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ROOSEVELT enjoys ¥11 TO WASHINGTON National Capita! Gives the Ex- President an Enthusiastic Wei come. MEETS MANY OLD FRiEMDS He Addresses Geographic So ciety on "Wild Man and Wild Beast in Africa" — Visits Press Club. IFrom Th* Trtbon« Bureau.] Washington, Nov. Theodore Roosevelt fc*3 a -fcully~ time here this afternoon and to-nicht. To be 'more explicit, he spent a "corking"" afternoon and a "perfectly fine" >v«itag. He said BO himself more than a score of times, and be looked and showed H with characteristic Roosevcltlan onthusl asa from the time he emerged from the Vnion Station until an automobile whisked feton away from Convention Hall to the Lonswcrth home, where be spent the night. The foremost private citizen of the coun try -was met with ope." arms by the na tional capital. The preetinjr was marked by an absence of band music and red fire, for it was a welcome eC old friends, men vSjo* worked -with him and played with bbn when he -K-as President and who need [ no -.-:.:iaJ rtimulus to let him know j^v were happy to have him with them apair.. Mr. Roosevelt Is the Bwesl of bis daughter. - rs , Nicholas Longworth. and miSa-T&oaia in "Washington until Sunday rr.ornlng, when he will return to Oyster 33s v - The ex-President came to Washington to deliver a lecture before the National Geo craihic Society on "WiM Man and Wild Beast to Africa." Fully fix thousand P «r eens crowded Convention Hall to-night ana rave dose attention to the speaker as he told the Btofy of his great bunting trip. Thousands .... tir.able to pain admission. It was an enthusiastic audience, and Mr. jioosevelt. whose voice has fully recovered from the strain of the recent political cam paign, was at his beat This was his first Lwt^s on bis African trip. He was ln v^ed while In London to speaK on this iahiert before the Royal Geo^aphical fco ciet'v but he fif-clined. savins he wished firstlto SPeak before the American B tan tific body. . •_ Persons who expected Mr Rooseve.. to . ak e advantage of his Washington vls,t to daOBB recent political happeninps were c"sa?--ctated. The ex-President made it dear • mi his visit here was personal and not political, although In his short and in 'o—ial taOi at the National Press Club this afternoon he intimated that he would like to say ■ word or two on political questions. It was at Uie Press Club that Mr. Roose ■relt had what he called a "bully" time. His trip from New York to Washington was without incident. At the station here he was r.,et by his daughter. Mrs. Longworth. snd a number of friends. Including Civil Service Commissioner McDhenny and Miss Isabtjlle Hasner. About one hundred per tons at the station chctred the ex-President as he passed through. A committee of the National Press Club and the National Geo praphic Society escorted him to the rooms of the Press Club, where several hundred Tit-wFpaper men. and a few invited guests j .awaited him. ; As Mr. Roosevelt etopp*<s from the auto mobile he "was accosted by a negTO, who pushed his -Ray through the crowd and prasped his hand. "Delighted," paid the ex iTesldent, for lie recognized the ne^ro as Charles Reader, a White- House footman in his administration, who Is now a messenger in ... stall Department. Welcomed by Press Club. The applause that greeted Mr. Roosevelt when he entered the rooms of the Press Cammeyer Stamped on a Shoe means Standanl^Merii 6™Ave.&20 TH Si. America's Largest Shoe Store. MEN'S SHOES The Cammeyer $3.50 Shoes for Men hold their shape and give the greatest comf ort and longest wear. Because only solid sole leather counters are used. Xcjr Fall "Cammcycr" Style Book mailed free upon request. Every customer receives the ! fiftiftfaj/ attention of a com petent clerk. "Just Say" HORLICK'S It Means Original and Genuine MALTED MILK The Food-drink for Ail Ages. More Healthful than Tea or Coffee. Agrees with the weakest digestion. Delicious, invigorating and nutritious. Rich mi! it. malted grain, powder form. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK'S. I^* Others are imitations' I DECORATIONS 1 •?