The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 10

Biss MISSOURI TRU TRUST BUSTER, AND HOW OlL INQUIRY MAY DRAG. i E Fou Mr: Hadley, Bier Going: Alin Alone, Gets After the Octopus in Style that Indicates He Wili Show ’Em, ‘A new octopus hunter has come out ‘of the ‘West, and, after a few bours at \ Ble favorite task yestercay, he had the Watisfaction of knowing that he had at Yeast planted a few small shot in the Bide of that arch octopus, the Standant Oil Company. The name of tha latest seeker for swhat is left of the scalp Rockefeller is Herbert 8. he is Attorney-Gracral of the State of Missouri. In several ways Mr. Handley Is te- mmirkadle. He is a Repubdlican—th first Republican Attorney-General of | @issourl in thirty-five years, A Mis: ¥ mot afraid of anything or anybody, He 4 orfident that he will break up the Gtarward Ol monopoly in the Stato of Missouri and that he will accomplish his task in the hearing which he is con- @ucting at the office of Henry Woll- man, at No. 74 Broadway. What is qule the most remarkable feature about young Mr. Haciey Is the fax thet he does not admit that, in ont for the Standard Oi! octopus, seen by thai consistent friend People, Joseph Folk, Governor Missouri. Hadley Going It Alone. Mr. Foik is the only Democratic State oMcial ip Missour! at the present time. He has made all sorts of reform leads, ‘wt Mr. Hadley has been doing some Yeading on his own account. It must be understood from the start that Gov. ik, although in sympathy with Mr. fight against Standard Oil, Instigate it and has only as far as helped it “Bas been required. ‘Inasmuch as the Standard Ol] attor- Beye have dog up a hoary provision of the statutes requiring the commissioner fh the hearing now going on to take @own the testimony in longhand the Dattlo of Mr. Hadley against the Stand. ard Oil Company is likely to last many om. In the course of the proceedings iM question H. H. Rogers, who has #00; William (G.. Rockefeller, John D. Archbold and others who have Reeet edge of the inside workings of Stand- ard Oil. His subpoena servers have ‘Deen unable to reach John D. Rocke- feller and numerous others whose testi- Mony might prove , entertaining; but ‘with the material he has on hand he expects to go along sitisfaotorily. For @ short time this young man from Missouri wiil be a commanding figure 4m the life of this city. Millions of peo- plo will read about him every day. He thas come from Missourl to be shown, @nd the people of New York ought to kmow tim. Born Monopoly Fighter. Herbert 8. Hadley was born in Paola, ‘Kan., in 1869, consequently he comes naturally by his antipathy to Standard OM or any other monopoly, They do things out in Kansas. In the youth of ‘Mr. Hadley he had opportunity to ob- eérve what arvious monopolies could a: complish to hinder ‘the progress of a growing Commonwealth, and he grew up, well equipped by temperament for the task that he shoulders to-day, Paola is a little piace, but it has turned out some good Kansue men. Ut ts not far from the Missouri! line, end the attractions of Kansas City draw many of the Paola boys away from home, but those thet remain generally make good in one line or another. Mr. Bhiicy remained and attended the University of Kansas after he had passed through the common schools of bis native town. From the University of Kansas he ‘went to Chicago, where he took a course of jaw. He had barely pare a was uated ani Peri sneepakla and east about tora habitation and a place where he might exercise the powers fet he felt at work ‘within him, Practised in Kansas City. Kansas City swallowed him up, and for a short time he was lost in the swarm of strugyling youths who were trying to make their way through the id of ee bustling chy. Unremitting gee pponiod an ota eke, Aros an unknown quentity. he was ted Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson Sounty. In which Kansas City ts si- oft election of a Republican to the of Prosecuting (ited "Heat in Kansas Al "Y fadley good in his pat when hy for. fe-election, Ne ‘was defeated. Fhien entered the practice of lw remained out of public iife unt. fant