The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1912, Page 18

TRTOPUSTIRT WANANAS BU Taft at Cabinet Meeting When Harvester Trust Was Over- hauled, Says Wire. |Manager Who Has Just Sold Out His Theatr Says Secret of His Suc- cess Ie That as a Boy He Learned How to Play Che: | Began at $6 a Week, Came | to Brooklyn as a Com dian, Gave Up the Idea and Started In Acquir- ing and Building a String of Theatres. BY CHARLES DARNTON. MEN @ manager quits the vaude- W ville game With five or atx millions in his pocks! it is only reason- able to assume that this particular game {e worth more than the candie that is furned every afternoon and ven’ And the astonishing part of it Is th {t's almost as easy as learning your ABC “The secret of my success is that I Jearned to play chess when a boy. Thi game teaches you to look ahead, to 96 ‘Gnoe careful of every move you make.” ¥ Nr ‘Taft wotarhed tigan the Paps This was the simple explanation of / Mr. Bonaparte now sends me the| Percy Williams, who has sold hie thee following telegram trom Baltimore. atres—eight In all—to B, F. Kelth. For ‘Fheotere him, apparently, the trifling incident was cloed. His cigar seemed to mean more to him than five or six millions. While ho was drawing away at his cigar it was diMeult to draw even this from him: “T've got enow ‘ “What—money ?’ “T haven't said a word about mone; he remarked, smiling at his cigar. <ohiu- | mean that I've had enough of this bu setts yemterday with Col, Roosevelt and| ness, It's a trying, arduous life, and returned to New York to-uay state that| i'm through with {t.” the Colonel confidently expects to et] “How many years has it taken you to at least tweive of the thirty-six del» accumulate five or—?" gate to. be selectd to-day in the prit “I'l tell you," he interrupted with @ sree fe ‘Tegerds twelve delegates as|quiet laugh. ‘I was sixteen when I ly ‘certain. started and now I'm as old as Col. it he does not place possible | Roosevelt. I'll help you to figure out it. at twelve: Uniess ho ‘has ~:2n/ the rest of the story by admitting that by managers on the ground | at the age of sixteen I was drawing ‘total should range from eighteen to/% a week. Col. Sinn paid me this m: ‘twenty, but to avold disappointment, | niticent ry for making myself gen- Colonel's friends say, he has posl-| erally useful in his Baltimore theatre. vely placed the number of Hoogevolt| At that time he considered it a danger- + delegates in Massachusett: dozen | ous experiment to produce ‘Uncle Tom's 454 will regard all over that in the-way| Cabin’ in the South, But he put on the # extres play at his Front Street Theatre and it Massachusetts is voting to-day to/ran for five weeks. In the cast was elect thirty-six delegates to each of thé| Mrs. George ©. Howard, the origina * Mational Conventions, There are to be| Topsy. The play was put on with only live through the FIRES A FINAL VOLLEY. President's Position “Not Com- patible With Feeblest Kind ,of Good Intentions.” 4 Col. Thectore Roosevelt definitely in- itiated President Taft in the Anant Club to-day by positively atating that the Harvester Trust matter was dis- cussed at a Cabinet mee:ing attended by Mr. Taft. It ie the first time the Colonel has directly accused Mr. Taft falac statement. Phe Calon, after a consultation with of his managers at “he Outlook ffice, decided to give out a statement for publication. ‘The ment follows: ‘Twas positive t ihe Harvester ‘Mutter had been discusaed in full “Thp action pf Mr. Taft in this cas: {a not compatible with even the feeblest a Congressional districts and eight | week, but it proved such a euecess tha: at large. The Taft people|! afterward organised an ‘Uncle Tom’ Ore claiming twenty-four of the Con-| company and took It out on my own re- pnal district delegates and all the| sponsibility, Then Col. Sinn brought me Ps delegates from @ach of the four-|the hope that it mi to Brooklyn as a member of his stock company that appeared at the old Park Theatre. I wi vomedian.”” “Were you?" “Well, 1 was supposed to be,” laughed Mr. William: ‘but I didn't cling to tho idea very joni My first venture as @ vaudeville manager was ma tthe aid Brooklyn Music Hall exteen or seventeen years ago, I crossed the bridge nine or ten yearsego. By that time I had ace quired three theatres in Brooklyn, one of which—the Orpheum—I ‘built. 