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FINAL _Che_ a be ! i) iF ay ie) 4 is : te a hae “Cireulai Copreig 1018, by The Press “J 1. (The New York Wers). PRICE ONE CENT. tion Books Open to . All. jad ‘ WEATHER—Gnew probable to-night. Thursday fain “FINAL 4613 YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1016. } HERE'S LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS [BOTS DEcnK TO THE MYSTERIOUS MILLION ‘Wes penance PAID FOR CITY RESEARCH ODARESTRICKEN | ==c== WITH TYPHOID IN SLOANE HOSPITAL Nurses and Employees Mys- teriously Ill in Maternity Institution. >> Rockefeller. Gave $125,400 and R. Fulton Cutting Con- tributed $116,785. LIBERAL WITH HIS TIPS. But He Finally Eats Peas His Knife and Lands In a Cell. CARNEGIE GAVE $55,000. Full List of Contributors to Fund Published for the First Time. One of the first guests to take a floor bunk at the opening of the Hotel de Gink was a hobo who called him- self John Smith. He was a trim lit- tle man, wore his rags with a cer- tain air of smartness and was gilb in conversation. After a few days at the Gink, durtig which~ he worked diligently at panhandling afong the Row, he had accumulated four or five dollars. Then he went to a charity relief station and picked out a sult of clothes that was only slightly worn and had been made by an excellent tailor for a natty person of just his figure. Also he drew a fine shirt and food tlo, gloves, &c, The panhandling coins John in- vested in a bath, a shave and a hair cut, to say nothing of a nice new hat, @ cane and a monocle. Then he saun- tered Into the Hotel Astor and took a look at the San Francisco business di- rectory. At the stroke of midnight of Jan, 25 he stepped out of a taxicab ~In which he had driven only a block, though this was never suspected— and gfrolled into the Hotel Biltmore. ‘The majestic hobo registered as James D. Ruggles of San Francisco and took a suite of two rooms and bath. The hobo-banker slept like a little ‘The Evening World to-day makes public for the first time the mysterious million dollar fynd of the Bureau of Municipal Research, as well.as a full Net of the prominent men and cor- } - porations which have been keeping It ‘live. John D. Rockefeller heads the Mst and R. Fulton Cutting runs a close second. Then comes Andrew } Carnegie, Mrs. E. H. Hafriman, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., J. P. Morgan & Co., and wealthy men in all walks of Ute. | The Bureau of Municipal Research | fhas contended all along that the Rockefellers have not been the domi- mating influence. The Rockefeller con- tributions total $125,400. Next in size fa the R. Fulton Cutting contribution, | which is $116,785. In explaining the fact that the Rockefeller gift is not as big as that of Cutting’s, officials of the bureau contend that $30,000 must be deducted from the Rockefeller to- tal, that representing the amount he gave toward the Curran Investigation. Dr. F, A. Cleveland, director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, ad- mits that Dr, William H, Allen, one of his predecessors there personally went to John D. Rockefeller jr, and Eighteen nurses and employees and two physicians have contracted {typhoid fever during the last three ; Weeks at the Sloane Maternity Hos- | pital, where there are 150 prospeotive mothers, This was admitted at the hospital to-day by Miss Martha M. Russell, the superintendent. With the source not yet discovered, the physl- clans and pathological experts are turning their attention to finding a “typhoid carrier" among the 125 odd employees, Every employee, particu- larly those handling the food, is being Subjected to rigid examination, The first case, it was learned at the hospital, was a nurse and developed three weeks ago. The next day there was another, and others followed in quick succession, as many as three cases developing in a single day. All the cases so far have been among the nurses and physicians. None of the women patients, their babies or pros- pective mothers have shown any sign | bird, but when he ordered his brenk- of the fever, fast at 10 next morning It was more As fast as the cases developed, Miss | } an ostrich’s. He spent part of after having told him that because of | Russell stated, they are removed) the day ia his suite, but devoted the the efforts of politicians in trying to/from the hospital. At present, she afternoon to his attorneys, his fellow | Block the Curran probe it was hard | said, there were ten at the Roosevelt | bankers, &c., so that he forgot to to raise funds—Rockefeller readily handed over the necessary money. So that the Rockefeller money passed through the bureau on its way to the Curran fund. Dr. Cleveland charges that Dr. Allen, who is now helping the Indus- trial Relations Commission probe the Bureau of Municipal Research, want- ga