The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1913, Page 1

\ EXPLOSION FLINGS DYING MEN AMID 3,000 ‘Barbers Hurl Stones at Windows in Shopping District /waarnan-o asettied to-a ent Wednesday tal G EOIT NI ION. BOS Lo (\O\ > EVE NING Gall o Hk Mf ys eDiT| AD Ai nia __ PRICE “ONE CENT. Coprright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Workt). YORK, TUESDAY ‘MAY. 13, eeeeenfeoeernoees $1,000,000 TAX! RAKE- ct FOR MONOPOLY OF STANDS IS TRACED FOR GRAND JURY ‘Whitman’s Men Seek to Con- nect “Privilege” Pay With Delay by Aldermen. ; WALDO TAKES A HAND.| ‘Asks Inspectors and Captains) About “Charge Accounts” in New Graft Hunt. Another investigation besides that @f the Grand Jury into the taxicab @candal was inaugurated today by Police Commissioner Waldo, who éummoned to his office Inspector George F. Titus, in charge of the Traffic Squad; Inspector Robert Doo- ley, in charge of Coney Island; Capt. Thomas H. Murphy of the Coney Island precinct, and Capt. William F. Day of the West One Hundred and Fitty-second street precinet, but until recently in charge of the West Forty- seventh street precinct. The names of these police officials have been given to the Grand Jury. Commissioner Waldo will also in- vestigate the reports that {t was the habit of the Yollow Taxicab Com- pany to make presents or payments to police officers stationed at hotels. ctubs, restaurants and theatres mhere the taxicab company had pri- vate stands. The Commissioner in- \\tends to go into the eubject thor- oughly. The Grand Jury resumed its invest! gation to-day, taking up the examina- tion of officials and employees of the Yellow Taxicab Company. From the way the investigation 1s branching out, the Grand Jury may not conclude its labors in the taxicab matter this week. The witnesses heard to-day by the @rand Jury were John Clark, chief @espatcher; Harry Schwartz, vice- president, and Jesse H, Judson, treas- urer of the Yellow Taxicab Company. ‘They were questioned as to accounts fm the ledger which carried the charger @gainst persons who were supponed to have 100 per cent, rebated on their bills amounting to free transportation. Mr. Schwartz was subpocnead ty return to- Morrow with certain documents and in- formation respecting the relations be- tween the company and traMec police- men generally. @REGENT ORDINANCE HAS PER- MITTED $1,000,000 RAKE-OFF. THIS IS A VERY GOOD WORLD BEST POR POSITIONS: 45,143 World “Help Wants” L::t Week— 18,744 More than the Herald. BEST FOR HOMES: $,782 World “To Let” .\ds, Last Week— PHILADELPHIA GIRL LANDS A BIG SHARK AFTER LONG FIGHT. SEI, YOUNG WOMAN CATCHES 7-FOOT SHARK AFTER HARD FIGHT OF 2 HOURS Miss Knipe Also Captured Liz- ards a Foot and a Half Long. Here Is a handsome young woman who has a penchant for chasing lzards and capturing sharks, Miss Ellen Knipe is her name and she arrived this morn- ing on the United Frult Hner Pastores, with her father amd mother from the West Indies and Central American ports, The family lives in Philadelphia. Miss Knipe has been fond of Ilsards for many years, and has brought home a@ fine collection of the reptiles, She caught them all with her own falr hands, the biggest one of them measur- ing @ foot and a half, She learned nome- thing about Nsards, too, that she had not known. A species of them shed their tails. Some of those #he grabbed by the tall, slipped out from the caudle extremity and slid away, leaving the tall in her hends. They grew new tatle right away, #0 the loss is not at all embarrassing. ‘The crew of the Pastores didn't think much about Mgards, but the girl from Philadelphia won the hearts of the sail- ors when, at Port Limon, she caught, single-handed, a shark measuring seven feet in length. With a hook and a line she lowered a tempting bit of beef over the taffrail, and svon the shark was hooked. Dr, W. 8. Irwin, the ship's surgeon, went to her assistance, but ahe deciined his proffered aid. She sald that she wanted to land the man-eater aloni And she did, after a battle of two hours. Her arms and hands ached, but she would not give in, Finally the shark turned over on his side and gave up the fight. ‘Then she called for ald, A few husky sailors soon had the big fish squirming and flapping on deck, Policem: Doubt. Supreme