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- , V<* LXX N° 23,413. FORTY-TWO DEAD IN CYCLE OF FIRES Department Chief and Twenty four Others Perish in Chi cago Stockyards. FIFTEEN BADLY INJURED Chicago Hello" Girls Stick to Posts Despite Fate of Dear o nes — Search of Philadel phia Ruins Continues. FATAL FIRES IN TWO DAYS. CHICAGO — Fire Chief Horan :*nd tv.«nty-four men killed and fifteen men seriously injured at a $1,000,000 fire in the Nelson Morris packing plant at tHe stockyards. PHILADELPHIA— Fourteen dead, 'or tv hurt, and several missing in a fire vh'ch destroyed the plant of the Fried- Ij-r.der Morocco Company. CINCINNATI— Three dead and a financial loss of $2,500,000 in fire which destroyed an entire block in the manu facturing district. IBy Tc'e-raph to Th* Tribune] Chicago. Dec. 22.— Chief *■■■■ .Horan. popularly known as "Sunny Jim." Assistant Chief William J. Burroughs and twenty-three men were killed under falling walls in a -? 1.000.000 fire at the stockyards plant of Morris & Co.. early to-day- Fifteen firemen were seriously injured, including two captains, who may ■ Mayor Busse.^who spent ten hours per sonally directing: the search for the body Of Chief Horan. who had been a lifelong friend, himself narrowly escaped death •wh^n « number of ammonia pipes ex ploded. The chiefs body was recovered late to-night, after a railroad wrecking train with derricks and steam shovels was used to clear away the burning, ruins. The bodies of eighteen other men Lave been found. Marsha! Koran's body was pinned to the ground beneath a heavy timber and I-arily protected by several iron girders. The fa" was free from bruises and was recognized as soon as uncovered. It took half an hour after finding the riead chief before two hundred firemen, city officials and friends of Horan could extricate the body. It was taken to On ■undertaking rooms of Daniel Horan. "brother of the" dead chief. The list of dead includes the chief, the assistant chief, two captains, five lieu tenants, thirteen city firemen, two pri vate firemen and a railroad employe. The fire broke out afresh at 8 o'clock -night, after ft had taxed the strength of the fire department for sixteen hours. Acting Chief S«i.vferJich sent a general call to outlying stations for fresh men.' These, aided by police reserves, contin ued the fight on the fire and the search for bodies of the dead. Air Expansion Killed Chief. Insurance men said that the killing of the chief and his men was not due to an ammonia tank explosion, as at first sup posed, but to the expansion of cold air in the beef warehouse due to the heat from the fire. This, it is said, forced the four story wall to give way and collapse. The tor behind the wall was as strong a? though an explosion had occurred. Marshal Horan was married about six years ago. He was the father of four children, the youngest of whom- is two years old. He assumed command of the Fire Department after the death of Mar shal Musham, who had Fucceded Mar shal Campion, following the passing of UK veteran. Dennis Sv.-eenie. He was a r-- • baseball "fan." and Ban Johnson. Omlskey and others paid glowing trib utes to him to-night. Moriarty, another fireman killed, v.as a brother of the third baseman of th- Detroit Ti^rs. who Is here for the hoff oays. He is stricken with grief at his brother's home to-night. Apparently maddened by the death of their chipf. who ' as popular in the department, firemen threw themselves recklessly into the work of clearing away the fallen wall. More than fifty men dropped from exhaustion and were carried back from the intense heat of the burning warehouse. Burned All Day and Night. Despite the work of many engine crews, the fire continued to burn stub bornly ail day «nd night. Thousands of persons thronged into the stockyards. and the police kept spectators back from UK danger line with great diffi ■ Not since the days of the Iroquois Theatre tragedy, which, like the fire of to-day, wa= a holiday time horror, have *uc!i pathetic .scenes attended a fire in 1 Tricago. The bodies of victims were taken to undertaking rooms oh -West -3*{d street. n<*ar the fire. Widows and children of *he dead men, white faced "and frantic, ercv.ded into the place. The bodies were so badly mutilated in most cases that 'hf police would not' permit relatives to view them. In several instances women fctruggled with i»olieenien In attempts to tee their dead. ' Chicago will provide for the widows and orphans of the :r.