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THIS 13 THE TALE OF YOUNG THING & GAY WHO USED TO DANCE OH ANY OLD TH SHE ING as WHALEY'S CLIMB. FROM MILL BOY T0 BOSS OF RALROAD New Operating Vice-President of New Haven Worked as Brakeman. SOLVED BIG PROBLEMS. Became Nut Cracker of Trans- portation Problems and Built Grand Central Station. It was constant attention to detail, the injection of the personal element to his relations with the army of men inder him and the rigid enforcement of & strict discipline, seasoned with judi ment, that made possible the rise of Adelbert I. Whaley—the newly elected Operating Vice-President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rall- voed—from mill-boy to his present post- tio. ‘Theme qualities, mingled wit a ca- pacity for hard work that makes him a veritable human storage battery of energy, are responsible for his success, He told the story of his life to an Eve- niag World reporter to-day in his office! overlooking the vast yarde of the New, York Central station, which he pra valy created tn record time. Mr, Whaley {a pleasant faced and about Mfty years old, but he looks younger, A pair of keen gray eyes snap vigorously behind plain, unrimmed wlarses, and he has the firm, well-round. ed@ chin of @ leader of men, In talking to-day he empha: 4 his points by rats ing his hand to drive them home. Every- thing he does ja done at high voltage. TALKS AS HE RECEIVES CON. GRATULATIONS. He gave out his views on the reasons for his success and his rules for picki men for advancement while receiving the telephoned congratulations, issuing thuttitudinous orders and shaking hands with callers, He ts plainly but well dressed—always in dark colors. On his left hand sparkle heavy gold ring set with three large diamonds. ‘This ts the only conspicuous bit of jewelry he wears. When he was nine yeare old, in the little manufacturing town of Coventry, Rhode Island, young Whaley had to go to work in a linoleum mill to help sup- port his family. The work didn't suit im and he began to look about for an ocoupation in which he could take an terest, For it ie interest in his work that @ young man must have to get head in it, he thint He had always been fond of playing| } round railroad yards, #0, after trying several mont! to get Position, he was finally put at work as a brakeman im the old Worcester oui Providence Railrgad, He was tien sixteen and he wet to work with the grim pertinacity characteristic of him to see about @etting to the next step up the ladder, His first job was on a freight, but in time he was put oh the crow of passenger train and soon made himself stand out by doing his work with all the polite to his passe: and cheer. ful attention to his duty that he could. “That fellow Whaley; began to be spoken of. HIS EARLY CLIMB UP THE LONG LADDER, In 1891 he ascended several runy the ladder he had set himself to climb, ¥rom baggage min he ran the scale of Promotion to yardmascer. Then came the time when his faculty for organtza- tion began to come into play, He solved several difficult problems in eftictenc in a skilful way and when the timo came he was chosen for the superin- tendency of wiiat had then become the Worcester Division of the Consolidated, In the mean time he had devoted ton to the study of electrical handling traffic, He becam convinced that electricity was to be the motive power of the railroads of the future. An opportunity to put his ideas etice came when the Providence, MAN WHO HAS CHARGE OF TRANSPORTATION OF NEW HAVEN ROAD. the great edifice knows, SAYS EVERY MAN 18 IN NEED OF CO-OPERATION. “No man ie big enough to get along without the co-operation of every man under him, from lowest to the sec- end in command,” hi i to-day, as he looked ovft at the busy ant hill beneath his office windowa, For months, in overalls and rough boots, he had threaded his way about down shere amidst a labyrinth of cranes, rattling derricks, puffing donkey engines and pulsing drills. He knew almost every man on the § name, and every man knew that th aking its way about he knew it that man was doing. “In handling m aid Mr, Wha! he great essen’ is discipline. must be rigid, constant and unfailing, Tt doesn't do to re One must be up to the same standard all the time, A 600d executive, to my mind, is one who knows every man under him and watches him constantly, In railroad work especially this vigilance must never be let up. A moment of laxne! may lead to complete disorgant: ‘Mind you, I don't mean by 00d executive must be a el far from it. If T have occasion to di cipline