The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1913, Page 1

Uv! _ | ™ Woman May Be Head of City Department I ‘Weather—Nain or snow to-night turdny ta PRICE ONE CENT. ef NAL EDITION __ Circulation Books Open to All The “ Circulation Boeks Open to Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Werld). ld, =F All,?? erm—Rain or WHITE SLAVE MOVIE STOPPED BY POLICE I NAT EDITION mow to-night) Saturday fair, colden NEW ¥ ECEMBER 26, 1913. —— Richard B. Lee Jr. and Wife} Hurled Many Feet in Broadway. TAXI RUNS OVER THEM. Couple Crossing Street in| Storm to Subway Kiosk Blinded by Umbrella. A police hunt fs on to-day for maroon-colored Imousine Which struck Richard B, Lee jr. and his wife, Gertrude, at Sixty-sixth street and Broadway early this morning and Duried them in front of a taxicab, The taxicad ran over oth, killing Mra. Lee ity-wide bis which he will recover unless complica- tions arise, Lee, who lives at No. 14 East Seven- teenth street and w: superintendent of Jes of the American Sugar Re- in Willtamsoure, was ambreila over himself and sted across Broad. | as they st way, The lim in which were three women and a man, & them Jroached the ty curb on its rapid flight down the} Street. The taxicab, close behind the Mmousine, bounded over the prostrate forms of Lee and his wife. The police have no Information as to the number of the limousine or the make of the car, They believe, how- ever, that the women will talk and give @ clue as witnesses testify that the oc- pants of the car knew what had hap- pened. Hesides the car must have been Pretty badly battered as the result of striking two person The big-maroon car did not stop. Two eye witnesses say tho women leaped from their seats, -but the car only in- creased Its speed, Its tail light was so tmperfectly adjusted that the number of the machine could not be read by ~ Harry De Forrest, chauffeur of the taxicab, Richard B, Lee jr, @ descendant of the famous Virginia family of that ‘ane, ts forty-five years old and for ears has held important position Ath the Amer Sugar Reflnery. H's wife was forty-two and he was her sec- Nd husband, She was a daughter of Col. Philip F. Harvey of Washington, a @tired army surgeon, who came he © spend the holidays with the Lees nd had been with his daughter and on-in-law only @ few minutes before he accident, ON THE WAY HOME FROM OIN- NER WITH FRIENDS. Mr. and Mrs, Lee and Col, Harvey ttended a Christmas dinner and recep- tion inst night at the home of friends fn Sixty-ninth strect, near Central Park West. ‘All were in evening dress and Including a pearl necklace, five diamond rings and two diamond studded bracelets. About 1 o'clock this morning they started home, Intending to take the subway. Mr. Lee had his left arm linked in the right of his wife, and was holding before their faces an um- ‘erella. Tho wind was very strong (Continued on Second Page) DEER KILLED IN 200. Buck Tackles Doe and Keeper Ar- vives Too La 4 Sanhar horse tailed deer, « buck, which has been in the Zoologica! Park in the Hronx for ral years, Attacked a doe of the same species in| their pen to-day. The buck has been| acting viciously for some time and it wan the intention of Keeper John Quinn to put him in a pen by himself to Quinn hPard the nolke of the Aght and ran into the pen and beat off the buck | with a club, but the doe was already so fadiy hurt that Dr, W. Reed Blair, the as they and ke POLICE HUNT JOY RIDERS WHO KILLED A WOMAN AND | LEFT HER HUSBAND DYING and inflicting Injuries upon Lee from |’ WOMAN WHO MAY BE APPOINTED HEAD OF CITY’S PRISONS. _CATHERINE WILSON AS FIREMAN SAVES HOUSE AND CALMS WOMAN President Directs Chauffeurs and Secret Service Men in Putting Out Blaze. ou . Miss., Dec, %.