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’ ~~ WON HIS WAY AS REPORTER; GH Ob REFORMS ct GLASS BOOM STARTS WITH WITHDRAWAL OF McADOO’S NAME | Former Secretary Says He Cannot Afford to Run for the Presidency. WASHINGTON, June 19. EFINITE withdrawal of his D name from consideration as @ candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination, made last night by William G. McAdoo, was followed to-day by the launching of a boom for Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. =~ ‘ Senator Glass has for months | been considered a possibility, but he was known to be a close friend of the man he succeeded as head | ~PUTTHROY Ohio Governor, Who May Be Harding’s Opponent, Owns Two Daily Newspapers. WAS A PRINTER’S DEVIL, ‘Tells Evening World Corre- | spondent How He Worked— | Likes Golf and Fishing. By George Buchanan Fite. (Special Staff Correspondent of th Evening World) DAYTON, 0, June 19—Any al tempt to depict the personality of Gov. James M. Cox of Ohig should properly begin with his eyes. The | lor of them really doesn’t matter; of the Treasury Department. Us the directness with which they look at you while he ts talking or lis- ight ean healed. nd aki l a | ‘ening. They seem to be narrowed with both intentness and . tereat,| lass would head the Committeo | nnd they never look away, The fact | 0B Platform at the San Francisco Convention, No change in that part of the programme has becn announced and should Mr. Glass be nominated he would have the distinction of having written his | own platform and presenting it to | the convention. | in Mr. McAdoo's announcement | that he would not let his name go before the convention, which he | did in a letter to Jouett Shouse, Assistant Secretary of the Treas- | ury, he said he could not afford to run and that his duty to his fam- | ily made it necessary to rehabili- tate his private fortune, hat be wears glasses tends, perhaps, to deepen his regard, just as, perhaps, hey intensify the twinkle that comes ato the eyes every little while. ‘They twinkled perceptibly when he an- swered my first ‘inquiry about him- . . ‘ell, to begin with,” he said, “I| im @ man who was never really a yoy; that is, T never had a boyhood | us other youngsters understand it. I vas a hard-working, serious-minded | ttle brat, und all my boyhood was | pent in labor at something or other. And since I've come to manhvod I've | + never had much time to play until | n the last few year's, Now occaston- | ally T get a chance, so T suppose fate WHEE SAYS HE FIRED or fortune, or whatever it is, is strik- | ng the balance, as she always does.| TWO SHOTS AT HER) But I haven't been able to play as Vd like to. I've never had a chance ‘o travel, but, perhaps that, too, may come some day.” What Gov. Cox means by play now) golf, riding and hunting, and these} pastimes he takes as time affords them, Only to-day he came back to his big country house, Trail's End, four miles from Dayton, after a twelve-mile ride on his blood bay, “The Governor,” and to-morrow, or next day, or the day after. that he is going out for a foursome with a trio of cronies. and ‘beat ninety, if he ever gets his swing going. | GOING NORTH TO SHOOT A CARIBOU, “And then, as soon as the time comes around again, I'm going up . : H But Neither Mr. nor Mrs, Cumber- ; son, Appear in Court for Hearing, ‘The $1,000 ball bond put up by Victor Cumberson, No. 202 Webt 79th Street, to-day, was ordered forfeited by Magistrate Ten Eyck when Cum- Uerson failed to appear in West Side Court on his wife's charge that he fired two shols at her-in their apart- inent yesterday. The bond was fur- nished by Mrs. Kate Stapleton, No. 292 Garfield Place, Brooklyn. The wife, Mrs. Eltze Cumberson, also falled”to appear‘in court. Yes- terday she fled from her home and into the North Woods and have a bit a ee Fitzpatrick and Law- of camping and a few shots at cart. [!08% Cumberson had shot at her and hou or bear, or something like that," | "el@ her prisoner until he fell astcep | he went on. For the Governor is a | nd she escaped. : | devotee of both gun and rod and no| Fitapatrick and