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??Write Letter to Surrogate
Si Foley Protesting Against
Reversal.
iAVILL IS VOIDED TWICE
I
:They Suppose Verdict May
Be Set Aside Again at
Third Trial.
<THKIK STAND DEFENDED
iiOnly Incapacity of Testator
Could Be Deduced From Evi
>' dence, Thev Contend.
7 V
'' KUht Jurors of the twelve that sat
?In the Eno will case before Surrogate
l James A. Foley wrote In earnest pro
siest to the Surrogate yesterday against
his reversal of their verdict upsetting
the will on the score of Mr. Eno's un
sound mini, at the time the document
was drawn.
Pointing out that their jury decided
*>s the 1915 Jury had decided?'Which
verdict was also set aside by the Sur
rogate?the eight protestants assume
that the court may throw out the jury
verdict in a third trial. They ask Sur
rogate Foley what is the use of Juries
if this sort of thing is to occur.
The eight that signed the letter are
Ivouis T. Ferkins. Henry Nichols. Harry
D. Xiercnberg, Raymond L. Montgom
ery. Joseph M. McQrann, James Forster,
CI. A. Boeckel and John J. Uai'vey. After
expressing surprise that, !n his opinion,
the Surrogate referred to the lino jury
fM "easily influenced by sympathy or
prejudice," and "materially affected by
extraneous arguments" after taking oc
casion in his charge to praise the jury
lor the patience and attention it dis
played for six weeks In hearing the evi
dence, and after informing the Surrogate
that they had tried honestly to give a
verdict which was fall, unbiased and
in accordance with the law and the
facts, the eight went into details.
An to ethics of the matter they say:
"Whether the right of trial by Jury
should extend to will cases is not an
Issue which we want to discuss with
vour Honor. We happen to believe in
trial by jury. But this letter Is to say.
that In our opinion the evidence pro
duced In this case and the law as laid
down by yourself permitted no verdict
except the verdict of incapacity."
Thereafter MY. Pcrkinn and his asso
ciates. in the protest at upsetting the
decision which took away from Colum
bia University and Rave to Amos Plnchot
? nd other kin of Mr. Eno millions of
dollar?, recite their specific reasons for
deciding that Mr. Bno was not coni
l>et?nt to make a new will
??1.?liurden of the proof was on j
t'le proponents. Tr.e proponents pro
duced n<? documentary or other evidence j
which could jHjssibly explain, on any
throry but Irrationality, the sudden
change shown in the will of 1015 as
eon.pared with the provisions in all of
the preceding wills.
"S.?For many years the institution
around which the testator's interest
centered was the General Society of
-ViecMnics and Tradesmen, and yet In
the will of 1915 this favorite Institution
was subordinated to flve institutions
v.hich had never before appeared in hl?
wills, and the bequest to It was made
contingent upon previous payments in
full t<- all the other live Institutions.
Word to llntiMrkfrpfr Cited.
"2 ?Mr. Eno told lils housekeeper
?Utat hp expected the bequests In his will
would practically exhaust tho estate.
Tn the will Itself doubt Is expressed
v hether the entato will be sufficient to
nay the bequests. Mr. ICno's diary
?hows that he estimated his estate at
eight millions net. lie mtdo bequests
amounting to seven and three-quarter
millions. Thus, according to his cal
culattons, there would only have <ieen a
quarter of a million In the residuary
? state An eiTor like tills, amounting to
millions, would never have been made
by the testator ?while possessed of his
normal faculties.
"4.?Vou have deplored the fact that
the Jury laid ?tre*s upon Mr. Eno's sus
ceptibility. We did lay stress upon It,
-'or suggestibility. according to tho un
contradicted medical ev Ulonce In the
case. Is an important symptom of de
mentia.
"5.?Tho above we outstanding
taints. There Is a mass of other ev
idence showing tho change In the tosta
tor as well as mental Incapacity.
"From your opinion, we understand
that upon the first trial of this case the
Jury decided the sumo way as In the
second; that is to say. against, tho 1915
will, and that the verdict was set aside
bv the court. Just as our verdict has
been. Accordingly, we suppose that the
s::me thing may happen In a third trial
nn?l so on. which necessarily brings up
the question*, why have Juries?"
