The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1913, Page 6

§ OE Ty CECE I GR A tw > WANE CENTRAL + CAPT NEARLY TRAIN VER Vice-President Testifies Road Had Paid Dividends on Lesser Issue, pal | I. TOWNSEND BURDEN, SOCIETY LEADER, WHO DIED IN CITY HOME. BOSTON, April 38.—Vice-President George 8. Hobbs, of the Maine Central Ratirosd, was a witness to-day at the inquiry before Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty, into the financial transactions, rates, service and policies of thé New York, New Haven and 4 Hartford Railroad and its subsidiaries, d of which the Maine Central is one, i? | Mr. Hobbs said that on June 9, 1913, the capital stock of the Maine Central was 9,97,00, with a funded indebted nese of 98,390,000. April 1, 1918, the capi- tal stock amounted to $24,707,005, with a funded {Indebtedness of $8,661,600. The witness said that about 98,000,000 represented the taking up of an old bended “debt of the Maine Central, $1,000,000 went to the Portland Termival Company, $2,500,000 was out at interest, ané the remajning $7,600,000 .was for ex- h penditures for better equipments, ac- duisition of small lines and the Ricker Hotel property,. consisting of summer re@orts in Maine, Lowis D.: Brandeis, counsel for the Boston Fruit and Proquce Bxchange, elfcited that previous to the New Ha- ven'a controt of the Maine Central the ided had pala dividends, increased its service, provided betterments and had SOCIETY LEADER, ‘TOWNSEND BURDEN, DAD, AE 75 YEARS Stricken’ on’ Monday in Sev- enty-fifth Year, He Didn’t Have Strength to Recover. 1. Townsend Burden, who with his ‘wife, who was Evelyn Byrd Moale, hes een a leader in the innermost circle of exviusive New York and Newport so- clety for many! years, died to-day at his New York house, No. 2 East Ninety- second street, at the age of seventy-fwe. ‘The Burden fortune was founded by ‘Mr, Burden’s father, who established the Burden Iron Company at Troy for the manufacture of horseshoes. The busi- ness became. enormously profitable, and required but little attention after it was turtied over to his sons when he died ings were only one-half of one per cent, and in 1912 « dividend of 4 per cont, was paid on earnings of 2.8 per cent. The dividends were made up from 6 $2,000,000 surplus fund. ‘Mr. Rich, counsel for the road, ex- plained that it was not considered im- praper for & public service corporation ty pay dividends greater than the earnings. He said that in order for to be legal investments s}anke and his wife, who was Florence! Gheedy, the datighter of a Denver bank- er, have taken the same place in the younger set the ol. Besides his widow and son two daugh- trea, Mies Bvelyn Burden and Mre Devid Dows, survive him. Mr. Burden was Yorn in Troy, where “QN:PLACARD AT DOOR, | THEN MADE SIGN TRUE. a Coffee Shop Patrons” Investigated and Found Braibanti, Self-Slain, in Bed, which his parents held in ls sister still lives in the original fam- ily home. After a course in the public wchools of Troy he was sent to Russell's Academy, in New Haven, and then en- tered the foundry. He was at one time President of the Port Henry Iron Ore ind had a controlling interest Champlain and Morish Rail- . He was a member of Troy Club and the Newport Casino, of which he was a trustee. F . Mr, Burden’s death was due to apo- Dlexy. He wae abo all day Monday of health, but w i i} Eg $ i i f j f His funeral will be at Grance Church Saturday at 13 o'clock. The burial will ‘be at Troy. a THREAT OF PRISON TERMS : FOR OLEO SELLERS. Convicted Dealer Fined $500 for Refusal to Tell Where He Bought Stuff. Angered at the refusal of oleomar- HE rae SEE ii i 4 " iT ai o} td ihe i : i Of thelr supply, Inspectors of t! Department of Agriculture quested the Justices of the Special Sessions, where offenders against the local pure food laws are tried, to impose prison sentences here- after, r John McNamara, a driver, of No, 31 Bethune street, who was arrested on Feb, 1 for selling