The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1912, Page 1

BEATEN y Unsettied, EDITION. — ee ¥ <a The “ Circulation Books Open to All.” Y CRI i ws guia ME. SAYS ROOSEVEL Grand Jury Hears Schift’s Own Story of B PRICE ONE CENT. 19) The’ New Work Wer NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, CUSTOM TAILORS’ STRIKE IS LIKELY 10 STOP GREAT PARADE CF EASTER GOWNS MORTIMER L. SCHIFF CALLED BY GRAND JURY IN THE BRANDT CASE Seven Thousand Workers to Meet at Carnegie Hall To-Night to Take Vote. EMPLOYERS ARE FIRM. Trouble Grows Out of Al- leged Attempt to Restore Old Piecework System. There 1s likely to be a serious rift in the Easter parade hereabouts a week ftom Sunday if the 7,000 custom tailors employed by the ® members of the} Ladies’ Tailors and Dressmakers’ So ety carry out their threat to strike to- morrow. Officers of the union declared tO-day the strike was practicaliy certain, and that it only remained to take a vote to-night in the mass meeting to oe held in Carnegie Hall. If the 7,000 taflors lay down their Needles it will mean, they say, the walk- ing out of 9,00 employees, members of allied unions, and it will also mean *omplete cessation of work on thousands of giddy Kaster gowns now in the Process of mak! ‘The motive for the strike is the action of the firm of Stein & Blaine, dress- makers at No. 10 West Thirty-aixth street, in restoring the old plecework system in the midst of the Easter rush. The union tailors declare the 200 mem- bers of the employers’ organtzation signed an agreement last September fixing a minimum wage scale of $24 for & fifty-hour week and abolishing piec All of the Stein & Blaine tatlors walked out and notified the officers of | the union, In their turn the officers of the union notifed tho officers of the ployers' society that Stein & Blaine Id have to be expelled from the society or a general strike would be! called. | EMPLOYERS’ ORGANIZATION IG-; NORES THE DEMAND. | ‘The %0 members of the society flatly Fetuse to expel Stein & Blaine, Walict H. Bartholomew, secretary of the s0-| @lety, sald to-day at his office, No. 366 Firth avenue, the demands of the unton| mrquld be ignored. “We knew this trouble was coming,” a i TY My NG 1 3 Latina ie nd LEXINGTON AVENUE CAVES INAT BLAST “IN NEW SUBHAY Car track Support Gives Way, Gas and Water Mains Burst Near Eighty-seventh Street. said, “and we have been preparing| A heavy blast tn the lower stratum €or it. We made our plans two months|of rock «being excavated for the @g0 and we refuse to be intimidated.” | igighty-seventh street station of Samuel Roseman, walking delegate! new Lexington avenue subway for the union, says the union is well) ageq all the under-pinning of the prepared for a strike and that there |s me likelihood of a backdown, The tail- ere are assured, he declared, of the sympathy of the aMllated National Gar- ment Workers" (Union, which has a street this afternoon and caused a cave- in for 10 feet along Lexington avenue above Fighty-seventh street. The street and the supporting girders membership of 20,000. and cribs that svstained the © street Pickets of the union were busy to-day |aropped down almost instantly, after in front of the Btein & Blaine estaulish- line muftied boom of the blast. A few Y person going lishment, not ex-| sowned women ely automobiles. ment. They stopped ev in or out of the esta cepting the beautify who drove up in Several women were so frist the excited janguage and the pickets that they fled back to thefr @utomobiles and d way. The sir ast § | by the Board of Arb on, consisting of Louis Brandies, Morris Hilquit 1| Hamilton Ilolt, but the officers of the unfon stated y they would not Iis- seconds afterwaml gas mains and water to give way the n and crack loosened presiure of and rock, of steel tan was settled {tudinal section > windows were > was no evidence with- ort of lateral jar from ten to any interference that upheld the| the blast. Aenployers in roecatal 3 the plece-| The worst temporary feature of the system, cave-in was the toppling down of the » Hall mass meeting to-| supports for the Lexington avenue car ldressed by Abraham| tracks for a distance of 150 feet, As of the union,|the piles of timber supporting the gir- lawyer, and Miss Leo- ders that sustained the fe down, eld ar tracks were girders let ks sagged, but were own many 4 up ced out of po