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

THOUSANDS IN FLIGHT FROM FI,OOD; 21 LIVES LOST ‘WEATHER—Fair to-night and Saturday. — EDITION. a She : Circulation Books Open to All," OF at Aaa Raa ONE OENT. FLOOD CRIS AT MEN Conroy: RE a, Tas, Publishing Nad. HIS: ARMY OF MEN WORK 10 SAVE CITY FACING DEATH PERIL Levees Fast Weakening and Mississippi Waters Topping Big St. Francis Barrier. to Trees and Housetops— Twenty-one Lives Lest. 5. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April the levees about the city weakening and this morning, it seemed that The river registered 44.2 Francis levee li that i the top of the dikes, another @even thousand persons Shout Memph! trem the St. Francis Basin. Being utilised in savin prty. Gasoline launch from Charleston, Mo., tenths since 7 o'clock last night. thousands encouraging to even more serious flood situ lower valley than existed number of alarming rumors of s¢ Onaste: Cairo from, the Ohio Rive and that the clty was doomed, her obs: United States w who apis no serious danger was appre:/ the excavation knew the idenilty of the wins “orest of the flood will not be! ble to find out who he was. eached in the St, Louts-Memphis > diretch of the Missiswipp! tor a day or AVALANCHE KILLS EIGHT two, and even in the event of continuous | {alr weather the tmmense volume of ON MOUNTAIN TOUR, DESOLATION IN HICKMAN Mictims at Many Places Cling ‘Mem- phis to-day expected the worst. With rapjidly showing signs of breaking under the great crush of water from the Mississippi last night and a further rise of nearly a foot the dikes might let go at any moment .on the gauge early to-day and engineers have predicted that the great St. well as those pro- testing the city would certainly break, At 44 feet. Great gangs of workmen were ¢o-day rushed to every point the levee where crevices ap-| peared, ind a desperate fight to save portion of the city subject to a! and the surrounding country and a heroic effort is being made overfiow with sand bags Praacis Levee Board to-day warning to the people lowlands. President Killough “Phe danger now is great. An cast ‘wind would cause a catastrophe. It is 6 homeless 1,000 others are Neeing The Government dredge fleet here is 'fe and prop- were sent out to Bird's Mill an@ Wyatt to rescue residents of the @wo villages, who are reported clinging In answer te an appeal from Randolph, Tenn., a aqiad of militiamen left Memphis this @erning with tents and supplies for we@ugees, At Memplis to-day the river gtage was 4.2 fect, a riso of four- ‘Phe Goath list throughout the flood e. & fam- Cow days. ‘NEW FLOOD WARNINGS START of hel water refugees In towns along the Mississippi, nevertheless indications con-| noon, To-day was marked by the usual , many proving erroneous upon a A investigation, The backwater from irainage panp at Cairo, M1, led to thi report that the levee waleh prot had broken Aprompt demal of this report was made by the ver at Cale BOY TUMBLES INTO SEWER AND ——_DIESINRIVE Under Street and Carried Off by Tide. FALLS WHILE AT PLAY, Companions Rush to East River Outlet With Boot- hooks in Effort to Save. By tumbling {nto a atreet excavation opposite No. Seventy-fourth street this afternoon @ boy “of abont ten years of age plunged into the un- overed sower twelve fect below and Was swept out into the Hast River, three blocks away, where the body sank and was whirled south with the Was started. ee eto tite ater topping e Francis 3 gat at sae Of pointe, the Leves| For a distance of almost fifty feet oMcials announced this after-| 4 half score workmen saw the body carried in the thick, murky waters of the sewer and then vanish where the excavation ended, a hundred feet or so west of First avenue, The excavation ts the width of the Sewer main and shored up with heavy planks on each side, The top was re- moved for repairs and for a distance of fifty feet is uncovered, The shoring eae Sapessibic to predict MEMPHIS planks rise above the street level in tr- 7,900 HOMELESS | {regular palings for the purpose of fenc- SUBUR ing the excavation and preventing un- wary pedestrians from tumbling Sn. But there are breaks here and there in the shoring and the boys that swarm the neighborhood have persisted in wriggling through and walking