The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1913, Page 1

2 DIE WHEN HOMELESS MAN BURNS HOTEL © Mexican Rebels Carry aor to Gates ‘ai Capital “BASAL WEHATHER—Gatr to-ntent and 7 ‘hwen jaye coole PRICE ONE Cc ENT. Copyright, rt 148, by J ee Publishiog NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ty 1913, "REBELS FIGHT FEDERALS GIRL THEF TELLS AT MEXICO CITY GATES, OFIERYLLAND OE “Wen Killed and Score Wound- Girl Who Stole From Hotel To Bea Bik 3 Roller”’ ODODOIOS: ed in Clash, When Rural Guards Are Ambushed. IN FEAR. ‘Americans and Others Prepar- ing Protection Against Re- volt in Capital. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8—A sharp \fight occurred to-day only @ few miles from Mexico City between & detatchment of rural guards, who were caught in ambush by a body of followers of Emiliano Zapata. The FOREIGNERS Tural guards returned the fire of the! after whigh the rebels are said to have fled | The casualtics of both’ rebels for twenty minutes, to the hills. parties numbered ten dead and twenty or thirty wounded. Preparations for defense in case of an attack against President Huerta or an attack by the rebels are being oon- tinued by the various foreign colonies, other than the American, in Mexico GUOGOTGODIOTHIOVGOOS City. ,The leaders of the American ¢ol- | inclined to believe that any that direction taken by them would be likely to be miscontrued by the Mexican Government.and it is un- eretood that in grder to avoid being regarded as organized combatants the Americans, in case of necessity, will take refuge beneath the protection of “the various European flags. HUERTA NEWSPAPER ATTACKS WILSON FOR MESSAGE. The message delivered by President Wileon to Congress at Wasaington yesterday is briefly outlined, but prominently displayed by all the Span- ish morning newspapers, The only paper printed in English, however, buried it on n ineide page. In com- Nmenting on the message, the Indepen- lente, which is controlled by the Gov- ernment, say “The man at the White House has dared to affirm against the truth uni- versally conceded that Provisional President Huerta 1s losing sympathy every day and that his fall is to be expected. It is hardly believable President Wilson would have the temer- ity to assert such a thing thereby giving testimony of his bad faith toward things Mexican.” The Imparcial says: “From a good source it ts known that some of the foreign ministers ace credited to Warhington criticise the miessago aeverel’, saying it would be possible to Kuarantee the re-estab- lishment of peace and good govern- ment in Mexico if Provisional Presl- tient Huerta, whose vigorous efforts at the pacification of the country are ell known, should leave the Presl- Fl Pais, the most inffependent of the Mexican nowspapera, says: “President Wilson's words are so in- jurious and depressing and at the same time the charges he makes against the Mexican President are #0 unjust that it ts preferable to pasa them by in silence in order not to awaken antl- American sentiment in Mexico." MERCADO'S ACTION BAD BLOW « TO HUERTA, Only vague impressions of the actual contents of the message were conveyed ‘yey the scraps published in the news- ut it seemed to be concluded generally that President Wilson Intended to keep his hands off and to leave Provisional President Huerta to the mercies of his enemies. To the Ad- ministration and it# adherents this course was said to-day to be highly acceptable and they declared that since the hope of recognition was gone ail they desired was to bo let alone while the fact that no recognition way @ corded to the rebels seemed to be a source of satisfaction and relief to them. ‘The news that Gen. Salvador Mercado, commander of the Federal forces tn Northern Mexico, had sent @ military peace commission from Chihuahua to Juarez to treat with the rebels, while eliciting a Vigorous denial in official reles here, is regarded as the most rious blow yet struck at Federal pre: uy ‘ traordinary methods continue to be resorted to in order to se recruits for the Federal army. rvant girle of the Federal capital display marked caution when they appear on the atreets, ‘as they are aware that scores of thelr fellow servants have been drafted into soldiers, phe army as WIFE AND MOTHER STAGESTRUCK BUT HUSBAND OBIECTS} Tells Court Mrs. Helbleub Neg- lects Home and Babe to Learn Cabaret Acting. Mrs. Charlotte Helbleub, twenty-two, blonde and pretty, wants to be a caba- ret @inger and dancer, and her hus- band, Philip, wants her to stay at her home, No. 1821 Bristow street, the