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I WORLD REPRESENTED
v and Mrs, Taft at Sunday
School Convention.
PRESIDENT PRAISES WORK
Tributes to King Edward —
Question Creeps In — Almost
a Panic.
TVBshir.Fton. Mar — President Taft was
?fce centra! figure at to-day's session of the
'TVcrlc's Sunday School Association, now In
convention here. At to-night's mass meet
f Ijcia in Convention Hall, which was
toTOTinded by a crowd fully as large as
1 ihe six thousand •within th* big structure,
tse acknowledged the Bible school as a
j^vtrerful force in the moral and educational
cp)!ft of the world. Again and again his
•^erETices on this subject were cheered to
tJje echo.
•• ]<■ one of the two or three great to
ttas,*" he declared, "for making:
.y e world better, more moral and more re
li-io'js. As th* twig is bent so the tree is
Indited. and youth Is the time to Inculcate
for results moral and religious ideas. Xo
natter what views are taken of general
e6aeslkn£ we all agree— Protestant, Catho
lic and Jew— that Sunday school education
1« necessary to secure moral uplift and re
flslous spirit."
As Fresident Taft entered the hall to-
Bigbt he was greeted with the Chautauqua
■ salute of thousands of fluttering hand-
V»rchiefb. followed by a loud clapping of
herds and then by three cheers.
Sirs. Taft made her first public appear
ji^c* Fince she -was taken ill, about a
•'■par ago. at to-night session. Mr. Taft
introduced her as "the real President of
the United States.'* After the President
:-,ad (bed his speech Dr. M«3'er men-
Tioned Mrs. Taft's presence, and tie Presi
-- cc- took her by th* hand ami led her
"Into the speaker's stand. Loud applause
preeted her appearance. Except for an
r-:a?":r:a' visit to the theatres and on* or
two gatherings at which only her intimate
fr:«nds were present Mrs. Taft ha? ; not
v- - seen in public for nearly a j*ear.j"
Negroes Barred from Parade.
' The race cuestion has Invaded the cori
i-ecticn. Local negro Sunday school lead
ers are protesting because members of
their race are to be barred from the men's
monster Bible class parade to-morrow. In
f stareiaent Issued by them to-night they
frsdere that "it la unfortunate that any
cti* wfco bears His name should at this
time, when the 'evangelization of the
111 1 orld in this generation Is the watch
■«-ord cf millions, should resort to such
offensive forms of race prejudice as the
local committee of Washington has done
Ir. completely. as far as it is concerned,
e&ninattag the colored people from any
rart to the sixth world's Sunday school
convention.**
Members of the local committee say the
r.^sro Sunday schools of the District of
Columbia have had plenty of opportunities
to join the Sunday School Association of
5 the District without taking advantage
.thereof, end therefore they have "no more
[right 1- the parade," as the chairman of
;th* press committee expressed it. ••than
.if they were members of « labor union
cr any other una-m!-at c organization."
-ins Rev. Dr. F. B. Meyer, of England.
president of the association, in introducing
President Tait. declared that lor the last
•-'-:- years he "had prayed for the Pres-
J^e-.t of the United States every Sunday
srter urayer Bar the Kin? of England. And
• this.*" he added, "is a common custom in
I'lriand."
Mr Ttft replied by Earing he hoped these
tra-ers .would continue. "My experience.
j be saii "is that these prayers are needed."
! Dc Mayer thanked the President for the
nsble cable message which he Bent when
lliziz Edward died." Referring to this. Mr
T«ft said:
• I be reference to the death of the.' Ta.te
K:~z and Hal BaaOnt: of mourning: of botn
sices of the rrorld brings to mind how
tooth such a convention as this means la
perprrHitlon of the peace of nations
sr>eakir^ cf dM rise of the Sunday school
nuywHient and cf its growth in the United
rtates. he declared that "a movement of
fueh strength should be welcomed In every
, ensanaity for the good it is doing
. Oder speakers at to-nirht's meeting were
•th* Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Greene, of this
>tty; €x-Postrcaster General Wanamaker.
Sit Rev. J. Monro Gibson, of England;
s -£isi!Oi> Yoitsu, of Japan, and Bishop Hart
- ■»•;!, or Africa.
Had to Clear the Aisles.
A Srarnailc incident occurred before the
eosrnssxian had . been In session twenty
JnfiaiteE. After the first hymn the doors
*>a-i , b-en Bane; open, arid those who
>.a 5 rot been admitted as delegates
fjCsd ail the unoccupied spaces and spare
♦••ait 2nd many crowded into the aisles.
T b^ fire officials and police ordered the
■teles eared at once.
EL O. Excell, o? Chicago, one of the musi
' r a.l directors, had Just raised his baton to
■ ■ -"* the - • ?.rc of a hymn when Percy S.
1 Fester, C f Washington, sprang to the box
«M shouted :
"The £re authorities demand that those
■Wm be cleared st once. The fire officers
°~3er »t Move out of the aisles quickly."
His sharp voice penetrated to the last
Parses in the great audience. For a mo-
Cieat th^re was an omlnoue silence. Then
tawe v.£s an uneasy shuffling of feet in
t!-* beck of the baa.. One or two men
.'swped on chairs.
' i - x '^<i took in th« situation in a glance.
He fe a rr.sr. of great stature, with a p&
', I® I *?** calculated to command attention.
1 r-e«i everything 15 all right, " he said.