along the edge of the excavation or doing balancing stunts on the tops of the Palings. ‘The victim of this afternoon's tragedy was doing one of thes lancing stunts when he suddenly toppled over and went headlong down into the rushing water below, TIDE SWEPT BOY TOWARD THE EAST RIVER. ‘There were no workmen hin twenty feet of where the boy splashed tn, and there was no possi!bility of saving him. The tide in the washes swiftly toward the river, the small, strug: gling body was rne along as if it had been a chip. ‘o tho who looked and were unable to act it seemed only matter of seconds before the vanished. Beveral workmen and a troop of sprinted down the st THOUSANDS IN FLIGHT. River, but tt was not lik While reports to-day from upper] went as fa was Le of river territory were, on the] whirled alon reached the pler that the sewer the thooks and yt half an hour y watehed tn valn. e made by 04 on th 1 themselves with and watched m thre but the the ners among the boys In the district were He to keep pace with the pr of the rushing waters q ide in the river was runing out at the time the boy was lost~about 215 o'clock, The strangest part of " Was that none of the boys playing a water now pouring into the Mississipp! from ita numerous tribut ) erittoally high stages at ‘points. The crest of the present flood wave tn} dur- the Ohlo is expected at Louisville ing Saturday night or Sunday, ies threatens | University Professors and Students lower river Victims of Crash on Hochstuhl in Austria. INNSBRUCK, Austria, April BA party of elght professors and students | the | ‘Those points which are being given the|from Laibach University while making geeetest attention are at @ontinugy on second Page.) wlfoot Lake|@ tour in the mountains near here were overwhelmed by an avalanche on the Hoohstuh! and all were killd, | | Youngster Swept Three Blocks , mouta of | the excavation knew the identity of the! ‘SCHOOLGIRL SHOT, ~ MORTALLY HURT BY ABOY CHUM. Sixteen - year - aa Zoe Petit Victim of a Skylark Prank in Flat. ‘AMID FOUR CHILDRE Fourteen-year-old Lad Waves! Revolver and None Knows How It Was Fired. vo Petit, a sixteen-year-old girl, who evs with her u at No, S0T West | One Hundred and Forty-eighth street, Was shot and mortally wounded this afternoon by Thornton C. Harrison, two years younger and one of her clos school friends, while the two, in com pany with two other friends, were sky- larking together in the apariment where one of the latter lives, at No, 160 Wadsworth avenue, Zoo Petit was removed to Washington Heights Hospital with a ‘bullet wound | jin her abdomen, and Coroner Hellen- | stein hurried to her bedside to obtain } fn ante-mortem statement. BOY CHUMS LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE ALONE. Phares, the son of wealthy lives with them in @ large mt on the sixth floor of the apartiven: house at No, 160 Wadsworth avenue. He had been left alone all day, his mother being In a hospital and his father having gone to his business. He invited the Harrison boy to come over and spend the day with him, They cooked their lunch alone, Yong Harrison called on Miss Petit and asked if she and a friend, Beairice Tremaine, who Hves at No. 412 Audubon avenue, would not come over to the Phares apartment and help wash the dishes. ‘The invitation was offered in a joke and accepted in the spirit of fun. ‘The two girls visited the apartment and, with aprons over thelr frocks, helped the boys Wash up their lunc things. Roy Parents, apart: Or, if h-|-i = 716,048,779 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, "APRIL 5, ex D=H- WHY SHOULD CITY BUILD SUBWAYS? == j, Why in Thunder Is a Straphanger? CITY CLUB ASKS ’EM. Mental Jiu Jitsu Problem Is Hurled Defiantly at Estimate Board. Help! Help! Now that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Public Service Commission and the legisiature and the Governor and the Mayor have appar ently straightened out the w subway extensions, butts in the City Club with a characteristic objection. The objection takes the form of twenty- five typewritten sheets filled with o most amazing collection of figures, con- clustot deductions and mathematical calculations, It {s accompanied by a letter to the Board of Watimate. This letter, rather a remarkable