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FIN NIGHT OL . — The. “Circulation | Books Open to All.’ Aathchdeall ONE CENT. Oe. ¢ 192: ‘The Prose (fhe New York were NEW YORK, T “TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1914. WILSON TELLS CONG TO PUT CURB ON TRUSTS GIVE BUSINESS A BOOM: “Our Object Is ab Uantie © to Unsettle Business or Seri- ously Break Its Established Course; We De- . sire New Laws as Bulwarks of Industry.” “Business Waits for Laws Which Will Effec- tually Prevent Interlocking of Personnel of Directorates of Great Corporations.” “We Are Now About to Write the Additional Articles of Our Constitution of Peace, the Peace That Is Prosperity.” Honor and Freedom and By Samuel M. Williams, Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—President Wilsom read to Congress onda oa vileged throng of spectators to-day an address outlining his views. tegulation of trusts and monopolies. There was plain evidence of sellef_and approval on the faces of many persons both on the gthannianelgstelegd tealized that the President sought to and tend the ‘goft gloved hand instegd of the mailed fist to capital and co-operation. ‘Mr. Wilson read his address slowly with exceptional clearness and preci- stom of utterance and for the first ten minutes there was the silence of in- tense listening to every syllable. Then fas he began to outline his proponed reniedies and cited control by the In- terstate Commerce Commiasion over the issue of railroad securities the proval. the House was vigorus in his ap- Again when personal gullt of cor- poration heads and the opportunity for personal suits were mentioned, the applause was repeated from both sides of the chamber At the finish, the House rose and again gave the ap- plause as he hastily left the Capitol fand drove back to the White House INTERLOCKING OF DIRECTORIES 18 CONDEMNED. ‘There was a noticeable change in the President's physical appearance uninterrupted mental strain in the White House have left on him the stamp'of their burden. His face was thinner, his eyes @ little more deeply sunken, throwing his cheek Dones into high relief. His skin had the healthy tan and the flush of blood in the fine veins beneath ‘There {s a more pallid finish to his cheeks. The h cross every thinking deepened into fur- Presidency is bearing . Wilson. was on early arrival t seat in the Execu- occupied by her daugh- Eleanor Wilson, and mem- ‘White House entourage. State Bryan was a con- eplouous figure in the diplomatic gal- iE file PHT PH i TEL ett The interlocking of the personnel ef. the directorates of great corpo: tiene, banks, railroads, industrial, eommercial and public-service bodies te the erux of the trust system, in the opinion of President Wileon. And in dieeussing the evile which have re- *gulted from such interlocking, the President caustically attacked that @reup ef millionaires who in them- selves, by reason of their enormous heldings of stook in numerous oc perations, constitute virtual menopo- i) ' ye President emphatically proved the making of guilt perso in euite “Every act of business ie done at perso! fe hela Sintec : 01 the punishment shou them, net upen the business sation of ef which they make The. President practically told Con- Meatinued ow Fourth Page.) emewmee FEDERALS SIGN UP PITCHERS CAMNITZ AND RUSSELL FORD Negotiations for Al Demaree Fall Through When He Signs With Giants, CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—The Federal League signed two big league pitchers to-day—Russell Ford of the New York Americans and Howard Camnits of the Philadelphia Nationals. The news, of their signing came from managers of the Federal teams, and though other players, it is believed, were lined up to-day for the new league, no oficial announcement was made to that effect. Negotiations with Al Demaree, the New York National's pitcher, were ended soon after they were begun, when Demaree informed Joe Tinker over the telephone that he had al- ready signed a Giant contract. The Federajs also made offer to Outflelder Wolter of the ww York Americans. A Ford probably will be added to the Chicago roster and Camnitz either to Pittsburgh or Indianapolis. Stephen Cusack, formerly an umpire with the National League, was also signed by the Federals, a RUCKER AND FIVE OTHERS OF DODGER PLAYERS SIGNED. Rucker, the star left handed Witcher of the Brooklyn team, has been saved from the Federal League. This afternon Charles H, Ebbets, President of the Dodgers, said he took great pleasure in announcing that Rucker had just signed a three- year contract with his old team. Re- ports from Chicago last night had Nap in conference with the Federal janeuers and on the verge of jump- e. In addition to the signing of Rucker, Ebbets said the contracts of yas follows: Catcher Southpaw Pitcher Allen for years, Heckinger, the minor league catcher, for one year and “Red” Car- McCarthy for three yeare, two \ele Sm! The ve made many ef- forts to land Smith in addition to Ruoker. ith for one year, has HOW TWO ACCIDENTS TIED UP TRAFFIC ON BOTH SIDES OF CITY. Two accidents that had no con- nection one with the other, com- pletely tied up New York City traffic going north and south te ind the 1 r traffic y 8: "th City all's hire avenue elevated tied up the east side, and one of the cars caught fire. Terrorized passengers were taken down ladders to the street by firemen. eee LINER OSCAR II. DISABLED AT SEA IN A HEAVY GALE Scandinavian Steamer Bound Here From Copenhagen Has 254 Passengers Aboard, ———e COPENHAGEN, 20.