Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 30, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV—NO. 315 NORWICH. CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1912 The Bulletin's Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population. l T0 MAKE FIGHT FOR THEIR |.|BERT‘I? SEN T s Convicted Iron Workers Will Endeavor to be Re- leased on Bonds Pending Their Appeals APPEALS CANNOT BE ARGUED BEFORE APRIL Counsel For the Prisoners States That There Are About 90 Er- rors on Which Their Petition Will be Based—Court Can Suspend Sentence, Impose Fines or Priscn Terms Up to 39 1-2 Years—To Pass Sentence Today or Tomorrow. Indianapolis, Dee. 29—The thirty- sight labor union officials convicted of conspiracy and of promoting the Mc- Namara dynamite plots throughout the country temorrow will face the prospect of recelving prison terms X any minimum to a pos- sible maximum of thirty-nine and one- half years. From their temporary cells in the county jajl the prisoners, handcuffed between two deputy marshals, will be taken before Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson at 10 a. m. On Speciai Train to Prison. Meantime United States ' Marshal Edward Schmidt has arranged for a special (rain to leave by a secret route for the federal prison at Leavenworth, Eas. To prevent possible demonstra- tions on the way to Leavenworth, no details as to the time of departure are to be announced, but it is known the | start is to be made as soon as possi- ble after the court promounces judg- ment upon the thirty-eight men, un- less some of the prisoners are allowed their liberty om bonds pending ap- Punishment Rests Entirely With Court Motions for setting aside the ver- dicts and argument may delay the im- posing of sentences until - Tuesday. District Attorney Charles W. Miller first will ask for judgments on the verdicts and the motions for setting them aside may require a full day's session. The entire responsibility fer fixing the amount of the punishment rests with the court. May Be Fined or Get 39 1-2 Years. As each of the men was adjudged guilty on all the offenses charged, there being one offense carrying a imprisonment of two years and twenty-five offenses each carrying & mavimum punishment of eighteen months, the court may in its diseretion impose any penalty up to thirty-nine and one-half years’ imprisonment. “Any minimum” also leaves the court the right to give liberty to any pris- onér hy suspending sentence, or a money fine may be imposed. Will Fight for Liberty Pending Appeal who receive less than: Tt dré confined in county jail who receive longer terms at Leavenworth is the this district. every effort would be exerted to reyain liberty on bonds while an ::19-1 is pending for some of the labor Tveitmoe, a labor leader on the Pacific coast; Hiram R. Kline, a former offi- cial of the Carpenters’ union, and some of the many business agents from a score of cities, was announced by Chester H. Krum, counsel for the convicted men. Appeal Won’t Be Heard Before April. Mr. Krum has taken active charge of arrangements for avpeals to the United States cireult court of appeals sinee -Senator J. W. Kern left for Wash The question of bonds pending ap- peals is to come up after sentences are imposed. The amounts of the bonds are fixed by the court. Uniess the prisoners are able at once to furnish bonds they must remain in prison. It was stated that the soonest any ap- xe-! might be argued would be next i Defense Claims Ninety Errers. “We certainly will appeal in the case of each man” sald Mr. Krum. “There are about ninety errors upon which we shall base the petition and we are confident of an ultimate re- versal.” “Thig trial never will be reversed and the men will serve out the pun- Ishments imposed by the court,” said District Attorney Miller. Four Men in a Cell. Confined to two tiers of cells, four prisoners to a the men who the government char; engaged in the most widespread conspiracy for the destruction of wrcperty in the history of the country today remained within four blocks of the place in which’ it was charged the conspiracy originated. It was in the offices of the Interna- tional Association of Bridge and Struc- tural Iron Workers, not far from the county jall, where John J. McNamara, secretary of the union, formed the plot apd in which dynamite and nitro- glycerine were found at the time of his arpest. It was this office from which he was charged with sending out Or- tle E. McManigal and Herbert S. Hockin as paid-dynamiters, and with starting his brother, James B. Mle- Namara, to carry on the destruction at Los Angeles, Cal, with the loss of life there. Only Two Officers Out of Jail. It was also in the iron workers' of- fices that many of the men now con- victed were declared to have met to discuss the conspiracy and to appro- priate the union's funds for the pur- chase of explosives. All but two of the officers of the union, brought from cities scattered from Boston to Los Angeles, are now in jail. Two Found Not Guilty. Two defendants were found not guilty. They were Herman G. Seiffert of Milwaukee and Daniel Buckley of Davenport, Ia. Those Who Were Convicted. The following were found guilty: Frank M. Ryan, president of the In- ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice presi- dent. Heérbert S. Hockin, former secretary and formeriy of Detroit. Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Francisco, secretaty e California Building Trades council, Bugéne A. Clancy, San Francisco. Phillp A. Cooley, New Orleans. Michiel J. Young, Boston. Frank J. Higgins, Boston. J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, Utah. Frank C. Webb, New York. Patrick F. Farrell, New York John H. Barry, St. Louis. Paul J. Morrin, St. Louis. Henry W. Legieltner, Denver. Charles N. Beum, Minneapolis. ‘Willlam B. Reddin, Milwaukee. Michael J. Cunnane, Philadelphia. Richard H. Houllhan, Chicago. James Cooney, Chicago. James A. Coughlin, Chicago. William Shupe, Chicago. Edward Smythe, Peoria, Il James E. Ray, Peoria, Il Murray L. Pennell, Springfield, 1L Frank K. Painter, Omaha. Peter J. Smith, Cleveland. George Anderson, Cleveland. Michael J. Hannon, Scranton, Pa. . Edward E. Phillips, Syracus Charles Wachtmeister, Detrof Frank J. Murphy, Detroit. Fred J. Mooney, Duluth. Ernest G. W, Basey, Indianapolis. Fred Sherman, Indianapolis. Hiram R. Kline, Muncie, Ind., former organizer for the Brotherhoed of Car- penters and Joiners. William C. Bernhardt, Cincinnati. “Wilrord Bert Brown, Kansas City, Mo. ‘William J. McCain, Kansas City, Mo. JACK JOHNSON’'S CASE IN SUPREME COURT. | Salicitor Bulliét Deslares It is Not a Proper Procedure. ‘Washingion, Dec. 29.—The United States supreme court is asked by So- liciter General Bullilt, in a brief made public tonight, to dismiss “summarily” the application of Jack Johnsom, the negro pugilist, for a writ of habeas the constitutionality corpus pdvance of trial, The lower court de- nied the writ and the soficitor general says: _his vemedy i The case supreme gourt January 6, TWO GO TO DEATH THROUGH THIN ICE. Youthful 8i Sister on a Sled. Concord, Maes, Deq; 90— Braggin s 0 year old sisier Margavet on a Bt lohn Brown, T17, skated thraugh thi mill pond 1 drowaed. ’Purlu " _ James and lm’lm' r Was Brawing LllhI ice pu the Strathmers | re today, and hoth were | AUTO RACER PLUNGES OVER THE “DEAD LINE” Hal Shain Fatally Injured and Many Others Cut and Bruised. : Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 29.—Hal | Shain, a well known automobile racer, sustained injuries that caused his death in half an hour, three others were seriously hurt and ‘a number slightly cut and bruised, when Shain’s machine shot out‘of the cup shaped ice this afternoon and plunged into the crowd. tractions at Venice because.of the small size of the track on which he rode and the great speed at which he traveled. The cup is 70 feet in diam- eter at the top and requires a speed ot 5 miles an hour to keep an automo- A thin red line a foot below the top Seryes as the “dead line” for the driv- ér, Shain lost control of his machine and it went over the “dead line” After splintering several railing posts it dropped to the bottom of the cup, but shot to the top again and plunged through the railing and among the spectators, Then the automobile fell back with Shain underneath, MARCHED FROM BURNING CHURCH SINGING HYMN Organist and Teacher Remained Un- til All Children Wers Out. Bes, 39— Singing Onward, ian Molditrs, two hundred chil- ren, members of a Sunday schoel lass, out of their elassrepm here today through smoke from a fire that destrayed the Lorimer Memorial church, Mrs. Bimer Anger- ;m, organist, and Miss Maptha Mar- quart, teacher of a primary clas: played the music and led the singing { hathl “alt the childr i | te. By that tise 1 close te th forced to flee, ! and furs. The fire was disco | man while the Sunday sesslon, Findin, randon 18 their a police- ol was in #H employes redch ‘to save James and ¢ the last cbid was out and the | i b ™ that the entire base teh was on fire, he upstalrs and asked the teachers of the Sunday school to play something the children couid march to. The en- tire structure wis in iames by the track on the Concession Pier at Ven- | Shatn had been one of the chief at- | bile on the almost perpendicular track. | Anderson Reaches Tokio. Deec, —Larz Anderson, the appointed United States ambas- sador to Japan, arrived here yesterday | and will at once take over the duties of the embassy. Fifteen of Crew Drowned. Penzane, Eng, Dec. 29.