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AND NEWARK ADVERTISER ____
ESTABLISHED 1832. S NEWARK, N. J., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1914.-22 PAGES. WEATHER: PROBABLY CLEARING SATURDAY
WILSON LIKELY TO
ATTEND BREMNER
FUNERAL MONDAY
President Will Follow Repre
sentative's Body to Grave if
Business Permits.
WHOLE STATE HONORS
CONGRESSMAN’S MEMORY
Flags Placed at Half-Mast.
National Guardsmen to Es
cort Hearse.
[Mpeclal to the Newark Star.]
PASSAIC, Feb. 6.—Robert Gunn
Bremner, representative from the
Seventh New Jersey Congressional
district, and editor of the Passaic
Daily Herald, who died yesterday in
a sanitarium In Baltimore, will be
buried at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon
from his home in Hamilton avenue.
Rev. L. B. Plummer, of Franklin
Furnace, an intimate friend of the
congressman, will officiate. Inter
ment will be made in Laurel Grove
Cemetery, Paterson.
President Wilson, who is anxious
to attend the funeral, will know this
afternoon whether business will per
mit him to leave Washington. Joseph
P Tumulty, the President's secretary,
will bo there, as will United States
Senators Hughes and Martine and
other New Jersey congressional rep
resentatives.
Governor Fielder will be present Jf
ho can make the necessary arrange
ments. The obsequies also will b©
attended by many members of the
State Legislature and by officials of
this city and Paterson.
Mrs. Bremner will select the list of
honorary pall bearers today. The
active bearers will be eight employees
of Mr. Bremner’s newspaper, the Pas
saic Herald. The funeral probably
will be a simple one to conform with
Mr. Bremner’s wish. Members of the
Fifth regiment, of which the Con
gressman was a member, may form
a military escort to the hearse.
View Body Between 2 and 9.
The many friends of the late con
gressman will be privileged to view
his body between 2 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon and 9 o’clock tomorrow'
night.
The body of Mr. Bremner reached
Passaic from Baltimore by way of
Newark at 1:50 a. m. today. It was
accompanied by Mrs. Bremner. Miss
Helen Bremner, a sister; Leith Brem
ner. brother, and Percey Spencer,
business manager of the Passaic Daily
Herald.
In the lasw days at Baltimore
the newspaper men from New York
papers and associated news agencies
slept in rooms adjoining the one in
which Mr. Bremner occupied. They en
joyed the entire confidence of the
Bremner family. They were spoken
lor by “Bob.” who asked that they bp
shown every courtesy possible, as he
had been a reporter at one time him
self, and he knew' what It meant to bo
treated kindly on that kind of an
•Vuwigiiment.’’
In one of the rooms In the Bremner j
home is a large Morris chair, which ,
was a gift to Mr. Bremner from the j
employees of the Herald on Christ- j
mas day. Mr. Bremner never saw \
the chair, as he entered the sanita- i
Hum on the day before Christmas.
.Amount of Kutiite Unknown.
The amount of the Bremner estate
is not definitely known. The repre
sentative was possessed of considera
ble property, accumulated since he
took hold of the Herald in 1902. It is
not known what arrangement he
made before ids death for Its distri
bution, but it is understood, al
though not authoritatively an
nounced, that he provided for his
mother, his w'ife and brothers and i
sisters. He w as heavily Insured and j
his newspaper, the Herald, was a j
good paying investment.
It is expected that Mr. Bremner’s
mother, who is at present in Camilla,
Canada, will be here Monday in time
for the funeral.
Both Passaic and Paterson are in I
deep mourning today. Flags are at
half-mast on 1 he sehoolhouses and
municipal buildings. “Bob” Brem
ner was one ot the best-loved men in
all Passaic county.
•fudge l*ay* Tribute.
The district court was adjourned by
Judge Warrington Cabell today in
tribute to the late congressman.
Judge Cabell said:
“Because the congressman of this
district is dead, this court shows its
honor and us soon as the regular
business is accomplished will ad
journ. ‘Bob’ Bremner is dead. We
all bow our heads, not to his success,
although his success was great. It
is to his manhood that we bow.”
j, Members of the Clan McLean, of'
* the .Scottish order, will attend the
(Contlviinl on ragf 5. Column 3.)
Astrologer Tells Her Fortune,
Then Pays Court $25
Fine.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, Newark’s
first policewoman, caused her first ar
rest last night when she collected
evidence against Charles H. Hatfield,
fifty-seven years old, an astrologer
at 379 South Eleventh street. Mrs.
Hughes visited Hatfield last night
under pretense of having her fortune
told. Hatfield, she says, predicted a
future of wealth and fame for her.
llis predictions were partially ful
filled today when Mrs. Hughes’s first
step to glory cost Hatfield $25 in the
Fourth Precinct Court, where he was
arraigned before Judge Herr on a
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Hatfield entered a plea of not guilty
but later changed it to one of guilty
and was fined $25. Hatfield was ar
rested last night by Detectives Har- |
ris and Jacques, of police headquar
ters.
