The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1912, Page 1

Sateen en ee GOVERNOR READY TOHEAR LAWYERS FOR SCHIFF ON QUESTIONS BEFORE HAND WEATHER-Fair To-night and F! | NIG2? TS ne en “ Circulation Books Open to All.” : Sr ae ne me Tbe j Circulation Books Open to All.’? ] : PRICE ONE CENT. Covvriant, (Ehe'New Terk Worlds. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1912. 10 PAGES NE CENT. a = —— = = — = PTT —<——————=== =a Dix Will Listen to Nicoll and Parker at Albany To- Morrow. HAND VISITS GOVERNOR. Commissioner Wants Instruc- tions About Accepting Testi- mony of the Schifis. ALBANY, Feb. 22.—Gov. Dix to- day granted the application of Alton B. Parker and De Lancey Nicoll of New York to present oral arguments before him at the Executive Cham- ber at noon to-morrow in favor of broadening the powers of Richard L, Hand, who was appointed com- missioner to take testimony on the petition for executive clemency by Foulke E. Brandt, former valet to Mortimer L. Schiff of New York. The question in dispute is whether volunteer witnesses before Commissioner Hand can be granted immunity from) future proceedings, such as the Grand Jury investigation that is being made inte the Brandt case by District-Attor- ney Whitman of New York. Counsel for Mr. Gchiff also desires Commis- sioner Hand to go into all phases of the controversy, including the allegation that Brandt's conviction was brought about through a conspiracy. ‘These questions were raised at the hearing before Commissioner Hand Tuesday, when Mr, Nicoll insisted upon calling Mr. Schiff and Howant 8. Gans counsel for Mr, Schiff, as witnesse Attorney-General Carmody and District- Atiomey Whitman opposed the calling of these witnesses, principally on the ground that such action would Inter- fere with the Grand Jury inquiry. Messrs, Parker and Nicoll characterized the position taken by the Attorney- “General and District-Attorney as “ab- surd.” Commissioner Hand then ad- journed the hearing, saying he would fot pass upon the propositions until he had an opportunity to consult the Governor. Mr. Hand reached Albany at noon to-day ani immediately went CUP LAUGHS, OL ABAN A PAPAAND HS GUN Calls Police to Aid Him in Put- ting Our Fair Heroine on Board Liner. ‘Cupid called in the police in Hoboken ‘to-day to help him in a fittle bit of business he had on hand at the Ham- burg American pier. He had two pobloe- men tn untform and two detectives and, with himeelf as master of ceremonie: escorted a young man and & young woman in whom he ts much tnterested to the berth of the steamship Presiient Grant. Aca all this was decease an trate Parent had taken euch a decided dis- like to the young man in the cast that he threatened to shoot him. Cupid, of course, couxin't have anything Hike that happen, eo he and his policemen put the young woman carefully on the ship and then considerately turned their backa while the young man bade his Duleinae farewell and stood at the end of the pler with most unhappy eyes to watch for the flutter of her hand from the receding steamer's rail, Friend parent, who wasn't much of a friend at that, thought there was to be an clopement of his daughter, but this was not on the programme at all. And for some reason Father did not go to the pier, so the police escort wasn’t necessary. ALL WENT SMOOTHLY FOR TWO FIERCEST WIND | EVER KNOWN HERE |: HITS NEW YORK Hurricane Going at 96 Miles, an Hour Causes Wide- | spread Damage.’ ! \ GREAT SIGNS WRECKED. One Weighing Six Tons Is Toppled Into Broadway— Several Persons Hurt. ll i " wh a ue CANDIDATE The wildest windstorm of which New York has any record swept the city to-day in the early morning hours, At its highest, @ little after 1 o'clock A. M,, it reached a velocity of ninety- six miles an hour. The flercest wind ever recorded here before was a ninety- three-mile-an-hour blow. There were flurries of snow, sleet and rain with the wind at first, but later the sun shone brightly. The temperature at the outset stood at 50 degrees. At about daybreak it dropped to 21 degrees and the wind slowed down to fifty miles an hour. It was a storm which epread dea- traction all along the Atlantic coast and far inland. From Norfolk came the report of five steamers blown ashore, one of them the Madison of the Old Dominion Line, Sound ship- ing hed to anchor. Up-State @ heavy fall of snow aided the wind in break- ing telegraph wires and slowing up railroad traffic so that trains from the North and West arrived eight and twelve hours late. ROOSEVELT TIES ASTRING TOTHEHAT HE SHED I RING ‘Colonel Gets Back Surprised to Find What He Said to Ohioans. ‘Cot, Roosevelt, upon his arrival to-day from hie flying visit to Ohio positively | [refused to discuss the present where- albo! " 1 ary | Reports of scores of persons injured atte cet Bis ee 3h evel and, oe | by falling signs and glare came to| Mint he announced to William Police Headquarters from all parts of} Eltck, @ Buckeye politictan: “My hat | is in the ring,” but he waa quite peevish when the New York reporters sought to learn mofe about the hat. “I shall not say a word on that point sapped the Colonel. A persistent reporter tried to read to {im ‘the telegraphed story from Ceve- | the city. Houses were unroofed, people were blown flat on their faces. Broad- | way lookea as though a riotous mob jhad rushed through Jt smashing store windows. Broad Ay saw sights to-day as ft has never them before. At the big open places—especially at Times Square, YEARS. The young man who received all this attention from Cupid was Ernest Kror- ber of No, #1 Went Ninety-fifth street. Manhattan. And the party of the sec- ond part was Miss Erva Laub, who liv with her sister Gwendolen at No. West One Hundred and Fourteenth street. Krorber and Miss Erva have known each other for at least two years, into conference at the Executive Cham- der. Attorney-General Carmody wil! be represented at the hearing, and Dis: trict-Attorney Whitman is also ex- pected to appear. ———— BRANDT MAY GO FREE ON BAIL OR PAROLE PENDING NEW TRIAL OMctal conferences were the feature here to-day of the Brandt case, which ched a climax in Justice Gerard's wip of habeas corpus decision yester- day, practically freeing the prisonor, a# he may now be 1, and his lawyers say any amount. He may be released on parole in thd custody of his counsel. Richard L. Hand, the speclal com- missioner named by Gov. Dix to take teased on bi ean furnish (Continued on Second Page.) Washington did not have glory thrust upon him. He won battles, the honor of his countrymen and fame by .aking ad- vantage of the opportunities that came within his reach, 3,728 World Ads. Yesterday 443 MORE TI the Herald, Times, Sun, Trib- ap and Press COMBINED, To be successful in gaining the po- sitions, workers, homes, profitable investments, lost articles, &e, you seek, Read World Ads. for Variety Use World Ads. for Results Opportunities That \ake for Success, and unt!l wo months ago, he says, there had never been the least bit of family objections to his attentions to her. Although she is a Catholle and he a Protestant, this religious difference has never figured in the case. For some reason or other Mr. Laub took a dis- like to the young man and early tis week sent him a letter from Florence, Ala, in whigh he not only failed to handle Krorber wit gloves, — but threatened to shoot ‘him into the bar- gain—vertainly to prevent the sailing of his daughter to-day, He thought Krorber was going with her, Krorber promptly Chief of Police Hayes of Hoboken, and asked that he and his lady-love be pro- tected when they came to the pier. So, when Kronber arrived at the Hoboken fenminal of the Hudson Tubes with his brother Karl and a friend and Miss Erva appeared with her alster and an escort of near-bridesmaids, there were the uniformed men and the detectives. Cupid was there, invisible but very much on the job, and the little party of protectors and protected marched down the block to the steamship plers, It was evident to those about them that this was a speclally conducted tour | and the crowd was much