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BOOKMAKERS GAVE MORE
IHNI Hf IKEY CLUB
L-vvv Had Wore than Half a
MiHion. Kresei Figures — F.
K. Stags Subpoenaed.
W. 0. PGBB OM INSURANCE
Exchange Which Fixes Rates
Paid for by Insured — How 80
Per Cent Clause Works
with Gould and Stokes.
Frank X Sturcis. whom August Bel-
TEonT designated "the secretary and
treasurer— honorary." of The Jockey
Club. was subpoenaed yesterday by the
Ici.lalsi investigating committee, to
take the witness chair at _ o'clock this
afternoon, for the purpose of eniighten
ing the committee ■r, the disbursement
cf the quarter million dollar 1 md of
■which previous witnesses have testified
-be was the custodian in 100$, w-hen the
racing interests engaged in their losing
£ cht on the Agnew-Hart bills.
With the resumption of its inquiry
lr . th* racing lobby's activities the
committee also pubpopr.aed James J.
Evans, the treasurer of the Metropolitan
Turf Association, and the books of that
organization of \rr.akers.
isMor Kresel. assistant counsel to the
committee, spent yesterday in going over
th*» books of the *'Mets." and he said
it would be shown that the bookmakers
had contributed to a fund even larger
than the Jockey Club fund, with which
to fight the anti-racetrack legislation of
ISOS.
Three hundred thousand dollars would
rot be an overstatement of this fund,
Mr. Kresel admitted, and that added to
the estimated 52&J.000 subscribed by the
racinzr associations woud bring the total
amount expended or collected to be ex
pended in fighting the Hughes anti-rac
ing programme something above the
"half million dollar lobby fund" which
has been frequently referred to in the
records of the investigation.
With Mr. Sturgis the committee has
FUhpcenacd the Jbooks of the Jockey
dub. but those books were said to con
tain only the accounting of the regular
dues, assessments and disbursements °t
the ruling body of racing associations,
ar.d for a detailed accounting of the
ET-ecial fund collected to fight the
Agnew-Hart laws it was thought the
committee would have to rely on Mr.
Sturgis's recollection or on what memo
randa of that collection and disburse
ment he may have recorded apart from
the regular accounts of the Jockey Club.
W- O. Robb on the Stand.
Yesterday's session of the committee
•was devoted. exclusively to the insurance
eiod of the investigation, with Willis O.
■Robb. the manager sC the New- York
Fire Insurance Exchange, as the chief
■witness.
Mr. Robb proved to hr a most willing
witness. He answered .'-very question
.-----•; in long and involved sen
tence*:, frequently wild he didn't object
to being : .-.-<-ri on this or that, and de
livered each and every one of his dis
sertations with a smile which seemed to
rsptivat" the committee, the counsel and
the gallery.
Chk'Sy, th*» inquiry was directed tow
ard the methods of the exchange in
finnr rate*:, with, a few- minor excur-
Eions into the lield of its alleged monop
oly In \- ■■ York City, a point which
Mr. Robb freely admitted, but qualified
h-5 admission with the statement that
It was ba~"v?d entirely on a mutual agree
ment of its members, and that so far as
its raae Ifadng- powers were concerned it
acted only after a review of the case by
rhe full exchange, and that even then a
company might determine to write the
iBBBIr.eF? on a lower or higher rate than
that fised by the exchange. However.
Mr. Robb COOitat recall any instance of
Euch a digression on the part of one of
th«» members of the exchange. There
-•-<=■ no stock or mutual companies in
SSesr York, he ssM, that were not mem
bers of th* exchange-
Political Intliirn wielded by Assem
blymen, or district leaders, he said, was
eomettnes brought to bear on the ex
change committee on brokers, usually
for ■s purpose of seenrins; a broker's
ncesaw for soswa man who had either
em refused or had lost a license. These
disgruntled brokers, he thought, made
"a load noise in the ears of the poli
ticians," but It had little . effect on the
exchange, except in the way of the in
convenience of the "noi^e."
He told of another instance in which a
broker had advertised for "bright young
mm" in order that he might -educate
th«>m In the insurance business" for the
consideration of a deposit to be made
by the. "bright young men*' with the
fcrcker in question.
"He fell into trouble with the authori
ties about the same time we discovered
him practising the jr:tm«> of ifaiwaißfiir
thes^ young men rapidly and keeping
their deposits." said bfr Robb. "and
after he had served a sentence of one
day less nwia would have lost him his
illlaiawtiaj the judge who sentenced him
-.-•.-„» *■ nlalil to restore his
license.
H« didn't e-»T ■ iciM-ied license, how
ever. Mr. Robb added.
