The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1912, Page 2

Game penaity as though you “Were & member. If you fail to @ut your Instructions in this it means your death. You re killed as you come from fer instructed Mra! Belmont @Ut coptes of the cablegram to Bewapapets of New York and Lon- Phillies. Star Outfielder and Hitter Will Be Out of Game for Weeks. . iZ PHILADELPHIA, April 5.—Sherwood ard-hitting left-flelder of @ut of the game for sev- ft will be at tenet @ Towular season opens can wet ‘hie place tn the line it Wriet te broken in two injured during the bat- erday when “Toote” the wrist with one of y Magee visited the tal and an X-ray ex- ‘wractures at the wriet bones of the forearm. by baseball experts have the strongest team fe entered in thie year’s ational ‘League and the Mages {9 the first blow which Doovinites, { Hy i i i is : i i : HOUSEBOAT ADRIFT WITH FOUR ABOARD as Smith, Wife and Baby and Mrs. Brown Sleep. A DAY WITHOUT FOOD. Hope Had Been Abandoned After Thrilling Experience When Rescuers Appeared. Adrift in @ houseboat for more than fifteen hours, wind tossed and wave swept, was the experience of Mr. and Mra. Charles J, Smith and their year- olf baby boy of No. 9 Lafayette muse, Brooklyn, and their friend, Mri Fred J. wn, wife of a confectioner at No, 880 Livingston street, Brooklyn, ‘The little party had abandoned all hope of rescue when they were picked up by & little motor boat and brought Le ial | to the shore. Smith ie an electrician. He wan em- ployed by Brown, owner of the Ruth, to put the houseboat in shape for the summ Accompanied by his wife and their child and by Mrs, Brown, ON roe backing of ith street drainage "ie forenoon threw citizens into li holds the broken a untrue. hat the levee had broken and caused residents to story of their homes they were in. Then rough the city reaseur- mat no break had oc- according to reports them, are considered safe from danger. al tl iH i FI i | ry i #7 : | i F Gesotate ‘of touses, barns about the district Hi ity Tiss: onacers gine & f ‘were overturned sift] | if reached the top the levee work- riot were rushed on the levecs ® z & fi f t He a ¥ it retirosdés entering th jf! ee Central was the when over 3,000 fest of ‘washed 01 tugboat Connection of the funning between Cairo and y, ts the only means of ai from the j flood has so crippled the various ‘are running short. cy eri aa vorecanter Hayes Gistrict just beyond the was flooded yesterday @ Gesolate sight of houses, barns and Govris floated about the district it tke toothpicks. Water 5 scenery under the Illinois shortly before dark tt had reached the top all ‘of the levee work- ‘y. ey are working to-dey je effort to save one of the five railroads entering om operate @ train into the city rhe Milinole Central wae the give up when over 3,0 feet of was washed out early this inorn- tug boat Connection of the senning Detwean Cairo and Ie the only moans of from the army headquarters i | be welcome here, as Sith #0 crippled the various ‘hat supplies are running short. a JERSEY AUTOISTS MAY RUN »WERE FOR FIFTEEN DAYS. Waldo Orders Reciprocity in Recog- . , nition of New Law Passed i" at Trenton, Commissioner Waldo issued a % order to the. poll to-day to hereafter the right of auto: @ holding New Jersey licenses ‘thetr machines in thin State tor b days without taking out New There has been much and annoyance since the New *moasure extending reciprocity to other States was signed @f the attitude of the Jersey before the new law was in that State, authorities States mad Waite wrote to the Bec te of N ervey for of ‘the aot, but no atte around Manhattan Beach point and wi the motorboat saw the signals headquarters |for the Ruth. Not the least hasardous be welcome here, as | 0! Geck of the rescuing craft. Smith went to Sheepshead Bay to the anchorage of the boat on Tuesday. EW FLOOD. They carried some food with them, Everything was in shipshape by 7 o'clock in the evening and they deter- mined to spend tho night on board. On Wednesday morning Smith awoke the report spread that the| to and that the Ruth had broken from Onto River out / her moorings end was adrift on the it Tenth etreet. | bay, ss BOAT CARRIED