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New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
DR.. MARY WALKER SNUBBE0
Illinois Suffragists Decide Not
to Entertain Her.
By Telegraph to The Tribune.

Chicago, Dec. 2. The Illinois
Woman's Suffrage Association decided
to-day to ignore DR.. Mary Walker after
ARRANGEMENTS had been made to enter
tain the eighty-year-old suffragist.
Whether DR.. Walkers attack on Jane
Adams prompted the suffragists to
snub her is not known.
"Why bother about the poor old
womap?" said Mrs. Katherine Waugh
Mccullough, prominent suffrage
leader, justice of the peace and
lawyer. when 1 get as old as DR..
Walker maybe / will be as cranky as
she is. Age explains many things. If
she wants to assail any one. let her do
IL. She did great work for her country
during the war, but-oh, we'll, shan't
discuss her."
DR.. Walker, wearing gray striped
trousers, a black frock coat, stiff white
shirt, high standing collar and wine
colored necktie adorned with diamond
horseshoe, in discussing Jane Adams
said:
II do not know her; I don't want to
know her, and, anyway, any one, Miss
Adams not excepted, who allies her
self with Roosevelt cannot amount to
much"
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
YOUNG BELMONT GONE
Chorus Girl Wife Said to Have
Admitted Separation.

Mrs. Ethel Lorraine Belmont. the
chorus girl. who was married to Ray
mond Belmont, son of August Belmont,
was reported last night to have con-
firmed in her apartments at the Hotel
Gosford The Tribune's exclusive story
of Sunday morning that her husband
had not been with her since Friday
noon. She said that he left her at that
time with his brother. Morgan Bel
mont. and that she had not seen or
beard from him since.
Mrs. Belmont, II was added. went
on to say that only threats from his
father could have kept her husband
away from her. as she believed that
he loved her dearly
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
SHE LEFT BED OF STRAW"
Wife in Answer to Husband s
"Ad" Gives Full Details.

Newton, n. j., Dec. Edgar Potts
Marshall, of this place. caused consid-
erable talk about town when on Sat
urday last he inserted the following
advertisement in a local newspaper:
To Whom It May Concern: My wife
having left my bed and board, ] Will not
be responsible for any debts contracted
by her after this date.
His wife to-day using the columps
of the same newspaper. created SEN
sation when she answered her hus-
bands lad" with the following
To Whom IL May Concern: After read
ing a few lines contained In the columns
of your paper in regard to myself, 1 peg
to differ with the author In the nrst
place, how could | leave my beloved
husbands bed when the faithful old bed
on which / slept, including the ancient
feather tick and a few board stats, are
the property OF his aged father?
A straw tick is also included In the
makeup, the covering OF which pur-
chased myself with the income from my
flock OF chickens. which ] worked hard
TO raise. IL | am not awfully mistaken.
my beloved husband furnished the Few
bundles OF straw contained theren-nence
left his bed Of straw.
] also beg to announce that l nave fur-
nished a greater part OF the board Tor my
father-n-law. for myself and for my
precious one ever since his poor mother
was laid in her grave. Therefore,
how could leave his board? l also look
in sewing and kept boarders to help sus-
tain my faithful husband.
II is well known fact that the greater
part OF what few cents he earns goes TO
pay for the ''oh be joyfur' that so sweetly
quenches his thirst and improves his ap-
1aa ra rCa In general / Will no longer pc
responsible for any debts contracted by
my husband (Signed)
GRACE BRUNDAGE MARSHALL,
Beloved wife Of Edgar Potts Marshall.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
JUDGES JOIN WAR
ONCOCAINET TRADE
CONGRESS TO AID FIGHT
ON COCAINE TRAFFIC.

Washington, Dec. 2.-State and
Treasury Department officials pre-
pared to-day to urge on Congress
the passage Of stringent laws for
the suppression Of promiscuous
traffic in opium, cocaine and other
narcotics, in accordance with the
conclusions Of the international con-
ference held at The Hague several
months ago.
Secretary MacVeaeh had long
talk with Dr.. Hamilton Wright, Of
the State Department, American
representative at The Hague con-
ference, and representatives Of the
wholesale druggists association and
pharmaceutical chemists.
II was decided to recommend the
immediate passage Of three pending
bills, two regulating the importa-
tion and interstate commerce in
narcotics, and one providing for the
registration of all sellers Of these
drugs in tho United States.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
Tenants Leap from Fire Escape
Landings and Several Are
Badly Hurt.
SEARCH FOR MORE BODIES
Early Morning Blaze Awakens
% Families, and Many Are
Overcome by Smoke in
Effort to Reach Street.

