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WITCHEL LASHES
PROPOSED CITY
HOME RULE PLAN
Mayor Calls Convention
Committee's Idea Ludi?
crous and Unscientific.
ASSERTS IT WOULD
HAMPER, NOT HELP
New York Executive Tells Mu
nicipal Officials People Must
Make Demands Now.
illy TVi-trapti te T
Buffalo, Aug. 5. Di daring t> at the
time had come for plain speaking.
Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. of New
York, severely criticised before the
Kotary Club here to-day the measure
of home rule reported by the Cities
Committee of the Constitutional Con?
vention. He declaied the Cities? Com?
mittee was .?till trifling with the whole
cuesti?n of home rule, without any
?'.raightforw ? ? -. ?? it.
"This morning a proposed amend
ment was introduced by the
Committee." said Mayor Mitchel, "oo
ludicrous in its contradietiona, so ro
actionary in its praviolons and so un?
scientific in it? structure (hat its en
nctment into law as a part of a new
constitution would leov? the cities
with no more home ruie than they
have to-day, and would throw into
confusion the entire conduct of mu?
nicipal government throughout this
?tato." ,.
The Rotarv Club meeting was held
to start a state-wide campaign for a
larger measure of home rule for cities
that has yet been proposed. Many
members of the Buffalo Cnamter of
Commerce otteoded and repr?senta
uves of the municipal governments of
other cities in the state were present.
"People Cannot Be Deluded."
"The great danger to the cause of
genuine home rule." suid the Mayor,
"lies in a reservation to the Legis?
lature of the power to enact general
. \ laws. The committee and the
convention should elearl) understand
that the people of the cities of this
state cannot be deluded by a pioposal
which, by the use of certain alluring
phrases in a context of ambiguity ami
uncertainty, give? th.- constitutional
?Mogates a pretext for declaring that
they have granted a considerable
measure of home rule when, in foct,
they have not done so.
"if the people of our cities really
want home rub- they must make their
demand? heard now or forego the op?
portunity for twenty years."
Mayor Mitchel presented a sarcastic
analysis of the Philippin?
|,.me rule propose'! by the I
Committe?.
"This Indian gift, this raptured
colony-Philippinc-proposal of the
? - Committee." said the Mayor,
"is worse than no home rule amend?
ment at all. Such additional powers
;. are granted are certainly of negli
| ble importance, are hamper? id by
c imbrous machinery, and at best are
Burrounded by doubt and uncertainty!
dependent on litigation and judicial
decision for interpretotion of the ap?
parent gnu.t."
\dvocatc?. Mayor's Plan.
As a substitute for this plan, Mayor
Mitchel advocated that proposed by
recent conference of mayor.? of
Itote, which, he said, would Ojiva
oll the cities the power they should
h,i4e 10 administer their "wn affairs.
< ontinuing, he said:
"\N> want home rule, not because
of irritation with unfriendly legis
1. ture?, not because of a sentimental
MtrcB i
a
KN??
?;? ??rp to call ourselves autonomous, I
but hecau?e we have suffered materi?
ally, substantially, through the lack
of it. I dare say there i? not a single |
cttf but can pent to in?tance after
instance of needed legislation denied
?ither through indiff?rence, partisan?
ship or neglect, and to an many more
Interfering laws framed without
knowledge of the local situation or
burdening the people by undue and
unneceMsri expenditure.
"Fach city can best recite to the
i<<nvenlion its own storv. You know
yours in Buffalo. We know ours in
Neo York, and it would be a long re?
cital if I undertook to give you in?
stances in which the Legislature has
burdened our taxpayer? with unneces?
sary expense, ha? interfered in the
conduct of our local government? or
has denied 0? the necessnry construc?
tive measures that would have per?
mitted economy and enabled us to
make more efficient the services that
th>- government undertakes to render
to the people."
STRIKE VOTEFAILS
IN GAMBLING RAID
"Coat Makers" Were Fol?
lowing Horses Instead
? T Seams, Police Say.
Forty men whose puipose of betting
on the races was cravenetted over by
the title of "The Raincoat Makers'
1'nion" were arrested in a furnished
room of n house in West Twenty-fifth
Street last night, while, according to
them, they were debating on a strike.
According to Detective (?'Connor, how?
ever, the discussion of labor problem?
red chiefly in shouts of "Ten on
White Hackle to win" and "Five on
Cabaret for place." Two racing charts
were confiscated by the police, who raid?
ed the meeting.
O'Connor'? attention was first at?
tracted to the house bv the number of
well dre.?.?vd men who disappeared
through its doors. He asked the land
lady, and was informed thi\t the Rain?
coat Makers' Union was holding a
meeting.
