The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1913, Page 1

MISSING WOMAN SEEN TO-DAY AT CONEY ISLAN ooee FINAL EDITION | « PRIOE ONE CE WITNESS DECLARES HE GAVE GAFFNEY GIFT OF $3,000 TO GET PAVING CONTRACT | NT. 18, by N Took Him In as Partner and, Joseph D, Carroll Got $3,000 Too. $2,000 TO CAMPAIGN | Whitman Discloses New Evi-' dence at Inquiry Into Highway Grafi. District-Attorney Whitman had every- thing arranged to make to-day a day of | rim surprises and amazing devel p= | ments In the John Doe inquiry before Chief Magistrate McAdoo, He shook from his sleeve important tractor he had hidden there since y terday—the man who was expected to explode a 16-inch shell. This man war John M. Murphy of No. 1643 Nelson evegue, the Bronx. He is a big-fea- tgred, smooth shaven man with glaeses. He has 2 large, round. bald head and a rather benovolent look. He was the| firat witnews placed on the stand To begin with he stated that in 1911 @ was employed under contract by the ‘arren Brothers (ompany of Boston, the makers of “warrenite,” a mixture of stone and asphalt used in paving. The contract, which was read, was signed in September, i911, It was his Work to have the Warren bitullthtc pavement adopted for use fh highway work. In this matter he had several conversations with (. Gordon Reel, 81: perintendent of Highways, SAYS REEL ASKED HIM TO CON. TRIBUTE. Storehouse re 33 “Did Mir. Reel say anything to you torehouse Men Drag Out Six Adout contributions to the Demucratic Animals, but Others Are party?” Mr. Whitman asked, | “Yes, he asked me if T could wive Left Near Fite. | anything to the Democratic State Com- mittee.” “Was any amount suggested” the ICY BATH SAVES. TWO POLAR BEARS NVBLAZING ROOM Hight big trained polar bears confined | “I don't remamber, Me merely said Gidn’t T think I could do something for|" four cages made am much noise as «| the Democratic par 1 told him 1] Whole menagerie while a fire swept | thought I could. There was no amount named, He might have said $3,000 or $1,900, but Its a long time ago and { don’t remember.” The witnesses commission on neliing | through the upper floor of the White] Rats Transfer Compaiy Nos. 148 ana 145 Weet this afternoon. Six of warehouse at ird street | the bears were bitulithic pavement in the State, he] rescued during the hottest part of tae said, amounted to $13,000, fire, but the other two were abandoned GAVE $2,000 FOR THE DEMO.|!In the building, They escaped serious | Injury, t were a badly frightened | palr of bears when they were removed after the fire had been extinguished, CRATIC CAMPAIGN, “What did you gontribute to Democratic State Fund?" the "E paid $2,000 In cash in $100 binie.| The transfer ec pany is owned by “Who waa interested with you in the] @& White Nats, an organization of bitulithic (contracts?” Vaudeville performers. In the Thirty- third street warehouse was stored ut great quantity of scenery and properties belonging to vaudeville actors and on the ground floor were the Cages cons taining the polar bears, which were brought into town last night from Pitt feld, Mass, by a performer known as “James ‘W. Gaffney and Joseph Db, Carrell.” “When did you ive the $2,000; be- fore or after you received the $18,000 for your contract “It was after the contracts had been signed. Mr. Gaffney and Mr. Carroll! ™ were my partners, They got one-third | “apt. Jack each of the contract amount; that ta,| |! i! ers at work on the secand floor! each got one-third of the $11,000 which | Of the building went out for luneh att remained after the $300 had been paid] 1° ‘ POR ANAS 1s KUpRoKeA they lett into the Democratic State fund." oer: BUTE At any ra about THOUGHT GAFFNEY WOULD BE» Ee ABLE TO HELP. ra growling and crawhing aguinal “Why did you go to Mr. Gaffney and! the sides of their cuses. He left the tuke him in as a partner. iittee 4 W smoke sifting down tron “Because I thought he could help me.) (he second Moor He kriew a lot of peuple in New York MoMahor phonel a fire You gave hin practically howhats alarm and ty the White did he do to help you?” Rats 1 iockaient “Well, he——'' the witness healtate| | street sed that al? the men on and stroked his chin, 1 gave the hand Wer to get out the imoney Wecausee [ thought it would hep) bears wd af stable employees me; that’s all.” jhustled over one took, hut Did you have yo talk with Me the whe second mucised with before ¢ con for the) ee ry snd fnflammatie — ) pertios pavement was awarded’ when t ri and the 1 can’t remember.’ were at we Can you sremember anything that It was quite a ob draggine out three either Mr. Gaffney or My. Carroll cages contamng (wo maddened did for you for the $3838 you wave to bears. Wen were starting fn cach of them?!’ for the fourth vage ty Chief Mar vNo, T thought that Mr. Carroll would tin wouldn't allow them tu proceed. Me speak to Mr. Reel.’ was afraid the ceiling, which was “Your agreement with Mr. Gaffney ablaze Would fall on them, Hy direc and My roll wax made before. 4 {iol} of the vile a aicean of water Was A kept playing on the dangerous cell wor the vitulita. on ver sane the bear's cage was Katey cing "Yes, It Was a1 oral weveement, made eee ee ete al a awaninad ta n September, ii the scene of the fire, The policemen on “and the $200 was pall into the duty were anaule to haudle the crowds and the fram the West ‘aire (Coatinued on second Fase) Meta street staiion were calied ou (ate whe elt teneeeent eae A » ~ ii - | | families should be protected, Che Circulation Books Open to All. The Press Publishing York World). ALDERMEN KILL. LAW TO SUPPORT WIVES OF IDLERS Turn Down Ordinance Giving Them 50 Cents a Day While Husbands Are in Jail, | \IT LACKS SEVEN VOTES. | | | Alderman Walsh Says He Pre- fers Whipping Post to Pro- posed Plan. The Noon iefeated the ordinan that between $10,000 and (15,000 should be appropriated a to allow 50 cents a day to help maintain woreh of Aldermen this afier- providing year whore husbands are in jail for non- upport, There were 3% votes for the ordinance and 7 against It, 40 votes be- ing necessary to adopt the measure. If the ordinanve had been adopted the Commissione, of Correction would have opened an account with the Commis- sioner of Charity, and through there channe!s the 50 cents a day during the incarceration of the hueband would have been paid, Alderman Walsh, Matthattaf-spoke: in oxition to the ordinance, The dominant thought of to-day," he “appears to be Governmental dl- ection of all the affairs of life. There are many injustices, much unnecessary suffering, groms iniquities and menacing 07 |disvontent, but Governmental charity is not the antidote, SAID HE WOULD PREFER THE WHIPPING POST. “The purpose of the ordinance is to wive 50 cents a day to the wives of men in prison for non-support. The Plan ts vielous in morals, vse its tendency ix to weaken the family group by making the city the foster father to every idler's child, “Much ae 1 detest corporal puniss- ment, intenfly as Tabhor the whipping post, { could almost think it the lewser evil if for no other reason than that it may lessen desertion and restore the American idea of inglividual respone- an Folks said tie motiers of even if the husbands have transgressed Alderman John White, representing the “Little Tin” Sullivan district, which in- cludes the Bowery, sald every man who took 4 woman as his wife should be compelled to support her. If Alderman Folks vould show him how the 3 certs a day proposition would uplift the woman und compel a husband to sim. port his wife he would vote for the or- dinance. Alderman Dowling sald chat other charitable schemes adopted dy the Aldermen have outgrown their original appropriations. He cited the mili sta- tions, declaring that 40,00) the first year now about $140,000, “We get married for better or worse," said Dowling, “Often the man gete the worst of It Wivea would have their husbands sent to the Island for six months at three dollars a week. Then they'd let them out for @ month and then back to the Island for another six months. Tée wives would think thin Was Setter than having thelr husbands run over wh looking for work,” THAW TO BE EXAMINED IN FEDERAL COURT SCORL: where they cost that amount ta Jin the Federal courts ouncement was made ry THaw's pe too ed to ba ‘cemeseeaiiesemeaimes WHITE HOUSE MINT BED GONE Gives Way to Just acd frou elon hee Hep mamitactured. 