The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1914, Page 1

| \ _ Cars in Upper West Side ‘Still Stalled by Snow iy cleudy to-night an@ Wednesday) warmer. coeraruae & “PRICE ONE CENT. BROADWAY CARS STILL IDLE: a Circulation Books Open to | All.’’ coves Ee Rae NEW /KING OF THE BELGIANS | SUFFERS BROKEN ARM SERVICE COMMISSION WONT | ~ ACTON MANY COMPLAINTS Ss ioner Matt Maltbie Declares ird Avenue System Did Not | : Take yroeet Precautions. } oop’ PRICES SOAR | Srow Removal Slow and C Still Facing Serious an From Fire. Upper Broadway is still a snow- jocked village lane. The Third Ave- ue Railway Company, which has the nohive for operating cars along the part of that thoroughfare, has ot sent a cur north of Forty-sixth | tgeet since 11 o'clock on Friday | @eapite the fact that every ber oar line in the city ie making pretense of giving service, and tions of Brooklyn, Queens and the; Ta Amsterdam avenue, a block to the east; in Columbus avenue, in: Central Park Weat, in almost every Z & are running. They are not always | WF moving on schedule, and railroad folk | Se complain bitterly that they have) cleared their tracks, only to have used by vehicular traffic, which delays the cara. But the Third Avenue Railway . Company, which is supposed to op- erate the red line through Broadway EMmorth of Forty-wixth street, has not moved car, Supt. Edward Mahar * eaid to-day that he hoped to open the Sline by nightfall. ut if the Interburough can run| 8 over all their lines, some hich parallel Broadway, why can't! mM give some sort of service?” he ram asked. IRGADWAY EXPOSED, SAYS RAILWAY SUPERINTENDENT. “Well, you see, we have the most posed and hilly section of Broad- way,” was his explanation, made in lapparent forgetfulness of the fact that Amsterdam avenue is fully as exposed and contains exactly the same hills and grades, “We had « force of 800 men at work fl lust night and they are at work o-day. They should cloar the tracks Iby nightfall, Our trouble was occa- joned by the thaw of Saturday after- yon, which melted the snow and let i 2Gn into our third ral channel. yen it froze there and since then we had to opon manholes and chip ico out with axes.” Mahar had gangs of men the ice out of the channel at! p Hundred and Seventeenth, One (Centinued on Second Page) | TOLL QUESTION | IS SETTLED || The toll that one must pay to ob- ain the position, worker, home, investment opportunity, bargain, etc, he seeks, is but one cent— the cost of the Morning World with its thousands of want-filling advercisements. ree, an economic route to the Sood things in ihe ne bot? urely this Is a trip that ali pro- ‘ ressives should take every day, The views World ad. readers get of itions, workers, hoines, invest- t_ opportunities, miscellaneous ins, etc, have proved won- Gada drawing cards. 1,544,239 WORLD ADS. LAST YEAR— 771,805 More Than the Herald. \ FIVE DEIN WRECK, THREE MEN FROZE | "NSHP RISING | Eight Cihes Gas Helpless When} | Saved From Bark C Off Cape Cod. “YORK, ‘TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, “CHICKEN” IN TAXI THO INDICTMENTS | GOSTS MEIN HERR ARE LIKELY TO-DA “HIS FAT Y WALLET IN $41 200 BRFT ($55) in Wild Ride Up | Moors of Broadway. Tammany Expected to Be Named. |ACH! SUCH A HEADACHE! |BENSEL IS A WITNESS. i ‘ ' |Somethings in the Papers, Yes, State Engineer Signs Waiver of 0, for His Fiancee to Immunity Before Testifying Read To-Day. to Grand Jury. { “Wee, woe Is met" oF words to that | Proceedings before the idiaa|= fect, mouned Herr Theodore G. K. | Court Grand Jury during the past six | radt Hide: Polise” Const | weeks indicated, in the Judgment of Lavoida: 1h! "Went, Bide Pole Court lhe DistrictsAttorney, the Anding of And he had @ right to moan, | tw, indictments’ thin afternoon--one |for he is an attache of the Austro- | against a prominent State official, the Diplomat Loses bls His Thousasids | State ital ond and Man High in] s WELLFLEET, Mass., Feb. 17 Capt. Garva and four seamen of th Italian bark Castagna perished when their vessel was thrown on the outer bar of Cape Cod, near the Marconi wireless station, just before dawn to- | day, The first mate and seven sail- ore were rescued by life-savers, one | Albert of Belgium broke his left arm of whom, Capt. Tobin of the Cahoon's | to-day when he was thrown from his