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4 WEAT' ‘meat _c1dady eaten | and ||FE Friday; warmer, EDITION. ‘PRICE ONE CENT. oe “ Circulation Books Open to Ajl.’” TR. CONVENTION A FROST, BULL MOOSERS ADJOURN TO GATHER AN AUDIENCE Split Over Hotchkiss, Pushed Prenderg4st and Is Called Boss, Who Out MANY VACANT CHAIRS.4 ‘Sing Hymna and Popular Melodies and Mr. Daven- port Sounds Keynote. BY MARTIN GREEN. | Correspondent of World.) INVENTION HALL, SYRACUSE Sept. 5.—From the standpoint of popular interest the opening of tthe] @ret State Convention of the Roose- welt party to-day was a large and eonspicuous frost. When, after # Jong delay, the gathering began its Geliberations ihe delegates and newe- paper correspondents and. musicians Practically had the convention aall to thempelves. “There were not three hundred spects- tora in the hall, although tickets hed been widely distributed and many had Scores of early arrt had jcuous were the barren, of vacant chairs that Chatrman Hotchkiss in opening the pro- ceedings was moved to make reference to the gondition confronting him. He attributed the absence of the populace te conflicting no in the press of the time of starting the convention. Mr. Hotchkiss ventured the prediction that there would be plenty of spectators at the succeeding sessions. ‘The opening session was more or Ii ‘perfunctory merely to get things mov- Ain It also gave opportunity to sev~ young men to Mlustrate through big shiny megaphones their idea of the fwumpet call of a Bull Moore. It is @uite evident that none of them ever heard a Bull Moose, but all have heard and.correctly imitated the moaning of the fog horn at Sandy Hook ADJOURN TILL NIGHT CATCH CROWD. But in order that there should not be | another frost the convention adjourned after the morning session to reassemble |g, ‘at Bo'clock to-night, Timothy L. Wood- ff, who knows al! about Syracuse, et- -@ineered the adjournment until night, bbe taking the ground that the peor = this“metropolis have no time to at-| tend conventions In the daytime, | +It developed that there 1s one comest| ever the right of delegates to seats in) the convention. The congest comes from Ostego, where there is & revolt asal BC Turner, the County Chairman, who is accused of being @ boss. To care for the contest It Was negessary to ap- point a committee on contested seats, The Roovevelt plan of giving the Bull Moose Conventio a devotional and evangelistic tone was carried out In to-| day's proceeding. During the long wait for the opening of the convention the delegates and alternates who monopo- | Higed almost two-thirds of the seating capacity of the hgll frequently arose and lifted their volves in song, There were two bands and almost continuous music “Onward, Christian Soldiers’ was vorite ‘hymn, Many of the dele from New York County sang it with | TO (Continued on Second Page.) A Study in Contrasts in Yesterday’s World. 2947 “Help Wanted” ads. 79 “Sumrer Re sort ads 64 More Than lis Nearest | testified that on tl SLAYER HATLESS, IN BROOKLYN A DAY AFTER ESCAPE Forsbrey, ~ Audion Sick, Asked for Water at Doc- tor’s Home. Dr. M. J. Dattlebaum of No, 1125 East- ern Parkway, Brooklyn, belleves that Beynold Forsbrey, the hold-up mur-| @erer who escaped from the Tombs early Monday, paid a visit to his home Tuesday night. While the physician was entertaining & party of friends a hatless man, wear- ing a shabby brown sult, rang the door- dell and asked the maid, Erna Wittie, for a drink of He appeared to be sick and weak. The maid brought him the water, but when he asked permis- sion to come in the house one of Dr. Dattlebaum's guests blocked ahe way. The man then backed down the steps And ran up the street. Two detectives came along an