The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1913, Page 1

I Li ‘ Circulation Books Open to All.” L Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publichiog Mad (The New Lens Wert). NEW YORK, "MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1913. HMCALL QUIS THE BENCH MAY GET ON SERVICE BOARD BEFORE SUBWAY DEALS END Name Will Probably Be Sent to the Senate To-Night by Gov. Sulzer, DIDN'T WANT THE PLACE Savs if He Has to Consider Subway Contracts He Will Take His Time. Supreme Court Justice Edward E. McCall has been selected by Gov. Bulzer to succeed Willlam Wilcox as Chairman of the Public Service Com- mission, First District. Justice Me- Call sent his resignation from the bench and his acceptance of the office of Public Service Commissioner to Gov. Sulzer by special messenger at 4.40 o'clock this afternoon It is expected that the Governor will Wend the appointment of Justhe "es Cail to the Senate to-night. If the an- Dolntment is confirmed immediately the hold-over teem of Chatrman Will whose actual term expired last Friday at inidnight, will tarm!: cally, so that the present Commisizon will be divided on the sud- Ject of the sub acts—two tn favor, Willams and Eustis, and two op- pored, Cram and Maitbie Justice MeCall said this afternoon that | Ne knows nothing of the contracts ex-! cept by hearsay. If they are passed up ¢o him tt means delay because he will fot sign Cie until he has given them | careful stud SAYS GOV. SULZER URGED HIM t TO TAKE THE PLACE, This meotter of golng into th Bervice « sion has sideratio the past + ail for twenty-five days, this afternc f the of me deternined 1 ton, and had about disinissed the svdjoot from my aind when, an afternoon, the doorbell of m = and Gov. Wasting any acteristically empha rt ded that 1 resign at the bench. He sat ered me by cleo once the people had hon- me to the bench, and that they war now, and it wi my duty to auswer the call, Ie put tt to me as # duty dn that ight I told him I would con- Bider It. eH went back to Albany and Z 41d consider it. By 2 o'clock this aft- noon I had made up my mind and as Boon as I reached the de’ pation to owing letter Viewed accept I despatched the fe to the Governor Feb, 9, 1918, » Capitol At I have det you, and at yo ist @acrifice all pe jons and respond to you in observance of a duty I owe t. people who have jonored me the to re y my refusal to accept and ti do what you wish, “Tam leaving a work that I am @evoted to and in which T hope I have met, tn some small measure, that which was expected of me. I am severing companionship: of the most devoted colleagu great and unselfish labor and en- deavor for their State and country Will undoubtedly meet the fuil ap- \ wectation of the people for whom are striving, and In mw it tears at the heartstrings; but JI am Jeft no alternative, and T shall cond by the messsenger who hears this letter my resignation as Sopreme Court Justice and wil take up the duties of my new assigninent wh the promt: to you to devote all tat | am possewsed of tn the way of energy and ability to the ascompitsh- ment of all the duties that may de- yolve With the warmest nme, (Continued on Second Pese) ah we Se ~ ——— JUSTICE E. | “BIG TIM” WO - $700,000: " OF HOLDINGS FILED ~» M’CALL TO SUCCEED WILLCOX IN SERVICE BOARD. RTH LIST FOLKS'S ORDINANCE WOULD STOP PERIL Fixing the Blame for East Side Tragedy That Cost Two Women’s Lives. STAMPEDE AND PANIC. Hundreds of Places More Dan- gerous, Says Fire Commis- sioner Johnson, Disasters like that tn the Hy Hippodrome in East Houston street last aight, whon two women were trampled to death and five others prob- ably fatally hurt in @ sensel fire panic, can be prevented !n the future jby the passage of the Folke ordinance governing moving picture house: The Folks ordinance, drafted and troduced vy Alderman Ralph Fi was intended to cover such small places ay that in which last night's tragedy oveurred, The ordinan does away with the stairway entrances, and it was @ stairway entrance on which a crowd surging out and another crowd, having bought tickets, stood firm,’ intent upon getting In, that caused the deaths and Injuries In the Houston Htppodro Alderman Folks made a personal in- vestigation of the » |trophe to-day, His comments on the [case and tie situation generally were made after he had returned to the City Halt Wecman Frank Dowling, Alderman vinay White, a group of Tammany .» Canon Chase of Brooklyn, nd the theatrical trust were respon- the defeat of the structural ¢ as originally drawn, and they > responsible for the existence of just conditions as brought about last ilght's tragely,”” he