The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1912, Page 1

} — WITH BIG NOISE FOR T. R: HIS "MANAGERS AGAIN SHOUT “FRAUDI4 ~_ STATE TROOPS FROM PERTH AMBOY RIOTS TILL WILSON SEES NEED Governor el Strike Could Be’ Settled if Work- ers Would Confer. MOB STEALS DYNAMITE. ‘Hundreds of Pounds of Explo- sive Ready for New Clash With Armed Guards. TRENTON, N. J., June 15.—Gov, Woodowr Wileon asid this afternoon that he had received information from Perth Amboy that the strike situation there is improving and that the em- ployera ace showing a willingness to eonsiier propositions looking towadr a settlement of the labor troubles. The Governor said: “I have just been in cnference with A@fjutant-General Sadler over the wire aad delleve the situation in Perth Am- vey 18 beginning to improve. “Under the law, I am not at liberty to intervene in any way except as an adviser unt{] it tas become evident that the Jocal authorities can.no longer matn- tein order and protect property. “T have tried again and again to some responstble representative of strikers to form a judgment as to “basis and justice of thetr get them directly into commun with the mill owners who, advises mo, are willing to RIOTERS STEAL DYNAMITE TO USE IN NEW ATTACKS. PERTH AMBOY, June 15. e theft of several hundred pounds of dynarmite from a box car op the Raritan River Railroad early to-day was tho most alarming phase of the strike situation and orders were Issued to the 500 armed eputies who are patrolling the town and fina its environs Mke an assemblage of strikers. Shortly after noon today Adjutant- General Wilbur F, Sadler jr., who has been representing Gov, Wilson here for two days, got word from tlhe Par- dee Steel works that the strike fever had spread to that big plant and grave trouble was feared. Vice-President B. H. Edwards of the Pardee company telephoned that the men employed in the clay department had struck and that the 6% other em- ployees were likely’ to strike. He sald that the men had been laid off, that many were Intoxicated and asked that ‘a special guard be sent to the plant, TROOPS AWAIT ORDERS AT NEARBY CITIES. Gen. Gadler said the crisis in the strike situation would be reached thiv afternoon or to-morrow, when twents thousand men would be {dle on the streets. Governor Wilson's chief of staff hopes that the Sheriff's guards cam handle the situation If there is more rloting, but {f the mobs overwhelm the guards, there are two troops of cavalry, one at Red Bank and another at Rose- ville mustered and ready for immediate service. There is a regiment of 1,000 militia under orders in 1 another regiment ready for service {i Newark. While so far only 5,000 men and women are out on strike and while it was reported from the Barber Asphalt Company that the %) who walked out from that plant would go back to work | on Monday the fear is ente wther serious riot in which strikers ave slain may cause a general strike and widespread disorder Last nights rioting and the d toll of four deal and two mort wounded and nearly a score injured by bull had apparently belligerent spirit of the mob, and the busineswlike distribution of the new armed patrol recruited by Sheriff Boll- sohweller had a potent effect in the strikers, ‘The arraignment ¢ men before Magistrate Kehoe sentence of one of the mob r to @ year in the penitentiary likew! adde: The Page.) worn out the | HELD BACK FIRES TOGET RICH QUIGK, BUT IS NOW POORERBY $20,300 “Con” Men’s Ticking Tele- graph Instrument Costs Vir- ginian a Fortune. “SURE THING” ON RACES But “Police” Made “Raid” at Wrong Time and Mr. Ma- son’s Money Went. by The Press nbltishiog w Xork World) “ BOMB EXPLOSION WRECKS BUILDING, G TENANTS HURT Police Investigate Mysterious! Shattering of Thirty-ninth Street Tenement. |SEVERAL SHOTS HEARD.