The sounds which issued from the
apartment were not of the kind usu?
ally associated with the councils of
downtrodden sons of toil. The de?
tective then called up the police.
A few minutes later, with Sergeant
Butler and four other plain clothes men
ol inspector Morris'? staff, O'Connor
again entered the building.
Oil a table in the centre of the room
were spread charts of the Saratoga ami
Canada tracks. Most of the would-be
striker? were bending over these when
the police entered. When they saw who
the intruders were the charts vanished
arid one man lifted his voice.
"Since it has been put to a vote," he
remarked loudly, "we will strike on
next Tuesday. The gn-ed of capital
can be endured no longer."
"We will strike now." O'Connor in?
formel him. "Go stand up against that
wall, all of you."
They were transported to night court.
where Magistrat?- Deuel said that he
was obliged t<- discharge them all ho?
of lack of evidence.
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AXES FREE WOMAN'S
BODY; KILLED ON V
Scare in Train While Crowd
Blocks Structure Exits?Fire?
men Chop Platform.
Fifteen patrolmen and a crew of
firemen from Hook snd Ladder Com?
pany 2?! were needed to free the body
of Mrs. Mar'ana Terna, who was
crushed to death yesterday by an ele?
vated train at the lltith Street station
of the Third Avenue line. Women on
the tram became hysterical when Mrs.
Pi ma fell between one of the cars and
the platform.
Crowds on the street heard the wom?
an's screams and blocked the exits. A
?II brought fifteen police reserve-.
All efforts to free Mrs. Perna'a body
failed until the firemen arrived. They
i had to chop away part of the platform.
.lames Grady, motorman, and John
Drum, conductor, were taken to the po?
lice station.
Witness?! said the train started as
Mrs. Perna was leaving.
Tortoise Rims for Sing Sing.
Ossining, N. Y.. Aug. 6. The con
in Sing Sing prison have taken
to wearing tortoise shell glasses of the
latest style. Two of them were caught
: ? ,i b) ? large O.ssining crowd a? they
leaning the streets and gutters
? nt to the prison. It was later
discovered that the two convicts have
literary inclinations.
Increased Renting
Efficiency
Property electrically equipped will
rent more quickly and at better
prices
Vacant buildings are usually with?
out electric light or power
Wires and hxturcs can be installed
without injury to walla or ceilings
The New York Edison Company
At Your Service
General Office?: Irving Place and 15th Street
Telephone : Stuy vessnt 5600
Branch Office Show Rooms for the Convenience of the Public
424 Broadway Spring WO
120 Delancey St Orchard 1*?60
It Irving PI Stuyvesant 5600
?124 W 42d St
?151 | 86th St
*27 E 125th St
Bryant 5262
Lenox 7780
Harlem 4020
?362 E 149th Street Melrose 3340
?Open Until Midnight
Night and Emergency Call : Madison Square 6001
CITY HOME RULE
PLAN ASSAILED
AS FARCICAL
_?
I ow Amendment, Offered
in Convention, De?
nounced on All Sides.
SAY IT NARROWS
LOCAL CONTROL
Minority Report Declares It Is
Confusing. Illogical and
Gives No Relief.
I "in ? Staff ?' rt'?i?'i ,k',' of 11M I -
Albany, Aug. 5. The home rule for]
cities amendment, reported to the l
Constitutional Convention yesterday
by the Committee on Cities, ?a? at?
tacked on all sides to day as being ev ?
crything fxcept what its name implied.
The Citizen: Union, the Municipal
Government Association and Constitu?
tional Convention delegate? branded
the amendment as illogical, unscien?
tific and farcical.
Senator James A. Koley nnd Edward
E. Franchot filed a minority report at?
tacking the amendmont. Seth Low,
chairman of the Citie?. Committee,
whose ideas largely are represented in
the amendment, rushed to its defrner.
Mr. Low declared the minority report
signers had not offered anything in the
way of a substitute. The reply was
th-it Mr. Lo4v had requested the minor
it> not to offer any substitute.
"The amendment narrows instead of
widening the local control now enjoyed
by municipalities," says the minority
report, which also declsro? that the
Low amendment does not give any ex?
clusive grant of power to cities except
in a few minor matters.
It says the language of the grant is
calculated to breed hopeless doubt, un?
certainty and confusion, with the re- ,
suit that tho courts will have to de?
termine the respective powers of the
cities and the State in several respects
if the amendment is enacted into law.
Says It b a Compromise.