Two men were killed, several other
persons badly injured and five are re-
ported missing in a fire in a five story
apartment house at No. . East 112th
street early this morning. The loss
was about $4,000
At o'clock it was reported TO the
police that the five persons who were
known to have been i'm the building
could not be accounted for. and the
firemen began searching the house for
their bodies.
The bodies of the two dead men,
which were identified as those of Louis
Levy. rabbi and lawyer. and William
Day, a waiter. were found in the rear
of the hallway on the top floor. It was
believed that they had been overcome
by smoke while trying to make their
escape.
Those injured were Max Schwerger
and his wife, Becky, and George Gold
Schwerger was badly burned while try
ing to prevent his wife from jumping
from a window. and Mrs. Schwerger
was overcome by smoke. Gold was cut
by falling glass
The fire apparently started on the top
floor and worked it's way to the lower
floors down the airshaft. The alarm
routed twenty-five families from their
beds and more than a hundred persons
ran to windows and to the fire escapes.
Those on the lower floors clogged the
fire escS pes and II was some time be-
fore any one had sufficient presence Of
mind to lower the ladders which. to pre-
vent thieves from getting into the flats,
the second floor. Many men. not wait
ing for the ladders TO be lowered,
dropped TO the ground.
The police had hard time prevent
ing women from jumping from the fire
escapes and ION windows before the
arrival of the fremen with their lad
To the scene most of the tenants had
reached the ground.
II was not known how the fire start
ed, but when It was discovered 1t had
made considerable headway and, owing
TO the high wind that prevailed, il
spread rapidly.
The injured tenants were taken to
the Harlem Hospital. as was Philip
Bernstein. "A patrolman attached to the
East 1Oith street station. who was
kicked in the groin by woman whom
he was endeavoring to keep from
jumping from a fire escape.
After the fire was under control the
police and firemen started in to ascer-
tain If every one had got out safely.
Il was reported to them that Annie and
Sadie Orgil, sisters of Mrs. Schwcrger,
could not be found and the police also
heard that three others, whose names
were not given were not accounted for.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
AFFIRMS PARKHURST STORY
Social Worker Says Charge
Against Mayor Is True.

Mrs. Rose Livingston. as settlement
worker who has devoted much of her
time to saving young girls from dens in
Chinatown, declared last night before
an audience Of several hundred persons
in the Metropolitan Temple, at 14th
street and Seventh avenue. that the
assertion made yesterday by DR.. Park
hurst that a resort for white persons
and negroes was maintained in one OF
Mayor Gaynor's houses in Brooklyn
was true.
81 know it to be an absolute fact"
she declared.
Speaking Of conditions in New York.
Mrs. Livingston said: There are 25O
white girls In Chinatown, and Mayor
Gavnor says that everything is all right
as long as everything is done on the
inside.
the Mayor and protest against the con-
ditions In Chinatown. You had better
put all your two cents together and
huv bread for the unfortunate people
there | want to tell you right here
that i'm the work / have been trying
to do among the unfortunate girls.
Mayor Gaynor, the man you men put
In power by your votes. is the worst
enemy have had"
--e
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
DOG HIS ALARM CLOCK
Bell Tied to Mongreps Leg Is
Rung at Rising Hour.
[By Telegraph TO The Tribune

Cincinnati, Dec. 2.-Samuel Forsythe,
of North Fairmont. a suburb of Gin
cinnati, believes he has the best dog ON
earth, as he does not need an alarm
clock to wake him In the morning TO be
In time for work. His dog, which is
only nnongrel, does it for him.
Forsythe says that he spent much
time in learning that the dog could
arouse him. BY watching he found that
his dog almost invariably awakened at
about the same time as its master, 50
on retiring each night he tied bell. to
one of the dogs legs. The dog on awak-
ening rang the bell until released.
Forsythe says the plan has failed only
once in two months.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
WANTED TO MOVE QUICK
Insane Central EmplQye Flags
Empire State Express.

