The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1913, Page 2

| @ member of the police force. Hence ‘Mr. (Whitman ‘9 puszied over the pos Won @f the depart:nen: heads | trict-Attorney {@ to-day whin- Ping fie evidence in sitape for the Jono Doe Grand Jury Monday. The gratt in: | hd eral ra « A new line tanen up to- day 's why Policeman Charles 1. Foye made the accusations he vid Thurs y before the Alderman: against Chairman Cur man Geclared that Alderma: ttled to induce him to “thro: against an Eighth avenue saloonkeeper. WANTS TO KNOW WHO /8 6 HIND FOYE. Alderman Curran so effectually 4) yagved the charge that he bas | Attorney Whitman to have the Grand Jury investigate the possibility Of @ perjury indictment. But the pis. | (rlet-Attorney is more inierested 9 whe, if anybody, wae behind Foye. He does not understand why Foye, @ stranger to Alderman Curran, as far s known, should have gone before we committee and sworn that t man came to him on behalf of @ veer. | keeper not tn Curran's district, and who | e never saw Curran and never him. Te le the theory of Mr. Whitman, welsas of the Alderman, that if Foy charges are untrue, he did not make them:on his own initiative, They will} try-#9 @na out who inspired them. Al-) derman Curran, it is understood, ex- pects to be able to show he was not about the Criminal Courts Building the day Moye says he approached him there. Anether matter Mr. Whitman !s busy on to-day is who is responsibie for the continued absence of Thomas J. Dorian, went as valuable a witness against thespolice grafters in Harlem as Sipp. It ipereported that Mrs. Doi Ls thab@he has been reeciving her husband's weesly salary «ince he disappeared, though it ie understood Manager of the hotel expired on Jan. 1. Anether report is that she has been as- sured she will continue to receive the remains out of teen made by cortein persons to leave the impression tha? Dorian has been held in the back Ground by the District-Attorney until the,latter was ready to use him, Mr. Whgtman says he does not know where is, but that he uopes to find out, @n@ when he does he expects to learn to “disappear.” month ago wii a charge of to bribe a prospective wit- ness for the State, was released from the Tombs yes! y afternoon on & bead of 67.460 furnished by the Tilinols Gurety Company. Maier and Dubeller, 1t ig charged. gave Charies Muller, @ in West Fitty-eighth street, him 40 more to U that’ Mrs, Goode, the accuser of Patrol- mans John Skelly, had offered him money to substantiate her charges! pee Lo deh. ee WOMEN MUTINY - OVER AGREEMENT TO RESUME WORK | | | (Continued trom First Page.) clothes and tried Through the crowds came ten ab! bodied reserves from the Mercer street station, who fought thelr way to the contre of disturbance. POLICEMEN FORM A FLYING weoae. ‘The women clung to the policemen, grated them by the coats, by the arms, sent fying wedges in against them en round them, pulled and hauled them th mo gentle force and fought with them, Policeman Wedenkopf held on to hls struggling prisoner against the offerte to release her, but he was badly in want of ald by the time his brother policemen reached him. Qne man got himee}f into this tangle and he was ar- reated with two more of the women pickets, These were Umberta Leo and Myre, Gracie Grici, both living at No, ‘M2 East Forty-fourth street, The man was Harry Usiekin of No. 1807 Crotona renye in the Bronz, The police formed a hollow square arqund the prisoners and the women beat up against the rides of this like storm-tosied waves against a sulla wall. Astault ufier assault was made upon the police, but the latter succeeded in wetting their four prinoners to the Mer- cer street police station, All were sub- the Jefferson mn laden with front of the Bon, No, @ Immediately the report went out thet the mattresses the strike breakers in the stor sally was made for the wagon. surrounded the vehicle, and a dozen or more grabbed the horse. Others wwarmed up on the seat and dragued down the driver. Still other women at- tacked the wagon's car, POLICE BATTLE CROWD IN AR. RESTING WOMEN. While an army of women pounced on