The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1913, Page 1

_WRATERA-—Fair to-cight end Sunday) weomen, LECTURE A FALURE ANGUS HAMILTON TES HS LE Daring War Correspondent of| International Fame Was at End of His Resources. ‘- PRICE ONE OENT. : SUPERINTENDENT "HARD LUCK CAUSED WRECK AND BRAKES WERE 0.-. “Accidents Have Been Almost Epi- » demic, Although We Tell Engi- _. Neers to Sacrifice Speed to Safety,” Says Woodward. (Special Despatch from a Staft Correspondent.) STAMFORD, Conn., June 14—The New Haven road is the football of fate in the estimation of C. N. Woodward, ite general superintendent. He laid bare its troubles before Coroner John J. Phelan, who is conducting an f@quiry into the death of six on Thursday afternoon. Supt. Woodward asserted that while he and other officials of the system had not lost their fafti in the human element which enters into the operation of their trains, they were at a loss to understand why they had what he called such “hard luck.” “The newspapers have made the pub- Ne Believe we seek only to driv our | re to higher speed.” he pleaded. fan't trua We tell engineers te.det speed go—that safety must be , treins in en time can come afterward. i “All the time of many offic! j f THIRTY ENGINEERS FIRED FOR 3 CARELESSNESS. | Body Bursts.Open Door of fin the dest four months we have dis- | : charged more than thirty enginee Woman Eaiitor’s Office mpresieing signals, W: rah as touch aa fifteen f signal i aha ta ee tech pulled’ out of the service} 71 Adjoining Building. dismissed. And yet our a: ae Sas continue. We can't explain how they : bappen. We don't know why there was] Mrs. A. Roberts, editor of the Crafta- fg accident at Westport or one at/™an's Magasine, was sitting in her of- Bridgeport or here at Stamford the] fice on the top floor of the New Nether- lands Bank Bullding at No. 61 West Thirty-fourth street to-day when her door was burst open by the body of a young girl that fell actos the doorsill. other day. It is ineonceivable. Each A shower of broken glass lay about ene of these engineers seemingly was Going straight to death and yet the her and there was a hole in the sky- Nght, at the top of a short flight of accidents happened.” stairs to the roof. *Way not get automatic @ignals which would prevent engi frem running on them?" asked the Cor- The gl, who was just breathing and whose face was almost unrecognisable because of the scorings of the glass across It, proved to be Pauline Rowen of No. 871 First avenue, She was a seven- teen-year-old “exami of waists in HE OWED HOTEL BILL. \Left Packages of Manuscript and Jewel Case for Mrs. Hamilton. Angus Hamilton, @ war correspondent who had gone to the ends of the earth and suffered privations and even tor tare in the gathering of news, killed have hag more than our share of acc dents, it acoms.. They have been aj- ‘modt epidemic w: and entered by way of the fire escape. Mr. Hamilton's body, dressed in pa- Jaman, lay in the tub of the bathroom of the apartment. Dr. Irving of the New York Hospital, who was called, sald that he had been dead for at least an hour, ‘There were a number of packages of manuscript on @ table labelled “For Mr. Parsons. Will call.” A small jewel case was marked “Please forward to Mrs. Angus Hamilton, No. street, Buckingham 8. Ww." Mr. Hamilton was thirty-five years 4, and after his visit to Persia in Royal id If we could obtain a pra declared the rallroad yn offered a priso of sfactory one. I under stand 1,500 were received, and only tw ‘were worth experimenting with. The @xperimente are now going forward. whether anything will come son of Sir Arthur Pinero, the play- wright. He was of the branch of ti Hamilton famil, ‘eaded by the Dul of Abercorn, and was in line of suo- cession to Baron Fredertck Harding- North Colle: For nearly ten years Angus Hamilton had been travelling over the strange Places of the earth wherever adventure ‘and trouble called. Fifteen years ago he was & reporter for the Mvening Sun. ‘With five years’ training in newagather- ing end writing, he struck out for Corea, and in 1904 the Scribners pub- Ughed hia book on Corea, which is one of the etandard works on that country. Mr. Hamilton went through the Boer War as @ correspondent for English American newspapers and wae with japanese army in Manchuria during japanese-Ruasian war. He went to before the declaration of war Allies and was accredited e war correspondent with the Turkish army by the Central News. He was twice captured, The first time the Allies let him go after a formal identi- fication, but he had an experience the second time which made him ten years older; he never recovered from it He Li the manufactory of Casper Davis & Sons on the top floor of the adjoining Oppenheim & Colling building at No. ‘eut Thirty-fifth street. ied Woodward, “but their value ts i. Many railroad men oppose them