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an Ten-Car Express in Rush Hour Caught Approaching Clark Street Tunnel. “DEAD ABOARD STEAMER Son of New York’s Famous Gambler Was Heir to $1,000,000. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26,—Richard Canfield jr, heir to $1,000,000 and son of the late Richard Canfield, New York's famous gambler, is dead, ac- cording to word received to-day by Verge & Wilson, the young man's at- torneys, Canfield, it is said, died while abourd ship three days out of Hono- lulu from poisoning while en route to Honolulu. : Young Canfield arrived in Holly- wood the early parts of last spring from Boston, where he had been the chief factor in several escapades. Leasing the home of Mrs, Elizabeth Stack, now in Europe, Canfield pro- ceeded to keep open house. “As a result of his desire to be a genial host, hg was arrested on the night of June 15 last, charged with disturbing the peace. Brought before Police Judge Chambers, he was found pullty und sentenced to.pay a fine of 500 and serve thirty days in jail. Canfield's attorneys immediately ap- pealed and pending the ‘hearing he was allowed his liberty under $500 ball lent to him by Clara Whipple Young. Two weeks later he was again ar- rested on the same charge, but plead- ed not guilty and asked for a jury STATION IS FLOODED. Borough Hall + Inches of Water Ea the Day. Four rly in For the second time in as many days, the signal system in the Inter- borough subways became deranged this morning, resulting in demoral- ized service during part of the rush hour and adding one more to the sev- eral tie-ups during the month. This time the trouble originated near the Brooklyn approach of the Clark Street tunnel. The trouble was caused by“what Is known as the train line,of a ten-car dead ay it approached the Clark Street tunnel Manhattan bound. ‘The train line controls the lighting and power of the ten cars. ‘This was at 8.20 o'clogk and instantly all red light signals if that block be- came permanently set against other trains, Another expr tan immediate express gol s bound to Manhat- behind the stalled train stopped for a reasonable period, when its motorman deduced that something was wrong. He put on his one Ue put on bs|Mrs. Elizabeth Caddock, Entering Her Centennial MRs E11 cabouenen™ power and proc trial. The case was set for the early ward the Clark Street tunnel. Each Year, Can Hear Perfectly, and Read and Sew , | part of September and his bond placed ime he passed a signal he was forced ra ‘ 4 we at $200. July 24 with a number of to lock his automatic power control Without Glasses—Still an Optimist. friends he sailed from San Francisco in order to get past it, Normally these automatic power controls bring Fa . a train to a stop when a red signal By Fay Stevenson. one hundred if he can enjoy s_ disregarde: mie even fairly good health,’ said Arrived at the stalled train the mo- SX: Pinsw nine) anaesuUine ns Mrs. Caddock as an optimistic tor Honolulu. Bald Tiny Quits torman pushed it through the tunnel joys her cup of tea! smile played eran ier ie ihe 2 to Chambers Street, where its passen- In fact she enjoys beef- main thing about getting old is to Hi t P. gers were discharged, Then the dis- steak, French fried potatoes and keep away from the blues and ome a raise living in the past. To-day is good enough for me. I try to be happy and“*get the most out of every, Jed train was pushed to Street, but by this time I. R. 1, workers had adjusted the trouble and the train pro- & good steaming hot cup of coffee with real cream Of Big Dog’s Hair Acaub-novth under iaiowh power aaa And what is more she ean-sew day. (ald oni new? load of, padesngers: and read without glasses, hear you “Like all people who are get- | Restorers Failing, He Dis- Later the Interborough officials an-| without asking ‘‘How?"' smile at ting along, I rise early, T am ae i notinced that the delay occasioned bY] q good joke ani tell you about | #Ways up at 6 o'clock in the appears, and Landlady the accident was about ten minutes! 1,6 G4 days in Newark us well morning and if my daughter-in- Fears Worst. ut the most, but thousands of persons SAN law isn't awake by seven I call who arrived at their Manhattan offices as all the present-day events, her.’ \ Tiny is—or was—a dog with an in- from twenty to thirty minutes late She is Mrs. Elizabeth Caddock “Daughter-in-law" nodded her |feriority complex. He felt that he found this difficult to believe. of No, 198 Smith Street, Newark, head and sai “L was called at | was lacking in red blood and virility, The Borough Hall Station of the B} x 5 ang when one has rounded quarter of seven this’ morning.” R. T. subway at Montague and Court Streets, Broo Klyn, was flooded with out ninety-nine years of life, 1s four: inches’ of this morning by! the mother of four children, “Then,” continued Mrs, Cad- a downpour of rain that sari 9,40) grandmother of twenty-one and dock, “the moment I get up I o'clock. As a result, thouSinds of] great grandmother of twenty- in to sew, ‘There was a time persons on their w to orsbes in] three, it all seems well worth ee ue A dees Sd Dont the Bani in the driving rain to the other| WhHe—this game of lie, think it woul be all wrong to let and he knew that he was lacking in hair and he was obviously ashamed of himself. There was nothing really evil about him, but he considered himself an outcast just the same, and now it is feared that he has either committed suicide or sought a boot- end of that station or to the Inter- Recently I havo: interviewed! a te at ee ne tale isegecwhichl in His’ cage “probably era noad af the subway w. number of people who have me the job of timing the ergs: would amount to the same thing. by a defective sewer at Montague and| reached the century mark, or at However, I do, a little more about He disappeared yesterday and no Court Streets. Water poured into the] least were headed in that direc- dinner, [ always fix the vege- |trace of him has been found, His mezzanine floor of the subway station] tion, but with the exception of ae (pare ti polatues with vhere the ticket choppers are located 3 % 53 as as paper, you Meg Deh ain ca it four| D Stephen Smith, Mrs, Caddock Hinow, audvmalte all the: wanes ti inches deep. Employees of the rond| ' the best preserved, physically the house—and—sometimes, when rushed to the entrance to detour pas-| @24 mentally. When I arrived at I feel particularly kittenish, to the other entrance of th the pretty Newark house, where I make a three layer cake. 3 she makes her home with her son, Charles T. Caddock, I found this three = . ry little Woman sitting out upon iree years ago, when I was Rie: inéloued porch Husiyonakecd ninety-six, | had an apartment making a fancy pincushion, and did all my own work. It Was not a bit too much for me to “Come right in,” she cordially roll up my sleeves and wash the landlady, Mrs. H. U. Kibbe, President of the Bide-a-Wee Home, No. 410 East 88th Street, says she will pay @ reward to anybody who brings him back if he is still alive, tut she hasn't very much hope, “Tiny came to use ten years ago,’ she said, ‘and the most remarkable thing about him was his lack of hair At first we thought it might be some illness, for he certainly did not look sengers ‘ } station at Montague and Clinton ck away, and passeng foreed to walk this block in a heavy rain. Policemen were rushed to the scene and handled the resultant crowds, while other B, R. T. employees armed] yecnonded to my inquiry for the sheets < table cloths. I | very robust. So we tried all sorts of themselves with heavy brooms and} young lady of ninety-nine. “Here couldn't stand waiting around | hair tonics—quite in vain. ‘Tiny re swept the water off the runways.] Tam, just as I um. I'll take off for those airy-fairy wash ladies | mained bald as a billiard ball, a hand Ten minutes later the ticket offlce] my apron if you want me to. I to come in at 10. My work was [boiled egg, or an asphalt pavement was re-opened still want to look my best, although all done by that time when I | And the more we tried to raise hair on At Canal Street, on the Manhattan] 1 have been a widow for about was head of my own home. him the yore uworthy he seemed to where Brooklyn passengers are] thirty years," “Work, good h-a-r-d work, Is | think himself. The other dogs and stomed to walk a block to the Last night Mrs. Caddock had the making of any housewife and |even the cats looked at him disdain Broadway subway ufter receiving} fer birthday party and the huge the more sho does the better she | fully, and he withdrew from society transfers, were permitted to walk bunches of gladiodi, roses, asters will feel, Don't you suppose it's “Lately he las been worse, and y¢ sround