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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
OLEO MOONSHINERS
INQUIRY IN CHICAGO.
Name Of Congressman NOrtey
Figures IN Testimony.
T. T. GATES.
Copyright by Fach Brothers. 1919

Chicago. March 3.-A federal grand
jury investigation of the oleomargarine
industry in Chicago was ordered by
Judge X. NJ. Lands to-day after the
court had listened To- the testimony of
three men who had pleaded guilty to
colOring oleomargarine. The name OF
William J. MoXIey. Congressman from
the 9th District, as we'll as the names of
other prominent manufacturers OF the
product figured ir tlle-heaTins.
The testimony upon which this action
was based was given by Samuel Dries
bach, Daniel Bortz and William Broad
well, dealers in oIeomargarine in this
city. BroadweIl was sentenced TO six
years and fined $4,000 by Judge Landis
on Monday but after hearing the story
of the three men the court directed Mar
shall Hoy not to execute the sentence
until further notice. The sentences of
priesbach and Bortz were deferred
BroadwclI to-day told of purchasing
white oleomargaTinc from manufacturers
who. he said. supplied him with the coll
crins. He sold the colored product. with
out paying the tax of 10 cents a pound,
to restaurant keepers, hospitals and hO-
tells More than half of the total output
of the oleomarg rgarine factories in Chicago
is sold to 'moonshiners," according to
the testimony Of BroadwcI.
Samuel DTicsbach told the court how
he and others mixed and sold oleomar-
gsrine- He declared that in 1906 he
mixed oleomargarine in different places
principally in barns. He said that he
went under the name of the Jersey
Creamery Company and mixed about ten
tubs day. one barn was entered by
inspectors and he escaped by means
of a secret stairway which had been
built for that emergency.
Driesbach said that the o1eorna rgarine
'mconshiners' had an organiza ton to
maintain high prices and that one of
the members had been "slugged" be
cause he cut prices. The witness COM
plalned that he had paid the sIuggers
and had been unable TO get reimburse
ment from the 'moonshiners' " associa-
tion
The witness declared that in the last
year he had assisted in disposing of
about four thousand pounds of unlaw-
fully colored oleomargarine daily.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
MACK LIKES G1YNOR.
Mayor Suggests Presidential
Timber, He Says.

Hot Springs. Ark. March 3.-"Mayor
Gaynor of New York City is doing the
things that make Presidential candidates.
and the kind of candidates whom the
people viii have faith in and support,
said Norman +. Mack, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, to-day.
Mr. Mack had just denied that he had
an engagement to meet National Com
mittcemer Roger SulliF&h. and Johnson
at san Antonio lie stated that he
rather expected those men would' COME
here If they did not he might meet
them at French Lick after April /
The press had carried a report that
Chairman Mack was to meet these two
committeeman to discuss the Presidential
candidacy in 1911 of greater New York
Mayor Mr.. Mack refused TO discuss
Mayor Gaynor further than to say that
the Democratic party was always look
ing about for a live man whom II could
trust to carry out its policies if elected,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
RICH NEN'S CONGRESS-
Ur. RockefclIer,s Plan for Dis
h7buting Surplus Wealth.
TBv Telegraph TO The Tribunc.1

Boston. March 3.-That John d. Rock
efeller would create a congress for the
equal and proper distribution of the
surplus wealth of America was the eX-
pressed belief of the Rev. w ". Bus
tard. pastor at the Rockefeller church of
Cleveland
Mr. Bustard. who is visiting old par
ishioners in Roxbur3- sad tnniEht:
That Mr.. Rockefeller is considering
the advisability OF distributing his money
is not really a surprise to me, owing to
a conversation we held last summer.
when he expressed his views of the cor-
rect manner of distributing wealth.
His idea, as expressed to me. was
that the rich men should form d congress
for the proper distribution of the worlds
goods. Then, Mr.. Rockefeller said.
such men as Andrew Carnegie, the men
in charge OF the Russell Sage estate.
myself and several others or our rep
resentatives Will meet with the sole in
tention of proper distribution of
rif+c'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
NEW CHARTER PLAN
G4TNOR 1PPROFES IT.
TT rs SAID.

fBv Telegraph 70 The Tribune.

