The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1912, Page 1

AAR . Rivals Whipped Into Line, Steel Trust Trial Shows \TUDR—Lleudy and aehiinel showers to-night. Nant iT \ | Lanna) } “PRICE ONE OENT, TAFT AND THE COLONEL IN FIERGE STRUGGLE FOR ~ MARYLAND VOTES T0- DAY, 1M AND BRYAN . ARE BOTH IN OHIO; von| PODSEVELT GONG President na it His Speech- making Early and Keeps It Up All Day. Big Vaje 1s. Being f Being Pot At Over State by Both the Parties. PAFT MEN KEEP SILENT. Roosevelt Boomers Statements ct a Suré Victory. IMORE, M4, ‘May ¢.—The| et {fight in the turbulent pollt- Seal history of Maryland culminated fe-dey in a, primary battle unequalled fet Ditterness, and with the result ab- eelutely in doubt in both the Demo- @ratic an@ Republican parties so. far ee Presidential preterential fesult eoncerned. oe) PCE Declares the Only Real Boss in Buckeye State Supports \ the vote in the cities as heavy. “In addi- dent Tattiand Wiliam J. Bryanin Ohio Roosevelt over- all else, While the Roosevelt more iasuing statements in the big things. that ‘i happen in. Oh'o Coprriaht, 1912. by Ce. (The New ae wena ISTEEL TRUST WHIP SHOWN IN LETTERS PUT IN EVIDENCE E. E. Spiliie: Ves Head of Wire Pool, Tells How Prices Were Dictateg. T. Co& l:-DBAR BARED. [Expert Buell Testifies Plant Outclassed Any Owned by Absorbers, ‘When the hearings in the euit of the Government to dissolve the United | Gtates Steel Corporation opened before Bxaminer Henry P. Brown in the Cus- tom House to-day jt was apparent that the first fire w: of the big trua' the Govern: only {8 the @teel Corporation illegal and operating in defiance of the Sher- man anti-trust law, but thet the con-| cerns that entered into the big come Bination are aleo illegal. ‘The important testimony zoncernet | the Ameriean Horse Shoe ‘Association, | of which American Steel & Wire w js the contention of Was an égreement to fiz prices tos. kertetverea Bt the soreness the head of the wire supervisor of the aseo- from fim were read ) wast elation. Lett NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912, WHATHER—Clondy and uncettiods showers 16 “PAGES Expert Steel Manutacturer’Testitying at the Trial Ot the Trust, and Its Multi-Millionaire Owners (Photographed especially for The Eventing: World by a Staff Photographer.) attorneys that not | fi ATUTHE HEARING AND PORTH AIT.OF, RmRown ~ MOTHER IN COURT claimed certain victory the Gent was the favorite. Because of the heavy vote cast and “Gee complicated conditions tt was not Relieved that the: result in the State Would: be Available until early to-mor- vow, ‘Phe polls opened at 6 o'clock in Balti- city and 8 o'clock in the country, 04 Will close at 6 o'clock here and at 6 @dlock outside the city. Both parties * qmpect close contests and the results ® majority of the 129 delegates qhoven to-day for the State Convention {get all the national delegat there are but two candidates for Hepubdlican Presidential preference ‘the division of the State delegates chos- en to-day must revit in a majority for the dther. Yet the three Democratic candi- ves @ majority the contest for be fought out @@eiches to jail the country-distriots an- y Seat, to New Jersey Governor Poritice in the noet two weeks. Four|to show how means were taken to whip Presidential candidates wilt, make} outside coficerns into the association. speech-making whirls, through the State | Jackson wee one of those who pleaded before the State-wide primaries, May 2,|20lo contendere in the wire poo! aults The President entered the State this |"4 was fined. The Government was represented at me ch Fou to Cineyinatl and we hearing today by Jacob M. Dick- former Secretary of War and epectal counsel, and Henry E. Colton. For the corporation there were Rivh- ard V. Lindabury Raynal C. Bolling and & host of other lawye: EXAMINER GETS AT TENNE: COAL AND IRON QUICKLY. Tt te the contention of the Govern ment the principal compant which were merged to form United States Steel Corporation we Ives combinations in restraint of trade. It {8 asserted that under the Sherman act the corporation should be ba oad as well as all the elements joaing it. » Dickinson opened proceedings by calling Wallace Buel!, who once was manager of ten atéal and wire concerns, one .of them the Washburn & Moen Company. “Mr. Buell was.dnce tant general manager of tho American and Wire Company, Mr. Dickirfson put im evidence @ statement of the Amer- oan Steel