The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1920, Page 3

_ BANDS OF NEGRO TERRORISTS US. OCCUPATION NECESSARY American in Hayti, official and unofficial, goes armed outside of the cities | and larger towns. A few weeks ago, as has been told, the Caco made a While the “test drink” w: perilously daring attempt to overwhelm and burn Port au Prince, acre the white residents and seize the Government and its treasury. few days ago 450 Cacos, as The Evening World has also made public, sur- rendered yoluntarily in a body and submitted to parole. Not the wisest | ended Oct. 9 last. Sergeant of Marines and Captain of American of the Occupation knows what the Cacos will do next. | gendarmerie, and William Batten; —___| Corporal. of Marines and Second knows how many Cacos there are. sidered by the leaders of the uprising | Lieutenant of gendarmerie at Grandi —had been posing as meek and in- | Riviere, had one of their own men dustrious residents of the city. | Sqnert to the C&cos Not the wisest American in Hayt! There are probably not less than 3,000 and not more than 15,000. The population of Hayti, with a territory| In his home mountains the Caco|Conze they lured Charlemagne to A fa little larger than the State of Ver- |lives in a thatch hut, hunts a little,|Point near Henneken’s post, mont, is 2,600,000, practically all ne- ihe his wife cut his wood and carry j Riviere, in Northern Hayti to await groes—more negroes than there are in|what little water he uses, tend the | Conge. Georgia and Mississippi combined. | chickens What is this tiny minority of bandits | which suggests useful work—and he|from head to foot which terrorizes a republic and ke the white men of the American oc-| PURSUIT AND DEATH OF CHAR- They passed cupation sleeping with one eye open} LEMAGNE, THE CACO CHIEF. |™sne's sentries, though neither of o' nights? In the pursuit of Charlemagne Mas- | {tar (hon pitied aol attected arro- The Government of the the chief | nd let their men do the talk- States, in its wisdom, has undertaken | of all the Cacos, now deceased, the to show Hayti in ten or twenty years | Ame iow to pay off its debts and become | Charlemagne is reputed to have been| ‘They came upon Charlemagne be- an independent country in fact as|the graduate of a great French Uni-|fore his fire, and as they rushed him verage Haytian, | versity; certainly he ; a woman sitting with y he knew Haytian| icked the fire over. A few shots were fired t them, it all man-| magne's followers were apparently well as in name; the even of the highest education, intel- }and world history. He roamed the ligence and prosperity, has a feeling | Caco country, carrying geep down in his heart that however | ner of deviltry against well meaning |fraid of hitting their much the black republic may hav@]and peaceful citizens and the occu.| t¥° Sred_into the space about the needed the forced lesson it bas been | pation for year are given t devil worship of the African with its horrid rite of canni Every good Haytian will deny angrily, and in this denial he will be supported by high Ameri ity, possibly influenced by diplomatic Lo apa dda. GA @ nation G CACO HAS THE LUST OF THE|£rrs w Hayti is bankrupt or not; the thraat that European nations may violate him than the murmur of the tropic night winds in the palm trees. He cares not how soon the country goes pack to jungle, inhabited by nomac bands who live from hand to mouth and plunder each other. Port au Prince means to him a place for loot and the satisfaction of the lust of the gavage for blood. his chiefs, to oveturn the Government and get control of the big money loot—the Custom House, the Treasury and the President's palace—have in the Cacos | ving and lay ‘an active partisan campaign commit-| who sought to pass in or out were tee, available on short notice. Tropical elections are carried not by circulars, | {)./4)) advertising, publicity, parades and| showed there was no suspic speeches, but by the direct action of | At daybreak the marine aviators flew | than any Am bullets and machetes, The January |OV¢? the ravine and did their worst.|@aco will become uprising was led by men, with politi- 1 madly for both| there are open roads into every cor- cal ambitions who hoped to make] py demand themselves rich, take the from President Dartiguer everlastingly . discredit the United States and its right and ability to force the relationship of Big Broth on a little Black Sister republic. Caco ca the mountains, There are a few Cacos,| world, A quarrel over a bit of goat'a| promises of t from the pot, a whim that one| in life was to ove who escaped the great killing in the the suspicion of aj ment and seize the morning of Jan. 16 who stayed in town and went to work; some of|acsassination by poison or the by the marines and gendarincrie who minutes later the emissary was dead.