ears ere run even in the outlying sec- | Hollow Life-Saving Station, was bad- ‘horseswhile MaIng in the Forest of ly injured by the overturning of the | Solgnies, not far from the battle fleld | surfboat. |of Waterloo. The King had a narrow |Hungurian Embassy at Washington ‘and he ts in Now York on a visit to his flancee and he was in court as Tarown From His Horse While complainant against two old time iding in Ke —_N, . badger women and pickpockets who Rising iy Forert No Serious got his wallet and contents of same! Consequences Feared. in @ taxicab last night. ELE, Herr Levolda gave his right name reitiby ka Aieoy at the West Sixty-cighth street sta- tion lest night and made a complaint Against the two women who robbed! him. He had been imbibing what he called “Ach, dose highball.” But he was quite himself fn the police court Feo, 37 | other oguinst & contractor and pollti- jclan wao tas been clonely allied with Tamimany Hall. After long and laborious digging the District-Attorney believes he has dis- covered who got $41,260 paid by Rat- teraon Brothers of Pittsburgh at about the time they were awarded contract No, 2 em the Catskill. aqueduct, amounting to $824,045.50, James G, Shaw, President of the Clinton Ppint Stone Company, who, as “stakeholder,” received the meney from the Patter- fons and paid it ever to somebday in The skipper of the Castagna was | €fcape from more serious injury, His washed overboard, three men were, physiclan allayed public anxtety by frozen to death in the rigging and one {declaring that no graver consequences to-day and full of the realization that| his offive, maintained for @ lohg time his flancee reads the newspapers. | that he forgot who received the} shore, ‘The loxs of life was the largost in a wreck on Cape Cod in twelve years, ‘The Castagna, from Montevideo for Boston with phosphate rock, struck the bar early to-day during a blind- ing snowstorm and sixty-mile north- | west gale, The beach patrol sighted | her at dawn, 300 wares offshore, with | the surf breaking ‘over her and| threatening to pound her to pleces. The combined life-saving crews from the Nauset and Cahoon’s oa low stations set up their beach gun other thoroughfare of the city, cars| died in the surfboat on the way to|Wete likely to ensue from the acct-| The honorable Herr | a big, hand-| jsome man, He tried in vain to call! off the prorecution, But the women (had been recognised an old offenders ;and they were held in $5,000 bail jeach on a charge of grand larceny. TAX! DRIVER TOOK ABOARD AI “CHICKEN.” Herr Levolda was ghe victim of an| adventure, He was riding up Sev-; enth avenue in a taxicab on his way to his rooms in the Partherion Hotel at No, 400 Manhattan avenue When, at the upper end of Longacre square, the chauffeur stopped the car and aaked him if he wouldn't like to meet dent, as the King’s general health ts good. The Belgion ruler in not yet | thirty- i ay S cable al y ] od, MRS. BOND WEEPS, MARS. GORE SMILES money. Whether through Mr Shaw or an- other source, the District-Attorney hn information about the recipient of thé $41,260, It is believed that an indictment based on this transaction ia about due. James KE, Gaffney, who |1s accused by John M. Murphy, « contractor, of having received tho money, has not been identified by Mr. Shaw. STATE ENGINEER BENSEL CALLED AS WiTNass. John A, Bensel, State Engineer, wan served with a subpoena to appear be- jand shot three lines acro: | tee's announcement that it would go | paigning |the same measure the year before he | House before he tak: | ——— World Ad. Scenery Changes Beery Day! AT PLEA TO JURY — Lawyer for Plaintifl, Asking} Verdict for Her, Contrasts the Cas. | tagna’s deck, but the sallors were so benumbed by the cold that they were unable to hundle the breeches buoy tackle. The gale had moderated to thirty miles an hour but the surf was so high that the life-savers had to wait some time before they could launch | their lifeboat and pull out to the wreck against wind, sea and biting cold, OKLAHOMA CITY, The survi ed to the Minnte E, Marconi wireless station, where med- Court igal attention was given them, were 80 greatly overcome by posure that, none could give a herent account of the disaster, ee tsnendiinieemertie the Two Women in Court. Feb, 17.