a man under me IT want him to tell me the exact truth about the fault ¢ Is on the carpet for. I hate a liar, and no organization can be kept together where such men are allowed to remain on the job. KEYNOTE TO SUCCES6 IN PROB- LEMS OF RAILROADING. that Whaley built the vast problems of modern railroad- ing. We must have organization, com- plete and efficient. in obtaining this 1s, clplin honts in form. Any mi faculty of exercising dacipline. as I said, teat aiMeulty big enterprises have to contend with to-day,” he went on, “is the lack of in- terest that many young men show In thelr work. They don't clean it up. ‘Their minds are not engrossed in It They are with Tom, Dick or Kate when they ergy on the task in hand, Theatres few, shows, dinners, pi to fill out the evening—engrosses thelr minds all day, and then by staying out late they are not up to full efficien the following morning, To su day a young man age stamp and stick to what he ney. The spirit of “good enoug) Kept back many a young man too m\ of a hurry to stay right by his job. He has one ey and the other on his w NOT WATCH THE CLOCK, “In picking men I always wateh the That e to chap hime nthe road jasy It's what you he road ta money isn't good m« jig for that puts you | #8 and keeps you th 4 Warren and Bristol Line of his division to be electrified, an unusual under- in record time. Then came more advancement. When « tough problem was to be handled they sent for Whale: He becane a nut cracker of tri tlon and organi: workmen and bosse He handled the! “To my mind that is the keynote of the success of any one who has to tackle The primary factor ‘This is what kept Napoleon's one most important element in his hat heads of thinking of keeping a date ought to have their entire mental en- moving-piecture ‘tles—anything that Ls red to- ust be like a post- put on till he reaches the end of his jour- has He ts in the clock KEEPS EVE ON THOSE WHO DO uing fellow who jan't Ina hurry to dig ut of the offlee the minute the whistle of college men TELLS HOW HE PAID $75 | TO FIREBUG FOR BLAZE a | | Newsstand Proprietor Got | $750 Insurance After Being “Let In” on Fire. Hugo Neretin, @ mild-mannered young man, was denounced as a member of the “arson trust’ by Assistant District- Attorney Foilette in the Harlem Police Court to-day. Neretin, who resides at No. 18% Madison avenue, had just been arraigned before Magistrate Campbell on a short aMdavit charging him arson. “I'm going to ask the Court to ‘ix the highest bail poasible for this man,” announced Mr. Follette. “He has made @ confession, I understand, to Assistant District-Attorney Woller, and we want to keep him where we can put our hands on him,” Neretin was.arrested late last night by Detectives Carmody and Skelly of the East Sixty-seventh stree: police station, on complaint of Aesistant lire Marshall John McGough. He is charged ‘with having set fire to the premises Nos. 433-48 Lenox avenue on April ya retin conducted @ stationery and candy atore at that address, Magistrate Campbell held the prisoner | for examination next Tuesday in egal bond. Nerotin's confession details that he was the proprietor of a newsstand at No, 433 Lennox avenue, in Apri 1912, His store was next to @ paint shop. |The paint shop proprietor told him he had arranged with “Iazy" Stein make a fire, and asked if Neretin didn’: want to in on the game. An arrangement was made by which |m hole was to be cut in the partition between the paint shop and the news stand, “Izzy” Stein started @ fire in the paint shop on April 9, 1912, The fire burned out the paint shop, and Neretin collected $750 for water and smoke dam- age, made pussible by the hole in the wall. He gave “izzy Stein §7% for arting the fire, he say: pO ee CASHIER, $82,000 SHORT, IS STILL AT LARGE; INQUIRY ON Books of High Bridge National hank Being Examined Before Taking Steps Against Abram Beavers, Any action that may de takken in the case of Abram L, Beavers, the default- r of the First National Bank Bridge, N. J., who has confessed to embesslement of about $82,000, but whose abstraction of bonds to cover his margin may run the total up much will lie over until Monday. States Bank Examiner A. L. Fowler and men under him are ana- lyaing the bank's affairs, They will take some days to do that and then the report will be made to Washington, There was some expectation last night that Beavers might elect to aur- render himeelf, but United States Com- pissioner Richard Stockkton at New- ark said to-day no arrangement had been made with him, and that if Bea- Vers surrendered he