The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1916, Page 3

d ACCUSER OF RILEY ~~-BEFORE WHITMAN New Warden Says Prisons’ | Head Made “Clean Sweep” of Warden’s Office Forca, RILEY DEMANDS PROGF. Denies Transfer of ‘Trusties” ‘Was Intended to Hamper Kirchwey—Trial Goes Over, (Special to The Brening World.) ALBANY, Jan, 11.—Gov, Whitman's trial to-day of John B, Riley, Super- intendent of Prisons, came to an In- | defintte conclusion, with no decision | k, pending the | fn sight unti) next filing of further briefs and amdavits, The proceedings developed Gov. Whitman had been spukred to action by Warden Kirchwey of Sing Bing, who went over the head of his| superior and appealed directly to the} Governor against orders of the Su- perintendent transferring to Danne- more Prison trusties, members of, the Mutual Welfare League and wit- Meases ip the case against former ‘Warden Thomas M. Osborne. Called by the Governor as the first witness, Warden Kirchwey contna- Micted eome of Riley's general dental of the charges, and was 'T. Brackett, counsel for the defend- ant, There were brilliant clashes be- tween Prof. Kirchwey and Mr, Brackett. . ‘The Governor was scowlingly ag- &ressive in his conduct of the pro- Superintendent that | sharply oross-examined by Ex-Senator Edgar was pale,| Knickerbocker wants half a million aged in appearance and wasted by iliness Yet he was de-| faow Crowds of politicians and prison @xecutive chamber while many more clamored | ut formalities | the Governor opened the proceedings | reformers jammed the for adinittance. Withe With wp attack on Riley for state- ments contained in his filed answer, wherein he had said certain of the Governor's charges relating to the! transfers of prisoners were “evident- Jy based on misinformation,” For a timo the Governor and the Superintendent wrangled over the technical point, until Riley's counsel, former State Senator Edgar T. Brackett, inade a formal argument in| defense of the accused official. When Mr, Brackett demanded to be faced by the and challenged the Governor to pro- duce proof of charges, Mr. Whitman made no answer, but began again eharply to cross-question Riley about transfers from Sing Sing to Danne- mora Prison. The Governor was (sistent on find- ing whether the transfer ordered on Jan. 4 was solely for the purpose of relieving overcrowding in Sing Sing, and if its purpose really was not to wend away prisoners concerned in the cage against former Warden Os- borne, Riley maintained bis orders jiad no relation to Osborne affairs, The Governor cited the prisoners Rogers, Nathan and Mallon, wit- eases for Osborne and the Welfare ‘ League men, whose names were on the transfer list, Riley said he had no knowledge that thoy were wit- nesses, The Governor read more names and asked: “Wasn't it strange that elght out of fourteen Osborne witnesses were ordered transferred to Dannemora? “I¢ Warden Kirchwey or the Dis- trict Attorney had advised me of that fact I would not have ordered them transferred,” replied Riley, Warden Kirchwey was called by the EAT LESS MEAT AND TAKE SALTS IF KIDNEYS HURT Says a tablespoonful of Salts flushes Kidneys, stop- ping Backache. Meat forms Uric Acid, which excites Kidneys and weakens Bladder, . , Eating meat regularly eventually pro- duces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, be- cause tho uric acid in meat excites the kidneys; they become overworked, got dogsish, clog up and cause all sorts of ress, particularly backache and mis- ery in the kidney region, rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, pation, torpid liver, sleeplessn end urinary irritation. ‘he moment your back hurts or ki s aren't acting right, or if bladder hers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; tere # tablespoonful in a glass of water fore breakfast for a few days and ur kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of apes and lemon juice, combined with ‘hia, and bas been used for gencrations fo fluah clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neu- tralize the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder dis- orders, - Salts cannot injure any one; makes a delightful effervescent lithia- water drink which millions of men and wpmen take now and then to kerp the Orel Governor's witnesses d. clean, th sorious kidney’ diseasey— Advi, | Weeks baw which will go to and Tenth Street, the