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a ee ‘Mou Cannot Afford to Miss It. | 7 clearing; colder. : Man” Cave, Che Storms Batter Big Liners; Seven Persons Hur “Cireulation’Books Open to All.” | / PRICE ONE CENT. Coren Se Tee =| CUNEW YORK v S| diet actin ee teei ina tenia : J irculation Books Open to A. URSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1914. 20 PAGES TH WW “IV RALS TE TWO KILLED, Sidewalks Ice Covered, and| Surface and “L” Trains Are Greatly Delayed. j x Y RIVER ICE BREAKING UP. Brooklyn Passengers Carried! All Over City, Because of Congestion on All Lines. ‘The rain and thaw, to which New York has been looking for nearly & week fer salvation from its paralysis River ice was softened by the rain, @o that floats and lighters, loaded with coal and supplies, moved freely toward pockets and markets where femine had been threatened. Street accidents were frequent and two deaths due to the ice were re ported, Brooklyn, lured into confidence in | the elevated lines by the good scrvice they did after Saturday's heavy snow, found itself nearly cut off trom New York. ICE ON POWER RAILS TIES UP “L” ROADS. ‘The trouble began at 4 o'clock in the morning on the Lexington avenue ~ <All traina stopped and wera motioniess until nearly 6 o'clock. ‘The officials of all the lines, with this warning, started a number of motor @are to keep the third rail clean of . fee; these bunched at the terminals ‘and by 8 o'clock schedulos were aban- @oned, stations were skipped and the from parts of Brooklyn that aro pee twenty minutes from Par). Row or Delancy street took from fm hour to an bour and a half. POLICEMAN KNOCKED THROUGH WINDOW OF CAR. Policeman Joseph Kienzler of the Adams street station, was caught in {-& crush on the Kni ‘bocker avenue’ > “@tation of the Myrtle aven ine in «Brooklyn and knocked through the window ofa car, His wrist was badly eet, but after being attended by Am- ‘| Surgeon Carr of Brooklyn Meeoitat be wae able to go on reserve @uty. ‘ Fee ejevated structure of the sub- BUTCHERS INDICTED FOR ment Charges, With Fraudu- lent Inspection Tags. An indictment charging wholesale @hipments of disenscd meats was re- 9f Brooklyn, Specific shipments of 6,800 pounds of diseased pork in December, 1912, meat was smuggled to the pier after so United States apectors RAN FREEZES AS IT FALLS: PRS pag a PALMER SAYS HE WILL QUIT. |° ‘te Stee + oe To Call Meeting March 2 to Choune turned to-day against Ernest and|Senator and a w Otto Stuts & on, wholesais butchers | He Jur: from New York to Charleston, 3, C.,/Hug! via the Clyde line, are charged. George Hotel, a rail Assitant United States District- contractor, who pat pom, Attorney Edwin M. Htanton said the jin Cubs for which TOMSHARKEYBOSS “=== OFSHOVELNG CAN IN TOMBS PISO Has 4 ‘The reports of the receivers, William as Murderers, Burglars and A. Marble and John 8. Sheppard jr., of “ ” Hi the Blegel enterprives in this city— pl Men Under Him and | Mstsive of the siegyt teun-re ’ made public to-dhy at a hearing be- jows ’Em How to Work. fore ex-Judge George C. Holt, special A master, in thg Woolworth Building. Ward Joh The figures as announced for the Sonlke datecined' tb tae th - Pied Simpson;Crawford Company's store yard of the slush and snow that have| Were: Assets, $5,200,478 been knee deep there for a week, Ho| (tentative), $5,823,968.10. SIEGELFIRMSOWE |HASSETT REFUSES One of te Lifeboat on Liner HP TRArrye. $3000 WORE TO PLEAD CULTY | THANTHER ASSETS OF 5,00 RAT: Creditors, Show Condition OMIT BOSTON ? FIRM. Liabilities Will Approximate | $9,500,000, Assets a Little More Than $6,600,000, called for volunteers from among the Fourtesnth Street Store were those waiting trial for murder, vur~ Stated to Bo: S146 05.18, a8 the Hap