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4 Beghs in he tl Love and War PRICE ONE CENT. of To-Day’s WORLD M - Military 191: cores 18S, KING GEURGE IN SN UNDERWATER 10 MINUTES; | 4 Sa Pritish Ruler thidenty Re- solved to Tak a Plunge at Weyfouth. OPFICERS ANXIOUS. Was Accompnied on the Dive by Sevral Members BATTLESHIP UTAH MISSES “HOODOO” IN NEW DRYDOCK of His Staff. LONDON, May 9lt was learned to- Gag! that Engiand'inaval officers had anxious minu® yesterday when George went dwn in s submarine ' the King’jeecond dey as * ress! {tive commander of ¢p feet he exp thie desire to take t plunge in @ sub- SubmarindD 4 was the vesee! @nd the Kig with several off- of his staff, boaled the boat. Closed tp, the boat slowly r, and for ten and sajlors the tip of be periscope as the Mette vessel scurriedhround beneath the water. When the King 1d¥ed from the sub- he said he {ns delighted with the trip. The subririne is of the lat- {rpe and carns a disappearing ; Bx-Premier Arthr Balfour des- conded with Wins Churchill, First Leora of the Admbity, in the sub- marine. The Duke qMarlborough, who was also in Church's party, declined the invitation to ammpany him, suy ing laughingly tha he preferred to hear what Mr. Bafour had to say about it. Balfour and Chichill, clothed in " gtokers' overalls, degnded through the manhole, which waithen closed, and fat orice the boat droped out of sight. A complete tour of te harbor, occupy- ing twenty minutes, before the periscope appeare again on the top of the water. “ar. Balfour warmlythanked the ofM- ee and men for hitpleasant experi- ence, but sald afterwed that subma ining is less attractiv than weroplan- ing. "The officers remarke(Yhat they never saw any one take hif first submarine trip more coolly than M. Balfour, They fad to explain the entle mechanism to . Bim with great detail. | _— + W. K. VANDERBIIT JR. SUED. © He Ores 9042, bat Millionaire Dyite: ‘Winiam K. Vanderlt jr. says he @idn't get ‘em, didn't eafem and doesn't ‘owe for ‘em. He refersto $642 worth of grageries which Alberyilenk, Fourth javenue grocer, declurg he supplied to the, millionaire about t years ago. Kienkc has filed suit pgainst his rich customer in the City}Court, alleging that between April 24 1907, and Sept. & 190%, he supplied ed}ies to the total Value of $888, which wnt to stock the cook's galley of the) private yacht Tarantula. He says $6 was pald on aovount, and the améint sued for is the balance due, whic! Mr. Vanderbilt has neglected to pa Mr. Vanderbilt, throv Anderson. & Anderson, newer which !s a ental dénial pee ll TAFT BACK ATCAPITAL, ‘Twenty-four h his attorneys, But It Ie Only fo Hour Sty. NGTON, M4 t 9.—President Wabi ‘Taft arirved in Washijgton this after- w-hour will ‘To-morrow Princeton, y. start for poon for a evening he nley 0 peign ers by $Ment’s train at Baltmore and con- ferred with [is chief diring the ride to Washington. United Siai uo q pointed out thar te peipl had already Gmerciged their right to xpress a prefer: ence for President and will inalst upon privil ng Senators, to-day fled an! ofthe Taft cam+ ded the Pres-| Twenty Lives Lost and 400 Men Injured in Erecting Giant Basin. TWO BUILDERS QUIT.| Brooklyn Navy-Yard Experts Now Breathing Deep Sigh of Relief. ‘The first battleship entered the “noo doo drydock” tn the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day since tis’ completion after } @ long record of disasters. ‘The dread- nought Utah ran the gantlet of bad luck Near noon and took chances which made old sailors’ hair stand on end, But the Utah got away with it The big basin of concrete, which has killed | twenty men and wrecked two construe: | tion companys’ contracts played - no | tricks with Uncle Sam's fighting ma-' chine. Nudged gently in through the 120-foot entrance to the drydock by careful navy tugs, then warped to a secure po- | eftion, the Utah was ready to have the water pumped away from her fat sides and lay her injured starboard quarter plates open to the eyes of the repair crew. For once the hoodoo did not prevail and every body was happy. Drydock No, 4, the big concrete basin is formally called on the records of the Navy Yard, since the yard oMfcials can- not take cognizance of the sinster rep. utation the new acquisition has built p for Itself, But among the machine and on the gundecks of the of war tethered in the yard { ig nothing but the “hoodoo dry. dock.” Here {s the record.ot perversity which its unenviable reputation sin 195 appropriated $1,000,000 onstruction of a drydock at okiyn Navy Yard which would be large enough to accommodate the largest batueship