The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1912, Page 1

EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. Wg ad Publishing Leet shy tose D “NEW YORK, BATURDAY, DECEMBER Kz GAYNOR CALLS -JUR Ta BEST IN THE WHOLE WORLD; BECKER NOT A TYPE OF I DOUBLE FE AMID | WILD REVELS ENDS | INJAIL SENTENCE | Wealthy hier of Lobster Belt is in the Workhouse, *~ Court pes Reveals. TENEMENT HIGH JINKS, Cohdeies He 9 Man Was Petty} ‘Official Who Betrayed Trust, Says Mayor in Interview. WALDO AN HONEST MAN. | “We Have Cut Off $3,900, aa in Excise Graft,” Declares City’s Executive. The Becker-Rosenthal gambling gratt | ease was analyzed to-day by Mayor | Gaynor in a special interview with the | United Press. He frankly admitted there had been plenty of graft hero and that some still remains, He insisted, however, that it was being gradually stamped out, and defended the rank and “ miataped ith abs delta tate a ee Hot Times in “Mr. Bayles’s’ East Side Rooms Till jn the world, The Mayor insisted hel Police ela In, knew certain old-time police inspectors | were grafters. He would not have been surprised, te said, {f one or more had | been caught in the recent upheaval, | and hopes and rather expects some will <a yee de landed in the net. A decision handed down by Judge “I regard. the Now Sark, palite f “al Warren W. Foster in the. Coutfor.Gend+ to-day, as a4 Whole, for efficiency an | eral Bessto day at eflectivencss, the best 10 the world, (iy Hons {o-dRy expIaliia She nye terious 4. appearance | belt on Oct. 11 of Stephen Bayliss, a yy real estate operator and prop- | he seid. “Compared wita other cities, our police force is small, We have a population of 5.004000 and only 10,000 | Weal policemen. Our complement compared | °F with other large cities should be 15,000, | pile. But, deficient in mumbers as the force, #(ranger who for the last three is, it Is capable of any work put up to} it. ery one wio comes to the city | sees excellent outward order and de- | cency preserved. It is also a fact that our secret service force does the ve best kind of work. It is seldom baffled, It is, in a large sense, the et ser- le Street, and wag frequently visited in those rooms during that time by guests who made the tenement ring with the wildness of thelr midnight revels, Judge Foster's decision shows vice force of the whole county. | Bayliss, who has been missed from/ond ts a great-granddaugiter of Bishop “We recently bad two cases which his favorite haunts about town, wag/ Provost of New liso Mlustrate what 1 mean. One was the committed to the workhouse for cal b the bank messenger by te months on Oct. 11 by Magiatrate Cor- | one es tnisven “Phe potlce | nell, and since then lawyers have bean | @RAND TRUNK CALLS OFF had little to go by ‘and yet they ar-| diligently working, in a diplomatic and| NEW HAVEN AGREEME! rested then all. One, I think, was|legal way, to have him discharged, ciubensies found in Memphis, one in another West-| Edward Jackson Newell of No, 2/-piaq: aN are ern chty and woes I think, m Cuba of on| Broadway, attorney for Ba; to1a | Traftic Pact Now Under Investiga- the way. Judge Foster that Magistrate Cornell | tion Here, Declared Not “The more recent case is the murder| had committed Bayliss for disorderly | Satisfactor of Rosenthal, the gambler. It was all| conduct in the East Twenty-fifth street | sauistactory. done in a moment, With little to 60] rooms. BOSTON, Dec. A letter re by the detective force of the city within] The testimony given before Magis-| here to-day from President Chamber- @ few hours had the murder cab, and in a short time several arrests of those concerned were made. It took some weeks to make the two final arrests. ‘These two young murderers went to a house in a remote part of the city and yed there, But they were found. And yet, owing to the sensational state- ments of newspapers and some public officials, the notion was sent abroad that the police tried to shield these criminals, Nothing more unjust was ever waid of the force, Tho crinsinals were all promptly found, ‘The