SLATE * CT ATE EDITION ^ EDITION E CENT ONE CENT -.- - - . ... LABL1SHED 1832. NEWARK, N. J., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914.— 22 PAGES WEATHER: PROBABLY RAIN SATURDAY. HUERTA IS AGAIN PARLEYING — Simultaneous Return of; Salute, Gun for Gun, Is New Demand Made at the Eleventh Hour. WILSON !S CERTAIN TO REFUSE THESE TERMS Action of Dictator Confirms Fears of Many That He Would Equivocate at Last Minute—All Intention of Re calling Fleet Abandoned. WASHINGTON. April 1".—Huerta has parleyed again. He demands tiiai his salute to the 1'nited States > Mag shall be returned simultaneously gun for gun. This President Wilson Is practically certain not to accept. This latest hitch at the eleventh ! hour, when officials here expected the situation was as good as closed up, was disclosed in dispatches from Charge O’Shaughnessy. President Wilson discussed it with the cabinet. Administration officials said privately Huerta's counter proposition would not he accepted. The dovclopemr nt confirmed the fears of those officials who expected Huerta would equivocate again. Any intention of recalling any ships of the Meet now bound to Tampico was abandoned aiel those close to the ad ministration expected to see Presi dent Wilson's demand for an un qualified apology backed up. Cruiser Tacoma Touches Newport; Continues On NEWPORT. R. April 17—Tho cruiser Tacoma, which arrived here last night after a stormy passage, from Boston, sailed today to join the Atlantic fleet at Tampico. Mighty apprentice seamen and right general service men, mostly petty officers, who had been in read iness at the naval training station, boarded the cruiser here. This draft overtaxed the ship's complement and extra stores had to lie placed on board. Tin Tacoma will proceed at once for Tampico, where the apprentice and service men will be distributed among-other vessels of the fleet. TRIFLE PREMATURE Wild Ride and Wreck in Effort to Evade Irate Husband Unnecessary. After causing an automobile wreck, in which two persons were injured and considerable anxiety on the part of her relatives, Mrs. Anna Hutchins, who is stopping with her mother, Mrs. Ida Sorensen, at 260 Bellevue avenue. Upper Montclair, today had to admit that her fears of her hus band, who lives in Pittsburgh, was going to come to Montclair to murder her were u trifle premature. Night before last Mrs. Hutchins’s lister. Miss Frieda Sorensen, her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Obic Cole, of 276 Fourteenth avenue; two-year-old Winifred Cole and Stanley Mltton, of 433 Grove street, Upper Montclair, started in an. automobile on a mad dash for >V'wark police headquarters to ob tain a guard of policemen for Mrs. Hutchins. At Kinney street and Fourteenth avenue the machine was hit by a Kinney street car. Miss Sorensen and Winifred Cole were hurt. The ear, by the way, belonged to Mitlon, who hud started a hacking business in Montclair only two days before. Today, however, Mrs. Hutchins is regretting sending her relatives Into the accident. Her husband is not on bis way to Montclair; moreover he hasn’t made up his mind to go there *\t all. This she learned from the Ciief of police of Pittsburgh. ’< was this official, however, more thai Mrs. Hutchins, who was re sponsible for the motor wreck. The chief had sent word to the Montclair police that Hutchins was already on his wp^f.vm Pittsburgh in search of his wife NEWARK SALE OF $222,000 uf Temporary Loan Issue Go at 3,15, Lowest Rate Ever Received. City Comptroller Tyler Parmly to day sold $220,000 -worth of temporary loan bonds foi 3.15 per cent. This Is the lowest interest rate the city has ever received for bonds In large quantities, and ntay'be due to the great New York city sale this week. More than twenty-five years ago a small issue of Newark bonds was sold for 3 per cent. The 3.15 rate, however, establishes a record for low interest charges on bonds of a ma terial amount, and shuws the faith the New York brokers and bankers have In Newark. Tho bonds were purchased by L,. Von Hoffmann & Co., of -Manhattan. There were eleven bidders who ap plied for the bonds, inoluding three local bankers. This is an unusually large quota of applicants, and shows the demand for Newark bonds in New York city. Eighty thousand dollars’ worth of the issue are for the new, almshouse and $140,000 are paving bonds. This issue is the renewal of a former issue, i which was sold to Solomon .Brothers ] & HiUzlcr for *7/i Per cent. F. j Custom to Acknowledge Salute, Say Officials WASHINGTON, April lT.