The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1913, Page 2

“— Goboken Fire Department were overcome by smoke and revived by dedtors turing the fire. badly damaged by smoke and wat Gtoreroom compartment in which the actual the coal what the bunkers ad-j g blase was eo hot that’ @oming through com-' and hatches Blew the hel-/ if heads and that the atest | compartment walls were! New York firemen, conquered until the firedoats pumped | water into the Im-| | | a f : se if pA 3 | was Fire De-| g & : was distinguished oft Diasing vessels | own the North River with the; Dersons shut off below ‘at the portholes occurred in and the pier alongside which tor was moored to-day wae these destroyed in that disaster. MEN SAY TWO MEN DE- JERTED AIR PUMP. joboken and New York firemen jecond this uit time during his vielt aboard to visit the second cabin saloon, which put to Work there as econ as the fire was out. jer, Cleaners, painters and upholster- hour and a half later the blase had been extinguished, GMP LISTED ONE WAY ANO THEN THE OTHER. Barly in the fire the great veasel slowly Mated 18 degrees to port, away from the pler. At about the time the fire was under control the ship straightened up and suddenly lis’ 16 dearces to sta board. Hundreds of members of the crew end firemen were thrown from their feet by the sudden change of level. | The long exploited contession of Chief Thomas Davin of the Hoboken ‘former senator Stephen J. Stilwell Fire Department nearly jost his life ket ti } 8 - purporting to reveal crookedness in fas ean beaceet Me ke to ty ie |the Legislature ta under the con- He wi ed out Of the fire by two oe ae cs alderation of@)istrict-Attorney Whit- When the exact location of the fire man, having been handed to him yes- could not be found, Gobracht volun terday hy Lynn J. Arnold, the Albany teered to go through the smoke with @ 1, lawyer who is Gov. Sulzer’s moving Mine of hose. He put on an air helmet, And two seamen wore stationd on the spirit In the war on Tammany Hall. upper deck to pump air to Bim, | Stilwell’s confession is said to accuse When Godra body wae found It five State Senators, an Assemblymaa, became obvious what had happened. Arnold Continues “WILL SUE SULZER’S ADVISER SAYS ASSEMBLYMAN LEVY Finding he was not getting alr, Gob racht Femoved the heavy helmet and cht his way back. While he ling through the lied the electric buttons to close the doors of the watertight compartments had touched the button that worked the bealde which Gobracht w: ca way. The great door rofed to and Pinned Gobracht by the foot. For half an hour in the roasting heat 4nd suffocating amoke Gobracht #trove to release himaelf from his trap and soteamed in his terrible pain. ‘+ noreamn could be heard all over the ves- wel. Beveral of the ship's crew tried to get to him, but were obliged to re- turn. When Chief Davin arrived on the Im- Derator and heard the screams ne at ‘once said he would go down. Davin was followed by two ef hia oldest men, to whom he wan attached by 4 line, The plucky fire chief reached the @oor, but by that time Govracht had unk to the deok and ceased to cry for help. By groping over him Davin found his situation and returned fur a crow- bar. With that he pried the door open in order that it might be fought with euffeieatly to free the socond officer's wome intellige Donning @ safety foot and release him. But ae he tried to helmet and attended by two seamen ' drag Gobracht out of the amoke Davin plunged inte the smoke and etifiing | himself wae overcome and fell. (Qe growing heat. Thies is denied by the steamship officiais, whe way that Godracnt, groping in the darkness, got hie airline twisted about his legs and hut off the supply. At any rate, hie supply wee cut off, and, finding Imself euffocating, he tore off the hel- met aed made for safety without any Protection againg: the fiames and smoke Second Officer Otto Gobracht was the hero and sole victim of the fre He volunteered to go into the store room Gnd discover the source of the blase odors, The seamen G14 mot atick (©) Davin's two men went forward and gim, one, Otte becoming faint ¢ragged their to safety and (and fighting bis way to another part| brought out God: body. Gobracnt was dead then. The ship's surgeons Gobracht's foot was caught in a