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frie, He will go into the matter in some detail before the Committee. However, all his testimony along that Jine will relate to the police adminis. tration of former Commissioner Baker, With relation to the present adminis. tration—that of Commisioner Wgldo— Mr. Fosdick will testify that, long be- fore Rosenthal was killed, the Police Commissioner was warned that Licut. Charles Becker was a grafter. Mr. Fosdick will testify that he con. veyed this information to Commis: sioner Waldo, but the Commissioner bélieved grafting was impoxsible under his checking aystem—at least Mr. Fos- dick says this was the impression he wou ME Lied “ema are coming out of “IF WERE TO WORK ACHILD TO DEATH, Scathing Irony in Dr , Darling- ton’s Advice to Factory District-Attor office as to the imber of women who have told about isch Paying graft and the {mportance of Commission, their statemcnts, District-Attorney Whitman said to-day that he had as yet gathered no legal corroboration of value, but that his detectives are run- ning down every line of inquiry that looks promising. The District-Attorney detectives furnished by | fe employing iam J Sheridan, formerly a member of the Police De- partment. A difficulty the detectives are encountering is the fact that none of the women who has made a plaint wants to get out of the bi of dealing in vice, and their inforn is only general. NEED CORROBORATION OF WOM- EN'S GTORIES. Mre. Goode was awaiting trial in the Court of Special Sessions when she vol- unteered to testify before the Aider- manic Committee. She’ had already given her information to the Distict- ace, Witness Says—Wom- an’s Testimony Denied. ‘What good will It do the State to give « child a thorough education and then have the child die?’ demanded Dr. Thomas Darlington, former head of the Doan! of Health, of the State Factory Investigating Commission this after- noon. Dr. Darlington was the last wit- oss at the last public hearing of the Commission. On Friday executive ses- Attorney. Following Mr- Cloode's oom | aiong, at which the report of the Com- Dlaint six other women, al te ardec, [mission will be framed, will be bemun 1 ‘mn York State,” Dr. Darling . See et tee ceracten | ‘very child must have @ good educa. ech testiniony ia, worthieta in © cours, on—we owe that not only to the cel, @f low Wilhous corteneration. The Dis-,| but © the nation. But ie shone chusive tulet-Attorney and the Aldgrmanic Com. |*F¢ soit to grow wo ie tw Nee co cae mittee have been flooded with anony- | sens they ae Or ay ae Se ‘ Seaited at uivescipation oe erent {neither If they most werk every hous part of which is prompted by apite|they are not sleepin OF —_ aaty. Detaite evidence eecktae MT erhe anewer t# simple—clitld labor ‘The detective work for the Aldermanty | must bo abolished.” Committee is being done by former In- Dr, Darlington urged the commigaion apector John Russell, who was recently |¢. obtain legimation against dust and fetired from the Department ageinat hie] gui air in factories. ee eee ee eee ied| “They are the principal eony-tbuting Light” disclosures on the east side; | causes to tuberoulusia, and tuberoulosts “Bddie” Réardon, formerly a detective |costs the people of New York $18,000,000 for Distri ttorney Jerom: ‘annually.” qchoo) bf ex-policemen who Mrs, Gone Bowen, who we @ star wit- Gemissed of retired. Al afe on the} hogs for the canners at @ shoont eeasion of the commission ig Rochester, was repudiated by the organization employ- payroll. DWYER CLAIMS MRS. GOUDE'S STORY INACCURATE. ing her at to-day's sesalon, Miss Grace EB. J, Parker, general secretary of tho in whose ict Mary Goode kept « disorderly | New York-Now Jersey Committee of the he claims, patd protection! North American Civic League for Im- migrants, denounced Mra. Bowen's ex- pressions on the subject of hours of labor for women and children, and sald they were not the sentiments of the league. WOMAN REPUDIATES MRS. BOW. EN’S TESTIMONY. @ unalterably opponed to sald Mise Parker, ‘and we are opposed to long héure oy labor for women.” Abram I. Bikus, chief counsel for the commission, told Miss Parker that Mra, Bowen, who has been @ teacher in @ kindergarten choo! conducted by the Burt Olney Canning Company of Albion, under the supervision of the North American Civic League, had been a Wakl ae eee 6 ara| Witness for tho canners, He asked her joned ahown in the police reporeto have been |articularly about the school tuere. arraigned for trial and held under bail im sume ranging from $1,000 to $1,500 by various City Magistrates. A friend of Inspector Dwyer who is) of child labo in & porition (0 know the Inspector's | could not movements said to-day: “Mary Goode the movement. was been found by investigation tohave| This factory Bon wh jed three times under Dwyer's| Mary Loulsa Chamber (wraduate, worked as y laborer to get i's ‘answer to the criticism