Abram S. Hewitt Head. Fireman Loses Life
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V<M LXII- -Xo 20J51& NEW-YORK. MONDAY. .JANUARY 19, 1903. TWELVE PAGES- KrJZSShSSL*-. VIUCK THREE CENTS. Till-: I.AIIN STRANDED. DISTRESS IN LONDON. ABRAM P HEWITT. FIREMAN LOSES LIFE. ABRAM S. HEWITT HEAD. ASHORE AT GIBRALTAR. MORE IDLE THAN EVER. ALL DA V BOWERY BLAZE. END YESTEMDA J IT / M — — — I'}i.successful Efforts Made to Float British Workhouses. Overflowing Many of Purroifs —Men Overcome Conscious Almost to the Last Ths the Xarth German Line?: Tubemukcrs Cut Prices, Pedestrians Ili/rf CtO% Blocked. Funeral on Wednesday. fSDeclal 2:;"» (Jibraltar. - The X-crth German Lloyd to The N«w-Tork Tribune by French CablO Rasaes discovered at a m. yesterday in Abram Stevens Hewitt, manufacturer. law- Jan. 18 (CopvrUrht: meamer La!;n. Iron, Mediterranean ports for 1003- By The Tribune Association.) hundreds of bales of excelsior, jute and fibre yer, ex-member of Congress, ex-Mayor and London, 19, longer stored in the lower part •- New-York. Mot anbore at 4 o'clock this morn- Jan. 1a. m.—There can no of the modern seven philanthropist, died >\u25a0*\u25a0«;. iin< at <! be any question story metal frame and buff brick building Nos. Ing at Tumara. five miles eact of the rock of as to the extent and gravity of o'clock at his home. No. 9 Lexington-av<\ Hi* <;:hraliar. There was a heaa-y fog, and rain the distress now prevailing In London. Many 394 and 39«> Bowery, which fronts in the open last moments were quiet and peaceful. Th<»r« triangle at the junction of Third and Fourth a a«= failing at the time. She. Is In no danger. thousands of men In excess of the usual average was no struggle, no pain. Gradually hi:< breath- winter, ayes.. reduced lytng stern on to the sea. are out of employment this and the the structure to a shell and ing bscnaac weaker until the end came. caused the death of one and the over- All attempts made to float the Lahn proved workhouses cannot accommodate all the people fireman At his bedside were his wife. Mrs. Sarah unsuccessful. The steamer probably will be demanding shelter. Things have reached a seri- coming of Severn! other?. Cooper .Hewitt, and his children. Peter Cooper < .impeller! to transship her passengers and ous pass In the East End of the metropolis, while James Corbett. of Hook and Ladder Com- Hewitt. Erskine Hewitt. Edward R. Hewitt, pany No. killed, «argo.' The attempts to pull off the stranded the tide of alien immigration 's steadily rising U. was and George Doherty. of Mrs. J. O. Green. Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt higher and higher. But a serious of affairs Engine Company No. failing to regain steamer were made at hieh water by the Brit- state ~~. and .Miss Eleanor C. Hewitt. also In consciousness when taken into the open air. ish Admiralty tug Energetic, the United States exists other parts of Great Britain. An Mr. Hewitt, who bad be»n seriously 111 sine* Newa, endless stream of country bred folk are pouring was removed to Bellevue Hospital. The other ( miser Hartford, and the tujs Heraclides January 9, had displayed marvellous vitality. into cities, Canadian men prostrated who, on coming to, returned to md Hercules, but the Lahn remained fast on the overcrowded while At one time he actually grew stronger, but at farmers posts, James Patrick the sandbank. organize expeditions to search the Old their were MeCaH and 11 o'clock on Saturday night his physicians Country much needed labor, offer good Maguire, of Engine Company No. 7-\ aad John The iucf continued their fruitless efforte to for and summoned the entire family, telling them that wages BfcGougß J. Milton, of F>.gi;ie Company pan off Jh^ Lahn all day. The Energetic and for efficient men without satisfactory re- and Mr. Hewitt was fast losing consciousness. sponse. No. 28. th" Hartford left here for the scene of the Official statistics show that the British Throughout the night M»-s. Hewitt and members emigrant McGough knocked by falling ma- afternoon. The Hercules returned does not generally elect to make his was down of the family held vigilat fhe bedside. At .". •'«> neck thai 205,910 terial perished. \u25a0 home in the British colonies. Of emi- at the time Corbett Miss C.race I :. -night to procure laborers and lighters WHEN MAYOR OF NEW-YORK. THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH. o'clock yesterday w irninif the doctors an- grants from this country last year, 108,501 went King, of No. 106 Fourth-aye.. while passing hand, to begin the work of discharging the Lahn's (Copyright, 1902, by Rock wood.) nounced that the end was at and a little to the United States. This condition of things has along the street, tripped over hose, and, falling, away. iargn immediately. later Mr. Hewitt passed induced one newspaper to declare that the future sustained contusions which caused her removal The poflsengcru on the Lahii number about theory Ten days ago Mr.Hewitt became ill from ob- of the British race is imperilled by the draughts the Kaffir could be made to work. "In to Bellevue Hospital. .Albert J. Kramer, of No. .