The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1918, Page 3

b BRT.“HGHUPS” | |we found out that. for the first few) r REFUSE TO WANE WRECK INIMUNITY Dempsey and Blewett, Named by Chairman Brady, Ex- cused as Witnesses, pes eae, “ay INDICTMENTS PROMISED Head of Company. Reveals Inner. Workings Before Mayor—Grand Jury Busy. New cfforts to locate men “higher vp" in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company who were respon- sible for the wreck Noy, 1 in which 89 lives were lost were made to-day at the “John Doe” hearing conducted by Mayor, Hylan as a Magistrate, while the Kings County Grand Jury continued tts own investigation. the Promises that two men will be in- dicted have been made and the names of J. J. Dempsey, Vice President of the New York Consolidates Railways Company, which operates some of the B. RT, lines, and Thomas F, Blewett, Superintendent, mentioned 14 tily connection after they had been called to the witness stand before Mayor ‘Hylan and refased to, sign waivers of immunity, District Attor- ney Lewis then declared that he did were not wish to have the men testify and |‘ they were excused. This occurred after Nicholas F, wWrady, Chairman of the Board of Di- rectors of the B. R. T. had testified that Col. Williams, ‘President, Demp- sey and Blewett were respensibie for the roads, the former looking after the general policies and the latter two the actual operation of tral Mr. Brady also gave some interesting light om the inside working of the B. R. 1. management. Brady testified he had been Chalr-| man of the Board for five years, suc- ceeding his father, Anthony N. Brad whose estate owns a large interest in the BR. T. He was closely questioned by Lewis in regard to the recommendations of the War Labor Board for the rein- statement of twenty-nine discharged employees. On Oct. 29, Brady said, the recommendations of the “War Labor Board were received. On the Monday previous the matter had been discussed by the Executive Com- mittee of the B. R. T., and it was a to leave the carrying out of the diretters’ -poli¢y to the officers. The policy was in favor of carrying out the recommendations of the War Labor Bourd with the éxception of the | cases-of one or two men who, the Di- rectors decided, ought not to be'taken baek for the good of the company. Brady admitted that the question of catrying out the recommendations was to be left to Col. Williams as president and in the case of the New York Consolidated Railways Com- pany, the subsidiary which operates the Brighton fine, to J. J. Dempsey, i vice ‘president. He- declared that |\ ‘Thomas F. Blewett, superintendent, i was under Dempsey. He said Col. Williams had a general oversight over the affairs of the company. } “De you know J. J. Hallock, presi- dent of the N. ¥. Consolidated? Is he the same Kind of a president as Mr, Williams is?" asked Lewis, | “He ig mot so active,” replied Brady. “Ten't it a fact that the Board of Directors of all the B. R. T. subsid- liaries are largely dummies?” “{ wouldn't say they are dummies. They represent the stockholders.” 7 Lewis then took Brady over the \ | lista of Boards of Directors of a num- ber of companies and Brady admitted that they had no substantial inter- eats in the compani Brady said that he as Chairman of s 4 the Board of Directors was Williams’ superior, He said Williams was ro- sponsible to the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors, He said q ‘Williams contjned his activides lark ly to questions of general policy aud F finance. ‘Then Lewis switched to the wreck, {the place where the wreck occurréd | of qualified motormen: “Did you make'an Investigation?” he asked, “We tried to,” replied Brady, “but days odr men were not allowed at Brady explained that a meeting. of, the Bxecutive Committee was held ang instructions were given to Will- fame to get ail the information he could “What are the duties of J. J. Dempsey?” asked Lewis, taking of few angle, | “In ‘charge of operations of tho New York \ Consolidated,” ‘replied Brady. “Who is his superior in the By .R.