<r,<u With th« i«nji<hin^ «»f several i»ublJ«; and sprni public movements; for the raisins of a. Ibrjje rcH<;f and trust fund it is probable that tlift records made after the cold :: 4 «jrrige war«'hoj»<?f> tin of World's Fair linjc, v/hen a fund of over Si<W.<ioo was cubgcribed for the Mesina earthquake •Hid for th- Cherry 'mine disaster a year a?o, will b i ItMUi >J. **■;■:. ',-,-. Prompt Plans for' Relief. ' T I J • l ' Almost with tho first ncv.s of the fire ■■d before the extent of the loss of life became known plans' for raising- the re lief fur.d were laid. Public officials and ':u«iness and professional men banded together, and by night several commit tees bad ■.••■ formed and 'funds aggre patuiß nearly >_:.'.«i"rf» were jjledgred. Temporary aid and* provision for the burial of the d.-^il firemen will be under taken by a committee of the City Coun cil. Th<; raising of a great trust fund to prarMe an annual ineorne.fijr the bereft f*mtiiiu'-'l on tiff!) i>u£«- T»-da.r. mow ;ar rain and warmer. To-morrow. clearing and raider. ! LOOK FOR RECIPROCITY 'Bright Prospect for Success of Negotiations with Canada. [From Th' Trlbun* Bureau 1 Washington. L)ec. 22. — En preparation for negotiations on Canadian reciprocity President Taft held an extended con ference to-day with Secretary Knox and Chandler Anderson, cxmaoeltor of the State Department, who was recently ap| pointed to the place made vacant by the death of Henry M. Hoyt, The prospects for a successful issue of the negotiations are brighter at present than they have been at any other time since the subject was brought up in con nection with the tariff agreement by which Canada obtained the minimum rates under the Payne-Aldrich law. So far no serious obstacles have arisen. President Taffs efforts to pave the way lor the negotiations have been unusually successful, and there has been much evi dence of a responsive feeling in Canada. The negotiations will be taken up directly with t'.ie Canadian representa tives early in January in Washington. Mr. Anderson has been giving most of his time to the question and carrying on the investigations interrupted by the death of Mr. Hoyt. The conference to day was for the purpose of gathering up the loose ends and mapping out the field to be covered by the agreement. CLEANS HOUSE; FINDS $4,000 Treasure Hidden Away in Closet in Old New Jersey Home. Sussex. N. J., Dec. 211 (Ppecial).— No one in this section of the state has found houseeleaning: more profitable than has Miss Ida Simonson, who got $4,000 yes terday afternoon in a brief hours work. She was cleaning a cJoset in the DeKay homestead in Vernon when under an old wash boiler she brought to light the treasure. There was $">O4> in gold and the remainder in bills of large denomina tion. Miss Simonpon Is said to be entitled to the money not only because she found It. but because she is a descendant of the one who probably put it there. The Simonsons are an old Sussex family and some of them occupied the house at times in the past. Just who left the money hidden away, however, is not clear. , WINS $30,000 A DAY Young 1 American Nearly Breaks the Bank at Monte Carlo. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Bloomington, 111., Dec. 22. — A cable dispatch from France records the ex traordinary winnings of Will Darn brough, a Bloomington young man, at ! Monte Carlo. It was said that he has i won $30,0<K) a day for the last week and was threatening to break the bank. Darnbrough has been in Europe for ten years and has won and lost dozens of fortunes. Of late years he has ranked with the most successful players at Monte Carlo and other European resorts, and a year, ago was credited -with win-, ning $100,000. V - ' lr>. the last week, according to the dis pat' h from Mont? Carlo, It has been ob served that he plays 29 oftener than any itthet number, which has started a run on 39 at roulette by those who wish to profit by the American's luck. Tt is said that Darnbrough plays roulette, almost exclusively, and always piongeo, betting thousands of francs on each flig+it of the ball. His t?ble has been thronged with envious gamblers, who are unable to equal his luck. TORE GIRL'S BIG HAT UP She Wouldn't Take It Off in Philadelphia Theatre. [P.y Telesrap?i to The Tribune.] Philadelphia. Dee. 