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en a ee eee ee Conretaht. 1918. by ‘Os, (The New MAYOR GAYNOR APOLOGIZES AND CURRAN'S LIBEL SUIT FORSI00 Signs a Lettér Withdrawing His Reflections on the :. Alderman’s Honesty. BOTH SIDES SATISFIED. Cash Settlement Did not Fig- ure, Says Curran’s Counsel, | Ex-Judge Olcottt. Mayor Gaynor settled the libet uit brought against him by Gen. Bingham by the payment of $10,000 cash. For the second time Mayor Gaynor Was apologized and has ended a libel eutt. Today Alderman Henry H. Cur- rap's suit against him for $100,000 damages was closed with a display of correspondence brought about after seven jurors had been put in the box before Justice Page in Part IV. of the Supreme Court. Mayor Gaynor takes back all that he said against the Alderman, who is the head of the Curran Graft Committee. He explains in his letter of apology that while he knew and had evidence to prove that Aldermen were collecting graft for the giving of licenses to the holders of street stand privileges he did not mean, after all, that Mr, Curran had taken any of that graft. ‘The Mbel case for the defense fell flat this morning when Stephen C, Baldwin, counsel for the Mayor, asked an ad- journment. Justice Page granted it and Mr, Baldwin and W. M. K. Olcott, coun- eel for Mr. Curran, immediately got together as to the terms of the apology. Mr. Olcott and Mr. Curran talked over the matter in one room of the City Halt n@ Mayor Gaynor and Mr. Baldwin talked it over in the Mayor's offic The two litigants and their coun: finally shaped up this correspondence, upon which Justice Page permitted the discontinuance of the suit: MAYOR GAYNORS LETTER OF APOLOGY. CITY OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE MAYOR. March 26, 1918, Dear Mr. Baldwth: The suxgestion made to me by you and Judge Olcott, counsel for Mr. Curran, that the sult brought against. me by Alderman Curran should be discontinued meets with my approval, I would not in any case wish to withstand the joint ad- vice of counsel, Much less do Twist to do so in this case, for now that the evidence of the trafficking in licenses for stands and of the pay- ment of money for such licenses has been collected, there is no evidence that Mr. Curran personally particl- pated in such graft or received any money therefrom, When I wrote my letter to Mr. Curran, of which he complains, I had much evidence which had been furnished to me by various depart- ments and officials, some of it sworn to, that such trafMcking and grafting was taking place through- out the city, When I described method by which graft was secured in Heensing these stands—namely, that a certificate of approval would be secured from the Alderman of the district by a go-between or ward heeler, who would hold it up and refuse to deliver it until he was paid for it~I had ample evi- dence thereof before me, and there had accumulated before me evi- dence that certain persons were pursuing this system in Mr, Cure van's Aldermanic district. But, as I have said, there is no evidence that Mr. Curran ever par- tieipated in the payment or receipt ef such moneys. And I am ex- eeedingly glad to believe that he 414 not, and it must be remembered thet I mever directly said that he aid, And what pli 9 me now very moch fe that Mr. Curran will give me his powerful assistance in root- ing out this form of graft all over (Continued on Page 14.) ——_ schalgunteengnemaraten teint itt f O00 IS DROPPED Occult Powers of Nine-Year- CLD MAY FN NISING FATHER BY SECOND ST Old Marguerite Wilson Are Her Mother’s Hope. GIRL SAYS HE IS SICK. She “Sees” Him in a Hospital “Somewhere,” Though Po- lice Are Baffled. The “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ WBRATHER—Ra! to-night FI EDITION. Thareday; colder. ‘The Press York Werld). NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, TENDERLOIN SOS AT MAYOR'S ORDER OFLIDONAT A.M. Keening of the Cabarets Min- gles With the Doleful Dirge of the Dives. - GREAT BLACK WAY SOON Hotel Men and Better Class of Cafes, However, Commend New Curfew Rule. The Tenderlo!n ts all torn up to-da’ over the new edict of the Mayor that the lid must be on the city at 1 o'clook every morning. This means just what It says. The Great White Way must be the Great Black Way when curfew sounds at 1 o'clock in the morning. The fizz of the grape, the sizz of the seltzer into the high along All Night Lane April Fool’s Day. That this s no April Fool joke !s ap-| parent from the tone of the Mayor's letter to Police Commissioner Waldo, putting on that official the responsibility of closing up the restaurants and all A atrange, almost supernatural power Of second sight possessed by his nine- year-old daughter, Marguerite, may to- da ult in the