"It is obvious that the proposal of ,
th? .-omniittee is a result of compro
mise." the minority report reads. "We
are forced to disagree only because
the composite result seems to us to
violate the fundamental principles that
must govern, any measure designed to
Beet the widespread demand from the
citie? of the -tat?, and espeeially from
the city of Ne** York for increased
powci 'f ?elf-government. This de?
mand i? based upon two principal
causes of complaint interference?
with local at'iair.? bv the Legislature
and inadequate power over matters of
city concern, even the most minute.
"The relief demanded hit.? been
grouped concisely under two heads:
First, power; second, protection. A
proper proposal for home role should,
in our judgment, contain the following
essentials, for which we have consist -
curly contended:
"Fust A broad grant to eJti?
power, exclusive in substance SI well
as in form, to regulate their local af?
fairs, coupled with a prohibition
against special legislation by the state
with respect thereto.
"Second The preservation of state
sovereignty over cities through legis?
lative control exercised by general
laws.
"Third The expression of the grant
of power in simple, direct and specific
language so as to avoid confusion and
endless litigation in defining state and
City powers and the manner of their
exercise.
"Fourth The right of each 'city at
its option to continue as a legislative
charter city or become a home rule
city."
Confusing, Is Charge.
The report ?leclates further that the
only actual exclusive grant given to
the cities by the Low amendment is
the determination of the qualifications,
mode of selection, terms of office, com?
pensation and m?-tho?l of removal of
officers and employes.
"If this is the extent to which home
rule is to be granted, the constitution
should so state simply and directly,"
it continues.
"In sum, the proposal begins with
, a promise to complete home rule to
cities, but one reaches the end only to
discover that it ir but a declaration of
; principles and that the limitations sub.
sequently imposed effectively destroy
the first impression and promise. If
adopted it will tend to throw into con
: fusion for the next ten years the exer
! eise of power by city government
' throughout the state. Such a measure
1 does not confer genuine home rule,
does not eliminate mandatory legisla?
tion affecting cite?, narrows instead of
widens the present sphere of local con?
trol of municipalities."
W. K. Youker, secretary of the Citi?
zens' Union, said:
"It is evident the proposal does not
furnish an adequate measure for home
rule. It provides a home rule pro?
cedure both difficult and obstructive.
It retains the evil of control bv the
Legislators with the resulting destruc?
tivo political effects which horn,- rule
advocates sought to eliminate
Divides; Responsibility.
"Responsibility for local legislative
enactments in split up between the
Board of Aldermen, Board of Kstimate
and Apportionment, the Mayor anil the
Legislature a scheme pernicious in
the extreme to good government. !?
scarcely conceivable that the 70 per
cent of the people in the state who
Ihre in -itu-s will accept any such cum?
bersome and unworkable home rale
proposal."
The convention advanced to the ortler
of Imal passage the Finance Commit?
tee' bond and sinking fund proposal,
which' its sponsors say will save the ?
state between $50,000,000 and $S"
000 within the next fifty year?. In it
provision would be made for the sub?
stitution of -eiia! for long term bond?,
and future payments to sinking funds
created to amortize present outstand?
ing bonds would be apportioned to pre?
vent the accumulation of a large
surplus. .
The only amendment of any conse?
quence added to the proposal \?u?
?uggeated by Louis Marshall It :.? In?
tended to make certain that the %'21,
000,000 for completing the barge canal
will be raised by serial bonds if the .
issue is authorized at a referendum
next November.
Opposes Budget Plan.
Contending that a budget originating
with the Governor wouid take control '?
of the state's money from the people
Senator Robert F. Wagner submitted
a minority it-port opposing the pro?
posal recommended by the majority
members of the Finance Committee j
yesterday. He declared that the power
of originating appropriations should
be lodged with the Legislature.
Believing ., i .-rake was made yester?
day by advancing to the order of final
passage the proposal giving legislator.?
$2,600 a year instead of $1,500 as at
present, former I'nited Stntes Attorney
General Wu-kersham moved to-da> to
reconsider the vote. The motion was
defeated bv a vot* of 1?0 to 38.
Wife Drubs Maid Who Helped
Husband Take Off His Shoes
_______ ?
Pretty Josephine's Boast That She Recognized Bernard
Bernardini, Banker, as Only "Boss" in House
Caused Spouse to Lose Temper.
