The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1908, Page 1

| | me FOR a ihe oe ST TH EH SHE He ae oe ae BRE os WRATHER-—Clenring to-night; i FINAL | RESULTS EDITION Charles Frohman Makes an Extraordinary Offer to Readers of Page 3 “3 SOO HE 2c pe Fe TORE ae at aE Thursday fair. PRICE ONE CENT. $2 000,000 MORSE IN The Even ct AOR OO HN Oe eH “Circulation Books Open to All.” NEW ing World HHMI H Y SPENT BY EFFORT 10 DIVORCE HIS WIFE “Suit by Detective Bracken Likely to Reveal Entire History of Scandal That Resulted in Conviction of Abe Hummel. Proceedings before Justice Seabury in the Supreme Court to-day marked the preliminary steps toward tearing aside the veil of secrecy the i which has surrounded Morse divorce scandal. entity of the man who financed the Dodge- The nature of the proceeding was an argument on an action brought by Edward M. Bracken to recover former Judge Edward P. Coyne, of No. 25 Broad street. between $3,000 and $4,000 from This $4,000, Bracken claims, is the balance remaining in Judge Coyne’s hands of the sum of $7,500 dep certain work was co ited ded. n the latter to be paid to Bracken when In addition, Bracken has brought suit against Charles W. Morse for $40,000, a with the come up in the Supreme Court in a council, A. Edward Woodruff, will file a bi The $40,000 suit wili when Bracken, through his | of particulars demanded by few da Gifford, Hobbs & Beard, counsel for Morse. irposes, through these two lings, to uncover the whole behind the Dodge-Morse-Hummel The first indirect association be- tween Morse and Hummel was estab- Mshed in to-day's argument before Jus- abury when the name of De [i 2, mel in his tr Bracken’s opening said “This is a motion to compel a to turn over a certatr that was given to him fc pose. A certain larg was placed !n Judge Coyne's possession for a specific pur Bracken’s use to ablde a certain The e happened. tice § nN for by In ut ment! Woodruff Mr, Woodr 1, Mr event Got Part of It. “Rracken got part of the $7,500, there remained due to him some $3,000 or $4,000. ‘The money was given to the defendant because the parties In inter est were satistled with him, 1 could name the person who gave the money to the defendant, but 1 do not care to do 80." “Name him!” demanded John J Adams and Irving E, Burdick, counsel for Judge Coyne, simultaneously. “Well, it was De Lancey Nicoll,” said Woodruff. ‘J am under considerable restraint in an effort to keep back cer- tain thin denounced the whole pro- ceeding ‘an echo of the Dodge- Morse-Humme! scandal,” and said: “Judge Coyne received about $7,500 for certain services. He performed these services and as a lawyer has a lien upon the funds for his fee. This 1s merely an attempt to coerce Judge Coyne into paying money. “This man Bracken 1s @ detective, He was employed in the Dodge-Morse litigation. He went to Texas to look out for Charles H. Dodge. Judge Coyne never mot him until three years after that case terminated, Bracken, having been indicted, retained Judge Coyne to ete! Coyne worked on the a year and succeeded in getting the indictment dismissed. He had to rad the minutes in the case of Abranam If, Hummel in ly of Bracken's case He doesn't owe a en.” Irving 1. Burd abmaite n dayit signed Jude ein (Continued on Second Page) AUTOIST JOE GRINAN NGRASH OF CAR NAH BAVAN Ga, Nov 18—Autoist Joe Grinan, wi actioing for the uy” race this” afternoon, was ' and probat wiih « broken hip and ribs and A tire of his a abile burst while #0ine wt high speed and the car turned . | SCRATCH OF HER ~ FET CAT KS WEALTAY WOO Mrs. Gammon Dies in Terrible Agony as the Result of Blood Poisoning Gammon died to-day of a pet cat. She at No, 271 Jerome avenue in the Bronx, a widow old of means, thirty-five handsome. She could have been popular in the neighborhood, but was almost hermit-like in her life. Mrs. Gammon took the cat to bed with her when she retired at night, it ate with her and she pampered {t in every possible way. Two weeks ago