erection of a planting the New Boys’ Club of the their ten days of to be bengfited, I feel like trying to |Governor as a witness and sworn. |Kirchwey, addressing the Governor, ‘called him “Your Majesty,” inquiring, amid laughter: “Is that the proper term?" The new Warden gave testimony strongly contrad.ctory to Riley's story of the transfers. Ho aaid he found on the list recelved from Riley names of the most trusted men in Sing Sing, men who were the very pillars ety, A clean sweep was ory man attached to the Warden's office and household, and of those on whom a new Warden would have to depend for gooa drde assistance. He found that Osborne witness were included in “Then,” sald Kirehwey, “1 Albany and latd before the Governor the facts, pointing to him the in- evitable ‘consequences of my ¢om- pllance with the order, Since that time the case bas been more in the} Governor Mr. Brackett then bej amination of Warden A denial, both ge of the charges of wisconduct in office, proferred inst him by Governor Whitman a demand that wit- nesses be produced to testify under were made by Superintendent ireh wey and specific, Riley. Tiils answer was read by ex-Sen- ator Brackett at the opening of the hearing Prefacing hia denial, Mr. Riley said he believed his case had not been pre- judged by the Executive, but that if 6 should be removed, regardless of the evidence presented, the action would constitute “a perversion of tle organic law of the State that 1s mon- strous.” “Regarding the allegation that the order for the transfer of the prisoners violated an understanding and agree- ment between the Governor, Warden Kirchwey and himself, he said that he did not recall any such agreemant, nor could either the Governor, the Warden or himself properly be a party to one, “T assume," he sald, flcation refers to a ¢ tion be tween Warden Kirchwey 4 myself in the presence of the Executive as Well as one between the Warden and myself later in the ¢ in whieh it wis said in substance that he would have my cordial support and would be free to manage the prison according to bis own judgment, so far as was lo under the provisions of the tute and regulations: “T belive, from. various letters re- d from Warden Kirchwey, that he fully understood my position, and that I had no desire to interfere with his discretion in matters affecting the internal manaxement of the prison.” He called the Governor's attention to the reforms, which he elalmed to have wrought in prison management during his term of office, tncluding the establishment of the honor sys- tem among convicts, lition of dark cells, freedom of conversation for pris- oners and daily ‘ in the yards “that the speci- ny Grand Jury Again Takes Up Sing Sing Ipauiry, dal to ‘The Lvoning World.) INK, N. ¥,, Jan. 11 and Jury that Investigating the ed crimes in Sing Sing prison reconvened here this mom. its tnauiry. witnesses who presented them- selves wero Rabbi I. Gorfinkle of Sinai Templo, Mount Vernon, and ‘Dick” ieh= ardé, an ex-convict, Richurds is f anoted non newspaper d attacking the Investigation und the part at Distric torney Fredert 7 taken in it, _ = in artic attacking t and} THE EVE Made by the $500,000 Campaign Begun For the Boys’ Clubs in New York City ae THe Sows HOME As an Investment in Good Citizenship It Is the| Safest the City Can Make, Declares Joseph P. Day, Who Is Directing the Hunt for Funds. Healthier Environment Would End the “Tough,” for “the Bad Boy Is Often the Best Boy Gone Wrong’”’—Every Mother Should Be Interested. By Nixola Greeley Smith. A ten days’ campaign to raise $500,000 for the boys’ clubs of New York began yesterday under the auspices of the Boys’ Club Association Father dollars for more than half a million boys who are and will remain under-cared-for unless you and I and all of us give him the money, half of enlarge the Boys’ Club at Avenue A while the other half will be devoted to building for a new organization sup- boys’ Home Club and to be called the West Side. Fifty canvassing teams of seven men each, under the direction of Joseph P, Day, have already started on work, After talking yesterday with Mr. Day and with Richard 8. Crummy and with Louts De Forrest Downer, superintendents of the two clubs be a whole team in myself and going on a house to house canvass in the interest of better boys. Tor these men have told me—and I believe they are right—that better clubs make better