The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1911, Page 1

STOKES TO “ASK $50 WEATHER-Fair to-night and Sanday; warmer, — Circulation Books Open to Ail. 9 000 PRICE ONE CENT. INTERBORO'S NEW PLEDGE OF A o-CENT FARE TO CONEY FORMALLY oa Officials Knew for Some Time of Company’s Willingness « , to Make Concessions. KEPT IT FROM PUBLIC. President Shonts Sheds Addi- tional Light in the New- est Concessions, ‘The Evening World learned to-day upon the authority of a member of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment that its Transit Committee and the Public Service Commission had already received the proposal of President Theo- dore P. Shonts of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to withdraw hte original demand that the city make good any deficit arising from that com- pany’s operation of the Fourth avenue subway, Brooklyn with extensions to Coney Teland and Fort Hamttton. The proposal will ‘be put in formal shapeeand ted to the full Board of Estimate Cheismes Willcox of the Pubic Gervice Commiwsion has known of the willing- ness of the Interborough to: make these concesatons. ‘There are several “ifs” between Mr. Shonts's offer of a five-cent fare to + Coney Isand from Pelham Bay Park The chief one is the ability of the Interborough to qualify in every other respect as the company to whom the city shoud give its new subway con- tract. An independent city-owned sub- way, such as the Triborough, undér @ proper operating contract, would also provide a five-cent fare to Coney Isand, and there 1s that hope that the Brooklyn Hapid Transit Company, the supporter of the ten-cent fare, may goon see @ great lght. SHONTS MAKES NEW STATE- MENT ABOUT FIVE-CENT FARE, President Shonts made a further stat ment to-day concerning his company’ offer of a five-cent fare to Coney Island, exclusively published in the Evening Wolrd yesterday: “Permit me to call the Evening World’s attention to the fact that the extensions to Fort Hamilton and to Coney Island praposed by the Inter- borough are subways and not elevated railroads: The Fort Hamilton route is as fallow fecinning at Fourth avenue and Forty-third street, thence a four track subway under Fourth avenue ‘to Sixty-seventh street or Bay Ridge avenue, thence a two track subway under Fourth avenue to Fort Ham- {lton. The Coney Island extension to Fourth avenue subway Is as follows: “Beginning at Fourth avenue and Fortieth street, thence under For- tleth street and Now Utrecht avenue, thence under private property near Eighteenth avenue, thence under Eighty-sixth street to Twenty-fourth avenue, all as a three track subway; thence, becoming elevated and con- tinuing as a four track elevated through Eighty-sixth street and Sti!- well avenue to Mermaid avenue, to Coney ‘Island and terminating in a two track loop ‘between Mermaid and Surf avenues.” The Coney Island route is a subway until it reaches the marshy ground the (Continued on Second Page.) Blue Eyes and Brown! In fact, ever since the world began it has been a commenda- ble custom for eyes of any and every color to take one last, Guick glance before any humi action of importance is taken, Before sending your ad. for publication to-morrow, seeking The Position, Worker, Home, In- veatment, Opportunity, Bargain, &c., you desire, 1t will be well to ‘a hasty glance at these fig- ures: Lact Sunday The World Printed 8,609 Individual Advertisemente—2! ‘Than the Sunday Merald. No other New York Sunday paper published even half as many ads. ae The World, UEP SUNDAY WORLD ADS. TO-MOR- BOW FOR MONDAY ANSWERS. eel Copyright, 1913, Ce, (The > by The Press ‘New Boek World), Fubllsbing NE MADE 10 CITY DEEP MYSTERY INSUGAR FRAUDS STILL UNSOLVED Wise Unable to Tell Why Millions in Seizures Were Not Held Out On the Trust. ] UP TO HIS PREDECESSOR Sure Havemeyer Could Have Been Convicted, but Others Only Mannikins. FREEDFROM ARREST ON FRAUD CHARE No Evidence of Crime in Case of Pittsburg Church Worker, ' Says Magistrate. POLICE ABANDON CASE. $2,000 Check in Alleged Coal Deal Not Cashed by Three Who Were Accused. Thomas M. Latimer, prominent in Pittsburg church and business circles John Philips and H. R. De Ridder, the arrest of which trio on the charge of Participating in a mining fraud scheme last night created a sensation in Pitte- burg, were to-day released from cus- tody by Magistrate Harris in Centre Street Court. Magistrate Harris id he could find no evidence of even an attempt to commit a crime. Before the New York Magistrate passed on the case the Pittsburg police gave up their prosecution. The men had been arrested at the Waldorf and Buckingham hotels on telegrams from Pittebui ying they were fugitives from justice. But after the police in WASHINGTON, Jtine 10.