The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1912, Page 1

WA “WEATHER=Fair FI EDITION. (ocnight and Tuesday. ON Ae ['“ Circulation Books Open to Ail.” PRICE ONE CENT. HE LOVED HELEN GOULD FIRST TIME HE SAW HER E FIANCE SAYS > SELENA St. Louis Railroad Man Who Won Wealthy Philanthropist, Tells of the Romance. . TO LIVE IN NEW YORK. Will Take Trip to Europe First, After Early Wedding, Mr. Shepard Say BT. LOUIS, Dec, 16.—That the ro- mance which has resulted in his en- wegement to Miss Helen Miller Gould was a case of “love at first sight” was the declaration to-day of Finley J. Shepard, assistant to President B. F. Bush of the Mis#ourl Pacifle Ratlr “I guess it was a case of le firgt sight," Mr, Shepard said. Geagement, le @ result of Providence 1 fitst met Miss Gould last. spring wh she came to St. Louls to make addresses here in connection her Young Women's Christian sociation work. Just how T was introduced to her I do not distinctly recall.’ “At any rate, the facta are that soon after my -MTat Me ting with her I found it awfully nice to see her very often, aad you may rest assured I saw her rwhenever I went to New York. I think she '# a most wonderful woman. “I expect to leave for the East in @ few daps. ‘The marriage ceremony Probatly will be performed in New York thetlatter part of January, but the ex- act Gate has not yet been set. After the ceremony we will go to Europe on @ wedding trip, and on our return will make our home in New York “I first saw Miss Gould's face when she passed through St, Louis on a tour of the West,” he said. “Up to tha time I had no idea of what she was like, She i# a grand and good charac- tel “I was a member of the party that acoompanied her over the Gould lines, and where I had before admired her in an imptraonal way for, the twondor- ful humanity and beauty of her nature 1 then was charmed by her remark- able personality. “You aee, I have deen playing a sort Of waiting part. The arrangements and plana fave Deen entirely up to Mics Gould and her relatives out East. I gm thoroughly delighted now that our ‘engegement has been announced. ‘@ly headquarters have been removed to New York Clty because Président Bush's presence was required there tog frequently before the new arrange ment. It has deen arranged now #0 that I ghall be his representative there om the ground, but TI shall have to make frequent tripe between there and here. But I euppose I ehall make that my home in future, as my main Dusl- ness interests will be centred there.” eb Aas MRS, BARNES NOT HURT BY DE MUMM IN FRACAS. Counsel for ‘American Woman Tells This Much, but Refuses to Re- veal Client’s Whereabouts. PARIS, Dec. 16—Mrs. Marie Van Renstmer Barnes, the American dl- vorcee wha shot Walter de Mumm after @ quarre! in her Passy apartment, wes not injured In any way im tho en- counter, according to a statement this afternoon issued by C. EF, Roddington, her attorney. The lawyer declined to state the present whereabouts of ‘his client, but declared that de Mumm neither shot nor struck her, and sie was unhurt. It was learned that de Mumm would be able to eave the hospital to-r@pr- row, #0 that it was considered probable, that the affair officially would be dropped. ——_——__—_ APPRAISALS OF ESTATES. Deputy State Comptroller Fraser transmitted the following appraisals of estates under the inheritance tax law to-day to the Surrogate's Court: John A, Smith of Baltimore, Md., died Oct, 28, 1908, Left personal os- tate valued gt $150,935. Stocks were subject to taxation in this State at a net Value of $2527, St. Mark's Kvan- gelical Lutheran Church recetved a be- quest of $1,040, i TAgzie Loeb, died Feb. 8, 1912, Net value of | on crowded train: Copyright. 1912. by Co. (The New York World). The Press Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY i Tia Ramone ere \e BATTLE ON BRGE TRAN FRGHTENS NAY PASSENGER | Two Men Temporarily Aban-| don Their Own Quarrel to Attack Policeman. ; A fight In the aisle of an elevated | train midway across Brooklyn Bridge, he assaulting of a policeman by the/ wo antagonists and the breaking of one fighter’s skull by the butt of the Mceman's revolver, were the swift neidents of minutes of terror and dis-| rder high over the river to-day. Into the space between the tslands at be Manhattan terminus at 9 o'clock this morning two men seemed to be! particularly anxteus to get. through the gate first and they jammed in the gateway, cursing each other roundly. The gateman slammed the tren grill back into place, saying that ‘neither could get on the train unless it w: done decently. Then he opened the gate and both slouched into a car, angry and hunting for trouble. Other passengers, many of thém women, fol- lowed, and the frain started up onto the bridge incline, * STRANGERS TO EACH OTH BUT FULL OF FIGHT. James McAuliffe of No. #4 Rockaway | venue and Robert Sims pt No, 40 Hewes avenue, Brooklyn, were the two. | Neither had seen the other before. Both were bitten by the distemper of @ then | cloudy day and the rack