The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1915, Page 1

ee a ee As President He Also Declares for Rights of Individual Under State Rule. EVISE ELECTION LAWS. ants System of Taxation, Appropriation and Expen- diture Changed. » ALBANY, April 6—The Constitu- Convention assembled to-day the State pitol, After the 168 tes bad been aworn in by retary of State Hugo amid cheer- for popular members, Elihu Root chosen President of the Conven- n, the seventh held by the State 139 years. Mr. Root was elected president 129 $2 over Morgan J. O’Brien, Dem- 't. He was loudly cheered as he the chair. flacob Gould Schurman, Republi- and Morgan J. O'Brien were pted Vice Presidents of the Con- ‘veation. W. D. Cunningham of Ul- ater was chosen Secretary, With a few minor changes the rules of the 1994 Convention were adopted. ‘Three of the Delegates, beside Mr. Root were members of the last Con- stitutional Convention which met in (186. They were Louts Marshall, Charles Mereness and DeLancey Micoll. When the convention was called to * order the roll was called and the dele- gates marched to the clerk's desk, where the Secretary of Sta’ minis. tered the oath. Applause marked the appearance of each délegate as he ) walked to the desk and signed his name in # great book provided for the ocasion. A century old Bible orig- inally belonging to William Black- etone was used in the oath taking. Applause and cheers broke forth \from the crowded galleries when | ‘William Barnes marched down the ‘ pial, As he finished taking the oath the cheering became deafening, and it ‘was not until he had resumed his seat > that the demonstration subsided. A gimilar ovation was accorded Alfred E. Smith of New York City, President Root ga =the co N the keynote of corner, ism in bis pening address and indicated a li) —_—\— (Continued on Sixth Page.) WINE MEN OVERCOME Nine men were overcome to-day by coal gas from the firebox of a loco- motive in the old West End tunnel, Brooklyn, which ia to form part of the yew subway syetem, The tunnel runs east and west between Thirty-sev- enth and Thirty-eighth Streeta and Seventh and Eighth Avenues, At each end of the tunnel is an open cut, About twenty men, carpenters, bricklayera and tile layers, were at work under Sixth Avenue this ‘after- noon when a locomotive hauling cars loaded with material stopped along- wide them. The tunnel soon filed with amoke and gas, and nine car- pentera who were working on scaf- folda fell off, helpless, The other men siurted Pith Avenue end and the for the engineer, peeved, opened ini - NA pi at 2508 ‘OME CENT. ROOT HEADS CONVENTION TO FRAME CONSTITUTION: SPEAKS FOR HOME RULE BY FUMES IN TUNNEL Che [Circulation 3 Rooks Open to All. l Caos a aa eases "CORONER ORUNK | “ATL” QUI, | PROSERUTOR HEARD Train Tells of Reports That | Came to Him About Riordan. ——— HE LEFT Nothing Competent Was Being Brought Out by Coroner, Train Asserts, THEATRE TRUST IS PROBED UNDER SHERMAN LAW; Government Investigation Un- ; der Way at Request of In- dependent Producers. WHY CASE. ‘That Coroner Patrick D. Riordan was reported to him as drunk when ho went to investigate the accident on the Ninth Avenue L which resulted ‘im the death of two persons on Dec. It became known in the Federat | * last, wan a statement made by| Building to-day that a secret inquiry| Assistant District Attorney Arthur C. Into the operatto: the so-caliea| Teen at the bearing fo-day con ‘Theatrica! Trust has been in progress | Mucted by Lioyd P. Stryker tnto th charges red by ¢t I for two weeks under the direction of| tresten omtielals tens iata Assistant United States Attornoys| ‘The Assistant District Attorney had Thompson, Williamson and Guiler, It] gone to the inquest following tho aa- will continue at least a week more| cident with the intention of taking and may lead eventually to the Gra:t} Parse st a Aproatigation, but be- a cause of the Coroner's attitude to- sinc dal tant inet tas ward him he withdrew from the case ‘The appearance of Charles Diliing-| entrely. Mr, Train declared that the ham, armed with a Government sub-| Coroner at the inquest conducted the poena, revealed the existence of the;examination tn such a way “that Inquiry, though it didn’t help a bit|*t*ostaphers and others were belng paid at bigh rates with the taxpay- to unseal the lips of officials as to ers’ money for material that was what it was all about, wholly incompetent.” It is understood the investigation] “I was informed,” said Mr, Train, was begun under the Sherman Anti- he bald a Chsiged hss Bid eth rough lawyers, “that at the time it Trust Law at the request of the) (¢ ine accident «ne Coroner was small independent producers and man- | grunk and went to the scone in that agers, who have long complained of} condition. In all, about elght persons the freexe-out tactics of the big pro-| told me that. ducing and booking firms. f a vee oar pad 7 Pia Lived e }in the Criminal Courts Building tha: Will it be a good guess to 82¥) Gororer Riordan was very drunk on that the present cut-rate ticket #ar|the night of the accident. Assistant im at the bottom of the inquiry?” Mr,| District Attorney Deacon Murphy Thompson was asked, told me that Coroner Riordan wan “T can't be quoted,” was his only|drunk as an owl at the time and reply. after the accident. That same phrase Though Mr. Thompson declined to} heard later in this connection, 1 tell who had been in his office since} understood he could not get to the the beginning of the inquiry, he said | scene of the accident for two how its scope would bring, or had already “Didn't you hear that others were brought, all the big men in the busl-| qrunk on that night?” asked Henry ness to the Federal Building, A. Wise, counsel for the accuaed Cor- Independent managers and produc-|oner, “Did Mr. Deacon Murphy tell ' ers have long ‘ymplained they| you that he was drinking that night could not get houses in which to dis-| also?” play their plays and that the Trust “I heard nothing of that," replied the witness. “Imn't it a fact?” asked Mr. Wise, “that you went to this inquiry with | the idea that it was to be a big thing and you would be the star of the proceeding? When you found this to be not so, wasn't our ire had so tied up the production of new material by barring unknown and un- favored authors that it was almost impossible to do business profitably. WILSON GIVEN PASS TO BASEBALL GAMES i reyponded the witness. — | not Mr. Moulton of the| 4s counsel who told you Mr. American League Book in Leather | Riordan was drunk on the night of : 5 the accident?” Case Presented to Him at the I do not think Mr. Moulton | said Mr, Train, mou maped it oO me,” WINNERS AT BOWIE. White House. WASHINGTON, April 6.—President Wilson was presented today with an| annual pass to the American League Basebal Park and invited Ww attend the opening game on April 14, when th» Nationals play New York, The pass was enclosed in @ heavily | 19 fy v engraved leather case, The Presldent | 1)! Ad a te expressed bis appreciation and accepts | 1 Bah) Th ed the card and invit-tion Isater, Darauret = = | Diamond, the throttle and ran his machine out| Poster Suilli e—Selling; pur furlongs. it to 4, 11 (Metcalf, for two- Littie Alta, Sto Land 2t| ia to nd; increas oland 3 , Roses Sands Little ‘Gink. year-olds 108 (Butweil), first; Divan, HAL elling 6. Fred Beyer of No, 186 Thirtieth Viet. Steward), 8 to 5, 1 to 4 d Meta of Kilghty-first 9, first; Lady Spirituedle, 100 (Lo enteenth Avenue led 10 to 1, 3 to 1, 8 to 5, second: party into the tunnel and W let d © unconsciols men were 4, Heotogr out into the eut, DiMdent tor arrived with a pulmotor (, Bina Mora dovesived the victims, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, SUBMARINES CHASE TWO BRITISH SHIPS; — BOTH TORPEDOED AND SENT TO BOTTOM | |nothing was Fitzsimmons at WILLARD DIDN'T GET A FT GET A CENT | FOR WHIPPING JOKNSON; FGHT RECEPTS $73,900 Expenses of Promoting Heavyweight Championship Battle at Havana About Equalled Money Taken In at the Gate. ° By ROBERT EDGREN. Copyright, 1915, by The Presse Palenine Co. (The New Verk Evening Special Cable Despatch to The Evening World. HAVANA, April 6.—Jess Willard fought Johnson for nothing. He knew when he entered the ring that he would not get a dollar except by winning the championship and getting money afterward. of holding the championship fight, including Johnson's $. $73,500, The gate receipts were about the same, ceive one-half of all receipts over expeéases. The only other case on record of a championship winner receiving son, Corbett got $15,000, — Fitzsim- mons, who was taken into partnership with Promoter Dan Stuart just before the tight, received nothing. He had to pay. part ot Corbett's end out of his own, pocket. . Willard, of course, will get some money litter out of pictures JOHNSON HAS REFUSED AN OFFER OF $200,000 FOR FIGHT PICTURES. PATHETIC KISS vsuevasaet'.) CHARGED BY WIFE Jack Johnson came downtown at noon, He was dressed with his cus- tomary brilllancy and he tried to AN: smile and be jolly, as was his wont before the fight, It was evident, how- ever, that the loss of the title cuts paras deeply, and he frequently lapsed into] Says Broker Was Forlorn at moody spells. A big crowd followed him about, condoling