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Q. Have you received em Jumente from the Interborough in addition to your salary? A. Yes. The directors @. Whe suggested this extra $180,000? A. 1 don't know. It came to me as @ surprise—a grateful sur- prise. (Laughter) Q. You did not ask for it? A. No. @. This was on June 5, 19187 A. About then. | wae invited to leave the board room by the presiding fieer. He said something personal Was coming up. In a few minutes | wae called k and was told an ap- propriation had been voted to me of an extra $125,000. That was why they had asked me to leave the room. @. Do you recall that a special committes was appointed on it? A. I don't think so. Tam not sure, I @id understand it was an extra com- pensation for work I had done out- bide of my usual line of business. Q. T find that on May 19, 1913, a feselution was passed appointing @ wommittes to consider that award to yout A. Possibly thet when they asked me to leave the room. ‘Whether it was this meeting or an- ther, I don't know. @ Do you recall that the special Wotathittde made a report? A. 1 heard m@fterward that they did. WAEARD THEY HAD VOTED HIM THE LEAST SUM. Q. Did you appear before the com- ‘nittee and discuss your special serv- foes? A. No. They were pretty well moquainted with the details of the {negotiations as they had gone along. “I Reard afterward that they had dis- useéd various sums and had voted tue the least. (Laughter.) Q@. What was the largest sum » mamed? A. $250,000. , @. Would you have wiliing 4 te accept $250,000? A. (Briskly) . Veo. there any limit to the Inte borough officials’ estimate of the earning capacity?” ed Senator Thompson. “Wall,” laughed Mr. Shonts, “I have read Mr. Hediey’s testi Seriously, | don't think it sible to overpay men who are re- sponsible for the safe handling of 2,000,000 human beings every day.” Q. But you think that when men U. S. MARINE A BIG SUCCESS IN NEW YORK ‘Cat Plug Smokers Are Flocking te This Great Tebacce by Thousands ‘ITS A REMARKABLE VALUE * Smokers of cut plug tobacco bs fhout the city declare they Ke found the biggest-value smoke U.S. Ma Ups Cut Plug. in ee f ano U0. 5, Be ine was ie known in New York, although immensely popular elsewhere for many years. ke it was placed on this mar- et in a big package selling for 5 beptes tie biggest cut plug package, widently smokers were simply swaiting for a different cut plug to- , bacco, They bought the bi hk: age of U. S. Marine for try- pur “rhey have kept on buying it. y U. S. Marine is sweep- the tewal . S, Marine is made of choice and this leaf is aged 3 10 § years to bring out every par- of its natural richness and ite it smooth and mellow. U.S. Marine is te most sensational among cut p! tobaccos. | Get-a package today—Sc, —adrt, For Convalescents rate tnd” otha Vinol Creates Strength | #:°%:"5 After sickness convalescents must re- breaking their backs, and. who - % ‘ furthermore torture to death our gain strength. We believe there is pA ie then states that penal- | : : ry thes will be inflicted upon all officers | nothing like Vinol to create strength, and ‘soldiers guilty of such’ prac. because it contains famous reconstructive tonics known to medicine. It has given ninety per cent Satisfaction for sixteen years. Xu alway: r reater New this ae P. 8.— There is a Vinol drug store in your own town wherever you live. Look for the sign. s if it fails to give satisfaction. money Yor sale at Riker Hlogemen and Liggett stores and at all G: ork drug stores that display lems they should be paid tiberatty | Butler, acknowledging the recelpt of for it—within reason? A. Ye the $125,000 “Within reason!" exclaimed Sen- don't recall in what form T pala ator Thompson, “That's what | was] that $125,000," said Mr. Shonts, “but after.” I think Mr. Pepperman must have @. And yet, while you were dis! got a Tr ers check from the charging these arduous and exacting| Guaranty ‘Trust Company and took you wete receiving $40,000 # i: to Charlies ‘T. Barney & Co. This! r from your Western railroads? | intter is all the record I have at hand | A. | can make the same answer to you! now. 1 can bring the other accounts.” | that | made to a committee in