The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1916, Page 1

FINAL EDITION PRICE ONE OENT. “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | nein a jew York World), The Prese Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1916 GRAVE TROUBLE BRE ILL DIES OF BLOOD POISONING Unsettiod to-night. Showers probable Tuceday. ALL > EDITION Circulation Books Open to All. 12 PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. AKS OUT IN GREECE — OVER INVASION BY BULGARIAN ARMY JAMES J HILL, RAILWAY KING AND LEADING CAPITALIST DES AFTER “Empire Builder’ Who Began as a Poor Boy Developed the Northwest. EXPANSION HIS KEYNOTE} | One Daughter Reaches Bedside | as His Life Ebbs Away— Another Too Late. BT. PAUL, Minn, May 29.—James 3. Hill, railroad builder, capitalist and most widely known figure of the) merthwest, died at bis Summit Ave- Bue residence here at 9.30 A. M. to- ay as the result of blood poisoning ve to intestinal trouble. H ‘Mr. Hill was unconscious for nearly twelve hours before he died. Dr. Her- Man Bimes of New York and Dr.| Btanley Seager of Rochester, Minn.,/ together with members of the !mme- | Gate Hill family, were at tho bedside | when the end came. Archbishop John Ireland and Rev. Thomas J, Gibbons, Vicar General of the Diocese of St. Paul, were also with Mr. Hil when he died, although he was not a Cathollo, Rushed here by a epecial train, Mra. @amuel Hill of Washington hurried) into the death chamber just in time to grasp the hand of her dying father. Mra. A. M. Beard, New York, was the only member of the family who did met wet here before the end. She ar- rtved half an hour later. ‘The ratiroad magnate was taken wick eleven days ago and two opera- dens performed on him failed. A seda- tive rarely used was brought by spe- etal train im record time from Chi- ago, but was not administered. Business conferences were held with Hil on his death bed. Ap- Parently realizing his condition, he sent for several railroad officials and told them of the disposition he wanted made of several pending matters. When they were gone, he asked that wo bank offlcers come. Another @enference was held. My. Hill ts survived by his widow end dis eons and daughters, who are: James J. Ail of Now York; Mrs. George T. Slade, St. Paul; Mrs. Egil Beeckmen, St. Paul; Walter Hill, Hallock, Minn.; Mrs. Michael Gavin, New York; Miss Clara Hill and Louls Hill; Mrs. Samuel Hill of Washington and Mrs. A. M. Beard of New York, ‘The city of St. Paul immediately began preparation to honor the memory of Mr. Hill. The Northwest, eonsidering him its greatest man, was ready to pay tribute In memorial @eremonics at every railroad divi- elon point. The funeral will be held at the Hill home at 2 P. M. Wednesday A history of the life of James Jerome Hill is a history of the devel- opment of the Northwest, His was perhaps the most thorough influence in the development of this vast ex- panse of almost half a continent over which his railroads extend. Known as the “Empire Builder" Hill justly earned the title. He took the! wilderness of the Great Northwest) and turned it into six wealthy States! dotted with prosperous cities between miles of rolling farm lands. He took an abandoned rallroad venture and (Continued on Second Page.) —_— MATEY Ratna |"Nothing is as clear as NOTED CAREER WORDS OF WISDOM FROM JAMES J. HILL, | BUILDER AND THINKER “Community of ownership 15 valuable, but not the only thing for @ railroad property. No matter how many men are in @ property, you can't make a bad property good by an interchange of owner- ship.” “The way to abolish trusts is to make stockholders Hable.” “Luck and lasineas don't go to- gether. Opportunity won't hunt you up.” “Work eteadily, live prudently and show intelligence, and help will come to you.” “One of our most serious troubles 1s to find men fit to be foremen, superintendents, dc." “Transportation is nothing more nor less than overcoming the law of gravitation.’ “That's a gun tl will kick as far as it will shoot.” (Speaking of oro-German trade reprisals.) “I have nothing against a ool- lege education, but a young man can get training only when kick- Ing for bimself in the business “A great many young men are like Easter hate—all trimmings.” “Marriage 1s the reservoir into which a woman's life flows most naturally.” WILSON MAY ADDRESS CONVENTION BY "PHONE Efforts Being Made to Have Him Talk From White House to St. Louis After His Renomination. WASHINGTON, May 29.—Presi- dent Wilson may address the Demo- cratic Convention at St. Louis, when he accepts his renomination. If he does he will use the long-distance telephone, An effort is being made to have the President agree to tho setung up of @ direct wire from the White House to the Convention floor, over which ha may speak after being nominated. Neither the President nor hie secre- tary, Joseph P, Tumulty, will attend the Convention, WILSON SPEECH STIRS UP CRITICISM IN LONDON Press Generally Unimpressed, But Daily News Says Allies and Foes Could Indorse Conference. LONDON, May 29.