Super Cannot Testify;
Inquiry Is Postponed
' NliW YORK, Feb. D—The John
Doe inquiry Into political Kraft to
have been resumed this afternoon
with ex-Governor Huizer as the chief
witness was put over until Monday,
sulzer notified District Attorney
Whitman that he found it impossible
to be on band.
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FISH TRUST’S GREED MAY
CAUSE NEW YORK CITY TO
ABOLISH FULTON MARKET
New York Aldermen Declare That It No Longer Serves the
Interest of the People.
Coincident with the announcement of the hearings on Federal control of
migratory flsh in Wednesday’s edition of The Star comes the news from
New York that tile Board of Aldermen of that city have decided that Ful
ton Market Is to be abolished because it has ceased to serve the people any
further in the matter of cheap or reasonable fish. The city fathers have
quietly Investigated the conditions and learned that the people of New
York city are paying the same price for their fish as the people of Newark,
Trenton, Camden, Philadelphia. Easton, Scranton and all other cities
within 300 miles of New York, while the headquarters of the fish trust are
Just across the street.
For many years the people of the city of New York have seen the
cost of fish rise higher and higher and no one connected with the ad
ministration raised a voice in protest, but Just us soon as The Star
began Its campaign several city fathers began their Investigation which
resulted as stated at the beginning of tills article. At the outset they
were Informed that the stories in-The Star were exaggerated and that
there was nothing to them, but some one must have made a mistake or
else there would be no need for the abandonment resolution now pending
In the Board of Aldermen, which states "that the market no longer ful
fills Its original purpose of supplying the common people with the neces
saries of life at reasonable prices.”
When The Star called the attention**
of the people to the high cost of fish
and showed them that all the pound
net men received for catching them
was 2% cents a pound. It woke up the
men folks who didn’t realize that in
many instances their wives were pay
ing as high as 40 cents a. pound for
the fish while at the same time they
were complaining only of the beef
trust, but when they learned that
every word in The Star’s stories was
true they called the attention of their
representatives to the matter and
there was quick action.
New York Flfnrw Interesting.
The figures gathered by the New
York Aldermen are very interesting,
as they show that the one-time fa
mous fish market, known all over the
world, was simply a distributing head
quarters for the fish trust and that
every time a woman entered the place
with a market basket, in search of
fresh fish, she was looked upon as
another one of P. T. Barnum’s “one
born every minute,*’ and they acted
accordingly.
One of the arguments advanced by
the fish trust against the campaign of
The Star is that the retail dealers are i
the robbers and not them, but where
do they and how do they account for
the fact that the same prices prevail
in the people's market of New York
as they do in all parts of the East?
Never was a combination formed that
is so well regulated as the fish trust
of New York and Philadelphia. A
person can go into any market in any
city and he will find that the prices
are the same and no such thing could
happen unless there was an agree
ment somewhere to control the prices,
and that is the very fact that caused
the introduction of the resolution to
close Fulton Market.
That the market has also fallen into
the hands of the fish trust seem to be
an assured fact, as the resolution also
(Continued on Page 10, Column 4.)
DECLINES APPEAL
Girl’s Slayer Insists to His
Counsel That He Web
comes Death.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Hans
Schmidt, who wae found guilty of
murder In the firet degree for the
murder of Anna Aumlller. ie seem
ingly content with 'he verdict and de
clines :> permit lilt counsel to ap
peal. Schmidt will lie sentenced next
Wednesday to die in the electric
chair.
The verdict againdt Schmidt was
rehdered late yesterday, a little over
two hours after the jury had retired.
It seemed a great relief to the former
priest, who had sat through the
twelve trial days aa If in a daze and
always blankly staring at the court
room wall, for his bent fingers sud
dently straightened, a light came Into
his eyes and he smiled.
Schmidt Beemed to have prepared
for the verdict. Since his arrest on
September 14 he has refused to be
shaved or to have his hair cut. He
has worn a silk handkerchief in lieu
of a collar, and his appearance has
been unkempt.
As he stood before the bar to hear
(Continued on Page !i, Column 4.1
TARIFF HITS TRADE.
WIRE UNION SAYS
Claims of Belleville Ironwork
ers Placed Before Leader
Underwood Today.
| From a Staff 4 'orrespondent.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Represent
ing the wire workers of Belleville, N.
J.. Henry J, Turner, president of the
Wire Workers’ Union, is holding con
ferences today with Congressman
Underwood. The visitor was intro
duced to the great tariff maker by
Representative Eugene Kinkead. Mr.
Turner explained that the men of his
trade were dissatisfied with the re
duction made in the tariff on wire.
