The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1916, Page 1

nt cette | DITION PRICE Copyright, 110, by ONE CENT. * JOSEPH BROOKS, LONG NOTED AS A THEATRICAL MANAGER ~—LEAPS 8 STORES 10 DEATH THEATRICAL MANAGER WHO ENDED HIS LIFE BY EIGHT-STORY LEAP IIness and Depressing Effect of William Harris's Sudden Death Cause of Suicide. . WAS BEING Tried to Cut His Throat Two Months Ago—Attended to Business Though Ill. In a fit of temporary insanity, tn- duced by fines and minor business troubles, Joseph Brooks, for many years one of the leading theatrical Managers and producers of this country, jumped from a window of ‘tm apartment on the eighth oor of | the Brixton, at No. 140 West Seventy- | ninth Street, at 8 o'clock to-day and Was instantly killed. Mr. Brooks's successful attempt at ; _ *elf-destruction was his second in two | months. Previously he tried to slash | his throat with a razor. Tt appears from statements made | to-day by members of this family that) Mr, Brooks, who was sixty-five years old, had been a nervous wreck for some time, but he managed to con- ceal his condition from all but close personal friends and his home circle until quite recently. Ie attended to the detafls of his business and was in tive charge ofthe production of is Majesty Bunker Bean,” which,, greatly to his disappointment, did not, prove a big New York success, but is by no means a financial failure. His friends say he died wealthy, hav- ing been identified for many years with such continuous and certain suc-| ceases as “Ben Hur” and “In Old Ken- tucky.” He had business interests out- | side the theatrical profession, too, which appear to have been successful, | _ Mr. Brooks attended the Frederick) Mackay benefit performance last I'ri-| — WATCHED. FIRST DYE CARGO OF DEUTSCHLAND ONLY HALF SOLD whenever he left bis home, Mr. Brooks arose at 7.50 o'clock this morning and told his wife he wanted to get away early as he intended to walk down to his office. Mre, Brooke Baltimore warehouses: n expert largest dye manufacturing in the country. according to of the concerns connected with one day afternoon and met there William/DBasic Materials, for Whien H, Crane. -He astonished My. Crane! ° ' poop * Grane) Americans = Depended on } “wit, Vm afraid I'm losing my) Germany, Now Made Here. mind,” | eats Others beside Mr. Crane heard the o The Krening World) vemark. They talked to Mr. Brooks EPORT, Conm., No ) and finally laughed away his mood!) ) pat ot its) denendancy of depression, But it was learned to- | »' sie gebenseds day that for several weeks a mom.| “lou Germany for dye stuffs, with ber of the family or a close personal) ‘lic result that half the Deutschland’s , friend has been close to the manager | prs: cons ent still lies unsold in i ’ { ° : With the expiration of sume Ger } 198 Bim In bis room and went to) man patents several months abo, ac- 1 prepare his bath. While #o engaged) voice to this author American ait she heard a crash in the courtyard ; concerns had free rein in experiment. ing, and a base product as good as that for which Americans always de- pended upon Germany is now |mold for $1.60 a pound. The end the screams of servants work- ing im tho laundry in the basement. She hestened to Mr. Brooks's room. He wae not there and looking out the window she eaw his body, in pajamas, being stuff lying on the cqurtyard pavement. | brought over by the Deutschland on’ Mr. Brooks lived in the Brixton with‘ frst (rip was selling for $100 a Ma wifo and his daughter, Virginia POUNd when a market could bv ob: Fox Brooks, an actress, now playing | ‘*!0° rs in the “Getting Married” company, jossip among dye makers, says Miss Brooke was asleep ig ber room| {hi® Authority, Is that many New | and was awakened by the commotion | YO" concerns are buying alleged