■% Fabrics made exciu- »—■ Z* sively for the Studios in Kg JSb France and England for fSI pjg] Draperies, Coverings (9 f£5J and Wall Hangings. K8 yTIFFANY^STVNOsJI Club lasted several minutes. He was intro duced by President Arthur J. Dodge and si>oke as follows: My friends, I am very deeply touched by your kindly way of greeting me, and I do nope you understand how genuinely I feel it. it is tine to get back here to see you all— and L suppose 1 am speaking In reasonable con adenee. It is not that I ana going to say thing that should not be quoted, except tnat I do not want to make any comments. , was thinking of one. however, that wouia be sufficiently inclusive. I wish to say that every dog has his day, but the nights belong to the cats. i am almost ashamed to say how per ivcuy contented and happy I am I have always said that I did not think any Presi dent of the United States ever enjoyed him- V. J!f mu eh as I did. and I know no ex * resident ever enjoyed himself as much as 1 enjoy myself. I assure you that there are no men who?e character I esteem more than the men I used to know while I was in Washington who were representatives of the press. I never apeak of a class universally. As a caveat, I misrht add that there were in- OlvMuuft among you for whom I was able successfully to dissemble my admiration. So. to that respect, they ranked with Senators, Congressmen, plutocrats, labor leaders and others. If I was to single out the men with whom it has given me especial pleasure to work for the causes that I deem most , worthy there would be an astonishingly large proportion of men who are here to day or such as those who are here to-day. i I have always endeavored in life to work seriously and. at the same time, have as much enjoyment as I could out of life, and 1 have always found that the men I have net here in Wash? net on in your profession formed an unusually large proportion of those who would do good work and not look too infernally good while they were do ing It And 80, feeling as I do toward you. It ; gives me a pleasure more genuine than you yourselves perhaps can imagine to be greeted by you with a friendliness I can- : not heir feeling Is entirely eenulne by the I way you have greeted me. ' I am so glad to be back here and so glad to see you. Now, I am going to have a chance to \ *haVe hands with every on" who ''ws n"t j think that his character will thereby he j hurt. A Reunion, of Old Fri»nds. Apparently nobody thought his character rs-ou he hurt by greeting the ex-President, for a line was immediately formed and th* introductions beeran. In most cases Intro duction p were unnecessary, as Mr. Roose velt knew nearly all the faces and many of the names. One of the first to pass was Lawrence O. Murray. Controller of the Cur rency, who was a member of the "tennis cabinet" In the last administration. Mr Roosevelt thought it was ••perfectly fine" of Mr. Murray to come to see him. Rudolph Forster. one of the assistant sec retaries to the President, was almost hugsred by the Joyous Mr. Roosevelt. When Fo*>es Robertson, the English actor, ex tended his hand, he explained that he was not a "Journalist." hut had just "sneaked In"" among the newspaper men. "I don't like- the hasty disclaimer." said Mr. Roose velt, with a. smile, "for I am a journalist." Tells of Trip to Africa. Official Washington was well represented at the lecture. In the audience were most of the Justices of the Supreme Court, sev eral members of the Cabinet and many diplomats. Mr. Roosevelt confined himself to a dis cussion of the incidents of his trip to Africa and aroused laughter and applause as he told of the habits of the natives, the encounters with wild beasts and the re markable collection of specimens the ex pedition obtained. He said he was just about en the equa torial line when news reached him of the alleged discovery of the North Pole by Dr. Cook. He said he did not believe It at the time. When he received news a few days later of the achievement of Commander Peary he declared he was confident that the pole had been reached, and added that he was glad of the stand which the Na tional Geographical Society had taken in defending Peary. Commenting on on© tril)© -which ate meat mostly. Mi". Roosevelt said he was sorry to shock the principles of the vegetarians, bat these Africans were the healthiest folk he had ever seen. Speaking of the Malsal. a tribe of Afri cans who are said to be kin to Rameses, he said; "They were gentle folk, but they did not have any clothes — not a stitch." Indirect allusion -was made to his recent criticism, of the Supreme Court, -when he related an incident to which, he said, only Mark Twain could have done justice. "Any of us who have had dealings with government offices know the type of bu rtaucrai that will keep to the rules even if the heavens fall," he continued. "Captain tnith. the head of the irrigation service in a North African town, had been trying to raise vegetables and flowers. One night a bra. came, and his gardener killed the animal, whereat the district judge promptly fined the gardener for kiiling game." The audience laughed a? he added, "I don't think the most sensitive soul could object to waning that judge 'fossilized.' " Mr. Roosevelt will take luncheon to-mor row at the home of Gilbert H. Grosvenor, editor of ""The National Geographic Maga zine." He will be the guest of honor at a dinner to-morrow night at Rauscher's given by Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. MRS. SCHENK INDICTED Charged with Administering- Poi son to Millionaire Husband. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 18.— Mrs. Laura. Farnsworth Schenk, charged with adminis tering arsenic to her husband, John O. Schenk, a millionaire packer, was indicted by the grand jury of Ohio County to-day. Only nurses who have beer, employed by the Schenk family and Dr. Frank L.. Hupp, upon whose findings Mrs. Schenk was first arrested, testified before the jury. The nurses came from the Haskins Hospital. Dr. Hawkins is a brother-in-law of Mr. Schenk. LOME JURYMAN HOLDS OUT Colleagues Say He Decided Will Contest Case in Advance. The case of Frank S. Pettit to set aside the will of his father. William B. Pettit, who was a well known builder and a Tam many politician, ended yesterday in a dis agreement of the jury in the Supreme Court and In a manner that came near approach ing a row In the jury room because of what other jurymen characterized as the obstinacy of one of their number. This man, Frederick W. Lord, of No. 213 West */th street, president of the Lord Electric Company, was so obdurate against the efforts at the other eleven that there was an unusual proceeding before the Jury finally reported a disagreement to Justice I>ugro. According to some of the jurymen the trouble was that Lord decided the case in his mind two days before it went to the jury. He said so and he could not be swerved from his prejudgment. Before leaving the courtroom after the disagree ment he explained his stand to the lawyers. Oeorge Gordon Haiti*-, who represented the plaintiff, said: That was very unfortu nate." William B. Pettit left his son only some clothing and a burial lot. He left his sec ond wife, the stepmother of the contestant, practically all of hiß estate, including a bOOM at No. 113 West Mth street. He left her also some Jewelry which the son said belonged u> his mother. The son said his her was of unsound mind when he male hi S will and that the second Mrs. Pettit had unduly Influenced him. SIR WILLIAM RAMSEY GETS D. D. New York University Honors Noted Scotch Scholar. At a meeting of the senate of New York University yesterday afternoon the honor ary decree of Doctor of Divinity was on ferred by Acting Chancellor John Henry' MacCracken upon Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, professor of Latin language and literature In the University of Aberdeen. Sir William already has had many de gree* conferred upon him by various uni versities in America an.i Europe. He has also done much important exploration In Asiatic Turkey. He \ s recognized as the greatest living authority on the life and works of the Aposti.. p au i. sir William galled yesterday for Scotland, XEW-YORK Tuny TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1910. MXX WHO FIGURED IX THE LEGISLATIVE INQUIRY YESTERDAY. Ex-Lieutpnant Governor l^ Q Bruce examining a witness. SENATOR EUGE BID OF $100,000 FOR VOTE Continued from first page. the Hampden to see him," said Senator Travis, "but I told him if he wanted to ccc me he could come down to the Capi tol." Senators Fuller and Carpenter. Travis said, had told him they had been ap proached, but they didn't mention amounts, and Senator Gates told him that some one had telephoned an offer to him. "Al" Hobley, who was district leader of the section represented in the Senatt by Otto G. Foelker, said when he took the stand in a rather plaintive manner that because of his position as district leader in Foelker's district he had been hammered from both sides on the racing tills. Personally. said Hobley, he was against the bill, and he wanted to see a substitute bill brought up. His idea was that there should be no admission to the field and no betting there, but that in the grandstand, which was supposedly occupied by men who could afford to place a little wager, bookmakers should be given free rein. He talked with Foelker several times atout the bills when they were pending, Hobley said, at the Congress Club, in Brooklyn, and at Staatsburg. N. V.. when Foelker was ill there. He had tried to convince Foelker that he should vote against the bills in the form in which they were drawn, he said, but Foelker told him that a great majority of his constituents were in favor of the bills. and he was going to vote for them. •I told him." said Hobley. "that if he felt that way about it he ought to vote against the bill, but I also told him that it was a proposition that would make enemies for him. no matter, which way he voted." Denies Threatening Foelksr. Judge Bruce wanted to know if Hob ley. as district leader, had ever threat ened Foelker that he would not be re nominated if he voted for the bill, as Foelker himself