The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1912, Page 1

"Norwegian Denies He Said * plover to reach the goal, although Me Ficene mile ‘ ‘WIFE AND CHILD IN AIRSHIP WITH COFFYN BROADWAY AND FOUR OTHER LINES TIED UP FOR HOURS © WEATHER-ttain to-night; clearing Saturday. EDITION. The “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | eee setae PRICE ONE “OENT. ° — Coorrinht, On ‘BRITISH FREELY ACCEPT AMUNDSEN'S CLAIM 10 FIND OF SOUTH POLE MAN WHO KILLED Royal Geographical Society HIMSELF RATHER Takes It for Granted He . Got to Goal First. HOPES FOR CAPT. SCOTT Rival Had Succeeded, but Subsequent Silence Puzzles. UONDON, March 8-—The Royal Geographical Society accepts unqual- Medly Capt. Amundsen's claim that Khe reaobed the South Pole, and takes itor granted that he was the first ex- tAmaundsen’s brief despatch does not that fect. point out, however, Oiat Capt. Amundsen and Capt. Bcott "spuy‘both-bave-been there and within of each Vere Bobet peehtr and scientists are awaiting Getallg before wecepting defiin- .the defeat of the British ex- , The message received yesterday by <thp London Dafly Express from Well- ington, New Zealand, in which Capt. Amundsen was reported as saying that Scott had reached the South Pole, was based on a telegram al- leged to have been sent by the Nor- egian explorer, but the authenticity which Capt. Amundsen to-day de- files. ‘Bm response to cabled instructions to gek Onpt. Amv ‘ven pointblank wheth- ae rae beets, senehed the Seeth Pole it of the London ive. ba Star at Mobart, Tasmania, to-day telegraphed the following statement: CHER TANI BANDIT” -Albruzo, Capt. Boald Amundsen stiges that he will submit his charts and ali information as to his expedition with- | OW delay, acgording to dcspatche: from Mobart, received by a special correspondent at Wellingto: ITEMENT IN LONDON OVER POLE FIND. ‘The interest in Great fritain over the race for th. South Pole somewhat re- ‘ire $25,000 Holdup. Montan!, in whose taxicab on Feb, two messengers vf the East River > tlonal Bank were beaten and robbed $25,000 n ing the gembles the excitement in the United] change al Bank States when the rival claims of Peary| ay ine with Montan}, Cook to the attainment of the! two of ‘whom lave pleaded gullty imipean, Pe. were: fire aliped. indictments againet them, will testity Capt. Amundsen’s claim ts not dis he taxicay owner. puted here, but Beitons still hope that] pe Ed wan Who has pleaded Capt. Scott may also have reached the ne. selningl whee Har niko foal, and discuss the possibility that] piewdea guilty; “Scotty” Lamb, who he may have been there first unknown | hay confesed that he was, promised to Capt, Amundsen, ‘The Norwegian. cxplorer's dates, Doc, URE New Beret Words THAN GO HOME AT 9, FILES CONFESSION, ACCUSES MONTANI Like Others, Says Owner of Cab Planned En- Supreme Court Justice Seabury to-day fixed Monday next for the trial of Geno et while transport- from the Produce Ex- They are $25 for his share in the hold-up but Ze ‘ ZAI ae (9 | Oat TIO) ALLS HIMSELF “TO AVOID GOING — HOMEATSP ML Wilfred Bloom Grew Tired of Obeying Magistrate Ap- Pleton’s Order. BODY FOUND IN OFFICE Wife Had Complained That He Stayed Out Late With Pretty Clients. Wilfred Bioom, 4 years ob, the em- ployment agent who on Feb. 19 last wae oniered by Magistrate Appleton in Yorkville Police Court to be home in the bosom of his family at nine o'clock every night or accept the alternative of going to the Workhouse for six months, ehot amd killed himself to-day in hts office (0. 