-—Mra, Bond wept in the District here to-day as her lawyer, a Everett J. Giddings, pleaded with the ex- op. |dury to give her the verdict in her | $50,000 damage suit against United States Senutor T. P. Gore, e Mra. Gore, wife of the Senator, Jleaned forward, smiling as if) in scorn, a8 the woman who accused her husband of attacking her tn a WILSON’S VETO READY FOR IMMIGRATION BALL) ser Husnan hotel brushed the tears Ei | from h President Opposed to Literacy Test; (iddings ' ; Mrs. Bond in Burnett Measure—Has Not ML scat ehane twa waihen:® Yet Passed Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. President Wilson's veto is waiting for the Bur- nett Immigration bill if it passes Con- gress, providing for the much-dis cussed literacy test, according to the best information to-day in circles close to the White House. Definite news of the Prosident's opposition to the test came as a surprise to many who were led to believe he favored it by the Senate Immigration Commit- ontrasted Mrs, Gore @ he black; the other in all her finery. Senator Gore sat motionless through a scathing denunciation of Mrs. Hond's lawyer, Ocensionally he | brushed the knob of his heavy cand |across his lps or tapped himself on | the forchead. Mrs. Gore trequently | whispered comments to John | Young, defense lawyer. {the summing up in the case | reached the jury stage to-day | attorneys for both the plaintuff and defense rested, Judge Clark imme- diately began the reading of his in- structions to the jury, Following Judge Clark's instruc- tione to the jury arguments were mtarted and it was expected that both j Sides would conclude to-day and that the case would be given to the jury late to-day, 5 nee SAILING TO-DAY. ity of Sytoey, & St. doe jamburg. Naples which ahead with the bill keeping the It- After eracy test in its place, ‘Thousands of naturalized citizens all over the country have been cam- against the bill, which aured former President Taft to veto went out of office, President Wilson will give public bearings ut the White wi gt, tudicn, pd World Tour ee ae aig canny 19 A.M. apm, M. ' ‘This dramatic scene occurred during | a “chicken.” Herr Levolda was usk-| fore the Grand Jury thie afternoon. ing the chauffeur what he meant when| In advance of the meeting of the |& statuesque, beautifully owned wo-|Grand Jury Mr. Hensel appeared at| man popped into the cab and sat down | Mr, Whitman's office in company with \beside him. Then two other women his counsel, a member of the firm of | crowded in, and the first arrival sug-| Kellogg & Rone, Té lawyer wanted gested that they all take a little ride}to know what the Grand Jury re- uptown, This was agreeable to Herr/| quired, but was told that Mr. Hensel Levolda, who ts naturally gallant. His | would be told when he was called as three companions called him “the/a witness, Mr, Bensel has signed @ Baron.” | walver of immunity. Herr Levolda is learning to speak | Others subpoenawd to appear before) English and he tried out severe! little} the Grand Jury this afternoon were anecdotes on hin guests, Henry Steers, a contractor, formerly At Seventy-sixth street he missed in partnership with James E. Gaff: Lis embossed Weather wallet. He made | Frederick Killeen, wa former some mention of his loss and the lady " who had suggested the ride became | Miron, iy tee Hae 4 intonsely indignant. She said that juat| uv aw F a for that ahe would get right out and MUFPRY; Henry Wheeler, an ongi- | walk in the snow. One of her friends | Bee" in Steers's employ; Charlon| wan offended, too, and they both tried H. Locker of the contracting firm of to get out of the door, Herr Lovotda| Grant Smith Company & Locker, | | reached for them and Policeman Oak ined Eaak conireste 2a. the oom ley, hearing screai saw the three 9 eee : | foundering in a deep snow bank, Ho With © lawyer, There was also in Waiting in the Tombs, In readiness to| ‘histled for Policoman McHugh and testify, one George L. Lewis, & con-/| they went to the rescue. ies ie Lied Sing prison, who wan Herr Leyolda told what had hap-| brought down to-day by detectives pened and they searched the taxicab; ‘tttehed to the District-Attorney’s| r with @ flashlight, but found no wal-|°M@® let. TaTUESQUE one eaves WATER DEPUTIES NAMED. | FRIENDS BEHIND. antesth: Wi nonrenin |_“How much was in the wallet a | was one of