The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1913, Page 1

WHITE SLAVERS KIDNAP DRUGGED VICTIMS HERE »' Court Bars Hammerstein From Producing Opera Here PRICE ONE CENT. 8. by The Press Co. (The New Yors World). The “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ <a Py SEIZURE OF GRAFT PROOF PART OF A TAMMANY LOT, HENNESSY NOW CHARGES Former Highway Investigator At- tacks Osborne for Raid on Office, Calls It “Burglarious Enterprise” and Says Evidence Is Destroyed Charges that Tavmany Ha‘l inspired the raid on the private rooms at No. 132 State street, Albany, which contained all of the evidence of highway graft he had collected, were made by John A, Hennessy, who} came down from the capital to-day. The warrant upon which the material was carted away was signed by James W. Osborne, the inves- | to-a BRYAN HECKLED BY SUFFRAGISTS LEAVES PLATFORM “How About Justice for Women,” Leader Cries, but His Answer Not Direct. OTHERS JOIN IN QUIZ. Tumult in Hall Continues Un- til the Chairman Calls Another Speaker. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Secretary of State Bryan was heckled by euffragists ter the fashion of British mili- tigator appointed by Gov. Glynn. Mr. Warner, aided by two deputies! tants in thetr treatment of Premier from Attorney-General Carmody’s office, engineered the enterprise, Mr. Hennessy says. “It may be stated ae true, ro matter what Gor. Glynn may say about It, ten| any real investigation into the bigh- A frauds of 1912 ts at an end,” de- ‘Mr, :lennessy. “When I returned te Albany I found that # room which had bpen Rept under two different sets | @f locks bécause of the importance of widence therein—vsome of which never been disclored—had been jubpoens iesucd by Mr. oom was stripped of everything it contain It was the moat scientific trick of ‘burglarious terprise’ ever carried out by Tammany Hall.” . ‘The highway records taken were the property of the State, Mr, Hen- Ressy says. Wot more than 10 per cont. of them had been examined. imed was fonnd to be fraudulent. Brvery one of the contracts exam- | { i} SAYS PROOFS OF FRAUD APE NO LONGER GUARDED. Mr, Henuessy lays the loss of proofs as to the frauuuient chart 9 per cent. of the contracis on Gov. | Glynn's shoulders, These proots migit) easily disappear, Mr. Hennessy says, Ine asmuch as they have been returned to the Highway Vepartwent, They ire not guarded. Ninety per cent. of the Di one employed in that department when | the fraude were comin now. “The seizure of those documents by Mr. Osborne who gontribuied $20 to the) of his former wife, s cainpaign tuna of Mr, MoCail) Per Mayor is eniy a minor matter In one sald former Investigator Hen- ‘ephe big featur is thai matectal eollesied vy ena of vetablished reputrtion to be used before Grand and Petit J hi Osborn of Mr, Carmody's ataff, Tho first time the Attorney-Genoral’s wffice showed it- weit allve appears only in an attemptrfo | ‘ destroy vital records that wou. connect ‘yamnaany politicians up-State and owas | State with wholosule frauds in the con- | wiruetion and repair of highways. | It ts up to Gov. Glynn to investigate thie raid, Mr, Hennessy asserts, This evidence, he sass is now worthless he- cause the engineers who collected it would not be willing new to go inte court and swear to the identity of the fraudulent material tnken from roads to compare witn epecifications of con- tracts. i “] compliment Mr. Osborne,” declared (Continued on Second Page.) ———— CLYDE LINER SEMINOLE IS BEACHED BY CAPTAIN —_ Vessel Hits Rock Entering Puerta itted are there) Birhop may ma: |New York jeirls and other em ta Plata and Pumps Fail to Work | —ls Saved, ‘The steamer Seminole of tie iy West Indies line, which left New on Nov, 2# for San Domingo and ¢ West | ports, ptruck a rock witers or of Puerta Plata: y hed at Jinps Were set and control sv sel was Broun ted rtof her cargo re- to ward bow, work, bat became eae fost ofthem ‘7 by her captain, and the leak renained Advicns vereived ot the ofttcee of the Company aay that