door! worked over him for a time, but could fa the burning part of the vessel | not revive him. was paseing frem one eompart-| As im lay unconscious on the deck Qnother. The door was sud-' two of his men went to one of the bars closed by the operation of auto- | to get some brandy to revive him. The Pressure worked from the steward im change refused to serve was caught a0 le wae them, saying mo liquor was served in through. There he suffocated port. The fireman promptly broke into atifiing heat. His body was fe-/@ locker and helped themacives to a covered by Chief Davin of the Hobdoken| eupply with which to hurry Back to Or. thelr chief. Chief Davin declares he found every- thing im confusion wheh he reached the ship, Four of the ship's office; Giving ordera at the same time, when ber and no two orders agreed. The crew eeagera were was running about and not accomplish- oficiales and ing onythii eadin ‘Passengers, FOUND ALL THE PORTHOLES = eft, WIDE OPEN. barged Derts @ays one of the frat things he asl was whether all the portholes tion igh Island this mornin) | were closed so an to prevent the fire Pe me being aided by draught. He rte nw he wae told all had been closed, but conte. @aye that on going below he was caught Pay hye) was Lagreeohy¢ fasted men | by a big back draught that lifted him Lory thadinn jap (Ate off his feet and put him in deadly peril. fly pool “ pd He then found that ali the portholes ry of the Were open, Taking advantage of the panic an confusion two immigrants from Hun- gary, Michael and Joseph Tronsek, brotherd, thirty and thirty-six years old, on their way to Pittsburgh, slipped from the crowd of steerage passengers wires are Gommedore Ruser, in chief command, ‘Who bad just retired, was notified. He ae four captains under him and on the Imperator there is also an army two Bronx district leaders and @! yy man prominent in the affairs of the inner management of the Tammany Hall organteation. Stilwell wrote his confession in Sing Bing prion and turned It over a few Gaye ago to John A. Hennessy, who it to Arnold. This confession is not @ part of the charge of Arnold that Charles F. Murphy and others con- spired iNemally to impeach Gov. Sulser, but Is another form of attack, , LEVY DECLARES HE WILL PROB- ECUTE ARNOLD. ‘The Dintrict-Attorney ts also consider- ing Arnold's charge that Assembiyman Aaron J. Levy accepted %.000 from former State Engineer Skene in the form of @ bribe to push certain matters |through the Assembly, Levy tasued a atatement to-day in Albany explaining that the 65,000 was for « feo gor sega | services in the Supreme Court and an- nouncing that he would sue Ar.old for criminal libel and would a'so institute ® suit for heavy damages against Ar. per, the Aibany Knickerbocker- In a formal statement read before the Ansembly to-day, Mr. Levy acknow!-| edges that he received %©,000 from Mr. Wkene, but explains that this was a feo “ae counsel to Mr. Skene in the matter of some aeixteen indictments pending Against him tn the Supreme Court of Albany County." These indictments, he ®ays, he succeeded in having dismissed “after long and @rduous professional labor,” and that “the records of th County Clerk of Albany County are full and complete in respect to my) activities as counsel to Mr, Skene.” Mr. Levy declares that he made no Iment of this transaction and thought nothing of it until certain per- sons attempted to use It as a club to) Hullity his actlon against Gov. Sulzer in Connection with the impeachment, HINTS’ ACTION WAS HATCHED OFFICE. © attention to nt continues. “T continued Jin the discharge of my publie duty as I understood {t, Later I learned that | Tremendous Plot Passes to James P. Mr. Skene had been invited into the Exeoutive offices at Albany, and that he there was interviewed by Gov. Bulser, Judge D-Cady Herrick and Mr, Arnold of the Knickerbocker Press, Stilwell has demi ardon in re- turn for his confession. He wanted the Pardon in advance, but Gov. Sulzer ‘Wouldn't agree to the terms, At last | Stilwell agreed to take @ chance, it b ing represented to him that the contes- sion would probably be the moans of killing off the impeachment of Gov. Bulzer and retoring him to the full pow- ere of his office, in which event he | could issue a pardon without any ques- Hon arising as to tte