Wl.en a copy of the letter was read
to Surrogate Folej last night, ho re
fused to comment on It In any way.
THIRD ARBUCKLE TRIAL
WILL BE CALLED TO-DAY
|
State Loses Important Witness
in Missing Actress.
San Francisco, March 12.?Roseoe O.
? Fatty) Arbuckle will go to trial to
morrow for the third time on < barges of
manslaughter growing out of the death
on Scftt-mbor !>, lf>21, of Virginia Rappr.
The trial will see no change (n tho lists
of opposing counsel, but It Is eitpoctod
more witnesses will be called than In
either of the two previous 'rials.
The Jury In the first trial votwt 10 to
2 for acquittal, and in the second 10 to 2
for conviction. Roth sides have promised
to introduce evidence in the forthcoming
trial th?it whs not Introduced In olther
of the otnc>rs.
The prosecution probably will lack one
of Ita chief witnesses, Miss Zey Provost,
who left the State after the second trial
and has refused to return.
flHCHOT AfiRF.ES TO RUN.
Will Meek (J. O. I'. Nomination for
(iitrrrnor In l*enns> Ivnnln.
PlttUDtU'StA, March 12.?Clifford
Plnohot, ?tate Forestry Commissioner,
to-night announced his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for Governor
et the May primaries.
lie announced his derision to tun In
a IMIer addressed to a gn.up of von
aH?1 women who on March 10 asked lilm
lo becosfle a candidate.
WOULD END HOTEL TIPPING,
NOW BASED ON PRETTINESS
Consumers League Finds Chambermaids Win Gratui
ties by Bright Faces, Not Service, and That
Plain, Elderly Ones Are Slighted.
It's lite pretty hotel chambermaid
who seta the tips to the exclusion of
the elderly or plain faced servant who
may need th?- fee much more than her
ootnf iy slater. This complaint is made
by the Consumers league, which lias i
been look in* into the tip question again
and which summarizes its discoveries in I
a ri port entitled "Behind the Scenes in
a Hotel." The league fin da that all
hotel tipping is bad and recommends
[ that hotei patrons Ret up courage to
stop tipping. Speaking of chamber
maids?the pretty ones?the leaguu re
ports :
"It is pleasing appearance and man
ner'rather than service which brings in
tips. The advice given by experienced
maids to the workers who -were making
the study for the Consumers League ,
was: 'Fix yourself up and don't be '
liashful. The ones who get the tips j
are those who stick around, sass 'em j
back and make 'em notice you." Tips i
do not increase with efficiency In serv ice
and neither do wages. Board and lodg
ing and $-5 or $30 a month or $45 to
$50 without board anil lodging is all a
chambermaid can expect.
"The Consumers League found it very I
difficult to get accurate estimates as ;
to average weekly tips, because the |
maids remember a gratuity of $3, but
forget the occasional tinal I tip. One
maid ?uiil slie had had only $3 In three
montli*. The workers for the league re
ceived leas than $1 a week In tips apiece.
Chambermaids know there is little hope
of finding a higher wage, but they are
drawn from one hotel to another by
stories of high tips. For these reasons
the Consumers League recommends
that tipping In hotels be abolished. It
recommends, further, that a minimum
wage law for women be passed in this
State to include hotels in Its applica
tion.
"Hotel patrons know only too well
the disadvantages of tho tipping sys
tem. When h large sum has already
been paid to the hotel for accommoda
tions. including service, patrons do not
like to continue paying out money in
tips, and like it even less when em
ployees persistently let their expecta
tions be known and give service to tip
pers at the expense of patrons who re
fuse to tip. Wages are based on the
expectation of tips and are too low to
live on. for tho public tips according to
its individual prosperity or inclination,
and the worker can never be sure what
he will have to show for his labors at
tho end of the week."
SUSPECT IN BRUNEN
CASE PROVES ALIBI
Gus Werner, Former Cook of
Murdered Circus Man, Found
in New York.
Fpccial Dispatch to Tub New Tone Hhrald.
