The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1912, Page 1

r _ Terms PRICE ONE CENT. EDITION. “ Circulation Books Open to All.”" Che a Unanimous Decision Reached at the Meeting in This City This Afternoon. TO REPORT TO MINERS. Committee Named to Notify the Employees on March 13 —Price of Coal Goes Up. The coal operators who met to-day at No, 143 Liberty street to the number of 150—the largest meeting of mine- owners and managers in the history of the industry—unan!mously decided this afternoon to refuse the demands of the mine workers for a 20 per cent, increase in wages, recognition of the union by collecting the union's dues out of pay envelopes and an elght-hour day, A comm » of opevators was appointed to meet the conmnittee of the miners on March 13 and give them the answer. The committee to draft the refusal was then appointed. Its members ar A a in Markle, Percy Ma- detra, E, B, W. H. Truesdale, ¥. D. Underwood, George F. Baer, La rence Willams, Joseph Dixon and L, F. Loree. It was belleved b that their decis: But they strike, they said, the coal merchants weld mean @ str! ter afford to face a than grant the de- mance and then confront the pudite with a tremendous Increase in the price of coal, wh ) per cent, increase of ithe cost of mining would make neces- sary. COMMITTEE IS CLOTHED WITH FULL POWER TO ACT. The resolution passed to-day gives the committee “full power to represent the anthracite operators.” It instructs the members “to formulate a reply in writ- Ing to the anthracite mine workers de- clining thely demands, will meet w can bi Tu peday wl r represen- tatives Nes’ tie that thee em or about Sarety 18, nb the reply of tre crerators will | It was said frat netaing woudl | ou wt oth. reply un tye miners’ From the wording of the resolution passed to-day it was taken by some that negotiations Were not necessarily ended, The fact that the mittee of the operators was swith full power” was taken to mean that there inight be ‘further talks with the miners’ delegates. It was recalled that on previous occa- sions the operators have refused the demands of the that this did not mean that there to bé no further conferences. SUPPLY OF COAL IS ALREADY VERY SCARCE. While the coal operators were in con- ference, it was the talk of the trade that coal was already scarce because of the anticipation of a general str or at least @ suspension at the m Accordingly the price 1s going up hard coal and there has been a ri too, in the bituminous product, The scarcity i# caused by the call on the de those who wish to have a good supply on hand by April 1, the time when the ugreement of the ope with the miners ends. It is exp that the rate of the operating to the wholesale deal the same, but those Who wish (oO a supply for the retail trade have to bid 8. fo! for !t in the et. Many of the tn- dependent © lers have raised the price from 50 to Mat When the operators wen > session ft was said the anthracite ly would be under consideration, as well as th reply to the demands eo mdne More than 10) operat we ephee rented at the o and each on was sup) a rt as to the reserve coul, a0 the combined ine terests would know where they stood tn the event of a strike, CDLD CUTS DOWN THE RESERVE SUPPLY. It is unquestioned that the reserve supply 1s low because of the protracted cold of the winter, when the operators were unable to meet the demand with (Continued om Seventh Page.) MINE OWNERS TURN DO DEMAND FOR HIGHER PAY: CREAT STRIKE PROBABLE * | to-da TAXICAB PLUCKS MAN OFF CAR STEP. WHEELS CRUSH Mob Halts Broadway Chauf- feur in Rush From Opera Singer Victim. A taxicab racing up Broadway on the wrong side of the street sidewiped the rear step of a southbound trolley car at Thirty-eighth street this aftor- noon and plucked M. wenson, a singer in the Chicago Opera Company, Press Pavilshine fork World). W YORK, TUESDAY, MAR CH 5, 1912. ONE” MAN, HE’LL RUN, T. R. SAYS of Miners Rejected, Coal Strike Is “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 16 PAGES ACCUSED IN THE CONTEST OF MILLIONAIRE'S WILL Niece of Late Joseph Parker Says James M. Townsend Unduly Influenced Him. MRS. TAFTGASPS | ATRORROR TALES Presideni’s