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VOL. LXXX. NO. 7.
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 7, 1912. CoVVH0M. 1912. by th flu,. Printing and l'ubU,Mno Afciatlon.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
HAYES AND WALDO
PACE EACH OTHER
Many Thought Kx-Inspeetor
n Roller Witness Than
His Superior.
SUDDEN END TO HA IDS
llnyos Had Cleaned District,
hut Stopped Short .
Last March.
GAYXOIfS V1KWS NOT (JOT
Accused Policoinnii Tells of
Tli rent ly Waldo to
Tiro Him."
The trial of Inspector Cornelltn O.
Hayes, which began In the trial room of
I'ollce lleadquorlcis yesterday morn
ing nt ID o'clock, offered iiti oppor
tunity both to Commissioner Waldo and
ti Capt. Hayes to take the stnnil before
the day was out nnil try to settle under
oath the iucstlon hh to whether Hayes
uas KUllty of making a false statement
when he snld on AugiHt li! tliHt Com
missioner Wnldo had Riven him orders
not to Interfere with disorderly houses
In the Tenderloin.
The Commissioner and Capt. Have
were the only witness of the day,
with the exception of n hrlef time spent
In the witness chair by the Commis
sioner's stenographer.
The trial will be resumed this morn
ing nt 10:30 o'clock, and It may be that
after all the Ions list of witnesses shall
have been examined the fact will de
velop that tho entire trlnl was for
naught. There were strong Indications
yesterday that Lawyer Thomas I).
Thacher. counsel for. llayrs. conferred
yesterday with onii of the best known
lawyers of the city and that during
this conference Mr Thacher agreed
with the celebrated lawyer that the fHCt
that Hayes was reinstated for an hour
lat Thursday cleans Hayes's slate
automatically of the charges on which
he Is now being tried, as was suggested
In The Svn yesterday.
And so It Is said that the plan of
Hayes and his counsel since Thursda
had been to let the trial proceed yes
terday and to avoid all discussion of
whether or not Hayes had been cleared
until the trial on the charges was under
way. If HaveaM the end rtPthe pres
ent trial Is vindicated, all well and good.
If he Is not, according to those who
profess to be close to the ex-inspector
and hla counsel, Hayes can nppcnl to
the Appellate Division, be reinstated and
reimbursed with his back salary nnd In
terest and In the meantime he will have
had a pleasant vacation.
No Objection to I he Trlnl.
In other words, by the present trial
he has everything to gain, and accord
ing to high legal ndvlce, nothing to lose.
The trial yesterday morning, therefore,
was permitted by the Hnes side to
begin without nny reference on the part
of Hnyes's lawyer as to the right of
the trial commissioner to proceed. In
this way no opportunity would bo of
fered, tho prosecution In case of a de
cision that the old charges were wiped
out to bring new charges on which he
could he tried according to law.
No one, however, who attended the
nil day session in the court room yes
lerday doubted for a minute that, once
started, this particular trial is to be
toughl out as If It were the beginning
nnd end of everything so far as Hayes
ii concerned, Every Inch was contested
oy Mr. Thacher and by Hayes himself
when toward the end of the afternoon
he had a chance to testify.
Waldo III at Eair.
Non-partisans who had dropped In
during the day and even those who
mlsht be Inclined for official or other
reasons to favor the prosecution's side
ould not help but remark In the corri
dors of I'ollce Headquarters last evening
a'ter the end of tho afternoon ses
Mnn how much better a witness Hayes
had made In his defence than the Com
mlJtloner had made for the prosecution
during the morning and early afternoon.
Commissioner Waldo's answers were
Involved and he was evidently 111 at
eaje He sighed with relief when he
excused from the chair at 3 o'clock
n the afternoon.
Hayes, who followed him after a re
"ff of half an hour, gave his answers
In a terse, clean cut and decided man
ner, whereas the Commissioner's an
swers to Mr. Thacher's questions were
long and ao roundabout and at times
argumentative that on one occasion
Hayes's lawyer was compelled gently
o reprove him.
"I don't want you," Bald Mr. Thacher
fnmewhat heatedly to the Commissioner
one stage of his questioning, "to give
a lecture on the general administration
of the Police Department every time I
fcsk you about a particular transaction."
MeKnr Itnlra Hp Max Preside.
The expected question of the right of
Ftrst Deputy Commissioner Douglas I.
MrKay to preside as the trial Judge In
lew of the fact that Hayes haa Bub
pnnnreed him as u witness woa brought
n when tho court convened. Lawyer
Thncher's blood was up as aoon as Mr.
