The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1912, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. FT HONORS GEN. GRANT: Copyright. Co. BROADWAY HALTS ACTIVITY WHILE FUNERAL PASSES lac Vicor Uncover Heads as | Body Goss on Wey for {Burial at West Point. WITH MILITARY POMP. Services for Noted Son of More Noted Father in Gov- ! emor’s Island Chapel. fre body of Major-Gen. Frederick Dent Grant passed through the strey f the city tob}day with all the siaklé pomp of military mourning on its way to the final resting place In the officers’ cemetery at West Point. Broadway stopped in the high tide of fite activity to listen to the pulsin G@irges Of the military bands, to uncover te head when a flagdraped gun caisson the’ body of the famous soldier aren Of @ etill more famous father at medsured pace through the black * canons of the skyscrapers. The solem- Mty of furled fings, crepe draped, and Ah colorful changing picture of varied uaiforms and of blocks of men march- fag in time-eent a thrill through ai! wwntown district. It was a spectacie as has not been seen in New York many years. The spell of awe and of reverence wrought by the pulsing music and the tramp of fect gripped hard all the clustered thousands on the curbs. QENERAL’S HORSE LED BEHIND THE BODY. | ‘Tre one supremely intimate touch Meeded to bring the silent crowds into) quick sympathy with the sorrow of those ‘who rode in closed carriages behind the un caisson was that supplied by Gen, Grant's horse. @f the military in times of public mourn-| {ng euch as this, the faithful friend of @he late Commander of the Eastern Di-| led by a soldier behind the | @ all the way from the ferry | 'y to the F\ e West Shore Ral road, ‘The petting “which almost dragged on the cobbies by his feet. He was saddied and Uridied and from the saddle jow hung the boots of his master The President and the Vi @f the United States atte @uneral services which were held | e@hapel of Cornelius the Centurion on Governor's Island. Flowers sent by @hem were placed against the great bank of blossoms surounding the black eatatalque before the altar of th qhereon Gen, Grant's body has lain In gtate during the Inst ton days, Other @en prominent in the life of this city centres throughou: ed as pall bear- @rs or found places in the chapel to Give their last tribute of affection to the dead soldier. President Taft boarded tho Navy fevenue cutter Seneca at the Pennsyl- Wanla station, Jerse: y. and passed @own through the Aver to th whart at the Island r lou. Wata fim were his brother, Henry W. Taft; Charlies P. ill pilve sere tary, and Ma! omas 1. Rhoads, who has lately succeeded to the place of chief alde to the J'resideat, whieh was left vacant by the death of Major wrehibald Butt in the Titanic disaster, PRESIDENT LANDS ON GOVER- NOR’S ISLAND. When the Seneca drew up at the quar- termaster’s wharf on the northern end @f Governor's Island the President's tag 4 blue with the golden eagle eproad upon dt was dropped from the half mast st had held during the trip down the civer, The guagd of soldiers of the ‘Pwenty-ninth Iniantry, the island's gar- ieon, brought their arms to the present with @ snap, and Gen, Tasker Hi, Bliss, temporarily dn comnand of the Lastern Division, and ail of his staff officers Drought their gloved hands to the thys of their plumed chap of the officers were in full dress of ceremony; their swords bore # little knot of black ‘crepe at the hilt. Gen. Bliss took the President's arm and together, with the ing staff following, they passed up tie road to * the chapel ut the southern of the parade ground, Along the whole dis- Twenty-ninth As Army tance regulars of the were drawn up a few yards apart the Commander-in-Chief of the (Continued on Blgnth Page.) re tacos JE PAGE 23, chapel | Al | US, WARSHP OFF TOMENCO TO SIVE ANERIGANS Transport Buford Will Stop at} Towns on ‘West Coast and Pick Up Victims of Bandits WASHINGTON, April 2%.