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THE SUN, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1915.
ANOTHER MURDER
WITNESS BRINGS IN
NAME OF ROFRANO
Prosecution Closes
Aprnlnst Montlmngno
Ouimnri Killing.
Cnse
for
GENERAL DENTAL TO
RE MADE RY DEFENCE
The prosecution' ease, against Oae
lano Montlmagno for the murder of
Thomas F. Foley political lieutenant.
Michael Oalmarl In Madison street on
March S last, was concluded yesterday
afternoon. More evidence was given .
to connect the name of Michael Ho-1
frano, a deputy Htreet Cleaning Com
missioner, with .the case. Itofrnno's
name hm run all through the testimony
of Joseph I.a Sntle, who l serving
twenty years In prison for killing James
Mlnott, also a follower of Foley.
Rofrano was brought Into the case
again when James Seraflno, who Is serv-
Ing a term for assault, swore he knew
the defendant Montlmagno and had seen
u. .tui . i,,.. i n,
Hufe Democratic Club In .Madison street
on two occasions, about the time of tho
Mltchel-McCall campaign.
Seraflno, a former member of the
Home Rule Club, which was formed by
Rofrano, Also Identified a revolver as
one owned by Itox Cornell, who Is un
der Indictment for tho murder of Oal
marl along with Frank Fcnnlmor. At
the samo time he said n second revol
ter that had been brought Into the case
by counsel for the defence was one for
merly owned by "Fllesy," who Is said
to have been a partner In the saloon
business with FennJmor In York street,
llrooklyn,
I) r fen it Outlined.
When Assistant District Attorney
Brothers announced that the prosecu
tion had finished (.V-snr Itnrr.i and tier
ard Cuoco, counsel for tho prisoner, held
a conference with Justice iMvlx. A
motion for a dismissal of the indictment
was denied and then Mr. Cuoco opened
the case for tho defence, lie mndn tli
sweenlng statement that his client (II I
not know a person mentioned In con
nection with the case. Ily this he said
he meant Mike ltofrano. Frank Fennl
mor, Ito Cornell (Carnlvale) or Joseph
La Salle, also cnlled Joe Shepps.
Mr. Cuoco said the defence would be
a general denial nnd that witnesses
would swear that Montlmagno never
wore an overcoat such as was Identified
by two witnesses as having been dis
carded by him In a saloon Immediately
after Oalmarl wan shot. The lawyer
also promlred to show through wit
nesses the person who actually did the
rhootlng.
Seraflno was the most Important wit
ness of the day. He said that as a
member of the Home Rule Club he had
visited tho club rooms frequently Juet
before the election of Mayor Mltchel and
had seen much of Cornell. Fennlmof nnd I
Rofrano. The revolver ho Identified oh
one owned ly Cornell he snld he carried
cm election day In 1913 while going,
about the district In connection with i
district politics. He sworo the revolver
had been handed to him by Fennlmor 1
in the morning nnd thnt In the evening
he gave It back to Cornell.
Chnnaeil .Ml ml In Prison.
Seraflno on cross-examination ad
mitted that he had agreed to turn State's
wltnese nfter Joseph La Salle and his
brother, Antonio, had been Imprisoned
In Sing Sing for the murder of Mlnott.
Kerallno lit under a sentence of two years
and rlx months for assault.
Tho testimony by Seraflno concerning
Ro'rano's acquaintance with Mitl
magno was given nfter the witness had
identified the prisoner ns "Tommle" and
was nsked whore he had seen him. To
this question Seraflno nnswered:
"At th Home Rule Club, of which I
waa a member."
"With whom was he?"
"Michael Rofrano."
Joseph La Salle was recalled by the
defence and In answer to questions by
Mr. Barra said he never had told his
lawyer. Robert H. Klder, that If he had
thought his brother, Antonio, would be
convicted he would have put the whole
thing up to the Rofrano crowd. La
Salle repeated that he had lied at the
trial of his brothor at tho suggestion of
his counsel, but denied that he had
asked his lawyer to permit witnesses
to swoar falsely for him at his own
trial
A story was current about the Crim
inal Courts Building yesterday that Tom
Foley and two of his lieutenants had
been marked for death end that 15,000
had been offered for their murder. No
one In the District Attorney's office be
lieved the story, but It was eald there
waa no doubt thnt Foley waa a much
disliked man In certain quarters of his
political district,
When court adjourned Justice Davis
told the Jurors to come to-day prepared
for a night session.
ROW AT HOME RULE CLUB '
Poor Alleged Fnlvyltes Arrested ,
After Creating: Disturbance.
Mike Rofrano'a Home Rule Club,
which Is geographically opposite and po
litically opposed to ex-Sheriff Big Tom
Foley's Downtown Tammany Club In
lower Madison street, suffered an In
ternal eruption Just before dawn yester
day at tho hands of four men, who say
they are not members of the Downtown
Tammany Club, whereas the police say
they are.
