The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1913, Page 1

wy ies — - ~ ane oe ity Deluged by Rain, Subway Tied Up, Streets F looded w —i i" iri EDITION. hts The teschl fair. i i Circulation Books Open lw nN” ~ PRICE “ONE CENT. —— 1038, by The Pree ‘Pebitehing Co. (The ew York World). NEW YORK, WEDNESD a { Circulation Books Open to All. | | AY, OCTOBER 1, 19138. 18 PAGES WEATHER—Raie to-night; Thureday tatr. INA EDITION. PRICE ONE OENT. FLOOD S10 BIG RUSH H UNABLE TO GET HOME “No Train” PS SUBWAY: OUR CROWD Signs Put Up in All Stations at 4.15—L’ Out of Bus- iness Downtown and Surface Cars Blocked. At a time when the demand subway went out of commission this afternoon. upon its resources was greatest the Signs were posted in all stations at 4.15 o'clock stating that the operation of trains was tem- porarily suspended. Ticket offices that could he moved were turned ov nearest. The tie up of the subway was caused by flooding of the tube at Morty-sixth street and Broadway, The water flowed down inte Times Square nd along down toward the Grand Central station covering the third rail, For a time trains were operated by the expedient of switching at Ninety-sixth Grand Central, but the water gainéd too fast for the pumps. As a matter of fact the sewora were 80 Moooed that) the water pumped out of the subway ran right back In again GREATEST CONGESTION IN HIS- TORY OF SUBWAY. Phe utter collapse of the subwa brought about the greatest congestion that the downtown office and manufac- turing districts have over The shut down of service occurred at a time when the Sixth avenue “L" line was crippled by an undermining of the pillars at Trinity place and Thay street and when surface transportation linen were running at about half .ca- pacity. The Interborough management stated that every train that could be moved would be put on the “L” lines and surface lines Would be equipped extra care that could be manned, No time was sett for the resumption of train service in the aub- way, although {t was sald the flood was receding north of Forty-second street at 5 o'clock. The rain fell Staten Island with tn the force and in the volume of a cloud-/) burst. By 4 o'clock it had washed out the temporary trestle of the Siaten Island Rapid Transit Railroad arount a culvert at Crooks Crossing. Great Kills and caused a stoppage of trains Attempts were made to pate! " up this trestle, but at length all efforts te resume vice was abandoned, As @ result between 5,000 and 6,000 eemmuters to the south shore of the island found it imposstble to get home late thia afternoon and meat of them|/ telepiuned home that thay were mak- {ng arrangements to sty in town. Great Kills and Tottenville, the big- Gest towns on the south shore, w out off from the rest of the world since no trolley lines, the only system operation, passed within several milen| of the towns, Five inches of rain had been precipl- tated on New York tn the course of the @ay and the Weather Hureau reports indicated that the downpour will con- tinue to-night The storm approached the proportions of a cloudourst at 3. ck this after- noon, when a black squall came out of the southeast and the sky was blank- @ted with black, wickeddooking clouds. ‘The darkness of night spread over the elty and in the downtown section sky- scrapers became towers of glimmering lights in the prevailing gloom. The squall was attended by @ de: scent of water in sheets, Then auc- ceeded @ clearing of the skies for a time, but the rain continued, though not in such volume. BROOKLYN TRAFFIC BLOCKED BY FLOODS IN STREETS, The subway Was in good shapo for caring for a record crowd at the be- ginning of the evening rush, and the east and west side “L" Ines were pre- pared to handle a great overflow of trame. Surface ines in Manhattan were itn fair shape, but Brooklyn was per cent. crippled In respect of transporta- tlon, (Great areas of the borough were under water, miles of surface tracks and, to add to the con+ problef, the Brygh- Beuch cul wae Hooded aud grafic ty treet and | e@perienced. | in! were closed and passengers on trains it at whatever station happened to be was suspended on that important line below Newkirk avenue. The excavations for the new subway Iwere generaliy flooded. Down in Trin- jity