1 to teat’ the Mary re! hearing Wo had ¢ jel during NT a) asuch . for neatk Wall overgreen trea narke: NEW | | | gai Agienge erae SS , on r »| Missing Jessie McCann, for Whom OOOO 0000S 000000000 00000008 »>AUTO SMASHES INTO LEXINGTON AVENUE CA he Sears { “Circulation Books YORK, TUESDAY, pDfcEMBER 9, 1913. Nation-Wide Search Is Made baeaee ‘ ern wy ® * ‘ . » * * » POOR HO-04 PECOM OE D6 a KOO Oe we ASSEMBLY JOINS HOMESICK GIRL IN THE FIGHT FOR FIVE GENT PHONES | > Legislators. Aid Evening World| Mary Ann Doyle, Recent in Its Fight Against the | Monopoly. { From Ireland, Longed to Go Back. Special to The F a World | asked to bring to a speedy termination | ature, when it meets in Jan Assembly unantiin sly opted, calling } for daily rexwions of the Public Vin the hawspapers and associated it with Cominiasion in order to end te ad-| tie absence from the rectory since Journments and delays resorted to *y] early morning of Mary Ann Doyle the telephone company to put off in-! phe girl, why was quite pretty and definitely the final disposition of thal y educated, came to New ork trom rate question. Ireland seven months aio. She wan adve & the adoption of the] brought out by her two brothers, who olition Assemblyman Larrimer of are emp! Shanley's, and lived pklyn made @ litter attack n for somewhe t One Hundred nd Gov, Sulzer for not senting the | Twenty fifth atree On her arirval she rrimer ff cent telephone e bil} found that her brothers had few friends ssed at the last regular session and she wae very lonesome, th of reason to gain companionship the} sald Lar 4 position and found one | mer, “It has appeared thar the Go ory of the Bronx Church. ernor revetved $2), In from men connected with the Telephone Company tremely depressed and confided to the| for which he gave no writing. or note, ote vgntn that she Waa homeaich or anything of a nature whieh Woud yyy Wished she Were back in Ire. show the transaction hud taken place.” 1a with her fathes and mothe | COMMISSION IN FAVOR OF FIVE the rectory at 4.30 jock! CENT RATE. t 1% he io oe Mr, Larrimer continued: “L bass at: she was going to the early euded all hearing? of the Pa yee vonnHeted With a Mission iy xt Service Com ssion fur he Becca the Foseuhos on est One Hurdued ict and Mt OM UNL and Rwentyetieth ateoet Me an nour he tn ' ' c ‘ ’ f ing decidedly and distin yin rot a@ fivecent vate In greater New York EC r them to order a eooent rate and for the coinpany to EEO OE DED THROWS HERSELF UNDER “L’ TRAIN ly ve body of the young Woman who | ALBANY, Dev. 9—The — Hvening} ' mn Waterers ied ierself by Jumping dn front o World's fight for a five-cent telephone; ° aHMY ion! | * [an approaching train at One Mundret | rate in Greater New York was taken up and Kighty-third street and Third aves by the Legislature last might, and the | Bupilel Barvibal GS for the sec. | MMC AM to-day identified this} ublic Borvice Commission for the See) vtternoon at the Fordham Morgue as nd “1 MBtHIet WAN Spplitely «| fem that of Mary Ann Doyle, twenty-two [years old, a servant In the rectory of Its investigation of the finances inde een oe ee ee Martin. of Tourn AFlini a0 (ne. jth ho Ma 0 i fairs of the Telephone ‘Trust, so the | One: Hunted vind RAM LP-omcsnd streat may put through a five-cent rave bill, [and Cambreling avenue, Th identi- Assembiyinan Mark Goldberg of Man-|fleation was inade by Rev, Eward J hattan offered the resolution, which the | O'Gorman, pastor of tie chureh, who ai read the description of the suicide U. S. MARSHAL