The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1911, Page 1

WALDO TELLS MAYOR ICE TRUST IS GUILTY ALL PLANS FOR RACING ARE ABANDON Tbe ‘ Circulation Books Open to All.”' PRICE ONE CENT Copyright, 1911, bh; Co, (The New T Publishing York World), | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY LEFT CHOLERA STATION 10 VISIT EAST SIDE HOME sitanllpisinns Hoffman's island Was Not Even Required to Change His Clothes, DOTY INQUIRY GOES ON. Carpenter | Witness Found Baby With Mouth Stuck Together So tt Couldn’t Cry. Shivers of apprehension ran up the spines of every person in Part II. of the County House to-day when tt was intimated by a line of questions asked by Charles Dushkind, represent- ing those who are pressing the charge! inst Dr. Alvah H. Doty, health of r of the port, that all who have been tendance at the hearings during ys have been in danger from cholera. he first witness called was Charles Leavitt, carpenter at Hoffman's Island, Where passengers from infected ships are detained, How man Island hay since last 'v ind. ‘There have piled Leavi "Did you Yes, “Were the clothes you have been wearing fumigated before you left the island?" witnesses from Hoffman's in this courtroom asked Mr. Dush- been arsday? been five here,” re- e your clothes before New York?" to but I was not told to do It.” air.” you know that ten cases of had developed on Hoffman's in the last few daye? know, I've heard something “Don chole island “I dc about It, DOESN'T KNOW OF CHOLERA DEATHS AND CASES ON ISLAND. “Don't you sald Mr. Dush- kind, wavin ing from a morn- ing newspa “that Dr, Doty reported yesterday that two men had died from two others were seriously ith the disease and that six other suspected cases exist?” PAPER MERCHANT STRANGELY MISSING ON WAY TO BARBER. RICH MERCHANT. “GOES FOR SHAVE” AND DISAPPEARS Mystery of Samuel Fernbach- er’s Vanishing is Puzzle_ to the Police. The disappearance of Samuel Fern- bacher, a well-to-do paper merchant and member of the firm of Joseph Libmann & Co., who left his. office at No, 466 Washington street yes- terday morning, ostensibly to be) shaved, !s a mystery that puzzled the Police to-day, From the moment Mr. Fernbacher took a five-dallar note from the bookkeeper and sald he would be back in a few minutes absolutely no} trace of him has been found, | | | kind of poll RAGING IS DEAD, TURFIEN BLAME SENATOR WAGNER Miller Even Hope of Opening Secretary Surrenders Spa Track. QUEER POLITICS SHOW Followers of Sport See Re- versal in Agnew-Hart Foe Opposing Gittins. Racing 1s dead year at least and Saratoga will lock up its gates. It was hoped that a meeting would be held at the Spa this August even under adverse conditions, but all hope ts gon: Andrew Mil- ler, treasurer of the Saratoga Racing | Association, settled the matter with this | statement to-day: | The practical death of the Gittins bill in the Senate yesterday nas rung the death knell of any events at Sar- atoga this year, next or any other, so long as directors of racing a clations are made lable for some- thing over which they have no con- trol; that is, betting. We hoped the Gittins bill would pass, but since it has not racing ends in Saratoga. RACING MEN DAZED AT FAIL- URE OF GITTINS BILL TO PASS. in even w York this now HOW.COPS GOT THE GOODS ON ICE T Racing men throughout the State are Duszled to-dav over the situation. They had felt revsonab!y sure that the Git- tins bill would pass. They surely are up in the alr now. | What's behind the defeat of the Git- tins Racing bill in the Senate? What Jes 1s being played; what's Hurphy's {dea of throwing the hook into the Sullivans, who always favored rac ing, and what caused Senator Wagner's | vote against the Directors’ Liability | amendment, which practically killed | what little hop> racing men had? Did| Wagner blindly follow headquarters in-| Mr. Fernbacher is forty-five years old | and lives with his wife at No. 2 West | Elghty-seoond street. He has a summer | I don't know about that. ind under quarantine be- here Thursday to putting th fore you came testify?" "I