McKay took tho chair and the lawyer
Insisted upon being sworn bo that he
"tild testify that certain testimony of
Hayes's would bo brought forth which
Mr. McKay, according to tho defence, is
in a position to verify and that there
' t Mr McKay should not Bit.
Mr. Thacher said that regardless of
whether or not tho prosecution of the
defence called Mr. McKay tho fact re
mained that Mr. McKay, after the trial,
would "go Into his secret chamber with
knowledge of these facts In his heart
without opportunity of cross-exomlna-1
"n outside this case" and consequently
fvui(j tint preside.
Mr McKay ruled that nothing had
"mi j-hown to convince him that he
Continued on Fourth rage.
YAWL PHANTOM BURNS.
IVarrntr Kacapea When Slmr r'.
plodcd on nooth Yachl.
The yawl Phantom, one of the fastest
and ablest yachts of hor class enrolled
In the New York and Atlantic Yacht
Club fleets, was totally destroyed by
fire last night and sunk nt her anchor
age In Huntington Hay, about half n
mile north of the Chateau des Heaux
Arts pier.
H. S. Uootli, the owner of the yacht;
Thomas Eaton, her captain; the cook
and one hand were on board when the
gasolene stove upon which the cook was
preparing supper exploded and set fire
to the yacht's cabin. All four had nar
row escapes, both from suffocation and
drowning. They owe their rescue to
Elmer Garrctson. manager of tho Ucaux
Arts, who first saw the blazing yacht
from the shore. He rowed out to her In
a small boat and took the men off. Ttie
captain was overcome by smoke and one
of the men was overboard when he ar
rived. The yawl's boat had been sent
ashore with one man before the fire.
Mr. Ilooth, who with his crew Is being
enred fur nt the Chatenu des Heaux
Arts, told the thrilling story of their
vain efforts to save the yacht. "The
explosion look place." said he, "nt
twenty minutes to 7 and the yacht sank
at y o'clock. The blazing gasolene
spread from the galley, which Is mid
day between the cabin nnd the fore
castle, to the mattresses In the men's
bunks. The captain and 1 thought that
by closing her up und throwing buckets
of water on the lire, we could smother It,
hut the smoko drove us out of t lie cabin
after u hard fight.
"Ah soon as we opened the compan
lonwny she burst Into flames on deck
and then It was a light for life, throwing
water on It till help came from Mr. Oar
retson. lie tried with an axe to cut a
hole In the hull below the water line
so she would sink and drown the fire,
but the flames drove him and others off
and we finally had to abandon her when
the hollow mast fell nnd she burned to
the water's edge. I am sorry to lose
her, but glad that no lives were lost."
.lust before tho yacht sank Capt. Gar
retson made a line fast to her stern nnd
buoyed her with a life preserver so that
a wrecking tug that Is going there this
morning may And her. The Phantom
is a composite built yacht with Tobln
bronze flames and a lead keel. She was
designed by William Gardner and built
nt City Island In 1903 by U. !. Wood.
Out of six starts In the New Vork Yacht
Club cruise in August she won Ave cups,
Including the navy challenge cup. Mr.
Booth hays he values her at $12,000. He
had Just spent 16,000 In refitting her,
including a new suit of Ratsy sails.
SENDS 112 POUND WATERMELON.
Ten Milpit Mtinatrr n I'rhiclr I'nr
In n. F. Vonkutn.
Some day next weka flatcarwHl be
shunted down the lxng Island' Rall
road tracks as far ns Farmingdalc. On
It, braced on two sides, will be one
watermelon.
A truck will draw alongside the flat
car. Four or live men will ease tho
monster onto the truck and the biggest
watermelon ever grown in all Texas
sent on Its own car all the way from
that Slate will bo dellered at the sum
mer home of Henjamln F. Yoakum.
oakum Is known In Texas as the em
pire builder of the Southwest nnd Is
hend of the Frisco lines. He Is re-
garded there much as James .1. Hill Is
In the Northwest.
! The melon weighs 112 pounds, so a
despatch to Mr. Yoakum says. It was
grown by .ludge Norman O. Tlttrell of
Houston, n personal friend of Mr.
Yoakum.
"What are you going to do with a
melon that size?" Mr. Yoakum woa
asked.
"Eat It." he replied.
TRIAL SEPARATION FOR BEATTYS.
.lodge Can't See Hurt- lie Control
Airship Yet l.paea Temper.
I'ollce Justice John lluhler of Mineola
yesterday suspended sentence on Avia
tor George W. Heatty after the latter
had pleaded guilty to the chartfe of as
sault In the third degree made against
him by his wife. Mrs. Heatty had al
leged that her husband during a quarrel
on Tuesday last had struck her In the
face.
