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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
ROCKEFELLERS AT JOHN D.'S'
MORE THAN 700 COUSINS" AT
POCANTICO HILLS.
Made to Feel At Home BY Being Tar en- Into
the Mansion by way of the Kitchen
Mr.. Rockefeller a Good Host and
a They 60 Away wanting to Return.

TARRyTow.S. Sent. John d. Rookie
Teller was at home to-day at Pocantico
Hills TO about a hundred and ten members
of the Rockefeller Family Association.
They came from Pouphkeepsie at 1
o'clock on a special train which Mr..
Rockefeller had provided Dinner was
served on the train and stages we're
waiting at the station There we're MANY
expressions OF wonderment during the
drive IN the fine roads through Mr.. Rookie.
feller's estate.
"yell. Uncle John can afford il. and
that's comfort" said one old lady.
The party was driven nm to the main
entrance. and there Mr.. Rockefeller q
s,,perintendent took them in charge and
escorted them about tho p,ace showine
tram its manv haan,;as Mr RocL ese,ler' .
fomou. tunne, ,hroueh which orocer hovs
'a'iiouo '"''iei ,n!oukh "hicu sioee' "oy
and others will deliver goods for the house
hold to the kitchen door without marring
Mr.. Rockefeller's outlook was explained
20 ,ha an.rt,,
20"
ihei' INC Vishors weht in'o INC houSe
by way OF the kitchen. stopping for a
good drink of cold water and to admire
the marble walls and massive gas stove.
m tho eoor ahova ,ha r.oa,t;or rooms
on 'ne soo' aoove 'le leoep''o' .oI'"e
ana 'he famous organ were 'nspec.eo'
TOO bad the organ can't be played,
II must sound Just grand said woman
from Red Hook The large new yeranda
,r;,h ,h. 49,, ,.,;e,.n, ,,;o,, - ,ho urd.or
WI VII. ma dsnincen' we" VI 'no uo' m
IN the distance was the marVei OF an
It's worth the trip from Colorado.
remarked Benjamin Rockefeller, presi-
dent of tho associat;on
T..,, ,.. .s ~. ,,,,;rs
uen .he eu'nem sa','e"s 'iie
sun oath parior temple OF Love ana Jap
anese tea garden were visited.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
WOMAN BEATEN AND ROBBED.
Four Men Attack Dressmaker in Her Flat
snd Escape.

Mrs. Anna Hahn. a dressmaker. was
mauled and beaten by four men in her
home on the ground floor Of the fat house
at 2al East i5sth street. The Bronx, early
yesterday morning. She was found I'M
conscious later in the morning and last
night was taken to Lebanon Hospital.
Her left knee is dislocated and her body
and legs are badly bruised and scratched.
Mrs. Hahn is 20 years old and lives
alone at the East l55th street address
She stopped to see friends on her way
home from work Thursday night. and it
was "A little after midnight when she
reached the door Of the tenement. She
had noticed two men who seemed to he
following her. hut they apparently walked
on AS she turned in. and she thought
nothing more Of them, As she unlocked
and opened the door Of her Nat the two
men entered the hall
They were no, the same men she had
seev in the street She opened the door
and the mon with push sent her sprawl
ing into her own fat. Two other men,
she thinks they were the ones who had
followed her down the street. came in then
end while one OF the four put his hand
ever her mouth another locked the door.
Some dress goods lying handy was
made into an improvised gag and stuffed
into the woman's mouth The condition
of her clothing and her own injuries
showed the fight that she put up against
the four men In the struggles one of the
four stole sI2 which she had carried inside
her waist
Furniture was thrown over in the
struggle. and there must have been con-
siderable noise. 1t is supposed that the
men were frightened away. Tor Mrs. Hahn
lost consciousness while still fighting
them. At q O'Clock yesterday morning
the janitress of the building. Mrs. Sarah
Bessrer, went to the fat with letter
for Mrs. Hahn. She received no answer
to her knock and tried the door. 1t was
unlocked She found Mira. Hahn lying
unconscious, half on a bed and half on
the floor. Her clothing was badly torn.
Mrs. Bessmer got ammonia and water
and revived the dressmaker and then sug-
Rpsted that an ambulance ought to be sent
for Mrs. Hahn said she didn't want the
notoriety which she feared would follow
that course and said that she thought she
would he all right.
Neighborhood gossip came TO the ears
of Policeman Pless Of the Morrsania
station who was on that post last night
and he investigated. He found that Mrs
Hahn was in serious need OF medical at
tenton and called an ambulance He
got from the dressmaker only a meagre
description of the four men, as the fiat
was dark when the attack was made.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
PENROSE AGAIN ACCUSES.
Talks Of ScandalOus Financial Operations
Of Philadelphia OmciaIs.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l. Senator Pen.
rose in a statement tonight said:
Many inquiries have reached me 70.
garding the Senate commission which il
preparing to investigate the Government
OF Philadelphia and matters relating
thereto. ! shall state briefly my attitude
toward the inquiry.
This commission was created by reeo.
luton OF the Senate passed on May ~
last to investigate any charges against
any person holding civil office in this
Commonwealth Of any immoral or die
honest conduct or who has in any way
violated his oath Of office
"A committee of taxpayers has formally
presented to this legislative body charges
Of gross dishonesty in the conduct Of
the administration OF the city OF Phila-
delphia. This action on the part OF re-
sponsible citizens leaves the Senate COM
mission no alternative but to proceed with
their duty
Those facts clearly indicate that the
inquiry, into the municipal government
OF Philadelphia will be made without
fear or favor. In this purpose I stand
ready to cooperate, have had no op.
portunity to examine the evidence which
has, but If il should appear that the com
mission would be aided in arriving at the
truth through any influence or informa-
ton at my command I should consider it
public duty to render all such assistance
in my power.
Now that the investigation has started
may add that It is my desire that il shall
proceed with the utmost vigor for the
sole benefit Of the people Of Philadelphia
and not for the benefit of any individual
or political interest whatsoever.
THE present municipal situation in
Philadelphia. in my judgment. demands
thorough house cleaning and the adop-
tion OF measures to prevent a continuance
or repetition Of the methods of the
present administration
Under no circumstances should the
scandslous personal obligations and finan-
cial operations of certain CITY offclals h,
carried into another Mavoralty term
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
WAR on GRUBER.
Progressive Republican Club 10 Run q
Candidate Against Him.

