The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1914, Page 1

| Gate to-night; Gunday probably cl en —————_— PRICE ONE CENT. MAYOR SAW WILSON TWICE, BUT DIDN'T ASK PRESIDENT | ty suet svgs FOR SERVIGES OF GOETHALS mss a cn i pies A Side of the Majestic in Y Secretary of War and Wilson Plan ‘are to Make Engineer First Gov- ernor of Panama Mitchel Declares Goethals . Has Accepted the Police Job “1 don't think | ought to answer dope stories from Washington,” | Miss Margaret Wi!son, eldest daugh- ais Mayor Mitchel in an interview to-day. “I want the police of this | ter of the President, demonstrated city te know they are going to get a equare deal. Col. Goethals will be SO pdiante panes ay Gua é the Police Commissioner and his strength of character and absolute | Mner’s deck in a choppy sea. fairness will solve the great problem which has been bothering New 7 Miss Wuson’s gister, Jessie, who York long. All | need to add is that Col. Goethals has accepted the | married Francis B. Sayre, returned ice Commissioner.” from ter boneymoon trip on the Ma- Jestio of the ‘White Star line this morning, and Miss Margaret Wilson, | escorted by Dudley Meld Malone, Col- lector of the Port, went down the bay on the revenue cutter Manhattan to meet the young bride and bridegroom. | It was drizzly and disagreeable, with a choppy sea off Robbins Reef and from |“ Circulation Books Open to Au? | “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ NEW _YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1914. 10 PAGES Cnprriem, aw14, by The Presse Publishing (The New York World). [MARGARET WILSON UP SHIP'S LADDER TRAL MARGE GAFFNEY DEPOSITED BIG | BILLS: LASTING 24 YEAR MTS TE Sos;___2-Y_TO_$15,000 A CLIP, HIS R —— ; Couple with Twenty-two-Year- Old Daughter Want Law to Sever the Tie. ;| Whitman Gets Full Record of } phy’s Deposits for Five Yeats Will Compare Them With D When Alleged Bagman T: Money to the Banks. SAFETY VAULT PAPER ALSO UNDER SCRUT 3 * « NEEDED SOME HELP.|WIPE MAKES COMPLAINT. They Laid Down Rules at the Start and Both Held On to Jobs. |Sister, Returning From Honey- moon, Invites Reporters to Taste Her Cooking Soon. Details of an greement by which! ? Hattie Gilon and Franklin L. Gilon, an employee in the Supreme Court Building, entered into a trial mar- riage that lasted for twenty-four years are furnished in papers filed to- day in the Supreme Court by the wife, who is suing for # separation. In 1889, having been introduced by| { @ mutual friend, the wife says that she and Gilon mutually promised to become man and wife; that the agreement under which they were to live had these cla She was to go on at her work and retain all money she earned. One Transaction Relates to a Ch for $10,000 Contributed to Wilson Campaign, of Which ,B Report Has Been Made— (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—It was stated at the White House to-day _frat the first intimation, official or otherwise, that reached the officials of ‘ a Government concerning Col. George W. Goethats and the Police | ‘ a 4, Commissionership of New York, came from Col. Goethals’s letter to 2BSB-FE POS 56-9966-6-0-6-946-955-560998-2-0-074-68 Every bank in this ity dolng a general business has-been: | # | by the District-Attomey to praduce for his information transc ‘Bjaccounts of Charles F. Murphy, if there be such accounts, 7 ut 4508 Mayor Mitchel, printed to-day. This information is interesting in view of visits paid to Washington by Mayor Mitchel within the past month. there on down to Quarantine. But Miss Wilson, in a dark tailor made suit and a wet weather hat, braved the He was to do the same with hie money except that he was to pay the rent and buy the food, Mr. Mitchel saw Col. Goethals in Panama last December and offered him the Police Commissionership. After he returned from Panama Mr. Mitchel came to Washington and called on the President. another visit since and on this latter occasion snched with President o¢——___ Wilson. From the White House statement {t would appear that on neither of the occasions when the Mayor of New York met the President did be eay anything about his desire to have Col. Goethals take the Police Com- missionership. Therefore there could bp no understanding of any nature Between Mayor Mitchel and Presi- dent Wilson regarding the future of Col, Goethals. It ts considered strange that Mayor Mitchel should not have consulted with the President about the Goethals matter in view of the fact that the ent of the Canal Zone after to