New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1914, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL | LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD PRICE THREE CENTS. HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINES NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1914 —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876. ROVAL ARCH MASONS ONOR HORACE EDDY y Britain Man Eiected Grand High Priest. HAS BEEN MASON NNETEEN YEARS 16th Annual Convocation of Grand Chapter of Connecticut R. A. M. Held at Hartford Today—Order Has 9,191 Members. Once again New Britain has been 3 brought Into statewide prominence _ ghrough the efficiency and popularity of one of her native sons for this af- ternoon at the 116th annual convoca- tion of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, held at the Masonic Temple in Hartford, Horace W. Bddy, of 240 West Main street, was elected grand high priest of the order. Mr. Eddy has been a Mason for nineteen vears, having been raised in Centen- nial lodge, A. F. and A. M, in 1895. E‘fl has filled the various chairs in this lodge, being worshipful master during the term of 1899-1800. He was chap- «lain for four years thereafter and since 1908 has been the treasurer. He is also the grand representative for e grandd chapter of Texas near the grand chapter of Connecticut. Mr. Eddy is one of the most pop- « ular Masons in this state. He is a " .. thirty-second degree member, helongs to Sphink Temple, Mystic Shrine, the ¢ Knight Templars and is a past high priest of Giddings chapter, R. A. M. i B¥ For the past term he has been the puty grand high priest of the Royal rch Masons. y Well Known. Citizen. The newly elected grand high priest "is employed at the New Britain Na- tional bank where he has' worked many years and he is also a pillar of the First Baptist church in which he takes a lively interest, having held gnny offices in that organization. 45 Chapters Represented. ‘When the day's session opened in Hartford Grand High Priest Louis L. Beach of Bristol, presided and rep- redentatives from the forty-five chap- b in the state were present, nume ng between 150 and 160. Visi. ;gg from other grand chapters were Bo in attendance. ~ Various reports Weére submitted at the forenoon. ses- _ sion and officers were elected in t| afternoon. i 1 QOndh High Priest’'s Address. 5 n his address Grand Hj . Beach made reference to :he':r::;‘:: Ous condition of the grand chapter the several subordinate chapters, and to the harmony existing. ' He said there had been only one call for & decision and not a by-law or regu- Jdtlon had to be enforced. The death i0f Isaac F. Stidham, Edmund Tweedy and Frank W. Havens was mentioned b with sympathy and regret, The grand | " high priest said he had visited every chapter i the jurisdiction, also ‘the grand chapters of New Jersey and New York, and attended the one hun- , 4 dredth anniversary celebration of derusalem chapter in Bridgeport. To succeed the late Frank W. Havens, grand representative, the high priest’ said he had nominated Willlam R. " Russell and a commission would be issued in due time. ek Mr. Eddy Reports. Deputy Grand High Priest Horace Eddy of New Britain: referred in his report to his visits to the ten chap- ters assigned to him. A®similar re- port was presented by Grand King Harry 8. Pearson of Bridgeport. Grand Scribe Burton L. Tuttle of New Haven complimented the chapters on their prosperous condition, Membership Now 9,191, Grand Secretary Jarges McCormick Teported 415 candidates exalted, ten admitted, six reinstated and 178 dead. The net gain in membership was 180, The present membership is 9,191, The report of Grand Treasurer Ahinuh Baker, Jr., showed a balance a Year ago of $4,034, receipts for past Year $2,795, expenses of $2,314, and a “ balance on May 11 of $4,515, \ Jewels Are Presented. 