ie steamer ced on her vovane toanorroy, wit wd at the that the Yeport of th wree wil sent without, prop vestigation, Beminole cafries four passengers. ff | pro rata of rent is covered aid a profit MRS, BISHOP GETS FINAL DIVORCE AND TWOOFCHLOREN [Nathalie Stays With Her—Al- lowed $288.46 a Week Alimony. An absolute decree of divorce was to: Mishop from her husband, Jam ‘un Aingham Bishop, the miltonaire banker, | Owen, by Supreme Court Justice Le vman, aitting in Part 11, 8, Under the terms y again in the State New York, but her husband cannot re. marry in this State during the life th Mra, ond the ducree further ‘ishop to pay for the maintepanc education of the {lve ‘ the daughters, tor compels. ers, Two Bishop ts awarded $288.45 a week allt.ony for lie Mr. and Nathalie and Muriel, are main in the custody of Mrs, Bishop | and the other girle mny stay with thelr Anquith of England. Speaking before the conference to or- ganize & National Popular Government Lea Bryan hed declared for more human juatice, for less conservatism, and for a more flexible constitutional amendment system. Then Miss Helen | Toda of California, leader ef a group \ef euffragists, demanded: | “How about Justice for women? You've talked about justice, but haven't mentioned women at all. How about it, Mr. Bryan Taken aback, the Secretary hesitated. Then he advanced slowly to the front ff the platform and with a determined to his Jaw answered: “Madam, in all you have done T have no doubt that you have followed your judgment and your conscience, as £ know I have done myself.” This equeiched Miss Todd, but other women of her party took up the cry, | You've not mentioned women." Bryan appeared not to hear the further ap- ‘pe fle retreated to the rear of the | platform and talked with other Won- of the Other | aay granted to Mra, Abieall Hancock | ference teaderm ‘As one guffragist near the platform | continued the attack, Senator Robert L. Chairman, hastened to cali an- . | other apeakor. | before the women subsided Bryan left ne decree Mra,/ the platform, ({ Speaking of President Wilson's dec- “|laration in his message for Preatden- “| tial primartes, Secretary Bryan sald ‘lhe thought that before another Presi- dential campaign arrived the people would vote at homo for their choice and the Prestdent when he entered the White House would know no inmdivid- uals, but only the people. QUIZ FOR WILSON f father. The disposition of the children | BY SUFFRAGISTS Was one of the matters over which the have been fighting, ‘The fact that} e, Who ig tn w wirt's school tn Cor, come a8 a distinet surprise, for twy weeks ako When Mrs. Hishop returned ta from abroad Nathalie ha with her father. allaned her Mra, Bis tory decree lust May tre During the trial testin out snowing that the i: hoon two closely associated with Mra. Lelia Gaines wife of J Temple Gwathm the New York ¢ n Justice Goff n of meetings betw Mrs. Gwathmoy in tne Hotel A: Vacant Room Logic|: Mf you have an unoccupied furnished room in your house it means rent ig going out and no income coming in, Mf the furmshed room is rented, It: is rece'ved. World ads. find tenants for vacant If you have but one vacant room fot rent, use a “Hurnished Room °9 Let” ad, OrInOrrOw {i you have s for rent, siart a7 to Let” ud. morrow. in either svent your ad, will get w York City greate » vine Herald, Tim GLTIVELY Stent cuitiniie: ral curmshed room: in men KUL YOUR SUNDAY WORLD AD. will vemata iu her mother's care obtained her interlocu- ny Was brought 2 banker had Furnished Rooms in the Sundty World to-! President on Monday to Receive "| Delegates Who Will Ask His 4} Stand on Votes for Women. WASHINGTON, Dee. AV reat: Wilson wil recotve fitt doleg: from the suffrage convention at White House Executive oflecs @t 1%, P. M, Monday, Disappointed by the President's omission in ‘his mldress of reference to woman suffrage, the con- audience, buy the t ind! position prevent- ce of fitty-tlye was thes pair 'n Washington wu resident could recolye them, agivts Intend to re the