The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1912, Page 1

CALL POLICE os Wh iehetale to- at a Friday. ht, 1012, by The Press Febtictton Co. (The New York Wor! NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, Strikers Demand No Wash Be Transported by Wagons From City. ALL LINE UP FOR FIGHT. Attacks on Guarded Vehicles Bring Situation Up to Critical Point. Ar mesting of the employing laundry- men et Harlem Casino this atternoun called ostensibly to disouss a settiement of Ge laundry strike. turned out to be @ @eries of conferences between the jaundrymen and the representatives of atribebreaking agencies, The employers made no eecret of their intention to fill the strikers’ places to-morrow with suc etrikebreakers as they could get, to de- mend police protection for their wagons yap to fight the tseue out. On the other hand, a delegation of Jayndry workers was appointed this af- ternoon to call on the expreap drivers’ untons, to ask them io refuse to handle laundry packages. The laundry workers have leamed that large quantities of laundry have | bee: wagons to nearby New Jersey cities to ve done. The strike leaders felt that the express drivers would go even to the point of declaring an express strike 1a their support. If the waiter brings you a paper napkin when he comes to set your place to-night, don’t scold. It isn't his fault. It fe the laundry strike. The: restaurants up and down town which have not had @ clean napkin or table cloth come into the house since Satur- @ay. And there is little hope. ‘The restaurant man has not the re- sources of the mere collar and bottled sairt wearer. It would bankrupt the Diggest of food barons to have to buy and buy and keep on buying clean things while the strike la! One great restaurant sent an auto- mobile full of strong-arm men to the Langfelder Laundry, on the East Side, today, to get its napkins and tavle cloths out, The chauffeur was set upon by etrike pickets, and after being pum- melied for ten minutes, meekly got into his car and drove away. CONFERENCE ENDS WITHOUT ‘CONCESSIONS FOR PEACE. ‘The Elks’ Club has 24.000 pir nen tied up at the Langfelder ‘aundry Three policemen were sent to the laun- ry to protect the wawon sert by the club, The wagon never got th It was turned back by strikers at Secend avenue aad East Ninety-second street. ‘A Wagon of the Howard laundry was raided by strikers at Third «venue and Stxty-ninth street. ‘The driver and his helper abandoned their load Representatives of the steam dries, the “hand work" laundries, the workers, the “flat laundry” workers, who do hotel work, met Colonel Michael J. Regan and Jolin Bealin at the rooms of the State Board of Mediation and Arbi- tration to-day and squabbled, Willian Armour, head of the 45,000 striking work- ers, left the conference early in the afternoon disgusted, He sald that the representatives from the other side had no authority to act and would not agrce to anything. ‘A new worry over the situation came to the “hand work only" shops to-day, These are places which let out the rough-dry work to the big laundries and in some cases the starching and smoothing work too, keeping one or two girls pounding the tronins boards their show windows as a bluff. “ROUGH-DRY” HOUSES THREAT- EN NEW RIVALRY. ‘They, pay the big laundries 10 cents & oven for finishing collars and 22 cents & dozen for shirts, and charge their patrons 4 cents a d for collars and from $1.20 to $1.80 @ dozen fo! the distinguished service of sticking them, full of pins, pasting paper them and sending them sround to the houses of patrons, The rough-dry houses threaten to d) laun- clare war on the “hand wors only brethren. “The hand: said an ex- tenslye rous nator to-day ° getting ali the profits out of the ness, We are just making oxy for thelr venctit, We pay many ingiances up to the mark of the could present .sivike demands. If 1 gsContinued on Second Page.) __STREBREAKERS AND POLICE. ‘CALLED INTO LAUNDRY WAR; EXPRESSMEN MAY GD oul re many | GIRLS WHO VANISHED FROM STAMFORD HOME: ON NE W YEAR’S DAY taken in express | 4 at NA AND My. BELEN AND RY, KATHERINE AYNeH in| A search was begun tn this city day for three yo from thelr homes in riford, Conn. New Ye 7 ed to have be 1 to New York by un seri Is are Mary and Ann and Cath The Biellan Bleil years old Andrew Blellan, a well-t hote! keeper, whose home and Pacifle is the daug lives on Canal # litives of the thre word from them they vanishe a trolley car y were on the pli tion of the New Haven rallroad, w ling for @ train. It was reported at fl rts for) | youth, : | Monday, but he was at his home to-day oranda around | 1a denied any knowledge of what bad had eloped w n who had come to New Biellan become of the thr ener Hits Patents ¥ dan of Kansas. > uth American and 000 . sy and “night se snd Mara "| She's a Dulnmy Forty Stories High « daughters of | to wen standing Portehester sta- Fations and tickete via all Coast: | ROOSEVELT AT HOME, LIPS PADLOCKED © TO FIGHT LAUNDRY STRIKERS _ WEATHER—Fa' to-night Ty sites is * Circulation Books O | 19132. 