The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1914, Page 1

( EVENING WORLD 7 al = ve COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE a PRICE ONE OENT. KING ' VILLA REPULSED, WITH LOS Che |“ Circulation Books Open to All.’ | right, 191: ‘The Press Publishing ovr etane: Utne’ New Tork Werte). me Ng ; f. ‘ t 0 ae |. GE DI S OF 500 at t NTE ) REBELS’ INA EDITION ¢ [“Cirentation Books Open to ‘All? | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1914. ‘REBEL ARMY FORCED BACK: FEDERALS RETAKE OUTPOST > IN BATTLE. AT TORREON Gen. Villa Reports His Army Driven Cut of Gomez Palacio—Five Hun- dred of His Men Re- ported Killed. JUAREZ, March 25.—The Mexican Federals not only hold Torreon, but have recaptured Gomez Palacio from the Constitutionalists. This ‘was the word received this afternoon fram Gen. Francisco Villa himself by Gen. Manuel Chao, Military Governor of the State of Chihuahua. Villa’s despatch stated that a fierce battle was raging around Torreon and Gomez Palacio as his message was filed, both Federals and rebels using cannon and machine guns effectively. The Federals were occupy- “tag Gomez Palacio as their base, said the despatch, the rebels using Lerdo and El Verjel as their base. , Villa declared that he has the Federal garrison surrounded and that he was confident of being able to take Torreon and Gomez Palacio within a’short time. His telegram, however, shows that the claims put forth by the rebels -. share last night that Torreon had fallen were false, and that Gen. Refugio Nelasco’s troops drove them out of Gomez Palacio either last night or moming. . A newspaper in El Paso has a des- patch from Mexico City that Velasco had telegraphed Mexico City confirm. tne Villa’s statement that he had re- Palacio and had also Oras, March 25,—The Mexican Embassy has received the following cablegram from the City of Mexico, dated last night: “The rebels were repulsed to- @zy in an attempt to reach Tor- feon. Gen. Velasco well prepared for attack.” “Fighting is in progreas this morn- @mg in the outskirts of Torreon.” ‘This was the text of a monsage “from the south given out officially to-day. There were no details and official prophesy was readjusted to the effect that it might ve several @ays before the Federal stronghold @ould be taken. BERMEJILLO, Mexico, March 23— (by Courier to El Paso, March 25).— Rebel wounded from Gomez Palacio and the lesser recent fights in the vi- eimity are being brought north in large numbers, and it is oMcially ad- mitted the Federals put up an unex- \\. pectedly strong resistance at Gomez } EL PASO, Tex., March 25.—Miguel Diebold of the Mexican Federal Con- @ular Service said to-day that he had been officially informed that the reb- els were repulsed with heavy loss at Torreon and that some of them were driven back twenty miles. A private letter dated Chihuahua, March 23, received to-day stated that Luis Terrazas jr. was to be executed to-day unless he deliver: quive> lent of $250,000 in gold to Gen. Villa. THINKS VILLA’S SILENCE CON- FIRMS DISASTER. ‘The conviction that Gen met a serious check at Tq growing this afternoon as t result of the ominous silence of Villa himself regarding the battle and the receipt of disquieting private telegrams here. JH. Smith, a wealthy American, with large interests in Mexico, rer! a vening. etived @ telegram from his partner it Mexico Refugio Vel: Federal com- eo, mander at Torreon, had repulsed the! gesauit and had driven the rebels out ef Gomez Palacio. More than five hundred Constitutionalists have been slain, the telegram said. While it is impossible to get any confirmation of this, some are in- @lined to credit it. The Conatitution- alist officers at Juarez are very evi- @ently worried. Although {t was learned that they had been In direct | ith Villas fea) & a Riley Reappeiated. “Bhe stood by him as well as a/pany—the Pennsylvania lines west of |BIM to Make | mix | asked tha they oald they | the circumstances ig it to be assumed | #bstained from siving the amreunlcasion | w oe Yi a. ane F ALI ¥. March M~Gor, Gives to-| woman could,” said she. "She never | Pittaburah—to-day reduced the dividend | wacumeros 26.