| Occupants Who Rushed to} Doors Got Full Force of Blast Following. A bomb was set off on the stairway between the second and third floor of four-story tenement house occupied ex- jclusively by negroes, at No. 317 West | Thirty-ninth street, a few minutes after {8 o'clock to-day. The building was al- most completely wrecked and six ten- ants were seriously injured by the fall- ing debris and particles of the metal bomb. They are: Walter Glover, a truck driver living on the top floor; cuts about the face |and head and contusions of the boiy. ‘William H. Gray, a laborer Uving on the third floor; ankle broken and cuts about the head. Helen Batley, living with the Farrella; face and arms cut. Lured from his quiethome and pros- Derous real estate business in Norfolk, Va., to win quick and easy money in New York, through information given by a “telegraph operator who gets ad- vance information on the results of the races over the wire,” William J. Ma- son is now trying to find the men who | wot away with $29,900 of his hard earned ason admits he knows he races, He has devoted a good ars to bullding up his business at Norfolk and Onancock, down on the east shore. ‘There is’ nothing of the in Mr. Mason's makeup, He ts t black hair. 3 now with his wife at ‘orge Motel, There, thia told of his adventur: he loss of his mon young and tear- thls will © much hard work has been done ‘ld up the business, ‘Ove thing T want to know ts, ‘can they said rrest_ me? I PLAN BROACHED TO HIM BY A FRIEND, HE SAYS. The Norfolk man was plainly much agitated over his pl Detectives Mullican and McCormack of the West Sixty-elghth street station, who are working on @he case, believe the sharp- ers who parted the Virginian from ais money are some of the crowd who got several hundred thousand dollars from the elderly Mr, Walker of New Brita!n, Conn. and later trimmed the youthful leman of Boston. was simple was to the detectives, a man Who Was thought to the family, who | first told me of how money cowkl bs] made in New York,” said Mr, “He had been’ to dinner at my houge and told ine he had a brother here who | was a telegraph operator and who could | “It be a great friend It was all a straight propos!- tion to me, Finally, 1 heard much t mut the plan that L agreed io come to New York."" M Mason arrived here June 1 ant went to the Manhattan Hote He vas not there long when two men called en hin, One was tall and of lgat con. plexion. The other Was shorter and dark, My. Mason, bad something vee 912,000 in cash with him, Mis callers Were ready to put the plan into opera- ton. In axicab the three dro artment house. My. Mason 2 | was onthe west side of Central Park, for they ekirted park for w short | distance, At any tis in the cone fines covered from the Wesi Sixty-e! bth | street police station. MR. MASON WON AT FIRST—BUT. to an THEN HE LOST. When they reache (ve apartment house an elevator took them to an uppe floor, Where a young man met thea There wi a clovet in the room and in It a telegraph instrument clleked tic {the real ting, Iinmediately they pro: ceeded to pit the plan Into operation. Mr, Meron knows nothing about the yee potting. Me did not know even, where the track where the horses were (euuuued ya fore vee Uttle | ed Southern- | under the fifty mark, and| ult us in Norfolk, | ‘The game they | wet information on the races. here was no trouble and no risk attached, | I did not know any bout witat | you call the w appins Jack Farrell, a prize-fighter living en |the second flogr, cut on the face and brutses on the head. Lucy ¥arrelt,-his.wife, ankie broken | and possible internal injuries. Godfrey cel, living on the first floor, cut about the head. Edward Johnson, well known about the neighborhood as the keeper of the saloon and dance hall on the first floor \ of the building, said after the explosion that he had no enemies and he dia not! helieve that the work of vengeance was! Girected against him, but the police lean to the theory that the setting off of the bomb was due to a war Detween the negro gamblere and that somebody Just an |ploded two revolver shots were fired from the stairway between the second and third floors. Tenants who came from their rooms to see what was the | matter go the full force of the explosion tn thelr faces, The damage wi front wi | four inches out of plumb, statrwa: | Cellings inside were twisted and broken and all of the partitions petween hells and rooms cn the second and third floors were ripped out. {| The building has been condemned. When detectives of the West Thirty- seventh st:et station questioned John- son, the proprietor of the saloon and | dance hall, the latter sald that day a negro who had been jilted visited the woman who cast him off and threatened ler life if she did not come back to him. Johnson thought maybe [the bomb had been placed there after | thie, but the detectives did not think