4dast Grand High Priest's Jjewels were given to the following: -Joseph R. Johnson, Essex; George N, Delap, Hartford; Dr. Samuel H. Huntington, Norwalk; George A. Kies, Hartford, Officers Elected. At the session this afternoon tstowing, officers were elected: & Grand High Priest—Horace W. Ed- ‘S dy, New Britain. Deputy Grand High Priest—Harry B. Pearson, Bridgeport. Grand King—Burton L. Tuttle, New : Haven. Grand Scribe—Edward W. Avery, [ . Windham. P4 Grand Treasurer—Isaiah Baker, Jr. Hartford. Grand Secretary—James mick, Hartford. Grand Captain of Host—William K, Wilson, Danbury. Grand Principal Sojourner—The Rev. James H. George, Newtown. . Grand Royal Arch Qaptain—Leslie W. Reed, Hartford. rand Trustees—Reuben H. Tuck- ! er, Ansonia; James Callan, Water~ bury; John O. Rowland, Wallingford. L o the K McCor- 4{ ! MONTHLY MEETING OF Y. M. C. A. BOARD HELD Secrctary C. H. Barnes Reads Month- 1y Report—$7,100 Needed for Coming Year. At yesterday’s meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. Secretary C. H. Barnes made his monthly report and gave an estimate | on the budget for the coming year. $7,100 is needed, of which $5,345 has been raised. Since. the last meeting Harry Asher has replaced B. H. Spencer as assist- ant secretary. The new man is a Yale graduate and has had two years experience in association work- He has charge of the membership anda religious work. The usual summer memuvership will be offered to the men and boys of the city this year. This membership In- cludes the use of the gymnasium, baths, billard rooms, etc. i Exgept for the boys, most . of the class work over and games have re- placed the customary drills and ap- paratus work. 2,369 attended this de- partment during the year and 8,000 took advantage of the baths and pool, An exhibition was given for the par- ents of the employed boys and the au. dience seemed well pleased with the work accomplished. The first ‘ald classes have completed their work and several of the stu- dents wil] take the International ex- aminations in this subject in June. This class has been under the direc- tion of Dr. John Purney and Mr. An- drews. Twenty-six boys took the In- ternational Bible Study examinations on April 24 and of this number twen- ty-one passed. A New York trip was faken dur- ing the week of April 6 by eighteen boys accompanied by the boys’ secre- tary and educational secretary. Many places of interest were visited and the trip was a marked success. The summer camp will be held this year during the first two Weeks in July at Lake Congamond. Plans are now being drawn for this annual as event. The membership is made up as fol- lows: 626 seniors, 167 sustaining, 264 boys; total, 1,057. NEWSPPER PROTESSON 13 SACRED CALLING 'Dr. Gladden of Ohio Com- . pares It With Ministerial Office. Lawrence, Kas.,, May 12.—The news- paper profession is an sacred a call- ing as the rninistry in the opinion of Dr.. Washington Gladden of Colum- bus, of Ohio, as expressed in an ad- dress made before hundreds of news- 'paper men here today at the national newspaper conference being conducted at the University of Kansas. A paper by Frank B. Noyes of ‘Washington, D. C., president of the Associated Press, on press association work, was read. Dr. Gladden described what he re- ferred to as a tendency of some news- papers toward “habits of exaggera- tion” and the exploitation of crime, vice and scandal. He outlined four great tasks for American journalism in the performance of which he said it might aid in purifying and invig- orating public opinion. First, to teach people to avoid ex- aggeration and violent speech and to cultivate moderate and rational modes of expression. i Second, to resist the tendencies which dementalize democracy and which substitute the mob mind for the deliberate habit. Third, to hold the popular judg- ment firmly to the truth that char- acter and manhood and not money and popularity are the central values of human existence. Fourth, to turn the thoughts of men moré and more from the negative virtue of detecting' and exposing the ing and praising the good. A large part of the day was given to discussions of news associations and questions pertaining to memberships in the same. MAKES TWO ATTACHMENTS. Sheriff Stockwell Serves Papers Deluca Sebastiano. Deluca Sebastiano has fallen behind in the payment of his creditors and two of them, N. M. Miller and A. Lip- man, have brought suit against him to recover their Sheritt Stockwell garnisheed insurance for $35 and $50 respectively. M. D. Saxe is lawyer for the plaintiffs. Both writs are returnable before Justice James T. Meskill on May 23. s L S WAS FALSE ALARM. ““Women are treacherous things,” ex- claim the members of Engine Com- pany No. 1 in chorus for this morn- ing, shortly after 8 o'clock a fright- ened female voice called up the cen- tral station to inform them that there was a chimney fire at No. 30 Cam- bridge street. When the street was reached there was no fire nor was there any one who claimed to have on money. had any knowledge of any. evil to the positive virtue of discern- | NEW HAVEN SYSTEM ~IN CANAL LOBBY {Road Paid $1,000 for Services in Panama Legistation. BYRNES RECALLED T0 STAND Voucher Railroad $381.90 for Prayers—Chief Coun- sel Folk Shows Spent After Activities of Inuis *. and Turtle- ‘Washington, May 12.