The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1913, Page 5

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GANT SPANKS - HOLDUP MANTL | Young Mr. Lawson Made Mis- take of His Life When He Tackled 250-Pounder. Policemen and spectators in Jefferson | Market Police Court were surprised to- day when Albert Lawson was arraigned on a charge of attempted highway rob- bery. Albert looked like a soda water hard night. of the observers increased accuser appeared. He is when Albert’ John McGovern, a private detective, and he weighs 20 pounds. [f Alert weighed 1% pounds he would be com- widered fat. “I was passing through Thirty-sixth atreet, between Broadway and Seventh avenue, about 3 o'clock this morning,” aid McGovern, “when this fellow stepped out of a doorway, stood in front of me, stuck his hand tus right hip Pocket and ordered to hold up my hands. His voice wasn't steady and I| noticed that, instead of drawing @ gun, | he kept his hand In Kis pocket, “Bo I reached over, slapped Kis thee, | caught hold of him and started in to spank him and send him on his way,/ when he in to yell and @ policeman ran up and arrested him.” Lawson said he was a bartender out of work and hungry. He denied at-| tempting robbery, expiaining he was about to ask McGovern for alms, when McGovern grabbed him, ries waar ati COE GAS SUICIDE UNIDENTIFIED. | Meney and Gold Watch on Man, Who Died in Roo: ‘s House. A well dressed, middle-aged man, with $91 in his pocket, was found dead, this morning, in w furnished room at) No, 27 East ‘Thirty-fourth street, He had committed suicide by inhaling {lk luminating gas through a tube attached to a gas jet. : , Mra, Mary O'Toole, who owns ‘the Yhouse, told the police the odor of gad/ attracted her attention to the man’s roam and she opened the door with a pase key. Dr. Ray of Kellevue Hospital, said the man had been dead several ‘nours. He rented the room yesterday afternoon, In addition to the money found in his} + Pocket, the man had a gold watch and charm, and in his pocket was found a recelt from an employment agency, made out to C. Hendricks, He also had a Key marked “Grand, ” but the hotel managem ‘the man. He was about six and weighed about 290 pounds. pliner ml 25 SLOW WITH ELECTORAL VOTE Messengers From Ten States Have Not Yet Reported. WASHINGTON, Jan, %.—Ten States may not have their vote for Presidential candidates counted when Congress oM- ‘ clally declares President Wilson elected feet tall, thetr official counts of votes for Presl= dential electors arrive here on Monday, The documents had not been delivered by the electoral messengers up to to- day. The law requires that they must be Gelivered to the President of the Senate both by mail and by messenger on or before the last Monday in Jan- wary. tt is reported that all of the messen- from the States named are on thelr , but some may arrive too late. The ten States who have not yet re- ported are: Artzona, nsas, Callfor- pia, Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippt, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington. a RATS SCARE THESE JURORS. ‘They Swarm Rooms and Banish P. (Special to The Evening World.) WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Jan %.— Jurors who were locked up in a murder case and who have been compelled to p cach night in Lugerne County's 000,000 court house, went to court to- and cmplained to Judge Fuller that rate swarmed thelr sleeping quarters, ‘The jurors declared that at night doz ‘ens of rodents, “as large as cats," run over the bed* and force the jurots to hide in fright under the bed clothes, All the men declared it impossible to sleep, and said the noise of the rate was hideous, ‘The Court ordered that traps be placed -——HECULS POLE, on Feb. 12, unless messengers bearing | mot STRIKERS ATTACK HOTEL | DURING RIOTOUS PARADE = ON WAY TO MASS MEET (Continued from First Page.) are employed in the McAlpin'’s main dining room. Referring to the clashe: with police, Miss Flynn sa! “Among the kers a foreigners. They recognize authority in the uniform of the patrolman, but when they see the ‘ who, apparently, | thority—they don't know what to think All disorder would stop if the ‘plain-clothes’ men were called off." TO “SHOW NGTH” AT BIG MAS6 MEETING. Three thousand, nine hundred votes Were cast in the strike ballot, eo Thi Evening World haa learned from an authoritative source, Twelve hundred who voted for the strike were already out of jobs. Those who voted against it or who did not vote at all have stuck by their positions, The leaders of the International