The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1911, Page 1

LUNA PARK IS SNATCHED FROM DOOM _BY DESPERATE ao OF FIREMEN | WEATHER-—Rain probable=—To-n! ri EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. ht or Tuesday. Se i a al et ee me oe ee Circulation Book: Oo n to All. 7 age a ar WEATHER—Raina probable—To-night er Teesday, MISS GRAHAM ON STAND U OF “EXONER saaitiiacats Strenuous Cross-Examination Again Sends Girl Who Shot Stokes Into Hysteria. HER PAST UNDER FIRE.! Prosecutor Buckner Relentless- ly Goes Over Story of Life Since Childhood. An attack of hysteria again held up the Supreme Court to-day, when Lillian Graham's nerves gave way under the hammer of cross-examination by As sistant District-Attorney Buckner, di- rected at her letters to Millionaire Stokes during the relations that cul- minated in his shooting by her and Ethel Conrad, in their flat at the Varuna Apartments last June. Particularly strenuous was the in- quiry into the letter of “exoneration, which the show girl insisted was writ- ten the morning after her arrival at the hotel man's Lexington farm. Compari- son of the paper upon which it was written with another note, also upon a Hotel Angonia letterhead, shook the @irl out of confidence that she had displayed when her ordeal! on the stand was re- sumed. Tho jury was relieved for five minutes, while the witness sonbed unrestrainedly and unattended. When court convened to-day there was not a vacant in the room, while at the doors a hundred o more = gutt percha-necked, wide: urlosity seek- ers, held at bay by th ourt attendant clamored vainly for admission. Justice Marcus had issued an order ad- mitting only the jurymen, newspaper writers and members of the bar the latter oc) ation a goodly ber of men were adm d who looked though the had mis! en the word “memiters” for “patrons. GIRL FACES ‘ORDEAL NERVED FOR CONTEST. i rest apparently had given Miss Graham's shattered nerves the respite needed. There was a touch of color in her cheeks and the dark circles under her eyes, grown de nd heavier as the trial has advance e less apparent than bef She faced the seat The week wily young prosecutor with an air al- most of eagerness, and her first an- swers came in a quick, low votce, that expressed a far greater degree of self- confidence than she exhibited at the be- ginning of the cross examination Friday afternoon, Buckner began by politely assuriny Miss Graham that sh dd have no fear and under: ques 1 answer nd. on about your of his quest that she did no “There is just age," said Mr. Buckner, “that I wan to ask, and then I'll drop that subject "Mrs, An your sister testified tha she 18 nine years older than you, and was about five years old when your mother and father separated, in 1886, If that is #0, the separatio must have happened four years before you were born, must it not?” Miss Graham didn’t know. , ‘And yet If you would admit that you ‘are twenty-seven or twenty-elght Instead of twenty-three and the ages of your ‘eisters eas shown in the ers of your mother’s suit for separation every- thing wourwssarmonize, wouldn't it?” ‘continued Mr. Buckner. Counsel objected and the question was ruled out. But the jury had heard st, nd that was obviously all the prose- f cuter expected, DIDN'T KNOW DIVORCEE COULD NOT REMARRY. Mr. Buckner next took up Miss Gra- ham’s early acquaintance with Stokes, He elicited from the witness that she had known Stokes was @ divorcee, for- bidden, as the guilty party under the New York State law, to remarry, when she first met him in 1906, But Miss Gra- hum said she didn't know the New York divorce laws and never thought worse of Stokes because of his matrimonial experience, Buckner then wanted to know if Mra, Slagleton, the sister with whom Miss Graham lived at the Ansonia, had tried | to put a stop to the ripening friendship between the young girl and the elderly man of the world, Q. Did sho ever tell you that Stokes a wicked man and you should not Under | BREAKS mT NDER PROBE ATION” LETTER G00 IN COLLISION OF TRAINS IN FOG; FERRY CRASH TOO Bankers and Brokers’ Express | Hits Freight Near White | Plains, Killing Fireman. BIG LINERS HELD UP. and Sea—Ferries Astray and Cars Stopped. The heavy white fog which cov- ered New York and all the eud- urbs to-day threw all trafic by land and water into confusion and caused collisions and delays, with loss of at least one life and innumerable minor injuries and inconveniences, The