entirely, They introduce another ané serious form in danger in opera ” Ht was 9.30 when Nathan lL. Wood- ward, General Superintendent of the road, took the stand and the second day of the inquest began. Coroner Phelan ag Mr. Woodward go into a lengthy ané a technical description of his own powers and dyties and those of J. N. Droege, superintendent of the Shore Di- vision, on whose branch the accident eceurred. Mr. Woodward showed him- bit hazy in regard to the at times and For the last two days the girl had re- mained away from her work because of iiness. To-day at noon she came to the office of her employers, drew her weekly wages and then went out. None saw her climb to the roof of the bulld- ling, but several people in adjoining office bulldli saw the young girl walking along the dizsy roof line. It ls Presumed she jumped and that she went to the roof with suicidal intent, though the police have been unable to find any one who saw her actually make the leap. Th of w! he leaped is eleven stories above the etreet. The roof of the New Netherlands Bank Building, five stories high, is sixty or seventy feet below the one from which the girl made the fearful plunge, In her fall she struck the skylight, passed through the heavy netting and s#laes and ‘bounded from the foot of the flight of stairs over against the door of Mrs, Roberts's office, causing it to apris open, Word of the attempted suicide spread quickly through adjacent buildings. and out to Fifth avenue, and by the time from Flower Hos- ifth avenue was jammed from Thirty-fourth to Thirty-Afth street. Sev- | eral girl employees of the waist com- pany came and identified their uncon- scious fellow-worker, The girl was near death when she was | carried off to Bellevue Hospital. Her companions sald they thought she had decided on suicide because she had been | ald off from work on account of the slack season, FINAL NOTICE! ‘Abopt 2,000 announcements of Summer Fescrt ‘'< ‘els and Boarding Places will be printed in , SUNDAY WORLD THE TO-MORROW This will uafoubtedly be the great- pst volume of Summer Resort adver- fising ever published in one issue of wspaper. . hice Bnd keep these pages of the Sunday World for future refer- ence, They will prove of great help to you in planing your vacation. er Resort proprietors should not fail to be represented in this re- markable “‘istay of advertising, arian picket line. The correspondent hie horse, struck across the facu and acoused of being # Turkish py. His explanation that his khaki sult was not a Turkish untform, but the ordinary costume of a correspondent was jeered at. His credentials were denounced ag forgeries, He was stripped and beaten and after two hours of torture was tied to a cartwheel, with a thong about his throat which was fastened to his bound feet, so that he was in constant pain while still and in agony every time he moved, He was told he would be shot at sunrise. An officer on the staff of Gen, Popoft etumbled over him, remembered seeing him at the time of his first captur: had him sent to Sofia ® prisoner, guard until turn from Engiené, Mr. Hamilton . 8, hie dtenst: wortes of NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 19138. (2,000 ellen’s Experts to Examine Air Brakes of Wreck Engi | é Daughter of Broker Who Lost Ship for a Dog Chase. CO00400-5 22064-0105 1615-28 MAESEOESHEODOLOEOEHE EN CHILDREN DODCE A RUNAWAY ON FIFTH AVENE Prompt and Daring Action of Policeman Cosgriff Saves Them From Peril. HS FAMILY SAL AWAY AS BROKE CHASES PET DO Can’t Go Without “Sandy,” Says Miss Ollendorff, and Papa Is Left on Pier. , Mrs, Rose Ollendorff and her five year-old daughter, Muriel, are on the Mner George Washington, at. sea to- day, while the husband and father, Jullan, a wealthy broker, is back at his home, No. 478 Quincy stroet, Brook- liyn, alone with “Sandy,” @ pet collie. “Sandy” {8 to blame for the unex- pected parting of husband from wife and daughter. Until yesterday it was agreed that the wife and daughter should begin a three months’ tour of Continent to- day. Mr. Ollendorff planned to leave. in July. Last night he decided to go with his family, and hurriedly pre- pared. The Ollendorffs reached the Ho- boken pier shortly after 8 o'clock. “Oh, papa, wh Sandy? asked lit- tle Murtel, breaking into tears, “I can't #0 away without Bandy. Mr, Ollendorff looked at hie watch, dashed down the gangplank, got in a taxicab and told driver to get to Brookiyn as fast he could, The broker found Sandy locked im the kitchen, where he had been left in the family's hurried leave taking. ‘The dog bounced out of the door and fied down the street. chased hin of the tax! up. Then began to the pier. ‘There were misadventures and near ac- cldents, and when the taxicab drove up the steamship was well out in the river. Mrs, Ollendorff was near prostration with worry over the absence of her