If Mrs Mary Jlernardini. wife of a
wealthy Italian, ha.ln't pulled the hail
of her maid and pummelled her, Stater
I hind would not have been shocked
yesterday to learji how the maid "a?
sisted" Mr. H<rnar?!ini when he ram?
home at niifht.
lb maul Hernardini is a banker, with
office.? at M Mulberry Street. When
he isn't at his office he may he found
occupying half of the forty-one rooms
if hi? mansion on Hope Avenue, Fort
Wailsworth. Staten Island. Hi? wife
occupies the other hnlf.
The maid's name is .Josephine Sizoh.
She is tw-enty-four years old and has
long, brown hair. Josephine was en?
gaged by Mr. Hernardini eleven months
? go. On Saturday appeared the first
cloud on her hopplneoo.
Josephine was woohing clothe? in
the bathroom when Mrs. Hernardini
entered. Her mistress rushed up to
her and seized her hair. When she
got tired of pulling she used her fists
and then scratched the maid's eye?.
Finally Mrs. Hernardini succeeded in
,-hoving the girl from the room and
drugged her to the porch, where she
told Josephine to consider herself
tire.I.
"What for?" cried the maid.
"Heciuise you told the cook that you
only recognized Mr. Hernardini a? th?
ho??. Now, who'? th?- boas aroum
here?"
Josephine, accompanied by Mr. Ber
nardini, lmlge.l a complaint again?.'
Mr?. Hernardini on Monday. Wher
the latter appeared in court at. New
Hrighton. Slnt?n Islood, yesterday
Magistrate Joseph l>. Handy held het
in $M00 hail, on a charge of assault
!?i the thir.l degree. Her trial will
take place in Special Session? at St.
Georg?-.
Mrs. Hernardini admitted that she
lost her temper. She claimed that
l?jie ordered the maid to leave the
house and she refused to do ?o. She
si'id she had overheard a conver?a
! tion between Josephine and thi cook
in which the former boasted that Ber
nnrdini was bo?s of the house an?l
that she wouldn't leave for Mr? Ber
i.nrdini under any circumstance'.
Jotephine was then cross-examined
a? to her duties as maid. Among
other thing? the maid ?aid it was her
duty to a??i?t Mr. Hernardini to take
off hi? ?hoes, stockings and trousers
when he came home at night. She
also nttendeil to his night clothes and
?aw to it that his bed was made com?
fortable for him.
When Hernardini married in 1R8?5
he 4VBs a poor man. When he became
rich he treated his wife with disdain,
?he charged in a suit for a ?epnrntion
which she brought in 1'JlO. The Ber
i nordinis have tive children.
AGREE TO BACK
U. S. IN MEXICO
_
< ?>ntliiii??l fri?n pnce I
power to create a favorable impression
on th? State Department Ho prompt?
ly complied with the demand of the
Brasil Ian Minister, acting on behalf of
this government, that Americans in
Mexico City should not be obliged to
surrender their arm?, in accordance
with the order ol General Gomales,
?in.! i? attempting to rush food sup?
plies into the capital, us requested by
the I'nited States. His announcement
thai he will move his capital from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City >*?? i t h in thirty days
is accepted with reservations. Officials I
de not believe he will trust himself!
in that locality for some time.
The COnventionial agency here denied
strenuously that Villa has quit or has i
any idea of doing so. They as.-ert that'
the Villa flying column has had no im ?
portant engagements and is operating
intact m the states of Quert taro and .
Vom Cruz. The object of this column
not, they say. to engogi the enemy,
but to isolate General Obrogon from
In.? base.
Telegrams'to the Carranza Agency'
say General (?breg?n is at Tampicoond
ha? been tn wireless communication '
with Carranza. He is operating against ?
JToi hop It is rumored here that <>hre
gon is planning to replace General Gon- i
zales in command at Mexico City.
Two more batteries of !:<?!?! artillery
were ordered to the Mexican border to?
day, the War Deportment announced.
They at? being .-'tit to Nogales. Ariz.,
a' the request of General Paneton,
The reason ascribed i? tear of an at- i
taik on Nogales, Mex., by Carransiata
forces under General (alies. The Vil?
lista garrison at Nogales ha.? four field
pieces, and General Calles boa also a
betten of guns, while up to this time
there has been no American artillery
at that point.
One of the batteries sent to Nogales
is Battery I? of the 6th Picld Artillery,
at Fort Riley, Kansas. The other has
been ordered from the garrison at
Douglas, Ariz. Battery A of the 5th
J- leid Artillery, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
was orderered to El Poso yesterday, ail
theroqiesl of the: t?te Department. A
dispatch to the War Department said
! the battery had started to-night on a
I ?.?al train.