oleomargerine, at No. 13 Washington street, pleaded guilty to the charge. He empected tu be re- leased on the payment of @ fine of $35, the usual penalty for the offense. “Where aid you buy your supply?” i—— THIEVING TRUCK DRIVERS To GET THE LAW’S LIMIT. Judge Will Attempt to Stop Rob- beries That Cost Merchants $10,000 a Day. Lang prison sentences are to be im- posed on all truck thieves convicted in the Criminal Courts of New York. ‘Thig will be done at the request of members of the, Merchants’ Associa- tiom. It ts estimated that the mer- . chants have lost more than $2,000,00 , Worth of goods during the last year at the hands of drivers and their con- federates. Tm Special Sessions to-day, before rot it in Jersey,” was the ce “That is the same reply tha Court has received from twenty-fi fendants, charged with crime as you." remarked Just t Justices O'Keefe, Salmon and Moss,| O'Keefe, “and 1 want to tell you it \A Joseph Stewart of No. 916 Bedford ave- | Will not nue, Brooklyn, pleaded gullty to the| effort hy theft of bag of cocoa beans from a | to loca’ truck at Catherine slip and Cherry | vain od $0, That will treet. Walter A. Reynolds of No. 11: Pearl street, owner of the truck, said thet goods worth $10.00 were stolen almost every day from trucks along make the man really responsible the violation of the law by you and take notice. There will be no more fines of $% In this court for offense. Hereafter prison sentences will be imposed.” reason to believe more than a dozen dishonest drivers have been convicted.” One year in the penitentiary was the imppsed on Stewart. ——— ind the net changes as with yesterday's Cloging quotations: 1 that the good die Mae | Imer. wiped the blood from his bruised | (°K end turned tu look at his daugh- We fr ries. otes! 101" be nates, kad al ‘not to #peak to the Judge. my girl back home with me, where her mother is waiting for her.” Rt ished her father in the corridor and the two| The defendants will claim they never sobbed in each other's arma, pleading «! as his wife, believing they woukt soon have a matriage ceremony performed.| any money passed it came from Police Last February, ehe testified, she con- sented to come to New York with Segal. testified, “and when I clde between stealing or starving in or- der to Hive I stole from a department store in Philadelphia and was arrested an a shoplifter.” Shakespeare a offthe fir which had bee pone, to wit., Library in Cpoper Square, Mr. Greet then placed the English and American TO GIVE HIM BACK GIRL VICTIM OF “SLAVERS” Dramatic Scene Follows» Sor- rowing Parent's literrup- tion of Hearing. A dramatic scene that suddenly and Unexpectedly interrupted the pathetle] Lawyer Rouss would be a State's wit- recital of a beautiful young girl victim] ness, significance attached to-day to an | of an accused white slaver thrilled | unexpected visit to the District Attor- Jurors and spectators in the Criminal Branch of the United States District | inepectors indicted for conspiring to Court, presided over by Judge Holt, to-day. Mary Stevens, seventeen years old, wan tolling the Judge and jury of! with Assi wrongs she charged Louis Segal, 4] is in chi young travelling salesman, had done) the trial of the Insnpectors, which will her, when @ tall, slender man,’ with] pegin Tuesday. marks of toll and care lining his face, | Mr, Clark was away, Thompson showed walked to the front of the courtroom] perturbation, and, after some delay, and in a sobbing voice exclaimed: “Thies girl is my daughter. I want I want to take The man was her father, Reuben P. . Later, when the girl had fin- Ming her pitiful story, she joined Migs Stevens said ahe had gone from parents on a farm normal school, at suburb of Philadel- phia, to fit herself to become a teacher. | that they moved heaven and earth to She met Louis Segal in a restaurant in| have him brought back. This will be Philadelphia and fell in love with him) in direct variance with Mayor Gaynor’s