of travelling They sat opposite each other and scarcely had the train started when one | of them began anew the wordy war. ‘The other replied in kind. Both dropped into foul obscenities and women rose hurriedly ¢rom their agats in the vicinity to move to the other end of the car. Policeman Thier of the Greenwood station was a passenger in the car. He was in citizen's clothes, but he had a belt and revolver under his jacket. Hearing the uproar he looked up from his paper in time to see the two clinoh and go down to the floor in a writhing heap, ‘Their ran back and started to pry the two fighters apart, telling them meanwhile that they were under arrest tor disorder. “What you butting in for?” one of the brawlers growled. Getting to his feet he launched a blow at the policeman's chin, The other, quickly) forgetting his grudge with the first otranger, united in trying to drub one with the temerity to Interfere in the private settlement of a grudge. : WOMEN PASSENGERS 6CARED BY THE UPROAR. Meanwhile the car was in an up- roar, Women ehrieked and tried to push out of the further door across the platform to the car @head. The inmem clustered about the three uggling men, making a dive now and then at some collar or protruding arm, Thier, finding himself being borne down by sheer weight, reached below his co seized his revolver, Clubbing It, he brought the butt crash- Ing down on the head of Sims, The man dropped with @ groan and Mc- Auliffe gave up instantly. By this time the train was rushing at top speed down the incline toward the Sands street station, the motorman with his hand on the whistle cord toot- ing desperately to warn the Brooklyn police that trouble on wheels was ap- proaching, When the train stopped at the Brooklyn station policemen were there waiting. They carried Sims, un- conscious, out to the platform and Mc- Auliffe they took to te Adams street station under arrest for assault and bing the peace, ambulance took Sims to the Holy Family Hospital. the sur- geons discovered that the man had a deep fracturé of the skull and a broken jaw. His chance to live is small, they declared. was held in the in $1,000 bail, Adams Street Court YONKERS PASSED BY SUFFRAGETTES. ON ALBANY HIKE — MRS TNES CRAVEN Marchers Move On to Hastings | After Luncheon at the First Stop. | The cry 1s “On to Albany.” The wuf- fragettes are on the road. Twenty: | seven women started on the long bike; to the Capital City at 9.45 o'clock this | morning. They are going to call on! Gov. Sulzer to seek his Influence to pass a law for women's auffrage, The Gov-| ernor-elect Isn't at Albany yet, but it is belleved he will reach that city before the first of the suffragettes put in an appearance. The gentle sprinters do ndteknow just when they will make Albany or how many of them will last to reach that city, Some of them, ft is expected, will peg out before passing Sing Sing. About a dozen of the pilgrims are becomingly tured for @ jaunt across the burning sands. The remainder are dressed for shopping for the matinee or the oper! ‘They all carry yellow flags and Lanne: with the heraldic legend: ‘Votes for Women.” ; ‘When the crusaders «merged from the subway at Two Hundred and Forty- ond street and Broadway they were met by a lot of rude men coming down from Yonkers lo go to business and other work. The men lost a train or two in the subway in thelr desire to hand out a few remarks to tho marchers. ‘They Joshed the girls, old and young, and some of them were rough in t! re- marks. John D. Rockefeller passed in his limousine on his way to work, He just smiled and kept on going. As got further away he taughed, but his wig maintained its dignity. SOME’ ARE GASBED TO MAKE THE WHOLE TRIP. Seven of the women wore short skirts and square-toed shoes, soft hats and ul-| sters, These women, It was sald, were going “all the way.” Mrs, Rosulle Gardener Jones, young, pleasing and pretty, led the hosts away from the subway, She sald that she would walk until she gave out, She} will probably give out before the emis- | wary does. A handsome black tatlor (Continued on Fourth Pag: “R y lot the Pennsylvania Federal court Upen Thier's testimony McAuliffe | made gown ¢1.veloped her figure and her | dissolving the Temple Iron Compat GENERAL ROSALIE JONES VICTORY SHARED BY COAL ROADS AND GOVERNMENT Highest Court Declares Read- ing and Other Roads Are Not in General Conspiracy. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—The Gov- ernment lost and won its case against the “Anthractte Coal Trust’ by decision of the Supreme Court to-day. The Gov- ernment lost the better part of its canes against the combine, winning out only in one particular, but this one count sustained by the Court was sald to forecast a revolutionary change in an- thractte handling. ‘The Court refused to disturb an al- leged combination of six great anthra- clte coal-carrying ratiroads in the Key- big operators, stone State, forty and a number of » pantes, which the ¢ was in control of 9 per cent, of all anthracite deposits in the State and dominated three-fourths of the annual production. The Court hinted, however, that separate dissolution suits against the alleged mergers might Fought, 65 PER CENT. CONTRACT 8YS8- TEM ILLEGAL. partial victory scored by the Government was tn the Court declaring illegal the so-called “6 per cent, cone tract systen plan by which the op- erators were paid @ per cent. of the tidewater price for coal by the rall- roads and agreed to turn over their ene tlre output. Also the Court mustained the decis! The {Continued on Becond Hage.) Start of the Hike to Albany for Votes for Women; Leader of the Marchers and Two of Her Aides (Specially Photographed ny a Staff Photographer of The Evening World.) MARCHES 8 lope baa IN oS STeC! AND, POMPS, ye vise! FREBUES SOUGHT “AFTER SX BLAZES | ~ IN WILLANSBURG Three Detained to Be Ques- tioned About Mysterioys Tenement Fires. +€ix fires in Williameburg, all belleved to be the work of flrebugs, kept the Willdameburg firemen buay to-day. After the sixth fire three men were pointed | out and’ detained ty the police for an Investigation to learn whether they had | anything to do with the fires Five of the fires tn the forenoon wer in crowded tenement houses, endanger- ing the lives of thundreda of families. ‘The succession of these fires all within two r three blocks, wore out the fire- ™men and sent thousands of persons Danic-atricken into the streets for the Test of the day. ‘ The sixth fire wae at No. 9 fouth Gixth street, in the oll etore of the J. 8. Willams OM Company. The flames nade such headway that three alarms were @ounded. Fireman Grafenthaler of Truck No, @ was blown downstairs by an explosion and taken to @ hospital with @ sprained ankle Battalion Chief Golden pointed out to he police three men who had run from the burning ‘butlding in South Bixth street. The chief sald that he had hedrd that one of them touched a Mght- ed match to an oll soaked sweater and threw it behind him as he ran, Five alarms were sounded from the box at Grand and Havemeyer streets, Wilkamsburg, between 10 o'clock and noon to-day. at No. 268 South First bottom of an airshatt. ut with @ damage of only $25, but many of the tenants were tram- led in the blind rush through arei lack smoke which filled the halls. ‘The second alarm waa from No. 270 South Firet street, and was reached by the firemen before all of the tenants knew of thelr danger. The third waa in a woodbin in the collar of No. 24 South First street, and mado great headway before the Gremen put ft out. A ooaloin filled with off soaked rage was found on fire when the same ens ines were called to No. 1 Havemeyer street, around the corner The fifth warm came just as the fweary firemen were returning to quar- [tora feean the Havemeyar atraet fire and took them to a blaze under « #tairway at No, S Houth Mirst etreet Chief Golden belie nat ali the fir \= the work of @ pyromaniac, re _ Highest Court Fails to Smash Big Coal Trust van “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | , DECEMBER 16, 1912. WHATHER—Fate to-night and Teesday. PRICE ONE CENT. GRABS REVOLVER AVERTING MUROE Mrs. Hallenback Rushes Upon Pair Locked in Combat, One Twice Shot. Mes, Harry C. Hallenbeck, wife of the formen Mayor of Montolatr, Nv. J., and among the most prominent sock leaders in the Jerney colony ef! nultl- milijonatres, intervened to<lay in @ shooting affray between her coachman and gardener after the latter had been thot twice and while the two men were locked 41 combat on the floor of the stable. When one wrenohed the re- volver from the hand of his antagonist Mra, Hallenback seized che weapon and ran with {t to the house, there to tele phone for the police. The home of the Hatlenbacks te at Gates evenue and Orange road, in the midst of the exclusive Upper Mountain avenue social colony. James A. Weod- | gate, @ West Indian, te thelr coachman, and Anderson Dorsey, a Southern ne- aro, is the gardener and man of o@d Jobs about the extenaive grounds. | Woodgate recently quarrelied with his wite and she blood = wae left him, engendered between the coachman and the gardener because of the former's domestic aiMouities ‘They 10 tiows in the etable end Woodgate drew «@ revolver.’ He ehot, Dorsey first through the right hand ae the latter wes grappling €or the weap. on, amd then through the right ehoule der, St!!! Dorsey held to him and they went down, Mra, Hollenback heard the sound of the firet shot in the house and ran to the barn. The second shot was fired just before she ran through the opened Goore, but undeterred by thought of danger, she continued until she came upon beth men clawing and rolling on the concrete floor, Mre, Hallenback called to them to mop just as Dorsey, though wounded, muccested in forcing open Woodgate’ grip upon the revolver. When the pon gattered to the floor the #o- clety woman caught {t up and ran Into the house, ‘Ghen she telephoned frst to the Montelair polloe atatton, and then to the Mountainside Hospital for &n ambulance, Polloemen and ambulance