—The New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road was connected with lobbying against the provision of the Panama Canal act prohibiting railroad owned | ships from passing through the canal, according to testimony at the hear- ing today into the New Haven's affairs by the interstate commerce commis- sion, 4 Timothy E. Byrnes, former vice that $1,000 paid to Clarence W, De- Knight, a Washington lawyer, former Rear Admiral F. T. Bowles, president of the Fore River Ship- Building company, for services in con- nection with Panama legislation, . in reality came from the New Haven treasury. The senate lobby investiga- ting committee recently had De knight and Bowles before it with re- lation to the tpansaction, but the New Haven's campaign. was not then brought outy\ . & Byrnes Approved Voucher. Mr. Byrnes, who resumed the stand today, was shown a voucher for the transaction and was questioned by Chief Counsel Folk in regard to it. He sald he approved the voucher at the personal direction of President Mellen and that he learned later that Mr. Bowles had asked Mr. Mellen for the money to retain' counsel in tha Panama canal legislation, the New Haven being interested on ount of its Long Island Sound lines. Mr, Byrnes was on the stand two hours and again was questioned as to payments’ made through his office to various persons for service to the New Haven, and particularly as to the work of Arthur P. AR B8 “sistant ‘attorney in ‘the office. Mr. Byrnes resented what he called “Insinuations” in the queries as to legislative work. He also said many slurs had been cast on other quarters, and before being excused made a statement in which he said that when he took up the New Haven's work in Boston he adopted a positive rule to “cut out” anything in the way of illegal expenditures in legislative mat- ters. This rule, he said, he had strictly adhered to. Services of 300 Clerks. The task of collecting and sending to Washington the mass of vouchers called for by the commission, it was stated today, called for the services of 300 clerks in the New Haven's main office, and the papers - were brought to Washington from New Ha- ven in seven trunks on a special car. Indications today'were that the in- quiry soon would run its course. Case For Courts. “This is a case for the criminal courts,” suggested one official of the commission, ‘not for a civil pro- ceeding. It appears doubtful whether in a proceeding of this kind, the facts can be developed.” It is known that the department of Justice is inclined not to approve of putting on the witness stand Former President Charles S. Mellen and the subpoenaed directors . of the New tHaven—Lewis Cass Ledyard, William Rockefeller, George George MacCulloch Miller—and some of the members of the commission, it is said, doubt the feasibility of ex- amining them at this time. Mellen Under Subpoena. It is not unlikely, however, that Mr. Mellen may be called as a wit- ness, possibly today, although no time for his appearance yet has been fixed, He is in the city under subpoena. William B. Lawrence of: Boston, one of the largest individual share- holders in the Boston and Maine rai road whose holdings are said ‘to have i depreciated nearly a million dollars through the transactions of the last several years, also is likely to tell his story to the commission, Upon resumption of the hearing to- day Mr. Byrnes was asked: “Did Mr. Mellen ever turn over to you money to be disbursed without vouchers?” “No,” replied Mr. Byrnes, time.” “at no Voucher Is Submitted. Mr. Folk submitted a voucher for $381.90. in favor of Sylvester Baxter “for 15,000 prayers.” “Prayers,” mused Mr. Folk. “What did the New Haven want with 15,000 prayers?” “It prbbably needed more that,” smiled Mr. Byrnes, “Phis purports to be ‘prayers from the hills,’ " suggested Mr. Folk. “Why were the appeals of the people being paid for by the New Haven?” “I don’t know about that,” Mp. Byrnes replied. ‘“The bill was paid by the New Haven. People were than (Continued on Eleventh Page.) president of ‘the New Haven, testified | by | 15 F. Baker, ana | 1$30,000 DAMAGE SUIT OPENED IN COURT Levi W. Yaggy of Plainfield, Orjginal Defendant, Has Died and Case Is Against Sons. L, Bridgeport, Conn., May 12.