that com- evidence. Mra, Bowen's testimony at paratively few women keepers of Jis- Rochester seemed to cast a doubt on the y houses are bailed in the Nixht authenticity of Miss Chamberlain’ Geert, det are requir loy pro- port. feesfonal bondemen at the atation houses, | 'iuyene 8. Benjamin, representing the to whom they are required to pay an ex-! Aliled Needle Industries, and James R. orbitant, fee, Chief Magistrate McAdoo Keyser, for neckware makers, also were submitted a report to Mayor Gaynor witnesses. Mr. Benjamin aubmitted a day, showing that in approximately 540 communication from his fein lekten nights, 297 ball bonds for women were pledging the commission Its support in lemmed. Chief Clerk Bloch, who pre-|{ts work. It asked that the time for tha Pared the report, eaid: “Up to {hie Aegy! co compliance with the provisions of the T have seen no reason why the 8 measures be extended to three “ should keep open after 1 o'clock vaaba. aoe rahe nusaner of honde tAken st MOTORMEN OVERWORKED HERE, ha akdtion noes SAYS WITNESS, comparatively small.” Heretofore the Night Court has been) James ai, Curran, who described itm. self as a railroad worker, told the com- required to remain open until 3 A. M., | but Chief Magistrate McAdoo has! mission of long hours of labor ef treet | ca men in Queens County, He eald to-day the result of fourt vestigution uf her story. Since In. tor Dwyers return from Portan:, je, after one day. of vacation, he has mad three dete running down etal! connected with the Goody "8 testimony before the Alder mame Police investigating Committee, apie pa to the information obtainea in the pulice inaccurack in Mary @ testimony will be shown, prin- <apally about the women who kept dis- eee ly houses and were, according to Mrs. Goode, left alone because they pa Members of the Vice Trust. A ih of court records Lage that each of the women mentioned by Mrs. Goode ‘as having been protected had been raided under Inspector Dwyer's orders 4n dates prior to her testimony before uld have Itked,” said ‘We found the condition: h that the league \d lending its name to success. we Mies Par! ‘ter that hour abridged the hour.of closing because of lack of court business after 1 o'clock a Aonauatoes Ik ohent oto MR. CURRAN TELLS POLICE OF |: oney Taland lines frequently worked DIVE6 HE FOUND. | sixteen or seventeen hours without time ; v Chairman Curren ot ‘the Aierganto | rman Gommlites looked for outward appear: | naere thee ot eee Cease nave gate mae of vice in his district Saturday “ fand last night, and to-day Ne ree | iy acid it cars: setorious phense ea War Twenty-sixth street and another on Stath avenue be summarily closed. “@ince the Rosenthal murder the: three particular places have been co ducting thelr business without outward | signs of disorder and indecency carried | on within,” said the Alderman to-day “Saturday night and tast night 1 found these places, which are in my istrict, running In full blast, with ‘cappers’ or ‘runners-in' working on the sidewalks urging |) the employees of canneries factory Jaws, in the opinion lof Mr, Fitkus, tts couneel, At Present lthey are governed by the agricultural |lawx, He said that the cannertes might be allowed to employ women for eiaty re during the rush season, tut that A labor in them would be abolished. ——— READING UP TWO POINTS AFTER TRUST DECISION, near the miserable resorts, “The Twenty-sisti street places are wasye 9 he es ars. Heyman, as she! Price Fell Off Before the Announce- long been violuters and have long ment, but Quickly ‘stood in’ with the police, being per- Ralli d. mitted, even in the most trouvious allied, umes, to run their busluess without in The Supreme Court decision in the peetaconce. 1 bave eviden: @, too, ‘that | Ant} te Coal Trust cases made for hese places—all theee—are in the 80> | Yjye ding 0 Exchange EIUEe’ Wide Trust, ani thorein flee the ue ly ‘ading on the Stock Exchange reason for ‘lic! mmunit | At the opening of the market there the attention of tse | Was apparently a premonition that the @ places. Saturday ni decision would be a blow to the combine when the Sixth avenue place was com-| of railroads and operators forming the plained of at- gruff voice over know details that Police the Headquarters, a | wire wanted to were not necessary anthracite trust and prices fell off on all seourtties witch might be affected and information ar to the tdentity of | PY the decision the person conpiain'ng. But nothing| Piiladetphia and Reading wae the «ir same of the « H | vor of transactions to the other parties This stuck opened at steadily dropped to 1681-2 In NEW, BR Ne, Ji. | anticipation of the dectaion, Wihert the The brewers ou & Placner news came that the cot of alle Highi paris wis ° roads is not to be dissolved unless such early 10- War el astion Is forced by further prolonged Marshal George C Bedford to siand tuk Philadelphia and Reading bee Dack, as it was