place the pillars of were undermined, By direction of the Publlo Service Commission the Sixth a no trains below Cortlandt street | South Ferry. ; In the factory district tn mid-Man- hattan, between Grand street and Four- }teenth street, water backed up from | the sewers through the dlacharge pipes {into engine and boiler rooms, flooding tho fires and halting the machinery in hundreds of buildings. Police Head- quarters was flooded—in fact, every building In that vicinity was reported jas holding from two to five feet of water in the cellars. BROOKLYN LOOP OF L. |. ROAD 19 BLOCKED, Late this afternoon the Loug Island ivoad Company sent to The Evening World a notification that because of the flood the line between the Atlantic avenue station In Brooklyn and Jamaica was out of business. However, the ; Pennsylvania terminal was unharmed, jand the railroad company officials stated that extra trains would be put on to handle tratile from that station to Ja- lea, Those who live along the jine j between the Atlantic avente station and \Jamatca were advised to get home by trolley or any other conveyance. Half a dozen sections of the eastern district of Rrooklyn were covered with water th . the depth of th flood varying from three to six feet. Many chikiren had narrow escapes from drowning on thelr way home from school. In some sections police cap- ‘taine sent out the reserves to hel children through flooded places. The remarkable electrical rainstorm {that began this morning and is sched- uled by the Weather Bureau tg con- tinue throughout the night could not {have happened upon a day more calcu | lated to cause misery and chaos In New | York City. This 1s the final moving day of the year, since lantords unani- |mously agreed to begin and terminate leases on Oct. 1, and the moving van men, overworked already by the rus!) of busin in the last week of Sep. tember, completely collapsed under the stress of the weather. ‘housands of householders who had planned to move to-day found them: selves unable to vacate thelr apart ments because of the non-arrival of the vans. The law provides that a ten- (Continued on Second Page.) BASEBALL GAMES — AMERICAN LEAGUE, AT WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA— oo000000 WASHINGTON- o000000 Batterles—Bohen and McAvoy; Bent- ley and Ainsmith. AT DETROIT, at Thames gtreet she shoring at One die of the cut gave way and th avenue “L" line yp | Rich Student Who Owns Auto In Which Girl Was Stabbed t OELRICHS WOOS ANS MNOMRw Sep GIRL STABBED TEN TIMES IN YOUNG OELRICHSS AUTO! Broadway Joy Ride Ends in Crash | Into Tree When Suitor in Stu- dent’s Motor Car Attacks Young Woman PE8G-9-9-94-9TO2I4-99-95-2999-FF F9-6900-06 Cea | TACOMA, Wash,, Qet. 1.--D. M Cleghorn, former was indignant to-day when told that his name had been connection with the aveident to Miss Lucille Singleton in bight. He did not return to Columbia this vear, NewYork man is masquerading New York last and he believes thut some a we tawny | beautiful anybody. Why |sitle. Claghorn wouldn't harm fet alone a girl. @ mimake. Is an wax cut by No, I don't know Miss Luc young girl with Is prostrated at her home, No fi) West One Humtred and Fiftecnth street, as the result of an a SI Singlore A mass while: says their automobile ride to a her enga on says she al tons + the aceldent in which he was with having had a part was tople of conversation at her +8 NOt might keep an home. Miss know Hermann (Ve) na ton A doze, Valentine Hush, manager of the Me | i day, Half a dozen tratt-Cadiiiac Motor Car Compa at sald they were friends of Oele No, 181) Broadway, who happened on | alled at Chmotth Brothers’ gare dway, ths morning | the ear was fF nanied Survey r a fow minutes a tree at Broad Pwentle!h the wreck of the © after it had run in and One Hun way i nur Nanied 84 street. when ite ¢ st cantre phase tient ees wiggle witht istedtly of the machine in bis strugs Aieguntel Miss Singleton, ways that a youth wit! Ht'e wll that girl's faut. ae sheta face ant hands badly cut fom they sent her mouth shut Hermann wound shattered windshield came up ty him [Neved have te Ned up in this Bu and said have struck th story that Cra ‘tm Hermann Oelrichs T an n was With Te tnday bene ths car Thal a itt ident and | wish | ihe police 4 1 he