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I CITY HALL
Knights of Pythias Holding a
Jubilee When Flames Sweep
j Portland Me Building
COOLNESS SAVED ALL
I Big Assemblage Notified in
Speech of Fire Quietly
i File Out to Street
PORTLAND Me Jan UA fire
I fwhlch caused a property damage of
1000000 early today destroyed the City
nan sad police buildings and cnnger
fcd the lives of more than even hundred
person Although known as City Hall
the building was divided between city
land county offices while the police
Inullding heltored the Supreme Judicial
and Municipal courts in addition to tho
poll department
The fire was the wont In the State
elnoo the Treat Portland conflagration
of 1836 When tho citys business and
residential sections were almost com
pletely wiped out
Death was absent from the fire a
tact considered very remarkable as
here were more than TOO members of
the western Maine Knights of Pythias
Jubilee gathered In tho auditorium of
the City Hall when the flames were
discovered Only a few persona mere
hurt Chief Engineer Eldridge being
the only one known to be seriously In
jured and he viut able to direct the
I fight agalru the flames throughout be
ing supported by two assistants
The financial loss Is estimated at
1000000 but this sum will not cover
the loss of papers and documents In the
ReglstCy of Deeds where everything
was destroyed Other city departments
were swept clear of everything by the
flames with tho exception of the City
Clerks and the City Treasurers of
floes the money and securities In the
latter being believed to be Intact al
though It will be almost Impossible to
ascertain definitely until tho vaults
have cooled off sufficiently for an ex
amination to be made
One of the most valuable libraries In
the State tho Qreenloar law collection
Was completely destroyed with a loss
estimated at HOOflO
When too flames wore discovered
William A Turner chairman of this
meeting of the Pythian body was met
In the hallway fjy three men who ac
quainted him with the condition of
affairs Coolly ho entered the audl
torium and ascended the stage inter
rupting the rites of Investiture which
leA going on at the time Ho calmly
told the assembled members of the
listing conditions saying there was
BO need for hurry and himself super
t irtalng a system of orderly departure
pwhloh proved effective in averting a
panic and In bringing out mora than
700 persons without an Injury
Many left clod only In their light
regalia but later when It was seen
that danger was not Imminent some
went back and secured their heavier
garments Earlier In the evening
thoro had been more than 1500 persons
In the auditorium for the jubilee oxer
dies and had the lira occurred then
packed as the hall was many live
might have been lost
When the Homes communicated to
tho pollco building where Uio city jai
Is located It was decided to liberate
tho prisoners and they were set free
Those prisoners had been arrested for
only minor offenses The building
which was livestory structure of
brick turned up and down from the
third floor as did the lire In the City
Hall
Aid was summoned from Hath Did
dcford Sico and LcvvUlon but the lat
ter was tho only city to get Its appara
tus In the city before daybreak When
it arrived It was too lulu to take any
uuivo part iu tint light against the
jlames lire
Mho Cltv Hall survived the great
of low although It nas badly gutted
that time it was lm opened in
at lhandtlinn 1SK7 wad riopuieil uftti
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nlteritlons mil rcpurs following th
fire of the veur t e e
Insurance was iunrd on tho pioii
era tn the pxtnnt of JltfwW all held
by local llrrps
Seaboard Ilorltla Limned Service
heat to ilnehunt Camden Columbia
JUflidftl W + Nt tooth Vwe lags Sway HW
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TRIES TO SHOOT
HUSBAND WHOM
COURT SET FREE
Wife With Pistol Follows Will
iam Elms Into an Eighth
Avenue Cafe
IS QUICKLY DISARMED
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Says She Read About the
Shooting of Brady by
Mrs Clark
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Mrs Minor Elms a pretty young wo
man of No f 2 West Thirtyseventh
street today triedto kill her husband
William Elms a clerk In the Criterion
Hotel She followed him from the West
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Side Police Court after the Magistrate
I had refused to compel him to support
htr
I read how the Clark woman killed
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Brady she declared after hnr arrest
and I determined to do the same
