The evening world. Newspaper, July 5, 1912, Page 1

WEATHER—showe re NI PRICE ONE CENT. bable ‘To-night or Saturday. GHT EDITION.- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, ‘JULY 5, 1912. NEGLECT OF ONE MAN KILLS 41 IN WRECK: American Athletes Ready to Roll Up Record in O ympic Games H—Showers Probable To-n 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. Where Forty-One Live Lives Were Blotted Out in Lackawanna Train Crash, Showing Shattered Cars and Engine, and Bride Who Was Killed ENE IS BLAMED -FOR41 DEATHS, FALED ~ TO REED FOUR SIGNALS ———__+ 4e-— |Wreck on Lackawanna Caused Sole- ly by Failure of One Man to Do His Duty Properly, Declares Official of the Road. \MECHANICAL AID USELESS WITHOUT HUMAN AGENCY. | \Many New York People, Including Two Brides, Among Victims of Holiday Railroad Disaster. VIRECKRED ATHLETES READY HIRST DAY'S EVENTS WORLD'S FOR March in Parade for the King | SWEDEN PROTESTS AGAINST AD ULT WORLD ADS TO-DAY aren een oF ‘And, Mane e Pari T The OLYMPIC MEET CUPID GETS PASTOR ARRESTED AS THIEF AS HE GOES WOOING Constable Makes Big Catch, by Heck, When He Nabs the Rev. Mr. Smith. of Sweden To-Morrow | _ eer cree Charges That Negro Howard Ran paver fet ty The Bening World) S . * " ‘ : VERHEAD, L. L, July —The Rev. Before the Games Begin. Profe 1 Race in Goorge Smith of Aquebogue was con- South Afric uously absent from the streets of STOCKHOLM, July §.—Stockholm has By fawsen Robertson. thie town today, He gl expected to eet a standard f Olympic (Spectal Cable te The Evening World.) come out be! dazk: hen If he does, 4 hospitality which future} STO M July d-The as it is believed he will do, the Rev.» is hardly will be abl re | & y of expected Olymple| Smith will run out of his front gate, pass, not only in the st Aiusi’appointe | Mmos BF was filed to-day whea|trundiing his bicyele beside him, and ments, which are the most luxurious |acaine: p raltting Howard the negro | 8 SYA LniO hes nadie and acon for athlets ever known in Kurepe, out} me jivn team wi te . HH fH oe in the factitles provided for the press} contesting. Howard, who is on the | The mishap which makes the Rev. and v lors within the dium and | SWitte of the foreign sprit was! Smith so ashy of company occurred everywhere about the capi s fuled to st the ‘0 metres right here in Riverhead last night, and Immediately after the ball run. Ile was greatly feared by the was in part due to that same bleycle, were finished yesterday workme: € a teem aati ,|, There is @ young woman of Rivers gan to prepare the great field for ‘ ies. eal uP Lia gral y head In the Rey. Smith, who Is a] other sports; apparatus for n Toate fetan A 5 ) widower ently shown more than! Aisplays, pole vauitir fur Donaldson ta Af, @ pastoral interest. Because of the in- trenches and wrestling platforms being .t years ago, Following that} tense curiosity which always follows a prepared orm of protest in {man of the cloth when he goes a’ wooing The ceremonies of opening the athe) ‘ “ world, at Smith as entatious in his letie sections of the gimes will jae aos 7 ® uit eer \ visite, He 1p a back street held to-morrow Afte the mareh 7 ” 1 on le ‘i “f to the sto: lend, concealed his past the King, partic!pat n ay jarolation peyote In the back shed and has then the athletes of al natlos ‘ n crossed back irds and sipped quiet Vrince Gustave A h ry honey sick ened porch of president of the Swedish Olow ‘ mittee, will de 1 1 ' i ‘ t night at 10 o'clock, court jain, Ch \h It, will T tt wey 1 and then read rerme ! w .