The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1909, Page 1

evade the Eighty-Cent gas law. How Gas Rebates Will Be ReturnedtoN.Y.Consumer Weather-Cnir and Cotder to-night; Tuesday clear, tu EDITION | \ 4 Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. WAL BE RCTURNED ~+40——_____ Those Who Have Overpaid Trust to Be Divided Into Classes and Get Money Back in Turn, Begin- ning Next Month. SHOT PURSUERN MB AT PoLiCt mE Fugitive, Accused of “insulting Woinan, Wounded Mar. Who Stopped Him. WOMAN TRIED TO STAB. Alleged Victim Attacked Pris- oner as He Was Taken From Riotous Crowd, There was a rough and tumble riot t's artificial nd feather factory, No, 21 Bone that began In front of C er The Evening World, with proper authority, to-day presents the gen- eral plan upon which the gas fund—representing the diiference between the legal rate of 80 cents and $1 rate extorted by the Gas Trust for a | period of thirty-two months from its 750,000 consumers in Manhattan and the Bronx—will be distributed under the direct supervision of offi- cers of the United States Circuit Court, After the Special Master of the Gas Fund has completed his adminis. tration of the moneys due consumers, any surplus, either from unclaimed balances or accumulated interest at 2% per cent., which the fund has earned {n the seven National banks, will be returned in proper proportions to the alx gas companies, the latter furnishing a bond to the court for the payment of all future just claims arising out of the Gas Trust's attempt to street, noon to-day when the em ployees were swarming into the street It be replay and ended with revolver and the flashing of knives fr Mulberry street In front of Police Head for lune. a with snows n and ty shooting. quarters. The ho was merry enough, ntl Pletra Chiasolo a buxom young married woman, screamed that a man who Was scuffing with her had been unduly familiar. She went Into ‘a tow- ering rage, screaming and striking with her fists at everybody with'n reach. Her brothers, who were In the crowd, rushed to her ald and she pointed out ja man, running toward Lafayette street, The original order granted by Judge E. Henry Lacombe, which the Gas,“ ‘he here who had ingulted_ her. ‘Trust obtained on May 2, 1906, in its attempt to defeat the 80-cent gas law | Growdl Chased) red: Handed) Man: The whole crowd, fighting and push- on the grounds that it was conflscatory and unconatitutional, does not pro-\jyy, started in pursuit, Ahead was ‘wide for the payment of interest to the Individual gas consumers on moneys| Angelo Guastelio, who lives In Ellza- placed In he custody of the Court. The order goes no further than tol See lay ais tech tere ‘guarantee the return to each gas consumer of the exact overcharge should nothing tn particular, He ran through the 80-cent gas law prevall in the highest court, which it has, «fayette street, and on Bleecker to mouria > Doubtless many gas consumers expect interest on thelr gas balances. father dyes and he brandished the re- Bome expect 21-2 per cent., which the gas fund has been drawing, and) volver as he Others seem to think that the United States Supreme Court has ordered; Opposite 1 the Gas Trust to pay them 6 per cent. Both are entirely wrong. The fe es Righest court has said that 6 per cent, was a fair return for the stock. ye” Holders in the Gas Trust, people who had invested thelr money there, but the part of the decision referring to interest ¢ ges bears no relation to the gas consumers or thelr gas fund in the lower court. The accumulated st of 21-2 per cent, will be used for the benefit of the consumer in getting his money to him with celerity, It would require Q force of 750 expert accountants, working tor weeks, at a vost of not less than $100,000, to arrive at the specific amount of interest due each consumer and it would result in numerous complications, Interest for the gas con- sumer {s therefore declared entirely out of the question, GAS TRUST TO CO-OPERATE,. Detective O'Nelll met them at the Already Special Master John A. Shields, in charge of the gas fund, who! steps of Police Headquarters and was {s also clerk of the United States Circuit Court, has begun to arrange for | helping iain ear Set ATE ay coper lsidewalk, kicking and struggjing, when the distributlon, of the gas fund. He will have the full co-operatton of the Mrs, Chiasalo, who had followed with officials of the Gas Trust, for the identification of the consumers entitled to! th, whole crowd from Chest’s factory, rebate