New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1914, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS . ; v NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS" MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. ™ SH0T FRED AT MAYOR MITCHEL STRIKES. POLK . David Roge Attempls to Assassiate New York's Executive, bat Injures Corporation Counsel - DETECTIVE NEUN PREVENTS FIRING 0F SECOND SHOT Officials’ Were on Thelr Way to Lunch When Tragedy Occurred.— Victim Loses Nearly All His Front Teeth.—Prisoner on Being Ques- tioned Refused to Talk.—Letters to Executive Found in His Pocket, New York, April 17.—An assassin’s bullet aimed at Mayor Mitchel, as he wag leaving the city hall in an auto- mobile today for luncheon, missed its mark but badly wounded Frank Polk, corporation counsel. The man who fired the shot was almost instantly ‘overpowered. His name 1s David Rose; his age is nearly seventy and he gave evidences of being mentally ‘unbalanced. The bullet crashed through Mr. Polk's jaw, knocking out nearly all his front teeth and inflicting a serious though not necessarily fatal wound. He was assisted into the City hall, then removed to a hospital. “Mr. Polk was hit by a bullet, but the bullet was undoubtedly intended for me,” was the mayor’s comment. ‘Was Frequent Visitor. Attaches at the City hall said that Rcse had called to see the mayor several times lately but because of his queer actions, had not been per- mitted to do so. Rose, questioned while an ambu- . lance siirgeon was dressing Mr. Polk’s ‘wound, by the mayor and detectives, refused to answer any questions about himself. Two letters addressed to Mayor Mitchel were found in his clothing. The' shooting oecurred at the Park Row entrance.to.the. City -hall-Plaga, shortly after 1 o'clock. At that time «f the day Park Row {s congested with hundreds of men and wemen on their way to and from luncheon. After detectives had put question after question to him he said his name was soloschen. When clothing was removed, howeggr, it was found that his collar and trous- ers both bore the name “David Rose.” The man was poorly dressed: When asked where he lived he said he-had no_ home. Last Attempt in 1810: The last previous attempt to ‘as- sassinate a mayor of New York was made by James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor on August 9, 1910.. The bullet nearly found its mark and remained in the mayors throat. Many believed that the wound hastened Gaynor’s death. ‘ Gallagher was declared insane and sent to an asylum at Trenton, N. J., | where.-he died February 3, 1913, On Way to Lmunch. Mayor Mitchel, Police Commission- er Arthur Woods and Mr. Polk had just left the mayor’s office in the City hall to go to a downtown restaurant for luncheon. The three crossed the Plaza toward Park Row, where stood the mayor's automobile, driven by Detective George Neun. The mayor got in first, Mr. Polk and Commissioner Woods, following in the order named. , As the mayor sat down, Rose dodged through the ‘. crowd -on Park Row, and walking up » ' to a point opposite the chauffeur, took quick aim at Mr. Mitchel and fired. At the crack of the revolver Neun leaped from. the car upon the shoul- ders of the man and bore him to the ; sidewalk. This prevented him from firing his revolver a second time. Neun overpowered him angd took from him a six shot thirty-eight calibre re- * volver. Mayor Assists Polk, While the detective and Rose were struggling for possession of the re- volver Mr. Polk staggered and was saved from sinking to the sidewalk by the mayor. Blood was spurting from the mouth of the corporation counsel and he was half carried to the police station in the basement of the city hall, where policemen fat- tended to him as best they , could with first aid materjal, pending the arrival of surgeons. A policeman standing a few feet away from the automobile, blew his whistle as soon as he saw Mr. Polk stagger and with other policemen, assisted the struggling detective in holding Rose. Then they took the ‘would-be assassin in a room in the police station in the city hall base- ment, where he was questioned. Mayor ‘Qnesuons Rose, Mayor Mitchel came in and stood by the prisoner. Rose was trembling with fright and his hands shook. “Why did you shoot at me?” mayor asked him. Rose only