legality. Judge Arnold ia m conference all | yenterday afternoon with District-At- torney Whitman In the latter's home, of under officers. All were aroused. The first work was to get the ship’ fire department into action. Then F. Polster, the chief purser, assisted by the chief steward and his assistants, Marshalled the stewards and the work of getting the passengers eahere was ‘The third class passengers wore quar- tered in a section of the ship just above the fire, but cut off by bulk- heads, These bulkheads 4!4 not inter- a Ra Apron oF ammonia fumes, worked through the Gonalderadle dicalty was experienced in getting the 718 third class - sere ashore, A number of prvessppaee jo aad Pov ir and excitement eal doe! ier and in the main Presid hes CAPTAIN CALLED CITY FIREMEN TO FIGHT FLAMES, ‘The steer passengers, in quarters @ feet forward from the tae wea removed to the plier without dimculty, akhough there Great excitemens Smeng them. The work of transferring the passengers to the shore 4i4 not in- the ship's fire fAghting force, but the blaze was eo smoky and secompanied by such choking fumes hat It was found impossible to get the full power of the water supply to bear ‘on the seat of the trouble, Commodore Ruser, after an hour, found that the fire was beyond the fa- ellities he had at hand and he turned in @ fire alarm from the pler which summoned the entire Hoboken Fire De- partment. At the same time a call for ald was sent to New York and the Ore. boats Velox and Thomas Willett wen: over from their stations on the North River water front. » The Hoboken and New York firemen found thiugs in a bad way om the line erator, The fire spread to the second cabin quarters @nd the second cabin faloon had been touched by the biaze Fire had leaped up the after hatchway forty feet and clouds of sparks were Pouring from thie opening. After @ rt consultation with Commodore user Acting Chief Kelly of the New York forces and Chief Davin of Hobo- ben decided tha: thelr only course was to drown the uames, ‘The Hoboken fre engines pumping from hydrants on land and the two fireboats pumping salt water out of th: North River turned twenty-two streans tate the vessel. At 8 o'clock all danger |, 2 ake Gre spreading had pasetd, An been in Judge Arnold's hands for some days, In it Stilwell gives names and dates, but falls to furnish auMclent cor- roboration to warrant immediate Grand and succeeded in making thelr e and was again in cbnaultation with him from the pier. They were found by| 0-day Nelther would discuss the pu Officer Lewis Gemby in a fodging house | Arnold later declared he had furnished at No. 262 Firet street, Modokes, and|‘° Mr. Whitman proof that Aaron J. the immigration authorities. had accepted $5.00 wrongfully. Judge Arnold was closeted with the 100 CAUGHT IW COLLAPSE a|day, going over all the teatimony he $|bas procured in his bribery char torney A. J. Mernstein, who gave As- semblyman Levy the $5,000 check in ; before Mr, Whitman and gave the Dis- Others Believed in Ruins of Store| irict-attorney the original heck ouly Buildin, ™ — iiding in Peterborough, Ont bad previously produc STILWELL NAMES FIVE SENA- PETORSBOROUGH, Ont, Aug. 2.—| ano \ -day, however, it was learned that Four persons or more were killed and tne stiwell confession wad the mos the J. C, Turnbull Company's store at George and Simcoe streets, Weaken- District-Attorney, This document has y the collapse. A hune dred workmen, clerks and shoppers went Patrolman Dennis Leahy and Customs| Port of the meeting, though Judge Were taken to Police Headquarters for | “vy, Tammany leader in the Assembiy, District-Attorney for three hours to- FOUR VIOTIMS DEAD Ho left this afternoon for Albany. At- the Bkene case, was with Judge Arnold # certified copy of which Judge Arnold Number Injured. TORS AND A “Boss.” several Injured in the collapse today OF |important document delivered to t to alterations in down in the crash, The bodies of | 54: y action, two women and two men were found’ In the suis shorty aster The five Senators Stilwell names are noon, an hour and # halt after the| fom the muth building had gone down. It was be- Meved then that the debrig atill held the bodies of other victims, Miss Dolly Bisson, @ clerk, was unaccounted for and is believed to have, perished