The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1909, Page 1

Nt ed KETCGHEL SU fr and Cold To-Maht; Saturday © oudy, FINAL t RESULTS EDITION “ Circulation Books Open to 0 All.” PRICE ONE CENT. O'BRIEN AND KETCHEL READY FOR TEN-ROUND BATTLE HERE TO-NlGhT | Middle-Weight Champion and FORTS SECONDFIRE IRE Philadelphian to Clash at the National Club, wrest ATTACKS OLD VESEY | BOTH MEN seers STRE Lighthouse Corner Again Es- capes Destruction, as It Has for Century, ANDMARK | Great Crowd Will Be on Hi and When Men Meet for | the Title. y Ketek 1, world’s middle-welglit he seen tn the East for t \ i BY ROBERT EDGREN, | i} | For the forty-second time the old the first t o-night Philadelphia Jack O'Brien edged club on Twenty-fou Wational. Ketchel ts this fight. ne He fs to fleht ng at No. 73 Vesey street—a land enwich and Vesey streets— ak tha oul day, and as has been the ¢ for a hundred years destruction, ed to $300 It escaped com- he damage amount- His p fanious old lighthouse cor- | ‘HERART PAD a WO ° AN, SAYS we ELLAN Al MISSGHRDEN PEACE AGA —>— —— $20,000 Loan of Mayers Was | 'Mayor Seals Compact by Nam- “Artistic Debt,” Repaid ing Two Tammany Magis- by Success, trates for Spec i Sessions, | DUN MARRED CAREER. CROKER THE MEDIATOR. Temperament Shocked by Reward for Mayor to Be a Seat Lack of Appreciation in | in Congress, It Is Her Sponsors, Said. Mary Garden gave voice to-day to her A persistent rumor, current {In poilt lindignation regarding Mrs. David Mayer, cal circles for the past three or four of Cileago, wite of the retired dry! gays, that Charles F, Murphy ani goods merchant, who, In the language of | Mayor Metlellan have finally buried the ple where the artistic prevalls less than {t does in 3 “grub staked’ temperament hat t and will work in -harmony future was apparently confirme: the | prima donna during her early days as a |den's apartments, this ‘afternoon by 1 the appointment Magistrates Joseph Moss and Charles N nger. | Harris to sit temporarily in the Court It was with great reluctance that Mis» | of Special Sesalons when the new part We've been waiting a long time to see) ‘The | | Garden was persuaded to speak at alt. [of that court provided for by the Legis t n t The bleze was discovered in the frult| Temperament was getting In the way |!ature {s opened in the near future him perform store o/ Paul Moses, on the ground! Willam Guard, the, Magistrates Moss and Harrls are bot Jack O'Brien ts an object of in| foor. The patches and rude interior|*!! the time. Mr. Willam Guard, y [otganization ‘Tammany Democrats. event tos) Nineienthavorlthe f tle place quickly ignited and before | representative of Oscar Hammerstein,| Thetr appointment to the Special Sea: tors tonight will hope fervently 192% slarm was sounded flames had con-|forbade all reporters approaching Misajsions bench, although temporary, fore: of the walls and parti- h divided the sleeping rooms ness place of More ngines, sev 1 e carts, a tower, and two deputy chiefs and see him knocked cold, and put out of the fighting game. O'Brien has gro rich through crooked fights. He h duped the public in scores of faker and de Four ¢@ wate) Btill, he has ability. When on the level he can put up a good article of | {Me Nelse of the fire gongs, quickly rcrapping. Being a heavyweight, he ta record crowd of lower. Broad: ought to give Ketchel a hot go. In Bee lL OmeeRCOLN eT mL Les, fact, O'Brien's backers expe to seo masses; (and it was him win. If he does, there'll be |™4¥ minutes before the Church street srves were able to establish 4 time ad mourning among the followers of sport Hie is remarkably fast eed cl Ketchel 1s noted for his ability, He ts left-handed, 1 and Fitzsimmons, but he hh right as well, and many figh come to grief through forg er, punching | Jeftries sa good a stream nicate, Was at work, 1 to the dell- corni, on the One wall was de- of the fifteen fam- ave rooms the sh rs have tng that me fact. Papke, in his first battle, was |"! op warned to