declared. SIDEWALK LEVEL FOR NEW HOUSES STIPULATED. ordinance 1 drow pr moving picture ¢ be on the sidewalk leve pt ow and provided ld be tssued tion of each place, Sullivan, Now Tatas nt patrons, aie elas te How Y ertainiy Had Wide: Interests “ and | Nols Bave, Srowms cnsection so-'an - wares e. steps, half of them Owned Much Real Estate. SCS TARR | % the people 1 have menttoned | ' locked the passage of my ordinance A schedule « e ul personas tucking on the censorsilp featui owne 1D, Sullivan \t charged at the time, and 1 repeat tt, n adj competent and cons | Liat some of those who fought hardent fined in Dr. Bond's um at You-|for the censors!ip feature did it for Ey eaeinaan Supreme Court toe {the purpose of putting a joker In the by the commission appointed! to ap. {9dlnance which would cause the Neale ihe Cote ; idinwe | Mayor to veto it d also to dete’ event ostat ra in the Velow' at more than “Alderman Frank Dowling told the would never Ale Hoard of vote for derman Johnny White sald he was 1 I MOM” SHOWS ston | FINE $40,000 000 “MELON” GUT UP BY STANDARD OWL From Dividend of $40 a |¢ ! Share, Declared To-D; {TO BE PAID FEB. 15TH | Money Was Collected From| Subsidiary Concerns After | | * the Trust Was Dissolved. | Jonn D. Rockefeller is $10,000,000| : {richer to-day than he was yesterday. | “ He {s the principal beneficiary of x “melon” cut by the directors of the Standard Ol Company, who declared a | $40 cash dividend upon the 1,000,000 odd shares of the company. ‘The oe | | melon 1 $40,000,000, This distribution, which was ordered to-day, 1s to be paid February 15. John D. owns 244,419 shares of the com- atook ienue, and in exact figures he will get $9,776,760, ‘The quotations upon the ehares of the company wae 646 @ share, which tn- cludes the dividend. Mr. Rookefelter’s part af this great aggregation of capital aller it had teen “dimeolved” By the | 6949606460044 50061 6 G600-00 United States Supreme Court—is $108,- 000,000 in round numbers, In addition Mr. Rockefeller has a pro- rata interest on the same basis in the various Standard Of! subsidiary corpora- tons which were set apart from the parent corporation under the direction of the highest court, OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CUTTING OF THE “MELON.” | ‘The oMcial statement announcing the “meton’ follgwe: distribution of $0 per share | this day veen ordered on the cap! stock of this company, payable on tie fifteenth day of Februar: 3, to stock of recoil at the tose of vusinoss on the seventh day of February, 1918 “Prior to and at the time of the di tribution of the stocks of the #o called subsidiaries of this company, in obedience to the decree in the case of the United States against the Stand Oll Company (of New Jersey) and other many of the aubstdiary compantes owed this company Iarge muma of money’. The| Wire 4 poltey of requesting the payment of) /YITS these sums as speedily ax possible was adopted by this company on the a ef counsel, in observance of whi deemed to de the lomplytn; companies have ma a Machine That Killed Helen Walker a Year Ago. ALIKE IN ALL DETAIL band Blinded, and a Girl Boarder Badly Injured. co Walker, or Taylor, just a y bution that as }aKo to-day, and the one which exploded en ordered may FATAL BOMB IN THE BRONX LIKE ONE SENT ROSALSKY Also Identical With Infernal errera Killed, Her Hus-| WRATHER—Raia probable to-night, cleariag Tuesday, FINAL EDITION. PRICE. rt EB “OENT. sieeneneneeanens 2ODDIOSIOIDAGHE ODD EY ereeees, FACES THREE WIVES IN COURT; THEY TELL | WHY THEY WED HIM One for His Good Looks, One for His Ancestry and Third for His Money. | time to time as they were ab! | The siug-loaded {nfernal machine | Pe | from money raised by the realization which instantly Killed Mra Madeline} ,., assets or the increase of th Herrera last night ts believed to lave neers cama in the eyen of Charles ‘The result of theso pay is! veen made by the samo hand that au-| Weiss @ baker of polished address, the accumulation of a fund in th hands] sembied tie bomb whica killed when Judge Muiqueen, before whom of this company from which the distr! he was arraigned {a Part 1, General Sessions, t ay, on @ charge of big- | hot the company's " as iy " | $2,000,000 tn amis- Nntetauiaa in’ than themed made with ut impairing the coiny Hin the apartmente of Julze Nosaisky |®™% asked iim {€ the three eccusing | ston only stat ite value is “far in| business and he was the only Alderman | °®?! pamnae Se, lon March 16 of last year wives who confronted him represented enaeea: ts $100, ioe } ‘ aveie aga nat the measure ue whole, “OGLED” IN SUBWAY, SHE Last night's explosion aiso