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All TOMBS KEEPERS
CALLED FOR INQU1RY
_
Every One Employed There in
Last 4 Years Wanted to Tes
tify to AHeged Irregularities.
HYDE STAYS IN "SHACK"
Rule Regarding Treatment of
Prisoners, Whether Rich
or Poor, Is Distributed
Throughout Prison.
The scope of the grand jury inveati
gatlon into conditlons in the Tombs
widened overnight. The Diatrlct At
torney dlapatched aubpcenas yesterday
for every koeper at present in the
prison and for every one who withln the
last four years hns been a keeper there
and atill llvea.
Before the inquiry (losea the grand
jurors will have delved into those
storles of favorltism and irregularities
whlch surrounded the incan eration of
William J. Cummins. chief atockholde:
<.f the Carnegie Trust Company; Chrls
topber Columbus Wilson. head of the
wireleaa awlndle; Charlea W. Morae,
the convicted and subscquentlv re
leased banker. and Joaeph 0. Robln.
the Diatrlct Attorney's aaaistant in
working up the caee against Hyde, as
well as of Hyde himself.
They will know more also about the
asaault committed by "Oyp" the Bluod
and "Lefty Louie." against an alleged
"stool pigeon" named Goldstein in the
prlaon barber shop, about the narrow
escape whlch "Ked Phil" Davidson,
slayer of "Blg Jack" Zelig. had from
being brained by an iron skillet hurled
at him from an upper tier of the
Tombs, and about Robins eharge that
eome enemy of hia among the prison?
ers tried to crush out his life with a
hcavy milk bottle slung at him while
he was exercising in the courtyard.
The eacape of Reynolds Forabrey will
form another absorhlng topic of in
veatig&tion.
When the grand jury reconvenes this
morning there will be on hand as wit
nesaes, it Is expected. at leaat two
editora of "The World," who will tea
tlfy to the reliabllity of Eduardo
Breker, the reporter who quoted
Deputy Cornmiasioner William I.
Wright, of theDepartment of Corree
tion, aa aaying that from Tombs "trus
ties" who had overhcanl a conversation
between Robln and his aister he had
gained informatlon which convinced
him that Hyde wa8 innocent. Thia
phase of the grand Jury's inveetlgation,
however, promiaea to prove abortive, in
as-much as Wright has denied under
oath that he ever said to Breker the
things attrlbuted .j him in the columns
of "The World," and Breker has no
corroboration of his statement to t>u*
contrary.
Interview Started Inquiry.
But It waa this interview, on the
other hand. whlch started the whole
inquiry. which, in fact, most interested
the Diatrlct Attorney's offlce ln the ad
mlnistration of the Tomh?, alnce tt
the Deputy Commlssloner was employ
ing "truaties" to get evldence from pris?
oners of material value in the trlal of
crimlnal cases it waa most important
that the situation become known and
corrected. 80 far as the Dlstrict Attor
ney le concerned, the production of
priaonera when he wants them ia the
function of the Clty Prison, and ques
tiona of favorltism are mattera whlcn
it ia the buslneas of other departmenta
to deal with.
On the order of the court. however.
it is hia buslneas to guide the granl
Jury in the Inveetlgation of whatevei*
subjects come wlthin its provln- e. He
quoted yesterday the rule of the prison
under which the alleged partlalitv
ahown to Hyde and others might be
conaidered a derelletlon of duty on the
part of tha Deputy Cornmiasioner, who
has eharge of the adminiatration of
! the Tombs.
Thia rule appeara in a parnphlet ls
aued by Patriok A. Whltney, Commis
j aloner of Correctton, for the general
| guldance of the offleers and employo*
of the Tomba. and under the provislona
of aaction 894 of the clty charter,
which permits heads of departments
to make rulea for the conduct of their
subordinates It reads:
Oene^al OrJer No. I?All prisoners.
whether rich or. poor, must reeelve the
aame treatment from offlcera and em
ployes of this department.
Hyde Staye in the "Shack."