District- Attorney was furnished with a complete case. Then the ones who hired thg mur- derers turned State's evidence against Becker, and he was indicted and con- victed. “Instead of standing in the way to shield their fellow officer the police did thelr whole duty. “We have @ splendid Police Commis- trate Cornell by Central Office detec- tives revealed that Bayliss, under the name of Bayles, rented the sulte three yars ago, paying,a monthly rental of thirteen dollars. fle occupled the rooms occasionally, ving in his own apart- ment house most of the time. For several months Police Captain Morris, of the East Twenty-second street sta- tion, was the recipient of letterg, writ- ten by other tenants of No. 215 Kast Twenty-fifth street, complaining of the “goings on" in the rooms rented by Bayles. These letters evontually led to the arrest of Bayliss and two others, and their commitment to the Workhouse by Magistrate Corneil. Bayliss, in the police court, told Magis- trate Cornell he was a large property owner in this clty and had a country residence at Port Jefferson, L. I, He said he had an income of considerably more than $300 a month, princtpally from his apartment house, and supported a sister, who lived on the Port Jefferson | estate, When Lawyer Newell applied to Judge Foster in General Sesstons \o set aside Magistrate Cornell's committment of Bayliss, District-Attorney Whitman per- sonally opposed the application. Mr. Whitman declared never in the history of the Cty of New York had such 4 state of facts been presented to a court as had been presented to Magistrate Cornell, Judge Foster showed that he agreed with the District-Attorney by sustaining the conviotion of Bayliss and (Continued | on Sec ona Pas Ne 1,000,000, (Special to the Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Dev, 7.—The Phil- lies have actually been sold, It !s not National & rumor this time that the League ball club's franchise, property, | his companions. real estate and good will have been pur+ peagth chased for a sum close to $1,00,00. The| PIGEON FLIES OVER OCEAN. information comes officially from bank- ing interests, and Robert A, Balfour and Goy, John K. Tener of Pennsyl- vanla, are interested in the deal. ‘The club has been bought by a syndi- cate of local bankers who consider the purchase of the club property at Broad and Huntington street well worth the {nveatment money. 4 Twelve Days in Flight F: c te Ei MONTREAL, Dec. 7.--Ernest Robin- son of Westmount received word to- day that a pigeon he imported and which escaped has returned to Eng- my |land. It apparently took twelve days Mr. Balfour would not deny that he! to make the journey. was one of the purchasers, The sum of | Roce at $436,000 is paid for the franchise alone, | Boy Shot De in Wild West Game. ind for the real estate, good will, &c.,| MERIDEN, Conn., Dec, 7.— Clarence 4 amount bringing the price close to a! p. King, twelve years old, “defender of nillion Is needed, the camp" in.a “Wild West" game, fell Charlie Dooin will probably be dead with a bullet through his heart talned ag manager this noon, Leon Dumark, thirteen years, re- ACTRESS REPORTED TO BE ENGAGED TO WED YOUNG BANKER. Miss WILLETTE KERSHAW Young Mr. Ri of Banking House ¢ kn to his intimates as * and to Early Dawners of Central Park as lof the inmost persistent eariy mor |ridera about. the reservoir in Cen | Park, was much flustered to-day Jasked avout ‘to Mise Willette young actress owner of No. 410 Amsterdam ave: | give the It also explain the identity of a) James Speyer, the has maintained a suite of rooms in the | and tenement at No, 213 East Twenty-ffth | doubts as to Mr. ead of the firm, be- ndatory fore the general public got Mold of it,; “Ef, however, they are tgnored and hia nervousness was due to his ted and large loss of life results Speyer's refusal, Mr,| therefrom, there can,be little doubt of Schuster is a director in the Mexican | our duty to report it: International, Railway and the Manila| “If railroad directors and allway and of several trust companies, | officials remain passive ana