—President Wilson discovered the home of Mra. J. " Je on fire here to-day, and while he directed two chauffeurs and two Se- men how to extinguish the flames, he allayed Mrs, Neville's fears. The President returning to Pass Christian from a golf course and riding in tho front seat of an automobile when he saw amoke coming from the roof of the Neville home. He quickly alighted from the oar and went into the house where he encountered Mra, Neville, Your h son fire, but do not be alarmed entlemen here ‘point: ing to the © id Secret Service men) will put if you will show them how to get to the vald President Wilson to Mra, Neville, While ‘the two Secret Service men, James Sloan and Jack Wheeler, and cret Service was it out neon, rushed upstairs Mrs. Neville and she Was in no danger and yuld not be destroyed, whieh was in the roof, bad not gained great headway and wae easily put out by use of the fire extingulshers varried in the White House automobiles. Mrs Neville, who is an eMerly woman, was excited when the President first told her of the fire. She rushed to a bath- and George Ro: Mr, Wilson assured her the hou: The bl quieted rion to get a Lucket of water and then hurried upstairs to show the vern= mental tire fighters how to get to the roof, The President induced her to come downstairs, however, and remained with her ptil the four men announced that the fife was out, When the town fire Apparatus arrived i a few minutes it had no work tw th. Tie Neville home t* one of the pret- test on the gulf coast and Judge Ne- ) park veterinary, killed her with chloro. form } SS SAILING TO-DAY wille .. Lise sel ville is one of the town's most promi- nent citizens, He arrived Just as Pr NEW GITY HALL TP Miss Catherine B. Davis Said | to Have Been Picked | By Mayor-elect. to AS GALE FLOODS SUMMER RESORT Seabright, N. J., Completely Inundated, and Houses Are Toppled Over by Waters. MITCHEL KEEPING MUM. | Refuses Even to Say Whether | Waldo Will Hold Over GREAT DAMAGE DONE. 8 | Man Seen to Plunge to Death as Mast of Stranded Barge for a Few Days. Falls. Miss Catherine B. Davis, who is at the head of the Bedford Reformatory, is maid to have been decided upon by |Mayor-elect Mitchel for the post of Com- mismoner of Correction. As such Miss Davis would be at the head of all the penal institutions in the Greater City, « Place which carries great responsibilities ‘and never before held by a woman. Mise Davis ts sald to have bee: recom- mended by John D, Rockefeller jr. John W. Kingbury of the Amertcan Association for the Impre' ent of the Condition of the Peer and who was one of the Roosevelt “chair leaders” during the Chicago Convention, is understood te have been offered by Mr. Mitchel and to have accepted the $7,000 a year office of Commissioner of Charities, ‘The fury of the wind and sea, which combined and raged for hours in an almost unprecedented storm, has vastated a long stretch of the New Jer- |sey coast, Yor mile after mile, from | Long Branch northward to the very gates of New York, coasting vessels were driven aground and two barges a 0 to have sunk. Houses were swept from thelr foundations end wrecked and others toppled over and dismantied The town of Geadright, N. J., a fash- fonable summer resort, has heen wrecked as if by @ tropical hurricane. Scores of people were meade horh and hundreds of thousands of dollara’ Mr. Mitchel was asked to-day if he damage inflicted, It will be many days would name a Police Commissioner the before the devastated communities re- firat day of the New Year. This ques- cover from the storm, tion was put because of the rumors to Nearer New York there je a similar the effect that Commiasioner Waldo story of dentruction, with the flooding of fa and bulldings along the shores and river fronts, the submerging of t newly made part of Governor's 1s) and the wrecking of pavilions and walks at Coney Island and Brightes Beach. Elsewhere the flooding of rati- way tracks has interfered with traffic and electric lighting planta have been temporarily put out of working order. BULKHEADS GIVE WAY AND TOWN I8 FLOODED. Bullheadn had been constructed to might held over until the new Mayor made up his mind about @ successor. WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTION UNTIL CLOSE OF YEAR, Mr, Mitchel was not even willing to admit that he would appoint a commis- moner when the names of the her members of his cabinet were announced, He sald he would answer the question on the