The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1909, Page 12

Fi Aas act Sk ret rmnnnernrenenenenesenneineae BANKER SCiil TELLS OF UNION POF MERCER Examined as Witness in the Government Suit to Dissolve Big Railroad Combination. HARRIMAN’S HAND IN IT. Financier Wanted to Prevent Other Interests From Getting Control of Burlington. Jacob H. Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., was a witness this afternoon at the Searing before Special Examiner Syl- eater G, Willlams in the sult brought ~By the Government to dissolve Union Pacific merger. He wis exam- fhed by C. A. Severance, Government dounsel. Mr. Schiff said he was a resident of ew York and a banker, a partner of *R. H, Kahn, His firm, he sald, had ex- feted for forty years, He recalled the time when the Unton Pacific was reor- ganized. Q. Do you remember when the present Wnion Pacific Company took over prop- @rty and commenced business? A. Yes, @bout the end of 1898, The $100,000,000 Issues. Q. What was one hundred million dollars of stock issued for? A. To put © company in funds. To pay for Rithers Pacific stock and perhaps the | Oregon Short Line. Q. Do you remember when the Great | Northern purchased the Chicago, Bur- | dington and Quincy? A, Yes, Q. Did you at that time or did Mr. Harriman have a conference with Mr. ‘Hill with reference to securing an in- terest In the purchase? A, It is a mat- ter of eight or ten years ago, but I think there was one or two discussions between Mr. Harriman and Mr, Hill and myself, Mr. Harriman objected to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy passing into the hands ‘of the Great Northern, He said that he was satis- fled as to conditions, but didn’t believe | Burlington should be taken over by the Great Northern. Q. You don’t remember whether the in- | terest was to be equal as to all com- | panies—one-third for each? A, I don't know. Mr, Harriman thought existing conditions should not be disturbed, but if the purchase should be made, Union Pacific should share in the purchase Q. What did Mr. Hill respond to the the suggestion? A. I think it was deci Q. Do you remember Kulin, Loeb & Co. buying a large part of Northern Pacific Very well Union A. We tot Lin Mr. our tus quo of nd Quines wantel {t then ex! Q. Do between ) Mr. Ripley can't exact Present ab one Men at the Confererce. men al Harriman Rocketelle man, James Still Q. Why afd ye gn the Atchis board? A.W chases of c¢ Topeka & of Arizona gave fentation of two wanted to get it Q. Mr. Harriman has testified that the object of your effort to secure an agreement Was to bring about a better understanding between the roads that the railroads would not be work- ing against each other all the time A. Now, I don't know. 1 must rep that Kuhn, 1 Co. are not in position to know all about these de tails 1 want represen on the board Fish on the Stand. Stuyvesant Fis! twenty years \\ Southern plan M traffic we cou! A Wonderful Start Last year separa than the He ov Th World's ¢¢ record of a And There Were 6,557 Sunday World Advertisements Printed Yesterday. year ago. | home. jn One Hundred ING GL SS UTHER MAN RED BULLET Frances Dolge Asserts That Al- berto Salino Lured Her Into a Saloon, | POLICE DISCREDIT HER. | Insist That the Young Woman | Was Wounded in the Hall- | way of Her Home, Frances Dolge, a pretty girl of six- teen, who has been the sole support of her mother since her father was elther murdered or driven to suicide by threats from the “Black Hand" eighteen months ago, was found shot through the head and dying tn front of No, 307 Hundred and Sixth street last night, and to-day she regained consclousness long enough to tell the police that her brother-in-law, Alberto Schiro, had at- tacked her. For some strange reason the police are trying to protect a saloon-keeper in One Hundred and Fifth street, near Second av st that the child was shot in the hallway of her own In per g in this statement the police dispute the dying girl's words to her mother and to others, TI also are ignoring a trail of blood com- ing east through One Hundred and Sixth street and stopping at a great} pool where the girl was found, “] was shot in the rear of a saloon and