The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1912, Page 1

i WERATAPR—Falr to-night and Saturday) warmer. Rs: REFN eR MRE REN WAITE] RS KEEP ON TIEING UP BIG HOI _GRAFTING COUNCILMEN FAST IN BURNS’S NET Tbe “ Circulation Books Open to All.”' | wo Atlantic City Shaken by Reve- lations Involving Nine of Its Officials, CAUGHT LIKE ABE REUFF Same Method of Bribery Used | as Ensnared the San Francisco Boss. (Special to The Evening World), ATLANTIC CITY, J May &. ‘The most sensational graft exposure in the history of the city, involving Coun- cilman Samuel Phoebus, Gus Kosslor, Willem Malia, James Lane, Harry Dougherty and four othere whose names ate not disclosed, “broke” to-day when it became known that William J. Burns, the famous detective, using the same methods as he employed in the Ohio Legigiature and to lund Abe Reuff in Sen Francisco, had trapped four into a confession and jailed Dougherty for & further hearing on the charge of accepting graft for their support in securing the passage of the “concieie boardwalk bill,” a million doilar opera- fon openly branded as a steal, at the time it wae introduced during Janvery. More arrests are expected at any hour \o-day. It te aid the revelations in ‘connection with the case will lead to other things of more sensational nature. Edmond C. Wilson, State Attorn General, will this afternoon join Det tive Burns, who arrived at the Mar borough- Blenheim yesterday, when| Dougherty, the only one of the quintet to hold his nerve when confronted wiih | \iétagraph records of the conversation waich took place when it ts alleged ho! with the others accepted a $300 bribe, “@ retainer,’ to push the deal, will be arraigned before Magistrate Burgen of | Hammonton, at 3 o'clock, Dougherty | laughed in Byrns's face, refusea to/ make la signed confession, as the others | had done, and told the sleuth to "go as) far as he liked.” | ‘This resort is stirred as it has never been before by the testimony adduced before the famous Macksey Probing Commission, which unearthed ballot de- pauchery of the most sordid character | leading to the convic- the Incarceration Kuehnle, the app ard- niment of the working Hlisor a Jury, es | turned the resort inside out it] dragged politician after politician from | the quagmire of graft, conspiracy, vote- | buying and general thuggery, The} trapped councilmen say they were! working it alone.” Kverybody is dis- cussing the affair. MEN INVOLVED TO HAND RESIGNATIONS. Every man involved has promised to| hand in his resignation to-day, While four have admitted thelr guilt, accord- ing to Detective Burns, they have not yet been arrested, They have handed | dver the $0,* ‘be to the operative and 4 on Sixth Page.) (cy Is Knocking Her arrival is the sign for all to plan how to break her enervating spell by resting and revelling in boating, fishing, hunting, etc, at some seashore, mountain or coun- try hotel or boarding house, 980 WORLD “Summer Resort” Ads. Last Sunday, 00 Published IMES th ment of rents, For another big “summer Resort” ate ane xt Sunday's World ‘Hall he asked them t Cvssriaht, ce JOY RIDING AUTO KILLS ONE, TWO MORE WILL DIE -_—- | Overcrowded Machine Tums Over During Wild Dash Home From Rockaway. A Joy-riding chauffeur, James Hall, only @ few days ago in the employ of Archibald A. Hutchinson, lawyer, who lives tn the Hotel Roland, on East Fifty-ninth street, took his emplo; big new touring car out without per- mission yesterday afternoon, jammed it with nine young men and two young women and drove them to disaster at Forest Hill, 1. 1., early to-day, killing one passenger, mortally jnjuring two and injuring all the others save him- self. Immediately after heavily laden car had turned over and strewn {ts human fretght in every direction the chauffeur fled and has not yet been located. John Eagan, twenty-one years old, of No, 24 Mount Nope Place, Bronx, wa: led » twenty- inth street, enty, of No. street, were nd and arg dying in the “ pital. Marle Kernochan and Ha h, both cigarette makers, only women passengers, escaped with a few bruises. All of the other men passengers, save the chauffeur, or less hurt and were taken in automobiles to be Were mo to the hospital ministered to agedy occurred