Bankers and Brokers’ Spe cial of the Harlem Railroad, which brings 600 Wall street men into the city every business day tn time for the opening of the market, ran into a freight mak- ing a siding near the North White Plains yard because the engineer mistook his signals in | the foy. The fireman of the freight was killed, the engineer badly injured, the passengers of the express painfully shaken up and trafic was completely blocked for an hour and thrown into dis- order all morning. The collision of Brokers’ special with an train, just north of the Plains yards, threw the freight locomo- tive and several cars off the track and overturned them. The fireman was killed and the engineer badly injured. the Bankers and extra freight North White The passenger cars kept the rafls, and the only passen seriously injured Were ten men in the smoker, who were | bruised and cut by flying glass, when this ear, directly behind the telescoped The Pawling Ex Banke and Broki engine, was known as otal, the was due sarees NEW YORK, MONDAY, _DEOEMBER 11, , 1911, 20 Ps AGES PRICE pbk Mba y CENT. eae Park, Coney Island’s Big Amusement Resort, Damaged by Fire; Controlled by Quick Work LUNA PARK. THEY'D GET ALONG BETTER IF HE WENT Girl Wife Tells Court Bell’s Theory and Jury Gives Mra. Catherine M. Bell, a pretty girl is suing Louls broker's clerk, for divorce, told Justice wife Erlan, Court Her Quick Verdict. who wer and a how jury H. Bell, in the he not only advocated the theory tha the less a husband and wife saw of each long, trip to summer of 1910 80, in New his carousals with Bells when nh @ child in oth but York oth were short Mrs, troubles tear: then Bell for his wif “Isn't casions wife aside was a ~ r sir. Didn't you send your wife to Sara- | toga very much against her protest?” T did not, It was the vacation period t was on my wife's parents’ sug- ion that I permitted her to go. used to join her in Saratoga week-end,” | “Didn't your wife's father call you to o Saratoga during t she alle the better they ompelled her to aes, he might and continue women tn Broa¢ married in Ni dresses, Bell's was recital cal profes: V th sa, caused by her pi ng ts it you when she a fact oi asked at is not tru home: re she was barely more t interspe: She was questioned briefly and ed to the stand, greatest affection 1 the trouble was would get take a remain ay. mber, The 1909, of her sed with ame up to you * replied Bell. t when you were playing’ cards 4 mit says Tr on Land QUT NIGHTS, HE SAID a Supreme | her daxper young husband, now just turning twenty-one, developed @ mania for going out nights. marital many that on several oe: impatiently pushed you! TAFT URGES AID |JURORVANISHES, OF RED CROSS FOR | SWOPE POSNING MINE SUFFERERS; TRIAL HELD UP Will Do!Gets Through Transom of Himself | Door in Hotel While Guarded in Tennessee Disaster. by Court Officers. President Says He Anything Possible WASHINGTON, Dee. 11.—At the te- quest of Representative Austin of Ten- nessee President Taft to-day wrote to Miss Mabel Boardman of the Red Cross suggesting that organization do all pos- sible to ald the sufferers in the Brice- KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 11.—Un- doing the work of weeks of court pro- cedure and bringing to @ standstill the second trial of Dr. B, Clark Hyde, charged with the murder of Millionaire, Thomas H. Swope, Harry Waldron, a j Ville mine disaster, The President's! juror in the case, broke out of! his letter said: room in @ hotel here early to-day, “It seems to me that this Is an em{-| eluded two deputy marshals set to guard the Jurors and escaped. ‘The first hint of the juror's escape came when R, Halloway and Frank Jas- per, deputy marshals, found the tran- som torn away from the door of the room Waldron had occupied. nently proper occasion for the tender |of money from our Red Cross, and any- thing I can do to help along !n the mat- ter I shall be glad to dc Miss Boardman on graphed to the vover of Tennessee The deputies carried the keys to all offering assistance from the Red.Cross,| the rooms occupied by the Jury, Wal- but no reply had been received early] gron was nowhere to be seen, A force to-day. of deputies was sent at once in pur- A report from J, C. Logan, the Red] Suit Cross official from Atlanta, who Sat-| "Domestic trouble ts sald to have Jurday was instructed to proceed to Wald ‘ 4 saused Waldron to grow restless under | Briceville, gave tho information