go. tell, the prize fighter, disappeared F after the explosion and has not been | found by the Selestivee *| TAFT TO BE AT I BALL GAME WHEN CONVENTION MEETS. | WASHINGTON, June 15. ing }ton, with a ball team that won fifteen consecutive games on the road and is in striking distance of the lead, | | 1s baseball crazy at present, President ‘Taft, despite the Chicago convention excitement, ts still a fan, and the ticker! fn the White House reels off the re- | turns of the game. for him every afte: |noon, ‘The results are also telephoned | to the Chevy Chase Country Club, over the course of which the President plays golf. While this is regarded as merely a dl- version from the stress of politics, there | was much surprise to-day when it wi announced that President ‘Taft had| made atrangements to attend the game between the Nationals and the Atht here Xt Tuesday, the first day t Republican National Convention ia Chicago. eer NATIONAL LEAGUE. | AT NEW VorK, | PITTSBURGH— 1 | GIANTS 3 ah | AT BROOKLYN. | st. LOUIS— j 1010 at BROOKLYN— 0000 - | money. |come home with more money than he “10 PAGES CENT. i UST HARING S| eT “- AS ROOSEVELT NEARS CHIGAGG nt PRICE ons Head of Republican ee Also a Big Boomer for Taft (Wketched in Chicago by Maurice Ketten.) Managers of Campaign in an Ope Letter to Nationalt Committee Accuse It of Assassinating the Republican Party. LOOKED UPON AS NOTICE ~— OF INTENTION TO BOLT. | Steam Roller Continues Its Work in the Grabbing of Seats, but Awards © T. R. Two in Texas. BY MARTIN GREEN. | f (Gta Corréeponduat ‘of Thy Bvening Wort.) 7 CHICAGO, Iil,, June 4§.—The stage is all set for the big Bands are ready to march forth and shatter the atmosphere: . instructed hosts of patriots are assembling at designated places in ree to appear upon the scene and’ produce spontaneous enthuslasni., of stage manacers are at work on a plan to, make the entry oF Roosevelt into Chicago this afternoon the most spectacular ¢y history of politics, Instead of backing off and fanning themselves. with- agit Taft managers have taken a big brace and sre Hustling Senter Si There is a note of sincerity in their claims that has not been d able before. They say they wifl have the renomination of Taft my by to-morrow morning. LAST WARNING TO TAFT MEN. Two hours before Col. Roosevelt's train was due his n issued an open letter to the National Committee which is some quarters as the Plain intiniation of a bolt if Taft is:r The letter reads: pe Gentlemen: Representing as we do the Républicans of. our respective States, or the delegations ‘duly elected to the National: Republican Convention, we thus advise you, in order that hereafter: the matter may be one of record, that you are prostituting your” positions, violating every tenet of fair dealing and decency and) { assassinating the Republican party. You are perpetrating gross frauds and disfranchising Repub» licans of the different States. You are engaged in a deliberate attempt to thwart the wilt et the rank and file of the Republican party, and thus to convert ‘* party of progress into one of reaction. ’ You know this, we know it, the mation knows it. We, in our individual capacity and the Republicans whom we 7 represent, will not tolerate or submit to your illegal, outrageous: and larcenous acts, We demand that you reconsider your unlawful, actions thus:-far | taken, that you cease your assault upon the integrity of the Repub» lican party, and that you perform your functions in Republican fasl»< P ion, with fairness and honesty. ba Unless you rescind your fraudulent decisions, upon you f rest the responsibility of attempts to assassinate the i party, and for all time to come you will have the contempt and emee cration of all liberty-loving, square thinking and reputable citizerts, ee HIRAM W. JOHNSON, 5 ROLE IT fn “r Joun Hays. HAMMOND > ena ROOSEVELT CHIEF IN FIGHT- ING TRIM BEFORE COMMITTEE. WALL ST. BROKERS CAUGHT IN RAID ON GAMBLING HOUSE Sixty Men Surprised by Police in Home of Chance on Broad Street. WE ore THEY'LL STAMPEDE FOR ROOSEVELT, I$ TIP OF “BiG TIM" Senator Returns From Abroad and Says “Dark Horse” Won't Be in It. A @ambitng house on the second floor at No. @ Broad street, with a cllentele of Wall street brokers and clerks, wae raided in dramatic style shortly after 1 o'clock to-day by detectives under the leadership of