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| EDITION PR CARRA ICE ONE CENT. orem, 104 N HIS TROOPS MAY ENTE OFFER TO BUILD SUBWAYS. WITHOUT PENNY FROM CITY HID SIX YEARS IN P. S, SAFE Whitney Admits Plan That Might Have Saved New York $165,000,000, but Shonts’s Proposition Was Not Backed Up by the Inter- borough Directors. By Sophie Irene Loeb. The most startling exposure yet made by the Thompson Investigating. Committee is a contract letter put into a safe by Secretary Whitney. This contract letter from the Interborough practically offered to build the subways without cost to the city. If this letter had “seen the ight of day” the city's agreement to spend $165,000,000 (which sum will doubtless be doubled) would Ikely not have been signed The are the facts June 30, 1909. Formal proposal for sub: Service Commi ays made to Chair man Willcox of the Public ion. Sept. 22, 1909—Another formal proposal! made for subways. March 22, 1910—Contract letter received by Chairman Will cox from President Shonts, in which Shonts presents “our proposition in a comprehensive and definte form to entirely re state our offer.” March 22, 1910—This contract letter “is designed to embrace the substance of those proposals with all subsequent modifi- cations.” March 22, 1910—This date marks the end of the “repeated conferences had with you since our last formal communica March 22, 1910—Letter prescribes that “the cost of the con- struction of the subway, not including right of way, easements, privileges or real estate for terminals, shall be paid by the con tractor.” (Interborough.) March 22, 1910—Prescribes that “the title to the subway’'s extension constructed shall nevertheless vest in the city (Except to pledge or mortgage Interborough investment to raise funds.) April 22, 1910—Only a month late of Gaynor, introduces Shonts to Gaynor. April 22, 1910—Shonts visits Mayor Gaynor to present proposition to build subway with “city money invested also. Mirabeau Towns, friend April 22, 1910—Same date, Chairman Willcox practically dropped out of the subway conference. (“Underatanding” of Whitney.) July, 1910—Three months later, comes the new Interborough proposition to build the subways, but with “city money in- vested also.” 6, by The Press Publishing ‘The New York World). { ‘Circulation Books Open to All. } 'BABY'S BATTLE FOR $1,000,000 LOST IN LONDON “Teddy” Slingsby, Five Years Old, Declared Not Leviti- mate Son of Father. | | | | | Now House of Lords Will Be Asked to Approve His Claim, Set Aside by Court. LONDON, fiv March 18. year “reddy” oid California box nesby o-day lost his filt for the Slingsby ' fortune, variously estimated at from | $500,000 to $1,000,000. The Court of Appeals, reversing the decision of a| jlower court, ruled that “Teddy” wa: not the legitimate son of Lieut. Charles Henry and M Slingsby Reynaud Slingsby Dorothy Morgan Cutler ig San Francisco. 8 for ean b will ! app Ho! Lords, In the last three years the Slingsby heir case has become one of the most ebrated legal actions of its kind fought. The battle for the | Slingsby fortune in behalf of a curly ev jheaded, smiling little fellow with dimples in his cheeks, has been fought in the courts of San Fran- ar Tharies ot | seriven Yorkshire, England, Htather of Lieu Vest of the| j British navy, left @ big fortune at th }time of his death, Lieut, Slingsby | was his cldest son. Under the terms Jot his will, property worth about lest son | $500,000 was to go to the ¢ | This pi ty has of his eldest son July, 1910—Some time after this day of meeting, increased in value, according to re- after the minds of the railroad and the Mayor had me port. Gaynor said to Towns, “I have given them a principality, When Lieut, Slingsby and hls wife, that he (Towns) “should receive $750,000." a California woman, claimed March 11, 1916—Secretary Whitney brings before the shure of the estate in be Thompson committee the contract letter which was in the safe NENAH! BiEMiY. tuerciHan Mlingaty and which Whitney admits: “This plan, if adopted, would have | iy. 4 seen the subways built without any city money.” heirs protesied that the boy was a changeling, that Mrs. gsby had Question the matter with the new subway contracts? given birth to a child in San Fran Answe so comp! ated that it would take another Solomon | ¢! but the int t had died, and to tell hat she and her husband had pur Q, How were the contracts made , Jchased an infant boy from an un S Br erpraesneee, One alae hpiglleies ond. pronomals fortunate girl through a San Fran- AT y man who claimed responsibility 1s a dead one. \eco doctor . BY Hew ald tie claim ia reanopablllty? The boy's first victory In England A, He sald to his best friend and neighbor, “Il have given them a prin- | Was largely due to the opinion ren eipality.” dered by Sir George Franmpton, ——— brated artist, who testific that t ( nued on Tenth Page.) odd shape of the boy's left ear, which aa aaa es ns | iogked exactly ke the left ear of 400,000 | UNFAIR, SAYS WHITNEY, [Mut Slingsy. consinccd iim tha HEIR 10 $ ' ’ | 2 * | the ehild was the lawful ; to Call Willeos. lin the meal 2 er of alls satel Travis H, Whitney, § y 9 | Ah: AS SO ORMO LO Ove me OMAN, N.Y. March 1.