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The evening world., 1911-12-30
Either we the American people mean
what We say or We don't.
MONRCE DOCTRINE CANNOT BE
"ARBITRATEp."

Do YOU believe thai the Monroe
Doctrine should he arbitrated? /
do NOT. Therefore. ] wish II ex-
pllcitly excluded from arbitration
under the treaty. or else | wish some
general clause put in which would
exclude II and other matters Of gov
ernmentai policy. or matters vital to
the honor and interest of this ma
tion. DC o believe that the state
bonds question should be ar~3itrated?
] do not.
Do you believe that the question
as TO whether We have the right to
abrogatc our treaty with Russia II
she persists In doing injustice to our
jewish Fellow citizens shail be ar
bitratedY do not. cAlthough l
should be glad To give Russia n
chance or being shown that her m
depreciation or the treaty Is incor-
rect II the Russian Interpretation
IL correct. ! should hold that PROOF
positive mat the ola treaty must DE
abrogated and u new treaty negoti-
a'ed''
do you oeI'eVe that we shou'u
arbitrate the question or
The evening world., 1911-12-30
He's Goal of Happiness to Bos-
ton Reporters, Whom He
Dodged on Arrival.
HOLDS FORT IN HOTEL
And Life of the Bee Isn't
Nearly as Busy as That of
Reporters Seeking Interview.

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hide and seek game Of tho year In on
hero to-day. all OF Boston being at"
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minister last X Nm" MactcfInch'
NJ the i"enos' when asked where her
nd was. replied demureiy;
"Why ask m. that9 ties a genius.
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Of the Boston opera Company. who
made the wager last summer In Paris.
The author Of The Blue Bird" The
IAf. of the Bee and other no,abls
works slipped into Boston last nisht
On 40. Mm.. Mae,criipck in "pellca. a,
vuI.a,d." an operatip y.r.ion OF one
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The evening world., 1911-12-30
FIRE RoUTs EIGHT FAMILIES.
Myste riOus . Blase Ties Up street
Car. and Does s3,OOO Damage.

Fire that broke out at noon, to-day,
IN the apartment OF Isaac Kaufman In
the five-story tenement at No. 1857 Essex
street, burned out three floors IN the
south side of the building. frightened
eight families into h street, tied up
street-car traffic for half an hour. did
5000 damage and created such excite
ment hat police reserves from the
Delaney and Fifth street stations were
called out.
Kaufman was at church when the fire
started, about noon. Policeman Preston
turned In the alarm. and helped to quiet
the frightened enant In the burning
building and In the houses adjoining.
The frcmen confined the blase to the
apartments of Kaufman. Ignatz Godln-
ski and Moses Blatz. The cause of the
fire Is unknown.
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DOESN'T ANoW WHAT GAS
IS. BUT HE BLEW IT OUT.
LiSlie Sirgei Believes in Signs, but
He's in Hospital Now for
All That.

In the immigrants Lodging House at
No. 2H IVES; street. there are signs In
every language and dialect Of Russia
anu soutieIn Europe, advising guests TO
refrain from blowing out the gas.
Lishe Sirgei. on bis way TO his home
in Lithuania from the coal mines OF
Pennsylvania. got a room at the hotel a.
, O'Clock this morning. A porter found
him unconscious in the room at 10 o'clock
with the gas turned on. He was taken
to Hudson street Hospital and revived
and then he confessed he had blown out
the Hight in. the room.
Didn't you see the slsn. Don't blow
~ the gas?' he ri asked.
Yes" replied the truthful victim.
What is gas?"
Sirgei, although his lungs are In had
shape. probably Will ecover lie told
the hospital authorities he has a wife
at his old home. He left there two
years ago.
The evening world., 1911-12-30
SLAIN H0LDUP MAN Is
Identified AS SLAYER
Newark Police Say Robber Killed
by Undertaken Had Crimi-
nal Record,