Wife Hears Con- | gress Told How Women Were | Clubbed and Babies Jailed. WAS A DRAMATIC SCENE. Spectators Sob as Witnesses Give Details of Riot Con- FULL DENIAL IS MADE. De Lancey Nicoll, Representing the Beneficiary, Makes Vig- orous Defense of Client. | ditions in Lawrence. | | | \ | Declaring that James M. Townsend, | ' for many years a prominent lawyer of | this city and associate lecturer of the| Yale Law School, unduly influenced | her uncle, the late Joseph Parker, mil- Nonajre blotting paper manufacturer, and caused him to make a will by which Townsend inherited all but $100,000 of a $1,200,000 estate, Kather- | Ine B. Trowbridge has brought suit in the Supreme Court attacking tho valid- ity of the will. That the suit had been started be- of developments so far in the Law brutality probe came this afternoon | when Mrs. Taft, first lady of the; land, sitting aghast with the House! kules Committee, heard the story ot! cruelty to women and children ag told by John Knebel of Philadeipita, | Gaaps of horror came from the lips of! the wife of the President; halt a hun: | dred other handsomely dressed women in the committee room sobbed, while | stolid Congressmen sat stunned. The | dramatic recital of ¢he treatment of, now at the Metropolitan Opera House, off the car, flung him on the pave- nent, dragwed him a dozen feet and ran over him, Tho singer's clothes, even his sh: his rene TER was were ripped off, oroken, his right wrist, fractured and he was Internally ‘nqured) He was jrushed to the New York Hospital in @ dangerous condition. ‘The taxtcad was driven by Leonard |Rapp of No. 1811 Second avenue, A pretty girl inside said her name wa: Kitty Coby and then fled in another taxicab, The chauffeur was rushed and threatened by the crowd who wit nessed the aceldent before several po- licomen rescued him. The singer had no warning. come downtown from ils boarding place, No. 518 Prospect avenue, Bronx, to attend rehearsals, He had one foot down from the step of the car, which | when the taxicab flew 4 of the car and rushed ghfare, wiping the singe He had P. was hitting up such a the chauffeur could not stop When he did stop ounded by a howling mob. shrieked and quickly got away. Injured singer did not lose con- agony When the ambulance ar ffeur war lockod up in the irtieth street station. He 1s em- the Cab and Tax! Company Gast Thirty-first strect. £6,000 EARRING, LOST AT OPERA, RECOVER Jewel Is Returned to Mrs. Thomas, Former Wife of Frank Gould, by Police $6,000 diamond and emeral ng, whic. was lost at the Mra, Ralph H returned to her, ear- opera by last night was Thor K Sherwood of No, 8 yood ead tn the pers to-day that the earring was the property of Mrs. Thomas she nott- fed ihe police of the West Thir ier stret station had fo it and withed to insure its prompt return to Mrs as, Kenny was assigned to the and he reported late this after- that th uable bit of Jewelry had been placed in Mry, Thomas's hands, | Mrs, Thomas was at one time Mra, \rrank Gould, ar! before ahe married Mr. Gould was Miss Helen Kelly, The jearing is one of her Jewels that she prizes mo: highly. irl Stenograp! Nellio Tonghill, aged tWenty-twop a stenographer, was found dead at her home, No, 125 Waverly place this after- noon, Gas was escaping from a stove in @ reom adjol her bedroom. It ip believed her death Was accidental, ees, and was groaning and writh- | qe was found) women ani children given by Knebel, ; whose emotion made {t difficult for htm | 4 ; j to Speak at times, caused @ scene such. ae ee tiiie Trowbrid&e, | ag probably never before was witnessed ol he plaintiff, who. !t ap-/in a Congressional committee room, ‘ came kaown this afternoon when an @nswer was filed py Thomas R. Trow- bridge and J. drothe: pears, are named as co-defendants in| Mmebvel told of chilar: being thrown | the case. imto jail cells ana hg keyt. a whole ao brothers admit prac-| without food, Me said Iittie exes aaa tloally all the allegations of the com-|beem torm from thelr mothers’ arms plaint, declaring that their uncle, an old | Be Sent to the Lawrence poor farm 8 after the authorities had prevented the jbachelor, was of unsound mind for a| sending of