The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1913, Page 1

lin + WEATHER-Cloudy to-night; Saturday fairy cool. EDITION. “ Ciroul a pa hor ——y IFORMER INSPECT Che PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright. 1019, ‘The Press ‘The New York Werld). NEW TRAL 0 Former Member of Aldermanic Committee Promises Startling Evidence of His Experiences. THE INQUIRY DELAYED. Results of Its Investigations During Last Year. Actual grand jury investigation Into the scandal which attended the holding up for a year and a half of Aldermanic action on the bill to Teduce taxicab rates in Greater New York was deferred to-day until Mon- da: Because of the continued presence before the Grand Jury of State Senator @ephen J, Stilwell, witnesses in the taxicab case could not be heard, All Were subpoenaed to return at 11 o'clock Monday morning, It is anticipated tha at least three public officials will be | icted as a result of inquiry, and many will be smirched. The witnesses summoned to appear Aetse Judson, assistant treasurer of the Yellow Taxicab Company; Maxwell W. Rhine, in charge of the billing depart- ment; Benjamin T. Schaeffer, credit man; John Clark, chief starter, and Charles From, a clerk in the keeping department. the company, which show to whom credit was extended and all city offi- clals who never pald their bills for taxi-rides, ‘These records, it in sald, will show that the company lost thou- sands of dollars each year by “extend- ing credit” to city officials, none of whom ever paid for the cabs they used. TAXICAB COMPANY TO AID THE INVESTIGATION. George W. Whiteside of,No. 27 Will- fam street, an attorney who repre- sents the Yellow Taxicab Company, de- clared to-day the company would do ali in its power to assist the District- Attorney in its Investigation, ‘There was a complete reorganization of the company a year ago," he said, “and since that time there has been no act of the company that Is not ope to closest scrutiny. We will ald Assis ent Distriot-Attorney DuVivier in every way possible." Mr. Whiteside said the records handed to-day to Mr. DuVivier contain the names of elty officials who used ‘charge accounts" with the Yellow Taxicab Gom- Dany and who never paid ‘their bills. ‘The bills he sald, were presented regu- larly to these officials at the first of each month—Dut, of course, were never paid, Records of the courts, he said, show that no city oficial was ever sued on ‘one of these accounts, though less fortu- nate riders who did not pay up were gued with due regularity. Mr. Whiteside denied that he had awn up any ordinance, raising taxicab ’ (Continued on Fourth Page.) NEW COURT HOUSE SITE APPRAISED AT $6,138,653 The condemnation commissioners named to appraise the value of the property to be taken for the naw court- house site in the new civic centre rea- dered their report to-day. ‘The commisstoners place the value of the property at $4,138,653. The owners thad testified that thetr property was worth $10,260,000, The olty experts en- @aged irrespective of the commission- ers had placed the value at $5,600,000, ‘The to be taken represents 183,120 aquare feet, or about seventy-three city jots. It ts now proposed to acquire more property for the civic centre pian about ten additional lo! Abram I, Wikus, James J. Coogan and Nenry @nyder were the commissioners whose report was Med to-day, Their report is regarded as a victory for the city, inphose, nopresentatives protested agal valuation, TAXICAB BRIBES TRACED. TO THREE CITY OFFICIALS: Citizens’ Union to Produce the} Monday betore the Grand Jury were! vook- | They brought with thom, under sub- | poena duces tecum, all tie records of | F GRAFT FOUND ISLAYEROF POLICE REPORTED CAUCHT Chief of Police of Rome, N. Y., Wires He Has Captured Shieldiana. Chief of Police Stephen H. Beckwith of Rome, N. Y., telegraphed to Deputy Commissioner Dougherty, to-day, that tody, one of whom he Lanra Palma, had been take brake | freight from the beams of a New York Central train, They admitted coming from this city and sald they had left FLEEING WITH PAL he had two New York Italians in cus- thought’ was Orente Shieldiana, the man believed to have murdered Policemen Heaney and NO CURE FOUND FR TUBERCILOSS HT AT FREDMANA National Association for Study of Malady so Declares Af- ter Hearing Report. KEEP PRESENT METHODS. servations Do Not Justify Contidence in New Remedy. ‘“ASHINGTON, May 9.