summer. many, wany years previous to WH a campaign vi ine part of the Re- publican par'y in M going ge detert City. or some other State, holding @ convention and ity on election uight. A year ago gammer the Republicans met in Jeff on City In convention, with no par- itioul ops aan gfe of thelr candid tes, Was Herbert 8. Hadley for Attorn General. landslide happened. Folk was the only Democrat jected. ‘The young man Hadley wok the Attorn?v-Generalshin and leaped Into his work with an enthusiasm born Of lony Ahservation of conditions at- tached to the oMfce, Found Partition of State. At the invitation of the 8, Loan Offices! ‘Would you like to know why 80 many people buy Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, through Sunday World ‘For Sale"’ his oMfcial assistance | he: made famous by Thomes F. Law-| where Louis Post M Dispatch the Legislature hegan an tn- Vestigation into the affairs of the St. ode, Terminal Rullway—a monopoly that holds an wisolute iran sbipping and Dasscneer trafic tn pd out vr at. Louls. ornev-venaral Had.ey Wafeled this investigation and discov: bad Hie og testimony brought out that e, Stige of Misourl waa in the Brasp je Standar mpan that the off mago@tes had . |divided the State In two pections and che that the of The line | wi way is Kansas and de vious path Missour! terzitory 38-Plerce ion teed a | usu outs, whlch laver, he was i branch ‘nr the vatardard Olly He | discovered that competition had ‘been |bought up or merged cr crushed. And then he started out to érive he Stand- amy Ol Company out of Missouri, The Aap Inga have been many and o jetricate, ae pas bro hem ta New York, WW dovre irom No. 38 Broadway, “he nome of ‘the. Standar? Oll monopoly. and he belleves that he has the monop:ly on the rui Mr. Hadley, is rather slight of term. His complexion is dark and he has pectrating eves, His face smooth And his forehead is high. fe hae a splendid voice, with only occasional traces eroearing ir his spaech of Ka- sas oF Missouri colloquialisms, “In h at e is peculiarly skilful, nd several times yesterday he caused the distinguished crowd of | Standard OM wet their heads to enten Denied Star Chamber (aeating. Waeu we is queaivig suites ue leurs supe of paper into minus pieces find at the close vf a hearing tue hour about him is @ littered that oue rete magine a bug of contett! ned dumped in the yielnity, He tosses te tiny scraps aout, and they the clothing of every one ta hie Rania Generully stickin ne to ents hair ag rts low on the Hg ah wears Swep. back from cro ‘ers asthma, but is th he knows It Henry 5 ber the jssour pouldait night boss of thi fea for a star: the ground re would ‘releate. oe R Figs com ay Meith thethes When Rowers testifies eared have to testify D hit ana the At- Ban to eas Reporter being ‘pr pation, but he didn” want POHopArS gets any iget Ss Perce ag oe ee ghali or shal) not ‘attecd come out of bn court cs Tn very Pe A OM THIS IS HADLEY, WHO SAYS OIL MEN MUST SHOW HIM. A Ree Cae eae WINNING STREAK KEEPS UP FOR “BiG 6.” Funk & ‘Wagnall Joins the Other Firms Adopting the “Closed Shop.” “Big Six” continues to sain In its fight fcr the forty-cight- hour week and “closed shop.” To-day Funk & Wag- nal, an independent printing concern, employing about twenty-five > printérs, ylelded to the new scale and signed the agreement with President Patrick H. mick, of Typ graphical Union is far “Big Six" the ranks of the vy tae and cap- tured the following tirns, which had promised to stand firm for the “open shop’: Harper & Hrother, Pusey & Co., Wynkoop, Hallendeck, Crawford Company, Robert Drummond aad A. G. Sherwyod, At the headquarters of ¢ tae it was stated that a baton oF non-union prinzers is exrocted see on Monday from thre imp rtant cear s, has broken into ypothe: aoe es ls WRESTLER LEONHARDT WON. KNONVILE Jan 6—Char: Leonhardt. of N. J, defeate!! Eddie Barr, of Milwaukee in Graeco- Roman wrestling match last night) Barr Won the first fall in twenty-one min. utes. Leonhardt won the nd in nine. teen and the third in twenty-three minutes, The men signed articles for Rak Ce MRT WHAT sy thees Te Powees = WE