The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1911, Page 1

__| “ Circulation Books Open to All." | __ Coorrintt, Utke New work Wena NEW YORK, M REATY FLINGS HER BABY |r. Ethel Siebert, Who Saved Baby by Tossing It From |, DISGUISE, FIRE ~ LADDIES CAPTURE ONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1911. f ‘ Circulation Books Open to Ali.’ } z EEE PRICE ONE OE | TAFT BREAKS THE T 20 PAGES CE ONE OENT. GIRL'S GRAPHIC STORY NT. PRI OF 1832 WITH RUSSIA: TTS SNAG IN SENATE \ Sa ae When Message Telling Action Is Read and New Bill Put In Heyburn Starts Fight. @ BLOCKS ACTION TO-DAY Wbjects to “Steam Roller” | Methods in Rushing Matter —Wants Secret Sessions. WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—President Test sent a special message to the Sen- ate this afternoon, giving notice that on H Friday last, Dec. 15, he had notified tne | ‘Russian Government of the intention of the United States to abrogate the treaty of 18% with that country, The matter of ratifying the action of the President was tmmediately taken up by the Sen- ate. Fartier in the day President Taft had advised the Foreign Relations Commit- tee of the mate of the executive steps taken. The Senate Committee recom-; mended that the Senate act with the f the treaty It- fective Jan and under the terms self the abrogation will 1, m3. ™ The Presdent’s message was read in the Senate in open session soon after It convened. Mr. Taft stated that he took the matter up with the Ru Dassador In this city Friday last. official declaration of the intention to | ‘ogaté did not reach the Russian Government until yesterday NEW BILL BREAKING THE TREATY INTRODUCED. ‘The President In a message to Renate, telling of his act of abro aiso told of notification to Russ desire on the part of this country negotiate a new and modern’ treaty take the place of the old one. ‘A fight against “steam roller” meth- o4e in rushing action by the Senate on ‘the abrogation of the treaty was imm: Gietely begun by Senator Keyburn, | Dlocked the matter to-day, and it went over until to-morrow. Immediately afte President's Message had been read, Senator Lodge presented the resalution agreed upon by the Forelgn Relations Committee and offered It as a substitute for the Sulzer rerolution passed by the Houre, The Lodge resolntion recited MPresident Taft had on Dec. 15 caused | & he presented to the Imperial Russian at St. Petersburg notice| ted. | @laring that the iicosy between the two @ountries no longer was responsive to he political principles of the commer. | @ial needs of either. if ‘The committee resolution concluded: “Therefore, be it resolved by the Menate and Mouse of Representatives Chat the notice gi by the Prosiden of the Uxited States to the empire of | Bussia to terminate the said treaty is/ hereby adopt: 4 ratified.” ‘After the measage and the resolution had been read Senator Heyburn of Maho —_———_ | The Sunday World YESTERDAY PRINTED 146 PAIDADS, |! Steamships, of Winter Resorts, Cruises, etc. The Suaday Herald printed 41. The Sunday Times printed 24. The Sunday Sun printed 20, ‘The Sunday Tribune printed 15. and two other New York Sun- day newspapers printed . Thus The Sunday World of yesterday contained 38 More Such Annouace- men's than the SIX OTHER NEW YORK SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS ADDED TOGETHER, TAXICAB MURDER TRAL GETS QUICK START TO JURY Assigned Counsel Take Tales- men “On Their Looks” in the Jewelry Homicide. GARVEY ON THE ALERT. | fm the | window. District-Attorney Scores Pris- oner in Opening Address and Tells of the Witnesses. The unravelling of what has become! pull terrier and her two puppies. How ‘axtca] the fire started {s not known. House in carrying out the abrogation | murder mystery” began to-day before} On the floor above, Rochstein and his of the pact. Under the notice to Russia) Justice Marcus and a jury in the Crim-| son, Harry, who helps him, were asleep. of the Supreme Court,| The elder man suffers