document in itself, reads as follows: ~ CITY CLUB HAS “EXAMINED' THEGE FIGURES. April 5, 191 The Board of Estimate and portionment, New York City: Gentlemen; We recognize and profoundly sympathize with the widespread demand for aduitional subways and for notion on tl cent: offer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, and we entertain no doubt that its prerent offer is more favorable to the city than its preceding offer. We ex- tend to the Committee on Transit of the Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment our grateful acknowl- edgment of itn distinguished and conscientious service to the city. Nevertheloss, we feel, as a result of examination of the figures fur- nished by our own Committee on | | | 1 9 1 2, | Weal thy Suffragist Leader Who Received Threat ot Death ROOSEVELT IN PERIL POWDER BLAST AS TRAIN RUSHES TO BROKEN RAILS, TARRYTOWN FRE A RAILROAD MAN, | | 6.1 P. BELMONT | | = AT THREAT NOTE MYSTERIOUSLY SENT 10 MRS.0.41.P. BELMONT Warned She Would Be Killed Upon ' Leaving Home on Failure to Send Cable to Mrs. Pankhurst. SIGNED WITH A DAGGER. MESSAGE CAUSES ALARM. Rich Suffragist Leader Calls for Police Protection and Writer Is Being Sought. Mrs. ©..H. P. Belmont, the suffragist leader, has reported to the police the receipt Of a letter threatening to kill her, Inclosed in the letter was a $10 note, with instructions that the money be spent for a lcablegram to Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst in London, undér’ pain of vens” | geance upon Mrs. Belmont to be inflicted by § | A report gained currency this afternoon that Mrs, Belment had re+ ceived through the mail a bomb similar to that which killed Grace Tay- lor and to the deadly contraption sent to Judge Otto Rosalsky. Inguiry” concerning this rumor brought out the facts above related, INURES FIVE AT wh. ATHER—Fal CINDER CAR VICTIN Then one of the party sugge-ted that} ‘Transit, that questions have bs they go to & moving pleture theatre.| raised as to the wisdom of the Harrison, as the best story the police! acceptance by the city of the In- | HOM: could obtain has it, demurred, He! terborough company's offer, and we George artin, fitiecd thought they could enjoy themselves|, transmit to the Board of Esti- | Engineer's ” sovey Saves g Detter if they remained in the apart-| mate and Apportionment the sev- | | ment and played cards, ‘To enforce his| eral reporta of our committer, in | Colonel and Party From | Deiler, and a Clerk Blown refusal to 4o tothe theatre, Harrison| the hope that careful consldera- : x A E | A = i ts said to dave gone 1 young Phares'a| tion thereof will precede fnal ac- | Possible Wreck aad lajury. Through Wall, With headed Furman in Toom and to have reappeared with a| tion, Respectfully submitted, NT are . ; me 32-callbre revolver which Phares had in| THE CITY CLUB OF NEW YORK = F Middletown, New Theories @ bureau drawer, | By CHARLES H, STRONG, RERLAND, Md. April s—An|_Handreds of people who went from py : erie ep . Vinit “Naing to teh the bi e HT ; SUDDENLY A SHOT AND GIRL President. | accident on the ratiroud over which | White Pialr Watch She) Big: Gre 8 of Crime Arise | LAY WOUNDED |. To comprehend the maps of figures | — a soaora Roosevelt travelled acrose | Tartstewe. Wileh, following a terrific | ‘rials ; Y |assembled by the City Club experts one | Col Theodor mr Ae eet fe om | exp! n, burned out the Webber Bulld- | See vhether Harriton pointed the res/mugt he an expert, indeed. Certainly |the eastern end of West Virginia Iaaty ioe oy the oreabge ee volver directly at Mixs Petit or there}no ordinary citizen could gain any | night held up his train two t ra led Depot wauare and injured Ave| rApectal from # Rtatt Correqnondent € The re wan a scuttle anions the boss to kuin | knowledge. of the subject from them, |a stretch of two miles aii night becuune the trolley service had] MIDDLETOWS:, %. Y., April §.