eacal is opened is a question of considerable concern to the President and the Secretary of War. Col. Goethals bas been led to understand fg an informal way that he is to be appointed Governor of the Zone, but thé plans of Mayor Mitchel do not apparently take this into consider. ation. ‘Until the matter is brought offi. @tally before the President or Secre- tary of War no inquiries of an offi- etal nature will be made of Col. Goethals. For etx months past there has been uneasiness on the part of the Colone! and Bis friends about bis future. The appointment of Secretary Bryan's | ¢riend end editor of the Commoner | Richard Metcalfe of Lincoln, Neb. |as member of the Canal Commis- \gdom and prospective civil governor, gave alarm to army men that the it were to be == |the furnaces probably having been MOSS LEAVING WHITMAN. Return to Private Practive Feb. 1. It was reported about the Criminal Bullding to-day that Assistant trict-Attorney Frank Moss hi his resignation to his chief fecton Feb. 1, Mr, Moss was 1 it hia office but the report was credit Rasmuch as Mr, Whitman has bo say that he expected to | of Mr. Moss about the first Unto his time to priv Ret handled many important hia connection with Mr, Whitman's ane, Mr. Moss was Mr. Whitman's plec’ assistant in the trials of the gun- bets.who were convicted of killing Her- growRorenthal and also in the trial of -|tug, ranged alongside her. He has paid LINER MAJESTIC SINKS TUG NEAR STATUE OF LIBERTY Furnace of the John Nichols} Stove In and Sister Tug Rescues Crew. ‘Without a passenger knowing that there had been an accident, the \’hite Star liner Majestic, which brought the former Miss Jessie Wilson and her bridegroom, Francis P. Sayre, home from their honeymoon to-day, ran down and sank the docking tug Jobn Nichols opposite the Statue of Liberty. | The Majestic was steaming at about | ja five knot speed when the Nichols | came out to meet her. Capt. Richard Ray of the tug nuszzled tn alongside the liner, but miscalculated the offset of the th at the reduced speed he} was maki he tug’s bow s. ung across the 'p steel prow of the Mner and the Nichols received a dec wound in her wooden port side. A burst of flame shot at once from the engine room of the tug, one of stove in, The engineer of the Nichols, Richard Ostrander, and a deck hand named Jackson leaped overboard, but | clumbered back when they saw that | the skipper of the tug had eswung her free and was shouting to them that he was going to head for the Erie Elevator Pier in Jersey City, about a quarter of a mile distant, With smoke streaking from her en- gine room, companionway and from | the hatches, the Nichols, with nobody at her engines, was headed for the Jersey shore. Her decks were awash and it was evident that she was not destined to reach the dock when the tug R. V. Barrett, another docking Capt, Ray, Ostrander, Jacobson, two firemen and the cook jumped from the deck of the Nichols to the guards of the Barrett just as the tug | gunk under their feet. The Barrett then came alongaide the Majestic and escorted her up to her plier, Capt, Bead! R | watch t | daughter; | son, rain on the upper deck of the cutter in the lee of the pilot house. When the cutter ran alongside the Majestic at Quarantine, Mr. and Mrs. Sayre were leaning over the rail, watching for the arrival of Miss Mar- garet, who had notified them by wireless that she would meet them. The other passengers all lined up along the side of the steamer to rrival of the Prosident’s but Miss Wilson did oot display the least embarrarsment. ‘The ladder was run out, just an | ordinary ship's ladder, such as the inspectors climb every day. Malone regarded it dubiously. CLIMBED SHIP'S LADDER WITH: OUT A BOBBLE. “Um—er—it's rather choppy, Wilson,” he said. “Not a@ bit of it,” laughed Miss Wil- “I'm @ capital climber.” She started to place her foot on the lowest rung, but Mr, Malone detained her till Second Officer Simpson of the ner came down with a bight of rope to act as a hand line on the bobbing, jumping ladder. Then, with the rope fastened under ber arms to steady her if she should lose her footing, and witb the officer close bebind her to catch ber should she falter, Miss Wilson oimbly ascended the sea stairway. She wanted to embrace her alster, but Mrs. Sayre, with a glance at Miss Wilson's gloves, blackened by contact with the rungs of the ladder, ex- claimed; “Not till you've taken those gloves off,” Mr. and Mrs. Sayre, in wet weather costume, looked radiant, and