Newark offcials have Identified the
hold-up man shot TO death In Hohman's
undertaking establishment in Hob0ken
by Charles Hoffman jr. while the rob-
Der was in a clinch with Charles Hon.
man sr.. as John Wyckon, a criminal
with a long string Of aliases, who was
released on parole from the Trenton
State Prison six months ago.
/ Wyckof had compelled the Hofmans.
at the point of a revolver. to hand over
jewe,ry they wore. and while Il e father
held the robbers arm the son got a re-
vOlver from a drawer and fired to keer
from being killed himself.
The record shows that Wyckof was
first arrested in Newark In 1891. and had
| served several terms before he kiMeI
| George r.. Smith at the city dock ir
| Newark on Oct. 10. 1901, for which h.
was given twelve years
The evening world., 1911-12-30
ROOSEVELT WOULDN'T HELP
OvERAWE TIE SENATE.

The principal letter read. In part:
Ny Dear Mr.. Bloomer:
am sorry to say that ! cannot
permit the use OF my name Tor that
citizens Peace Banquet, simply be-
cause | do not know what the ban
quct Is for. II II Is meant to over
awe the Senate. and for that body
AGAINST It's conscience to support the
unamendcd treaties, which the SEN
ate Committee on Foreign Relations
has shown by unanswcrable argu-
ment to be hostile to the honor and
interest Of the American people. then
am not Ia sympathy with you. For
instance, II you propose to support
the arbitration treaties unlmended.
then ! think that q are not mere
~ wrong. but that you are engaged
In what Is essentially AN unworthy.
and, however. uncopseiously. IA hyp-
ocrltlcal move against the Interest
OF peace and against the honor and
interest, ~ the United states and OF
civilization.
II YOU intend to support these
treaties. however. with the amend
mcnts introduced by senators Root
and Lodge. then YOU are all right.
because You are supporting what Is
not a very important hut sim sincere
effort to make things u lltilo better.
Hypocrisy never pays, ana to IAN
uounco in treaties that We Intend TO
arbitrate everything, when no human
being IA his senses .m1giues that
this country would arh!trate every.
thing. In to put US In n position ot
revolving duplic.ty. The use Of the
word 'ju%suciahle' In no way helps
the matter; In SUCH a treaty the
word Is meaningless, for It can be
defined IN any way that either party
chooses.
O%pholders OF u~namcnded treaties
have occupied two positions utterly
Incompatible, They iirst of all an
nouuced that w would arbitratt
everything. even questions OF IA
tlonal honor and national Interest
then. Immediately that the praotlca
question came M, they announced
that Of course the, ia not intend I,
arbitrate such matters as the Monro'
! Doctrine. or the immigration o
2 Asiatics. or tho validity OF stat,
bonds. and so forth. Now these tw,
attitudes made their position non
sensical as we'll as hypocr!t!cal
The evening world., 1911-12-30
DYNA MTING INQUIRY
INVOLVES MANY PERSONS.
SAYS SECRETARY DREW.