—Repro. |e" Thin request was | IMAL Sg ee marhe pons | A wees a en ith . i id res 6% vi , Huso: o1 0 © ASAD b 5 ranted } om to 6 ROOK " Mr. headg _they rat Atle Coeteatones ht Asticdite and| FepFoached him. He spoke to me/on the common atock from five por) vv ier ot Nem ark today in| #a! = Teannot further discuss the potica| Cont pulng. Mr. Asquith sats John B. Riley as State Superintendent of} Often of her in affection and|the preferred stock from five per cent. |trodured # bill to. make Col’ George situation. “Yes, I did admit that am strongly of §Centinuts on Second Fase) pegeiearas creo ftw tou FOR RACING PAGE 14 | McKay bad made good.” that the Government hes { nef 2 . 4 { , ? ae ee nr em te ery nee emery ; mes -~ watitetiunainnabenmmicitiatianaataiitiabin \ AS st ii b:tnieciiiimies wloddinine CTL encase ose oa oe ea aterm Sp 2. ye“ ere eee ity to-day stating that| POKER SHARP TAUGHT REAL WESTERN LESSON ABOARD THE OLYMPIC “Boat Worker” Trimmed Pret- ily by Men Who Know Game —Typhus Rumor False. Cabin passengers aboard the White Star liner Olympic, which arrived to- day from Southampton, fumed and complained while the big ship lay for nearly three hours at Quarantine. The boat did not dock unt!) nearly 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, and, as there were 337 first class and 258 second class passengera, including many theatrical folk whorwere plenti- fully equipped with luggage, it was quite late when the customs inspec- tors got through. The delay at Quarantine was caused by a very careful examination of the steerage passen| There was clon among the boarding office: that there might be typhus among the immigrants, who numbered 1,173, but no disease of a contagious or in- fectious nature was found. The Olympic had a quiet, smooth passage. The only enlivening incident in the first cabin was a card game in the smoking room last Sunday night in which a professional “boat worker” was 80 thoroughly cleaned out by a crowd of Westerners who know some- thing about poker that he was un- able to Up the stewards when he started ashore. Alfred Vernal, an immigrant from Dumfries, Scotland, died of pneu- monia in the steerage on Monday morning and was buried at sea that The cabin issengers col- lected a purse of $500, which they presented to the widow and five chil- dren, who will return to Seotiand., Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress; Ivan Caryll, the composer, and Harry Payne Whitney were among the not- ables aboard. a Fire tn aa Coll RALEIGH, N. C., March 25.—Fire early to-day Geatroyed the textile build- ing of the North Carolina College of Ag- riculture and Mechanical Arts at Went Raleigh. The estimated lose is $62,000, about one-third covered by insurance, ———— Friends Deserted Him, She Says in Tears, When They Might Have Saved Him. SEND SYMPATHY His Widow Not at the Funeral, Leaving It All to the Woman She Succeeded. (Aipeotal te The Evening World.) STAMFORD, Conn. March 25.— Harry ThuPeton Peck, former Colum- bia University professor, educator, writer and linguist, was buried to- day in Christ Church Cemetery, Greenwich, after simple services had been conducted by the Rev. M. George Thompson in the pretty bungalow home of Mrs. Cornelia Dawbarn Peck, the professor's first wife, who married him in 1888, divorced him ta 1908 and came to his rescue last May when it was thought that he was dying alone in an Ithaca hospital. Mrs, Peck, her daughter, Constance Peck, and a few neighbors were the only mourners. Earlier in the day there had been only one person in the Peck home, the first wife of the man who shot and killed himself on Monday in a boarding house here. She kept vigil beside the coffin, and wept as @he spoke to her only caller of her former husband. * _ It was lack of friends, failure to find work and poverty which drove Prof. Peck to suicide, sald his former wife, yet according to Miss Margaret McDougall, who had acted as his sec- retary, the professor told her once that he had left $100,000 in custody of a'friend, a wealthy man in New York, id that he bad received no answer when he wrote demanding this mon- NOW. ey. TELEGRAMS PASSED BETWEEN THE WIVES. Neither Mrs. Peck nor her daugh- ter, however, place any credence In this story, both believing that had the professor actually had money in trust they would have known of it. To the last the first Mrs. Peck looked for Mrs. Elizabeth Du Bois Peck, the second wife, whose weddin, to the professor occasioned the famous breach of promise suit of Esther Quinn, Peck’s one time secretary, which blasted his career and shat- tered his health, It was rumored that the wives were to meet beside Peck's grave to-day, but the first wife did not expect the woman who succeeded her to come. Telegrams had passed between them, courteously worded messages in which Mrs. Elizabeth Peck