Lawless returned mean hand with either. If the truth | © the apartment with her, and the be told, he is no mean hand With aj “detectives pushed ther way in the ame teeing bee apartment. Cumberson, they assert, The men who go out in the woods| Started to draw a revolver trom his with him, either in Northern Maine | Poket, but Lawless threw him to the or Canada, say that he cooks as well |f0or before he could act. as he shoots and even eats what he| At the station Cumberson was silent cooks, They add that he's no ama- | When informed he was charged with Mea at. dla’ wailiinas elton: attempted felonious assault and vio- | ¢ was {ition of the Sullivan Law. His wife) ‘When I asked Gov. Cox wit was |naid at one time he wan retary to his earliest recollection of the farm Timothy L. Woodruff, Republican on which he was born, near Jackson- | boss of Kings County, and later acted burg, in Butler County (on March 31, |{n a similiar capacity with Frank Ja’ poh ae agave None: b} |Goura, She aid that he had been 10, ' : |drinking for a week and she was “I look about me and I see the jafraid of him. world over a dark, round rim, which | Later Cumbergon told the police encircles me. At first I don't know |he had fired two'shots at some cats what it is, but after a while I dis- |!" the back yard. His apartment te cover. it's an old-fashioned horse cot- |°% *he fifth floor, Oe fren Gussie earen name CITY THREATENS | RICHMOND LINES rodddle of it, certain now that I can- not craw) about the place and get ‘ Must Reduce Fare to 5 Cents or nto mischief while she is busy with her housework, That, you must re- nember, was long before the days | Forfeit” Franchises, of the kiddie coops and kiddie pens | Estimate Board, that cireumscribe the youngsters i nowadays, Even if they had been in] The Board of Estimate, acting on -xistence there probably wasn't |the recommendation of Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, served notice yesterday on enough money in the old teapot on the ‘kitchen mantc: to buy one, and my farmer-father was entirely too|the Richmond Light apd Rallroad jusy to make one. Company that it must reduce ite “When I was old enough to be| fares to 5 cents or forfeit ite fran- chises, ‘The viaduct lease at St. George held by the traction company is revocable on ten days’ notice and that length of time is allowed the company. Ninety days’ notice is required for forteiture of franchise on property not strictly the city's, Commissioner. Whalen denouncea the company officers for the plan to obtain an Injunction restraining the operation of buses in Richinond, CITY TO TAKE OVER | STRAUS MILK PLANT! — ' graduated from the horse collar’ I wos sent to a village school, and ere I learned enough by the time I was sixteen to get a job as printer's devil and newsboy at Middletown, on . puper called the Signal, which was owned by my brother-in-law. 1 taught night school, by the way, and got $40 a month, My work jn the newspaper office provided me with $8 & week and my board, But I could only do this nart of the time, as I ad a day school, too. “As [ began newspaper work when 1 was just a kid it got #0 under my kin that I've heen a newspaper man ever since, and now I have two papers of my own, the Dayton News und the Springfield News. Bet the thing that really made a newspaper man of me was a railroad wreck, 1 was Just about twenty-one years old ind working all the time then on the Hignal. The wreck occurred In 1892, At Middletown, and twenty or thirty euple avere killed, I got the story, eld the only telegraph line and sent olumn or more to the Cinctnnat! ulrer. somebody there I!ked the story, pparenily, because T got a messare © managing editor, offering fob, And [can tell you that Board of Estimate Accepts Offer of | Laboratory and Asks for Special Revenue Bonds, } the elty the milk pasteurization labora- | tory maintained by him was accapted | ‘yesterday by the Board of Estimate. Tho offer was conditfonal on an appro- Priation euMfictent to carry on and ox- pand the work, An ostimate thet § Will b@ required to Dec, 81 was made, and special revenue banda for