The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1913, Page 4

‘ s THE BVENING WORLD, Dnvonear Wenge ct 11, 1918. ' HOW GEORGE F. BAKER GOT BANK _ “BIC TIM” PASSES FOR $500,000; MADE $86,000,000 ASONEDEADAND Pacerespoetie| The Banker Whose Doctrine | | THOUSANDS MOURN Sullivan, Ordered to Asylum) od Goan’ a = Copyright, 1818, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) | Restraint, Leaves Sorrow in East Side Hearts. PPOAOAOROOROODAOE BODE ODAAEAEAA AALS ANDEAN ODEOEEL OSES i Bowery’s Big Friend and pape: Philosophy That Made ‘Big Tim? $ 3 Beloved Leader of the Bow These are some articles of the creed which made “Big Tim” sultitt a beloved power among the people of the cust side. They are Inked from an interview which, in an entirely unusual mood of taikuticrur ss he gave to a reporter, who was a close friend: No feliow who is jeading people by any trick will get v far. the crowd behind him. If he isn't on the level he'll soon be a ware ‘arrier or chopping fodder for lame horse: “When you ask me to what particular thing | owe any of the frien s I've got I'll say it's work. ‘ “All this talk about psychologi:al power and personal magnetis n ove men is fine business for pretty writing, but when you get down to bras. tacks it’s the work that does the business “A man who wants to be a leader in the political world has to forezo any idea of living to do anything except what the people around biat want. “TN take any man from the Bowéry or the prairies and set him down anywhere and if he'll follow my instructions he'll be a leader sooner or later, according to how much aptitude he's got on the go-in. “Every community has to have some man who can take the trouble to look for their public interests while they arc earning their living, and it doesn’t make any difference whether he's tall, short, fat, lean or hump backed and with only half his teeth, if he's willing to work harder than any one else he's the fellow who wil! hold the job as leader.” - Made Life Prisoner in Asylum ood Ree seeoeonooeoooesooenseeeseceeo eee ensedeccenes Cooke in 1872, Three Days Before Jay Cooke @ Co. Failed. HE BOUGHT THE BANK TO SAVE HIMSELF. His Purchasing Leverage Was His Persuasive, Suave Manner and His Chilled Steel Self-Con- fidence, Which Have Never Deserted Him. /REASON IS SHATTERED. Leader of Men, Spendthrift in Charity. Bowery Philosopher Was Born | ' | ‘The thousands of friends and one-time retainers of “Big Tim” Sullivan learned | to-day that he is lost to them for all time. Aa big of frame, as clear-eyed, | ea muscular ae ever, hs mind ts gone. ‘The disease whioh overcame him, atte: | & brave fight egainet it for years, at the funeral of his wife, nearly three months ago, has reached a stage such | that his half-brother, Lawrence Mulll-| {BUILT HOUSE BY THEFTS, 3 GETS ONE YEAR IN PRISON. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE ' rik OF BANKING IS CREDIT. Woman Also Accused of Stealing ! Gold Leaf Saved by Will's Provision. People do not want facts. They de not want a list of securities. The fun wan, an -eister regre Jerome T. Caffrey, who. as forem 5 HF bankii a eae, eos i a ferun writ ot soummitinant for the ters in the stamping department of &. F.: ng is credit. People shou! Sab ened Obs Cabtabn 08 men, 18 was! Collier & Sons’ bookbindery at ‘ have confidence in those to whom they {ntrust their affairs. GEORGE F. BAKER, Before Congress Committee. signed by Justice Amend in the Su- t Thirteenth’ atreet for preme Court yesterday afternoon. By the terms of the writ, Mr. Suiliva: who went to the sanitarium of Dr. G.! ¥. M. Bond in Yonkers immediately | after his wife's death, as a voluntary! patient, fe now a prisoner there. The final step followed the report of Dr. Bond that it now is necessary to use| mila force in restraining the big man’ actions, and he would probably beco: violent and dangerous in the neat future, Because of the tremendous physique of the affitcted man, it was! deemed wise to take from him the right| which he has had since he went to the! hospital, of going out when he pleased | or leaving altogether if he felt like it ! | trade-marked goods is the a purchaser can profit