slary, wiretapping, sneak-thievery,| Dlities (may become), #8,748,743,5, white slavesy god grand larceny. comnts 9. @ thirty-day bit foF wunning a disorderly resort on | °StUrday Feb. 22. me nobody caught me asleep at the oald: Warden Hanly gave him a shovel. Tom went down the tler with his vol- uateers, with his weird assortment of cleaners, and addressed them thus: get out of your coops on any excuse. be preserved, looking to their Now get to work and make good. I| ganization. ‘This merchandise don’t believe any of youse is a fancy shoveller, but you've got to get a wiggle on—remember, no monkeying with the chips.” be depleted.” And all set to work. Tom set the| The report of the receivers pace. He bent his monster shoulde:s| much long-looked-for light upon the and hurled the snow clean across the} business and thp business methods yard while the puny crooks and bad| of the Siegel enterprises. it sald in| eggs alongside him peeked at it in w way that showed work was never their long suit. “It ian't as fine as shovelling snow So far aq the Boston: store ts con- Quite a tew volunteered to get out and| fees or thie tectnecs roar ee included, as trustees in bankruptcy. {are to be appointed in Boston on Fourteenth street. “I used to bee James N, Rosenberg of Rosenbergs 3 & Levis, attorneys for the receivers bos'a’s mate in the gavy and Believe of the stores and of Henry Siegel witch,” end Frank E. Vogel individually, “It ie now vital that the receivers for the Siinpeun-Crawford and Four- teenth Street stores purchase.at once a merchandise to the value of $300,000 ‘You fellowa ought to be gia to|i¢ the good will in these stores is to reor- must be bought for the needs of the next two weeks, as the stock for sale in the stores should not be allowed to shed “We found that the depusits in the institution of Henry Siegel & Com- 5 , bankers, aggregating about from your own door steps, but it's «| 282Y: darn better than being kept behing| $2500.00 has apparently been used by the bars, Lots of exercise here al-|Sesel and Vogel in some way in the right. Wish I had more of it.” conduct of the three stores, although debtedness on account of the ad — GIVES UP SEARCH FOR of these moneys. And Tom tried to look as if he were| the books of the storcs did not reveal happy. with any degree of accuracy the tn- SINKING SCHOONER]. te rate of the origina! cucehe ot NORFOLK, Va., Feb, revenue cutter Onondaga after thirty stores, Henry Siegel & Co. bankers, and 19.~The/then of the checks of some of the revealed that the statements hours’ search for the sinking schooner | on the books of Henry Siegel & Co., Kineo, with thirteen persons aboard, | bank last seen near Diamond Bhoaln yest day, returned here to-d nd repo: ed that she wus un vessel. The Onondaga ran fates | NOUNCED SHORTLY. of the various loans.” did not actually indicate the particular store which got the benefit to find the} REORGANIZATION PLAN AN- ‘The receivers showed many appar- ently peculiar transactions in which oo oe the Siegel bank loaned money to one New Head ALBANY, Feb. ff the Democratic Btate he expects become ‘Workmen's Compensation Com. | Will be submitted to th the next session of this he: ——>—_——. ing. plan will be submitted which in- stores, only to have the money go to another of the stores, Joseph M. Hartfield, counsel to the committee of mercantile creditors, which is headed by Plerre Jay, Presi- dent of the Bank of the Mantattan SHIPPING BAD MEATS | to-tay sancuncea tnat te eonig vanes | dent ot its Chali foley epg a mesting for tre| “We have been considering plans 7 selection of his cessor on March 3%. | for the reorganization and one of them Taken to Pier in Darkness, Govern-| He rat No JOSE PRIAS INDICTED, cludes the Boston store with the two New York stores.” Jone Antonio