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THE EVENING WORLD, YfEDNIiSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH
OF ELDERLY COUPLE
Conan Doyle's "Ectoplasm " Caught by Camera;
H
GIRL MUSICIAN
WOMAN, AGED 76;
ENGAGED TO MARRY
COLUMBIA MAN
Light Thrown on Spirit Raps and Levitations
I. R. T. EVIDENCE
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Fremont M. Jackson and Wife
YLAN WITHHOLDS
HAS$18,000YEARi
AM T(1 RF INRANF 1
N BROOKLYN HOTE
BANTON ASKED FOR
Uf 111 1 V VL. II1UI II 1U
Nephew Secures Order to Ei-
:.iti
( Believed to Have Died
From Poison.
amine Mrs. Duncan, Once;
t JM
Well Known Musician. -.
rosecutor Wanted Specific
Instances Where Nuisances
Occur in Subway.
Although Mayor . Hylan was in
DOUBT SUICIDE THEORY
rnenas oay nicy weie nap
j py and Were Considered
Wealthy.
' Fremont Madison Jackson, a retired
fcarpet merchant, seventy-four years
eld, and Ms wife, Annie, elxty-nlne,
trhora ho married about a year ago,
trero found dead this morning In the
Jbathroom of their threo-room sulto In
the annex of the Hotel Margaret, at
No. 114 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn,
What caused their death, whethor It
was by poison taken Intentionally or
induced by chemical action of soma
thing they had eaten, can only be do
tormlncd by autopsy. Medical Kxam-
iner Wucst sold that he would per
form this lato this afternoon or this
evening.
From all accounts, there was no
reason for the suicide of cither. They
were ample of means and devoted to
each other. Nowhere about tho
rooms they occupied, was thero any
thing to lndlcato that they content
plated or desired death. On tho con
trary, they had Bent out invitations
for a card party this coming Satur
day afternoon andMr. Jackson had
an appointment with a dentist for
Friday.
Thr wns evidence In tho bath
room, however, that one or both had
been actively 'nauseated. Tho food
- thus voided will bo subjected to anal
ysls. It was the opinion of Dr. Wuest
that Mrs. Jackson had been dead
about twenty-four hours and her hus
band about four or five. But Dr. Er
nest C. Vaughn, representing District
Attorney Huston, thought each had
had been dead not less than ten hours.
f Discovery of tho bodies was made
at 8.30 o'clock this morning by Mary
King, a chambermaid. Sho found
Sirs. Jackson lying, fully dressed,
upon tho floor of tho bathroom. She
summoned tho manager, who found
Mr. Juckson a body. Ho also was
j fully dressed.
Dr. Wuest said It seemed to him
that both of tho victims had died of
soma quick-acting poison.
It wasjlearncd that Mr. Jackson was
In the habit of cashing checks, nppa
rently dividends, from ,tho New York
Tclephono Company, tho Wool Kx
change and various cotton brokers,
Also ho cashed bond coupons from
tlmo to time.
A nephew of the dead man, Howard
D. Bralnard of No. 16 Midland Ave
nue. East Orange, N. J., was sum
mooed and said Jilt uncle had been In
tho carpet business in tne uowery,
There he made a fortune and retired
His stock and bond Investments, tho
nephew said, wcro comparatively
small, his main Interests being In real
estate, Mrs., Jackson has a son, F. A
Warren of No. 227 Bruco Avenue
Lawrence. Mass.
Tae couplo camo to tho Hotel Mar
irart last May, soon after their mar
msjtp. They always seemed to bo very
nappy, Mr. Brnlnard paid, devoting
their evenings to canls or the movies
nnd being1 together practically all the
; time.
Have for $75 In Mr. Jackson'
pocket, nothing of great value was
found In tho apartment. Thero were
pass books of several banks showing
doposlts as high as $8,000.
I MAGISTRATE SENTENCES
PEDDLER IN ITALIAN
Ifo Interpreter In Conrt, So Vol
well TaWea Case in Hand.
Magistrate George II. Folwell to-day
Jn tho Gateu Avenue Court, Brooklyn
took charge of the case of Joseph Men
dolla. No. 2SS Buahwlck Avenue,
charged with peddling produce without
a. license, when It was found there wa
no Interpreter In court and Mendofll
waff unable to speak English. Tho Mag,
istrate read tho formnl complaint of
tho patrolman who made the arrest
translated it Into Italian, listened to
Mendolla's explanation and then fined
him $3.