Elms who Is a dapper young person
of the fashlon plato type usually found
behind hotel desks was known at the
Criterion hotel ni William McKenzie
I He has been living at No 69 Manhattan
trt since last spring when he left his
I wife
Dismissed the Complaint
fn court today whon he wa ar
raigned on a elms of non support he
said his wife had strayed from the
straight and narrow path and for that
reason It wns Impo8lblo for him to
hao anything to do with her Magic
trato Barlow agreed with him and dls
mIMed the complaint
Elms left tho courtroom Immediately
As ho passed his wife the court officers
Hoard her say I wUl get you yet
Shfl followed him to the street and
when she saw him enter the front door
of William Morriss cafe at Fifty
fourth street and Dlghth avenue she
entered the rear door
Harry leopold of No 167 West Thir
tyfourth street was sitting In the rear
room when his reverie was suddenly In
terrupted by an excited woman who
drew a revolver from her pocket and
began loading It Ill cot him she
mumbled
Her Husband Fled
Leopold summoned the waiter and the
proprietor but before they had an op
portunity to confront Mrs Elms she
rushed Into the bar with her pieta
raised and ready for execution
Where Is he she cried
Elms dashed out of the front door
and bac to the courtroom leaving
the waiter and bartender to struggle
with the excited woman He came back
with Policeman Burlington who placed
Mrs Elms under arrest and took her
back to court
Mrs Elms said she had purchased
the revolver In a pawnshop determined
to fix him If the law didnt She
was held In J600 ball
FROM WHOLESALE IIOUSE DIRECT
Suit or Overcoat made to roeaaur
from any material In our house 5160
regular Jii values S J Singer Sons
5SSJO Broadway Take elevator tc
third floor Open Saturdays S0 P M
Theres Not a Furnished
Room in This Great City
But That Can Be Rented
If You Tell
All New York I
its location size and price through
A Furnished Room Ad
In The Morning World
if you have failed to secure a tenant
through advertising in minor
newspaper
Its the Fault of the Medium
Not the Fault of the Room
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WORLD To Lrt
Adi printed fall year
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I MORE THAN
THE HERALD
or any other newspaper on earth
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Wed Ab Smttnd men Otn Feil
MD NIL RIDfS
CEO HI WHITE TO
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VICTORY IN FIRST
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Cheap Class of Horses Go for I
Purses at New I
Orleans
JIM MCORMICK ILL
Eastern Owner Taken to Hos
pital Suffering From
Fever Attack
speea1 U TTi yrenlne WrL
NXTW ORLEANS Jan Zi Thr wa
more than a touch of frost in the air
lit City Park today and many of the
Northern visitors were p utto wonder
ing whether they really are engaged In
winter racing In a sunny clime Th
Khernjometer took a decided drop ant
of the
only a few brave ones outside
regular band of racegoers made the
Journey to the track
The proifranme offerd was about on
a par with the weather The races wen
diearily trained to let In cheap horses
and again the entire card was made up
I of selling races Half the card was
given to distance horses for races at fl
1 mile and a sixteenth and two at a mile
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and a quarter
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James MoOormlck one of the most
prominent of tho Eastern owners and
trainers was taken to a hospital today
suffering from an aggravated attack ol
fever Ills condition M considered ser
ious and all his horses entered for to
day were withdrawn The track was
Mill he vy and lumpy but with the
strong north wind blowing there was
prospect of good going within a fen
days
FIRST RACEPurse W > maiden
threeywirolds selling one mile and
onenlictionth G orge JL Tilte Iff
MoDnnlel 7 to 2 3 to 2 and 4 to G won
by three lengths Bulkhead KG Gloss
i 15 to X C to 1 and 3 to 1 2 Sylvia G
I 100 TV Ott 7 to 1 3 to 1 and 3 to 2 3
I Time 1M Speed Marvel Brnkespoare
I Sundart Mannle May Calvin Dorothy
Ann Bitter Man Yankee Rose Mexico
Maid Mid Hcnto also ran
LIFESAVERS CALL
HELP FOR SHIP A
WRfCK IN STORM
Unable to Reach Vessel Them
selves They Telegraph for
Sea Tug
HULL Mas Jan 2tA vessel be
lleed to be a threemasted schooner
won discovered ashore In Black Rock
Channel on the Lowell Island sldo and
opposite Bus Light In the lower har
bor shortly after 2 oclock this after
noon The weather Is very thick and
It Is not known how long tho vessel
has been In her present position
i Capt Sparrow of the Stony Beach
