The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1914, Page 1

Bicncists Novel Each’ Week in The Evening Second of the Great Serise of 10 BEGINS TO-DAY 0. e “THE TRAIL TO YESTERDAY” Gnew or rain to-night ané Teceéay) warmen | , FINAL PRICE ONE CENT. ‘y, Snow se enim to-night and Tucsdar, vvrermen INAL @be ["Ctroulation Books Open to All” | Care ae ite Taw wee _NEW «YORK, ‘MONDAY, JANUARY 26, ’PRIOE ONE ENT. ba PAGES 1914. EXPENSE ACCOUNT 10 MAKE PROFTS APPEAR SMALLER PHONE MONOPOLY PADS © |HEADED$7,000,000 HOUSE AND NOW UP FOR MAIL FRAUDS Misuse of Millionaire’s Name William -E. Heffron Admits}: Gaffney, Tammany “‘ Higher Up,” Involved in the Road Scandals SPECIALLY PHOTO GRAPHED TO-DAY. [MAIL STRIKERS rt TRANSFER COMPANY EMPLOYED GUNMEN Attorney Declares Thugs Were| Hired to Beat Up Chauf- aH. “Winkler | ‘Analyzes BRYAN SFE p. to Save Crash. feurs Who Quit Work. | Company's Statements Filed 1 = Bi\ i: Wim. s. Board. KEPT COMPANY MONEY. DENY USE OF FORCE. wy WaUZING REVELATIONS. a, Payment of More Than $1,000,000 a Sample Item. The New York Telephone Company having been forced at if last to dieclose how many mill- fons of dollara it takes out of Mow York Otty ennually, os , Mow in ite statement of re ceipte and eapenses, the Public Sercice Commission te now ane lgwing the items in the expenap coount. M. HM. Winkler of No, 90 Well street, principal pett tioner in the pending case for veduced tolls, has discovered ev- idence of excessive padding in the company's operating es- pense accounte which were weed -~to make the net profits appear amaper. Mr. Winkler gives to The Evening World the results of his ezamination: WHAT THE STATEMENTS OF SAnalyzing the CAPITAL MAY GIVE GDETHALS TO GiTY Mitchel digi. tae Skritity on Not Blame Him for Offer to Canal Builder. Secretary of State. William Jen-| nings Bryan walked tnto the City ‘Wall to-day, unaccompanied, har- tied along the corridor to thé west- iy en@ of tha growné fleor and tqld Lieut. Kenaet,on duty, at the door, that Re wished topes” [was Matently admitted to ‘Mayor ;Mitchel’s office, remaining fiftesa | minutes. “It was purely @ social call,” eatd | Secretary Bryan. “I happen to be in ;New York to atténd the American: Asiatic dinner at Delmonico's to- portunity to meet Mayor Mitchel.” “Was anything said about Col, the Secretary was asked. y for publication,” was the reply, “that whatever I sald to the Mayor I did not repeat to the! newspapers.” While Mr. Bryan was in in the May- or’s office, a Police Department auto- night and took advantage of the op- | Post-Office Inspectors Trail- ing Him Since His Reorgan- ization Scheme Started. Willtam E. Heffron, former head of the bankrupt $1,000,000 mail order house of William Heffron Company, Inc., was held under $2,500 ball this morning by United States Commis- stoner John A. Shields, charged with using the mails in an attempt to defraud. It was showr that he used the same of J. V. Thompson of Unions’ town, Pa. reputed.to be worth $36,- TORE St iritompe to recesuatas ker an attempt te reorganize Pisdeok WF epectncalty charged with fepeesenting tp the Seward Trunk |and Bag Company of Petersburg, Ve., that Thompson was his backer in re- organising the company and with |presenting to them a $6,000 note signed by Thompson from which he requested them to deduct their claim and return the remainder. | ‘Thompsoh in a telegram to Inspec- tor Frank A. O'Brien declares that he knows nothing of Heffron, but that | Heffron might have obtained notes | beld by New York brokers, Post-office inspectors assert that | -—— {Heffron has been in New York a | month, or since his mail order house | failed, stopping at the best hotels and JAMES GAFFNEY: CURRAN AIDE NAMED Teas @O VNOERWooD,runDERWwoem PH oro GRAPHER | SUES JOSEPH KERBERT, Lawyer Says ‘Dynamite Bomb’ Was Trick Cigar and Sword an Omament. The defense in the trial of fifteen {atriking mail chauffeurs charged with conspiring to obstruct the passage of the mall, sprang a surprise in the United States District Court before Judge Killite this afternoon, when Col. Mann Trice, attorgey for the Prisoners, endeavored to show by one of the defendants that gunmen were employed by the Postal ‘Transfer Ser- vice, Inc. the company carrzing the thal, to attack the vetriking ‘union mep and to break up the strike. Judge Killite refused to admit the evidence until it was presented in competent form. The strikers’ attorney declared that on Oct, 30 & car’ owned by Supt. Cansidy of the Transfer Service drove up to union headquarters, Eighth ave- hue and Twenty-eighth atreet, and disgorged eight gunmen, “who kicked down the door and beat several union oMctats, seats another occasion, of the defendants, was