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SHONTS SAYS “JOKERS” MUST GO BAC The f “ Circulation Books Open to All,” lL 191%, by The Press ve Pobliohion New York World), NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY $1, nce ern Een Wee Waldo Ordered Vice Raids Stopped, Hayes Swears Colder; Saterday Clearing. Ks L EDITION. Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 1913. 22 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. andi ae Hayes Tells Aldermen of Or- der to Endorse Papers “Un- able to Get Evidence.” CHASED ONLY GAMBLERS Witness sioner Forbade Raid Ordered by Deputy McKay. Swears Commis- Former Inspector Cornelius Hayes, dismissed by Commissioner Waldo for making a false statement, made the sensational charge before the Aldermanic Pollce investigating Committee this afternoon that the Commissioner instructed bim in pbout disorderly houses to lead- Quarters with the notation “Unable to get evidenc In other words, Hayes charged that he was specift- cally ordered by the Police Commte-| sioner to fail to get evidence against Gisorderly houses. After getting these orders, Hayes said, he did not attempt to close any disorderly houses in the upper Tenderloin dis- trict, of which he was in charge. “You swear the Commlasioner toll you to ignore complaints about disor- erly houses? asked Mr, Buckner, sounsel to the comm 4 the witness, p under oath, repi N\Y8 WALDO DIRECTED FULL ENERGIES AT GAMBLERS. At the beginning of his testimony, Hayes cald he was dismissed from the Pollve Department on an issue of vere Daty between atmxelf and the Com- missioner, He told of taking walks ‘ough his district with the Commts- Soner, who was, he sald, very anxious, y, to close up every gambiNg y, but he sald very lite rderly houses. Hays sald, they walked past Jdorato, described as a resort for disreputable women, Hayes sald he sacked the Commivsioner what he should do about the torado. They are better inside than on the street.’ the Commissioner is alleged (0 have said, ‘so long as outward di Is observed? “IT asked the Commissioner about et conditions, 1 wid Mm my iteen plain clothes men and officers eep track of strect one day eis! were not enough to k conditie ‘Let them alone, said the Commis- . tbut 1f you see women accostiny from windows or doorways they men must be suppressed,’ Hayes said he got complaints from Father Daly of the Paulist Church and Father Delaney of the Forty-ninth wireet church about disorderly flat houses, among them the Marlborough, where Mary Goode lived, Raids were made on these complaints, I was later criticised for plac continued Hay T was found fault with, The Com called aie and told me he had information from lewpsaper that the raids were the purposes of grafting. e bared on complaints and a rabbi, the Commissione ding these issioner a made for toll him they w de by two pr futre,” contin’ on. We JOY RIDER GOES TO TO PRISON. WRANTON, No ds Jan, 81.—Jonathan Buouse, who while out riding on Jan, 1H, ran an automobile into a telegraph pole and injured sIx persons, one thild, Mary Totten, seven Js not yet out of the hospital, day sentenced to State prison term of from two to six ¥ Ntrouse Was sentenced three years for driving Woile futoxieated and from one to thre years for driving the car without con- sent of the owner, the sentences to run e um told Second Pay ears old, who was tor for a on sweat 5 FIREMEN ‘VOTE To STRIKE, sy RACU ISB, N.Y. Jun, 31.