would commit him to jail, if any complaint was made. No Warrant for an arrest has as ye! obtained from Mr. Stockton. Depu United States Marshal Beckman at Newark said he had not yet been asked to look for Beave: elect Wilson will be the guest of honor 4t @ reception and smoker to be given here for him the night af March 3 by the Princeton Alumni Association of Washingto: accepted The President-elect has invitation, poet <2 | STOCK MARKET CLOSE. iuest, lowest and last the net changes 48 ng pices, rrka wees ‘ot |k and then said: || (te Welw 14 j to the common | bails, a Naaivilie sohool and left it mighty early, and Tye | Moats \ often felt since that If T could have Wad | Sorhern tealte g more edu of the college variety tt | Penney ania might ha nh & good thing. But { would be ry to have had the col: ating 1) Hock Taland T ad ®\lege education plus the training in life H) by being put out in the world to fight 14 al an early am d work we ad want practical men lows who are 1 1 . Just out of are ely the | gs 8 reverse. They have not the | a g erything that hampers jas pul up to him to How skillfully he dealt with se\ery New Yorker who bas seen seriousness of life power, energy, which can oniy With Maving to solve the problems of ex iatence tor wh They lack driving | come be a -| BEST FOR COLDS--FR. JOHN'S Medicine beals (hrent and lungs, --Aért, NEW ARSON PRISONER | USED TO RIDE IN 1@ R€D CAR A woman clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington made #0 by piecing together bits torn from bills. ducted from jary due. Father Wottys, a priest at Nassau, N. & baby fund and will give a dollar to every Polish baby born in the city. “Cream puffs” are specifically named to the naval cadets, at Annapolis. James Mack is to get $15,000 from his he hasn't taken a drink in two years, where he was sent for fighting in @ saloon, Forced to vacate, the rich congrega Chureh in St. Louis has raised a fund to set it up on a new site, muel Insull, his family, guests and post-office esta Roast bear was the feature of a dinner by the alumni to President Hutchins of Michigan University at the Hotel Astor, Uncut diamonds worth several thousands of dolla rags shipped from New York to a paper mill at Cornwall, Ont, There's to be a grand tnaugural ball Wilson League has planned it for March Peter Mattingly climbed @ tree for News Odditics Now 8) He'll get a three days’ hed officially at Hawthorne, 111. dog jumped on his gun and discharged !t. The load of shot “peppered” another hunter forty yards away and he may dle, | Sa -F LLL TT A te THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918 UNTIL SHE STOPPED WITH A_TERRISLE JAR. THIS 1S THE “DOC” HER FRAGMENTS FITTING NOW SHE SPENDS HER TIME IN THE CAME OF yi) e KNITTING: ‘s been “fired” and the $4 de- H., bas put his vacation money into in the order forbidding confectionery aunt estate when he can bring proof tart in the Tombs, tion of the Lindell! Avenue Methodist move their bullding stone by stone and servants are the sole patrons of a new were found In a bale of in Washington after all. 6. The Negro a ‘coon at Washington, Ind., and his Harry Nyegaard, a prisoner about to } jal The District-Attorney forbade It because hospitai, EXCURSIONISTS VICTIMS IN WRECK OF TROLLEY One Member of Lockport Order of Eagles Killed and Score In- jured in Collision. LOCKPORT, N. Y., Jan, %5.—One man wi killed and over @ score were in- jured, two probably fatally, in @ colll- sion between a trolley pastenger train and a freight train on the International Railway here early to-day. The dead man is James Mack, motorman on the passenger trolley train, The injured are all members of the Lockport aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, who were returning from Buffalo, where they at- tended entertainment given by the Buffalo rie last night. There were elghty passengers on the train, ‘The freight train was standing on the main line about half a mile south of the International's station, when the passen- ger trolley of two cars crashed into tt. ‘The forward car of the passenger train and the r car of the freight were completely wrecked. According to the conductor of the freight train, Joseph Crogan, a switchman was sent 300 feet back of his train to flag the passenger trolley. Crogan says he waved his lantern until the cars we him and had to jump to He estimated the speed of the trolley at thirty miles an hour, —-—— APPRAISALS OF ESTATES. Reporte Transmitted by De: re to Tax Office. i Deputy State Comptroller Wallace 8. taser received the following apprais- of estates under the Inheritance ‘Tax law to-day for transmission to th ‘Transfer Tax Office of the Surrogate's Court: » Mary A, Bodell, died Aux. 26, 1910, total estate $3,561, net value $2,673, Martha Stats, died June 1912, total estate $27,680, net value $26,274, lea C. Kaufmann, died Aug, 31, 191 groms estate $21,595, net value $20,27 Dr. Alfred Wagner of No. 890 Gen- tral Park West, a dentist, died May 28, 1912, total estate $6, no deductions claimed. William C, Hackstaff of (Morristown, J., died Dec. 12, 1911, entire per- * extate $88,737; no deductions claimed. —_———<—_--—. CHARLESTON ENTRIES. Jan, %.