author- ised Mre, Cornelia Peck to “do as you think best.” This was when Mrs. Peck rescued Peck’s body from the boarding house where he shot him- self, had it removed to her bungalow and prepared to give it burial. SYMPATHY THAT CAME TOO LATE FOR HIM, Mrs. Cornelia Peck, well preserved and good looking, wept to-day as she talked of her husband. In her hand was « sheaf of letters, some thirty or forty in all. They came from friends of Peck from all over the country. “Words, ink, a two-cent stamp!" she remarked. “What do they all matter. If they had only helped him a little when he was alive. It ts all no crue] and hard. He didn't de- serve the treatment he received.” “Such a little migbt hav: ved him. He was without work and almost penniless. He thought he had work for two years ahead when he began the re-editing of the International Encyclopedia. Then its publishers de- cided to abandon it and he was heart broken. Mys. Peck had only words of praise for the recond wife, (PROF. PECK BURIED |FERRVBOAT FRIGHT SOULMATE’ WRITES | BYDIVORCED WIFE /AS STEAM SCALDS THEY'RE‘SUBIECTS WHOCRIESFOR IM) THREE PASSENGERS OF CIRCUMSTANCES: Screams Fill Cabin When Head Blows Out of Heating Pipes | on the Elizabeth. Mrs. Harold Todd, a young marrted| woman living at No, 275 East ‘Third! avenue, Rose§e, N. J., and two men! were badly scalded yy the bursting of & steam pipogon the ferry boat Eliza- beth, of the New Jersey Central line, on the 12.30 trip from Communipaw. ‘The injured men were Samuel Rosteit- scher of No, 234 @nst 24th street. Bayonne, N. J., and Louis Meron, of | No, 34 West Sixteenth street, Bay-| onne. The accident occurred in the wo- men’s cabin on the lower deck, which was crowded. The cabins are heated by steam pipes running under th@| seats. On one of these the head was driven off by the steam pressure, and steam and water poured out. In- stantly, the cabin rang with screams. Mrs. Todd and the two men were sit- ting close to the head and each was scalded about the legs and feet. The men quickly jumped up and then fell to the floor, Mra, Todd seemed incapable of motion. Then she was assisted from her seat. Ti deckhands rushed to the scene of the accident, but were unable to atop the flow of steam, which had to be finally shut off at its source, e The boat was neat the New York side and as soon as she put into her slip at Liberty street a hurry call was sent into the Hudson Street Hos- pital. Dr. Valentine responded with | the ambulance and gave first aid to Mrs, Todd and then turned to the| men, who were taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. Mrs, Todd refused to go and waited in the ferry house until the arrival of her husband, who took her to hér home. aes APPOINTMENTS MADE TO-DAY BY GOV. GLYNN John F. Farrell of New York Named Superintendent of Weights. ALBANY, March 25. -Gov. Glyan this afternoon nominated Jobn F. Farrell of New York to be State Su- perintendent of Weights and Meas- ures to succeed Frits Kelchmann. The nomination was sent to the Finance Committee ‘These nominations were also sent to the Senate: For Trustee af the State School of Agriculture at Morrisville, the Rev. John Grimes of Syracuse (reap- pointed), For Manager Kings Park State Hospital, Allie A. Rogers of Sayville, to succeed Mury M. Ackerly, and Elizabeth P, Lanehart of Hempstead, | to sueceed Anita Owen Floyd-Jones, For manager of the State Industrial | Farm Colony, Col. Charles 8. Rogers of Hudson, to succeed Isaac Dal- rymple. For Trustees of Washington's Head- quarters, Francis J. Gorman of New- burgh, and Samuel V. Schoonmaker, Newburgh, were appointed and Thomas F. Balfe of Newburgh to suc- ceed George R. Brewster, For Manager of the New York State Woman's Relief Corps Home: Col. Willlam A. Body of New York to succeed Susan E. Atkins. For inembers of the State Hoard Managers of Reformatories- Wil F. Rafferty, Kingston, to succead ‘John F. Herbert, and Wiiliam © Rack of Waverly to succeed Frank B. Heornbeck Sid DIVIDEND IS REDUCED. | anced om Peonsyivenia, West of Pittshurah. | PHILADELPHIA, March %.