from rheumatism where Martin Garvey was placed on| Nd moves about with difficulty, known to the police as the final Branch trial for his fe. Since last July, when the murder was commited, the case has|*™0Ke that filled the apartment. FROM FIERY SILL, THEN LEAPS DOWN Child Caught on Street, Un- hurt by Fall, but Woman May Die of Hurts. CUT OFF BY FLAMES. Woman Makes Desperate Sac- | tifice as Fire Licks Frame About Imperilled Pair. With flame and smoke around her as she stood at the window of her home, tories from the ground, her aix- months-old baby in her arms, Mrs. Ethel Siebert of No. 3729 Third avenue first threw the baby to a man who waited below to catch It and then leaped The baby was caught and is uninjured; Mrs, Siebert suffered several broken ribs and interna! injuries, and at the Fordham Hospital the doctors say she may die. The Blebert home is on the top floor of the frame bullding at the Third avenue address. On the ground floor is the tailor shop of Abraham Rochstein, where the fire started. The store was closed, the ouly living thing in it being Harry Rochstein was aroused by the Hoe been one that perplexed th many sleuths|°a!led to his father to run, then ran to who workd on It. «a window and dropped twenty feet to ,|the yard. In the street he realized that The boldness of the jewelry rabbery that preceded the greater orim, th cold his father might not have escaped and bloodd manner !n which a Ife was take! and the remarkable success of the ‘“get- away" combined to make the killing a police puzzle, Months went by without the disclosure of any clue and then a chance word led to the arrest o: Garvey and the weaving of the inerim- Inating circumstances around him. Sixth avenue at 10 o'clock on the ht of July 2% was lively with pass- ersby on the pavement and with traf- fle in the street. Thirteenth street, coby hag a jewelry store, drove @ taxi- ab and two of the three men insed It jumped ont. An instant later the crash of glass was heard. en had hurled a stone through the window of the Jewelry store and was making off with a tray full of gems. CLERK RAN OUT AND WAS SHOT BY THIEF. the store at the time was Stern, Jacoby’s salesman and his nephew, Stern at the sound of the crashing glass made a bolt for the door, Here he was met by the other man from the taxicab, He get no fur- ther than the door. The stranger fired point blank at the clerk's breast, and he fell, dying instantly. ‘The taxi darted off, ‘The whole affair head taken such @ brief space of time that no one got the number of the car is it dashed down the avenue, Wide search was made, but there was no trace of the taxicab or its occupants. re Inside Adolph Last October brought information that brought about the arrest of Garvey, A girl at a dance overheard some one re- m that y was a dangerous ertminal, iry store murder ation’in a » investigation Assistant District- as prosecutor, At th At To Gar let-Attorr in| Went back to see about him, The elder way | man, however, had made his through the smoke-filled hallway to the rear and reached the back yard, As- sured of his father's safety, young ¢| Rochstein again went to the street and this time thought of Mrs, her baby on the top floor. It was impossible then to make a way through the flames that roared up Siebert and the staircase, Then Mrs. Siebert ap- eto the corner ot |Deared at a window of her flat, holding Up Wir sores Jac {her baby close to her breast and screaming. Once she made an attempt as if to jump and the elder Rochstein called One of the two | Ub: “Don't jump. Throw the baby to me For @n instant the young mother wavered. Then she glanced around and saw that the fire was fast approaching her, ‘The smoke already wreathed her as she etood at the window. The short hesitation ended, and, with a halt shriek and half moan, she threw the baby from her. The elder Rochstein caught it square- ly in his arms. It flannels and the shock of the fall caused it no harm Hardly had she seen her baby