747 Lexington avenue. He was alone in the four atory brown stone building af the time, He recently stated to én! he would rather be Wead*chan go t§ the Workhouse and he Blas es aes day he would fall to y ey! the curfew judgment of Magistrate “Bleset hed oetiducted an employment agency forthe last twenty years, and was known to be prosperous, He was very fond of taking his pretty olients out to the theatre and hot coming Home to his wife and two children fry Prd small hours of the morning, come home in an ugly mood, ge vite charged, and frequently beat her. WIPE TOLD CouRT bet FEARED HER HUSI This led to his pra ae defore Magistrate Appleton on Feb, 19. Mre. Bloom told the Court that she pbtr| hss fear of her I!fe and thought it better if she separated from pee 1g band. She askeq that the Magistrate order Bloom to pay her $15 a week. for the support of herself and her children. Bloom replied that he could not afford to do this as he paid $1,000 a year in Premiums on Ife insurance, He said that the expenses of running his em- ployment offices and his home totalled almost $200 a month, Magistrate Appleton asked Mrs, Bloom, if she would be satisfed if her husband’ came home early every night and did not abuse her. She replied that this would be ideal. ‘Then the Court or- dered Bloom to be home every night at 9 o'clock, He was only to remain out after 9 o'clock in case ‘he was accom- panied by his wife. The probationary officer of the Yorkville Court has been wetting reports from Mrs, Bloom every week, The man had a spotless curfew vecord up to last week. This week's re- port was to have been received to- morrow. The body of the suicide was found on the floor, asdf he had silpped from a chair beside his telephone. ‘The recetve: was off the hook and it looked as if he was telephoning to some one as he shot himaelf, Frank Bailey, the agent of the build-; ing, was out on the sidewalk at the time Bloom shot himself. He heard the report of the revolver and then tried of got nothing, and Jess Albruzo the /| to set Into the house, He called Patrol- U-17, are puzzling, but they are gen | former saloon keeper, who has con-|™man Wilhelm, who looked in the win- erally interpreted hore as meaning the | fesseq that he got together the gang|20W, 4nd saw Bloom's body on the floor days of bis arrival at and depariure} that committed tie robbery, at «the | 2F,te oMce, ane Goor was forced, The from the Pole. , ; man was still breathing. An_ambu- : request of Montant lance was summoned from the Presby- There seems to be a general accept-| Henry and Frederick E, Goldsmith, | terlan Hospital, but by the time {t Kot ance from Englishmen that the NorwWe | osince! for Albrnzo, placed in the hands to the Lexington avenue house the sul- gian did exactly what he sail we did | op Aesictan: Disirict-Attorney Nott to- cide was dead. in the cablegram received by his brother| Jay q completo contorsion made by Al-| Neither Mrs, Bloom nor her children whih stated be spent three days at the! yruz0 of the part he took in the rov.| Were In the house and they have not Pole. That he did this to prevent any|pery of the tank messenuers In his bean seen about the house for several Fame oa a Se iam" te the bellel | confession, Albru ays Montani sug- Snennee cantina ere. rvations token on three de tea. thie iné asked him te in pucoession at high noon, it is saia,| Zest" IM sot vallubte han 42 | JUMPS FROM MOVING CAR Ramen Gey Be, Seaked” and there can bel setner tar the Jab INTO NIAGARA RAPIDS. “peers tion even with Ad.|.,“Montant told mo,” Albruzo says, —— \e even with J . 5 no Was in the habit of transport. mira Peary's proofs among certain bane hs ARIE Oe: Srananatte Man Makes Suicidal Plunge From edentints. sums in their possession two or thre Freight Train Half Way Positive denial that he had told the correspondent of the Lonton Daily Ex. ptebe or any one else that Capt. repehed the South Pole was day by Capt. Amundsen, the Nor explorer, according to a Reuter rom Hobart, Tasmania, , In Its fesue this ning the London Daily Chronicle publishes the following times a week, and that tt would be e: for half a'dozen the money. A Splaine, Lamb, ‘Joe the rs to take part, The actual robbery took place."