The evening world. Newspaper, November 1, 1912, Page 1

Whitman WEATHER—Clearing to. E wht; Sat day fair, colder. EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. a ‘Co. (The New Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing a ‘ Circulation Books Open to All.” York World), tote Guarded From Assault by Four Chicago TO GET QUT OF “THUGS THREATEN WHITMAN Lawyers Visit Condemned Man and Make Plans for Appeal- iny to Higher Courts. PROSECUTOR GUARDED. Whitman Refuses to Discuss Report That Chicago Gang- sters Threatened His Life. Having a pretty fair idea by this sime of the horrors of the Death House at Sing Sing, former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker consulted with his lawyers to-day to begin his fight to get out. Becker has fallen into the ways of the place quickly and philo- sophically. His autocratic bearing has vanished. Ho is as meek as the meekest, and probably for the first time in his life realizes what the under dog's lot is like. If he expected unusual privileges {in Sing Sing he was disappointed. One of his first blows was a notice that his wife would be allowed to visit him only three days a week, imstead of every day, first re- ported. Condemned prisoners are not requ! to do ine work around their cells as are other prisoners. To-day James Dillon, @ convict and former Brooklyn . police- man, will ned to the care of Becker's cell. it has not filtered through the prison walls whether they knew each other while members of the department, but Dillon was convicted of Manslaughter afier it was alleged the stem’ had tried to save him. He shot and killed Probberon May 2 1909, in the grocery of his vi7- tim's father, The boy had telephoned te Headquarters that there was “a @runken cop in the store,” and he was hot as he turned from the telephon The was credited with pro- ducing a butcher knife and cuts in Dil- Jon's coat to show he was attacked. Dillon was given from seven to fourteen years, WHITMAN REFUSES TO DISCUSS REPORT ABOUT THUGS. District-Attorney Whitman was asked be a Louis to-day to confirm or deny a report that he has b warned that four thugs from Chicago are on their way to New York to kill yim and are due to arrive here to-morrow. When Evening World repo was in the libra. of eat No. 37 Madison avenue and -year-old daughter wes vesily engaged In bull tng @ playhouse out of blocks she had pulled from the shelves. “T don't « to discuss this matter,” wald the District-Attorney, “except to pt of threatening let all an unusual way that the rec ters {s not at stance in the District-Attorney's offi ‘As The Evening World reporter was teaving he found Detective "Al" Thomas at the door of Mr. Whitman's home, waiting .o accompany Mw downtown A detective |s far from Mr, White man's side these days, From sources outside the District-At- torney's office It has been learned that Mr. Whitnan has been warned of a plot to take his The plot is sald to (Goat Aes CHAFIN IS ELECTED! ts Give Prohibition nued on Eighth Page.) Barnari® stude Candidate Big Majority, Just to give the rest of the U.S.A fa ne on how th are going to flop on Noy. 5 the students of Barnard Col- lege—#) of ‘em—had 2 convention yes erday, nominated the five candidates of five parties in the fleld all over \ tain and then held an e ection, The re- 8. ts were announced to-day Uhafin, Prohibitionist, won overwhelm- inety. - _ Killed by Madinon Avenae Car. A northbound Madison avenue car ran down Louls Jum to-day at One Hundre Jaffe, who lived 1 and Hundred the way to the Harlem Hospltti th street Bast One died on BECKER STARTS HIS Fl DEATH HOUSE; BLAZING FOWL SEI THREE MAIDS AFIRE AND ONE WILL DIE Their Wealthy Employer, J. H. | Mahoney, Vainly Tries to Help Them. SINGEING A _ CHICKEN.| Feathers Burst Into Flames, Igniting their Clothing— Rush Out in Panic. Three servants who have been em- Ployed for years in the handsome brownstone home of J. H. Mahoney, a Fetired merchant, on the northwost cor- ner of Seventy-firat street and Mad!son | avenue, were badly burned to-day, one | of them mortally, when thelr clothing was lgnited by a blazing chicken, Sarah Boss, the cook, was singeing the chicken over an alcohol lamp when the feathers on the fowl suddenly flared up and set fire to her hair and ‘aist. Mary O'Brien and Lizale Doyle, maids, rushed to her aid, but In striving to beat out the flames their own cloth- {ng and hair caught fire, All three women were ablaze when Mr. | Mahoney, their employer, and Capt. Dominick Henry of the East Sixty-| seventh street station, who had been passing the house and heard the screams of the women, got into the kitchen. Capt. Henry and Mr. Mahoney threw tadle cloths and blankets over the cook and Mary O'E but tn @ sudden frenzy Lizze Doyle rushed