WIRELESS PHONES
WILL BROADCAST
SPIRIT MESSAGES
Station to Be Established in
Chicago, Convention Dele
gates Are Told.
PHILADELPHIA. April 26.
From a radiophone station
in Chicago spirit messages
will be broadcast to spiritual
ists throughout tho country,
Mrs. M. E. Cadwallader of
Chicago told delegates attend
ing tho fifteenth annual meet
ing of' the Pennsylvania Spir
itualist Association,
Mrs. Cadwallader, a Vice
President of tho national Spirit
ualists' organization, said she
and John Slader, a Chicago
medium, had mado plans to
broadcast all messages received
from spirits during tho con
vention. Tho delegates adopted a res
olution recommending legisla
tion to recognize Spiritualism
as a religion. The proposed
bill would exempt mediums
from prosecution under many,
Etato lawi..
IIIHBsiaftiwHol
SIOEVIEW OccOUOMNOr
HBOIUM 6ITS.
Dr. Crawford,
Investigator
of
Psychic
Phenomena,
Wrote:
By Marguerite
CTOPLASM," Sir Arthur Conan Doylo told New York tho other
day, "Is a thick, vapory, slightly luminous substanco Which
exudes from some materializing mediums.. A medium capable
of giving off this substance is placed In n darkenod cabinet and goes
Into a trance. Immediately there conies from her body this vaporous
substanco, which surrounds her like a fog. As the ectoplasm Increases
It becomes more dense. It coalesces, becomes sticky. It can be felt.
It can be photographed.
"In some cases ectoplasm ex
udes from a medium In a rod-like
formation which drops to the
floor, runs along for several feet
and then mounts in a thin white
column which, operated -on tho
cantilever system, develops a po
tency sufllclent to lift a tablo."
To-day The Evening World
prints photographs of ectoplasm
In action. They are taken from a
remarkable book Just published by
E. P. Dutton & Co., through
whoso courtesy the pictures with
this article aro reproduced. The
book Is called "Tho Psychic
Structures at tho Gollgher Circle"
and tho author Is the lato Dr. W.
J. Crawford of Belfast, a trained
Investigator of psychic phenom
ena, to whose experiments and
earlier books Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle himself refers In his book
on spiritualism, "The Vital Mes
sage." The medium in Dr. Crawford's
experiments, which extended
over a long period of tlmo and
were furnished with every safe
guard against fraud, was
Miss Kathleen Gollgher. The
point he makes is that In all the
typical seance phenomena table
levltatlon, rapping and others
contacts with matter In ths room
aro modo by "psychic structures"
or "plasma." These structures,
ho declares, possess a variety of
shapes and dimensions, and have
various methods of action.
Dr. Crawford's extraordinary
pictures show that the plasma
may exudo from tho medium's
legs, feet, chest or other ports of
the body. Sometimes It takes tho
form of rods, sometimes of lumps,
which may separate from the me
dium altogether and He on the
floor, sometimes of arms, so flex
ible that they tie knots around
tho tablo legs.
"Onco tho plasma Is extruded
from the body of tho medium,"
writes Dr. Crawford, "the oper
ators can mould It Into the var
ious shapes and forms required to
produco the phenomena. I have
nhowed that If a light table was
to bo lavltatcd, the psychic struc
ture employed was a cantilever
firmly fixed to tho medium's body
at one end und gripping tho un
ci er.su rfaco or legs of the table
with the free or working end. If,
howovcr, tho lavltated body is a
heavy one, the psychic structuro
is no modified that the reaction.
Instead of being thrown on the
medium, Is upplled to tho floor of
tho room.
"The lnvarlablo rulo with re
gard to these psychic structures
In that they are as simplo as pos
sible consistent with the carrying
out of phenomena,
"The head, or what corresponds
to tho working or gripping end
of the structure, Is denser or
moro opaque than tho body?'
Persons In the circle with tho
medium frequently feel thesu
psychic structures rapping them,
but under the ordinary condi
tions of the seance room they are
quite Invisible to the naked eye,
according to Dr. Crawford. Not,
however, to the camera eye as
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"The plasma is part of the medium's body
exteriorized in space."