Whe pola you'd look after the mute | or ey neared her go that she T've onlered tt sent to a gaya jtold her real wah and gave’ way on moa Broadway for the night, but 1] Hermann 1's a shame wish you'd send for it ln the moruing | A and take it to your shops ‘ “Mightn't any one have represeuted himeeif to you as Hermann Oelrichs jr. Mr, Hush was asked to-day SAYS THEY ALL KNOW YOUNG OELRICHS WELL. “Not on your life,” answered the man- ager assuredly. ‘Wo all know young n this shop." wrding to Sarver, however, young richs hinwelf made no attempt Iast Aigit to conceal his ident After the acoldent he went to the Cimiott! garage, where ho keeps se\eral cars, and asked them to “His face and hands were cut and he admitted ‘he'd been in an aceldent," “but he didn't have muen We got the car for him. It was a new one and I guess he got st aid Sarve But at St ut Hall, No 44) yesterday, It had not even been washed, Riverside Drive, the fraternity house of | g never put It up here before. Delta Psi, of which youns Oolrichs is al sjtow did” the happen?’ denied this| part in young anember, the morning that he had had the escapade of night, Young Oclrichs refused to see a porter for The Evening World at tae! “frat? house, but he consented to talk over the telephous. “LT loaned my car to Claghorn last Sarver was asked. nile fan't you gues: GaUeneRty. SENDS OUT DE TECTIVES TO INVESTIGATE. Deputy Police Consmissioner Dougherty sent out several detectives from Police He grinned and re- any re. night,” said Oeirichs; "D. M. Claghorn,| Headquarters as soon as he learned CLEVELAND— @ sophomore in the School of Mines and/this morning of the charge made by 100 a fraternity brother, 1 don't know what! Mise Singleton. Until she gave her ver- ‘ he did with it. Thaven't seen him since| sion of the affair It had seemed like a DETROIT— he drove away early last evening L]simple accident which entailed no in- 000 —_ didn't know anything about an accident) vestigation by the po! Batteries—Gregy and O'Neil); Com-|uatil I heard of !t this morning, but it's| Misa Singleton is under the care of stock apd Hidicujous 40 aay that Claghorn stabbed | dra, Sasnecine Leaping eer aon Ahern.» > eg? amg wit) Sernigpins card ‘ ee ee SE. SE OS Ee Colundia student, | mnentioned to} * ming et never heard of her was nade on her last night in ANB | vefore Hidermann Oelrichs's antomon: By Ciag Ss MUpArently re has ata wounds in tah + q Whose nine the} breast, neck and site * ” Poor oy . 1 frow Miss Siagleton Miss Singleton saya sie stabbed te he Craighorn. by 1 Craighorn.” it ior at Co. | STUDENTS BLAMED IT ALL ON lumpia: College, whe anely | cue GIRL, enlous when she asked hin to bring | : ; Kea ose that she |, Despite young Oelrichs's denials, LIMIT FINE FOR FARTORY MEN WHO ~ LOCK IN WORKERS \Emanuel Rubin and. Nathan Levy Sentenced to Pay $50 Each for Imperilling Lives. 1 JAIL WAS NOT POSSIBLE. Justices Could Not Send Of- fenders to Prison, as They Paid Fines. | The maximum penalty provided by the law for the punishment of factory | owners who look their doors and imperil | the lives of their workers was imposed on two men by Justices Collins, MeIn- erney and O'Keefe in Special Sessions to-day. source of regret to this court,’ Collin said tram the hench after had been impused, “that it Je not able to punish eueh an offense as this more heavily. Ae the law now ends the magipum fine is $0, which been !mposed. If the fine is paid a court is unable to imposs a prison wentence, The man who protects his Stock at the risk of oauwing the gf and men who work for him to mi their death in fire and panic deserves tore than a small money fine. I hope ature will ae goon ns pouridle | remedy this defect tn the law” The action of the Court w traat to that of the attitude of J |tices Russell, Herrman and Kernochan lon the conviction of @ similar offence last week of Maz Hlanck, one of the owners of the Triangle far more than 150 girls lust their lives | during a fire. Justice Runaell spoke deprecatingly ck's offense, as though It were ly technical, nufacturer had tried to obey tho » ng World led tn the storm of indignation with which th H@ht penalty was greeted and eatab- lished @ bureau to receive complaints from factory kere regarding dan- eros working conditions, Inspector