likely to be construct- ed in the next quarter century at least, The contract for its construction was jet to the George R. Spearin & Co. engineering firm, and work began, Dif- flculty was encountered immediately, for it was discovered that there was no solid bottom to recelve the piles that were sun No sooner would one be driven down than the next would dis- ige {t. and it would come bobbing to surface fting sand bottom, He designed a caisson base for the drydock similar to the caissons driven in the foundations of skyecrapers. One hundred and two caissons were driven to a ninety foot depth in the outline the drydock was to assume and ali of thes ons were inclored in @ steel and concrete binding wall, five feet thick, Then the toll of death commenced tn| dozen raiders, thelr objective being an be paid. There were damage guits| innocent looking second floor front of | against the construction company, Ita| #2 old building with a loft above de- ct was annulled and the Williams | Voted to SRY EAMEATIR % Monday | ng Company dert | the place had ne | I SOPRRY.« BBMETTOK: hd r fis avd Tuesday the Inspector's | 8 followed, more men w |inen wot the tip. j by accidents incidental to the, When the raiders began to hammer doing of a difficult’ engineering feat,|on the “ice box” door which barred time dragged on and the drydock was|thelr entrance from the street @ | not Anished when the contract imit| muffled voice sounded from behind: | | expired. Then a third . Hole cose it—cheesaf it! Don't start} brook, Cabot & Rollins, Yertook | busting the furniture, and we'll let the work that was still unfinished, F,| you all in right away!” B, Harris, an ‘engineer of the nayy,| At that the heavily ‘braced steel and {solved the Ujficulties presented by ‘the|oak door opened The cops passed pe Pepe Zeeettee Utah, First Battleship Entering “Hoodoo” “ Drydock, AJC to pie OR OF THI sRGBALD nt Tafé and One of the Heroes of the Titanic AG 1 Am (gO cell Meee 84 bo) Ww YORK, 1 THURSDAY, MAY ry 1912. Which Cost Twenty Lives and Ruined Builders. | FEARING COPS IX | sneak cy ae GENTLE GAMBLERS OPEN THEIR DOOR | Old Hesper Crowd Rounded Up in Assault on Club at No. 64 E, Fourth Street. Again the strong-arm squad, this time from Inspecto? Cahalane’s staff, hit the gamblers a wallop this afternoon and the roost at No. 64 East ‘Fourth atreet | not many btocks away from the sceny of yesterday's raid, was the one chosen for assault. “Beansey” Rosenthal, Har- ry Vallen and John Kennedy, all old members of the Hesper Club, were ar- rested and two other proprietors of the clud could not be found. Sergeants Dunn and McGee led the through @ second opened dungeon door behind and into a suite of rooms wherd 150 men were standing around waiting to see who would be pinched. There was plenty of ciroumstantial evidence on hand, such as tackboards with the names of horges half smeared out, stuss, Klondike and craps tables and lay-outs for various other games of GIRL BURGLAR LET G0 BEFORE Admits She Victimized Brooklyn Doctors. Point was added to Police Commis- sioner Waldo's complaint that judges Are too lenient with thieving criminals; Titanic in lifeboat No, 1 HELD AFTER BEING WHEN DOFF-GORDON | LET MANY BROWN WOULONTT| RETURN Titanic Batic pent Says Sir Cosmo and Wife Thought It Dan- gerous to Go Back. LONDON, May 9.—The escape of Sir Coamo and Lady Duff-Gordon trom the which was when May Denny, an attractive, neat) less than half Milled, was inquired int: and self-posseswed young wom: arraigned in Manhattan Avenue Police Court, Williamsburg to-day, and plead- ed guilty to burglary. Her record shows that ehe was convicted of burglary in Brooklyn last Dei and sentence Was suspended by County Judge Dike, In view of her previous and @ long list of offenses charged inber against her Magistrate McGuire held the Denny girl without ball for the Grand Jury. She is twenty years old May Denny went to work a week ago 48 @ maid tn the home of Mrs. Mary Neihoff at No. 61 Sutton street, She had forged credentials, but was a good conviction | searchingly this’ afternoon by British Wreck Commission, Oharles Hendrickson, a firem: Of the Titanic and one of the crew im the boat im question, on being asked why he 4id not return to the scene of the disaster to try Fesoue some of those im the wate: who were crying for help, sai: Suggested that the boat shou! turn, but Sir Cosmo objected on the ground that it would be dangerous. Lady Duf-Gordon agreed with her husband, and the boat did not re tura. 4. Lord Mersey asked: “You meav th | tell me that because two passengers ob- maid while she worked. On