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Sc INlCIO I'm lNCENDlO EN- LA
PLANTA ELECTRICA.

MADRID, Octubre 29.-Dice un
telegrama p~rocedente de Barcelona,
Que Ell la planta electrical de dicha
ciudad Sc inicio un incendio en- con-
diciones que Sc han hecho sumamen-
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Sc esta eucargando va de ha-
Ger las averiguaciones debidas.
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-Cuando necesrIe I'd. iihros en- es.
Panoi, pidaIos i IA Liberia de lgua.
clio f Lc-ano. lis n. SAINTS kora Av.
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RECORTE I'd. ESTE ANUNCIO,
VALE DTNER0

No dele de hacerlo, recorte este
anuncio Y mandelo juntamente con
&c. a Foley and Co, 1885 Sheffield
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lores de cabeza Y entorpecimiento de
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LAS TROPAS ESPANOLAS CAP.
TURARON ALGUNAS
POSICIONES

MADRID, Octubre 2S.-Hase anun
c!ado que las fuerzas ~espanolas Gus
operan en- Melilla Sc han ~apoderado
de algunaS poslcioneS en- Telaza Y
Budeguet.
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LOS SlNDICALISTAS PRONUN.
CLARION DISCURSOS
iNCENDIARIOS

MADRID, Octubre 2S,-En una
iunta que celebraron los si~ndicalistss
algunos oradoreS p~ronunciaron dis
cUrsos verdaderamente in~cendiar!OS
Y en- vista de clio, Ell jefe de Ia poll
cia notifico d Triton Gomez, uno de
los hderes. que ell cobierno 10 karia
responsible de las consequences que
pudiera tener III propaganda.
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DESCUBRIO jim COMPLOT LA
P0LICIA