Ce Pendleton re- served decision this morning on the) application of Patrolman Thomas F. 8,151 More than the Herald, BEST FOR INVESTMENTS: 4,345 World “Business Opportunity || et Last Week— BB1 More than the Herald. FOR VACATIONS: World “Summer Resort” ; Week— 286 More than the Heraid. Ve ds, | @ certifle | Elder, ‘man, Rtobinsot ate of reasonable doubt, mitting him to be at large on pending als appeal from his conviction to the Appellate Division, Robert H. counsel for Robinson, the trial court had erred in permitting the District-Attorney to prove Robin. | t? son guilty bribery, perjury and “framing up” @ cage on an innocent whereas the Indictment aimply acoused him of extortion, ee “f STILWELL PLEADS STRIKING BARBERS LACK OF MEANS | ONRAID THROUGH TORIRE COUNSEL) SHOPPING DISTRICT Howls of Mob Draw Crowd Justice Seabury Assigns Sena- tor McClelland to Defend Him in Bribery Case. HAD 4-CARAT SPARKLER. But He Did Not Ride to Court in Either of His Two Autos. State Senator Stephen J. Stilwell, in- Alcted for bribery In the halls of the Legislature, did not ride in one of his two automobiles down to Justice 8 bury's court to be arraigned this after- noon, but he did wear hie four karat sparkler. Accompanied by Senator James G. McClelland; his counsel in his recent efforts to procure “vindication,” Atil- well arrived In the court fifteen minutes after Justice Seabury had taken the bench. When he was arraigned to plead ont —idictment brought against him on Monday and the clerk of the court asked him if he demanded trial Stilwell answer: | “Sur hen pleaded * essin< the Justice, he : “Your Honor, the situation ts mich that I would like to have Senator Mc Clelland appear for me as my counsel. But since he was on the Senate Invesi- gating Committe that reviewed the charges againat me in Albany, and since he voted on the tmpeachment proceed- ings in the Senate, there might be some question as to the propriety of his ap- pearing as counsel for me unless he were assigned by Your Honor.” “T believe that a Justice has ro power to assign counsel unle: the accused has no 1 h to defray the ex- penses of co Assistant District- Attorney Nott interposed, TURNS HIS DIAMOND AROUND INTO HIS PALM. Rtilwell leaned over the rail and held a whispered consultation with Senator McClelland. As they conferred together Senator Stilwell unostentatiously, #linged the diamond on his finger around #0 that it would be concealed by his palm, Then he turned and addressed the Court. “Really, Your Honor, 1 haven't got the means to employ counsel compe tent to handle such a case as this,” he said simply. “If you make that statement for record,” Justice Seabury then said, “T will assign Senator McClelland as counse! for you." The diamond was etill in the red palm of the accused Bronx Senator. “Owing to the urgent solicitation of Senator Stilwell(” said Mr. McClelland, “and on his assurances that he would have no other counsel, I had so far co-operated with him in the conduct of his case. I have consulted several prominent lawyers, membera of the Bar Association, and their opinions an to the propriety of my serving as Senator Stilwell's counsel are diver- gent. However, since you have as- signed me to act I take It that there is no tmpropriety.” Mr. Nott then said he would like to make a motion that a Jury be se lected to try Stilwell from the spectal panel. He urged the serious character of the case, MoClelland asked Nott to defer the jmotion until to-mocrow, when he could be better able to argue the motion after reading the indictment against his client. Justice Seabury or- dered that argument on the Assistant District-Attorney’s prospective motion should be postponed until to-morrow and Stilwell weat to the bonding bu- reau to arrange for the acceptance of the $5,000 bail imposed yesterday. A HITCH OVER THE FINDING OF A BONDSMAN. hiteh occurred here, for a surety A | | company Stilwell was relying upon did not come forward and Patrick Butler of No, #01 Olinda avenue, the Bronx, to vi | name it was not a argued | offered himself, He ‘offered title convicted of extortion, for | property recently left him by his father, |but since the deed was not In Butler's Stilwell then went before Justice Sea- bury and asked to be pardled