The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1913, Page 1

' eR EATON OTOL ee St ee oo — LT RT HOEY ROTATE, SURVIVORS TELL HO Ww WIRELESS SAVED THEM WEATHER—Hain to-night and probably Thursday. FIN Che EDITION. __. | “Lirculation Books Open to Al ‘sal P R I c E 0 NE CEN T. od ‘RES Tree Eve WRATHRAR—RK im to-night a: FI EDITION. probably Tharsday. i“ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | 1913. 18 PAGES. io PRICE “ONE OENT. ras Ra os ny Bag BARBER ASPHALT CASH roe 4-75 nT Sobiitenetnmneraanrcereereas i HELPED PAY MM’GUIRE'S BROUGHT SHIP 287 MILES | 62500 SULZER GFT ———_ Whitman Wringsan Admission From Faint Signal for Help Reached Pan- nonia and Cunarder Raced Through the Syracuse Man That He Lobbied With Governor and Head of Storm as She Directed Course | Highways Department. of the Burning Vessel ADMITS SELLING OIL ¢ \ FOR THE STATE ROADS ‘Witness Shows Great Nervousness on the Stand and Makes Evasive Answers to Many Questions. George H. McGuire decided to-day to retract all the testimony he” 'Thas previously given before Chief Magistrate McAdoo in the John Doe proceedings in reference to the political sandbagging of contractors en-. ‘ gaged in State work and to admit that he did give their names to John A. Hennessy in the Utica Hotel at Utica on Aug. 12 last. In his éarly testimony McGuire had said that such names as he had heard mentioned as of those who had made campaign contributions had been given to him by Hennessy himself. = The Cunarder Pannonia brought into port to-day 103 persons res- ued last Friday in midocean from the burning Spanish steamship Balmes, | ound from Havena to Cadiz. The rescued passengers were all in good ‘health and spirits, none of them being disposed to object to an extra trip| to New York ind a voyage to their destination in a much larger and | “finer ship than they had boarded at Havana and deserted at sea. | By direction of the smmigration authorities the 103 Balmes survi- | vors were taken to Ellis Island. They’will be kept there until Saturday, when the Pannonia starts back for Mediteranean ports. En route she will make a stop at Cadiz and land the Balmes passengers. The Balmes | is beached in the harbor at St. George, Bermuda, with her brave captain and crew of fifty-eight men aboard. Purser John H. Williams of the Pen- Nonia, who kept a record of everything COfitigeted with the rescue of the pas- Bengers of the Balmes, told a connected . story of the event. An in the case of the Votturno, wireless played the all- important part in the drama of the sea. The Pannonia, heading for New York, was in heavy weather at 1.15 o'clock on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 13. She had 1,694 engera aboard, mostly tn the st t WIRELESS GETS FIRST MESSAGE FINDS 31,00 000 pie OF DISTRESS. The wireless operator ed up a | int message of distress. He listened In- | tly and found that the call came from the Balmes, which wae 27 miles | Wealthy aad. Woman and south, With his more powerful ap- ie . : Montclair Police Get Admis- i | | Since McQuire collapsed in the wity FIGHT FIRE 1N HOSPITAL |ocrscrrz mn «not say WITHOUT GIVING ALARM|2"27 crcerne se cusrtuton a famous “M." telegram t@John A. Hen- APTAIN JUAN Org. paratus the Pannonia operator nalled the Balmes that the call and at 3 o'clock. Part V. of General rowded, one of the apec- in her forward hold. Robert Ca ceases titude | i and his hands fluttered nervously @ cargo of 20 casks of rum, Capt. | Former Detective Makes Un-) rote, nett oait it need should aria, “If Rachel hadn't taken It who had?” tatorn being Martin W, Lattleton, been heard and asked for more par- sions From Scared Girl. The Philant#ffopic’s Patients Reas- ‘\the Papnonia, after getting the has a fine home at No. 63 Brookfeld avd longitude of the Balmes headed hi | road, Montclair, N. J, missed a dia- A Lg ship due south into the teeth of @ | O04 ring worth 81,000 last Friday and gale. . a and rage in the batnroom in the! tenry