solution of the myste- rious disappenrance of Thomas 8, W:'- fon, formerly a well-to-do iinen mor- chant of No. 135 Broadway. He has ‘been missing since last Saturday, and while there has been some disposition to he has met with foul play the ly him tn 6 hospital, ot aphasia, No canvas of the hospitals of the greater city was begun until to- day, the family pelleving until now that he would return. ‘The daughter of the missing man, called ‘Bonn! by her family and schoolmates, is one of the brightest pupils of Public Bchool No, No, 3% Greenwich avenue. From the time she was able to talk the little girl has on numerous occasions exhibited powers that are at least of most pronounced intuition, Several instances were fe- lated to-day by her moth who is enduring the agony of suspense with a fortitude principally born of belief in her little daughter's firm assertion that her father Js not dead, but lying, per- haps unconscious and at least unable to tell who he is, in some hospital. When “Bonni old, her father, one evening, little late in returning from business, The child was having.a nap, said her was a mother to-day, when suddenly she awoke and walked determinedly to the door of the apartment. Her mother called to her, but the child seemed not to hear, Again her mother, thinking the little one was going to visit a five- year-old playmate on the same floor, called to her, this time more firmly, telling “Bonnie” she could not play any more that day, ‘The child turned, with In her big brown eyes, The reply stagtled Mrs. Wilson, but she laughingly asked the child how she (Continued on Fourth Page.) MOTHER WON'T LET HIM HAVE FORTUNE -BECAUSE the Bronx. content with Childs's or Dennett’ the ashcan for the ‘cabaret after o'clock in the morning. Forty-second street after 1 o'clock must be devoid of color. Broa the cadaret streets pouting inte | the roaring’ Fortes must be noiseless | thoroughfares after 1 o'stock in the | morning. ORDERS ISSUED IN EVERY IN- SPECTION DISTRICT. | At Police Commissioner Wuldo’s office it Was sald to-day that the order of the Mayor would be carried out to the ex- treme, All-night licenses for the sale| of iquor have been revoked. All #a- loons, cafes, restaurants, all dining rooms in hotels where liquor is served oF sold, are included. Instructions were ued to-day to the inspectors in every district in every borough to see that tne | order of Mayor Gaynor 4s carried out to| the letter. A uniformed policeman will | be sent into each cafe or restaurant | shortly before 1 o'clock on the morning of April 2—next Tuesday mornin, notify the patrons and proprietors that the place must be closed on the hour, A lingering highball on the table may be finished. But if a man has two high- balls in front of him the second must | go untasted, otherwise there will be a violation of the law. The man serving the drink as well us the man swallow- ing it will be liable to prosecution Balls or banquets in hotels may be per- | mitted to endure after the prescribed hour, in which case an all night 1 for the night must be secured. wili be hard to get, apparent! Mayor feels that This for the can eat ‘people enough and especially drink or guzu wine and liquor enough by at night.” Many sobs are heard from all-night plac whose proprietors and waiters are strangers to the people of New York who go to business before 9) o'clook in the morning. These places, where’ well dressed and bejewelled women drink and dance to the music of the cabaret until the ll hours, de clare that they must go out of business. GOOD “SPENDERS” CAN DANCE ANY WAY THEY PLEASE. Night after night, in such places, 1 o'clock this message via wireless, from Mt} wreck and waste of water, and # third Vernon: is on the way. Five thousand refugees “Great flood; one hundred lives jost,| are reported In a park Ine re sity. They withou “ nes all de de world cut of,| 0% the city. They are SHE DISLIKES HIS WIFE. Son Married Against Her Wishes and Now Sues for $150,000 Father Left. Walter 8, Hanson of Brooklyn against his mother, Aimee L, Hanson, and for- mer Judge Nash Rockwood of Sara- toza, her counsel, for the possession of the personal estate of the plaintiff, which he values at about $150,000, This estate was left to him by his father. Young Hanson claims his mother {s iMegally holding the estate because she is displeased at his marriage, on Nov. last, to Miss Henrietta Reuttl, He says in his sult that he signed what he thought was a deed of trust on the day of his father's funeral which now turns out to be a deed of conveyance to his mother, and he wants that set aside. He sets up the plea that, tn: much as he has never done a day's work in his WU BOR RACING OBE PAGE 14, ., ‘bis 1 : lack of experience of making a living, it 