—The army transport Buford will leave San, Fran- cisco Sunday for the west coast of Mexico to pick’ up any American refu- Sees who may wish to leave the coun- try. The Buford will visit Topc:odampo,, Altata, Mazatlan, all in the State of es a eee AS BLAZE RAGED IN A SWEATSHOP Plunged Four Stories Into Street. MANY WOMEN IN PERIL. Man Penned on Fire. Escape| Scramble Down Ladders, to Reach Fifteen Foot Wall at Bottom. = One man was killed by jumping from & fire escape landing and half a dozen others were injured during the progress of a fire that swept through a five-story Sweatshop in the rear of No, 21 Bowery to-day. The blaze was in such a pe- cullar location that it endange: four les of a thickly popul: Chief Kenlon sent three al sure keeping it confined to the building in which it originated. : Jacob Schiectneck, a sewing machine operator of No. 114 Madison street, wi the man who was Killed. He bect panic stricken when smoke pdured out Sinaloa; San Blas, Tepic, Mansanilio in Colima, and Acapulco in Guerrero, ‘The yeasel {s went at the request of the| State Department etter urzent requests, from many Americans stranded in the States bordering the Pacific: » ~ Sirice the rebels began to make head- way in thelr operations along the Pa- cifle Coast commupteation has been cut where This and lett others without any information as to the safety of these people and this in face of numerous reports of the wanton acts of both bandits and organised the State Department stant appeals came to the State nent to use £ome method of asccr'aining the welfare of these people but tue offlalals tried other means in an effort to Wurd off the necessity of send- ‘After the formal custom | ing a United States vessel to the west coast. To-day's reports to the State Depart- ment declare the situation throughout Mexico is generally becoming worse. Bands of marauders are causing much rty-second street | uneasiness by their activity, ‘The transport Crook first was selected heavily caparisoned in a black | for the relief expedition, but War De- partment officials later decided that ves- ommodations for ‘ans who might wish to leave Mexico, The Buford, aiso| at San Francisco, therefore, was desig. nated. ‘The Crook was to haye safled to- ht. The Buford will get away Sun. day. While the Bufort is a Government ves- el, stress is laid upon the fact that the will Le uo United States soldiers aboard, and the only person vearing United tates commissions beside Quartermaster Ely will be the doctors and members of the hospital corps taken along to look fter the sick among the refugees, State Department advices Indicate that there are perhaps 500 Americans Itkely to avall themselves of this opportuniay to leaveg\fexico, About 200 of these are at Los Hochis and vicinity, and probably 00 more scattered down the coast as far south as Salina Cruz, 1cO CITY, April %6—It was on good authority to-day Warsaip Is en route to the West coast to look aftey the inters ests of British subjects. It Is belleved here that another vessel will be sent by Great Britain to the gulf. This action, ft Is understood, Is the result of an un- derstanding of the European powers, and it 1s believed that other nations with interests in Mexico will follow Eng- land's lead, Sic tinididaiiiimninns ITALIAN. CRUISER SUNK? Wreckage s of the Vavese in Dardanelles Fight. CONSTANTINOPLA, April 26.—Wreck- age washed ashore at the entrance to the Dardanelles leads to the belief to- Indleates | ment of the foi | the battle, It day that the Itallan Cruiser Vavose, one of the ships engaged In the bombard. last week, was lost in as‘ repopted that the | vavese was badly damaged in the hom. | bardment and that she subsequently sank, ee $12 Men’s BlueSergeSuits,$5.96 | THE “MUB" Clothing Corner, Broad- way, cor, Barclay Bt, opp, Post-Oftke will’ well to-day and Saturday Men'y Suits, neraey, worateds, chevioty. In blues, blacks, graye mixtures; fast col many satin 1 ‘all sizes wanihigtd In any other store. 