the first questions put by ""4 debe K. MeG Commiasioner Williama of the Depart- the man behind the desk | " “Thoun: ” ¥ 1 da, Tent of Water Supply, Gas and Elece ousanda,” cried Herr Levolda. | icity hae appointed deputive for rook: How many thousande? lyn and the Bronx. Alfred W. Booraem “I cannot figure in American money | No, $04 Laxcoln Place ia the Brooklyn j well. It was $55," he explained. appointee. appointed Misa Brown, who sald she lived at Assistant Corporati Tounsel in 1902 No, 824 Weat Twenty-firat atreet, and {Mi remained in that office until 13. \her companion, who said she was i York National Guard, of which | Miss Annie Murphy of No. 95 West cond Hleutenant. | Hin salary a One Hundred and Fifth street, were | attending a Partly cloudy to-night and Wedneséay; warmer, Gclorld, FINAL - 1914. LOSES DIVORCE SUIT IN WHICH A MODEL = NE ROMA LANDS Seeoesee ore ae MODEL OO WN A IVORCE FOR MRS, ANDERSON Despite Her.““Admissions” and) the Detectives, Jury Finds | for Defendant. | Practicaliy unsupported, the word of John A. Anderson, athlete and club- | man, and officer ofthe Beventh Reg: | iment, proved mare convincing to al fury before Justice Whittaker In the | Supreme Court to-day than all toatl-| mony of Lorraine Parker, the pretty Httle model and her friends and the | detectives combined. ‘The jury's ver- dict, which exonerated Anderson of charges of Infidelity, was an unqualt- | fled victory for the defendant and his attorney, Edward A. Scott. Neither Anderson nor his girliah wife, Marguerite Ebling Anderson were in court when the foreman announced | his verdict, Ira Leo Bamberger, Mra. Anderson's lawyer, Ix confined to bis home with a ¢ The jury retired at | 4.30 o'clock last night and at 6 o'clock they had unanimously decided in favor | of Anderson, The verdict wan then sealed and brought to court to-day by the foreman, William i. Newman, The Anderon divorve case was xen. | ational because of the testimony of | Miss Parker, the co-respondent, who | was the firat witness culled by the | plaintiff. Miss Parker “peached on | Jack," as she admitted. She told tho; jury she was willing to tell because! sho had decided to toll the truth, mentioned numerous ocasions when | she declared Anderson had byen false | to his marriage vows. She was cur-| roborated by Miss Minnie \yilson, a Toommate, and by Detectives Je ©, Baum and Simon Krecker, who told.of weeing Anderson in Mist Park- er’a apartment through « warped door, Anderson took the witnexs stand in his own defense and denied Mins! Parker's statements, He admitted writing her ono letter and one postal, but denied the authorship of « letter which way produced by Mr. Bam- berger. Anderson wrote the letter over to prove that he was not the author, He brought witnesses to prove that on the night that the de- ald they suw him in Miss apartment, he was actually politteal meeting in New Rochelle, | Edward A. Scott, Anderson's ate, torney made much of what he termed a “conspiracy to defeat Anderson's n sult againat his mother- in-law." Heott referred to a suit for mM pending against his wife's Boag Commissioner will be $5.5 John han of No. 1731 Weekes taken to the matron's dopartment and searched. Nothing was found avenue is appointed for the Bronx. ie is 4 graduate of St. Francia Xavi Then it was suggested that tho School and Fordham University Sch 'N jared Herr Levoida, "Bhe is ny frien make @ complaint er?” asked the lieutenant, two years ol, of repeated Herr Levolda. nue, Corona, Wan struck by a} Bo the statuenque lady, even perthhelind trolley car at Keventieth using to bid “the baron good-by, | fata aad. Lasington Avenue to-day and instan ton Avenue Car. | @ carpenter, ffty- 0, 92 Sycamore ave- | Kiltcd hy Lest H mother in which Anderton charges that hin wite is unsious to throw th off that she may make an alli with a French Count 9 of Toy > anked Justice Whittaker to set aside th verdict as against the weight of the evidence, The Court decline to alter the verdict, It was stated that an appeal will be taken, — Hee. Gat OF ‘the, ergtion.. ee. as snaeree . hoo nat FOR RACING PAGE 14. por it the platform of AES, SOTO We PASSENGERS AFTER SIX HOURS ON ROCKS Fabre Company Ship Arrives at Prov- idence Dock With Bad List as Result of Hitting Shore of- No Man’s Land. ‘|SHIFTING OF HIGH WIND SAVED SHIP FROM Men and Women Happy on Landing ; After Night of Terror and Feril in Storm. (Special to The Kvening World.) PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb. 17.