BY TIDE TO- WARD OPEN SEA. ‘The boat had been carried by the tide headed for the open sea, Smith sig- nailed every veasel he could make out, but his signals were unheeded. They all had a Mwht breakfast from the re- mains of the food they had brought. e ‘Then an anzious day wae spent by those Niseesa sbaedered on board scanning the sea and making gighs to-day. wignals. The wind freshened and the ang | Veter which had been drought for busl- Rese purposes was spilled. They were without food and drink, but fortunately & bottle of mils wae left for the baby. ‘The wind increased as Wednesday eve- ‘water tate yomeréay. Pod eavencet: the rain fell in torrents. ie it rocked and tumbled in the by tootmpicks, Water | seu, dishes went crashing to the for, jay under the Minols| chairs and tables were overturned and tly before dark! the women were groatly frightened. They could not maintain thelr balance fm the big living room on the boat. They held on to each other, they grasped the furniture only to be carried hither a you in the cabin by the rplling he dost, Mre, Smith clutched her little train imo the city | baby to her breast with one hand while she sought to retain her slance with the other, All the while Smith was out on out early this morn-/ deck frantically waving a lantern, slg- palling their distress to any one who might chance in their direction. When all hope had been abandoned and made it their experiences was the transfer of the party from the houseboat to the But the rescue was made in safety and at 11 ‘clook that night they were landed in Brooklyn. YOUNG MRS. SMITH TELLS GRAPHIC STORY. Mrs, Smith, scarcely out of her teens, blue-eyed and pretty, with wavy blonde .|hair, told the story of her experience. “We were very much frightened when might ell,” ehe said to-day. ‘It had to-day. | begun to rain and the wind was blowing fiercely. The little boat was rocking like a chip and it was so dark that we could not see anything. Mr. Smith remained on deok signalling with a lantern, while Mre, Brown and I and the baby were in the cabin. Mrs, Brown was more used to the boat and the water than I, but as the rocking increased she also became frightened. “It seemed to us we would be over- turned every minute, The wind w howling around us and the rain was beating down upon the roof, Every tow minutes 4 harder biast of wind would hit us and the boat wouki careen vio- lently. Dishes were thrown out of their racks and smashed on the floor. The gece kept swinging about the pla: Ly petty? baby in my arms and could only have the use of one hand. it slide with me across the floor, Mrs. Brown would have the same experience. We clutched th out of our grasp and sent c: the floor, We clutched couches, which were immovable. bottom. STORM RAG “The baby was cross a soothe him while taking @nd myself, I will never forget tha night, It seemed hours and hours that waves, Mr. Smith was outside all thi time holding on to something or othe: with one hand and waving bis lanter with the other “At last aid came to us in the litth motor boat. no water, alongalde houseboat, The motor boat tied w the rocking bumping into its wlde an with every roll qf the sea. It was dan: to the motor. Mr. Smith stepped int turned back at the fo :Siah $f Smee B representative to PACHA OPT for | realy T the motor boat, while I held on with on in my other arm. V3 HOURS IN WIND, Craft Breaks From Moorings | ing the floor with a crash. I had the “% would clutch @ chair only to have Then we would sit down on one of the An- other violent sweep of wind would make the boat careen and we would jump up again in fear that We were going to the TRIES TO SOOTHE BABY AS We were at the mercy of the wind and We were famished and had and groaning | 88 threatening to be reduced to matchwood erous to Make & move from our boat hand to the rail and clasped my baby It was raining pitch- Sari ont ‘and the deck was éligpery and “Finally 3 tet go my hold on the boat THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, |Supposed Victim of Murder, Who Has Returned; | | and jumped with my baby into m: husband's arms. Mrs. Brown followe: me. There was little covering on the motor boat, but we were too