—The are as fol- CHARLESTON, 8, entries for Monday's rac Tw Carburei 112; Bulgarian, i Mg Join Hatcher,” 11 Pies 'reserver, Hatcher, ‘Tennessee aiid upward; 104 Lachiel, fireen, to, 1; Husky Tos; Merry iad Maier WACe Three: yea olds and upward; re, $300; sling; oeren Roseburg 1V "eGoloniel” C00 ‘7; Riau 113) Wi Field, 113. Former Head of Georgetown Uni- David Hillhouse Buel, former head of! Georgetown nUlversity, through F. H.! jnenting the Balkan allies, the Society.” ;| might erect a big stand opposite the eave the hospital at Babylon, L. I., for offered to give skin for a grafting operation to save the life of a woman. of the expense of keeping him In the BUEL NO LONGER A JESUIT WHEN HE MARRIED, HE SAYS versity Denies Report That He Hadn't Resigned. Emphatic denial that he had falled to withdraw from the Jesuit Society be- fore his marriage to Miss Katherine Frances Powers was ma; to-day by Rogers of Cambridge, Mass, a cla mate of Mr. Buel's at Yale. | Mr. Buel declares that he was in good | standing and that no charges had been| preferred against him when on July 12, 1912, he resigned by serving “proper no- tlee to that effect on the superiors of Mr. Buel insists that the reasons for his resignation were proper and were well known to President Casson of Bos- ton College, Judge Murray, E. J. Ken- nedy of Boston and “the family the name of whose members has been con- that of the writer in the| 4 for and unnecessary criticism of the writer given to report- | ers by the Jesuit Gasson of Boston,” | continues Mr. Buel, “and of the Jesuit Duarte, vice-president of Georgetown University, is so unusual @ departure from the Jesuit methods of secrecy and concealment in such matters as to sug- @est they have been prompted by some personal reaso He then cites various causes of men who withdrew from the society and whu EARTHQUAKE ADDS TOEXITENENTIN CONSTANTINOPLE Severe Shock Rocks Buildin;;s While City Is Upset by Political Upheaval. RULE OF TERROR THERE. Capital Reported in State of Siege Under Young Turks— Many Arrests. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 25.—A se vere earthquake shook many of the dences in the Turkish an early hour this morning. } siderable damage and no loss of life had been reported up to noon. The auperstitious among the Moslems were terrified by the earthquake, taking {t as @ bad omen for the nation now under the rule of the Young Turis. Mahmoud Shefket Pasha, the new Grand Vizler, is expected to give some indication of the attitude of the Otto- man Government toward the note hand- ed to the late government by the Am- bassadors of the European powers on Jan. 17 at his reception of the members of the diplomatic corps at the Grand Vizterate this afternoon. LONDON, Jan, %.—Constantinople is practically in a state of siege and terror reigns supre: , according to reports re- ceived by the peace delegates, repre- From the anme source it is reported that Young Turks, fearing that the reins of power may again escape from their are arresting their adversaries Turkish capital right and loft and ere searching houses and clubs and confiscating documents, hoping In this way to break up the organization of the opposition. The allies express the opinion that were never publicly criticised. Mr. Buel is now engaged in writing short stories and plays, sud eS SUFFRAGISTS WIN POINT OVER INAUGURAL BOARD. Given Permission to Erect Review- ing Stand for Washington Pa- rade on March 3, WASINGTON, Jan, 25.