Villa, Defiant, Declares
He Will Fight On
111? T, ;.'g:ap!. la Thr Tnl.iii,? |
Juarez. Aug. '?? "I am not getting
rood) to quit fighting. 1 am preparing
to keep on fighting, and to tight harder
than '-ver before."
This was the answer given by Gen?
eral Villa to-day to frii-nds who told
him of reports in circulation that he
WOS expected to join Mrs. Villa in the
Tinted Stut
Villa is detian;. His agents were
active to-day in ge*ting ammunition to
Juarez. In addition to 246,008 poundo
just received through the I'nited States
custom house Villa agents purchased
nil available ammunition they couid
find on the American side. In two ?lay?
Villa has received nearly 1,000,000
i rounds of ammunition.
"They think 1 am whipped," the gen?
eral exclaimed to friends. "The star
of Pancho Villa has not yet set. 1
have no idea of being coerced or driven
I into uban.loning the campaign. If nec?
essary I will return to my mountains
and light, as 1 fought for twenty years,
until I can, gather another army and
take up the fight with a strong fore?
again."
Villa soldiers railled the Chinese
market gardens near Juarez to-day,
forced the Chinese to dig up their hid?
den money and took most of them into
Juores to force more money from them.
Several of them were beaten by the
Soldi? rs an?', "ii" was dragged to the
river and thrown in.
Argentine Press Favors
Co-operation on Mexico
Buenos Ayres. Aug. 5. Newspapers
of Buenos Ayres express in principle
their acceptance of the appeal of the ?
Stales lor the co-operation of
,. Bl ' \, Chili. Bolivia, t'ru
guu> and Guatemala in the pacification |
of Mexico.
"I.a Piensa." however, while prais?
ing this proposal as generous, ex
presses the opinion that the mediation
of the I'nited States would be ;?refer
uble, unies.? tiie warring factions in
Mexico should specifically desire the
moral help of the Latin-American re?
public?.
Zapata Force Beaten
by Carranza Troops
Galveston. Aug I. Zapata forces
south of Mexico City have ?.uffered an- '?
other defeat by Carranza troops under
Get.era! CoiO, according to a cable mes- '
?age from Vet? Cru;: to tht Carranza
consulate here t ?-day. General Coss ;
states that 'he a-ater supply for the
-capita! has been restored to normal
and that the works are strongly guard?
ed.
General Obregon reports the occupa?
tion by his troop? of rreaoiUe and the
continuation of successful operations !
- the Villa forces to the north. ,
The Carranza government has mad?
?arge pure!,.. '-als in the coun?
try cooquered bj Obrogon, and much
of the food will be I Bl to Mexico City.
Vera Cruz reports that 1,000 tons of,
foodstuffs left that place to-day for:
the capita!
It i? reported that 10,000 men have ?
been employed on public wink? in Mex-i
icu City. I
! RILEY MAY GIVE
OSBORNE REPRIEVE
< nntlnii?-?' from |>a?e I
i additional letters a? he desire? to
write.
"The prisoners were locked in their
cells after religious service on Sunday
morning until the following Monday
morning without food other than bread
taken to their cells on their way from
church service. They now have a regu?
lar Sunday dinner. Their daily ?up- '
per, consisting of bread, with tea or
coffee poi;red into a cup through a1
hole in the cell ?loors, was al.io eaten in
their cells. They now have a regular
supper in the mess hall.
"Prisoners have shown their appre?
ciation of these privileges by better ob?
servance of the regulations, netter work
in the shops, and better conduct gen?
erally. The maintenance of discipline
in Great Meadow, Sing Sing and Au?
burn hi,s POON made comparatively easy
by the transfer of defectives and in?
corrigibles to Clinton prison. The re?
sult of extending these privileges has
been mo?t beneficial.
"The number of cases requiring pun
ishmi'rit for violation of prison rules
has greatly decreased; in fact, the'
maintenance of order and discipline
among the inmates has become a com?
paratively simple matter."
"Wh-n I appointed Mr. Osborne
warden of Sing Sing he proposed to
organize a syst"m of -elf-government
among the inmates. He has had my
cordial co-operation in the under',ik?
ing. He had previously given the sub?
ject study at Auburn prison. If the
plan wai to neeeed I felt that he must
rave a free hand in its execution."
Mr. Riley ?ai'l that when Governor
Whitman makes his visit to the Catho?
lic Summer School Monday he will run
up to Clinton Prison. The Superin?
tendent declined to comment on condi?
tion? at Sing Sing, or to say whether
he regarded Mr. Oshorne's plan for
self-government as successful. Be
would not t.ilk about his plans for the
future of Sing Sing.
A lively session is expected in Os
| sining police court to-day between P.
