Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-09
ROOSEVELT PLANNED
 THE GRAFT PROBE Prominent Society Woman Employed Burns and Call
 cd the Colonel In. GAVE $20o,ooo FUND
Giving Valuable Aid to District AttOr- ney Whitman In His Prosecution
 of ROSenthaI SlayerS.

New York. Aug. S.-A public-sprit- ed women Mrs. William Jay Schieff- elin, society leader and granddaugh- ter of the late William II. Wander bilt, paved the way for the graft eX- posurcs which have followed in the wake of the Rosenthal murder.
 Unostentatiously engaged in the work of civic betterment her wont anly nature and her civic pride along were outraged by the facts which came into her possession. She in- spred her husband, chairman of the Citizens Union, and a well known re- former himself, to take up the work of reform. At her suggestion and from funds which she and her hus- band supplied, William ]. Burns was engaged to make a general investi- gation of the city department
 At a conference held al the Scnieff-
 cline mansion, No. ) East Fifty-sixth street, d complete plan of campaign
 was mapped out and one of the parti- cipants in this conference was Col onel Theodore Roosevelt. The entire situation was gone over and Burns was given carte blanche 70 go ahead
 along what lines he might deem hest,
 the fund of $200,000 being provided
 to carry on the work.
 ] This was last November. In the 1 time that intervened between the con- ference and the filing of Herman
 Rosenthal's charges against Lieuten-
 ant Becker with District Attorney Whitman, Burns men were after the
 grafters in half dozen directions
 with the result that when the storm broke MT. and Mrs. Schieffeln through
 Burns had clean road over the po- lice, the District Attorney and every other agency that has been active in bringing the facts as to police protec- tion and graft to light
 Many of these facts have been brought to bear in aiding Mir. Whit man in his investigation. More are being handed to him constantly. It was i'll consequence of the movement started by Mrs. Schieffelin that revel- ations as to Burns success in catch ing police grafters through an alleged disofderly house were brought out. Burns is constantly reporting to Mir. Schieffelin, who in turn is laying the hofo T: ney.
 A select committee of wealthy men had been organized, whose names have been kept secret who have been contributing the funds with which to keep Burns going. MT. Schieffelin is the treasurer of this fund. Before the work is at an end not only wifi the graft situated in the police de- partment be fully exposed, but start ling facts as to grating in the other city departments will have been brought out and the way will have been paved for thorough and gen- eral civic housekeeping.
 After it all has been done it will be owing to the incentive of woman Mrs. Schieffelin-that the enormous task has been carried through. These facts as to the starting point of the present uprising against a corrupt city government came into the direc- tion of the International News Ser vice today from an absolutely reliable source. The narrative shows that nor only Mrs. Schieffelin set to work. bu, deals with the activity of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, in the case and the part he has played in bringing the situation to the present interesting