Rofrano, who Is Deputy Street Clean
ing Commissioner and head of tho Home
Rule Club, Is the same Mike Rofrano
accused hy witnesses at tho trial of
laetano Montlmngno, now going on. for
tho murder of a Foley lieutenant, Mike
Oalmarl, of lending nt lent his hest
wishes to tho plottcre who put the Foly
lieutenant out of the way. Whether
Ihese charges against Rofrano urged on
tho Foley sympathizers to try to wreck
Hofrano's club rooms yesterday morn
ing cannot ho said, hut tho belief nmong
Iho police, ns well as nmong Foleyttes.
seems to be that the trouble was chiefly
due to nn execs of Park Row beer.
Tho Rofrano club rooms, at 4S Madi
son street, are the samo rooms townrd
which ancient eggs and vegetables Hew
a year nun last fall when William Sul
zcr, during his campaign for tho As
sembly, cast dlM'rellon aside and np
penred upon nn Improvised platform In
Irnnt of tho club one night to make a
peech that was smothered In noise and
eggs.
The four men accused of causing
tho disturbance yesterday morning told
Lieut. Funetnn nt Headquarters, after
Sergt. Kills nnd live patrolmen from the
Oak street police station had arrested
them, that they had gone tn the ltofrano
eub rooms nt tho Invitation of nn Itnl
sn they met In a Park Row all night
ntlooii about H o'clock In tho morning,
Trio Italian, they said, persuaded thun
hat It was silly to buy beer In n saloon
when there were free clrlnke for the ask
ing In Hofrano's club rooms.
The police came flocking to the Home
Rule Club when the caretaker of the
club, John Rapuccl, wsa awakened while
BOGUS ARMY OFFICER
GETS TEN YEAR TERM
Cleveland Mnn Pleads Guilty
to Swindling Under
Aliases.
Stnndlnir heels together and chin
1 drawn In According to th approved
, military manner. Frederick n. Peters.
aKed 25, of Cleveland, Ohio, pleaded
. KUllty before Judge Augustus N. Hand
lerday to Impersonating nnvy and army
otllcers and parsing bad checks In their
names. An a result he will have ten
long years In Atlanta to recall the
numerous occasions on which he waji
nbte to deceive tradespeople and army
circles with his lithe, erect figure, eor-
rec, drMg ,, ,p of nulnorlty
...,
On one occasion, according to As
sistant United States Attorney Harold
A. Content, Teters dropped Into a re
cruiting office on Sixth avenue, took
the officer In charge out to luncheon and
In return got a visitor's card to the
Army and Navy Club here.
Judge Hand told Cetera that there
was not much probability of his get
ting a parole to shorten his term. Inas
imtich as he had been arrested for similar
offences on six prior occasions and had
'served several prison terms. In 1909
he pleaded guilty In Washington, D. C,
to forging a number of checks In the
name of Congressman Nicholas Txmg
worth and was sentenced to three years.
He was paroled, however. In the custody
of Newton D. Haker, the present Mayor
of Cleveland, who Is acquainted with the
young man's family.
Peters began his forging operations
back In 1907. when he was only 20
years old. He was arrested In July
that year, but escaped prosecution. In
1903 he was sentenced to six months In
Stamford, Conn. In March, 1909, he
was again sentenced to two years for
forging the name of Rear Admiral
l.eutie, but was again paroled. In
March, 1911, he was arrested In Los
Angeles, but was not prosecuted. In
June, 1911, he got six years at Oakland,
Cal.
Having served three years of the
latter term he was paroled last June
and resumed Immediately his travols
sleeping on the top floor by a racket In
the rooms beneath him. Rapuccl went
out on the roof and fired a shot as a
call for help.
John Sullivan of C3 Monroe street,
Timothy Huckley of 3 James slip, who
ays ho holds a city Job In the form of
"physical director In ono of the city
parks," but looks anything but athletic:
hie brother. John, a driver, of 49 Cath
arine street, nnd William Pierce, a
printer, 34 Kaat Broadway, all said to
be Foley followers, were held In ball
of 11,000 each by Magistrate Marsh In
the Tombs pollco court later In the day.
Caretaker Rapuccl also was locked up
for violating tho Sullivan law.
The police say that when they arrived
at tho Rofrano club the piano, the pool
tablo. pictures and other furnishings
were mewed together on the floor. John
Buckley Jumped from a second story
window when Sergt. Ellis and his men
hurst In, but wan captured In Madison
street. Pierce tried to run down tho
ntnlris but n slight bullet wound In the
arm from n shot ftrod by Patrolman
Kano stopped him nnd he was token to
the Volunteer Hospital.
Bail at flret was set nt 12.500 in each
case for examination on May 23. This
was reduced to $1,000, however, because,
dejiplto the burglary charge, everything
seemed to point toward vicious inls
chlcvousness rather than attempted
burglary.
"It goes without saying that tho
Downtown Tammany Club had nothing
to do with this matter," ex-Sheriff Foley
said lout night. "Nevertheless I shall
arrango as soon aa possible to get ball
for the voters of tho district among the
prisoners. I don't approve of their I
methods, but nt the same time It's my
duty to do what I can for any of our
people In tho district who get Intc
trouble. Thnt's why I'm leader and
that's why I have the voter" confidence."
