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% f % WEATHER | k ^ '*\ The Star is the only afternoon l air ton^rm Sunday; I J l jfl IT M fVI'If'Y'Yt' OSff paper in Washington,ha, print, I colder tonight, with freezing m W IJI ^WW III III llll | f| | the news of the Associated Press, temperature and killing frosts. |vV | /V W'A' " ? m - ~___ ____________________________________________________ . - ?* No. Hi.O-JO. WASHINGTON, D. G., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1912-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. ONE CENT. WILSON SOUNDS CALLTOTHE FIGH Declares Senate and Pres dency Must Be Won for the People. MESSAGE TO THE VOTERS FROM DEMOCRATIC HEA Says Decision of Tuesday Will I feet Entire Generation. ASSERTS CHANGE NECESSAE Sees No Hope for Popular Control Government With the Republican Party in Power in Washington. | WILSON S FINAL MESSAGE. "The decision of the 5th i of November will usher in, ;$ we he true, a new day of confidence, freedom and prosperity. It will be 110 niggardly triumph of a parlor a iacti"ii. but the triumph of a people. The democratic party will be, not the selfish victor, but the trusted instrument, and the years that follow will test ; every principle of the great republic. < ?od grant we shall be worthy to prevail." N'FIW YORK. November 2-A featu f the observance of "Wilson rally da today was the reading at oemocratic ri lies through the country of Gov. Wilsoi message to the voters of the Unit States This message was read by form Judge Alton B. Parker at a Wilson ral ?t Pelham Manor, West Chester counl Kew York, and by other demoera wherever the supporters of Gov. Wils< gssembied to observe the day. The governor's message is as follows Gov. Wilson'# Message. "Friends and Fellow-Citizens: V Stand face to face With a great decislc decision which w;ll nft'ect the whc course of our national life and our int vicinal tor'lines throughout the next ge era*ion. We must make that decision t fith of November. It cannot be pos jc?ned. We cannot vote without niakii it. and if we do not vote those who i w ill make it for us. The next four yea v ill determine how we are to solve t question of the tariff, the question of t tru-ts, the question of the reformation our whole banking and currency syste the conservation of our natural resourc and of the health and vigor of our peop the development of our means of trail port at ion. the right application of o scientific knowledge to the work ai ?-aIth'ul prosperity of our whole pop a: n. wh'-ther in the field or in the fa > or in the min- s the firm esta .i-hun :it of a foreign policy based up> n-t i. and g<><> n dl rath*r than up - c in . ere a! -xplo tat:on and t !* !. nf? rests i f .1 narrow circle :. jli. "ers e itendit.g theii enterprises the tndl of the earth. and tile extensii of the assistance of the government * - "Se many programs of uplift and b? rrj i-nt tu which some of the best min of nur age have turned with wise ho and ardor. The Tariff Question. II:. re is much to }.?? done, ami it tni ! * done in th?- light spirit ard in t right ivav t? *iii .1 .... - * . . our irouDU t :. li.-v.- th-m. Tli> tariff questi i tst i > t--.lv. ii ij. tf i i*4 r?-?t of the > \ ,k . r I j u::d plan and stru .; . tb* m who are tindiik." a fuothuiil a - ni .t r, t'.in-i- a*ho loll -ourc*of -tj.an;l art qui ' i t ' |> of ?t common lift , for I i-'it*1 of Vn?- ;o\\.-r that tills the ti?-l ami build- the cities," anil not for t sake ?.f groups ?,f men w dominate and control their fellows a i'-?arii the toil of millions of men inert as an opportunity to make use of thi established ad vantage. It must handled very prudently, so that no hont toil may be Interrupted, no honorab.e iistful enterprise rlsturbed; must be dei with by slow stages of well consider ? l ance?change whose t bject shall be restore and broaden opportunity and c etruy nothing but special privi'ege a unwholes ,;r.e control. Those who hant Jt, therefore, must be men who und? s and th' g> rerul ir.t? rest and ha ? voted t mselves to s-r\ Ing it withe ft i \ nf l'avur. Destruction of Monopoly. Ti ti ust question must b* dealt wj i t!. same way with this distinct a curie progi am. to destroy monopoly a lea>e business intact, to jrve those w r.duet enterprise no advantage exci tat w hlcli comes by efticiency. eni-r ind sagacity those only f untaina honorable wealth, every man reward aeeord'ng to his insight and enterpr and service, his mastery ir. at open fie Currency and banking questions tnt be discussed anil set" led :n tile interest w o use credit, produce the cro . !; .f.? tu.e th- goods an 1 quicken t i c? of ' e nat -.n, rather than ' . iui.