that pure pose have beon asked for, A resolution thanking Mi. Mtraua for the work he has fone for the «hildren of Now York and So: hie gict wae panned, (Continurd on Filth Page> PROGRESSIVE PNFER, vaca | members of | actively engaging in business whilo | as “a kind of office and voting resi- Nathan Straus's offer to turn over to{ te 91 | NOW CANDIDATE -SEZEDONCHARE * OF ASSAULTING PORT WORKRAN One of Three Arrested Who | Are Said to Have Beaten | Morgan Line Longshoreman * | | ‘The first arrest for violence in con. | nection with the Citizens’ Transpor- | tation Committee's work at the strike- | paralyzed coastwise steamshf{p piers | took place this morning at the Mor- gan Line pier at the foot of Bank Street, North River, sf Stanley Yorkers, who gave his ad-, dress vaguely as "Stagg Street,” was captured by Corpl. McGann and Pa- trolman Williams of the Charles | Street station and taken to the Jefrer- | | 80n Market Court for arraignment on | @ charge of assaulting Adam Hatcher, a longshoreman. , Witnesseg sald that when Hatcher ‘left the pler to go across the street he was approached by three strikers, | who concealed their union buttons under the lapels of their coats. Hatcher is said to have Been struck only once*or twice before the police reached the scene and the strikers fied. Yorkers was the only caught. There were unofficial reports of # similar assault last night on ‘a negro longshoreman at the same pier, but | there was no arrest in that case, It has been observed for some time | that the strike pickets were growing lirritable because of the apparent suc- WORKERS ATTACK JUSTICE LEVY Now Accused of Voting From Bast Broadway Address, Living Elsewhere, The Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court yesterday approved the | Application of Benjamin Schlesinger, Harry Wander and Salvatore Minfo, the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, to file additional | charges against Municipal Justice Aaron J. Levy, whoso removal is one sought. |ceas of the Transportation Committee ‘in moving merchandise which the In the original charges the union, | strikers do not want moved. ‘The ac- through its counsel, Leonard M. | tivity of the committee's trucks was | \wreater to-day than at any time since | they went to work. ‘Texas merchants who have been Wallstein, accused Justice Levy of on the bench as stockholder und| been | manager of the siik sult manufactur- | setting shipments through New Yorls ing firm of H. Milgrim & Bros, — . | were said to have been considering | The additional charges are that the| Whether they ought to choose another Justice registered as an elector in| Port because of New York's strike dif- | 1917, 1918 and 1919, giving as his legal| ficulties. The committee, therefore, residence No, 307 East Broadway. Lee! handled a large quantity of hardware @. McDermott, associated with Mr.|from Stamford, Conn. for twenty- Wallstein, said he found Justice Levy | three Texas consignees to demonstrate has resided at No. 66 Fort Washing-| that it could be done. ton Avenue and No. 70 Lenox Ave-| At the headquarters of the District | nue during those years. He said Dr.| Council of the Longshoramen It was | A. Benjamin, who leases the building #nnounced that ‘T. V. O'Connor, Intor- at No, 807 East Broadway for thejnational Vice President, and Jovepi | Fast River Hospital, admitted he|Ityan are on their way to Washington leased the basement to Justice Levy |to attend hearings before the Inter~ state Commerce Commission on the | dence.” question of an increased fare for the | Mr. McDermott said he found the!coustwise companies. If this were basement littered with papers, cov-|sranted it Is the belief of the long- ered with dust and showing no signs|shoremen that Increased wages, for of human occupancy. He said the|them will follow, geen aon Gel dire are regis- | so SED OF HOLD UP fered in hig! is as living at No.