The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1908, Page 1

WALDORF GUEST KILLS HIMSELF CROKER, TOO, WAS VICTIM OF MORSE Fatr te Hlaht: Friday ¢ RESULTS EDITION | INAL Ar nnd warmer, [ Circula PRICE ONE CENT. CROKER LOST MANY THOUSANDS IN Te Bla MORSE Ik POOL {Former Tammany Chief and Some of | Invested, Ex-Mayor His Cronies Van Wyck Alone Dodging the Financial Arctic Zone. Startling as the disclosures have been so far in the trial of Charles "W. Morse, the former ice king, and his financial understudy, ence that will be even naore sensational ACurtis, there is promise of ¢ Alfred H. when the case, now temporarily broken off on acount of the indisposition of a juror, is resumed before Judge Hough in the United States Court. In connection with the second great “Ice pool that Morse formed—the pool that came to smash in the Year ago, and crippled up Barney @ead by his own hand, and Gate! Bchwab, Heinze, Isa Guggenheim, ‘Zohn F. Carroll and a lot of others— \ehere is still a great deal to be told in panic of a now ithe guise of evidence for the Govern-— ‘went. Former Justice Morgan J, O'Brien will Probably be asked to describe bis ex- Perlences with Morse—and while he may tell a great deal, tell no more than Richard Croker, John B. Si ‘Former Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck could tell, if they also should appear as Witnesses for the prosecution. Deal in Bank Stock, The bulk of yesterday's testimony had odo with the coup whereby Morse, perating through his stenographer, Miss Kate Wils i his pet brok ‘Piimrose & tly accumulated A, un, « 4 shares of the ¢ al stock of his wn bank—the National Bank of North tAmertca—and then had the debt trans erred to the New Amsterdam by one fof those feats of financial demain @f whicn ne wax the acknowled: Waster The second chapter of this transaction and the more interesting, Mending to show the inner ‘kin ‘ne Morse system, is yet to come out Evidence will be offered to show tha e New Amsterdam Bank objected to Weing saddled with Miss V n, who drew pro! $20 a w Salary, was credited loan ¢ \Would have staggered ripene ft the loan, bly with a aneier tos Borse took | [the oMelois North Amer of ihe \Adoiph Ru cashier {Syilliam Shot sn exchang lelerk, 1 Frank Pringle, the loan lelerk. He told them, ale it will Meged, that a certain trust comp: y about to buy a large block of the bank's stock in order to secure clearing con- mections. An Alluring Balt. He knew, he said, where there was a Wlock of stock to be had at 900, If the five men would make thelr notes for amounts ageregating $129,411, he would see that this stock was distributed among \hem at 90, He would promise that they got 500 when the time came to sell to the trust company Without exeeption the five men jumped at the chane will be the 6 Guyer yerstoproy Morse was really the owner of this that he seld to th men who trusied him at %, whereas he had bought ft as low as 21, and that no euch deal as he described was contem. pisted by any trust company. re is documentary evidence now fn hand to show that the unlucky five reve their notes and that the stock Peld th the New Amsterdam was trans ferred from Kate Wilson and allotted to en Then the sn hoe » and row the receiver for the New Am dam las judgments against them tor the amounts of their several notes, This help to explain why some of former associates and employees | have been willing to testify against him: Van Wyck Got Away. Mayor Van Wyck was one of the big | length; Ching Har winners in Morse’s first one of all the men whe st pool balked at the 5 ice pool ured in the et of put ting eal cash thé second one. It will be shown nthe trial Morse one afte: noon in te Jest year told Van Wyok he seeded for the big uP. 1 will see you the day after to-mor row,” Van Wyck is quoted a ~ , BONDHOLDERS OF THIRD AVE. ASKED) TO BE SPOTTERS ton and Receiver Whitridge Calls Upon) Them to Spy on Conduc- tors Who May Steal. Receiver Frederick W. Whitridge, of the Third Avenue Railroad lines, has sent a circular letter to the bondholders asking them to patronize the lines of the company as far as possible, so that the earnings may be increased and to report peculation by employees, Ie | doesn't hestitate, he says, sk the bondholders to act as private