look out for Ketchel's left, | Vere hurried Into the street, Much ex- and with the first right-hind puneh CY lowed the temporar pread Ketchel dropped Papke and dazed him umes, Several ms were 0 that he Mdn't entirely recover from over the building in a short Vehe punch until the ten rounds were and the fruit stand and the delt- finished, ES SI aged. No one In the West Ketchel has kni the best of the middlewelghts Hugo Kelly, Mike and Jack Sullivan and Billy Papke, U he drops the slumber punch over with: in a few rounds—sometimes in the first eee ails PRIMARY ten seconds of the tight Ketchel and O'Brien ed fn National Club this afternoon was set at 18 pounds, the middle limit, and neither man mov —— FULTON-HUDSON FUND 0 | + AHS EAI OF $300,000 RELD UP ALBANY, March 2%6.—Assemblyman J, Garden to-day at all, She was all keyed | Shadows ha rencemment for both. It also : fj Insures that all the patronage of the up, he said, for her farewell to the New | new court will be dictated by Tammany York public to-night, when she will 1M yall, In announcing his appointments Salome for the last time this season. — | Mayor McClellan issued this memoran- Miss Mary Garden refused to see any | gum: callers at her apartments in the Lorel- ly, at No, &% Bast Sixty-fifth street. Her | | sister Amy came to the door and sald |in great trepidation, that she hoped no- body would try to speak to Miss Garden| about those horrid Mayer people, for she did not want her feelings disturbed before her performance. The slightest) jar might throw her out altogether, and the occasion was one that must suffer no chance of such a catastrophe. Would Talk Only by 'Phone. A reporter for The Evening World| "In making the selections of the two | Magistrates for asignment to Special Sessions the Mayor has been guided by a desire to select two men who will be fully able to cope with tne hard work necessitated by the long calendar in the } Court of Special Sessions and by the | fecommendations of the Judges of Gen- jeral Sessions who have heard the ap- peale from police magistratés."* Croker the Mediator. Richard Croker is given the credit for the ending of the long standing feud on the telephone, and asked {€ she understood that the suave diplomat wouldn't change her mind. Sister Amy | Dante! F. Cohalan conducted the a came to the telephone and sald that, $0/ negotiations In this city and ar long as Miss Garden did not have tol, recent meeting between the speak to a stranger, face to face, there | and the leader of Tammany were a few things she would like to 8a¥ | the peace agreement was rached at wh | to the newspapers about those Mayers./ Mayor McClellan, according to the If the reporter would dictate his ques- | political Information current, is to ald Uons, they would be read to the singer | ‘Tammany Hall to every length in his Jand her replies would be transmitted | power compatible with the dignity of | back over the telephone | his position during the forthcoming in sald Sister Amy over the tele-} municipal campaign. At the end of his | phone, “Miss Garden says she has read | term he ts to retire for a long rest and the statements of the Mayers that her conduct has been ungrateful and inhu-| be a candidate for the House of Repre man, As to that she has only this to) sentatives in the Tammany ticket in @ say sure Tammany district “Miss Garden felt that she owed an| John O'Brien and other advisers of artistic debt to the Mayers. She felt| the Mayor are said to be in temporary that she repaid this debt by the devel-| elicpse. Mr. O'Brien, however, !s in opment of her art, and in full, and that | hih gfavor with certain strong Tam- the Mayers should have appreciated the many leaders and it is believed that a In the 191) Congressional election ip to Phillips, chairman of the Judiciary| magnificent return made to them in that place will be found for him in the Wig- | way. hen the McClellan mahince dis- Committee, ch has an-| WAY: aA Tohed manittee, which has the Hinman-| "put tis Garden found they felt that} integrates. ler direct nominations measure under sh stil] owed them a material and mer-| Unless lasting peace has been 4 consideration, introduced a primary bill which, it is said, .will have the sport of Republi § plan clection law re to-day Mayor and clr Not Ready to Approve So Large Appropriation by City, MW era e bill amends the gen- ative to the conduct of primaries and applies to those rural] + as the money paid with interest?”