Walter Drcw. secretary Of the Ma
tionsi Er~ctors' Association. VINO has
attended the Federal Investigation into
the Mcnamara dynaniting outrsgcs In
progress nj indianapolis. Ind. returned
10 New York to-day for the New Years
holidays. lie has kept IN close touch
with the Investigation and knows what
IL going on.
"a great mass OF evidence has been
taken" said Mr.. Drew. but there IL
stu a greater mass 10 he gone through.
Every piece OF documentary evidence
has been photographed for use in other
investigations that may follow. 4 big
bunch Of Indictments will be returned
about the end OF January"
what about the reports that have
reached here 20 the eject that the whole
executive committee Of the International
Iron-W orkers' Union will te ibdicted7
IL can cay nothing ~ that subject"
he replied. AN I can say Is that you
can look for indictments.
And Il might he we'll for some mis-
guided persons TO await those indict-
ments before going impctuoasly into A
matter with which they are scarcely
conversant. ! note that Jane Addam-
and Rabbi Wise and others have asked
President Taft q name a committee "a
Investigate III condition Uf the union
Iron workers. and their employment. II
. would be we'll for the committee "a
postpone lie lA~bors-shoutd It he ap-
point~i-uniii after the indianapolis In.
dictments Are In.
Thus hi The Joke of the McNamaru
disclosures " investigation has beer
Lincoln sterens. To heat him talk. h,
has done It all. lie reminds md of one
Of those 4 you see shooting back
I. ward ana forward across "a ir.f,ini
stream, From banN TO bank. upstream
and down. the bug shoots In n spcctacu
lar way. but all the time the currcn
: carries II along. and finally It II lost IL
the distance. Mr.. stencns has u
shooting back and forth 30 rapidly nm,
calling attention 10 himself 80 persist
. emily that he imaslnes the whole inves
ti9Atisn and disclosures were brouHn
about by his efforts. when as n matte
Of fact he had absolutely nothing to d,
with them"
The evening world., 1911-12-30
TWO CHILDREN ABlAZE.
resr-Ness.O Ola aWa D1hy brother
saved by Father.

Rosie Nsccaro. four years Did, was
y tending her little brother, giuseppe. IN
their home At No. % Park street. to-
day. while their mother was giving tis,
older children breakfast In the kitchen.
Rosie showed uuiss ppe how to strlk, "A
match.
A moment later Mrs. Naccaro heard
the babies screaming. hosie's dress was
burning. The mothers screams brought
the father. Nunxiato. from his rag and
paper shop In the basement. They tore
the clothes on Rosie and slapped out the
smoulrSring circle IN Guiscppr's skirts
Dr. Wood. from ~, Gregory Hospital
said there wassittlc chance that Host,
would live
The evening world., 1911-12-30
BLOOMER SAYS he. TOO, WAS
DECEIVED.

Capt. Bloomer says the other members
OF the committee grossly deceived him
as to the purposes OF the dinner, for
they assured him It vas not to ratify
the Taft peace treaties.
Under such circumstances wrote
again to Col. Roosevelt he said, and
told him my understanding of the nature
of the dinner and. from the following
letter, you can see that he vas In run
accord with IL and would ave attended
Dec. 10.
Ny Dear Mr.. Eloomer;
thank you for your most frank
and manly letter, and l deeply Rp.
preciate Il. As YOU state and under
stand the moV ement. ] am entirely
IN sympathy with It, That IN. l am
In favor OF a broad. honest peace
movement In line with the traditional
policy of this country, OF good Will
and fair treatment for all the nations
OF mankind. sincerely Yours.
THEupoRE ROOSEVELT,
ION Dec. -, the committee unaui
mous,y Invited Col. Roosevelt to be
guest OF honor-which would put him %
a par with the President continue
Capt. Bloomer. AIR. CARNEGIE. at tina
time. was selected 10 be toastmastel
Then anne the news that the Dime
The evening world., 1911-12-30
NOT IN FELDSCHER'S PLACE.
West side HOldup Occurred In
RObad's In Twelfth Avenue.

Through an error In the early infor-
nation received by the police of a
holdup In an upper west side saloon
Wednesday night, the cafe Of John II.
Feldsoher at No. 1877 Eleventh avenue
was named as the scene Of the robbery,
II was learned to-day that 1t was the
saloon Of Michael J. Rohan, Fifty-fifth
street and Twelfth avenue. that was en-
tered BY tho three armed men. who held
ND the proprietor at the point of thei'
revolvers and took "A silver watch. q
stickpin and Clio.
Rohan made no complaint to the po-
lice until yesterday and the detec-
tives OF the West Forty-seventh street
I ation received their first information
through rumors Of the occurrence pass
The evening world., 1911-12-30
TAFT ON HIS WAY HERE
FOR PEACE DINNER