—-Ke ufiernoon that the publication of the| have been written by Mrs. Sitngsby Dalrymple, the inisving heir of the| mere questions and answers at the ses-|and inserted in a Ban Francisco news- $400,000 fe eft by Ed Da on of the Thompson Committee did| paper within a few days of the time a be Bedstdent Shoneatmatter of the | a child was born to her. The adver- b taken to Bui ‘10, in which the Interborough of-|tisement called for a new born male ft ( ched to build the new subway. ¥ vifled 1 “The ty jon that I s ht to con- Infant. n W th r is unfa ald Mr Furthermore, the master snid, it ie Whitney. L told Mr Moss, about the! wag imposelble to doubt that Mfrs , " us Maren’ 4 1 spoke ti Senator | Slings 1 at the A t i} i malo; nat : on te t rh Be | ahaa Way whieh Mayor iaynor |e” °° ail " ne wih an mi i Ma valing | we missing heir Dalrymple now da ey Before tale Thad suggested | WindeR CRUISES TO WARMER CLIMES enty-elght years old His father, | the the Thompson committee should 1 ling . Lung Tatea who loft him the fortune, was an'oll Me, “Hangde Bove matter, and clowr tt| yaa sol Mita at fee ina Boaah hata prospector, pleas fusion about offers and dates.” BT Gite! eleobone Beakmas abtoe ae 4 PROVED A CHANGELING | Husband and Wife He Killed | | | | UBWAY OFFER TO PS. BOARD TO SA NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1916. ZA’S REQUEST GRA Before He Committed Suicide VE $165,000,0 00 WEATHER—Partly cloudy to-night and Tu LANE EDITION iG irculation Books Open to All” | 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. TED; U. S. _ 1 SENATE BACKS PRESIDENT: PREPAREDNESS ISSUE RAISED N THE MEXICAN SITUATION Ey CnC LAWVER TANGLES FIRST WINESS IN “TRAL OF OSBORNE Accuses Former Warden and Then Re Charge | Con Sin Sin | Wilson Enters Into Reciprocal Agree- ment With Carranza by Which First Chief's Troops May Follow Bandits Into U. S. Territory. [wun 'TROOPS STILL AWAITING | FINAL WORD FOR DASH SO ae ene Cee os | WASHINGTON, March 13.—The United States this aftetnoon ae? My , proved a veritable boomerang for the| cepted Gen, Carranza's proposal for a reciprocal arrangement by which | prosecution when he took the stand|¢ither his troops or American troops may pursue bandits on either side of WELEARE LEAGUE HIT Protection Promised to Its) Al- legedly Immoral Officers, Chiarg | \ | Ss Prosecuto PLAIN Phe Boeing Worl N.Y., Mareh the fst WHrer impor Thomas Mott Oshorne, tnesses agar former War den of Sing Sing, whose trial on a of | | hefore Supreme Court Justlee Tomp-| the border kins here, this afternoon Nae Within ainutes aft te e OF ace is sent forward ( za at : ation, Harvey admitted vad Senator Boral iblica ed the Senate to-day to drop all other ee | ciated arden hag | @&#kittion and immediately consider the national Preparedness programme Rot only ‘ ue ; ie nr E mit {In view of consequences that might arise trom the decision to pursue Gen, nen implicated in tt locked wt Villa in Mexic« | un r Aiea meine parse ay Chairman Chamberlain ot the Military Committee told the Senate ’ told of conditions in the prison and| that in his opinion the United States arm» did not have enough soldiers to had stated Wa ten Ont to urged) cope with Mexico or enough equipment. He added he would not be sure | nissioner Diedling of cases of im-| Prised to see all Mexicans rally around Villa. | Within nutes he Senator Fy Republic a ay a | After iii . enator # al Republic t New Mexico, although opposed to the | \ Jolin Bovit_.eove | Warden's » whe agreement, said he would do noth ) prevent it or to stay the United | - ty foe's, Dr. M ee? 1 de ‘ states army In t Mexican outlaw —_— his dying wife's, Dr, M ; ne » Senate showe, caine ui bocker Hospital wa Sa oni i hae i ne ‘senate shows si shes delivered that it was squarely John Boyle Sends Bullet Into}ana nis wite wore | enberee Sie BN eR *-|behind the President, Her Brain as She Lies in |Peurrires: oe nlehnn vi] he had heen involved tn ike situa | TROOPS NOT TO BE SENT OVER LINE TO-DAY. Bed in Apartment. imanth uae tavib hea xen | tions in Elmira Refor ae 4 use| Gen. Funston officially announced to-day at San Antonio that the ex- J extreme nervousness and t served moveral auiditional days a8 ) peditionary forco into Mexico is to be commanded by Brig. Gen. John J John Boyle, who recently has been|the habit of pacin. lls of the | Bun Nae tne lawyers ware jubilant} Pershing. Gen, Funston also said that the troops would not be sent over without occupation except the spend oe wh sae attire wv Any ad. Diatelet Attorney Weoks and | t2® line to-day. He complained of lack of rolling stock. sale nd ad discusse ith Mra, | 4n¢ sea 7 & - ing of a $150,000 inheritance, sent ®| hoyle the adviaal : nn her| Assistant District Attorney