* boerring- voice, and six hundred voices
s*stafi the rat notes of "In the Sweet By*
taJ Bye." The great audience joined in
fae saving, and in a minute the crisis had
Weed.
yaate to the memory of King- Edward
*^ Paid by all the delegates. Bishop Hart
?P<« the request of the Rev. Dr. Meyer,
V* Be:a *c a message of sympathy and con
«s«sC6 to the Queen Mother Alexandra,
J~* «as cabled to London.
1226 message was* read, and then, sb a
_^- °^ approval, the assemblage arose and
?•■**•* standing; two minutes hi Filence.
n»n Bishop Earl Cranston, of the Meth
!s * Episcopal Church, in Washington.
nafc hj 5 r . ra .- er and referred feelingly to
Q» death of the King, the English dele
*Bt-es. of Whom thtre are more than thre*
' "' *ere greatly affected, and son* of
* r »»ni -a-ept.
ft*> Port& showing the progress of Sunday
•^fcool rk throughout the world were
I aaeajfcaj . |
OOUBTS LONGEVITY TALES
| Census Man Thinks No One Ever
Reached 110.
"^Mhiegton, May IS.— Alter . investigating
cm* reoeatly reported cases of longevity.
**• CressT L. Wilbur, chief statistician of
" sivi£icn5 ivi£icn of vital statistics of the On
ri a Surea? i. reports that "it is undoubtedly
*ac tfc *t the age of m years is occasion
* y attained." but that "it is perhaps
WSatOnl Tit-tther th* as>-e or 110 has ever
<^n reached or exceeded.'
3»» i= not at all surprising, the report
'•"'£. that many unfounded claims to ex
'•^e a^e arise, for •it is well known
! •***• *aa£y of ; the statements of exact
***. even in the middle period of life and
■'■ -youth, are not strictly correct. In old
■£*. *** impaired memory, -with possible
kxt&l confusion of what has been
** r<l s-nc » -hit has been actually experi
•«sed by the individual alter the death
'- . '-oGtenipor&ries whose testimony might
ttfetaaiet claims to • excessive longevity.
**» *Ith the *e!l known tendency of many
tfftC i*rsonE to crag^erarf in th» utmost
THE7>AyJsnVASHIJVG TOJ*
r?rCEs Th« Trftron* Bureau!
Washington. May 19.
ROOT TO SEE ROOSEVELT.-That Sen
ator Root, who sails for The- Hague on Sat
urday, win see Mr. Roosevelt before the
latter Balls for this country seems now
assured. Mr. Root Is reticent regarding
: the details of the probable, meeting, but he
no longer asserts that he does not expect
to meet Mr. Roosevelt, and it is under
stood that Mr. Roosevelt's desire for a
conference with the Senator before he sails
for New Tork will be gratified. It is re
marked that it is only a night's run from
The Hague to London. There is no small
degree of satisfaction in administration cir
cles over the expected meeting. It is felt
that Mr. Roosevelt has seen a number of
the enemies of the administration, and that,
while there is not the slightest probability
that he would espouse toy cause against
the administration or '/m/ m any way yield one
Jot or tittle. of his loyalty to President
Taft, It will be well for him to have an
opportunity to discuss the situation with
as close a friend of the administration as
Mr. Root, and with . one in whose sound,
judicial judgment he reposes as much con
fidence as ,he does in that of the Senator
from New York.
CHAOS IN THE SENATE.— Chaos again
reign? in the Senate. The entente between
the regulars and the insurgents, arranged
at the White House conference last Sat
urday night, has been disrupted. The
working agreement with the Democrats,
whereby it was hoped " the bill could be
put through in short order, has fallen
through and the regular leaders take a
decidedly pessimistic view of the situa
tion. The insurgents are confident they
will have sufficient votes to adopt the
pending Cummins amendment requiring
the Interstate Commerce Commission to
approve all increases in rates before they
go into operation, and they insist that
they have the popular end of the situation.
The absence of Senators Aldrich and
Crane made it necessary to postpone fur
ther consideration of the interstate com
merce bill until Monday, and it is hoped
that pome sort of working agreement can
he patched up in the mean time, but it is
difficult to perceive the basis for 'such 'a
hope. The Senate insurgents insist that
if they can control a majority of the
votes they will not permit the final
adoption of any such postal savings bill
as is likely to be reported to the House,
and Senator Aldrich himself is reluctant
to bend his energies to passing the "state
hood bilL Altogether the situation is far
from encouraging, and those who insist
that the best course for Congress to pursue
is • to pass the remaining appropriation
bills and adjourn are once more having
their inning.
TAIT INDORSES SMITH.— The Insur
gents were greatly disturbed to-day over a
report from lowa to the effect that the
President had written a letter , cordially
indorsing Representative Walter I. Smith,
who is a candidate for renomination. Judge
Smith is a regular of regulars, and the
House Insurgents were at first disposed to
be indignant. Later, however, they came
to the conclusion that possibly they had no
grounds for. complaint if Mr. Taft had
merely indorsed Mr Smith's course in Con
gress, Irat they indicated that the Presi
dent would be requested to furnish equally
--■"■'-'-' Indorsements to all members of the
Hcuse who are seeking renomination. The
indignation of the Senators from lowa
knows no bounds. They are bitterly op
posed to Judge Smith, and hopefully pre
dict that if he is nominated his district will
be represented by a Democrat in the next
House. Judge Smith's opponent is H. Webb
Ever* Attorney General of the state and
an ardent supporter of Cummins. Some
of the more radical insurgents insist that
rood faith the number of years they have
lived, these claims are not surprising."'
After careful Investigation in regard to
the age of Noah Rab3'. known as "the oldest
man in the country," who -was said at the
time of his death a few years ago, to have
lived 131 years and 11 months, the census
officials came to the conclusion that Raby
tve.s probably ninety-two years and eleven
months old -when he died, or thirty-nine
years less than -was alleged.