Bronx, and take care of the baby. It looks as though Charlotte would be a cabaret actress and Philip would have to take care of the baby. Magistrate Levy did the best he could in West Farms Police Court to- day. Philip had asked the Court to issue an order or something to restrain his wife from becoming a cabaret en- ‘aine: make $17 a week as a dyer,” Philip explained, “and that's mighty good pay, Judge. I have been giving my wife about every cent of tt, and am living with my mother-in-law “Everyth ng went along fine until my mother-in-law wanted to take in @ boarder named Mrs, Shubert, who per- forms in a cabaret show. Ag@ soon ar Mrs, Shubert comes into the house she tells my wife she’ t Adele Ritchie backed off the boards for good looks and talent and the first thing I know my wife and my wife's mother are both stagestruck, “What does my wife do but draw $i out of the savings bank and go down on Twenty-third street and give it up to a school that teaches women to be cabaret actors, She goes down to that school at 9 o'clock in the morning and doesn’t come home until 9 o'clock at night, and neglects me and the baby. She has to give up $0 more to the school and | want an injunction or a writ or some- thing that will make her stay at home.” Magistrate Levy called Mrs, Helbleut to the stand, So far a# pulchritude goes fhe is equipped most generously “Dou you expect to be 4 second Mary Anderson?" asked the Court, “I don't know who Mary Anderson is, replied the ambitious young woman. “She never played in the Bronx.” you know that if you go on th: ge you will break up your home queried Magistrate Levy. “1 can't help it,” pouted Mrs, Hel- leaner and ‘MANN TALKS WAR OO® GOODODOD®ODOHOO® IN HOUSE IN’ ROW OVER ARMY BILL Declares if Present Situation Continues It Means a Clash With Mexico. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3A bill pro- viding for an increase of the United States Army in time of actual or threatened war was debated in the House Inte to-day and precipitated a discussion of the Mextcan altuation, Republican leader Mann sald e thought it was significant In view of the Mexican situation that Represen tative Hay saw fit to press his measure on the day following the delivery of President Wilson's address and insist that the House pass !t forthwith. “IT do not see any escape from chaos and anarchy in Mexico under the plan we are now pursuing,” said Mann. “If this situation continues much longer it means war.” Chairman Hay dented that the Mex!- can situation caused him to, pres# the bill, “War with Mexico 1s much fur- ther away than it was last August, and I do not believe there will be any war with Mexico,” he said. Representative Kahn of California, ranking Republican of the Military Com- mittee, declared: “I have no apprehension of trouble with Mexico, But I also belleve that with | To- have no right to Interfere rnai affairs of @ sister bleub, “I want to be an actress and I have made up my mind. My mother agrees with me. Iam working hard and | ! lke the work, and the head of the school tells me I will become « big per- former. So there is where the matter reste \n the Helbleub family, Tho wife and ier mother went away in one direction! ind Helbleub, deeply distressed at not wing able to get an injunction or a| vrit or something, went away in an- sther, Magistrate Levy told husband ind wife to come back in @ week, FOR RAGING Of SEE PAGE 18, prepren, "Unon ae CAREER OF CRIME a During Week She Lodged in Boarding House, but Spent Week Ends at Waldorf. LOVED VINTAGE WINES. Some of Bookkeepe?*s Stolen Money Went to Repay For- mer Employers She Robbed. ‘Miss Grace Le Gendre, former head bookkeeper at the Gregorian Hotel, at No, @ West Thirty-Afth street, to-day Pleaded guilty to forgery before Magis- trate Harris, in the Yorkville Police Court, and was held for the Grand Jury tm $2,600 bail. The specific charge was the apropriation of $400 of the hotel's funds, but Manager Daniel F. Ritchey of the hotel, says the amount of her as will coach $3,000 oF $8,600. Mies Le Gendre made the amasing | confession that for the last four or five years she had been robbing the employ- ,@r for whom ashe worked to pay the /last ‘employer who discharged her for stealing. In a great bly city where, it im claimed, it {s @o hard fer @ girl to Sot @ position, in good times and bad, this young woman had no diMculty in working hereeif into positions of trust 4nd good financial returns. She worked herself out of them by her leve for Gress, good dinners and luxurious sur- foundings, In her remarkable confession, Miss