—Trial of a $30,000 damage suit brought by John Miller, of Chicago, against Levi W. Yaggy, of Plainfield, Ill., was be- gun in the civil superior court here today. Yaggy was arrested here on a body writ in the civil action while traveling, thus centering the case here. The defendant has since died, and the case now is against his three sons. The suit is based on alleged misrepresentations made by the elder Yaggy in the sale of $25,000 worth of stock in a Chicago mail order house to Miller. Miller was on the stand all day today. Yaggy and he, he testified, were school mates and boyhood close friends in Plainfield in 1863 and later. ‘When Miller entered the leather busi- ness in Chicago he continued to meet Yaggy often. In 1906, he said, Yaggy urged him to buy stock in the Al- baugh-Dover company, of Chicago, the mail order house in .question. Yaggy, he said, represented that the company had a capital of $1,000,000; that the sales for the year were $1,- 000,000; that the company made thirty' per cent, profit and paid ten per cent, dividends; that the stock was selling at $150 a share and was { soon going to be $200; that there was a block of $100,000 that was avail- able, but the company was consider- ing the abvisability of waiting for the higher price, that he and two other friends had taken $75,000 of the $100,000, and that Miller should take the remaining $26,000. BLACK SMOKE CLOUDS CAUSE FIRE SCARE Kingsbury Hotel at Water- | bury Threatened With De- structive Blaze. ‘Waterbury, Conn. May 12.—Heavy clouds of black smoke issuing from the four story brick building No. 21 Harrison avenue, at noon today, gave the down town section a mild fire scare. ‘While the fire had a threat- ening appearance for half an hour it was controlled by use of practi- y _all, the. BDRATALUS.. i me'{‘ufifiu ¥s owred by McHvoy and adjoined the Kingsbury Hotel. Smoke compelled occupants of rooms (in the hotel and most of the guests to vacate in a hurry, but the structure itself escaped material damage. The fire in the building owned by Mr. McEvoy caught on a lower floor and spread to an airshaft, and thence to the third and fourth floors which had been occupied by the Waterbury Enameling company, which went into bankruptcy a few days ago. The spread of the blaze on these floors caused the dense smoke. The building is directly opposite the police station. TEACHERS’ BANQUET. New Britain Council to Hold Annual Affair on Wednesday, May 27. The Teachers’ council will hold a banquet at.the New Britain club on Wednesday evening, May 27. This body has met previously for profes- sional purposes only and the ban- quet will be its first venture of a so- cial nature. E. E. Weeks is president of. the council and L. £, Slade, prin- cipal of the High school is to be toastmaster. : Officers for the coming year will ve elected at the banquet and invitations have been sent to all teachers in the city. The following committee has charge of the affair: Chairman Joseph Wiseltier, secre- tary, Miss Mary A. Campbell, J. C. Moody, W- C. French, Miss Loretta Caufield and Miss Merle Kibbe. - ART EXHIBIT. Stanley School to Have Famous Tur- ner Collection on View. The Parents' and Teachers' asso- clation of the Stanley school will hold a meeting on Wednesday evening, May 13, at which Mr. Wiseltier, the art director, will give an address on *“Art” In connection with his talk the Turner collection of famous paint- ings will be used. This collection is considered by many to be the finest ever asserabled and contains the best pictures of modern and ancient art. The exhibit will be open to the pub- lic Thursday evening from 7:30 to 9:30, and Friday afternoon, 2:30 to 5:30. Friday evening the doors will be open from 7:30 to 9:30. GIRL RUNS AWAY. The police have been notified that Miss Olga Shubert, a pretty sixteen year old girl, has run, Away from her home at 63 Booth street. The girl left vesterday afternoon about 4 n'clock and took two weeks’ pay with her. The complaint was made by her brother, Adolph Shubert. e WEATHER. Hartford, May 12.