The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1911, Page 14

ee 1s POLICE INDUCED TO SEARCH FOR LILLIAN GRARAM Inspector Hughes and District WEALTHY THY WIDOW Attorney Persuaded She May IN STREET CLAD Have Been ee | Tells Policeman Incoherent Tale of Men in Apartment Trying to Burn Her. | Singleton with an explanation of the| | fnancint status of the little circle |, {That letter that purported to come | from Lillian to Stokes, in which Wer was quoted as saying that she did n want to be dependent upon me ts all a hoax. LAliian didn't write any such [letter and she Js not denendent upon a ad in letter from the rah of ert in San Francisco in w he | notifies Liltian thar she may have pos: sésnion of elghty acres of land that belong to fA CS | S 80 ACRES IN WEST. | OWN Ethel Conrad, Her Friend, | , Can't Laugh Any More, ' So Will Quit Stage. Clark L. Jordan, for TAltan Graham and Ethel Conrad, the two| young women who are under Indictment | for shooting W. E. D. Stokes, the mill hotel ma to-day appealed Lap prion Pink silk pajamas and a pair of pink slippers were all that Mra. Annie M./ | Ruseell had on when Policeman Cleary of the West One Hundredth street sta- 10 sion found her altting on the curb in | “Men—two of them—in my apartment | wed wan Assistant ct |=teled to burn mo up-ran out," was all) knet, who i in charge) that the polleeman could get from her | during the absence of Mr. Whitman from | when he questio | the city, that he told Mr. Jord yack and hold another con talk at the District-Attort attorney sought Inspecor in finding her. 80 impr Distr Attorney 1 After | the y'« office | the woman in his coat, took her to the Hughes | station bj All the way she mem- | bled to herself and repeated over and the in charge of he Detective Bureau, He ol the statement that hia client | Over again her incoherent tale of two forcibly kidnapped and insisted | Men | way Leh a hark 1 1 here was no possible bt about | 8nd tried to A aaa the need for immediate potice action to| of the J. Hood Wright and Sweeny ald her ‘ of the Har Hospital agreed that RAS | she was out of her mind, and she was SCOUT SUGGESTION OF SUICIDE | i444, to the paychopathic ward of OR ELOPEMENT. | Bellevue Hospital for obser “Hitcide or elopement theories which | There she was recognized dad been advanced to account for the | woman who had presented he: mysterious dis rance of Miss Gra-| the “best friend” of a man named Solo- ham were th * mons, who had been taken to the Redid maxteion and hopatitc ward jast Friday after acting au ly in @ clothing ato on Broadway, Solomons had picked out two pairs of trousers, a donning one, had started out of the place. When the clerk demanded payment he wanted to know if the patr he had discardéd was not payment enough, | At the Britannia Apartment, No. 627 | Cathedral Parkway, the superintendent | waid that Mrs, Russell had lived in the! house about year, So far as We knew, she was a Widow and had a very large income, which she received regularly, For some ti had been under the medical care of Dr. H. B, Luke of No. 617 West One Hundred and Thirteenth street, according to the superintendent, Dr. Luke, when seon by an Eve World reporter, denied that he w: woman's physic but the hallboys said that he had telephoned to them to see that proper wearing apparel was taken to Mrs. Russe!! at the hospital. oe WALL STREET. ‘The decision of the Interstate Com- merce Commission in the Spokane rate cane, ordering about 2 per cent. | reductions in freight charges on almost | every railroad in the countr: vd | considerable hasty selling of ratroad fnsues at the beginning of the stock market to-day, Following small losses | in the London Exchange, principal rails | sustained declines of from 1 to 2 points | in the local market before, the selling | hold to tie idea that Miss Graham has been kidnapped and ix being held for the purpose of coercing the bondsmen to Sut. hel Conrad that she may lan- wuteh in a cell until fall Mrs. Singleton, who t# Miss Graham's iw and Miss ¢ ad talked to-day with «a yrter for ihe Eventing World a) thelr apartment at the Cathedral Mana. Both showed the effects of loss of sleep und of worry. They