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| TRE avant Retail Dry Goods Dealers and .Their Guests Who Attended Big Banquet That Wound Up Convention ing ovor the water, but not once did any one In the boat or on the vessel LD, ‘THURSDAY, “ PRBRUARY 11, 19 get a glimpse of the woman after she CHS WLP ESSeos ome TODEATHINSEA (Seererecsccl 9 AS STORM RAGES way. Capt. Knepper sald that, un- —— Mrs. Knepper, Thought Cured, suspected by him, seasickness must have brought a return of his wife's Is Seized by Suicidal malady. BILLY SUNDAY LOSES $10,000 Widew Almost Gave lt to Mi Probers That Is the Only| Way to Get Adequate e Service. “QUEERS HIGH FINANCE.|! MEN RISK THEIR LIVES. ums Power Bills Paid to Interbor- ono |» her home to-day on the Sixaola of Boat Put Out Amid Towering] tne unitea Fruit Line, which carried @ load of passengers that taxed all : obi ugh Jumped From $54,733 ’ ya | / Aureeo B, $| Waves Fails to Save Retired | sccm, inaeed a wonderful eaid Mrs, Lord. “After I had ee aeuy Naval Officer’s Wife. heard him eight of ten times I made i ane up my mind to give him $10,000 to ; Eu DENT Ny aan use an he wished. f i a erdas banat ar een ORY Goods. Leaping overboard in a howling| “I had actually started to see him erat bay ASSOCIATION Z| gale from the deck of the French|and give him the money when 1 2 to $338,472. tsi 8 {,,Mments, Commissioner J, Sergeant soc) liner Niagara, Mrs, Chester M. Kiiep-| thought of the benighted condition Gram took his place on the stand per, wife of @ retired captain of the CA fe-day for a renewal of his examina- United States Navy, committed eul- “ton in the Joint Legislative Com- ey - cide lest Friday evening. The ship tore. Mittes's inquiry into the Public Ber- ; nite la a babar derdenater AL ey gay at Rite, Me dpantek Pres Commission in the Aldermanic Capt. Knepper took hie wife abroad Sehamber of the City Hall. He seemed ‘ several months ago and they have ; ‘amply equipped to answer in detail been living in the South of France | in the hope of benefitting her health. ! “@iy questions Col. Hayward might é i Ghe was subject to fits of melan- YY desire to ask. j 4 GA Ones ‘ é Z SERVICE , choly, which at times affected her seeeThe. proceedings of the day were / \ M'cR reason, but the life abroad seemed to DARKEN GRAY begun by Mr. Cram himself. He / have helped her greatly. N rt Yatatéd he wished to correct a false ‘The Niagara ran into a fierce weet- hehe infpressién which he felt the Com- eee ee ine tac tor aere|Bring Back its Color and Mrs, Knepper persuaded her hus-| Lustre with Grandma's mittee might have received from a Yeading of the record in the case of WH: HAGE "| band to take her out on deck to look @ hearing of compiaints against the AOE eke Fok. fi... ox Cinno % HUSBAND FINDS — at the towering seas in the twi- Nght. They were standing by the National Association, Repre-| rail on the port side of the promenade | heavy deck when without a word Mira. New York and Queens Railway Com- pany. “From what was read yesterday,” frre Las Page road's own Tne par: senting $100,000,000 Capital, Knepper swung herself over the rail Crim said, “it might appear chased ‘fromthe Taterborough in: and jumpe@out into the ocean. that I had adjourned that hearing creased until in 1913 it amounted to at Annual Banquet. Her husband's shout of alarm $838,472. From 1907 hoo the first echoed by other passengers who Ove®.the protest of Joseph Johnson, big pure! of power the her leap. Mra. Knepper drifted the the chief of the Transit Burea Pe nee oe ss oes. oo ae eepeohdb a Breen todo Shape va Matter of fact, I adjow t 1912 this deficit amounted to $346,000. « ‘Wiserés women’s wear in-| length o! ship @ eight of the 'Srtaring without date at the pecitic “Up to June 30, 1913, the Interbor- picceleack io thirty-eight States,| passengers who rushed to the side. equiring greater seating capacity.