The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1911, Page 1

HARD BATTLE TO SAVE THE RACING BILL CAR RAMS AUTO; KILLS TWO, INJURES THREE The WHATHER—ratr jeht and Friday; coo ic Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | PRICE ‘ONE OENT. Copyright, 1911, by The Ve (The New York World), vublohiag NE Ww "YORK, “THURSDAY, JULY “13, ire 18 PAGES "PRICE ‘ONE _OENT. TWO FLUNG TO DEATH FROM AUTO WRECKED BY CAR ON CROSSING Brother-in-Lawof Mrs. Burnett, Nov- elist, and Millionaire Johnstone’s Sister Killed, Three Others Injured Near Roslyn. Frank P. Jordan, brother-in-law and private secretary of Mrs. Fran- tes Hodgson Burnett, the famous author and playwright, was killed instantly; Miss Edith Johnstone, foriy-three years old, a sister of G. L.| Johnstone, a neighbor of Mrs. Burnett’s at Plandome, L. I., was crushed and died an hour after in the Nassau Hospital, Mineola; Miss Mildred Johnstone, forty years old, a sister of Ethel, was mortally crushed, and her two little nieces, Louise and Hope Johnstone, five ind three years old respectively, were dengerously hurt to-day when the automobile in which they were riding was shattered by a heavy wrecking car while crossing the tracks of the New York and North Shore Tractton Compaiiy at the in- tersection of the Plandome road and Roslyn road, between Port Washing- | VISITORS WHEN girls, are the children of Samuel ?, Johnstone, a dry goods mer- uise's left =| suffered a frac- nd broken left hip. jopping e of a friend. curred on one of t crossings on Lon nly do bo wreck 0} incline as in approaches on all siter heavily |Six Men is ip Oregon Ese ape | follaxe Jordan, who ith his wife, a sts % “hai fia ye Mrs, Burnett, live in the Burnett | and Chauffeur is Freed a at Plandome, had driven | the sume car, owned by Mrs, Burnett, over the crossing hundreds of times. He knew the schedule of all the trol- ley cars and could thme their approach by the sound of thelr gongs. WREGKING CAR RAN WILDCAT, |‘ AT HIGH SPEED. recking car, piled high with iron as running wildsat, though, and, to several witne shooting ajong the tortuow high rate of speed. It was he Port Washington, Mr. Jordan w ing eastward along the Plandome road headed for Port Washington The Joinstone home adjoins the Villa of Mrs, Burnett-at Plandome, and t Misses Johnstone and thelr nieces had | come over to visit the famous author of “Little Lord Fauntleroy” before setting |, out on their ‘They planne: Juncheon at Sands Point and to go bath- in summer vi by Court. from Oregon did not learn, on in the centre of an angry mob of 1,000 Italians, w whose found nue and One iss Edith Johnstone, the elder of the two sisters, sat Je Mr. J who was driving. Mildred Joh at between her little nieces on the seat. Flying over the hard, flat roac way, Mr. Jordan released the gear clutch as he came to th ran down in a sweeping the trolley tracks. He did the brakes, however, and was free under t momentum of the heayy | lee car, The timber and underbrush on doth sides cut off ail view of the tracks, f@nd none of-the tive occupants of t M1 dred @utomobile had the faintest warning danger. CRASH TOGETHER FROM BE Jag HIND SCREENS OF FOLIAGE. 1 the The crash came Iike a bolt of lig ping. ‘The heavy Shooting down its ¢! man at the contro! ductor on the rear end. gcreen reaches almost to the edge the tracks and the aut wrecking car feet apart wh pf each othe The automobile equarely in the ; |DIX SIGNS LEVY BILL ALBANY ed the handlers s struck almost with mendous ramming crash that 1! Dead tn His Room Two Days, clear of the ground and shot ci Brandt nine y wacks. The wrecking r ind dead sitting on the side ofl, 1298 Washington dead before| + ome Mrs nel died of heart dead for two days, Mr. Jordan wa fmpact and was probably (Continued on Second Page.) d AUTO KILLS BOY AMENDING ELECTION LAW. | "BIL" STILINES, TANIMANY