The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1911, Page 12

ri NEW YORK LEADS WORLDIN SAE RAPID TRANSIT Interborough Manager Hedley Found London and Paris Tubes Far Behind Ours, NOTHING TO TEACH US. | “We Are 25 Years Ahead of London and Lead Paris More Than That,” He Says. “The very Inst word in tractions Been said right here In New York City,” @oclared Frank Hedtey, vice-president and general manager of the Interbor- | ough Rapid Transit Corpany, who has Just returned from Europe to-day “After the delfberations and hesitations of a month spent tn foreign railway carriages of various description. 1 bow to the truth, Let the managing direc- tors of the Buropean railroad lines, ur- ban and suburban, hereafter come to us for light. We are indeed @ miracu- lous generation upon this side of the ingularly enough, we cannot pur advanced position.” Probably no one was more surprised to find backward conditions upon the other side than Mr. Hedley, ‘Twenty-nine y ago Mr, Hedley » & small town in Kent, Engl where he was born. Upon his arrival here he walke he streets with twenty shillings in his pockets, looking for a Job. He “caught on” in the machine shops of the Erie Ratiroad at Jersey City, and his pay was $2.35 a day, Eight years ago, when August Belmont scoured the country for the best transportation expert to be had, Hedley had risen step by step and ‘was head of the elevated lines of Chi- cago. The New York financier picked bim to open the New York Subway. “Until this year I never had a chance te revisit England,” continued Mr. Hed- ley, “I always @ Job and couldn't Get away. But after the way some of ‘the best people talked wbout the Inter- borough, I felt I could be spared, 1 had @u idea that there was something for me to learn across the water, and that {1 could get hold of the latest styles In transportation from Paris and London I fight redeem our company in the public oe. “Well, Iam back with a measage. I have caried it al Ithe way from Paris @nd London. It ts ‘They need us moro than we need them.’ 1 regret to aay I picked up not @ hint or suggestion for use upon our own subway and roads. We are twenty-five years ahead of them, and my time on the other side was principally taken up in pointing out improvements for the foreign links, mod- elled a tion. LONDON TUBE “WORK THEIR WAY.” “Arthur Stanley, the managing dl- Fector of the London subway, is an American and has been in London three | school years. I had considerable to do with his selection. His pro! 18 to coax the people underground, and he ts just beginning to make headway, Somehow PASSENGERS | ¢ral prominent women will be arr BOBBI 1—This is the spot peepers out of their eyes and looked ahont they were delighted. valley, behoki—there was Fairyland. Everything was so smal). Toy cows, chickens, pigs, horses and sheep roamed over the little felds or in ami out of miniature barns, Some sut quietly under tiny trees and the CUTEST Nttle men tendad the farms. TO ARREST WOMEN FOR PLOT 10 TAR AND FEATHER GIRL They Urged Men to Attack On Young School Teacher, Is Charge. GHADY BEND, Kan., Sept. 9.—Sev- ted, it Is expected, as having incited the re- markable attack on Miss Mary Cham- berlain, the pretty elghteen-year-old her whom a crowd of men and boys tarred and feathered on a country road near here the other night. Theso women were jealous of Miss the people of London prefer to climb |Chamberlain, tt 1# said, and they pro- on the top of busses and waste untold | Voked the cruel assault on her by tell- time getting to and from business, Pri. | ing hideous ries about her, vate capital bullt teh three tunnel sys- tems of London, and the stockholders about 2 per cent. on thetr Ine If the British metropolis ever gets any more subways it will bulld | them Iteelf. “Stanley operates under two-minute headway and attains thirty-five miles an hour between statio a sengers ure really nc of the tube, for they | @hut the train doors, w stations, and if they it is their own fault miles for aix cents in Londe sixteen and a hal in New York City local, for these subways have but two tracks. You buy your tleket at the booking office, let 4 man punch can ride six nst | » cents y train is al} Mt as you £0, Cut on the platform, and | you open the door of the car, keeping your ticket When y to your destination you must open the door of your car and hand your ticket to the man at the 4 you move toward | the lifts. Spaitiee WONDON WAY SEHIND Us AND PARIS STILL WORSE, “London 1s slowly coming to the steel @ar, five to a train. When I told of Our ten-oar trains the Wnglish oMcials Opened