Raby's record was looked up -with as great
detail as possible,' a. report in "The New
York Medical Record" of March 5, 1304,
that "he entered the United States ntvy
about as soon as the United States had a
navy and after serving for a number of
years was honorably discharged in 1S09"
being shaken by a report from the Navy
Department, which says: "A Noah Raby
was on the rolls of the Constitution in
VS3& so it is possible that the report of his
discharge from the navy in ISO 9is pure
legend." _
FOR SCIENTIFIC CURRENCY
Deputy Controller Fisher Sug
gests Remedy for Panics.
A scientific currency issued through the
medium of a well managed central banking
organization was the remedy proposed for
constantly recurring financial and commer
cial paries by Deputy Controller Edmund
D Fisher, in a lecture delivered last night
before the New Tork chapter of the Ameri
can Institute of Bank Clerks.
Th-re was a large gathering of embryo
bankers who listened with close attention
to the deputy controllers talk upon the
bankers' outlook upon current and funda
mental commercial and financial conditions.
By means of a series of charts prepared
from financial returns and thrown upon a
transparency the lecturer de J tr^
that a study of the returns showed that
pani- periods were the result of abnormal
SndtttoM which inevitably followed cycles
of Prosperity. These abnormal condmens
produced an involuntary readjustment from
time to time which was knovm as a panic.
Taking a fifty-year period, the lecturer
indicated that there was a close inter
relation between the upward and down
ward movements of business. For instance
prior to the panic of 1904 bonds reached
££ h*Ut point in May. I*2. stocks
tfaefr higUt point in October of the same
:" ar prt*. their highest
point" in March. WB. Prior to the panic of
5 the hl*h point in the bond market was
reached in August. OK of the .took mar
ker in September, 981. and of commodity
prices hi February, fa In both cases
thes* upward movement, were followed by
a rapid downward movement, which re
eulted in the involuntary readjustment or
conditions during the two panics.
Th- remedy for the violent involuntary
readjustment periods which ended In com
mercial panics was the strengthening of the
general credit condition of the country,
nd this strengthening. Mr. Fisher said.
could be best secured through the «stab
lishment of a scientific currency. Issued
through a well managed central banking
organization, planned upon much the same
lines as the Bank of England and bearing
a. like relation to the currency and business
conditions of the country.
HAD HEARD OF PRESIDENT
But North Dakota Juryman Couldn't
Remember His Name.
Minot, X. D.. May IS.— An American-born
citizen, a resident of ' North Dakota for
the last seven years, was found yesterday
bo did not know a single state or county
: official by name nor the name of the Presi
dent of the United States.
During the selection of a jury for a mur-
| der trial a farmer testified he- knew noth-
Im ~ of the case. He admitted his ignorance
: as" to the identity of any county or state
! officer and when asked for the name of
'the President of the United States he re
1 plied: "I have heard the ■ am but nave
forgotten "it '•' ' it. *"** accepted on the
YEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUXET, FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1910,
the President should not interfere in the
districts before the primaries, but the ma
jority of the House insurgents will be satis
fied if the President makes no distinction
in his Indorsement of all who have upheld
his legislative programme, be they regulars
or insurgents.
POSTAL. SAVING SCHOOL.—Represen
tative Weeks, chairman of the Committee
on Postoffices, is holding daily classes in
finance, with a view to educating his col
leagues on the subject of postal savings
banks. It is purposed to hold a caucus on
this bill next Wednesday night, when, It
is hoped, a substantial majority for the
measure can be secured. That accom
plished, the next step will be to ask the
Committee on Rules to bring in a rule lim
iting debate to one day. As the bill is
Necessarily somewhat complicated and as
most of the members have little under
standing of Its provisions and necessities.
Captain Weeks is holding a class each af
ternoon, explaining the provisions of the
measure, answering objections and urging
members to support it in its present form.
The House leaders axe giving no considera
tion to the situation Jn the Senate. They
are determined to do all in their power to
uphold the President and promote his leg
islative programme, and if the Senate then
cares to assume the responsibility of de
feating this or any other important admin
istration measure, the House, in their es
timation, must be held blameless.
CAPITOL, A GIBRALTAR. -The west
front of the Capitol looks like a modern
Gibraltar this evening, as there are ap
parently six great guns mounted on its
parapet. They are not guns, however, but
only 16-inch telescopes, which Elliot Woods,
superintendent of the Capitol, has caused to
be mounted for the convenience of a num
ber of Congress comet parties which have
been invited to view the Halley stranger.
"Visitors who approached the Capitol from
the west side to-day were amazed to see
what they thought were six large rifles
pointing out over the city, and were led
to inquire if another Coxey's army was
expected to invade the Capitol grounds, or
if the regulars were preparing for an on
slaught of insurgents.
FOREST RESERVES. — Representatives
Weeks, of Massachusetts, and Lever, of
Bouth Carolina, after a conference to-day
decided to make an appeal to the Commit
tee on Rules to set a day for a vote on the
bill creating the White Mountain and Ap
palachian Forest Reserves, of which they
are the joint authors. The bill has been
favorably reported and Is now on the House
calendar, but the Committee on Agricult
ure is so far down the list in the call of
committees that. Messrs, Weeks and Lever
are apprehensive it will not be reached
again this session, and fear the only means
of securing consideration of their bill will
be by a special rule. There is little ques
tion that this measure will be passed by the
House if it can be brought to a vote. A
similar bill passed the House in. a former
Congress by a large majority, and Mr.