- ; a 1 a 7 hou hymn “A Mighty F o +| 4 © Into the back shed of the will be sung by the semula i ry 1 tot iis yele had n moved, He The weather to-day i n hot 1K ever, he 1 about over crates and boxe favorable to the American atiletes, permit for It : nearly all of w ur t ie, sku a ehind tree trunks training for the thoula o 5 ack ya « ris, as fearless Po Pre eclie Gp MWeGOR ta Im 1 py B12 Mel n's Blue Serge Suits.$5,95 Hoeman Hus 4 for Ts ‘HUE yg " »polnt the rifle work Ameri grat. cor. Shereye tba ir 4 new! Ae nt and has asked °) wt f ny and Butura nree a ivan rifles be ent t nf serie Suits, all ‘wool he shea at the targets xtur many satin din ” P to-da iret a (4; worth $1 priges im the minta 1 r ‘ Saturday, ali \ shooting competito 0 Ce Coa o ‘ 1 2 vata games, Let, Ca canmmnennatee iad at last fou ut inte nis a ni H here I iW Pyaar Tae Tevec peel winners f Where to Live § te: oer on tne ground tor'a wn and gainad the silver and That's the question that should be of § 8¢" TAGE The bine neer Erikvon a Md Was aw ‘at concern tocrowded NewYorkers} |, ft alther contestants. were es ed the bronze meta ' h 25 pliant st were es Wor'd “To Let” Ads Last Month Bev Ni Bell ; more than the Herald, Mt as though you was afraid somes} Sun, Tribune and Press ty Guid bes bee Pee en kD r » Way, bringing a bieyele,” sald ACT. WISELY Tie Rev th went along, by Jerks, too, when his sleps lagged. Right at the steps of the police station @ friend recog. BOSS SULLI VAN’S SON WON ILLINOIS Youth and His Mother Felt the Sting of Constant Lam- pooning of Politician. TWO MORE AIRMEN KILLED IN FALL: DOZEN DIE IN WEEK (Special from x Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SEA GIRT, July 5.-Gov. Wilson learned to-day the “inside” story of how the son of Roger Sullivan, the Dem- ocratic boss of Illinols, had won for him the fifty-elght votes of the Prairie Sate at Baltimore. Leading up to this story, the Gover: | AGE WAG Ae’ WAS. SAS/U8. 60 ‘eee FONE | Aeronaunts who have fallen to men go into political life. He regards !t ‘ 1 |] death this week: as a decidedly happy sign of the times. | this 1 7 Young Sullivan and his mother, accord- || MONDAY — Miss HARRIET ing to the story told to the Governor, | QUIMBY and WILLIAM A. P. have long smarted under the constant | WILLARD killed in a flight in Boston. lampooning of the Chicago boss. Mrs, Sullivan's health was broken by | BENNO KOENIG killed and three other aviators injured in a the political attacks. The son, at Law- renceville and Harvard, felt the matter |} ying contest in Altona, Pressia. keenly. When the Wilson boom was TUESDAY — MELVIN VANI- ‘, his brother, CALVIN VANI- launched he hurried home and met his GEORGE BOURILLION, ngineer of the Vaniman balloon FIVE DAYS’ DEATH TOLL IN RANKS OF AVIATORS. |father, whose pride in his boy {s a dom!- t passion, i ‘Dad, here's the way to crown your {life's work with honor,” sald the bo Akron; FRED BLMBR, another Stand up for Gov. Wilson. We all know |f “ngineer, and WALTER GUE jal backer of Melvin Vani man, all killed in a flight at At- lantic City him and he's worth a decent man's sup- port.’ But Roger Sullty nan teal t 1 THURSDAY THOMAS MOORE Clark, The son went to Baltimore w alls one thousand feet from a his tnothes. He camped on lis fat parachute at Belleville, N. J. and trail, exhorting him help “old Pre ls crushed to death Wilson.” Sullivan was not ready, Th LIEUT. CARANDA of the F ght before Lilinols went ove sds is NDA of the Rou van family dined to wether, Aga manian army kiled at Bucharest son pleaded as he had day and hile giving an exalbition fight it since. the ntion began, H FRIDAY — CAPT. FE, B. LO haa ema RAINE and SERGT,-MAJOR WIL 1 to Wile 4ON of the British army killed in vat his fa actice fight at Salisbury