The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1915, Page 4

POLICE ATHLETES ~’ SLATED FOR BEST STUNTS TODAY Carnival for Benefit of Widows and Orphans at Brooklyn Jockey Club Track. BIG CROWD EXPECTED. } y Interesting and Exciting Feats Included in Day’s Programme. If the cry “Heip! Police!” should Ping out at the Brooklyn Jockey Club track thie afternoon it would cause Pomething more than a stampede. For the New York Police Department ia Daving ite second annual athletic car- Bival there. ‘You know the New York cop. Hi & big fellow, good-natured and ge: @ally “on the job.” So even though fhe might bappen to be breaking a Hurdie-jumping record at the carnival simply have to stop and investi- if he heard a cail Por assistance, » some of the police athletés | May wind up by calling for help them- @elves, for some big and unheard-of @tunte are on the programme. In fact, the carnival is a sort of Barnum-Bailey, Buffalo Bill, Olympic games affair. There will be exhibitions Of rough riding, jiu jitsu, rescue work, stopping of runaways, drills, sham Datties between companies of the new militia, motorcycle races and war. carnival is to be strung out into wections. To-day is the first day the second one will be next Satur- ‘The fun to-day starts 1.80 lelock. There will be a parade by famous Honor Legion and a drill exhibition of tactics (including members of ‘i the police dogs, who will Seede taasiosty thieves, track down ere tein and refuse bones bribes. Babe’ Mojunald is going to pastime of throw! pedes- from in front of autos Street and Broad or, ‘will burl a weight, he did in 01 ari 8 in th ie fel the, carnival to-day fol og Gen. Wood, Admiral Dock Commissioner Smith, » H, Mackay, Robert W. Goe Jacob Ruppert, George 8. ward, . Lamont and the Commissioners ine_nf Paterenn. Newark and assisted by Cuticura tment will help you. | Samples Free by Mall Otmtment sold everywhere. apd thf Gentle, sure constipation remedy a trial, aN del It’s really wonderful how speedily they banish headache, ind biliousness and nervousness and clear up sallow, blotchy, pimply skin. Purely vegetable. Small Pill, Small Dose, Small Price GENUINE must bear signature | Yonkers. Next week the box- holders | Will be Cleveland H. Dodge, A.| Harriman, Elbert H. gary, Gen. 2 vie | toriano Huerta, J. P. Morgan and Francis Lynde Stetson. Col Roose- velt will be there. Tho use of the track has been do- nated by the Brooklyn Jockey Club, — NEW YORKER SHOOTS FIANCEE AND SELF IN KATONAH HOTEL} Charles Kelly Had Accused Lil- lian Beck of Receiving At- tentions of Another Man. Jealousy, 90 far as known, was the motive which actuated Charles Kelly, manager of a cafe near the Flatiron Building, to go up to Katonah, N. Y., yesterday afternoon, take a room at the Crupher Hotel, where Miss Lillian Beck was stopping, wait until she hud retired and then go to her room and but a bullet in her neck. He sent a bullet through his right temple a moment later, killing him- self. Miss Beck has a good chance of recovery, Reser oot is stenographer for As- sistant Engineer Com of Water Sepety ot ‘New York Gis, and was supposed to be en, Kelly. Recently Kelly heard’ the young woman waged to that evening he and Miss heard in angry dispute. Mins Beck retire: Sto her room about % o'clock. Kelly did the same, but about 10 o'clock he slipped a bath- robe over his undercloth ng, Went to tne young woman's room and shot “Coroner Mills took charge of th body and Miss Beck's mother, who lives in New York, was sent for and taken to Katonah tn an automobile, ————_— GOLDWATER TO SAVE BABIES IN RICHMOND Movement Planned Because of the High Rate of Infant Mortality in the Borough, Despite its many natural advantages the Borough of Richmond has the highest infant mortality rate in w New York. It is considerably higher than that of the city at large and more than 50 per cent. higher than that of the Borough of the Bronx, in which tenement dwellers predominate, Dr. Goldwater, President of the Board of Health, has organized and will get in motion on June 28 a cam- paign of education on en Island which will, be hopes, reduce the ab- normal mortality of infants under one year of age. Dr. B. 8. Horéwits of the Bureau of Child Hygiene is in ci work and will be aided mmit- toes of residents of Staten. ‘Tsland, Baby shows will be held and donated by citizens will be aw. Films showing proper metho caring for babies will be displayed ‘ny moving ploture theatres, thousands of circ ’ | received Old Remedy That’s Always Best For Liver, Stomach and Bowels Liver, Stomach and Bowel remedies have been coming and for 50 years, but Carter’s Little Liver Pills keep right health, strength and happiness to millions. Lay aside cathartics that act violently on liver and bowels and ‘FOUR ARRESTS FOR SELLING TAX TRANSFER STAMPS Confession of Edward Rose Sends Police on Trail of “Man Higher Up.” Following the confession of Edward Rose, an eighteen-year-old messenger of No. 85 Osborn Street, Brooklyn, In- spector Faurot and investigators of the State Comptroller's office to-day started on the trail of the “man higher up” in the scheme to defraud the State through the sale of imper- fect stock transfer stamps. Rose was arrested at Mount Sinal