The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1912, Page 1

Avia —=—— COFFYN, IND — ge Photographer Duff Goes as a Passenger and Takes Mov- ing Pictures in Air. SIXTY MILES AN HOUR. Machine Just Misses Striking a Tug as It Crosses Above the River. Rushing through the ice floss into the clear water of the Hudson and soaring with all the of a gull fully five hundred feet tn the air, Frank T. Coffyn this afternoon flew in hte Wright hydroplane from the Bat- tery, over the lower bay, circling the Statue of Liberty, Bilis Island end Governor's Island twice. He blew in a twenty-mile wind at more than sixty miles an hour, Coffyn was in the fourteen minutes, thirty-seven and three-ffth seconds, Duff, the daring twenty-yeur old pho- | tographer, who operated a motion picture machine from the aeat beside the aviator, taking the firet motion pictures of New York harbor. It was the most perfect flight ever made over the lower harbor, eclipsing these of Grahame-White and Moisant, whe elected a calm, warm day with Proper adr conditions to circle the Statue of Liberty once. All told, Coffyn flew a (rifle more than fifteen miles, making his weird air and water craft obey his stightest wish—now skimming close to the {ce-filled river, the next moment ploughing through the ice cakes, and a moment later shooting skyward. JUST MISSES A TUG AS ‘HE GOES ABOVE RIVER. Since his flight last Saturday Coffyn's machine has lain frozen to the little raft on which he landed’ after carrying Photographer Duff. At 2.80 o'clock this afternoon the pontoons of the hydro- plame were chopped loose and Coffyn took the water, bumping and eliding gradually over the big cakes unt!) he reached clearer water about ene hun- dred yards trom the dock. Then, with increased epeed, he rushed toward the/| Jersey ehore. errowly missing a tus, he rope lightly and shot sharply up to about four hundred fect. He left the water at 2.82 and headed for the Statue of Liberty, flying over Eilts Ieland, In the torch of the statue was a motion pleture camera, ready to take the firet pleture of an aeroplane from above. After circling the statue he climbed a hundred feet higher and flew over Governor's Island. Circling again he epeated the trip, making in all about fifteen and a half miles. On the return Coffyn shot down to within @ few feet of the water and came directly for the lee covered raft, shidimg up with the precision of a motor boat and bringing the machine to rest at a itue after 246 o'clook Crowds along the Battery cheered hm as he landed and the river craft sent up @ deafening suiute. PARENTS SEE COFFYN FLY FOR FIRST TIME. The aviators father and mother, My. ané Mrs. George M. Coffyn, saw their won fly to-day for the Anst time. Mars. Frank . Coffyn, wife of the aviator, and IMs seven-year-old son, witnessed fight, Coffyn saya to-day's “stunt” te merely @ preliminary to a serlos of hair-ratsers which he will perform—one of them be- ing @ flight over the five boroughs of New York with a moving-ploture ma- cline and operator as passenger. The Wind to-day was strong but steady, and save for the cold and the wetting he re- ceived while getting the machine out to clear water, Coffyn experienced no dim- culty in making the fligit, Both Coffyn and Photographer Duff wore inflated life-preservers and carried Jot drinks to stave off the cok. eee DARING FLIGHTS ARE MADE BY HADLEY IN FACE OF THE WIND. tors Do PRICE ONE OENT. QING STU SKIMS ICE FLOES: TWICE CIRCLES ISLANDS IN BAY WEATHBER—Snow probable to-night or Tuesday. INA EDITION. “ Che irculation Books Open to All.” Startling Stunts at Battery NTS, SHOT ENDS LIFE Banker and Broker Kills Him- self After Long Siege of Illness. A WOMAN GIVES ALARM. Phone Message Leads to Dis- covery of Man Who Tried to Die Before. Washington N, Seligman, a brother of Jeftereos, De Witt and Dugone Selig- man and a cousin of Isaac N. Seligman, was found dead in his room on the #ixth floor of the Hotel. Gerard in West Forty-fourth street to-day. He had shot himself through the mouth with a revolver, the bullet penetrating his brain. Mr. Seligman, who was fifty-three yeare old, made an unsucceseful at- tempt on his life in the old Hotel Ross- more at Forty-second street and Broad- way nearly nine years ago. He was an Invalid and had spent @ great deal of Money with specialists in an attempt to recover his health, Although he was associated with his brothers in the banking and brokerage business of J. W. Seligman & Co., No. 1 William atreet, Washington N. Selig- man had not for meny years moved in their eocial set. He preferred the s0- olety of friends in the Tenderloin and made his home in hotels convenient to Tong Acre Square. For the last five years he had occupied a room on the sixth floor of the Gerard, TELEPHONE MESSAGE LED TO DISCOVERY OF