The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1914, Page 3

| | A PUTSTHE MAYOR’ YS BOARD ON TRL Begins Investigation Into 4 Charges of Favoritism and Star Chamber Proceedings. MAY BE REMOVED.. ‘Said to Have Certified to * Many Applicants Without , an Examination, At the opening to-day of the in- vestigation into Mayor Mitchel's Mu- Micipal “ivil Service Commission by the State Civil Service Commission! Frederic R. Coudert, representing the! dlty (Mr, Coudert is not in the Cor- poration Counsel's office), attacked | the right of State Commissioner, Meyer Wolff to sit in judgment. He charged that on Aug. 21 Dr, Wolff! “wave out an interview ih which he) Droved that his mind had already been mado up pf the gullt of the local commissioners. In the alleged interview Dr. Wolff fs Quoted ‘as saying Mayor Mitchel’s Civil Service Commission held star chamber sessions and handed out po- tical plums in a manner that would put Tammany to shame. | Frank Moss, attorney for the State | Commission, objected to Dr. Wolff ‘being barred from the hearing, and , President Jaco® Neu of Brooklyn, President of tho State Commission, | ‘ Mcting as chairman, ruled that Mr. | / Moss's point was well takon. The city's heavy legal artillery, led by Mr. Coudert, consists of Corpora- on Counsel Polk, Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel Josiah A. Stover and a number of other assistants, Mr. Moss ie the sole legal representative of the State bs coapesaraaeonn The State Commission, under the law, has absolute power to oust the Mitchel commisioners, who are Dr, Henry Moskowitz, Bull Mooselte; jontpler R sacs Jr, Brooklyn in, any lexander Keogh, anti- Tammany Democrat. | The State Commissione: re Jacob | Neu, McCooey, Democrat, President; | “Dr. Woiff, Tammany Democrat, and | is A. Avery, of Poughkeepsie, a jar publican. State Commission claims that forty-six examiners in the Charities Depart it were certified to by the Municipal Commission without exam- imation, that monitora appointed fur only a imited period were continued to the exclusion of persons on the eligible waiting list and that P. J. Coffey was removed from the Labor Bureau without just cause. James Creelman, former president of the Municipal Commission, testified that Coffey was competent and painstak- | ing and told of the work he had done in reorganizing the Street Cleaning iment after the big strike. $7,500,000 CONCERN _ GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY Atlantic Gas and Electric Company Could Not Raise More Money, Inability to obtain credit because | of the war was given as the reason for the failure to-day of the Atlan- ! tic Gas and Electric Company, « $7,800,000 holding corporation control- Mng seven light and power compunies in Bastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Binghamton, N. Y. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed by C. M, Pini, first vice-president of the concern, in the Federal District Court Tho schedules show assets of $21 000 consisting of building material and stock, bond and note claims against subsidiary corporations, but the value of the latter Is unknow Tho liabilities are fixed at The principal creditors are the Bab- eeek and Willcox Company of No. & Liberty street, The Guarantee Con- struction Company of No. 140 Cedar ! street, the W. A. Clark Wire Com- pany of Elizabeth, N. J. and tho Atlantic Construction Company of No. 90 West street, It was stated at the offices of the concern, No. 25 Broad street, that the company was about to begin work on the development of 100,000 ‘ horee-power project at Easton, Pa., when war broke out. AUTOIST KILLED; CRASH ON JERSEY CITY BRIDGE Driver Held on Manslaughter Charge—Car Hits Water Main, Joseph Ciskrofski, forty- sit, of Twentieth street and Hudson Boule- vard, Bayonne, was instantly killed early to-day when an automobile tn which he and others were riding Grashed into a water-main on the bridge spanning the Morris canal at Gartield uvenue, Jersey City, hurling the riders out. Joweph Meolowski, twenty-seven, of No. 135 Avenue F, Bayonne, was | taken to the Bayonne Hopital ao- | a ¢ verely injured about the head, Jos»ph Clouski, twenty-two, of No, 82 East Twenty-third strect, Bayonne, who was driving the car, was locked up at the Ocean avenue station house, charged with manslaughter. Kros- tant Cuszounsky, forty-tive, of Ave nue Bayonne, was held as a wit- "4 nerhe two men held by the pol’ iJ were shaken up and bruised. t |gun in his hands. SSE HUNTS SLAYER OF GIRL WHO DIED SAVING HER MOTHER Father of Victim Within Call When Fatal Shot Is Fired During a Quarrel. DOYLESTOW Pa., Sept. 29.