—Immediate- ly following an adverse report by Dr. Joseph F. Anderson and Dr, A. M. {Stimson of the Public Health Service on the “cure” of Dr, F. F. Friedmann, presented to-day before the National Association for the Study and Preven- tion of Tuberculosis, that body unant mously adopted a resolution declarini it to be the judgment of the associa- tion that “no specific cure for tubercu- losis had yet been discovered to war- rant the confidence of the public or the medical. profession.” Teare and John Rizso last Saturday| The resolution recommended to all stat that present methods of treatment be eae ; continued. Dr. Friedmann was not j Chief Reckwith sald the two ment mentioned by name in the resolution, calling themselves Bernie Levien and] The Public Health Service observa- tions, so far, into the conditions of pa- ents inoculated by Dr. Friedmann with his tuberculosis vacine, were announced before the association by Dr. Anderson, director of the Government's hyxlenic jthe night of May 6 laboratory, and Dr. Stimson, another | Tho man calling himself Levion Dated enc, ya he tonieie once tale bHorve scomed to Beckwith to resemble the age seedieon 2s photograph sent out by the New York police on the cirewlar asking for the arrest of Shieldiana, Rome has no fin ger print expert, and the chief did not know how the finger prints on the cir- |cular compared with those of the pris oner, but sald that otherwise the do- scription was identical, even to the Heh. necktle and gray suit and the pock- marked face, Dougherty called the Rome chief on the long distance telephone Atbany on other business, to go to Albany on another business, to go to Rome and take a look at the prisoner and also make finger prints of him, Webber {s not only # finger print expert, but has a slight acquaintance with Shieldiana, At Dougherty's request held for ten days a8 vagrants lo give the department here time to make @ full Investigation regarding them, Baseball Games To-Day NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. CINCINNATI— o000030 GIANTS— o100000 AT BROOKLYN. CHICAGO— 0200002 _ BROOKLYN— 4001001 - AT BOSTON. PITTSBURGH— 000100 - BOSTON— 1000000 AT PHILADELPHIA. — AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT DETROIT. NEW YORK— 1020 - DETROIT— 0000 - *" BAGRBALL AND RAGING PAGE 18,) and after structing Detective Webber, who is in the Rome chief arranged to have the two men ST. LOUIS— 100000000-—1 PHILADELPHIA— 0000021 —3 Friedinann patients at Mount Sinal Hos- pital in New York, “We belleve that at the present time,” says their report, “we are not an yet [0 position to express an opinion basad on the present conditions under obs vation, The disease for which the rem- edy Is used is prolonged and is ch: acterized by periods of advancement and retrogression. It in also one in which psychic influences are a powerful factor. Time is therefore necessary to properly evaluate the effect of thera- peutic measures, NECESSARY TO GUARD AGAINST TOO GREAT AN OPTIMISM. “We must not lose sight of the pos- able therapeutic value of this prepa: tion, and on the other hand it is nec sary to guard against too great an op- timism in respect to its merits. With- out presentiny in detail the condition of patients under observation, we are in a position | state *at the facts thus far observed do not justify that confidence in the remedy which has been inspired by widespread publicity, “In our opinion harm may have been done by this undue publicity Insofar os it has lewwened the confidence of tuber- culosis persons in well recognized meth- ods of treatment or Interrupted thelr use, and we are constrained to advise against any lessening of those well Known measures which not only had effected cures but which have reduced the incidence of the disease. “We are aware that Dr. Friedmann does not wish to be Judged scientifically ‘on newspaper statements and he would undoubtedly disclaim responsibility for certain of those which