The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1912, Page 1

Veteha px, Wi Fi OCKED Miners Urged by Leaders to Accept Compromise and a eetioeael ‘ ait) eEDITIO WEATHER—Vair to-night; Saturday cloudy. N. “Circulation Books Open to Ail.” TI Se pig Nhs The Avoid id a Strike WRATHER—Fair to-nishts Snturdnay elowdy, fem al nit vhuliay Oo ¢ Copyright. 1912, by The Press Publ ¥ ‘New York World). The a NEW Y ORK, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 28 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. ‘White Leaves Sickbed in lowa to Urge Reconsideration of Compromise. TO ASK UNION VOTE. Refusal by Sub-Committee Leaves Last Resort in Ap- peal to the Ranks. Intent upon avoiding a strike in the anthracite coal regions, President John P. White of the United Mine ‘Workers of America is hurrying to New York from his home in Iowa on Tank and Auto HURRES HERE Nal EFFORT TO PREVENT A BiG SIRE THO NEN BURNED WN BASEMENT FRE ~ SIRS OVERCOME Firemen Work Hard Holding Blaze From Huge Gasoline Club. A fire resulting from a gasoline ex- Plosion in the basement of the fiv story brownstone house at No, 22 and 4 West Fifty-fifth street, at noon to- day, threatens for a time to commun!- cate with the twelvo-story structure the fastest trains. The operators ex- pect that when Mr. White gets here the Committee of Ten of the Miners’ Union, which rejected the compromise fgreement yesterday, will see the af- fair in a different light and consent to reopen negotiations. »White Waa taken seriously il! at his fhome last Monday. At first it was thought ‘his allment was serious. He had recovered sufficiently yesterday to justify him in starting for New York to use his influence in straightening out the complications that have arisen. WILL SUBMIT COMPROMISE TO CONVENTION OF 800. Following the anouncement of the eal operators’ conference committee this afternoon that it could go no far to submit the compromise agreement to @ full tri-district convention of 300 deles s of the miners, to be held in or Barre on May 14. After an- frouncing this decision the miners’ com- yemen made preparations to leave ony. er State Senator William Green (ef Ohio, who is representing President fWestte of the Mine Workers in the con- ey GAn't believe there would be a strike. % consider the situation encouragini ead. ‘We are going over the records ‘afternoon and I am confident that will be @ peaceful settlement of question in dispute, sooner or later, Tam inclined to believe that it will pooner. I certainly consider @ strike the anthracite field a long way off at ” Gown to the real point of Wflerence, it is found to exist in the away eo-called “sliding ec Res atcorea in 192, This 1s abolished by the terms of the compromise agree- ment, end it 1s claimed that, instead ‘an tnorease of 10 per cent. in wages ‘miners will get an increase of only Oe per cent. the operators wil. de able to saddle the 10 per cent, on th consumers. OPBRATORS OVER TURN OF AFFAIRS. Following the joint conference of the Mo, 43 Liberty street, when the miners’ committee took its unexpected stand Golden Agnes, $3.50; show $4.90; ————— POR BASEBALL SEE PAGE 23. here, declared this afternoon | IN| BAD HUMOR! full committees yesterday afternoon at) next door, pr of women and childre: ocoupied by the Automo- bile Club of America. It was only by the most despereie kind of fighting that firemen, led by Battalion Chief Duffy, nted the flames from spreading. Two men were seriously burned tn the fire, one probably fatally, and a number were overcome by the dense smoke, that could be men hanging over the scene for miles, The firo began in a portion of the Dasement occupied by L, Jaffess, a wholesale rubber dealer, A workman how there was he was sent to Roosevei oline, communication. The fire was kept ture. Two sisters, belongings to the street. side streets in the vicinit: with machines. the firemen got control, ‘Batteries — Caldwell Brown and Ege In the rear of the vullding is ceptacle containing 4,000 galions of gas- and for a time it seemed the flames would reach it, but the firemen centred thelr attack here and prevented Hospit y —_————<———— BaseballScoresTo-Da NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK, was vulcanizing an automobile tire, Gasoline 1s used tn this work, Some- in explosion