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

iff iE Ponape 1,200 Doughty Smoke-Eaters Gather in Grand Central Palace to Swap Ideas. i f Council No, M, Interna- re-! TWO MECHANICS HURT. & ? i B Tire Explodes During Exhibi- tion of Modern Life-Saving Apparatus. i : : 3 “Fire prevention, not Gre fighting.” le the keynote of the forty-first annual eonvention of the International Asso- if Fire Engineers, which opened | i i I ; laré, Me., claims Aret money on thie line. till Hi Loval Union, | sembied about an exhibit of bright red ‘Trimmers’ Union, Local,|fire autos. “We can't have any more Hee if fires out before they start. Guess that's bad. We've got the bem fire department on earth in Port- ALL ADMITTED THEY HAD THE iT. ‘This started a discussion in which ft Geveloped that Boston, New Haven, Bradford, Pa.; Lexington, Ky.; Kansas City and What Cheer, Ia, each had * the best fire department on earth and admited it without debate, New York was nowhere Chief H. F, MoGee of Dailas, Tex., President of the association, called the ° meeting to order. It had been expected. - one that Mayor Gaynor would @o the honors Johneon appeared in his stead and sald His Honor was detained by illness at St. James, Chief Kenion made @ few remarks emphasise Mr, Johnson's welcome, put- ting the resources of ¢he department at Indianapolis, the Giaposal of the guests, Chaplain INDEAWAPOLIS, Sept. 1.—Slit ekirts| Handel delivered the invocation. “I admire New York immensely,” he gald to a reporter of The Kvening Work, “but I can't say I lke your Climate, Of course, I know your Fire Department by reputation. It gas, 1 deHeve, 6,000 men and 1,00 miles of ‘more | appartus, “We have 1,370 men and 870 pieces. How do we get un with ao few? We: fewer fires. There in virtually no Jaunty summer eult, | %°8en construction in London. It te split to the all Brick and stone’ Chief Dyer is congratulating himself that he ts alive to attend the conven- tion. Gn January ae was eo seriously injured in a fire net for a time his life was despaired of. Hie firm physique TO FIRE TRUCKS AMBTERDAM. J, Meter, Chief of the Amsterdam de- Partment, ald he had ¢ allt trou- Lee paratus with which to fight res @ year; no wooden uce ‘but the police| tion aii ‘The preparations were interrupted b; the damaging explosion of the tire of 4 motor chemical fire-engine on the main floor, seriously injuring twe mechanics. The men, Joseph Mengies of No. 2918' Eighth avenue and Joseph Davidson of * OTTAWA ENTRIES. DUNAVOHT PARK RACE TRACK, wa, Ont, Bept, 1—Entries for w- Faces are as follows: employed by the Goodyéar Rubber Com- BACE—Purwe $400; for three-yesr-ciée| pany, had been sent to set a new tir ‘eowerd; matdens; hg ene on the left rear wheel of the machine Rane, 112, ‘They were filling it from a compressed yeer-ole| air cylinder when the shoe exploded. %8; | Doth bones in the right leg of Mengels Me&. | were broken and Davidson's teeth were olde; | KROgked in and his acalp was cut. Both 96; | were attended by Dr. Reis and Dr, 107; | Archer, Fire Department surgeons, What Is called the serious business of the convention will be the listening to technical papers, To-day and to-~mor- row will be ahiefly devoted to this busl- nese, Arthur Reginald Dyer of London will read @ paper on “British Motor Fire Engines;" Chief H, C, Bunker, Cincinnati, “Inspection of Bulidings and Contents by Uni eating; ix Belle, 119; Fatrennd, 194; Henrietia aor, 1185 Mis Jonah, 119; Mi nen, vier, 118; Que ws Nr i; Question Mark, Fire Commiasioner yrtie | Joseph Johnson and Chief John Kenion, Sante:|on “Fire Insurance and Its Relation to and Thomas J, Ahearn, State Fire Marshal, Albany, “Fire Pre- vention and Uniform State Hire Marshal vat | awe.” This is the day on which thirteen companies of old “Vamps,” volunteer BACE—Pume $800: three-yeer.| firemen who, and thelr fathers and 3 50s te | | grandfathers before them, have operat- ed in the Newtown district of Long Isi- Dumes,| and ever since they dug out the East ; ie commiitound. | River, will be repiaced by elght oom: ease aa eens Moma, 131i) penton of salaried Ciremen of the city @liowense claimed, | Gepartment. ‘These and the remaining companies pps," mostly from Long Island and Btaten Island, will take part in the Riveraide Drive and One Hundredth street, will be the event of Friday. Thir- ty-elght fire companies trom and neighboring towns will take elgn Affaire Committee to. No, 169 West Fiftty-second atreet, both |* THE EVENING WORLD, AS.KAPPELE S. PROVINCIAL Ne eee FIRE CHIEFS ASSN LND' MENA HALDANE DELNERS PLNSARESECRET MESSAREOFKNG TOASHANGTON| TO THE LAWYER Senator (Bacon, After Confer-|George V.'Wishes Bar Associa- ence With Bryan, Can Tell Nothing of Envoy’s Doings. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—"So far as I know, the Mexican situation is abso- lutely at a standstill, No word of im- Portance has been received from Mei feo City and nothing has come to-day from Mr. Lind, who remains in Vera Crus, I do not know what he plans to do.” ‘Thie waa the comment today of Sen- ator Bacon, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, after a conference of more than an hoar with Secretary Bryan on Mexican ‘dfratrs. Senator Bacon sald the auggestion by Mr, Lind to Senor Gamboa that the Ad- ministration here would use its good oMces with American bankers to en- courage loans to Mexico was in no sense an offer by this Government to guarantee any loans. “Mr. Lind meant simply that if the would regard conditions in Mexico 80 hopeful that business could be safely carried on, and to t! tent would be blad to encourag: ere who might make loans to the Provi- sional Government.” Americans who did not wish to heed the advice of President Wilson to leave the country would be protected in every possible way by this country, Mr, Bacon ak, Chairman Flood of the House Fot Wilaon's ad- Americans to get out of Mexico were to be follows The letter tated that the company's plant coast 100,000, that it had a growing crop valued at $600,000 and that if those in charge left Mexico valuable property would be at the mercy of bandits ITY, Sept. 1 (via Galves- r Americans left Mexico to-day than on any day since President Wilson advised all to get out and It is believed that the majority will remain, unwilling to sacrifice thelr busi- ness interests here unless the situation takes a dangerous turn. Jt was believed to-day that the Mexi- can Government would pay no official attention to the anonymous charges that @ group of Americans plotted to bring about intervention, It has been Pretty well established that the writ- ten but unsigned co! # reached Gen. Huerta through ot! Americans. HAVANA, Sept. 1.—William Ba: Hale, President Wilson's investigator in Mextco, arrived early to-day from Mexico and after spending only 4 few hours in the city aatled aboard the Ward liner Morro Castle for New York, Hale declined to comment on conditions in Mexico and said he knew nothing of the movements of John Lind, epecial envoy to the southern Re- public, Thomas and Oscar Braniff, Mexican millionaires, also to New York the United & rd —_—___. “THE BND OF THE WORLD.” Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, hac just written ® most amasing story, which deals with the destruction of a universe. This new story, entitled “The Poison Belt,” from the pen of this famed euthor, will begin in the next Sun- day World Illustrated Magazine and Btory Bection, and be completed in ve lengthy, illust: Orde! tion Succéss and Lord Chan- cellor Urges Higher Ethics. MONTREAL, Sept. 1.—Premier Borden operied the annual meeting of the Amer- joan Bar Association to-day with an ad- dress welcoming the most distinguished body of men ever gathered in Canada. ‘The leading jurists of thé United States are here almost without exception and besides them there are some of the most prominent members of the Bar in Can- ada, Dagland and France. ‘The session of the Bar AssociaBion this forenoon was devoted to the Gress of welcome by the Canadian Prim Odintater, @nnual address ‘of the President of the Association, delivered by Frank B. Kellogg of St, Paul, Min: the nomination and election of Members, the reporta of officers similar routine, The event of the after- noon was the delivery of an address by Viscount Haldane, Lord High Chan- cellor of Great Britain. HALOANE IN ADDRESS TELLS HIS MISSION. Viscount Haldane in the course of his speech presented the following message sent through him by King George: “I have given my Lord Chancellor Permission to cro The that great meeting of the lawyers of the United @tates and of Canada my beat wishes for its success, I entertain the hope that the deliberations of the distingui@hed men of both countrios who are to assemble at Montreal may add yet further to the esteem and goxd will which the people of the United tho seas, so that he! may address the meeting at Montreal, | asked him to convey from me to} Fire Fighting Heroes From All Over the World Here to Attend the 41st: Convention of Chiefs | | 1 States and of Canada and the United Kingdom have for each other.’ in Law and Ethics." The Lord Chan- collor emphasized the fact that the ited States, Canada and Great Britain together form « unique group because of the common inheritance of traditions, surroundings and (geals, and particu- larly in the region of jurisprudence. He declared that lawyers are called on in days that He in front to mold opinion and encourage the nations of this group to develop and recognise a reliable char- acter in the obligations they assume toward each other, He considered th there are relations posaible within such &@ group that are not possible for nations more isolated and lacking identity of Ristory and spirit. ‘Canada, Great Britain and the United States, with common language, common interests, common ends, resemble a single society, which might develop a foundation for International faith of a kind new in the history of the world. The English visitor urged lawyers to jst in the freshening of the conven- tional atmosphere which aurrounds men in public life by omitting no opportunity to think rightfully, ard to contribute to the fashioning of a more hopeful and resolute kind of public opinion It was the chance of laying before the audience at the American Bar As- sociation @t Montreal this thought that v. to visit this meeting, PREMIER BORDEN WELCOMES THE DELEGAT and friendship between the United States and Canada. Jacob M. Dickinson, former American Secre- tary of War, who introduced Mr. Bord replied to this address on behalf of the Association, The addreas of President which followed, dealt with the "Treaty- Making Power,” and discussed the con- troversy aroused by the Alien Land law of California, Mr. Kellogg maintained that the Federal Government had the right to define by tremy the etatue of Kellogg, icltous reference to the| SAm'L F- HUNTERS - CHIEF > SPRING FIELU-' OHI0- nd the disposition of such prop- erty after hie death, If,” said Mr, Kellogg, ‘‘citisens of Japan have any right to own real estate in California, it is difficult to see how this law takes away such right because At provides in substance that such aliens may acquire, possess, enjoy and tra! fer real estate in the manner and to the extent and for the purposes prescribed by any treat ‘The California law, he explained, dis- criminates between alfens eligible and those mot eligible to citizenship, permit. ting the former to possess, enjoy, tra: mit and inherit real property in ti same manner as citizens, and lmitti those not eligible to citizenship to rights extended to them by treaty with the Government ef the United States. CALIFORNIA CLAIMS RIGHT AGAINST TREATY. He oaid it was understood, however, dy the public generally that Califor claims the right to legislate In respect to land held by aliens, notwithstanding any treaty provisions with the Federal Govermment. He asserted that the question thus raised is ‘one of vital importance to our nation in its relation to foreign Governments. He pointed out that it is not to be Presumed that the people of the United States intended to confer upon the Federal Governmént a less power than had heen exercised by other nations since the dawn of civilization He pointed out that few individual states in confederations have retained the treaty making power, and of these the Greek republics perished and other confederations have changed thelr forms of government, so the treaty mak- Ing power is now vested In the nation. “If it be true that the Federal Gov- ernment may not mak treaty upen any matter which is ordinarily reserved for the Governmental control of the Stat hé said, “@ principal part of the treaty-making power, as it has teen exercised for more than one hundred and twenty-five years, is swept away, for the central Government has exer- cised thin power, and it is absolutely necessary that It should do so in order protect foreign citi in thelr 1 to demand and receive for our eitimens same right In fore!¢n countries, We cannot expect thas American citizens will be respected and recelve the protection to which they are entitled under the principles of in- ternational law and the custom of nu- tions éf we declare that our Governmen. is 80 impotent that it cannot give to foreign citizens within the States the same protection.” l@ asserted that the Supreme Court of the United States, fully realizing its right: yond peradventure the supremacy of the treaties over the lawa of the States, and has enforced the rights of foreign citizens in the face of popular prejudice. ——— FIRE ON LELAND LINER. ‘That Menaced Hessian. NEW ORL NS, La,, Sopt, 1.