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WEHATHER-Fatr to-night and probably Sunday. Copyright, 1018, by Co. (The New York World The Frese Publi: Ate eh eve NENG Ga STMT CANTY tars sca ane TELYOU ON ROOSEVELT DR MILBURN OF AMERICAN POLO TEAM BADLY ’ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY “81, Back of Champion “Big Four” * Seriously Injured at Meadowbrook. IN HOT PRACTICE GAME. Famous Player’s Second Sim- ilar Hurt May Bar Him From International Match. Devereaux Milburn, “back” on the champion “Big Four” polo team, the " Meadowbrook players who success- fulty defended the Internationa) Polo Cup against the English invaders two years ago and who will be called on again to protect the cup June 10, was caught beneath his pony to-day on Meedowbrook Field and kicked on #@e face, head and chest. “Whe accident was almost exactly similar to one which befell him three - ‘Weske ego on the fleld of tie Rovk- Qway Hunt Club and which threat- ened then to keep him out of the in- ternational matches. To-day'’s in- jury, it ie feared, will prevent him frem playing. ‘Only his great recuperative powers and his wonderfu! nerve enabled him to re- gain his playing form after the first Injury. It ts asking too much, polo en- thusiasts said to-day, to expect him to recover from this last accident in time for the worlds series. AGCIDENT HAPPENS IN FURIOUS PRACTICE GAME. Mitburn’s accident came at the begin- by ning of the eighth and last period of one of the swiftest and most bitterly con- | tested practice games eid so far, He | was playing his usual position on the "Big Four,” and in front of him were ‘ Larry Waterbury at No. 1, J. M. Water- ¢ Wary, hie broti at No. 2, and Harry "Payne Whitney, the captain, at No, 3, All had been riding lke madmen and wiricing the ball as they had never it before except in the last world's weries, but play as they did their opponents, a team made up of the best Payers available and gathered under the colors of the Rockaway Hunt Cup, had played them almost to a standstill. Tne Rockaway team was composed of Jus Btoddard at No. 1, Rene La Mon- tagns at No. 2, Foxhail P. Keene at N $ and Malcolm Stevenson at back. G ing into the Sth period, the defenders faced a score of 61-2 points for their opponents against S for themselves, and Miyurn and his mates gripped their _ mallets with added firmness, deter- mined to make their margin of victory eater. But hardly had the ball been thrown \is by Capt. Kitson of the British chal- salad who acted as referee, when Meene caught it and in a sweeping race down the field cluded all the defenders fand shot the ball for a goal, MILBURN RODE HARD TO HEAD OFF GOAL, ‘There was only a little more than six tea ty play und only half a goal ‘separated the teams when Keene got another free chance at the ball and started down the field at a hard gallop @ziving the ball ahead with long power- ful strokes. Qirburn, guarding his goal, was far way from the fast flying ball and he, an well as tho 1 the sidelines and the ae other members of the team who shrieked their encouragement at him, realized thet he would have to ride ke a Centaur to cut the ball off. W@et after jt, Mill,’ shouted Whitney anm@ the Waterburys bellowed toward Rim; “Shake it up, old man, You can Get it. Go to It.” | Phe players were excited as wild men, ponies seemed to be Imbued with @irits and all eight men were race fm at the ball at full gallop. The crewds on the side lines, the society felis of ‘the Meadowbrook colony, were @heuting wand cheering as though they swere & baseball crowd. “Afiburn needed no urging. He wa» petting out of his pony evory ounce ‘oh power the beast had. He waa almost 4) the ball when he reached for it with wide forward eweop, He seemed to FALLS, ROLLS OVER HIM, KICKS HIM ON THE READ JAPAN WILL SEND | ANOTHER NOTE ON THE | CALIFORNIA LAND BLL Tokio Believes doves Washington Has Not Said Last Word in Answering Protest. TOKIO, May M%—Ancther note from the Japanese Government dealing with the questions arising our of the recont California allen land ownership legisla- tion Is to be forwarded shortly to ‘Washington, The idea that the United | Statgs has not said her final word ia prevalent here, and it is intimated by authoritative circles by inference that no official action is to be initiated yet by Japan. Tha formation of a Japanese aseo- clation in the United States for the purpose of co-operattug with the Jape- nese Government {+ greatly favored here, and’ the object of the members of this society when it is formed will be to strive to reach a permanent solution of the diMeulty between the United States and Japan by means of a new treaty or by securing a change in the naturalization laws. valid sae CARNEGIE OFFERS $1,000,000. Vanderbilt University to Get Money NASHVILLE, Tenn., May &1.