in his own custody until to-morrow, when his bondsman would present a certitied copy of the will under which Butler inherited ne property offered as security, Jus- |tlee Seabury agreed to this. The Senator from the tronx then walked out of the Criminal Courts Bullding and as he did so he turned diamond to the euntight. That Blocks West Twenty- third Street. , SHOP WINDOWS BROKE Booted Out of Masonic Temple and Scared by Revolver of Another Boss. ‘The shopping district above and below Twenty-third street on the west al was thrown into uproar to-day by @ crusading mob of a hundred barbers trying to close shops which had not quit snipping and scraping in the cause of short hours. The strikers wtarted from their Weat Thirty-ninth street headyuart..» near Eighth avenue and went to the place of F. Abinolf at No. 318 Bighth avenue. F. Abinoifi saw them coming and boited ‘his doors. They delivered speeches froin outside the door and borsowed a stick from a grocer to pry thelr way in. F. Abinolf threw open the door and poked the muzzle of a revolver in the faces of his foremost tormentors, They fell Back and defied him from a safe distance ugtii a policeman appeared and said varweh One striker told mbout F, Abinolfi's artillery. could not find It. ‘The column then moved on P. Clement of No, %3 West Twenty-third street. Io met them smiling in sweetest Siciliaa and told them he regretted that Ale barbers had not watted to greet them. Cheering, they went to No. 115 Weat ‘Twenty-third street, where a busy Sco’ Robert Burns Laidley, has a place. Thr crowd went Into tantrums of wrath when they saw the place ornamentat with freshly painted signs announcing | that seven competent operators were on | duty and would stay on duty. |HOWLS OF STRIKERS BRING CROWD OF SHOPPERS. For twenty minutes they howled But the policeman til thousands of shoppers gathered and the street was blocked. A lone policeman tried in vain to restore or- der, A stone crashed through Laid- | ley's window and others followed. The policeman called for help and the strik- era were shooed away, They turned up Sixth avenue and tried to get into the rear of the Masonic Temple, but were fought off by porters and elevator men, The hotel keepers in the district be- tween Madison Square and Central Park managed to ki thelr places go- ing without interference. In every other part of the city, except the downtown shops which are only open during business hours, passers by of un- placard on the door announcing that the shop was closed on account of the strike, and sometimor ® troubled looking boss barber huddled up in an armchair at the back. Though calm, the managera of shops in hotela and independent barber shops in the fifteen and twenty-cent shave belt were prepared for war, They had @ taste of It last night, when a flock of enraged razormen filtted through the Tenderloin scattering bricke and confusion. At every entrance of the Knickerbocker and the Astor to-day stood gloomy persona with large hands and large feet and keen eyes, They scanned everybody who came in. KEPT A CLOSE WATCH FOR THE TROUBLE MAKERS. If the would-be entrant had @ curled up mustache, hair plastered rakishly over his brow—Juc* as a barber would do unto others {f 1, others would give him the chance—why, sald would-be entrant did not enter. If he were in- sistent he was helped to go away rapidly. The hotel barbers have told their employers that they don't want to be bothered by “those lowbrows on strike” and the guards are placed to Prevent any poselbility of mussing up of their tonnorlal parlors, Predatory barber strikers invaded the McAlpin, the Martinique, the Im- perial and other hotels before outer guards were established, They were quickly shooed out. In some instances the working barbers, by way of haaten- ing thelr departure, promised to quit |work at some hour set this afternoon. The men in charge eaid that these (Continued om Second Page.) and threatened in fgont of the shop un- | Pa Banker’s Wife and Man S She Sues, Asking $78,000 a Year Alimony Ce o 4 999066600606602806 GARD IE cK IN PALACE FROM 4 MILITANT PLOT Detective at Door of Ruler All! Mrs, Night and Every Part of Building Watched. LONDON, May 13.