SAYS HE DIDN'T BUY MURDER.
Alibi Defence of LrstKln, Accused
hy Death llnnsr Inmate.
Angeln Legglo. named as the man who
hired William Flack to kilt Giuseppe
Merino In Kast Thirteenth street In April
of last year, vuok the witness stand In
hla own behalf yesterday In Judge Notf
court In General Sessions. He Is ac
cused of the murder along with Flack,
who says he did the actual shooting, for
which he was to get 1200. Flack wan
convicted and came from the death
house In Sing Blng to give evidence
against Legglo.
Leggto's defence Is an alibi ao far aa
concerns the commission of the crime,
which he admits took placo In a room
he had hired for Mrs. Louise Macaluso.
Here he says his Interest ended.
The case will be continued to-day.
FEAR BILLY WON'T
I XOnn TTlTTlI ONXTriJIV
LttlJi UllllJJ OUllLfnl
Evangelist Shows Strain 12,
000 Hear .Tekyll-Hyde
Sermon.
Pattrson, N. J., May 20. Ttllly Sun
day looked so worn out to-night and
asked his audience of 12,000 persona
the largest yet In the Pnternon Taber
nacle to stop coughing so often that
people are wondering whether he will
be able to last through the big parade
on Saturday and the four sermons
planned for Sunday, the wlndup of his
campaign. But he gave a Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde performance, nevertheless,
which caused twenty-eight women and
two men to fnlnt or become hysterical.
Several thousand nersons could not get
Inalne, tne Hawnust nlsle were pacitea
.... .
and girls dangled their feet over the
edge of his platform during the sermon.
Billy told them they nil hnd somo Dr.
Jekyll and some Mr, Hyde In them, the
Intter being the devil, and that they
had better look out that tho Mr. Hydo
In them didn't become supreme. There
wae laughter at his performance which
Billy did not like, It seemed.
"You're all In tho eume boat!" he
shouted. "Don't rock It. Damn me. If
you like, but sooner or later you'll lind
out who Is the Jackass, you or I."
Besides being a record day for at
tendance, to-night was a banner night
for gifts received In thn Sunday party.
Thero were forty-seven In nil, even
Billy's housekeeper getting one, Billy
got two more elllt suits, Ma got one
nnd every male member of the wing
IIH'x party got one too. Woolen socks,
candy, a toilet set, a sweater for Billy's
mother In 'Oregon and other things
were In the lot Billy and Ma also
received life membership In the Patrlotlo
Order of America.
There were 411 trail hitter to-fey.
Frederick E. Peters;
about the country under the names of
Lieut. P. B. Fleming, Capt. P). Adelbert
Ilarber and Lieut, C. 0. Rogers of the
army and Lieut Richard Walnwrlght,
Jr., son of the Spanish wsr hero. From
last January until his arrest a few weeks
ago he made this city his base of
operations. He was aided here, the
Federal authorities believe, by a woman
accomplice who posed aa his wife. In
court yesterday he signalled to a hand
some young woman, who was marked
by Capt. William Offley of the local
Department of Justice and trailed to her
home by one of the tatter's agents.
Pctcrs's scheme as outlined by As-
slstant United States Attorney Content
was to make purchases In the nsme of
an officer, have them sent to the nearest
army or navy post and pay for them
with a bad check, which he always
made out about JB0 In excess of the I
amount required so that he might pocket i
the change.
Several weeks ago Peters In the name
of Capt. IJ. Adelbert Barber engaged
passage on the Transylvania for himself,
his wife and child. His name was
printed on the passenger list and he was
referred to as one of the distinguished
passengers. That, however, was before
the steamship people discovered his
check was' bad.
70 SCARS ON CHILD;
FATHER ARRESTED
Man Out of Work Cliarpcd
With Beating Wife and
Infant Son.
utteet, on charge ot selling cocaine.
When searched he had rle decks of
Three-year-old Louis Lukovltch Is in cocaine In hie pocket.
St. Mary'H Hospital, Thlrty-fourth ThB 'ame detectives later arrested
ctrect and Ninth aonue. suffering from Oeorge llyne. 17 years old. a clerk, of
soventy cuts and bruise and possl le 201 Kast 114th street. He had one deck
Internal injuries. Ills mother. Tens'.-. I of the drug In his possession.
has a bruised lft eye and an Injured
hand. His father, Stephen. Is a pris
oner In Ilelicvue Hospital, surferliu- (ininiYTJD T HUTGJ' fDV
jaw"1 0,h,r Mn' ,vl,n 11 fr!,ci'jrc'1 , nli run LA n ij Unl
Lukovltch. who lives with his wife'
anil three children In tho basement f
247 Went Thirty-eighth rtrret. Is ac
cused of felonious assHult. The report
given out c sturdily by the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children says that Uie father went
home Intoxicated and started to beat
his youngest child. The mother Inter
fered und sho too waa attacked. I
Vincent T. Plziaro, assistant super-1
inlendent of the society, said yesteiday
he hid not encountered such an extreme '
cjso of cruelty In many years. He ex.
hlblteit the renon of Dr. Travis iltbh.
who made n thorough examination of
the child. Ills
recital of the child's
Injuries follows:
"On hU head are three contused and !
lacerated wounds and ten contused I
wounds.