| biges> feud in th eorganization has localities where no official primaries are| asked the reporter. been settled for good and all, . j now he Long pause. Sister Amy returned,| Both to Be at Croker Dinner. Francis Lynde Stetso 1) Herma: Under the present law In cities and) rather out of breath. | Mr. Croker ts to be given a big dinner Ridder appeared be Roard of jarge villages there ts now an offlelal) «Miss Garden says,” she sald, “that| just before he sails for Europe next Estit , the ratiivation | pri fay and primaries conducted byl the repayment of money involved in an| month. Tammany forecast js that of the p eres election officials and returns) inyestment which has brought a great| Mayor an and Char Mur= Board of Alder ans EE Ui county clerks as custodians) groat artistle return ts always pald with) pj) will both attend the dinner and fon colebratio: of primary. re { The Phillips bill] interest." | will be seated close to the guest of Mayor M n de ' as not a thattn all places fal primar-| “poes Miss Garden think the Mayers | honor prepared to vote {¢ 1 es shall be held Jare justified in calling her inhuman and | | Whether the Kiss-and-make-up pro; | Until, he had beer Ly PE CRAG tes One OF RUSH DEIMArY et ungratetulg) | Surpliy includes a cessation of hostilties tional information, and Comptry m ertitied to the ecustodia f the pri-| “Miss Garden says.” came the an- en Senator McCarren ar Tam- added tha would be ne to ma s by the chairman of the! swer, after the customary pause, pre-| many Hall ts not yet apparent But pass upr vidi General Committee “at, least twenty sumably while a dainty hand was held tie Gare tiverea ia oh 6: Abenaiat ne Ing the b! he we Ne On| hed not more than ten nor lees than over the telephone transmitter Just | ¢ affecting the City H five fore the primary day in| this | street, are believed f ‘ana Darel : swing MeCarren inte ' the eit Her Success Their Return, nn opens i BTN the Mayers for having given ne | ee of the next ot nyention te ; Me ance they did. However, | feet that | nominate a Mayo and ot tty ° pla fan ey have re 41 inestimable tall why : anit HtlOne whiet to be counted in the rei f the May oN . dele whieh hrough my caree: outnumbered ast * r cesiiiat Head Are! nine ond Page) HOWARD GOULD LOSES phellate Division of the Supreme the Habs Great Clothing» sey | cont ane Denar iB atlarndon ‘be pric AK Put on sale to-day ‘and Saturday 7) harited down a decision aM@rming an or tn Presidential years, and all town must be held on that day s shall be open from noon tilt ce Wadaworth, of We Assembly, to-day: “The bill ii fan exctlleng and should be pamoed. range fr ! ate) othe jain, blue or black. at King’s way, o , Open ‘saturday evening ums ans opposed to Gov. | cenary debt. gladly, because she did not want her| McClellan would show preferment to so artistic temperament deranged and Irri-| consistent and prominent a member of tated by such unpleasant matters as) Tammany Hall as Magistrate Jue Moss. | money squabbles,” Tammany leaders are satisfied that the men’s sults, all sizes, Jt to 4, single or der sixned by Justice (Gorman in the double breasted, handsomely tailored, 1k or satin lined—worsteds or aad Davir Wallace aa tr ys, fancy blues Pd ints: Be Worth: Fs.0h coats, gray, 4 for Cadenas & Coe there to recover ihe Feat teil 8 ua th Re lower court, declining to vacate an order on of Howard Gould by for the examina before In an ac! then called up Miss Garden's apartments) petween Murphy and McClellan. It 1s] n | Police Comn