MADRID. Octubre 2S.-La policia
ACADIA de d~escubrir un complot cue
Jenia por objeto pasar de contra
bando SciscientaS armas p~ortatilHs ia
bricadas en- Francia Y consignadas a
casa comercial de Barcelona.
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singing camp meeting hymns, am already
looked upon in the neighborhood as being
rather loose and unsound, and if, atop of
all that, I should let you hold prayer
meeting here l should lose what little
character I've got left"
1t is pleasing to know that there was
one person in that late Victorian era who
had sense of humor.
However, the ministers were in their way
quite as game sports as their friends. the
criminals, shall see
"Our friend Arnold of the Howard Mis-
sion, was determined to achieve the prayer
meeting. During the fourth week in May
last when there were many of his clerical
friends in the city, Mr.. Arnold thought he'd
bring a heavy spiritual cannonade to bear
on Allen and~see what would come of it,
SO on Monday night, May %, after care
fully conducted preliminary season of
prayer, an assaulting party was formed.
including six clergymen, to march upon
the citadel of the enemy. When we arrived
it was half past IL; the window shut
tiers were closed and we feared we were
too late; but light shone through the
window over the door, and on application
we were admitted and received hearty
welcome. Allen was undergoing a sham
pooling process for the purpose, as ne
frankly stated, of enabling him to go to
bed sober He added:
"'You see, gentlemen, it won't do for
business man to go to bed drunk, or for
literary man either. So, now you take
my advice and whenever you find yourself
n baJ ,I,o
poo, and the investment will pay a big divi-
dend in the morning. Walk in, gentlemen,
walk in; the girls are taking a rest and a
smoke
1--WE walked in and found the girls smok-
ing pipes and lounging around the room.
Allen proposed to have the girls dance for
us. but we declined.
"'Well, then, let's have song Here,
mother, give me my fiddle and bring out
the books'-meanng The Little Wander
ers Friend of which he kept supply.
The eleven girls sang There Is Rest for
the Weary with unusual vigor Cd and,
upon being asked what they would like next
two. Of the girls asked simultaneously for
There is a Light in the Window for Thee.
Brother which was sung with emphasis
and feeling" Words fail me-can the au-
thor really be seriously He continues, I'M
disturbed:
"At the conclusion of the aforementioned
song Mr.. Arnold believed that the appoint
ed hour had come, and, tapping Allen on
the shoulder, said:
well, John, old boy, give us your hand;
/ feel just like praying here with YOU
Allen, it seems, took the extended hand
very gruffly and said, No, sir; never And
if you pray l won't hear you; mind,
won't hear you After which he backed
slowly out of the room and closed the door
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Letterboxes, for instance which he as
sures us are "nevcr more than block
or two apart.
In Central Park our author touches a
matter very near to my heart-viz, the
mpossi Utility of penetrating Central Park
on its Fifth Avenue side anywhere be
tween the Plaza and the Metropolitan
Museum. He says, with naive PRIDE
at was foreseen when the park
laid off that as it would extend for so
long a distance right through the centre
of the island it would be necessary to pro
vide means of communication between the
eastern and western sides of the island
without forcing persons to pass around
the upper or lower end of the Enclosure.
The genius of the constructing engineers
soon settled this difficulty. A system of
transverse roads adopted and carried
out" I'VE fail to see why this was genius.)
"Thcse roads were sunken considerably
below the level of the park and are
curey walled in with Masonry Owe
should say they were-to get into the park
from them at any point in their unbroken
stretch is impossible except in those places
where the superb masonry has been torn
fall of dirt to show the passerby that
the thing can be done in overalls) The
author continues proudly: "Vnes, trees
and shrubs carefully trained along
the edges of these walls, which conceal
the roads from view" Quite right; they
certainly do, any one who has painted
along Fifth avenue on hot summer day
looking for opening in that interminable
wall will agree. "There are four of these
entrances" says author firmly "and
they cross the park at Sixty-ffth, Seventy
ninth, Eighty-ffth and Ninety-sevcnth
streets"
All right; far be it from me to argue,
but here and now offer prize to any
one who can find any of them when he is
looking for them, and if any of distin-
guished park commissioners think that they
have done a clever thing in running that
langud streetcar line through the park at
wherever it is they run it | would like it
pointed out~-but come, getting bitter
and | know you are getting bitter, too,
about that chapter you've been wa1ing
along after called 'The Horror of Break
ing Dawn"
The horror had to do with band Of
criminals so completely romantic that
dare not hope we have their likes to-day.
It. seems that in 1868 there was n sinister
spot way down around the end of New
York, called Five Points. You reached it
as follows:
"Leave Broadway opposite the New York
Hospital (this, remember, ffty-one
years ago), and pass down Pearl Street in
Il Rive mi "a walk
will bring you to the abode Of poverty and
suffering. Cross Centre Street; continue
your eastward course, and a few minutes
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ger, on TIE contrary he would not inter
fere. Any man leaving the hall would prob
ably be followed by thief, burglar or a
pugilst, and "sometimes,' says our guide
with cheerful calm, she will see home after
he has been stripped of all his valuables;
sometimes he will find his long home in less
than an hour after leaving the hall, and the
harbor police find his BODY floating on the
tide at sunrise "Stay away" says the
author, "stay away"
The last Of the trio bore the classic name
of John Allen, the Wickedest Man in New
York, and we can imagine the envy which
this title aroused in the bosoms of his two
contemporaries. He also ran dance house
at 3O4 Water Street Zone of the vilest sec
tions of the city, says our author), and it
was at this address that the extraordinary
adventure we are about to relate had its
birth.
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will bring you to Park Street Turn short
to the left, and in few minutes you will
see that blessed beacon light in this great
sea of human sin and misery, the give
Points Mission.' You are now fairly in the
heart of the Five Points district 1t is a
horrible place, and you shudder as you look
at it, The streets are dark and narrow, the
dwellings are foul and gloomy and seem
filled with mystery and crime. Bad as it is
it is better than the Five Points of fifteen
years ago. Then the place notorious
for its crimes. man who entered the
district carried his life in his hands.
Things are better now, for the work of the
Lord is going on where the devil once
reigned supreme. Yet even now the char
acter of some of these packed houses is
such that policeman will enter them
alone" In these lurid depths our author
found and apparently called upon quite
frequently, three criminals the very sound
of whose names would have brought Robert
Louis Stevenson east with a bound; one
wonders where he could have been in 1868,
to miss these treasures, who all, apparent
ly, lived within a block of one another.
There was Kit Burns, who ran the Rat
Pit. 1t is on Water Street-a plain, brick
building, rather neater in appearance than
those surrounding it. The lower part is
painted green and there is small gas
lamp before the door. The number, 273,
is very conspicuous, and you will also
tce the words the door, exit Burns:
Sportsman's Hall" Ostensibly, Kits bust
ness is that of a tavern keeper, but the
principal room of the house is arranged
as an amphitheatre with rough wooden
benches, and in the centre the dogs and
rats are released-rats being plentiful along
the East River, Burns has no difficulty in
getting as many as he wants. The audi
ence was made up of ruffians, who howled
with delight during the fight.
Passing to the corner of Broadway
and Houston Street, you saw, to the east
of the great thoroughfare, an immense red
and blue lantern attached to low, dingy
frame building. This was the sign of Harry
Hills dance house -admittance % cents and
buy your liquor you enter.
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One Humorous
Victorian