feared tat the an- ” pb a point ata clip. It was monta house might blow up, Alfred ¢ ) 8, two polite higher than wis stagwered and dropped to Uy 1d (he market was cteady- ound. ile was dead when p up on all securities Qaving relations Hie death tf suppored to have + od the anthracite situation, from heart disease. Sts Ai rt ip gets axe / WHY EDUCATE RIN? CAR MEN TOIL 17 HOURS. | Overworked Motormen a Men-| | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, Witnesses Who Spoke To-Day | For Factory en VICTORY SHARED BY COAL ROADS AND GOVERNMENT (Continued from First Page.) holding company organized by! ‘“inde- pendent” operators to control additional output. ‘What the Government erred in bring- ing one single sult against the rafiroad mergers and the cval-producing con! ceria was held by the court, ‘The Court refused to order the dis- solution of the Evie and the Cent Rafiroad of New Jersey and also other alleged combinations of the anthracite carrt In part the Court said: “Bach of the parties to the general combination may form parties to sep- to their legality. The iower court was directed to dis- solve the 6 per cont. contracts. to of to no part in the decision. There were no dissenting opinions tn rul held: tl ‘Firet—That the general combination Fe | alleged b; Governm xist be- | cisidn, this ts a mi: ee Ot ase Ds tat ae The Reading system never | tween the defendant roads for an ap- Portionment of total tonnag board by &® pooling arrangement tablished, and therefore ‘ee rellet sought WILL SMASH COMBINE, WASITINGTON, General noon issued a statement regarding the Supreme Court's hard coal decision, in whieh he said preset thas BAER GIVES HIS VIEWS P. Bae: pantes, commenting on the decision of the @upreme Burt of the United States noon said: “phe decision, #0 far as I am able to judge from the reports received, sus- tains the company with the exception cf{ the © per cent. contracts and the hold- ing of the Temple Iron Company stock. ‘I have always been indifferent as to ‘the 6 per cent. contracts and the hold- ing of the Temple Iroh Company stock. “T have always been Indifferent as to the @ per ¢ “The school at Albion was not the| arate aults, We express no opinion @8| made with the operators to Induce them Justices Day, Hughes and Pitney took | hay to take her coal and store it, and In its memorandum opinion the Court | delivering the coal to us under the con- the coal trafflc from these mines. to ti agreement = the ature ct Wear steak 46 & inbeletebeletebiek | HOCKING VALLEY Law’s Reform Broker Popper, Who Engi eered Deal for Keene, Give: the Inside Facts. President of Compan. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Detatls the celebrated “Hocking Poot? in W | gtreet in 1909, engineered by James “| Keene, Money Trust Investigating Commtt to-day by Edwant Popper, Keen broker. He sald the pool collapsed ‘January, 1910, after 2 been ‘bought and 65,000 shares sold. Popper sald He “went short” stock 4,609 ehares on the day the take over 3,000 additional shares. How the stock dropped from 88 scribed by Popper. in that “coup” counts. Popper tifeates and delivered 17,900 cert! cates, under 59, “blind” ferent brokers. He said that when the stook began SAYS WICKERSHAM. | Dec, 16.—Attorne’ Wickersham late this aft he had on hand for Mr. that stock all the way from 88 dot to 23. The witness said he sold owed him @ considerable sum, George H. Kendall, t is believed that this decision will | completely destroy the combination which now controls the price of anthra- |New York Bank Note Company, on the cite that it must result in a distinct | witness stand corroborated the testimony] Measure of relief to the public.” of George A. Fields, vice-president of ON COURT DECISION. . | committee on Friday. HILADELPHIA, Dec. 16.—George F.| “Why ts your President of the Reading com-|againet by the Stock Exchange?" Mr, Untermyer. the anthracite coal case this after- Company,” answered Mr. Kendall. ‘Mr. Kendall testified that the prices the New York company were @bout 40 @ per cent. under the prices quoted | POOL BREAK TOLD TO MONEY PROBERS MOVE ON BANKNOTE BAN Morgan and Sage Named by Ousted by Stock Exchange. were discloged to the Congress 000 shares had ‘pool broke, and that he #old so much “short’ ‘that several brokers failed and could not 85 on the day of the collapse was de- The witness said Keene, the moving spirit in the pool, kept his operations ac: id he received 42,200 cer- He said his company’s orders were carried out by twenty-five dif- The first purchase was made in March, 1909, at 27 and the | last sale in December, 1909, at 89 3-4, break he sold short some 4,600 shares which he delivered out of 7,650, which Keene. He sold protect himself from Mr. Keene, wi president of the company, who discussed the difficulties between the New York company and the New York Stock Exchange before the work discriminated asked “Bluntly speaking, because we will not combine with the American Bank Note the American Bank Note Company for engraving etock certificates and bonds. 