and Wire Company filed in the New York Stock Exchange in 1690, with its application to list its stoci, and asked if, up to that time, the ‘con- made several train speeches, He will Teach Cincinnat! late to-night, «and to- morrow will attend the May festival there. After making speeches Wed! day, concluding Wednesda night here, Tatt wit reurn East. The Woodrow Wileon headquarters will havo general direction of the Bryan speaking tour, which will begin to-night at Chillicothe, in opposition to the Presidential candidacy of Gov. Harmon. To-morrow’ Bryan will pass through the Western counties, arriving at Toledo Tuesday night. He will re- main in Ohfo until Thuredgy, Roosevelt hea¢quartors te preparing for the coming of Col. Roosevelt, State Chairman Walter F. Brown, Roosevelt's Ohio manager, ie in New. York confer- ring with the Colonel and arranging for the itinerary, Harmon headquarters will be busy working to offset the effects of the Bryan tous. It is sa! mon will soon take the The President made hig first epeech | at Nelsonville at 8.45 o'clock A. M., con- te the ee Harton will combine wpalnet WEDS HIS TENTH WIFE. famecl J. Killow Scems to Hoi Bee ROCK, Ark.—Samuel J. Kul- dew tah taken unto himself his tenth wife. Millow, is proud of his simonial has been separated trom five of wives by divorce. Death wok four. . EES ACRE svorr * Don't rob yourself! Don't lokg the best laugh of the year. Don't miss “or. fi ee” we The Evening Ww “Officer 8 rapidly mavins ery, ‘of New Vor! id on th Hen of ‘the ‘sam: name. 7 LEW! begin in| he Evening He Monda: May 1 ” Pate le a story that will make tiauing his new fighting policy of vigorously flaying Roosevelt titude toward the Stee! and Harvest- er Trusts and replying to all of Roose- Yelt's charges and defending his onp daministyation. NOT ASKING FOR FAVORS, WANTS JUSTICE, “I am not asking @ favor ‘because 1 am a son of Ohio,” satd the President at Nelsonville, “but I ask for simple UT ; Mr. Taft again attacked, Col. velt and said he h will to eater Roose- d been forced against nt compaign tations, Roosevelt said he uldn't accept the nomination; then he said he. dn't be a candidate. Now he's @ date for sure,” sald Mr. Taft, “but not content with an ordinary campaign, He found it necessary to at- tack my administration and me per- sonally. he jess I sald the more he ‘said, ande attacked me with unfounded charge in every way. I waited a month, aud then de@yuse of the cause I represent 1 deciied to reply to hom, I had to fight and 1 am here @ do it.” “X¢q, you are, Bill” yelled some one ent Wayelied from Athens nville on @ special train that 1a band and more than @ bun- ends, “Mr, Roosevelt eoys I am In favor of an aristocracy for the bouses,” ald the President. ow 12 you go to work counting bo: you wHt find just as son mine, only when he becomes & poltt!- 1) leader, and wasn he {s On mine he boss. ou have waiter Brown in this Btate, for his etituent concerns of the American and Wire Company were in compe: among themselves. Mr. Buel! said tha’ they were. They also competed with his company, Washburn & Moen. “Was there any attempt then to con- trol competition?” asked Dickinson, “From :ime to tim 1d the witness, “vepresentatives of the different con- cerns would meet in New York, There was no regular tle, be tied upon. The meetings were wen ly held at the call of E. E. Jack- son, This was 1992 and 1896," Mr. Buell was then brought down ‘o 1907-when he said he made an estimate of the holdings of the diff fron, ¢oal and one companies here and in Europe. Mr. Dickinson asked: “What were the potentialities of the holdings of the Tonnessee Coal and Iron Company as you found them?” T. Cc. & I. FACILITIES SUP: RIOR TO ALL IN COMPETITION. Mr. Lindabufy objected and Dickinson went at his way, The witness | it was the opinion of experts no d «pany in the world could bring the raw material to: vith greater facility and manu more cheaply than te eo Coal and Ivon Com) dabury, crvss-cx! ectors- of Tennessee ° | fr, Buell his ine sald they weve mes A. Wood- the Hanover dead, Ques nformants em. Mr, | waat dix Company nad given formaten, The witnet Janes Henry Smiti ward, the president of National Bank, Both are Uoned clovely as to. ovher Mr, Buell refused to name ‘Mr. Buell went on to say that there was deficiency in. the organization of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. @ontinued on re) From) ain OTR 2 NS 1 of them-| _ The