| ough had charged th road 1S & capital of $100,000,000| Two acetylene lamp buoys, huried auest Of Mr. Johnson.” ‘Thereupon Mr. Cram produced a Gusens had omitted reading this letter and investigation bas Siscioved ; r no 0 cal t sre cnholding bla conteatias eng| the Implication nettled ao cnmmi-| as, the, cervens some the Interbor-| Young Wonian a Chet to| might in the banquet them i tee's counsel. As a matéer of fact,| US bs ‘ ‘ Capt. M. Juham, when word reached fee Hat 1 be placed upon the] 6 etter, Mr, Cram sald, waa not © Ae hae omer dro ce eae eerie Death ii Williamsburg him on the bridge, immediately or- CHAIRMAN eave THERE WILL| Patt of the record of the proceedings. Wo witl deficit falling to ih ss dered the propellers reversed. A boat BE A NEW LAW. Col. Hayward then demanded to Home. holding @ convention in Ni was put overboard, manned by Renator George H. Thompson,| "ROW how he could be expected to inter BOROUGH UNLOADED for the last two days, Their callore, whe engesty risked thelr lives: Chairman of the Joint Legisiative|*20¥ of its existence, Mr. Cram| HEAVY STEEL CARS ON ROAD. For an hour they fought the tumbling Co hich is { gat tie | COUld not answer this directly, but] “The city refused to “as the Stein-|* George Szumska left the machine ves, making wide circles and drop- mmmittee which is investigating the ted that the letter should be| V8Y Tunnel in 1908, and the fifty carstshop where he is employed to re- ping lighted buoys. The Niagara's Pabile: Hervice Commission, said to- in evidence as a matter of | Ue Paceberoere fees orn eee tGrn at noon to-day to the three; Merchant princes from far off| giant searchlights were kept aweep- a Og ee arene ork ape neon the rooms he and his wite occupled on] States brought wives as guests at the “Do you mean to sa: ‘cnet I deltd- the third floor at No, 188 Mranhat- ' banque’ there were rea, a bp that certain tO ,ne an outcome! erately omitted Be lt anything in ) Us! tan Street, Williameburg. When he, of the gentler sex to ahed radiance on B; fsa Saco oe hike seme this record; Mr, Cram?" Gol Mayward Jet himself into the kitchen er mest could have been pala to the dry é She ‘poheigery the commission?” | 4¢72nded, striding to within'e foot of things thrown about in great disor-| goods business than the presence of rea and thrusting the tran- |Mot give better service was that the|der and through the bedroom door| fa’most. finished products—-beautital pm, was asked. script toward him, bs eed ore eb pibrgeer dl egptrang h w the wildest confusion of op- “The fact is that there are too atreet traffic and tha: WP PWNI AG asawan, Filed trunks and CRAM INSISTS LETTER SHOULD bankrupt the road. 3 tiany rules down here. We are going GO IN Peay eS Hi, a ee are tite ccmpany| clothing piled nelter ekelter on the to give you a real law, notwithstand- Mr. Cram settled himself further | CO8t $4,700 each. Now, Mr. Cram, | floor, fe ged especially on the question of ing what you've heard. back in the chair and repeated: “That core ou eabhoee pow Ly Sine Ssumsk went into the bedroom. joe Borneo ig Baler a Lee pe gua Welll confer with the Mayor, the/ etter should have been put in the| would have taken judicial cognisance|ON the bed, clad in her underwear, | 8° Yebate “with Rome G. . SOomptroiter, other city oMoials and| record,” of these facts if the Public Service| lay his wife, Romaldo. A cord was lawyer of Minneapolis on the lat. heuds of big. corporations we! “How did you expect me to get it,| Commission had instituted an order! tied so tightly about her throat that|mum wage, the former think ik know anything about the ques- ns involved. “When I came down here I had a to compel obedience to its require- * affirmative and the lawyer the @ letter from you to the counsel for! nents? it cut into her skin; her hands were | tio "sige of the question, impression that the city should ntrol its own railways and sub- the Commission?” “I'm not afraid of the cour Mr, tied behind her and her bare