—The steamer Oscar II, of the Scandinavian- American line was disabled yesterday in longitude 48 west'latitude 57 north, while on her way from Copenhagen to New York, according to a wireless despatch from the Captain. He says that during a heavy north- westerly gale when the sea was run- ning high the starboard engine of the Oscar II, was rendered useless, sey- eral rods and pistons and a cylinder being,broken. ‘The Captain expected to be able to proceed with the port engine at a speed of eight knots as soon as the weather moderated, The passengers on board, number- ing 254, were all well, Jan, At noon on Monday the Oscar II. was reported 140 miles east of Sable Inland. —_——_ NEWARK GIRL CAPTURES BURGLAR AT GUN POINT Intrepid Young Woman Uses Re- volver and Frightens Intruder Into Surrendering. (Special to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 20.—When a burglar entered the home of Mrs. Leonidas Barclift at No. 61 Roseville avenue early this morning it re- mained for her pretty twenty-one- year-old daughter to capture the in- truder, “There is somebody in the Mbrary,” she whispered in her mother’s ear, and getting out of bed, took a revolver and groped her way downstairs, As she entered the room she threw on the electric ight and pointing the gun at the burglar, commanded him to throw up his hands, Then, calling her mother, the girl told her to call the police on the phone, The bur- glar, when taken to the Fifth Pre- cinct Police Station, gave the name of John O'Brine of No, 53 Plane street. — LORD STRATHCONA DYING, LONDON, Jan, 20.—Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, High Commtasioner for Canada, ts dying. The physicians in attendance reported that hg had be- come unconscious late this afternoon, es sel SAILING TO-DAY. MILES OF TRAINS TIED UP IN SUBWAY AND ONL” ROAD Traffic on East and West Sides Demoralized at the Same Time. CAR ON “LY GEN GETS AFIRE. Hundreds in Panic in Panic on/Both the Systems; sci ibd oe All Other ates of trains on both sides of the elty were stalled in the rush hour this morning on the “L” and in the subway. Many women fainted in trains when the lights went out. Hundreds of passengers braved the third rail in the aubway and walked to the stations in their effort to get downtown to business, ‘The overflow from the demoralized systems swamped the other elevated and surface lines and it'was hours be- fore normal conditions were restored, The third avenue line resumed ser- | ¢ vice in an irregular way at 10.2% o'clock, more than two hours after the accident occurred. The subway had expresses running in an hour and a half, but it was nearly 12 o'clock be- fore the acvhedule on the local trains was fully restored. The Third avenue train, of which Patrick Riley was motorman and William Sueff was conductor, was moving slowly over the crossover from the left si of the City Hall station when the forward truck of [the fourth of the seven cars left the tracks, At first there was no short circuit, and Riley did not know what had happened. The wheels bumped along over the rails, tearing off eliv- ers of woods which fell on the heads of persons on the crowded sidewalks below. END OF A CAR HANGS OVER THE STREET. Three hurdred feet of this stum- bling wrenched the loose truck. It buckled, the coupling pin between the fourth car and the car forward broke and the truck swung out over the third rail and the fvorkmen's running board beside the track. The truck, dragging the end of the car with it, hung over the street, held to the forward end of the train only by the heavy coupling chains. By this time Riley had stopped the train, There were few pi ngers in the car under which the jtruck had broken. They ran, tumPling over each other, into the rear Those in the car abead made for the front of the train, From the moment the truck touched the third rail cascades of steel sparks began raining into the street, spurting forty feet on elther side of the short cireutt, Every wheel under the train threw off smaller fountains of fire, wooden car to which the accident happened caught fire. Down in swarming Park Row the starting of a gang battle could not have caused a greater panic. Men, women for the a! ment halls. Many windows were broken in the headlong rush, Burning bite of the splintered ties and run- ning board floated down under the noses of horses which became un- manageable and dragged trucks, jam- ming and criss-croasing through