* Sas Albruzo is ready and anxious to gale trom Laon pmunds brother of) iead guilty to the indictment against him, but Mr. Nott does not want him n's expedition wee first launched unexpectedly with @bjeot of competing with Capt. Scott je oriticlem was advanced that his because he is Montani, to do so at this time, be a witness against eviden en to get away with ng on his suggestion I Matteo, Kid’ and two whole matter tried out in Central Park before the His , it is belleved, will be more sy Across Bridge. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 8—An unt- ntified man Jumped trom a Michigan niral freight train to death In the agara whirlpool rapids yesterday evening. The train was on its way from Canada, and it !s belleved by the Niagara Falls police that the suicide boarded it at the Canadian end of the bridge. When the train wae about half way across the cantilever ana directly over the whirlpool one of the crew saw a man climb to the top of a car, jump to aqtion was unsportsmaniike. Nevertne- | ¢Mective av an unconvicted participant] over the low rail @ few fevt away, and : rthe- lin the robbery. iota (Ls a Gmundsen will be warmly |" Icinaman was to have been sentenced | PP!" ‘The disappointment hore was keen af. | (Or0ay Dy Juans Craln in big Court of Gov. W a eott’s. victo: a | Gene STON, ‘Gov. ter nopes of Capt, Sovtt's victory bad) yi. Nott Judge Crain postponed sen. |) TRENTON Marsh. b=-Cey been raised yesterday, based on the des- Fe tay Wellington, ‘but Capt, 's tence until next Priday, nouncement has increasad _'Gomtsnved on Second Paso) cS aa & Woodrow Wilson arirved at hia homo jm Princeton this morning from An- Md, where he spoke tast night, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 8 1912, while thousands gasped. SNAPSHOT TAKEN TODAY FROM THE EVENING WORLD EDITORIAL ROOMS. I\COFFYN FLYING AMONG THE SKY YSCRAPERS In a flight at noon to-day, the young aviator dashed above the financial district, then turned and swooped past the skyecrapers of lower Broadway, Thx T-RPROPOSES STIMSON'S NAME FORANANIAS CLUB; Flatly ‘Denies War 5 EA “Interview About Letter From the Colonel. fourth Street Crosstown Roads. dic RD —— And Don't Kill Tommy for} , "So". ie SvtAtor te Col, Theodore Roosevelt to-day put! Five main ines of street railway traf-) to be there was a rush on thel p, coote Cine 4 ‘ Kingsioy Coftyn couldn't see that Secretary of War Stimson in tho An-'fe tn the elty were absolutely ted uP) subway | Pussy's Sins, He Tells Dis- | programme ot all. He began to conan anias Club, tor several hours to-day, Not a car! 4 urning out of the cable oceurred ee " sald he to take a flight he He did tt in two short, sharp sen> moved on Broadway, Lexington avenue, nutes betor It loft tressed Man, ud been promise At laet Cot. tences—just thirty-one words in all. | Fourth avenue, or on the Twenty-third om om res wien dive | Baers ela we wes Tt was at the Outlook office that it oc- ‘ang Thirty-fourth street crosstown Ines, or f erseen ler ool aK, atity em- curred, and here is the tale: It was caused by the bu lar trate in the affected | O8 finely ene Mrs. Coffyn wtaoped the litte fetlew In The World of to-day Mr. Stimson |a high tension cable at Lexingt might not be obatractad areat length, (Up in all Kinds of warm clothing end Is reported to have patted his pocket {nue and Thirty-fourth street Pa “and tens Wore Alled with pase |Wo & Vannest ¢ rai 1 bound oe lege and feet and raid that within it he hada letter! moment