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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-29
CITY PAYROLL CLIMBS UP
GOHPTROI sUIS TI6i RS
tND IITSIT 90 Ar THAT.
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"f the CUSTOMARY ENpiaRatIsa. I.ssh
fpr . Rift la the Municipal i.uie Thls
Sear1s IBusixet Was Made last Year

'omrtrpl'er Pr-nd-rga-i i--iI-i y'--ter.
fav q tal'" shown that there had been
. net increase IT ~ ~ .Ou m the irst
49, months ct mi. wear m the amount
~ ~ TaVs ~ 80 latI-- a. compared wa
N, -alartc, ruid IN the hr.t siN pnr h.
~ Las' yrar The gru~~ Increase w.
~ 49, So r4ftlv onset by de~relSe~
VIZ Pr~nd-Tgast giyr~ nut this state
mont shrrtl-' before his departure 80
furpU~ f,I vac.tion and he accompanied
y With NJ explanation about inhsritanc"
fr,in the last administration The Citv
Hail guSSipS are IT upInion that when tb.
BOARD Of EztImate meets IN the early fall
." asin the consideration ~ the budget
ttsf- Will undoubtedly l- clashes to-
've~u the Mavnr on one side and III"
COMPTROLLER and President mitchell nf
the Board of Aldermen on tho other
They have been waiting seven months
nov for these clashes.
The statement issued by Mr. Prendsr-
sal; showed that m the following de-
rnrtnents there had been salary IN
creases Of SOOoO and over.
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"ANY JUDGE WOULD
 CONVICT" DECLARES
 PROF. GEORGE |. FOX
Father of Corrupt Practices Act Discusses Expense
 count of Candidate Goodwin
Items for Canvassers Illegal So Is Expenditure of 900 for Cigars and Cgarettes-Does Payment to Hotel Represent Entertainment of Delegates?

The Farmers story of the apparently ilIegitimate items of expenditure in the campaign account of Charles A Goodwin, Republican candidate for Governor, has created much interest and discussion throughout the State, as evidenced by the comment of Con- necticut newspapers.
 MT. Goodwin could not be found to- day by newspaper men and his views upon the subject could not be obtained and no explanation of the doubtful .xpenditures is forthcoming from him.
 But in a communication to the New Haven Journal & Courier. made last night. George l.. Fox. father of the corrupt practices act, declares over his signature:
 without calling in a single witness, n my opinion City Attorney Dicken- son and States Attorney Alcorn can .onvict both of these men of violating he corrupt practices law on at least l dozen counts.
 'I should iTdge that neither MT. Goodwin nor h1s agent CA1r Sperry) lad looked at the law to see what eX- 7enses are legal and what are not. hough I sent to MT. Goodwin. as well $ to all candidates, my four page ,amphlet which made it so plain that he wayfar ng man could not err herein"
 MT. Fox says that the many items of expense for "canvassing" shown by
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they were "mugged" for the r0guAss gallery. Then they were returned fo, the county jail. Mrs. Rockrna1 7raa not seen about police headQuarters Lnis morning. It was understood tbs {. sne mad been assured her ryresance would do no good in the court room, Bct repeatedly has she expressed her alleglance to her prisoner husband. and She has assured him that vhafexs~ nls rate may be she will receive him Win open arms and they will go far away to begin life anew.
 The city court room was crowded
 the doors when Judge Wilder took ms seat on the bench this ruorufug, mere were a score of offenders in the pen and among them none pre- serted the well SToomed and clean 9o- pearance of Rockman. R0ckrrsux case was disposed of almost before, any or the spectators had realized 5t, Melnikoffs case, taken up later, oc- cup1ed a little more time. MeTnfk0fr mad no lawyer. Attorney JOsF1tga Meltzer who had been retained. with drew from the case yesterday. Sev- riage were in court
 Prosecutor Redden told the court in the case of Melnikoff he was noz ready to proceed. He had just recesv- ed information that might make f. necessary to alter the charge. MeIni- hoIL oloOu dL the TdII or the prisoners pen listening intently to what was said, and offered no objection when Redden asked for a continuance of the case until Monday. Judge Wilder granted it under the same bail.
 Melnikoffs case VII likely fof1ov7 the same procedure as that adopted fo Rockmau's case today, and both will be held for the higher tribunal, Tf1e December term of the criminal Super for court comes in on the second Tues day, Dec. 13,
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MT. Goodwin would be declared by any court illegal.
 It is the same. he says. with the amount Of more than s1, 900 expended for cigars and cigarettes.
 It is the same with several hundred dollars paid for receptions in various places, including a reception in Essex, which. Mir. Fox says. cost S267.53.
 Continues MT. Fox:
 "The most astounding item is the expenditure of s1,233.10 (note the ac- curacy of the ten centsD for the rental of the headquarters Of the Allyn House for tW o' or three nights. Until now in my mind the Lilley bill for accommo- dations at the New Haven House two years ago held the record for such ex- penses, but that bill was not flea bite 70 this. Hotel St. Regis in New York should look to it's laurels for high prices Think of it, over a thousand dollars for the [ SC of two ordinary sized rooms for two days. At this rate the Taft Hotel next fall. when the Re- publican convention meets, will make pile of money
 ''Rut all joking aside. what does this item really mean? It means that MT Goodwin's money paid most of the ho- tel expenses of his supporters at the Allyn House during the two convention days, as he sent out a special invi- tatiOn to them to come and stay there This item is of keen interest to me, for I got on to this trick early in the game. In my first and only interview
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hANY LIVES LOST
 IN FACTORY FIR E
REVOLT ENDS AND MEXICO IS
 QUIET AGAIN
Special from United Press.)