Hy the advice of the court rieatty
and his wife came to a temporary
compromise to-day. They are to live
apart for a month or so, and during
that time Heatty Is to pay his wife's
bills nnd other living expenses. If nt
the end of the period Mrs. Heatty finds
that her former love for her husband
has revived the pair are to live
together again.
Justice Huhler lectured Beatty se
verely. The Justice said among other
things that he could not understand
how a man who had sufficient control
of himself to fly In a machine 7,000 feet
above the ground without the slightest
nervousness or fear was unable to con
trol his temper when he had a little
argument with his wife.
EDWIN GOULD'S CAR LOOTED.
Thieves Get B,000 In Silver While
It Standa In Y tarda.
That Edwin M, Gould's private car,
Dixie, was broken Into Sunday night
while In the West Shore yard at Wee
hawken and looted of much valuable
silver and tableware was made pub
lic yesterday,
Tho value of the stolen articles Is
said to approximate $5,000. The
thieves broke tho glass of one of the
doors. They thoroughly and deliber
ately ransacked the car. Capt. Edward
Wells of the West Shore detective force
suspects railroad employees. Strangers
could not get Into the yard without
being noticed, ho said.
LIGHTNING KILLS LITTLE TWINS.
Strikes Dahlr, Five Weeks Old, as
They Me In Crib.
Dunkirk, Sept. 6. The twin sons of
Mr, and Mrs. Frank Barnes of Silver
Creek were killed by lightning this
morning as they were lying In their
crib. Tho babies were five weeks old.
Tho lightning struck a telephone pole
and followed the wire Into tho house.
The parents and other Inmates of the
house wero uninjured.
FOR DINTRE8N AFTKR MKAI.S ue Horn
ford' Acid Phoapnatr. llecommendert for the re
lief nt nausea, lick headache and acid ilomach.
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TRAGEDIES
'S
Four Violent Deaths and Dis
appearances In Public
Records.
MALCOM CASE REVIVED
Broker Who Sued in Stenton
Case Lost Off Sound
Steamer.
OFFICIALS GONFRK TO-IJAY
Prosecutors of Orange nnd New
York to Kxclianjrc
Views.
Another tragedy In the life of Burton
W. Gibson, the lawyer whom the
Austro-Hungarian Consulatc-Geneial
Is trying to oust ns executor of
the estate of Mrs. Hose Hen
schlk Szabo, drowned In his com
pany July t, became known yes
terday. It came out when nctlnR Dis
trict Attorney Wasservogel called upon
the homicide bureau of Mr. Whitman's
office to send to him all the papers In
the case of Mrs. Alice C. D. Klnan, who
was murdered In July, 1906.
The new case was that of George 1
Malcom, a wealthy Wall Street broker,
a nephew of Mrs. Louisa Stenton, Mrs.
Klnnan'smother, and the administrator
of her estate. He had brought suit
against Gibson In that capacity, and
before that could come to trial he dis
appeared and was said to have com
mitted suicide by Jumping on" the Fall
River steumboat Prlscllla on October
6, mos.
The deuth of Malcom ended the suit
for that time und loft Gibson In the pos
session of the property, which the Sten
ton heirs and the woman herself, In her
lifetime, declared had been unlawfully
taken from her.
The two cases are but two of five
tragedies which have attended the busi
ness career of Gibson. The disappear
ance of John Hlce O'Neill, a Gibson
client who had between 16,000 and 17,000,
Is set down as another, the fourth Is that
of Michael Shlppo, who was a witness
at the Klnan Inquest. He was found
drowned In December, 1S0&. The fifth
ts that of Mrs. Szabo.
Confrrrnre In lie Held. ,
District Attorney Thomas C Itogers
of Orange county will have a confer
ence this morning with acting Dis
trict Attorney Wasservogel over the
mysteries surrounding the drowning of
Mrs. Itosa Menschlk Szabo on July f
and the subsequent conduct of Burton
W. Gibson, her companion at tre time
of the tragedy, who turned out to be
the executor of her will, which be
queathed her J10.000 estate to her
mother, said to be two years dead.
Mr. Rogers has said that upon pres
entation of evidence to show motive for
getting the woman out of the way he
would have the Coroner's Inquest re
opened and he might have the October
Grand Jury of his county take up the
case.
He desires to obtnln all the evidence
In tho possession of Mr. Wnsservogel,
who has charge of the case for Mr.
Whitman: everything that the Austro
Hungarian Consulate and Its private
detectives may have learned and also
he desires to obtain at first hand all
that Mr. and Mrs. George Telchmann,
long time friends of Mrs. Hzabo; Mrs.