the Maltese, in a sudden fit of temper, Scratched her on the left ankle, but she paid little attention to it, The wound, although at first only a light scratch, would not heal. Gammon treated {t for s and when her leg began to sweil and become inflamed she called in Dr, J, Fabriccus, of No. 1 Fordham road. This was last week, she com- plained of terrible surfering in her legs years and and the lower part of her body. Dr. Fabriccus saw at once that she had blood poisoning, but even then Mra. Gammon would not turn against her pet, Which until a day or two ago, when the woman's relatives took charge, was in the house. Dr disease Fabriccus reac said es the 5 e ther that when tho eit had jn Mrs is no combating Ganmon's ‘The poison spread upward through her and there was drug or peration ki physician waieh 1 wk the ance of the gan woman must have died in the ! Ps aid Dr, When Voroners’ Uftiee, st ¢ day immediately nmen's deat tn " 4) » terribh Hood py Phere was fight the it simply on until e heart physicians that they know of no similar ¢ and an effort will be made to find the cat ind investigate its condition, with to fir how al nal, by @ mere seratch, can mmunicate a disease. oe - NEBRASKA BREAKS RECORDS, MANILA, Noy, 1&—It is unoffelatly stated that the hattle-ship Nebraska a target practice now in pro all Hein@t by ar eve in th markanan twelve-inch guns. ¥ nat obtatnable, tt ts braska’e crew the figures are loved that t wih | gain all records tor both speed and ‘ac: Hig our! WIFE GETS ONLY - $25,000 ALIMONY Trial of Suit Much Lower Than She Asked. SHE GETS NO INCREASE. Judge Bischoff Speaks Ironic- ally of Her Demand for More of Gould’s Cash. Katherine Clemmons Gould was this afternoon awarded alimony to the amount of $25,000 annually by Justice Bischoff in the Supreme Court, where her sult for divorce from her hueband, Howard Gould, ts pending. Mrs, Gould asked for $120,000 annually, and in the introduction of evidence re- cently alleged that her expenses amounted to $7,000 monthly. The hear- ing of the suit for separation will prob: ably come up in January. The allmony is payable In monthiy in stalments. The alimony allowed is the same eum that Mr. Gould has volun- tarily allowed his wife since they sepa- rated. The decision is very long. part: ‘It appears that the plaintiff's wife It says in balance alleged to be due for service rendered in connection y!s !n receipt of an allowance of $25,000 Dodge-Morse-Hummel complication. per year as a provision voluntarll jmade by defendant for her support, 2 |it is insisted on the part of the plain- ti that this sum Is inadequate to the | needs of her station in ife and that an Award of $120,000 a year !s sought up javerments which the Court is asked accept as supporting the propositi an allowance would be no reasonab! Figuring It Up. says Justice ' ounsel r be allow for a sepa le Is has be e and which ewhat ps and she spending her needs, to f | ts, appea: of $7,000 a moi “If two automobiles $3,000 euch, must be within a year, it may be necessary, ugh a slight mfschance, to purchase another during that ume, and the ft's estimate of $12,000 for this In- dent for her support could readily be increased to $18,00 if her experiance of mechanical matters Is reliable, ‘Again, the figures submitted for suita- ble apparel during the year might con- siderably be increased much beyond $15,- (00, since the basis adopted {x not what is to be worn, but what is to be bought, and in view of the fact that the est! mate of 000 a month does not include |anything for charitable donations or for | travelling expenses, I may take it as ex \tablished that the plaintiff could phy- | sically succeed in spending $12,000 « year, and this without her having assets to show for the expenditure at the end of the year, other than articles which she could convenie y give away to make | place for the disposal of the neat year's cash.” What Wife Should Ha ‘The wife is to be maintained in a manner fitting her