Prias, a former Cuban| Harry Kolin, counsel to the De. | la 'yer of| pusitore’ Realization Committee, ted $450,000 from the and Vogel for their olease tT ald, announced that his committee bgt iAgcbal oe r8n6 stood geady, in the event of the re- ype yy perjury to-| which has coll out now on $2,500 bail, hav- been arrested last September on thie | "ends Of Sem ‘3 action. Prias wae cou: th Reilly, who atte eae Prince| organisation of the stores, to a bit of == the stock of the stores, Day der and/the bank creditors $2% per cent, in 5 er worka | cash, with additional notes gor ert, per cent., payable in five years, se- cured $4,000,000 worth of the se- curities of the Siegel Stores Corpor. At the conciusion of the heart 9687, 000. W oR tdi tt ition, ie Sa” wr ‘ jeitier nad. the ‘mont. boon in. {fj Raat gd te eat neds | ator apected, charged Mr, Stanton, though the oe ot TU DT | feareen, 70s puroeryes te be Mederw) woos 3 calvers to spend $800,000 to re, the creditors agreed to allow the fad | put the prosecutor on the track of It. PROS HOODOEDD OF CHILOREN'S BONES. NN VAULT 30 YEAR Robbers Break Door in Secaucus | Cemetery, N.J.,and Carry Away | Remains of the Relatives of Lawyer Abel I. Smith. Supply Board Opens Fight on Indictment. DECLARES IT ILLEGAL. Reports Were Circulated That He Would Admit Guilt and Aid Whitman. Reports industriously circulated that Thomas Hassett, former secre- tary of the Board of Water Supply, would plead guilty when arraigned to-day to answer to an indictment charging attempted grand larceny, were disproved on Hassett's appear- ance. Through bis counsel, Thomas Gilleran, he demurred to the indict- |Second Attempt Is Successful as ce el Pe eh Soon as Watchman Is Removed: © cule that tha lawekeset Seoper was A\\ BROKEN 1 FEO Sh. & E 4 From the Vault. not signed by District Attorney Whit- Grave robbers forcibly entered a tomb of the family of Aiba be man and that the allegations against | ree titute the crime charged. Mr. Gill- sa Haeeett in the indictment do not co wera’ a inti ial Ati tal Aan ncn inion eran wanted & Wook In WHICH to pre- HURRIGANES HiT BiG SHI the New York and New Jersey bar, and the robbery from Wot 4 Dare arguments on jis motion. ® the bones of three children, all. of whom died more than ¢! yews a Msereltroptinte poh ities ; y. {260, startled the autores of Hudson Coutly today, the saa morrow morning, when the case will of the tomb at Secaucus Is the result: of persistent snd crafty ettorts TALK or PLEADING GUILTY i which have failed at least once before. * AMUSES HASSETT. The cemetery Itself is one of the oldest in’New Jersey, and was Haosett, who appeared to be quite aside as a resting place for the dead more than ar burdes eis ee composed, was asked about the re- red port that he had decided to plead Some eli, old igi bear dates two centuries old, pes gullty and jump tn and help the Dis- quaint characters of that time. Not in the : trlet-Attorney. The idea struck bim/Seven Persons, Three of Them Women, In=|have ghouls ever visited the place until now” © oMest as humorous, “Just keep your eye on the court jured on New Amsterdam—Voyage’s Rear Mare he panes bien Henny wren ne itn hint of the proceedings,” he said, with a laugh. pes et anal em to steal the aah gi oi aula ual Reported Roughest Ever Known. . | “=== bonee of the children who died et shake down Anthony Penrice, a = — 10 CALL MURPHY ead pou i each other after Ni Falls contractor. ugias fe war; have net Mee, ee cat pore . The Holland-American Mner New Amsterdam docked in Hoboken to |! to help them pein whea 000 from him for services in getting | (#¥ tree days late from Rotterdam, which she left on Feb. 7, and bear- crime was committed. It may a contract through the Board of|{!ng the marks of whut Cupt. J. Baron and