The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1913, Page 1

pine vhable to-uisht or Saturdays Colder. PRICE ONE CENT. Coors 1913, | 4 Circulation Books Open to All,” | 7 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY a Co. (The New York World). 000 STRIKING WAITERS AT KNICKERBOCKER A ‘The Prese Publishing mat ein NS TRANSIT MONOPOLY SEEKS TO JAM SUBWAY CONTRACTS ALL THROUGH BY THURSDAY eport of the Plan Follows Confer- ence at City Hall Between Gay- nor, Francis Lynde Stetson and Morgan J. O’Brien. Francis Lynde Stetson, counsel for J. P. Morgan & Co., accompanied ‘by former Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, who in the early subway con- ferences represented the Pennsylvania Railroad, were in conference to-day with Mayor Gaynor at the City Hall. It was learned that subway con- tracis were under discussion. After these two visitors left City Hall, Comptroller Prendergast Was requested to go to the Mayor's office. He did so within five minutes. Afier he had been with the Mayor a few moments Borough President MecAneny was asked into the conference and a little laier Corporation Counsel Watsop also arrived. Mr. Watson's approval of the contracts is necessary under the law. The visitors remained with the Mayor for about half an hour. After their departure It was persistently reported around City Hall, in spite of official statements that no special efforts were being put forth to rush the subway contracts through before Vel. 1, every attempt is actually being m to Jam the whole deal through by that date.--Indeed, it was stated that the matter many be arranged by next Thursday. snquestionable Tt was learned upon authority that there was no truth story pudilehed in a Brooklyn newspaper se eter THREE MORE AVIATORS Rf Seca cote) DASHED TO DEATH IN AEROPLANE WREEKS Comptroller , changed. He made Up his mind wo, it is sald, that the municipallty was able to finance !ts part in the subway ‘eal, Wt was ascertained that another #ubd- Way conference is to be held to-night) at the home of Chairman William. | : Willeox of Public Service omnis: | gion at No. 11 Bast Forty-fith street. , fe Besides members of the Commission and| Nieuport and His Mechanic of the Board of Estimate, attor a for the Intervorough and the B. Killed in France and Bo- be present. Mayor Gaynor wax to attend, bat he sad he didn aay Seen he would, explaining that he did not land in Trinidad. Heve hin Was necemmacs BY Phe vg World points ove ren Joner subway ract, which! ETAMPES, France. Jan. M~Two deals wi BR Commiisatouer | French airmen were killed near here Milo R. Maitoie, whe es in letting to-day while making a flight In » monoe AE Puss MiLOw WAAL le wolng: a | plane, Charles Nieuport and his mee now celind closed doors, said to-d Chanih ware fivlle: Ee consiieratin The conferrees have nearly faished | nergnt when their machine doubled up the discussion of the proposed changes) and fett to earth, killing both of them fn the B. R. T. contract, and they are instantly. many and of considerable importance. Tne important ones are as follows |. The provision authorizing the amortisation of the cost of cer- tain property which is NOT to re- vert to the city to be eliminated. { @ The supervision of the Com- mission to be extended to Charles Nieuport received his pilot's certificate on Feb. 19 last year. Edouard Nieuport, a brother, who in- vented the machine tn which Charles Nieuport was riding, was killed in an accident a year ago, PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan, 4.— Frank Boland, said to be an American aviator, was killed last evening while flying hei After accomplishing nu- merous successful filghta in Venesuela he had arranged to give an exhibition to-morrow. “3, Pive cent fare to Coney Inl- to take effect when the city’s Unes to Coney Island are ocom- pleted, instead of Jan. 1, 1917, or some later date. LIMIT PUT ON THE TERMS OF THE CONRACT. “4, The term of operating con- . He and flew for landing place When he had reached to about half a mile from the tent erected to shelter | tracts to be limited to three or five fii. machine his biplane, which was fly- i’, youve instead of unlimited, as in jis Tew, suddenly dived and struck the the contract. ground with terrifle force, The ma- “6. Company’ Fights | chine wax smashed and the aviator was iy over the city's Um- | found dead beneath it. ited in oase of recapture, instead of - F unlimited as provided im the con- Roland, who was kt “es He and his brother The smount to be paid for i Hols went aviation raromente in Gravouend avenne eee seg agra ana, alld’ In Oe isban h exmincd before the contra: Viol, thes