| “UP. "Lenox Avenue, 7 TWO ACCUSED OF Brothers Brooklyn § The Appellate Division granted Justice Levy permission to appeal to the Court of Appeals from its deci- Hon last week, Cored its right.to| Harry Fontana, twenty, and his entertain an application, for his re= | pro Philip, twenty-three, ‘both of moval. Justice Levy ‘contended the prone, Pee. eine e, Brooklyn, charges should be filed with the State Senate, trav oe A reporter who cajled.up the East Broadway address was told ove. the telephone by Henry Levy, who said he was a cousin of Justice Levy, that the latter had been living since May 15 at No. 290 East Broadway. ACCUSES HER NURSE IN $1,500 RING THEFT} Woman Held by the Grand Jury Denies She Made were arrested at Coney Island early to- day while with two young women, and were arraigned before Magistrate Geismar in Fifth Avenue Court, charged with holding up Nathan Evans In Nis store at No, 503 Third Avenue, Brook- lyn. Evans, who was robbed of a gold watch and $40 in cash, got the number of an automobile in which the robbers escaped, Policeman Daniel Carrroll saw the alleged machine at Coney Island and arrested the occupants. The young wo- men were not held. - Bvans told Magistrate Geismar he could identify the car, but not the/ prisoners, ay the store lights were dim. | ‘The brothers were held in $1,500 bonds si eae! or @ natlo Monday, ‘They Confession. eaen a Gnowiedge of the robbery, | Miss Gertrude Sterh of No. 174 _ Rae Rivington Street was held for the} AFTER BUSHWICK BUS LINE. Grand Jury by Magistrate Corrigan in Essex Market Court yesterday on Whalen Ordered to Show ane @ charge of grand larceny. Mrs. Why He Shouldn't Stop 1 Bertha Hellman of No. 98 Clinton] Supreme Court Justice Cropsey Street, charges Miss Stern, emplgyed| Brooklyn, signed an order to-day to nurse her, stole a diamond ring| directing Grover Whalen, Commis valued at $1,500 last Monday. Mis$/ sion of Plants and Structures, to ap- Stern denies the robbery. pear next Thursdhy and show cause Phe pfisoner added that on the| why he should not be enjoined from Saturday preceding the disappearance | operating the so-called Lafayette- of the ring, which was tuken out of | Bushwick bus line, | e 1 ie This is the last o né bus lines & purse containing several other ar-| This ts the [ual Ol OM ough the ticles of jewelry and wbout $100, she | neighborhood in which Mayor Hylan had cautioned Mrs. Hellman about] ives, in Bushwick Avenue, and the her carelessness in leaving valuables | injunction is sought by Lindley M : > thar Garrison, receiver for the Coney around. On Sunday there was @ party |jiana & Brooklyn! Railway Com- at the Hellman home to celebrate | pany, on the ground that the buse: the birth of the baby, but Miss Stern|compete illegally With the DeKalb did not attend, Avenue trolley line, On Monday night she vent home ~ “ia cali and tater was called back and ap- prised of the loss of the ring, | She ASLEEP, NEARLY KILLS WIFE. | id she immediately sent for a de- an | pale veand when he came, insisted| WATERBURY, Conn. June 19,—| womkn's sereams, police re- that every one present be searched. | Hearing 4 Mre. Hellman's mother, she sa:*.|gerves stationed at Headquarters on then acused her of the theft, and she | strike duty rushed out to the street was arrested. Mr. Hellman declared lsoon after midnight yesterday and in an Miss Stern confessed thking the ring |*22" | npartiment & across the street saw | and promjsed to return it. She de- Laced ne saptcoesl aelae ts Obs cate niee is + — jow while a man swung her body | DERRICK KILLS BROTHERS, |*"¢°°""" | a The police upstairs in tims ee to t She gave her Riding On Beam When It Falls 110 as Mrs. pwon and said | Feet was her husbar Turning to | i . under arrest, the police no- | Two men were killed at Gar N 4 his eyoa were closed and he was | ing a steel beam to the top of a water| trom a nightinare and Was not aware of | tank on the Garfeld Worsted Milla] what he was doing, Gibson was not | collapsed. The men were riding on the obliged to appear in court beam and they fell 110 feet. They were —_ ; John and Henry Swisher, brothers, bots} BANKER IN WAITER’S SUIT. | of Pine Grove, W. Va \ toll The work. was being done by. the Pit wourgh and Des aolnes Steel coms | View President pany, Which has offices at No, 50 Church Street, New-York. The foreman, H. 2B. Evening Cloth i oil Holmes, &ald the derrick had been tised nile ban on four similar joe and had been con-| Richard Hawes, @ St, Touts banker, sidered safe. Holmes and the engi arrived at Asbury Park yesterday for | wero under the derrick when it col-|the bankers’ convention there, and was | lapaed, Dut: Shay managed to run 10) invited to attend a banquet last night. | ila he EE “Can't,” he replied. “Left my evening Capaized Navy Boat Rat clothes home.” WILMINGTON, Dol.) June 19.