22. — A man who said he was Emil Edwards, of No. 34K West 118 th street. New York City, at tenflefl a performance nt a Market street theatre last night. He had a seat be hind that occupied by a young woman who insisted on wearing a large hat. despite requests that she remove it. Edwards was unable to see the stage. and when the girl persisted in her re fusal to remove her hat he reached over and began tearing the offensive headgear to pie<-e?. Before the six ushers em plcyed 1n the theatre reached Efi wards there was little left of the hat. He was arrested and held in $800 bail for a further hearing next Thursday. Ed wards declares that the ynun? woman \va? breaking a theatre rule, and there fore has no r^dresp. THOUGHTS BY MAY YOKE Would Write Autobiography, but Fears Earthquakes. | ! Br Tcl-craph 10 The Tribune. I i Eon Francisco, Deo. ' 22— May Fobe Is | thinking about writing her autot.'iojrraphy. chronicling the happenings of _ her eventful life. "I should <aup? earthquakes all over tiie world with my book.'*, she said, "in stead of dating everything: from the time of the big fire here, as they do now. people would- say • 'since- May Vohe wrote her book.' T have received an \ offer fur my memoirf." Her estimates of Lord Francis Hope and Captain Putnam Br;idlee Strong are Inter esting. Although I^ord Francis divorced her. si c has only fulsome praise for him, but with Strong it i? different. MAY SIT .UNTIL DAYBREAK Spanish Deputies to Remain in Session Until "Padlock" Vote Is Taken. ;* Madrid, Dec. The discussion of th« "J'adlock bill" was resumed in the Cham ber of Deputies to-day. The Catholic members, following their tactics of obstruction, introduced endless amendments, and Premier Canalejas moved that the chamber sit until the bill was This motion was adopted, and Hie session may continue until daybreak at least. MAYOR NOT ILL, SAYS DOCTOR Member of Family Also Denies Re port of Impaired Health. There was a report yesterda" afternoon^ that -because OB was ill Mayor Gaynor* had been forced to leave the City Hall early. At his homo. He. 20 Eighth avepue, Pi whim, a member of his family said last night that the Mayor was not sick. - i,- John \VV I'.-.rri.-ii. his physician, also denlod that Mr. Gaynor was 11! He said he had not been called to attend him. GREAT BEAR' SPRIN§' WATER, \ Us purity has made" it 4 famous.-Advt. NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1910. -FOURTEEN PAGES. ** PRICE ONE CENT y h^hebe m fC m BOARD OF ESTIMATE (MEDICAL CORPS MAJOR HOLDS UP SUBWAY PLAN ARRESTED AT PIER Sends It to Transit Committee, Gaynor, Prendergast and Mitchel, Which Opposes It. MAYOR WANTED A DELAY McAneny. with Him, Suggests Committee of the Whole — Controller Wants P. S. C. to Commit Itself. Opponents in the "Board of Kstimate and Apportionment of the Tnterborough's latest proposition for building new sub ways won the first skirmish at the meet ing of the hoard yesterday. In spite of the desire of Mayor Gaynor and Borough President McAneny that the communi cation of the PuMlr Service Commission no over. Controller Prendergast forced it before the board and thence into the hands of trre transit eonimittee. Presi drnt McAneny moved that it be referred to the committee of the whole, but with drew the motion when he realized that it would precipitate a fight. The transit committee, which is com posed of Mayor Gaynor, Controller Pren dererast and President MiLchel of the Board of Aldermen, was instructed to report on the communication. If possible, at the next meeting of the board, which will be on January ">. as a recess was taken over the holidays. It is a foregone conclusion that the majority report of the transit commit tee will l>e against the Interborough proposition, both the Controller and the President of the Board of Aldermen be ing against it. This gives the opponents of the propo sition the tactical advantage. It gives them a chance to present their argu ments in favor of turning down the en tire proposition, and places on the shoul ders of those who are in favor of the plan the responsibility of trying to over throw the majority report of a regu larly constituted committee of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. It is not unlikely t-hat Mayor Gaynor will present a minority report in favor of the Interborough. It was predicted last night that any attempt to over throw