bilnded as epoch of his multi-matrimontes | he Incompetent’s real property The reason why these men, the Tam- ’ Mra. Me ra’s husband, He be | follows: Premises at No, 260-00 many group I have mentioned and u | Cuban, au; t e thevs Two are dead, Your Honor,” he eatd, | Cubs berinte the apar ; " A diregh, whieh is he OF urust, were against, tne| CAUSES QGLER’S ARREST. | Cuan.» and they were good. women, both of Bowery, the hon ; | ; ae | Bronx, and fh thom an Association Magistrate Warns Mr, Jacobs Not to) gougntman. the! ot threo living wiver—Mre, Ina street, the ly wave a! Ride Again in Same Car With | oraws wcrews and bits of elu Hel lve, Mra, Ida Kraur Weles and No. apactty of 600 w coming iley ie airs | Deputy Con after| Mrs. Lena Wetxburger Welse—the first strect,, the residence of provisions of Mrs, O'Brien and Leis Him Go. | ypending a t and Salf of the| marred him because he thought he ephews; No. 105 and) th Y, provided they Ro D, Jacobs, thirty-two years] morning investigating this third infernal] W4# good looktug, the secund because he Twontyeftth stre of th ney,” curtals fiat 0, M2 Dawson street, the Bronx, | had told h Is wnceaturs were royal Gotham ‘Thea 8] rooms and the other weual mist not ride auy more tp the seme incontestable ¢ the third because she had been lea ti what 19 A ti rman ti t} ave a cagctty of mo oie ot ae i ee ee i ne existence aed Kuity and was remand Besides thoso holdings, {Van OWNS) they must be governed by t . | Who tw rendy to satisfy for sentence on Feb, 1 He ilved at No. jProperty at Fletcher avenue and Ches-|jaws, and these make it so oxpenalve| Must not ogle tho pretty young matron. | or put himself and hiv enatr ter street, Mount Vernon; at Throga’t| jt Je practic prontoltory, ‘Thar'y| ether, This is: wha trate Ker lat the dispowal of frlende with scores |Neck, N. J. at Hast MIN Stones, N. Jul what tie theat (raat wants--thoy|Mecnan, ta the Jefferson Market Court, | to settle, —_ s and #ix lots in Bast Hundred 4nd] gon't want thelr patronage endangered | told hin to-day. Walkor was i!lled tn her fat at} | Forty-ninth street, the Bronx by the Krowing public de: ¢ pics| Mra, O'Brien iad Jacobs arrested this] 103 Weat Soventy-aoventh atrevt FOUND DEAD IN CELLAR, | Persona! holdings of Mr. | these corporations are lia | Advertising Co: | Company, | Auto-bus Company of Democracy Printing Company | Eastern Motor Company. Flagg Mast Stand 1 The demurrer of Jared M. Flagg to| for the defeat of my ordina ng him and his| the Indictment cha: aasoclates with fra mails 9 of overruled | ed States | to-day, Natlonal Protective Lea Sullivan tn Sullivan & Con- ted: an Company, Philadelp! and 7 Flagg and tho othera indicted wito him Will now have to go te total, ture shows. “Alderman White introduced an ordt- nance on the subject less than two! weeks ago, but tke the presen: prov sion It ts required th of more than he prexe of places must be mmaintalned if the proprietors are. to make any money, It effectively blocks the constru 1 Of first class houses for | moving pletures, where panlo dake: will be at @ minimum. “Dowling, White and have mentioned are direo the otuers 1 ¥ responsibis eand if dn't peen for thelr untine: lulent use of the) prope reppor Justo Hough | have, become ; strict Cd would have > H <Pemunueg oF Fyuria Page SL aan oaaee |morning in the Grand Centrai station, | Rosalsky explosion was tn the 3 Bho eald that for the last two weeks ho | Judwe’s i No. 611 West One Hun. |4ea7 of Man With Broken Nook: at had been in the hablt of waiting for| dred and Tenth street pot of [her st Ono tfundred and Fortyeuinta | Thoug’ tue exp the roome Sa ag aie uaikanleaa reet subway station. Ilo gut thejaf $89 Cuban superintendent near 1¢ this afternoon in the cellar y with her aud continued ty ogle | o'clock last . - on in th TSE ea ek Be epparn vent-house at No. 0 Kast o way As mula’ | Ree 4 Mlwhty-linat street. Tavestigation 4 wnce any lo pean i" Laon | the man had undoubtedly Soughtnan, out ' Aes I tered Wood, fal ‘ jaca a beet , ‘ & saloon on the ground arian ermeaaaed , irtender denied that the rer in . ad veon In the place during (Vontinued on Fyusih Pagey ng it ts assumed that tall yas a Working. and some is FOR RACING SEE PAGE 6. |FOX TELLS WHITMAN WHO GOT VIGE GRAFT HE GATHERED 5 YEARS Patrolman Confesses He Rounded Up $25 to $100 Monthly From Each Vice Resort and Turned It Over to“Higher-Up” Police. ?