—| “We can fix that," sald another | |Magie boat No, 25, the United Staten | banker, Navy craft which turned t A committen asked Shermap Dennt 6 in tho | Delaware River. June 11, drowning nine | 7 of the crow, haw been raised and tpwod of the heel whebs the din to line up his walters, Ono nto the anne WAR He wan t {to the Navy huarantine station, ut ‘l® da eligi ” got thet | Roedy Ivtand, While naval oMotain re. |S . 8 ‘tama to give an opinion as to eaus Hawes te President of the Amert- for capatslog, murinere express the i a Vice cha “ * broucn ing wus dun to Lic voueul vile Boluw wt higw spec REPORT ASSASSIN Honor Graduate Took To College While She Studied fe Mrs, Howard Tra- cey of m., was graduated with honors at ton, who Northwestern University this week, Was mar- ried when she entered college and her daugh- ter Ann was born during the four-year Mre. Tracey attend- ed to both her college and household qu- ties without course, « @88istance, “Education makes a better wife and a bet- ter mother,” she says, (c} Her Baby ATENTED TOL EXKAIER DENED Despatches Say Former Ruler Escaped Injury, but Affair Is Mystery. Rumors current for several days that an attempt had been made on Wednesday to assassinate for- mer Kaiser Wilhelm seemed to take form to-day, but M. boom, private secretary to the former Emperor, assured the As- sociated Press this morning in Doorn, Holland, that no attack had been made on William of Hohengollern. Following is the latest despatch, received: DOORN, Holland, Juno 19.—An at- tempt on the life of former Emperor William of Germany was made at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, at- cording to persistent rumors here, | Details of the reported attempt to! assassinate the former Emperor are eiled in mystery, but it js now as- serted that William escaped without) injury. | A villager, at first thought to be a| Belgian but later identified,as a Ger- | man, {s sald to have entered the castle by the use of a false permit, | and then tried to kill Count Hohen-| zollern, Despatches received on Thursday night reported a Belgian, who suc- ceeded in gaining admittance to Doorn Castle, the residence of Will- jam of Hohenzollern, had attacked the former Emperor and wounded him in the jaw. Since that time the report has been current that dn uttaok had seen made, but no confirmation of it} has been received. A Berlin despatch received Friday night stated a news- paper at Baden had learned “from a trustworthy source” that Count Hoh- | enzollerr# was critically ill, but there | was no tntimation his condition was the result of an attack upon him. HARKNESS ORDER UPHELD. | nt Wife Mant File A Complaint tm $20,000,000 § The Appellate Division yesterday up- veld the order which Mrs. Florence 5 Harkness, widow of Harry 8, Hark- dea | ne obtained from Supreme Court Justice Gavegan requiring Mrs, Marte M. Cowan, who was the first wife of Harkness, to file an amended complaint in her sult for $20,000,000 against the estate If the amended complaint is not fled tyn days, the alternative provision ‘of Justice Gavegun's order will become effective. | This would result In strik- ing from \Mrs, Cowan's complaint th ailegationa of Sllegality or fraud in the WILSON RECOVERING FAST, SAYS DERCUM Specialist Who Attended President Declares The World's Story of Condition Is Correct. PHILADELPHIA, Juno 19.