Con-| Mr. Colby called attention to the is, who asked me the question) fact that the resolution of the di- while | was in charge of the Panama) rectors, the signing of the check and Canal work. | said my holdings were! the payment to Barney & Co, were #0 great that I dared not let go, and) all done within twenty-four hours. | ig eighteen hours) 1 hope thay promptness applies to | if any one should! aj) = Interborough —_—transactions,” laughed Mr, Shonta, Then ho explained tha: he thought the moat he ever owed C. T, Barney & to work eighteen hours # day, and) co, was $500,000. Since June, 191%, the Vm doing it. only money he had paid Barney & Co. Q. And was your retirement from | was §210, due to a misapprehension as your Western Presidencies volun: | to an account of one of bis daugh- tary? Oh, yes. ters | Q. Anc yet while President of the! «1 bring my accounts,” said Mr. | Interborough and of those Western| gnonts, “You'll find that most of my roads you were dering those @X*| investments have been in Interbor- traordinary services for which you got | og), Consolidated—a stock I tirmly the extra $125,000 award? A. Yes. palieve ta." Jobn B, Stanchfleld asked to have! air, Colby wanted to know if the| & window opened because the air in | the crowded little committees room | was stif_ing “Wore than the Black Hole of Cal-/ out of the common stock and boor- cutta,” echoed Mr. Colby. * Lancey| ing the preferred. | Nicoll said it was appalling. “Not at all,” replied Prosident | “Our Board room ia at your dls-| gy oit5 posal,” volunteored Mr. Shonts, “if there's nothing inappropriate in MAK+| aoctory buying Interborough-Metro- We in ote: politan preferred at the same time you “who'd call it inappropriate?’ | were? A, L don't know. | asked Senator Thompron, “We willl @. when did you begin to buy Inter- try to get a larger room this after- Interborough Consolidated Company's suspending a dividend was not a part Q. Were several of the Interborough noon.” Since before I came here with the com: | WHY DIRECTORS ADDED AN EX- | pany your holdings of late? A, Yes. ‘The| books of Chatles T, Bi will show. Counsel Colby asked President Shonts why the special committee which awarded ‘him the $125,000 had reported nine months later—April 2 1914—In favor of making the special award $150,000, “I don't know," replied Mr. Shonts. “I suppose they felt they had only y ic] pb! 0 | partly discharged their obligation at] a) bought more Inter.-Met, than | hid first, ‘That impresnion was lett In|, ont to, it was because | had great my mind. That is something the| faith in ite” committee could tell you. | hrm “But Mr. Freedman, the Chairman.) WOOD WANTS TO SEE has Kone beyond the reach of our! @panpy JURY MINUTES subpoena, and that's why we ask you,” sald Senator Thompson, “Well, I was not present at the meeting,” said Mr. Shonts, “I have) Harsh words marked the argument | told you my impression about it.” before Judge Wadhams in General Q. The report of the committee, 1) Sexsions to-day on the application of read in the minutes, awarding you the| Robert Colgate Wood, former Public $125,000 on Juno 4, 1913, seems final?) Service Commissioner, under indict- A. Yet I remember talking then with| ment for bribery, to inspect the min- some member of the committee and| Utes of the Grand Jury that indicted getting the idea that they would| him. Wood w-« represented by Law- award me more at another time. | vers John B. Stanchfield and Frank | Q. You were paid promptly after) Moss. Assistant District Attorney the directors awarded the bonus?) O'Malley opposed tho application. He A. Yes," said the application to view the testi- ‘The $125,000 check was put in evi. | Mony given before the Grand Jury was dence. simply a subterfuge on the part of Ww o me Q. What did you do with the check? | Yur? §Qhtain, the People's Miitoy carrying any Interborough-Metro- politan stock before it was taken| | over by the Interborough Consoll- | “I did!” replied Mr. Shonts sadly. _THE EVENING WURUD, IN BRIBERY CHARGE. ed scheduled programme. the Senators were obliged | town on business, and they thought it advisable to get together to discuss TANNER DECLINES | TO GIVE PLEDGE IN SUPPORT OF ROOT State