The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1911, Page 1

WEATHER-Fair ¢ he FI EDITION. . Friday; 0 an MAYOR GAYNOR REFUSES TO SIT AT PEACE ‘DINNER PRICE ONE CENT. BILLION DOLLAR MERGER BY BEET MAGNATES WAS AN ENGL . —_———— cate ve’ so! BMA CAVESN Was Too Much for eer Who Sew the Humor” KUL TWO90 FEET BUT THEY ACTED LATER. — Wall Street Was Brought Into| Plan by Which Trust Was | to Be Swelled. | capes in Collapse of New ; | Bore in Brooklyn. ICAGO, Dec, 2%.—Lord Panmure | Gordon, an English promoter, first sug: | wested th tlons in the United States at a capitall-| zation of $22,000,000, according to Albert H. Veeder, who to-day continued bis! teatimony In the trial of tho ten Chicago | Accident Kers hefore Juda ‘ H AAPL elatee District 11, Where Tracks Cross Carpenter In the ta a St The English finance 4 MRI: ‘Gtaice aariy: Ins 1s at Four Levels. Mirecting the 1 ae | ispenaiees cep indusirios, called on Gustav i Swift ant suggested a consotid4iion of them, the nigh being found four hours at which the pi merger were a Jater taken to fi inary me tavus F. Swift, J ward Morris and othe SAW THE HUMOR OF BIG STOCK WATERING PLAN. Tt was the third day of testimony by Veeder, » ie attorne Company, He as the greater pare of wgarding the det oy led te n ise, Halt « dozen ¢ niriets, options and agreements, under which tre packer combination act competitive con Veed and incorp dence, Having shown by docune that the ten packers nad made repeate | efforts ty orkan.% which | shovld combi iterests | of the country, ax organized f Packing Co Jer for Armour, d+ worked ¢ ficulties to ge f make bis esvape. vsuctions »posed = merger tches. a few sera the constant v! the property of Jolley cars in the neighbdornood, were produced bY | Gccurred in one of two bor 1 out thirty feet sa ry proof The shaft is along the ‘prese subway stat e National ce Bu r amed, cars of the & the examination Jer in an effort|and St. John’ to show in detail the disenesion and] the st plans of the packors at their Informal! ation, trying to ” oat | WOR? Induce Wal the billon-dolia Veeder says ther sion amdns Armour, Swift 4 ‘as to how they could pour plenty of} er into thelr proposed organization witnout having !t become too apparent. | fom the ‘They discussed many schemes,” sal Veeder, “and finally the plan of turn- tng over their properties to the new at two for one was offered, ENT SUBWAY. @ Morris | t9 Bet below the present suby 3 forty-five feet below the surfac twelve feet square, were working in the bore at vary! some other means, Then !t was de) tore oi og cided to use twenty-five times thelr Ine oq of dividual net earnings for the year a8 quis ¢, ored, twenty-five yi STOCK. street. It was by this means that the pack» Suddenly there ers adie! nearly $060,000,000 of water to their proposed billion dollar capty talization It was also brought out when Attore ney Butler began seeking for details surrounding tie written ¢ ents that Veeder admitted that besides bor- rowing $10,000,000 from the Stardard Ojl-Harriman-Gary interests, the er: Intérests $10,000,000 of the their syndicate in consideration of tne and bruisea, loan, eside this they wi the loan wits interest in three years, men had to shore up the When this scheme fell through, Veed+ tube ag they went along, er testified, panned t tie went for naught. Willams bec: as (he final report of the apprais- the most ac sand expert accountants on the v of the tangible property of the pi moters of the big merger ever ma fuked Special Counsel Butler of Mr, Vooder. Public “Phe reports were not completed unt the acci | atter the big merger had failed and ech (Gontinued 0& Second Page.) 4 near where Williams was at work, of the bore oxcept the three farthest. ent, who wielded @ p! others, as well as di ted the work, vice Com had settled silghtly ja the terminah SH LORD'S IDiA ~-UNDER THE STREET, Gang of Fifteen iia Hashes Es- merger of packing corpora- | C)NE FOUND UNINJURED. at Flaibush Avenue | Three of the fifteen men working in a bore cf? the Fourth avenue subway ~ | SIXTEEN KOU BEGIN A FIGHT FOR Irresponsille When She Left $2,000,000 to Cousins. MADE LIST OF RELATIVES | But Miss Campbell Didn't Fol- low It When Sh> Finally Signed Her Will. L. Campbell, the elghty-one-year-old spinster who died Muay 28 last, leaving an estate worth more than $2,000,000, began sult in Surrogate Fowler's Court, to-day to upset the will, charging un- | due