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i, te f i) a VOL. LXII. NO. 21,953—DAILY. ort Five Jurors Chosen for BRIDE OF 18 DIES IN BLAZE: HUSBAND FATALLY BURNED AN EFFORT e pee Oil Heater Upsets in Room and Flames Spread to Bed Where Couple Slept. OTHER TENANTS SAVED. One Girl Unconscious From Fright in Early Morning Blaze in the Bronx. | Mrs. Rebecca Schneider, eighteen | years old, a bride of two weeks, was | burned to death in her bed duriig a/ fire at No. 749 Tinton Avenue, the | Bronx, at 3.30 A. M. to-day. | Her husband, Davtl Sehneider, twenty-two yeat#ewi, was so badly burned in repeated efforts to save her that it was said in Lincoln Hospital he could not recover. . During the fire Policeman Bugene Bacaglint found, Henrietta Kosar / seventeen, who \ivés vn the second floor helpless in the second floor hat'- way and carried her to the street She was suffering so from shock, due to fright, she was taken to BAncoln Hospital. The Schneiders had just fitted up @ five-room apartment on the top floor of the four-story building, fol- lowing their honeymoun®™” The fire escapes on the building are on the outside of what was their living room. ‘Their bedroom was behind the living room. An oi] heater was left on last aight in the living reom. Schnelder’s con- dition was such when he was rescued that all he could teH was that the heater turned over, and he was burned about the face and arms try- ing to put out the fiames. The oil spread over the floor, and he ran to the fire escape and shouted for help, His cries aroused the other eleven families in the house, and most of the neighborhood. Policemen Gordon Guderman and William Kelly of the Morrisania Station sent in an alarm and ran into the building to help out the tenants. Many df them had run to the roof, some were on the fire escapes, and others were shouting -rom windows. Nobody at first, seemed to know where the fire was. When Schneider saw the police: men running into tho building, he dashed back to rescue his wife. Evi~ dently she bad been asleep and did not know the beater bad caught fire. @chnelder found the burning oil rad spread so he was cut off from the bedroom, but be .aude severai at- tempts to get through, only to fall back aftersthhaling flames. Police- men forced the doof of his iving room and dragged him out just in time to prevent his perishing with his bride. Truck No. 19, under Lieut, Hamil- fon Rider, came as flames began shooting out of the windows. Lad- @ers were run up to the roof and the different floors, and men, women and children were carried or assisted to the street, all of them 80 scantily dressed they had to be rushed into the homes of neighbors because of the freezing weather. The wind was high and water froze almost as rapidly as it touched the house, and Battalion Chief White sent @ second alarm that brought Deputy Chief Carlock, It was not until everybody was out of the house and the blaze was under control that firemen, by throwing a barrage of water, were able to get into the Schnelder bedroom. The bride's body as almost entirely consumed. “She fire was confined to the top| floor apartments and did $2,500 dam-| age. The police of the Morrisania| Station did good work finding shelter, hot coffee and food for the persons who were driven out of their homes ¥ temporarily. eee ery Wortay by Press Eobo d 1D22. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, “Circulation Books Open to Ai.”| 1922, Entered as Sccont-Clase Matter Post Office, New York, N, ¥. TO RESCUE HER TWOLITLEGIRLS PERISH W FIRE AT PORT WASHINGTON Victims in $100,000 Blaze Aged 5 and 3 Years—Fami- lies Driven From Homes. OF G.0.P.POLITCS, FARMIER IS KING PIN CONVENTION SHOWS Harding’s Proposals Reveal | Agricultural Bloc Has Won Victory. CONCESSIONS FORCED. i | |Financing of Crops Will Be | Campaign Issue if Aid Is Not Granted. By David Lawrence. | | (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Copy- right).—The farmer came into his own | to-day. | He heard the President of the | United States avow that the farmer Marie Tasano, five years old, and must haye long-time credits to finance Antoinette Cestair, three years old, his crops, and that agriculture has a were burned to death in a fire which | right to as much consideration by the Mu ENRIGHT ECONOMY" TOCOST TAXPAYERS AMON OR MORE City’s Own Valuations Dis- prove Claim Police Plan Will Save Money. FEWER STATIONS, TOO. Part of Scheme Calls for Scrapping Six to Build Four —Deficit $708,000. When Police Commissioner Enright announced that he proposed abolish- ing a number of old police stations and replacing them with others he ex- plained that one of the purposes of the change was economy. To-day the Committee of the Whole of the Board of Estimate is consider- ing the first request in the Enright “economy” plan. It is for eight new sites and buildings for police stations, rder Trial of Slay GARLAND TO DROP HIS WIFE AND LIVE WITH OTHER WOMAN; NOT A POLYGAMIST, HE SAYS e GARLAND AND WIFE HE WILL DESERT waa ciapinae Heir to $1,600,000 Announces His Faith in Marriage - Is. Gone. SOULMATE DISAPPEARS. fillian Conrad, Art Student, Leaves Boston Home ' With Baggage. , / (Snecial to The Prening World.) BOSTON, Jan. 23.