The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1912, Page 1

ASTOR BABY MAY CAUSE $25,000.000 FIGHT WEATUER—Fatr To: EDI Thursday; Cooter. 1On. | “ Circulation Books Open to All,” ONE CENT. vright. 1912, Conrrias. Uthe'New Tork Wert), ‘The Press Publishing PRICE NEW ASTOR BABY’S MOTHER AY BREAK COLONEL'S WILL AND DME VAST FORTUNE Child Inherits $3,000,000 Under Doc- ument Admitted to Probate, but Courts Might Award a Third of the Estate. “YOUNG WIDOW CALLS HER * LAWYER BACK TO THE CITY ‘New Heir Born at 8.15 o’Clock A. M. To-Day Weighs 7% Pounds, Is Plump and Beautifully Formed. ‘ The anxiously-awaited $3,000,000 Astor baby was born at 8.15 o'clock A. M. to-day. It is a boy and will bear the name of his father, | John Jacob Astor, who died so heroically in the Titanic disaster of April 14 last. Announcement that a posthumous heir to Col. Astor had been born was made shortly before 9 o'clock at the Astor mansion, No, 840 Fifth avenue, by Dr. Edwin B, Cragin of No 10 West Fiftieth street, who has been in constant attendance upon Mrs. Astor for ten days. Dr. Aug. 14. name is John Jacob Astor. dition. ment with this bulletin: “The baby weighs 73% pounds. present. to put the new baby on a financial iam Vincent Astor. Only Dr. Cragin and a trained nurse, Miss Helen Nesbit, were in attendance when the lusty Astor infant caine into the world, Mrs, William H. Fotce, mother of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, and Miss Kathryn Force, were in an ad- joining room. Mrs. Force had not been to bed all night. Early last evening she and Mrs. Astor and Kathryn Force went for a long drive in a limousine. The young widow's condition at that time, said Dr, Cragin to-day, could not have been more favorable. FIFTH TO BEAR NAME JOHN JACOB ASTOR. From a medical standpoint the ac- couchment was perfect, The baby 1s plump and beautifully formed. Con- gidering the terrible ordeal the mother has passed through she and her rela- tives have every reason to be delighted. The new John Jacob Astor is the fifth Astor of that name. Where there had been dense crowds of the morbidly curious waiting for fuewa of the birth of the Astor heir ail e yesterday afternoon and during the days OF (Continued on Second Page.) —_—_—>— NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PITTSBURGH. PHILADELPHIA— 0v0v9020000—-2 » sTTSBURGH— 00200000 01-3 —_— AMERICAN LEAGUE, AT NEW YORK, FIRST GAME, DETROIT— 01121010 0-6 HIGHLANDERS— 100010001-38 AT PHILADELPHIA, VELAND. FIRST GAME, LEV. —— 01101000 0-3 + ATHLETICS— 40000220 AT BOSTON, TIRST GAME, ST, LOUIS— » 02000000 0-2 op ose. —8 Cragin sent out the following note: Mrs. Astor has a son, born at 8.15 A. M. His Mother and son are in good con- EDWIN B. CRAGIN. Half an hour later Dr. Cragin supplemented the birth announce- No other doctor was Mother and child are doing well.” The Forces are said to be elated over the birth of a boy and the naming of the child after the founder of the mammoth Astor fortune is accepted as significant of the fact that there is likely to be a will contest footing with his half-brother, Will- NARTAL KE BREMS, SO STAGE SKATERASKS COURT TO PUL HER UT Divorce Decree Is the Lifeline That “Miss West” Wants Thrown to Her. “IAliian M. West,” whose real namo 19 Mrs. Charles L. Gill, and who night- ly excites the Johnnies to loud demon- stration of approval by the graceful curves she cuts on made-to-order fee on a Broadway stage told Justice Van Siclen, in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, to-day, that the matrimontal ice on which she and her husband had been sweeping through life had been dan- werously thin for two years and had fin- ally given way under them. She had been plunged into the chill waters of dis!llusionment, said Mre, Gill, when she made the unhappy discovery that her jhusband was now cutting figure elghts with another fair partner, who was liv- ing with him, she charged, tn the Hotel Remington. Gill has been playing this season in vaudeville in “The Deva and Tom Walker.” The Gills met while playing on the road in 19, and were marricd yn, Pa, on Christmas day made perfect partners until 198, Gil, says his wife, showe decided inclination to skate away from her. Then she sued him for a separation and obtained $10 4 Week alimony. Later Mrs, Gil heard from friends that hubby was helpless in the blandishments of 2 stage