Fitth street,” Frances told her mother, "My brother- in-law, Alberto, came to the house of| some friends at No. East One Hu dred and Sixth street and teld me my | sister, his wife, was dying | me to hurry to her, My slster Ange- | Ina was with me, but Alberto ordered | her home and she obeyed. | Lured by Sister’s Name, | “That was about 10.99 o'clock, I we: with him, at the saloon'he told me his wife was in the rear, I had never known Mary to go into a eaioon, but 1 followed 1 was frightened, In- side he put a glass of wate y and told me to I was so frightened. “The next Instant I became dizzy. almost fell, and then Bast One My prices he seized me. Tene tet GIRL WHO SAYS SHE WAS SHOT BY BROTHER-IN-LAW, STOCKS BREAK ON A BEAR ATTACK Erie Suflers Most, ‘While Other Market Leaders Are Sharply Cut. ons of the stock left It unsta nd the bears break tn moral- Distrust of the cond zed, the comm fought him, 1 scrat m, and bit | ferred him, and ther he pulled a revolver and | Union shot me. When I fell he to the | amt St Pau i res street. No one came to me. I man- | de a point. aged to Ket to feet and to t ut the eet. Then J walked to Sevynd aves 3 and turned He saw that the girl wi injured and hurried her away to he institution, wher agreed her death was hours. other A matter useppl Dolge was looked upon as a H-to-do man by nis countrymen: The Blackhanders got after iim, three years ago. They demanded viriouy sums of money, threat to kill hil his two daughters and his wife uniess he met terms. Later his body was found in East River, : Frances then went out to work. She got a place {n a sweatshop, but she was tow cunning with her needle and too ambitious to stay at euch a place w su \ pay She soon gota place w , Thicd avenue miljner and a roof over sister, Mary, her little sister and myself, ago Alberto Schiro, well a tt T Ma of conversa > the s say Schiro began to beat and abuse first. He never worked. He didn't seem to have to work for the little money he spent on himself, but he was regarded by a gang who worked little as he did A few months ago Schiro began at- | to Frances that : 1 her Victim Feared Him. ances had hardly le! Sast One Hundred ut, when the brother- E ast nig peared. Where's Frane ts. D he a. e woul He learned then into the statement be true he drugged ot her. A spot of bearing. ot her atorements b 5 bart oe er ataer LOS ANGELES ENTRIES, Cal orrow's GELES Jan, 11.—The t races are as six Vena _Switt & mpany's sales of Freah Meat In New York City for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 9, averaged 8.63 cents ver pound.” *4¢ Ld ra iemteiivant = ofa & his bride almost from the } ay's final fx High & Wert x marie 4 ‘ 1 6 + 1% Advance FEARED HE WAS A NUISANCE. © palnter, out of work, & gas this 87 Wash- ork, had lost his al estate Bk King, 1 Yank lot: nilly Be *Apprentic _ THE EVENING ; ‘ . & | 1 TORLD, ORDER ReCEIV Public Service Board Replies to Threats of Joline and | The breach between the Public Ser- vice Commission’ and the lederal re- celvers of the Metropolitan Street Rail way Company has been further widen- ed by a letter from the Commission to Me Joline and Robinson in which threats are made of a rigid on MONDAY, JANUARY § “MOUTH OF HELL’ TO OBEY LAW OR NEW MENACE IK LOSE FRANCHISES EARTHQUAKE ZONE AL, 1908, SUN NE WAS A PEST CONFESS Another Shock With Violent) Posed as One Because It Was Storm Opens Great Fissure | Near Mess MESSINA, Jan, 11.—Shock shock with such frequency here that It follows is impuasible for the most stout-hearted “an Easy Way to Make a Living. Nicholas Slani, the little man who is charged w hold their self-possession, | n Saturday night’a terrible tempest, | accompanted by earthquake shocks, | |arose, causing a number of fresh col- | | new lerror among the ment of penalties provided by the Pu lie Service laws, The letter Is signe by Chairman Willeox, of the Pubile It deals Ir y with the alleged re- fusal ot vers. to improve the service on the Eighth street cross-town | Ine, the cars of which, ording to Chairman Willcox, are “often crowded to the point of indecency order,of the Commission, demanding an increase of service on this line, was issued seven months ago and there