—Fifteen of the crew of the Danish steamer Vol- mer were drowned when she was wrecked on Thursday in the great gale which has been raging in the English channel. Violent Gale on French Coast. Quimper, France, Dec. 29.—A south- westerly gale is raging with great vio- lence along the coast. The seas are higher than ever before and the lights in several of the lighthouses have been extinguished. None of the fishing craft dare venture out. A Powerful Aeroplene. Pards, Dec. 29.—Maurice Farman \at Toussus-le-Noble today tested a new and powerful type of aeroplane espe- clally comstructed to carry loads of provisions and ammunition. With a passenger he easily transported a car- 8o of 400 kilos (330 pounds). Minimum Rate to Continue. St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.—The minis- ter of commerce has issued the offi- cial announcement that Russian im- ports from America will continue un- dey minimum tariff rates after the ex- piration on January 1 of the treaty of trade and commerce, which the United States abrogated. MISS GOULD AND HER FIANCE ATTEND CHURCH. Memorial Services for Mr. Shepard’s Father at Clinton, Conn. Clinton, Conn., Dec. 20.—Finley J. Shepard and his fiance, Miss Helen M. Gould, attended memorial services here tonight at the Church of the Holy Ad- vent (Episcopal) in memory of Mr. Shepard’s father, Rev. Peter L. Shep- ard, who died December 2 last, aged He was rector of the church for thirteen years, and was universally be- loved in the community. Before com- ing here he was rector of Grace church in Saybrook. Mr, Shepard and Miss Gould occu- pied the Shepard family pew in the little church, which was crowded to the doors. Services were in charge of the rector, Rev. Charles A. Tibbals. A number of , other visiting clergymen were also in attendance. Mr. Shepard and Miss Gould came here tonight from New Haven and had dinner at the Episcopal parsonage. Be- fore coming here they visited Mr. Shepard’s aged mother, who is an in- valid at the New Haven general hos- pital. 8pent Night at New Haven. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 29—Finlay J. Shepard and Miss Helen M. Gould | returned to New Haven tonight from | Clinton and are guests at the Hotel Taft. They will return to New York in the mormmg. “LOT OF SILLY, EXCITED AND EXAGGERATED WOMEN" Bishop of Albany Diccess So Char- acterizes Suffragette Marchers. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 29.—The mem- bers of the suffragetts army spent today quietly resting after the com- pletion yesterday of the pligrimage from New York to this city to peti- tion Governor-elect Sulzer to fur- ther “the cause” of equal suffrage. “We are all just as joyful as when we started and are ready for another and a longer hike” said “General” Rosalie Gardner Jones, who command- ed the expedition, tonight. In a statement today Right Rev. William Croswell Doane, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Albany, deolared the piigrims were “a lot of silly, ex- cited, exaggerated women,” and that he had “no faith in them,” and that the trip from New York to Albany “was inspired Dby the same motives as actuate the English suffragettes— the desire to attract attention.” When told of the bishop's remarks, “General” Jones said: “I'm a good Episcopalian, but I'm afraid the good bishop Is excitable.” SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN NEED AT LEAST §8 A WEEK. Should Not Go to Philadelphia Unless They Can Earn That. Philadelphia, Dec. 29.—Self-support- ink women require at least 38 a week in this city to provide the barest ne- cessities of life, according to a warn- ing issued today by the commission | on social service of the Inter-Church | Federation of Philadelp! In cau- | tioning women and girls coming to this city to accept employment, the| | commission estimates the weekly cost | | of living as follows: Room rent with two meals, $5; lunches, $1.20; cloth- | ing andincidentals, $1. Theycommission in its statement de- | clares’ that “so many dangers beset | the self-supporting woman who has an inadequate wage or is out of employ- | ment for any length of time that we feel justified issuing this caution and warning. PROMINENT SCIENTISTS ASSEMBLE AT CLEVELAND. Dr. J. Pease Norton of Yale to Be One of Speakers. Cleveland, Dec, 29.