ecko gunmen who got out of a car marked with Cassidy's initials he atated, WHITMAN TO LEAD LEGISLATIVE HUNT FOR BIG GRAFTERS Republicans Plan an Inquiry That Will Give the New York District- Attorney Sweeping Power in Exposing Bribery. OSBORNE STRIKES SNAG IN WORK AT ALBANY He and Carmody at Odds -Over Grand Jury Investigation of Peck, Reel and Foley. pent tidvies uniuditel ue be earus < wal ae tion of contract graft and that without delay was made clear this after- noon when Assemblyman Francis P. Stoddard of the Twenty-fifth Distriet called upon District-Attorney Whitman to “sound” him in the matter of conducting such an mvestigation. Mr. Stoddard asked Mr. Whitman whether the District-Attorney could give him an answer to be laid before a joint caucus of the Assembly and Benate yg be held at Albany to-night, He added that a great many of the members of the Assembly were eager that the District-Attorney should act as counsel to a committee to be appointed to hear the adduced evidence. It ie understood that Mr, Whit- man’s reply was that be could not undertake any such work unless he wore allowed an absolutely free hand, bree went to Albany to-day to get n receipts and expenses of the New York reloghone Company inthe| mobile reached the City Hall, Mr. jendea DEPUTY POLICE HEAD! and was chased for several blocks.|and that he be aided in seaking|the dates of the award of certain ecity of New York for 1912 and 1913) Bryan left in that vehicle. notes cashed. He succees pee = Three union men were beaten, he|¢hrough every State department as filed with the Public Service Com-| Mayor Mitchel was asked, after|ing one cashed by the Carter-Macv sald, by several thugs. which might harbor graft and/- mission leads to some very intereét-| Mr. Bryan's departure, if the Sec-| Company of this city, they way, afd/ Edward V. O'Daniel Will Have) The dword displayed in the union! gratters. . ing results. They show the existence of conditions different from what the figures are intended to show. “The operating revenue for 1918 1s stated to hi bee! Fer 1912 it “The operating expenses increased were installed without much increase .in capital invested or expense of operation, “The net income for 1912 ts given aa $10,603,261.67, and for 1918 as $10,685,271.87, an increase of only $82,020.20. “During 1912 the New York Tele- phone Company paid to the Ameri- can Télephone and Telegraph Com- pany, rental for use of equipment (receiver, transmitter, induction coil Sundry minor services) $1,179,- 4,000 MILITANTS WILL MARCH TO KING'S PALACE, petition King George. She said about ham Palace on Feb, 10, a few hours before the-wpening of Parliament, and pregent their plea to the King, A systematic campaign to create nee in restaurants Moving picture houses is the lat pe scheme of the militant muftra - fi f setts At todays wookly Dail 2 corded & hearing on the rates for eastbound passengers and ithe evil Nee ea aer i) arkapiinaee) ob: MARS Se araterem ota moving picture show on a plan- {cause no man can be forced to pros” q in Knightsbr! Hall, | $2.50 fon westbound passengers, bring-| drink, Wost Fifty-seventh street attended | « t her, rding to @ wire-| tation in the Dutch residencygof | duce evidence against hi down to the cut ag Loud cries from brewers and dia- le. cnd she was taken home in ap|levs message to Acting Commander pees Pay ody of the sactiea were en nee ee M jo Maer) «a That ats Stein “ere LP We. RS a Se ale {on |. | Maye 4,000 women would march to Bucking- | retary of State had acted as an emissary for the Administration tn connection with the future sphere of usefulness of Coi Goethals, The replied: “The name of Col. Goethals was mentioned, Secretary Bryan did me the honor of/a call, but he did not {stration to retain the services of Col. Goethals after the canal is finished.” “Neither did Mr. Bryan say ‘God speed you; get him if you can,’" ad- ded the Mayor. BRYAN CALLS ON COLLECTOR MALONE AT CUSTOM HOUSE, Secretary Bryan called at the Cus- tom House shortly after noon to see war for a time last year Third As- sistant Secretary of State. the usual form card to be filled out |by callers, Mr, Bryan wrote “Mr, Bryan.” jout fear of consequences from the Police Commissioner or the Mayor and stat the Assembly or Benate to the pro- ‘posed legislation taking away from members of the force the right to |appeal from a dismissal, ‘The Lieutenant-Governor suggested thit plan to the Mayor to-day, but His Honor has not made any comment. Although Wagner ts willing to help he believes the poll Collector Dudicy Field Malone, “who | “Oh,” exclaimed the clerk, coming | pocketed the proceeds instead of turh- ing over the. money toward the reor- ganisation