boys, that the bad boy is often the best boy gone wrong for lack of leadership and that all any boy needs to develop into good citizenship is to be taught that it ts just as important to think straight as to throw straight, to be strong men- tally as well as physically, to put up as good a battle against temptation as he would like favorite fighter In the prize ring. ow, you won't let some of those 360 men who are trying to collect | that $500,000 pass the office boy or the {elevator man or the butler, At least some of you won't, But the eve- ning paper is different. You don't suspect it. So here I am—past all the guards, you see—suggesting to you that it would be a good thing and a fine thing and even a selfishly desirable thing to give whatever sum you can afford tor better boys. AND BIG NEW YORK NEEDS MORE GOOD PLAYS. Heaven knows we need them! Bt boys and Uttle boys, they ought all to be better boys! And I really believe the Woman Suffrage Party would do well to give just a mite of that §2,000,- 000 Mra. Frank Leslie left us for the cause to the boys’ club campaign. Who knows? They might grow up and vote for us, Anyhow here i# our chance to influence the future and make Bill a better boy. We have been saying be ought to be long enough. If you feel as I do about it, don't give any money to boys who beg you in the street—only little fakers do that—but send your con- tribution direct to BE. N. Potter, No. 55 Wall Street, who is Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Boys' Club Association, “Any money given to the cause of better boys is 100 per cent, for better citizenship,” Joseph P, Day told me yesterday, and Mr. Day is considered a pretty good judge of investments by those who know him. “This cam- paign should interest the Fifth Ave- nue mothers and fathers most of all, because they are the people who can help most financially, and they must understand that to better conditions of life for the poor boy ts to benefit their own boy as well. When their son grows up he will have to come tn contact with just the type of boy these clubs seek to help, The poor boy of ten years before may work for young Croesus as a porter or he may bo his boss, I know pleuty of rich young fellows Just out of college who aro working for nen who sold papers in New York City fifteen years ago. “What the boy who is selling papers to-day becomes ten years from now will depend on what he does with his spare time, If he belongs to a good club which will give him clean, whole- some ideals of living and teach bim to admire the right thing—all a boy's troubles come from admiring the wrong thing-—the boys who have ad- vantages to-day will have him for a qnd fellow-ojtizen, i that to see from his boy t# not looked after soclety will have to pay in the ¢ It will pay by having another vagrant or another criminal on its hands. How much bet« ter to give a little money to-day and save the boy rather than to be taxed later on for a jail or @ workhouse to ep him in.” NEW CLUB WILL BE MORAL HOME FOR THOUSANDS, “The Boys’ Club supplements the tn- fluence of the home. As much as ft! can it takes the place of the home in- fluence when a boy is without @ mother,” Richarg 8, Crummy told me, (Mr, Crummy {4 the Superintendent of the Newsboys’ Home, which will be merged in the Boys’ Club of the West Side.) “My experience with boys covers & good many years, and I be- lieve that the bad boy—the chap who grows up into the gunman or the gang leaders if left to evil influences— is potentially a fine citizen, It is his undirected sense of leadership, his de- | sire for power, his admiration of strength, that lead hin astray. If you direct that boy's mind in proper channels, if you teach him to admire | moral and mental as well as physical | strength, you have the material for a splendid citizen. “All the Boys’ Club can do ts to direct his instinct for leadership aright, or if he is not of that type to see that he follow the right jeader. “Every mother in New York should "Mr. be interested in this cam, | Crummy added earnest! | boys mean happier, bet girls. It ts the boy's » protect the girl. future ts jmade up of Your Boy—and other boys’ Your Girl—and other girls, But all their interests are interwoven, and the little fellow who would have to sleep under the bridge if .hore were were no boys’ club to shelter him is the ward of all New York." WITH BETTER CLUBS GANGS