that | Used Waldron (o ement ror, no appeal for rellef had been made as | 2%? Oe 8 gs the coal company was caring for the! prownt needs af the witowe aed in! OFFICIALS INDICTED pias | IN JERSEY GIVE BAIL. Miss Boardman promptly |M:. Logan to draw u authorized the na on ltund of the Red Cros Judge Blair Fixes the Amount eded. She also t at $500 as Cost’ of the | Hooper of Tennessee the ~ |taken by the National Red Cros in the Charges. {cl cherry, IN., ming disaster, and the Min-| Officials in Hudson County, N. J., and nisota forest fires and asking whe: j others Indicted last week for alleg a the Tennessee Red Cross could not js-| frauds appeared to-day pefore Judge sue an appeal for tho relief of the wid-|John A. Blair to give ball. County ows and children at Bricevil {Clerk John F. Crosby and County | BRICEVILLE, Tenn, Dec, 11.—With | Restster John J. McMahon were paroled jon the indictments found against them. sixteen bodies recovered and ‘dentifie | Judge Blair held that the bonds which 18 parties today renewed their hack at White Plains at 8 made up| his home shortly before you and your eee ai vwing in an at ren uy near’ au catinie omelet | of seven coaches, one parlor car and al Wife parted and accuse you of going | the big Cross Mountain m up ranteed they would not default in baggage ¢ The last stop had been| with other women Hts dead. Having fon iGih way Ahirea Ate er of the indictments. made at Mount Kisco. The train was| “He did not accuse me of anything,” | ies into the moun And brates} Batt for Join Daly, James Donnelly running a little behind time, because the] said Bell. “He med very mugh upset | oe oe the mine's cross ent nd Thomas Evans, indicted with Me- fog obscured the signals so the engineer | about something and mumbled a tot to | Mole Of ue Rimes Riwss enitios, mem | iahon in connection with the purchase could not see them until he was al-| himself which I could not understand, | crave strewn chambers at auy hour|of school sites In North Bergen town- most upon the posts. but I don't recall his saying anything | the © ship, was fixed at $500 on each indlct- Near the North White Plains yards,| about other women,’ | Pee ea haar od leer the terminal of the electric system, the} “Isn't it a fact that he tarentened | TRA th oe Ae o0e hundsnd Ue ere eee sks oneia ot tha Seehatane: te engineer is supposed to slow'down, He| You and you ran out of the house ty no doubt, All hope of rescuing any | ball was fixed at $600 on each Indict- was doing this and, according to the} “No, he didn't threaten—ie acted,| oo 4 scores who met death on Satur-| Ment, but the limit on which they had latest information, mistook a da! and T got out as quickly as possthle.” | oe tein andoned to secure themselves was put at four. signal for a clear track signal in the| “What did he do? Discovery of the first this morn-| This tn the case of those indicted from fog. The express ran into the freight| “He krabbed hold of me andnumbled | iy came at 10. o'cloc 1 a deadlelght to seventeen times was a big locomotive. The two trains came to-| something that sounded like @ threat jiino, was found in a sit . The Indicted ones Di- gether with a great crash and the six|to kill me." lin one of the interior | rector es Smith, three; Peter A hundred commuters were tossed about) The jury was out only @ few minutes) wis Andrew Johnson. Indica Kane, seventeen; Harry Rodgers, elght; the cars like straws and returned a verdict in favor of Mrs linat he had been a vic black | James P, Met n, four, and Thomas FIR . | Bell, damp. It Heved now that any} Purdy, two, These indictment were in MAN HURDED PROM EN-| — Tmen who 1 have steapet the tury | connection with the turn shing of sup- Fireman George Gerard o GIRL PRISONERS TRY TO DIE, ! 0 tne ex vutfos | piles to county” Inatituttons engine was hurled out of cated by ae Rm OR nen tin Field, the shock and hia neck was Broke Of a Gus Pipe in Bayonne! , 4 loca! Hed Cross camp began work) DL , Dec, 1.