CommissJoner Whltney. aa the reault
of the grand Jury Inquiry, had large
placards embodylng thia rule distrib?
uted thioughout the priaon. They dld
not, however, cau*e any cbange ia
Hyde'e atatus. ao far aa could be as
cartalned in the absence of an Invlta
tlon to vlsit the former Clty Chamber
laln where he langulahea ln the "Cum-^
mlns ahack."
The report that Hyda had been put
tn an ordinary cell waa denicd by
prison authorities, who also denied
the report that Robin. in his dally vlsit
to the District Attorney's omce, had
erossed from the Tombs yesterday to
the Criminal Courta Building by the
Brldge of Sighs. instead of by the pub
lic street, in the eustody of a deputy
sheriff, as he has been in th~ habit of
doing.
Hy<le is supposed to he spendlng his
days in prison perfecting his oase for
the purpose of an appeal should Justlce
Goff declde to deny his counsel's mo
tlon for an arrest of judgment. Stephen
C. Baldwin, the Brooklyn lawyer who
has identlfted his fortunes to some de
gree with those of Hyde and Hydc's
friends, vlslted the prisoner yesterday
and reported him to be busy with law
books and documents.
Hyde has not yet recelved a vlslt
from any member of his family, and
will not do so. it is sald. the assump
tion belng that his Instructions, Issued
the day he entered the Tombs, that no
member of his family visit him while
he i? in prison were contlnued to cover
the extra weck of conflnement whieh
he had not foreseen.
The former City Chamberlain ap?
peared by proxy in a foreclosure pro
ceedlng yesterday as guardlan of Miss
Catharlne Hlgginhotham before Justiee
Clark in the Supremo Court in queens.
Miss Hlgginhotham was the daughter
of former Maglstrate Gaston -liggin
botham's s?*ond wife, and, it 1b said,
was legally adoptcd by the mag.strate.
Clarence B. Campbell, of No. 51
Chambeca street, appeared for Hyde,
and the applieatlon was to forecloee a
mortgage of $i>,000. whieh together
with interest and other expenses made
a total of $11,(H>H, on property at Bays
water. Far Rockaway. Mrs. Josephine
A. Meehan was named as the defend
ant, and former Magistrate Hlggin?
hotham wns made a defandant in order
to dlseover whether he had any legal
right in the mortgage. Justiee Clark
deeided to appolnt a referee to sell tho
property under foreclosure.
WHITMAN AIDS ALDERMEN
District Attorney Will Give Evi
dence to Committee.
Distrh t Attorney Whitman, after a eon
ference wlth Justiee Goff. declded yester?
day to turn over to the aldermanlc in
vestigatlng cominlttee all the evidence un
earthed by bls offlec eoneernlng pollce cor
rapthm. The srand jury especlally con
stltuted to toaeJra into pollce corruptlon
'as diwiosed in the Rosenthal c&se is now
busy with an inv^stigation of the Tombs
admlnlstration, growlng out of eharges of
favo;it!sm shown Charles H. Hyde.
^ince the evidence of poliee corruptlon
whieh the District Attorney ha* on hand
to pr*?*ent do?s not warrant the finding of
Indletments. In the District Attorney?
opiiiion. he has eonaMerei it wise to glvc
the whole subject Into the keeplng of the
aldermanlc committee and permlt the
grand Jury to eoncentrate its efforts on
the lmmedlate inqulry on hand.
Should the evidence before the alder?
manlc committee aeem to warrant the
flndlng of Indletments later, the "John
Doe" grand Jury will then have completed
its Tombs Investigation, lt Is expected, an!
b" able to make qulck work of pollce
graft, the foundation for fndictments hav
I Ibg already been Jald. Mr. Whitman Is
i convlneed that tlie aldermanlc rommltter.
under the guidance of Its counsel, Emory
U. Buekner. is dolnr ex'-ellent work and
may be d?'pended upon to lay bare pollce
rondltlons h!1 the more eompletely In the
abKence of an embarrasslng parallel In?
qulry belng conducted at the Crlmlna:
Courts Building.
At the request of Mr. Buekner the Dla
trkt Attorney has asslgned Asslstant Dis?
trict Attorney J. Robert Rubin, who pre
pared the people"s ca*e In the trlal of the
Rosenthal gunmen. to aid eounael for the
? "urran committee. Mr. Rubin is husy at
present on Interestlng evidence of poliee
naathoda, prrparatory to piesentlng It to
the aldermen.