heard over them talking about ft, Dr. ner told us all to come back He said we Were under quarantine.” I want $ upon you, Mr. nissic id Mr, Dushkind, the testimony of this witness is rant. Dr. Doty, who ts the of the health of is great men to come here directly, tera infected island and isands of citizens. heir 1. Dush- t even fumigat Mr. question: told to return that night. We had to testify next r remained in town," 1 district of mit it? the tenement-house dis- LPFAVITT FILED CHARGES THAT LED TO INQUIRY, subsequent was really ve present Investigation He filed original charges with a Jewis newspaper, so he admitted, be- cause ‘ t the immigrants were not being i ly t 1 He told of the ineldent of the Jewish woman who had been insulted by one of loyed In the kitchen, ‘This yeen testified to and Lea- the men ¢ had previou vitt's evidence was merely corrobort tive He {hed the condition of the bathtu he stention dormitories as having bad up to the start of the wwestigation, They were and there was no hot to the metimes, he d water Was not even col nected. said the toilets were In bad condition, but that all of these things had been re nee the investiga- s, he said, had in the last two to tell of specific complaints made to him by mothers concerning the treatment accorded thelr children in the ntion hospital, he said: CHILD'S MOUTH STUCK 680 COULDN'T CRY. “A mothe to me once and sald she had found her child in the hospital with a plece of sticking plaster siuck 1 on Second Page.) it (Contin “| with, home at No. 39 North Eighth avenue, Rocka Park, where’ Mrs. Fern- | you hear the doctors talk about |pacher, prostrated at her husband's ab-| were being asked about town to-day |sence, 1s at present. Mr. Fernbacher | has been with the Libmann firm for | |more than twenty years. His standing his business associates is high. | An associate, M. M. Mincger, sald to- |day that the missing man had no debts “lor entanglements of any kind and was Jin fine health and spirits when he left his office, When he fatled to return when the offices were closed last night members of the firm telephoned to his summer home and learned that he had not ap- peared there. All last night relatives and friends searched the city, going to the hospitals and keeping in touch with the police. but Were unable to find any clue leading to Mr, Fernbacher’s whereabouts A general alarm was sent out to-day. The missing man ts 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. He has black hatr, eyes and mustache and his complexion is dark. When he left his office he wore a blue serge sult, black Oxford tles and a big Panama hat. On bls right forearm car of @ | knife cut about three inohes lon; | posh bliia FR |REAL ESTATE OPERATOR TAKES LIFE WITH GAS, Seems 1d ©, Connor, a wealthy real es. tate operator of No. 44@ East One Hun- dred and Seventy-sixth street, killed himself with gas to-day tn the kitchen jot his home, Connor was a bachelor, ‘This afternoon William E, Brooker, another Bronx realty man, came to the flat ah se a deal that Involved a $7,000 transfer, Brooker had an engage- ment to meet his friend, and w he was unable to get in the house his suspicion was aroused. He called the Janitor, August Wels, and they went in with @ pass key. They found that Jal of the crevices in the place through which air might enter had been care- \tully stopped with pillows, blankets and other articles. In the kitchen they found Connor’ body. A tube had been run from the |was Jet to the man’s mouth, Connor had been in the real estate business in \the Bronx for twenty-Ave years ‘and \had a considerable amount of real ltate. His brother, Vincent Connor, sald that he knew of no reason other than ill health forthe suicide, Se ed World Travel Bureas Builds ‘nd mong Malt oe RS Pas #35 Nf, i nea pea nea | structions? And if so, why such in-| structions? Is poolroom patronage more re DiAge a , " 7 onsid rf Deneficla’ to the orgaalgation than the | - ~ _ ager and Press Agent. Bay Yacht Fleet Escort. wee last yeac, tne crenter than it opening of the tracks? ‘i he