The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1912, Page 1

~ $59,000,000 LOST IN FLOOD: be) . WEATHER-—Clearing to-nt; Circula tio Books Open to All, PRICE ONE CENT. sees 117,000 PERSONS IN WANT + Some Experts in Washington: Be- ‘lieve Damage Will Rezch $100,- ‘000,000—Hundreds Drowned WASHINGTON, May 8.—Government ‘experts estimate the dam- age by flood in the Mississippi River Valleys at $50,c 39,000, to say nothing of the loss of life. In some quarters it’ is said the total property loss may reach $100,000,000. At the Department of Agriculture it is believed the loss of farm _¢rops and agricultural property alone has probably’ reached the $50,000,- 000 mark and may finally total double that sum. Until the ravages of the swirling Mississippi have finally ceased it will be impossible to ide- termine whether the $100,000,000 mark will be exceeded. The damage ‘90 the cotton crop alone is expected to be stupendous. No accurate estimate can be made here as to the loss of lifg, but it fs believed hundreds have been drowned. It is reported that 20,000 persons have been rescued. The Government is giving aid to 117,000 flood sufferers. % "To furnieh food for the thousands be used tn rescue work, there ts a 6f homeless people who have been} 00d chance that Con: @riven from their homes and rendered it a small sum; so th ft can temporarily destitute, the War Depart- inal ps4 way in conjunction with ment has already expended $600,000, 2 eer ora i This represents the actual amount}, the ' gui shat : spent since the river and its tributar-linnina whip Isla de Cuba up fes first went on a rampage less than SS eee beeen @ month ago, The present prospect Is the way spots in the flooded that {t will be at least a month before was done on the responsibilty conditions are restor.d to normal, and vetary of the -Navy, Meyer, if thig proves the case, department o Aska can go up the river as ficlals fear they will need about $700, ee rik oh ed 000 more to care for food suferers Ete cantenisehalin ‘enania Congress has already appropriated ‘ross to extend relief have about $1,200,000 for rellef work, Lt fh cab, ABDUL REA ERED eae may be necessary for the law makers lale would like: to provide nearly $2,000,000 amore. This ele ee ie TO AID FAINTING CHILD. that have been broken and displaced bars which must be reco: structed, z Gets Great Applause as He Takes iy is estimaicu that the army has provided 10,0 tents to house flood refue Little Girl in His Arms, gees, serying from canvas afluirs that cost only $id, to costly tropical tents. After these have been In Uwe for @) PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, May &—Pres!- dent Taft won the cheers of a great crowd to-day when he broke hls speech While, it {8 stated, they will be values Jess for actual army work, so that thelr | and lifted to the platform the still form of a litte girl who had fainted in the total cost praciically represents an ad- | ditional expenditure to the Government. | Miions of army sandbags have been! crush about the stand, The child was bsed to” check the inrush of . water] one of a group in white dresses carry- there the levees have threatened to/ ing lags In honor of the President's give way. The vast territory in which l'visit, relief work has been done siretches| When the President saw from Cairo, Ill, to New Ori grumple {ito &. heup ls distance of 64 miles, This « pal sroke include territory in the exten O00 sapmae te te tan ‘Han@her up to me, a. Ih Hote ttlesht el, the little one off abruptly of the stage not val- leys of the Ohio and Red rivers. Although the Navy Department hasly, 1. Rhoades, Mr. Tatt's aide, who 1s we fund at ite disposal which could @ gurgeon, quickly revived the ebile, Kili lae W nab ninco iiss till Lata i sa snake Hoty ” face showed) B POLICE ON FIRE ESCAPES, 1} AMID RAIN OF MISSILES, FIGHT 10 Get GAMBLERS DAMON THEVES.VORGE DRAMA CAUGHT WITH PART | STABEDBY HUBBY, | OF $000,007, WON HM DECRE Place House by Perilous Town Idlers Fled After Filch-|So Says Mrs. Derinis, Now Strong-Arm Men Batter In Steel-Barred Windows as Crowd Cheers. 