detec- tives for the company. The circulars aroused = much comment Wall str he letter reads, in part To Bondholders of the Third Ave nue Compan “Lam making every effort to stop all exsful result of these en of the pre Prey, and Event re, to sy t 10 that you vever your conveni ence suggests, use the railways belong- ing to this system, * * * and that you will do me the favor of making any Suggestion to me which occurs to you as desirable in respect to their manage- ment, and in particular call my atten. tion to any evidence of peculation, in. Attention or incivility on the part of its employees," ——_. TORONTO RESULTS, NTO, e to-day Ont., follow CE—Purse upward 113 Goins Oot The results $200 six’ for three furlongs to ° to la Lady Lissak, ta At ane Vito? and outs thivd. qe Aina) vind t uso ran 3CON I Med: for three year-olds no mile.—-Polar Star, ing (Raed, 1 te and out, ‘wont six lengths 1) (Meardie), 6 to ato 2 and 1 second Wicklow to 2. third, ‘Time-148 3-5." Bani Holl, 1 5 Mford, Bon i for thre , seven furlong: plitan, 5 and out, won by fa spector Purvis, 103 (Knight), joven and out, second: (Williams), 2 to 1, 1 to 2-and out, thi Time—1.82,' Caltha also ran. 9 OURTH RACE—$20) added; for two- even, length dy Lissak, 98 r-olds} five furlongs.—La Tosca III., ino {iwilhtame). 2 to 6 and out, won by a M2 (Murray), 4 to 1, He!2 to 1‘and out, second; Arveight Leon: avd, IW2t ) to 2, 2 to 5 and at Time! » “Leonard also ran FIFTH BAC BE: i} ! " y bird, Timer! $55.00 .0 California saying | ote ween ri joule. (Continued on Second Fags) ii aia did eat, ato 1 and) tion Books Open to All.” | NEW B.CENT FARE WITH TRANSFER IS BELT LINE'S PROPOSAL Third Avenue Receiver Would Not Agree, Dykman Tells Utility Board. | —. | DIDN'T EXPECT PROFIT. Shows Figures to Prove Three- quarters of Passengers Are Transferred. At a hearing to-day before the Pub- Ie Service Commission on the proposed order for a join Avenue Raflroad Company and the Fif- ty-ninth street crosstown line of the Cen- | morning hours to-day the river steamer Frank Jones, of the N: tral Park, North and East River Rail- road Companies, the attorneys for the bert J. Bickford spoke for Frederick W. Whitridge, receiver of the Third avenue Hine, and William N, Dykman for the Fifty-ninth street line, Mr. Dykman said his compa had made a proposition for an elght-cent joint rate, five cents to go the company which received the cash. He sald that on July 31 last, out of 25,000 passengers on the Fifty-ninth street line, 21,000 rode on transfers. 1 “Of course, no street railway expects to make money nowada: said Mr. Dykman, “but we thought that possi- | bly such an arrangement would pay ex- penses. We proposed It for only three | morchs. Joseph H. Choate appeared for Mr. Whitridge. John 31. Be ers appeared \for the Central Trust Company end the| | bondholders un v the first consolidated | mortgax The proposition from the Belt Mne was refused by Mr. Whitridge, M tekford sald, for reasons stated in Mr. j Whitridge’s letter to the commission, To Mr. Bickford’s requ tor an ad- journment Chairman Willeox answered that the Commission had, at a previous definitely made to-day the open- te for further hearings, Then Mr. Choate pleaded that he had only to-day jreceived ¢ ssary to the case and needed time to prepare. ‘There was her argument as to form of proced An adjournment un- til neat Wedne: lavas age was finally granted. HUNDREDS FIGHT Fink IN FLREST CF NEWJERSEY Near Mount Holly and Homes Endangere 7. HOLLY, J, Oct. 22, apparently started by a spark motive, attacked the wood- Jand of Edwaid £. Logan, near south Pemberton, this afternoon, and a call for aid was sent to this place Hundreds of men left in wagons larmed with shovels, spades, forks and jrakes, to fight the fire. Several resi- dences endangered were saved by back firing A strong wind war blowing and sev. {oral times after the men thoneht had the fire beaten back it pr through embers cairied across spaces. Acres of ilmber have burned and the fire {s still ac a STAYS ON TICKET, Court Won't Interfere With In dence Candidate Morri, The effort from the Independence League Ass, they ressed cleared been ancing m> bly ticket for the Twenty-sixth District failed to-day when Justice Truax de- nied a motion for a writ to review