The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1913, Page 1

Sosa BTHREE CAPTAIN coe = Che pen to All.” UNDER FIRE BY WALDO IN HUNT FOR oe | BY WHITMAN a al __?RIOE ONE CENT. Cosrriaht. 1918. ov AHHERE (S THE SILVER SPADE HEARST GAVE AND THEN BORROWED BACK? HERE IS THE ieeialtleaali (The New York World). ‘The Press Pubtiahing NEW YORK, TO WILLGOX VERY SPADE. Reprinted from the New York American of Aug. 4, 1941. ~ Editor’s Representative Said His Chief Wanted to Have Gift Suit- ably Engrave d, but It Was Never Returned. Wiliam R. Willcox, retiring Chairman of the Public Service Commis- sion, to-day carried from his old private office three eilver spades presented to him at the beginning of various subway diggings. sented by William Randotph Hearst Avenue Subway Tt was learned that a few days be fare tho firat digging of the Lexington avenue suds A representative of Mr. Hearst culled upon Mr. Willcox and asked him {€ he would use a eil- ver spade fufnished by Bir. Hearst. ‘The chairman J ho would do so, al- though tie coatructing firn for that had ordered a silver ho game purpose. In he would use partioular woot spade made tor short, Mr, Willcox said noth of them, BEFORE THE “QUAL” SUBWAY SYSTEM WAS ADOPTED. Accordingly on the morning of July! 1911—before Mr. Willcox had come | out for the dual system and abandoned | the independent sudway idea—a repre- wentative of Mr. Hearst took o beautl- ful silver spade to Mr. Willcox, It} was usod in the impressive ceremony | vhich took place opposite the Seventh eximent Armory in Lexington avenue, Mr, Hearst wants to have the spade suitably engraved,” sid one of his employees not long after the first dirt had been turned, “He will send it to Mr, Willcox at the commission's office after it has been engraved. It never came to Mr, Wiffoox. The die- appearance is a subway "nystery. Since ahe gift of the spade to Mr, Willcox feelings of Mr, Hearst tc card the etiring chairman have undergone @ complete somereault, Mr, Willcox re- fased to-day to discuss the spade incl- dent. JUDGE McCALL STUDIES THE CONTRACTS AT HOME. Judge Edward E, McCall, new Chalr- man of the Public Service Commission, remained at home most of the day, He nad taken home with him last night— <fter he had suddenly changed his mind and assumed his new duties—coples of the proposed subway operating con- tracts with the Interborough and H.R. T. McCall has a difficult job ahead famiMarizing himself with the progress) of the Commission from its inception, July 1, 1907, and he js reading up. His first discovery of import was that the construction work was going on notwithstanding all that has been said about the "amp critics’ of the operating qontracts, who ure accused in effect of being obstructionists, He was gratified to learn that the Fourth nue subway in Brooklyn—a four-| line four miles long—and the ¢ s.veet loop line in Manhattan—a four k subway nearly a mile and a half about completed. These new re practically built and they U. P. DISSOLUTION PLAN LAID BEFORE WICKERSHAM, Railroad Men Discus uss Details With Attorney-General, but No An- nouncement Made. WASHINGTON, Feb, 5.—Representa- tives of the Union Pacific and Southern railways to-day formally laid before At- torney-General Wickert m the agre ment for the dissolution of the mer Mr, Wickersham, the raliroad attorneys and Paul D, Cravath, representing Kuh Loeb & Co, syndicate of bankers to dispose of the Unton Pacifie's holdings of Southern Pa- elfic stock, discussed at length the de- tails of the proposed plan, but no an- nouncement was made, N. H. Loomis, Joon G, Milburn and ‘John C, Spooner appeired for the Union Pac fie a Maxweli Evarts for the mene Fecino, LE Ee Ly who wil! head the/@ A fourth one—pre- when work of digging the Lexington was begun—was missing. ASK $25,000 BAL 2 FOR WISNER AFTER JURY DISAEREES | Jurors Wrangle in Vain for 46 Hours in Case of Mine Promoters, ‘The Federal Jury in the trial of A. Es Wiener and John J. Meyers for alleged use of the mails to defraud in promet- ing atook sales of mining and ol! com- Dantes was discharged at 11 o'clook to- day, after having declared, through thelr foreman, William H. Harned, on unalterable bellef that they could aot reach an agreement. ‘This declaration came after the jury had been tn deliberation forty-six hours and fifteen minutes, or from 1265 o'clock’ on Thursday. The jury