the street, halting the street car traffic. of Hook and Ladder Truck No. 1 were quickly on the spot, The structure ‘a about thirty feet above the street, Chief Binns ordered all the thirty-five foot ladders run up to the track, FIREMEN IN PERIL OF THE THIRD RAIL While one squad of firemen fought the flames in the biasing car with vtinguishera others, at the risk of their lives from the dislodged third rail, which was epitting destruction in twenty places, helped the fear- (Continueg on Second Page.) Deputy Chief Binns and Capt. Woll | CHILD TRIES TO DIE IN SCHOOL, HAVING FAILED 10 “PASS” Heartbroken Because She Could Not Graduate, Sixteen-Year- Old Swallows Poison. ‘ CLASSMATES SEE ACT. Attempts Suicide as She Marches Last Time With. Departing Graduates, Alma Brunicardl,& sixteen-year-old pupil of Public School No. 26, at Union avenue and One Hundred and Forty- ninth street, the Bronx, attempted suicide by swallowing fodine while taarching from ber classroom to the opening exercises in the assembly hall to-day. Prompt action by her teach- or, Mise Anna White, and by the vrincipal, Frank Young, saved her life. Alma wanted to die because she had beam notified that on account of her tow standing tn Uer-studies she\coult not graduate with the-egstrof her Alma Bruvicaréi knew yesterday that the notice to ner father, tell- ing him of her failure, would rea him in the mail this morning. At the examination by the District Superin- tendent two weks ago she had been marked 60 per cent. in arithmetic and @ per cent. in history; 90 per cent. is the passing point. Miss Young, knowing how ambitious the bac! ward child was, had tried to help her catch up, but yesterday decided that she ought to stay tm the school, in which she has been @ pupil for eight years, for another term. ‘The other girls went home yesterday full of plans for th graduatin, dresses, their parts the entertain- ment and their choice of persons they would invite to attend. Alma went home alone. FAILURE TO GRADUATE BREAKS HER HEART. Mr. Brunicardi, when the report came to him to-day, tried to comfort bis daughter, as did her two older brothers and younger sister by point- ing out that though her classrooin tating was “unsatisfactory,” her de- portment and attendance record was clasaified as “excellent.” Bhe pushed tnem away crying and would not cheer up when her father said he thought that an extra term would put her far ahead of the girls who were now passing her. Before leaving her home at No. 559 Southern Boulevard she went to the medicine closet and slipped into the pocket of her gingham dress an eunce bottle of fodine, which was nearly full, On arriving at the school door, Alma hung about on the sidewalk and id not go in until the last moment. . Bhe returned the greetings of her schoolmates moodily, CHILD SCHOOLMATES 8AVE HER LIFE She took her seat it the desk after ‘ (Continued on Second Page.) “Every Tide Hath Hath Its Ebb" No doubt campy remem! those dear are school days when the class would work out sums, draw pictures or make diagrams on the blackboard. hen the board would be cleared off 2 ion, Well, that’s Just the way with The World's great directory of wants, Every morning it a) pears with more offers to hire, work, » Sell, rent, ine struct, etc. than are dvertised Ip any othe newspaper on earth, en this ae’) flood of opportuni. tles 2 ebbs fo8 gives place to an- other fres isplay of “offers” and “re. | quests” the next day. 3,879 WORLD ‘ADS. LAST WEEK— 11,015 More Than the Herald. Answer World Ads. at Fleea. ind made ready for another demonstra-| |GIRL WHO DECLARES | HER SMILE IS WORTH A MILLION DOLLARS. ld. F | “Circulation Books Open to All.” ] Pe. 200 PAGES ICH MAN ACCUSED LEADER OF GANG. F AUTO STEALERS Three Men Confess to Thefts of Ma- ’ chines Worth $100,000 and John Gargiere of Lakewood Is Ordered Arrested. SPED THE CAR AWAY TO JERSEY RENDEZVOUS. Wilson, in Message, Calls for Action on Trust Evils INAL N AS VERA BLACK. HER SMILE WORTH AMILLION, SAYS COLLEGE WO Vera Black of Cornell Puts Own Appraisal on It as a Witness, Vera Black, the young College widow whore former husband, John Ernest Wadleigh, is suing Loring Tonkin, former Cornell student, for $26,000 for winning his wife from him, told a jury before Supreme Court Jus- tice Dugro this morning that she was 6 girl with a “million dollar smile.” Sho was testifying in her former hus- ban behalf and, to show the jury what a “million dollar smile” is, she rolled her big blue eyes and beamed a million dollar's worth. It wasn't al- ways #0 highly appraised, she said. ‘What did you mean when you wrote to Tonkin?” asked Robert El- der, attorney for the Cornell man, “as follows: ‘He does not know my $50 ——, does he’ dear?" “You mean what did I mean by the blank?" she asked. “Why, I meant my fifty dollar smile. Now {t's a million dollar smile.” WROTE LOVING NOTES TO HER “DEAR LORIE.” Then Mr. Elder produced a handful of baby-blue bordered letters ad- dressed to “My Tonkie,” and “My