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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
THREE LEAP FOR LIFE
IN SCHOOL FIRE PANIC
Firemen on Ladders Rescue 20
Persons Trapped on Upper
Floor in West Orange.
WERE ATTENDING LECTURE
Escape Cut Off, Woman and
Two Men Jump from Win
dows-Building Is
Destroyed.

West Orange. y. j.. Feb. 27.-Two
hundred persons attending a lecture on
tuberculosis in the West Orange High
School became panicstrcken this even
ing when fire was discovered on the
first floor Of the building The lecture
was in the auditorium on the third
floor, and in the rush To get out three
persons leaped from the windows. while
score were carried down ladders. On
the stairs several persons were trs mpled
upon and injured
SO far as is known no one was
killed. and the police say noie is miss
ine.
All those who jumped from the win
doWs were injured. but none is ex-
pected to die. Despite the efforts of
the fremen. the building was destroyed.
The loss is said 10 he Al least s75, 900.
The building in CASTOR street
All this week there have been moving
picture shows in the auditorium, but
tonight there was tuberculosis ex-
hibit. under the auspices of the State
Board Of Health and the Anti-Tuber-
oulosis League Of this place. No NOV
ing picture apparatus was used.
The lecture had been in progress
about fifteen minutes. when those in
the back Of the auditorium smeled
smoke. Some made an investigation,
and found the lower part of the place
ablaze and filed with smoke Some
one yelled Fire" and the panic en-
sued Men and women jumped from
their seats and rushed for the stairs.
When the fremen arrived ladders
were run up and twenty persons were
carried 10 the street. The firemen
could find no others In the place and
believed every one was out Of the build
ing.
The flames spread with great rapidity
and within an hour the building was in
ruins. An investigation will be made
as to the cause Of the fire, but ii is be-
Iieved to have been started by de-
fectiVe fiue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
BLEASE PAROLE TOO LATE
Negro Beneficiary Had Already
Escaped Chain Gang.

Columbia. $. G., Feb. 2I.-When the
Rev. Or. j. \. Sigh Of Lexingto ton
County, went TO Newberry, the home
county of Governor Blease, and en-
hibited parole from the Governor for
Wesley Lephardt, a negro whom he de-
sired TO take back To his home, the
supervisor had 10 tell Dr. Sigh that the
negro had escaped from the chain gang
three weeks ago.
Lephardt was convicted last Novem-
Der of stealing bale of cotton from Dr.
Sigh and was sentenced TO the chain
gang for six months. The Governor
issued parole Yesterday not knowing
the prisoner had already paroled him
self
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
Gives List of Objections, While
Interborougt and City Plan
to Have . .lficate Issued
to Lessee, Instead of
Manhattan.
MANENY PROMISES INQUIRY
Will Investigate Property Rights of
Elevated Lines, Verify Titles,
Etc.-Rockefeller Attitude
May Cause Fight for Con-
troll Of Directorate.

Theodore p. Shonts, president OF the
interDorough Rapid Transit Company.
fatiy asserted last night that m at
tempt had been made TO hold I'D his
corporation TO buy the Gould hoidin-s
of the Manhattan Railway stock. This
has been matter of general report.
At the meeting Of the Board Of ESfi-
mate yesterday. when Borough Presi-
dent McAneny suggested it might be in
order TO have some public authority in
vestigate the entire transaction. MAJOR
Gaynor remarked that possibly the
grand jury might take cognizance of IT.
In his statement Mr.. Shonts said the
only objection he had ever heard to t~e
third tracking certificate for the ole
waited lines-a part Of the general dUai
transit plap-prior 10 list of objec-
tons made public by George J. GouLi
in the afternoon was that there WIS
nothing in it tor the Gould estate
An offer TO sell the stock at Sl15 as
made, with the suggestion that II the
sale were made. first. that the present
directorate of the board would inme-
dately adopt the certificate and. sec
ond, that the control would be tunnel
over to the Interborough. and they
could have the directors pass ans reso-
luton they desired.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
Explains How Public Is Misled
and Accuses Committee of
Seeking to Piece Out
Theory of Credit" in
It's Investigation.
PANIC TALE "ABHORRENT'
Not a Vestige of Truth" That
Financial Convulsion of 1907 Was
Forced-Marketing of Securi-
ties Outlined and Private
Banks Defended

