The evening world. Newspaper, November 10, 1911, Page 4

t i i CUMMINS TAKES WITNESS STAND IN HISOWN DEFENSE Indicted Carnegie Story of His Li Head Trust Tells Jury if Former DEALS WITH BIG TRUST. Shows How terested In Affairs of the | He Became In- Carnegie Company. | | Witiam J Cumming, the reared banker, went on stand in his own | fetense in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court this afternoon. Under | the guidance of hie counsel, Max Steuer, Cummins literally told the story of hin life from the time he was a bare | foot, ragged little newsboy until he came to New York and beoame the guiding genius of the Carnegie Trust) Company. ‘Cummins he was born in Paris, | ‘Tenn. fifty yenrs ago. At the age of Memphts newspapers | im the streets of his town, In 183 his parents removed to Nashville, where he went ,to work in a drygoods house, | sweeping floors and doing such jobs He remained with that firm, advancing from grade to grade until 18%, when he married end struck out for himmelf. Me organized a brokerage concern in @rymoods which later became Commins Brothers, from which he has mai ae high as $54,000 a year and never then $10.00 a year. Then he organ: the Southern Soda Works Company which he sold out at a profit of $125,000. | ‘The Continental Baking Powder Com- pany was his next flotation It soon ness of $250,000 a year. | In -tapid. succession he organized the) Tennessee Packing and Provision Com- tional Union Stoc Yards prise Soap Works qqviand the Tenhessoe Packing and Stock Ms Sompany, all successes. In the fcouree of his activities he found time! Recumulate the Duncan Hotel at whville, in which he had originally $90,000. _ Raturally, with all his big business Cummins got to know # lot of kers and to understand a lot about king meth He explained how We got into the banking businers and led him to New York and t hold of the Carnegie Trust CAME..TO NEW YORK TO RAISE A HALF A MILLION. Cummins said Me came tc New York primarily to raise %600,00 for the ex- tension of his various enterprises. He met C. C. Dickinson, then President of the Carnegie Trust Company “Dickinson told me.” said Cummins, “he would buy $500,000 worth of bonds from me if I would buy stock in the arnegi¢ Trust Comany and get him dn $1,000,000 In new deporits. I bought stock ‘and was immediately elected a director 1 him $1,200,000 in new deposits, but Inson didn’t take the bonds, He 14 he had paid my deposits as fast as drought them over to Andrew Car- Inémie to liquidate a loan of $1,500,000, “in the pante of 191, Dickinson told res M. Schwab and Alton B. rrowed $1,500,000 for the Car- Trust Company from Andrew Tnégie in steel bonds, and Mr. © the aasets of the concern besides the pensonal guar- ir. Schwab and Mr, Parker “Dickinson told me he had Jooked 1 T needed development make my mised to tak er Vv 1 He told 3 1 got him 4 got iny bonds printed, failed to make good on his promise.” The court session clored of a lo with Cum. ww technical “fertiliaer tly jogns” which have in the cane sOR. LOWELL OF HARVARD "LEGION OF HONOR OFFICER. “PARIS, Nov. 10.—Dr. Abbott L, Lowel, Presidept of Harvard Univers! 1 day was created an Officer of Lasion of Honor. « > a DIED ON SHIPBOARD. + ‘dastave Plum, Landscape Gerdener ef Chicago's Park System, Vic- tim of Pneamon ‘The body of Gustave Plum at jandscape ‘Dverdener of the Chicago park system,| polong to clubs, to take an active part | SHE FAVORS—Women’s Clubs and a Forcetul, Quiet Fight tor Suitrage, but Has no Sympathy With Faddists. SHE FAVORS—Woman’s Support and Aid to Husband in Details of Adminis« tration of Public Office. SHE FAVORS— Study of CivilGovernment Without Regard to an Actual Vote, Which Right Is Not Yet Decided. ay comic artists love to prose into the presence of Mr: visitor has a realizing sense which are sincerely held and based actual acquaintance with conditions. Mrs. Blankenburg ts not to be de- scribed an “strong-minded,” in the sense that the term is commonly used, She 1s undoubtedly endowed with a vigorous and active mentality, and@ intelligently comprehends the trends of sociology and philosophy and the practical means of bettering current conditions, but her per= sonality is generously feminine. HER DOCTRINE OF SUFFRAGE |S NOT MILITANT. While she has earnostly engeged in forwarding the suffrage movement for her sex, she is not one of the shrieking aisterhood of fanatics. She believes that | reforms will best o through evolu- |tion and she preach qulet, concentrated, systematic endeavor | for the cause, rather than flamboyant methods of advertising suffrage however mu prepared for engagement fn politica and en ieconomice in past generations, and that|who voted for my husband es weil, We the extension of modern ation has have now started to redeem the city, favorable and inteliigent infucnce on the civic affairs of to-day. Mayor-elect Blankenburg has cause to |know that, In his own perfectly kept home in Wert Logan Square, there Is {woman who has datly and hourly dur- Ing the many years of hie public e, proved that !t is posalbie for a wife to 'Mayor’s Suffragist Wife A RAR ARR ARPA IAAL ARARRAR YS A BARR ASAE Tells How “We” Intend NAA RAR RA RN I ane To Rule Philadelphia’ AAR e RAAD AE RAL ARAN SD RO RRRRARDDPADAR DOS (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Ncv. 10.