their e; Each train has @ Motorman and a conductor, the latter ding botween the first and second @ars. Sometimes there is « guard on the rear platform. No bell is passed, ‘When the conductor makes up his mind everybody is aboard he waves @ green flag or a lantern at the motorman. Em- ployees wear blue uniforms with plenty @f gold braid. ‘dn Paris, where the subways are owned and controlled by the govern: | ment, but operated by @ pri Dany, conditions are far worse. The | care ‘ar ood ennoun Must watch out and be ready to work for the company, as in London Day for as far as you ride. @re slouchy looking, in @ark-biue trousers and funny looking fiat-topped caps Wear medals which must have oost from five to ten cents each. with the Frenoh peration that I kept | bove ground in Paris. Taxicabs are @0 cheap there. Sixteen cents for the fret mile is the cost to American mill- fonaires. Parisians ride in them even More cheaply, I venture. “But to return to the subway. I mght say that none of the cara are equipped with fans, and the trains are Mot clearly marked as to their destina- tion, nor are the stations clearly marked either. tn London or tn Parts “ouble-decked trolley cars and ‘buses fare the means of transportation In both Liverpool and Manchester. There are horse trams all over England, and in Maidstone the same old ark which drew fme to the station twenty-nine years ago 1s rocking over two streaks of rust. We fead the world tn transportation here in New York as well as in everything ele it really does one good to find thi hw Miss Chamberlain's family lives near Beverley and is one of the oldest in that section and is highly respected. The irl has always borne a good name, and the men who took part In the outrage are said to be among "the dest people” in the county, farmers mostly, Influentia! men are trying to hush up or settle the extraordinary affair, but County Attorney McCandless vows that every one concerned in tt - ey shall be pun. It 1s certain that more men will be arrested and charged with taking part in the crime, Edward Ricord has been again, He was taken in cus- 1 of enticing Miss Cham- is employed temporarily here, from her boarding and handing her over to her savage tormentors, Rlcord was re- leased wu bonds. His offer to turn State's evidence was refused and he went to Beloit, bond was revoked and he was arrested again there He is now tn the county jall and will come before Judge Dallas Grover at the No- vember term of the District Court, E. A. M. Simms, John Schmidt, V 1 Scranton and Jay Fitz. water, ) @re under $600 bond d_will be tried in November, but un- der the Kansas law it is be charged only with reste were made, but e men pleaded wullty to being only spectators, they paid only @ nominal fine and were re- leased. Chester Anderson and Delbert Kindle- sparger, miners, have been sentenced to three months tn jail, All the sp who were fined will be used as witnes! against Kicord and the other men under bond. ‘The farmer, suspected of being | the ringleader, has fled the county. ———— GET-RICH-QUICK MAYOR CAUGHT IN BRIBE TRAP, Five Other Gary Officials Also Arrested in Alleged Case of Municipal Corruption, HAMMOND, Ind, Sept. ®&—Mayor Thomas E. Knotts, who went to Gary in debt and first lived in @ tent and | now owns banks and bus! and lives in affluence, all coming to | him tn @ spectacular three yearn’ Ife as |Mayor of Gary, was yesterday trapped and arrested in his own office on a |charge of soliciting and accepting a! alleged to have abducted her four-yeat- $5,000 bribe from 1, B. Dean, F old daughter, Ruth, from the home of dent of the Dean Heating and 1 suardian, her husband's {Company of Loutsvitle, Ky 5. D, Sawyer, tn this city, | Five Councilmen and City Engineer | Te ¢ belleve mother and child C. A. Williston were also arrested, a w in Purope, while the child's fath zs ruption ta { Harry Sawyer, a theatrioal manager, ep astounding tale of corruption is| (co rdases the fon that, hin daughter again being unfolded tn Gary, It tsi, probably in New Yor Clty, the third time Knotts has been ar-| Nir, and Mra, Sawyer fave not Hved |rested, charged with crooked work|together for two years and during that | in connection with his Mayor Knott said there where the moonbeam lit when {t shot from the moon and in this place Bobbie and | Beasie landed. It was high up on a mountain, and | here the children slept until the bright sun awoke them carly in the After the kiddies had rubbed the Fer, looking from the mountain into the nian Institution authorities contemplate Such a pretty lot of toys, thought the