WILL DISAPPEAR, Lewis De Forrest Downer, Super- intendent of the Boys’ Club, urges the project of aiding the better boys cam. paign in this fashion is “It wo keep boys busy and train them up right, it means better eltt- zonship and better citizenship means better things. If all bad gangs that we have In different parts of the city had had such advantages as the Boys’ Club gives, the gangs would not exist to-day It we give the boys a chance to get rid paign, WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11 ALL EXTRAVAEANG OF CTY INHERITED, DECLARES NAYOR New York Is Suffering From Commitments Made in Pre- vious Administrations, WATER SUPPLY A TASK. The Project Is Now Before the City’s Experts. Mayor Miteholl's principal ae tion before the Brown Committee to- day was that whatever oxtravaganoes | tutionality of the acquirement of the | for divorce was on trial. might be found tn municipal expendt-| property whivh the city has taken! Turner tures was for commitments tnherited from previous administrations, ‘The Seaview Hospital on Staten Island was an example. “That is the most expenalve hospl- tal ever bullt In this city,” he e- clared. “It cost $4,000 per bed an urig- inaily planned, though we have out It down now to $2,000 per bed. The hospital was contracted for prior to Mayor Gaynor’s administration, He tried to withdraw from the enter- prise, but could not. It was built on & most extravagant scale. We dou- bled its capacity by adding one-fifth toa ita size, The tiles for some of the floors were brought from Holland,” “At the time the Dutch ruled New York?” asked Chairman Senator Brown. “No—when the Dutch were making money out of New York,” interjected Comptroller Prendergast, who with George McAneny and a corps of ox- perts, reinforced the Mayor’s memory at need. “I have received from a responsible source,” sald Senator Brown, “a com- piaint that you are spending too much for water, which you might get instead from Asokan. I don't make the complaint, but I would Mke to “Woe have to supply Brooklyn,” re- piled the Mayor, “with water pumped on Long Island. That ie expensive; but when the water flows here trom Ashokan we shall supply It to Brook- lyn and cease to pay for Long Imand water, “When the Ashokan project was day. The Ashokan Dam has been built, with @ datly capacity of 800,- | from there to Manhattan and Brook- lyn with a daily capacity of 600,000,- 000 gallons. For the rest of the supply tt was originally intended to Dulld dams also at Sehoharie and Rondout. Of late the experts have recommended the elimination of Ron- dount and an increase of the Scho- harie Dam. The Board of Eatimate has approved this, and expects to save millions of dollars on it. “It 18 expected that the Scoharte Project will cost $26,000,000. The quee- tion before us to-day is whether to complete this to {te full capacity or wait till we actually need the water. Tt will take elght years to complete it and the experts aay that we will need all the water by that time, “Tests are now being made of the Ashokan supply. We could get our supply from there by the middle of 1918, But experts have shown that it will not be safe for us to use the plant until the end of this year, When they began the tests the bronze castings at the control gates oracked— of their surplus animal spirits in basketpall they will not engage in throwing bricks, Fvery mother likes to feel that her boy ts in a safe place and if sho knows thet he is with his friends in a boya’ club she does not worry about him “It has come to our attention tn recent years that in the few cases where our boys have been arrested and charged with a sorlous orlme they had not been at the Boys’ Club for a year or two before committing the crime, Out of the 3,000 boys on our active membersh!p list less than 1 per cent are arrested oach year.” peeshn $38,000 FIRST DAY STARTS CAMPAIGN FOR $500,000 FUND More than $38,000 waa poured into the coffers of the Boys’ Club Assocta~ tion yesterday afternoon in the first half-day's work in tho campaign to raise $600,000. The contributors i Ralpb Pulitzer, $5,000; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Morgan, $5,000; Mr. and Mra, &. P. Davison, '$2,600;' M. Guggenhetat, & Sons, $2,500; Thomas W, Lamont, $2,500; Vincent Astor, $1,000; George Baker jr., $1,000; Joseph P, Day, $1,000; Elbert H.'Gary, $1,090; J, Hor- ace Harding, $1,000 ‘rowbridge Hall, $1,000; Otto Kann, $1,000; George W. Perkins, $1,000; Bitphalet N. Potter, $1,000; tbe Publishers’ As- foolation of New York City, $1,000; Ogden Mills Reid, $1,000; P. 8. Rocke- a H. Sabin, $1,000; ic Strauss, $1,000; Sumuel Un: $1,000; a termyer, William Corey, $600; F."B. Adams, ¥ *, L. Chad- borne, $600; R. B, Cut $500; Mr nd Mrs, Dean E GH mnicutt, $5u0; J Knapp, $500; Adolph Lewisohn, $500; Allan McCullough, $500; John D, Ryan, $500, and Jacob H. Schift, oa STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, City of Montgomery, Savannah 8 A. M. Lafayette, Bordeaux. . 