hour or #0 afterward and heard of the visit to the physician's house. They showed a photograph ot Forsbrey to the doctor's maid and she Was sure !t looked Ike the had asked for the water. to be about as near as the police have gotten to Forsbrey of the Centre street bastile, Nicholas J, Jones, night keeper of the Tombs at the time of the escape of Forabrey, was on trial to-day man who That seems sinc he broke out before Commissioner of Corrections Whitney. Jones was suspefded after the escape. Warden Fallon te to Jones for guarding Forgbrey and said | that had they been carried out Forsbrey Tombs could not have got out of the yard undetecte William Carine, the trusty assigned to watch th f Forsbrey's col, relieved by Trusty his dirst Inspection he was missing and noll- eper Jones, who was in saw the prison fled Night i the yard. As to the char, that the Night War- had shown bad judgment in putting Guard Houlihan on duty in place of uard Kobler, the rules had been modi- fled Aug. 15, allowing the Night V den to change the guards as he saw f! v missioner reserved deciston, raying he wanted to make a personal Investigation regarding certain points in the testimony of Warden Fallon ones is seventy-two years old and is & war veteran. a —— WOLGAST INJURES ARM; CALLS OFF PACKY BOUT Lightweight ¢ Shampion Opens Old Wound While Cranking Auto— Out of Ring for Month. "ADILE..C, Mich, Sept. 5.—Light- Weight Champlo1 Ad Wolgast to-day called off his contemplated ten-round fi with McFarland, » for at Madison Square Jen, New ‘ork, Wolgast severeiy [injured his righ: arm while cranking his auto and after a thorou examinat his physician announ that it would be @ month, or possi vix Weeks before he could participa in a ring contest. ‘The Injury sustain by the char Was particular'y pai | ful, aw it ed up un old wo Ad 5 greatly disuppointed over the aceider as it Means that the champion is forced to postpone several engagements carry ing positive guaranters of upward of $45,000, As soon us possible Wolgast's in jured arm will be placed under an e fighter erled bitterly while in a doctor's office and apparently Seemed to realize that lis fight with McFarland will have to be temporarily called otf, James Hayes. Hayes | 3018. by. The Frese Eublichion Co. (The New York Wort cd HAYES. DISCLAI SMALL CROWD CAUSES The NEW ~ (ALDERMAN JAILED AS BLACKMAILER OF ARICH WIDOW. |Percy L. Davis Accused of Ex- torting $5,000 Front Mrs, Eva B. Carroll. | INPRAYER WHEN NABBED “Evangel,” Alleged Accomplice, Closes Trans- action With a Hymn. Tombs Out of the arrest of Percy L. Dav! Alderman from the Nimeteenth Ald manic District and Republican candidate for Congress, and Eben J. Owens, a vol- unteer and unattached self-styled Tombs evangelist, charged with dlack- mailing Mrs. Eva B. Carroll, a wealthy Colorado woman, came a queerly mixed tale of adventure, graft, sordid romance and farce comedy when the case was called in Herlem Court before Magis- trate Torrigan to-day. By way of a sta ting, while Da- vis and Owens were in Harlem Court Prison awaiting the call of their case, the Republican Association of the Thirtieth Assembly District marched by in all its glory on the wayto ite annual outing, with Leader Frank Bowers out in front and the band play-~ ing “The Battle Cry of Fredo! Mrs, Carroll came to this city a vear ago with her daughter, Mrs, Florence Engel, and an auburn-haired. beauty of sixteen years, who was at once her maid and ward, She took an apartment at No.2 Pinehurst avenue to be in close touch with the management of her property, much of which she had ac- quired with the tance of W. B, Lawrence of Boston, one of the princt- stockholders of the Interurban Rall- y Company, who has long been her friend. She also