—"'I don't believe | that a man can love two women. I am not a polygamist and I do not wish to have my wife with me and also Lilljan Conrad, whom I love.’* This was the declaration of Charles Garlana, millionaire —_back-to-the- Jander, who cafes not for money or conventions, not even: the ceremony of marriage. “I love Lillian Conrad and 1 jntend to live with her as man and wife here in Carver." Thus Garland frankly, without any trace of embarrassment, explained his present feeling in the FOR OTHER.WOMAN Body Will Rest IN BASILICA OF ST. PETERS TQ PAY THEIR LAST HOM Be be PRICE THREE CENTS er Boddy THRONGS PASS POPE'S BIER ibe % e- Until To-Morrow. ae ROME, Jan, 23 (Associated Press).—The meeting of the ‘Sacred College in conclave to elect a successor to the late Pope Benedict will open Feb. 1 or Feb, 2, it was stated to-day. r = i While all the Cardinals resident in Europe are expected to teach started at 3 o'clock this mornitig at Main and Herbert Streets, Port Washington. Four buildings were burned with a total loss of $100,000. i aye Betrvetion and re well ablazh before the firemen began arriving. The fire hydrants were frozen and the firemen were obliged to rely! on their chemical en- gines. The block which burned is obliquely opposite the Long Island Railroad stu- tion on the east side of Main Street. The station was scorched. The fire ts believed to have started in the hardware store of Antonio and Charles Musante, in which turpen- tine, paints ond olls were stored. Several explosions preceded the first outburst of flame from the windows. The fire spread quickly to the pool room of Tony Martin and then to the restaurant and hotel of Bernard Mc- Court on the south and the trans- former station and offices of the Nassau Light & Power Company on the north, Five families were driven into the streets. The children who lost their lives were members of families living over the hardware store and pool reom, It was not until 10 o'clock that the fire was sufficiently under control for the’ recovery of their bodies. Calis for the Fire Departments of neighboring towns were answered by all the volunteer firemen and their apparatus within a radius of seven miles, including Plandome, Manhas- set-Lakeville, and Great Neck, The buildings were completely de- stroyed, The McCourt Hotel prop- erty belonged to Patrick McGirr of New York City. All electric light service was cut off. The Neilson Building and the Mitchell grain and feed warehouse on the west side of Main Street were saved by their asbestos roofing on which chunks of burning material, driven by the high wind, lodged. DEATH LINGERS IN CORN LIQUOR, SAYS DRY AGENT Moonshine Distilled Only Once, He Explains, and Poisonous. Fusel Oil Remains, LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan, 25 Death lurks in white corn Mquor,"" declares George H. Blincoe, Federal ‘Prohibition Agent “It all contains fusel oil, one of the most deadly poisons. First-run moonshine is ‘rank poison’ yet the moonshiner who makes the stuff—first shots it is called by the legitimate dis. disti! 1t again, but sells it as it is for drinking purposes,"" Double distillation and aging in charred barrels for at least four years is necessary to remove the fuse] oll, Mr. Blincoe says, “No moonshine I have ever seen in my experience as a Prohibition RLY TRAVEL BUREAU, (World) Building, | 63-03 7. lephone he enforcement officer has been aged The bootleggers’ motto seems to be ‘full speed ahead’ and neve: safety firet."” tiller—doesn't trouble himself t> bankers of the country as any other industry or business. The President's address was a significant climax to tha, movement whlch the agricultural cements of the atin have started in the last year for better ti¥iatment of the farming IntérestS by thie Gov- ernment. ‘The farmers applauded again and again as Mr, Harding expressed not |}merely sympathy with their suffer- ings, but a conviction that agricul- ture must be put on a business basis! with the aid of the banking facilities | of Government. Back of the President's speech was a consciousness of the imme: politi- cal power which the so- 4 aeri- cultural bloc—a group of Republican as well as Democratic members of Congress—have begun to wield as a} consequeace of the active demands ot) the farmers in the agricultural voting districts of the country. And whilé Mr. | Harding sought to impress his hearers that the issue was not one of class or a bloc, it was plain