—Showers tonight and Wednesday. Con- tinued cool. ¥ | 'stana: e tola of ‘receiving a call at SHAPIRO AND ROSE ON WITNESS STAND Chauffeur and Lecturer Testify at Trial of Becker. CROSS-EXAMINED BY MANTON ident That Ex-Lieutenant’s Counscl Intends to Run Close to Old Defenso and Show Rosenthal Murder Was Result of Gamblers’ ¥Feud. New York, May 12.—"Bald Jack” Rose, star witness for the first trial of | Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, appeared in that role again today. He calmly told of | the part he played in the events lead- ing up to the gambler's death. Sub-. stantially, it was the same story that | he told at the first trial. He spoke In | a low tone and at times gazed direct- ly at the defendant. i Briefly, Rose recited how Becker and Rosenthal had entered into part- nership in a gambling establishment; how they quarreled; how exposure for Becker as a police lieutenant was im- minent and how Rosenthal’'s death was plotted. Dr. Taylor Called. i When the wial was resumed today, District Attorney Charles S. Whitman called Dr. Dennis Taylor to the witness stand as the last of several witnesses to establish the death of Rosenthal. Dr. Taylor at the time of the murder was an ambulance surgeon, and his testimony was necessary becluse it was he .who pronounced the gambler dead. The cross-exai ation of some of the witnesses for®the prosecution by Martin T.. Manton seemed to show the line the defense will follow. It was evident that Becker's new coun- sel intends to run close to the old defense at the first trial and try to show that the murder of Rosenthal was the result of a gamblers' feud, without the guiding hand of the de- fendant. The inference was drawn that the blame for the actual shoot- ing, as before, would be Placed on “Bridgie”’ Webber and Harry Vallon, instead of the four gunmen who have already been executed for wielding the revolvers. Shapiro on Stand. Shapiro followed Dr. Taylor on the his stand in front of the Cafe Boule- vard late at night on July 15. He then went to Tom Sharkey's saloon where he picked up Rose, .Harry Vallon and Sam Schepps. ‘“We went to Forty-Second street and Broadiway, then to Bridgie Webber's poker room at Forty-Second street and Sixth avenue,” said the witness. ‘“At one Hundred and Forty-Fifth street and Seventh avenue we picked up another man and returned to Webber’s poker rooms, where the oc- cupants of the car got out. Fifteen minutes 'later Dago Frank, Gyp the Blood, Whitey Lewis and Lefty Loule came out and I was ordered to go to the Metropole Hotel.” “At the Metropole,” \the withess continued, “Dago Frank ordered’ me to turn the car around so it would face toward Sixth avenue.” Becker’s Counsel Objects, Becker’s counsel objected to the line of questioning and was overruled. “I turned the car around,” Shapiro went on, “and the four men got out and went to the other side of the street. I remained on the box of my machine. In fifteen minutes I heard a shot and than four more. I looked toward the Metropole and saw a man fall. J started my machine. I was going to get away from there. I had gohe about, fifty feet when the four men caught up with me and jumped on the machine.” “I heard Whitey =say,” continued Shapiro, ““‘Make the chauffeur turn around and wait. The cops are all fixed. Everything is all right’ Then he said ‘Becker has fixed 'em.” Returned to Cafe. “After the murder I took the four men to One Hundred and Twenty- sixth street and Lenox avenue, where they left me. I then drove back to the Cafe Boulevard.” “Where were you last night?" asked the district attorney. “In your house,” answered Shapiro, “How much money have you re- ceived from my office?” “Fifty dollars.” On cross examination Shapiro said the $60 had been used to pay his ex- penses out of the city. Manton Reatls Copy. Mr. Manton read a copy of the tes- timony Shapiro offered at the trial of the gunmen. In that Shapiro said “Frank sald everything is all right; Becker told me s0.” Shapiro said he could not remember just what he had testified to at the first trial. He in- sisted that the substance of the tes- timony was the same, The defense read an affidavit sworn to by a keeper in the Tombs quoting Shapiro as having told the keeper that Harry Vallon and Bridgie Webber had just jumped into the murder car inf front of the Metropole and threat- ened to “blow his roof off” unless he drove away from the place. Shapiro denied having made such a statement. He denied further that while in the Tombs he had said that Vallon had hit him with a gun. He said an at- tempt had been made to get him to (Continued on E;even'.h Page.)’ | tion held its annual meeting and elec~ | weather. | results ot TWO ARE HELD FOR IMPROPER CONDUCT Canvassers Arrested at Meriden Bound Over to Superior Court m $1,500 Bonds, Meriden, Conn., May 12.—Robert W, Roberts of Boston, and Harrison S. Trafford of Chicago, canvassers, who were arrested Sunday, charged with improper conduct with two women who had been with them on & canvassing tour in Massachusetts, were each held in $1,600 for the higher ceurt today. | Jnited States District Attorney Scott said he would let the state courts dispose of these cases before he took action, if any, under the Mann act. The girls7will have a hearing lesser charges, probably that of corrigibility, The mothers of girls brought complaints, young on in- the EAST STREET SCHOOL. David S. Ohman Elected President of Parents’ and Teachers' Association, The Parents’ and Teachers’ associa- tion of officers last evening and a large crowd attended in spite of the A pleasing musical pro- gram was given by pupils of the school and several selections were rendered by the Grammar school orchestra. Judge B. F. Gaffney gave an address, telling of the need and co-operation on the part of the parents and teachers. His talk was thoroughly enjoyed and did much towards stimulating the purposes of | the association. / / David S. Ohman, councilman in the fourth ward, was chosen president of | the association for the coming year. The other officers elected are as fol- lows: First vice president, Rev. James E* Rees; second vice president, Miss Mary A. Gaffney; secretary, Miss Mary A. Cox, and treasurer, John Lund- quist. FIGHT KILLED BY BOILER EXPLOSION Three . Others Severely In- jured By Accident Aboard _ the Jefferson. Norfolk, Va., May 12.—Eight dead and three severely injured was the toll of the explosion of one of the boilers of the Old Dominion liner Jefferson last night, five miles inside of Cape Henry. Two of the dead were white firemen, H. Miller and J. Lopez, six were negro firemen and coal passers, while the injured are Chief Engineer W. L. Portlock, First Assistant Engineer H. B. Smith, both of New York city, and M. Olsen, an oiler. Chief Engineer Portlock, First Assistant Smith and Oller Olsen are badly injured. The Jefferson is on her way to New York and should arrive there early tomorrow. With the dead and injured the Jef- ferson arrived in Norfolk early today, later resuming her course. The Jef- ferson is in command of Captain The- odore Catherine and was bullt in 1899. 5 SPERRY BRINGS SUIT. Commercial Supply Company Made Defendant and Attached for $150. Acting for Attorney B. W. Alling, | Constable Fred Winkle this morning | closed up the Commercial Supply company's establishment on Commer- cial street. The proprietors are Mike Machouiski and John Nadolney and the attachment was for $150. The plaintiff is Jacob Sperry, of the New Britain Charcoal company and the writ i§ returnable before Justice F. | B. Hungerford on May 26, | 1t was the Commercial Supply com- pany which Constable Stark attached several days ago and yesterday re- moved the furniture from, Mr. Sperry being the plaintiff rather than the de-s fendant. However, Constable Stark simply took the articles, so that when Constable Winkle went to serve his writ he could do so, - He closed up the place, boarded up the stairway and put in a keeper, effectively preventing any one else from serving other pa- pers and taking the property away. C. OF C. MEETING TODAY. Organization and Nomination Commit- tee Assembles Twice. At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon the committee on organization and nomi- nation for the new chamber of com- merce in this city held a meeting at which they formulated more complete plans and worked out a more detailed report. WILSON CONFIDENT € MEDIATORS’ SUCCE President Believes Farther Confle in Mexco Will Be Averted. CABINET HOLDS LENGTHY MEET Mexican Government Has Ordered Immegiate. Release of Vice Con John R. Silliman, Held a Pfllfll‘lfl’ Saltillo—Rebels Continue L Washington, May 12.