1s necessary ¢hat he get possession of A suit was filed this afternoon by | Comhwid _. remes tables are reserved for the maie and | female wine-bibbers from 11 o'clock until closing time, until the end of th night 48 reached in @ taxieah, locomo- |tlon by other means being imposs: For other guests, secking plain dinn | with red wine perhaps, there is scant service and little courtesy, It is the | “spenders who are sought and solac Jand courted in these palaces of the grape. And whether they dance on the table or under the table, or kick o¥ the table, the proprietor smiles and adds the damage to the bill, And the waiter smiles and thinks of the big tp to come. Says Mayor Gaynor in hia letter The people who patronize such places after the regular closing hour ot 1 o'clook are not, as @ rule, decent f t [win be done.” river. |people, They are vulgar, rolstering | ———; -|uy the @ lapse of Wolff's Hall, in} | and often openly immodest, ‘They : A vs which they had sought shelter, Ten) Bet intoxicated, behave bolsterousiy |f0F his action: | Thay hay ney Bre Pt) ousamd are homeless hi 1,000 and indulge in lascivious dancing in |Gucree hut will be wlad to sea it an. |wouses having been swept awa rooms devoted to that use. It is |forced to the extreme, In the Raines| So far 424 persons have been brought time to put an end to all of these law hotels the decree of the M to a landing station at Blaine avenue | vulgar ongies. | will probably be distressing to the ail-|and Morria street, in skiff and canoes, | These are the places the proprietors |Nikht men, but that they will learn| stories of muffering among the refu- | |of which complain that they will have to necommodate | inelr wants to thelyoes as they were brought from the Pto go out of business, Proprietors and that the “swell” alleniaht cates wi)|focded areas this afternoon are pa- |managers of the better class of cafes) Jed the betes men commend sho Mayor FIRE FO No ‘| 190 REPORTED DEAD thousands of ¢ Pennsylvania, roads miles |SULZER SENDS OFFER worke If New York State can render any aid Ito t ° abun tetas MARCH 26, 1913. AGES 20 P PRICE ONE OENT. \DVLGDGHODOGODOGHOGS: DOQOQGQOODOOGHOHOOHGHOOGDHOGIODS GAYNOR ISSUES CALL ASKING RELIEF FUND FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS Mayor Gaynor issued the fol- lowing message to the people of New York to-day: TO THE FROPLE OF TEE CITY OF NEW YORE: ‘The appalling loss of life and Gieasters from wind and flood in the West require that a relief fund be made up for the suf- ferers. Several citizens have already expressed to me their wish to contribute. I therefore ask the people of the city generally to contribute the Mayor's office or to Jacob H. Schif, Treasurer of the tional Bed Cross Society, at Mo. ‘William street, or to the ) office of the National Red Cross Society, at Wo, 105 Bast Twenty- second street. ‘W. J. GAYHOR. made homeless by floods in northert monia and other complications of the AT MOUNT VERNON IN WIRELESS MESSAGE, COLUMBUS, O., Mar ineering departn 26.—The elect: Ohto Two relief partion from South Bend are within a few miles of the elt, fighting to get through the mud and ent of the University this afternoon received other shelter than the Lare branches ot} the trees, FLOOD sia! ars Ke 1 Ohio rat track washed out," —— —>___ Baltimore a MOVES UPON CITIES TO SOUTH. There are the gravest fears regarding the fate of Terre Haute, Evansville and Princeton, which suffer in times of or- OF NEW YORK AID TO dinartly high water and upon which the GOVERNOR OF OHIO, | 01's whion are subsiding tn the up per part of the State must descen ALBANY, March 26.—Gov. Sulzer to-| Within @ few hours with unprecedented ay sent the following telegram to|disester: Waraings have beer sent to) Cox of Ohio Lil towns in the lower parts of the State am deeply grieved at the to get residents of sections near the frightfud inaster has overwhelmed pe of your beautiful State such havee to m of your yu T extend to the heartfelt sympathy ple of New York, and trust nity Is not as bad as reported [river to safety and to prep for the shelter of those who m ‘The estimated } believed to be sn to} warning of the flood, was increased by the first news from West Indianapolis, telephoned by a staff correspondent the Associated Press who was rooned there, that 200 persons at leaat) had deen drowned on that side of the| Scopes of refugees were killed! w ions and eople of Ohio t f the r sister State of Ob rything possi advive me, to help you thetic, women andj ot be “compelled ty wo wut of busi- ILLOWS BIG FLOOD; 3,671 DEAD IN TWO \Main Street, Business Centre of Dayton, Which Was Under Fifteen Feet of Water SNOW AFTERFLOO MAY AD TOTHE 545 EAD IN DANA 5,000 Refugees. at Peru Marooned in Park Without Shelter or -Food— 300 Drowned There, 200 at Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, March 26.