The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1913, Page 2

‘Whitmes managers have 0000 signatures to o petition— $Reeennd more than the law re- te place in nomination an Inde Of signatures because one of them was —o remainéer wero Careful preparations have been mate te put Mr. Whitman in the Geld as an independent in case that course te ée- Hither the Whitman @ West Side Business Men's Association — t' organisations inde- «pendent of the Republican Party—could = Mr. Whitman without ig any pact the Republicans may Mage with the fusionists, so Mr. Wait- than's supporters say. ‘Mr. Mitchel was chosen as the Fusion gtamdard bearer after @ long and hot At Ite conclusion the Republicans ‘win sullen silence, on the ninth ballot, after the strength, which had shrunk votes to 21, had entirely dis- received te for & Whitman. The selection of ie] Was a pronounced victory Bull Moose and Hearst ele the committee. complete Fusion ticket Mr, Was renaminatea ‘for the ef District-Attorney, William A. ‘Was selected to make the nimeelf as Comptroller : i : Ms i ti df it is if f | i : I F Te 5 I | j I z é afi tf g2 if la sf f } | i eat ; iH : | i £ : § i | | | | | i g F3 ES asiceecmans it your intention to enter the Drimastest”’ “At this time I not care to dleouss thet phase of the situation,” was the reply. WHITMAN ON AN AUTO TRIP IN NEW HAMPOHIRE. ‘Me. Whitman started om an aute- could not be reached to-day to be ques- tioned about the reported intention of the Republican organisation of the Greater City to run him for Mayor ®aid he intends to remain the city uatil Sunday night. One of the big surprises to the gen- @ral public on the Fusion ticket was the relegating of Borough President MeAneny to the third place. The fact that Mr. McAneny would receive this Romination for President of the Board of Aldermen was exclusively indicated in The Evening World two days ago, but the reasons were then not advanced in justice to the cause of Mr. MoAneny While the deliberations over the choice of thé head of the ticket were going on. He leading the tioket at one peried. PEAREO HE COULD NOT BE RE: ELECTED TO PREOENT JOB. The fact ie that the Fusion ticket framers did not believe Mr. M. could carry the Borough of Manha' the ground in several distriets in the borough were reported te the Fusion managers, and on the strength of these reporte it was early decided not to run Mr. McAneny for ‘his present office. It was then determined to place him on the city ticket, which ts voted for hou | and in that way reasonably aseure a retu public office of the borough head. The duties and responsibilities of the Borough President of Manhattan are nu- intricate. The salary te The office of President of the Board of Aldermen is practically per- functory, and the salary is but 8,000, to i work for Father Knick- erbocker & reduced salary and his activities be exerted in @ much smaile: and prectically obscure field. Mr. MeAneny's frienée were smarting to-day under what they considered a! tneult to the President of the Boroug' of Manhattan. The insult as they con- sider it takes the form of net only offer- ing Bim an inferior position, but advo- eating im the platform that the Board f. Aldermen. be abolished. Of course if Board of Aldermen should be abol- THE EV WAAT HE WL F CHOSEN MAYOR Declares He Will Not Give Up Collectorship of Port While Campaigning. PRAISES BOTH RIVALS. Hopes That Whitman and Mc- Aneny Will Accept Nomina- tions on Ticket With Him. Joha Purroy Mitchel when even this afternoon made « statement about what he expects @o as Mayor {tf elected and what he intends to do as Collector of the Port before he gives up that office, “I wae somewhat surprised and alto: Bother delighted at the result of the ‘work of tho fusion committee,” be eald. 1 think my first duty 1s to thank the splendid friends on that committes who made such « strong and successful Aght for my nomination. Geoply appre Gate the honor that this nomination carries with it and the expressions of confidence that it olves. I can only suppose that I Proterred by the committee over the two eminently cap- fable and distinguished men who were the other candidates before it because) of my availability, and surely not be- cause of any Greater fitness for the office, “It imply remains to say that t am going te do everything 1 my power to ring about the success of the Fusion tloket and, if I should be elected to the Mayoralty, to carry out the programme of © Progressive municipal government thing that I bave usually tried to do Uterally. How does that cover tT” DOES NOT HAVE TO RESIGN TO MAKE THE RACE. “Do you have to resign a8 Collector | make this rece?” wes asked. MeAmeny's job Board would be abolished. BANNARD AND 8TIMGON SAR. CASTIC AT THE MEETING. Otto Bannard and Henry L. stimson, who represente’ the Republican organ- (sation in the fusion committyp and led the fight for the nomination’ of Whit- @an tor Mayor, wore bitter and sarcas- the whem it @ecame apparent at the |mecting ject wight that the Hearst an@ Bull Moose people held ths balance of pow@ and were wieldjng. it. Mowever, ‘Mr, Stimson eald he would try his best to