9AM, 110A. M. Bowden, London. . TAM, sasanre M1 AgMs jaratega, Havan whether from faults in the composl- tion or from what cause no one knows. They are replacing the gates now, It would be unsafe to go ahead with an untried installation. We shall use it 48 s00n as possible and cut off the oost of pumping weter for Brooklyn.” The Ashokan project cost $1 000,000, the Mayor sald. “Are you deriving as much return as you should from the Dock Depart- ment?” asked Senator Brown. “We are not,” replied Mayor Mitchel. ‘The principal reason is the number of old leases, Home of them made years and years ago, like the Cholaeu piers, at rentala whieh this Administration would not sanction. We shall do better when thease old leases expire—about thirty years from now.” New The self-sustaining debt of York City, tho Mayor said, amounts to $820,530,407.34. Besides, there in a non-sel-sustaining of $1,008,127,540.48. The sinking fund net holdings are $i (148.43, The net outstanding debt, ufter eliminating the self-sus taining debt and the sinking fund holdings, which are exempt from the debt limitation, is, net, $645,759,800. 86. “Is it posnible,” Senator Brown, “to mise the tax rate on real estate in New York City? 4 the Mayor. nt dangerous to the prosperity answered would he of the ell “Would it pats of not be better for the In- te the city to be somewhat drastic in your economies “That's what we have been this drastic as the Mw and olr nees will permit If the Legislature would give consolidating ee us lawa $25,000,000 Schoharie} outlined it was expected to have a total capacity of 60,000,000 gallons a 000,000 gallons, and the aqueduct built | house. To Pi certain ane agencies 1 beave ecomomy, could ba] Ba,” hie 1916, offeoted. Pay-amyou-Ko plan unless we get ra- Nef from Albany, home rule aa to salaries and on the Income aide. Tf no direct tax is levied upon us in the next two years we could get on withs out raising the tax rate.” Mayor Mitchel gave the tnvestt gators a list of the recent corporate stook authorizations of the city, The ; figures for the administrations of | Mayors McClellan and Gaynor show the average (or each year of the four- year term: We can't go ahead on the Revenue Non-Revenue! Mayor Producing. Producing. | | McClellan 951,663,423 $60,768,691 | | Qaynor. 56,311,014 91,640,984 Mitehe! (1914),. 6,686,688 9,064,087 Mitchel (1916) 8,777,070 9,640,817 | a CITY STANDS TO LOSE $8,000,000 IN SELLING NEW COURT HOUSE SITE, ‘The Evening World, on Deo, 16, 1918, fn an article tolling taxpayers how approximately $19,000,000 of thelr | money had been mink tn the court-! house and civic centre alte north of | the Muntolpal Building, raised, for the | first time, the question of the constt- | lover. Now comes Mayor Mitchel, tn testimony before the Brown Commit- tes, with the statement that, includ- inf Interest, the lons on the sale of | |the proparty condemried for court- house and civic centre purposes would | amount to $4,000,000. Hore is @ real estate speculation re- gembling the allied retreat from Gal- | Hpolt, On an investment of $18,000,000 | the olty stands to lowe, in the event of disposing of the property acquired, 62 per cent, of the purchase price, As the Investment i# costing the city $2,100 @ day, including interest and all exponaen, the total of the prospective loss looms larger every minute. But, as ‘Bho Evening World bas pointed out, the alty cannot sell any of the property without permission of the Legislature, and there existe a doubt whether legislative action can clear up, within a reasonable time, a question of ownership by the city] of real estate the title to which is clouded by possible violation of the State Constitution which provides that the ofty shall take over only so much additional land, in planning for public improvements, as shall