—-With pootesele OF A ee nF in the ac-lthough he might, by exercise ed the |torn up. The aceldent to be stopped the assurance to-day that the victim of Soe Genes hs eae eaolanon Heol determination, wade through | ierore the Colonel's train pased aver| ‘The fire started in the oll room of the| inis city's puxaling cinder car murder and Miss Petit fell with a dark stain ES THE BIG HURDLE FOR| this section which was dangerously | hardware wove of Marty Ring @ Co! saystery was a man, the jecivei tie | widening on the front of her dress, | weakened, j ese pees cope H making rapid progress in plecing to- he ciber children acreared’ and MENTAL JUMPERS, | The engineer of Col. 1 ee cere ate ane toll gether w lot of information tending to ran from the apartment to summon |, Few there are who could get past) 0 ie stopned at a wat pave before the flames reached) show how the crime was committed ° ap nt to on | 14 ; es when he stopped : ha tamale? ald, Dr, Knowles, who lives on the |e tolowing calculation which appears | n for the tangled | first floor of the apartment house, re- | sponded, He found that the girl had a wound in the abdomen and that the bullet in lt* course had clipped oft! tip of a finger on her right hand. | to be Uying t ambulance from) Wasiingion Heigh Hospital took the wounded girl there and she was immediately put on the operating table, The police of the West One Hyndred «i Fifty-second street station are ‘rested Harrison Her Bye. 19 West fsing Le avenue and ‘Twenty- elgith y) When a floriat's wagon Maxlio of No, aAN Kighth truck her, 3! was down and severely kicked by the horse about the face. An ambu- lanco surgeon from Harlem Hospital | found that one of her eyes had been ed and she was in @ critical | April 6.—Capt. Thomas U.S. N, (retired), died suid here last night, He was chlef engineer of the battleship Brook- Iyn during the battle of Santiago, Capt. | Carter was sixty y PORT OF ARKIY Aloiranté Bl su Aidan. "RR i Galveston - Barbadoes | Total mileage of new system. , | bility on page 6: TramMc carried by the present feeders = a Miles of alngle track present feeders Miles of single tr new #y i Total mii a mt ars system. eel =h .- BI% | a i f the summnar port, Inasmuch i tx worough and the Horvloe Commisslon will probably shoot the conclusions of the City Club exp full of he the summary Is hereby brie summarized HERE ARE SOME THAT AREN'T ALGEBRAIC. Firetiy—That to pay interest and sinking fund on the city's investinent the Interborough will have to pack its | trains more compactly than they are | ked to-day. Becondly~That third tracking the sy: tems and building the Broadway B, ft will attract to the en system only 250,000,000 ra the firat year and not 415,000,000, “Thirdiy—The elty will in ail. proba- have annually recurring deficits which may range from $20,000,000 to 960,- 000,000 in total, or, {f conclusion No, 2 1s wrong, down to a total of 96,000,000, | Fourthly—The “levelling of leases” for the Interborough will gain for the In- terborough from $85,000,000 to ne re under the contract if the leases were met ‘ of Clark: w. Va., th loovoned rail#, Investigation showed | te side of the building and more than that one of the driving wheels of a‘ Me ioe pats Meriins jacomaty 1 1 ° mustache were burne freight locomotive had Toft the ra ante eee tee town Hospital wie befure t ngineer «i red had feared ive will lose hts eyesight, Pare gone for two miles on the ground out-| pe) had his shoes torn off and was bad- side the rails, The wheels had clipped ly cut and bruised off the heads of spikes, holding the ralls.| Miss Emma Martin, who acted a Novwithstanding the train’ delay a | 000Kkeeper to her father and was in real ce aaentiiaane the office, Was severely cut about the = hee face and arms and slightly burned. mlmagee GF the fopiiee Ere Mrs. Amon Gregory of Beekman ave-| ger, W. Va. The Colonel 9 nue, Who Was passing, Was caught tn that after @ brief speech nook HANGS | the dovris of the flying wall and was with the crowd, At berlana he! ten to the hospital seriously brulsed, stopped to tell his | progremsives | put wos able later to go home, nt rowd © an fhe explosion blew out entire | § MARTINSBUL April 5,— | aide of th on Depot aquar Col Theodore R ap hie | and Me Ma pinned under th “ algn tou! ucky and| Me * dragwed out uncon Mit, ad al thou sand people in the public nquare here to-day and started for exo to take up the campaign there before th Ninos primaries In his speech here Mr. Roorevel dwelt principally upon to conditions. He urged his su see that the county | here to-morrow ; Papi vite lat hets Immediately MILWAUKE Wis, April 