REFUSE To ANSWER ly iL 1 { ! i | STANDARD OIL OCTOPUS “SHOWS ’EM” MIGHTY SLOW. By T. E. Powers. The proceedings at the inquiry are being worttten in longhand by Commissioner Sanborn. Mr, Powers depicts what the inquiry will look like in the years Ye Longhand Tale. hence at the preacnt rate of progress. ‘om WILL TRY TO PROVE SANITY Former Secretary of Montauk Club Has Been Held in Asylum Nine Years. (Special to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS. Jan. 6—Like Baxter Poor, who wrote to ceeded in having a commission appoint- ed, which declared him sane after he hag been imprisoned in Bloomingdale Asylum for seven yeats, Irving LI. Bragdon, a former New York broker, now dechres he is not ineane and o ‘commission and sheriffs jury were ap- pointed to-day to examine him. Bragdon appeared in court with his lawyer, former Corporation Counsel Michael J. Tierney, of New Rochelle, who had secured a writ of habeas cor- pus compelling the asylum authorities to produce Bragdon. Mr, Bregdon was committed to the asylum on Nov. 12, 18%, and for nine years, he says, though sane, he has been kept in a amdhouse. “Now, at last,” said Mr. Bragdon, “I can have my day in court, and prove I am not a lunatic.” Mr. Bragdon was at one time secre- tary of! the Montauk Club, of Brook- lyn, dnd vice-president of the Union ‘League Club. It is evident his wife, Mrs. Millie C. Bragdon, is going to fight to keep her husband, who is fifty-eight years old, . as she Was represent- 1a Bourt by Lawyer Root, of New ise . Lyon says an pearson 4s insane fat 0 be at large, be- ant ae fo has Phaltucivations and hears vole ‘Mr. Bragdon has one son William B. Bri , am architect who Hives at Crarfore, N. J. When Justice W. J. Gajnor was running for office Mr. Brag- don says he made speeohes and did Other political work in the Judge's be- hulf. le Eas aniellleantty, and while in Blomingdal ered lectures before 12 other fate His wife, who is to be wealthy, he says Has an cenene Bone easy & Taylor’ establish- r has been ait the opel paying his board ustice Keogh appointed Henr: 5 RATFou «commissioner, with a Shae ‘ to decide whethe: agd tneaine or pets r Mr. Bri jon is Rn @ letter to Justice anger Tierney has, M Breioa ieee earn the asylum authorities are trying to Induce my wife to transfor me to some other usylum. They fear my expose of their iniquity if T once get on the stand In the nands of a good lawyer. who will jay to me questions which I know will d to a rightful de- nouncement. In such case I will show them no theca, mercy. Isha ll prove l am E. R. THOMAS BUYS THE SPENCER ARMS. Man Noted as Turf Patron and Automobilist Makes Realty Investment. | | BR. Thomas, turf patron and auto- |mobiliat, has purchased The Spence Arms. an opurtment-house at Broadway and Sixty nina street. The bullding is twelve stories high and {s considered one of the most complete modern apart- ments in Manhattan, Tt was bul't by the y Company in 198, The | price ms hae not heretofore been mot real estate, He has devotes st ling to his brokerage bual- in- Terented in r.. Bragdon says: | By Walter Hark to yo pale and envient tale te’ 8 Missouri wight, jo sallied ont with lustye shout ays Octopus to smyte. To emyte full sore and spylile hys gore. Yon knight said “We shall see! I'm from Mizoo and I guess you Will just have to show Me.” Ye Octopus, an quente, slye cuss, Lurked heem in hys. lair. He esmyled a smyle chock full of guyle, And sald “What doe I care?” Then went around where most abound Ye tall brows of ye law, Who said they'd sock a stumblynge block. At ev'ry chance they saw. Now when ye man began to fan Ye coattails of ye trust A legal shark drew from ye Ark Ye Jaw strewn 9’er with dust. “If in yon bout we're put to rout,” Said he; “if we are whipt, | Yt is but ryghte that ye indyte ~ Thys case in longe-hand script.” Netw tralleth on ye moral: A. Sinclair. Now at thys law ye lower Jaw Of ye Commish doth synk. Hys tremblynge hand extendeth and He takes ye pen and inke. “Oh, woe is me!" in gloom quoth he, “Yon job—!I lyke it—not. Now if some manne who stammers can But crowd into yon plot!” Fron Jaye to daye