Methods of the Exchange.
n explaining the methods of the *>x
change Mr. Robb put into the record ■
printed document of that body which r—
cited the objects of the exchange and its
aims toward the better construction of
buildings, with tter fire protection and
the consequent lessening of the risks of
xtss by fire.
Questioned as to the value of the high
pressure, service, Hr. Robb estimated
tiiat its installation had "substantially
removed from its area the conflagration
wizard," and the removal of this dan
rer, he said, had reduced the percentage
»f risk on all fires about 5 per cent-
Tbe exchange, he added, had .reduced
*ates on all possible risks v. ithin the
trea of the high pressure service.
As to the cost <.f maintaining the ex
•hamcr Hi Robb ... two
•hirds of it was defrayed by an assess
atnt on its members, which amounted
Conti'iued on Li^d pace.
Ntmtyoifc -^QagQgjj^^ r . acrtlrmte.
T<»-«lav and to-morrow,
fair.
GAVE LIFE AS SACRIFICE
Woman Kills Herself for Fear of
Spreading Tuberculosis.
Washington. Dec. I.— Mrs. Lena A.
Shunk. wife «f Alonzo W. Shunk. a clerk
in the OBBCe of the adjutant general of
the army, deliberately killed herself
yesterday by inhaling illuminating gas.
Mrs. Shunk. wto was thirty-six years
old. was afflicted with tuberculosis.
Every possible means to cure her had
r.een resorted to without success. When
her husband returned home late yester
day he found his wife seated in a chair,
dead, with a tube from a gas jet in h«>r
mouth. Letters to her doctor and her
husband showed that the motive for her
suicide was fear that she would be the
mean? of spreading tuberculosis infec
tion to others.
LONG HATPINS A PERIL
Philadelphia May Prohibit Them
Under $50 Penalty.
Philadelphia. Dec. I.— ln an effort to
curtail the tone hatpin evil in this . ity
an ordinance was introduced in Coun
cils to-day providing that no per
son upon the public streets or on con
veyances shall be permitted to wear a
natpin the exposed point of which ex
tends more than one-half inch beyond
the crown of the hat. A fine of ?."><> for
tach and every offence is provided for
in the proposed ordinance.
Dcflman S fcer, who intro
duced fte proposed measure, declared
with the new style hats the lives
of riders on streetcars and pedestrians
in crowded streets are Imperilled by the
Imr.v - ■ ins.
WHITE PLAINS LAWYER GONE
Advertisement Appears Making
Appeal to Edgar K. Brown.
An advertisement in a White Plains
newspaper yesterday asking Edgar K.
Brown to communicate with his home
at once about his mother's estate, and
also to telephone 5835 John, disclosed
that Mr. Brown, who is a Westchester
iawyer, has net been at his offi'-e. in
White Plains, or at his horn* j . in Mount
' - n. in seven we* k.-.
"I have had several letters from him."
Mrs. Brown last night, "and I know
he will soon return and explain every
to his friends "
Mr. Brown's friends, nevertheless,
Bccm To think his absence from his office
at the county seat for such a long time
strange. Few men are better known in
Westehester County. When Mount Ver
non became a city, in ISiti. Mr. Brown
ran on the Republican ticket in the sth
Ward for Supervisor, and was elected.
He served in the Board of Supervisors
from IS!*, to l'.*tni. He was
chairman of the board for two annual
as, those of V.»Oo and l'.*>4.
BULL ATTACKS A HOUSE
Nearly Wrecks Woman" s Home
Before It Is Captured.
£By TH»-zTapJi to The Trioum-. 1 - -'-
Burlington. N. J.. Dec. I.— After break
ing away from a farmhand, who was
taking the animal to an abattoir, a big
bull made an attack upon the home of
Mrs. Edward Rex during the absence of
the family to-day, and nearly wrecked
the house before it was recaptured. Mrs.
Rex returned to find a crowd in front of
her home.
"There's a bull in there, bustin" your
house to smithereens:" yelled a young
ster, and the noise verified it.
Mrs. Rex and neighbors, who entered
by the front door, were almost smoth
ered by gas. They found the bull had
wedged itself between two doors leading
into the narrow kitchen. A boy volun
teered to climb through a window and
pry open the door, so that men. from a
gas company could get in and turn off
the How of gas. The bull was then
dragged out. Lkins a part of the wall
with it.
The ki'' ben was a sad sight. The gas
?an?» had been knocked over, and this
had caused the ;i s to escape. The whole
rear of the house looked as though a
bombshell had struck It
FIRE PUT OUT WITH COAL
Slight Blase at Harvard Club Ex
tinguished Easily.
Flames peeped over the top of <>ne of
the chimneys of the Harvard Club, in
West 44th str< "t. early last evening,
and attracted the attention of Patrol
men Connolly and Smith, on strike duty
across the street, in front of Sherry's.