F4shkill- on the Hudson. N. Y. Dec. ..
Setting the signals so that the En-
pire State express came TO a stop to-
day. Fred Ostrander. a railroad en-
ploye. ordered engineer and train crew
to proceed with the express to Manitou,
in Putnam County. there to get two
freight cars containing his household
goods, and then return to Fishkill.
Ostrander explained he was moving.
The authorities detained Ostrander
and declared they found him TO be pos
sessed of an hallucination that he was
affected with too great wealth. He was
committed for observation.
Ostrander threw switch in signal
tower when the towerman's attention
was attracted elsewhere.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
ANOTHER TITANIC BABY
Mrs. Astor Sends Congratula
tions to Cleveland Syrian.

Cleveland. Dec. IA telegram OF
congratulations from Mrs. John jacob
Astor to-day was received by Mrs.
Adele Nasrallah, a member of the local
Syrian colony, who was widowed by the
Titanic disaster and has just become
a mother. Hers is the third Titanic
baby, the second being the child born to
Mrs. Lucien p. Smith, in Cincinnati,
Friday
The third Titanic baby is a girl.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
Foster Thinks Present Statute
Should Be Strengthened and
Others Admit the Alarming
Growth of Habit, Partic-
ularly Among Young
WALDO ALONE is SILENT
Commissioner Crawls Into Official
Shell When Asked if He Intends to
Stop Dope" venders-Black
wells Island Prisoners Get
Stuff from City Employees.

Conditions IS to police laxity IN
orou,inp the free and open selling OIL
oooo,ne on the streets of the Tender
,o,, disclosed in Yesterdays Tribune
- corroborated and deplored by
.,oa,oo, men. city officials and judges
.,ordav but in the oices of Com
,,is, Waldo and Inspector Lahey'
two officials who might be expected 10
be most vitally interested the woro
wae given out that they were too ousy
70 say anything about it.
Washington dispatches last nlsh.
s.oted that officials of the state anu
treasury departments began 10 prepare
sterdav recommendations urging
rron Congress the passing OF more
Stringent laws for the suppression Oh
the cocaine and opium trafflc'
Secretary MacVeagh held a long COIL
ference with DR.. Hamilton wright oi
the state Department, who was 'h'
American representative at the inter
national conference held at The hague
loot sunomer which Gealt with the sup
nression of the traffic in these orugS'
ard II was decided to recommend the
massage of three bills, one OF wnich
will nrovide for the federal registra-
tion of all sellers of cocaine, opium ana
other narcotics.
Waldo TOO Busy" to Talk,
District Attorney Whitman. Judges
Foster. Swami and Mulqueen, Health
commissioner I.ederle and Assembly
man Alfred r. Smith all had time TO
sneak of conditions of the traffic with
which they had come in contact ana
IN offer various suggestions for Its
Animation. but the Police Commis-
sjoner through his clerk. sent out word
that he was too busy to talk about
the matter"
With the interview reduced to three
ouestions. which were written OUT the
commissioner was still too busy to
bother with it," so the questions as TO
wbctber Mr.. Waldo had asked Inspector
Iahev about the truth of the charges
that cocaine was being sold openly on
the streets of his district, whether ne
had asked the inspector to investigate
the possibility of police collusion with
the cocaine dealers, or whether he IN
tended to ask his inspector for report
ON the matter, went unanswered.
The inspector was apparently as ousy
as the Commissioner, for he also sent
ont word that he was "too busy to be
Interviewed"
Captain Thor, of the Tenderloin sta
tion, whose district embraces a part
of the territory in which cocaine pur-
chases were made by The Tribune's
investigator. said that he expected to
make an investigation there imme-
diately. The police captain said that
the detection Of the street seller" was
difficult. and cited the case of "Riley,"
as told in yesterdays Tribune, as an
instance.
Selling on East Side.
Meanwhile a hasty tour Of small
section of the East Side, made last
Continued on fourth page, third column.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
SPECIAL GRAND JURY
TO INVESTIGATE WRIGHT
Commissioner Must Explain
Alleged knowledge OF
Hyde'S Innocence.
DENIES SPYING ON ROBIN,
Heads of Banking and Insurance
Departments Protest Leni-
ency to Former Banker
hv District AttorneV.
DENIES SPYING ON ROBIN