Riverside, "N. J., March 12.?An im
portant. "lead" in the investigation of
the mysterious slaying of John Theodore
Brunen. circus and theatrical man, who
wae killed while reading a newspaper in
his home on New Jersey avenue Friday
night, was dissipated to-day when Gus
Werner, who was formerly employed by
Brunen as a cook for his circus winter
ing at Willlametown, was found in New
York. Werner, who was sought on re
ports that oncc he had made threats that
he would "get Brunen" for having been
dismissed from employment, furnished
an alibi which satisfied the detectives.
In spite of this, however. Werner
probably will be brought to Mount Holly
to fcc questioned for possible light he
may shed on the case, as he knew many
of Bruncn's buslnes associates and other
matters concerning his affairs.
The or.iy other outstanding develop
ment to-dr.y was the finding of another
empty shell in the field across which
the murderer fled. This was puzzling,
kx the one empty shell previously found
seem?-d to establish that It had been the
one discharged at the window of Bru
nen's home. Only one shot was flred so
far as present testimony has brought
out.
\\ Idow Called A unit".
Detective Ellis Talker, who is in
charge of the investigation, said to-nmht
that the man who fired the shot wan
about 5 feet 2 Indies in height, or ;<n
exceptionally tall man who -stooped low
to fire the gun so -that the charge hit
Brunen in the head.
Mrs. Brunen, the widow, is to be ex
amined again to-morrow by Detective
Parker, it was learned, but no hint has
been ftlven as to what additional infor
mation she may be expected to supply.
One of the statements that may be ques
tioned, it was reported, was that Mrs.
Brunen was "startled" by the report of
the shotgun. This sound, according to
the detectives, is similar to that of rail
road torpedoes which are frequently set
off on the tracks directly in front of the
house.
Mrs. Brunen was upstairs when the
shot was flred. The detectives will en
deavor to icet Impressions on the dis
similarity of the sound of railroad tor
pedoes and of the sound she heard when
Brunen Was killed.
Denial that Brunen was a clof-e friend
of William Desmond Taylor, the Los
Angeles motion picture director, to
whose murder that of Brunen has been
compared, was madn to-day by Airs.
Hazel Parkson, his daughter. Brunen
was formerly in partnership with Will
lam Fox, head of the Vox Film Corpora
tion, she said. Many years ago Fox and
Brunen run three shootliiK naileries at
Coney Island. Mr. Fox decided to en
ter the motion picture fleld. and asked
Brunen to he his partner in the ven
ture. hut Brunen declined, and pur
chased Fox's interest in the shooting
galleries.
Thr Conspiracy Theory.
The theory that tile murder was the
outgrowth "f a conspiracy was again
discussed to-night by Detective Parker
after he hud announced his intention of
"going over to call on Mrs. Brunen"
again to-morrow.
"If Mrs. Hrunen's story of the three
mon she saw leaving her premises In
an automobile Is true," said the detec
tive. "those men undoubtedly were en
grafted In a conspiracy to take Brur.en'e
life. Ju*t how is something that must
be learned.
"I know positively that the murderer
went away in a Ford coupe that wna
parked with lights out several square*
away from the house. He ran arross
several fields to the rnr and hist part of
his shotgun while going, Mrs. Hrunen
? Is the only one we have found who saw
the car in front of the house with three
men in It.
"I want it understood that 1 do not
believe Mrs. Hrunen knows anything
about the murder and that she is not
under suspicion. Hut there are some
points to the first story she told me
that I wsnt cleared tip.
"Sh" said that severs! men ran from
the ;'ide yard of her home and Jumped
on the running fooerd of the movintr
machine, f 'have failed to find any
footprints of these men. although I have
found footprints of 'he murderer. I
decided to wait until Mrs. Brunen was
cftlmer before questioning her further."
Tho night before the murder Mrs
\inry Walker, a neighbor. saw a man
ktiwklng at the Hrunens' kltrhen door.
HA YES RETURNS FROM
TRIP TO THE BAHAMAS
Made Diocesan Visit and
Opened a New Mission.