feet| Miss Anne Morgan was an especial “I can't answer that.” Cram promptly repited. not| were bound by similar cords, She was | guest. Miss Morgan was there on ameys. ince I've been here I've re- ved communication from a num- i i i if i Fey: Hi f FF f i i 5 end luxuriant i " o afraid of anything, thank God. And account of her welfare work in the ‘It isn’t a part of the record of the I won't answer hypothetical ques. dead. gla ‘of Ni based on false premises of my| S*Umska ran shrieking through the) yory, Mw: The witness finaly admitted that the house to the street, where he sum- letter was not in the record, and a|/CRAM DECLAR' FOR MUNICI-| moned Policeman O'Donnell and Jac- of city organizations and my mind/ minute or two later the atmosphere PAL OWNERSHIP, quellard of the Stagg Street station. a 7 ere. Strauss accompanied her ‘ae now open. cleared, ‘The condition of the New York and| Dr. Oscher came with an ambulance fiipend, Borough President. Siarous “At present there is a conflict be-| Mr, Cram mi Queens road having thus been called | trom st, Catherine's Hospital. Dr.|M. Marks and wife were also at the to Commissioner Cram's attention, he " ‘Arthur ti f Oscher said Mrs, Ssumska had been Buest, table, Letts of Los crossed his knees carefully, clutched commission car which Col. the arms of the witneys chair and | strangled to death and that the mur- pstos ne, President of the association, Reeds adjustment. We are going to! showed yesterday the witness had| said der was three hours old at least. | sive you # law which will clean uP | used for more than 11,000 miles in s “Sthe people iors ade-| Detectives discovered the motive for + ail this, but there'll be no fault with | year, $ the killing. Out of a trunk in one cor- br} ee expensive Vi the constitutionality of it, either. “It's unfair, I think, to have read pally owned.” ner of the bedroom $200 in curfency, 4 tween the Public Service Law and the Materstate Commerce Law, and t! There was quite « tilt between Mr) rom those chauffeur cards,” Mr.| , Mr. Clark, counsel to the Flusbing | representing the hard earned savings ran Gram and Col. Hayward when the! cram said, “and suppressed the fact| Association, sat Reside Col. HEY" lot the machinist and his wife, had Real Musicians! former requested the committee to in-| 11.54 cniet Transit Inspector Hutchin-| tion and at this juncture Mr. Cram, |been taken. That was all the money ‘@orporate in the record the letter! 15 name appears on a great many| in answering Col. Hayward, in the house, yet the one gullty of the ‘which he wrote te Mr. Coleman, coun-| 5+ them as a user of Commissioner|t® Mr. Clark murder to the Commissi asking that 4 Py coun Boe sraccths Sted aqnions the Now| Cram'® Deivate can” | The Commis: Femstnad unopened’ there wan Not ’ & n@ Queens, Railroad Company i pity ) dress of the murdered woman's Tork and Qiesoe Relrond Company | centuation to the words “private car.” | disappointed iitigant” ani had not been ripped along the lining ° ‘ ‘8 Col, Hayward retorted that in his] Ne has any complaint here, | in the search. Even the mattress “ ourt with upon which her body lay had been i LESS. computation of the mileage of the IONERS SHOULD] opened and probe PEOPLE Commissioner's car, he had used onl; Ssumska took leave of hie wife at ° 8 o'clock, None of the tenants heard (Really—ten of them. those cards which showed Mr. Cram Before leaving the stand Mr. Cram| a from the room. ither M. ) A exclusive use of the machine, said to the commit Millie Kornhauer, directly above ti “I have excluded every card,” Col.