"At nearly all seances the noise accom
panying the birth pangs of the plasma
is distinctly audible."
"With thin silk stockings the friction of
plasma on the threads as it disengages
itself is unmistakable."
"There is strong evidence of decrease in
volume of the fleshy parts of her (the
medium's) body, especially from tho
waist down, while the plasma is extruded."
Mooers Marshall.
tho accompanying flashlight pic
tures show. Dr. Crawford gives
the following account of how they
were taken:
"Only within tho last six
months or so has It been found
posslblo to photograph the stuff
which Issues from the medium's
body (I call it 'plasma for want
of a better word), and from which
tho psychic structures are built
up that produce the phenomena
of raps, levitations, touchlngs,
Ac. For about a year I took a
photograph each seance night. In
tho hopo that success might ulti
mately bo obtained. The opera
tors Informed mo by raps that
success would finally como if I
would be persistent enough.
"Tho chief difficulty seemed to
bo In preventing Injury to the
medium. The operators sold it
was necessary gradually to work
her up to withstand tho shock of
tho flashlight upon tho plasma:
nor Is this much to be wondered
at when it is considered tho
plasma Is part of her body ex
teriorized In space.
"After Innumerable attempts,
however, very small patch.es of
plasma wcro obtained In full view-,
between the medium's ankles. As
time went on these Increased In
slzo and variety until great quan
tities of this psychic stuff could
bo exteriorized und photographed.
"Then the operators began to
manlpulato it in various ways,
building it up into columns or
forming Into slnglo or doublo
arms, moulding It Into the differ
ent Bhnpes with which I had been
long familiar In a general way.
"Tho medium and members of
tho circle," concluded Dr. Craw
ford, "aro open to any tests. I
have gone to most elaborate pre
cautions to make sure the results
are genuine, and nmong others
havo called to my alu men and
women of medicine. In order to
prevent subconscious action af
fecting tho moulding of tho
plasma, I withheld tho photo
graphs from tho medium until tho
present series was obtained."
Tho plasma. Dr. Crawford
found, hail weight one of
tho pictures with this article
shows it being weighed. Ho
thinks that tho psychlo rods
vary In diameter at their extre
mities from about halt Inch to
three or four inches. The free
end of such rod seems to as
sume different shapes and dif
ferent degrees of hardness.
Finally, ho has an Interesting
description of tho physical phe
nomena which occur in tho body
of tho medium during the for
mation of the plasma.
"Tho muscles of tho medium's
feet and ankles ure, during tho
occurrence of phenomena. In a
state of much stress; they seem
to be squirming," he notes.
"There Is no bodily movement of
tho foot, but there Is a whirlpool
of internal muscular movement
round foot nnd anklo and lower
part of the cult. Tho evolution
of tho plasma must bo accom
panied by much friction between
stocking and leather of shoe or
boot. At nearly all seances the
I
PAIR OF? Pl.A.'bMICARMi
REACHING. PROM THE
tvlEDlOrvt TO THE, UCLO
Og -WE TABLE.
DRIVES $8,000 CAR,
BUYS WIFE SILKS;
FOR RELIGION 25c
Churchmen Told City Church's
Collection Plates Yielded 1,700
Pennies One Sunday.
ATLANTIC CITY, April 26. Rev.
Dr. Luther E, Lovejoy of Chicago lr
an address to-day before the conven
tion of the Federation of Churches
criticised wealthy church members
who mako small contributions in the
collection plates, but expressed the
hope that theso conditions will soon be
a thing of the past.
"A man can still bo the respected
member of a fashionable city church,
ride in an $S,000 motor car, clothe hli
wlfo and daughter in silks and furs
Vnd pay 25 cents a Sunday for his re
ligion," ho declared. "Tho treasurci
of a metropolitan congregation re
cently found 1,700 pennies In one Sun
day's offering."
"The Christian people of'Amorlca,"
he added, "are waking up to the fact
that they treat their Creator with lesi
consideration than they treat theli
waiter at the restaurant, or tho Pull
man porter who shines their shoes,
and they aro eager to make amends
for past neglect."
SEMENOEF REFUSES
TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
I.nrm Mlmsrlf Liable tn Commitment
for Contempt.