Plains, Mis, Su ingland to Wile SALISHCRY, Bnglani, July o. ever as iy Pe PCTS Two more 8 were sacrificed to the ) siulivan was it. Mra, Sullivan's) sclence of aviation tod Capt. B yen were moist. ‘The Chicago boss| B. Lo: of the Grenadier ! pone AUiety: 590) hat from tie! and Sergt-Major Wilson were In ack, "Son," he sald have Ww fiftyeelght votes for Mr Wilson, 11. | 8tantly killed while flying in an arn te them to-morrow.” aeroplane near Stoneb to-day Secretary Tumulty announced tat & One of the side planes became warped taff of assistants would begin te and the aeroplane turned turtle, Bot newer eve received inpy «| Men were jarred from thelr seat street side and fel] 400 feet, Sergt. Wilson way | killed instantly, but Capt, Lorain lived ne after ho was Vercea nim aded the vigiant|#¥ed ® short time after bo wa Hulse there na mistake | picked up. But the Rev, Smith is not taking any | Captain Loraine was one of tt | ( own of the Hritlgh army aviatol \ particular comfort in the way peopte|xnown ‘ , had Nights th [passing his house to-day have tooked |e Mad bs at tne windows and at the bicycle on! tatied as ir at the army a the front porch and laughed. » VOTES FOR WILSON MISSED ON LINER Wealthy New York Woma Starts Search for Gems Lost on Trip to Boston Iported the Jiace, whieh diss p fed: durin her pd thone entrurted to ¢ there] Mr Cullen sent for some chaste [from New York to Boston on the n mind—the | showin amor Hunker Hill, Misa Thayer ang ihae sot, ¢ sy contrivances, (a\iag oS Netees mald wer pa neers esday themaelve without the When a train enters block ht. Miss Thayer ¢ 1 co-operatl man they are use| semaphore Ind it autor Las eof the best on board. While look: [ens As the train leaves ing over her Jewels preparatory to leave] “In every acetdent it is some human th usually a alt. mle ie tthe steamer It was discovered that|Mechanism that it at fault; some brain low bar rei tet ag eval It was a EE See erated, toe HARE GILIe but the red bar drops, That tele mae the pearla were. missing proper Ue, The steel and wire me-|¢nsineer of the train being hime te She was unable to account for (he| ci iivn ie never at fault.” That was|Proceed with caution, As the tale | trange dlsappe © and thought Itling case in this terrible catastrophe |!eaves the block ahead the yellow. tear fF | possible the necklace might have Our signals worked perfectly, all the|4tops, but the semaphore of the Mes ff | ne mixed up with some other articles |men on the From formed their pre-|Dehind ts set at danger. The presse in her trun, Misy Thayer xeribed duty, except one, and he says,|!"& train ts always two blocks aaa, | mediately to her summe xplanation, that he didn’t see the|Jf tt comes to « stop the signal behind New Hampshire. Her repre He blamed the fog. He was|!* set at full danger, and the Steels vlaited the steamer (o-da Inquire If tne enginecr the Saneae 9 we] Pelow denotes caution, It is « peruse ‘ na ‘Had. Dae ned remard!ng | ai which telescoped the Buffalo |" simple system.” th N aboard the |aitn4 x “The proof of the perfection fe Si inkor knew anyt a 0 the usin, eee ee Wel to the|N@ EXCUSE FOR ENGINEER NOT |xiiiey onty two nernenn . ae and the steward having | SEEING SIGNAL, HE SAYS. Th 1 has prided at part vest ' eoul “As railroad men, we find it impo cident has hurt us hing of t The police Will vel gible to accept his exp tion. Anyo! P our sorrow, tol ' Who hax ever sat in the cab of an}are useless, We are doing all we eam | : engine ® that there is no fox that] to help tho relatives and friends of the Atala T " vk ugh to hide a signal from | passengers killed or injured, Any i att anhingtor ‘the engineer. He could almost touca|can have free transportation te F i pithy ¢ she|them from his window In this in- | scene of the accident, to Ppa Radand f York |Atanes he ran past the cautionary | to the aid of any of his fri , ; a : first /signal, which told him there Was 4) Mr, Cullen, when aske n t aot! two blocks ahead of him, ‘Then, advisibility of placing two ha‘ oii he came into the next block and found | engine cab, expressed the opinion thal di On 3 Nes Thay ated fr @ tho danger signal set full against hun, /such a system would be daageseualt w mp ea train because It would give the men the eps y soot : 1 past and pertuntty of conversing. Such / is ad of him, without putting on any been debated by many F , ital, and When he saw the crash was but it was decided unwise for ' Jelinevitable, Jumped. mn, he usserted, \ precau every safeguard,| The Lackawanna Railway @ave @w nd on, constructed to-day a supplementary statememt 1 by rad, all Useless, the wreck, whica again declared FORT & . sap! yew use 6 mind, the ve part of che engineer was the @ OF 1 of ule brain failed to work | cause of the aceldent 1 ald | prop It is @ terrible thing to cons Willian Schroeder of Elmira, ! D (Me | ten " ssly of the express train, was fftye! ats Gere) wha years 0 nd had been on this g ’ ue ta aye Hoular run ever anes i Was established, ‘ A hie : twomy-three years ago, and had @ ment” 5 eet rive lont ree F statement. AS ' Yengn the time of the accident Le had Deem om iY Wil also ran can take | duty only abou; an hour, " orry ana An official investigation en the % J expense, it! ground disclosed that Engineer Schroe $30,000 NECKLACE BY MISS THAYER Special ta The Evening World.) ROSTON, July 5.-Mis# Atala Thayer, ja wealthy New York woman, has ree of & $20,000 pearl neck- George A. Cullen, general traffic manager of the Lackawanna Rall © toad, ‘after working all night in an effort to determine positively the” cause of the wreck on his road at. Gibson’s Narrows, early-yesterday morning, when forty-one persons were killed and three score teupumedy said, to-day, it was another case of the personal equation—that it Was up to the engineer, All the elaborate and intricate mechanical contrle vances used by the Lackawanna to protect its passengers were set at naught, said Mr. Cullen, by the momentary neglect of one man’s brain to perform instantaneously a specific duty—namely, to catch his sige nals as his train flashed by them, “No matter how perfect is the mechanical department of @ gale road and how strict are the rules and regulations given the men, it is impossible to get away from the fact that we have always to depend on the brain of one man. It is the engineer in the cab.” Such was the statement t crew of the stalled train, and 44 mee Mr. Cullen, as he sat, hy see the fings of two flagmen, w! Jexhausted after a sleep night two thousand yards in the pl ” ling to place the exact blame for the | stalled Buffalo Limited. Our | disaster, “Railroad men have studied this problem for years, and always, always we come to the same question—ts there any other human agency Jena wilt tly the Hyves of N Were working perfectly, tained that. ‘The block system ie gene fect, because it Is eimple.” be DECLARES THE nt you hor |der pa signal which stood at any railroad man can deny It jution,’ indicating clearly train pa? ie # instance, the e er not! Was in the next block ahead at rin past bis cautionary and danger {quiring him tosreduce speed and nol @ burning | his train under control, ‘This he did mot ene of the do, but he ram through the block @g full | Jeignal but he did not see “' fuse pyaced oo the track by