of the company. In the form letter sent by Heffron to creditore shortly before his com- pany was placed in involuntary bank- ruptey he declared that Thompson was the principal sponsor of the re- he had bought the Thompson notes, aggregating $20,000, from @ broker, B. T. Moran, of ¢ Woolworth Bull ing, paying him $10,000 and a broker's commission, As Moran is in Chicago, Post-Office inspectors were unable to verify the truth of his statemonts. | The Heffron Company, Incorpor- ated, is said to have been the largest mail order house in Syracuse, with | The cashier of the company, during an order, was received during the month after the company’s affairs be- came involved, and wh! none of these orders was filled, the money, Reduce East?and West Bound Passenger Rates, LONDON, Jan. The American, Cunard and White Star lines to-day nounced reductions of $4 in their Charge of Purchases and Re- pairs in Department, Police McKay nounced the appointment to-d Commissioner an- of Curran Police Investigating Commit- tee and he examined the police rec- ords at Headquarters. In his new post he will have charge of the Hu- reau of Repairs and Supplies and will make all purchases. He will also ha¥e charge of the printing office. This arrangement of duties will necessitate a rearrangement, of the deputy commissioners, for the fourth of Brooklyn. TO FIGHT DEMON RUM islature to-morrow. thelr objections on the floor of | American, Cunard and White Star} The bill hax been prepured by Will- jam Hz Anderson, State Superintend- jent of the League, and he says he has found the iegislators who will intros {duce it In addition to t bones the bil p bel shall iy las brief, deputy usually has been in charge | | AS HS Fi HS FRST MI | Willie etaigi ies Actress, Seeks Edward V. QManiel to be Fourth! and playwright, through her counsel, Maurice Meyer of No. 61 Park Row, Herbert, who was married leas than & month ago to another woman, was served with a summons to-day at the Hotel Claridge, where he ts stopping with his wife. His attor- |neys, Dennis & Buhler, filed promptly a notice of appearance in the County ‘lerk’a office. Although there has been no cere- monial marriage between Willie Nor- ton Herbert and Joseph Herbert, said | by the theatrical profession and by their friends outside of it and by their relatives, The action is for alimony of $150 a week and counsel fee of $1,000, Mr. Herbert ts at present | HORSE THROWS ACTRESS. Norma Phillips, young actress, 5 at the Ho Bleventh street nd Fifth avenue, fvom her horse at the treet entrance of Cen- jtral Park this after | Van Rensselaer, | rooms during the strike in October was an ornament which hung on the walle for years; the “dynamite bomb” which figured prominently in the prosecution's case was an inno- cent “trick” cigar; the “bean shoot- ers” were toys brought to the union rooms by John Gilmore, who was a HIS LE6 DOING TANGO Author Gets Fall on Floor of His Neighbor's Apartment on West Side. Henry Blossom, occupation, thor—broken leg; cause, Tango. This might be the hospital entry in au- though bis leg ia broken an the result of trying to tange on a shiny floor in the apartment of his neighbors on the floor below him at his home, Eighty- ruptly. de was carried upstairs to | his apartment, where he haw since re- | mained, His do jured limb in me aaing K needy. OFF TO AID WRECKED SHIP. — tee ee —_ v6 Mr. Stoddard seemed well satisfied with the answer, although it is not unlikely that there would be a fight at Albany over acceding to Mr. Whit- man's demand. Of the fourteen men whose bank accounts Mr. Whitman has sub- ON SMUGGLING CHARGE. Former Congressman and Brother Charged With Evading Duty on $40,000 Necklace. Lucius N, Littauer, former Con- gressman from the Twenty-fifth New ¥ District, and bis brother, Will- fam Littauer, were indicted to-day into the country lest October and evading the payment of duty. ‘The indictment was sealed and wilt not be made public until the Lit- !Women and Children Victims of Rush for Life From Flames at Show. BATAVIA, Dutch Eaat [ndles, Jan, Fifty-eight children, —_alxteon women and one man were killed to- day during a panic caused by a fire y 1 : \ during the samo period $1,552,082.61,| broach the/ Goethals matter. 