give to Miss Kershaw has had many invportant | 8Q0b ocourrences no such serious con- his reported Kershaw, a beau | deny the truth of the enga: ment. “Rig ig most annoying,” said young man, the venet whose head denies his really youthful from the lobster | yeurs. Mr. Schuster's that the yo n assoviate: ws of his engagemen: that| parts in plays with prominent actors lain of the Grand Trunk Railway nounced that the tentative draft New Haven and Hartford Rallroad not satisfactory to the Haven Ratlr is under runk-New rangement New York, The sale of the club to-day means ‘ that Fogel had to abandon dls project | #" attacker, was arrested, having had a to sell the stock to the public in amall| real rifle in his hands which had been (oe ad probably means that he has|‘ischarged, All the other boys had alr rifles. Dumark sald he did not know severed connections with the club en- tirely. there was @ cartridge in bis rife. engagem He refused to admit or intimated partner had neglected to a traMc agreement with the New York, Grand Trunk. No final agreement was expected to he investigation TITANIC SURVIVOR THINKS NEW HAVEN SCORED FOR NEGLECT IN WESTPORT WRECK Interstate Commissioner Sa. Road Ignored Recommen- dations for Safety. /M’CHORD Made Personal | and [Ses IVERE, Investigation s Preceding Smash Failed as Warning. WASHINE \oism of t Hartford made New Haven and contained in a the Interstate y Commissioner pon the accident on Oct. 3, at Westport, Conn., in which many per- is ort to-day to erée Commission | McChora, | sons were killed or injured, ¥ The Commissioner's report says the hel accident was due to excessive speed of own the train as it passed a track to another, lve minutes behind th the one| on tm | ntral | vher it tiful | the los accident would Precautions been taken. nection his report says: was clearly the tioas in of the Westport accident and companying loss of life. t to sideration as the situation demands, NT. rf more str safety for those who travel.” mostly ments of high speed trains, ived an- tof WITH NEW DEVICES. “In all essential particulars, port declared, plicate of the was et New Haven and Hartford Raflroad, on|tilator. He had sandy halr, sandy eye- | President Chamberlain in a letter to} y.jiy 11, 1911, which resulted in the death | rows and sandy whiske: He had the Boston News Bureau said: “The! 5+ fourteen persons and the injury of fit. | pale blue eyes and freckles on his face New Haven people ausinitted @ dvatt| tytour and nose. He was straight, up and of the proposed trafMe arrangement, | "7 down, as flat and as fat ana slat. And which, while satisfactory so far ag it Geeietion maui NET tae eeaceaae ob, girls! his trousers were baggy at Went, Was not acceptable to the Grand | wreok, similar in all respects to the| thé knees! Trunk and the Central Vermont Com- | gooident under consideration, no new| “YOU' Grace.” and the vevorter | panies, and was therefore declined, w'th | qevices have been installed, or pert blushed, He couldn't help glancing at the understanding that we would sub-|qy investigated, nor bi the knees. | mit @ counter proposition.”” “1 aay,” cried the Earl ‘do you snow Coples of documents bearing upon the you have marvelous assuran ‘ou ern New England line were sent to the| “Devices to automatically — atop | Presented United States District-Attorney in New| trains are in constant use in tunnels| “MY Lord.” interposed another re- York to-day by the Massachusetts Rail-| and elevated rallroade in and about|borte® “It's customary for us to Intro road Commission. ‘The p rand| New York, In the adaptation of some| 128 ourselves when wo disvover # dis- similar device to use road as the New Y culties are by no means insuperable, oss-over from train was e and the en- gineman was endeavoring "o make up Commissioner McChord holds that the avoklable and ot have occurred had reagonable Ta that con- “The Commission is satisfied that the able summit of| neglect to comply with the recommenda, Its report on the Bridgeport wreck was largely a contributing cause Ite ace ‘The recom- GOODBY, OLD TOPL “UNIQUE YANKEES’ YEL AFTER EARL And, ARE) Unique, Reiterates His Angry | | Lordship of Levan. | | Sasi | | {DID HE WIN A HEIRES! S?