Rave Wie fusion ticket indereed by the Republicans in tha primary election. gow TH REGULARS IN BOTH PARTIES LOOK ON MITCHBL. Tammany and straight Republican Views on the Fusion ticket are reflected tn the fonowing statements: City Cless P. J. Seully, Pammany: “The fact that the Republicans have eo slight @ representation on the Fu- sion ticket may mean dissetisfection in their ‘ranks. Dissatisfaction means a eplit. The dissatisfied Republicans will mot vote for the Fusion ticket, except for Whitman, and they will go to him solidly fer Divtrict-Attorney, Were he fo head the Fusion ticket the Repubii- cans would fall over themesives voting for him. Mr. Mitchel ta ing men and so are the other gentlemen on the Fu- don ticket. In the epent of a break in the Republican ranke it te reasonable to Presume that with good men on the Democratic ticket it will win, No one can’ foretell is going to happen in the Pusion ramke.' If they remain olla, then Fusion will put up o etiff fight.” ; “Tammany hae @ great chance to win this year as against the ticket of the Fusion people, headed by Collector Mit- the Bronx recently voted to indore Mitchel and fight for his nomination Geapite the best advice from Republican friends, The result of this is thal the Progressives and the Republicans are wider apart than ever and the dissatis fied ones will vote for the Democratic candidate, It jooks as if Mayor Gaynor would be that candidate.” Wormer Genater Martin Gaze: “E am not satisfied that the best thing has been done by the Fusion- iota. J am ao regular organisation Re- publican ang many of my politics! col- leagues feel just as I do. Whitman wae the logical candidate and yet be @ candidate for Mayor, & very serious thing to jump clusiona, It's @ serious thing, too, to put @ third candidate in the field. The matter must be gone into most care- fully. Had Mr, Whitman been nemi- Rated the Republican strength would have been behind him, Now the affair to different. There may be @ division.” — Pepe BReecives American Filgrime. ROME, Aug. 1.—Thirty American pil- rims, headed by Mgr. J. Tihen, Bishop of Lincoln, Neb., were received to-day by the Pope in the Consistorial Hall, where Bishop Tihen delivered an address aMirming the loyalty of Amer- lean Catholics. The Pontiff expressed his plesaure at seeing the American pil- grime who had made euch « long jour- con- “No,” sald Mr, Mitchel. “Ut to Your intention to resign?” ‘No, replied the candidate. “I have & very important work under way if the Collector's offfes. 1 made certain representations to the President of the United States and to the Secretary of Treasury, wheo I asked them to ppreve the mppoiggment of a special eta@ here to study the methods and ‘organisation of this.oMve-th order that 1 might, on the basis of that study, re- port on a reorganisation of methods and of pereonnel. 1 expect to render the first report to Washington semetime in tho neighborhood of the IMh of August-- within a few days of that date—and that first report will be an important one, and will suggest certain, to my mind, highly desiravie oh in method and organization, That w has to be carried out. I have undertaken it and 1 am Kolng to see it through, and 1am woing to stay right on this job and work on this §@>. And that un- dertaking will be finished before I eur- jer the Collectorsnip of the Port.” | 0 you mean on Jan. 17" mean it will be finished before Jan. 1," said the nominee. “And, #0 far as one can foresee plans at the presen. time, I suppose I shall stay until Jan, 1 for the purpose of rrying on that work.” GAYS THE TICKET - ONE. “Do you care to say anything about the rest of the ticket us suggested?’ “E think-it will constitute a very strong ticket. As strong @ ticket as lected.” been intimated that Mr. Mc- A STRONG President of the Board of Aldermen. Do you keow anything about this?” “The Fusion platform speaks of po- lce reform. Have you any definite Ad on that?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ replied Mr, Mitchel. ‘I have had definite ideas about police administration for @ considerable time and I have expressed them very freely at the meetings at which I have spoken. statement to you now | had better re serve it until @ later date, In the course| of the campaign I shall have oression to express myself with great detail very fully on that question.” ‘Does that apply to excise?’ It applies to the whole question. “The platicrm speaks of Wacess con- demmation for public improvements, Will you explain your position?” “I have long believed in that, in order to allow the city to get the benefit of the enormous increase in values that our public improvements bring to prop- erty adjoining. QUESTION Ri RENDUM, “Will it be necessary to put that to ® popular vote?” "It will be Necessary to put it to referendum,” declared the Fusion lead: year and lost derstand it, When the people under- stand what we are trying to do—that We are triyng™ to save money instead thing I know won't de if 3 om in i and may policies Probably instead of making an offhand)" t PUT TO A wp ira aA Fusion Nominees for Mayor, Comptroller, “tre re ore wee WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. District-Attorney and Heads of Boroughs See s. m orRovatt _ Har tan 1S BOROUGH GACOKLYN are followed, and Money that we haven't go! “How about abolishing the Board of “Do you believe that the Board of Estimate should have eole power with- out check?” “I believe that the Board of Estimate should have the principal power—mean- ing by that greater power than it now hes in matters of general government of You know I have advocated Whether the Board should be ‘completely abolished or ite Activities much more confined than they are now ts @ matter J should wish to reserve unt further consideration.” “ff the Board of Aldermen should be {€ was remarked, would have to create some other job the city, that all through. abolished,” for Mr. McAneny.” “The functions President of the Board of Aldermen are highly necessary and tmportant, r under that title or under some title those functions ought to be vested In some member of the Board The office is a very useful one, and it ought to be retained.” whe othi of Estimate. that pressed myself about that! not seen the from expressing myself discharged by —— »— CHOICE OF MITCHEL PLEASES OFFICIALS —__ | CLOSE TO WILSON. (Gpectal to The Kvening W: WASHINGTON, Aug. tion of John Purroy Mite! candidate for Mayor of New York was the subject of considerable interest at 1 the White House to-day. Wilson declined to express any com- ment, as he will not mix York polittoal situation, But the selection ts gratifying to tion, bec @ favorable impression @ took charge k Custom House and thereby came into relation with Wash- the Admini: of the New ington circlés, See MORE KILLED BY AUTOS; LESS BY CARS AND WAGONS Traffic day. reckless drivin ;me Trem@e Society. Squad Praised Report of National Highways death of twenty-six persons; eight, and surface cars, seven, 1913, automobiles killed Bia neen, surface cars “In spite of a new ordinance which Went into effect on June 1, the speed of automobil | New York,” concludes the report, mobile accidents show a very material increase In the Boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens in to spend lattorm, “they the and! President » the New ve Mr, Mit- INSPECTOR TITUS DOESN'T Lunges at Police Commander When Rebuked, and the Affair Lasts Just One Round. Police Inspector Titus was riding home on a Broadway car early to-day when Dudley Kirkwood of No. 866 Am. aterd avenue, a plumber, became @ the conductor would not converse with him, but instead desired hin nickel. The plumber's speeon !n- spired Inspector Titus to say: "You must not use such talk tn the presence cf ladies. Sit down and be quiet.” “And who are you?’ wood, “I am an inspector,” “PM show you wh. think of you street car Inspectors, id the plumber and lunged at the inspector's jaw, The car stopped at One Hundred and Four- teenth street. The inspector and the plumber had the forward part of it to themselves and the passengers were shouting for help, Policeman Wissing entered, recognized the Inspector and in half @ minute Kirkwood wes 8 good plumber. Before Magistrate Marsh in Harlem Court Kirkwood plended guilty of “4is- orderly conduct.” The Magistrate fined him $3 and afterward said he wished he had known more about the case asked Kirk- aid Titus, in July Forty-one persons were killed by ve- hicular traMc in the streets of Greater New York during July, according to the monthly report of the National High- ways Protective Society, made public to- Of this number twenty-five were children under sixteen years of age. Automobiles last month caused the wagons, In July, twenty-one; eulating elty of ‘auto- Reporte of in out of town die- j@ dally to the soclety. | t boroughs of the city of spending it—they will support It, One no fatal accidents have occurred the new administration the streets and avenues protected by ‘UNWRITTEN LAW” VOID, COURT TELLS WOMAN Angry Slash With Potato Knife No Fit Answer to Attentions of Visitor. The “unwritten law” found no favor eyes of Magistrate House in the et Court to-day, when he Guiseppa Calle of No. 334 Firet ue for trial, ui r $1, bail on the charge of felonious assault upon Antonio Lapresto of No, 615 East Fit- teenth street, According to Lapresto, Mra, Calle he were friends until in an argu- ‘ment she seized a knife and cut him from bis ear to shoulder. He im- rrant issued for her arrest, but she fled to her native yn Italy. eral days ago she on her return, Calle'’s attorney attempted to Mra, show that she had been justiqed, as Lapresto nad come into her home and sald things that made her slash him with a knife, with which she was peels potatoes, ea leet ONE KILLED, 5 INJURED- IN BRONX AQUEDUCT Falling Rock in Shaft No. 2 Catches Six Laborers Under Mosholu Avenue. One man was crushed to death and five men were seriously injured to-day by the falling of a big boulder in shaft No; 3 of the Bronx aqueduct, under- neath Mosholu avenue, just west of Je- rome avenue Moris Betzer, twenty-five, of No. 3178 Jerome avenue, was Killed instantly. The following were injured and their condition is seriou: Angelio Commish, thirty-six, of No. 106 Sterling avenue. Lacerations of