airman ene Doctors He Won't Go to Chicago as Instructed Delegate. NO DEFINITE PLAN YET Conference of Three of the ‘Big Four’ Last Night Merely an Informal Talk. “I decline to pledge myself in ad- |Vance to any Presidential candidate,” said Republican State Chairman Tanner to-day to The Bvening World, referring to the attempt after yes- of the process of squeezing the water |terday's State convention to bind the Big Your delegates to Elihu Root, “It is entirely proper for delegate: to express thelr personal preference; in fact it might be considered de- so that the voters at the primaries might know the views of the delegates for whom they are In some States guch an ex- pression is required of delegate can- borough-Metropolitan preferred. A. |didates, “But there iv a difference between personal preference and pledging. 1 TRA $25,000 BONUS. Q. Have you substantially increased |do not care to go to the Chicago con- vention as a pledged delegate. They ‘ney & Company | will have to get some one in my place if such ure the requirements, I do oo,| @ [tremble to ask you if you were |not even care to express my prefer- jence just at this time. sirable, voting. a night’s sleep first. “Political conditions may meets in June, and it is my view that wo should be free to act when that time comes, “The meeting of Senat the situation. “I expressed the opinion that It was hardly proper for us to take any action in the absence of the fourth member, Gov. Whitman, and they agreed with me. We merely talked over political conditions informal}: Tader the primary luv there can be no such thing as binding pledges on any delegate, The Barnes plan contemplates putting all the dele- gates, both Big Four and district, on record by an expression of personal preference in advance. ‘The primaries A. I indorsed it and handed it to my | allegation that the motion was a sub- are to be held on April 4, The Intima. assistant, W. Leon Pepperman, to pay ore. + at not think,” he suid |tion is that unless candidates are fa- to Charles T. Barney & Co., at No. Jee come whan Jon site Me | vorable to Root they cannot expect has yet come when Jobn Stanchtield | % Broad Street, as a part payment) and Frank Moss must defend them- much help from the Republican or-| for some securities I had bought. selves against a charge of attempt. | ganization Q. Had you a running account with|!"§ to deceive a court.” | ALBANY, Feb. that firm? A. No. VGdme WAGHARS FMOKVOR declslon. |i Ceatenday. w Q. Were you indebted to C, T. Bar- four delegates ney & Co, on June 5, 19137 A. Yes; NO MORE HAND SHAKING aa OO eaey Chan he: BRA: nat I had purchased securities from them changed his mind regarding the 4 changed his mind regarding the ad- | BUYS STOCKS. - Q. You were speculating? A. No; 1| Overseas Agency Says Commander am not « speculator in stocks, but| of Si enc! rt a Pee ae Nee Sere. Bue ane p " ixth French Army Has, [tion would go to the national cons when I have money I can buy them.) Issued ers APP E OAYS mop cay, 2. o6n Ny shel Ord Henge, oe Barney & Co. at that time? A, 1} BERLIN (via wir ‘ess public Convention at Chi- Visability of urging the nomination | Hughes for the ’residency, and that he does not con- Itempiate ange of position The Governor also ¢ pressed the jyantten unpled, don't remember, but I can find tie] 1+ 1), Feb. 17.—To force eae 2 records of the account and bring diers to cease shaking hands with them here. I'll be glad to do so. the Germans in opposite trenches ana| Q. Were you indebted to any of holding conversations with them, | your fellow directors at that time or| #¥ench commanders have issued or- | interested with them in any invest.{ ers imposing severe penalties on all | ments? A. No. None. offenders, the semi-official news! Mr, Shonta offered a letter he ro-| *6eney stated to-day, ceived June 6, 1913, from Henry B,|, During the t, Aghting along | the Somme, the news agency ata a copy of an order signed by General | Dubois, commander of the French Sixth army, was found, The text of the order, which was issued Feb. 6, follows: “The army commander has learned with indignation that at several places on the front con- ‘sations anc en shaking occurred, “lam at a loss to believe that chman can sink so low as ke hands with such ban- endiarism and destruction, who assassinate | women, children and old men, | who treacherously kill prisoners, tic the oldest and most public contidence: ’ purpose of the Pease i A Splendid Modern Tonic over 71 years to mak the special reason for St one sold with a definite guarantee to return the purchaser's | |) {8° | We Have a Piano for E urse and Purpose. 