The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1913, Page 1

_ Boy Heroes Save One Hundred Meee Girls in Blaze. NX WKATHDR—Fatr to-night and Friday; warmer. FIN The hu “ Circulation Books Open to All.” , Coors. 1913. by The Press (The New York Werla). $5,000,000 HEIRESS WHOSE HUSBAND IS BARRED FROM SHARING Woo GRLS FLEE IN PAN IN FACTORY BUILDING FIRE; |, FIREMEN DROP IN SMCKE $5,000,000 WILL + ‘MRS. HAYNES MADE MAY CAUSE AGH Son-in-Law Harry Sherman, Left Nothing, Consults Lawyer After Surprise. ‘all ice suse # Safely From Two- Alérm Blaze in West Sev- enteenth Street. LIFT BOYS ARE HEROES. Run Elevators Up Twelve Floors to Rescue Occupants of Structure. Four hundred girls fied screaming when fire was discovered this after-| n00n on the third floor of the twstve | ies rub acacMCliaiue tackig 3 [STRONG BOX IS EMPTY. 282-384 West Eighteenth street ins sunaing back to Nos. 232-244 West Seventeenth street. ‘Taree negro elevator boys, who kept | thelr heads, rax. their cars up Lagoe ot] filjed elevator shafts for Afteen min- rcicay Entire Estate Is Put in Possession of Dr. Rattan “AL NOT AFRAID BF ANSI SHOUTS Ch CARNEEIE Within & few hours after the deatn of Mrs. Anna Wagner Haynes at the} Hotel Marte Antoinette, Friday, after | an operation for an Intestagl, tumor, trouble started over her estate, which | amounts to about $5,000,000, Her son- inslaw, Hatry ‘Taylor Sherm: of the Sherman-Taylor Company, a real} estate concern, {x not mentioned in the will except negatively, . | The will names Dr, H. Fuller Rath- bun of No, 14 West Fifty-elghth street as executor and trustee of the greater part of the estate, which inckides one block of 900 shares of the Pullman Com- pany, left to Mrs, Haynes by her father, Albro Wagner, inventor of the sleeping car and founder of the Wagner Palace, Car Company, which was later merged Into the Pullman Company. ESTATE LEFT TO MRS. SHER- MAN AND HER CHILDREN. aa avercome by smoke while om She tenth floor and had to be taken 10 the New York Hospital. ‘The building ie owned by the Ameri- «am Thermos Bottle Co., which ocoupies ‘he second, third, eighth and ninth loore, The other stories are occupied uy the Bigelow Carpet Co., Jacob Ans- iand, manufacturer of baby bonnets; J. W. JoWwon, manufacturer of vells, and a numba” of mall order houses. More than 2,000 girls are employed in tho building, but a majority of them were out at lvach when the fire was dis- covered. ELEVATOR BOYS RESCUE GIRLS FROM THE FIRE. ‘The blaze originated in the store room sf the Thermos bottle concern on the hiré floor, By the time it was found ‘Then iis Wes Peace Delegates Jump to Their Feet as An- swer of Americans. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 1—When An- drew Carnegie denianded all who were not afraid of Japan to get on their feet 500 delegates to the fourth American Peace Congress to-day responded in an instant. Some one In audience had shouted a challenge demanding !f Mr, Carnegie aid not belleve that the United States « wee eaten its way through the entire} 1, Rathbun is directed to manage yet the estate as trustee for the benofit of “fy a7 the time the firemen arrived the) ying, Sherman. She is to inherit on the re had gained such hgadway in the vulr@ floor that a@ second alarm was vounded. The building was soon filled with | smoke. The elevator boys, two of whom i were known only as George and Iqv death of her husband, and if she dies ‘and leaves children they are to inherit it on the death of thelr father, or when they are twenty-five years old, if Mr. Sherman is living. There is a bequest of $300 to Helene Baaberg, a companion, and one of to William Lowa of Yonkers, chauffeur, to whom Mrs, Haynes gavea fine automobile several years ago, which she rented from him regularly, The jewelry and some other personal proper- ty were left to the three sisteré of Mra, Haynes, who also are wealthy; one of them, Mrs, Van Viack, Is to inherit the big fortune if Mrs. Sherman dies with- out iasue. : Mr. Sherman, for whose real estate operations Mi. Haynes told Manager Slocum of the hotel and Dr. Rathbun she had often furnished capital, ap- peared at the hotel a few hours after vin, comtinued to run thelr cars to all the ‘oors of the building, sounding the alarm and carrying out young women. On the eleventh floor 250 young women employed in the Johnson factory were eating thelr lunches. ‘They were seized with panic, which Mrs, Annie Orsi, their forewoman, soon allayed. Marshaliing the girls into