Weeks is confident of victory if he can get
the measure before the House.
TVIRELESS TELEGRAPH.— The action
of the Committee or. Merchant Marine and
Fisheries to-day in reporting favorably the
bill making it compulsory for all vessels
carrying passengers and making trips of
more than two hundred miles in length to
provide themselves with wireless telegraph
apparatus affords a prospect of legislation
of this character at this session. The Sen
ate has already passed the bill, and it is
believed that if the House gets an oppor
tunity to vote on It it will be passed by a
substantial majority. ♦ The also
compels every such vessel to carry a com
petent wireless operator. G. G. H.
DEFENDS PAYNE LAW
Long-worth Invites Insurgents to
Return to Fold.
[From The Tribune Bureau.]
Washington, May 13. — Representative
Nicholas Long-xorth called on the Insur
gents to return to the fold through the
medium of the Tariff Board provision in
the sundry civil bill to-day, and made it
clear that the House leaders are willing to
let bygones be bygones, and desire to
make the party solid in the coming cam
paign. As the insurgents intend to sup
port the Tariff Board, it is considered cer
tain that they will accept Mr. Longworth's
invitation.
Mr. Long-w-orth chose the tariff as the
subject for his first speech of the year. He
defended the Pa;-ne bill from the charge
that it is responsible for the increased cost
of living, citing several examples to show
that where the duties have been decreased
the cost has increased. He called particu
lar attention to the lumber schedule, which
was reduced -without decreasing the price
of lumber, and to the increased price of
shoe?, on which the duty was greatly re
duced. He explained the Tariff Board pro
vision, and said It Is necessary because,
while most schedules of th© tariff bill carry
out the pledges of the Republican platform,
there are some which do not. and these
should be changed as soon as some logical
reason can be given.
Mr. Hamilton, of Michigan, defending the
tariff law, portrayed prosperity as existing.
a.nd gave statistics to show that prices in
h*s district were lower than In free trade
Windsor, Ont.
On the Democratic side speeches were
made by Mr Byrd, of Mississippi: Mr.
Dixon, of Indiana, and Mr. Borland, of
Missouri. All attacked the tariff.
The House refused to agree to the Senate
amendment to the agricultural bill, by
which the money paid to the states which
have forest reserves was increased from 25
to 35 per cent of the amount, collecto-i by
the government.
NO PROGRESS IN SENATE
Vote on Railroad Bill Still Seems
Far Away.
— — jTYorrT The Tribune Bureau. ~
Washington, May 19. — No progress on the
interstate commerce bill was made, by the
Senate to-day. Nearly the entire session
was given over to Senator Cummins for dis
cussion of his substitute for Section 9," re
quiring the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to approve all proposed increases in
rates, classifications, etc, before they bo
come effective. The lowa Senator has talked
so long and bo often on the railroad bill
that he has exhausted the patience of the
Senate, and it was necessary for his friends
frequently to suggest the absence of a quor
um to obtain an audience, even for brief
periods.
Further consideration of the railroad bill
will not be resumed until Monday. It has
been agreed that the naval appropriation
bill shall be taken up to-morrow- and that
Saturday's cession shall be devoted to eulo
gies of dead members of the house.
The leaders are bending every effort to fix
a time for a final vote-on the railroad bill.
To-morrow and Saturday will be devoted to
conferences, with a view to reaching an
agreement on those parts of the bill still *n
dispute. The oratory of the insurgents
seems to be inexhaustible, and both Repub
licans and Democrats are showing signs of
impatience at the attitude of the half dozen
insurgent." who are making the railroad bill
a vehicle for campaign speeches. The lead
ers hope that a final vote may be taken o/
the end of next week, but admit this ho.xi
Is founded on a belief that ■ this session
of Congress will adjourn before the middle
of next month.' Senator La Follecte, who
«rpata to close the debate on the railroad
bill with a modest, speech of two or three
days, probably will object to fixing a time
for a vote unti! he Is ready to unburden
btaseirof hi* oratory. - ...
NOW ACCUSE GARRELD
Continued from first pate.
Mr. Pinehot -wanted Mr. Newell to do
was to join in the attack on Secretary
Ballinger. Mr. Perkins refused to draw
inferences, but admitted it was rather
strange, if the thingr referred to was
merely the campaign to secure Mr. New
ell's retention, that Mr. Newell was re
luctant — inasmuch as he had theretofore
approved the programme to secure his
retention.
Mr. Perkins then told of a conversation
he had with Mr. Newell in Chicago on
July 26, 1909, in which Mr. Newell said
he would not do anything against Mr.
Ballinger so long as he was working un
der him. Judge Vertrees tried to elicit
further information as to the reasons for
this comment, but Mr. Perkins said he
was unable to recall any other conversa
tion. At the time of this talk Mr. Newell
was on his way to the irrigation congress
at Spokane, where Secretary Ballinger
was attacked by ex -Governor Pardee of
California. There was another meeting
between Mr. Newell and the witness
when the director of the Reclamation
Service was in Chicago on his way back
from Spokane, but Mr. Perkins said noth
ing of importance was discussed. Their
next talk was on October 29, when Mr.
Newell said he intended to make Mr.
Ballinger the "goat."
Friends of Secretary Ballinger b<Mi< : >"'-«
the testimony of Mr. 'Perkins substan
tiates the statement made by George
Otis Smith, director of the Geological
Survey, that the critics of the Interior
Department directed their batteries
against those public officials who refused
to "go along" in the campaign to dis
credit Mr. Ballinger.
