The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1911, Page 1

“HOW 1 SAVED THE NATION FINE FLIGHT OF AEROS TO PHILADELPHIA WHATHER—Uneettiod to-n Che PRICE. “ONE CENT. Copyright, Ht re {Ao by 7 [eRe Hew | York Avot moi Re ‘ACTING FOR COUNTRY, LET STEEL GRAB T.C. 1, ROOSEVELT TESTIFIES Frick and. Gary Knew They Couldn’t Gobble Company if He Op- posed It, Former Pre:i- dent Testifies. SAVED NATION ON BRINK OF FINANCIAL DI-ASTER| ioCalled Morgan Interests Alone Claimed Confidence, So Ad- ministration Intervened. Everything I did, in 1907. I say to-day, was absolutely wise—atso- lately right I was acting for the country, X acted for the best The responsibility was mine aloze. This was the keynote of ihe testimony of Theodore Roosevelt to- ve the C ssional Commitiee investigating ¢ el Trust, upon whose session he burst at 10.30 o'clock this morning, with his usual unexpectedness. Chairman Stanley knew he was coming. Chairman Stanley had asked him to come, But Knew except Sergeant-at-Arms Frank McGuire, who had to Police Lieut. Ke ae call out the rese Kennell sent wi ord to Capt. H serves were turned oul of t ‘Then word got about that s beth’ street and the re: | tation in the basement of City Hall. ng extraordinary was about to occur. While ever y Was W ing there was a flurry at the door like a whirlwind « le idewalk and in came Mr, Reosevelt, The former Presitent wax dres: ats i TEATTHE by Chairmane sin ging required Col. Roosevel sion—once his ment had been rew and dramatl merry game. ind joked, only to set his } and rub in his conyiouoa Une _ made a mistake in t panic by giving Judse Gary Frick free Govern 1s buy Tennessee ‘ big rival, the Uni poration. It was developed !n the hearin Mr. Roosevelt understood tat not only were 8 trust company at bank = {ng house—names not known to hue || SeceniaMTON? Aun facpronaent tn danger of going to the wall, DULY mar, met Admiral Togo at 2.35 o'clock the T. C. & 1, Mteelt was tn danger of | 4:1, atrernoon in a brief reception at failure. Hoi Who Is Received by ent in Blue Room tnat | P |the White House, As the Admiral and ‘As soon as he was sented Col. ; ; Roosevelt began reading a typewritten (his party entered the White House two statement which he had prepared. [troops of the Fitteentn United states! Tt was as follows Cavalry, which had escorted him from HOW HE STOPPED PANIC WITH {his hotel stood at attention with drawn NATION “ON SRINK." "sas “In the fall of 197 there were wevere | Major A. W. Butt and Lieut.-Com, 1. business disturbances and fina ainer, military and stringency, culminating in a panic |spectively, led the J which arose in New York and spread Blue Room, wh over the country, The damage act Asals tine Was creat, abd Gecians threatened [him tothe Pe was incalculable, | 7 “phanks largely to the action of | py... the Government, the panic was” | 44 \, stopped before, instead of being | 1)" merely a serious business check, it 9) am Decame a frightful and nation-wide calamity, @ disaster fraught with |tertsfurout was pla untold misery and woe to al: our ‘ people. For several days tne na- {ion trembled on the brink of suca a calamity, of such » disaster, as you doubtless remember. “During these daye both the Secretary of the Treasury and 1 personally ly communication with ew York, following every change in the| Were recelved until noon by Adm! situation and trying t anticipate every | Tene et te ba ri lopment. | i) xtaproon| thé oe the obvious duty of the Ad | President Taft and a ministration to take every atep possible ie sehedu to prevent appalling disaster by ch ing the spread of the pantie Pators tt grew so that nothing eov check ; + and events moved with such apeed that it was necensary to decide and to act! wy on the instant, as each successive crisis | to-dn aroge, if the d n and action were |tre: t@ accomplish anything. (Continued on Second Page) aval aides, re- seh Chandler Hale, Third ary of State, introduced ealdent, Untied States G rnment through tate Knox the Navy Win- red Admiral Togo. Japa- © refresh tary of State Knox and A Ty |tary of the Navy Heekrran W and army and navy officers genorst ndience with| ertainin: day being brought to a clim nner at the White House to-night. — ‘Treatles Referred, 6 Great Hritain and Fr Phe Seoretary {to the Foreign Relations Comuntttee. , until McGuire whispered | the Mayor's office. that it was almost time to | s for Japanese |“ 0 to the|' An almost continuous round of en-| {guing aay to New treo teeoing tour! op The Sennte and [i