—The 100 | fiveren of the New York Central em- ployed at the Dewitt yards here voted to a man in favor of a strike, accord- ing to report late this afte iy geld similar im was Watertown, taken at February, 1912, to return complaints; WALDO'S “LET i ALONE” MADE VICE RESORTS IMMUNE, ERED INSPECTOR TEST FES ‘FORMER INSPECTOR | WHO TESTIFIES WALDO STOPPED VICE HUNT. “BACK TO WORK,” WAITERS’ SLOGAN, STRIKE 15 OVER} Walkout Is Officially Called Off at Final Strike Meet- ing of Committee ‘The walters’ this afternoon at Bryant Hal Hotel W strike was declared off held members of the ‘The announce. ment that the which has lasted two weeks and marked hrowls and violence, Was ended was r ceived quietly, Almost In si who had heard the announced the executive committee left the hall, There were a few groans and hoots from various parts of the hall, as the announcement was made, but for the most part, the men looked pleased that the days of strife and doubt were over, In the fortnight it has existed, the walters’ strike has seriously hampered after @ ny the Union meeting rkers’ strike has been by almost every hotel and restaurant New York City. Windows been broken, men attacked and much dls- order on the of the strikers marked their demonstrations. Now will begin for old jovs and a rush for But many of the old waiters will find their plac filled and new jobs will be hard to get, for the Hotel Keepers’ Association doe not look with favor on the body of the striker after the window-smasilig sodes and rioting that ovcurred in s of the city’s hostelrles Carlos Tresea and Patrick Quin two I, W. W. men who have be ducting the strike, were told before the | meeting that “back to work" was to be the slo Tresca, whose bond was surrendered (his afternoon in an assault case against him for annoying working waiters, t to the Jefferson Market Poltce Court and gave himself up, He was placed in a cell. “I's all off," d red one of the com. mittee to an Evening World reporter “By to-morrow every man who can got a job will have one.” — Bilssard in the West, DULUTH, Jan, 31-—A bilgeard, gen Jeral over the lron ranges and North. | western Wisconsin and Minnesota, j started just night and continued to- day With unabated fury, ‘The tempera ture was close to #ero and a@ thirty. fivemile north wind was accompanied by fine, hard sonw. Indications are that the storm will grow in intensity. VAULT FAGIN USED. TO STORE HIS LOOT GIVES UP $15,000 Was Owned by Joseph Vogel, ‘Who Was Slain in Battle With Detectives. VICTIM HAS IT OPENED. Court Appoints Her Execxutor of Thief’s Estate and She Finds Gems. Strange relics of a thief and mur- derer’s life were revealed today when a box In the safety vaults of the German Safe Deposlt Company, at No. 198 Broad- way, was unsealed on a court order and thousands of dollars’ worth of the plun- der stolen by Joseph Vogel was brought forth, Vogel was the Fagin who, with his wife, Lottie, was killed by the revolvers of detectives in the Kllsmere Hotel at One Hurdred and Sixty-first street and Courtlandt avenue, the Bronx, on the night of Nov. 18 He died fighting desperately, and before he breathed his last he had shot and killed Detective tohn Allen, severely wounded Detec- tives Martin Fay and Luigt, as well as the hotel proprietor and a waiter. ‘The battle hid put wn end to the ca- seer of @ desperate criminal. Revela tions of his Hfe which were uncovered after he had been shot to death in the hotel room covered his years of activ- ity in teaching servant girls to steal for him, HARD WORK TO TRACE VOGEL’S ALADDIN'S CAVE. The discovery of Vogel's loot in the safe deposit vault came through a series of circumstances stranger than those of fletion as it is written to-day, Two sufe deposit box keys were found Vogel's pockets after his death, leré was nothing about them nor any memoranda to show which of the feveral thousand safe deposit boxes in New York they fitted, Finally detec tives were able to trace through Bos- ton manufacturers of such dev where Vogel's modern Aladdin's % rave was located, Then arose another difficulty, ‘The jerman Safe Deposit Compan. officers refnsed to open the box wh had been found to be Vogel's without 4 court order or the command of Vogel's executor, if there were such. No heir to the dead thief's fortune ap- peared; there was no one who could present a claim to the right of opening the box, The vox had been engaged by Vogel under the name of Joseph jorndrain on Aug. 22 of last y Only Joseph Borndram or his rightfully appointed executor had the power to open that vault ELIEVED HER OWN VALUABLES WERE IN THE VAULT. Now It happened tha* Mrs, sidney G. Bernheimer of