Washington. Feb. 27.-Blame for
financial evils Of the day. as seen by
J. p. Morgan & Co. was defined to-day
in a letter or brief filed by the bankers
With the Pujo committee. which in
vestigated the so-called money trust ="
The present banking and currency
laws are held responsible in the brief
FOR any concentration of money or
credit, and the natural law Of supply
and demand ia cited for New Yorks
pYedominance in the country's COM
merce.
That part Of the money trust" reso-
luton declaring that 1t is generally
believed" that groups of fnanciers
create. avert and compose panics"
vas particularly attacked by the letter
Morgan & Co. set forth that any with
in any market would be promptly
'elieved by the automatic flow Of credit
from some altogether foreign source
Arsene P. Pujo. chairman Of the com
mittee. said the Morgan brief came too
ate for consideration in making the
'eport TO Congress. The invitation to
the bankers. he said. 10 file additional
memoranda testimony of members Of
he Arm had been extended on January
p. but no reply was received until to-
iay.
Denies Need for Investigation.
The Morgan brief a its beginning de-
7uiry. saying:
At the outset we suggest that, in the
main. the conditions described in the
preamble and resolution. Is possibly ex-
sting and as calling for investigation
and remedy. do not and can not exist
n this or In any other country. We
would suggest further with the utmost
respect, THAI a large part Of the val
uable time of your committee. in our
belief. has been consumed in an en-
1eavor TO piece out certain theory as
20 money and credit, which theory it
vin be Impossible ever 10 demonstrate;
for It's establishment is, and always
viii be. prevented by economic laws
uanich have operated ever since the be-
rinning of barter and trade.
I'VE suessst to you that such ills
and they are neither few nor trifing-
% ars existent in this oountry's hnan-
olsI affairs are the outcome OF .
eIursy and outworn banking system
rsthsr than Of tho schemes Of men;
and that to eradicate such ills at their
,ouros thsrs 10 needed not legislation
upon some ono or moro isolated synnp-
toms. but rather q careful diagnosis Of
our whole banking system; a study OF
tho sueesssfuI systems Of other coun.
trlss which for decades have been free
from the periodic panies which have
Continued on fourth page. second column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
LOSES HAND FOR SCIENCE
Early Experimentation Aftlicts
X.Ray Pioneer.

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 2I.-Dr. j. \.
Scott. a pioneer in the introduction of
the X-ray into America, parted with
his right hand to-day as "A result or his
early experiments. The hand was af-
fectcd by exposul to the rays, and was
amputated above the wrist.
Physicians say that nine of the pio-
neers in X-ray work have died from the
effects OF the carly stages OF expert
mentation.
Now I'm all right. fancy" said Or.
Scott to-day after the operation. Ger
tainly / shall continue to operate the
ray, or at least to direct its use. Since
we have learned TO use 1t there is only
small danger in its use
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
WOULD DISBAR UNTERMYER
Proceedings To Be Started
Against Guggenheim Counsel.

Chicago. Feb. &.-As result Of the
GlEgenheim divorce scandal, the states
attorney will bring ,disbarment proceed
incs against Samuel Untermyer and Louis
Werner. New York. Eli Il. felscntliai.
Jacob Newman. Chester T. Cleveland and
Salmon I,evinson All the attorneys ex
cent Werner acted FOR William Guggen-
helm.
This action follows Mrs Grace Brown
Guggenheim's confession that she OBJ
tained n decree OF divorce by fraud on
March 20, 1901 Last Monday Judge o.
T.. Heard refused to cXpunec the decree
from the rccords.
bill of review of the decree Will he
filed i'm the Circuit Court by the states
attorney Tho disbarment proceedings
will lie started next week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
BRITISH TRIBUTE TO TAFT
Stands Higher Now than When
Defeated Last November.

London Feb 2S-"The Times" dis
cussing Mr.. Tafts administration,
saws editorially:
President Taft's candidaturc leaves
him with a sense Of defeat. but he has
borne adversely with such admirable
temper that he now stands higher IN
the regard of a generous people than
he did last November.
1T will be found that the course OF
events under the Taft administration
has made reform easier for Mr.. Tafts
successor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
CENTENARIAN BRIDE DEAD
Mrs. Leon, Welded at 105,
Lives Only Five DAYS.