have appeared. Nevertheless It 1s on those that tho public bases Its opinion until replaced by reliable and unbiased scientific pro- nouncements supported by convinclag of patients Dr. Fried: mann has almost exclusively made use of the intermuscular method alone in pulmonary cases, and a very considera- bie proportion of them have either de- veloped no considerable infiltrate at all or have suffered from abscess forma- tions, It ts evident, therefore, that a very considerable portion of these pa- tlents may expect thelr treatment at the hand of Dr. Friedinann to extend over a Jong period. “Concerning the cultures submitted to us we may state that a series of experi- ments is under way. The bacillus has been found to be an acid. ‘t organism having properties ite different from those of any tubercle bac!!!us with which we are acquainted, aioe $12Men’s Blue Serge Suits,$5.95 The “HUB” Clothing Corner, Broad- warn Bulldinge will’ sell’ forday. aad Baturda N08 ‘Men's Blu Government Experts Say Ob-| & TORS ON BLACKWELL’ BEGIN TO SERVE ONE-YEAR SENTENC lation Books Open to All.”” | __ NEW YORE, FRIDAY, Inspectors Shackled Leaving Headquarters Mt. | “ Circulation Books Open to AIL’? l _— MAY 9, 19138. 24 P AGES On Their Way to Cells in the Penitentiary (Spediatly Photographed by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) SOOOOOSO08 STRIKING BARBERS PARADE AND CLOSE SHOPS ALONG: LINE Tom Sharkey Is Left in the Chair With Half a * Shave. The barbers’ strike, which started in Brooklyn on Monday and closed 6,000 shops in that borough spread to Man- hattan this afternoon when 3,000 striking ‘arbers, bearing banners lettered in Italian, marched across Brooklyn Bridge behind a brass band to hold a manr- meeting in Union Square, ‘The heads of the Barbers’ Union say they will have ail the shops in hattan employing union labor closed up before next Mon- unless the bosses grant demands for shorters hours and a day off every week From the Brooklyn Bridge the parade went uptown by way of Park Row and the Bowery, On the way delegations of strikers invaded open barber shops and called out hundreds of workmen. The White fiat Barber Shop at No, 153 East fronth street, next to Tame | many Halt, was crowded with cunto- |} mora whorp the parade resched there at | 4.30 o'clock, The band "4 in front of the shop and a coup!s of hundred strikers swarmed in and ordered the bargers to quit. All the men at the chairs ahed their white coats, donned their atreet clothes and Joined tha strike, leaving about twenty half-ehaved men In the chairs Tom Sharkey was among those who were deserted in the midst of the oper ation of having thelr whiskers ampu- tated. One man who had «a scumulated | half a hatr cut protested mightily, but the barber who had been working on him paid no attention to his complaints and left him with part of his head | clipped and the rest the same ae ft had been when he entered the shop. Mong Fourteenth street from Third avenue to Unton Square all barber shops were invaded, If the unton In as successful In other parts of town an it was along the Bowery, lower Third avenue and Fourteenth street, Manhattan Ia in for a big barbers’ strike, BILL TO REIMBURSE PEOPLE WHO RANSOMED MISS STONE. May 9% — Senator not New York this afternoon a bill appropriating $44,000 to elmburse those who ralsed that sum in 191 to ransom Miss nM, Stone, VANCOUVER, B. C,, May 9.—Steamer Ophir, plying from Vancouver north- ward, was destroyed by fire Bruniwi h whart, Canee Pa Was losjog thelr byes, y any sleeping. Atfully w ‘The palecnere de Bumbered Ase: 1, Owoeney) &, Bartha; 8, Thompecn; 4, Hussey. ath = nn i PPLE DOD DAE AHHH G61 ODOTOD OOF 5-8-F0-98-995-09-5-25-5-52-4-4 22 258 +SO0990 SDF42 —————$—$— WHAT'S A SKIPPER TO D0/ BROKER SUES WIFE WHO ONCE WHEN A LADY ELEPHANT GETS ON A WHISKEY JAG? Amy Had a Terrible Time at Sea When Remorse Seized Her. Captain Kuhls, of the Hamburg-Aimert- acn live stock freighter Salamanca, known In shipping circles as “Noah's Ark," brought a puzzling problem to port with him to-day. He put it tits way: “What is It that one should do when 8 lady elephant gets a Jag on whinkey? The captain's troubles began two days ago, Aside