The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1913, Page 1

3 * Mra, are Americans Defeat Australians in First Tennis Matches . Poathor-ats and warmer to-night; fatarday cloudy. Constiaht, 1018, by HURCH FOLK INFIST FIGHT AFTER SQUABBLE IN COURT: PASTOR'S BEARD IS PULLED Bvangelical ‘Lutheran Members Wage Free-for-All in Court- house Corridor. STRNERS PARNDE WAVING OLD LOR, IFLA DEFENSE “WOMAN BEGINS MIX-UP. She Says Rev. Von Hollen Started Things by Calling | Hoboken Workmen End Strike Her Friend Names. When Investigation of @ome anonymous Evangelical Luth- Insult Is Promised. @ran brother kicked over the vessel —_——_——_+ ‘which contained the congregational milk of human kindness in the curridor of the ‘Weat mide Court thie afternoon, and for @ brisk fifteen minutes Faith, Hope and Charity were clinching all over the floor in the finest free-for-all has been witnessed in those Ju- dtciat Precincts for many days. About fifty past and present mem- bers of the congregation jamméd the court-room to hear the case brought up by the bitter division in the church and centering about tho summons served on Harry Weinberg, former treasurer of the congregation, by the ‘Rev. Von Hollen. The latter charged that when some uf his flock severed their connection from the church and estublished a disnenting communion at No. 440 West Fiftieth street the treas- urer had stolen the signboard from the front of the church and taken the altar decorations with It over to the Ineurgent fold. FISTICUFFS FOLLOW HOT VER- BAL SQUABBLE. Tne Rev. H. J. Fra; vome the spiritual head of the dissenting branch, and the Rev. O. C. Mees, claim- ing to represent the Ohio Synod of the German Lutheran Church in this coun- try, Were present to swear thet the Rev, von Holl had been duly expelled from the pastorate and that the signboard and the altar ornaments rightfully be- longed to the new congregation. “Liar! Imyostor! Black sheep!" were some of the English equivalents of the German comments that were boomed through the court room, while the vari- ous clergymen were giving testi- mony. Men and men of the rival camps glared at oné another and shook their fists under each other's noses, without respect for the dignity of the court. “I hear that this is @ mission church,”’ the Magistrate finally interrupted. I ‘think that if I give you a week's time to exercise a little of the missionary spirit you may avoid having someone going to jail.” Magistrate Appleton then postponed the case until next Thuraday and both fections veered toward the door, with jow, Germanic clouds of trouble bang- ing over thelr hoads. WARS. WOLNER'S HANDS FIND PASTOR'S BEARD. On the way down the narrow stairs the war parties of Caristian soldiers were forced into near proximity and something started. Burgomeliater of No. 535 West Wiftleth street alleged afterward that Rev. von Hollen had called her an ulting name, Mrs, Wolner of No. West Fifty-second street, alleged heard the reverend lps frame (nat inault and that she acted accordingly. However that may be, Mra, Wolner sunk her ample hands into the flowing, The Hoboken strike in the boiler shops of the A. & W. Fletcher Ghipbullding Company over an alleged moult to the United @tates Gag haa ao patch of the epectacular plunged into it to-day when a handso! @owned, appeared on the streets carrying & silk- en American flag bigger than herself. he eald she was Vice-President of the New York chapter of the D, A. Kt, and it was hor understanding that the frm hed put insult on the American work- ingmen through their country’s flag. ‘During the parade the men wore min- feture American flags in theif button- holes, and many of them carried flags in their hands, The handful of striking boilermakers hailed her as a new ange! of deliver- ance—a Joan of Arc or a Gurley Flynn, They greeted her with cheers, and Proudly marched down behind her to the office of Andrew Fletcher, President of the firm. - With the Stars and Stripes tél] Mung to the breeze, the woman de- acended upon Mr. Fletcher and demand- ed to know If he were a foreigner. He courteously offered a chair and politely