"His right eye Is blackened and his
right ear contused and swollen.
"On his face are. four contused and
abraded wounds.
"On his back are twenty-seven abra
sions and contusions.
"On the front of his body are five
contusions nnd abrasions.
"On his right arm are five contusions.
"On lite left arm seven contusions.
"On his left leg are five contusions.
"His abdomen Is enlarged and ap
pears to be tho seat of serious Internal
Injuries.
"These Injuries are recent and appear
to me to be the result of an assault
by some weapon."
The attack on the child was made on
last Monday evening. Lukovltch, e
baker by trade, has done little work tn
the lost seven months. The agent of
the Children's Society says he has fcen
drinking heavily nt times. His wife Is
J.mltress of the fla-thouse In which tho
family lives nnd ca"lis JIG a month
through the work,
Lukovltch went home Intoxicated on
Monday evenlnf, the report says. Ho
I started to whip the child and when his
'wife interfered she also was beaten,
' It took two policemen, according to
' the neighbors, to subdue Lukovltch and
drag hint from the hcuse. As he wan
being carried out he yelled at bis wife .
"I'll get you yet."
Mrs. Lukovltch waa alarmed yeter
dny for fear that the Chlldren'a So
clety would take the two other children
away and put them In an Institution.
Tho case will come up In court ah
soon n Lukovltch Is able to leave tho
hospital.
AT 5 SCORE 8 WEIGHS 1 SCORE.
"Wnmnn Dvrnrf Celebrates 100th
Illrthdar In Ilehrexv Home.
The 106th birthday of Mrs. Jennette
Schwartz, a dwarf, weighing only
twenty pounds, waa celebrated yester
day In the Brooklyn Hebrew Home for
thn Aged, at Dumont and Howard nve
nues. The nged woman expressed her
gratitude for the gifts showered upon
her by apt quotations from Schiller.
Mrs. Schwartz received her guests it
her bedside. She has been contlned to
her bed since coming to the home a
i V" W- T"e superintendent, .Mrs,
, Chnnl.n
Shapiro, and many supporters of the
home brought her fruit nnd flowers. Her
great age and diminutive size have
made he.r a notable Inmate of the home.
Sho replied with Intelligence ln tier
man to the many questions put to her
and she told of her gratitude to women
who befriended her when she hecnmo
100 years old. Many questions sho
met by quoting accurately from Schiller.
Sho has had no children.
McADOO GETS MORE POWER.
Ilecomei Chief of All City's
In-
ferlor Courts nn July 1.
William McA(S)o, now Chief Magis
trate of the police courts of the First Di
vision (Manhattan and The Bronx), will
be deslKnatwl as Chief Magistrate of nil
tho city's Inferior courts on July 1, when
the act consolidating the First nnd Sec
ond divisions goes Into effect In n
letter from Wyoming Mayor Mltchel au
thorised hl secretary, Theodore Rous
seau, to make thle announcement yea-terdy.
DRUGS SEIZED AFTER
PENN STATION FIGHT
Three Men Rattle Detectives
In Concourse Two Cap
tured. NEW MOVE IN CONSPIRACY
A flat fight between four detectives
and three men caught In the act if
smuggling drugs Into the city. In the
centre of the ooneours of the Pennsyl
vania Station, exolted crowds of trav
ellers last night. Two of the three men
were arrested and drugs worth 11,000
confiscated.
Acting upon a tip, which it Is be
lieved came from Yogi Hills, who was
arrested on Wednesday with drugs In
hla possession, Detectives Finn, Flynn,
I'abrucoo and Wey early In the eve
ning went about lower Manhattan In a
touring car on the lookout for a auto
mobile of whose destination only they
were certain.
The machine appeared and headed for
the Pennsylvania Station. Keeping welt
out of sight, the detectives observed
three men alight, enter the station, pre
sent a check at the baggage room and
start to leave with a large box wrapped
In paper.
At a given signal the four detectives
closed upon the three men as they
reached the centre of the concourse.
Tho trio give tight, blows were struck,
clothes torn, passengers came running
from nil directions and finally one of tho
men escaped. The two others were sub
dued and taken to the West Thirtieth
Htreet station They gavo their names
;l, ir,vln Hlackman. 26. 21 First avenue
nnd Sebastian Maugcrl. 2S. 53 Orchard
street, both chauffeurs. They were
aken to Headquarters for examination
by Federal detectives,
The third mnn. the police my, runs a
garage In liist Seventeenth street and
owns the car which Is being bcM at tne
West Thirtieth street station.
The package checked out of the
station by the prisoners was found to
contain sixteen one ounce Dottles or
morphine and 1,000 tablets of cocaine.
The police attach great Importance to
the fact that the drugs bore the label
ot the same firm In Philadelphia which
was found on drugs In the pojsesslon of
"Yogi Kills."
The detectives of the Pennsylvania
Railroad last night began an Investiga
tion umong the employees of the toad.
They ay that they hope soon to arret
one of their portors.