—The Ameri- can Woman Suffrage Association scored a victory over the local inaugural com- mittee to-day at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Buildings and Grounds, The committee determined to grant the women the right to build a reviewing stand opposite the Treas- ury for the suffrage parade March 3, unless the inaugural committee will consent to the use of the stands being built for the review of the inaugural parade March 4, Thus far the inaugural committee has declined to permit the women to make use of any of the official stands on the day before the inauguration. Notwith- standing the opposition of the inaugu- s the Senate gave the the assurance that they York, Gene Carr. with envy. bank notes. Advice about marrying by a Picture of and story about “Seven Rare Venuses.” States, now owned by The obstacles that obstruct IN COLORS ON the | “What to Omit at a Banquet,” by Cl c A thrilling detective story by Arthur Trai Words and music of “In Sunny Spain,” a Sam Bernard song hit. AND ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE METROPOLITAN SECTION YOU WILL FIND A COUPON GOOD, AT ANY WORLD OFFICE, FOR THREE FAMOUS PICTURES PRINTED FINE QUALITY PAPER, RIGHT AND READY FOR FRAMING. Tell Your Newsdealer To-day to Save You a Copy of SUNDAY WYRLD TO-MORROW under these circumstances any excess may be expected, With this prospect in view the Euro- pean powers have decided to send war i vessels to reinforce the ordinary guard ships stationed at Constantinople. Italy 18 especially alarmed over the return to power of the Young Turks, who were inexorable during the Libyan United Constantinople, States Ambassador at Wiliam W. Rockhill, during the negotiations attempted by ‘im in conjunction with Thomas J. O'Brien, United States Ambassador at Rome, for the conclusion of peace be- tween Italy and Turkey, described Djavid Bey, who was then Turkish Min- Jor of Finance, and is now at the head of the Committee of Union and Prog- reas, as an irreconcilable. Djavid Bey declared that Turkey would fight in Tripoli while she still possessed a single soldier. The position of the five thousand Itai- fan residents of Turkey is now regarded as so precarious that Italy has de- spatched to Constantinople the cruisers San Marco and Pisa an dthe gunboat Archimed: of land- ing five hundred bluejackets, At same time the Ital Admiral h dered the Italle juadron no! tioned at the islands of Stampalta and | Rhodes in the Grectan Archipelago, to | hold itself in readiness while the re- to within easy call In case of neces ality. WASHINGTON, Jan. %5.—Ambassador Rockhill at Constantinople reports the Turkish capita! quiet, despite the inci- dent which resulted in the overthrow of the Cabinet and ths killing of Nazim Pasha. He says the new Government has given assurances that all necessary measures have been taken to guarantee the safety of persons and property. He adds that there ix reason to believe Parliament is likely to be convened at an early date, and that the resumption of hostilities will not necessarily result from the coup d'etat. hens SULTAN DEPOSED REPORT IN LONDON LONDON, Jan. %3.—Monammed V., Sultan of Turkey, has abdicated and the Ottoman Republic has been proclaimed by the Committee of Union and Progre: under the leadersh!p of Enver Bey cording to a special and unconfir: patch to-day from Bucharest. Advices from Vienna positively dented that the Sultan had abdicated, ———____ 319 Kast One Hundred and Eighth street was in- stantly killed in the new subway exe: vation at Lexington avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-first street to- day. A shoring beam which he was lift- ing with several other workmen slipped and fell, knocking him down and crush. ing ‘his chest. Reasons for Reading Sunday World To-Morrow: In the Metropolitan Section You Will Find: First Trip of the Sociological Survey, Personally conducted by Roy L. McCardell; a remark- able discovery made in Hanover Square. Police Chief Kohler of Cleveland—“The Golden Rule Chief’—makes a night of ii in New My! What things he sees! The mystery solved—where YOUR wife spends: HER Lots of laughable loony-tricks written by the Metropolitan Section readers themselves. In To-Morrow’s “Funnyside:”’ ‘These three Funniest Funnies—“Nip,py,” by Payn; “Hubby,” by Steinigans; “Buddy,” by IN “FUN,” the Big Weekly Joke Book: Funny pictures by a dozen funny puzzles of a dozen different kinds and jokes that would make a king's jester turn green In the Magazine Section: “Miss U. S. A,” the New York girl whose picture will be featured on Uncle Sam's new New York girl who became the wife New York’s first Stadium, “Great Money Auction,” the one place in all the world where millions are sold in a minute, right here in New York. First picture of a group of statuettes, the most valuable in the Uni a New Yorker. “The $200,000 Prescription,” a short story by Charles Somerville. the faeape of jail-breakers in the Tombs. The girl who travelled on a warship, auncey M. Depew. The “Confessions afternoons and what she does. 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