—Chan- cellor J. H. Kirkland of Vanderbilt Univeralty announced to-day that a propostion had been made by Andrew Carnegie to provide @ million a fer the benefit of Vanderbilt's Medical Department. Of this sum $200,000 would be given the university immediately for the erection and equipment of labora- torles, The income from the remaining $900,000 woukl be paid annually for the support of the department through the Carnegie corporation. A condition of the donation provides that the direction of the educational and aclentific work of the department be committed by the board of trust to a sinall board of seven members, threeyof whom shall be eminent in medical and scientific work. The offer, it was sald, would be accepted. eaeepiomean HOLD NEW YORKER IN PARIS. Accused of Trying to Cash Coupons of Stolen Bonds. PARIS, May 31.—A man who claims to be John Burke, thirty-nine years of age, and born in New York, was ar- rested to-day while trying to cash cou- pons of a number of bonds, on which payment had been stopped, alleged to have been stolen in a London burstary. ‘The prisoner presented the coupons at @ bank in the Rue Laffitte, He was accompanied by another man, who took to his heels and escaped, = Rall Player Dies on Tri BUFFALO, N. Y. May 81.—Frits Greenwald, twenty-one years old, catcher on the Holland baseball team, died on & train to-day of @ fracture of the skull caused by a foul tip in a game yesterday. The ball struck the player below the right ear, He was being rushed to @ local hoapital when he died. Ralabuchkin of the Russian army was killed to-day by a fall from an aero- plane while flying at Peterhof. A pas- songer who was with him fell at the same time, but escaped with @ bro! arm, overbalance his pony. The animal stumbled and fell and Milburn went down ibeneath him, ‘The other players rushed to Milburn's side, water was thrown over hin and he was hurried to the clubhouse in an ailtomobile, but he was sensciess when he got there and minutes passed before he became conscious, Then he com: Plained of severe pains in his cbebt. | DEVEREUX MILBURN, NOTED PLAYER, WHO WAS INJURED TO-DAY SENATORS LISTED FOR LOBBY INQUIRY: NOT TOCALL WILSON Members Will Be Summoned in Alphabetical Order to Tell of Tariff Ring. WASHINGTON, May 31.—The Sen: investigation of the “numerous and in- sidioug lobby” President Wilson & committee composed Nelaon. man. The investigation will oMce bullding, ord will be the first witness. ‘The tative Senator Overman, meeting late to-day, President Wilson was sent a certified copy of the resolution authorizing the Inquiry, and Senator Overman tele- phoned to Secretary Tumulty the infor- mation that the committee would begin work Monday. “We will not ask the President to come before the commilt- tee," sald Chairman Overman, “What the President wishes to do in the mat- ter the committee will leave to his own 004 judgment. We hope to conclude the inquiry in ten days an specified in the resolution, It 1» our purpose to rush it as rapidly ag posslble, not over- looking anything of importance that de- velops." ee DOCTOR SUES BISHOP. ke Saye He Treated Woman Now Divorced. The legal troubles of Jamea Cunning- ham Bishop, whose wife obtained a divorce from him yesterday, were further aggravated to- @ay when Dr. Richard F. Burke of No. 7% Lexington avenue, fled sult in the Supreme Court to recover $2,760 from the banker. sum Involved in the the value of services which he rendered wan granted, }inasmuch as he and Mrs. Bishop were living apart when Dr, Burke treated h the bill is one which she must pay out ‘of her own pocket. Dr, Burke te an alleniat, charged with threatening the Tariff bill will begin Monday at 10.00 A. M. by of Senators Overman, Walsh, Cummins, Reid and Mr. Overman will be Chair- be conducted openly in the public hearing room of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate and members of the Senate will be called in alphabetical Senator Ashurst. of Arizona thus bcommittee considered a ten- Mst of questions prepared by but they were not adopted, deferring action until another the millionaire banker Dr. Burke