It is aapected that in the mean time
number of gamhllng eases now on the
caleadar of the Court of Qeneral sessions.
developed as the result of poli<e talds last
aummer. will b? transferred to the Kx
traordlnaiy Term of the Supreine Couit
and tned befor* Jutulce Goff.
BOSTON IN COCAINE WAR
Dance Halls Make "Fiends" of
Schoolgirls?Two Arrests.
Boston. Dee. 5? The revelatlon that
young alrle. aoma not yet out of aehool,
ara belng made "drug flenda" through
cheap dance halls and men who haunt
tham felllng cocaine has stlrred the
pollce to a vlforous campaign.
Two men were sentenced ln the munlcl
pal court for aalllng cocaine lllegally
Their arreats were the flrst of a aerlea
whieh tha poliee plau to make.
Infonnation had reached the pollce that
the users of tha drug IMM beeoming
more numerona. Pollce offleers wt-re aent
to mlx wlth those attendlng cheap dames.
It was found that men frequented tha
halls and sold to the dancers a "dash,"
the alang for aa lnjectlon, for price*
raaglng from 16 to 26 cents. The aquad
dlseov?red that many girls at danoea took
the drug for a lark at flrat. and then be?
fore long became conflrmed ueers of
morphlnt or "coke."
John Chambera. twtnty-eight vears old.
of Tremont atrefct, and Davis Hexton, of
No. 22 Fpton street. were the two whom
Judge SulHvan sentenced. Chambera waa
charged wlth having dellvered morphlr.e
to an ageut of the Watch and Ward So
eiety and alao wlth having tha drug ln
his posaeaalon. Me got ten montha. Sex
ton, who says he ia a Bpanlard. was aunt
to the Charles atreet Jall for nlne montha.
Ta?5?IIlEBaZZ'
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SUBWAY AT THE DOOR-ONE BLOCK FROM BROADWAV
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BEGS FOR PRISON
? oatinnrd from flrM vt*
Church of the Preaentatlon, at Eastern
Parkway and Ot Mark's avenue, in the.
h^art of Brownaville section, told a ]
reporter for The Tribune last night
that he had heard Randolph's name
mentioned by the members of a bdya'
chib he has formed, aa a seller.
Father Flynn haa been an ardent
worker against the Insldloua growth of
the cocaine traffic in hia pariah, and hia
campaign haa dleclosed to him that the
agents who promote it have not
scrupled to create a demand for It
among children between thlrteen and
seventeen years old.
"I know of at least 100 children be?
tween thlrteen and seventeen years old,"
said Father Flynn, "who have been
habltual cocaine or heroin users. They
cven rarry it into their schoolrooma,
concealed in hollow penclla and watch
cases. and, in Bome inatancea, in fake
handages which were wrapped around
suppoaed cuts on their flngers."
The clergyman said that he had no
douht whatever but that the coacaine
sellera. eapeclally those who sold the
drng to young girls, were in league
with the agenta of the "white alave"
traffic.
"I know that young girls have been
Btupefled with the drug and then taken
to dlsorderly housea," he said, "and I
belleve that the agents of the 'white
ala\e' traffic are behind the cocaine
trafflC Hanglng is too good for theae
wre'ches. Qod help the poor souls too
weak and the young mlnds too frail te
grasp the terrlble meanlng of thia habit
and its awful conaequences."
Father Flynn has organlied a boys'
club ln his parish on non-dcnomina
tional llnes whlch now has three hun
dred members. Every one of theae
young fellows Is pledged to report to
Fhthcr Flynn cven the most apparently
trlfiing suaplclous clrcumatances which
he observes along the linc of cocaine
selllng.
Priait Finds Boy 8tupefied.
'1 have been able to save young fel?
lows, mere boya, and Bome glrla be
cnuse of the help these reports frou.
my boya gave me," sat<l Father Flynn
"Juat I few nights ago I waa told of a
boy who waa walking along the street
ln a hnlf stupefied condition, and when
I found him he had twelve 'decks' of
< ocalne ln his pockets. I took him to
my own physlclan, as I have taken
twenty i hildren wlthln the last fev
mo ithgj and hr is now under treainient
that will break the hablt."