testified at a previous session of the committee. "No; I told nlm that it would imperil his chances of re-election, not renomina tion." explained the ex-Sheriff, "and I think that bill cost the Republican party a good many votes at the last election." Mr. Hobley al?o pave fiat denial to that portion of Foelker's testimony which credited him (Hobley) with the remark that there was ?20<>.000 on hand for the defeat of the bill. His visit to Foelker at Staatsburg, Bald Hobley, was made at Foelker's request. It grew out of a newspaper story based on the train talk of some of the dele gates to the Republican National Con vention fn Chicago in 190&. This story had it that Hobley had said that Foelker got some money to vote against the bill and then voted for the bill. Hobley de nied ever havinpr made any such state ment, and he produced an affidavit which he had signed denying any pos sible statement attributed to him in any ■way derogatory to Folker. This affidavit, Hobley said, was drawn up by Foelker, and after stating that whatever he had said which might be construed as a reflection on Senator Foelker had been said in a joking way, it ended in these words: ••I never offered him (Senator Foelker) a ny money, nor heard of any one else who offered him money, nor have I ever heard of his being offered or accepting any money for his vote against the rac ing bill or on any other matter." judge Bruce then took up the testi mony given by Frederick Schroeder at Blng Sing Prison on October 21, in which the former Quarantine Commissioner said that Hobley had told him to "leave Foe lker to him" (Hobley). •■That is wrong." said Hobley. 'I never said that. and. in fact, I talked ith Schroeder only once about the mat ter, and then he asked nit how Foelker s'E M. TRAVIS. I stood, and I simply told him he was for | the bill, and that was all " Also Hobley testified, in flat contr tion of Sohroeder's testimony, that he had never talked with the late "Pat" McCarren or with Conrad Haa about the bill, or about Foelker's stand upon it. Supported McCarren's Opposition. Oenrad Haser.rtug, the next witness, ! also put Schroeder in the Ananias Club. Mr. Hasenllug, as a Senator from the Uth' District in Kings, in 1908, voted against the bills. "For two reasons,'- he expl "Tiie flrat was that my constituent! against them, and the second because ; Senator McCarren, the county leader, was against them." McCarren never told him h<- way t> gainst them, Hasenilug explained, but he knew it. Schroeder's testimony in one part told of how the then Senator Haaenflug called him up one Sunday, when the Agnew- Hart bills were pending-, and Bald: •■ 'Fred,' what's the matter with that damn Senator of yours?" Anu after some conversation between them as to the stand Foelker had taken he replied: "All right, •Conny'; I'll see what I can do." "That's all wrong." comment* d Ha flug when Judgre Bruce read it ti from the records. '"I never called up Mr. Schroeder, and never spoke to him j in any way about the racing bills." Harienflug added that he had never had any conversation with Foelker, cither. About the racing bills. Alfred J. Gilchri.st, who was, in 1907 and 19oS, the Senator from the 10th Kings District, followed Haaenflug to the stand. He ha.4 never been approached by any one at Albany in connection with the racing Ulls. he said, and didn't know any one A-ho had. He voted against the bilis. he said, but if the committee want ed to kn#w what he thought about th-j alleged racetrack lobby fund he doubted the wholt- story of such a fund; abso lutely doubted it. "Oh, wdl; now tell us how they con tributed," prompted Mr. Bruce. Mr. Jones explained that "the layers" j bought 250 tickets. .S2 tickets of each as i tociation, each day of racing. That was j Js'rfKt a day, he added, and by waj of ex i'lanati >n he pointed <>ut that thi* $500 t day enabled the racing associations to j put up that much more in purses, and there you had the "improving of the br><d oi horses." Mr. Iru' r wanted to know how th> business of "the layers" had be< n con ducted ifter the Agnew-Hart bills were enacted into law, but Mr. Jones ex plained gently that as he w:is under in dictment he could scarcely answer that questior. freely, and it was withdrawn. Put Bookmakers Out of Business. OettiEg down to the activity of the Metropolitan Turf Association in connec tion with the opposition to the racing bill, Mr. Jones was quite, willing to ad mit that "the layers" had been opposed to that measure. "Put the i kmakers <>ut . .r" bus didn't if" queried Judge Bruce. Mr. Jones let the lawyer's slip In the term go by that tim- . "In a measure." he admitted, carefully. The former treasurer of the association repeated in answer to several Leading questions that there had been no as sessment for a fund to defeat the bills, but he went on to say that not being treasurer at that time he was not a. member of the executive committee, and therefore didn't know what the money collected on various assessments had been used for. He thought that Davies, Stone & Auerbaoh, and also DeLancey Nlcoll, had appeared as lawyers in be half of the bill, but wasn't sure. It appeared that "th« layers" simply contributed of their cash at the cull of the executive commit! .