Especial from United PresS.)
 Eagle Pass, Tex, Nov. 26.-With the whereabouts of Francisco I. Ma dero, rebel leader, still mystery, Mexico's most recent revolution has ended, after two weeks attempt to unseat Diaz, according to the con- census of despatches received here, republic where the red flags of re- volt have stirred citizens since the night of the first concerted uprising in the city of Puebla.
 From Ciudad Portflrio Diaz to Ma tamoras, along the northern bound ary and south through the state of Chihuahua and Coahuila and into Durango, the revolutionary spirit ap- pears to have vanished and in cities recently attacked by rebels, the mili- tary guards are being discharged. General Villare, commanding the northern division of the Mexic.In troops, is awaiting orders from the capital to return his soldiers to their barracks. He has reported to his government the revolt has passed and that so far the outbreaks are ended.
 American passengers arriving here and at Laredo, Tex, from inland Mexican cities, corroborate reports that peace has been restored. What Modero's plans may be for comp1et- ing his campaign is know only in his rebel camp, believed to be in the mountains north of Parral. There has been no confirmation of the re- ports that Madero is wounded.
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During e large portion of this morning City Attorney Thomas M. Cullinan and Charles C. Fischer dis cussed the proposed contract under which MT. Fischer will undertake to reduce garbage on the site of the old plant of the Bridgeport By-Products Co.,, and in the buildings occupied un- til recently by the latter.
 When the discussion concluded MT. Fischer and the City Attorney were farther apart than at the beginning. Mir Fischer was accompanied by his attorney, Arthur M. Marsh. And the conditions upon which he wished to do the work were far from being sat- isfactory.
 Mayor Buckingham and the City Attorney are determined that no con- tract for the reduction of garbage shall be given to anybody which does not provide every protection to the city, and to those who will have to live in the neighborhood of such a plant.
 The City Attorneys views upon the necessary protection are included in the Wheelwright contract, which, he drafted, and which is a most satisfac- tory instrument from the standpoint of the city.
 The wheelwright contract. provided that the work of reduction must be done in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health of said city and sub- ject to the reasonable regulations of said board.
 That work should not be begun un. til a sanitary, economic and capacity test of the plant had been made dur ing A hours to the satisfaction of the Board of Health.
 That the work should be done so as
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PADDOCK'S BOOM
 FOR MAYOR TO BE
 LAUNCHED SUNDAY