neral arbitration | breakers | der a shower of b Chairman Cullom promised early con- sideration. *==-ROOSEVEL i Sunday, 10 PAGES ‘PRIOR ONE OENT. CAR STRKE MOBS, INJURE SCORE ON BROOKLYN LINES Three Sympathizers Are Jailed and Woman Mob Leader Is Arrested. TO APPEAL TO MAYOR. Smith Street, Hamilton and} Franklin Ave. Branches | Stopped, De Kalb Affected. The Rrooklyn police were utterly un-| able to cope with a strike of employees | jot the Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail- road Company which began at 4 o'clock to-day and resulted during the day in many violent attacks upon the crews | of cars sent out in a vain effort to break the strike. One passenger and more than a score of strikebreakens were | seriously hurt by the strikers. Three lines are tled up by the strike and a portion of a fourth has had to iscontinue service. Three men and one woman have been arrested for taking| Part in the street attacks, in which | mobs of from 100 to 500 have defied the | police.’ The three men were Workhouse sentences of five days but the action of the Magistrate did not deter their fellows from continuing | fcenes of violence. The centre of the stetke disorder ts at~Ninth street: an¢- ‘Third avenue, Brooklyn, where headquarters of the! strikers are in charge of Patrick / Shea, organizer for the Amalgamated | Assoclation of Electric Rallway Em ployees, to which the men of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Company belong. The lines tied up by the strike are: Smith street line, from Brooklyn | Bridge to Coney Island. Franklin street line, from Williame- Isoretetgga'té Coney Island, De in far as the cars the Smith street Une Coney Island are Hamilton ferry line, from Hamilton ferry to the Smith street tine, of which the ferry Ine is a part WILL ASK GAYNOR TO TAKE A HAND. \zer Shea will go to-morrow to L. 1, to ask Mayor Gaynor nd in settling the strike. to the City Hall te ind that the Mayor waa at piace, President Mitchel tn Europe t the city had no official head t b. At lock this afternoon the com pany decided to run. the ba to the barns andm ak ttempt to operate to-night i the cars on the Franklin avenue were out of mission by nN The strikers » the Smith street line began wo spon thelr fellow-workers on the Franklin avenue line as soon 4 they had their own line 1, invelved to stagnate its operation. Fourteen cars had gone on the Franklin avenue line and wer |running at 10 o'clock, The: suasive eloquence of the seers Lis | vailed, As the cars came to the barns at Franklin avenue and Carroll street, se motormen ran them in and et them After Ml ofelock no cars left the ui | |famsbure Bridge on the Franklin ave- nue line, The officials of the company | sald th would rus nen over 7 e's horns and have out the Franklin cars, They service during the day, and, strikers promis 4 if the service was attempted The three men who were arrested after | the series of wild street riots with which the poltce had not been able to jeope successfully were | Joseph fyan of No, 42% Union street, | John Manning of No, 228 Pighth street, | Brooklyn. Cornelius Carter ot No, 26 Tenth | , Broklyn. they wore arratgned before er in the Fifth Avenue y were promptly ‘ve five days in the Work- and the Mag ‘® announced mination to stop street violence, PAN “CARS INTO BARRICADE BUILT BY STRIKE. pany prec'pitated ot figh a #pectacular wreck > move four care Mn fficten| that had bec and Fo deserted stalled in Ninto ai ven the motormen sent the cars ahead at a (Continued on Fourth Page) k harry bias, G08) Given to Stran- gers as Child, Gets Title but Will Lose seisl 19 Tae Beentog Workt) FRI ra Auk Li “a Prursian principal f Lichte the t Petace von Gunther, ts an n 6 and stones the |Conpany, “NEWYORK WAIF- ~ APRINCE OF HGH. Airship Leaving Sonia’: Island, Showing New York Skyscraper Line aD LANES DROP (Specially Photographed by Evening World Staff Photographer). PRUSSIAN RANK : in poverty man ager om West veetheart York sent little ywn then, i Mo. Ad nother 2 19 now ass stern BE Tenth street, oppo- tile the Cunard Line dock, New York He 1s engaged to Misa Himina Binter of Pitteburg and must break the en- gagement tf he fortune, day Mor ons to his Be tie! Hare to sn 1 by accepts of how Harr M had never paid im ancestry Sunt!! ‘he = title and ita came r Dr, Ada 1 ree, He knew . 