out into the street and ran around madly in a rele, fanning the fire in her clothing | and increasing her agony. Patrolman Frank Monahan went to| the ald of the frantic woman and so did nen who jumped off a passing Madison avenue car. E. F. Doyle, a broker, of No, 520 Riverside Drive, tore off his topcoat and threw it over the young woman's head. George Symons of No, 21 East One Hundred and Eighth street, dragged his raincoat in the gutter to saturate it with water and wound !t about the blazing skirt. Poilceman Monahan in the meantime was trying to beat out the fire with his hands, both ef which were badly burned, The maid's outer clothing and all of} her hair had been burned off before the fire Was put out and she sank to the Pavement unconscious, The Presby- terlan Hospital {s diagonally opposite the Mahoney home and an ambulance was swiftly summoned and three in- ternes rushed over to minister to the burned woman All three were taken to the hospit: Mrs. Boss, the cook, and Miss O'Brien will recover, ‘but Lizzie Doyle inhaled flames and there is no hope that she wl survive, Patrolman Monohan had to have his burns dressed and after re- portiny to the station house was sent home on sick leave. Capt..Henry and the aged employer of the three wom were not injured, ‘The fire in the kitch- en did only trif_ing damage. —_—_—_—_——— Bankrupt Broker Expelled From Stock Exchange. For failure to appear before a com- mittee for examination as to the causes of the failure Blair Brothers, the | Necharaes fem £0 located at No. | % Broad street, losed Sept. 30, | Walter Blair, the board mer bankrupt concern, was membership in the Cc dated stock Exchange to-day. President De Aguero | explained the expulsion by saying that | Blair had failed to; appear before a} proper committee for examination, Sanne $12 Men’s Suits & O’coats, $5.95 | THE “UB” Clothing Corner, Broud- way, cor. Barclay St. opp. Woolworth Building (highest in the world), will sell to-day and Saturday 5,000 Men's Winter Buits and Overcoats, fne black thibet, fancy grays, browns and dark mixed worsteds, all sizes, single or double breasted; worth $12'in any other aioi ‘special price to-day and Saturda; $6506, "Open Saturday night tu) 10. 82 2 | CHILD ELOPERS ARE OOD KIDDIES AND OBEY PAPAS Their Runaway Marriage !s Annulled, but Just Watch for What Happens Next. MAY BE A NEW WEDDING Cupid Still Has His Eye on Helen Applegate and Wesley Harcourt Ritter. The “Mr." and prankish Daniel “Mrs.” Cupia which the wrote before the names of two child elopers three ye r® ago Were rubbed out to-day in e Supreme Court and a tedious and persistent struggle by the futhers of the infant earlyweds was ended, They ere hardly sixteen then. Their fathers say they made a mistake. Like good and obedient children they have not opposed the three years’ fight to have the nuptial knot severed. But there are whispers—even prophe- sies—that when they reach those days when papa’s outhority wanes they will again encourage the dexterous little bowman to train his arrows as he did that summer day—June 30, 1909—when they went to the parsonuge of the Rev. Mr. E. Connor Hulse at Belmar and ‘e made man and wife. She was Helen Applegate—not quite sixteen, perfect in schoolgirl mould, the first swimmer of the year to greet old Neptune at Ocean Grove, the idol of her father’s eye and the gr the house of Mr. and Mrs. Ph Applegate of Mount Carmel Way, | Ocean Grove. He was Wesley Harcourt Ritter, a few days more than a#ixteen, captain and quarterback in a boys’ school on the Hudson—typically a college chap —the only son of Edward P. V. Ritter of the Hotel ufacturer and an officer of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Exchange. ONE THING THE PAPERS DO NOT DISCLOSE, The unromantic papers, a great bun- dle of them, loaded with seals, stamps and signatures, do not disclose elemental food stuft of all love stories —how they met. It may be readily imagined that “Wes was up before the sun one morning cloaked in a high- collared blue ang red sweater with @ great letter “W" on his expansive chest, racing along the ocean front when suddenly out of the ocean came Helen like a gorgeous sea nymph, com- ing on shore from her ante-prandial Then it is easy to see that halted in his strides, spoke cheery “Good morning, Miss," as sum- mer folks always do, and then— To the parson's they tripped with two companions one afternoon, Thelr par- ents were not “in” on the lark, neither did they know of the long afternoons and evenings “Wes” and Helen had on ; the roller coasters and sildes of the ocean front parks. Ray Weeks, a school chum of Wesley's, and Bertha Irons, a friend of Helen's, saw the minister pro- nounce the words, came back to Ocean Grove with them and stood that