100 GIRLS FLEE TN PANG FROM 11TH FLOOR FIRE Blaze in Big Broadway Factory Building Drives Workers From High Lofts. MAD RUSH FOR EXITS. Foreman Trampled Under Feet of Stampeding Waist Operators. Memories of the Asch building disaster threw 1,000 girle into a panic late this afternoon, when a fire started on the top | Moor of the eleven-story manufacturing |loft building at No. 636 Broadway. Au thewe girls were at work on the | upper floors and nearly all of them had reached the street by way of the stair- cases and elevators when the firemen, | | in estigating, found that the blaze they | | had been called upon to extinguish had burned itself out. *Mhe only person injured in the mad tuch was Max Zieman, easistant fore- inan in the workroom on the eleventh He tried to stem the tide of girls rush- down and walked on F and Charles Robinson, the elevator men, | took scores of girls from the top floors while the excitement was at its height. 1,000 AT WORK IN HIGH UPPER FLOORS. ‘The Bijou shirt Wa ys the seventh and elwhth floors as 4s the eleventh floor and employs & Co. occupy the tenth | oor, and Simon Mendelsohn & Co., manufacturers of underwear, the sixth jand ninth floors, ‘The two latter firms employ 500 girls. The fire started in shafting under a long Mne of power sewing machines, It was caused by defective insulation, Thick smoke and the odor of burning rubber served to start several girls reaming, and in a moment Je whole establishment was in @ panic The building runs !n the shape of an nto Spring strect and there are plenty of stairways. Most of ti took to the stairs, Others, finding tha they were not pursued wv, ine tam they were not pursued by the flames, the elevato SPREAD ® PANIC THROUGHOUT | THE BUILDING. ‘The girls piling down the stairs and screaming fire soon communicated their panicky condition to the operators in tories below. on the firemen arrived, the building were simply erupting and the din was deafening. Capt, Walling and the rserves burried the Mulberry station and| were of great service in controlling the wds on the street en the girls lea the doors from W rad been trifling the: fire | ed that the mate a rust k to work almost as precipi | ax | wet floor of the Bijou Shirt Waist bepeear ell ing toward the exits und was knocked | nk Williams | {soul of her long dead sister ¢ Company occu-| Was “still upstairs,” was not inh | TOWNSEND SOUL OF HER CAT SPOOK AT FIGHT OF $2,000,000 WILL Aged Spinster Maria Campbell Irrational and Influenced, Qne Heir Charges. BLAMES LAWYER-HEIR. Attorney De Witt Testifies Re- fusal to Draw Bequests Out- lined by Townsend. As though a page had been torn from the old Knickerbocker “blue book" {ts personages summoned to court, the remarkable assemblage before rogate Fowler to-day when the to set aside the will of Marla bell, who left a $2,000,000 extate to four favorite cousins, was continued. In the forty or more men and women of aristocratic ancestry and bearing who seck to break the octogenartan spinster's will, there were stately Van nsselaer@, proud Livingstons, Cr bys, old and young; Campbells, richly gowned, and Townsends, with ton- gnettes and splendid furs, and Scudders and Berrys and others who go to make up “old New York." Many of the wom- en, worn with age, fossipped and greet. ed others they had not met for years, DREW UP WILL BY TOWNSEND'S INSTRUCTIONS. A woman who believed that a cat had A soul and who would not walk except with Kitty, and who velleved that the Katherine and was Sur- test proper mind, the aristocratic centest- ants hold, to make a will, William i. De Witt, under whose direction ~TIss ‘ampbell’s will was drawn, was called tot y to having Howasd Townsend, the executor of the will, in his offlee ir October, 1908, “He came to my office and asked ms to draw up a will for Miss Maria L. Campbell,” testified the lawyer. had @ memorandum in his writing. | had not seen Miss Campbell.” “What? did Mr. ‘Townsend say you?" pressed’ James W. Osborne, represents the contestants “He said Miss Campbell had given him instructions to draw her will anit aaked her ‘about the power to sell the veul estate, He luced a list of legatees with a residuary clause, ile said she wanted to give her residuary whe estate to her four first cousins, 1 sug gested changes and he asked me to draw ‘t, but I declined An engrosser from Mr. De Witt’s office drew up the instrument Willlam B, Blackwell, a lawyer, son of Emily B, Livingston, one of the contestants, was