the mattresses @ detachment pounced on the unfortunate driver. They smashed | bie hat, tore his clothing and his hair, | 4 him, roiled | him and pounded hin, When he got to the outskirts of the crowd he looked lke he had spent & week ins! very bus: neo were | The police | were busy trying to rescue the driver, end the blueqwats came in for thei share of attention from the etrikers The leader of the assault on the driver appeared to be a girl of eighteen, who gave the name of Vivona Clamuno of | No. 34 Kast Houston street. She was! Arrested and the police had their hands full in getting her through the crowd Women swung umbrellas on the be, | of the police and fought them at step. Atina Coocha of No, 3” Kast street and dailie La Rose of | Kast Houston street also were! | went away for a rest | several that he no longer could give the | frehouse of No, MISSING MINISTER ISFOUND IN HOTEL. WITH WRIST CUT Clerk’s Tourniquet Saves Life of Rev. R. W. E. Merington of Essex Fells, N. J. |“DIDN’T TRY SUICIDE.” Declares He Awoke to Find of | Artery Slashed, Then Rang for Bellboy. ‘The Rev. ton, pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Bases Fetla, N. J, 4 presi. | Gent of the Board of Education of that village, 19 accused by the police of at- tempting to commit suicide by cut-| ting the arter in hie lett wrist at the Athena Hotel on Bast Forty-second tre: rly to-day, Hie life was saved by the prompt action of J, M. Torrey, the hotel clerk, who made a hasty tourn- fquet above the wound and summoned an ambulance to take the unconscious clergyman to Bellevue. Dr. Merington had been missing from his home at No. 103 Roseland avenue, Caldwell, N. J., since Thur morn- ‘ when he went away, telling his landlady that he would be beck In Lad evening. Members of his parish, grow-| ing alarmed at his unexplained and continued absence, had appealed to the) Police to assist them in Anding their jor and a general alarm was sent by the Caldwell police last night. When Mies Mai it Merington, a playwright and magasine writer, and author of the play “Captain Lettar- blair,” in which E. H. @othern starred, who lives at tl udents' Inn, No, West Fifty-elghth atreet, vielted brother in Bellevue Hospital, he swore to that he had not attempted suicide, and sald that he had no reeollection of what happened to him tered at the hotel yesterday mornin: “My brother has told me," said Miss Merington later, “that he does not know huw he came by the wound on hie wrist and that after noon yesterday his mem- ‘ory was a blank until he awoke early this morning in the hotel room and found himself almost too weak to move and with the bed sonked with his blood ‘Then he pushed the button for asalst- ance and fell back unconscious ‘He has not been well of la ry lose of mem- ory to that fact. He says that he haw no reason to take his life and that .ul- cide would be the last thought he would ‘The whole terrible incident Is a mystery to him as w to me. Despite the clergym: statement, he ty under technical arrest on the charge of attempted suicide. Broken glass and a pair of blood-stained shears were found In his reom, besides the razor. CLERK SAVES HIS LIFE WITH TOURNIQUET. A tall, distinguished jooking man who wore tho “clericale” of a man of the cloth registered at the Athens yester- day morning and was shown to room No. 417, He was not seen about the hotel for the rest of the day or last night. A few minutes al 6 o'clock this morning the indicator at the clerk's desk downstairs showed a call from room Ni 417, Torrey sent Geo Casopaulus, & bellboy, to answer the ‘The boy came running downstairs ex- citedly a few minutes later to say that the man in No. 417 had been murdered. Torrey rushed to the room and found the guest lying unconscious on the bed, as he had fallen after pushing the but- ton to summon assistance, Blood was pouring from @ deep cut in his left wrist and a razor lay by him on the bed. ‘Torrey twisted a towel above the wound, and when Dr. Waters of New York Hospital came with an ambulance he said that the clerk's quick action had doubtless saved the man's life, for he wae far gone from loss of