The car tra bre from FALLS BEFORE “L” TRAIN, | Motorman Stoys 11 time and Ore ave ¢ ation is forty ain 80 hee te Droge Belzed with a rg spell, {the point where the t ff Ignate 0 he hemist of|The gang of men working in the ex No. 1 id ‘Thirty | cavalo all climbed out safely third ® from (ie platform |and am ning was given to pedes- of the at One Hundred and | tans. » Was no eat shock or Thirty et and Third avenue|alarming roar, Only a rumbling Jar during the rush hour to-day and was|and then a erash as the street fell in rescued in front of an approaching |and the girders and beams piled down tralo. nto the confusion below, The train was about 29 yards away| ‘Then followed the noise of rushing as the water main cracked, and an overpowering smell of gas. Repair men from the ga company wero soon when the man fell, and the motorman had plenty of time to stop. Two young men leaped down to the tracks and lift. at SCHIFF AT LAST TELLS GRAND JURY | STORY OF BRANDT District-Attorney Is Present and Cross-Examines the Financier. p | CAN'T INDICT HIM NOW. | | No Possibility of Finding True | Bills Against Alleged Con- spirators in Case. Mortimer L. Schiff, at the invitation of the Grand Jury, appeared before that body this afternoon, and related his ver- sion of what happened when he found | Foulke Brandt, his discharged second man, in his house, and what legal pro- | ceedings were subsequently taken, with | the result that Brandt was sent to| prison for thirty years. | , District-Attorney Whitman was in the | Grand Jury room during the ime Mr. Schiff was giving his testimony, and sub- Jected him to a cross examination with the object of bringing out some points that have not been cleared up by the evidence of previous witnesses. By his appearance to-day Mr, Schiff earned immunity from prosecution should indictments Krow out of the Brandt in-| vestigation, However, there does not | appear to be any possibility of indict- ments, as a sufficient number of Grand |Jurors to establish an indictment le-| | wally cannot apparently be mustered by | the District-Attorney. | In the face of the advice of Judge | Crain that to allow Mr. Schiff to appear | efore the Grand Jury would establish | mmunity for him, el voted yesterday to invite him to| appear. It is considered a reasonable | supposition that none of these eleven | ufficient evidence has been pro- y Mr. Whitman to warrant in- s for conspiracy to “railroad” | Brandt to prison. Mr. Schiff appeared at the Criminal! Courts Building tis afternoon jn the} same automobile that brought his wife downtown on her visit to the Grand Jury yesterday. He was accompan | by his counsel, Paul Cravath, and be fore going into the Grand Jury “room was closeted for a brie! time wifh the District-Aitorney. Mr. Whitman ac companied him when he went before the Grand Jury. Mr. Schiff carried a portfolio full of pape’ With these papers were the letters seized by private detectives in Brandt's room after his arrest. i There was nothing of moment new to| the public in Mr. Schiff's recital to the Grand Jury. He has presented his side the case fully through the press on several occasions. Mr. Schiff was before the Grand Jury two-hours and ten minutes. Much of this time was taken up by the Dis- trict-Attorney in his cross-examina- tion, ——_ | TAFT WINS IN COLORADO; | GETS EIGHT DELEGATES.’ | Roosevelt Men Make a Fuss mt} State’ Convention, but Are | Swamped and Cool Down, COLORADK Mareh ~The to the State Republican Cunvention forced th doors of the*conveniion hail shortly af- ter 10 o'clock and selected seats direct- ly In front of the platform, With this vantage they planned carry their fight through the convention, support- Ing Phillip Stewart of Colorado Springs for temporary chairman, presenting the names of Phillip tewart and Joseph Ewing of Weld County for delegates- large and offering a resolution in- rsing Roosevelt en of the mem- Col., Rooievel* tes o | In the first test vot temporar: | chat n the stood for Later develop will be no cont t t Na | ] n from Color | | This was determin 1 “hormony | |programme’™ accepted sae leil factions during the It | provided that the ¢ ‘ulorado dele: | gates be instructed for Taft. The] Roosevelt men arranged to present a| minority report on resolutions’ declaring | for Roosevelt, This, it was certain, | | would be averwhelmed. After this pro- the Roosevelt men agreed to re t ed the unconscious man to the plat-|on the job to turn off the flow, Reserves n the convention and not bo’ form. An ambulance was called, but| from the East Elghty-elghth stroct sta. | ain 1" the conventio DOL, beth cher had been restored to| tion were called to form lines about the World Bullding Tarkish Bat ess he insisted on being tak-/cave-in and keep the curious trom pen, Hath with peivace one to a home, tumbling in, eS Bae New acre fe at j s : 4 r % 1912. 