\Vhil<' Connolly, urgeii <m by the Har
vard men. ordered the stationary fire
men in The >,i;iiding to bring two burkets
' to the roof, Smith hustled Fire
man Kavanaugh in a taxicab from a
tire house. As soon as Fireman
Kavanaugh took nonwmnd he grasped
th~ buckets, th cd. tin m slightly and
'he coal down the chimney The
• of fire then went out
"NO ONE SAW ME BUT G-OD '
Witness Repeats Alleged Statement of
Joseph Wendling. Accused of Murder.
Louisville, i .... 1. — "If I killed the little
girl no one saw me but Goil, and He cant
come down an<l testify.*"
With the mony of Mr. Carey. Chief
of Detectives of Louisville, that Joseph
Wenaling had made the foregoing state
ment Immediately after his arrest in San
Francisco, the prosecution in the trial of
Wendling. who is charged with having
murdered Alma Kellner, a child of eight,
rested its cas=e to-day. The words attri
nuied to Wendling by the Louisville officer
had previously been testified to by a San
Fr<*noi*co ri»-t<--tjve, who ■■■sHiliil in The
pursuit of Wendling.
The iiftirn will offer its opening state
tth n* to-morrow, arvi testimony in Wend
ling's tx half is expected to occupy at least
a day and a half.
CZAE TO HOLD LEVEE
First Fnnction of the Kind in St.
Petersburg Since 1904.
St. Peterehiirg. Dec. I.— A levte will be
r«*H at tne Winter Palace on December 9.
This is the flrst function of tSN kind sin«e
1»"4
SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. TRAINS
Leave New Pennsylvania Station 1:38 P. M.
££d ,-'■., A || via the shortest, quickest
route to Florida. Direct line to Atlanta and
cou.hwpst Electric Usnted sie-p-rs and
ct"erv*ticu cars. office 1183 Broadway.-
Advu v -
NEW-YORK, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2, IMO.-FOURTEEN PAGES * PRU E < )N K ( I INT - ™ IZSJS£iJr~x Wry,"- —
BIG FERRYBOATS IN 1
NORTH RIVER CRASH
Panic for a Minute as Pennsyl
vania Boats Come Together
Just Outside Slip.
WOMAN'S CABIN RAMMED
No Loss of Life. Though Many
Are C*t and Bruised. While
Other Are Sufferers
from Shock.
The ferryboats Cincinnati and St.
Louis, of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
crashed together last night off the slip
at Exchange Place. Jersey City, and
threw the hundreds of passengers, many
of whom uvri> women, into a ranrir. One
woman was badly cut on the right side,
while two others were also slightly in
jured. Many were badly shaken up and
suffered from shock.
The Cincinnati was starttas f °r New
York, while the St. Louis was on her
way from New York. The tide was run
ning strong, and the pilot of the Cincin
nati was having trouble making for the
slip. It was just as the boat was about
to enter, and at the instant when it was
completely hidden from the St. Louis,
that the crash came.
The freeboard of the Cincinnati struck
the forward side of the women's cabin
of the St. Lo:;is and stove a hole in it.
Both boats were well loaded with pas
sengers, who ran about wildly, ready,
many of them, to leap overboard if their
fears wore not quickly allayed. The
women passengers who were in the cabin
were huried across the r<n>m and began
to shriek in fright.
Mr^. Nester Eltine. of No. 194 York
street, Jersey City, was tossed up against
the side „f the cabin with considerable
force, badly injuring her right side. She
was taken to St. Francis's Hospital, Jer-
Bey City. Three other women were hurt
badly enough to require treatment. They
were Anna (Hock, of No. 201 Baldwin
avenue, Jersey City, whose left knee was
sprained. Mrs. Sarah Spark^r. <>f Xo.
144 North tlth street. Brooklyn, whose
n"S«> was broken, and Johanna Sass. of
KTo nr> Kearr.y avenue. Jersey City, who
had a bruised leg-. They were a!l at
tended by the physicians who were sum
moned and then went to their homes.
Many other passengers were slightly cut
or bruis> d.
According to the pilots' stories, both
gave the signal to back, hut it was then
too late to avert th" -rash. The <"in
cinnati escaped without damage.
WOMEN LESS BEAUTIFUL
English Artist Says It's Difficult
Now to Find Good Models.
IBy Telegraph to Dmj Tribune..] _
Chicago, Dec. 1. — A London cable dis
patch to "The News" says:
"Yes." says Marcus Stone, the eminent
Royal Academician, in an interview this
morning, "the English woman's figure,
like that of her American sister, is be
coming- less beautiful. Excessive athletics
spoils the forms of American voraen,
and all will look like rail splitters by and
by. The English woman's figure, once, so
exquisite, because so natural, suffers
from corset distortion, and it is almost
impossible for an artist to find a gx>od
model any more among our women.