|BIG PART WENT DOWNTOWN, ONE CAPTAIN ASSURED HIM | Was “Loaned” to Collect in Other Precincts When Commanders’ Regular Agents Were IIL For the first time in recent years—for the first time, In fact, since the Lexow Committee days—a member of the uniformed police force of New York to-day pleaded guilty to the charge of bribery. Eugene Fox, formedy a plainclothes man in Harlem, faced Justice Goff in the Ex- reordinary Term of the Supreme Court thls afternoon and confesse.! that he had collected $100 a month from George A. Sipp for furnish ing police protection to Sipp's Baltic Hotel. aie he entered his plea of guilty Fox held a long and secret rence with District-Attorney Whitman and Assistant District-Attor- ne m prederck J. Groehl, who worked up the case against the policeman. In this conference he made a clean breast of his entire graft collections and named the ire padre pallee caiaia iota captain for weom hi he collected the protection money. Pat he entered his plea of guilt; MISS DOROTHY FISK DOROTHY FISK dona "casas he sg ROBBED OF $500 BAG IN ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S. freedom from the Tombe. At the request ef District Atterne’ —: *: Banker Kneit in Com- ind When She Arose Whitman, Justice Geff tmmediately in- aa Were Gone. gued @ call for the John Doe Gran Dorothy Fisk, nineteen-year-old daugh- Jury to re-assemble on Monday mern- ing, when Fox -will e sent before tha ter of Harvey Fisk, head of the bank- ing fem ef Harvey Fisk & Sons, No. body and will cepeat the story he @ol! District Attorney Whitmas to-day, On that statement the indictment of @ go- @ Pine street, reported to-dey to the East Fitty-firet street police station that her ecalskin muff and a $60 gold Nee captal: mesh bag had been stolen yesterday while ehe was at communion in 6t Bartholomew's Church, Forty-fourth atreet Madison avenue. She placed the muff beside her while he knelt to pray, she said, and though she had kept her eyes closed only «| him. moment the muff and purse were! ¢, e whisked away when she opened thei. OL aero Paget Oe To 48 A HP pi einige ex declined to speak to reporters. SCHOOL PUPILS REBELLED |r was isrnad, however, frum cutie AT RECREATION ROOM. contensed tbat. Soom March, 108, to > 1912, he @oi- Told Parents It Was Like a Damp lected more than 900 @ month from dis- Cellar, but Principal Smith Let ormerly and other unlawful house itn Harlem, the collections averaging trom Mothers See for Themselves. A elegation of worried mothers waited on Principal Frank P, Smith of Public School, No. 16 at Audubon avenue, this afternoon, to protest Inat baving their children put in duinp, unsanitary cellar. They learned 935 to $100 & month from these places. Fox furnished Mr. Whitman the names of seven places from which he made regular collections in the East One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth precinct. In his confevsion Fox is said to have declared that he kept none of the graf money he collected, but turned tt ali that the children were not confined in any suck pl and after an inspection of the recreation hall in the basement went home. A hundred children were transferred from Public School No, 133 in On Hundred and Eighty-second street thi week to No, 16 because of new bound- aries of echool districts, There 2,009 pupils already in No, 16 and time eohedule hae deen arranged so that every other half hour half of tho pupils go to the recreation room with their teachers for drilis and games. Bome of the transferred children re- belied at the change aud gave un- Pleasant accounts at home of the recre- ation room, BAYVILLE, L. 1, Feb. 3.—Capt. [d+ mund Terry, eighty-three years of age. famous years ago as a sailer of yaohte, shot himself in the heal at the home of his on, Capt. Charles over to the police captain he served, the latter telling him some of the rfigny had “to go downtown.” Fox main- tained that his only reward was arduous duties as a policeman. After a jury was selected to-day to try Fox, Attorney Louls F, Grant, lis attorney, asked for a postponement uy til 2 o'clock. This was granted an Fox, in the meantime, made a vompl confession to Mr, Whitman and threw himself on the mercy of the Dist Attorney, When the accused policeman was ar- raigned before Justice Goff at 2 o'clock, rts that “Owing arisen he vid, “my client desires to withdraw nis piea of not guilty and enter instead a plea of guilty.’* Fox, in his pedigree, said he was thirty-seven years ol, that both his parents were born in Ireland, but that have Floyd Terry, here this morning. It 1 not thous Capt. Terry can survi | Whether he intended shoot himself or obtained @ revolver and was exatue ining it te pot certain, he was born in this city, He gave hig ddress as No. 2027 Morris avenue, Ile declared he does not drink, District-Attorney Whitman asked that | Fox's present bel) Oe eentinued uniil dy