Ioulse Marett, landlady of 46 West
Sixty-fourth street, where the woman
lived, and others may know.
Deputy Sheriff William C. Degraw. who
has been working on the case since the
day of the drowning, will accompany
Mr. Rogers to-day to tell what he has
discovered.
r Parta In the I'ase.
These facts developed In the case yes
terday:
The Brooklyn woman, supposed to
have been the one who appeared as
"Mrs. Petronella Menschlk," mother of
Mrs. Szabo, was not Identified as the
woman who appeared before Donald
Lyons, the notary, and waived service
of all papers In the settlement of the
estate. Lyons saw the woman under
surveillance of the detectives and shook
his head.
There are two other women now on
the string, either of whom may be the
one who swore that she was the mother
of Mrs. Hzabo and the legatee of the
estate. One lives In Brooklyn and the
other In Manhattan. They will be In
spected to-day by witnesses In whom
the detectives have confidence.
Announcement was made yesterday
that a sister and brother of Mrs. Szabo,
who will bring properly attested Iden
tification papers and who will swear
their mother Is dead, are about to sail
from Trieste for New York.
They are expected to arrive In about
ten days and until that time It Is frankly
admitted District Attorney Whitman's
men cannot act In the matter of the
charges contained In the petition of the
Austro-Hungnrlan Deputy Consul-Gon
ernl, Dr. Fritz Flscherauer.
.ol Legal Evidence.
Dr. Flscherauer, Arpna a, Kremer, his
counsel, and Deputy Sheriff Willis C,
Degraw of Orange county saw Mr,
Wasservogel yesterday and they were
told that the cablegram saying that Mrs.
Petronella Menschlk was dead was not
legal evidence and therefore no charge
of perjury, subornation of perjury or
conspiracy could He until that fact
legally was established. It was then
that the brother and slater were cabled
to come over ut once.
Burton W. Gibson, tho companion of
Mrs. Szabo when she was drowned, the
executor of her CBtate, delegated by
formal affidavit as the absolute master
of her money, spent another day at his
office yesterday.
The fact that another one of his cases
Continued on Fourth Page.
GIBSON
CAREER
FRANCIS L. WELLMAN HURT.
Vm VorUrr and Wife llnvr Anto
.cclilenl In llnlj.
Siiteial Cable Dttpatrh to Tint Si v
Paris, Sept. t). Francis 1.. Wellman.
fotmerly Assistant District Attorney of
New York city, met with u serious ac
cident nenr Dommodosola, a town of
Italy near tho Swiss frontier, to-duy.
Ills wife, to whom he was recently tnur
t led, was unhurt.
The machine was running' at the rate
of twenty-live, miles nn hour. As It was
pas.!ng a cart the horse became fright
ened and Jumped toward the automobile.
In an effort to rnv'old the horse the
chauffeur of the auto swerved It so that
It struck a telegrapn pole and was
smashed to splinters.
Mr. Wellman was severely but not
dangerously hurt. Mrs, Wellman'.i maid
was slightly Injured,
Mr. Wellman was married 1o Miss K.
S. Ciobere In Paris on August 20 of
this year.
AIRMAN AND GIRL IN PERIL.
With Molnr Dend .Mrlirr'a rri
llrupprd Into lr Hole ler ri,
Nkwpoiit. R. I.. Sept. By quick
work nt a critical moment late this
afternoon Jncl. McGee, a Pawtucket
nvlator, who has been making flights
here for the past two weeks, saved him
self and his passeiiKcr. Miss Mary
Reason of this ell j , from perhaps
serious Injury.
While circling oxer the water off the
Newpoit beach McGee's motor wentj
wrong nnd at the same time the ma
chine entered nn air hole nnd began to'
diop, McGee got rontrol of hlH machlnn
hy making n dle toward the water,'
arove again anil landed in a field a short I
dlstnnce from the beach.
The only damage was caused when,
the machine after landing ran Into a
blind ditch
UNION LEAGUE MEN FOR T. R.
IMilliiilrlphln t'luli Milll for I'lraf
Time In lla UUInr;.
I'niLADKi.riiu. Sept. For the first
time In Its history the I'nlon League of I
this clt has become divided In Its
affiliations during the Presidential cam-!
palgn. To-day forty-two business men
sent out n circular letter advocating th'.'
election of Col. Rnosevelt nnd asking
for those who fax or the Progressive
ticket to Join In a movement and at
tend a meeting soon to be called by
the Roosexelt adherents who comprise
the league membership.
