The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1914, Page 1

it -RINAL Raia or cnew to-night and Saturday; warme: Che xf “ Circulation. Books Open to All)? |_ PRICE ONE CENT. Coverignt, SEES De, The Pree, eee tA ‘Wertd). FRIDAY, “ANUARY 2 a, 19 14. GLY FOR 08 HUNTERS “ON NITCHEL’S FIRST DAY; Mast Cheerless lis’ Daj Ever Known at City Hall on * Change of Administration. NO NEW APPOINTMENTS. ——— “Mayor Says He May Not Name a Permanent Police Head for Three Weeks. (Pee quietest first business day any Mayor of Greater New York has ever experienced fell to the lot to-day of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Ex- ert for the first hour following the Mayor's arrival at the City Hall, the febeption room and corridor outside hip office carried all the surging, bust- fag human exhilaration of Grant's y Federals, Facing Defeat, Mal Desperate Resistance as Enemy Pushes On. WOUNDED LEFT TO D Washington Gives Order m Ba 3 that the Mayor did not have callers, But he received few, > aia of his Comsm!nsioners islted him op official business. It te ent before noon to the little @Ppoliticlana that Mayor Mitchel couldn't be reaghed and these, groups Giopersed. QU timers in the City Hall recalled the first day of Van Wyck'’s adminictra- tion, the first day 0° low's adminiq-a- tlon, the first day of both M \dministrations and the fret day of the ation. Any one of as Uk+ a Fourth of | July and New Year's °.\9 celebration Fe bined in comparison with this Jan.| Communication in the City Hall. has been interrupted. Suer ONE OUTSIDER TO GREET | wires were cut, howe »THE NEW MAYOR, learned me's EL PASO, Tex, body of the deh Ne erm wan atill despere of the battle wa@ near, sccording despatcries received say that at le ile in the atreets of Ojinaga ahd tl 1,000 dro wounded the stated. that many of the wounded wi left to die on the bdattiefetd, as th re few doctors or nurses to care them. \ Befo ‘Thore.wes just one man outside of | Were Im a hopeless position, *'¢he City Hall the office force of the Mayo ‘and the City Hall police i Greet the Mayor when he ls ofl ‘Not having appoint- a8 eoteaty, Mayor Mitchel put Jamca Mathews, the executive secre- tary in the retiring administration, on the Job of, sifting callers through the human manner a steady artillery lasting thirty hours, the forces were badly demori | precipitate filght to the Ai of the border wad expected. qn fact, \that tats | tt was sand five hi crossed or Bio Grande fugitives who | | Fk FE yj i ih rrival the City n busy filling | ant, i ij i cholee for Palfve Commissioner. ‘One selection of the watemakers for | | the office of chief of tho Licenke Bu- | Peau was wroug, They gave the place te"wphfe Irene Loeb of The Evening ‘World sted. Lod) han refused | * place, She ts a member of the State fommission to investigate the matter of sails for Burope next Wed: study the system as it is in force in| Germany ond elnewhere. George H. Bell, a well qualified young man who bas been very close to Ma- yer Mitchel in a uecrctarlal capa We selected to fill the om f pt the License Bureau, Anj, in, Mr, Bell te considered as a lke~ Hugh | United State: , commanding the border at Presidio, to-day, for twelve hour: has ordered McNamee to relax policy of preventing armed Fede from fleeing to the American side has also sent specific instructions Ojinaga and plunges ndons the riv The latest showed the Fedei most DI present’ Mexican revolutio: patches revel of reporters not been face to face with him for Yeer noted # plentiful streaking gfae tn his hair above the temples ‘There Jines in the Mayor's moblie fare that were not there before he be- campaign, But his eyes nd hig manner animated. trenches for hours, WABHINGTON, Bil fore tary Garrison to permit Mexican ugees to cross Into Texas from Ojini if that is necessary to save thelr Ii ‘The Intest order to Gen, Bliss, wh iterates former orders on the Jan, Mayor Mitchel wore a dark With gurned up trouners, His of blue material with a white stripe, rand tle were of the model affected by Young men, itlack ¥ilk gecks showed between the bottoms of the trousers. and the black low-cut ghots. His manner was confident: ‘assertive. There is no doubt that Mayor Mitchel believes himself fully qualified of his office. ed about reports that he Commissioner ‘He was a! bad selected for Poll ® man who is far Yerk, remote from lines of comm: —, id sald he didn't know mpetiog mew has developed as to the Commissioner in the past “Co-operate fully with the Red Cr: eo with th extent as may i Allow Panic Stricken Fugi- ) ieee . Vives to Cross U.S. Border. / at oe tema's rebels. bite tole but the ehd here. It hap "been Impossible 10 get An accurate, eatimate of the dead and wounded, but refugees t five hundred bodies a ide GENERAL CALLERS BARRED 1,5O0TROOPS FALL UNDER REBEL FIRE INOHNAGA BATTLE ke H} to hat Tt was also ere ere for | jow Marfa, Tex..