Le Gendre tells how she lived during the week in @ Brooklyn boarding house, herself the model of propriety, But each Saturday night, with money she stole, ste stopped in the Waldorf and other fashionable hotels apending money like water in high living, returning demurely to work and her boarding house on Mondays, Same of the money she stole she awore she used to repay former employers who had caught her stealing and who had let her go on her promise that she would make good her thefta, Her appearance indicates how it might have been easy for her to get & position. Even after a night spent in a cell in the West Thirtieth etreet Police atation she made a pleasing pic- ture in court. To @ reporter she sald that she had been attended by Dr. Meyerle, who had given her something | to quiet her nerves. What they have sald about me ts all true,’ id the young woman to ah Evening World reporter. “I took the money from the firme where I was employed. Strong drink caused my downfall.’ LOVED GOOD TIME AND 8sTOLE TO ENJOY SELF, Ghe te thirty-two years old, a brunette. A Unge of gray in her dark hair adds to her comeliness. Her big brown eyes are velled by long lashes. She is email, with dainty hands and feet. Her face fe not only pretty, but exceedingly in- telligent. In court she wore a» big gray plusb hat and an automobile coat ot gray. Her feet were shod with pat- ent leathers and cloth uppers, ohe ‘IT knew that it would have to come, but I was helpless to avert it. Drink caused it. I couldn't help it, I had to get the money. The ave girl who drinks likes good times and leave it to the men to furnish the liquor and the good times, This was never the case with me. I do not care for the suciety of men in such circumstances, “Never did I go on @ protracted @rinking bout. On Saturday evenings till early Monday mornings, when I had to return to work, I hired @ room in an expensive hotel and had my meals served in the room. Amid those lux- urious surroundings I had the beat of Vintage Wines, Sometimes I had a wom. an companion--never a man. I loved to order the good things. 1 loved to give dollar tips. I loved to squander | money. “Ten years amo, when I was little more than a girl, I lived with my uncle and aunt and a gir) cousin. My relatives kept a grocery and liquor store at Myr tle and Bedford avenues, in Brooklyn, My cousin and 1 used to help in the etore, It was the custom to have wine or beer at our meals, and my fondness for Grink grew. I Itked beer, I liked whiskey, and I loved champagne. I was tp the store for three years altogether. (Continued on Las} Page) WOMAN IN PRISON AS AUTO SPEEDER; LAUGHS OVER IT) Tells Court She Can’t Pay $25 and Says She'll Serve Day’s Term. THEN TALKS OF WEALTH. Calls Herself Mrs. Cornelius Shangina and Complains of Bad Luck. A handsome young woman who joked — ees == GIRL WHO IS CALLED BY LAWYER “ COLLEGE WIDOW OF CORNELL.” BVNAVYOOSOUDODIOHOOHNE with the attendanta in the West Farms Court and who pleaded poverty as a reason for not paying @ fline of $23 despite the fact that she admitted own- ing the automobile which she had been caught speeding up Petham Parkway yesterday afternoon took delight to~tay in Keeping her identity a secret and cheerfully went to prison for @ day although Magistrate Levy offered her a postponement until she could get the Money for her fine. “I couldn't get it oven if we did put thie off.” laughed the young woman, ‘No, eend me to jail. I'll serve my term.” Bo into the prison she went to remain until 4 o'clock, when her one-day sen- tence should have heen completed. “I'm really a millionaire from Chi- cago," she laughed, in response to ques- tions, “and of course that wretched car belongs to me. I have awfully bad fuck. I've only had the car a few months. Before that I had a motor- cycle and it burned, No, I won't tell you my address except that when I'm in New York I live in the monkey houses,” and then she went into peals of laughter, The young woman said ahe was Mra. Cornelius Shangina. She had @ girl friend with her, but the latter would not tell her name or address, She cor- roborated Mra Shangina's story of poverty and seemed terribly upset when nm to lauga about JAIL SENTENCES SCARE THE EEDERS (OF AUTOS. ‘Tho wholesale raid on speeding motor- {ets which brought nearly 400 men into court Monday evidently han had ite effect on the motorists of the city. Last night the same eight motorcycle polive- men who brought In the 0 traversed the same streets for many hours, but Magistrate Murphy was waiting for them in the West Hide Court, and he dinposed of the