The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1913, Page 3

— " NEW MAYOR RAN AWAY FROM HS HOME AS BO; «TELS OF HS PANS, Pll Not Put Republicans Into Office Just Because They Are Republicans, for They Couldn’t Do Much in Three Months, My ft Time Limit. No Department Head Now in Office Will Lose His Place Unless He Is Proven Unfit. 1 Will Hold Every Man to Strict Account for His Department, Just as the City Will Hold Me to Account for the Whole. Mayor Gaynor Did a Great and Wonderful Work—I Expect to Carry the Reforms He Started to Completion. I Never Had Any Ambition to Be Mayor. 1 Am Here Now Because Two Years Ago 1 Wanted to Be Acting-Mayor for a Day or So. of the Cty, Says: ©o Mayor Ardolph L. Kline, new executive of the City of New York, to-day gave to an Evening World reporter his first interview on his future actions and purposes, and on his history from boyhood. When the Mayor was done with his two-hour talk, these facts were apparent: ‘ Mo Commissioner of the City of New York will lose his place unless Grave charges be made and proved against him within the next three months. Mo minor official in any department will be discharged unless a rea- @onable excuse be given, or unless the new Mayor is forced inte such ection by his Republican friends im high places. Mo Mepudlican regime will be established, because the Mayer be Meves it would have mo time to effect any changes and instead would produce disorder, ‘Mo reforms instituted by Mayor Gaynor will be checked. Concerning Mayor Kline these facta were revealed: He Is candid almost beyond the bounds of belief. He {is ambitious without knowing what he wishes te do, He went into politios for money and did not acquire taste for power until 1911. He is now Mayor of New York because of his desire te be acting Mayor for a few days, He Is honest im his desire to carry om the work begun by Mayor Gaynor, He fs now more ambitious than he himself will admit. All these things and more were revealed by Mayor Kline in the “den” of @ little home owned by his son-in-law, Edward Schell, at Hill Crest, a euburb of Jamaica. The Mayor began his long talk by detailing his future course during hfs short term as Mayor and ended by discussing the present day problems which he will be called upon to decide. TO HOLD DEPARTMENT HEADS TO STRICT ACCOUNT. “No head of a department now tn office will lose his place unless he be proved to be unfit,” was one of his last remarks, and he declared that no person or body had asked him to depose or request the resignation of Pelice Commissioner Waldo. “I shall, however, hold every department head directly responsible for his department,” he added. “I will do this, just as the people of New York will hold me responsible for the efficient government of the city. The officials must enforce the rules; see that they are properly carried out.” Mayor Kline was unwilling to discuss the fact that for the first time in many years a Republican had become head of the city government, but, after telling his life story, he sald: “I sl not place Republicans in office now just because they are Re- publicans, I do not think three months would be long enough to give any party an opportunity to demonstrate its ability to properly regulate city affairs, and, therefore, I shall not disrupt the present government.” “Won't the powerful Republicans of this city bring strong pressure to Dear on you toward this end?” he was asked. “1 do not think so,” answered. “And if they do, I cannot see that it would be advisable, man will be discharged because of his politics, But,” he added, “it is , .sible that some changes will be made in minor offices, I do not wish to talk of this,” LITTLE AMBITION THAT MADE HIM MAYOR, “What of yourself?” he was asked, “What will you do when your term expires?” . “Time will show,” he said, “I do not know yet.” ane “When did ambition to become Mayor first come to you?” was a Question. “| don't think it ever came,” he frankly replied. “The reason I am Mayor now is that two years ago I decided I would like to be Acting Mayor for a day or two. “When I was elected to the Board of Aldermen, in 1911, Mr. Mitchel, ‘who was President of the Board, was ill, and it seemed he would be eick for some time. So I immediately sought the place of vice-chairman of the Board because I realized Mr. Mitchel might not be able to attend to the duties and I might succeed him, “You see, | wanted to be Acting Mayor, and ew I was close enough fo Mayor Gaynor to be able to go to him, if Mr. Mitchel should be absent, and ir. Gaynor to leave the city for a day or two so that It might be put im my record that I was once Acting Mayor of New s ork. “Aftes I told