The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1911, Page 1

E INA a? EOITION. x: “ Circulation Books Open to All,” “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ — —— ‘ PRICE ONE CENT. OTH rhe New Tork Weeds NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, FINA * GEOITION. ————— _— } AVIATOR FOWLER FALLS FLYING OVER MOUNTAINS ON OCEAN TO OCEAN TRIP Airman Badly tesa Injured and ns Machine Smashed in Sud- F den Plunge From Sky. CRASHED INTO A TREE. On Second Stage of Flight From Frisco to New York, He Meets With Disaster. ALTA, Cal,, Sept. 12.—The cross-con- tinent flight of Aviator Robert G. Fowler was Interrupted near here at 10.05 this morning by a fall which resulted tn the demolition of the aeroplane and Perhaps serious Injury to Fowler. The latter was brought to Alta and while he claims that his injuries were con- fined to a strained back, it 1s fearcd that he has been hurt internally. The ma- cbine is a wreck and cannot be re- Paired for the continuance of the jour- ney. Persons in Alta and Dutch Flat wit- massed the fall and rushed to Fowler aid. The altitude at this point ts 6,900 feet. Fowler escended at Auburn, Cal, a 9.83 A. M., to begin the second day of hig transcontinental flight, To-day's trip would have carried the aviator over the Blerra Nevada Mountain Fowler passed Colfax 15.77 miles from Auubrn and 142.4 miles from San Fra claco, at 9.65 A, M. He was flying at @ miles an-hour at an elevation of about | 1,000 feet. Maintaining his speed, Fowler neared this point. As he came into full view! it was evident that he was experiencing ‘trouble, His machine seemed to balk and he started volpianing for the earth. | After descending some distance the| roplane lurched und came to the ground. ‘A crowd ran to ald Fowler and found that he was not injured, AVIATOR'S BACK WRENCHED IN THE FALL. Explaining the accident, Aviator Fowler saic ‘Phe vertical rudder quit working for some reason, and all I could do was to @o around in a’ circle, My machine ung to the left in the spires, then dropped and hit a couple of tree damaging the frame badly. The ¢ gine, though, 19 all right, “My back is wrenc but the skin fe not broken, It will take three or four days to rebuild the machine. Fowler added that the Might after leaving Colfax was smooth and he en- tertalned ery hope of succes: topping the Slerras, despite the countering of contrary and perplexing alr currents, When in the neigh hood of Alta and about two mi of Duteh Flat something sudden!’ went wrong with the aeroplane and the ma- chine began going und in elrcles and dip to the earth, getting com- pletely beyond the control of the avla- tor. ‘The aeroplane caught In the top of a large pine tree at the edge of a wrecking the machine, oh awiftly the was caught in t kage. Fow din Auburn last EMPLOYERS YIELD TO AVOID STRIKE OF 10,000 TAILORS Women’s aah wt and Dressmak- ers Win Concessions by Threat to Quit Work. GET A WAGE INCREASE. Compromise Reached at Con- ference Will Be Presented at Mass-Meeting. A threatened strike of 10,000 employees of custom tallors of women's garments and dressmakers' workers aremed to be averted this afternoon when repre- tisentatives of tho Ladies’ Tatlors and Dressmakers’ Union Local No, 9% and the Merchant Tailors and Dressmakers’ Assoctation met this afternoon at the headquarters of the International Gar- ment Workers’ Union, No. 11 Waverley place. The conference agreed upon @ com- promise to be presented at @ mas meeting of the unlon workers at Ca: negie Hall at 8 o'clock to-night. Abra- ham Rosenberg for the local unton, Al- exander Dyche for the national union and Richard Iickson and Walter H, Bartholomew for the employ were the conferrees. ‘This was th compromise agrecement: 1, The plecework sy'stem to be left a8 a subject for discussion. 2. The minimum weekly wage to be raised from $21 to $24, instead of $25, as demanded, 3. The matter of abolishing base- ment and cellar shops to be left open for discussion. 