Dear Lorie,” which she admitted hav- ing written to Tonkin when he was at college. “lam going to helleve there is no such thing as love and care for no one,” she wrote in one missive at a time when she wasn’t in the happiest mood, “Why did you write that to Ton- kin?’ asked Mr, Elder, “Oh, Just some more things—silly things—to make Tonk jealous and give him something to worry about,” and she wrote “just to make Tonkie |the replied the witness, “Did you ever write to Tonkin that | you had been told by @ doctor that | you had a tobacco heart and that you had been limited to two ciyarettes al day?” she was asked, "L don't know,” she snapped at Mr, Elder, and Justice Dugro asked her if whe realized that she was under joath and it was @ serious matter, Whereupon she abandoned her itll | Hon-dollar smile and looked her grav- ent, There was another time that Miss Black was not in her merriest: mood Burglar Caught at Elizabeth Induced. - by Inspectcr Faurot to Crimes...» +: Tell of —_— SO Inspector FWtrot sent word to the police of Lakewood” re ms week arrent John Gargtere, proprictor.of an automobile business there and a to be worth a quarter of a million dollars, Gargiere ts wanted here as . alleged leader of a gang of automobile thieves who, im the last year, have stolen upward of $100,000 worth of cars. Three members of the gang already under arrest and it is by their confessions that B shane implicated, The gang operated in this city, in Philadelphia and cheng the’ New Jersey coast, always turning over the cars they stole to Gargiere and re- ceiving on an average of $300 apiece for them, according to the confessions, Gargtere stored the cars in a barn back of his house and garage, allege the men already arrested, They do not know how he dispesed of or for how much, CONGRESSMAN IN FIST FIGHT CALLS FORRISREVOLVER Johnson of Kentucky Smashes a Lawyer at Meeting and Sends Him Sprawling. WASHINGTON, Jan, 20—A fist fight between Representative John- son of Kentucky and John R, Shields, fa Washington attorney, broke up a meeting to-day of the House Com- mittee on District of Columbia, After the men had clashed and sev- eral blows were struck Representative Johnson broke away, shouting “get me my pistol, I'll kill him,” Mr. Shields was knocked down be- fore clerks of the comsittee with sev- eral spectators could quiet the two combatants, Fred Allen and Samuel I'skew, two clerks, tried to hold the Kentuckian, but he got the better of them aad breaking away, dashed off for his private room, shouting for his revolver, A dozen men were in the room when Johnsen started away, but his de- mand for firearms soon emptied the office, When he returned only the a remained. ‘The Kentucktan be~ for their interference and it closed, different at times, T have become m1 of your letters and some times junk for Billie.” “And who's Billie? asked the at- torney ‘Oh, I know a thousand Billles,” she replied laughingly At the afternoon session of the trial Miss Black proved adept at fencing with Tonkin's lawyer. “I heard that Tonkin had gone to peeved,” she explained, SOMETIMES LORIE WAS JUST LIKE AN ICEBERG, “Honest, Lorie, I hate you at shines | ~ 3 Ue Sy oo icatlerg, You are #0 cmncifietmenee ees antl Sncmereey | } May Lawrence and had offered her $1,000 to blacken my reputation and | that's what matie me testify for my divorced husband," Miss Black volun- teered in explanation of how she be- came @ witness, Res ‘ Inspector Fauret got Prisonors @ list of the which seven automobiles in this city and one in Phi to be to find the owners of the cars, From this list be expects BURGLAR AR EXPEDITION EADS TO ARRESTS. aa men under arrest Reilly, a chauffeur pipes: avenue; Christopher feur and mechanic of End avenue, and John No. 231 West Forty-fitth street, a chauffeur, ‘The capture of the from an experition ‘Welsh, an told time rob*a safe in Biizabeth. started by automobile on were stopped near their other paraphernalia of a burglar were. He was charged — with having burglar tools in his pos- | session and was locked up. found in the car, escaped in Elizabeth, REILLY CONFESSED TH SREe THERA TE He let slip the. fact that Reilly was a chauffeur and this together with the fact that they had employed automobile on thelr expedition Inspector Faurot the idea that ete might know something of the autem» Ho went Acting Capt, Kerr and Detectives Fitspatrick and Flaherty to Elizabeth last Friday and they cross-examined Reilly for sev. obile robberies, eral hours, They recognized that he was tndig- nant with the gang that had Jet him #tay In jail without an effort to get bail for him but still he wouldn’t talk until Saturday aight whon Inspector Faurot made the trip to end tatked with him nearly all. night. bere Thon Reilly confessed, According to the Inspector, Reilly said that he, Travis and who Is @ brother of ex-Police Alex Chandler, met Gergiere they were employed In a gar Seventh avenue, batween i i | the bang of Reilly cate — IN Al i it iy Elisabeth