can only be made through the particular gas company supplying| wormed in between the policeman end them. the prisoner. O'Neil caught her arm just as she raised a knife to stab Guas- Secretary Robert A. carter of the Consolidated ona Company, in con | oho alia beak) Shelthaught Herwaa Junction with representatives of the United States Circult Court, has formu: the man who had affronted her. lated a general plan to cover the class of consumers which come under the| gne was arrested, but passed the knife heading of Group A. Mr. Carter's company employs 100 collectors, each of | to Baldesserro Rubino, a feather work- whom visits ninety consumers a day, Mr. Carter's plan {s for these Cole aaa whe te Guetare Ree i) mt Oo! id 5 Jectors to give a receipt for the gas receipts In cases where they have all eer arrested. So were three or four been kept, and then have checks written and sent to them by the Special | other Itallans who were fighting In the Master after the account has been checked by him and by the company, | mob which filled the streets in front of A great many consumers prefer to have the amount due them from the gaa’ fund credted to their accou nthe books of the Gas Trust, This is the building, Giuseppe Rubino, the man who was shot, was not seriously injured. He was true particularly of the 7p i the Consolidated Gas Company, which taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. through an order sizned la 1 by Judge Heuga ot paid over the, 20.per cent. in dis to gas fund. Whether the Gas Trust will write ita’ check to cover the ¢ arm it owes the gas fund for the last nine ! —_—= SATTERLEE AT NAVY YARD. months or chall settle i vith its consum period under the supervision cf the + not b od. lerbert L. Satterise, Assitant Secro- CLASS A IN FHBRUARY, of the 1s in New Yo: ng an inspection of the Brook- Paying cf the cer in C.c Tebru: e-play Headquarters Gul- ‘0, 302 Mott street, ello was an eseaping pled with him. They 1e snow until Guastello got 4 revolver against Rubino's body and of The shot brought persons swarming out of the police building and the houses across the wa Frederick J, Barth, of No, 312 East 5 nty-third street, caught stello and held him until Telegraph Policemen M. B. MeGrath and Walter | Schneider got hold of him. Prevented Woman From Stabbing. nd tary avy Yard, Hi a member of t ‘al Board of Reconstruction and ection {8 in connection with the | emers p A will tre month of Consumers who Cnd themeelyes in Creup B it ts expected will be Provements Mnasehy hi and th contem: reached early in Mey il] follos tie various other groups, Rul Patton opporturity will be gt signs to pres 13 before the = tspeclal Master, but 1m 20 | lines ef gas concamece’ 1S BALDNESS DOOMED? formed. The intereat fund, nelderable figure, will i “be used for the expres 1 of the gas fund entai] Balt! Speciniint Saya It's Un- y and Proves It, BAt iE, Jan, 18—The Inte cident to the wonderful work that ts ing accomplished In this and other cities Uy Willlam Charles Keene, Presi- dent of the Lorrimer Institute, continues unabated. Many cases ef baldness and faded hair of years’ standing have deen on the publi» An ennounc t of ortance no hardshi Will be forth ny from the Gas Trust eariy this week. On Tuesday afternoon there will be a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Consolidated Gas Company fn the National City Bank Building. John W. Sterling, chfef counsel for all the companies which make up the combine, will report the precise terms upon which a re- hearing will be asked of the United Slates Supreme Court. The application fora rehearing will be the vehicle through which the Gas st will make * street, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1909. DR. WOODBURY, TV EXPERT, SHOOTS HINGELE ae Dermatologist Whose Face Is Widely Known Through Ad- vertisements a Suicide, | | | | | | WORRIED OVER A S |Had Made Fortune Out of | Business in Which He Was a Pioneer. Dr. John If, Woodbury, the beauty jexpert and dermatologist, whose ilke- nes is familiar wherever there is a billboard in this country because of his [extensive adve killed | himself to-day in his room in the Ses. ising, shot and cliff Inn, Coney Island Woodbury was fifty-eight years old and had made a large fortune. He owned the Sea Clift Inn and leased {t to Mrs, Ernestine Dillon, who closed {t for the winter, leaving a caretaker, j Louis Bauer, in charge, For several | winters {t has been the habit of Wood. | bury to live aione at the Inn, and a sulte of rooms