Cocaine ia being aold in randy atore.
and small frult atores as well aa drurc
atores in the Brownsville section, Fa?
ther Flynn said, and it will take the
most vlgoroua klnd of a campaign to
eradlcate it.
"Probahly the most pltlable fenture
of this despicable traffic is tlie street
seller, who not only supplles the drug
to coiiflrmed users, but slso goes out of
hia t\ay to Induce young people, boys
and girla, to try it. so aa to make th. ?
ooatonaan also," he said. "I have re
c. ived complaints from parents 'hat
their (hildren aeemed to be dull in
their arhool work, and when I would
talk to the tatchatl about the i aaea I
would be told that the teachera had
n.ade up their mlnds that the children
had been kept up late at night, or had
too maiiv dutiea around the home.
"Purther Investigatlon dlacloaed that
these backward children were cocaine
fiends, aad ln avety case i found that
th^ir flr>t acquaintance with the drug
had lumo from a chance encouoter
with one of the street sellera, who had
IndUOad tliem to try lt OOOO.'
"I conpratulat^ The Tribune on its
atand agMnst the growth "f this e\ II,
aiid bofM th< ciargy of aii aaaamina
tlona will take the questlon up and
aram the parents of their rongregations
that they must guard their children
carafulty against it."
Cnther Flynn said that he had re
OOlrod hearty co-operatlon from Deputy
CcmuriaalOOOr Walsh. the head of the
Brooklyn r-ollce. and from his lleuten
ant, McDoiald.
I ?
'COKE' VENDER C0NV1CTED
Oaught After He Had Oauied
Indictment of Another.
John Callinan, a vhtim of the cocaine
hablt, who tas insttumental In obtalnlng
etldaate Of cocaine s'-lling agaliiFt Dft
Abiaham A. I*vy, was convloted of .*>n
attempt to apll cocaine yesterday befor*
Judge O'Sullk-an In (leneral gesaiona. Jle
was remandU untll Monday for aei.ten.e.
Judfe O'Sullhan aald that he hoped thi
law would Mun be amended ao that
uiers of the drug could be dealt with
properly.
"I regret." aald Judge O'Sulllvan. "thut
the law at present ia not framed io that
we can aultably punlah auch men aa >ou
and at th* lame time protect the people
of the atate I truat that th* law *tll
f-oon be amended."
Callinan waa arrested on B*pt*mber A
last ln a bllllard room at No. 2269 8e<ond
avenne with fmr other men. Opium and
cocaine were ftund on the prlsoneis, and
in their search for more of the druga tlie
detectlves who made the rald rlpped off
the baaeboard. Beneath It they found
two revolvers, i aandbag. a stlletto and
more opium.
Callinan was ronvlcted of the sam* of
fence ln 1*10 and tentenced to four months
in the penltentlary. In June, 1J?12, he waa
agaln arrested for havlng cocaine ln his
possesslon. He told James A. Delehanty,
an Aaaistant Diatrlct Aitorney, at that
tlm* that he waa not a "coke ttend" and
that he would break hlmself of the hablt.
He alao offered to glve whst help he
mlght toward the arrest and convlctlon
of cocaine sellera.
With Detectlve Dltseh, of Police Head
quartera. and Inspeetors from the Board
of Health, h* called on Dr. Abraham A.
lArvy and, lt ia alleged, bought a quan
tlty of cocaine frqm Dr. Levy wlthout a
preacrlptlon and gave him marked billa
in payment therefor. Dr. I.?vy 1s now
under indictment. and his caae 'a con
*lderrd by the Diatrlct Attorney to be
the atrongeat that has been prepared
agalnat a vender of cocaine aince the law
was amended.
OEMOCRAT8 LEFT $373 UNSPENT.
Washlngton, Dec. I -The atatement of
recelpts and expendlturea of the Deino
cratk Natlonal Congreas Commlttee
ahowa $12,?45 ln contributlona, nioatly In
small amounta. and a balance on hand of
tm. The Weatern branch ot the com?
mlttee reportcd t2S,2M |n contributlona
aad t2t,Mf iu expendlturea.