A. Wine, f u Although repeated signals were sent | Westioned t arrold Rachel. An- Ni Been ercag thin, floor. whip, aftsragon | Disttlewatioratt, aan’ temniten cate Sersony: whom abe employed es nurse gir! and instantly notified the twenty-four | ae}, sald that McGuire had a bad ni patients, mon and women, with assur-|iat night, but was eager to take ked the F ke all | ie Grenber Rulz asked the Pannonia to make al be w a : ; ictricte | the others, with Dra. Grenberger, Vo Ral later aaa we e FUNE! sworn Statement to District | fy ina ‘Lobsena, wot fire exUnguish: |tornoy tor Everett Fowler, who has The Balmes was drifting eastward | Hache bad RAL AUTO SPED Attorney of Money He Passed. | *s, um, fount, the blaze been Indicted for extortion. Uculars, ’ ‘ é 4 . SHOWS NERVOUSNESS AS HE ‘The message in reply was disconnect- SRE : & “G0: BETWEEN’ ¥S sured and Firemen Were Not TAKES THE STAND. sa Dut sufticient to indicate that the | seg Leonard R. Gracy, wife of a eke mendronn? Called Out. ue ia ocaleedecr Mp ciel a eel ” it hi furth out from the Pannonia nothing further for two young children, about it, The ances that wes no danger. end of his testimony about two or three knots an hour. In child to deny it. She might just 32 MILES AN HOUR Policeman Kenny of the Lenox avenue| Mr. Whiynan asked the witness first Baimes had a bad fire in w cotton cargo room he maid he felt much better than was heard from the Balmes until 2 iH ‘Then, while some of tha nurses pre- “ Ki b s ” ; eep Above Five Cents” Is Monop- the face of the heavy southerly gale} admit It at once and be done with P Pp station saw smoke coming from the| about @ Wip to Cooperstown on July & per of | Wealthy business man of thie city, who Nurses in the Philanthropic Hospital! whon he was last on the stand. But a five-atory bullding at One Hundred | he looked far from well. The tines and Twenty-olghth atret and Fifth ave |wery deep in ble sharp-fomtuced face. nue, discovered @fre aniong some van- Grelock Thursday afternoon. Capt. Ruig | ttle girl at once denied all knowledge of tie Balmes reported that the fire | the ring. al was burning flercely and that in the| “I didn’t take it. Honestly I didn't pared stretchers for patients who vid Above the burning cotton he had | take It," cried the child, but the wom- an peraisted. Capt. Capper could not get more than 10 », “ A sary en hour out of the Pannonia, el-| “But truly, Mrs, Gracy, I didn't take oly 's Code Here— Keep Below Five = vathrooin window and ran in, Ho | last. In spite of questioning Mr, Whit- It was announced at the District-At-| helped fight the fire when the doctors | man did not elicit the fact that McGuire bbed the little girl, : , though he had double watches in the | Your ae! 7 s' ” » : : | “avelad t* Miata soap | terney's office this afternoon that Allioid him they didn’t want to send in] had talked with any one there about ttoke held and engine room. Cupt. Cap-|Deniais were unsiees, hoxever, stra! Cents” People’s Cry in Chicago, |! “arried the Flowers and Driver|iinen, turmeriy a police detective, now [on" glarm tor feat of dinturbing the |*9Y Of the Wp-Btate contractors, Me- per asked Capt. Ruiz to head his ship |Gracy persisted with « calmness that ' Was Anxious to Beat the engaged in running w private detective |. i ‘s work |Guire said he had one hundred shares due north and push his engines to the | terrified the chiki, until at last, on Mon- Bee eR agency, had made statement in wht ‘i of stock ib the Barber Asphalt Com- @ capt. Rulx replied that hie|day, in a very paroxyain of weeping, | | Hearse No one knows how the blase started, | pany, which he bought on margin in ma and engine room were full of | Rachel confessed . | ONE FIVE-CENT RATE FOR ALL NEW YORK CITY. ‘ " Bhee, Ton Brown | 1g did about #00 damage. She open mareat ‘tauren Ave: Months @ but that his men below decks gk it and 1 Lohans tee eet ABOLISH THE TELEPHONE TOLL GATES BETWEEN BOROUGHS, |) CPT*t8P Prickey was arraigned before {and others wi “ pollee officers oo ano. were working loyally. , what wil | | Magistrate Leach in the Long tatand|af collecting their share of the profits MAYOR “KLINE 1S ILL. ASKED ABOUT HIS TALKS WITH BURNING! veeesL, CUTS DOWN | PepemeleE mer sam ci ele rarer ee serermennrrrr™ sity Halidh Guutl lovlay chanted en © "wire tapping’ swindle, SULZER. fi t . ce ‘ % lo statement was not made under fo Post-| “Did you ever talk to Gov, Sulser ‘ ce Oe [running a funeral automobile e The Pannania reached the aimee ot tory. in be ay Hed in the alae CHICAGO FIXES FIVE-CENT TELEPHONE RATES; eras te eer a Mei a : ce Ps coghy ul wus taken down by «ate 2 about the Barber Asphalt Company 1.9 o'clock Thureday « » the . . ‘ é of th o miles an hour, The|nographer tn the presence of the Din- @ince you held stock in It? A. 1 t fan veanel by heading north having| Reilly questioned the child over and NEW YORK’S TEN-CENT RATES FORCED ON HER] court suspentos aonte ter Frickey|trit-Attorney and member of hie] Mayor Kline in confined to hin home in|gwoar that I didn't. I've hed #o many meterially cut down the distance that one lg rye royal explatned that his motor way carrying | Sta Brooklyn with an See ae Le ae conversations with the Governor I -— e "ma, C | New York telephone rates are made by the | the floras plecem to Calvary. ¢ Cohen, it tx said, implicated a former| did not come to the City Mai! to-day,| remember what I h (Comtinued on Becond Page.) length. “There wasn't any little Italian In New Ye Melep Saf y the telephone company Mey WACwaBlAUHINUE (a al Th inne CLD ptain. Prior tu hin retirement | although Secretary Adamson expects! Thy witness admitted that he might \ piveinamie eS on Tat diem panilies horsidaaescen |] and the people forced to accept. lbezora\thelatrivell oecene Sacks: reve Police Department in Feb- | him teroernen: He wes to have a have told the Governor thet certain i at the hicago telephone rates have bi ade by ss Hane’ z Wit, Cohen said he frequently | tended the Horse Show last night, bUt] grecitcations had been adopted SKIRT OVER GAS JET sonteamsmt, declared she Kad never seen | dn) Cileegy. seep ae ea been made by the people and Brichay. was seen whirting out Queene 1 money from members of the unable to do so, The Republican | that be might have sald the occa i ~~ ring, = (fet mane her story || the company forced to accept. eulerasy By Mare Cop Harry | f wank of wiretap Club tw have given the Mayor 4] Wong should be enforced. and said t it, he was so) sew York rates are on a basis of eight cents 5 i" Sherry. He was driving the front mo-|it tw the pe dinner at the clubhouse in Weat For- Your broth: CAUSES GIRL 8 DEATH terrified that apparently ehe sald any- New ¥ ent cents per message, with Il 10, of several which made up ihe tinc|its the department he acted anf Vieth atrect to-night, but It hae been |oe turin ie tee meee ee omens thing to appease her inquisitore, 80 | zone toll gates. of stock in the Barber Asphalt Com- feral procession, Nine of the cara could | between On several occasions. ii next Wednesday night. | pany, does he not? A. A amall amount they took her before Recorder Henry Chi t i i 5 i | " meee a f . amepal, “Wel, a icago rates are on a basis of five cents per message, with no |) be said te have been moving slowly, | (ne of these tines, Cohen saya, was 1 think; perhaps @ Mttle larger amount Weight of Garment Turned Gas On A ae lay and che was looked up ills Be, | rickey was some distance In the vag [ih Octs 1912, when the gang had made! Cohen, the ang agreed to send the| than I own. While Miss Saxe Was Mra, Gracy was firm in her determina- zone tons. Sherry allowed him-ta proceed to thw | [Maret Prenat a arene Rallon 36 pee oink ae pen Ary toa Wp itman Lavevigs Desteire per tion to prosecute the girl, her indigna- SPE emotery, anit then brought the chat-|osickey" Shea hnd ‘Tom Brown had ‘oh 6 000, | call any conversations he may have had Asleep. tion being extreme at what she