Hospital, where he was about to un-! dergo @ minor operation. He made a complete statement to Inspector Faurot and taken befor- Magis- trate Marah in the Tombs Court, where he was paroled in the custody of the Inspector on his promise to ald ithe police in their investigation. Edward Marci, old, of No. 874 West One Hundred and +! Sixteenth Street, was the fourth man arrested in the roundup. He taken Into custody in a stamp and coin office at No. 89 Broad Street on @ warrant charging him with viola- tion of the Transfer Tax Law. Emanuel Jackson and Benjamin Alexander, dealers in stamps and coins at No, 35 Broad Street, who were arrested yesterday, are being hell while the police are trying to find out where the stock transfer stamps found in their place came from. The police say the stamps are imperfect, anc the investigation centres on the deak at Albany by which the imper- fect stamps, which are supposed to be burned, have been put into clr- culation by illegal means in New York City. The question as to the gonuinenes: of the stamps |s not Involved in Rose's cane, as he is charged with selling stamps worth $200 to his cousin, Alex- ander Davis, in violation of the law which provides that the stamps can only be sold with the authority of the State Comptroler, and the Empire|{ ‘Trust Company is the only authorized agency for the stamps In this city, It was asserted by Deputy State Comptroller Boardman that he be- lieved the State had been cheated out of almost $1,000,000 in the last four years through the circulation of the | % fraudulent stamps. At one time as high as 24 per cent, of the stamps printed were declared imperfect and were ordered destroyed, It is the be ef of the State Comptroller's office | that many of these stamps ordered destroyed were in some way held out and were put into circulation in this clty. men who stopped messengers going to the Empire Trust Company and offered them a rake-off to buy stamps from them. ‘The imperfect stamps were then sold and used without de- tection; the Imperfections being slight they were never noticed. A messenger dimatisfied with the commission he finally gave information which led to tho first arrests yes- terday. —_—— —_- FEW AMERICANS SAIL ON CROWDED LINER New Yorker Goes to Attend Fune- ral of Father Who Died in Dardanelles. With 627 passengers and only 54 Americans, the American liner New York left to-day for Liverpool. It cac- ried one of the largest sailing lists since the declaration of the war zone. John W. Boyland, a naturalized American, connected with the Wall Street Journal, sailed to attend the funeral of his father, Lieut. John Boyland, who was killed on the Queen Elizabeth in the Dardanell Other passengers were Lieut, J. P Jackson, U, 8. N., who declined to discuss his mission abroad; Sir Sosmo pst .Gorgen, ot Nosaou- Lady Bes ver, B. Coa ng at osNigbt “tbe ie ight'e tat? to join epee ae anna sna twenty-two years; FY ‘The stamps were disposed of through | * How Police Wiil Appear in Athletic Drill At Great Carnival at Brooklyn Jockey Club Yan pdr Witte ane. Stock market trading was almo: | Wholly confined to industrial Soaalale ities and low priced railroad oniers Missourt Pacific opened off % a :The decline was due to published ae: tative plan for an assessment of $50 ja share. During the first hour Read- {ing was the strongest feature, rising 2% to 149%. Copper i walcd a ‘point, and Steel was in demand on rising figures to 61, United States Rubber was weak on renewed selling pressure. After starting at 54% price sold off to 51%, Union Pacific gained @ point to 128%, and market activity Increased as trading broadened In sec- jond hour. Goodrich crossed United States Rubber and sold at 62%. Rock Island was under pressure, selling off to 16, Market closed active at top prices for the session, showing gains from “ to 2% poin Closing Quotations, With net changes from previows closing, % Low, 1 chgs Alesea Gold Mines “sy By toe cS . 4 1b + 1h im 40 w+ ie ey ae MM +1 “ On + 4 fy tty + 18 \Am: Hel WR hoe TIg = $8 # +1 Akg 364 > mh +> net 3 170% uss § ty + yt? + wt > 4 ty + a det 3 es fe iis Met. pt iat +8 Lehigh Val wah T18 M S + y y= & 6 + 24 fy 38 Hi 10h” 4 % t - © t 1 + ak 8 <3" t's 4 + t * 4 So atubbee Lat ah Steel . + % Rteel pt + Ww Serr Ty +1 - % ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. As indicative of enormous demands for machine toola by companies having war orders and prospective, The Niles-Hement-Pond concern. has been iving orders since the first of the year at the rate of $1,000,000 a month, or twenty per cent. above ¢ \ty--some of company's plants booked ahead for two years. ren pac- are Southern Railway's rings 3 May declined $703,901 Hay est: eleven’ montha gross’ "ieclined $4,063,647; net after tax decreased $3,- 277,16) DuPont Powder stock sold at 685 a share mparing with previous bid 640; Hercules Powder stock sold at 3 tp Ii points trom previous closing, Aa a rosult of starting the elght-biast at Gary, Indiana, and additional earth furnaces, the company 4 nearly 100 per cent., and will ployment to about 400 more men, aaennnentieiemaneaa W YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. Market for cotton opened off from puwie IMs & to 9 points with