informed the Daughter of the Revolu- Yon that he was an American, and a pretty good one at that. After a conference with President Fletcher the committee decided to re- port in favor of returning to work. Mr. Fletcher declined to discharge the man who ed the trouble, but promised to make a very thorough investigation Into the charges made against him by the men. Joseph Fletcher—who is not related to the owners of the company—has been tool keeper for the concern for nine years, He is fanadian, According to the men, he hes always @ sar. eastic critic of this country and its in- atitutions, Three months ago he went to Canada but was not successful there. ‘When he came bag he was re-em- Dloyed at his old work. The hands Say he was more free with hia slurs on the country than ever, and a number of them say they heard him "to hell with the United States flag.” The word wae passed around and a meeting was held, at which it was decided a should be declared until Fletcher discharged. know nothing of this trouble ex- cept aa the superintendent has reported it to me,” sald W. A, Fletcher to-day. ‘Udo know that Joseph Fletcher has been a mighty good tvol keeper and that he has been very strict in making the men pay for tools they have lost or have failed to return. This has made him highly unpopular with the men and very popular with me. “I have a letter from him in which he is as loyal to the United téates and the flag as any man on our roll; that he has had @ hitch in being natural , but means to be a citizen. He says never said anything againet the’ fag and has a boy who has been taught to worship the flag, Unless the men can show oe al beard of the Rey. von Hol-|dence to me supporting their char; len; the pastor, so it w afterward | shall not discharge him." told in court, did not turn the other —— $200,000 BANK SHORTAGE. ST. LOUIS, June 6.—A special to the Post-Dispatch says the Pemiscot County Bank at Caruthersville, Mo, has closed {ts doors and ia in thi Bank Commissioner discovery of a shortag: according to John H, ident, in at leant reach $260,000, When the bank's books were audited f ut smote Mrs. Wolner fairly in Then the brethren ! Lutheran Churdh followed the injunction of Holy Writ to "Aght the good fight.” They did) After the court endants had pried them apart and herded them all back = before Magintrate Appleton no madder evwemblage was ever on public view. Fifty voices started at once in German and English to hurl charges and defend eo ‘The shortage, inningham, pres- $200,000, and may Press Oe (The Now York Werld). NEW YORK, FRID GIRLS IN APANIC |Mezo FORGET FIRE DRILL, CLOG THE ESCAPES: Forewoman Pushed Through Grating of Balcony as Others Fight on Ladders. STAIRWAYS WERE SAFE. All the Frightened Workers «Rescued Unharmed From Laight Street Establishment Blind fire fear, such as has possessed all foreign workers in loft factories since the horror of the Triangle tragedy two years ago, sripped nearly a hundred girla and women in the wool clipping works of D. Kaplan & Co. at No. 38/2 [tM Laight street, im Greenwich village,| © early to-day and an unthinking panic resulted in a narrow escape from death for many of them, The wool clipping eatabilshmnant ecoe- Dies the three upper storien Ea, fvo- story ‘bullding,- whieh runs to No. 7 Vestry street. The of the company has enforced | Grille ever since the Triengle Sre Ha theoretically, the three lofts could be emptied of their workers in less than ft minutes, But under the first real test orate fire drill was no ode? pores against the frantic instinct for self- Dreservation on the part of the heaped five workers who were driven mad b; fright at the smell of emoks, FLEE AS FLAMES BURST FROM BALE OF WOOL. The third floor of the building ts qiven over to the purposes of a re- eelving room, and there the heavy bales of clippings are stored. At 8.30 O'clock A. M. to-day several girls went down to this floor to open some new bales. When they undid the tightly binding cords about one bale and it fell epart a burst of flame and a heavy jet of smoke jumped out into their faces, The fire must have been engendered by