LEADER, SHOOTS HIMSELF Politician Found in Bathroom of Harlem Home Wi'h Pistol at Sic |WAS VICTIM OF HEAT. Last Seen at Jamaica Bay | Yacht Club, Where He | Complained of Weather. William EF. Stillings, widely known tn Democratic politics in this city for over twenty-five years and who was close associate of Richard Croker, shot and killed himself Jast night or early to-day in lus apartment at No. 811 St. Nicholas avenue, The body with a pistol wound in the right temple and he weapon near- | by was found to-day tn the by Deteotive ! Hundred and who had the janitress, Stillings was generally known a ‘Bis Bill" among politicians and the men who | loved sport for its own sake and with | whom he mostly associated. He was a! fine, big fgure of a man, with @ hearty manner and a kindly, jovial cast of feature. He was always the liveliest member of any gathering with which he happened to be and at ee AA Bay Yacht Club, spent his summers, he Lhe ie “ne | spirit and the Iife of all the parties. LEFT SEASHORE BECAUSE | WAS COOLER IN THE CITY, Stillings left the yacht club ie | He had complained of the heat and he jtold a fellow-member that it was cooler |in the clty than {t was at the sea shore and that he was going to open up his nt. He was most happily mar- | Every summer it has been the| and thetr son Bat: bathroom of the West One ifty-aecond street station, been d by Sophte Miller, "| to thelr unty. and | *ked the Jan: | ess, Mr Miller, to look over the apartment t a week | Mrs. Miller does not remember having seen Mr. Stillings en > apartment | When she went th she fe the chain on the and as she r eived no answ knock she called the detective. vody was found In the bathroom, half dressed. Stilings had left planation of his sutc that the s note or any ex-| It is belleved t weathe | son afte ind explana he heat When er’s mind, was found that wirror yur years old. han office at Ne ned Tammany wa ad n be of the Executive Committee tr Hi vas leader ¢ \Poor Children Clamoring for Ice. at Dock, Scrambling tor Few Pieces Thrown to Them’ RACING BILL DOWNED ~ IN SENATE STILL HAS CHANCE OF PASSING. Gittins’s nisin, | Lifting Gambling Liability From Track Owners, Defeated 20 to 22 but Vote Is Immediately Reconsidered. SUPPORTERS HOPE TO HAVE NEEDED26 VOTES ON MONDAY Grady in Voting for Bill Attacks Ex- Gov. Hughes—Brackett Explains Why He Favors Modified Bill. WOMAN KILLED “WAUTOUPSET TO. SAVE BOY'S LIFE Wife of Bronx School Prin- cipal Goldsmith Victim. of (Spectal to The Fvening World ) ALBANY, July 13.—Despite the defeat in the Senate to-day of the Gittins race track bill, which is designed to lift the ban against racing by removing the gambling liability from the track owners, the friends of the sport have not lost hope. The bill was beaten by a vote of 20 to 22, 26 When it announced that the bill had been defeated Senator Gittins moved that the vote be reconsidered anc his motion prevailed by a vote of 30 t0.9. It is expected that the bill wil! be passed on Monday night when its supporters hope to have the requisite | 26 votes on hand. Thi votes being nec ry for passage "rege is conceded to be the last chance for racing in thi jewels | State, — SCORES TO-DAY 3.509" CSE votes for the measure IS] I is ATT IR | NATIONAL ONAL LEAGUE fds ae aati carina aarenaek aT NEW. ‘YORK toga, which is in his distrtot, Bed krown around @ race track and th PITTSBURG— " Senator Grady this Afternoon cates for the final reading of the bill, althoug: Jersey. Tragedy in New in the Dill, He realized there was ai honest differe opinion to regard to the bill People t ° hullt houses and have gone Into AT BROCKLYN, | that would’ coadine tanenee CHICAGO— t © that the old conditions | 001 — | I have the solemn ack owners that ¢he | BROOKLYN— yi ibllng will, be. rletdls 000 = If thi sbil ts passed. 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