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V- LXX. ■•-*"■ 23.320. 1 1. BRYAN DOITS -COW IT DAHLMAN Liquor Question Causes First Departure from Party Regularity. FRIENDSHIP OF 20 YEARS Considers Nebraska County Op tion and Early C^osir.g Laws Menaced. He Says in Statement. Lincoln. Neb- Sept. 20--In a state ment, in which he declares that the cru- m j^ which he feels impelled to wage against the liquor interests of the state and nation overshadows a personal and political friendship of twenty years. William J. Bryan this evening an nounced he had bolted the head of the Democratic state ticket in Nebraska and would not support James C. Dahlman for Governor. Pahiman. who is known Is "Cowboy Jim.** has been a spectacu lar figure in Nebraska politics. Mr. Bryan says he regrets that he i* compelled to take the stand he does— his first departure from political repu bxtty—lrat says he feels It his duty to do so because of the position taken by the Democratic nominee on the liquor question. The statement does not indi cate that Mr Bryan will support the candidate of any other party, but an nounces that he is a pronoun advo cate of county option and the early ralnon closing law. both of which he in sists are menaced by Mr. Dahlman's candidacy. The statement is as fol lows: "In speaking for the state ticket I fhall not be able to present any argu nients in favor of the election of Mr. r>ahlir.an. His position on the liquor question makes that impossible I re gret this exceedingly, for he has, b<^en a political and personal friend for twenty years, and it would give me pleasure to speak Her him if I could indorse the pol icy for which he stands, but he has chnscn to make the liquor question the paramount issue, and makes his appeal en that issue. "Possibly it is Just as well to have the iffue clearly presented so that it may be tattled this year instead of two years hpr.ee. Trc»ublesnrrse as the question is new, it would be even more embarrass ing if presorted in 1312. when a Pre ci cer.tial election .- on hand. If Mr. Dahlman is elected, it will be a declara tion by the voters of the state against county option and against the S o'clock (josir.g law. If he is defeated, it will be a declaration in favor of county op t;on ed fa fnvnr of the S o'clock clos ing !aw. In oth<=r words, the voters now have an opportunity to decide whether the state shall pi backward or forward on th* liquor question. To present ar guments in favor of going backward vnuH n-'T on'y t what I have i.!r«=-adv raid on t <> subject, bUt would tanbarrass me in the fight that I expect tc ir.ak*> hereafter to save our party '• - the odium of b*ing the representa tive if the liquor interests." GRESSER MUST ANSWER Governor Appoints Samuel H. Ordway to Investigate Charges. Albany. Sept. IS — Governor Hughes to-r.ipht appointed Samuel H. Old] way, of N*w York, as a commissioner to take testimony and report his findings on the charfp nf alleged neglect of duty pre ferred against Lawrence Greaser, Presl dc-r.t of Quf^ris Borough. Thf rharges were filed by civic organ izations of teens ■■ I were accom rznied by a request for Gresser's re rroval from office. The rough presi dent m his answers made a general <!*r»ia]. It is likely that Ml Ordway will file his report with Lieutenant Governor Kr,rae* White, who is to assume the flfftfes of the gove norship when Gover nor Hughes goes on the Supreme Court. B"ro::?h President Gresser expressed sur- Tris* at the action of the Governor when ir.foi-m^d last night of Mr. Ordway's ap- "I hav«> been anxiously awaiting the Oov ♦raor's action." he continued, "and now that fc* ras appointed a commissioner. I shall cheerfully obey his command and present Tr.y answer : do not care at this time to fnvr.m'-nt either upon the charges or upon tny answer, but I will say that my answer •4*« h*- fan And rr:;<]ete when made." STAKES LIBERTY ON TEST Gleason Stands on Trial of Metal Transmutation Process. Scrantnn. Perm.. Sept. — Whether E. D. deaaon win escape jail on the charges of forgery and larceny preferred fey Dr. Frederick W. Lance, of this city. may derx'nd on the result of an exp^ri w«:t performed this afternoon in Dr. Land's laboratory. After a conference lasting until daylight this morning, the doctor consented to permit the us* of his laboratory, but he did not witness the experiment. Gltason's object was to convince A. O. Granger, the Phiiadeijjhian. who has teen active in his interests, that he can transmute base metals into silver. Granger has agreed to go the limit in RttS&ff Gleason free from his entangle ment if he can do what he claims, and ia order to give his process a thorough test two chemists, J. M. Johnson, of Philadelphia, end George Gray, of New ark. N. J.. were summoned. They wit •*M«d the experiment, but