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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
RELIEF WORK COSTS MORE
Advance in Prices Increases
Difficulty of Aiding Poor.

The cost OF living IL being felt by chart
table organizations as well as I'm the
homes of the poor. according 10 the sixty
ninth annual report OF the New York AS
ISOLATION for Improving the Condition OF
the Poor. which was made public yester-
day. The association, however, has come
closer to its ideal OF giving adequate relief
this year than ever before. These are the
reasons why II has spent considerably
more in the last year than in 1911. al
though caring for about the same number
of families The necessities OF life given
TO the poor cost t130.929 or $4,000 more
than was contributed by the public for the
associations general relief work. This in
cudes an increase Of $4,000 for milk and
s22, 900 for other provisions.
During the year 67,762 dependent per-
sons were aided directly through the relief
and fresh air departments. Besides these
the association entertained 1000 mothers
end children at it's seashore home for a
days outing paid half the cost of the joint
application bureau. which helped about
2 1000 persons. kept M the Milbank Memo
rial Bath (used by 1885, 400 bathers), and
it's nurses and visitors made $1,000 visits
in the homes Of the poor. II provided sew
ing for i35 women and employment was
obtained for 366 other persons. TO sup
port it's work the association received
from contributors s212sSi. The expenses
for the year amounted TO s3G0,l2l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
DEATH MYSTERY IN BRONX
Recluse Found in Cesspool May
Nav Have Been Murdered.

Circumstances Leading to the death Of
an Italian recluse. whose body was found
yesterday morning at the bottom of an
unused cesspooI in a vacant lot on Sher-
man avenue, near 10th street. The Bronx
are being investigated by the police
The man. who was about fifty years
old. made his home III the hrebOX Of an
unused steam boiler IN a cleared tract Of
land on the west side Of the avenue. old
and torn blankets, wearing apparel and
a mirror were found in the place. There
were blood stains around the door of the
firebox and on top of the boiler. The top
of a nearby fence was also blood spat-
tered. A trail of blood led across the
road. through the lot and 20 the cesspool'
about fifty feet away. 1t is the police
theory that the blood was the result Of
hcmorrhage.
1t was hard. however, for the neighbors
to understand how the blood could have
been spattered so high on the fence, as
well as on the front and top OF the boiler,
when the man was only feet inches
high. The left side of the mans head
was crushed in, and in the middle OF the
forehead was a deep cash, as though
made by blunt instrument. No blood
stains were on the hands. nor Were the
clothes soiled from blood
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
DAWES BLAMES GOVERNMENT
Dix Representative Discusses Problem
of Alien Insane.

Or. Spencer Lyman Dawes, OF Albany,
appointed by Governor Dix TO report to
the next Legislature on the problem OF
the alien insane. told the Society OF Medi-
cal Jurisprudence last night that the
steamship companies and the federal gov
erument were responsible for the alarm
ing growth OF insanity in this country.
The steamship companies. he maintained,
advertise the glowing possibilities OF life
I'm the United States to the poorest classes
OF Southern Europe The result. DR..
Dawes says. is that the steamship lines
make all kinds OF money bringing immi-
grants here.
DIR. Dawes said If all the foreign born
insane I'm New York hospitals live out
the allotted eleven years OF expected life
they will have cost the state approximate,
~ 100000. Since the establishment OF
the state Bureau OF Deportation. In 1903,
New York has saved s,03,92) although 1t
furnishes "A nurse to accompany the allen
insane patient back home, pays for his
transportation and puts sum OF money
i'm his pocket when he gets home.
IAN the federal government has to do
when II wants To deport an allen patient
IL to tell the steamship line that II wants
the patient returned TO his home. wher-
ever that may be-" said DR.. Dawes
"The government collects a head tax OF
s, on each immigrant and spends only a
small percentage Of II to detect the In
sane aliens at Ellis Island"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
BANKER OWES S3,175,OOO
Rudolph Kleybolte's Assets
Given as S123,693.