-re-t of the l#at k-r and the pi . r: i i cat tain of finance who t oil i. t eii.s, vis in tile nianageim fi, - ' ; 1 lit.-. * " ? ' '1>.| !()>? tflg- I ?-v nv. *1 in:::.'.at- and ir.se para r ,t; >n !.> tiir g. ni-ta! needs an<l int of t: :niii; a:ni l;> . Work of Conservation. Forests must be renewed, and inii nd water courses must be husbanc and preservd. a sif we were trustees *11 generations, not merely for our o\ for the sake of communities and nath an<i not merely for the immediate use .- ?se who hasten to enlarge their ent i se? and think only of their own prof , The gov? nm? nt must employ its pow . d Jemi mi?ne> to develop ? wh ; >[ ur i a v'.o'i ontinen*. and .it l >* "iti tin keep tlieni free and alert a iii ; ' ?!. .Is i \ I- al w a- on the cu I ; a: i |i 'rp its thought ? :.ir.ii} of \ .ai will happen to the :v iai man an i of what will be prepared t n \t gem- atiou. .I:gn Ideals in Foreign Policy. A. must consider our foreign po! iinor. the. same high principle. We In 'become a powerful member of the gr (Continued on Ninth Page.; SCALDED TO DEATH "[ Three Stokers on the Vermont Lose Their Lives. ;i BOILER HEAD BLOWS OUT Three Other Sailors Burned, But Rei j covery Is Expected. q INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED ????? | Explosion Occurs While Battleship LfIs Lying at Anchor in Hampton Roads. With Fires Banked. 1Y k Xt >11KOI-K. Va Xovemlxr 'J- - Threr men a re dead and three others ar?- suffer_ ins from scald burns as the result of the blowing out of a boiler head on the batt'eship Vermont as tlie vessel lay at anchor in Hampton roads last night. All were stokers. The l?oiler head blew out while under banked fires. severely scalding the men No other damage is reported to the Vermont, which will later come to the Norfolk navy yard. The Vermont's dead are: M. P. Horan. H. \V. Cramer and R. M Wagner. The injured are: J. W. Newberry, M YV. Green and C. K. lloteling. Transferred to Hospital Ship. j Ppon a wireless call from the Vermont j the naval hospital ship Solace responded i and the Vermont's injured were transfer! red to the Solace for treatment Horan P-.-arr.er and W agn? r died. They were tlie most seriously injured of the six. Tht others, it is reported, are less seriously injured and will, it is expected, recover. The Solace came into the Norfolk harbor and the injured men will he treated aboard ship until they can be transferred to the naval hospital at Portsmouth. The bodies of the dead will be prepared for shipment and held nere, pending advices from relatives. Admiral Usher Reports Accident. i Rear Admiral I "slier, commanding the | second division of the Atlantic tleet at Norfolk, has sent to the Navy Department the following dispatch, telling ol the ire explosion on the Vermont: >" "Vermont has six men scalded, lleudil er in No. ti boiler gave way while ; undt r banked llres. Board of inquestV i investigation ordered. Will proceed to 1 Hampton roads. Request tug and Solace er meet Vermont at M a.m. to transfer tally j Jured: R. M. Wagner, second-class ttre;y> | man; M. C. Horan, coal passer, danger" ! ously injured by steam; J. W. Newberry, us j first-class fireman; M. W. Green, firston class fireman; C. K. Hoteling, coal passer. severely injured by steam; H. VV. Cramer, coal pas-er, severe.y Injured by steam. "Two are stretcher cases." Ve j Ascribed to Low Water in Boiler. n' j Engineer experts here believe low '?e j water in boiler No. t? was undoubtedly the cause of the fatal scalding accin" dent on the Vermont, in its principal features the accident is believed to be similar to that which occurred on the riff do battleship Delaware, about eighteen rs months ago, which resulted in the loss he of four lives. he ]n that case, although the few surof vlvors of the boiler room force asserted to. that the glass gauge showed the presence es of ample water in the boiler, examination t of the wreck disclosed the fact that the ,s* tubes and part oi the "header" which ur ! conveys the water front the tubes to the nc* steam drum had turned blue, a sure Inch IU" cation that they had been exposed to al|C" most a red heat without water. A boiler "" with banked tires is seldom as closely 0,1 watched by the water tenders as one "!1 supplying live steam, heme such arci^ dents aie more easily possible In eases ? j of that kind, to on I SCHOOL BUCKET BRIGADE .. HALTS SHAD OF FI I 111* i S i Pupils at Army and Navy ,*V Preparatory Save Building <ii ; From Destruction. ?!h ; he j B~' |}f; ' nj t P ipiis of tne Army and Navy Prepara lv! tory