John Allen seems to have had the most
striking personality of the three; our author
is quite at loss really to sum him up. His
account is as follows: "Take him for all in
all, our Wickedest Man is phenomenon.
He reads the Bible to his dance house girls;
his favorte papers are The New York OBJ
server and The Independent We have
actually seen them on his barroom counter,
along with The Daily Herald and The
Sun" eve are glad to note that The Trib
une was MT in this low gathering.)
And now at last get human touch
in the stern portrait which our author has
been painting of himself, for he says
81 have repeatedly visited the abode
of the wickedest man in New York for
the purpose of studying him and trying
to hit upon some means Of persuad-
ing him to abandon his course of life and
save his boy. For in truth, 1 not only
feel an interest in but rather like him,
wicked as he is" Brave; now you are talk
ing sense) And so,' he continues, 'doe5
nearly every one else whom | have taken
to see him, and we have taken scores-most
of them clergymen" (What wouldn't we
give to have heard what the Wickedest Man
thought of these sacred tea parties around
the bar?) But all their efforts to get any
vital hold upon him were in vain. "He is
always cordial, always ready to let the girls
have a spiritual song, and will even per-
nit little exhortaton to them in his
dancing salon, and is free with his OBJ
server and Independent But he keeps
on his way with unyielding pcrtinacity.
On one occasion party of us suggested
that he should let us hold prayer meeting
in his saloon. After d little reflection he
replied:
"'Well, no, gentlemen, l can't go that. You
know that every man must have regard to
bis profession and the opinion of his neigh
bors. What with my observer" and "Inde-
pendent" and you fellows coming here and
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into the bar behind him. Mr.. Arnold
heart was almost too full for utterance I'm
sure Mr.. Aliens was, too, but fervor soon
Embossed his tongue and he poured out "A
simple, direct and heartfelt prayer which
told powerfully upon the hearers, some of
whom knelt upon the floor, while Allen
peered through the partition door upon the
singular scene"
The result of this touching scene was
the famous Water Street revival. Clergy
men iocked to the scene from all parts o.
the city. AT midnight on Saturday, August
20, 1868, John Allen closed his dance house
for the first time in seventeen years A
handful posted the door contained the
following announcement:
THIS DANCE HOUSE IS CLOSED.
mo gentlemen admitted unless accompanied
by their wives, who wish to employ Mag
dalenes as servants"
Prayer meetings, which Allen and his
wife attended, were opened and run daily
in the barroom, thousands attending. among
them the worst rutfians of Water Street
On the next day, the Sabbath, the house of
Thomas Haddon, 374 Water Street, kept as
a low groggery and sailors boarding house
was also opened for religious services at
the hour of ~ o'clock. This place and Al
lens were crowded that an overflow
meeting held at the same time upon
the sidewalk opposite
What the Wickedest Mans sensations
were while all this was going on would
make an article all by itself Apparently
he was of milder nature, despite his title.
than Kit Burns for that gentleman, when
approached, was most insulting, and the
clergy finally forced to hire Kits RAJ
Pit at high price and there held religious
services every day.
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Adan7anfine
Allen