"We artists are students of anatomy,
much the same as are surgeons, and we
know how the figures <>f women are dis
torted. Women's necks used to be
extraordinarily graceful, but the normal
woman's neck has disappeared. All are
too short, owing to the shoulders being
held so high by corsets. The square ap
pearance of the shoulders of the women
of to-day is due to the constriction of
the waist by the corset. The flat chested
women seen everywhere also show the
results of wealing corsets.
"My figures for painting are taken
from the women at the beginning of the
last century, when high waisted gowns
v.'ere worn without corsets. The young
v.-omen who sit f«>r me cannot pose in
these gowns properly. They always sit
as if they were wearing corsets. They
have lost the knack of bending nat
urally and gracefully."
HAS HYSTERIA IN SUBWAY
Woman, Unable to Stop Crying,
Sent to Bellevue.
Crowds of men and women waiting; for
trains on the downtown island platform of
the Grand < "entral subway station, at about
8 o'clock !a>; right, were startled to see a
well dressed ;<nd pretty young woman
whom no one u p to that time had noticed,
burs! into tears ;inil hear her moan a.- H
in agony. Kind hearted men and women,
at the suggestion <>f a special officer, tried
to quiet her. bui Bhe cried the harder and
wrung her iiands.
M. .1 Riordan. the special patrolman,
questioned her. but could get no answer.
Finally Riordan decided to take her to the
st ,-p P i Followed by ■ crowd of inmiwinii i n.
he led her to a drug store near by. and
there she was questioned by Patrolman
Shaw, of the West Mtfa street station. She
did not seem able to stop crying, and Shaw
Ft-nt for Dr. I.yman. of Bt-llevue Hospital,
where The girl was taken, suffering, the
surgeon said, from hysteria.
SUICIDE MAY BE LEWIS
Wilmington Authorities Think They
Have Clew in Trnnk Mystery.
[F>y Tei*Rraj>h to Th* Tribune.]
Wilmington, Del.. ; Dec. 1. —A man who
reeistered at the Hotel Wilmington yester
day as J. F Adams, of Portland, Me., and
who the authorities believe may have
been William Lewis, the supposed slayer
of the New York trunk victim, committed
suicide at the hotel to-day. He shot him
self throuEh the head while in bed in his
room. When a picture of Lewis was shown
to-nicht to Edward E. Myers, assistant to
the coroner, he s-ald there was some re
semblance. An effort will be made to bring
some one from New York who knew Lewis.
The shoes worn by the >uiri<ie were sold by
Henry H Tuttle & Co., of Boston.
MOiSANT FLIES OVER MEMPHIS.
Memphis. Dai I.— John B. Moisant. one
of th** participants in the aviation meet
t ere, made a flisht of sixteen miles to-day
In the face of a varying wind. He circled the
Trl-ata-te racetrack twelve times and flew
over t =-iaF, a. distance of two miles and
rttura.
WOMAN m STARVES
PAINTING OWN PORTRAIT
Miss Finley Gave Thirty Years
of Life Emulating Example
of Whistler.
RECOGNITION DID NOT COME
Found Dying Before Mirror in
Philadelphia Studio, with
Smile on Face — Had
Rich Relatives.
[By Tel«?praph fea The Tribune. 1
Philadelphia. Pec. L— Miss Ella Fin'.ey,
an artist and sculptor, died in the Ger
man Hospital to-day from starvation,
after giving thirty years of her life to
emulate ihc example of Whistler and
force more public recognition than the
public wa? willing to lavish.
Was Finley s last work, and it lasted
f,, r W p°k?. was to pose before a mirror
in her studio and paint a water color of
herself, forcing a smile on her once
pretty features that her friends might
remember her as she was.
The death of Mi-s Finley is one of the
saddest that ever occurred in this city.
Occupying a handsome studio 'at No.
I€l3 Chestnut street, surrounded by
every luxury from friends to furniture,
but without food, she labored for years
painting and moulding inanimate clay
into works of art. Her entire life was
consecrated to art. It was her deter
mination to reach the goal of her ambi
tions, even though it cost he-- life, which
it did just as she had reached her fiftieth
Twice during the last thirty years
Miss Finiey had neared the goal of her
ambitions. This was years ago, when
she exhibited several small pieces— both
paintings and sculpture— at the local
Academy of Fine Arts. Her efforts were
praised, were sold and brought good
pries. Then she aspired to higher
things, refusing absolutely to become a
dauber, and as a result she died, the
only eatable thing- in her studio being a
mouldy crust of bread.