20 P randt Burglary orld, |F Circulation Books Open to All.’"'|_ WEATHOR=Kate | EDITION. tled. j-night; Tharsday Une ae AGES. PRICE ONE CENT. HERE’S HOW TO BOIL AN EGG A LA GAYNOR + First Get It Fresh—If You Can—and Then Be Care- ful Not to Shock It by Putting It Into Boiling Water, Mayor Says in Deciding Question He Raised in Talk to Girl Graduates. Several weeks ago Mayor Gay- nor, in a talk to achool girt grad- Started the egg-boiling question. The Evening World of- Jered a prize of a dozen fresh eggs to the reader who gave the the question: “What is the best way to boil an egg?” The Mayor has not yet selected the prize winner, but uates, best answer to Here's what Mayor Gaynor had to say to-day! A ND so I am to decide this great egg question-— How to cook an egg and how long to cook an egg? First you must get the egg—a fresh egg. But where are you going to get it? That is the most difff- cult part of the question. It 1s a hard job. I give that part of it up. Call in some one else to decide that. Consult the hens. Hens sing in the laying season, which some people seem to doubt. If you can get the egg while the hen is singing you will be sure it is fresh. And then about cooking it. I see you havo brought it down simply to a question of boiling it. How to boil it? I decide that you can only boil {t I boiling water. And how long? Why, that is easy to decide—as long as you like, If you want it as hard as a bullet, boil it 30 minutes. If you want it nice and soft—as soft the the pates of some people—you can only boll it a Mttle while, On that head I decide in favor of the little girl who answered my quesilon in the school. She said that It would take six minutes—by which she meant that from the time she went to get the egg until sho took it out of; the pan cooked six minutes would elapse. She was entirely right. And I suppose she also meant that you would put the egg in the water before the water boiled, and let the water heat and begin to boil with the egg in it. I decide that she was right in that also. If you let the water boil, and then throw the egy in, the shock 1s too great for the egg. You see I know a good deal about eggs and cooking eggs. I am just the right one to decide this egg question. Teacher! LKNOW! i. ee HIGH COST OF LIVING MEANT STARVATION OR SENATE 38103, APPROVESBIL PSH SUBWAYS at Profit Right at Home, Driven to Suicide, DEATH TO CITY FARMER. Williams, Unable to Sell Products The people of New York are indebted JURY COMES TO AID OF WOMAN SLAYER HELPING HER CAS Demands Answers to Ques- tions of Mrs. Nicodemus’s At- torney, Which Court Barred. JUDGE FINALLY YIELDS. Technical Objections of Prose- cuting Attcrney Over-Ruled at Jurors’ Demand. The jurors in the trial of Mra. Genevieve Nicodemus, the frail, blue- eyed Scotch girl, who ts accused of murdering her husband last October, took a hand in the proceedings to-day, and, through a spokesman, Thomas B. Douglas, demanded that Assistant Di trict-Attorney Moss withdraw obj. tions he had made to certain testimony and that Judge Rosalsky permit the evidence to be given, whether or no. John Toale, bookkeeper for James '. Harris & Co., where Nicodemus worked, wa ked by Lawyer Abraham Levy whother he did not receive several letiers last summer from Nicodemus, who was in Lackaw@ten at the time, in which Mra. Nicodemus, Waa. sjightingly spoken of. Every que.tion Mr, Levy asked tending to show that Mra, Nicodemus had been driven to distraction by her husband's treatment was blocked by Mr. Mo: ob. Jections. JURORS RISE AND DECLARE THEY WANT TO HEAR ALL. The Court asked Mr. Levy to state the Purpose of the evidence. Mr. Levy sald he could not well do #0 in the presen of the fi.y. There was a whispered conference over the desk between Judge, Prosecutor and counsel, At the end of ft, Judge Rosaleky sustained Mr. Moss again. Three jurors, Mr. Dou Potts, of No, 1987 Madison avenue, and George W. Doriand, of No, 323 Kdge- combe avenue, rose from their seats. 