| by Jove! You Yes, One Actually Asked Him | That, and I{ Jolly Well | Vexed Him, Y’Know | He 4 ville. man ‘The Earl of Levan and Mel- And he sailed to-day on the ¢ at he might be at home the other side when Yule Tide st on its blessings on heather and hearth- stone, He came to Ame-tca, the land of the free and the home of the he en some three months ago. He was ordinary chap, not ‘even an ordinary earl, Gad, no! ‘The’ Earl he sald he was and his card corroborated him. The ship reporters couldn't get near him, Weill, he might not have been himself. To be sure, he wasn't. He had had a bad spell coming over, don't you know. Bally rotten weather, and ail that, Isn't calculated to make a man feel his own | man, don't you know, and maybe the reporters were a tit rude, not being properly presented that, And the; didn't quite know whether to addr: him as “Your Grace,” or “Me Lud,’ or “Old Top.” It does make a differ- ence, don't you know. | But going away on the Cunard ‘ner ) was a bit different. On the ship's artt- mendations of this Commission are not then it becomes the duty of public of- ficials bluntly and plainly to point out to them their duties as trustees of the safety of the travelling public, The eppalling railroad catastrophes of the last few yoars imperatively call upon et connected with railroad management jous efforts to secure "The commission by inference censured giner Clark of the wrecked train for Msregarding regulations regarding cur- tailment of speed, but held the railroad to blame for the rigid require- HAS NOT EVEN EXPERIMENTED the re- “this accident was a du- accident to the Federal Express at Bridgeport, on the New York, on such @ rail- k, New Haven and Hartford the practical operating dim- (he whole result of such comsidera- clea, that 1s to way, on the passenger list, was the name in full: “The Earl of Levan and Melvillo,” and the reporters began to hunt for the distinguisied per- sonage. Surely he would have lots to say about his experience in this wild | and woolly country, It's all very well to get @ man’s impression of a country before he's landed from the ship, but after @ man has been in the country | three months what he doesn't know about it, if he's an observer, ought to be very delicious to print. The reporters sought “The” Ear! in| his stateroom, He saw them coming and being @ bit of a sportsman, det mined to give them a bit of a hunt. | ‘They chased him through salons, up | companion ways, over decks and finally overhauled him on the boat deck. He was hiding behind onc of the big ven- tlators, DISCOVERED AT LAST! HIDING BEHIND A VENTILATOR, “At there, Earl,” said one of reporters, evidently not one “haut ton.” Six feet four of noble and tndignant humanity arose from behind the ven- the of the tinguished personage.” declared his lordship, “I) know your sort. Why, in England, the pressmen, don't you know, wouldn't dare do such # thing.” | “Bally rot!" 1 9 12. | LILLIAN ‘MENDELL, {along and i i 10 P AGES WHO DIED IN FIRE WITH BRAVE FATHER. : PRINCETON BOYS IN PAJAMA DANCE ATA ‘DORN? FIRE Cries of Singed Seniors in Witherspoon Hall Arouse the Whole University. Evening World.) “i 7 dred pajam. earl, dd students resol | to-day In the festive occasion of putting out a fife that threatened one of the University buildings, Witherspoon Mail, They local Vamps. sang songs and danced ti weird songs played on harmontens an woony ssisted and wrapped in ehildhood's dreams. But where burning, In regiments of turned out in the! coats, slickers and mackinaws throw over them. They piled up tn heaps an ran round In circles hundreds the blaze. engine came intents on the The town fire ran with It, President Hibbe coat and rubber boots, It was soo shouted round (iat the fire was burnin in the room adjoining the suite that ha one been occupied Woodrow Wilson, The engine with ¢ tank fly from the smothering effecty of amok The loss is $1,500. sini |GREEK WARSHIPS STIR | |Six Sea Fighters Suddenly and Su Appe: n’s Fleet Gets Ready ction rdanelic om pow rt for A SEDIL BAHR, D. eek squadron sighted COMING TODAY ton as officials. of this vaiiroad -have But we're not In England, my dear | TRAGEDY SHORTENS LIFE, |uiven the subject is « pessimistic hope. |°!'s"" It was suggested. —_—_ legsness, indicated by the testimony SNe well Thay it. You Anerioans elieves Calamity 4 i that ‘We are at our wits’ end,’ &o, are unique, now you. I've rea: Believes Calamity Took Something Meh Dutlio interests. Involved end @|ail abqut you. You know what to say From Body That Cannot decem regard for the safety of the lives| better than I can tell you. Go ahead, Be Restored. of those who travel do not justify a|print 4% You know everything,” : \ creat vatirond In passively awatting un-| “Have you seen any of our wirla that R. W, Daatels, a bond salesman, whol yi) some private Inventor at his own|adght have caught your fancy? Was one of the last men to leap from} cost develops to full perfection appl. "Phe Earl took an aeroplane flight. He | the deck of the sinking Titania with|ances which will ‘absolutely’ prevent t vent straight up in the atr, the late Col. Archibald Gracie, arrived| occurrence of such accidents Miva tance Rk axmalied:. icvbat on the Cedric to-day. He had an en-| All big ratiroads, the report declared, | eg! Wimt @ question! low very gagement to dine with Col. Gracie, of should themes vee Gevote. money and | erat” ea 5 me to opment of suoh devices. Whose death he was ignorant until in-|""hy.’ mental attitude toward the SAYS HE SHOT ROOSEVELT; IT'S formed by an Evening World reporter. rences Is well shown b A JOKE; SEE IT? Mr. Daniels rly collapsed when| president of Khia railroad in “gt told that Col, Gracie’s funeral had just! the enziieering and mainte Did you do aay bunting, Ba been held. when he sald, ‘Then why should not al ‘OM yes" returned Hix Lor “Tt is hard for me to explain just how | train be wreckéd that runs by signals? | coming back to earth. With a twinkle terrible that news is to me—over and | "Wreck prevention I the highest duty | 1 hia eye he said: “I shot your Mr beyond the wespeot and affection T had | or jroads. This obligation te not| Roosevelt for Col All of us who caine | satisfied by merely making rules whicn| “You shot with him?" through that experience have felt that prove insufficient operation, If the No-neow—1 shot him." our lives were shortened. There ix a|‘human element’ repeatedly falls, then} “Oh, say, don't hand us anytoink like great fear and apprehension in our! safety requires that the highest degree You didn't shoot Roosevelt,” minds which will follow us for the resto mechanical @kili be applied to pro- en, 1 did. I shot @ bull moose of our tives. perly supplement the human element at| don't you know? Ha, hal” “I have talked with survivors of the|;ne particular point of danger, “Ha, baw,” laughed the reporters. La Bourgogne. Most of those who were ————— “How je your worship's health?" brought to shore wore short lve. The PANAMA CANAL oe Nl queried a new ship reporter who hasn't whock of the experience took some- 7 e job lo} “You had ap. 6 io Jotores.” Wd rity, yee ul Tens “4 (Continued on Second Page.) bey Van f Kiar Mint lars 61a t. iiamueg [Be etl sedate kal aans, Key Wet ive buns interfered with the instruments, and when the fire |had been extinguished without any con- when they did rise to the occa- sion they swarmed out in nolsy squad~ rons that soon alarmed the entire countryside (that flames were some~ boys a pajamas with great wination if he remained in Cuba, in thetr effort to get fire extinguishers and squirt their tooting two hundred or #0 students encouraging the vamps, turned out in @ tur by President-elect e bik extingulaber Hy struggled through the crush to Witherspoon Hall and it was only a matter of a few minutes before the fire had n put out, The rooms which were burned were occupied by Max Muller Dixon of Washington, D, and Maurice Martin Critchlow of Balt | Lake City. ‘The latter proved himself a hero and fought the flames until