The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1906, Page 3

FROME WAKES INSURANCE MEN WHO MAY BE INDICTED, THEIR DEFENDER AND JUDGE WHO LAID DOWN LAW!) UP AND ROASTS ALL HIS CRITICS At Cigarette Fest Tells What He Knows of Newspapers. ‘ARE VULTURES, HE SAYS. Talks of Hysterical Publica- tions and the Speculating Editors. MAS EEPS WHEN HE C. This Is the District-Attorney’s Re: tort to the Accusation that He Is Always Asleep. William) Travers Jerome, District- Attorney of New York County, used an hour and a half at the t timonial banquet given last night to him and Charles EB. Hughes in the Savoy Hotel by the Delta Upsilon Fraternity of New York to pour the vials of nis wrath upon the newspapers of New York whioh have not agreed with his pollcy of delay and his legal opinion that: “The lite done ne wrony in giving of the policy-holders of the life insurance officinin have he fands France conpnnies because they had no criminal intent when they took money elonging to others. Mr. Jerome also declared that it was Mot his intention to have any Grand Jury indict any one until ti sufficient evidence to convict. Voted this caustic tongue Axon B. Parker becau “tad declared in the South that: way to convict is to cony Mr. Hughes was not present to the speech of District-Atto’ He Is a very busy man. He has much to do before the report of the 1 ance Committee is In shape, and before thanking the fraternity for the cordial reception given him, he explained how every minute of his time was taken up with insurance matters. He added: Hughes Hailed as Governor, “I have declared dividends before, but in view of present circumstances I pre- | and pl the banquet had begun he spoke. In| him the Judge TCOOSUTVaTy statement contained in the report was an| unqualified falsehood. It Is not usual for a city editor to visit District-Attor- neys. Some Diatrict-Attorneys visit them with hat in hand. I am not built on those lines. “Well, L told him his statements were false, dnd he replied, 1 am going to print’ it anyway.” “There Js a man who has since be- come a Borough President, ‘This city editor wrote to him, ere Is going to be something doing. Go short of such and such a stock, and this Borough President, L suppose, went short of the stock because of those peopie raiding it, and then a day or two later, when this eman went short of the stock, the le was published orough President, 4 ingratiate himself with ‘th ial interests back of this to them. the letter editor and his friends paper and this dis- t went and had the ned, He thought it etter photogr: t get lost hen a man who had travelled much | had been to wars, and without | ould by any possibility be settled, went ted with the capitalist to give photographic copy and the jet- ter, and the capitalist gave up the letter, “Attacks” Displease Him. “From that day to this that paper tacked this capitalist in its news mns and in Its headlines in common h the other yellow newspaper. are the methods which bring newspapers into disrepute and makes thousands of men ashamed of thelr pro- fer now the preferred dividend policy. ion. dn the the first of Tam afraid that 1 am drawing on my | these papers I nm speaking of, } contingent fund by coming here.”* | ‘ Sy riterasness: | As Mr. Hughes sat down, Starr J.}| Accurac y. Editor and | Murray proposed the “Health of the next Governor of New York." Mr.|° Hughes appeared embarrassed, but thi 40 members of the college fraterni drank the upon Mr. Hughes said “I attribute your good wi sto the © epirit of fraternity and good fellowship. 1 must, however, leay | tions where they belong. Here is what the Di of sion above tha the yellow press. I have known Hug! noW more years than I like to think about, and f have always known him a@ the same well-balanced man with a keen sense of duty and love of his pro- lon, and always keeping before him ideals of his fellow-man and not hat section of the press that might | be deemed yellow. Calls Public Hysterical. s"What do we find to-day in the city the State and the nation? We find public opinion of absolute hysteria. We read that one David Graham Pulllips has written a book on the “Treason of the Senate.’ Gentlemen, treason is an ugly word In the law, punishable by death. We have become S0 accustomed to superlatives that it may be our own race tone has become | Gobauched and we have nothing left that Is superlative enough. Referring to meeting Jemes Bryce, Mr. Jerome said: “His conversation was most refreshing after the opinions of the literary {ree-lances, who, for $3,000 or 4,000 a year, are turning out all that fg base.In our national life. Newspapers Are “Vultures. “Much of this," he contidued “is due to the newspapers. In this community one or two stand out as a vulture seeks its carrion. The other papers in New York try to be clean and right, but standing before them is the appar- ent financial success of these two. Newspapers are not eleemosynary. insti- gutions, and there is a very great: temp- fon to follow them, ‘The people de- ‘mand hot stuff at so much per, and their needs are met by a certain class ot pwhlcation whose text Is dictated by thelr counting-rooma and thelr count- ipg-rooms alone. “Many of the good ones go wrong at times, but I believe that the press as @ whole strives to do right and to volee public sentiment. The criticism of pub- Me officials, bitter and stinging as it may be, is right and proper. if it ts Just, If one could deserve it he can Tearn from it and ought to take his medicine, “Let me illustrate by & newspaper test claims to mould public’ opinion, Most of us get up empty in the morn- ing and we fill our heads with head- Hines, and most of us forget that we ave as good an education as the man wno wrote the headlines and know as much about the matter as the man Who wrote the headlines, but we go out clubs ana poll-parrot them. w nthuslasm, where: |or punished in some way. political aspira- | t-Attorney | t the highest appro- | ting and golng short eet Railway. ste iilustration: This Another conc |pager a few days ago was howling for |the return of Andrew Hamilt it nted him imprisoned or electrocuted He did come jback, and he walked back. He did it} bravely und rightiy, and struck true, cording to his mind. “But ni whose blood they w a pero and word |s taken to ored men of the com- mand [ trust in, Even ept off their feet! w ’ 1omen are * statements, i Pie dying McCall wrote that the con- | dition of Hamilton's retainer was that | hy accounting was to be nde and yet Hymilton’s unsupported statement is iaken ty stamp as felons stich men as Orr and Bliss and Claflin, Think well of | vomay be such, but is not the | dracter of a Vfetime something in| e rommunity they ly Turns Upon Parker. | “There was a gentleman who sat In| Court of Appeals—one Alton Brooks rker. 1 believe he ran for President] once. He gues Into the South, and while he was there sald: ‘The way’ to convict is to convict.’ Not a judicial note In this. “There is not a Grand Jury that would not indict these men,’ he says. | “Lt is because there 1s a’ Grand Jury in New York that would indict these | men that there is one public officer in| New York who will not permit the | Grand Jury to indict. without evidence, So'much for cheap clap-trap even {f it comes from the Sage of Esopus, “Don't mistake me, Lam going to the bottom of this caing. T am going to ser that toose that ‘come within. the criminal law are punished; but the way to convict Is by evidence and not in the ‘manner Judge Parker intimates— that tie way to conyict Is to convict ody reason of public clamor. I don claim that these men ‘have done righ some of them have done wrong, bub before anything more can. be” done there must be legal evidence that they ha done wrong. “What has been the effect of this wild of proceeding against every one re- mirdiess of evidence? I was told by. an officer of the Mutual Life that nearly $100,000,000 of policies have lapsed, These ere not the policies of the rich; they ere policies ranging from $1,200 to 000—the policies of the poor, who haa heen influenced by the wild outeries of the newsp-.pers. Diverts to Trust “These institutions are as golvent as the United States, ‘Those poor people od to and had been influenced the yapplags of the yellow. press. That has been the result, is what we The real peril underlying tlon is not what has been told you—a this about peculation, grafting an wrongdoing. ‘That it not the, real avi R se eneand Rents patent oD oO r twenty en Wi cbn- trol $1,500,000,000 of quick-moving: ‘innets, who at lunch or tn thelr clubs can make the me of finan a brace game. The great evil is that you ‘cannot ple out eighteen or twenty-one men: so god that one billion flve lrundred millions of dollars cin be intrusted to them, “L feel bitterly that some