School. I'pton street ami Connecticut &ir avenue northwest, formed a bucket kcjgade tiiis morning, and assisted in sav: ing tiie building front being destroyed by alt j hre. The tire followed an explosion in the edj chemical laboratory on the second floor. ,to i over a classroom, and the blaze soon [e- i j reached the fire, lie The pupils fought the Are with buckets 'r-! of w ater and fire extinguishers while %' members of the city fire department were Ul | on their way to the sehool. When No. ilj ; engine company reached the scene it found so threatening a blaze that addi,j)-, lional companies were summoned. Punils Hurrv to Save Building. nd! j There was no session of the school this .pt i morning and none of the pupils was in gy | the laboratory when the explosion ocof I curied. They were attracted there by the |->d ; report of the explosion, however, and no Ise' time was lost In the work of saving the Id. i structure. Jst. It was necessary for the firemen to tear 01 away part of the framework In order to P-s- ! stop the progress of the flames, and it . was necessary to use water enough to in damage tin- ceiling and lower floor. r,,~ An exam;nation of the laboratory, it is .stated, failed to disclose the < ause of tic 11 explosion. Firemen and pol.cemen esti>"n 1 mated the damage at about f3U0. I ?? t ?? . ?4^?. . 1 HELD AS HORSE THIEF. u Mysterious Stranger From West Inied dies Arrested at Hagerstown, Md. 'or Special DUpatch to The Star. vn- HAGKRSTOWX, Md., November 2.? 'ns Claiming to be a native of the West *of Indies, but refusing to give his name. a stranger of medium build and about ,.r> thirtv-five years of age was put in jail ole early this morning charged with the "c j theft of a horse and buggy from Harry lml l.ine, liveryman and hotelnian at Uoons ' boro. tliis countyThe team was stolen last night, the j _ theft being discovered shortly after the Stranger had driven out of the stable alley. Driving rapidly out of the town, the man headed for Middletown. where ' he was intercepted. Abandoning the icy rig. the strange-r attempted to escape ave and wa8 Pu,'8ued by an angcy crowd . He was finally caught and brought here in an automobile. He declined to maki a statement. I PAY LAST TRIBUTE I TOItSHERMAN President Taft and Other f i Prominent Persons Attend the Funeral at Utica. CHURCH IS CROWDED ' TO FULLEST CAPACITY i Private Services for the Family Held at the Home. I ETJLOGY BY BEV DB. STBYKEB ^ Program Is Largely Choral and Consumes Only About an Hour. .4. T? A. XT ill uuiini at XUICM XJL 111 Cemetery. T'TICA, N". T., November 2. ? In the presence of President Taft and many other prominent persons, the funeral services for Vice President Sherman were held here this afternoon. The program included a private relij gious service at the Sherman mansion, the transfer of the body from the residence ' to the First Pre.->bv terian Church, the ' j public seivice at the latter piace, the re1 mova! of the body to Forest Hill cemetery and its commitment to the Sherman mausoleum. The Frist Presbyterian Church is the i largest in the city, but it soon became j evident that it would not be large enougii to seat more than a few of those who would desire to attend. After reservations for the family and for such visitors as the President and other officials, the general public was admitted. The house services were for the family and such intimate friends as they t hose to inviteRev. Dr. L. II. Holden, pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church, conducted the ceremony at the house, while the services at the church were under the direction of Dr. M. \V. Stryker, president of Hamilton College, assisted by Dr Holden. List of Pallbearers. The honorary pallbearers were Senator Root. Thomas R. Proctor, Charles S. Symonds, William S. Doolittle, J. Francis Day, George E. Dunham, Charles 11. Rogers, William T. Baker, Henry H. Cooper and Dr. Fayette H. Peck. The church was heavily draped in black, although liberal provision was made for the display of the American colors. The service was largely choral, and in addition to the music, prayers and scriptural readings ware provided. There was an address by I>r. Stryker, The program consumed about an hour's time. The fact that the visitors would not be conlincd to national officials became j evident early in the day. Indeed, people j from a distance began to arrive last I night, and many others came in during j the lirst hours of the morning. Among the early arrivals were Attorney General Wickersliam and Fnlted States Senators Root, Crane, Curtis, Oliver and Lippett, all of whom