—If Mrs, Blankenburg’s public championing of all movements directed toward the betterment of the body politic and! «ne will of the late William H of women in particular causes one to picture the wife of Philadelphia’a of Portchester, State Highway C newly elected reform Mayor as one of those types of women which the Missioner, who died suddenly at Al- his views are all wrong. Just to be ushered Wankenburg gives one a feeling of uplift. the gospel of | cided | Mrs. Blankenburg thoroughly believes | ateta that woman {s just as tmportant to the) him tn the fi poclal economy as man at this time, |ts a great work that looms before ua, 1 she may have been un-|1 do . fitted the feminine nex for exarcieing @) Le gewho died of pneumonia at sea last)in munteipal and even national aftatra, | Wednesday, was bre Titorday by the © osegeant, of the Hamoury ls in Chicago Aad by reless to be af toe ‘ange for the shi Chieago for burial. We Mr. Plum had been in nD visit with hie daughter Piise, He was! yn gspport of a cause, Tatcretia Longe eer whve spread and de % shore uk is a forceful and husry home to wife. His ter , | accompanied him © President | seas 28 ore and a convincing wrt | Grant. Les: Sunday Plum was attacked her style of diction being straight. y pneumonia. The ship's doctors, | forward, welt iz. or nd urbane, ler PMuner and 1 kept him alive | snowledge of I tes and the 6 (Stor rome itine champayne, but! aral theory of polities gained by th Weeould noe ok ry the study of years has sored her mind with | wractical material, data and resourees Plam sent a wirr'iss ‘ressage| ynich te Mksly to prove valuable to her Bg neighbor in Chicsto a0 as tOl nua administration as Mayor shock her mother awe of | hee father's OCEAN LINER IN CAASH. ~ nadia many on a| [the smallest fetal! of those lee co! picuous duties of the family life, w FORCE IN MEN’S AFFAIRS, ot Vhtladelphia, Asked if who Were wind over the Fe] of all, men ia sie Was Dappy, fis © were enouxh [sen Since them | bave beem affitiated nt to New York{ to do all the things the suffragists are | President! clamoring for, and yet not neglect ev Amerinan line, m notified or mid Sr-/ are held up as woman's \dexl mission, tne body tol ne ieyes WOMAN A MIGHTY| oh | becauee | this city | 1 believe in My. Jankeudurg to elect | pe vin vara «OY Pees ne WF ’THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 1911. SHOOTS RIVAL | ers : 7 burg has been eo busy ing the cam- paign that we have had no chance to alk over anything. I repeat that it {9 a serious task that Mr. Blankenburg is undertaking, | ut we are not affrighted at trifles, or at big things, either.” | Mrs, Blankenburg said that she ex- pected to leave with Mayor-elect Bian- kenburg almort immediately for a three thousand mile trip, and it was ex-/| peoted they would be absent from Phlla-| detphia about two weeks, 4.10 destina- tion of the journey could not be learned. That the new Mayor wished to think out his plane for the next four years he is In office and w Mrs, flankenburg’s assistance and advice, free from inter- ruptions and distraction, In believed to be the cause of the extended trip. There * only one month left for him to ar- range the many prellmir atters in- cidenial to ily administration before he will be Inaugurated on De Her | that he {s talking to a woman of lofty ideals | papers, but more than $1,000 personal. not on mere sentimentality, but on with the National Federation of Wom- n's Clubs, belleve in theso movements, I have Re sympathy with the faddist. I belle +at a woman should know civil gover: ment. I belleve that she is a mighty force in the affairs of me: can Us #0, and present day occurrences tee out history, “Granted then that woman ts such a force, 1s it not right and proper that she should be a spur and helper to all that t# good and noo'e and just? NEEDN'T WAIT FOR VOTE To EXERCISE POWER, “Whether woman shall vote or not te a matter yet to deolde. Hut it tn that #he shall be a power Hghtoouwneas, Bhe ean ve nothing less and a true woman, “When Mr. Blankenburg needs my as- @ he shall have tt, I hope to ata r years ahead of him, it ot speak of Mr, Blankentur and myself merely, but of all thoee us continue, —, “I do not Jot the glamor of vietory azsie my eyes to the grave responsibil. Ity that has been placed on our shoul dere. It In a great, serious work, one thet will necessitate many houre of ,DIX EXPECTS REPUBLICAN {at the Hotel Brevoort, New York, She AID IN STATE REFORMS. Governor Says He Will Co-Oper- ate With Opposite Party and Looks for Help in Return, ta’ ALBANY, Nov, 0.