with him and| TWo-Hour Parting From praising him for the game fight he Chorus Girl. put up. | The former champion had several conferences to-day With promoters Married three times to the same who want to buy his 0 per cent, in-[!uen Mrs, Mary B. MacNamara, who, terest in the moving pictures of the} With blushing hesitancy, told Su contest, The negro says he has been|preme Court Justice Whitaker that offered $200,000, but he insista his in-/gnhe was “around thirty,” explained terest ix worth more, and he says hel to-day that even the three-ply mat- will not sell There are indications, | vimon al knot proved too weak to however, that he will i keep her husband, Henry ff. M. Jahnson says he has no definite; mara, a Wall Street broker, plans for the future. He will leave) k ing Betty Marahall, a chorus girl, here before the end of toe week. Hejat the stage door of the Casino talks of taking « long sea*voyage, pos- | Theatre. sibly to China, He says he wants to] “T aaw him wait at the Great North. get away from crowds and forget the,ern Hotel until Betty Marshall, result of this fight, He offers no ea-| blonde chorus girl, came out of the cuses for tus defeat. He thought| hotel. ‘They got into my husband's himself gue , but tt Was the old story | machine and drove to the Casino The- he Was not there, He|atre, where they both got out. rd wes @ fine fellow, a) “Is that all? queried the lawyer, powerful hitter and game. He is too| “I should say not.” said Mrs. Mac- big, Johnson declared, for the aver- Namara. “He |issed’'— aye sized heavyweight ever to defeat,| Here the lawyer interrupted, say- _s ing MacNamara’s Kissing another WILLARD IS GLAD woman had nothing to do with the AUR f » jcharges of cruel IT’S OVER AND STARTS een i iigwinke i not cruelty in NORTH TO- MORROW. | this case,” asked Justice Whitaker in surprise. “I should say it is, my HAVANA, Cuba, April 6.—Jess Wi ard plans to leave Havana for Key mind there could be no greater cru- elty on the part of « husband than to Want tosmorrow morning, Hae will] Kime anether womens Proceed, Mrs | MasNamara probably stop at Jacksonville and a) “He kissed Betty Marshall patnet couple of other cities on his way to} ically and sald he was sorry that he New York | wouldn't be able to seo her for two Spectators, tourists and fight pro. | "0! said Mra,, MacNamara moters aro leaving the city ee What do you mean, ‘kissed her as facililies offer; the principals also ! athetically? aaked Mr, Mencken, are impatiently waiting to be of, Well, he looked Uke he was losing ‘The men most interested in the Bis (4s! fiend and sie Was only & ing In to play @ tw natinee,” (Continued on Second Page) Mis, MacNatuara replied, The expenses 2,000, reached | Willard was to re- the moving _—_ i —_——— ee ee - —E s WEATHER-< ioudy to- might Wednasdey foig . [Circulation Books Open to All.’ \ 8. is P ‘|wire WHO CHARGES BROKER WAS CRUEL BY KISSING ACTRESS. AGES 8 PRICE ONB ORM GERMAN SUBMARINE Rag WIRING aT su eee eereee ss Tiere © VOCRTS OOHOEEH ODED D> OSIONED SMALL AUDIENCE. | COOL TO-DAY 10: BILLY 5 SUNDAY’ Slight Sani ibd Shown gelist as Afternoon Session an- Opens in Paterson. VATERSON, N J, April 6- Paterson tabernacle was than three-quarters filled when Billy shortly o'clock platform before 2 heen shining for two houra the evangelist when he arrived, It utterly lacking in enthusiasm, Briet Sunday when he took Nix seat applause wrested opening day but looked tired During prayer, Hilly Sunday, with a band half vetling hin ips, whie- pered to bimself and made abrupt little gestures as if ho were rehears- ing the sermon he was about to de- liver | At the end of the prayer Billy |atepped to the reading desk and in- |clined bis head toward his audience jin greeting. ‘The applause that wel- |comed bin was surprisingly brief \und devold of anything approaching | fervor With « few words Billy said “How Diya Do” to the crowd and then started the ushers slong sho alslee with their tin pannikius for the offer- ing Billy Sunday's sermon this after- |noon was taken from the parable of the Publican and Phay.see in tho eighteenth chapter of St. Luke “A parable is a photowraph, a pie- ture of two things that contraat,” he said. “f hold up my thumb and ‘you see it and recognize it; 1 hold jup my finger and you see that, too You see they're differen "Now, as to these two men, the Pharisee and the Publican were en- jtirely different, The Pharisec The not more to-day Sunday stepped to the this afternoon, although the sun had wan a day which, at Its outset, wae He had the sume srolle upon his face as on the | came | IN GALE ON CHANNEL Raider OverhaulsSteamer Northlands as She Tries to Escape and Tor- pedoes Her—Another British Ship Sunk in North Sea. WEDISH SHIP SEIZED, TAKEN TO A GERMAN PORT LONDON, April 6.