thia cable wax deol s ' wero: Halided Hae thehy veel tate setts Oe Bid avas A pole of goggles wae from the Colonel, recetved Wednesday he city’s main arteries of travel |) otNar linea: wands uae he nee : 0 ta. iathenat ntect his epee morning, in which the Colonel congratu- a standett!! ston awgaln on baokyard fences seated tor |and he wan wet ho seat beside Ms lated the War § yon his Chicago! several emergency crows of the street | - > -— ei oe ou eegiagtoed “g ea ttele speech, and expressed his recognition company were rushed to the y wera? “the Prevention of Cruelt Lightowt shen of hat Mr, @timson could take no other |"Allway compé busy makin) MISS M’COY WILL SAIL, Air he PUA SAUGE Oe ee preparations for the mtmrt that Mr. Jpoint and electricians got busy making . Mra. Rice's AntlNotse So: | attitude under the circumstances, te BUT NOT ON HONEYMOON. » and the law. As a las nade Buiparaete fe We sapars Feb fe) Te the character of the burn- - wrote to the Mayor Coffyn was quite unconcerned, Colonel in the letter asked Mr, Stim-| Owing to ee ith ehut off the. Mae Beene. MC Sh ha: Abnoor, wit yatance |Sho has all the confidence In the world pon not te mind what miaht appesr lal our it was Receseary 'o Siero | nuda for a long ven to desperation by thesc|! her hushe-e ond said she would the newspapers as coming from Oyster |power at once and cut away the soo-| See at gettting ae ie lan ilet he boy ridé with Gab Bay in relation to the speech, as Mr. ‘tion of damageg cable. Then the work | married possested of equally power! ing father In an asroplune as In an aato- Stimson would realize that that als0/of splicing the break wis begun, | ba yee Basin tagell tenn aly Poet eee could not be avoided under the cir} quis accident, the cause of which’, 14. apartments in the Hote! a] sights s-vantage " ticular Might of the @ay vumstances, leould not be learned, naturally made Mast ’ y ot eee Now, when the ( arrived t ‘the elty'’s homegolng a great problem. | ! t among the at the Outlook office, he was . nousands of workers depend upon one | plur of steam ending from the About this reported utterance of t more of these linus to reach thelr |" vd Mice bulldings on the lower end of the Secretary of War, and he replied | ve at the end of the day, and when | | stind. He did net go up again watt promptly and vigorously on cara on the five lines were found | | aiat uterwailing of these folino|%.% o'clock when he took @ trip alone te “Mr. Stimson never made any on | dis m o'shook whan, h statement as that credited to | — = nonaters. : : 4 ane York World to-day. | a cha Beno! there no In which e hen took up his wife for # fight itten to Mr, he ca "ex Li ow down the It was not Mrs. Coftyn's | Nery : June, 7M lie that cats—ters| first experience. aah th since I read his Chicago spe | she wed La ; of de with her Gne hour later the Col ..|| Distinguished ; ale lv nusband In Nia aeroplane. last aumaper Ajatance telephone call from Secretary’ | 35 age of 0 n, Miss I I 1 Noneaied to all other author: | Om Aususta, Ga, to Alken, (Mey BF War aiimaon in Washington, tier| Assemblage 7 nore " int vy, ot oecnene Fane a few to-tay to the Statue ef ® short edn SEE “Quality” Ads. |)" ire not dete T pinAe Gl ation, bir) [verty. elreted tt and returned, the trip out of his private om nd sald to tire | eet fal ser ing ey taking “yet assembled newspaper 1] ‘The World not only leads all other | WO ULO DIE 13) JOIN M OTHER. |; What can 1 roM tes woh ltl » “Mr, Bumson just mia up ov |] New York mewspapers tn the num- | in ; serdes | COMMON JP. Was tho passen long-distance telephone Washing-!) wor of advertisements printed, but \ af aneh ised |? third trip, Starting at 4:0 ton, He denies every word of that story |) 4154 stands FIRST