and flames ther than the compromise already} tnstantly jumped ceilingward. The feached with the miners’ sub-committee, | workman's clothing caught fire and he At was decided by the miners’ committee | 61) tg the floor unoonactous. The flames communicated with tanks of Basoline in the basement, The burned workman was dragged out by men in the crowd that quickly assembled, and from the upper stories, but the smoke from the burn- ing rubber was exceedingly dense and permeated to every room in the struc- Kate and Stella Koshla, were carried unconacious from the third floor by firemen. A roomer on the second floor was also overc Roomers became excited as they saw the flames licking up the outside of the building, and many began to heave thelr Automobiles in the Automobile Club building were hastily removed, All the re filled After the flames had licked up the gasoline in the basement NEW PAPAL NUNCIO WARMLY GREETED ON ARRWAL HERE Archbishop Bonzano Escorted to Cardinal’s Residence; Wel- comed by School Children. POPE IN GOOD HEALTH. Marvels at Skyline and Hopes; for Long Stay Here—Recep- tions Planned. Archbishop Gtovanni Bonsano, the new Apostolic Delegate to the United Stator, who succeeds Cardinal Falooni, arrived to-day on the North German Lioyd steamer Koenig Albert. He was “1912. Muriel Astor, Daughter of John. Tis Caught on the Avenue To-Day. FLOPING PASTOR | GOES AT NIGHT 10 ~ GUS OLD HOME |Jere Knode Cooke Admitted at | Last to House of Floretta Whaley’s Grandmother. MANY WEEPING WOMEN SEES HIS SICK CHILD,| Daniel Buckley Testifies Before Sena- tor Smith That Passengers Broke Down the Barrier After Member of Crew Had Turned Key. AIDED IN HIS FLIGHT BY WIDOW OF COL. ASTOR. Couple Living Now on Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, Recog- | nized by Few. The Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, former rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, | Hempstead, L. 1, has established him- self with the young woman with whom met at the pler in Hoboken by @ dele ation of prominent Catholic clergymen from 4h over the country and @ com- mittee from the Catholic Club headed by Supreme Court Justice Victor Dowl- ing. ‘The reception committee received a @urprise. They had known the new Papal Legate was only forty-four years 014, but they were not prepared to see the youthful, elert-faced men who stepped swiftly down the gungplank, the prelate who takes precedence over all archbishops in this country and who ranks with cardinals. After the greetings were over Arch- bishop, Bonsano was led to Cardinal Farley's limousine and followed by fifteen ‘automobiles decorated with American and Papel flags, ich bore the committees to St. Patrick's Cathe- Grail. After landing at the dock (‘e Apostolic Delegate allowed himself to be photograpied and pleasantly sub- mitted to interviews. His first word was one of wonder at the impressive skyline of New York. His next was praise for the American people and the hope that he might remain a long time. SAID MASS DAILY IN SHIP'S MUSIC ROOM. ‘The voyage over was extremely rough and cold, the Delegate sald, and al- though the party wae on the lookout for icebergs, none were sighted, On the way over Archbishop Bonzano cele- brated mase daily in the music room of the Koenig Albert. He had little to say regarding himself and his mission, but consented to talk of the Pope's reported death whioh startled the world. ‘His Holl! was in good health when I left him,” he said. ‘He is not as trong as we would wish, When you consider his seventy-seven years and the daily audiences he holds, besides the burden of work he acomplishes, his fee- bleness is not to be wondei uuletin which reported his death credence from the fact that His Holl- ness was somewhat in ill-health at the time, but there was no danger of any- thing serious. Tre priestly career of the new Apos- AT PITTSBURGH. and against the compromise, the operators | PHILADELPHIA— acnpagant 5 0 )Continued on Fifth Page.) GIANTS— ———————— G —s LEXINGTON FINISHES. | patterten—a ; re Ames and ¥ FIRST RACE.