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+ treated for STOKES REFUSED TO SIGN APOLOGY, ~ §O BOTH GIRLS FIRED SHOTS AT HIM PRICE ONE “CENT. Copyright, 1911, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Sted ASYLUM FOR INEBRIATES, COSTING $500,000 WOULD | ME MILLIONS TO eiTY Present System of Caring for the 29,461 Arrested Costs $250,000 a Year. COULD CUT TO $80,000. Board of Estimate Committee Gives Astonishing Statisti of City’s Drunkenness. The special committee appointed the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment March 9 last to consider the ad- visability of carrying Into effect Chapter | So, of the Laws of 1910, which provides for the establishment of @ board of in- ebriety and a hospital and industrial colony for inebriates, submitted its re- Port to-day. It sald, among other things: “The 29,461 persons arrested in this city.and.arraigned in Magistrates’ courts 0 the charge of public intoxication last year constituted more than one-sixth of all the arrests made for all causes. Of this number 20,201 were held for ¢ial. ‘The records fail to show the fnal dispo- sition of all of those cases, but about 15,600 were committed to the workhouse. ‘Seven thousand male drunkards are treated annually in the alcoholic wards of Bellevue and allied hospitals. In one yeer, ending May 1, 199, 498 men were intoxication more than once in that ward and more than one hun- dred from four to twelve times, and that 4n the course of a few years some in dividuals have been treated In the alc holic ward more than twenty times and committed to the workhouse more than sixty times. THOUSANDS SPENT ANNUALLY ON INDIVIDUAL CASES. “The expense incurred year by’ year because of this average daily @xpense h prisoner contined in the work- house and jails is about 5 cents; in Bellevue and allied jospitals it is two or three times as much, In a few years {Individual cases have cost the clty from $2,000 to $3,000 each, “The comt of the Police Department and the Magistrates’ Courts in dealing with 30,000 arrests for intoxication an- nually Is not to be ascertained, but is certainly very great. Economy de- mands that the present aimless method of dealing with inebriates should give way to @ more rational system which wil tend to diminish their number and the attendant expense of dealing with them, “A method {s provided by the law relating to inebrivty passed by the Legislature as Chapter G1, Laws of 1910, which was based upon a thorough ptudy of the problem in this and other Btates of the Union and in foreign countries, and which embodies the beat modern practice of dealing with the occasional and habitual drunkard. INSTITUTION COSTING $500,000 WOULD PROVE ECONOMICAL. “Wherever the method has been tried tt has given results which warrant its further extension, It is used in kng- land, Germany and other countries, It has been adopted in a number of Btates, notably Massachusetts lowa, ‘and Minnesota, which have provided epecial institutions, ‘Three essential elements considered in estimating establishing such an inst the cost of a site and nevessary for @ hospital and industria second, the annual co: per thie institution, « involved tn tn the Board of gary field off A alte of several hun be needed, the cos: limited to $ that 600 inmates must be 1 go that the required app expendi- bout $4 The n Pee tor an institution about 30) in should not exceed $8,004 We, therefore, r the resolution: “Resolved, T are to be wut of the building ang the neces acres will vould be viy estimated priation will following | at a Board of Inebriety ‘danve i he be appointed In accordance with t provisions napter os1 of the Laws of 1910 with Instructions to rey rt preliminary plans to this Board at t whiest porei bie yoment espectfully submitted, ‘ Ww. 8. VANENY, ! President of the Borough of Man- \ ttan, ' » « RGE CROMWELL, president of the Borough of Rich- mend, “Committes,”” by | on} first, | nvided for, | wie ‘YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE. “8, 700,000 CHILDREN OF BROOKLYN ARE | eae BY TAFT | First President at Big Sunday | School Parade Hailed With | Songs and Cheers, | | | To-day, for the first time tn the his | tory of Brooklyn, a President of the! United States reviewed the annual Parade of the Sunday school pupils of that borough. President Taft came this | afte rnoon from Washington and, truo to his habit of making his visits to Greater