—Henry A. ‘Wise, United States District-Attorney ot New York, frankly admitted to the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice to-day that he could not say why # was that the Government had been content merely to collect ‘duties in the sugar fraud ases and had not seized and con- fiecated the millions of dollars’ worth of sugar involved In the frauds. When Mr. Wise specifically was asked why the sugar itself had not been de- clared forfeited to the Government, he said: “I am unable to answer that ques- tion, because the policy of the Govern- ment had been determined before I became District-Attorney. I do not want to reflect on any one, but I say that I have exacted a poarid of-flesh in every instance where I have been concerned.”” Secretary of War Stimson was Wise's Predecessor in office. Chairman Beall sald he had noticed that women and others who tried to defraud the Government were usually required to forfeit their imports and he considered it a great misfortune that the sugar importers had not been treat- ed Ikewise. Mr. Wise tn’ discussing another phase of the sugar prosecutions in New York said that every man “higher up" who could be reached had been proceeded against. “I think President Havemeyer of the American Sugar Refining Company could have been prosecuted and con- victed,"” said Mr. Wise, He added that Mr. Havemeyer died shortly after the frauds were discovered. Other officers of the sugar corporation in Mr. Have- meyer's day were alluded to by Mr. Wise as “mere. mannikins.” Charman Beall at this polnt ques- tioned Mr. Wise as to the revent indict- ‘ment of cotton brokers on charges of attempting to corner the cotton market. “Here was an agreement between cot- ton buyers and cotton spinners," ex- platned Chairman Beall. “Will you tell us why you indicted the buyers and did not dndict the epinners?”” Mr, Wise declined, saying that ex- perience had taught him #t was wisest |to keep his mouth closed in regard to | prosecutions until he appeared jn court. | He said the ilega! agreement did not originate with the spinners, but with the men “who were manipulating the market." In response to another question, Mr. | Wise said the reason that the second ‘indictment against the cotton buyers was withheld trom July to December was be- cause one of the men under indictment was out of the country, He testified that the indicted men were charged wth dealing with not more than 1-8 of the entire supp! Mr. Beall wanted to know why so much activity had been manifested against |men who had dealt in so small a quan- tity of a commodity and that no steps | had been taken toward legal proceedings | the offictaln of the Standard Oll, ‘Tobacco or Steel Corporations, Mr, Wise declared that until the re- the Standard | were handed down prosecutors had been to determine the exact stat p olding company" or parent « cern in a stock holding combination, pada \ae, Tar Rata ee Fat. cent decisions of the Supreme Court tn | every morning with a penctl of red O!l and Tobacco cases | fi n= Pittsburg talked with District-Attorney William A. Biekeley of that city they refused to ask for the extradition of the men on the ‘ground that {f an offense had been committed it had been com- mitted in New York. That was the status when Magistrate Harrts started his investigation to-day. A. H. BStolzenback of Pittaburg, who caused the arrests, was the chief wit- ness. He said that Latimer came to him in Pittsburg, May 29, and said that he knew a man named Philips in New Yosk who had lots of English money to nvest in American securities, preferably in the Pittsburg coal district's offerings. The witness added that he was told to W YORK, SATUR BANKER LATIMER [ACTRESS SMOKES CIGARETTE AS BlG LINER COMES UP Lillian Roydell Bewilders Pas- sengers.on La Savoie by Kaleidoscopic Toilets. WEARS FOUR A _ DAY. She’s Planning to Cause Furor on Fifth Avenue With New “Butterfly Pajamas.” Voyagers from the Continent who got in to-day on La Savole of the French Line, may be curious to kiow that the beautiful young lady of mystery who thrilled them with her bewtldering and wonderful toilets on the voyage “is Mias Lillian Roydell, an American actress who has been delighting Ldh- on in the role of the Merry Widow. Miss Roydel eyes, the delicate features of a Psyche and lustrous brown hair, wound up the in a Directoire gown and when hip news reporters boarded the vessel at Quarantine she was leaning ever the rail