business on a amall Wa ‘ORKS Po! KS POLICE WALL STR STREET | ROWBOAT IN RIVER IS OVERTURNED; ONE DROWNED, TW TWO SAVED They Narrowly Esc Escape Death in Darkness, After Dropped Bottle Causes Accident. One man was killed and two others had narrow escapes when a rowboat in which they had just put out from the foot of Thirty-ninth Street, Brooklyn, was overturned at 1 o'clock this morning. The men were Frank Wilson, cook, and Harry Taasche and Samuel Dunn, deckhands, on the lighter Sa- tilla, moored at the foot of Sixty- third Street, Brooklyn. They had started for the lighter after an eve- ning ashore. Wilson lost his life, A bottle was passed around and ac- cldentally dropped, the survivors told the police. As it went over the side all three men grabbed for it and the boat was overturned, Capt. Charles Simmis and men from the lighter Powerful of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road put out in a boat and got the three from the water, Wilson was unconscious, An ambulance surgeon was called from the Norwegian Hospital and he worked an hour over Wilson before pronouncing the man dead, PROTESTED AT THEFT; SHOT IN BOTH KNEES Janitor Corrigan Accuses Bar- tender, Who He Says Threw Revolvers Away. Arthur Corrigan, janitor of the bullding at No, 327 West Twenty-sev- enth Street, was sweeping the side- walk at 6 o'clock this morning when James Kearns, a bartender, of No. 401 West Sixteenth Street, well known to the police, came along. A milk wagon stood in front of the bullding, Kearns, according to Corrigan, took two bottles of milk from the wagon, and the janitor re- buked him, The bartender, he then drew two revolvers from his pockets, shot him in both knees, threw the weapons away and started east in Twenty-seventh Street. Policeman Bauer arrested Kearn and sent Corrigan to Bellevue Hos- pital. The prisoner was locked up in the West Thirty-seventh Street Po- lice Station. CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN MARKET. WHEAT, . ‘Clowes, AR la 103) - 3 eR ik RE Pr Ry ae fix ms et a Irregular after ing for forelan and local d the decline, Closed % ‘ent net decline, ely steady, Closed % to 1% TAXI HITS PILLAR OF “L;” WOMAN IS HURT, MAN KILLED Chauffeur Escapes Injury, but | Is Arrested After Ninth Avenue Crash. In the crash of a taxicab against ao “L” pillar, George M. Eliott, a sales- man, of No. 230 West Thirty-ninth street, was instantly killed at 6 o'clock this morning, and bis companion, wav dai she Was kdna Purcen, of No. 203 West Mighty-fourth Street, wite of Frank Brockway, a vaudeville actor, ously purt, accident occurred In Ninth Ave- Jui north of Thirt; ¥rank Haber, the trying to circle and abead of @ northbound si when he drove bis machine aralnst the iron pillar, Haber, who is operates + roving taxicab with no particular etand—said he was hailed a few minutes before the accident by Elliott and Miss Purcell, who had just come out of a oafe in that vi- cinity. Elliott told the chauffeur to drive to No, $46 West Thirtieth Street and Haber first took the couple to that address, which is a rooming house, Waen he stopped, Miss Purcell said: ‘1 don't feel very well. Let's go to a drug store ao I can take something to straighten me out. Elliott told Haber to drive to an all-night pharmacy in Forty-secod Street. Haber started up Ninth Ave- nue, travelling in the north-bound oar track, Just before the machine reached ‘Thirty-eighth Street a northbound car was overtaken. Haber skirted the car and was attempting to turn back into the car track when the| crash came, The windshield of the taxicab was shattered and the entire | right side of the taxicab body torn | away, Haber was hurled from his seat, but was prevented from plunging to the pavement by the steering gear. When Policeman Russo ran up, Elliott Miss Purcell lay inside the | eseehad body of the car, The chaut- feur, who was unhurt, sprang down and ‘helped the policeman get out the ™. Scanian or of wood from the body of the car had penetrated Eliot's skull, and he had been killed {i stantly, an ambulance surgeon from New York Hospital said, Miss Pur- cell was removed to the hospital, suf- fering from a fracture of the right leg below the knee and head. She es gearars consciousness after her arrival at the hospital, and | said her husband was out of the city on his vaudeville circuit. She had known Elliott some time, she sai and had been with him at a cabaret cuts on the how. In Elliott's pocket the police found letters and telegrams addressed to him at Laloy’s table d’hote and room- ing house at No. 230 West Thirty- ninth Street. ‘At that address it was said little! was known about him. The name of his employers was not known. He ap- peared to be prosperous, it was said. Haber was locked up in the West| Thirty-seventh Street Police Station, | charged with homicide and reckless drivin, SELECT THE GOOD FROM THE BAD Choose the medicine that will give you relief from pain without dangerous after-effects. Radway'’s Ready Relief, entirely free from opiates or narcotics, can be safely used internally or externally to stop pain. i rele val ase such pains from peural ia, rheumatism, teionns congestions and inflammations. 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