J. Melionulil, agent of Superintemlent
Rilry.and Warden Osborne.
McDonald, who is accused of strik?
ing the warden, will demand a trial
by jury, according to reports. The
strong anti-Oshorne feeling in Ossin
; ing. will re prison uplift is unpopular,
will make it difficult, many believe, to
, get a jury that is not prejudiced
again.?t the warden.
Some of the inside secrets of the
prison department are likely to come
j out in the wash.
LITTLE WOMAN GETS
BIG MAN FUGITIVE
Drags Him to Police on Swin?
dling Charge After Chasing
Him from Chicago.
The sergeant in the Fifth Street
police station had a real surprise last
night when ? ?mall but very deter
, m'ned woman marched up to his desk.
"There, this is where you belong. I
gu? ss you'll behave now." she an?
nounced to a man who shuffled in after
hei. He was a large man, but a very
dejected one. His captor explained to
the sergeant that ?he had brought him
single handed from hi- home at 153'4j
Stanton Street.
The woman ?aid she was Mrs. Rose
Mastrofaky, of 87J Xorth 4'lark Street,
Chicago, and that she had followed her
! prisoner, Benjamin Bealek, from that
city, where he was a fugitive from jus?
tice. Mrs. Mastrofsky claimed that
Bealek rented a house from her in Chi
ras*S and tried to ?ell it She had him
arrested, but hi? friends and family
pleaded so hard with her that she
finally furnished $2.000 bail for him.
When the cnse came up for trial
Bealek ivas not to be fourni.
Scorning the assistance of detectives,
the woman said she trailed Bealek
through ?everal cities and Anally landed
him at hi? New York home last night.
He will probably be extradited.
TIRE BLOWOUT HURTS 5
Family of George Hellman, 5th
Ave. Art Man, in Accident.
An automobile owned by George Hell
man, an art dealer at MA Fifth Avenue,
a .'jiiimer resident of Hartsdale, N Y.,
crashed ?gainst a telegraph pole in
Hartsdale yesterday afternoon, hurt?
ing .,?1 live of the occupants.
Mrs. Hellman sustained a broken
head; her son, twelve years old. sus?
tained a fractured leg; her six-year-old
daughter ar.d the maid, Emily Herisky,
were badly cut, and the chauffeur,
James Cush, escaped wit.i minor
bruises.
The Hellmars occupy the N'orman
Peck home, in Sprain Koad. They were
returning from the Hartsdale ?tation
when t.-e accident happened. The ma?
chine reached the intersection of Harts?
dale Road ?ind Central Avenue when
a tire blew out. It was -sent crashing
into a telegraph pole, and all of the
party were scattered about.
Guchkoff Russian Arras Chief.
Petrograd, Aug. 6.--Alexander J.
G.i'-hkorT, ex-President of the Duma and
recently head of the Russian Red Cross
work in Poland, is sa,i to have been
selected as Chief of the Munitions
Bureau, a post corresponding to that
held by Lloyd George in Great Brit?
ain. M. Guchkoff strongly urges that
dictatorial powers be given to ?uch
?n official.
HAYTI REBELS
TO YIELD; PEACE
NEAR, IS BELIEF
Gen. Bobo's Army March?
ing to Port-au-Prince
to Lay Down Arms.
GETS A WARNING
FROA1 U. S. GUNBOAT
Rear Admiral Caperton's Dis?
patches Indicate Pacification
of Island Is in Sight.
I from Th? Trlliii:.' Bur??u.]
Washington, Aug. 5. Thojpacification
of Ilayti is in sight, according to dis?
patches from Rear Admiral Caperton
to the Navy Department to-day. Gen?
eral Blot i? reported to have escaped
to Santo Domingo and General Hobo
is marching from Cape Haytien to Port
au-Prince to lay down his arms.
General Bobo is ?aid to have met
j with no resistance recently, which in
? dieate.1 that the northern parts ?if the
! republic are peaceful. He i? expected
to reach Port-r.u-Prince with his army
I in about, six days.
Hobo's pacific action followed his
hostil ' attempt yesterday against Cape
Havtien, which was repelled by a few
I shots from the six-pounder? of the
I'nited States Coast Survey yatch
Kagle. The commander of the gunboat
Nashville warned Hobo against a repe?
tition of the attack.
Disturbances, it is reported, continue
along the southern coa?t. The Haytien
Committee of Public Safety tele?
graphed to the authoritie? at the ?cene
of the outbreak? that order must be
preserved, and Admiral Caperton be?
lieves the older will be respected.