also. The dead taken from the ruins were identified as Alfred Finlay of Norwood, Ont; Mra, Elisabeth Brown, Miag Lil- Nan A, Boddison and J. J. Cuffe of Petervoro. to him that he gave #1, to Stilwell'’s defense fund, These Ave Senators, Stilwell confessed, were his confederates in drawing up and intr- rike bills," which were killed, Jon, in cominittee. according to the Albany sures whic, If passed, which are willing to pay bribes to have eee them killed, In the days of the “Black SHIPPING NEWS, Horse Cavalry” “strike bills” mad) rich ALMANAC . Weigr. against High leaders in the Fourteenth by HME AE Meth | atrost headquarters of Tammany. He ii 18 ie 1 {names two district leaders in the 05 840 12 E33] Bronx as accomplices, Bight years ago, he declares, one of t! ose leaders aulicit- ed $12,000 in campaign contributions +, from the loyal in the Bronx and took the money to Tammany Hall, but it was never accounted for, Such @ crime, however, is outlawed by the statutes lof Umitation, However, Stilwell charges that exactly the same thing happened fKY EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 98, 151%. Attack on Tam- many by Giving Whitman Convict- ed Senator Stilwell’s Confession. or to corrobora: He claims to have the proofs, but wants an unconditional pardon as the Price for furnishing them. Judge Arnold's charges against Leader Lavy relate to the claim of Frederick Skene, who was State Engineer under Gov. Hughes, to get from the State money he had expended in defending himeelf against criminal charges. Skene was charged with adding $9,000 to a bid for construction of @ State road in Nas sau County, He was acquitted by the ‘but again Stiiwell falls Gkene claimed that he had spent 11,000 defending himeelf, and he thought the State should reimburse him. Then, ac- cording to Judge Arnold, Levy offered to collect the sum for $5,000. Levy, Arnold charged, added 95,000 to Skene’s $11,000 claim, collected $16,000 from the State, gave Skene $11,0% and pocketed %,000 a8 his fee. This transaction, Jud, ed, was & wrongful act on the part of the Tammany leader. ‘Mr. Levy, in Albany, did not deny thar he had received a fee from Skene, but declared hie acts were those of a lawyer representing In having seve! teen other indictments againat Skene dismissed, He devlared that he courted a full Investigation of bis acts, addi rick, Gov, Sulm counsel, had advised the Governor that the entire transaction was perfectly legal. Mr. Skene visited Mr. Whitman this afternoon and dented in toto that thei had been any wrong in the payment of the $5,000 check to Assemblyman Levy. He explained: “The bill to reimburse me for legal expenses Was Introduced in the Le; lature by Assemblyman Burden of Long Ieland y, who represents my district. Mr. had absolutely nothing to do with it, The $5,000 check he received waa for purely legal vices in having other indictments Mr, Bernstein, who was present at the Interview, declared Mr. Ske sta ment of the case was cor cot, Sir Whitman appointed Assistant District+ Attorney O'Malley to continue the in- vestigation into Jud: Amold'e other charges. BRIGHTON BEACH TRACK SOLD UNDER HAMMER, GOES AT A BARGAIN Hudson, Who May Represent (Syndicate. ‘The Brighton Beach race track, once one of the most beautiful and popular courses in the metropolitan district, to-day took ta place among the ghosts of the past. The famous track went under the “going, going, gone" hammer of an g@uctioneer at the Real Estate Exchange, No. 18 Montague atreet, Brooklyn and with other parcels owned by the Brighton Beach Racing Associ- ation was sols to the highest bidder. ‘The buyer was James P. Hudson of Rockaway Beach, who at first said he was buying for himself, but who later teclined to discuss the purchase. Thers was a strong rumor afloat in the Ex- change that he was the agent of a ayn- dicate headed by formar Senator Will- tam H. Reynolds. The three parcets ac- quired by Hudson were: No. 1, Sheeps: head Bay lots and the western half of Plum Island, $1,000 over a $110,000 mort- kage at 6 per cent.; No. 2, the Parkway Baths and Beach property, $90,500; No. 4, the track proper, $25,300, Parcel No, 3, two lots on Ocean Parkway were sold Lewis, a lawyer of No. 25 treet, Brooklyn, for a cred- {tor, at $1,250, The figures at which the bathe and the