| 'T.? asked Mayor Hylan. | “Mr. Williams, myself and the *| Board of Directors.” i “Ian't tt @ fact that Dempsey’s su- perlor, from. a, practical standpoint and not a legal standpoint, is Col. Williams?” asked Lewis. | “I wouldn't like to pass of that,” replied Brady. } in the question of ‘whether Mr. Dempsey would abide by the recom- mendations of the War Labor Board, with whom would he consult?” “Col. Williame.” “isn't it a fact that after the recom- mendations of the War Labor, Board | were handed down there was no meet- ing of the Executive Committee be- fore the strike?” | “We had a meeting.on Monday of that week.” “Isn't It a fact that.the question of putting the B. R. T. policy and-recom- mendations of the War Board into effect on the N. Y. Consolidated was left to Col, Williams, Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Blewett?” "Yes, that ig thy recollection.” if ‘the recommendations of the War Labor. Board had been carried out don’t you think there would have been no strike?” “tain not satlefied of that” ‘Isn't it a fact that the recommen- dations were not cafried out until midnight of Nov. 1 or the early morn- ing of Nov, 2?" SY pe, but, I dont. see the connec- “Alfred Weimer, train despat rem- | ployed on the B. RK. T. for seven years, followed Brady on the stand. He was| questioned regarding the seniority lirt Isn't it a rule of the company that | no one should operate a train. unless his name {# on the seniority list?” "No." “Did you operate a passenger train | “Before this you never did operate a passenger train?" Yer.” “Your name was not on the senior-| ity, dist?” “Who gave you the order to take out the train?” “No on “Are you sure that you took out a train without orders?” “Can anybody take, out a train without orders?” asked Mayor Hylan, You did?” ‘Yes, because [ thought | was qual- ified, Joseph Slattery, a chief clerk in the employ of the B. R. T, for three years, testified that before anybody is per- mitted to run uw train he must be ap- |laide Me THE: EVENING: WORLD, TUESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER, LAFAYETTE MOTOR GIRLS TO PROVIDE TURKEY FOR | ! Mas.A- M* CONNELL. Woman's Battalion Will Furnish “Good Cheer” to Americans rines who and Frenchmen, wo are Belleau Wood HUNDRED heroes of and fifty French sailors from the Battleship Marseillaise . will be the Thanksgiving dinner guests of the Lafayette Battalion Motor Corps at the Astor Thursday evening. The marines, all of whom have been wounded ana who are convalescing at the Brooklyn Navy Hospital and the Hors will be entertained by the tion of the corps under Major Ade- ‘onnell, also in charge of the “Good, Cheer Corner” of the corps; which has entertained 7¢0 wounded soldiers, sailors and marines during bd Dost fopt. mentés PROPOSED LICENSE TAX ON AUTO USE ABANDONED liminates $36,000,- Senate's Action pointed and his name {s usually put on the seniority list, H Benjamin Brody, trainmaster at the | Culver Depot, was questioned regard- | 4 bulletin board which, contained autionary bulletins in regard to the| operation of the rpad “How many cautionary were issued on since June 1 to Oct. 12” “About two,” replied Mr, Dempsey and Mr. ‘Blewett A bulletin regarding ‘the six-mile | mark placed near the Malbone Street | tunnel, where the wreck oceurred, was | read into the ev aca { bulletins | asked Lewls, | “by PROPAGANDA A METHODS FOR BREWERS’. INQUIRY | Documents Deal With German- American Alliance to Combat lo Anti-Germanism in Texas. WASHINGTON, Nov, 26.—Doaymenta | showing propaganda methods of the | German-American: National Allfance, | sometimes cooperating with the United | States Brewers’ Association and the Nu- | tional ‘ Association of Commerce and} Labor, were to-day placed in the record of the Senate Judiciary Committee's in- | vestigation of brewers’ activities { One of ‘the documents dealt with the | Alliance's efforts to wombat anti-( manism in/Texas, in 1916, “Fanatics had declared war upon Ge mani to the hilt,"’ written by Jom Kelller of Indianapo- la, "We found there a thoroughgoing, self-conscious Germaniam, the second, | | said the report, | thifd and fourth generations. Most comforting was the tion, in which the Texas made itself than ever before, felt and it’ was undoubt more strongly edly the factor which sav from a puritanical yoke.”