Ideut. Dominick G, Riley of Commissioner Walio's staff. Into the place “Take my tip,” sald Senstor “Big | ‘Two of Riley's men got Tim" Sullivan, returning to-day on the | [in the guise of players, and when play : Governor of Californja and Chairman California Delegation, | €3 Celtic from his little run on the other | | wee at ney wey e he AER WILLIAM E. GLASSCOCK, Delegate-at-Large from West ide, ‘if there's any break in the or-| er hee and hia men created conster-| BORDEN D. WHITING, i ate hes | nation when phey Garted among ae National Committeeman-Elect for New Jersey. Rearasites’s decree, Itimalieet ee ea ROBERT H. M'CORMICK, Illinois. stampede for Roosevelt and you won't es 5 eacetmada ane ti , able to the organization Taft mires arrests were te ang cove L. GARFORD, Ohio, Gh: SOF A8 ust ASST tate igen War sre te tee OM Mlle alive EDWARD C. CARRINGTON, Maryland. On Te rent P Station. A large crowd congregated on] MARION BUTLER, North Carolina. the aidewalks and remained to see the gambling paraphernalia removed to a second patrol waKon The pronoun ho declared the WILLIAM FLINN, Delegate, Pennsylvania b. B. HEARD, Arizona. W. R. STUBBS, Governor of Kansas, s. M'NINCH, North Carolina, about the Republican outlook; he was! more ‘‘cagey” when it came to making | forecasts for Baltimore “Well, the way things look down there,” said the silent Senator, with a little smile playing around the corners Kher rap tables weve yy the policemen coe of furniture CHICAGO EDITOR BOOMING COLONEL IN DINNER COAT v bid _ — — at the finest they had ever see stn . G or S aikuta of Be eae eee ennmae, cuank | the Genator wai @ populer man in Paris. The gambling rooms were furnished ROBERT S. V . Govern r South Dak Lal. pinned on him; it's |AM Ormantzation of ‘women there, WhO! comfortably, ul not ostentatiously With as much unconcern as t slong enough to let the two | Jelegates from the Third T pass, but returne’ to its work: tm: at work, no Next district contest, Republican National Committee, without, The New York delegation, with even the formality of a roll ca!!, seated | Votes in the convention, arrived ee erat delegate fron | but there was nothing to inéleste: @ Mitte she was 1. Lyon, | break to Roosevelt, ED Are teoosevelt leader in Texas, had been| ‘The arrival of Col. Re accused of every sort of polltical marks the opening, of hostilities ee he hostile In the extreme, ‘believed that the recent auto bandit | phe place is said to have been run by | terroriem showed the need of a Sulltvan | Roger McDermott, who has frequently aw aimiler to the one on the New | vefied the police to stop his business. York statute books, had begun an agi- he faro and roulette layouts were hi tation for such legigiation. ‘The women, j»moved to be hell as evidence against who boa pid BiRONt CARTER? OF \4o Col, Mike mid, all wore little buttons | the men arrested ¢ with the Sena handsome fave on} The three men arresto! them. names and addresses ay ¢ Novi Hast Forty-frst_aireot, Prank ‘Lake of No. #10 Fourth avenue, and Bowery, Roosevelt were not speeding to Chicag oft campalgn tor was Col, Mike | nail | wharf at the time “Big Tim" sailed, and jhad in his posket when he marted, | {Rath Deli Paoll, the Bank Commi sioner, Was a conmpanton of the Senato, — More Ald for Flood Saft onvens | Will be James Moran of No. 1 many vee eonna: tos ‘and the Mises Lucy Backes and Mny | Contefoutions received today by the ithe raid was the immediate remult of | Mans to te steal ms p ie rae ‘ fied ok pra Keating of Fordham, whom Senator Mayor's Southern Flood Relief Com-| conrplainie to ¢ Ba NeMe nai careaivn Vexan it such uminous detall ‘@ulttvan had discovered ing mittee increased the fund to S#.87246,| clerke in Wall street offices had been egaies from the Mlrst Pistylet af Texas) Wik y nae oe around Europe in fine indepen ¢ sum coming by mail to-day amount- | lor!ng heavily at the were seated. clothes men from the Chicage carne ‘osok on the Celtte under As the money is being re- | orphe two votes from the Second Texas Departinent were on duty lest night, "Big ing to $674, i, chaperonage, |ise. to the committee is turntsbing re- District were also credited to Taft, the lobby of the Congress Hotel f "Gal ussen ied) san enporiaa nas nd aise tha ‘| museencele Fa saleeaaaae we "nea tne ateoin roller 4uraea aalde purpose of peasnrring ) °