Ho- tel Workers’ Union laugh at the hotel men's claims, and, pointing with pride to the “success” of yesterday's rioting, say they have just begun. rmit for holding of it esting Tk Unton Baeare-Wee arose: would be a show of strength there that Commissioner Waide, who was @ wit- Ness from his rooms in the Rits-Cariton ‘Chambers, next door to the hotel, of the @ttack upon the hotel last night, and who personally orderea the reserves from the Kast Fifty-fret street station, Prepared plans during the night to crush further demonatrations of typical 1. W. W. methods of labor warfare. Five hundred policemen reported early thie morning for strike duty, 900 at the West Thirtieth ptreet station and 200 at the West Forty-seventh street eta- ton. They carry nighteticks. THIRTY HOTELS ORIPPLED OR PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. The second day of the strike, con- ducted with marvellous swiftness, sees thirty hotels, large and small, restaur- ants and clubs crippled or entirely put Cut of business by the walk-out of che Walters, and im many instances entire en force. of the kiton or breakfast Rector’s, on Broadway, hasn't a c in front of the ranges. The Hotel Mc- Alpin has lost its entire dining room service, but is willing to take the men back on their own terms. Thirty-five waiters and cooks walked out from Guftanti’s restaurant, Seventh avenue and Twenty-seventh atreet, and of by arawing 3 17 on the eidewulk until they were chased away by the police. Oatmeal prepared last night and coffee made by iF cooks among the student waiters was all early break- tasters at Columbia commons were able to obtain this morning. The one chef who remained on the job when all the waiters and most of the kitchen help went out yesterday failed to show up this morning, and a dosen others of the kitchen help also’ joined the strik- e on duty about the com- as early as 3 A. M. Student waltera were not molested when they peared for work, but strike leaders on the ground declared they would carry thelr personal grievances to President Nicholas Murray Butler. They said a letter to him had been prepared and a request for a personal conference had been made. A captain of walters who remained on the job succeeded getting by the etrikers early to-day by entering Teach- —<——, HOW WAITERS’ STRIKE HAS CRIPPLED HOTELS | AND HE IS MAROONED TAX MAN'S TROUSERS. Hire a Burglar to Take His! Five Pairs, All He’s Got, to Keep Him Indoors. | AND RESTAURANTS. The following figures en the numtse of walters, cooks and the leading res- taurants, hotels and clubs since the strike was called on Thursday Right have teen collected by The Evening World. The numbers ia each instance are those given by the managers or proprietors of the places affected. if a ot) it til | i I ul oods S8888sse & ere’ College and making his way to the commons, more than a block distant, through the tunnel. During the night and morning strikers im ones, twos and threes were being brought into both the West Thirtleth and West Forty-seventh street stations. Magistrate Corrigan expressed him- self freely upon the riotous methods of the strikers when in the West Side Court to-day he imposed @ workhouse sentence of five days upon Emil Mazeilo of No, 20 Weat Thirty-sixth street, the rst of the strikers to be sentenced as @ penalty for rioting. Mazello was ar- reated with a plece of iron pipe in his hand during the flot in front of the Hotel Astor yesterday afternoon. “T would rather have one of your strike leaders who counsel violence be- fore me than you who simply obey or- ders,” said Corrigan. “I will send any of these people who violate the law to jail, no matter who they are. When strikes ocour here we rival some of the wild Western towns, and the general impression seems to prevail that the criminal law is set aside temporarily.” Corrigan warned the strikers’ lawyer | ta) . [that he convey to the si rike leaders sentiments he had just heard. Magistrate McQuade in Jefferson Market Court handed out stiff thirty- day sentences to-day to three striking waiters who were arrested during a demonstration in front of tho Waldor! Astoria last night. They were Louis List, of No. %6 Ely street, Long Island City, and Casper and Peter Gaini of No. 94 Wert Thirty-sixth street. They had been arrested by Policeman Adkins while trying to force their way into the employees’ entrance of the hotel. They Pleaded guilty. Merchants in the shopping district about and Thirty-third street protest to Mayor the attending tho strikers’ de in the Dusiness centre there. They say women are afraid to come to their stores and that their business ie suf- fering. State Chairm Ge e ALBANY, Jan. 3.