* d the 64 BROADWAY At Rector Street 57 CHAMBERS STREET Near Broadway , | UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION |! W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads | PLEASE SAVE YOUR OWN TIME And help prevent congestion at ticket offices by buying |) INTERCHANGEABLE SCRIP BOOKS|| Good for bearer or any number of persons on all passenger trains of all railroads under Federal Control On sale at all ticket offices INQUIRE AT CONSOLIDATED TICKET OFFICES || 31 WES t' 32d STREET Near Broadway 114 WEST 42d STREET Between Broadway & 6th Av the Brighton Line |° request of relatives, the attempt was made in the fall of 1879 and the plar to convey the body of the mar- jtyred President to C from where | negotiations for !ts b conducted. | M Washbu was 1 of the Goy- ernmen| et Service the time find with wight Federal (6 was hid jden cemetery when the tou: ghouls pried open the Iron doo the mausoleum. Alarmed by nccidents discharge of a rvvoive four fit, but were arrested later werd WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY | OF OCCUPATION, Nov (Assoclat- | ed Preaa).-The %d Division waa the | first to reach th ts frontier, | | Having established headquarters over- | of Luxemburg, until tl | pation moves 000 in Estimated Revenue— BODY REVIVED BY A DEATH CHCAGO, Nov. 26.—The gtory of | the plot to steal the body of Abraham | Lined from Oak Ridge Cemetery at | ringfield was revived to-day follow- | Ing-the death of Elmer Washburn, for- | mer Chief of Police of Chicago. According to the story, suppressed on aont to prison for year GOL, THEODORE JR, OCCUPIES ROOM USED BY SON OF HINDENBURG | : looking Germany anday, this divi- sion will remain along the line near Remich, on the southeastern frontior cessful execution. Ile comes on a double mission—one for the British Admiralty the other to Carnegie Hall on Dee, 15. weather, Cupt. Carpenter said: spite of a terrific TEEBRUGGE HERO, “NOTE FROM DEAD” mee TeeS HERE, TELLS ABOUT READ 10 COURT IN BOTTLING U BOATS Capt. Alfred B. F. B. FE, Carpeurer | Witness Tells ‘tb of Me Mme. Parma| Describes Feat That As- tounded the World. This is the story of the bottling of the German U brugge, ap boat base at Zeo- | one of the most yallant ond glorious achievements in tho history of tho British Navy, told by Copt. Alfred B. F. Carpenter, the planned it ond carried tt to a wee nan who Capt. Carpenter arrived to-day on the British steamship Balmoral Castle. lecture throughout the country on what the British Navy did In the war, His first lecture will probably be in After telling of two previous at- tempts to bottle up the U boat base which were prevented by unfavorable “When it came to the third attempt everything went well. Approxi- mately 1,000 officers and men were with me on the Vindictive. Of this nuinber 400 went on to the Mole in fire, under which we stood for an hour and a half tied up to the Mole, “All this time they were under the flercest kind of fire. Of the forco that went over, seventy were killed outright or died of their wounds and 200 were wounded, When they re- turned to the ship after their work was done they had left but twelve ind on the base of the role. erything went Uke clockwork. The plan was for the Vindlc make an attack onthe Mole, which is a mile and a’ hajf in length. The stretch of the Mole from Ostend to Zeebrugge, to which our Vessels were exposed, was manned by 225 naval guns, of which 136 were over six-inch. “While the Vindietive ran in closo the other’ three vessels were to slip by and be stink in the channel, thus completely blocking it and shutting in the U boat base, “Wo were about three hundred yards off the Mole when the Ggrmans discovered us and turned loose every- thing they had. We were forced to proceed up and down looking for a favorable position and were contin- uously under fire at a range of from fifty to three hundred yards, We suc- ceeded, however, in getting under. the lee of the Mole and then it was ‘Our boarders away.’ “Two German destroyers attacked PRATT DIVORCE SUIT and Plafie on. Which She ‘“Vibrated. i A “message from the ylead” that | played « part In Mra, Katherine Sloan | Pratt’s visit t6 Los Angeles and ro- | suited in“a divoree sult now on trial in the Supreme Court agatnst ; Houghton Pratt read to. Mra, Pratt told the Court that “message” had been delivered to her’ | ‘Dy her husband, who was investigat- | ing the ocoult seignces with Mme. FP. “Mildred Parma of “Atlantic. Mikin- lands, and that Mme. Pa had come from Pratt's dead fath Dr, W. HB, Pratt. The message follows: “Jan. %, 1918—Vital, K, is the tar- fet of whispering enemies who sap her strength. Teli her to make her plans to go West Feb, 1, She will in | | i Alfred | | | rma said tt the basket all birds in sight, “Imagination is changing the attt- tude of his mind, I think will give her all necessary to make % mo. she doesn’t get some one “else he “My suggestion ts that I divideswith tting you rest In peaa! and was asked what #! rom this “message,” purtic- | ularly the “severing Inks,” reference. | “They tried to make trouble be tween my ather and me,” she an- ed. "They wanted me to sever the link there, They wanted me to ‘work’ my father and then drop him." Mrs, Pratt was on the stafid most of the morning and recounted practi- cally the story she told yesterday afternoon, when she declared that she had done everything a wonima could do to keep her husband's love, She testified that she had studied the oc- cult selences in an effort ty re the “plane” on which Mme.“Parma, whose bungalow .Pratt spent so much time, and Pratt were’ “vibrat- ing.” Mer visit to Los Angeles was largely to investigate occult affairs more closely, and it was there that her suspicions beeame aroused and she decided to sue for divorce. She has testified several times that she | was being urged to get money from her father, Alfred P, Sloan, a wealthy cigar importer. She said she had written flattering to Mme. | Parma to get on t Testi- mony of alleged misconduct, between | Mme. Parma and Pratt.at the bun- galow already has been heard ORIGINAL ANZACS HERE. | rerty-Two Who Went Through War Arrive From Bagland. Among the 317 pasengers who arrived }in New York to-day’ aboard tho British Taxon Sales the Same. us and we sank one under the Mole, WASHINGTON, Nov. %—In. further] The other disappeared and) we never revision of the War Revenue Bil, the}saw her again. I think she sank, Senate Finance — Commit to-day} “Our men reached the battery they struc ‘1 tirely the propaeed were to attack in just twelve minutes, al .lcenso TAS OR use of auton In two minutes after that the three and iotoreycles, which ‘ bey hank iat he 1 to 80 anmunlly in the House Wil} Ntanel bad passed the battery and | to $2 under the plan previously adopted | were in their positions to block the by the Senate Committee. nnel, ‘Lhe Intrepid went in first This eliminated $36,000,000 in esti 4} with 87 men, and they revenues under the Senate rates and |The Iphigenia and Thetis followed and about $i % the House had planned | aj) three were sunk in the exact posi- to raise, Chanrman Simmons explained | 15,4 planned for them, in reducing t i ey te 6,60, 09 | for Kare Wire (0 Wa titty toda GA the reid Csaenad Gen ee pr ships, but a lot of others hia lrhe tax on sale of automobiles, how-| away on board to be in at tt | ever, remains Men in launches went around picking The committee also reduced from them up after they had sunk thei r cent, the mannfacturers’ sales! ships, and all hands were under a on pills and. patent medicines, but re-| constant rain of machine gun bullets ‘tained the 5 per cent. rate-on vcriumes, | trom the shore, from trenches and tollet. waters. and similar art.oles | dugouts, from boats and bat coe anf | “?he entire time .consum one PLOT TO STEAL LINGOLN'S nour ana etait when we Tett we threw out a screen, man shells fell all around us and of thgm found their marks.” Carpenter's uniform forated by four bullet passed through Kis hat. in the elbow. FARMERS’ BUTTER PROFITS 8 pe'= and four more He was shot er Cen Receiv Nearly 80 P Above Normal nerea Inquiry Show Nov, one back of th butter and e rtions fr CHICAGO, thé rea cost in high brow, duce t for dealers ro om. here that the far # recelving nearly eighty per cent | the above normal Increase, Tt mainder was said to be divided amon, | manufacturer, Jobber, wholesal mat retailer, The best quallty of