Frank Kenaston of the Fire Prevention Bureau was the complaining | win both cases today. He ar- j ral ed ya nuel f the Crown Pad and ingle Dress Company, which occupies & loft on the Mfth Nour of No. {Ls Spring Mireet, Kenaston said that when he visited the place, Sept. & he |found the door ai the foot of a Might of} fairs leading from the Afth Moor to th fourth barred Jt was sonie tia before, by pounding, he waa able to gat anybody to open the do Alacovered that ened by an tron | bar acrons its whole width There were sixty persona, must of them young girls, at work in the fac- tory, An alarm of fire, the inspector nald, would have caused them to pile| lup In front of tho door at the foot of jthe staire without a chance of pe. Rubin pleaded gulity and the Justices told him they regretted they were not |able to send him to jail, i { ; Nathan Levy of Levy Brothers, slothing manufacturers at No. 570 Grand atreat, met with the same treatment, Kenanton testified that on Sept 13 ne | heard maci!nes humining tn the fourth | floor tofty occupied by the firm. Me tried both . wore and found them locked and attempted to enter by the fire of yes, The doors opening on the fire capes were alav fastened. he shouted through # window a threat to call a hook and ladder company to help him get in was he admitted, There were eight women at work at the machines, A Labor Bureau placan ‘on the wall showed that the factory was Neensed to run every day in the week except Saturday, the day on which the inepector ma hia vinit. He tontified door was locked with ‘police bow lock," another door was fas- tened with a padlock and the fire escape doors were fastened by ondinary door locks who will allow no one to ene keeper, the girl, Her wounds were dressed last night at the Knickerbocker Hospital, and thougn they are many the doctors say each 1s superfictal and Miss Single ecovery la ansured fore the sirl left the hospital in the care of friends about 2 o'clock thie morning the police had one opportu. nity to question her, and they learned then this vernion of the affair Miss Bing! years old, tall and slender, with a won- ; any ap Pose. ' in con- ory, In whieh | sald he thought the! Only after, ton, who is only nineteen: ed MILITARY OFFICER WHO TOOK UP STOCK BOUGHT FOR SULZER. |RAIN HALTS LOCAL BASEBALL GAMES. and Boston Red Sox rom playing @ double- h i to-day at the Polo Grounds on account of rain, The Brooklyn-Philafel- phia game was'also poatponed. — ‘OSBORNE AT WORK AS “CONVICT TOM BROWN” " NOTKNOWNBY FRIENDS | Loses Identity in Prison Garb) and Visitors Unable to Pick Him Out of Crowd. iNpeciat to The Rrening World), N. ¥., Oct. 1~Thonma M. 8 Tom Brown," volunteer -duy put in under the inatruc- ton of a convict Ttallan bors, who Jeaught him how to weave nites into the basket buttome made yestarday by the same man. | ‘Tne waverings from routine that were indicated yesterday when It was aaid the new man had “looked pack” in the ain- tng room awainst the rules and later) had gut out of line were not based upon deliberate infraction and at the prison 1t | waa stated that no reprimands were ad- | ministered to the newcomer. m Hown's physical condition to- | any tp excellent and he ts standing the grind well. His presence inside is now unnoticed and he has Mt himself into the administration lke any tractable convict. A number of vinitors who |know the Auburn inan intimately went | through the prison to-day and falled to recognize hin although at one time the party passed within five feet of where |he was working. A requert of @ moving picture concern |for permisakm to take moving pictures of the experiment was turned down by Warden Rattigan, aa wi other requests for photogra; the prison. This tsa rigid rule that long? been in force, | The student convict had asked that no |photographe be taken of him in the | inatitution: | — WON LAKE STEAMER RACE. jullivam Led Three Vessels to Duluth, DULUTH, Minn, Oct. 1.