TRAGEDY. A woman called the Gerard over the telephone at 10 o'clock this morning and ked to be connected with the apart- ment of Mr. Seligman. The telephone operator could get no response to her call to Mr, @eligman’s room. ‘The woman was agitated and insistent and the operator reported to the manager, who sent a porter named Nolan to the room to investigate, Nolan, efter repeatedly knocking and calling, forced the door, Mr, Seligman Was dead in bed, with his right arm and hand, holding the revolver, hanging over the edge. Tho shot had evidently been fired early in the night, Dr, W. F, Varcoe, of No, 232 West Twenty-second street, Seligman’ phy- siclan, was summoned to the hotel and he reported the case to the Coroners office, Coroner Winterbottom took charge of the cane He found in Selig- man's room two notes, wri on empty hotel envdlopes. ‘Die notes were identical and read: “I am tired of being sick all my Mfe.” Seligman had lately been complaining of the state of his health. He had a good income and lived well, but was often heard to remark that life was not of much use to a man whose stomach would not permit him to eat, TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF HOTEL ROSSMORE, Bellgman'a attempt at suicide nino years ago was made in his apartment in the Hotel Rosemore, wh {fs now the restaurant of Louie Martin, He Was then a prominent figure in the fe of the Tenderloin, and sient mush of his time in the Rossmore and the Met- ropole at the corner of Forty-second street and Broadway His companion usually was @ woman named Anita Sutherland, ‘They dined together in the Metropole on the evening lof May 2, 1908. @elignan had been complaining of feeling tll, He was suf. fering from @ serious form of stomach complaint, From the Metropole restaurant Selis- IN \ (Special to The Evening World.) PARRYTOWN, N. Y., Feb. Cute ton 0. Hadley made two successful Dighte over the Hudson to-day in the map and Miss Sutherland went to the: apartments in the Roesmo. took off ,his coat, vest collar and slashed (, OF W.N SELIGMAN IV HOTEL GERARD Copyrtt 191%, by The Pri Publishing corres. rhe'New Vork Weld} Avi NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY NA it wud yg UB args agt ator Coffyn and Photographer Duff t argon Ta \ eee ‘ j Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ) 12, 1912. WEATHBER—-Saow and Up the Hudson probable to-night er Taeséay, ‘PRICE ONE OENT. Before Flight CHINA'S RULERS, GIVE UP THRONE: NOTES ISSUED Premier Makes Formal An- nouncement of Expected’ Event—Peking Guarded. PEKING, Fob. 12—An edict formally BABY IS UNHURT BY 3STORY DROP INTO MAN'S ARMS Policeman Kane Catches It, Then Rushes Up and Saves Mother and Sister. Patrolmah Frank Kane of the Stagg | HOLIDAY CROWD AT BROADWAY FIRE TS UP TRAFF Real Blaze and Near One At- tract Great Throng to Union Square District. A two alarm fire and a false alarm, announcing the abdication of the throne | street station performed heroic service! which virtually amounted to two more was issued at noon to-day by Yuan Sh! Kai, who has had the imperial order in hia possession for more than a week. The Premier had been notified that he| Williantsburg. He caught in his arms 4, enormous lx should not make the edict public until he was satisfied he had enough Chinese soldiers in the capital to protect the royal family from the Manchus who threatened them with death !f they sur- fendered to the revolutiontsts, Several @etachments of troops to-day at a fire which destroyed Bround floor of the three-story tene house at No. 34 Bushwick the ent child who Was dropped from the third story landing of the fire-vscape, Then Kane rushed up through the smoke Miled stairways and rescued the motner and another child, The explosion of a five-galion can of Alarms, kept the Unton Square neigh- | borhood busy and excited for a long time this afternoon, ‘They drew ap day crowd which went racing across the Square from one fire to what was supposed to be another, [brought together a regular fremon’ ponvention, apparatus and all, chiefs and deputies uf various degrees, patrol wagons, police an4 fire patrolmen and the} benzine in the tallor shop of Josepyi tied up Broadway tramMe for more than capital to-day and the Premter belleved | Goldstein started the fire and filed the |half an hour. he the Manchus had enough soldiers to cope with house with bkwok smoke, Goldstein got out with his coat and beard on fire, The momentous p by which the| but suffered only supertictal burn: Manohu dynasty up its power] Mra, Rosle Goldstein, who is not related after three centuries of rule and agrees | to the tailor, was driven by the # to change fro: absolute to a re to the front window. She ne sentative fromeof government was fled in three simultaneous prociama- tone, Although the final act of