World (Newspaper) - October 16, 1899, New York, New York Weather Forecast The Worlds Highest Help Wants printed in The World fast week bat Help Wants in the other New York papers Weather Forecast The Worlds Great Want Circulation Books Open to Circulation Books Open to Advertisements printed last over last by the Press New York sh OCTOBER Gain ONE CENT In Greater anil TWO CENTS ol Greater New York nml City and on Alfred and Reginald and Harry Payne Whitney Left Newport for This City Last VANDERBILT Son Just Returned from His Globe Trot ting Shows Plainly His of APPEARS TO BE MUCH Already He Seems tlic Bur den WUlch Be His Estate la Special to Tho and irald Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whit representing his who was Ger trude lett for New York to night to be present at the reading of Cornelius Vanderbilt remains here with her two Whitney and Miss The private oar that had brought Al fred Vanderbilt home was shunted around by way of Mansfield and donee to It had been Intended to make the trip to New York by way of but in the car around first It enabled the family to cut two hours of their Journey by taking the boat to This connects with the Boston which Is due In New York tomorrow at 7 Carriages will meet the party and they will be driven to the There some time tomorrow the will will be this time The lawyers will be and William and Senator De and perhaps who has heard the will The will will then be filed for This may bo done tomorrow or the next a Sad Tho day was a culet one at the Break Young Alfred head of tha was home in but his summons was A happy boy two months ago when he left for hi he returned a welshed down with grief and responsi Alfred Sundays before his fathers deiT were spent like those of other rich men at Some times ho went to church with the sometimes he but the afternoons found him at the Reading Room or the Casino or the Golf Club with his He couldnt take the His father allowed them their days rest with ex acting but he rould run about in his But today was Alfred Van derbilt has already taken up the reins of He went to church with his younger brother Reginald his little sister Gladys and his little Dorothy sister of Harry Payne married Gertrude Vander All Wuro in All wore The family car riage took to old Trinity Church and waited till they were ready after service to go back to their home Thero were nods of recognition and hearty but Alfred Vander was very He was pleased to see Ms but the of millions already weigh down upon In church these were babies but the themselves as old people helped his little sister find the places In the prayer and Reginald did the same for his little who studied the group saw a boy who within a few weeks had become He was tall and slender when he went His trip had made him His angularities had filled out But his face told another Alfred ten years older than he did when he left BO gayly for the West last His brown eyes look solemn and serious the old twinkle Is There are lines of care around tols mouth and seams ot sorrow across Ms Few noticed the four young people driving but Miss Elsie French saw them ana stopped the When young Alfred saw her he smiled for the first They shook hands Pew Scarcely any one was allowed to In trude on the little family party at the Only ons or two of Alfred most Intimate chums were No business was did not go to church with her but she passed the after noon with him Once the two appeared for a few minutes on the lawn outside the stone The mother was in deep black the son had his arm ten around her and they were talking Tonight there was a little family din wholly at which all the were and to which young Robert Gerry came as the most Intimate friend of Even the two little as a rule do not come to were INDEX TO i 6 1 I 4 Boant a fit Property to fl 4 7 v 8 Pin 6 I U 4 li 4 SB 4 1 i 7 7 1 I uml 10 8 IV Q and 3 H fl 6 Estate 1U 6 S 1 9 7 of H 7 Real 6 7 9 7 X T T to Sill He Knocks Down Men and Stops Street Cars and Other wise Enjoys NEVER HAD SUCH FUN Sees a In a Red Snorts in Glee as She Scorches Like WHEN HE GETS TIRED HE JUST Down in the Street and Will Not So He Han to Be Carted to the A young steer yesterday furnished the lower west side with the Sun day It fhas had In For hours the steer had a crowd of a thousand at his heels and retreating at his He knocked down several men and threw cyclists from their stopped street cars and overthrew a In addition to butting and breaking windowpanes in a At 1 oclock the cause of the disturb ance broke away from pens a street and East Pie through causing a panic and barely missing collision with street cars on his way across When he reached eighth avenue he Bicycle riders away In He wandered