Gen. Grcgorle Scmenoff, Ataman of
the Cossacks, laid himself liable to con
tempt of court to-day when he refused
to answer questions put to him before
Iteferee Peter D. Olney by David W.
Kahn, trustee of the Louroveta Co., for
whose failure the. General Is alleged to
bo responsible through the seizure by
hl3 soldiers of $476,000 worth of that
company's! goods In Siberia.
Gen. Semenoft brought the hearing
to an abrupt close after Ezra P. Pren
tice, on of his attorneys, had been over
ruled by Mr. Olney on a long argument
that the hearing ought to be discon
tinued on the ground that United States
Courts must take Judicial notice of tho
status of foreign governments and can
not compel an ofllcer of another country
to answer for acts performed under the
authority of another government.
On agreement between counsel the
motions for vacation of the order of ex
amination and for contempt will be pre
sented next Monday Jn the United
States District Court. Meanwhile
Scmenoff will continue at Liberty on
the $25,000 ball.
HOBOKEN FIRE CAUSES
DAMAGE OF $125,000
Wardioniei of U. S. Willow Fnnil-
liirr Co. Destroyed.
Fire of unknown origin to-day de
stroyed a sorlcs of one-story frutnc
buildings In Jefferson Street between
Tenth nnd Eleventh Streets .Hoboken,
occupied b ytho U, S, Willow Furniture
Company as storage warehoused nnd
shipping rooms. The lo.s will Include
about 11,00,000 In finished products of
the company, $10,000 worth of lumbor
belonging to the Farr estate, owners of
tho property, and $10,000, tho value of
the buildings.
noise accompanying ttu birth
pangs of the plasma 1 distinctly
nudlble. With thin silk stockings,
tho friction of plasma on tho
threads as It 'disengages Itself Is
unmistakable.
"I asked tho operators to take
psychic matter from tho medium
In tho ordinary way. I put my
hand on tho lower part of hor
back. The rise and fall of her
flesh was very apparent, as
psychic matter was supposml to
bo taken from her nnd put back.
I put my hand on hor haunches
Junt above tho seat of her chair.
The flesh seemed to become soft
and cavo In. Tho medium did
not seem to move bodily, but her
flesh scorned to fall in. It could
bo distinctly felt filling out as the
psychic stuff apparently returned
to her.
"Generally speaking," the In
vestigator Sums up, "It can bo
said that tho evolution of plasma
from tho body of tho medium is
accompanied by strong muscular
movements all over tho body, and
that there Is strong evidence of
decrease In volume of tho fleshy
parts of her body, especially from
tho waist downwards, while the
the plasma U extruded."
HeVVY LUMP
OF PMW1A ON
TH E. PJ.OO R.
HARRY S.SANDERSON
THEATRE MAN, DIES
Veteran Was Manager of Tony
Pastor's Theatre for 30
Years.
Harry Schley Sanderson, for thirty
years manager of Tony Pastor's old
Fourteenth Street Theatre, and after
ward associated with the F. F. Proctor
theatrical enterprises, died this morn
ing at his home at No. 405 Springfield
Avenue, Cranford. N. J. He was eighty
years old and Incidentally the oldest
Past Exalted Ituler of the New Tork
Elks. He was also a Mason, a member
of tho Mecca Temple and tho Shrlno
in New Tork.
He was a cousin of Francis Scott
Key, who wrote "The Star-Spangled
Uanner," and nephew of Margaret Pot
IgUL, who made the flag that Inspired
ICey to write the song. Mr. Sanderson
had been In ill health for two years,
He leaves a wlfo and thrco married
laughters.
Harry Sndcrson was known to more
old tlmo variety actors perhaps than
any man In the United States or Eng
land. He became business manager for
Tony Pastor just fifty years ago this
month.
SHOTS HALT FLIGHT
OF PEPPER THROWER
.Sidney Ilroivn, Wanted In Xew
York, Cnaulit In Jerey.
HAMMONTON, N. J April 26,
Sidney Brown, for whom tho New Tork
police have been searching since April
was captured to-day on the Pine
Itoad after four officers fired soveral
shots to stop his flight. Drown was
arrested in Now York April 3 charged
with being Implicated In automobile
thefts, and escaped by throwing pepper
Into the ryes of the policeman who had
him In charge.