order she marched them down ten flights of atairs om the double quick and stood in the doorway counting all her charges and breathing a sigh of relief when she dis- covered all had escaped. SEVERAL FIREMEN ARE COME BY $MOKE. Several firemen Were smoke. Much damage was done by water to | PRENDERGAST AND BRONX PRESIDENT IN WORDY WAR. they stock of the Beyer Paper Company _ on thé first floor and by smoke to the | 2 i \“Your Head Is a Fine Specimen of of the Standa jail Order Com- ok P . x ‘on the fourth’ 'nd fifth foors,{ Wooden Block, Latter Tells Fie Chief Kenlon placed the total loxs Comptroller During Debate. OVER. (Continued on I ove b; at $25,000, but Supt. W. C. Waldron of | Comptroller Prendergast was to-day the bottle company said it would s9| opposing Bronx President “Cy" Miller's much higher, as he feared that 75,20 | °PPO* ncheme of @ road in his borough when Miller waved his hands deprecatingly, tapped his head with a forefinger and exclaimed: ‘Mr, Comptroller, we have been talking of wooden block pavement. Your head i# the finest specimen of wooden block I ever saw. If we could only get enough blocks like yours and lay them down for a pavement It would make the finest adamantine piece of road that this country ever saw. Comptroller Prendergast flushed and said: “It is only two years ago that were a practical man, but now you ‘Thermos vottles on the third floor had been destroy by the heat. When Miss Annie Gallagher of te | Johnson tirm reached the fourth floor she was so frightened by the smoke that she leaped out of the window, landing on the roof of an adjoining building seven feet lower. Her arm was badly cut, but she refused to go to @ hospital. At least seven shrinking iieroes mod- | eatly consented to admit that they | caught little Miss Minnie Erlich when | “she leaped from the elghth floor,” ‘Miss Erlich, however, killed thelr of Carnegie medals by declart ut we knew park roada jumped only seven feet and landed on |anq all other roads and Park Commis- her own feet without herole assistance. | sioner Higgins 1s correct in demanding es, eae | money to repair the park roads in his beraushs, ai ms Wi sidas" south American | 19 nt theta J LT t all events,” Kad Comptroller, right, perhaps,” re- he won't get the money. That bout it-not at present came back from ihe was “mortally afraid of Japan.” The challenge followed the ironmaster's statement that. the Government had a navy able to cope with any International situation. Mr, Carnegie in a speech before the Congress to-day told why he believed the nations soon would reack the goal of peace, and by what road they would travel. He described the cost of war and warlike preparation, and explained his confidence that the United States never need fear foreign invasion. President Wilson and his Admin! tion, he predicted, would gain immortal glory by dealing successfully with the question of world peace. “The goal,” said Mr. Carnegie, “is almost attained. jf a man wished to select the safest Ife possible, the one freest from all danger of violent death, let him enter our army and navy. There 1s not a workman attending ma- chinery or erecting buildings, nor @ railway train employee, or a policeman— the soldier of civilization, whose duty is never to attack, but always to pro- tect—not one but runs far greater risk of sudden injury or death than ¢ soldier pr marine of our country dor to-day, There {s little danger of any of these ever seeing war, thank God. They wil! on! to de.” ——_—_———— $23,000,000 INSURANCE WRITTEN ON THE GREAT MORGAN ART COLLECTION. Fire insurance to the amount of $23, 140,000 was announced as written to-day on the $50,000,000 Morgan art collection. The rate involves a premi The portion of the Metropolitan Museuin carniex $15,000,000 at the rate of 60 cents per $100 and that In the Morgan | y, including books and other contents, carries $5,000,000 at 16 cents per $1 ‘All the insurance companies in this State took thelr full quota of the in- surane and about $4,000,000 was placed abroad, Boy W Skull Fractured in Lot, A ten-year-old boy was found un- consctous in a lot on Kingland avenue near Greenpoint avenue, Brooklyn this afternoon by Charles Casey of No. $5 well street. The boy's skull was fractured. Nobody in the neighborhood Knew him, He wan dressed in a gray ealico ghirt waist. H. St, Catherine's Hospital Dr, bope for by Weinverg and his recovery, there io iitue ‘NEW yoRK, THURSDAY, MAY ‘1, 19138. WILSON WARNS JOHNSON ON WEBB | Will Involve Appeal to Court on Treaty Rights. (GOVERNOR ASKS ADVICE, | win Be Grateful for Sugges- tions From President to Meet Objections Mentioned, SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 1.