The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1911, Page 1

Lincoln ‘WEATHER=Light rain to-: it oF INA EDITION. he “ Circulation Books Open to All.* a TRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, FAMOUS FEDERAL iH JUMPED FROM THE DOME WHEN DENIED A PENSION Man Who Made Sensational Jump Off Pulitzer Building Was Pryce Lewis, Eighty-Three Years Old, Who Had Been Guard to Abraham Lincoln. The man who jumped from the dome of the Pulitzer Building and was smashed to death in Park Row last Wednesday afternoon was Pryce Lewis, the first Federal spy of the civil war. His death was no more reckless or spectacular than his adventurous life. He was eighty- three years old and was living in Jersey City, a pensioner on the bounty of the son of an Andersonville companion. Occasionally he tried to repay him by running errands and serving subpoenas for this man’s law | firm. He killed himself to escape poverty and because his application for a pension had been refused in an official letter received Wednesday DIVORCED ONCE, CLAMS HUSBAND He lay for nineteen months in pestilent Court Denies Plea of Mrs. @outhern prisons. He was many times the personal guard of President Lin- Olnick to Reopen Her ; ‘Latest Case. @oin, who became his staunch friend. Long after the war, as an agent of the Byuitadle Life Assurance Gociety, he raided # murderous ggng of swindlers {a northern Mexico, who had killed one of their number for the insurance they had put on his life. He was chosen dy the Pinkertons for many of thelr most tisky and, adrolt. migsiony in privete investigations. He was for months tn- gaged in secret work on the Dreyfus case in France The identity of Lewis was established by Charles Newkirk of No, 49 GriMth treet, Jersey City. He said that tno old man had been living in a bare room at No. 83 Jefferson avenue, Jersey City. Knowing of Lewis's despondency, his proud disposition to wild and reckless ways of doing things, Mr. Newkirl came over to the Morgue and saw that the clothing of the suicide was that in which he had last seen Pryce Lewis, The features were almost unrecogniz- able, but there was enough to make the identification certain. LEWIS WAS & PINKERTON AT OPENING OF THE WAR. Pryce Lewis was born in England. JAt the start of the civil war he detective In the employ of Allan Pink- rton, Pinkerton took from Ger: George HB, McClellan the contract for taining secret information fogthe De- rtment uf the Ohio, which had head- Muarters at Cincinnati. The first task set for Pinkerton was tb discover the number and disirtbution of the Confederate troops in the bor- der States south of the Ohio River. Pryce Lewis was asgigned to make a re- port. With Pinkerton he worked out the device of representing himself as a British nobleman and army officer studying the war and most friendly to the Confederate cause, The detective, who was then in his lyte twenties, and had a handsome, dashing bearing, suggested that he im- personate Lord Tracy, @ veteran of the Crimea. Lewis had been a book agent a few months before, selling a history of the Crimea campaign, and from the | book had gained an Intimate knowledge | , of Lord Thacy's personality and history. | DEFAULTED IN LAST SUIT Annulment Case Will Not Be Reopened, Justice Co- halan Decides, Justice Cohalan in the Supreme Court] to-day denied the motion made by 11 F, Olnick to reopen the judgment of the annulment of her marriage to Benjamin Olnick, she having defaulged when the case was tried before Justice Lehnian last February. Olnick was represented by Jullus Blumofe. According to th papers on file in the | County Clerk's office Mrs, Olnick had a habit of marrying. In 1901, the papers charge, she married Morris Pike in Bos- ton and lived with him a few months, separating from him to come back and reside in New York. Pike secured a |divorce in Boston on the ground of de- sertion MARRIED TO LEVY WHILE AWAITING DIVORCE. Her next matrimomal! engagement, the Papers show, was in Jersey City in 1902 and before the interloc pry decree had been made final, Her husband this tif | was Isracl Goldman, They went to live Pinkerton fitted him out with a fine|in Boston, but ahe soon separated from cartiage and pair, bought him clothing | yim, and Sravelling equipment befitting Lord | ) Pracy’s station, gave him a cigar case with a British crest and a gold watch | , \ suitably engraved and supplied a Pink- | papers asset, she was ma TG S8 Malle [erton man as his coachman, With his} °““\* through the formality ng a divorce from Goldman,’ the British silk hat set firmly on his head, 14a separated from Levy and didn't and his coat