giad of our escape to mind the rain which came pelt- ing down on us. It was about 11 o'clock when we landed in Brooklyn. “Mra, Brown and I prayed when we coukl on the boat, but when we thought it was going to capsize we screamed, I don't think I care to go on any more houseboats.” FRE SHOTS NRO WHEN SRE NOB STONESDEPUTS Women Lead Attack on Jersey Officers at Speechmaker Is Arrested. An attempt to defy tho riot act re- sulted to-day in a turbulent clash be- tween the New Jersey textile striker —men and women—and deputy herifte| at Garfield, near Passaic, during which | @ dozen shots were fired. In the midst of the hand-to-hand | fighting one striker was found uncon- He was lifted by two deputies | through the mill gates, handcuffed and left on a bench. Later, when he was found to be still unconscious, he was hurried to Hackensack with five other Prisoners and given medical attention. The report spregd through the crowd | of etrikors that the man was dying, The Jailer of the Bergen County jail at) Hackensack later denied this report, saying the Injured striker was sham- ming hurts more serious than he had really received, The strikers concerned in the trou- ble were the 550 operatives of the Forstmann & Huffmann Company's Woollen mills, who had gathered in the main street leading to the mills to jeer at workers who had remained on their jobs. About fifty deputy sheriffs were scattered ulong the street to keep the strikers moving in Ml groups and to prevent disturbane: Suddenly an automobile drove up and two men jjumped out. One was Charles Rothtisher, a atriker organizer and Meutenant of William D, Haywood, the | 1 W.-W. ometal in era) charge of | the textile strike movement. Rothfisher had come from Passaic to teat the ef- flolency of the riot act which was reaa yesterday and under which the strikers had been deprived of the right to hold meetings or listen to speeches, CROWD GATHERED TO HE THE SPEECH. Rothfisher began an impasslone: dress to the strikers, who immed swarmed up from all sides to hear him. In a moment he was surrounded by nearly four hundred men and women, &@ number of whom waved red flags and were obviously in a mood for trouble. The speaker had talked only a few minutes when three deputy sheriffs pushed their way through the crowd and sclzed him, Instantly the mob of strikers broke into wild clamor, They surged around the three officers and their prisoner and ‘The deputies drew 4 the mob to make way. Some Wo} truck Deputy Henry Fagun in the face with her clenched | fst and screamed wildly. ‘This was.enough to set the mob going and the trio of deputies found them- selves fighting desperately for their lives, They used their clubs heavily, regardless whether the blows fell upon men or women, as the women Just eveasive in the battle as their male companions, Strikers on the outskirts of the mob surrounding tho deputies began hurling rocks, hitting a number of their fellows as well as the beleaguered officers, On heavy stone thrown from close ra t t e ° a iD ad | inetting a riot. lof the atrikers before Gov, THEODORE His Accused Brother, Their Mother and Home FURMAN two remaining deputies drew their re-| volvers and fired into the air to tract other officers in the vicinity. The CHARLESTON WINNERS. other deputies had already charged the jug tour cd one half tuclonen Jessie mob but had been uhable to break | porter, 106 (Hopkins), 7 t n and 7 through. When the shots were fired | to %, first: Billy H (Wilson), 18 they redoubled their efforts and began | to 6, 4 to 5 and 7 to %, second; Yorkville, systematically to eat thelr way | 12 (Butwell), 3 to 2, 3 to 6 and 1 to 5, through the struggling crowd. third. Time, 0.14 2-5. Armor, Filkens and A half dozen of the deputies succeed | Cedar Brook also ran. e@ in clearing @ way through the mob} SECOND RACE — Three-year-olds: | purse, $00; sel to the relief of the two officers, who 105 (Turner), still held Rothfisher between them as they battled inst the angry strikers, jto 10 and out, The rescuers formed a circle wround | 103 (Koerner), the prisoner and the mob drew back a| third. tow feet, MOB DISPER@ED QUICKLY As SHOTS WERE FIRED. ‘The officers called upon the crowd to