Spontaneous combustion, a not unknown Occurrence in bales of woolen cloth. ‘The girls on the third floor screamed and started for the fire escapes with- out thought of the fire drill they had been taught to heed in time of danger. The panic spread quicker than the smoke to the two floors above, and in an instant all three floors were boiling with excitement. Women and girls, mostly Italians, paid no heed to tho staira, which were not even threatened by the little fire, but rushed to the fre encapes and began slipping and sliding down the steep stairs on the outside of the building. Rose Telats, forelady of the tried to force some order out of the panic on the third floor and head- @d the descent down the fire escape on the Vestry street side of the building. At the second floor balcony she tried to halt the press behind her in order to have time to lower to the street the de y now tachadle are ladder suspended there, {!"Attee ara. Kesiall Whaley, Floretta PUSHED THROUGH FIRE ESCAPE! wWhatey's grandmother, who wan joint BALCONY GRATING. guardian pver Floretta Whaley with the Allen Friedman, a bookkeeper at work| Rey. Mr. Cooke, announced a little more in the second floor offices, did not know| than « year ago she had forgiven her about the fire until he heard the screams! niece, but would never admit Cooke to of the women and saw the fire excape| her house, Mrs, Miranda Clarke Cook: ladders outside his window clogged with| began to relent from her determination the clawing, Sighting forms of those| never to get a divorce from Cooke and from the floors above, As he tried to| give him the legal right to marry open the window to go to the an Floretta Whaley and give his name to ance of Mrs, Telats, still swaying above | hin boys. the street by the grip of her hands, a] Mrs, Cooke entered sult in Hartford, woman's body crashed through the glass| where she had gone to live April 17 of | JERE KNODE COOKE NOW FREE TO WED FLORETTA WHALEY Wife of ‘Minister Who 'Eloped From Hempstead Gets a Divorce. Jerry’ Knode Cooke, the unfrocked Episcopal clergyman of Hempstead, was made free to-day to marry Floretta Whaley, the girl with whom ie eloped In 1907, when she was in her teens. At the special session of the Superior Court, civil side, of Connecticut, at Hartford to-day Cooke's former wife obtained a decree of divorce with per- misston to resume her maiden name of Miranda Clarke. Cooke and Miss Whaley went from this city to San Francisco when their flouting of all social regulations made them the subjects of too much not here. Gonaip followed them there and they were again in the public eye Cooke was earning his living ax a house painter. Two children were born to them. They moved from one city in turned to the Bast and went to Ii in Brooklyn, moving from time to um unul they settled in the home in Wash- them. by a company last April a shorta ‘The distressed Ma, 14 0 was found, It was also discov- ered that Pemiscot County was credited with about $200,000, though the depopits ‘by the county treasurer were sald to pare ‘Deen pon Ns The investigation resulted from thie deed climaxed ia ao aloe 9 be ¢ finally or- dored one faction to stay in the courte m until the other had left, and the abe of peace requosted that some one +eend in an emergency cell for an am-| ate ce and the falling sHvers cut his wrists! this year. Cooke, when the papers in and hands. the case were served on her here, wept Nevertheless he forced his way out! for joy, He explained the situation to onto the platform and got a grip on} tny children, Paul and Chester, and the Mrs. Tolats's wrists, He held her up| wiole family knelt on the floor while n O'Connor ran through | no offered up prayorn of thanksgiving ind gut of the window on | for Mra, Cooke's gencros! ty the second fluor; the policeman helped| Cooke, while declaring that hin lite the bookkeeper, who wan bleeding trom | with Floretta Whaley has been an ide the cuts of the falling glass, pull the | romance and & sacred turst, haw ad forewoman to safety, [mitted that he did wrong uot only. te Jimmy Kelly, a truck driver, had wit-| humanity but