the children from the strike ng time prior to his death and was| ridden town. completely dominated and {nfluenced by! Miss Margaret Sanger, a Townsend, who was his lawyer for sev-| trained nurse, described ¢ onteen years, ments of children who had been taken By tho term from Lawrence to New York, | supposed to have been exe CHILDREN GRABBED MEAT AND ker Jan, 27, 1910, short ATE FROM HANDS. the plaintiff was lett only “These children we: clated and other relatives the aged ii gry,” she said, m y of «ually as poorly, maiority of aimed ag sole exec | The Trow: ew York e tWo ships 3 of the will, which was ed by Par- his death, tiem suffered from adenoids and en-| Townsend was and chief benefictary. larged tonsils, In the first to New York there were 119 shipment hildren. BIG ARRAY OF LAWYERS IN | Only tour of them wore underwear THIS WILL CONTEST. jand the weather was bitter cold. An armay of legal talent has been re- | About twenty had overcoats, W tained tn the c. Jerome, Rand & | they wer represent the plaintiff, while Nie- | tival in > Lindsey are counsel for following statement was would have brougnt tes in de- : eyes De Lancey ‘Townsend * who know Mr. his “rethren of the Nicoll, Camitta, lent and nday schoo teache id & Member of one of the ommittegs that sought to get the dren out of Lawrenc Philadeiph! orably and sued and his friends in the ritlroad In Lawrence, jwas born, and wh e related how she jad enteavored lecturer of the Y: lead the children from the station to the train, has for many ye ee es Wh eaten ne “YOU ARE KILLING THEM,” SHE alee and nati ‘ TOLD POLICE. made in the complaint, which has bee! “For some reason the children got out fed to set aside the will of Jos ahead of me,” she said, “and instantiy Parker, women and children were hurled | ‘Joseph Parker died in this city at/into a struggling mass by the police he Hotel Marte Antoinette on May 9/1 was squeezed against the wall of the 1910, On Jan. 27, 1910, he made his last) waiting room and was terribly fright- |will and testament, which without ob-| ened," jection from any of the heirs or next! “The crowd in front of me was #0 of kin, was duly admitted to probate in| dense that IT could see little, I called out {the County of «ew York on June| to the police to be careful of he chil- 14, 1910, ‘dren! You're killing them!" Later when “The will was not drawn by Mr./1 sought to accompany them to the po- ‘Townsend, as falscly suggested in the lice station [ was tou that I'd better complaint, but by Thomas Thacher of the firm of Simpson, Thomas & Barte| lett, one of tle leading be: bar, who attended to its stay away or I'd be clubved, too," Miss Camitta admitted that she saw no clubbing of women or children in the st y Injured after the affray, well as its pro! The will made dl H pol boing women HA of property, |in the patrol wagon, sald “The th sasonable mind | wagon Was crowded and the police were made substantial | thrusting the women about with their bequests to nephews, nieces, cousins and | clubs."* she friends, tie gave the control of Joseph! It was while Miss Camitta was testl- Parker & Son . mpany, a successfull tying that Mrs, Taft arrived at the corporation !n Connecticut, engaged tn|committee room, She showed great {n- the manufacture of blotting pa to|terest in the proceedings and remained his business associat not relatives, | throughout the morning bequeathing them 1,160 shares our of @ Miss Casmitta told ectives vist- total of 1,50. ting the homes of parents of Lawrence SOME OF THE TESTATOR'S| children threatening them if they sent CHARITABLE BEQUESTS, =| their children away. ‘He Jott $10,000 to Yate College In all cases where ch » 8 iren were to OFMILSTRKE WASHINGTON, March 5.—The climax! & CASE OF BRANDT. Wife of President Taft, Who Heard |i, Recit l of Milt Strike Horrors INTHE SENATE | Bill to Set Convictions Aside | Brings Out Calls for | Deeper Inquiry. ALBANY, March 8&.