price would] , mt in another | ; | pers! 3 Wi iH URGES FOUGHT FOR LIES | PENSIONS FOR ALL ATTORNEY: LINDABORY: HOURS AFTER BOATS FEDERAL WC WORKERS LEFT THE TITAN rs oe ito co lumbia’ Alone Excepted in His Message to Congress. Death Due to Drowning, | WASHINGTON, May 6—Pensions for - all, employees Gf the Governmemt, Fi excopt -the: District @f Columbia, with HALIFAX, N. S., May €—Only ona| COMPUISOTY Fetiramensal, seventy dears of the seventcon persdns whose bodies | bo eg bese groan were recovered by the bie Minla fromthe employe soe pase fe iad i ft pa sacdimectny IN'® | Government ald, are r@ommended by y Tiiante trosedY | President Taft in a specif} mesvage sent ty opinion Of /t9 Congress to-day. The, 1 the cable an, The other proves gnd submits the teport of the sixteen pe @ from exposure, death) Boonomy and Efficiency .Commiasion, enmuirg some four hours’ a‘vwy the vea| whieh evolved the Civil Bension Pro- sel wank and long afigr thé last lite } vat had drawn away, This was dem- nat 2 by an examination of the sodies, in the lungs of but one of whtch Water was fou Only enpiy of 17 Bodies Re- covered by Minia Showed late rétirement of @! Govern- ment clerks who are now seventy years ommended, upon pen- y of thelr annual sal- is made on the author- | artes—not to exceed $00 4 year, Pen- nningham, rector |gfons to thege the President | recom- ch, who accom-|mends should! be paid by the Govern. est. clerks under seventy here early to- required to contribute ough of thelr salaries, not exceeding er,” CON |& per cent., toward the retirement fund, perienced | js recommended. ly two pla but two | would cost the Govern- Iceberg, one of them uke al ment $227,000 for twenty years, the great tent, with two sprawiing branches | Pyesident says, in excess of the loss | protruding Ms bare. The officers; now’ sustained from superanuated (uid ine t sighted a number of | clerks, but in the succeeding sixteen je in th { years, it Is estimated, would save the “We | Government tore than the entire coat atdo Thursday night. of {naugurating the scheme, arrived (here L went bel Mr. Taft declares the proposed plan j my"aurpites, « would be compulrory waving, but the pany assemp 1 con) George's Ci panied th» Minia on he: ‘ae cable ship arrive: he Minta ited rough wi Inued the eler istance, ed the scene of the wreck Before w and put on ship m- 1s only servi the occasion, “The bodies we recovered were four enty years, Ife ‘clerk died batore miles apart, and such success as we ai- tained, was due to expert navigation |fecelve the retirement fund, with a od interest and good luc! Of the seventeen bodies recovered, fif- (Consiausd-on 8 Besgog Fase.) * are Werla . raat wuaKe ap- | Dishevelled Woman Battles With Attendants to Keep Child of Tenements. “Ll shoot the Judge—T'll body in ghis court room, my boy away from me A dishevelled woma: Kle ot No, 131 KE jumped suddenly from ¢ benches in the Children’ afternoon, and screamed hi the top of her voice, She shook her fista at Justice John B, Mayo, who was presiding, clawed ang bit at the hands of the court officers who sought to eject her on Jystice Mayo's orders and finally, on the sidewalk before the Chil~ dren's Court, she raved anew and trted to get Into the wagon which was taking her sev 014 gon, William, back to the ¢ Boctety. Spectal Officer George F. Ficke of the eround to the single room in. the Hast Twelfth street tenement where Mra, Klepavar lived alone with her son, to investigate reports from netghbors that the woman was not a fit Person to have found a wan-taced chil4, whose body showed the mont shooking evidences of starvation,’and the woman together tn 4 very’ small room, only partially fur- nished, Under the officer's questioning woman admitted she, recelved #3 a week from an ok! tan, and she said this was her sol: at me. The! om rent wim 8! 