No. 77 West Bighty-fitth street had undergone @ terrifying ex- pertence in her home last April when her servant and another woman sthan- gled her, tore the rings from her fingers and looted the house during her uncon- sclousness of almost everything of value, After the tragedy in the Bronx hotel room Mrs, Bernhelmer {dentified the dead Lottle Vogel as the faithless ser- vant who had helped to rob her, She iad every reason to believe that h val. vables were in that safe deposit vault sealed by law Bernheimer took legal steps to opening of the box, arence Bernheimer, he un Surrogat of lott » deposit of To ficials they opened t rue to Mrs. Bb pers instinet nearly all of the Jeweiry that had been stolen from her in that April encounter was in the box, Besides her wedding ring there was 4 diamond pin valued at $1,000 and several heirlooms of the fam- lly In the shape of old-fashioned jew- elry—fifteen articles of Jewelry alto- wether, Besides Mrs. Bernhelner's jewelry was a collection of stocks and all taken fr the home of J, Stearn, at No, 18H Seventh avenue, last April, These securities in- cluded five $1,000 bonds of the North Carolina Railroad Company, one 4% per ent, $1,000 gold bond of the Westen Union Telegraph $1,000 hond of the United sha shares of the Company insurance n's name, poration, five Gas and fifty Suburban Hi there were made out in Besides polictes ‘Tne total value of the securities, ail negotianle except the insurance pol cles, was more t 2,000, Resides all that re were seventy+ five or Jewelry. wre falued at $9,000, and | Seer eee |CASTROIS FREED ON WRIT; LANDS INABAD HUMOR Former President of Venezuela Defeats Immigration Authori- ties Through Federal Court. HIS VALET A FOOTBALL. But If He Kicks Alfredo Much More, Said Alfredo Will Get Mad Some Day! Don Gpriano Castro, ex-President of Venezuela, who was denied landing in the country and detained for more than & month on Bilis Island, has beaten the immigration officials and the authorities at Washington through the United States courts. ‘This afternoon he was Permitted to land on @ writ of habeas corpus by Judge Holt of the United States District Court. Castro was accompanied to court by his attorney and the latter's associate H. Snowden Marshall and George Go don Wattle. The Government — w: represented by District-Attorney Hen A, Wise and Assistant District-Attorney Hoyle. Mr, Marshall. suggeated that as Distriot-Attorney Wise cauld not have acquainted himself with the details of the case, a postponement be taken for one week and that Castro be admitted to bail of $500, Mr. Wise opposed the small sum of the bail and Mr. Marshall said that if stro were not amenable to the bail when called for he would then be out of the country, which was what the United States officials desired, Mr. Wise, in opposing any batl at all, sald that buil would permit the ex-Presi- dent to remain here a week or two and that was just what ke wanted. The Judge decided he must be admitted to bail. ALFREDO IS VERY SORE—NO SLANG INTENDED. Castro departed for the Plaza Hote! and in bis train went Alfredo Tenre- grossa, his faithful v Alfredo Torregrossa is peeved. The goat of the valet of Don Castro has been got. And the goat of Terregrosm 1s some ; It is @ veritable South American vane valet stands five feet high on his tiptoes, And every inch of him snaps with vibrant patriotism and every disc of blood bears the imprint of the face of his master. For he loves the man whom he serves. At least he did, Alfredo has followed the fortunes of the New Napoleon from the hostile cliffs of Venezuela to the sunny shores of France; from the streets of Spain to the | marts of England; from the land to * sea and from the sea to the land; ‘nto say capitals, {nto quiet towns, to mid- ocean Islands, to the innd of the free and the home of the brave and into exile en ENis Island. ‘He has loved his Don Cipriano Castro, He followed the General to the island, the General's steamer trunk on his back and a Gladstone bag of the General in either of his ha In the