night at a respectable distance from the gate ports of Helen's home and peered through the evening’s dusk as Wesley and Helen bade each other a fond good night. They were husband and wife— yet they dared not take thelr fathers into the secret. So it went, The summer season waned, The Ritters and Applegates were pack- ing up to return to tho'r city homes, ‘hen Wes! went to 918 faher and told his story. There was no scene, Papa Ritier was conse but severe, Hes son was too young. Next day Papa A plegate and Papa Ritter aad a talk and the day following Papa [itt begun an action in the Supreme Court against poth the children to annul their midaummer's dream A REFEREE TAKES THE TESTI- MONY IN PRIVATE. The children, it is apparer , cherished the memorles of their associations, but they were mindful of a father's au- thority. Guardians ad item were appointed by courts and a ref was named to take testimony in private fore the Court's appointee, Phoont Ingraham, thy children met, sat to- ether, chatted and renewed ther compantonshtp, and these who saw them are not sure tnat right before the Court they did not replight their| love. | ‘The weary examination dragged on. Months t by and then years, was not till three months ago that the Referee filed in the Supreme Court his recommendations that the marriage of the two children be annulled, as they were under age and bad never lived ap NEW YORK, FR dicot, a wealthy man- | sweet | What Do | | husband and wite. cedure they consent To-day Justice Giegerich rent thelr union with the final slash of the law. To-day Mrs. Wesley H. Ritter, as pretty a girl as Jersey boasts of, becomes again Miss Helen Applegate and “Wea? again becomes plain Master Ritter, In two years Miss Helen and Master Wesley will become of age. The next chapter? WU it tell of @ renewal of those vows the Court upset? To all of the pro- 176 CHILDREN KILLED IN STREETS IN 10 MONTHS Awful Toll of Traffic Shown in Re- port of Highways Protec- tive League. Wagons were found to be more dead- ly to pedestrians than trolley cars dur- ing the month of October, according to the report of the National Highway Pro tective Society Issued y. During the m ons were responsivle for the death of Wy persons and injury to 2%, while troileys | killed 16 and injured 48, Automobies |kided twenty-four persons and injured 112, while one person was killed by a bicycle. ‘The total persons meeting with acel dents on the streets of the Greater Ct due to vehicular traffic was @ killed Injured, Sater city on highway othe fol- lowing tabulation was pre pared: Injured. By automobiles ” rH Ry trolleys 0 28 By wagons + re 3 Bight wagons and eight automobiles © de by ral trains at s throughout the te during the month Hing of the figures of childr ing the ten months of the year 14 1178 for the ¢ City alo! fatal acel young per cent. occurred in the and Brooklyn. oughs of Manhatt DEMOCRATS TO PARADE. That Wi in Cele- Ometal Dental bration Has Been Called om, A report has been tn elrculation to the effect that the reat Wilson 4 for | to-morrow been called ac: | Jovunt of the ling weather, T | National Demo: fe Committ |tha: the parade had not been called uff, and preparations for the parade are | being continued & committee on the Consolidated Stock Exehar which has been in charge of the arrangements for @ ation of members in the parade withdrew out of respect to the 1 y “Presiden, Sherman, I IDAY, You Think of Her ? She’s Fairest Bride Mayor Ever c/®, GARAGES SEARCHED 4 (ug NS Wn NOVEM BER 1, 1 o * ea ot ae Ss RS CATSIS UST THE FARESTBRDE MAYOR EVER SAM |Her New Hubby and Others Agree With Mr. Gaynor, So He Must Be Right. Mr. and Mra. Benjaniin Samuel Catts are on thelr way to Palm Beach to- day with two certificates from Mayor Gaynor of which they are almost equal ly proud, The firot ifles the Mayor of New York ity, under the authority | conferred on him by law, did yester- | day unlte Miss Ethel Suvage Conalin, spinster, and 1. §. Catts, lawyer, In the bonds of matrimony. The other | was an oral certificate and was dellv- ered to Mrs. Catts immediately after the ceremony and in the pregence of | her husvand and William | of police at-- tached to the Mayor's oilice, It was to this effect; ‘You, madam, are the prettiest wom fan I have ever married.’ ‘LT think you are right, air,” said Lieutenant iennel, he bride blushed. Mr. Catta @atd anks, ver uch, Sv dol." E and laughed and the boy shook ha ty was over rmer Alderman Elias Goodman ed it all, Hack tn 1909 he said ta j Mr. Catts, whom he had law offices at No, 2% Broadway, “L think T all introduce jou to the prettiest girl ver seen you! answered Mr. Catts. Mr. | Jinan took the dare You are right,” observed Mr, Catts wot out of range of Mins ing. “L wish L had time think 1 was worta while 2 her | too." But made time, prowlly vut five months ago Mr and last Week he was able to » to Mr, Goodman's teak and sey! “I wish to announce that 1am about to be married to the prat- test girl either you or myself has ever neen.” Catts wali r, Goodman at once ulated that Mayor Gaynor, his old friend, perform the ceremony. 