Chief Officer’ Van Den Eat de-| ay rel Me time since a Water Supply. Dougias didn't pay|clared was the roughest voyage they bed ever ox; rhe i g employed to the money and didn't get the con- esparioneed: Other elon the vault was diamissed two weehe pant which have arrived in the last few days reported stormy passages, but; ioe 3 i ucEs Before the Special Grand Jury will | 90me have had tales of excitement aud danger to compary with those told Pry ~ that the fre be a number of contractors to-day. | by the officers and yassengers of the New Amsterdam, the Smith y They will be asked particularly about! ‘por two duys the whip steamed had been wrenched the $41,250 Patterson & Co. paid to ft some one for an aqueduct contract, | "rough ® hurricane, in the course of/ MAS RL STEVENSON DEAD. It 1s believed they have heard where| Which four pasrengera und three ——— |Will Be Forced to Testify Be+|ot meu the money went, and even If they|membera of the crew were injured tm Vtottn | Mt Be i y Mh ark) Mabon @ Herr of 3 a can't furnish legal evidence they may] Albert Bakker, # second cabin pas- of Avoplesy. fore Assembly Board, Says sas 2 Aoitadeg ey was butte. fer }, SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Feb. a . id ' r contained fi WILL BE QUESTIONED IN PLACE | Neer bad his loft leg broken BY) ie tre Loule Htovemon, widoot shai sti coffins, though it has room for twantys Sppeietie being thrown down in a passageway. | the famous noveliat aie ee Chairman Sullivan. four. r At least four of these contractora| Fourteen-yeur-old Lena Levy was ad Doyle knew that the doors ef are men who had reason to be thrown | sent tumbling down a compantonway ALBANY, Feb, 18.-~" have not the! montne sgceem Wrenched awag in close contact with the Board f| ing had her sculp cut, while Mise LBANY. , iy “ro, but that no. ft Water Supply, of which State En- Lloyd Oabourne, ber son, | #ightest doubt. that our committee! damage hud been done to the ginesr John A. Bensel, who hae re.| Mildred Chase and Mise J, Ingram: a from New York for Santa | will subpoena Charles F. Murphy,| Jeum or ite contents, A fused to waive Immunity, was once|Smith were thrown out of thelr Menctie Wobel Strong, her | William Barnes and other powerful! was put on guard after { Chairman, ; berths, badly knocked abuut and|been notified, B Honolulu, baw poitical bonne before our inveatiga-| been repaired, but was recea . —-- aes tion has gone very far,” sal john} drawn beca They are John R. McArthur, of the | bruised, und Miss Chase bud # wrist _ ’ Wee No one was o . 2 | Leo Sullivan, Chairman of the As-| han, McArthur Brothers Company, which aarained ‘ DANIELS TAGS BACHELORS. cockly ucotate. Gay oe Bac, was Inston - — % nae Company in Ashokan Dam contrasts, | “0 “!FEBOATS HAULED INTO |gaye hey Kncum ad ure going right aftor the 8y8-| three of the cofiue which had iq 4. Hart of the John J. H. THE SEA. |tem, and intend to ex I! obviously held the bodies of fonn J, of the Jobn J. Hart! 1+ was on Thursday wight that the | 3 , view of the people o' UA-' had been disturbed. ‘They were t Repweny which was formerly worst damage was done. Then @ WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—'"Hacholors|derground political manipulations! o¢ Prudence Car: * emi jacked by Thomas F. McAvoy, a e encumber the earth,” remarked Secres used public office for : th. Wie mmany Sachem; William | B,|™oeuntain high wave came aboard which have Ube 2 jin 1866; Irene Smith, who died in |tary Dantels to-day, wh ‘ + _ |over the port bow, sent two lifeboats! tieut. Harris ‘reg Kraft. No political power can stop) ang another. Two o brood secre. {sbeaplereenieh is pe fiying from their davite into the sea, | from the Praia yac greeted hin committee or direct ita channels."