the action of the Byard of Blections up. olding the nat) of Moris I wis charset 1 Morr ‘ty a Tammany ian, ands bolting conven tion nuininated ‘Wiliam Hoffman, Hort. to run. man refuses en anta SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY, WONDERS, rate between the Third; to remove Aaron Morris! HUDSON RIV NEAR PO The | While a dense fog hung over and Albany Transportation Compar roads announced that they had deen /Startling from an early slumber her eighty-seven passeng unable to come to any agreement. Her- | shortly after taken off by the steamer Greenport, of the Citizens’ line, which h alongside. That there was no panic was due to the coolness of Capt. Cobb, who comnuand- ed the Jones, and his crew, as they all went among the passengers, soon after they had satisfied themselves that there was no real danger imminent, and calmed the frightened people. The Frank Jones was proceeding down the river at greatly reduced speed ard the whistles of 1 about 2.39 A. M., when she must have arifted slightly out of the channel. | Suddenly there was a tremor felt all over the vessel, and then a nasty, grind- {ing sound, as though she was on rocky bottom. Boat Hard Aground. | The engines were immediately re- versed, but the craft remained fast and | Capt. Cobb ordered a hasty examina- tion made below to ascertain if she was | taking in any water. It was reported that Her hull seemed to be sound, and the efforts of the officers and crew ying the fears of the 3, who were soon thir staterooms to the the majority in scant were turned to alla frightened p: pouring from. main saloon, attire, Whistles of distress were then sound- ed, and about hour the ights of a ve: put through the darkness, le, Shouts were exchanged from t cks of the pt half an el were mac close Jon; two boats, and it was learned by Cobb that the Greenport, in command of Capt. Charles H. Bruder, had come |to the rescue The Greenport drew alongside and Rangways we wn over to the deck of the Frank and soon there was a stream of relieved human ity hurrying trem one vessel to the | other | After all had been transferred a haw | ser was run from the nport tot Tones and an eliort made to start the Hatter vessel from her muddy bed Hawser Parted. As the big line tautei there was no budge to the Jones's bull, and |, however, Then it was decided to bring the pas- | sengers on to this city, leaving Capt Cobb and his crew to look after the disabled craft. The Greenpoint proceeded to the city, janding the rescued passengers at the Citizens’ ine pier, No. 46, North River, shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon: | A little later word was receive dat the! office of the New York & Albany Line | Rieamship Company that the Frank | Jones had been floated and was pro ceeding down the river, undamaged She will probably reach her pler late ‘inis afternoon The aceident occurred about iniles above Lie Poughkeepsie bridge On thetrip down the river on the Greenport the passengers drew up a set of resolutions, thanking Capt for his timely eta Loss OF LIFE REPORTED IN OKLAHOMA FLOODS, OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Oct. 22,— Serious floods prevail through portions of Central and - orthern Oklahoma, the ult of three days’ steady downpour of rain. The rain continues. In some portions the fall has amounted to al- most a cluidourst. Numerous reports Moss of life made yesterday remain of pnarmed and are Delleved ta be out foundat ‘0 single report of drown.ng sen verified SUITOR SHOT GIRL AND SELF, RAND RAPIDS, Mich. vet Crazed by the breaking of his e |ment to Nellie Diemeyer, nineteen 5 Jold, August 3a) erereln, aot her twice | ight age rs enty-three, nd then sent +7 Frank Jones Grounds Opposite City, and Pas- | sengers Are Transferred in Dark- ness to Another Crait. s the strain increased there was) Ja sudden report as the haweer parted. | Acres of Woodland Burned) five | Bruder | 7 : Bullet i his bi ¥ et, yy lt, bral. Satsrarean | eae, ER BOAT ~ RUNS ASHORE IN FOG UGHKEEPS = From Albany the Hudson River during the early ew York ran aground on the west shore, They were ly, TS. ess from the stranded vessel and ran BOY IN A MASK RUNS 10 DEATH UNDER TROLLEY Seven-Year-Old Lad, With Face Covered in Play, Is Crushed by Ca: | | Rafnello