mumbled. “I won't say anything,” rhouted. the he ‘then his | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914—SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHED WOMAN WILL SEEK AGAIN FOR LICENSE Mrs. Radom Undasnted By Being Re- fused Once — Remonstrance Against Hotel Washington. Mrs. Fannie Radom, whose applica- tion for a druggist’s license at 91 Broad street caused a stir in that was refused permission to have the license by the county commissioners, has filed another application. Her new application goes in With the ap- plications for renewals which were flled yesterday with Commissioner Robert A, Potter in the office of Liquor Prosecutor B. W. Alling. Altogether twenty druggists ap- plled for renewals of their licenses and two failed to apply. Their appli- cations will probably be sent in later. Mrs. Radom’s application is the only new one filed. She Will be given a hearing at 1 p. m. on May 8. Fifty-seven saloon keepers asked for renewals of fheir licenses, two having failed to ear before Com- missioner Potter. ere are no new saloon license applicatiops. It is understood that there will be a remonstrance against the granting of a license to the Hotel Washington at the hearing which is scheduled for 10 a. m. on April 27. sloners have been asked by some un- known person over the telephone for the time limit for filing remon- strances. SN % Antonio Rosasco, proprietor of a restaurant at 15 Railroad arcade, has applied for a license to serve drinkg with meals. A similar request made last year was refused. HOULIHAN HOME AFTER 30 ADVENTUROUS YEARS Found Excitement as Covy Puncher, Cavalryman and Police Sergeant. After an eventful career in the west. and southwest, William | Houli- han has returned to his former home in this city and. expects to settle down to the life of a. staid eastern- er. ’ Houlihan left New Britain thirty vears ago and has seen life in all its phases, He hax been: a soldier fight- fog Urier Uncle Sim's Hdg.” “He has occupied the less romantic position of sergeant of police. And he has had a taste of wild life on the ! cattle ranges. It is said that at one time he was with ex-President Theo- dore Roosevelt ‘when that venture- some spirit called the back of his cow pony, “Home, Sweet Home.” At an early age Houlihan showed ar inclination to get into the thick of any excitement. While a boy in the Grammar school he ran away and Joined the army but his relatives suc- ceeded in getting his release. As soon as he had grown to a strong youth he set out in search of adven- ture in the west. He got it. The rough life of the Texas ranges was his and when that became too pro- saic he enlisted in the United States cavalry and hunted the Filipino in his lair, carrying the flag to the in- nermost points of Uncle Sam’s big eastern archipelago. After returning from war he became a sergeant or police in Galveston, Texas, and was in that city when it was inundated by one of the greatest oceanic floods in history. Houlihan's health has not been ot the best, recently and he came east to Ris relatives while his strength lasted. He is staying with his sister, Mrs. Joseph P. Sweeney, of 108 Clark street. mflmN AS ASSESSOR. Rumor Has Him Slated to Succeed James J. Watson. Among the latest political whlupersi is that F. M. Zimmerman, the insur- pointed to succeed .-James J. Watson as a member of the board of assessors. Mr. Zimmerman is 'a democrat, as is Mr, Watson. It is rimored that a democrat is out gunning for the position now filled on the water board by P. J. Egan. According to those who know, if Mr. Egan is not re-elected the new member of the board will not be chosen for the clerkship, which Mr. Egan fills. City Clerk A. L. Thompson has dis- covered an error in the printing of the booklet containing the names of the officers and members of the city and town government. In the booklet it is stated that the term of office of Chairman E. W. Pelton of the charity department expires in 1914 and that of F. A. Hausmann in 1915. The fact is that Mr. Hausmann’s term expires this year and that of Mr. Pelton next year. Political gossips have assigned either Thomas Quinlivan or James Cavanaugh to the position of plumb- ing inspector.. Louls Croll is also being mentioned. Councilman Uno loomed up as a possibility for ap- pointment to the board of public safety. R. R. Healey. a former safety commissioner, has also been men- | tioned. Johnson has district about a year ago and who | The commis- ! Texas | ance and automobile man, will be ap- BERGERON APPEAL IN SUPREME GOURT Gounsel for Condemned Murderer Fight to Save His Life. CLAM JUDGE BURPEE ERRED Brief for Accused Sets Forth That at the Time of the Killing —of Mrs. Dowsett He Was in a State of Acute Alcoholic Intoxication. Bridgeport, Conn., April 17.