—More than & thonsand promnent sclentists, mem- | bers of the American Association for | the Advancement of Sclence and its 25 | affiliated sclentific organizations, gath- | ered here today for the 84th mesting, | which will oceupy the coming week, The 11 branches of the association will consider such subjects as econom- les, mathematios, botany, medieine and education, st daily jeint mestings with the affiliated societies interested in these hranehes of scienes, While many of the tepies of discussien will be of espeeial value enly te the at tending scientists, an addvess on | Phursday by Dr, J, Pease Nertea of ¥ale on “Comparative Measurements of €hanging Oest of Living” will be of general imlewest, —— | Steamship Arrivals, | At New York: 9, Gampania, | from Liverpooi; from Liver- wol; Cameronia, from Glasgow; New | Fork, from Southampton, At Liverppol: Dec, 29, St , ™. B. ; Rwec. 38, Soluw for Glasgow Virginian, | 1 A from | New and proceed- | ed York Arrested For Assauit on Foreman, New Miiford, Gonn., Bec. 30—Louls €assa was arrested today, charged with” assaulting, with intent tq Kill, James Walsh, foreman for Blakeslee and Son, contracters, on the Hamden road at Ichertown, Mass, Dec. 21 The assault followed ‘an aigu- e 150,000 Garment Workers Strike FOUR THOUSAND NEW YORK SHOPS AFFECTED. TAKES EFFECT TODAY Alleged Child Labor Figures in De- mands of Employes—Men Said te Have Received as Low as $8 a Week New York, Dec. 29.—One hundred and fifty thousand men, women and children emploved in the men’s cloth- ing industry in this city were ordered to go on strike tomorrow by the local executive committee of the United Male Garment Workers of America at a meeting today. Action to this effect was authorized by a big majority in a recent vote of the workers. Four thousand shops are expected to be af- fecteq if the strike order is obeyed. Strike Decision Cheered. Crowds of workers thronged the street outside the building where the meeting was held and cheered when the strike decision was read to them, Hundreds of persons were prevented by the police from parading through the East Side to show their approval of the order. Endorsed by National Committes. After the local committee met the national executjve committee gave its endorsement and voted to place T. A. Rickert of Chicago, chairman, at the head of the strike. Other national committeemen present included Victor Altman, Buffalo; Meyer Schwartz, Cincinnati; Abraham Gordon, Balti- more; Frank Doyle, Syracuse, and John Bush, Canada. No announcement was made whether the presence of practically all of the national com- mittee was an indication that the strike would be extended to other cities. A Force of 1,000 Pickets. Fifty national organizers were ap- pointed as aides to National Chairman Rickert ang it was announced that one thousand pickets would be scat- tered about the city tomorrow morn- ing to intercept workers not obey- ing the strike order. A committee of one thousand under Abraham Ca- han, editor of a Jewish daily news- paper, will work with the national chairman. The demands of the workers have not been formally presented to em- ployers, representatives of the latter said. Henry Waxman, treasurer of the national committee, explained this today as follow: Following Tactics of Employers. “The manufacturers give no notice in advance when they are going to cut wages and we ars following the same taotic: The sub-contract system which is declareq to have led te labor in dark tenements and child laber, figures in the demands. The abolition of both is asked for. Other demands aye a twenty per cent. wage inerease with minimum wage peale of $10 a wge; for womep and $16 for men ,evertime work to he paid for at a “time and a half” rate and heliday evertime at double rates; and clean and sanmitary workshops. Some Men Receiving $8. Strike leaders, discussing the de- mand for better wages, said that men have been receiving as low as $8 a week and women less. Manufacturers declare their readi- ness to meet the emergency. They said today they would have new employes on hand tomarrow to take the places of the strikers. Eugene Benjamin, president of the New York Clothing Trade association, said he “did not think more than 20 per cent. of the garment workers would walk out. Today's decision to strike came as a surprise. Intimation of Other Strikes. Threats that similar strikes might | be called in other citles were uttered by leaders who addressed several thousand garment workers in mass meeting tonight. “The garment workers in Philadel- phia, Utica and Syracuse are watch- ing vou anxiously,” declared Frank Doyle, national trustee from Syracuse. “Not a clothing manufacturer in those | cities will dare send clothes to New York. If they do their employes will strike, The whele country is with y>u and if in any one clty the employers attempt to send garments to New York the strike will spreid to that city.” Urged to Be Orderly. The garment workers were urged to carry on an orderly strike as one way of winning public sentiment. SUFFRAGETTES WON'T TAG BEHIND TAFT AND WILSON. Won't Play Second Fiddle, But Will Parade on March 3. Chicago, Dec. 29.