—The 4i- ractora of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, | Chicago and St. Louts Railway Com Cat A 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. She Told Him to Destroy the} Letters, But He Didn't Do It. | NOW THE WIFE HAS ’EM. | She’s Using the Epistles, Too, In Her Suit for Separation. Mra. Minnie V. Vom Hofe, who is suing Richard Vom Hofe, a stock broker, for separation, says in amM- davits in the Supreme Court to-day that he and Mra. Charlotte M. Bare- fleld of No. 613 Boyd avenue, Wood- haven, L. 1, are “subjects of cir- cumstances” and she refern Justice in hn Weeks to affectiona: which the two “subjects' endearing terms as “ Boul” and “Dearest.” ‘The letters were discovered by Mra. ‘Vom Hofe after she visited a hotel ia Goshen, N. Y., where she alleges found her husband and his “Dear Boul.” “Mrs. Vont Hofe says her husband gave Mrs, BarefleM a ring and told friends they were engaged. Vom Hofe admits the ring giving, but he and Mrs, Barefield say it was a token of gratitude to Mra, Bare- field for attention she showed Vom Hofe's father, who died some time letters a HE FAILED TO DESTROY THE LETTER, AS SHE ASKED HIM TO, Mra. Barefield, who appears to have been interested in Spirttualiat meet- ings, asked Vom Hofe to destroy the following letter—but he didn’t—and here it is: “My friend and I are going to the Spirituall meeting again. Well, Bweetle, we enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon, did we not? Last week waa surely pleasant. I do hope we will be able to meet in the afternoon. You KNOW I will do my beat. “Ag we are ‘subjects of circum. stances,’ we will have to do the beat we can. Tell me, dear, do you hope for something better? What do you really hope for? It was fortunate that we met. I have been so happy for the past four months. Why not we? But I presume it wilf be the old story after a time. You will become tired, How about it? Well, let us not look for trouble. We will go slow and everything will turn out all right. Now dear, write me three times a week and be good, Good-by and be good,” Did Vom Hote “hope for some- thing better?” Weill, in reply, he figured ft out as follows: HE HOPED FOR NOTHING BET- TER THAN HER, HE WROTE. “Do cut out the Spiritualiat; other- | wise you will get a lot of nonsense in your head and worry continually I thought of you constantly on my way home Sunday, you seemed to feel so downhearted when the time gradually came around for me to leave you--It gave me the blues “LE enjoyed the past week hugely; would that it were so for all time; do you? “1 can content myself ‘most any place in your company, either day or night, alot or otherwise. “Do L understand you correctly ‘Do you hope for sotpething better? what do you really hope for? “My answer is, first, Edo net hope for any Using better than you; second I pe for something better, some: thing that will bring us closer to- wether.” Both Mrs Larefield and the Vom Hotes have children Anbrey Vor Hofe, a daughter and talented mu silan, and Kalph, have made aff davits supporting their mothor's con tentions Vor Hofe says that his wife's ret. erences to Mrs Raretield are ‘in nuendos, false and baseless.” Vor Hofe in associated with the Hollywood Company BRITISH WAR SECRETARY WHO RESIGNED, BUT WHO 18 UPHELD BY ASQUITH. ASQUITH HITS BACK WARNS ARMYT0 0B “ORDERS IN IRELA inet Must Stand or Fall by Seely and Refuses to Accept Resigna- tion of War Secretary. BIG ROW IN COMMONS; CHURCHILL LOSES TEMP Seely Assumes Responsibility for they} Seeming Backdown and Makes ~~] Vigorous Defense of King. : t ry ok. ACCEPT $387,600. LONDOR March 25.—Amidst the wildest confusion im the BID FOR ONE OF | SHEGEL'S STORES ase we ea on <a | quith Cabinet to-day fought for tts life. ' The resignation of Col. J. B. Seely as Minister for War was, @ie nounced on the floor. Col. Seely heatedly declared suggestions that ing George had interfered in any way in the situation growing out of thé 1 fudal of army officers to serve in Ulster were without the slightest founda: ” jtion. Premier Asquith placed the blame for the entire crisis on Seely, 6 |claring tho orders sent to Gen. Sir Arthur Paget in Ireland were sot aah | Tho bid of $387,600 made by Gimbel| mitted to him. Col. Seely declared he had inadvertently misied the C i Brothers for the merchandiae of the| With honest intent by adding the army instruction to the Cabinet Simpson, Crawford Company atore,| without knowing it wae final. one of the failed enterprises of Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel, was thie afternoon conditionally accepted by Judge Hough in the United States District Court. The final determina. tion of the matter will not be made GOETHALS WONT Judge Hough, who stated that he ——.