from a thousand monkeys, ring tails, mandrils, rizu and Juat plain monkeys, a zebra, ten ions and eight tigers, the ship had no passengers ox- cept nineteen elephants and nineteen honeybears, ‘The honeybear tn a capricious animal and a poor sailor. It refuses honey on shipboard and from morning until night utters the low plaintiff note of its epectos which tends to keep the other critters awake and make them nervous, Hana Tost, Karl Hagenback’s travel- ling animal nurse, who had the whole ahipload in charge, has found how to keep the honeybears quiet. He mixes whiskey with boiled rice and keeps them drowsity jagged all the Atlantic, Day before yesterday, when he wan mixing up their sleeping potion, or meal, he sat down a pannikin containing @ gallon of whiskey beside the cages and went upstairs, as Secretary of the Navy Daniela might say, to get the rice, Amy, the veteran of the elephan verd, who ts destined for the Chicago Zoological Gardens, reached out a thieving and prehensile trunk sucked up all the whiskey and let it run down her dry gulet, When Tont returned he knew the whiskey was gone; {t was not until an hour later that he found out where, Amy was scandalous. She lifted her voice in song, She winked filrtatiously at the zobra, She threw @ loose link of a hobble chain down into the hole among the monkeya. She indulged in loose and trivial #ong. ‘The other animaix went cragy, etther with disgust or envy. Poor old Amy— ®he is only about 125 years old-—oouldn't sober up. Bhe wae wilder and more shameless every minute. Tost juld have liked to obey the captain's ordera to keep her quiet, but he did not know how, And early to- day, When the exaltation at last passed fvom the big beast and she began co appreciate the rrable—vinit of R. FB. Morse, they could think of noth- Ing better than to rig a howe to one oi the ship's pumps to play cold salt water on her fevered brow. Amy wan en the ship was Stores. arped Into Bus! DIVORCED HM _—¥_>—_ Remarried Later It Is Now His John soclal in the bride, Jude the bu club, The and a) Gray ¢ Dee §, York ‘The Rivers: when Broadway broker, teen months ago was somewhat of @ Browtway, nothing would be said of the case until such time as tt came to trial, Justine Sutton Gray, the defendant, re- idea in @ Riverside Drive apartment. Since the Grays parted two months ago took place in October, Turn to Sue for Freedom, Boyd Gray, a wealthy young whose wedding ft- event, began divorce proceedings Supreme Court to-day againat his The summons tn hin sult was filed in the County Clerk's office 9 Joneph H Boyd's Beall of No, 23 attorney, declared Mra. hand has lived ata Fifth avenue Graym have been married twice vorced once. Their first marriage 1904, and Mra. Mivorced her husband in Reno in Before her return to New former huaband wooed her 1911 her jagain and they were married over again, couple lived together at No. 66 Ide Drive until a month ago, Mra, Gray, returning unexpected j'y from @ trip to Bermuda, found her husban | telling +) couple had @ quarrel and Gray left the: home. nd had been to London without her anything about it. The A week ago he got an injun tion restraining his wife and her moth- ‘The | later. interfe! erty | | voree Gray anecept vance of the clared honey head hie war Wilew Curry, we aBiA) ageclaliag| in bie chara |Junetion ri and |e? from moving any furniture from the apartment in Riverside Drive, injunction was vacated two days Yeuterday Mrs. Gray got an tn- training her husband from ring with her cont the prop- n the apartment. day's dl- sult was the next step. ts @ member of the Ste k Ex. change firm of Fuller & Gray at No, 71 Broadway. May 9%—The bankers rep- resenting the five Powers—Great Brit- ain, France, Germany, Russia and Japan -in connection with the loan of $126,- to China were notified to-day vy the Minister of Finance of China's final ance of the 1 ‘The first ad- will be made to-morrow American Express Company, de- on hearing the wlory that the bears could yowl their furry off between here and the various to which he is should have no 2 no four legged = = an een eam oe ONE YEAR Murtha Gets Short Respite to See Sick Children—All “Take Their