I The Most Nev. Patrick .T. Hayes, Arch
I bishop of New York, returned yesterday
j from a visit to the Hahrvtnas, which are
In his archdiocese, by the Munson liner
Munargo. While sway the Archbishop
made four confirmations In four of Ihe
largest Bahama churches and opened a
new mission at Harbor Island. At Nas
sau he was entertained by Governor
General Cordeaux ?nd 1 ,n<Iy CordeaUK
and hy the Duke add Duchess da Riche
lieu end !*dy vftilr Wackt'nslc
1
DRYS WANT U.S. BAN
ON SPAIN'S EXPORTS
Demand Aid for Sonate Reso
lution to Keep Alcohol
From Iceland.
St>(? tal Diepauh to Tub Nrw Yoke Hmwi.D
New York Hrruld Bumiu, )
Wilsltinutoii, O. March 18. )
Prohibitionists have started a cam
paign against the buying of Spanish ex
ports In this country because, they nay.
Spain Is seeking: to force prohibition Ice
land to buy its alcohol, in other words,
they want the American people to get
behind n resolution of protest offered
In the Senate by Senator Jones in which
is registered a protest against the "bul
lying" of Iceland by the Spanish.
"Every prohibitionist in the United
States when h" goes to the grocery store
should remember Iceland," says a bui
lt tin issued by the board of temperance
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. "We
hope Senator Jones will press his reso
lution and that every friend of freedom
in the United States will vote In favor
of It."
The bo?r?l also takes * slap at Sam
uel Gompers for the labor chief's work
against the passing of the prohibition
amendment.
After recounting what it asserts to be
a fact that a small group of men pro
fessing to repreg. t American ovganlied
labor have ~'ue a. series of "bald, un
scrupulous siatements against the pro
hibition law,' Its statement says:
"If we are not mistaken, Mr. Gompers
never has denied that he did active work
for the brewers in the effort to defeat
the popular movement for prohibition :
and yet laboring men over the T'nlted
States, Including men in labor organlxa
> tions, arc, as a rule, ,|n favor of prohibl
| tion. This was definitely proved by tho
investigation of the Literary Dlg> at
some months ago, at which time the re
I plies from r>2fi labor union leaders were
j tabulated as follows: !M!> said prohibi
tion was a benefit to the worklngman,
| 143 said H was not a benefit, 31 were
doubtful and 7 said prohibition had not
been given a fair trial. It Is stated that
approximately 30 per cent, of the 526
replit.-t were bused on action taken at
regular meeting*."
The bulletin says prohibition has
started to destruction the most vicious
political cabal ever existing on this con
tinent. that It has halted the plunder
ing* of tho pockets of American labor
to ft remarkable degree, that it has made
the Amcrl'-an workman happier and that
It has given the workman's children
more to eat, better clothes and a chance
to go to school.
CHILD PLAYING TAG
KILLED BY MOTOR CAR
'Girl Badly Hurt by Surface
Car; One Chauffeur Flees.
J tarry Cohen, 4. of 2<5<S Stanton street,
fell off the curb while trying to avoid
other children who were playing tug In
front of his home' last night, and fell
under an PUtornobilo driven by Irving
Katz of SSI Second avenue. Spectators
told Patrolman Harris of Clinton street
?hat the driver w."? not responsible* The
hoy was dead before an ambulance ar
rived.
In view of sidewalk throngs Daisy
Kramer. 6. 307 West 119th street, ran In
front of a surface car at Lenox avenue
nnd 116th street, and the fender knocked
her down. Before the motorman, John
Hudson of 11* Enst Ninety-seventh
street, could stop the child had been
dragged several feet.
She was found to have a fractured
sku'l and broken spine, nnd was taken
to Harlem Hospital, where small hope
was expressed that she would live.
Dennie Burnam, 7. 317 East Sixty
fifth street, was hit by a motor near his
homo and was taken to flower Hospital
with Internal Injuries. Anthony Mott of
lis West Fifty-sixth fltreet was driving.
George Merna. of 249 Knst 12>d
street, received a fractured left leg In
being thrown from the running board of
an automobile when it bumped another
j car.