butte tx a dozen. army of occu- ead into Germany. Among the units on the American | front 18 the 2¢th Infantry of the First Division, which has its head-| quarters in t village of nea, ut, Col. Theogare F cupying a room in @ hotel thers rly oceup by Major vou Hundenburg, son the Field Mar His roid overlooks the Moselle and the bluffs on the mat ede, Waich are devoted Brapes. t to the raising of (Ne submitted to show that on butter the farmer 4a receiving cents a pound, or a profit of abo: cents a pound. Wor strictly fresh egg the farmer, It ly said, rec 58 and 60 centa a dow The country dealer who pays the fre or: shipping is allowed a margi 7 ents. There ts @ i candling of 4 cents and the cost of cartons amour to 1 cent a dozen, retailer's pro ie given as 6 ce Americans tn C OTTAY Noy names of Americans casualty adian Casualtion, The following Ww. wounded Falls, Tork, 4 lhin, yh PUT AT 4 1-2 CENTS A POUND amehip Balmoral Castle. of the Cu nard Line was Norman Forbes-Robert brother of Sir Johnston Forbes He auys the theatrical pro England raised £3,000,000 for Red Crows. json, | Robertson. London, after a wild week, is still | celebrating.” he said | he other passengers wer ® American aviutors, Pour disappointed because they \: other. wide t to this | of the origin who Jwent. through ti © war, © on Iboard the ship. were lao four officers and thirty-two non-coin iniasioned ere of the Joln the British 2 Siberia Our Government, the past —try them! Singer Almost Tempted to Break to the hospital- his parents’ 78d Street regular rations of the American Expeditionary Forces, clearly exemplifies and demonstrates their nutritive qualities, The future demand for AUERBACH CHOCOLATES AND CANDIES promises to eclipse the POPULAR demand of “They're GREAT,” DAINTY and of DELICIOUS FLAVOR ‘ENRIGHT BLAMES © -NVRED’ MEETING Declares Police Will Be Force tb Subdue Outbreaks of Men in Uniform. . mmiseioner Enright ta a letter (o Mayor Mylan to-day made the charge that soldiers. and raijlora in the uniform of the United States made most of the trouble that oc- | curred just night atthe alist meeting 19 Madison Square Garden, Many eyes were blackened, heads Bruise and collars ripped wherever American fighting men met the Reds on their way to or from the meeting, and a serious riot is belleved to have been avoided only by the success of } the police in keeping the soldiers ont ‘of the building itself; ‘The ‘soldiers ' would tolerate neither red flags nor {> PARK BENGAMIN *+4)- | rea puttons, . Commissioner Enright's letter to the Mayor 1s based, he’ explairied, on 4 report made to him by-Chief Inspector John Daly. ‘The letter, has not~yet Metropolitan Contract on Visit to Relative. that way more easily sever links. | Enrico Caruso's brother-in-law, | b@@m, made public gt the Mayor's oi- “My wisést thought {# that 8h@/sorgt, Romeyn Park Benjamin, 79th | Mee but Enright told reporters what will have her life saved: by gln8-) Company, 6th Marines, is in the naval] had sald, Teil ‘her to milk with gentleness, but! hospital at Brooklyn, recovering from]... hays said something in the letter an thoroughly as possible the source! wounds, and "mony. the cota] Aut, he actions of sailore and wol- of her life, It {# wine to take into] yesterday Caruso weathered one of the| mm titormed that matiore ama ouldiers am Informed that saflors and soldiers Kreatest temptations of his carger—a] made most of the trouble last night, temptation to break his contract witn| “If men in Halters would inind t shee aS vue | (A OWN business and act ins an he Metropolitan by singing té those orderly manner the Police Depart- wounded men without permission. menv+dould handle the reat, The Caruso and his Wife and his father-| police can handle civilians, but they in-law, Park Benjamin, went together} do not like to have sailors or soldiers interfere, They don't like to hurt a which ts a hint that ip man in unito ow you, the tenor may have been forgiven’ by tried to get the Provost Mar- harmony and enable you to demon-| this time for, his marriage—to visit] shal last night to send some military You can return to her|Sergt, Benjamin, police to. 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