The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1914, Page 1

PRESIDEN COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEBK IN THE EVENING WORLD _PRIOE ONE ‘CENT. Copritene o. (The New 1014, by The Freee Publishing Che [« | “ Circilation Books Open to All. »| Pi va 1S DAUGHTER TO WED SECY M’ADOO Big Siegel Stores to Be Sold to Pay Off Creditors _ GLYNN BLOCKS TAMMANY: ASKS. FOR $100,000 TO AD TED INVENTOR Foley Surrenders After Van| NOTED Nice vonaine Santvoord Threatens tu Re- sign From Service Board. MESSAGE THEN SE} oe, ee IN, Appropriation Bills Introduced | in Both Houses and Will ‘Be Quickly Passed. By Samuel M. Williams, Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. ALBANY, March 12.—Gov. gent to the Legislature to-day a spo- celal message urging an appropriation of $100,000 for an appraisal of prop- “erty-and revision of telephone rates, in New York City. It was only after a heated confer- | ence between the Governor, Chair- aman Van Santvoord and Senator Foley that the Jephone situation was finally adjusted. Tammany pol- Michal insisted on revising a com- | mittee appointed in the Sulzer days and on having the dling of the ) Appropriation, Chairman Van Sant- es Glynn | - voord threatened to resign before he | __GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE } would consent to political inter- ie. ference. Gov. Glynn held up the message until the Tammany crowd withdrew Finally Senator Foley sald rather than seo revision of rates delayed any longer his committee would sur- render, Bills calling for the appropriation were introduced by Democratic ders Murtaugh in the Senate and) ANWatkor in fo Assembly. They are expected to puss uaa next sd GOV. GLYNN'S MESSAGE ON RE- VISION OF PHONE RATES. ‘The Governor in his message sald: “There ure pending before the Pub- Hic Service Commission for the Second | District eight separate complaints | against the New York ‘Telephone! Company in respect to its operation and schedule of rates within the City of New York, In order to make a proper determination of the matter the Commission finds it esential to make certain appraisals of the com- gany's properties and an examination of its accounts. “The Commission ts without funds to prosecute such inquiry, It has unanimous'y decided that it is not authorized 'y law to accept the Com- pany’s offer to supply the funds need- ed to meet the expense of this In- quiry and it has accordingly request- ed me tostransmit a special mesure to the Legislature recommending an immediate appropriation for the pur- pores stated, “The Commission advises me that the sum of $100,000 would be sufficient to meet the expenses of such an in- (, qulry, and that with such @ sum at ‘ts disposal the Inquiry can be cone} ns aii niece, Mrs, Willlam Ja ‘summated within a parla of Lf Schieffelin, a portrait of her mothe: mobths. I approve the Commiavion*| Mra, Elliott F. Shepard, request and recommend to the Legis: | an appropriation of the sum of pel or ae ea ch thereof as may be]! trust by the executorsa—W, necessary to bo used by the Commis-|derbilt and Mra th Stuyvesa sion Vanderbilt-for the benett of bh the purposes stated, the dis- ae He bate daughter Cornelia until she is twent .W.VANDERBIT LEAVES MILLIONS Wiil Filed This Afternoon Put: Fortune in Trust for 13- Year-Old Child. The will of 4 o'clock this afternoon. These the principal provisions: To the testator'’s widow, Edit Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, $250,000 1 cash and the income of a trust fun of $1,000,000--the principal to be pal nate; all the real estate comprise in Pisgah Forest, N. C., a tract o 80,000 acres, and in the Bar Harbo residence; testator by Whistler, To his daughter, Cornelia sant Vanderbilt, years old, provision of the se will of Willlam Stuyve 1 . Vanderbilt, mother by Whistler. To his niece, Mrs, Ralph Pulltze & portrait of herself by Porter.) ‘ f K, Van meet tho expenses of the Commis. | Cessary for her maintenance and e¢ lon." ucation. The will was executed D: ti “Our committee," Senator Foley ex- | 18, 1913. je BE | ‘The total value of the estate J estimated at $50,000,000." As has a I, n explained in The New York he ot moveTON, Texas, » Vanderbilt on Fifth avenu pak Pittaburgh Federaly, late last nicht figned « contract to play with the N: Cale RE oe Se Warhop, the High- "| Cornelius Vanderbilt a» well us trust fund of $2,000,000, GT F FOR CHEAPER PHONES WHO DIED TO-DAY | TO HIS DAUGHTER the late George W. Vanderbilt was filed for probate at ar to such persons as sho may nomi- also the portrait of the | who Is now thirtee 000,000 In trust under the | nth clause of the | her grandfather, and the portratt of her by Sargent residvary estate is to be