The police believe that a new devel
opment In the conspiracies to distribute
drugs throughout the city has been frus
trated, namely, the use of automohlles.
It l hopl that with the evidence dis
covered List night and that which Yog'
Kills can gio the Federal authorities'
will soon mike Important discoveries.
Metectlves Phelan and Brady of the
tr.g .iuad List night arrested Fred
Egan, 21 years old, of 64 Kast 104th
FALSE, SAYS MILLS
c . 4 ti,. .. nm
Senator AOCUSCS DetTiOCrath Of
Trying to Conceal Real
Facts.
State Senator Ogden I Mills defended
tho record of the last Legislature In a
speech before the Republican county
eommlttee In Bryant Hall. Broadway
nnd Fortv-flrst street, last night. He
1" . ,r.VVv.'" " t..u i,..ie.n
..., i. u n.mmt tn nrnrr.il
the real facts. Thn truth, according to Walter L. Vlck of Rutherford, for
Mr. Mills, wjie that In tho reorganization mer receiver of customs at Santo Ho
of departments the Republicans "cxer- I mlngo, was ono of the Jurors called to
rlsed moderation and Judgment'
Entirely unfair, he eald, was tne
charge that New York city was dis
criminated against He gave a list of
tho city's hills that were passed, and
added that not a single mandiitory bill
affecting the city got through. The only
Important bills fathered by the Mltchel
administration that failed, ho ald. were
the market bill, the bill reducing the
Hoard of Education from forty-six to
twenty-three members and the ttll per
mitting the Board of Estimate and the
Aldermen to ttx all salaries. Including
thoso of school teachers. On all of these
measure. Senator Mills said, there was
honest difference of opinion.
The work of the Legislature," he told
the county committee, "calls for no
apology, no explanation on your part,
but Is a work for which the Republican
party ,1s entitled to real credit and
which will meet with the entire ap
proval of the people of the State when
It Is fully understood.
"Our opponents." he went on, "se
lected one or two measures of question
able merit and held them up as typlcil
of nil our work. They raised such a
hue nnd cry about bills which did not
become law thnt many of the gool
measures which were passed were over
looked. "
Mr. Mills spoke of himself aa the only
Republican Senator from New Tork
county.
"Senator Bennett," he said, "although
he classified himself as BO per cent. Re
publican, voted for the most part with
tho Democrats and after the flret few
days of the session failed to attend any
of the party conferences."
As to the finance bills Mr. Mills said
the question was too big and compli
cated to be considered last night, but he
hoped to express his convictions on trv's
subject later.
PHONE RATE CHANGE ON JULY 1
IfrTT "chedolc Extends "Local
railing; Areas."
It was announced yesterday that t he
new schedule of telephone rates agreed
upon by tho Publlo Service Commission
and the Now York Telephone Company
would become effective on July I.
Ily the new arrangements the "local
calling areas" will be greatly extended.
The minimum rate per message under
message rate contracts will be reduced
t 8 t.p,its nnd w rnnge as low as 2V,
ents, nccordlng to the number of tnes
Miges.
The toll charge to telephones beyond
tho "local areas" will be s cents per call to
nil except the more remote zones, which
will cost in cents, Thero will also be a
liberal reduction In tho standard rates for
private branch exchange service, A re.
tlurtlon In thn charge for telephones con
nected with prlvnto brnnch exchanges
will mnlto It possible for large establish
ments t Instnll n complete, system nt
practically nn nddltlonnl expense,
Th" chnrge. for call between lower
Manhattan and ili-iioMvu uill bo I cents
Instead of io rents, ns at Present. In no
case will the rale for calls between the
inoitt remote srrtlons of the city he morn
than 10 rents. The charge for publlo
telephones "111 be diminished, No changes
In standard looal flat rate schedule.! are
announced.
DR. GOODNOWNOW HEAD
OF JOHNS HOPKINS
Installed as President Gen.
Goethals and Prof. Pupin
Get LL. D. Degree.
Baltimom, May 20. Dr. Frank John
son Ooodnow was Installed as president
of the Johns Hopkins University this
afternoon In the presence of a large
number of educators.
The features of the celebration were
Dr. Ooodnow1 a Inaugural address and
the conferring of degrees by Dr. William
H. Welch, who has been acting aa presi
dent at the university. Dr. Ooodnow's
subject was "Modern Educational
Ideals."
These Ideal," he said, "are compre
hensive. Including disciplinary training
of the young along general lines, the
transmission of that particular knowl
edge of the past which will do most to
develop persona of culture: the applica
tion of scientific methods to the conduct
of the ordinary affaire of life; the In
crease of knowledge through research
and Investigation and the rendering of
public, service."
In referring to the functions of a uni
versity In relation to Its community.
Dr. Ooodnow said . "It Is one of the
duties of our higher Institutions of
learning to proffer the services of their
members. For whether those Institu
tions are. or are not. what Is techni
cally known ns State universities, they
In a large measure owe their establish
ment and their possibilities for useful
work to their communlltles.
