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

LIGHTNING BOLT STARTS PANIC IN SC ‘Weather-Ghowers to-night or We: jeeday) warmer, NIG EDITION. PRICE ONE OENT. Copyright, 1911, by LIGHTNING HITS SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WILD PANIC, AS STORM SWEEPS GiTY WWietsienel Pits Parents Mob Building at Forsyth and Stanton Streets. THE SKY TURNS BLACK. | Mid-Afternoon as Dark as a Winter Evening During Downpour. A thundering black electrical storm ewooped over the city this afternoon, | bringing with it darkness, panic and destruction which lasted for half an hour or more. The most serious trouble reported at Police Headquarters was a panic inside and outside of Public School No. 91 at Forsyth and Stanton Streets, which was struck’ by lightning to the terror of a thousand children of he recreation classes which were in session inside. That the panic of the children or of the fear-crazel parents who mobbed the building outside after the crash was not followed by an appalling disaster, of loss of life and Injury, was due to the coolness of the principal, Miss Carri O'Rourke, and her assistants and three Board of Health nurses Miss Louls Becker, Irene Dyer and Mrs. W. Rogers and to Sergt. Gargan and ninety reserves from the Eldridge street station. No injuries were reported The bolt struck the flarsiaff of the school building, whtch ts on the For syth street side, at ninutes after 2 o'clock, ‘The was 80 sharp that people sidewalks sxered and grab eads in their hands, ‘The stant spark leaped down vpe to the sireet, bound middle of the pivem * who saw ft feome yund sastward and disap- ear. CROWDS OF PARENTS SWARM AROUND SCHOOL BUILDING. From the crowded tenements the peo- ple poured to the street Ike bees out of a hive struck with a stone, Word prased from mouth to mouth that every nila in school building had heen a A great shout of lameniat' om the black mass of people and there was 9 rush for the doors of the building, Meantime—quicker than it can be told the janitor of the school who had | been in the street when te bolt flashed down the side of the building, seneing the spirit of the frightened mob out- side, swung to the Iron gates and then locke ‘ooden doors them- xelves from (he His next step lashed in inside. MOTHER BEAT HER 9-MONTHS-OLD BOY WITH BIG STICK Also Abused Infant, and Neighbors Caused Boarder Arrest of Both. “Tt hardly that @ sayage—even a beast—could have been 80 bloodthirstily cruel as the story of the witnesses tell these people we: said Magistrate Breen in Essex Mar- ket Court to-day when holding Mi- chael Nega, twenty-four years old, and Mary Bartal, nineteen years old, the mother, woth of No, 512 Fifth strect, if $500 bail each for triad in Special Sessions Court on. a technical charge of assault for having unmeret- fully beaten a nine-month#-old baby Agents Hyland and Cunningham of the Childre'’s Society last night ar- rested the pair on warrants Issued by Magistrate Kernochan. Mrs. Josephine Kuchenka, who on the floor above the defendants has four children of her ow Court that she had ta Dr. Stravich No street after the defendants had whipped {t on Sunday, and that he had found It to be covered with bruises. A cer- tfleate from this doctor, alleged to veri- fy the ments, Was in the hands of Asitant Ditrict-Attorney George Med- alle, but wa not offered as evidence. le Liska told of having seen the nts whipping with a seems possible ives and told the e child to Kast Sixth 7 defen boy stick, and of having seen Noga take the child by the pat, shake !t as a eat would a mouse, and then whack it head against the furniture. 2 took the stand and sald that Jealousy prompted these people in caus- ing hie arrest and that of the mother He said that the mother's sister was angry at him, and had put these peo- ple up to testifying against him. Mary Bartal, the mother of the child pald Hitt! eor no attention to the child ng th eentire morning. fle the pliinants eat but a few foct away holding the baby she never even glanced n its direction, Little Frederick Bartal (it takes {ts mother's name) will be sent to the New York Foundling Soctety, ——— a TRENTON VOTES ‘COMMISSION’ was to telephone to the police for the Progrenses a Without » Ripple on Surtac Miss Becker, who had hundral) TRENTON, N. J. Aug. 1i.