912. 28 P KILLED POLICEMAN Five Hundred Officers and Twenty Detectives Seek Clue to Joy Riders. FROM PARTY TO DEATH. Fitzsimmons Is Run Down in Park Two Hours After Leav- ing Hallowe’en Celebration. Under the personal direction of First Deputy Police Commissioner MoKay, a pecial detail of twenty detectives is run- ning down clues pointing to the identity of the persona who were in the auto- mobile that ran down and killed Pollve- man Peter Fitzsimmons in the West Drive, near Seventy-fourth atreet, Cen- tral Park, at 1.20 o'clock this morning. ‘Through the general alarm system, 600 police officers were visiting garages looking for damaged automobiles within two hours after Fitzsimmons wae killed and information gathered in this investi- gation will certainly, tt ts belteved, bring to Ught those who ran down Fitseim- mons and left him dying in the road. Police Commissioner Waldo is deter- mined the persons who killed Fitssim- mona shall be brought to justice and the whole machinery of the Police De- partment is working to that end. Un- lens the clues already in hand bring results to-day every automobile in thé aity will ‘be inventigated as to ite, where- abouts at the time Fitssimmons was killed. SECOND POLICEMAN RUN DOWN IN PARK. In the Arsenal station in Central Park are several pleces of glass which | were found in the road near where Fitzsommons was struck, The mlage te thick and appears to have been broken from a heavy windshield or a powerful nearchiight lamp. ‘The police have a line on two automobiles which were taken to garages early this morning with broken windshield. Fitzsimmons was the second police- man to be run down by reckleas auto- mobilista in Central Park within five weeks, Late in September Patrolman Terence Gallagher, on post in the Weat Drive, near One Hundred and Sixth atreet, wan knocked twenty feet by a speeding car, which did not atop. Gal- lagher, with a broken right leg, four fractured ribs and internal Injuries, lingered between life and death for three weeks In the Red Cross Hospital and is now slowly fighting his way back to health at his home, No. 205 West One Hundred and Forty-second street. Fitasimmons was patrolling his beat in the West Drive at Seventy-fourth street at 1.40 o'clock this morning, He was on the sidewalk alongside the automobile roadway, A car swung around the curve moving so fast that tt akidded from the road, and Fitssim- mons was struck. GALLOPS TO SUMMON THE AM- BULANCE. Patrolman Powers, on duty tm the Ramble, and Patrolmen Goodyear and Falk, fixed post in Central Park Went, heard the shrill acream of a woman, the impact of the automobdtie | xtriking Fitssimmons and the tinkle of | breaking glass. ‘These sounds were | mingled, All three officers started on| the rum in the direction whence the wunds proceaded. Powers was the first to reach scene of the accident. He found simmons lying unconscious in a crum- pled heap by the roadside, ‘The sound Jof the exhaust of an w at high speed could southward, In @ moment the Fits: | be heard thi to tl sound orld, f “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | omobtie moving | 4 WEATHER-Cle: AGES | PRICE ONE CE I hugs ng to-night; Satur NT. FEAR OF TURKS OFFICIALS IN CONSTANTINOPLE Hordes of Ottoman Troops, Bitter in, Defeat and Being Driven Towards Capital by Bulgarians, Believed Ready for Carnage. CRY HAS BEEN RAISED AGAINST FOREIGNERS. Sultan Acts for Protection of City, While Cabinet Facing War Crisis: Is Deadlocked on Peace Question. KUSTENDJE, Rumania, Nov. 1.—(By wireless from Constante nople) Oct. 31., 11 P. M—The defeat’ of the Turkish army under Nazim Pasha opens the way to Constantinople for the Bulgarian Troops. This will, in the opinion of diplomatic circles, lead to a situation. which will almost inevitably bring about The most immediate danger, this city itself. flight after the disastrous rout by the city, it is pointed out, they will SURFAGE. LINES GIVE TRANSFERS AHEAD OF TIME Fifty-ninth Street Road Does Not Wait for Date Set by Service Board. Following the Public Service Commis- sion’s orders concerning the restoration of transfer privileges on many uptown atreet car lines, the Fifty-ninth street roxstown Hine put the new order Into operation to-day, though Dec. | waa the limit for compliancg#v*h its ruling set by the connie As @ result of the new ruling of the New York Railw Company, owning the Fifty-ninth street