New York a whirlwind tour by | automobile, sped to Brooklyn, speeches in the varlous parts of the borough, accepted a boquet or two, posed several times for his photograph, hed lunchevn and then watched 200,000 White-clad children march before him, waying flags and singing, From the Williamsburg Bridge plaza to the reviewing stand in Prospect Park the streets never wore gayer dress. Sunday School Day ts one of the oldest and the biggest general holidays in Brooklyn, and there were flags on near- ly every house front, streamers and toons of bunting on stores and pub- buildings, and bands on nearly every ® corner playing “Hall to the Chief.” But the children, boys and girls, all in new white frocks and lnen suits, each with an American flag, were the brightest feature of the whole show 1 President, and he made no bones about saying so. Rich Hotel Man Who Is § Seriously Wounded; | Two Girls Who Shot Him in Their Apartment BOE * Circulation Books Open to All!’ | 18 PAGES WHATHER—Fate to-night and Friday: warm PRICE ONE “CENT. EARTHQUAKE RUIN IN MEXICAN TOWNS, ~ VOLCANO ACTIVE BUILDING TO COST: $8,000,000 ON THE Capital Hears of Many More Dead and Thousands Home- | less at Other Places GUADALAJARA, Mex, June &—The | volcano Colima became active yester- day when the earthquake shocks were felt and to-day is emitting smoke and $4,000,000 ee Ground Makes FORMER PEBUTY CELYNN GoM: lava. ‘The towne of Tonia and san| !t Most Expensive Business President Taft and his party arrived Abdres were badly damaged by the dise Block i in the World. in the Pennsylvania Station at 1,10 turbances, portions of them being de- o'clock. William J. Flynn, former Seo- stroyed, A relief train has been sent —— ond Deputy Pollce Commissioner of {Hee tie. Regnie Sree aes, ‘ A twenty-Ave-story bullding to cost New York, who has returned to the posta nee ae aoe ine | $8,000,000, the largest and moat contly United Gtates Secret Service, was in |fpleeaie derail ‘ the | usiness structure in the world, wilt Hares of (ie squad. Of @acret Servic volcano Colima in the southern part of onerer ¢ a pik acd 0 4 ¥ occupy the apace now the alte Madi- men who came with Taft, and rode in | the State of Jalisco, says that Zap. in) an automobile preceding the Presi- nuffered severely from yesterday's |4on Square Garden, Arrangements were | dentia earthquakes, The number of victims is | completed to-day for thy bullding, ihe Brasident and Min ate Maior [suid to be large. A church and a num-| h will be ready for the new tenants dis ner of houses were thrown down and 1 ly 11a rchibald Butt, were met in the sta- | ber . . 191 ere amaeek etueh, erand, etrannt : | other dwelling places rendered unaate.| stock to the amount of $12,000,000 wilt of the Sunday School parade, accom- hic ts ve Bal aad eR ety Hoge isued. by the F. and Dp, Company, panied by Congressman Wiliam M./{ FOR BASEBALL, RACING | ai caeete the datagen canseg [the corporation ormantzed to ewing the Calder, Collector of the Port William a ~ ° pe deal ‘¢ by yesterday's earthqu shocks, | Loeb, Naval Officer F. J. Kracke and RESULTS AND ENTRIES facyine’ tha dead: and cating. for the| About $4,000,000 will De patd to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury SEE SPORTING PAGE. wounded, the Government offlelais, by |owners of Madison Square Garden for F. J, Curtis. A line of policemen was ldirection of Prestdent de la Barra, are! the laud, witle the remainder will go fone ang hi ete aaleah party en-} ____ ———-= ene ing to Ket Into communication | into the cost of the bullding, whieh ed automoblles and was driver . : u et Le beaten maleeshert psa Mayor Gaynor and a committee of | with the country south of the capttal, | will devoted exclusively to. stores, e, to Fourth street, to t members, and ti Mayor made 4 brief It ts feared that when details are re-| Mices and lofts Fitth avenue, to Fot et, to the! sag, it aan " aived the disaster will be greatly ine] The a Fo& D. Com Bowery and across the Willlamsburg| “@dre## of welcome to Brooklyn. | ow “I have come to New York #0 often ‘ pany are ain Gt Bol Bins dust on the bridge was so thick |2t Ite" President Taft replied, “that Peanarial ade t police to-@ay| xevain nkers; Gec rf l president and nearly everybody | @!ald I'l soon be a bunien en your lace the number 1 in the etty| Carlton f Olne Com LL eh a ps ge ay hinge | hands. It Is a great pleasure to ¢ Peeseventy-five, of whom forty