—The majority of the London newspapers to-day were severely critical of President Wilson's Saturday night speech before the League to Enforce Peace, though the Datly News suggested that both the allies and the Central Powers could indorse his proposals for a conference after the war to prevent future con- fiicts, “President Wilson does not per- ceive that his dream of universal peace lies in the lap, not of God but of the allies,” said the Evening Standard, “President Wilson has never de- livered @ speech more pregnant of possibilities,” sald the Daily News. that on SEYMOURS DEMAND POLICE GIVE FULL ‘WIRE TAP’ RECORD. Declare Morgan Co. Acted Be- cause of Bids Lawyers Made to Kitchener on Munitions. D IAL FOR FR. FARRELL Deputy Commissioner Lord Says That Priest's Wire Was Not Tapped Recently. John S. and’ Fred W. Seymour, the Equitable Building lawyers whose telephone wires were tapped, whose office conversations were recorded by detectaphones and whose private cur- respondence was surreptitiously copied by William J. Burne, the pri- vate detective, have decided to take active measures to bring out all the facts relative to their case. In a letter to Frank Moss, counsel to the ‘Thompson Committee, the Seymour brothers demand a complete retrac- tion from J. P. Morgan & Co., Mayor Mitchel and Police Commissioner Woods of statements to the effect they were subjected to police and private espionage because they were suspected of a crime. ‘ The Seymour brothers directly charge that the object of J. P. Mor- gan & Co. in seeking to get at their private business secrets was to dis- cover if they were acting as agents in the sale of munitions of war to the allies at a commission far below that charged by Morgan & Co. The Se: mours demand that all the telephone conversations recorded by the police and all the papers copied in their office be made public. The Seymours in their letter to Mr. Moss quote correspondence be- tween their firm and Lord Kitchener, War Secretary and at the time the British director of munition con- tracts. These letters show that the Seymours offered to purchase and deliver war supplies for a commis- sion of 1 per cent. It is currently re- ported in Wall Street—although the Seymours make no reference in their letter to the fact—that the commis- sion of Morgan & Company is many time 1 per cent. The Seymours de- mand that President Mortimer of the Equitable Bullding be compelled to resign because he permitted the in- vasion of their offices. In @hort the lawyers make plain that they are dis- posed to pursue the matter to a finish. Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Lord dented to-day that the telephone wire of Father William B. Farrell has been tapped again. Farrell stated yes- terday that he had information that Nie conversations had been intercepted within a few da: “Father Farrell's wire,” said Mr. Lord, “was tapped in March tn the due investigation of a li sitimat» complaint against him. His wire has not been tapped since and is not tapped now, Cardinal Farley may issue a atate- ment on the Catholic charities tesue in a few days. It is expected to cover several phases of the controveray as brought out in the Thompson com- mittee inquiry. But no official de- velopments are expected in the wire- tupping case until Wednesday, Mayor Mitchel, who is at Ashokan, sald there that no decision in regard to a crimi- nal prosecution bad been reached. When Chief Magistrate McAdoo re- numes bis investigation of the Bey- mour case Wednesday William J. Burns, detective, has promised to tell all about it. On his return from West Burns denied he had done an: thing wrong. An organization fundamental issues, which go far be- yond the settlement that will termi-/ nate the present war. President Wil-| son and Sir Edward Grey are at one.| His ideals will be unhesitatingly in-| dorsed by the Entente Powers, It is! not easy to see how they can be re-/ pusiated bz che Powers.” known as the United Independent Democrats of Kings County on Saturday night adopted @ resolution calling on Gov Whitman to remove Mayor Mitchel from office, and a committes was ap- pointed to present the resolutions to the Governor to-day. (For, Racing Resuite Gee Page 6.) Leader Among the Magnates | of Railroad World Who Died To-Day Orpet Defense to Admit All Prosecution Charges Except Killing of Girl Circumstances of Case Point! AUTOPSY PROVES DEATH Alike to Guilt or Innocence of Student. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WAUKEGAN, Ill, May 29,—The twelfth juror for the Orpet trial may be chosen to-day. The taking of evi- dence will be gin immediately thereafter. What are the two ver- sions of the trag- edy of Marian Lambert, the eighteen- year-old Lake Forest school girl, and William H. Orpet, the twenty-one- year-old University of Wisconsin oution and the defense will undertake to present? A “phantom witness” appeared to- day in the came, The mystery sur- Tounding him was not cleared by either defense or State, seph Hartman, cousin of a nurse who {a said to have heard Marian threat- en suicide. He was found at Toledo, ©,, and is now under close guard The firat witness whom Btate's At- torney Ralph J. Dady will put on the stand will be Frank Lambert, father of the dead