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Swann Censured
In Report Filed on
City Club Charges
Findings Sent to Governor
Said Not to Recommend
Removal
Labor Cases the Cause
District Attorney Wan Ac?
cused of Dismissing Indict?
ments Without Inquiry
It was reported yesterday that
George L. Inpraham had filed with tho
Governor his report on the City Club
charges against District Attorney
Swann, censuring that official for leav?
ing to subordinates important func?
tions for the performance of which he
personally should have been responsi?
ble, but not recommending his re?
moval. The report probably will not
be made public until Governor Whit?
man returns from Newport next week.
The first charges made by the City
Club were filed on January 14, two
weeks after Judge James A. Delehanty
of the Court of General Sessions had
filed a memorandum to the effect that
District Attorney Swann had recom?
mended the dirmissal of indictments
in labor cases without sufficient in?
vestigation.
Breckinridgf Resigned
In the preceding March Lucien
Breckinridge, a special Assistant Dis?
trict Attorney, had resigned because,
he said, he had learned that these labor
oases, which he hud been retained to
prosecute, were to be thrown out of
court. The two weeks which inter?
vened between the riling of Judge
Delehanty's memorandum and the City
( lub charges had been prolific of
statements and counterstatements ne
?ating. the trustees of the ( ity
Club believed, a complete investiga?
tion.
Embodied in the club's charges were
the matters set forth in Judge Dele?
hanty's memorandum. It was alleged
that the District Attorney, with the
intention of misleading the court, hud
presented a false certificate to tho
court on the motions to discti&Tge bail,
m that no thorough examination had
been instituted as was stated.
District Attorney Swann ttarted an
investigation before Chief Magistrate
McAdoo and later took the matter of
tho labor indictments before a grand
jury, obtaining an indictment against
Mr. Breckinridge charging bribery and
corruption. Tr.e prosecutor also ex?
amined many of the witnesses on
whose testimony the original indict?
ments had been found and obtained
indictments against several of them
charging perjury or subornation of
perjury.
t hargea Men Were Bullied
Some of these men asserted that they
had been bullied into retractine their
earlier testimony, and these and other
charges bv portons who asserted they
had been oppressed by the District
ev wcie incorporated by the City
Club in a second sat of charges.
These charges accused District At?
torney Barajan O? using in'imidating
? ds against Mr. Breckinridge, tho
????itnesses indicted on charges of
perjury and others. Mr. Ingraha.n,
who was formerly presiding justice
of the Appellate Division of the Su?
preme Court in this department, was
appointed commissioner by the Gover?
nor in February.
Two Held as Shoplifter?
Inspector Cray Finds Stolen
Goods on Youths
As Inspector John fray was com?
pleting a tour of the Wall Street dis?
trict yesterday with Detective Botti, he
saw two young men, whose faces he
recognized, board a Broadway surface
car at Fulton Street. The two police
r"en followed, and at (anal Street ar?
il the pair.
When the prisoners were searched at
.Police Headquarters they gave up three
gold watch"-, three women's belt
Suckle- of fold and a silver meshbag.
Acting Capta-n Deal?, of the First
Branch Bureau, traced th" buckles to
Mark Cross's iower Broadwav store,
-iid their loss had |ns1
tVSSB dllcovered. Later a clerk identi
the two men as persons who had
-. the ?tore.
The prisoners are held on a charg?
. *and larceny. They say that, they
are Leouis Merrian, of 140 West Forty
and William J. King, of
4 F.a?t Thirty-second Street.
? ? ?
Dairies Throw Away Milk
Ohio Governor Asked to Pre?
vent Waste in Price Conflict
< OlrOMB?S, Ohio, Auc 17. Dairy?
irtheastern Ohio are throw
\?V milk berauke of a disai,"-<r
over price? with Pittsburgh bay?
er?, and Governor Cox has been afked
'o suggest, some means for preventing
?Triste according to a statement
to-dsy at the Governor's office.
The Ohio War Defence Council has
taken tip the ma'fer.
Japanese Freighter Lost
Million Dollar Cargo Destroy?
ed in Pacific Shipwreck
- A\ FRANC1S? O, Aug. 17.- The Jap
? freight ?teamer Koto Hlra Maru
went ashore In the eastern Pacific, and
'??el and cargo, valued at $1,000,000,
will be a total loss, according to a mes?
sage r?c?ived here to-day by the Cham
>?r of rommerrf. \o details regard?
?e fate of th? rr<w were received.
Tre ?teamer wa? owned and operated
' tsal & Co., of San Francise Hi r
tens of gee?
U merchandise.
-' -?