An automobile which struck William
Gibson of 6S7 Lexington avenue did not
stop after the accident, which happened
'of Manhattan avenue arid 114th street.
Gibson wr>* attended at Itarlem Hospl
| tal for slight Injuries.
MOTOR TURNS TURTLE;
ONE DEAD; THREE HURT
CAMDEN. N. J,. March 12.?Samuel
KravlU. 23. of 21 is North Thirty-first
street, Philadelphia, was killed and three
other.1, were injured to-dny when an
automobile crushed Into a telegraph pole
ami turned turtle In White Morse Pike.
! The chauffeur Albert Israel, 20, of 1412
; Broadway, Camden, attributed the ac
i eldent to the glaring headlight cf un
| other automobile.
in the motor with the driver ami
Kravlt* were Ethel Ptnkelmnn, 19. of
] 4035 Glrard avenue, Philadelphia; her
#lstef, Jeane, 22 : llesslc Kruger, 20.
and Mux Gusman, 20, also of Philadel
phia.
When the automobile overturned Miss
Krnger and (lustnan were thrown to
! one ?ido, escaping being caught under
! tlie far. The others, however, were
I hurled under the motor and whin other
i automohlllsls lifted It KravMz wns dead.
! Ethel Klnkelmim ?vas unconscious, hav
j itig suffered a fracture of the skull. Her
I sister. Jeane, wns injured Internally,
j Both were taken to the hospital,,-Israel
I mm- held tending on Investigation ot
WISE WARNS STAGE
TO CHANGE POUCY
Rabbi Says Censorship Must
Come if There Isn't a
Honsecleaning.
ATTACKS A. H. WOODS
Tells How He Warned Man
ager He Would Dis
credit Jews.
'NOT A JEWISH QUESTION7*
Says It's Unfair to Blame a
Knee: Cites the Finer Thinirs i
of the Theatre.
Rabbi Stephen S. "Wise delivered an
address on "The Truth About the
Theater" yesterday afternoon before
the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall,
in which fcf declared that the theater
to-day "is driving: us Into State con
trol, and State control means censor
ship, bad as it is." Dr. Wise declared
that he did not 'wish to attack the
theater or the players, but to deal
with the theater as an acute moral
problem, -which he declared it had
become.
"Either the theater will be reformed j
from within, that is to say by author?, 1
producers and players and ourselves," I
said Dr. Wise, "or it will bo reformed
from without, despite all the evils;
which outward revision or reforma- :
tlon will bo found to entail. Censor
ship will come as it ought to come un
less a great and instant chancre comes
over the spirit of those that control
the theater and over us who give it
life and sustenance.
"Censorship would be undesirable, hut
if 'Demi-VIrgina' and 'Croattin* the
ltublcons' cannot be put out of l!roa<l
way theatens in any other way. then I;
for one shall welcome censorship, and
work for censorship, and do what in me
lies to make censorship inevitable. Cen? 1
worship, it is true, may do no more than
drive dirty and salacious plays under j
cover or under Kround, which Is cxactlyi
what ought to happen to them.
The Wmy of the Haloon.
"Let them bo bravely repressed and ?
driven Into the darx, festering corners
of vice, if they cannot wholly be sup-1
pressed. Prohibition came in part, as
it ought to have come, because distillers
and brewers insisted upon the inviolable \
rights of the saloon. Tito theaters will,
fare sua did the saloon If the same policy |
of ir.adni.ss, tempered by malignity,'
prevails in the councils of tho theater." !
I Jr. Wise declared that he was not!
bigoted In enmity against the stage and |
Its people, but that he was rather al
friend and a patron of th? theater. He'
was not concerned, he said, either with 1
unreasoning attacks on tho stage or an
the defamers of the ftago by Its defen
ders. Dr. John ttoach Htraton he char
acterised as an honest man, though not
wholly fair and reasonable in his atti
tude toward the problem of the theater.