General's sumptuous suite (8x8) he has been in has “rH n= constant attendance upon him. He ‘orewed his coffee, has written his let and mailed them, He has been the ¢ eral’s little Western Union boy This morning Alfredo, a® usual, soft! opened the door and “peeked” in. ts master was still smiling and bade him enter in cheery tones. Alfredo wa Jaratefal and ne skimmed over the rund like a bird, as he went in quest lor the mor stro look lover the pa didn't have wo ltook far, ‘They all (old him that Nagel had svatained the Board of Inqulr vid that the man without a country | would have to find some other country that he must be deported, Don Cipriano Castro hopped on one foot and then on the other, He went up inthe air screaming Spanish oath and then came down again, He erum plaid the newspapers in his hands and was about to tear them into shreds when he espied Alfredo, He spread out the papers between his hands, then| brought them kerflap down on Al fredo's head until Alfredo's head stuck up through them, Tyls is how he| broke the news to Alfredo. Then he turned the faithful Alfredo Jaround and grabbed him by both shoulders, He swung back \boot, a0 often shined by Fatthful, then st landing lanlps jomy, sent him pirouett th portal. The Valet ploked himse!f and, turning, looked into th face of his master, “He was in a rage him*elf. SOME day," vm" ROME du Ge Ihers FIRE AND DYNAMITE PUT 100 IN PANIC: TOO FT. UNDER CITY Men in Aqueduct Shaft Put in Peril by 500 Pounds of Explosive. OLYMPIC CHAMPION WHO SIGNS TO PLAY WITH M’GRAW’S GIANTS SHIFT IN SUBWAY DEAL STARTS A HOT FIGHT 70 GET BACK JOKERS Shonts, in a Rage, Scolds Chafrman Willcox for Changes Made at the Demand of the “Scamp Critics.” CANNOT SIGN CONTRACTS BEFORE NEXT MONDAY. MGRAW SS Appellate Division Ruling Adds $70, Vv 7 THORPE AFTER |°c00,000 to Debt Limit, but Gaynor ALL LL NIGHT 108 Will Not Use It for Subways. “jokers” back into the subway contracts, the Interborough tnaeaas a emp ed te These are the 'Joxers the Indian Tums Down Down Terms of “seamp critics” discovered and pointed out after Mayor Gaynor and his Five Other Clubs to Be- associates had indorsed the contracts, contending that they “fully pro- come a Giant tected the city.” Had the.jokers been left in the contracts the loss to the ‘ city would have been many millions of dollars. Saraba’ Pherae the easton ae No final action upon the subway contracts can be taken before athlete, recently declared a professional,| Monday. The stated mecting of the Commission adjourned to-day until DYNAMO SHOOTS BLAZE Driver's ” Nerve and Quick Work With Sand Avert Dis- aster at Cooper Square. ‘There was panic to~dlay In Shaft No. 19 of the aqueduct in Cooper Square at the junction of ‘Third and Fourth a’ nues and Sixth street. There was a small fire in the alr, a call for fire ap- paratus, a chance for an explosion of 500 pounds of dynamite, and 700 feet be- low the surface some hundred laborers were in peril. Shaft No. 19 is about 720 feet deep. At a depth of 711 feet a tunnel is being Griven to the south. At 210 feet is another. Two dynamos at the surface supply light and power. One of them is used for sucking out the bad alr from the shaft and lateral workings. To-day the “sucker” dynamo began acting badly: “@parke spat 4 splut- tered and tiny blue flames made sporaiic sheet lightning. A few short circuits occurred, but nobody pald much atten- tion to them. Later one of the red wagons of the Du Pont Powder Com- pany backed up to the mouth of the shaft to deliver 60 pounds of dynamite for the magasine at the 711 foot level. JIM" THORPE ‘The driver of the on lowered the | has signed a contract to play with ye " nfere on titbeard to met out the dynamite. apit,| New York Glants for the season of| tet Mean time the secret conferences go on as before.” spat, splutter, sparks, flames—the| 1918, Whether he becomes a pitoher or The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court by a decision to-day “aucker’ dynamo was doing its worst.