disperse, but were jeered at. Then they drew their revolvers and began | Donau, 114 (Bi ending bullocs over the heads of the | out, third |atrikers. No one was hit, but the fring |had the effect desired and the mob | quickly broke ramks and ran in all di- ection: h Besides Deputy Deputy Sheriff Frank Bratt was seriously in- jured by the strikers’ bricks. His right! kneecap was broken by a kick, Scores of the strikers got broken heads under the rain of blows from the deputies’ clubs, Rothfisher and four other leaders of the strikers were arrested, charged with —Caugh Hill, also ran. (Hopkins), 2 Time, 141 Belle named. Later Boris Reinstein, leader of th Peaceful faction in opposition to Hay wood and his crowd, held a meeting, which wan moderately uttended, at Mokray Hall, Passaic. James B,|y |'Thompeon, chief Neutenant of Haywood, and a party of followers went down to the meeting and tried to get admit- tance, Reinstein refused to allow Thompson | ship OUTGO! Arapahoe, Jacl Alrb up between the conservative and radi-|plane, in the cal leaders seemed imminent, Thomp- | ton gon finally withdrew without further ef- fort to address the meeting. A commit. tee was appointed to lay the grievances Wilson, pl Thompson heard meanwhile that the polloe were likely to arrest him as one ‘of those inciting the riot of the early morning and he went to New York. Haywood, so the strikers said, had re: turned to Lawrence temporarily, but would be back in a day or two. It became evident to-day, following the most serious of the rlots that have attended the closing of the mills, that Haywood and his organizers are win- ning over the majority of the strikers to the policy of violence, stead of unin; le and ——a " be i or Wilson Wisconsint | Count Will Decide, " MILWAUK E, Wis,, April 5,=The of- ficial returns will be necessary to decide the outcome of the Clark-Wilson fight in this State, Clark will have not more than elght delegates, but at least five, and the official count. will be necessary to determine the three in doubt. Wilson leads Clark In the total vote of the preferential primary by about 15,000, Badia Seared by Bull Dog. While playing in front of No. 340 Brook avenue, Brox, this afternoon, John Kessler, eight years old, of No, 342 St. Ann's avenue, was bitten on the left leg by & bull dog owned by M. Feinberg of No. 30 Brook avenue, An ambulance was summoned and the boy moved to his hon Hoods Sarsaparilla Leads other medicines in the cure of all spring ailments, Boy Is t lon LOW \y LON ON by & brawny woman striker caught Deputy Fagan full in the mouth Srapeied wna be, the infuriated mob. ‘and | brought him down unconscious, to be Nervousness. Finding themselves hard pressed, the tablets called Sarsatal humors, loss of appetite, een tired feeling, leness and ‘ake it, Get i to-day im usual quid form or : FOR | first; Pardner, 10 Time, 0, jand Surfelt also ran. THIRD RACE~Three-year-olds ant up; purse $450; and out, won; (Fain), 8 to 1, 8 to 5 and Time, bel, Foxy Mary, Ceremonious, Joe Stein INCOMING 8 nv ES Bonenee tare, rt Sie on a Ks WASHINGTOD is the word which should be ap- to enter the hall and for a time a mix- | plied to the art of sailing a hydroaero- Chamt the navy's aviation experiments. tain would substitute alrp:any landing gear for chassis, body for FARE Hing; six furlongs—Sleeth, 13 10 and out, » 18 to 5 Sto 1 and out, Dipper, Mad River conditions: six furlongs. 115 (Turner), 1 to 2% out Martin W. Littleton, 112 secon utwelll, 10 to 1, 2 to 1 and 1.124-5. Dalmain, Iva- FOURTH RACE—Four-year-olds and up; purse $400; 108 (Koerner), 7 to 5, 1 to 2 and 1 % won; Effend), 101 (Turner), even and 11 to 20, seco! selling; one mile.—Fore- $ to 1. 1; Sir Cleges, 105 and out, tiled. Wander and to %, | Bertis, Mawr also ran and finished as sevmsctelipeemmeene SHIPPING NEWS. AMSHIPS, peylvania ma iranite, ING. is oh aa IPs. vy Htayt, Banta yille, "Hi April 6.