FOR JERSEY, | Man to have ihe rate enacted tn a aw Aa RS : because the company word throw the ‘ matier int) ‘he courts aud car , * te the Supreme Cour: of tie United staiea Alu ous Yew Jormey and keep tt ther thige or four yearn | othe jew very good va ENE ORL ISEN ‘Continued ont n Page vot ru Witch hay wort Leng vate Be > | (FOR RAGING SBE PAGE : ar t ‘AUTO TRUCK HITS TROLLEY GAR, FOUR’ PERSONS INJURED i | | Lexington Avenue Car Hurled From Track at Forty-eighth | Street by Impact. | | | ‘PASS IN. PANIC} 3ERS Showered With Broken Giass —Policeman’s Foot Broken by Accident. la truck of the Guilt | Reftning of No a State Jatreet, passing through Forty-elghth treet, n into a northtn Open to All” | 24 PAGES el surface | earoin xington avenue late this afternoon = The force of the oollieion threw the car off the tracks, smashed im tte aide and broke almost all the windows. The front of the heavy truck wan dun aged and {t came to a halt close againat the aide of the ear, b! and southbound tracks, The trolley car was crowded. and men and women were hurled in heaps @lass. They fled for the doorways in a pantie, Policeman John ©, Menneanry thie Eaat Wifty-firet atreet station, who | was riding on the front platform of the car, wan tonned off, and benidex severe bruises and cuts probably had his right foot fracture Motorinan Payne was hurt, and Mrs. Au Paye of O40 East Sixty-fitth street, Mrs, Ellen Crockett of No. % Dale avenue, Pater- non, N. J. had hyaterice und with the two injured men were taken to Flower Hospital by Dr. Cooley Tie chauffeur of the truck saved himself by jumping just before the minash, He rolled over on the pave: | ment and wan slightly bruixed but not otherwise hurt. oe AQUEDUCT INSPECTOR IS | MADE NEW YORK CAPTAIN Board of Aldermen Appoints Rich- ard H. Burke to the Police Force. The Roard of Aldermen, by a renol- ution adopted today, transferred spector Richard H. Burke of duct police to be a captain in the New York polica, subject to the approval of the Police Comminsioner. Alderman Abram Herbat tntroduced the resolution, which wan passed 43 to 6, If Hurke gets the post hin salary will be reduced from $3,600 to 82,7 a year Recently the transfer of aqueduct po- Ncemen to the regular force was thorised by legislation, but the Civil Service Comiminsion questioned the au thority, Burke's transfer may be heli up in this way, i 60,000 IN CINCINNATI | IDLE BY WATER FAMINE: Great Peril | City es in Case} ten daya she had been #x-| | Fire Got Start—Sehools \ All Closed. i $-Sixty thousand | OINCINNATI, De workmen were thrown out of empiny- | here to-di a nt of the! f ontised by the breaking vuwe iain i the east end on last | Jay ‘This eatimate was made by | of Police Copelan a w | ling, Se y of the Chamber of} merce. eomlying reporte ail | tay flew the various factories that have imen forced ty coxa down With this information, however, came reamsiving n bat vie repaly main can ‘© completed by tae Band om expectedt that stuation will he nowmal by stated, wever, that the! smls Mould oot open unth Thursdas wid that on case the water le in poor wuiliiion for d NINpOSeN at tam nwo! ra feu for tne Lieingindes of pig Weem @nK Hoth north on the floor and showered with broken | Pret he, WEATHER—Fatr PRICE ONE CENT. — ——————————— SSS EARCH CONEY ISLAND HOMES FOR TRACE OF MISS JESSE MCANN Father Sure She Telephoned From Surf Ave. Drug Store This Morn- ing and Identifies Her From De- scriptions Furnished Him. MAYOR KLINE WILL TAKE UP SEARCH PERSONALLY Nurse Girl Talked to Social Worker. in Coney Restaurant Thursday and Saw Her Again Friday. Jessie Evelyn McCana, the pretty young social] worker and daughter of Robert G. McCann, who left her home, No. 488 East Twenty-firat street, Flatbush, last Thursday morning to go to the School for Destitute Chil- | dren in Sterling place, where she was employed as a kindergarten teacher in Coney Island no’ and who has not been seen by her family since, w. later than noon