controls valuable cor- set patents and much mining property in Colorado. “From the day I came to this wicked "Mrs, Carroll said to an Evening reporter to-day, “I have been learning that no woman with more than dof his eal iuialiea be hundred dollars’ worth of property can be too careful of it. Not a man has come near me who has not tried to swindle me or to marry me for my. money. I am almost persuaded to go back to the Rocky Mounta: the men are men and the wolv. fur, Last night Was the climax.” TRAP SET IN RESTAURANT IN HARLEM. Between laughter and tears, Mrs, Carrol! sald Davis and Owens, the apper politician and the sanctimonious friend of mankind, had met her by ap- pointment at Pabst's restaurant in One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to quik over the suppression of an alleged scan- dalous affidavit which was in the safe of Lawyer Carl H, Fowler's oce at No, 65 Liberty street, The aMdavit was the product of Viola Dawson, the chiid- mali, who left Mrs. Carroll's employ Aug. 1, after confessing (0 forging Mra, Carroll's name to several checks, and being forgiven, Davis had said, ac- cording to Mra, Carroll, that he could Keep the affidavit, which was supposed to reflect on Mrs, Carroll's character, from print in consideration of $5,000 ani $15 for Friend Owe ‘At the next table In the restaurant sat a man named Maher, employed by the District-Attorney’s office, and Central Office Detectives Trayer and Regan “They had told me," sald Mrs, Car- roll, "to Ket Davis and Owens to go to my home on the promise o* paying the It money over ts them there, ah detectives were to hurry 1 of us, What keyed me up to be as cool as f was I do not know, I felt des actress overcoming stage they S and omy agreed I was to wipe my the an} fright. 1 |wot through with it and gave the aig. nal. The three detectives hurried out After ten minutes we followed. Going up in a taxicab, Davis kept telling me keeping the affidavit out o him get for al representing clean but doing service to public decene: Owens was humming sacred tunes, ALL KNEEL IN PRAYER As CHECK |S SIGNED, time, there Was a terrible time! at the house, Mr. Maher Sa very stout Florence, for some reason, made bim into my bedroom, ¢ tive Trayer bid behind @ window cur- tain, He w a \ ALERT Nn een CCAR OM OR AI Neh ne EO ae ORNS A aC URGENCY government, | ' YORK, THURSDAY, “SEPTEMBER 's | Wealthy Woman Who Accuses Alderman; Her Former Ward. MRS EVA B.CARROKL PRESIDENT PASSES THROUGH CITY ON Miss VIOLA bawson Is Hurried From. Train in Auto . ., ad to Join Mrs. Taft Aboard CROWD IS TRAMPLED. Tat tad AS ROOSEVELT TALKS, fre | Afternoon and Was taken to the Hrqok- lyn Navy Yard at once in an automo- bile to bourd the President's yabhe, line Mayflower, y a Ti Presiden eved ue > Thirty-Seven Persor Personsion Falt\cones on uk ie cen ce “ane ‘ a [eprainéd ankle, aggravated by te Grounds Hurled to Earth | i'oraauts ite was able to yan at-| Hy . nn welght on the Injured joint when she | at Speaker's Stand. t Washingion, walking the | White Hivuse door to with e OB. St. PAUT, Minn, | With the ald of a at » He Keomed A ross and brushed as offer of a Sept. 5 were Injured 4nd) ving chair in the station more than thirty » Women and chil The Mayflower arrived off Sandy dren trampled within a few feet ofl took from Washington Navy Yard at| where Col, The wevelt Was s.3y o'clock. Mrs. Taft was aboard. speaking at the Fair Grounds tov yacht came up the bay during the reed into tand hor the sp when @ runaway the crowd about and the o nly ree | and Col, Roosevelt seemed unmoved ‘Tart is on his wey to the} raised his volce in continuing his) peep Waterway’s Convention at New specch, In an effort to reassure the pondon. Ma hodes, his physician, | said