— Florence Cope, eighteen years old, a pretty girl of Buckingham Valley, near here, was killed by her uncie, John Cope, at hor homo last night while she was trying to save her mother from being shot by the uncle, Cope, who wore neither hat nor shoes when the killing occurred, escaped to the woods and a large party was out to-day searching for him. The girl's father, Clinton Cope, a farmer, was out of doors cutting wood while the tragedy was being enacted In the house nearby, ‘The uncle had been visiting at his brother's homo and last night he and the girl's mother quarreled over his alleged drinking habits. The girl had gone to bed and when she heard the quarrel she rushed down stairs in her night clothes and stepped between her mother and the uncle who had @ shot Whether the giri was deliberately shot by the uncle or received her death wound accidentally has not been determined, She died two hours afterward, Miss Cope was a graduate of a high school and was a student at a Phila- deiphia business college. — AUTO HERE FROM WAR ZONE. ned for Having Only Owner Ar Frenoh License, Charles Webber Buck of San Fran- cisco, standing before Magistrate Levy In Yorkville Court to-day to answer a charge of driving an automobile bearing only a French license number, shrugged his shoulders and sighed, ight as well have stayed In Eu- he said. Webber explained that he been caught with his automobile in glum when he was trying to get nway from the war zone. He was allowed to keep the car on conditions that he be- come 4 temporary official despatch bearer forethe Beiginn Government Yesterday he drove from the American Line pier to the Bfltmora Hotel, where Policeman Bulktey han‘ed him @ sum- mons. Magistrate Levy let him go with the advice to store t car until he got a New York leens rope, Two Sentenced for A mite. MINEOLA, N. » Sept. —Roscoo Norton and Emil Tierney, both of New York City, who broke into the New ‘Thought Retreat kept by Rev. Froderick Seeler, at Baldwins, and assaulted Mar- garet Morris, an inmate, were sentenced this mot ia. Tierney, who shown to a ond offender, wae given nine vearé In State prison, and Norton was en from three to slx years, Winners of The Evening World Prizes - |\MPRVE) In the Baby Improvement Contest = f | Oddities in the War News The enthusiasm in France is indicated by the story of a pushcart woman of Paris who was overheard to say of a friend “I feel sorry for her, for she has no son in the army.” The erratic movements of the bands of a church clock in the war zone of France attracted the attention of British officers, vho found a spy con- cealed in the tower signalling the Germans by an improvise 1 semaphore code. After war was declared Siberia seemed full of Paul Reveres, They were Cossacks galloping hundreds of miles to isolated places to break the news and order mobilization, highway to a great depth and planting 300 barrels without tops agd cov- ered with branch and earth. A West Point class ring worn by Capt. F, P. Avery, of Wash- ington, U. 8. A., retired, saved him when he was arrested in Munich as a British spy. As he was teing taken to a cell a (German Inspector came along, saw the ring, recalled a pleasant visit he once paid to the Military Academy, and pinned on Capt. Avery @ badge that enabled him to go anywhere in the city. After three days’ incessant fighting at Solssons, a French regimunt heard the commanding officer order reinforcements for charging the Ger- mans on a neighboring hill. The re~iment felt humiliated 1d successfully petit).aed their Colonel to" them do the cuarging. Despite their exhaus- tion from seventy-two hours’ fighting they won, Mme, Poincare, wife of the President of France, works four hours a day ay a nurse in the