the result has not lx*n disclosed. It is said that Gleason vent through a form of prayer find incantation, like the fabled alche mists. I>r. Lar.ge has admitted that Gleason fcas it transmutation process, but he de fcits tliat it has any connection with th* one that gave the doctor nations! promi &ei.oe a few months* ago. Referring to his statement that he has. bsssj «win dled out of $100,000. Dr. Lang* states tkfit the trick was accomplished by t^aip financial methods. lavifibl*- hinight eycpla^ses tor is -ir ar.d C-*Unt vjsion. Spenwr'is. ....... — >4ivt- . To-day anil to-morrow, fair. FLORENCE RT'RNS WILDRICK. Who Is under arrest on a charge of ex tortion. FINDS HIS FAMILY DEAD Husband Returns Home with Dying Boy in Arms. THREE KILLED IN HOUSE Wife and Children Beaten Down with Axe in Pennsylvania Town. West Chester. Perm.. Sept. 20. — Mrs. John Zoos and her three children, a boy seven years old. and two girls, seven months and three years old, respectively, were murdered late this afternoon at Byers. a small town about twelve miles from this place. Suspicion points to a boarder, who has disappeared. The husband and father, while on his way home from the plumbago mines. where he is employed, saw the body of his son lying in the bushes alongside the roadway. He found that the child bad been terribly beaten about the head and was unconscious. The father took the child In his arms and rushed to his home, a short distance awn.-. Here he saw, on the floor of the little kitchen. th*» bodies of his two little girls and his wife, the latter still breathing. Her skull had been fractured. The frantic father rushed from the house and gave the alarm. A physician was quickly summoned, but a glance told him that there was no hope for the v ife. Attention was then turned to the boy. He was placed in an automobile, and a quick run was ordered to the Phopnixville Hospital, eight miles away. Just as the car was in sight of the hos pital the little fellow died. It was evident that the murderer had gone to the Zoos home for the purpose of robbery, and the fact that the three persons in the dwelling at the time were killed would seem to bear out the theory of the police that the robber was famil iar with the home and murdered the family to prevent being recognized. At the time the woman and little girls were murdered the boy was in school. It is supposed that he met the slayer of hi? two sisters and mother when a short distance from home, and the murderer, knowing that the child would recognize him and give a clew, killed him also. The weapon used by the murderer was an axe. the pole of which was covered with Mood and brains from the mother and children. The house l.ad been ransacked and $4."i whi<~h Z«>os says was hidden in his h> me hi missine WON'T INSURE A. A. RYAN Aero Enthusiast Angry at Loss of Several Large Policies. Allan A. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, and chairman of the committee of arrangements of the international aero swst to be held at Pilmiwt Park on October B Io Ml has had all his insur ance ;.oii< ies cancelled. "It's a shame," said Mr. Ryan yester day afternoon at Belmont Park, "that the casualty companies have cancelled my policies. I have never intended to go up. I have never gone up. and I can't see why i; is, unless they intend to ex- nd this sort of persecution to other fr:< mis of the new sport." Mr. Ryan was nagged while he was speeding his high power car back to New York and asked about this state ment, which it was rumored he had made earlier In the evening. "Yes." he said, while he was working in his shirt sleeves repairing a broken shoe on one of his tires, "that's a fact. They have cancelled all my policies. The casualty companies are not the only ones that have done it. All the others have. Why didn't they get after. me because. I was an automobile expert? That is Just as danseroua. Why do they want to cancel my policies when I do not intend to fly?" Mr. Ryan said Ml i-oli'les amounted • $500,000 CHRMTY AND WIFE VISIT. Report in Zanesville That Pair Have Become Reconciled. Zanesvtlle. Ohio. S^jjt. ao.— Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy came from Hew fork to Zanepvllle to-day and was driven to th* home of Christy's parents, where she spent the §■ with l.er husr-aml and their daugh ter, Natali'*. Over the telephone to-night Christy laughing:-' ;r-fuwd to dis^ats a report, cir culated Ly Mends, that tin bad agreed to c . lt l the separation. NEW-YORK. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1910.--FOURTEEN PAGES.