The artist friends of Miss Finley did
not become aware of her condition until
last Sunday, when Dr. D. Chullis Faust
v.-rnt to the studio to pay her a friendly
visit. He found her sitting before the
mirror and the finished painting of her
self. He also noticed her pallor, and in
sisted on making a professional exam
ination. Within three hours she had
been sent to the German Hospital.
There her case was diagnosed as "peri
tonitis, brought on by starvation." An
operation was deemed necessary to save
her life, but she was unable to rally, in
her weakened condition, and died this
morning.
>lisss Finley was the daughter of James
Finley, a painter. She began the study
of art at the- Academy of Fine Arts in
this city- about thirty years ago. She
continued until ISOB. studying sculpture
most of the time, but eventually was
forced to give up her studies owing to
the cost of !nstruction and of materials.
It was th<n she took up painting, but
she was best known as a sculptor, most
of her best figures being in miniature.
Until her brother, who was an Arizona
State Senator and a wealthy mine owner,
died in 1898, life was comparatively easy
for Miss Finley. Her brother regularly
sent her a monthly remittance for .Sl<K»
and with this she was enabled to follow
lier art bent. She also had a wealthy
sister, wife of a prominent San Francisco
attorney; f>ut the sisters drifted apart
and the dead woman seldom heard from
her San Francisco relative.
For the last five years close friends
of Miss Finley have been endeavoring to
get her to give up "her art." Her answer
invariably was.
"My work will be recognized some
time. I am working along much the
same lines as Whistler. He waited
twenty years before recognition came, as
was due him. I may wait longer, but
eventually I will come."
Only l;tPt week one of her women
artist friends endeavored to persuade
her to enter the commercial illustrating
field. She became indignant when In
formed that she could make much money
with which to enable her to continue her
higher studies. She answered the friend
ly advice with:
"I would rather starve to death than
do thf trash you are doing."'
FUTURE WAR JMPOSSIBLE
Dr. Jordan Says Nations Cannot
Afford to Fight.
; Ry Telegraph to Th<> Trttraae
Boston, Dec. L— Before an audience that
crowded Goddard <"hai>el a: Tofts, It
L'avid Stair Jordan, president of Lelaud
Stanford \ "niversity. to-day spoke on
"Peace'" Dr. Jordan described the need
for an international supreme court, and de
clared that this i.s the end to which all
good men arc working. Continuing, he
sai'i:
lr answer to the statement that war
strengthens men. 1 say that it does not
develop them any more than burglary
does, and that it "imply bring? out deeds
of heroism on a background of blood and
cowardice.
A war is a crime. Seventy per cent of
our public taxes afe used for past and
future wars, and 'his on our own initiative.
In Europe the war debt is $2*5.000.000,000.
all ow«*d to the unseen vampire, and which
the nations will never pay and which taxes
poor people $9. .Vm.i. ruin a year. I say that
future war is ! impossible, because the na
tions cannot afford it. Kn^-Und and Ger
many cannot passfbi? go to war. especially
becatue the German emperor will not fight,
knov/ing that a conflict nuans the end of
hia family reicn
BALLOONING TAME SPORT
Likened to Beer, and Aeroplaning to
Whiskey, by Augustus Po3t.
»w Orleans. Dec. I.— "Ballooning is a
barrel of beer, aeropianing a drink of whis
key." said August UJ Post, who. after estab
lishing an American balloon record with
Haw ley. entered an aeroplane meet here
to-day.
"If you are thirsiy you want the beer;
for stimulation whiskey," he continued.
"They have been working with the balloon
for one hundred and thirty-four years. It
is only within the last three or four years
that much has been done to develop the
aeroplane. Wilt until they have worked
more 'han a century with the aeroplane
ana we can tell where the two stand."
&HEAT BEAR SPRING WATER
Its purity l»a~ made it famous. — Advt.
THE YOUNG "CAYIi DWELJJDBS" WHO WKRK WKI» LAST M<;!IT.
La Vere Tallman and Mrs. Tali man. who was Beatrice Sanders.
ECONOMY _IN_ THE CABINET
Members Making Personal Ap
plication of President's Views.
rKmm The Tribune Bureau.?
Washington. Dec. 1.— Washington eats,
drinks and sieeps economy. It is em
blazoned across the White House, it per
vades the government departments and
even the prodigal Capitol has relt its
•.pell. Offices are filled with studious
officials carefully pruning on adding ma
chines: tablets and cuffs serve the same
purpose in the streetcars and table
cloths and napkins in the dining rooms.
Everybody seems to be subtracting and
lividing. There is no addition or multi
olication. The Cabinet is so deeply im
mersed in the success of the plan that
the health of several of its members is
in danger.