was espectally fur- nished for him, At about 11 o'clock. to-day Bauer, walking along the hall on the second floor, smelled smoke near Woodbury's room. He tried the door, but found It Hacked, and thinking the house might | jbe afire, broke in. ‘There he found the ; owner of the hotel unconsctous an‘ partially dressed, lying on the bed, the | sheets and coverlid of which were In | a blaze, On the floor near by was a} 38-callbre pistol, two chambers of | ' which were empty. \ Put Out the Blaze, | Bauer thrashed out the blazing bed- clothes and then turned his attention }to the doctor. There was a wound be- |hind the loft ear and one In the right | side of the abdomen. Bauer {s net pos! |Uve whether Woodbury was dea: jwhen he broke tn the door, but Ambu lance Surgeon Klein, who came at about /1 o'clock—the delay being caused by the storm having brokén down the telt phone wt aid the shot in t head must have caused Instantaneous deat! {The bo tak to the West jElghth Street Morgue at Coney Island The only reason that Woodbury friends at the Island assign for} suielde was worry over a $0,000 suit for slander, begin against him a week ago by Stephen Emmons, a wealthy con- tractor of Coney Island. Emmons was building a row of houses—en addition to the Seacliff Inn—for Woodbury, and the men had a dispute over the price— $20,000. After the quarrel Woodbury went to Emmons’s house and abused the contractor to his wife, on which Emmons based his suit for slander. Benjamin Patterson, of No, 302 Broad- way, Manhattan, who was Woodbury's | liawyer, sald the beauty doctor left a| fortune of more than $500,00). | Lawyer Is Puzzled, | “1 ean Imagine no reason why he | should have Killed himself," Mr. Pat- |terson sald, ‘unless it was because he |had been drinking. He seemed to take a | great interest In life, owned fast horses and an automobile, and it was as late as last Saturday that he arranged with me about the investment of {50,00 He came here from Salem, Mass, nd was | of a good family, He w married ith nis second twice and had not Ii wife for several year: br, Woodbury was the ploneer tn this country in the business of making.” He founded the W Dermatological te, wi quarters at No In inenced a campaign of adye employed every medium news- | papers to billboards and kites, His} facial soaps and creams were adve the country over, and on every tisement there was a llketiess of his own er- face. Woodbury became very wealthy few years ago sold out his origin stitute to a company of whi his cousin, Willlam Woodbury, was a meu joer, ‘This company afterward got into trouble with the courts for advertising to practise medicine and last Septem- ber went into the hands of a receiv Dr. Woodbury. later opened another | establishment at No, 3 West Twenty- | 6 t @ ft tle remedied by the remarkable prepara-| second street under the name of the some points to serve as a foundation in possible future tigation, but that len which is being aAwtrbatea ip ym| Joan H. Woodoury Facial Cultivating the application will be denied some of the Gas Trust's own directors can- Me Keene's lavoratory, and its fame |COMPany didly admit, ‘VICTORY IS ALREADY WON. The Evening World, which began {ts fight for a reduction in the cost of gas to the consumer early In 1905, knows when a great victory has been won for the people and has not sought to hamper the distribution of the gas fund. Mass meetings and petty litigation, belated and spectacular in ‘character, are a form of agitation greatly deplored by officers of the United States Circult Court. It has tended to deVelop new friction between the em- ployees of the Gas Trust and consumers at a time when the latter are just ‘aout to harvest the fruits of the victory, and in which they are sole |\s spreading far and wide. lsequence thousands of persons ure using Us remarkable hatr food with mos. gratifying resulis, As a con- What seems to make this treatment more popular is the fact that free trial outfits are sent by mall prepaid, Those who Wish to try it are strongly advised to write to Mr, Keene at the Lorrimer Institute Branch 1, Baltimore, Md. ‘They will receive the full trial ournt free of charge and much useiul infor. mation about the hair which will Pid and cere a Bieter an He was last seen there Saturday, and it was neticed that he had been drinking heavily. He had sold a good deal of the | stock in t oncern, but was president land the advertising head, His business assoclates know little of hi private lite He leaves a wife a daughter, one