beauty whose name was not made public in the court procedings to-day, Gul succumbed to the new beauty when he tried to teach her to skate, and with ber skated into the divorce court, . when ARTIST GILLET AT 75 WINS BRIDE WHO IS ONLY 72 He’s a Grandpa and Mrs, Ken- dall Is a Grandma, but Romantic as Ever. WILL WED TO-MORROW. “Love Makes Us All Young,” Says Painter, Who Will Take Bride Abroad. John Christopher Gillet is @ grand- father, but in his seventy-sixth year the artist and globe-trotter has proven that he can love aa well and as ardently as his grandsons, To-morrow he will lead to the altar Mrs, Rachel Kendall, her- self a grandmother, but eho few traces of the seventy-two years she has lived. “Love really makes us all young,” sald Artist Gillet to-day, and people who have watched the grandfather's ardent ¢ ir ship of Mrs, Kendall have agreed that it has made Gillet as young as the most adrent aia. ‘The aged artixt is Gistinguished ap- pearing. His erect figure belles his years. He lives at No, 112 Hast Mighty. | eighth street, Three doors above lives Mrs. Kendall, whom ‘he will marry to- morrow. For months each year Mr. paints in his little villa up in the Alps, near Geneva, He loves the snow capped peaks, and it t» almost with heartfelt’ regret that he comes back ¢ach year to visit his sons and grand- fons in America, He ha» been married and widowed twice, HATED TO GIVE UP HOME THE ALPS. On the occasion of his last visit to New York from Switzerland he was aad, for he realized that sooner or later he must give up his long travels, and he hated to give up his mountain home, He yearned to return dmmediately. Then he was introduced to Mra, Ken- dall, herself a writer of considerable reputation. She loved the beauties of Gillet IN nature, the good pictures and the good books that made up so large @ part of the artist's Mfe, Artist Gillet's old- time friends joked him over his pro- longed stay away from his Alpine home, The courtship of the charming grand- mother, who is a widow, was ardent. Mr. Gillet way a frequent caller at the Kendall apartment. No youthful swatn was more thoughtful. Flowers and candy and books re dally sent to the aged woman by her aged sweetheart. The time came when Mr, Gillet had, he felt, to go back to the Alps, He wanted to paint, and he wanted to breathe again the pure air of the mountains. But this time the little villa up there above Geneva did not hold its former attraction, “You must go back with me," he whispered to the little old woman, “We are young, in spirit at least, ant we will be as happy as even the youngest of lovers.” AND SHE, TOO, LOVED THE MOUNTAINS, That was the way he proposed, and Mra, Kendal! accepted in the same spirtt of love. Born in London and a fre- quent visttor to the Continent, she, too, loved the mountains, And more, she loved the big, white-haired man who bore himself like any youthful lover, “I will go," she sald simply, ‘They appeared to-day in the marriage license office in the City Hall. They walked with firm tread to the window, their arms locked tn loving embrace, Se times the aged it stroked the hand of the woman he loved. The aged couple wil} be married to- morrow morning and to-morrow after- noon will sail for Europe. They will spend their honeymoon at Mr, Gille.'s chateau in the Alps. “Love makes us all young,” sata Mr. Gillet to-day. ‘I do not fee! my age: tn fact, I feel younger nov than I ever did, Surely years have not lense Kendall and 1 did. We knoy bapyy through th rest of our lives, a4 helpmates to caca other through Whatever time may be spared to us “I did not fee! that I could go back to the Alps, which I love so greatly, without Mrs, Kendall, and she has agrecd tu Bo back With me us my wire, We both feel young enough even to do some mountain climbing, for we both have been of sunny and loving disp nd we néver have let our y Mother of Astor Baby Who Was Born To-Day and Husband Who Lost Life on the Titanic ONHELS OF TAF VETO, HOUSE AGAN PASSES STEL BIL Action Quickly Follows Read- ing of President’s Message Disapproving Measure, WASHINGTON, Aug. 14,—Within three houre after Presiden Taft had seht back the Steel Tariff bill to Congress with a message of disapproval, the Ho to-day passed the measure over his veto. The vote was 173 to pass it, 83 against {t, and one present and not voting. It 4s not expected to repans