huddled tn their Japanese kimonos and looked at the world through dark gla am more than ever satiafied that Lilian has been kidnapped,” said Mra, Bingleton. "We have absolutely no clue and have not*found a trace of the girl There was nothing uvusual in the fact that she had but seventy cents in her purse When she went out wlone because I usually carried the tun for « of our party.” MISS CONRAD CAN'T LAUGH AND| BE MERRY ANY MORE. | Then Mian Conrad came through the conversational barrier. “1 shall have to stop working at the theatre where we have been playing, T just can't Jaugh and be merry with that poor girl away from us and being held by kid- napper ehe said. “I don't believe for a minute that 1dMan has killed herself,’ continued the girl, “And she wouldn't for worlds run away with @ sweetheart and leayo me to face all of th trouble alone.” Lallian never had a sweetheart,” put fm Mrs. Singleton, “I shave always wanted her to have one®and to have @ beau tke other young girls, but she! pressure subsided. American Smelting never seomed inclined that way, She| Joined tn the dowwward movement, with dias been a pet all of her life, We made| * drop of 1 point. Stecl, on the eve of | & quarterly report, was firm with «| fractional decline, Outside partielps red at lower ranges, and subsequent deni- ings witnessed « spirited recovery with | er of Issuen even displaying | @ baby of her and my husband thought | 6 much of her as though she had been bis own child.” “and I just can't amse an audience fealing this wa: ded Ethel Conrad, which remark Was cut short by Mra. The Further You Look the More You Will See 0 Crop news was favorable. Vigorous buying of orn Pacific, Steel, St, Paul and Reading | RAVE Blocks an exceedingly Pearance at midday. Reading was « pecially prominent with « quick spurt p to 18) from morning low below wing of positions on the part of feasional element warked te fe to time, The market, however, sake, fair her. a 4 per Consres onal Limited at 3. ¢ TOLD HIS IDEAS 10 NOSINGLE PERSON UPTOUNDERLINGS DROWNING VICTIM y's | Havemeyer Used Many When He Was Dictating Plans of Action, Says Buyer. INQUIRY ENDS TO-DAY Investigators Learn That Com- bine Gets 64 Per Cent. of Louisiana Product. Henry ©. Mott, buyer of raw mugar for the Sugar Trust, was the firet wit-| nese to-day before the special Con- Eressional investigating committee when it began what will probably be tts last and the Detective sion in the Post Office Building. He for the| front of the fashionable Britannia on|toid the representatives that Henry O attorney | Cathedral Parkway at 2.30 this morning. | Havemeyer used many different par- aham |The woman was trembling from the| sons in conducting hin corres nee 1 kidnapped and pleaded {crap air, and Was mumbling to herself.| and did not trust all of his ideas to} late through one channel. wine he sugar cl Like- told of his own rise from a kehip for another concern to director's place in the Tru “Wore you Mr. Havemeyer's secre- tary?” he was asked “No, he never had one,” came the re- ply. “He used many different people to answer his correspondenc Hince 1807, he said, he had had charge buying and Qistribution of raw Purchases made in Louisiana direction. sugar were made under his “Have you any competitor In buying in the Loulwiana field?” he was apked, “Yea, the Arbuckle poople are com- pet! * in the buying there.” HE WOULD BUY IN LOUISIANA; ANY TIM! Mr. Mott satd he could not concetve of a state of things, as told by Claus A. Spreckels, under which a man who had money or credit could not buy tn the Louls! ry rket, and sald he would undertake any such contract at any time, He sald brokers bought the raw product for the trust, and, in reply to a question, gave the capacities of the trust plants as follows: Havemeyer & Elder, 14,000 barrels; | Jprsey plant, 6,000 barrels; Spreckels Philadelphia, 9,000 barrels; Boston Re- finery, 3,000 bafrels; New Orleans, 9,000 barre! Ho added that he furnished the raw sugar to the refineries upon the requist- tions of the managers, bought most of hin sugar in New York and took up nt. of the Loulslana product. Excessive heat, he said, had raised the price of raw sugar in