children. “Let us start right now, and when we reach them we'll have SUCH sport,” sald Bessie. What could be lovelier than such an endless world of pretty, perfect | toys! She was all out of breath from excitement. Once started down the mountain, ft was impossible to see the tiny Fairyland, 80 thick were the woods through which tise rough windlug path led. “I'm so glad. I just saw a farm; this must be the last turn. Now we shall find this little world which we eaw from the top,” said Bobhie. The first thing they came to was a barn, a very big one. But they knew It to be one which had looked ODDITIES IN __THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. E AND BESSIE IN SEARCH OF FAIRYLAND. very small from wp top. And next to this barn were a few cows, a horse and some chickens. All these they had seen from the mountain, but NOW all were the size of any other cows, horses or chicks they had ever seen. 2.—"“Are you two duckies looking for Fairyland?” asked Farmer 8i, who had overheard their complaints, but whom they had been too busy to notice. He looked 0 kind that Bobby and Bessie told him their troubles. “You jest come along with me. T'll show you the Fairyland country ‘kids know. Right:in my backyard, too." “Ie there anything to cat there?” i “Are you bungry? Oh, _ well, Missus S! will fix that al) right.” 8.—It was not like home, but Bob- die and Bessie were so hungry they never noticed any difference. Gruel, honey, pies, plenty of but- ter and home-made bread were set heartily. When they were satisfied they first noticed that the tablecloth | was not large enough and that the “Come, Bessie, hurry, let's go to asked Bobbie. they had visited the country. They lieoe the old horse, tumbled about in the hay in the barn, jumping from the rafters into the piles of crack- Ming straw. Then they trotted along |to see the cows milked, Jaughing and enjoying every moment. | “Bobbie, that man in, the moon before them. With napples tied se-|never showed us how the cow Jumped) ourely under their chins they ate over the moon, as he promised he | would,” said Bessie. “Never mind,” said Bobbie as he spied the old swing. “This looks | dishes wére not many and not pretty. good! Come on, Bessie, let's swing!”| The swing hung on an apple tree, |Pairyland,” said impatient Bobble and as they went flying through the! Saturday. |before he had swallowed the last air ripe, red apples came tumbling fram here. We'll walk along that down. Some of them would hit the children on their heads as they fell. At this they laughed merrily. 5.—Finally, swinging became tire _By Eleanor Schorer |Some. - They stopped and, feeling a little hungry, sat beneath the tree and ate the apples. Now, little children seldom know when to stop. This was the case with Bobbie and Bessie. They ate too many. Alas! How ll they felt! Poor little girl and boy! “If these were Fairyland apples we would never get sick from them,” sald Bessie. “That's right, this isn't Fairyland. Never mind, we will feel better next Then we will go away Toad and MAYBE we will meet some- Jone who really KNOWS where the Fairyland that we are looking for is. ELEANOR SCHORER. THE NEWS Strange and Curious Happenings tn the Chronicles Brown of Sadileville, Ky., thought @ vaccine point wi toothpick. The vaccine took, Now she fs in @ Cincinnat! hospital. One hundred and eighty dollars in Dill was found in a Brooklyn mail box yesterday by Letter Carrier Will- fam Schauffler. A clerk for Friday & Lehman thought he had put the bills in an envelope. Cousted Five Mi Peak on a . R. O. Green of New York, and M. H. Hayden of Detroit, yesterday coasted down Pike's Peak, five miles, on a greased board that shot down the mountain railway track in five minutes and thirty-seven seconds. Pike's Pledges $85,000 to the Poor Out of Salary If Elected Judge, Noble unselfishness may be balked by, law in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Representa- tive Michael F. Shannon, who wants to be elected Judge of the Orphans’ Court, of To-Day. conatitutes @ violation of the election law, _— leep Sends Mam Back Penitentiary. Walter Hamilton of Oklahoma City slept at @ neighbor's house recently and talked in hig sleep. Now he is going back to the penitentiary at Huntsville, ‘Tex. from which he escaped five years et a neighbor told the police what aa! re of All the Cigar- Tebacco in Town. Hymns were sung and prayers sald by citizens and students of the college town of Mare Hill, N. C., when $200 worth of cigarettes and tobacco, there was in town, was burned in & bonfire. The event was the climax of @n evangelistic campaign, Volunteer subscriptions paid the bill. “Hell” Is Barred as a Name for a New York Restaurant. “Hell” ag a name for a New York restaurant wae yesterday drowned upon ‘dy Secretary of State Lazansky at Al- Dany. A law firm asked to incorporate @ Bo has pledged $3,500 a year for ten years out of the $8,500 salary to the poor of the city. Opponents say the promise concern under that name, Mr. La- sansky thinks to operste a restaurant under such @ neme would be against public policy, WILL SHOW COST OF ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA. Smithsonian Institution Also to Tell Who Contributed—Kermit Pays Own Way. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—With the announcement that Kermit Roosevelt has started on a hunt in the wilds of New Brunswiok to secure 1@ speci- mens for the National Museum has come the statement that the Smithso- an early publication of the expenses of the Roosevelt expedition into Africa with an announcement of the identity of those who paid the bills. At this time the total cost of the el- Xpedition is not given. It 4s known, though, that two-fifths of the expense was born by the Colonel and three-fifths by the Smithsonfan. No money appropriated by the Govern- friende of the contributing the three-fifths, Offictally the trip ts now recorded tn the Smithsonian records as the “Smith- sontan African Expen Col. Roosevelt Agures only as @ member of the party Kermit's trip into the Canadian coun- try to the north of Maine is at his own expense. pO SEEKS ABDUCTED DAUGHTER. Detectives Engaged by Hu a to ‘Trail Mes, Sawyer. SALEM, Mass, Sept. 9.—Detectives been engaged tn this country and oad to trail Mns, Rosaline Van es Sawyer, a former secretary to HS. Willard, the English actor, who ts h time the wife has endeavored to get & ‘RAID ON OFFICES OF DR. JOHN GRANT LYMAN. Postal Authorities Seize Papers of Promoter After He Leaves Los Angeles, LOS ANGELES, Sept. %.—The de- parture of Dr. John Grant Lyman, pro- mot from his offices in Los Angeles to San Francisco brought about an in- vestigation by the postal euthorities yesterday. Dr. Lyman ie known from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast as the master mind behind numberless paper million dollar concerns, like Interna- tional Zinc, end for the last few months has been the organizer and head of the Panama Development Com- pany, formed to dispose of lands in Panama. Two boxes, filled with “litereture,” office stationery and other documents of the Panama Land concern, were seized to-day and placed in the cus- tody of the postal inspectors. The offices of the concern in Mercantile place were closed, and what property there may be will be taken on attach- ment. A few years ago Lyman was in trouble with the British authorities because of a Western Canada scheme. He did business in London, Montreal and Toronto. a NO. CITY FOR QUAKER MAID. Visiter, Robbed on Ari Right Back to Ph: “How are you?’ said a stranger to Miss Mary Itjan of Philadelphia, who, havin, tion last night, had w. tly-thrid street to take a ‘Very well, thank you," replied Miss Itjan, “but I don't know you.” He j grabbed her silver mesh purse and | darted into the station, she following and screaming "Stop thief!" The fu, tive darted in and out of the jan labyrinth, Detective Craig caught him | in the street. That's the man who robbed me," ped Mins Itjan when she came up. Goas | ‘The prisoner said he was William was absc vorce. She came here Aug. 1 and lutely nothing on h to base hia |naid she would take Ruth away over real " ns [Sunday She did wof retura. ieee ‘ \ ‘And to think of tt! ‘This ls Yew York!"*| JEWISH MASSACRE NOW PREDICTED BY “MAD MONK” Heliodorus, the Fanatic, Gives Warning of Attacks and Causes Panic. TSARITSYN, Russia, Sept. 9.—Hello- dorus, the “Mad Monk of Twariteyn,” hes publicly declared that attacks upon Jews and the Russian intelligent classes would be commenced after the holding of the forthcoming Congress of the Black Hundreds. ‘The declaration of the parish priest, whose fantastic methods have startled the whole Volga region, has created an impression of semi-panic in this city. Talk of a probable massacre of Jews is current at the bazaars. Only thirty-one years old, the Monk Heliodorus is the most talked of man in the Ri lan Church to-day. Last decree of the Church transferring him from Tsaritsyn. ‘They barricaded themselves in the church and refused to partake of food or sleep until the order was rescinded. In June last he was received by the Emperor, and since his return to Tsaritsyn he has conducted himsel¢ like @ fervent