caused by the tragio death of ber |aerman dyes, bearing German let faion, *T tering and as part of The sudden death of William rg) Bich Qaver wae Harris on Saturday hed a depressing effect on Mr, Brooks, They bad heen close friends for many,years and were often associated in business) venture Brooks began his career as & the- murdered, was taken from Brown's bace atrical manager as a box office man at the foot of Commercial His tactful personality and his ability|day. A deep cus ty to piake strong friendships aseon| Needing prot ‘ ene | the wemat Rody, stint Found tn Wire Woman's From Woond, ROCHESTER, body of a woman, believed to have hy Bleeding iver. ~The her head wa The pw dent Co. (The New York W STATE MUST C Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ } W YORK,,MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, The Press NE ‘ublishing: On D FILL STREETS CHIHUAHUA.AS VLLA ATTACKS I OFA OF Battle Raging Five Carried Into City Bandit Chief. Days y th y IS INTRENCHED THERE. Both Sides Suffer Heavy Losses—Guns Smash Build- ing During Continuous Fire, WASHINGTON, Offetat jadvices received here to-day way that Hast Saturday night the Villa forces [attacking Chihuahua had penetrated Jinto the city ai esteblished a lof trenches, Prisoners at the pen.ton- ‘tary were liberated, the despatches says, and the guards joined the Villa ater trucking News despatches have reported the of th foree, but nothing official on that fea- ture had reached here to-day EL PASO, Tex., Nov Thin ts the fifth day of the battle for possession of Chihuahua City, the key to North- ern Mexico, In spite of every effort by Juarez officials, no word of the fate of Gen, Trevino ond his garrison has come over the wires since noon Sat day. That Vilin with his forces still repulse line} UT LIVING COST-—W Brave Dash Saves Four Firemen From Death ais: ‘TEUTON BLOWS BREAK ROUMANIAN LINE ; wi ves ina: uaa Fair To-Morrow. EDITION y ia] _PRiCE ONE CEN} a ern HIT “Circulation Books Open to All. [A ane eereneme eee ee 2 1916 18 PAGES — WHITMAN DECLARES STATE MUST SOLVE FOOD PROBLEM, HOLDS CONFERENCES HERE @ BIG FALL IN WHEAT 1 — Governor Going Thoroughly Into the High Cost of Liv- ing, He S EEKS THE FAC) S FIRST. \s | Hopes to Devise “an Effective Plan of* Action” to Bring Relief. pROPS 93-8 CENT The dual problems of New York's By Aggressive Moverof the Bears. food supply and the increasing cost of commodities which ate provoke " | Dubite outcry have become so serious CHICAGO, Nov. 26 Whitman regards them as came down to-day with a cra em uminent and | questions of the hour. He devoted most of his time while tn thie city to-day to study of the subject and conferred with a number f callers at the St. Regis Hotel on suggested methods of relief. Until a definite plan of action relief is devised which he can put into operation t overnor prefer at mportant aking {n some cases as much 94-8 cents a bushel Big sales by some of the leadi houses started a general 1 ing for aggressive selling by bears. INCHICAGO MARKET Strong Sales Movement Started | Wheat prices|the rescue of four comrades. to unload holdings and gave an open | Talk of the likelihood of an armistice in Europe had considerable to do with COMRUOESRSE CZAR AND ROUMANAN KING omnr ore, MEET ON THE BORDER LINE sccys PUAN TO SAVE BUCHAREST | Deputy Chief “Smoky Joe” | Martin Leads Dash That Saves Four From Cellar. | SIX’ BURNED IN BLAzE,|Palkenhayn and Mackensen by {Explosion of Chemicals in y| West 18th Street Drives 900 Out in a Hurry. mysterious manner in a vat of ben ing movement Lieut, George F.C. Hauser, Fire man Hugh Bonner, a son of the one time chief of the department, and | Firemgn Patrick Mulroy, three of the Smashing Drives Get Closer to the Capital, and Report Capture of aed ants epaeane enter: | NEW REVERSES ADMITTED mance to his long recors ls after- . BY BUCHAREST WAR OFFICE | into the smoke flied basement of the jelwht-story Dullding at) Now. 154-159 They | Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin says Emperor Nicholas of Russia has arrive! had been knocekd down and painfuily | at Kiev on his way to the Roumanian trontier, where he will conter wit De Ni iced aaa ap BUCHAREST, Novy. 27 (via London).