1 started here with the olf Circle Thoaw tre, while there became more con- Vineed than ever before that the vaude- field offered great opportunities, not changed my mind on continued Mr. Williams, everiast| Tt te the bargain sale of amusement. I have acid my theatres only because I could se¥ them to Mr. Keith. ‘There is no one In the world that T would have made this deal with but Kett! He is the father of vaudeville in th: country, and he may be trusted to keep Sup the character of the houses under his control. New managers will wu Goudtedly enter the feld from year to year. Most of these will probably be men who have moving picture shows to-day. | Alren eompetition keen. You cat to sleep Dusiness, If you do, some one er) pull you off your chair and then jal off with the chair.” 8 on BLACKMAILER SENTENCED. o Ninety Dave for Threat. ening Spooning Couple. Jemes Moran of No. 1 Kast One Hundred and Fiftieth street was to-day was when sent to the Workhouse for ninety daye is other income-pro.|>y Magistrate House in Morrisania he fei| Court. Moran was captured in Cedar Park, the Bronx, by e band of athletes old the | from the Mohawk Athletic Club and Gisowned | Policeman Hartry, when’ Moran had wayward- | threatened to arrest Joseph Gangert of ths had| No. 371 Gou-hern Boulevard for spoon- 17 North | ing with a girl on a park bench. it large, ‘Col, Roosevelt arrived at the Grand station in his ‘pri In- dependence, at & o'clock this morning. by his campaign, he slept un- when he went to the Har- Club in Weat Forty-fourth street for breakfast. After breakfast he paid ‘brief visit to The Outlook office and hurried to Oyster Bay, will remain until Thursday, leaves for @ campaign in Youngster Held on Burglary © Dilatge Admits He Fright- : “Vened His Victims. u ‘pimenjensin Bogowsky, an undersized brac| more than etx feet tall with stooping shoulders. dls equipment was a Red Cross badge, a revolver of the kind im, saying that he lived on the meanest form of blackmail in the wort ———___ ALL CHINAMEN ALIKE, ter’s Court in General Beasions called out the name of “Jim Joy’ No. 20 Pell street, indicted for y: ing @ revalver, Attorney Michael De- juvenile | jagi told the Court that “Jim Joy” was that | not present. Delagi, “tut now I find that I have the wrong Jim Joy, They all look aljk @n 8&-| “There is no doubt about that,” re- Upon ue, Dalegts 3 "s pi lone for | ques the Pas “THE EV BOWPARTEHELPS |Percy Williams Tells How He a aire ENING Wi i Mayor Puts Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel on Bench With Salary of $9,000, Assistant Corporation Counsel and former , Assistant , District-Attorney Cor- Nellue F. Collins was to-day appointed by Mayor Gaynor a Juatice of Special Sessions to take the place of Willard H. Olmsted, whose term expires at mid night, It wan thought that the Mayor | would reappoint Justice Olmsted, who) had made an excellent record on the bench during his many years of ofvce. The new Justice 1s a Tammany man |“ and @ personal friend of ‘Charies F. Murphy, having taken a prominent part im many hard campaigns in the interests of Tammany, Justice Collins's term) will be for ‘ten’ years, with a salary of 99,000 a year. His salary Al Corporation Counsel was 96000, He is a lawyer of long experience and an orator of ability. In his letter to Mr. Collins appointing him Justice the Mayor writes: Dear Mr. Collins: I have dete: mined sto appoint you a Justice of th: Court of Special Sessions, The high recommendation of your character and ability by the Corporation Coun- sel and the other inquiries I have made concerning you, make me sat- iefied that your conduct Judge ‘wih tend to promote that harmony in the court which is seemly and Necessary, and also tend to that Promptness and despatch in the dis- stant | COLLIS, MURPHY NEW KANPSHRE | MDE, 1 PED TO | PLEDGED TO TAT SUCEED OLMSTED, AFTER NEAR Clause Personally Condemn- ing Roosevelt Stricken From Platform. CONCORD, N. H,, April 2. —The State Republican convention to-day elected delegates to the Chicago convention favoring the re-nomination of