blood, At Bellevue Hospital he revealed his iden- tty, but would make no further ment. ‘The police notified Dr. Merington's two Miss Merington and Mrs. George Ye Rogers, the wit physician who lives at No. 1 Wallace street, Newark, after the clergyman had regained con- sciousness and had whispered theif names. WAS MOST POPULAR MAN IN HIS COMMUNITY, Dr. Merington has pastor of St. Peter's Church in Kesex ella for twelve years and was the at popular man election to the some time ago Was Unanimous and rep- resented the min which his fellow fownemen held him, Members of his cong lon sald when they heard he was accused of at- tempted suicide that the affairs of the church were running smoothly and that no incident had arisen in Dr. Merington pastorate to cause him embarrassment. His congregation wae@ unit in bis eup-| port. Eighteen months ago his health began to fail, He labored along despite ner- Vouse trouble until last summer, when to him and he He remarked to @ purse was presented church all it was entitled to. He seemed to fee) this keenly, and his friends ouwht to cheer him up In van, The clergyman lives with the family of Mra, Oscar Simchan at No, 103 Row land avenue, in Caldwell, He | | bachelor. \tlon af Clearing House banks and trust companies fer ie week showe chat 1d 621,10 of legal yee crease of $6,965,00) ———— alta evant BA oO zo At DA’ | ! { Richard W. Ernest aering-| atement of the actual condi | 4Hk BVEN veecry" Fey PETITE | i es Oeoeesooescesoes teeeeees: Miss Shh ae Is a Friend of the Commissioner and She Wrote Him About “Lassie.” Ten thousand New York pollcemen a Searching for Lassie to-day. From Tottenville to farthest W chester village, fom Canarale to Wash- ington Heights, the cops are sleuthing—| mounted cops, probationers, strong | arms, plain pavement pounde: fixed posters, all with eyes peeled and) ears erect for sight or sound of @ ix: | old collie pup. ' “Yep, Commissioner's ordi General alarm went out from Headquarters last night for every man of the uniformed force to Lg ee ttle Miss Gladys Free- man's pup, Las To quote Bull Me- Carthy, the sailor sage of the depart- ment: ‘a a cinch i this yer purp’s above ground still 11 be found, jer that little Miss Freeman, who lives at No, 0 West One Hundre@ and Thirty-aixth street, wrote to Commissioner Waldo, This is the letter Ries came to Police Headquarters “Dear "har, Waldo: When you were! Fire Commissioner you were very kind! Then I lived at No, 107 West ter to visit all the fire houses and see the horses, LITTLE GLADYS 18 IN TROUBLE AGAIN. “Now, I'm in trouble again, I lost my little aollie puppy. I think she has been sto! I am sure you can help me and will, because you were so kind to me before. “She is almost six months old and is black and white. Her name is Lasale. I love her very much, “1 was excused from achool to-day, and 1 have hunted everywhere for her, but cannot find her. I have asked the policemen I could but they did not gee her, but will look out for her. I asked one right near hero, and he sald that about 6.40 o'clock this morning| he saw a man with # dog ike mine. | oMfcer'a number 844. | “I till go to Engine Company No. 1$ and still love to go. Please help me find my dog. 1 go to Public School | No, 186, Ican't hunt for her, #0 won't ‘ou please help me? 1 will thank you Bincereiy, “GLADYB FREEMAD It ts plain to be seen that Glady: | | considers Commiss! Waldo @ very, good friend of h And with soca | reason, tov; for a couple of years ago, | | when Waldo was Fire Commissioner, deep as when | her present distr | the ttle M One of her chiet delights was to run around from her home to the frehouse The and play with the horses there. | three big white fellows that pull | 18 engine would whinny their morning” every time Gladys ap: in the doorway, and no hay Was so sweet that it could not be ignored while the little girl was hands’ with her friends tn the sta) | GLADYS KNOWS COMMISSIONER WILL FIND HER PU | But because a child hurt in another firehous | Fire Chief Croker tesued an order rring all children from the houses, friends of No. 18 were barred | SSZOBODAD-V4 THANG A FVD EODORD4OO44444404- Girl