Judge Vertrees put in the record a let
ter from Mr. Garfi>ld recommending Mr.
Kerby for promotion. In a letter writ
ten to President Roosevelt on March 14,
1907, the transfer of Kerby, "my confi
dential clerk," to the Department of the
Interior was recommended by Mr. Gar
neld.
Lawlers "Grudge" Against Glavis.
Most of the forenoon session was de
voted to a discussion as to whether the
committee should call for papers relating
to the trial of land fraud cases in which
Assistant Attorney General Lawler ap
peared for the government. It appears
that Glavis disputed the fitness of Mr.
Lawler to try these cases. The Attorney
General passed on the question and de
cided that Glavis's criticism was un
founded. Mr. Lawler tried the suits and
was successful. In view of this incident
Mr. Brandeis sought to show that Mr.
Lawler was not a proper man to pass on
the Glavis charges against Secretary
Ballinger. When it had been pointed
out that Mr. Lawler had not passed on
the charges, but had merely made a
memorandum of findings made by the
President, and that to call for the papers
in the land suit with a view to showing
Mr. Lawler"s prejudice against Glavis
would serve no purpose except to pro
long the inquiry, Mr. Brandeis withdrew
fcis request. Ke intimated that he might
call for them later, end on this intima
tion Mr. Denby insisted that there be
a record vots showing that it was ths
sense of the committee not to inquire
into collateral issues of this character.
There were no negative votes against
the Denby motion. Senator Purcell and
Representatives Madison, James and
Graham voting "present."
May End To-day
The investigation is likely to end to
morrow — so far. at least, as the taking
of evidence is concerned.
The "defence" practically had rested
when the day's hearing ended, and Mr.
Brandeis, for the "prosecution." was
quoted to-night as saying that his side
would consume little time in the ex
amination of witnesses in rebuttal Mr.
Vertrees. counsel for the "defence." will
call one or two witnesses to-morrow,
but expects their contributions to be
brief.
Both sides to-day appeared anxious to
wind up the investigation, of which all
have become wearied. In furtherance
of this desire they have decided to dis
pense with a number of witnesses they
had expected to call. It is probable that
the departure of Senator Root had a
good deal to do with the decision to
bring the hearings to a close.
The committee has not yet decided
whether counsel shall make their clos
ing arguments orally or by written
briefs. Arguments will be made by Mr.
Vertrees for Secretary Ballinger, Mr.
Brandeis for Glavis and Mr. Pepper for
Gifford P4nchot.
DETAIN COLEMAN'S FRIEND
Mr. Taylor to Testify at Keliher
Trial, at Boston.
Concord. N. H.. May IS.— Mrs. Margaret
L. Taylor, of Cambridge, Mass.. was de
tained here to-day as a witness in the
trials of William J. Keliher and Wilson W.
Lockhart, charged with aiding and abet
ting George W. Coleman, bookkeeper, in
the looting of the National City Bank of
Cambridge. Mrs. Taylor left her*) for
Boston accompanied by government Secret
Service agents
Boston, May 19 —Mrs. Margar-t L. Tay
lor, who was detained in Concord. X. H.,
to-day, and Coleman attended the same
school in Cambridge and were ne:?hbors
for some time. Several years ago M:?. Tay
lor and her husband separated and a di
vorce followed. The federal authorities
say that Mrs. Taylor was frequently en
tertained by Coleman and that she was
one of a number of the bookkeeper's
friends who visited him at the bank occa
sionally. The government, officials do not
niak« any charge against the young
woman. They desire to know if she can
furnish information concerning the rela
tions between William J. Keliher, who is
on trial on a charge of aiding Coleman in
looting the bank, and the bookkeeper. At
the time the bank was closed Mrs. Taylor
was in New York.
The government at the opening of the
Keliher case to-day explained that the de
fendant so dominated Coleman that the
latter could not resist numerous Induce
ments to "buck the Uz°r" in New Tork,
despite the fact that losses were continu
ous.
According to "William H. Garland. As
sistant District Attorney, who made the
opening address to-day, Coleman began
stealing from the bank in 1906. and took
$20,000 in a year in a vain effort to win at
faro, with the aid of a man known as
"Jack." Then came a year and a half of
honesty, but in May. 1909, Coleman met
Keliher, an<T once more listened to the
tempting words of great winnings gained
quickly. From that time until February of
the present . year, the. assets of the bank
were transferred In $5,000 and $10,000 lots to
the gamblers in New York, always with the
cry that just one more play would be. suf
ficient to make up all losses. Mr. Garland
declared that Keliher personally advised
the taking of the bank's; money and was
the tempter throughout. .
CHARGE BAD MONEY GAME
Two Alleged Associates of 'Red"
Adams Arrested.
Philadelphia. May I?.— Accused of having
been associated with "Bed" Adams in the
notorious gold brick swindle by which sev
eral titled Europeans were defrauded of
large sums of money, and of having used
the mails to defraud many persons in this
country' in a greengoods game, E. A. Stark
loff and George W. Post were arrested here
to-day by Postal Inspector Cortelyou and
his assistants.
Adams was arrested last April in New
York, and is now serving a four and a half
years' eentence in th« Atlanta federal
prison.
The men arrested to-day have been living
in fine homes at Wynnwood, a fashionable
suburb, where they took a prominent part
In church work and social activities.
Starkloff. according to the authorities,
was also known under the name of Frank
Morris and A. B. Cline. It is alleged that
he was arrested In Detroit on May 5, but
jumped his bail which had been fixed at
$1,500. It Is also said he was sentenced
for a similar offence at Albany in 1892.