stated to the court that the action represents to Mrs, Bishop, after she had separated from her husband, but before the divorce In his answer Mr, Bishop replies that band’s Charges of Drunken- ness and Insanity. CHILDREN ESTRANGED. Two Elder Daughters Preju- diced to Testify for Father in Divorce Action. In an effort to show the world that her children have peen prejudiced by their father, James Cunningham Bishop, the mitiionaire banker, against her, Mrs, Abigail Hancock Bishop, who yeater- day won her suot for divorce, naming Mrv. Letla Haines Gwathmey, to-day broke her resolutions to maintain al- lence and granted The Evening World an interview, Mre. Bishop was interviewed in the big'mansion at No. 22 East Sixty-ffth atreet, where she was deserted by her husband and elder children before she braved the publicity of the divorce court to refute the denials of her hus- band and his Hotel Astor companion, the former society Jeader, Mra, Gwath- mey. Her mind was centred on what etill remains tp be adjudicated—the questions of custody of the childre: and the amount of alimony. DECLARES HUSBAND SOUGHT TO MAKE CHILDREN TESTIFY. “I am loathe to have this interview,” said Mra, Bishop, I hoped my no- torlety would cease, However, since you have sought it I can only say that it will not be hard to conyince the world as to how my daughters were turned against me by untruthfulness, “When men like Henry W, Taft and George Gordon Gattle,” she continued, naming her husband's and Mrs. Gwath- mey’s attorne: ould be made to be- lieve in @ man's innocence—as they seemed to do—through the perstatent ence of Mr, Bishop, and not be of constant contact with him, I ask the public what they think could be done with two little girls. “My two eldest daughters, even though with thelr father, promised not to tentify. Yesterday, just before I loft for the court, one core to me and said she was going to prove an alibi for her father, Think of turning @ daughter of elhteen against her mother, asking her to believe in his innocence, when a few hours later he acknowledged his guilt? ELS HOSTILITY OF CHILDREN AS KEENEST BLOW. “The thing that has hurt me most of all in this affair is the attitude of these daughters againet me, but I atill feel that my @orrow {# nothing in comparison to what they will know in after life for going against their agother, even though she were the terrible creature that their father painted her to be, “I have but one regret that the trial ended no suddenly, and that ie that the public did not see my evidence against the charges of insanity and drunken- ness, as It wan just as strong as that against Mr. Bishop, which caused the Judge to pronounce him gullty. “{ also wish the world to know that my battle has been fought and fought aione. After the horrible accusations made against me I turned my head nett’ + to left nor right to ascertain who my friends were, fearing to find some weaker than I wished to know them.” Mrs. Bishop announced her Intention to prosecute Mra. Fallon, the servant who gave Bishop one of the aMdavits alleging Mrs, Bishop's intemperance, “LT feel it fe my duty,” sald Mra. Bishop, “to prosecute: those who gave ‘Mdavits, Mrs, Fallon for many has been a trusted servant, and ib Justice to others I feel that she should be made an example. Lapland Salle With Record List, The Red Star steamer Lapland salud to-day for Southampton with 358 saloon Dasnengers. This ts the record for tha Lapland and she had to put on forty- five additional stewards. One of the passengers was Perry Belmont, vrothe: of August Helmont, under whose au spices racing was revived yesterday, Mr, Belmont said he was very xlad to see racing resumed and that he bi Meved if it were left to the vote of the people of the United States the sport would have been revived long ago or mover would beve been stopped. 1913 MRS. BISHOP SAYS ETHEL BARRYMORE SHE REGRETS HER | IS QUARANTINED SUITS QUICK END: Wanted Chance to Refute Hus-|Actress Rushed Girl to Hospi- WITH SICK CHILD tal When Doctor Diagnosed Case as Diphtheria. MOTHER LOCKED _IN. Forced to Cancel Engagement at Brighton and Trip Planned to Europe. Ethel Bargymore, not in her capacity as actress but as Mra. Russell Griswold Colt, 1s a prisoner in the Minturn Hosp!