Albany, March 3.-Bills amending the
New York City charter SO radically as
to constitute practically 3 new charter
along the lines suggested by the recent
report Of the legislative committee
which considered the charter viii be in
t.oduced by various New York men early
next week. They will come from this
committee, which was continued in eN-
istenCe with an enlarged membership to
draft the new charter. 1t is understood
that their work will have th2 approval
of Mayor Ciaynor-
Instead of presenting the proposed
charter in one big document, the COM
mittee has determined to divide 1t aC-
CCrdng to subjects, each of which VIII
be handled in a separate bill. Thus if
the Legislatures idea of the treatment
of one phase of the city's constitution
should not meet the approval Of the
Governor only that particular bill would
suffer, while the others could he ap-
proved and become part of the new char
ter 1t is the idea of the committee TO
pass in conjunction with this group OF
bills a measure which would consolidate
them when they became law into the
charter of the metropolis.
In general the bills now being COM
pleted follow the course indicated by the
report of the legislative committee.
There will be a Board of Education of
twenty-one members. 4 city purchasing
department will be established, with
fiscal supervisor at the head. The city
Chamberlain in all probability will be-
come City Treasurer.
Various parts of the present char
ter which amount nearl yto city ordi-
nances will be put into separate docu-
ment which can be treated as an ordi-
nance code-a proposition allied to the
administrative code idea of the WINS
charter which the Legislature smothered
a year ago. There viii be also an in
ferior court code having to do with con-
duct of magistrates courts and the
municipal and city courts. The new
charter which will result if these bills
are enacted into law will be about half
the size of the present charter, their
trainers say. All possible legal Verbiage
will be cut out. and everything done to
render the charter as compact and sim
pie and UNDERSTANDABLE as possible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04

L. T. .StotcsbWy UW Make
Quakcr Opera Ends Meet.
I IEy Telegraph to The Tribune.


Philadelphia, March 81. I. StoteS-
bury, the banker, has come to the front
with a solution of the financial prob
lens involved in the production of grand
ol,era in Philadelphia. 1t is the simple
process of paying for it.
MI Stotesbury was one of the leading
spirits III the movement which resulted
in the coming of Oscar Hammerstetn to
the city. and he has stood in the breach
on several oCca sons when disaster was
imminent Mr.. Hammerstein has grown
a wrinkle about his brow working out
he problem. and at last Mr.. Stotesbury
gives him the surcease he seeks.
At the end of each week the impre-
sario's bookkeeper is to go TO the banker
with a statement of how much there was
not i'll profits for the week and Mr.
Stotesbury will hand him Il check for
the amount necessary to make the aC
count balance. In the midst Of the
etrcetcar strike the checks are said to
be somewhat fat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
BANK OFFICERS ARRESTED.
Officials of Soaring & Co. Branch Held
on Depositor' S Charge.

Detectives last night arrested Aaron NJ.
and Bernard Hirsch. manager
and cashier respectively, of the WendoVer
branch bank of Soaring & Co. the bank
ing firm which failed last week. Both
mon were arrested on complaint OF Michael
Ratayia, OF No. 69i Prospect avenue, who
saws he deposited 5000 in the branch bank
mn February u. He alleges the men knew
az the Impending crash. and that he can
not get his money back.
The charge was violation of Section 2s5
of the Penal Code Isidor J. kresel. for
mer Assistant District Attorney, was en-
deayorinG last night to obtain ball for
Goldstein.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
KANSAS IS AGITATED.
Petitions President TO Prevent Legal
Hanging in State.

Kansas CITY. No, March 2.-In order mat
the blot Of hanging may not be put upon
the state OF Kansas petitions are in circu-
lation asking President Taft to commute
The sentence of Charles O'Neill, now under
sentence OF death, TO life imprisonment
There has never been a legal hanging IN
the State OF Kansas.
As 0'NeilTs crime was committed on the
military reservation al Fort Leavenworth,
the case was tried III a federal court. in
Kansas city. Kan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
RAN DOWN SCHOONER.
old Dominion Liner James,
fO1cn Rescued Cree.