—The was dead when picked up, Th [for che pellet of the autoring thin fore) Coot ee Leo We of the freight, George W Sta DEER Roda waay clas Laetacas th atreot, the head and badly » cnet te aitan pt the police atation in|amenw the rat lizcqvered, was. found] BP. eee Ree |lower leas by the breaking of the steain | nom” We {at the telephone far back in the miny connections. He {s at the White a ay down | ba! the ung crew i Plains Hospital in a 1 con necmesteue | aoe on nad been trying W5 as it ts feared ho tnhoed steam. His They were} t2, telephone news of binst to the| are great numbers of coffins held for the home is at North White Platns. Mara and office of the nea wh t u tru oi | burial of the vi the majority of The enginemen of the express escane ( by falling debris, His siull was badly| whom, it is Leiieved, will be found to- injury, Tho engineer of the express) iris were Carrio Westfatl of No, | mashed and hile body was. cut | day, ys |was named Wheeler, Dante! Keese way | ne Es WS h street. and Jule} The discovery inte t night of ight | Of the eight corpses discovered Jast corductor of the express, Dp Petes wel Sibi more bodies prompted erowds to night three were sitting bolt upright in | Besides the many New York business | Sit) ot ee en no : ai the de avern early son Bee ee Ut on tne aesend. ee |men aboard there were many county] | v6 and attracted the se wives made widows b; he caused by an expic \offictals and jurors bound to the White | Aer toeIrenrree tin the Knoxville fron Plains Court House, Sheriff WwW. Ae a a aang een tae dle vine gathered at the shaft ths fam J. Doyle of Katonah, who was|iuet. ‘Tao Smith 10 aINK, Prepas World building 7 —_——— ome some tht 4 r dead. In a y chouse | gts Bory with ert (Convaued 9a Second, bh ie Aye wi bac 9 . o6 4u4 Hem ton rs sieenncrastoninmmener cecal sno nseretnaatmense ns sites sn toe liaeetnatesenmenttesantninesiitsmetensentiteee FIRE SPECTRE SWEEPS CONEY AND LUNA PARK HAS A CLOSE CALL Smoke and Excitement Wipe Out, Amusement Resort in Early Re- ports, but Only Two Build- ings Are Destroyed. ABSENCE OF WIND AIDS OMAN I HERE ~ TOATTENDBASE BAL MEETING pe srs hah Mrs. Helen Hathaway Britton of St. Louis First of Her Sexon Suth'a Mission. ‘Mrs. Helen Hathaway Britton, owner of the Bt. Louts National League Base- ball Club, is at the Waldorf to attend the annual meeting of the National League directors tomorrow, She ‘has ‘been tn New York for such meetings often, but has never beforer attended one. “I was brought up on baseball,’ said, “and the National League. First I came on with my father and then with’my unole, And now I am coming on my own account.” Mrs. Britton is a comely young person. She wore a brown costume to-day with one of those soft hood hats which keep one from seeing just how pleasant she ‘£0 100k upon. Besides the hat sho hpa | a husband, Schuyler Britton, who was | obviously proud of his Proprietory rights in the proprietor of the Cardinals. “Are you going to vote and take part in the meeting?" Mra, Britton was asked, “Oh, dear, no! she answer “Mr, Steininger, the president of the club, wilt do ell the. ts king for us, just as Mr. Bresnahan takes care of the play- ers, But inasmuch as I have all the Haterests of the club at heart (and, then | with a smile), “in any book 1 [str I ought th she Mrs. Britton is the first woman who attended a National League meet ing. Aaah." RES NO MORE EASTERN LEAGUE; | IT’S INTERNATIONAL NOW. | | Magnates Change aaeebaih Name and Elect Barrow for Five Years, The Eastern League went out of ex |{stence this afternoon and the Inter- |national League sprang into being. ‘The change in name was affected at a meet. ing of the owners and there was not @ dissenting vote. ward Barrow was reel jdent, Secretary and Tr: Presi r of the eague for a pertod of five new b |The ard of directors will con Solomon, Newark; J Leavis, Py . Montreal, ¢ and The 1911 pennant was tormally award ed to Rochester. It way dectded that! }the season of 1912 would o| April ts Jand « and dis pute Ryan and the Je City compromised. Ryan ha a th s’ contract was de agent at of the sub wa, 1 a free first year, It was reported with him for and the end at 33 TWO WOMEN SUICIDES ON CHANGE IN HAMBURG. Mother and Daughter Who Fortune in Speculation Kill Themselves. HAMBURG, Germany, Dee. ation was cau: at the 4 Lost 1 vt | IN CHECKING THE BLAZE. Volunteers Rush to Scene and Water . From’Pressure Mains Quickly — Stops the Flames. The utter absence of wind, quick and effective work by the and prompt response when the high pressure system was called upoa saved Luna Park at Coney Island from total destruction this afternoon. It was the luckiest blaze in the history of the resort. ads Frederic Thompson of the Frederic Thompson Amusement Company estimates his loss at $150,000, subject to reductions from salvage. The Alhambra restaurant and the pneumatic tube, a slide on the easterly side of