—The supreme court today listened to argu. ments in the case of the state vs. Joseph F. Bergeron. The counsel for Bergeron, indicted for murder of Ellizabeth Dowsett, at New Haven on May 26, 1913, and found guilty by Judge Burpee in the first degree, were Joseph G. Woods and J. Birney Tuttle. In the brief for the accused it was set forth that the degree of crime, under the statute and after a plea of guilty, was left to the deter- mination of the court. “We believe,” says the brief, “that this was the first time this statute has ever been in- voked and while therefore experi- mental there were weighty Teasons which induced counsel for the accused | to assent to his cholce of tribunals. Accused Claims Intoxication. The accused claimed that at the time of the homicide he was in a state of acute alcoholic intoxication and therefore incapable of murder in the first degree. Establishment of his mental condition would, in a measure, depend upon the scientific testimony of experts and it seemed to judge was better fitted to try this question than the ordinary jury, un- learned, untrained and incapable of scientific understanding. “It was also the intention of the accused to save the state the great expense of a jury trial. “The experiment which perhaps ought not to have been tried, seemed | more than justified. The result was | to deprive the accused of the safe- guand of twelve concurring intellectual | personalities. ‘While the evidence con- tbat goes to make up thetrial jurge, it is certain that one or more of the twelve personalities making up a jury would have been differently affected by the same evidence. “The accused ought not to be hanged if there is anything in the evidence | which- would affect with a reasonable doubt any one of the twelve varie- gated personalities which might have made up the jury.” Bvidence Leaves Doubt. The brief sets up that theevidence leaves a reasonable doubt as to Ber- geron’s mental condition that it ought to hav left a doubt in the mind of the trial court; that it would have left a doubt in the minds of thetwelve dif- fering intellectualities making up a ury. 4 x"I’"l’la accused claimed that his crime was no greater than murder in the second degree by reason of the faet that at the time he was in a state of acute alcoholic intoxlcati!;nl"a’nd uh'h capable ‘of. Dretgeditation, deliberation orp:iexc:-’*_%éfh’dpgm: that o ade- quate motivet £or. the erimié’ existed and no express malice ' toward the victim existed or was proven. Ber- geron, it was claimed had been a kind and considerate husband, and father | of four children, until in 1909 he met Elizabeth Dowsett. In November, 1911, he acted strangely so that hi Condition Was Delirious. Reciting the events leading up to the homicide the brief says that on the Saturday night prior to the agt the accused was so drunk that he | seemed to a physician to be on the verge of delirium tremens. On the in evidence that Bergeron was drunk and in the same extremely delirious had been for some days. The rec- ord discloses the absence of a motive for the woman he loved, “his all,” as the state characterized that relation. “Our contention,” says the . brief, “that there was no intention to in- jure the woman up to Tuesday night was so impressive that the state was forced to develop a new theory, name- ly, that Lizzie Dowsett finally dis- missed the accused on Tuesday night.” Passion Inflamed Mind. Reviewing the. record of the case at this point the accused then claims this: “The truth is that up to the time Bergeron went to bed intoxicated on Tuesday night, he had never had any intention to injure Mrs. Dowsett. It was in his room that the seeds of murder were first sown; his drunken mind was there inflamed with pas- sion and the scene set for the awful tragedy.” In concluding the brief the accused sets up