| “I want to call attention to one| gsumska rooms, nor Mrs. Elsie Ben- Hayward added, “which showed the phage iy oe work of Sng commnlanien jamin, who lives tn adjacent rooms Read use of the car by two or more persons| Which Is 0! on the same floor, had seo: ybody ‘and poor ve Spake a glass of Salts if your] on any asy, Hee tie cedamie saa eae heard 4 teed Vino f an raed vk mo Sey 2 : ve been wee Back hurts or Bladder By way of rejoinder Commissioner | be listed on the New York Stock Ex-| the postman calling for Mrs. was eo week end ill ute P chat without the approval of the| at 9 o'clock and again at is Cram gave a slight sniff and leaned tasion. a A amare either aacadions n q door for aid, and was leaning on « friend's arm. Dupplied we ., bothers. ° back in the chair before replying, “If|. great protection to the public and| ‘a photographer and finger print ex-| ¢ a Vinol ‘wher tberally, and in a month when she you say that I'll accept the mileage."| that's another reason for a perma-| pert were sent from Brooklyn Héad- thank me I 3 i r American aie Gad Wares mat ‘tah fig blgh oe plea a ne eee pent Fut jc Service Commission in quarters to look for some mark of the words constantly against Kidney trouble,| road. Mr. Cram testifled yesterday| Chairman Thompson—In — ase we eat too much and all our food| that owing to the financial condition] six years 8,000 complaints havi uae Mend in filled with (sia Of the rand the original order S05 sixty | Sled with the Public Bervice ‘Com ry, ~ wi w neys strive to i tional cars to prov! adequate poe jon. a8 an ave come Dalen han oververk, become | seating had been reduced to thirty. ention of any commissioner, Buch disinterested and reliable testimony should convince every- the eliminstive tissues clog and| The representations made to the Pub- How do you account for that? A. one of the merits of Vinol, our delicious cod liver result is kidney trouble, der | lic Service Commission were that the Most of the complaints are frivolous and iron tonic to build up health and strength for all id neral decline in health, | Purchase of sixty cara would im- serious ones are always investi-| agi weakened and nervous conditions, whether caused ~ idneys feel like lumps of | Boverish if not bankrupt the company. ated, 4 i from overwork, worry or chronic coughs and colds. 7 peo, | Subsequently the commission was pro-| _ Q. | (Chairman Thompson) Could ; the ‘6 At Riker & HK hurts or the urine is t the Board of Estimate take over 3 . stores, and at all fall of of sediment, oF you are thirty-ear order, by the efforts of John | the construction of the new subways ‘ NS ke ‘ a ie + hs drug stores that display this sign ——>— (eoek Fel wo hree =| without de ? A. Yes, jovi va y the aight: if you suffer with sck| ng Aneoe Fee een te crgant.| colld, but the Board is overworked , fe ALSO AT LEADING DRUG STORES EVERYWHERE , Bervous spells, zation. as it is rn ave rheumatism when| iINTERBOROUGH SOLD POWER|_ @ Do you believe the Public Ser- Peer pie iy bad, 1d be adminis- pe te Te cbeut fear chnots of Jed Gelte;| ,, ,7O THE QUEENS LINE. | ‘orca at less than it nov costa? "A. . LSSZT CO, sith Sta Bway It had been brought out yesterday | Yes, probably some of the employees . take 4 ablespoontul Ans favs of] that the Interborough owned 90 per | could be eliminated : Marbridge Bldg. 6th Floor S72, ses, r kid i then act fine, cent. of the stock of the New York| Q, Do you believe the law depart- me vous celta to made from the ecid 202 Queens and oy, ar Hayward ment was worth $f 000 8 your to the sought to show just wi! the Queens | estate’ ‘ell, when I went to the ‘and lemon juice, combined with| toad was in unhappy feancial sondi, | commlssion Wwe ‘were employing. the OPEN LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY ‘ ‘and has been used for generations| tion. From a report of the affairs of | most expensive lawyers in New York, het yeeadote clogged kidneys; | the road, Col. Hayward read that In bat 3 I'd rather not answer that ques- in the urine so it he if The present law department i 4 vip flown fen ba of irritation, thus ; " ia fuel and efficient, if not overly ‘bladder disorders. virile, Balte is asi 083," Commissioner George Van 8. wa. . jul effervescent tams took the witness stand at beverage, . belongs