The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1913, Page 1

é INA EDITION. ' PRIOE “ONE OENT. ROW AT SUBWAY si ' BRINGS POLICE RESERVES — SHELLS HIT BRITISH LEGATION ~ IN MEXICAN HOT CANNON DU NEW YORK, THURSDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 13, 1913. AMERICAN ON MPCALL'S HURRY ORDER | centre of city of Mexico Crowd Breaks Into Uproar When/ Hinrichs Denounces Commissioner Williams as Attorney for B.R.T. \ Whe new subway contracts were the subject of a hearing before the Pile Service Commission in the Council Chamber of City Hall this after- fpoon. The big room was jammed to its uttermost capacity. Long lines of } ereons anxious to enter were curled around through the halls and the stair-| { ways of the butlding, regulated by a squad of policemen under Inspector | } Daly, who at 2 o'clock was compelled to send for reinforcements, Eight men arrived from Greenwich street station on the double quick, in charge of Lieut. Aiken. The call for reinforcements followed the declaration of F. W. Hinrichs | { of Brooklyn, who charged that Commissioner Williams was disqualified to] * ait in judgment on the contracts in behalf of the city because at one time he had represerited the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad Company as an attorney, and had received a retainer from that company. GUIDED BY SULZER, TO AID HUMANITY, clared that a question of positive blas entered into the situation in connection mith Conrmissioner Williams. ance of Mr. Hinrichs started Chairman MeCall's gavel ineffective in quelling the 4 and cat-calls which y. Williams commanded silence for a brief space partly arting from his seat, pale and nervous, he waved his right arm and shout Let them go on! Let them go on the crowd broke out afi ec I he y col Hed Bh Mevall with difth mpetiedl Wants to Be Useful and POLICE SENT TO PICKET DUTY _Chooses Agriculture as Field for Helping Others. IN CROWD. ‘The police went among the spectators and stationed thearelves in the quare ters of the room wh the greater volume of noise had emanated. President Mitahel of the Board of| ALBANY, Fob. 13. Aldermen said he anxious to bel selected the fleld of Ht heard, but had an tant hearing in {jing humanity. He has so informed Gov. his own office regarding the regulation | suizer, wio to-day announced he had @f traffic on Eleventh aven CHAU | sceaiated Sb. Anioe to head p Auleea man McCall sald that it was the wish] TO wi popresent New York @f the Commission to Cah the iM aan tate at the meeting of the General As- sembly of the International Institute of | Agriculture, to be hell in Rome, Italy, to-day and that time w next May, The delegation also w "1 yestigate European systems of agris 8} cultural finan Ik at once] Pye other delegates are: William C, feellO88) Brown, President of the New York Benjamin F, Yoak- um, Frederick H. Allen and Henry Morganthau jr., New York; Willott B, Norris, Sodus, and J, William Sanbury, Busti, The delegates erpect to sail for Naples on April 26 and will be re- celved by the King and Queen of Italy on May 10. Goy, Sulzer said Vincent Astor re- cently asked him for his advice on how to be a useful man, Vartous plans Central Company; proar broke forth i} the arrival of the a the order to station a. The appearance of thelr untforms and the sound of thelr angry growls @eemed to have a sedative effect, Magistrate ‘Hylan, representing the Allied Board of Trade and advocating better of Brooklyn, facilities for Brooklyn, was patiently heard were ) in ing the naval Many persons in the audience had big | mil man selected @ards like this: age jovernor h serseseeeeeesee: would use the As m at Rhine Y OF THE SUFFERING : AIR for svientifi i STRAP-HANGER: 5 son CONTRACTS." purposes with a farmers of the ‘ oe a ha hi naval ‘at we uel WOMAN TAKES POISON senaiant View of the members of the| IN THE HOTEL EMPIRE; FAILS TO END LIFE, Mr. Shearn followed Magistrate Hylan. DeGe se eees Wrecked in Artillery Duel _And the Men Behind Guns zcefUOMININTAS wig VIEW OR MEWICO. s i Many Bullets Fired by the Rebels Fall in the U. S. Embassy Grounds While the Entire City Is Shaken the Terrific Both Sides. been fired during the course of the day’s insensate fighting. The Red Cross has tended to 2,000 wounded in three | “ Cirenlation Books Open to An” | 22 PAGES | and Buildings Are Wrecked by Cannonading on WHATHEN—Fale To-8 Friday) Warmer. FINAL EDITION. a PRICE ‘ONE “OENT. aay pe 200 REFUGEES IN THE U. S. EMBASSY; CLUB STRUCK BY SHELL Solid Shot Pierce the Walls of the Hotel Jardin, Filled With Wom.- en and Children—Thousands of Mexican Families Are in Danger, but Most of the Americans Are Safe. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13.—The forces of Madero and Diaz still fight on in the ruins of the heart of the city. Neither side seems to have gained an advantage, though hundreds of shells and thousands of rapd-fire cartridges have days’ fighting. A messenger, bearing despatches from Ambassador Wilson for filing, has arrived at the cable office after having traversed *the whole of the shell-swept zone unhurt. He says that though bullets have fallen in the yard of the American Legation all the BLD4GE OE POOHROTDOD DED EES os cr © QuReRwoo o. MEXICAN ARTILLERY @amewcan When he mentioned Preside earn w Ae ee ad oi ably Mia agner and ne var ss ae No. West One Hundred sad Fecond street attempted suicide this af on by take ne nin the Ifotel F Sixty Shearn at last appealed to Chairman, thir et and roadway. She was] je Hospital, a prise MecCall. “E think, Mr that we tid We left ou trariwise ¢ @nd hoots Chairman Met “That is a per @ald the Chairni @ore interrupt Speakers @eked questions and will at the conclusion of their re Mr, Bhearn urged an the marketing of subway * public market. ‘If we could ma newer (Continued on Fourth Page.) Lig An ry procedure was unpre top In grand taken to-day by sedented Buildd ng to th wey W. Walsh, at No. ie nue, to take his testimony against Bi wera res iva (the Extraordinary Grand Jury in- s the | Vestigating poli when that) body went from the Criminal Courts 1. Thomas | » Madison ave = GRAND JURY AT SICK BED ~ HEARS WALSH'S TESTIMONY Inspector Dennis Sweeney, This” step waa made necessary by the pre- sarious state of Capt, Walsh's health; | Joubt exists that he will to appear in th ever be able FOR RACING ete PAGE 6, rand Jury room at | SUSaxwooo 90600$4000460660696-00664-0426563460409-4000 64 vowed ‘MOBS THREATEN AMERICANS AT FOUR POINTS IN MEXICO “| Las in gd dome | WASHINGTON, Feb. 43.