The tariff cut the rates down from
45 to 15 per cent. The wireworker
from Belleville explained that the re
duction, if it was adhered to, woula
seriously interfere with the con
ditions of trade in Belleville and else
where. He did not ask for a restora
tion of the old high rates, but thought
that an increase to twenty or twenty
five cents would be about right.
Congressman Underwood took the
matter under advisement and gave
some suggestions of a practical na
ture to Mr. Turner how to go about
securing the remedy he sought. The
congressman said that it was no part
of the plan in revising the tariff to
work an injury, and where the re
vision that had been made could be
shown to prove injurious to the trade
steps would «be immediately taken to
remedy the defects.
The congressman is quoted as say
ing in effect: "We are not standpat
ters in matters of this kind. We have
studied the questions that came be
fore us carefully, but where it can be
shown that we have erred you will
tind us ready to go to work on the
tariff again and keep working at it
until It is adjusted to bring the best
results to the country.”
Congressman Kinkead promised to
study the features relating to the wire
industry and do all in his power to
readjust the tariff when it is shown
that a readjustment is necessary.
Save Crew in
Breeches Buoy
NAGS HEAD, N. C„ Feb. The
schooner Helen H. Benedict, of New
Haven, Conn., from Perth Amboy to
Fcrnandina, with a crew of nine, was
driven ashore near here today hi a
gale, Uife-savers took off her crew
In a breeches buoy.
DOCKS CHANNEL
JOB AWARDED BY
New York Firm Gets Contract
for $153,402.86—To Advertise
Transfer Agreement.
The Board of Street and Water
Commissioners yesterday awarded the
contract for dredging a channel in
Newark Bay. The Atlantic Gulf and
Pacific Company, of 13 Park row. New
York city, was the successful1 bidder.
Tho channel will extend fi&m tiW
present ship channel 4ji the pay to
! the mouth of the Peddle ditch and
thence inland parallel with the ditch
for 2,600 feet It is part of the city's
hay front dock and chip canal im
provement plan.
The Atlantic company submitted
the lowest figure. Its bid for the
entire contract was $153,402.86. The
company’s figure for excavating the
material is 11.44 cents a cubic yard.
The work has been divided into two
divisions. The first section extends
from the ship channel to the govern
ment pierhead, which was recently
established. The work extends ap
proximately 1.200 feet in this section.
The second section extends from the
pierhead 2,500 feet inland along Ped
die ditch. The total length of this
section is approximately 5,500 feet.
The channel and slip will be dredged
to a minimum depth of 20 feet at
mean low water. A uniform width
of 200 feet will be maintained at the
bottom. Tho work in section 1 later
may be eliminated in anticipation of
this dredging being finished by the
government
To Fill Meadow**.
The specifications include the con
ditions that all the material excavated
from the slip and channel be dep s
ited on the meadows within the pres
ent reclamation area- It is estimated
that at least 300,000 cubic yards of
clay, mud and sand will be excavated.
The contract also includes the sink
ing of a line of closely placed driven
poles from the shore line 1,000 feet
out into the bay.
The bids submitted by the other
bidders, with their excavation rates,
are as follows: Henry Steers, Inc.,
15.5* cents per cubic yard (the total
figure of this firm was $209,870); John
A. Seeley, of New York. 26 cents per
cubic yard; R. G. Packard, of Ba
(Continued on rag** 5. Col. 5.)
Higher Court Says Mrs. Peix
otto Should Have Appealed
to Commissioner.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Mrs. Bridget
Pelxotto. a school teacher, who won
a preliminary battle In tke Slate Su
preme Court after having been dis
missed by the school board because
she absented herself from her duties
to become a mother, met with reversal
by the Appellate division today.
This court unanimously upset Jus
tice Seabury's decision, which had
ordered the board to reinstate the
teacher. The Idgher court held that
Mrs. Pelxotto should have applied to
the State commissioner of education
for relief rather than to the courts.
Appoints Congressmen to
Attend Bremner Funeral
1 Special to the Newark Star.|
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—Speaker
Clark today appointed the following
representatives to attend the funeral
next Monday of Congressman Robert
G. Bremner: Messrs, HaTn111, Kin
kead Scully. Tuttle, McCoy. Town
send, Hart. Baker, Walsh, Browning,
Eagan, of New Jersey; Representative
Johnson, of Kentucky; Henry George,
jr., of New York;/Ashbrook, of Ohio;
Casey, Of Pennsylvania; Prouty, of
Iowa: Wallin, of New York; Winslow,
of Massachusetts; Keister, of Penn
sylvania, and Broussard, of Louisiana.
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon and the Washington dele
gation will leave here Sunday uight, j
probably.
BLOW ON HEAD IS
FAIAL TO YOUNG.