living In Lawrence, Mass,, and the other }on Staten Island. | ORI eo <3 oe | Fine New Turkish Baths |now bpen at the new Pulitzer Building, Oni: Rrat-cfas Kecderh (eee orld, [ “Circulation Books Open to All."' | Ex-Policeman on Trial for Murder and Girl He Is Accused oi Killing SENATE ASKED FO ~—TREROOSEVELT LAN ~—ANPANAMA INQUIRY | i $ it } + ‘Sena‘or Rayner Demands Light on Libel Proceedings, and Says Siatute Under Which Action Is Taken Must Be Plainiy Stated. SOMETHING LIKE A RETURN | TOTHE OLD sEDITION LAWS st" ai freedom of th: Press Abridged it Constitution Is Not Strictly Fo.lowed—President of United States Can Prosecute Only as an Individual. in emia ane 3. ; WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—A resolution was introduced to-day by Senator Rayner, of Maryland, calling on the Attorney-General for ine i formation concerning the bringing of the suit for libel against certain newspapers. Mr. Rayner asked for immediate consideration, saying the only purpose was to get information whethof this suit had been ordered, whether it was brought at the instance of the President, under what ee statute it had been ordered, and by what power and authority the courts } are being used to forward this suit, | | 4 = = ——————= | ‘The sult which President Roosevelt bs 7 dclleved to have ordered brought against q mh , A \ ii 4 the Press Pull shing Company, of New | Hy i F rl t York, on aunt of pudlications In the Vb pene. N ¢ World Inspirel the Rayner , TR era bs we resol st } ji , the Senate In support of 5 = > L the resoluten Mr, Maynor said there Wet Rhallar, ants | ints Was no law which warrants a sult for David Shellard, Accused of ! Koel of the Governme rape sh , = yee . If any suit is being prosecuted,” sald = a a, ine Cru a Wa H Killing Girl, Says She Was Mr. Rayner, “we want to know under : | ary hat statute It 1s being brought, be- | Suicide w 8 brought, } a Suicide, cause we ought th haye an opportunity \ to repeal that statute on the grounl | David Shellard, formerly a policeman, ; Hi ae i ta eee one cone ; Was placed on trial before Justice Crane Also a Pigmy, “Our Jocular- (ym recuse ges the freedom of in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, to-day + ret | ow yaGalers ’ eme Court, Brooklyn, to-day | ity.” and One Who “Shows | “lf the Attorney-General ts not pro- on an indictment which charges him | ceeding under some statute then he is j With the murder of Barbara Retz. This! His Teeth at Real Heroes.” uae the laws of the country," Mr. { i woman was shot through the head tn a| eae ate shelter house in Irving Square Park on stant te eee arco tees ; oe . portant to know whether this was « i July 22, 1908, at 1 o'clock In the morning, | CC SCI Dis Biol) | , 1908, Cll ay ees is_Congress- | bel of the Government or was belng ' }and’ Shellard was with her when she, WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Congress-| brought by the Atorney-General on bee : — dled, man Willett, of New York, was taken hait of Individuals, Crew of Swallow Swept {0 Sed sie was shot with his revolver, His {oft his feet In the House to-day on | Like Sedition Laws. or Over to Jersey |defense ig that she shot herself when [call to order by Representative Hep-| Mr. Rayner retorted that he purposed J he refused to desert his wife and baby |purn, of Towa, in the midst of one of |to show that the Circuit Courts have no ; Coast. and run away with her The case |the ferest attacks on an executive ever Jurisdiction In elther case. 7 ia promises to bring out sensational testi | 204 in the Congress of the United Senator Knox, Interrupting, sald that ' mony as to how the police s | . d held President @8*¥MIng that the position of the Sen- All th h the night and to-day life- | tects @ “brother officer," no matter how | States. Mr. Willett had held President | 414. trom Maryland was sound, fe still ston ays ptt | £0! the erime charged against him, Theodore Roosevit up to scorn and ridl-| toon there wer? matters for the savers from Biue Point, Lone Hill Bell |G... G0 the rat witnesses ca'led toe {cule in about four thousand wore Rep eu port and Smith's Point patrolied the! day—atter the fury had been secured in of satire when he was Interrupted. Ho “In response to a remark by Mr. Knox | Long Island teen miles east’ of about an hour and a half—was Michael | had proceeded Oats By ire one. that he did not think it right to take Fire Island, in search of bodles of the | Mekert, a policeman. Ho was a pro- | third or his speech when Ne was! Wp the cases of Individuals and try them t hai + their lives in Oationary oiflcer in July, 1903, attached | stopped. 