—"It 4s true that President Wilson has been very sick," said Dr, Francis X. Ders cum, one of his physicians, but that he is well on the road to recovery 18 ‘indicated in that for @ long time he bas been doing hard work,'attending to state matters and holding Cabinet meetings,” Dr. Dercum was asked.to comment upon the story in The New York World yesterday, written by Louis sel- bold, Who had spent four hours with the President. “The general impres- sion given the paper i reot,” was the comment of the phy: cian, but he did not care to comment on. ‘specific parts of the reports. “While the story is not written from the physician's standpoint, it is cor- JOHNSON MEN NOW PIN HOPES on G. O. P., Anxiously Await Action at San Francisco, att Corredp Evening World.) (Special days before the Democratic Conven- tion the St. Francis and Palace Hotels days before the Republican Conven- tion assembled. Members of the Na. tional Committee and scouts for | full of politics for San Francisco and California are keenly interested in the forthcoming convention, not only decause it will be an unprecedented event in the history of the city and the State, but because a considerable element of the Republican strength In California is sore Qbout the wag Hiram Johnson was treated in Chi- cago and looks forward to the Demo: ¢ratio “gathering with what cower to be a faint sense of hope. Went and the far West state that! Chairman Will Hays hae been assured of the solid support of Harding and Coolidge by the progressive Republi- cans from the Mississippi River wes| If Chairman Hays is honest in stat- ing he has such assurances, a lot of people have been kidding him. There {g no enthusiasm for Harding and Coolidge and the Republican platform among the kind of Republicans that followed Theodore Roosevelt from the Republican Party in 1912 and followed him back into the Republi- can Party in 1916. PROGRESSIVES ANXIOUSLY WATCHING CONVENTION. Never have the Democrats called @ national convention frought with such great party possibilities. R turning delegates of progressive ten- denoies have been mingling with their home folks and they haven't brought buck any oheers for the candidates they helped to nominate, Every move of the Democrats in convention will be watched by Republicans as well as by Democrats in the western country. On the ‘way here from Chicago I talked with Republicans and Demo- rect,” he added, WOMAN INTRUDER : HOLDS 200 AT BAY Alleged Female Burglar Clouts Aged Man With Frying Pan, Then Defies Crowd. Joseph Littlebium, seventyrone, re- turned to his apartment at No. % Avenue C, early this morning and found his rooms topsy turvy. When he en- tered one room a frail woman, who the police say is @ burglar, hit him over the head with a frying pan, Little. baum yelled, About 200 tenants answered his cry, On the stairway they cut off the escape of Mrs. Helen O'Connor, twenty-three, of No. 447 Hust 19th Street, who told the police that she no longer lives with her husband. ‘The Mttle woman, the tenants say, extracted a rung from the balustrade and held the crowd at bay by ‘swinging the {mpovised weapon about her head. Detective Herbert fought his gay through the packed crowd to the wom- an, who subsided when she saw his badge. At headquarters, the police say, they found evidences that the alleged woman burglar had been taking heroin arraigned in Essex Market — |H. C, FRICK’S STEEL HOLDINGS SMALL Held Only 2,101 Shares of Com- mon Stock at the Time * of His Death, PITTSBURGH, June 19.-—-One of the surprises of the Inventory of the estate of Henry C. “Steel King," is that he had only 2,101 shares of com- mon stock of the United States Steel Corporation, inventoried at $214,605.95. Hie favorite stock was railroad, and he had 300,000 shares in @ dozen lines, E entory just filed $25,000,000" short of the of t personal estate, t State of Pennsylvania will make an in dependent audit his Fifth Avenue The paintings me are worth than $7,800,000 Fries, former In more He had only about $3,000 worth of jew elry. The approximate value of” the personal estate Is pat at $77,500,000 KINGS, QUEENS AT OUTING. Children of Democratic Voters Joy Plenic Im Central Park, second marriage and in the signing and execution of the will by whieh Hark: ness left hit estate to his widow ~_ WIZARD WORKS AS MEN PLAY Bat Edison Will Watch Employees’ Games Late This