2 CONVENIENT TER) PEASE PIANO), 128 W. 42d St., nr. B'weS2N, Y, 34 Flatbush Atty Br abla “SAYS: PRINCESS IN REPLY T0 HUSBAND, (Continued from First Page.) in princess ts helr. asked the court to dec the princess are parent: of the child. princess's hotel.” girl mentioned by the princess In her counter suit for separation, The princess accuses the prince of deeort ing her immediately after the mar Hire and began to pay court t oung girl, then fifteen years old Ho spent. ail his time, she and devoted himself entir attachment The little girl, it is charged, as a result of the prince's assiduous atten tions, ret promised About | printed to marry h other, had brought on the estrangement Veo, TO 8 On 5 im, Held Up at Ellis Island off what are go tiste Ugo, 7 feet § inch socks, and Eamilia whose head is only floor, ‘The pair arri ship Espagne of the French Line to- with the hope of Joining « circus. ‘On the steamer Ugo and @ half, while remaining half, ‘Thi by cutting out the two staterooms, panelling FEBRUARY THUR KBDAYX, ———— | RUSSIAN GRAND DUK WHOSE STRATEGY LED TO FALL OF ERZERUM.| Cove seeseee soos boseetooey President Wilson, motion of Chairman Stonb of the For- eign Relations Committee was ordered as a public document. some of it would be O68 2050509090006 » | been expected held hecdslpsnditant eee WALL STREET there was in the during the first few svar specialties. Crucible was the leader. into duiness and after a slight rally trading changed to Mar- which advanced several points, followed by advances in the active list over closing level of last Canadian Pacific sold at 168%, WILK hours'-old son of Alexander Buchins were burned to death early to-day de- 5 save them Buchins, weak from her iliness, dragged When the house caught fire Mrs. Est. COMPANY 120 co calo Trading continued on a small scale} oe on bed and attempted to reech safety with the new-born baby in her arme, She fell uncot threshold and was rescued by her hu band. — THREE U-BOATS SUNK. States Steel and changing price level gained 2% to 78%, General list s . Studebaker was selling down to Baldwin lost 3 points to 109 common sold at 66%, off 2% Closing Quotat ith of aussi dola Sipess I want to get t| RICHMOND, gram from Buenos Ay nounces the birth be en- dated? ‘tirely changed before the convention il daughter of the American Ambassador at Madrid. or Wads- worth, Senator Brown and myself last night when the Root question was discussed was not planned as part of Both of to leave 100,000 TURKS, We GUNS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS AT ERZERUM (Continued from First Ps NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. Canadian” Paeitic CURE nr by the Turkish War Department un- r date of Feb, Tho statement also says that the Env Russians lost 5, Los Angeles Man Gives Out a Simple 1 Home Recipe That Banished the Caucasian The War Office also reports that a cruiser, a monitor and a torpedoboat of the enemy on Feb, shells on Tekke Burgu and then with- Mr. Carl Smith, liv living at 61514 13 fired twenty Grand Avenue, » of the warships pete read» 8 roa pes H t Maat fe will Save two high-price treatments for th liguor babit, both. of which failed Ebert Lane, abe each did no damage Then I heard of the following simple jrecipe, whi: lished my desire for Unies and gre: benefited my health. To 3 oz of add 20 grains of muriate of ammoni: small box of Varlex Compound and 10 grains of pepsin. Take a teaspoon- ful three times a da; harmless and as it or smell, it can be given secretly in coffee, tea, milk or in food. Any drug. gist can Fi up this recipe at very little le cost, and Advt. woods between n enemy reconnoitring de- was ambushed being Killed esc) raped fled in the direction of Sheik | {! ‘SCORE HURT IN WRECK OF FLORIDA LIMITED Richmond