To Control Wheat Here
$50,000,000 Corporation to
Have Headquarters in N. Y.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17 -New York
will b? headquarter? of the food sd
mini?tration'? |M?,OOn,0O0 Wheat Buy?
ing Corporation .Julio? Bame?, pre?i
dent of th? corporation, and hi? staff
will go to New York in a few day? to
? i office?. TwHve branch of
tblisbs?! in wheat buy
? '- control of price? miller?
'o purchase all thur
Iff) Ul? government corpora
U*M nr.der i're,ider,t
'.?r'eld Of William? College will Ml a
* 1^)7 cron of whe?t before
I. the date on which the
wh??{. txtQkx'il becomes operativa, I
Boy, 9, Killed by Dogs
As His Chums Look On
Own Pet Turns on Him, Join
inj Strange Terrier
in Attack
When Ralph Perotta, cine years old,
of 246 East 150th Street, fell while
playing ball in the backyard of Li?
berto Picciano's home, 232 East 151st
Street, yesterday afternoon, Picciano's
big Newfoundland dog playfully leaped
upon him. The lad screamed and his
playmates fled. The noise attracted
a vicious bullterrier also owned by
Picciano. He saw the prostrate boy
struggling with the gambolling New?
foundland, and rushed in growling.
In a second Ralph's screams of
fright changed to shrieks of agony.
Then, while the boy's companions stood
far off and shouted for help, the two
animals worried and tore at the body.
Before help came the child's cries had
ceased.
At last men arrived and drove the
animals away. Ralph was still alive
when they picked him up. But he was
i terribly torn about the legs and abdo?
men. By the time an ambulance, ar?
rived he had died.
Detective Mcllhargy shot the bulldog
as it ranged about the yard. The Now?
! foundland slunk away as the police
I man approached, but was captured and
| taken to the Morrisania police station
I for observation.
According to the police, Picciano ad?
mitted ownership of the dogs. He was
arrested and later was arraigned bc
| fore Coroner William J. Flynn, who
held him in $2,000 bail on a charge of
' homicide.
The dead boy's mother is a widow
with three daughters, Ralph was her
only son.
?
Slayer of Baff
Sentenced to Die
Cohen To Be Electrocuted
in October; Graff Gets
20-Year Term
Joseph Cohen, former policeman,
I known as the "King of the Chicken
Pullers" of West Washington Market,
I was sentenced yesterday by Supreme
j Court Justice Tompkins to die in the
| electric chair some time during the first
week of October. Cohen was convicted
on July 27 of instigating the murder
of Barnet Baff, his business rival.
Cohen is a bigger man physically
than Charles Becker was and has
shown even more nene in facing the
death sentence than Becker did. When
Justice Tompkins asked him whether
j he had anything to say in his own
j behalf, he replied:
"I was born in America and I have
always had the greatest respect for
the courts of my country, but I did
not believe that it was possible to find
twelve men in these United States who
would believe the word of degenerate
witnesses, gangsters, gunmen and
thieves against the word of a reputa?
ble citizen and business man. I am in?
nocent, your honor, and I hope that
some time the opportunity will he given
me to prove it."
One? to Death House
With only a slight, trsr? of pallor
that may have been due to his con?
finement in the Tombs Cohen listened
to the sentence. Hat in hand, he
turned to shake hands with Frank Mass
and Harry Kopp, his lawyers, and then
he ttrode out. of the room between
Deputy Sheriffs I>*vy and Jacobs to be
taken to the death house at Sing Sing.
Before sentence was pronounced Mr.
Moss moved that a new trial he granted
for Cohen on the ground that Justice
Tompkins had accepted the verd'.et
against him when the jury came in for
instructions, and that the court accepted
separate verdicts for Cohen and Abra?
ham Graff. Graff was tried jointly
with Cohen, and convicted of man?
slaughter in the first degree. By per?
mitting the jury to retire and delib?
erate on a verdict for a lesser degree
in the case of Graff. Mr. Moss con?
tended, the court had foreclosed any
charee for the jury to, bring in a ver
diet in a lesser degree in Cohen's rnpe.
Justice Tompkins denied the motion.
Mr. Moss will appeal.
Graff Gets 20-Year Term
Graff Was sentenced yesterday br
Justice Tompkins to state prison for
i a term not less than ten and not more
j than twenty years. Justice Tompkins
told him that the jury had been Ion?
j ie-it with him, because they might
i easily have found him guilty of murder
| in the first degree.
At the conclusion of the sentences
counsel for Giuseppe Ariehiello. the
j Wt-handed gunman who confessed and
wan convicted ?f firing the shots that
killed Baff. submitted a motion with
I out argument for a new trial. T>>e mo
I tion is based on new evidence fur?
nished 'n part by Antonio Cardinale,
j the procurer of the gunmen end the
j principal aitUOOS again?t. Cohen and
I (?raff, ?'ardinale swore at the trial of
I Cohen that Ariehiello did not fire the
I shot that killed Baff. He would not
! till, however, who did the shooting.