handled WESTINGHOUSE EXPIRES TO-DAY at His Apartment in Fifth Avenue. Hearing for Device That | Made His Fortune. |tral Park West, after an illness of | several weeks, The death came as a surprise, inasmuch as it was an- nounced earlier in the day that he felt better and was expected to be out York Btate in/1846, BRAKE INVENTION. The fame of George Weartinghouse | for more than a generation the prin- world over. When Westinghouse first went in- to the field with his invention he could ket no hearing, In vain he pleaded | with railroad men that it was not! alone @ safety device, but a great de- tall in train operation and money saver. No one listened. It was several years before ho managed to interest some of the offt- clals of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh and through them got the money to show what his invention might do. A few years of trial made all the difference in the world. ‘Then men who had aided him became million- aires and Westinghouse himself was rich and famous at twenty-five. To- day the Weatinghouse shops in East Pittsburgh and Wilmington are the very largest machine works in the world afd the private fortune of the inventor is said to be more than a | score of millions, Half a dozen other fortunes of similar character result- ed from the brake, Mr. Westinghouse was the inven- tor of innumerabie other devices, among them the only effective means of confroiling the flow of natural gas and conveying it over long dix- tances to factories and other con- sumers, Mr. Westinghouse has not for sev- | eral years been active in his business, of [but has left it to his younger assist- pr | ants and #ons, GETS IMPERIAL SUITE Ss h in id id as n " t Jersey Man Wins Agai Many ‘TOR OF AIR BRAKE.| SECRETARY | | George Westinghouse, inventor of! lthe airbrake for railroad — trains which bears his name, died this after- noon at his apartments, o. 85 Cen AB soon as the weather might mod- | 4 Weatinghouge was born in New | cipal safety device used on trains the | thus a/ | | ON THE IMPERATOR, | cis _YoRK, ‘THURSDAY, MAROH 12, WASHINGTON HEARS NOTED INVENTOR, ~ MISSWILSON WILL MARRY N'ADOO: Had Been Ill Several Weeks Denial of , eres cently Made at White House Not Forthcoming Now. IS SILENT. Had Hard Work Getting a! Official Circles Accept Report As True and Also That Wed- ding Will Be Next June. iTON, March 12.—Pros- pects another White House wed- ding became more definite to-day Ith the persistent renewal of the report that Secretary of the Tre.s- ury McAdoo and Miss Eleanor Ram dolph Wilson, youngest daughter of the President and Mrs, Wilegn, were engaged, the marriage to take place in June. There was no announcement from the White House and when the at-« tention of officials. was-drawn to the FAME RESTS LARGELY ON ain| report’ they refrained from ‘making ;any comment or dental, Only a few duya ago Mra, Wilson reats largely upon his invention of/ was quoted as denying that her the air brake, which is and has been, daughter was engaged to marry Sec- retary McAdoo, Secretary McAdoo himself said it would be indelicate for him to com- ment on the subject one way or the other. Nevertheless official Wash- ington is taking it as a definite fact that another White House wedding will be solemniged in June after the adjournment of Congress. Many persons who know Secretary McAdoo were not surprised at the re- port because he has been a frequent social visitor at the White House dur- ing the last year, Washington so- ciety has observed the couple at many @ dance as well, Mr. McAdoo is fifty years old, while Miss Wilson is twenty-four, He ts a widower and has six children, one son and one daughter beng married. When Secretary McAdoo's second son, Francis H. McAdoo, was married last spring, President Wilson and his family motored to Baltimore to attend the wedding. Miss Mona McAdoo, one of the Secretary's daughters, is Miss Eleanor Wilson’s most intimate girl friend here and is of about the same age, Mr. McAdoo, who ts the builder of the Hudson tunnels, knew the Wilson family before his entry into the Cab- {net and has been an intimate friend of tho President since early in the pre-convention campalgn. —~——- OPERA HOUSE CORNICE CRASHES INTO BROADWAY Crowd = Se Stone atters as 150-Pound Suddenly Drops From Roof. Crowds in Broadway fled tn all di- rections this afternoon when a plece of the cornice on the Fortieth street 7 Competitors on Liner’s First corner of the Metropolitan Opera Trip After Repairs. House, a big chunk of terra cotta, °) jwelghing upward of 150 pounds, y,|, SOUTHAMPTON, England, March | slipped from Sts place and came gum- "|12.