The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1912, Page 1

‘ 3 oe RR oe ee oe rere nanny: COLUMN nnn nn 191 UMN ht; Saturday fair, colder. FINAL —————— — BaD OF ADVERTISING (4 “SR [ Giralation Boots Open oat] ulation Books Open to All.’’ PRICE ONE CENT. — corm, BLEASE STARTS BEDLAM ~ AS HE DEFES GOVERNORS ~—WHO REPUDATE HS TAK SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR WHO STANDS BY LYNCH LAW TALK. “To Hell With the Constitu-' tion! Stands” Shouts South Carolina Executive. ' “HISS ME, | DON’T CARE.” | Snaps His Fingers at Heads of | Other States, Who Storm at His Speech in Conference. } RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 6—A sweeping lution repudiating ¢ arks of v, Blease of South Carolina in sup- Port of lynch law was adopted by tne Governon’ Conference to-day by a vote bf 14 to 4. ' Gov. lease, defending — himacli @napped his fingers in the faces of th ther Governors ant declared that tk red hot one whit what the conferenc or left undone. “Four times this morning has my If Deen threatened for my utterances,” de- clared Gov, Blease, “I was quoted yesterday as ying: 't> hell with the Constitution,” I say now t6 all the Governors of all the State and to all the people of the Unite» States what I said then.” The conference hall was thrown into an uproar. The Governors of Alabama, Wyom! Missour!, New York, staryland and W! cohain denounced the South Ca re: Lov. Sas lb C-ly BLEASE SUILZER APPOINTS COL, HAMILTON AS North Arbahsas, Connecticut and Idaho y &@nst the resolution, the| one offered by Gov. O'Neal of Aia- poy It reads as follows esolved, Tuut it ts the sentiment of the| Governors’ Conference in Ps st 'Richmond, Va., to-day whd@le power of the chogid be used wh | wrotect persons a —_+>— Strict Disciplarian to Take Na- tional Guard Out of Politics. nobp, and to pro ty and impartial competent jurisdiction, to the end that he laws for the protection of life and iroperty be duly enforced and respected by aff the people.” °. DEATH-THIEAT LETTER REPU- DIATED BY GOV. MANN, “1 hold tn my hand Hleas wher he rose to defend himeelf, “the fourth letter threatening my life I hay receited this morning. {t ‘was handed me jpst now by some one I did n ov. Elect Sulzer of New Y the ap- £ Col, Henry DeWitt Hamti- ton as Adjutant General of the National ard this ‘ol, Hamilton was formerly a resident know, and It was addressed to me in the }of Brooklyn, but now lives in Manhat- care pf the Governor of Virginia.” tan. He has had long txperience In che “ nothing of the letter, sir,"| National Guard and has a reputation wetorfed Gov. Mann of Virginia, “| for strict discipline and for keeping never heard of it before; I aid not re-| politics out of the guard. ceive|it; X know nothing of its co Congressman Sulzer has told friends tent in Washington within the last few days salt Gov pointment afternoon, “It jdoesn't matter," continued Gov. | that he was not going to announce any my own, The newspaper headlines have | of the Adjutant General and the mem- bers of the Governor's military staff— these latter time to let them get their uniforms for the inaugural cere misrepresented me, When I spoke y verday about the marriage of Jack Johnson of Chicago 1 did not say ie ‘would be lynched in South Carolina; [did | monies, @ay that the laws of my State forbade Oe eee ee Tata aes thae Taa| From Albany to-day came the an ye ry a ate Mod hata pac, [nouncement that an agreed statement formeg in South ail been per | of the controversy between Gen. Ryan, ; any cen [retired by Gov, Dix, and Adjt-Gen. daw Frotecting him would have been Verbeck to be jointly submitted to possible of enforcement or not “Mow, what I want to say to yon is this: J don’t care one whit whether you adopt this resolution or not. You may expel me for all I care. On the @ist Gey of next January I will begin my second term as Governor. On the 4th ‘Maroh, 1915, if God spares me, I will be sworn in as & member of the United Gtates Senate. I snap my fingers at your resolutions, for all the resolutions and all the motions you may act upon will not avail to keep me out, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court was favored by Attorney-General Carmody, nis AES CARMODY FAVORS O’RYAN TESTING ACTION OF DIX? Attorney-General Reported Willing to Present Facts in Case to | broken white heap on UMNS OOKLYN MUD, Uy eel U.S. ARMY OFFICER FALLS TO DEATH AT HOTEL MANHATTAN Major J. C. Mallery Plunges From Bathroom Window on Ténth Floor. 