the majority report and pass the minority report would probably result In a deadlock, which would leave the ques tion where it stood yesterday. If the board does not approve of the Inter borough proposition, the Public Service Commission is on record in Its letter as saying it will go ahead with the tri borough. letting the contracts for the work without any settlement of the ques tion of operation. P. S. C Wants to Deal with Interborough Inquiry among members of the Public Service Commission yesterday as to whether or not they would be willing: to present to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment further details as to the temis they proposed to make with the Interborough brought out the informa tion that, they would rather negotiate quietly with the Interborough. It was suggested by an outsider that the com mission mi?ht also bring the triborough officialise before the board by letting the contracts for that system, but the opin ion seemed to be that it would be better to have both the commission and the board consider only the Interboroug-h's offer on its merit?. President McAneny. who was anxious not to have the subway question come up yesterday, saw the Mayor before the meeting of the Board of Estimate. It is understood that the Mayor agreed with, him that it should not come up. Then the Borough President went to the Con troller. The latter declared flatly that he wanted action as soon as possible and proposed to call the letter up at the first opportunity. President Mitchel a!.«o visited the Mayor before the meeting. The Mayor said he would be extremely busy, and as he did not think the subway question would come up he guessed he would not go to the meeting of the board. He asked to be ti Id. however, in case any thing of great importance arose. After the regular matters on the cal endar had been disposed of Controller Prendergast asked the secretary to read the communication from the Public Ser vice Commission on the Interborough's proposition, saying that although it had been received too late to go on the cal endar, he believed it to be of such Im portance that it ought to be considered. . "Wait a minute," said President Mitchel. "I promised to notify the Mayor if anything of considerable importance came. up. I declare, a recess until he shall have been called." Ut.-utenant Kennel harried downstairs and the Mayor appeared in a few min utes. He held a short consultation with the Controller and President McAneny, asking If the matter might not go over. but finding that the Controller was not willing, he consented to remain. He did not take the chair. McAneny Makes Move. * After the secretary had read the letter from' the Public Service Commission President McAneny moved that it be re ferred for consideration to the commit tee of the whole. ••1 do not mean by this." .President McAneny continued, when the Controller had uttered an ejaculation of surprise, ••to interfere in any way with the func tions -of. the transit committee, but it seems to me that the time has arrived v.hen the entire board should get down to the consideration of this matter. I. for one, would be glad to sit In council upon It." ; X s - Controller moved to amend by re ferring the "communication to the transit committee/ saying that he did so with BOOM embarrassment as a member of that committee, but thought the experi ence of the committee in such matters .. ; ,,v;i<l be used' In the solution of the problem. *. , President McAneny declared he would Continued on fourth, page. TTJsEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT- As-orVed Case Selected Wine*. $4. $5. $6-75. $ fc T' "DeVey & Son* Co.. 138 Fulton St.. N. V. .-Advt.- . Created a Disturbance, with Two Companions, While Waiting for Liner to Dock. H. H. RUTHERFORD ANNOYED Trouble Arose, Says Raczkiewicz, When Army Surgeon and Friends Were Barred by Customs Inspectors. Major Henry H. Rutherford. I". S. A., of the medical corps, and two friends had a clash with the customs officials on the North German Lloyd pier in Ho boken last night. The major v.as ar rested by ord^r of Deputy Surveyor John J. Raezkiewicz. as were his friends. According to Raczkiewicz and Deputy Surveyors Norwood and Harris Major Rutherford and his companions were ar rested as a last resort to make them cease a tirade of abuse and highly colored language. The customs officials. aft?r