interested, It tratled along to the ship, but neither Krorber nor his flancee wae the least Dit ruffled about {t. But bovh of them and the four police groomsmen kept | their weather eyes out for Non-friend | Father with the gun, STAID ON PIER TILL SWEET- HEART DISAPPEARED. In due season Miss Erva and Miss Gwendolen were installed in thelr state- room and the vessel salled away, Kror- ver stood long and motionless at the pler end, until Miss Erva was just a speck at rail, and ®hen he came away, His escort fell in and he started for home, Just before taking the tube, Mr, Laub is belaving in the most ridiculous way about this thing, I did not intend to elope with Miss Erva, and I do not understand way he has made this sudden and unwarranted ob- Jection to my attentions to his daugh- ter ¢ two sisters are going abroad for a few montis. They will visit my parents near Berlin, and wien they that’s all these Je about 16” took the letter to} he said to an Evening World reporter: , | turn 1 shall marry Miss Erva, And land recounting his statement to Mr. | Erick, Col. Roosevelt refused to listen to tt, Fnally he gave such evide of displeasure that the reparters ce Greeley Square and the Flatiron Build. |ing—the screams of women could be heard every moment or two as they struggled to keep thelr skirts in order a against the rude blast or were Iterally|thetr hat conversation and picked up | swept away, more congenial topics. One woman crorsing Broadway in| From persons on the train {t was front of the Hotel Astor about noon|learned that the Cole ol was quite sur- began screaming “Save me! Bave me!" |prised—or seemed to be quite surprined We men went to her rescue, ‘They )--when he got the New York papers {n stopped her drift with wind, but) Albany this morning and found that both thelr hats went soaring as high aa! he had been que s saying hs hat the of the hotel. One of them, was in the ring. The custom of khying trying to overtake his hat, ran head-on the hat goes back to the days when into a strect car and was knocked|men fought with bare knuckles and down but not hurt were allowed to Kick each other in the |st a day to t ‘The fifty-foot vertical electrical sign |shins dn ning contests, ‘Thr of the Hotel Normandie was broken in|action of the Colonel ' ng about three places by the wind, The Fire De-| his hat 9 taken t> :sean that there is partment ordered it taken down and@|to be some hy.iality in the contest for the police roped off the sidewalk under|the Republican nomination between it. Roosevelt and Taft. A ponderous electric sien, 100x20 feet,| CLEARED FOR WHOLESALE on the roof of the Kohn Bullding, just | | south of the Hotel Knickerbocker, was ANANIAS INITIATION. blown Into Broadway at the Times! It !s not believed the Colonel can con Square subway entrance at 8 o'clock | *atently deny that Le sald his hat was this morning, and scraped the paint |!" the ring. The'statement was made | lesom ai pagan axloan: in the presence of several reliable per- sons In the New York Central Hroad ; As by a miracle, not a person was |struck. The sign weighed about three fons, and police had to block off a part of the sidewalk and force pedestrians | out into the street. |COFFYN'S FLYING SHIP Al oor ENO ASHED TO PIECES: {made pudtio—pomibiy e he storm almost wrecked Frank Cot. | The train bearing the Colone! da not \fyn's hydro-aeroplane, on a raft moors’ jreach the Grand Central Station until ; ‘i It had been deiayet three station at Cleveland. It may be sald for the Colonel that the statement was in the way of a con- | fidential communtcation. Possibly the Colonel did not mean that it should be jin the basin beside Pier A, at the Pas. | 1210 o'clock, t \tery, The raft was Wuffetted to pieces | hours by @ heavy fall of snow up-State. | and Coftyn's craft was dashed agains: |The Colonel looked @ little tied and | the sea wall, Polize and members of | WOM, but was in excellent spirits, the crew of the fire boat New Yorker, “Do I look frati?” he returted (9 ap | went to the resoue und lashed the flying |{auiry about his health | machine fast. Mr. Coffyn hurried down| “What kind of @ time did you have lerom his home at No. 43 East Fifty-|!2 Columbue and Cleveland?” asked the eighth street, After an examination iio |Teportera. reported the hy@roplane badly damaged, | “First clas,” answered the Colonel, but sald he thougit he could have it in| “iret clase. e cet order again in three cr four days, | “You woke them up, didn't you An electric sign on the root of the, “Ye! agreed the Colonel, “! woke! New York American building, Fitty-|"¢™ UP, and with good, sound doctrine, | ninth street and Columbus Circle, Man-|t¢0—good, ound doctrine.” hattan, was blown to the street and) More than this the Colonel would windows were blown in at Knott @ | not way. He hurried to an automobile Co.'s clothing store, No. 3 Bast Four- | and was driven to the home of J, West teenth street; Baum & Meiser, No, 30/ Roosevelt, where there was 4 sort of ist Fourteenth street, and Mason| family celebration of Washington's! Schreiber's feather shop, No. 62 Broad. | Birthday. i way ‘Those who accompanied the Colonel A plece of metal cornice blown from | on his trip say he showed by his cee ner and actions that he t# in the fight! coMntinued nd Page, Firat for the Nomination, He missed no op- ci portunity to project bimeelf into the “ limelight. He delivered his Columbus | “BPARERIBS AND GRAVY.” speech carefully, and emphatioalty | | xeemed to be interested in the efforts | of the reporters to give tt wide pub- licity, The announcement at Cle A new Comle Series, by George Me- Manus, author of the wlyweds, now Makelyou lush, “Let George Do he" * jana | thet ode Bet wae so the rag wan made! DYNAMITE BOMB WARFARE BY PARIS TAX! STRIKERS. nd Mi les Hurled Into Garage Many Autos Destroyed—Police Official Injured. PARIS, Feb. 22.—A number of dyna- mite bombs were exploted by striking taxicab chauffeurs to-day in the mar- ages of the taxi motorcaty companies, which have not accepted the arms of the strikers, Many cars were burned and otherwise damaged. One of the bombs was picked up by the police and was being carried to the municipal labor: atory when it exploded severely injuring two offictals. Neither the companies nor the strikers show signs of giving way. The confilct has lasted ince N 28, and 6,500 of the taxi motorcabs in Paris have been idle since that date. Some of the chauffeurs own thelr own bs and these continue to ply for hire, the drivers contributing Chauffeurs’ Union, for ive a Unton 1 author rk. which they rec izing them to w —— AMERICAN IS ARRESTED AS SPY IN GERMANY. Released After a Hard Grilling by Military Authorities—Wanted to See Famous Gold Chest. BERLIN, Feb, 2—The espionn, raze which 14 90 prevalent througho Germany resulted to-day in the arrest of an American tourist together with vis German companion by one of the sentries on guard at the fortrems of dau a few miles from Berlin, ‘The arrested men protested against the entry's action, declaring that they were morely interested in the famoug Julius Tower where the imperial war chest containing $9,000,000 in gold coin ts kept © that it may be ready for immediate ise in case of a sudden mobilization of the German army. ‘The men were kept In the guardroom for several hours, during which they were put through @ severe cross-ex- amination by the officers on duty. They were then released and returned to Berlin, —_ > bc T je After Divorce, ALBA Y ‘eb, 21. Senator Wainwright has introduced a bill which makes illegal in this State any ‘contrast of marriage to which one of the parties 1s a divorced person who haa been forbidden to marry by the laws of ‘the place where the divorce was grant- ed. The effect of this wouid tend to nullity the remarriage of the guilty party {n @ divorce action who goes out- eide of the State and marries. at the close of a day of stress and ex- citement such as the Colone! loves, EXPECTED ANNOUNCEMENT OP BREAK WITH TAFT COMES. Those who followed the fortunes of Roosevelt had expected his fran jement with referen his cans @idacy, The break with and the running of @ counter campaign waa heralded as far back as the time of elt's African trip. ‘Phen it was that the President ousted Gifford Pinchot from the Forestry Bu- reau, sustained the then Secretary of the Interior, Ballinger, {1 the Alaskan conservation cases, and in @o doing brought to the public the first tangible Information of « parting bet the President and the former President, who had urged his nomination and m: terially added in his election. It wae stated that full information [had been went to Col, Roorevelt in tho! twit (Continued on Second Page) > on Teeervations aud cicKete tia alk Coase ise, Central ogee 4 Berm Beeainere Check roamm, or ie and parcels Soro da) tid nist Caxicabers Ppytees “move re and travelers cheek Wind “Tre (World) E hee. MOTHERS BATTLE. Johnity Was Fat and Jimmy Was Lean, but Jimmy’s Ma Proved Self a Heavyweight. Mrs. Tessio Murphy. Mrs. Margaret Suttler and Mrs, Beaste Fields met yea- terday in the drug store at Bast One Hundred and Seventy-seventh atreet and Park 1 ‘They met again to- day in th fore Magistrate. Butts. hangs @ brief narrativ Mre, Murhpy and Mra, Suttler are both proud young mothers, with infant nue. And thereby jxons named respectively Jimmy and Johnny, ‘The ng hopeful of tre Murphys has been ailing of late, with onsiderable loss of flesh, The Suttler prodigy is a symphony in pink and white fat. ‘The two me backed thelr peram- bulators up against the drug store yes- terday afternoon and went in for a soda water and a Mttle chat, Mra, Fields was there, After the exchange of pleas antries about the Ww nny rlaxked after the he baby “You know 1 never saw him," sho aid. “Go out and have @ look at him," sald Mrs, Sutler, waving her hand to- ward the perainbulators outside the door. Fields went out, but by mistake looked under (he parasol of the Murphy vehicle, Mrs, Suttle ut just tn time to hear Mra. Fields remark; ame What a skinny buffy! It's an awful looking thing. c t isn't my daby,"” sald Mre, “LT wouldn't own that poor skinny thing. Here's min vat's what [ call sume baby," @ald | Mrs, Fields, poking her finger into the ‘goft plumpness of the beaming Johnny | Butter. Mrs, Murphy had come out in ample me to hear all that had been sald | Por a moment whe tried to remember \who te w lady, but it was no we, There was but one thing to do, and she did it with sugh thoroughness that Mre Suttler and Mrs. Flelda looked like the aftermath of @ cyclone. Early to-day Detective foheutng called t Mrs, Munphy's apartment, No. 4 nut avenue, with @ Warrant eworn Mrs, Suttler, who lives at N t One Hundred and Seventy Mrs, Murphy went willing- out by eV sixth street y to court It was mother love, Your Honor, against etiquette, and mother — love won,” she told the Court The | to keep her mother love under restraint in the future, admonished the other women against critiel any other | motngr's children, and Mem!ased the complaint aa acs ATTELL AND KILBANE READY FOR THE GONG. Champion Favorite in Betting for | ‘This Afternoon’s 20 Round Bout at Los Angeles, ANGELES, Cal, Feb featherw champion, end ‘Jolnny Kilbane of Cleveland, challenger, | were in readiness early to-day for their round fight at Vernon this after- in the best po ” cond and a record attendanc Is anticipated As it ie the policy of many fght fol- lowers lo “bet on the champion until he |: waipped” Attell was the favorite, 5 1s offered varied from 3 to 1 to 0 to 0 im Attell's Saver, QVER NAL BABES Morrisanta Police Court bes | Magistrate advised Mra, Murphy | 2. —Abe | POISON IN NURSERY KILLS SEVEN BABIES; FIVE OTHERS DYING. -t— 7 Oxalic Acid Supposed to Have Been Given to a Dozen Children in the Institution on Herkimer Street, Brooklyn. ,NURSE BEING WATCHED, MIND THOUGHT AFFECTED. ‘Victims, All Under One Year Old, Had Been Under Care of This Woman. Coroner Glinnen of Brooklyn, ‘with the assistance of the Police De- partment and the District-Attorney has begun an investigation into the death from poison of seven little chikiren in ,thé-Brooklyn-Nursery