—The fol- | lowing telegram from President Wilson | was received here to-day by Gov. John- @ the liberty of calling.your at- [tention to the Webb bill, which would |Involve an appeal to the courts on the | question of treaty rights, and bring on what might be long and delleate,titi- | gation.”* Gov, Johnson immediately replied “ thank you very much for your su, westion. The fault may be due to the fect that we have endeavored to pre- serve affrmatively upon the of our ‘DUI, the exiating foe | the matter at to’ eur “Attorney- General and I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions that would evoid the objection you mention.” Gov, Johnwon transmitted the reapondence to Senator Thompson, one of the authors of the original bill, with this comment: “In consultation with Atto eral Webb, we are unable to sce any language can be employed same objection that is suggested President's telegram. The Attor! Ge in the bill prepared has deavored affirmatively to preserve all treaty rights, and any bill that migh be passed upon the subject of alien land ownership, of course, would, froa our standpoint, endeavor in the most eughatte fashion to protect our national 00d faith in the matter of treaties that have heretofore been executed and none of us would impair—no matter what might be the legal question in- volved—the obligations of any treaty that may have been heertofore mad ‘This being our desire, it seems to tay Attorney-General and myself that a> language can, be employed that will not be equally open to the abjection sug- weated, in the ¢ “In order that the wideat ‘publicity may be given to the views of the’ President, although this telegram, { take it, was not given for transintasion in a mearsage to the Legislature, 1 shall give the telegram to the press and you are at Mberty to present it or any. of the matters contained in thia note,” When the Webb re-draft of the ant alien land bill was reached in the ate, Senator Curtin introduced a reao- lution proposing that the Legislature defer to the wishes of President Wilson as expressed by Secretary of State Bryan, ‘The resolution set forth the facts surrounding the visit of Mr. Bryan to California and his conferences with the Legislators, and promised that the allen land bille would not be passed this session, However, it urged Presi- dent Wilson to endeavor to obtain such treaty agreements a# would h the desired end | At tho earnest plea of the Democrats for more time in which to study the Webb re-draft of the’ anti-alien land ‘vill, the majority leaders in the Senate further until to agreed to a postponement of nsideration of the measure morrow, WASHINGTON, May 1 Bryan's latest dempatches to President Wilson contained a note of optiininm over the situation in Sacramento. He ia said to have telegraphed the Prest- dent not tw credit alleged imisleading reporta of the intent of the propused legislation, expressing a belief in a no- lution of the difficulty satisfactory to the people of California and to the Fei- eral Government While no Information was forthcom: ing ax to the Administration's attitude on the pending Webb bill, @ report was current that John Bassett Moore, Act- ing Secretary of State, did not regard the measure as a violation of treaty ob- figations and t the origina! protest of the Japanese Government that no specific discrimination against the Jap- janese be carried in the lowisiution vad really been met by the genera! phrase: ology of the Webb proposel, - ANTLIAP LAND BILL [President Wires That Measure| referred might not be ultimately subject to tie] rid. [: Cocaine Booka Sree a | a4 PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER, WHO ISN’T INTERESTED IN MATRIMONY AT ALL, 43 RAILROADS | 100,000 TRAINMEN; STRIKE PLANNED ibis Workmen Told To-Day They Cannot Have 20 Per Cent. Increase Demanded. |PROTECTING THE PUBLIC |Declare People Would Have to Pay if Roads Sub- mitted to Men. MIS WLSON ISNT INTERESTED LITLE se set ccc] BIT IN MARRIAGE net ta: te, fatarane. of the eae, Sched Caden and Not Mat- pe Occupy President's A practical invitation to strike wa extended to-day to 100,000 conductors and trainmen by the Conference Com- mittee of Managers of the forty-thtes fallroads centring in New hg Phar In refusing demands of «he con- @uctors and