—There will be no band of suffragists marching behind President Wilson and Mr. Taft in Washington March 4. The plan has been dropped, it was announced here today, by officials of the National Woman's Suffrage association. In- stead of the parade behind the presi- dential carriage, the suffragists will | march through the streets of the na- tional capital March 34, headed by Mrs, Carrle Chapman Catt, Miss Jane Addams and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, In announcing their intentlon not to appear in the Inaugural parade the officials sald that it was poor policy to play second fiddle to anybedy, “The Indugural parade is primarily an affalr for the incoming president What we are seeking te is to at- traet attention to the weman's suffrage Niovement, We ean do this best by having our demenstratien separate,” they said, AMERICAN FISHING VESSELS SUFFER CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE | Newfeundland Goast Swept by Heavy Gales for Twe Days. St jehm, N. 8, sehooners have been driven ashere an much property aiens the water fremt has been damaged as a result of heavy gales which have swept the Naw- foundiand coast during teh past twe days. The steamer Ivemore on [ts last trip acre Cibot Straii was delayed 24 hi 5, und passenggrs and crew had a trying experience, ed over her decks and flooded the sa- lugls. No one was injured. everal pther steamers bawe been forced to remain in port for 48 hours. The Hegl of American fishing vessels taking hex ca:fins al” Bay of Is- lands suffered consi@erable damage. Severa] “sections "of thg Reed-New- foundland rgilgay near he seaboard ave Reen . Pee, 39.-—Severaj | reat seats pour- | Will Fight to The Bitter End BALKAN DELEGATE SERVES WARNING ON EUROPE. FEAR INTERVENTION Predicts That Europe Will if There Turkey to Present Modified Terms. Witness Horrors is Interference— London, Dec. ~Notwithstanding apparently imsurmountable difficulties atiending the successful issue of the peace conference, the prospects tonignt lock brighter, more because of the changing atmosphere of the conicr- ence than on account of any new fact. In the first place, it ls stated ovn good authority that the Turkish dele- gates will present tomorrow modified terms better calculated to afford a basis for negdtiation, and, in the sec- ond place, the allies appear more anxious to come to real business, if it is at all possibie. Fear European’ Intervention. They have ocoupied the week end in exchanging long cipher telegrams with their respective governments in order to be fully informed on all points and in_ complete agreement They seem to be nervously apprehen- sive that they will be deprived of the fruits of their victories by European intervention. 'One of the delegates said tonight: S is difficult to say whether our le will be harder against Mus- an oppression or against Euro- pean intervention, which already sev- eral times has prevented u from shaking off the Ottoman yoke. Al- though our armies have victoriously reached the Tchatalja, Europe might wish to return Adrianople to the Mos- lems, forgetting or igmoring what that would mean for the Christian popula- tion. But we know the value of the so-called FEuropean guarantees for Turkish reforms, and this time we will not give in. Will Fight to Bitter End. “If official Europe likes horrors, it shail hdve them. We will fight to the bitter end. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!"” The Balkan delegates fear that Aus- tria’s attitude is encouraging the Turks to resist. If reports from Vienna are true, Austria still persists in the en- largement of the frontiers of autono- mous Albania to such an extent that it will absorb the territories claimed by Greece, Servia and Montenegro, and as Montenegro treats the proposition of the exchange of Scutari for Mount Lowehen as a “blackmalling proposi- tlon,” the' difficulties raised by Aus- tria's attitude bave rather increased than diminished. Impending Conflict Over Albania. According to the Vienna Neue Frel Presse, a conflict exists between the drelbund and the triple entents with regard to Albania. The former favors a large and powerful 4> nfa, while the powers of the enteny arge a greatly restricted Albanta. Rechad Pagha, ' _cad of the Turk. ish delegates, Is in constant touch with Ceonstantinople with respect to the next meeting of the conference tomor- row aftermoon. Tt is reported tha‘ he is personally opposed to extreme pro- posals, but has been forced to accept Instruetions from the porte which were dictated