—The Roumanians have re- toll, a substance used in the manufac. | tired from the line of the River Alt, the War Office announces. River, a tributary of the Alt zs (Reports heretofore bave indicated (bat the Roumanians were 1,600 Men, 38 Officers, Many,Guns. Deputy Chief “Smoky Joo” Mertin non when jp Ied & number of firemen I wWeat Sigtteanty treet’ snd alreet COPENHAGEN, Nov. 27 (via London).—A Sofia despatch of ie jburned by an explosion which fol- | King Ferdinand of Roumania, ture of ink | The Roumanians also have retired a little to the east of Topolog holding the Alt River from Romicu-Valca southward to Soltiva Irele the cit rtain |to withhold comment and discussion ye axening the market. and so also |rescued flremen, were removed to New ane bes we fe Hash , 1 h ane on the subject. One of the fiat phases had warnings of the presence of a York Hospital, Battalion Chior Below that point von Falkenbayn’s forces had crossed the river viele pagans ieee that became apparent to him during ieorge C, Roas and an employee of and joined with vou Muckensen’s army, coming north from the extremely heavy on both sides, ac- nis conferences to-day was that if fighting submartne In the Ationtte.| toy concern named George. T cording to reports reaching th® anything of real effectiveness is to be Continued reference to a possible em- shang of No. 412 Kart Sixty jd Danube, The admission of Bucharest of « retirement from the oa maimate’s "Peat one accompltahed: st wil) spi ie Re 49D hargo by the United States was like- Street, who was burned about the Alt indicates a still further reverse northwest of the Roumaniau a ssc." read, ONC | hy the State exercising broad powers i he 4 a ' message, “but the streets of the city land covering wide scope, The efforts “is? # facto areas ee the cehaens suhaee bes eae aS 19 ; are filled with dead. Impossible to] o¢ a local community, even of Greater July whea greater Laieialt BERLIN (via Sayville Wireless), Nov, 27.—Alexandria, forty. picked up the wounded, because of In- |New York, could not be expected to fuctuations oc , down to, **4 : | ‘ st cha as been cap K Censant tiring. Many Dulldings| provide any real or lasting remedy, | $1-13. oF 9 points below Saturday's), Nino hundred persona employed in/ seven miles southwest of Bucharest, has been captured from the Rou throughout the city damaged by shell! “This ig @ State and not alonea |‘! ecovered partially tos |\00 Mlldne aa marched to the | manians, according to to-day’s ofticial statement. fire.” sity problem,” said the Governor, | %*¥: “los at $1.40%, = oe . " | ustro - Hungarian ®™ Durin@ the attacks Saturday Thee laine auestion about that December wheat, in which there, #treet In order when the ames set in| German and Austr Serge ¥O6. P - i y i. re notion the sprinkler system, which in| troops under Lieut. Gen, Krafft Yon have pushed the remainder of the Villiastas penetrated north of the cit 1am working on it now and have = Wits Heavy trae inaintained more Salama bath | : . ; ef Wires BaxAtneaK ALE waneea’ fa turn set off the fire alarm, The dense | Delmensingen, advancing down both| Rounaniuns in the Orsova group to proper and maintained a foothold for] been at it for several days. a ut ranged from $1 . time in Zaro Avenue. Machine gun{, “it 1% 4 tremendously Bis Problem high to $1.71! low and $1,734, clog’ Yume of smoke that poured from |aldes of the Alt Valley from the north.