4. The week's work to be decreased from fifty-two hours to fifty instead of to forty-elght. 5, Work on Saturday to cease at 8 o'clock all the year around, instead of at 1 o'clock. Fifty por cent. additional to he paid for overtime instead of 10 per cent. ‘The old rate was 4 per cent. The manufacturers sald that they could not subject themselves to the anger of w strike at this time when the orders for the fall and winter cus- tom trade are at thelr height. Nearly every woman who has come back from her vacation Is ordering at least one dress just now and some are ordering many. The strike would affect 1,000 if cated. non Rosman, organizer of the Tailors and Dressmakers’, says that this dimculty {s not a r al of the claok and sult makers’ strike of last year, That strike was settled un- de> au fronglad agreement which gave the workers almost everything they asked, The International Ladies’ Gar- night at 1 of his first da: air journe San Francisco en route to New York, slept as soundly as if no attempt at making history confronted lim, He was up early to-day and went at once to'the hangar where his biplane had been guarded throughout the night. A crowd was prasent and cheers greeted bis ap- pearance FEELS CONFIDENT OF LANDING AT RENO. There was little other than precau- tlonary Inspection to be done to the ma- chine, as tho engine made 47,7 miles from San | soo to this place with- out a hite Fowler said his machine waa in perfect conditlon when | ed, and that It was Just as ft wh ) arrived he Long ti lock, the hour des- hat of his start aching was Ing crowd, Fow akfast and gatd he felt coniident of @ succeasful Might to Reno., N tynated and worry by looking for THAT Flat Save ti tin today’s World, A great variety Cleveland a week ago authorized 4 strike in New York unless the employers yield, fo ee ery HART IS DISCHARGED. Exonerates Man Arrested Coron for Shooting Wite, Edward Hart was this afternoon ¢ ated by a Coroner's jury from the suspicton of having Killed hiv wife, Irene, who was found dead last day in the boarding house which she kept at No, 161 East Twenty-sevent etreet Hart wos discharged from castod by Coroner Feinberg and the J shook hands with him, Ass District-Attorney Rub} in the inves no evidence upon which Hart could. be held. ——_ Jone aod t ou HU etn la Bos s 10 | Lites. Catska Dowlaton aud al fax Bart’ How. Vous Beekman 4000, 1911. 18 PAGES SCIENCE HEALING Aviator Robert G. Fowler Hurt in Fall WALTER |. SUYD AM, IS “NEGLECT” 10 CORONER'S JURY Verdict Rendered at Inquest Into Death of Manager Eager of Woman's Hotel. ‘TREATED’ THREE YEARS. Woman Church Practitioner Tells Feinberg He Can't Understand Method. The Coroner's jury inquiring tato the death of Arthur W. Eager, manager of the Martha Washington Hotel, who died there on Aug. 11, after three years of Christian Science treatment, brought In @ verdict this afternoon, The jury said that Mr. Eager died of chronic malaria, weravated into many other diseases by neglect.”” The questions of Coroner Feinberg to the witnesses at the inquest recolved It Into a general attack on Christian Scl- ence by the Coroner, who did not seem to be familiar with the terms and prac- tees of the cult. PHYSICIAN REPORTS GREAT COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. Dr. Larkin, the Coroner's physician, aid he found Mr, Eager died of a rup- ture of the spleen, internal hemor- rhoges, fatty degeneration of the heart and liver and acute gastritis—all of them the sequence of protracted ma- Jaria. Mrs. enla Hancock of No, 126 East ‘hirty-fourti street, who is a phystclan practising with her husband Charles R. Hancock, testifled that she called by Mrs. Eager as the hotel man was dying. Me was then past help. Dr. Charles R. Hancock, who came later, corroborated her. Mrs. Emma T. Eager, the widow, of calling on Dr. Hancock after Mary Wilson Me avenue, a Christian Sci healer, had refused to administer a phyodermte Infection to ease her husband's great pain. Mrs, Eager sald sho was not a Christian Scientist. Mrs. Meoker testifled