track were sold are ex- plained by the fact that Parcels 2, 3 ant 4 are covered by @ blanket mortgage of $550,000, To-day's sale was brought about by mortgage foreclosure litigation. GIRL WITNESS FLEES FROM DEATH THREATS Spurned Alleged Gang Leader Held as Instigator of Persecution Over Telephone. Toronce Kiley, who tn paid to be lead- er of a gang in the upper east side, appeared before Magistrate Breen in Yorkville Court this afternoon, charged with sending a scurrilous letter to Mion Agnes Harrington of Np, 6 Third avenue. Riley had been spurned. As 4 result he had monthe on the island, Last Saturday @ messenger boy brought @ vile noi saying Riley had sent it. Detective Donovan arrested Riley. Sime the arrest, the girl's mother declared, Miss Harrington's life been made miserable. siness and at her home, she has been tantly telephoned that would oo: So frightened tid Miss Harrington come, her mother naid, that last Tue) day she disappeared. Her alarm for her, four years ago, and again he gave inaguay, Femteo, fina, MA" names, but not legal proof. ache, Jackaonille, mhe, Mt. lac. | The Assemblyman named by Btilwell Zeerattie, jaa bribe taker te close to the councils r ay aies ete every protection. Sa A EEL ITT ET 2 INE CE NA ETS TE ERTS IPT Miss Harrington's mother testified that | courted her daughter and) port," atruck ber, and for thie he served three has At her place of be killed If she appeared against Riley, | Price, the subject was discused and a mother asked the polloe to send out a general | Maxintrate Breen continued Riley's! ‘nk offers. bond of $1,000 untti next Saturday and) OOUBTFUL ABOUT PREND ordered the police to make search for the young woman and to afford her! SULLIVAN WALLOPS MEYERS AS THE PHONO SINGS “SYLVEST” Irish Husband of Italian Wife Didn’t Like the Tune Ma- chine Played. the situation hinges on Mr. McAneny ind Mr. Prendergast. Fusion leaders Gre strong in belief that they will stand | firm and raject any invitation to go on | the Gaynor ticket. The Progressives n Mot gure that they will resist the hance of an endorsement thet would mean election and cling to a high moral | principle with douotful results on elec- tlon day. If they throw overboard the inciple, Mr. Mitchel will feel iree to do the same ting, it chooses so to! @o. He may revise his programme of repudiating the Hearst Independence League indorsement when he returns to town to-morrow and talks things over With his advisers. Fusion forces were on the verge of disruption to-day over the quostion whether any candidate should accc t endorsement from a party outside the An Irish hotel clerk, his Italian wife Fusion camp, On this rock thelr ship Jand the —— Herbert in West Side Police | Court to-day. The hotel clerk, Thomas | Sullivan, who works nights, was in | Court in response to a summons issued at the request of August Meyers, who Keeps the lodging house in the tenement Bt No. $4 West Forty-fifth street, | Sullivan occupies the flat beneath tuat In which Meyers quarters his Greek | lodgers, Meyers has honograph and | Bullivan saya the Greok lodgers keep it going Ii day while he je trying to sleep. Meyers. “He Into my flat in hie pajamas and jost knocked my heed | af, Then when 1 waited outside to talk to him about it in." ‘Considering that my wife is an Ital- | fan,” sald Sullivan, “I think the tune they play Ie suggestive and Insulting. Also, when I complained that I couldn't sleep this man Meyers calied me an Irlah kike. I may have pushed him and he fell over an ash can.” The Magistrate advised Meyers and Sullivan to try to live in harmony and dixcharged Sullivan. As Sullivan and his wife and Meyers left the courtro {t was quite apparent that the adv of the Magistrate was utterly impossible | of satisfactory assimilation. WHITMAN REFUSES TO LEAD FIGHT AGAINST TAMMANY (Continued from First Page.) action of the political organisations ts endorsed by their primary voters, shall accept the place to which I am thus assigned and shall uphold all its Properties, I can see no other duty, BELIEVES THAT EVERYBODY WANTS HIM TO GO ON. “Zo I aocept the Tammany nomina- tion as I hi already accepted the Fusion nomination. If the motives of the Fusion managers in declining to accept my services as a candidate for Mayor, if the motives of Tammany Hall