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-Presldent
Taft loft Washington at 10 a. NJ. to-day
for his last trip OF the year. His first
stop will he at Philadelphia. he VIII
attend the John Wanamaker fiftieth
anniversary and jubilee celebration.
From there he will proceed to New
York to attend the Citizens Peace Dim
ner tonight.
Arrangements were completed for the
President to spend New Years Eve a.
the white House. Senator Penrose ac-
companlcd the President.
The evening world., 1911-12-30
woman n suicide with Revolver,

Mrs, Anna iiengstenberg, twenty-nlne
years old, commltted suicide to-day with
u revolver, at No. 800 East Eighty
seventh street. Her husband, william.
a plumber, was In an adjoining room.
The woman had long been III. rather
Barthel Of 81, Joseph's church, at No.
Al East Eighty-siN;h street, admin
stored the last Idtes ~ the Church ~
an ambulance took An woman 10 Re-
ception Hospital, She died Just after
reAching Tho Institution.
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ing among the saloons OF the y@eet side
section. In this way Feldschers place
vas involved.
Feldscher was perturbed by the re-
ports, az his place has q reputation for
orderliness. The Evening Word took
rains to-day to investigate the matter
and learned that the holdup occurred
in Rohan's place and not F~eldscher's.
The evening world., 1911-12-30
Dog Rites Man, scarcs Many,

A homeless fox terrier. frothing and
swapping. was shot early to-day by
Policeman Sayler Of the East Siyty-
seventh street station on the stoop Of
No. l3d East Sixty-ninth street after II
had terrOrlzed tenants n bitten both
knees Of John Dineen Of No. 33f East
Seventeen street. Dlneen was trying TO
chase the dog away. Sayler killed the
Hospital.
The evening world., 1911-12-30
rasic C~su.s.sixth avenue Blockade

The blowing out Of an electric fuse
over the work tables In A, and Il. Evai-
enko's dressmaklng establishment on
tho sixth floor Of No. 100 West Thirty
eighth street to-day caused a small
blaze that sent the ATTY girls employed
on that floor and the one above scury-
ing In a panic to the street. In the
excitement several freboxes In the
n~e!ghborhood were pulled and the con-
Eestion Of hre apparatus that gathered
in a few minutes blocked traffic on
Sixth avenue and Broadway. The
blaze was e~xtinguished without damage
before the firemen arrived.
The evening world., 1911-12-30
rvglrMoE OFFERED $500 RE
WARD FOR DvNAMITeRs.

Following the Times explosion
I. Tvsltrnoe offered n reward OF $3.50 for
information that would lead TO tho
apprehension OF the guilty persons.
When Doicctlvc Burns arrested the
McNamaras. Tveitnoe issued - state-
rnsnt In which he denounced the ar.
rests as an outrage and accused Burns
bf planting" evidence.
: Other arrests are expected this cve-
lnlnG. The excitement over tho Me-
~ Nsmara case. which had pretty well
,r died down, has been revived by the
n Indictment of the labor leaders.
.a Tyietmoo issued the following state
}, ment after its arrest:
. we have just been arrested. Indict-
ments were returned against rs by the
b Grand Jury. ! will make no other state
Vi. ipent regarding the case. Our ease will
II. he tried by the courts and not 10y the
a n~Ayspspcts"
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WILL GET TAFT OUT OF WAY
THEN WHAT