Bordeaux Hospital, When the Germans took Soissons they demanded of Mme, Marcheres, Acting Mayor, 140,000 pounds of, food for the horses, a sim! * amount ‘or the men and 40,000 pounds of tobacco and clgers. She says she replied: “You ask too little, You should ask for the sun and moon as well, tor we could just as eastly supply them.” The Garmans withdrew their demanda, A sportamen’s battalion of 1,300 members is a unique Engilsh organiza- tion to be made up exclusively of men of genile birth between forty and forty-five, and to include fox hunters, grouse shooters, golfers and cricket players. The moratorium caused King George some embarrassment when he had his secretary draw a check for $176,000 to pay houschold expenses for the quarter, The bankers returned \t unpaid with a request that not more than $126,000 be drawn unti! the moratorium expired. ee THEIR HOUSE ON FIRE, |oc.e%utjcinr (2, noune, ot TENANTS WON'T FLEE hind them came sleepy cries: “Go on away from that door and let me Policeman Drags Unwilling Occu- pants from Rooms in sleep.” “Stop you’ noise; they ain't no fire; can't fool me, white man.” In desperation Keller began breaking in doors and dragging sleepy and argu. Tenement, A fire in a negro tenement at No. 219 West Sixty-first street to-day gutted two flats on the top floor, The mentative tenants into the hall by fire started in the roome of Mrs, Ma- nain force, When the policeman reached the tilda Brown, the aged grandmother of Mrs, Tilly Lee, who lived across street he was told Mrs, Brown had the hall. not appeared, He went back and Policeman Keller of the West Sixty- found her sitting on the stairs in front of her door. When she refused eighth street station turned in an alarm and went up five fights of to flee he threw her over his whoulder and bore her to the street kicking and stairs two at a time when Mrs, Lec called out of a window. screaming. ——___ Keller told the Lees and Mra, Brown, to hurry down, and started from door Roo to Again Tour Mitnots. CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt will return to Illinois for an- other speaking tour in the Interests of Raymond Robin for United Sta' nounced | to-da: headquarters. an the night of will ape ie will speal i 18, ~— EVENING WORD The Germans prepared a trap for Belgian cavalry by excavating the Progresaty: ida of New hae resigned asa tar Te ae antl talbeseme Weed worked of the Halters! Progressive: aity Bott! in Chicago) came to New Haven from Maine al GET PRIZES FROM Two Youngsters Become Per- fect and Two Others Come Near It. Two bables improved till they are absolutely perfect, a third within half | ® point of perfection, and a fourth| only one point below the complete hundred—that'’s the happy result of | the better babies’ improvement con- test conducted by The Evening World, the Babies’ Weltare Associa. | tion and the Little Mothers’ Aid As- sociation at No, 286 Second avenue. These are the four babies who yea- terday afternoon received The Eve- ning World's four improvement prises of $10 each, with the record showing | their improvement since their firet ex- amination In Afg (1918). Name Pits (1018), Pits (1010), Gate, the neighborhood of ten points dur- ing the period of twelve months in- tervening between the two contests and the prizes were awarded for this gain, not for high scores, Their mothers wore vager attendants at the two courves of lectures on child hygiene arranged by the Little Moth- ers’ Ald Association, and also at the Board of Health milk stations, and the children protited accordingly. year ago little Catherine Nob y measurements were below the stand. ard for her age, and she larged tons! fects now exists. Florence Jacob has lost the flabby musclos, the pale- ness and the trick of mouth-breath- ing she had a year ago. In September, 1913, Stephen Led- invi's seaip was In @ poor condition, his tonsils wore enlarged and his measurements below standard, His mother bas remedied all those weak- nesses, Almost identical ones were banished by the course of impro ment Joseph Maido has undergone during the last twelve months. Nearly every child entered in the improvement contest showed a def nite gain since iast