350 MEN ARE TRAPPED. Try to Escape From St. Mark’s Crawl Over Ledge. atanding two by, two on every fire: Mark's place, and other with eledges and crowbars’ and tearing at steel-barred wag, a sight that kept a sol! for hal¥ an hour, this afternoon... It was Lieut, Becker. and a dozen of his strong-arms raiding the gam- bling house of “Dollar” John and “Ginny” Deinstock and the strong arm men had to bite their way through half inches of steel before they could land the nine men for whom they had warrants. All the time they worked, glasses, china weapons were dropped on their heads by the gamblers behind the steel bars. Some of the strong arm men were badly gased, but: th: made them @wing their sledges all the harder. & t!p had come to Tdeut. Becker that the Houston Boys! Club, which oc- cupled the second and third floors of the four-story brick building at No. 6 St. Mark's place, was not as innocent a place as the name {mplied. So, about 3 o'clock this afternoon, he loaded a dosen of his strang-arms into a furni- ture van, got in himself and slammed the doors shut against prying eyes. COPS ON ROOF BLOCK GAMB- LERS’ ESCAPE Becker had two of his men loafing in the vicinity of the suspected doors beforehand. As soon as this advance guard spotted the furniture van com- ing e@round the corner, they leaped upon the lookout, Who was standing with his back to a push button. The lookout was down on the sidewalk be- fore he could put his finger to the but- ton and give the alanm to those up- stairs. Then the van stopped and the strong-arms burst from the dvors, ‘Two cops swarmed Up the fire escapes to the roof the v on guard at the ranged themeelves on thé fire escape platforms ouside the second and third-story win- te ae guns in their hands. Beck- er and gome of his husitest men tack- led the door that opens from the streot to the stairway. Itywas of the * ox” variety, rein’ do with bands, palited to resemble nami fof_and javu! tacks of sledge and crow When he tognd he could,not force the dbor, Becker Yook his amen around to one side of the house and by hoisting each other to @ shed roof, they found themselves on lime with one ‘of the sec- ond-story windows. The window was barred with round half-Inch rods of steel : Before the sledges began to smash on these barriers the crowd that had gathered at the In@tant of the first assault Jammed St. Mark's Place from curb to curb, The excited spectators shouted encouragement steel HEADS OF RAIDERS. As soon as the policemen atthe side ow began to smash and pry att el bars the chinuware descended from the windows above, Pollepmen Jon Bowers, James Pritch ard and John PD, O'Connor al) were cut about the head and arms by flying ’ is Policemen with drawn revolvers, eacape platform’ up the face of a fourstory bujlding at No, 6° @t. block; full of jammed spectators breathless; pitchers and other fragile, cuctinay CHINAWARE DESCENDS ON THE/ (Conpinued 90 Seccnd Pam. | = bees hesenememeiegnatitannce wonie ipesners @7 atmnet”Aiae ort ‘NEW YORK, WEDNE ing Solomon Gilsey’s Gem Grips From Wagon. diamond robbery in :he South hes been run down. ng loud ot au test 4 to the recovery Of $16,000 Worth of the stolen gems. George Kaul was tHe one arrested in Mount Vernon; 0. C, Roddy wan the man taken simultaneously in New Gr- leans and George Wren was the frat of the trio to fall 1 the tolls of the detectives in Birmingham. Kaul ap eared before @ Mavistrate in Mount Vérnon to-day and--was held to await extradition. ‘The ruse by which the three Atlanta crook separated Gjlsey from two trunks fll of precious stones was a daring one, Gilsey, who had been sioi ping at the Piedmont Hotel 1.. the Southern city, ordered his trunks to be taken to the raliroad station, pre- Parataty to his departure for Cinoine TWO MEN BOARD WAGON CAR. RVING GILSEY’s TRUNKS, Gilsey did not ride with his valuable bagwage on the express wagon and the driver did not know that he was altting omy & few fect away from @ fortune when he. ted for the terminal at thon, Cons quently, he had no re: for suspicion when. t young men hallea & few blocks from the hotel sai ed him tf he would carry two 'y val to the station fo: along wnttis two trunks. Lin ‘They got inthe wagon with the driver poage) ie aia Grant Build. lowntowan of Dullding. But they arrived there the 10 men returned from a trip upstairs and told the ‘Pressman the door of the office where the valises were was locked and would he please help them find the janitor of the building so that they could get his keys. The expr in readily complied with the request. When he returned to the Sidewalk the express Wagon with the | two trunks and the two afaole string. ers were gone. TRAIL LED TO LOCAL IDLERS, WHO FLED TOWN, Later that day the horse and wagon were found outside a lodging louse and within the. detectives found the two |trunks, Inthe irays avout & pieces of hed; only the more valuable stones hai The Pinkerton y |by the Jewelers’ Protective Union to take charge of the case. Pinkerton de- toctives discovered right away that three young mien who were well known idlers about the Piedmont Hotel had left town on the came day the robbery their task of trating of th Kaul's home In Atlanta, m hastily vacated by alm, $11,009 Worta, they recov — PY al ‘f NATIONAL LEAGUE. | AT 8T. Louis, GIANTS— 04 ST. LOUIS— 01 POR BAGEBALL ~--- me} ‘T always obeyed my husband in n | everything,” sala Mrs. Anabel Bea- Orleans, probably the| trite Deanis to-day in explaini ee position, im, order to give ber jusband, Galvin ZL. Dennis, an {m- | told