MIR. Carnegie will read letters support
ne or opposing peace. ~ the case may
be. what may follow 10 not on the
programme, and may depend on the
strong arm men. II Is deemed probable
thai somebody viii move for the adop'
ton OF resolutions for the ratification
Of the arbitration treaties OF MI TAFT.
while others may favor an indorsemen,
Of the Root.Lodge amendments. What
ever happens, the President viii be out
OF the way.
There Is understood 10 he nm effort
under way to put the curb biz on MI,
braves, bu, his friends say he viii not
w hedged In by any arbitrary rules.
There Is a vague promise OF war after
the peace banquet is over, One ihins,
there viii be AN effort to exoneraie
some OF those who have been criticised
siuce the peace banque, movement go
under a Another thing. 1, IL under
stood the Press Club will present "a oil
FOR t5Vo FOR a Inner given there las
August. This last dinner, It is claimed
was the start OF ,hr ono to- night an
left the Press club 300 ia the hole,
while Mayor Gaynor says he had nc
cepted no invitation 10 attend tonight
dinner. Charles II. Mscnuley. preslden
Of the Press club. says the Mayor gay
him an oral promise on Columbus ia
10 b.. present at the peace dinner to
n!ght lie says he does not understan
how the Mayor could have forgotten.
The evening world., 1911-12-30
.asers started Immediately TO LOOK for

leaders started Immediately TO look for
bondsmen.
II II reported here that the entire Ex-
ecutive Board Of the Structural Iron
Workers Union will be indicted at In
dianapolis. Oriie McManigaI's confes-
sion 10 said TO involve more than twenty
prominent labor leaders. Distrlct-Attor-
ney Fredericks. who prosecuted the Nc.
NamAras. left for indianapolis this af-
tsrnoon. taking McManIgal's original
confession and much other evidenc"
along.
The evening world., 1911-12-30

FILES CURED IN Q TO - DAYS.
You l,usslsi viii ssfund monsy- II. fsAo Dtns-
mt fsiLs 10 eur any cAss of Itching. blipd,
Uks1ins " Pretradias Pus " Q 70 ~ daySeossss
The evening world., 1911-12-30
PEACE DINNER


will be u strong guard Mt all places
where the Chief Executive II to stop
ne s,rony-arm cohorts. however. viii
no: yet on the Job until the banquet OF
battle. whiche, II II, gets under way
According 20 present arrangements,
the lis, OF speakers win be. President
Taft. Andrew Carnegie, Oscar stauS,
Charles A. Towne and Henry Clews
John Temple Graves will be toas,mas'
ter. lhe present intention In to have
Mr.. TAFT make his speech and leave for
brooklyn to keep another engagement.
Ever, precaution will be taken to keep
the dove Of peace from go!ns with him
Mr.. Graves will then introduce Mr..
Carnegie, the honorary President, VINO
: to be s~idetracked until President TAFT
mas escaped.
Alt GEr .EAEY NllT nE WAN
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-07

10 Alaska under the laws as they exist
President Taft, however, is firm IN ms
opinion that the law should he changed
and we presume there can he no dit-
ference OF opinion among reasonable
men on that point. The law ought 10
he changed and the sooner IL is changed
the better.
But what "A piece of contemplate
sneakery it is for the cunscrvatlonlSts
TO trv TO 'snvc their face by claiming
that they had been right all the time,
and that II was only a change OF pohcN
on the part of tho Government winch
reconcilcs them as TO President TAFT
action. Since there has been no change
OF policy, and since the only sugges'
tiou of change is in President Taft s
recommendation for legislation that IN
the future will relieve Alaska from the
paralysis which the conservation people
have put upon il, the spectacle which
the conservation people have made OF
themselves before the country is p'ti'
able indeed.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-07
PARCELS POST NEGOTIATIONS