returned to Its room in the Foderal Building, after a night spent at the Astor House, at § o'clock this morn- Ing, and settled down to work at once. United States Judge Mack, who was obliged to go to Washington in time to ait in the Commerce Co) there Monday, after consulting with the coun- sel on both sides, sent for the jury shortly before 11 o'clock and had them brought into court. I have received word, trom your foreman, ‘that you one mind that you cannot agreement,” sald Judge Mack. correct, Mr. Harnedt” The foreman of the jury™ assented. Judge Mack then complimented the jury for ite patient and intelligent consi | tlon of the case and discharged it, “Ie that United States Attorney Wise at onco moved ball of $25,000 be fixed in the case of each of the defendants, saying !heavy ball was warranted in view of said he ' the cireumstan Mr, Wi | the case tried again ble. there will not be another miscarriagewt Justice, The bail in the case of Mr, Mey- Jers is now only 9,000, which ts ridicu- lously small, and that in the case of Mr. Wisner {8 only $4,000, and {s practically null, the bond being on propert, out of Jurisdiction in Long Island, | George Gordon Battle, on behalt of | Mr, Meyers, contended his client should not be put under such heavy bail, In view of the fact that he had acted in good faith in surrendering» himself for trial and in voluntarlly producing his books and accounts. te Wille ches te Village. FINDLAY, O., Feb. “That what I will do the most pogsibie, 1 oe nh my chalr, crutches and canes to the village of Carey, to be loaned j whoever needs ghem,” runs the will | James Bowlby Of Carey, an octogena- | cars @ Justice of the peace. PANAMA CAN rgenetion ered aes uae rar WIRE CABLES SNAP | ~ AS TOO-MILE GALE HITS MAURETANIA Cunarder in Port After One of Roughest Voyages Ever Known on Atlantic. WAVES BREAK WINDOWS Ship's Propellers Far Out of | Water as Her Nose | Was in Sea. The big Cunarder Mauretania came into port to-day, gale tossed and wave pounded, after one of the roughest voy- @ges ever experienced on the Atlanitc. Dents in her forward plates, torn rails and broken windows on the. bridge bore evidence of the storms through which she fad passed. She weathered a hur- ricane with the wind at a velocity of 100 miles an hour. The great, ponderous mass of steel was at times haif out of water, hi mountainot were secu: | eume the proportions the wind increasing in intensity and the waves rolling higher against the bow of the ship, With the vessel's head up Aagainat the full fored of the sea, epeed was cut down a third. The storm reached the height of ite fury at mid- night on Tuesday @nd the paesensers awoke on Wednesday morning to find the Mauretania snerling and writhing to the teeth of the hurricane. WINO TWISTS THE RAIL® AND @NAPS WIRE CABLES. The wind swept through the rigging and over the decks with dynamic force. The chains on the masts rattled in their eteel hangings, the rails were twisted dough in the hands of cables were snapped like pipestems and the seas rolled over the bridge, amashing windows in the bridge-house and rip- ping up the board coverings of the wires leading to the engine-house, ‘The ebip's bow rose high in the alr on @ hil of water and the next me- ment it plunged 100 feet down into a valley of green and white water, her nose buried in the amother of the sea. Her stern was far out of water, the propellers whirring Mke the noise of a foundry, her entire length swept with volumes of Water. Lifeboate were Icosened from their feateninge on deok and in the davite, and at the risk of their lives the sailors had to orawi out All day long the Mauretania rode and tossed and swerved and plunged in this sort of weather, the storm showing uo signa of abatement until toward eve- ning. Shortly after ¥ o'clock, when the wale had moderated considerably, but with the sea still greatly ruffled, « wave broke over the bow and smashed in the windows of the lounging room, where there were gathered @ number of the passengers in evening drese, PASSENGERS GET A SOUSING ANO HURRY BELOW. ‘The force of the wave wae broken by the windows, but the passengers were soused and had to burry below to change their clothing. G. B, Hunter, one of the builders of the Mauretania, was @ passenger on the ohip. He waid that this was the seven- teenth voyage he had made across the Atlantic and it wes the