President Taft and instructed them to vote for him until released. A clause in the plat- form preéented to the convention in- siructing te delegates n: ‘ol. Roosevelt under any circ! stricken out after a ‘heated debate. When the platform was read, the clause; “Under no circumstances shall the delegates to Chicago cast a vote for Theodore Roosevelt” started a discus- sion which developed into an uproa: Such a strong protest was made by half a dozen delegates that the convention ordered the clause eliminated, ‘The platform as adopted included the following planks “We repudiate any aspiration of the Government administrated under the Republican party catering to any special or privileged classes. “We are in favor of a tariff based upon the principle upon which Presi- dent Taft was elected, “We protest against” associating’ the lofty sentiments of Lincoln with any auch perilous and subversive dogmas the initiative, neral referendum nd the recall of judges, or thelr decis- fons, by popular votes in the heat of posal of business which is necessary to a satisfactory administration of justice, Nothing #o much detracts trom the effects which should follow the administration of criminal justice as uncertainty and delay, The office is one Which cannot be well admin- istered by any one who will not consecrate himself to It, and I hope you wit do that now, and never fal- ter im your resolution: Of all things, never allow any outside influence to swerve you from correct decision on-the facts, Judicial favoritiem de- wtroye all’ confidence in courts. y youre, ‘W. J, GAYNOR, Mayor. oe SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS FOR SLAYING STEP-CHILD. Benz, Who Tried to Kill His Wife and Missed, Gets a Light Sentence. George Bens of No. 1510 Gates ave- nue, Brooklyn, tried fast week for the murder of. his twelve-year-old step Gaughter, Bertha Reiman, and convicted of manslaughter in ‘- second degree, sentenced by Justice Putnam, in the Supreme Court of Queens County to- day, to not more than twelve and not less than alx years at hard labor in ‘Sing Sing prison. Bens before sentence was pronounced said: ‘The knowledge that by my act 1 destroyed the child of my wife, a step- daughter, fe a tar dreater punishmen: he youngest a pretty re, broke down and whom he fired the er daughter, Ww not present. The opinion’ was that Bent got off very lightly. Buena Vinta Cactie Robbed. 4 ‘The Evening Work), N, J., April 90.—Buena Vieta Castle, the most. beautiful resi- dence in the ‘city, the home of Catholina Lambert, located at the foot of Garret Mountain, -was entered by thieves dast it and $3,000. worth of partisan. feel ———__ No Moving Plotures of Tit. PATERSON » April 30.Mayor Andrew F."MoBride has issued orders to-day prohfbiting the showing of any motion pictures in this city pertaining to the sinking of the Titanic, “I will have the 1 revoked of any theatre owner Mig flat to show such pic- tures,” sald the Mayor, ORLD, T UESDAY, APRIL ENGINEERS REFUSE Made $5,000,000 in Vaudeville 10 LET JUSTICES ~ PIX ARBTRNTORS Stone Gives Lie to Report of Interstate Commerce Com- mission Interference. A question of veracity arome to-day between Grand Chief Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on one side and the Board of Railway Managers on the other. It grew out of @ statement issued early to-day by tho managers, in which they stated that Chief Stone had refused to entertain a Proposition advanced by them that the question of increase in pay for the en- gineers on the fifty railroads in the astern district be settled by the In- Commerce Commission. ‘The proposition was said by the rall- $0, 1912. WOMAN RESCUED HIS LOVE GREW | FROMTITANICIS COLD AS HIS WIFE | IVPTIABLE PGT GREW STOUTER Lost Baby in Wreck, Lands to} Worry Over Him Has Taken Find Her Brother Is Off Ten Pounds, She Tells in Prison. the Magistrate. From kaw: > Vaan et, waited When Mra, Tosste Marcusson came Twenty-clghth street. Justice Zellers! ity ane warid one tipped the aealee at Presiding in Special Sessions, received! io.” sotags ‘or wach of her nineteen to-day a totter tolling of the sud plight | 0" Pon Mub-udden aiicttien (oa tial of Mrs, Martha Maran, a survivor of |* wong htt elle : ; ing a grand total of 1% pounds, Being the Titante disaster. Mra, Maran, ace (9! ; reeon cording to Walsh, wrote to her brother, *ROFt It follows that she must be—yer Edmond Beattie, who lodged wits Walsh | *t- two years ago, telling him her husband Leo Marcusson, the Jack Spratt of the had died and she was bringing her baby | Combination, began” life with an aggre- to this country on the Titanic to Hive! ate welght of four pounds, He has with her brother, lived thirty rs and taken on only Bealtie is serving a term in the Black-|four pounds a year, which, according well’s Island penttentiary for shoplifting. |to all the arithmetic available gives him way managers to have been submitted to mediator Neil and Knapp and to have been passed along by the arbitra- tors to the engineers. Chief Stone sald the statement news to him, “The Mediators,” he declared,” ha’ submitted only one proposition to us coming from the railroads. That was for an arbitration board of thirteen members. We would not consider a board of that size, It is too cumber- some. * “No other plan of any sort has been submitted to us as coming from the railroads. Our only information as to the idea of letting the Interstate Com- merce Commission arbitr: our diff ences or letting the Justices of the United States Supre! Court select ar- bitrators has been gained from the newspapers in which the statement of the board of managers was printed. NOTIFIED MEDIATORG ENGIN- EERS EXPECT ACTION TO-DAY. crastination. I have served notice on Mediators Nell and Knapp that we want action to-day and expect to get it. want something in the way of @ definite Proposition. “In order to that the engineer time I will state ould not consider merce Commission. question, “And, while I have the highest re- spect for the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, I do not look with favor on the proposition that they should select the arbitrators to settle our demand for more wages, The en- vironment of those Judges, throwing them continually among professional and business men, does not appeal to us, for thom, personally and proféssionally. It ts out of the ple. We would like to get an arbitra- tion board of five members, one to be chosen by us, one to be chosen by the railroads and the other three to be se- lected by our two representatives. The law provides that if the arbitrators chosen by party in dispute ai to agree on the remaining ‘While we think a board of five would be big enough we might accept a board of seven. The mediators know our po- sition, But we have been unable to get anything in the way of @ definite, straight-out proposition from the rail- roads. ARBITRATION PLAN FORMING, SAYS CHAIRMAN 8TUART. The Confere: Committee of Rai!- way Managers and Mediators Neil and Knapp held a long session to-day at the Manhattan Ho! At its conclu. sion Chairman Stuart of the Erie Rail- road sald: “Satisfactory progress is being mi Arbitration is being considered plan will probably be formulated soon, As for the statement of Chief Stone that he did not receive from the media- thought the Media- Pi Propositions ‘before the engineers and the engineors had turned them down, Neither Mr. Neil nor Mr. Knapp would talk about the matt CASTORIA The a oon Have ‘Always ny aecctve Fo ¢ Just-ns- oe heat health of Children Ex; atroys The Children’s Panacea— Bou; H, Fletcher, and hi rvision for over 30 Counte! ut experiments, and endanger the ‘perience ST ORI at Is CAS for Castor Oil, P: fortes Drops and Soothing 8; pium, iorphine nor other id allays Feverishness, s been in constant use for the relief of latuloney, Wind Collie, bles and Diarrhia, It regulates the Sto! ansiinilates the Food, giving healthy nd natural sleep. ht has borne the signa- as been made under his ears. Allow no one leits, Imitations and ent. A ‘are= », It contains neither jarcotic substance, It de- For more than it Teething Trow- mach and Bowels, Mother’ 'riend, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of © are getting tired of all this pro- | while we have the greatest respect |: Waish went to the pier to meet the Car-/a grand total of 12 pounds Patiia when the survivors were brought! The Marcussonis were married two here. He