people should be swept off thelr feet by clroum- stanors like this, ‘That educated men sheuld bark down the pike like halt- bred curs, like Hearst and the othe "Y don't mein Mr. Pulitzer, He. ts evtting old and has affilctions and can- hot qet around and clreck up the doings of his hirelings—the men. that unmiti- gated and unspeakable bunch. that he, has to rely upon for the management of his paper. ' “The newspapers have a habit of golng into hysteria at times, It Is that very hysteria that has made America what It js, It Is that hysteria which in recent months is largely to blame | Says Editor Visited Him. “There is a great paper in this city ted in a matter E was investigat- once; before I went to sleep. The elty editor came to me with a galley “aproot of @ report. T sald I had not d my investigation, but that the for ve Present condition of the people. “T have no apology to make as a prosecuting officer of the county for any act I have done. if anybody ig to ame it is the newspapers of the city of New York. I have been 3 a8 asleep, and I do’ cal but bet poten 3 can prove | GOO. BCorlQyo Ceo. W°PCLRINS evet CN -BIVSS PHOTO By ScHL0s$ ——™.. ProTo Cony RrGHT ay My, 2204. 0805. W7iJerome DisctaAtt DID “THE LIMIT, B. WITH MALICIOUS 2 OSULLIVANS. ” BUT FAILED TO LAND RIGHT. F. G. Long. O’Sullivan’s Iron Toes. (With apologies to the heel ads.) BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR. Hast heard of the man who's named O'Sullivan Who has caused Weary Willle to wake, When for high-grafting gents a feeble defense This Slumberous Bill tried to make? WARNING NO, 1! A good man gone wrong !s often worse than a bad man who delib- erately persists in evil works, District-Attorney Jerome is rapidly placing himself in a position where a demand for ‘his removal by the Governor will be’ the next development in order, —From Yesterday's Evening World, The Judge on the bench threw some words in to clench The sum of the poor Slecper's woes. [t made Bill regret that he ever had met With O’Sullivan’s Iron Toes, On gum-boot rubber heels all the office force steals In the fear of awakening Bil. But his pet cigarette haan't calmed him down yet— His sleep has encountered a chill. In nightmare he rolls as though on the hot coals, It surely has spoiled William's doze To be told he can’t shirk any unpleasant work By O’Sullivan’s Iron Toes, peas, $2 ner peck present time, like cabbage. ; potatoes and green peas, are selling at {and rhubarb, almost prohibitive figure. poor’ people of this great metropolitan elty vegetables are ‘at the present thme can afford them even one day a week. To cold weather throughout the coun- try Is attributed the incres Even the South vegetable famine. J. P. McNamara, tensive vegetable dealers ton Market, Evening World to-day that vegetables of all kinds had gone up 10 per cent. during the past two weeks. the retail pricks Mr. McNemara quoted on some of the more common vege- ™% conte per head; green year: | have never known vegetables to be as high as at the present time, Why, It Is almost impossible to get cauliflower, There is much in a kick that will wake one up quick And start one to trailing John Doe, All without more words spent on the lack of intent When urged by an iron-bound toe. It is fierce when they break on your sleep yelling ‘Fake!’ A.dream 15 fine, ev'ry one knows. But how can one sleep when he lands in a heap From O'Sullivan’s lron Toes, is in the throes of a de when ey one of the most ex- | made w O'Sullivan, J., now has risen to say It fs aehrann4 cae ae ales To pass out chec! fat for the G. O. P.’s Despite ne that William ra lh Naa Sleepy William best keep nicely snug and asleep Than helping the poor propl Who looted that fund, FAMINE IN VEGETABLES PRICES GO SOARING _—o-¢-2—____—_ Never before in the history of the New York market have vegetables been 80 scarce and costly as they are at the Some of the ordinary veg- 3 cents each; string beans, aa 2% cent 8 cents a bunch, “T have been on this market for many said Mr. McNamara, “and 1 and mushrooms are equally scarce. ‘The big he ind restaurants are raising great cry over the situation, and de- clare that tere are no profits to be ything is so high. And musses—well, they have simply got to live without Vegetables, except pot toes, uaps, and even ‘they are | pensive at the present time,” that Uiis extraordinary s{cuation in the vegetable market hast