the right man I wanted the place I soon got it. “Then Mr. Mitchel resigned to become Collector of the Port, and I knew my ambition was almost realised. I did not even imagine, though, that any harm would come to Mayor Gaynor, And now I'm Mayor.” “Would you accept the nomination for Mayor on the Gaynor ticket?” he was avke “Time will answer that,” he answered. PUSHED INTO SHERIFF’S OFFICE WITH ITS BIG FEES. “Will you continue in politics?” was the next question, “J guppose so, J don't know” he answered, ae In telling the story of his life the new Mayor told how he happened Na te enter politics. “In the fall of 1902, while I was a neckwear salesman, I called on one of my best friends and customers, William J, Maxwell, who had a large store at Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street, in Brooklyn,” he said, well rushed up to me and shook me by the hand, saying: Yolonel, I'm mighty glad to see you,’ ‘That's fine,’ I said, thinking he was about to give me a big order. “‘Come up to my office,’ he said. And when we get there he asked m “‘How would you like to be Sheriff of Kings County? f a Smart Hat From AT NS: te - And a GAYNOR’S PORTRAIT FELL AT THE HOUR OF DEATH Mayor Gaynor’s framed portrait hunt rs on the wall of William home, No. 18@ Beverly road, Flatbush, until Wednesday after- noon last. Just after the clock struck 1 on the afternoon of that day the cord snapped and the portrait dropped to the floor. ‘The Mayor died on board the Baltic at 107 P. M. Wednesday. Mr, Leggatt is one of the oldest clerks in the service of tae Kings County Supremen Court. For many years ne was a close friend of Mr. Gaynor, nis acquaintance dating from the days when the li he Maver was a young law- Pes can organization can’t determine on any strong man who is a vote getter, and I believe you are the man. Will you take it? “*Yes, if there’s a chance for me,’ I told him. ‘Any man will con- sider making $12,000 or $15,000 a year when he's not making more than half that.’ I said. “So that night I went to Convention Hall—I didn't even know where {t was when he first told me to go there—and was nominated for Sheriff, “I went out and made my campaign, and ran 4,000 ahead of my ticket, So the next year I asked for the nomination again, and Lieut.-Gov., Wood- ruff told me I bad earned it, but that political exigencies forbade my nomination. He asked me if I didn’t want to take the nomination for Alderman of the Fifty-first Aldermanic District, TOOK ALDERMAN’S SEAT AND HUSTLED FOR JOBS. “I wasn't anxious for the nomination, for 1 was afraid that running for # smaller office than Sheriff might injure my business, but I did take re-elected in 1905, y ambition other than tak care of my Ustrict, seeing that the curbing and street were all fixed, and giving jobs to all my supporters that I could.” Chance rather than ambition has mapped the Mayor's life, and it 1s owing to chance more than anything else that he is now Mayor, accord: ing to his own statements. He briefly told of his boyhood life and his|spent and that we sball not hear much {°2tS have deen aettled, 1 early struggles, and during his talk it developed that he had but a few years’ training and that in the common school, “I was born two miles from Andover, N. J.,” he said, beginning the story of his life. “My father was a brick manufacturer, but we lived on @ 150-acre farm, It was two miles to the schoolhouse, and I can vividly remember trudging those two miles through rain and snow, and in all sorts of weather. We had to get to school at 8.30 and remain there until 4 in the afternoon, with but a few intermissions. I remember we used to cut across lots whenever we could, so as to shorten the two miles, “In '10 my father moved to Newton, a neighboring town, and my chief ambition then was to be a railroad engineer. My uncle was an engineer and once he took me in his cab, After that I would walk two or three miles just to see a train. In '72 my mother died, and when I was sixteen years old my father went to Pennsylvania to make brick. RAN AWAY AND STARTED ON NEW YORK CAREER, “] goon got tired of working with him, and—I eay it with regret—I came to New York without his knowledge or consent. I got @ job that paid me $4 a week. I had but little money and al! my pesseestans and money together did not total more ¢han 025. 1 had to nay 04 @ week board, eo you see I didn’t have any margin. “I soon learned the neckwear business, though, and as I worked fore wholesale house we were off Saturday afternoons. I got employment at a retail store from 12.30 Saturday afternoon to 12 o'clock Saturday nigh’ and from 7 o'clock Sunday morning until Sunday afternoon, me $2.50 more, so I managed to get along. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918. Some of the Latest Ideas in Gowns, ._ JEWELLED WOMAN By going WANTED WM MEED ¢} CAPTURED ON SHIP { | | Wealthy Mrs. Sanchez Is Charged by Mexican Of- ficials With Embezzlement. WAS BORN IN NEW YORK Complains Bitterly of Treat: | ment Accorded Her in Amity | Street Police Station. NEW YORK WOMAN, CAUGHT ON LINER, HELD FOR MEXICANS Mra. Alice Maud Muller Sanches, about thirty-eight yeara old, very well dressed and wearing much expensive | Jewelry, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Morle in Brook- lyn to-day. She was arrested yeater- day by agente of tha Department of Justice on board the New York and Cuban Bteamship Company's liner Ks- Peranza at the cabled request of the Mexican Government, which wants her as an alleged ombeasier. Mis. Sanches apent the night tn the Amity street police station and was brought’ from there to Commissioner Morle's office at 10 o'clock this morn- ing, She was #0 weak she could scarcely walk, and with F. W, Green, a friend, ting Agents Joseph Haker and William McHale to support her, !t took the party an hour to walk the ten blocks between the station and Com- missioner Morle’s office, “Oh, what a terrible night it was,” Mrs. Sanches complained. “Why, in Mexico we have no such cells as that into which I w put. There was no bed for me to sleep on—not even a pai- let of, straw, I was told to sieap on the stone floor if 1 wanted to sleep, and m T paced the floor until, late at nght, some official brought me a chalr, For the rest of the night I sat on this, KEPT AWAKE ALL NIGHT BY CRIES OF DRUNKEN WOMEN. “But I could not sleep. They had put me in among @ lot of drunken women and women of the streets, It wan aw- ful. T cannot {magine how such thin, can be allowed here. 1 have committed no crime, and Tam a woman of wealth and refinement. My experience has been terrible shock to me." Mra. Sanchez's appearance by jher words. She seemed on the |of a collapse, Mr. Groon in manager | for all Mexico of the Confederation Life Association of Canada which docs a life invurance business in Central America. was at Pler 12, Brooklyn, where the MITCHEL BACK MONDAY, HOPES TO HARMONIZE ALL FUSION ELEMENTS Will Push Subway Work Vig- orously If Elected, Says Norman Hapgood. John Purroy Mitchel, Fusion cand!- date for Mayor, comes back to town on Monday morning to start an active cam- palgn. Some of the things he plana to, * do are an follows: | ‘Make a statement that he is not opposed to subway building, but mow that the contracts have been signed the work should be pushed. Reassure the businoss element that he is not @ radical, lable to run amuck. Endeavor to get all the confiict- ing factions in Pusion lined up in harmonious unity. Norman Hapgood, Chalr Fusion Committee, sald and learned of her plight. known her well in Mexico and devote: |himaelf to her service immediately, of the! “Mrs Sknohez Is one of the woalthtent x | women in sald he. “Unald q ANCE, NAGOMULEER yp SANCHEZ. one, when she had gone to Mexico and there met and married. Her husband ts now in charge of her business there, though It was she who bullt It up. She said that in a morning newspaper she had seen a story of the dismissal of the Minister of Justice in Mexico, and believed that the ones who were reapon- sible for this were also behind her pres- ent detention. “He was a close friend of mine,” aald she, “My best friend In Mexico, and had he kept office I should have been berated speedily." As it Is, Mrs. Sanches pgobably will have to remain for some tfine in Ray- ee WOMAN BOOKKEEPER Unit States ‘commissioner Kahoone later itted her to the Mineola Jail, to await ing why she rs from Mexico show- id be extradited, ee PRINTER SEEKS WIFE, STRANGER IN NEW YORK * Mrs. Patton Went Away With Two} Women and Hasn’t Been Seen Sinze, Says Husband, Joo A. Patton, 10 Sackman street, 1 out a Ker wife, Sallle, home on the morning He said there had never nM & quarrel between them and she Always seemed satiafied at nome. who : Ambassador O'Brien refused to “There has been a certain amount of distrust of Mr. Mitchel among certain parte of the business community, but I feel confident that this will disappear when they get to know him better, The; t have been circulated about and his favoring government ownership of all sorts of things are nothing but surmises. He will be found to he growing in strength daily and popular among all classes. “Taminany 4 declaring that Mr. chel_is opposed to subway exten- To suy that he 1s opposed to carrying out the present contracts is ridiculuus. Mr, Mitchel’s position is that the contracts must be carried out efficiently, honestly