There will be meeting in the Twelfth district tomorrow for the purpose of advocating the candidacy of Senator-elect Garry Paddock for the Democratic nomination of mayor next fall.
 Senator Paddock was asked this morning about his candidacy for mayora1ty honors. He said, 'T'he meeting to be held tomorrow is only one of such as have been held for several weeks by some of the men who reside in the Twelfth district They were the ones who advocated my nomination for senator and now they say they are going to advocate me for mayor. It is nothing that I have sought and I have not said l would be a candidate"
 The senator was asked where the meeting would be held and he re- piled that the practice of the men who put him in the contest for sena- tor had been to meet in one another's $ house, and he did not know whose house they would meet in tomorrow.
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not to create any nuisance or any ob- iectionable or offensive odors and tha. is said plant or any part of it, or the process of disposal shall cause a nui- sance or create objectionable Or of- fensive odors, then this contract shah be considered violated and may be terminated at the option of the city and the bond forfeited.
 It was further agreed that if the plant should break down, that the gar bage must be disposed of in the in- terim without the creation of offen- sive or objectionable odors.
 It was further required that the 'lant should always have a capacity in excess of the collections of gar haze.
 A meeting of the committee named by citizens of the Ninth and Twelfth district to represent them in the mat ter of garbage disposal, met last night in the drug store of T. J. Me- Namara.
 T. J. McNamara presided as chair man and 4. F. Lavery was named see- retary.
 The chair named Lynn W. Wilson, A. E. Lavery and Edward Spargo a committee to represent the citizens of the East Side in preventing the loca- tion of the Fischer plant If possible, and to secure the making of a con- tract that vii afford the maximum of protection if the first object cannot be attained
 mittee Attorney Stiles Judson had been retained. Steps were taken to raise funds to pay the necessary counsel fees.
 MT Wilson announced that he had been assured that no contract would be signed with MT. Fischer. until it's
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of their expenses during the year. Those teachers who made their homes with their parents were astounded with some of the hardstips suffered by their fellow teachers, those who boarded out Those at home could not understand how they live under the circumstances. One young teacher stated that all she saved from her meagre salary was expend- ed in an endowment life insurance If she dies during its existence she will be assured of respecta ble burial. On the other hand if she lives out the existence of the policy she will have something to fall back upon.
 Most of the teachers will make later reports so that an average can be ar rived at. According to some of the of the year. Many of them thanked themselves that they had credit at a number of the local stores. Miss Mar garet Mooney read very interesting paper on this subject.
 Topic number four was Increase in Cost of Living Within the Past Five Years" This subject was handled by Miss Mary Sullivan. Miss Sullivan quoted authorities citing the increase in comparison to F per cent. in wages. This was a general view. At the next meeting statistics will be given show ing a more local aspect.
 Wages Earned by Women in Other Occupations" was responded to by Miss Lena Worm. The assemblage was given Q few facts of how their time had been wasted in High schools and training schools when they with their intellect might be elsewhere earn ing in most places twice the salaries which they now make an attempt to enjoy.
 Miss Margaret Riley. recording sec retary of the association. during the short time in which she has hac charge of her work. has communicates with the school boards in various Eastern cities. To date thirteen of the forty have made response Nine of the thirteen show that there is 3 maximum salary for the first six grades In Bridgeport there is a maximum salary for every grade Some of those cities heard from were Hartford. New Haven Waterbury Springfield, Providence. East Orange N. J.. Mount Claire. and Worcester In every one Of these cities the sal aries were considerably larger thar those of this city The local teachers for the first six grades would be tho best
 There were about 175 present at the meeting. The association now in cIudes 249 of the 274 grade teachers the city. 19 having signed since the last meeting.
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WOMEN AND GIRLS LEAP FROM WIN- D0WS ONLY TO BE DASHED TO DEATH ON PAvEMENT;;-20 DEAD
Others Unable to Escape Fl ames Buried Under Mass of Machinery in Ruins of Finder Structure Three Priests Rush Up Burning Stair Case to Give Ab
 solution to Dying