1912. | He qaleulated that the United States | Corporation had paid $1,000,000 for the engraving of {ts stock certificates (o date. “Any independent company, such as |ours," said Mr, Ken@l, “would have been glad to do that work for haif that sum. Mr. Kendail idéntified a list of etock- hoklers in the American nk Note Company, who afe also men New York Stock Exchange, Kendall said that | J. Morgan that he, was a stockholder in the Ameri- ompat He told how the late li ell Sage had warned him that un+ in- he allowed the American company to absorb the New York company tho latter would be barred from the Kx- S| change. “E refused,” he said, “and ten days later were barred from the Bx- — WHITRIDGE MAKES A THREAT ACANST PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD Vigorously Objects to Its Ref- y ot all R. . . erences to Third Avenue tee ‘ud vs Road’s Securities. an A letter signed by Fredorick W. Whit- ridge, prestientt of the Thint Avenue Railroad Company, and dristling with sarcasm, aimed at’ the Public Service Commission, was made public to-day. Mr. Whitridge objects to statements about the securities tssued by his com- pany in documents issued by the Com- mission. “It have already had occasion to ad- to ridge, “that observations of this kind could not be permitted to go unchal- lenged, and it is my duty, as president of the Third Avenue Company, to say to you that these statements are not true and that you have no business to make them, “As know I have always shunned controversy with you unless you forced it upon me, and I have tried to work with you in the public service. You have, therefore, nothing to fear from me exeept a correction of inaccuracies, but you must be made to understand the fact, of which you are apparently not aware, that people who own securities are extremely sensitive to things which are said about them, and it is quite poss@le that if you per- sist In your attacks on tnis corporation and its securities you will put your- selves !n some peril. “In that connection I call your atten- tion to Section 92% of the’ New York Criminal Code, which provides that ‘a person who, with intent to affect the market price of public funds of this State or of the stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt of corporation or as- sociation knowingly circulates any false rumor or intelligence, i punishable by a fine of not more than $%,000 or tm- prisonment of not more than three years or both. in- you to ‘ wn to ho QI the ot cr by monish your @hairman,” says Mr, Whity a . cont They were join én tie settlement of the strike 192, They were never satisfactory me because, in time of dull trade, we thne of active trade they have, as a le, done just as they pleased as to tiveprinciples of Roots, Bar! ‘Aa to the Templ ‘Iron! Company de-|and Herbs as to raise them to their highest efficiency: indifference. ad any of the | hence its unequalled cures. one, and we will ge profit to any- ‘operty is a valuabl jin the tablets known as Sarsatabs. by the Government upon the assumption of such combination ts denied. COMBINED TO SHUT OUT INDE- PENDENT ROAD. “fecond—The Court finds, however, that the principal Gefendaats 414 com- "Third—The court holds that cer- tain contracts made with producers covering between 30 and 25 per cent. of the total annual supply of coal known as the 65 per cent. contract by which h independent producers bound themselves to deliver the out- put of their mines or any other mine which they might acquire to the ra{l- | rene companies for 65 per cent. of the market price at tidewater, j were alo void because in violation of the Anti-Trust act as abnormal and {egal restraints upon int mere ‘The Court further sald in part: “The case ia barren of documentary evidence of solidarity. The fact of gen- eral combination, if it existe, must be BAER AND BACON FORMED TEM- PLE COMPANY. Referring to the organization of the Temple Iron Company, h was dis- |, the Court eald tt was formed principally by President Baer of the Reading Raliroad and Rob J. Bacon I Morgan & Co. ‘The combination by means of the Semple Company 5/1!) existe,” the opin- tinued. ‘It has beem, amd stil} Save Your Time and Money By doing your Xmas shopping now at Chas. W. Wolf's Stores 22 Cortlandt Street \CHES—-— 21 Maiden Lane. 58 Cortlandt St. 102 Nassau St. 204 Fifth Avenue. 15 Beaver St. Everything in Leather Goods, Umbrellas or Metal Novelties at Popular Prices Ladies’ Hand Bags..... + -$1.75 to $80.00 Ladies’ Hand Beas (Fitted), 3.00 to 42.50 Travelling Bags + 2.95 to 45.00 Travelling Bags’ (Fitted). 10.50 to 110.00 Suit Cases.. + 8.956 to 42.00 Suit Cases (Fi te ). + 15.00 to 110.00 Umbrellas (Men's and Ladies’) 15.00 Combination Card and Bill Folds. 15.00 Bill Folds. 5.00 Card Cases. 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