She at once paid it, and| clared it is hardly possible that Mayor) Vai ph NAL Fl esuLTS EDITION GREEN EDITLON Aenean Tack OF Brien, Who Meets Champion Keic iel To Night | BINGHAM WARNED BY GRAND JURY RE “TALASTO MUCH POLICE PLAGE | { Bribes After Long \ Session. ! | Police Commissioner Bingham was In- | terrogated by tl nd Jury for thirty | concerning he five minutes this afternoon, | the Identity who, says, tried to bribe him by offering him an aggregate of $200,000 a year to guide his official acts to their ends. During | the examination of the Police Commis- stoner, the official stenographer of the) Grand Jury from the room. The proceedings did not apparently interest some half a dozen members of the body, who walked out of the Grand Jury room Commissioner Bing- ham’‘s examination began and remained of certain men was excluded when in the hall, smoking and talking about to-night’# O'Brien-Ketchel match, un- | tl he departed. Reporters asked the Commissioner if he had revealed the names of his tempters. ‘AIL T can say {s that we had a very pleasant session,” was his reply can't talk about what happened in there. I talk too much, anyhow.” It will be recalled that the Commis- sioner stated in an interview about the | Mercer authorities told District-Attor- | minutes later they repatred to the Jail ST HS | BEFORE Bio CROWD IN HERALD ND SQUARE. Hundreds of Women Shoppers Watch Suicide as He Mounts Steps of Building, Puts Revolver to Head and Fires. POLICE LIEUTENANT TRIES IN VAIN TO REACH HIM. Reserves Have to Be Called to Get Body From Midst of Morbid Crowd—Cards in Pocket Give the Name of Acquilla Chase. Before the eyes of hundreds of men and women an ol dman shot im» self to death this afternoon late at the nortehast corner of Thirty-fifth street and Broadway, in the heart of the shopping district. A more public or spectacular setting for such a tragedy could hardly, have been chosen. Broadway, Sixth avenue which crosses it a block below, KIDNAPPERS IN PARATE JAILS ioner Silent on Mrs. Boyle Remains in Pitts- burg, While Husband Is Taken to Mercer. H PITTSBURG, Pa., March H, Boyle, of Sharon, Pa. of Wille Whida, 26. the k James \dnapper wes taken from the Allegheny County Jail to-day and at 1 o'clock departed over the Bessemer Railroad for Mercer, where he was Placed In jail. Mrs. Boyle, his wife, will remain in Jail here, Why Mrs. Boyle was not taken to Mercer to-day was explained with the statement of Insufficient accommoda- tion by the authorities, but notwith- standing this explanation there 1s much doubt. It has seemed since the wom- an was arrested at Cleveland that the police are Inclined to throw consider- able mystery aroun” her. Up to noon to-day there were many confiicting stories about going to Mercer. The ney Blakely that only Boyle would be | taken to Mercer County to-day. Two and signed releases for both Boyle and the woman, Mr. Blakely was greatly amazed when told of this “That muat mean that both are to be taken," he said. “Why Sheriff Cheas just Informed mé he was going to leave the woman here, and further sald that if there was any trouble about her be- and the cross streets were all filled with teams and pedestrians, when this man, a gray-haired shabby foot-traveller of sixty years or thereabouts, stood on the steps at the sid eof the Herald Building, facing the great masses life and put a bullet through his heart. Of all the eye-witnesses perhaps nono|Ing that this same Acquila Chase had saw so much of the aulcide as Lteut,|had some small market dealings with the bre rage oF Glave, ob Inepedtor: MoClonkytaldétect vellivineni teeter tnes a ope ante at No, 38 Broad street. staff, who from acros the way had been) ‘The man wore a very old black over watching, attracted by coat, a neat but badly worn undersult, peculiar movements. the man's and a clean white collar. Reporters millar with the police courts though they recognized In him @ man who for more than a year had been begging varl- ous Magistrates to help