wera| stock oR mer end OID ie BEST. RARRN SOUR: to Brooklyn, especially when a Bré soldiers. st In expected to pel Alwyn Southack & Ball "We have been threatened with ®liyn man is at the head of the Gre: Woile bande played and 9,500 white | Pole! hen the search of the de-|real extate, A member of the firm of water famine, Mr. President,” explained | (uty, frocked girls marched a in mollshed buildings in the poorer quar-| Olney & Comet anid that Warren Mr, Brush ake ; But T want you grown-ups to un«| cate evolutions, pausing now and then} ter of the city is completed. Of th & Wetmore ty, planned Well, at any rate, you aren't etrug-| geratand that you & Pe ler seine ible las . Jjured about 200 are In the main , ; lat rye beac & dust famine,” replied Pres-| thing, not even part of tie whole thing| stone of the new Wa Jtemporary hospitals, Many of these! tnan I Woof t ntracts ent Ta o-day, for | am look orward tot 1 8 aid thi x ren who were abandoned by| for t wint ‘At the Brooklyn termina! of the briage | '°74# Pr Lem iooKh ward to that| High & Lewes: le beh Bes web ey ts follow! h Hi . touch of nature which makes of all) Seventeenth street and | terrified pare oliowing the! vied out ft entertainment held the President was met by Borough| yey, Oo Bat ni cat » were caught and fe Garner e the Automobtl President Steers of Brooklyn and about | Si the children, iat The 3 young «ir Bein the GBBT ele homed Show in Januar 5,00) Sunday School pupils, all waving Bnd At give ®| made moat of are santa Maria quarter, which suf- | cc flags and singing with all th strengt er "| tem. in the six buil ” r ; moat adveral waa surround , of thelr young volces, President Taft ay. Thope| ing the Washing } iin | cored the Medial iebats eal NATIONAL LEAGUE. was impressed with the sight the be a prolonged one.’ chika ay ilouias “today by @ in of military | ed his delight. He arose in his auto n moin the Han ; liaborers, Impresse ) service, are rag. | ahowéd his alight: He erage tn his a ‘ SEH EAM ER ere Is present, repress 1 all badly damaged structures and AT PITTSBURG. + mobile, took o silk hat, smiled as ; y nga A ; HH eran taal ees ridely as he can smile and bowed again | WeMt te the Union League Club inj! schools in 1 r iB th c GOT AE It SUE owed sguin) Grant Hauare, ‘There they were me hed in th allen far dead or In 0010001 anc By Gay (Dis unde pdinaaain tal 3 Park fou wearing eth Kon other workmen | pITTSBURG—= |FLOWER BEARER HONORED As "” © I AER ANE RU NNENANH Co eee Visiy Kahdole & Tyg mee : aan ; PITTSBURG 5,000 CHILDREN CHEER’ jot w William Herel waw the howt, | Coors OF tl hoa cat ah fj \ 200001 The children stopped sing and Og ASME OE HDR 8 | Irving girls that they were not the only | drat and the 1 buildings ana} | Hee. and: A Jeheered, and from their ranks came a majesie-o! thiy| Ch@* Who had cla 1 songs, | churches wh were damaged by t little girl bearing a bunch o erican | |} The cornerstone was laid by quake. The work airing the dam beauty roses bigger than herself. D. Wilwey, chairman of tie butiding | aged payeme it big task AT CHICAGO and a8 the President took the th wer | a of mt : fn phd tia wad’ aun Iby A. Duer Irving, ‘BIFF” ELLISON GUILTY 010 ~ and patie? her on the head the youn) NESE Ue glia] 7) descendant of Wash n Irving | HICAGO. siyelied as {f thelr throats would | the host asked permission to present nie | Tecendant H eae ne hall OF MANSLAUGHTER. | 116 pe hath son, Wiliam Berri jr 46 4 preliminary to apne ot | ! crac : : cornerstone th ‘ awhin 2 Re | The party then motored down Broad- Certatal ui irving His ‘ntuation ex.| James Ellison, known among ga p ‘ way to Havemeyer street, to Division | the youngater was ro eg aRaaser tT As fou vu avent Wilson nt and to the | much embarrass fs Nae streak ina i . Hanover Club, All phe way the Preal- (“PINE LITTLE MAN" WADEG: {nt frhoo) in Kast Twellth nes AMERICAN LEAGUE. through lines of Sun INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL SOUP, cuted in Hast ‘Th th, East Blih> | 4 t —- = 1 children 1 Well, my fine Ilttle man, and how are teenth, Bast Hig th Tie" lhe AT NEW YORK and you?” said tae Pres and lifted Mas eth, West Highty-second and Grand) yyy r for senten HIC AGO. a lot of eh Herri and pla mon the ta veets 1 \ Inesda A crowd of about 5,09 was waiting In jy front of him, wile the guests che At each the seven placey a pro 1LANDES ° feont of the Hanover Club, and Presl-|to the echo, But