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TFT ANS DEATH BLN AT FEDERAL PATRONAGE WANTS A LEAN SHEE i$], 000 CHAINLOST BRINGS XMAS JY TO ITS BOY FINDER It at Least Gets fn palette co to Congress ‘He Urges That All Local Offices » Be Put on Classified List. HITS MEN IN FA IN FAT JOBS. He Includes Collectors, Post- masters, Immigration Heads and Marshals. Spies ree Gutter—Worth 2, He Thinks— s. $100 Reward. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Presi- dent Taft in a message to Congress to-day made a bold strike to kill off Political patronage in the Federal wervice. He vigorously asserted that @l local offices throughout the coun- try, including internal revenue and customs collectors, postmasters of the four grades, immigration com- ‘missioners and marshals should be placed in the classified lists. Jimmy Scully hasn't all the money tn the world; he thinks he hi of course, admitting that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan have something saved a Jimniy has one hundred whole dollars, and the Christmas the Scullys are go- Ing to have at No, 1810 Second avenue will go down In the annals of, the neigh- |old boy couldn't use his reindeer and | ‘The President's message was mainly deveted to @ discussion of the nation’s borhood as the biggest thing since the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, It all came about through Jimm TROLLEY CARSMASH SHOWED UP SANTA; KIDS ARE IN GLEE Holiday Saint Tried to Slip Across New York in Disguise, but Is Unmasked. . | IT FAIRLY RAINED TOYS. | Even Policeman Joined Young- sters in Premature Taste of Christmas Joys. Banta Claus tried to sneak across New York In disguise to-day. But his| duplicity was discovered and a hun- dred or more First avenue kids are celebrating their Christmas four days ahead of time with little red wagons, and horses, and, rollers, and jack-in- | theeboxes which were never meant for them at all. With no snow on the housetops, the | sleigh to get across the country under the cover of night. So he used a gaso- | Une truck as big as a small house and | Aisguised himself as the chauffeur, giving the name of Joe Chrest, a shal- low device which any child could puz- gle out'had he been suspected. Santa Claus has @ branch factory up MIRIAN HENRIQUES WIFIEIN “MOVIES” IF HAMMERSTEIN WIFE OF co ae SON, WHO THRE. ACT IN PICTUR ‘ENS TO SHOWS WON'T PAY BILLS “GROOK” DOUBLE - OF GARVEY BEFORE Dick Bell’s Rogues Gallery Picture Greatly Resembles Man Being Tried. TESTIFIES Members of “Neighbors’ Sons” Swear Mate Was With Them All Fatal Bening. CLUB By the introduction of a Rogues’ ¢ lery photograph of Dick Bell, a notorious west aside thief, bearing « striking Itke- hess to Martin Garvey, on trial In the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court for the murder of Adolph Stern tn the “taxicab” robbery last July, Attorneys for the defense to-day struck another blow to the Identification of the pris oner on which the State's case t# base Dick Bell is the crook, still at large, on whom his former pal, Harry Hines, threw suspicion yesterday, when haled from the Tombs to tell of seeing Bell with a number of diamond rings on his hand late on the night of the shoot- ing. By getting Hell's photograph be- fore the jury, the defense offered an | “TAMIMURDER RY ALIBI. | a2 _PAGES “eee ELEVATOR FELL AND CROWD WATCHING REMOVAL OF VICTIMS. Phi by a Staff’ Photographer. ographed for The Evening World _ Political Patronage WEATHER—Rain to-: FI EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. _ SKYSCRAPER FALLS AS CA AGH A 3+ ELEVATOR BLE PARTS: RE INJURED: . Every Passenger in Car of Importers and Traders’ Building Hurt as It Crashes Upon Base- ment Concrete. \|GIRL AMONG THE VICTIMS OF SEVEN-FLOOR TUMBLE. Financial District in Panic as Rumor of