The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1913, Page 1

@uarunnoras ‘To-Naht ana Wedne: ys Colder, FIO dh tah ONE CENT. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, “MARCH 4, BRYAN, AS “FIRST von” ( KEEPS TUNE WITH WILSON, UT DISCORD 1S AWAITED Political Sharps Prophecy Fire- works When Policy Clashes With Personality. | | STRONG IN HIS POWER. | Leader of National Party for Sixteen Years Not Gaited \4 for Restraint. BY MARTIN GREEN, | Special Stas Correspondent of ‘The Bvening World. WASHINGTON, March 11,—How Jong is the man who aspired three times to be leader of the orchestra to semain in the position of scraping the first violin? This ts the big ques- tion among politictans concerning the Wilson administration. In other | words, how long is William Jennings! Bryazigoing to sit at the side of the! leader watching his every move with-! out butting in and trying to take hold of the baton? All of Mr. Bryan's friends say that! he has entered the Wilson admints- tration as Secretary of State with the) sole object of performing the duties) _ of his office in a manner that will) strengthen the Democratic party and serve the interest of all the people. Thus far Mr has most industrious of th Cabinet and has shown no disposition | whatever to meddle with the affairs of the White House, If earnestness and sincerity of demeanor count Mr. Br ts intent upon making a record as 4 good Secretary of State. rtheless, | the prophets of discord—and Washtes-| ton {8 full of them, they re 1 been the van by experience for their that the time cannot be long aeayeal| when Mr. Bryan's right of way will suddenly flid itself crossing the right | of way of the President. Mr. Bryan has been the leader of en | Democratic party for sixteen years his apparent defeat In St, Louls in 1004 not without his knowledge and t-and tn those sixteen years he it up @ very strong and willing personal organization, In additt Bryan, being a born ieader of men a aware of the inside of his own op tions, knows full well part played in the nomination of Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore. MR BRYAN'S POSITION ODD FROM POLITICAL VIEW. For the reason that he was largely | Ma responsible for that nomination his po- sition as a sort of a hired man in the | pdministration is more or less anoma- lous from a political point of view, Ip, is doubtful if a man not gifted Wich | Woodrow Wilson's peculiar qualities of self confidence and clever ingenuou nese Would have dared appoint such powerful factor in his own party 4s William J, Bryan to an office #0 Inix portant as that which, Mr. Bryan holds. ‘As the situation stands it is up to Mr, Bryan to keep right on doing as he has done since he took the oath of | office, Undoubtedly he will continue to follow that course as long as he 1s let alone. What political Washington is waiting (Continued on Fourth Page.) MAYOR HAS MAN EJECTED FROM HEARING ON SUBWAY. Apphiuds Woman Contracts Hari Opposing Thomas Speaker and is Throwa Out, For soplaudius « t ” M cP. Fincher, « if the opponents of nd Apportion served hime fomas Tart, a comtractor, was d's room by order MURPHY’S PARTNER FOR WHOM HE SEEKS FAT HIGHWAY JOB. ‘aYERS OF OF GRAFT BACK WREN, NAME Indictment of Thompson and Hussey Sought Through New Witnesses. MRS. HERTZ TELLS MORE. * COREA COMMITTEE © REPORT ON POLIE I PASSED BY ALDERMEN Walsh Is Only Dissenter and Protests Against Governor’s Power of Removal. Alae John Walsh, from “Nick’ Maye < the only opponent | tot Roard of Alder- the committee, He i and pre ton in the report he given th pmissioner, re= appointing power of the rator relalmed rem wardless of the r Ifa even, of home rule ts to nserved, said the Alderman, then the removal power should rest 1 the appointing powe He also protested against tion,” saying that he had not had time in which to study and digest the report. “And I doubt if any other member of the Board las had sufficient time in which to consiler the recommendations of this high inquisitorial body,” he added, Prior to the taking of the vote Prest- dent Mitchel declared he was opposed to the proposed cight-year term. Thon he retired from the chair for the time being, giving way to Vice-Ch&irman Kline. All the Tammany men except Walsh voted with the Republican and “quick ac- Fusion members of the Board for the| adoption of the report. A copy of it will be