MEDICAL STUDENT
Nicholas Fernicola, of Iron- I
bound Section, Dies in St.
Michael’s Hospital.
ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN
RESULTS FROM INJURY
Hurt at Hahnemann College, in
Philadelphia, After Thanks
giving Day.
Nicholas Fernicola, twenty-six years
old, of 65 Adams street, a medical
student at the Hahnemann Medifcal
College, in Philadelphia, and a for
mer Barringer High School student,
died last night in St. Michael's Hos
pital. He had been confined in the
hospital since January 11 suffering
from an abscess on the brain. His
mother, sixty-two years old,' was at
his bedside when the end came at 10
o’clock last night.
The circumstances surrounding the
cause of the abscess are puzzling his
relatives. The abscess was the result j
of an injury to the student’s head. ;
Different stories are told as to how :
the injury was received. Rumor has
it that Fernicola was struck on the
head with a baseball during a game
in Philadelphia some time ago; an
other story la that he was struck dur
ing a fight with several of his fellow
students, and still another explana
tion Is that he was struck on the
left side of the head with a book
said to have been thrown by a fellow
student while Fernicola was induig- j
ing in horse-play.
Samuel Gesumarla, a son of the
brother-in-law of the dead student,
said today that Femlcola had come
home from college the day before
Christmas and had gone directly to
bed. Gesumarla said Femlcola told
him he had been confined In the In
firmary of the college for ten days
previous to the time he came home.
He complained of pains In his head
and said that the only way he could
account for them was from the time
he had been struck In the head with
a book while fooling with fellow stu
dents four days after Thanksgiving
Day.
On January 8, Femlcola lost his
power of speech and was stricken
with paralysis on his right side, the
opposite side from which he said he
was struck with the book. He was
removed to St. Michael's Hospital on
January 11 and operated on the next
day. A week ago yesterday he re
gained his speech and the use of his
right side. Two days after he suf
fered a relapse. His condition grada*
ally grew worse until the end came,
last night.
Femlcola was :born In this city and
attended Lafayette Street Public
School, from which he was graduated.
He was a. student at Barringer High
School for three years and finished
his course at a New York School, after
which he entered the Hahnemann
i Medical College. He was well-known
in the Ironbound section of the city,
having served as an election officer at
the polls for the past few years.
He Is Survived by his mother and a
sister, who is Mrs. Conchetta Gesu
marla.
The Progess Aerie No. 1987, of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, will con
duct the funeral services, which will
take place Monday morning at 8
o'clock from his home to the Church
of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, In Mc
Whorter street, where a solemn high
mass of requiem will be offered. In
terment will he in the Cemetery of
I ho Holy Sepulchre.
The report that Fernicola had been
struck on the head by a fellow stu
dent was investigated by the authori
ties of Hahnemann Medical School
today, and later it was announced
that the young man had not been in
jured while here and that his Illness
was due to natural causes.
Fernicola, who was a first year stu
j dent, became 111 before Christmas and
was treated at the Hahnemann Hos- '
pital. After he recovered he went to i
| his home in Newark, according to the ;
college physicians, and developed an
! abscess on the brain.
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DENY FEDERAL !
AFFECTS CLUBS
_
Officers of the Down Town Club, of ;
Newark, and other Incorporated so- ;
cial organizations have taken ex
ception to the alleged decision of
William H. Osborn, United States
commissioner of internal revenue, to
the effect that their organizations j
arc subject to taxation under the I
new federal income tax law.
It is contended by the club officers |
that their associations have not been
incorporated or organized for finan- i
cial profit, but for the promotion of
social welfare. It was pointed out
today that Collector Herman C. H.
Herold, of the local internal revenue
district, was asked as to the liability
of the Down Town Club, Board of
Trade and other organizations, and
the official referred to a recent gov
ernment bulletin on the income tax
law. This bulletin, in dealing with
exempted organizations, states:
“Nothing in this section (the direc
tion of taxes) shall apply to labor,
agricultural, etc., * * * nor tQ any
corporation or association organized
and operated exclusively for religious,
charitable, scientific or educational
purposes, no part of the net income
of which inures to the benefit of any
private stockholder or individual, nor j
to business leagues, nor to chambers j
of commerce or boards of trade, not !
organized for profit or no part of the
net income of which insures to the ben
efit of private stockholders or individ
uals; nor to any civic league or organ
ization not organized for profit, but
tion for social welfare.”
Denies Retirement Report
TRENTON, Feb. 6. Assistant At
torney General Gaskiil lias denied
that he had been offered the position
of general solicitor tor the Fidelity
Trust Company, of Newark, in antic
ipation of his retirement as a State
official. Mr. Gaskiil further said that
he was under instructions from At
torney General Wescott to continue
his work as he had always done, (tod
that he is following the order,
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8LUEC0AT, VICTIM
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ANOTHER IS DYING
Edward Murtha Killed in Brook*
lyn Attempting to Search
(iangster.