-, and that com mittee was not required to and did not at any time make any report of the dis bursement or* any moneys collected. Francis K. Hitchcock was another witness of the morning session. He came to Uio committee's room with a ttor Conrad Hasenflug on the stand. •na which had been served on his brother, Thomas Hitchcock, which he said he supposed was meant for him, inasmuch as his brotbfe* had not been connected with the racing interests and he had been the treasurer of the Coney Island Jockey Club. Knew of No Assessments. Mr. Hitchcock had with him also a statement in which he explained that counsel had advised him that he didn't have to testify, but he chose to offer [f to the committee, so they could go ah< ad. It was a perfectly safe proposition so far as Mr. Hitchcock was concerned, er, because he testified that he knew nothing of any assessments upon bis club nor upon any others for the de feat of the racing bills. Asked whether he was the "Hitchcock" who was mentioned in Elder's testimony based on Gardner's story as having been I it at the meeting in Delmonico's vhen tl c alleged $500,000 lobby fund was raised, the witness said that he was not, and that he knew nothing of any such meeting. Barring the apparently remote possi s K. Keene, Harry Payne Whitney, Schuyler Parsons or David Mitch aring at the session this morning, the committee will hear Sen ator Fuller, Senator Carpenter and H- nry J. K-is.-r. th.- latter a cashier of Orlando Jones's "laying establishment." who it Is thought might be able to tell the committee about the assessments : :,;. the Metropolitan Turf Associa tion on its members about the time the racing bills were- pending. Mr. Bruce was asked yesterday wh< ther the committee intended to sub poena Senator Thomas F. Grady, who was mentioned in Gardner's story to Robert H. E d--r as having received S4,- Ikh) for hLs work in connection with the fight on the racing bills. He said that - >r Grady had not been subpoenaed, but declined to say whether he intended to summon the Senator later. Ex-Senator Fuller Issues Denial. When ex-Senator Charles H. Fuller esterday that Senator Travis mentioned him before the legisla tive investigating committee as one of those who had told him that they had been approached to vote against the anti-racetrack bill he did not remember ever having spoken to Senator Travis on the subject. In fact, he emphatically denied that anything had ever been offered him to influence him to vote against the bill. "i >r' course," h<i added, 'everybody talked :t over, but neither Frank Gar dner nor any one else ever approached pose it." Mr. Puller said that if the committee wanted him they knew how to get him, but he \%ould not tell what he would say befor>.» them. Never Approached, Says Carpenter. .tor F. 11. Carpenter, of West ell* ster, said last night that Senator Tra is was mistaken in thinking that he had told him that he had been ap proached by any one offering money for his vote against the racetrack bills. •I voted for the Agnew-Hart bills," said Si nator Carpenter, "and no one ever ev< □ approached me on the subject or asked me to vote against them." ttor Carp< nter said he had been re • i by Judye Bruce to tome before •■.. and he expected to ap . • :•• the session this morning. He had not been subpoenaed, and until he was told of Senator Travis's testi m»nv he did not even know what matter he was wanted on. He added that he had never been told other Senator of any one ap ; roa hing any one of them on the race track : [By Telegraph to The Tribunal Syracuse, Nov. 18.— "1 cannot say that is true," said ex-Senator Francis H. Gates over the telephone from his residence at Chittenanko, this evening, when told that Senator Travis, of Brooklyn, had testified before the legislative Investigation commit tee to-day that Senator Gates had been approached to vote a^ain.st the anti-race track bill. Senator Gates said: "The morning the bill was voted upon I was a-sked to come down to the Hampton Hotel. I don't know what they wanted of in. or that they wanted me to vote for or againsi thai or any bill." SHAKK CAUGHT AT BAYONNE Hauled Out of Abandoned Hulk by Several Men After Hard Fight. |I:y IVlftcraph to The Tribune. ! Kayonne, N. J-. Nov. 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