influence and incapacity to execute son or persons who so influenced the mystery as when William 8, Rensselaer, a second cousin, filed notice of his contest last September. Outside of several small leg: es to estate to four ‘rst cousins of the teati trix: Justine V. R, Townsend, of No. bi ag Fourth, Atlantic and Flatbush av a, hues, Brooklyn, were ‘exit Ine cave: evidently was Impressed wich tho SUR fy at 2 o'clock this morning. ~ Brana no Se\ Seah nOMts. At n- “Two were taken out dem, one of; ference of ( ba it 4 mas Willams, a brother of superintendent of the work, r badly shed. In hope that he might still be alive a large force of men, assisted by, po’ reserves and firemen, had nst great dif- ind his body was against of [allio crossbeams, which and eviden ly barred his progress as nan in tie tube was taken rt time afler the accident «vetn vs Ledeved to have been sub vated and raiiroad trains an! at the bot- Well, yes, ted in the eVis) tom of a ninety-foot shaft, which 1s are in the triangu ar avea bounded by the three avenues. n. Overhead ts the ele ying trains to Coney Island, | Bay Kidge, Borough Park and Baty | to pi Beach, and on the surface ure troiley h, Seventh, Mlarbusn 8 piace Nnes, Just acros t ls the Long Island Railroad ING 45 FEET BELOW PRES. discus-| The ninety-foot shaft was necessary . which The twin bores in course of construction side of the shaft go toward @| Ashland place: ~Each bore is about At 2 o'clock this morning the fifteen cone distances from the shaft The three ‘The packers saw the humor in the time- sorcest in were ‘Thomas Willaims, honored plan and decided to devine nineteen, of No, 124 St, Mark's place, ‘0. 17 Kast One Hundred und n street, and John Lump- a busis for capitalization, | kins, twenty-eignt, colored, of No. 1 ADDED $650,000,000 OF WATERED) West One Hundred and Thirty-seventn as a crunching of timoers farthest from the shaft, and Jan instant the sides began to cave tn, put at the first sound of disaster the mn neurest the opening Into the shaft an to run, and all of them got out Dozens of men grabbed picks and shovels and began to dig amid the k= | depris, ‘Pie first man reacued was sroposed to ive the Wall street Lumpkins, who was pulled out and stock of found to nave oly @ Lew scratche to repay ‘The rescue work wae slow because the ides of the hirty add. the packers immediately tional men were added to the force ir second proposal, waich after the difficulty of reaching young apparent, and one of was the brother of the lue entombed man, the night superintend- alongside the | Chief Bngincer Alfred Craven of the sion reported that | nt had not given cause for| executor, was referred to by Mr. 0: alarm as to the present subway, An/| borne as one of the persons who ad- examination showed that the tracks | vised her about the drawing up of the V. RR. Crosby, of Charieston, W. Va. Bugene Van Rensselaer, of Berkeley R. Springs, W. . and Catherine death of Mire dren, Walter V. i. Ef Boynton of Washington, D. C. Howard Tow Miss He had eld power of attorn death, Mr. Townsend secured John V Bouvier jr. to defend the provistons of the will. James W, Osborne ts the| counsel for the contestants, Taking up the © had sugg such a will to her, was made, estate 4c tition the property about it in @ will to 1 else arrang revent me bein |ted up in the courts by the other rela- tives, She sald she would never agree te, but later said sie would dy something about it 1 tition the didn't hi The qui a determined protest from Mr. Houvier, Just what she sald Lawyer Osborne said he was looking for Light. HELPED AGED WOMAN TO CoM. PILE LIST OF RELATIVES. “Your Honor, there i# a mor point Involved in thts case, and I do not, for reasons of my own, care to go into deiails about tt at this tlme,” sald Law. yer Osborne, "We say this witness was one who helped to bring about the ecution of this will hi Miss Campbell that she ought to mal guch @ will to pre from being tied up tn the courts,” Later Mr. Osborne brought out the fact that Mrs. Campbell helped the aged testatrix to compile a list of relatives who might he interested in her ¢ This list, the lawyer stated, has dis peared and cannot be found. Each the list Was mentioned demands were made to produce It, the list was, Mrs, Campbell wan then asked about! ersation she had with Mr Van Rensselaer, mother of one of the cons testants, at a hotel in West Porty-ninth a con’ Campbell’ death, Rens street