** PRICE ONE CENT " cl " 3fiSfia£sS, g %sa,f FLORENCE BURNS AGAIN IN HANDS OF POLICE Woman Involved in Murder Case Arrested with Man Who Is Held for Blackmail. EXTORTION. LAWYER SAYS Magistrate Characterizes Case as "One of the Boldest Bad ger Games Ever Attempted in This City."' Florence Burns Wildrick. who as Flor ence Burns was placed under arrest but never brought to trial for t'ne death of Walter S. Brooks, in the Glen Islan;] Hotel in 1902. was arrested yesterday along with Edward H. Brooks, charged with what Mapistrate SU-inert charac terized as "one of the boldest badger games ever attempted in this city." Charles W. Hurlburt. a lawyer, who gave his address as No. 30 Seventh ave nue, told the magistrate in the Jeffer son Market police court yesterday that the woman had lured him on Sunday into a house at No. 224 AVest 25th street. There, he said, as he was sitting in a room with the woman. Mrs. Florence Burns Wil drick. Brooks and another man came in, ea< h with a bottle in his hand, and forced Hurlburt, under threat of assault, to give up $r»7 in cash, to sign a note for $900, and to sign a declaration that he had been guilty, on various occasions, of degrading practices with the woman This was on Sunday night, according to Hurlhurt. and he was kept in the room until fi o'clock In the morning, after which he was taken in a taxicab all around the city and as far as Yon kers. then brought back to the city al>out I*'* o'clock and liberated. Arrested After Discharge by Court. The manner of the arrest of Brooks was peculiar. He had been before Magistrate Pteinert early in the after noon, when Paul Adamson, a taxicab chauffeur, charged Brooks with being one of three men who had employed him early Monday morning for a ride up to Yonkers. and then got away without paying his bill. Brooks, who gave his occupation as real estate agent and his address as No. 224 West 2."> th street, ad mitted being .->ne of the party in the tf.xicab. He offered to pay his sharp of Adamson's hi!! and was dischare:* i by the magistrate. Just after he left the courtroom Florence Burns Wildrick came in and inquired whether Brooks was still there. She had heard of his arrest and had come to help him out. In the mean time Brooks had started to walk west in 12th street. It so hap pened that Hurlburt was in the same neighborhood, and when he met Patrol man Hewitt, of the Charles street sta tion, in West 12th street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Hurlhurt handed the policeman a loaded ..32-calibre revolver, with the explanation that he had been carrying it for protection from the man coming up behind, who had threatened his life Hewitt arrested both men and took them to the Jefferson Market court. When searched, after Hurlourt had made a charge of extortion. Brooks was found to have in his pocket a note for $.^hi payable to himseif and the other man accused, and a confession, signed by Hurlburt. admitting that he had been guilty of a degrading crime in company with Florence Burns Wildrick. Hurlburt explained in his affidavit that he had known the woman fur about a year, and had Beveral times kept ap pointments with her. She telephoned to him about noon on Sunday and asked him to meet her at X o'clock that even ing at Broadway ami 27th Ftreet. It was after the meeting that they went to the house in West 2nth street, where they were interrupted by Brooks and his companion. The latter is now being sought by the police. Brooks had stated at the time. Hurlburt said, that Florence Bums Wildrick was his wife. Mag istrate Steinert held Brooks in $.'s.<m>o bail for examination. Connected with Murder Case. Later in the day Brooks, in the Tombs, made a statement that he was cnsnjjed to Florence Burns Wildrick, who expects to get a divorce from her husband. <'l;arles White Wildrick. within a short time. The whole trouble be tween himself and Hurlburt. he said, was over Mrs. Wildrick. She was the same Florence Burns whose name had l>"en connected with the murder of Wal ter S. Brooks in a downtown hotel in February, 1902, said Brooks, who added: "But that Brooks was absolutely no relation to me." Though HurU.urt said the woman had introduced Brooks to him two weeks ago as a friend. Brooks says he has known Hurlburt since last February, and that he had "cut out" the lawyer in her affections. Two months ago. he said, he had found Hurlburt in an uptown resort in com psny with Mrs. Wildrick rtr.d had thrown him out of the room. "Would such tactics be the work of a mun who wanted to blackmail .■mother'"' he asked. Brooks denl <i vehemently that he had bad any hand in forcing Hurlburt to ■bjn iuiy papers. "When I came into the room OB Sunday night." he said. "Hurlburt came toward me. and putting his arm!" around my neck, confessed to BM th« Datura of his relations with Mrs. Wildrick, and :hen signed the papers of his own volition." Brooka gave hi« address as No. .'