declared nothing they had seen abroad looked as good to them as New York. Asa matter of fact, thelr honeymoon was a very staid affair, said Mr. Sayre, They spent most of their time in dif- European cities studying soci- in which both bride and bride- groom are much Int d. “We are going to Washington and then Lam going to Williams Col- Mr. Miss liege to take a course tn soctology,” said Mr. Sayre. "We shall make our home tn Williamstown, Mass.” ‘Are you going to keep house Mr, 8 asked somebody, You just bet we are," Sayre “If you're up that way drop in and try my cooking;" added Mrs, Sayre, and then everybody laughed and vowed they would do just that thing. estic, which was delayed, laughed Mr. owing hoinip with , but the Sayres, kood sailors, didn't miss meal and made themselves general favorites with everybody on boai Dr. W. E. Augenbaugh of West. moreland Co., Va., was &@ leader in a movement participated plat win by several) ent at Cherbourg, | ed one of her! high | She was to take name, Hewas to give any children born his name. He was not to pay ber any money for herself. She was not to pay him money. He was not to borrow from her. EVERYTHING WENT WELL FOR FIFTEEN VEARS. Mrs, Gilon, as she calls herself, kept to her part of the agreement, work- ing for many years as a forelady in various furnishing stores at from $30 to $35 a week, but she says her hus- band neglected his end of the con- tract by associating with “pretty blondes who wore glasses” after hav- ing lived in accordance with the agreement for more than fifteen years, For many years the couple lived at No. 311 W Twenty-ninth street, with a daughter Dorothy, no’ ty-two years old. In 1907, cate, which she refused to “I bad already been his wite for eighteen years and that's why [ didn’t sign it.” she explains in an aMfidavit. “Then he began to go with other women, but all the while he wrote letters to our daughter and signed himself ‘papa. Gtion says that the real name of the woman who claims to be his wife Hattie Tomlinson and that when met her she was going under the name of Mrs. Sam Adams. He denies that he agreed with her to marry or saat the subject was ever discussed by. ern h “she disappeared back she brought an infant |. She asked me to allow the child to think IT was her father and I did and gave the child my name, and to carry out this arrangement wrote Dorothy letters calling her my daughter.” Gllon says that it was not he who tired of the trial arrangement. He gays that in October, 1913, Mrs, Gilon appeared before him in. the court-house and told him that she would give him until 2 o'clock that day to marry her or she would take the matter up with the District- Attorney. Gillon says that he told her to go ahead and do that, “I tolerated her for years,” Gillon continues, “but I came gradually to see the folly of the arrangement.” of passengers who felt that because of the delay caused by the accident at Cherbourg, they #hould have a part return of their passage money.’ He circulated # petition to which was added a strong commendation of thi seamanship of Capt. Beadnell, w' the bridge for ulmost the en- when the log read: the ship made nty-four hours, |to ride the mountainous waves with- jout “nosing” them. The officers | united in saying it was the roughest crossing the Majestic has ever ex- perienced, Me ——_—_—~ FOR RACING SEE PAGE Ls Pew te being slowed down to the last notch} ® i [ 0090000904 GAFFNEY SAYS HE'LL ANSWER EVERY WHITMAN QUESTION “District - Tees, Knows! Where He Can Find Me,” De- | clares Alleged Bagman. James BH. Gaffney, close friend of | Charles F, Murphy, whose name has | figured extensively !n the testimony | of William Sulzer and others tn the John Doe investigation, who has been characterized as “Murphy's bagman,” said today that he was ready to, answer any cai) that District-At- torney Whitman might make upon him. He is ready to meet Mr. Whit man at any time and to answer any questions the District-Attorney wish- es to put to bim. Further than this Mr. Gaffney refused to speak. Mr. Gaffney was seen.in his office at No. 1 Madison avenue by an Eve- ning World reporter. “I learned this morning,” he sald, “that I had gone to Hurope, but | discover that I am still here. And let me say that if the District-At- "THIRD U, OF P. STUDENT DEAD IN EIGHT DAYS First Was Drowned, Second Shot Himself and Last a Suicide by Gas, Say the Police. PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 241.