ordering the arrest of the major and his friends, made an investigation <>f thf-ir move ments throughout the afternoon. Racz kiewicz said that they had been drink ing at a hotel in Hobokrn while waiting for the docking of the George Washing ton and became abusive when th<*y made an effort to set inside the customs lines shortly before the gangplank was put aboard. The major and his two friends ap peared at the gate and started to pas? through, according to Racziewitz. They were detained by a customs inspector and asked to show a pier pass. The major explained that he had none, but offered his card. The inspector told him that the card would not do, so the major tried to force his way through. The trio was held in check by the two inspectors and Otto Schmolinska, the special police man at the Lloyd pier. Then followed a lively discussion. Word was sent in to Deputy Surveyor Raczkicwicz that three men. one of them an army officer, were trying to force their way into the lines. He sent out Deputj' Surveyor Norwood, accompanied by Deputy Surveyor Harris. When they arrived, they said, they heard the major abusing the inspectors at the gate. Harris made notes of the remarks of the major and then reported them to Raczkiewicz. When the latter came to the gate a dozen men. accompanied by ■women, appealed to him to arrest the three men. Raczkiewicz told the men to go away quietly, and when they refused ordered their arrest. Major Rutherford and his companions were taken to the automobile in which they had driven to the # pier. and in that to the police station, Harris and Racx feiewica going along to mako a charge of disorderly conduct against them. On the way to the police station, Har ris declared, the major's companions planned two fictitious names and ad dresses. The major, who had previously proffered his card on the pier, made no effort to conceal his identity. His com panions gave the names of Daniel K. Meyers, of No. 601 West 142 d street, and Edward E. Albert, of No. 1666 Ster ling Place, Brooklyn. After getting bail. Major Rutherford and his two friends returned to the pier repentant and wanted to see the deputy surveyors and apologize for their con duct. Raczkiewicz and Harris were un relenting and informed them that they would bo at court this morning with ten witnesses, who would testify against them. One of the major's companions said later that his name was Maher and that he and his party had ccme to the pier to meet his parents. Tae only Maher on the steamship was a. Miss Helen Maher. but it was said she was not related to him. Major Rutherford, \* ho s a tall, good looking man of about thiity-eight, was greatly disturbed over hii arrest. He said he had been in the service for twelve years. He was raised to the rank of major in January of thii year, and is stationed at Fort Totten. Major Rutherford Mas jorn in Ar kansas on February 17. 1873. He entered the United States volunteer ser vice from Missouri in 1808. and in lfX»l was commissioned to the regular army. He served in Manila. an< was later transferred as a Burgeon t* the United States General Hospital at the Presidio in San Francisco. GIVES GOVERNMENT $1 Patriotic Ranchman Wants t) Help Pay Expeases, Washington. Dec. 22.— A ranchman liv ing In San Antonio, Tex., wrote to Sec retary MacVeagh a few da.s ago, asking for a copy of the estimates of govern ment expenses for 1911, inclosing a $1 bill. Robert O. Bailey. Mr. MacVeagh's .■secretary, sent the estirr.ates showing that it will cost about $686)6698800 to run things another year and returned the $1. The ranchman's refily was received to-day, and the same -SI MU came with It. •Take my dollar." he wrote, "and play it ten ways against the expenses of ten different departments, with a merry L'hriKtmas." This is the first time the government has received a Christmas present, so far as officials remember. BAN FROM OPERATING TABLE Victim of Appendicitis Said Four Scars Were Enough. Refusing to undergo a fifth operation for appendicitis, Michael Schuman. of No/ 125 Madison street, leaped from the operating table "and dashed "from the New Rochelle Hospital yesterday, declaring: he was going home to die. He-bears scars of four opera tions for appendicitis, and he said they were enough for him. Schuman w»s taken with violent pains in the region "of his appendix on a Stum ford trolley car yesterday morning, * and was taken to the hospital by the police. The case waa diagnosed by Dr. Thomas C. Taylor, the police surgeon. Nn Xmas table should bo without Angos tura Bitters, appetizer of exquisite flavor— delicious on-*crapefruk— refubO substitutes. -Advt.:.