—Airboatman- opinion of Cayx, Washing- bers, who hax charge of In- z foreign terms, the C: for alrboatmanship or alrsea- ip. have— exclusively —the LINOCORD BUTTONHOLES they're easier to button— poy dans teat oa & Co. g Island Railroad XCURSION S SUNDAYS V4, 21 pal 7, to G ISLAND POINI E-WAY FARt ROUND-TRIP 1912. FLOOD CRISIS AT MEMPRIS; MANY IN PERIL (Continucd from First Page.) | levee, several miles eouth of Hickman, | Ky. A narrow strip of land separates the Minsis#ipp! River from Reelfoot | Lake at this point, and the efforts of a | thousand or more laborers are being dé- | Voted to strengthening the levee that Tennessee. Flood warnings have been gent to all points along the lower river, and thou- sands of refugees are to-day seeking temporary homes in the highlands, ‘The night's travel of the flooded crest has sent the trend of the menace south- ward, From Golden Lake, fifty miles north of Memphis, to Hulbert, Ark., con- ditions at noon were especially threat- ening, Near Hulbert a stretch of re- vettement three hundred yards threatens to collapse. Farmers have abando’ the lowlands and residents of Hul have moved to upper floors, while mer- chants are packing thelr stocks to be shipped to places of safety. Star Landing, Ark., is also in imme+ diate danger end at half a dozen points | the levees seuth of Cairo threaten to collapse. As far south as Bayou Sara, La., the lowlands outside the main levees are inundated. Furnitrs have moved their farming implements to high ground. HICKMAN, Ky., April 6.—A scene of utter desolation is presented by this flooded town, whether It be a view of the tented city, which shelters 3,000 homeless persons, or the apparently limitless waste of muddy water that stretches out before them, and the thread of levee on which men are work- ng with feverish energy to thwart the “iver's expanding. THIEVES PLUNDERING FLOODED DISTRICT. The climax of the flood may come at any moment with the breaking of the Reelfoot levee below here. Hundreds of men are trying to strengthen It sgainst the erosions of the tide and hould It go out unexpectedty It 1s feared many, lives will be lost, as the means of escape for the workers {s Imited, The crest of the river already nany places and several ominous leaks 1ave been discovered and stopped in he last twenty-four hours. ‘Thieves are becoming active in the flooded section of West Mickman. County authorities are discussing the advisability of asking for a company of militia to protect their property. Refugees continue to arrive in great numbers, Their losses temporarily obscured by personal suffering and anxiety over their kinsmen. Mra Willlam Venters of Island No. 8, who was rescued by a launch, !s almost distracted because her husband and children were left behind, having taken refuge in the attic of their home where, she says, the inhabitants of the island were driven several days. ago. She thinks the water must be to the house- tops by now, One woman walked twelve miles eight hours with six children, arrled the ycung A family from Missourl spent a halt. day in rowing across the river in a skiff and the men nearly exhausted before they got out of the current. A steamer Js plying along the river in She MARKET BASKET 8. | Ai sipoeT SPICKD CREAM RGGs. Uctou ent, ped Tn euy'moulds, epleed cream shaped POUND Box is, Finest 5 on ss 10¢ i STP Bai oco! 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Wagon traing of provisions and bedding have arrivea from Fulton, | Ky., and Union N ville, Chattanoo; ning tra! to East Hickman, a mile away, Where a temporary station has been erected. On the hill where tents have been put up the women of Hickman assisted od age Med for ps ret distribution, clothing and vedding. LBXIN on, “Ky, ‘April 5.—Reports \from Eastern Kentucky to-day tell of | one drowning and damage of along the Rivers by high wa: Jackson while catching logs. fe th ln CHARLESTON ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, Charleston, 8. C., April 5.—The entries for to-morrow's races are as follows: FIRST Rat Olympian, 100 5 ees, 103; Parkview, RIXTH RACE—Three year-olds: longs. —-* Fleet wat nalts, i, wisi! esl A jet ‘aold ‘Mine, 108; ACE —Three-sear-olds and py ‘one je and serenty hand, 10e it; Th htt nix furlongs. let, Fo. i al i ‘eligibte—Rind Weather fi ALMANAC San rises.. 5,38 Sun ae! is different from APIA other, because it's a com: jon of the artistic and the aie tical. 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