—The third student of tue University of Pennayl vania to die from unnatural causes tn the last elght days was found dead to- day from asphyxiation. He was Ra: mond F. Feldman of Tunkhannock, Pa., and was found sitting In a chair in a gas Mled room at his boarding-houne. ‘The pollee pronounced it a case of aul- cide, declaring they had found evidence of preparations to end his life. Feld- man was twenty-two years old and a student in the law school Last Saturday a University student was found drowned in the Delaware River and on puraday another student committed sutcide by shooting, Feb n was of a sensitive nature and seemed to feel very badly bing by fellow etudents torney wants me for any purpose i am here He knows where be cap find me at any time “I have not had any official com munication from Mr. Whitman, but} 1@w him last Saturday when I went | ¢ to luncheon at the Holland House. We ran across each other tn the din- Ing room and said ‘hello’ That's tho only communication I've with (Continued on Second Page. was learned that be was found veping last night and that he had tened suicide once before when ed in his studies. son is known why he should ' Killed himnelf except that he re- ntly failed to pass an examination short time has created a sensation at the universit > - SAILING TO- DAY. The chain of tragedies in such a} are such accounts Is indicated by the visit to the District-Attorney’s @f to-day of a procession of bank clerks carrying sealed envelopes to Assistant District-Attorneys Clark and Edwards. ‘The research into the Murphy bank accounts embraces an effo trace a check for $10,000 said to have been contributed to the campaign fund in the fall of 1912 by a millionaire New Yorker, ng wi of which appears in the report of receipts and expenditures of the D cratic State Committee or the New York County Committee, Mr, Whitman has been informed that if he follows the back ti MH a} this check he will find that it passed through a bank account nota ciated with either the State Committee or the County Committee Democratic organization, The subpoenas addressed to bankers, information of which sta with given for the first time, directed that such banks ss have Charies F. Murphy account in the last five years furnish a 9 beset of same, vig particular reference to the items of her bills, drafts or checks. The banker, were commanded ee ple if palit GAFFNEY’S ACCOUNTS FOR FIVE YEARS. This sensational move followed a drag net operation which into the District-Attorney's office all of the banking transactions of E. Gaffney, Mr. Murphy’s friend and associate. The records extend back five years. They are sald to be extremely ing as illustrating the fat profits attending whatever business Mr. was following at various times—particularly in 1908 and 1909. Dresperity period under investigation, It fs cald that mest of these —ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 per depocit—were composed bills of large denominations. An exhaustive analysis of the Gaffney bank accounts has nett made, but comparisons are possible between the dates of certain) Sax deposits and the dates of the letting of certain large contra Catskill Aqueduct or the Barge Canal. The comparisons indicate that, coincidental with the letting of contracts by tne Board of Water Supply, or the State Cam 8 the bank account of Mr. Gaffney would increase to the extent ae fat deposit—in bills, TO PUT TWO BANK ACCOUNTS SIDE BY SIDE, What ihe District Attorney aims to do is to place the wa actions of Charles F, Murphy and James E. Gaffney side especially as they apply to deposits, If it is found that on dates | James E. Gaffney deposited large amounts of money Murphy also deposited large amounts of money and that th lose to the dates of the letting of large contracts Mr. Mi 4 to explain on the witness stand—should his wish to witness be gratified. When mae were first subpoenaed to produce records of ing the Carnegie Trust Company investigation, which resulted fa dictmont of Charles H, Hyde, the banks protested, Mr. Whitman’ | question Into the courts and it was decided that when the Dist: lias reason to beli.y9 @ crime has been committed and he needs from panks, he «ax subpoena bank accounts. Since then there been any difficulty with the bankers, It was surmised by the District-Attorney that perhaps in we . | gation into charges that contractors had to pay for thelr aqueduct or the canals, that money he was trying to trace might be | placed in safe deposit boxes instead of in banks, Go he has alse subpoenaed safe deposit companies to