Justice Gerard, her iusba SDAY, MAY 8, 1 Titanic. He was President his self-sacrifice. stories is ‘Both Sides of the romance of love and wi the right to print this great story in serial form. WILL BEGIN TO-MORRO! Sorry She Played Leading Part in Produetion. to Stipréme Court ‘Justice Gerard why, ae she now dlaims, she consented to place herself ‘in an apparently com- porter @f wodllen 0606, grounds for ivoree, Denais obtained @ divorce from ‘his wife on March 20, naming Clarin Evans of No, 107 Summit street, Ea: Orange, N. J., as ¢o-respondent. Sev- eral days ago Mrs, Dennii reopen the case, and charged in an affidavit accompanying her motion that sho had been guilty of no wrong- doing, and that the set of facts upon which the evidence was based was all prearranged gt ‘the suggestion of Den- nis, Justice Gerard to-day told counsel for both sides he would reopen the whole case, and the hearing, instead of being confined to the motion, cov- ered all the merits of the case. Mra, Dennis sald Evans, a friend of | herself and her husband, frequently visited them.and had spent the night; in their apartment on several occa- sions, She said she and Dennis had ceased to care for each other, and ed they take advantage | co in thelr apartment | ke divorce sult evi- HUSBAND ACTED PART TCO WELL, SHE DECLARES. She said Dennis explained he would pretend to be jw out of town on @ trip and that after his departure she should persuade Evans to remain he apartment over night, Dennis was to leave the train @ short distance out off the olty, returm and pretend he had @iscovered Evans and Mrs. Dennis in & compromising position. Then he was to sue for divorce. Bhe said that on the night of Jan. 27 this plot was put into effect at their reatdence, No, 48% Central Park West, Dennis returned, accompanied by his office boy and several men. Evans was in the bedroom usually occupied by Mr. | an@ Mrs, Dennis and Mrs, Dennis was | attending to her small son, who was! Wuffering from croup, in another room. | “Whenever we had guests we Kit them our own room,” Mrs, Dennis ex- | plained. nt rushed into the ” | Evans was in bed, followed al panions and Mrs, Dennis, who cried, a8} she had been told to d bon't| hurt Mr. Evans." Inside the root | where | 1 winkou at her, | “He took my boy tn a blanks out with him, Mrs. Dennis said, “L didnt’ know he Intended coin ry "And you were willing tw court with such ovidenve Mr, Scheuerman, “ET didn’t Know anything about devely- ing the eoust,” she responded. "M band told me three-fourthy of th vorces obtalned in New Yor! ten in this way 1 belleved nm and did as he tod me.” | “You say he ed ot n which eye did he wink?" asia & man, her husband's attorne show me. | "2h don't know how jawered Mrr, Dennis LOVING LETTERS*SHE WROTE WERE FICTION, SHE SAYS, ) Mr, Bcheuerman produced a large number of letters written by Mrs. Den- nis to her husband since the separation. |.” Censinued op Second Pege. al; “Please | to wink,” ane) ‘ Circulation Books Open t 20 PAGES Major Archibald W. Butt was one of the heroes of the Major Butt’s death, the President made him the subject of one of the most heartfelt culogies gver pronounced over a gallant man; praising his manhood, his courage, his loyalty Before entering upon military life, Major Butt displayed high, literary ability. The Evening World has secured ed tol a | Strikers’ } Rudolph Elsner s.arted ae 912 Taft’s military aide. After The best of his Shield,"’ a splendidly written IT W'S EVENING WORLD. WAITERS’ STRIKE. HOTELS NITY Cooks’ Union Offers Support tors Likely to Quit. Although breakfast and lunch were served as usual in the Hotel Belmont. suddenly called last night is mot off, by a considerable margin. According to the committee of the Hotel Wofkers’ the forenoon and saw Manager Foss, there is a likelihood that a atrike may We gelled in every hotel in the. etty and that It may extend to every branch of service in the various hostelries. ‘Tho secretary of the union, whd acted as spokesmen of the committee, sald ward that no definite understand- ing was reached with Manager Foss. The union men declare they made it plain that If the demands of the men are not complied with, there will be 4 complete tie-up in all the hotels in the city, A delegation from the cooks’ untlon is said to have assured the walters of jock last night a police 1 in the big dining nont, Other whistles ponse, dishes in transit to id on side whistle sound room of the E vounded in re the guests w one hund ed into and salads and wine grew warm, A atrike was on, If the guests were surprised the inanagers were more #0, No word had been given of the impending strike. “S O &.”" BROUGHT RELAYS OF WAITERS FROM ALL OVER. Guests fretted some aud tapped their feet on the floor, Women grew a bit peevish and men bemoaned the tardy