Los Angeles. Feb. 2I.-Happiness and
excitement killed Marcellina Leon. said
to he 1Oj years old, after she had
shown strength OF mind and body suf-
ficient to win her way and obtain the
consent of tho courts to marry the
man who for fifty years had been her
sweetheart She is dead at her home
to-day after being bride for only five
days.
Relatives opposed the woman's mar
riagc to Plcasantino Leon, eighty-two
years old She fought them in the
courts, obtained the dismissal OF her
niece as guardian and established her
competency TO do as she chose. but
soon after her marriage she collapsed.
Try Adamson's Botanic 6aIsam for that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
TO SEE IF TURTLE SERUM
IS MENACE TO PUBLIC
Government Physician Says
u. S. Will Put Friedman
Cure to Rigid Test.
FEDERAL DOCTORS RETURN
Report of Breach Follows Sur
geon General Blues Repre-
sentatives from Wal
dorf Conference.

Excitement both varied and plentiful
was tho lot OF Or Friedrich Franz
friedman Yesterday. DR.. J. +. Ander-
SON director Of the hygienic laboratory
OF the Public Health Service. who made
special trip from Washington. pre-
sented himself at the Waldorf-Astoria
promptly at 9 o'clock as the initial step
Of the federal government in it's ef-
forts TO determine the value Of the
Berlin mans turtle germs 40 a remedy
for tuberculosis.
With Or Anderson was Milton II.
Foster a surgeon in the Marine Hos
pital at Ellis Island. The conference
with the government officials lasted an
hour. with what results could not be
learned either from the discoverer him.
self or his representatives or from DR..
Anderson or his associates.
DR.. George W Stoner. chief medical
officer at the Marine Hospital, said last
night that he had joined Drs. Anderson
and Foster i'm this city after their meet
ing with the tuberculosis cure .discoN"
crcr. but would not say what mad hap
p,ned at the meeting. II had been ru-
;nored that differences Of opinion in the
tuo camps had caused breach that
might result in the governments not
testing the turtle bacillus after all. Dr.
Anderson returned to Washington on
the Congressional Limited, at 30
orlock. without making any statement.
Great Silence Greets Reporters
Dr. Stoncr. who has been acting "a
the friedman matter for Surgeon
General Blue. said later that II was his
opinion that the treatment proposed by
the turtle germ aid not give any great
promise as cure.
lie said, however. that the govern
ment physicians had decided as mat
ter Of precaution TO look into RED
manns germs for the purpose Of de-
tcrmining not only what were their
possibilities as cure, put 10 pe SURE
that their administration would not be
a menace 10 the nations health.
The Friedman group adopted pol
lev of silence on the subject OF the
government doctors visit when the
newspaper reporters gathered in room,
1t5t for tho daily interview.
Charles de Vidal Hundt, who left his
Herlin newspaper work three weeks
ago TO become The doctors secretary,
started in at once with:
Now. gentlemen. know what YOU
want 10 know, but you will have 10 get
all your information from the other
side. I would like to tell YOU. but
cannot think may say, though he
added, that the thing is going on very
nicely and smoothly"
1T is said the officials left in dis.
gust" one reporter ventured.
Pooh. in disguise, you mean said
Continued on third page. sixth column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
Liquor Dealers Association
Said To Be Clearing House
for This Sort of
"Pr0teCtion."
II SWEENEY INDICTMENTS
Admissions Made by Harlem
Saloonkeeper Corroborate
Facts Cleaned in Walsh
Confession - Two
Civilians Accused.