the station platforms this] and early chrysanthemums told better to push a carpet sweeper fterday, when we received a handsome morning béeause of the heavy rain, the story of family devotion and or a vacuum cleaner around than | German police dog with a magnificent = 2 many friends, A large birthday to see moving picture about | coat of huir, Tiny just whined a little, SAYS WOMAN « aaith a heart in Mis Bente hy Bunt and: eae Honey refused his luncheon, and went away d 99 was another gift which and sit so long your feet get the # : Bae KIDNAPPED HER] sto0a within the view of this grand crarpay Why, of courke ittg) |Nimoues word. We tear the Wer little lady. _ na of Jersey City Returns to Home. Never before have-I met any Mrs. Cuddock clapped enilttle Charging that she was kidnapped by| one of her age who could flash an hands together in’ gles and Vaca sman she met in a candy store near] answer back so quickly and who up her pincushion n, There that his baldness was not really his fault. He was born that way, for he is part Mexican." -_ aie Josephine Com jerstood the spirit o cca was no reason in the world why home last December and that she SE ae casio Sonne ‘ iidn't sew and talks too; FIRE NEAR TOMBS SCARES was forced to live the life at a Irudke] TOKO aitele tired and perhaps aco “You see the reason 80 many WOMEN PRISONERS on a farm twelve miles from Strouds-| ihe only indication of her. ape women dislike thelr housework,” —— burg, Pa., for the last nine months, Jo- sixteen, of No, ch to the century mark, but she contin cause they | Binge Does 825,000 Damages to phine Costang : | e very eyes need no glasses put it off, They read a novel, look Ola Dollding Across Stre OO eects se rney yor Cunt, of Detece| fOr Perusal of the paper and per- through t! pers, call up some atone ttrantfar Artactnenl the aicnt lives, Hrnnk A. Rennett of that elty mit her to sew many faney woman friend on the telephone or | a¢ No, 89 Centre Street caused a pani Police are Investigating the girl's story] Stitehes every day, even han) window before among the 0 prisoners in the last night. There e thirty-five won) prisoners on the Lafayette Street sid of the prison, but they did not boc excited until keepers started to cl their windows. They then shouted and rattled t that the woman asked the girl to. tke fj axed Hanes S trotley rido and then kidnapped her No one need fear to live ta-be make tl Along about 10:30 or 11 they yawn and begin to collect’ egg bowls and soffee cups for the dishpan, ticularly — wha it you say, kfast dishes and ‘peppy y that's the word | cell doors in protest to such an ox 1 want.’ that Deputy Warden Mills di —oV leave the windows open, - The fire did & t "But b lid you heep so fit? | three-story building, which ts + t “By being | | the time, |ffty yeurs old. How oly OF and by being happy that [| of the oted of the old New Y sing at my W I never had | law firma, once had offices in the bu time r faune es, for shows ing. or eatir od white would make me blu When 1 finished my ™ housework T had plenty of sew- busy I don't have time to wonde ing. In my younger Mays I made whether the steak is going to | tiny own clot 1 those of my hurt me or not."* children. i) 1 gan to deco _—_— rate my homey pillows, bed So, after all, tipping the quilts, pine and those to one-hundred means other feminir nucks. Tam ing-on" with plenty of yea still doing t diy about you. If you ma “Te you want to live to be @ keep busy you will be haps hundred it doe much mat- If you happy you | fer what you what you apt to live to a good « drink. ‘The t thaf counts is Mrs. Blizabeth Ci thinking right ughts—happy living exa vusy. T ean THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1922, TEWPINSUBWA [Young-Old-Lady of Newark, |NCK CANFELDIR. WUETOTRANIINE | Sais Works Sing, Live Long| DESOFPOSONNG | 5 . Stewart, Now 100 Years Old, Is Oldest Graduate of Columbia STEWART JOHN A. Aged New Yorker Spends) }"" Most of Day Reading Let- ters and Telegrams. some of whom Snot heard from in years. of Abraham nin and one of the enjoyed the friendship Morgan, Andrew Cat- Rockefeller. was considered one of the ablest finan- cial men of the Letters and telegr who was born at I Manhattan, was educat Manhattan, ceived at the congratulating is Chairman of the Board of Trustees suid to be the oldest liv- of the United States Trust Company: rust mpany