the first witness to dl- rectly charge that the executor, Howard | ‘Townsend, had exercised influences with the spinster detrimente! to the claims of relatives not mentioned in ver will Blackwoll devcritod a couversation he had with 1 n pany with Stephen after Mies} mphell'« death 18 “OFFENDED” Heide BY| Jax that they tad made to Ket a j fom thelr machines to —— 1, MISS CIVIC PRIDE. LIKE SUBWAY TANGLE, "WAY UP IN THE AIR; on Municipal Building. M’Aneny’s ‘T’Other’s Apt Simile. Forty stories above the Centre street level, pe 1 atop of the tower of the! Municipal Bullding, was placed to-| a pattern figure Miss Civic | was done In sheet iron, flat The enable the areht tects to view her from distant points to determine the hetght of Agure of Civic Pride destined to surmount the tower, As the architects looked at the temporary figure from various angles, rubbed-necked otherwise and mad caleulations Borough President Me- Aneny came along, “How is the subway situation to-day?” | the Borough President was asked, and he, being regarded as ay hority, is jans wer Was awaited with Interest, | he subway sltuat " echoed the Borough P t. “Why, the subwa situation Is Ike that figure of Clvi Pride-away up Inthe > ANOTHER GBBAT SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY. 1 Red Circle,” | Deze. wit te “tound iw | 'o Mag bs gM THIS CONTEST. “T told lilm many of the r would contest,” said Blackw zald he would consider any contest a reflection on him, as our polnt was that Mies Camp’ yl wa He satd he was not present a! th he will, and consequ: he condition at the execution of did not know asked the witness of Lawyer Bouvi stated the “I certainly think t Howard and that! the rapt: Miss Campbell's that Howard Towns+nd her money | oughta of un Van Rensselaer corroborated Mr well. CHINESE MINISTER _ TO QUIT WASHINGTON. Chang Ying Tang, Who Leaves Next Week, Has Given No Reason for His Going, WASHING Minister to Tang, has decided to au after a of a yeu The reaso iis de tl unknown, He wil! lea capital next week for China, taking his faintly d leaving Yung Kwal, the tary, im charge of the Lega- Fiancee of Pastor Richeson, ‘Sought By Boston District- Attorney DAVLIGHT ROBBER WILL EXTRADITE ——«SEWE Et DISTRICT INRIGHESON CASE aiaieeaes Aged Victim at Work in Nassau | | Fiancee of Accused Pastor ¢ “sil Street Shop When Ass ! not Be Found, but Prosecu- ant Struck Him. tor Believes She Is Here. Henry Garland, an engra of Noo 18 Special to Th ning World.) | BOSTON, Mass, Jan, 4—Distrlot-At Howard place, Jersey City Helghts, was torney Pelletier axsaulted and robbed to-day while at| Work alone In his office on the top floor) Ment on the Riches of the bullding at No Nassau | 89 street, ‘The thief, who made hin es.4 “The Distrte ape, loft the engraver, who Is seventy. {Cort to locate Mins \who has been absent ul Hit £ nhie stealing years old, # aly .oring, a pair of Injured : cum! buttons pd $3 in cu mt that ow nd, and if ed a badly la erated |! an adjoining State, will ask for he: sealp and cot fon of the brain in hia ©Xtradit witness.” figit with the y. He was removed fo a not belie that to the Hudson Street Hospital, where Iuit hase it was sald th 0 pcount of the ad vanced age of the victim: his Injuries Th 1 se WwW were serious, ba Withexwes fur About I o'clook, a man whom Gate; Ment have already been # land is unable bod ribe, entered tha] wil pa to Capt, Me shop “harles Gold on the same tioer | strong on that date be Belong to the as Garland, and asked for Jona dagline sky, @ bead maker, who worl with th claims of the Garland. Gold directed {ain to the en-)Proecution that the pastor will he fit grave shop and returned to lila work, |for the ordeal of a murd trint, ly after that) Garland ¢ottered | Was stated to-day by an tnttmate friend into Gold's place and ¢ ‘ tjof the priwoner that he is practieatly he had been rodbed Ja physical and mental wreek the floor in a faint Attorne Le for N ean, Garland told t that he had |aatd this aft Mr. Morse and Did he say he was Mise Campboit's [been sitting m his little {he hed reached eement as to the attorney" was asked. |shop, which {9 about 10x4, wien he [line of defense. » (Wo lawyers went “He sald that as he was Miss Camp- rd the door open, He called out | to the Suffolk County jatl to-day to talk |bell's adviser he would (ake the matter at iw it nd for an answer re- | With tr client flecting on him,” ceived two heavy blows on the hack of | J1dKes of the Superior Criminal Court Do you ask if I think undue influence|the head, Before he lost consctousness afternoon convened tn extra- was exercised in making this will?"