that he was, as a result of antecedent conditions, under the in- fluence of a moral mania. Also that there is little controversy about the law. Clalm Judge Erred. The last paragraph is “We re- spectfully suggest that the trial judge has so strong a conviction about the guilt of the accused that his mind was not receptive nor open to the elements of doubt which impregnated the whole case; so that he uncon- sciously and unwittingly excluded (Continued on Page Fifteen,) ' | and gymnasts,” come next. large | counsel that the trained and learned ; { vinced the one intellectual personality | i to build is not known. wife thought “he was going insane.” | morning of the homicide it was shown | condition from use of liquor as he| ATHLETIC CARNIVAL PLANNED BY Y. M. C. A. Physical Director Hergstrom Ar. ranges for Unique Exhibition on May 2. One of the most unique athletic ex- hibitions ever held in New Britain | is being planned by Physical Director Joseph Hergstrom, Young Men’s Christian The event will take place on May 2, and of the association. unusual features, some of which are entirely new, will be seen. The af- fair will be a fitting wind-up to the season of the Junior Employed Boys The program is only partly com- pleted, but an idea of what the au- dience will be treated to may bs gleaned from the following: First there will be a ten-minute spirited wand drill. Then will come a one-eighth mile walk. Following this Jacob Barbello, ‘“the world's greatest strong man,” will give an exhibition in weight lifting and other feats of strength. Next will be a one-quarter mile re- i lay race against time by picked teams, A game of dodge ball, also with picked teams, is next in order. Soakum and Soxallexus, “world renowned -aerialists A boxing match, between Logan and “The Un- known,” will precede the finale, which will be a wrestling match between Burdick and Hergstrom. A special attraction will include “Ye Olde Baskette Balle,” for five minutes, and the ‘“universal spanking machine.” During the evening the Agony Quartette will render musicu) selections accordingly. Altogether the affair will be such as has never been duplicated here be- fore, and for those who enjoy good sport, or who, not caring for sport, want a few laughs, this will be the chance for them to get their fill. CROWE WILL BUILD NEW PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL Accommodations ' Committee _Makes This Recommen- dation to School Board. At the meeting of the school com- mittee this afternoon the committee on permanent school accommodations recommended that the contract. for bullding the new prevocational school be awarded to T. W. Crowe. The committee met at 4:30 o’clock but earlier in the day the Herald was {nformed by one of the members of the committee that such ‘a recom- mendation would be made.’ The ac- commodations committee met with Mr. Crowe yesterday afternoon and went over the plans for the school and it was decided to award him the con- tract if the school board acquiesced. There were eight or nine bidders for the contract but the figures furnished by Mr. Crowe proved to be the most satisfactory. How soon he will start The building will be the first in the United States to be, erected for the specific purpose of instructing students along prevoca- tional lines. It will be located at the rear of the Grammar school build- ing. The committee on finance had no report to make this afternoon as there are but a few cents in the treasury. The committee on teachers sub- mitted the following report: Resignations—Anna M. Walsh, Grammar school, Grade VII. Frances J. Camber, Grammar school, grade VIL Jessle M. Gray, KEast street school, grade V. Substitute Teachers Employed Kathryn Campbell, Elizabeth H. Stev- ens, Mrs. A. E. Atwater, Margaret Dobson, Elida N. Lawless, Mildred L. Mitchell, Mrs. J. Sparmer, Mrs. Ruth Guiberson, Mary H. Kindred, Nettie Gamerdinger, Kate R. Scanlon, Anna M. Young, Mrs: Willlam H. Day, i Elsie Stillman. Temporary Teachers Employed— Kathryn S. Kent, Elizabeth Leu- pold, Mary C. Darrow, Irma Louns- bury, Lucy Perkins, Ruth Doolittle, Dorethea Burleson, Mary G. Costello. The board received a letter from the Y. M. T. A. & B. society school committee tendering its thanks for the use of rooms in the Burritt school for use as evening