sent to the Governor and the Mayor and will be circulated in the Le at Albany hea ay WILSON REFUSES TO ACT IN CASE OF SHARRETTS, Kelers Senators to Secretary Mes Advo on Relustatement of Offi- cial Removed by Taft. WASHINGTON, March 11,—Prest- dent Wilson to-day declined personally to interfere in the case of Thaddeus power to) | Suspended After Heated Session With Waldo. mony reluctantly given yesterday before the Grand Jury by the ex-policeman and collector, James Wren, were called before the Grand Jury to-day. District-Attorney Whitman planned, | by the evidence of these witnesses, to ‘lay @ firmer groundwork for conviction | "pon the indictments, to be handed down probably to-norrow, against the ex-inspectors and present suspended police captains, James F. Thompson and James E. Hussy, Bribery will be the charges against them in the indictments, and it is certain that more than one count will appear against each of the former inspectors, Wren had declared that he collected graft for inspector Murtha while the latter was in charge of the Seventh and Sixth Inspection District, comprising Hariam and the Bronx, although at the time mentioned—March, 1911—Wren had been transferred first to the Leonard Street station and later to Flatlands. The demoted inspector is fifty-two years old Joined the force in 188s. Five yi ater he b sergeant, four years after that Meutenant and five years later captain, He was made inspect by former Commissioner Baken March 16, 1910, He lives at No 0 Last Thirty-second street, Brooklyn, Lt is understood that the witnesses an put before the Grand rated specifically many of Wren's statements concerning the amounts of graft collected by him and the persons who pald !t, SAYS HE PAID GRAFT FOR SWEENEY UP TO JANUARY. Samuel Levy, proprietor of a saloon and lodging house known as the Glen Court, at No, 3) West One Hu Sixtoenth street, before the Grand added to the already extensive Sergeant Peter Duffy as a attributed one more elice ¥ Inspector Dennis Ain under suspension. ad paid $7 a month to Sweeney's man up of this year, tor himself had just three days pre Capt, Thomas W, Walsh made hin confession, Levy declared without embarrassment that at one time during his buying of protection he did not even have @ liquor license, but that $75 per month covered that deficiency in the eyes of the police, At another time, he sald, he tried to ‘hold out" on the inspector's collector and something happened right away, The day after his protection mongy Was overdue his chief clerk was are rested on the charge of keeping a dis- orderly house, Then Duffy came around and told him that if he didn't “come through” the case against the clerk would be jammed through the courts “straight. SWEENEY'S VISIT WARNED HIM TO BE SILENT, Levy promptly gave up hie 97% and when the case came before a magist {t was thrown out for lack of me Jur. record of lector a jot graft | Sweeney to now ca to and that Then Duffy took occasion to Levy So the latter testifled to-day, that the he tried “holding out on * the matter wouldn't slip out of rt #0 easily 1 telling Sweeney J of the vistt of Tuspy Walsh t before the onfen m, Levy sald he recelyed the Impros- Jrion from that r pald to him that swe anted press him with [the fact that it Md be good | ranks | Another igre day was Mrs, Hills, who ts thi of pollee graft toe hediamoned letress of a dise € house on West Forty-ninth ennell, the Mayor's rretts, a member of the United] ‘ Honne tes vera! Board of General Ap- or an hour she was closeted praisers at New York, wao Obs | with Assistant District-Attorney Smith, recently dismissed by President ‘Taft etving him t tails of the police pro. WASHT ent on charges of malfeasance nad until lat 4 Wilson went to the } nday the nators Lodge, Smoot and Stone] t9 Pay to t wrdman , following nominations: Register of the a plea for the reinstatement of| WhO !s Hot now on the Land Office, Great Falls, Mont., Robert Sharretts, The President referred] Mary Stakeum, better known In toe N Butherlin; Receiver of Public Moneys, | the three Senators to Secretary Mc-| ._ — Grong Falls, Mons, Thompe Coral, — AdO% a see aetna (Contipues op Hecond Regen pee TWO INSPECTORS | Inspector Murtha Reduced and | New witnesses to corroborate the teat!