{«;."» St John's Place, Brooklyn, but main tained that he was a r» al estate tales man. Detectives Griffith and Finn, of Head quarters, went to the house in West 28tb street and brought in the woman, who was arrested on a charge of rob bery and attempted blackmail. Detective Griffith said the former Florence Burns, vho at the time of the murder of Wal ter S. Brooks, was a striking beauty, had changed vastly for the worse. Her room, - e aid the officer, was in a filthy condition. Her personal appearance, he CoJitiuurcl uu •cvonJ JMCe. BAKER 10 GO, KIDEL HINTS, BUT NOT YET Acting Mayor, by Gaynor's Re quest, Wi!! Not Remove Commissioner. TO AWAIT MAYOR'S RETURN Whole Police Question Will Be Settled When Executive Re turns to City Hall in a Few Bays. Police Commissioner Tinker retained his official head yesterday only because Acting Mayor Mitchel gave his word *.o Mayor Gaynor that he would lot the sit uation stand as it was until the Mayor returned to his desk in the City Hall. At the same time Mr. Mitchel made the attitude of himself and the M«\or clear in replying as he did to this ques tion: "Was Mayor Gaynor's attitude that he did not support you in your views or merely that he wished to take it up himself personally?" "That he wished t<> take the matter up," was Mr. MitcheTl reply. "I think Mayor Gaynor's viewa and mine witn r^sjjcct to the fitness of the Police I'nm missioner are identical." For himself the acting. Mayor admitted frankly that he had recommpnded to th<> Mayor that Commissioner Baker be re moved immediately. District Attorney Whitman began his grand jury investigation of the double evil of gambling and vice yesterday morning with Mr. Mit. he! as the chief witness. Mr. Whitman made it clear that the grand jury, as well as finding Indict ments against the keepers of either gambling or disorderly houses, could in dict police officials of whatever degree who might be found guilty of conniving at or protecting the lawbreaking of either. Mr. Mitchel had a conference with Mayor Gaynor at St. James on Monday night, in which he went over the entire history of the last few weeks as related to the gambling and vice situation and the police activity or lack of activity in regard to it. and though the acting Mayor said before leaving for Pt. James that he would make public Commis sioner Baker's letter to him upon his re turn, he announced yesterday that noth ing would be said or done in the matter until Mayor Gaynor returned to duty. He issued a brief statement in which h^ set forth that after going over the entire police situation with the Mayor and showing him Commissioner Faker's letter of th<» 17th Mayor Gaynor had requested him not to make the letter public, and also to leave the entire po lice matter in abeyance until the Mayor himself returned, which he promised would be within a few days. Forecasts Gaynor's Quick Return. Until Mr. Mitchel issued his statement it had been supposed that Mayor Gay nor would not return to the City Hall until October 3. but the acting Mayor Intimated that he would he surprised if Mayor Gaynor did not return v>*>fr>re that date. In fact, he seemed to expect him inside of a few days. There is no question of Mr. Mitchel's power under the charter to proceed as acting Mayor to remove any appointive officer. The charter provides that an acting Mayor has such power after he has occupied the Mayor's chair for thirty days, during the disability or ab sence of that official, and Mayor Gay nor's trip around Manhattan on a police boat, when he left the hospital in Ho boken. is not considered as a temporary return to the city. Mr. Mitchel was asked about this point last night, and though he said the question was purely academic, because he had repeatedly said he would not avail himself of such a privilege, he said that he and Mayor Gaynor agreed that the acting Mayor now had all the privileges of the actual chief magistrate. Mr Mitchel was asked whether he had recommended to Mayor Gaynor that Commissioner Baker should be removed from office. "Yes." he answered, and added in re sponse to another question that he had placed h # is reasons for such a recom mendation before the Mayor. "You consider Mr. Baker's letter to you of September 17 insubordinate?" "Yes, I should say so." The acting Mayor would not commit himself further than that on Mr. Baker's letter, but he said that in his talk with Mayor Gaynor he had gone over the en tire police situation, "beginning at Coney Island, and down to the present time." Feels Bound by Mayor's Request. The acting Mayor left no room for doulit that he had expected to make Commissioner Baker's letter public yes t. rdajr, and coincident with it Mr. Baker's resignation or removal, but he felt himself absolutely bound by Mayor Qaynoffl request. The Mayor, he added, approved of hi.s course as to the Coney Island situation. <)n*» more question as to the contents