The circular sent out to-day Is the
first step In the formation of a strong
Roosevelt campaign committee of rep
resentative business men of Philadel
phia. Many of the most nctle members of
the league have been unwilling to have
tho club go on record for Taft and
have been protesting quietly agulnst
the action taken some weeks ago when
the Republican candidates were In
dorsed. THIRD PARTY OFF TICKET.
OUInhoitm Proicreaalt ea l.nae l-'lgltt In'
Mitte superior Cnurl.
Okmmoma Citv. Okla., Sept. 6. Deny-1
Ing tho Progressive electoral candidates I
the right to haxe their mimes placed on j
tho general election tickets of Okla-
noma, .lunge Kownru uewes ciianeiu ot
the Superior Court of Oklahoma county.
Oklahoma, to-night refused the ten
electoral candidates the requested writ
of mandamus against the State election
board.
This Is the third attempt so far mado
by the Progressives of Oklahoma to
have their names placed on the general
election tickets to be used In the State
next November. The application was
made by K. L. Persons of Chlcknsha,
The writ was refued, the court stat
ing at the time of Persons tiling his
name with the State Election Hoard as
a candidate in the primary that the
ITogressixe party in Oklahoma woa
unborn. Many of Persons's Progressive
friends, it was said, counselled him
agalnNt his application for n place on
the ticket as a Progressive, assuring
him that ills request would be denied
und advising him to tile as a non
partisan. Persons has appealed his
case to the Supreme Court and states
that he will take It to the United States
Supreme Court If necessary for final
adjudication, as u Federal question Is
Involved.
The ten applicants who filed ns can
didates for tho electoral college filed as
non-partisans. The no.mes of the ap
plicants are: W. O. Cromwell, P. M.
Chlllcott, F. N Winslow, Henry
Schafer, Lew Betts, Mike Gorman, W.
B. Tucker, C. L. McArthur, Alex Den
nlson and E. O. Butler. Beveral of the
applicants, It Is said, were members of
the rump convention of Chicago,
C0NKLING TO GET REHEARING.
Objects lo PludliiKi That Money Was
Not Spent nn Daughters.
Alfred R. Conkllng filed a petition In
the Surrogate's office yesterday asking
for n rehearing of his application for
an Increased allowance from the Income
of the trust fund for his three daugh
ters, nnd suggesting that the court
allow him J1H.O00 a year Instead of the
110,000 ho would get for the mainte
nance of his daughters under an order
of Surrogate Fowler.
Mr, Conkllng also objected to the
findings that he had not expended the
sums for his daughters for which he
claimed credit on his accounting, and
asked for a rehearing On that point.
In asking an allowance of $0,000 for
Muriel und $5,000 each for Otga and
Vivian Mr. Conkllng said that It may
be ho tins been ovci indulgent with his
wards, his children, and has expended
more than he should upon them. The
Surrogate sent the proceedings back
to Itefereo Wilbur Larremoro for an
other hearing.
RESPITE FOR GEN. SICKLES,
Traat Companv Wllllna; lo I'nt Off
Sale Till Monday.
Another udjournment was grunted
yesterday to Gen. Daniel E. Sickles of
the Rule of his personul effects to satisfy
u Judgment for 8,1!00 obtained by the
Lincoln Trust Company.
The case was put off until Monday
on the receipt by Sheriff Ilarburger
of a letter from the trust company,
stating that It had no ohjcctlon to a
further adjournment to enable Gen.
iBlcklcs to pay the Judgment.
THEN KILLS HIMSELF
Hodies of Son of 0. I). Emory
nnd Wife Found in Portngo
Knkc Home.
.MISSKIl SINCE WEDNESDAY
Dead Woiiiiin Was Nurse nnd
Second Wife of Muhognny
Mereliunt's Son.
Poiitiui; Lakc, Me., Sept. 6.- Daniel G.
Emery, son of the late George D.
Emery, a mahogany dealer who main
tained the largest mahogany plant In
the world, strangled his wife nnd then
shot himself to death some time since
last Wcdnesdaj.
Neighbors among the community of
r.00 people who make up this town
thought It funny that they had seen
nothing of the Emerys since last
Wednesday nnd Investigated to-ntght.
They first found Mrs. Emery dead In
her room, covered by her night robe
nnd having every appearance of having
been shoved Into the corner. A further
search led them to Emery's room, where
they found him stretched across the bed
with the revolver still in lit hand and
several wounds Ir. his head.
The town selectmen examined the room
and surroundings and then reported to
Coroner William F. Huzzell of Houl
ton, who will come here to-morrow and
make an uutopsy.
Emery was about JO jears of age
and his wife ten years his Junior. She
was his second wife, nnd married him
after having nursed him through u
dangerous Illness two years ago.