—Members the cabinet, after a prolonged co ference with President Wilson tod on the Mexican situation, decl the president maintained confid that mediation would succeed that further serious consequences Mexico would be averted, 4 Most of the discussion in the @ inet meeting, it was said, related | mediation and the views to be sented on behalf of this govern by Justice Lamar and Frederiek Lehmann when the South Amj envoys seek views of the U States and Huerta's representatives & the Niagara Falls conference. bt t Tampico Situation Dispussed. The situation at Tampico wi ported to have been discussed. | plications that, might arise over | foreign-owned oil properties thi | should destruction result from i | conflict between constitutionalists federal forces, have been under co sideration for some time. Lack o definite information as to the pro of the battle raging at Tampico causing cabinet members consid able concern. The report from London that Gi Britain had ordered the Bristol, speedy cruiser, to proceed to pico, was not regarded as particl significant here, As the Bristol is of light draft, it was believed she m! be used to operate in the Pan river, along which the British properties are located ,Was Huerta's Request. Secretary Bryan announced 4 the meeting that the representat| - made to this government by the Souti American medlators in behalf of South American snipers under In Vera Cruz were made at the quest of the Huerta government, understood, he said, that this been done on the ground that *‘sniping” had occurred in M territory, He added that there question as to whether one of South Americans accused was Brazilian or a Venezuelan. . Important Situation Rhases. While Huerta's mediating mi steamed north from Vera Cruz and {I | American delegates began plens of or: | ganization for the Niagara Fallg co ference, these important phases the Mexican situation stood out, des manding urgent attention: h Disposition of five South Am cans, arrested for sniping operation at Vera Cruz. Settlement of the “occupation Lobos cisland, which drew o protes from Huerta’s foreizn minisier. Daniels Has Report. The Lobos Island incident wus taken up by Secretary Danicls. H had before him this report from Reur Admiral Mayo at Tampleo: { 2 “Lobos Island has not been oeeiis pled. ‘The Dixie and some destroyersy anchored there and other vessels huye coaled there from a collier, ‘é. keepers of Lobos Island light d : ed it and the Dixie is now maint ing it for the benefit of navigatioh, 1 understand that the destroyers hav i casional awimming part (teneral belief was expressed thl this explanation would amply angwes Huerta's protest thut Unil States by seizing the island had vies' lated the armistice, and would make it plain that the Dixie’s commander acted only to insure protection te shipping by maimtenance of the Lobog light. ! Postpone Prisoners’ Trial, Disposition of the cases South Americans arrested Cruz had been halted pen from the ministers of their respectiv countries. When it became known that General Funston proposed to try the men before a military tourt-m tial, the Brazilian minister in Mexi City appealed for them. Secreta) Garrison decided to postpone actl on that, pointing out that proj it should have been made by of which the prisoners are citl Word anxiously was awaited t k7 of the result of fightihg at Tampies, where rebels and federals were in & death grapple for territory in which millions of American and British dols lars are invested. General Zaragoma, commanding at Tampico, reported i Huerta today that the constitutionals | ists had been defeated Saturday at This evening at 8 o’clock this com- mittee will meet again to make a re- port. ‘While this report may not be complete it will be one of progress along the lines desired. “DEATH TO AMERICANS.” Paris, May 12.—“Death to Amerl- cans” was written in Spanish in large black characters across the stone door steps of the United States em- bassy offices in Paris in the course of last night. - The authorities. have posted three policemen on permanent duty in the vicinity, heavy loss. It was believed thers' been heavy fighting since then, that the federal reports were not essarily conclusive. Rebels Planning Campaign. The rebels were planni; 0 their campaign in the ne and C ranza’'s agents ssserted the . tionalist chief expected federal garrison at Salty lish his capital th o campaign against'Mexico © Nelson O’Shaughnessy, (Continued on Eleventh Page.). Wur i i