on the Hoffman Boulevard near the White Point road, Forest Hills, while Hall was is car at full speed. Slewing into a Ku ut had been caused by the heavy val 1 yesterday he turned suddent flinging the overladen car so sharp! Edward Conway, the nineteen-year-old son of P, J. Conway, President of the rish-American Athlete Club, told the story of the joy ride and its fatal ter- mination to-day at his home, No, 159 ‘ast Sixtleth street, whither he was taken from the Mineola Hospital, Young Conway has several bad scalp wounds and his body 1s covered with bruls “L have known Hall for some time,” sald, “and heard from him a few ays ago th » had a new job and was going to t big car to the coun- try to drive, ephoned to me sev- era! times at Celtic Park yesterday ask- ing me to go out for a drive, L was busy and told him so, but he persisted and pretty soon he came out to the park with the car, When he got there I was with Eagan, MoNulty, Dougherty and Mtzpatrick, Hall asked us tf we didn’t to drive down to Rockaway Park, want and we climbed in the car, Hetold us he had y jon from his employer to take it out. “We went down the beach and had dinner and on our way out we met Lar- Kin, MoMulken and Kavanaugh with two girls, We knew Larkin and Kava- naugh, and after We had introduced scramble aboard, “Larkin said he had gasoiene enough for a good ride and & suppose that’s why he took us around by the way of Forest Hills, We were all laughing and joking when the sh came and none of us had @ bit of warning. We were going at @ fast clip, how fast I couldn't say, “There wasn't much of @ jar when over, It was more like @ xt thing I knew we all flying through the alr in every we went bump and the n were pti saw Eagan s on the ground near me, He wasn't dead then, but he was dying. 1 know it ahd had a horfibly faint feeling. Hall wasn't in sight, He muat tmself up, 1 didn't know mui pipal and was pat have run as soon as he picked in euch @ daze I » till I go to the hos. hed up. Then I called ip my father and he sent for me," Chauffeur Hall took the machine out f the Mineola Garage fty-ninth street and Park avenue. » detec tives were posted there to walt for him this morning and an alarm was sent out for him Uvoughout the different prociucts in the city aa 1918, by (The New IN BIG GRAFT EXPOSURE 000,000 DEAL driving | ». When I picked myself up 1} Prove ‘ork World), TAXEWRECKED ON DASH TO LUNCHEON Capt. Rostron and Dr. McGee Narowly Escape Injury On Way to Mrs. Astor’s, CAR SKIDS INTO CURB. Rescuers Are Guests of Honor of Titanic Widows in Fifth Avenue Home, — Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron, com- mander of the Carpathia when she went to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, and the Carpathia's surgeon, Dr, Frank McGee, hed a close escape from a serious acckient, when on thelr way to luncheon with Mrs. John Jacob Astor, at the Astor Home, No. 40 Fifth avenue, at halfepast one o'clock to-day. Mrs. John B. Thayer of Haverford, Pa., whose husband, like Mra, Astor's, lost his life in the disaster, had already arrived; she was to be the omly other guest. The Carpath!: officers appar- ently Were in fear of being late. They had urged the driver of thetr taxicab, William Rowan, to hi He went up Fifth avenue ate terrific pace, darting around other vehicles in a way that made onlookers stop end gasp. As the cab grazed the radiator of « dig gteen mowr omnibus a forwani tire came off and flew to the sidewalk, just missing two children, who were being led toward the park by a governess. The cab lurched down in front, skid- ded and whirled unt) it struck the ourb, For a moment, the wheels of one side left the pavement and the cab seemed likely to turn over on ite side. The chauffeur got control just as the car Was at the entrance of the Astor House and his passengers walked to the door. The presence of several moving pic- ture operators and other photographérs at the door had caused # considerable number of curlous persons to collect. They cheered as the captain and the surgeon entered. Mrs, Astor, in her delicate state of health, was an object of special solici- ltude on the part of Dr. McGee during the trip to New York, and he also min- istered to Mrs. Thayer, ON