Who Asks the Police to Find ? Pup and Her Drawing of Pet: 6097 H 156 yw t, and you gave mea let-|_ ing WORLD, atte eg BALUBDAY, JANUARY 18, 1v18, fo ae PESHAEE IES 10,000 Policemen Hunting For Pup on Waldo’s Orders, As a Fa Favor to a Little Girl from hi great gone, So she did then just what she did yes- terduy—sat down and wrote a letter to the Commissioner, And Waldo, knows all about the sorrows of little girls, even though his interest is some- times centred on the naughty deeds of bad cops, sat right down then and a letter which permitted Gladys to visit and her grief was almost as it is to-day with her Lassie “| the horses of Engine No. 18 or any other en Ine, Just as often as she pleased. ‘ow, Gladys knows that a Police Com- missioner is just as anxious to help her find her pup, Lassie, as the Fire Com- loner was to reunite her with ber friends, the horses, + MRS. BISHOP NAMES SOCIETY LEADER IN. SUIT FOR DIVORCE (Continued from Firet P lusions may have proceeded, and that for some reason she is not now cap- able of rational thought.” Neither Mr. Bishop nor Mr. Taft, his | counsel, would discuss thi in legal affairs brought about by Mri Bishop's amendment of the original complaint. Mr. Hishop sald that his lawyer would do all the talking necei sury and the lawyer thought none was necessary, QUARRELLED OVER ATTENTONS TO WOMEN, SHE SAY8, Tt develops that in the original com- plaint for a separation Mrs. Bishop set forth that for three years she and her husband had quarrelled violently ove his attentions to other women. Two months ago, according to her com- plaint, their quarrel reached an un- ‘able height and Mr. Bishop packed and moved to the Hotel Bishop has not seen It became known to-day that a atip- ulation will soon be entered into ve- tween counsel for the warring husband and wife for a settlement of $1,250 a month upon Mra. Bishop by her husband, This will obviate the usual action tor allmony and counsel fees pending the hearing of the divorce case, Mra, Bishop and her five daughters | are living at the Bishop town house, at No, 22 East S|xty-Afth street. ‘hank you for letting me know of | the action taken to-day in the cou but kindly do not press me to make statement,” sald Mr. Bishop to an Evening World reporter, "I have no comment to make upon the procedure taken by Mrs, Bishop. ‘A friend, speaking for Mr, Bishop, sald that every effort nad been made by Mr, Bishop aad ite five daughters to induce Mrs, Bishop to abandon her intention of bringing an action for divorce, ‘Their combined efforts, he sald, had been without suc xen wie toe s dodeeeseEMeses SIH HERE wno! = NEW CONFESSION BY A MEMBER OF | ~THE ARSON TRUST’ Smaart Indicted on Stern's) | Testimony, Gives New De- tails of Plot. | | FIREBUG STILL TALKING. ' Fire Marshals Round Up Many Persons for Whom Gang Started Fires. Abraiam Sehlichten of No. 34 Kai One Hundred and Tenth street, t! fourth member of the “Arson Trust’ to be arrested, made a confession to Assint- ant District-Attorney Weller late this afternoon, | Behitcten's confession ranks with that by “Inzy the Painter.” now a con- viet In Sing Sing, in wealth of detail of | the widespread activities of the firebugs and “independent adjusters working for the insurance compant He is wid to have confessed to fet in remiaes he was occupying as well as |to having “adjusted” the losses in ‘other fires engineered by members of | the firebuy ang. | SENT BACK TO TOMBS, BUT | WILL TESTIFY MONDAY, After making his confession Schitch- ter went back to\the Tombs to wait for) | his appearancé before the Grand Jury | jon Monday. | Schlichten was indicted yeaterday, Jointly with Robert J. Rubin, an “inde- pendent” adjuater, with offices at Ful- ton street and Broadway. Rubin was arrested last night. Both Rfbin and Schlichten were arraigned to-day and Schlichten will be arraigned again to-morrow in Harlem Court. The specific ca inst Rubin is that ie and Steln conspired Yo ha troy a lot of junk In Stein's No, 614 East One Hun- ‘Thirty-Afth street on Jan. Stein started the fire. aeinank at dred and 24, 1911, the lose and collected $410, taking $75 for