to make it a foundation of the Hospital, three at St. Luke's and the rest were at the New York and Poat- Graduate institutions. “It is most baffling,” admitted Miss Russel to-day, “The milk and water have been proven innocent beyond suspicion and w eare now turning our attention to the employees, of whom there ar about 1 No on has been | allowed to leave the employ of the hospital since the fever broke out.” Dr, Edwin B, Cragin, chief physi- clan of the hospital, said to-day there had been no fatalities among the vic- tims, He said he had hopes of bring- ing them all through safely. The names of the typhoid patients are be- ing kept secret. ——___ MRS. PERRY BELMONT ROBBED ON A TRAIN Pullman Car Officials Searching fr| Diamond Studded Watch Case Covering Taken From Car. (Special to The Evening World.) RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 3.—The Rioh- mond police were asked by Pullman car officials to-day to search pawn- shops and second-hand stores for @ diamond studded watch case cover- ing stolen from Mrs, Perry Belmont send for his luggage. The principal banking conference he attended was when he deposited with the Union Trust Company a draft for $1,500 on the National Bank of California. He said he would not draw against it until its authenticity had been veri- fled in the usual way. Thus two and a half happy days | passed on wings of luxury. The banker-hobo was liberal with his tips. | He ate enormously of all the French- jest-looking things he could find on the menu. All might have gone well if he had not chosen to disport him- self with sweetbreads a la financlere. These are served with peas, Alas! the poor hobo-banker, after three or four vain attempts to convey the peas with his fork, went at them with his trusty and well-beloved knife. He wave the fanclest exhibiton of sword- swallowing ever seen in the hotel, The waiter told the captain, and the captain told the boss; and pres- ently @ discreet gallery of employees was scrutinizing from behind palms |the wonderful knife-eater at full |speed. In time the news reached the auditor of the hotel and he recalled that he had that day cashed a $20 check on the Union Trust Company for the sword-swallower, He tele- phoned the company. A_night letter to the National Bank of California brought the distressing news next morning that the only true James D. Ruggles was at his post as secretary of that bank In San Fran- elsco; #0 the police were called in. (Continued on Fifth Page.! GEORGE GOULD ON STAND IN HIS SUIT FOR $17.82 Millionaire Declares He Brought Tax Action Against Brother Because He “Wanted the Money.” George J. Gould, millionaire finan- eter, played @ star role to-day before Justice Platsek in the Supreme Court, aa witness for himself in his suit to Teoover $17.82, The proceedings were @irected against his brother, Howard Gould, and Katherine Gould, from whom Howard Gould obtained a de- cree of separation in 1909, The small pum represents interest on a tax lien bought in by George Gould, An attorney for Mrs. Gould was in court to say his client accused both her husband and his brother, George, MRS.LILY WEEKS, TEACHER MOTHER, But the Wee i Breslow and Reeewietee “ot Ortman Appeals Denied by Commissioner Finley. REBUKE Mrs. Ortman Loses Because, It|Lad’s Jaw Like Father’s Was Charged, She Hid Mar- riage When Appointed. ALBANY, Feb. 8—The appeal of Mrs. Lily R. Weeks for reinstatement as a teacher in the New York pub- Me schools in connection with the “teacher-mother” cases was sustained to-day by John H. Finley, Commia- sioner of Education, Appeals of Mrs. Lora M. Wagner, Mrs, Sara Breslow and Mrs, Jeanette V. Ortman were denied, In the case of Mrs. Weeks, the Com- missioner held absence from school work to bear a child did not constitute neg- lect of duty. Mrs. Breslow and Mrs. Wagner failed, the Commissioner held, to exhaust all remedies at hand before appealing to, him. They sought reinstatement only through their district superintendents | while they might have carried their cases to the Board of Education. Denial of Mrs. Ortman's appeal was based on the fact that ahe had not re- vealed to the board before being engaged asa teacher that she was a married woman. This act constitutes “gross misconduct” in accordance with the rules of the board, and so the Commissioner upheld the members in their dismissal of her. VOTES FOR WOMEN PASSES ASSEMBLY. ON SOLID BALLOT Both Parties Go on Record as} Unanimously Favoring Bill | —Senate to Follow. ALBANY, Feb. 3.