5 7 In the Senat» before trying them In crew of six men who lost thelr lives Inj) 9) Hamburg avenue precinct, and Representative Chandler, of Miss!s- court, Mr, Rayner Insisted that he was the wreck of the Swallow, a two-masted r aaeteehy atppl, moved that the House permit Mrs | rat intertarine cwith Une Wer CGE CHE ishing schooner from St. John's, Nev No. 3° to ‘learn | Willett to resume In or he Demo- | courts, but calling for Information In @ Pas et crats voted favorably to this, but the |°OU" ' foundland, which went to pieces on | HOW to patro! |erate ote toe ekind Hepraseatative | S07" Important case, Te the Attorney- , Lepublica tood behind Represi ¢ praliinelantdun ' var half a mile east of the Blue Poin | Juror Changes Mind. |Hepburn, Gardner, of Massachusetts; ‘ ee vane GHEE ouecaaee Life-Saving Station yesterday | Rickert showed an amazing lack of | Maden, Ilinols; Langley, Kentucky, TOT i or columbia he wee steole It 1s learned from Capt. George G.| mental perception on the witness stand. |and Hughes, of West Virginia, who in- /)° 7 0Utr" Of dln’ te was abusing Doggett, of Hosto#, who chartered the) Justice C who presi @d at the/ststed that the Speaker should not de- ilterlor purpose’? eee Swallow, that there were six men on trial of Thornton Hains, in Flushing, | fame the President In the halls of Con: | nist declared Mr, Rayner, i borrd. They Capt. Mrancls Mor-| last week, finally reached over and sald | grass. ‘The vote was 126 to 7S, and Mr.) 01% CA 0rn! Oot At, is an | ris, twenty-eight years old, Robertson's Vitiett took his seat and was not’ per. | “tem a Sedition laws witness Mate Charles Flirnt ou sober?” r. Head, that happily went out of existence long itted to proceed, mitted to pri There were half a dozen persons f eontytye uo uae ae * ea ler, Judge, your Honor," One Sentence eh __|vonvietsd under the old Sedition laws Seater ili Pattey, Bir Anth n try to exorelse a litte common | One remark in the uttered speech was wien a Member of Congres was fined F., and two seamen, both for 4,| sende n answering queations,” ordered |expuneed from the record on @ point /and imprisoned. But that law is out of whose names Capt. Doggett did not! the Court {of order by Representati Garaner It existence, an dthere is no sedition law know Tlokert did not obey orders | alluded to the ralste famatton ot upon the statute books of the United t Capt. Doggett anid that the vessel! Isaac F ff No. 2 Carlton ave | Admiral Schley. Chalrman But er of States, cartied frozen herring, split herring ani wos the first. Juror sworn, tn | the committee of the whole sustained) Mr. Rayner insisted that he was not the | ni this point and the objectionable clause | charging the Attorney-General with do» of, valued at ubout $5,000, and ural course he would have been fore- . ick oner was valued at $460. Hoth} y i the jury, but when aly was expunged, Some member of thé/ing anything he ought not to do, He fargo and vessel wore well insured had beer " asked to be ex- | Minor! shouted "That's a historical) wanted to know what the Attorneys | 40 far not on as been Housed; : * | ¢a¢ tho fanue was not debated. |General roposed to do and under what ein aa Ca : 4 “AW During the earlier portion of hls statute ho 1s acting, D dd Capt Rorke What's the matter? od J . ; Ase Poin sti In spree Nth pinton | Crane. : matter?” naked Juattee) ach Mr, Willett referred to the Presi-| ‘thera {9 no common Iam, he weld dent asa “gargoyle.” He modified this «that makes the libel of the Governe hat probably the diad men had been| “1 t plained Fiato, | ; 7 pieteus to ie " torte the fete | who wel anda and ea er and called him “the Preside mont a crime. It {s not © common law ! . . aii ine ae? spelt Avs Other scorching references were tem-|of England. It {s the statutory law of i i F ered by the speaker, who read slowly fngiand that makes {t a crim v bers kept close to the roll: ature, “I've changed my mind sinoe | 2° Y " Bis Sane thi re ae te ‘ and | I sat ¢ meats | from his uascript. | Violates Laws of Country. morning hours wiih much force that lifeyfor him, Um afraid my sympathy; That portion of Congressman Willett’s | wpne District of Columbia,” said Mn savers dared not put to sea in thelr open boats to look for bodies, (Continued on Second Page.) Oa her Rayner, “adopts the statutes of Marge. land, and there ts no such statute im i ori (Continued on Second Page.) = ’