-Navnl officers declared today that u de part mental regulation which forbids a salnto “in honor of any nation or of any official of any nation not for tnally recognized' by the government of the United States/' would not pre vent an acknowledgment of the salute Huerta has promised to tire to the American flag. Ranking officials pointed out that j when the commandant at Tampico j tires the salute President Wilson has | demanded, the reply of the American ships, according to precedent and j form, will be directed, not to Huerta, nor any other individual, but to the Mexican nation. Officials added that should Huerta himself appear in per son, he would not be saluted. An official statement by the navy department was pointed out as ex plaining the situation. It said: “If a national salute is tired as an amende honorable, it is invariably returned gun for gun by a vessel of the war power whose Hag has just been saluted. This is in accord with international comity and there urc many precedents to estab lish the custom.” FOUR BODIES OF WRECK VICTIMS WASHED ASHORE One Is of Captain Dudley’s Wife—Lone Survivor Tells of Heroism. [kmvial to the Evening SUr.) MONMOUTH BEACH. April 17.— The bodies of four victims of the wreck of the schooner Charles K. Buckley, of Elizabeth, which went to pieces on a sandbar off Long Branch on Wednesday night, were cast up on the beach here today. One of the bodies is that of Mrs. H. G. Hardy, wife of the captain of the wrecked vessel. The others ure believed to be those of members of the crew, al though one may be Captain Hardy's. There is now way of identifying the bodiesat present, as the sole survivor of the wreck, Emil Malkuson, a sea man, is in a dangerous condition in the Monmouth Memorial Hospital. << ni.llmi.il »» n-igr « Column t.i ASK GOETHALS TO TESTIFY ON TOLLS REPEAL Amendment Providing for Main taining Canal Sovereign ty Pushed. WASHINGTON, April 17.—Colonel George Goethals has been summoned before the canal commission to testify on the economic features of the Panama, tolls exemption for coast wise vessels. He Is expected to favor repeal. The Colonel was asked to come at the request of Senator Simmons, but may not reach here before April 24, the day set for the closing uf the hearings. In that event Senator Sim mons will not ask for an extension of the hearings, but will either re quest that. Colonel Goethals's testi mony be incorporated in the record or presented on the floor of the Sen ate. Sentiment was said to be crystalliz ing In the committee today for an amendment to the Sims' repeal bill, stipulating that the United States will give up no rights of sovereignty over the canal by the repeal of the exemption. Supporters of that Idea hope to win the President to that view'. Bondsmen of Contractor Who Defaulted Charge City’s Tests Were False. l>pwlnl to the Krenlnx Star.) SUMMIT, April 17.—Papers have been filed in the suit for the recovery of damages to the amount of $28,000 brought by the Massachusetts Bond ing and Insurance Company against the city of Summit. The answer has been made returnable in the United Stat.-s District Court for the district of New Jersey in twenty duys. The insurance company had bonded Michael Loprete, of East Orange, who had contracted with the city of Sum mit to construct the West Summit sewer system. Shortly after he had begun the work Loprete became dis couraged and left the job unfinished. The company was consequently com pelled to attend to the completion of the work. In its suit, however, the company claims that it had been defrauded by tests alleged to have been made by the city engineering department of Summit, and had been forced to spend on the construction of the sewer a sum of money greatly in excess of the amount stipulated In the contract. It claims that according to the tests of the city’s engineers, one section of the sewer required excavations through rock at a cost estimated at $8 per cubic yard. In reality, however, al leges the complainant, it was found that the excavations had to be made through water and quicksand, at a cost of $36 per cubic ya~d. Herbert Boggs, former city counsel of Newark, and at present assistant attorney-general of 2fle State, will rep resent the company* HOI RULE ACT DEALS PENSIONS STUNNING BLOW Police and Firemen’s Funds Seriously Affected, Says Trenton Commissioner. CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES ARE DIVESTED OF POWER Hennessy Bill Strips Commis sion-Governed Cities of Au thority Facilitating Business. ISperiiil to the livening star.] TRENTON, April 17.