stopping several street but allowing no one to approach As he emerged irom behind one of the Eighth avenue electric cars he saw a girl In a red sweater wheeling She saw and bending over the scorched so fast that she broke records and tho city At street saw she was not to be go he caught his breath and A dozen bolder than the started to encircle Just then five men on turned west into Thirtyeight street from The steer dashed after them and before was he had knocked all of them from their with satisfaction continued to tho North It was dull there and he returned east through The er of an tried to head him off at With one lunge he separated the shafts from the wagon and with another he felled the Seeing a woman standing terror stricken at Fortieth street and Ninth he butted her into the With an air of defiance he walked down the ear tracks to butting a lamp post and then gonig Edward of 406 West Thir ran after him with a lassoing him near Ninth Charles of IDS West seeing that OBrien was unable to hold the went to his In a moment they were olC their Then Patrolmen Patrick Ryan and Charles of the West Thirty seventh Police aided by a dozen caught the rope and succeeded In throwing the after being hound with ropes carried In a wagon to Kellys livery oppo site the police There the steer broke loose and smashed several panes of glass bfore he was tied In a It was then 5 to Be Cancel to At 8 oclock Isador represent ing tho called with a The steer seemed Scholer placed a halter on tied him to the tail of the wagon and started for the pound at Ono Hundred and Eighty fourth street and Arthur When Eighth avenue was reached the animal laid down and no amount of pulling would Induce him to get After se curely binding the steer with the hind wheels of the wagon were taken off and the animal was drawn up the In After replacing the wheels completed his Journey to the DISEASE IN SUMMER Typhoid from HotelN ana to Tho NEW Charlos of the Yale Medical School Secretary tho Connecticut State Board of declares that the chief cause of typhoid fever and other Infectious diseases Is summer In his report for September he says Summer are appre the risks of boarding and oven their own shore cot The proprietors of the large hotels know that a case of typhoid fever would scatter their guests almost as quickly as a and hence they are for the most part kept with scrupulous and vigilant attention to the practice of good But In the cheaper and especially in the clusters of shore the violation of sanitary law Is so frequent and so flagrant that If they were occupied con instead of only for a few weeks at n they would soon become dangerously unfit for human The State Board of Health of Con has more than once traced the origin of prevalence of ty fever to infection incurred at a summer hotel and developed after the return of Its guests to their scattered i To Cure a Cold In One Take All BRITISH POSITION IN NATAL WHICH THE BOERS ARE MARCHING Ethel Wife of William of Eloped with Edward BOTH MEN ARE YOUNG They Still Work Side by but Bitter Enmity Has Taken the Place of THE HUSBAND WILL GET A He 9H1I tlic Who Her Is KIN Only Ethel the pretty wife of William an artist on the Il lustrated two weeks ago with who was the best friend of her husband and an artist on the same For years who Is and who Is were fast and three years ago when Burford led his dainty bride of nineteen to the altar Johnson was the first to wish him who Is the son of Police tooh his to his fathers at South Ninth It only a blocks from home on Fenn near South In tho office where they worked Bur ford and Johnson sat close to each They would exchange help other and at night It was their wont to home When dinner was over would exchange Won Friends If Edward Johnson came to the house when William was away there could be no they were such true But just two weeks ago Burford She said to her husband In the same affectionate manner which she had shown their saw him leave for his and without any of her left the Burford was not surprised when John son did not appear at his desk that He thought his friend might be That he carried home a present for his In their room no welcome awaited His wife was not Oh the was a little pink note which paid Gone with ono I love Then tile truth flashed upon He knew that his had gone with He employed detectives to track and that Johnson and Burford had for Philadelphia on a train from Jersey Went to But the trip to Philadelphia was only a The pair Instead went to Hobo where they registered at a The next morning Burtord went to his work as but with a sad His thoughts were ever with his lost and great was his surprise to see son walk In and take his accustomed You dog cried and