UfeSavlng Station telegraphed to
tloston for help saying that his crow
could not get out to the vessel on ac
count of a storm prevailing In rev
Isponse to Sparrows message a tug was
despatched to the scene
It was learned later thnt the vessel
was tho schooner Fortuna bound llsht
from Newburyport for Boston The
lJitima anchored In Broad Sound early
today but slipped her chains Clio tugs
Mercury and Confidence picked her up
and wore tuning her to port when the
hawser parted and the vessel brought
1110
up on tiie hOOCh on the back side ot
lx ells Island
ARGENTINE WARSHIPS
TO ESCORT YANKEES
MONTEVIDEO Jan 24Five Argen
tine warships passed hero today on
their way to receive the American tor
pedobuat llotllln on he high seas off
Mnhlonailc They will is eon the vial
i Ins vessels to Buenos lyres
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I WAS ALL BUN DOWN
l Ane Tery week I took Fath r Johns Ysd1
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Mother of Dowager Duchess I
I of Manchester In Her Youth
OLD DOMINION
LINtR CAUGHT IN
oDMILf GAL
Steamer from New York Head
ed for Norfolk Behind
Time and Not Sighted
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NORFOLK Vn Jan 21 With the
temperature down to 22 degrees the
Virginia and North Carolina coast was
today swept by a ewers storm accompanied
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companied by a blinding snow and In
creasing northwest winds which this
afternoon had reached n maximum
velocity of sixty miles an hour at Cape
Henry i
The wind while blowing coastwise I
weasel off shore is believed to have
wrought muoh damage to shipping I
caught at sea
Tho Old Dominion steamer from New
I
York due to have passed In the capes
at S A M today had not boon sighted
nt 2P P M
The Now York Philadelphia and Nor
folk steamer Maryland from Cape
Charles Va had a severe experience In
crossing lower Chesapeake Bay today
and tens several hour late All Ches
apeake Bay steamers In from Balti
more and Washington had hard going
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FOUR OYSTER BOATS
LOST IN STORM
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NEWPORT NUWri Vn Jan 21
Four oyster schooners are believed to
have been lost In toi js storm off
Browns Shoals The body of a man
supposed to have been from ono of
the vessels was swept by a Newport
News dock In a Meaty current this
uftcrrnoon The pea wi 80 high that
the body could not bo caught
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Last Two Days of Big Sale
12 Mens Winter Ocoats595
Hub lotlilrrni VJt7JM llronilM n >
Cur IliircliO hL nil I IlinlOlllee
fast two dale of hilt aie of all our
XI and J1S Ins Wircr SUlu and
Overcoats < l in nut lilaek ray anti
brown all sixes 31 toil siiiKb or double
b ri mini silk 111 s in line I Opn
Siturdns ovenliiB till 10 Hub CMolhlnK
Corner llrondnny and Barclay st
o
A World Help Want brings
a good cook the samo das
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MRS YINAGA
DIES IN SOUTHI
PNUMONIA
Was the Mother of Consuelo
The Dowager Duchess of
Manchester
JJews wns received here today of the
death of Mra Ellen Yznafrn which oc
curred at her estate Lake St John
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Concordia Parlfh Ua after a hrlal
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Illness from pneumonia
i Se funeral arrangements will be
made until word Is received from her
l daughter the Dowager Duchess ol
Manchester Mrs Yznaga was In her
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soventyslxth year
Ellen Clements Yrnata iwaa the widow
I ol Antonio Ysnaga a wealthy Cuban
who died In this city In 1KC She was
tho descendant of < v Yankee family
which nettled In Louisiana early In the
last century She was noted not only
In the South bait also here and in New
port for her wit and beauty She loved
the negro melodies of the South and
non much admiration In her rendering
of them
The Yznosa home ut Newport nd
joined that of AV W Asters a decade
ago The house is owned toy the Inger
oils of Philadelphia
Before Mr Yznagan deith the family
met with many financial reverses and
I went to live at Orange N J
When the father of the present Duke
ot Manchester vlsltod this country In
1S77 hrh vaa taken III and was nursed
In the Yznam home Durlni this Illness
he dlseor orcd his love for Miss Con
suca Yzmsa Thcv worn married In
Grnce Church this olty In May li7S
Kmlty Yznasn the oldest daughter
married Sir John LIter Kaye Fer
nando A Yznaga the on married the
daughter of Murray Smith of Ala
bama it sister of Mrs W K Vander