| the enough was to show that the Federals After having resisted in an almost super- fire Federal H his als and for guidance when the main Federal army ross ved the Upton Sinclair and Mrs, Sinclair the| Left Her in Sanitarium There rebels had captured the chain of hills eral position Hants to mount thelr big guna and pour @ heavy fire into the Federal 2,—Brig.-Gen. » coinmanding the Texas border has been Instructed by Seci t- ry one, You are not expected to turn Supplies tal ry 0 " Ae? net re Borg ei certain mortgages she holds can be os. their Paton) hf re stat aes nee Ciauat: needa st the pitvenien sith ven | @UNDAY WORLD WANTS aring for wows MA 1] at once as though they had not been in- WALDO'S DEPUTIES ARE REAPPOINTED; M'KAY MAY STICK Dougherty and Ngewburger Sworn in Again by New . Police Commissioner. CHIEF “ON PROBATION.” \If He “Makes Good” McKay May Remain at Head of the Force. George S. Dougherty and Harry W. Newburger were reappointed to-day to thelr posts as Second and Third Deputy Police Conmissioners respectively and a long stride was thus taken toward acttling the police question which threatened to prove a stumbling block at the outset of Mayor Mitchel’s admin- istration. The announcement of the ap- pointments was made by Police Com- missioner Douglas I. McKay following & conference with the Mayor. ‘Mr. Mitchel sent for Mr. McKay goon after reaching his office and Mr. McKay hurried at once to City Hall. The | yor ephed-if. Man. MaKey. hed. iri mind for the pests of Second and Third Deputies, explaining that he coutd not expect Mr, MeKay to: shoul der the responsfbility and work usual- ly mared by three men, although he thought for a time t could undertake t of First Deputy Commi: would accept appointments, which must be consid- ered temporary, «ince the Mayor has not settled definitely on his Commis- ‘The Mayor told the Commissioner tha: he wanted the police work of the city to be prosecuted vigorously, but quietiy and without display, a sentiment whioh ‘ay concerning the conduct of hit ‘tment, and the young Commit sloner returned to Pollce Headquarters at o'clock, prepared to swear Mr, Dougherty fewburger back into office. In making the announcement of his appointments Mr. McKay sald: ‘These appolntments are of a tem- porary nature, Both of these gentle- men have consented to serve until such time as their successors have been de- termined o1 It Is generally believed Mr, McKay what may be called, “on probatior 4 that his retention of the office pends entirely on his success handling it: Commissioner McKay swore in hix eputier sor after hix return to hin of- fice and both men resumed thelr duties In terrupted by a two-day vacation. COUCH’S ‘HEART WIFE" NOW IN AMITYVILLE When They Sailed. Adelaide M, Branch, the washed out faded \ttle woman who was for three yeara the tenant of « partitioned-off room in the offices of ex-District-Attor- ney Melvin F, Couch at Monticello, N, ¥ is in w sanitarium at Amityville, I. 1, where, it is hoped by her new found friends, U Sinclair and his wife, she wil Irecovey her mental poise, whlch has been ga ‘arped by the den isclosure ©" . \6 life she led with Couch and the Invidents subsequent to his death. When Upton Sinclair sailed with Mrs. Sinclair for Bermuda on Monday Mian Branch, who had been living with them ‘0, 217 Manhattan avenue Aff of Monticello obligingly Warbasne of No. Washington avenue, Brookly Warbasse is the wife of br. Warba of the Civil Service Commission and! has taken Warm Interest in Mim Branch bhe sald to-day that Mise Branch would be cared for tl) Fealized upon for her bene! WORK MQNDAY WONDERS. |. TAMMANY LEADER SENTENCED TO JAIL _ FOR HIGHWAY GRAFT. —————— | TAMMANY LEADER T ae CAE '|Creditors Summoned to De- cide. if Business Is to Be Continued. Louls Martin has failed. The r taurateur who, with his brother, Jean B, Martin, made a