—Six furlongs—All Kea, | - — tor (Loftus), first; Golden Agn 108 AT BOSTON, (Bpflling), second; J. H. Reed, Mt BROOKLYN— i (Molesworth), third. Time, 114, Tolson ovuo010005 — D'Or, Charley Brown, High Flown, Jack | yogpuN— Weaver, Slim Pendant, Felix and Nigtt | 0 000000 Bist algo ren, dfutu gala og z oar Batterles—Rucker and Phelps, Hess straight $12.30, place #40, show | Smebeeraas & B. Reid, * | In Panl er FI | CHICAGO— ‘MELVILLE, La. May ditions | 02003 _ bordering on panic prevail bere this | PITTSBURGH afternoon since the posting of a warn: | 30100 Ing by Government ensineers advising | patteries—Cheney ana Archer, \ wil inhab! for thelr Ives. | nitz ‘and Gibson, Blood waters from the Mlesissippi levee at M eye teat penta Weep through this section, and it is AMERICAN LEAGUE. ed there are not sufficlent means at — hepa to take the townspeople in the AT PHILADELPHIA, aurrounding country to places of safety, | HIGHLANDERS— ‘This afternoon most of the inhabitants | 0 0 0 Bi of Melville had to t ee and Pacific Rally 0 PAE a it | Street, tolic Delegate 1s largely confined to re- sponsibilities in Rome. ‘Twenty - two years ago to-day he left for China as a missionary. He remained three years in Tien Tsin, He returned to Rome and was appointed head of the Poniffical {College. “or eighteen years he hag held that position, Nine years from the sariier in the day, condition of the ailing child is greatly ‘ “yneee time he entered the seminary he was "ire, Jotun Jeo Astor, the Colonel's |iarproved, prig tte: Phy tie Ly tey eek The boy sald cat after he Analy j years after that he was made bishop, 4 Miss Kutnerine Lorce, her sister, were “ ” age von | Whe ee cane Olled, eee iain {ana how, nine searagater, hein created Funeral Will Be Held To-More|in the iittle, group of remtves “and WHITE HOUSE “CRANK' volvere tn the air fd ordering the men) When caane to the sath oat aba i Apomolic Delegate to Washington, {rlends aasembied at the house when ° . | 1 to ith women and men The youtrful archbishop fails, row- in Rhinebeck CI Catena Mate etlectien |. MOVING PICTURE BLOCKED BUCKLEY THE FIRST STEERAGE|#°! !. Six more men followed him im leven td cas any connection ih the pesct,| TOW i Rhinebeck Church |irain from New York conveyed them |when two officers came along and ee far ciroumstances, although he smiled as : to the Rhinebeck station, whence they|(juards Halt Photographers as PASSENGER TO TESTIFY. dered them out, he mentioned it. —Burial Here. were driven in @ limousine to Fernclit, ¥ | Buckley ts now living with relatives hoy t get out fast. enodats |, The post to which he comes seems to Ali were in deop mourning. They wii “Actor” Makes a Dash “to at No. tS Tremont avenue, the Bronx. | sult tho era” sald Bockiog ian be the stepping stone to the Cardinalate. remain there watil after the service tox A 2 t No, i a ne a 5 4d Buckley, | ontence” sania and Monee a morrow. Reach President Taft.” Mis eis in King Swilametn ea, Ms » revolver in the Monst lowers the of Sires cA Sting Mathes Gia Guek, oy so te the firat| air. ,T was crying and torrit ¥ |Falconlo wore olovated to the Cardinal-| Under & wealth of flowers the body of| Mrs. Fores and Mise Katherine Forge! wagrixgTON, May SA motion | Count? Cork, ireland, ‘He ts the frst ve reins end terribly rth | ate f ¥ Archbishop Bonzano, who ‘s Titular Archbishop of Mitylene, Is remarkable In his early elevation to Archbishop and Papal Legate. His experience in varl- ous countries around the world has made him a man of affairs beyond his .| gathering, although his clothing was no different He was attended from the rest. by his secretary, . Louls, who i s 4 a ver, None of us had any for|f was weeping all the time," juat on the eve of his departure to sail| Col, Astor's body reached Rhineciift ' chine would h life preserver, None o: h on the Titanic. Mr. Papin has the|g: 43 o'clock yesterday afternoon, | $12Men’s Biue SergeSuits $5.95 a time. I started back and found that] GATE LOCKED AFTER FIRST ticket for his cancelled passage on the | Qrcompanied by Vincent. Aat | THE SUB" Clothing Corner, Broad | the water was already up to the third EFFORT TO ESCAPE, Titante, which he will preserve. One of 44 it Astor and! way, cor, Barclay St, opp. Post-OMlee, p step leading from the steerage quarters the firet to greet the new arrival was| Nicholas Biddle, in the private car| will, sell to-day and fut 1,606 | lowed to continue but the White House | gnq coming in fast. I ran up and saw a! After young Buck! Father Bonaventure Cerrettl, who