"The theater," said Dr. Wise, "is and
will continue to be. The theater Is more
than a pastime or a luxury?It is a!
highly Important national institution, j
which may become either a liability or ar.
nsaet. If merely a pastes, as is base
ball, It would be enormously important,
for tho greatest number of Americun
people are accessible to it. Whatever
the present day status of the theater j
may be, this Is no more to be the last j
w>ni of the dranta than ts Jnv.z music to ?
replace Ileethoven and Hach, Schubert |
and Brahtns.
I
The JrnlKh Aagl?.
"Most Unfair Is It to deal with the
| theater a* If it were In any real sense
I a Jewish question. To call It that la to
obaetirt the real Issue. Jews do good
thlngn In the theater and fair thlnjts
and bad thing*. But Jews can never af
ford to do that which is evil. If It must
in: said that the producer of the'Deml
Virgln' Is a Jew by birth, why not men
tion that John Golden, producer of three
| or four of the finest, cleanest plays of
' a decade. Including 'Turn to the Right,'
Dlghtin',' 'Thank You' and The Klrst
Year,' Is a Jew.
'Borne of the finest plays In the
theater of the nation have been done
by Alice and Irene Lewlsohn, founders
of the Neighborhood Playhouse, two
high minded and gifted young women
who have given theroselves In the fin
est spirit to tlie furtherance of tho
interests of the drama. In the Theater
! i rulld not a few Jews nre active and
! outstanding and the guild has In truth
; rendered most distinguished ei-rvlte to
! the theater.
"What are the facts about the theater
j of New York to-day. In !t there are
! being presented many good, u hole
j some, clean, worthwhile pin vs. some
I plays which are not uniformly bad but
i st ottlly suggestive, auch as two of the
I5ela?eo productions and some plays thrit
are vile beyond words. 'lit'- Dcml
i Virgin' is not a play nt all. It in Just
theatrical filth, putter garbage of tip
foulest, rankest kind. As I ?kt througn
a performance I thought of tile degrada
tion of a Rrent art, that of ili" theater,
the humiliation of a ealllnsr. thnt of the
players, and the deep damnlni? insult
Offered to a people by Its premutation.
Snjn Woods litMored Pirn.
Dr. Wise quoted a lett> r which he
wrote In November, 1S21, urging A. H.
Woodc. producer of "The Demi-Virgin,''
to take tho t'lay oft" the Mage. He
appealed to Mr. Woods on the ground
that both lie and .Mr. W0t>ds were Jews
and that the Jew as a race would he
j Judged by the action '?!" Mr. Wood* in
| producing the play and he declared that
Mr. Woods had (treat re*;>onHibllity In
' the matter. The ILnbbl, however, said
I thnt be received no reply to this letter.
Rsbbl Wis., declared that whatever
might l?e said of the stage, the funda
mental responsibility for conditions lie*
with the people, the only available cen
sors of public taste and the public
mind.
"We could make this thing Impossible
If we willed." he said, "so that no man
would care to present an unclean play
unices he were sure of n market for It.
An admirable method of approval is
suggested and offered by the white list
of the Catholic society dealing with the
question. There ran be no censorship
on our part while tho world Is too much
with us and we are too much in the
theater. Tho theater must not l>e suf
fered to b< como our dally and Indispens
able necessity.
The Arbiter* of Tnste.
"We must not lose our powers of dis
crimination and therefore of control over
the theater, which we support and make
possible. We must be the master"! of
. the ti enter and iwt it* nigU'ly lav -
New York Dollar Is Up
25 P. C. from a Year Ago
Spccial Dispatch toThk New York Hhbu.d.
>fw York Ilersld Uurran, )
Washington, I). V.. Ma roll 12. !
RESIDENTS of New York are
25 per cent, richer than u
year ago. The dollar buys
one-quarter more in tho biggest
city now than it did at tho begin
ning ot 1921, reports to the Depart
ment of Labor show.
Compared with the pre-war dol
lar. the unit base of American cur
rency is now worth cents. A
year ago it had a comparative value
of less than 45 cent*. The increase
is duo to a general decline in prices.
As prices decline tho dollar gets
fatter, taking on more weight or
value in purchasing power.