When Detectives Fields nnd Murphy
of New York, Stato Trooper Frank Ju
Uano and Patrolman Patrlrlty of Ham-
monton went to tho house where Ilrown
had been boarding. Brown started to
run away. Jullano fired. Hrown con
tlnued to run and then all four fired
Brown fell and when the officers came
up he surrendered. He will be taken
back to New York.
OFFICIALS SEEK HOME
FOR VAGRANT'S DOG
Oirnr.r, Forced to Leave Canine
Prefers Celr to Almxhouae.
The Poundmaster of Jersey City will
try to-day to coax William Standmtl-
kr's mongrel dog Into a good home,
which he believes the animal will find
when Its story becomes known.
Standmlller, with no homo or friends
took up his abode last winter In an
abandoned barn. Ills dog was his only
companion, and they seemed happy, at
though food was scarce for both. Poor
master Murray thought the old man
needed attention and arraigned him In
the Jersey City Police Court. Stand
miller was told the ulmshouse was the
best place for him.
Can I take my dog?" ho asked. Told
that this was impossible, he asked to
be treateJ as a vagrant, and was sen
tenccd for sixty days to the pcnltcn
tlary. The dog Is still In tho deserted
barn waiting for his master to return.
WIFE SAYS HE CLAIMED
$3 A WEEK EXTRAVAGANT
Had Her Arrrftteri When Mie OI
Jected, She CharireN.
When Mrs. Itosn A. Glory, No. 59
Sheridan Avenue, Brooklyn, objected to
her husband's allowance of $3 week
for the table and her own expenses he
had her arraigned before a Police Mag,
Istrate on a charge of extravagance, she
told Vlco Chnnccllor FoBier nt Newark
to-day.
The Vlco Chancellor allowed her $7
a week as alimony pending trial.
airs. Olory said tho Pollen Mnglstrat
before whom she was arralKned ordered
her husband to glvu her an allowance
or $6.
SEN. WALKER DENIES
MOVIE APPOINTMENT
Slrone Faction Amonir Exhibitor
Work for Ilia Caiiillilnr)', However.
Senator James J. Walker denied at the
Hotel Alitor to-day that he Is u candl
date for the presidency of the Motion
Picture Theatro Owners Association of
America. It Is still understood, how
ever, that he nrohalilv will be a candl
dnto when tb convention meets In
Washington In Mai.
There Is a strong faction that want
to put Walker In and oust Sidney Cohen
now the President. Some theatro
owners believe the fiKht will cause
division of the organizatlou.
formed by District Attorney Hanton
on April 4 that the best way to pro
ceed against the Intcrborough for
creating n publto nulnanco in subway
operation was by laying tho cvldenco
lofore a City Magistrato, Mr. Dan-
ton admitted 'to-day that up to tho
present time tho evidenoa ho asked for
has not been delivered by the Mayor.
Tho records of tho correspondence
between tho Mayor's ofTlco and that
of tho District Attorney show that
tho Mayor's ofllce did not reply di
rectly to Mr. Banton'B communica
tion, but waited until April 19. Then,
Instead of accepting the District At
torney's advlco and offering to sup
ply tho evidence, with which Mr.
Canton would have been ready and
willing to proceed, the Mayor's office
merely acknowledged receipt of tho
District Attorney's opinion.
Twenty-two days havo passed and
not a particle of evldenco against the
Intcrborough had reached Mr. Damon
up to this morning, Mr. Danton ad
mltted.
"Has the Mayor sent you any evl
denco "on which you might proceed
against the Intcrborough?" Mr. Ban-
ton was asked to-day.
"No; not yet," he replied.
Asked how ho would proceed, Mr,
Danton said tho Mayor would have to
glvo him some specific Instance of
whore the Intcrborough broko rules of
he Transit Commission and thereby
created a public nuisance
In his chargo of criminal negligence
against the Interborough, which Is
contained in a letter to Air. uanton,
written March 23, Mayor Hylan said
in effect that the overcrowding In the
subways had reached tho point of In
decency and that tho health of the
community was menaced because of
Inadequacy of tho service.
Aftor receiving the report of Assis
tant District Attorney Myers of the
Appeals Bureau Mr. Danton wrote to
tho Mayor on April 4, submitting tho
report and adding:
As tho offense charged Is a mlsde
mcanor, may I ask that you supply
such Information as tho memorandum
requires In order to submit tho case
to an appropriate Magistrate's Court
upon an application for a warrant or
warrants against the offender or
offendnrs?"