| been opened. by phason Bee naa Wheeler, who ts an engineer for ang |#84 smashed five more as though they 10 he could be married. ‘The Mayflower | Sullivan's ideas of the system's cOu-| board at the foot. ‘The tap of. & stockholder in the same concern, |"&d been made of pasteboard. Three |! Kolng to Mexicun waters. trot of public omolals were enlarged | other had been lifted, ‘The bones am Acting on information gathered by wallors who had lashed themaeives to 7 om ie favor of inatrimony for ai) by # two hours’ conference with John | dunt and every veatige of the mrave-, investigators who have been at work |th€ deck while they tried to make the Pipe sat ( said the Secretary, “and A. Hennessy, whose attacks on Mur-) clothes had been caretully removes, RY for two weeks, District-Attorney Whit. |Hfeboate fast were knocked uncon |4 {ood cause along PONS (@ HelP auch phy and Barnes were the sensation | Doyle at once natifled th ceases ty man will open up @ new line of investi- | scious and were saved only when oth- ees of the municipal campalgn in New| ties and Mr, smith was summoned, gation into affairs allied ‘with graft |er members of the crew risked death , TOO MUC York City lant fall The police of Hoboken were asked. racers Tenet bees {0 ap- |to acramble on deck and drag them | H FOR MAN 77, Hennessy told Sullivan that 4ny- help wolve the mystery. BM Chi ‘Magistrate McAdoo a number of |'® shelter. Veull Was thing short of @ full expose of the) said that ever since the Arat effort ayntemn would arouse the wrath of the| violate the tomb he has Ae ra from Kingston and the sur-| The ship etill hung—ataggered and) rounding country who will be quea-|trembling from the sheck of the first v for lujury. ‘taxpayers, who feel outraged ulready | mind to find a reason wh; ae Hone arose ot wequiine tutions | wave—when @ second giant weal TRENTON, N. J., Fob, 19.~the gy.| because Inventigations had beon stifled should want to break mee a $3. the Catskill aqueduct. Pasved completely over it, The crest} preme Court to-day held that Ha) Since Sulzer's Impeachment. | vault of his family, and has bees, ¢ ‘The Legislature passed a law in| of this wave ined down on the| dama, xceaslve for a man “How will the committee get at/able to get a satisfactory answer, ee provicies fer, she condemnation | akylight of the sinoking-room, burat | # of lan ct purposes | injured b; ving power to Justices of the su_| through It and flooded the room be-|injured by a Breme Court of Various counties to|neath, sending doxen or more|! ap! nt condemnation commissioners, drenched passengers flying for safety.| t has been repo ime and again hen t waves at that that the city patd prices in exc ain |It was when there em atruck tha ‘# old who was wo Murphy?” Sullivan was asked, Abel I, Smith jr, who hag: “The highways Investigation alone offices in this oly at No. $0 Chemie wiil afford abundant excuse for calling) street, when informed of the nmany Boss, But leave that| by The Rvening World thie , oUF counsel, We will show] said that he wae astounded foe vaine OE ane comenned tnd Wie, alee a Wednee |e pled w reduction to $2,875 oe soars Sinai his 2s) Vault, he sald, bad besa matter e trict-At- }* ection to $3,575 a new Whitman Liquiry were Into. day night and it was Thursday noon |i! should be granted Mage fwe o0, three. tinmaa was two inches! sved that accord) ved that accord Willan J. Molymeus ¥, the plaintiit, had only If Years to live and unless opened ‘The Morris County ‘Traction Co: ‘The committee has directed Mr. fasoil: was the defendant, Om Company (Wo atudy the report of the Bayne! the treakiag of tho om ——— itt ch investigated Barnes’ ; FOR RACING SEE PAGE 16, feign tu Albany. vemente * we the ebei before it blew itself out, The wind (Continued on Second Page.) 4 enete. A,