bllt She seAiurod a divorce and mar
ried William Tiffany
At the death of Fernando Yznaga he
left all his afore which amounted to
more than UOCOWX to his sister the
UuohPM of MancMeatoi Nor a penny
wait left to his mother
Mrs Yrnasi iiiu several times In re
cent > eari suffered severe lllmjios but
alnayn recovered her heiltJi owlnp to
the remarkable vitality she possessed
DONT BE MISLED Cooktni Ulnslle if
8eaA1 tev TmAKIKYvaUvUtwU s
JURY ACQUITS
PETSCH OF THE
ffRR KilliNG
Judge Favors the Prisoner in
Charging Jury in Phila
delphias Thaw Case
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RULES OUT JEALOUSY I
Also Declares that a Verdict of
Murder in First Degree Must
Not Be Considered
In f tlifn nftrrnnnn the jnrr In
the Drtnoli cane rendered n rrtllrt
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of Not Gnllly
Cnplt to Tit Evonlnff VvorM
prllIA MMlIA Jan U1ho char
against Andrew J rvtsch Jr charged
with Bliootlns nod kllllns harry rnrree
was given tn the Jury today the pris
i oner have full nssurinoo that ho would
I at least escape the gallows
I Judge Bregy charge the Jurors to
dismiss nil thought or ronvletlng DeLsch
I of murder In the firM degree The
Judge In his charge followed his ruling I
In the trial that anr r fi retire to a
liaison between Ferroe tho xlrtlnt link
I tIe wife of IJetsch muft be eliminated
I unless It was proved that the prisoner
had knowledge of such relations This
I ruling took away the best weapon of
the prosecution kept Mrs Detsch from
the Witness stand and robbed the case
i of a most soii atknal feature namely
the revelations of the woman concerning
I
ing her relations with IVrtto and her
expected accusation that the slain man
had blackmailed her after they quar
relled
Police Theory Failed
The ruling meant that the prosecution
could not prove the theory i > f the po
Uco thai Detschs motive for the klllliiK
was jealous and rouibo and that his
wife Jialu broken with FLTILO acted
M a lure for the victim
Judge Dreg In his address to the Jury
saidThere
There have been Inrfnuatlons hero
and some side lights have crept In from
the tuhtlmon that this ilffuiidants wife
occupied an Improper rulitlun to rerrue
In othur words that the woman was a
worthless wile Aj 1 told you gentle
men yesterday that If dint were tui
nnU thd defendant kiwI uf tho fact It
might be some calico Cur ustibllshlng a
motive for the killing but how could 11
be a cause If hu did not know If
Arc there no men who have filth
loss whoa and do nut know It7 If the
defendant krew she was faithless It
would furnish a motive foi the iiiunlei
But a man Cannot bo animated by
what he dues not know lute defendant
dcnles that ho know nnr tiling about
this alleged rolattunshlp and as tho
wltn < SS who may have bun In n
position to know say they did not toll
him and as there la absolutely no ovl
denco to show that ho did know It
cannot be stated or bcUevcd that Clio
kl1l1n was done whit mallco
ntorrlnj to tho letters which were
found In jerroo room and which the
prosecution IntJniatod wore written hv
lire Detsch Judge Breey wormed the
Jury not to guess or wonder what wits
In them lie instructed them to ar
rIo at their coiwlualuii b > Judging till
svldencc only
The Judges charge was regarded by
to the summing
some as an ivnswor
Assistant DistrictAttorney Tau
jp of
too who being uiwblo to get the lal
ion testimony In alluded to it in his
address saying
The law prohibits us from calling
he wife But you have no doubt that
his loams up big in thU affair It Is
within the power of the defense to call
her and where a husband Is on trial
or murder ever human ImpuHu Im
pels a wile to rialto the stand and tell
very word sue van In Ills defense
rthy Is sliii not oulleJ It IH buvau < e
the ilofsnao tears to Stave the whole
story known
vho call better tell what took place
Harry
In that room on the night Hint Hum
ease was murdered It is not fair to
you that the vv ulu story is not told
mil there Is no doubt In Jour made
that If we had that wife here we would
leani about MOIIIO other motive for the
killing of Marl 1erree
Tune Jury uppcarud 811 deeply Impressed
by Mr TnulitueK plea for a conviction
that Jiiilcu Broiv warned them ngiilnst
arguing an opinion until they had hearth
tile argument for the prisoner and his
jwn charge
The peMistenm of the attorneys for
the defense In keeping Mrs Detschs
can tM IOns with tlie inunler of home
nit of the case entirety was sharply U
ustniled bv the fart tin sliu nuigol
nen allowed to keep tier seat near the
lury box On the Mrst day of the trial
lohn sat with the ilefenllus nttnrnevn
