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The Evening World from New York, New York • Page 4

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The Evening Worldi
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New York, New York
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I TV WjPJ iT i pa mv i iff I I I I THE WORLD WEDNESDAY EVENING 11T1VE1 riiJ1 7 5fl SCENES AMONG CROWD AT MORGUE 10 Hundreds of People Waited to Identify Bodies of Their Relatives Mengnus rlartung Lost His Wife Five Daughters 1kL and One Son I i The scenes on thi Dopartment of Correction pier nt the foot of East I Twentysixth street before the tugs came Jown the river hearing bodied ofl I th dead were pitiful bcjond description The news that the bodies were to be taken to the pier attracted a great crowd of bereaved ones whose wall and cries could be heard as far away na Second avenue tlf tot the numbers of pathetic figure1 none was more expressive of extreme NBrJef than that of Mnngmig Hrtung a tailor No 13 West Twentyninth ttreet who lost his wife and six children in the disaster The family whose lives were snuffed out by the fire or by drowning conclstcr of Mrs Mary Hartung Miss Frances Haitung twenty years old a Sundayschool teacher of St Marks Church Louise Hartun twentyfour years who sang IJI thi thoir of the church Harry flftern Mllly thirteen Clara eleven Elslrf fiveS Two hours before the tugs bearing the bodies nrrhfd at the pier the po hen were compelled to rope off the dock and keep back tht pressing throng of stricken mothors sisters fathers and children The reserves from the East Twenty second street East Thirtyfifth street and East Fiftyfirst street station had to be called ou handle the throng Eft The Charities Department steamboat Fidelity arrived at the East Twen tysixth street pier at 350 oclock tarrying the bodies of thirtytwo women and eighteen children the majority burned beyond recognition 2 When the boat arrived the pier and street all the way from First avenue was thronged with people The crowd pressed forward In a great rush weeping back Capt Shire of the East Thirtyfifth street station and tho 1 cordon of twentyfive policemen who guarded the dock The police were compelled to use their clubs to push back the struggling people and make a lane through which the bodies could be carried to 1 the Morgun Commissioner of Charities Tully had provided pine boxes for the bodles in wnlch they were placed as fast as they were brought In numbered and whatever belongings were found In the yi First the bodies were clothing were tagged with the some numbers 1 As the crowd grew to great proportions It was decided not to allow anyone In the Morgue until all the bodies hall been transferred there from both i tho Fidelity and the Massassolt Tho bodloj wore all laid out In the main lobby of the morgue in mioh away that attics extended between t1eom so thnt when the doors are thrown Vpcnthe relatives ma be let In in single tile to Identify them though tho jjrcator number me BO Injured that recognition will be Impossible The bodies of twentyseven women and seven children were lying aide by Bide In the sessionroom of the Alexander avenue police station early this afternoon Bodies were being taken In every tow minutes in grocery wagons jneatioarta and all sorts of vehicles if Over 3000 persons filled tho sidewalks and streets around the station crowd waiting tremblingly for an Souse It was a quiet angulehutrlaken Opportunity to look at tho bodice and see If anydotr friend or relative was rough the sessionroom ana in i l1ndo8d there All were allowed to pass iBVectthe bodies The body of Mrs Mary 7x llraer of No 123 First avenuo WM Identified by her husband Jasper Zollmer who said his wife had sIted out early In the morning with their children to go on the excursion The eldest of these children was a boy Joseph seventeen yearn old who on last Saturday woo tho hero of a fire at Droomo and Mercer streets When thA building wan discovered to tin Sn fltmes tho other elevator boy ran away but Joseph stuck to his post Ho ran tho elevator up to the top floor ton times through flro and smoke and carried down thirtyfive persons who but for his brim 4 act might have perished It Is supposed this little hero now among th I Bloturns long list of dead HEROIC WORK Of MEN i AT RIKERS ISLAND I Employees of the StreetCleaning Department and Blackwells Island Prisoners I i Help in Rescuing the Living and Taking Out Bodies of the Dead Fully 100 men who were at work on Rikers Island formed a part of