The evening world., 1918-06-15

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ON slyecrapers, subways and aeropla
Here are q few Of New York's
sWhoS Who IN the Spirit World"
JGhsx need introduction TO q new gen
uunkion:
Down on Sfe north shore Of staten
nIAand where many a mo old man
nlsu stIn presents It's battered front
90 the poison barring winds from
Constable Hook. stands the Randolph
House II was oufit by John Ran
apsph Of Baton Rouge. La a wealthy
cotton planter who used 10 bring hs
fAuufly North for the summer IN the
days before the Civil War.
V1re protection was a primitive
{ Ming on Staten Island at That time:
[ John Randolph Installed In the yard
10 !fis summer home an old fashioned
hvaartation ben. TO be sounded in
@srgenoy.
On the night Of July IT, 1853, me
IND alarm OF this plantation ben
suusod netghbors for a mile about
chsy came running to ind John Ran
aolpA dead IN his bed. a long bladed
,pouiard through his throat His
inxmdly sold the house The murderer
susver was cnught Randolph's IAN
sstss became listed in the srdsiy roll
- shauntod.-
Not many years ago a European
Immigrant and his large brood moved
. into the tumble-down house. The
bouseholder's aged mother was bed
rlddan and a little childish. She had
I not been long In one OF the high cell
knged chambers when she complained
IN terror OF hearing the sound OF n
ben at nights. Her son n daugh-
ker-in-law laughed at her fears
One night was July p the
s6kmily was roused by terrific scream
ing from the sick woman's room
The beIl-the bell!" she cried In
y folly OF terror and she died In de-
nrium before morning. The family
heard the bell. hat night-a thin.
ghostly tnkling coming now from
/, xha walls, now from beneath the floor.
- Hero is the strange solution OF
Ehat mystery. no less eerie than the
physical hypothesis: A hard headed
policeman from Richmond set a trap
IN that haunted house and caught a
nat, about whose neck was wired n
chiid's sleigh bell.
Who belled the rat-and why7
Now hear the story OF the White
Woman OF Greenwich Street and how
she cursed every Waterman or the
xarehouse at Nos. 1879 on that
Sboroughfare:
"a great many a ago-so the
aAis ms young girl who lived in
4 the hen fashionable house at No. Il
\. Greenwich Street, whose marble pill
lars still can be seen, hanged herself
ertn the attic when word came that
hAr lover had been drowned In the
China Sea Her old home became the
r United States Hotel. then degener-
4 ated into n tenement.
v~ One night In 1916 John Palmer. a
clerk in an expires office located in
tho adjacent warehouse. and Tom
Wbaien, the Waterman for the ware
house, heard a woman's shrek com
fnK from that part OF the warehouse
nearest TO the ancient building al
No, Is. Both passed through a door
into a far, dim chamber n saw q
wrath Of white vanish through the
solid brick wall. Whalen died within
tvv,, weeks.
The next Waterman TO be disturbed
by the White Woman put a ladder
10 a side wall, climbed 1t and peered
through a window whence he hac
seen a pale light issuing. He saw a
..shadowy girl sitting before the din
outlines OF an old walnut dressing
Z fable and oombing her hair. This
I ,vatchman was removed TO Bellevue's
paychopathic ward three weeks later
and died in an asylum, Mclaughlin
vino succeeded him, found an invis'
nile hand throwing stones at him dur
ing his rounds of the dark building
N, mutt his job. One other man felt
colo thing touch his cheek and dis
novered when he came to light that q
dash OF green paint was smeareC
there
n White Woman If Greenwich
street has not been heard from fol
: euetve years. Perhaps she haunti
M China Sea-
SRockaway has ats ghost no less tnal