before > “L told Mra, V the List T hel draw up. deileate matter and [am this for myself, but for you tell me, 1f you can whether my son {# mentionr’d In t will?” I said I could not remember hear ing the name of Van Rensselaer when e will was read in my presence T not seem to satisfy Mr. Osborne, whi announced to the court he would show] by creditable witnesses that what act- vally occurred waw quite diffe declared he would pr died of progressive se stead of being perfectly sa Campbell testified, Mr, Towns: dementia, in | wil botorg Ite emevution, d CAMPBELL RICHES, Allege Aged Millionairess Was Sixteen of the thirty-nine relatives | not mentioned jn the will of Miss Marta | the document. The Identity of the per- | aged woman remained as deep a} family servants, the will, bearing the |date Oct. 21, 1908, bequeathed all the 8 East Seventy-elghth street; Harriet ‘Berry. ‘The lutter died prior to the mpbell and her share of the estate was allotted to her chil- try, of No 8 Avenue del ‘Opera, Paris, and Matilda end, a second cousin of mpbell, was named executor. y for the ‘aged woman for some years before her| nts preceding the| making of Miss Campbell's will, Law. yer Osborne asked Mrs, ‘Thomas Pear- gall Campbell, widow of Miss Camp-| bell’s brother, whether she had ever asked the testatrix to make a will or| I did," replied Mrs, Camp- bell, It was two days before the will and ! owned some real sted she par- stion and answer brought forth delicate suggesting to nt the real estate » one knew where r about! Lil ster-in-law, She said, ‘Now, this fa al Verston of the conversation Aid|spend Saturday evening at Oyater Ba: > Miss Campbell |Vitat * Mra 4, the NOTTHEONLY DISH ON DINNER MENU | So Henry Clews Replies to ‘ ‘ | Roosevelt’s Insinuations of | Political Booms. | MAYOR GAYNOR SHIES. leged Alienation of Wife by Her Family. ‘ He's a Scrapper, but, Like the | si He Declines Chance Now comes Henry Clews, chairman of one of the sub-committees of the Peace Dinner to be held at the Waldorf Saturday night, and declares Col. The i H primarily as a boost for President Taft : in the way of an indorsement ot his| Breen Wants $100,000 for Al- arbitration polictes. The Colonel did not say it In so many | the President and his policies. It #0 happenes that on the com- mittees arranging for the dinner there} John J. Breen, who married Mi«s are many strong Roosavelt supporters. |Hthel J. Croker, daughter of Pichard them Saturday night, and thelr sore. (@fternoon against the retired politic: | noms is directed at the friends of|¥om, Richard Croker jr. and Howard President ‘Taft on the committees. The|CFOker for $100,000 damages for allona- newspapers have notified their war oor-| /0n of affections: "l that the former Tammany chieftain and iat ho lodieri. Tule Ib Wat. HS Onis: | jure’ him and deprive him of the love “The purpose and import of this ban- | ®94 affection of his wife, influenced and relative to changing its imports and | ceeded in destroying and alienating the sei ftections of hin wi | purposes and so far as I know none |“) will be taken. ‘The purposes of the ban-| The complaint In the case wes draw: auet and the movement are ao bie andl ty Ory Gruber, Bonynge & McManus, a | CROKER ; “he ‘o Swat the Dove. | dore Roosevelt is mistaken when he words, but he strongly hinted that the | Naturally, they are sore because the| Croker, former leader of Tammany Hall, respondents to attend the dinner, Breen and Miss Croker were married Jquet has not been changed, ‘The Execu- induced her to a@bandon him, He Jao broad that the pereona! policies, feel-|2¢ 18 very brief and dose not diectose insinuates that the dinner was arranged promoters of the dinner sought to help Colonet has refused to mix up with{| ted sult in the Supreme Court this Mr, Clews was moved to aj ch this in Hoboken April 2, 1910, Breen alleges five Comtnittes hae. taken no action | Charges that Croker and his sons suc- any of the details of the case. ously together until Croker and his sons came between then approve President Taft's arbitration policy or any other definite plan for se- curing or helping to bring about unt- | pabaechetis "A | versal peace.” \OIX NAMES VAN SANTVOORD WANTED: A HUSKY CITIZEN TO| HIS PERSONAL COUNSEL. RECEIVE GUESTS. | | nor will not attend tie dinner, He made | the announcement this afternoon at the City Hall, Inasmuch as the Mayor will |not attend the dinner, he cannot serve as