CARPATHIA, They would ike to have met every officer and every member of the crew, but this was impossible, so they ar- ranged an informal luncheon for the captain and surgeon, hoping in thie way to show their appreciation and gratitude before those officers go back to England, ‘There was no formality about it, Mrs, ‘Astor has been in strict retirement since she reached New York and tt was her first social function of any descrip- tion, On the voyage to New York Capt. Rostron gave his cabin to Mrs, Astor, Mrs, George D, Widener of Philadelphia ‘and Mra, Thayer, Mrs, Widener was prevented from attending the testi- montal luncheon to-day by illness, Capt. Rostron will go to Haverford for @ brief visit to Mrs, Thayer's home before the Carpathia returns to Europe, Mrs, Thayer's seventven-year-old son, J. B. Thayer jr, was also rescued after he had jumped overboard from the ‘Ti- tanic, Her husband was one of the dl- rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad, ‘WILD MAN OF BORNEO’ DEAD. ous Freake Dies st of Two F at Age of Ninety-two, Plutano and Wi most famous “freaks” no were among the hibited by the liate P. ‘T, Barnum pair were | brought on a ship to > York jn the carly and were said to have | been captured on the island of Borneo | since 1si7 the wild men had been in the cere of Capt. Hansford A. Wamer, or one of his descendants. Plutano and Wano were no larger than the average ten-year-old boy, but were possemsed of prodigious strength, and each could lift with ease two heavy men, a feat that was a regular part of their exni- pition of the Warner family were jever able to teach the wild | speak English, men to | en Barber WANTED TO MEET EVERY MAN | BOSTON, May 41.—Plutano, the last of the famous pair of “Wild Men of} Borneo,” died at the home of Mr H, A. Warner Waltham, to-da, Plutano is believed to have been about ninety-two years ald, and with his brother Wano, whu died in 195, had travelled all over the word. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 38 SUBHAY CROWD SEES MAN LOSE LEG TRYING | TODIE UNDER TRAIN \CAP TT ROSTRON < \RHe-~.9. avieav enc neor. S of the Chicago deiegat Circulation 1, 1912. CARPATHIA Hi Carpathia’s Captain and Surgeon; ERIES Their Hostesses, Titanic Widows | Roosevelt to Run, But Cannot Win, | Bryan’s Forecast Nebraskan Says in Commoner the Colonel! Will Bolt Chicago Convention if His Con- testing Delegates Are Shut Out. LINCOLN, Neb., May 31.—That while Taft apparently has @ mapority Roorevelt intends to be a co People, and, if necessary, will organize a bolting convention, 1s the xlst Books Open to All. 24 PAGES The strike of the hotel waiters union. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. ST» LOUIS— . 11 é He GIANTS— 00 the AT BROOKLYN. Women Scream as Would-Be of an editorial forecast by Willlam Jennings Bryan tn his Commoner to- FIRST GAME, a day. Bryan says: | BostoN— Suicide Jumps From Plat- ‘We have now approached near enough to the Republican National 1 000Q 20 0 3 Convention to forecast the action of that body bix-President Roosevelt YN ‘ * will have apparently a jority of the Northern States, while President BROOKLYN-~ form in Bronx. Taft seams likely to have a majority of the Convention—imcluding the 00060210 —9 Southern delegates, who represent merely patronage and boodle. —— “Mr. Roosevelt has been careful to arrange tor contesting delega m :. supp be " D GAME. A man supposed to be J. Merson of] trom the South—this was the first indication of his intention to bolt. With )STON ” ‘0, 1640 Anthon ©, the Bronx, & majority of the Northern delegates he is in a position to have a con- BOSTON— a Jumped in front of a southbound vention bf his own, in case his contesting delegates are refused admtasion — | 02 : press train frém tho platform of the “The conclusion, therefore, 1s that Mr Roosevelt will be the nominee | BROOKLYN— One Hundred and ty-ninth street! ef the regular Convention, or the nominee of a bolting convention, Got 30 = fatatlon' ct! the Want Parme divi ot -Peady for his candidacy. He 1s quite sure to run —— ni sup ‘Can Roosevelt be defeated? Yes, by any good Progressive, A Pro- He Panty A ef eraaae: ate ORE gressive will hold the Democratic vote and the Republicans who oppose