It is expected the American forces,
numbering 2,000 men, will be kept in
Hayti until a stable government has
been formed and treaties negotiated
with the I'nited States guaranteeing
the peace of the island.
Port-au-Prince, Aug. 5. The Amer?
ican forces from the battleship Con?
necticut have occupied, without strik?
ing a bloiv, the national fort which
dominates the town. A proclamation
has been posted in all quarters, signed
by the president of the revolutionary
committee, protesting against the mis?
use of force against a friendly people.
The American marine.? who landed
last night had by this morning com?
pleted the occupation of the city.
The people of Port-au-Prince believe
the American occupation will be of long
duration. The marines are observing
a correct attitude, which is creating a
good impression.
The National Assembly is awaiting
the decision of Bobo, whose revolu
tienary forces drove out the last gov?
ernment under the late President Guil?
laume, as to whether he desires to be
elected to the Presidency.
BABY LEFT TO HER
AS FRIEND FLEES
Bronx Woman Sees Mysterious
Quarrel Between Companion
and Stranger.
Mrs. Mary Connors, of Mf East
184tfa Street, and Mrs. Julia Wild, B
young widow-, whose address Mrs. Con?
nors does not know, took Mr.? Wild'
fourteen months old son, Kdward, to
visit his grandaunt at 139th Street
and Willis Avenue, last night.
Returning about 10 o'clock, the two
women 4\ere approached by a man who,
Mrs. Connors says, is a city depart?
ment chauffeur. This man quarrelled
with Mrs. Wild and cursed her. Mr.?.
Wild passed her infant to her com?
panion and fled.
Not knowing what to do with the
boy, Mrs. Connors took it to the Alex?
ander Avenue station. There Sergeant
England found the baby white and coin
and nearly dead. Dr. Steinberg, who
arrived from Lincoln Hospital, said
the baby was starving ami had not
been nourished for days. It will prob?
ably die.
The police started with Mrs. Con?
nors to find either the mother or her
aunt. Mrs. Connors failed to recog?
nize any of the houses in the vicinity
of 130th Street and Willis Avenue as
the one she had visited.
a
Al Davis Faces Divorce.
Senator Henry W. Pollock, as referee,
yesterday filed his report in the Su?
preme. Court recommending a decree
of divorce for Mrs. A. F. Davis from Al
J. Davis, the dancer, who was men?
tioned in the recent police court pro?
ceeding over Miss Eugeniu Kelly.
Mrs. Davis i? living at Hempstead,
Long Island, with her young son. She
and her husband have lived apart for
some time. Mrs. Davis is the daughter
of the late Patrick A. Fogarty, a brew?
er.
The w-ife did not mention the co?
respondent by name in her complaint,
but referred to her merely as an un?
known woman. Her identity was not
revealed in the proceeding before the
referee.
Cool and Comfortable
is this route io
Baltimore and
Washington
The night train is com?
fortable, no matter if
the weather is warm.
Sleeping Cars, which
may be occupied at
10:00 p, m., are placed
on surface level in Jer?
sey City station, where
the fresh air can reach
them.
Last boat leaves W. 23d
St.atl I :50p.m..andfoot
Liberty St., I :30 a. m.
Convenient hours for a
full summer evening'?
entertainment in New
York.
Pullman HiMu-r??!!.,-. a n ?1
?VOtta i-'7i sad ;i7!i hp,?|.
< ??. 7 ?'..nlaii.lt S' ,(
ISM .171 .??i Bra?-.
>???. XSS Fifth ATriiii*, 4 Wr.t
- i ?"Urt St., It' . ?
?i ,1 ?tatl.ini f.xjt Mh?rlT
si ?:,| M Wr,t ;<.) n,
Tf!?Fli.?.? Mad. Sq. Jills.
I B. SCOTT. Gill Cut. Past. A|l.
Baltimore & Ohio
Boytl Blu? Lit?)
WIRELESS TIP SAVES S
Emma F. Angel, Badly Lc
ing, Towed to Port.
Thanks to a wtreless message
? ut by rhe Quebec steamship
mudlsa. the Nova Scotian scho
Emm? F. Angel win safely towed
port last night and anchored in s
wi ter inside Sandy Honk.
The schooner, hard hit by Wed
? day's storm, was leaking badly
Hew ?ignnls of distress a? dawn yei
! 'lay ns the Bermudian sighted hot I
| miles southeast of Scotland Lighti
As soon as the B<-rm'nlianV me?.
reached here the derelict destr
Seneca, of the I'nited States C
, Guard Service, started for her
I brought her in. One of the sailor
I the Angel was suffering from a bn
BUFFALO MOOSER?