—This ety children playing “ninepins on the|/vateq today to elect five Commissioners ground floor, sent her assistants to the 1 among the ten men who received doors of the uss rooms and blocked} te at the resent primary them against the panic-stricken rush n. ‘Che voting progressi 1 the youngsters, Miss Becker herself Repebiican and Demoeratle pact an to the plano and began bangmg oUt) oO. conigation took no land im the cle A Hot Time in the Old Town" with}ion, aithough a letter was sent out uch force that her fingers ached forlyy the President of the Republican Club oure afterward and her throat burned way she shrieke me runnin, horus and the with the strain of the the words. The children c to her and joined in the danger there was over. SINGING RESUMED AS SOON AS THE STORM IS OVER, On the second floor other assistants and the thre nurses were leading five hundred more children in learning pa- songs in English, The teachers all at the platform at the front room when the Hghtning erasa e buildin Avout half of t rolling and kick trlotic were of the children went Jump- ng down the stairs before they could be headed off. The ey half were checked at the door formed in line until Miss Becker telephoned up that the building was in no danger, Then the singing was re- rumed, On the outside of the building Ser- | geant Gargan with his ninety men ar- rived just as ming mob of thou- sands had smashed the locks on the! school gates and were battering at the clubs and bricks. ‘The police thelr Way through the franti and wedged the people back to the sidewalk and then out of the (Continued on Second Page.) ¢ king the members to give the 1 candidates the prefer Of the ei es voted f are Republicans, four Democrats’ and one & Socialist. Ench elector was permitted to vote for five candidates, The p will close at 7 P. M. and the successf lgve will Inaugurate the commiasion form of government next Tuesday a HILLTOPS HAVE BOUGHT FORT WAYNE’S GOOD PITCHER York The New American Basebal Club has purchased the release Pitcher Hardin, of the Fort Wayn' Indiana, Club. Hardin has won eleven out of the last twelve games he has pitched. a Shaber orporate Im Jersey. TRENT Aug, 1.—The Shube ‘Dheatrical Company fled articles of tn- |corporation at hte oMece of the tary of State this afternoon, ‘T thorized capital stock will be $1,000,0t! The Incorporators n are Wil! Klein, Charles A. Bird and Joseph \\ Jacobs, all of New York. The com Will take over all property and > of the New York corporation crating under the sam@ peme. sinew now op Oe. (The New York World), Circulation Books Open to Alt.” AUTOIST ARRESTED FOR KILLING DOCTOR AAA RO ARAARD The Press Pu PENNY TRANSFERS ALL OVER THE CITY, RECEIVERS’ PLAN Third Avenue Road Opposes Suggestion From the Metropolitan. FREE ONES CUT OFF. Would Apply to All Points, Instead of Those Trans- ferless Now. Receivers Joline and Robinson of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company have proposed a universal “penny transfer" to Receiver Whitridge of the ‘Third Avenue Ratlroad Company as the vest solution of the whole transfer ques- tion relating to the surface railroads of Manhattan, Announcement of the proposal was made to an Evening World reporter by William D. Guthrie, counsel for the Third system, at the close of the hearing of the Public Service Commission upon its mandate of avenue July 11 ordering the various surface companies to agree for “through routes and joint rates" by Aug. 10. “We have not as yet accepted the proposal of Receivers Joline and Robin- son, for the reason that we are of the opinion that the public as a whole would oppose the fdea,” said Mr. Guthrie, Under its terms both the Third avenue and the Metropolitan roads, which are now operated as separ- ns, would abolish free trans- are now giving at 168 points. points would become ‘penny points, as well as 151 points where no transfers of any sort are be- ing given, The advantage of the pro- posal is that the public would be pro- vided with 319 ny transfer’ points instead of 168 free transfer points and 161 points where no transfers of any sort are given.” PENNY TRANSFERS TO TAKE PLACE OF FREE ONES. that the 168 located upon the points compelled transter, The Guthrie explained r points are are ts now Mr. free trans the two systems and where each company law to give a f lawyer was of the opinion that in sacrificing 168 free transfer pointe to nin 319 “penny transfer” points the | public