0- ‘Their special pric $5.05. Oven Satu: — + = | started at he was about to step to a ladder on the fire Pe landing of the fourth foor. @dvice shouted by firenen who were, starting’ to bis assistance, he 4 and sustained injuries from which He died in a few minutes, FLAMES IN MIDST OF DENSE POPULATION. The sweatshop is almost in the middle of the block bounded by the Bowery, rd street, Christie street and Div! sion street. The rear of the buildings fronting on all these four thoroughfares back up on the sweatstiop, which is detached on four sides and’ equipped with fire escapes on the north side and south aide, About a dozen manufacturing firms had shops in the building. The fire 12.45 o'clock, during the lunci: hour, when a majority of the employees ware out of the building, However, there were 10 or more on the various floors. Smoke gave first evidence of the fire as it poured from the windows of thy nts manufacturing plant of Stlerer & Co,, on the t i floor, The blaze spread Noor and cut off ys from the up mi en flocked + ‘Pnose who took the per flo! the fi }north fi fifteen-foot brick wall around the rea yard of a building, fronting 0: No, 2 Division street. ESCAPE LADDER LEFT THEM ON HIGH WALL. Soon there were fifteen men and hai a dozen women elther on the lower fire- escape landing or clinging to the lad- der between the second and third floor with smoke and fire belching from win dows directly above them. The me on the platform were afraid to take a chances the fifteen-foot jump ini. the Division street yard, Frank Wollman, a salesman, and Charles Stern, a clers tn the Diviato street establishment, dragged a sho }ladder from the cellar and put It age the wall, Some of the men you a by this ladder, Others jumped to courtyard and cecaped w ruises, Wollman and Sterh got a, big rug, which they spread I!fe-net fashion, Inco this the wome> umped safely. Fire clambered up the fire escape ladder and helped down half a dozen men and wom- en, who were too frightened to heip themselves. Schlectneck, who was employed on the fifth floor, was the first person to reach the fire escape. While he clung, terror- stricken, to the fourth floor landing, he saw women jumping safely ‘from the fecond floor into the rug. Firemen were starting for him when he icaped for the rug himself, missed {t and land- ed on the back of his head and shoulders. While the fire was at Its hottest half a dozen firemen climbed up the fire- escape of the building at No. 2 Di |#ion street and invaded the kitchen cape landing. They commandeered @ stout froning board, of ch they made a bridge to the fire-escape of the burning butlding. Across the impro ised bridge they rescued four men who were getting ready to jump from a window, The fire drew an immense crowd, which swarmed into the courtyards and onto the roofs of the block, The fires men were hampered in thelr work until Inspector Cahalane and the reserves of six precincts cleared the yards and the the en- 4 Ny of a window directly beneath him as| aboard NEW ‘YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, VINCENT ASTOR GIVES FIRST TALK Gets the News of Recovery| of Body From The Evening World. GLAD HE DIED A HERO. Declares Stepmother Has Not Been Allowed to Tell of Last Moments on Titanic. First notified by The Evening World| toaiay of the recovery of the body of his’ father, as related In an exclusive: despatch from &. Johns, N. F., William Vincent, Astor talked to an Evening World reporter at the Astor home, No. #0 Fifth avenue. He denied many rumors and reports that have been pub- | Mehed, stating frankly jus: what ‘has been occurring in the famtly since his stepmother was brought home trom | aboard the Carpathia. ‘The young man was tremulously |" eager to hear em euthorized version of how Col Aster conducted himselt the the miést of the wii moments ¢! ‘ttended fhe crash with the testers: one je lowering away of, the boats... *: “Stories that Mra. ‘ator bes told us all that happened as she récalial tt ard utterly untrue,” sald ayn Roa “Bhe has pot deen ed ‘tor dwell on what happened: that t ‘for! more than a minute at a time) That has been the orders of the rhysiplans\ who are attending her. If.et, any’ time (she has begun to speak of the terrible .ex- periences the mocareitne has been {m- mediately switched. Practically ell We know of how my father conducted him- self on that night we have jearned trom the outside. ly good,” choked out the boy, “to hear, that my father died as he did.” MRE. ASTOR TOLD OF LED TO LIFEBOAT. He stopped and walked away for a mo- ment to hide his emotions, Hv dressed entirely in black, from his bedroom upon learning of the identification of his father's body, IN@ “AN Mra, Astor has been allowed to! tell of that night,” he went on, ‘related to her dre boat by my father. She was undressed when the collision with the Iceberg curred. My father insisted that should dress warmly and