Monday} jected the rest of you kept your mouths afternoon Mrs. Nelhoft went shopping. When she returned May Denny ha | vanished with a lot of jewelry, silver- ware and clothing. The loss was reported and from the Mrs, Nethoff detectives » the gir! who had been free in December. out to find allowed to go night at No. 12) Nassau street, Brook- | n. Most of the stuff had stolen} from Mrs. Nelhoff was found in her room, In addition to confessing to burglary the Denny girl cleared of confidence games Greenpoint physicians. These tittoners have been victimized woman who called on them and for loans in the names of patients. “Mrs, So-and-So,” the caller would say, “ls temporarily short and would Uke to borrow $10." Prac: to the police| dexcription furnished by| rangement to that eff They found her last| UP a series| recently played on | young! sked | shut and did not go to the rescue? Hendrickson replied: “That's right Witness sald Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordo gave each member of the f the boat £5 ($25), but he insisted no ar had been made and the first he heard of after the lifeboat pathia. Hendrickson had previously testified | that his boat, which could hold thirty four perse contained only twelve, | made up of ven members of the crew and two women and thr men passen- gers. One of the wom was Lady Duff-Gordon, but he did not know the other Asked !f it was Mra. Astor, he said he did not know MEN ENOUGH TO KEEP BOAT| FROM SWAMPING. The objection of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gor don to going back to the scone of the reached the Car- The person named would always be|Titanic's sinking was that it would be a patient well known to the physician and often $10 or perhaps $5 would be passed over to the young woman caller, This, according to her own confession, } With this ba < progressed 1 pletion. * Was ng inste original $1,000.00 y ' 88, twenty lives ere lost ) men were Injured, It anus aval drydock in the et Yong, ud feet deep and With the Utah chance. Several took the raid as a Joke saying that the xame thing had ha pened to them in “Dollar John's Marks Place resort yeater oo tiguatstte Ceitioke RAN American op: pan ‘Bteasuehi a | dangerous, as the boat might be swamped. Hendrickson agreed with Bir Cosmo that {t would be dangerous, but said they might have returned, as 4 reward was) n, witness waid, | RUNAWAY AMILLIE. CAUGHT IN INDIANA ON RUNAWAY CAR Miss Rudd of Bronx, Who Holds Championship, Asleep on a Freight. \ ' | | Mildred Rudd, the holder of the tong- nee championship for running away up in the Bronx, ts at It Her papa received « telegram Knox, Ind., today, telling him lat Mildred, whose name is Mrs. Vin- ent J. Micarf aince sie married a hauffeur with whom she ran’ away once, had deen found in a box car in that tawn. Papa Rudd, who has left his home at No, 1979 Morris avenue no less than four times ro find runaway Mildry % ng about s out to Indiana to bring ‘ ome once more. But the that this running away business ng on Papa Rudd's nerves and eves that since Mildred has. a did have—there should be displayed Gy him. SHIELD W. BUTT ASHP HEAR CRASH WHEN DARING AVATORS CALL ON Robert J. Collier and Walter Brookins About to Descend When Engine Stops and Craft Threatens to Turn Over. ‘ OFFICERS AND AWED BY N From Seabright ton, which is anchored off the foot surface of the river. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT 87. LOU! ST. Louls— 00 AT PITTSBURGH. BROOKLYN— 1000 on PITTSBURGH o1it 2 OLDEST WOMAN IN JERSEY DIES AT 104 YEARS OF AGE. Mrs, Winifred Farrel] died this after- noon pt the nome of her granddaughter, Mrs, J. Haggerty, No. 16% Burnet street, Hast Orange, N. J., at the age of 108 years and five months, She t¥ belleved to have been the oldest person in Now Jersey and perhapa in this part of the country. ide from the inflemi- (les of age, Mrs, Farrell never experi- enced a day’s Siness until three weeks ‘ago. Then she collapsed. Lust December Mre. Farrell held a ‘irthday party, which was attended by all her relatives and descendants who could get to Kast Orange for the festivi- tles, Her rule of life was to eat plenty of good wholesome food and refuse to worry. A “SWAT THE FLY” WEEK. ALBANY, No Y¥.. May Porter, State in tate May %—Dr. Commissioner ont to-day ur hout the Btate to ugurate @ spring campaisn =f week,” when all citisens » their collars and yards of | pulation of rubbish and refuse| Eugene of all u Health, muntetpalities ' ‘clean-up he ‘The box car wait had explained that she ran away from her husband in New he did not love her any ad Kot as far as Chicago on ahe York beca more and the money nad. When that was gone she had started to walk to New was May Denny. She says she wou'd| wih so many men fm the boat they) LN OO Mian; Sha, ond Man hha watch doctors as (hey visited patients! should have beem able to k owe | MOR eee har ite get the names of the intter and proceed | in the water from swamping her : ad to realize on her information, | The conduct of J. Bruce Ismay, Man. | OF" arried her out of South Whit ———— aging Dir vf the International | !