that she had been treating Mr. Eager for nearly four years. There was typhoid fever com- plicated with the malaria at one time. He often yielded to treatment, “Do you, @ Christian Scientist, belleve there i# no such thing as disease," asked the Coronor, "and yet speak malaria and typhold and giving tr ment for them?” SHE ADMITS DISEASE; TREATS nent Workers’ Union tn convetion in who assinted gation, sald there was WITH PRAYER, "I do not deny il myself ®@ healer; how could I if there were no disease to be healed?” “What js your treatm nt?” asked the said Mrs, Meeker. fort of prayer? Different prayer for different disease “Tam afrald you canot understand unless you want mo to go into detatls, sald Mrs, Meeker patiently “We do not heal. God hei Our work 1s to pray to God to use his heallng influence and to put tho patient into @ proper frame of mind and soud to receive it?" “Why didn't you heal this man? “Thad not a fair eb Christian me can and lke Iressing ‘he jury he dis nition tacking @ but said that if Mrs. ent were right the Johnstown Hood could have been stop by ab rent treatment from this city Miss Meeker, while the Jury was ¢ Jbroke down and became hysterioa When the Jury returned she stuf handkerchief between and on itu e attaine pall UE, CHEESE NAME GONE, Schwelter WHI Be ber Hereatt produ t permission fr ahanty to chang stunding wou of Webber, INEBRIETY BOARD LAYS DOWN RULES FOR DRUNKARDS Inspectors Will be Named to Gather in the Derelicts in Greater City. DOUBT IN MAINE, VOTE NOW CLOSE ON PRORIBITION Majority of “Wets” Fades to 168 on Official Returns and May Be Wiped Out, told | PORTLAND, returns recelved up to ® late ‘hour to- nail unofficial antl-pro- shown this morning, {ficial margin Hid be alight Mayor Gaynor's Inebriety laid down the following regulations, d drunkards shall do farm and it looked as if the one way or the * barred from all farm col- after to be dgsigcated un- woul! turn the re and keep the State Official returns from 225 cities, towns | fficial figures repeal majority to 168 yo! would not «lve the fight until thi al figures were in Leighton of Port. this morning taken for a recount 0 returns | Increase the majority {for the repeat of the MAY PETITION FOR ANOTHER POPULAR VOTE, Tn addition to planning a contest of to enadigr the MILLIONAIRE, SAYS WIFE HAS ELOPED 22-Year-Old Frederick Noble Missing From Fashionable Blue Point Colony. PAIR ARE GONE A WEEK, Young Husband Dazed by Blow After Eight Years of Strong Devotion. Rumor of the mont sensational clopement in the history of the fash- fonable summer colony at Blue Point, L. I, was confirmed to-day when Wi ter T. Suydam Jr. the young miilion- aire, whose villa on the bay front ta one of the show places of the South Bhore, admitted that his beautiful young wife had run away with Fred- erick Noble, the twenty-two-year-old- son of Mr. and Mrs, H. M. Noble of No. 289 Decatur atreet, Brooklyn, The elopement ts nald to have occur- red a week ago, but both families have stubbornly dented the fact. The aban- doned young husband eald to-day that ho saw that secrecy was no longer pow sible, though he still hoped that tt might turn out that his wife had only left him on a “harmless lark.” 8UYDAM8' WEDDING FOLLOWED BOY AND GIRL COURTSHIP. ‘The missing wife in twenty-six years old, the same age as her husband. They were married elght years ago, as the cll max to a boy and girl courtship. They have occupied thelr villa at Hlue Point for five summers and are well known th all the fashtonable colonies along the South Shore, Young Suydam was ween by a repre sentative of The Evening World this afternoon ax he was coming ashore from hia yacht Nemesia, and asked If it were true that his wife’ had elo he replied wistfully, cannot deny that she bas left home, All that I can deny is that 1 neglected her and gave her cause to feel lonely, ‘The alr {a filled with false gowsip about my «et- ting up in the middle of the night and going away on fishing trips, It is trae that I take more than