—Charles A, Whelan, of East| pling toward the sidewalk,! It tion, captured the imperial suite aboard the Hamburg-American giant ess Imperator, which steamed to-day for w York on her iirst cruise of n t is bursement thereof to be under pre- “ihe 1914 Ago. ‘The suite costs cisely the same conditions, checks andj five years old when It Is to be turn 0 and there were many bidders. safeguards as already provided by| over to her, The mean time the ex-|phe steamship officials solved the Jaw in cases of expenditures of feutors are authorized ta expend Ul) problem by giving the costly ac- moneys appropriated generally to| of tho Incomo such sums as are nec | commodations to the first Seldom has a ied a |more distinguished group of first cabin passengers than did the Impe- rator to-day. She has been undergo- ling repairs at Hamburg since her last bea voyage early in the winter, —_— Orange, N. J., after sharp competi- | crashed on a wide coping around the third floor, was shattered Into frag- ments and pitched on to the street in big pleces, No one was hit, The police and Building ere notified of the accident and four aicemen from the West 'Thirtieth street station roped off the sidewalk |for about half the distance between ant. | Fortieth and Thirty-ninth streets, di- verting foot traffic to the street while building inspectors climbed to the roof, They found other parts of the cornice loose and removed ther. de vcends| STEAMSHIPS SAILING TO-DAY | lam Holden, an outielder claimed bY | through the provisions of the wiil of hig father, William H. Vanderbilt, to The block, with others of the same size, had been under no unusual strain recently, except, perhaps, the welght of the snow that accumulated on It in \the last few storms, gl Oa a ee Re-|: WEATHER—Falr to-night a Friday, warmer . too “1914. ¢| President’ 8 Daughter and ‘Official INI Washington Hears She Will Wed GHEEDPDIOODOHD BPO PD GE HG EO HRTERM ADEE POD DPEPHODS, \ i eerrrrrrr rr tee 20 PAGES “SPS46OG46-644-44 6 ¢ POPS OL EHTS EIST ISB EGFIS IG BEHORES 198 © G0 G-2:E 8-8 SEC EHOSEHTSE O66 # PERJURY CHARGED BY THE DEFENSE | PRISON PEN’ CASE). rc ma Attorney-General and an anslatant District-Attorney Whitman when he resigned to become manager of the Mitchel League Headquarters In the last Mayoralty campaign, was named by Mortimer Norden, million- aire truck manufacturer, as the cause of the breach of marital blias which has resulted in a ault for a divorce filed by Mra, Maud E, Norden, The Norden were married tn October, 1908, and lived at No, 460 Riverside Driv rden is Prostdent of the Electric riage Specialty Company and President of a truck manufacturing concern, He and his brother, Joseph, control both eom- panies, The Nordens have one child, Maude Electra Norden, four yeare old, In her application for alimony she asks $1,000 counsel feen and maintenance at the rate of $10,000 a year, The alimony motion ts on be- fore Justice Page. THE WIFE GETS IN FIRST COM- Mortimer Nordin § Says Wife N Was Toasted as Fiancee of the Mitchel Manager. under Counsel Pasay Mrs. Pollard At- tacks Some of the Wit- nesses Against Her. (Spectal to The Evening World.) ELIZABETH, N. J., March 12,—The belief that Mra, Anna J. Pollard would go on the witness stand to-day and deny that sho hed written the “poisoned pen" letters to Mra, Charles Jones, her next-door neighbor, brought a larger crowd than ever to the couyt room. There was excitement as soon court opened for the fourth day's m sion, when Samuel Schelimer, counsel for the defense, asserted *he would show perjury on the part of certain witnesses for the State and produce further sensations calculated to bring Mrs. Pollard’s acquittal, I have only a few more witness PLAINT: he suid, “and would be satisfied to} Mr. Norden charges that her huss have the caso go to the jury now, oo/ hand and Mra, Inch of No. 1780 confident am f that Mra. Pollard wii | Preadway have been on terms of he found fot euide! Nntimacy which are destructive of her ith in’ Norden. She specifies Minnie Sohler, former maid for Mra, Pollard, who yesterday caused @ sensa- tion when called py the prosecution by saying other women sneaked into the |house and used the typewriter there, | was the third witness on the stand to- |day. She followed Mrs, Jane Oberly, | wife of the rector of the Christ Epis- copal church, who testified to Mrs, Pollard's good character and church lactivity, Walter H, Wetton, assistant jcashier of the National State Bank, the date of Feb. 4, 1914, as an occa- sion when Nordon visited Mrs, Inch in her apartments, Retaliating to the charges of Infl- delity, Norden in an atfdavit of twen- ty pages recites his domestic life since his marritge, He charges that Boet- wel in the ne a friend and affect. ink to be engaged In an effort to reconcile the Nord actually on- tered into