Deputy Attorney General O'Malley,
: who at the request of District Attor?
ney Swann has taken complet? charge
of every phase of the Baff case, did
not oppose the motion for the new
ttial. Justice Tompkins regerved de?
er urn.
?
Contests Will Making
Him Sole Beneficiary
Samuel B. Dewsnap Joins Sis?
ters, Who Were Ignored,
in Court Proceeding
Samuel B. Dewsnap, of 42 East Sev
enty-sixfh Street, yesterday joined in
the contest of a will in which he is the
sole life beneficiary. The proceeding
is brought to set aside the will of
George Gibbs Dewsnap, his brother,
who died on June tl. Two sisters of
the late Mr. Dewsnap, Mrs. I,ouise D.
Bergh, and Mrs. llarie D. Bergh. were
not mentioned in the document, and
they are contesting with their brother.
The will provided that at the death
of Samuel B. Dewsnap, to whom was
left the income of the estate for life.
the proceed? should go to St. Luke's
Hospital, to be known as the Marie
Leouise Dewsnap fund, in memory of
his mother. The estate Is valued at j
?"more than $10,000"
It is alleged hrv the -ontestanti that
I their brother was under the influence
I of unknown persons when he executed
, his will, which, they charge, was ob?
tained by fraud and was not properly
execute.]
Hugh S. Gibson Promoted
WASHINGTON'. Aug. 17. Hugh I G'h
rin. former secretary of the legation
Il Brasseta. who did notable work to
prevent the execution of Edith Cavell,
" e ed a promotion to-day making
biro a secretary of the first class.
Reinsurance Law
Violated Here by
German Concerns
American Branches Do
Business With Firms Not
Approved by State
To protect Its citizens the State of
New York forbids insurance companies
from reinsuring any part of its risks
with a company not approved by the
State Insurance Department. Other
jtates have a similar law.
German companies, and more par?
ticularly the reinsurance companies
which have the a?d of Senator Freling
huysen, of New Jersey, in their fight for
exemption from the. provisions of the
trading with the enemy art, habitual?
ly evade this provision of law. Th?y
reinsure their business with rompanie?
in Germnay ?nd elsewhere not admitted
to business in this country.
This is done, it wa? explained to a
Tribune reporter yesterday,by the filing
of a statement by the. American man?
ager of the company that he has not
permitted any business to be rein?
sured in any unapproved company. So
far as this statement goes it is cor?
rect. The joker lies in the fact, that,
the home office does as it pleases in this
respect.
Funds Turned Over to Pool?
Some of i*s liabilities it reinsures in
small companies. More of it is turned
over to poo)? or ?vndlcates of some
strength in normal times, but weak to
th? point of worth'essness in the pres?
ent situation.
This practice has been nr-t in a meas?
ure by the New York department re?
quiring from time to time what is
known a? "home office statements." It
is admitted at th* offices of the de?
partment, that, these statement? ?re
not of much valup because some Cer
man companies do not segregate their
assets - they mix life, fire and other
funds promiscuously.
These assets have, m large measure,
consisted of German government se?
curities. Reports from Germanv h"
fore the entry of this country into the
war indicated that all of the companies
had been compelled to dispose of good
securities to take up the new issuer of
the imperial government, making tlicir
position considerably weaker.
German? I'nable to Pay Risks
This state of affairs show? that the
theory on which reinsurance is con?
ducted that of spreading risks over a
number of concert,s noie to pay their
share of the possible losses - does not
hold in the rase of German insurance
01 reinsurance companies.
An argument in support of the Fre
linghuysen amendment is that the ex?
istence of such companies in this coun?
try is necessary if large risk? in areas
where conflagrations are feared are to
he covered. Some of the larger Ameri?
can companies, it is stated, have more
of this business than they care for.
Just how valuable German insurance
may be at the present time is indicated
by the experience of those who lost
property in the San Francisco fire. The
German companies were then in good
standing and were in a position to get
funds from Germany. The report of
the San Francisco Chamber of Com?
merce shows that of all of the com?
panies doing business in the stricken
city the only ones which refuse?! to
meet their contracts were German com?
panies and companies with German
connections.
Room for Reinsurance
There la, however, an abundance of
reinsurance available if it is needed.
An insurance company president, whe
has dug into the reinsurance situatioSsj
in a statement to The Tribune, says: %
"There are nineteen French fire in?
surance companies These axe amply
able to take care of all of the bunnesa
formerly done and now done with
enemy companies. Furthermore there
are any number of small American
companies that are in a position to
teke much of this business. It is all
a question of taking the trouble to
make the necessary connection?."
Traveling Salesmen to Fast
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17. Traveling
salesmen's organisation?, comprising
about. ?00,000 member?, have pledged
them?elve? to a wheaf.les? ajid meat?
less day meal every d?y, the Food Ad
ministr?tion ?nnounced to-d?r?