had been on the closest terms with the Vice President. They made a call of condolence on Mrs. Sherman during the forenoon. Dr. Stryker's Address. Dr. Stryker's address at the church was brief. He said: "In solemn and unitA mourning, but j with calm gratitude and devout hope, wo are met in this house of faitli to remember him whose form is here in all the mysterious dignity of death. We represent wliil ; we deeply share a general ! public sorrow. i "The high representatives of the nation and the state meet with us, with keen human sympathies, to make, however inadequately. a sincere tribute of manly regard and affection to the name of a fa.thful fellow-servant and an endeared companion. We mourn the Vice President, but most we mourn the man. "The community gathers to have part in these devotions, aware that one is gone who was for long years their preeminent fellow-eitiacn, but also 6ne j whose cordial courtesy and impartial ' kindness made him a counselor and a i helper ?if innunierable men. "In your names I assure all this household or" your alert and profound heed for J their distress. In their names i thank i you foi your l?! .-i-Mro anil foi tlu- swift j tel pathy which identities your grief with . theirs as you put out to them such warm hands. Regret of College Circle. "I speak also for that college circle which had delight and honor In an elect, ! a loyal comrade?for the trustees whose : zeai and labors he shared. And I speak (alas, that words are so poor!. as_anjntimate and sorrowing friend of him whom we shall never hear?nor see?avain. "Even with utmost brevity I may :>at recite ids consistent and influential <a! reer. nor his honors. All these things are t legible, written past recall. Our hearts ! review them. Nor can we ever forget. 11 Least of all may I lead you with footsteps. however soft, into those sanctities j of domestic love whose legacy is so en, during. "Here, be it remem'oered, that his sources j of courage and patience were deep in that i spiritual rock of which he drank. Quietly, I but steadfastly, for long years he had i confessed his Master before men. "Good servant, great heart, gentle friend, farewell! We, the pilgrims of the i night still lodging intents, hail thy secure abode where all shadows are swallowed up of day. Let the mortal put on j immortality. Thanks be to Uod for every I good tight ended, for every victory won ] through pain, for the captain of our i salvation, guiding bv angel hands to . . 1 *U t , where, oeyonu ni??e vuuts, mere it? peace." TAFT LEAVES NEW YORK. i " Members of Congress Also on Train Going to Utica. NEW YORK, November IT.?President Tuft, Chairman Utiles of the republican national committee. Justices Hughes and Pitney of the United States Supreme Court and ten senators and representatives left here at 8:35 o'clock this morning on a special train over the New York Central railroad for Utlca to attend the funeral of Vice President Sherman. I The senators in the party were Messrs. Bacon, president pro tempore of the Senate; O'Gorman of New York. Penrose of Pennsylvania and Works of California. Col. Kansdetl and Charles 11. Bennett, ?ergeant-at-urms and secretary of the ' Senate, respectively, and half a dozen \ representatives were with the party. President Taft experts to reach New ; York on the return trip at 10:15 o'clock tonight, and will remain here until Sun; day night, when he will leave for his ' home In Cincinnati. j Former Gov. David R. Francis of Mis| souri; former Vice President Fairbanks. (Continued on Second Page ) . I _ c ( ' .1 I ^ 4^ 4. ? mhTthoMnd voters LEAVE CITY FOR HOMES j 4t)cal Political Headquarters Besieged by Those Who Wish to Ballot Tuesday. j Eight thousand voters will leave the District of Columbia to cast their ballots in their home districts. If the statements of political leaders here are correct. The local political headquarters have been overrun today with last-minute applicants for certificates, which will be honored at railroad ticket offices for special election railroad fare rates. Several thousand voters will leave the city today for points all over the I'nited States, i and it is understood that a few loyal i democrats and republicans who will vote j on the Pacific coa?t have already '.eft the' I cit>. Every voter w ho has asked for a certificate in the offices of the republican, democratic or progressive headquarters has been registered" and checked off. This, however, does not represent the full number of voters, as many of tliem have obtained certificates from the chief clerks of the various government bureaus and departments. These certificates will be honored at the railroad offices, and will obtain the same special i*u o o u ci.i'f i (T O'j c. o f . , it i 1. , j air.T w.