Abraham Gruber the Republican leader
Of the Seventeenth Assembly district,
will have another fght on his hands al
the coming primaries. The antiGruber
faction. banded together as the Pro-
gressive Republican Club, with headauar-
ters at 2o5o Broadway intends to run Willis
b Davis against Gruber for leader 1t ia
distributing circulars in the district
charging that Gruber is a -Tammany
Hall Republican" tina. he has main
tanned a secret alliance with Tammany
Hall and has betrayed the Republican
party" The enemies Of Griber say also
that he is opposed to the direct primary
system. although the Republican organ
i7ation is committed to it. Mr.. Gruber's s
friends said yesterday that the move
ment against him was backed only by a
few malcontents and that they would, as
usual. be overwhelmed on primary day.
Mr.. Davis is lawyer living at 100
West lO4th street and practising at 10
Wall street He has been secretary of the
Direct Nominations League Of the Seven
teenth district since 1908
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
BRADFORD LEE GILBERT DEAD.
Architect whose second wife Was Jerry
McAuley's Widow.

Bradford Lee Gilbert. an architect, died
yesterday at his summer home at Accord,
Ulster county, n, Y, at tho age of 81.
His New York home was at 225 Park
place, Brooklyn. and he had Offices at
! Broadway. Mr. Gilbert was the archi-
tect for the Tower Building. the first
skyscraper that was erected in New
York. He also was an associate architect
for the old Grand Central Station. He
was q nephew of Judge Gates Gilbert
Mr.. Gilbert married in 1892 Mrs. Maria
McAuley. the widow Of Jerry McAuley.
the missionary She was his second wife,
his first, the daughter of the late Capt
Rathbourne. U. S. A., OF Brooklyn. having
secured divorce from him in 1877. Mrs,
McAuley was for long time the matron
of the Cremorne Mission, in Twenty
second street. Mr.. Gilbert was trustee
of the mission at the time. Since then
he has always been interested in mission
work in the city and In 1903 built and
equipped the mission tug Jerry McAuley
This tug has been cruising in nearby
waters since then. carrying in addition
to the crew a supply Of preachers. Mr..
Gilbert Ia survived by his wife and one
daughter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
Of Henry. relations with Beulah