Afternoon. The ninth annual games of the Fidison employees are being held at Olymple ‘ark, Irvington, N. J., to-day. The Edi fon factories at West Orange and Silver Lake wero tlosed, but this did not pre- vent Thomaa A. Edlaon from working {oxpe ta, however, to motor to Olym i this afte’noon and fire the toh will suet tae runners off and “diaon, the privy | | tre Park, Forty-five Kings and forty-five Queens disported In Central Park t with 600 of their retinue all sona und daugh \tera | of Democratic voters of — the | Mleventh Assembly District. Bach di ‘trict elected its own King and Queen land all were captained by Miss Mayte | Fitzgerald Delaney daughter of Mre Anna Delaney No. 365 West 118th | Street who led the “June Walk’ from the Monongahela Democratic Club at No. 242 Manhattan Avenue to the park. jand Philip Hines, son of James J Hines, the Tammamny district leader, of No. 368 West 116th Miss Delaney synrbo! Peace. 8 carried a large dove, The | ave way to an all-day pic prov anion crats of all stations in «life and was fortunate enough to meet in Cdlorado half a dozen representative Progressive Democrats who had for- suken thetr party and turned to the opposition with hope, if not with con- fidence, They are off the Republican Party since the session in Chicago, but they haven't jumped back into the Democratic Party as yet. They are waiting to see what the Democratic convention will do, *Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver ts an example. He has always been basic- ally an Independent Democrat, but has | wandered around considerably in the political corral, and within the past two years broke away from hls Dem- oeratic associations and had about de- cided to vote the Republican ticket. The Chicago convention drove’ him out of all idea of being a Republican, and at present he is a political orphan. If the Democratic Party nominates a man like Gov. Cox of Ohio and puts through @ progressive, aggressive platform, it will get back men of the type of Judge Lindse; The platform is the chief subject of discussion among the Democrats who have arrived. A fight in the Resolu- tions Committee over the Prohibition plank is certain, despite the efforts of a number of leaders to set In motion a sentiment that it would be better for the party to straddle the issue and duck @ decided expression one Way or the other, Among these leaders are Southern Democratic statesmen from Probibi- tion communities who voted for the Highteenth Amendment und the Voi- stead Act, Their contention ia that | the safest plan would be to let enough ale But they admit th juve no hope of controlling William Jennings Bryan, who intends to offer a dry plank for the platform, and that they hold no idea that Gov. Edwards of Now Jersey, and his following who want the party to go on record as favoring an amendment to the Vo ad Ac\ nitting the States to regulate the manufacture and sale of wine and beer, can be silenced. Bryan will be uncompromising In his fight for a bone dry plank favor- ing the enforcement of the Volatead Act and is counting on the support \not only of the honest Prohibitiontsts, lout the statesmen who want Jpass the buck. Such statesmen v the outlook with alarm for they ha just hed the conclusion that if with their ald Bryan ts able to get a dry plank in the platform, the con {vention will have to nominate Bryan vresident !oONLY BRYAN COULD | VOTES AS “DRY.” Nobody |n sight except Wiliam | Jennings Bryan could run on v and-out dry platform and expe get votes. The straddlers do not ¢ to come out In the open for the sort of plank that ts wanted by delerates from the big Eastern and Middle Western States, and William nings Bryan, who has not le of his political astutenoss, aware of the fact The supposition rings Bryan entertains ain pelng the Avminee of th GAIN Jen- hat William Jen- hopes of Demo > he City over the death of George Wi | Perkins, who will be buried from 7 SAN FRANCISCO, June 19,—Ten | Riverdale to-morrow. \ ‘ Jot Mr. Perkina's desth, are more politically alive than was|friend for more than twenty years the Congress Hotei in Chicago three|and