conaid- It 1s easy to see at a glance New York 1s being milked by the telepione | renr to courthouse. He liven at at Nene ie he MIKa peakpctin the ce een ‘ou te Ree padee Meier kant: ie’ Ares Miss Agnes Saxe, sixteen years old, | cred the ingratitude of the girl. company in its contract rates and toll gate extortions when comparison tg| $74 One Hundred and Fortletn|end for the gang, according to Cuhen, |e ae 4 ‘as. pe) ney nly 4," ald MeGuire, “that ain specifications for @ not being enforced with several subpoenas to appear be-|—the sales agent of the Barber Com- fore the Grand Jury and had a hard | pany probably told me that in Albany, finding out what they were about. | 11 admit having tld that to the Gov- ned. he said, that “Payer Col | ernor, although I don't remember tell- , By CM AedMae ing him. I think I told the Governor that asphalt was deing bought which payment 9 a penes bal nae lah did not come up to specifications.” eat im, Cohen, ecoording to his 7 matement to the. DiateiccAttorney, | Didn't you tell the Governor that to “trim” Jones! called up the Police Captain, who | te Barber Asphalt Company waa the only one prosusiag the quality of as Was accidentally killed by gas in her| “After all I've done for hor, to steai| made with other cities. ret, ant ts employed by one of tne | but the Gondorfe thongit the Jones] gwipating there wore room at No. 361 Bridge street, Brooklyn, bi pas) ie @ shame,” was Mre, The nearest city to New York 1n population and in telephone develop. | directors of tnotor funerals Job was too big for them to handle, Teevently, Conen says, he was served |asphalt which early to-day, ‘The girl worked by day in | Gracy’s opinion, and she did not hesitate! one ig Chicago, Service there ts rendered by the Chicago Telephone Com: Seen iemeneaed They went for Cohen to exprese It, but last night she became 1 with the Balch Price mililnery establishment i 1 d and controlled b i Injury Fat wan entrusted with ngely silent on the eubjec: any, Which {s owned an intro! y the American Telephone 4 al. a on Fulton street und attended the ely n the subject of the| Dany, Pp! and Tele. 'D, Nov. 19.—Morty Marx ming the “right inesa College in the evening, thin morning she telephoned to| graph Company, Just the same as ts the New York Telephone Company. ten yours old, dled here to-day of (a |teman from Pitteburgh was lyst night whe hung her Both cities have the same kind of telephone equipment, the same system juries recelved in @ football game ie bo separated from 4 larke sum of bracket of the gas fx she contessed.| of operation, slmilar submarine cables under rivers, the same kind of| Friday. Playing with an amateur t money: You, 1t wae just where I put it myself |] Cohen saya he asked the Captain tf tt y that after she turned out | jagt Friday ang I had forgot tt" underground conduits in streets—in fact, all conditions are similar exce; he plunged head fire, against a tele. aps psa the light the welght of the wire opened nd wotten It, pt would be all right, from a police stand- her notified Recorder Yost and| ing only the rates charged, . phone pole. putnt, for the «i a n a . \ithe Jet again, She was found dead at | stops were taken at once to release the! The people of Chicagn tonk the tele: |and studied by experts They passed and Was told to «: y ead, Jones wae] pro i % golock | (ds moriing by her older) girl, Moantime she had spent @ fright-| phone rate question tn hand several , Ant swindled out $20.00) and separa |e agi pe A phalt that came to specification re- brother, Paul. ' shed night ig the douse of Detention, ‘years ago, They had 1; investigated) (Contausd op Laas Pager Soil wissen Mapracensiy vnauapisivus. Ascot 9 FOR RACING OBE BAGE 1% = quuemeni? Ad dea's ink 1 a 8 Mer Meera nA panies mie lle die lean asta IICN AAR nnae ema itn dala ha Ne ie: leas cabin efacacletomens Pr eer a ett Se a Te cs ee ee yi d t j ‘ : ‘ . : genre nn reorient ngcnte nae spammer remanent a apnea anerrorten St j