he rushed at the destroyer of his others held him and who had sat down again with the words She Is happier Burford was almost crazy with and his friends took him It was some time before he sained sufficient control of himself to work beside his former now his worst Burford will get a and John son and Burford vill marry us soon as she is I loved her dearly I like her Burford said In sadness I can give for my wifes except that she loved Johnson Her happiness is al I I have schooled myself to the idea of giv ing her SHE Hoys Mother Him Sent to nn He Is a said the of Andrew when he was arraigned In the Myrtle Avenue with va I would be obliged to she you would put him into some institution until he to yoars of Andrew In fourteen years old and his home Is at 4fl West He has run away from there time after He had been camping out for several days In the lots opposite public School His only protection from er was an old of which he had made a have been thefts i IT IS UPON SUCH KOPJES QR TAE TATUS COVER T ME V LIE DOWN BEHIND THE UPON KE 5T AND TIRE 5MA11 CHANCE OF BOERS IN AMBUSH IN The sort of warriors and warfare the British commanders in that Hunter and are now Cupid Puts in a Busy Week at the Wilcox Home in SON and the police Three marriages In one week is the record of the Wilcox of 1G1 Roseville Last Wednesday Miss Helen Wilcox became the wife of Karl of Roseville Immedi ately following that George father of wedded Miss Margaret of New It had not beon the Intension of the senior Wilcox to have marriage take place at that but lie and his bride inspired by the At tho two weddings was George son of the elder bridegroom and of AVIth Wilcox was his Miss Bertha of 205 Again example was ancl the two were made man and wife night at the home of the The ReVi of Thomass all three Is President of the Wl cox Watch Cane Manufacturing Com of He B ami m nis tp his he gave each a certified check for Broke HiH Special to The of 1SKK his right t leg broke near the while playing a game of football wi the crack player of the ttam accident will cripple fpr the Vanderbilt Copyrights the Plans of His New Country House at Structure to Be Erected at Fifth Avenue and Fifty fifth ONE REPLACING BURNED THE OTHER TO PUT UP A William has copyrighted the plans for his house at Now millionaires who pretend to be up to date and In the same class as will have to do likewise when they took out a copyright to keep from the public information re garding his new lie also gave strict Instructions to the and Charles In charge the to observe absolute secrecy regarding the work on tho At present thene are at work laying tho foundation of the man Moro than two hundred will be employed before the end of the so as complete the masonry work before cold weather sets the new structure Is being erected upon the site of the building which was destroyed by last spring while oc by Willie and his bride on the day following the The will be three stories high and will be Tho northwest side be about 100 feet from Great which Hows through the Tlie front doors will open Into a spa cious hall connecting with the main re ception The first will be four feet above the ground and will con tain the and draw and the bed aril will tc on the second No wood will be used in the cabinet Vunder not wishing to run the of an other Most ofthe material will be stone and finished In architectural style house will be with many John Jacob Astor will soon begin the erection of a fireproof apartment adjoining the site of the Republican Clubs new at Fifth avenue and Sime time auo the Republican Club leased the plot of land 40 by 100 feet at the southeast corner of Fifth avenue and This disposition of the corner property Astors and he decided to erect a hotel Instead ot a much smaller as at first The plot on which the new apartment hotel will be built has a frontage of 35 feet on Fifth is 100 feet with a 60toot on thus surrounding the Republican Club house on the south and Invitations will be to architects during the present week to submit plans In compe The new hotel will cost about An apartment hotel on the grand scale proposed by Astor is some what of an Innovation In the millionaire district in which it mansion Is only two blosks The great brown are a stones William Cor Cornelius Herman William and Harry live In the near The district Is out the the the Plaza being only four blocks The Club has not yet been able to secure satisfactory and la believed that If willbe impossible to complete the clubhouse by May 1 the date for present quarters art 450 Fifth The Worlds War Correspondent at the Front Cables That the Boers Are Massed on Both Borders Preparatory to an Invasion from Several BRITISH HAVE EVACUATED