—Gov, to-~lay that Georg: man of the Democ State Commit- tee, was among “ candidates" for appointment as Public Service Commis- sioner. The Governor declined to com- mit himeelf on the question of municipal ownership of the New York City sub- ways, saying it was a question upon which the peopic should pass. Buiter said M. Palmer, Chair- B. Altman & Co. will offer at Special Sale:on Monday, January 27th, 15,000 YARDS OF CHOICE DRESS SILKS in an assortment of the latest evening and street colors, at an interestingly low price. The following Special Sates will also take place on Monday: Women's Evening Dresses, Evening Slippers and Button Boots; Men's and Women's Silk Hosiery; Cotton Dress Fabrics and Imported Lace Curtains and Bedspreads. THE JANUARY SALES OF HOUSEHOLD LINENS, BLANKETS, ETC., WILL BE CONTINUED {HiNh Avenue, 34th end 35th Vtreets, Nem York. TRBENTON, N. J., Jan. %—Five pairs of trousers stand between the sovereign law of this State and a score of delin- quent taxpayers. HIS STATE'S PUBLIC MORAI.S GROWING BAD, SAYS TILLMAN Senator Replies to Charge He} Smirched South Carolina House ot Representatives, WASHINGTON, Jan, Btn a pared statement to-day Senator Tiliman replied to the resolution recently adopt- ed by the Houre of Representatives of the South Carolina Legislature of hia Stato calling upon him to produce @ dénce in support of his charges of & ruption tn that body, The Senator d& clared he had done nothing except write a letter last August Just before the State primaries in anewer to Gov. Bleate in which he charged that the General As- sembly had been influenced by the rat!« road attorneys, This, he asserts, was a mere warning and could not te con- strued as a reflection on any but the The trousers are the property of J. | hold-over State Senators, Edwin Fell of this city, lelinquent poll tax collector, They wi stolen from his room while he innocently slept by @ Professional burglar hired to do the trick by @ number of the city’s police-| ier, men, mm and other officials who have slow in settling their poll tazes and whose back trail had been persistently camped upon by the vigi- lant Fell. Remembering that the geese saved Rome, these delinquents trust to “The people of South Carolina,’ sald the Senator, “will retire any man they have selected for office when they be- come to believe that he te corrupt or corruptible. At least that is my be- T have boasted in my lectures in the North that there ts not enough money in Wall street to buy South Carolina, and I believed it to be true, I still belleve it to be true. But public once morals in the State have rapidly grown bad in the last ten years, and I am coming to doubt whether by boast the stolen trousers to save themselves, | would now be mode and sustained, We for they confidently expect the legisla~ | will see the tomper of the general as- ture next week to pass a law abolishing! sembly by its action in prifying and the poll tax and exempting all in arrears) protecting the primary. Tt has the from the settlement of their debts to|opportunity tu lift the State out of he the State. will save themselves the embarrassment If they can only keep Fell/Slough of despond trouseriess until the law is passed they|Which It now wallow 1. disgrace in —vuamestiipehahiny ef having to dig into their own gar-/CONVICTED PROMOTER SUED. ments to make good. Now, in recent times this Collector| wes. Anna H. Marks Seeke 97,700.19 Fell has deen anticipating the passage of just this sort of legislation abolishing his source of livelihood, Since he gets a commission on all. collections of 4 From Joha A. Qualey. (Mra. Anna H. Marks brought suit In in-| the Supreme Court, to-day, to recover quent poll tax assessments his en-| $7,700.19 from John A. Qualey, the thustasm in the pursuit of the shameless; promoter who was found guilty, in the tax dodgers grew each day. The fact} criminal branch of the Supreme C rt, that he is armed with the power to| yesterday, of having ewindied the late arrest persistent dodgers made him a| Mrs. William T. Bull out of $35,000, dangerous man. Firemen and policemen were his particular prey. ———— mem ammmnmna nema Tie THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918. ‘DELINQUENTS STEAL rf Qualey was served with the summons in Mre, Marks's sult in the Criminal A quiet meeting of Fell's victims was| Courts Butiding, on Jan, 2%. The com- held @ few days ago and the desperate! plaint in detail of Mrs Marka’s sult resolve to keep the tax collector