to-day, so her father is convinced. He and Detectives Brierton and State, with dosens of amateur assistants, are making prac- | tically a house-to-house canvass of the almost deserted summer resort in the hope of finding tho girl. ‘The father and the detectives reached Coney Island shortly after noon and hurried to Zeller’s drug store, in Surf avenue, near the Culver Railroad dopot, where they inquired eagerly if a girl answering the description of Miss McCann had telephoned from there, renner eeeeeeeennmenneeemanceen~ igh VOTES 10 SUPPORT GLYNN'S MEASURES into the telephone booth, whe: remained for many minutes. He described her as well an he could Bills Will Be Rushed Through and Final Adjournment Taken Next Friday Night. recall her appearance and Mr, McCann exclaimed: FATHER WAS SURE IT WAS HIS MISSING DAUGHTER, “Tt was she I am eure it wae ‘Hee “Sia” wam the family's pet name for Miss MoCann and Mr. McCann satd Effern's description of the girl almost perfect, the discrepancies being such as one might make on seeing the &irl only for a few minutes. Mra. Zeller, wife of the druggist, told the searchers that while she had been alone in the store {n the morning » girl had entered and asked to de directed to some place where she could get a fur- Mehed room nearby. Mra. Zeller had re ferred her to a group of houses known 8 Kister Court. The woman's description of the orl tallied clomaly with the description gives by Lifer of the girl he had seen and Mr. McCann and the detectives hurvted ALLANY, Doo. 9.—A majority of the bers of the Senate in conference to<lay voted to support Gov. Glynn's legislative programme, The plan aa arranged by them contemplates final | adjournment Friday nigut Thursday the Primary the conatitutional convention rerolution wili be taken up and on Friday the Workmen's Compensation bill. No Asseinbly conference has been held > SIX DAY RACE SCORE. (Forty-Firat Hour—8 o'Clock.) mei from the drug store, It was not until aft on billa and they had gome that Effers or Mra, ler recalled that they had not asked them how they came to have knowledge of « girl having telephoned from ée place. The fact that Mr. MoCann and the detectives were cognizant of thig fact feemed to add strength to the aupposi- tion that it really had mn Mii eCann 'n the atore and that ahe had telephoned to some friend, who conveyed the news weer’ i of her whereabouts to ber pa Verri aad Brocco : Capt, Murphy of the Coney Island Breton and Perchicot eee © | station hurled into the érug Root and MoMamara..... 656 © |eoom after Mr. MoCann had left. .me Lawrence and Magin ese | wae looking for the father ana tela Malsteed ard Drobach .. 656 © | the druggist that Mayor Kline had ar- Fogler and Goullet....... 656 © | Feaged to escort Sirs, McCann to the MIU and Byes... . a6 © (Island some time im the afterneon to Mansen and Aaderson.... 856 | take up the search unless the father's Carmen and Cameron 056 _. 6 (bunt meantime had proved enccessfal. Walthour end Collins... 056 © |GIRL SAW MISS M'CANN aT Mivten end Thomas ase e | CONEY ON FRIDAY. Applehans and Packe! ase e It was @ clue given by 4 nurse girl Clark and Grende ase 5 employe! by an old friend of the Walker and Corry ue S | MoCann family that sent Mr, MeCenn Kopsky and Keefe ase to Coney Island first swirl told Former record 661 miles no laps made by Root and Mekir in 1919. tha Moca nny that she had seen an: j talked with the miseing girl in Cone FOR STORY SEZ SPORTING satel | Igand Theraday, and had « }egain, though not co apeak to, the fol Panama to CWI. lowing day nt a. Dec, 9 ‘Mins Jessie was in a little resten- The ¢ ng the Repub tin Surf avenue, opposite the B. H. sof Central and South America to) ‘T. depot.” said the nurse girl, “and rouse interest in the Panama-Pacifle) when t spoke to her she said chet she Mxposition at San nervous, and instead of rangisco left bere} had been ve: to-day Cor Cuil) alies & ohexs agJgure. going to the sclovl hed taken @ long ' ;