The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1912, Page 10

10 THE EVENING WORLD, Mrs. Martin Littleton Winning Fight To Have Nation Purchase Monticello —_>— In Urging Presentation of Jefferson Home for Na- tional Monument She Has Procured the Ap- pointment of a Joint Committee of House and Senate. Has Even Gained Approval of Her Plan by Republi- ean, Democratic and Bull Moose National Conventions, to Say Nothing of Many States- men. Gt fooks as though Mrs. Martin W. Littleton would win her ngat ror the purchase by the nation of Monticeilo, the home and death place of Thomas Jefferson, for preservation as a national monument to the author of the Dec- Jeration of Independence. She has over- come every obstacie so far placed in her way, has procured the appointment of @ Joint committes of ten members of the Ge and House to inquire into the edvieability of the project, and has even gained the approval of her plan| by the Repubtican, Democratic and Bull | Moose National Conventions, not tw epeak of individual indorsements of Governors, Presidential candidates, Sen- ators, Judges and prominent men of all professions and parties, The owner of Monticello, Representa- tive Jefferson M. Levy, of this city, has told Congress that he doesn't want to| pert with the estate. But Mrs, Little- | tom ts firm in her conviction that even if Mr. Levy do not want to eell the old house that has been in his family now for two generations, the Government should compel him to do #0 by aplica- tion of the right of eminent domain, or whatever it ts the lawyers call the supreme power of Government to seize land which has been decided to be more in the nature of community’ than individual property. MANY PERSO APPROVE THE PLAN, ‘and you'd really be surprised at the ‘way people have come forward to help me," she told Evening World re- porter to-day. “Not only by word of mouth, but I've received bushels of letters, more than I could count, so folks who are well known and from just ordinary people, know that not a single one my Plan? They val | oF P. concerned, Monticello is chiefly worth While from ite sentimental interests. At the time of Jefferson's death it was ed bY his executors at $71,000, and {t was then tn the height of its glory, Telatively more valuable, I should say, than it is now. Indeed, It 1s now valued on the tax books of Virginia at about $25,000, Jand and buildings together, but 1 daresay that ts quite @ little below (ta actual value, At any rate, it is of no particular use to its own and it |could be purchased by the Government for quite a trifling sum, Just think, Mount Vernon and the Hermitage and Arlington belong to the nation now. Shouldn't we own the home of the man Ledge, and, oh, ever so many! wig was almoat great as Wash: Mr. James M. Beck, who was|ton, who was ly as great Assistant Attorney<eneral in President | other man In our history? ‘McKintey'’s Cabinet, you know, wrote) “You know, Jefferson died @o poor as & result of the expenses of public life |that of the 10,000 acres of land he in- herited he had only about #ix hundred left, and he was heavily in debt; so {heavily in debt that the house had to \be sold by the executors. Perhaps I should begin by saying that Monticello @ay how splendid it is, and hope that joved. Gov. Wilson, Joseph | Teaac N. Seligman, Col. Wa! Justice Rich, Francis Lynde Gen. Sickles, Mayor Gayno of Wyoming, Gov. Eberhardt Gov, Mann of Virginia, any fa of Beck told me that in @ case Brought sbout by the Government's however, which dent ernors of Vire! young Dabo the m Me bu pure and failing a Present owner, as we was monument However, free right of acc the family burying pI Thomas Jefferson, twice of the United States, 8 family, an ia of sting of the First Congress, a along with ot ovy ted from this sum, When Levy cello to the people of the United State tance of his gift by the national government, to the State of Virginia, but hia brother, father of the brought sult to break the will and succeeded in doing 80, #0 that It went for naught. the Impression h minds that the present owne: first name ts Jefferson, is a grandson of the original owner. Since thei arisen in people’ ‘There is no relationship. Congress appropriated fferson's grave, but the Levya repr nted that certain members of the! family w though, as a matter of fact, they had no rights at all in the burial plot, whicn xpressly reserved to the Jefferson fo the project was allowed to Japse, but In 1882 another appropriation and the present put over the grave. denied | for all visitors, and | so the plans for making Jeforao e opposed to the project, fly, $10,000 was made, wai the Government w i Predi- two Gov- r, who brought about r less famous, but perhaps equally Hlustrious, men. “Tt wag in 18M that Commodore Uriah of the United States Navy ed the house and 20 acres of land for $2,700, and later $200 was sub- dled whose But this ts not the COLONEL ADMITS MOOSE PARTY WAS NEAR OPEN BREAK Had Hard Work in Bringing to His View