—In a care fully prepared statement issued yes terday, Commissioner La Bar re points out some new and startling disclosures in the operation of the Hennessy "homo rule" act. so-called. In the estimation of the commis sioner the Hennessy act works a revolutionary and perhaps a ruinous change In the management of the affairs of municipalities governed by commission rule. The changes will affect revenues und have a serious and emharrastng bearing upon meth ods of government created for the purpose of facilitating court work. These things are exclusive of the doubt surrounding the power to issue bonds for public Improvements. Cities like Newark and other mu nicipalities not under commission rule are, of course, safe from the troubles and hardships that the Hennessy act is imposing, and will remain free from its disturbing in fluence so long as they adhere to the old and popular form of government. According to Commissioner Lu Burro. the city and several of'its de partments are hit in one way or an other. Ho says that included in the various departments afflicted arc the police and tlremeh’s pensions, police lines, salurtes of policemen and the power of police sergeants to take bail. The statement in full follows: •‘Provisions of the Hennossy ‘Home Kulo Act1 providing ‘Such munici palities shall be. and arc hereby de clared to bo. a dist ort class of mu nicipal ties, and shall be subect to uny laws of this State, except laws applicable to all rounic pal ties of this Stale oilier than co,unties and school districts,' have suspended the power and authority conferred by certain laws upon tile city and its muntc*pal officials. Among theso laws are: ‘An act to remove the Are and pojtce departments in cities of this State from political control.’ reunion Fund* Afff such city for the maintenance of a pension fund, is likewise rendered inopeta tive. “An act entitled 'an act concerning paid fire departments in certain mu nicipalities of this State, and for the relief of members thereof, their wid ows, dependent parents and children,’ approved March 28, 1905, is likewise Inoperative. Kltwt on Inniiranco Premium*. “The Hennessy act eliminates all these sources of revenue. The loss of one-half of the 2 per centum of the premiums for insurance will be es pecially felt. The entire 2 per cen tum will now go to the Fin-men’s Be lief Association, as provided by an act entitled, ‘an act to facilitate the collection from lire Insurance com panies. "Hereafter retirements and pen sions will be controlled by the pro visions of an art entitled, ’an act concerning the fire departments of this State and to provide for the re tirement of firemen and employes therein.’ "Under this act the city must bear the whole, burden of pensioning fire men, and the curious anomaly is pre sented of the current pension fund amounting to about $28,000, to which the city has contributed u large por tion vested in lhe hands of a corpora tion, and which can only be used to pay tho pensions now in effect, and the city compelled to hear the bur den of additional pensions. Limitation* on m*riplliu'. "A supplement to the fire and po lice act, approved May 22, 1906, per mitting the imposition of tines or other penalties not exceeding thirty days for derelictions of duty, Is inop erative. Suspensions without service and without pay and dismissals are i now the only penalties that can be Imposed. “The maximum salary law of 1905, j adopted by the voters of Trenton in 1907, is inoperative, but the salaries cannot be reduced by reason of the! adoption of the amendment to the Walsh act in 1913, which provides! ‘That the salary or compensation of j any member of the police or fire de-, partments shall not be fixed at a less amount than that received by the said member at the time of the adop tion of said act.' “The provisions of the act entitled ‘An act authorizing sergeants of po-1 lice in any first or second class city to take recognizances of ball from any person charged with having com mitted a misdemeanor, or any offense j against the vice and immorality act, I or the provisions of an act concern ing disorderly persons,' approved April 14, 1913, Is Inoperative." Hundred Horses Die in Fire That Makes Many Homeless CHICAGO, April 17.