and quickly, He recognizes the conditions that now exist. Whether wisely or unwisely the con- tracts have been signed and he he- Neves that a» Mayor It would be bis duty to see that the city gets full benefit and that the future work be contracted for wisely and honestly. No- ‘ody would be more energetic than he for the rapid carrying out of the great mibway undertakings. Mr. Hapgoud was asked what ts left now of the Gaynor movement whether Wall strect Interests were atill endeavor! “There sald, ‘na few business M he doe sted in I think tts force is about the cause, of it hereafter.” a . jupreime Court Justice Delany yer day denied the application of Willis B. Davis to strike the name of Abraham Gruber and those of his associates from the primary ballot on the Republica: ticket for the election of an Asser Ss of which Gruber ts leader. jtwenty-elght then. ang | Committee In the Seventeenth District, another big neckwear firm and began to make plenty of money. WORKED FOR A FRIEND AND LOST $650, “A friend of mine in the old store where I first worked started a | she built up the tremendous business of] ‘The Pattons were married about three jthe American Transfer Company, an| years ago in Columbia, 8, C., from whieh xpress business, and made large sums] place they came to New York ® month lof money. She ta very clever woman| ago to live with relatives at the Sack- , and @ very eatimadie one.” man atreet house, The wife took Nght Mra, Sanchez was on the point of| work in a factory in McDougal atreet, hysterics and waa loth to talk excopt| where there wan a strike several days at moménts when her feelings overcame | ago. her and she burst out in complaint at] Last Wednesday Mrs. Patton left, say- the way ahe had been treated. She wanling she was going to draw her money enpecially angered by the faci that sho/at the factory and come right back, Bhe had been represented as posing aa al went w y with two women, She Is Mrs, Ida Munger and concealing her| twenty-three years old, 6 feet 2 ir | true Mentity. tall, weixha 100 =ounds and ls a bi DECLARE SHE NEVER TRIED TO|nette. She wore a dark blue velvet HIDE HER TRUE IDENTITY. | “"es%. blue satin low shoes and a round “L never dented my name,” she de-| blue hat. Her Jewelry conulsted of a Kold and tortoise whell bracelet, a dia- }clared, “The truth ts T bought a ticket a) tie heat tatiatas iors [which originally had been Insued to a] OM FINK. © heart-shape locket with | 4 gold chain, There is |Mra. Munger and I suppore that Is how breast from being run my Identity became mixed with hers. sid, Ghd & Klett erie o “Why should I deny it? 1 have dove resembling an upright nah, nothing wrong. In the turmoil which ' haa embroiled Mgatco for the last three | Owe unber front tooth altghtly projects, or four yeara my business has been wetl-| giuicy of ously affected, Many sults have been jMled against me, all of which will~be | properly settied in time, but certainly I jullty of no embezzlement. Mexico @ document known an an ‘ariaga’ which can be pur- chased from any Judge for a few pesos. It restraina the one against whom it Is directed from leaving Mexico until lis suppose some little creditor got the one against me and that ts why I have been arrest- ed, I have nothing to fear on my re- turn to Mexico, but I dread the thought | of sports to be held of the Kildare Men's Celtic Park to-morrow. In the football games Kilkenny meate Kildare, and Maye and Monaghan and Cavan will battle in the final game of the day, Track and field events will be an added attraction, und F-! of remaining imprisoned here for per- haps a month until affairs can be ar- | ranged in Mexico, 1 understand 1 ca.- | not be admitted to ball.” Mra, Sanchez said It was true that she originally was @ New York girl and that i phe hud lived here until she was twenty- kJ WASHINGTON CALLS POST WHEELER TO | ANSWER CHARGES Secretary of U. S, Embassy at _ Rome Said to Have Abused Diplomatic Privileges, ROME, Sept. 13.—Post Wheeler of New York, Firet Secretary of the United States Embassy here, wae te- Department to explain charges On file against him there. Wheeler mako statements, For several weeks a rumor has been current in Rome than an American whose name is withheld, made @ eem- plaint to the Department at Washington, accusing Wheeler of abue- ing his displematic priviteges in the matter of receiving imports duty free. ‘The Italna! government allows diplo- mate ond diplomatic attaches to re- ecive goede from other countries with- out paying cay duty, and the vague re- Dorte here are to the effect that Wheeler @ accused of taking advantage of their courtesy to make a profit for himself, turning it to commercial