station tn fife, and | for this purpose the allmony may some- tmes be one-third, or even one-half, of |the husband's income, it that regult 1s |reasonableness, No rule has ever been ‘adopted by any court that a wife is en- judled to one-third of her husband's in- irrespective to that income's rela- come. tion usonable expenditures by the person who possesses it, and in the case of an income which js many times ex 8 for the cessive of ene maintenay n lavish abun dance, the Apportionment r the wife's support, whieh have been to ¢ of ordix living in have no real siatlo Ms establisht of abode, his ma aeht and his em f income generally in wise a& to obtain the luxuries Which are within the gift of civiea- tion, and while she lived with her hue band the participation in the surround: ings of tile ‘station. The continuance his style of living, however, was vt the husband's will. He was entitied to spend his own money a own choive, but no law compelled my pending, and t a rae of BAM) oF A year no court ‘wou found t frown \ipor pocy, oF to pive heed t the wite'p plaint that she fad sy 10 Raw ‘atariam im ° | nal injuries; she | 4) the repalr 7 | Jured survivors’ of th ‘HOWARD GOULD'S SHOPPERS SEE “TWO MEN KILLED ~ONTHE ("ROAD Bridge Over Tracks at Thirty-third Street. ‘FALLS ON THE WORKMEN | |Great Crowd Assembles in the | Street and the Reserves Have to Be Called. Because somebody wofully blunder jin a strange accident that occurred to. day on the Sixth avenue elevated lire t Thirty-third street where Broadway roses. The peak of a derrick while bet towed south on a flat car carrying te) members of a repair crew struck the hanging bridge that crosses the struc- ure proper and connects the two plat- forms of the Thirty-third street station. Crashing downward, the heavy tiniber did instant, deadly work among the twelve men on the moving flat car. | The dead are: | HENRY BAUMAN, No. 25 Convent} | avenue. | CARL HEINRICH, No. 1809 sora | avenue. | rhe injured ar ' | MARTIN COSTELLO, Nd. 42 East t |One Hundred and Forty-sixth street: Heft side crushed and arm broken; seri- ous; removed to Bellevue. THOMAS NOLAN, No. 212 East Nine- |ty-fifth street; Imbs crushed and inter probably fatally hurt; re- moved to Bellevue. Seen by Many Shoppers. The tragedy, occurring as it did in the centre af the shopping and theatre (district, was witnessed by hundreds of ‘men and women, Both the platforms were well dotted with persons waiting for passenger trains when a tool car under Its own motive power came sal 1g down the south track at a good rate of speed. In the of tool ca were two flats bringing force of men {trom the Harlem yards to do a job of track mending further downtown. | ‘The derrick which was to be used in swinging leavy material, stood upright in the middle of the rear flat car with {ts boom hanging Ike the sturnpy mainmast of a stumpy craft. The work- men In their jumpers and overalls were mainly sitting in a row on the edge of | the second flat with their feet dangling | Whoe was responsible for the las! Ing of the derrick to tl flat forgot how closely the “cross-over borough people call it—overhangs the tracks which it spans. The tool car, of course, passed under the covered bridge, but the top of the derrick smashed against {t with a crash that could be heard for blocks. Crashes Down on the Men, But a worse thing was happening un- derneath. The derrick broke part way from {ts floor lashings and came hurt- ling down with a sidewise swing, like a huge flail, among the stunned and startled repair gang. Two of them—Bauman and Heinrich— never knew what hit them. Their bodies were lifted off the flat by the frresistible | swing of the big stick and fell on the track in the wake of the repair train. Nolan and Costello, hit with a glancing | blow, tumbled over among their fel- lows, The broken boom of the derrick fell toward the east just in time to swipe the side of a northbound passenger train of five cars and rip every window Jout of