—The rapid spread of an anti-American jsentiment and violent demonstrations against Americans in various parts of Mexico add a new and disquieting clement to the perilous Mexican sit- j uation confronting the Government No one was in the club when the shell burst, and consequently no z refugees there are unhurt. Shrapnel from Diaz's heavy power guns are bursting over outlying sections of the city hitherto unhur! in the two days’ bombardment. Diaz succeeded during the night in hiding sharpshooters on the. roofs of houses in the American colony, some distance away from his stronghold in the ‘Arsenal. To-day they repulsed a detachment of Federals riding unsus- pecting in from Chapultepec. BRITISH LEGATION UNDER FIRE. The British Legation has been under fire almost constantly all day; first because of the planting of Federal artillery before it and latterly by the fire of Diaz's sharpshooters, picking off the Federal gunners. Shortly after noon a shrapnel shell form the Dias bateries of the American Club on the Calle Independ- the corner from the the Calle San Juan de It burst in the library, completely wrecking that room and doing damage to adjacent rooms on that floor. Handsome oil paintings of Washington, Lincoln and President Taft hanging on the walls were ripped to shreds by the shrapnel bullets. loss of life was entailed. But within five minutes two non-combatants were killed on the sidewalk in front of the club, These events occurred during a tierce bombardment of the National Palace by Diaz’s heaviest guns. SHOT PIERCES WALL OF HOTEL. A minute or so’ after the explosion of the shell in the American Club a solid shot bored its way through the heavy walls of the Hotel Jardin at the Calle Independencia and the Calle San Juan de Letran, a few doors away. Women and children were huddled in the great patio of the hotel praying when the solid shot caved in one corner of the building |and fell harmlessly among them. The mad battle in the heart of a half-deseried city still continues with unabated fury and, seemingly, without advantage to either side. Up to noon, when the shells of the contending forces had torn their $ way through the heart of the city for four hours, nothing like a decisive result had been achieved either by the Federals or the rebels. It had been practically an artillery duel, although occasionally small arm fire played a vicious part in the battle. The swift and crushing action promised by the Government was not realized, On the contrary, the fighting was of a monotonous regularity, the Federal troops slowly pounding the rebel position and endeavoring to silence Diaz's guns in order that the final charge might be made with less of sacrifice of life. To this the rebels replied with a steady fire, but they were more chary in throwing away their ammunition and appeared to take better aim than ever, BOTH SIDES RELY ON BIG GUNS. The first really sharp small arm engagement occurred at half past 10, when the Federal forces moved into range. The infantry fighting lasted only a few minutes and was succeeded by a more intense cannonade from the rebels at the Arsenal. No serious attempt had been made iil! 11.30 to rush the fortifications of the rebels, but Gen. Huerta had dispatched from (he vicinity of the National Palace a considerable force of Federal cavalry. The cannonude then lost most of its viclousness and It seemed the rebels were conserving thelr fire, although they continued to throw shells It has been held during the last few days that the incidental injury to, toward the Palace, One Federal battery kept steadily in action at the or killing of Americans during the batty now waing In Mexico City coutd|Colonta staton on the Paseo Reforms and another on 3an Juan de Letran [not constitute sufficlent cause for intervention, but that the report of overt | street. acts directed with Intent against Americans would bring the neeessity tor! AEN OF SHRAPNEL ON CABLE OFFICE, intervention squarely before the President and Congress Between 9 and 10 o'clock shrapnel from bursting shells in the calle San From four points im Mexico bb came to-day reporte of diroct as- (1) saults upon Americans or of | lay threats, which have made them | fear for their lives. | Capt. Thoma Washington of the 5 Te Baus with priv |r Ms tales ZOMARG CARESS Bt | NEM ett” tt aura’ nije to “eatefly cool er 4 hiveute | Chiou Sa itorwe “acher, Sierra @ Coadis Gomnadiis” GS Fark Mow, west Brovkiyy Meidge, ' *: a =f = Presse mr 2 *|Francisco rained upon the steel shutters of the cadle ~\correspondents were filing their accounts of the battle, oMce, wherein the The manager thought seriously of closing down the office to protect his operators, but ! was prevalled upon by the correspondents to remain open, even under fire> There is no way of getting news out of this mad city except by the two wires connecting the office here with the cable end in Vera Crus. 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