worat he had r experienced. Fanny Ward, an ac Was @ pas- senger on the Mau Bhe was recently divorced trom "Joe" Lewis, a| milijonaire mining man of Mouth Africa, She coyly admitted that thei was no other “romance” yet, Fanny was as blooming as a girl of eightwen in @ suit of molesking, skirt, coat, muff and stole, The suit, she sald, was made trom « thousand moles caught on her estate in England, Stratton Chase, at Chalvont, St. Gt The actress nas come over to Within the Law” for the purpo! poselble, of seouring | the English rights, She accompa: | nied by Al Woods, a theatrical manage:, and expects to remain here through tno! winter, Mikade TOKIO, jeive the Mabtes. Hamilton Wright LEONORIS LIVING | APART, WIFE SUES FOR HER JEWELS) Separation of Rich New Yorker and His Wife Disclosed in Action Just Begun. \ PARTED OVER YEAR AGO. Mrs, Leonori Alleges Husband Refuses to Return to Her Gems Worth $5,000, Many friends ef Mr. end Mre. Charon L. Leonort, of thie city add Newport, were eurprised to learn ¢ day that they had been Mving apart since Oct, 1, 1011. The matrimonial misunderstandings ef the Leonoris, which have been carefully screened for more than a year, were made known in a euit fled in the Supreme Court to recover @ large amouat of jewelry which Mre. Leonort declares ehe en- trusted to her husband's care a few months before. they separated, and Which she ellegee ip bee recused to Mre, Leonort wae Miss Kathryn Bur- bank of Loulsville, Ky., daughter of a Judge of the Kentucky Guperior Court, Her two brothers are in charge of the business interests of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Kentucky and Tennessee, and she herselé has an independent fortune of more than $2,000, 000, JEWELS PUT IN BANK VAULT AND CAN'T GET THEM, Under the terms of a private agree- tment of separation, Mrs. Leonori ts Mving at No. 108 West Seventy-second street, and receives %00 @ month from her husband. Although the frst agree- meant to live apart was reached quietly and agreeably, serious differences have now arisen, according to Eugene Parodl of No. 21 Broadway, Leonor!'s attorney, and Mre, Leosfori now has in contemplation = sult which will bring about » legal adjudication of her marital relations. “When Mrs, Leonor! was about to Mr. Parodi ex- plained, to entrust him with her jewels. er, ‘When Mrs, Leonari returned to the city in September she found that the Jewels had been placed by Mr. Leonar! in the vaults of the Madison avenue branch of the New York Produce Ex- change Bank, and when she thelr reement was drawn up @ few days The complete list of the sequestered Jewelry is given by Mrs. Leonari in her complaint as follow: A gold chain bracelet, diamond ho: shoe pin, coral rope, diamond with pear! ring, corel and diamond ring, amethyst cross and chain, diamond brogoh with four colored sapphires, diamond pad- lock with chain, diamond with turquoise ring, two turquoise bracelets, gold band bracelet, wold dog collar, gold w gold pencil, Alpha Delta pin, one small emerald, th @unset amethy blue stone ring,,pair of coral ear rings and a gold $10 piece with initia! Mi Leonori places the val wems at about 6,000 and for @ judgment for that eum if it should be impossible to return the Jewelry itself. Mr. Pagod! said Mra, Leonor! je Mr. Leonort’s fourth wife, ees GIRL WITH WEDDING GIFT MAY FOLLOW SHEPARDS. Leaves Pittsburgh Ready to Go On to Paris if Sure of Finding Then There. G, Kea. Fen, &—Bearing PITTSB Mable of New York, Mra. Miss Mable will be recelved by Emperor on Wednovday, Mr, Mable is travelling on behalf of the Carnegie Foundation for international pe: Donahey left Pittsburg t sent them to Mra, ard, She will go to New York and may | go on to Paria if tt is ascertained th Mr. and Mrs, Shepard, who are now abroad, will be there. All the station agents of the Mis. dpoluded in the Met of donors, ic f vacation to the| Bellevue Hospital with a fractured | Around the leg, just above the knee, @ loving cup and an autograph album, | greay in the sky, Was tatvogl, 1ttn of 600 station agente whose cards| ¢ancy seroll re contained in the book, Mise Helen | ¥ tO pre-l her purse $2.89 Helen Gould Shep- | yore « plain & sourl Pavific-iron Mountain system a) iy BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, CAPM COTATI Te MB at ee gn ene tee pi - “ Circulation B Books Open to All,”’ 120 PA “1913, Three Captains