in agreeing with the Fusion man- agers that I shall continue in my pi ent office and present work are to be impugned, I must leave it to others to do it. For mysolf, I accept the view that all of the political organisations have adopted, that my work should go on where and as it has been going. “I accept thelr endorsement precisely as they have expressed it and promise them all and the great voting public that if their action be sustained at the polls I shail go ahead with the work entrusted to me on precisely the same Mines with which the record of my office during the last four years has made them all familiar. “This means that if the Republican, Democratic, Fusion, Progressive and In- dependence sue voters and the voters of other organizations that have pleced me in nomination shall approve it the keeper of a lodging has hit hard and is in danger of £01NE ot movement mong Democratic Ben-| hie aneupported charges. | house for Greek walters lined up before to pieces, The first man to jump wafety was Whitman, who is npw as- sured of election, being on both Fusion and Tammany tickets. Comptroller Prendergast and Borough President | MoAnony are watching closely the ap: | roach of the Gaynor tempter. Mr. Premiergast is in Europe, keeping ! olomely silent. M'ANENY'S SILENCE PRODUC e PAINFUL IMPR ION. Leaders of the Committee of 107 are pained over the silence of Candidate MoAneny. It seems intredible to them | that he, who has been so strong for Principle and so disinterested In person- al considerations, should hesitate for one moment to refuse to listen even to| the suggestion of going on a Gaynor! ticket. They look to him to rebuff temptation before it even has a chance to approach him. Mr McAneny de- clines to discuss the possibility of als Going on the Gaynor ticket until he has Ex-Preaident Roosevelt projected him self into the municipal situation with a statement urging ali the Fusion candi- Gates to stand by their ticket, He said: “In my Judgment no Fusion candidate can accept @ position on any other ticket that docs not Include the other Fualon candidates and be considered to nave remained loyal to the Fusion movement and to the efforts of the combined de- cent citizenship of the community to overthrow Tammany Hall.” That was a direct slap at District- Attorney Whitman, who is accepting the Tammany endorsement on the a4 vice of leaders of the regular Repuoli can organization. Chairman Koenig, of the Republicans, sald that #o long as Mr. Roosevelt contributed to help the anti-Tammany cause his efforts and opinions would be welcome. In order to gain time for consultation and calm deliberation most of the Fusion leaders left town this agternoon to be gone over Labor Day. They said th anted the boiling pot to cool off t next week it might be handled —— CANDIDATE M’CALL SAYS WHITMAN HAS DONE SPLENDID WORK. Chairman Edward McCall, the Tam- many designee for Mayor, took issue to-day with Col, Roosevelt, Seth Low, Chairman F. W. Bird and others who have criticised District-Attorney Wait- man for accepting a Tammany nomina- tion, Mr, MeCall characterized the ut- terances of the illustrious gentlemen as asinine and ridiculous. Incidentally, Judge McCall intimated that it was he who waa most interested in the unan!- mous indorsement of “Charley Whit- man” for office by all parties, tickled to death that he ac- said the Chairman, ‘‘not for to my ticket, but because I Ne. Charley ic Whitman. I belleve in him ause he has done splendid work there. I want to see him continue that work, And I sald this before I was ever designated for Mayor, and if I am elected Mayor he will have my hearty support from the ground up. “I approve of everything he has done and I'll stand right back of him. And it is gratifying to me that the organiza- tion which named him did so heartily | and without a dissenting voice, He | vecepts that nomination without the primaries what has been done by the nominating: committess and conventions, I shall consider myself to be in no other position than that of their agent and the agent of a unanimous public senti- ment, compelling the prosecution of all offenders against the criminal statutes in the County of New York without ro- t to parties, interests or lndivigy There was sore disappointment among Fusion leaders, outside