* Big Liner Is Sante, Mercantile Mar Was mentioned for) Mildred Hudd first began running PLYMOUTH, May %--The Watserin) the firs: time during the British away When wie was x On May 6, Auguste Victoria arrived off por » she appeared fron her home ing the night and reported by wi! ane wes we t acai and was desgrived vy James} i \ (Continued on Second Page.) « fcer a teacher had poured water down said that when they found a rather \» well drewsed young miss of | ti nin thelr fair city Khe told a t { having entered a vacant box! jcar at South Whitley, Ind, to take a jae and that when she aw the car was in motion and she did not know! | where she was bound. She got out at the frst opportunity, whigh happened to be Knox. ‘her neck @t echeol She started fori gt winter, | that has Jucing ‘It this ae is fully carried out,” said Dr. Porter, “it will lessen the breeding places not only of the tty All health officers are urged to assist in an anti-fly movement N. ¥. But she took the wrong police at New Haven Cairo, train and the picked her up. Back to papa went Mildred, only to skip @ week later, that time to Brook- lyn, When she dobbed up again ft was with @ welrd story to the effeot that the Black Hand had kidnapped her, smug- led her away tn @ taxi and kept her rin some awful dungeon, of the same yey Mildred ‘ @ convent wall at Forty |» t and Ninth avenue, but} Hidn't ran far that dime, Finally eloped with her father’s chauffeur, neent Micar!, and they Were married she papa’ brought her husband back to home after the parental for obtained, Head of Aero Club Had arate Men to Banquet. Five hundred feet above the decks of poperrasy evince Washing" North River, Robert J. Collier, President of the Aero Clib of Americ,” and Walter Brookins narrowly missed a tragic falt- engine of the hydro-agroplane they had flown from Seabright, N. J, went dead and they were compelled to volplane ,Precipitately to the _—<—<—<— > _Dronched py heavy pain’ jut ‘etoamgll BATTLESHIP SAILORS EAR-TRAGEDY: ; } to Invite Naval | of lt Mney th ret, otha > by soaking mists they had traversed © alg-tag course right fram the Bi | Mer country home at Sea Bright, with the object tw view at delivering an invitation to RearAd> miral Osterhaus and hie staff to attend this afternoon's banquet at the Aero, Tt was one of the most daring figete! ever attempted in this vicinity when you take into coneMeration th the type of flying maghine that ft carried two pal through the downpour and fog was es’ complished at high speed, but just a@ the goal was reached the engine broke down and the frail craft volplaned ie & stricken bird. AIR PILOT INTENDED TO EXHIBITION, Tt was Brooking's pian to circle M@e. crulser several tlmes for the bene@t, the hundreds of men and officers om ‘ee decks and then soar down to the = capped surface of the river and the seaworthiness of the hy Plane by running alongside the ington and permitting Mr, Collier te) ‘ep out and deliver his invitation, The young alr pilot steered well over toward the Palisades before he made, the turn and shot toward the warship, He was flying about 500 feet high maintained this height as he the river and compjet the air, Beneath them the t could see the upturned faces of the. entire ship's company of the cruiser,’ and the swarm of Jackies and offlgsrs! could hear every throb of the engine's pulse until {t suddenly stopped. The moment the engine stopped tt? ure a vad tureh and seemed on the, Dyint of turning turtle, Brooking eould Se seen working frantically with the levers that control the planes and rude der and at the same time striving to coax the engine back to Ife, Md Colter was also working desperately tq do his share in preventing the machine from toppling over. SKIPPER OF YACHT HAD BOAT READY TO RESCUE. ‘here were ‘gral Lreathless aboard the Washington as Was strained aloft in gaze upon he if the machine had become ble But at last Brooking his passenger mastered the planes shot south at a long yond the stern of siderably heavier - than - air were not fifty from the yacht Florence, Jonn ©, feet

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