—More than 100 families were driven from their homes today by/an early morning fire which damaged the stables of the Adams Kxpress Company and flat buildings In the vicinity to the extent of more than 5100,000. The tiro broke out in the express company's stables and 100 horses were burned to death before firemen xashsJ tk# building FIELDER CALLS A Meet Next Friday to Name Board Under New Prison Reform Bills. NO-OTHER BUSINESS TO BE CONSIDERED, HE SAYS New Acts Legislate Out Old Commissions and Reorgan ize Management. [Speelitl to the Evening Star.J TRENTON, April 17.—Governor Fielder today issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Senate to meet at noon next Friday to re ceive and act upon nominations for members of the new Hoard of Prison Inspectors, the new Prison I.abor Commission and the new Board of Trustees of the State Home for Girls. The real necessity for the special Senate session is caused by the new prison reform bills. Discussing his proclamation Gov ernor Fielder said that the session would be confined strictly to receiv ing and acting upon his nominations and that no other business viould be considered. "The session should be all ove.r in one hour." sahl the Governor. The three prison reform bills ore. Senate 147, creating a new prison la bor commission; Senate 14S. abolish ing the present parole board, com posed of the head keeper, the, resident physician and the moral instructor, and Senate 1411, which creates a new board of prison inspectors and reor ganizes the management of the prison. These ucts legislate out of office the present prison labor commission and the board of prison inspectors. The new hills provide that the ap pointments to these boards shall be made by the governor with the ad vice and consent of the Senate. ESSEX COUNTY Forty Institutions Represented at Gathering—Protest Made on Regional System. After formally organizing the Essex County Bankers' Association at a rlInner held at the Down Town Club last night, the bankers of this city went on record as being opposed to the Federal reserve ' district plan which makes Philadelphia the dis trict for this State. The association also protested against provisions of the Clayton bill, now before Congress, adopted by-laws, elected officers and appointed an executive committee. The newly organized association is the result of efforts of "the Juniors” who for some time past have been bolding meetings at Irregular inter vals. A committee was recently ap pointed to go into the question of the formation of a county bankers organization ns a sort of a branch of the New Jersey State Bankers’ Association. That committee report ed last night. On the committee were: John D. Everett, president of the Orange Na tional Bank: Alexander S. Ward, treasurer of Howard Savings Institu tion: li. H. Holmes, cashier of tin Bank of Montclair: W. M. Van Deu sen, cashier of the National Newark Banking Company; Arthur W. Clrea son, cashier of the National State Bank; Charles 11. Clark, cashier of the People’s Bank of East Orange; F. A. Shilling, treasurer of the Bloom Held Trust Company: Rufus Kiesler, Jr., treasurer of the Iron bound Trust Company, and Spencer S. Marsh, cashier of the North Ward National Bank. The report contained a reconrnn ml ation for the organization of both junior and senior officers, the object being toward the “general welfare of the banking institutions of the coun ty, the interchange and discussion of ideas relating to banking in general and to the banks of Essex County in particular.” An amendment was attacheil to the by-laws, after which those present voted to accept it. The amendment provided for the consideration of legislation affecting the banks of the State, ami particularly those of Es sex county. The amendment was met (Continued on I’nice X, Column 2.1 insult; says EDGE, IN REPLY Declares Hudson Assemblyman Was Realty the Partisan Mem ber of Economy Board. to the Evening Star.I ATLANTIC CITY. April 17.