a pris-| hax not been drawn as yet oner through polite means was decided upon. One of the city detectives with a wide acquaintance among second story workers went to a burglar just out of State's prison after serving a three-year | Alt. term, and by the methods of argument familiar to the police persuaded him to psi thea hal KING OF SPAIN TO TAFT. 0 Cab! His Thanks for thday Congratula: PORK AND BEANS! SANG, eG aru, Decrease. In @ statement given out at the Board of Education to-duy, containing the statinticn of graduation in the public jools in all boroughs for the school term ending this month, 2,00 puplis are shown to have graduated in the city out of @ total registered of 21,365, or 98.9 por cent. This is two-tenths of one per cent. leas than the graduation in January, M3, when 18,987 out of 2,18 pupils araduated, and three-tenths of one per cent. lea than in June, 1912, when 2,102 pupite out of 21,32 passed: the required examinations. Of the total of 29,00 graduations, 7,861 were in Manhattan, %3 per cen! or 92.7 per cent. in the Bronx 94.4 per cent. in Brooklyn: 1,60, or 93.3 Der cent. In Queens, and 44, or 4.4 per cent. in Richmond, NOW HE'S IN BELLEVUE Long-Haired Warbler Wrote! Monogram on Canned Com- bination, He Tells Police. ‘The sudden apparition of a tall and poetic looking young man with lone brown hair, sky-blue trousera and a frock coat, at the corner of One Hun- dred and Fifteenth street and Ameter dam avenue this afternoon caused Po- liceman Simma, on the beat, to notice the new arrival. In a low, ohortling voice the young man was singing: “Pork and beans, pork and beans: All day long and in my dreams.” ‘With this he produced from the flow- ing akirte of his coat a ean of the ar- ticles in question and seating himeelf on the curb proceeded to open the can. ‘Wave some?’ he asked, as Simms came up. “Sit down and share my royal ipa WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT. Husband Finds Wife Near Death After Ilness. ‘White her husband was gone for medi cine to-day Mrs, Margaret Schmidt, twenty-nine years old, of No, 433 Kast Sixteenth atreet, attempted suicide by slashing her throat with @ razor. Her husband, returning, found her and led Policeman @mith, who made come | Presser, stopping the flow of blood, | while Dr, Ende of Bellevue was being ¢ yout” asked the patrolman. ‘hor of amonograph on pork and beans,” was tne reply. “I am writing an essay on the subject. It has been given out as @ thesis at Columbia College.” “Are you a student there?’ asked the Iman, ‘Yes; but pork and beans ts tne only thing on the curriculum I care to} study,” was the rejoinder. A his point a visit to the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street police atation sugested. A crowd gath- ered and followed the lyricist af pork and beans, On being searched it was found hin clothing bore the tailor's label pf a downtown firm and the name 8. C, Bhill, No, 106 East Thirty-first stret. His cuff links also bore the initials #. C. 8. In a pocketbook were found the addresses of Senator Clark, Mra. Caroline Webster Astor a ry @. Sullivan, No, 8 West Thirty-eighth street. As the young man with the flowing locks refused to reply to any questions fave mentioning his favorite topic, he wen removed to Bellevue for examina- tion Into his mental condition, ——— KILLED WOMAN. AND SELF. hospital, where there is a slight chance for her recovery. Mrs. Schmidt, following the birth of a baby girl on Jan. 12, has been in a de-| Urium for several days. health. all times; a eer CUTICU on Aw prevent and t to roars ae eczemas, telephoned for, She was rushed to the Ness and roughness incidental te cold weather. Sess | eet H “Watch Yourself!” It is the prime duty of everyone to maintain the highest possible standard of Therefore, be on your guard at ) | RA SOAP ee ere ee chapped enter Fell'’s rooms and accomplish the| WASHINGTON, Jan. %.—President wateh the appetite, Bee teH OF il Mis eter, ‘Taft to-day received the following] Rich Jackson: a was turned with and denpatch on Thursday night. Wee | cablesram from King Alfonso o* Spain. rel With Pin watch the digestion all of the Fell trousers are hanging In a| to whom yesterday he sent congratula-| s,oicgoNVILAUm, FA. Jan. %.