was|0ceanle, which had been chartered for | Nevioes in blues blacks, «ra j authoritive refused lateward trying to lock the gaie that |stralght-away narrative Senator Cardinal Falconio’s secretary and has|the trip from Halifax. ‘The New York | tures, fart c many eatin lined; World Dathaing fork Th teths, __ |penned us froin the second and firet | cross-examined him about the been in charge of the office since last|Central train to which the car was at- |All sides, worth $12 hh 6 Soe, ail 8},| clase decks, A man tried to stop him| of the gate. He sald thee November, tached made ao special stop at Fenmaift §p95. Open Saturday ‘ea vee and the steward bit tim, kmocking him | ga! wee locked after the Gret 2 Fier nie a he eloped five years ago and their two children in a two-family house on ‘Tenth avenue Brooklyn, Thia fact came to light following the report from Hemp. stead that the ex-pastor of the fash- Sir Rufus Isaacs Charges at the Lon- fonadle church fn that town had pald @ hurried visit Iaat night to the home of Mrs. Kaziah Whaley in Hempstead on a don Inquiry That Favoritism Was age. He 1s of medium height and slen-| Messiah, which Col. Astor endowed and their apparatus in front of tho main . sacka der, 1y sharp. Smally keen, |of which he was warden for sixteen| Mirante of the White House, and the |agcusied.@ cotapartuugal Wii), SiN D the ship ee wearin Tata brown eyes and brown hair, without | years, . white-bearded stranger started up the | others Rs ae ee os ie -~ ae Be 2s pI ri to climb even the suggestion of gray, coupled |” op) ‘ Sake ah 2 veuiardae Mision with the to e od 0 fe ropes. e of the men pulled y the family and a few close | day made a denial of yesterday steps. ft out! her back iato the b harrlake: tease Wl ty th iat la tt i hie berth, He had hardly got out the boat, We got clear i Af rr ni eet oH friends will attend the church service, | {fou Comalar Pepi. Snes fee Ttailan} Policemen on guard Intervened before Lees he noticed that there Was water) of the ship about fifteen minutes before which will be conducted by the Rey, Dr, | Uallleslip tte vario had been driven! the picture men could begin business He called to his three come |it sank, Shown First Class Passengers. Story of the Locked Gates | Was Told by a Steward Day ° After the Carpathia Arriv On April 19, the day after tho Carpathia arrived here with the sar- vivors of the Titanic disaster, the Evening World published the state ment of a steward of the lost vessel in which he told of the ; sing of of the steerage passengers and the confinement of fifty men and women In an airtight death-trap. + “I know of none of the people from the steerage sleeping quarters, beyond a water-tight door that was closed immediately after thé coli. sion who got out,” he said, “I know that they did net get owt before was shut because they would have had to pass me in the alley an@- none of them Md. I spoke to one of the petty officers about the door deing shut and all those people in there and he said: ‘Wel, what can we de ahout it now? If those forward com;artments hold, then the air in them. will keep ua up all the longer.’" [eeersat eae Floretta Whaley to come jo the side of their in ts fezite ceed four-year-old Time and again Floretta Wi ‘| srandmother hae declared hat deca Knode Cooke would never be permitted to cross the threshhold of her home. She refterated this announcement nex: eral weeks ago when her granddaughter and Cooke came on from San Fran- cisco with thelr two children, She re- celved t'> young girl and her babes| with open arma, bur Cooke did not # Near the scene of his former parieh. The couple Hved in Manhattan for a few weeks after thelr arrival from the West and then moved to the Httle | house on Tenth avenue, Brooklyn, ‘The | oldest of the two children spent much of | the time with his great-grandmother and | it was there ‘he was atricken with | measels and whooping-cough a week agv, COOKE COULDN'T REACH HEMP | STEAD TILL NIGHT. Early yesterday the mother was # moned to Hempstead and she was much alarmed at the child's condition that she sent for Cooke, Ho did not m= | pase Direct evidence that an attempt was made to bar the steerage respond to the summons unttl 9 o'clock HY Y jat night, making the journey (rom | Sengers aboard the Titanic from