know Of Henry's relations with Beulah
Binford?"
Il knew all about it, tn. witness
answered.
When Wendenburg asked Douglas IL
no had not carried n message from the
Binford girl to Henry Beattie at the in
quest the latter answered. Not at the
inquest. but at the Henrico Jail. took
her a message from Henry. told her
Henry had said not to forget him and
not to give up Henry did not want her
TO be influenced by the detectives and
say anything that was not true"
When the lawyers for the defence got
Douglas in hand again they tried without
success to have him patch up his admis-
sons
The promise of Reatte's lawyers made
Yesterday, that their client would take
the stand to-day was not fulfilled. IL
was evident that either indecson about
the introduction Of the newly discovered
witness or the desire to save Henry's
direct testimony so that the Jurors might
ponder it over sunday before the GROSS
examination began on the following court
day led the defence 10 fill in The day with
inoonseouential evidence designed to
prolong matters until the end Of the days
sitting.
Minor witnesses to testify to the char
acter Of the accused and his seeming happy
relations with his wife before her death
were interspersed with others called to
oontrovert small points in the prosecu-
tion's case
Several men we're qualified as auto
mobile experts to sav that it was quite
possible that Mrs Beattie's blood might
have dripped through the footboards
: of the automobile to form the pool on
Midlothian turnpike Close friends Of
Mrs Beattie took the stand to testify
that they had never seen any friction in
the married life of the prisoner and his
~ife
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
4 BLOODSTATSED AUTO.
Abandoned Car Found In Central Park
Garage Has Another Deserted Machine.

A large automobile which had been
wrecked evidently in a collision. was
found at S o'clock yesterday morning by
a policeman on the West Drive near lo7th
street in Central Park. Upon a more
careful examina fion the policeman found
blood stains on the seat occupied by the
chauffeur and there were stains also on
the ground beneath the car. The police
learned from the license number on the
automobile that it belonged to Leopold
Oppenheim Of 1890 Seventh avenue. Mr..
Oppenheim was communicated with at
his home in Arverne. He said that the
car had been placed in the Palace garage
for the summer and that he had not given
the chauffeur permission to take it out.
Detectives Hegney and Birmingham Of
the West i25th street station. who were
chauffeur. They believed that while
joy riding in the park he ran into another
car and that the blood stains were from
wounds which either he or his friends
sustained They could not have been 30
badly injured though that they were
unable to get away
The police also are looking for the man
who took touring car bearing the number
74Os into q garage on Nineteenth street
ct 8 o'clock Yesterday morning The ton
neau was smashed and the mudguards
on ono side were ripped OF. No one was
in the garage when the car arrived and
before the mechanics could get there
% work on it the man who had brought
it there and telcphoned for some one to
fix it had gone.
The detectives think that this may have
heen the other car in the case. Its driver
also must have been ou. without his en-
ployer's permission, the police believe. or
har 1,,ll ot h t,nan IN n n NJ, to ar
away.
II the chauffeur OF the Oppenheim
machine is found he will be arrested on q
charge OF grand larceny.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
SOpWITH wins LIGHT FLIGHT
COVERS THE BOSTON HARMON
COURSE ~ 1888.

Gralame.White Covers the Distance In
81 OS, but Is Disqualified for Failing
10 start According to Conditions
The Filters Put Crowd on Edge.
SouANTuM. Mass. Sept. Tom Sop
with. driving passenger carrying
Bleriot monoplane Of 20 horsepower.
won the first flight to the Boston light in
the present aviation meeting and in so
doing clipped more than two minutes on
the record esta blished last year by Claude
Grahame- White. Sopwith's time for the
course was 81 :33. against the record Of
s4:0I is.
Earle l.. Ovington with his Bleriot was
second in 3o:42. but he few a harder course
than Sopwith and during the greater
part OF the flight he did not have his engine
wide open.
There were five starters for this event,
among them Grahame- White. who was
disqualified before ne had flown ten feet
beyond the starting line. The con-
ditions provided that an entrant must
first make two circuits OF the field and
on crossing the line for the second
time would he declared to be officially
OF. Grahame-W White crossed the line
only once. His time for the course was
81 :OS, and he would have been easily
winner had he complied with the con-
ditions.
The other starters were Lincoln Beachey
in a so horse power Curtis and Eugene
Ely in a 100 horsepower Curtis. The
former was told to turn at the last lig ht
he could see. He did and had he been able
to see down to Provincetown he might
be flying yet. for he passed Boston light
and rounded the Graves. nearly mile
further on Ely turned the light and then
discovered that the water was leaking
from his radiator and causing his engine
to heat He started TO descend and land 81
on Moon Island. few miles from the
course.
For winning Sopwith got $500 and
Ovington $3.50 Tor second.
As on Monday, Beachey provided the
most spectacular flying OF the day in
the altitude speed contest. He won
that from Tom Sopwith with flight ,ooc
| feet up in Sis to $40 for Sopwith. who
drove Bleriot. Beachey really went
up s,7OO feet, and his spirals, dips under
other machines and long volplanes drew
the gathering to their feet. When Owing
ton went UP in his Curtis he too had the
throng on edge. He. and Beachey per-
| formed some interesting feats.
Harry Atwood went for an aerial JOY
ride accompanied by woman passenger
Mrs. Sturtevant of Taunton. and went
several miles up the Neponset River by the
Wollaston Golf Club.
Tom Sopwith added more money to
his winnings by taking the quick start
event in 10 seconds with hisWright and then
got two checks from Charles I. Meyer
Of Baltimore for aerial joy rides given 70
Mrs Meyer and another woman. Sopwith
carried a number of passengers.
Frank T. Coffyn in BurGess-Wrighi
, won the accuracy test, alighting 50 feet
and 3 inches from marked spot. Gil
WAS second in this with a machine Of the
same kind. He alighted 81 feet from tho
spot Gill also got second in the quick
| Tomorrow card calls for another
cross country fight tn the light and
one for biplanes to the Blue Hills.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
WILSON on POLITICAL GERMS.
says He Can Name individuals Who Are
Huge Germs of Certain Diseases.