Norfolk. Va, March 3.-Right in the
track Of coastwise travel, the four
uasted schooner Asbury Fountain to-
night is floating, a dangerous derelIct.
Early to-day she was struck by the
steamer, jamestown. of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company, when tho vessels
were about eif hteen miles southwest OF
Winter Quarter Light.
After attempts to save the schooner,
Captain Hansen Of the Fountain and his
crew Of eight men abandoned the vessel
and were brought to this port aboard
the Jamestown. The revenue cutter
onondasa has put out TO search for the
dercIict whose cargo OF lumber is keep
ing her ufloat. The liner was also in
iured. two small holes being sto"c in her
hull on tho port side forward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
DEATH VERDICT FOR $4,000.
Musician S Family Wins Suit Against
Third Avenue Railroad.

A jury in the Supreme Court rendered a
verdict yesterday for $4,000 against Fred
erick " Whitridge. as receiver of the
Third Avenue Railroad Company. for the
death OF Samuel fucker. a vIolnist. II
was the largest amount given iii a death
loss in this city in several years.
fucker was killed by one Of the de
PENDANTS cars in December. lsos, at Third
avenue and 18th street. Suit was brought
by his family tor $4,000 At the trial Vie
tor Herbert, in whose orchestra fucker
had played. testified 10 his value as a
musician.
Counsel for the defendant moved 10 set
asids the verdict on the ground that il was
excessive. Justice Page viii hear argu-
ment on the motion next Thursday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
From The Tribune Bureau. ]
Passing Of the Picturesque on
Teros Ranches.

Cllica 20. March 3.-Cowboys mounted on
ponies viii soon he sUpplanted by automo-
hiles on the larger cattle ranches in Texas,
according to an announcements made to-
day by the repre- sentative of Texas ranch
owners organiza ton.
He said that automobiles we're SO con-
structed now that their use over the ranges
was practical. Already two hundred ma
chimes have been ordered shipped from
Chicago and New York to various Texas
,.,i
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
s34 81 EVERY PERSONS SHARE
Money in Circulation in United States
S3,I34,O93, $50.

Washington. March 3-Have YOU $Si s. in
your pocket or in bank? If you have not
then YOU are shy on the per capita circu-
1atton Of money in the United States, as
shown by tho books of the Treasury De-
partment The department. in making this
calculation, estimates the population OF the
1-n;ted States At saS35.00o and announces
the amount of money iii circulation on
march as s., 1874 093. go. which Ii equally di-
,idad would give every man. woman and
child in the country $3i 81. There is 1886
a44 more in circulation to-day than there
Was year ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
NEBRASKA WHEAT DAMAGED.
Injury by Freezing Estimated at from
25 to so Per Cent.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

Omaha. March 5.-Winter wheat in Ne
hra ska has been damaged from - TO 10 per
cent according to trustworthy reports from
all sections of the state. All grain dealers
and elevator men agree that the plant has
suffered much damage, but differ as to the
amount.
Professor Mont gomery. of the Nebraska
Agricultural Experiment Station. lie places
tho damage at . per cent. Others report
as high as 30 per cent damage. The injury
10 the plant is caused by freezes since the
snow melted, lea wing the roots of the wheat
uncovered
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
RAINEY S STATEMENT DENIED.
Fourteen-Inc Gun at Sandy Hook Did
Not Burst.

Washington March 3.-The statement
made by Representative Raney. of IIIf-
nois on the floor of the House Yesterday
that the new 14-inCh army gun had burst
in test at Sandy Hook. was denied to-
day by the War department. 1t appears
that a part of the gun carriage failed. but
the defect was trivial. and soon as it
has been made good the tests viii be con-
tinued The gun has been fired half a dozen
times and gives promise of complete sue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
TUENTY-THREE DEAD
Magacine an an IIashan Gold
Nine EEp5Odes.

Juneau. Alaska, March 3.-Twenty-
three miners Were killed last midnight
by an explosion Of "A powder magazine
ia the 1.100-foot level Of the Mexican
mine. one of the group Of Treadwell gold
properties on Douglas Island. Eight
ether men We're seriously injured. and
four of these may die.
The last shots had been fired by the
night shift twenty minutes before the
explosion took place, and the men were
assembled at the elevator to go TO the
top The ma gazine. which contained 275
pounds Of powder, was thirty feet from
the place where the men were standing.
but every man was killed, or injured
Most of the miners were foreigners,
and only three had families on the island.
The man in charge of the magazine had
locked the door and was standing with
the other mon. He WAS killed. Tho
bodies were all recovered. There was
little damage to the mine.
From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, March 3.-Thc Trcadwell
is known as one Of the largest gold
mines in the world, and employs in the
neighborhood OF fourteen hundred mon.
While tho orc is of n low grade, tho pro-
duction is enormous. and makes the
mine exceedingly valuable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
MANY "FLUNK" AT HARVARD.
Leading Football Players on List at the
Cambridge University.
IEy Telegraph to The Tribune