| wards the southeast, ‘There other of atl 4 ‘of ec ac ] Ps red vi my rt bad “ as whied t n i} e Topolo 0! time the bandits gained the Church|specif!c about it until | have made u Saturday, n te sores 4 fret ¢ re eareingunlu'tnps ata eaten lace aree te iy eee perth ole pom of Santurio de Guadtelupe, on the west | thorough study and arrived at some The fight against high prices Is he basement and Arst three floors| “East of Tleven \ pre lo t here 2 . ‘ : ya effective of il " “ of the structure are occupied by | continued, "the Saxo * 182.) cers, 1,200 men, 3 cannons; 27 filled side ‘of thejelty: whelle tra A spreading among civic organizations of the city, Shells from 7-mil- ae fs Charlos Helmuth, manufacturer of | brilliantly assisted by (he ummunition carts and 800 loaded ve meter guns demolished the church but the boosters are still at it. Butter 2 | a : anti gala , | days and potatoes bave gone up to|.% Hven over to firms engaged for| broke through hostile ou aad cag 4 the Danube ports between sat ed . ‘ HIS PARTY $2 441 565 $2.30 a bushel the moat part in the same business, | tured from the enemy 10 officers, 40) sova and Rustschuk up to date Alteoiey e Blearens mnen ue ' wi Gumintetove iy vasdaye on | Barly this afternoon Shang, who te] men and 7 machine guns steamels and eighty tugboats open to Corral, within ten miles o! I ay 18 omployed by t ‘ “ nu-Bevertn our troop’ ve Callen into our ! ee ie caninl Ga canine tie Pkereny er eat thi Ai call on the people of OPIOVE! by the Hellmuth Company,| “From Turnu ou p fallen ata gus aA all Aited or at Corral informed Gon, Gonzales| ' "ele Were 34,205 C gl tO Chicago to boycott eggs for table use EGE CaEERaTe Tina oi an i | LONDON, Nov. 21.—News from him yesterd Be mtn Py, James EB. Welz dump some of his we which zou, These | r Im. sin terday, A méssenger Hand of $3,8 72,000,000 experiments are conducted in a vau ADOR y Jay that the Roumanian nt from the end of the line tuto : 72,000,000 eggs on the market : T0 AUSTRIAN iy miay extricate Itself from the VAS rt ‘ov ~Col = end every prec iT bas bee ake + Chihauhau Clty hag not returned WAMMINGTON: Bev StimLor ead ae fe rhc Ccarious position in which the Wai Volted States officials here w uelius N. Bliss, Treasurer of the Re- jto make the place Areproof. §| an forvee have been od tt fied States oftclals tere were upiican National Committee, led SEVENTH HOME TO-MORROW: |<°5 i nae 20 Wea the fre} ondon Officially Announces pet ave hese. placed by certain Chibauhay City was im a state | t. aay the final financial statement Si started All 0 says, the aii nm Falkentayn's brlitiant strategic ne 4 rT + Be Spe l Basis f h ” a C he ii ie at Pie same time it ii. Republican campaign, The re- minutes employes of the coin: | Not Be Spee sr aa we He erie in tuned tha Gits, Bor yet CaP Lort shows otal contributions of ; ~ . pany tried to fight the blaze, but, sov-| LONDON, Nov. 27.-[t was offletal sitea of lacie cantauee ct cece 1 "United States Secret Service men 445421, (rom 34,205 contributors, and Soldiers Returning From the Border 'ing they were making no headwa announced to-day t me ® lia rap 4 of prisoners nere declare the possibility of an at- cxpenditures of $2,441,065, leaving a Will Be Escoried | n alarm was turned in Goveram rehived. 