RED BANK, y. J., Sept Gov. Wilson
to-day visited the fourth annual Mon
mouth County Agricultural Fair. He was
entertained at luncheon at the Rumscn
Country Club by J. Amory Haskell. presi-
dent Of the fair association. After the
luncheon the Governor was taken in an
automobile to the fair grounds. where he
made an address.
In the course Of his talk the Governor
said that nowadays men in politics are
described as radicals and reactionariee.
and those who are styled as radicals
happen to have come into that classifi
cation myself asked constantly why
they don't let things alone.
My answer is" said Gov. Wilson. that
things have tendency to deteriorate
and you cannot let them alone. ! am
told that I have got in me and you have
in you germs Of disease. and the only
question is whether you and have red
corpuscles in our blood enough to gobble
UP those enemies And il we becom e
anemic and run down then the force is
turned and they begin to eobhle us up
in stead Of us gobhling them.
1T is the same way in politics. Their?
is germ of selfishness in the body polite
all the time. and il you don't keep the red
Corpusces working overtime the disease
will get into your vitais and deteriorate
and end il all.
And so I say that this apparently
hectic activity on the part of the reformers
| is merely the activity Of the red corpuscles.
We are trying to bc the reddcst kind Of
corpusclas and the greatest enemies to
| all elements Of disease There are a
good many elements OF disease, ! can
H.. L.. l. 4 49,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
TURKS DYING or CHOLERA.
Pestiiencc Spre ading Al over the Country
Troops LOSING Heavily.

Special cable Despatch 10 THE SrS.
CoNsTANTINoPLE. Sept. 1.-Cholera is
spreading here in various directions
There we're seventy new cases and twenty
five deaths yesterday.
These do not include the cases and
deaths among the troops. who have just
returned from Albania and who are
quartered in segregation camps. The
mortality among the soldiers is heavy
The epidemic has taken firm hold on
Monastir. There is a daily average Of
fifty deaths in Uskub.
Cholera has broken out at Buyouk-
dereh. a fashionable summer resort on
the Bosporus. and the place has been
quarantined The Russian Embassy's q
summer quarters there have been aban-
doned.
Precautions have been taken to prevent
the spread of cholera to Therapia, where
other embassies have summer quarters.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
NOT on RAILROAD MAP.
Jersey Commuters want Jersey City and
HObOken Put Back.