4T A WOMAN’S FEET. Police Report It as a Suicide, but Friends Insist It Was Accidental. Major J. C. Mallery, United States En- gineers, retired, who made his home in Paris, New York, Newport and Alken, 3. C., was killed at 810 o'clock to-day by falling from the window of the batn- room of the apartments which he occu- pied with Mrs. Mallery on the tenth floor of the Hotel Manhattan at Madison avenue and Forty-second st-eet. His head struck the heavy brass tube railing which surrounds the hotel, pro- tecting people on the sidewalks from the narrow sunken areaway which admits light to the basement grillroom and was almost severed from the body. His identity was fixed only by the striped slik pajamas which he had been wearing when he fell. Major Mallery, who was retired on line of duty in. 16, returned from Paris two weeks ago accompanied by his wife, who was Miss Jeapnie Turnure of Alken 8. C. Acoayding to the report of hia vivthemih-law, Dt, Peroy R. Turn- ure, of No. 8 West Forty-ninth street, to the police,,Major Mallery was a suf- ferer from nervous melancholia of an acute type and for some time hi had been instructed to sleep on a cot in the noom with his employer. Mrs. Mallery occupied an adjoining apart- ment, BODY FALLS IN PATH OF MORN- ING THRONG. The shout of 4 man coming toward cond street, along Madison followed by the sound of a body falling heavily on the pavement and the screaming of @ young woman, who stood with her hands over her face, transfixed with horror beside a the sidewalk, first turned to the tragedy the attention of the human tide of suburban dwelling city workers which was flowing across the avenue on Forty-second atreet shoulder to shoulder from the Grand Central Station, There was a rush im- pelled by curiosity and then @ recoiling as the spectators realized the horror of what they saw. Many women ran blindly away, screaming and atrtking out at people In thelr way. Policeman McConville, after one look, ran into the hotel and notified Manage. Boden, who at once sent his assistant, Mr, Schencks, out to the street to iden- tity the body. Mr. Schenck returned to say that there was nothing recogniz- able to him, and Mr. Boden, who re- turned to the spot with him, was just as helpless, WIDOW OF ARMY MAN IN SERi- OUS CONDITION. Mr. Boden and his assistants called at all the rooms on upper floors on the Madison avenue street At Mrs. Mallery’s rcom in the suite oceupled by the retired officer they found Dr, Davis, the hotel physician, and Dr. Turnure, her brother, working over Mrs, Mallery Her condition was such that the phy- siclans said she was in grave danger. In @ few minutes after the sedat! administered by the physicians bh quieted her Dr. Turnure went down the street with Man er Bocen and at once recognized the pattern of the ma terial of the pajamas in which the body was clothed. Dr. Turnure, in a statement made to the hotel people and to the policeman, sald that his brother had not been In robust health for more than thirty years, Recently he had syffered from } acute melancholia. DIDN'T AROUSE SUSPICIONS OF HIS VALET. Policeman McConville understood the | brother-in-law to say he had been side, “Dong after many of you gentlemen Appellate Division. here to-day are resting in the retired; ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. §.—Malor-Gen- shades of private life, I will be reap- | eral O'Ryan is likely to secure permis- ing the rewards of public serviee. Long | sion from Attorney-General Carmody to after you good Governors are no longer | test the Constitutional right of Gov, Dix Governors, the white women of South |to depose iim, it si d here to-day, Geroline will pray for me with thelr) Mr. Carmody, it ts uaserted, favors eub- arms around their girls, and will arise | mitting an agreed statement of facts to from knees to kiss their husbands and | the Appellate Division for adjudication deg them to go to the ballot box and/and fe will present this view to a con- voto for Blesee to protect them from |ference to le held late. this afternoon Ghotr dally terror.” 