Press efinite expres onatituttonal women. — = AN UPSIDE-DOWN BOY. Read ae | cripple Reve 5 | ing and Draw | DETROIT, Mich., Deo, 6—An Injury received by Joseph W. Darling of thin tl ty, when he wax two and one-half dla, followed by four years of " 1, ite! in a peculiar twist riof lua mental faow’ which cuuses him to read, write draw uppids | down, ding ta Instructors tn the F cripples, whieh the tad, » is new nine years old, attenda, "Phe hoya Woachers ¢ dalle te ¢ he nominal * a u . me oe HANIMERSTEIN'S OPERA IS BARRED HERE BY COURT Holds the Impresario to His} Agreement to Keep Out for Ten Years. WILL TAKE AN APPEAL. Case Will Be Fought to the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Pendleton in the Supreme Court to-day decided that Oscar Ham- merstein cannot produce grand opera in New York in competition with the Metropolitan Opera Company. The de- cteion wee given late this afternoon and 4i@ not reach the attorneys for the contending sides until newspaper men informed them. The decision dispones of the injune tion euit brought by the Metropolitan Opera Company, to restrain Oscar ang Nie eon, Arthur, from producing grand opera here during thie fall, They deked also that Hammerstein be oom- pelled to live up to his agreement with the Metropolitan Company, by which the Impresario agreed not to give opera in New York for ten years. In deciding, Justice Pendleton says that Hammerstein muat live up to that contract, and throws aside his conte: tion that the Metropolitan Company truat, producing opera in violation of che Sherman Anti-Trust law. HAMMERSTEIN GETS 20 DAYS i} TO AMEND ANSWER, | He «ives Hammerstein tweaty daya in which he may amend his answer to the Metropolitan company's petition for an injunction, . It was stated at Hanrmerstein's pri- vate office to-day that he would take {advantage of this privilege, and that if {supreme Court he wos prepared to (ike |i to the Court of Aasealm, and, as % Jast resort, to the United States Su- preme Court, where the question as to whether grand opera is a commodity within the meaning of the Sherman law would be decided for the first time in this country. In their arguments before Jusit Pendleton Jonn B. Stanchtleld and Hen- ry A W attorneys for Hammer- stein, contended that the methods of the Metropolitan had been such as measure up to thi the Standard Oi) American Tobacco Company. Paul D, Cravath, attorney for the Metropolitan, characteriz:| Hammer- stain's defense ga “a deilberate and wicked plot of Hammerstein aad his gon to come to New York with $300,000 worth of acenery from their insuceena- ful trial in London and repeat here their disantous experiences.” —_—_——>————_ POLICEMAN BADLY BURNED SAVING DYING WOMAN, Bursis Into House and Extinguishes Her Blazing Clothing—She Will Die. Policeman Palmer of the Clymer atreet station, Wiillamsburs, saw an exctiel crowd in front of the home of Mrs. Mary P, Gale, a bedridden invalid, at No. 183 Penn street, to-day. Ie looked in at the bas Window and suw dine Mary 9 #, Aits-wix years old, the companion and nurae of diss Gale, threwhing about on the fluor with her clowing all abiaxe Paliner burst in the and wrapp bs in it, putting out the fire thing and carried her to @ neighboring huge, Woen he returned be found that the fire hau reached the curtains and portieves in basement and tie place was filed with amoke. The policeman made hia way to Mise Gale's bedroom and carried her out safely, He was almself badly SAILING TO-DAY. ‘Pivives, Jamaica Minucapolis, London Mavens, Havaze Oratava, Jamaicu r, took a rug J) Colambia, Quesastown ... Gommanie, Merete viccces, OR ‘the gult finally went against him in the} NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913. | “ Circulation Books Open to All,”’ | Victim of Drugged Needle And Pharmacy Student Suspect (Photo Copyrighted by Amertci BLAST WRECKS POWDER FACTORY: THREE MEN DEAD Mixing House of International Praeposit Company Destroyed By Fatal Explosion, METUCHEN, N. J., Dec, &—Three men were killed by an eMPlosion