-| NEWYORK TOJON INQUIRY ON VICE AND LOW WAGES Legislature Soon to Follow Ac- “LMILLIONAIRES TESTIFY ABOUT FATAL COLLISION Shonts, Vandeybilt and Freedman Warned as Witnesses Belmont, tion in Illinois on Salaries Paid to Girls, SULZER READY TO ACT.|HEAD DEFENDS SYSTEM. to Congressmen in Steel Cars Would Have Killed Many Beside Policeman, Shonts Swea Messages Washington Show Movement | Will Be Nation Wide. | Theodore P. Shonts, August Relmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, E. J. Benwind, Andrew Freedman and other Inter! ough officiatn and dlrectors—represent- ing more milfons of dollars than ever was represented before at a New York minor court of inqutry—were called. be- and Speaker Smith have followed the| fore Coroner Feinberg this afternoon Chicago investigation carofully and it] @ the Inquest into the death of a is said they have received many re-| Policeman, John M. Gleason, who was quests to turn the light on this sub-| Killed fn @ collision on the Third Ave- ject as strongly as they did on the| nue Elevated Railroad Jan, % last. wrong# of women and children working| Sixteen persons were hurt in that in factories and tenement houses, The| Collision, and one of them, Mre, Mary ALBANY, March 11.—That the Wag-| ner-Smith investigating committee will take up the question of minimum wages pald to women in stores and factories! In the State, and the effect of small) wages on health and morals, is asserted here to-day. Both Senator Wagner committee expects to make an carly! Lancer, has since diet fram the results start. |of her injuries. The policeman was Declaring that he would give €ll pos-| standing in the front of the first car sible ald to an investigation of the) of the rer train and was not only white slave traffic, Sulzer to-day replied to the letter sent by Lieut.- Gov. O'Hara’ of Mlinols. O'Hara de- tailed the revelations in Chicago, and suggested a commission to investigate the subject and act with ot States to secure uniform ‘legislation against bidd killed but his body was jammed in the wreckage and burned. MILLIONAIRES CALLED DINGY LITTLE COURT. In a stuffy little room across Lafay- ette the Criminal Courts INTO street from the evil, Gov, Sulzer said: Butlding, and abey ner swoon, “Twill co-of with the Tlinois] en, millionaires of New York's trans. authorities and with all other good! portation evatem to-day anawered tur citizens to put a stop to this detest- able traffic. I have given the matter »nxideration and will now give tt more careful attention and investl- gation." OTHER STATES ARE READY To! CO-OPERATE. SPRINGFIELD, ML, Mare) 1.—The Senate committee investigating th ‘white slave” evil will go to New York city next week to consult with John D. Rockefeller jr. regarding suppr “The newspapers have told part of the story," satd ‘The situation is appalling. i not only the ‘al indorsement but the} active and, if need be, the financial sup. Coroner and an ed at the pla the loss of one summons fre swered his au of uy some for viame life directors arrived, oMectals of the company placed the blaine on the motorman, Michael Kern, who te held ma charge of homicide. Mr, Shonts was the first of the big | financial lights to take the stand. He was xwor | trom the Coroner: “It is my duty to warn you that any- thing you may say will be used a you should there subsequently anything to show there was gullty knowledge on your part or on the ing | poli Before the port of & number of the best people f| of the directors of the Interborough as the country in our inveatigati to conditions on the ‘Third avenue CHICAG He Although the) sevated. Having given you wi State Vice jon took an indetl ling is it your wish to testiuy?* 1 force of Mt# inves | ste ig) wald Mr, Bhonts K today gatheris! str Shonts then let it be known that ‘ he had taken a personal hand in the With particular referen’” | iy vewtigation collision and had to the environ nt of chor on “ito the scene of the wreck He and Restaurants: To show the wages and environments of waitresses j found Mr, Hed | as soon as the flreme he said, had given pe: Stenographers: Their wages and ©M-| ission he had ordered the resumption vironments. of traMe. Reports that vice resorts, since the) coroner Feinberg asked if Mr. closing of the segregated district, exist in residential sections Popular gongs whose words are sua- gestive. Lieut.