—When tho steamer J. J. Sullivan arrived to-day it won @ four-cornered race and smashed all former reoorde for the trip up here |made by ore carriers, Three ships--the Matthew Andrews of the Steinvrenner t, the Roberts Jr. and the Richard | Oni Jeonvict In Auburn F nolid time working Lorain, Q., together and wore joined at | Detroit by the J. J. Sullivan, which had left Lorain two and a half hours after the others. The Sullivan's time was forty-seven hours from Dasrott to | to Puluth WILL SKIP ‘QUEENSTOWN, Olympte Net to Sta: Other White fi LONDON, Ost, 1 Line issued an vMcial notification to- “The White Star | borio IMPEACHMENT COURT BLOCKS SULZER MOVE TO DELAY THE TRIAL Herrick Asks Adjournment Until Monday After the Prosecution Rests, but the Case Must Go on To-Morrow. GOVERNOR CONFIDENT; WILL TAKE THE STAND Impeachers Wind UpTheirCase With an Effort to Connect Sulzer With Mysterious “Account 500.” By Sqmuel M. Williams. (Deaf Covrospentent of The Bveaing Werle.) ALBANY, N. Y., Oct, 1.—John B. Stanchfield of counsel for the Assembly Board of Managers in the impeachment trial of Gov. Sulzer brought the prosecution's case to a finish at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. “The managers resi,” he announced. . At once D-Cady Herrick, leading counsel for the defense, asked for adjournment of court until Monday. “We were informed inst night by counsel for the managers that they would conclude their case to-day,” sald Mr. Herrick. ‘We had supponed thelr side would last until to-morrow at least, ser, said Gulser's friends were hope ¢ sume motions to be made and an opening to be pre- pared wherein the respondent is entitled to ansistanc of all hin counsel. On ac- count of to-morrow's religious holiday Mr. Marshall will not be with us, ‘One of our asauciate counsel Ip an ax- havated man (meaning Mr. Hinman) and I am afraid ly break down un! We do not want to delay th Are as anxious to get through as any ‘These are very ta- it ems to me interest of all parties re quires @ recess until Mond The court went into executive session @ on the question. ‘The court refused to adjourn until Monday, but compromised on an ad- Journment unt!l to-morrow at 3 o'clock. Under the plan arranged the defense will start to-morrow afternoon on its varfous motions to dismiss certain ar- ticles of impeachment which, together with the opening address, will consume During the morning sesssion counsel for the prosecution attempted to trace the mysterious “account 600" carriea by brokerage firm of Fuller & Gray @- rectly to Sulzer, John Boyd Gray ef Fuller & Gray, stock brokers, took the witness stand for the most grilling em experi 3 z z = > 3 & = 3 Brackett, of the prosecue | Won, aucceed in forcing the reluctant | Mr. Gray to ay that Frederiok Colwell, in whose name the account was qarried, hed told him {¢ wma really for Sulzer. The force of thie testimony was some what weakened when Gray sald on crona-examtnation he did not of his own | knowledge know the account was Sw rs. This account existed only during Ooto- der and November, 1912 ft was @ pur- time until Friday adjournment. This Chase of 9) shares of “Big Four" and will let Gov, Sulzer start his own dex ¢ of one St. Louis and Southwestern fenne on the witness stand Monday. thousand-dollar bon All payments Were made (n carrency, Much secrecy surrouned the account. ‘The ordere were given in Yonkers branch office and deliveries made to Col- well by messenger in the lebby of the Neseau Bank in Brooklyn. The ostensi+ dle excuse was that ColweR had been o customer of another firm, Harris Fuller, an@ did not went his dealings with Fuller & Gray known. Gray had hired him nominally es confidential sec- retary for %0 per week, and he brough( in the Sulser business, At the eame time Sulser was dealing LAST WITNESS FOR STATE NOT HARMFUL TO SULZER. ‘The last witness for the prosecution was Col, Henry Barthman of Brooklyn, whose firm had sent a fifty dollar oheok to Candidate Sulzer with letter that it was for his campaign expeises, The defenss bowled this testimony over by cuiling attention to the fact that the Barthman oheck was in the Govemers sworn statement. Ae the prosecution closed Samuel Frankenstein, law partner of Gov. A Resounding Report It is not the purpose to decry the little fellows but to show by what a wide margin The World leads all competitors as az tdvertsing medium that these figures are printed: 1,192,816 txst nine MONTHS 607,679 More Than the Herald. 94,114 more than THE FIVE OTHER New York Moming and Sunday Newspapers ADDED TOGETHER. 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