»OLICE SAVE MURDERER
FROM ANQRY CITIZENS
lames O'Connor, Who Tried to
Stop Slayer, Mortally
Wounded.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Policeman
Edward Murtha, of the Butler street
station, was shot and mortally
wounded early today at Fourth and
Hoyt streets, Brooklyn, by a young
Italian, who, a moment later, shot
down a civilian who tried to seize!
him. Murtha died some hours later
in the Holy Family Hospital. Pur
sued by half a dozen policemen, who
exchanged shots with him, the man
fled for ten blocks, with a mob in
pursuit before he was caught and
felled by a revolver butt at Bond and
Degraw streets. The mob fought to
get at the Italian and was prevented
from wreaking vengeance on him
only by the nightsticks of the police
reserves, who surrounded him and j
fought their way through the throng,
which hurled bottles and bricks at j
the prisoner.
O’Connor May Recover.
Murtha and James O’Connor, of No.
333 Warren street, the civilian who
tried to seize the Italian, wfere taken
to the Holy Family Hospital. The
bullet which struck Murtha was
found to be lodged so near the heart
that the surgeons said to probe for
it would only hasten his death.
O'Connor was shot through the
stomach, and the surgeons also fear
to probe for tAe bullet in his case.
They say he has a chance to recover.
The prisoner, taken after the wild
chase, says he is Giuseppe Arino,
twenty-five years old, and lives in
Avenue A, between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets. Detectives Clare
and Regan took him, manacled, to
Holy Family Hospital, where, they
say, he was identified by Murtha and
O'Connor as their assailant.
When Murtha went out on post it
was with instructions to keep a sharp
watch for suspicious characters, as1
there were rumors that Black Hand
threats had been made to set off a j
bomb in the Italian colony through j
which hfs post ran. He saw’ a slendei I
jk<yung Italian at Fourth and Hoyt
•Streets acting in a manner which1
aroused the young policeman’s sus
pkjjons. Hr walked over to the man
and demaunAed what he was doing.
growled an unintelligible re
sponse, aa| Murtha started to rufi his
hands ov*rv the Italian’s* pockets to
see tr fie1, had any weapons. As -he
dia tfiiis the Italian whipped out a;
heavy\ revolver from a shoulder!
holster under his coat and sent a j
bullet into Murtha’s breast just be
low the heart.
Murtha kept his feet for a moment, j
long enough to blow his whistle, and j
then fell to the sidewalk. The Italian!
ran around the corner and fled down;
Hoyt street toward Third street, i
O’Connor, out for a stroll, saw Arino
coming with three policeman, at- j
tracted by Murtha’s whistle, in pur
suit.
Mob !n Hoi Pursuit.
O’Connor leaped forward to seize!
the fugitive and caught hold of his j
coat. The Italian swung around and,!
pressing the muzzle of his revolver'
against O’Connor’s stomach, fired. As |
Arino continued his flight more than i
a hundred men were in pursuit as he!
reached First street. At Bond street I
Policeman Patrick Griffen, one of the'
first to take up the chase, neared him
and fired. Arino swung around and
shot twice at the policeman, who re
turned the fire.
40 Rescued in
Apartment Fire
NEW YORK. Feb. 6.—Fire believed
to have been started by an Incen
diary swept with such rapidity
through the five-story apartment
house 100 West Seventy-first street
early today that not one of the thirty
live or forty tenants was able to es
cape by the stairs.
Many thrilling rescues by police and
firemen were witnessed by residents
of the Hargrave Hotel In Seventy
second street, of the WTalton Hotel at
Seventieth street and Columbus ave
nue, the Tuxedo and other big apart
ment houses In the neighborhood, as
well as by scores of handsomely
dressed men and women on their way
home in motors from theatres and
restaurants. No lives were lost and
onlv one person was injured.
Robert H. Mainzer, the wealthy
broker, known as "the millionaire fire
buff." was cut on the face and hands
by glass, but not seriously enough
to require medical attendance. He
and Colonel X. B. Thurston, former
deputy police commissioner, were
among the first on the scene after the
discovery of the blaze. Colonel Thurs
ton lives at the Walton and Mr
Mainzer in the Marie Antoinette.
Matthews Invited to Join
Staff of U. of P. Lecturers
Former Assemblyman John A.
Matthews has received an invitation
to become one of the staff of exten-.
sion lecturers of the University of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Matthews was a
speaker in a debate on woman suf-;
frage held at Philadelphia last Mon-!
day. He made such a strong impres
sion that the university authorities
decided to invite the Newark man to
ally himself with the extension lec
ture courses.
Mr. Matthews in the debate took
the negative side of the woman suf-j
frage question.