for ~ Infants at No. 404 Herkimer street. Five other babies are desperately ill in the institution, all suffering apparently from the same poison that killed the seven under investigation, From the preliminary information in the hands of the Coroner and {his physician, Dr. Wuest, it is suspected the poison was oxalic acid and {that it was administered to a dozen children by a nurse. The nurse is under surveillance. Her mental condition is said to have been the sub- ject of some worry to the nursery authorities for some time past. led to the cage by the fact shat {two returns reached his office of deaths in the Herkimer street institution, one telling of the death of four Infants, the other of the deaths of three. The last three were Richard Gomereall, six months old, of Kings Park, \L. 1; isidor Waschtell, ten months oll, of No. 470 Grand avenue, and Adele Lippo, threa anonths old, of No, 111 exlinont avenue. DISTRICT-ATTORNEY ALSO INVESTIGATES. | That poison had caused the deaths of these three at least was appareat. | Coroner Glinnen called In Detectives Murray, Raddy and McCurdy and eent ‘them to the nursery to ald him in questioning nurses and attendants, A | representative of the District-Attorney's office was also summoned. The Institution was found in a state of pants. Of course the NMttle | inmates, nearly ail under ove year old, were unconscious of the terrible tragedy that had occurred, but the heads of the nursery ant nearly all the nurses were almost distracted With one accord suspicion was directed toward a had been entrusted with the partial dead and the five who are [Il FIVE STEAMERS 2%: BLOWN ASHORE ° The attention of the Coroner was ertain nurse who ‘are of the seven children who ere » safe ean opaft and @all- sare reported ashore or an Haypton Roads and lewer peake Bay No w be plight of the mtegan- silp Mad reporced to be partially sunk in the o irbor of Norfet, 1 been recety e by Old Domin- jon Line oiiclals to-day. W. L. Weed- | row, tr ravager of the Ine, emia | that it w nion that the Madél- eee fon had | wn out of her chammel j int , savilow wa and oo eae flats One, the Madison, of Old Do- par vi Hye” MTnigom GR pet i} ger . >, "Thi. Mty tt w York Norfolk oa minion Line, From This City, | , parted to nee ee s destination yesterday. @h Reported Partly Sunken. Sir. Woodrow said, to ani} éey Meee < to-morrow. SUICIDE FOR LOST JOY, Cause Wal- ‘ORFOLK, Va 22.—Five eamers have been swept ashore In the outer harbor here by the worst storm that has swept the Virginia coast in en to Hane Himeett, |many years. ‘The blow began night! It was William Holmes's ctletem to and continued unabated to-day, At 10.99 cake Mis wife for an outing on Rettdeays, LA. M. two scows were reported by Cape because those wore the only daye be Henry as being Wlown rapidly to sea) could spend wi she was an through the Virginia Capes. No lows of inyal tant weeks ago she ded, [lite mo far haw been reported To-day, his Jency over Ger | Phe vessels driven ashore during the |death hewhtened oy the fact that 1 de night were the Old Dominion Liner! a holiday and was bitterly remtniaoent | Madison, which ples between tris port jand New York; the Norwostan eteamer | Hermes, fram Baltimore, the Britian! namer Strathallan, loading for San! ‘iim when Francisco; the Danish steamer Nord-| wax fitty-ei atjernen, from Boston, and the British | ployed !n a department store ed bimeelf with @ is home, No. son Louls found the bed In Hts steamer Blewick Manor, from Philadel- wo a i Pie ' ey x o| Negro Fish K. 0, Fatel. ‘The Madison ts partially @unk off| + at ae Bush Blutt buoy. ‘The Hermes. was] ,CLEVEHAN!) Ou Pel in Chases driven high aground and Hes within he negro welterweight pugilist, who fell unconscious at the start of the one hundred yards of shore. The Government quarantine shtp| sixth round of hia bout with Joe Matto Jamestown waa swept from her anchor-| here ‘Tuesday night, dled to-gey. Bx- Point Comfort, early this | amination that be was suffering eee ot he vena Gee been enfely,’ trem qsyeurel’