•• BUndred in the saloon, mostly Americans. structive jaundice. At 10 o'clock on the morn- made upon it from America, and that the greatest we have stopped slavery." said the Colonial SHELLED 115 East Sixty-fourth-st.. one of th>- *;>-•< tators. m/m hundred emigrants in the BY PANTHER. ing of January 8 he had a hemorrhage of th« and most Secretary, "but many philanthropists at home struck by wigglinghosepipe - passengers on board beneficent work that a British states- was a and suffered intestines, and phyisieans. Dr. E. L. Key* ••. A.II the are still be surprised to hear that we are en- his man could perform for the welfare of the nation would a severe scalp wound. He was sent to the family Th-y are quite safe provided the form, and Dr. E. L. Key*?. Jr.. told the that would be the Inauguration of some scheme couraging it In another and worse the New- York Hospital. in the west. Another attempt to for BATTLE AT MASACAIBO. the illness would doubtless prove fatal. An holds redistributing the people in the British Kaffir's idea being to buy wives to keep him in The premises in which the fire wsjts .jin will be mad" with the morning British started operation, which might have given relief, was Empire. idleness. The black race is Increasing with used entirely for business purposes. They cover I wind shift to the east, the considered Inadvisable because of Mr. Hewitt's the great rapidity, and unless it can be settled In a an unusually deep lot, and back of thc-m. on the D would be critical. The Gib- German Warship to Force advanced age. Cutting of prices in the tube trade has been regular industry it will prove a danger and a Unable Lafayette side of the- block, are the print- --rvice. to be prepared for an Place Everything possible to relieve his suffering nltax carried on to a ruinous extent, and negotiations difficulty." ing establishment Funk & Wagnails. the La- : oats at the Lahn all day the Entrance to the Lake. of was. of course, done. Oxygen was administered are now in progress for the formation of a Brit- Mr. Chamberlain urged the desirability of fayette Place Baths, and the .«tab!-->P of the Maracaibo, freely, and nitro glycerine was also used as a. ' ten association of tube makers. The movement increasing the white element in the colonies, Venezuela, Jan. 18.— The German Frank Hal! Bedding Company, of "V©.120 Bax- The Associated Press heart stimulant. The ex-Mayor made a gal- of is the outcome of the recent amalgamation of and said they wanted more brains and less cruiser Panther shelled Fort San Carlo?, at the ter-st. the agent of a salvage company lant fight. A week ago it was thought that h<* wed Lloyd & Lloyd, of Birmingham, and the Stew- muscle. With this in view, he advocated the Maracaibo, after- When the fire threatened to spread the two entrance to Lake yesterday not live through night, and the mem- bere. arts and the Menzies. of Glasgow. Stringent establishment of a university which would be and odd patrons baths could the noon, for fort the fire hundred of the were He rallied, stranding of the Lahn is attribtitPd to monetary are to be against superior to anything in the world. He opposed one hour. The returned bers of his family were summoned. The conditions enforced any importation warned of the danjrer by Maurice yon Wein. the the heavy rain. When off any of labor until all the resources with gruns. Panther withdrew in the however, and on Thursday seemed to be holding thick weather and firm breaking through the agreement. for developing available labor had been ex- four The manager, and Herman Barnard had th-» thirteen miles east of the rock of his own against the disease. On Friday he ap- Tosnan, about nve hausted, and he suggested that this subject be direction of Curacoa. horses in Hall & f'o.'s stables Itaawred to a • daybreak, the Lahn unexpect- considered by a royal commission. peared to be improving.' but on Friday night a ir. beforo The White Star Line apparently Is retaining Fort San Carlos is twenty-two miles from place of safety. • on a sandbank.'' The Colonial Secretary announced that Lord relapse came, with a gradual decline on Satur- Sly stranded more of its Individualitythan any other of the agreed Although there were long gaps hi the sending weather which prevailed Milner had to call a conference of the Maracaibo and commands the entrance to the day, until the yesterday morning.