exhibited at Mineola a biplane ‘o signed thelr own tion wh th tracts for op jon of claimed, steagied iteclf almust aute - reeng lines to ke approved the | wally Bubway contracts aro | MMiavlied to the inachine fare and : 1 led a « 01 of the ofty over the ee aie me aes 10 ah expenditures to ve |) 4 2 the | hened. | centre f catehes "9, Adequate provision to be {ihe w the bout from turn- made for depreciation on the com- | ing over pany's propert; Boland had no Meense from the Aero ” Club of erica, e wa mber ae Pic enelhes te See. 2088 of the Royal Aero Club of England, pata alae the city’s inte: ford perry pr Last Two Days of Big Sale. A curious feature of the discussion of #100 813 Biase Ororconia & Frat. the “Jokers” in the Interborough as " Clothing comer, Broad well as the B, R, T. contracts ts that Buliaing Gielay Gt, opp, Wealworth when the members of the Transit Com-| sell to-day and Raturday the béiance mittee of the Board of Estimate and| of their $10 & $12 Men's Winter Suits and Overcoats, black thibet, fang: browns and dark mixed worsted; Open Bat'day night til) 10.—Adwi ia Continued on Last Page.) SRT AE A MR ATG NN TIO Ai RO ee 24, 1913. 22 PA ‘DAVISON DENIES 180 MEN CONTROL BILLIONS ASTRUST Presents Statement Refuting Charge of Absolute Power Through Directories. OFFICE BOYS HER STEAL AMILUONI POSTAGE STANPS Government Officials Say} Firms Buy Back What Al- ready Belonged to Them. IS NOT ACTUAL CASH.|BROKERS FACE INQUIRY. | Money, He Insists, Is Tied Up! Many Said to Buy Loot Taken in Properties and Not Avail- | From Country Post-Oftices able for Control. Without Question. | WASHINGTON, Jan, 24,—To refute} the contention that a group of 150) | men in the world of finance, throug Interlocking directorates, control cor- poration assets aggregating $26,000,- 000,000 Henry P. Davison, partner of J. Plerpont Morgan, to-day offered to the House Money Trust Inv Committee a long prepared calculated to controvert Certain men of the money district | who pride themselves on business ra | eacity are wondering to-day how ever fooled themselves tito bellev they Knew anything about scientific management. By the score they dis- covered that ever since they can re- member having an office boy they have | been selling themselves postage stamps they already owned (a mercantile feat involving @ precisely 100 per cent. ) All this and a few other things has been revealed in the expose by @ squad of Post-OMce inspectors of stamp brokering, as carried on here and in other parts of the country. Following two arrests in Wall etreat yesterday afternoon the Post OMece au- tharities began working on other caxow with increased vigor, and to-day In spector Frank W. Sinith of Washing- ton, who is in chai of the investiga- ey | statintic: prepared by the committee's account- ante and put into the record for the) Purpose of showing sucih a condition. Mr. Davison offered his statement at the conclustén of hia testimony and the committee decided tu deliberate whether to admit ft. Mr. Davison thereupon gave out copies, although earlier in the day he and Thomas W. Lamont, another part- | ner of P, Morgan-@ (o., had de- clared they had no statement to give out. The document reviews the in- ferences drawn from the committeo's tables and aays in purt: ton, declared @ stream of indictments No such control exists and nosuch|@"d arrests here and elsewhere will} deduction can be properly made from! come within a week. He asserted that these tables, Those Who have made/ one of the most gigantic frauda in the such deductions have fallen into sev-| history of the department has been u' 1 obvious errors, covered, involving the lows to the go They fail to observe, first, that of/ernment and individuals of millions the total number of directorates inj annually, these partibular corporations this]. 6ome months ago ‘group’ represents only about one-| broker, (eatifying at quarter; second, that, upon this as-! suburban postmaster who was charged & postage stamp the triai of a BROA ATTACK TWO i ) ASTOR DOORS | orld, | “ Circulation Books Open to Ail.’’ | Poot Se eee POLICE — > IN EDITION. CE ONE OENT. GES PRI WAY GF ODDIDDD-6-94-00-8 15 8 44OO DOGS Oe ed O DEES Society Leader Co-respondent : Will Answer the Charges: » ° ped FEES RETESET IE -84 ee weroETS. | i © « | sumption, these men in order to exer-| with selling stamps in New York to jelse ‘contro!’ must act. and vote in| swell his office's receipts and thus gan | every Instance as @ unit, although they | him Increased ry, adinitted he did a | that this sum of $25,000,000,000 } fi fw not actial vash or Nquid ceptible of manipulation or misuse by | the directors, the fact of course being | that the great buik of this enormous sum is, and for many years has been, tied up in the form of rights of way, rails, ties, equipment, factories, plants, tools, manufactured goods and other forms of corporate property necessary for carrying on railroud and industrial business in this country. NO MONEY TRUST, EITHER IN ‘ORM OR FACT. ‘It is most regrettable and harmful that elther Congress or the country at large should gain the wholly erroneous impression that these great resources Are at the disposition of of men, or with corporations themselves are controlled by «# minority of their various board accumulation of money and credits in New York ts due in part to purely economle conditions and in part to the defects of our banking sys- tem, If this country possessed a proper and scientific banking system, such as| 1s possessed by almost every other civ- MMzed nation, Interior banks would no | longer be obliged to concentrate their | ‘reserves’ in New York, | In this connee- | tion it {s important to note that, ac- | cording to authoritative statistics, the country us a Whole has been growing so rapidly that, whi New | Yo ty banks represen per cent the banking resources of the United s 18.0 now they of eueh “As to the consolidation and co-op- eration of banking institutions, which n noted in Mew York, amd tu degree in Chicago and other | centres, this has taxen piace chiefly since 1907, In that year the! country was swept by # disastrous panic which in Mew York and else- where (under our weak banking 9; tom) wae stayed only by the united ef- forts of the banks, driven thereto in order to preserve themselves and to avert wid “An additional factor tending to- ward consolidation into larger finan: | clal units lies in the rapidly tnereas- | ing demands of this country for de-| (Continued on Last Page.) eu, present only | | f Pema ent MM 0 alte a WP oe ae ith to inves tigate. Smith had not proceeded far | before he uncovered the trail of an a- | Jess chain of postage staimp “fences,” | or brokers, He asked for ald and with | five other inspectors ran down clu that proved the existence of wholesale unlawful trafficking in stamps. BUY BOYS' STEALINGS AT BIG DISCOUNT. The most important thing uncov. ered was that in addition to buying stolen stamps from Post-Ofice thiev these brokers have no scruples over obtaining, at a tremendous discount, postage stamps pilfered by office boys. In many caset he declared, the brokers become veritable threatening tho boys who hay in their clutches with exposure unle: they bring in increased quantities of the stolen goods, The result is, a serts Smith, that a million dollars’ amps are stolen by office ly in New York, not a small percentage being in turn sold back to the rightful owners by the fume boys, suppoxedly having been bought at the Post-omei The direct result of Smith's inveatiga- tion is that prosecutions for receiving stolen property are being worked up against thirty-seven New York brokers and the Inspectors declare they have evidenve to convict, They way the inves- tigation has proven that the brukers | have nu hesitancy In buying stamps they know have come fram the vlows safes of country postmasters. Ty one ane a nulorious yee, @ stool pikeon for the Government gold $800 worth of atin 1 dealer witht stone's thiow of the general postoffice | even after admitting to the broker that] they were part of a haul over in, Jersey." | Another important revelation is the relation of the business of tiese brokers to the comparatively small sale o stamps at the local post-oflices. The de- | partment’s report for last August showed that during that month the Chicago post-office sold $50,000 worth more stamps than New York, where upon the entire Windy Clty crowed de- | lightedly over this proof of superiority The discrepancy, say the authorities, is more than explained by the egal! traffic in postage stamps that is been! going on bere for yeara . | come from different parts of the couns| brokerage business ‘of alt a inition | Lae hy a . . RY ; Jtry and represent diverse and fre-|dullars a year, Thin man has « 6 by| 3 Fae 3 quently confileting interests; third, | !2 office in the heart of the Wall street | 2 Mrs.JOHN TEMPLE 4 * that, won this assumption, the direc. | ‘etri Postmaster General Frank H.