have been twelve hearings on the question. At none of the h in, Mr. Willcox, were the receivers repre- sented, by counsel or otherwise, The service on the Bighth str Willeox says, has not be 1 Improved. “Oppression,” Receivers Said. Mr. Witleoxe letter is in answer to to the Commission n that com- ¢ Public | d to as ression maintained and Mr, Willcox goes thoroughly Into the Eighth street line matter in his com- | nm Referring to s state- | menis made by the receivers he has this to say pers’ tlon “You must be aware that the laws of | this State require that every street rail- road corporation shall have sufficient cars and motive power to meet all the juirements which may reasonably be | ticipated, unless relieved therefrom | by order of this Commission, This 1s | binding upon you, although you are Federal receivers. “No application has ever been re- ceived from you asking to be relieved from the obligation imposed by statute, It fs, therefore, incumbent upon you to provide sufficient equipment and prop- | erty to render adequate service, This you have not done, admittedly, and you say in your letter, ‘We do not Intend to place any additional orders for cars.’ tement appears to be a flat re- fusal to obéy the laws of the State of New York. Threat Amazes Commission. ssion notes with astonish- in your letter insists upon tute and with ¢ Commission you will nue your policy of breaking up street fr into sn hreat induce nm to disregard the law allow any one clse wil policy on f you Insist, as a reply to the orders of the Commission requiring you to obey a p public shall ®e still inconvenienced and injured, mission will exercise ‘every tit has to prevent this result, | May Act to Displace Them. "The law can be ¢ without the | harmful results which you threaten to bring about, and If you adopt the policy you suggest When there are other way's Open to you, you alone are responsible nartly when a company cannot obey law, the suggestion is made that {t withdraw, surrender its franchise, or al- low others to manage its affairs, “Another ominous statement in your letter is that if commission per- sists in its ‘policy of oppression.’, that ts, requiring adequate service, you will, take cars from other line: wise decrease the service you are ren- dering to sections of the city for which orders of this commission have issu at this is not only inad- y In violation of the md but plain spect x out this plan, and proceed- ‘The original | according to | t line, Mr. tne | being distributed, was besieged all day | countrymen, an other- | s Commission wishes it definitely | ons will be made from | @ to determine whether you | begun Immediately to order | It} needed upon all Ines not had with these orders | Ings will be begun in the courts nforce penalti (es SAVANNAH ENTRIES. SAVANNAE 11.—The entries for rw's races follow M ie THIRD RAC 102," Flarn Isen, 104 Mar Wi FIFTH RACE—Four-year-olds and ¢ i ane to ride; one m 187 TOR ore! hroat 5 CoidinChest Omesa0il Rub the throat and chest with Omega Oil; then bind around the throat and lay on the chest pieces of flannel soaked in the Oil. The Oil ‘oes in through the pores and reduces e inflammation that causes the | trouble, Three sizes :10¢,, 26c., 60e, lapses in the rulced city and spreading |e wanted to marry Juliette. The girl, | [her father and Slant were taken to the} City Hall by Detective McCormick, but | it developed that Mrs. Testa, the girl's | vivo! Most of the people in Mes! camped under tents and huts, nearly all of these were destroye y | the wind and blinding Over sixty | feet of the landipg quays in the harbor was swept away, carrying off a large ntity of provisions stored there and | several ho | Noar Glarre an immense Greet opened, It 1s 650 feet long, 3 feet wide and 63 feet deep, and has been styled by the people “the mouth of hell.” Search for the buried victims of Italy's last great earthquake sttil con- tinues and is frequently rewarded with | rescue of the living. Yesterday | noon a man named Bensaja, who had | were | d by | | spent fourteen days without food locked | leased {in the rains of his home, was taken out of ret * Unconscious and resuscitated. He had | been caught in