He was held !n $3,000 at a hearing to-day
by Commissioner Craig. Post, who was
held in 82,000 bail, was never arrested be
fore, although the postal authorities say
they have been on his trail for several
years.
The alleged scheme for which they are
now under arrest consisted in writing to
various persons to the effect that they had
stolen a die from the United States mint
which would make money which even the
Inspectors could not tell from the real arti
cle, and offering to sell $1,500 worth of this
bogus money for $500. genuine cash.
ROOSEVELT ON RULES
Tribute Paid to Work of Thomas
B. Reed,
Washington, May 19.— Speaking on the
House rules on Monday, Mr. Bennet, of
New York, quoted from a speech made by
President Roosevelt in Portland, Me., on
August 26, 1902. Mr. Roosevelt said:
I wish to say a word to you in recog
nition of great service rendered not only
to all our country, but to the entire prin
ciple of democratic government through
out the world, by one of your citizens. The
best institutions are of no good if they
won't work. I do not care how beauti
ful a theory is: if it won't fit in with the
facts it is of no good. If you build the
handsomest engine that ever had been
built and it did not go. its usefulness would
be limited. Well, that was just about the
condition that Congress had reached at the
time when Thomas B. Reed was elected
Speaker. We had all the machinery, but it
didn't work — that was the trouble— and you
had to find some one powerful man who
would disregard the storm of obloquy sure
to be raised by what he did in order to
get it to work. Such a man was found
when Reed was made Speaker
We may differ among ourselves as to pol
icy. We may differ among ourselves as to
what course government should follow, but
if we possess any intelligence we must be
a unit that it shall be able to follow some
course. If government cannot go on, it is
not government. If the legislative body
cannot enact laws, then there is no use of
misnaming it a legislative body: and if the
majority is to rule, some method by which
it can rule must be provided* Government
by the majority in Congress had practical
ly come to a stop when Mr. Reed became
Speaker.
Mr. Reed, at the cost of Infinite labor, at
the cost of the fiercest attacks, succeeded
in restoring that old principle, and now
through Congress vre can do well or ill,
accordingly as the people demand, but at
any rate we cm do something — and we
owe it more than to any other man to your
fellow citizen, Mr. Reed. It is a great
thine for any man to be able to fee! that
in some one crisis he left his mark deeply
scored for good in the history of his coun
try, and Tom Reed has the right to that
feeling.
"MURDER" IN STEEL PLANTS
Labor Man Calls Them "Human
Slaughter Houses."
Washington, May 19.— Steel manufactur
ing concerns in Pennsylvania wen char
acterized as "human slaughter houses"
and it was charged that in the hospitals
"wilful murder" was committed on the
theory that dead men were less expensive
than cripples at a hearing before the Sen
ate Committee en Public Health and
Quarantine to-day in connection with the
Owen bill providing for the creation of a
Department of Labor and Health. These
statements were made by Arthur E.
Holder, legislative agent or the American
Federation of Labor
"A few da3-s ago." said Mr. Holder, "I
■was sitting in the office of a Pennsylvania
member of Congress and was informed
that in the hospital of one of the Pennsyl
vania steel concerns wilful murder vras
committed when It was found that It
would be better for the company to have
a dead man than a cripple."
Senator Smoot asked tiie name of the
concern, and Mr. Holder replied that it
was the Bethlehem Steel Company. He
also said that one manufacturing concern
in Ohio was reported to have "killed
1,200 men in nine years. Senator Smoot
challenged these figures, and Mr. Holder
said he had no first hand information con
cerning them.
BLAME FOR CHERRY DISASTER
Mine Inspectors Knew Laws Were
Broken, Says Coroner's Jury,
Princeton. I!!.. ,Alay 19— The coroner's
jury investigating the cause of the Cherry
mine disaster, which resulted in the death
of 265 miners last fall, has returned 250
separate verdicts. The Jury says the mining
laws were broken with the knowledge and
consent of the mine inspectors.
The verdict is a vindication of John Cow
ley, the engineer who was in charge of the
caee in which twelve rescuers lost their
lives. The verdict says these men lost
their lives "indirectly by a confusion of
signals regulating the movements of the
casre."
The following verdict was brought in for
each of the IST men who lost their lives in
the second vein. "We find that they came
to their death by suffocation and that the
fire was caused by a pitched load of baled
hay coming in contact with an oil torch.
And we further find that there was great
delay in notifying the men of their dan
ger."
The verdict giving the cause of the death
of the men in the ,third vein says: "We
find that they came to their death by ex
posure and suffocation. We further find
that the mining laws of the State of Illi
nois in relation to means of escape were
violated with the full knowledge and con
cent of the mine inspectors for District
So. 2."
NEW MORTALITY STANDARD
Life Companies Plan to Look
Into 5,000,000 Special Risks.
The big life Insurance companies of UM
United States and Canada ar»: about to be
gin an investigation of the records in five
million special risks to determine the ac
curacy of the standard of mortality used in
issuing policies known as "special risks"
taken in insuring- the lives of those engaged
in seventy business lines and occupations,
held to be hazardous, and those who coma
under seventy-five different heads as being
afflicted by medical impairments.
"This Is the biggest 'thins attempted in
life insurance in eight years," said Arthur
Hunter, actuary of the New York Life In
surance Company, last night at the annual
dinner of the Actuarial Society of America
at the Hotel Astor. Eighty medical direc
tors, actuaries and other officials of life in
surance companies were present.
The Actuarial Society will hear more of
this plan at a meeting this morning at the
Hotel Astor/ -JV .j
SNOWFALL IN ADIRONDACKS.