by his experience and fasten responsibility upon the manufacturer. one thing more than nother that should be bought by nai it is a pa ubbers. N: more in quality, To help the public distinguish our rubber footwear from every other kind, we mark our standard first quality rub- bers with the Hub-Mark trade-mark. Try Hub-Mark rubbers this winter and you'll decide it is worth while to get rubbers from a factory that is ready to vouch for its goods This is the same George F. Baker who became the ruling power of the First National Bank of New York by approving a bad credit granted to Jay Cooke back in 1872. For this he was in danger, as cashier, of dismis- sal. In more vulgar terms, George F. Baker, now the head of the most epectacularly profitable financial in- stitution in the world—past or pree y in #igning orders confeared to ha gold leaf from the firm worth upward of $30,000. In hia job as forema’ ffrey requisitions many of a day for ach of which was worth 87, At night he would smuge@le out a half dozen or more of packages and sell them to dealer for $5 each. his thefts by a wo! beneficiary j apt hie hat and coat and drop into the pporliend slice erations Hat napeSY tune, which has rolled up rapidly since tion of the ‘Third District Catholic! sald he spent muen of the money he asta task remeiea aes apd piries | President's office to say an apologetic leaeae sania etn fact. the oppo. | 28 Illness has kept him from giving | Benevolent Legion will be held to-mor- | obtained on a young woman, although | street cars. They cost no ppeering is ony ‘ geod-by? Ho did not. Instead he con- ment failed to showin fact. the OPP \money away, now aniounts to nearly | row evening in the Amsterdam Opera |e, Was the father of children much | other first clase rubbers. Gulted with Henry Tahnestock, the clerk ‘Dla thet o priccoer Anwlly asame | © iuiwon: dollars | House, A programme of six vaudeville | older than the woman he named, |The Hub-Mark is your Value-Mark. ‘4h who was directly responsible for the naceeenty, 4 If this Ie true, it is the frst happy | sets, by professional performers, with Bank Reccrve $16,180,v00, your dealer cannet supply you, write ws. Q circumstance in a long recon of tragedy * has beer. arranged. re anna nue canes tae “ene Be THOUSANDS IN SORROW ON (i tie ii ce tine Sullivans. There te «| Supreme Treasurer John E. Dunn_wili| ‘The statement of the actual condition, Boston Rubber Shoe Co. \ only a few hundred dollars to his name, GREAT BAST S08, blight on the family, he has more than | ry legion, “which Posters Lesmpanien for che week, shows nat | xevabuiahed 1 MALDEN At His purchasing leverage was his per So the poor of that population which/ once said himself. His nephew and his The thirty-two: count they hold. $16,189,300 quasive, suave manner and his chilieé lives between the Bowery and the East! natural successor in politic ttan will be represented at the | legal requirements. ent, not excepting “520 Per Cent.” iiller’s lesa fortunate Franklin sya- dicate—was on the ragged edge of being canued by his boss for a bad break. What 4i@ George F. Baker do, know- ing then, undoubtedly, as well as he Tt wan learned to-day that the rela- | tives of “Big Tim": arranged to have him placed under legai restraint nearly | & month ago and went so far as to pr cure an order of commitment similtr to that issued by Justice Amend yeate day, The first order was signed by Ju tlee Platzek on Dec, 16 or 17. After eei- ting the order consulted friends and ae- cided not to serve it. They took a long | a Aeneneeeeseneseseseoccesoosoes cencooesessace: UF? wet 7. D: SVELivan ?) PPSISGSSSTSISTSS FSISTIFIFISIIISES 6599995599999954 moving picture theatre, There are | Tumors among his friends that his for- | to teatity te lend, Genera manage: of | owed Dim ‘0 ihe o16n6 The Leach Chemical Co., Cincinasts Annaal Reception of C. B. 1. The annnal entertainment and recep- under the will of the late Peter Iene- lon Collier. She waa one of several women employeen of the firm for whom a life legacy of $10 a week was pro- vided by the publisher. not revealed, nor was sie prosecuted, because of a provision in the will of Mr. Collier