of Negro Question. Some Delegates OYSTER BAY, Aug. 10—How near \the Progressive party came to @ break fat its first National Convention was {ora to-day by Col, Roosevelt. The negro question, he sald, created @ breach which for a time threatened to make serious trouble, The disagreement was due ia y to the fact that some ot the Northern delegates, who were] Look out for xenuinely anxious to help the negro in|car on Broadway next week. It's the qe eet did not understand how tol very newest thing in double-deckers, Though the pietures make !t look like & cross between a Coney Island bathing pavilion, a summer bungalow, a travel- ing post-office, and a filing case, Vice- President Frank Hedley and Superin- tendent of Car Construction J. 8. Doyle think it's the greatest ever, It not only has greater seating capacity, ac- wey told the Colonel that by refusing to give the blacks in the South represen- tation he was treating them unfairly, and that they could not consent to such action, Col, Roosevelt's reply, he said, was to point out to them the attitude of the negro delegates In the Republican Convention and to say that $f they SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1912 the skyscraper street’ cessibility, and more rapid service, bu it has an all-year-round smoking com- partment and can be made into an open car in summer, The stepless car, in operation since last March, and 19 of whore prototypes will Soon run along Broadway, led to the double-deck pattern. In the double- decker, too, passengers will have to mount a step of only ten inches on en- tering and will face a conductor seated Take a Ride Up Top on the Skyscraper Car When It Rolls ‘ : ing roof with a cen- of 7 feet 2 inches affords Plenty of head room. A central stair- | case furnishes ready access to the upper deck, where back-to-back benches run the length of the car over the aroh of the lower story, Economy of “space makes the new ‘double-decker only seventeen inches higher than the present standard of cars. The mew cars will seat 88 pas- sengers and accommodate 171, as com- pared with 60 seated in the long and 60 in the short open care, 51 if stoples# care, 41 to 47 in the you-enter type and 36 and 28 in lom@” and short closed cars respectively, An automatic cash register, an trical street announcer and au control of ventilation and brakes wi wished to create those conditions with- in the Progressive party, they must do {t without him. In the face of thts uiti- matum, the Colonel had his way, and he pelleves that he succeeded in convincing thore who at first oprosed him that it was the right way, “It was the only way," Col. Roosevelt anid. “If the new party should win, many people would say six months after election that the plan had failed be- cause the negro sti” suffered from in- justices, (But In ten years they will un- derstand that step in advance has been taken, and that the country was on the right way toward the solution of the whole problem.” “Willlam Jennings Bryan have taken Demooratie idea to LOVE OF DISPLAY LEADS IDLE YOUTH TO STEAL JEWELRY Sent to Jail Because of Am- bition to Live Up to “The Flashy Tops.” ys you he was ‘We have,” he replied with a smntle. “We have taken all the Democratic {deas except those ft for inmates of a lunatic asylum.” ‘Col. Roose’ received a which pleased him greatly. from Bremerton Navy Yard, near Seat- tle, and extended congratulations of t crew of the battleship Oregon on ac- count of his nomination. The most cl telegram i Tt was sent “The Flashy! Tops," a coterie of cheap Ufe ts to play pool, smoke cigarettes and array themselves in gaudy clothes, prized of all his trophies, the Colonel | Were looked upon by nineteen-year-old Fre were a hs bl ood the en-| Charles Friteche of No, 86 Southern aevua teuasl: RNa een ae. 1 the cholcest companions bronze “Rough Rider” trom ‘the eol- | tng models most worthy of tmitation Aiers of his regiment ee : In his desire to retain their friendship ——>_—_—_ HE BLEACHES SPARROWS and keep pace with them in dress, the youth did things which caused him to TO SELL AS CANARIES, | ve sent to salt to-day. a Fritache is the only ohild of Mrs. Jo- Vagrant in Cincinnati Tells Judge ecphine Fritsche, a widow, who is jani- He Makes “Good Ljving” tress at the Southern boulevard ad- at Odd Game. Gress, at ‘No, 8 Tiffany street and at CINCINNATI, Aug. several other houses and apartment 10.—Theodore | buildings in the neighborhood, Benny, arraigned for vagrancy to-day,| Recently Morris Betts, who has an has the strangest way of making a liv.|apartment at the Tiffany address, went ing ever heard of in @ police court.