| Rei repelled the raid were undoubtedly His host had momentarily concealed | president of the under bis lip a pill of deadly poison! tinea and of other rolled in a capsule of vegetable tis- p syste it existed lor premature attack—premature as con- gue; it had been ejected into the cup Helens control hes been announced, men who up to the moment of the HOW A HANDFUL OF CACOS TERRORIZE 2,500,000 THE EVENING w ORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920. IN HAYTI'S MOUNTAINS MAKE Shrewd Leaders of Black Republic Outlaw Bands Plot With Aspir-; ing Politicians to Discredit Amer-, ican Protectorate and Enrich Themselves. | By Lindsay Denison. | (Staff Correspondent of The New York Evening World.) Copyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) THIRD ARTICLE OF A SERIES. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Feb. 17.—The Caco is the reason why the} MONTING CACO'S U. S. Marines Hunting Caco Fr rn eTan Hiding Plaves ta Depths of Haytien Jungle WATERED STOCK Nw AAT) JONGLE “OFLRT.PU av i020 00 Expert Estimates Subway Earnings for 1920 at $6,000,- 000 Over Fixed Charges. Corporation Counsel Burr showed at to-day's session of the Board of Interborough has watered its stock to ‘he extent of $102,000,000, said to be the biggest watered stock in American traction, ‘The amount of water in Interbor- ough stock almost equals the Inter- borough's investments in contracts comprising the original subway, the Brooklyn extension and Seventh Ave- nue Subway. This investment amounts to $139,451,411. The city’s thenticated. The career |— co sub-chief, nd do everything else hates everyt ay: hold at the head nited for a long time ned much of Cacos.| g, all of their|, Hennexen and ‘allowance.” | comrades of the ou yost were butch- | ered with machetes. United States pro-| bodies of these slain n und, st des to such blind wr camedlitficult to keep t | trol. ne in of bi 1 Admiral of the United 1 under con- of uniform w of the North-| found in the embe mountain — inclosu bones, bout the place where n. I myself have not and murderous!seen this thing; nor have I found a whjte man who will that he has| hit with his eyes. Col. Rus- b he sat's- © Voodooism, the ancient jung! sa | this © that Voodo 1 men and some of officers believe ch the the instinctive horror of »ject which nauseates the tured and foreign edue: an author- territory detail, “Th cou = read and write and > ean who a ubove the average ‘They said the air kites would! ae tinal el , ‘A 7; the ini SAVAGE FOR BLOOD. in knowit ding on Tan ake| come over and blast you. gon Marshall, adoptet son of Vice) ried he would losue, at the re-| terest throughout; alo it paid 6] : marlieveaa y x that they are! kites went over but few trails, There | President Marshall, died at 649 A.M.) quest of committee counsel, a sub-| Per cent, dividends on the capital The Caco does not care whether) good Catholics e nothing in|{/$ no harm in them, as you have seen; | to-day. ' poena for the alleged report. He stock during most of the 1850s and | sympathy with hills and their incipal Caco te $ under is broken." men themselve Voodoos of the ors. One of the is hunted the Monroe Doctrine in collecting }to-day is Papa le grin, is true enough, their Haytian debts means less to | Pope.) Along the So ple call the Cacos sight in all, the first pin Hayti med to i « He was st: nd had his men lure h: alkers len strongholds. toward | Ar Bh fOr 200 or more of their followers Shrewd political leaders who seek | ey TRappep ollower: IN A GORGE BY |a new MARINES. yo Right after dusk marines and gen-|COMe armert ds of the ra- nt; the few bandits losed »ther and t fare silently ‘ous ag the thrur come and bound. ing of the tom toms an dy sing th ortress" | m< n there | pr the about Cac nlems The Cacos stampe ends of th and for surrender shouted by 9 . = s d by| enough capital vernment | the black men of the gendarmer! 4 , ve—and to ents) wore no more Cacos Vislble to shoot | (twenty tive can 1 Mf the}a lot yf © valley and dead and wound found he Occupation’, "The Caco, when not on the warpath | Charlemagne und. But | thi Our % was not among them, malion negro, Then there is the tale of th wl 1 not come back." He w e Caco, aecordin he a /fwho volunteered magne's head- | few ye quarters and dined with him. | Prenct | Now, Cacos are just us treacher is more vitality in his leaders held thi me ep ridiculed, sult, is t cov excuse for private] the hundred ¥ knife, | lacks of p them joined the little army which) Therefore( no Caco will accept a drink| name “Ca surrendered itself Feb. 11, joining the host t tastes the cup. | an in Charlemarne's. ea ¢ ranks on the siret us they marched 1 drigk afict 1 PMS | Itallroads t through town. me of the 176 killed ry rau und a fey | porate Cu viutment VICE PRESIDENT’S lowed. Thi Etat er.