September. tiflcates of honorable mention givon to the following: Mary Buorgiono, 30 months, No, 436 East Sixteenth street, 996-10 per were cent, William Burns, 81 months, No. 434 West Fifty-third atreot, 99 per cent. Helen Hocker, 59 months, No. 346 East Seventeenth atreet, 3% per cent, Walter Morrissey, 43. months, No. 112 Bast Twelfth street, 988-10 per cent. Alfred Cantor, 22% months, No. 26 St. Mark's pluce, 98 2-10 per cont. Mildred N. Hoos, 21 months, No. 159 Second avenue, per cent. Joseph F. Valent, 19 months, No./ 219 West Twenty-first street, 976-10 19 months, No, 6-10 per cent. nard Tuckerman, 22 months, No, 5 East Twenty-first street, 96 per cent. fyiman Veckler, welfth street, 94 per cen’ Amelia Alberts, 85 mont No, 265 Avenue B, 92 per cent. Rose Sanders, 20 months, 829 East nth street, 915-10 per cent. Walter Kuhn, 22 mont No. 821 Kast Ninth strect, 896-10 per cent. Nicholas ngiono, 71 months, No. 426 East Tenth street, 89 per cent, jatalie Nath: +. 23 months, No, 220 Hast Twenty-fifth strect, 86 per cent. Mra. Clarence Burns, President of the Little Mothers’ Ald Association, presented the awards to tho proud and delighted mothers and to one proud and delihted father. He wa: Joseph Buorgiorm, who himself en- tered his son and daughter in both baby contests, accompanted them to all their examinations, and in every respect proved himself a prize father, Thanks to his efforts, his daughter in her final test scored within halt a point of perfection, although as she scored relatively high a year ago, her percentage of improvement was not #o high as that of somo othe Dr. Bugenta Hancock, 8. Wilson and I Millicent Hopkins Judged the babies in this contost. “Phe enthusiastic and lasting inter- est shown by the mothers in the work for better babies is a tribute to the splendid publ y campaign of The ning World,” said Mra. Clarence urns. “Through its generosity in offering money prizes for so many contests and in oponing {ts columna to hetter-baby propaganda, The Eve- ning World has {naured for New York « better crop of boys and giris that will some day make better citi- zens. ooo MISS ANNE MORGAN ILL ABROAD, WRITES FRIEND Had Nearly Recovered, However, and Expected to Sail for Home on La France. Miss Elsie de Wolfe, who with Miss Anne Morgan is on her way home to this country, writing to a friend from itennes, France, unaer date of Sept. 14, gaye that thelr departure from rance has been somewhat delayed by Miss Morgan's ilin Miss Mor- wan, however, has recovered, and when Miss de Wolfe wrote they were woout to start for Havre, “It all goes very slowly,” Miss de Wolfe wrote, “One is stopped con- stantly, but we have a green card, which protects us everywhere, issue +, the Minister of War, We hope to reach Caen to-morrow and Havre the night after and ecil oa La France on Bept. 26. = Cresby Heads University Settlement NEW HAy.N, Sept. 2¥.—Koourt :| Crosby, Secretary of the Civic Federa- Haven, nt in New York City. years derBee don df r Dr. Arthur| M wy 29° WOMAN NOW ON TRIAL _ IN JERSEY CHARGED WITH| IM KILLING HER HUSBAND. MEXICANS EXPECT CARRANZA TO BOW TOVILLA'S TERM Leaders Say a Settlement Should Be Reached Within Forty-Eight Hours. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.--Mem bers of the Constitutionaliste’ junta here have information, it was sta’ to-day, upon which they base belief amounting to conviction, that the Villa-Carranza split will be healed within forty-eight hours, Iotirement of Carranza as Firat Chief and also As @ potential candidate for President --a complete capitulation of Villa's de- mands—will be the solution, it is un- Cerstood. “There wil be no war," said one member in Constitutionalist circle to-day. Postponement of tho Torreon con- ference, set for Oct. 1, until Villa and Casranza “peace commissioners” get- tle the personal differences of thelr leaders was rumored’ here to-day, Ali information pointed to the selection of Fernando 1, Calderon, a Villateta, rranza’s probable successor, ta’s protest to Gen. Funston against surrendering Vera Cruz toa rranza representative complicated peace plans. Officials also viewed with apprehension the warlike attl- tude of Zapata and other