—Fire caused taneous combustion awept hip Nessian of the Leyland Line here thia morning and at 1 o'clock was still beyond control, Ten city fire engines and five harbor boats are fighting It. Capt. W. B. Hanaford In in a critical condition. He led tne crew of fire fightera when the blaze was first dis- » Is @ 5,000-tqn steamer, ¥ reach $100,000, ‘Thomas Carroll, ing with @ 2 calibre riffle, shot seven-year-old si Kathleen in th arm and side in the parlor of their home at No. 7% Henry street to-day. She was taken to the Holy Family Hos- by Ambulance Surgeon Rendich, who sald he could not tell how serious i Aad was until be had traced the ‘ ieee, a. es Bl GUARD READY TO BALK RESCUE Head of Quebec Detectives On Hand to Help Seize Him in Court. secant SECRET PLAN. Deputy Attorney - General Rushes to Ottawa to Ar- range New Tactics. SHERBROOKE, Quedec, Sept. 1— Kenneth P. McCaskill—"Pete” aw he ts affectionately known throughout Quebec —the head of the Provincial detectives, is on bis way here with a dosen or more of his men. It is fair week here wh "Cana Great Eastern Exhibdi- tion draws between 30,000 and 40,000 outsiders into this tuwn of 16, in habitants, McGaskill and his men are not coming to police and protect this crowd; they are coming to guard Canada's reputa- tion among nations from injury at the hands of Harry Kendall Thaw. Thaw, stil) fighting to prevent his return to Matteawan, from which he escaped two weeks ago yesterday, Js apparently pow- erless in the St. Francis jail h Iron bars and stone walls restrain his liberty, but no bar, nor a wall yet made would muffice to keep within bounds the influ- + 40e which his presence here has @x- erted on the smi-French residents of this Province of Quebec. THAW A HERO TO CROWDS FROM EVERYWHERE. Thaw ts @ local hero. The crowds which arrive by every train inquire, not the way to the fair ground, but to the jail, They ask, not will we have trouble getting into the éair, but sha we see Harry Thaw. Knowing little of Thaw, of the merits of his case, of his previous CRUSHED WHEN HIS ti roi MACHINE TIPS OVER| tsetse ve contnea n'a machouse, che tanta” have built @ romance around him. ‘There is little real romance in the hard vee of these farmers, but their imagina- tions are more fertile than those of famous fiction writers, Thaw, to them, typifies the oppressed, the persecuted. A great power—that of the State of New York, as they see it—is directed against one man—not « sturdy, power- @ul man such as are most of the “habitants’ themselves, but one who ‘among them, would be regarded almost apaweakling, . Thaw {is to have a hearing in the Su- perior Court to-morrow. Before Judge Matthew Hutchinson, Samuel W. Ja- famous Montr wilt on behalf of Brooklyn Man Severely Hurt, Whereas His Wife Gets Only Slignt Bruises. ATUANTIC CITY, N. J, Sept. 1L— Crushed against the steering post when his Dig touring car turned over last night on White Horse Pike, near Tuckerton, William = Bruce, nianufacturer, who lives at No. 6% Noi a avenue, Brooklyn, ie in a dangerous condition in the City Hospital here. * Mra, Bruce, who sat beside her hi band, was flung into underbrush thi lined the roadway. She ia suffering from alight bruises and shock. Mr. and Mrs. Bru ere rushed here in another astonpie It was found that the muscl: Mr. Bruce's arms and legs had been terribly torn. His left arm is so crushed that the doctors have decided to amputate, but his condition t# so bad that they are Postponing the operation as long as Doasible. Mr. Bruce was on his way to spend Labor Day He took a speed and the Bureau of the Interior Department will be waiting. Should Judge Hutchinston declare: ‘I sustain this writ of habeas corpus,” E, Blake Robertson, Assistant Superintendent of Immigration, will clap his hand on Thaw's shoulder and call “I arrest you in the name into hit of the TO GUARD THAW AGAINST RIOT- AGES AG TT cua oe OUS RESCUE. POLICEMAN LOCKED UP. . | wnat wii happen then? Pete Me- Cesk!l! does not know. Robortaon Bartender Makes Charge of Haviag Been Robbed. James F. Brady, twenty-five years old, of No. 181 Nassau ‘street, Brooklyn, — patrolman attached