Cambridge, Mass, March 5.-AlthouEh
Dean Byron X Hurlburt denies that p
ner cent Of tile undergraduate body at
Harvard was placed on probation as the
aftermath of the midyear examinations, he
admits that the number who 'funked" was
considerably larger than it has been for
Years. Eighty freshmen are numbered
among the list.
II nov, looks as if big Bob" Mckay, the
footbau plaver. whom coach Mai Kit
reaye depended on to relieve Hicks, The
university pitcher. is out of 1t for the sea-
son. as he is numbered on the list. Captain
I,athrop wilmington. of next season s foot
ball eleven, is also on the list
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
NEW "GRETN4 GREEN
Pittsburg Promoters Boost
Hest YUgipiq.
tBy Telegraph tc The Tribune ]

Fittsburg. March "A movement has
been set on foot by river interests 10
catch the disconsolata Pittsburg eloping
couple on the rebound. Since the Ohio
Judges declared that girl must be q
bona fide resident of the county in which
2 license is applied for. there has been
Green
Owners Of steamers plying the Kan
aWha and the Ohio Rivers sent out run
hers to-day to look up trade for West
Virginia county seats. the word being
spread about that West Virginia was
the best state to get married in anyway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
SON AT HEAD OF
BIG FOUNDATION
J. ID. ROCkEFELLER,
JR.,S, IMMENSE TASK.
F. T. Gates Tells Scope Of
Greatest Philanthropy " orfd
Has ECCr h HOJcn.

John n. Rockefeller. ir. viii be the
head of the proposed Rockefeller Foun-
datior- certainly in fact and probably IN
name This was announced at the offices
of the standard oil Company yesterday.
His career will be in effect continual
ton of his fathers; not as the archltecr
of the greatest fortune ever known to
the Western world. but as philanthro-
pist on a scale unheard of in history
1t was also announced that the younger
Rockefeller had resigned as vice-pres.
dent of the Standard oil Company ana
had withdrawn from the directorate at
a meeting held on January IL From
now. it was said. he purposes 10 give
most of his time to the great new insti-
tuition which it's founders expect to see
the most universal and many times tne
veaIthiest organization OF its kind IN
the world.
The Younger Mr.. Rockefeller will
make philanthropic work his prlncipal
interest said J. l. c. Clarke, the pub
Iicitv representative OF the Standard OH
Company. 1t is understood by his
father and his associates that he VIII
take a leading part in the organization
and management of the Rockefeiier
Foundation and that he will be made
its executive head. He has always given
much study to phiIanthropic affairs
Why He Left Boards
His withdrawal at this time from the
United States Steel Corporation and the
Standard Oil Company is due. / think, To
a desire to avoid seeming TO be what ne
is not He has never taken an active
mart in the management of the Standard
Oil Company and he does not wish 20
pretend, even in name. to claim an once
which he does not fill in fact
He is still named as a director in the
American Linseed Company and as
member OF the board of managers or ths
Delaware Lacka wanna K Western fSdil-
road T cannot say whether ne lntehuS
to resign those positions
Frederick T. Gates, who is named as
one of the five corporators of the pro-
posed Rockefeller Foundation IN the Din
now before the Senate. and who has
been the elder Rockefeller's closest asso-
ciate in distributing the millions which
he has already given away. talked IFes'S
of the proposed institution. but refused
10 say what part the younger Rockefeller
was to play in the management OF the
institution.
Il think the public does not compre-
bend the vastness of the idea which IS
embodied in the Rockefeller Founda-
ton ne said. 1t marks an epoch in
phiIanthropy. Heretofore large plans for
social betterment have usually fallen
from dead nand, reached from the
coffin of some man of great wealth
Mr.. RockefeiIer's idea is 20 make TINS
vast force living organism when VIII
have th.. freedom of a live thing 10 give
aid swiftly and largely at the moment
when aid is needed most; not an acct
dent of death that may set the money
free for certain limited uses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
Company Was Small One.