0 ain and his supporters A tain it round of applause rippled over World Building Turkish Baths, PRB so latl’ tlh rivate root, gt. Mainboars iro sotet 18 astendanon @omtinued on Second Page.) | placed under the survelilance of his | valet, who Was as much @ nurse as 4 | body-servant, and who slept on # cot in the room. Dr. Turnure said that Major Mallery had gone into the bathroom his apartment without arousing the wu pictons of the nurse, "On this report and a@ repetition of sub- stantially the same statement by Dr. Turnure, to the Heutenant in charge of the East Pifty-first street station after the body had been removed there, the death of Major Mallery was set down on the records as due to suicide, Coroner Holzhauser gave a permit for the re- moval of the body and began an imme- diate investigation at the hotel, account of disabilities received dn the) ' Daughters of Two Presidents Who Sold Benefit Programmes “HOME” GSN LADS TO ARRESTS BECAUSE OF TOT Evening World Expose Fol- lowed by Police Activity to Protect Children. The Evening World's expone of con- ditions existing in cheap moving picture theatres throughout the greater city, their flagrance in violating the law pro- hibiting the admission of minora with- out guardians and the consequent in- flaming of children’s minds with the sordid stories depicted on the screens, bore fruit to-day in the arrest of four “movey" employees, two of them girls. Only two theatres, and these in Will- famsburg, were Involved in the raids, but there were indications of activity around Brooklyn and New York Pollze Headquarters that argued speedy and thorough cleaning up of such of the places as are run without regard to the law. Detective William Myers of the Cen: tral Office Squad was sent out this morning to look for violations and with. in an hour he nad seen four children allowed to purchase tickets and enter moving pictures houses, For fifteen minutes he stood outside the miniature theatre at No, 412 Knick- ocker avenue, Willlamsburg, As the detective watched, a small poy who looked to be no more than twelve years old and @ little girl of ten purchased fv rent tickets from the cashier, Paul. ine M8 Bleeck- er street, Williamsburg. The tickets! were accepted without question by Charles Wittner, the doorman, and opened the door for the children to enter, DETECTIVE ARRESTS THE CASH. 1ER AND DOORKEEPER. Myers bought a ticket a few minutes later and sat near the children, They absorbed In the vivid drama of passion and hatred, fickeringly proje on the screen before them, Myers th went outside and asked the girl cash: to put on her hat and coat “What for?” she demanded, Myers showed his shield and told her: “For viplating Subdivision 1 of Section 4S of the Penal law. ‘And what's that? know. “It {6 @ law prohibiting the admission of minors to @ moving picture show inaccompanted by an older person u less the show # the concomitant of @ lecture, or given as @ benefit, for in- stance, 1n @ school building,” said the detectly Myers marched both Miss Matsch and Wittner, who lives at No, 19% St elas avenue, Ridgewood, to the Ga she wanted to Mae Eatin Nich. “ll NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1912. | “ Circulation Book ’ 82 PAGES WEATHER—Cleartng to-night; Saturday £3 11 HURT IN “L” CRASH ON HIGHEST CURVE ENT. EDITH ST. CLAIR WINS $22500 IN ERLANGER su sills Takes Jury Only Ten Minut to Decide for Actress Against Manager. , SHE GETS FULL CLAIM. Sued for Balance Due on a | Contract for $25,000 | Made With Her. The jury which heard the in the ayit of Baith St Klaw & Erlanger for the $22, payable in ten annual instalments, which she said was owed her by Klaw & Erlanger on a contract, returned a verdict this afternoon for Miss St. Clair, allowing her full amount for which rhe anked. utes. i Though the sult was brought against The jury was out ten min- Av Court, where they were ar- raigned before Magistrate Voorhees, |TWo MORE ARRESTS mAOR WHEN TICKETS ARE SOLD, Sallying out again, Myers lounged | near the moving pleture theatre at No. 837 Broadway, Williamsburg, saw fourteen-year-old mila Billlatta pay 10 cents for two tickets, one for him- | self and one for Christine Scherer, also | rourteen, who accompanied him. ‘There | was no formatty or hesitation about | admitting them on the part of Henry Hunt, the doorman, nor had Ida Shon- feld, the twenty-year-old caster, raised A question about the propriety of sell- ing tickets to the children. Myers did raise a quesion, though, and he took both doorman and cashier before Mag- iatrate