the rear coach. Luckily for the passengers none of them sat on the inner side of the car Big Crowd Assembles, Almost instantly, it seemed, the plat- forms, the stairways leading up from the street and the str below were |tilled with an excited crowd, Walch grew until inside minute or two it nun bered thousands, Deputy Fire Chief |Langford heard the crash as he satin his office In the engine house on Thirty wake the third street, Just off rrr came in his shirt ‘King him the men of uh The firemen helped inen to hold the eroy | the reserves from tn larrived and took th W. Sclhilagle, the for , van arge the unin- tlended to dex until thelr dead and wound |two ambulances came f bearing Drs. McRae and Lack nodies of Bauman and Holn Maced in the south waiting the coroner arrived, Th surgeons, after attending to terical Women, took Nolan and Coste! to Bellevue ‘The firemen, the policemen and the terborough pi da quick job clearing up the Within. tiv minutes ¢ track Waa ope Within ww Alnutes the south tra for rewular Coat of the air tra Gustay Zwell, of No 205 West One Hu 4 and Forty-ninth street, wont station house as @ prisoner, oh ehmically wi omlelde A weneral alarm is out for Schiege whe Tae et Me IMMt Tasinetan ame: SHOSC ME Me ME ESCHER eH THE ey 3 ORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1908. ~as the Inter- | wee fee A sei -! Page 3 He ACE SCH TIO ER HH IRS S an = “ Circulation Books Open to All." Head of Oil Trust @ Witness for | | Defense in Government's Suit.) GN, | | two men were dashed to death and two | more so badly hurt that they may die) | FIGHT FANS OFF 10. MURPHY MAN HELD SEE MURPAY FT. FOR ELECTION MURDER Crowd From New York Goes|Coroner’s Jury Finds Kneagh to Philadelphia on Spe- | One of Those Who Caused cial ‘ Stone’s Death. rain. An portion of it Harlem rt of the male ¢ fight bee in|dered a verdict this afternoon, holding Edward Kneagh, a follower of Charles Murphy, responsible for the death of or that pi A jury in Coroner Shrady’s court ren- that has {ts bonnet, was ether aboard the spe- eft) # cial train or the earlier trains th for the Quaker City to-da’ ‘Benjamin Stone, a Republican district Tommy Murphy and Packy McFarland |‘. ptain who was assaulted at Twenty- are to go six rounds at the National| fifth street and First avenue on elec- Sporting Club over in the City of Broth-| tion day. Ten of the twelve jurors con- erly Love and every fight enthusiast in|Curred in the verdict, and Kneagh was this city !s pointed that way. Murphy | Sent to the Tombs without bai! and handlers left on the 11 o'ctock| Stone challenged a man who attempted to vote der an as ned name in a ‘st avenue polling place tn the after train, ers. Accompanied by @ crowd of root-| | nc Both fighters welghed in at 133 pounds ection Day, Soon after he at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Hote) |@* § oned around the corner. Scott in Philadelphia. The fans of Phil. | “here he met several men The a eet Bs rags » GXOCHOL Lm UEUCRSESTIROM CORO OCC OHCME MOTTE OCE OI IER UROL ECs MIRROR SCC 0 SORTER FO CT CER EC ICC GI CKO ROKCIOC ICCC AOR ICG MRI ACAI RC GI A IE =. :: Would You Like to Goon the Stage? :: ROCKEFELLER ON WTESS TELS HOW TRUST MADE A BLO aren Allowance by Court Pending Derrick on Flat Car Strikes! WE Ney PRICE ONE STAND ee Early Competitors “Not Able Business Men”—They Were Bought Out, “Kindly but Fairly”—His Firm Made Barrels, Ran Own Ships. CREDIT WAS ALWAYS GOOD; RIVALS COULDN'T BORROW. Standard Oil Company Capitalized in 1870 for $1,000,009, Which Aged Financier Said He Then Regarded as an Enor- mous Sum of Money. TF Some of the Striking Points in J. D. Kockeieller’s Testimony. Here are some of the striking and interesting points in the tes- timony of John D. Rockefeller, given to-day: A million dollars seemed to us started with a capitalization of $4,900. It was a very prosperous business in the beginning, very prefite able Indeed. We were pioneers in many to make our own b We were hea