Cook told him, Senator Aids said. that
Frank Conger was q big man in the
american Bridge Company and that it
0as very desirable to remain on friend
iy terms with him, but the Acme. COM
pany VAS z small one and the sum de-
01anded was 50 large as TO impair its
DapitaL Whereupon Senator Aids said
nc told Cook that no money need ever
n paid 20 pass a good bill or to defeat a
had on7. He delivered the phrase in an
ui,tlous manner, empha sizing the
ord with broad wave Of his hand.
senator Aids was interested in this
Acme conCerl from the beginning of its
existence. He helped to organize il
re0eivins for that work $4,000 in com
mon stock. He put into it. he said. ST.
nT"- purchasing preferred stock This
Incident naturally caused him 10 investi-
gate the bill, and Hhen the fight came
n the Assembly over the adoption and
laen the reconsideration Of the amend
monts 10 the Nalby bill he recognized
that there WAS trouble and began an in
N"Sigatlon OF this legislation
Somewhat later he gained additional
Information about these measures when
senator Platt. on April 15. first tele-
~~aphed to him 10 hold in the R1les
committee both bills, and later wrote
/" him explaining his reason for wishing
these bills TO die in committee. The
reason was that the Owego Bridge Com
s,auy had threatened to move from the
village unless the bills were killed. In
;cpiE 10 this Aids wrote TO Senator
Plat 4 letter, which Mr. Littleton had
cahumed from the Platt letter files That
,'trer ard one written by Senator Platt
40 Fred Nixon, the Speaker of the House.
distinctly were big guns in the Aids de-
ienoc
me Aids letter TO Senator Platt ex-
3 a:ned that the Malby legislation vas
resting in the Rules Committee II con-
TIMED. II have no doubt of my ability
to nod il there, bat think IT may be
Continued rffh naaa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
WIDE SCOPE OF ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

fifty from now
effort all the world IT
A
dwiht
FREDERICK T. GATES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
What the Plan Means.

NO man can forecast the needs or
ten. twenty or fifty years from now The
Foundation is limited only by the held
of human civilization and human need
1t will be a great clearing house 1or
humanitarian effort all over the world
1t will investigate and weigh care
fully the value of all the needs which II
sets itself TO remedy \ great emer-
cencv-an earthquake, for instance
might demand instant relief in great
amount. This institution would be aols
to meet the situation without delay and
with the greatest efficiency which would
be possible.
AT the same time 1T can regulate tne
s,1nrIv of stable institutions. which
change slowly. though often they find
themselves freed from the necessity or
large endowments or external support.
starr j. Murphy. another of the rvs
fnCorpora tors of the new institution. vno
* the elder Rockefeller's personal ccun-
sell explained that the Rockefeller
Foundation was intended TO co-ordinate
and continue the ph,lanthropic enter
prises which its founder has already
begun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
Young Rockefeller's Career.

John II. Rockefeller. jr., who is now TO
give his career 10 making the Rockefeiler
fortune perpetual organism is thirty
three years old After his graduation
from Brown University. in 1897. he en-
tered business and was chosen 20 th'
directorates OF a number of companies IN
which the family interests were repre-
sented Among these were the Nstioua
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
Professor Cindsey's Views.

Professor Samuel McCune Lindsey, of
the New York school of Philanthropy.
said Yesterday that. Judging from ths
mea gre details which he had read IN
regard TO the plan of John D. Rocksfel
Ter to devote his wealth to charity. IL
" as beyond all doubt one Of the greatest
things that had ever been done in tbs
world.
Il shouldn't like to suggest any par
ticfIar method for the distribution Cf
this wealth. but 7 do think that it VIII
he devoted 10 the standardization Of all
organizations that are doing a positivs
good i'm the world said Professor Lind
sey BY standardizinS and bringing isI-
to more central system Of control. Tns
corporation viii select those which are
doing the best work and are best fitted
To carry on this work as the recipients
of its resources and aid
BY this means only the very best viii
survive and the most effective CrganIZa-
ticns will be retained. those doing work
that is of no positive benefit dropping
out automatically. This system is best
illustrated by the workings of the car
negie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. where the institutions that
maintain a certain standard are aided.
v whiIe the others are allowed 10 go alonS
without the help Of the association
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-04
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