Driver Stricken on Wagon
Dies, Indigestion Victim
Suddenly toppling from his seat on
b. delivery wagon belonging to the
Sigel-Cooper Company of New York.
Harold Dunn, twenty-five years of
age, of 29 Ridgewood avenue, Newark,
the driver, fell unconscious in the
wagon. The vehicle was then on its,
way up Bay avenue, near the Moun
tainside Hospital, Montclair. and
Dunn’s helper, Albert Cohen, drove
the wragon Into the yard of the hos
pital.
The driver was carried into thu
hospital, but after an examination
was found to be dead. Death was
pronounced to be due to indigestion.
IVlrs. Robert Goelet in
Aero Flight Over Hotel
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DAYTONA, Fla.. Feb. 6—At tbe'
lelght of the promenade hour at Sea
freeze this afternoon a woman wear
ng the latent model of aviation cos
ume took her place beside Miss Ruth
>aw in Miss Law’s aeroplane and,
>efcre anyone could identify her
hrough veil and goggles, was car
led out of effective range of the
ield glasses which were quickly
wrought into play.
After the aeroplane had executed
spirals 2,000 feet above the Hotel
Clarendon, and had circled over Or
nond. it landed on the beach and
drs. Robert Goelet. of New York,
ilighted.
There was much guessing during
he twenty minutes the two women
vere flying, and the surprise they
wd given the winter colony here was
he chief topic at dinner last night.
A photographer stood too near the
ine of the aeroplane’s descent and
ivas struck after it landed. He was
slightly Injured and his camera was
wrecked.
Mrs. Goelet is spending the winter
here w’ith her two children.
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MUM BANK
Depositor-Stockholders Enthu
siastic Over Successor to
Wrecked Trust Co.
Hopeful and optimistic. 200 depos
itor-stockholders of the new Mutual
Bank of Roseville, successor to the
wrecked Roseville Trust Company,
attended a dinner last night at j
Ward's Hall, Orange and Seventh
streets. Enthusiasm over the pros
pects of the new Institution marked
the banquet and the speeches that
followed.
The speakers all declared that the
establishment of the new bank was
a unique and remarkable undertak
ing.
"Six months ago, almost to the day,
the Roseville Trust Company closed
its doors and the State banking de
partment began its investigation. The
eyes of the financial world were
turned to Roseville to see what would
come from the wreck.” said A. V.
Hamburg, president of the Board of
Trade. "They watched and have seen
the Mutual Bank of Roseville a bet
ter and stronger bank than its pred
ecessor. rise from the ruins. Interest
is still centred on It to see If the de-1
posltor-owned bank will be a success,
as we all feel it jrill."
Banking Commissioner Speaks.
Oiiters not connected with the bank
who. spoke were George M. La Monte,
commissioner of banking and ibsur-1
ance. and Irving V. Brown, president:
of the Credit Man s Association.
The dinner was apparently served
as a vent for some of the pent-up;
enthusiasm and spirit of those in- j
terested in the new bank
President Clifford F. MacEvoy said I
the dinner marked the sighting of that I
point where the depositors in the old
bank would shortly be paid 40 per:
cent, of the money they entrusted
to it. Counsel for the new bank Ed- >
ward F. Clark, formerly president of'■
the Guardians' Trust Company, of
New York, said that he hoped to be
able to declare that the opening day
of the Mutual Bank on the site of the
Roseville Trust Company on Orange
street and Roseville avenue will be
February 16. Commissioner La Monte
refused to publish a statement that
the bank would be opened on that
day, but Mr. Clark said he believed
he will in a day or two.
Edwin A. Van Sant, who was presi
dent of the Depositors' Protective
Association, presided at the open
ing of the banquet and intro
duced Irving C. Brown as the toast- ;
master. Before doing so he told those:
present that in the organisation of
the Mutual Bank of Roseville, with
the depositors as stockholders having
a direct interest in the profits there
is a striking example of how In some
of the big things of today, the people j
are coming into their own.
He likened the birth of the bank to j
that of a boy and asked: "Are we:
going to starve the child? No. we *
will go to see him frequently and feed
him with deposits." The new bank
will be a fitting member of the group
of financial institutions which have
made Newark famous in the State.
If not throughout the country.
"If this bank iB given oacking by
you and succeeds, It will go far to
relieve one of the most intense and
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ACTRESS TRIES TO
COM SUICIDE
Found Unconscious from Cas in
Room at Boarding
House.
Kate Gangloff, one of the six
‘belles” in a singing and dancing act,
“The Bellboy and the Belles,” which
is being shown in the Lyric Theatre
this week, failed to appear when the
time came for the troupe to appear |
at the afternoon performance today.
The other performers and the thea- |
tre management were worried and i
started a search.
Finally word came from Brady’s j
boarding house, 278 Washington |
street, where the girl was making i
her home, that she had been over- ■
come by gas there, and had been
taken to the City Hospital.