Actor Rubbed Aladdin's Lamp
For Dreamy Broadway Stars
Millions of Mackay Morris, Which Were to Finance a
Season Amid White Lights, Gone When
He Went to Hospital
Mackay Morris, a young actor who
j was with the Fortmanteau Players last
i season and for whom theatrical man
! agers predicted a brilliant future, is In
I Bellevne Hospital, where he was taken
on Thursday by his physician, Dr. O. C.
? Reeve. He is reported to bo suffering
from overwork and extreme nervous?
ness, whirh will necessitate his remain
| ing in the hospital for at least two
: weeks before he can leave on a trip to
: Honolulu a'hich friends have arranged
I for him.
j Morris's breakdown will materially
? upset t b? plans r\t not a few of Broad?
way's leading actors and actresses, in
eluding Mme. Yorska, with whom h?
played last season. For a month now
' he has had a good part, of the theatri?
cal world fairly by the ears first, with
i a tale of millions he was to receive
I from a "multi-millionaire brother who
had just returned from Turkey" and
| later with plans for a season of reper
? torv, the company to be headed by
( Mm*. Yorska.
Frark Tuttle, who has to his credit a
/ number of plavs produced on Broad?
way, was commissioned by Morris to
' provide most of the repertory- for his
company, and Morris, Mme. Yorska and
. Mr. Tuttle held numerous conferences.
| White Slave Ring
I Found, Police Say
Two Girl Victims Testify
Against Woman Now
Under Arrest
Bv the arrest of Anna Thiehold. SjfBS
; teen years old, of 297 .Tefferson Street,
and .lames I.apolla, twenty, of 215 Rich?
ardson Street, the Brooklyn police be?
lieve that they have discovered the cx
! istence of a new white slave rin(*
which has been conducting exten?ive
operations in the borough.
According to detectives, Anna Thie
| bold is "the crying woman" whom they
; have been trying to catch for some
?time. When she was arraigned in the
( Williamshurs: Bridge Flaza court yes
i terday two witnesses, Florence Brewer,
i eighteen, of IIS Eckford Street, and
j Elizabeth Williams, sixteen, of 14 Mau
jer Street, appeared against her. They
? testified that the. Thiehold woman had
I approached them, weeping bitterly, and
j that after she had told her story of
[ misfortune they had accompanied her
I to her home, where they were confined
i for ?everal days before they were able
' to escape. *
According to the witnesses, the re
1 sort where 'hey were imprisoned aras
? run by I,apolla and the Thiehold
! woman. Magistrate Walsh held the i
? pair for further examination on
i Wednesday, when the police promise to
( produce two more witnesses. Deputy
, Police Commissioner Godley was on the
bench with the magistrate during the
1 arraignment. He said that he had ben
I instructed by Commissioner Woods to ,
[follow the case to the limit.
Jr In Manhattan many more indictments ;
against ?lovers are expected as a result'
of a confession made yesterday to As?
sistant District Attorney Smith by
Lliiabeth Stone, twenty-five year? old,
who was indicted last Tuesday for
maintaining a resort on West Sixty
fourth Street. Seven aliened whito
slavers were induted the ?anip day or
the testimony of Florence Kyle and
F'dith Gordon, both se>ventecn-y?ar-old
girls, who came here from I.ynn, Mass.
They charged that they had been forced
: into the life by the defendants and at
one time lived in the resort kept by
the Stone woman.
"This woman has made a complete
statement corroborating the testimony ?
of the Kyle and Gordon girls," said Mr. I
Smith. "Jn ?Addition she has given s
On Wednesday Dr. Reeve received a
telephone message from Washington
telling him that Morris was ill there in
the Richmond Hotel. The doctor
brought his patient, to New York.
"Mr. Morris," said the doctor yester
I day, "insisted on wearing pink pajamas
j underneath his Palm Beach suit, but I
I thought, it best to humor him. When I
left him on our arrival here I advised
him to keep SS qaiei SSI possible, and
? he promised to do so.
"The nesl I heard of him was late in
(the afternoon, when I received a tele
? phone call from a taxioab company say
I ing that he had runup a bill of ?.'Jo. 1
i hurried to the office, bu* Mme Yorsks
had reached there ahead of me and
naid th-s bill, though I advised her
| not, ?o
"All th* time I was settling the diffi?
culty ?*-ith the taxicab company Morris
: was telling Mme. Yorska how his
[brother had failed after all to give
| him the nromised million?, but that she
! should not worry. She would have her
?season in 'l'amille.' just the same, be
, cause h? was going to sue and would
? get the money."
Morris's career on Broadway has
i been ?hort, but promising. When h?