Schedules in bankruptcy Of RudoIph
kleyboltc. banker. formerly Of No flhe
street. filed In the United states District
Court Yesterday. show liabilities OF 81
t-54 sg OF which ;Jlss63 Is secured. and
assets OF 81. $40. consisting Of debts due
him.
Among the secured creditors arc Will
lam Bradford $1,000. which debt has
been assigned 10 Geo. \. Fcrnald & Co.
OF Boston. aud pledged a. collateral with
tho First National Bank Of Boston; Mas
sau Trust Company OF Brooklyn. $4,000
wilkes Barre e. Hazleton Railroad Com
pany. So. 800: Ohio Savings Bank & Trust
COMPANY Toledo. 81 CO: National Bank
OF North America. $500, American EX-
change National Bank. 81 ~; Fourth
National Bank Of Cincinnati. s29.lo0; y. j.
Catrow. Mianisburg. Ohio. S5."o. ana
John and Albin Markle. Hazleton, PENN
N201j
Among the unsecured creditors are: The
Carnegie Trust Company, 'l65ls; II. p.
Hollins & Co. sl.O72. $50: the Trust Com
pany of America. il37.s2j; the United
states Mortgage and Trust Company.
sl3a8lO Detroit Toledo & Ironton Rail-
way Company. $685.: the Western Ger
man Bank Of Cincinnati. $4,000; Boomer
Coal and Coke Company. Cleveland. Ohio.
s64. 3O: Godklr & Chadbourne. $3.50; ths
Fidelity Funding Company $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
ROSE BY SAD SEA WAVES
Comfortably Housed with Wife,
He Is Pushing" Pen.

Within hearing distance of the roll Of
the breakers from the Atlantic Ocean.
jack Rose is comfortably housed with
his wife and children in two story cot
tagc in Clarence avenue. Arverne,
grinding" out the last chapter Of his
book dealing with the underworld. lie
also is preparing a serial story for a
newspaper
with the whereabouts OF Rose and
Bridge" Weber known, there are only
two OF the informers In the Rosenthal
affair who have thus far succeeded I'm
Keeping their abiding places secret. The
District Attorney however, knows where
the homes OF these men are. and weekly
reports are made TO him By Sam
Schcpps and Harry WALTON.
No such fears as possessed Bridge"
Weber have been evident In the case OF
Rose. lie roams about Arverne and this
city freely when not tied down by his
literary work He believes no gang or
any member Of these organizations would
dare repeat the "doings" that resulted In
the death Of the former gambler The
trials. he says, have taught the gangmen
that the day Of assassinations for VEN
geance are over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
GIRL LEAPS TO DEATH
Worker in Cloak Factory
WearieS of Life's Struggle.
FIVE YEARS SHE T0ILED
Then, When Discharge Comes,
Fanny Blum Climbs to
Roof and Drops.

one OF the soldiers in the army OF in
dustry killed herself yesterday when she
found she was beaten in the struggle Tor
existence. For five years she had been
sitting day after day at sewing machine
hurrying, forcing her work, day in and
day out. in order to keep bread in her
mouth. And the only good the bread did
was to give her strength for another day
at the treadle. That was all she got out
Of life, she told her landlady.
So. when she found she was about 10 be
discharged, she decided to kill herself.
She was tired, and life held nothing for
her. She got up early. walked a few
blocks to an open door, and then climbed
six stories TO the top Of tenement house.
Two men saw her body come down dou-
bed up like a bundle Of rags. And then
she was crushed on the sidewalk Nobody
knew who she was, and the only clew 10
her identity was furnished just as she
lay dying on the operating table i'm the
Metropolitan Hospital. Blackwell's Island.
She whispered family to Or. Cromley,
Fanny Blum"
Detectives learned last night that she
had lived for three weeks In furnished
room at No. 1905 Madison avenue. The
lsndlady. Mrs. Samuel Scheimann. repeat
ed what Fanny Blum" had told her
This was il:
I'm going to lose my jon. They cay
they don't need so many girls down in
the cloak factory in Spring street. And I
can't do anything else. I've been an
operator ever since I was twelve years
old. And | can't live on smaller wages.
If do get fired I'll kill myself. / can't
stand starving myself any more. It's
too hard Oh, it's flerce."
Mrs. Scheiman went up 10 Nanny
Blum's room yesterday morning, as
usual TO wake her at o'clock but the
girl said she would not get up. She had
lost her job and had no place TO 20. She
gave the landlady a letter 10 mail. saying
IL was for her aunt.
Two hours later an ambulance took her
away from the spot where she lay dying
in front OF No. rs East 10Th street. She
was only seventeen years old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
AFTER TOBACCO CONSUMER
Jobber Testifies That Duke Told
Him to Raise Prices.