be sufficient for abutting building sites, Blunder piled upon blunder bas put sity of New York in a deep and hole on the Court. Hou: ‘The first blunder wi made by ongitieors who picked the or- igipal site in a swamp and over a subs way which blocked all plans for bulld- ing a foundation for the Court House. Instead of abandoning the project and seeking a new site the olty went about acquiring another adjoining site. Here is where the city stands to-da: lk owns a site that cost $18,000,000, Tt has plans for a court house to cont $10,000,000, i It can't afford to build the court It ts doubtful if 1t can sell the land, except as a whole, after legislative authority has been obtained, And if it DOES sell the land it faces a 62 per cent, lo amounting to $6,000,000, MANY BANKS CHANGE. BOARDS TO COMPLY + WITH CLAYTON LAW Frank A. Vanderlip Retires as Director of Four Institutions —Others Resign. —— Many changes tn the directorates | w EARNER) SMASHED DOOR BARED |LEADERS OF BAR © PAJAMA CLAD CALLER, | ASK WILSON TO PUT | { | CHARGE AGAINST WIFE} TAFT ON U. S. BENCH Raiders Found Two in Apart- ment After Hurling Brick. When Edward G. Turner, a wealthy manufacturer's agent, hurled a brick through the glass door of an apart- ment at No, 218 Weet Eilghtieth Street, and then burst in with two frienda, he wae trying to find ont whether W. D. Robinson, a raliroad man, and hie wife were more than merely platonto friends, What the raiders are alleged to have found after entering the apart- mont wan doncribed to-day before Supreme Court Justice Delehanty, where the husband's counter olaim When Mra. heard what Gardner M. Yourfkman, one of the ratders, had to say abe gasped. ‘The apartment was occupied by Robinson, Youngman testified, hold~ ing up the brick for the Court's view “When we reached the door,” the | witness aaid, “Mr. Turner aaked for his wife and Rotdnson replied that she was in her own apartment which adjoined. Ho wouldn't open the door, so Turner threw the brick and we all wot in, “Mra, Turner, dressed in her night-! gown, was just leaving through an- other door, and Robinson, dressed in a pajama Ing in the dark. I took a good look and Mr, Turner peeked tn through the portiores anid said, ‘There she is,’ re- forring to his wife. More about the same apartment wns related by Mrs, Anna Swaide, a Janitrese, who declared that she had seen Henry Warren Williams, chauf- four fom a wealthy family, in the apartment frequently and had heard Mrs. Turner address him as “Honey rren” and “Sweetheart Warren.” Williams, who was called tnto court on @ svibpoenn, denied that he had ever acted indiscreetly with Mra, Turner, but admitted that onee when she was tl] he had provided her with food, Mra. Turner indignantly denied the charges. She admitted that sheshad made several male acquaintances after Turner left her abruptiy, ‘One morning about two years ago,” she declared, “I kissed my hus- band goodby at the elevator, and that was the last T saw of him unttl to-day tn court.” Mra. ‘Turner said she was a model when Turner courted her. Her first husband, whe sald, was connected with the Cuban Junta at the outbreak of the Spanish war. and died of yellow fever. She waited seven yoars, then, believing him le- ally dead, ‘married Turner. WILSON MAY RECALL CONSUL AT STUTTGART Lansing Directs Gerard to Invest gate Stories That Higgins Is Pro-British. WASHINGTON, Jaa 11.—Am- bassador Gerard at Bertin has been authorized by Secretary Lansing to Investigate unoMctal charges against American Consul Edw: Higgina, at Stuttgart, alleging that h» t# pro- British, and objectionable to the Ger- man Government, Should the charges be proved it was said Mr. Higgins will be informed that thie Government will not permit unneutral activities on hia part. No official charge or complaint has been made against him, BHRLIN (via wireless to Bayvilie, J. L), Jan, 11.