The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1913, Page 3

‘N “p VALSONATWORK ON HS ANTTRUST » ONERESS ADDRESS President Devoting Part of His Vacation Time to Prepara- uon of the Paper. HAS OTHER MATTERS. Selection of Members for the Federal Reserve Board Also Keeps Him Busy. PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss, Dec. %.— President Wilson today mapped out ® programme of recreation for his vinit here. He will sleep at least nine hours ‘each night. After breakfast he will motor to the Mississipp! Country Club, thirteen mil away, golf with his physician, Dr. Cary 7. | Grayaon, U, 8 At noon he will dispose of whatever important letters or telegrams may reach him from the White House, and after luncheon fill take an automobile ride with his family, followed perhaps by a long walk along the beach roads. The Pree ident plans to @pend the evenings read- ing. _ With this proportion of rest and exer- cises he hopes to get back to vigorous heaith again. The weather early to-day brightened and the President enjoyed @ round of golf. His two daughters end Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, his cousin, took ‘® long horseback ride. WILL CONSIDER MEN FOR THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. While the President will do iittle of- ficial work, there at present are two «things uppermost in his mind—the tection of members of the Federal Re- serve Board and the writing of a spe- | cial address to Congress on the rela- tone of the Government to ‘big business and the trusts Of the choice of members of the board Which will put into the new currency system, there ie little possi- > Riiity that che President finally will de- returns to we be probably will confer with Cabinet warding the personnel of the board. ‘Those closely associated with the Presi- dent belteve there will be no nomina- tions unti! the full sixty day period al- lowed by law for the selections has about expired. WILL DRAFT HIS ANTI-TRUST ADDRESS TO CONGRES: The President probably will make a rough draft of hia anti-trust address while here and later submit it to lead- ors in the campaign. Injection into the trust situation of what the Administra- “tion regards as a growing desire on th part of business jen to co-operate with “the Government in reorganizing their yeonipantes to conform with the Sherman lan rtually certain will be dwelt on dy due President, ‘Thone who! conferred with Mr, Wil- son before he left Washington drew encouragement for the ultimate estab- Hehment of an Interstate Trade Com- {mission to reply for requests for i formation made by business concerns desiring accurate detatis of what the ghgrman law permits or prohibits, While such a commission would not be*given regulatory powers, it would constitute a bureau of information and investigation, over which its advocates: intend the Commiastoner of Corpora- gions should preside. It would asstet fhe courts in carrying out decrees of Ainsolution by observing whether auch degrees actually are put into effect. { hie is one of the phases of the trust question which in the light of } recent developments ie considered quite likely to be discumed by the | President in his address, The Pres- > {dent jes told friends he will deliver the address immediately, after the probable it will be read on about a week efter Mr. Wil- returned to the White House and canvagsed the subject shoroughly Twith his official family. ——————— 1/BAD WEATHER SAVED THEM. } It Drove Foreman to Closed ‘Where Gas Overcame Watchme! Because he found the weather diaagres- able, John Digott!, foreman for L. Sehme- ti nan. taflor at No, 81 Broome street, decided to visit the loft to-day to go * over hie agcounts, although work had atopped until Monday. He couldn't get * tg when he mapped on the door, ant fearful that something must have hap pened to Benjamin and Chris Alt- man, who. lived together at No. @ Columbus street and who acted as night | Watchmen, he went down stairs and @imbed the fire escape. ‘A rush of as which almost overcame ‘aim. wag encountered as he reached the . Poteamen Moffat and Mc- Carthy olimbed up to htm as he shouted. They opened another window and orept to the rear of the loft where they found | Day and Altman sensel but alive, on | cote where they had been asleep, | “Dr. Daly, who took the watchmen to ' St, Viricent’s Hospital, eald each was in ' g@ deugerous condition and Day might die, -ftoelther Hves he wil) owe Me life to the “inclement weather which drove Dowotti to the shop. 4 aGhy Gas Qian caused tbe srouble. for a game of! @fvisers and friends re- | '**Come On | | \ | | \ | {WIRELESS ON A LINER TOLD OF TWINS AT HOME Carl Fuehrer Was Starting to Chi- cago Happy When News Came of Wife's Death, There was no happier man aboard tho Austro-Amorican liner Laura, inbound from Trieste, yesterday than Cari Fuehrer, a Chicago hotelkeeper, return- ing to his family from a@ visit to his parents in the old country. Early In the morning a steward hupted out Mr. Fuehrer with a wireless message and Mr. Fuehrer immediately sought out the frlends he had made on the voyage and led them to the smoking room. “It's twins,” said he. ‘Here's to ‘em and the wife. Many times through the day Mr. Fuehrer repeated his toast until by nightfall every one on board knew of his good fortune. There were ‘many to to Chicago as he hustled off the steam- ship this morning when It docked at the Bush Stores in Brooklyn. He waved his hand mhouted @ cheerful goodby, but at the end of the pier « small mes- @enger boy stopped him and handed him & message. Mr. Fuéhrer grabbed it, inning to @ man who had come off hip with him. "By jingo, maybe it's triplets,” he de- clared gleefully and tore the message open. He looked at it and ail the joy went out of his face. Then he handed ft to his friend. There were only a few words. Briefly it said: “Mrs. Puelirer died last night.’ See *TWAS PAT’S BAD DAY. en Halted to Station Ho: Sure, and !t was a bad day for Pat He was driving along Sixth avenue in his cab early to-day when his horse broke all precedents and ran away. Pat managed to cling to his tempest tossed vehicle until it reached Fortleth street, when he was jolted loose. His feet became entangled in the Hines and he was dragged head downward from Fortieth to Thirty-ninth street When the h was stopped Pat was found to have contusions of the head, but the police sald he had something else also and locked him up in the West Thirtieth street station on a charge of {ntoxication. He sald his full name was Pat MoCarthy. ———E en $2,000 Store Wine Ci front of the Hilton Company's clothing store, Fulton and Smith streets, Brook- lyn, were ahattered by the high wind rly to-day, The windows, of bevel- glass and worth about $900 or $700 re blown out almost simul- t the total damage being esti- mated at about $2.00 ‘The Hilton Com- pany has lost heavily before by wind breaking its plate glsss trom, shake his hand and wish him God-speed | THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918. In, Water Is Fine,’’ Sung at Coney (OUCH'S AFFINITY. By Gay “Snowbirds” and ‘‘Polar Bears’’ LefT to Ri AUCE Elaine Golding Leads the “Birds’’ and George S. Dougherty the “Bears” in Christmas Day Swim While Spectators Shiver On Wind Swept Beach. While folks up Yonkers way were giv- ing. their lawns a Christmas haircut 490 men and women down about the other end of the Greater City, Brighton Beach, were enjoying a dip 4n the aurf. ‘The water was % degrees and the at- mosphere 37, and a brisk wind made feveral dozen’ spectators stand and shiver, But the dauntiess Snowbirds, Poler Bears and Arctics frolicked on the sands and in the ocean at the Parkway Baths just as if it was summer. Among the forty women and girls were new members of the winter bath- jing clubs who were just “breaking in” and had nice new sults left them by Sante Claus. The bathers appeared on the sands with bath robes over thelr suits, These were thrown aside while the men and women engaged in running races and tossed the medicine ball. Then came the plunge into the waves, Some of them remained in fifteen min- utes. Among the women was Miss ine Golding, who looked more eun- durned than ever because of her trip to Panama, where she swam part of the canal. Her seven days’ trip back home made her feel the need of exercise, x0 REFEREE FINDS GIFT TO BOGTOR IS VOID Sustains Objections to $25,000 Clause in Miss Mary W. Parkin’s Will. Charles H. Beckett, referee, has de- ided that Dr. Feodor von Rajts ts not | ntitled to the $5,000 which, In 1910,| she swam about a mile toward Sanity ifteen months defore her death, Miss| Hook, accompanied part of the way by fary Parkin agreed to give him, In| Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty and Miss Jeanette Ehrman. After the swim the bathers made a dash for the dressing rooms to have 2 rubdown, The number yesterday was sald to be the largest Christmas Day turnout in