then he guided | her mald and her nurse to the poat. She did not see him after the boat began to descend from the davits. He had barely time to wrap her furs about her before the boat began to descend. “We have not questioned Mrs, Astor, and will not do #o until her condition is much improved. She te entirely too nervous now and jumps ut the least itetle thing. In her delicato state we t be very careful, But ahe 1s im- proving and I cannot say that there is ¥ need now to worry. Time will bring er both mental and physical strength “It ia not true that Mrs. Astor's maid 2° nurse, Who were with her, Nave made any statement about that night. They are both still Im the hospital, and 1 know have sald nothing. Stories’ pur- porting to come from them ar) purely imaginary. ner, HAS NOT EVEN DISCUSSED ‘418/ FATHER'S WILL. “There has been a good deal in the rs about my father’s will and rot, We have not even thought not been so much as The talk of my visiting my lawyers 4 reference to the will je all wrong. I have been to my lawyers only in the interest of getting news about’ my father’s body. I have been keeping tn touch by telephone with Capt, Roberts (skipper of the Astor yacht Noma), who {s in Halifax, “The firat news I received came to me while I was in bed this morning from fhe Evening Worid offi A little later kot a telephone message from the White Star line confirming the good 4, It bas lifted a great vurden from my mind. I ptain Roberts will look after the bringing on of my father's body, ‘“Taere is another matter concerning the reported loss of Mra, Astor's jow- cls which I would ike to correct. T can stata that whatever jewels are bought by @ny member of the family ar@. not carried about by them. ‘The jowels of And tt has been wondertuls. 1 ng and belux ted to a) will not go to Halifax, | 1912, ‘Young Head of Great Astor Estate, Sister ot Widowed Stepmother | | | | | | Wiss KATHERINE FoRCE, AMD VINCENT ASTOR, PHOTO BY “UNDERWOOD ® vn eenwoen G) fis: aera ASTAR AND STRAUS BODIES Ismacuiectecliled. sends 49. New Identifications | ef 205 Titanic Victims on Board—Minia Has C. M. Hays’s Remains. The bodies of Col.J. J. Astor and Isidor Straus have been recovered | from the sea by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett. A wireless despatch, telling of the finding and identification of the bodies of Col. Astor and Mr. Straus, was received at the White Star line offices early to-day. The despatch said the ‘bodies were aboard the funeral ship and had been embalmed. 5 = ‘The despatch also contained a long list of new identifications of the 205 bodies picked up by the Mackey-Benneti. These names were wire lessed from the cable ship to the Anchor ‘ine steamship Caledonia and by that vessel relayed to Cape Race. A dispatch io The kvening World from st. slated that a w s had beentpickcd up there reporting the fiuding of \the bodies of Col, Asior and Benjamin Guggenheim. No mention of the | recovery of Mr. Guggenheim's body was made in the relayed wireless to | the White Star Line and it was probably a confusion of the names that | reached. St. John's, Jobn’s, Newfoundland, | Nothing was said in to-day’s Wireless from the Mackay-Bennett con- } | cerning the time the cable ship ts Mkely to reach Halifax. 28 PAGES PICKED UP BY DEATH SH PRICE Pdogie* OENT. TITANIC SIGNALS PLAIN. ON FATHER DEATH TO MAN ON CALIFORNIAN IShe Was About Ten Miles Away, Ernest Gill, Donkey Engineman = of the Vessel, Tells the Senate... Investigating Committee : CAPTAIN AT CAPITAL SAYS IT IS NOT TRUE “I Sent Warning of Icebergs to the Titanic,” Says the Captain, “and Was Told to Shut Up.” WASHINGTON, April 26.