cases awiftly, Imposing fines of $50 with alternatives of ten days in Jail in each case, Nobody was able to offer a defense which the Magistrate considered good and all the prisoners patd thelr fines. ‘A dozen or #0 men were brought tn for allowing their machines to amoke or for falling to have their lights turned on. These cases ovour every day and the crusade has not been against euch alight violations of the lew. Magistrate Murphy's court was crowd- ¢d, for many cases which had been adjourned on Monday and Tuosday came up for a hearing. Almost in- variably the Magistrate imposed tho fine of $56. Walter Reisinger, a Yale student and a grandson of Adolphus Busch, whose home is at No. 933 Fifth Avenue, tries nard to win a diecharge. He was ar- rested Sunday on Riverside Drive, charged with operating his automobile at twenty-two miles an hour, He was represented in court by John M. Bar- rett, and Magistrate Murphy patiently listened through a lot of testimony, but at {te conclusion he announced the regular fine and Retainger paid. The Magistrate said he was glad to see that sprelers had taken their lesson to heart, and he announced that next week he should increase to $10 his fines for motorists whose cars smoke, This, too, could be stopped, he thought, if the men who drive cara realized that tt waa to thelr own financial benefit obey the law. Magistrate House in the Harlem Court fined nine apecders $# each with the alternative of ten daye in Jail. Two of the men were chaufleurs for personal Magistrate, w. in court, but Magiatr 1 that friendship ced a the bench. He also hat whon the present hysteria had sub: wided he would begin to Impose real Jail nentences to epeeders, “1 would do it now, except that the weverity would be misunderstood,” he said, “But as soon as normal condl- tlone obtain again I shall be severe on @) > 6D VERA BLACK — 7 “TONKI'S” NOTES. TOBESTEST GIRL IN-$50,000 SUT Vera Black’s Former Husband Damages Loring L. Tonkin. nts From The romance between a college, stu- dent and a chorus girl was told to-day in Justice Amend's part of the Supreme Court at the trial of a $60,000 damage sult against Loring 1, Tonkin, former Cornell student and member of » wealthy Oll City, Ma, family, brought by John Ernest Wadlelgh, the chorus girl's husband, Wadleigh, who was di- Vorced last year froin the young wom- an, says that Tonkin, stole her affec- tions, ‘Tonkins is now married and in business in Ol! City, Vera Black, the wife, with the face of a doll and @ coy smile that she distrib uted among the Jurors, took the witness stand. She had to sit through Afteen minutes’ denunciation of herself at the hands of Tonkin's attorney, who called her “The College Wi of Uornell" and told the Jurors that she was tn the habit of meeting stage-door Johnnies tn almost every city where her company played HEARS HIS LETTERS OF ‘BEsT- EST” GIRL READ. whe ‘Tonkin, ix twonty-slx years old, passed through the unpleasant experience of listening to love letters that he had written Miss Hlack walle he was at Corneil. He called himself “Her ‘Ton kie’ and told her that she “was the Kil in all the the young woman would flan a at Tonkin but it was not returned. Wadlelgh aot a few of her suiles, but he turned hia head and frowne Twice during the morning session Mian Black had to laugh aloud at some of the excerpts from the lettars ahe had received from Tonkin, Tonkin tn a letter (Continued on Second poe BANK ROBBERS KI MANAGER IN Mounted Police of Southern 3 toba in’ Pursuit of the Bandits. WINNIPEG, Man, that the branch of the E treat at Pluin Coulee, in Soutvern Mant- toba, had been held up by robbers this afternoon and the munaxer Killed was Tecelved here by telephone. Mounted police are said to be closing tn on the A report nk of Mons every epeeder, and especially the rich.” bandits, 22° PaGrs BURNS L LODGNG HOUSE HOUSE WHEN REFUSED ROOM: 27 HOMELESS MEN DIE Unfortunate Men Battle WithOne An- other in Burning Boston Structure to Reach Inadequate Fire Escapes in Rear of Building. MANY LEAP TO SAFETY; OTHERS PLUNGE TO DEATH Lodgers Slept in Cell-Like Rooms, Manis] j Fone L WRATHER—Fa: e iaht and Ktotteant A ihe cooler, Packed More Closely Than on stwise Steamers. Privo: podbot pS ot 3.—Twenty-seven of 170 unfortunate men the' rooms of the Arcadia Lodging House, at Wash- ine poe ‘oe streets, In the South End, were ourned to death early POLICE WAIT TO ARREST MRS, PANKHURST AND FIGHT SUFFRAGETTES “Battle” Force Which Is to Pro- tect Leader Ready for Ac- tion on Her Arrival. PLYMOUTH, Fing., Dec, 8.