revolts of petty chieftains against both Carran za and Villa, Powsibility of brigan- dage and sporadic revolutionary movements was tho unfavorable sur- face Indications, A feeling of optimism prevailed in Administration circles where offi- clals hoped tho elimination of both Carranza and Villa as presidential candidates would heal the breach and bring pence, At the Cabinet meeting the situa- tion was discussed and Secretary Bryan brought late dispatches fram the consular agents In Mexico. Tho Administration's attitude was still described as one of watchful wait- ing. Founder of Mai ed With Dosen Wate cmicaao, —Richard W, Sears, found ra-Roebuck & Co, of Chicago, Sept sha, Wis. left 000,000, At was _ aceording to business assos 9, wax the originator of the muti ors He began his burin a y enterprine. _ GET LONG SENTENCES Anrn nal Ai bbe UN i MIS SEATON SOBS Says Actor Forced Drink and Double Dose of Cap- sules on Her. Mre. Alice L. Seaton, on trial before Supreme Court Justice Parker in Hackensack for the murder, Aug. 18, of her actor husband, Frederick R. Seaton, In th home in Bogota, N. J. offered to-day the defonse to the charge that she was senseless from drugs and drink administered by her husband when the shooting took place and consequently knew nothing about it, Before her lawyer, William B. Mackay Jr., brought to this point in her testimony he led her through a long recital of her diMeculties with her \usband, his affairs with other women, her denunciation of him and ls pleading that she withdraw the Jivorce sult she threatened. The culmination came on July 4, when, she sald, her husband chokod ver until her screams for help aroused he neighborhood and he dosisted, but ly got out his revol possession of @ revolver ts he crux of the wife's defense that @ committed suicide, ‘The court room was jammed, near- ly half tho spectatora being women. Chree-year-old George Coban Seaton, for whore sake the husband begged that there be no divorce, waa in court with relatives of his mother. Mrs. Seaton wore her usual mourn- ing. Hor face was pale and wan and her manner agitated. Her voice fre- auently becamo inaudible and fre- iwently burst into tears, Seaton’s unfaithfulness began in 110, said Mra, Seaton. After hia HUSBAND WAS SHOT, attack on her on July 4, occasioned by her threat to have a Mae Hop- kins arrested, when she suspected that Seaton had given the girl Mamond ring belonging to Mrs, Sca- ton, they continued to live together, though In separate apartments, On Aug. 13, the day of Beaton's death, she awoke with a headache. Seaton forced a big drink of whiskey down her throat, shoving her into a chair and raising her head when sho resister Then he gave her two tab- lets, which the doctor had left, though again she resisted, knowing that @ single one constituted @ dose. “If one is god then two will be bet- ter," sald Seaton, acocrding to her testimony. “Your nerves are all shot to pleces following me about and spy- ing on me.” Then he gave ber another drink of whiskey and presently two more drinks and another capsule. Ars. Seaton burat into sobs when Mr, Mackay demanded to know what was her condition then. tT am ashame she cried, “but Tt supposo I must have been intoxi- cated. I remember nothing else, I heard no shots and I don't know what happened after Frea gave mo that fast drink.” Sheriff Robert Heath took the jury In an automobile bus to the former Seaton home in Bogota during the luncheon recess, that they might fix in their minds the various locations mentioned by witnesses who had told |of seeing Seaton fall on the porch land of having seen Mra. Seaton In the doorway. POLICEMEN BURGLARS Rockville Centre Cops Who Robbed While on Duty Go to State Prison. MINEOLA, N. Y., Bept. 29.—Amos Veritzen and Rolof Petersen, the two Rockville Centre policemen who plead- graph Uherator making 4 ful ed guilty to indictments charging Hn a He was then them with having br into and reuired o* the robbed stores and rea) in that f ti “AtY-one years town while they were on duty, were hice el lh \this morning sentenced to | State prison by Supreme Court Justice ba te tepnyerken Kelby. 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