of that institution, has been connected for the lust seventy years The aged banker spent most ot the | United State was elected company and retained President of the best of health and smiled as he “Stolen” Fur Neck Pieces Sold. on Street Plain Trash Beware of Youth Who Hints of Illicit Plunder—His Stuff Honest but Worthless. Have you ever, gentle, or wild, reader, been approached in the gloam- ing or at any other time by a furtive young man who offered to sell you a fur neckpiece at a bar ain and gave you to understand, without saying so, that sald fur neckpiece was the proceeds of a robbery? ably carried away the impression that you had been dealing with a seller of stolen goods. If the experience of Judge Alfred J.¢————————_______ If so, you prob- hover around Street Saturday afternoons stealthily less honest happened to the He was leavin A nearby truck Street for $6 young man stepped up to him from alongside who proved to be and offered to al him a fur said he had b looked like a regular fur neckpiece to liar industry the Judge, being lined with s carrying an orna suid he didn't 1 go and get ion of many. piece dyed fur, wh with him but back in fifteen minutes sell it to the e ind Russo of the he young man wa treet or employ the out with trucks a ell it on commis: “And the saddest thing about it is}Judge into a hallway say the stuff he The outcome was soon engaged it tion with the Judge TURNED BURGLAR TO BUY NEW SUIT Wanted to Dress Up to Visit conclusions, All right unt FIRST HIP TOTER ARRESTED IN CAFE IS FREED BY COURT Chicagoan, on Virst Here, Ignorant of New Order. burglar was ha to finish paying f On informat but the removed a screen $12 from the pants pocket of John Shay RSOVVEING Street and Os climbed a porch at thesrear of the rest and | pr 4 n | cut a 1 juicy piece of old nd t and after and beauty about a ' wing or a which makes life~ a myself wo \iie—worth while | SEEK ATTACKERS [AMERICA MUST AGT, OF B. RT. WOMAN | COX SAYS, 10 SAVE AGENT AT STATION Seized at Midnight, Screams Put Two Ass “ants to Flight. Acting Chief Inspector Dominick Henry to-day took charge of the police search for the two men who at- tacked Mrs. Mary Pollack, thirty- eight years old, of No. 659 49th Street, Brooklyn, an extra ticket agent employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Just before mid re was about to Transit Company night last night report for duty at the station at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. The attack was made about 100 feet from the station entrance in front of the yard gato of J. Myer & Son, monument makers. The two men at- tempted to drag Mrs, Pollack into the yard She resisted vigorously, and her screams finally caused the two nten to run away. She then staggered into the station, where she collapse The agent she was to have relieved telephoned the police. Dr. MeInnis of the Norwegian Hospital treated Mrs, Pollack for hys- teria and took her to her home, All the detectives of the Fourth Avenue Station, in command of Capt. James H, Gillen, and a number of pa- trolmen searched the entire Green- wood Cemetery section, near where the attack was committed, without find- ing any trace of the two men. 8 000 PASSENGERS HERE FROM EUROPE ONS BIG LINERS Two Die on Patria—Coal Shortage May Keep Ship Here. X ocean liners arrived at the Port ot New York with the first big con- signment of tourists returning from the summer abroad. ‘There were about 8,000 passengers and they and their baggage taxed the customs and immigration officials in the effort to discharge them before Sunday. There were 3,361 cabin passengers on the six liners, as follows: Patria, Fabre Line, 648; Caronta, Cunard, 663; Scythia, Cunard- Anchor, 641; America, United States Lines, 611; France, French Line, 725, and Ryndam, Holland-America Line, ‘Tthe Patria, which docked early this morning at the foot of 3ist Street, Brooklyn, reported two deaths at sea. One was Donalda Lombarda, eleven, who started from Naples with her sis- ter and brother, Terega, fourteen, and Pasquale, nine, to visit thelr grand- father, Antonio Petrelli, No, 289 16th Avenue, Ne’ an acute stot ark, N. J, She died from nh affection. Calogero Pellazia, fifty-nine, a miner of New Pittston, Pa., died of gas- tritis while hurrying home to resume work. He had b strike was over. n informed the coal Capt. Plerre Dechelles of the Patria