classes. ARBOR DAY TODAY. Today is Arbor Day, according to the proclamation of Governor S. E. Baldwin, and it was So observed throughout the state. School children, assisted by their teachers, planted trees, and peoble in many other ways tried to make Connecticut a fairer state. Local school children co- operated in this movement. WATERBURY-WHITTAKER. Miss Jean Parker Whittaker, daughter of Robert Whittaker, a Stamford newspaper publisher, and Charles Russell Waterbury, also of Stamford, were married in that city yesterday. Miss Whittaker was for- merly a New Britain Normal school student and was graduated with the class of 1911, WEATHER. Hartford, April 17.—Fair to- night and Saturday. ‘Warmer Saturday. TEN LIVES CLAIMED IN NEW YORK FIRE fmn:s Other Persons Injured When | Apartment House is Destroyed. Captain Smith Performs Heroic Feat in Saving Louis Boylan From Being Dashed to Death— Coroner Healy to Investigate. New York, April 17.—A fire that swept through the five story apartment house at 741 Eighth avenue early to- day claimed ten victims and resulted in the injury of three others. Only four of the ten bodies taken from a { theatrical boarding house that occu- pled half of the bLuilding, could be identified, the others being charred beyond recognition. Five Are Identified. The identified dead are: Charles O. Wallace, 46 years old. Mrs. Nellie Wallace, his wife, years old. Miss Nellie Spencer, 20 yeéars old, a cloak model. Muriel Davis, three years old. Mrs. George C. Davis, who sustained internal Injuries and died in the hos- pital without recovering consciousnes: The seriously injured were Joseph Messer, Martin Welsh and Charleg Burke. Started in Basement. | The fire started in a pile of waste | in the basement of a five and ten cent store which occupied the ground flcor of the building. It spread rapidly up stairways and shut off escape by them. There were no fire escapes in the front of the building and the large number of dead and injured was due to the refusal of the panic stricken people to remain in the front windows, | where many were rescued by firemen, :All of the dead and injured were taken from the rear rooms and halls o: the rooming house, where they were caught while attempting to reach the roof and fire escapes. One man wag killed in escape over roofs. The fire was under control in less than an hour, but in that time many thrilling rescues were made by the firemen working from laaders in front and from windows of a nearby tenement building. Heroic Feat Performed. Captain Smith, who was suspended by his feet from a window, prevented Loyis Boylan from being dashed to death when a laddet broke on which he was crawling from the burning tenement. Captain Smith seized Boy- lan and held on to him until both could be dragged to safety. The proprietor of the rooming heuse, a negro janitor and several of the rescued occupants of rooms in the building were summoned to ap- pear today before Coroner Healy, who has instituted an investigation. Were Stage People. Mr. and! Mrs, Charles O. Wallace were stage people and came here from Providence, R. I. Mrs. Wal- lace’s maiden name was Nellie Dick- inson. Mrs. Davis was known on the stage as ‘‘Patsy” Mafera. Five of the victims, four men and a woman, were still unidentified at 10:30 this morning. Three More Identified. Three of the victims were identified later as Michael Delaney and his wife, Delia, laundry workers, and M. Scott, manager of the New York office of the Rossiter Music Publish- ing company of New York and Chi- cago. 32 trying to JUNIOR PROMENADE. Committees Named for High School Function. President Stevens of the junior class of the New Britain High school has made his appointments for the Junior Promenade committees. The dance will be held Friday evening, May 8, in the gymnasium. The committees follow: & Program Committee—Chairman, Grant Wickwire; Martin Horwitz, | Bennet Hibbard, Eleanor White, [ May Tormay and Millicent Barnes. Decorating Chairman, Donald Gaffney; Allen Hall, Clement Hallinan, Vinton Knight, David Lipman, Nellie Elliot, Leonie Crowe, Marian Stan- ley, Ruth Hill and Edith Baehr. Refreshment—Chairman, Edward Martin; Byron Wilber, Allen Moore, Harry Milkowitz, Viola Strosser, Francesca Traut, Mildred Robinson and Harriet Wells, BODIES FLOAT ASHORE, Corpses of