of Mr Bakery letter brought out this decided answer from Mr. Mitchel: "I said I would not discuss that letter now. That is in deference to Mayor Gaynor. I should be very glad to Ko into the whole question with you from A to Z, except for his request. I should have been pl.id to have acted to-day except for hid request." Prom previous answers made by Mr Mitchel it was evident that the action which he had in inirid was the sudden removal of Mr Baker. The Hitinp Mayor was evidently chaf ing under the delay Mlf-lmpostd by his promise to Mayor Gaynor, but he seemed to have no rioul-t as to the ultimate out come of the affair, as SOOB as Mayor Gaynor returned to the City Hall, and he uppeared to be fairly certain that the final result would be a full Justifii ation of his own openly avowed disapproval of Police Commissioner Baker Mr. Mitchel said that the same condi tion of affairs, the same waiting on the < .iiillniir.l <,n Ilitrd BBS* Landmarks of History on the famed Hud son lit .-«.•; from «'• < kb of Day l.ane Sirs. "^mmsW*> VIVIAN M. LEWIS, OF PASSAIC. Nominated for Governor of New Jersey by the Republican State Convention. G. A. R. MEN IN LONDON Veterans Meet and Talk Over the War Days. [By Cabl«» to The Tribune.] London, Sept. 21. — An interesting meeting took place yesterday afternoon at the Ragged School Mission Hall, at Bermondsey, South London, a party of veteran American campaigners, now living in England, holding ' a reunion, after many years. The idea originated with John Davies, the London mission ary, who thought he would like to bring together all the men now in England who fought in the American Civil War. There are altogether more than sixty pensioners now residing in or near Lon don who draw quarterly pension money at the office of the American Consulate. Mr. Davies, who Is seventy-one years old, was born in .Hampshire. England. but is a naturalized American. , Many veterans turned up. and had a talk over the teacups about old times. Arrange ments have been made to meet again and keep up the reunions DERRICK FALLS ON TRACK Passing Train Barely Averts Crash in N. Y. Central Cut. Only a few minutes after a train had passed a great steel derrick, weighing eight tons, and with a mainmast of SO feet height and a 45-foot boom, fell into the cut of the New York Central Rail road, at 4«Hh street and Lexington ave nue, last night with a crash that was heard for blocks around. No one was hurt, but It appalled the ironworkers who are completing the two- tier track system which is to run into the new Grand Central Station to think what would have happened to the train if it had been passing at the time. WOMAN DiES UNDER TRAIN No Clew to Identity of Suicide, Save Trunk. Screaming, as she threw herself before a southbound Third avenue elevated train in the Hkh street station, a woman was instantly killed late yesterday af ternoon. The trucks of the first car passed over the body, mutilating it. Hearing the motorman's whistle. Cap tain Hughes, of the East 67th street po lice station, who was in the neighbor hood, went to the station with a patrol man and took charge of the situation. The woman was 5 feet 6 inches in height and seemed to be about fifty years old. She had brown eyes and brown hair, streaked with gray. She weighed about 1.">4) pounds and was dressed in black. In a black handbag Captain Hughes found a pair of gold rimmed spectacles, a blue silk tie, a white lace collar, a brooch with a wom an's picture in it and a baggage check marked 'No. A 48.015, New York. On tario & Western Railway. Local dupli cate check. 4-d street. New York." At the station a trunk bearing the du plicate of the check was broken open, but it contained nothing that would lead to the identification of the woman except a tag that was marked "Summitville, Sullivan County, N. Y." Octogenarians marry Couple Just Wedded Were First' En gaged Sixty Years Ago. • "ortiand. H Y. Sh[.t. at Announcement was received here last night of the mar riage of Henry C. Rt. Johns, of Ijeonards ville. eighty-four years old. and Miss Myra W. < "ushinK. of IJttie York, eighty-three. The ceremony was performed Saturday night at Little York Lake. The wvrtding ix the culmination of a ro mance that began eixty years ago. The two were ennaged and a day was set for their marriage. Something happened to prevent the ceremony and the bride-to-be could not be prevails upon to name an other day. She remained single and her lover waited for her until he was fifty-three wars old. when he married another. A year ago his wife died, and the early courtship was re opened, ami proved successful this time. The couple will reside at Leonardsvllle. FATAL SHOOTING IN STREET. " Farmmg»lale. N. J.. Sept. 20.