5, after nis address for Cumbertand plete anoffclal returns of Tues LOOKS LIKE A BRILLIANT EASTER, Men will be better dressed tha: housanda of them political ©, Martin and Parnetl were blown through n Kgan and Ackeriey, | bild, who drove up in| took the hardware Gregory to the hos- autor e and Mrs. el —-——— | ‘WILSON GETS 21; CLARK 4 | OF WISCONSIN DELEGATES| f with one one uninstructed '. | $12Men 'sSuits&Topcoats, $5.95 ) “UB” Clothing Corner, Broad- cor ay Bt. opp. Pant-Office, | well today a Saturday 3,000 ie 9 peoats. in fn peg, © browns Jone that have sprung brothers of the eters charge them as a result of thelr nts. Silent, morose people in the presence ff strangers, the Furmans had few! if avy friends tn this cliy with the ex ception of Bella Shaw and Bertha Mteele, their next-door neighbors, who | opt a boarding house for railroad work men, There was a family squabble ral months agu and Josep Purm jeft his mother’s house and at Mrs ale's Invitation went to her house ¢ live, Loquacious ax Joseph and Bugene Furman wer each when Eugen other not @ word will they spe thelr affairs now that Theo He wasn't murdered, therefore they are not murderers, and will the police please leave th own business? now. ‘The women known to ot flton alaters, are as litt | talk to the police as the Furma: One difficulty la identifying th ig that for #iX months or more @ large i part of the has been trans! employed by been employ: signal syate and Wester: been known number, T’ tas irregula Pa a with killing eo was conte va reodore, and! wlone and attend to their That ts their attitu 1 Next door, who have been her neighbors as the Ham- inclined to mains | population of Middletown nt. Thousands of men rallr contractors have ‘ed on a new awitching and m inatatied In the Ontario » yards. These men have to their employers only by y have gone to work and rly und there tg no way of ay 3 of them. fed to-day that the re- fomam PRICE ONS OBNT. ie to-night ana Saterday’ rhe sign of the dagger,” The letter was delivertd at mont's home, No. 477 last Tuesday, Tt was Inclosed in threg, | envelopes and on each envelope was 4 typowritten “address. The auter enves jope was long and of heavy paper, The inelosed eny * Mra. Belmont opened the first enevelope with- h jout hesitation. On the next envelops e found a typewritten iptune. Jing about am follows: SENDER INSISTED UPON AD: ORESSEE OPENING LETTER. “This must be opened by Mrs, 0. H, Py Helmont tn person, Any employee open- Jnw It im labie to dismissal, It ie etrletly personal,” The suffragist leader was not precipt- tate about opening the second envelope, vk her time and opened it cares fully, to find within another envelope, addressed to her and sealed: Touch and sight indicated that the Inner envelope contained only a sheet of paper, and it was accordingly opened. Out fell a new 30 note, a types written letter addressed to Mra, Jal mont and a blank for a cable message. The letter Was written by one whe is farnillar with grammation! forme, In vffect, ivived Mes, Belment to redouble her efforts in behalf of aufe frage for wo and to send the Ime y forthwith to Mes, Pambe care of the pote ef Lor 4 | THREAT OF THE DAGGE® IN. STEAD OF SIGNATURE, stated that are not carried hursi out the wign of dagger wilt be ens forced.” A 1 of the missive and’ in place the signature wae Hawn aw pleture of er, r ty » csenigin wave Mrs, some concern She consulted friends who advised her that the Diy written by a crami: erous, despite the accompanied the bli cvestion of some ef wer ( friends, Mes Belmont gabe dt s letter to the pollee, Detec= tives lave been assigned to look after ver When She leay home in ¢he Nope that the person whe sent the Bete ter may reveal his or her identity, Enclosed w h the cable blank and ¢he $10 was & copy of the cablegram te be sent to Mrs. Pankhurat: It reads; Easter greetings. A great financier in whom I have the greatest come fidence assures me that practioal seasures are considered by . financ clery that promise bete Inedfictent herolem of a bat China MRS, BELMONT. WARNED DEATH WOULD Fok. LOW FAILURE TO OBE ‘Tho following paragraph in the lesteg” was what 4 Mrs. Belmont (y eel eo the assistance of the police: ‘ Tn entrusting this message one not e mouber it carries ¥ ay