the regu- lar Republicans, over Mr. Whitman's statement. Chairman Hapgood of the One Hundred and Seven and Chairman Price of the Executive Committee, had no heart to make comments. They turned their eyes toward John Purroy Mitchel as champion of the Fusion cause td lead in place of Whitman, whom they now consider as out of the fight, The Progressives, under Chairman Francis W. Bird, sald it was no more than was expected and the next de- fection to look for was that of Prender- gast and McAneny, who would Haten to the tempting of the Gaynorites. “Let them go on and accept the en: dorsement of other parties, ia Mr. Bird, “It wil! leave Mr, Mitchel all the more at liberty to enter the cam- paign with perfect freedom and make his own fight in his own way and on his own platform, He is going to stick and hia campaign will be dashing and bril- Mant. ‘Phe Progressive party will be back of him and give him loyal sup- Mr, Mitchel ts in Washington to-day on Government business. He \s to re- turn to-morrowand make answer to the Independence League, which repudiated his colleagues, Prendergast and Mc- | Aneny. Tho” underst been | that he would order his own name off tho League ticket unless his Fusion colleagues were there too. | At @ conference last night between | Mr, Mitchel, Mr, Hapgood and Mr. tentative plan of procedure outlined. Mr, Mitchel hoped by his own sacrifice of the Hearst would be set for other Fusion dates to do likewise and reject tempt- GAST AND McANENY. The action of Mr. Whitman ts the first | brees tm this pepetul programme. Now) slightest pledge or obligation of any kind, whatsoever. None was exactea and none will be. His action was en- tirely free, and why should not any man accept such an endorsement, amounting, as it does, to a public timonial. “The idea of thts criticiam of him ts asinine and ridiculous, 1 think it ts about time these dilettant! who are talk- ing about uncleanness had somebody to get back at them good and hard. And I can assure you that it is going to happen In this campaign.” Have you anything to say about Mayor Gaynor's candidac “Only that which = pleasant, alr. —.— GAYNOR CAN CARRY REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, SAYS WILLIAM S. BENNET ‘There were bustling scenes of activity in Mayor Gaynor's offices to-day. Sec- retary Robert Adamson was at the wheel of the Mayor's candidacy, The Mayor 1s still at his home in St. Jame “quite recovered from his recent a tack,” it was said, He is not expected at the City Hall to-day, Amonk the earlier callers were William 8, Bennet, the Republican bolter, who came to assure Mr, Adamson that he had talked to hundreds of Reputlicans and that all agree’ to write te Mayor’ name in the Republican primaryballot, Mr. Bennet was an:tous to know how far the Maygr’s advisers want him to go, He issued a statement in which hy said, among other things, that he ‘belleved that the Mayor can enter the Repub- ican primaries and win, Albert Ot- Gager, another Republican who has left tne Fusion ranks, also called on the WEEK-END TRIP FOR WILSON. | President Pla: io Outing at the Summer Capito WASHINGTON, Aug. %—Unl de- velopments in the Mexican situation toxtay require President Wilson's per- sonal attention during the next few accompany Mrs. Wilson leanor Wilson back to Cor- nish, N. H., for a week-end vacation trip, The President planned to leave Washington this evening or to-morrow, most lawyers an@ a staunch of Prime Minleter R. I, Borden, here at noon, He te the pérsonal resentative of Premier Borden and is the firat Dominion officer of high posl- tion to come here. He will report 4i- rect to Premier Borden and will keep {n close touch with the Thaw situation. He went li.to conference immediately on bia arrival with Firmin Campbell, the lawyer representing the Immigtation Authorities here. Marechal Is well known as a politician. He stumped Quebec for Borden at the last general election. Procedure in this province differs trom j the legal course of other provinces, The French code, instead of the English, ia followed here, and because of this the New York State lawyers have one hope left. The law makes it legal for a sing men.ber of the Grand Jury to summon that body together for the considera- ton, practically, of anything at all It would be well