years, Another one of the regulars besides Mr. Dougherty was Deputy Fire Commissioner George W. Olvaney. ‘The management of the baths put up a notice yesterday announcing thet @ silver loving cup will be given to the first woman bather who enters the water In 194, while a case of wine will he the prize for the first man to take a dip in the new year, Last year's pri was won by Charles Holmburg, and great competition is expected. _—<—_—- $10,000,000 BILTMORE WILL HELP NEW YEAR 1N Public Opening of Hotel to Be A’ ticipated by Big Reception to Show Its Beauties. is ceport to the Supreme Court the ete. sustains the refusal of the ex- cutors tqmpase over the money to the octor. Miss Parker had been @ patient of r. von Raitz for seven years before er death. She signed an agreement to | tye doctor $25,000 “in consideration fits untiring devotion to me and also n consideration of his kindness and | ‘arity to poor patients." The referee ‘und that Miss Parkin had pald the hysician $11,630 in feeseand loaned him $8,400 which he had not repald. It is decided that the gift of $25,000 t»| old because it was intended to operate er the donor's death and Ho far ae ppeared, the referee finds, the pay- rent of $11,650 was ample to cover the octor's professional services. Dr. von Raits {s being sued by Mra lellie P, Fitzgeraid, No. 611 West ist | treet, for $10,000 for assault. | —— HELD HER UP TO SCORN, | | SHE SAYS, IN THEATRE: Anybody'd think there are enough ho- tels in Manhattan now. But there aren't Told. Her, Stage Characters Por-| not by $10,000,000 worth, Else the i | new Biltmore Hotel, which coat that trayed Their Own Life and — | much, woutdn't be going to open on New Yea Eve, which it ts, It Wasn't True. This new hotel, wilch was begun bt ESTELLE LEITMANN, JEANETTE QUIGLEY, , DAISY DURAND and PAULA STANLEY..., LEEHAN, SOBER NOW, PLEADS FOR MERCY Wife Says It Would Be Merciful to Send Him to Sanitarium, as She Can't Support Him. (Special to The Firening World.) WHITE PLAINS, Dec, 3.—Witltam Leehan, who was acquitted at Toms River tast Saturday of the murder of Mra. Caroline Turner of Lakewood and celebrated his acquittal by getting drunk in New York and then continu- ing his Jag to this town, was arraigned before City Judge Lamb this morning, having spent Christmas in jail, Leehan was sober but shaky and he begged hi wife not to have him sent to a hos- pital or an asylum. He pleaded with her to mend for his father, who was to have taken him to the old farm in New Hampshire, whither Leehan, in the midat of his debauch, declared he never would go. “Please be merciful,” Leshan begged. “Don't send me to the Poughkeepsie Asylum or any hospital. It will only make me worse, I will stop drinking, honestly I will, tf you will only put me on a train and send me to father.” Mrs. Leechan sorrowfully told a re- porter that her husband was # mental and physical wreck, and that It would be the beat thing that could happen to him {f he were put in a hospital or sanitarium where there was some of curing him. imagines I am trying to put him y,"" sald she, “but it Is only for his own good, He has no money and I can- not support him. ——_ DIGS UP COIN WORTH $3,500. Laborer Ft Prised by Collectors. (Special to The Krening World.) NEW HAVEN, Conn. Dec. 26.—A ailver dollar bearing the date 1804, highly prized by numiamation, and unceratood to be quoted at $3,500 for colleotion purposes, waa found here to-day. William Sullivan, @ labor exouvating on the site of the new tce rink for the Yale hockey team, turned over with his shovel an old jar which rested on @ boulder seven feet below the surface of State atrest nearby. Under the bow! was a aitver emuffhox made in Nuremberg, green with oxiiH- sation, and in it a United States aliver dollar dated 1804, in good condition, a number of Connecticut copper col Contgental note for #3, several 6 notes and some rings, The metal ar- ticles w lightly corroded, but they rubbed up well and dates were plain, ‘The notes had to be carefully handled to prevent disintegration. ‘The Northampton Canal was clone by in the old days and excavation showed a ledge of rocks on which the boulder rested, giving the impression that water furmerly covered the spot, The snuft- | box was taken to jewellers for exam ination. ‘They found the coins to be as followa: Silver dollar dated 184 with last March and which has been oom- Samuel Kohn, & pleted two months ahead of contract ri Ithy carpet manu- facturer