—The Brandt frre was fought all over again in the Senate to-day when the McClellan bill giving the Judge who pronounced sentence upon a plea of guflty the right to set the; conviction aside at a subsequent period was reported by the Codes Com- | mittee and advanced to third reading. | “It seems to me highly sald Senator Wainwright, “that this Legtsla- ture should take steps to make a full Investigation 11 thls connection, I don't! think that any ¢ has ocetrred within the recoll any Senator here which has 4 proceedings of criminal justice {nto di of so on 7 jo one steamer daily on the line run eee Lic eng eles ; |ning between Folkestone and Boulogne here should be som y strip ping the whole taing from the tangle of ee teciinicalition and Ketting down to the! HORSES GO ON RAMPAGE. real facts, and I think an investigat | Would be proper in order that the Judge | Young Bloods From Kentucky mae A renege rH i} tence Create Excitement on i4th st, act fully justified or else should be re-| A pair of green young horses that are ved." |rived here from Kentucky ¢ ay, and nator othy D. Sullivan sald that p being led across Th fourth he had known Judge Rova nthe North River an em- was a boy and pald @ 4 si Flas, Doerr & Carro! took | tearity. Adinitting that the A nc tween Sixth ten nied Ma en ted for the an aal ep ut the v Wy Was dragged in the horses’ me his }wake and David Roolns travelling No doud! mystery | salesman frot Wes + knocked nis case r Wag: | ae , und ¢ ested itv awaye ng it « when leash a renip to be known as be taken ty Philadeipma, assed Cami the é ni HAsbe man Henry, “did you have tie parents ship, in inonory of his. sister, 2 In every case,” she sald, Townsend Par Io gave $ here Was not nature of A x : kldnapp! baalhtely vat, dnd<we then made took every precaution to assure them or his eh that the soines intended for the chil: | {vive Mr, legates dren shoul bave the bes possible sure | round y os > ty nue moi nel, quoted above, was the by the exeouto: € xt wit ‘ | | pata whol to | “How 1 womer dan Jabout $s0,00, |that day?" asked Mr, r | ‘Mr. Parker took charge of hla own ) err property, Inve and reluvested tt up Mbit Besund Yeas to the very hour of hiv des Al Piero eee arent reasons which have 1 one or! wise, Ceotral, Bouth American More of the next of kin at this late seamen, ' date to begin action to overthrow ant poe will will be developed af the trai’! \ ” ~ - - - ee i ne ee = f) The first witness call Tho Februar nd Jury, whieh | would have been discharged at the end »? the month but for investls | of the Brandt case, recon this afternoon and heard witnesses tn the matter of the District Attorney's at- that Birandt was sent to prison for thirty years as the result of| & conspiracy, was Rev. tive been may much to bring the BSN oe Now Feared _ w THEN—Fair to-night and Wednesday, FI EDITION. - eee PRICE ONE CENT. ONLY MAN’ FOR JOB,” MUST RUN FOR PEOPLE, ROOSEVELT WROTE LAST + New Letter Tells How He Changed His Views of “Genuine Calamity” as He Previously Termed His Nomination. “WHAT I SAID ALL ALONG,” IS: COLONEL’S COMMENT. “Won't Leave My ‘Hands Tied,” and Removes Entire Aldine Club : From Ananias Club. | ROOSEVELT TO EDITOR VAN VALKENBURG, JUNE 11, 191 | 3 Rave expressed myself perf: te © Marge numbers of men | thle matter, always to you. for instanced, eoually, aad those who were with you at InseR as'my Round, ond Gifford Pinchot, Jim Garfield and Representative Madison and yi Loeb and Secretary Meyer and Secretary Stimeon, al! alike, just what Z have <aid always, that I would not be @ candidate in 1038 and that Z had no intention of taking any part in the nomination for ov against any candidate. Franklin P, Plerce, chaplain of the Pannemora prisor ‘ormer te perintendent of V'risons Corne!lus V. Collius followed him ormer Superntendent Collins is sald avon his order Brand stance no BIG BRITISH COAL STRIKE HALTS AMERICAN LINERS, Coal Shortage Forces Steamers New York and Philadelpnia to Cancel Sailings. SOUTHAMPTON, England, March 5. The sailings of the An rican L steamships Philadelphia and New York from this port for New York on March 13 and March 20, respectively, have beon cancelled in consequences of the coal atrike, LONDON, March 5.