advantage. ‘Mr. Wheeler is the husband of Hallie Erminie Rives, the writer, and has been in the diplomatic service for five years, WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—State De Dartment officials admitted to-day that charges againnt Post Wheeler, Secretary of the American Embassy at Rome, had been lodged by an American, whose name ie withheld. Secretary of te Bryan refused to discuss the mati but It was understood®tnat the charg: had to do with alleged abuse of the customs courtesies accorded diplomats. Because of the fact that the department {a not certain, that the accusations may be merely the result of animus it Is proceeding slowly in the matter. I$ CHARGED WITH THEFT Said to Have Stolen Diamond Ring From Her Employer. Miss May P. Dunning, twenty-nine years old, living at No. 94 West Twenty-third street, for several years vookkeeper and manager for Mme. Rose Lill, @ cosetiore at No. 16 Weet Ferty- fifth atreet, who has also a manufactory at Providence, R I, was to-day ar- raigned before Magistrate Sehuls on & charwe of grand larceny, The young woman was charged with stealing o diamond ring valued at $90 from her employer. The young roman had nothing te say. ted that on July 23 she had given her diamond ring to Mise Dunning to put it Ip the safe, Mme. Lill! apende most of her time in Prov- idence, It was not until Sept. § that Mme. Lilli thought again of her @ta- mendes. When she opened the safe the ring was not there. She diecharged Miss Dunning on the spot, she says, telling ‘ner that If she could find the ring ahe would reinstate her. In sweeping out the factory, Madame Li says, there was found a pawn ticket for the ring, made out in the of Miss Donovan. Detective Ditoh sent for Miss Dunning and told the Court that the Bookkeeper e@on- feaned that she had taken the ring. He added that Mme. Lill! had given the young woma: an opportunity to make restitution, but ehe had failed to do eo, The former bookkeeper was held in 1,500 ball. ——_ SUFFRAGETTES BURN RAILROAD STATION LONDON, Sept. 18.—Milltant suffrag- @ttes burned the Kenton rallway station to-day, causing a loss of $5,000. The fire was blamed on the suffragettes because of these placards pasted about the bulid- ing: “Premier Asquith te responsible for militancy. Apply to him for damages” Closing hours during September: 5 P. M. daily; 12 o'clock noon on Saturdays. 1 ' B. Altman & Cn.’ eummoned to Washington by the . a a, That gave) manufacturing business and offered me $4,500 a year to work for him, | It looked good to me and I accepted, There I made a business mistake, 1 thiok, “Things went along well for a time ané 1 went to camp with my regiment in June. When I returned a friend told me my manufacturers were bankrupt, I was stunned. They owed me $650 back salary and I didn't recover a penny of it, “I went with another firm immediately and remained with them until I gave up business to devote myself to politics,” Again speaking of his plans as Mayor, the new executive sald: “The short period I will be Mayor of New York will not afford me “My ambition then was to be a travelling salesman. The blg money’ any opportunity to do much with so great a city. No man could, they got attracted to me. I got a raise without asking for it at the end of each e!x months for two years, :.nd then, at the end of the next six months, the raise didn’t come. Times were hard and business and profits poor, | “Max-| was told, But my people said they would give me one day @ week off and until they are actually confronting ua. 10 per cent. commission on all I could sell in little Jersey towns, added about $600 a year to my income, and I felt 1 was a made man, wes also getting $15 a week. “Im November, 1886, I was married, and the next month the firm I sponsibility which must be i> | wae with wont out of business, easily Got © Job as city ealeewan for “he retegme which Mayor Gaynor instituted.” “I belleve Mayor Gaynor did @ great and wonderful work, and that this will become more apparent as the months pass, Conditions which may arise cannot be met, nor can means of handling them be devised My hope, ambition and endeavor That will be to meet everything as it should be met and to solve every problem | 1) rightly and to the best interest of the greatest number of our inhabitants, | “I appreciate the great honor that has come to me and the great re- jumed, and I expect tc carry into completion Commencing Monday, Sept. 18th, will dise play in the Dressmaking Department on the Seventh Flvor, New Autumn Models of Silk Afternoon and Evening Gowns, from which orders will be taken for Gowns made to measure . at $57.00 and 67.00 (THIRTY-FIFTH STREET ELEVATORS.) ”