A. II. Hilman, tobacco jobber. testi-
fed. yesterday in the suit Of j. f. Locker
& Co. against the American Tobacco Com
pany that James p. Duke in discussing
with him tobacco prices at the time the
Metropolitan Tobacco CompanM was
formed said that prices must go up.
When he demonstrated that the jobbers
could not stand increased prices Mr.. Duke.
according to The witness. said
"Raise your price to the retail trade
and wake IL up. Let the retailer raise his
price TO the consumer. It's the consumer
] am after If the retailers won't raise
their prices wen establish retail stores Of
our own"
This was thirteen or fourteen years ago.
Mr. Hillman said. short time later the
United Cigar stores Company was formed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
PRIZES FOR BOY SPEAKERS
Interscholastic Contests at CO.
lumbia on January 9.

Announcement was made yesterday OF
a state wide interschoastic speaking con-
test al Columbia University on January
o. 1918. Every schoolboy In the state Is
eligible 20 compete. but before being en-
titled 10 come TO New York at the ex-
pense OF the university authorities ne
must take part in preliminary trial
speeches at Albany. Bingham,on. Buffalo
Mount Vernon. Newburg, Patchogue'
Plattsburg. Syracuse, WATERFOWL ana
White Plains. under the direction Of Col
umbia alumni
The winners OF the preliminary contests
will come to Columbia AZ guests OF the
university. which will provide for their
entertainment and their transportation TO
and from New York. Cash prizes OF 49,
$50 and SIS will be awarded. and each
final contestant will receive cemmem-
oratlve medal. Last year Dennis Shana-
han. OF syracuse. won the first prize, ana
sydney Pfeifrer. OF Buffalo. the second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
OFFICER SHOT IN ACCIDENT
Retired Naval Lieutenant Killed
Cleaning Pistol.

Lieutenant Richard II. Townley. L. s.
~ (retired), superintendent Of the Lincoln
Hospital since 1909, was killed early yes.
terday morning when an old army re.
volver he was cleaning was accidentally
discharged. The bullet entered his heart
Coroner Healy, who investigated the case.
said he was satisfied that Lieutenant
Townley's death was due to an accident
Lieutenant Townley was a native of
Winchester, Ohio, where he was born IN
1855. He was graduated from Annapolis
in 1874 and for seventeen years served In
the navy He retired on account Of in.
juries he had received in the service. He
re-entered the navy at the outbreak OF
the Spanish American War. but retired IN
1902. For a time he had been superin.
tendent Of the j. Hood Wright Hospital
He leaves a wife and one married dsugh.
tap
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
APPLAUDS YOUNG SOPRANO
Audience at Miss Easley's Con-
cert Shows Approval.

Miss Donna Easley. young soprano
the possessor of\a voice of considerable
natural beauty. if'or no great power gave
a song recital in Aoolian Hall yesterday
afternoon before large audience that
showed It's approval In warm applause.
Miss Easley showed skill In ford song.
though once or twice her intonation was
not above suspicion, and her upper notes
we're unusually sweet and pure. On her
programme were numbers by Mozart,
Bellini and Donizetti Her skill was more
evident in Bellini than In Mozart There
were also songs by Beethoven. Mandl,
Greco and group by American COM
posers, all OF which she gave with taste.
II not with any consummate skill OF In
terpretative power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
NEW DESIGN FOR 59TH
STREET PLAZA READY
Park Board Architects Plans
Call for Imposing Detail
of City Planning.
ASPHALT AREA REDUCED
Pedestrians to Have More Room
Pulitzer Fountain To Be
Placed Opposite Van
derbilt Home