— Search was made through the woodlands to the north of this place for Dl Apio Dlacco. who shot and killed Antonio Amaro this evening. It Is Bald the nun hail quarrelled over ■ bicy cle. They met on the streets to-night an.l the shooting followed- SHERMAN MEETS DEFEAT Can Only Sit in the Convention as a Substitute. [By T»l<*crraph to Th* Trlburv.J Utica. N. V.. Sept. 20— Vice-President Sherman was humiliated in his own. city. though victorious in Oneida County in his efforts to obtain delegates to the Re publican Strte Convention. The Republican primaries to-day proved to be the most bitterly fought of any in many years. Mr. Sherman was actively opposed by Senator Frederick M. Davenport and former Assemblyman M. K. Hart, who led the fight, backed by the Republican League of Oneida County. In Mr Sherman's own ward, the 7th. composed of a great majority of the wealthy people of the city, the contest was especially hard fought. Mr. Sher man's friends made a public appeal with a hope of saving the ward for him. but he not only lost the ward by ■ majority of ninety-five, but was defeated in the r primary district in which he resides by fifty-four votes. Mr. Sherman resides also in the 2d Assembly District. , and was overwhelmingly defeated there. He was successful in the city, winning by just the delegates from one ward. Mr. Sherman's three sons, in their automobiles, worked hard at the polls, but his neighbors rejected him. and the solid delegation to ,ihe state convention from his Assembly district will be for Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. .Sherman was not then chosen as a delegate to the state convention, and will be able to sit in the convention only by being substituted from another Oneida County district. Wards which always have been known as strong organization localities failed Mr. Sherman, much to his surprise, and those of his most interested friends. The fight was begun at the very opening of the polls and carried right up to the last moment to-night. The fact that he aligned himself with the familiar "old guard" was regarded with disgust by many who always had voted for him. Then. too, ex-President Roosevelt's visit here recently and his utterances made many votes for the Progressives. Mr. Sherman did not remain in this city much after the polls opened. He left at 5 o'clock for Atlantic City, where he is to be the guest of the National En campment of the Grand Army of the Re. public. His friends here would make no comment on the result in the city, ex cept to express their surprise. The Vice- President won In the county by means of the scant majority of the Ist Assembly District and a little larger one in the 3d. HAVE 48.000.000 EGGS Will Go to Market as Fresh When Prices Advance. [By Telegraph to Th* Tribune. ] Omaha. Sept. m>.— The big packers and commission men of Omaha have nearly four million dozen of eggs in cold stor age in Omaha waiting for an advance in prices, when the cati storage eggs will bf placed on the market as strictly fresh. There is already an advance of 1 cent a dozen on the cost price, tart the pack ers insist on from 6 to 10 cents profit. All these eggs were bought last April and May, when eggs were low. and when placed on sale will be from eight to ten months old. ELEVEN KILLED IN WRECK Twenty-five Injured When Aus trian Trains Crash. Vienna. Si pt iv. Eleven persons were killed and twenty*flve injured by a col lision between express trains to-day near Rottermann. Prince yon Hohenlohe -Schilllngsfurst. Governor of Trieste, was on one of the trains, but was nut hurt. CLARENCE C. LITTLE'S NEW POST. Cambridge. Mass., Sept. 20.— Clarence C. Little. Harvard. "1»>. captain of last ear's track team and the I*© champion Intercol legiate shot putter, has been appointed sec retary to President A. Lawrence Lowell, succeeding Jerome B. Greene. Mr Little will assume his duties at once. INSTRUCTION FOR CHAUFFEURS. Gloucester. Mass.. Sept. 20.— offer of John Hay* Hammond to instruct chauf feur* In public school." at hi* own ex pense has bten accepted. Tt. protest ot the professional chauffeurs went unheeded. SHERMAN BEATEN IN US 01 ISO Desperate Efforts in Utica Fail to Save Vice-President's Dis trict to the -Old Guard." GRISCOiV! PLEASED BY MEWS Woodruff. Cheered by Talk with Barnes, Reiterate 3 Predictions Th?.t Progressives Will Lose at Saratoga. After learning that Vlc^Pressasut Sherman had been defeated at the pri maries in hi« own ward and his own Assembly district, in Utlca yesterday. State Chairman Woodruff, at Republican state headquarters, last night, said that nevertheless Vice-President Sherman ■vould go -i^-i delegate to the state con vention, and would be elected tem porary chairman. Chairman Woodruff wu much an noyed, all the same, at the loss of the Vice-President's own district, which will split the Oneida County delegation. State