-Gov. O'Hara, Chairman of the} Commission, said he had received from the Governors of Wisconsin, Iowa, | Michigan and Nebraska communications 16 co-operative vice crusades tn Shonts and the directors had ever dis- cussed the need of using a better signal system on the elevated road. SUBWAY SYSTEM WOULD Ex- TEND HEADWAY, , It was brought up in 1911," the witness said, “sen the Public Service Commission ordered us to show cause why we should not lave more and long- TO WASHINGTON |er trains and another aignal system on the ne. Our policy hus been safety first. The Third avenue olevated is the Moet congested in the city, We operate traine on a forty-two-second headway This is the first case of @ passenger | delng killed tn a colliston, There have been passengers killed tn dera!lment. “If we established the system of aig- used tn the subway we could only i MESSAGES SHOW NATION AROUSED. WASHINGTON, March = .—From every section of the country there are pouring in today on the new Adminis- tation and Senators and Congresenen appeals that they take up the question of the minimum wage for women end girls a# soon as possible, Tho revela- tons in the Chicago probe, which ar n paralleled in every community ia the fun at A headway of one dent and sojourner clause, With | ; thirty seconds, and that wo ‘ ftanls co was nation, have stirred the people to any ee ee the tine in half, hia elim the ordinance was | extent seld are reached and there! it’ ye to ava taee op ao vans @ householder In Hittle doubt ff the problem wil t Ae she Geet antag «city may have wit m aw really Berto le When che regular) to run At a shorter headway a re but the jer heesion of Congress n be ' Are wooder afe in a collision at frst obtain aw permit from the | nex wed the Coron Y 1 1 n thet ar ie sate ir Mision? replied | ation xa ‘ Mrs ‘ ald | nvited tiat th “ Gleason. He . arleston. nv ree JEST aPR re TTP Poa EY [ated || CHARLESTON, Mare 1t--Pourth insisted al hie | eevee cna uava horn etl | nce—Thret ds and up lentsiatla i t Pia aE ae) cay nda half furl Samuel K brings t ibJect the| #tre and 1M " avo] (Goose) 1, 8 too and out, legislators, Putt wens i It w J Af t; Sherw 14 (Muse ito tion of any general bil fran are would have AM 1 6 to na . 1, Caugh Hin, | the ine muggested trom 0 how |idt (iuxton), 1 to 2 and out,| immediately pr ate the dey Cornelius Vanderbilt was called to the | fered ee rea aslon Gf Biatee | THEE jatand, Ho wae eaked ¢ me ques: | ite Grand and alno rau point, F i ly fe Coroner, Me said that ie Gecidediy thekiish altuation that w ver knew « Mrectorate digcus PSE macy to solve wit Ch FOR RACING SEE PAGE 5, | : ~~ ertain to-day trom Ave ain tod | PANAMA CANAL CRUISES, | ved from nearly 6 , ' orination vie [country vaat che entire natio all THEW ia vB a and recelved this warning CHANGE FIREARM LAW But Provision Allowing Household- resident of the shall t el t t f p wel vem t divarms re makes them the victims of thugs and criminals, wh t 1 moved—when 20 P VTERBOROUGH'S “HEAD AND DIRECTORS WHO TESTIFIED AT INQUEST a, NTS GIVING NON-RESIDENT RIGHT TO HAVE WEAPON. in Homes Aldermen, ers to Hav Is Re-Enacted by rinen disanpre ordinance of Alder iting to the Mayor says slause pro ity or travel prehended because of t possession of such pistol, revolver or other firearms.’ This. «! immunity 0 all non-residents, sojourners or tray even though they be burglars, ghwaymen or other habitual er!minals “It does not mean to me that you in- end this, May T also call your atten- fon to the fact that the Legislature s amending the flrearme act so aa to permit householders to protect them: An T have frequently pointed out he State law as it Is now in effect, table people and thereby possesion of tras “The last “be do not disarm any more obey the laws against burg nee and murde: Ww was quick to appre- the point raised by the Mayor and the matter came up for sion In the board—to eliminate the han bh ary, viol Alderma .[ that she had not rew WEAT FIN EDITION. Wednesdays Colder, > [ “Circulation Be Books Open to All, a 1913, “PRICE ONE “OENT. AGES “$50,000,000 ROAD JOB OR WAR,” IS MURPHY’ CHALLENGE TO SULZER | Place Demanded for Brother-in-Law Gaffney as Commissioner of Public Roads, Whose Department Handles Huge Appropriations. ENORMOUS PATRONAGE GOES WITH THE OFFICE " Gepannae Known to Be Worried Under Pressure Tammany Leader Has Brought to Bear. Charles F, Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, has put It squaretyap to Gov. Sulzer to appoint James EB, Gaffney, his business partner, int mate adviser and brother-in-law, to the vacancy created by the removal of H. Gordon Ree! as Commissioner of Public Roads after an exposure Miss Is Found Jersey partner, WON, N. J, March 1.