}he saw a hand take a ling ring and |OMdinary session at the court house to oneide) then |! a phas 08 peratat of the Richeson case rumored that Chief a pair of cuft n whioh had been working from the table, buttons wp) he open a chest of drawers and abstract |! « Aiken called them together to #3, Which he had placed there but a|‘! © of a change of plea "| short time before nister accused of mur | derin 1. Kexst picious 16 Saye that a sus wo tried |COMMUTATION FOR MORSE te his artments @ alf an hour be GERM iaae canaries cane IS DISCUSSED BY TAFT. the building, it Report of Army Board on Ex-Bank- er’s Condition Taken Up From New Standpoint. WASHINGTON Jan, 4—T. B of Atlanta, , counsel for Charles W Morse, to-day discussed with the Pres ident and Acting Attorney ler the commutation ‘Frisco Lawy SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 4—Joseph A Bryan, @ prominent attorney and club- man of this city, was killed by an auto- mobile as he Was crossing a downtown it t to-day Bryan was the son of a known Democratic 1 "elder, Mr, Peles, ¢ was said, took up eport of my medical board, Which recently examined the former - from @ standpoint not hereto evented made no compiaint as to the treat- ment Moree had received at the Atlanta le 20 PAGES BEATSENGRAVERIN, VIOLET EDMANDS ee” eo names New York Shipbuilding and Fore PRICE ONE be nen ET TAFT TELLS BOOMERS T0 MAKE NO ATTACKS President Surprised at the Talk About a Quarrel, and Says His Friends Should Assume a Sim- ilar Attitude. CROWD HERE IS WAITING FOR A SIGN PROM COLONEL. \Overwhelm Oyster Bay With Fran- tic Demands for a Definite State- ment as to His Intentions. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Word was. sent broadcast to-day to supportérs of President Taft that under no circumstances would the President countenance attacks on Col. Theodore Roosevelt, no matter |what the ultimate intention of the former President in regard to the | Republican Presidential nomination might be. It was said to-day that the President has expressed himself as being loss to account for reports that relations between him and Col. ned. He has not taken opportunity ‘to reply directly to any utterances of Col. Roosevelt that have been in- terpreted in some quarters as attacks upon the policy of the Administra- | tion and it is said does not wish his friends to go any further han he has, Roosevelt Stays in Oyster Bay ' While Crowd Awaits a Sign. “Hypocrisy is as revolting in a nation as in a man; and in the long run I do not believe that it pays either man or nation,” From Gol. Roosevelt's letter on the Peace Treatics, Although Col. Roonevelt wan besteged at his home tn Oyeter Bay to-day with requests that he comment on the announcement of President Taft that nothing hut death will keep him from trying for the renomination for the Presidency, the Colonel kept himself eecluded, Through his secretary, Mr, Harper, he inti. mated that he may have something to may when he reaches his office in the editorial rooms of the Outlook to-morrow, plea ctasteeteeaaoy Roosevelt: were seriously stra ‘The Roosevelt mansion at Sagamore Hill ts impenetrable. 6 Colonel w LOWEST BATTLESHIP BIDS not ane wt venom al would ARE NEAR $6,000,000. jWere returned to went them In by Sei was the Y Harper. This niy message that sifted eut to . . fs jthe intrepid informat seek River Companies in Line for [had driven over to the Colonel's een Contracts for New Vessels. |from Oyster Bay “Col. Mooesvelt does not care te coment on the uews from od Waeh- Everybody is expecting a 4—Bide for the} 009 ton battle- WASHINGTON, Jan construction of the two «ips Oklahoma and Nevada were} opened here o-day, ‘The lowest pro-| trom th: posala were from the New York Ship-| being pullding Company of Camden, N. J. at]! 5,000 for one ship and the Fore pve | tatement Colonel of some sort, He ts overwhelmed by demands that mate plain to his followers whether do wants the nomination for himaelf shipbuilding Companyeof Quiney, Masy,, | 0" for some by stern progressive, Vol- 11 $9,985,000 per ship. tear boomers for Bupreine Court Jame A — lees . phe died unt « wires im the cath Injury for a Workman © Hughes ts the Cele |onel's dark horse, and that the eon- and smoke arising from the nel's tactics are meant to cover up |& Hughes destan, Yonn! twenty-four yeare old, electrician employed in the Johnson Steel Casting Works at Spuy- ten Duyvel, Was on a step-ladder re- Matting are Tigute when an electric tray. | TAFT ANNOUNCEMENT LOOKao Piing craze struck iim and crushed UPON AS A CHALLENGE, the lower part of his body, He was The state-nent sent out trom We I rote to Fordham Hospital dying, ton yesterday that President ‘Taft te im —— - A Striking Comparison 1,526,184 Individual Advertisements Were Printed Last Year in THE WORLD 21,723 MORE Than in the Herald, Times, Sun, Tribune and Press Added Together Son ON COL. 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