|a first baseman makes little difference to. Manager McGraw added $70,000,000 to the $88,814,093 which Comptroller Prendergast “A wonderful athlete ike Thorpe,” | says is now available for rapid transit purposes, making over $158,000,000 Slam! went the tallboard Into its place, Upon the t sprang the driver and the horse that forms the engine for that particular danger wagon never worked @o fast or hard in his life he went up Fourth avenue. And he never stopped until he reached Kighth street. A beautiful pyrotechnic display was in progress. The alr was sizzling with sparks as if they had been shot from a in Blue flames shot out sheets and curled upward and 2! vagged. Fire shot along wires, and where the blaze was coming from no- body seemed quite able to make out, An alarm was sent out, but the con- tractors’ own fire department was at work and covered the dynamo and all wires in sight with sand. The flames had been quenched when the depart- «lant anvil, he Gi leader, hi hi i ~, teste eainee BE acarea ‘bait player altogether. Mayor Gaynor poposes that the $70,000,000 shall go for He has the muscle and the brain, and including the North River pier lengtheni ans AND It 1# up to me to locate the spot where| dock purposes, including ing plans he will be of most value to the ea! NOT FOR RAPID TRANSIT, McG onal: ronducted th hs mbMaticorc tr Us toderieee In the recent secret conferences of four Public Service Commission- the whole night in conference. with] ers and two members of the Board of Estimate—all except Commissioner ‘Thorpe and those on whom the Indian] Milo R, Maltbie favoring the proposed monopoly poniee of the transit depends for advice, It was nearly day- % : problem—these changes were agreed upon: MLGiAy EE IA eee Bix of the tem principal “Jokers” im the Interborengh con- tt Hp mt out , betore oMcial news tract nailed and corrected, two compromised and two lost by the ol he eal reached the New York elt: head« i © O1 iy aglted Cc talkarant Ree Teen Five of the ten principal “Jokers” in the B. R. T, contract ‘clock this afternoon to the effect that nailed and corrected, three compromised and two lest by the elty. he had signed the contract and the|——— mm, President Shonts of the Interboroush ment arrived. papers would be forwarded imme- has opened an attack upon the amend- Down at the 711-foot level the work- | «liately, LEAPED OFF THE DECK is He privately men became excited when the bad air] M'GRAW BEAT ALL THE SCOUTS they violate “personel | ser OF GIANT BATTLESHIP CONNECTICUT TO DEATH. Vessel Now in Dry Dock at Brook- lyn Navy Yard—Fireman’s Body ments” made by him with certain ficlals of the city. He has ever “spoken roughly” to Chairman \, iiliea: R. Willcox, who has been his co: pany’s chief advocate in the confer- ences, and there is no telling what form his wrath against the weeding out of even a iimited numb Shy “Jokers” from the contract will : nally take. . R. T. 18 FIGHTING ALONG ITS WN LINES. began to thicken, A rush was made to the elevator at the foot of the shaft. ‘Telephontc communication was estab: lished with the foreman at the surface, Word came back that everything would \ right in a few minutes and the was nipped in the bud. Defec- tive Insulation caused all the trouble, j plstrheeinet- Acacias CONTRACTOR “DEAD BEAT,” TO INDIAN, Just what salary ‘Thorpe ts to recetve has not and wi!l not be announced. It s known, though, that the figures are in excens of $4,000. Frank Bancroft, bust- Vhess manager of the Cincinnati Reds, who went to Carlisle to sixn the Indian, ndation, wired August Herrmann this morning Found on Stone Fou had failed In hie quest; that he| Brank Morrison, # freman on the ba' hed offered $4,000, but that the Giants] tleship Connecticut, now in drydock at had outbid him, Bancroft also wired |the Brooklyn Navy Yard. was found o' HOTEL MAN’ Ss } ALLEGATION. that five scouts Were at Carlisle all day | goad today under the big battleship. | Col. Wiliams of the B. R. T. has yesterday making bide for Thorpe's) y+ ig believed Morrison committed | opened his warfare against the subway George Austin of