the park, were destroyed and the ballroom and other buildings, were damaged. OCEAN LINERS FINISH THRILLING RACE IN THE FOG Carmania Beats La Touraine at Last Moment in Trans- atlantic Contest. ‘The first reports from the Island in@l- cated thet the whole resort north of Surf avenue, from Ninth etret to West Fifteenth street, waa doomed to de struction. ‘The fire was discovered in the Alhambra restaurant by Henry (Riehl, 2.40 o'clock. A dense fog hung over the Island, ‘The flames, bursting through the roof of the restaurant, magnified themselves dy reflection on the walls of mist an@ the smoke spread close to tle ground Uke @ etifiing blanket. The first: ob- servers on the ground were excusable in their bellef that a great conflagration was under way. HAZE AND SMOKE MADE FIRE LOOK DESTRUCTIVE. In the hasty recesses of the fog the blaze as seen from Surf avenue appeate ed to bo eating up the old Sea Beach Palace and the enetre westerly end of Luna Park. Even Battalion Chief ” Rogers was deceived at first sight as te the extent of the fire and he sent in four alarms, which summoned to Coney I6- = land all the fire apparatus in South The Cunard Mner Carmanta, which reached Quarantine last night and is to sail Wednesday for the Christmas trip, came up the bay ‘in a thinning fox| Brooklyn and Flatbush, Some of the early this afternoon, having beaten out|engines did not reach the scene until the French liner La Touraine at the |!ong after the fire was under control. Supt. Riehl sent the first alarm trom a box in the park. At the same time an employee of Feltman’s restaurant, across Surf avenue from the park @n- During the tast run across the Car- ine had it nip and reached ! end of the voyage three days of the manta and La Tou! tuck, When the Cunarder Quarantine last night, however, she | trance, saw the flames and smoke and found the Frenchman there ahead of | 80unded an alarm through the medium her. of the Dig Feltman steam whistle, This | brought out the somnolent winter popile Tation of the resort, roused into action by the activity of the only element that !a Coney Islander fears. ‘The Carmania’s skipper knew he had! work ahead, if he was to start the return trip by Wednesd. Bo he pulled out of Quarantine @t an aarly | . | hour this morning, only to be forced to! Seores of volunteers invaded the pant, ff Robbins Reef, With | carrying hose from the fre apparatus he \ the fox he started up| at Fletman's and Henderson's restaur- eo geeata ve ae In the mean |4nts and Stauch’s dance hall, ‘The Lung, nehman remained at Quer: | Park ‘apparatus was also uniimbered | and conection was made with the highe heavy me to anchor ee che bad weather condl- | Pressure hydrants within the park ime | Lipari, i + | closure. | tons the Carmanta was very late, For lige } Anothing | FOF once the high pressure responded ays ahe could not make promptly. ‘The engineer of the pumping FEE Ae one a per log {#tation on the banks of Coney Island rchteen-knot boat he made up for | Creek, back of the park eaw the fire | ™ ein lay, however, by putting 488 | fom the outset and started is pumps ier This lw her record | #t full speed, When the hydrants were Lee acy opened the mains were full of salt water ow aay ag Carmanta's passengers} 4nd this eerved to hold the flames tm as Heinrich He a young Wagner- | check. fan tenor, who 1¢ into fame at} ABSENCE OF WIND HELPED reuth, OF 1@ has been alng- FIREMEN STOP THE BLAZE. at Covent Ganten, It was while] phe first fire company on the scene | singing there (hat he was engaged for} was from the Coney Island engine the Me vitan forces end he will| house in West Kighth street, two sing Wa Mink On! yiocks from the scene of the fire, Aw Wednes 1 a ae = other engines arrived the blaze was | set te accompante a pretty | ‘The Sea Beach Palace, a building that est who @aya oh ‘sidera| has ben standing in Coney Island for the trip er honeymoon, thirty-three years, was threatened for nar wiles ke a time, but the fitful wind was not sute pete cumini eetavatcaue ficiently strong to carry sparks or blag= =) ing embers, Dwe Tho fire burned itself out in the ress ch here to-day when a , dead a Rech and her daughter : ; aa vend OF "9 | taurant and the pneumatic tube slide, wited ide ty the aii is OO Oe tt eam which was installed at the beginning of had lost t of aining 6 last season at a cogt of $75,000, Under wi Seite 4 a By ey Shae Me “2 ~~ ~~ fe superintendent of Luna Park, @€. ”%