-j v i UII< j i in ii!?* ! I I H II i. I 1 i committeemen. f Most Active Work Here. I j The simJing home of voters comprises | i the most active work that politicians in; the l'istriet of Columbia can do in a' campaign, and with the hitter tight in i many neighboring congressional districts there lias been an unusual activity this year. The contest to procure votes in the districts is paralleled in Washington by the contest of the national committeemen and their lieutenants in working up enthusiasm and obtaining cash to send their friends home for election. Republicans, progressives and dehio' crats alike have been circularized with i : the election and registration requirements j ! of their various states. All headquarters | ! have be? n tilled today with .eager poll?! ! ticians. and the work will he Kept up j i until Monday night. GEN. ROBERT M. O'REILLY BELIEVED TO BE DYING Was Personal Physician and Close Friend of President I Cleveland. | | I Maj. Gen. Robert Maitland O'Reilly. I i who was surgeon general of the army j ; front September, l'.i until January, Ishki, | \ and who was the personal pltysician and 1 \ close friejul of tile laic President Cleve- i : land, is reported to be dying from ttreI tnic poisoning at liis residence at l^Jd q I street. Gen. O'Reilly has been ill for some time, but his ailment took a dangerous turn October 24. and since last Tuesday he has been suffering from hiccoughs, which are rapidly exhausting his vitality. At his bedside are his wife and his daughter, the wife of Capt. Frederick B Hennessy, 2d Field Artillery. Gen. O'Reilly was born in Philadelphia in 1845 of a distinguished Irish family . settled in the L'nited .States since the rev-! olutlon. lie served as a military cadet' J during the civil war. and his later serv- ! | ice covered Indian campaigns, the Span-! lab-American war. when he was chief surgeon of the 4th Army Corps, and on duty with the troops during the labor strikes of 1*77. He was also a member ui the evacuation commission at Havana and ehief surgeon of the Division of Cuba I during the first period of American occupation He was retired in January, wo?? as a major general in recognition of his ' services. CONWAYjSNERVOUS Silent Treatment Tells on> i I ^ Accused of Murder, j ? ALSO SHOWS IRRITATION! I ' Wife Tells of Singer Clime in Giill of Twenty-Four Hours. DRIVEN INTO HYSTERICS "Con Never Meant to Kill Her," Says Woman in Revealing Facts to Police. S CHICAGO, November 'J.?Efforts by the' police to wring front Charles Conway,' the circus clown, named yesterday as { the murderer of Sophia Gertrude Singer, i the Baltimore heiress, a confession of' knowledge of iter death were beginning ! to tell on tlte prisoner, the officials announced today. Under the "silent treatment," in which no one Is allowed to speak to the prisoner save Police Captain Xootbaar, the prisoner grew nervous and irritable. Every hour Capt Xootbaar. who yesterday anouneed n confession front Conway's wife, I. lltan Beatrice Conway, j walked l>v the man's cell, and ask I: ! "How are you. Charlie? Do you want t . ' sec m<?" "Xo. I don't." finally answered Cn: \va\., Previous'^ he had said he would talk i to the captain whenever tile latter sent! for him. i Quizzed for Twenty-Four Hours. Mrs. Conway was subjected to an ordeal lasting more than twenty-four hours. Driven into hysterics by the merciless grilling of the police, she finally told of the events on the night of the murder. tier statement in part is as rouows: -Sophia invited us to come to Chicago. I We took a suite <>f three rooms lor light j housekeeping. My husnand and 1 occupied one of the bedrooms anu Miss Sing-1 er and Worthen, her hance, occupied the | otiter. -We were out of money, anu Sopina i knew tins before we came to Chicago.! nr. the nig;it of the killing we had dm- j ner togetuei", and Worthen wont out. j Sopliia went out to post a Piter and came back after a whiie with lier siloes wet. Siie took them off. and was in her stocking feet about to change thorn. 'We had quarreled a little about the expenses, which Sophia was paying. We were destitute, and Sophia threatened to take Worthen and leave us stranded. Never Meant to Kill Her. "Sophia said we were not doing anything to get money. She said she had met a rich old man and wanted me to go out witli her to meet him and another man. 'Con' was furious at this. He f,aid I did not have to make money that way. 1 was washing dishes .it the sink. 1 heard) a fall. 1 went into Ike bedroom and i Sophia was lying there. My husband said j to me.