the arm and fractured skull, Stephen Marion, twenty-four, of No. 199 Glover avenue, Yonkers: Fractured Scull and jacerated eye. John Dorando, thirty-four, of No. 19 Glover avenue. Fractured skull and lacerated eye. B. Boborkh, twenty-three, of No. S178 Jerome avenue, lacerated scalp and in- ternal injuries, Thirty men at work in the tunnel, ‘acaling” the sides of the tunnel to remove the fragmentary rocks which had been left trom yesterday's blasting. Without warning a large piece of the bed rock, in the roof of the tunnel, weighing four tons, detached itself and crashed down to the bottom of the tun- nel, Several laborers leaped to one side just Ip time to escape death, Foreman Westly Wilson immediately signaled to the top of the shaft and succeeded in extricating the bodies of the six men who had been pinned beneath the fall- Ing boulder, Botser was dead when he was pulled out from under the mass of rock. The five injured men were WASHINGTON, Aus. 1.—Catcher Ag- new of the St. Louls Browns, who was struck on the jaw by one of Engle’s shoots last week, was expected to leave the hospital for St. Louis to-day. He will be out of the game for at least a week longer. GULDENSwestue " READY To USE 10 CENTS. HAVE YOU TRIED ? Makes Cold Meats Tasty. roinegar eo pELictoUs on Sandwiches & rn : ‘ GRANDSON OF PATRIOT. MULHALL ENDS STORY OF HIS LOBBY WORK FOR MANUFACTURERS ny Quits Stand Before Commit- tee, but Will Probably Begin Story for House Monday WITEEL ONLY 34, KNOWN AS WORKER ARAMST TAMMANY Youngest Man Ever Nomi- nated for Mayor of the Greater City. WASHINGTON, Aug. L—Martin M, Mulhall, former lobbyist for the N, A. M., ended his three weeks’ testimony this. afternoon before the Senate lobby investigating committee, in a series of anngry contradictions and arguments ith members of the committee and wel for the N. A. M. Muthall was excused until Monday and was alowed to go to his home ® Baltimore. Senator Nelson wilt deters mine later whether he desires further > cross-examine him on certain points, . Mulhall spent the major portion of the day explaining the contradictions Ge tween his direct testimony on the ae gotiations between the American Feder- ation of Labor and himself over his M A. M. letters and the reporte of these negotiations which be wrote to J. P. Bird, general manager of the N. A. M. In former he testified he o+efed the letters and they were refused. Im the latter, he claimed that Samuel Gam» ers asked for the letters and he te fused them. “He said both statements were correct and flew info « rage whee he was cross-examined on his anewer. On Monday ex-Representative James E. Watson of Indiana will tae thet stand to refute portions of Mulhall’s testi+ mony. Unless the Senators call him again, Mulhall will be turned over to the House Lobby Coimmittee on Monday. His Investigations as Commis- sioner of Accounts Caused Re- movalof Two Borough Heads. John Purroy Mitchel was born in For@ham on July 19, 1878. He ie the youngest candidate ever nominated to make the run for the important office of Mayor of Greater New York. Col. Roosevelt wae twenty-eight years old when he made the race for Mayor of the olf city in 18 and George B. McClellan was thirty-eight when he wae nominated for the first time. Mr. Mitchel le @ grandson of John Mitohel, the Irish patriot who was banished to Auvetralia by the English Government in’ 1848. He is a nephew of the late Henry D. Purroy, who was an uncompromising enemy of Tam- many Hall, and young Mr. Mitchel took his political doctrines from his uncle Mr. Mitchel's first political position wae in the office of the Corporation Counsel, where he served as an assist- ant. After Mayor McClellan had fallen oo out with Tammany Hall in 1906 he ap- pointed Mr. Sfitchel Commissioner ot|FIRE SWEEPS BOAT HOUSES. Accounts and on ovidence unearthed by the young investigator James F. President of the Borough of Manhattan, of the Borough of the Bronx, were re- moved from office. Four years ago Mr. Mitchel was se- lected by the Fusion forces to make the race for the office of Presidont of the Board of Aldermen. He refused to run until he had “O. K.'d" the candi- dates for Borough Presidents because he wanted the right kind of support ia the Board of timate should he and his colleagues be elected. Mr. Mitchel was acting Mayor in the summer of 1910 while Mayor Gaynor was recovering from the bullet wound in- iicted by the assassin Gallagher. Al- though Mr. Mitchel was in charge of the M ss oMce but a short time he ex- posed conditions of police negiigence and prevalence of vice in Cone and Manhattan that eventually led to the removal from office of Police Com- missioner Saker. President Wilson appointed Mr. Mit- Twenty-five With Law os Bureaed at Caye LA SAULE, N. Y¥. Aug. 1—Fire which started in Cumming boathouse on Cayuga Isiand this afternoon spread rapidly, and within an hour had cos- sumed twenty-five boathouses and cot~ tages. A number of valuable launches were destroyed. ‘at $100,000, The loss te estimated First one Store, then two, until we now have 300 Branch Stores and Selling Agencies. 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