'left a ilrnmatie school he obtained a
i small nart in "Under Fire." He made
' good instantly. Later he joined the
' Portmanteau Players and this summer
was engaged to play the lead in sup
! port of pay Painter in a play called
I "Driftwood, which had a try-out in
Washington.
full account of the methods employed
I by Hie white havers in getting r?
I emits."
Girl Must Tell Widow
Where Gems Are
Valuables in Possession of
Harold G. M?ller When He
Died Disappeared
Mrs. Easily Rogers M?ller obtained
an order yesterdav from Surrogate
fohalan directing Miss Margaret Ken
r-ic.t-., of Flmsford, N. Y., to tell in
court on September IS anything she
'may know ahou' seventeen railroad
hinds, fr?OO in cash, three diamond
studs, a black pearl pin. a diamond ring
land other jewelry, which, it is alleged,
were in the possession of Harold G.
M?ller, the petitioner's husband, when
he died.
Mr. M?ller, a real estate man, died in
Baltimore in 1911 while on an automo?
bile trip with Mis? Kennedq. Mrs.
M?ller asserted that ?he had tried in
,vain to obtain the information she de
'sired from Miss Kennedy, who had de?
scribed herself as "nurs? and personal
attendant" to Mr. ?feller.
Two other companions, a man and a
woman, were with Mr. M?ller at the
time of his death. He was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. George M. M?ller. His
mother inherited an estate estimated at
several millions.
The widow is the daughter of the
late Thomas Rogers, of the Rogers Lo?
comotive Works.
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Captain M. E. Cobb Killed
When Showing Revolver
NEWTON, Mas?., Aug. 17.- Captain
Ifertoa F. Cobb, of the United States
Quartermaster's Reserve Corps, died
early to-day from a wound received
when a new army revolver, which he
was exhibiting to friends at a dinner
petty in his home last night, was acci?
dentally discharged. The bullet en
tend the abdomen.
Captain Cobb wa? a broker 1a Boston
and had bien prominent for many
years in the ?t?te militia, in which he
was a lieutenant colonel. He was
forty-eight year? old.
Report of Thomas Benton's
Arrest in Riot an Error
tW UM A.?.erl?'<-1 I'res*:
FAST ST. LOUIS, III., Aug. 17. In
the story of streets hen- ye?terday in
connection with the Fast St. Louis riots
the name of Thomas Benton wa? sent
out erroneously. The name should
have been Thomas Boston, Democratic
politician and former candidate for
sheriff, ?le 1? charged with assault to
Vigilantes Begin
War on Soap Box
Orators To-night
Moffett's Band to Silence
Treasonable Utterances
on Broadway
i _
| Broadway is likely to be the hatt'r
1 field for militant patriots and pacifist.}
! to-nifrht. Cleveland Moffetfs Vigl?
', lantcs will launch their drive against
the so-called pro-German orators,
whose favorite camping ground is at,
Thirty-seventh Street, just off t'ie
, Great White Way. The Vigilantes will
he opposed by the Constitutionalists,
whom the Civil Liberties Bureau, a
pacifist bodv, will sr-nd out to see that |
the right of free speech i? not impaired. !
While the two divergent groups of
citizens are laying their plans to patrol
Broadway, T'nion Square, Madison
Squar*. and other centres of soap hex
oratory, the Friends of Irish Freedom,
under whoje auspices the meeting that
Mr. Moffett, broke up Monday nij?ht wp.s |
held, have expressed their intention to ?
continue holdina: street meetings and
airing their views.
A test of their right to go on criti?
cising Great Britain and eulogizing
Irish ?-evolutionists probably wiil b-> !
made to-night, when the Vigilantes will j
cause an arrest as ?<oon as ?i supposed'y
treasonable utterance is made.
Roosevelt Praises Moffett
Theodore Roosevelt yesterday gave;
his approval to the plans of Mr. Moffett
and the American Defence Society in a'
lottee to Police Commissioner Wrod?
"D seem? to me," the Colonel says, i
"that Mr. Moffett performed a gr<vt
and most useful service, and, knowing
you as I do, I ojM certain that you take
this view, and that you will take wha'
?y< er steps are necessary to prevent any
repetition of the absurd miscarriage of
justice which resulted in the treason
able orators going free and th? mai
who protested against their treasonable
utterances being arrested.
"We aro jn this war to a finish, and
the man is a traitor to this nation ?rho
directly or indirectly upholds Germany
or attacks any of our alli?s while th'*
war is pending. The street orator who ;
takes such a course is preaching sedi- i
tion, and the police should tako sum- ?
mary action about it."
Colonel Roosevelt's use of the ex- '
pression "treasonable utterance' 'and
the employment of th* phrase by di?
rectors of th<? American Defence So?
ciety are criticised by R?e?r' N. Bald?
win, dir?rtor of the Civil Liberties
Bureau, who declared in a letter to
Mr. Moffett yesterday "then is no such
thing as a treasonable utterance."