4 trying this woman,” sald ‘for her life. We want to about the circumstances of the shooting of this man and those which led up to It. We feel we are o titled to all the information the defen has in its possession.” “Under the law," said Judge Rosalsky, ‘Mr. Mose is right in his objectiot ‘The testimony asked for is outside the rules of evidence.” “Yes,” said Mr. Moss, “I do not feel it right that matter should be intro- duced illegally here which might fect the jury's judgment.” JURY'S DEMAND FOR ALL EVI. DENCE WINS COURT'S CONSENT. “We are twelve men sworn to obey the instructions of the Court, Mr. Mo: said Mr. Douglas, with some appearance of anger. “We believe ourselves capable lof eluninating fram the evidence any- thing the court tells us to disregard, But we feel we are entitled to a full Henry G. to Charles ¥, Williams of Glendale, 1..|knowledge of the fact L, for a lesson in problem of the] Mr, Moss, consideri flustered, ex- ugh cost of I Willams killed plained he did not ubt the good falth \ ) . jac, | Mimseit to-day because he was unable|of the jury, but he feared they might Vagnet Measure Approved, | roe wing pricw for the produce ef [ae swas'ed, unconaciously by amypathy Wm ait Ea hie bat eaeden Mr. Douglas stayed on his until Gives City Power to Act Ne TOBTRAK BATSAI: \Sudge Hosalsky announced he would let His Uttle farm, highly cultivated, 18|\)" the evidence and later instruct the or ar within the city limits in the Borough sar es y ‘ for Rapid Transit. S jury how far to be gulded by tt. iP of Queens. His widow says that hel oale then testified that before Nico- ried in vain to make tt pay. For the/gemus married Genevieve Somervil it year he had steadily fallen behind. expenses we and he ALBANY, March 21.—Under an emorg- ency message from Gov. Dix Sen- ate to-day, by @ vote of 83 to 3 passed ation, the Wagn bill designed to empower » greater than his ri »ded over the oon- the the New York City authorities to carry | accustomed to tell his wife, “they com-| uous terms Nicodemus used wbout his out t plans for the consummation Plain because they have to pay tool wife after thelr marriage, indicating he| of a rapid transit system with the ¢ uch for vegetables and garden truck, | despised her for allowing him to make operation of the Interborough and|And I can't get enough for mine to! his boast good, Nicodemus told T lyn Rapld Transit mn, you and me »mfort."” | rding to the testimony, that he i amsenda tis 4 The problem was too much for Will-| meant to divorce hin wife and marry a yas toma am: During the absence of hie wife | girl sd met at Lackawaxen nee of either of (WIth a carvin fe Was dea ‘ed Senate "we was tra) CHILD IS KILLED BY TRUCK. Right over in New York,” he was he boasted he did not mean to keep house and that he could make her do anything he pleased, even to the point of going on the streets to earn money for him. He told of low and contempt- ay 1,000 PUPILS ESCAPE ereasenrsiits, PALIN: Jp 7 s Did Not See Team, ar FIRE IN HIGH SCHOOL. See Neaeae ame time as ‘Allen street did not see a heavy truck the h will be in forty.) BUFFALO, March 2%—The Masten | given bs bearing down on nine | Park High Sch ree wading | iim. whi AP the trast in {gh schools ¢ as destroyed | front of hi this afternoon, ‘ fire shortly after 1 o'clock to-day.) pogh tied to check his team in time, Senptor |The flre was caused by an explosion of jie the truck ran over the child and : Who has been ill chemicals in the laboratory on thelyiies him. ‘The truck i, owned by ated gall fourth floor, The school alarm was im- | Nichol & Gross, ¢ trouble, was much wor after a restless night, IHis case #0 far has failed to yield to treatment and his condition this afternoon 1s regarded as precarious, to-day perfect order. the pupils, me@iately sounded, and the boys and girls, numbering over 1,000, filed out tn As the last of the line! was leaving felling ‘vricks hit several of | Wensel, teamsters, at Forty-fifth atreet and Tenth avenue, Soe wets COLONIST RATED, FOULWORK! FARCE! CRIMINAL PRIMARIES COL ROOSEVELT CRES =~ iMethods “More Outrageous _ Than Tammany’s Worst” Used by Bosses in Reversing the Majority, He Tells Indianans. “NO REAL VOTE OF PARTY THROUGHOUT THE STATE.” Duell Wires to Dix Demand for New Primaries, Denouncing Alleged Fraud FORT WAYNE. Ind., March 27.