tom Wilson, 70 years old, who has been
the Waterman on the pier at the foot Of
Morris street for nearly forty years, was
knocked down and severely bruised last
night at Park row and Ann street by q
horse and wagon.
The old man was crossing the street on
his way to work when the shaft Of the wagon
struck him a glanoing blow, throwing him
onto the sidewalk in front Of the st. Paul
Building. The driver, who, according to
pulled up his horse in front Of the Post
Ofioe, jumped TO the street and ran away.
The wagon was loaded with packages con
tanning drugs.
An ambulance took the old man to the
Hudson street hospital. The horse and
wagon were taken around to the Oak street
police station, where they were claimed later
by A. r. Lowden, the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
Three smothered to Death by Gas.

PrrTsBURo, Aug. 21.-Three men were
smothered to death and eleven others wero
overcome by gas at the Eliha furnace Of tho
Jones A Laughlip Steel Company this
morning. The men we're caught by en- ex-
plosion which preceded a puff Of gas.
The accident, n common at blast fur-
naces, was due TO o Ahang' In che furnace.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
RAID DANNY THE DUDE.
Tenderiotn Police Go In on Inform alton
From Southerner.

The Waldorf. Astoria Social Club at 81
West Twenty eighth srteet. sometime
known as Danny the Dudes Place." was
raided yesterday afternoon by the police
OF the Tenderloin station. A man who said
that he was Hanley @. Reean Of Louisville.
KY, told the police that he had lost 900 In
the place playing roulette and $40 more on
horse races.
have any trouble In getting into the place.
They found fifty men In there and arrested
three, John Saunders Of s04 West Twenty
eighth street. whom they charged with
running the place, and two others 90 hih
assistants,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
ZEN BUTTERWORTH'S SON TO RUN

Yale Man Ann0unces IDS Candldacy TOT
Once in new iiavyn.
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 21.-Frdnk 9. Butter
worth, the onoe famous Yale fullbaok,
has announced his candidacy for the Repub.
lican nomination for Senator from the
Eighth district OF this city.
Don't say that my friends have urged
ne to accept the nomination. he said
to-day. Il have always been ambitious
for q public career and will seek the nomina.
tion.' B~utterworth IL q son of former
Congressman Ben Butterworth of Ohio.
and ls In business In this city.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
STOLE FROM AN AMBULANCE.
Thief Almost Got Away with Two Blank.
cts, but Was Caught.

John F.. Cannon, 81 years old, Of II Spring
street. was q prisoner In the Essex Market
police court yesterday en- the complaint
Of DR.. Mason Of Gouverneur Hospital.
On a hurry call to OF Second avenue early
In the morning DR.. Mason and Billy Fields,
the driver, were engaged in attending to
the patient when they saw q man walking
away with a pair Ct blankets from tue
stretoher. Fields gave chase and the fellow
In trying to get away from him ran plumb
into Policeman Boo rum coming around q
corner. He was arrested after 6 har,. fght.
Magistrate Wahle held the prisoner In $500
bail for trial.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
REMEMBERS HE WAS THERE.
Man Accused or Robbery Forgot At First
He Was on the Scene.

Antonio Lupo, captain Of a Sow moorod
at the foot OF East SiItisth street, appeared
In the Yorkville police court yesterday
against Bernard Page. q truck driver Of
1000 First avenue, who, Lupo said, was n
OF three men who came aboard the sooy
last Saturday night when he was there
alone, and after punching him took q gold
watch, 90 in money, and some clothing.
the whole loss amounting to Is.
Page denied knowing anything ABOUT It
asked him II he was ready for an examina.
ton, he eaid, sJudge, I'D rather wait until
they get them other two fellows that was
The case was adjourned until Friday
afternoon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
BOYS ARMED WITH DYNAMITE.
Dime Novel Reader Say They Intended to
Blow UP . Hotel.

Dime Novel Readers Say 1hey Intehueu 70
BLOW Up = Hotel.
Edward Murray, IA years Of age; Of 1872
Fifth avenue, and Adolphe Shape; 10
years old, Of 1853 West l22d street, Man
haitian; we're arrested by Police Sergeant
O'Brien OF Edgewater, N. j., yesterday as
suspicious characters. When searched they
were found to be In possession Of a stick
Of dynamite, q pistol, two razors, % and an
they oheerfully confessed they had in
tended to use in robbing the Pleasant Valley
Hotel.
On request Of the New York police, who
we're notified Of the arrest, Recorder Fitz-
gerald held the boys for .requisition, on
OF several hundred dollars worth Of waltz
ebles from q fat In Harlem.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
Annual Conference OF New York state
Librarians.

The annual conference Of the New York
St to Library Associate known as library
week will be held this year at Twilight
Park in the Ca tskills at tn. usual time, the
last week In September. Librarians from
many Sta ties will attend.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
NECKwEAR WORKERS TO MOVE.