girl. A bent, shrunken, worn-looking little Englishman, with deeply lined face and feverishly bright blue eyes, he will tell how, on the morning of Feb. 10, after search ing al night, he found his only daughter near the “three oa! in Helm's Woods, lying as if asleep, with her school books under her arma, but cold and still as the pall of snow that covered her. ‘The last time her parents had seen |her was when she left home for school, the morning of Peb, 9, with her chum, Josephine Davis. The last person—save one—to neo her alive is that same Josephine Davis, She wil |be the second witness—-and nobody but Josephine and State's Attorney Dady knows ALL she will tell, Marian left her at the Sacred (Continued on Fifth Pagedy Junior, the versions which the prose- | He ts Jo-| funeral, the request of t OF HEIRESS NATURAL Suspicions of Brothers of Mrs. Mary Radlein, Whose Floors Were Strewn With Money, Unfounded. An autopsy on the body of Mra. Mary Radlein of No. 239 Lorillard Place, the Bronx, discloned this morning that sho died of cirrhosis of the liver and chronic alcoholism and that there was nothing suspicious in the manner of her death, The au- topsy had been ordered by Coroner Healy at the insistence of the wo- man’s brothers, Willjam Mullen of New Rochelle and James Mullen of No. 187 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, Dr. Riegelman performed the au- topsy and following his report, Co oner- Healy gave permission for t brothers having delayed it. Mra. Radiein in- herited $84,000 and aome real te from her father, James Mullen, a ahi; chandler, and persons who visited her home sald yellow backed Dilla were strewn all about the place. The brothers accepted the result of the nutopsy without question and sald they had acted because no death eer- Ufleate had been signed Dr, M. K, Buell, who attended the woman, said he was waiting to com- municate with relatives before elgn- ing the certificate. LL a ARCHBISHOP IRELAND PAYS TRIBUTE TO HILL ST. PAUL, Minn., May 29—Arch- bishop John Ireland, commenting on the death of James J, Hill, to-day said "A great man has gone from earthly Ife. Not only a man of rarest talent of mind, @ genius, but also one who has put his wondrous alent to the service of fellow men, whose whole career was marked with strict Integrity and highest sense of honor “L umst say in simplest truth that he loved and respected religion and neld the Christian faith to be the supre principle of human right. eousness and buman life." amin Conan yt mitral ahd Foul “Aimer pe. meats eases gas ee gtd, FRAN Wy Sac ip | Former City Official Will Face Bar PARIS AND BERLIN CLAM VICTORS ON VERDUN FRONT French War Office Reports the Repulse of Two Attacks West of Meuse. CONTRADICT. |Claim That French Were De- feated in Weak Attacks on Village of Cumieres. |GERM 'S PARIS, May 29.—In two battles waged last night on the west bank of the Meuse violent German at- tacks from the Corbeaux woods, weat of Cumieres, were completely re- pulsed, the War Office announced to- day. ment (8 as follows: “To the south of Reye in the re- gion of Bouvraignes French artillery overwhein‘ed the first liny German or- ganization, “On the left bank of the River Meune both the French and the Ger- man artillery were active last night. “Yesterday evening at 7 o'clock a Corbeaux Woods was completely re- Dulsed by our curtain of fire and the fire of our artillery. A second vigor- night in the same locality aleo was driven back. night passed in relative calm ex- cept in the region of the Fort of Vaux. Here there was very spirited artillery fighting. “In the Lorraine district we have Mspersed a strong German recon- noltring party in the Forest of Par- roy."* BERLIN, May 29 (via London).— Violent artillery duels are continuing on both banka of the Meuse on the Verdun front, the War Office an- nounced to-day. The report says “Enemy monitora which approached the coast were driven off by our artillery “The aerodrome at Furnes wan suc- cessfully bombarded by German aviators. “aArullery du were continued with undiminished violence on both banks of the Meuse, Two weak, at- tacks by the French on the village of Cumieres were easily repulsed.” ROFRANO CONFIDENT AS HIS TRIAL IS NEAR for Murder in First Degree About Middle of Junt, Assistant District Attornoys John T, Dooling and George R. Brothers be- gan to-day the preparation of the case against Michael A. Rofrano, The trial| of the former Deputy Street Cleaning Commissioner, who 1s charged with murder in the first degree, will be set for the second or third week in June in the Criminal Branch of the Su- premoe Court. It is expected that Bu- preme Court Justice Bartow 8. Weeks will preside. Rofrano, who ts indicted tor the! murder of Michael Giamara, a politi- cal rival, asserts bis confidence from and ohided him for surrendering him- self when he was safe from the police, quotes him as saying: “Don't be a bit worried about the outcome of my trial, I know every- thing that the District Attorney bas, and I will be able to meet all of it and establivh that everything that has spiracy to get rid of me, If T had any~ thing to fear I would never anys come been told him was concocted as & con-| reat is +4 ____ ALLIED ARMY ADVANCES TOWARD GREEK FRONTIER: 100,000 SERB TROOPS LAND Bulgars Seize Greek Forts‘and Drive on Toward Seacoast to Secure Base for Attack on Port Held by Anglo- French. VENIZELOS PARTY ACTIVE ON SIDE OF THE ALLIES PARIS, May 29.