—Thoroughly aroused by thé out- come of the primaries in New York yesterday, in which the Roosevelt forces were defeated, Col. Roosevelt declared to-day that the whole proceeding was a farce. He gave out this statement: “In Wow York State, as a whole, there was no real vote of the Repub- Mean party whate Outside of New York City the primary law ie a farce. Inside of New York City it has been shows to be a criminal farce. “Bven as it is, one-fourth of the delegates are straight-out Roosevelt men and of the remaining three-fourths, the great majority of those elected from Mew York City have no more claim to sit in # Republican | Convention than if they were sent to it by Tammany Mall, for they were @lected by methods more outrageous than the worst methods that Tam- many Mall itself ever employed in an election, PVENARNGINE (ES INBROADWAY GETS BST OF FIREMEN represent the Republican party and why no action of theirs should be accepted as representative of or binding on the 5-Story Building in Wholesale District Destroyed; Adjoin- ing Skyscrapers Damaged. Republican party.” “It will be a fighting speech,” Cel, Roosevelt added. “FOUL MEANS” REVERSED NEW YORK MAJORITY. In speeches at Lima and this city the Colonel referred to the situation in In- diana as follows “I wish the peopl to decide for them- solves. If in such contests as this in Indiana they are against me all right. But if they are for me, I object to the bosses taking them away. If on a fair vote thy go against me, all right. But if they are for me and the bosses make the contests go against me, I shall have ag “In Mew York the bosses 44 Practically the same thing as in Indiana. By foul means turned @ majority for Fire in the five-story butlding at No. 6% Broadway, adjoining the Cable Bullding, which started at 12.53 o'clock thia morning, ot away from Fire Chief Kenton in an amazing fashion, and by 4 o'clock had wiped out the structure in which it started, communicated to two other bulidings and destroyed more than $250,000 worth of property, according to the estimate of Insurance adjusters. | Chief Kenlon estimated the damage at] $150,000. Chief Kanon underestimated the dan- wer of the fire at the start, sending ROOSEVELT BOOMERS | CALL ON GOVERNOR TO wate wer No. 2 bac! o Thir- ‘4 ; “4M wenth est vaarirr atop ecanui| ONDER NEW PRIMARIES, wu y of the smudgy blaze In the third ————— floor of the“bullding., A Iittle later he ae rman Duell of the Roosevelt Com: was making frantic efforts to get the |) “sent & long telegram to Gov, Dix water tower again and was sending in Moon calling his attention to ditional alarm after alarm, the fifth |” feet denouncing the 104 4s fraudutent and farcical aad and last bringing under hi nand eas 1© Governor to take prompt every plece of working apparatus be ‘ “Copy % to set aside the whole \- Fie : Maiden Lane and Tweaty-niuth |ceoding and provide for another pruned eet, e The telogram wa ely | The fifth alarm was not sent tn un-| ernor while he dey igserm ti! 2.60, almost (wo hours af Chief ence with Senate Leader Wiecss i cenion's val. After dismissing water legislators discussing the prima [tower No, 2 and announcing that he|trom reports in the newspapers 7 the fire with a few en- A ‘ the fre with a few ene Judge J his assoctates in the ) Tapparatiin (ace : tim that while . ’ wis va to deliver any | Feu een slection districts | ince the Raul jand a ta others should dis. : . ath fot al 1 ary alone they have stirred ; t ra 4 1 Hen fraud to Warrant t banned = M Roosevelt lead | was d 4 rans | iy Were beaten in district fghes ie Sleteee nerwot ana iy [are clamoring for vn in the criminal }o. nufacturing con- teriagaeed ed ju between two|P2EMAND' ORDER FOR NEW Sh vansatnest (bus | PRIMARIES FRCM GOV, DIX, Patrolman Mannix of the MacDougal| The ram Was as follows: street station di awe by rh pers of this morning, the glare in the th we, Fla} wit d to party or political alarm brought Ch engine| affiliation, declare that yesterda, companies Nos. 1 $3 und 9, trucks exed primary clection In this elty Nos. % and 9 tower No, 2] and throughout the State was @ from Thirteenth When Kenton arrived he had to reet, rel al { breakdown of tho elect law, Great numbers of voters w deprived of the opportunity of ca: ing their ballots, Toe offlvial bale (Coptinued on Fourth Page.)