|to the country with his family and left He told Judge Frickle that he makes| thy keys of his flat with Mrs, Fritsche. considerable money by catching spar} yY6ung Charles knew of that. rows, bleaching them and selling them| ast Wednesday evening Isador Gold- ag canaries. stein, a Jeweler who lives in the same “You say you can make @ good lv-| building as the Fritsches, was unable to ald Judes: Brion get into his apartment as he had no key. oriling, He asked young Fritsche to ascend the your living?" | fre escape and crawl in @ window to lopen the door for him, ‘When Gold- “E bleach sparrows and sell them as /siein got into bis apartment he missed canaries oe Fenny. jewelry valued at $75. Detectives to came into the hands of the Jefferson| resting-place attractive rather fell] “You,” said the judge, “should have! whom he reported his loss arrested the site of family im 11%, when Col. Peter Jefter-| treoven. been charged with obtaining money | rriteche, son, Thomas Jefferson's father, obtained | “Throughout the years during which| under false pretences. Fifty dollars |” atrer his arrest the youth confessed © patent, for 1,000 acres of land on the| Monticello has been an object of interest | and cost! t he had taken Goldste‘n's jewelry ver Rivanna Jefferson wi born at the old family place of Shad | well, two miles from where Monticel! now stands. was burned in 1770—a waring of what mightt happen any time at Monticello even now--and #0 Thomas | Jefferson had to butld himself a new hom PLACE HAD TO BE SOLD TO PAY DEBTS. therefore Com- mMander-in-Chief of ite army, so that it “After he died, July 4, 18%, his e3 ecutors hoped that they would be able to raise sufficient money to pay his ‘seems to me that clears up any |Aebt# to save them from selling the oubt of the legal aspects of | PIC?! but In the end they were obliged that Congress could acquire land Use of it was to be a public world, that stantly been of private ownership. 114 not be the same if the property et to the Government and was managed as Mount Vernon is managed for the benefit of everybody who wishea| to pay respect to one of the founders of tho Republic, And that ts what we| day. are seeking.” belo “Mra. Hewligus, band’s attitude on the women suffrage and pilgrimage to all the nationa, of the diMculty has con- the dificulty me ncountered, Naturally, HIS POSE. (From the Chicago Tritmane,) what to part with it to James T. Barclay for the sum of $7,000. Just think of @e the question of value 42) They reserved to the Jefferson het: CARTOONIST PIELKE’S QUAINT HEAT PICTURES To-Morrow’s Sunday World in ececeosorees THE NEW SEVEN WONDERS PICTURED BY DAN SMITH AND DESCRIBED BY SCIENTISTS in To-Morrow’s Sunday World sesecosoosoe am § EE a THE ja SECOND PHOTOGRAPHS OF FRED STONE’S LARIAT THROWING in To-Morrow’s Sunday World ese esecosoee JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG’S KITTY COBB PICTURE in To-Morrow’s Sunday question?” “One foot in the air, of course, one of the chronic kickers." is your hus- and also told the detectives that he had got possession of his mother's keys to the Bette apartment and taken $150 worth of jewelry from there. “I was running with the ‘Flashy Tops,’ " the youthful prisoner told Mag- {strate Ringen to-day, “and T was not earning any money. I wanted to hold up my end of ‘t with the fellows, and waa elfly enough to steal. Fritsche wae held for the Grand Jury on two charges, burglary and grand lar- ceny, fie GE, TWO DUCHESSES FLY. it WA CUBE PARIS, Aug. 10.~The Duke and Duch- ess of Aosta, who have been at Vichy ‘and are in Paris on their way to Italy, went out to Mr. Maurice Farman's aero- ‘rome, at Buc, near Versailles, yoster- The Duchess made her first flight piloted by Farman, She was delighted, LONDON , Aug. 10.-Claude Grahame- White took the Duchess of Westmins. ter for a flight at Cowes yesterday in ——_——__- ro-aeroplane above King ves Sailor From River. George's yacht. Grahame-White fllum-| Michael Morrison, forty-five years old, ya |inated his aeroplane in the evening and|e@ rigger on the schooner Elisa Sher- meade a picturesque exhibition fight, wood, was rescued |i fe yesterday af- F R E BE ‘Adin oq To-Morreto's SUNDAY WORLD ZIT Ss E (For the Coupon) A Photogravure Portrait of WOODROW WILSON (Size 15 x 2014) Same Style as the Famous “Series of Presidents” Photogravures, but More than Twice as Large HEAVY INDIA TINT PAPER This is a splendid photogravure from a photograph by Pach Bros,—the best photograph ever taken of the Democratic candidate for President PANNIER” READ “What the Candidates Eat” LAUGH AT THE JOKES IN “FUN” UML “TH DOUBLE THE 'I6-PAGE JOKE BOOK GIVEN World FREE WITH TO-MORROW’S SUNDAY WORLD and idle youths whose sole concern in| HOT-PRESSED SURFACE ternoon by George Wisenbach, a cus- toms inspector, of No. 1710 CourtlaniJt avenue, the Bronx, after he had fallen between the schooner, moored at Pier 9% Old Slip, East River, and the bulk- head, Wisenbach lowered a rope and Morrison selzed it. He was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. DYING OF PHILIPPINE WOUND, ARMY SERGEANT KILLS SELF. Recovery Denied Him, He Turns on Gas in Brooklyn Lodg- ing House. After thirty years service in the United States Army, Sergt. Patrick Holahan Killed himself with gas Jast evening in a furnished room at No, 121 gston street, Brooklyn, Sergt. Holahan last saw active