hus- band. She was consoled with the Bast |*tatement that he would send her o Seventy-fifth street. Jumping on the| Wireless message as soon as he re- running board he directed Stein to pur- | turned. She had with her Mr. Olien- sue. At Seventy-sixth street the ma. |dorff's ticket, The broker wirelessed chine drew abreast of the horse and|that he would leave on the ni 1p Cossriff leaped upon hte animal's neck. | and gave directions where he and He grabbed the horse by the ears and| andy would meet the wife and daugh- Nearly wrenched them ot the horse slow down ve the of- cer @ chance to cut from the wagon, He twisted thi ut the ant: mal'a nostrils and cut off his ‘The horse came to a stand Madison avenue and Seventy-aixth street. SOFIA, Bulgarta, J 14.—A When Congriff looked himself over hs BUSA. SBRe: Lem de he had many bruises, and Dr. Prout of /e@fthauake wax felt throughout Bul- Harlem Hospital was called to treat série at 11.98 M, to-day and seri- him. The @river, Harting, was also ou# damage js reported from the cen- Gut on the leg and bad to be treated. = tral districts, ; Two thousand Sunday schoo! children | from two Baptist ohurches in the York- ville section were crossing Fifth avenue at Geventy-second street at 1 o'clock to- day on their way for a June walk through Central Park. ‘They were @reened in their pretty little lawn sum- merclothes and many carried junc! Im the centre of Fifth path that the kiddies were t: Patrolman Lee Cosgriff, one of warts from Bast Fifty: ton. He was guarding the ohfidren, almost every one knows that any part of Fétth avenue on Saturday afternoon ls about the maddest place on earth, A wudden ohildieh cry reached Cos- griff's ear as he was admiring the little trampers about him, ‘A runaway horse’ shouted the child, and Cosgrif looked up Fifth avenue child was pointing. he saw # big Canadian down upon hie iittle Congriff picked up the little ones about him in armfuls, yelled to they would in follow him. the street was clear, The idddies, safe upon the park lawn, watched the horse dash by. An express wagon which the animal was hauling was rideriess, for William Hart- ing, the driver, had been thrown from his goat when the nolse of a Ciaxon automobile horn made the horse ‘o at Mighty-second street and Fifth av nue. Cosgriff did not stop when he saw the children safe. He halled an automobd! driven by C. A. Stein, No. M1 Ei This made | ter in Burope, —>—_—- EARTHQUAKE IN BULGARIA. “ Circulation Books Open to All” le WHATHEA—Vals to-night and dendar, PRICE ONE OENT: 12 PAGES BRIDGIE WEBBER SHIELDS ASSASSIN WHO STABBED HM Police Seek Gunman's Relative as Dwarf Who Tried to Kill for Revenge. “LOOKED LIKE A KID.” SECOND POLO BATTLE. FOR CHAMPIONS’ CUP WATCHED BY 33 0 Thousands of Enthusiasts Unable t& © Get Tickets Sold Out Days » Ago, Clamor at Gates of Meadow Brook. ODDS SUDDENLY SHIFTED a TO EVEN, TAKE YOUR PICK Telling Victory of American Te: | in First Game Leaves Britons — No Longer Favorites. By Robert Bdgren. - MBADOW BROOK HUNT CLUB, WESTBURY, L. |. June 3 —Under a hot sun, the hottest of this fickle June, the spectators of second polo match for the world’s championship between the pid teams of America and England began to gather here to-day, two before the time set for the begirming of the contest. ‘Even those in the possession of reserved seats felt urged by the general ¢ for the game to be in their places early. Every seat was sold days ago. There was room in the open field for a few thousands mag or enough io make the total number of those who could get a glimpse ¢ the game about 33,000. But a crowd, taking advantage of the Saturday half holiday, greater than any anticipated by the managers of the contest, rushed. ot from the city to-day. TWO RLS STOLEN BY KOMPPERS WN ALTOMOBLE Daughters of Rich Pennsylva- nia Farmer Carried Off by Men as Brother Looks On. Victim Believed toKnow Crook Who Caught Him Without His Body Guard. “Bridgie” Webber, who was one of the four informers against Lieut. Charles Becker, whose activity te be Meved by the gang world to have been Most potent in sending the policeman Into the shadow of the electric chair, lay to-day on @ cot in St. Vincent's Hospital with @ serious knife wound tn his back and paralysing fear in hie heart. vere “He looked like’ a kid—just a kid,” wan all that the informer andé gambier would say about his assailant after he had been taken to the hospital and the doctors there had told him he would probably survive, unless he died of fright. “T don't know anything about him except he looked like a kid.” f noon Mrs. Webber called at the hospital and took away her husband (n |m taxicab, She said that as soon as his condition permitted they would bury themselves in the country somewhere. Bridgie would not risk @ repetition of last night's adventure, The detectives know that Bridgie knows that to “squeal” again