Named by Purcell And Gambler Who Told of Graf “BY DOLL MARY” STATTOOEDONLES OF WOMAN CAR IT Inscription Beneath ‘Dove and Crimson Heart Only Clue to 'Her Identity. Somebody's “Baby Doll Mary" lea in skull, Her name fa unknown. She is Leonor! persuaded her | brunette, with Iarge baby blue eyes, five feet elght Inches tn helght, and atun- “‘Juat leave them with me, dearte,|ningly dressed. She wore a brown allk and I'll take good care of them.’ he told | gown, a jaun| turban of brown, with an aigrette ‘and a white sik scart around her neck. She had on black button shoes and Ulack allk stockings. The woman wan knocked down by a Fourteenth street car, bound west, near Irving place, at 2 « this afternoon, The atreet was crowded with matinee-goera and shoppers, She crossed ‘behind an east-bound car and the trolley coming weet waa almost on top of her before nhe saw It. The motorman, Paul Kron, of No. 64 Kast ‘Thirteenth street, aplied the brais, but could not prevent the oar striking her. It came to @ stop before the wheele could pass over her, she ecreamed an who realised her dangor. ‘The next moment sho was unconscious Through the big crowd which gath- ered Policeman Louls Pergolle made his way and bore the unconsclous woman to a omar store, Where he summened an ambulance from Hellevue Hospital Dr. Cail, who responded witt the an bulance, declared her skull was frac tured, Policeman ©'Conr who has five eervicw stripes on his uloeve, ar rived in Ume to help place the vietim of the trolley on the hurpital atretener Look!" walspered Pollosman Pergolis, “took at her leg.” “Ll do noting of the Kinl,” responded Policeman O'Connor, “and it's dittle you have to do doing the #ame.”" But Pergolix insisted and « ave the black took @ look, Ab: ing, on @ leg which was very white, was tatooed a dove with a lett@r in itd b | Beneath it was a bright red heart colora that made the rainbow look 1 n a anid ork: “Buby Doll Mary, ‘At the howpltal there were found {a and a stiokpln, She band on-her wedding finger and at with a amail dlasond | setting. oa her baw was a professiona copy of the song: “lm Glad You Going, Good Bye FOR RACING SEE PAGE 2. | | | | fret. {and it makes i Ota emma ggg SINGER WILL HUNT NEW “RAG” SONGS IN INSANE ASYLUM Europe’s Ragtime Mad and Maud Tiffany Hopes to Find Material at Bloomingdale. They're ragtime made in England end Miss Maud Tiffany, inocu- ropean publlo with the mi- pated melody, arrived to- day on the Mauretania, She has come on the Continent, the Amertoan girl lated the EB crove of syn who first over looking for more cras: “quilt acores, and Tin Pan alley wilt be standing on ond for the next month In the effort to deliver the goods, Mine Tiffany says the crazier the rag- the people on the other Her engagements across the pond will keep her busy rigbt up to time the bet aide ike tt, wit, “L expect to stay here about a month,” want to ple The Ene but ume, they don't mem lo quite reach, ‘They get their inflections mixed and wet tauived in their accents. To an American they sound Canny, but not| funny » lifted out of thelr seats, artists are all singing raw- the way they should be, Whea WALDO STARTS AT TOP ON HUNT FOR GRAFT ~ THROUGH WHOLE FORCE Captains Cray, Corcoran and Mar- tens, Under Fire by Commissioner, DenyGambler Purcell’s Charges— Maude Summoned for Inquiry. WHITMAN TO BE CONSULTED BEFORE FURTHER ACTION. Indictment of Capt. Walsh on Mon- day Is Assured and That of In- spector Sweeney Is Expected. PRIOE ONE CENT. Police Commntlesioner Waldo sent notices to Capts. Patrick J. Cray, Thoitias Maude and Patritk Corcoran at noon to-day to report forthwith ot Headquarters, Capt. Prederick W. Martens had called on the Commtssioner shortly before noon, of his own accord. These are the four captains still in ace tive service indirectly accused of grafting by “Jimmy” Purcell, yester- day's AMermanic Committee graft witness. Martens, when he called on the Commissioner, positively denied that he had ever had any deal ings with Purcell directly or indirectly, and said he courted an investiga. ton. It has been the Commissioner's custom to leave his office at noen on Saturdays, But after listening to Martens he upset his habit by decid. ing to remain at Headquarters and question Corcoran, Cray and Maude. ee LOSES HIS VOICE. AT METROPOLITAN DEBUT Statement specifically denying ihe thie Jacques Urlus