tails flapping and a{ divorce him, but, under her matden { monocle In his eye, Lewis climbed into | name f, became engaged to Hare this’ equipage and headed into the iris J nann in Danbury, Conn., In 4 reeeenene of 197, Heymann refused to marry her papeients se Sim Gove i jand she gued fi breach of promise, ener asking $1000. The jury awarded her They met Confederate troops very soon after leaving Cincinnati, With an ari: ‘ tooratic drawl Lewis went to the com- manding officer, introduced himself as { Lord Tracy, and at once made i welcome, He asked if he should need @ pass to wet to Charleston and the obliging officer wrote out one for him, The commander af the Confederate ( forces about Charleston was Gen. Wise. ‘Yhe first news Lewis got on the out- skirts of the town was that Wise was | $1,000, Heymann appealed, but th |ciston was affirmed, Before he sett the judgment he learned of her several other husbands and brought sult to re- open the case, Ida dropp matter, On April 21, 1908, Ida was married to Olnick, who was a widower with four enildren, When he learned of Golman's jexistence he brought sult In the |riage annulled. Mrs, Olntck failed to every stranger or resident who | defend the action, but asked Justice Co- rakiig ed mate himsaté a Btaunch Con. jhalan to reopon the case. She lives at federate and putting them in jail. | No, 67 Henry street and is said to be evertheless he went to the hotel |forty-two years old, where Wise had hie quarters and de- \ manded the best In the house for Lord Tracy. He forced an interview with the General, who was apparently irritated by his manner and abruptly refused to give him a pass to continue his jour- ney. Milord became righteously indig- (Continued on Second Page.) ne nition of John Purroy Mitchel, president of the Board of Aldermen, who |s suffering from a light attack of typhold fever at St. reported unchanged to-day. Seieiemienialaaememmenes FOR RACING OEE PAGE 2, preme Court in this elty to hae the mar- | Luke's Hospital, is| om Re lie FIGHT FOR LES INFIRE SIXTY FEET UNDER BROADWAY Clothing of Five Men Burned Off as They Climb Iron Ladder in Air Lock, THRE, LIKELY TO DIE. Accident at Foundation of Guaranty Trust Building Due to Lighting of Candle. Five men, trapped in an airlock, un der pressure, sixty. feet below the level of the street, in an atmosphere Ili ally afire, struggled up an tron ler thirty-five feet into a chamber stil! twenty-five feet below day, with their clothes burned off and thelr bodies blistered from head to foot Three of them wil! probably die of thelr injuries. One man had his eyes burned out. This industrial tragedy happened in the excavation for the foundation of the new Guaranty Trust Building at the southwest corner of Broadway and Liberty street. A high board fence surrounds the excavation. Thousands hurrying by knew nothing of the thrill- Ing struggle for life that was going on deep down in the hole under their feet. A bundle of burning oakum, accident- ally dropped to the bot‘ym of a circular air lock where five mon were working jerted the destructive fire. The air in the lock was forced in under pressure, and because of the excess of oxygen was almost as inflammable as ofl spray. In an instant a ateel-encased apacg thirty-five feet deep and possibly four feet in diameter was actually a fur: nace, and only through this furnace could tha | five trapped men reach the open air MUCK AND SAND LIFTED ouT UNDER PTES8SURE. The Foundation Company {s putting in the Guaranty Building foundation, which is In the shape of a cofferdam of con- crete surrounding the four sides of the lot, The cofferdam 1s composed of concrete filled caissons, 6x12 feet, sixteen inches apart. Between each of the cais- sons is an airlock through which the sand and muck are removed under air pressure, Each lock connects with two | calssons. William Schmidt, one of the foremen, with Andrew Donovan, Charles Walsh and Thomas Cosgrove, went down to the bottom of thé middle lock o1. the Broad- way side this morning to complete the Joining of two of the caisson excava- Uons at the bed rock level, mixty feet below, In descending they entered, through a hole just large enough to ad- mit on an at @ time, a comparatively roomy chamber of steel, twenty-five feet below the top of the dock. ‘This chamber filled with compressed air, but not of such power as the air in the chamber below—entered through another the surface to- round hole with an automatic door, In the lower chamber the pressure was one and one-half times that of the outer alr, Schmidt and his men were at work at the bottom of the lock, under this pressure, “when