The New Jersey Board Of U tilities Com
missioners heard testimony and argument
In C,ancery Chambers. Jersey City, yes
terday. in the cases OF commuters who
object because railroad companies arc
refusing to sell commutation tickets to
Jersey City and Hoboken. thus eliminat-
ing these terminals from the railroad
map.
John W. Zisgen. a Jersey City lawyer
with a summer home in Ramsey on the
Erie Railroad. testified that the ticket
agent at Ramsey refused on August to
sell him communal ton ticket to Jersey
City. saying he had been directed not to
sell tickets of any kind to that place.
George +. Brownell. counsel for the
Erie. asked Zsgen If II was not to his ad-
vantage to have ticket to New YORK
with ferry privileges. and the witness
replied that he never used his ticket for
the ferry.
Testimony that other roads had re-
fused to sell communication tickets to
Jersey City was given by S. s. Valentine
of Railway on the Pennsylvania. Ray
Mayham Of Westfeld on the Jersey
Central and Howard Marshall. president
of the New Jersey Commuters League
of East Orange. on the Lackawanna.
Lawyers for the various railroads made
the point that the rates to New York are
justified by the great volume OF trahic
and that Jersey City and other munich
palities in Hudson county are getting
advantage of the rates because they are
SO near New York.
A statement by d. NJ. Cooke. general
traffic manager Of the Erie, set forth that
the company has established and main
tans communication rates between New
York city and points in New Jersey on
it's lines. which on account OF circum-
stances and conditions surrounding the
New York city communication traffic are
on lower basis of rates than commuta-
ton rates between any other places on its
lines and that the circumstances and con-
ditions surrounding the passenger traffio
between Jersey City and points in the
State OF New Jersey are different from
those surrounding New York commuta-
ton traffic and do not justify the main
tenance of such low basis Of rates as
applies to New York communication traffic,
while 1t is impossible to sell communication
tickets to and from Jersey City at higher
rate than applied on tickets to and from
New York. because passengers to and
from Jersey city can purchase and use
New York tickets.
The commission will continue the hear
ing on September I.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
SAW SUICIDE ~ 4 DREAM
Vision & ame to Her About the Time Her
MOther.in.law Killed Herself.

In dream on Thursday night Mrs
Amelia Stahl of 6s Grand street Brooklyn.
saw her aged moth ar in law Mrs Augusta
Liedtke OF p Bradford street, East New
ior X. apparently choking to death with
cloth around her head The dream so
impressed Mrs Stahl thar yesterday morn
ing sha went tn see her mother in law
She got no response to her ringing at the
bell Arear door was open and she went
in
On bed in one Of the rooms lay the BODY
OF the aged woman Around her head
were two handkerchief She had stun ed
cotton in her mouth and nose.
DIR. Remer of the bradford Street Hos
u al said that the woman had been dead
elnce early in tho morning or about the
time Mrs. Stahl hal her dream.
Mrs. Liedtke was a. years old She had
threatened tokill herself, the police were
told, and tho woman who owns the hou 80
had told t"r she must leave
"I'll leave here dead or no. al all vas
N aged wo nan r,s~o1se
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
MOROCCO TALKS DELAYED.
Ambassador Cambon lii-Germany Ready
TO Accept the French Terms.

Special cable Despatch TO The Sun.
BERLIN. Sept. IN. Jules Cambon,
the French Ambassador to Germany.
who has just returned from Paris, Where
he was in consultation with the Cabinet
over the Moroccan situation. was taken
i'll to-day and was unable to renew his
conversations with Herr Won kiderlin-
W8chter. the German Foreign Minister.
In regard to a settlement of the trouble.
II is understood that NJ. Cambon came
back with a fun statement Of the French
case and of the extreme concessions
which his country is willing to make to
Germany in return for the latter's with
drawal from southern Morocco and full
recognition of Frances supremacy there.
II is not likely that the negotiations will
be resumed before Sunday or Monday.
The German Foreign Office is optimistic
in regard to the result of the coming
interviews. II intimates that the broad
outlines Of the French proposals are
known and that they are acceptable to
GERMANY
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
Obituary Notes.

John stillman Woods. until ten years ago
New York and Sprinsi!eld, Mass, news
papers. died at his home in Matteawan
Thursday In the eighty-tourth year Of his
age Mr.. Woods had written many inter
affairs and was considered one Of the besr
read men In Dutohess county. Some years
ago he wrote his own obituary, sending IL to
Stcnd4yd, II read as follows; John Still.
man Woods. born in Ashbnrnham. Mass.
August 2, 1897; died IN Matteawan. \. Y,
Idate lett blank Only this and nothing
more"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-02
GERAN on THE GERAN Law.
He Insists That Under II Candidates Have
TIL Sept. q to File Petitions.

Assemblyman Elmer Geran Of Mon
mouth county. New Jersey. who tele-
phoned to the Hudson County Clerk Q
ONCE in Jersey City on Thursday for in
formation concerning the time in which
candidates for Assembly must file primary
petitions for nomination under the pro-
visions OF the Geran election law. said
yesterday that William Wilkie. a clerk,
petitions must be in by September /.
Tho Assemblyman insisted that an
amendment to the election laws embraced
in the so-called Geran act provides that
the time limit for fling primary petitions
shall b" twenty days before the primaries,
or on september 9. Mr.. Geran said he
filed his petition OF nominate for Assem-
blyman at the Monmouth County Clerk =
Oftice last week