arrived at the same time. Dorsey was removed to the howpital, where it te suid, the bullet in hie shoulder has not deen lo- cated, Woodgate save himacif up and was taken to the Newark jail, to be locked up without bail pending the out- come of Dorsey's injuries, POLICEMAN 10 G0 10 Testimony Taken into the claim that certain policemen SKELLY TRIAL ON MARY GOODE'S CHARGE \Detective Weidekehr, of Dwyer’s Staff, and Sergeant O’Grady Sus- pended by Commissioner Waldo Pending Further Action. SECRET WITNESSES GIVE WHITMAN MORE EVIDENCE in Hidden Places and Graft Case Is Prepared for Grand Jury. Commissioner Waldo had so far progressed with his investigation have been profiting by guarantesing Protect’ to disorderly houses that he ordered ‘tie suspension of ¢wo police officers this afternoon, and Instructed Chief Inspector Schmitt- berger to-prefer charges against another—J. J. Skelly, who was-sccused by Mary Goode in her testimony before the Aldemen, taking $25 fem. charges and suspensions. FORANYTHING NOW “I Suppose I'm a Politician Once More,” President- Elect Jests. ‘Woodrew Wiisen, the next President of the United States, came back from his Bermudian junket to-day ready to face four years of tremendous responsibility and with hie last serious vacation be- hind hint, Ag he stepped from the gang- plank of the Quebec Steamsh!p Com- pany’e steamer Bermudian he smiled @roadly and sald to those areund “Well, I suppose I am e politician once more,” If the President-elect had in mind the thousands of job Gunters whe have deen waiting tmpationdy to snare him the Instam he put foot ence more on American eoll and who consider «him solely in the light of the supreine poll- tlotan af them all, he 414 not mention it, Inetead, he wae far more ready to talk of Bermuda as a place one could alk about im without being run over by an arto, Just one Mttle hint be dropped which emacked of things political In answer to @ question as to whether he expected & conferenes with William J. Bryan goon, Gov, Wison said quickly: “T hope he will visit me avon, to confer with him.” HAS TO JUMP QUICK TO DODGE AUTO AND WAGON. With his family the Governor went from the pier to the Waldorf, With secret service men trailing behind him the President-elect left there about noon and started on foot up Fifth ave- nue, Few recognized him and most of those who did were women, At Thirty-seventh street he narrowly | missed being struck by & delivery wagon. The driver looked back, reo- | nned and shouted T want “Bottor t your Mfe insured, Woody!” Several blocks further north Gov, Wileon had to jump out of the way ’ ‘AGO, J e ntoawo wan 1 club to-day 5 A gcuut, Doyle unpited In the inters| BuRBowe of the Walk was the purcha national Leagie last season, of anew hat, Finally he found one fon tects EE that wulted, 4 soft brown felt; and after he had bought tt he turned to Chiro nad jet and ioe, wash Bicolize Briton, + 4dne Poe: EL th (Continued gn Fourth Page.) GOV. WILSON HOME, SUNBURNED, “READY === her. ° This attion, it ts said, at Headquarters, is the forerunner of eter’. charges W. O'Gredy of Inspector staff were the policemen day, Weider: tstbe from two persons whose names the commissioner declines to reveal. WHITMAN GETS SECRET TESTI- MONY FROM WOMEN, Reports reaching the District-Atter- Rey's office thie afternoon from detec- tives who have been scouring the Ten- derioin, following leeds furnighed by compjaining keepers of disorderly indicate that sufficient cor- question of police graft on Wedaes- Gay. A great deal of testimony was taken late to-day by Aesiteant Dietriei- Attorneys, who left the Criminal Courts Building with notaries and met Witnesses at secret places. It te reported that the District-Attor- ney has dug up anme evidence tending to establish the truth of a story told by Mary Goode, the Aldermanic Committes of “Manny” Maas, the east wide beer bottler, and Wily relative, Bol Wolf, the Columbus avenits Mauor 4 4 collectors of “protec: tion” money, | Process servers and detectives, who have been looking for Mass and Woit with subpoenas, were unable to loca’s them. Maas cannot be found at bis office nor his home. For the present the Alderm Inves™ tteation Committee has dropped consld- eration of the tales of graft tol women, Insofar as the public heari jare concerned. All the work along | ine ts naw being done by detectives in | the employ of the committee, or in thy pay of citizens who are aiding in the work, When the sessions of the com | mittee: are resumed, on Wednesday af- | ternoon, a new line will be taken up. FOSDICK SAYS HE TOLD OF BECKER'S GRAFT. Raymond B. Fosdick, former Commis sioner of Accounts, will be the chief witness, He will tell of investigations |made in the late summer of 1908, when | John Purroy Mitchel was Acting Mayon, ‘during the convalescs ot Mayor Gay- nor, Theve investigations were made at Coney Island and in the Tenderloin and brought eut, Mr. Fosdick bas al. ways claime@, a shocking state ef fy { tose SS See = 2a Sea eee eee nw ies Te RL TRICE OO ROR a