When Justice Gon's Supreme Court
grand jury comes in tomorrow 1t will
investigate the conduct of William j..
Wright. acting Commissioner of Cor
rections and friend Of Charles II. Hyde,
who was quoted i'm morning paper
yesterday as declaring that he knew
Hyde was not guilty Of bribery be-
cause he had obtained enough evidence
through his TRUSTEES" i'm the TOmbs to
effect a reversal of the verdict. Con-
versations between Joseph q. Robin,
chief witness against Hyde, and his
basis of the evidence. it was said.
Justice Goff, before whom Hyde was
tried, had a conference with District
Attorney Whitman yesterday, after
which subpGnas were issued on the
grand jurors to sit tomorrow instead
Of next Monday. The Jurors first busi-
ness will be the consideration of mat
ters pertaining to crime in the territory
of the county of The Bronx. After
leaving the conference Justice Goff
was asked to comment on Commits
sioner Wright's statements.
Il cannot talk now" he said. Il will
have something to say later
When the District Attorney was
asked about the imprisonment de
luxe of Hyde. he replied it was much
more serious matter if a jailkeeper had
evidence Of the innocence of a prisoner
and failed to turn it over TO prosecut-
ing officials.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
JOHN D." NOT MOVING
Stars and Stripes Good Enough for
Him He SAYS.

John ID. Rockefeller said last night in
Tarrytown there was no truth In the
report he intended to go to England to
live. He added he had never coptem-
plated buying an estate in England.
THE good old Stars and Stripes are
good enough for me-" said Mr.. Rocke-
feller.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
TURKS TAKE TO DRINK
American Cocktails, Under
Strange Name, Popular.

Constantinople, Dec. while the
Balkan map drawing proceeds at
Tchataldja and the cholera horrors
multiply at San Stefano, the tempera-
mental barometer OF Constantinople
rises higher and higher. A great LOAD
appears to have been lifted from the
hearts of the people.
Everybody appears to be drinking
stimulants of some kind. Strangely
enough, the most popular drink at the
hotelslis the American cocktail but IL
Is called by dozen different names.
such as Bulgarian sniper." Greek
evzoneria," "Servian plum whiskey
and "Montenegrn hot"
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03

Unsurps ssed Storage Eggs-32c. Ooz.
As sound and sweet now as the day
gathered and placed In warehouses; Guar
spteed by Acker, Merrall & Condit Co.
Advt.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03

pswey's Port Wine with Olive Oil
wonderful Flesh and Blood Builder.
II r. Dewey a. Sons Co, ,l3S Fulton St..N.f
-Adyt.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03

AGift-Audcmair Opera Glasses-pcwertui'
distinct definition, at Spencer's, Maiden "a
Adv.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03

A pony glass OF ANooSTURA BIT
TIERS before meals splendid tonic
Advt.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03

"a very smart entertainment is 'AnstoF
at the Little Theatre says the Times
-Advt.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-03
Saws Robin Wrecked Bank.

An examination of these various trans
actions OF Mr. Robin, which resulted in
Continued on second page, seventh column
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09
Aged Newsie Leaves Hoard to Church

CT. LOUIS.--Lawrence Ring, for
~ years a familiar character in the
vicinity of Third and Chestnut streets,
where he sold papers, died at the City
Hospital of apoplexy. Recently his
will was filed for probate. and after
that tales of fortunes deposited in va
rious banks were heard.
Larry" lived the life of a recluse.
His home was a single room in the
antiquated structure at North Third
street. There he came of an evening,
cooked his modest supper. smoked his
pipe and pored for hours over the
news of the world. He was believed
10 be about rs years old.
He was veteran of the civil war
and pensioner. He was on the YES
sci which was blown up at Fort Fish
er. OF this it was his greatest pride
to tell. Often he declared that Adj
miral George Dewey. the hero of Ma
Mia, had been his captain. But he
never told anyone he had bank ac-
rount.
In his will he leaves to the pastor
: Of the old cathedral on Walnut street
$50 for masses for the repose of his
soul and the rest to the church fund.
He named the Mississippi Valley
Trust Company executor. Just what
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09

old structure, which took its name
from an old English residence belong
ing to the family.
The Germantown road, when the
original house was built, was nothing
but a winding woodland path, and an
Indian trail diverging from it passed
where now stands the conservatory
on the Walnut lane side of the house.
So much did the early settlers respect
this Indian right of way that it was
temporarily arched over in the en-
largement of the building, and so re-
NAMED until long after Germantown
avenue was opened.
Apart from its historic significance,
this fine old haphazard bit of progress
sive building, between the dates OF
whose earlier and later portions runs
the span of more than two centuries,
is a favorite object for the artists
brush to capture for portrayal on
canvas.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09
Opium Under Ban in China.