him secure re dress from a former roommate who he sald had stolen a ‘‘Strad'’ violin from him A man in the crowd said he recognized body as that of A. Chase, @ For fifteen minutes, while Clare eyed | him curiously, the old man walked with | Jerky uncertain movements up and down the elevated walkway, which ov looks the Herald's glass walled press | | room Calm In His Actions. Finaliy he halted at the southern end of the building, turned #o that he looked toward the opposite side of Broadway and slowly dra Iver from a aide pocket of at, placed muzzle at his breast, using care) and deliberation. | Clare, devining his purpose, started running toward him. Before he had) gone ten feet a sharp crack made hun- dreds pivot about and gaze toward the spot whence the noise had come. They saw the old man throw the revolver Into the alr, and with what was like & dramatic gesture, stand, rocking | ME ein Geri eeraa SORUGHN HM ACQUITTED ~_ IN CONSPIRACY CASE the formerly employed in the Brooke Yard, avy it developed also that he shooting took r of the Herald re- coly ote which read as follows: 1am going to kill myself. For three years | have suffered from bronchitis, nd the doctors say I can't get well, I put a want ad In the Herald and 18 will know who I a The city editor was just sending @ man out to find who had sent such @ the city edit left the sevalver guile ae tside, face, motionless. Died In Three Minutes. Peter J, Gibbons, of N avenue, was one of the pa had seen the man drop. Alme stantly the physician was kn Dr. side the fallen figure, turning - over | THOraUl siden Wass cone tease |Jury Decides There Was No less. He tried to speak fr “oe mei cost him esve! Criminal Intent in Correct- was dead. ; Clare, aided by the policemen on pot! ing Insurance Ballots, in the neighborhood and by two mer the traffic squad, had a hard keep ing a great morbid crowd from tramp- | ling the body under foot in their mo George R. Scrugham and Charles @tir ynspiracy chat ing Kept here he had forestalled tt by action of the Board of Aldermen in turning down his § secret service | appropriation that he could have made $600,000 the first year he was In office tf he had been disposed to be dishonest. |The offer of mor e sald, was | made to him by a man whom he met socially, but with whom, for obvious} reasons, he has not met or communteat: | J since | In addition vo that he had bee iftered § th to take @ certs that he could have eased amo $2,000 @ mont simply expres: net from rack desire for that 4 fers, he sa other Fine New Khadr eeane creating Warden Lewis, of the Allegh-| eny county Jail, a Mercer county dep sheriff, and thus a proven uustodian {oa Mercer county soner. Feared Mob at Mercer. until the d | One of rs in ciroula tlon this afternoon concerning the de cision to keep the woman tn Jail here, | which ts given some credence, {a to the | effect that the authorities feared there he g demonstration at Mercer —ew (Continued on Second Pagel would effort to see. Unt) the res Nagas ; from the nearest station-house growing out of the election of cleared out the mob traffic were qoquitted this afternoon, The way was pract I =F sitet the trolley cars could a eden lead TAAHGEATI CGE these An ambulance car New ¥ a Meyhotd nites, and, Horpital, but t . ave (nvaiid surgeon. found: hes t ‘ vouded In the Herald's: port A wa © suffered; took it awa a ‘ tion of the f older wea ‘ of these Ine its wanted not tter of the law Name of Acquila Chase rt There was not a cent in the pockets ot the dead man, but the was fuifitied e are t of John B, new and expensive. The on ssible | 8 fleld for the defense clues to identification were two papers Mr. Stanchfield attacked one an unsigned recommendation stating| Carrington, the third man Indieted, that Acquila Chase was a rejlable man|who turngd State's evidence. He alse ‘and might de trusted with work and the denounce methods of Distrigt wad ether a receipt for 4 small amount show~ torney message when he heard the sapere of 4