Recent negotiations between The DOS.
tai authorities Of the United States
and those Of Great Byitain confirm the
previous arrangements whereby parcels
NAV be sent BY mail from this country
TO Great Britain. and likewise through
the mails from auv portion Of Great
Britain 10 any portion of the United
States. This gives British subjects a
standing in our postal carrying sys.
TEN which citizens Of the United States
do not have in their own country. Reel.
procally. it gives inhabitants in the
United States an access to British mail
privileges which they do not have in
the United States mails.
The new negotiations concluded, pro.
vide that after December LIST, The pres
emf year, the rates Of charge for the
delivery Of parcels viii be reduced rs
follows: CUP 10 three pounds. from So
To 50 cents; up TO seven pounds, from
90 To - cents: up 10 nine pounds, from
81 tn IS cents; mp TO eleven pounds,
from 81 .0S TO $l.02'
The parcels post is well established
institution in Great Britain. There is
no idea there that there is anything
wrong about it, or that it hurts any
boiv, while it benefits the people I'M
mcnselv throughout the United King
dom. But in The United States There
seems TO he ii great reluctance to adopt
| this addition to our postal system. that
| has heretofore prevented The adoption
of the parcels post among ourselves
| although we grant it freely 10 the IN
habltants Of Great Britain and bargain
tor il for ourselves IN the British mails
| Why not bave IT for ourselves in ON
own country. as well as 10. allow
! Britons 10 have IT in our mails,
| The question is one Of tue mos
puzzing ones now before the public
| There seems to be a concession on tn,
part Of our National authorities thai
the parcels post is Il gool thing, and VIZ
negotiate for it with foreign countries
hat VIC refuse TO accept it for ourselves
| One statement ia. that we ought {,
have a opc,eent letter postage first, anC
allow the parcels post to come after
ward. But that is the trouble; there
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-07
THE LOS ANGELES ELECTION.

The Los Angeles election went with
a sweep against the Socialists. 1t had
been supposed that the Socialist candi-
date for mayor would be elected, since
he was decidedly ahead of any other
candidate at the primaries; but, ate the
election he was showed under by ire
mcndous adverse vote. Undoubtedly
the confessions of the McNamaras had
a good deal TO do with this; but we
should think il very unlikely that 1t
would have such a tremendous ntiu'
encc rs to change so radically Inc nugc
vote thai was east And this vote is,
in itself. n wonder. What sort OF
population do they have at Los Angeles,
anyway, that will give registered vote
of a good deal more than half of the TO-
ial populations In Salt Lake CITY we
have women suffrage, aud have had n
right along for fifteen years. but our
vote shows no such percentage OF the
total population. The vote east here
al the election last month aggregated
25,9T5, with population according TO
last wear S Federal census of 82,iir
B,t, Los Angeles, with population OF
3l9,l9 had close npou 100000 regis
tered voters, and cast vote which
approximatcs 30 per cent of the total
population. though ns we arc assured,
the poor didn t vote; if they had. the
vote must have reached above hall
of the total population, 1t would ap'
pear from these figures that the popu'
lation Of Los Angeles is much more
than usual in any other city, made up
of adults. II is a case where our most
illustrious private citizen would ]ustIy
he exasperatcd and enragcd at the
plain evidences which the registration
and the ballots afford, of the most
scandalous form of Grace suicide,
1t appears that the people Of Los
Angeles were not anxious for change
of administration. They have a good
mavor, and they have a satisfactory
liquor law. since. rs VIC Judge, the cleo
iion must have been influenced largely
by the prohibition ordinance submit
ted. which. rs described, is tho most
drastic proposition that any city has
vet faced. But Los Angeles would have
none OF il, and is content TO let well
enough alone. II is a city growing
more rapidly than almost any other
in the world, and is quite willing to
keep right on in The same course. IT
does NOT think that it is good thing
to call halt on prosperity and growth.
but wants TO keep right on growing
and in this. undoubtedly the people
of Los Angeles are wiser than the
people Of some other cities that might
be named
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-07

The wild reclslessness Of Americans,
in money matters as well as IN rail
roa.liu2. is often the theme of our cen
serious British cousins. Yet the
biggest bank failure of the year is that
Of Il British bank in Egypt, with liabili.
ties Of over fi,oD0.o00 Egyptian. the
egyptian pound being rated at Sio43,
or, in round numbers. the failure is
for 900. That is surely going
some for cautious, conservative peo.-
ple TINT view American rccklessness
with such horror