- thought the beat Internsts of the cred- | " fee itors might be better served in this; Mayor Says Defeat of Bills in Inatance by a sale by auction. The! B chief assets of the expreas company! Legislature Means Colonel Won't Come. Gimbel Brothers or John B. Claflin to Take Simpson, Crawford Co. Stock. the Cabinet as a whele must R or fa ci ‘ HEAD OF CABINET j STAND AGAINST ARMYs.:07) ‘The head of the Cabinet toll @iia” House of Commons that the Geverts ment had taken « firm stand te 3 gard to the position of publie ants, said he would never essen@ | the claim of any body of men tm fervice of the Crown to demand the Government assurances @f @ hypothetical character as to Se should be done in which had not arisen. It wouldy said, be a new claim and woul until Monday next, the Court an- nounced, as the bid was accepted eub- ject to the possibility of ultimate re- Jection on that day. The bid of $45,000 by BF. D. and J. D. Stein for the assets of the Merchants’ Express Company was rejected by) are borsea and wagons. ‘The O'Ne!!! Adams Company’s bid of $221,000 for the accounts receivable of the Simpson Crawford Company was likewise rejected. As for the stock and fixtures of the Fourtventh treet Store, the court “Tho Legislature has completely eliminated Col, Goethals and there fan't # chance in the world now that he will become Police Commissioner gavo the opinion that @ sale by auc- the Government at the merey ef ¢hé. tion would be (he wisest course, the| of New York,” said Mayor Mitchel| j,iijtary and naval authorities. sale of the merchandise to be effected | to-da: The Premier‘ ouncement lant by departmente < ‘This te the first admission trom the ms Sree the supporters of the Govermment wild. They climbed on the benghes, waving papers and handkerchiefs the accompantment of salvos ef which lasted several minutes, © “The Government would bogs) assent to the officers’ dictation ag to their duties", declared the ~ Premier. “This would put the. Government at the merey of the In case the bid of the Gimbels does not go through, John Claflin, head of the big dry goods establishment, the H. B, Claflin Company, stands ready | to take over the Simpson Crawford merchandise at the Gimbel figure, Mr. Claflin attended the hearing be- fore Judge Hough and presented to the Court a letter and a certified check for $40,000 to bind the bargain, In bin letter Mr. Cleflin stated in Mayor that Col. Goethals ts not to| come here under any circumstances | to head the Police Department. “Have you decided upon any other man for Police Commissioner?’ the Mayor was asked. “Up to the present time I have not | considered any one but Col. Goethals, ‘| be replied, | “Thefe are rumors that Covarnie: | very tow bi ig that hiten ieee, ‘ pur-| sioner McKay ia to go, Ie that truet’| army @ ” t chase, wt the price submitted by the! sy mind ia entirely open, but {| “The ee ee nae ele i*| nave not conaidered any onu save the| gies to make on eccount of the After the letter was read in court natural and perfectly proper man the Legisiature has just thrown : Mr, Claflin went away, out of the running. | taken for the preservation Ae: Bhs -- ‘ay “But there is going to be a general! order in Ireland, in vie i JOBBING MONOPOLY HIT, [readjustment in tho Police Depart-| fact Sir Edward Carson elaime ¢e ae - |ment, It would be entirely wrong have organized and equipped 10Re United States Attormey Saye ‘Tos! and unfair to both Commissioner Mc- | 900 men to resist Home Rule.” , bacco Firm Must Make Change. | Kay nd maeels fo draw y infer- Hremier Asquith said he jolne@ tm 77 Je om this statemer scat oe Gol, ieate At conference held to-day in the! "A democratic assemblyman saye| the resret of Col, Seely at the United States Distriet-Attorney’s ofice| there Is nu poltoe ‘sy mi’ and that! unfolr, improper and the lawyers representing the five big | NO ‘system’ or anything like it helped |attempts to bring the name: ot tobacco companies heard Mr Marwhall| defeat your bills,” was suggested to | kine into the controversy. FRO, declare that the 3 tropol tan Tobe il leave It to the people whether | to last His Majesty had Mant es] there is a police torn’ and whether | every rule which comported witly! sya they ballove a He ; sible for the defeat of the Goethals | | ee a4 hie positon aa = bills. Some people cannot be con- | Hom! soverels ve" vinced In the face of any evidence, ‘The Promier explained that "You have a Me Mayor, that reply to Gen, Gough prepared " Commissioner McKay has mide goods, tae since he haa been in offices, 1 ‘abinet the Minwstere had 4% respon- Jobbing buat t condition waa | Sherman law and would hy ‘The lawyers spoke of they might do to. bring factory a dei J