What John Aliens sentiments were in
regard to all this it is very hard to fathom.
That he also was being heavily paid for his
conversion and the use of his dance house
is evident from an article in "The Times
of September 10, which our author quotes
from at length, to this effect:
"The highly sensational stories regarding
the 'Wickedest Man in New York with
which the eyes and ears of the public have
been RECALLED of late have awakened an H.
terest in John VAN Allen which has not
been equalled since the reformation of the
notorious gambler, Orville Gardner some
eleven years ago The facts plainly stated
are that neither Kit Burns Allen, Slocum
or Tommy MADDEN are converted at all
Finding that Allen could not be coerced
into reformation, and fearing that the
game would be lost his religious shepherds
made proposition to him to hire his house
for one month, to October l, for prayer
meetings. A check for $3.50 is known to
have been passed to Allen last week by
party controlling the movement. The Times
sent man down to interview Allen, and he
was asked:
Well, Mr.. Allen, what do you desire to
Don't know what to say about it. It's
all right, | guess. You can tell 'em that
those praying fellers have broken all my
cane chairs and Ive had to get wooden ones
Broke my glass there, too smashed it in,
and they smash everything they touch
Somebody stole my coat, too; I'd like to
catch i'm"
Our friend the author winds up these
seductive chapters by saying Reader, my
task is done. We warn you to confne your
visits to the harmless and innocent attrac-
tons of the Great Metropolis, and to shun
these other, darker quarters of the city.
which are but SO many gateways that lead
down to ruin and to death"
l looked up from the pages. The gentle
rain was still falling upon Broadway. which
was beginning to fade in the evening light.
q little maid with turn-up nose and white
cuffs and Hotel Aston" embroidered ON her
sleeve came and gently removed the debris
from the nearest desk with glance at me
which asked very plainly what kept me
sitting there so long, and two little old
ladies who evidently had not seen each
other for some time suddenly met bebird
an artificial palm and cried simultaneously:
We'll my dear, who would ever have
thought of meeting you here ?"
Who indeed? And il was with a feeling
OF uneasiness that I left them to q civ
hiied with hair thieves and crime.
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etc Let us open at random to headed
"Streets'
We soon see that going out Apon the
streets of New York in 1868 was not the
simple thing it is Pickpockets fell
upon you at once, and if you took refuge
in the stores you were better off, for
the book says: "a man walking along the
street will often be seized and dragged
into clothing shop. He may protest that
he does not wish to buy anything but the
merchant and his clerks will insist that he
does and before ne can well help himself
they will haul off his coat clap of the
store coats his back and declare it
perfect fit. The new coat will then be re-
moved and replaced by the old one, and the
victim allowed to leave the shop. AS he
passes out the door the new coat is thrust
under his arm and the proprietor and as
sistants seize him, crying Stop, theft
Their noise and the dread of being ar
rested will so confuse and brighten the vic
tim that he will comply with their demand
that he shall buy the coat"
No who compares this rough stuff
with the eenteel manner in which New
Workers compelled to buy what
they don't want can fail to see how we i'm
prove with the ages. What chance would
the above violent merchant have beside
that young lady in black satin with the
white cuffs and the pencil in her hair who
says with icy calm "Well, of course if you
had told me in the beginning that you were
looking for cheap goods, madame, I would
have sent you to the basement We don't
carry that line on this floor. The dress
that you have on fits you perfectly and is
reduced from $500 to $3.50, but, of course,
if you prefer the $25 one, it will look very
nice and neat you"
Another danger Of the streets of 1868, ac-
cording to our author, was from hair
thieves. He says: During the summer of
1868 young lady residing in respectable
part of the city was decoyed by an elderly
woman (under the pretence of introducing
her to a cheap dressmaker) into a low
neighborhood, where she was seized by two
men, dragged into hovel, and held by the
ruffans, despite her screams and struggles,
while the old bag who had decoyed her
thither, with q pair of shears, cut off the
larger portion of her har-to fill, as she
cooly informed the victim, an order from
the wigmaker."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
Cars That Run
On Sunday