crowds so that the firemen could work
 The building, formerly the main plant of the Domestic Sewing Machine Company. was occupied on the first and second floors by the Newark Pa per Box Manufacturing Company. The third floor was occupied by the Aetna Lamp Manufa curing Company, and the fourth floor by the Wolff Com pany.
 The intense heat caused the girls to Jump from the windows as fast as they reached them, without waiting Tor the arrival of the firemen, and in this manner many were killed and ter ribly injured Men rushed from neighboring factories and spread im- proyised life nets of wagon covers, and coats. and a number of girls were saved by this means.
 Bremen fought with each other to be allowed to enter the blazing struc- ture. So fierce were the flames how ever, ladders placed against the build ing burned like matches and the work of rendering aid to the trapped em- ployeS was extremely hazardous.
 In the meantime every window of the building was filled with hystericaI men and women. The life nets were spread and many were saved by leap ing into them.
 OCNCIdI O1 IIlOS0 WHO ledpeO IOWdrOS the nets misjudged the distance and missed striking them. falling to the pavement. It is estimated that at least half a dozen were killed in this manner.
 In jumping from the fourth floor to their death, several girls plunged through telegraph wires.
 In several cases the skirts of the victims became entangIed in the net work of the wires and were left blow ing in the wind, only to be consumed a moment later by tongues of flame.
 One girl, in her leap to the ground, struck a telephone pole. For a mo- ment she hung suspended in mid-air on the arm of the pole, and then drop ped lifeless to the ground. Portions of her garments left behind, were soon devoured by the fire.
 Some of the firemen were injured, perhaps mortally, by being struck by falling bodies.
 Nearly all of the victims were girls, employed in the box factory High street, in front of the building, was dead and others enduring mortal agony, being strewn about haphaz- ard
 There were about 150 persons em- ployed by the different concerns in the building and from inquiries made by the police and firemen, it became ap- parent that there were a large number not accounted for.
 From stories told by girls who es- capped from the fire, it appears that the fire had it's origin on the third floor, and was caused by the explosion of a gasoline lamp
 One of the spectators said that at least fifteen girls had jumped from the fourth floor of the burning struc- ture.i They, stayed at windows until forced to jump by the flames behind them. and. half suffocated by smoke, they leaped into the street
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Two Men Charged With Bestial
 Crimes "Mugged' For Rogues' Gallery
Rockman's Bonds Are Maintained at $1OOo0- State I. inmates that Charge Against Melnikof May Be Al tered to One Not So Grave-Rockman's Wife Is Still Loyal to Him.

ID less than a minute after his name had been called out in the city court, today, Gustave M. Rocknan, raging Florence, the Il years old daughter of MT. and Mrs. A. J. Ham, ilton of 172 Dewey street last Satur- day, was ordered held for trial in the Superior court in bail of $100OO
 As was expected, Attorney F. A. Bartlett, counsel for the defense, en- tered a demurrer which Judge Wilder call any of the witnesses, and this having been understood before the case came to trial the little girl who was able to leave her home for the first time today since her ordeal of last Saturday, was not called upon to face the court.
 The case of Abraham Melnikoff, the was continued until Monday, and it was intimated that the gravity of the offence of which he stands charged would be materially 1essened. Melni- koff and Rocknan are now held for violation of the same statute. But from the investigation into Melnikoff's s attack upon Marie Marx of 6s Com mercial street, it is likely that a diff ferent statute will be involved for his prosecution and he will be charged with assaulting with intent to outrage. The maximum penalty for the latter offence is N years in prison. The maximum for the graver offence is 30 years. ;.
 Linked arm in arm with a pair of stou+ handcuffs concealed by tiieir coat sleeves. the two were marched from the office of Captain Arnold in- to the auto patrol and taken to a nhotoeraph gallery down town where
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ARRESTED FOR THEFT FRCM YALE STUDENTS IN PERSON
 HALL, SENT TO NEW HAVEN