that the farmer at last had made nis point and that the summoning of the conference it- self was a notable victory. Farmers of the academic type, dirt farmers, editors of agricultural jour- nals, Members of Congress from farming districts crowded the hall where the President spoke, It was by far the most interesting conference Washington bas seen in many a day. For in the faces of the audience was evident a tenseness and an alertress which indicated that mere words would in the end not avail much, Mr. Harding did not hesitate to point out to the farmers that the bui- den is not altogether the Goverr- ment's and that a way must be foued by the farmers themselves to con- solidate their interests and help them- selves, But before the Washington Conference on Agriculture adjourns, a crystallized opinion on Government aid to the farmer in financing Lis crops will have developed, which witl it not granted become the chief tssue of the Congressional campaign. It is not a question of parties, for the agit- cultural Democrats are of the same trend of thought as the agricultural Republicans The party in power however, usually suffers from a protest vote, and many members of Congress from rural dis- tricts who are up for renomination will find opposition in the primaries unless they have used thelr influence successfully for the betterment of con- ditions on the farm. It is the farmer who fs thé king pin of Republican politics to-da this week, this year HARDING INDORSES ST. LAWRENCE PLAN FOR ACCESS TO SEA He Tells National Agricultural Con- ference Canal Project Is Best for Farmer. WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.—President Harding, opening the National Agri- cultural Conference here to-day, out- lined a comprehensive programme for meeting ‘the grim reality of the present crisis in agriculture."* Warning that if the nation fails to matter. * a new building to be used as a garage Two important developments oc] and the alteration of a number ot| curred in the Garland affairs yester- |Rome in time for the conclave, it is considered extremely doubttul here {whether the American Cardinals wij! find it possible to be present. at, least for the opening of the session, as-the date set is barely ten days away: Cardinals Maffi, La Fontaine and Ratli of Pisa, Venice aud*Mitan, respectively, are the most prominently mentioned in Vatican ites day as the likely candidates for the position of successor to Pope precincts. The cost of these is es- timated by the Police Commissioner at $2,035,000, Being head of - the Police Depart- meé&t, Richard KE. Enright will have the Tight to mako the first selection of sites, it being then within the province of the Board of Estimate to approve or disapprove. Tho land may be purchased either at private sale, which, however, must be conducted demned by Corporation Counsel O'Brien and acquired in regular court proceedings. But Commissioner En- tight will have the first pick. first police station the Police Commissioner would abolish is the Oak Street Station. It is listed at No. 9 Oak Street and actually occupies the property at Nos. 9 and 11, The first step in the Enright ‘‘econ- omy" plan is to wipe out this sta- tion by turning It over to the Sink- ing Fund Commission and replacing it by the erection somewhere else of @ $175,000 station on a $76,000 plot, total cost $250,000, The property to be abandoned is valued by the city at 60,000—$35,000 for land and $25,000 for the building. Real estate men in- sist, however, that the Oak Street Station House ts not worth anything like $25,000. But basing the entire cost of the property at $60,000, Com- missioner Enright’s “economy” in this particular instance will cost tax- Payers $190,000, for that Is tho differ- ence bétween the city's own estimated value of the Oak Street Station prop- erty and the new site and building which Enright would acquire. The next proposition in the Enright “economy” plan is that the Charles Street Station at No, 135 Charles Street, and the station at No. 258 Mercer Street be discontinued and that one new site and bullding be ac- quired to replace them. The Charles Street property has a yaluation on the city’s books of $100,000, of which $33,- 000 is for land. The property actually runs from No. 183 to 137 Charles Street. The’ Mercer Street property runs from No. 263 to 265 Mercer Street and is valued at $39,000, of which $27,000 Js for the land. The total assessed valuation of the com- bined Charles Street and Mercer Street properties is $139,000. The new larger station with which (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) BOOTLEGGERS TRY TO TAKE DEATH OUT OF POISONED RUM Dry Authorities Say Two German Chemists in This City Are Working on Scheme. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Prohibition authorities are on the trail of two German chemists alleged lo be working wilh @ aid the farmer it will “precipitate a (Continued on Six bootlegger organization In New York, in an effort to nullify the Poisonous character of denatured alcohol, Ben Atking of the Industrial Alcohol Division of the Prohibi tion Bureau said to-day the boot- leggers had been engaged in the wholesale treatment of de ured alcohol and the German chemists had been brought to this country to ald, by the Comptroller, or it may be con- ; | day. First of all, Miss Lillian Conrad, twéaty-five years old, blonde student, former secretary to Charles Garland’s mother and now his love-mate, has Qigappeared from her last known ad- dresy—No. 16 St. Charies Street, South End, ‘Boston. ‘and baggage fair Lillian departed without explana- tions. She has not gone to Carver, | with intentions of making lier perma- nent abode there. Second in importance comes tie news that another ‘‘work out your destiny in the soil,"’ far mis to be es- | tablished here aside of the origins! ‘one where Garland pholosophizes anil farms. The new comer will be Miss Doris Benson, forwnerly employed as a servant at the magnificent beach e tate of Charles Gurland’s mother at | Bays’ End, which skirts Buzzards‘ Bay. Miss Benson at present Is at Am- herst in the western part of the State, where she attends the Massit- chusetts Agricultural College. On the | adjoining farm she will work out her | problems, according to Garland. | It was shortly after dusk when a reporter reached the much-chirstened shack of Garland that passes for a farm house. The man who is going to give a million dollar Inheritance | away that it may not confilct with his working out his own problems was washing dishes that were quickly snapped up and wiped by twelve- year-old George Wrightington, son of la neighbor and replica of Wesley Barry, the juvenile screen star. “You can state for me,"’ declared Garland, ‘that I love Lilliam Conrad and that we plan to live together here os man and wife,"’ “Don't you fear unpleasant conse: quences from Iiving thus from a standpoint of the law?’’ His inter- viewer asked. “Consequences must take care of themselves,"’ was the reply. Emphatic ts Garland in his devia that he believes in loving more tnan one woman at‘a time. He doesnt know how long he will love Miss Cor- rad or when her love for him will > 2 ett OJURORS CHOSEN ASBODDY MURDER Against Policemen or Against Negroes. (Continued on Second Page.) DUDLEY MALONE’S BRIDE WON'T USE HUSBAND’S NAME to-day in the tris! of the Negro. tective Sergeant }rancis J. Buckley. one of the police officers killed by him on Jun. 5, the other being L tective Sergeant Mille the n will return to New York im Feb- ruary, (Continued on Second Page.) “MR. and MRS. CHARLES GARLAND. TRIAL OPENED Talesmen Grilled for Prejudice In the examination to obtain jurors Luther Boady, for the murder of De- H ,. |auestion asked hy District Attorney Wants to Be Called Doris |Banton was whether talesmen bad Bj any prejudice against policemen, ‘The Stevens, Without Either chief question of ex-Judge Morris Miss or Mrs. Koenig of assigne!! counsel! to the de fendant, was whether they had any MAHA, Neb., . 23.—Dud- . a a aie ae ane "d- | race prejudice. ey Fe one's wife, whom he | ‘The jurors chosen were: William married a few weeks ago, has re- |H. Wilson, dry euc No, 340 West fused to take her husband's name | 47th Street; Henry M. Mayper, in wi Stevens, | Surance, No. 16 Hast 87th Str and will be known. aa Dorts Lele Arthur Totten, jewelry salesman, Nc In @ letter just received by her | 335 west 14th Str Taha We MAGEE mother, Mrs. H. 8, Stevens, she |taxicab owner, No, 604 West 130t) wrote;— Street, and Maurice Long, salesman, “Use neither Miss nor Mrs. in = aus vee 136th Street. ; n inkling of what one phase o writing me, Address me simply 48 lithe defense is likely to be wus intt Doris Stevens, I shall be known | mated tn the question it put to ever by that mame, just as I have been | talesman:” What would be the ef : ” fect on your mini If it, were sow? sat eee 4 by the defense that Boddy iad been ‘Doris was always opposed to ® |neaten up by the police and that woman taking the name of her /driven to the belief he would again husband,"' sald Mra, Stevens. meet bodily harm he sought to pro The Malones are in Paris, but |fect himself?" During the examination of talesny favofite. reverently before the catafalque. HIGHER R. R. RATES NOT PROHIBITED U. S. Supreme Gourt Dismisses North Dakota’s Suit Against a Number of Roads. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The suit of the State of North Dakota to pro- hibit the Chicago and Northwestern and other railroads in that Stat® from charging increased rates within the Btato was dismissed to-day by the Bupreme Court. The court in dismissing the pro- ceedings declared that the suit should have been brought in the United States District Court and that the Federal Government should hava been made party to the suit. DEFENDS RENT LAW IN SUPREME COURT State Files Supporting Brief Calling Attention to Housing Shortage and Need of Statute. ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—A sup- plemental brief was filed in the Su- preme Court to-day in behalf of the ‘Attorney General and the Joint «eg- islative Committee on Housing of the State of New York, in two rent law cases now pending which were brought to test the constitutionality of the New York rent law. The brief directed attention to the housing shortage in New York and presented reasons in support of a mo- tion that the Supreme Court dismiss the cases or affirm the judgments of the lower courts, which were in favor of the law. esi eres WESLEYAN RECEIVES $150,000 BEQUEST Ballding wment F MIDDLETOWN, Conn,, Jan. 23.—A bequest of $150,000 to Wesleyan Uni- desity is in the will of Mrs. Dexter Smith of Springfield, Maas,, who died ast week, President William Arnold «nklin was informed to-day. Phe money will be available either toward erection of a new library build ing or for the General Endowment Fund at the discretion of the trusteca. peal Se ee SHOOTING VICTIM ALSO HELD. Harry Newman, alias “Chick"* New- nan, twenty-six, of No, 120 Christopher Street, will be arraigned to-day charged with felonious assault for the alleged shooting on Sept. 24, of William Collins allas “Buster” Collins, who also lives at No. 120 Christopher Street, Collins re covered and ig mow in the Tombs un‘ler ndictment for an alleged hold-up com- mitted since his discharge from St. Vin- cent's Hospital, / r Idict. In these circles, Cardinal Mafft apparently is pronouncetl In the Basilica of SA Pelew’s, historiechaith of his Waith, tne of Pope Benedict XV. lay in state toxday while vast throngs * Early in the day all that was ‘mots takiof the late Pontiff, whose death it the early hours of Sunday plunged the Churgh throughout the world intg * deepest mourning, was taken from the Throne Room of the. Vatican, where it had been placed én Sunday, . shortly after bis death, so:omly carried to St. Peter's, attynded! by a solemn procession of Cardinals,’ Priests, members of the Diplomatic. Corps and dignitaries of the Vaticati, and placed on the» datafalque, sure rounded by votive candies. Word was given that the public of} Rome would be admitted to St. Peter's! up to 11 o’cléck and immense crowds Immediately began enterimg the vant’ edifice and filing past the body of thé! Pontiff. * i The body is robed in white, with stole and chasuble of red embroidered with gold. The head, wearing the pontifical mitre, reposes upon cush- jons of red and gold velvet. The hands, wearing tho pontifical gloves’ , of purple silk and holding the rosary, * are clasped over. the breast, As It was solemnly brought into St. Peter's the body was berne upou & red-covered bier by ushers clad ib mediaeval costumes of scarlet. The procession was headed by the ger darmerie of tho Vatican, the pontifical’ police, wearing their elaborate uni- forms of blue and white and walking with drawn swords. Following thea were the Palatine Guards in dar blue uniforms and plumes of black feathers standing orect. Of the Cardinals who followed It the procession Cardinal Gasquet alonk was dressed in full black. Cardinaté Fruehwirt and Boggiani stood ont itt the distinction of their white Domint- can robes while the remainder of thi Cardinals, more than twe score in number, due to the arrival of a num ber of tho Italian Cardinals, wore the red of their rank. . All moved with bowed heads, reelt- ing their prayers and proceeding at a slow pace, their faces grave with the solemnity of the occasion Guards flanked the members of the Baecred College. Then came the members of the Diplomatic Corps ip black mourning attire. The bishops and monsignori, numbering some 200, fell in behind, closing the long and salemn file. Passing from the Throne Room tof the Hall of Clementine, the cortege entered the Loggia and proceeded down the Scala Hegia to the first foor, then along the Loggia of Kaphael to the Pope's robing room for religious ceremonies, passing through the very corridor where it is thought tis Holiness caught the cold h resulted in bis death, Procession then passed through tho Sala Ducale to the stairs of Come, stantiney and thence alon jo the en- trance to St. Peter's on! into the massive edifice, where the hedy will lle in state until to-morrow in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrement, ‘Long before it was announced that the body of the ex-Pontiff could bh viewed by the public large cimwils had gathered in front of Bt, Peter's, Solemn Ceremonies Mark Removal a of Late Pontiff From Throne Room of Vatican to the Chapel, Where — »