—Without oppo- sition the concurrent resolution of the Senate and Assembly to submit the Woman's Suffrage question to New York voters to-day passed the! Lower House. Its passage by the Upper House and signing by Gov- Whitman within the near future ts certain. | Some little opposition to the reso- lution was voiced until both Majority Leader Hinman and Minority Leader Smith asked for unbroken party votes. Assemblyman Landon objected to “female voters,” alleging “the women” were asking for “a gold brick.” Assemblyman O'Hare voiced particular opposition to the resolu. tion. Several of the speakers inti mated they would vote against the proposed Constitutional amendments at the polls. A few local Suffragettes observed the resolution’s passage. These smiled their appreciation and immediately ring to cheat her out of her | f New York on a train while she was ° "It's all. off,” sighed the ‘hobo Pear ls prorerty at the south- [en route from New York to Wash- banker, when ‘the detectives came east corner of Sev ington. and got him. “Gen! but It was great and Fifth Avenue—Howard by The request which came from Wash- while it lasted. If only I hadn't ‘a mitting taxes to go unpaid ington stated that investigation got fresh and wanted twenty bucks George by buying in the tax among the train crews and employes to go out and see the town.” When George Gould w had falled to reveal the whereabouts John Smith pleaded guilty in Spe- Katherine Gould's ad been #0 quick to bring suit fo when this interest sum paid, Gould quickly re. \ piled’ “Because t I wanted the money.” of the stolen article, which is valued at $500. The theft was committed Jan. 29 on a Pennsylvania train while Mrs. Belmont temporarily absent from her drawing room. gal Seasions to-day. He may go to the pealea tery for one year and be $500, or both. He admits four Wiliam Pi convictions as eee 4 JIG a began their “lobbying” for early ac- tion by the Senate | views. (COURT AWARDS BOY $900,000 BECAUSE OF i Gd y1?} [eecmersenysstanttenessicesenenrasenren, Slingsby to His Parents Settles Case in London. GIVEN ONE./ARTIST UPHOLDS JUDGE. Ear Like Mother’s, So He Will Inherit Estate. LONDON, Feb. 3.—The physical re- semblance of sturdy Charles Raymond Slingsby, formerly 4 Heutenant in the Royal Navy, and his mother, who was Miss Dorothy Cutler-tMéergen of San Francisco, wae the deciding factor that influenced a Judge of the Probate Court to award tour-yoar-old | “Teddy” Slingsby to both his father, | 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. . BIG ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN ARMIES ~ LOSE HEAVILY IN GERMAN ASSAU LTS S.DAY BATTLE ON WARSAW FRONT IS REINSTATED) HELOOKS OKSLKEDAD) WON BY GERMANS, BERI IN CLAIMS. BOY WHO WON SUIT FOR FORTUNE BECAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE FATHER the child the great Slingsby fortuné 8, to-day. The Court came to the con- clusion after close observation of the tehild and its parents and after con- sultation with a noted artist, who hag studied thom, that little “Teddy” got his face and his chin from his father and his ears from his mother, This was the all important point in the case, for contestants for the ens- tate had sought to establish that tho boy was not the son of Lieut. Slingsby and his wife. They sought to estab- lish by evidence taken at San Fran- cisco, where the boy was born, and elsewhere, that Mrs, Slingsby gave birth to @ still-born child, and to se- cure the Slingsby estate substituted @ baby not her own, which had been born at the same time of an obscure ‘woman. The Court not only established the ‘status of the Slingsby baby, but com- d severely on the methods of the contestants—relatives of Lieut, Slingsby, one of them his younger brothers In deciding the case the Court said: “I have watched the little boy in court and I have been much impressed with his extraordinary likeness to | Mrs, Slingsby, Moreo: Mr. Slings- by has a full, round face and a pe- cullariy-shaped jaw and the boy is a counterpart of hiv father in these re- spects, I felt so strongly on these matters that I called in a personal friend, a well known artist, Sir George Frampton, I did not tell him my I merely asked him to come into court and watch. Sir George Im- mediately noted the extraordinary resemblance of the boy to his father.’”* “The mother was not present that day,” the Judge continued. "Sir Gourge waid he would like to see her, as he had noticed an odd shape of the boy’s left ear, which did not resemble that of his father. Accordingly, Mrs. Slingaby wae brought to my room and introduced to the artist, who im- mediately observed the extraordinary similarity between the left ear of the mother and the left ear of the son, So far as 1 know, the child could not (Continued on Second Page.) ———— GIFFORD JURY DISAGREES, Second Failure to Reach Verdict in| Murder Ci ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 3 —For a Going Boath? bred reac Htersture of aii sia Vinee acTyaels ‘gino, She world "il Sans ions |lened murderer of Frank J. Clute, he disagreed. The jury was discharged to- ‘aay. following failure to agree during twenty-one hours’ deliberation. ‘Final