Voorhees, * The four employees were paroled for examination a week from to-day, That will be Friday, the 13th Myers obtained, t00, the names of the cididren he had seen enter the Knick- erbocker avenue place. They were Ar- thur Keller, fourteen, and Jessie Ptefter- horn, ten. Bae ae CLARKE GOES TO TOLEDO TO SIGN UP BRESNAHAN. Pittsburgh Manager Wants Deposed St. Louis Manager to Catch for Pirates Next Season, TOLEDO, O., Dec. 6—Fred Clarke, manager of the Pittsburgh Club, ar rived here to-day from his home tn Wintield, Kan., to see Roger Bresnahan, recently retired from the management of ‘the St. Louts club. Clarke ts anxious to secure Bresnahan for his catching staff, He will leave to-night for Iittsburgh, where he will stay a few days before |koing to New York for the Nationa! League meeting. | CONGRESSMAN STRICKEN, | WIFE AND DAUGHTER SICK. \Taylor of Colorado Third of His Family to Go Under Knife for Appendicitis, DENVER, Dec. 6.—His wife lying dan- | gerously ill at St. Joseph's Hospital, fol- | wing @ recent operation; his daughter | but! Just recovered from operation [for appendicitis, Congressman Edward Y, Taylor of Colorado has himself been | stricken and to-day i# In a serious con- | dition at St, Joseph's Hospital. An op- eration for appendicitis will be per- | for: Immediately, bd > | SHOCK OF WINNING KILLS. Clerk Drops Dead When Told Horse Race Brought Him $3,000, ! vie Dec, 6.—Informed that he i had orde race, Hermann Friedsberg, dead of [heart fatlure at @ race course near here to-day. _ ; $12Men’sO’coats & Suits, $5.95 | THE “HUB” Clothing Corner, Broad. way, wor, Barclay St, opp. Woolworth Bullding (highest in the w day 00 Men's Ove f ats and Wins f browns & worste: 34 to 44. single or doubl worth $12 in any other store, their pric a 95, Open to night Ull 10.—Ady, Nd), Will sell | the theatrical firm, it was siown at the trial what the clo was made in erder Ww preveny any action agalnst Abraham nwer whieh would em- barrass his don tle affairs, Justice Pendleton announced at the opening of court to-day that Edmund 1, Mooney, representing the plaintift, would have the right to the cloathg argument. William Travers: Jerome, ‘ for the defendants, then -an- nounced that he would not su up mw al. Mr, Mooney woutin’t let it go that way. He made an argument in which he attacked A. L, Erlanger, with whom Miss St. Clair saya she made @ contract in 1903 whereby she was to recelve at least $76 a week from Klaw & Prlanger for the balance of her Iife. This was supplanted by the written contract In 199 calling for $2,000 in ten annual in- stalments and on which the sult was brought. “One thing I want to tmpre you,” said Mr, Mooney, “is that ing between the lines, I believe the de- fendants desire that you return a ver- dict in favor of this plaintiff. Re- pudtation doesn't with nations or States and It doesn’t pay with individual firms, “I belleve that #ince filing bis answer months age Mr. Brianger: has had a great awakening, Isn't {t possible to imagine him going up and down Broadway tolling his business aasocl- ates and friends ‘I'm oot as bad as I'm painted. I'm fot as terrible as you think, I'm not a bilker of women. I didn’t bitk my wife in the separation agreement, and I didn't bik Miss St. Qiair on her contract.’ “It lan't hard to hear Mr. Erlanger saying, ‘I want to pay thia woman, for I got even with Max D. Steuer, my enemy. After Lawyer Mooney had finished his argument Mr. Jerome asked that he be allowed to sum up. Justice Pendleton denied the motion and counsel for the defense took an exception. Justice Pen- dleton began his oharge to the jury at 2 o'clock, ESTHER CLEVELAND AND HELEN TAT SEL BENET PROGRAMMES Many Society Buds Act as Flower Girls at Titanic Performance. The Century Theatre was crowded this afternoon with a distinguished audi- ence of patrons of the benefit arranged by the Woman's Titanic Memorial Com. mittee Among those who sold and 3 daughter of id. They met salosladios, land, with great suc: Mrs, eorke J as hand Mrs. the us Mrs. young soclety flower and John Hays Hammond was Intended girls acted a’ girls, wha the general manager Nazi Ir William Faver a Loftus wave th n from Romeo and Jullet;” Misy Edith Wynne Matheson, Miss dys Hanson | ane Mins Ruth St. Denia gave dance. Among the others w the entertainment were Mme Miss Bilte Burke, William ( Mason, Francis Wilson and o