—Ratlroad workers throughout the United Kingdom con tinue to be discharged from their em ployment owing to the shortage of coal necessitating the restriction of the train service, At Newcastle this morning another 1,000 inen were added to thos who have been thrown out of account of coal strike, train services are ne further curtailed in all part cross-Channel service nce and England has been r 1" at the way of the plunging animals, When Root was picked up and carried Into the hotel, wh he fa a he refused to accept the atten tions of an ambulance surgeon, Hie and forehead were cut, but his I are not serious, guest, ROOSEVELT LETTER TO EDITOR MOORE, AUG. 18, 1911 I feel that 3 ba to work to pre calamity if such @ movement were un COMES THIS LETTER TO EDITOR FRANK A. MUNSEY. Waar S have alld te gem BA WON 5 O80 oer ct ee I have, for instance, said not only to other friends who thiak 3 be renominated, but to friends (and foes) who think I ought net .renominated, provided only I could trust their sincerity, intelligenes truthfulness. 1 am not and shall not be a candidate. seek renomination nor would & accept it, if as the result of an tatrig: I will 1 which would make it difficult or impossible for me to serve undertaking « great task, if the people, whole, seemed come to the conclusion I ought to do the task. After the election of 1904, I announced that 2 would Gi@ate for renomination. * ° ° Friends suggested some such formula as stating that % would mot be a of the custom that has grows #p not to elect a man as because dent for a third consecutive term; OH om thinking it over 3 became. convinced that if I used such language it would inevitably be taken aa @n announcement that I would be a candidate for another term im 1919—and this in spite of the fact that the language, if taken literally, | 14 only have referred to 1008 and have had no more beaging em + 1912 than on 1916 or 1949. Col. Roosevelt highly enriched the “Won't and Will Letters of an Ex- President” to-day by giving out a letter written to Frank A. Munsey, the Publisher, Jan, 16, 1942, which is of a “Maybe” variety and indleates that as far back as last January, at least, the Colonel's mind had’ turned ‘to’a y of his chances for a renomination. Impotance is attached to this letter opportunity for my enemies tomake by the Colonel because, he say it is] every kind of statement about me, that he has all along] and to create in the minds of the ‘| people a false impression af me; alwaSs] some good people being led by silence Into the bellef that ft useless to try to nominate me, Bee serious scrutin) dooumentary proof anxtous to evade the responsi e, but W een tes of leading 4 cf prepared to su! lemand of the people, aus Gunes this “avin cause I would certainly refuse, Col insists appeared in alt his let-] others being led into the betleg he that T am underhandedly tntrigwe 1 the ca tin and again sata T tai my poattion |, Jal you Say Mr in Mt | actly—so exac my « Munsey, that to my mind Lt self forms the 10 th | youn that f should openty an- a nounce that if nominated I stiould \ and frank © aml hones ere and honest opponent, rat f have sald to you and am / to say to you I have, for wnswer not refuse (ae nomination, You say that my keeping silence a to Miscoustruction, and gives SAID IT ing for what I dare not openly ask; SAYS THAT HE HAS so that the impression of the pube ALL ALONG. 1 ume] (le #8 detrimental to me, ; Louth Oa agree with you as to the ie towel f my silence ts deliberately AN t my enemies, with x Now t of confusing good peo- - ty) pie and getting them to take @ Ole wron® view; and moreover, I entiner Mat Pag nn "| ly agcee with you that this purpose nateaie ya pivearercs tare is at least partly achieved, ad na csc what pou; — The trouble ts that as #0 often hap n and again | Pens, this is ac » where any courg + gtecaancpawea-alt Sen would lead to just such mise etter takes up sixteen pages O°) representation, Just auch miagudge | ; typewritien matt v h ment and Just such pugaling of the | _boaring on. the )° | minds of ood people. Personally, D Ttunk that any ther course than ne OF le bat ti J] tie ore that Tam avfopting would at “ty pre vad to even more misrepres i r , pu , “on and misjudgment than at. The le r to Mr. Munse n sua) uy Aa EG IS “DELIGHTED” TO DEFINE HIS [or "lt seems to me that in tty | POSITION. not only to any) supporter, but to) x 4 D