safely caught, than Mrs. Slebert jumped, Sho came hurtling through the air and fell heavily on her side. When the Roch- steins reached her she was unconsciou An ambulance was called and she was taken to the hospital. Friends took care of the baby. Mrs. Slebert is twenty-two years old and {s the wife of a guard on the Third Avenue Elevated line. While all the excitement was at its height over Mrs, Siebert and her baby, n object lesson in an animal's mother love and self sacrifice was given on the ground floor, How the bull terrier sa had assumed as|the street one of her pupples will never be known, The firemen found it vorting around when they arrived. When | y put out the fire in the shop they Dis n {found the bull terrier dead, with her and former Avs mouth firmly gripped at the back of the Forbes J. He opening | eck of the other puppy. dress to tto| ‘Tae firemen didn't know, but came to the digh ¢ sttorneys who |the conclusion that the terrier, afte ad been assigned to the defense, Mr. | saving one of her offspring, had gone Wellman himself has a reputation as aback for the other and had died in prosecutor and of a work | the attempt to save it. on the art of cross-examinatior ee Mr. Nott told of the w es in the Dike sabe bald. af) Baar P| STOKES IS GAINING. case, One was a watchman ina partment sstore across the avenwe who, ee he sald, would identif the In Two Weeks May Be Able to sit map who dil the sh ther Up=Not Told ef Girln ae nf who were céso in tie would also identity The condition of W, E, D. Stoke: © three m jrles | Was operated on for aby o the pice the continues to imp shooting and were vol to br. J whieh eee in 8 by ean sald to-day that een told of tiv and Ethel ¢ Was rolled up in| | MORSE DOOMED (54,208,000 XMi3 IS REPORT OF HIS | GREETINGS COME DOCTORS TO TAFT} FROM UiER SEAS President Told Ex-Banker Can-|Since Dec. 1 Ocean Vessels | not Recover—Hope for | Have Borne $06,745,744.13 Pardon by Christmas, in Gifts From Here. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18,—Charles W. Morse Is doomed, according to a report Since the Christmas mail rush con menced on Dec, 1 Postmaster Morgan of the medical officers of the army hos-| saya the incoming ners from all for-|warning to rehearse his little army ot pital at Fort MoPherson, Ga, They way|etgn countries have danded 27,104 {sleuths In. thelr parts, Ho knew. he that his present condition is grave, but] sacks, ave ne 2,000 letters each, | sald, that Brant and Greenspan had con- that his ailment (aterlo-soleros¥s) is pror| making a rough total of 64,208,000 | tracted to sot fire to the third floor fat gressive and inc although tt t#| greetings from over the seas, In ad-|at No. 728 Cleveland street, xome time not possible to predict when the end will|dition 50,381 registered yi last night or early this morning Ds i Le alt ie ns Shortly after midnight Firemen ATLANTA, Ga,, Dec, 18.—The rdport| gifts came by parcels post [HER SAG TIA OF UROL ETALYIE of the military physicians at Fort) The number and amount of money | Dee er Pare ges vee McPherson on the condition of Charies | orders dempatched from the General {uPle Of Push carte one hun W. Morse was forwarded to the Adju- Post-Office here to foreten countries | Ted feet of hose covered over with po- tant-General of the A gt Washi: |Aiaoe ees. Wareien tone tatoes on thelr push cart, also fir axes Ington for transmission to the Depart Nike caica Cee Ay ; Touie and fire extingulshers. Firemen Michael ment of Justice last Saturday, i I) ‘peg ¢ vin ateamship Campagnia,| McCaffery and John Nolan of Brophy! : On a staff went out the garb of laborers learned here to-day 68,809 orders, amounting to $1,307, | % lends of the former New York | 680.27, any i Shee se ee mene baat hope President Taft, who has ¢. 