the largo rescuing force which went to thi1 heroic work of saving tho Imperilled excursionists and reclaiming the floating bodies Men in the employ of the StreetCleaning Department engaged In tho longprotracted work of filling In the island and prisoners from Iilackwoils Island who had been preyed Into the service of the city In the work of enlarging inkers Island were among the rescuers rom that point Boots were handy und Into the the workmen and prisoners still under command of their kecpeVs jumped and were soon bending over their oars directing a soil From RIkers Inland tho Jlatanop to the burning vecanl was short and the nanlcatrltkin passengers could be Been as they daihml smdlr about the deck i I Women and children were already leaping Into tho water from the I burning decks of the steamboat flen the Dock Department launch Kllln command of Capt Houlihan and containing DOCK Department Engineer Joel Cemosu and Thomas Finley steamed to the side of the steamboat 80 great was the number of lifeless bodies floating about that the progrjsi 5 of the launch was actually Impeded and the work of saving the llvor of those who wert struggling In the water nearer the hull ot thi burning boat was delayed I The men In the Kills managed to pick tip four boys and tho boilloa of thirty dead excursionists women and children When the launch wan filled rI with the bodies until she threatened to sink others floating by wore taken Into and with her cargo of living and dead the launch returned to Hikers Island where the dead were piled side by Hide on tho beach I The Kills with her small crew made several other trips to the side of ute Slocum and brought oth living and dead auburn Both Capt Houll trv bn and Engineer Cemosa wr rc exhausted when their work was finished The tug Fidelity the launch Gloria and other craft wero prominent 4ttong the vessels that mado Hikers Island their rondovous for dlscharg their cargoes of living and Ilead 1 ho IJlackwells Island prisoner In boats went nobly to the worU of rescue and succeeded In savinc many I Mrea besides reclaiming many bodies When the last tolly was taken of 1 tr 0 Bnsoncrs none of them were found missing They all returned to their In Ur Ignoring the chances to wicapu which presented themsolves Coroner Scholer was among tho officials to arrive early on Hikers Island xsiMde an Inspection ot some of the bodice many Vlllcn he declared 7 Jt I burned Ho beard the stories the survIvors and declared to an in VoId reporter that It Vaa oyideOt that cnrelGqsDess was rspuas1 Dthecataztrophe The COI9I took the nameaot8urvlvorbbd hi etd hOld selvea ready to be cal1edu wltneuOl ti fol THREE JBOFS WHO WERE SA VED FROM BURNING I STEAMBOAT JUMPING UPON TUGBOAT rr I I John Ell piscbTer GEOGRAV ISLAND BECOMES AN OUTDOOR MORGUE Supt Doorly Tells Graphic Story of How Burning Vessel Was Beached and the Terrible Scenes Which Followed Ashore I I GoorRe Doorly outdoor Superintendent of North Brother Island tells tbe story of how the Gen Slocum went ashore The pretty Island with Its stretches of green lawn was transformed In a tow minutes from a quiet peaceful resort for the sick Into an outdoor morgue with dead and dying on every hand There have been already 103 bodies transferred from North Brother Island to the foot of One Hundred and Thirtyeighth street These bodlc are those of persons who died on the Island or were washed ashore While Father Donlan of St Jeromes Church was saying tho prayers for the dying over fortyfive Injured excursionists fortythroo of thorn died I hoard the Slocums nlnrm whistles says Mr Doorly and Raw heron fire between North Brother Island and tho Bronx shore The captaIn was In his pilothouse and he was heading his boat this way REACHED OFF SCARLET PRVKR WARD I called lospph Oaffney the engineer and wo ran two lines of hose out on tho pier thinking that the Slocum would land there Instead of going to the pier tho captain ran past and beached her just off the scarlet I fever ward We hnvn SC4 contagious disease patients Those who were out on the porches or the lawns were ordered Inside and the doors wore locked The consumptives who are on the Island living In the open air were drafted to the work of rescue The sight of that boat steaming In to shore with fire belching from her every art and leaping high Into the air was something that I never will forget The passengers were hangng on like flies They jumped overboard so last you could not count thorn Women and children hanging over the edges of the paddleboxes dropped one by one and wore struck