partly by fear of the Young Turks and the military party an” partly in hope of favorable European intervention. ADRIANOPLE AN OBSTACLE. Belief Among Turks That It May Be Impossible to Reach Agreement. Constantinople, Dec. 29—The coun- cil of ministers sat until a late hour this evening discussing the reports It is understood ihat the ministers have decided to instruct the Turkish delegates to propose reference of the sension to conference. In official eircles the bellef is held that an agreement can be attained on all points except Adrianople, which it is feared will prove an almost in- superable difficulty. the ambassadorial con- MRS. WHITELAW REID AND SON ARRIVE. Body of Late Ambassador is Still on the Way. New York, Dec. 29—Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and her son, Ogden Mills Reid, arrived tonight from England on the steamer Campania. Their arrival was timed to precede by several days that of the British cruiser Natal, which is steaming for this port with the body of the late American ambassador to December 15. stateroom during the stormy the Campania from Liverpool. Through her brother, Ogden Mills, who had come from San Francisco to meet her, Mrs, Reld made it known that she did not wish to make any changes in the | plans for her husband’s funeral ‘Mr. Mills was accompanied to the pler declarations which he will make at the | Olympic from the plenipotentiaries at London. | questions which have given rise to dis- | [1elr SUiDS Pav y | passenger on the steamer Celtis Condensed Teiegrams The Mother of Hall Caine, the au- thor, is dead in London, aged 84. It is Said That J. Forbes-Robert- son, the actor, i to be knighted by King George on New Year's day. The Family of James Rapa of Yon- kers was stricken with ptomaine pois- on after eating warmed over chicken, A Litter of 16,000 Copies of diiscard- ed newspapers is picked up in New York subway stations and trains every morning, _Grace Odell, 11 Years Oid, of Ster- ling, Tll, has been asleep for $6 hours. Vaccination is thought to have caused her slumber. John Hazel, a Negro, received ten lashes at the whipping post in )Balti- more for beating his wife. He was sentenced to 30 da Representatives of Great Britain and the United States conferred at Wash- ington Saty over measures to make life er at sea Engines on the Pen west, will be smokeles: @ half. The engines Mrs, K. E. died in coln, Neb., from the effects of hem- orrhages of the brain brought on by a dream that she had been poisoned. Cleveland 3 | Readjustment of Taxation Methods, intangible especially with regard to proveriy, will be given much atten- tion at this session of the New Hamp- shire legislature. Baseball Is the Most popular sport so far introduced by the Americans into the Philippine Islands. and it is doing more than its share in civilizing the brown people of the archipelago. Three White Men and five negroes were killed and several negroes are missing as the result of the explosion of a boiler at the shops of the Seaboard Air line railroad at Hamlet, N. C., Sat. urday. Fourteen Hundred Chicago Pelice- men and several hundred firemen threaten to resign within a few weeks as the result of the expected 20 per cent. reduction in salaries of all city employes. The Fate of Mrs. Harriet M. Burn- ham, who is on trial before Judge Ker- sten in the criminal court at Chicago, for the murder of her husband, Her-" bert E. Burnham, will be placed in the hands of the jury today. _During the Forty Minutes that Presi- ident-elect Wilson was in Washington yesterday he did not leave his private car; neither did any of the local dem- ocrats or any one in official life in Washington confer with him. Wages Paid Home Workers in New York and Boston tenement houses and to young girls in ecity department stores are typical of wages below the living level, according to Prof. Henry R. Seager of Columbia univereity. Approximately $3,000,000 a year will be saved in the operation of the army establishment as a result of the con- solidation of the paymaster's and com- missary general's department with that of the quartermaster general. Bruce lsmay, Head of the Inter- national Mercan Marine, denied that the White Star line will transfer the to the American line in or- der to take advantage of an alleged “joker” in the Panama canal bill. Regulation of the the vast hydro-electric power latent in the large area of lakes and streamg in the state af Maine will be proposeq in measures to be submitted to the legis- lature at its session which opens Jan- uary 1, 1913, Miss Violet Asquith, daughter of Premier Asquith of England, was a which arrived in New York yesterday, Miss Asquith was accompanied by the Countess Aberdeen, wife of