Stuldo. seven years old, of | and killed by a Putnam avenue and and Fulton stre Brooklyn, this after- noon. boy was wearing a mask and, with his brother, attempted to cross the street tn front of the var. The motor- | man, Charles Deytar, tried to stop the car, but was unable to do| xo, and tne| iilialivaaCrushediungent tien cereecal| tuck | ith the ald of ropes ar was pped ove ly was removed serge © Station athe was n Fulton street ana wntic with gre led to get under the car and | interfered with the efferts of the men The motorman and the conductor | were arrested on a technical charge | “ Circulation Books Open to All."' ] ‘YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908. i kra 2, ane 2 nf PRICE. “ONE Biche ENN WALDORF GUEST TOOK POISON AND. SHOT HIMSELE Leaving Orders to Be Called at 3.30 oCiock He Fired as Boy Knocked on the Door HE WAS Dk. | J. COOK, ACCUSED | OF IMPROPER PRACTICE. NOTTER WINS ThE TARRYTOWN ON FRANK GILL Little Three | Mounts in Front at Jockey Lands thn pire Course. STIRS UP THE REGUL. ARS) First Applause of Meeting Re- minds Race-Goers of Good Oldtime Days. EMPIRE RESULTS. FIRST RACE—Simcoe 1, Legend 2, Summer Night 3. Golden SECOND RACE—Imitator 1, qeussing 2, Coat cf Arms 3. -Woodiane 1, Saracinesca 3. THIRD RACE Bis- FOURTH RACE—Frank Gill Spooner ib The Squire |Suicide Left a Note for His Wife Asking Her Not to Take “This Affair Too Hard’?—~ ‘ He Was Identitied by Coro- FIFTH RACE—Arondack 1, ‘oot: pad 2, Royal Captive 3, | SIXTH RACE—Monfort 1, Tileing 2, Bad News 3, ner Shrady. BY VINCENT TREANOR. | marniinecialinte Bvenine Woria | Dr, Living J. Cook, of No. 246 West Thirty-ninth street, took tis Gill, after many disappointments, final- /Own lite in a room at the Waidort-Astoria at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon ly won ay for Owner Jack McGinnis, and on his return to the seales the jin @ most sens; nal manner | genuine applause of the meeting was 3iol aerenist . heard. It was the ‘Tarvytown Stakes of At 3 o'clock he registered: “J: Parker, New: York Gity $2,000 whieh Frank Gill won, but his vie He asked to te called at 3. nd was assigne q tory was as much due to Jockey ‘ ie Md was assigned to a room on the Notter as it was to the horse, Nott xth floor, | put up one of his t ork and was ie rahe her MIC? Gay ND I Gas acy an Half an hour later, when Benjamin Clark, hall boy, essayed to call the way, He was outfooted for the first |}“pDarkar” as directed > got no response. Saaiaaies o ix furlongs by both ‘The Squire ana] Prather” as directed, he got no response. He was listening when the Sp mane but after that he began to {report of a pistol rang out. make up ground fast until the © oes snanets * Minnle B. were we nto the etch did he get . erry, the maid on even terms with Spooner, but when inet corridor, the latter cena a he did the latter quit. Notter rode Mil- door with passkey. Ther ’ nt um : reh rey ‘4 Buest j, he 7 ‘There were rumors of all kings ot | m the bathroom, tying on his slow in showing itself. Early tn the Bullet Enter, |day E. R. Brae 1 een wa ed! Head, His shirt front was spreaq ‘open ana the course for N ‘ere was a gaping wound through the known reason w York ror some u Simcoe Easy Winner. | heart, The suicide still held in hie ‘ i sinnpiy ‘ [He hand the smoking revolver, and hn n his left was a glass, which a phyale }clan summoned te q 1 to the scene found had contained the deadly ot | Driver Patiala Man Who Tried to)... te Aid Him Thrown From "beth had t polson cyanide of Hid yren Instantaneous, Left Letter to Wife, rear Vagon |. The suicide had lett a} Vagou. a letter addres Imitator a Winner, a ieee beth Cook, No. 16 ie Imitator won the second race all the | Se irtysninth atreet, city.” The } The sta practica | c fn etter way it practically decided the} grigntened by the breaking of a trace | °Ve#led his identity, It sata: Poquessing was away badly, but Dear Wite 1 have written to you he had “5 prieeed: and managed to|a horse ran away this afternoon tn in a mailed letter. Ph, first turn. He chased Imitator a the Broadway in the vincinity of Forty-first! take this affair hard. "Tetoned way and finished there. Rockstone was|turning the wagon and throwing out! Coroner Shrady, who was summoned, in-a Jain all the way and