by the paddlowheola I saw one boy halfway up tho flagstaff where ho had climbed to avoid the flames and as 1 looked he foil and was burned to death The captain stuck to tho pilothouse until It caught on fire but he had tho boat headed In all right When he ran out on deck I thought ho was all nblazn Oufr fix doctors and thirtysix nurses wero put to work and we Bent word for help In ministering to the wounded wo used all tho milk we had on tho Island and a full barrel of whiskey Wo used up twenty rolls of choosocloth bandages In binding up the burns Many of thorn died while wo were working over them BANK CAUSES ARREST Ink Imnible Arcnueil of Frnnk Fraud Glv Hull Deputy SheriB WnlKcrliiK on nn order sutxl by Justice Dusro or the Supreme Court today arrestil Frank Lam bio President ot the bankrupt rtnn ofF Lomlilo Co or No 7071 needs street manufacturer of boots nnd ihois him the In all notion brought against by Merchant I a tonal ixchntie flank of the Cltv of New York to recover 12000 The hunk officers charge thnt this sum wan advanced to humble In May 1903 on fraudulent representations made by him that his llrin had assets of tloCOO and flatit titles only aniotin tug to 111400 A few months After tie obtained the loan his ttrm nag adjudicated bankrupt Lamble Rae ball In UIOO and was not locked tip a NEW PAULIST SUPERIOR rnlhcr lenrlr Klrrlril nt Inn of firnernl liapteir I Ho Oeirse Sonrle wan rleplnl Suprrlorflonfral of the PnulUt Fnth I ore nt tlin rSoncril Chapter now In i Moil nl tli Mother House Wont Flft ninth trI odn rtthrr Scone tho senior of tlii fnlhrrn nnd has been AclliiK Htiprtlor ilnco the doth of Fattier le hnn lall New ai lie In sixtylive years old LONDON STOCKS QUIET LONDON June 15nal for money were fairly Bteiuly In ff market to daj and conMdcrnblo sums rluingad luinrts foi meeting tails Dlncnuntn nero easy UusIncus on the Stock Ix change was quiet The tone Kanernliy was good under thn lead of Conaol and on easier monetary coiidltlon American opened firm tmprored frnctlonaliy were In fair request and closed with good tone PAYNE TAKEN ILL IN CHICAGO HOTL Denial that PostmasterGeneral Collapsed but His Successor as Chairman of National Republican CommitteeTalked Of CHICAGO Juno Postmmteraen oral Henry Payne Chalrmin or the National Ilepubllcan Committee collapsed nt the Auditorium Annex today Mr Payne has not been In good health for some time and rerently utter fi serious spell took an ocean trip for purposes of recuperation lie was In his room when the attack came his aliment apparently bclnc tan upoplcptlc character The time was shortly before the hour ict for the convening of the Republican National Committee over whtph itr ru no expected to preside It was said that Chairman Faynoi Illness was uch ns to preclude the possibility of Oila tikins active part In ut leant 110 preliminary work of the con elllln New oC hla prostration wii Immcillately tflesriplicvl to Washing ton It was aiUteil that Scnitor Scott otf West VirginIa would prob aljlj nuccco1 ns executive head of the committee and would ptxwlde at the lint mealing of the oommltteo this afternoon Harry New member of the Hcpub llein National Committee made the following statement this afternoon regarding Mr Iavnon condltlun Tho report tint Mr Payne has suffered a puddcn collapse Is not true Everybody known that for several months he has been In poor health Tha excitement and late hours nocoi fiaiy to attendance on thu preliminary convention work have exhaunted him to come extent Mr Payne will be all right with a little rest and sleep Reports to tho effect that his health I Is In precarious condition ate to say tho least exaggerated Uiilie nt Auction Polio of WelllnRton the oldtime bat tloshlp which led the Urltlsh Ualtlc fleet In the Russian war In 18M1M8 Is to be sold at auction She Is built of wood has thren decks and IB iO fact loiR Slia has been used aa a depot ship at Portsmouth for many years In war limes nho carried 104 guns and had a crow of nor one thousand men SOME THINGS CONSUMPTIVES SHOULD KNOW 7 In tho crusade against Tuberculosis Dr Anderson the LIght Specialist and loading expert in the treatment and cure of consumption and all other chest diseases asserts the following a facts regarding this most aggressive and merciless of all diseases i Consumption Is a curablo disease It can be prevented In all stages ItfHiH It may be cured In any climate 3l 1 Persons cured of consumption ore no longer curIosities Htw The reason so many cases are not cured Is because tho disease is not recognized