but yesterday and today oho was
OQIIrtIooIao hllced to keep far In the rear of the
DEATH IN STORM
THAT PARALYZES
ALL CITY TRAFFIC
Hundreds of Thousands Suffer Delay
and Many Are Injured as Result
of Sudden Coming of
Wintry Blast
STEAMER IS DRIVEN ASHORE
AND LINERS HELD OUT AT SEA
Local and Suburban Lines Stalled Bridges
Tied Up and Subway Transportation
the Only Method Not Seriously
Affected by NearBlizzard
The tail of a blizzard that has been lashing the Northwest with its
icy fury for the past twentyfour hours fell on this city and the surrounding
rounding country today with disastrous results
Traffic was paralyzed throughout an area of many square miles
there was untold suffering among the poor and an appalling amount of
discomfort for the millions of toilers who left their homes in a blinding
gale of snow
Four deaths were reported as dire lly de to the stem and there
were scores of minor casualties
The Sound steamer John H Starin went ashore in the blinding mist
Df snow off Whitestone and dozens of other steamers were stormbound
above Hell Gate Incoming ocean liners did not dare the Ambrose Chan
nel three being held at anchor oT the Hook
The steamer Massachusetts of the outside line between New York
md Boston is anchored off New London Lighthouse The steamer
rdgemont of the Joy line is anchored under the lee of Fishers Island
md nearby is an outside line steamer of the PortlandNew York line
The havoc with railroad schedules has rarely been paralleled
Eighteen Lackawanna trains were stalled for three hours west of the
4ackensack Bridge and a Long Island Railroad train was crippled on the
Jamaica Bay trestle when the locomotive jumped the track
Brooklyn was in sore straits with every line of the B R T practl
ally out of commission and the Bronx was almost as badly off as if it
lad been lost in the foothills of the Adirondacks
Staten Island was not only snowbornd but nil is telephone and tele
jraph wires were down
The eastern section of Long Island has not been heard from New
Jersey is still on the map but badly smothered under the snow blanket
Beginning at 7 oclock last evening In 1 side there was so great a congestion
a mild windtossed snow flurry the
storm gathered fury with each succeed
ing hour and long before dawn there
were all the features of an oldfash
toned howler present In the open places
the gale swept the Icy particles of snow
In a blinding mist piling up drifts alonx
the thoroughfares to the depth of three
or four feet
There was no comfort or convenience
anywhere above ground and those who
managed to plough their way through
the drifts and across tralllc Jammed
streets tramped to the subway where
trnlllc was slow but sure Hundroili
of thousands living In tho remote places
dependable entirely upon surface lines
had to walk miles to elevated roads and
subways Thu Lone Island Railroad
moved Us trains at a snails pace and
ull tho suburban roads In Non Jersey
suffered from the saute hamper of snow
and piling drifts
Bridges Out of Business
The Brooklyn Bridge was blocked
completely for more than an hour dur I
ing the early rush period and the Will
amsburg Bridge went out of commis
sion altogether as a means of transit
from the Long Island tenement districts
to the workshops on the east side of
Manhattan At 9 oclock fifty cars were
stalled at tho Manhattan approach to
tiiX brJdce sad oa Ce WUumtburc
that the reserves of the Bedford avenue
station were called out to handle the
crush
As usual In all paralyzing storms In
this city the ofllclils of the various
surface lines declared that everything
wits moving as smoothly as on the
blandest spring morning Superintend
oit of Transportation Delaney of the
New York City Railroad Issued a
statement In which he made the as
tounding declaration that not a line
of his cars wits lied tip Reports from
passengers and an Investigation made
by reporter showed that practically
every crosstown line on Manhattan Isl
and was totally out of service
The One Hundred anil Twentyfifth
street crosstown line ran a few cars
behind snow ploughs during the early
morning but at less than a foot paco
Amsterdam avenue cars were unable S
to run up either of the hills from the
Manhattan street hollow No cars were j
running on the Ono Hundred and For
tytlfth street crosstown line
Mr Delaney admitted that the schml
ules had all gone to smash and that
the cars could not be relied upon to
make any sort ot decent speed i
But this IH not due to the storm
tie said Tha congestion of vehicular u
trattlo entirely responsible tor it J
Trucks sloth other veoiolM ars blocJUafl J
j 4 j > ir iTifrrfj