Fallon] An embargo on the shipment of arms or ammunition into Mexico {s in bullet chrough the left teraple of tial pushy . were chagrined at the showing of | effect and will be strictly enforced, whether the arms and amm uw t igh the | temp and put u a and & : unition are wife, Mary C. Boyle, as she la jeep! guardian appointed ninister | Harv r mination n the way to Carranza or anybody else in their apartment on the top floor affairs Mr. Fa ning addrens Attorney General Gregory was in conference with the President this Boyle, w n {declared the off he Welfare) morning. It is reported that the Attorney General fay of the Wilmington Apar 4,.N py t immoral rr favors an agreement e " had i for | League we \ ; Waltae, | between Mexico and the United States whereby a neutral zone may be 220 We Jinety-seve Street aiiehare g Sin t was not t olfare | astabiished x the ent . #00 ‘West: Ninety-neyenth Mt ven yan : i 4 vag boing at. [established along the entire border for a distance of say twenty miles on morning shortly after 7 o'¢ A Ma seas, ’ tes andra : men allowed | each Side, over Which troops of both nations might move without formality | moments later he leaned over the cine rresithy. the agai Faas it by Warden Osborne were| 8 the pursuit of bandits, Just how a noutral zone of any width would and ended his own life In the same] Oy yam es | Avenue, He|the men wao organized and proftted | affect the question of the right of our troops to enter Mexico on a punitive eous. His wife lived half an hour % West Eighty-first He had ‘Osbor rdered tho yrds in the} There are signs that antl-Admintstration statesmen in Congress will Boyle and his wife rented the apart-|!f¥ided his son with an Income up|immurality caves destroyed,” Mr. Pal-| seek to make political capital out of the situation. Some of the members of the of hia death and then left}ion decia “and the records were] Congres > have been clamor tc e ment about a month ago from Mrs.| ‘2 the tme of hia death and then left|ton declared, and the ie | Congress who have been clamoring for tntervention in Mextoo for many ent. We the boy the Inheritance toh he bas| deatr sofore the Grand Jury be} mont are expected to volce opposition to any plan by which Carranza A Steinhope, who leanes severe Aen been spendin, ladmitted the records ha won dh cea na empowered to send his a Tes ae | thirty-four years old. I drinking | ide, 1s an Atlan i 7 self. " ninals Fae alice ‘i |since he received his inherttance i liven ee Wa, 410 (A / > ; A thei] Senators Stone and Saulabury of the gn Relations Committee dis- said to have resulted in his actin ie, Atlantic City ig ts Ney pris asted the Mexican situation with President Wilson today, After the con- queerly at tines. Two weeltié Mp, bi fe had visited th | WwW Ww Onborne r Senator Stone said be had found mper of Congress with ree |wite, who was six years his.juni When her husbar 1) anal told t leary Keng cuivt and) ect to the Mexican situation “equable a od prevented his . .mmitting st! | condition ‘ ning} 7 a feeice oT Al re . “~ . | prevented hi mmitting sul Urs Bora hivel eo. Wine would Mr Yours, a brother) YANIFESTO EXAGGERATED, SAYS MEXICAN EMBASSY taking @ revolver away from hita a for him and: tried chien upreme Court Justice Young A ibariche . hiding it, Since then, it is said, b out in various rty,|Who, he sa As resy af The Mexican Embassy has as ired the Administration that the so- had spent much time bunting for t his condition be eadily | Mr. Weekws political carenr an! Jculled Carranza manifesto as published to-day was exaggerated and mis- | hidden weapon lah pel Ps Bide ’ juoted. Officials of the de facto Government deny that Carranga has any ‘This morning, just after 7 o'cl Harvey, Who Waa sent to Sing Stng] intention of assuming a belligerent attitude Boyle stepped out of! n June, 1915, said on direct mit It is appreciated here that whatever seeming strength o} z 1 after his st he rs f language attired in a bathrobe said to | David Ston: oy vr arranza might employ would probably be intended more for effect on sylored me 1 iB ball : | UNDER SEALED ORDERS | pien Tae " s own people than on the United State Carranza knows that the Presi- italy. 1s ju 1 | ; vie et lered 1 is p o Mexico and that they are A maid's excla f Originall | kolng 1k aved y anamo Will f . \" ‘ ) ps along the border added ( M Oo Nainable at the W ’ Arn ers are not paying much “ ' , ' s f G makes for publication, For self, I muy as well m t two." A Ml a, ea G r on may be announcing one thing and doing He disappeared int . ‘ t again, A inoment ae a aid a ! reat . ride . sat Altho no inite s have been considered for the utilization of everal tenants hear hot, a : 1 r is I A At 1 to @ report here to-da r < and said i Ha | militla or volunt forces, it is quite possible that militia organizations Boyle's body was found lying aye to Guantanacno. you?’ 1 aaid, ‘No, aad kept quiet onde anish War veterans wishing to join in the punitive expedition { |