The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1912, Page 1

a Weather—Showers to-n Thareday fat EDITION. se metiisaicicnsclainabitnenttis. siete as Lite = meenenet en nem ninemsn ents sigslit a PRICE JE ONE CENT. ELECTORS MAY VOTE. FOR ROOSEVELT EVEN FTAFTISNOMNATED ~“S “Boss” Flinn’s Latest Revolutionary JUNE. 12, (= iaealatinaeneen eae ee ee te MORGAN’S MILLIONS ENDED 1907 PA Taft Wins 22 More; Total Gain to Date 123 \ ‘ Circulation on Books Open to All.’? 18 PAGE 8 1912, Morgan, Stillman ‘and Thomas— Men Who Saved Stock Exchange ~ OMEN IN RIOT TRAMPLE ON MEAT, WRECKING MARKET Excitement in Williamsburg as Angry Crowds Mob Stores. BATTLE WITH SHOPPERS Plan Is to Ignore Convention, Each State to Act for Itself. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) CHICAGO, June 12.—William Flinn of Pittsburg, former boss, but now “leader” for the Colonel, announced to-day that the Presidential electors from Pennsylvania would vote for Roosevelt regardless of who was nominated at Chicago. This is the boldest plan yet put forth by the Roosevelt faction, and is regarded as more revolutionary against party control than the ordinary bolt. But Fiinn’s announcement did not interrupt the work of throwing out the Roosevelt contests and the seating of Taft delegates, Francis J. Heney, ihe San Francisco graft hunter, tried in vain to halt that work. All he did was to inject more bitterness into the proceedings of the Re- publican National Committee than had yet been shown, VOTES FOR WOMEN of the two delegates from the Fourth California Di ‘@ dozen members of mittee to charge him with insulting that body, but he did not get any votes for the Oyster ittee first voted to seat the six Taft delegates from Arizona, turn- ing down the Roosevelt claimants with- out @ roll call, LONG WRANGLE OVER TWO CALIFORNIA VOTES. Then it wrangled for a long time over the contests from the Fourth Call- fornia District. The Taft people assert- ed that the Taft delegates had received f@ majority in that district and charged the Roosevelt faction with attempting to grab the entire State through the primary law passed last winter. Under this law the Roosevelt m@n claimed that all the detegates were elected from the Btate at large, thus reversing the rule adopted in 1880 whereby the Congress districts were made the unit of repre- sentation. This rule is enforced in every other State and the National ‘Committee confirmed it towlay by seat- Hing the two Taft contestants from Cal!- fornia. The other twenty-four Call- fornia delegates had already been credit ed to Roosevelt. Late this afternoon the commit- practically unanimous the six Taft delegates- Judge Ben Lindsay, After Conference at Oyster Bay, Makes This Announcement. OYSTER BAY, June 12.—Theodore Roosevelt announced this afternoon, through Judge Ben B. Lindsay of Den- ver that he !s in favor of woma: suffrage in this country, and that the platform which he will aubmit to the Chicago Convention will contain an unequivocal declaration to that effect. Judge Lindsay spent two hours with Col. Roosevelt to-day. The object of his visit was primarily to persuade the Colonel to announce that he was in favor of woman's suffrage. Hereto- fore Col. Roosevelt has merely said that he believed the question of wom- an's suffrage should be submitted to the women themselves for determina- tion whether they wished the ballot. As the Judge was leaving Sagamore Hill he sald: “Col. Roosevelt has come out de- cidedly for woman's suffrage, He was induced to take this definite stana by what the women vote: have done in Colorado in opposi- tion to Messrs. Guggenheim ond Bvens; in Washington, Oalifornia and other Western States. ol. Roosevelt told me that he was con vincod from this record of the ad- vantage to the country to be gain by placing the ballot in the hani of women, The Colonel also said that he haa nitely decided to incorporate in the platform which he will submit to the Chicago Con- vention @ woman's suffrage plank.” Col, Roosevelt when questioned sald that Judge Lindsay's statement was entirely correct. —_——— MAYORS FAVOR WILSON. Gaynor Good Second—Taft and T. R, State, His gain to-day was twenty- two. To date he kas gained 123 votes, in relation to the for Roosevelt an's position vote of the electors 1 on Second Page.) i Baseball ScoresTo: Day! NATIONAL L LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. cHicaGo— 02 GIANTS— 00 (Continu AT BROOKLYN P BATON Run Dead Heat, AT cosTo! : | UTICA, June 12.-At the conference of ST. LOUIS | Mayors now tn aossion here @ “Wrom!- 200 — |aential preference primary” was con- at a The ARTO ry EAE " F For Gaynor |, 16 2 AT, PHILADELPHIA, For Harmon F) CINCINNATI— For Clark a 302 —., |For Uaderwoas A 1 as “Lar mo For Roos i = ‘or aay be Vor Dede 73 © & ! 