the lord leutenant of Ireland. A Public Fountain as a memorial to wireless operators who have stuck to their posts and gome down with their ships, particularly to Jack Phil- to be in Battery park, New York, by Phillips memorial committee. the The Steamship Terrialba, which ran | aground Christmas eve at Brigantine | most Great Britaln who died in London on | | Mrs. Reid remained sectuded in her trip of | | by his son, Ogden Mills, Jr., and other | | members of the family and by the | Rev. Willlam M. Grosvenor, dean of | the Protestant Eplscopal Cathedral of | 8t. John Divine, where the | services will be conducted on January | 4. The party went aboard the steam- Reld and her son, taking them to the family residence on Madison avenue. Aged Couple Burmed te Death, Poughkeepsie, N, ¥, Dee, 29— Geerge Vesburgk, & wealthy Dulehess people, were burned to death early to- day when their farmhouse was di ptrayed by fire, Neighbers dissevered the flames, but mst umntil it was tee late to rescue the inmates, German Censpiracy Unearthed, Berlin, Dee, 80.—Afany arrests have eceurred at Breslau, eapital of Silesia, f men and women eharged with being nvolved in a widespread conspir: Correspandence has heen seized, re- vealing a piotte destroy all the bridges near Breslau in the event of German mobilization. TFo Gompete for Pacific Frade, London, Pec. 36.-—According to - 1 information received hy the by correspondent of the Daily Mail, the Hamburg-American Steamship decided ta en- th the Canadian, company bas dcfinilet. American and Japanese lines for thé ter'the competifion wi funeral | | er and returned immediately with Mrs, | 1 esunty farmer, and his wife, both aged | shoals, on the New Jersey coast, and was extricated after her passengers and of her cargo had been taken off, was brought to her pier at New York Saturday afternoon by a fleet of tugs. She was not badly damaged. Elimination of Street and the substitution of on brackets attached to buildings, is the novel proposition which the exec- utive committee of the Broadway as- soclation of New York ie considering in its scheme to make Broadway “the best lighted thoroughfare in the world." Lamp Posts street SHIP OF FLOWERS PRESENTED WILSON. Handsome Parting Gift by People of His Native Town, Princeton, N. Dec. 20—With a minfature ship of state in one hana and a basket of Virginia apples In the other, President-elect Wilson came home tonight after an all day ride from Staunton, Va., his borthplace a parting gift the people of his nativ town gave him a ship of flowers and bade him Godspeed amid cheers, The president-elect said he felt deep- ly touched by the hospitality display- ed, not only toward him, but every- hody who came back for the reunion. The governor also found himself physically the better for the journey, and so far regained his normal strength that he talked pelities mest of the day with pesple whe rede with him in different stretehes of the trip, Natienal Chairman William F, Me- Ceombs and Speaker N, B, Hyrd of the Virginia legislature talked with the governer from Staunten te Washing- ton, At Washingten, where the #ov. erne’s special car stepped an heuw Jerry J, Sullivan, ene ef the leaders of the demaeracy in lowa, was received | by Mr, Wilson in his stateream, The | 18 president-elect did net leave his ear at al while at the natiemal ecapital. Steamers Reported by Wireless, (Cape Race, N. F, Pec. 29 —Bieamer Potsdam, Rotterdam for Halifax aad New York, in wireless communication with the Marconi station here when 1086 miles each of Sandy Hoek at 2. m. ia g‘ant. Mass, Bec, 28-—Steames Mmnehaha, Landon for New ¥Werk, me- ported 360 miles cast of Sand 00k at poon. Rock 9.30 a. m. Mgn Fartnet, Dec. 29.—Steamer Lusi{an- ja, New Fork for Fishguard amd Liv- erpool, reportcd 239 miles west at 1.16 p. m. Poe Fishguard 16 a m, Mon- iy e Dovelopment of erected | lights | Across Gangway. In Heavy Swell TAFT PARTY HAS AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE. ARRIVE AT KEY WEST Voyage of Over 1,100 Miles Made in Little Over Sixty Houre—Presented Flag by Quartermasters of Arkansas Miami, Fla, Dec. 29—President and Mrs. Taft, Colonel and Mrs. Qoethals |and a number of friends arrived off Key West at 10 o'clock this meorning on the United States battleships Arkansas and Delaware, after & quick trip from Colon and the Panama canal zone. The presidential party was brought ashore by the government tug Peoria and started north at noon on a special train over the Klorida East Coast and the Atlantic Coast Line radlroads. They are due in Washington Tuesday morning. . Coal Passer Fell Overboard. The voyage from Colon to Key West, more than 1,100 miles, was made in & little more than sixty