a very active partner for tem years.” Steel Corporation, said: bosses from all over the country are | of Mr. Perkins. He was a man of high coming. ian © train. ‘The air is | !deals, constructive ability and intes- pad |Fity of purpose, possessed of clear vision and those humane and ki qualities which endeared him to associates in this corporation. love for his country and unfailing Patriotism were constantly in boone. oy ite of us who were aa- fed ws m enter him Seo aire ertained for loyalty, public ‘welfare have been unfailing, — the Bronx particular! mi many activities in this boroug! was through the energy and Despatches from the Mast, printea | Prize of Mr. Perkins that the Bronx in the newspapers of the far Middle | ™4de possible. at Riverdale: | highly beloved. ‘views of o| jthe public In any © mittee of the Stock Bi terday at Hackensack, N. J.P, Morgan sald: Tam deeply distressed at the news He wis @ James A. Farrell, President of the “Tam grieved to learn of the death spect and esteem.” Richard W. Lawrence, Chairman of the Bronx County Republican Com- mittee, an intimate fri - bas. ey ate friend of Mr Per ‘The country loses a man whose devotion and ‘sacrifice to In view of nion Branch of the ¥, M. C. A. was Supreme Court Justice Leonard AL » In opening court, said of Perkin, Pe was his neighbor am at the death of George W. Perkins, He was a good neighbor and was He was a consid fe eated with respect ers, even though those ccord with his own, ady at all times to serve pacity he felt he could be of service. POISON KILLS BROKER'S WIFE man and ews did not “He was to Induce Mrs. Caroline C, Simmons, forty-one” ly@ars old, wife of 1 Henry H. Sim- Governing Com- ‘hange, died yea~ summer home J, (rom an overdose Veronol taken to'induce asleep. ‘help home in New York Ja: a& No, 570 Park Avenue. Before her. earrings Bes Simmons was Miss Caroltae C. Come ns, a member of th thel stock, aE a Moss Fétate Left Wite aud Daughter EMzaheth, 2 The will of Frank Moss, former As sistant District Attorney under White man, was filed for probate in the Sur rogate’s Court yesterday. in a single sentence It disposes of his, entire eatate to his widow and daughter as follows: “1 give, devise and bequeath all my estate, real and personal, to m: \icva Bruce Moss, and iy dataghter, Eliaabeth J. Moss, in equal shares, The beneficiaries are named as @xeeu= tora to serve without bond, The pe tion placed no estimate upon the of the real property and stated the per- onality was worth more than $10J cratic Party should not be dismi: ‘With derision, The pussy-footers will have to line up on one side or the other, and Bryan figures they must. perforce line up with him. Alto gether this opens up interesting pos- sibilities, From the loks of things, ten days ahead, practically the entire popula tion of the Pacific Coast will move om San Francisco convention week, and each visitor will request, if not de- mand, a ticket. The convention hat which will seat only about 7,200 apee~ tators in addition to the 2,184 dele~ gates and alternates agd 514 press representatives, could be filled and mptied many times before it would accommodate those who have already made formal application for tickets, It will be the first, and probably the last, appearance of the Democratic menagerie in San Franctsco and every San Franciscan intends to see all th: show. To prevent an attack On the hall such as was made tn St. Lous in 1916 when the populace broke tn. police lines and pre-empted the spacs reserved for delegates, ticket holders and the press, they are building 1 high stout fence clear around. th convention hall. ‘There will be bu one way to get in through the fenc and that will require the possessio. of a ticket, SEVEN GUNVENIGWT 340K 421 Brondway Ta At +At “Astor Plager us 1440 Broadway . rads Mae Broadway At 40th Bt. » or. ‘Bt. and be your own landio: than most o pertons A Wonderful Assortment of opportunities to either by the tand upon which, to built a home or buy one ready Dullt is offered the re: of To-Morrow's Sunday 1,000 Separate / Real Estate Offers For Sale & Wanted i k. ‘ atly shocked —