7%, via steamship Rid. 11P8 Cae “ rie Brith, ction on Morse's applica: | 18,783 orders, amounting ee ec in Cee l feur, wore the disguise of a. atrike- parole from his fift ] Dee. 9% by steamship Oty: | breaking White Wing, and #0 did two sentence until the physicians amounting to $1,007, 461.0 Peay eM Ll port on his condition, Aw trophy's automo w 7 caso by Chr gusta Vi Te erred wearer tree eter Net prisoner @ p Ing to $1, the engine company's quarters at Lib Dec, My La Touraine, nf a it | 1,450 orders, $10,824 erty. avenue-ent. autora atreal | CONDUCTOR WINS $22,500. | ‘Heo. us, v | WOMAN APPEARS IN THRILLING ae helm, 68,808 orders, | FIRE DRAMA Verdict Against New Haven Road | 605.58, The sleuthing smoke-eaters were ail Under Federal Liability Law. an a uae ie SAtPREIAD ID P York, | sasias a | ek Oliver Huff of No, 2% North High! Dee. 16, via steamship Lusitan 68,146 | up ht wil at a reot, Mount Vernon, oam@uetor of | orders, amounting to $101,814.36 VeRhitaa t freight train, who was crippled for Hfe] The ni shipment 1 ‘in a smashup at Falrfeld, Conn., Juno} money orders, aggregating Rica dked up at th 6 last, was awarded damages « This tea little lese than the amount of | peck kot some signal Juguinst the New York, New Hi money sent abroad last year ee K off on @ trolley car, Pre Hartford Raliroad Company a ann wine @ pretty young woman | United States Cireult Court to-day essed in blue, Who went through th Lawyer Thomas J O'Nett, who we-| EIGHTH ARMORY Bao ae eee te and desarea ured the big verdict for Conductorie, my mare on Old Jere othing ned after this until 9 Huff, contended that the rallroad « when Hrant reappeared, 1 pany was able under the Federal Bm vote sit | 1 by Greenspan, Ast ployers ty law, The company | one wight ent Armory w | 6 their atten Pthat th was nstitutional, |», on a already owned a Re ‘ea ruling, in 4 i 1 Je } ed : 1 i ‘ and € f —— | Squadron A tie Big ’ ! A World Bultdin Regiment A BIEN Te owiy up aud down. the street, ‘Th gets street and Pi er n the regi kK avenue, wi ment takes the pew quarters, M | | | | | BOLD FIREBUGS oe arshal Brophy’s Man S| ows Plotters, Caught in the Act. TRAP LAID AND SPRUNG Fire Fighters Pose as Laborers and Peddlers While Wait- ing for Incendiari Fire Marshal Brophy of Brooklyn sprung the most elaborate trap he ever | devined to: | men, who, he declares, have long been |engaged in the business of “torehing” fires, " jay and bagged two young capture was made in a most dramatic setting, Brophy himself nabbing the prisoners and using his fter they had lighted at ‘amily brick house at i Clevelant street. The Fire Marshal was assisted springing his trap by firemen as pushcart peddlers, strike: White Wings or daborers, in Wrophy himself watched the development of his plot opponite the building he knew the two young men under suspicion Were golng to attempt to fire, Brophy long ago spotted Sam Brant, twenty-s years old, of No, $3 Nor- folk atreet, au Morris Greenspan, twen- ty-eight years old, of No. Hondred and } ourteenth street, had been seen by firemen in the nelgh- borhood of many suspiolous fires both in this borough and Brooklyn. The collec: tion of insurance figured in all these fires. The Fire Marshal appointed Abe Flam, a celrk employed tn the Brooklyn gire headquarters, to shaduw the two mer Flam disguised himself as a long-hal poet of the sort that frequents east side | and Willi days he Greenspan. SLEUTH OVERHEARD PLOTTERS, MARSHAL SAYS. amabure cafes, ommed the 1 and for js of Br three nt and According to Fire Marshal Hrophy, er Flam overheard the patr discuss the fires they had set and the fires they were planning. He says Mam overheard Brant say to Greenspan, “lam a sp Hat in fires. I can make a fire whe r I want and they can't chon The » Marshal ts a joke, It's einch to frame an allbl that will fool him every time. Just when Flam heard the patr plan the Cleveland street fire, Brophy would not say, but he did say he had sulticlent (Continued on Second Page) * LOCKED 158 East One ‘They OF GHUM'S DEATH AT TRIANGLE DOOR \|Katie Alterman Describes to Jury the Struggle of Margaret Schwartz to Pass Barrier While Clothes and Hair Were Blazing. STATE CLOSES ITS