of No. %! Vernon avenue, Brooklyn, took his young wife to the | duiremente——with the help of 49300 men theatie: recently portrayed | Working night and day for the past week | the faithlesanoss of u woman obsessed | occupies the block between Vanderbilt Iaith a desire 16% toies and are tend lison avenues and Forty-third | Kohn told Supreme Court Justice Hene- and fourth streets, Right undar- dict in Brooklyn to-lay that In the neath its twenty-elx floora are the tracks Ante y one husband ex of the Grand Central Station, Though the grand opening will usher in @ volee $0 loud that all about ald hear in the new year, the private opening will | “Isn't it strange, J te dear, that | take place next Tuesday night, when this play should be based exactly on | stockholiers, Incoming und ovsuoing city representatives of the press our life together. | Mrs. Kohn said the action of the play was halted for a moment by her tears, and when she got home she upbraided which was monizes with the architecture of the Nher husihand, who explained that while | Grand Central T he knew his charge was not true, then — [it would be if they continued to live Mtogether, It was only one of hia many eruelt ios, ald minated on > , “on account of 4 glowing he tus,” Bhe w Meration and Just rptionist admitted the Benedi 300 counsel fe and $40 4 my for the su Wauls a report port of herself and thetr ohildr 1 want you to A Lola, giz yeare old, and Marjorie, fouy, write ik” letters around the edge in place of mill- ing; sliver dollar, 17%; three Connecti- cut copper coins, 1787; Connecticut Btate banknote for forty mblilings, dated 1778 Continental note of 176 for made in Strassburg in 178 |property written In old Eng yet deciphered, of date of 107; a a t dated 12%, with six imprints on lit which appear to Se impasts by the Viritish Government. ‘The hall mark on | the snuffibox is of 1740, | —_ | DRIVER'S SKULL FRACTURED. Andrew Gilroy, fifty-five years old, whose address is not known to police, was perhaps fataily Injured carly ‘this morning when the horse at- tached w the hansom cab which he way driving ran away on Thirty-Atth street near Sixth avenue, Gilroy was thr: to the roadway and landed on his head A passenger tn the cad, Edward Hughes of No. #2 Bergen avenue, Jere wey City, Was uninjured. Gilroy wae emoved to the New York Hoxpital oy Dr, Senrock, who sald the driver aad received @ fracwure of tue akulb {Wants to Get Out of Public @tunned by the volume of mail she bas Tecelved, Miss Adelaide M. Branch, who for three yea mall room in the rear of the late Mel- ‘Temple as his aMnity, will to-day decide and institutions, a Mllver Dollar of 1804, | gag ere FEAR MISSING CHILD =! | __ MAY BE STOWAWAY WITH HER GRIEF... to Austria. ‘That thirteen-year-old [ether Acker. | man has attempted to work her way) |back to At although she has no | money, fa the fear of her anxious par- ents, She came here with her mother only five weeks ago and has been so! homesick that nhe declared she would Gaze and Probably Will Go Wes. * parents did not take her there. been missing ever since Monday from her home, No. 7% De Kalb avenue, Will- famabure, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacad Ackerman, are wondering whether & little girl without money could man- @n0 @ steamship voyage across the ocean, ‘They have searched averywhero without getting trace of the child end they are certain that when #he loft her| home tt was to try and get back te) Austria. On Monday last the little girl beamed to be allowed to stay home from the afternoon session at Public School No. % and Mra, Ackerman spanked her de- fore she compelied her to atart back to achool about 12.45 o'clock. Bather lett! house mulking and with her eyes atill wet with tears, She declared ®ever go to the hateful school again and she kept her word. Esther ts a pretty child, large for her She weighs abow one hundred and stands five feet four inci In height. She has dark hair and brow: eyes and wore a blue suit, biack coat and velvet hat and black shoes and stockings when she left nome. she had no money, and ber only jewelry s gold locket and chain of small value. Her lack of meana ta one reason why her parents cannot believe that she aged to take pase for Austria. At the same time they are equally un- able to comprehend how she could have supported herself without funds through the five days that ghe has been away trom home. DR. CARREL AND BRIDE SAILING FOR NEW YORK “What T did will be dear to mo as a| Famous Surgeon Was Married in Memory," she explained, “but it would | Paris To-Day to Mme. break my heart to go back to auch work | i de la Mairie. tow. Not that I would not, in other circumstances, gladly accept such em-| pags, Dec. ¥.