"The Idenls which each university
should set before Itself must be deter
mined by Its peculiar situation, lus
purpose should be excellence rather than
comprehensiveness, quality rather than
quantity, it should expand only so far
as expansion will nt it Deuer io ai-
charge Us main function and to pursue
Its principal Ideals, or so tar as tne
local needs Incident to Its geographical
situation make such expansion neces- Rockefeller Institute
sary. John Dewey, professor of philosophy
"It Is only when such an attitude n Columbia University
has been assumed that It will be pos- Oen. (leorgo Washington Goethals,
slble to eltmlnate an unhealthy and un- builder of the Panama Canal,
wtae competition between universities, Henry Carter Adams of the depart
all of which belong to the samo brother- ment of economics, University of Micht-
hood, all of which are pursuing tne
same general ends and all or wnicn
should cooperate."
JURYMEN TESTIFY 1
IN TRIAL OF HURD,
Prosecutor Calls Vlck and Oth
ers to Refute Charcro of
Defendant,
Hacxmsack, N. J.. Mar 10. Prose
cutor Thomas J. Huekln of Bergen
county was compelled to do an unusual
thing In the criminal oourta here to
day when he called four members of
the Orand Jury aa witnesses In the trial
of Postmaster George A. Hurd of Ha-
worth In order to clear himself of tne
. j . . . . Tnile hv the
iWi&,SSl,K appeared
Inst Mlas Martha Con
rad. 17 years old. who nccuses him;
... T...t. rnrA led William ami
Harry Conrnd. all Interested In HurdV ,
arrest. The Postmaster comrlalned that
he was subjected to a severe examlna
tlon by Prosecutor Huekln before tho ,
s. t..m. t. wh. ordered out of
urujm uii.j ,
the room three times; mai inn i r.vc
cutor Influenced the Grand Jury- and wai
.i.. .1,. ivnavutnr was the whole show.
No Indictments resulted In the consplr-
h atanrl
"Did you see me order the defendant
out of the Jury room three times? " nsked
Prosecutor Huekln.
"I did not," replied Mr. Vlck,
"Was I the whole show In the Orand
Jury room?"
t aVinnM v not."
"Did you observe an Influence jin the
urand jurors Dy ir i-ruwcuim .
"I did not" .
J, Spencer Smith, foreman of the
Orand Jury; Surrogate Robert A. Sib
bald and A. W. Tyler, Jurors, testi
fied to the same effect.
Ex-Prosecutor Wendell J. Wright of
counsel for the accused rostmaater
vigorously opposed the calling of the
Orand Jury, but Judge Seufert over
ruled the objections.
Mrs. Hurd waa called thla afternoon
and was asked by Prosecutor Huekln:
"Did you ever tell Mrs. C. V. Rlkor
that you were never married legally to
Mr. Hurd?"
"No. I onoe said that Mr. Hurd had
told me we weren't legally married, but
I paid no attention to It." replied Mrs.
nurd.
The defenee closed to-day, but both
sides expect to put on more witnesses
to-morrow In rebuttal.
BLLTMORE INTRUDER HELD.
Arrested After Holding. Off Hotel
Employees With Knife.
Oeorge Schlrmer, a muslo publisher,
was awakenod at B o'clock yesterday ;
morning by a man entering his room on
tho twenty-second floor of tho Hotel
Ulltmore. The man withdrew, explain
ing that he had got Info the wrong
room by accident; but he returned an
hour later and again Mr. Schlrmer
nwaliened. this time lumnlng from bed
1 and chasing the stranger out Into the
corridor.
Other guests and employees Jojned In
the chase and tho telephono girl down-
stairs telephoned the news to Pollci 1
Commissioner Wood, who lives on tho '
twentieth floor of the hotel. The Com
mlssloner relayed tho Information in i
HendquarterH and shortly afterward
Lieut. Flannery and two detectives were
at thn hotel,
Tho stranger meanwhile had be?n i
holding off the hotel employees nnd
pajamn clnil guests with a clasp knife
Ho gavo himself up to tho detectives i
and was taken to Headquarters, whern
he gave his name oa John Oordon. Ac
cording to tho pollco ho lias a ri-cnnl 1
extending hack to 1001, when ho was
sentenced to two yearn for burglary In '
San Francisco, and Including thlrtcoi1
previous arrests. Ho was held in 5ri,- ,
000 hall hy Mnglstwite nousn in no
Yorkvllln court on a chnrgo of unliw
ful entry, a misdemeanor.
Tnkes Poison nn fnnrt Steps,
Henry Olllesple, a laborer, 44n West
Thirtieth Htrenl, sat through most of llle
session nt thn men's 'light court last
night on a rear bench and then left
liefoie It adjourned to KWiillon part of
the contents of bottle of purls green
on the Mens below. He toppled tn thn
sidewalk and a few minutes later told 1
Policeman King and Dr. ilnodmnn of '
Flower Hospital that ho had no home, no
Job, and Just wanted to die. He may
get his desire.
Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow
Tho new president of Johns Hop
kins University.
The degree of doctor of laws was con
ferred on tho following:
Henry White of this city, formerly
Ambassador to France.
Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia
Unl entity
Robert Simpson Woodward, president
of tho Carr.eglti Institute of Washing-
, ton.
fjcorge Lyman KIttredKn o! the de
partment of HiiKllsh at Harvard.
John Mason Clark, State Oeologlst of
N'ew Yrk. ,
Paul Shorey, professor of Greek at
ie University of Chicago.
Thomas Hunt Morgan, professor ot
biology nt PolumtU University,
jjr, Simon lner. director of
the
gan.
Dr. Abbott Inwrenoe Lowell,
prest.
dent of Harvard university
JAIL FOR DEBT, EVEN
WITH FAMILY IN WANT
PHcrht of Samuel Sonnensclioln
Stirs Sympathy of Mon
Who Arrest Him.
What Is regarded as an example of
the Injustice of th present laws per
mitting imprisonment for dent wa dis
closed In the Slierirf'M ofilco yesterday,
when Samuel Sonnenechi'In w;ie arretted
heeau he couldn't pay a Judgment of
$16p. Sonneiischein was taken from his
homo nt tin K.ist 103d street, where h3
lives with his wife and four children.
to Ludlow street Jail, where he will re-
main Indefinitely.
JTTSf enemt K
which his parents got a Judgment of
11! in the Municipal court. Since then
Sonnenscheln has met with reverses anil
was not only unnble to pay thn Judg
ment, but couldn't even support hi
fiimilv When Deputy Sheriffs McDon
nell .ind X.ltner went to Sotinen-clicin'H
Hat yesterday they found his family In
,
ant. Tho children had no shoes and
, thos worn bv ihe'r mother wire little
j better than nothing
Finding thnt the family Imdn't eaten
for twenty-four hours the deputies sent
nut nnd got food for them Sonnenscho'.n
wept when they took htm awny, and
he asked, "Who will keep my f.itully""
The deputlesald they would willingly
hno given him time In which tn take
some action to combat the Judgment,
hut that tho Judcment creditor nnd the
latter'ii attorney were insistent that
Snnnensoheln be locked up unless he
paid nt once, nnd thev hud no nltr ' nntlvo
it to act
JOHN WANAMAKER
The Man's Store
Right of Way
Today
to the special selling to wise men and young
men of the city, of new, right, ready-to-wear
Suits at $22.50 and $15.50
They are $20 to $32.50 grades, Wanamakcr
standard.
No man should fail to see them, for there
is no man of average normal build and good
taste who cannot be fitted and pleased out of
the several hundred 'suits he may choose
from today.
Broadway at Ninth
SAY BAR FIXTURE
TRADE IS PASSING
Manufacturers Blamo Prohibi
tion Fewer Saloons
Starting.
NOT .SO. REPLIES RUPPERT
Manufacturers of bar fixtures tn this
c.ty said yesterday that there Is less
demand In these times for the rail you
put your foot on and the mahogany
counter you lean your elbow on than
ever before. They said that there has
been a marked falling off In the flxturJ
business.
Theso statements followed the an
nouncement from tho West that
tho Brur.swlek-Ilalkc-Collender Com
pany, the largest manufacturer of stock
liar fixtures In tho United States, had
decided to rctlro from that end of Its
business nnd had turned tho entire plant
nt Dubuque, la., Into a factory for
making talking machine cablneta and
piano cases. Tho reason assigned for
this chatigo was that the company was
convinced that the saloon Is passing.
Charles P Miller, vice-president of
the ltrunswIck-ltalke-Conendcr Com
pany of New York, said:
"In the past few months we have done
little or no business In bnr fixtures. This
business has been affected by adverse
"tquor legislation nnd by tho prohibition
movement Accordingly, wn nro taking
In other lines, nn we always have done,
so that our factories may go ahead
with work for their full capacity
"I believe Hint In tho Western 8tates,
whero prohibition hai full sway nnd
where tho saloons nro passing nway so
that there are no opportunities for sell
ing such fixtures, tho manufacturing
of theso fixtures has fallen off from 50
to 00 per cent. In tho last three months.
In the smaller towns tho decrease In the
number of saloons wanting extensive
furnishings has been most noticeable."
Mr Miller said that his company's
factory In Long Island City, which was
once used as tho manufactory of hir
flxturr-s, had long slnco ceased to per
form that function and that It wns now
used ns a stnrago plant and as a f.v
tory for fitting together the parts ot
billiard tables and other nrClcles which
am made In tho West nnd shipped on
here.
Ely J. Reiser & Co., another big man
ufacturing firm of this city, which has
made a specialty of bar fixture, gave
testimony that the demand In New York
c'.tv for saloon t'f tings had lessened con
siderably of late. It was said at the
offices of that company that tho falling
nff was due to tho fact that not so many
new saloons were opening In tho city
formerly
"All rot," was tho way Jacob Rup
pert, Jr., president of the New York
Slate Wholesale Brewers Association,
harneterlzed tho Idea that the saloon
Is passing. He said that It wae only
the Brunswlck-Ralke-Collender Com
pany's excuse. As far as New York
I'ily la concerned, Mr. Ruppcrt said
that the limiting of the number of li
censes might have a slight effect on tho
tlxture buslnebs. but that was nil; there
nro enough saloons around to keep busl
nc.. going, ho believed.