cocktail, Managers got busy on the telephone, calling other hotels and a Ing for waiters, Head Walter V. H. 0 Geneva Society and to the hotel some on foot, som; ; others on the surfi Meantime the low stairs in the cafe were mustering he delayed dishes, having them warmed nver, having the wines cooled, rushing the cocktails, serving soups, sautes anu salads, The guesia lost wanted to know wha pickets were their peeve and the matter was Posted outsid 1, but they were on fixed poss, police wouldn't let them get hear the newcomers to give them @ tp that the strike Was on, But the new wait €n'( looking for thar kind of tips of the Hotel and cheerful, and and the dining rocfhs at tor th Phe eu rar m, ers established’ a p! nm the hote) ket Une nan nat » parade tel, carrying a banner he inscription waiters e trea.ment, was inte ront he on strike for uf parade and the was no ev eh The strikin tha wiil that seven yut tas t thes not return ntl bead dismissed, Perle sald agent » the atrike of waiters which wasl. Union, which called at the Bement: in }* dent and general manager of the BiG UNION STATION FOR-SUBWAY MAY Acquirement of Block Square Tract. priated by the clty for the site of giant unton raliroad station, clearance for the traMc of ington avenue subway, branch of the Pennsylvania s: Borough President made known the plane, Estimate and the whom the project was explained, The block is owned by the New York Company and is occupled by particularly The plan is Company, it !s said, tlon would bring the ate touch With arter! the traffic through and the nearness « station make th advantageous trafmfe No suggestion has yet been to the probalie cost of tie but it ls explained Ghat the F terests concerned would pay lberal for rental of, trackage and projecte, ty. Besides, the depot provide an ideal rubway statio’ point where it is already plann erect one. BABY FALLS WITH DOLL. Fo wryear-old Sam ve of a Window on the fow 41) Kast Thirty-ninth st and upon hte doll, kKitehen duth moth and »: ow, clothing, but wed the little STEEL TRUST EVOENGE? ” BURNED IN FURNA BY ORDEROF MAY Tl \|P ALL Papers Under Bond to Be Produced Before U. S. District-Attorney | Destroyed, Says Wit- |. / ness at Trial. ©: and All Branches of Servis WIREPRICES WEREDICTAT AND BIDDER DESIGN “Special Dispensation” Se "Have Federal Contrast. ‘ Testimony thet papers cotkeming what was known ap the Rope Pool” were destroyed ‘by thé order of Frank Beackes; vi was given to-day at the hearing of the suit of the Government: brought to dissolve the United States Steel Corporation. The witness who about the destruction of the papers was Harry A. Whitney of Worcgster, Mass., who had charge of the wire pool documents while\ he i employ? of, tle American Steel and Wire Company, BE BULTBY CT McAneny’s Plan Involves the The dlock bounded by Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets and Lexingion ana Fourth avenues may be appro- |' the Pennsyl- vania Ratiroad and the Long Island tem. MecAneny to-day already ap- proved by members of the Board. of way conferees, to the Grand Central depot an | tho nprovement, | pad Ins ty | station) toeuring a handsome return to would | to} 1 Volpe hung out ing trying to let the rain fail on his At the boy | w ak yiuae by. Supers tor eer te ee ‘Mr. Whitney when wes the stand was asked tary of War Jacob {a conddoting the case for the ment, if, in 1911, he to turn over the papers wire rope pool to the trict-Attorney in New “Il was told,” said bring ail the papers concerning the rope association into the office of Craigin. he by “What became of that trunk “1 don’t know." SAW THE DEMANDED Evi BURNED IN PURNACE. ; “Ten in October ot Movement ‘os, or 7 the baller room of the Morth : Mr. Basckes.”” S “They were destroyed after you. « talk with Me, Baackee?* "Yes." Judge Dickinson tried. to pin the nens down t act date of ray ? struction Ps ately but he could not do s0.- fa 2M course of Dickinson areT that the wis Le 4 hostile, === =5 = | , “Were there’ in.the trunk Ray other |papers besides those referring to the Wire rope pool?" @eied the ment's attorney, . 7 “Yes. There were papers referring the electrical wire pool,” ° “And those too were destroyeate Mr, Witney said he-had? éxbae |the papers in the trunk Tei they Were destroyed and saw ‘there ands of them, “ re she minutes of the wire. lation among them dest about the Yea. “Did you hay talk with aay ese | about the responsibility for the destruce . ltion of the papers? pote “Yes, I had a talk with Mtr: I told him I hoped I would "net about the papers, and sald that 8 weuld not be responsible for them Mr, Craigin said to me: ‘If you ape asked | who told you to destroy the papecs, r]eay that I di mt w|JACKSON FIXED THE PRICES IN e THIS POOL, TOO, Mr. Whitney then testifies thag” tre rope poo! was formed who super! E. Jas Pe