Emery was born In Indianapolis,
where hla father was engaged In the
walnut Industry, and twenty yearn ago
the family moved East lu Newton, Mass.
Mr. Emery senior engaged In the ma
hogany Industry, establishing u plant
In Chelsea.
The son was taken Into partnership
with the father 'When he nttained his
majority. About seventeen ears ago
he married u woman In Allston, Mass.,
where he was n member of the Con
gregational church. They 1 ad two sons,
13 and 14 years of age. Several years
ago Mrs. Emery obtained a divorce and
for a time her husband lived alone.
Ills father died and he soon disposed
of the mahogany Industry. Two years
ago he fell desperately til and a trained
nuribe was brought Into 'his household
to nurse him back to health. She not
onlv won the battle with death, but
interested her patient, nnd they were
married shortly after his convales
cence. With plenty of money the couple came
here from Massachusetts and estab
lished a home In this small town. They
were apparently much attached to one
another and no reason can be found for
the traged). When the neighbors noted
that neither of the couple had been seen
since Wednesda anxiety was ex
pressed. The opinion prevails that Emery
strangled his wife first nnd then on
Thursday night, when he saw that she
was dead, shot himself. Some neigh
bors here say that. In their opinion,
Emery hod completely lost his mind.
Ills health was about gone and It Is
believed that his Illness preyed on his
mind, ills divorced wife nnd children
nre alive nnd said to be living In In
diana. The late (Jeorge D. Emery with others
had a mahogany concebslon from the
Nlcaraguan Government for wood
shipped to this country and sold to the
Pullman Palace Car Company. In 1907
the Government charged . that the
Emery company had violated Its con
cession and seized the company's plant,
vulued at $250,000.
Emery called on the United States to
send a warship to Blueflelds to protect
his Interests. The dispute was referred
to arbitration and Nicaragua agreed to
pay $600,000 In settlement of a claim for
the annulment of the timber concession.
There has been trouble In collecting It.
ARMY SIMPLIFIES LETTERS.
Reapeptrullr" and Other I'aelraa
Worda Are Hnrrrri.
Wasiunoton, Sept. 0. The word "re
spectfully is drummed out of the United
States army together with "1 have the
honor, Ac, " and other similar expressions
by a new system of correspondence which
is being put into effect this week.
To reduce as far as possible the enor
mous amount of red tape In the army all
ceremonials in correspondence and all
sorts of unnecessary and superfluous ex
pressions have been barred from all official
letters to bo written hereafter. In the
list are included "Sir." "I have tho honor."
"I would respectfully," "Very respect
fully," "Respectfully referred. "Hespect
fully transmitted,'1 "Itespectfully for
warded" anil "Itespectfully returned."
At the head of each letter it will be
stated by whom and to whom tho letter
is written, und the Bubjeot thereof. Offi
cers signing will put only their names,
without titles, Ac, as all those are given
in tho heading.
Other radical short outs and reductions
In the army's letter writing have been
effected by tho now system, which is ex
ported to prove a great economy of the
time of officers and clerks as well as a
caving of a considerable sum of money
each year.
MOVE TO FREE M'NAMARAS.
StelTena Sara Petition for I'ardon Haa
Ueen lrrarnlrd,
Los Anolxes, Sept. 6. Lincoln Stef
fens to-day gave out a statement at
Portland In which he said that the busi
ness men of Los Angeles had broken
faith with unionism by not giving it a
fair trial after the McNamaras pleaded
guilty and that therefore a. petition ask
ing for tho pardon of (he two brothers
had been presented to Gov, Hiram
Johnson.
Steffcns, who claimed for himself
the credit nf the McNamaras' plea ot
guilty, says (hat Gov. Johnson lias
promised to show the McNamaras "all
thn clemency possible." It Is learned
from nuthorltatlve sources that a peti
tion bearing several thousand names
has been presented to the Governor.
WIFE SUES HOWARD GOULD.
Aaka That He Par f .1,000 Bill Which
She Had to Settle.
Mrs. Kathrlne Clemmons Gould filed
a suit In the Supreme Court yesterday
against her husband, Howard Gould, to
recover $3,000.
She alleges that In 1906 her husband
had an Income of more than $700,000,
nnd that between December 1, 1906, and
January, 1907, white still his wife, she
obtained wearing apparel from the Llch
cnsteln Millinery Company valued at
$2,680. She said that the company later
sued her for payment and got Judg
ment for $8,314, which she settled by
the payment of 13,000.
Mrs. Gould Is represented by Griggs,
Baldwin & Griggs. Her attorney when
she got her decree of separation was
clarence J. Shram.
I PUMP FEEDING IS CONDEMNED.