CASE WITH STORY STILL FRESH. \Little Shirt Waist Maker Dramat- ically Tells How She Had to Fight Her Own Way to Safety. The death of Margaret Schwartz in the awful Asch Building fire was brought directly before the jury in dramatic fashion, this afternoon, during the trial of Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, proprietors of the Tri- angle Waist Company. Katie Alterman, one of the survivors, told how Margaret WSchwartz died at the locked Washington place door of the factory, and it was the most important evidence taken thus far in the trial, as Harris and Blanck are specifically charged with responsibility for the death of the Schwartz girl in the fire that cost 147 lives, | king at the white faced, ex- the witness chair, To the: warts and Katle Alterma cogs in a smoothly moving in- yachine up to the 2th day of h. ‘To-day the memory of Mar- hwarts was drilled past thelr lity and reserve by the little shirtwalst worker who had seen Mar- garet Schwartz cateh fire as she beat her hands againwt a locked door. STRUCK AND KICKED AT GIRL WHO HAD GRABBED HER, 4% In vain effort to break down the story of Katle Alterman the defense cross: examined her repeatedly and minutely. | Harris and Blanck sat tmpassive and +) e BY INTERBOROUGH TOTS EMPLOYEES Each of 8,000 Guards, Ticket- astral last M nme Not only was the story of the Alter- Choppers and Others man girl tmporant from the standpoint of evider but it gave to the public Gets $5 Gold. {for he first Ume @ coherent recital of what happened in the factory after jthe first alarm of fire. ‘The Uttle wit- ness tokt how she bit and kicked witl ‘eonty, 2! ber might at another girl who r as she was fighting caught hold of h her way to safety, Tho crowded court. That wide smile you note to-day the faces ot the guards, Ucket tleket choppers, platform men and other mployees of the Interborousi I8 4! room canght for the first thme an idea nrivtmas emile In recognition of the o¢ horror of the panic that @t- work done by the army of under: jtended the fire. und and overhead totlers during the | po add to the force of the Alterman last year the Interoorough rapid transit) gtnive gvidence the prosecution intro- is distributing $0.49 In Christmas press! agceq testimony which established that ents ho side of the locked Wasi- Every man or boy on the subway or ; door wee @ aealnucaleee ‘LY system who receives waxes Of! was hardly touched by the fire, Had $110 a month or less and has been con- the door been open—had there been any tinuously on the payroll since Dee. 34} way of og it—all the elite Wann 1910, ts et a $i gold plece as a 4 bodies were found piled againet ehrlstr sent. ‘The distributton Mt have bean bawaa | win ade from the pay car on the testimony of tha ANGHEEEE | Wednesday, 7 Jay and Friday of ri) girl and th osure that there thin week. | There ure 400 employees | vate stairway on he other aide of 4 on the llgibi t plan was ad. {locked door were still fresh in the minds ele viene Bhonta nt tae at lot the jurors the State rested its case, veRnoeD Ny iideagie plot Ade red re Who tesUfled after Katie Alter- Fular wee meeting of dir man served m se UD aps 1 of her narra- to the end of the presen- ¢ case for the prosecution, SHE WORKED CLOSE TO MISS SCHWARTZ, Alterman ves at N hanna avenue, Philad pening her test she * Margaret Schwarte, who worked lose to her in the factory, were you when you ry of fire on Mareh 4 \ the dressing room on the with Margaret Schwartz and noWite when the fire started,” | sted, “1 ran to the Washingto: joor, Mr, Bernstein, brether o: » manager, Was trying to open it, ‘ Margaret tried, and she my frenzy I threw I tried, 1 turned Mes=-but the lnat and was u ad i Katte 1022 Sus- filret 2h? COLUMBIA WINNERS. and started for the We and hair were on She fought her way back to the door and again tried to open it, ‘My God, 3 heard her scream. ‘Open fire. (bunny , » 1 and 8 te (Time, LU4-5, Orperth, Arany and (Pisanell also ran and Bolshed ay named,