met Mrs, Maran and learned | yea 0. For the last six months the baby had been lost in tho ship- | they have been living at No, 261 Chester | ck. From shock, exposure and grief | street, East New York. It has not Mrs. Maran was in a pitiable condition. |proved a happy union. To be sure, Mrs. Walsh said he did not dare to teli her | Marcusson has not seen much of her that her brother was in jail, and so he! Liltputian husband at night, as he ts made up a story that Beattle had gone| ths proprietor of the West Side Patrol West on business and would not be| Company in Mi in, an organization | back for @ long time, Walsh sent the |of night watchmen, But he ie always | woman to friends in Newark, | there at breakfast time, and that's when The Justices of Special Sessions, in| the trouble started, which court in May, 1910, Beattie was| Yesterday Mre. Marcusson came to tie | sentenced to one year's imprisonment | breakfast table from the kitchen to cat and to pay a fine of $00—serving a day | with her night-watching husband and for each dotiar unpa'd—were asked to| found spread conspicuously before her | remit the unpaid part of his plate where she could not fall to sec tt| Is about $90. Otherwise, Walsh sald,|a large quarter-page newspaper adver- | though himself a poor man, he would | tisement of an anti-fat cure. H try to raise the $00. I ¥ y t was too much for her tormente! Justice Zeller directed Clerk Smith t0! soul and she remonstrated by decora- | reply that ! | salle rotor nae her, (ooking into | ting Marcusson's vest with scrambled | Beattle's record, was fot inclined to | Ughten his sentence. He had re-| sm. Marcusson responded, she asserts, | Peatedly been arrested for thefts in de-| by hitting her in the eye. Mrs. Mar- cusson proceeded post hase to the New | partment stores here and in Philadel- phia_and had served two penitenNary | Jersey Avenue Court and swore out a warrant for Marcusson’s arrest, charg- terms In Pennsylvania, ‘The crime for tnt tit 1s now paying the Denaky Was| ine assault. The pair appenred to-d before Magistrate Harris, | the theft of a painting framed, worth “Your Honor," watled | $24. from the Slegel-Cooper store. The pifght of Mrs. Maran, Justice Zeller added, was but one more sad example of the truth that the criminal hurts his family as much as he hurts himself when he does wrong. —— K. OF C. TO ENTERTAIN. a Maria © the plump ell Pla Elaborate Performance. Arrangements have been perfected for the sixteenth annual entertainment and reception of Santa Marla Council, Knights of Columbus, at Palm Garden, y-elghth street, to-morrow eve- The entertainment will be a radi- departure ¢rom those formerly given y the Council and will be on a much larger and more elaborate scaie, A musical production with sixty-five | characters has been secured, with a Vaudeville ollo, All details in connec- tion with staging the performance wil! | de in the hands of persons of experience and a number of novel features will bY Introduced, Musle of the highest order has been secured for the dancing, which will he- gin at 11 o'clock. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Ready Rellet Fund of the Councll. Most 23rd Street FUR ST received for storage. tomers are requested be altered or repaired Charges for alter: For Boys Vests, Pants and girls. Cotton Gauze......... 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He makes at least $0 a week, but he says Wy —. He said I don't have to eat ahy- thing, as I have enough fat to keep mo alive, Ike a camel dees, for two years. I'm no camel and f want fin to understand usson had little to say. 5 only make §9 a week,” he told the Court, “and can't give her more than #2 out of it. If she'd take something and get thin I'd be glad to live with her, but who could # lite with # woman as fat as thal was fatter than that when T mare ried you," spoke up Mrs, Marcusson, weighed 200 pounds then and: have lost _ten worrying.” “Well, Tl keep you worrying, then, and maybe you'll loxe some more,” ald Marcusson hea v. Magisirate Harris interposed by ad> Journing the case unttl to-morrow. | DON'T USE DRUGS FOR CONSTIPATION Just Try Nature’s Cure. 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