Sciential at Dundee Telia Snffra
aettea If la Mediaeval Craellj.
Sptclat Cabtt flttpateh lo Tns Sok
Dundee, Sept. 6. Several membcts of
the British Association for the Advance
ment of Science, which has been In
seislon here for three days, attended
a suffragette meeting to-night and con
demned pump feeding of women pris
oners. Dr. William Doblnson Halliburton,
professor of physiology at King's Col
lege, London, said pump feeding even
of criminals would not be tolerated If
British statesmen knew what It was.
Its horror and disgust, apart from the
physical Injury, the professor said, made
It a punishment which recalled the
worst days of medieval cruelty.
AIR PIPE TO ENTOMBED MEN.
inn of Those I'atiulit In Flooded
Mine Hellrvrrt In lie Alive.
DfU'Tii. Minn.. Sept. 6. An air pipe
Is being driven down eighty-five feet
Into the Ruddy mine at Blwubtk to the
miners caught In the sub-level by the
Inflow of water on Wednesday night.
It Is believed that the men are alive.
A third miner, caught in the lower
level, perished.
KID McCOY SAVES GIRL.
Former Flahter lluahea lo Hrirnr la
. Hrlichton Hrarh Sarf.
Kid McCoy, a former prizefighter,
yesterday afternoon saved the life of
Eva Neville, 14 years old, of 39 Parker
street. Charlestown, Mass., or nt least
the manager of the baths where the
rescue was made says so, and the fighter
admits It. I
'Miss Neville is visiting In New York
with her parents and yesterday the ,
family went to Brighton Beach. The
girl went In swimming, got beyond her '
depth and a roller hit her.
She was having; trouble when a man
ran out from the beach, swam to her
and pulled her ashore. The manager
of the baths recognized McCoy.
POWER BOAT DROWNS THREE.
Her Wnah t')rl llnnrlinnt In Which
Tlie Wrre Wnrklna.
Pauusboro, N. .1.. Sept. 6. Three men
were drowned here this morning when
tho boat In which they were hauling
wood was upset In Mantua Creek. They
were Frederick Krumaker, 49 years old,
a widower with two children; Joseph
Mlddleton, .Ir, 29, single, and Frank
Scott, 3'.', who leaves a widow and ono
child.
The men were trying to lift a large
log Into their boat when the power boat
Marguerite passed and her wash cap
sized their craft. The skipper of the
Marguerite went to the rescue, but the
bodies, he says, did not come to the
surface.
TAFT REPAIRS A ROMANCE.
CotuuiDlri Sentence of I'oaluiaalrr'a 1
Son Who Stole Kunda and Married.
Washington', Sept. 6. President Taft
did his best to-day to repair a shattered
romance that revolved about the village )
post office at Parlsvllle. Ind.
The postmaster's son. Murl Rowe, was ,
convicted on May 28 of tjinbezzllng
funds of the post office and sentenced
to two years In Leavenworth peniten
tiary. He was deputy postmaster and
assisted his father In his store.
He Is only 31 years of age and
prominent Indiana men wrote here
urging the President to be merciful.
Just before his conviction he married
the village belle.
In view of all these circumstances
the President commuted his sentence to
expire on October 1. All the stolen
funds were made good.
MISS BALMER WEDS RESCUER.
Secrrtlr Married lo Yoalh Who
Saved Her front Drowning,
It was learned yesterday that Miss
Lulu Balmer, whose mother owns Bal
mer's Beach at Coney Island, was se
cretly married last June to a youth who
had saved her from drowning In the surf
at Balmer's Beach some five years ago.
The mother of the bridegroom, who Is
Edward Noonan, 23, of "5 Sixth aenue,
Brooklyn, was the first to learn of the
marriage. Edward took her Into his
confidence yesterday and then left with
his bride for Washington. D. C. The
Balmer house, nt 299 Garfield place, Is
closed for the lummer and the family
Is at Sea Girt, N. J.
BELLAMY STORER LOSES PURSE.
Moiirr r'oand hy Sivlaa Judge and
Rrtnrnrd to Ei-Ambaaaador,
Sftdal Cabtt fleipateh to Tns Sen.
Geneva, Sept. 6. A Swiss Judge
named Glardon recently found, a pocket
book containing a letter of credit for
$$,000 and American ind other notes
of the value of $1,000 In a hotel at
Lausanne.
The pocketbook belonged to Bellamy
Storer, the former Ambassador to Aus
tria, who believing that he had been
robbed cancelled the letter of credit
and proceeded to Lucerne.
He returned to Iausanne to-day and
Judge Glardon handed him hla prop
erty, much to Mr. Storer's delight,
STRAUS
NAMED
AFTER STAMPEDE
V
Delegates Had Almost Locked
Horns Over Hotchkiss
and Prcndcrgast.