ane, at the These questions and several just as — A SPECIAL F akbiehatece pie Dara oe company for important, but perhaps less poignant, Not even the press agent was there— nen started this afternoon to eainn (sen to is unable to hire ‘ no, and worse still and more of It, not Atlantic Ocean tn a amaii| barges and t 0 load the ice on tha wherever politiclans and sporting folk} even a photographer—when A. J. Ro! motor The Romania, 60| ransport it to this city. gathered Has "Bob" Wi has he allowed * wet him in wrong and constituents? ner lost his ballast or | urteenth street” to with all his friends Wagner got back from Albany last night and was around town to-day, but he {sn't explaining pis stand on the Gittins bill or his antipathy to the sport of which he used to be a most enthusiastic devotee, His friends ar rushing toward him with congratula tions either. Instead, they are him the go-by Wagner's vote against the Gittins bill fs Interpreted as a direct throw-down of his constituents and of those who. helped to make him, according to gos sip heard to-day in Yorky It is influence that woul make st_be tremendous. Either that or ator Wagner has bi come a victim of an tion to fill the shoes of a big man in Tammany Hall whose elevation to the bench relleved him of his advisory duties In connec tion with the party's leadership. WAGNER FOUGHT FOR PASSAGE OF AGNEW-HART BILL. Ut Wagner had not fought the pas sage of the original Agnew-H measures in the Assembly two years ‘ago he could not be charged to-day with a change of front, say the Yorkville friends of racing. Instead he fought the anti-racing bills then at every step and was most disgruntled at their tna success. He bemoaned the fate of the horse game then ans the change the law made In conditions on the race track, for Wagner knew racing from bi nin to end and was a “regu at the track How Wagner's vote on the Gittins bill Will affect his standing in his district re mains to de seen, He may suffer a fate similar to that of Agnew, Who Was over- whelmingiy def 1 in the last Sena- torial election, but how he has killed the sport as elfe as did Agnew > CANADIANS BEST SHOTS IN BISLEY TOURNAMENT, o | BISLEY, tlonal Bt day the Canadian team won th land, July 18,—-At the Association tournament Mack innon challenge cup with an aggre score of 1,681 points out of a possible 1,800, The English team was second with 1,569, teams representing Ireland n land, New Zealand, Guernsey, South | Africa and India followed in the order named. The competition was open to | teams of twelve and provided for ten shots at ranges of 800, 900 and 1,000 yardi | Rs INSPECTING THE ICE BOX NACVEAGH INT LORIMER CASE mall and Harry Struk “4 oO on abi ic Mi, Roberts, who joves hie art with lup the ering cree ume mera make for Scudder. Ito hn aes tee and hat! emma Declares Cabinet Officer Asked | .n6 anseinan devotton native of @/over-ocoan trip of « craft depend oe Ue to him to-day, Pending tts receipt sae ck innd whore the prea agent Is unknown, |qlone on gasoline for motive Geen 'y “him 'T will not give st out In detatt for Facts on the Senator — Jonjectea in the first place to having Hefore they went away this afternoon | Supreme Justice Townsend Scudder of| Pecause it Is an oMclal document.” ie i lorowd there to see hi the Jamatoa Ray Yacht Club, from | Brooklyn has to have a chair built ac-| The reports of the men sent to the ta Give to Taft @rigible. which the crutse started, gave a fare-| cording to his own special plans and] jee depots yesterday were seat in to “Why all the beastly bother abo well dinner to the five mmodore |apecttications, Pottier & Btymus bullt| second Deputy Dougherty and I eo said. ‘I hate a crowd, dot Goor er presided and 280 mem,| him one recently. It is high-backed.