that the sea change und the rest née stopped when the crowd from ine Wh routine ought | was so thick that furtaer!.y make the + all tent to 4 progress was ne crazed | \oek | PTAA ee iipseware bali: bert Uiles of the Republiegn sut only seven were t ‘ mittee and Secretary hergency hospital ou the expected tv juin the Maye it, None | edt ) have their Arvt came elt managed to paign conference wiih the Wead uf the h was an attack on Gov, W AARC wan ap alia MAINE VOTES NE NEXT TUESDAY. —_— “ —— Aviator Heniy Menten Meattu Wite BORTLAND, sey Mepl. G-dalne wit kre i ‘ay a Guy rand State officials He Mes ty AD, ua 1 bBo xt Tues and to-day the Kepub- Ww aity, the avi pleadod ans and lemoctate had thor heayt- Lae tu the charge of beating bts elest spell-binder batteries in the Meld. | \when he was arraigned befo The Muine situation is vastly different] Bubler to-day. Whea Mis. Heat fi sich prevatled in Vermont, | her husband In court: they f t Hui party | wrangle, but the Judge restored put out State teket | was adjourned unt)! quertion isthe par e| qe te Maine campaiga. S_GRAF WAY TO NEW LONDON MOOSE ADJOURNMENT N 1912. 30. PVERYBODY'L BE WEARNG EM NOW: “WEARING WHAT? Why, Those se niieehi Whis-| » kers That Are Warming Up London. GEORGE ADE SAYS sO He's Going Into Seclusion in ‘* Indiana to Start a Daz- zling Crop. te * George Ade stood upon the near-burn- thr Beck of the Olympic as she steamed td Her wharf, benéath the mid-day aun and predicted an imminent in- of America by British whiskers, weeks of hirsute research abroad, ks Open to Ail.” | “ Gleeulation Be Books Open t CHARGE WEATHER-Cloudy to-n' FI it and Friday: warmer. na Svibays wasn > EDITION. PAGES PRICE ONE blinds UNDER WALDO'S GRILL, TENDERLON EX-SZAR EXONERATES POLIGE ———_-—_+ 42 — Specifically Disclaims Every State- ment Attributed: to Him When Forced Under Examination, and Gives Clean Bill. HIS UNSWORN STATEMENT MADE TO SCHMITTBERGER. ads convinced it ts only = matter of &\month or two before our best young fin will be ashamed te appear in pub- 1f6,"smooth-shaven. fn, a trunk, tbe ead-faced Ade brought and aperificdtions of tha compl- Gfha whiskers now in vogue among thp younger, amart” set tn London—fite dacapes, he them--aad he an- fdunced that he/ls going straight to his jana farm, there to°remain in re treet until he has raised a satetesiors: *“ide-whiskers Pathe to Ande fod, Just as fast ag the fastest ships can ting them,” he aad. ‘1 eey mathe to mine at once, and I bhall there- be ahead of the holpelio|. I have n’ informed that if I remain for « in apclusion and_am attended by peciaiixt, I mall be ready to come ia into the world resplendent in ers, Ach ESCAPE THE NEW-OLD ra) DESIDERATUM. r'Admoat any one can raise a crop of the'old trailing arbutue styte of whisk- Qfe; but there ts more of art in the Fatsing and care of the new-fangled fire ‘These new onea are not so ew; ‘They are of the crop of 1890, and the London dandies have al- y resuscitated them beyond danger ot n felapee. mother delightful thing fe the frilied This in also @ fad of the London Then spats, too, are coming Into thelr own, Why, you can see the effect Of ithe styles on tifls very ship!” Walter Kolly, the "Virginia Judge" of Yeudeville, waa coming along the deck aboye @ pair of apate which almost 4towned the wheesing of the tug at the Commissioner Orders Immediate Ex- amination Into Alleged Boast of a Bomb to Startle City. Comelius G. Hayes, the: demoted inspector, when brought from to-day, denied making any of- the statements attribuled to hienin the circumstantial reports gf the conversation between himself and: Distr Attorney Whitman on Tuesday night. He did not make his denial under oath. He was not asked to swear to the ‘typewritten statement