to her, Miss Whaley pakhad tha baaie frame ina haw told the public that while #he wa rae gavous the: atrant Ga happy with Cooke, #he would never ade street side of the bulldin, and had vise another girl to do as she has done. climbed up the grating before the front Fpl i; - A windows of the bullding until he couia| p12 Men 8 Blue Serge Suits, $5.95 reach the fire balcony on the second| The “SUB” Clothing Corner, Broad. Soor, Then he lowered the ladder and| way, cut Marclay Ht. vib. tow Woul- the girls crushing down the fire evcape | MF"! jan Man's luc Serge suite alten, wot to the street in safety, fast’ Color guaran i alvo Wornteds land Cheviots, in pencll stripes, gpa: | Drowns. black and mixtures, alt re (oy GL Worth $12.1n wny. other ator “an. ery ‘se bebe ‘wales da ae price a saul ry = ughlin and Rice Playing Tennis Match . Before Crowd of 4,000 on the West Side Courts ‘ety | lifornia to another end two years ago: AY, JUNE E 6, 19138. M’LOUGHLIN WINS; DOUST IN BATTLE WITH HARVARD MAN Californian Easily Vanquishes Opponent in Opening Tennis Match fcr Chance to Figure in International Game for Davis Trophy. ‘Williams defeated Doust in the 900-/ won the next game, after Rice went to end mateh 6 00°2, %, with @ smashing drive to base line. M'LOUGHLIN' ZO TOO MUCH FOR RICE. © McLoughlin's apeed was terrifie, and the Australian could get only one ace in the next game, MoLoughiin winning, 4-6. The American so far was play- ing the best game of his career, and Rice was powerless againut him. Rice wot one more game, but the eet was o) McToughlin's, 6 to 8 Rice braced in the ninth game, and ran the score to deuce, but the American emashed the Dall acrosa court and got the next tw pointa, Rice showed improvement in (hie set, but #0 far he was entirely outclassed by the brillant young Western Starting the third set McLoughlin quickly pulled off 4 love game. Rice with fine work at the net got the next one, 40—15. The American won the third game, and Rice evened the acore on the fourth, McLoughlin, serving speedily, captured the fifth gaine, 40—~30, The Australian began playing with ® barder stroke, and McLoughlin was kept to the back court. ‘The next game went to the Anti podean, after McLoughlin rallied al- lantly. On hin serving the American captured the seventh game, 40—80, Wonderful work on the base line won for MoLoughtin in the next game, 4-29, Hice in desperation rallied in the game Maurice Motaughiin of California won the first clash of the New York preiim- inarles to the international tennis games to be played in England this afternoon. He defeated Horace Rice of the Aus- trallan invading team in three straight sets. N, Norrs Wilams of Harvard Leonie wth Stanley N. Doust, captain of th Avetralians, in the second encouater, and the pair, remarkably evenly match- ed, played # game which kept the 4,000 persons at the Weat Bide Tennis Courts on their feet thrilled with excitement. ‘The winner of the elimination games oes to England to take part in the in- ternational matches for the Dwight F. Davie Cup, the highest prige In the ten- nig world, Long before game time the huge stands built uround three sides of the ‘courts began to fil with early arrivals Steady streams from the subway quick- fay taxed the capacity of the stands. | AUSTRALIAN PLAYER WORE KNICKERBOCKERS. ‘The weather was ideal. A brisk wind softened hot sun and made It comfort- ble for the contestants in their dashes about the court. Rice and McLoughlin, who were to play in the opening game, lost Mtdle time getting ovt on the courts after the two teams were photographed ‘The Australian in his knickerbockers, the only racquet wielder in the world who mtill wears the old European unl- form, drew many comments from the gallery as he cavorted around, But the rowd soon gave {ts attention to the warming up practica of McLoughlin. The } California comet was in excellent form and ruled a atrong favorite over the Antipodean, The two players finally got into action with McLoughlin serving, The Amorican won the first game in dasaling atyle—4 | the Invading captain, met in the second rve. Ithee wae helpless