The report of tho Appeals BureAu
said tho matter was not ono for the
Grand Jury, as the Mayor had sug
gested In his letter to Mr. Danton,
but for tho pollco court. This report
also says:
If tho Transit Commission has
Issued an order prescribing tho ser
vice to be rendered by the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company,
that company Is under tho legal' duty
of ooeylng such order. If the order
Is not obeyed the corporation Is liable
to money penalties (one year Im
prisonment, $600 fine, or both), and
overy ofllcer and ogent of tho corpora
tion who shall fall to obey, obscrvo
and comply wltli any order of the
commission or any provision of an
order of tho commission, or who pro-
cures, aids or abets any such common
carrier in Its failure to obey, observe
and comply with such order or pro
vision Is guilty of a mlsedemanor.'
Tho Board of Estimate will take
action In a special session thin after
noon on a resolution by Mayor Hylan
dissolving the partnership bctwoen
tho city and the Intcrborough and
tho seizure of the subways operated
by the latter unless all terms of the
dual subway contracts are lived up
to.
Tho first step In tho city's proposed
ouBter action was taken at a meeting
of tho Kstlmato Board March 31.
This followed tho Transit Commls
slon's drivo against tho Intcrborough
because of Inadequate service.
Under the law tho city is required
to give thirty days' notlco to the
Transit Commission of Its Intention
to proceed against tho Intcrborough,
It Is understood this notlco has been
given. Inspectors in tho employ of
tho city have since carefully watched
schedules of tho Interborough for the
purposo of determining whether the
service has improved slnco tho May
or's resolution. Although no ofllclal
figures are obtainable. It Is said there
Is no appreciable Improvement.
It Is understood that thero will be a
report submlttod at this afternoon's
meeting further Indicting the Inter
borough nnd bolstering up tho cltyi
claim for dissolution.
SOME ESTIMATES
OF INTERBOROUGH
CALLED A "JOKE"
Transit Counsel Says Public Wil
Get a Shock If It Takes
Valuation Seriously.
Characterizing as a "Joko" somo of
tho claims mado by tho Interliorough
Rapid Transit Company In Its own es
tlmates of tho value of thu traction
property on a cost to reproduce baslB,
Judge Clarenco J. Shenrn, special
counsel to tho Commission, told tho
Commissioners at tho hearing into In
tcrborough valuations to-day that
tho people of this city are allowed to
tako these valuations uf 1100,000,000
seriously they will bo shocked."
Judge fthearn was reviewing the
testimony. Ho charged that an over
valuation of $6,000,000 wuh claimed by
the Interlormigh an part of the cost
account of the Brooklyn extension of
tho original subway. Home of lhee
claims wuie $14,000 for the nouvenl
IkioKh distributed on tho opening da
of tho Brooklyn route, Others were
rll S5k DAAM1AD Piir
CORVAO. RVBNBR..
Miss Dagmar dc Carval Rybner
Soon to Become Mrs. J.
Whitla Stinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rybner, of I
No. 316 West 94th Street, announced I
to-day the engagement of thclrl
daughter. Miss Dugmar do Corvall
Rybner, to J. Whitla Stinson, an at -
orney of this city. No date has yet I
been set for tho wedding. I
Miss Rybner Is a skilled musician, I
i planlste and comnoser. Her father!
tvas for many years at tho head of I
the Department of Music at Colum-1
bla University. Mr. Stinson Is a I
gradaate of Columbia, class of 1906. 1
Ho Is a member of tho Metropolitan I
Club. I
' i i i i tt i
ti nnn AAA fn .itliMiinilnir IvinH tuNMPN I
and amortizing the bonds, $25,000 for
directors' fees for ten yearn, $76,000 I
tut PUIUIIVH ft. V 1 uISIsJ IS.SI'J swa
tension of the subway.
Testimony given by Edward P. J. I
Caynor, auditor for tho Intcrborough I
Company, showed that tho Brooklyn I
extension of tho subway cost $14,-1
962,267. Of this nmount tho city,
paid $3,920,000 and tho Intcrborough
tn k nnn invlnir n lnlnnm nf
I. ... . .... i
W.ioz.uuo, payaoio cunor uy um in-
tcrborough or by the City of New
York to tho contractor, tho Rapid
Transit Construction Company.