that the beneficiaries among the employees should keep their jobs as long as they pleased. Caffrey made a full confession at the} any time of his arrest last October. He Fy steel ef self confidence. River, and the business men, big and|the keen-eyed, lantern ent of $1,284,739 from | both at seventy-two years small, and hundreds of self- haired Timothy P, Sullivan—' t ‘The incident thro foreign-born men and women who can awe es a Penta oe Fogeyeney sven | — reel; ik English mourn for Tim en pal wi nority, by | All leet te 14 articles ad- would go to bis tallor and say: ‘Now few years ago of the sume disease ® we ' eu00,en0 capital. John here, I want you to pick me out goods ear—mourn as many of them might) 21. ’has undone “Big Tim.” Florence then President ef the First National! end cut me a suit such that if my best not for the passing of a member of thelr! i nivan, who was as close to the leader | Bank. Ho was oid. friend were to pass me at Wall and own households, as though he had been a blood brother | ! ‘ venking. Mr. Bak Broad streets he could not tell when No one man could be ax much missed | (they were not related), became insane | tate of mind. Ke veatabh Seeeaway how t oas and lingered for years, a constant drain Mr. Fahnestock Gressed. He is scientifically self-effac- on Mr. Sullivan's anxieties and fun A V5 i foreign exchange ing. He would pay half hie fortune for of goodwill. é | ' bank. To oblige @ friend he bow @ reat mantle of invisibility—and triple fa |HIS STRENUOUS LIFE FOUND| i Soehieae Soe ee Jet of London drafts what he had left within a year by walked from BIG BURDENS. | . | ’ 4 ‘Teeee dave tal fy be ie bases ivi by ; sue bg serait The low shift of the gear te d Hi hi I t . Fabmestock ran “With all that unobtrusiveneas there | io: ee Bervate Semon tO We | of the east side made the task of as- t Baker, who bad approved the pur-|(s another quality in Mr. Baker which Bowery and Fourth avenue to Tammany | tine the organization that ft woud | WAVE Arranged a gnly Iimportan ase fe perhape the reason for his desire for Hall, literally showering quarters and) ‘yore right" always, harder, Notes ' MERELY A MATTER OF BUYING | invisibility. As the pointer dog heads _ haf dollars into the bande oeirnianes amounting to hundreds of thousan: i A BANK. |@oward the partridge, Mr. Baker with]. i ig | to him every atep of the way. | of dollars, signed to cover the | ° "Wt looks an though we would nave) Si! hs culet affabiny, all ale vet, ait/ Bitter Attack on President Fails| money, there was always o word of of the group of Tammany teste: 1S ALE oF ORI ENTAI RUG S Third Set of Three te buy the bank to save ourselves,” said Generosity, heade for money. Sup- : " opr! n ight years ago, were constant . [—M. Banee wits piace‘ ami "te Tot tone Me ware om, th, Laattanie, for! to Arouse Him—Mediators | ji"iné reprimand for ove who need) ce hum tie death of hi wie Famous Pictures Pe went was the last blow. ' ine see find the pilot boat. If anybody had the ‘The Sultvan Christmas dinner, which iy _ i Palen wes aia Bees et nies forethought to nail a $10 bill to the end Try to End Strike. was held this year without ¢he heat, and fe Go adit pei ds the details of which will be | [> hak the Cooke tatiure nad affected the |O%, the, White Star Pier, afr. Baker the aistetbuuion of shoes at the DeRIn- |g wag indolent by naire, "Mont of 1 wou! ing her in a bump. ie ‘his time waa spent ip his room in the F First Metional. y, gently he dwelt on “Uldn't help it-1f he would. It 1s bora) When the attorney for the striking | demonstrations of the great charity of | Occidental, in hia shirt sle his announced to-morrow, Sunday, } an entcseees ‘advanced age and his|!