Attorney General Wickersham spent
his morning between his department and
the White House. On leaving the Presi
dent he rushed to the Capitol to explain
his estimates before the Appropriations
Committee. On his way he dashed Into
the House restaurant, was immediately
flanked by assiduous waiters, and was
about to be overwhelmed by newspaper
men, when he drank five cents' worth of
milk and rushed away. A saving of
time, a saving of money, economy. Sec
retary Nagel sends out for a sandwich
and munches it over his book of esti
mates. Secretary Wilson often goes
lunchless while he pares and pares. Sec
retary Ballinger mingles with the grab
bers in the lunchrooms. Time is saved,
money is saved, but people are wonder
ing whether it is good for the vitality of
the executive department of the govern
ment.
FELL OUT OF SKIDDING TAXI
Mother and Little Son Barely
Escape Serious Injury.
Urs. T. T. Anderson and her three
yp -old ar son Elliott, of Bretton Hall.
SBtn street and Broadway, were thrown
from a taxicab while going through the
Tremont tunnel under the Grand Con
course, in The Bronx, last evening, and
narrowly escaped serious injury.
Seated on the box of the taxicab were
the chauffeur. Ernest Burnous, and
Patrolman Milan Pratt, on strike detail.
When crossing the streetcar tracks in
the tunnel the taxicab skidded. Both
men were thrown from their seats, the
left hind wheel was smashed to splint
ers, and one of the doors, broken from
its hinges, flew open, and Mrs. Ander
son and h*=r son were hurled through it.
Both were badly bruised, but refused
medical assistance. The policeman and
chauffeur were only badly shaken up.
As soon as a second taxicab could be
bailed the passengers were taken to their
destination.
GET GIANTS OF THE SEA
Captains Smith and Haddock for
Olympic and Titanic.
Captain Herbert J. Haddock of the
White Star liner Oceanic, which left
port on Wednesday for Southampton.
was congratulated by wireless yesterday
on his appointment to the command of
the new White Star giant steamship
Titanic. The news <»f his selection to
command the biggest ship in the wo-'d
and the appointment of Captain "Ted"
Smith, of the Adriatic, to the command
of the Olympic was brought to jport yes
terday by the Majestic.
Since the launching of the 4-VMVMon
Olympic several weeks ago at Belfast,
there has been considerable speculation
as t.. who would command her and her
sister ship, the Titanic. Ti.ere have
been many candidates for tho command,
as the promotion frpm utie ship to an
other of bigger tonnage carries with it
a substantial increase in pay.
Captain Smith, who will take the
Olympic, is the commodore of the White
Star fleet. He was assigned to the
Adriatic when she made her maiden trip
to this country. Ills place on the oceanic
being taken by «'aptain Haddock.
GOES THROUGH SHOW WINDOW
New Jersey Fanner s Mistake May
Cost Him His Life.
fßy T«?!p(?raph t0 Th«» Tribune '
Burlington. N. J . Dec. I.— So clean and
transparent were the huge glass panes in
a show window at a furniture house tn
Broad street, this afternoon, that «'harles
Me Ma me. a farmer, did not se* the glass
at all. and walking right through it caused
a $s<K> crash Falling glaes cut the clothes
of the bewildered farmer, and one twenty
pound sliver falling across his wrist nearly
severed hN hand. McMaSM almost bled to
death before a physktau arrived. His
condition to-night is erttosl
■ I thought 1 was about to walk through
the front «Joor. which had ben left open,
and when the glass cra-sh^d around me I
thought I had b**<»n shot." McMamf said.
The window was on a level with the side
walk.
ANTONOPOULOS LOSES CASE.
Justice Whitney decided yesterday that
John D. Antonopoulos. owner of the frutt
stand under the Brooklyn Bridge stairway
at the City Hall Park, was not entitled to
an injunction to restrain Park Commis
sioner Stover from revoking his permit
for encroa- hinK on the space allotted him
Justice Whitney dismissed the complaint
for lack of proof of Irrevocable damages
a.nd lack of remedy at law
CM DWELLERS ARE WEO
Escape from Clutches of the Law
and Get Parents' Blessing.
FLIGHT ENDS IN HAPPINESS
Tallman" s Diary Tells of Simple
Life When They Had Flap
jacks for Breakfast.
Beatrice Sanders and La Ver» Tall
man. the erstwhile babes in the cave,
were married yesterday in Newark at
the home of the bridegroom's mother,
Mrs. Emily Tallman. No. 12H Somerset
otreet. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Whitney
Allen, pastor of the South Park Presby
terian Church, perforated, the ceremony,
the only witnesses being the girl's father
and Mrs. Tallman.