4 a hey ral : ve feeb try © tack upon Juarves within a few weeks, gyp of $4.85 ~ ry Chiee fe tha nthan (anus for x Tarnow Ta srmy had actually been trapped by Salasar’s band told the Government n Dplements! IKE OF Ags nab. ; ; enwn Who were injured went into|recently appoln Orsova Turnu-Severin, reaching agents that r announced to bis| (rbutore were, incluc t ollow- The Seventh ALiivG, the basement, but had not p: | Ambassador to the United $ ah pari fe pied mee Sano pnced £0 ng: $25,000, Daniel G, Reid and W tiiar ali ae ie, ‘ : : can ON#? to Craiova, It was rewarded as men before the attack upon Chihua- 76), $25,000, Raniel G. Read ang Win this city, at the \ Twe when tha explosion ocourred, All| A statement made to American | °°*! : hua City began that he had been or. |! One hint '818'000,{ third Street ferry, at } es age fy the Arinan certain. the Berlin oMclal reports ered ty Vile: lan oame ROE aeie Stotesdury, Philadelphia: $15,000, ‘hird Str erry, a , cio knocked down. Hoss, the first | Ambassado age by th i would have chronicled big captures taking tno capital and capture Juares, Joreph §, Widener, Philadelphia; morrow morning. This was me to Teeevar) wan ls feet drug. | Foreign Office gives the ground for and curmie [Less than three hundred men are $1,000, Edward B. Aldrich, Provi- nounced to-day by Major Gen. Hani. ging Bonner toward the street, when | refusal of m nafe conduct for the haven jhas ihe “aay garrisoning Juarez at present Iercee Republican State Committee, Appleton, former colonel of the regi. , “smo! Joo’ and hia me! 1! Ambassador aa being based on pr OWA FAS. Ae) SCYRRRS FAURE, Mex... Nov ean $6,000 from the Hughes’ National inent : ia tna ee ™ 8 where diplomats avs t von Falkenhayn and von vraneten Ms Cour et and $8,800 rom She Fu ma Ne ; ; e helped them to the fresh air vious be re a | Mackensen have joined at Alexandria wetters here announced to-day he) Collewe Fes he escort of hoi ‘ he five was confined to the vault dited to Cer vwers Have HOt | Oily forty-seven miles southwest of had recelved Information from ofclal ss wevenih Regiment Vetera , hish it started acted in an exclusively diplomatic | Huoharest, The city—the Pi Ha oe urces that Villa had been complete- {pts and Expenditures tm Sew iso. in the Seveuth's _ apacity, sat ean ae driven away from Chihuahua City York Sinte Campatgn. Lea p cs a 7 the East--is menaced from wes and was retreating toward the moun- | ALBANY Members of the March in Fifth Avenue ere Relaga we Bani, WASHINGTON. Noy Phe | north and south and its speedy fall ts tains National H « Woman's ¢ nitte urping Guardsmen. NGPIELD, Mas Lritish refusal to grant Count Tar- | imminent Nation roman sbht oe opuregat $6,600,000 in & "4 cal ane UORIOA A ee > financed the “Mughes Special" train a >. anaes sting r va nowsk! a id b tau Another Roumanian retreat, this é ra'sed $134.96 He ve Mallow Dolan of the Mil- ‘ ® G tudo not ADOUL It. is foreshauowed b: ‘ 1 ale dN chy waukee police arrived ce Head s gh hin ve * duct forushes lowed by dovelopmenta in SAYS SOCIOLOGICAL SAGE SEPOn ee F a bie sie ouarters here yester den, of Boston y asa r Wallachian situation. New ponse ment filed tovday with the for ane areca ef Bf e tor 0.000 eae res ‘ {iploma sige 08 blows, struck tn union by von Muck- ——— mOnTy: Of Blais the nineteen-year-old dye expert, who Southern New England ka ‘ it 1) gitront ensen and von Falkenhayn, have ao CLEVELAND, Nov. 97.—Prof. J. B.! pupae commit PAL is charged with the theft of $8,000 worth atten and against t ' w \ v i nt the Kusso-Roumanion line tt atic waonawal aibloaty PRR inal eamerion 4y of gold and platinum from the tater —s tust break or withdraw, Western Reacrve, suid to-day to the|*%,llsbilities national Dye Company of Milwaukee 4 fom Watson Again on Triad, Only the arrival of huge Russtan ened Club of a ehure Trearurey of the OO =———S— N to) reinforcements, said to be on the 1 18 for marriage |Mitte. showel “and RA IN , Federal | way, and the arrival of @ vast supply Tae Oioneia marriage | dimburacimeat ule Cc G * scond (ine lof machine guns and artillery, of. Hehe ’ ra |eommir cee eamatar, RESULTS ON PAGE * wae satootme | Oleh the Roumanians are totally } ‘t . “ fave \eR AN PARE 2 ‘wih Soody oid, Se calls [JASKing, can gaye Roumunia trom the f) *) \