ser- vice in the Philippines, whore, in a skir- mish last winter, he was shot through tho thigh. The wound did not heal aud recently he retired on @ pension. Belleving that New York physicians could heal the wound, the sergeant came here, but the physicians told him that he probably would soon die. ‘This information made Holahan de: pondent and to friends he confided that he would take matters tn his own hands before suffering a lingering death. The body was found by Mrs. Ellen Mack, proprietor of the furnished room house. Holahgn was fifty-five years old and unmarried, acinar OATH ON STOLEN PRAYER BOOK. | Almost Convinced Grocer That I trader Wasn't a Thief. _ A solemn oath of innocence was sworn by Stephen Kror, twenty-seven years old, of No, 497 East One Hundred and Thirtieth street when a policeman ‘abbed him as he was making a lively getaway from the apartment of Michael Romano, a grocer at No. 374 Tenth ave- nue, early to-day. To make his oath more impressive Kror kissed a prayer book, which he jerked out of his pocket. “I was only looking for a young woman and Romano was tnclined to believ him. However, Policeman Coogan, who had been summoned by Romano after the burglar alarm in the apartment went off and who had seized Kror, wi doubtful. He looked at the prayer book and found it contained, on the fly-leaf, Mary Sheehan, 631 Eleventh Kror said it was she who had ok and promised him job, “ane policemen went to the Eleventh avenue address and found that a thief had taken the Sunday sult of Benjamin Sheehan, who lives there. The prayer book had been in pocket of the stolen coat and had belonged to Sheehan's Gead wife. Kror was locked up on a charge of burglary. who promised to get me a job,” he said, | DEMOCRATS PLAN OUTING, The Thirty-tifth Assembly Distetet | Democrats will have an outing to-maer Tow at Donnelly's Grove, the fitst outing of the district for three years, Various factional differences have een the use of the interruption of the @easte and fun in the open, but Tammany. Leader Elisworth J. Healy determined upon another family and political gath- ering in the grove at College. Point, Tie arrangoments are under the superviaton ot Ernest KE. L. Hammer, a popular oung lawyer in the Bronx, 7 Games and dancing and all ot outdoor sports will be indulged Wn endl & baseball match has deen arranged be- tween married and single men, to followed by a game petween the dans and Fordham Athletios, steamer will leave the foot of Bast Hundred and Thirt clgath treat an o'clock, with Flynn's Milltary Bang ef sixteen pieces on board, Roots, Herbs and Barks. You can no doubt recall the collection of roots, herbs and! barks your grandmother m BOY, RUN DOWN, DIES | IN CHAUFFEUR'S ARMS AFTER RACE FOR AD | Six-Year-Old Cedarhurst Lad Dashes in Front of Fast Auto and Is Killed. Arnold, the six-year-old son of Joseph A. Shay, a lawyer, whose office 1s at No, 2% Broad street, and whose eum- mer home {s on Locust avenue, Cedar- hurst, L. L, was run down and killed by an automobile on Broadway, Cedar- burst, early to-day. The machine ts owned by Mrs. Martin H. Lehnaler of Broadway and Cedarhurst avenue, ‘Cedarhurst. Leon W. Hartough, Mrs. Lehnater's chauffeur, was driving the car alone down Broadway at a fair speed, when the little boy dodged out from behind lan ice wagon, drawn up against the curb, and ran directly in front of the Japproaching auto. Though the chauf- feur tried frantically to swerve his car, one of the lamps struck the boy and hurled him several feet. Ns | Hartough jumped from the auto, |picked up the injured boy, and, holding jhim in his lap, drove with one hand at top speed for St. Joseph's Hospital, Far Rockaway. The child died while he was \being carried into the hospital. Har- tough was not arrested, for witnesses said no blame for the accident attached to him, pease Si BULL MOOSE BARBECUE. Michigan on Their Emblem, the most successful remedy female ills had its origin moval than 30 years ago in one these home medicine cheshi and Lydia E. Pinkham’ Progressives te Feast | DETROIT, Mich. Aug, 10.—The firet |real Bull Mooge barbecue held in the | United States, &t least since the animal became the mascot of the Progresstwe party, (s scheduled to occur at Lake- side, Aug. 17, the day of the Progressive County Convention. A number of can- didates for important State offices are {expected to speak and suffrazette lead- |ers of Michigan will probably be heard. ("Te te Planned to have the convention con e in the morning and recess: early In the afternoon to a.low tas delegazen to feast on the roasted emblom of their arty. After their appetities have been satisfied they will probably dispose of the important matters before the con- vention, eo the remedy that cleans the stomach, helps the bowels to their work and tones up the entire system. At all good drug stores, $1, or Partola Co., 160 Pry vas VZZIZZIIIIII Ann MLL SII “Showing Cousin Mary the Town” §: By Roy L. 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