hcurs over wa- ters troubled caly by a heawy and roughened hy brisk trade winds. A spectacular rescue of a coal passer on the Delaware, after he fell over- board at 7 o'clock this morning, was witnessed by practicaily every member of the party. To save the man the big battleship turned a complete cirele, put off a boat, picked up the coal passer and resumed her course In less fifteen minutes. Goethals’ Appointment Assumed. President Taft has announced that he will make no appointments to civil positions under the new administra- tion of the canal zone until he returns to Washington. It is as- sured, however, that Colonel Goetha will be offered and will accept the gov- ernorship of the zome. He will talk over features of the administration with the president dwring the trip to Washington and later at the White House. - Higher Breakwater Needed. Probability of increasing the height of the breakwater guarding Colon har- bor was discussed on the Arkansas and the matter may be taken up at Washington. The presidential party was taken o the Arkansas, anchored just inside the breakwater, in & big seagolng tug. At the time the wind was so strong that the passage of the battleship was pro- nounced dangerbus. The entire party, including the women, was foreed to run across a gangway from the tug to the Arkansgs while the boats were heaving four or five feet with ewery swell. Naval officers told the presi- dent the presemt protection there was nadequate. . Presented a Presidents’ Flag. President and Mrs. Taft, Captain Roy Smith of the Arkansas and their friends were guests at dinner last lnight of the wardroom mess. Presi- dent Taft made a short speech in which he praised the battleship, her officers and men. Toasts were drunk to the president and to “our wives and sweethearts.” Just before landing today the quar- termasters of the Arkansas presented Mr. Taft with a president's fiag made on the ship and flown at the naval review in New Yerk and om the trip to the canal zome. TWO SURVIVORS OF A . CREW OF SEVENTEEN. Captain and Saitor Have Terrible Ex- I perience in Open Boat. London, Dec. 29.—The two. survivers of the Danish steamer Volmer who were pleked up in an opem boat miles to the southwest of the and landed at Newlyn by a trawler Saturday relate terrible experiences The Volmer was wrecked on Thursday in the great gale which raged in the English channel. The crew abandoned the steamer and ome of the boats with nine cccupants was swamped, all the men being drowned. The second boat #ith the captain and seven othees aboard mmanaged te weather the heavy seas. They had no oars and no water and t‘hu‘ were un- able to obtain food from the airtight ank. The chief engineer died and the chief officer went mad. He tried to | throttle the captain. Eventually all died or were washed overboard except the captain and one other. They also were washed off the boat several times | during Thursday night, dut | to_crawl back. | They drifted until Saturday morning suffering the agonies of thirst and ex- posure. They were aimost to thelr necks In water and lost conscionsness from exhaustion while being 1 through the sea into the rescudng boat:. | OBITUARY. ‘ Richard G. May of Meriden, ! Meriden, Conn., Dec. 38—Richard G | May, a Meriden undertaker for the | past’ fifteen years, died this morning | after en illness of a complication of | diseases. Mr. May's death was hast- | ened by shock over the death of &n | only son, Burton B. May ,a traveling | salesman, and the death of a grand- son, both last month. Mr, May was 70 years old and a native of Cornwall, Fngland. In early life he was a | miner and worked in the tin mines of | Cornwall, the Parite mines of Cheshire -n,a the :o.lg‘ mtn&ut Cal- fornia. Refore entering fokiag businere Ne was s TirersVmen | for 22 years. | Benjamin E. Montgomery, Governer-elect of Colorade. | Denver, Cola, Des, 20-—Benfamin 8, Montgomery, lisutenant governor-alest )f Coloradn, dled today as the result ¥ an operation which he underwent ares weeks ago for throat tyouble. Willlam 8wain Andeews of New York, New Yerk, Pas, 30.—Willam Swaln Andvews, for gixteen years commis- siamer af recards in this city and see- solary of the di tie nad 1 eam. mittee in 1§74 1484 and 1884, died here teday, aged T1 years, Fiq Bad a ter- satilp eaveor ag acter, soldier, legisin- ter, lawyer, reporter, oditer, pelitivian and Relder of geveral pullie offices. At the age of 18 he appeared ¢ stage with Bawin Boath, 1 was editor In chief of the ) tar, For bravery in the Oiwll war ¢ Linceln persamally appeinted him a Tieutemant. Baby Waighs 17 Gunces, - Aurora, I, Bec. 28.—A 17 ewnoe girl wqs hora IR the city hespital hera tonight. e child is pe farm ra, Hew - S e