SEE HAMLIN QU
!
Two-thirds Likely to F
main Progressive, D<
spite Leader's Def ectior
Buffalo, Aug. f>. C. I. Hamlin, B
falo leader of the Progressives, larg
failed to-night in his efforts to ca
with him into the Republican party ?
considerable element, lit- resigned
county chairman, and af'er a talk w
George W. Perkins refrained from
troduring his resolution that Buff
Progressives go over en masse to I
Republican.-.
The meeting to-night was held at I
Progressive Club and was attended
101 representatives of the par
Speeches began at h o'clock and wi
still going on long after midnight. ?
Perkins was among the last speake
H? -.vus not eloquent, confining hims
to matter-of-fact .statements airea
! printed in substance.
After the Persia? speech Walli
Thayer, former Assemblyman, pi
posed a resolution declaring faith
the Progressive party and ditermin
tion to stick to that party, Th?- ion
i ment for tjp?- resolution was two
j one.
Aiding Mr. Perkins in his effort
prevent Mr. Hamlin from carryn
Krie County Progressives body ai
boots' to the Republican camp we
William M. < hsdboorne, of New Yorl
. Robert II. Klhs. chairman of the Pr
gressive Committee of Kin?* Count}
Edward Zari-mbu, president of tl
Progressive Club here, and other loci
leadl rs. Mr. Hamlin continues steai
fast in his determination to go bac
to the Republicans, an?i judging froi
the meeting to-night will take aboi
one-third of the party here with him.
HONEYMOON WAGER L0S1
Wife Lived with Husband Sv
Months?Now Gets Alimony.
I>r. I es B. Shoningcr, of M East Fif
ty?eighth Street, while on his honey
moon bet ?his wife that ihr could nol
live with him six months. The physi?
cian iost. They lived together twenty
two months. Now they have separated
m 1 yesterday $l"i a week alimony was
awarded to Mr?. Shoningcr.
While the couple lived together the
fsther of Or. Shoningcr, who lives in
Now Haven, sent them $100 a month
toward their support, but withdrew the
support on learning of the separation.
Mrs. Slioninger said her husband was
addict??! to drink. As this was not con?
tradicted Justice Weeks said the physi?
cian could not earn much, and made
the alimony $15.
Gen. Tracy Shews No Change.
Shortly bofore 1 o'clock this morning
it was said at the home of General
Benjamin F. Tracy, 14 Fast Sixtieth
Street, that there had been no material
change In his condition, which is criti?
cal._
CAM M EYED
** ATAMPKD ON A SHOK *
PIIANS ?TAHOAaO Of MIRIT,
6th Av?. at 20th Si
Final
Reductions
Men*8 & Women's
Low Shoes
All Season Now
$11, $10, $8.50. $Q.95
$7.50, $6.50, $6. orn?
All Season Now
$5.50, $5, $4.50. $1 .95
$4.00 & $3.50.
1
SAYS BREWERS SON
IS HELD FOR RANSOM
Mac Levy Aids Search for Harry
Elias Boy's Mother Will.
ing to Dive Money.
There is no doub' |
those in charge of fh? Ms? U**|
: Health Farm, Babylon, L. I., that tie
1 twcnty-rive-year-old son of th? '?te
I Henry Kims, brewi .
and i? being hold for ransom.
Harry F.lia? disappear.--,j mysti
Tuesday n-lght. T? r. n inatci sftet ht
left the parlor of Mr. Levy'?
tur ion, I wide sear?!- I
gun. Mr. Levy's assertion thst th?
young man was kidnapped is has??
. on the faOl that he could
; ride out of reach in so shor' a time.
Boy scouts from ? an?)
liloo'ihound? were employed resterdsy
to ?Oi r-h 'he hi.' and bvwajn
' from the Mac Levy Fsrm to Farrnint
dale V'">'"rr1"y. No trace wa?
j Prirste deteotlTe? emplo
; young man's mother, who
'on t., direct the -,
: sor. al 0 fsJil id to g ?
The search for th?
being worked along the line? that h*
been kidnapped ?nd ii being held
for a large sum of mor.?;. Mr. Elia?,
the young man's father. |ef1 more than
a million dollsn la Mrj.
Elias, It s sa row i ?av, it
willing to give a larga monej
for the return of her
? n si
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all sorts of hot weather
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new taste and stimu?
lates lagging appetites.
One of >v the 57'
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Nujol is not a drug,but a mechanical
intestinal lubricant conforming in
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by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, its
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and permanent remedy.
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