returning his] Match. The young Harvard atur showed {ust serves, ‘The second game alo went | Mi® nervousness at the start, when he to MeLoughlin #15 and the third was] conUnuously smashed out of bound: also. *y allowing Douat to win the firet game Rice rallied and won the fourth game, | 4-15. Williame was still unsettled and after the American lost 30 points witn| the Australian got the next Kam, yut-of the-court #hots, but the next two The American, getting command of went to the American, #0 that MoLough-| hia strokes, won the next three games lin captured the net. 6 to 1 In sensational style, forcing the A Changing positions McLoughlin quick-| tralian to give ground, Doust evened ly ran up a two-game lead In the second| the score in tie sixth when Williams ‘Then he went Into the ret four| killed three returns over the base line. made it deuce, The American then Diaced the ball on the sides where the Australian could not reach it, and cap- tured the next two points and the set, making @ clean sweep for America in the frst contest of the series. WILLIAMS GETS BIG START ON ‘DOUsT. After @ half hour intermission N, Morris Williams and Stanley N. Doust, wel i tintes, giving the Australians the third! The American, mainly on his serves, anne @ love. The Anerican cane back | Won the next game @ 20 The two strung and won the fourth game #-15,| players were evenly matched, and Doust got the eighth game with twi ares ahewe dowa the side, Willem, Ooo eee ener cee ae wing the ball beautifully Rive got He MAES BORIy Wal, OM 509 ValoraioR set, after MoLoughlin ran to @ love and | CHICA ‘Wea thor—Pate and warmer to-night) Saturday clonagh” INA EDITION. PRIOE OnE OENT. ALDERMEN STAY AWAY, | BLOCK CURRAN AGA, TIEAUP POLICE REPORT. |* | Head of the Investigating Committee, Unable to Get a Vote Upon the .' Findings That Criticise = Detective Bureau. ° a “WORTHY OFCROOK’S TALENT: DOUGHERTY’S HOT COMMENT. “Aldermen Lined Up With Convicted Thieves” to Get Malicious Ma- * terial, Says Deputy. °“- >=, The Curran Aldermanic: Police’ day to get 4 quorum to conikler « tection of the comnts report, sad 9 Past 3 of the findings, dealing with the Detective Bureau, which it ar: raigns in scathing terms, was made ‘public without ‘the formality of a room. They were Aldermen Curran, Shipley, who riade his reappeas- ance to-day, Folks and Hamilton, Alderman. Downing, whose presence would have established a quorum, again absented man Esterbrook is still confined to his bed by illness, e ——————— Baseball Games To-Day NATIONAL LEA LEAGUE. at PITTSBURGH. |LADELPHIA— 0201000 jURGH— 0000001 —. AT CHICAGO. BOSTON— 2003 ~, CaICAGO— 00.30 _—— AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. v AT WASHINGTON, her J . LOUIS— 0000000 ~ to-day WASHINGTON— 0000001 AT PHILADELPHIA. DETROIT— 01210 PHILADELPHIA— 00028 AT BOSTON. o11100 BOSTON— 101000 RACING AND BASEBALL PAGE 18, [SS now in superb form, won the next game after Doust had as lead of #0 points, ‘The Harvard youngster also got the next in 0-30, giving him the frat eet 4. 5 i EELS ae 2 5 3 peared only AKiermen Curran, Shipley. Folks and Hamilton, They went tucking @ copy of Section 3 under arm, ’ SHIPLEY DECLARES HE'S MAN'S MAN.” He was asked to explain his absemes family has kept me away. I had planned to take my frmily to our country plage at Meadowmere Park on Wednesday 1 did it, No man has got anything ‘The playing of the nineteen-yearold boy in this set, after he overcame a two-game lead of the veteran Austral- jan, waa one of the greatest exhibitions of tennlp ever seen in this country, Willlam steadied down tm the opening game of the fourth set and showed his older opponent the way to the tune of 40-—30, In this game the American ended a long volley with @ ground bunt that brought @ roar of approval from 1 am not prepared to say Vote on the whole report on Alderman the Tammany members of the commits tee in the City Hall in the morning: He sald that he certainly should Se. present on Monday, and when he was asked what might be expected fi the members who so far had vot: of adoption, Just four Aldermen appeared’ in Chairman Curran’s