abdica- thon had been awatted for some time. the posting f the edict with th declaration t fact caused The firet announced the Anot a Di to-day 1 Of the throne hat the throne while @ third ap- sgreed upon U-lvai and the Re- her edict aul by Premier Yu publicans, The second edlet conditions axreed upon Shi-Kaj and the Republican represen- roved ms ring of all the stween Yuan- tatives created much astonis had been expected that the would de mdition safeguard many of their according ‘ surrend The thire roy# and provincial governors of the retirement of the bh power, and instructed th dotng their duty and to throughout the land. It the step taken by the order to meet the wise ment. It Manchus mand « would in © people. through it with her fifteensmon baby in her anms, She was badly 48 she did not wait to open the wit She hed wrapped the child in and St escaped harm. Nor wa: fant injured when the mother thr out from the fire escape ‘Tho crowd below was y not to drop the child, but If with fear, Patrol e infant and it Was d cut SAM LANGFORD DEFEATS BARRY IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 1; Langford, the heavyweight American pugilist, who is the heavyweuht champion of England, to-day « James Barry, the yweight, on points 2m ity rounds. he fight took the stadium arge audience. the pri bitter against abdication, they were sald to have nally consented when the other members of the Imperial clan ag- sured ther that Yuan Sh! Kal would be cted President and they would be In the edict the word avdication was ehown every courtesy by bim carefully mitted, If was simply stated everal 0 after the edict wa that the Imperial fami had decided tu ued, however, they were sailed liscontinue exervising * remental) with ord ae and wired Ly un Yat power WOU sonfine its future | Ben threatcning that Yuan ly to spirituat matters. jed the new governmont they would me ol princes were resiet the Nepublic to the ead, . ‘The two real alarms which were the | first fo excite t sion were sent in for @ blaze on the fifth floor of the Roosevelt Building, which 19 Nos, 1-847 Broadway, at the northwest corner of ‘Thirteenth street. The false alarm was rung from Broadway and street, "A utreet eweepar sal fireman had “pulled the box." The lower floors of the Roosevelt Building are ocupled by the olothing and furnishing of Hackett, Cur- hart & ¢ as a Wholemale de- .wh parte nthe fifth floor, It wes on thie that the fire started, just | abo O10 The place hed been closed at 1 o'clock, so there were only two or three ¢ thore when the tlre began. ‘Tio signal came from an | automatic alarm, They hastened down @tairs and got out before the smoke began to roll through the butldin, On the sixth floor of the building the Altman Neckwear Company, and @ half dozen ollice employees were the work, ‘The place soon filled with smoke and they nade a break for the irwaye, Wwiie C ended in aps apiece, When Chief At the fire he sent ina ng unwilling to take any chances r towers, engines and firemen attacked soon had !t under HURLS MISSILE NTO WOW OF BRITISH EMBASSY New Yorker, After Creating Excitement in Washington, Calmly Awaits Arrest. WASILINGTON, Feb. 12.—After hurl- jing @ large piece of concrete through one of the front windows of the British Embaasy in this city to-day, a man giv- Ing his namo as jis home a» New York, calmly waited |on @ street corner opposite the Embassy building fur the arrival of two police- men, who placed him under arrest ‘The man's act created much excite |ment and the call for the police wan sent by an Embassy attache, Awked why he had hurled the wile, Fitapatrick replied: “That's my own business. A bystander that Fitspatrick before hurling the concrete had mum- bled that he was cold and hungry and wanted to be arrested. The man was sent to Washington | Asylum Hospital for mental examina- | tion, He is said to have been con- fined once at an asylum in Albany. Ho In @ native of Ireland, No one wan in the room where the window was smashed. ee seepenrenem HOTEL OWNER DIES | mis- wuld | | Becker of Floral Park, Went Home With Fractured Skull, Edwart Hecker, proprietor of the Old Homestead Hotel at Floral Park, i 1, {ward Deeley lated to-day tn Nassau Hospital at | Mineola of a fracture of the mkull au ltatned tn @ manner unknown to his family and frie It t# supposed that he was struck on Saturday by @ trolley car in Brooklyn or Jamaica Mr, Becker left ‘nis hotel Saturday supplies in Brooktyn, Late that afternoon, in a dazed con tion and with his head bleeding, | poarded a New York and Queens trolley car at Jamatoa, The condustor know him and helped 4 . front of his morning to buy njured mar ered something trolle ‘on: He wae hurried to the hospital ‘an operation was performed, but he not recover consciousness, nd pecame un OF MYSTERIOUS WOUNDS. | COURTS CAR FOREVER, Judge Rosalsky D Folke E, Brandt, the former servant this case.” | HLL TELS GONGRESS PROBERS OF STEEL LEASE Was Not a Party, He Says, to Pact That Has Been Ordered Cancelled. WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.