^,^- ;■:, r . - DX. FREDERICK A. COOK. Who had his first glimpse of New York last evening rtnee his sudden -lisappearanee, more than a year ago. 'Photographed on beard thfl North German Uoyd steamship Oeorgr Washington.! LAD SAYS HE WAS A PRISONER TWO YEARS Children's Society Seizes Little Unfortunate in a Condition Called Shocking. ALL THE TIME IN ONE ROOM Says Woman Who Was His Only Companion Is His Mother — Searching The Bronx for Her. Looking -like a pocket , edition of Kip Van Winkle, with his matted and -un kempt hair falling far below his shoul ders and his clothes tattered and torn, a boy, eleven years old, who said his nan» was Henry De- Graff, was taken yester day by : agents ;of the Society, for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children from a room at No.' 1870 Third avenue, where the. child said he had been confined for two years. • . The little fellow's release was brought about by his own Ingenuity in writing a letter to the society ! telling of his plight and begging to be rescued. - - • "My name is Henry De Graff. I am eleven years old. and have been kept a prisoner for two years in a room at No. 1870 Third avenue. Please come and rescue me." he wrote. When Superintendent Thomas -D- Walsh of the society received the letter yesterday morning he. first thought it was another case of • kidnapping. But before deciding to send the information to Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn he dispatched Robert W. ; Cosgrave. ,an agent of the society, to the address men tioned by the alleged prisoner. It turned out. if the boy's story should prove to be. true, that he had been held captive under circumstances more re markable than anything in the ordinary kidnapping line. I ; .\, ■ - . Cosgrave found the boy in. a dingy and untidy room with a wrinkled and wild eyed woman as his only companion. The boy said she was his . mother, ■ and that her name was Annie De Graff. She didn't deny it. but would say very little until the agent told her he would have to take the boy away. Then she began to rave and threatened to kill herself if the boy was taken from her. Agent Verifies Writer of Letter. ; The boy told Cosgrave his name, which corresponded to the one given in the letter and said it was he who had writ ten the letter to the society. Cosgrave declared the youngster -presented; a shocking appearance of neglect and.that everything about the room spoke vol umes against it as a- habitation, proper and sanitary, for a growing boy. . Young De Graff didn't complain that he had not had enough to eat. His mother had fed Mm two or three times every day. he said, but she had .• not allowed him to leave the room for two years. She would not let him go to school or even on the street. "When I asked my mother to let me go to school." Henry told Cosgrave, "she would say that I would ler-.rn wickedness from the other boys.-= and that school learning didn't amount to' anything." When the mother had been quieted the boy was taken to the rooms of the so ciety, where he said he had an older brother living somewhere in The Bronx, but be did not know where. His grand mother also lived in The Bronx, I he added, but he did not know her address, either. 'He remembered that his mother took him to see his grandmother two or three times during the last three years.; On those occasions she kept tight hold of his hand and never g0.0f. : it. tie said. , . •;. _ .".' Later the shaggy little fellow was ar raigned in the Children's Court before justice Salmon. * Some one wag sent to the Third avenue address with the' order for his mother to appear in court, but she could not be found. Justice Salmon commented afterward on the extreme neglect to which the boy "appeared to have been subjected. The small prisoner seemed in be dazed ' Continued .on terond page. TRIPLETS FOR CHRISTMAS Husband Presented with Three Sons Weighing Thirty Pounds. TBy Telegraph to The Tribune. 