1 come . ad died and nother wined Sohulta, whi, but extreme poy ad uistor a wash _—— Pe TIDES AM, P.M, t: 430 sa 16 ow 8G iB land Sw arsagsins of Adolph Stern, the clerk tn ' NA TONAL LEA LEAGUE. PITTSBURG. GIANTS- 0000100 PUCTSBURG— 0 Batterie Marquard and Meyers; Le 10 fleld and Gilson, 0 ( Danes hasvrine and A 0 ity ol ker and Bergen; AT CHICAGO. BROOKLYN— AT 3T LOUIS, STON— Oo 00 | 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE, IN JERSEY AFTER HOT RACE OVER The CITY ee ee 'Three Pilots Awe Great Crowd Here in Flight From Governor's Island Over the Sky- scraper Tops. ONE MACHINE FALLS a INTO RUNYON’S WOODS. Another Birdman Alights at Trenton for Gasoline, Then Continues— Third Airship Comes Down. PRILADELPRIA, Pa, 8.—The first aeroplane in the Now York-Phile- Gelphia race passed over City Mall tower at 4.48 After a beautiful start from Governor's Island, in which Eugene Ely, Lincoin Beachey and Hugh Robinson left at 2.40 o'clock for the first American intercity aeroplane race, with Philadelphia as the goal, all three of the machines camé down at points in New Jersey less than sixty miles from the sttarting point. The three men were racing for a prize of $5,000 offered by Gimbel Bros. for the first of the racers who reaches Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Brief telegraphic reports from Trenton say that one of the machines fell in Runyon Woods, Millstone Junction, a point about three miles east of New Brunswick. Another alighted five miles south of New Bruns- | wick, One of the three, supposed to be Beachey, reached Whitehead Mills, the regular stopping point, at 3.55 o'clock, filled his gasoline tank and resumed his flight at 4.12 to Philadelphia, thirty-four miles distant. He came de down fifty-cight miles from New York. No detatis are reported as to the sup- as KOlng again Into the alr. Peachey yatd that he had ne informa- jon as to the car whieh came down at New Brunswick, His own machine was all right, he added, and he had only descended for more gasolene. OF NUMBER “h]9" low buoy after leaving abeth and covered more distance than was necessary, getting on the right track again HAMILTON DECLINED TO TRY ONE OF NEW SHIPS. sohine re the new typo aeroplanes, which differ in some respects from the older types. iS. Harmilton was slated to operate one of them, At the lest minute he dec cause of his lack of fanilliarity with the new pattern, and Eugene Ely teok ‘That the police are etill after the! his place. y got away first. His aero- eft the parade ground at Gov- | ra Island at 24 o'clock, Then Bly MHA klied attarcne |went into the alr a minute later, Robe n to-day when Policema |inson was the last of the three to take Yonnell ordered the chauffeur| Wink aod be was headed for New York touring car bearing the license Ho to drive over to the Bast One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street | station | O'Connell saw the ear standing tn front of th York Central stati on One Hundred and Twenty-ftth str nd the numbers S79" whieh we Harlem Policeman Thought He Had Jewel Clerk's Slayer in Senator's Car. street and Sixth avenue, who was shot | ¢ en flew rapidly north ever er and up to the Gimbel ntersection of Brogd- we and 'Thirty-fourth circled over the shopping t then swung back over the Hudson for as the Pennsylvania number nf the license number of the taxt ere wey picked up the Mne cay whteh figured In the robbery and t lroad tracks and headed for | nurder attracted hla atiention, Vad ia At the station house t hauffour| The Weather conditions were Ideal, the cat belc 1 to State Senator | The wind was blowing from the south+ well — | Sprague Ruel- | Kingsortd, to investiga! tat he was Frank if | West and makin No. 38 Olinville avenue, | With indication of a decrease in yes lve was sent locity uraoy of the chauf- | STREETS CHOKED WIT's CROWD Seur'a statement, WAITING TO SEE 2ACE, KLEINOW BUYS HIS RELEASE, | | the same oner in which they - HOSTON, — Miss Aug Jack | ft Governor's Island the aeroplanes H oh fi relet and passed the starting mark < Ofteen miles an hour, home ew York, today © Gimbel store, Beachey crossed _ ed hie trom promdant o'clock, Bly at 248 and nl Kling, tiarmon | 5 ta a free 1 ” # o'clock. b wn now| Broadwa avenue and cross yhuerey Ke it contract, |» »rhood of the store ant w the big league . rther's toes as they nba os [very window of AT NEW YORK, CLEVELANL 0002 HIGHLANDERS— 40 1 Rattorles rege ¥ and Fisher; wotel and office building which 1 toward the route of the flyers 1 of faces, ‘Thirty-third street “L" station 1 wax crowded With people waa A five cents in the hope of gate ting a better look. 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