| 10) sii. Oe < Inapec- ay ANON TUls ARGS LL _|know, and 1 xhould very much bers of tho club were present, Vice. | leather embossed, oak-framed and itay | O#N ng distance tele Waait! Vectigation this afternoon (leah boy, that you let me slip | Comme James D, Stem, I awivel has a double-barrelted action that | BP hey toll of inspections of the div “Dencen of dilinols testified that in jquletly when no ¢ poking, and then, | modore Richard Kriete, Kdw 1 not only whirls to right and left, but) tepets and are unanimous that there Tae ot iia voice (4Y te vO OO your paragra nd L. Blohm vere among td Biohm rocks back and forth, a# Lis Honor'a| ts plenty of ice, Secretary of the Treasury | ; and L, Blohm were among those at the ‘ . lfor the papers afterward. pete ae fancy dictat One report from Sau him, “to ascertain | nut Manager Hob Irwin of the Fittn | {#P Likewise there was much gc The chair was tatatied in Part I.lin threw depots, meas tae ae matters in regard to| Hut § tre coulan't ee it that way |e ay Trial Term, © few weeks ago, and in] (1 10" lens near we thane. mer's election, Jana neither could the press Rieke lance Anner more than one hun-| aug course the Vill reached the Finance we ‘ 300, 99,000 and 10,000 tons ald he responded lightly: |8Pd Neither eo ae ne eee [4Ted Yachts, motor bonte und other | 2ue, Curae of Ice, At Oleson Station, N. ¥ the # the WHO | ive to fy) at J o'clock this @fternoon | cratt Kot ote and escorted the Comptroller Prendergast almost fell{is another depot with 9,00 tong ‘This Lid to have the message that | 2AV0 Me jHomanin to Hoekaway Potnt backward out of his own bargain-aale | detecty yrted an interview with Fa pfer n + Homania will skirt the com ax! yyivel chair when he saw the bill a8] Jonn Gills, manager of the lee depere ; # posnible, going by Newport — Proctor theatre in Philade + for #1 a, {from Sauger to Aina NATIONAL LEAGUE. Coa wimere Weak” Ia | Providence, Boston, Yarmouth, Haltfax some chatr, that” he ejaculated, 1) yr i uNeltles up to Albany tn which Ae Oe Thue: and St. John's, ‘Then the five plan to! yonder what a $140 chalr looks ttke?"|F Gil declared that the only diMeulty AT NEW YORK, everything wax made ready for a bravy [Cut straight across to Ireland, England | “tngpectore MeDermott and Stone to-| in transporting the ice Is ta the teok CINCINNATI band, and ndbills and photos and France day went over to the Brooklyn Court-| of #Killed labor, Mr Gill sald the com- 00 == {and a great way, and the gale of he cruiver has a three cylinder en-| pouse with cameras and foot-rules to] pany Was sending now seventeen barges seata went up accorcingly gine, with 37 1-2 horse-power, The bow tures and make blue-prints of/a day to New York, but that bei NTS— ne Kkoned Ww t the shrink- ‘ 1 px Ti th ‘ eauee GIANTS: ; (|, Fuk tex, taskones seine | and sides r. Attod with aw ine tenke this remarkable hale, They mad tielr | of the lack of Iabor, the loade were ealy AT BROOKLYN. Dt ales: ine mening uetare: oe r pfft Sudition, the boat cartes | derched. the hale Mp ot ympany had been paying the crews et ST. LOUIS | Mnesger Irwin got down and without #0 unds of sand ballast. The deck | Co's, order to get & KOO ‘ fica ws of 100000 doe LR, g waraso tbe thenine tas oF ths « Dilot houre that eon whan Chiat ( he seventer age Kanga $2.50 a day, y man, cut the ropes of his dir nd shows four-| & photograph, ut that during the existing emergency BROOKLYN— Rares tunneact inte “che ian shai f above ihe deck, ‘Tha srllger| happened MONE - was paying them # a day to keep 000020 — [ar owent ap with few of tho | ta, stocked with provisions enough to| je asked whe nat work Ast two months. A then insieead ee folks belor Ae 1m, al ale a ¢ BAG: bhOn Ine iar | 9 at te wane, Mr, Gil said, tt ‘mel ding and as lost to — was difficult to get men to w cucicon. aie Yaw in ine ciouda over deraey MANUFACTURER A SUICIDE. Hh i was giioult ork for the | s he mean time, Manager Irwin ta hil ast the 000062 wm (GHRU AUS BEAME ABRELCARGT MALE DRESGET|| Grice = SERN os eee LOCAL MANAGERS ALL saiD | Boston— raphers wern hunting for him and whay|,, Willem B Twass waty-five yenra old, polt { LABORERS WERE SCARCE, | peo Wee ue h Jo. 416 Put ¢ for © lee depot at Oleson, N. is aiMcult of Explana his home, No. 416 Putnam Justice Sapte led that the case : “a a oy hs ~ bent the tions were in order, but hard to make,| Brooklyn. He