COCAINE BROUGHT IN
BY STR1KE BREAKERS
Former Chief City Food Inspector Says Cuban
Negroes Intiroduced the Vice in
New York.
The "coke" habit is the coming evil of
this country, unless strenuous and lmme
dlatc measurefl are taken to suppress it,
accordlng to Bayard C Fuller, who re
tlred a year ago last Juiy as chlef food
Inspector of the clty's Department of
Health, after twenty yeara of eervlce in
that department. For about flve yeara
before hia retlrement. he aald yesterday,
he made relentless war on the cocaine
traffic ln this city, maklng between two
hundred and three hundred arresta ln the
last three years of that period.
"Duiing lhat time," Mr. Fuller contln
ued. "we made more arrests In a month,
on the average. than the pollce did in a
year. The two men who helped me moat
?and too great pralae cannot be be*tow*>d
upon them for their stand in the inatter
-were Maglstrate 'Joe' Corrigan and
Matristrate 'Harry' Stclnert, new a Judge
of Speclal Sesslons.
"The habit flrst got a hold in this <ity
a number of years ago. when thero was
a big strlke on the Ward llne of at. aniers
and the company Imported negroes from
JIavana to take the places of the strlkers.
I wasn't chlef Inspector at that time, and
mv duties used to take me down along
the wharve*. where I would see these hlg
blaek fellows lylng aiound hopelessly un?
der the Influence of the drug.
Negroea tha Diatributare.
"They lntroduced it Into tho negro di?
trlcts In the rlty, and from there It has
spreud to the whltea. There Isn't a tough
negro ln the city who doe?n't use It, and
they are the one* who dlstribute It now.
"The pollce. ln their present 'Ondltlon,
are ab^olutely Ineapable of coplng wlth
the sltuation, no matlt-r ho* BtrtagOllttha
laws. You've got lo und^istand theeefel*
lean to catrh them. They're all jealous
and awapicloiis of one another .< i 4 of
every one else, and thryil triek you to
the laat degree If you don't know l.cw te
handle them.
"Hut, give me fi\e poUcoaata lel me
plek them mvself?and enough mon"; and
111 drive the whole bunch out of th? city
In six montha' time. There nughf tc \v> :\
?peelal sqnad upslgucd to the work. llk?
the gambllng squad It s eaay enoigh to
trace the aellera, If you go abou: tt ln
t!,e right way, and after you'ra sent a
goodly baneh of them to ^tate's prison
you won't flnd them so numerous as they
are now.
"The point i? to get at the sourc* of the
? upply get the mamifseturers and the
wholoaalera. who don't enmply wlth the
provlalotiB of the law. When yo;. get a
man wlth the voke' on him he Is prettv
anxlous to tell where he got It, If bv
doing ? o he wdl eacape alx uionths on the
island A few Judhiously suspended sen
tencra will work wonders In traelng tha
supply to Its souree, and when you get
there?well, than you have It.
Natianal Law Neadad.
? The oidy way to stamp out a habit
Mke thla la to take lt from lta aourre and
trare every blt of the drug mani:factured.
Manufaeturers should be requlred by law
to report every aale they make, and tha
same provlalon ahould apply to whole
salera. Jubbera and retaller*. Then there
?hould be a aaetlon prohlbltlng anv phvt
Iclan from buylng over a eertaln amount
a. month, aay. ar.d forhlddlng a druggtat
GIRL TRAVELS ON WARSHIP
Captain'B Daughter Firit Wom?
an Passenger in 31 Yeari.
| b> Teltaraph to Th* Tr.bune ]
K?n Franclaco, Dec. 5.?Mlas Prls
cllla Elllcott. daughter of Captaln J.
M. Kllleott, convnandlng the armored
cruiser Maryland, is the tirst woman
to be taken a* a pasaenger on an
Aaaertoaa sea-golng war veaael in thlr
ty-one >ears. Mlas Elllcott, who had
been \iaillng bei MBter. the wife of
Dieutenant Ross S Klngabury, of the
marine ? ui i ? . staiioned In Ilonolulu.
has Just made the trlp from that port
to the Puget Sound Navy Vard, at
Hremerton, Wash. To her frlends slvi
sald that she had the time of her
llfe"
For many vears eaptalna in com
mand of navai craft were permltted to
take their wivea and famlllea aa cabln
passengers on their shlpB, and not a
few navy romances were born of tha
practlce.