-"Hurry; let's get our things and; get out before she gets conscious.' We ' did not know she was dead. Von" never meant to kill her. The confession says the pair then tied from the city with $48, which they took from Miss Singer s elects,, and two suits of clothes belonging to W. R. Worthen. Miss Singer's fiance. They went to Hammond, Ind., in a street car and then from place to place till they reached Lima, Ohio. Signs Her Statements. Mrs. Conway was taken to the police ' captain's office and signed the duplicate copies of the statement she made yesterday concerning the crime. She gave her; name as Mrs. Lillian Beatrice Kramer, saying Conway was an assumed name she j and her husband used in theatrieul work, j S e said she was adopted by a family | named Ryall. When she was sixteen years old, she said, she left school and joined a burlesque company. Kramer she met two years ago in Muncie, Ind. She was :n a burlesque show and he with a carnival company. Kramer later joined ' her in burlesque. ^ I ? _ ^M/U) c ^ ~ ****?? l ^ ^ f i I TROOPS SLEEP ON ARMS' READY FOR TRIP TO CUBA | Army General Staff Prepares! for Intervention in Case It Is Needed. FORT MONROE, Va? November 2 ? The army general staff lias ordered four transports in reserve here to be prepa-ed within four days for instant readiness to carry troops to Cuba. Prepares for Intervention. The preparation of the army transports at Newport News for immediate service is one of several steps taken already by tbe general staff to have the army in readiness for service in Cuba should disorder arise demanding intervention. Tbe transports are calculated to con-] vey three regiments. t is In lieVcd the soldiers could be landed in Cuba within nine days after an order for their dispatch. The three regiments, already designated and forming part of the so-called "expeditionary force" of 5.UU0 men. are all in the Eastern Division and mostly in the j Department of the Gulf. They also haw i received preparatory orders and the men < are packed up and "sleeping on their * arms." Do Not Expect Action. Officials are careful io make it plain ; they do not expect it will be necessary to1 dispatch the troops. fe?ling much en- j eouraged at the peaceful manner in which tie Cuban e'ectlon w::< conducted ycster.luy. JJut having in mind the past threats of , the liberal leaders to rebel in case the! election resulted in favor of the conserva- ; tives, it has been regarded as only pru- j dent to put the army in condition to re- i spond to a call for immediate service within the next few days. ! I MR. DOOLEY I GN THE | Campaign Managers I ) H K R ] : s \ | ^ nianagcr'" \ Doolev. "it's \ y( jovyal em- ( * plyemint in $ th' wurruld. yp&JJ Xawthin to > do but laugh ( i { an' lie an' { i < o u 11 t tl?* { j j money. In ivr.v < ler pro-vssyon ( i \ tliat I know about, aven me own, < \ there ar-re time- whin a man will ( \ get low in his mind, but th' earn- \ i ) Paign manager is always cheery. \ j There ar-re niver no clouds in his \ I j sky, but th' burds ar-r? warblin' \ j ) in th' threes night an' day, an' he J ) sings at his wurruk flgurin' out ) j ? fr'm a straw vote lv three hundherd ) i an' eighty-five visitors to Grant's ( 1 ' Tomb that the city iv Oskyloosa, i 1 Ioway, will give a hundherd an' \ \ forty tliousan' majority fr his ' ( candydate. Nawthin' disturbs him, J \ an' annythin' short iv a lick over \ i th' liead with a brakehandle tills j i1 him t'uil iv hope." \ TOMORROW IN THE Special Features Section THE SUNDAY STAR ? 13 j AT MERCY OF SURF Schooner Maxwell Stranded, But One of Crew Living. MAN CLINGING TO MASTS j Vessel Coal Laden, Bound From Norfolk to Savannah. LIFE-SAVERS ARE HELPLESS Heavy Seas and High Winds Prevent the Launching of the Beach Boats. NORFOLK. Va.. November 2.?Tile three-masted schooner John Maxwell of New York, commanded b\ C'apt. (lod? froy, hound from Norfolk to Savannah, with a cargo of coal?a vessel of (!.'