Slat of this month, “Do you mean that you cannot answer that question now?’ the Mayor-elect MEN CLASPING HANDS was asked “I simply won't answer it,” he re- Protect Seabright, but the moa tore at pitea. them eo Seen Lees mruve way in = two or three places the town wee The lat of applicants for Jobs sub peg) Wine. Wiesel and the cone oe mitted to Mayor-elect Mitchel by hood Greatest height they swept over the Samuel Koentg contained the following 7 ormalens: Reieht Nay : names: Beekman Winthrop, Beverly |, Facing across the etrip of land, joined with the waters of the Shrewsbury River. The greatest suffering from the atorm is in the north fishery region. There the homes of the fsherfolk were flung about by thi torm and de- stroyed, The dwellers there lost their boate and fahing paraphernalia, and (o-day they are practically destitute, Robbins, Alfred Marling, Gherardi Da- vie, EB. St Whitin, Edward R. Finch, Martin Saxe and Frederick C, Tanner, ALL THE JOB HOLDERS ANXIOUS ABOUT EFFICIENCY. Some af the worried ones holding jobs in the Public Service Commission claim that if there is @ wholesale dis- SNOW NOW AND SANTA’ GONE, BUT MAY HELP EACH OTHER TO DEATH) Kentuckians End Quarrel by Standing at Arms’ Length the two chauffeurs, Charles Fredericks | “BLL” EDWARDS missal of men at about this tiné the ef- Soon after the storm reached its ficlency of the commission would be q lazing Awav | height the town electric Mating plant very seriously decreased. It Is their and Blazing Away, failed, It wee then that those who contention that you cannot dismiss an: a hid been rendered homelean were | take on men indiscriminately where bian | Giving Him a Chance to Show tuken to the town hall and lodged for class positions are involved, and eape- . ve 7 LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec %—Word| the night, the women and ohildren clally during the construction of the wew| Mitchel — Wishy-Washy | reached here to-day from Pineville, Ky.,| rematning there while the men went subway | that Solomon Jackson and Tate Sou-| back to the work of trying to save Following !s a list of positions in the) Storm May Get Better. what they could tn the hurricane. ders of that clty foueht a strange duel exempt class: They @uccesded in propping up somo there yesterday in which both lost their Secretary to the Commission, 9,000; | of the houses, but others were flung tary to the Chairman of the © Santa Claus ts back in hin bungalow |!¥e® « own before their eye mission, $1,100; assistant secretary, $6005 | itn pote, doubtless In utter, The men had trouble over a lawmuit| WIND WAS BLOWING MORE four secretaries to the Commissioners, 0 ees oners, | Petes aes INEST od it wan mumeented Oat they clasp) THAN 100 MILES AN HOUR, 140 Sachi ony cblet engineer, $4.90: | ienaranse @ fact that the #0" | thete tert nande and with plate! In ine | ‘The storm rewched ite helght at about lee iaannke DRNeeRSE AAWAY conmeneS Ie te ee es PATE. right hand of each “shoot It out." 4 o'clock this morning, when the wind vith @ mante te yesterday tn of his visit didn’t arrive until 2 biew 100 ules an hour. AD By that time Buber, James Leo Standing hand each other, tion, $7,500; #lx d.vision eu, hand they killed at 6,000, one at $5,000, two general inspectors *, four 1 $4.00; |the homes of and John Brohn had been toppled over wrecked and the house of Mra. and one Nor aftern (one vac helat >- an one principal assistant 1 storm was a feeble, winhys UNCLE OF WILSON STRICKEN, | Laura ttavens undermined and washed an sent hy affatr at tie beginning, but —~ away. Gangs of men went to work as , $2.00), and one) may blossom into something Hke a Heney W. Weodrow Dies Suddenty | soon as th could be provided with | vacant; sec y to the Counsel, $1,600 accumulation of flakes If « at Chillicothe, 0, [One SA ae (an eeuas 8h Pomme te acant; . y | remaining houses, all of which hud jconfldential stenographer to the Coun- 1 now rag! ecomes CHILLICOTHE, ©, Dec, %—Henry | suffered and were In danger of coliapa- jnel, $1,200; secretary to the Bureau of | Hudson Riv W. Woodrow, an uncle of President | ing. Gas and Electricity Inspection, $3,600; riline (of ove lraw Wilson, died suddenly to-day | in the more substantial part of the Jone electrical en| sVacants one ae i ay ano at his home in thin vity, city lawns were wasted away and the wistant electrical engineer, $1,990; chief ‘The Mr Woodrow was a lawyer by profes-|treets covered thigh-deep with water, statistician, $5,400; confidential stenog- Y sion and prominent in the business and|In many places the railroad was sub- rapher to each Commission, §) nieg | und t Panaylvania Wivyeiad affairs of Chillicothe merged and at others the sleepers were as engineer, $3,600; one transportation have ertalning show since last Me Woodrow, who had long beem| washed from under the rails, Traffic engineer, vacant - Vnighe e storm t* moving east- n the poll north of Seabright has been discon- a ward AS for the Penne Win end of sional Dlstri tinued. COURT ORDERS 'FRISLO .'... storm, it mas be shunted off wus an applicant for oint-| AS soon ae the sea water leaped across untaing, but the Mohawk Vale as internal revenue collector for | the ridae and joined the watérs of the sae WIMtMIAR te nist @ tkkarlin aes imbus district. The appointment | Serowsbury, the city sewers backed up RESTITUTI ON SUIT nimiiaanatialn conditions ct pute ail a Heriah . Willlamaon, Mr, | and the hounea became flooded, some of . nate) Wy the cellare having elunt feet of water in drow being ruled out of co - ' nthe first snowfall of if nelaaeD | Eee ‘AY preten= tion hy the declaion of President Wilson | them. We 4 sions since the winter of 191t to not appoint his relatives to office, | HOTELS UNDERMINED BY RUSH | Receiver for Railroad Directed to) street Ctenninig Comins: Mr. Woodrow Was woout sixty-five yearg OF THE WATERS, | ( ‘ wards wouldn't mind If the at age Bring an Action Agains! wae A a 4 In parta of the residence section the ig J c 8 >a depth of @ couple of feet. ‘Me firat i bulkheads managed to hold, but the Directors, ve danuanry te drawing 4 Mayor Sw fm a jorman. " waves leaped over them most unexpect- ne rapidity and Comminsioner Kdwards Mayor Kilne left the City Hall this ir edly and commenced their ruin, N. 22 PAGES: tdent Wilson was leaving and thanked ST. TOUS, Deo, %—Jaines W bas 80 Arranged his snow fighting forces afternoon for Brooklyn, where he ap-| the Octagon Hotel the bulkhead yielded war \ receiver for the St Louie a) oud show Mr peared before Judge Stapleton of the] to the pounding of the waves, and when ident’ay concern for Mr» | ®rancis lay was dire ir something Appellate Vivision of the Supreme] the breach was made the hotel was un- of te aweetest things | 2¥ Cire: nborn to ne t Cleans Court and was aworn tn as alderman, | dermined and let down one corner of the on on ne said w wort time | esti Suit against certail ne to which offee he was chosen last mies later. “ and farmer directors, @ecpon from the Fifty-fres Digtriot, (Conjaued on Tenth ! ( | PRICE ONE O ——————— | ENT COURT GIVES POLICE RGHT 10 STOP MOVIE OF ThE WHITE SLAVES Justice Gavegan Vacates Injunction and Waldo’s Men Promptly Stop Display of Social Evil Film at Park Theatre. CROWD IS DRIVEN OUT, MAKING STRONG PROTEST Bijou Theatre Injunction Still Holds, But Police Believe Gavegan’s Action Is a Precedent. The Park Theatre will be closed to-night. If it isn’t the police will raid-it again. This was the effeot of the decision of Justice Gavegan in Part I. of the Supreme Court this afternoon in the application of the Sociological Film Manufacturing C zorporation to make permanent the temporary injunction of “The Inside of the White Slave Traffic” at the Park Theatre. The police believe the decision able to stop all the social evil {lms The temporary injunction was main application for a permanent inj sets a precedent and that they will be without court injunction, vacated by Justic8 Gavegan, but the junction was taken by him under con- sideration. This did not suit Counsellor Gruber for the film company at all, He was sorry that he had made the application for a permanent injune- tion, He begged permission to withdraw it. His request