Beatrice and her lover reached New-
ark about '2 o'clock in the afternoon, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Sanders.
They had gone from Tonkers. where the
couple had been held for safe keeping
by Captain Lent of the Tonkers police
:orce to await the arrival of their par
ents.
"When the trair. arrived at the Market
rtreet station in Newark Mrs. Sanders
and a friend got off. while Mr. Sanders
and the two lovers of the primitive re
mained aboard until the South street
station was reached. Then they went
directly to the Sander- home, at No. iy*>
Clinton avenue.
At 4:30 o'clock Beatrice and La Vere
arrived at the marriage license bureau
m the Newark City Haii. Their parents
were with them as the license was made
out. Both gave their ag« sas arveajseaa),
;ind Tallman said he was a dr-iggist by
oirupation. As soon as the Dap^r had
been made out the party went to Tail
man's home, wher* 1 the ceremony was
performed- Mrs. Taliman and Mr. and
Mrs. Sanders had made the marriage a
condition on which the cnars^ of
vagrancy against the two would be
withdrawn.
Tallman Wants to Tiura Aut-a^
No one in the wedding party would
answer any questions. The young man
simply said that if he were so inclined
he could '•tell a great story" ahout th<Hr
life in the cave. He sa.d. how.-ver. with
utmost seriousness, that h<=- would write
a book about it himself.
The romance of "Paul and Virginia"
has a modern parallel in the story of the
way in which Beatrice Sanders and La
Vere Tallman spent six weeks within the
shelter of a i aye in the t'atskilfs. near
Palenville. Flipping flapjacks and cook
ing corn cakes in an underground home,
while bats and smoke played hide and
seek about their heads, did not dampen
the enthusiasm of toe two :> oung lovers.
They were at least plentifully supplied
with a practical philosophy which
smoothed over many of their youthful
difficulties, and they viewed such things
with happy eyes.
Un September IS Beatrix and La
Vere left their homes in Newark, stag
gering beneath the weight of two heavy
blankets, a small rifle, a shotgun and a
meagre supply of kitchen implements.
They crossed the river and missed a boat
for Catskill. They stayed that night In
the city and started next day.
When they reached Catskil! they took
the train to Palenville and found a cave
which had been described to La Yen by
David Kellar, a friend of his. It was an
idea! retreat for persecuted lovers.
hedged about by protecting trees and
shielded by kindly Nature from prying
eyes and chilling winds.
Back to Nature In a Cave.
A stone's throw from the ca\ a lay a
limpid, glistening lake, and here It was
that "Paul and Virginia" spent the long,
crisp September evenings, snared the
trout from their lair, and performed
their primitive ablutions. It seemed
an idyllic spot for the boy and the girl.
Although they had only $30 when they
left the protection of their Newark
homes to avoid parental objection to
their marriage. La Vere and Beatrice so
economized in their cave keeping that
they managed to live a life of compara
tive luxury in the wilderness. When the
flsh in the little lake were bashful about
rising to the lure of the hooked
the boy would track his way through th©
silent woods and return with a rabbit,
a chipmunk or a squirrel hanging to his
belt.
Beatrice proved to be an expert cook,
according to Tallman. and. although
their eyes would fill with tears as they
bent over the rampflre they were tears
induced by smoke, not remorse. Farm
ers in the neigh borhood. all unsuspect
ing of the rom.i: •■ b was being en
acted under their very noses, were glad
to help the young couple out with gifts
of potatoes and com. e^gs and milk.
Toward the end r, however,
when the keen frosts began to cover the
gruund with a silver mantle every morn-
'uniluurd >v second page-
GAS TAKES LIVES OF
THE IN ONE FLAT
Mother Returns from Shopping
to Find Children Dead with
Grandfather,
BACK WITH CHRISTMAS TOYS
Accident Occurs in East, New
York Home of Policeman
Attached to Madison
Street Station.
When Mrs. Frederick G. Cruger. wir»
of a patrolman attached to th* Madison
street station. i*?ft her flat, at No. 10S
Norwood avenue. Cast Haw York, yes
terday afternoon, her daughters Doro
thy, four years eld. and Edna, two years
old. were safe with their grandfather.
Alonzo Cruger. a retired cooper. When
she returned a few hours later, her arms
laden with toys for Christmas, the two
little children and their grandfather
were dead. While she was gone the chil
dren and their guardian were overcome
by eras and killed.
Christmas was to mean hjit thin^ thi3
year in the Cruger IwaaKnoid, for Doro
thy and Edna were just old -n-uiaji to
know who Santa Claus was and to ap
preciate his visit. For weeks* they had
he*-n working on their Christmas letter.
which they wrote aided by their father.