Medicine” Without Confessing. nw Hussey, James F. Thompson and John J. by Supreme Court Justice Seabury to the maximum penalty, a year ° in the penitentiary and a fine of $500 each for conspiring to‘obstruct justice, are in the cells or Blackwell's Istand, which they must occupy _ for at least ten months, even though their conduct meantime be ex- emplary. The sentences cannot be commuted further. It may have seemed to the former police officials, homage and courtesy because of the positions they held, that they drunk to the bottom of the cup of degredation and sorrow when, week, they listened to the scathing arraignment of District. Whitman and to-day heard the words which doomed them to life, its garb and its menial work, drained the dregs when Sheriff Julius Harburger escorted them the Tombs on their trip to the penitentiary, sO PLUCKY GIRL THROWS KNIFE AT ROBBER WHO POINTS PISTOL AT HER He Fires One Shot and Then Beats Her With Butt— Quartet Arrested. Sunle, the soventeen-year-old daughter of Pasquale Latugie, @ storekeeper at No, 21% Fulton street, Brooklyn, was alone in her father's Mace of business Inte this afternoon when four men en- tered, Two approached the counter and asked for cigars while the others re- Tained at the door, Aa the girl reached for the cimars one of the men drew a revolver, pointed it at her head and or- dered her to get from behind the counter. Ghe backed away and the other man who nad entered store Jumped over the counter and atarte for th Bunte kept on backing reached @ long, sharp cheese knife. Picking this up she hurled it at the desperado with the gun. The blade raged his arm, and in his excitement he pulled the trigge which went off with @ nolse that w: heard @ block away. Knowing the shot would attract at- tention, the man with the revolver sprang at the girl, struck her several times on the heead with the butt of the revolver and then fled with hie com- panions. In the meantime Policeman Anthony Pasquale of the Liberty ave- nue station, who had been eating in his home next door, at No, 2493, had rushed to the ntreet to investigate the pistol shot. He was just in time to nab all four of the men, Miss Latugie identified them and Pasquale arrested them and took them to the Liberty avenue station, They refused to give their names, —————. One Pivelrand Quenched. SOFIA, May 0.—Bulgaria and Servia have accepted Russian arbitration of ene cen PRICE ONE OENT. FOUR POLIGE PLOTTERS, “FINGER-PRINTED” AND. CHAINED, 60 TO PRISON Sheriff Makes Trip: to Penitentiary. Spectacular by Waving Revolver and Ordering His Four Deputies to Guard Prisoners Closely. ; ALL GET LIMIT SENTENCE, ° jtles, Humbert Fugessy, William Whied AND $500 FINE. © to-day, s = accustomed E But if they had drunk bef himeelf as he waited in the yard the Tombs for the convicted men to led to the prison van which was to carry them on thelr journey. From the mo- ment that he arrived at the Crimthal Conn Bullding, at 3 o'clock, he showed y hia manner and language that task before him was eminently to rd Nking. SHERIFF GIVES TERRIBLE WARNING TO HI8 DEPUTIAS, ‘e going to put these fellows the Island, = man, Patriok Healy and He made them line up snnent 4 oa lke & Me of soldiers and then shouted: Attention! There seems to me to & tendency in some quarters these men because they Mcemen. These men cre have been found gullty against the commonwealth ot New York, and I want men that if I catch you ah tavoritiom to these ex-Inspectora, not go well with you. t Bhertff of this county.” Then, with his deputies at the Sheriff marched into the Murtha, who, by special permission Justice Seabury, had been taken bush to visit his family—five young children are Ul with reached the Tombs an fore, and at 220 o'clock he s s aig i a sR Eg i i gute E 5 g shy yard, where the van was waiting. It was remarked with astonishment that Murtha and Sweeney were hané- cuffed together and thet tands of etesl joined the wrists of Hussey especially that handcuffs should not used, Somebody epoke ¢o the about it and Harburger, ewelling pride, replied pompousty: “THEV'LL -BE HAN OHERW? OVERRULES COURT, “These men will net be treated ME differently from any other prigemee care Oy