a kind of strattjacket | formed by the debris and, unable to! move, was compelled to watch the Iin- | gering death of his wife and four chil- dren, Saturday a married couple were removed from a natural tomb not only living but conscious. Their tmprison- | ment had lasted thirteen days, | The American Consulate, where the stores from the rellef ship Bayern are by a crowd of hungry refukees. The American committee is working vigor- ously and receiving expressions of | gratitude from all quarters, Gen. Mazza, | who is in supreme command here, thanked Ambassador Griscom warmly for the humanitarian Initlative of nis suggesting that as the great exodus from Messina had left the city practically without any wounded, | the most urgent need for the Bayern’ serv. was along the coast town: especially Catania and Syracuse. The Bayern has proceeded to these pointa, -— MARUM QUARTET PLAYS INSTEAD OF THE FLONZALEY. By an eleventh-hour change, the Martim Quartet was substituted for the Flonzaley Quartet at yesterday's Klein concert at the’Deutsches Theatre. It| was the fifteenth of the Klein concerts, | posing on those good people. When and the attendance and applause testi- once I am married I shall promote fied once more to the growing favor |some inventions I have made, and [| With which the venture Is recelved by New York's music lovers. Desplte the sudden change in musicians, the con- curt's programme war given almost ex- actly as scheduled. The performance | COmprised seven numbers and twenty | ections, including a Faure mptu, Liszt's “Rigoletto Fantasie,”’ of Dvorak’s Quartet In A flat and art's 1) major quartet. The soloists Mrs. Harriet Foster, who sang most acceptably, and Heinrich Gebhard, Siolinist. The entire concert was on a high plane of excellence. ——— ENGINEER KILLED BY GAS, Peter Holahan, an engineer employed In the Park Row Bullding, was ac- cidentally asphyxiated to-day in his room in an apartment house at No, 281 West Fourth street. The gas escaped through a defective connection that joined a small stove with a pipe. He was dead when found. to live at show immedia: teen: sold Jullette Testa from her home in Newark, N. J, was released custody, by Magistrate Steinert, in Jeffersons Market after he had told the M from to-day gistrate that mother, would have to be present in person to give her consent to the wed- ding, so the ceremony was delayed till she could be brought over from Jersey. Alderman "Jim Smith made the jcouple man hnd wife ten mimutes atter the arrival of Mrs, Testa, who readily Gave her consent. “Now kiss your bride.” said the Al- derman. The couple flew into each other's arms and resounding kises echoed throughout the dungeon. Mrs. Testa looked happy at last. Then, after a short formality in court, Slani and his bride were re- They expressed thelr intention rning at once to Newark. While he was awaiting the disposi- tion of his case In the court-room, Slant, with a sneer on his tobacco-stained lips, laughed at a deception he declares he had practised on the people of the Chureh of St. Rocco, In Newark, where he posed as curate. He seemed to think it a good joke that they and the pas- tor, Father Zacherelll, had accepted him for three years as a bona-fide priest when, as @ matter of fact, he) declared, he had never been ordained, put picked up his knowledge of the! ritual in the University of Palermo, where he was studying chemistry, and {n a monastery as a lay brother. He admitted that he had once had ambi- tions to become a priest and had en- tered the monastery for that pu: “But I guess they thought | not make a good priest,” sald Stani, as He i thet pored as a priest when he came to America because {t seemed to be an easy way to make a Hving in a strange country, “When I landed here three years ago,” said Slant, ‘Father Zacherelll met’ me. I had told him in letters 1 was to be a pri and he took it for granted that I was one when he met me on the steamer, I wore a red tle the day I landed and had on a light sult. | "This Is a strange garb for a priest,’ | said Father Zacherelll, and then I lied | to him and told him [I had lost my | We bought some, and then | he took me home with him'and I be- | Now that | vestments. came curate of St. Rocco's. has served my turn, I am tlred of im- think I can make enough by my brain ABC. HOME WIXTURE CURES RHEUMATISM The thousands of men and women who| have felt the torture of dread rheumatism | Will be glad to avail themselves of the fol- | lowing prescription, which will be found | the most effective remedy obtainable for | rheumatism and all kindred forms of blood | diseases which cause pains in the muscles, joints, lame back, throbbing head and gen- eral debility: “One ounce syrup of Sarsaparilla com- pound; one ounce Toris compound; halt pint of high grade whiskey, These to be mized and shaken well and used in doses of a poontul before each meal and at bed- tm The Ingredients are obtainable from any well stocked dr who will mix {t or it can be mixed results, JAMES McCR 23rd Street CHINA DERARTMENT! it iat January the EERY & 60.) 34th Street S, dn Both Stores, On Tuesday and Wednesday, 12th and 13th, Sale of Quadruple Plated Fancy Pieces and Flatware, Cut Glass, Dinner Sets, Fine China, Marble Pédestals and Figures. Considerably below usual prices, Silverware. Tea Spoons...... Dessert Spoons... Soup " Table oe Dessert Forks ... Table ern Sugar Shells..... “c Cold Meat iuixs. Cream Ladles.... «1.25 doz, pee eeeebe Seri reels 22/30/48 Fadtustorete2i60) +..25¢ each Tongs, Pepper and Salt Shakers, 45c each noooonnotaucka Dinnerware, French China, open stock, white and gold design. French China, open stock, two border designs, with fancy gold edge. 100 pieces, French Chin extra large platter, Fine Austrian China, 23rd Street: - 100 pieces. 65.00 70,00 100 pieces, with 15.00 100 pieces, 12.00 a. | 34th. Street | 1 the abduction of seven- Court, | The injunction was not needed. | would | home, and it Is sald to} rte hla aa JAMES MoCREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street | On Tuesday, January the 12th. VEILING DEPARTMENTS. In Both Stores, Veils and Veilings for Street, Car- riage and Automobile wear, in all the new shades. ' Chiffon Veils, various weights, | plain, dotted and fancy meshes. ¥ A complete assortment of Mourning Veils. ; RIBBONS, In Both Stores. Pin dot washable Ribborf for under- wear, Colors:—pink, blue and white. No, 1.....05 ++++++20c piece of 10 yds, | Sd eweniinr ecole) ana tt U2 Ginn Veaisiantol OY Sonbano pe oo onls | OY Gy ndo ve 00.00 ool | 53 inch Satin Taffeta Ribbon. 5 | Complete assortment of colors, black, | cream and white 23c per yard STAMPED PATTERNS, In Both Stores, 350 dozen Stamped Patterns,—Un- derwear and Shirtwaists. New designs in sets to match. | Gowns, on fine nainsook.... ......65¢ value 1.35 +2. .38e value 60¢ aso value 55¢ Corset Covers, on fine nainsook.....16c value 30¢ Shirtwaists, on sheer linen. .....1.00 . value 1,75 u Embroidery Silks, Cottons, Needles, Hoops, Stilettos, Wools, etc. Chemises, on fine nainsook ey “a Drawers, CORSETS. In Both Stores, Nemo Corset of excellent quality white Coutil. With the modish long, straight lines and slender hips 1.00 | usual price 2.00 Nemo Self-Reducing Corsets, fin- ished with the new Nemo ‘Rip Proof"? hose supporters, with the jnow-elastic top, which prevents the supporter from stretching or working loose. Models with extra long back, greatly reducing the figure into graceful proportions, 3.00 INFANTS’ OUTFITTING DEPTS. In Both Stores, Hand-made Long Slips and Short Dresses of fine Nainsook. Neatly tucked, hemstitched and featherstitched; neck and sleeves finished with fine lace, Short Dresses, size 6 mo. to 2 yrs, 5 1.25, 1.50 and 1.95 isc value 1.75 to 3.00 Machine-made Long Slips and Short - Dresses, trimmed with lace insertion and embroidery. 50c, 75¢ and 95c value 75¢ to 1,50 Children’s French and Domestic Muslin Underwear. Size 2 to 14 years, Fine Nainsook Gowns, with low neck and three-quarter length sleeves, trimmed with lace or embroidery. Skirts of fine Cambric, finished with ruffles of lace or embroidery. 95c each value 1,50 Drawers of Fine Cambric, finished with ruffle edged with lace or embroidery. 50c, 65c and 75c pair JAMES McGREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street ON SALE EVERYWHERE. 1909 World Almanac Sunday World Wants — Work Monday Wonders.