In New York the dollar does not
yet go as far as the samo amount
of currency throughout tho Tnited
States as a whole. Taking the
country generally, the dollar is
worth about 60 cents compared with
its pre-war counterpart.
J
The moral censorship, the duty of which j
rests upon all of us, lies in a very j
special way on the few, the fashionable, I
the leisurely, the well circumstanced, )
the privileged, who are the arbiters in 1
matters of taste.
"The press ia.n help most decisively.
It can tell the mith as it. for the most j
part, tells the truth in its critical re- I
velws ot th* theater. But, instead of
being terriorlzetl t>y the revolver of those j
theatrical producers who will not ad- i
vertise unless they are generously ;
treated in the columns of criticism, the j
press ought to refuse to publish adver- i
tisements of plays which its reviewers
have the decency to damn as indecent. I
The theater must be reformed fcom j
within and from without: from within '
by those who should cherish it as a high
trust, from without by us who would
rise to the level of that opportunity
which the drama at its best and finest
offers to men and women on either side
of the footlights."
YOSEMITE IS LINKED
TO WORLD BY WIRELESS
Valley Folk Get News and
Music From Aerials on Trees.
Yoseaiite, Cal., March 12.?Successful j
operation of wireless telegraph und t?'le- j
phone ktations in Yosemlte Valley ha* '
b' on accomplished. After several weeks j
of experiment results are so satisfactory I
that announcement has been authorized .
that wireless henceforth will bo a per- !
manont method of communication with i
the popular resort, though it may not be ,
o|K.-n for commercial use until next win- I
ter.
Edwin J. Symmes of Alameda put in j
the first wireless set for his own amuse
ment and has received messages from ?
(several score damped and undamped
wave stations. Including Honolulu and i
Catallna Island. Government authorl- ?
ties also have put in a station, which
will be used to keep in touch with the
outside world when Stato wide storms
interfere with wire communication and j
In touch with Glacier Point, now op< n j
to visitors throughout the year, which i
is 2,254 feet sheer abovo Yoscmito Val
ley.
Because Yosemlte Valley ia literally a
"hole in iho ground" some wireless ex
perts declared local conditions were en
tirely against successful operation of a
wireless station here. Yosemlt<Vs granite
cliffs rise straight into the air for .1.100,
4,000 and occasionally 5,000 feet. Never
theless valley folk recently have bet.n
getting nows reports, weather predic
tions, market quotations and lots of
good music right out of the air, with no
other aerial than wires strung between
two of the giant tree* with which the
valley floor is forested.
WOMAN DARES BANDITS;
FAINTS AS THEY FLEE
Miss Calliss of Orange Has
Exciting Experience.
"I dare you to shoot. I don't believe
It Is loaded," declared Mlsa Mary Callus,
34, of Berkley avenue, Orange, X. J., last
night when two men pointed a revolver 1
at her head and ordered her to turn over 1
her money. Before tho bandits could |
do anything a man appeared ? short dis- j
tance nway and the two dashed into a |
wooded section.
Ml<? Calliss had alighted from a!
trolley rar at Central avenue anj Car
teret place and had walked about one
hundred yards when tho bandits ap
proached her. Both had revelvers. r<nd
one placed his against her head. Then
they demanded her money and she made
her reply.
At that point tho man In the distance
appeared and one of the holdup nu n
said, "beat it," and the two dashed into
tho clump of woods.
Miss Calliss fainted and was picked up
by tho man nnd carried into tho home
of .T. N. Bansall, where rho was iv.
vlved.
TWO MRS KILLED RV CiA!*.
fipf-ial Plxpatch to Tun Nsw York H"R.\Tf>.
Atlantic Citv, March 12.?John Sulli
van of Camden and Edward Gallagher
of Philadelphia were found dead from
gas poisoning this morning In the room
where they lodged at Atlantic and States
avenues. They had been working in this
city.
Pledges Aid of American Fed
eration of Labor to New
England Workers.
SPEAKS TO THOUSANDS
Condemns Mill Owners for Ef-1
forts to Reduce Pay and :
Extend Work Hours.