* him.’ street railway employees of Yonkers|the man. But there were almost un-| stocking feet, playing, cards, chalting . tion to get out of active! “M!! very recently Mr. Baker was as | started in to attack Frederick W. Whit-| numbered kindnesses sek Bo rec-|-with hie ileutenants, oF listening to ty "calle calm and convincing (fteuler in hie daily routine aa the time! ridge, President of the Yonkers @treet | 0rd except in the hearts of thone who| the tales of the troubles of his army January 12th. ' clocks on the locks of his vaults, In were the subjects of them. of dependents. ° eee crea ter hot wrigmte™P | guch hours as he now spends at the | Rulrosd Company before the State) Ai wave a SPENDTHRIFT IN|, Conscious of the growing vagueness of eaay an ight } eon'e ealy reason for not getting out Toy he lives up in conventionaiity ie | Board of Mediation and Arbitration, in hia mind, long before his associates sus was his inability to find men who would | ney 0e in ey oe eek Xton | seston in the Council Chamber in the CHARITY. pected it, Mr. Sullivan surprised them for Fram 1 | be kind masters to the good old bank | \ pugienbod Lately, tor Mr. Baker | Yonkers City Hall to-day, Mr. Whit-| His leutenants, the election district | by giving up his seat in the State se- ing ' and treat it gently and honorably. Mr, | POP whewers. talels, for te pag aptains of the Sixth and Highth As-| ate and having himself ciected to Con- Y Baker realised that it was very aim- vewe years old, he ha sembly District, knew from flerce dis. | res. He hoped that the change « ON MONDAY, JANUARY 13th, as | cult to find men of aumctent means to | Not wom s0 much time at his desk. | he lawyer, put ali [cipline that they were expected to do| ene, and activities In Washington Me | : undortabe eo large @ purchase whe were given more time to hie family | |1sdm ’ ramen ' 5 rele would make him feel himself again, In-| P ‘ “Evening in the Berkshires.” J and to his friend: hi 5 e blame for the tieing up of the| more than get votes on Election Day. | stead the Iife of the Cuplital irked him. | 9 r u { ot the type Mr. Thompson wanted as|onio.. ving and attending diane | Yonkers street car lines on Whitridge. | Better had they lose a district at the| He spent only na much time in Was Several Hundred Pairs of Portieres Ae cerning tal 2 suecessors. ee a then, sell it t9lThough “a lberal subscriber to pubiic | He said he paid little attention to eon-| polla than fail to report at any time ington as was absolutely neceasary. heck nuee uy Is, the distant bop omall \- “ D " he cl of the Occident: ote! fy . . chure! wi eins A peg Mpeg Bite I go Manere he very auidom reearvan 6 seat oi A eee eee | Oe ee eee ane oe erat | wes another break in nis wrip-on iite.| Will be offered, to effect an immediate the PiMiIngaaie ori pel ‘vacking te pay for !t on long time. Mr, 3 a EOD PPE" | cas, by money or intervention with » Magis- | He moved to the St. Denis less than a| A x t ne 6 on Baker ent what he wanted. 1 wan a) ray bon, Treen? me AE MMH D8CK Chairman, Willa CR trate or a word in tho enr of the am. [ear a4e:,evvie did vot ouetc| clearance, at extraordinarily low prices, {| {iP (vom ine fields the if a ox: Btate Board of lation and Arbitra-| ployment agency of a contractor or a t it to ybody—but ‘. r ! Dired he had used “fundamental creait” | GAVE AWAY $2,000,000 AND SAID | tion wil) make an earnest effort to bring | buvilc service corporation. fee een csaietan alte and over all broods the spirit of to seek peat advantage that there were NOTHING. about a conclusion to the strike which! mothy D. Sullivan has always been| very end he stuck to hin lifelong ab- ndture’s perfect calm. any numb wot very rich men who were| When he endowed Cornell Medical Col- | started its eleventh day to-day. Since! , spendthrift in generosity. His talents |atemiousness. If “Hig Tim" ever took | } peg pe gor Pog Purchase of the| lege and New York Hospital with about | New Year's atreet cars have been abso- rink or smoked tobacco Larry Mul- | — ¥ could be in the good books | $2,000,000 he did not get out on the 2, busi- Ngan, his half brother and closest Other Ss ecial Sales for Monda | of the young banker, steps of the Firat Nationa! with a me. a a result 1 Pe teek mivascg | friend, doen not know it, ‘These were | Pp y “Coast of Ne ” } For twenty years the conduct of the| Phone and tell the populace about it. | of inability on the part of the people| Money. lin Insole hen Neen Buensed | the good habite which have held his va Scotia, i. bank was the ‘marvel of other Wail| The first public intimation came out of | to get to the business centre