Malone, X. V.. May 19.— Following a eo!d
rain Wednesday afternoon and evening,
enow began to fall throughout ih-rs Adlron
dacks about midnight and continued
steadily until sunrise to-day. There is
about two inches of snow on the level In
th© woods and the hills ar« as white as ■
wint** • • '-■ \ vi:v 'i: :"»'■■', ■'.-:.'*
STEALINGS FOR CHARITY
Defaulting Treasurer of South
bridae Bank Sentenrrd.
TELLS REMARKABLE STORY
Gave 'Away and Lost $370,000
—Spent $7,500 a Year on
$2,500 Salary.
Worcester, Mass.. May 19.— After a plea
of guilty to thirteen of the fifteen counts
in an indictment charging the larceny of
$104,000 from the Soathbridge Savings Bank
and a subsequent recital of his disposal
by gifts to charities, to relatives and 1 by
tad investments of a ' sura of money
which he estimated at J3TO,«W. John A.
Hall, defaulting treasurer of th- bark,
was sentenced by Judge Robert T. Ray
mond In the Superior Court to-day to
serve not less than twelve, nor more than
fifteen years, in the state prison at
Charlestown. One day of this sentence is
to be passed in solitary confinement.
Characterizing: Hall— a man who handled
hundreds of thousands of dollars while
treasurer for twenty years of the South
bridge Savings Bank and while treasurer
also of the town of Southbridge and of the
Southbridge Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation—as a degenerate, with no sense of
responsibility in money matters, three
physicians testified in his behalf. They
were Pr«. Frederick Coggeshall and Harry
H. Coleman. of Boston, and William
Freed, of Southbridge. They declared
Hall's mother to have been hopelessly in
sane, and said that the defaulting treasurer
had many of her traits. Other witnesses.
one of them. George W. Wells, a trustee
of the Southbridge Savings Bank, testified
to Hall's good character.
Hall's peculations had their beginning
at out twenty years ago. he said on lbs
stand, when he took $100 out of the cash
drawer in the bank to take a flyer in
Atchison stock. This Investment, like many
others in later years, was unsuccessful.
Although he kept no records. Hall said
he estimated the total amount of his steal
ings at about $370,000. His conviction to
day was on a charge of taking only $104,« m
Expert accountants who have gone over
his books at the bank since the discovery
of the shortage assert that about |800,{te>
is missing-.
When asked by the court what he hail
done with the money. Hall produced a
memorandum from which he read extracts
showing, among other things, a gift of $5">.
000 to the South bridge Young Men's tjhris
tian Association for a new building; $30,000
to his brother. Clare Hall, to help estab
lish a sheep farm in Montana; $6.50> for the
education of his brother, Frederick Hall,
and to start him in business; 550.000 in a
stock deal, various sums to the Good Will
Home and the Home for Orphans and Little
Wanderers in Boston, to the Worcester
Young Men's Christian Association and
State Toms Men's Christian Association,
about SIO.COO to poor people at different
times and $So.<>» in unfortunate real aatata
deals in the Back Bay District, Boston-
Hall said his living expenses had averaged
57,500 a year and that his salary as ban*
treasurer was 52.5C0.
In imoosins sentence Judge Raymond said
that Hall had shown himself to be an
habitual criminal. WHh he had given to
chanties, "it is easy to be charitabla when
it costs nothing," Judge Raymond re
marked. Hall showed no si^n of emotior..
ALLEGED CHECK SWINDLER
Career of "B. N. Garstin" Halted
in Buffalo.
[Ey Telegraph to The Tribuns.]
I Buffalo, May With the arrest hers to
day of B. X. Garstin. alias George Davis,
alias George Curtice, a chain cf alleged
; bogus check operations extending into Can
i ada was unfolded.
I Garstin said that he was at one time
superintendent of the KerwicS: Social Set
tlement Colony in New Jersey. Ha said
hat ha had been arrested in Albany for
floating bo^iis checks, and bad served time
at the Rochester reformatory for the of
fence. He also said that he had been ar
rested and convicted in Cleveland. He ad
mitted that he had also served time in
nuilwilcmii prison, near Boston, en a
charge of forgery. He declared he had an
office in the Singer Building, Xew York
City. He is thins;-rlve years old. 5 feet I
inches Mall and dresses fashionably.
Garstin tried to pass checks on the State
Bank, in Grand street, where, ths police
say. he has no account, saying he wished
o present a JS.COO automobile to his "bride."
Ke also tried to pass a check for $3,000 on
the Buffalo agent of an automobile com
pany, it is said, but did not get the car.
He also gave C. X. Chouffet. a jeweller, a.
J2SO check for a ring, it is said, and bought
a typewriter with a bogus 5100 check. He
stayed at the Iroquois Hotel for two days
and entertained lavishly.
Oscar L. Richard, president of the State
Bank, at No. 376 Grand avenue, Brook"::-.
said last night that Davis was introduced
to him under the name of "Curtice' by
Brooklyn people who had met him in church
circles. Mr. Richard assented to his open
ing an account in the State Bank, and ac
cepted his first deposit, which he said whs
a check on a Cleveland bank. The bank
officials, following their usual custom, tele
graphed to Cleveland, and trere informed
that the check was no good.
Shortly after, according to Mr. Richard,
checks began to come into the bank bearing
tie signature "B. K. Garstin." As each
checkbook is numbered Mr. Richard said he
had no difficulty in discovering that the
name "Gamin" had been assumed by th*
supposed Curtice, and word was sent to
those who had presented the checks that
tie man was a swindler and that the police
had been notified. One of the checks signed
by "Garstin," Mr. Richard added, was re
ceived from Hamilton. Canada, and was in
payment for an automobile.