9, , and both whe | and: her boy had to eke out. the x | on only a dollar's worth of food added. The boy's name was William orris, accoming to the woman's state- | ment. He was a ohild by her first hus-| band. She did not know where her sband war, a] ‘ar threatened to shoot hen he took ‘ber child to the Children's Society rooms, and when the boy was brought intq court lag | in the afternoon she Was there, read r violent protest egainst ted from the child. had been ejected Mrs, Klepevar ood crying and cursing by turns until the wagon which had the| boy rolled out of the cour: enclosure Then she made # leap for tho step,| oot every- if you take | where Policeman Regatth was standing, |? hoepitals of Hatt and tried to tear him off. pushed the infuriated mot’, horses were whipped up « wagon soon outdistanced Regatt! off, the| pollee the racing | Probe | | pn mee Tall NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT. 8T, Louis. GIANTS— 2-0 ST. LOWS— 00 et | sron BASEBALL ; poeta ator. " THOUSINOS | IN Floods RED teem Barrier Five Miles % Above Melville, While Thirty Ate. Drowned By Swirling.Waters °: In Point Coupee Parish. TRAIN WITH REFUGEES THROWN OFF THE TRACK, Whole Families Known to Have sti Carried. From Roofs Before 4 pee NEW ORLEANS, May 6.—The Mississipp! River invee above Matvitie,” La.,.at noon ‘to-day. The gap 6 fifty ‘| (id still spreading,» The surouning country will be Aste tel Lait septs Point Coupee Pond india te ituyal nie rae ore raed there 1 Polnt Coupee Parish has been threatened for dayi, but it was'aoh believed the levee would break. A. great volume: of water swept a parish early to-day, however, carrying evetything before it. Surviv pee declare that the people were caught entirely unprepared and were | \ from either a telephone or telegraph station. my It is impossible to estimate the number of lives lost in the districts. Large numbers of the refugees say they have families swept from housetops into the waters. Leaders of corps admit’ that several times they have sent motorbpats to points: families had taken refuge on the roof of a’house and that when the arrived lls crew found only the building, buffeted about by currents. half Its roof surface submerged. The flood had exacted its toll, . « Appeals for help reached here last’) minent danger of drowning. The night. from Letteworth, directly in the] im which they had’ taken path of the Taras torrent. Half a hun-| been dimioged trom the foundation Gred persone were reported to be in !m-| was being tossed about inthe TEN ARE LED tg 25 HURT, INWRECK Some of them are drifting sag! on (ily vonstructed rafts, SPECIAL, ‘TRAINS Brine. REFUGEES, | The Mast of the special igaine 6 Dave been bringing refugees out country argued Batchelor last night. When the two reliet trains wore: ready to leave Batchelor word; cetved thee there wes grave py a Cars Filled With Confederate berate he point of trouble water wi Sowing Veterans on Way to-Macon, [over, SO Srenes: tce-0 <a es bafety. : Ga., Derailed. ‘When the becond section « * water wag ruahing over ‘the t csent reach the other side of the washout, more passe! “i about half way across the track Killed and at. least twent Way and ihe caboose and ¢ wera w hurt, when the first section 3f| toppied aver. Gccupan sgt ey the Tex acted | car were throwu into the water, rain, en rouse to Mi caped without injury. They wey try west of Lettsworth and. nigel place. When the first train wrecked to-duy at Gunn's Mill, on the | ferred to other oon Dow Orleans and Northvartern Raliroad | \yw songs, #ix miles north of Hatttesburg. Five bedien were taken to Hattiesburg and) MANY GTANDING IN THE warn |five or six other bodies Were reported WAIST DEEP, When the first section of the under the wreckage. The engine, baggage the day |Special sped throush the water coach and tl ra left the | WAS. 1UndIng Over the tracks, just track and rol scores Of persons ‘TM, six re walst deep in water riadly transforined Inio @ morgue and! the oad embankntent signalling hyspital ‘The {njured, some of whom |srain to stop. ‘The w wae rising ly thac thos¢ In charge of the arg believed ro be fatally hurt, Miled the |r burg. decided It would imperil che tives of © on vowrd to delty, “The wala wag | tho: (mi stopped “9 In some tanves force bal ater be via Be;ing people out of the B Cas ‘amily, consisting of » and & twelve-yearsohd Boys jeave ther bin which ¥ \s udinhaditable, They : bodily and carted to the ¢ ‘erat ww vlaced ab through aa open window, | Bi joa vu appealp for boats to pe. in sescue work have been seat te Sanders at New Orleai winald | City of Shrevepor: and @ shiz | douen skids are due to arrive tm. apd lor ole bar Sivonnh BALL L GAMES OFF. win | | 4 heavy | bad #0 ened that w game with Hosion was ble under the existing conditions. PITTEBURG, May #—The Dodgers’ conquest of the West didn't vogin on! ache lujed time because Manager Dahlen had to call off bia wame with the Mrates to-day on Bsns + Mass’ Ses, of rain, hose REE, 803G FREE, Maid ae ee se Soca, a War from