Explosion Follows Noise of Disaster. An elevator car carrying seven men and a girl dropped during thé luncheon hour to-day. from the sixth floor to the basement-of the Impors. Mfs. Abraham Threatens to Do "3 wish to renew again my recom- delivering a package, (hat all the local offices he noticed what painted wooden toys which make every Uttle store show window nowadays look less Supported. INVESTIGATOR FINDS IDENTIFI. : Bcd cocdehaaeia comes &t Monticello, in the forests of Sullivan lekfaitent - chandedto -Wbeeauate, ‘Gnnitha ters and Traders’ Building, a nineteen-story structure fronting at Nb. 24 ; finapelal affairs habits of observance. He ts an errand | ¢ » Which hi der the nam ; ation of doubt as to whether It was 5 ack to No, 59 4 pay ,teeete @eneral. Afer le had dwelt on oy, employed by Casola Brothers, (of Themes Deriisn, From tne Sulivan| . Picture Show Turn Une A SCay, Ys ELisGr wanes Petieam soabn coe Stone street.and running b Pearl street. All the passengers all-these, President Taft closed with this tailors, at No Weat Thirty-sixth | pines and spruces he rakes the gaily milar appearance who fired the fatal in the car and the elevator operator were injured. Five sustained frace > Aetaration: street, Last Tuesday afternoon, while shot at Stern. z : | tures of the limbs. and the other three were severely hurt, looked to be a jumble of glass in the|\ike a glimpse into heaven. ® CATION DIFFICULT. t The injured arr: the country, including Ool- gutter near Fifth avenue and a few] Weil, sir, the sly “ ” . Mi ae , alr, y old “Joe Chrest” got ; john Barney, elevator Aevtore of Internal Revenue, Collectors doors awsy from the store, Some boya| out his big auto truck yesterday, all Mrs. Abraham Hammerstein appeared, | Many alibi witnesses, and a man who PM sere Mig ah be} tee nicl @f Customs, Postmasters of all sour | would have passed it. Jimmy picked : Hh: vee [tS morning, in the West Side Police | Investigated the posstbillty of recogniz- wenty-four years old, No. ‘Weat aianees, an ta tuad New tena Meatrat thinenc a ra raate rhese | Court and asked for a warrant for| ing the distinguishing features of the Twenty-eighth street, cuts ond le fo cl » | beautiful ings, and started for Long} ¢ f u f by’ hee should be composed of white and red stones, Island City, bumping down over the| amy, a warrant for non-support and | {00k Ot Might Aad toenarit tondestbie | nee nba, ered inte the classified service, the 6) betcha.” said Jimmy Scully to} c @ warrant for attempted murder, all . Peter Berge, thirty-four, clerk, No. y fromen roads past the Hudson, crossing to tell what they looked like from the 245 Nii mecgeaity for confirmation by the S6n- nimuelf, “that it's worth «a couple of! the river at Newburg, He kept his big/@gainst her husband, the son of Oscar the State's witnesses sald they nety-fivet strect, Brookiyay: Malm ate be removed, and the President and gojjars. it's sweller than the one [| goggles on all the time and tucked his| fammerstein. After sho told her troubles when they saw: the murder, ankles sprained, the ethers, whose time is now taken eon jn a winder the other day for a! whiskers under his rabbit furred collar|and the matter was referred to Magis- were other featu of the defense to Joseph A. Nicholas, fifty-seven, No, 109 up ta distributing this a, er one dobar seventy-nine."