the Senate. Preskent Taft tn his message to Con- gress to-day vetoing the Steel Dill, sald he disapproved the measure be cause {t provided for revenue only and took no account of protection for Amer lean ‘ndustries. He condemned the Ways and Means Committee for refus- ing public hearings on the bill His veto was expected Mr, Taft gave as another reason for his veto that the bill affected not only| the iron and steel industry, but fifty- nine allied industries, which, he aald, were worthy of separate classification, Mr. Taft wrote that he was not pre- pared to say there were no items In the steel schedule which might not well be reduced, but he pointed out that its ad valorem rate of duty waa an ap- parent reduction of fifteen per cent. from the duties of the Wilson law “A bill for a complete revinton of thin schedule to me a year in t 1 of this Congress,” wrote the President. “Many increases and decreases of rates are now mate from e named in the former measure. he changes are not explained, and indicate the hasty method pursued in the preparation of both, Is it not fair to ask, te Basle of protection or which is right “On the wh either on revenue, fe, therefore, 1 am not willing to approve of lewitlation of this] kind, which virtually affects not only wmiullons of workingaen and the Gependent on them, but hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of stocks of goods in the hands of storekeepers and Aiatributors Kenerally, without first pro- viding for @ careful and disinterested Inquiry into the conditions of the whvule industry. “From the outset of my administration I have urged a revision of the tariff Dased on a non-partisan study of the have provided the means for securing such information in the ap- pointment of @ tariff board, Their thorough work, already completed on @evern! schedules, has justified my con- fidence in this method. The principle 4» indorsed by Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade in almost every city ‘of importance tn the country, The pro- posed bill has not been framed on the basis of any such study of the industry, “Ayowedly tts rates are fixed with ny tion of anything but revenue, iple of protection ts disregarded entirely, and therefore it Is not tuo much to say that the effect of these sweeping changes on the welfare of those en gaged in these varied been disregarded.” leer STORM SWEEPS CITY, SMASHING FLAGPOLE Lightning Hits Top of Produce Ex- change, Sending Splinters to the Street. After a sultry day, during which the heat increased from hour to hour from & comparatively seasonable warmth in facts. orning to an almost unbearable | idity in the aft uck b at lstorm at 420 o'el aftern which not only dark ity but tn man places star th fearsom into wondering Af the best place wa not after all under a deak or a bed stead five minutes after the storr was rey Ms / within half a of the blast } — Ballding fous, industries bas | U.S. VICE-CONSUL | IN COLOMBIA IS SHOT AND KILLED MacMaster Said to Have Met Death Hunting, but Wash- ington Is Suspicious, WASHINGTON, Aug. 4,—Wiittem Bruce MacMaster, Ameriean Vice<on- sul at Cartagena, Colombia, has been shot and killed. Despatches to the State Department to-day reporting his deavh my he waa Killed Inst Sunday “while hunting.” ‘This report came from Amert jean Consul Kemper at Cartagena, An Jattack upon his life two years ago and the strain tmposed upon hia rela- tons with the Colombian judicial w | horities as a remult of his efforts to ae cure full puniahment for the would-be assassins excites the suspicion of of | Acials here as to the cause of his death. t two years ago, because a native tn self-defense, Ma ; ter Was attacked by several Colombians ‘ously wou He was ar rider and, al er court, ‘was Kullty and sentenced to {aprison by an appellate tribunal States Government and secured a new trial, which reaulted lin his acquittal tn June, 1910, but he has ever since been fearful of furthor | violence. | Mr. MacMaster was born in Colombia of American parents in 1875, He was educated tn States and C » and The fntervened is 16 PAGES WEATHUPR-Fatr To-niah: @ Thareday; Cooler, FI } EDITION. | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”” ] NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912. PRICE ONE CENT. LEUT. BE CKER'S CHUM _ BEATS BRIDGIE' WEBBER IN WEST SIDE PRISON One of Four Eye