An imperial edict has put opium
under the ban in China, beginning with
the Chinese New Year, February IL,
1912. Any person who manufactures
opium or opium-smoking instruments, or
who engages in the traffic in any way
is liable to fine or imprisonment. The
opium smoker is liable to maximum
penalty of $423. 1t is even a crime
to plant poppy for the manufacture of
opium or to keep opium smoking in
struments, says Pacific Drug Review.
Imports of opium to Northern China
were only about one-fourth as large in
1910 as in 1909, and the native-grown
drug has almost disappeared from the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09

II ANSAS CITY, Kan.-There is in
n this city a woman, still young,
whose ambition was born when she
was an unsophisticated country girl
of 13, who did not know what failure
meant, and who came to the city and
made a fortune in open competition
with shrewd financiers and daring
spectators.
Annie ]. Scott, a penniless orphan,
was sent to farm in Lafayette coun-
", Mo-, when she was years old, as
nursemaid and "help." The success
OF neighbors child melted her to
study and save money, so that she
might attend the Warrensburg Nor
NAL school. She MIXED cows, sold
butter and saved $50. Then she went
20 Warrensburg and worked her way
in three years through the normal
school, graduating in 1894.
Her first ambition was to become a
missionary. but she became i'll and
was cared for at the German Hospital
in Kansas City. There she deter
mined to be a doctor, and in 1897 en-
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09
Find Petrified Daddy of All Lobsters

water. receding in the course of ages,
left the lobster stranded and he got
petrifed. Similar but much more
modern phenomena are not UNI
known here. Harvard and Tech"
students are sometimes left strinded
after buying many Holsters of a night.
but they do not get petrihet, OF
course.
Millions OF years after this particu-
lar lobster passed away the sporty
young men of the stone age cracked
it's descendants with their flint hatch
cts and treated the stony show girls
of that period. Indeed, some geolog-
lists claim that the term lobster" as
applied TO sporty young men who do
that sort of thing has descended from
the stone age; they have been doing
so ever since.
The petrified oyster is much more
ancient than any ever found in a
church stew 1t also lived and breath
ed and had it's troubles and joys So
000, 900 years ago. Prof. Sinner found
it atop the Jura mountains in north
Switzerland. How it got there only
biologists can tell you; perhaps oys-
ters carried alpenstocks in those
days.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09
Racers Eye a Historic Old Mansion

ID PHILADELPHIA the re-
Il cent death of Miss Jane r. Haines,
after lifetime spent within it's ram
bling, tradition-haunted halls, Wyck.
the ancestral Haines mansion, at Ger
mantown avenue and Walnut lane, is
threatened with possible destruction,
should the historic ground on which
IT stands be sold.
Under it's weather-beaten caves re-
pose perhaps, more sturdy mementos
OF Philadelphia's history than in any
other private manse of the many for
which the city is famous. Flooring
upon which the blood of British and
American soldiers mingled during the
battle of Germantown, is stored for
keepsake in its cobwebbed old attic.
The chair in which Lafayette sat
when he visited Germantown in 1924,
and when he was given reception at
Wyck, is still to be found in the midst
of the silent quaintness of the now
untenanted old homestead.
The nucleus for the old structure
was first built in 1898, by one Dirck
Jansen, whose daughter married one
Caspar Wistar; through the marriage
of Wistar's daughter to Reuben
Haines in 1860. and by subsequent In
heritance through direct kinship,
Miss Haines came into possession OF
the long, white. notwithstanding
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09

imports at large centers of population.
Efforts TO smuggle in the drug have
been very numerous. but they are not
very successful, as the customs officials
have been very watchful and baggage
of incoming persons is carefully exam-
med Every opium smoker has been
obliged to take out a license and regis
ter his name with the Opium Prohibit
tion Office, telling how much of the
drug he is accustomed to using. If he
exceeds the limit, both he and the dealer
are fined.
To make up for the falling Off in
Chinese exports, due to the lesser
amount of opium shipped out from
some provinces of China, other agri-
cultural products than the poppy are
being cultivated quite extensively.
There is but little opium exported at
present from the principal seaports, but
it will not be long before something
else will make up for the temporary
loss in Chinese revenues. In some
provinces the exports of beans have
doubled within the last year or two
while shipments of grass cloth have
lately shown large increase.