was nothing ahead, Receiver “phis was the opinion of Whitridge," he sald. “Besides, the plan |provided for another penny when @ second transfer was given, Thus it would cost a passenger six cents to transfer to a crosstown line and seven cents to resume the journey upon the th Ine upon the other elde hn and 80 ae ‘The transter proposal of of the ot bt on has not srs. Joline and Robinson natin ade to the Pubitc Service | Commission. | The hearing before the commission |was productive of an explosion from Assemblyman Mark Ge ldberg against the proposed ‘Joint rate” of 8 cents and ents, which the lemtslator eaid meant ng less than 3 cents for the first and 2 cents additional for the transfer second transfer e Mr. Goldbere got the floor Commissioner MoCarrol ed to persuade him to hold had vainly t at which his remark until Friday, oft " date Mr. MoCarroll sald there would be | another er hearing. LAWMAKER TELLS BOARD THE PUBLIC OPPOSES IT. I very to make my re ks at th giving the Com loners inity to know how the pubic has received the proposed elght- t and ten-cent fares,” sald Mr, Gotd- taking the floor, “Of course the e of New Jork, particularly those in my district, the Etghteenth 8 satiated n from the stating thet elght and re be good for | is very bad and in- seems me that the Faron OOF a de Permitted) Since Stewards Suspended |something new. This etght and ten Him Last Week. , | rate Is not new. It is in| NOTTINGHAM, England, Aug rm lo at the present time, I do) Danny Maher returned to the saddle to- |, | not think the compantes should be per | day anion by wins | t | mitted’ to try to fool the public, and T| ning the pr @ of to-day's card, | lyn @ not foo! the the Nottinghan ers’ Foal Plate of ro Commission order | £500, with Cap and The even. F free war s and then let the com-|was run at five furlongs straight ri | panie { confiscation.! Maher was ordered suspended in Eng: ¢ ———a nd last ok for @ ride that didn't ad Page) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST OUT TO ARREST LYNCHERS WHO BURNED NEGRO State Troopers Detailed to As- sist Sheriff in Serving War- rants at Coatesville. POLICE ARE ACCUSED. Chief of Force Charged With Giving Negative Aid to Mob —One Officer a Leader. COAT TILE, Pa, Awe. 16.—The Chester County authorities engaged tn investigating the lynching of the neger Ezekiel Walker, here last Sunday night are ready to make arrests, and it ‘© expected they wil take into custody this afternoon a number of men stx- pected of having been le: ‘sof the mob. A number of warrants have been Issued for certain persons whose names are being withheld. Some of the wa rants are in the name of “John Doe.” Capt. Wilhelm of Troop C, State oo- Hee, and several county officials at noon went to the Newlin farm, where the lynching occurred, while Sheriff Golder remained here at police heudquarters with a omall detall of State troopers. There ts also a jl of the Sate poe live on stuty atone of the big fron mils In this borough. It is beHeved that some of the men to be arrested are employed in the mills. One of the warrants is to be served on @ policeman who is alleged to have been one of the leaders of the mob. The county authorities are withhold- ing all information of their plans, and {t {8 expected that whatever ai are made probably will not made known until the prisoners are safely landed in the Chester County Prison at West Chester, twelve miles away. POUICE OPENLY CHARGED WITH BACKING MOB. Sensational charges implicating the Police of this town in the lynching of the county seat, Walker, followed a meeting of the Coatesville Borough authorities which lasted all last night and well Into this morning. .It 1s reported that at least one of the borough policemen took part in the lynching. There ia talk of an in- Borough Council and Chairman of the Police Committee, accuses Chief of Po- | ) lice Umstead of not doing his duty. He | ., charges that the chief had been warned in ample time of the gathering of the mob to burn Walker at the stake, but he did not raise a hand to prevent It While tha mob that followed the negro to tl pyre on the farm half a mile from town numbered anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000, it 1s safd that only about twenty-five men took an active part in the work of avenging Poltceinan Rico's death. One rumor 1s that an active participant, becoming