Buffalo Held for —— he a suleide by leaping from the deck of| contract much more cleverly. He lets Trial Ch He Tried t 1 Thorpe announced & fow daya| is sttleship to the stone base of the|the corrections made by the conferrees rial on Charge He Tried to |ago’that ne would now have to turn to| the Roe Ooty eae ib hua cluding the pledged Coney Isl- Dodge $525. Bill, baseball for 9 living he intimated that ceed Res po bd -cent fare, but he wants the ie wo 5 yay In New Yo Despite hls protests, added to those of latcGraw was sick in bed at the time, but] Morrison hd been in poor health for | 9't en of toes of ene oe hie suit ho was telophoned the tip and got oui | some time, ‘He enlisted on June 17, here shall not be included in the . was af d of hed to be on the Job. 1912, and gave his address a8 No. 724] cost ot equipment the cost of any tractor, thirty-three years « | Thorpe will report to the Gianta on | South street, Dayton, O, Pearl street, Buffalo, N.Y Jivev, J, and will go to Marlin with én ee veld tn $1 by aatstrate O'Con-| reorutts, It he should develop into a GREECE TO SEIZE SHIPS, cparation of the portion of the equip. nor in the sae ldw league pitcher New York will have ment so repaired, rep! on a charge of @ the only fulldblouded Indian battery that NOTIFIES WASHINGTON. | sewea ‘sr cor wine such now part ie Murray HII Hote! out ot bill baseball has ever known. Chief Meyers batituted. Austin was arrested by has always had ad king for ‘here is @ matter of several mi)li i} Le 4 a ions Fitzpatrick on complaint of Merman|and will do everything in his po All Coal Sent By Way of Dar. ot dalere se te eae ce ee Goekel, manager of the hotel, who made |imake him a success, Lf Thorpe should danelles Will Be Held Unless T. behind Col. Williams's sudden de- atfiday at Austin, after stopping at) snow no marks of @ pitcher—a big Certified. Jthe hotel far savoral wesks, eft the|{ravuereMcGrew will tee kien ae nee certified. hotel 0 15 last, taking with him He wili also be given a chance| WASHINGTON, Jan, 31.—The Greek is bagBAre, puttleld Government has notified tho United | When he was arraigned Austin de-| ening Thorpe, McGraw declares| States that coal shipped by way of the Jared he did not intend to beat the) that the amount of money was no con-| Dardanelles to Black Sea ports will be hotel and said hi ent to the hotel last] sideration 0 matter how much the] subject to selsure unless it Is certifted ght to re-engage rooms, When he left] Giants paid, Thorpe, as a drawing card,| for local aonsumption at neutral ports, on Nov he he ald, he took with nim will more than reimburse them, jhis handbag with the , nd} it ie unlikely that Thorpe Wiscom [consent of the manager, ‘This part of] secular Job the firmt season bet heen] MADISON, Wis, Jan. 3L—A_ DI to | the statement Manager Gockel denied ag rest y legalize boxing in Wisconsin was intro- | vated lines never become t —— the duced to-day tn the Wisconsin Legis-|0f the city, yet the company wants to FOR RACING SEE PAGE 6, to a first year wonder| lature, It provides for @ State Boxing| unload the cost of these repairs upon —— wit be the proudest] Commission of three, appointed by the] the city, Last TWO DAYS OF bee saze. mansest WA Baseball ‘ Governor, and 1s patterned after the| Summarised the result of the seeret jim ‘Thorpe {a onls twenty-four Years] New York Jaw. The bill limits contents | confab of city officials with respect te ol mm just in his prime as an ati 1 i oat ete, He is the Sdeal vise for a bati| © se Founds with five-ounce gloves, | the Interborough contract wi Buliding (highest in the world), will! player and his knowledge of athleties sell to-day and #aturaay the bilance|,, general will be of immene , THE, TIDES. Of thelr $10. & $12 Men'y Winter Suits i nares a ee, eae ‘pigs Woter : and Overconts fine hlack thibet, fancy | re ag) | aE Pee A trays. browns and dark mixed Wor ! no one cout! question| handy, po Mids Open Saturday night til0~-adve | his" gaiuenieas Bal Usie .....

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