Charles Sanford, erstwhile assistant janitor in a building occupied by stu dents quarters in New Haven, was delivered to the New Haven authori- ties by the local police late yesterday, when the New Haven police asked for his custody. He was arrested here for attempting to steal clothing from a Bank street merchant
 Sanford admits the theft of clothing g from PiersOn Hall, New Haven, but he cannot tell to whom the clothing belonged nor have the New Haven po- lice been able to find the owner
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If the teachers of the city were thrown on their own resources and were not helped along as many of them now are by their parents, there would either be a number of the chill dren of the city untaugnt, or the city government would be forced to take immediate steps to bring about re- adjustment of the now existing con- ditions. The newly former Teachers Association is gathering facts and figures to be presented to the Beard of Education showing that the teach CTS are inadequately remunerated. and that at the end of the year they will not have anything laid by.
 They intend to show by statistics that the cost of living within the past five years has increased STE per cent. while the general wage scale has increased but 121z per cent 1; that the maximum now in vogue in the grades is unfair The association is now in such state of infancy that as yet no definite facts have been ob- tained-affairs are just beginning to shape themselves. to be perfected in meetings to be held weekly.
 It is said that the teachers will ask for a fiat increase of S100 for the next year. This increase to- affect all grades But they do not stop at an increase of s1u0. They ask for an increase of $50 yearly until they have reached a maximum which they will present They will probably ask that the maximum for the first six grades shall be s750; for the seventh grade. $500; and for the eighth. s850. The present rate for grades is as follows. First. 5000; second, S550; third and fourth s575: fifth, s625; sixth. s650: seventh, s700: and eighth, s750. It will be noted that in the second grade this is an increase of s20O and in the third and fourth s115.
 The meeting today shaped itself into a lengthy discussion Of 8 num- her of vital points presented by teach CTS who have made a special study fthe facts.
 The meeting today elected Miss Lucy l.. Blood as first vice president, and Miss Mary O'Toole as chairma T of the Educational committee
 A number of various important questions were discussed Miss Cath crime Wetstine read a paper on the Cost of Preparation for Teaching, citing great length of time teachers have to put in study before they are proficient to teach children. The second topic arranged for but which was continued till another meeting. concerned the increase in the reSpo-l- sibility of teaching in comparison a what it was several years ago.
 ssThe average rate of living of 2 teacher" brought out considerable discussion. Seventy of the teachers present made response giving an idea
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Special from United Press.)


 Newark, N. J., Nov. 26-Eighteen persons, mostly women and girls, are known to have lost their lives, while a score of others are reported missing as the result Of fire, that, today. destroyed an old factory building in the heart of the manufacturing dis trict in this city. Of the missing, it is believed some escaped, but it is feared the majority are in the ruins of the structure, buried under a mass of machinery.
 The fire was one of the hottest the local firemen have ever encountered and many were overcome, but none seriously injured.
 To an old structure, whose floors were filled with oil, lily equipped with fre-escapes and whose stairs were winding, f1imsy structures which car ried fire as if they were chimneys, is due the great loss of life. Twenty minutes after the first alarm was turned in, and while the fire appar- atus was still en route from the dis tant quarters of the city, the struc- ture was complete wreck and it's walls had collapsed. As fast as bod les were recovered from the ruins, they were taken to the city morgue. All were so badly charred the iden- tification will be practically impos- sible
 The police are now taking a census of the employees fn order to determine if possible. the names of the dead.
 The building is located in the heart of the manufacturing section only a short distance from the shopping dis trict. The fire started in the Wolff Manufacturing Co, manufacturers of underclothing, which concern occu- .s,6 {nr of tI,a the lower floors being used by the Paper Box Co. It Is now believed that the fire started. from an explo- sion of a gasoline torch.
 Chief of the Fire Department Astley said that the entire building was scene and that several of those who were burned to death were caught in side as the doors were the first to burn. He said that he would make search of the ruins for bodies as soon as possible but 1t was probable that any bodies in the building had Seen completely incinerated.
 scenes of individual heroism were many. Three priests. Rev. Fathers Herman, Dillon and Brennan who had rushed to the scene from St. Patrick's church, adjacent, forced their way up burning stafrcases to give dissolution to the dying. Passersby vied with firemen in trying to assist the women and girls penned in the blazing struc- ture In this work many were hurt.
 Every ambulance in the city was utilized to rush the injured to the city hospitals Private equipages also had to be pressed into this work, so many were the victims. As the news spread, friends and relatives of the workers in the building hurried to the scene. frantic with grief and terror and their screams could be heard for blocks. The entire police reserves of city were required to drive back the
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Garbage Contract
 Must Give Citizens
 Fullest Protection
TODAYS DEVELOPMENTS
 IN GARBAGE AGITATION

agreement with Fischer.
 He must make contract satisfactory to consultation md 
 Citizens of Side committee of plant and Buckingham
 protective should wit Judso who has
 
 objectionable offen- of immediate privilege