1 Newton, Miss., Dec. 22. — Mrs. William Xorman, forty-two years ol<l. residing 1 near here, to-day became the mothrr of her seventeenth child. Last night at 6:30 o'clock she gavt; birth to a nlne pcund boy, and tnis morning-, at 7:30 o'clock, two more boys, ten and eleven pounds, respectively, arrived. The trii> lets are healthy and vigorous. The fourteen children previously born to the woman are ail alive. The father is a farmhand, and his -wages are ?9 a week. FROZEN FAST TO ENGINE Man Beating His Way Home Bides 41 Miles in 40 Minutes. Ithaca. N. T.. X>ec. 22.— With his hands frozen fast to the rod to which h© dun*. Arfolph Jerge. of South Bos ton, Mass., wat taken from the pilot of the engine of an express train to-day, after riding forty-one miles in forty minutes in the teeth of an icy wind. His ears and hands "<vere 'rozen, and he was brought back to life only after hard work. Jerge told the police that he was try ing to beat his way home. and. thinking that he could make better time, left a freight train at Geneva and boarder! the engine of the express. For the forty one miles, which the train ran at more than a mlle-a-minute clip, he faced a biting wind, and a few miles more wuuld have meant death. AEROPLANE DUCK HUNTING Latham Enjoys Novel Sport at Los Angeles Club. "Los Angeles, Dec. 22. — Hubert Latham, the French aviator, went duck hunting in a monoplane to-day at the Bolsa Ohieo Club. He circled 0% - er the feeding grounds of the wild fowl at high speed, frightening thousands of birds into the air. With a double barrelled shotgun Latham fired ten times at the ducks, killing a few and crippling others. Ho then pursued the birds three miles out to sea. After half an hour of hunting Latham landed at the clubhouse. DAYS WITH DEAD WOMAN Hostess Stayed in House Alone oV; : -^7-- with Body. ■•_ t ; ..After, being in the " house four days with a dead woman, and two dead dogs, Mrs.' Agnes ". Brennan. of No. 1631 j St. Peter's" avenue, The Bronx, reported the matter! to 'the. police last night, or, rather fourteen -year-old ". Charley .Crowley,' a bright boy , who • lives at . No. 1519 Hoe avenue, reported it for her. Investiga tion did not make .the police' think that Mrs. Brennan had anything to do with the death of Clara Hughes, who was her friend, and cso no • arrest was made. Illuminating gas was the cause of death. Mrs. Br^ntian said Clara-Hughes was in the habit- of coming to the St. Peter's avenue 'house j about twice a week and staying- over night. • Long conversations under midnight gas Jets' were '.their di version, and the two were great cronies. The last time "the- dead woman came there.' according to Mrs. Brennan. was on Sunday evening. \ ' About, 9 o'clock on Monday, morning Mrs. Brennan awoke, almost suffocated, and ran out into the yard. ••.<•.- . ' "When she came back she saw Clara. Hughes lying on th.' floor, but did not disturb her. thinking she « was asleep. When Charles ' Crowley went 'to the shanty last night, Mrs. Brennan told him she thought her friend was dead, and he ran around-, to the. Westchester police station. The Lieutenant in charge sent two men to investigate, and the Coroner's physician was summoned." ROOSEVELT IN LONDON SOCIETY. London. ■-, Dec * Theodore , Roosevelt. Wilfred ' Hudson Osgood.*- of j the Field! Mu seum of Natural j History, l Chicago, and Samuel Hubbard ■ Scudder. of Cambridge. Mass., have -been elected corresponding members of thf< l.orwlon Zoological Society. m Delicious appetizer tor Xmas '(Inner* Dole's Pure Hawaiian Pineapple Juice. Serve cold.— Advt T GEORGE WASHINGTON BRINGS US DR. COOK Hirsute Disguise Lacking. He Appears Stocky and Strong, Calm and Assured. THINKS HE REACHED POLE Presence on Ship Breeds Intense Partisanship Between Two Factions of Cabin Passengers. r>r. Frederick A. Cook came back in *+■ least one sense last night— that is. ha returned to this, the country of his birth and the scene of his aldermanlc and other triumphs. Singularly enough/. or m perhap3 by design, he steamed into port on that North German Lloyd liner called the ' George Washington. aft<»r a man who could not tell a lie even in infancy. Stocky and strong looking. . with no hirsute disguises and with ■ calm, as sured manner in keeping with the smile ; nf amusement which never deserted him during the interview. Dr. Cook handed a. typewritten statement to each of th« score of reporters ■'.).