However, enough of this pickering. Our
modern traffic is nothing, apparently, COM
pared to the congestion of the streets in
1868. Listen to this paragraph:
at is always difficult matter to cross
Broadway in the busy season. Ladies, old
persons and children find it impossible to
DO so without the aid of the police.
bridge was erected at the corner Of Broad
way and Fulton Street, which is the most
crowded part Of the city, for the purpose Of
allowing pedestrians to cross over the heads
Of the throng in the street. 1t proved
failure, however, as the ladies all collected
on it to see from it the magnificent pano-
Of Broadway, and the city authorities
have ordered it to be taken down"
This in the days when "Stewart's
Marble Drygoods Palace" decorated the
corner Of Broadway and Chambers Street
and one can imagine the scene
The traffic at Broadway and Fourteenth
Street is described as being "thrillng."
IA stranger feels sure that the jammcd
vehicle cannot be extrcated without loss
OF life, and the shouts and oaths of the
drivers fairly bewilder him. In a few
minutes however, he sees squad Of po~
1icemen approach and plunge boldly into
the throng Of vehicles"
Our author, whom ! suspect of being re-
ligious, sees New York life with an inno-
cence which Ia very refreshing. "The
strcetcars," he says, run on Sunday, as
in the week. This IL necessary in 80 large
city, as without them many persons
would be unable to attend church." There
we're other conveniences which seem to
have left ps since thoae good old days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
Best Not
To Go

All walks of life were here-judges and
lawyers side by side with Five Points ruff
fans; policemen off duty and in plain
clothes, sailors, merchants, editors, mingled
here in friendly confusion. No crimes were
committed in the dance hall, it seems, but
plans were laid there, victims were marked,
and frequently, says our author sternly, an
idle, thoughtess visit there has been the
beginning of life of ruin. II Harry Hill
knew guest and liked him he is said to
have taken care that he was not exposed to
danger after he was too far gone in liquor
to protect himself If the man was a stran-
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birth.
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FOR SALE, WANTED,ETC.
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M Charge Accounts,

Lawns cut Reasonable price Phone
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BOARD NOW PosTPoNEs
THE COAL REFUND CASE

Hearing of ~, Ease of the lerrm,
Fuel and Grain company against the
Denver and Rio Grundc, IN which the
refund ui thousands of dollar, m
freight charges ou all rnul shipped
into Salt Lake city Tor q period ui
tNu year, ur more is sought, has been
postponed from lulN sth 90 S,ptem-
her 3id ni the request ut the railway
company and hy consent ot the fuel
aud grain company Member, ui the
Utah public uIlrIrs commission. hr
fore whom The ease was 10 be- heard,
announced lhr long pu,lpuurmrut last
Tuesday, declaring The new date had
been seq TAR ENOUGH ahead fu insure
"a hearing and tu iuur,llll future pn-i-
poucmcuts Tho complaining COM
panN seeks q refund ui twenty five
cent, tam uu AN coal shipped INTO
Sall Lake CITY fur o. period preceding
the change in coal freight rates nv
the railway company
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Predicts Shortage

CHICAGO, juno ~. Government
coal production figure, point tp the
greatest coal shortage 300 history
ucNi winter unless production D, slim
ulatrd Immediately % per cent or
more throughout the nation, accord
ing % "a statement made public today
by +. :. Peabody, chairman Of ne
National Coal associations special
committee dealing with Dee wu,pt,-
tive shortage
1.-THE information gathered lb The
committee is that at the present tate
of production one industrial plant uut
of every eight IN the United States
will have 10 shut down next winter.
for lack of coal, said the statement.
which attributed the falling OFT I'M
production 10 the extremely low de-
mand.