the upper decks where the first and see- | Brooklyn by troll He 1 d lett : f 01 5) * ie vileda as, wuiaile eran Tenens | ond cabin passengers were being placed in the lifeboats was adduced he was there until the news spread! by Senator William Alden Smi ay c p : tantay, Mle Bene deep th fas ahatens, y Sealer: Sinn to-day et Ube presales Rea be dodging the lampposts as he made his! ducting at the Waldorf-Astoria, This evidence was supplied by Daniel , ee the Waaley_ tome fing fone) Buckley, a twerty-one-year-old steerage passenger aboard the Titanic, im as ine popular preacher of a| who escaped in the same boat with Mrs, John Jacob Astor, ‘The couple occupy the first floor of In the investigation by the British Government, which was continued in London to-day, Sir Rufus Isaacs practically charged that favortism was shown in rescuing first class passengers and hinted that the inquiry would the two-story and basement house on go deeply into the reports that doors and gates were locked against the Tenth avenue and do not use the name of Cooke or Whaley. They have been steerage passengers. Young Buckley told Senator Smith identified by neighbors, however, and wate was looked against the steera, dock, about station proper. Six old employees of the Astor eatate acted as pall bearers. ey assioted Henry C. Grube, the Rhinebeck village two miles north of the the descriptions given tally exagtly with that of the ex-pastor and the girl he eloped with, One of thelr neighbors has frequently heard the fathet call COL. ASTOR'S BODY pwn the st, We all rushed the Bate and it was broken down, undertak place the body In the|H!® oldest son by the mame “Paui|?4senxers by one of the praca “I went on deck: and saw five boats Iya Eg ogg oo fet | Cooke." crew, and described a, inad xeramole | jnuneved from the starboard alde, the winding roads of the Ferncliff ex-| It Was sald in Hompatead to-day that || Pass this parler, which ouluilialll they started to put the six. over alt ate to the Astor mansion on the miis| Cooke did not see the aged Mra, | 1p the denttnetlin ae tie eee ad | few women, Kot it as there were only ® 4 eoing of the ci . women and | few wo: overlooking the Hudson River. At Fern- | Whaley upon the sion of his noc- s He sido relisted: how he had| ‘ew women, children, managed to find a tin a fe ind was added in heeping it by turnal visit and that there ts no kel. ORDERED OUT oF T hood of his repeating the visit, as the HE BOAT oF TWO OFFICER olf the body was placed in @ coffin which had been shipped from New York FRNCLF HOME are expe: funeral | spect Morrow mast | Astor's body to this elt be buried in the Astor plot Comete! One Hunared et and Amsterdam will slecrage passenger Col. John Jacob Astor is resting to-day ourse of the Congressional investiga at Ferncliff, the Astor country place at Rhinebeck, Flags are at half through the village, The funeral will| take place to-morrow just before noon in the little Episcopal Church of thi picture plot, to show a ‘crank’ tempting to reach Preatdent Taft, was | nipped in the bud at the White House to-day, A squad of ploture mep walked Into the White House grounds accom: panied by a venerable looking individual with a long white beard, They eet up ard lear here, ‘The youth began his testimony by te ing how the steerage quarters Were die vided between the after and forward} part of the Titanto—way below deck: He was among those quartered aft ani > so down, Was only half way dowm na girl named Bridget Bradley wanted to climb back aboard the ateamme Astor on the deck. panions that they had better get out, They laughed at him. the women “{ rushed upstairs,” sald Buckley, |! the boat sot up and screamed, The “and when [ got there I could find no|Nnolse over the water was horrible amd When the lights went out and © \the ship disa re \ on the rocks by 4 storm and sunk off the Tripolitama coast, near Zvara, The nastantjnople said that a de- patch to this effect had been recetved jin the Turkivh capital from ‘Punte, The operstors explained that they were seeking to get @ reallstic exhibition a ‘crank’ trying to enter the White House, The actor turned back Ernest C. Saunders, the rector, assisted by the Rev, Dr. William T, Manning, rector of Old Trinity, and the Rev, Di Ernest M. Stlres, rector of St. Thoma hi