- tal at the foot of Kast Sixteenth street, and despite an engagement at the New Brighton Theatre and her intended Preparations for starting for Europe a week from Mond she cannot get out before next Saturday. The second child of the Colts, a;little irl, was taken down with a severe sore throat two days ago. The con: 2atlon be came so severe yesterday that the fars- fly ghystcian wee calied. He sald the ogee looked to him suspiciously like dipttheria and made a culture which verified the diagnosis. Mrs. Colt bundled the baby, who fe vut Uttle more than @ year old, and hurried to the Minturn Hospital for Contagtous Diseases. The physicians at the hospital veri- fied the presence of diphtheria, but naid that because of the promptness with which the child was brought to them they would have little diMculty in getting the baby through with it, Mise Barrymore said that she would be back in a few hours and asked if she could arrange to live at the bos- pital when @ehe was not at the New Brighton Theatre or caring for her son Ba 1 at home, She was informed that she could not leave the hospital under any circumetances. She hed been exposed to the diphtheria for two days and must be quarantined, Hurried telephone messages to her hueband and to Manager Bam McKee of the theatre were not of the feast help, The Board of Heafth t# all pow- erful and knows no necessity but ite own laws. Mine Barrymore, the actress and Mrs. Colt, the wife and mother, spends most of her waking hours away from the aick baby's cot at the telephone. Through her efforts Me. McKee has been able to get Georgie Caine and Clayton White to fill the time which was to have been oc- cupted by Mies Barrymore and “The Twetve Pound Look” at the theatre next week, But just who te to pack the trunks for the Muropean trip, or at any rate, see to ft that they are properly packed, la @ problem. The situation is also complicated by the promise that shere are soon to be three bables in the Colt household, —__—_ THREE DANCERS BEATEN, ONE MORTALLY, IN RIOT. Worst Hurt Victim of “Ladies’ Night” at Weehawken Social Club Refuses to Name Assailants, ‘The firat “Indles’ night” of the Wee- hawken Social Club of No. 0 West street was a riot, even If it Wasn't a socia! success, It lasted nearly all night and broke up in « melee which may re- sult fatally, the cause of which Is being investigated by the Charles street police, Bhouts of men, screams of women and the crashing of glass summoned Patrol- man Lahey on @ run rapping for ance and he was joined by oth men, At the foot of ¢ ing to the clubroom they met a crowd of frightened men and women in fight With drawn revolvers the policemen herded the inen together andedrove them back up the stairs. On the floor of the big front room the policemen found three men unconscious. John Manning of No. 178 Varick street, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospi- tal, His skull was fractured, as were both hie Jaws and his head wax beaten almost to pulp. There were several frac: tured ribs, internal injuries and the doctors aaid he wouldn't survive, The other unconscious man, John Tay- lor, who has but one arm, and Bernard Reynold», were revived by ambulance surgeons, and with fourteen others, were taken te the police station, None would eaplein the cause of the sist, DS Ea “tess iat est eats a Neal --5 eee BTHEL BARRYMORE HELD IN QUARANTINE WITH SICK CHILD. BRONX COWS HOLD UP AUTOS AND TROLLEYS AND WON'T ‘MOVE ON’ EE EN, Policeman Hales Owner of 23 Pastured on Boulevards Into Court. tract. Magistrate Corrigan, in Morrisanta Court to-day, got an angle on dairy farming as sometimes practised in the Bronx. Mounted Policeman Ienry didn't atrum his lyre and wing with the poet of the cows lowing on the lea. He just stroked his trousers leg with his whip and registered a big kick about the cows of Abraham Oppenhalin of No. @ Clark place roaming on the highway. And that's why Frederi Kaufman was in court in response t & summona. Those cows, Henry sald, roamed and roamed and roamed. They weren't sat- iafed with thelr own green fields, They Gidn't even confine themselves to flelda; ey got out on the Grand Concourse and chewed the cua on Jerome avenue, They got in front of the trolley care and tied up traffic sometimes for twen- ty minutes. When the trolley men tried to push them from the track pome of them attempted t> butt into the oars and ait with the passeng ‘Tne cows got in front of automobiles. ‘and the chauffeurs had to get out and show them. They paid no attention to the “toot, toot’ of the horn. They re- fused to be coaxed or scared off the road. In Lovers’ Lane, one of tha Bronx's most sacred spots, they would