Europe aince July 1, 1911, about half a cent a pound, and had raised the rate here half a cant on raw and @ quarter of a cent on re- | fined susars. | “What is the reason for the difference | in the advance in Europe and in Amer- | |tcat he was asked. COMPETITION STIFLED BY COM: | BINATION IN EUROPE. “In Europe they have a combination and are able to keep up the price and we haven't one here and the competi- tion ts pretty keen,” | ‘|WHITMAN GETS ‘the own some si ley M. booker Tes the stand. Instructed to charge for tee during the recent hot spell?” a ton e compelled to pay as high as $4 and $5 a ton,” was ad torney De Ford, tha put of natural tco wi large extent by the output of the artl- floial ice plants which are in the con- trol of the Ice Manufacturing Company, @ constituent pe Monopoly in this city is in store for the ice Trust and other Persons who from the proce: far have been beguiled into the bellef thi ods of the trust is to be purely academic and formal. pur assistant, Mr. De Ford, who is in direct charge of the investigation. BELIEVES OLER HA; admissions of Wesley M. C of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, al- rei ax a witness before Magistrate Apple- | ton, that which sup} State, is st guise—as the Knickerbocker Ic pan Mar th He said there were combines in Gar- many and Austria and in Russia the | Governinent controlled the pr The} German combination, he added, wa more powerful than the American. He agreed that the tariff made a marked difference in the price of su to the con tariff was paid by the consumer when {t was tacke nto the pound rates. Mott did not know anything about the charge that the t bought sugar when it was low and held it until it was high in price, but he did know that the company usually made « profit on the sugar it ‘carried, Following his examination, Chairman TW. Hardwick said that the comm jo would go to Washington by. the day. lay to proceed imme- u-Prince, Haytt net advances. The Closing Tosday's Uehert, lowe “ of net Copper | Ama Am, Oar & Found,” Halt Whiyn Te: Canadian You can find an Apartment here and you can find an Apart. ment chere, but when it cor to having The Greatest Variety of Apartments from Which to Choose, Remember that last week there were nrinted 4,476 | 3,608 “ty “To Let” Than Mdvayii ts i Herald 970 more than all the five other New York morning and Sunday newspapers COMBINED And The World’s Great Lead Is About the Same Week At 60 1 Decline. DIN Signed, ALBANY ov signed th e ection of barge canal termina! ous cities in the Sta T jon must be approved by t a - \e Dix to-day In and Week Out, | Retore Becoming ettective,” SPOT i} | | 23rd Street SHIRTWAIST DEP'TS, and embroidery. WOMEN'S Lingerie with lace. The remaining 23rd Street | that Mr. | compantes, that form: | with the ar | mer and explained how the! Ice Company equivalent to the old con. pany and the Ice Manufacturing Com- JAMES McGREERY & CO. On Wednesday, July the 26th Effective models in Voile and Marqui- sette Shirtwaists, trimmed with dainty lace SUIT DEP’TS. Dresses, Suits, Afternoon and Evening Gowns, siderably below usual prices. JAMES McCREERY & CO. MHE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 25, ‘SUGAR TRUST HEAD (ICE TRUST HEAD PUTS HIGH PRICES President Oler Admits Dock Stage Managers Charged Too Much. May Have BUSY. , District-Attorney Plans to Oust the Combine From the State. Magistrate Appleton took the reins of lagging ice investigation into his hands this morning and obtained flcant admiksions from Wes- Oler, Promdent of the Knicker- Company, who was then on “What was the highest dock price superintendents you your asked the Magistrate. Mr. Oler announced that it was $2.60) ‘But your dook superintendents have young Woman oUt Of the cast at the \ testified here that they charged $2 a/C&PUCIes for several months. Finally |] ey 7 ton reewlarly from July 1, and retail] ie N94 offered a minor part, and on ; ; A | er ret > p vad to pay Mme. dealers have testified that they Were) Rejane $8,000 for breach of contract. | said the Mawistrate. md to, perintendents’ Mr. Oler alo admitted, eations put by Ai except from his dock | reports. | in reply to District-At