Garrison at Constantly Expecting Attack and Reported to Be Confident of Ability to Successfully Defend the Town Against Any Boer RAILWAY CRIPPLED ABOVE This la to Account for tlie Delay ol the Transvaal In the Undefended Portions of the Colony to Assault Fortified NEWS The Worlds war correspondent in Natal cables that the British have abandoned Newcastle to the but are confident that they can success fully defend A battle Is expected at any The invasion of Natal has been delayed by the destruction of tho reversing station above preventing the Boers from using the railway at Snow has fallen on the mountain range which separates the Orange Free State from This may interfere with military It is presumed that has been but no definite news about it has been allowed to pass the British censor at Cape having been the nearest British point of tion with is now sixty miles The Boers are closing in on the great diamond centre in Capo One command has been discovered camped eight miles southeast of tho A British hospital train In Northern Cape Colony narrowly escaped hundred Boers from Orange Free threaten Cape The Presidents of the two republics maintain communication by The German at Cape Town issued a proclamation com manding all Germans aloof Conyngham the British agent who withdrew from has arrived safely at Cape KIMBERLEY BESIEGED BY BOERS EAGER TO CAPTURE CECIL Malls Cape Town telegraph ing Sunday says Kimberley Is besieged and the Boers are massing in No how are The Boers cut the railway at have seized the Rail way Station and constructed fortified They are strong defending forces at Modder Bridge and the Orange River The object of these energetic operations Is believed to be the capture of Cecil Kimberley Is now both railway and telegraphic communication being DUTCH CLOSING IN ON DIAMOND THE HEADQUARTERS OF CECIL CAPE Cape have been discovered eight miles southeast ot Great clouds of dust seen ten miles to the eastward of Kimberley this morning seem to Indicate the movement of a large body of troops with Two imperial officers at midday also discovered a column of 400 Boers going in tho direction of Modder River bridge from Small parties of evidently on a commandeering have passed Kaffir There are large commandos on either side of the The Burghers say they will have They probably Intend to Join the other force which went in camp last night sefren miles from the Cape Colony Five hundred Boer troops occupy northward Fourteen with where they are awaiting orders to destroy the line or attack Fourteen The railway telegraph officials have abandoned The nearest British point to is understood to be sixty miles While it is general belief that the Boera are attacking there Is still no confirmation ot the If the Boers had met with any It would surely have been as the only telegraphic communication la In the hands of the The absence of Is regarded as a good A Kaffir taken to Vryburg by the returning hospital train says he passed the scene of the recent armored train disaster and sow several bodies of white men lying AND IN President of the Orange Free and President of the Trans maintain direct telephone It is rumored that the strengthened by eight hundred Boers from Is menacing North despatches say that heretofore haa been a great aid to Boor Is now closed and guarded by Cape Thero Is still no reliable news from either or Glencoe except that a natrol from the latter place exchanged shots with a small body of Boers on the road to All reports agree that the Boers now occupy Tlie German at Cape Town has issued a proclamation of neu commanding all Germans to hold aloof from from and Consul from have arrived here Greene was accorded a magnificent A crowd of three thousand persons who had gathered sang Rule Britannia and God Bave the The Modder River stationmaster reports that firing has been heard in the direction of and the stationmaster at Belmont telegraphs that a fores of Boors Is advancing NESBITT MIGHT HAVE SAVED the of which was derailed and bombarded by the states that If the train had returned when warning was that the Boers held tho it could easily hive made its way back to but insisted upon an endeavor being made to reach Mafe When the pilot engine was said we spent a half hour lo replace It on the Then the Boers commenced firing and several men were The firing was kept up all but without The Boers were careful to concentrate their fire upon the so as to save the armored carriage and ammunition At dawn they commenced to bombard the I escaped by crawling a mile and in tho When both engines were destroyed flags of but the Boers continued their firing for another quarter of an is no doubt that all the others on the train and that Uw