within its right to in vestigate the Thaw situation SENATE INSURGENTS FORCE RAISE OF TAX ON INCOMES OF RICH Democrats Agree to Increase Rate to 5 Per Cent. on $100,- 000 and 10 on $500,000. WASHINGTON, Aug. %—An Insur- ators that threatened to break party linen on the Income tax was headed off by the lenders to-day by an agreement “Sone Oring New York State ta to revine the Tariff bill so to levy 4 are working now on a member ae caus heavier tax on the Incomes from large Grand Jury, trying to persuade him to fortunes. cail the body into extraordinary session, ‘The insurgent leaders bean with | 1f they can accomplish this Thi demand for a party conference, and claimed the support of twenty-seven | Democratic Senators of the fifty in the Senate, in support of an increase In the tax, They finally agreed to withdraw The procedure would be exactiy the same as though the Grand Jury waited ‘until October to convene, and eventually @omething definite on which to act. | 000, Thaw would be freed. The immigration thoir demand for a special caucus, but! oftyiais will walt until the moment he the question will day, It is understood that Democratic lead- revision of the so that the extra ers have agreed to a income tax section, tax on Incomes 6f more than $100,000 will be 5 per cent, with an increiso be taken up in @ party conference to-morrow or Satu pokes his nose out of the jail door, The Instant he does he is gone, they say. Thaw and his law That is the reason no ap been made for bail. Thaw could be ;| balled under the law, but it te safe to Say he won't be. reaching 10 per cent. on incomes of] !MMIGRATION OFFICIALS WAIT $500,000, ‘The bill as it now stands pro- vides only 3 per cent. tax above $10,- ‘The present rates on incomes be- tween $20,000 and $100,000 also will be in- creased, The agreement to redraft the bill came after Senator Vardaman left the party ranks and voted for Senator La Fol: lette's amendment to increase the ra and Senators Reed, Thompson and Ashurst had threatened to take sim- flair action, SECRET RAGE TO SAVE THAW FROM JEROME (Continued from First Page.) ity of Interfering in the Thaw case and suggested that his wisest course would be to keep his hands off and al- low the Dominion authorities to bear the onus or receive the plaudits for tak- ing the Thaw case under control, Armed with this letter, Mr. St, Lau. rent took the first train this morning for Quebec. He hoped to reach Sir Lomer before Mr. Jerome or Mr. Ken- nedy. On the outeome of Jerome's mission the future hise If Sir Lomer will hinge, probably, tory of the Thaw case. refuses to interfere, Thaw may remain in jail until the Court of King's Bench convenes in October and a Grand Jury meets. Then, probably, no bill would be found against Thaw and he would be liberated, L. K. Marechal, one of Canada's fore- CHANCE TO SEIZE THAW. The Immigration men here resemble, in many ways, the Secret Service men of the United Stat They receive ernment and they have @ habit of net Permitting anything or anybody to ime terfere with the fulfiliment of these orders, Several of them are in towa now and it would mage Little difference to them whether Thaw was on ball or not. Their orders are to take him om nd take him on sight they he not oned all hope of having Magistrate’ Dupuls of Coaticook who committed Thaw, reopen the hearing in his case. In this event, of course, he would be Uberated, for his commitment is con- ceded to be illeg Dupuis, however, has refused to be drawn further into the case or to assign his power to Magistrate Mulvena here, so that the latter could give Thaw a hearing. BRYAN HAS ALL WAR ARMS FOR MEXICANS HELO UP Customs Men Get Telegraphic Orders to Act in Carrying Out Wilson’s Neutrality Plan, WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—At Secre- tary Bryan's request to-day the Treas- ury Department telegraphed all eus- toms agenta to embargo all shipments of arms to Mexico, regardless of to whom consigned. A large shipmént waiting at Juarez will be withhold, al- though a portion already had been al- lowed to pass, This action was part of the adminis- tration's programme of carrying out President Wilson's determination tor strict neutrality as outlined in hie ed- dress to Congress yesterday. 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