t of the present tee Tt was learned to-day that a surprise ings so the present inquiry into the meth- This idea 1s not at all th of the District-Attorney and his ’ ADMITTED EXISTENCE OF A TRUST. The District-Attorney believes that the president dy made jn his voluntary testimony, have plainly established the fact) the old American Ice Company, sedly was di from the} operating here under other | Com- | and the Ice | ich controls | pplying natural te facturing Company, supply of artificial {ce. The District-Attorne: also believes | Oler's admissions s0 far of ent relations with held contracts Ica Compan rts “in rest his company’s p Ameriean ged by the ¢ de,” indicate the existence ‘gentiomens’ agreement” between these | same companies and the Knickerbocker tracts with the Trust, If enough evidence can be secured tn the present inquiry to prove this pro- ceedings will be taken to cancel the cer- tiflcates of the Knickerbocker Ice Com- pany to do business tn the State. But) {f it be foumd that the local authorities have not sufficient jurisdiction the evi dence will be turned over to the Attor ney-General of the State, who can} bring quo waranto proceedings to force,| the matter to an 1s 5 ‘The hearing was adjourned to Aug. 5. | It was understood that on Aug. 7 Mr. Oler would again resume the stand, | 34th Street In Both Stores, 2.95 usual price 4.25 to 8.95 ‘LANTELME, NOTED 1911, FRENGH ACTRESS, Just as aniwer ot the other. make arly sold fort fo Wednesday To rare for Favorite the Rage in Indian & Rough Rider Suits, 8c High grade, strong fab- rics; guaranteed unrip- *pable; sizes 4 to 44 of Admirers. Paris. Counted King Greece Among PARIS, July %.—Private to-day despatches recelved here that Mme. Lantelme, the noted Parisian actress, was accidentally drowned in the Rhine near the Holland frontier / All Paria ia interested tn the news for the actress was a great favorite here and counted among her admigers ; many men of high rank Lantelme.” the Parisian levardiers called this slight little Je actress, whom they Idolized. She attained her greatest fame during last winter when the Paris newspapers discussed her relations with the King reece quite frankly, The advent of on” brought all Parts Bois de Boulougne Mined with admiring “Le Petite feet preatter was cavaliers when her equipage was seen in the distance, fashion editors came to blows in their attempts to elusive photograph de a sing her— on the French sta by her having yusy of Mme. ReJi She enjoyed a dowry of $0,000 which was made aver to her hy Wo Rdwarde, ‘If they did, it was against my| former proprietor of the Matin, who orders,” replied Mr. Oler. married her in 1, At different times “Then the poor people of the east| during her short career, she was only | pide and, in fact, all your dock pur-|tWenty-three at the time of her death il gs chaners were at the mercy of your dock |*he Played at the Varieties, the Ath- | what price they charged?" asked Mag-| ghe* created another sensation last istrate ‘Appleton, year by refusing to appear in a Battalle Mr, Oler admitted this, @aying that] play Manon” declaring the after the price was fixed by himself he| drama imm and her part olting: had no means of knowing whether it ns SHIPPING NEWS. T OF NEW YORK ARRIVED. ‘ THIS DRESS 81.00, lo, Rotterdam, Antwerp, model; semi-fitting or loose tip, Swansea, Saratoga, Havana. 2 Ww Garpathia, Naples for misses or ladies. in two-tone, red and green effects; elsewhere for $16.00; special at. Woven in neat carpet patterns; shown in red, ‘Alex. Smutn’s Seamiess All-Wool Brussels Rugs Woven in one p! in neat Persian, floral and Oriental patterns; sult and sitting ro larly $15.00; » 9x12 ft. Reversible 'Pro- Brussels Rugs tental croll pat be tise vithe nd ‘all rooms: sige 9x12. feet; regularly $9.00; special at e 9x12 ft. Smith’s Imperial Axminster Rugs Rich soft nap; shown in neat medallion and floral pat- terns; an ideal rug for parlor, library erns; an idea 14.49 Shown in many patterns; red or yard in ning room; extra heavy: ind dur ularl pecial, at terns; for parlor, A Record Underprice A SPECIAL sale price—for to-morrow only Kreatest J.lnoleum bargain in years. 