1 or tron, ‘These letters were writ, | Deputy Comminsioner, beginning to- Divorce Now That He Has | witness for the Government, Such nocenes oo hance rer beans others prominent in Tammany inner although the number of stations in-| broached it. ‘ten on stationery of some of the lead- | Morrow morning. Wed Anothe were the assertions made by Col,| lon, two, aa opail day, 8?) circles, he hae just begun his bank creased only 10 per cent., there being| “Secretary Bryan did not appear to | ing hotels in this city, but they falled| Mr. O'Daniel Is a graduate of De r. Trice in his remarks. accounts of Repul ‘They ®F©\ account investigation, Information in use in this city Dec, 1912,|be adverse to my wanting Col. Goe-| to impress the creditors. Pauw University and ini an expert ‘The defense will introduce all of the| high im the party, though they @Fe/nay reached him which leads him to 488,298 phones, and on Dec. 31, thals to come to New York and take! tm makin ment before Com-|accountant. He has beon in this city = sassuiart| the aa men on trial as‘witnesses, The case| Hot State leaders, They and the | believe that deposits were made in approximately 624,000 phones, Althe office of Police Commissioner. | missioner Shields to-day Heffvon ad- | two years, connected with the Bureau |), Wits raeedines ter des for | Will 60 to the sury Friday, . banks outside New York City im thie large percentage of this increase rep-|Nor did he exprosa to me any destre | mitted that hie reorganization lettera|of Municipal Research, teed mAh gi pee ete - INDICT LUCIUS LITTAUER and other States, resented extension phones, which|on the part of the National Admin-|were not truthful, and asserted that | His services were loaned to tho} ivorce from Joseph Herbert, actor HENRY BLOSSOM BREAKS The States of Massachusetts, Vere mont, Connecticut, rts aes Island have a ‘sigma ae with this Btate as to the evidence, This agreement gives District-Attorney power to look tate certain bank accounts in some of States mentioned, It is believed Connecticut will prove to be a fruitful Geld for investigation of the money of men who are accused by contractors of having share in a shakedown eys- * tem. GAFFNEY TOLD Hi8 BANKERS 10 The clerk in Collector Malone's |the investigation, swore that more 7 re tho case of Henry Blossom, writer qf| PY the Federal Grand Jury on the [Continued on Second Page.) S | Mr, Meyer tihs afternoon, she has 5 Ad Pe % « Jl outer office did not recognisé the shan 1,200 ore accompanivd by SKULL AND CROSSBONES | been recognized an hia wife since 1896|#everal Broadway successes, But | charee of emugriing: They are AID WHITMAN, EE —=—=====3 | Secretary of State and handed him aggregating more than $10 to Mr. Blossom ts not in the hospital, al- cused of bringing a $40, necklace} James E. Gaffney was asked this afternoon about the subpoenaing of his bank account by District-Attor-~ ney Whitman. “I have known for seven weeks,” ia dabei ir tor ain 2 you Mr. William {more means Age) was placed in the | Polson Labels, Too, to Go ON | playing in Philadelphia in the “Oh, 1 alath street and Broadway, a tow | wit aferti. ; Th re they |B ead, “that Mr. Whitman wan‘eune 7 + jennin, ryan? thi ya if This Say” company. ove janufac- orstration in London—In New |Bryan amile and was admitted, Hi | betore the Grand Jury some time this | Bill Becomes Law, ure on the New York stage, She has | of Sueie time this city, Where they |i. 1 sont word to my bankers to turn ss “a remained with Mr, Malone only @ | Every bottles containing beer or) Pliyed and sung many prominent/ man Hecker, on Friday lant, —_—=_———— over to him all the information they Move to Annoy Theatre Crowds. | few minutes, but they are to meet for | | whinkey offered for sale in thin State bart® In. the Broadway succense .| Hecker was for two terms the “Boy 15 KILLED IW PANIC could, I have said the District-At- LONDON, Jan, 26—Mrs, Dacre Fox, | 2 more extended talk at ¢ o'claake “OCEAN Lifes MEET CUTS iw to bear the skull and crossbones | Among the compantes with which she| Mayor of Milwaukee." Mr, Blonsom \torney should not be hampered in any President of the W. 8. P. U. meeting, bat ig 7 sp Be ‘Wagner has his way, polson label Jf the Anti-Saluon | Mas appeared in recent years are |espayed a whirl with Mra, Becker and! AT MOVING PICTURES way. I have kept all my check stubs ‘announced to-day that the suffra-|the police of New York City will have | OF HAMBURG- AMERICAN | teaxue succeeds In pasaing a. bilt "The Soul Kiss" and other companies | suddenly slipped. Snap went the com- and these I'll place in Mr. Whitman's gettes had completed their plans to /@0 opportunity to go to Albany with- | which will be introduced In the Leg. | Under the management _of Lou Fields, | poser'a leg and the musle stopped ab- hands whenever he wishes, I have had no communication from him, but |as I sald the other day, he knows | where to find me in case he wants me, for anything. Further than this F have nothing to say.” 1s possible there will be.a legal fight over the District-Attorney’s de- manding transcripts of bank accounta, fiome lawyers claim it ts illegal bee. 3