gracefully smoking a» cigarette. Her Directoire gown was of white and black cheok material, slashed at the bottom to the knees apd underlined with fluffy, rustling greem silk. Over her fustrous curls she Wore a Mght straw hat of the general confermation of @ nightcap and sufficiently unusual looking to cause one curious old gentle- man to fall off the hurricane deck. SHE CHANGED AT LEAST FOUR TIMES A DAY. ‘This charming young lady got in and out of original frocks at least four times a day, and two voyaging dress- makers who sought to note down all the details of her kaleidoscopic toilets came into port suffering a severe attack of writer's cramp. get hold of 30,000 acres of coal lands for the consideration of Philips, Stolsenback added that he and his partners scraped together a lot of coal properties and came to New York May 31 bringing a draft for $2,000 that Lati- mer had told him to bring to close the deal. He said Latimer introduced Philips, who said he had the mon for investment and that the only que tion at stake was whether or not tt lands contained the coal. He gave the $2,000 check to the representatives of the investors, he said, and they went to Wheeing, where some of the land was inspected. Then an engagement was made for a conference at Pittsburg, June 9. Stolz- enback says that his friends did not keep the engagoment. All of which led up to the complaint. Magistrate Harris said he could find No evidence of crime; that the charge made for handling the matter was rea- sonable, and that it was strange, that if @ frau@ was contemplated, the men Would still have the check uncashed, Latimer 1s a conspicuous figure in the First Christian Church of Pittsburg, ono of the fashionable institutions of that aity. At the services week ago Sun- lay he introducedsto his ol and De Rider. Pentre Vallee Latimer has for years been the chair- man of the executive committee of the) Young Men's Bible Association and. ts| known through Western Pennsylvania as an active worker in that organiza- tion. He was a conspicuous figure at the tmet national convention of the Christian Church. When arrested here and placed in the Tombs last night, the three men were indignant and telegraphed friends, de- nouncing the arrest as an outrage. ——> HINDU COUPLE, ON WORLD TOUR, TO SEE CORONATION, Mr. and Mrs. Chitmazes of Raipur, India, Sail from New York for England, | Celtic to-day to attend the coronation Mr. and Mra. Chitmazes, natives of Raipur, in one of the central provinces| of Indla, sailed on the White Star liner! ney will return home via Suez, com- pleting a circutt of the globe, Attention was attracted to the little] East Indian woman ‘by the presence on her forehead of @ red spot. She ex- plained that this red spot marks the fact that she 4s @ wife. She puts it on crayon and will continue to do so while she is a wife. If her husband should! die she would cease wearing the red| spot. Wedding rings are not worn in| Raipur. | ‘The husband Is a deputy commissioner! of revenues for the British Government | weeks I in his native province, but will not a’ tend the coronation in his official o pacity, ‘There were two young Frenchmen who were even worse off, having eprained their cardiac equipment and worked up a hated rivalry. Ae Miss Roydell never appeared twice on deck in the same gown, her admirers could hardy believe there was only one of her, When nterviewed in the midst of her cigarette, Miss Roydell said that while she Hked to smoke them, she did not ap- Prove of them as a steady diet for women. “Very few women,” she said, “can smoke a cigarette gracefully, and there {s nothing more unlovely to look upon than a woman bungling a cigarette, chewing the end and swallowing the smoke so that her eyes run and she chokes herself red in the face. Women erally, and American women espe- clally, will never learn to smoke cigar- ettes gracefully. The majority of foreigners don’t, though they begin al- most in infancy. The minute a woman looks conscious of the fact that she ts smoking a cigarette she looks Uke, well, she looks # wee bit au dlable, to put it| mildly, “As for women smoking cigars, they might better adopt pipes. Even a Span-| teh grandma with a long cheroot be- tween her lips is not @ pretty object of attention. I like to smoke cigarette: I know how and I am absolutely tn- Gependent..” SHE HAS SOME SURPRISING HAREM SKIRTS. The beautiful Miss Roydell {s Amert- can born, Her mother Is a New Yorker and her father a German. She has| lved much abroad and she achieved | her first theatrical success in London. “Do they wear many harem over