4 IN HIS PLATFORM Screams Fill the Air as Police- men’s Heads Are Cut and Clothes Torn. Fifty women, crazed with the enthus- {asm of crusaders, fought like tigresses all up and down a crowded market street in the heart of Williamsburg early to-day. What began as a mere disturbance ended in the greatest riot Jof all the recent hysterical protests | against the high prices of meat. Two markets, those of Joseph Wein- stein and Samuel Bernstein at No. 47 Selgel street, and that of Gruber & Fletcher at No. 4, @ few doors away, were wrecked by the clawing, screech- ing mob of women; meat was trampled in the street, policemen's faces were Scratched and bitten and some of the women themselves were half stripped in the hand-to-hand fighting of one up- roartous hour. The market at No. 47 is one long Ddullding not more than thirty feet wide, which runs from Siegel street to the |mreet in the rear, The fore part of it ts used by Weinstein as a meat market, and Bernstcin, the owner of the ~ulld- poultry market in the rear of the long alleyway between stalls. Both Proprietors had taken on an extra force of about a dozen husky men within the last few days in anticipation of just such a cyclone as descended upon them this morning. But at that the descent of the ‘women came with the suddenness of a Kansas twister. About 8 o'clock there was a thrill screaming in Selgel street and down from the corner came racing fifty women, Some carrted bottles of kerosene; others were armed with brooms and mops. (CHARGE OF ARMY OF INVADERS AMAZES BUTCHER, ‘They charged through the front door of Weinstein'’s market before the pro- Prietor could make any move to close the doors. Perhaps a hundred women of the neighborhood were in the mar- ket at the time, doing their early morn- ing shopping. They jammed the al: Into this mass of women the invade: charged, heads down, like the old flying wedge of the gridiron. Then pande- montium. Those innocent marketers who had made purchases and had their day’s euppites in bi AMIS FEAR 200 DIED IN ERUPTION OF ALASKA VOLCAN TILL EAN ( [| | | i | ae OF NATHAN HALE MOVED TO NEW LOCATION. Bax: of Hero Placed on City Hall Plaza Because of of Subway. Six Villages Believed Believed Destroyed AR or REE rey oer PRA With Heavy Loss of Life— * More Earth Shocks. whee Pete Ml Hany aed | gallows said “I regret that I have but jone life to give to my country,” was less, worked like flails. . Policeman Schaefer of the Stagg street| SEWARD, Alaska, June moved from ita position facing Broa! way in the City Hall park to-day to @ station was standing a block away |#bout two hundred persons have p from the market when the rioting com-| in the destruction of six villages as location on the City Hall plaza three menced. He rushed up and tried to push| result of the eruption of Katmai vol-| PUNdred feet distant. The new situation his way through the mob of struggiing| cano was the fear expressed to-day by | !% Urectly east of the City Hall steps women, A smash on the head with al persone on board @ steamer which ar-|2"@ the figure will appear more impos market basket was his quick reward and| rived here. The villages, most of {ing than everviewed, a9 it will be, by a AT ony iene inbepitenia. were nalite fishe » are | Because of the work of excavating serves from the Stagg etrest station| Sanatuk, Savanoosky, D¢ Cold) tor the Broadway subway now In should be rushed eround, Bay, Kamgamute and Katma\ Progress the possibility of undermining ‘By the time the reserves got there| The steamer reported that {ts last! the splendid statue and the the market was a wreck. |news indicated that the eruption nad 4 dotter and more ad. ceased, but sharp earthquake be secured, prompted Policeman Schaefer, who speaks Yid- Gish, mounted @ box and tried to argue} to-day caused the fear that it may have and placed {t up a drag to which were been renewed, | fastened ropes and pulleys. By this) with the women in thelr own tongue He was pulled from the box, his cheoks| the entire atmosphere of Alaska! means tt was hauled to |ts new location were gouged with fingernails and his}. to be charged with gases, and! sree vegetation everywhere ts being killed. | TRIPLETS ARE BORN TO 75-POUND MOTHER, whose as, the shocks cap was rent and twisted out of shape. ea ees te eacpere ear | Last night during « alight drizzi jolice cleared the market but he Bae nere 7 rer cut chemists declared the rain seemed to carry @ strong charge of sulphuric acid. trouble all over Willlamsburg ts ex- ted. ae les ee Wherever thi ain touched vegecation it| Mrs. H. E. McFarland’ s Three Baby blighted {t, and even the tron framo- | FOODSTUFF WAGON cee buildings wae being slignuy| 20ys Weigh Five Pounds Each FAILS TO SHOW UP AS __ | eaten. ; ie —All Doing Well. ” , { ble to get an accurate es- 7 : 12.—Mre, H. B. S WAIT, |, 1 18 mo PITTSBURGH, June 12.