at this critical moment would be only to insure the doom that brushed his ehoulder. They know enough to vend out into the devious alleyways of the underworld, there to rope for an undersized crook and putative murderer, who ts near in blood to one of the convicted gunmen awaiting the law's vengeance with Becker. HIRED A GUNMAN AS CONSTANT BODYGUARD. circumstances culminating in the a stroke, which was only prevented last night from penetrating the heart of the informer by the toughness of his left shoulderbiade, began to form them aelves for that moment. When the four gunmen were sentenced to the electric chair the menace over Weber's head grew greater. He came back from Ha- vana, whither he had fled to shake off his haunting fear, and took up his rest- dence at One Hundred and Ninth street and Manhattan avenue. Not long after his return be staked Book Walker with the price of a poker room—the Lone Star Club, at Fourteenth street and First avenue—and then he made @ demand upon Walker. “There's 9600 in it for you,” Weuber sald, “if you can get me a gunman to protect me whom I can trust—one who will not give me the double cross if the gang slips him something.” Everywhere that Webber went he wag accompanied by this thug. When no attack was made upon him, Bridgte began to find some grain of spirit in his soul; he thought that the “boys of the aver had forgotten and forgiven. It was in this spirit of timid confi- dence that he went to the "blow-out" In 48 The Long Island Railroad's spesial trains were swamped. The roads choked wilth motor cars, which eh highway the foundation \of columns of yellow dust, There latressing crushes at the ticket even before the main body of holders arrived. The success of American team in the firet game, Prising to many, had the effect daubling the interest in the second test, which might mean s final for America or a tle. ‘The stands, already afutter ‘ flags, were made like old- flower gardens by the opening of sande of gayly colored parasols. by women who sought to protect selves from the scorching sum: ~ BETTING SUDDENLY SHIFTO 1 EVEN MONEY. ‘The betting before the ldet ranged from five to one to twato against the Americans. But the of the American team changed alt and the odds as well. The knowledge that the membership” of both teams hed been changed aad @ general uncertainty as to the out of the new combinations bout a cheerful willingness to ‘ anything from cash, gloves, hats, and candy at the agreement of “even © JOHNSTON, Pa., June 14.—Ines and Banle Bee, two daughters of a wealthy farmer, John Bee, in tl of the county, were ki under sensational circumstances by two men in an automobile. The girls were literally stolen from under the eyes of thelr brother John, and all efforts to find trace of the men, girls or automobile have proved un- availing. ie] Ps a ing ground was enclosed as tors’ paddock and it was hoped thas would be room there to 2 te the extra Saturday crowd, <a JAPAN WILLING TO RENEW U, S. ARBITRATION TREATY. Ambassador Chinda Gives Formal Notice to Secretary Bryan— Agreement Ends Aug. 24. WASHINGTON, June 14.—Viscount Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador, has aAvieed Secretary Bryan that Japan is willing to revew for another period of five years her arbitration treaty with the United States, which expires by Mmitation Aug. % Secretary Bryan expressed oxtreme Gratification with the news that Japan had voluntarily advanced her desire to renew the pact, in view of the pending California land law controversy. This, he asserted, lent solid indication that a Settlement of the latter disput would be amicably negotiated, due to the frien@iy feeling fer thie country by ——— the players Bo much bas been said im and elsewhere about what the Indian Army team would do civilian detendéera, and about @dility to retake the eup pleased! England's polo fields have be scoured for the best players. and all her colonies have dees over and over for two years for best polo ponies, Now England | sent bath to, America expectations of victory. men and picked horses played and outrun. Bngiand must win to-Gay, inferiority In & sport brought to its highest Engiand. ‘x It ten't @ matter of payeioal brain and brawn and there would be some of the old gang down the but if he took along his bodyguard @ would be no danger. Webber even took his wife with him. ue rather proud of her and likes to have her “wear her ice” in public—the sparkle of the diamonds |s always an ouward evidence of a husband's pros perity. But down the avenue went the word that “the Big Nose Kike”—the accepted sobriquet for Webber—was in the cafe Several of the members of the Big Jack Zelig gang sauntered in. Suddenly from across the room where the crowds set drinking came a high-pitched voice: “Who let that —— squealer in?” Bridgte jumped from his seat , Wentinued on Geooad Page) and,