Other lodgers in the house detected !
the odor of gas shortly after noon 1
today and traced it to the actress’
room. Bantering they found the girl |
stretched out on her bed unconscious, j
Every gas jet in the room was turned 1
on full.
The girl was hurried to the City.
Hospital, where it was said this after
noon she had regained consciousness,
aftd probably would recover.
Members of the company in which j
Miss Gangloff performs said they
knew of no reason for the girl to at
tempt to take her life. In the board
ing house it was said she- seemed in
good spirits when she retired shortly
after midnight.
There are eight members in the
company showing “The Bellboy and
the Belles,” two men and six girls.
The act went on as usual today, ex
cept that Miss Gangloff did not ap
pear.
Mrs. Robert Goolct.
THOUSANDS SING
COMIC SONGS AT
ACTOR’S FUNERAL
New York’s East Side Mourns
Death of Zigmund Mogulisko,
Comedian.
NEW YORK, Feb. Twenty-five
thousand mourners from New York's
Ghetto turned out for the funeral to
day of Zlgmund Mogulesko, famous
among the Yiddish as an actor and
comedian. The crowd, which followed
a funeral procession led by the He
brew Actors' Club, was so unwieldy
that police reserves were called out
to keep order.
It may never have happened before
that men sang extremely comic songs
with tears In their eyes. Yet. early
this morning, when the members of
the Hebrew Actors’ Club gathered at
108 Second avenue, the funeral's
starting point, many of them could
not help humming the tunes that
Mogulesko had made famous on the
East Side. Almost all of the songs
sung on the Yiddish stage were writ
ten by Mm. and jam before he died
crying. "The comedy of life iB end
ed,” he expressed a wish to have
some of his more serious songs sung
bv the mourners at his funeral
No sooner had the six prominent
Yiddish actors who had been selected
as pallbearers carried the coffin down
from the Hebrew Actors' Club than
the crowd surged into the middle of
the street and it was a hard problem
for the police, after that, to keep the
streets clear. The Second avenue cars
stopped running and many actors,
with their mourning badges and pic
tures of Mogulesko to Identify them,
were thrown out of the line of pre
cession and found It Impossible to re
turn.
In front of the National Theatre,
where prayer service for Mogulesko
was held and speeches were made hy
prominent members of the East Side
community, matters were worse.
Everv one who was to be admitted
was first given a ticket by the funeral
committee, and as this was a slow
process friends of the dead actor tried
to burst through the crowds, the po
lice were hard put to it to restrain
them.
The mounted policemen tried to
clear a path, but the crowd was
tightly wedged. To add to their dis
comfort, some of the actor-mourners
were trying to get back to their
places.
And amid all this thousands of cries
rent the air. Many in the jam were
humming Mogulesko's hymns and
manv were bewailing, “Oy. Gevald,
Mogulesko a Moloch" (Alas. Mogul
esko. an angel), and similar cries were
heard.
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BELIEVED HELD
JUAREZ. Mexico. Feb. 6.—Seven
American railroad men ars believed
to be prisoners, the Great Cumbre
railroad tunnel through the conti
nental divide is in ruins and the
Mexican Northwestern passenger
train which left here Wednesday
morning is a charred wreck at the
mouth of the tunnel, as the result of
the depredations of members of the
Maximo Castillo gang of bandits.
Spanish Press Thinks
1). S. Foments Anarchy
MADRID, Feb. 6. — Provisional
Preside!,: Huerta today telegraphed
to the Sionish-American Union here
replying to its request that he bring
about an armistice in Mexico in or
der to arrange a compromise with
the revolutionists by the statement
that he is increasing the Federal
army with the object of pushing for
ward his campaign against the rebels.
General Huerta at the syme time
invited the newspapers of Madrid to
send correspondents to Mexico to ob
serve. the situation.
The Spanish press xmmented free
Iv on the Mexican s..uation today
Several of the leading newspapers of
the capital accused the United States
government of "fomenting anarchy."
El Diario Universal, the organ of
Count Romanones, a former premier,
affirms that if the revolutionists in
Mexico are supplied with arms from
the United States the government at
Washington is bound to impose re
spect for the lives and property of
foreigners In Mexico.
Good Roads Bill to Come Up
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. -Under
special rule the House will work to
night on the Shackleford good roads
bill to appropriate $25,000,000 for Fed
eral aid to the States for improve
ment of highways used by rural mail
carriers. . . . _
BOGGS ACCEPTS
OFFER OF BERTH
FROM WESCOT
Newark City Attorney to Be
come Assistant Attorney
General.
MYERS SLATED TO
BE HIS Sl'CCESSOI
Assistant City Attorney’s Post
tion May Be Taken by John
P. Manning.
I Special to the Newark
TRENTON, Feb. 1 <1 ttnintflr ffilj
eral Wescott today announced tfci
appointment of Herbert Boggs, o
Newark, as assistant attorney-gen.
eral. He will succeed Nelson B. Gas*
kill. Republican.