Escape Girl Strikers.
The persistenoy Of several hundred pretty
neckwear girls In keeping up q strike for
union conditions and wages has led a num-
ber Of East Side employers affected by the
strike to resolve to move their plants 70
Brownsville. Special guards have already
had come pretty lively scufles with the
girl strikers.
. Members Of the girls strike committee
Yesterday issued an appeal asking all neck
wear girls not to take the places OF strikers
at Brownsville.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-22
s333ee
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via the Chicago, Union Pacific & North
Western Line from September 18th to
October 31st inclusive, to San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Tacoma,
Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver.
In addition to the reduced cost Of this trip,
We offer you the excellent tourist car service
Of the Los Angeles Limited-one Of the worlds
greatest trains, and of the China & Japan
Fast Maii-a thoroughly modern equipment.
Daily and personally conducted excursions.
Double berth only $7o'. Choice Of routes.
Q. 4. HUTCHINSON, Manager Tourist Dept.
Zf2 Clark St., ChscaUo, III.
The Washington times., 1906-12-30
Coupon-Clipper's Breakfast.

We wiz look over Hts shoulder at the
breakfast table and soc what me selects
from the long bin of fare, which the
waiter places before him as soon as
he is seated with such a last to se-
Ioct from. it is hard TO decide what 10
order In The way of fruits there
are Tokay grapes. baked apples which
are very tempting, luscious oranges
oh yes, here's what he Is especially
fond Of. grape fruit. lie is feeling
quite hungry, as he usually is in the
morning, and tells the waiter that he
thinks he can get outside OF h whole
one First dish. so cents. While he is
eating his graIe fruit, we VIII look
over the bin of fare
My, how they cnarEc.' YOU say.
"ThUry-nyc cents Tor cream toast and
twenty-five cents for oatmeal is out
Iuurous. les. il does seem pretty
steep. but YOU must rem. mb,r-but,
wait Dice is going to give another or
der. Let Us see what 90 VIII be,
Walter he says, "hriuz me some
quail. mullins. and Eur-Ie-DuC cur
rant preserves. and Julicunc potatoes.
and bring me couc, with whipped
cream, lots of whipped cream. IL
there S anything / like its coffee with
whipped cream for breakfast"
Now. lets count up his bin over the
walters shoulder and see what the
damage is. Two seventy -fve, the
waiter makes IL.
THAT must DE wrong" you say.
well, let's seei the quasi was a dol
Iar-eNDeusive, you know, but worth
the price The bar Ic Due preserves
are imported, You know. a due Ie bar
gu each tumbler of them. and they are
90 cents a dish. And coffee with whip
ped cream is - cents. The waiter gets
IT. quarter which is left from the s..
and SD our rich friends breakfast has
cost him So
The Washington times., 1906-12-30
Have Fgual Start.

We will say that both of these men
are descended from equally honest,
honorable, and prosperous parents.
that both were brought up in the coun-
Try. and are blessed with equally
strong bodies and healthy constitu-
tions. and that both have had the
same amount of public school educa-
ton. Both men left the farm in their
early manhood filled with noble am
bitiOns for the future and determined
20 reach the goal OF their dreams. one
man learned the trade OF bricklayer,
and dreamed of the day when hc
would own rows of houses of his own.
The other man secured "a position as an
Office boy with a large constructing
concern and dreamed of the day when
he would be It's head But the first
mans path TO success was blocked by
expensive doctors bills, with labor
strikes which threw him out of work
often for months at a time. and with
slight MISUNDERSTANDING with his var
ious employers who die not appre-
ciHte the sterling qualities of the man
hidden beneath his burly exterior. The
other man did not do his work any
better or any more faithfully than
the poor brickIIycr. but he was never
out OF work, because some of his fell
low-employes We're dissatisfied with
their hours OF thDir pay he did no-
require a doctors services more than
once or twice iU twenty-five years.
and his employ crs soon recognized i'm
the new Office hoy a person whom they
could promota. auu SO dee went rapidly
up, step by step. until he was finally
elected president of the corporation.
The Washington times., 1906-12-30
Dinner for SIG.

Do is nearly o O'Clock before OR cor
uoratiou president enters the dining
room. 70 has been nearly seven hours
since lc has had anything Go eat. and
ne has not been Idle in the meantime
it took a great deal Of patience and Of
IhOUGHJrW argument ON his past 80
bring several men who had dealings
with him that afternoon. over to his
way of thinking. auC il was tirCsoms
work. lie I- therefore. prepared Co
sat q good substantial dinner. lie feels
first Ihe need OF Martini cocktail 90
whet his appetite. Then come oysters.
LynnEavens. Waieh are 30 cents. and
with thcm the waiter brings on the
celery and tine stuffed olives After
the oysters comes green turtle soup.
and this is "A luxury which costs %
cents. For the next the FISH course.
he has terrapIn, az IHc rate OF g. per
plate. and Tor the regular dinner
course cauEasbask duck at g "a plate
with French asparagus and French
peas. squash and mushrooms .u cream
as the vegetables His dessert consists
OF tutU frutu ice cream. which is 60
cents. and assorted little cakes. and
Hc finishes his dinner with camembart
cheese and cafe turc. With his dinner
Doe has had "a pint OF oh8mragne and
later a. bottle of white rock water.
and with such dinner cordial also
is needed 20 fiji ont the bill which
amounts a. SI6.r. The waiter is si.an
to" so bills. and i- allowed ta keen
'he 20 cents small change. The three