MAOEE CHANGED IT ALL
'Suspender Jack' in Ringing
Speech Named the For
mer Secretary.
CONVENTION IS WILD
Gavel Taken From the Chair
man, Who Seemed Dazed
by Vociferous Demand.
KORCK ACCEPTANCK ON HIM
Mrs. Stniiis Hcaminp;, Is Lod to
Hor Husband's Side on '
the Platform.
TIIK TICKKT.
Fop (iotrrimr OSCAR . STRAUS
of tv York.
For l.lentennnl-tinvernor KHKI).
KIIICK M. DAVIIM'IIIIT of Oneida.
For Associate Judaea nf (be Court
of Appeala CAItl.OS V. A I. DUN nf
Krle and OKOIKiP. W. KIRCIIWEV
of .eir York.
For .Secretary of Stale HOMEIl
U. CAM. of Onnndaaja.
For Stair Comptroller Gen. HO
RATIO C. KINO of Klnaa.
For Altornry-rirnrrnl JOHN
I'AI.MIURI of Klnic.
For Slate Trraanrer UR.VEST
I'A Wt'ROFT of Chantaaqna.
For Slate Knarlneer and Snrveyor
Prof. O. M. l.KLANO, head of Cor
nrll l.nlveraltr KiiRlnrprlna; Da
part meni.
Syracuse, N. Y Sept. S. Oscar
S. Straus of New York. President Clsve
land's Minister to Turkey and President
Koosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and
tbor, was nominated for Governor by
acclamation In a stampede of the Pro
gressive State convention late thla
afternoon.
Mr. Straus, ns permanent chairman of
the convention, was on the platform at
the time the stampede broke loose. It
came like a thunderclap to him.
The Prendergast nnd the Hotchklss
forces had been enguged for five hours
In nn oratorical battle In the effort to
bring about the nomination of their
favorite. Secretary Manchester had
completed the role of counties In the
call for nominating speeches. Comp
troller Prendergast had been formally
put In nomination by George A. Green
of Kings. William A. Chadbourne of
New York bad put William H. Hotch
klss In nomination.
Mr. Hotchklss mounted the platform
and declared that Mr. Chadbourne had
mimed him on his own authority and
esponslblllty, but Mr. Hotchklss did not
renounce the proposed nomination. In
his speech he left a loophole by which
ills followers could vote for him.
Secretary Manchester's voice In call
ing Yntes, the last county on the list,
had scarcely died nway when John C.
Magee of the Fifteenth district, Nevr
York county, rushed to the plutform',
merely nodded to Permanent Chairman
Straus and without by your leave In a
voice worn almost to a whisper by hard
usage In the convention nnd by speeches
made in Vermont for the Progressives
In the recent battle addressed the con
vention. Mcfter'a nmlnallno; Speech.
"Fellow citizens, ladles and gentle
men," he said, "I have Just come down
from Vermont. I ask you people nt
this convention to make no mistake.
We want to put a man up for Governor
that no man will be afraid to cast his
vote for, against whom there can be
no charge levelled of misconduct of
any kind, one who can sweep the Stat
from Montauk Point to Lake Erie and
carry every man of every race, religion
and creed; a man whose name is known
throughout tho civilized world; a man
the mention of whose name brings a
tear of sympathy to the eye of almost
every man and woman In the civilized
land; a man whose name wherever men
are found with red blood In their veins,
Irrespective of race, religion and creed,
will be carried thundering throughout
the State to victory. There Is no
chance of defeat with this man at the
head of your ticket. 1 nominate th
illustrious and honorable Oscar tf. 4 ,J
traus.
"We should take no chances in thla
fight. You couldn't omit one word If I
used the entire dictionary In praise of
the nominees, Mr. Hotchklss and M;
Prendergast; but Mr. Prendergast or
Mr. Hotchklss would cause friction In
the State. We want no friction In inn
election. Wo want success and victory.
"Gentlemen, remember! lumember,
that Rome, was saved by the cackle of
the goose. I havo no political prestige,
but 1 want and charge you to put up
a man for candidate for Governor who
cannot and will not be defeated.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen, heed me.
Make no mlstnko about Oscar S. Straus.
You will make no mistake In putting
him up na your candidate und you will
capture victory and success. No man
has had better distinction nt home and
abroad than Mr. Straus. 1 asl. you to
vote for him."
Convention In t priinr.
Insantly the convention was In nn .1
uproar. In a second a stampede was
M.n and women were standing on 1
their seats waving nags, bamlunnas. ?1
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