New-York tribune., 1919-03-03

MRS. ELIZABETH HENNESSEY had
h'-1 1t pretty soft yesterday When
,he sun began 10 stream into her
nome at 40 Rockaway Avenue, Brook
iyh, she asked James to 90 cook the
breakfast. James is her husband. He
was obeylng instructions with smould-
ering emotions and an oil stove when
the latter blazed up.
Janies, his hair smoking and his
clothes ahre, had to run out and turn
IN an alarm. Mrs. Hennessey waited
until Patrolman James Govern, of the
Falpn Avenue police station, came.
lie carried her out, to The cheers Of
people on their way to church. When
the cheers and the fire had subsided
somebody found Mr.. Hennessey be-
side the fire alarm box and got nm
ambulance He was taken to Bush
wick Hospitals Mrs. Hennessey was
unhurt but getting hungry.
SEVERAL hundred women and chill
dren lmbed up on a pile Of iron
plates yesterday to see couple OF
boats launched at the Newark ward Of
the Submarine Boat Company. Under
inc weight of the crowd the plates be-
gan TO toboggan to the ground while
the frightened women and children
mixed the roles Of Eliza on the ice and
the squirrel in his cage, scramblinr
lrantlcally from plate to plate.
me police got them all off safely
ana 'he launching was an unqualified
success. Ihe boats were the Wiscon-
sin Bridge and the Milwaukee Bridge
B'HREE men who jumped from an
automobile half mile from Haw-
thorne, n. y, carly yesterday morn
irg thrust rcvolvers into the ribs Of
George Hcnnossey and George Lyons.
VINO were walking to their homes in
that village and demanded call YOU
GOT ''O
One Of the hghwaymcn examined
ne two watches carefully in the beam
OF the fashlight and then returned
them to heir owners without com
men'. The S35 which the two men
offered was accepted without oues-
ton.
MAJOR JOHN S. COHEN. president
I'A and editor Of "Thc Atlanta Jour.
nal will be ringsider to-morrow
when President Wilson and Mr. TAFT
defend the league of nations against
its opponents.
Major Cohen does not believe anv-
thing will persuade the President to
be candidate again. Asked who he
tHought seemed most likely as the
Democratic nominee, the major said.
"Well, it wouldn't surprise me if Mr.
Wilson made the convention nominate
Mr.. Taft"
OUIS SARETSKY. of 23l Iiyonia
Avenue, Brooklyn, was robbed bv
n plckpockct OF wallet containinr
$1,000 last night as he and his family
were entering synagogue at Dumont
and ThatfeId Avenues.
He missed the wallet immediately
and raised an outcry. There ensucd
much commotion among the attend
ants at the house Of Worship. but tho
thief escaped The money, Sarctskv
sald, was intended as the dover for
ms daughter, soon to be married.
THANKS to his mothcr-in-law. Ed.
n ward Gurnec, Of Haverstraw. N Y
VIII be a free man to-day when n
divorce decree will be filed in The Su.
prcme Court in New City, N. Y.
1t was due to the testimony of Mrs
Mary Abrahnms, his wifc's mother.
that he WAS able to prove that h;s
wlfe had elopcd to Connecticut with
another man.
DATROLMAN AJAX WHITMAN WIN
has dchcd the lghtnings Of police
administrations for twenty-five vcnrs.
gave dinner last night at his home
% Wcst ll7th Street, to celebrate his
,weniy-'tth anniversary az n police
man and his physical perfection About
'oo other policemen were his gucats