madman. “We must pray to God noisily” is his motto. A fantastic pilgrimage of 1,500 persona, mostly women, under the leadership of Hellodorus, startled the entire Volga region this immer, and drew popu- lar attention to the ‘Mad Monk.” He has terrorized the clergy by his impetuosity and capped his {mperti- mence by proclaiming Archbishop Jacob of Kazan anathema. Since his return to Tsaritsyn from the to Sarov Heliodorus’s dol: ly upon real only men- aced our enemies,” preached the monk. “Henceforth we shall begin to shoot. Tt is @ war tot a ae TOADSTOOLS KILL TWO MORE stool potsoning at his nome, Ni South Eleventh avenue, Mount Vernon, co, who died Wednesday cause. mak- ‘oole in far ne that city since Sunday. Three other in a critical condition in 1 Hospital and St. Joseph's, JAMES McGREERY & CO. 23d Street SILK DEPARTMENTS. 34th Street In Both Storea, “McCreery Silks” Famous over half a Century. Complete assortment of colors in Plain and Novelty Silks, Velvets and Dress Goods, many identical to those used in Model Gowns. On Monday f September the and Tuesday, irth and rath 15,000 yards, Double Width Crepe de Chine in a choice assortment of colors, also White or Black. Black Millinery Velvet. Blue or Black, especi made Suits. inches wide, 54 Inches wide. 23d Street Adame, No, est One Hundred and Ninth at! Miss itjan said she would ge bome 90 the very, Ares rain, 4 DRESS GOODS DEP’TS. 5,000 yards of Natte Suiting in Dark Navy Sponged and Shrunk, 1.00 per yard 24 inches wide. 1.25 per yard value 2.00 In Both Stores, ally adapted for Tailor- Black Broadcloth, sponged and shrunk, rd 1, Tr yar 45 Pade aat 1.55 per yard value 2.25 JAMES McCREERY & CO. 34th Street so san gare Joseph Bianco, fifteen, died from toad- 619 . He was a cousin of spring he and his parishtoners deed ©) TOQ “BROKE” TO PAY DUTY. Three Sisters, Relea chants Abroad Got Their Money. BALTIMORE, Sept. %.—Convinced of truthfulness of their story that they were perduaded by merchants abroad to spend go much money that they had none left to pay duties, Deputy Collector Ryan has released three women from Cincinnat! who were de- tained here on a c! of smuggling. It was alleged that they attempted to juggle about $200 worth of jewelry and other goods into the country. are the Misses Anna, Schueler, sisters, and had been to Ger- many, They signed an agreement to pay the fine, about $600, when they could raise the money. Say Mer-) 5, i ne WFES LAWYER NORGE SUT NAMED S VOR Lynch Bought Groceries in Mrs, Stansfield’s Name, Witness Says. HE D IES THE CHARGE... Husband Asserts He Didn’t Know Spouse Had a Furnished Flat. A new turn was given to the trial ef the suit for separation brought by Mrs. Eugenie Stansfeld against Sam- uel B, Stansfield before Justice Tomp Kins in the Supreme Court at White® Plains yesterday. During the pres tation of evidence in behalf of Sta: fleld, who is suing for a divorce on counter charges, the name of Mrs, Stansfleld’s lawyer, Humphrey J. Lynch, was brought into the case as one of several men who had visited Mrs. Stangfield at her furnished apert- ments she rented in Manhattan with- out the knowledge of her husband. Stansfleld is manager of the Water- house Worsted Mills, and is said te have @ large income. His wife was formerly married to George Flint, son of Dr. Austin Flint, the alienist, but divorved mini a week before she mar- ried Stansflela. She 1s getting alimony of $100 @ month pending trial of the suit. The naming of Lawyer “ynch caused @ sensation in the crowded courtroom, and he flushed as a witness {dentified him as the man who had come into @ grocery store where the witness worked, near Mrs. Stansfleld’s flat, and purchased eggs, cream and other groceries at an early hour in tne morning, telling the clerk to charge them to Mrs. Stansfield. Mrs. Stansfield seemed to be much taken aback at this evidence, also, and with a glance of hatred at her his- ‘4 and his counsel exclaimed in low ton “It's a 0 try to ruin young lawyer. He is quite blamel ‘When the adjournment nour indignantly Lynch denied the ch a that whenever he went to see Mrs. Stansfield it was purely on business, ‘There has been considerable testimony on previous trial days concerning the do- ings at Mre. Stansficld's fiat on West Fighty-firet street, and yesterday Mrs. Harriett Dobbins swore she had seen Mrs, BStansfeld aitting on a window ail emokt cigarette, with a young = man by h ide who looked very like Lawyer Lynch. Mrs. Dobbins occupied the adjoining apartment, The Intrigue of Crown; Criminals; ; : Uncle; Song Hit. 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