Master Berri, over-| gramme of music and addresses was aNLAND ES |dent Taft and those accompanying him | come by the attention, made a faise » arried out with students, alumni, m . s | walked through a ropedfoff passage bers of the Board of Kducation and Ratterios—Waleh and Subitvan; Ford Wontinued on Secoud Page) way. They were met sof the club by! | teachers, past and present, taking party! fr t and sweeney, AS BiG CARDEN STE === GIRLS WAVED PISTOLS ~ AT STOKES 10 MAKE: HIM WRITE APOLOGY —__——_+4¢ o—-— pnaes \One Had Threatened Suit Against Him for Broken Promise to Wed, Other Resented His Attentions to Her. DEMANDED BLACKMAIL OF $25,000, HE ASSERTS Two Young Women Held Without Bail for Trying to Kill Rich Hotel Man. Ethel Conrad, who with Lillian Graham, her show girl chum, was arraigned in the West Side Court to-day and held without bail for at- | tempting to murder W. E. D. Stokes, the million-ire owner of the Hotel Ansonia, In their flat yesterday afternoon, confessed to her lawyer in her cell in the court prison this afternoon that Miss Graham had sought |to compel Mr, Stokes to sign a statement by threatening him with a, revolver she had prepared for hls visit. Many of the statemenis made by the Conrad girl conflicted with the description of the shocting furnished by Miss Graham to Inspector Russell earlier in the day. Ethel Conrad made it appear that Mr. Stokew had been pursuing her with his unwelcome attentions, but she backed up Miss Graham in declaring he came to their flat to get hold of letters | he ‘ad written to Miss Graham and upon which she had threatened to Pring a breach of promise suit against him, “When Mr. Stokes came to the house,”” mid Misa Conrad, “he did not ask for Lillian, He asked for me, He did not) want to see Mist Graham, He had been | | pursuing me with his attentions for some and T was tred of ft. He told me! out the revolver and she pointed to @ pad om onr table. Ghe told him be would bave to sit down and sign o statement retracting all he had eaia@ about her and her tokcs Inughed at her time | 1 was too good looking a girl to bother | she threatened again labout third rate places on the stage, with the revolver be rushed at her jut [didn't Ike him, thought be was| amd grabbed her by the throat horrid, and couldn't bear him | ‘Then the shooting began and & aid my share.” When the two show girls appeared be. Magistrate Present both walved ext | CURSED GRAHAM GIRL WHEN | HE SAW HER. “Fle expected to find me alone, and! nation and had nothing to say eave when he saw Misx Graham he became! that they hind emy thelr revoWwers enraged and cursed her. Hi 1 told |at the miljionatre in self-defense, ed on bad stories about her that ref her character and Miss Grahain was de-| were held on a blanket short amdavit termined that he should retract them. | slened by Policeman Tully, who arrested She was ready for hin and ; ntter the ayoctine tl he two handsome young prisoners when he began abusing her she is ir Vght Ding kitchenette * took out a revolver. She had pre- | apartment In the Varina, No. 235 Weet od the revolver for hin, by | pirhiieth street loading 1t with only three shells | On tho word of Mr, Stokes ‘Tulty and leaving two of the chambers | charged that the two girls, acting Im Diank, She did this so that it and hy design, had sought @ would not go off dangerously !f the owner of the sonia for she palled the trigger. hich they demanded for the “Ae soon Mr. Stokes began ¢ etter nad written to Mie storming at Lillian #he brought ‘iru! CHARGE IS SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KILL vith shooting et to kil Tt wae un hat Mr. CORMORANTS harge of es that written him and had to start Plattsbure Circulating Accused Merchant |“ swears Stokes repeatedty ong before he at she took narrtage that M to marry ti met hia pres prom! Stories and ot { to Shoot Him tn Jerse Threate In her ot telephone to her flat telepnone calle ents yesterday, 1g called up the Ame ifopie ay Charles M om the Varuna Apart r ull sonia yesterday Continuing her statement that beh she and Miss Conrad shot Stokes j— f-defense, Miss Graham saye he burst into her apartment yesterday af lternoon and demanded the letters, thet he went storming about 4 reach ote growers Mi 1 ctnene her, and one day alle store and asked him to! atep oMce, Thon she pulled a revolver on ond made Pim write an apology, rivat him ise tare erewe _ - i ct NA i