he whaled away, Inscribing all he heard. Ye awful ache began to take Hys hande st ev'ry word. And all ye while ye merrye smile Lights up ye lawyer crewe. Ye short-hande manne beneath ye banne Eke looketh sad and blue. Ye year rolls cn, and yet anon Another passeth ctille. And thys waye fades ten long decades, And stillo ye trusty quill Keeps chasing on, while Oil King) Jobn On Jersey golf links camps, Until ye judge in inkye smudge Canne dye of writer’s cramps. When Ye reaub States raise a roar, Remember that ye ol id style pen Might make them mighty sore CAMETOCITY TOWIN FORTUNE AND GIRL Joe Martin, Shel 16, Found |* Himself Lost and’ Hungry at the Very Start. Wearing the plain gold band ring his sweetheart gave him to pledge love Joseph Martin, @ bright little New Enghinder, sixteen years old, to-day brightened Morrisania Court with his straightforward appearance as ho told how te had come to New York to make} his fortune. Joseph made ‘his debut In the Morripania station early to-day by Uptoeing up Sergt. Ryan's desk and asking politel “Say, Mr. Policeman, can @ little fel- low get anything to eat in New York? I've come all the way from Willimantte, Conn., and I'm hungry.” The sergeant Ignked the newcomer over jad. with blue eyes and dark curly hair that fel! over his neck, He wore a pair of short black pants, a red sweater with | blue collxr, blac: shoes and stockings | and 4 blue peaked cap. “Wall, Uttle fellow, If you're hungry IT gutss we can get you something,’ said Ryan, and he sent D/orman Wie ley out to get the boy a steak and ofier things. While the lad was polishing oft his meal he told his story of ambiti n and hop. For Joseph says he has read of great-men who had po-r starts and wishes to be a great man. | Is an Orphan, “I am an orphan,” sald the boy, ‘I was born. and lived in Rockville, Conn., where my father,’ Joseph Martin, ae Mra ago My. lala thelr) He saw a» rosy-cheexed, sturdy | ried a man named Philip Vojck. Mother died two years ago, leaving me with my stepfather. He drank and we bait not agree. When 1 was fourteen he took me | trom Bt. Peter's scnool, in Rockvil api put me in the Hocklimus Wool | eal e: He eat me and was often ‘80. one night Fe moat ate q,gesiaes Aina! | ent at a fret it to Pi ‘ot a job in the Lynn Woollen M! a twister at $6.70 per week. "T lived In ‘the company's boarding- \hospet and. where I met a little girl. ‘ever mind what her name Is. | ane land I gave ner one in return. “1 had heard of New York betr pince wihere-a worker could get along, jand In the mills I met a young feilow named Charley who sald he lived in |New York and was golng home. He vald {f T came with him T could sleop in his father’s barn. So last night w swung under the bumpers of a mall train and came to New York. ‘The son- sations of riding there were awful, and final: when the train slowed 2, Chatloy said we ‘had to ‘git." sow Ju off at a place where there's a big, hole—I don't know just where it He referred to the Grand Central ex- | cavation, | Lost His Guide. started up this way, Charley Tae big buildings and ame very much, such things, but neve 1 seen them before. And’ then f lost Snarley. on walking until I knew ‘I and asked a man where to He told me to keen on HUT saw “thie buttding with the greuit nts and come {n. hen the boy was arra;-aed to-day ‘by Policeman Stanborg on a technical vharge of Vagrancy Magistrate Wahie toak « mraat Interest in the atory he fd. and remanded ‘him back to ¢ station fora day until the story could igated. Joe'u straightforward learn have uite won Cupt. Mannion and Sergi yan, wno arg looking out for his ‘com: | tort. When ask to some ech ““L want to t® learn. ike those I've-read Pen boys. what ke would do If sent to learn a trade he said: @ man and Ten. willing aaa to iba She gave me that on ‘christmas 3 S j the MORTALLY HURT SAVING OTHERS Daniel McLaughlin, of Brook- lyn, Trampled by Runaway Team in Jersey City. Trying to save the lives and Hmbs of others, Danlel McLaughlin threw him- self in the path of a runaway team in Jersey City to-day. He stopped the horses, but they trampled and crushed him, and the