* nobody even gave him a second] trate Herman, the court clerk decided | day Bedford avenue, Brooklyn; right at the custom that has prev baad pr Jimmy had a little sister at home. He} glance. He was bowllng along in fine} best she could do would be to go| All the testimony will be tn by even- broken, ROA Mrn Of) Od Sree, CRUTINE. On miving. en 8) Sune, Youll be, tr eM. to cree FArat Aves to the Domestic Relations Court |ing and the case will go to the jury to- -| Chambers, thirty-two, cleri, Senators and Congressmen of the ‘Wenty-! nt BAKUAs (ANd Same | Che. By Maven cmetond at and ask for a warrant for non-support, | Morrow, | Prospect street, Cranford, N. should be relieved from CAndY for Chilsimar, Here was 4 pret,| TOYS. FELL UPON MOTORMAN | airs, Hammerstein, before her mar-] Une by one an assortment of youths, |J.i left lex broken, : ; ent worth while, He would give the °c 2 D ba aeclaa § Kt ———— j ; pallens (6 Sane if a eRe ING Spas Hlage, five years azo, was known In,the | All members of tne | Nels peered Joseph N. Leomedico, thirty-two, bro ‘f sa avenue car whtel ve os M ‘el je sac ol a) oT > rN 7 HITE AT USE OF POLITICAL | tpon nis return to the store he com-| num away by the simple process ot | teutrical profession as Mirlam Hen- | tion," of which Garvey ix a popular Aviator Flies From Lynn to]! Ne 2 Hamutton avenue, Brooklyn, PATRONAGE. |munteated bis idea to some of the work-| smashing into his truck right at the [Rau She is ai to bs the Sauetier member, were called to testify that on jvight ankle fractured. They i . of a former Consul to Cuba, After her 8 nb 7 ia . $ . . C " “2 em confident that such a change men. ‘They asked him to show his find. | yo6%. Owen Cronin, the motorman, of arian. 1b, youn Piamcneratain, 1 1s (oe night of m I robbery and mur dor Providence, Covering 130 ‘ari Platou, Mfty-elght years old, ahlp « would greatly reduce the cost of ad- Although Jimmy thought the stones! x7, Kast Ninety-fifth street, was! aneged i I he hadn't quite | Garvey spent the time from 8 o'clock chandler, Seventysninth street and Shore glass, t rk knew they oigtna ee bard on | silewed sho discoverer he had dnight 41 Nolan's Cage, the Hach ina’ a 0 rod ministering the Government, and that were glass, the workmen knew they | astonished, as he sat down very hard on detached himself from a previous wite. until midnight fh jolan's Cafe, th Miles in Fine Style. read, Brooklyn, both $s would e@4 greatly to its eMoiency. were ems, und notified a member of | Mis front plattonm, to have « shower et ot ha MRA uae fo | Tesular resort of the club, at Bank and ° Kalin Bt would take away the power to use the firm, wiv locked up the necklace IM] (iy come clattering down on hin bAte ae iy Se nd. taney be “| Bleecker strects. ‘Their recollection of 6 left ankle rt 9 clatter jo in the family circle and ay Mrs./the events of that particular evenin m= the patsonage of the Goverument for his safe. ! : Several crates had heen broken and| Hammerstein declared she either want- | wore w Aly Gaeta ones ‘ a Mgnt of | \ vody 11," sald Mr, Cassola, were uniformly aveurate and corrobora. pROVIE Dec. tA Mant of |G pelielon) yarposes. | “Somebody lowt wonderful things were scattered all over ed to be supported, or have her spouse ‘apt. M. B. Hinson, forty-five, captain ake recommended by | ‘They'll advertige and you'll get a re- I i tive, more than 139 miles in a hydros tramp steamsilp Thorde, tet Thea offecrs A the car tracks, almost to the curb, Out | incarcerated, RALLIED MEMBERS To ae f horde, left ankle Renntese and Congressmen from politl- ware + Tuxedo} 9f doorways, from around corners, and} Mra, Hammerstetn told reporters in |CbUS [plane was completed when Harry N. | sprajned onl motives and for pouisess | geeviens | rs. Siargeret Steinman of | Tu Hel.