trainmen for prem on Qrenees that would aggregate $i held to-day tm the At No. # Woet Thirty-ninth street, Conference Comimittes, headed iy i plan Ot Chairman Elisha Lee, handed ite any swer to fifty sepresentatives from, the} Mise Margaret Wilson, eldeat daughter Order of Rallway Conduetors, with A. | of the Presifient, ‘explained to-day defore B, . Garrettson, Lh wetge and Brotherhood of which W. G. Lee 21 dey she hed leurned gout the social centre PREGENT INCREASE WOULD. BE) ™°vement In this city. FOUR PER CENT. LIEN “It will really ©@ useless to ask me ‘The answer of the roads points out|@bout my views on marriage and so- to avert a atrike in 19, they | ciety,” she said. “Bince I have been in granted the conductors and trainmes an aggregate increase in wages Xf Ghe | NO™.* ore I Rave domm besieged by news 000,000, The present increase of $17,40%,- | Daber writers, who have wanted to know 000, the roads point out, would be equiv. | !f I thought early, marri: were a auc: alent to placing on thelr properties a|cess, what income was sufficient to Hen of gga vnd ss 4 ate cent, oe marry on end how much a woman's ties, the. burden of which wou! mn tee Ve meee we tole. to | wardrobe should cost her. At present 1) idtaraie Gatamedat”> the eabwar asm not interested in marriage. = “There are just three things that in- prbsee terest me this morning,” continued Miss Continutng, the anawer of the Con-| Witton with « faculty for singling out | ference Committee says, in part: the] telang the train for Washington what) “Already the trafic of a growing coun- try has overtaxed the existing facilities; and the heavy burdens incurred through - | Meadvined legislation, euch as extra crow bills—for which the Brotherhood of Rall- foreing on the railroads and consequent- ly on the public, needless expenditures large financial outlay the roads are com whici produce no revenue, such as the grade crossing bill of New Jersey, and the additional burden of previous wage increases. “No conditions of work have ari since the application of the Cla Morrissey award in 1910 that would warrant any increase in wages or changes In working conditions.”” Two courses of action are now open to the trainmen and conductore, They may, at a later date, modify their de- mands upon the managers, or they may elect to take a referendum atrike vote ong their 100,009 members, ‘The latter course Is the one most probable. ‘The taking of a strike vote, if it be ordered, will ovcupy two months, More cers, of whom there were only 90,000, while the trainmen and conductors num. ber 100,000. sceieasialiaendeonias CHILD ATTACKED, MAY DIE. Man Brutally Mistreats seven-Vear- O14 Girl and Kecapes. Sadie Teshinan, a retty seven-year- y{old girl, livin with her parents at No. 1M6 Madison avenue, was laying in ont of her home this aft when the house at No, UM Madison avenue. Walker's so-called “Anti 11," devigned to prevent as far as ibie incendiary fires in New York Cily, passed the Assemoly toslay & Vote of 90 to 26, road Trainmen is alone responnible— of millions of dollars annually, or the| ii) use of the achoolhouse pelied by law to make for Improvements than @ month was taken by the engin- |" an unidentified man selsed her by the arm and dragged her into the cellar of There the child was brutally mistreat- ed and was almost unconscious wheh her cries were heard and she was dis- covered. Bhe was rushed by Dr, Cassaseo, of the Harlem Hospital, to that inetitu- tion, where it is said h.» condition 1» eriteal wrl's aswailant Was not found, More than @ score of detec- tives were put to work on the case, the easential issues which was worthy ot her father, “They are all related. I| have just been talking to @ friend of; Gov. Sulser, who says the Governor is @oing to stump the schoolhouses in the) State in his fight for the passage of | the primary bMll. That is splendid! It fe right that the schoolhouses should be used as meeting places. In fact, it is for the community that un principle of all social centre work. ‘When the achoot drops ite dry peda- GogY and its isolation from all the prac- tical interests of life, It may be of more) service to the city, “This use of the schoolhouse for po- Utleal meetings, which Mr. Sulzer pro- pores, will ‘be more of @ step toward the realisation of the ideals of the so- clal centre movement than anything that hae yet been accomplianed, ‘The second matter,” continued Miss Wilson, without even stopping for breath, “ls the atthude toward the