Plans calling for radical changes I'm the
present design of the 59th street plaza
have been completed By Charles Downing
Lay. landscape architect of the PARK
BOARD, and submitted to Park Commits
sioner Slower. Mr.. Lay said yesterday:
I'm accordance with the request CT
Park Commissioner Slower and Alderman
Ralph Folks, ] began a study OF the
plaza more than a year ago. My OBJECT
has been to make IL more imposing, more
perfect as a detail of city planning ana
adornment. and at the same time TO make
II safer and more convenient FOR pedes-
TRANS. Several things OF Importance nave
happened since | made my first studies
so that the plan has been several times
redrawn In order that il might tit the
new conditions more perfectly
In explaining the important things mat
delayed the completion of the plans MT
Lay mentioned the bequest of 5000 ieit
by Joseph Pulitzer for fountain 10 De
built on the plaza. Among other Things
which later had to be considered were
the preliminary plans for the o9th street
subway, which will have entrances on the
plaza. Last winter the Fifth Avenue
Commission. appointed by the Borough
President. recommended that the land
scape architect be asked TO prepare new
designs for the plaza.
The new plans prepared by Mr.. Lay
call for the shifting OF the Sherman mon
ument TO a point about thirty fcet iur-
Their south The proposed Pulitzer foun-
tain. Mr.. Law saws. should be placed III
the plot at the extreme southern por-
ton Of the plaza. which II just across
5sth street from the Vanderbilt mansion.
"In considering tho new plan. SAID
Mr.. Law. 1T must be remembered that
the conditions have changed since the
plaza was built. following q plan which
shows an elaborate Scholars Gate NJ
that time all the traffic was horse drawn
and the park entrance was the northern
limit OF pedestrian travel Now most oil
the vehicles are automobiles and the pc
destrians go in numbers I'm al directions.
IT is desirable. therefore, 10 give better
sidewalk connections. The area OF as
phalt Is much reduced in the new plans
and consequently the area saved Tor
lawns. trees and walks is much increased.
In the new plans traffic lines have been
carefully studied II is proposed 70 have
vehicles leaving the park go to sth
street before turning east or south. We
hicles entering the park from the south
Will 20 70 eOth street before turning in.
think the simplicity of this design is
in its favor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
MORE THOROUGH ABROAD
Examinations of Emigrants De-
scribed at Hearing.

Emil Lederer, third class traffic man
ager Of the Hamburg American Line. said
yesterday afternoon at a hearing Of the
New York State Hospital Commission that
the medical examinations undergone at
the control stations on the Russian-Ger-
man frontier by emigrants TO the United
States were more severe than those 10
which they were subjected at Ellis ISL
and
Passengers enter these stations rom
the Russian side" he declared, where
they are registered After they have
bathed and had their baggage disnfected
they are sent to the clean side or the
building. where a doctor assumes charge
of them The passengers are examined
for physical and mental defects l con-
slider the physicians there competent to
pick out those who are insane-tn fact'
they are as good as any alienists in the
United States"
Mr.. Lederer said he thought the small
number of deported insane who had come
on his line was proof of the thoroughness
of the system of examination.
Charles II. Phelps. one Of the agents
for the Austrian-American Line. sara
that i'm the last six months. since the
steamship lines made an agreement with
DR.. Campbell. the medical examiner OF
the State Hospital Commission. to deport
insane aliens upon a written order, his
line had carried back at least one nun
dred persons who had come here on its
vessels.
The hearing was conducted before DR..
Spencer l.. Dawes. the special commits
sioner on alien insane. by Lewis r. Par
ker. 1t will be resumed at 10 o'clock this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
POLICE CAPTAINS TESTIFY
Walsh Reserves Decision in the
Case of Patrolman Sicily.

Two police captains and three lieuten-
ants were on trial yesterday at Head
quarters before John j. Walsh. Third
Deputy Commissioner the charges nav
ing TO do with the assignment Of Patrol
man John j. Skeily, of the West lOoth
street station. to different squads last Oc-
tober. In violation OF department rules.
TEc defence of the first captain TO be
called, Patrick Corcoran, now of the
harbor squad, was that he had made the
assignments with the approval OF In
spector Dwyer the complaining witness.
INSPECTOR Dwyer denied this; and while
he admitted the station blotter showed
skelly's various assignments, he said no
had failed to find them when he visited
the station.
CAPTAIN Zimmerman. Corcoran's prede-
cessor, on whose advice he said. he had
continued Skelly In his plainclothes as
sigiments, was then called to the stand
I'm his own defence on similar charges,
and also for having failed 70 enter Skel-
ly's assignment on the blotter on certain
dates He said he had made the assign
merits from squad 10 squad In the belief
that he had the right TO do this. He at
trlbuted the missing entries to some lieu
tenants oversight. he himself not having
time to examine every word
This led to the calling of the three
lieutenants In their own defence. TIE
first was Lieutenant Mason. who said II
the entries were omitted IL was because
they were not put on the slate by the
captain. Here the Deputy Commissioner
halted the trials. saying II this were true
- - 10 l. I..At a
against the lieutcnants. He reserved de-
clslon on all the cases.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
CALLS TIME ON PARKHURST
Mayor Attacks Clergyman in
Noisy Clock" Coincidence.