—Listed heavily to port as the visible sign of the perils she and her pasngers underwent during her six ub. certain hours on the reefs of No Man's Land, the steamship Roma of the Fabre line docked at 2 o'clock this afternoon, She came to the harbor under her own steam, having freed herself trom her position on the rocks by her strong engives aided by a prove jdential shifting of the gale which drove her aground. As sogn as she reached thjs port Dr. Grubs, the chiet quarantine jofticer, and his assistant, Dr. Houghton, went aboard the Roma to |make the examination of her passengers. WANTED SOME EgS. 'szwssceces Some FRED ON ONE SOE | mooringn at the foot of Publio street, jand there the ers, thankful | enough to reach dry “9 after thetr « (Gees of the night, were fanded. SOME ON THE OTHER Restaurant hasan Is Doping! Out How to Do It When Nine | Gunmen “Stick Him Up.” iiannico, combination night | 7k and waiter of the | auinch at One Hundred and | ‘Thirtioth street and ‘Twelfth avenue, | opposite the Fort Lee ferry house, was | Irenming of a vineyard in sunny Ttuly, all his own, at an early hour | to-day when a touring car stopped in front of the place and disgorged n men, ‘They entered the lunch mand ‘Tony braced himself for a rush, “Give us nine orders of ham and omy," wald one of the visitors, “and have half the eggs friend on one side and half on the other.” ‘Tony started for the kitchen, Just 4s he reached the door he stopped. “Half on-a da one side an’ half on-w da oth * he muttered, turning around ‘Tony nore for #everal min- aw the muzzle of one re-| volver looking bit right in the eye and felt the musale of another revol- pressing against his whyhbone, n behind the guns commanded | him to keep #till and he did ‘The others took $5 in small change | from y and $55 from the cash | draw They also took all the cig- arettes, clxars, tobacco and cigar- otte pap from the clear cave. Then, while one man stood at the door with @ revolver, the others the car, As it started away moat the | door put up his gun, | and eg in w ° companions, When ‘Tony ve got out in the street the automobile was disappearing in ion of Broadway, ‘Tony more worried about the Ic of his own and his Boss's money if he could stop figuring on how the fendey of the bandits wanted the eggs ri hree hundred and fifty of them went’, eee here, two being firat class pas- Piseapide and twenty-four second claga. "he remainder were of the steerage. pocTon FOUND CASE OF Ty. PHUS ON BOARD. ‘The delay in coming to the pier was due to the discovery by the Health — Officer of & suxpécted case of typhum on board. The steamer was listing consider lably to port, but waa not meking | Water fant, her double bottom having saved her from filling. ‘The starboard — coal bunkers were emptg and this added to the Lat. Capt, Combernous said that the Koma Kot off the rocks under her own steam after being fast for six hours, The vessel pounded heavily, and i fact this pounding helped her to rg ke herself. When the ateamer slid > off the ledge into deep water her stem struck another submerged rock, but no damage resulted, At the time the Roma freed herself)” he: the revenue cutter [tasca was nearby, and the steamers Campania and Ste- bhano and the revenue cutter Acushs het were offering their services by wireless. The Koma carried 376 bas sengers, of whom eighty were women. and twenty-four were children, After leaving Fayal on Feb, 7 the steamer encountered a auccesvion of ‘gales She struck on the tedye at | 240 yesterday afternogn, but it was. time before ner wireless: operator couhl 1 ecromants jcation with the shore stations be. cause of the unfavorable static cone ditions, Capt. Combernous said he could. not understand how the ship got ae | far off her course, as the place where © |she struck i more than 10 milee from the ocean steamship lane, Officers of the steamer aaid jthe passengers behaved eplenaidip and that the discipline of the exgw was excellent, A few Portuguese immigrant wemms om showed fright, but were by @ passenger, who ocdrvemns ee in thelr own tongue. . ai % ats “w-vessel's bottom, ee: ahah 3 Be m3 * ae ht rah