—Sena tor Walter E. Edge today issued a statement replying to the statement of Assemblyman Walter L. McDer mott, of Hudson county, explaining the latter man’s resignation from the economy and efficiency committee, of which Edge is chairman. Senator Edge denies any action of his was responsible for McDermott’s resigna tion, and says his ‘‘ins.nuations” are a direct insult to the other member of the committee. Partlsansh p was Introduced in the board by McDermott, he says, not by him. In reply to McDermott’s charge that he thwarted the work of ihur commission of labor to aid his friend, Colonel Lewis T. Bryant, ho says ho hopes ho will never be accused of anything more serious than standing by a friend, f _ ....._ if | SCENE OF FIRE HORROR IN NEW YORK | u HEARINGS END Commissioners Name Two Days for Argument—Buildings Valued at $19,500,000. The last of the testimony to he taken by tin* commissioners ap pointed to tlx the value of the stock of the Prudential Insurance Com pany prior to the mutualization of the company, was taken yesterday afternoon. It. was decided by the commissioners, after a long confer ence with the lawyers who are ap pearing before them, that two days would be allotted for argument. This will be May 8 and May 9. In the course of the proceedings yesterday afternoon. Francis H. Kimball, an architect, was called to the stand to testify to the value of the buildings now occupied by the Prudential in Newark. He tlxed this at 519,500,000. This is somewhat higher than other estimates, and Richard V. Lindabury, representing the majority stockholders, started to cross-ex; 1 rpine him. Mr. Kimball is a farmerlike per son, possessing a beard that would arouse the envy of any person in the alfalfa belt. He wears big steel rimmed spectacles and does not look like an architect at all. '“Now,” started Mr. lands bury, “you are an architect. What firm do you work for?” “For myself,” replied Mr. Kimball. “What largo buildings have you designed?” was the n* xt question. Mr. Kimball lost no time. He be gan with the City Investment build ing in New York and reeled off a score of the biggest buildings In that city, including the Trinity and the Kinpire buildings, while the rest of the lawyers present enjoyed Mr. Kindabury’s discomfiture. Militant Bomb Wrecks Theatre GREAT YARMOUTH, England, April 17.—The theatre on the great recreation pier here was destroyed today by a fire caused by the explo sion of a bomb left under a seat by a militant suffragette. At 4 o'clock this morning a violent explosion woko the inhabitants of Great Yarmouth. A few momenta later the theatre at the end of the pier burst into flames. It was re cently rebuilt at a cost of $100,000. The usual suffrage literature was found strewn along the pier and on the beach. Vincent Astor “Comfortable;” No Wedding Postponement NEW YORK, April 17.—N arrange ments for u postponement of the wed ding of Vincent Astor and Miss Helen Pinsmorc Huntington, set for April ISO, has been made, notwithstanding Mr. Antor's Illness. This announce i nmnt was piadi at the Huntington 1 country home today in contradiction of reports (hat the ceremony had been indefinitely postponed. A post ponement may yet be found expe dient, however. Mr. Astor spent a comfortable night and wus pronounced "about the same today," APPEAL BEFORE ! Union and Middlesex Counties Ask That Rate from Five Companies. Officials and citizens representing towns in Union and Middlesex coun ties appeared before the Board of Public Utility Commissioners at a meeting held In the Court House in this city today for a hearing on the reasonableness of rules and regula tions of live gas companies in the two counties In allowing discounts and rebates. The citizens who are served by tlie live companies are endeavoring to se-' cure a flat gas rate of ninety cents. At the conclusion of the gas rates ar gument, President Ralph W. 10. Don ges, of the hoard, stated that the board’s decision on the question would be reserved. . The complaint was made against the Dover woman at police headquar ters. It was said that it was probable the woman l might have acted Inno cently in using the counterfeit DOVER WOMAN THE POLICE SAY Two women who said they were1 from Dover purchased a fifty-cent flower at J. Llssner & Sons, 693 and 695 Broad street, today. They ten dered to the clerk what the latter said was a counterfeit flve-dollar bill. De tectives from police headquarters were called and they said that the $5 bill was good. In order to make certain the