equal repatation, WRECK ON ELEVATED ' curve, at 10 o'clock to-day. GRAND URY IST gELLS IN TOMBS OF YDE ANDREI Spends Ten Minutes Inspecting Quarters “De Luxe” of Former City Chamberlain. ‘The John Doe Grand Jury, ordered by Jumice Gott to investigate charges of favoritiem in the management of the ‘Tombs, to-day made « thorough Inapec- tion of the big city prison, looking long and carefully at the “chambre de luxe’ occupled by Charles H, Hyde and the common, steel-barred cell occupied by Joseph G. Robin, his chief accuser. The visit to the Tombs occupied sev- corner into which the Grand Jurors did not, insist upon being shown, They would make no comment when they emerged. Accompanied by Aastetant Distriot- Attorney Clark and three attaches from the District-Attorney's staff, the in- quisitors crossed the Bridge of Sighs at 11. o'clock and walked down the stairs to the prison yard, where they found prison keepers standing guard over the pathway that led to the en's house" occupied by Hyde. mpanied by Wardens Fallon and Hanley, the Grand Jurors climbed the steps into Hyde's apartment. Hyde wag sitting at @ table with Commissioner Drummond of the Charities Department when they entered, He was working on the legal papers to be used in bis own wppei. JURORS RECEIVED BY HYDE IN “CELL DE LUXE.” Aathey entered Hyde rose and nodded to sbveral of the jurora whom he knew personally. “Gentlemen,” he sald, bowing | “this ts the ‘chambre de luxe,’ ‘The walls were bare, as was the floor, ® table three ‘ware A low, Jamnere were two plain chairs, and a bed couch, ‘The Jurors passed | into Myie's private bath. In all, they |were in Hyde's quarters ten minutes, Jduring which time Hyde resumed his \iegal matters with Commissioner Drum- | mond From Hyde's apartment the jurors (Continued on Second Page.) > sons in the list of eral hours and there was not nook : PredP asi Perse Be ory tor O FEET ABOVE STREET HURTS 11 AT High Above Ground on Curve, Ninth Avenue Cars Crash Into Sixth: Avenue Train, When Brakes Fail to Work on Wet Rails. INONE BADLY INJURED; JUMP SAVES ENGINEER 110TH Policeman Below Tracks Escapes Death by Inches as 100-Pound Piece of Iron Plunges Downward. With a crash that was heard for blocks, a four-car Ninth avenue train, southbound, crashed into a six-car southbound Sixth avenue train on the “L” structure at One Hundred and Ninth Street and Columbus avenue, at the lower end of the great One Hundred and Tenth street Eleven persons were injured, none. seriously enough to require hos pital treatment, and the west side ““L” system was tied up for an hour. > Follow © lat of the injured: Beecher, Baward F., sixty-three, We. 170 Went One Munére@ and Wiath street; bruises and cute. Constize, Prank, Sfty-six, We, 98: West Thirtioth street; hand ané std injured, ALL INJURED @O TO MORES AFTER CRASH. Although the percentage of elderty per. no serious results will be experienced by the victims of the crash. All went to their homes after being treated b: ambulance surgeons, sate The collision occurred on 8 eat track at @ point on the road unusually Well protected by signala because of the danger of the high curved viaduct which carries the “L” tracks from Columbus avenue to Eighth avenue through One Hundred and Tenth street. OMcers of the “L" system say the Ninth avenue train probably slid ts the wet tfacks after the brakes pad been applied. The two trains were close together from One Hundred Per ig = street down. As the Sixth avenue train left the One Hundred and Tenth etree station the Ninth avenue train, run by Motor Wngineer Ferdinand Laird, of No. 114 West One Hundred and Morty, third street, took tts place at the plat form, Tho Sixth avenue train, after Founding the curve, was slowed down, Decause another train was at the eta- tion at One Hundred and Fourth street and Columbus avenue, Laird, on the Ninth avenue train, apparently did not notice that the train ahead of him had slowed down in time to allow stoppage of his own train. The collision occurred at point directly above the juncture of One Hundred and Ninth street and Columbus avenue, where Patrolman Fic: of the Wéat One Hundredth street station was stand. ing, Flick, alarmed at the crash, looked up just in time to see a big section of ® coupling descending toward him, He dodged out of the Way 4s the miggile grazed his shoulder aud ianded im the aT ES TT |