wbuut by the sudden cold wea the South, which furnishes almost the| will compete in the world’s champion- entire supply of vegetables to the New York market, has been in the clutches of, the cold shap, and have been destroyed. en brought ther, Joven JON THKES NO CHANCES T FE GRMOSON Process Servers Swarm Around His Home Ex- pecting Him to Appear. Fifty-fourth street, just west of Fifth javenue, waa fairly choked to-day with reporters and proceas-servers. They were thickest in front of No. 13, where lives John D, Rockefeller the Second. ‘There were long, lean process-servers hiding their vulpine features behind |jungies of stage whiskers; short, fat, \ghubby process-servers trying to look Wtke wihe agents; brassifed, nervy, duplex, death-defying process-servers— new potatoes, $1 ner Deck: spinach, 7 cents per neck: mush- from 49 cents to $1 a pound; cucumber art; tomatoes, $1 @ dozen, as book agents. A White Wings came trundling his cart down the asphalt and stopped at No. 13. He took a process out of his pocket, cocked It and crept up close to the stoop, ready to aim and fire on an instant's warning. An LItallan peanut peddler halted at the edge of the curb- ing and patiently ground the crank of a property peanut hopper, containing fresh roasted processes. A postman slipped along the pavement with nothing In his leather pouch except processes. Expected John D. the First. Amd it was all because a morning paper printed a story that Attorney- General Hadley, of Missourl, had given John D. Rockefeller the First “king's excuse'—had, in fact, sent him word ‘that he might leave his snug retreat in Lakewood or Massachusetts or Florida, or wherever it is, and come to town un- molested and unprocessed to get ac- quainted with John D. Rockefeller the Third, who was but lately born into this Vale of tears and Standard O11 All morning the beslegers stood watch and ward at the portals, but the head of the canny clan Rockefeller nefther went in nor came out nor showed him- self at door or window or arcaway, Per an imported butler an Byentng World reporter sent in Yo John D. IT. a copy of the paper containing the s Presently the butler returned with this message from his master: Mr. Rockefeller saya the statement is preposterovs—most. 'stroidinary. hin fact. "E never ‘eard hot such a thing. ‘The helder Mr, Rockefeller his not hex- pected hat hali, sir,” Se John D, the ‘Third must put off serving his grandfather a Ulttle while longer. Not yet. but soon, as has been originally observed already. During tie forenoon one diversion oc- curred among the beslegers, A plump serying-man came out of thd basement of No. 13, carrying in one hand a shin ing five-gallon oll can. The proces: servers rushed him en masse, They theuzht he migit have the missing Laird of the Toupee hid in the ofl can. Hut the ld was on, ‘The serving man went Into the older Rockefeller's home, across the way, at No. 4. After a few minutes ‘he Issued forth and returned to No. I. On the way two photographers took pletures of him and elght reporters asked him questions, " Except for once he aintained a masterly silence, inyhatia tn the cant i “We are going to the baby. darth,” repHed the serving man, with an Ingenious smile, JERSEY WOMAN OF 68 TAKES OUT PAPERS. PATPRSON, N. J., March 24.—Mrs. Ann Lombard, sixty-eight years of age, residing at No. 865 Madison avenue, has tho distinction of being the first woman naturalized in Passaic County. She ap- peared before Judge Scott in the Com- mon Pleas Court and took the oath renouncing allegiance to King Edwanl VU. of Bngland, Mrs. Lombard was born {a Coventry, England, and it has been her custom visit her native town every two years. She told Judge Scott that she had ex- perlenced certain difficulties on. these visits, and knowing that naturatization would obviate them, she decided to take out papers. —— BILLIARDIST CURE HERE. nehman WILL Compete in the World's Champtonnt , Several big crops M. Cure, the’ French shtp bilMard tournament which begins in this city April 9, arrived here to-day on the steauner La Savole, from Havre. MCURDY SUED TO DISGORGE SaaTO aM Action Begun by Mutual | Life Against Former President. CHOATE DRAWS CHARGB Held Liable for Sums Wasted by “Unfaithfulness and Neglect.” TO SUE HIS FAMILY, Aggregate Restoration Demanded Is $8,000,000, of Which $500,000 Was Gift to Thebaud. Richard A. McCurdy, former President