chairman of the Reception Commit | tee und some one else—preferably a biv strong man with @ punch in elther hand will have to be selected. The Mayor felt called upon to mal his offictal announcement because 0: |the confusing reporta that have been | |sent out with respect to his intentions about the dinner, He acceps no invit ; tions ‘to Saturday night affairs, pre-| Man of the Committe on It ferring to spend his Saturdays and at the Roc ¢ Gtate Convention and) Sundays at his country home at st.) Wa one of the candidates voted for by the insurgent Democrats during the | James, L. 1. , ‘The official announcement that the| United States Seuntorial deadivck of the Mayor-although he itkes a disturbance | Present year. as well as anybody—will refrain trom Office as Successor to Will- iam Church Osborne, ALBANY, Dec, %.—Gov. Dix to-day announced the pointment of Seymour W. Van Santvoord of Troy as counsel | to amuece Willian Church Osborn, who resigned Nov. 10, The position pays $6,000 Mr. Van Santvoord is a prominent}!n musteal lawyer and banker and a close person | Saturday evening lstening to the w | winds blow around his house and thi Albert Breuor | waves of LA Island > d beat on tie ty-ninth street, employed in the wine | col beach is the latest development in! store of Joneph Hergotts ut No, 3in|! the history of the affatr, the second distinguisted advertised this aftern guest to deciare himself out within twen- | kighth avenu ty-four hours basket containing thirte | Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who has even | wine when ie war euddenly selzed with }been known to go out of his way iwnt-|@ fit. He spun around several times, | Ing for battle and strife, definitely and | scattering tie wie on the pavement, positively wished himself out of the/and then 1 bottles of hungry. | that collected and ide laughingly: sald he didn't i as AIR CARRIER TNCORPORATED. |" mighty fall ‘ot : the Breve dvocated by them down Special to The Evening W ! , Rom and TRENTO! oe ‘ater sh e, the wh . ¥ vhort time soula 1 opera Gee nore and detatia of tt tw jtentions to and to carr them, Further proposed aeretad line are as about arbitration and p Colonel deems it best that h production »| reading books on massa: ces and ware " . bar to | ROE HIV land. 1t Je not because President Patt ta The authorised capital stock ts $100,00,| She played be the guest of honor $ or thas the incorporaturs » Edwin K.\tana’ and ot ent, He |Cob Roosevelt refused to accept an 1 a; Louts B. Corn, | o. ion, Nwy, nay, As stated, Col, Roosevelt would go as as ar [thin Wiliam B Mic . ville with My atiltuc gard to ¢ (epunsed on Becond Wage) pet eat be “Tan hte of Tr E -B ‘PEACE | LA TAT | ond fer of Tam ny Bx Bow “ASTOUNDED" BY XS: Draw Attention to Similarity of port of the banquet ts to support ana| lived peaceably, happily and harmoni- Much aa he lover @ sors, Muyor Gey-! Troy Lawyer and Banker Takes! Roma Snyder, Well Known on Broadway, Kills Herself in St. Loui Roma Snyder, an actross well known| who has often appeared! and vaudeville on 1] Broadway, commitied suicide last night friond of the Governor, He was chatr-lat the St. James Hotel in St. Louls by oludons | duinking earbotle in bad health live at No. a year, In Brooklyn, She had been Hidgewood avenue, Brooklyn, are of the opinion that her j{liness brought about mental aberration, + He TARE ERE Edward J. & salesman, WEATHER—Fair jays colder. EDITION. phedatedad ONE ‘OENT. COUNSEL FOR DOTY ORDER OF REMOVAL —o¢ eo Language Used by the State Ex- ecutive and Ex-Judge Bul- ger in His Report. GOVERNOR'S REMOVAL ORDER BITTERLY SCORES DOCTOR. Says That the Conditions Revealed by the Investigation “Makes One ~ Ashamed of the State.” Late this afternoon, a statement was issued by O’Gorman, Battle & Marshall, the law tirm that guarded the intesests of Dr. Alvah H. Doty, Health Otticer of the Port of New York, during the investigation that led to the demand by Gov. Dix for the resignation of the doctor. The statement professes that Dr. Doty and his counsel are, “ag” tounded” by the Governor's action; that the language of the Governer’s ” order is practically the same as that used in ex-Judge Bulger’s report recommending the removal of Dr.:Doty; that Dr. Doty’s administration was highly creditable, and that no tangible reason has been shown for _fhis removal. 