—Lost tn Ramapo Mountains overnight and in the height of a slashing rainstorm, was the terrifying experience from which Miss Loutse Slack of Ogdens- the of the scandalously bad acministration in the Department of Public High ways following an investigation by The World. Mr. Murphy recently let it be known at Washington that Gov. Sub The attitude of the boss regarding Gaffney’s nomination 1s that if the appointment is not made Mr. Murphy and all the forces at his command will fight the Governor to a finish, > There ina $50,000,000 appropriation for good roada which the new Commis- LOST ON MOUNTAIN /sz7'225= | There 1» no question amo: ‘sein who are wondering if the Jovernor will Sppoint the active head of the Murphy | hes"# ability as an administrator and | 4 Practical man, But there is « grant 1 of question as to whether he will ly signify his domination by Tam- COMPANY GOT A MONOPOLY THROUGH DOCK BOARD. Louise Slack, Exhausted, | Gaffney bullt up the New York Cen- tracting and ‘Trucking Company, with by i his ostenst Through the Dock Hoard Chey obtained what was nearly in the use of piers from Xcavated matertal could be put attacked by District-Attorney Jerome but thare was no basis found for nina! prosecution, The power of the firm in polities be- burg 1s toxlay slowly recovering. She/to give work to loyal henchmen, I was found unconscious early to-day by|Teturn tt had the ability to gemand a eearablog party (iat bed beaten (ce contracts for which many less favored concerns were eager. Ite power wae Mine Black, who ia sixteen years old, forced npont a. left her home near Ogdensburg toward)». .amy tie aaah anaes toa dark last evening to go over the Moun-| Company, No other concern has hed tain two miles to the house of a friend) such cat contracts. Among them were chose, though steep and rugged, saved | tion, a large share of the great werke much walking by the road and was one|of tho Long Island and Penneyivante she knew wel, She was warmly clad|!allroads in Long Island Cry and the and feared no aiMoulty because of the| | beet wlices of the subway jobs, a Ratlroad found occasion to deny two Hardly had the «tri sari me Hy years ago that the relations of his road began to rain hard. In bowing h hea wit) Gaffpey and Murphy had anything against the blasts sho inadvertently | ro do with their interest tn the asleetion zer’s claim to ve the State leader of the Democratic party was a delusion, sioner tm to spend va Deeper am GIRL WANDERS ALL 2=Sissssn"ssce many and Leader Murphy. | Jenn J. Murphy, the leader's brother, ae Searching Party. aboard scows on the rivers. ‘This was came enormous because of its ediitty mountain thickets for her all night shown when tts biggest competitors were at the village of Edison, The path she| the excavation for the Pennsylvania eta- pe Prosident Peters of the Long Island | pped from the trail and before she a borough president in Queens, Just realized her mistake she was deep tn t such unpleasa i as called forth the heart of the woods, Each | denial always ows the trail of Gaft+ sand in politics, Mr, in busin n oftice was that of turned to find some famtttar rocky w a nay 6 ONY SRORY Aaa Nici n from the Bighteenth distriot, : ind he was a wv. Sulver @ a th: a QP weeks ago the Gov- 4 highway advisory committee, MUCH PRESSURE ON GOV, SUL. | ZER FOR THE APPOINTMENT, Sulzer is known to have had a food deal of pressure put on him to fing a Way to put Gaffney in touch with the $50,000,009 State roads appropriation, and isoharg-|ho thought for a time that a plac on hearing] the advisory board would atall off » dee fe lovt gir | mand for direct control of the departe tion in Edison and, tneroug ve organized a with lanterns way through t of the mountains, occasional, ing their pleces in the hope hout from t tov arching nt ta Men pushed thet: indergrowth the &n answering After the wight ne party|ment and {ts personnel. It has deem found xhausted in the rocky |made very clear to nim within the last early to-day, She was hurried few days that he has merely given the home and ts _ Murphy crowd a rea} good sniff at the pbysICAD, ocdies witch be is guarding and.@hey et hn te :