—Mrs. , MARKETERS WAIT. | yxt0 of emake at this time, oF | MtcFariand, who tips the scales at sev- Tne much-heralded wagon of the Di-|hee nut been practicad! ntysdie peande torday jp the mother ported to be working under tho aus: |4g pelloved, however, that property lors Mail ang the father * ons pices of the Housewives’ Leaguo of| wit be great and that b ds are) man in Tloga street, w America and was supponed to be at! destitute, lands NV —President ‘Phird avenue and Fifty-fifth street at 9 yelock to-day, where tt would deliver foodatufts to the suffering public at next to nothing, fatled to make ite ap WASHINGTON, Juno Taft in a mpectal messuxe to-day asked for an appropriat $100,000 to be expended by the revenue Man's Body The body of a man # years old was found in the Hast River pearance, An eager crowd of women | cutter service in curing for volcano vic-|off One Hundred and Twenty-fitth were there waiting with baskets for the | thins near Kodiak, Alaska, |ntreot Inte this afternoon by the police # which were promised at pil es Jot arbor B station jody was ree They waited until 10 o'clock} Shively to moved to the Morgue —_ eens ara and went away wondering, for to them it seemed strange that the Housewives’ League should break its word. If ao, it _ {Rontiaued on Becead Boge) 3 WABILINGTO: Atdveloy has been choson to put Gov. Marshall of Indiana in nomination as Democratio candidate for President at the Baltimore convention, Ine 0 ore as | “i P. Kiusia swe. hn satilen it 0 Ww. But: Sols tddlg 4a? rain, exerere” . | Jearned; | Workmen carefully removed the statue! | Yyathtagtages | FLEET CAN'T SAIL FOR LACK OF COAL: WILL WAIT A DAY Henry Dons GrimyWhite to Prepare Ships for Homeward Journey, Even Prince OFFICERS ENTERTAINED. Sailors, Returning from Coney, *Save Mother and Child From Flames. | We will have the German visiting | squadron with us @ day longer than expected. Rear-Admiral von Rebeur- Paschwitz said late this afternoon that because of the slowness of the coaling operations which had been going on aboard the Moltke and the Stettin all day it probably would be impossible for the cruisers to get away from their anchorages in the North River at the turn of the tide to-morrow afternoon. Slowness in the delivery of the coal, the Rear-Admiral added, has delayed the coaling operations so greatly that it would be Imposatbl hought, for the ships to get away at 3 o'clock to-mor- row afternoon, the hour sgt for thet departure. This would keep the squad: }ron in the etream until morning of Friday, | ‘The last full day of fun for the oficers |and men of the German cruiser squad- ron began to-day with some very jhard work and ended in a fine contrast of farewell jollity, Though some of the officers were entertained in the early |hale of the day, the greater part of |them and all of the sailors had thelr |hands full in making preparations for the moment near noon to-morrow when the thr. ay visitors will lift the! anchors and go down to the sea with the tide. The Moltke and Stettin, which were bowers of green and flowery Deauty during the reception yesterday after- noon, wore a far different aspect to-day. The dirty business of coaling ship gan at dawn and continued until far jinto the day. It was soft coal the sailors hoisted in bags from barges lying alongside and the black dust hung like a grimy pall over both ships. It was sucked into the ventilators and distributed through the |wardrooms and officers’ cabins; it |smudged the great guns and made the Coal dust everywhere. Moltke turrets bleary. Aboard the XXXVII. of Re dent In ducks and found himself the centre of atten- tion of a bevy of young things in fluffy organdies, worked in dirty white like any of the sailors, It seems to be the }iuck of Prince Henry not to come in for any of the good times of this junket. OFFICERS BOARD YACHT FOR TRIP UP RIVER. In the height of the coaling C, Led- yard Bi yacht Diana, dropped down nior officers from the three German cruisers and the four American battle- ships and steamed away with them to Scarborough, where they were the guests of James Speyer at his country place on tho heights. Satlors from the iner’a fleet showed the stuff they made of by rescuing 4 woman and @ baby during @ fire in Piatbush early to-day. Seaman Richter of the cruiser Stettin was the only one of the modest heroes whose name was the others bashfully caugnt the first car that came along for New York. | GERMAN SAILORS PROVE TO BE HEROES. The blaze started in a at |tached to the home of Louls Hahn, a hotelkeeper living on Kast Ninth street, between Avenues N and O, Flatbush. Tt spread rapidly to the Hahn home and to adjoining frame houses on both | tides, then eating its way back through | the rear to four d ings on East Tent Henry resplen- Prince and her baby ‘asleep on the nd floor of No. | das: Tenth street while the fire was rapidly burning her home. By the time a third alarm had been sent in the clangor in the nelghobrhood awoke the young mother | found her room filled wt She smoke | ominous crac’ Mra, Wagner ran to @ window with her baby tn her arms and began #cream- ing for help. She had not tried to escape (Continued on Second Page.) sid wyding fora | wae aah iver and ploked up the se-; Weather—thowers to. MORGAN'S $25,000, 00 RASED IN THOMINUTES, SAVED STOCK EXCHANGE Brokers Frenzied, Call Loan Rates at 100 Per Cent, and Exchange Itself Was Tottering When Money King Opened Vaults. “PERKINS, DIVIDE IT IN LOTS; TELL BROKERS,” ALL HE SAID ~ Telephone Message All That Was Necessary to Secure Aid From Only Man Who Could Help. How the New York Stock Exchange, on the crest of the lsst panic wave, was rescued by the quick action of J. Pierpont Morgan on Oct. 24, 1907, was vividly described to-day by R. H. Thomas, pea broker, who was then President of the Exchange. This exciting bit of big financial history was revealed for the benefit of the Committee of Congress now in New York engaged in an attempt to run down the “Money Trust.” all>. The story, which caused heads to be dent forward and eyes to be riveted upon the rather nervous broker, was brought out plecemeal in re sponse to questions by Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the Congressmen. Mr, Thomas was first asked if he recalled the 24th of October, 1907, when the rate on call loans went “very high.” He remembered that day quite well, and knew that the rate reached the high water mark of 100 ger cent, The Stock Exchange was in a furor, he said, and ‘he knew that some thing must be done quickly to avert a tremendous crash. “The posted rate on call loans was 6 per cent,” he said, “but 60 was. offered in the forenoon and there was no money forthcoming.” While the turmoil was at its height Mr. Thomas hurried to the National City Bank and appealed to James Stillman, President of that institution. His appeal was for money—enough money to tide the frenzied brokers over that day of pandemonium. “Mr. Stillman suggested .at I go to Mr. Morgan,” cald Mr. Thomae. “He told me he would advise Mr. Morgan tthat I was coming and that we needed, in my opinion, $25,000,000, I went directly to Mr. Morgan's offices. He was in his private office, and {t was about twenty minutes before I could seo him.” MORGAN GAVE LOAN OF $25,000,000. “He was engaged in a conference, was he not?” interrupted Mr. Unter- myer. “1 do not know,” replied Mr. Thomas, “the office was crowded, ead everybody was excited, “Mr. Morgan came out of bis private office and walked up to where I was standing. He said, ‘We are going to let you have the $25,000,000 yeu ask for. Go over to the Stock Exchange and announce it.’ “T sald, ‘I would like to make one suggestion, Mr. Morgan.’ He asked . what that was and I told bim it was to have the money divided into lots ch lot placed in different hands to be loaned out, Phat 1s a good idea,’ he said. ‘Perkins, divide that into lots.’ ” Mr. Thomas apparently was not only relating the story, but also acting it, as he changed his tone and gestures in quoting himself and in quoting Morgan. His Morgan tones were gruff and the words spoken abruptly, “I went straight to the Stock Exchange,” he continued, “and the men on the floor were told to keep quiet as I had an announcement to make f stood up and told them: “« haven't aay money, but relief is coming, and you can de- pend upon it.’” “How long before relief came? PANIC IS STOPPED IN AN INSTANT. “& couple of minutes. Money appeared in various places in the crowd. The sale dropped immediately to 6 per cent—even to 3, | believe, when everybody’s wants had been satisfied.” ‘When Mr. Thomas had finished his story Mr, Untermyer asked him if he stopped to think why Mr. Stillman, president of the biggest bank in New York, sent him to Morgan for money. He replied that he did not. “Tt was in the midst of a panic,” he replied. “I was not thinking about such things.” “But if it was in should continue or that a dangerous state “fT cannot say that by mea asked Mr. Untermyer, the power of one man to say whether a panic demanded Mr, Untermyer, “was not ft affairs for the country?” that was true,” replied Mr. Thomas, f which vast|the witness chalr that he had beam of} recalled merely to explain the naguae on the }and operation of Clearing House Gat ot the New| tifleates such as were issued in ust panic. After he had been quem toned a few minutes, however, the rial system was aleo laid bare to ¢ ine of questioning shifted to call loans Congressmen, made on ‘Change with Stock Exchange A vivid description of that gigantic | securities as collate! circulatory organization was given b; Mr. Cannon acknowledged that Danks James G. Cannon, president of the] all over the count have deposits of Fourth National Bank, thelr surplus in New York, and . It was stated when Mr, Cannon took most of those immense sums of money The system s mone ad n nm United States York Stock were the heart centre of a great arte- every q