himself and giving the balance to! Btein, to whom he owed money for starting other fir Stchlichten lived at No, 316 East One Hundred and Tenth street thirteen months ago and entered into an agree- ment with Stein to burn up his prop- erty, The stuf was Ingured in (he Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company. Stein started the fire and he and Schiichten divided $% witca they collected for the alleged to MORE PERSONS FOUND WHOSE PLATS WERE FIRED. Deputy Fire Marshals Wade and} Emerson were uslly engaged to-day In rounding up and taking to the District- Attorney's office persons who are said | by Stein to nave figured as the insured dn fires he started. These people are all |Ignorant and poor and they all came from Waruaw, the birthplace of Stein |and George Grutz, the broker, who ts |hetd under $35,000 ball, It in not the [intention of the District-Attorney to prosecute them, but they will be used) to corroborate Btein's remarkable con- fesnion and strengthen the case against the leaders in the conspiracy, The ignorant iminigrants were easily inced that arson pi @ profitable time in New York. poorer they were the more easily w they in. fluenced, | “Stein, although he has been telling his | story for three days, ts not yet through. His operations as a fireoug were s0/ | widespread that the Grand Jury may| he says he started, Concerning Stein's| confession -Asaiatant | Weller said to-day; RUBIN CANVAS8ED FOR FIRE, } Joss. | ‘“deldor Steln says Rubin canvass throughout the city from how 0 | house and arranged for different peo- | ple to have brokers in other parts of city, not known to the assured, | DIS TeA Mornay | | the furniture; then the Insured wa | told by Rubin that “lssy the Painter’ would make @ fire for him, or one |of the several other bug# would do it. | “Whereupon the Insured would go to Stein and make the ne ry arrange- | ments with regard to alibi, preparation @nd compensation. Stein says bs was told by Rubin not to mal ured delivered hi palsy of Rubin or to some friendly @o-between for security, and Stein | would not make the fire for the insured jubin tald him to go ahead, “Stein saya that he was told that un- lesa the Fire Marshal caught him by the hand while he was actually making | the fire’ he could never be convicted of arson, Then, too, the insured was ad- vised by the adjuster that if he hired @ man to make the fire and did not make Mt bimaslf, but had left the house at the me. he was not guilty of a “Then the adjuster would tel! the in- ured that the company had compiained to the, Fire Deparine it that the +4 he Mi the fire and found that it wae fire,” but not knowing wa: | bug. had lence to connect the jfre with the defendant. ‘Mnereattor | the insurance company adjuster, who | jalmays claims that he had examined | the fire, settles up the lose within three or four weeks after the fire on penalty | that if they don't accept the compromise he will hold up the money for the sixty: | jay period as prescribed under the terms, of the policy.” While Ixuy was appearing before the! jury Kalman Newmark, the adfunter| who was Indicted last week for filing a| false proof of toms, as Aa romult of the confessinn made by Sam Gold, was ar. rainged before Juatice Goft for pleading | Mis attorney filed a demurrer to the tne | dictment, and the pleading was jwat- | poned until Monday. He obtained the $4,000 ball under which he was he'd, and) was released | Btain continued yesterday to unfold to Aaalatant District-Attornay Weiler ators after story of his methods and jtaeda He has been able to pick out fire after fire and tell how it wae started an give the namep of those who prvfite j by tt bis story has been corrobo- rated, require weeks to investigate all the fires |; | with New York atrike | take out @ policy of fre insurance OD | tos STEAMER DRIVEN AGROUND; TWO SCHOONERS WRECKED. Southwest Gale Sinks One Off Virginia Coast—Crews Are Saved. NEWPORT NEWS, Va,. Jan, 18.