At the Singer Building last night It was
said that no man by Ike name of Garstin
occupied offices there.
MUST ACCEPT MESSAGES
Boston Banker Wins Suit Against
Telegraph Company.
Boston. May 19.— Telegraph companies
have no right to refuse te. receive and
transmit a proper message for which pay
ment has been tendered, says the full :
bench of the Supreme Court in an opinion j
handed down to-day overruling the exo«p- |
tions to the Postal Telegraph and Cable
Company of Massachusetts. In a suit
brought by William M. Vermilye, a Boston
business man.
Vermilye tried to send a messag- fcj
which he had appended the following r.c- 1
tice on a sticker or rider: "Notice !s here- i
by given that this is a business message
and that failure to deliver it proraptiy
and correctly is likeiy to cause the sender
financial loss '
The telegraph company declined to ac- j
cept the message. In the Superior Court j
Vermilye obtained damages and the com
pany appealed.
■
CHESBROUGH DEFENCE BEGUN, i
Trenton, X. J.. May 13. — Tne government ;
closed its case to-day in the trial of Mrs.
Matilda M. * hesbrough. of Boston, who is
charged with smuggling goods into Ho- I
boken in May, 1909. CbaNtl for the
defendant opened this afternoon, and made i
the defence on Mrs. Chesbrough'a ignorance '
of the custom* laws. Mrs. Chesbrough,
while on the stand, said she bought the
trunk with the false bottom in which the :
alleged smuggled goods were discovered \
because the thought the bottom when re- '
moved wsu!<3 make a good ironing beard, j
QUALITY
Quality really means ; econ
omy — true economy.
A dress suit for $15.00 is the
wildest sort of extravagance.
Cheapness and costliness
often mean the same thing.
A building contract toast'
ensure quality or it cannot
ensure economy.
Our Co-t Insurance contract
keeps an Owner in such close
touch with expenditures that be
buys his building as he buys a
pair of s'-oes over the counter-
Quality is the first essential
to building economy speed is
the second.
Cos 1 Insurance gives you both.
THOMPSON'-STARRETT
COMPANY
Building Construct)**
Fifty-One Wall Street
CHANCE SHOWS MURDER
Black Hand Hunt Reveals Unsus
pected Man Killing.
Plainneld. X. J.. May 13 (Special).— ln a
: determined effort to round up a gang" of
Black Hand men that has been operating
in Xewark ard other parts of the stats
the police of that city brought to light yes
terday details of a recent murder at South
Plainfleld. The Newark police arrested
i Luigi Cerenca, who was wanted in th«
' Black Hand Investigation, but instead at
obtalr.'ng Information about the secret
j order of the Italians the police* wer» star
tled to hear h'm make an alleged confes
: sion to the murder of Patrick CahUV *
farmer of South Plainneld.
; Through the third degree the police. It la
alleged, obtained from Cerenca detailed tax
formation about the crime. It is said to
have been committed on ths night of Mar
10 at uahills home. Following CereUca-'*
instructions. Captain Brown and Detective
Sergeants Cardoni and Tenore. of Xewark.
I came here to-day and, accompanied br #
Chief Kiefy and Detective Sergeant John
Flynn. of the local police department.
went to South Plainneld and found Cabin*
: body just where Cerefica said it was. An
j examination showed that the man had bean
chopped to death with an axe, and. In ad
dition, two bullet wounds wer* found in bi<
back.
; The body irai discovered m the rear cf
an outhouse- on the farm where Cahill was
employed, and was covered with corn
■ stalks. According to the Newark police.
Cerenca gave robbery as his motive.
Cereflca ha^: been employed on an adjoin
ing farm, and so far as known the two
' men always got along well together.
Cereflca has been living at South Plato-
M 1 about ten years, and the Newark po
lice arrested him at that place last night.
following the round-up of the Newark gang
earlier In the day. Cerenca, believing, that
ho was wanted for the murder of Cahill.
; made the alleged confession. >
! Cahill. so the neighbors say. had a habit
of frequently going on =<. spree, and would
be away a weak or two at a time. Prob
ably for this reason his last disappearance
did not cause any unusual excitement in
: the neighborhood. Another fact that has
had a tendency to prevent comment on
CabiU's disappearance is that he had been
living alone recently, his wife having been
: committed to the Somerset County Jail
from North Plainfleld on a charge of beta?
drunk and disorderly. She is still a pris
oner at the jail, and consequently knows
nothing of her husband's death.
! After finding the body of CaiHl the police
informed Coroner J. V. Hubbard. of New
Brunswick, who ordered the removal of
th© body to Ru^yon's morgue. New Bruns
wick. The Newark police will co-operat*
with the Middlesex County authorities, who
will plan to bring the a«i before the grand
I jury at once.
COTTRT trPHOLDS RBBATIHS
Big Four Must Live Up to Contract
Despite Federal Law.
Cincinnati, May That an act of Con
gress cannot invalidate- a contract Involv
ing rebating on commerce that lies whollr
within a state was the gist of a ruling br
Judge Howard C. Holllstsr to-day.
The court sustained a demurrer of T. C.
Hirsch in the suit of the Big Four Rail
road to evict him from property in Ivory
dale, Ohio. The railroad admitted It mad«
a contract in 1904 promising Hirsch. C4Mk
yearly rebates for shipments of iron and
steel handled by him. It also rented a busi
ness site to him. The- railroad company al
leged in Its suit that the contract had b#
cone void because of the present lavtr
against rebating.
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