In answering complaint about the
striking of the clock in the Metropolitan
Building tower, Mayor Gaynor yester-
day took occasion 10 strike at DR.. Park
hurst again. To Frank l.. Davis. who has
an office in the Flatiron Building, the
Mayor wrote:
You complain TO me OF the clock on the
Metropolitan Building. You want me 10
stop it, You say il strikes four times on
the quarter. eight times on the half,
twelve times on the three-quarter and
sixteen times on the hour making forty
times every hour, or 2l0 from & a. III. 10
~ noon every day. ! am sorry for you.
noise as Or. Parkhurst does? You know.
we all have to bear with something, and
am willing to do my share of II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
MAYOR OPENS EXHIBITION
Learns for First Time Scandi-
navian Art Exists.

While fair daughters of the Northland
stilled their whispers in their native
tongues and tall Norwegians. Swedes and
Danes pressed closer to catch the sound
of his voice Mayor Gaynor opened the
first exhibition of Scandinavian art in
this city AT the American Art Galleries
2Sd street and Broadway, last night. The
Mayor spoke from the steps at the far-
Their end of the main hall In the galleries.
where the work of the Swedish painters
was hung. and in the name of his soyer-
eign. King Gustavus V, w. A. f. Eken-
gren. Swedish Minister to the United
States. thanked him for the welcome
which he gave.
Il had known something Of the litera-
tire of Scandinavia" said the Mayor;
of your fine dramas. plays and poetry
and | knew that you had among you
great discoveries, scientists and people Of
-sinew and intelligence. But ! learn TO-
night for the first time that you are also
great in the art OF painting.
you are here In sufficient numbers Tor
US TO know much about you, to kno"
something of your history and OF your
race. But before this we have had n'tle
opportunity TO judge Of your art Where
do all these paintings come from? Were
they painted here? Obviously they We're
not or we should have seen them in the
making. They come to us from your
countries as a loan exhibition and as
Mayor of this city II gives me great
pleasure TO welcome you. OF course TINS
evening, but above all to welcome TINS
excellent exhibition of your art
After the Swedish Singing Society had
rendered its Song to the King the
MAYORS party proceeded to the Danlsh
room. where amid the soft tints OF the
Danish artists Chamberlain G. Brun,
Minister from Denmark, expressed the
hope that the exhibition was but tore-
runner 81 many OF a similar nature. AS
the strains of Der er ct Yndigt Land
the Danish national hymn. died away
the party adjourned TO the room deVo'ou
TO Norwegian painting. Here KING
Haakon WIS minister, II. Bryn, held
the floor.
Scandinavia IL often represented by
three fair girls" he said. Two nave al
ready been here and presented their
homage TO YOU. Mr.. Mayor. Now comes
tho Youngest with her thanks 20 you. You
49, nov, IN choose between these three
young girls" 81,
Whatever choice the Mayor voiced u
any. he automatically allowed 10 DC
drowned by the Norwegian singing so
ciety with their Sons OF Norway Johh
A. Gade. president of the American scan
dlnavian Society. under whose auspices
tho exhibition is held, presided at the
exercises
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
COURT "SWATS" A SAMARITAN
Man Who Took Boy Into Movies Is
Rewarded by $40 Fine.

Joseph Pendegrast, twenty-eight years
old Of No 3ls East 34th street, was fined
$40 by Magistrate Murphy in the Essex
Market police court yesterday afternoon
for taking a boy, of whom he was no,
guardian, into a motion picture theatre
without the permission Of the lads
parents.
Pendegrast testified that he was about
TO enter the theatre at No 4i5 Third ave-
nue. when the boy, whose identity was
not learned. said Mister. please take
me into the theatre. want TO see the
movies
Detective Crimmons, Of the Central
Office squad, who had watched Pende-
grast and the lad, and who had heard the
Youngsters request. arrested Pendegrast.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-10
BABIES WELFARE MEETING.

The first annual meeting of the Babies
Welfare Association will be held Thurs
day at $3.50 y. m. In the Hall of the
Academy OF Medicine, No. II West i5d
street The purpose Of the meeting is TO
make permanent the organization which
during the summer has been maintaining
a clearing house OF cooperation among
the various organizations of rrte city en-
gagged I'm the work of saving baby lives