—Dr. Alexia Carrel, the ployment, but it was from Mr. Couch | famous surgeon who Is connected with that I learned to take shorthand notes | the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- and to operate a typewriting machine. | search, wae married here to-day to To reaume the duties of a stenographer | Madamo de 1a Maire, Dr. and Mra. would not be fair to him and it would |(arre! will sall for New York to-mor- break my heart.” row. ‘ LEFT WILL GIVING ALL TO COUCH. Further evidence of her devotion was found yeaterday when Mins Louise Copech, in rummaging through papers in her father's private safe, caine upon Misa Branch's will, which had been writ- ten by ber and ieft everything to him. Miss Branch hoped that her death would come before that of her “master.” She believed thst, although he wan aixty- flv years old and she was twenty-five years his junior, his remarkable vitality wed give hin at leaat twenty years moro of life, The determination to bequeath her property, which, so far as is known, consists of mortgages aggregating 942, suite of clothes and @ few books, ed just before Miss Branch left Couch's room last July to seek for a few days the companionship of a woman in Ellenville, N. Y. “I loved him all through and to him rightfully belonga everything 1 possess in this world,” Miss Branch wrote in her will, according to Sheriff Kinnte, who {ook posxension of the dogument, “I only wish that [ had more than I possess to give to him, | am his slave, at i mine belongs to him. Aff Kinnle declined to make Ho the entire contents of the will, bul said Miss Branch designated every bit swell jer, which 3 WILLED ALL TO COUCH. “! Am His Slave,” She Wrote in Document Drawn Last July. MONTICELIO, N. ¥., Dec. 3.—Almost seoreted herself in a vin H. Couch's law office in the Masonic where she will go. She has received many offers fram philanthropic persons “I am expecting my brothe: “and unt he comes I cannot Tmay go. All I desire ts to live quietly where I shall not be known. I want to be left alone with my sorrow, 1 do not think I shall go to Hartwick, where my brother lives.” It tp Delleved whe will go West. She has received many offers for the “story of her Hfe and contracts to go on the atage, but will listen to none of them, “Cannot people realize that such a thing would be outrageous and sbaurd?* she asked. She says whe will take no Dosition as stenographer, although she had become proficient in doing Couch's work. Dr, Carrel received the Nobel prise in wiz for hin services to medical and surgical acience. He was born in 1873 in Sainte Foy len Lyons, His early edu- cution wan at the University of Lyons. Hie research work and his marveltou skill in bone flesh grafting tracted the attention af the facult; MoGii University in Montreal was induced to join that institution. Later he spent two years at the Univer- sity of Chicago before undertaking his present post with the Rockefeller In- wtitute In 1908, He has performed mar- Vela In transponing vital ongans in hu- aan bodies and In the bodies of animate. ee MR. TALBERT RECOVERING. Banker's Kn- a of he Joseph Tarbert, Vice-President of the National City Bank, who was stricken with paralysis last Saturday on the links of the Garden City Golf Club, was reported this morning to be much im- proved. Ho ts still confined to his bed In the Garden City Hotel and ts under the constant care of Dr. Louls M. Lanehart of Hempstead and several trained nurses, ; affiiction is one from hich recovery muat be slow, and he je responding to treatment to the satisface physician. There is hope ith will be completely re- Ex- COUCH WILL NOT FOUND AS VET. Miss Couch falled to find « wit ataned by her father, but whe is confident his legal widow will have no trouble in ab- taining possession of hia property, whicn amounts to leas than $5,000, ac- cording to the family's estimate, Misn Branch's only Joy was the re turn of @ photograph of Couch which bad been taken from her effects in M the attorney's office. Couch posseasion of it and refused to give it up, but Mise Branch pleaded and threatened, and late yesterday Mra. . Nee Couch sent the picture to her, senate news for sick fol Maa Dr. James A. Crauthers to-day