nS Hospital— RICHMOND, 10, northbound, —_——_——___ ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. Alrbrake Company: - [ar ‘quarterly dividend of 1% p naan extra, half of 1 per cent, pay: March 23 to r south of here, persons were others less seriously Airbrake Com depreciation on against 6.41 per previous year, 304000-000 capital st Jcent, on seme stock in t lawyer said, that the princess is denying the child to prevent the ant from laying claim later on to the vast Crocker estate to which the MILK CHOCOLATE-COy. ny bonds will be! ind his wife, he syndicate | , Ann Arbor, Mic! -year 5 per cent Katreena Langford on Thursday Washington,D. ©. ly dividend Ort per cent , Placing the stock on ‘The rate here- The prince in his complaint has ee that he and and ties, and |4 per cent. annual basis, tofore has been & | Dividend Is payable March four coaches went down a steep em- When Mr, Oldmixon was asked if the infant was in court he replied he any, 1eK lar | “thought the little one was at the mond hospitals. tenaion Mining artery dividend of f per ce tot cavaa | Florida fast Until the parties appeared in court to-day it was not definitely known that Yvonne was the fifteen-year-old -—_—" —— » CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN MARKET. yping Charge Withdraw a, Ada Smith of Flushing, L, in the Staten Island ferry lant might for kidnapping thres Ww De uel in the lek Ww no caused th H y to this |young girl, for whom he openly de hy Cor the child. expinined alte clared the most violent affection and r taking the ehild to arstairs |e’ EST. 1788 When The Telephone rned his affection and they Ago reoprts were ed that the mutual affection of Yvonne for the prince ye LONG AND SHORT OF IT HERE, Was a Novelty Carstairs Rye had attained the ripe old age of 89, For 127 years Carstairs Rye | has remained the national & to do with Bap- 4 in height in hi Adrien, the top of 9 inches from the d on the steam- In the non-refillable bottle —"A wr Bottle to Keep Wilson SENDS MEXIGAN [CANADIANS BEAT BACK {ovo POLICE HORSE DIES DATA TO THE SENATE Report Called for in Fall Resolution] Official Reports to Ottawa Declare] “Austin,” Many Years in Service Will Be Printed as lic Document. WASHINGTON, State Department's data on the Mex- ican situation asked for ALL GERMAN ATTACKS; — AT HIS POST OF DUTY Whole Platoons of the Foe Could Take Off His Britlle Were Killed. With His Hind Leg. sAWA, Ont., Feb. 17.—The Ger-) “Austin,"for sixteen years a po- mans were repulsed in every attack] lice horse in Brooklyn, died with bis Upon tho trenches held by thé Ca-| shoes on early this mornin, nadian divisions in the recent flerce| taking Patrolman Patrick fighting around Ypres, according to| back to the “Country Club"—by whieh despatchés received here to-day by|name the One Hundred and Seventy- the Militia Department. The despatches state that the Do-|known—and fell and died a short dis- minion regiments were holding all; tance from the station, their own trenches when the German} Doody drive had exhausted its strength jnever been quite himself after Pa- “There are lots of Germans in our trenches, whole platoons of them,” the report states, “but they are all dead Germans. Our losses are very slight.” He was Doody fourth Precinct house in Flatlands is said that “Austin” had \trolman Albert Johnson, his rider | tor more than eight years, was trans- ferred three months ago to the mo- tor-cycle squad, “Austin,” who was twenty-two years old, was well known both to policemen —— NEW BORN BABY BURNED, | and to citizens for the tricks he per- formed. He always took off his own bridle after a tour by pushing It off Death With Tw with his hind leg. one of the Sister im Ho BARRE, Pa., Feb. 17.—The ear-old daughter and the five- Vear- lous on the Codfish 2 |b. boxes PARIS, Feb. Echo de Paris says that three Teutonic sub- marines have been sunk recently in the Adriatic by French cruisers ———____ Boneless white middles —A cable- 8, Argentina, an- Willard of Richmond, Kermit Roo Miss Bel —— HIMSELF OF RINKING BROKEN His Desire for Liquor. Duplicate your BROKEN LENSES fdentically without the Br tion. Te males no. atten. 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