an amateur tn- terest in fishing and that I catch fish for profit. I do not belleve in the use- leas slaughter of fish and my catches are dispo of in the market “L have set my nets, like any other man, and gone out to haul them at o'clock in the morning, Mrs, Suydam seemed to take @ great Inte tn this and frequently accompanted me when | tauled the neta. She has always bs a» chum and companton and vartably displayed delight tn the recre- ations T ¢ Whatever trouble there ts, Is due to iy wife mixing with the young and thts of that set ver muspected for a mone t my wife regarded Wim ex cept In the Hight of @ boy. It was at blow to me when L learned the kiddy wet Noble was nibh | DEVOTED TO WIFE, WHO FLED the election the day began in Prohibition forces st the work of #ecur-| cece PACIFIC LINER WRECKED; PASSENGERS ALL SAVED, : s the Leg tsiature for aetna se does hot mean that Maine| | Jendeavorerd to i t and Rescue Steamer Takes (Continued on Second Pag @ kood hunting, A disappointed mucet complained SUDDENLY. eThis trouble has ¢ on me ike ® thunterclap, 1 was vinced that my wife wat supremely hapy Bhe ad no wish that 1 did not Jutely satisfy, Only a lew weeks JT bought ber a handsome new autom for her own use, She had her Jyacht, her horses, everything that a roof Inge to her und] afternvons and ever all the « mn a devote {band t# ¢ have not yet learned where m fe wen ntinued the PRICE “ONE “OENT. BG BROKERAGE FN, ON CHANGE 54 YEARS FALS FOR 000000 Assignment of Conservative Firm of J. B. Van Schaick @ Co. Follows Rumors of Seri- ous Trouble. CASHIER SLAIN BY BELLBOY WAS EMPLOYEE OF CONCERN Head of House Denies, $750,000 De- falcation, and Says 100 Cents on : Dollar Will Be Paid. The Stock Exchange firm of J. B. Van Schaick & Co., No. 7 Wall street, made an assignment to-day to Elliott Norton, a lawyer of No, 2 Rector street, for the benefit of creditors. William H, Jackson, who was killed in the Iroquois Hotel last July by Paul Geidel, a bellboy, was cashier. Mr. Norton, the assignee, after a long consultation with John B, Van Schaick, the board member of the firm, and Mr. Van Schaick’s only partner, Derby Crandall, made the following statement: “1 find that the firm has in liabilities between $3,000,000 and $4,- The failure was brought about by the over-extension of credits Mil fie. inability of many customers to make good. SCORES TO TO-DAY NATIONAL ONAL LEAGUE. AT BOSTON, FIRST GAME. 2012004 0-— This is the firm of which of the labilittes are secured, From @ cursory examination I sheuld@ . fay the Habiiities exceed the apparent resources by between $400,000 If the customers the firm depends on can pay up the creditors Will he settled with dollar for dollar, REPORT OF DEFALCATION FIRM 18 DENIED, “IT wieh to deny absolutely the repert that there has been defaication in Jackson carried an t with the firm with the consent %, and owed the firm sev. eral thousand dollars on the face of the » Was murdered, But this debt is almost, 100000650 0— Ratterles—Marquard y Perdue ang Kling securities held by teral and does not AT PHILADELPHIA, BROOKLYN— 32120 PHILADELPHIA— oo210 —e—— AMERICAN LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, ATHLETICS— 2 A Schaick, w Meneration of nis so Is of the third uly to hold @ Stock ved the statement who was formerly in the employ of the ¢ Van Schatck: “We have an accumulation of debts on our books duting back to before the of 197%, Of our more than 1,000 eo- re carried on small mar- Por & year past no Wall street w@ house without big conn 8 Dusiness enough telephone and telegraph bills. “Our house suffered in We find that we are unable to realise on @ lot of our debts a collateral which we ought to realize snnot be marketed, 1 for the beneft of our creditors 4 telegraph operator HIGHLANDERS— AT WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON— |JERSEYMAN PRISONER | OF LONDON POLICE. | ons We Ought tu pay out eon no defalcation |x FIRM ONE OF THE OLDEST ON STOCK EXCHANGE. ison uf the) founder, and tous wp v