which he dictated under Chief Inspector Max Schmittberger’s eye. Pursuant to Commissioner Waldo’s orders to call Hayes to Heade quarters, restore him temporarily to duty and force him either to deny or affirm that the statements credited to him were true, Schmittberger tions drawn from the substance of Waldo’s earlier letter to him, F To each of the first five questions in this schedule Hayes wrote, in answer: “I made no such *tatement.” In answer to the sixth, which was, “Have you any evidence of any wrongdoing by any one in the Department?” Hayes wrote this answer: “| have no evidence of any wrongdoing by ;ny member of the Department or by any person connected therewith.” a slayer aia BaseballScoresTa-Day = see Waldo + report, the When he within thirty~ report was taken by the Commissioner five minutes, Schmittberi aud Haye: te) iyinp ‘natern. Up on the bridge Capt The ce Halddock atood betind whinkers that like Hayes ew Tae eed Pew York nireets wits | NATIONAL LEAGUE. syen gen thin Matamente> In’ three score years AT PHILADELPHIA. swored sehoee,” sald Ade, nodding ay ug VIMST GAME, Was he ordered to awear to tt?" fain, “are genuine fire escapes. T: has out of compliment to Mm, that asad ar 000006 2-8 [me rrain sae Witenes as i ion ont eee wu rarer to] pHILADELPHIA— | rieay Lpea tree wer ee : (an ae ‘whiskers a Ia Huddoc! ‘ n¢ < et: “Next to whiskers the thing in Fnx- 00 oi 09° 00 Va has Nip question of whether or not by rs that made the most poworful ‘m-| GlANTS— Maes stalk ment at this tine Hayes glow upon me was the weather, It 0000001 FS his ustfulness as a wite rae all the time, in city and country. PHILADELPHIA— ay : John Doe proceedings, he ee ns were trolling for hay and 100001 Piiie fool xpngak written under the lor oats, I had intended to 40 eye SoM raustoated by Chiet: Iaspester to Venton bat 1 saved that sx- AT BROOKLYN. | an as f ae, Bvery town in England wal a croy | Vanite.” 0200 ‘ munication COLT. COLT SEES HOPE FOR Prey ne ht mates Phaee ‘\ TAFT'S RE-ELECTION, -¢ morning's Col, Sam Pomeroy Colt, President of 1000 Cito in the United States Rubber Company, was| Eres you would tell a story Wad accompanied by hls twenty-three resign Instantly year/olt son, Roswell Colt, AT NEW York. Tmaite no such statement Dhide, who was Mis» Dorothy ATHLETICS TAMe, Paragraph 2—"Alwo thate you eal@ Aauighter of the IMrector-General of *he ry 0403101 0 1-19 ; you know of wrong. Hudson Bay Company. Young Colt is). doing on the Dart of persons cea: dite back to Canada, where he me: | HIGHLANDERS ( wl Mien Chipman, to start learning sis} 030005100-9 .. Der etahl father's business asa clerk In the oft SECOND GAME, | had eviden wrong ofsthe Cunadian Consolidated Rub) | ATLAS s a ee wrens Compan 00 - | !Thore ta something good nthe | HIGHLANDERS— gid Republican party, after ali, and T] 00 — | hink President Taft will oe re-elected, - “att Mr, Colt, Tle wis feeling espe AT+ BOSTON, jally cheerful since, while abroad, he! WASHINGTON— | had an 1 for the listing of 81 100002 a shares of the rubver trust on the BOSTON— | Paniuet of the Paris Bourse. ‘Roose 000130 ji havn't a chance, In my opinion, but a f-think that Wilson would be elected AT CHICAGO. < ' vere the wie tlon to-morrow.” CLEVELAND it | Bren there was Carl Laemnn 0000 7) uidn’t talk about polition . ie inlérested In way the magic 0 CHICAGO™- persons coi fottune he has built in six yeara by rub. 10 L have n vif the motion picture lantern doing of ai Frank A. Munsey, afte: Htoorevelt_ woud also abroad ve elected, 4 (Coatiaued 0 on Second Page) ment, or a with: Paragray specificals you hay Tottenville to Police Headquarters upon Commissioner Waldo's orders wrote a letter to the demoted inspector and in it incorporated six ques- ~ 44