CHURCHES FIGHT SALOONS.
Mnntclnlr ConsTrmn lions Went
l.lqnor Licenses Tnrned llnirn,
MoNTCXAin, N. J.. May 20, Members)
of the First Congregations! Church nnd
tho First Baptist Church passed resolu
tions last night committing 'he respec
tive churches to the campaign for the
abolition of liquor licenses In Montclalr.
Tho resolutions will be presented to
the Town Council on Monday night whei
that body meets to give a public hear
Irg on th" applications for licenses.
Eight places have applied for renewals
of "Inn nr.d taverr" license nnd threo
for wholes-lie privileges There are no
new applications this year.
0RVILLE WRIGHT IN CITY.
Denies llr fame to Dlsens nlr of
Patent Rights.
Orvllle Wright came to New Tork
from Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, and
report was circulated thnt he w:i here
to confer with representatives of the
Connecticut Aircraft Company of New
IlnM'ti about a sale of his patent rights.
"My trlli to New York has nothing
whatever to do with any such tiling."
said Mr Wright "I have seen no rep
resentatives of the Connecticut Aircraft
C'lmpan; .itid I don't t'pct to seo any."
JURIES UNDER LOCK
IN QUEENS CLEANUP
Peculiar Conditions Comlmldl
in Curly Jon ('fisslil
Former Domain.
SUFPRAOTSTS ARK ACTIM
Two Juries In queens war ord"1
locked up last night onfng to th
peculiar conditions prevailing In i at
oounty. They are trying the eaj., ,(
John Vincent Ward, 24, son of Ldnirit
Ward, an undertaker und follow? ,.f
Curly Joe Cassldy, who ts aeei,
attacking Miss Caroline Greh, 21 1 1
Walter If. Shanley, on I.exlnslon ,,
nue, Manhattan, accused of perjur ,
Ward'i trial Is being conducted Ij.
Judge H. J. Humphrey and Shan, s
before County Judge J. Harry Tier
who waa summoned from Rtciin ,
county to help clean up the crni n,t
calendar In Queens.
Denis 0Leary, who suci edd M.
thew J. Smith as District Aitop ,
found more than 200 cases awa
trial and last week ho obtained fo I .
two convictions and pleis of cui'tv i ,
Jqry that convicted Harry S. .iMo n ' v
days ago of asmlM,- Mr "'.ir,i I t.
also was locked u The ,irj t- 4
attracting almost .. niurh .iMeni,. ln
Queens aa the trial of Ilcfftrnan
Scanlon, both of whom wero also ! ' n.
ers of Cassldy, Heffernnti w.istu , j
of the same erlmo ns Seinlon. The I., -..
will be arraigned this morn -ig l-'ri
Justice Bcudder for sentence.
Woman suffr it ,idc I l
Alfred J. Eno,,i r, o' t . i
ln Queens, took .in ,i live par ,
prosecutions of Seinlon and Ilr'f
and they are showing almost eqj
terest In the Ward trial, It was t i..
fraglsts who wero Instrumental 'n
f-
Ing District Attorney Smith super-el. J
In the prosecutions of Ilrrfcrn.r, a- i
Scanlon.
Wnrd waa tried about a month lit",
but the Jury disagreed. Te tenim y
given against him was even -r.nr tt,
voltlng than thnt against llerfern I
Sranlon.
Photograplm of Miss Oresh IV .
accuser, showing bruises on Vr '
and body, wero p'eented In e ',
Wnrd's defence Is nn al'bl
Shanley Is accused of tivtl'y r,ir
he witnessed an accident to John v
on the night of February
Miller alleges he wis struck bv a 11'
lyn trolley car at Meserole a- I Or
avenues, Oreenpolnt. M lr
awarded n verdict of 11,'DO for 'r 1
It Is alleged that at the time r'
accident Shanley wat. emplo- e
moving plcturo concern In li e
What he needs is a "Scotch
MlSt Walrmsrk'
Spring weight overcoats of
rough cheviot, rainproof id.
Our own idea and to be had
in New York only in our
stores.
Blue serge suits don't It ar
salt water or Summer mil
'that is, ours don't.
Every man should 'uivfj
one in his wardrobe.
With an extra pair of flim
nel trousers, you're tvvo suits
to the good.
Everything men and boyj
wear.
Sporting Goods in all t o'tS
Rooers Peet Company
Broadway Brcdi
t 13th St. "The st 3th St.
Four
Broadway Comera" F '
tWaurmtt etsl.tSt,
H mart Low Sliocs
More far Tour Money Than Inj C fisr Sfon
I Dark Mahogany Russia I alt
$2.97, $3.98
I & $4.98
Flat lasts, wide sltanks.lbneorl hecV
and worth $1 tt J'1 J
Rubber Sole Runsct IKforcU,
$2.97 & $3.9S
V nrlli I .unl
"Arch Support Shoes. S.t .t'S & t 'S
I I'nr I 111 t I mil .unl Mil. 1
I In Vlrl KM. - mi 11- 1 '
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