Harry E, Woods, the superintendent of the work, went down to see how they were get- ting along. Everything was in readiness for caulking the wooden walls of one of the caissons with which this particu. jar lock connected, Before entering the lock, Mr, Woods instructed Michael Lublano, @ caulker, to bring down an armful of vakum and get to work, LIGHTED A CANDLE FAR BELOW SURFACE. The airlocks and all the underground | workings are Hghted by electvicity, but the power Was pour to-day and’ the lamps burned but dimly in the firat air chamber, Lublano, foreseeing the need of better light when he should get to his place of labor sixty feet down, Ught- ed a candle, He entered the lower chamber and |started to descend the d-foot ladder. |In his left arm he carried a ble bundle of oakum and in his left hand the Hghted candle. His right hand and arm he used to grasp the ladder, Lubiano had just started down the lad- der when the flame of the candle touchea the tinder-like oakum. The bundle sprang into a blaze, Lubiano promptly | dropped It Into the midst of the five men | at the foot of the lock and began to | pound on the door above him as a signal to the locktenders to open, Owing to the intense heat that atwaya attends working under alr pressure, the men at the bottom of the lock were. attired only In trousers and shirts, This | ight clothing caught fire at once. There (Continued on Second Page.) iS UNCLE SAM UMPIRE TO REGULATE THE NATIONAL GAME Congressman Driscoll Says He| Will Propose Federal Con- trol of Baseball. }ON BOXING BILL LINES. Football and Other Sports Need Curbing, and Assem- | blyman Phillips Indorses. technical | basebali are to form just ae official records nt as the wheat crop if Congressman Daniel A Driscoll of the Forty-eigath New District has his way. The Congressman does 1 names of famous Spanish 4 Batting averages and other points $n Yor Mextean toreadors should be emblazoned upon the oMcia! records of their respect governments while such noted tw! as “Rube” quard and “Christ Mathewson and dependent upon the memories of the baseball) fans for the) | Place in history. Assemblyman Cyrus W. Phillips Rochester is responsible for this pro: Posed attempt to have baseball treatet to homeopathic doses of legislation. Mr Phillips, who introduced the Employer « Liability, Commission bil) and other noted legi#iation in the New York Legin latvre, became disgusted during the re- cent world series when he thought America's national game was being Placed upon too mercenary a basis. “My idea” sald Assemblyman Philips the Hotel Knickerbocker to-day, “would be to place baseball under the New York State Athletic Commission, or what is more commonly called the ‘Box- ing Commission.’ I don't see where the distinction snould be drawn, and I migh| add that if {t would better the sport in this State I would s'sgest putting foot- ball also under the jurisdiction of the commission. “Whether I would have 5 per cent. of the receipts contributed to the State, as with the boxing clubs, I have not considered. But it would seem that what is sauce for the goose should be @auce for the gander, and if boxing pa ball and football should pay. | “Aside from the financial end, it would better baseball generally and | stop such disgusting grabbing of seat by speculators If a commission super- vised the methods of the managers Congressman Driscoll dropped into the Knickerbocker while Mr. Phillips was talking to The Evening World reporter, “I would go just one better," sald the Congressman. “I fully approve of Mr. Phillips's ideas. But I think, if any one {s# to take up this baseball situation, it should be the Unfted States Government, What could New York State do alone? ‘True, it could remedy conditions In New York State, but right across the ri » in Jersey, it would have no jurisdiction. If eith of the New York clubs or the Brooklyn elub wanted to dodge the provisions of an act they could build their) grounds in Jersey. | “If the United States had a commis-| slon to supervise the sport it would be fat different, The plan seems to be al- together feasible and distinctly advisable | to me, Aside from the standpoint of| sentiment, it is a good thing. “Just think! Spain has the pedigree of every bull that is kill in a fight, while America’s great ball players con and go, and unless, {n after years, some old-timer happens to become reminiscent the present generatio: doesn't know anything about him. , ‘Of course, the same may be sald of Breat men in many other profess.ous,| but I think the United state erne| ment should create 4 to take] over the supervision ft see | yperly part of the p that the sport is rua»: statistics, This statist! posal isn’t so importan’ the ne of preventing ticket ecandaly such as occurred last season ‘A national commission would be all powerful, In a case like that, where the work of a State commission might not! plive, At the next sesso Congress I shall introduce a vill providing for the supervision of base- ball by the National Government.” “AN Lam looking for i# results,” sala Assemblyman Phillipa, “and {f Con-| ressman Driscoll can get national leg-| lation there Wid be no necewatty of |" State legislation.’ WASHINGTON, Dee, 9.—Samuel Gom- pers announced to-day that he would speak Monday before the Civic Feder fon in New York. He said his name| jae wased from the programme yester- y at his own request, | anwainy wae ie A WRU IE Se AS Oe We. GcmW, | Desbomeg. oo ic memes Girl | Who Twice Has Disappeared Reported to Be in Dodge City, Kan. PUTFURTSWHIAL ELIOT °F HARVARD AND STOP DIVORCE, | UNDER THE KNIFE SAYS LEGISLATOR’ FOR APPENDICIT.S Assemblyman H Make Proposed Law Hit | Women as Well as Men. | Ar While on a Tour Around the World—Is Doing Well. Prison for filrts after September, 1912.| BOSTON, Dec. 9.—A despatch was re- That's the presertption ested by celved here to-day stating that Presi- Assemblyman Richard F, Hearn of Buf- dent kmeritus Charles W, Ellot of Har- falo, Who was at the Hotel Bresiin tos) vard was operated upon appendicitis day, and it will go into the law books |at Kandy, Ceylon, to-day. ff the Assemblymaa’s bill, which he will; De, Eliot left here a month ago for a introduce at the opening of the Legis-| tour around the world, accompanied by ature in January, Is passed. | nts wit 8 daughter, a niece and a “I've been making a ilttle investiga-| private secretary tin of this flirting business," sald Mr.| A subsequent despat.. stated that the Hearn, “I've found that most of the! operation was apparently successful and divorces in the country can be attributed [that a quick recovery was anticipated. to it, Flirting has brought more un-| The second despateh stated that th happiness than any custom that has, appendix had been removed and that ever been inflicted upon the United Kliot was resting comfortably States. | Kandy, which is situated high “We don't hope by this new bill to{*nons the hills of Ceylon, there is an stop the man down in the pald-headeg | @X*ellently eaulpped hospital in charge row who Wears a big diamond and wins |! 2 _Phyalclans and surgeons and out @ chorus girl. But we can stop the (Muses Friends of Dr, Eliot were street flirting and the flirting in many | ™UCh 4 this afternoon by the public place second de i Dr, Eliot resigned as president of Har- "% stood on Broadway last night | ry an tan Mar ita a |vard three years ako upon reaching hie m since was on the Pike at the | sri St. Louls Bxposition, | — “Any cne who doesn't believe this. | MRS. VERMILYA STRICKEN. to be @ good bill should read sone of the testimony in divorce cas Accused of Polnoning Sut. | Woman Take my word for it, you'll find fera Stroke of ¥ that nearly 90 per cent. of the peo- 12 PAGES + Would President Emeritus in Ceylon} It was*reported from Dodge last July, and who turned home in August, ha detective. wanted to be independent. Philadelphia at $8 a week and w; her. MRS. WI. THAW JR, PAYS $20,000 FOR RETURN OF GEMS Member of Police Force Acted as Go-Between and Investi- gation Will Follow. PITTSBURGH, Dec, 9—By the pay- ment of $20,000 Mrs, Willlam Thaw 4r. the widow of Harry Thaw's older broth: er, has recovered the greater part of her stolen $50,000 worth of jewels. How the jewels came back t¥ known, and Mrs. Thaw will not explain except to say that a man connected | with the Pittsaburgh Police Department acted as Ko-betw: He told her, she! says, that he forced an admission from the thieves, and brought her the propo- sition to get most of the stones back for $20,000 Since obbery of Mrs, Thaw's Lin- | coln avenue home last winter there have | been rs that the Jewels have been returned, but this, it 1s said, came from her wearing imitations which she used to keep {n a safe so that possible thieves | would steel the imitations tnstead of the real gems. One night she neglected to take her usual precautions and the | real jewels vanished. It iy sald that Pittsburgh's new ree incl {9 anxious to Investigate Jepartment and the develop: yo Thaw jewel case may en sepatated by the CHICAGO, Dec, 9—Mrs. Loutse Ver-| ——- n their relati milya, charged with having polsoned Po- fatendeaiy tagocent wink, Yvan Arthur Binone "2: WILLIAM WATTS SHERMAN “But It leads to matrimony and after |0f having polsoned