One Definition of Treason
Th? letter is a frank attempt to de
fin? treason in answer to Mr, Moffet?'.
request that President Wi'son state au?
thoritatively what is treason and what
is not.
"Treason is the only crime." Mr.
Baldwin points out, "which the Con?
stitution makers felt ought not to l.e
left to Congress or the Executive to,
define. A memorable decision of Chief
Justice Marshall in the Aaron Rtirrl
case made it plain that treason could '
consist only in armed resistance to the
government of the I'nited States."
Mr. Baldwin explained that his bu- j
reau would have representatives, |
known as Constitutionalists, at meet?
ings, which the Vigilantes visit, and
that they would be willing to testify
in court as to the precise nafure of the
utterances made on soap boxes. Hl i
pointed out that it would be unjust to
arrest a speaker until he finished hi
address, aa his statement? must be cor.
sidered in reference to what precedes ,
and comes after them.
Ninety patriots have already enrolled
as Vigilantes, and they will receive red
cards to identify them with the police.
The patrol squad will meet at the
American Defence Society headquar-,
ters, 303 Fifth Avenue, at noon to-day
for instructions. Representatives of
the police, the District Attorney's of-:
tice and the Federal authorities in this
City have promised to attend and g:ve i
advice.
Italian Envoy Goes to Capital
The Italian Ambassador. Marquis de
Callata. who was in town since the
first of the week, staying at the Ritr
Carlton, returned to Washington yes?
terday.
r
I I
Talk of
| City Hall
Now that Justice Cropsey has effect?
ed his belated retreat from an untena
; ble position and Mr. Murphy has chosen
? a candidate for Mayor dictated by
Hearst?now that the battle lines have
been definitely established?a lassitude
has fallen upon the opposing forces in
the municipal campaign. Their gen?
erals and chiefs of staff, their field offl
' cers and company commanders have
, scattered to mountains and seashore
I for a taste of peace and a long breath
I before the onset of the conflict. All
is quiet along the political Potomac.
Outwardly this state of somnolence
is likely to last, with few and insignifi?
cant interruptions, until after the pri?
maries on September 19 have formally
ratified the opposing tickets. Behind
tho ?cenos, however, this will prove a
period of busy preparation on both
sides. Speaking schedules must be ar?
ranged for a multiplicity of candidates
and their supporters; an intricate
fabric of strategy must be planned to
meet all conceivable attacks arid emer?
gencies. There must bo a division of
the offensive function as between the
heavy artillery, the wielders of the har?
poon and the poison gas batteries, and
a thorough training in the defensive
use of the pen and the gas mask. Sap?
pers and mine planters must hold re?
hearsals, and there must be plenty of
practice in the dropping of bombs from
the clouds and the discharge of tor?
pedoes from the gutters.
On the Tammany front, for instance,
it has already been decided, so the
spies say, that Judge Hylan is to spe?
cialize in municipal ownership. This is
most emphatically a heavy artillery as?
signment, with a goodly proportion of
42-centimetre guns in the battery. It
will be his duty to rain Jack Johnson?
! on tho enemy from concrete emplace?
ments prepared by Herr Hearst him?
self.
Mr. Craig, nominated for Controller,
I is to concentrate on the West Side
j improvement contract with a variety of
arms, provoking a hand-to-hand con?
flict where possible in a massed aisault
I all along the line. Al. Smith, on the
other hand, is to be strictly an officer
of infantry, leading the common people
"over the top" against the hosts of
privilege, the foundations and what not.
Such is the preliminary programme
as worked out in the Wigwam. From
the side of Fusion there has come no
intimation as yet of the individual as?
signments, due, possibly, to the fact
j that the Fusion platform has not seen
I the light. It seems Safe to predict,
I however, that the Mayor, wrapped
! tightly in the American flag and wav
? ing the sword of preparedness, will dare
j the enemy to do his worst. His will
be a Kercnsky r?le, but backed by a
confident and undaunted army.
The-e is a feeling that sooner or
? later, whatever may be the initial
: issues of the campaign, the conflict will
| turn on the question of patriotism. The
militant Americanism of the Mayor will
find a foil in the pro-Germanism of
Hearst. Before Flection Day the choice
will lie between a vote for I'ncle Sam
or one for the Kaiser.
No doubt exists that Tammany is
angling for the German vote. Though
"Bob" Wagner's name is conspicuous
by its absence, the names of two other
Germans stand out prominently on its
ticket. In Manhattan, County Clerk
Schneider is indorsed for reelection.
In Brooklyn, Edward Riegelmann, the
Kings County Sheriff, is running for
Borough President.