ballet @ood eleven for sequittal a ““HARGE IT TO MAYOR!” SAY 1. W. W. LUNGHERS Five Men Eat Big Meal, Then Tell Restaurant Man to Make City Pay. Five men, who said they we W.'s out of work, four of them with out homes, had § worth of Junch on this afternoon, in the Little Hun- warian Restaurant at No, 129 Third Avenue, tore up the checks when Sid LW ney Mann, the proprietor, presented them, and said "Charge it to Mayor Mitchel.” Samuel Gilbert, who had ordered the meal and acted as spokesman for the party, suid they were determined the city should support them, as they had been unable to get work at union wages and refused to work for less. “We are going to do this sort of thing every day,” he said, “and not only in the less expensive restaur- ants. We'll wet to the hotels soon We are going to make the taxpayers |Support us.” When the fi men, Samuel Gilbert, wel, Charles Werner, Jacob ninger and Ben Belmont, were lea ww out of the restaurant by re Was Ketin to Cre ‘ann to lock the doors of his hy before Magistrate Breen in Yorkville | Police Court, charged with disorder- | ly conduct, When arraigned before Magistrate ‘Breen in Yorkville Court they asked an adjournment to obtain co ‘They said they wanted the h delayed as long as por that ‘they might eat the cl while waiting for the case to be de- | elded. Magistrate Breen | adjourned the hearing ‘einer and Axed + Report of Capture of Town in Poland Offset by Petrograd Announce-. ment That Advance of von Mack- ensen Has Been Checked. ATTACKS NEAR SOISSONS HALTED, PARIS INSISTS LONDON, Feb, 3 [Associated Press].—Sudden and violent ofe ensive movements have been begun by the Germans to the west of Warsaw, in Russian Poland, and in the vicinity of La Bassee, on the iorthwestern end of the battle line in France. In both these regions there has been a retwm to the old style of German battering, the men being hurled forward in close formation at great sacrifice. La Bassee, twelve miles south of the Belgian border, long has been a crucial point on the western front and the British troops congregatéd in the neighborhood have suffered heavily. The Germans have declared time and again that, other things being equal, they would prefer to in-’ flict losses upon the British, and this, together with the better preparation of the ground by the artillery, may account for the renewed slaughter, — 4,000 Russians Captured In One Battle, German Report BERLIN (Via Wireless to Sayville, L. I.) Feb, 3.—Capture of the village ot Humin, east of Bollmow, and the taking of 4,000 prisoners mark the ‘atest successes of Gen. von Mackensen's new advance upon Warsaw, accord ing to the announcement to-day by the German War Office, Von Mackensen's army, it 1s declared, drove the Russiams from the village after a three-day fight. Pressing on toward Warsaw, the Germans ire engaged with a Russian force northeast of Bolimow and a few miles south of the Bzura, Russian night attacks along the Bzura have been epulsed, (These revorts are contradicted by the announcement made at the War Oftice In Petrograd. The Russians are declared to have checked Von Mackensen’s advance along the Bsura, near Bolimow, and to have repulsed the Germany north of Borsmow with heavy losses, It Is insisted that the Russians have retaken all positions captured by the Germans.) OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. Repulses of French and Russians Reported by the Berlin War Office BERLIN (by wirelas to Sayville, L. “In Poland, north of the ‘Vistula, D, Feb, 3 (Associated Preas).—Tho| cavalry onslaughts by the following report was given out to-day | have been repulsed,” Raesane by the German War Office: “The attacks made by the French on the German positions near Perthes have been repulsed, On the remain-|0f Humin (to the northeast.) ? der of the western battle front there Pe al A possession of Wola- was yesterday nothing more than ar-|sinee Fab. 1. one th been going on tillery exchanges. we have taken over 1008 eeeene “There have been no new develop- ments along the East Prussian fron- tler. and captured six Russian wast ue the German it! near River have been po ~ OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. Slight Progress Is Claimed By the War Office in P PARIS, Fab. 8 (Associated Press), —Following ia the text of the report day of the French War Offloe: “In the country north of the Lyw ; there !s nothing to report, “Between the Lys and the Oine, in the sector of Nouvette, to the weat of Lens, Frenoh batteries put ag end to a apirited fusilade from the enemy, “The Germans endeavored to fi down the River Ancre some biasing rafts, starting them from © point| been the attack above Avelpy, which is nerth ef Al- aad which took place at § bert. We were eucessetul in gtepping the afternees, m “| at about @ e’sleos in the Thie alse wee be af