“I have tendered Mr. Boggs the pt*
sition.' ’the attorney-genera! said to
day, “and T expect he will accept it.1
As predicted in the Evening Stal
of Tuesday last a tender of the posi
tion of assistant atornf y-general haw
been made to City Attorney gjgfjjjj
Bogg« by Attorney-General John W
Wescott.
The information received by the
Star was evidently correct, although
Mr. Boggs, when spoken to in regard
to the rumor of his selection, ex*
pressed surprise and declared that
he could not discuss a matter of]
which he had not sufficient knowl-'
edge.
ivir. tjog-gw nas been oriered the po
sition at Trenton and h^s forwarded!
a reply to the attorney -general.
It is understood that the reply con*.
tain*s an acceptance of the offer, al
though the city attorney still decline*!
to discuss the question. He will no*
say what answer he aent to Mr. We*-:
cott.
From other source* come *gjp
presaions that there is no doubt As to
Mr. Boggs’s intention to give up hbi
Newark berth for the Btate position.
He will succeed Nelson B. Gas kill,
who has been assistant attorney-gen
eral for years, serving under Robert
H. McCarter, Thomas X McCarter
and Edmund Wilson. Mr. Wilson
gave way to Mr. Wescott a little over
a week ago.
The assistant attomey-generalshlff
pave $5,000 per annum and is for *;
five-year term. Mr. Boggs’s compen
sation as city attorney for Newark 1
is $6*000 per year.
So well satisfied are City Hall ofB- |
dale that Mr. Boggs 1* going to 1
sevsr his connection* with the city •
law departmeni that there 1* at- i
ready talk fot the advancement erf
Assistant City Attorney Chaste*
Myers to Jnt city attorneyship, and -
John P. Manning, a member of ths
law department to the place now
held by Ur. Myers. The talk even
went, so far as to hare It that Mr.
Manning would not accept the As
sistant city attorney Job.
It is said on good authority that
while Attorney-General Wescott was
willing to retain Mr. Gasklll as his
assistant. Governor Fielder held that
the office must go to a Democrat. Mr,
Gasklll is a Republican. The gov
ernor’s views prevailed.
The field of desirabilities was closely
scanned, and there were a number of
likely candidates. Mr. Boggs’s repu
tation as a municipal lawyer, the fact
that he was recognized as an out
and-out Democrat and that he had
been on terms of personal intimacy
with Attorney-General Wescott for
years, settled the question In his fa
vor.
Mr. Boggs has served as city attor
ney under the administrations of two
mayors. James M. Seymour and Jacob
Haussling. and as counsel in special
cases during the administration or
Henry M. Doremus.
SNOmCOLD
WAVEONITSWAY
Zero Weather Likely Sunday,
Say Weather Bureau
Bulletins.
Flurries of snow, which the weather
bureau bulletin today assert, prob
ably marks the beginning of a snow
storm that will turn Into rain, began,
to fall shortly before noon today.
Warmer weather tonight, probably
with rain, is forecast. Tomorrow, the
observers say, will be cold and cloudy,
with the likelihood of clearing skte»
before night.
A cold wave, which now Is sweep*
I ing through the Gulf States and the
1 Mississippi and Ohio valleys, prob*
: ably will reach this section by Sun*
i day, weather bulletins from Waahtng
1 ton announce.
WASHINGTON. Feb. (..--'"The se
verest weather of the year is now
prevailing in the upper Missouri val
ley and the Plains States as tar
I south as Oklahoma and the Pan
handle Of Texas.” the weather bureau
i in a special bulletin announced to
day. "Zero temperatures or lower
prevail. These unusually low read
ings have been attended by snow,
hleh winds and galea
"East of the Mississippi there have
been numerous thunder showers In
the Southern States and snow In the
' northern regions.
"The cold wave will overspread the
l East Gulf States, the middle Missis
sippi Val lev and the lower Ohio val
ley in the next twenty-four hour*
and will reach the Atlantic Coast
Stales from Florida to Maine by
! Sunday morning."
Chicago Feels Storm Wave;
Wire Trouble Is Reported
CHICAGO. Feb. 6.—Four days of
i intense cold with snow were predict
ed by the United States forecaster
here today to follow the snowstorm
w hich broke here' this morning. The
I storm wave was moving east and
i southeast, according to the fore
i caster, w ho said temperatures in the
I southern lake region would reach Hi
the vicinity of zero.
Western Union and Postal Tele
graph officials reported wire trouble
west and northwest of Chicago. Com
munication between Chicago and Den
ver was interrupted for several bourn
until a roundabout circuit wait be
established. / „ _ _