—The German Govern- ment ie investigating the case of of national banks took place to-day at the annual meetings of stook- holders. In omer to conform wittr the provisions of the Clayton Anti- Trust Law barring Interlocking dt- rectorates there were numerous reatg- nations. All the directors of the Chase Na- tional Hank were re-elected with the exception of James J. Hill, whose place was filled by his son, James N. Hil. ‘The following were added to the board: Daniel C. Jacklin of San Francisco, Frank A, Sayles of Paw- tucket, R. I, and Charles M, Sebwab, The stookhollors of the First Na tional Bank re-elected all the direc. tors with the exception of A. Barton Hepburn, who is a director In other banks The Bank of Now York elected the following to fill vacancies: W. 8. Cottin of W. & J, Sloane; Philip T. Dodge, President of the Mergenthaler Linoty ompany, and FE, Hop kins of Bias, Fabyan & Co. The other directors were re-elected. Frank A. Vanderlip, Vrewident of the Natfonal City Bank, announced his retirement as director of the Na tional Bank of Commerce and the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York and the Rigas National | Bank and the Amortean Security and | | Trust Company of Washington The following retired from the board of the National Bank of Com. merce: Krank A. Vanderlip, Albert H. Wiggin, President of the Chase National Bank; Francis L. Hine, President of the First National Bank, und W. A. Simonson, Vice-President of the National City Bank, Otnor directors whoxe terms expired were re-elected, reduoing the board from % to 1 All the retiring directors of the National City Bank were re-elected, and William Cooper Procter, Prosl- dent of the Procter and Gamble Co. rd, of Cincinnatt, was added to the | United States Consul Higgins et Stuttgart, to bave made alleged statements hostile to '. The Colo, ene Gasette recently quoted the New York Staate-Zeit as Fagen g Sig Higgins’ remarks violated ity of the United States, aieeeieamamens M. J. DRUMMOND ILL. Former Commissioner of Obariites In Suffering From Pne' Michael J. Drummond, former Com- intastonor of Charities, 1s seriously 11) at his home, No. 486 Riverside Drive. Ho took cold several woeke ago and ast week pnoumonta developed. Bince yesterday he has been delirious. Mr, Drummond js a president of the Bmigrant Bank. He went to Cuba | hy |Friend of E. G. Turner Says/Seven Former Presidents of Association Indorse His Fite ness to Succeed Lamar. A iotter signed by seven men who havo been presidents of the American Bar Association, four of them Dem- ocrata and three Kopublicans, has been sent to President Wilson, urging him to appoint former President Taft to mucceed the late Justice Lamar on the United States Supreme Court Bench. Tho letter, signed also by widely known lawyers from fourteen States, was made public to-day, and reada: New York, Jan. 7, 1916. The Prosdent: Sir:—"Believing that the Honorable William H. Taft,on account of training | in the law and on the bench and ip publio affairs and also by reason of his reat moral and intellectual quall- tes and the confidence reposed in by the people of the United States, better qualitied than any other man successfully to discharge the high duties of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and that. his appointment will be pre-eminent satisfactory to the people of the Unit States, wo earnestly and respectfully urge that you nominate him to suc- ceed Mr. Justice Lamar.” Home of the more prominent #ign- ore of the letter are former Secretary of War J. M. Dickinson of Chicago; former Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph H. Choate, Alton B, 3 Democratic candidate for President in 1904; former Senator Elihu Root of New York; Everett P. Wheeler of New York, John T. Richards of Chi- cago, Peter W. Meldrim of Savannah, and Wiliam P, Bynum of North Car~ olina. —> 500 Grip Cases in Montreal, MONTREAL, Ont, Jan. 11.—Jive, hundred cases of grip were reported here yesterday. Mayor Martin, Comptrel- MacDonald, fictals and Atty and the city’s bu ler numerous minor of- Aerks have the malady sine: ‘con- Home She Tells How She Did ft A well-known resident of Kanes ‘darkened her gray hal bo following statement: “As: atleman can darken te f ; i Figen t 32s siesta = Mllustrates the frightful toll of con- sumption by every thoes minutes end shove tat it is the man or woman, girl or who neglects colds, whose blood BELL-ANS - Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One pact Industrial Savings | proves it, 25c at all drugyists, TT RU OL all departments, Men's Shoes. . Women's Boots. . Women's Sli Children’s Shoes SIXTH AVENUE, Corner Alexander’s Shoe Sale Our Annual Winter Shoe Sale—looked forward to by thousands of men and women. The same service as usual, the same smart styles and de- pendable qualities, but greatly reduced prices in aoe 20 +$2.90 to $5.75 $2.60 to $4.85 "$190 to $4.25 oe ee $135 to $2.95