—The coal steamer Evelyn, from Philadelphia West with coal for the navy, driven hard aground off rly to-day in @ southw | Hecker nad his crew were tal on off safely, ‘The schooner Gen. White, from Mobile, was driven aground, and an unknown schooner was sunk, Tue crew of the latter was rescued. ———_—— “BIG TI'S” KIN ASK COURT TO MANAGE HIS Ble PROPERTY (Continued from First: Page.) ssel Tim's condition {5 such that peraonal service of the petition or of any papers in the proceeding would gretly aggra- vate his malady and seriously jeopard- ize what chances of recovery he may e. The affidavit is attested by M. A. Fowler of Kings County, for Dr, Herrity, and by cicauee G, E. Hughes, netary for Dr. Prite! The personal properly of he gosto man Sullivan, which has alwaye be somewhat of a mystery to hi ‘riende, 1a dinclosed by the petitioners to con- Hist of Lertpersil) and corporation in- terenis in various theatrical egter- prises, and enterprises outside ' the theatrical lines. Following is a list of real tg owned by Sulll far Petitionerers know: 3. 365-969 Broome street; an equity In ‘the Bull Club building, at No. ® Bowery number of untinproved lots in the Dyckman tract at Two Hundred and Seventh street; n $10,000 equity in No, 40 West Seventy-fiftth street: real property at Fletcher aves nue and Cheater street, Mount Vernon: real property (incorporate?) on ‘Long Teland; real property at Throus’s Neck, . ¥., and real property at East Hill Btone, Somerset County, Now Joraey, WILL ARGUE THE PETITION ‘% MONDAY MORNING. The only relatives and next of kin are given by the brite lows: jaret Hicke mers, niece; Olive Charles 8. Summers, nephew; Timothy Summers. nephew. The Summerses live at No. 240 West Seventyfifth street, and are the chil- ed Hivan, & detective. Tt ts further, stated Sullivan directly the Income from only one piece of his property. the net amount of which {s only $4000 a year. Immediate steps are necessary, the petition states, looking to the conservation and pro- tection of the numerous business and other interests of Sullivan during his Incapacity. Tt ie further declared that for a long time past, Sullivan has been unfit and unable to attend properly to and man- age his property. ‘The petition will be argued before 8 preme Court Justice Hendrick In Part 1, Special Term of the duprem Court, Monday morning, at 10.30 o'clock, Notice of the argument was served on Dr, Bond, to-day, but It will not be neces- gary to have the Congressman in court, as the petitioners will be there prepared to present properly their relative's con- dition to the eourt. ——————— 40,000 GARMENT WORKERS IN CHICAGO TALK STRIKE. Charge Made That New York Manu- facturers Are Having Orders Filled in the West.* . CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—Forty thousand Chicago*garment workers may be call- e4 on to strike next week in sympathy because off of the United Garment Workers said to have discovered that Fastern manufacturers are sending orders here to be filled, The union men say that unl manufacture of such goods ts stop at once a general atrike will be ordered hops controlled by the em- association, word to that effert having been received from Thomas A. Rickert, President of the United Gar- ment Workers, who is in charge of the New York strike. Ald New York BALTIMORE, Jan, 18--Refusing to work on gocs which they said had been sont from New York because of tho ga ment workers’ strike, one hundred ej ployees of L. Grief & Bro. went on atrike to-day. Two girls were arrested and fined for interfering with other workers who had refused to quit. The Griet deny aiding metropolitan manufacturers. — PRESIDENT TAFT HERE. Attends Dinner of the Ohio Society ‘To-Night. President Taft, accompanied by Myre Taft and Secretary Hilles, reached New York over the Pennsylvania Hallroad at 3 o'clock this afternoon, ‘To-night he will attend a dinner of the Yhio Soclety and a dinner in honor of Andrew D, White, former President of Coonell University, He will speud Sun- day in the eity and on Monday will go to New Haven, returning to New York Monday night. ee cecatiemeese WILSON TAKES A “DAY OFF.” Jest Like Schoolboy, | He Ne urdays, Saye \dent-Elee: PRINCETON, N, J. Jan, 18—After apending the night in New York, Pre dent-elect Wilson returned to-day and planned to spend the day at home. “I'm just Ike a schoolvoy Ike to take Saturdays off.” Hoe had no engagementa for the day FOUND HANGING’ IN CAR OF FAST TRAIN FROM WEST. Carrying Picture of Woman, a Mand Kills Himself as Express Speeded to Port Jervis. (Special to The Evening Wor!) MIDDLETOWS r, dan, 18.