AT PITTSRYRGH, acried him across the track but the} — g enind term will do the rest. Mr. Clark and Mr, ““ison are the leading — | CINCINNATI— wheels of tho first car caught his left “hy h : | The wea coeictonio ta: tans tanrones candidates—elthor one of t can dei. %t Roonover. ‘The 0 = Bid never have a President for a third term.” SBURGH— Lincoln Hospital in a dying condition. aisle babel bb di slcesatnhe SiN esti ea | PITTSBU The station was owded when the ' andae cane” 03 1 sua! PRN RCE END, MO VOR Ae FATHER FAINTS AS HE SEES |AVIATOR’S EFFORTS FAILED | him and screamed motorman, Al= | E 19. bart Hoyer, had aiveagy shut on power | BODY OF CHILD AUTO KILLED | TO PREVENT KILLING,| "OR PASE®ALL SEE PAG and applied the brakes for the station | eee | lait | aie. stop and brought his train to a halt | * ys Crowd Not Knowing) pyurpin Tryi sion and Drovatih He! srwin ut|He Follows Crowd Not | Turpin Trying to Dodge Man When| KINSLER IS MADE CAPTAIN. ‘The injured man was lying outside It Was His Own Girl Ma- Aeroplane Swerved Wrong Way | apes the rails with his leg completely am-| chine Ran Down, and Fell Grow Police tiem putated, Special Officer Scheller cure | zabeth Calevert of No cll on Crowd, Wilt Vacancy. tied him to the northbound platform, stumbled in front of | SMATTL Wash, May h—J. cue e where Sergeant Mooney and Policeman |e eee aeecan eae instantly killea f0°4 Turpin, the Wright flyer whose William H. Kinsler was sum- Plossett {mprovised niquet ana |“? SNe ane wee: bag aeroplane yesterday killed one man and! ™ to Police Commissioner Waldo's stopped the flow of blood. Dr. Schtitan, | thls eyy Wehrle a cous Hudson) sured four othe omice this afternoon, ‘There was a va- the ambulance surg sail the action oy A ed eran Dehind w trotley ;remain tn this elty until » (wy cancy in the list of captains and Kinsler of the policeman saved the life of the ' ; cevertent In the police and Coroner say he may is at the head of the ctyil service Nat injured man for the tme ing, but] Oar an 9b. 5 ‘ He will pr be « t SA t held out Iittle hope for his ultimate front of an automobile driven by Walter 1 5 Fy lied as & wiiieae | oF i suants eligible for promoten, Bae oes Elvenuram of Noo St Harrow atrect, tit afternoon at the Coroner's inquest] great joy wont out over the “police The name J. Merson appears on a| Chauffeur for « H, Hetworth of | nto the death of | George Guindy | wireless” system, when word got about postcard found in the man's pocket, | No Sl Hudson QHANEAUEL SERVE e Sane gare Seat Tor | nat “BU Kinsler was “about to be When gaked if his name was Merson |"! not see the child before the oar | Pint eiktan thes nonldent.-.wutats | made! he nogded hia head ee arene en Hone courred at the Mealuw race trick, was, Kinsler waa a baseball player before oe de tra, UNavoldable 1 o r ronewe de him a police- ’ Sisenbram stopped the car in half {ta , Unaveldable aviator had started, Theodore Roosevelt mad STOLEN ‘MONA LISA’ FOUND 2) joncth and carried the child to a nearby Mis motor and wan w slong the|inan, elghteen years ago. He achieved oe ’ Aidit «at Her father was track preparing to + man! fame‘as a burs! atcher In the famed Paris Henrs Detectives Now Have | yowa that p »’ into the drug s ran across his path. noted Central Office combination of Kinsler, the Famou alniing, and when he saw the body of hig Ittle | Faia she plane #0 to riso over the jruggan and O'Farrell, . ;, + 8h—La P girl he swooned, had been op her) Man and turn bis machine into the in| ———— PARIS May 2 La Freon hi am orl vay home from School No, 104, | field. He declares he knew the m vine | Date fet for Bi Appeal. on, makes the posiiive ane 7 7 The ch ‘| would ve wrecked, Wed to wave He, eee, {at tae. emicue: treats | 02 Siaar piouman minal Zhe ehauReny) NAT was accomplishing| ALBANY, May SL~The Appeal of piece, Mona Lisa, stolen ns ago, | Hie. sutkdes ‘hen Ihe eltier plana rose | Towne & Branch the former valet of fle UB SO ahaha a -— He ea een nie the aeraptan, | Mortimer L. Schiff, from a unanimous ae, nave boon tearching foi at” tae | $1 2 Men's Blue Serge Sult8,$B.96 ino tne grandatand. "The mnctin was] decision of the Appellate Divtalon, Fist Re racsal was founa | THE “Um" Clothing Corner, Broad: | wrecked there and t REAL An TELa which ordered his return or where it n& | cor, Barclay St, opp, Post-Offlce, Ae OEE Ber Moto Clinton State Prison at Dannemora a 1 to-day and Saturday tong heads of the : to serve the remainder at Dannemora | Men's Sults, serkes, worsteds, flannels, of the stand. The engine \ to ie r 410 blues, DlACKS,4raysand mx: on the head an! killed year se has been set tor argue ow Water, |fures; fast colors; many ratin Lind ment be Court of Appeals next AM BST i se 1a ae eee or rite hae Say Ober stor 4 an w The court is to take ite summer 610 G08 95.95, Open Seturdey aight wil 40, *e! DRLD WANTS WORK WONDERS recess on June a& et ‘ . ‘J rc ‘ 6e . PRICE ONE CENT. THREATEN STRIKES INEVERY HOTEL SOUTH OF SOT ST. TONGHT. Waiters Walk Out at Sherry’s.and — Restaurant Closed Till Trouble Is Over—New Vanderbilt Hotel Joins List. STRIKERS TOTAL 2,755; HOTEL LOOKS FOR JAP§ ‘College’ Boys Rush to Get Jobs at Another Hostelry—Managers Prepare for Siege. tet Baseball Scores To-Day e& and cooks gained many recruits to- |day and the union leaders threaten to call strikes in every hotel of ime portance south of Fifty-ninth street at the dinner hour this evening. Wail: ers or cooks or both are now on strike in eighteen leading hotels, two clubs and a big restaurant, The strikers number 2,755. Encouraged by the apparent widespread growth of the strike move- ment, the union leaders plan to broatien the scope of thelr work. They say the trouble is just beginning and that it will be hard to get anything! to eat in a New York hotel unless the hotel owners agree to recognize the The New Vanderbilt Hotel joined the houseg in which strikes have been de- Clared this afternoon when sixty wate ere walked out of the dining rooms te the middle of the lunchegn hour. Re- cruite were pressed into service, end. Manager Marshall sala he would hav suMctent force of atrikebreakers on hand to serve dinner to-night. A man who said he represented George Boldt of the Waldort-Asteria was scouting around Tenderloin employs ment agencies and Oriental restaurants, this afternoon looking for Japanese walters. He sald the Waldorf wants to employ a complete staff of Jap waiters and will guarantee steady employment, ‘The news, reaching the headquarters of the strikers on top of the effort of the hotel men to break the strike by time porting negroes, caused great exeitee ment HOTEL MARTINIQUE WAITSAS ASKED TO GO. After the luncheon hour this afftegs noon Manager Walter Chandler Je, the Hotel Martinique assembled waiters in the banque: hall for — ¢gme ference. He aatd he wanted to kmow how ‘he stood, and asked the union een to step forth. After a little hesitation sixty ef the ninety waiters stepped out of the ling Im reply to @ question put by Mr, Chan@ler they #aid they would strike at a signal If ordored to do so by the unton, am sorry for this," said the mane ager, “but UM have to let you men go right now.” ‘Thy sixty union walters took off their Jackets, donned their street clothes end departed in @ body, Mr, Chandler tm- mediately put fifty strikebreakers oi duty He says he will be able to along with his present force. The entire dining room and kitehen atatl of Sherry'a, Forty-fourth atreet and Fifth avenue, walked out at 12% o'clock this afternoon, The staff ¢o1 stated of forty walters, fifteen ‘bus bey: thirty cooks and members of the kitchen staff. There was not an employee lefi in the Sherry kitchens or dining reome tive minutes after @ man stepped into the natn dining room, clapped his hands three times and discreetly withdrew, Mr. Sherry promptly closed his restau rant and sald he would not reopen gatt) the trouble was over, ‘the Hotel Seville at Twenty-ginth street and Madison avenue expertenced & partial strike at 12.20 o'clock when twelve cooks and elght waiters walked out. Manager Parchase said he expeote ed his entire dining room staf weuld strike before night, Greatly to the aurprise of the manager! and members of the Calumet Club past of the staff of waiters of that sedate organization went on strike at meom Not all of them were members of tie union, AM had been with the club ge at least ten years, They had Balt Gay off every week, every other of and wen Gaye vacation eek t es