Breaks Down During the First Act of sepectaliy semphatic tw denying that’te “Tristan und Isolde.” bed ever figured in any transaction with Purcell involving hi police ofMfictal. ae. Min noe Oa Capt. Maude was not at Ais station house in Long Island City when the aummons from Commissioner Wal Peete Pe cotal He will “go on the pet” Mor ind make cores ry his explana- All the other policemen stil! on the force mentioned by Purcell will be sum- moned to Headquarters on Monday and queationed either by the Commisaiancr or Third De Commissioner New- «| urwer. The transactions mentioned ny Purcell went back Afteen or sixtesa years end few of them ocourred subse- quent to May, 1911, when Commissioner Waldo took office, but he is going to investigate all of them, eo far as his authority as Commissioner of Police ex. tends. Of the nine police captains Purcell mentioned ag having made collections from him through plainclothes men, one, Capt. Thomas, is dead, Capt, Pat- rok Corcoran, Thomas Maude, Patrick J. Cray and F, W. Martens are still in the department. Capts. Delaney, Burna, Gannon and Neughton are on the re Toward the close of the fret act of “Tristan and Isolde,” at the Metropotl- tan Opera House thie afternoon, +] Jacques Uriua, a tenor, making his metropolitan debut before @ great and Attentive eudience, faltered in the mid- die of @ song and almost collapsed, His voice had suddenly deserted him. ‘The other artists closed the act with Urtus playing bie part in pantomime William Guard and others coanected with the managegent rushed to the | sala th of ayncopation, “1 open| ptage and found poor Uriue unable to| tired list drawing pensions, in Vie he ns out. five wacka, and the! qpeak above a whisper. He wae taken | WALDO CONSULTS WHITMAN ON Taaler the stuft 4 the better. The peo: | summoned. Commisstoner Waldo repeated to-cay For a time it was feared the perform. ance would have to be closed, but Urlue gradually recovered the use of his tones, Mr, Guard appeared before the curtain and explained the situation, anking tho Indulgence of the audience. Urlue answered hia cue in the second Dig announcement that he is working in harmony with District-Attorney Wait- man in the police graft investigation. In fact it 1s his intention to submic jets to Mr, Whitman be- ny oficial action, Aud if the District-Attorney suggests that cur- they sing “It's & bear,’ It wounds as if|act and started to aing, but it was| feat investigations be halted, or other it were only w Pomerantan pug plain that he was not himeelf, How. | avestsations be inaugurated, his adv Now, 1 Want the real stuff, and L]ever, the audience was good natured | Wil be followed. Third Deputy Commis~ think 1k go to Mioumtagdale Asylum | and sympathetic and he regained some | #oner Newburger will consult with Mr oy even Mppant sometimes IT mean it. You know, nuvales bap into poetry ie Yeat and cragies time that can be conceived, whall (ake a the calropudiaut where bugs are plentiful, ‘dame of the » had ragtime v the strangest conception of wi consisted of. Somewhere a es I met @ lady who confeesed her fhat's not intended to be funny ‘az_|CROWD SEES STREET HOLDUP Then 1} ‘ball, pie on the other side Whitman whe: F anything arises cali- ing for a consultation, At present there is no Mkelihood tha: any criadnal prosecutions will aris from Pureell's charges. Assistant Dis- Rudin have nty-elght page eM@davit signed by Purcell purporting to give his relations with policemen and his knowledge of grafting. But Purcell's teatimony ie uncdhrobor- of his composure as the piece proceeded. —————- ‘Twe Chteage Bandits With Pistols Get 08,080 and Becape. CHICAGO, Feb. &—A daring Gay- i} ight holdup here to-day, witnessed by @ score of passersby, netted two rob- disappointinen; in me tn that 000, The viet Ne ated as yet. Had he been able to seoure That was me, she | employees of Abe Nelson, a quar | tonal charges Mr. Whitman would hadn't fe ave F rs frO0 DF PPOINt: | Wholesaler, have instituted proveeciags against the PAN SAO Ie ee The robbery, at the point of @ pis-| men Purcell named. Failing to seeure se tei of i ipa te “it| tol required but a few seconds, The|this, Mr. Whitman followed the same ‘a sald, was the roughest ever, Misa| crowd stood m: for a moment and! line Tiffany says it was a regular Fagus | Un waye chase, but the bandits Sipp. voyage gacaped, ; ‘ see CUETO