in- vestigation which has been carried on by Prof, Hanus. Opinions voiced at dinner to Mfr, Hanus last night showed there is @ very prevalent inisunder- vout Mr. Hanus's criticism of of this city. Any one might think the schools of other cities had at-! tained the highest ideal of perfection, | and that the New York, achools alone’ were defictent. All schovis need « gen- eral regeneration, which will come from the working out of the social idea, “At present school children are taught | subjects which are not of the slightest | practical use to them, and they are taught in @ manner that does not de- velop them. Knowledg poured into them, but they are not taught to pro- duce anything. All their real interests are outside of school, simply because the wchool doesn't connect itnelf with anything useful or recreative. ‘The school is the logical centre for the so- clal Mfe of the community. PAGES REFUSED $2800 € TOBE PARSON “GOAT”. FOR RERS, FOX SANS Thompson First Offered: $125 “ Month for Silence on Sire Secrets Collector Testifies at Con- spiracy Trial. °° |INFORMER SIPP ON STAND TO TRACE PASSING OF BRIBE E “I Know We Lived on My: Husband’ Graft,” Mrs. Walsh Admits Under Cross-Examination. sj By 'y TURES OF THE TESTIMONY. : Eugene Box, Capt. Walsh's former’ coUector, pesca the bribery of Sipp was proposed by Lawyer Rous, * Edward Newell, Sipp’s counsel, fixed ft at $1,500, = he'd raise it, and $250 was. passed through Fox ‘to fouls.” Hartigan brought, $950 as the “baldnce,” Se Rouss. Fox told of several meetings at which vps recs s son tried to persuade him to aécept $125 a month to go to prison, to be given by him and “those who succeeded him in Harlem.” He had declined this and Thompson offered him $2,800, asking: “Are you going to squeal?” He answered: “Take it any way you like.” Fox frankly told of collecting from $400 to $1,000 @ month graft in Harlem. George A. Sipp, the alleged bribery of whom fed to the present trial, took the witness stand after Fox. Mrs. Walsh testified that she got $150, $500 and $100 that “Sweeney wanted,” and saw $150 put with $800 given to Hartigan, messenger to Fox. Under merciless eross-exam- b ination she admitted she knew “we lived on my husband's © 2 graft.” he ‘Mrs. Nellie Witen, wife of Captain Baseball Games To-Day NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PHILADELPHIA. GIANTS— the courtroom, and Capt Tierney end 0 0.00000 0 O- Ol, aise of men from the Eilasbeth PHILADELPHIA-—- atreet station barred them out. Among 0 0.0 0 0 1 0 O — I the row wno wore admitted wore sev- —_—_—— eral members of the jury which cea- AT BROOKLYN. victed Lieut. Charles Becker. BOSTON— LAWVER ROUGS 18 REPRE-: 0000101 ad @ENTED BY COUNSEL. BROOKLYN— ‘The array of lawyers, already un- PA 1200100 — [usually large, was increased by the ; presence of Charles Le Barbier, coun- pel for Jacob Rouse, who was Eugene AT PITTSBURGH. Fox's lawyer. Mr, Le Barbier ssid Miss Wileon paused. ‘What {a the third matter in which you are interested?” aaked the reporter, “In catching my train,” laughed the President’ ‘* daughter, it. SENATORS REJECT MITCHELL. ALBANY, May 1—The Senate Fi- nance Committee voted to-day to report adversely Gov, Sulger's nomjnatione of Jobn Mitchell of Mt. Vernor for State Labor Commissioner and Joha B. Riley of Plattsburg) for Superintendent of Stale Prisons. ST, LOUIS— Rouse would cbrroborate Capt, Walsh 40001200 —, in qvory Instance where Walsh had tn- ced the lawyer's name, el a 0103 — "hie Tnapetar using on Mr Wain ¢ took the stand caw a little, dark- hatred woman, her face Mined dy worry, AT CHICAGO. who was arrayed in « purple sult, with CINCINNATI hat, and feathers to match. Assistant 13000 + == | District Attorney John “Kirkland Clark cHICAGO— immediately asked her es to Bweeney's oH ° visits to Walsh while the latter was 1200 — Jatck in bea, —-— he sald Sweeney came two or three times a week and she saw him the Sua- AMERICAN LEAGUE. Gay night before Patrofman Fox was — discharged, It wee the time wh AT NEW YORK. Walsh wae urging Sweeney to get PHILADBLPHIA— out lest. his nerve break and he § 0000083 —- | “equeal.” NEW YORK— “What did you hear Sweeney aay? oo1010 _ | emmed Mr. Clark, “tS neard him ea, ‘would send Har tigan over in the morning," replied AT BOSTON. Mre, Walsh, WASHINGTON— Q. Did you see Hartigan in the mern- be 00100 ~ [inet A. Yes. BOSTON-- Q. What happened? A. My hustend 21101 asked me to get him $150, and I got tim @ $100 BASEBALL ANO RACING -PAGE 16. att 1 did, a