physiclans at the Jersey City Hospital say he is dying of in- ternal injuries. McLaughlin's home is at No. 493 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn. Two horses, harnessed to a coach, were standing in front of the house of their owner, Michael Alexander, at Morris and Green streets. A scrap of paper blew across the cobbles squarely under the feet of the animals. They snorted with fear and set off in a gal- lop, running through Green stree: Swinging into Montgom mein artery of travel to and from tac Pennsylvania ferries, the team with th | coacn bouncing at eels pelts along. Many times they marrowly museed crashing into other vehicles, but there were no collisio: thanks mainly to shouted warnings and the einen sounded by the pounding hoofs. he runaways: headed” strofght. for the ferrybouse. From it was iesuing ® thick stream of pedestrians and rigs, for two boats—one from Cortlandt street and one from Twenty-third street—had just landed. Well in the front of the outpouring crowd walked McLaughlin. He sensed the danger at a giance, and rushing forward a few yards he ne at th aneee of the off horse. iis cee on the reins close to nd mis swung off his feet, hie ou on the animal's mouth. harply, ringing its tea mate with it, and reared. The man's gtip was shaken off. He fell on his back. Two of the off horse's hoofs struck him in the cheat, and two whee of the heavy coach crossed his But he had effectually Checked peed of the team. OS tore they could get under Rena way again a dozen men were hanging nee, Others were dragging ‘Ms. r zone. name and ain, ‘amily. | famisished to the City Hoapltal, where the surgeons think his hurts are fatal. PATRICK’S OLD FRIENDS PLEAD FOR HIS LIFE. Neighbors at His is Forres Home in Texas Send a Petition to Governor. ‘@pecial to The Eyentnx World.) ALBANY, N. ¥., Jan, 6--Another pe- tition for the exercise of Bxeoutlvot Clemency in the case of Lawyer Aluert | 'T. Patrick, ‘sentenced to die during the Lweek of Jaa, i2 for the murder of Millonaire William M. ice, has Rent to Cov. Hlgait hundred lew H nulndted ead "Baciick’ formerly. lived. They ask that Patriok’ sentence we commuted on Use deubt as io hile pad th throb DR. HELD EXONERATED. Dr. Taide « W. Hed, of No. 76 Firat atroot, who was arrested in Soninestion with the genth of erah Berger Ouufuted by a Jury at the Inquest held by Coroner Dooley, to-da: ger ai treet, from one Bate street, the |» Lots of us haven't, even when we have had better ies tunities than ANNIE SMITH, the nurse in the Blackwell Ss Island Workhouse, who, when the chance came, sei How Annie Smith “Made Good” will be fee (in connection with a page illustration in four colors) in OTHER FEATURES WILL BE: The Love Affair of j| An Office Boy. Amusing ‘and _ pathetic es of a young, ich tl man’s foolish Passion and the strange way in whi court stepped in to setile it, & SPIRITUALISM & Waiting to Hear From the Spirit World. Will the shade of the late Prof. Hodgson speak to those who await a word from him? A strange possibility. & SCIENCE [What Your Voice Looks Like When You Say ‘I Love You.”’ Remarkable tests made by the Sunday World and a pho- ae ia Sarah Bernhardt’s voice reproduced in black and white, a 7 Criminal Fashions for 1906 A. D. Up-to-date thieves and how they keep abreast of the times by dressing well, living well and riding in _ automobiles. Ra Greatest of Fire Spectacles Photographed. Wonderful pictures of the burning of millions of gal- dons of oil. & O. Henry’s Story, “The Duel.” One of the best short stories ever written by this master of the boiled-down noyel. WOMANKIND New York’s Oldest “Bachelor Girl.” An octogenarian “old maid,” and why she never married. FASHION Live Butterflies in My Lady’s Hair. Latest fad in upper circles and new hints for women, Margaret Hubbard Ayer. ADVENTURE Hiding Ruussia’s : Priceless Crown Jewels. How the Car's forlune in precious stones was spirited away fo safety when a revolution was feared. he cot CRIME SPECTACLE FICTION by A Strange Burglary, ie at “The Kid’s” House. A New “Bing”? Game, Panhandle ‘Pete, Romeo and Others. &, Metropolitan secu A Mirror of»