police man took the bill to the Union Na tional Bank. Under a microscope its aleged defects were found. The bill was declared to be bogus. One of the women was detained pending an I examination. During the last week or two a number of counterfeit flve-dollar bills I have been passed in this city. The j l an notes are of the Indian head sort. “Dynamite Johnny” O’Brien, Filibuster, Much Improved Dr. Siegfried Husserl, of 775 Clin ton avenue, who Is attending Cap tain "Dynamite Johnny” O’Brien, the Cuban filibuster, who was stricken recently with paralysis in his home, 896 South Orange avenue, today an nounced his patient, is Improving, and that the attack probably will not prove fatal. Dr. Husserl said, howeverfl, the veteran’s cuse probably will leave him crippled. Captain O'Brien was taken 11 when at dinner with Ills wife and family a week ago Sunday. HOLDS ALLEGED Accused of Threatening Hotel Man With Death Unless He Paid $250. United States Commissioner Kd wln R. Semple after an examination today continued the bail In the eases of two alleged Mlaek Handers, said to be members of dynamite and kill imp ing gangs that have been operaing in New Vork, pending the action of the Federal grand Jury. Hall fixed at the arraignment was $2,000 each. The defendants are: Francisco I'amraarato, aged twenty-six, and Frank .Outrantin, aged twenty-one years, both of Lodi. They are charged with having written a letter to George Kmetz. a Lodi hotel keeper, demand ing $250 under a penalty of death. Attorney William Tyacke, Jr., who defended the Black Handers who threatened the life of I'resident Wil son several months ago, represented the prisoners during the examination today, in behalf of his client he pleaded not guilty. Postofflcc Inspector Frank A. But ler was first placed fin the witness stand. Ho told of receiving the threatening letter from Prosecutor W. J. Wright, of Bergen county, and of his subsequent arrest of the pris oners. j Kmetz. the complaining witness, was next placed on the stand. He declared hr received the letter in question October 3. and met the two defendants the following night in a dark spot along Main avenue, Lodi. He said he turned over to them $50 in cash. He could not identify the prisoners positively, he said, as the ones to whom he gave the money. Attorney Tyacke asked for a dis missal of the complaint on the ground thut the government had failed to prove that the prisoners mailed the letter. The motion was denied by i 'ommlssioner Semple and the hail con Untied. White House Announcement Also States That Few Will Witness Ceremony. WASHINGTON. April 17. — The President and Mrs. Wilson an nounced today that the wedding of their youngest daughter. Miss Elea nor Randolph Wilson, and Secretary McAdoo would take place on Thurs day, May 7. The announcement from the White House, giving the date of the wed ding, also said: “In accordance with the wishes of Miss Wilson and Mr. McAdoo the wedding will be very small, only the Vice-President and .Mrs. Marshall, the cabinet and the immediate members of the two fam ilies- are to be present." Hundred* of sample suits. Including Eng lish styles. half price. Rich'*, Market and Mulberry street*.—Adv, > ELEVEN PERISH IN FIRE TRAP Eighth Avenue Apartment House in New York Is Scene of Horror-Three Women and Baby Die. MANY THRILLING RESCUES ARE MADE BY FIREMEN Building Had No Fire Escapes on Front and Those Who Die Are Trapped by Flames as They Rush to Rear—tnquiry Is Started._ NEW YOI'K. Ajiril 17.—Eleven per* sons perished in a tire that swept through a five-story apartment house at 741 Eighth avenue early today. Ten pel sons were burned to death in the building and a woman who wat taken out succumbed to her injuries later. Only four of the ten bodies taken from n theatrical boarding-house, which occupied half the building, could be identified. TIIK DEAD: WALLACE, William, fnrty-.ix year, old, WALLACE, Mrs. Nellis, lit. wife. SI’KNI'EK, Mrs. Nellie, n clmik model. DAY IN, Muriel, three year. old. DAVIS, Air,, fieorge C„ mother of burned ulrl mill wife of nn itetvr. SIX MEN, burned brynml reeognition. THE INJURED: ME,SSK.lt. Joseph. WELSH, Martin. Ill HKK. Charles. Mrs. Davis was alive when taken from the building, but succumbed of Internal injuries in a hospital. Tha others were less seriously injured. The fire started In a pile of wasta in the basement of