| ¢ GWATHMEY. A é }tors outside of this ‘groap’ must be, Hitehrock knew that the amount of | eo . ee ce ire eer rcs oo ‘dumm with uo votce or opine | Stamps stolen all through the country | ————— . thd fon of their own, woo, in almost every | @UTINg the year does not amount to the | \ renee saenceed | netance, are overruled by @ ininority; | total o! »perations and | MRS. GWATHMEY HARCOURT SCORES WILL FIGHT WIFE'S . VOTES FOR WOMEN CHARGESINCOURT, — AS BAD WEAPON Will Testify Denial of |Acts of Suffragettes Prove, He Allegations Against Says, They Would Misuse Banker Bishop. | Power If Given Them. That Mrs. Lella Gaines Gwathmey, the young society matron who ts in the inner shrine of exclusive New York and Newport fashion, proposes to bitterly LONDON, Jan. %.—The critical ati was reached this afternoon In the forty- five years strugsle to obtain votew for women, which was started in the House contest Mrs. Abigail! HH. Bishop's |of Commons by John Stuart MUll, the charges in the latter's suit for a di-| great British economist, tn 1867. vorce from her husvand, James Cun-| Alfred Lyttelton immediately after ningham Bishop, the banker, was in. dicated to-day, Her counsel filed tn th: County Clerk's office @ notice of ap- pearance in the action. Mra. Gwathmey ‘question time" moved the amendment ‘standing in the name of Sir Edwar ey, the Foreign Secretary, to elimina: the word “tale” from the franchine r has engaged the law firm of O'Gorman, |furm bill and thus open the way to t Battle & Marshall, of whicn United extension of the parliamentary vote to States Senator O'Gorman is head | women mover's arguments were da6 dostee |W viniliar Mnes, He urged that the ghd crore f recent legislation was to require y suclety leader's senautional w on tet alled Into the uosels of wilegations and declared Mrs, Hishop|ine nation. They had, he said, alrend delusions and: i alled to aaist tn numerous depart nal thought." | ments » named as co- | 8 Harcourt, Secretary of State f¢ respondent has the right a ens tee cn Ga froin the plainti « cog je montis ago dy the dn the sult and suffragettes to bur OWn los anceste trial and crows examine witnesses. In home at Nuneham Park, Oxford, made many cases in which the d bitter assault n iis ¢ agkues in the defaulted entirely the co-respondent has! caiinet. sir Kdward Grey and David |ppeared und contested «he action. | Leloyd-ctoorge, and on the whole project, The day tie complaint was served in| yf. waid the County Clerk's office Mrs, Gwath AM tion cp visteacs de an il mey referred reportera to her hus. the type of menta! balance band’s lawyer, David 3 xpect from women {f they get th mation. Mr. Miller de ¥ met the the case, but tntimated Re roe reas nn mee swer would be made to Mra, Biethop's! on the apeech of Lewis Harcourt waa varges. So far the position of Mr, | as follows athmey as to the charges m, | “His antipathy to the Grey amend- against his wife by Mrs. Rishon has’ ment euggesta that he has been recen not developed. He As steadfastly ly spanked or has never got over fused to e8y @ word i indignity of being born of roca” ap P| precipitated ‘RIOTERS | OTELS | -——__—_—_- <4. Striking Waiters Battle With Mis- | siles Against Police Clubs in At- { tempt to Rush the Astor and Drag Out Loyal Help. |KNICKERBOCKER STORMED BY 800 UNDER RED FLAG. Walk Out at Martin’s and Rector’s Complete—Sherry’s and Other Restaurants Badly Crippled. The worst riot of the waiters’ strike occurred at 4.15 o'clock (his afternoon, when about 2 strikers attempted to storm the kitchens of the Hotel Astor amd drive out the cooks and walters, who had refused to strike. The invacing force ran into a guard of private detectives, armed with clubs, and a pitched battle followed. Policemen ran from all directions and soon a dozen of them were in the thick of the fray. Many men were knocked down, several arrests twere made and Longacre Square was, for fifteen minutes, jammed with | excited people and stalled automobiles and street cars, | ‘The attack an ihe Hotel Astor waa] fought back the forem jashe y & Frene cook who got] with thelr stoke, smEttnscns up in a meeting at Bryant Hall and] Police reserves charmed on the esene made an impassioned addi In hin] Just at the moment that geome of the strikers began to urm themeelves with stones from a gravel wagon they hed ° stopped. The police charged the mod and used thetr clubs without mercy, @s- belling {t after fifteen minutes hard work, Many of the exclusive restaurants | patronized by society and the night Joy seekers have been seriously crippled, if not put out of business altogether, ‘by the sweeping strike edict. Loule Mar- Nore asaeinbled on the | 90'S restaurant, at Forty-second atreet ‘The procession moved {#24 Hrowdway, lost 1% of ite walters turned wemt|#hortly ‘before the noon hour; forty sees urtycfourth street, — awarmed ; Walters and ‘bus boys deserted @herry’s Nat Tangacre quate and congre- | dningrooms at Forty-fourth