The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-05
CITY FIREWORKS KILL TWO
bOhB THtT DIDN'T Explode
FELL ON HOutN'S HEiD.
shr WaS watching RNersLIe show From
boaI dtub House Ca Newark burst
tnG Mortar Felled the Man who Mas
Te ding u-Ftres and Hurts Fewer.

woman Was kllled a. result VI the
city fireworks display m Manhattan
ast night. \ bomb weighing about five
shot into the aIr 1t came down Oh the
head III Miss sophia Glese who was watch
Ing the show along the Riverside Drive
extension between lt5th and i4sih streets
Miss Geese was 10 years old and worked
as clerk IA a bakery She lived at so.
West i6ist street The bomb struck her
sauarely on the head and those beside her
knew nothing about the accident until
the bomb rolled to the ground near them
They looked and saw the girl apparently
lfeless. with blood strea ming from her
head.
The accident occurred at the boathouse
Of the New York Motor Boat Club at the
foot Of West is7th street On the club
platform were Mas GIess and Frank
B,eualL OF NJ EIghth avenue who was
Ntting beside her Near by were Charles
J BuckrIdge OF us Tenth avenue and his
sister. Nellie. Of 1909 Amsterdam avenue
DR. Henry ID Pratt of 600 West la5th
street. the fleet surgeon OF the boat club.
was also on the platform
Half dozen other persons were in the
neighborhood Of >the clubhouse. hut
nearly every one connected with the club
had gone up on Riversids Drive because
the display could he ssen bet,er there.
When the un.Nploded bomb rolled onto
the platform and the wounded girl sat
still DR. Pratt rushed over and felt 81 her
pubs" There WASH sign Of life Word
Mas islephon.d to the police that woman
had Teen killed by bomb
capt krru-chsr and fifteen policemen
hurried down When the captain found
what had happened he sent a detecriv.
up 'n the scene II the fireworks display
30 try 10 ind the person responsible fot
setting N the uneNploded bomb II was
about tWelv" inches high and four inches
vide II was made ~ heavy paper
Harry Warden. the superintendent for
h" Pam company. who had charg. Of the
display az lgsth street. had thre~ men
assisting him. and the display bombs
we're st Of three AZ a time He said h.
dldn know that one % the bombs failed
10 explode until a policeman told him the
Young woman had b~en killed.
4 bomb meant 90 produce a Halley's
comet IN the municipal fireworks dis
play IN Vest SIDE Park. Newark. went
wrong last night and killed the man who
" ~ trying IN set u ~ Antonio HI Maldp
~ ?aS Third avenue. Brooklyn. an en-
rloy-e - John Service 4 Bros fire~ orkS
at 1872 BOYD street. Jersey
CITY. was the victim Tho Services had
oH4rE" e the celebration. which was paid
fo- ry the city ~ Newark
~ Maldo took the bomb from the place
where they were storing tho firaN ork-
m We-' side PARK walked toward the
three foot pipe which served az the NOR
tar for the discharge u the bomh and
dropped u m The HALEY = comet bomb
= particularly forcefIl piece ~ fra
works The bomb ordinarily rises 20 a
great height and then eNplodes letting
hy great stresner Of yellow fire
When IN Maldo dropped the bomb into
III" mortar "A spark inside touched "a .
~" EXPLOSIVE" and the thing went on with /
such force that a twenty inch strip Of pipe
was driven through ID Maldo's hodv
An Italian PRIEST who was among the 4
81 ectators ran ont and administered The
last rltes ~ Maldo died almost as soon !
AZ they got him to the City Hospital
Another large splinter - the mortar
missed party OF spectator /
In" show WAS given up a. soon as ~ was ,
realized what had happened
Thew -iId at the hospitals that yester- /
,rttasast E,ttr.b ,ha,- $1,000.
tered \ good many minor INJURIES wer. /
trea;"d ~ the dspensarles and reception
WI rCLs but the ambulanCss respond .
Ia only siN Fourth 81 July calls
The hooks ~ the hospitals IN Man.
IA Att ia showed total of ninety seven .
acc t'nrs walk IN cases tho surgeons /
~ led them
Compared 20 last years record IN
Manhattan and The Bronx Of Il3 fires and .
ihIrty-nIne persons treated 10y ambulance
sur gsons, yesterdays was tame From
until lat, last night thers were
ffty-two fro alarms That ~ a little
above the average for an ordinary summer
lay. but u does not compete with "A cold
winter day when heaters ars running fun
blast Non" Of the fires was said To l.,
iue u the Fourth and mono of them did
much damags.
In all the police courts the comparative
.carcity ~ prisoners charged with an.
awful ,se 81 firearms was noted Care.
ess shooters who had hurt somebody by
sing ball cartridges instead Of blanks
we're also few.
Fifteen revolver shooters were hnad
40 the mis- ht court about u sixth Of the
lumber arrested a year ago. Two were
iald for Special SESSIONS because they
hot blank cartridges IN the streets
others who amused themselves that way
y thor own houses or from the windows
ere let on ChinAmAn. Jeremiah
ng. OF "a Bescker street. ives taken to
'ourt for selling frecrackSrz and vas
discharged.
Brooklyn hospitals reported a total Of
10 Fourth Of July cases. most 81 them Of
mild sort. Only ton persons had IN stay
u the hospitals. Fred James 81 6A3 Prssi-
lent street got a stray bullet behind his
cit ear at the municipal fireworks show At
v Arlington Park and was taken 20 S.nev
Hospital. He Was reported To be in
.ari,tla condition The free IN BrookIvn