Witnesses of Mur- der Tells of More Aid Given to Gunmen Who Shot Rosenthal. SEARCH BANK ACCOUNTS . OF EVERY INSPECTOR With Wehber’s Hoard Only Partly Traced Whitman Widens Scru- tiny to Whole Department. Hostilities among the four prisoners held in West Side prison in the Rosenthal case broke out to-day, and the keepers are now under instruc- tions to keep Jacob Reich, alias “Jack Sullivan,” away from “Jack Rose,” “Bridgie’ Webber and Harry Vallon, Reich attacked Weber and cursed Rose to-day. He accuses the pair of trying to sacrifice him in the Rosen- thal murder matter in order to bolster up their confessions. Four persons who are said by attaches of the District-Attorney’s office to have witnessed the murder of Merman Rosenthal and to be able to identify the murderers called on Assistant District-Attomeys Moss and Smith this afternoon, They are John Ballinger, a taxicab starter at the Cadilac Hotel; Harry Newman, a ticket speculator, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, concerning whom no information: was obtainable, Ballinger, according to the reports that came from the District. Attorney's office, recognized several gangsters who rented cars at his stand between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of July 16) This was in pursuance, the District-Attorney thinks, of the plan to have Forty-third street cleared for the “getaway” of the gray murder car, Ballinger is also said to have seen Rosenthal leave the Metropole and buy newspapers and stand reading as four men advanced from across the street and began shooting at him. WHITMAN ON MYSTERIOUS EKRAND. Mr, Whitman hurriedly departed frotn his office this afternoon after getting a message from Detective William J. Burns, During Mr. White man’s absence from his office a mysterious stranger, who sald he was from the District-Attorney’s office, appeared at the West Side prison and sent in an envelope addressed to “Jack Sullivan.” A couple of minutes later “Sullivan” sent another envelope to the messenger, who burried away. _ Coroner Feinberg announced to-day that he will proceed to-momow With the inquest into the death of Herman Rosenthal When it was sug- gested to the Coroner that Mr. Whitman may not be ready to go on with the inquest because of to-morrow’s session of the Grand Jury, he said the inquest would be started, irrespective of the demands on the District-Attorney’s time. Commissioner Waldo was asked to-day what he thought about the revelations showing the wealth in banks of Lieut, Becker and the reputed big cash holdings of other policemen, He said he had nothing to say, The Commissioner announced that he will not attend the Cooper Union mass meeting to-night. He received no invitation, and it is said for him that he would not attend, even though his presence had been requested, “| have not thought of asking for a change of venue,” said John F, Melntyre, in charge of Lieut, Becker’s defense to-day. “If Becker ever comes to trial, he will be tried by an unprejudiced jury.” “What do you mean by ‘If Becker ever comes to trial?” Mr, McIntyre was asked, “On, he might die or something,” replied the attorney hastily. ed! Wost ap» |“SULLIVAN” ENRAGED BY MEN- |Mr, Mcintyre denied that Becker, with whom he had just conferred, had intimated in any way that he might make a confession, ‘The fight among the prisoners tn the! Webber, In his testimony defore the fe Jail was the topic of much| Grand Judy yesterday afternoon, had Police Court to-day,| fone into details concerning the pay- risoners #aw Tt wate] ment of $1,000 In cash to “Lefty Loule,"' % and wit # sleeves! “Gyp the Blood,” "Whitey Lewis and a rush for “Br Frank" Ctroficl, “Dag the four gun- who killed Herman Rosenthal, cording to the published account of Webbe TION AS DUN MESSENGER. Webber's testimony, the informer said Reich also paid his respects to bald. Reich had deen sent twice, in the headed "Jack'’ Kose in the chol capacity of 4 messenger, to Lieut aAecnae Gt Haat Pourtean Becker with a demand on the police he epithets #houted t Mtfiver to make good to Webber $1,000 idzed even tho prison: for) which had been turned over to the mure mination in the Magistrate's Court.|derers, When Reich got the full sigate ich had read the morning papers. | fleance of this he began to boll up bat What aroused him wae the report that is auger 4 ” Gig "not “explode, unt be