had been troub! res adjudicata’ —> far as he was detectives he ha ns, but could AMERICAN LEAGUE. and they could only hope that Mr ja nervous on for several months foncerted, and ed the argument to| not Ket men to move It At Catakelll — Roberts would arrive at the Philadel-|and it had made him Irrational Scudder, W # expected t landing 10,000 tons of tc@ were found AT CLEVELAND phia ‘Theatre In time for the matinee | j1iq physician, Dr. Kennett P aurt house on, Monday, although | and the same excuse was given for Rap HIGHLANDERS— Pidience there to welcome him, nce ee ud ities | moving The best the crowd this afternoon had pastpns migh bn hin tune ay in i In “We find this significant fact, too". ol — Jat the Fieth Avenue was the reading of | 404 the Family to Keep & watch on niin gpect mort and Stone jacked uP | iq Commissioner Waldo, "that whereas | CLEVELAND— telegrams recelved from cities over [Sagas Saeko DE eee ern ee tec i i eeprint. Kamacr les: |1wet your 30,000 tons of ice were stored | ° —__ [| which the dirigiblist had passed, and at [room on the second floor and shot him- poled thelr blue-print paper and| 0°) ‘Gooo: in Weehawken tor an email 02 he was somewhere self in the head. Mrs, Tway heard the | [and Fisher, Batterles—Warhop and Blalr, Mitchell Pape ane om ED and Sanday; warmer Orw, [ “Circulation Books Open to All,” | _ 15, 1911, 10 PAGES WEATHER—Fatr to-night =e NT. PRICE ONE CE RUST TRUST CUT CITY'S ICE SUPPLY IN HALE, SAYS POLICE REPORT . } Existing Shortage Entirely Due to Tactics of the Combine, Com- missioner Will Tell Mayor Gaynor. te ICE SQuAd AT worn, on THe ICE WAGON PRICE RAISED $3 A TON DE PITE GLUT IN DEPOTS Wovrp You KE To BE THE IcE MAN? Not Enough Men on Barges Em- ployed to Bring Product to Relief of New York. BALLOON STUNT ~ PULLED OFF FIVE ~ HOURS T00 SOON Australian Air-Pilot’s Modesty ; MOTOR BOAT OFF FOR GRUISE OVER ATLANTIC OCEAN Police Commissioner Waldo has finished his investigation inte tee een- ditions in New York and to-day will send his complete report to Mayor Gaynor. The report lays the blame for the existing shortage of ice and ite high price directly at the door of the Knickerbocker Ice Company end its subsidiaries—practically the old Ice Trust. “We find,” said the Commissioner this afternoon, “that whatever the reason, the company raised the price of ice on July 1 trom $2 and $2.25 a ton to $3 and in some cases $5 a ton. On top of this we find that ‘practically 50 per cent. less ice has reached New York since July 7—about the degin- ning of the hot apell—than was transported last year in the same time, when there was no hot pertod. “My detectives sent jLittle Romania and Crew of| qe aa Yesterday to report on petty ar Meroe ear Nearer y L " . ; ee the coi a Spoils Plans of Theatre Man- | Five Start Amid Jamaica SEAT i inate: ie as eigk celia ome ag supply te os erts, the Australian balloontst, stol march the hard-working public of the Keith & Proctor vaudeville com- had advertised his filght : MADE NO EFFORT TO @EeT LABORERS AT THE DEPoTs. “This excuse is no excuse, Any om- Ployment agency, an advertisement in jfeet over all, having five feet draft and | twelve fe m, iN the craft that has been selected for the trip, which wil | take two weeks, according (o the entl on THAT CST $140 fon wh from the roof of the Fifth Avenue mate of the men who made the stadt. 5, I S| (le newspapers w, . Sends Inspectors ould bring the com. tre to Philadelphia to-day, and| Capt. John \ who has crossed Comptroller Send P pauy more men in @ day than tt wy mounted into the empyrean fully five \the ocean many times; Anton Madro N q possibly use, hours before the time he wax acheduled | pilot; Robert Meyer, mine wear! to Look Over One Made . “I have made out m |to mount F 'y report to the consented to an adjournment untill they could argue thelr case before the ju | most interested, last writing Englewood, with the wrong way. ‘over the wind taking him i gency, this year none was stored there, “When my ageretary, Mr, Kennedy, whot and reached her hustsod just be- tore he died,