to-day at the plant of the International Prae- posit Company, a powder factory, In tho settlement known as Millville, about a mile and a half from thie borough, ‘The dead are: Charles Bradley, fore- man; Herbert Bradley, aon of Claries, and Leo Sny ‘The explosion occurred in the mixing houre. That building was blown apart and the boller house of the plant was wrecked. ‘The explosion caused a fire which spread to,the woods around the eat Ushment and other powder buildings were in grave danger, but the fire war extinguished, Charles Bra’ the foreman, was taken to Hi, Peter's Hospital, New Rrunswiok, wacre he resoverea cons sclousnesy for a tine, but wae unaule to my how the first explosion too’ place, He was taken to tho hospital in an automobile at high apeod in the ope tat bis Ufo might be saved, by vurned from head to foot wae no chance for hit recovery, manufactures #inokeless ynamite, and the plant Includes nu:neroum buildings, three of which were blown u Hs CREW OF TEN IN PERIL. Mem Aboard } Of Alaskan Coast, SBATTLE, Wash. Deo. 6 masted echooner with clever ton on board 14 fn distraas off Dest ruc tion Ivland between Gray's Harbor and Master in Dis- The fours Aloha Cape Flattery, Mer woichors are barely holding fro being dasiet n the rocky Aloha ts pi Harps bound from the ine line been in peril wi © last Sune a SUNDAY WORLD WANTS >» WORK MONDAY WONDI Prewe Association, ) ARM4NDMEGARG, WILSON IS IMPROVED; GOES TO HIS OFFICE President Allowed by Doctor to Do Some Work in Office, Then Take a Drive. WASHINGTON, — Di 6.—President Wilson's attack of the Grip was mo far improved to-day that after an ex- amination his physician, Dr. Grayson, Permitted him to visit the executive of- fices for half an hour to look over im- portant correspondence, The President dictated some letters and aligned sume comminsions, but no callers, Engagements wera being made for Monday as usual. Later the President touk through Rock Creek Park. It a drive waa the 4 (iret time he had been out of dunrs since last Tuesday, He was accompanied by Dr, Grayson, The air woe brine and the weather quite warm and the Preal- dent appeared to be lovking better, FEARING FIRE, THROWS HER BABY CUT WINDOW Blaze Caused by Tipless Gas Jet Terrifies Woman and Infant Is Expected to Die. Early to-fay a tonant of far- rlaon piace, needing a lava gas tip, put out @ hail Mght and trassferred the tip ty hie apartment. Just before daylight @ late te: Bhted the wide opon jot, which sent @ roaring flame to tho celt- ing aud started a smudge of smoke. ‘An alarm of fro started through the house. ‘The elkhty or imore tenanta tuuk to the atairy und fire excumes Mra. Sarah Rotter, twenty-four yours vid, shouted down to pas eraby in the atreet to oateh her baby, walch she was about to throw to them, They Jcould see no flares and d not une derstand her cries. The baby, Max, three years old, struck the sldewalk on his head Dr Pilger of the Eastern Dmastrict Hoapital said that the Us. ov bid ao siance for life. When Mra, Rotter reals feed What #he had dono sie became eo hysterical that #he was also takes to the hospital. ee FOR RACING SEE PAGE & 10 PAGES POISON NEEDLES INA WERATUER—Cleady to-night sad PRICE ONE 7 <= CENT t a ! USED, [BY SLAVERS TO KIDNAP. WOMEN FROM STREETS Investigator Tells of White Slavers in Manhattan Who Take Away Their Overcome Victims by Pretending to Be Relatives. TOXICOLOGIST SEEKS DRUG ON POINT OF WEAPON. Newark Women, Poisoned in Dark Theatres, Will Be Asked to Try to Identify Man Under Arrest. Three cases of young women who claim to have been partially drugged in public places by men opetating with poisoned needles are vouched for by a responsible authority in this city, in addition to three cases under investigation by the police of Newark. Complaints are coming in from all sides, and those who have been vainly trying to get the police to take action for the past six months now maintain that their theory that |“white slavers” are drugging girls in them, is sustained, | MILITANTS’ WAR OF VENGEANCE