frightened at the result of the mob’s work and fearing a jong prison sentence, has given all the rh tt th Despite reports of outbreaks and pow sible attacks by negroes, peace reigne tn *oatesvl th and the surrounding coun- | +) try to-day. State police, mounted and on foot, are guarding the town, assiat: |¢ ed by the town’s amall force of police men, The troopers arrived here late | th ast night, and an additional number | + me in to-day to relieve those on duty. | te A report spread through Coateaville Jast mht that during the night a band | b First Appearance of Yankee Jockey aatiety the Stewards at the dime, field cousins for witnesses and the Me Church of St of the knot the newlywels from New port were remarried here considering firat report stood in danger yne years without her par. marrt sented to have tore Clu. 16, 1911. 14 PAGES Brooklyn Doctor Who Was Killed in Street by Racing Automobile GERAGHTY REWEDS NEWPORT GIRL 10 FOIL HER PARENTS Chauffeur Has Priest Tie the Knot to Fortify Against Annulment. vestigation of the conduct of the Police | SPRM Mass. Aug. 16.—No Department on Sunday night. law yet by man to shatter Richard D. Gibney, a member of the | love's young dream can step between the “Happy Jack" Geraghtys and thetr eymoon happiness now. With a puple of the sung hushand's Spring- Rev. r M.A. Kelly of the Roman Cath- Michael as the binder to-day Geraghty adinitted that they had been the step ever since the became public that they of having their mar: age annulled because of their viola- lon of the Connecticut law prohibiting ne marriage of a girl under twenty- nts’ or guar hey made up their minds to have the 6 cemented beyond every effort ¢ Frenehes or L @ might make t> eak up the matoh through recourse > the law, Th ee of the Catholle Church for ne KecONd Ceramony Was In obedience > the wishes of Geraghty and his amily, The younk bride gladly con- y Father Kel! of negroes bent upon vengeance would | !inposed march on the Rice home, take the body | children F of the dead policeman to the outakirte|Peared in the Carhol na anaritnas of the town and burn tt, While the au-| were Misa Evelyn and Joseph tho: did not belleve this would’ be|fiarris, “Ha Teauiale noumna’ aaa | lone, they took precautionary measures | Geraghty wore @ large bluok picture hat and awore fn fifteen firemen as tin plume policemen, and these men guarded the her by ‘Springflett's Tce home all night. Within the house t her d 1 were the five children and | sume chocke in which re |uhe eloped from Newport and which ts —— {shown In the epaner photographs is having @ numbar of dre made MAHER BACK IN SADDLE iris baying a nmi ot does mart AND WINS FEATURE RACE, 2) i'e0008,% e000 hor he trunks fl NO GIANT GAME TO-DAY, Heavy show an he ne caused the it ay's 8 hetw . ne Glants, ‘That leaves ab in Natlonal League, ox srook and Boston, {dle fo! day PRORD, Conn 16. Left u Hie nnectiout Leay lay to the jamea H. Clarkin, ow Me 270 20x we aot Myon Leaves Chicago for Here Monday. fight to Elkhart, Indiana, stage of his trip from St York and Boston, Harry N record breaking aviator, a! biplane from the lake fron grounds this afternoon. Assemblage had turned out his departure Atwood’ said he would fly ety until he gat to South Chi he probat end of Lake Michigan into Li out the Lake Shore tracks them to Elkhart. The atrshii he made his trip from St terday was In perfect ht law n Atan's consent. ‘The ominous atience| only olling and technteal names of the guilty on condition that holiun ‘by the girite family hee asitated | the atart to-day Wall _not be propecuted. the young couple, and finally to-day} Barring accidents Atwobd # he can make Boston within th a | he had set for his trip to New He arranged schedule to y him as far ax Buffalo to-day | fight this afternoon was scheduled as from Chicago to Elkhart Ind. Leavi Elkhart — to-morrow morning, Atwood figu » make To-| edo tn the noon and Sandusk n the event Thursday i planned for the alr voyage from Sand leveland, Leaving ¢ an Me morning, Atwood plans to rea falo Friday afternoon and remain ver night HALF WAY ACROSS THIS STATE SATURDAY On Saturday he expects to get a Jin 4 Ista Pues ' . days f ‘ to Boston wi 6 ten-day trip wi ‘ ie Evans, ‘The d him $2,400 for his © y, and he gets $h gers of the Chicago aviatior K here Fr cities alo} He reach rt the line ov prizes upom Beeman. (Special to The Frening Wo CHIOA Auk. 15.