> tons [ and owned by A. II. Hull of New York?' today lies stranded about three-quarters j of a mile southeast of the New inlet lifesaving station on this coast. The two men who were still alive could j this morning be seen by the life savers on the coast clinging to the wreck, bu' they were either hampered or too weak to aeeept tlie line offered to them from shore and one of them subsequently 1 sprang from tlie rigging and was drowned. Tite vessel is rapidly going to pieces mid it is feared it will be impossible t<> save the man still aboard. Reports from the New inlet life savers to the ("ape Henry observer this forenoon said that the weather conditions at tiw* scene of the wreck were cloudy, with wind blowing from the north at the rate of thirty-eight miles an hour. The sea was very rough. The life savers, however, are making every effort to rescue the man aboard the vessel. Probably Storm Driven. The schooner must have been caught | and driven upon the reefs by the ter- j rible gale that swept the coast about i Hatteras last night and tried the resistance of luavier craft. It isi be'ieved j many ether small ships suffered. The lookout 01 tile New Inlet life-saving station, patrolling the bearcli at dawn.! sighted the wreck struggling und.-r the crashes 01 the giant combers which swept j her and threatened to send her ushor?in bits The tail end of iast night s gale still traveling at thirty-eight mil. s an hour, kept the wreck shrouded most of the time behind a curtain of waves and spray, but through glasses the life savers couid see two forms, evidently men. lashed high on the ma?'s of the ship, which were clipping and stooping under every assauit of the sea. Below them no being could live Surf Too Hoavy for Boats. Life savers could not even launch a float in the heavy surf, which pounded down on the beachh, and the best that could be done was to shoot out a line. From the shore the two figures then lashed in the rigging could he seen to move, but they did not grasp the line which repeatedly was shot within th< ir reach. The life savers were sti.i working at last accounts. With the tirst abatement of the storm they will put out. NEW BECKER ATTORNEY! ? Joseph A. Shay Succeeds Mr. Hart and Mr. Mclntyre Will Be Retained. NllW YOKK. November J. - Joseph A. Shay announced today that he had su<? \ ceeded John \V. Hart as attorney of rec- ] ord for Lieut. Becker, and that John F. i Mclntyre would he retained in the case. Half a dozen detectives from police headquarters were detailed today to meet all trains from Chicago arriving here this j afternoon to search for the four gunmen sakl to be coming to take the life of l)ls- I trict Attorney Whitman. Word of the Chicago gunmen's alleged plot against the district attorney's life reached Air. Whitman by letter from "Butch." who said he was k-eper of a Clu ystie street opium joint The writer gave no other name. and. in view of the tact that about tiiiee hundred threat- j ing letters have been received recently i by Mr. Whitman, he was inclined to make little of it. Letter Given to Police. The letter was given to the police, howover. and, although they conducted a fruitless search for the writer, they claimed to have made certain discoveries which impelled them to take the letter more seriously than Mr. Whitman did. , According to the letter the four gun- i men were to reach New York this aft- | ernoon. and were to receive each for their work. MiWlillTFI fibf UIIUIVIIIIUU 111 llVlkk ________ ? St. Louis Financier Dead and Twenty Others Injured. Firemen in Crash. ST. LOl'IS, November 2.?One man, W. r\ Douglas, a local financier, was burned to death and twenty other persons were injured, three receiving fractured skulls, in a lire which destroyed the Berlin Hotel J jarly this morning. One hundred and I fifty gue.-ta of the family hotel were forced to flee in their night clothes. j Police and firemen, thinking other j guests had lost their lives, searched the ! ruins for hours without finding any other bodies. The loss is estimated at $2ao,oou. Guests are believed to have lost at least JlOO.bOO In jewelry. A hose carriage on the way to the fire struck a street car and three of the reel crew are believed to be fatally injured. Lieut. William Green of the fire department was crushed and his recovery is regarded as doubtful. Albert Grenret. who lived near the scene of the fire, was run over by a fire wagon and is believed to be fatally injured Mind Unbalanced; Shoots Self. BOSTON, November 2.?William E. Butler, president of a department store company, committed suicide by shooting in his private office last night. Mr. Butler's firm recently acquired large Interests in two other department stores, ilis friends said today that overwork probably unbalanced his mlnd^ POWERS CONFER; FALL OF TURKEY SEEMINENT Bulgarians Expect to Break Through Two Lines of Tchatalja Forts. SEND PART OF ARMY BACK TO ADRIANOPLE Negotiations for Peace Are Began in London. TURKS TAKE BUNARHISSON I Shut Up Two Hundred of Enemy in Barracks and Fire Building. Both Sides Resting After Battle LOXDOX. Xovemher 2.? Active negotiations are proceeding in London with a view to bringing the war in the