The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1922, Page 6

3 VQ about ten days, COMPTROLLER, DES IN ALBANY HOME State Official, Stricken With Apoplexy, Had Been Ill Ten Days. ALBANY, May 10.—James Augus- tus Wendell, State Comptroller, died at his nome in this city ut 3 o'clock this morning following an attack of apoplexy. Mr. Wendell had been ill The condition of the Comptroller showed a change for the worse shortly =) after midnight, and mombers of the 4 3B. Hawn, family were summoned by Dr. Clinton the attending physician i They were at the bedside when the | @nd came. Mr. Wendell was for more than 28 Years in the service of tite Stato, and all that time was spent in the Comp- trofier’s Office. Hoe was born in Fort Plain, Montgomery County, oa Janu- ary 1, 1869, and after completing his high school education, studied law for a time. do abandoned his plans to follow the legal profession, however, entering the Fort Plain National Bank as a clerk, In 1894 Mr. Wendell won, through & competitive examination, a place in the Comptroller's Office. He remained DEAD AT ALBANY OF APOPLEXY Taught in THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1922. EVENING SCHOOL INPARK, PLAN FOR LOWER EASTSIDE. English for Foreigners Will Be Seward Park With Electric Blackboard. n Missionary Corps of high ys and girls who have heen veral monthk devoting their time three evenings @ week to teach ing Ex n east side homes. The iren are the great educa ree on the east side, Mr says, and without their aid BRITISH POLICE ARREST DEPORTED CONFIDENCE MAN. One of Pate Who Trickeg Austra- lan “Merry Widow” Here Is Held at Port. for at progress can be made in the teaching of English to the parents. The object of the school ts to teach dults to read English, so may absorb American ideas, rd of Education has volun- to furnish trained workers to aid in the installation of the open air schoo! Copycight, 1922 (New York Bvet r pylehy Breas Pustianing js alae SOUTHAMPTON, May 10)— Charles Grant Doyle, known in New York as Hobbs, and his companion, Hugh Roland, the two British confidence m@ who at- tached themselves to the globe trotting tour of Mrs, Jane Lewis, the Australian “Merry Widow,” were stopped by the police when the Uner Oropeta docked here. Doyle was arrested, but Roland was released after questioning. Mrs. Lewis was reported to be out $25,000 as the result of her acquaintance with the two men. Miss Elst Stevens ————<—.—____ GENPRAL ASPHALT MEETING, At the annual meeting of the General Avphalt Company yesterday in Cam- INES h. WENDEL, STATE OFFICIAL nwende arrangements have been perfected the : ont” eT ee achool will soon be opened. , With the co-operation of Arthur WILGUS QUITS TUNNEL POST.) joiiiams, General Manager of the Consulting Engineer Resigns—Ac-| New York Edison Company and tion Rumored Over Tilt. Col. William J. Wilgus has resigned as consulting engineer on the proposed city tunnel to Staten Island. Col. Wilgus was out of town yesterday and no reason for his action was learned from city officials. It waa rumored a grave difference of opinion between him and Arthur 8. Tuttle, Chief Engineer of the Board of Batimate, who proposes to con- struct a tunnel for which no railroad connections have been provided. As consulting engineer Col. Wilgus received & salary of $10,000 a year. The Citizens’ Union sent a letter yes Harry M. Sehlacht, President of} den, Horatlo G. Lioyd and Wu-|an English actress; her flange, Ralph , “ha ‘, ree, | Mam h, whose terms as di 19 |A. M. Haslan, and her chaperon, Mrs. the Downtown Chamber 6f Commerce, | am Cravaths wie etirtbally ie 8) Fae Mellands were oF the DIY Kiso filed application to-day with Park- Pretdohe hvala ‘or threo} ind the unpleasantness in New York : years, Presfdent Sewall sald the com: | ppoiled their tour. 7 sioner Gallat 0 repo! Commissioner Gallatin for permission |v .ny would show. a lose from opera | Neither Doyle nor Roland had pass- to use the arena in Seward Park, | tions during the first’ quarter of this |vorts when they reached New York, but Hester and Essex Streets, as an open] year of between. $400,000 and $500,000. | they sald they had. lost them. They school for ching Ei ‘his lows, however, {# about one-thiru | were “deported and came back to Eng- air evening school for teaching Eng- than that reported for the same|'and without resistance rather than stay sh to foreigners. The Commissioner | period last year. and face the charges in Amertea, is in favor of the plan, and as all| == member of the Advisory Board of the Downtown Chamber of Commerce, a great electric Nght sign “black- board’ will be erected in the park, facing the open alr school space This will be equipped to flash the letters) of the alphabet and simple words in English, ‘Announcers speaking through meg- aphones will pronounce the letters land words and the pupils will repeat them, The system is along the lines used by the Y. M. C. A. during the French to the dough- SOUTHERN BISHOPS CHEER FOR WILSON Methodist Conference Hot Sprngs, Ark., Ac- claims His Name. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., May 10 (Associ- ated Press).—Halling Woodrow Wilson at the “apostle of modern democracy and world peace,” delegates to the Gen- eral Conference of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South staged a demon- at stration hefe last evening In the former) 9 President's honor that lasted several minutes. ‘The scene resembled a political meet- ing. Even the more elderly Bishops rose to their feet to cheer. After the presid- ing officers stopped the hubbub the con- vention adopted, with shouts of accla-| ¢ mation, a resolution extending greetings to Mr. Wilson and pledging the Confer~ ence ‘to the promotion of the great] ¥ truths he has so ably set forth.” The resolution also extended the Con- ference’s congratulations to President Harding and Secretary Hughes. terday to the Board of Estimate pro- testing against the tunnel appropriation ing Deputy Comptroller for ton years, | °f $4:080,000 scheduled to be made by Ho was elected Comptroller in No-| ‘Ne board on Friday, vember, 1920, being, so far as known, a= the first state official to be elected head of a department In which he had werved for so many years. ‘BIG BILL’S’ PANTS WILL NEVER FIT WILLIE—NEVER ANADARKO, Okla., May 10. “Big Bill," a Caddo Indian, liv- ing near Gracemont, has just or- dered his summer suit, @ pair of trousers and a shirt. Tt took ten yards of material to war in teach! boys in France. 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