2 yards wide; color extends through to back rich parquet or granite patterns; square yard Pure XXX Quality Cork Linoleum, 35c A price radically tations as to quantity; rants; no seconds; regularly sale to-morrow, sduare yard, MATTRESS CLEARANCE $4.00 Combination Mattre: 2.98 sold usua English, Ena elow regular, with no limi Tr rem= no at 39¢, row 35¢ covered Combination mattresses, In Both Stores, elaborately trimmed 12.50, 15.75 and 21.00 stock of ‘Tailor-made con. 34th Street tick- salut in a heavy $4.00 sad Brass Beds, Wednesday ings a. $7.00 Cotton and Wool Mat- tre: Full 40-Ib, tresses, cotton ' wool mat- covered in plain stripe ticking or fartey art $7.00 ticking; we; at. $9.00 Black Hair Mattre: 6.98 val- Black hair mattresses, closely tufted, heavy stitched edge; cov- ered in best quality of A. C. A, ticking; $9.00 value; at ‘AID MAIL 0: 2rinch posts, 6 fillers head and foot; regu- ularly $18. Sale price 9.98 others in me The popular double-breasted, button-to-neck patch- pockets, large pearl buttons; all sizes For motoring, cool evenings, travelling, etc. Sale price........ RUGS CARPETS & LINOLEUM Sloane’s All-Woo! Velvet Rugs @ Ix12 Japanese Pure Linen Warp Tokio Matting heavy; regularly $10.00 a roll Go yards); special at 9x12 ft. Heavy Woven Fibre Matting Rugs An ideal Summer floor covering; qualities; to ; regularly sold for $10.00; Sloane’s All-Wool Velvet Che. pretty a ts; Ww rsh $1.00; Heavy Wool Tapestry Brassals Carpets Shown in pretty two-tone and Persian pat- lar $$e.; special at XXX Quality Inlaid Linoleum 29c a No. 1 Floor Oitcloth, 22! idths; cholce of tile. floral or sor 221 To-Morrow at, sq. yd. presents unquestionab’ Genuing XXX quality oleu My at $1 and $1. 1 rical patterns; pia A> Til Aaah panini, Pretty lawns in the deep bordered effects on skirt and bodice, lace trimmed yoke and sleeves, kimono sleeves; turnback cuffs and piping; cerized foulard fab- ~ rics; also sailor collar, but- ton front skirt; model; full width; no mail Dusters back styles; feet; green or blu shown In twenty from; si select # spec! and neat room, jal) the wanted tw peclal at, hall and stairs; regu- niald Lt sold elsewhere for this sale, y, at, square to-mor= yard plaited all sizes for ladies, 32 to 44 bust, and 14 to 18 year misses; or C, O. D. or- ders filled; at... $1 We Secured 500 More 54-in. ‘Linene 59¢ SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY PROMPTLY REFUNDED OTHENBEAG WEST I4" STREET Sale: Crisp New $2 to $3 Summer Dresses. at $1 CE AGAIN ‘THIS BUSY GARMENT STORE comes forth with a rousing dress event. dresses brimming with Summer charm offered at-a price that any woman would ordinarily pay for the materials alone. well Known for its ex- ? 6.98 oc 2C Mahogany polished; upholstered in Vergna velour; formerly sold for $37.50. $12.95 Three-Piece Bed Outfit, Wednesday Steel steel spring; tress. bed, extended foot reinforced (ood = mat- Sale pric . rail; al 6.98 years; Indian Suits for Boys or Girls; Rough Rider and Cowboy Suits for Boys; reduced from $1.50 for this sale to ! 89c AND CO 2,200 fresh, cool, dainty The Silk Dress (Illustrated) Was formerly priced at $18. There are about 25 of this style—a hundred others — all repriced at $8.8. Right from our stock of $15 and $18 dresses—re- duced to $8.98 for this sale only; cus- tom finish through- out, with shields, taped seams, em- broidery lace trim- med; ashing styles; all to go in the sale to-morrow at Women’s Percale nen pe from good quality terlal, with full blouse pleated, black only; veqularly “his Waist, Sie. ORDERS FILLED —_| Juliettes comfortable Summer A, boon to elderly ee feet. 1% at ORDERS : 1c Mexican Grass & Palmer’s Woven Hammocks, 85¢ ‘s hams The most sh a Ten spreaders; and $1.50; aa ORDERS FILLED=—== Women’s $2.00 Pongette Farasols, Special, at 69c of ponwettes, soisetton ail latest “shades ers Inve rion at Toilet Articled and nd Drug Necessities Munyon's Witch Hazel ‘Toilet Soap; regulurty toc cake;ae 444 Seldlite Powders; strietly. U 1 rp'nots ina tin bos; ats... L0e Witen Mazel; full quart: = TSe Lydia Pinkham’ 8 Compound; $1.00 size, at. Boys’ 25c Suspender Waists, Special, at 10c Made in white only of extra heavy Suspender tape with elantic back