And yesterday afternoon their mother
had a very satisfactory interview with
St. Nick — so satisCi I that Dorothy
and Edna were BBSBJg to get everything
for which they a?k
It was wh:!- Patrolman Cruger and
his wife were aaaaaj about the big stores
buying the gifts that the grandfather
took down from its hook under the gJL3
fixture an oldtime iron which had b«»-n
used to turn coals in tr. Cruger family
for generations. He rak- ov-r the fire
in the kitchen stove, MMi then hun? the
Iron back in its place. It is thought that
the handle must ha' struck against tiie
gas fixture ar.d turned on the gas.
The odor of gas spread through th?
house, and neighbors traced it to the
Cruger flat. When they knocked several
times and received bjs response they
broke in the door. The old man and on»
of the children were lying side by sid<? in
the kitchen. The other child was n<»-ar by.
Then came opening of windows and
screams for a policeman. A surgeon
was summoned from the Bradford Str.-et
Hospital, but he was tec late to give aid
to any one of the three. '
Word was sent to William -us**r.
uncle of the children. He stood at the
door, and when the mother, her mind full
of plans for the romius: <"hristma3.
reached the house, he asked her to go to>
his home with him. ami ther^ the 'i-«j
was broken to her.
MISS SEARS TO FLY SOON
Boston Woman Orders Biplane,
Which She Will Operate Herself.
fßy T»l»srapb to The Tribune, i
Boston, Dec. 1. — Although members of
her family ar- strongly opposed to her
becoming an aviator. M -== Eleanora
Stars ha? become so fascinated with the
yport that she int- ■:. >1 learn to fly.
Miss Sears has already made two
aerial flights, the last on? with •Jrahame-
White. the English aviator. This w
thoroughly aroused h»r keen interest in
the sport that s'n- id having a small bi
plane built, in which she will navigate
the air herself, after she has taken .-»
courst- of lessons in the management >->(
the heavier than air machiw.
OUST BRYAN'S PICTURES
Oklahoma Legislature Turns H:z
Face to the Wall.
fßy Ttf!«"sraph to The Tr:bur.». I
Oklahoma City. Okla.. D»<-. I.— The
' Oklahorra Legislature to»»k a fall out oiT
W. J. Bryan to-day when efforts were
madf t& have his portrait hung in the
H'>::sr- and Senate chambers.
"That picture does not gi» up in this
Senate chamber as long as I am in th«?
chair." said Lieutenant Governor freorge
W. Bellamy when the sergeant-at-arma
sought to hang the picture beside por
traits of Governor Haskvli and uaaat
Taft.
Bryan's portrait was th*>n placed vii
the osss with its face to the trull. In
the House a portmir of Bryan «>n th*
wal! behind the Speaker s desk was cov
ered with a map of Oklahoma City.
This is the first open slap at Bryan by
Ihe Haskell administration sln«-e Bryaa
■aajeaajtai Haskell to reafcji fr<»m the
national Democratic executive ■-■:n:niita»
m I. I
TEACHERS AND SHOP GIRLS
Latter Better Of, Says Miss Long
shore, Wto Is Sorry She's Single.
[ ay Teiisraph to The Tribune 1
Philadelphia. I •-■ I.— Miss K-itherina
Longshore, president of the Tenc State
Teachers' Leajrue, aaaaaaßßßj a meettac
of the state Educational Alliance to-daj.
advised school teachers, to becotaa sno;>
>£ir!s. should they wish to make sl more
comfortable living. She held that school
teachers were underr and as an exam
ple declared that the incomes ot many
shop Rlrls aiaßS mucii la-- than tb.os*
of teachers.
Sh*» also su^sested that BBJ woaasa.
who hatl studied long and hard with an
Idea of teachln". should think twice be
fore they rejected a marrtaaat proposal.
"I ha>: the choice* of marryins: or adopt
ins the profession of teaching." observ-d
Miss Longshore, "and I elected to taacai
.Now . am sorry that I decider! to teaea. *
•
JAPAN TO REPLACE CHERRY TREES
Washington. Dec. L— To PSBBBH t«»
cherry trees presented to Sir's. Taft by
Japan to adorn the Hotomao Drive, and
which had to be destroyed beeau.-- they
were Infected by insects. nesOttaHons hare
been entered into betwe«n Japan »nd tlio
State Department. Tiie Japanese au
thorities will send another lot of the rrsca.
but iust when tney will be »ttit has not
been determined.
BLIZZARD IN SENECA COUNTY.
Interlaken. N. T-. Dec. 1.-A b'Ja«M«
rased to-day In thi3 part of Seaeca County.
Six Inches of anew fell, aßSßtaa. train* w>
run late. The mercury la «io\vn to X itttmm
*ero.