Mrs. H. G. Hardy and Three Bodies of Crew Found. Monmouth Beach, N. J., April 17, —The body of Mrs. H. G. Hardy, wife of the captain of the schooner Charles K. Buckley, which stranded and went to pleces on the beach near here Wednesday night, floated ashore today, as did the bodies of three members of the crew. Whether Cap- tain Hardy's body was among the four was not at first determined, Ten persons in all perished in the wreck. One sailor was rescued, L BLAZE STARTED 1IN BASEMENT | Notable | | COURT CHARFER OAK PLAN CELEBRATION ing—Will Observe Anniversary. Court Charter Oak, No. 36, F. of A., held a very important meeting in their rew headquarters in the Electric building on West Main street last cvening. As this was the first meet- ing in the new quarters a record i breaking crowd was in attendance and the sentiment of each and every mem- ber was that Court Charter Oak had secured a meeting place and a club room that they should be proud of. Some very important was transacted. Five applications for membership were received and four candidates were initiated. The auditing committee read their quarterly report and it showed that Court Charter Oak had ‘over $6,500 in their treasury at the present time, be- sides $2,850 in a building fund. It &lso showed that the membership of the court at the present time is 352 beneficial and 42 social members. A feature was that during the last two quarters not one member had been rercluded. It was also voted to have a committee of five appointed to make arrangements for celebrating their an- niversary, which will be held in May. It is expected that this event will surpass any event ever given in the history of Court Charter Oak and in order to fulfill the expectations the committee and the members of the court wil] leave no stone unturned in their work. |EFFICIENCY ADVOCATED BY OVERNOR BALDWIN Executive Says, He Believes Some of the State Agen- cies Are Below Par. business Hartford, April 17.—The Hartford County Rural Improvement associa- tion held an all day session in Unity hall today at which the speakers in- cluded Governor Baldwin, Congress- man Asbury F. Lever of South Caro- lina, Mayor Joseph H. Lawler of this city and others. The meeting was held for the purpose of arousing in- terest in the neglected agricultural possibilities in the county and as a field day for its farming and indus- trial interests. Frank H. Stadtmeuller of West Hartford, incoming state dairy and food commissioner and president of the association, presid- ed. Matters affecting the agrioultural, civiec, commercial and industrial in- terests of the county were discussed and the idea advanced that there i should be a more thorough co-opera- tion by the people with the extension service of the United States depari- | ment of agriculture, the Connecticut Agricultural college, the State Experi- ment stations and the state board of agriculture. A significant utterance by Governor Baldwin, who spoke at the forenoon session in relation to Connecticut's place as an agricultural state was: “If state agencies are inefficient, and 1 believe some of them are far less efficient than they should be and might be, get them Improved by change of methods or change of men.” Mayor Joseph H. Lawler delivered the opening address, which was in the form of a welcome, Prof. C. D. Jarvis, state director of the extension service, responded. These were fol- lowed by A. J. Sheurele, secretary of the Hampden Improvement league of Massachusetts; President Frank H. Johnston of the State Business Men's association and Governor Baldwin. DR. OHMAN IS AGAIN ELECTED PRESIDENT Pastor of Local Swedish Lutheran Church Honored by New Eng- land Conference. Rev. Dr. 8. G. Ohman, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church in this city, was unanimously re-elected pres- ident of the New England Conference at a business session held yesterday in connection with the annual con- vention which is being held this week in Auburn, R. L This is the second time that the local pastor has been been re-elected as chief executive of the conference which has been in ex- istence but two years. John A. Andrews of this city is in attendance at the convention as a lay delegate from the local church. Both he and the pastor will remain in Au- burn over the week-end. TO DIE APRIL 30. Joseph Buonomo Will Pay Penalty for Death of Jennie Cavaglieri. Hartford, April 17.