■> had boarded the George Washington at Quarantine and j had swarmed about him in tho dies" | saloon with questions pertinent and im-' pertinent. He wore a black cutaway coat and tan shoes, a favorite combina tion with him in the days when he en joyed the "freedom of the city" and <'» played a gold key. Ills statement Col- . lex s: "I have no statement to make oth*»r than that which I have carefully pre pared and -which is now being pub lished. I want the American people to read that story a3 a whole .and not to depend upon extracts rom it. With the best intention in the world, extracts from a document so large as my com plete story are liable, to misleading. "Any interview I might give would necessary be fragmentary and doubtless misleading; also, so I shall not no* give out any interviews, and any pur porting to come from me will not bm authorized. I spent weeks carefully pre paring my story, and I have frankiy said in it ail that there is to say. Every charge against me is taken up and answered in its proper place in my nar rative. Was in America a Month Ago. "Where I have been and what I have been - doing during the last thirteen months since I left the United States in November, 1909, is fully set forth in my story. I will say. however, that I was in' the United States less than a month ago. I arrived in Quebec on October "9. •went to Troy, N. V.. thence to Xewbiirg and Poughkeepsie. I was in the two last named cities about three weeks, writing, revising; and correcting proof-* "on mv story. •■'* t i:./ "I registered under an assumed narr.a because I was very busy — too bus/ * I receive my many personal friends or' newspaper men. No other precautions were taken to keep my presence con cealed. I stopped at leading hotels and took an automobile ride «»ach pleasant day. I was at the Palatine Hotel, in Newburg. most of the time. I left Pough keepsie on the night of November 23. and went directly to Halifax, where I sailed for Europe on the same steamship line," on the same steamer and just a year from the time I sailed from the sam» port when I left America in 1905. "I dc not know what my plans for 'ha future will be. I have no plans what ever for going on the lecture . plaforcn. I have not returned to America with tha intention of making money out of mi- Arctic experiences. Money did not prompt the writing of my story. A3 | have seen suggested in certain news papers. As I said. I have come back srlelv for the purpose of rehabilitating myself and my family by setting: mat ters right with my countrymen. The band of cross-examiners could hardly be content with this document, carefully prepared with the aid of a representative of the magazine in which the explorer's- "confessions" are appear ing, while the ship was coming up >.* bay. They pressed him tor something hot off the bat. with no press agent strings attached. At first he refused ab solutely to amplify his statement, but finally he consented to answer a few of the rising tide of questions. Still Thinks Ho Reached Pole. "13 it possible that you will enter into a debate with Peary on the lecture plat form r* he was asked. ' - "No. it isn't possible." * v * "Why do you say it isn't possible?** "Because that isn't -my manner, ms^ ■way of doing things. ' ~t "Do you contemplate a lecture tour?" ■•I do not." ' "Do you believe now that you sot to the North Pole?" was the next qu«?ry. ; "I haye stated circumstantially j-J.n what I. do believe in my magaizne story and wherein I may be wrong in m>; -' belief."; . •'Yes. but the people arc anxious, to know to-morrow morning what your. at- 5 ' titude is, to-day— what you' think about it as you enter New York fur the first time since your disappearance." "But I have explained all that.' "Can't you give us anything definite for to-morrow morning, doctor"" "Well. personally I believe I got to Uj» r p<'!P." "What. then. do you think of the ver-V: diet of the University of Copenhagen with regard to your 'proofs'?* ."I- accept its verdict for the reason that I d.'tit believe any man could pre- V sent such a thing as positive proof that ■■■ he had reached the pole." "Dldti't youv'believe in. your "proofs* when ><«v forwarded them, to •.>■■ uni versity for ' examination?" "I felt as confident of them as a -vi x can of that sort of thing.". -. "Do you believe Peary got to th > n«)le'"' "I said I believed he had reached, 'ho pole when [ w*» here over a year "ago. and I haven't* changed my .mind." J - "Are you done with exploring, doctor?" '•■ "Is think I-am-dono with* exploring" « Few"'of the 'passengers eoiild •-.: 'Ai^ u