street and wren ouaide the Astor's servants en- | Fifth avenue; the Hotel Rector has been Fees at tie extreme rear of the build. {Went tnto embarrassment by the de- ling on the Forty-fourth street side and | Parture of more than 30 of te em- «| » sald he had walked used to follow He implored ix comrades to fol- Astor and drag out the ever corresponds to out, but others had | him, ow him to th “nenbn''--or wh “scabs in French, BUILDING MATERIAL SUPPLIEO | MISSILES FOR RIOTERS. | @houting and waving his urms, the cook left the hall. About 10 excited and Swine followed him, | | native tongue, Me Frenehmen Others wh | street Joined in. [rapidly up Sixth avenu Taterial | Ployees, sof butld ‘right next to pl a new theatre For a few moments, the strikers cons Jack's restaurant, Churehili' ‘len Beaux Arts at Forteth street and Sixth av kel's Chop House € ltented themmetves with yelling impres 4 jue, Hi Jention» in foreign t ‘Thon sume | 4nd Brown's Chop Houre all have been of them made # rush for the servants’ | left more or less crippled. sutrance. ‘The private detective on! STRIKE ON AT HOTEL® AND wielding clubs, rushed to the scene. The sound of the whistle also attrwcted poe licemep. Of course, more or leas in- nocent bystanders rushed from Broad- way into Fourty-fourth street and soon that thoroughfare, for half a block west of Longacre square, was packed with struggling men, ‘The detectives and policemen wasted no time in gentle persuasive tactics, out tied right in with thetr clubs, How many were knocked down will not be known until casualties were counted up. One man tn @ fur coat, who wasn't mixed up in the riot at ell, but just hap- pened to be passing through the street, wan knocked cold by @ blow from a club and dragged Into a basement across the atreet from the hotel. Three men appar- ently unconscious were pulled into the servants’ quarters in the Astor Hooting crowds followed the police- men who led prisoners to the West Forty-seventh atrect station. MOB WITH RED FLAGS ATTACKS KNICKERBOCKER DOORS, The riot at the Hotel Astor was preceded by one @t the Knickerbocker { jess violence but which looked for an if big trouble was about to A band of down Broadway behind red ond with many wearing bits of rat ribbon in thelr buttennoles, and, ifler giving Louis Martin's restaur 4 hoot in passing, the disordered mob turned east into Forty-second street and halted before the main entrance of Knie Curses dozen languages were hurled at the hotd and its guests, and | tu a minute the sidewalk was cleared of jall but the strikers and the half dozen | husky guards whom James B. Regan | had kept stationed in front of the doors all day. Regan ordered both entrances on Forty-second street and the entrance to the cafe on Broadway closed and |barred, and he appeared on the side walk, fearlessty facing the strikers, ‘The chorus of curses and screams swelled louder at the alight of the pro- prietor and a concerted rush was mate toward him and the barred doors, But the dig guards gurmunded Regan and guard blew tia whiatle and burly guards, | ) or 800 strikers) ot | REACHES COLUMBIA STUDENTS. Aside from Rect: by discharging his whole cece nar Toye Oe rectly, the general st:'se order of last night, the Hot z E é 3 g g é etreet have been made ae eral 6 the International ‘Work- ers’ Union, In thelr wid om: paign the organisers did peyic’ over- look the student commons at Columbia University. In one demonstration the strikers made a flat failure. At the time, shortly before noon, when the waiters were walking out of Sherry’s, strike managers were acro: the street at Delmonico's, trying to force a walk- out there. They were unsuccessful, not one man quit his place in the pop- ular caravansary. ‘The effect of the strike made itself quickly felt upon the ultimate sufferers, the public, At Rector’s, where not a walter or cook was left in the clean sweep, luncheon was served with ex treme diMculty, a few raw strive breakers trying to attend to (he wants guests, At the Motel Caditla ‘k-out of 1 walters and kiteken male the luncheon hour one ot i of the the wa uld close is doors ‘before he granted the unton demands, GUARD AT HOTEL ASTOR WHIPS STRIKE SCOUT. ‘Two arrests were made early this a’ ternoon. At the employees’ door of the Hotel Astor Patrick MoCarthy, a guard nired by the hotel, was arrested after he had broken the nose of Flavio Mag- nani, who was trying to get into the kitchen to call out the help, Magnani went to the Polyclinic Hospital, William Sennell, o striking waiter of No, 823 West Forty-seventh atreet, was locked up on @ charge of disorderly conduct when he refused to move from