hetd | {Orne Tet ae remedy and @ an inquest on the death of Stanley B. Smith, w local Jeweller, who shot him- |i) ‘down like you would sweet seit Christmas Eve. Dr, Crauthers ts | ‘iucolate, That's what Ex-Lat seems sued a statement in which he wald that |\ive in tool taste, No more the shooting had absolutely nothing to| yulping down pills—-no more hard do with the death of Mr. Couch, to-awallow tablet Bo more nast; "So far as 1 oan loarn, the suichle did tasting liquids, like our grandad. not even know the lawyer,” he wat. | digg |. ExeLax does the busi- and no mistake about it, yet e candy, for Doc, 2. Unable to get work and with no money left, John A. Skinner of No, 372 Hast Ono Hundred and Forty-ffth street, Manhattan, com- mitted sulcide last night by inhaling gas through @ rubber tube in rooms he pocupied at the home of Henry Smith here. He hed a wife and two children residing in Manhattan. FREE at All oa Old maids and young maids, bachelors and benedicts use Ose CEYLON TEA White Rose Coffee, Rich and Pore|{ ZAKE A FREE copy 'd| navy, and while I hope and dell Constipation This Wonderful Chocolate Laxative Biliousness and All Bowel Troubles chocolate bad poe itive delight to take, Just eat it}end The World’s Winter Resort Guide for 1913-1914 The Greatest Guide of Its Kind Ecer Published ! Of Large Size, Printed on Heavy Coated Paper. Profusely Illustrated. Presenting all the information a tourist or vacation-taker would want to know about Winter Resort Hotels and Boarding Places at home and abroad, Steamship Cruises to Foreign Lands, Railroad Routes, Hotels and Restaurants in New York City, &c. HOME WITH YOU TO-NIGHT! semew DEWEY, CELEBRATING { HIS 76TH. BIRTHDAY, WANTS NO MORE WARS But He Says the Country Should Have an Adequate Navy to Maintain Peace. WASHTNGTON, Dec, 98.<Admiral George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, on his seventy-sixth birthday to-day gave & message of peace through the United Press. IT see no signs of war in the Suture,” he sald. “t trust there will be no more wars, T do feel, however, that this | nation should not be off ite guard. You can say for me that my views of peace and the future of the navy are ex- Dreased In the few words of Gen. Keifer, who represented Ohio in Congress, He anid: ‘In time of peace prepare to main- tain ft.’ “Phat ts the way I feel about the there will be no more wars it seems te me that {t is well for this nation to have a four battleship programme to reptace obsolete veasola and to prepare to main- tain peace.” Looking at least twenty years young- er than his real age, the Admiral hed ‘fan Informal reception all day jong’ for ‘hin associates In the navy. His only fon was@pere from Chicago to help ob- serve the birthday. ‘The Admiral recently recetved many @tfts and congratulations from ali parts of tho country. \ B. R. T. GETS COMPLETE MONOPOLY IN BROOKLYN Given Permission to Take Over Only Lines It Does Not Already Control. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Cem- pany gains absolute control of atreet car service in Brooklyn through an or- der issued by the Publiv Service Com- mission to-day authorising the Coney Island and Gravesend Rallway Com- pany, a subsidiary of the B. R. T., to Purchase 26,000 of the 29,000 shares of atock outstanding of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railrozd Company. ter corporation eperates the Smith street, De Kalb avenue and Franklin avenue lines, the only street car roads operated outside of the B. R, T. system in that bo: . A. M. Williams of counsel to the B. R. T. han given thi ommission assurance that transfer: @ atook the Anthony N. Brady estate, “SIAMESE” TWIN GIRLS TO BE CUT APART PARIS, Dec. 36.—The surgeons of Paris have been given remarkal case, or pair of cases, this week. “Siamese” twin girls, one month 214, have been sent to: Paris to be separated by @ surgical operation. At present they are unitéd face to face oy @ strip of flesh over an inch thick vetween their stomachs. Although strongly attached to each other and united by no common bond they fight so flercely with their littie hands that they have had to be clothed in stout woollen vests, inside which their arms are imprisoned. It ws re- ported, however, that this does not pre- vent these precocious young ladies from ting each other, for apparently like hake ‘a Richard II, they were born with teeth in their heads ‘to eig- nify they came to bite the world.” it's u World Offices!