he toppled over TURKS AT DARDANELLES. | HERO RSTIE FAS FATHER AND CHILD DIE _NFLAMES; TWO SAVED » Neglect of Fire System at Woodside,: | L.1I,Is Held Responsible for Deaths | of Melville Mendell, New York Attorney, and Daughter. VICTIMS ARE SUFFOCATED AS FIREMEN HUNT WATER Father Rushes Back Into Flames and Rescues Wife and Son—Firebugs Believed to Have Started Blaze. Because the fire alarm system was out of order and the fire hydrant ; near the building was useless, Melville B. Mendell, a lawyer, with offices at No. 5 Beekman street, died in an heroic effort to save the life of his fourteen-year-old daughter, Lillian, who perished too when thelr home at No. 10 Percy street, Woodside, L. I., burned early this morning. When the firemen arrived, thirty-five minutes after the blaze had started, they found Mr. Mendell’s body and that of his daughter within a few feet of each other. Both had died of suffocation. It was apparent + the father had died struggling through the smoke and trying to reach his daughter, who was asleep in her bedroom. The father reached the bede room, but the daughter had arisen and tried to grope her way out, falle ing a few feet from the door of her room. Father and daughter must. have passed each other in the darkness and stifling smoke. —_— © 9nd tp aroused, to-da; er the * story told by Peter Kelly, son of the ly 0 “dl |siter ie damage « boys held @ ma¥8 INO REST FOR “BRIDGIE;” owner of the Durned building. Kelly ie eeting and f the foreman of Hook and Lad rng sucess. one | HE'S COMING BACK HERE. |p.ny°'S0' tna‘ iiveg ih “ietSaccang ne fire started in room No. 0 hoten No Gamboa ee the dee on HN a eT ee ute. gases | Murder Broker Leaves Havana in two blocks away, when he diecovered tha’, wo se oomed, * ire, but found the box out of 5 ing seniors were slightly singed peters Fear He Will Be Kelly started on a ais Ase fre. they got out of the fire gone and ye A the alarm of “Fire! ‘They had to keep Assassinated, ppp yg ote itrlies es ae up their yelling until thelr throate were! gayaNA, Cuba, De bridge’ ing the volun ogre vin ~ hoarse ‘before they could rouse the fo) Weiner one of the “infor at the} sponded quickly, but half an heur hundred Janocent youths who Were) rosenthal murder trial, who arrived) elapsed before they reached the sceme here on Wednesday on board the Ward line eteamship Saratoga, departed to- day on the same vessel for New York, where he is expected to errive on Dec. 10. ‘The reason given for his leaving was that he had been threatened with a: of the fire. The first hydrant gn the corner was found useless afd one three blocks away was opeged. By that time Mr. Mendell and his daughter were dead. A week ago three hundrefi voluntesr firemen held an indignation meeting, calling the attention of the Fire Com- missioner to the promise made ten months ago that there would be reg- ular fire houses established. These men sald to-day that the state of the fre alarm system was responsible for the loss of the two lives, The fire is regarded as suspicious dy, many neighbors of the Mendells, wha say that it was burning furiously ia an almost incredibly short time. They 4) not think that 4 blaze started by acci« dent should have gained headway so quickly. MANY BELIEVE THAT FIREBUQ@ STARTED FATAL BLAZE. ‘There have been several fi om thee n a diecast arin ol MOUNTED POLICEMAN HURT. Altro, the horse of Mounted Poltce- man William Sheehan, sltpped on the wet asphalt at Columbia and Prospect streets, West Brighton, 8. 1, shortly after midnight and fell on his rider, Citizens found Sheehan unconscious, bis right leg vroken and bead and arm in- jured, ‘The horse was standing over hima, Sheehan, who ts thirty-four and lives at No, 230 East T' at etreet, Man- hattan, was taken to St. Vinceht'’s Hoe pital at West New Brighton, n c a WARNING! Readers of The World who find the Sunday Edition “stuffed” with imitations of its advertising pages are warned to beware of purchas- ing goods of these space stealers. Merchants who “graft” their pub- licity cannot expect to be regard- ed as reputable. ar