Judge Shearn then brought out
that the Rapid Transit Construction
Company had sublet tho work and the
sub-contractor failed to complete, the
Job, due to delays In plans, changes
In specifications and other inclden
tals all mitigating against original cs
tlmntes of cost
The Interborough's
subsidiary, the Rapid Transit Con
struction Company, looked to its par
cnt corporation for rclnibursemcnt of
the losses sustained by the sub-con
tractor as guaranteed In the con
tract subletting the work.
Tho Interborough presented tho
claim of tho Rapid Transit Construe
tlon Company to tho city where It Is
peacefully resting In tho Comptroller's
otllce. The construction company Is
owned by tho I. It
T. through stock
ownership.
Mr. Oaynor denied flatly to Assist-
ant Corporation Counsel De Ford that
tho Interborough In agreeing to build
tho Brooklyn extension for $3,000,000
Knowingly assumed a loss In order to
keep the B. R. T. out of Manhattan.
Ho denied that his company believed
the reasonable cost of constructing
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. ic..n,.m vOU!u ue oe-
tweon $10,000,000 and $14,000,000.
Wasn t it a dollbemtp loss to avoid
competition?" Mr. Oaynor wns asked.
"No, It was a dcllbcruto Investment,"
ho answered.
Mr nnvnni. i.i h
fcctlng the Brooklyn extension was
not on nn original cost basis, but
rather on a basin of cost to reprodure,
Commissioner Hnrkness Raid: "The
Commission will later want some proof
on tho accounting propriety of keep
ing these money costs In your capital
account during n fifty-year Issue."
C. Edwards, counsel for the In-
tcrborough, said he hoped tho Com
mission did not expect the Intcrbor
ough to give the suhways away to tho
City of New York,
"You don't own them," interjected
Mr. Do Ford,
tho Intcrborough has
no property to sell tho city It has
certain contract rights Involving tho
uso of the property an equitable In-
torcst to bo conserved, title to which
has passed to tho city."
Tho Transit Commission let ten
small contracts to-day for sundry!
work on various stations of different
lines. Tho total contract amount to
$31,000. Home of the work includes employees In honor of the one hun
statlon finish, doors, rails, gates, &c. I dredlh anniversary of the birth of den.
AMATEURS JAM AIR,
SPOILING RADIO TEST
OAKLAND, Cal., April 26. Inter
ference of amateur stations prevented
clear receipt of n transcontinental radio
telephone message from the Westing-
house station at Newark, N. J., to the
Hock Ridge station here yesterday
afternoon. Portions of It were clearly
audlblo across the receiving room, how
ever.
Plana for another test. In which Pa
cific Coast notables will 'send speeches
to Newark, wero mnuti at once.
ACTOR IIRI.H 0?( CH.Wir.13 I1V1
AcrritKss.
J. B. Carson, forty-four, a vaudeville
nctor of No. 507 West 40th Street, was
held In $2,000 ball to-day for the Grand
Jury by Magistrate Irvine, tn the West I
Side Court, on a charge of grand lar- I
ci'ny. Miss Grace Drcnon, nineteen, a I
vaudeville actress, charged him with I
stealing a diamond ring valued at $300 I
from her.
The alleged mental IncompcntaBcy,
I of Mrs. Gertrude I, Duncan, a former
well known musician, who Is now
I seventy-six years old and lives at Ho.
209 East Sldnoy Avenue, Mount Ver
non, will bo tested by a Sheriff's Jury;
on an order to examine signed to-day,
at White Plains by JusUco Mors-
I chauser. Tho order appoints Jeremiah
ID. Toomcn of Mount Vernon com
missioner to examine.
Mrs. Duncan, whose husband di4
twenty-one years ago, has three
trusts, aggregating $300,000, held by;
tho Brooklyn Trust Company, from
which the annual Income is about
I $18,000, hut It is alleged she Is ex
tremely parsimonious in matters of
I dress and food. It Is said she takes
her meals in "owl" wagons.