—< 9 to his rooms, Neatly pressed, in a tailoring es-| tions on his birthday: ishment whose location is kept a secret by the con: A boy a, - ‘could not possi! tolen by tl = tim of ‘thie outzage—carries his: meals reciprocate to you and to the American “Please accept the expression of my deepest gratitude for your kind greet- ings and good wishes, which I warmly ‘ators. rt trousere—which | years old, and then tragedy { People.” after the two had are slight. For near! hosiery an 650; In the lot are some seconds of underwear and mill run of silk stockings, but these are plainly marked with a yellow ticket and are sold for what they are. The faults, however, make it better and more comfortable. Manufacturers have called us cranks when we were not satisfied with what they made; they said we tried to do too much; but the following season we always found our im- provements adopted all along the line. It is only stating a fact, recognized by all good manufacturers, that our persistence in Women's Stockings—15,764 Pairs , were tic and BSc. 5c w pair, were 0c to 75e, Subway floor, Old Building. SOc a pair, were 95¢ to $1.25, 23.50 pair, mill run of 85 grade. 5.00 a pair, originally $25 and ust 6 pairs, Main floor, Old Building, Children's Stockings—2,997 Pairs 10¢ a palr, were [Re to 500, Subway floor, Old Building. Men's Half Hose—-5,807 Pairs 100 a pair, were Ihc and the, Subway floor, Old Building. for MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN BUT NONE WILL BE SOLD TO DEALERS. AND ALL IS WANAMAKER STANDARD. and hosiery what it is tod: Long, a wealthy wholesale Uquor merchant, to-day shot and killed Miss Sue Dickenson, of Wilmington, Del., 33 killed himself. took place in Long's office quarrelied. Monday, January 27th, Is the Day! |= The Great Wanamaker Annual Winter Sale Hosiery and Underwear The one time of the year we clear our shelves of all odds and ends, odd sizes, broken lots and discontinued lines. 24,568 Pairs of Hose—18,261 Pieces of Underwear $25,682.68 worth taken from our regular stocks and reduced to...........++.++ $12,992.96 8,887.00 worth of glove silk underwear (samples and seconds up to our standard of quality) to be sold for........ AAROAnG TR Connnancrnn FRAG 4,609.00 $34,069.63 for the grand total which will be sold for. .. $17,601.96 An actual saving to our customers of..... seeeeeeees 916,467.67 Those who know these sales from other years will be at the store when the door opens at af 9 lass because quantities are limited in some instances and some lots will be sold out in a few hours. translating into this merchandise the needs and desires of our customers has done more than anything else to make knit underwear ‘as superior to that of twenty-five years ago as the electric half a century we have studied light is superior to the candle. underwear, always secking to maker hosie: thousands o! experience. his sale is the opportuni Men's Half Hose—(Continued) #5c a pair, were 35c and 50c, S5c a pair, 3 paire for $1.00; were 65 50e a pai Women's $8.51 65. Children's Underw were 81.00 and 61.56, it 21 pairs. New Building. Women's Underwear—11,260 Pcs, 12!5¢ each, were &5e, f5e cach, were 500, ch, were 75¢ to #185, Subway floor, Old Building 81.00 each, were 81.50 to 82.25. $1.50 each, were 82.25 to 63.50, #2.50 each, were 89,50 to 85.00, $1.50 eacl JOHN WANAMAKER Formerly A, ‘I’, Stewart & Co, Broadway 4th Ave., 8th to 10th Sts, This leadership is bound to make Wana- d underwear distinctive, as people have found through for other thousands to know, for perhaps the first time, the advantages of Wanamaker Merchandise. But be alert—our regular customers will take it all unless you come early Monday! Underwear<-(Centinued) 91.50 1» pair, mill run of 1Be each, were £5¢ to 60c. 61.35 to 88.00, ae Re h, were Bc to G0e, | were originally 97 i Burlington Arcade floor, Bbc cach, were 0c to SI. Subway floor, Old Building. 50¢ each, were 80c to 61.50, Main floor, Old Building. Men's Underwear—4,451 Pieces. Abe each, were O5c to T5c. 50¢ each, were Obc to $1.25, Subway floor, Old Huilding. 81.00 each, were 81.50 to $8.50, ‘ere 83.00 to $4.00, ington Arcade floor, New Building. All Kinde of Underwear in the Sale--Winter, Medium and Summer Weights; All Kinds of Hosiery—Silk, Cotton and Lisle Thread, But All Wanamaker Standard! watch the action of the liver and bowels. Any disturbance of these functions | indi- cates weakness and means trouble if not attended to promptly. Get a bottle of HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters ™ It assists digestion—keeps the bowels regular, prevents disorders and promotes better jie | at once. liver act malarial health. ey SUNDAY WORLD for 1913 and 1914 anniversaries, dates CALENDAR of historical events and table of memorable dates, and , much other matter that you'll need at all times, WORLD ALMANAC | SEE 1915 ' "Now on Sale * i

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