On the other hand, the absence of
Jews among the Tiger'? candidates has
caused considerable comment, and. in
the Jewish press, a great, deal of un?
favorable comment. This large element
of the population is not disposed to
remain content with representation re?
stricted to the City Court. It is con?
tracting Tammany treatment with the
renomination of Borough President
Marks by the Fusion'st?
American Ballet Planned
Steps to Form a Permanent
One Will Be Taken
Plans for a permanent American bal?
let after the style of the Russian Im?
perial Ballet were discussed yesterday
at a meeting called at the Booth The?
atre by a committee of the American
Ambulance in Russia.
The initial step for the permanent
ballet will be taken by Adolph Bolm
in his "Ballets Intim?," to open on
Monda? in New York, a percentage
from the proceeds of which goes to the
ambulance fund. Mr. Bolm admitted
that, he hardly expects Congress to es
tablish the ballet as a national insti
tution, as it is in Russia, but said that
the society will launch a public cam?
paign for funds in the n?ar future.
-? ?
Mis? V. L. Hamilton Wed?
She Becomes the Bride of
Lieut. A. S. Rothwell
Th? marrage of Miss Violet Loring
Hamilton, daughter of the Baroness
Raoul de Grafl>nri?d, of Groton-on
the-Hudson and this city, to Lieutenant
Austin Sherwood Rothwell, cavalry,
took place on Wednesday afternoon in
the Church of St. Mary at Groton.
Mrs. Paul L. MeCullough. a sister of
the bride, wa- the matron of honor, and
the hridesma'ds were Miss Frnestine
Glover and Miss Gertrude Rothwell
Lieutenant Albert C. Rothwell, attached
to the aviation service, was his brother's
best man. The ushers were Captain
Francis R. Kerr and Lieutenant James
Montgomery. Lieutenant and Mrs.
Rothwel! left on a motor trip, which
will last until he goes to Yaphank.
Kills Husband,Son and Self
Woman's Reply to Another's
Claim as Wife
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, Aug. 17. Be
cause a woman named Dora, from Fl
Paso, Tex., had sent a telegram to her
husband, notifying him that she was
coming here to claim him a? her hus?
band, Mrs. James Nelson late last night
shot, and killed her husband, shot her
eight-year-old son and then killed her?
self. The boy died this morning.
The husband died instantly and his
wife lived only a few minutes after the
shooting. The woman left a note ex?
plaining why she had done the shoot?
ing. The Nelson family came here re
cently from Fort Wayne, Ind. The
father and husband was employed on
construction work at the new conscript
ci.r.tonment camp here.
?- -
Coal Smothers Enginemen
WATKRTOWN, N. Y.. Aug. 17.- Am
l-o?e Leasure, of this city, engineer,
at.d H. M. Bartholomew, of Parish, fire?
man, employed by the New York Cen?
tral Railroad, were killed early' this
morning when the engino in which they
were riding plunged through an open
?witch and down an embankment a mile
west of Gouverneur. Both were ?moth?
ered in the ?oft coal from the tender,
which was overturned on them.
A Correction
In the article in yesterday'? Tribune
entitled "Fnemies Within" the ?d
dress of "Seven Arts." a monthly
magazine, was given as ItS Madison
Avenue. The magazine ia published at
132 Madison Avenue, The Tribune re?
grets the er ?oft I
Cropsey Forces I
Ready to Dec?an
Fealty to Fm^
Republican Chairman Vi*
Will Support MitdKj
'To the Limit*
Raid M'Cooey Tic^
OXoughlin Begins Ort?^
tion of People's No*.
Partisan League
Feace, for the most part, ?i-,,, %k
?terday over the Mitchel-Fusit,T,
: Tammany-Fusion camps. Th? <?*'
surrender stopped th? drw? /*'
MUchel-Fusion forces along th, s i
lyn front. The command?-? J?
Cropeey army were ready te ?J**
! their loyalty henct *orth to Mitekal?
frcd E. Vass, chairman of th, r
County Republican Committee,,^
them, swore allegiance ytiUrai, ?
?Vass announced that he W00J4.-*
port Mayor Mitchel to th? limit? ?*
A. Livingston, who drafted th? CiZ!
battalions, paused in th? m i dit Ta
feat to express his r?gr?te ?h?. k
justice had retired from th*!?*.!!
.Livingston is expected goon u ?a.
!tho Mltchel cause.
There was an echo of ILjht ?tj-u
I fire yesterday from Kings. fc-tW
William M. Bennett, although Ua^
?in the 18th Senate District ia klatk?
|Un, declared that he would lap**,.?'
opportunity to crystallize th? (W.
lantUMitchel sentiment in j^, '
?and head a straight Repuh?taa ??,
in the primaries. Bennttt ?14 ?.
?ticket had not yet been ent?rtl,^
I up. The ex-Senator's a?asajej
did not bring the Fusion leedm hat
from their vacations.