—With tation of making an unt Ata An y would cut across the lo AVIATOR ATWOOD ON SECOND STAGE OF 1,S00-MILE TRIP Elkhart, Ind., and Expects to Be ia) the expec nterrupted ond the se wis to od, thy tarted his nt aviation immenne witness to ov "ago, wth Mana, pick and follow p in which Loute y at th on 1 needed ering fo Ngures th t ONE CENT. ‘PRICE CHAUFFEUR ACCUSED ~OF SLAYING DOCTOR ON SPEEDY JOY RIDE \Police Arrest William H. Babcock, Driver for President of Steam- ship Line, for Crushing H. P. Bender to Death. ‘ HIS COMPANIONS TELL OF ACCIDENT AND FLIGHT. Brooklyn Physician Hit From Behind as He Alights From Trolley Car After Late Call. William H. Babcock, chauffeur for William Hartfield, president of the Italian Navigation Company, was arrested at One Hundred and Four- teenth street and Broadway this afternoon by Central Office Detectives Tunney and Patt on a charge of being the driver of the speeding motor car that struck and killed Dr. Herman P. Bender in Brooklyn late fast night. erat Babcock refused to make any statement to the officers beyond deny- ing that he was the man wanted, He was taken to the Willimsburg police static wn for examination. SENATORS GALL Rabcock’s arrest waa the reault of « | chance clue picked up by the detectives early to-day while working along Wil- |toughhy avenue, Brooklyn, At Gates | avenue they came upon the information | that five men had altghted from a large Mah powered motor car about midnight and entered a nearby saloon. In that saloon they learned in what direction the joy riders had gone after getting their drinks and they followett the seent. SCENT GROWS WARMER AS bs PEACE TREATIES BREEDERS OF WAR a | found © young man, who told them he hud seen the five men enter another aloon nearby and that he had heard one Lodge Presents Report of Com- mittee, That Hits at Taft's them call & companion by the mente Birmingham, From this saloon @ Arbitration Plans. were able to get the name Lawrence. Hirmingham of No. 1% Halsey avenue —_—_—— The found Birmingham at hone WASIITNGTON, Aue 1—The arbl-[ANd," according to the detectives, he Pei nritain and |Peadily admitted having been one of ao cane ve Senate by |{8® Party In the car that etruck Dr. France » the | Bender. At first he dented knowledge President Taft a aractertzed by the! yr the chauffour's name, but finally 1 Porclen Relations | gayg it as “Billy” Babcock and said he ‘ and not of Peace” lthought he Kept the maohine in a gar- nted to the}age on Broadway near One Hundred nanats 1:40) prepared {and Fourteenth street. At the garage the detectives were told has rahi ae ti he general | tay that Babcock had taken out the ‘ uty with | Hartfield car last evening and had not principles fc yet returned They waitg!, and this the te Ate ae aMivention wube [afternoon thelr mun drove in with the tentative 8 6 ox to| machine and was placed under arrest. books gyphe lies elagat rman Am-|CHAUFFEUR HAS PREQUENTLY ; iri BEEN JOY RIDING. tofintt sl to-day at} Babcock's employer, Willam Hart. t n of 4 conference between |feld, lved at No. 45 Riverside Drive fj etary a The entire famtly is in Burope. ‘The police say Babcock was not supposed o : e 9 Pe ail jto use the car during the owner's ab- i} . sence, but that he has frequently deen t © amendment and pament ar /out on Joy rides, Render was getting off @ street | car within a block of his home, to which he was returning after bringing a new into the word when te wae in. tary Kkled by @ fust-going racing . ‘Thia was after 1 o'clock rivng, at Willoughby avenue and sroadway, Nearly every bone tn his body was broken, The chauffeur, whose head was barely visible above the long tonneau of tie hearing the horrified cries of © OF More spectators who wit- od the tragedy, threw on full speed A drag-net was quickly thrywn out all over Drooklyn, and the pollce- 2 at the three bridges notified to be on the lookout for @ long, low, dari «ray racing automobile, with long body jand covered with dus, But no trace of tt was found, ‘The only clue was the ast (wo numbers of the automebile’s: icense, Sand 7, he police learned that there were re | four men in the racer, Policeman uli! | Hatner, who was standing at the corner “lof Hart street, a block away, saw the automobile just before the accident, It ~ | was gning S mes qa Aour at the ma when Mr. | th | ne Jeliver a spe diuter