—A news despatch from Athens says that grave cedonia by the Bulgarians, ‘The toxt of the War OMmce ntate-|'"ouble has broken out there, following the news of the invasion of Ma- (It waa reported from Athens yesterday that feeling waa. ing very bigh in the Greek capital over the Bulgarian invasios. ‘The Herald, the organ of M. Venizelos, appeared yesterday with @ ‘black border and contained a fiery article from the pen of the former Premier.) LONDON, May 29.—Brisk fighting between Greeks and Bulgars German attack advancing from the|°Ccurred at several points along the frontier, Greek territory by the Bulgars. following the invasion of A detachment from the Greek garrison at Fort Rupel fired on the ous attack delivered at about mid-|Bulgars, before evacuating the position. The Greeks were incensed, ac- cording to Salonica despatches to-day, because the Bulgars entered the “On tho right bank of the river the! fort before the time they had stipulated for its evacuation expired. The Bulgars returned the fire, the Greeks withdrawing without serious casu- alties on either side, CROWD IN STREET BATTLES FOR BILLS DROPPED BY THIEF Pedestrians Carry Off Bulk of $500 Highwayman Wrested From Factory Owner. A ewarthy youth with a new straw hat jammed down upon hia ears and carrying a bundle wrapped in news- paper ran east in Btanton Street at Noon to-day, pursued by a crowd shouting, in English and Yiddish, “Btop thief.” A resourceful push cart man inserted a broomstick between the legs of the youth and he fell headlong, the bundle flying from his hands and burating open on the aid walk, Out of the package issued flocks of $1, $5 and $10 bills, In half @ minute there was a battle on in anton Street, which, aside from the fact that neither artillery, machine guns nor bayonets were uscd, equalled in ferocity anything that has hap- pened at Verdun. During the dis- turbance the young man in the straw hat disappeared, and when the police arrived at the scene of the battle all |the active participants had also de- pared, The youth in the straw hat was one of three highwaymen who, with his coll in the Tombs, where he haa|the ald of a revolver and a black- heen since he surrendered himecif to | Jack. held up Louls Cohen, a pants Distriot Attorney Swann on May 15,|Manufacturer, in the hallway of his One of his friends, who visited him| factory at No. 155 Suffolk Street and robbed him of his weekly payroll money, “mounting to $608, which he had just drawn from a bank. Cohen wave up the money only after a dew rate struggle, in which one of his loyees, Peter Korshawsky, was thrown down a Mixht Street battle the police re $30 of Cohen's money, The safely distributed the ighborhood in sums ranging from ail And the highwaymen had all ‘work Cor nothing, : It 19 sald that only 26,000 Bulgarians took part In the advance into Greek territory, but other forces are ready to follow them, The Bulgarian troops, officered by Germans, have seized Fort Rupel, commanding the defile leading from Bi a to Demir-Hissar and Seres. Other Bulgarian detachments have taken Fort Dragotin, while large ad- vance parties have pushed rapicly on &nd occupied Demir-Hissar st.wor, the destroyed railroad bridge and eur- rounding country. All the Greek oov- ering troops withdrew to the south. REORGANIZED SERBIAN ARMY LANDS AT SALONICA. The recent announcement tht Gen. Serrall, the Anglo-Frenoh commander, was moving forward and that Bie troopa were within sixteen mitea of Monastir, added to to-day’s statement that the reorganised Serbio omy of from 80,000 to 100,000 bir Saaded at Salonica, leads to the Dutef that the Bulgarian advance into Greece is in an effort to forestall a gras allied drive into the Balkans, and tiybting on @ large scale is forecast. Reporte differ materially as te Greece's attitude, Some Athens de- apatches say Greek indignation is in- tense and increasing. Others aay Greece agreed to the invasion on the ground that she had permitted the allies to violate her neutrality and could not refuse the same permie- ston to the Teutonic alliance, BULGARIANS TAKE FORTS ALONG THE GREEK FRONTIER. The Greek Government, at ali events, has caused oficial papers to declare the invading force ts Ger- man, T correspondents assert, was done because the Greek populace has such a deep-rooted hatred of Bulgaria that nothing the Govern- ment could do would prevent an out- break aainst the invaders if it to become known they are I awrians, What adds to the importance ef the movement ts the fact that at Xanthi, in Eastern Macedonia, there is much activity, On the left bank of the Mesta River, which for some distance from its mouth forms the Greek-Bulgarian frontier, the Bul- surians have been collecting materials for bridging the stream. In military circles the belief is expressed thar Kavalio,/ on the coast east ef Jonios, t Che