as consumption jl until It has reached the thIrd stage DR NOEIISON Dr Andersons Ilb Is the first anti only accurate means of obtaining an absolutely correct HnowledRe of diseases of the chest by seeing Into tho body By means of his URht Dr Ander on sees AT ONCE whether a asthma bronchitis or catarrh of the tubes patient has consumption Tho doctor who knows the dlIwe nml Its stages Is the only one who I can direct tho proper treatment Dr Anderson cures by the use of his Germicidal Vapor Inhalation treatment The old method of tatting couch mixtures or other medicine Into tho stomach advances tho disease Instead ot helping tftti patient Medicine taken into tho stomach will not reach or cure the lungs The GermIcIdal Inhalation Vapors are breathed directly into the lungs and kill the germs forming there and heal the core places Consult the highest authority and tho doctor who Is correctly seeing the very first appearance of consumption or any other lung trouble by his wonderful Invention tho lr Anderson Light Costa you nothing for an examination consultation Do not delay Hours 10 to 6 Sundays 11 to 2 onAYedrrlEyp6to Sj Ofllce and Light Laboratory 60 3 West 22d at New York HOW TO FIND OUT Fill a bottle ur common glass with your water and let It stand twenty tour hours sediment or settling Indicates an unhealthy condition of the Iddnuys If It stains tho linen It is evidence of kidney trouble too frequent desire to pass It or pain In the back Is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder arc out of order I What to Do There Id comfort In the knowledge so often expressed that Dr KllmerA Swampnoot the great kidney remedy fulfils every wish In curing rheumatism pain In the back kidneys liver bladder nnd every part ot the urinary passage It corrects Inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing It or bad effects following use of liquor wine or beer and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to gw often during the day and to get up many times during the night The mild unit the extraordinary effect of Swamp Root Is soon realized It stands the highest for Its wonijorful cures of the most distressing tascs If you need a medicine you should have the beat Sold by druggists in fiftycent and onedollar sizes You may have a sample bottle of SwampHoct the great kidney remedy and a book that tells all about it both sent absolutely free by mall Address Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton When writing be sure to mention that you road this generous offor In the Now York Evening World Dont make any mistake but remember the name SwampRoot Dr I Kilmers SwampRoot and tho address I Binghamton on every bottlo 1eIoiiIillieiIiros I SUITS and SKIRTS Women Silk Suits Pleated Skirt latest style Waist in blue black and brown plain Taffda also Fancy Taffeta in stripes and checks in blak blue and brown light and dark effects 1575 balue 2200 Womens Satin Foulard Shirt I Waist Sails frfiHe dots on black blue and brown grounds Walking length Skirts 1200 Womens 32Gore Si Pleated Kill Model Walking Skirls in Tan Crabeneltc Manama Cloth black and blue Mohair 875 9 75 10 balae 1500 Jeloululllerkci i Vest 23rd Street Bargain AFTER Bargain I is here at your disposal This week we are offering in our gents department a guaranteed indigo blue serge suit made in the best manner perfect fit in every way at the special low price of 1000 Cash or Credit I No Extra Charge Our ladles department is still complete with the latest and newest designs in fashionable silk shirt waist suits waists skirts etc at the least i possible price For bargains call at ZEITZ TARS HIS nan Full on St Dfnnlrlvm TT Ins Btn Aye Brooklyn i 0 4 PEOPLE of all trades and professions arc secured through WORLD WANTS WANTED your attention to this comparison I to prove to you that I World Wants have no equal I QUICK returns always materialize from a small Want It placed In the right place I I Tin 13 Other 1 World Papers Total for first Alono Combined I 4 months 127558 67011 Total for May 36659 16996 Total for first six days of June 6331 2908 Tuesday June 7 1370 415 Wed June 8 H8I 426 ThursJune 9 997 352 Friday June 10 679 280 Saturday June 541 236 I Sunday June 12M 1260 1258 Monday June 13 797 163 Tu sday June 14 1082 346 Wed June 15 805 340 Total 179340 90731 ALL RIP ADb I I I I I I I SSI5SS I li it I I 1 155157 and 159 East 23d St DOORS WEST OF 3D AVE Furniture Carpets Upholstery Etc Free Cash Certificates With Every Purchase iA Our liberal offer of giving Certificates with every purchase Whether You