a live and ten rent store, which occupies tha ground floor of the building. It spread rap idly up stairways and shut off escape by them. There were no fire-escapes in tiie front of the building and tha largo number of dead and injured was due to the refusal of the panic stricken people to remain in the front windows where many were rescued by firemen. Ail of the dead and in jured wore taken from the rear rooms ami halls,' where they were caught while attempting to reach the roof and ltre-eaeupes. Mitny lliri III 113 Hcnriies. One man was killed in trying to i escape over Ttiofs. Tin? tire Was un der control In less than an hour, but in that tltm many ihrilling rescue* i were made by the firemen working ' from bidders in front und free-. dows of u nearby tenement building. The proprietor! of tiro rooming bouse, a negro janitor and several of the rescued occupants of rooms In I the building' were summoned to ap pear today before Coroner Timothy Healy, who instituted an investiga tion. Tho spectacular feature of the fire was a rescue staged by Captain Thomas \<\ Smith, of Engine Com pany No. -. He and n squad of men were sent around Into SOI West For ty-sixth street, the rear of which hacks up to the rear of the burning building, the two being separated by an uir and light shaft five feet wide and almost entirely walled in. While they wciv trying to get a line of hose across tills five-foot gap a man appeared in one of the smoke tilled rooms across the way. Hi* window was on a level with that oc cupied by the firemen, but nine feet mvay. He seemed ready to jump, and Captain Smith shouted: "Don't Jump. I’ll get you!” Hriig- Man from llcath. lit? ran back into tho building and found o frail ten-foot stepladder, which lie pot across the airshaft to the window from which the man was ready to Jump, and told him to crawl over as the ladder would hold but one of them. The water was turned off so it would throw only a small streafn and keep tile Haines off the mail. .Smith then straddled the window sill and. with his right leg dangling fifty feet above the areway, told five men of No. 2(1 to hold on to his left and reached as far ns he could for the creeping figure on the ladder. .lust as he clasped the man’s hand the ladder broke and the man drop ped, but Smith clung to him. Th» hose also fell to the areway. f Uoth Arc Saved. Great us his strength is. ' Smith could not lift the dangling man into the window. But for the live men holding to his leg, both liy and the man he was trying to save would have plunged to the concrete. Finally, the tlvn iirumen succeeded iti dragging them both through the window. The rescued man was Louis Berlin, thirty-two, one of the roomers. Soon groans were heard coming from the bottom of the air-shaft- A line of hoBO hud fallen from a window to the bottom of the shaft, and Fire man John K. Doran volunteered to slide down it and aid the injured man. lie negotiated the slide successfully, hut when he reached the bottom it was so dark lie could not see any thing. A llashlighl was lowered to him and he found tin unconscious youth about eighteen years old. Doran found a ladder against the wall and also that a thirty-foot fence enclosed one side of the air-shaft from the cellar to the second floor. With the limp man over his shoulder he climbed the ladder, and firemen had a ladder on the other side waiting for him. The man was taken away in an ambulance and the police did not get his name. Mrs. Davis, who died in Polyclinic Hospital, was found Unconscious in her room with her child, who was dead. Mrs. Davis, front her position, little Muriel front the dames. The store people are exonerated from blame for the storage of ex celsior and rubbish that caused the lire. That, it is alleged, was care lessly left in the cellar by some one connected witli the rooming house. Coroner Mealy is making an investi gation. assisted by Deputy Fire Mar shal Kudolph K. Dillman and the police. He will have ail those held as material witnesses before him later in the day. U. S. Judge Haight Will Speak on Bankrutcy Court Judge Thomas C. Haight, of the United States District Court, will made an address on the workings of the Bankruptcy Court, at the spring dinner meeting of the Newark Asso ciation of Credit Mon. in the Dot*, n town Club on Friday evening, April 24. A musical program also will be pro* vlded. >