STEINHARTONJHE STAND
Former Consul Oeneral Defends
Record in Ouba.
T'lank Rtelnhart, formerly Amerlcan
Ceaaal Oeneral ln Havana. and now vlce
presldent and general manager of the Ha?
vana Elei trle Rallway Company, teatl
Hed in hia own hehalf yeatarday ln the
sult whlch llugh Rellly. an Amerlcan
eontractor operatlng ln Cuba, ha* brought
against him ln the flupreme court to re
<o\er Vb.OV) unpald on an optlon valued
at tahfdl by Rellly. whlch waa on a Cu
ban rallroad. and on whieh llo.OOo had
been pald.
The defenee of Stelnhart la that after
he made an Inltial payment he discov
ered that Rellly eould not dellver tha
property. The purchase prlce was to be
tl.MO.OOO. and It waa brought out that
Htelnhait, who had aaked for an exten
alon of the optlon, had reoelved an offer
hlgher than the prlca he waa to pay for
the raJIroad.
Counael for Rellly aaked 8teinhart it
he waa not in bad repute wlth the Amerl?
can fovernment ln charge "f affalra In
cuba at the time under Governor Magoon.
The former conaul Oeneral sald this waa
not so. He also denled that hln relatlona
wlth Governor Magoon were Htrained. The
defendant will testlfy again to-day.
M'KINNEL AT LITTLE THEATRE.
Norman McKlnnel, the Engllsh actor.
will have the openlng perrormance of hia
productlon of "Rutherford and Bon."
whlch Wlnthrop Ames ts presentlng In
thla country, at The Dlttle Theatre on
Monday nlght, Deeember 23. At that time
"Tht 'Affalra' of Anatol" will be taken to
t'hlcago wlth lta caat Intact, except for
Marguertte Clark. who will remain to
appear In the matinee performances ot
". no?* WiiHe and the Beven Dwarts."
Durlng Mr. McKlnnels engagement ln
Uitha Bowerby'a play he will be aupport
ed by a cast of Bngllah actors, Includ
lng Kdyth Ollve, Agnes Thomaa. Thryxa
Moma. Marle Ault, J. V. Bryant, L. O.
Carroll and J. Cooke Bereaford.
NEW8PAPER8 WILL BE COMBINED
Trenton, N. J-. Dec. 6.- "The Trenton
Fvenlng Tlmea." an Independent newa
paper, anuouncea to-day that lt has ac
qulred control of "The Trenton 8unday
Advertlser," the only Runday paper ln
this elty. Th? two newapaper plants will
be comblned on January L
from selling without the written ordcr of
a reglstcred physlclan.
"Thla last ia a very important polnt,
baaaaaa now you, or any one, can go into
almost any drug atore, wrlte out a pre
B.ription containing cocaine, slgn your
aelf a doctor, and they'll hand you out
the stuff. No attempt is made to see
whether the name slgned ls actually that
of a regiatered phyaiclan or if the peraon
algnlng It is whnt he pretenda to be.
"The drugglsts ask how they are tO
know whether the self-styled doctor may
not be duly rejrlMered in Jereey, or some
other state. The anawer is, don't aell
unleaa he Is reglBtered In New York. If
any one wants to boy cocaine ln New
York let him get a preacrlptlon from a
New York doctor. Then requlre him to
have a eertiflcate atatlnsr all the facta of
the Bale and good for only twenty-four or
forty-elght hours. If you catch a man
then who hasn't a eertiflcate, or whose
eertiflcate is a llttle out of date, you
know that you have some one who 1?
breaklng the law."
The satne ldea was expounded by Dr.
Ira 8. Wlle, edltor of "The Medlcal Re
vlew of Revlewg." Dr. Wlie went further,
however, and emphafllsed the need of a
fOdoral biar to keep an arcurate re^ord of
all the cocaine manufto tured ln thla coun?
try and imported.
Spreads Other Vicet.