—While he regrets at ithe lows of the Ass ‘to the D cratic party as a result of fa shi election, Gov. Dix says he e the cu-operation of the Republic: every effort to enact good Inws and to tablish noeded reforms at the noxt 1 wion of the Legisiature, Comment- 13, “I shall co-operate, co-operation from and the Senate in ¢ good laws and to establish needed re- forms in the Interest of the common. woalth. There will be no Intentional factions or narrow partisanship in the attitude and conduct of the Chief Exec- itive of the State, No matter what our name may be, our firet duty te ntire State, and our first obli- to serve the State with single- s of purpose and to the best of our ity.” nin DRENCHED IN WATER TEST. je Flies Of in High Pres- th th tn be of th gation ht Hose No aure Experiments. it During the test of a new extension of the high pressure system by firemen in Malden Lane and William street this afternoon the nozzle flew off a hose and enly the presence of mind of th.ce fire fighters saved a crowd to from a hoi re and Murphy of Engine No. greatest soaking of their live: The experiment was condi the supervision of Fire Commiasio Johnson and Chief Engineer I. N was ® att square inch @ stream of wal Jonn to the top of the sixtcen-story Wolfe Building. ‘The new high pressure area extends from Broadway to the East River and from Chambers street to Maiden Lane. The pressure, which can be raised ts “0 pounds to the square inch, ts sup- plied by the Oliver street pumping station. . parse OS Eee CATLIN ESTATE TO DAUGHTER | State Highway Commissioner ‘Willed All He Had to Her, (Special to The Evening World) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 10.— pany, October 5 last, was filed for pro- | te with Surrogate Millard today. He | no real property, according to the ‘The residue of the estate ts left to Mary D. Catlin, a daughter, who lives 10 left $6,000. Provision is made for the purchase of fourteen mhai stock held by Julla F, Higgin he John Anderson Company, Mr. Catlin left his share of a trust left him by his mother, being @ part of the Income from a store at Worth street, New York, in trust to his daughter. $<» ——_——. CHANLER GOES ABROAD. |Lawyer With Him and Trip May | Bad Cavalier! Romance, | Robert W. Chanler, husband of Mile, ‘Lina Cavalteri, 19 on his way to Hurop on the Lusitania, With him ts counsel, Sidney Harris, Have they gone to wind up the Chanler-Cavaltert di- yorce settlement matier? Nobody witl| Ys | Phe name of nolther Mr, Chanler nor | Harris appsars on the Lusitanta’s or Met, What seemed to be a yunded report reached here two Mr. concluded by w 000, ch, tn conatderation of | Mile, Cav: al in Par! aime to the Chentar | ALMANAO thought and labor, do not go into ecatesy, For that reason [ Mr, Hlanken. Tt is the allows you to It has many sensational features, We salt of the election which swept her} advise you to ses it, husband into the Mayors chair, whe, replied, with beaming countenanee, that | a] steamer off Calf of Man, a ait a, mae be Livy by If you cannot ca, nd int sb Bua, near the| uty peed 4 chang T amnane extremity of the Isle of MA nage sta wits | 5 Municipal Guvernmens geperadly, 1 have! {Phe liner sustained Hite damag studied [s as & matter of necessity, ber 25 Nhe ottier veseel wax Jesse fortunate and) cauee for three yeare 1 leaded the put into harvor in the Isle of Man In a| Pennsylvania Wonam Suirage Aseociae Wateriogged condition, | Twenty Years Ahead \ of all piano players bs a modest claim for } The Tel-Electric Piano Player ot Soe in the world that your Om TO-DAY, Siw riaee,, 6.40/Sun seta, 4,6A\ Moon rites... 8.21 THR FID, remaetow: fl EL AR | andr. 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This noon, John Schnelser found his wife | Was the first case of the kind to be tried wsie old, at a table In the kitchen par: King of luncheon, Schnetser ran te another room, got a shotgun and fired ‘The load struck the young man tn the right side and inflicted a r fled as the phnson. tal wound. Mrs, Schne!: ot was fired and, although Schn vo. 385 Lumbotd in tl Pursuit of his wif rt Street Station, Johnaon {# a good jooking, well set up young man, elght years the junior The liveryman. ts four months ago Johnson was a boarder in Owing to the apparent re-| {lations of friendship existing between, Schnetser | drove Johnson from the house and he | went to live at Devore street and Man- ue, but he was often seen | Mrs. Behnelser. irty-nine years old. 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