in the HIGHEST- | by grieving o the dea * outa nn flytag close to the water Coftyn took Mr. published this morning about vaving te*]) Grass of advertisements —those that r att Harrison t ted Pease tes Thay , [cr m half way down to Staten Island celved a letter from me.” 1] appeal only to persons with cayital vite noon attempted , J and back y were In the alr eleven FOR PERKINS'S RIDE =|} ta invest Hs 58 , " ani difty-one seconds. Part of “YOU'LL SEE.” | HBS fe : | the time they were lost In the hase That was all there was to be said 12 Al Well eg ‘ia ne view of t on the Battery Wally about that matter and the Colonel went sa > and tant coal, ct | DOWNTOWN GOT MORE THRILL on to other things, He said he did not!| World “Real Estate,” “Busin tna ObeEnte THAN IT LOOKED FOR, expect to see any one to-day, he had no|| portunities” and = “Financial ! ‘ome aay that it fe the Cott x arinted fast month y | ‘The fact that Coftyn was to make @ appointments and he Intended to be very || were printe tt how! and not t | trip soon after noon had been adverttaed busy over his editorial work, Of the| ve Sthaie” Wa “hlat | Pasteretubedar bernie ptan fi” Paul Revere ride of George W. Perkins|| 485 More than the Herald tar the aneot Bu he. tone of thoubas ‘lerke and to Sagamore Hill, he again refused to| me t . t ux remember ther i Pay . t aprotic Give your advertisement a circula was} male of the spec: ‘s mor the: ® r speak ‘further than'to utter this oryptic)| | onl ‘New York City greater than | ) ‘| than the male.” Very truly yours, | offices tnetead of taking luneh, i esatencas FA the Herald, Times, Sun, Tribune and sa “and | W. 5, GAYNOR.” | expected to #ee a sensational Mahe Sutil You wil! see about that.” Then he, | the Hee, Te ay having it prints |, Ls e floor. Dr, hon acchenaimeatisnes Coffyn gave them more of 4 treat wusbed as If hie words were Alted with |} Press CO! ; dives now! door, attended him | Wren you dont advertise nobody | they had. spisipated. ss meaning. ) ambulance from ‘04 will kgow that you are Hotog busie| Coftyn nie Qaadiat and jookli i( ND. "Ss ed wl he er a pf +. a Lad oe ns || NEXT S JAY'S WORLD line saad “Phe wiamach pump | Neh a it won't be before ten mi (Continued on Genend Pogo) was applied ead Lytle will recover, — }you will set know ft Blew TIEUP STALLS THOUSANGS ON FIVE MAN CAR LNES ‘Burned-Out Feed ous Stops Traffic for Hours Over Broadway. Lexington and Fourth Avenues and Twenty-third and Thirty- 94 PAGES . WEATHER—Ratn to-night) clearing Sateraan PRICE ONE CENT. a YEAR-OLD FLES WITH COFFYN AFTER HE THRILLS BROADWAY Airman’s Young Son Cries for Chance to Go Up After Mother and Deputy Dock Commissioner Take Trips Over Bay. WALL STREET SUSPENDS BUSINESS TO WATCH H™. Daring Birdman Swoops Past Sky- scraper Windows and Plays Leap Frog on Hudson River. In a series of five spectacular flights over the Bay and Lower Man- hattan this afternoon, Frank Coffyn thrilted thousands in the Wall Street district and Battery Park. In his first flight he flirted with the tops of skyscrapers atid whizzed dowh ‘Broadway from Trinity Church to the Battery. Later in the afternoon he took up his seven-year-old son, Kingsley, for a trip over the Bay. The lad was never in a flight before and holds the record for being the youngest aeroplane sky voyager ig history. —— TOYOWL AND FIGHT, THE MAYOR WRITES other parsenger who enjoyed the @en- sation of a swift swoop over the Gay during the afternoon was Deputy Deck Commissioner Cresson, The Might of youns Kingsley Coffyn and his father aroused the greatest interes’ among the crowds in Bettery Park. The little fellow was ies Rear he float when his father after what he had decided would be the last ight of the afternoon, KINGSLEY CRIED FOR PROMISED rae