OeaalM was a natfonal. not local. dan
ger, Dr. Wile polntcd out. and It waa
roii p.irniively uaeleas to attack it? dia
trlhiitlon through Mate lawa, unless there
wer* some aftective means of preventlng
it from comlng In from other statea. He
ref-alled how the traffic in noBtrums,
larjrely rrnponslble for the apread of the
coeatae bahtt, bad boaa eortalled rfflcient
ly by the natlonnl pure drug lnw, nnd said
that If Chlaa could throw off the hold
whl<h opium had on ita people hy na
llonal legislatlon. there was no reason
why the 1'nlted State* should not throw
off the yoke of the cocaine hablt by the
?mc means.
Dr. Wlle's plan was to have every tran
f <- of the driig. frata manafacturer to re
tatler, duly regiatered with some federal
authorlty and at the end of the year
have a gOaeral halan^tn* of all sales to
niake aure that there waa no auspinou*
lors or gain In the distrtbutlon. ln this
way. he felt BUre, any Inordlnate buying
by a sln&le houae, elther from one or
from a numher of whniesalera, could he
laefcad Into and properly prosec ited if It
violated the law.
"80cb a eyeteea," reatarhad L?r. Wtla,
"whlle It might repr<?serit a ? ?onslderahle
Oatlay fof the f!r?t few years, would be
an ineBtlmable aavlng to the natton In th*
lotig run. The cocaine hablt 1a not an
evll apart. It ll an adjunet to proHtlfi
tlon, to alcohollarr, to crlme of every
sort. Any ayatem which tended to lemen
It would soon prove its worth a hundred
tlmea over in le*a?nlng these draln? upon
soclety.
"The money such a aystem would rost
would be more thnn recovered in the pro
tection and reform of tlie people wliom we
are now letting go to the devil. It Ia poor
economy to attempt to cure when the
dlsease whlch demands the iur* can be
prevented."
J. P. Manning Sues After Dish
Throwing Episode at Hotel.
BOWNE DODGES CHINA
Husband of Woman Who Fled
with Jordan L. Mott, 3d,
Was Made Target.
Paaan in a euit for absolute dhorce
hav* been filed by John Pearee Manning,
a broker. llviriK In Fluahing, against
Adele Taylor Manning, daughter of .lohn
H. Taylor, of the hotel flrm of William
Taylor A Son*. lt waa only a few months
ago that Manning walked Into the Mar?
tlnlque, nnd flndlng hia wlfe with Walter
Powne, whose own actress wlfe left hhn
in May to go to '"hina with Jordan Law
renc? Mott, 3d. promptly threw a ehioa
dlsh at'Uowne. Tlie actlon la brought on
?tatatOry grounde, but the corespondent Ia
| not naiiied.
, Far ataae time. theie has b?en frictlon
tn tlie Manning houxehold, and ir >vas
Stafd Ihree or foaf weeks ago that a
aeparat.on had taken ptaCa, although no
legal steps had been taken. Frlends of
the Mannlngs hoped to reconclle them.
Mra. Manning la thlrty-one years old,
her hiiNband four yeara older. They were
marrled nve years ago. and hav* a son
about two yeara old.
The trouble evldently tame to a head
with the incident at the Martlnlque. Man?
ning walked Into the grlllroorn nnd found
his wlfe with Powne. TIiIb was only a
ahort time tfter Frances Hewitt and Jor?
dan Mott left the clty on the frelghter
Indradeo for the Orl*nt, to be followed In
hot hast* by Hector Kuller, a war corre
apondent, who, aj told ln the pap?ra of a
day or so ago, could do nothlng to break
the hond between the sclon of the Iron
maater and the ersitwhlle Mrs. Rowne
Everybody felt sorry for Bowne after his
wlfe deserted him; he was a flgure of
plty to many.
Thla aympathy for the man. however.
did not linger ln Manning'a heart. He
pltched the dleh with the fadeaway of a
Mathewson. Bowne aturted up and wait- I
era aeparated the two. Manning wjs ar?
rested and flned $10 in night court under
the name of John Maaon. Mrs. Manning ,
aald ahe had been in the hotel to tele
phone. Charles F.elgh Taylor, who man
ages the Martlnlque for William Taylor A
Hona. la her uncl*. Her wealthy father Is
the son of th* original William Taylor
who once owned the St. Denl* ln Its
famous dayi. She was one of the moat
popular aoelety women of the Flushlng
section.