4 “Both Dr. Doty and his counsel are ness affairs of Swinburne an4 Hoffman astounded at the communication from Isiands only for the last two years; thut the Governor, It was belloved that the|during that period he hae been eem- -y matter would be referred by the Gove’ #tantly engaged in warding off the on- ernor to his legal adviser, Hon, Will-| sets of cholera, and that, notwithetamd- lam Church Osborn, and that oppor-| ng those difficulties, he has erected aew tunity for argument before Mr. Osborn | hospitals and ao; od great tm- would be accorded, But this course! provements without any lees te the wos not taken, and the conclusions of | St.te, Comminsioner Tulger have been sus! It was shown that the shortage ef tained by the Governor almost in the the clerk Sutherland was made goed. same language as that used by the| The statement that coal was furnished commissioner, ‘These conclusions are,| above the marke: rate is not, im o&r 1n our opinton, not only without foun- | opinion, borne out by the evidence, but, dation, but directly in contravention of/0D the contrary, it apepars that the the testimon ai furnished was of excellent quatity Aa tot ms upon his busi-| and of reasonable price. In view of the ness administration, the fact i# not men-| disadvantages under which he hae le- toned in the loiter uf the Governor thut| bored, we think that the evidenee Dr, Doty has had charge of the by showed that the business administration Louis | attending the Peace Dinner and apend! DROPS DEAD ON THE STREET. | (2tier Of the actrens, lett for St, *|tnts afternoon to claim the body and| en F PRaE EON pd |W omen and Men lung to Mi! Bloor From Str: ups and Seats , who hve | rh) a © to lay down the heavy No. 316 Went ‘thir. | Oring It home |) her husband be . @ forme The Mayor is| West Pairty-ninth street, dropped dead |her partner in nat Fortysfirst street and | does not know whethel He was carrying @/ her when she killed Owlng to iil becn unavie baseball player engagements ed over Sho had not Peace Dinner last night. The Colonel! A brother of Breuer Was in the crowd | the doctors advising tifled the body.) high altitudes: n home for two y stating |7. R. HAS WRITTEN A FEW SUL-| Lireuer's widow was reicasod from the| family recely Dita vo-day, He had planned ¢ ' PHUROUS WORDS. pay to extebtaie Nee ho planned 4 | yesterday vonel ham written a home Satu ils for @ rest, having | dred war born in ne | Suffering ny] Dr, Barre ‘ When she [kicks them 1 lifts them up and jneorporati a this raat rows 1 n ing \ 6# 0 vous Lad us he doe known and tniiitant An ot| Low Fields, who engaged over, 18 Jat Worcester, vred ius Miss Spyder [ebues to ay orate of tho affatrs of his office has bean fons of auch men as Dr. Wier, af, FLYING WRECKAGE Dr. Abraham Jacobl, Dr. Simen Jof equal eininenoe, And there rogaains [tho substantial t that cholera aad r commuantad | withou undue { . kept from our shores, 1 shown (beyond the ernor) that he take highly creditable to Dr, Doty. ner, Dr. John W, Brannan, Dr. e diveages hat been, An to the request for the resignation term of office expire "As to the admintstration of office from the viewpoint of quarantine of and sanitation, we are quite willing to ) ipon the tos yy and the opia. es Hi. Park and other physicians ference with 9om- miy convinced tlmt ind he has been per- on Madison Avenue. spidey ee oe = a yon but hes been and “ ? 1 gorous to regtet § crowded south bound Madison ave: | Jers to be unjust and uns with komt Pitty 1 street tat « careful considera- tite afternoon, K window in che} ply to the eom= ear was broken and halt ore Of pas: | Governor as mey senkers were ut la (can) per." AM aie Hae ree sib ‘ jun, Battle and Sime treatment Ida Ratn ff No, it : ‘| poPY TOLD TO RESIGN 1 atre a BY DIX, WHO SAYS ALL ren Grogs f Noe Avenue D CHARGES ARE PROVED, mi ie alae . \NY. Dec, 28--Gov. Dix has resignation of street and a wt y as Health Officer of nd © Port ow Yors, & position he third street sme along Tyas oeld since 1895. Dr, Doty's term ex- | “| Bet Drew. ot No, 356 {last January, His removel wad Fan Bast Minbtyer a he ended recently by Charles Ny mene Dy so) et te missioner appointed by [eee [tue Governor to Investigate the mam ne o track | aaremen ‘airs of the offies, th Vostand-| In letter to Dr. Doty made pub i ee ey Ae a | Eaanved rnor reviews the Tt. the salande:. Hanre of Com ner Bulger, who a Lehane Ra watiaeen toed tuat the Miscory of the by | gixtyethird street, dy ef the nitaion of Che State's 2 BAB, | ror 9 1a iN ORE a eh