ON; START MORE FIRES Exhibition Halls in Man- chester and Liverpool Are Burned by Women. LONDON, Dec. campalza of vengeance for the rearrest of Mra Fmmeling Pankhurst was started im earnest by the militamt suffragettes in the course of last night. They had marked for dentruction exhibition bulld= ings and grandstands on the race tracks Jn Lancashire, where Premler Asquith in spending the week-end in delivering & wories of political apevcben, Two of the itema on the militant auf. fragetts programme were successfully carried out, for “arson squids” set tre to and burned down exhibition build at Liverpool and Manchester. Their third attempt, however, was un- sucvennful, the destroyers being fright- ened away by the approach of « police- man when they wore preparing thetr combuatibles to t fire to the grand- | stand at Atn race courne The exhioition had burned at Man- chester was in the southeastern wubur- ngs dietrict of Hus! cost $80,000 bub. Ut destroyed. incendiaries left the usual suffrage A about and @ note ad- dressod Proauer Asquith reading: [vThis ts your welome to Manchester and ldiam.” The suffragettes put t exhibition buildings at L. have been only fuat ter months, The scenic carvas-colored structure, ered in fates carly this m the flrenen had the utmost dif nting tho npreml of the . Widings Ag it was, considers able dane was done, In the vi ty Woda found a letter ad- dressed to Premier Asquith and @ quan- terch to the erpool, watoh losed for the win- railway, a» ble was discoy- ' fs uflras orature Exeter Jull was to-day surrounded by militant erffragettes in antleipation of the removal or ieleaso of t Mra. kee e Pankhurst, jof automobiles were lined up ready to give chase In case the prisoner should ve taken Lo egmie otuer Jai, | vir leader, \ number Public places and openly kidnapping . While there have been many stories current in Now York of attempts to drug girts in theatres and on the streets, ‘vowark has been the center of such re- Ports, Several mysterious disappear ances of girls have been reported to the Police there rece their {ima in public by the use of drugs, oculated by the pricks of needles, But Mrs, Marjorie Graft told auch @ convincing story in the First Criminal Court ef Newark yesterday of tne Under $20,000 bail om @ charge of mitting the assault, THREE SIMILAR CA Ang PORTED IN NEW YORK. To-day Miss Jeanette Clark of Ne. 18 Pacific street, Newark, and an em Dloyee of & Newark mamufacturing were asked by the police to look at Magaro and see if they could identify him as the man who fige ured in experiences they suffered similag to that of Mra, Geag, A microtc ‘pic examination of a neséle, found tn the theatre bex occupied by ‘Mra, Graff and Megaro, was made to- day by @ toxtcologigt in Newark, He could find rothing on the needle but Minute particles of rust The needle will now be subjected to che:nica: analyels, Later, experiments will be made on human subjects with needles Infected with curare and other drugs which have « numbing effect on the ‘These experiments will if it Js pommible to inoculate 4 peraon with enough poison, througt the point of a needle, to have the effects described by the women who 33 comptaints, investigation has been started of various storles that are in cirewlas tion In this etty of attacks on womem With polwoned ne-tles in moving ple ture theatres and other public places, An @oazingly large number of suck reports are paysing around, espectally in circles devoted to investigation of the so-cailed “white slave” tramMie, Mra, Samuel ©. Van Dusen of Noy 1 East Thir.y-lf") steect, a represen. tative New York soctety woman an@ philanthropist, told The Evening World to-day of three cases in Manhattan ip which young women had been injected with drugs Mrs, Van Dusen has ine Veatigated the stories far as possible and vouches for their accuracy, ‘The frat invtance was that of » ag 2 if girl who came with her mother their suburpan towne ior a dave shope ping in New York, ‘They neparated fae ding , aes tha 8 ' | | | )