Brave? Go to Saratoga
There was som? rumbling in W
lyn also from the Tammany tr?fe
That, too, was small gun flea, jj,, ,
the Tammany braves stolt tot? ?
I Saratoga, some of them to seek?.?.
Mayoralty candidato Heant (asi
upon them and give him tsfejejas
:- Judge Hylan already being at th* ?a
1 ?and others merely te hm .,,,
'troubles at the race?.
There was r;o disturbing
?to keep the Manhattan Tamtu?r
(at home. But ovi-r in BrookJn L??
McCooey was thrca'ened ?rit? taa?
1 With the Cropsey dist?rbese*cjtJsj?
?some one had to start anothera?!
; rumpus in King* just lohnt,?
litical pot near the boihaf p?*4?r. t>
centre, and the O'Loughlia dani ?,
gathering for a raid on th* McO*
i borough ticket.
Tammany spanked Refiittt Urn
i T. O'Loughlin because hetntaltfe?
McCooey end the otb?r dmmt
leaders across the river t* ?an?.
i him for Borough President Th?V
would not. be coerced ar.d leftOliaj
lin off the ticket altogether
O'Loughlin issued a lenfthy w?
ment yesterday, in which h?*fifls>
vitriolic attack at the MeCoMi in?
I ization. and began the orgstaatmi
?the "People's N'on-Psrtiiu Lap
\H? and his backers declared tt? w
i organization would go into th,'a
with a full county and boroturt ta
with O'Loughlin for B*rou|*nass
And there are others out forthflht
cratic Boroueh Presidency of ts
?Backed by Charlys R. Wsrd, ? m
anti-?>Ici'ooey man, United Sa
, Marshal James M. Power Isuacieia
1 primary campaign for th* lasj
I Presidency nomination.
Brooklyn Factions Bur
Still another faction in tvsr*
Brooklyn began to rally W ? Jet
Democratic car.d'date. Th? "&"*
.Democratic party" began to suba"
?for entering the primaries, ?rithN
?J. L. Priai as aspirant, for th? k*
[Presidency, and George J. &? M|
las a candidate for th* SuprssaO?
But all of the?e aftermath Ml?**
isies in Brooklvn are small h***,*2l
central Tammany organiiattoe. I
'expect McCooey to stand P?{"J
.ticket, which include? ?-beriS ?
Riegelmatm for Borough
Daniel J. Griff n for Sheriff
ard?on -Webster, a Brooklyn??
nan. for Register. ,.
Petitions for the deeigasnes?1
jaroin N. Cardoza and Chest* 1
Laughlin as associate judgei
Court of Appeals are being
throughout *h<* sta'e by th* *
State Committee. The 'wo jud
designated are the present 1?
Judge Cardora is from tflli
from Port
Judge McLaughlin frcm Port ?
The Democratic State Commit**
circulating petition* for ??
judge?, it having be?n ?? PJ
both Republicans sad Dmm^m\
lire t
served
Cardan Is
Laughlin
he designations to n"B7\
I faithfully on the l*?**^
, Democrat and J?**
Republican.
The Demoerst e *lste_w g
-.nounced yesterday. Th* am
?e: Borough Pre?.aetS *J!
_11.. .a ?,,/-/*e#n hit*????
Qsjfl
Wv.r
Senator Pe?rr
forlhew?,
u Hi??"
nw
torney: Juatie? ? "ie? *?;%
ward Lazanskv end ??'??IJ*
combe for the Supi*rn*Coui*
Forty Years
for BurOT
Paroled Youth Has M N
Added to Unexpireo Tat?
TBENTON. N- J-, ?\J* \i,4
Pomerov. out on parole "?m^
prison here, now fsfes ? ?^ a,
of spending the next fort) jm
same prison. Rf11?
the home of Char.es G.Ro*^?,
John A. Roebling >"? fJf3L?
when discovered *"*<*"*?*
aire. He wss ?**?*%?&
Judge Marshal!. .n ti JV
Coart, to fourteen .e*n
men*. , . .j ?? .
Inasmuch as he had ? (#f,
tons ??' twen >-s.s **'"?**
burglaries, which te?**??t
his new sentence begin?. "' ?
of freedorri^a^ej^^lll--'
Doctor Held a? Drat
Forty "Patients" ??
When Police M^-J
Dr. KdwinK. Gardner, ?igg
Fifty?- r?r*A^9
have mane enorn.oo? ? ?^W
heroin. ? f 3s? K
Sutes C???!V'?7rJ? ?^?fa
Police deiecti ?i s?? R*?ee?aj
Department of Ir?;??i? *0??
raided hi? office sstdJ^j?
persons, who said they ^jji
Srora there ?.^(Wl?*
were sctor*. lsvryers.
chorus girls.