fortune in old Mar- tin's in Udiversity Place and increased it In what had been Delmontco’ ‘wenty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, had a ,petition in bankruptcy fled against him this morning, Archibald Palmer, No. 320 Broad- y, representing Andre de Magnin, Paul Brunot and Louis Michel, who have claims of several thousand dol- lars for money loaned to Martin, fled the petition against Inc, with United States Judge Mayer, It was an Involuntary petition, but with it was filed a note from Martin acknowledging his debte to the demand for @ re ther memorandum by De receiver be per- mitted to continue ‘the b a Broadway and Sixticth , as the good will of the pla among its chief assets. d to approx- imate $40,000 and fils assets to total @ Possible $10,000, It is charged also that he made preferential payments to the extent of about $2,000, Judge Mayer appointed Myron J, Brown receiver under a bond of #7, and he will call a meeting of the cr {tors at once to learn their wishes as to the continuance of the busli i ($4,000,000 INCREASE IN NEW YORK’S POSTAGE BILL More Than $30,000,000 Taken In Here During the Year. 1913. Folléwing the completion to-day of reports from all parts of the city, Poat- master Edward M. Morgan announced that during the year just ended the grows receipts of the New York Post- | Omice exceeded by more than four mill- jon dollars the receipts during the twelve months preceding, During 1918 eo receipts were $30,002,069.29, against un increase of 16.40 per cent, Morgan further stated that for gain 1,000, or 18.50 per cent. in- the last quarter of 1912 Shrivtmas rush eipte up to more one month, the In- over the preceding ‘hristmas rush amounting, to almost 2% per cent. ie Eee Ls Mr, the last quarter of 1913 there was BART DUNNTO AL GETS 10 MONTHS} Friend of Murphy Sentenced Ta-Day for Highway Graft in Rockland County. Joseph Fogarty, With Him, Gets a Ten- Months’ Sentence. NYACK, N. Y., Jan. 2—Bart Dunn, a Tammany leader; Joseph Fogarty, a former employee of the State Depart- ment @ Highways, and the Dunb Contracting Company, convicted of con- spiracy in connection with Btate road construction in Rockland County, re- celved semtences here to-day. Dunn's penalty was ten months’ tm- Prisonment at Blackwell's Island and $500 ‘fine. Fogarty got ten months without @ fine, and the. Dynbar Company, which te Dunn's company, gots $00 fine, A motion.te pet'uside the verdict OUNN: 18 A CLOSE FRIEND OF 8088 MURPHY. ‘The conviction and sentencing of Dunn, close personal frfend of Charles |, Murphy and one of the overlords of the Tammany feudal system, Is the first almilar occurrence since ‘Boas" Tweed was sent to prison for ah esnentially similar offense. Tweed Igoted the court house fund. Dunn h@s bean sentenced for similar fraud in road building. A Special Gr dictment Fogarty, a State road inapector, on Aug, 1& lgst, following an investigation started by John Hennessy under former Gov, Sulzer, The State charged that Dunn, President’ of the Dunbar Contracting Company, had defrauded the State In tho building of goad No. 91—the Tuxedo turnpike in kland County. The state charged that $30,000 had beon ex- pended in the rebullding of the road an@ that of this sum at been stolen, It was also charged that Dunn used h’s political connection to wot Fogarty and no other inspector as- Signed to the Job of watching his work, By means of collusion with the inspec- tor, the Dunbar Company and Dunn used 1°» old stone already in the rond for purposes not permitted In the specifications, miabuilt the entire bigi- ing the State full price, EXTREME PENALTY WOULD BE | A YGAR IN PRISON. ‘The jury found that both Dunn and | Fogarty were guilty. The charge on which they were tried & miade- ‘meanor, for which the extreme pen- .|alty ds ® year in prison and a fine of $400. Bart Dunn ‘s one of Tammany's chiefs by direct inheritance, He is the younger brother of the iste Thomas Dunn, once Sheriff of New York County and inter leader in the Twenty-sixth Assembly District. Bart Dunn suc- ceeded hia brother to this office in Tam- many's .fUst on the death of his broth- er. Later his talents were transferred to the Mighteenth District, over which he was stilt the suzerain when he was arrested and led to trial. 25 BELOW ZERO UP-STATE. y. GLENS FALIS, N. thermometer registered low zero years. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Jan. 2.~This part of the State to-day experienced the coldest weather of the season thus far, Some parts of Orange County reported temperatures ranging from ten to at. teen degrees below zero, 1a Two Days of of Big har Om Clothing omens eet (OLD on Barelay tr iy alah ft hale tre mince oft FOR RAGING OBE PAGE TO SERVE ON ISLAND.| Convicted 4 Jury brougfit an in: | ainst Dunn and Joseph J. | st $15,000 had | way and out the cos: in half, stil charg: | | temperature in this vicinity in several, . Pe | | PUBL SENTINE MORGAN FIRM MBMBERS WHO QUIT BIG CORPORATIONS , FINAL Rate | or anew to-night and Sateréay; J. Mens os on @® Co. Announces With \° y of the Biggest Rail- roads and Trusts. GEORGE F.. BAKER MAY ae "TAKE SIMILAR ACTION, © “Banker-Directors”and “Interlocking” Directors ‘Left Them Open to “Widespread Criticism. a which’ was bull up by the we Ji Pore catia inh th sro ee :greatedt porporaiions in America. It follows; too, the attacks made the | as fecal agents fer any other lone for which it te eating, © ‘The question of members | from the beards of national’ wot fully determined, It ie abeyance pending construction sini amendment of the new ‘The list of companies from Members of the Mi ready submitted thelt directors ts as follows: d. P. Mergen— New York Central and Hudson, Railroad Company, Cleveland, Cincinnaty, Chicago. Louls Rallway. ini Miss Hai Treha a over t ald Bj action. HENDON, ABS CHRISTIAN, Mig WOMAN LOOPS THE LOOP IN HER AEROPLANE Davies, Flying With Aviator mel in England, Twice Per- forms the Feat. England, wke Davies to-day Jan, 2.—Mise won the 4is- tinction of being the frat woman in the world Gua to loup the loop in an aeroplane, Hamel, ourrying Miss Davies Pasenger, looped the loop twice he Hendon xerodrome, WILSON REFUSES TO MAKE COMMENT ON MORGAN ACTION, Jan. 3— ent Wilson this al oon flatly ment on the action of in retiring from the die of various corporations, but parently keenly interested in the Although goth the head of the house and his partners remain in the boards | roa Millbrook Company, New Engtand Navigation has resigned from only eighteeh large corporations as a starter. In making pubic the radical change of | way. policy on the part of the banking house, ‘Mr. Morgan ipeved the following state- ments Connecticut Wester _ New York, Ontario and Western ae "Weetern Union Telegraph Gearon Boole necenalty of attending many board meetings hae deen eo serious @ beréeg, voon ‘our time that we have long withdraw from the director- | Com pe ee aaa ‘corporations. Most of | Astor ‘Trust Company. these directorshipe we have accepted | Guarenty Trust Company of New? with reluet and only because we | York. felt cone to Keep im touch with| Chemical National Bank ee: properties we hed reorganized or ‘W. &. Porter r had recommended | Bankers’ Truet Company. oth here and abroad. ‘aS it change in public sen- timent in regal to hips seems now to warrant us in secking to resign fram some of these connections. In- deed, it may D@, In view of the chan; in sentiment upon the subject, that shall be in @ detter position to ser: such properties and their securit nolders if we are net directors. We have already realigned from the com- panies mentioned, and we expect from time to time to withdraw from other boards upon which we feel there is 20 special obligation to remain.” Adding to thid Mr, Morgen sald: “We atill rettiain on the boards of 9 number of oorperations. We do no! intend to retire ‘all of them, but as is atated in the announcement we are withéreting trom @ large number of them, I esnpot ad@ anything more than I havealready gaia as to the ere- sons for this acto whose to the pul Westinghovse Rlectrie facturing Company. Utah Copper Company. Astor Trust Company. Bankers Trust Company. ‘This action on the part of Mr. a {a due principally to two conditions high finance that have been ‘severely: criticised recentiy, namely, interlocking) in directorates and banker directorates, § BANKERS AND DIRECTORS. OF MANY CONCERNG, \ In all the Jarge eorporations from whioh the firm has withdrawn if has been acting in the dual capacity bankers and diresters. the management of the firm members have voted bend ahd stock issues to be handied oan solves ao, Ventre, srvle pone 3 been severely criticiaed teularly in New Taven ewer Buveeaient pepo retiring from 41 ames of atormes joun tot