—Prepara, tions are understood to have been made for the arrest of Mrs, Emmeline Pank- hurat, the militant Suffragette leader, on her @rrival here from the United States on board the Majestle to-ni@nt of to-morrow. A force of Suffragettes, under the command of “General” Mrs. Flore Drummond, will, it 1s sald, be on the spot ready to fight for their leader's freedom. The ohief constable at Plymouth, who confirma the report that Mra, Pank- hurat in to be arrested, is preparing an adequate force so a to be in readiness to deal with any attempt at rescue whieh may be made by the militant suffragettes, No unauthorized person will be al- Jowed on board the tender which meets the Majestic on her arrival, and only the holders of special permits will be admitted to the Jetty, The militant suffragettes have been in constant Wireless comm ‘ation with Mra, Pankhurst, and have ad- Vised her of their plang The suffra wettes anticipate that their leader will be transferred to @ apectal police tus and taken to another port, #9 they Dave chartered a v el to undertake # Chase Jif necessary with @ specially formed troop to effect her rescue, The suffragette leaders think It like- y the police will not take Mra, Pank hurat to London, but will try to locare cerate her at Bristol or tn Aylesbury Jatl, where Mra. Florence May brick, lwno had been sentenced to death in 1889 on @ Charge of potsoning her hus | band, Was kept for so many yoars af ter her sentence was commuted to pesal servitude. —_——_ SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY WONDERS,” The Sive-story brick “hotel” meet aa dt to-day. Several more were rushed to nearby hospitals dying. A score of others were badly burned, but will live. Lodgers who escaped from the tinder box structure, with its tiny, cell-like bunk rooms where men might “flop” for the night for 15 cents, told the police the fire was of incendiary origin and was started by a man who was refused lodging last night for want of 15 cents, pi eres SRS eh lh a Under orders trom Mayor Fitageraté, the Building Department te investigat- Ing the story of survivors that all the eacapes were located in the rear of the hotel, to which ecosss was quickly out off by he flames, The Grand Jury thia afternoon viewed the ruins and be gan taking testimony regarding the manner tn which the owners and lessees of the property had observed ing laws and fire regulations. On completing his examination ef the premises to-day Medical Examiner Lea. ry stated he woulg confer with Dis- trict-Attorney ‘Pelletier regarding what oMctal action will be taken. Investig: tion showed that the dullding had beet remodelled, walls tut and wooden Partitions substituted. These out th floors into little cells, and, as they did not reach to the ceiling, gave a fra dragt for the flames through each floor. The Arcadia was conducted by the Lyons Hotel Company, which has « chain of lodging houses in the big Kast- ern cities, W, H. and J. D, Lyons com. pose the company, whigh ns seven other lodging houses here and fifteen in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, The only body identified was that of re ¥. Adams of South Boston, t of the injured, seventeen of whom were taken to the City Hospital alone, other had no homes or lived here, Dozens of mcn saved themseives by climbing across @ -arrow plank to an adjoining bullding oF leaping across a five-foot alley to other roofs. Almost all of them were naked. The victins were traped in the cell-like rooms, These fied the fourth floor Ike #9 many ral bit Warrens, There were two cots in euch and ¢ "pants of the Little holes had th@tr @oors locked. There were fire escapes only tn the back of the building and those sleeping in the front, though they were aroused in time to save themaelves, could not reach the fire escapes, MANY WERE TOO FRIGHTENED TO LEAP TO SAFEvY. nped from the windows and roofs, and others, too terrified to leap, stood, thelr naked forms silhouetted ainst the glare of the flames until ¢! tre reached them and dragged them down into the ruins of the top floor, Firemen with extension and scaling adders made desperate efforts to reach those trapped on the roof and were saved this way, but y only those who saved themselves ew caped uninjured, Of the twenty-six known dead, George F, Adams of South Boston, who died after his removal to the City Hospital, was the only victim identified. G Many ju More than fifty naked men were taken ¢ to the nearest police station, When the fire arrived, thirty of these stood on the roof, Most of them were saved by the use of scaling ladders, ot a ayaetneiare ; | ‘ | }