n able to get very little nd had to stop at the coal in ane Azores. “Phere he was given enough for the tr the Azores, practically exhausting the supply at the latter place. If he can- .) to New York and back to not get coal here, he sald, he will be unable to return to France. Porch Burglar Mines Pants on Staten Island Close to Kighty Robberies Charged to Him Since July 1. Staten Island's porch climbing bur- put in a busy and profitable night, the police records indicate tiis morning. He entered four houses {n the Concord tion and got away with fifty-three dollars. Nobody saw or heard him, He has committed close to eighty burg since the Ist of Jul ection ty a ther of the inadequately policed island has worked without in- terruption Harry Brown of No, 24 Metcalf Street, Concord, felt void in his pocket when he put on his pants this morning. Investigation revealed that a burglar had climbed the rear poreh, entered Mr, Brown's bedroom and ab- stravted $11 from the aforesaid panty pocket Voliceman George Meyer, who lives ut No wus also visited by the burglar, as a removed screen showed, Y's pants were intact, At No, urglar climbed the rear poreh, and then removed There being houses in thi the burglar went to Van Duzer od Avenue, where he lence of Dr. William Friedel, removed A en and entered the docto 1 T) ctor found his trousers nthe roof ot the porch this morning, lamp and bereft of $49, and by moving from one SENTRAL EUROPE. Favors Hoover on Repara- tions Commission—Has Message From Wirth. LONDON, Aug act to save t 26—America must f Central Bu- rope from complete dissolution, James M. Cox declared to-day in a statement based upon his ob Continent He recommended that Herbert Hoo- ver should be designated by the Unt- ted States to represent this country on the R tions Commi: holds the confidence of Europe Mr. Cox conveyed a Chancellor Wirth of the people of the United to him during a conferen The message is “Unless the United States interests herself in Europe's affairs within @ very shoft time all in Germany is lost, and all in Central Europe as well.’ Mr. Cox said that there are thres reasons whi is expedient for America to take a hand In European affairs. Present conditions afford an opportunity to relieve distress, Bu- rope must be rehabilitated to provide @ market for American products. If the world's debtors are permitted to go to ruin there will be no payment of interallied debt Mr. Cox suid: ‘The storm centre of the economic world is Central Europe. Those who huve visited Austria and Germany are of one opinion regarding the state of things now and the tragic point to which both countries are drifting. Austria has reached the stage of almost complete dissolutions Germany's approach to the same con- dition is steadily marked by passing hour “The nations of Europe are des locket! on the reparations question. There seems to be no relief on this side of the Atlantic. “The master key is held by the Jnited States. No decision by ng land seems likely to ba accepted by: France. Unfortunately there is @ anti-British feelipg with the Frenen. The French Government will not sanction any proposal from Germany, which might approximate the read- Justment figures now in the minds of French statesmen because that cir- cumstance might be regarded by pub- lic opinion in France as a surrender to Germany, There the ma..er rests and every, hour is fraught witi danger." vations on the nt as he nessage front ermany to tes, given » in Berlin, ‘Yes,’ She Says To Everything, And Plot Looms But She's Only 5 and Police Got Idea She Had Been Kidnapped. Bayonne, N. J., police scented a kidnapping mystery when Patrolman Donlin picked up a five-year-old gtrt opposite the station at 7 A, M, to-day, She could not tell where she lived Did you come from far off?" she was asked yes," she replied did a strange man bring you?'* “Yes."" A general alarm was sent to all New Jersey police headquarters, but two hours later Mrs, James Axton, living at Ni West th Street, Bayonne, four doors from Poli Headquarters, claimed the child as her daughter Margi “She answers ‘yes’ to any question explained. ntly moved to you ask her," shi The Axtons only No. 3 It’s toasted. This one extra process gives a delightful quality that can not be duplicated Notice to Advertisers 4 release order® eWorld or The I swes 7PM. the da uit and a Wold THE WORLD“ ee ie