St first sight, she said. Later, #he said, at Segal's urgent consented to live with him “1 aupponed that when we got to New York we would be married,” said Miss! this money was used to bribe Sipp, Stevens, ‘but when we got te he re- fused. Instead he forced me into a Mfe| Fox, Rouss, Newell and Sipp, and not of shame.” When she became ill, she declared, he @acarded her and she returned to Phil-| that all of the State's witnesses are ac- adetphia. “I had no money and no friends,” ehe 8 forced to de- umber of articles Later the Federal authorities learned of her case and Segal was arrested and indicted by the Federal Grand Jury here, (cite em aac DEAD 297 YEARS TO-DAY, SHAKESPEARE REMEMBERED Statue in Central Park Decorated and Speeches Made in Front of It. The {ith anniversary of the death of lebrated to-day be- entral Park. Tue Club of New York, the ‘ortnightly Shakespeare Club and the Mary Arden Shakespeare Club were 4 Myra Martin, president named clu the Hamilton Institute sang. Addresses were made by Thomas W. Churchill, President of the Board of the Century Theatre, and , the English Shakespearian Mr. Greet advocated the bullding of Shakespearian theatre on the site chased for the pur- site of the old Astor Jags on the statue and a laurel wreath ind a bunch of white roses at the foot f the statue, Z i ren THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1918. FATHER BEGS COURT INSPECTOR THOMPSON ‘ ! | 1909, * Morgan, who S prominent. tn <t saw then at the bre mg Muchtot the following day and | MYSTERIOUSLY VISITS | PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE i Seeks Whitman's Assistant] 7 Who Is Preparing Cases— | Four Outline Defense. | modishiy attired, h Mrs, Morgan was a niece of Mrs. ed. t were they doing when you rete | ie was asked. ing the business deal in tim- her that weighty business matters were not the sole topic of conversation {n Mrs. Rankin'’s apartment, On the heels of the announcement that ney’s office by former Pollce Inspector | James F, Thompson, one of the four bring about Sipp’s Might. Thompron hurried to the private office of Assistant District-Attorney Clark, who, nt District-Attorney Groehi, of the work preliminary to NewTobacco Idea is MASCOT People laughed when they first heard of seedless fruit. They said: ‘‘How can you grow seed- less fruit’ without using seeds?” Then ia Sab ‘pened along and game mms Grae showed them how. 1 B.A. Meu For years men were contented with producing the regulation old ‘‘nickel to- bacco”—until B. A. Mascot came along and figured out the MASCOT idea: A ten cent quality and quantity tobacco for 5 cents. Nout just an ordinary nickel brand—but beautiful high-grade Burley, the richest and choicest that Kentucky’ grows. How could f do.it without losing money ?, MASCOT CRUSHED CUT TOBACCO The Brand New Idea in Smoking Tobacco When informed that dectared he came to get a copy of the indictments which were found against him. He declined to talk to reporters. George Gordon Battle, who, with Al- fred J. Tally, will represent former Inspector Sweeney, outlined to-day the defense of the four inspectors on the conspiracy charge. raised a cent to bribe Sipp or conspired to have him disappear from New York, On the other hand they will declare they. obtained the evidence on which Gipp was arrested in Atlantic City and published statement that he was re- aponsible for Sipp’s arrest in Atlantic City. cost ‘The inspectots also will claim that if Geeble Captain Thomas W. Walsh and was sent to Rouss as counsel fees for Fox, who was Walsh's graft collector. If then the conspiracy rests on Walsh, ‘on the inspectors, they will attempt to Prove. The defense also will contend complices to the alleged bribery, and therefore ineligible to testify without corroboration. $1000 UND DEA CONFERENCE IN A FLAT CAUSES DIVORCE SUIT Lumbermar!’s Wife Charges Business Wasn’t Only Subject Discussed With Mrs. Morgan. 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