a conspiracy with Mrs, Inch aa a result of which he (Norden) was found in Mrs. Inch's apartments, (Continued on (Continued on Second Page.) ”, >— FOR RACING OEE PA’ we SS q ‘PRIOR ONE CENT. a i SER STORES 0 BE CLOSED OUT 10 PAY CREDITORS Fourteenth Street Store, Simpson- Crawford Co., and Merchants’ Express Co. to Be Sold to the Highest Bidder. SIEGEL AND VOGEL FACE FIFTY MORE INDICTMENTS, - Vogel Said to Have Placed His Assets for a Number of Years‘in i the, Name of His Wife.. eet ° te enter fo KAsiun samtiosook with enclafbliod Qh Sikty Bagi ek Prat mi Vagid! Wis were tncietea yesterday and held in $96,000 taif’ Judge Hough, of the United States District Court, issued ap order today!” directing the sale of the Fourteenth Street Store and Rothenberg’, « come bined business; the Simpson Crawford Company store and te Merchants’ ’ Expresa Company. These are the New York Stegel-Vogel enterprises, Li Judge Holt, special master in bankruptcy, reported to Judge Hough: yestetday that the process of se] off the stocks of the Fourteenth Street) Store and the Simpson Crawford Company over the counters was producing — instead of profits. It is hoped that somebody or some corporation: wil buy the entire stock and fixtures of both stores and the hore, wagves and other equipment of the Merchants’ Express Company. FOR MOTHERS INCLUDE GRASS WIDOWS 100? received by Judge Holt at Room No, “Sure, They Deserve One,” 2174, Woolworth Bullding, up to noom on March 24. Hidders for the entire Saye One Woman Speaker at Public ‘Hearing. outfit will have to enclose certified checks Yor $100,000. William A; Mar- ble and John F. Sheppard jr, re- celvers, Lave been directed to pre+ Pare an inventory of all property in their care, including the individual or copartnership asseta of |Henty: Siege! and Frank K. Vogel.: Pros- bective bidders will be allowed be examine the properites, HUNDREDS OF CLERKS WILL THROWN OUT OF WORK. . This means that the big Four. teenth Street Store and the exten- sive Simpson Crawford establish- ment will be closed, temporarily at least, and that hundreds of clerks and office workers will be throws out of employment. The chief rea- son for selling the property of the bankrupts In the manner directed by Judge Hough te to avoid the expense of conducting the stores, now being’ operated by the receivers at great lons, COMMITTEE DECIDES TO VISIT SIEGEL BY FORCE. ‘ A meeting of the depositors in the private bank conducted by Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel was held thia afternoon in @ loft back of the Fourteenth Street Store, Ly unantmous vote, a committee of n was appointed to visit Mr. Slegel, request an audience with him—and The Commission appointed by Gov- ernor Sulser to report a plan for penatoning widowed mothers mot this afternoon In the City Hall, three women prominent in charitable work were heard from. "Grass widows should not be pen- oned,"’ declared Miss Grace Strachan, President of the Interbor- ough Association of Women Teach- ers, “for the simple reason that such 4 plan would encourage a good many men to leave their wives. Many hus- bands haven't the heart to leave their wives because they don't know how the wives will live without) thom. With the Stato stepping in things would be different.” “Grass widows should be support stoutly declared Miss Alice Kobbins, President of the Brooklyn Neighbor hood Guild, “They should be helped : by the State, because many women | {f 8" audience Is refused, to force ® who are known as grass ‘vidows have| WY ito his presence by for run away from drunken, dissolute and | ‘The committee was empowered t worthless husbands. Yes, — those jatate Mr. exel that tf he wit women hould be given medals.” | promixe to do all he ean to telm- Then came Miss Sadie American, | PAT’ te ats they (the ge. head of the Jewish Council She | Pesiters) will go to the Distriot-At+ didn’t appear to agree with the other | PNY and ple ad for merey for him speakers, |(tiegeb, ‘This peculiar proposttion at, “Why should we think of the wid-| @feused no comment and was f0 9y ows at all?” asked Miss American, | *4eptet with the resolution appotnté ; ‘oa “We should think of the childreng) M# the committee There is an emotional wave of char- Jward M, Curtin, who was chalre ity sweeping acroas the country and | 80 Of to-day's meeting; Miss Nellte in thin wave the children are for-| Falery, Miss Dora Miller, A. My gotton while the so-called ‘deserviny f t, G, Kahn, M, Harris, Jacob 7 xk, Samuel Baron, Jacoh H. Lat] | wer and Louls Offner are the mame bers of the committee, Thoy will! bat Shad ye jeter os fo | start owt to met to Mi widow ta always spoken of, eos. EE Word! morrow and promised that they would ae: ie we "GEG