—A heavy snowstorm, following a sudden drop in temperature, increased the sufferings of the thousands probably will increase the number of deaths by scores by causing pneu- lin the floods yesterday and toxlay, and the tornadoes earlier in the week. There are conflicting reports regarding the loss of life at Peru, but the greater number of messages which get to the outside world when tele- phone communication is re-established from time to time only to be broken down again, is that there are 300 dead there. ooig Red Croom, to send contributions at ence STATES Thousandsof Terror-Stricken Persons Marooned in Buildings at Day- ton as Flames Sweep Above - Swirling Waters. DAYTON’S DEATH LIST _ NOW REPORTED.AT 2,000 Two Hundred Are Said to Have.Lost: Lives at Stratford—lIndiana’s": Death Roll Now 545, me: FLOOD’S DEATH TOLL THROUGH TWO STATES. REPORTED DEAD IN OHIO. | REPORTED DEAD IN INOFANA, 50 30) Total .............-. 60 aga ie Grand total ..........3,671 5 25 Total ..........--.--3,126 Scattering ........... A report was sent out from Dayton, 0, late this afternoon that the flooded business district, where thousands have been marooned in offiee bulldings, hotels, and theatres since yesterday afternoon, is in flames. Upen receipt of this information Gov. Cox announced that he would leave Colum- bus at once with troops for Dayton on special trains and endeavor te reach the stricken elty regardless of cost or effort. There Is no way of fighting the fre. Persons in bursing butidings ry the flooded districts must jump into the flood or make thelr way to ads Joining bufldings, Two different confirmatory reports of the fire have sifted out of Dayton. One reads: “There has been an explosion in the middle of Day- ton. The town is on fire and the loss of life has been increased. People are burning up, and we have no way » to get to them or to the fire either.” The other message reached Gov. Cox at Columbus at 2.47 o'clock (Western time), It stated that the entire business section of the elty appeared to he doomed to destruction by fire despite the fact that the ‘n and central Indiana, The storm cases of those wounded and crushed and exposure, Mrs, Burgess of No. 536 Chane street, with an eight-month old baby waa found unconscious, aw was Ora, Olive Dunham of 24 Chase street, seventy-four years old, rhe names of none of the dead have been gathered, but rescuers assert that the number will be large, Fourteen are known to have been drowned in West Indianapolis as the result of the treaking of the Morris street levee. Rescuers say that fam- ily of lx, consisting of father, mother and four children, were seen dead tn thelr home, No efforts are being made to recover bodies, as every meann ‘+ being used to get the women and chil- dren, who in many cases are either anding In water on the upper floors of their homes or have gone to housetops and are suffering from Connersville, on the Whitewater Rt late to-day managed to resume com- munication With the world, The town streets are covered with from nine to twenty feet of water, GOVERNOR OF OHIO GOES TO DAYTON. orders that a special train be mado No, who is The Governor immediately gav up to be loaded with provisions and soldiers, He planned to leave Cola bus at 480 o’elock for Cleveland. From Cleveland, according to the route laid out by railroad experts, the train will go to Toledo and from there try to get to Piqua or Troy. If there Is no railroad from Troy into Dayton the Governor plans te wo by boat or raft across the flooded country, While the situation throughs out the State Is serious enough, the Governor regards conditions at Dayton as bppalling. 2,000 REPORTED DEAD IN DAYTON. | ‘The last bulletin from Dayton before the fire news stated that investle j sation had established that the original estimates of deaths were more res (Continued on Second Page.) [lable than the revised Agures, which had cut the list of fatalities down President Wilson’s Appeal for Aid WASHINGTON, March 26.—~The following appeal in 1Cross at Wa connection with the floods in the Middle Western States | soclety. nie was issued to-day by President Wilson: “We should make this a common cause, The nedds > “The terrible floods in Ohio ‘of those a every one capable Indiana have as- sumed the proportions of a national calamity. Loss |disaster has come al of life and the infinite suffering Involved prompts me jof sympathy and compassion to give immediate ald te to Insue earnest appeal to all who are able, in how- |those who are laboring to rescue and relieve. ever small a way, to assist the labors of the American to the Bed < sWoopmow wisens 2 | Hoh me Sia SF ore mae ya mee