—In a sworn statement filed to-day with the Senate Committee investigating the Titanic disaster) Ernéit Gill, donkey engineman on the liner Californian, now at Boston, said + that vessel was so close to the Titanic on the night of the tragedy that the Titanic’s distress rockets were plainly visible. He charged that the captain af she: Californian, refused to go to the aid of the Uistressed Vetsel. Capt. Lofd’of the Californian, in, Boston tast night, denied: Git's statement, ¢ ‘The reading of Gill's affidavit was bed with the deepest Interest by the committee. Gill was present and was plassdtenrthe wines stand Immediately after Senator Smith, the chairman, had finished peade pag the affidavit, “There 8 no truth whatever in the story of Ernest Gill that’ the Californian saw and ignored distress signals from the Titanic,”” positively declared Capt. Stanley Lord of the Californian, immediately upon his arrival here from Boston to testify before the Senate Investigating Com- mittee. Accompanying Capt. Lord was the Californian’s a oper- ator, D. C. Evans, “| was asleep from 11.30 Sunday night until 5.50 Monday mom ing,” Evans said. “Not until 5.50 did we-hear of the Titanic—and pe, it was through a message from the Virginian.” GOT A SURLY REPLY, HE SAYS. When Capt. Lord took the witness stand he said that half an hour before the Titanic smashed into the iceberg which sank her she re-, ceived warning of “icebergs-ahead” from the Californian. His ship, he said, was then only twenty miles away, “Shut up; I'm busy,” was the reply Capt. Lord said the Thanle’s operator sent to his ice warning. Senator Smith read into the record the following note from Opera+ tor Young of the U. S. Naval wireless station at the New York Navy ‘Yard: “Carpathia would at no time acknowledge receipt. of.a 6 | message from navy ships or stations, This station called them at 5.30 P. M. April 18 when she was trying to get into com munication with New York stations, but her operator refused. to take any assist from us, This was the only station she could work at that timé, as no other station could hear her. 4 “YOUNG, Operator.” Ft THINKS HE SAW TITANIC PASS. = “1 saw the ship which 1 took to be the Titanic,” said Gill after being sworn, “some time before midnight. She was about ten miles away and went past us apparently at full speed. She was a big and | saw two tiers of lights. The Californian at the time was in field ice, its engines were stopped and she was drifting with the floe.”* The vessel, Gill testified, must have been plainly visible to the bridge and the lookouts, as well as the rockets which were sent up late? from the vessel. The Californian’s captain, he said, paid no attention to the distress signals, and his refusal to get up steam and go to the aid of the stranger so incensed the crew that Gill tried to organize a protesting party among the men. He failed, he said, because of the | timidity of the men, “What time did the Californian get up steam?” inquired Senator | Fletcher. . “I don’t know exactly,” after 5 o'clock.” From the rockets Gill judged the distressed ship to be not more jthan twenty miles away. He described the rockets, description tally. jing with that given by Fourth Officer Boxhall of the Titanic, who semt |them aloft. | said the witness, “but it was some thme In the bright, starlit nm +jmate, Willlam ‘Thomas, that he had seen. April U4, Gil sald, be « © big verse, apparedtly German, of the nian at I elat full » not sleep Fro arette, saw & Walle rocket, j Vessel, with engine ing amid flo e. nutes tater he ways carried an | Ht was stated at the White Star of-) “April 26—Wireles of \fuckay-Ben- 1 r tie focally are of aye carried snd garea ne ere eee ee atisighastt erg relews kay-Ben rail he saw t broudeide 1 [ les off to starboard, Liga he firet had very few Jewels with he had left Halifax plentitully supplied Commercial Cable Compas. t+ White|X{ty Maree steamer, He watched her at wan. 'Sn hoe ‘A: sree ‘Asked if he had received word of the| with embalming fluids and would sup-!giar line, New York east two minutes and said those on the he same placé seven or eight coming to New York of his mother,|ply the Mackay-Hennett #0 it woul neeie Eamiane |Catifornian’s bridge, offlcer and lookout, minutes later he saw distingtly, anda Mrs, Ava Willing Astor, the youns/not be necessary to return any recovy| WILLIAM ALE, could not remarked to hin “rhut “must beg man replied: ered bodies to the gea, as had at first * pUTTON, ¢ SAYS HE SAW ROC n distress ' 19s Sy mother ie ¢ BAD) T on; been reported. d STONE. | Ad not notify the bekige or ect le wm Arve § wei Following is the message ceceived at ee At midnight, GH continued, he went I becauac, he said, It was not his + (Pontiaved on Fourth Page) the White Star tne offices to-day: ~~; (Continued om Fourth Page.) ito this cabia, Whgtg he remarked to bis and they geod not beve verse ; Ay % 4 PRC ¥ 5 Bb ts 2a a at |