—| When an Erie express train from the West reached Port Jervis early to-| day on its way to New York the con-| ductor discovered that a passenger had committed suicide in the washroom | of the car by hanging himself with his neckile. Tae body was removed from the train CROWD IN BATTLE, DESPITEPOLICE, AT SERVICE BOARD (Continued from First Page.) i ~ “T demand that you speak louder ug there.” “Come up front,” fortunately seated Up went the disgruntied one, inside the brass rail separating the commis- pag from hot polloi. He sat down in Chairman Willcox's chair and stayed Whitney got a grip on his collar and lifted him out. Whitney half dragged him down the hall and put him on the elevator with the direction that he be turned over to @ guard at the bottom of the shaft and put out of the building. C. HM. Van Slyck of No. %3 Gates ave- nue, Brooklyn, who wanted to prote: against B. R. T. plans, went into a pri- vate ante-room of the Commission when he Was blocked from the room where the hearing was in progress by the crowds—"B. R. T. employees,” he said they were. He got jnto trouble with at- taches and was ejected by the crowd surrounding him. Chairman Willcox presided and had considerable difficulty in getting things started, but at last a delegation in opposition to an elevated line on Ja- maica avenue got to the front. Henry C. Atwood of No, 121 Jamaica avenue, ‘Woodhaven, was the spokesman. He said he had a list of property owners representing $190,000 and that new of three other petitions representing nearly five millions in value, all opposed to the new line. said scme one more He paid his respects to the methods of | ¢, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in circulating cards on ‘ts cars as ballots on the question of bullding the road. Andrew Moors, George T. Furbell and others followed in #imilar manner. John H, Letea said: “1 want to pro- test in ‘behalf of the people in my section of Qu¢ons against this holding of hearings in the day time. We do not get $15,000 w year from the Btate, fore or not. We get $2.50 or $3 « and muat lose Jt to come to your pethes We would come here en manso from Woodhaven in the night time and tell you we never would and never will believe a word the B. R. T. utters, We are against any clevated road now oF an: Craig, who said be spoke interests on Rich- in favor of the maica avenue transportation, said: “There are a lot maica storekeepers here against ted rond, but they are alone.” “Who are you from?! came from th back of the hall. the B. R. T. ‘Throw him out! “Come up yere and throw me out!” HISSES GREET SPEAKER FOR NEW “L” LINE. » Robert W. Higble of the Chamber of wai principal tion In ‘avor of the Liberty avenue ed structure. ‘After the Jamaica avenue protestors gone, Charles H. Schroeder spoke In favor of the Jamaica avenuo road and| declared that only “vest pocket civil associations” were in opposition. H was hissed repeatedly but maintained his argument. Ex-Public Service Commissioner Ed- ward M, Bassett was called on by| Chairman Willcox, und led the argu-| mi for the crosstown line. He a | the are 2,000,000 people along i East River water front and that they m not be overlooked whil onven> jenc are being furnished f Man- hattan to points beyond the congested Brooklyn section. K. A. McDougal of the Queens Board a Trade spoke along the same linew. ugene N. Travis, former State * tor from the Bedford rection of Bro. Me lyn, said the line-up was that of hone owners against elevated roads and reai estate promoters. “These last gentry are willing to des! the Bedford ve>- tion to sell thelr I to those of us who are dri he sald. Senators © rawell, former ALA and Magistrate foliowed in the sanc strain. Borough President Connolly urged a| cromstown line, and sald there would be no decrease in values becaure of an elevated road, There were