to the Fifty- frat street station, was this afternaon locked up at that police station charged with having held up and robbed John Robinson, @ bartender, about 1 o'clock Sunday morning in the hallway of @ tenement housg at No. 20 East Forty- third street. does not know, but they remember that laat week a crowd, leas excitable, prob- ably, than that which will jam the courtroom to-morrow, trampled on the Mgmity of a court, shrieked itself hoarse in cheers for Thaw and trooped through the corridors r him as he was led to the carriai him back to jail, screaming: with you: stick to us and we'll stick by you; you're safe here.” MoCaekill is on hand to see that there ia only cheering to-morrow, Dominion police ere here or are coming—big men, most of them ex-sol- ‘They planning now to han- Robingon alleges Brady took a gold watch and #2 in cash from his person. by Deputy FX crowd exactly as they would . Dillon. That ts ee what they expect It to circus par- PORT Of uvOD, WON: aie, with Thaw ae the entire circus. George We Canadian Secret Service men also will |e in the circus crowd, just as Me- rieane | Cagkill and his men will have front seats in the courtroom. There may be need for the prepara- tions gor lawyers here are by no means agreed thet Judge Hutchinson will not sustain the writ Thaw's lawyers have been in secret semsion at intervals aince Saturday morning, when they learnea Jerome Klug tel Priest: oe oe ara Dungent UND we have net! one Lael /—OFTAAWINRIT had got Chiet of Potice se Coaticook to apply oa ‘ writ, on the ground thal . responsible for the illegal detention of Thaw. They have concluded that (hey will appeal from the ruling of the court should it be unfavorable to them. Never before has there been an appeat from @ writ favorable to @ prisoner. If Thaw gets into the hands of the immigration men no appeal directed at the judgment of Judge Hutehison would matter to them. JEROME GOES TO OTTAWA ON \CRET MISBION. ‘William Travers Jerome, having falt- @n down on bis fret ruse to get Thaw out of jail so the immigration ra es ties could arrest and deport him, ts in Ottawa again to-day with a new scheme which he refuses to divulge, but which he bdelleves will turn the trick this time. Although counsel for Thaw eald that Boudreau was ready to withdraw the “I ghall not withdraw the he said. “I knew exactly what I was doing when I signed it. I shall stand by it ‘and be in court to-morrow morning.” Should the writ be sustained the no-~ tlee of appeal which Thaw’s lawyers will file will act aa a stay. ‘They declare and they repeat Thaw cannot be dislodged from brooke jail before October. $2,500,000 HOMES SACRIFICED FOR AUTOS Fashionable Bostonese Selling Back Bay Residences to Raise Gasoline Money. BOSTON, Sept. 1—So keen has be- come the rivalry among fashionable familien of Boston for high-priced auto- mobiles that nearly $2,600,000 worth of Back Bay mansio1 offered for sale at out prices In an effort to raise gaso- line mone) . ‘There are aixty mansions in all aow on the market at “bargain” prices. in Beacon atreet and vicinity. The “bar- gain” prices range from $20,000 to 96,- 000, but the average is $40,000, T. Dennis Boardman, a prominent Back Bay clubman and real estate ex- pert, said to-day: “Times are ham and the autemobite has caused a good many to change re: dence; and then a good many of the older people have died.” ineetiiasamaad Cholera ta Vienna. VIENNA, Sept. 1.—Much anxiety bas been occasioned here by the discovery of a cane of Asiatic cholera. The pa- tlent, who came here from Salonica, hae only a mild attack, according to the official report. that Gher- La PECK & PECK) Regular Half-Yearly ale of Hosiery SPECIAL 20% - DISCOUNT OMeots walt ded on At even far greater reductions THREE HOSIERY SHOPS 538 FIFTH AV. AT 48TH 6T. 481 FIFTH AV. AT 418T 8T. 230 FIFTH AV., AT 27TH 86¥.' jt PROVENZO.—On Aug. 30 City, GERTRUDB, a ‘toon, beloved Gaughter of Vincent and Gertrude Pre- 30 (nee Bocring) of 1972 Tatra ave, Funeral on Tussday at2 P.M. Inter- ment Woodlawn Cemetery, \- ments by William Necker. ae i New Yory Moving SeasonIs Drawing to a Close Now’s the time to find ahome, ~ If you're going to move this folly Moving-day is close at hand— There’s no time to lose at all. See what World “To Let" ads, say, If you'd find the home you seek; But be up and dofng NOW— Don't delay another week} 6,107 WORLD “TO LET” ADS. 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