system, transfers were tasued, beginning with the first car out of the barns to-day, at the cross inge with the Third avenue, the red cars of the Broadway branch and First Second avenue lines. ‘Transfers accepted at the intersections with the 1th avenue, Broadway branch 1 First, Second and Third avenue and wer | coused, | Goodyear and Falk scrambled \the park wall and joined Powers, was seen Fiteaimmons was despe: hurt. The three policemen blew | whistles and Mounted Patrolman Cope Hand galloped up. As soon as the Was explained and ed tu the nearest box, ca from the Poplyclintc telephoned to the over | It ately a situ at dan, station | ation | top sp | ambulance | pital and house. Fitasimmons di into the ambulai taken to the hospital The skull was Cope rode dae he was lifter body was examined, | both and fractured, and both arms Were broken and the ¢ tire chest was | mined Fita ushed in, amous was It is sur struck and (Continued on Eighth Page.) eine nee Pastor Russell on “Armageddon,” aeodems of Muse, B'kiye.8 P.M. Nov.8, Kren’, When the order of the commission 1s fully complied with the ohlef transfer points there a will be: Firat avenu to and from Pitty: ninth town; to and from Broads avenue lines, north and Second avenue tne to Fifty-ninth street line and t vadway and High avenue lines, north and south Third avenue ne to and from Pitty. | ninth street ine, to roadway line of Third ave system, north ana eouth; We Tenth ayense Hue, north and south, xington avenue Une to Fifty-nine! t line, to Sixth and Seventh ave: to Broadway and Seventh to Sixth and Amsterdam Browdway and Columbus avenue to Broadway and Amster. dam avenue line, and to Bishth avenue line, north and south, European complications. however, concerns the position of The Sultan's advisers. are in terror of a massacre not only of Christians, but of the entire non-combatant population of stantinople and the looting of the city. . If the Ottoman troops now’ in the Bulgarians are driven back. into be in such a temper that the. utmost violence may be expected from them. Their officers seem already to be losing control over them, it is said, and they are beginning tof a point has been reached where the empire is doomed and that they man had better take what he can and care for himself in the future, Most authorities agree that no real defense can be made along the Tohatalia. Une, supposed to protect the capital, . In the event of hordes of beaten demoralized soldiers falling back on capital it is difficult to foresee whet human intervention could save the oity from sack and pillage. This fear le Present with most of the inhabitants, who realize that the fate of the Turlt- ish Empire hangs in the Dalance, SULTAN’S CABINET DEADLOCKED ON SUING FOR PEACE. ~ It 19 reported that a secret meeting was held recently in the mosque ef Fatieh, tho most fanatical quarter of Stamboul, where inflamatory speechée Were delivered by a number of Mussul- man priests, who advised @ rises against the Christians. When the news of further Turkish @e- feats was received the authorities oP dered the state of etege to be made mare strict, The bridges between Galata and Stumnboul are now not opened until seme hours after dawn, The Turkish army on which the fate of the Ottoman Empire de Pended has been outgeneraled and © outfought, It has made what ie Believed to be its Inet otand Qfeinst the victorious Bulgasiane G14 ts now falling back im disoraes Om ite final line of Gefense at the forts of Tohatalja, tweaty-fve miles only from Constantinople. Grave doubts are expresse¢ here | @@ to whether the remnants of the | immense but disorganized army ef the Sultan will make any serious | Sttempt to hold this line, CONSTANTINOPLE, Mov. 1—an | Si-night session of the Cabinet ended jlong after daylight to-day with the | Ministers deadlocked, it was said, com~ , cerning the desirability of suing for peace following the disastrous rout of the Turkish forces by the Bulgarians, Some believe there wae no other course left to the Sultan, Others favored com tinuing the fight until the last Turk ig Killed in preference to surrepdering. CONSTANTINOPLE NOW COM PLETELY CUT OFF, | SOFIA, Nov. 1.—The Bulgarian | troops to-day occupied the Turkieh town of Demotica, thus completely cutting off th possibility ef Aadrlaneple aad: Gam nication betwee | Details thus far of the rout of he stantinople immense Turkish army by the Bulgas rans si that the Bulgarian fevees ‘were numerically far interior, The Turkish ar is reported to have age <4 200,000 men. It Included the | garrison which had retreated from the captured fortress of Kirk-Killsseh, ap well ax tie main body of Turkish troops which had advanced from Coa- stantinople, It comprised practicaliy Tie a Re et we ida Bi z eal