was denied and there was a snap to the words of Justice Gavegan, LILLIAN LORRAINE HAS NOTHING TO WEAR: SHE BLAMES BURGLAR; Crool Thief Stole All Gowns and Made Late at Rehearsal. Her Her Liltan Lorraine, @ for rehear pleane the ® variety stur, was | to-day, because, may Court, she hadn't a air, not a thing. While Miss Lorraine wan performing lant night at one of the uptown theatres it thing to wear & crool, crool burglar broke into the apartment jn the Hotel Wentworth, No. 69 Wost Morty-aixth street, oceu- piel by Misy Lorraine, and stole Jow- elry, a fur coat and al) Mins Lorraine's gowns, including some she hud just fad inade for the new piece now re hearatng, Mies Lorraine notified the Detective Bureau, but when « sleuth was nent t the hotel he was told that Miss Lor raine could not see him wll 6.30 o'clock this evening because of rush of ap- pointments, Reporters also were denied interviews and the manager of the ho- tel would not be seen. At the offices of Lee Shubert tt was sald that Mise Lorraine had telephoned that she would be I to rehearsal, owing to { her apartm, had been rr and she hadn't ‘a thing to wear. Mina Lorraine ts @aid to have been in tears when she teic- phoned, but she said her beat jewelry was not missing, ain fe wore it last night when the robbery was commitied ee Valle D Probably Die. Dominic Loprete expected to find his freight olevator at its usual piace, the Airat floor of the loft building at No. 3% Cresby street, when he went there for work to-day. He opened the door and stepped, a» he thought, into the elevator, but it was not there and he fell to the bottom of the shaft, fifteen feet below and fractured hie skull, Loprete ts 1s years old and iivee at No. nerr: tr He was taken to St. Vincent's HaemhlA, and wi) Arobably de MPa ass The queation of the Court's jurisdtes Mon was involved, for which reason | Justicn Gavegan withheld his decision on the permanent injunction, Justice Gavegun asked Assistant Diatric ney Nicholson if the pgote plu avegan then mado the order the temporary tnjuncti: ‘Ving his decision on the permanent injunction “I withdraw the application!” cried Gruber, returned Justice Gavewan, curtly, and he left the bench, The decision doen not affect the in- Junction amatuat the police in the case of the Bijou Theatre, That case came up thie morning, and hearing was post- voned until Monda: When Justice Gavegan’s decision bad been announced Assistant Corporation Counsel Nicholson said: ‘There is no longer anything tc pre- vent the police from closing the theatre \f they attempt to give @ performance. The Park Theatre has heen operate for th under the injunction which restrained the po- lice from making further raids and now that this restraint has been removed Mr. Newburger and his men will be ready to arrest all hands if the theatre attempts to give @ performance, ‘The auditorium of the Park Theatre dy well filled with expectant tora when word of the decision reached the theatre, The announce- ment Was made immediately by the management that there would be no performance. There was great excite- ment all over the house, Those who had bought tickets and were inside ob- Jected to leaving and crowds clamored for adiniasion. The fight of the moving picture folk and the police has done more than any other one thing to ad- vertise the show. Tho films were shown at the Bijou this afternoon as usual, Deputy Com- missioner Newburger consulted with Commissioner Waldo and received or- ders, It 1s understood, to go as far as the law would allow him In preventing the exhibition of the films, No attempt was made to give @ performance at the Park Theatre. i is TL le {$12 Men's O'coats & Suits, $5.95 The "RUB" Clothiers, Broadway, cor. OLD | Barclay Str. ASTOR ZOvSS, will | sell to-day end Batu » 1,20) en's | Winter Suits and Overcoats, diack thibet, | fancy grays, blue, penetl atripes, browns | and dark mixed wor hate ot ‘ated y | 44; worth $12 In any other store; our pectal pricé to-day and fesuraay. Open Saturday night till 28 The ~ qn © 1, 90 BOOBY, ares va sci nce othe replied the attorney ‘ UJ