| it even seemed ax though they rose | court, to-day, that her counsel, F. TESTIFY FOR MATE Atwood, the Hoston aviator, who Weft] Sigmond Bondy, ris-sis, importers Ne rendered, it to to expect | Park, staying ery O Na “,{ from the manholes and from under | Zuckerman of No. 198 Broadway, tad | Assistant Distric nt of Pines, near Lann, Mass, at | 4% West Ninety-t int ctvect, bruises aad that while ¥ a t curbs ® the kids, chee ce enced ander sults against bh 9 Alacredit the testim day ited easily on | contusions, bed nat he had lost a dlamond| ("@ curbs came th kia ering, | commenced stan an anes ee hard to dlacre . ASM. toed) aligiited aaity on bias et regard their ton snatching, laughing, gasping for joy. band’s brothers, Willlam and Arthur | shrewd, hard-fisted youths. He tried to waters of Narragansett Bay, near} All the injured, with the exception ef tloal ser-|and rudy necklace, Mr. Cassola saw the} | sche init th ay aa . | nar ina » Gepentcnt upen contin wed. poll | ¥ an at the, 206 Chrest,"” who had held Ught to! Hammerstein, make them admit that they had talked Edgewood Yaeht Club, this city, at Me ator operator, were vieo for thelr patrons, and no regula. (24 and calle! on Airs. Steinman at th) ie steering wheel and had not been) Mrs. Haminerstetn, who, ince her together and decided what ‘t eee ee a caunpeatth mt $0 thelr hetane te aa o tens, however etif or rigi4, will pre- | | notes : he identified her property, w Hs "bumped off hig seat, climbed down and separation, has been in vaudeville, billed |yphat they had A@scugsed the he a 1 when his thachine |2ulanees or taxicais, Barney tein oot this, Voconso oush regulations, in se sa}l vas w ra alam and ase MT) cried to dive them away. They jeered under the ttle of |The American /Nolan'a almomt every night ri ie tein, an whan a aching | Hidson Street Hospital and tt ta feared view of the method and motive for Casio's Or y . at him and kept on snatening. As fast Beauty,” clatins her husband has been | t, Oct. 4, the Neighbors’ Sons hed upd sabe hia spine is seriously atfecte: evlevtion, axe plainly inconsistent and l’reviously another b who had} 95 he turned to wrab one of the young. |kept out of way. He has been Im (freely admitted, But each Insisted that last drop of gasvlene was | CABLE SNAPPED LIKE A PIECE of found a valuable miniature which had " : Newark) th and even in New Aldi ad dele Gases ta’ tae a sters another Would snateh a gaudy | the discussion hi y to re 1 OF STRING, “very | been attached ( the necklace, but liad) vous ark from right under his tect, | York, she says, but she has been unable |fregh their recollections of that particu- ‘Atwood clalma that his flight of to- ; eatistactery condition,” according to | fallen off when it was lost had ree) re ti iage he used was something |*® find him jar evening in order to round up ali day exceads by fifteet miles the best are four el sin the Im Tett's mesnag | turned tt and got a reward of $100.) vir ie eno fi to cia ven| Asked Why she wanted a warrant for | who could remember having been in No- previous record in a of the ders By Air ‘A surplus of Over $47,000,000 In the re-| Mra. Steinman did not get the name of} 5,014 Ciaus cross to be made a fool of {Attempted murder, she explained #8 | any chat might and Garvey's presence style In which he flew to- ated by electricty amd calpts for the year over tho expend'-| that boy. Ao HAART CHAPACH CGE A RAOREE NGL ehay, forced to marry Hamm there throughout the evening. | After leaving Point of Pines this fore.) Were ina nis terday and pro- turas'was shown by the President's fig-| But Jimmy Scully's alster te going 19157, anced around and waved his hands | ose at the point of a wun Kéward Sheehan of No. 7% Bank ‘noon Atwood across Boston har. |MOaneed in good condition: “4 " er —not a nite - : ¥ rt he thor shi a % ; t v4 " tngham and reache: * ie € opera ny uses, and he remarked that the Post-| have necklace after all—not a whit Nec dunt lita. Baxter aireet usddior| ee Sone oN ie oF ne iat Prcicirg nter, said he was tn Nolan's bor, flew over Hingham and reached tl Pr oe a: pin OMce Departhhent for the ars: tine In] and red one, but a mighty fine necklace! geltiag xecond= 1 vba Felt amaaas RAeer when two men came in, about 1.9 Massachusetts south shore