here?” she asked after ture on cigarettes, She was assured| that harem skirts were still scarce enough on our promenades to cause an| alarming straining of rubber wherever | they appeared. “Well, you must get used to them,”| erled the young lady in the nightcap} bonnet and Directoire gown. “I have got @ trunkful of them and I am going to give them all a tryout in the two remain here. I have some two that I call my butterfly that really her. lec. | beauties; Pajamas are surprisingly graceful. I expect that wi I take them down Fifth avenue some of the fashionable dressmakers will jump through their plate glass windows. But what's the use of living tn thts hum- drum world !f you cannot be original.” The doyen of the ship news reporters, who had been chortiing through his Van Dyke, “most beautiful woman ever seen; charming, charming; ravishing creature,” made @ strenuous effort to learn the date of the appearance of the butterfly pajamas. but Miss Roydell cast him down. into the doldrums of disap- pointment by laughing “That I couldn't tell, want to spring them prise to the modistes,"’ for I really skirts | © | MARY CARDEN'S SISTER 1 SUED FORA DNOEE John D. Lagey:Says Wife Has Deserted Him for the | Opera Singer. | (Special to the Evening World.) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 10.-Pro-| ceedings for divorce have been insti-| tuted by John D. Lagen, a real estate| broker of this city and New York,| aint his wife, Amy Garden Lagen, | ter of Mary Garden, the grand opera) singer. While the main allegation in| the libel {# desertion, It is understood that the case will develop a number of sensations and that prominent men and women will figure in it. Mra, Lagen is well known in Phila- deiphia, and owing to the fact that she is almost constantly with her sister, 19 well known in musical circles all over this country and Europe, According to the husband, she deserted him in September, 1908, and refused to return, much preferring the life ahe is leading with Mary Garden, | Mr. Lagen has been in real estate work for @ number of years, and for a long time was actively engaged in the bulld- ing of houses in the suburbs about Philadelphia, He has a brokerage busi- ness in this city as well as in New York, When Mary Garden first’ came to| Phtladelphia. she had more or Jess trouble with women engaged as com panions, and at last she suggested that | her younger sist, join her and remain | with her, Mrs, agen did #0, and the two aisters have been together much of the time since then. Mrs. Lagen is belleved to be abroad t the present time. Miss Garden West on a concert tour and is expect in New York soon | | | | | | ———__—_ DYNAMITE OF BURGLARS | STARTS A BIG BLAZE.) Fire Follows Blowing Up of Post- |} Office Safe and Thirty Buildings Are Destroyed. ELKINS, W. Va., June 10.— Burgiars blew open the safe in the French Creek post-office, twenty-two miles from here, early tod Fire followed the ex plosion and some thirty building w burned. The robbers escaped in the con- | fusion fohowing the fire, In the meagre reports which reaohed here to-day nothing is said about fatalities or whether there was loss of life or injuries. Whitney MANCHESTRR, 10. The Salford Borough Handicap of 1,000] soverelana, for three-year-olds and up ward, distance six furlongs, waa run| Whiskbroom, CHILDREN SAVE LIFE OF COMRADE CRUSHED BY CAR “Merry Widow’’ Back From Londo With Giddy Creations in Gowns , Tear Strips of Dresses of Girls on Outing and Render Splendid First Aid. A score of Ittle about little Maurie wh and applied first a saved the boy's life years old and lives street, Hast New Yo the children of planned to Ko to Hig outing, ‘They starte with holiday clothing As they went ar Jat Pulton a trolley bound for Manhattar ey as motorman. crossing t aloft °6 ‘a Mauri No. a and bann SH Cres ear can n with J down RACING INFORMATION CUT OFF AT MONTREAL. MONTRE of the BI meet to-day faciitties » the aut ® kne “ ar law nform unlawful @ modest sur- | here to-day aud won by H. P. Whitney's (during the nine days of the m which have passed, On Re hor|the tw venting ace was not the | AIL F 12 PAGES STOKES NOTES LOCKED playmates gathered Haber na trolley ear cut off his left foot, treatment t lay, | that ea is five oT tay ulton all of neighborhood rk for way rs an lne, ent street me along, ohn Clan- Ata curve near the slowed hildren crossed safely, arly but 2 Maur nained belind The footboard of the car struck him whd threw him under the rear truck, His left foot was cut off, A call was | sent to St, John's Ho: 1, but it took fan for an ambulance to get | to