Buy for Cash or on Our Liberal Credit System must not be confounded with what is generally termed Trading Stamps where it is necessary to fill a book of stamps before you can receive a premium The Certificates we give entitle you to a handsome Premium mmost immediately I after a purchase has been made Among tile Premiums 1 given are the following useful and ornamental articles Sofa Pillows Smoking Sets Lace Curtains Smyrna Rugs Mahogany Parlor Chairs Fancy Latiips Mission Furniture VernisMartin I Furniture Extension Tables Dressing Cases Parlor Mirrors Desks Old Colonial Rockers Brass Bedsteads and hundreds of I other handsome articles now on display in our Special Exhibit i Room i Credit Given on Easiest Terms i I 75c Weekly Opens an Account I Open Saturday Evenings Until 9 oClock A oSI 5 5 5 Ia 5 All rnr ittrict or 1 I I 10 trmmffr tonin loori i tfJ jtrxm fiJ l1l1 lll lltl Broadway Graham ndF1ushingAvenues Brooklyn I I MidJune Specials that Will I Appeal Most Forcefully To Every Hconamicnl Woman 175 Waists 75ct Of fine white lawn some I with rows of Hamburg inser lion and hemstitching down front and tucked back some with Vshaped yokes i tucked jokes some tucked back and I front with lace Insertion yoke and lacj Inrrmed collar All sizes and made I wi Ihe new bLhop sleeve worth 7C 175 choice of the lot I I Some QntofOnllnnry Valuer in Muslin and Cambric Petticoats I These white petticoats are part of our great Summer sale of undermuslins Theyre not the skimpy kind They arc made I generously and are the bestfitting petticoats you would want I Note the ptic at which they may be owned Muslin with deep flounce cluster of I hemstitched tuck and finished with embroidery or torchon lice regu fn tar prc 8Sc Cambric with deep ruffle of fine em trotdcry and cluster tucks with dust jutt or two insertions and edge of loT chon lace and four clusters of hem no 9 8 stitched tucks regular price 150 I I I Bedspreads Comfortables I Theres a notable price difference between these bedspreads and comfortables and II those of like grade in other stores I White Bedspreads full size hemmel ends Maiseilles patterns reg QQ 8 9 ular rnce 119 07 Summer Weight Comfortable full size figured and plain colored silkoline covering stitched or tufted with worsted and filled with an unbrokn I sheet pnceJUS of white cotton regular 07 gIl lID WJIS es 50 lU1t f1I UNION 3 a 1IlJYJiSI MACE A trial will convlnc you hit Douglas li iJO ihoM sri the Mit In he world OVM LOCO roe hew YORK art evoaze 01 Kaaiau at Cort Undt lit 4C3 Uroadnuy Icon Howard at 7B3 7V ii roadway oar 8th 1849 Ilrotilwav cor snili lth cv U74 3d IV 2 fI izM RV cor twin 220 WCTBI vest 123th at MHOOK1YN 121 Pulton cor Iearl 494 Bill av 7 710 IHooanay cur Thriilon 187 IiroftlwCy or 3oHi iv jmfFf CITY 11 Nevark NEW nK7s Broad at i arnawspnvtni era lb ilt i ifinlicino eror nad JL hunI drid raUllou of them ut bxn eoU I 1t UiBalnalpTur LgtutiDoUwtbtart I IIIUIIIfJt bnm awk headache aluloete bad I rnObxir Uir ute4lU tnrr lantn I anilalt trrm itliomereii iiommrk relUTKl or eur04 bY III Tal uee One wut iti 11 ralbt mtntIf usa orM9IJIII a 198 Wrappers 75c Its a group of wrappers that I ought to be in the 198 class so smartly are they road They are of I figured lawns light grojnds made with II yoke and cape over shoulder braid I trimmed back and belt ple3ted and I flounce skirts All ues Thursday po I any of these 198 wrappers 75c Cambric with deep ruffle of lawn trimmed wilt insertion and edge of fancy Val lace or fine embrold eryj regular price H7S 3s Cambtic with deep lawn rum finished with cluster of heiistltched tacks and deep flounce of fine embroid A cry regular price J200 4 7 HammocksS These prices point the way to hammock possession at remarkably I I markably small cost I At 89c 36x80 inch bed gauze weave full I colored with pillow and drapery concealed spreaders and strongly made i Ati35 I I 3bxSO inch bed can Val weave colored I and fancy border extra quality At 149 I Patent throwback pillow i 25 other styles all at special prices We Operate I 0 Modern Stores Our bnlnt rncllltlrii are not excelled by ni clnthiiiK concern In America Our Chefrful relit Plan hat nr benn finallrd Steady niitomer are nur aim Special Reductions to Reduce offered SI Stock are now 19 East lAth St and Det BroadwayS 5th Ave II I a I The landlord whoso aportmclntD rra full know tho value of Plata end I ApnrimonU VVantedanri MFlatsid Apartments Let In Vord Wants Read the Wants tocay 5 5 I I JU 1f.

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Years Available:
1887-1922