ve large sum in 1870, We lines. We were the first oil concern els. borrowers of money in those days, and we got money very cheap because, I am proud to say, we always kept our promises, pald our paper and watched our debts, 1 was an able business man and men failed because they 80 W my partners. were not able business men. Other An old, gray, sad-looking, scared-looking man edged into a small, crowded room on the tifth floor of the new Custom-House this He came in sidewise, on tiptoe almost, carrying his professional pallbearer, The old man was the Rockefeller, coming as a wi world, namely, the Standard Oil. There had been promise for two hours | cha of the coming of John D. Rockefeller to | chair, a he hearing which Referee Franklin F ment ep Br geste ris, of St. Louis, ts holding with the | many a pape hope of smashing that feeler of the oc- | /U0Y l0GN Tents pa topus that is called the Standard Oi! liap, aatanial hana aay AH sank Company of New Jersey, und so the It | 07 that was singularin sccesticen tle Inside chamber was packed with art-| 9) wig gray bird sey na cat ists and reporters, stenographers and | aio. . ulture, and funetionaries. But for all the watchful- ness of this vigilant band, Rockefeller) Rockefelicn on the Stand, wes across the threshold before any-| Lin aay fp is Saheithe! oath, body knew he was near , held the right hand even laaimoneers snieninine |e his ear, listened to the words of the oath, said “I do” in’a gentle, He's a punctual man. He had sald he | 71 tous voice and reseated himeelf, would be there at 2 o'clock to give the | Wri ols Noles And Tecate nae ed testimony in which his lawyers had) 5.0 G" atipucn in o wareredollle tne drilled him for a week, and he was there |}000 (2. Aillpurn 19 @ watered:silkk tone, t man in the world, to-wi ess to tell about the iggest trust in the pred id he sa er of the do brought him at the room, with his baci ing a man fightins the hia one him hand on exactly as the hour hand pointed to 2, | us eet ; aia cl mieaiei black SPAR BARBIE humming-~dird's eggs i old-fastioned square: black | «John D.—Joh ketel bauarestop be ohn D.—John D. Rockefeller,” said overcoat, black silt walstcoat, With @\ 116 sitness haltingly. dotted figure In 1 black excep! ere do Wve? old. watch chain looped across ‘ } : d wee eee rottiha le ‘t lega Jence,”” said Rockefelter, eonoave & y speaking with care and exactness as i? toupee and the pear! pin in the tle, t adelphia are worked ain overt ane testimony showed that Kneagh match, The house has been sold our | Na one of these men and that Kneagh and the fans that were late in ordering | St7uck Stone on the head, knocking him their tickets offered big prices for pe. | GOW": Stone died two days later tn servations, A large section of the house | Beley4e Hospital had been reserved for the New York ooo delegation _> - SAVANNAH RESULTS. GAS VICTIM FOUND DEAD, —E | 5 t SAVANNAH ; | 5 home, N 4 16 the it Jockey | found | ple 5 p Piedmont | | last two being @ uniform silver gray AbEiUA te. TAKS Bo -llne ee Jy Nese LB Al i“ aaske ARETE My bony | etree hand that cl he hat brim trent : bled visibly. Behind him E i ave you been tn t ip of corpo jon lawye and 0 9 eer der retainer by ¢ Siandard O1) ise ‘ He advanced slowly st timid) A J ke a man walking into strange plac ie was considerably reunger where perils might til he stood om he said, parrying the n the front of the room. 5 \, i A iting ges- He Meets Kellogg 2 own Uetle aie mean ‘ Vho. se partners? : ir ad Names First Partners, 8 gore with age a M se, J Richara Clause s \ndrews,” respond There was a fixed 1 Mr re his face, 6 e \ Atlaued tan Up came Fray Kellogg, the Minn a Pockefelier whe samauintad n chief asa sow : Benen @ being the t | bus os under now on tria Andrews Co.’ John m 1 eased your me: M Rockef ‘ *® aeped Kellogg PP Preaye wrinured something a , know him 7 s the f Rockefelia 809) He nad to etand a ent ne 7 - 3 niain eitaried venom ned all shan tg vane, Ho sanmaige — ——