Notorlety at the time of the fracas was
avoided both by the princlpals and the
management of the hotel. but the paperB
flled yesterday before Juatlce Jaycox ln
the Bupreme Court at Dong laland Clty
are evldenee that the Mannlngs were at
odds even then.
David H. Taylor, counael foj Manning,
and Thotnas Kaston, counael for Mrs.
Manning. Jolned ln an appllcatlon to Jua?
tlce Jaycox for the appolntment of a
referee and for the aeallng of the papora
In the casc. The court named Eugene M. j
L, Young aa referee. |
BLEASE ORIVES
f ontlaued from flrat nage.
proper amendment ln place of this, glv
Ing Congress power to lay an ineome tax,
but not on incomes "from whatever
source derived." i
.\lr. Wlllaon offered further critlcism
of the proposed amendment as not re
riulrlng apportionment or unlformity,
and aa such "opposed to the preaent
princlple of the Constltutlon, whlch re
qulres that in every Instance a federal
tax ahall be controlled elther by the
rule of apportionment or the rule of
unlformity."
In his paper on dlvorce laws, Gov?
ernor Oddie maintained that Xevada.
In a great majority of instances, had
performed a signal duty for human
hnppiness and publlc morals by n.aking
dlvorce easy. A great proportlon of the
dlvorce colony at Reno, he contended,
came from four or flve Atlantic statea
where divorce laws were antique and
barah. Governor Oddle favorcd a uni
form state law.
m
WOMAN JVARNIS NATION
Tells Legislatire League We're
on Road to Extinction.
Dr. Mary Halton sounds a warnlng to
the natlon. "We are on the road to ex?
tinction," she aaya. "We will go the way
other natlona have gone unless we mend
our ways. Greece and Rome perlshed be
causo tbelr people degenerated. There are
.V>?,00n Imberiles In Amerlca to-day; 60
per eent of our people dle before they are
twantj -three years old. We Jon't know
whether it Is the good or the had half.
We must right through sclenee the wronga
we have permltted aoolcty to eommit."
All this waa by way of Introductlon to
a talk on eugenira glv?n before the
I/eglKlativ f/eague at the Waldorf-Aa
toria yesterday afternoon. in the course
of whlch th^ speaker said the federal
government must be made to feel lta re
sponslbilltv for the increasa of erlminals
and feehlr-mlnded.
in the olden countrles," sne eontlnued,
"the wcak were dlsposed of. Many more
people?crlmlnals-were kllled ln thoaa
days, and those who weren't kllled wero
tortnred so that they dled. We only put
our crlmlnals ln prtaon, and after a
whlle let them out again, to injure the
race some more.
"Now, I don't aag w-e have too much
delkate feellng these days. I'm proud of
the little real humanitarlanlsm we have,
and I hope weil get more. It'e only that
we muat flnd some way of che<-klng thla
evil whieh has been allowed to flourlsh
In our mldst"
[>r. Baiah fcfcMuti urged a federal !aw
for eugenles, and acouted the race sulclde
theory of a certaln ex-Prealdent.
"It Is a crlm* to allow an unthinklng
man to ralse as large a family as he
llkes," she aald.
JXJDGES SON UNDER ARREST
Samuel T. Maddox, Jr? Counters with
Assault Oharga.
Samual T. Maddox, Jr., son of Suprem?
Court Justiee Maddox, was locked up in
Brooklyn last nlght on the charge of dls
orderly conduct and intoxlcatlon. He and
Patrolman Lawrence O'Brien, of tha
Classon Avenue precinct. are aaid to have
had a dlapute near Borough Hall and
then a right. O'Brien waa in platn clothas
and off duty.
Maddox, when taken to the Qates ave?
nue station, had a cut chin and Up. He
preferred a charge of assault against
O'Brien. He aald he was a lawyer, thlr
ty-three years old, ltvlng at No. 41* Leirta
avenue, Brooklyn.
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