—Several additional night watchmen, it was learned to-day, being. employed at Buckingham Palace, presumably in apprehension of a suffragette pl ot against Thelr Majen- tles, They have been instructed espe- cially to patrol the garden in the rear of the palace and to make frequent in- e@pection of the doors and windows, Several watchmen with felt-soled shoes are regularly assigned to pace the corridors of the building, and one ts al- ways on duty at the door of the King's Bedchamber from the time His Majesty retires until his valet appears in the morning. With the additional watchmen and the regular street guard of soldiers and po- licemen, King George 1s now as care- fully protected day and night as is the c of Russia. eral” Mrs, Drumond, te leader, the resumed the Suffra was unable to appear at hearing at Bow Street Police Court to-day on the charge of conspiracy age to Property Act which under the Malicious Dam has by brought amainat hier. The other “conspirators” prised Miss Harriet Agnes Lake, Miss Rachel Marrett, Beatrice Seurtder becca Kers, Miss Hrs. ‘twa Annie K. Mise Laura Lennox and the analytical chemist, Clayton, all thetr buil. The women on trial, Annie Kenney, “Chief of Stam” Emmeline Pankhurst, surrendered to including Misx to Mra are those who were arrested when Scotland Yard de- tectives raided and closed up the head quarters of the Women's Soclal and Po- (Continued on Second Page.) ie aii WORLD rulitaer (Ws City. lines. aay TRAVEL BUREAU, World) Hullding, 85-5 ‘Vark ‘all | papers of a notice algned by hei ‘Sentral and: Bout Maren ages, | bad Circulation | Books Open t 19 1 3. eee eTETERreeercecrnerrrer. | oe obo OOO H9S5046-5.5-5:5-6-5600500-4 SSS RSe 16S SOHOOCSEEED SEER SBS OOO ST le eee. - {$6,500 A MONTH IS ALL THIS WIFE SEEKS TO LIVE ON orge Heye, Suing Rich Banker for Divorce, Asks That Amount of Alimony. 1h OR. A motion for $6,500 a month ($78,000 a year) allmony and $10,000 counsel fee for Mrs, Blanche A, William Heye from eorge Gustave Heye, ofl man, banker and archeologist, came up for argu- ment before J preme Court 4 From the for the first w the divorce bee husband has mal it, deseribed by ce Aspinall in the Sue e that Mra, Heye asks | use she belleves her | tained a certain Mise | Mre, Heye as @ in an apart. of no prominence,” pity n this When the case was called, though not | on the published calendar, former Judge and who is assoctated with Curtis as counsel for Mr Kingsb ry Heye went to the bench and sald quietly that inasmuch as tits firm of Battles & Company, with which his elient ts to AIL” | 18 PAGES: d, is in Liquidation, the finane af. faire of Mr, He: were in great confu- sion and it would be at least @ week | before it would be possivle to make an| derly argument against the enormous mony demanded, ‘The case was put until May ‘The suit was brought in Nassau County several weeks ago and te for an absolute divorce, Mr. Heye has a great country place at Roslyn near that} of Clarence Mackay and W Van derbilt Jr. The Heves Lived In thie efty at the Langdon apartments at Pitty: | sixth street and Fifty avenue Mra. Heye admitted In a public #tate ment on March % that 40° had asked her lawyer, John Willett, to gtart: a} wuit against hee hustand, but she ree fused to si ve about the cause ex | cept that @ breach between herself and nd too wide to be bridged y caunel by the “perton of no | whom she refused to name e Heyes have two children, ‘Thoy were married in 1901 at W » Masa, Mra, Heye's publi ment was called out by appearance in the dand’s name sayim that he would b responsible for no debts contracted by any one other than himaecit, WEATHERR—Uacettion to-nlght, Wednesday tatn NIGHT EDITION. PRICE ON ONE CENT. BLOWN THROUGH ROOF. BLAZING VICTIMS FALL INTO CROWD ON STREET 3,000 See Men Shot High in Air When Explosion Wrecks a Build, ing and Rocks the Factory Section of Jersey City. WOMEN AND GIRLS FAINT AT SIGHTS OF TORTURE. Terribly Injured Men Run Wild in Throng After Flight From Blazing Ruin. , From the concrete factory of the Baker Castor Oil Company, ia Morgan street, near Washington street, Jersey City, came fhe” ¢remend-* ous roar of an explosion ‘ust before 1 o'clock to-day, and into the streets, crowded with 3,000-odd operatives of Butler Brothers’ mail order house, across Washington street, who were finishing