of th grited or Pear pret Bef e-areneren ciroagetinattarn 5 ; fo Ww 5 Mi ’ A bright, breezy spot where in viree! nanciers w | th nt c ‘ 0 ni a seem 0 nl eo i jai, bi u ic ? + p xervative ideal oe money makin’ seat liczh ine aciitusteen’ Buin) teeeeek eal intaie wae 6. trates for Bia people. He spent | she aduasrional Snportunition ot «| will consist o omens, isses’ and the summer lichens are green are der the dlandest and most sanctimoni itt. fast as he made. Ife formed | street Wall, & nowsboy and a delivery * , ’ {] and purple on ¢ Apearances tie. vank‘Gavoted."neary {in his oflce Mr, Uaker te alwaym ace |_At-the-openiia of the Newson of the | the Sulilvan-Copeidine theaircal cireut | Wagon driver, have kone to ple Children’s French Underwear, Women’s || here swarms of deconthe 2 half its assets to Wall atret la- | cessible. His check-bo rneec | State Board Chairman Rogers an-| that at one tine controlled thirty the: | (Ge ¥ es s : seas Asich pecula. k jumps to moet aa é é f | election of « eu “er | " ™ Hom. (The Government did not interfere, | his hand when the visitor mentions any | MUN ed eS te calk tne | Hires we ch mere ail profable. He was Gy Mapressntative in Congress from the Tailor-made Suits, Mourning Suits and | pulls arOoP around in the dash. a nerr, eanke oe oak somaiais. At | AESieea conse Bit wie Wa fal limgnt advise their ollenta. ney so| one oe rey enelan emia sneer: | Thirteenth District ' : Cc ig spray. hed ee oF hall scale Lan. but ¢ atio ad | ’ +4 Iulgat have been Bnanccaly”wnheatth:|@iiulty ot My "aac in Andi that ein bt nie . cudrin, 9h | tee esc — - —| Washable House Dresses; Crepe Meteor, . a e he ofc “book Increases with the volume | behalf of the etrikers, enter AN @djec~ « 1 ant give you my opinion be EN id pes get ecg breegy yatta pee peneaden pein, | Onell site 1a my enimien be ‘Virgin Oil of Pine: Teitor Serges, Irish Dress Linens and | “Reman Girl ot Fountets,” street wail to an Evening World large affairs, he never seems hurried | Mr Whitridge told the board he wae | Will you Jet a commatiow of the wtrik } A swarthy, barefoot child i eporter, that the First Ni r ve clear le ule | the responsible head of the row ° fer with your general | ’ y ; i Br ri pee Tiree Meeps! benyime'|ond ls donk le Alware olpar, He ai | ihe, recnzonvit Beat oF .e esairaet |e, ariverienay” pened lemorat eee will cure your Women s Gloves; also a limited number | sreen dress, red bodice and white weird and strange things ware done. an incoming cailer with | ih" men brought to him last October “T don't know, Fam uncertain about chemisette, with a R “ . . it wan m hideo under “im: i" 2 * gay Roman VER TALKS ABOUT HIM. <™ A Tm not bey man ideo Mr, Whitrigge siimidiaikad as Cough or Cold of Women’s Fur Garments, Muffs and scarf, wom apron-wise, drinking LF EVEN TO FRIENDS. praee 12 5 URRORRRRtalie hemdi turning directly “toward the | hin overcoat umbrella and i at an antique fountain b to ail the years througn which Mr. | pare at Tuneto ie» On mad ed agi ne eee DREOT 81 iris, hon tn Beesd Mir hastarioe| le remedy qichly stows thar Meck pieces. wayside, 7 ra the rains est of the jarger t e braine of @ canary! the board Me wae objecting J “all the money any community Ye . s yild have known tt ents Mr Whiiridge med ba Y a Huy it at he hee been singularly a» member of wixt Toe ctokers muttered angrily, and for strikers lacing. «Ke nor hs eo and ite holdings, ve | # fair, derow y and fe . : tet “ay : MMe ge saver task’ eiven'se tate | stoveed—e' a Kf fh Mix ft at Home THE JANUARY SALE All Three Pietures in Beau- bout bimself—most big Ananciers . hurried || Whitridge reiraved hie stepe, pushing : if tiful Colers, Fr <0 Ail Of thelr carly ctruastes und shaking ha UM directions with every package = of Household Linens, Blankets, Comfort- Coupon in To-merrew's pahtbetitutes are dangerous, Ine ridue aving the genuine Virgin Oil oA Pi . ; Ss “4 Z to the best wey to see Malle eceden ett att ables, Bedspreads, etc., will be continued. | unatigeees (eneee oR Ero our label od AN heel ond left the room 1 -~ ms “mms | Ditty Aveunt, 240 wb 38th Miracle, Hew York, | é Service Storm fails ti ake ‘Own, wil be rephesed