others, was’ HAS TURN FOR THE WORSE. ,, a while It is found that the pretty girt| stricken with yais to-day and I who flirted n't the proper disposi. | Thomas Hogan » an t Willams Watt erman 1s reported in tlon to make wood wife, ounty of where nprisoned rit « Ait vday at nis how “Will this sislaiion apply to one | Says her condition Is er n n vue Ile has been sex or to both | = “4 Both," said the legislator, “The one| 24 race Draw 50. La who accepts the attentions of a flirt ig| Twenty-four horses tuwying at a truck marrias his da just as bad aa the one who began the | nolding a fifty-ton ste! girder, prob Sherman, to Lord firting, It will only be necessary to} atily the largest over delivered in New| ward to Nov. % amend the law to make it a mige| York, caused thousunds of persons tol t. have taken |denfeanor or something of that sort, | stop at Broadway and hirty-fou ceremony was per Now, I'm nat o betting man, but I'd | street to-day, ‘The girder was for the| man's privat t The make a little wager that if this new McAlpine Hotel, in course of ¢ witnessed it “ becomes 4& law en tition t The # was hauled from -_———_—— you'll see fewer pirty-third street and 3 River, At Teservations aud tickets via. lh Cou hiniai® sikh Aarslek’ chalnay ws em, eutih® Ameria ant “esata Sunday World Wants Work |huitehed around the girder and it was, “wg safely landed in position over the lob) of the building, Monday Morning Wonders. a a ma + “4 oe EDITION. un- | ———— PRICE ONE CENT. IE SWAN, MISSING ONCE BEFORE, S FOUND. ~ AGAIN, NOW IV KANSAS ——_—e¢2—______ Detective From Santa Fe, N. Mex, Said to Have Identified Her From a Picture and Located Her in Dodge City. |FOUND IN PHILADELPHIA, WHEN LOST ORIGINALLY. ‘Said to Have Come Back and Gone | to the Catskills—No Notice of Second Disappearance. Kan., this afte-noon tl.at Miss Louise Swan, the nineteen-year-old daughter of William R. Swan, fore merly of No, 11 West Thirtieth street, who disappeared from het home s later found in Phi been again lo, adelphia by. her fa! ed in Dodge City bya private When Miss Swan returned to her home on Aug. 16 she gave an inter= view in which she said that she had run away from home because she She said she had got a job in a restaurant in s working there when her father found She re! used tor return home e until a fortnight later, Tt would seem from the des: \‘ch from Dodge City that Miss Swan had run away from home again, The despatch reads: “Through the publication of her plctlure In a local paper Miss Louise Swan, daughter of Wiliam R. Swan of New York hms been discovered in Dodge City.” KANSAS DETECTIVE TOOK UP CHASE. A Santa Fe, N, M., dot Ing to the despatch, says he obtained 4 clue in Hutchinson, Kansa: He Printed the story of the girl's dis: |appearance in @ local paper, together with her picture and {dentification fole lowed. The dispatch continues: “Miss Swan declines to say whether j she will return hi asserting thad @ love affair—the cause of her departure has not yet been settled satisfactorily ‘0 her parents, and that she will not re- jturn home until they are ready to ree ceive her," Immediately after the first disap. of Miss Swan her father of- reward of $1,000 for some news whereabouts. He hired private jdetectives and a general alarm wae [sant out in this city and Philadelphia, ‘or a week not a word was heard of her. {SHE RETURNED AFTER HER | FIRST ESCAPADE. | The father Kot word from Philadelphia | that his daughter was working there, er Clty but could He went to the Qual not 1 her, When he came back |he got a letter from her, He res plied, asking her to come home, A few days later Mr, Swan reported that his wife had gone to Philadelphia, had found Louise, and that she and her [mv had wone to the Catskill teporters found the young woman at v home on Aug She stated thea at she had had some disagreement af we and had run away to show hy parents Uiat she was able to take cal f herself | ‘The good looking young girl made it |mantfest in her interview upon her re it home that the restraint of home Mte irked that her one desire in fe was for adventure, and to prove tat she had pluck and stamina enough ty Ket along without parental ald, INSISTED ON EARNING A LIVe ING FOR HERSEL sted," she sald, “that a gich po | situated, should be per» living, Father Like many othi believed that a good home i 4 girl's ambitions. Pure thermore fle did not say so at hat time, 1 knew he thought me tog experienced to earn my living." Miss Swan denied there had been ang romance or that » had played even a mino at that time, These denials were made in the face of rumors that there had been @ n her disappearanc