charge, and girls would run, The climax was reached yesterday afternoon, Policeman Henry said, when he found twenty-three of Oppenhelm's cows herded on Townsend and Clifton avenues, between Jerome avenue and the Grand Concourse. It took him half an hour to get the aniinals home, Then he summoned Kaufman to court. Kaufman sald that it waan't his fault that the cows wot out. The Magistrate differed with him and said that he would forgive him this time, but to beware a repetition of the offenae. days of the Republican National Convention,” on the witness stand, “except a little milk.” WILSON TELLS TILLMAN THIS 1S THE TIME TO PASS CURRENCY BILL Bound in Loyalty Says Presi- dent to Offset Attempt to Mar Effect of Tariff Laws. te the jury. sition WASHINGTON, May 81,—Genator Till- man today made public a letter trom President Wilson, in whioh the President declared for currency legislation at the resent session of Congress. In that Portion of the letter referring to our- renoy, the President wrote: ‘This is the time to pass currency legislation, and I think we are in @ sense bound in lovalty to the country to Paes It so that any attempt to create artificial Aisturbance after the tarift shall have become law may bo offect by a free aystem of credit whith will make 1t possible for men, big and little, to take : of themselves in buainees.”’ es SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION IN EFFECT, Secretary Bryan Signs Forma} An- nouncement on Direct Election of U. S. Senators. WASHINGTON, May notable o Joseph E. Ba; Coming Your Way! If success seems not within your easy reach you cannot truthfully say that the “fates” are against you, for to-mor- row there will be printed about adoption, Secretary Bryan to-di the formal announcement of the Beven- teenth Amendment to the Conatitution, providing for the direct election of Sen- ators, _— 70 MEXICANS DIE IN FIGHT. ede: Sunday World “Help Wanted” Ads, 1,300 Sunday World “Situation Wanted” Ads, Sunday World “To Let” Ads, ‘000 Troops and Rebels ¢ umbia on Hie Gi Sunday World “Real Estate” Ads. 500 Sunday World Business Opportunity Ads.| LAREDO, Tex, May 41.—Seventy ins Mexican regulars and Constitutional-| than any oth Sunday World “Summer Resort” Ads, | tst# were reported killed in a fight! called to th tc, Ete., Ete And the opportunity fs pours o advertise in is Big Sunday World Tomorrow and ie your announcement reualion " Neg Ye A reater_ then , Val fan and Tribune COMBINED. 3UT THE HOURISLATEAND to-day at Columbia, on the Rio| Emlen Roo» twenty-five miles above La- early Grande, redo. the brother business, international boundary and were ended by the Fourteenth t THERE IS NOTIME TOLOSE! World sic Work Wenders. aware Sears” nar, years old, and Twenty rebeln last night crossed |the father of the plainti@, had been closely ‘Until the Colonel was wet within a fow bupdred FOUGHT BY ROOS Hf wih MK AS ns Liquor Was Taken During Ten Exciting Days. LOEB AND COUSIN EMLEN CERTIFY TO HIS SOBRIETY | George B. Cortelyou, Albert Shaw, Lawrence Graham, Admiral Dewey and Others Deny Drink Stories; MARQUETTE, Mich., May 31.—It was brought out tontay, at ff last of the suit for libel brought by Theodore Roosevelt A. Newett for publishing in the Iron Ore stories of the “1 never saw a drink go into his room during those tem so ala declared Frank H, Ty Before Tyree went on the stand w. Emien Roorevelt, cousin of the Colegel, and William Loeb jr., former Collecter of Port at New York, had testified tet ©” the ex-President was of sober habits ~ end drank only lttle, the same effect, made by Cortelyou and Albert @haw, Admiral Dewey's jaa read this afternoon. Sloan, another Secret Service man, clared that the guards for always knew in advance what the onel was to est and drink at dinners. Kept cranks away from velt for eight years. When Tyree was en the sten@ gave come remarkable details of precautions taken to protect the on afi occasions. He is United’ Marshal in West Virginia, but yeare was chief of the squads of Gervice agents who accompanted velt on his journeys or guarded, Michigan legislature. “Were you living in SS Ore Mario asked § sntergey pur’ the fssue which contained the Ubel against Col. Roosevelt, “I was not a subscriber,”. ext: 3 Nee, “and this was the fret the paper 1 ever had seen." After Bayliss had finished the of Loeb was again Emien Roosevelt, who probably mete life of the former Deposit pres

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