Peovidkkcx, March 12.?Tho Ainerl
can Federation of Labor will staiul
firmly behind tho textile strikers' of New
England in their fight against wage re
ductions and Increased working hours,
Samuel Gompers, president of tho fed
erntion, declared here to-night, address
ing a meeting of several thousand per
sons at ft theater.
Speaking to 3,000 in PawtucUet in the
afternoon, Mr. Oamaers, who la touting
the textile areas of New England where
strikes at" in progress, gave a similar
pledge on behalf of this organization.
"r'oni? what may," said Mr. Gompers,
"the United Textile Workers of An,erica
can count on the American Federation
ot Labor to s!aml behind them to the
fullest extent of its power, and the
American Federation hu? a membership
of H.000,000. These meniDors, with their
wives and children, represent 25 per
cent, of the population of tho United
States. The American Federation of
Labor will exert every effort ungrudg
ingly, cordially and .enthusiastically to
help the textile strikers to at least get
bread during their struggle."
The labor leader declared that texiile
workers knew, if few others did, that
about a year ago wages in this industry
were cut 22 v:? per cent. They knew that
the cost of living had not been reduced
when that cut was put into effect. To
day a further reduction of 20 per cent,
was offered, mill owners thinking that j
because tho first cut was accepted with j
little more than a murmur, the second '
would accepted "In actual silence." '
In addition to tho new wage reduction, }
mill owners proposed to extend the
forty-eight hour week to fifty-four j
hours.
Men and women of the laboring class I
who ucccpt every kick that is given |
them are treated as yellow curs are >
treated," declared Mr. Gompers.
T have read that the manager of one 1
of tho mills in Ithode Inland said the I
State must protect its industries." he [
continued. "I was always under the im- !
prension the paramount duty of the I
State was to protect Its people. The ;
womanhood and childhood of tho covin- ,
try demand protection.
"Mill owners say that under existing i
conditions It Is impossible for them to ;
compete with tho mills of the South.
Much already has been Raid in replv to j
that. The fact that the textile industry .
In the South is largely owned and con- .
trolled by Northern capital is incontro
vertible. '
"If the textile workers accept this ?0
per cent, reduction. Is It not reasonable 1
and natural to suppose that the textile
mills of the South will meet this cut with
a similar reduction In wages there? IC
that cut is made, wiil not the same com- i
petition bet ween the North and the i
?South again prevail? It will, and the i
mill owners of Rhode Island will again
demand 10 or 20 per cent, reduction,
then each side will go on competing and
depressing downward. What then will
become of the textilo Industry In Amer- i
lea.' Let this competition continue and
ihere will be no textile industry left in
New England. Thank God there are
enough Industries In tho United Stat.-s
to allow men and women now employed
m the textile business to find a liveli
hood."
TWO CHILDREN RESCUED
IN FIRE BY POLICEMAN
Twelvc Families Routed; Sur
face Lines Blocked.
Traffic on Sehlff Parkway was tied
tip for a half hour last night by fire
in the cellar of a four atory building ?
at 08 Clinton street, the basement of!
which lu occupied by the novelty store I
of Harry Hpector, and the ground floor I
by the Itosenberg Drug Company, t ars
were blocked on the Eighth street. Four- '
teenth t reet and Avenue n lines and the :
>'-hiff Parkway shuttln line. Tho fire
was confined to thu cellar.
Twelve families occupying the upper
floors of the building wi re driven out
Patrolman Frank Hadlow, of Motorcycle
Huuad No. 2. carried to the street the
two small children of Mrs. Hlrdle Hell
man, who llve? ou tho top floor.
CAfl KILLS MOTHER AND CHtt.D
Svracusk, March 12.?An automobile'
racing at high speed In a city street to-'
night struck and killed Mrs. John Cevs'
and her daughter, Helen, 5. The auto- I
mobile driver escaped.
AtTIDEXTAtLY SHOOT!* WRt.ls,
I>omlnlclc TJanlro. aged 36, 0f 1703 St.
Mark's avenue, Brooklyn, accidentally
shot himself In the abdomen last night
while handling his revolver in his homo
Ho waa taken to St. Mary's Hospitui
in ? serious condition.
r.n hi nuu.
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