their lunch, dropped. huge pieces of galvanized iron which had formed the roof of the castor oil plant. Amid this debris plunged down men, every stitch of clothing and almost every inch of skin burned from their bodies. They had been hurled through the roof. From within the factory came then the shrieks {of men in agony and from the doors staggered strange looking objects, men on whose bodies remained no skin, whose hair and eyebrows had / been burned away and on whom there remained only the héavy leather shoes which even such withering heat as they passed through could not burn off. these figuree, looking dike any thing JOSEPH PULITZER 3D. but human beings, rushed into the grolea of terrified operatives of ros., dashing this way and that, crash- Horn To-Day to Mes. Joseph Pai ing againat the walle of the factory, to pick themselves up rush of blin@ly again, uttering shrick after shriek the while. TORTURED VICTIMS sTacaaneD WILDLY THROUGH CROWD. Men and women, hortified by the spess tacle, sought to avold these frightful fikures, which leaped and sprang here and there In a frensy of torture, and «iflx and women among whom the epeg- tres dashed dropped in faints on the street. It was a matter of seconds enly, though it seemed hours to those whe watched, before men regained their wite and the suffering victims, erased dy thelr pain, were selzed and carried out ‘of range of th: nes which now sprang {rom the castor ofl plant. Calis were sent for ambulances, and surgeons hurried up frem St. Fran- els, City and Christ Hospitals, They formed a fleld hospital in the street, where they bathed the victims of tho explosion in ol! and gave them injections of morphine, Then they hurrie@d them to St. Francis Hospital, though they realised there was almost no hope for them The men who were trapged in the ex- ST. LOUIR, Mo, May 1—A son was born toeday to Mra. Joseph Pulitsor Jr, wife of the President of the Dulltser, ing Company — The thee home, No, 3% Boulevard, Mrs, Pulitzer and the child | are doing well. ‘This is their frst chlid, The boy will be named Joseph Pulltger 34 after his grandfather, the founder of the Post- Dispatch and later proprietor of the New York World, who died ear and a half ego. Mra, Pulitzer was Bil: nor Wickham before her marriage June 1, 1910, Se ARGUE BECKER CASE JUNE 16 Attorney Shay Geto Time to fi Kvidenee, ‘he appeal in Lieutenant Charles Becker of New Y convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, will be argued before the tigate New The court to-day granted a motion extending the time for argument to|Plosion were James Payton of Fall that date River, John Monahan of No. 203 Oeean The motion was jo by Joseph A.| avenue, John Driscoll of No, 357 Hen- Shay, Becker's y, who filed anderson street and K. A. Brady of No, aMdavit with urt stating he! 189 Rallroad avenue, the last three of investigate pe Jersey City All but Monahan are dying in the hospital, and Monahan hag only @ wllght change of recovery, How the explosion occurred Bas not | been determined. The building ts one ned move tit sible new evid THREE DROWN, “FROM BOAT. ning World.) jeorme Berger Special to YORK, Pa., May nr, forty-five yours leorge Berger jr. ten years, and Edward Price, tf) five fect from W, treet. Tt is tern ye rowned to-day in thelag high as a the tory building but te ata {te not subdivided within, the entire space punty, by upslie | being utilized as one big room, in whtoh thelr boat. The victims had aNcae Ret uatie paoentoe Bi pf the. all Is extracted from the castor eturning with to-day's jeath. The| CONCUSSION ROCKS BUILDING, | SCATTERS FLAME, j} The bullding was new and freproof, In fact, no tire of any kind wae ale lowed in the buliding, for the fumes af of half a dozen which compose the plant Haker Company and standa in about, 13.— f the Morgans street about seventy- a ing mid bodies —- 85,000,000 Filtration PL The $8,000,000 filtration lanp f the Jerome Park reservoir is to be put th The Board of Katimate in Loo at eet ya Wy Sane ure eaploged ta " -day decided after con-| refining the oil and hu: olla were stored in tl sorew pipe passed throu; along this ran the tanks cutside the Wullding, lon to vote for the plan ! mmissioner ‘Thompsoa, whioh was opposed by Comptroller Pren- + ll