| Owed. The story may not be true o! mass- | Chariemagne—it comes from a doubt A|ful source—but the practice is au- of Charlemagne was Henry Henneken. He won over @ Then the two daredevils, blackenea and wearing rags, marched into Charlemagne’s stron, their eight ven of Charle- Discovery at any time was certain embers, The gandarmes deployed on . states, Hiayts He robbed planta-| either side and fired into the dark- taking from the United States, Hayt) | tion storehouses and burned the|ness at the few flashes from the is now perfectly capable of f0iNG\ buildings and the standing crops of | Tes of Charlemagne'’s guard. ahead without supervision. The na-! cane, coffee, rice and tobacco, No|». ¥en things quieted down and the es © lemagne 1a; tlonal atate of mind is not unlike that| man's goat, burro or good looking| fitg “Wn” nen tcattered ashes, shot Pirie: contegenboye whone OfTICIODA Wily wis gare Mavihek who sene| titer ine nears unele, visiting him, insists on auditing] tured away from sight or the expenditures of his Hayti cannot forget that the treaty “agreeing to the tectorate was only signed after th® | ported to bx country had been put under mar} law by a Rear States Navy. | and underwear and "he Caco, the outla' ern hills, is neither educated nor in-) telligent; he is as poor as Jimson | a” wide circle weed. He is cunning, he is desperate | the fire had be and he is a cruel thief. It is charged that some Cacos Button, with their immediate commander and Col. J. J. Meade, were decorated with the Mik umstances under which the| itary Cross of Hayti by President arines were re. | Dartiguenave for the exploit. “red their cor. |. Tae death of Charlemagne th that it be- the end Caco. troub! . in a month Benoit was stir- ring more devilment than Charle- nan flesh being [ne ever had, energetically aided of a fire in a|D¥ Papa le Noir, Chu-Chu and Mom- oe with” Hie ba. Squads of marines, with gen- apletely stripped of flesh in| darmeric interpreters speaking the patois, were sent patrols" through the hills ing amnesty for all who surendered nd threatening those who continued in rebellion with ‘propaganda punishment 1 is| BENOIT'S CONTEMPT FOR WHITE AMERICANS. A few, a very few, surrendered. | vorer citizens,|The aeroplanes went out and came Morrison Marshall Passes Away] The Judge added he resented the im. | of $431,127.93 Despite Hard Work of peed atin bas onthe PAFEIOE ton thet Mh im, but not over all the vast the patrols had covered in runners of Benoit went) with his answer to propaganda: | no fear of the white Ameri-| bush their charm Which, a# the air- admit witl a rueful from one of the digt kitchens norant of affairs out of their the Cacos that they belleved he had prac-|H® had been Ignatius Morrison and his underfed and sickly ap- pearance aroused the sympathy of] YOU first and try you afterward.” | the Marshalls. It was decided to take him to the Vice President’s| bers on his war home for a short time, but Mrs, Marshall became so attached to bim | that he was adopted legally ls Benoit when he said tically taken Pot au Prince and the ericans and the s were on the foothills south of th on their red shirts: Administration | Jefensive in the city. They put] orresponding to! of the Indian--and flocked | nd joined him as he marched arlemagne|over the mountains from the middle Trrounded bye ei! with north to his flasco attack on this city. by a guard of | When will they come again? timid civilians predict there will attack within a week. Optimis- rchants believe they will never gain, The best opinion seems |), to be that there is no danger of an- tiack for six months or more it will not be as Severe or as The | “And when will ¢ altogether? Col, Russell, co attacks ces who knows of the white man in Hayti | rican, e met first| ner of the island; ndjevery Haytian a job d fight, by rifle| say fifty or sixty cents a ind machine gun fire. Soon there|of the present wage fair pay—| k forward to dish fun ne fifty | right once a week Until then it is had consented to the Marshalls takin |him because they could give him gre \ advantages. TWINS AT THE HOME OF JUDGE FOR FIFTH |: TIME IN TEN YEARS ; 2 as nearly harmless as possible ts not distinguished in his appearance | Neither was any of his chiefs by. force from any other tatterder of the great poorer class of citizens, He has not horns, neither has tail, He is a little bolder in his;He reached Char glance; ther carriage, due probably to his life on} to each other as to the rest of th spy| _ By way of reference, sa| Cripsigs Log, written o the story, | Seatt of Glasgow ° t" the leader, | years ago, a study after the © writer us| tribes of bandits in the bands together by | by Michael description | esent application is the} “1 Officers Under Core New York (¢ share under these contracts is $139,- 451,411. if DIES IN CAPITAL Best Surgeons. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 » President and M Washington jn November, 1918. The boy, aged a little more tha three years, succumbed to an exces: acid in the blood, despite efforts | specialists from Johns Hopkin spital to save him Vice President and Mrs. Marsha re at the bedside. ‘The Vice] President cancelled all his speaking | k would ments and rushed back to tial auto. jst Mrs, Morrisor er the child, } was with 1 Mrs, Mor rison had frequent baby, but | « KING unable to agree, the jury in the case of Henry | Ahlers, on trial in the Hud. art y, on obuy son County a charge. of murdering Daubensenn w schar by Clerk Peter J. Sullivan ea to-day. The clerk acted on ders of Judge Richard Doherty The Judge wag summoned trom court because of the arrival ALBANY, Feb, 26.—The sharpest —Morri-| withdrew it after. jt learned its na- he’ child was adopted by the]orde Marshall | from the rm Waldman was questioned concern- ing the ousting.of the Socialist del Waldman received a severe grilling | from committee counsel and mem- Before the entry of the United States, h pee Asked to reconcile whether the Uni He said his voting for tion Counsel Burr, “there would have been an annua; saving in Interest and rents amounting to $5,395,000." Dr. John F. Bauer, statistician of the Law Department, read a report, showing that the Interborough car- ries on its books as asseta $40,000,000 which represents worthless items ———— that should have been written off and made good out of past earnings. He Waldman Says He Wanted} proposed that the subway situation r pa be adjusted by taking out the in- U. S. to Win ‘War and terest on unjustified capitalization Opposes Soviet ‘Here. which, burdens the subway parabens “In the year ended June 30, 191 rned the witness said, “the subway d of $: 1919, the subway earned $1,914,123.08 men charged with disloyalty ot-linstoad of $664,123.08 reported. For { curred at the opening of to-day’s ses- sion when Assemblyman Louis Wald- man, a defendant, was called for cross-examination, Morris Hillquit and Seymour Sted- man of defense counsel claimed that Martin Conboy, conducting the cross- examination, had conveyed the im- pression that he was reading from a report on conditions in Russia by James O'Neil, associate editor of the New York Call, whereas he was in fa alleged report, written for the New York Times by William English Wal- ling, who the defense claims was an acknowledged foe of the Socialist movement, ‘The Socialis report was made by O'Neil, and that it was not considered at the Chicago convention 1a ist party planned support to the ‘Third (Moscow) International. Judge up to defend his i, = Stedman twi a Sutherland deman » : aficit of $8,584,489, MAPRSHAI ens eens cn eP instead of a deficit of $3,5844 MRR C MARSHALL. ill for a Moment” and added that Ameri December, 1919, the actual income above all fixed charges was $617,- 290.31 instead of $408,956.98 Fr Simlarly, even at present cost, for the current calendar year, the sub- way probably will earn above reason- able interest and other fixed charge $6,000,000." | Turning to the Manhattan situa- ltion, the expert said: the company reported a deficit in the elevated operation after operating ex- penses and other fixed charges of t reading an article concerning the account $2,895,000 annual dividends and interest paid on capitalization not representing actual investment for the year ending June 30, 1918, the net income above all fixed charges was $2,123,289.25 instead of a deficit of $771,710.75 as reported; for 4919, a deficit of only $1,207,711.40 nd sprang instead of a deficit of $4,1 11.40 as When Mr, reported; for the six months ended m, Judge Dec, 31, 1919, a deficit of $1,136,989.95 "k as reported; for December, 1919, a de- * fleit of $189, s claim that no such st year when the Social- arthur E. Suth olleagu rupted bh that h » inter ly the courtesy that o an would extend to anothe 0 instead of a deficit 4 reported. is defense, which asked that the | the elevated h be introduced in evidenee,! profitable enterprise. But sd that all remarks be stri pond. Ken | the 1890s and 7 per cent. since the lease in 1903 to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. The ele- He declared that the attitude | vated to-day is on actual investinent ker Sweet who initiated the in property now earning interest, if mont, was that “we will hang | not reasonable dividends, Unless operating costs continu would become practic: increasing, ly self-su) porting on a reasonable capitaliza- td Ha not baen les nat a five-cent fare, Its jally interested” as to which side | deficits have been due chiefly but after this country became