never pads immediately recognised the sul Shencaltotahomiialcans two men. Dr. Irving J. Cook, ee ae HA | Notter Wins the Third, The horse was attached to a wagon | ¢. alleged een een $10,000 ba! | aifotter But over his second winner of |driven by Charles Golery, of No. 42) Jersey, Practice in New the day Jn th third whe , he Ja 4] West Forty-first street. Golery lost Accused by Young Woman, oodla ) otter yode the n “ > kind of a ra 6 On Woodiane as he rode | control of the reins as the horse dashed roner Shrady said that recently he . on simeoe in the first ey away in Morty «firat) strog ferbert | was called to } Yo : Some of the Seventeen Are|froncat the start und stayed rina’ {2 | through Forty - frst Fee adele ore eens Ace Hoaplial! ta she didn't take any chance of losing and| Holcomb, of No. zt West ish | Pallside of & young unmarried woman, t A Si pes went to the whip at the turn for he whe’ wanted’ to ti rested for Storming Parlia- [Ih order to shake ont Hienne fF POMC | sent atreet, who had been following van make sn antemortam | : running. very fast around. the. sere he rear of the wagon and | sir! xiv. ree turn, The t she could do, however, | Umped Into the rea sir! did not die, but in the face ment Given Three Months, was second "in “front lof ‘Saracineata’ | managed to get to the aeat and grabbed [of death she told the Coroner that. Dr He Knows had a flash of speed. ba t Cook was the pl Wan CULOM very padi at theta tt | hold of the reins, He was unable to! oi WAL) Bhysiclan who had pe | , ayer Woodlane was bid up to $1.50) by Bo. {stop the animal ne Operation. Dr. Cook’ w, LONDON, Oct. ti.—Seventeen of the| Murray, $100 over Iie Kelling price but | "poieoman coiling made a grab at tirty-three years old | women suffragists who were arrested | was retained by Owner Simons the reins, but he was thrown just asthe, The New Jersey authorities were Oct. 13 during the “storming” of the , but he was about to act in the c reg 's MAGNUS SAYS HI HIS BRIDE east side of Broadway and Forty-first #4 Dr. Cook was wanted on the oth Jorderly conduct, |in the Bow St were to-da ntenced et police court to terms of imprisonment varying from three} | weeks to three n ths The women were offered the alterna-| tive of giving bonds for their ood be- | havior, but they elected to go to jail. | aie NEGRO A CURB "BROKER, | Firat Time in History of Roadway | Stock Marker, For the first time in the history of the| curb market @ negro appeared as an tive trader to-day. i Robert \\ Tr 5 ‘ n asst} nts ne market have oven through other brokers was familiar with trading meth h he is said to have learned employ of & Siock Bachange side of the Hudson. ere the ho lamppost | -_—_—_—>-—___ PROMPTED HIM TO DESERT. | "1" era oman, anit the wagon vas overturned. Ho) SUBS FOR SON'S DEATH, Josep) Ma usbant of eived only slight inju The horse Gorman, daughter ate tor | also fell, and Policeman Collins grabbed |M¥* Canaingham Aske tering Arthur Pue Gorman. Maryland, who] {t before it could get to its feet | Arms to Pay Her $10,000, was arrested yesterday on the charge cette eel Justice Greenbaum and @ jury to-day of being a deserter from the na heard the sult of Mrs. Bitsabeth Oun- DIES OF TETANUS. probably be taken vo Philadelph ningham, as adminietratrix, against the night. Mrs nus 4 us: | Sheltering Arms, Amsterdam avenue band at the torday © remained piseage Developed From Sight In-/and One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Jwitn Alm. a f jury to Man's Arm, street, for $10.00 damages for the death seemed to have Darian c His arm slightly lacerated + i o fell out of @ / ashand She Me ae in a’ Upnolate \-story window and broke his nec iid is n& a vet i pt 18, 190 4 i bi ‘ Sea al x Lint Valter Cunningham testi ; % . sia Rare 208 avid had been ordered to ‘ ; x eee Ot rroborated him, ¥ f & ew a dexoloR . A ad ree! rdered to do, would he ¢ get him out of jrega thought little # injury at]! been ered to d Magnus save that it was a + wif)’s|arst, but after a few dayw he was forced W2ih’ gue tering Arma, tn dete. je seoured a furlough and instance that from hie ship after the exnined, ae pe to go 10 Lebanon Hospital and the first yt iss corporation for charitable fanless lable. Of the disease s00n developed. mod therefore not A 4