-J. J. HM, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Great Northern Raflroad, toatified late to-day before the House Steel Trust Investigating Committe When the railroad builder took the stand and had been sworn, Chairman Stanley wel- cemed him and announced that Mr. HM had willingly responded to the com- mittoe’s request and consented to ald the inquiry all he could, POWERLESS TO AGT ON BRANDT, MODY DECLARES Se Governor Alone Can Reopen Matter, and Attorney General Will Op- pose Proceedings Before Justice Gerard. CONVICT LEAVES PRISON HE BELIEVES. enies He Indorsed Carl Fischer-Hansen, and Courts Full Investigation. ALBANY, Feb. 12,.—Aéter a long conference with Gov. Dix this afternoon, Attorney-General Carmody expressed the opinion that the of New York State have no jurisdiction to reopen the case of of Mortimer L. Schiff of New York, wio has served five years of a sentence of thirty years for burglary. The Attorney-General contends that even Judge Rosalsky, who sentenced Brandt, cannot go into the case again, “I am convinced,” said Mr. Carmody, “that the Governor is the only person who has power to take any action which would reopen Mr. Carmody will leave to-day for New York, where he will represent ‘arden Katser of Clinton Prison and State at the habeas corpus procesd- ings before Gerard to-morrow, at which be produced, He probably will ques tlon the legality of the habeas corpus Proceedings, GOVERNOR FINISHED 80 FAR A® “PRESENT RECORDS” QO, “So far as the records before m= are concerned, the caw: ts closed,” Gov, Dix his conference with te | Attorney-General. “I haven't anything to add to my former statements. Mr. Carmody has the habeas corpus ceedings in charge for the State, has not recommended to me that case be reopend.” Mr, Carmody said that, while he te- Meves there should be the fullest inves- he has not yet made any recommends. tions to him, “Such @ proceeding would be digre- specttul to the courts," sald Mr. Cap mody, “until the matter has been pre- nted through the pending proceed- . Tam anxious to ascertain all the facts In thi we and see that justice is done. Just what will be done will aot be determined until after to-morrow's proceedings,” PERS BRANDT, IN MANACLES, Mr, Hill's testimony was destaned to throw dight on the so-called Hill lease of the Lake Superior ore fields to the United States Steel Corporation, a lease which was recently ordered to be can celled in 1916, The committer also Wanted information about the trans portatigg methods of the corporation, “You re party to the lease between the United States Stee! Corporation and \the Hf! one lands?” asked Mr. Stan arty to the lege," sald rriet on preliminary negotiations, but thel ease was mnade by the truste: af the property, J. MM. Hil, L. W. Hill, Edward Miehel! and M1 | in,” “What properties did you acquire on the Neaaba range? “The first was property that came with the Duluth and Winnipeg, a bank- {the Superior reston,”* > -—- SHERWOOD PENSION BILL REJECTED BY SENATORS. | WASHINGTY | | Feb. 12 —The Sher- wood “Dollar-4-Day’ pension bill wae rejected to-day by the Senate Commit- toe on Pensions and another measure, which would Involve an annual expendt- tube of MSL OORMOR choDeehd eaca ieiatie tute Smoot of Utah, was ado Senator nators Brown (Nebraska) and Curtla | (Kansas) gave notice chat in the Senate they would press the Sherwood bil as & eubstiwt \ for the Smoot bid = — | LEAVES PRISON FOR COURT HEARING HERE. | DANNEMORA, N, Y., Feb. 12.—Hané- cuffed to J. B, Severance, head hospitel | Keeper at Clinton prison, Folke B, Brandt jloft on the 10.14 A. M. train for Mew | York City, where he will appear im pro- ceedings before Bupreme Court Justice: Gerard to-morrow. York at 5.23 P.M. Wi has been in Buffalo several da; been notified by Attorney-General Car- mody (@ meet him in New York to- night, Brandt was dressed in « new sult citizen's clothes, an overcoat and caf, As he left the prison where he ay been confined aii April 6, 1907, Brandt bade a cheery good-bye to the otficials, and the opinion was expreseed | rupt railway, running into Duluth, and| that he would never return. Outeide the big Prison gate @ few curious em- lookers watohed the convict's de parture, Brandt was advised by Principa: + Louls Filkins not to discuss hi: ase With anyone on the trip to New York, He said he would take éhu officer's advice. ie | JUDGE ROSALSRY JOINS | DEMAND FOR COMPLETE INVESTIGATION OF CASE. If the habeas corpus proceedings tn: stituted by Mirabeau L, Towns, whie will 2¢ argued ‘o-merrow Gerard,