near east to an end. The 15riti>h foreign | otiicc. winch usually one of the } quietest places in London <m S aturday. was all l?u>tle ilii>-afternoon. Sir Edward Grey, the secretary for foreign affairs, who. contrary to custom, is remaining in town over tlie week end. received the Ru s>ian. Austrian. Turkish and Italian ambassadors and the FS11Igarian minister. Turkey's Position Perilous. LONDON. November 1!.?Only two line* of forts, both known as Tchataija, one to the northwest of the fortified city of Adrian opole and the other stretching across the penlsula outside of Constantinople. r.ow stand between Turkey and the total obliteration of her power in Europe > On neither of these lines of forts can : much reliance be placed, in view of what iias happened at other places supposed t" l?e strongly fortified So confident ate the Bulgarians of their ability to overcome tin- shattered army of Xazim Cas ta, the Turkish com maritit-r-inx-hief, now stretched along the Tchataija line, built: to defend the ottoman capital, that part of their army is being sent back to Adrtanople. It will there complete the investment of that fortress and carry on the siege, and if the pla<*e is not carried by storm will starve it into submission. There seems now to be no escape for the Turks. The Bulgarians are followi ing up their successes with a dash that j surprises the world. They now are en I deavoting to get a force <>f their troops from Seiai between the routed Turkish army under Xazim I'ashu and the T< . atalja lines. Tills move would fulfill the twofold pur; use of p itt'n." an <n I t?? all Tui'kisii resist a:: and >t npitig t; defeated and niadd'M'fd ( tii.rnuu .-ddl. from reaching <'<.:is-tuiitiii<?pl?, v\he:<their arrival is so inucli feare<i. May Go to Capital. If the Bulgarians' plan succeeds. they are likely to go on to Constantinople, where they will dictate ttieir terms of peace. They are not likelv. however, to * sttw in Constantinople, as there is a Bulgarian legend that any nation o< u pying'Constantinople is ceitain to be m perpetual trouble with its neighbors. What the B.iigarh ns always iw aim- ?1 at is tin occupation < ! tiie prov.ru >>: Adniiliop!.-. which conioi .1<>V .1 to a : ee I1. .* -1 ! 1 1 ' I '.kick s .1 i!.?l . * S 1 t .t! 1: TIKI .! I! t i - I;. Si . . ills u The Turkish troo; s tuig av.- foui. ;t way of retreat toward the i*?rt or Kotlodto, on the Sia of .Uamruui, lent thm is now occupied by tlie Bulgarians. The thorough knowledge of tin- country which has enabled tlie Bulgarians to advance so rapidly also has been used to block every avenue of escape for the Turks. There is still some fighting spird left In the Turks at Adrianopie and from Bulgarian sources come ac mints of desperate sorties made by tlie garrison. Continue Attacks. The Bulgarian liesiegets continue tue.r artillery attacks on the fort of Adrianople and tile fall of the .strongest one of these, the Tchatnlja bit. would mean tiie capture of the city. The Bulgaiiuns hate said nothing as to the number of their dead and wounded, but from tli ;<\oi:iu.of the severe lighting then casualties tuust have been heavy. More than l_',oo;? Turkish troops are reported already to have arrived at Constantinople. From all the capitals of Idunope < <>m?* reports of the efforts of the powers t<> reach an agreement In regard to the form of intervention, but nothing has been definitely decided beyond a general approval of tiie French premier's proposals. Turks Take Town. CONSTANTINOPLE:. November 2.?The Turkish army has captured the town of Bunarhlssar fn m tlie Bulgarians, ami also iias defeated the Bulgarians near Visa, according to dispatches received her.- from Nan'in Pasha. Naziin s di.-. >atches declare the Bulgarian losses were heavy, anil that all t. e Turkish army corps have now been or dered to advance. It is reported that fighting had been suspended by the Turkish and Bulgarian armies, the men of both of which were suffering from fatigue from the battle that had been in progress continually for four days. Burned in Building. SOFIA. Bulgaria. November 2.?Before evacuating Bunarhissar the Turk! si < kAA . *U.. troops t-liur up ?ov ouikauiud hi ihc barrackB and set Are to the building. according to the newspaper Mir. AH the Bulgarians perished. The Turkish troops, according to the same newspaper, also are massacring Bulgarian residents in the Struma valley. Ten Periah. on Ship. SADONIKI. November 2.?Ten persona perished aa a result of the sinking of the Turkish battleship Feth-I-Bulend toy a Greek torpedo boat Thursday night. British and a Freacli cruder hara A - i