cessive capitalization and fixed participant he sald he wanted to} changes resting upon the propert the United States successful. | °"'™ Pie dgehteks) Nee i tte [compared with the fair value of the had signed, ne|Property used in en the} PBS reesei vided into two| St question of States shoul , as ohn Killen, No, 320° W p out of the war, He declared he | Jon? up arms if the United ttitude. tion ¢ ex listment ined he country ul camps Wig in Court. Street, was held in $1,000 ball in t lington whe © baby's illness | States were invaded : RHA ALIA AB ihe dock OF the nent of this State to the| her upper uem. with a knife then sick room to ask for . but to- | Soviet system: GH hares ia felonious assanit. Ward. morning the doctors and| Waldman said “when he returned f nurses could give him little hope to house” he would vote for A speciai kitchenette had been | Militia iations if they were duilt in the Marshall apartment, | Not exee and he was adviaod ‘by wher sf) wae rreocred fon att ympetent constitutional authorities roe De ey ee Pace ten ats is Kins a wr the state, except those || Notice to Advertisers filled with toys ok his air- | en cuting the Socialist | ings regularly Presiden- t was his con- | Advertising copy and release or- He 1 voted against previous ||| ders for either the week day Morn. inilitary «ppropriations he said, be- |] ing World or The Evening World, if aAuse they were a general appro received after 4 P. M. the day pre ation pill he nsidered excessive militia appro ceding publication, can be inserted |]} only as space may permit and in jations “woul st clash with the] " 4 POOR OU Ok aaah we cre |Worder of fecsipt st The World) Of ition iprovidin expulsion of fice. ners voting for military Advertising copy for the Supple- val the party con ment Sections of The Sunday World tution Was always supr ld to that of state or na te must be received by 3 P. M. Thurs- day preceding publication, and re- |}] leases must be received by 4B M at |] Friday Advertsing copy for the Main Sheet of The Sunday World must be his home tt was the fifth time {II Pe cived by 6 P Mot fue wiscading in ten years twins had been born |] Friday and releases must be re- to Jud nd Mrs, Doherty. Two ceived by 12 o'clock noon Saturday of the twins died, but the othe Copy or orders received later than as provided above when omit- of twins—a boy and a girl and two boys, are st n ed will not serve to earn discounts jury In the Ahlers case is of any character, contract or other- said to stood 10 to 2 for con- wise, victior, woman was a cab- aret singer whom Ablers met ina Hoboken saloon on Nev, 23 last. THE WORLD, Ketimate's traction inquiry that the! did $30,000 damage buildings of Toch Brothers’ paint fac- tory, Nos. 55, @ and 59 Ninth Street, | Long, Island City. The company’s buildings occupy almost two square ks, and because of explosions of | emicals and their inflammable eon- tents, three alarms were sent in. d difficulty because of | but confined the flames | freezing spray. to the three buildings. above interest and other fixed| clash between the opposing counsel! charges on the company's actual in- which has marked the trial before the | vestment in subway property, 62,7! Assembly Judiciary Committee of the | 37148, inste five suspended Soctalist Assembly- ,371.48 reported. | For the six months ending Dec. 31, “For the year ended June 30, 1918, $771,710.75, But, crediting back to the tual investment, $ been an exceedingly | n on! 4 capitalization, it has paid | hed Off Wife's Hair; She Wears Isth Jefferson Market Court to-day. His IF HE GETS IT BACK. Chandler Turned Mysterious ge Containing Test Tubes | Over to Police Too Soon. N oblong package in brown paper, the ends sealed with wax,-was received by mail a week ago at the home of C. F. Chandler, No. 51 East Fifty- fourth Stroet, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Columbia Univer ity, It appeared suspicious to the professor and he called in Detec- tives Gegen and Browne of the bomb squad A cylindrical container wa found in the box, and inside the container, separated by cotton packing, we two corked glass test tubes, one holding a brown liquid, the other absorbent cotton. The liquid was submitted to the New York Branth of the Federal Bureau of Mines for analysis. Chief Chemist Campbell is hardly likely to finish that work, for this morning Detective Gegen was called to the telephone by Prof. Chandler. “L wonder if T might get that package back?" he said. “I have just received a delayed letter from a friend who sent the pack- age and he says'it contains med- icine for my asthma.” $30,000 FIRE IN L. 1. CITY. A fire that started ‘The firemen ht tions. For the Bedroom Suites Complete Suites Complete. Suites Complete. 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