oe ‘ olf: yoting. |ac that, for $8.50. Also the little Scullys t e did no! duped rey ned Bkirting along the side of Cape Cod} coume ol twenty-eight years was self-suppovting. | act t aye - har ind's properly yelock, July 22, dnd told the crowd a | erat hak “he red of this Government was | are gulng to have new sh nd Jimmy] did not save w | ee Mes HF ’ fai ey [ihe bar that ® robbery ant shootin Hay, the aviator passed over the new | Moor th @hown to be better than that of any Is woink to be the biggest fa Claus] ler from the Kast Bigut Mrs, Hammerstein suid] {1% “leon place at Thirteenth. strest Case God capsi and then crossed over! ! other government by the suie of the, alone the whole length of vond ave- Hon came to Tile re >» earn fee ying 96 land Sixth avenus, Garvey was t | Buzzard’s Bay, He was seen from Horse 4 iy . oe has ie nthe small mob o can't Ket @ position in fac ah in the town of \Weatoart aine! rifle ravens three per cent. bonds,” said the | tae tered and disap fe Broadway dnow, kre and hed been there a evening. 8 ak Hone) ss bleh aeeert | velocity and he teil 5 = vad come. The li tein declares, she te going to|4an became somewhat cont on epg) lorash waen the rhe eeatage ge the ‘moovtance at | REYES PROCLAIMS HIMSELF was ted pana “hecho gin Fete ig Nn vorcnaminatin” ant none | aan nea 6s Saeeaey The main featires of tae Ate| PRESIDENT OF MEXICO?) take things that were not meant tor | "work Mer way to the « dad frat made Garvey’s a qualitan at all cranked vr, But hi — | rich plan as proposed by the Monetary Be me siroken: | John Carpenter of No. © Hank street | Commission, It recommended that the) MEXICO CIT Dec, A—Reports| "U8" CONGRESS ADJOURNS anee Att ae nn abalute| Government be given “veasonable repres reached here to-day from Soledad, | {0 recollection of Garvey's presence there | A H entation” nthe management of the ‘Tamaviiias, that Gen. Bernardo Reyes "fp 5 OVER THE HOLIDAYS. | cirtnat evening, und Mr. Nott was net | Int to proposed National Ri Association, had formally epen the revolution | dog 1 t able to muddle him in important | H * k Sj whieh under the Aldrich plan will con- against Madero by tasuing . proc amas |out of Motorman (1 wy Both Houses Hak Day for a/ particular, The fe withiaibe. ad omeseekers clal resources. uen declaring hi f President coat. - n| iT ake num AR ROVE NATIONAL, RESERVE papi pen ee olde Well,” sald Cronin, between deflance Recess Until “hird Day ete P ra Yenants are put to a supreme Li ASSOCIATION. TWO MORE IMPORTERS FINED fir, Shai was Whateuer gui’ to do of New Year |dot @ snicker from ¢ test these cold winter mc rnings urreney ¥ vand - about it WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—Both Houses | When MY N questioned him Sag is ‘aad in the the oe » fortheoming re- Neeser Plead Guilty of| "J. Crest,’ stil taughing, went on|of Congress adjourned to-day for the| Ma beverage, Jack Frost and say, truthfully, » Monetary Com aad Sesner Plead Guilty s his way and the policeman en omak- | notida oes to reasonable at noo: ‘How many drinks dia AN | that your House, Room, Apart: mieston, President Taft said Kwai Vudervatustion, dent Very | Jy 1 udjourned at 2 ening?” queried prosecute ment, Store or Office is. warm, Monlawiy fortunate that “the hn Pencet and John G. Neeser, coms | mie badly py and 23h, M About twenty w ¥ suitably lighted, arranged, vens coedingly fo at ; ly admitted Carpent il cated, Ke.? f ¢ taining un e velvet imporing firm o: > tilated, located, Xe undisputed policy inal taining ing tie imporing ft went away Twenty tWentyeflie drinks tres of ous bank wn! Neoser, aapenred towday Necattestit "2% [DIVES TO DEATH DOWN SHAFT, | “Tents oe twentyet y dered it at once impos.) fore Jinige H nad He wouldn't come back . 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