—Activities of the German submarines and ai + craft/are reported to-day Trom three widely separated points. he British steamer Northlands was torpedoed and-sunk in the vious off Beachy Head, the British trawler Agatha was. sunk in the | North Sea and the Swedish steamer England is said to have been seized ; and taken to a German port. A report reached here to-night that a Danish steamer has been tor- | padoas In the North Sea by a German submarine, ‘The Northlands wus sunk by @ Dig submarine that dashed through/a heavy eea at Incredibl ed, While so of the crew, landed at Deal te- day, believed the attacking submarino was the U-1%, others believed ft was of @ newer and far more powertul type. Word of the sinking of the Northlands was recetved only a short, time before the crew of the Urimsby trawler Agatha was innded at Blyth, near Newcastle. ‘The Agatha was overhauled and sunk by a submarine in the North Sea aft hort chai The Northlands iguored the @rst signal from the submarine conimand- ing her to halt. Her stokers set at work furiously and, swinging zigsag fashion, she dashed in toward shore. A gale was rolling up high waves in the channel, but in a fow minutes tho submarine was alongside the North- lands and signalled: ‘The rows of benches nearest the “Abandon your ship!" platform ware well filled but the Pea Ball iphymelgda Magy (ie Sneeereierieieeee rear of the auditorium was bare. |pife explosion nearly broke thu steam- eo Se ee vee snes about There waa nowhere the pregtous|er in two. hana, seven crowds at the tabemnacie to great] “At the same instant,” sald one of! ‘The Swedish steamer Engiand, from the Northiand’s sailors, “her whistle mysteriously broke out in a wailing death shriek that lasted until tho waves engulfed her. It was devilish uncanny.” ‘The steamor wan 4 2,500 toi, vennel She carried @ cargo of iron or. and gottied qutcliy. The submariae hur- ried off without offering any aasi Buenes Aires for Gojhenburg, hae been selsed by the Germans in the Raltic and taken into a German port, according to despatches appearing in Stockholm newspapers. ‘The England was loaded w \ matee and bran, She had discharged part of her cargo at Gothenburg and was - | proceeding to Stockholm when esised, German Fleet Cut Off From Base By Own Minefield; Is in Hiding COPENHAGEN, April ¢~'The Ger-/and it is reported that six big Ger- man fieet was returning from its|™man steamers have been sunk by Russian expedition yesterday when boy Ex scenes to Sweden yesterday y ing the journey several uvines suddenly it found Itself caugnt in its own minefteld, which had gone adrift. bboy floating in the sea, making The weather has been very bad) «7. ‘aoe veigd dangerous, during the last week and it is sup- cam hain kev ron has, it posed that the mines must have got} >. j14 Ree ‘ented from returning loose und doated into neutral wa’ naval base, and in the mean- As @ result of these drifting mines all ne pe, Gotmand isa ‘Oainad use maritime traMo bas been stopped, the pussage has been cleared, German Submarine Caught | In a French Net, Says Paris PARIS, April 6.—A German sub-| men, Malleable iron frames ten feet marine bus become securely ¢f-| square, three frames joined, are sun tangled in a net specially designed/ to a depth of thirty feet, euspende:! | for that purpose and placed off Dover,| from immense buoys, If a sub | according to the Petit Journal's Dun-| marine, which Is @ biind thing when | kirk correspondent. ‘The French| submerged, enters one of these jmaval authorities expect to capture| frames its sides are caught, causing the submarine when it comes te the| the lower frame to buckle upward, of a people who hated Chriat because | surface, catobing the propeller, Thus the jhe wouldn't bow t head to the —- craft ls in the position of a fsb bunch, Of course he wouldn't. He Miles of submarine traps bave been | foundering in @ net and its occupants wouldn't bo w mere pawn on the et by the British navy at harbor en- | are doomed, board, And |! was the Pharisees who, trances and other strategic points| It was reported that three eub- killed him--they we \© highbrow, around the British (ales to cateh | marines had been caught im this way churehy bunch And, believe me, German submarin engaged in| during the firet ten days of the bleck- — ‘biockading England. (Continued-on Sixth Page. ‘The traps are not unlike gill gets used by fleher- ade, but this report was not @on- Ormed. WILLARD FOUGHT FOR NOTHING TO WIN TITLE’ Biss