of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and now in France, ts held responaible [for the return to the company of the jcolossal sum of $5,370,341, which Is the amount Joseph H. Choate figures was wasted or illegally spent through his “unfaithfulness and neglect" as head of the great insurance corporation, Sult against him for the recovery of that amount bas been begun by the service of the complaint upon his attorney, De Lancey Nicoll, Before his departure for Europe Mr. McCurdy are ranged that service of legal papers upon Mr, Nicoll would be binding upon him- self, This complaint ts only one of eight sults to be brought by the Mutual Life against Mr. McCurdy, his son, Rob- ert H. McCurdy, and his son-in-laqw, Louls A. Thebaud. Complaints in tho other seven actions are now being drawn, Suits Total $8,000,000. In all the three MeCurdys will be called upon to restore to the policy- holders of the Mutual Life about $8,000, 0, The Armstrong investigation omly re- vealed contributions aggregating $92,500, but Mr. MvCunty ts sued for $292,500 on this account alone. It 1s alleged that between 1885 and 1995 contributions amounting to $200,000, or at \ the rate of $20,000 a year, were made to *, Senator Platt for Republican State cam- paign purposes by the McCurdy regim ‘This charge emphatically contradicts the sworn testimony of Richard A. Meo- Curdy as a witness before the Arm- strong committee. He declared that the Mutual Life never contributed a dollar ‘an Tody Hamilton would say—disgutaed| to State or local political campaigns. The complaint contains eight caus of action. ‘The first five causes deal with the payments for political pur- poses. These contributions are stated to have been respectively $15,000 in the year 1896, $35,000 in the year 1900, and $40,000 in the year 1904 to the National Republican Campaign Committee, $2,500 in the year 1904 to the Republican Con- gressional Committee, and $200,000, em- bracing the various contributions ac- knowledged by Senator Platt to ha been made to the Republican State Committee since Jan, 1, 1885. $1,250,000 Raymond Profits. Mr, McCurdy is sued for $1,260,000 on avcount of Raymond & Co.'s profits, !t being held that the Mutual lost that amount “through improvidence and want of faithfulness and diligence” employing that firm “and in continuing and even increasing the rates of com- mission paid to the firm after it had become apparent that they were mak- ing exorbitant profits at the expense of the plaintif.”” The complaint alleges that Louls A. Thebaud, son-in-law of the defendant McCurdy, upon entering the firm was given a quarter interest, which was In- creased in 1896 to one-half, in 1902 to two-thirds, and in 1908 to three-quarters, making a’ total net profit to him of nearly $900,000 during the years from 1893 to 1904, Irrespective of his interest in the large amounts patq to the firm out of the plantift’s moneys practically an gratulties. ‘These gratuities are atated to ag- gregate not less than 8500,000 and to have heen paid to the firm with~ out any consideration moving the plaintift. Mr. McCurdy, it is charged, knew or ought to have ‘known of this’ condition of affairs and brought it about through his lack of faithfulness and vigilance in the discharge of his duties as pres- ident of the company, ‘The ninth and final cause of action calls upon Mr, McCurdy to refund to the company $1,282,841, being the amount of exorbitant and excessive commis- stone pald to his son, Robert H. Mc- Curdy, from 1886 to November, 1905, as superintendent of the foreign departe ment. World's Expose in French. PARIS, March 24—French life insur- ance companies are having the New York World's insurance disclosures and editorials translated for circulation here and on the Continent generally in order to divert business from the American companies. Parker Won't Talk, FSOPUS, N. Y., March %.—Alton B. Parker and his family have returned from thy South to thelr home. Mr. Parker dealined to discuss the state. ment of District-Attorney Jerome of his Intention to retain him as special couns sel_in case the question of the crim: Inality of gifts of insurance funds. for political purposes should be carried to the Court of Appeals, He would not ex- press an opinion on the merits of the question. BRILLIANT COMPLEXION and HAPPY HEART POSTUM is a powerful aid to both. to Wellvitle,* Read “The Road the pks. k