Committeeman Strobel and ex- Mayor Wheeler. Sherman lieutenants, who talked with Mr Woodruff over the telephone, seemed to think they'd don* very well to carry the other two dis tricts in the county. Th« Progressive columns added two heavy Items to their totaL Postmaster Fred Greiner. of Buffalo, carried him county primaries easily. That m«ut * delegation of sixty-one solid for Rooss v«lt and a direct nomination* plank. Cornelius V. Collins carried Ren»s»la#r County for the Progr«»i»sfve«. Rensselaer, with its two Assembly districts, has nineteen votes The Woodruff- Barnes-Wart element had no hope of splitting the Renaselaer delegation. They did think, though, that they could split the Erie delegation by some such move as resulted in a split delegation In the 15th Assembly District in New York county, which will break New York County's solid 190 vote* . Reports on th© primaries received at state headquarters Indicated that aside from the Oneida County result, things had gone much a3 the "old guard" lead ers expected. Albany. Schenectady. Syracuse. Rochester and "Westchester County will send solid Roosevelt delegations to Saratoga, according to the reports of their leaders to ' State Chairman Woodruff. "William Barnes, jr., of Albany County, telephoned to Chairman Woodruff that he figured a majority of fifty-five in state convention against Roosevelt. That was before he had heard of the Utica result. Lloyd C. Griscom. president of the Republican County Committee, smile.l joyously when he learned of the Oneirta County result and the turning down •>" Vice-President Sherman in spite of th fact that he and his son had canvassed the district and hustled at the polls all day. He reiterated his prediction that the Progressives would carry the con vention for Theodore Roosevelt with not less than 570 votes. He and some of hi* friends seemed Inclined to think that it might be a much heavier vote. Mr. Griscom declared that Mr. Barnes's claim that Mr. Sherman ■would have a majority of fifty in the convention wa* absurd. He expressed confidence that Mr. Roosevelt would b*» the convention's choice. Mr. Griscom said: "The action of th<* Republican voters of Mr. Sherman's own district in repudi ating him at the polls will have a pro found effect on the party throughout the State of New York. President Taft'a letter to me of August 2f> fully exposed the misuse of his name and the deceit by which Mr. Sherman's election by th<» state committee on August IS was ac complished. The voters of his own home have shown their disapproval and voiced In a practical way the general sentiment of the best element in the party throughout the state. "Mr. Sherman cannot even go to the state convention as a delegate from the district in which he lives. "I have been shown a statement is sued by Mr. Barnes at Albany to-night claiming a majority of fifty at the coming state convention in favor of Mr. Sher man. I need hardly say that this claim is absurd on the face of it. The nine delegates from Mr. Sherman's district are a clear and unexpected gain which will further Increase the steadily grow ing majority in favor of Mr. Roosevelt I for temporary chairman and In favor SB* a clean Republican party management in this state.** Woodruff Satisfied by Oneida. ••I received from State Commltteeman, StrobeL of the Oneida -Herkimer dis trict, and Mayor Wheeler reports that the result of the primaries there assured them of twenty-three out of the thirty- two delegates to the state convention from that district." said] State Chairman Woodruff. "They ex pressed themselves as entirely satisfied with the result, in view of the tremen dous fight which had been made against them In the 2-1 District. Mayor Wheeler said that th» Vice- President would head the delegation from the Ist District to the convention. I have no doubt that he will be elected temporary chairman by a substantial majority. '"Reports from Yonkers show that Mr. Ward carried every election district in the city, which azures us of a solid delegation of thirty-three from West chester County. State Committeeman Merritt tells me there was no contest In Niagara County to. lay The conven tions will be held Friday, and we be lieve this Indicates that we shall have the thirteen delegates from that county. "There were no contests In Albany, which means a solid delegation of twenty-eight, or In Syracuse. which means the Onondaga delegation of twenty-nine will be sold, or in Roches ter, with the thirty-eight delegate* in Monroe County. I am told that Lewis County, with five delegates, is In line. The 2d District of Orange, with eight delegates, went for Sherman. Ulster County also. 1 am informed, has joined the procession. We are entirely satis fled with the results." The first word of the "old guard" **v!o-