the Little sufferer: When the children saw the foot crushed, they decided that untexs some: vg was done at the boy would bleed to death, So they tore up pleces of the girls dresses and hound the ankle When the do: ume with the am he #ald that they had save the final Track cut off all send nding o | front nan tn rare OR GIRL CITY te ir INSAFETY VAULT, GIRL HAS KEY, “Shooting Show Girls” Have “Angel” Who Is Ready for Bond and Defense, Their Lawyer a ey $50,000 BAIL TO PRICE ONE C Sunday; warmer, to-night a ——=—=—= ENT. ~, Ps ¥ POLICE FINE With Any Sum Declares. BE ASKED FOR ‘DANGEROUS WOMEN? ‘Millionaire Gave One $200 “Out Sympathy” After She Threatened Suicide Before Him. Counsel for W. E. D. Stokes, when his two young chorus «g assailants of Wednesday night are on Monday, will demand, if they are released pénding the appearancé Mr, Stokes in court, that they each furnish $25,000 bail. ” T. J. McManus, chief of counsel for ‘he wounded millionaire, - he would demand this heavy bail on the ground that the comely two-year-old Lillian Graham and Conrad, are both dangerous women, and that the*charge of atten murder should be considered as a most grave crime, COFFEE IS BURNED ~INWAREHOUSE ON ~ LOWER EAST SIDE. pea: Smoke From Front Street Fire Alarms District Along the River. Flames broke through the roof of No, 42 Front street this afternoon at 2.90 o'clock and for a time the East River nik thought they would have a orn fire on thetr hands. The fitth » building In which red were filled with stub and sixth floors of t fire was discot teas and coffees which made up a part of the stock of John D, Brown, an im- porter Thomas Sealy, an importer of resin ana jurpentine, has an office on the ground floor but has none of his wares in the place. When the fire was dis- sovered a heavy cloud of smoke swung ton @ stiff breeze over the shipping long the river front Many tugs saw the fire and thought ney had work cut out for them. They +o ihe and ste in) vieintt frelghte if the the th out wa fire spread. » fire boat New Yorker came puffing yund the Battery and ran up to take a hand jn fight But one alarm was sent in for the blaze and the firemen did not find any trouble in holding it down. > —- Victim Saes, an Wake father Abra of No, 22 Stanton Walker, ed fourteen the fire ny in Max i rhe app Cohalan in th male Supreme tment wi Heat Vie t at arraigned in the West Side G her nineteen-year-old chum, Mr. McManus added that he ¢1 Mr, Stokes would be able to leave # hospital and appear to prosecute shooting show girls,” as he referred them, He has not relaxed an tote, the lawyer, in his determination to ecute the young women to the extent of the law. The threat to demand high all not give the Misses Graham and any.deep concern, for they declare 000 Is a mere grain of dust in the Possessed by .the “angel” who come to their assistance. ‘They refuse, howevel of this “angel. LETTERS IN SAFETY VAULT, GIRL HAS KEY, © It was sald to-day by detectives have been working on the Stokes that the mysterious letters Stokes to Miss Graham are in a safety vault and that Miss Graham hag key. Stokes's law jay they make no effort to get the letters | means of any court proceedings. Concerning these tender do sald to have been written by the of the Hotel Ansonia to the young chorus girl, Mr, MeManus “The only reason Mr, Stokes anxious to get these letters is tifa |does not care to have them remain j the possession of such a dan, young woman. Furthermore, he not recall just what he wrote ip ters, though he feels certain the respondence was of the most character, The police assure ie they found no letters in the | girl's flat that had been written by Stokes, In fact, we do not even if the letters still exist.”* It admitted by Mr. Stokes he wave Miss Graham $200 several after she called at his office in the sonia to demand, as he charges, the for the return of the letters, ng to get the en him by a" commit sulckte. made through Mr. McManus, after conference with the police. Nor is Mr, McManus willing te that Mr. Stokes gave the gir ble sums prior to this payment, and he furnished her with the funds for re t visit to Parts, Mr. Mi says, how that the payment of wh y one he knows was nade to the girl “out of is now UNLIMITED FUNDS TO DEF | BOTH GIRLS, Mrs, Allce Andrews, the widowed ter of Miss Graham, will arrive lto-morrow from San Francisco, started to her sister's support pw heard of the young It 18 believed she from John brother-!n-law, whose aham was at his beauti \c | Singleton Court, just outside Angeles for a number of vere ehe went to Paris for the Sree | yl ‘4