numerous interruptions of the Borough President, and Chatr- man Willcox said: “T will say to those peersons who were brought here to make a noise and are doing so that tf they don't cease T will have arrests mad | soloist at Grace Ghurch, and for twenty- GIANT SHAFER WON'T SIGN. Auto Business Too Good Ball—Usleest LOS ANGELES, Jan, 18,—Art Shafer, utility Inflelder the New York Nationals, mailed an unsigned contract to-day to Manager McGraw despite the {act that It conthined a substantial | raise ty salary, Shi to Play through’ his determination to quit Fred Snodgrass, tie outfielder, not received @ pnt a Metentt, A, Metcalf, for many has | trate Appleton. nt surface car! “You are lilred by | sald he believed | = five years one of the best known choir) fingers in the country, died yesterday | at the age of #xty from a cancer which | had confined bim in the New York Hos- | pital for eighteen mont! HELD WITHOUT BALs " FORBEATING CHILD « ONLY AYEAR OLD Court Orders bach ied Against Pasquale Poliarti Changed to Felonious Assault. Pasquale Pollart! of No. 417 Fast One Hupdred and Sixteenth street wan held to-day without bail in Harlem tear on a charge of felonious assault with intent to kill, The victim in the cano is a boy child a year old, whom Pollarti in accused of beating with a weapon. It is aleo charged that he bit the little one's face. “This is the most outrageous cane of cruelty to an infant that has ever. come to my official not id Magis- “I want the Children's Society to call me as a wit to the condition of the child when this man is brought up for tri Olga Cushin, mother of the. emié, waa persuaded to make the complaint against Poilarti, 8! wen to tell the name of the infant's father. For the last three months Pollart! and the woman “have lived at the Last One Hundred and Sixteenth street ad- dress, Neighbors sent word to the Chi-w drens’ Society yesterday that the infgnt was being abused and agents were sen: to make an Investigat They. took tle Ittle one and Pollart! and. the woman to the headquarters of the ao» cley. Dr. W, Travis Gibb examined the Uttle child and found on his boty. th'r- teen bruises ranging from half qn inch to an inch and a half in length. The teeth marks on the child's face wore plain. CHILD LEFT IN FLAT FOR HOURS AT A TIME, When first arrested the man and woman an wald the child was injured feiing out of bed. Inquiry among the netgh- - bors brought out that they were aq- customed to leave the infant alone iy the flat for hours at a time. When the two were arraigned to-day” Magistrate Appleton found that Children's Society’ agents had mad charge of sim, ag! the baby, directed that the charge be changed to felonious assault with Intent to kill. Olga Cushin, after some prea. sure had been applied, admitted that Foliartl struck the child every §me he es), the teeth marke on the aud asked the Court. He kinsed the baby,” baby. the little one erled while he was having - an argument with a mi bout #3. He, slapped the little one twice, he said. ,, The woman w brougt t to pee tha enormity of the offen the heh consented to appear as th before the Grand Jury. THe Moy Py sent to St. Mary's Hospital at raeeys 4 fourth street and Ninth avenue ¢or treatment. ‘ RESTAURANTS. 4 “The Show Place ef New York” Fiegh h calnaret alsine Seay S ie —— a Rog ert he ‘ eid BROADWAY at at sorhsT. COLUMBUS CIRCLE, ‘TEL. 6386 COL. There is no place like the. i Cafe Boulevard Second Avenue & Tenth Street Go there to-night and. you will go again * bas Phy AN? Plaga, Dinner Every Evening $1.00 Als» to Sette erties, a9 ROWTING.—On Jan. 14 1013, after 9 if Ferine Siiness. in hie Kelattves and firm off Sprague Electric Co. are invited to at. tend the funeral services on Monday eve- ning. * o'clock. Jan. 20, 1914, at bis date, 430 W. 40th o& inte: Tuesday 2 P @ at hie ) dan. at, of this company to the LOST ave st, and harvent aot licebha n ita Tewand if ret wey) Mariem Office, 240 125th Bt. and World's Brooklyn Office, 202 Washing- fon St. Brgokizn, for 30 aon lowing Drintiag of ortiooment, said the woman. — Poliart! admitted that he atruck the — He sald he was annoyed when * |