The action to have her examined Is
brought by her nephew, George Allen
mgrnham, of Rutherford. N. J..
cashier of tho American Express .Co.,
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affairs and that she falls to rccog-
nlze relatives. He also asserts that
undue Intlucnco Is being exercised
over her by one W. F. Turner whose
address Is given as No. 610 West
116th fcitreet, Manhattan.
An affidavit qf Caroline B. Wilson
of Mount Vernon states that Mrs.
Duncan has many eccentricities
among them talking aloud in churches
and expectorating In pews.
Milton W. Hall nf Mount Vernon.
a Vlco President of the Mount Vernon
Trust Company says in an affidavit
that, Mrs. Duncan Is being dominated
"by this man Turner.' ,,i
The nephew alleges that Turner
has obtained over $30,000 from the
estate ny biock scnemea.
MRS. CARUSO SAILS,
nPNVlNr nrTDATUAT'.
n
un tno frencn liner Paris, sailing for
Flymouth and Havre to-day, were Mrs.
Enrico Caruso, her daughter, Gloria,
and Mrs. Charles Hopper, a friend and
I companion. The tenor's widow will
I spend six months In her villa at Flor.-
I ence ana in August win go to Venice to
I settle her husband's estate. Rhi denleA
... ,,., ,hnk VW- I.
-nraired to Commander Arthu? Wr-
I tnfT.
I "How could anybody be cruet enough
I to circulate such a report!" sho asked.
'Iloth mv husband and I knew Com
mander Wagstaff, but I have not seen
him In four years."
Mrs. Marie D. Uustanoby, widow of
the restaurateur. Louis, goes to Con
stantinople to settlo an estate of $1,000,
000 left to her and her brother by their
I mother, Callppl Dadldovltch.
Aim iiurKDiwciio who uiiumcr pas
senger who will spend six months on the
Continent.
SUES AUGUST BELMONT ..
FOR $100,000 DAMAGES
ChaafTear Alleges Injuries When
Bsiemcni Elevator Fell.
August
Belmont, es owner of the
I Park now Building, was the defendant
In Supreme Court in a. suit for $100,000
damages, brought by Louis Ooughlln, 'a.
aeur. Z w hSu? tojurrt ol
inv.mb(r l. 11121. while loadlnir rtu-
Icose on a sidewalk elevator In front of
I the building. It is alleged ttiat an
I elevator chain broke, preelp titlng
Coughlln and the glucose threo atorlts
DCJOW Bruu"u-
i iraciurcs oi win ioh. ljj uicn ru m
.nH .ttW -nd other iniuri,,.. ,Ho .hu ,
" ,'vlnlf ual treatment.
rnnirhiln lives at No. S25 Hudjon
I Avenue. Brooklyn, nnd was te oi
I support of a younger brotner and sister
I nt Uie tlmo of tho accident. Ho 'da
I twftntv-seven years old and was on the
I "bu "at f:)r wx'"t"""t "
GAVE BABY NICKEL
AND IS ARRESTED
A boy about two years old was stand
ing at Essex and Rlvlngton Streets last
,,lKht a"d Jt",?h IucclR ?
Molt ritreet, wno nu wnw uiiio urutu
ers and sisters In Italy, gave the young
ster a nickel. He was arrested on s.
charge of "Impairing tho morals ot re.
minor." .
Muccla had (o spend the night in J&1L
but he was discharged this morning by
I Magistrate Frothlngham In the Esse
Market Court. "It's outrageous to lock
up a man for an aci or wnaness, sum
the Magistrate. t
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Grant. Alderman Samuel It. Morris.
17th district, introduced the resolution.
JOHN KENLON'S SO
CHIP OF OLD BLOCK,
PUTS OUT BLAZE
Hardly had Fire Chief Johsf
Kenlon sailed for Europe yeater,'
day than his son, John Kenlon Jr..
distinguished himself by putting
out a Are on tho roof of tho
marquee tn front of Shanley'a res
taurant In West 4$d Street, while
a crowd of 200 applauded.
Young Kenlon was driving hte,
automobile south on Broadway,
when ho noticed rubbish on the
marquee on flro. Stopping, hbf
rushed to tho side of another cor,-
unstrapped a Are extinguisher and,:
dashed Into the restaurant; i
Jumped from a second-floor win
dow and attacked the flames. 1dL
a. Icy pnLtutM lh flia FM out.
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