—The supreme court today fixed the date of execution of Joseph Buonomo for Thursday, April 30. The supreme court yes- terday denied Buonomo’s appeal' for a new trial. He has been twice convicted of the murder of Jennie Cavaglieri in Strai- ford something over a year ago, his first appenl gaining a new trial. On his second trial he was again con- | victed, the date of his exeention be- Jing Oxed for March 18, this ycer, al 1 876. MEXICAN SITUATION p——— A AT LAST HO I!Tm:bm?fia? Jultane Salute Be Fired by Uncle § When Apology I Offered. WILSON REFUSES T0 ACCEDE T0 PROPOS United States Wil Accept Less Than a Salute of Twenty: Guns and Will Acknowldege Ap No ogy After Salute Is Fired by ican Government, Is Statement to Charge O’Shaughnessy. Washington April parleyed again. This latest hitch at 17.~—Huerta He demands tl his salute to the United States shall be returned simultaneously, President Wilson is practically o tain not to accept. the eleves hour when officials here expected situation was disclosed n Charge O'Shaughnessy. Confers With Cabinet. President Wilson discussed it the cabinet. was as good as closed dispatches or Administration of said privately Huerta's counter pi osition would not be accepted. The Huerta development fears of those officials who expec intention of recalling an: the fleet now bound to Tampico abandoned and those close to the ministration expected, to’ see 2 dent Wilson’s demand for an ung ified apology backed up. r Text Kept Secret. The text of Charge O'Shaugh dispatches was not made publie, it became known that Huerta's proposal was that as his guns their salute to the Stars and St as an apologyy for continued to the United States, pa recent arrest of bluejackets at pico, that the, guns of the fleet should reply to the Mexican lyte simuitaneously. were ready to knowledge Huerta's salute of ti one guns after it had veen fi with a return salute, such as i§ pi cribed in naval custom and prec That would merely be acknowl an amende houorable, they say. Officiale here to confirmed would equivocate again. Al ships | return Huerta's salute simull ously, they pointed out, would the apology valueless. Officials described Huerta's move as an act to preserve his o dignity before the Mexicans of tl part of the country under his &o trol. Dispatches Before Cabinet. All the latest dispatches were before the cabinet, Practically all members of the official family said to be agreed that there ‘sho be no further temporizing. Sccretary Bryan left the cabi while it still was in session to go the state department and send dispatches. nature, that a not be accepted and salute that O’Shaughnessy was advised United States would inslst on its mand. Officials expressed the Huerta has been listening to advice” during the last twelve ho and after he promised Mr. O'Sh nessy yesterday that the apology. v he wo He was silent as to but it was understood ti the word had gone back to Hue simultaneous Wo Chai that tl iew th Blockade Is M Meanwhile it was emphasi: no counter orcers had been the battleships spéeding to the of fcan coastss A plockade and other drastic measures were Ve cussed in official eircles. Those informed declared that if within th next few hours Huerta did not com ply entirely, some announcement what definite steps would be tal to compel his, u'llrlpl’y would be in Washington. When the cabinet journed Secretary Bryan scribed the negotiations as “‘encout aging” but not final, “I have received one message fi Charge O'Shaughnessy and have one in reply,” hy said. Other members of the c Huerta had been informed that simultaneous salute would ceptable to this government. U. 5. Demands Sent. N Secretary Bryan instructed Chargy O'Shaughnessy to finally inform Hu United States Wil accept nothing less than a salute twenty-one guns and that the Am erta that the can ships will reply after the has been fired. meeting =till binet st be ul‘u ¢ President Halis Trip, Charge O'Shaughnessy’s dispatch questions dealt with some and did not close Officials, however, up said the that ment was not endangered. Wilson changed his plan to inei a Presid Bo White Sulphur Springs tonight will go tomorrow, Orders for assembling a of marines at San service were ci Diego ~