Eleven separate graft indictments
were filed against Dennis Sweeney. for.
n'er police inspector, by the extraor
binary grand jury yesterday. The triple
aliianee-Fox to Walsh to Sweeney
backing up the testimony Of the graft
payer in each instance. will furnish the
evidence upon which District ATTORNEY
whitman confidently expects to convict
Sweeney in these cases.
Through a half torn. beorimed scra,
of paper which passed through tho
hands OF half dozen persons before
"r. whitman was able TO lay his hands
on It. the District Attorney was able to
establish yesterday that the excise
graft. since it was taken out Of tho
hands OF the precinct and district com.
rnanders. has been centralized and sys.
tematized in a fund which approx.
mates s1,2o0.c0o annually.
John Mustard, liquor dealer. Of No.
] Manhattan street. who was president
o. district organization Of the Liquor
Dealers Association. was subpoenaed
yesterday and will be called before the
grand Jury to day
The trail Of graft first definitely
opened up by the disclosures Of yestsr.
day vas exposed by the written order
OF saloonkeeper named j. J. McGrath
to hl: bartender, Henry White, to pay
John Mustard $40 for protection for
April and May" McGrath admitted
that the handwriting on the dirty little
scrap OF paper was his handwriting,
and he said that the time OF insti.utino
tho method Of paying protection"
through the Liquor Dealers Associa.
tion conceded with tho time at which
Mayor Gaynor issued his order forbid
ding policemen to enter saloons for ex.
else violations.
Evidence OF further specific in
stances Of grating by Sweeney will bs
laid before the grand jury. The graft
disclosures on that trail have already
implicated two OF Swsensy's predeees.
sors. who are now captains.
From what Mr.. Whitman learned yes.
terday Il appeared that the huge, CEN
trai,zed. annual excise graft Of $1,000
900 was ''hsndIed' by four men. two Of
them civilians now in office at Polio.
Headquarters. and the other two stand
ing as representatives Of a powerfuI
Tammany politician and a hiqh c,ty
official
Eugene a. Philbir. former District
Attorney, before the Wagner legislative
committee. held Mayor Gaynor respon.
sibls for the "depIorable conditions"
IN the present police situation. and
aserIbed tho trouble to the Mayors
fixed ideas about crirne and the DO
Ice"
The discipline Of tn. police force had
been 'demoraized" under Commission.
er Waldo. Mr.. Phlbn said.
Miss Lillian o. Wald. before the same
committee, advocated the appointment
Of "polioewomen" to deal with vice and
the social evil.
Second Deputy Commissioner Douoh.
erty testified before the Curran com.
n,ittee yesterday that special detective
squads were necessary. Mr.. Waldo ha.
contended they wers not John McCuI.
lagh, ex-Chief Of Police, advocated the
revival Of the office OF chief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
khCMpLiIS SPECIAL

Mpr1pris, Nashville. Hot Springs, ARK.
T,v. Nev York daily go u. NJ. va
SOUTHERN RAILWAI. Dining. Sleeping
and observation cars. Connection At Mem
phis for Hot Springs Ark \. J. Once
26i Fifth Ave.-.AdVt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
GEORGE !. GOULD.

Accused Theodore Shonts trying hold nerborouSh
gives list OF objections to certificate for third tracking elevated
lines
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
Gould May Reply To- day.

Nlr. Gould held a long conference
with r. l.. Chadbourne. jr.. his counsel,
at the Gould house, in Fifth avenue,
last night. After the statement of Mr.
Shonts had been considered Mr. Chad
bourne said:
There will be nothing civ~i out to-
night. Tomorrow, after tho statement
is published. We may make reply
Mr.. Chadbourne said he had read
what Mayor Gaynor. President Nc
Aneny and Controller Prendergast had
said before the Board Of Estimate, SIr
declined to make any comment.
After a meeting Of the Manhattan
directors in the afternoon Mr.. Gouri
gave out a statement, in which he said:
Never until a few weeks ago did
have laid before me Comprehenslvely
the entire situation covering these con-
tracts and their import 10 the Man
haitian Railway Company. and then,
as soon as the situation was made clear
10 me. | objec. d. and as promptly as
could be called the board together, and
tho decision was unanimous 10 reject
the proposals made.
"To Deal with lnterboreush."
At the meeting committee. consist
ing of Mr.. Gould, Alfred Skitt and F..
T. Jeffrey, was appointed TO deal with
the Interborough company upon the
questions involved in, the proposed con-
tracts and TO see if an adjustment OF
the differences could be arrived at 1t
was decided TO employ 7. l.. chad
bourne. IT,. to act as counsel 10 the
committe and the board In ASSOCIATION
with Judge Dillon. Mr.. Chadbourne is
the private cou----. of Mr.. Gould, ana
advised against he approval OF me
certificates. Mr. Skitt later had long
talk with Mr.. Shonts, but would say
nothing about il.
Tho Interboroush and the city OIL
cials have decided on course of ac-
ticn leading to signing OF the con-
tracts. regardless OF what the directors
of the Manhattan may decide 10 do I'm
the wav OF adjustment of differences
with the Interborough. The pro-
grammc is this:
Formal application was made by the
Interborough late yesterday to have the
certificate for third tracking redrawn
an as TO have it issued to them instead
Of the Manhattan, that has already
been done.
II II is printed in time the GER
tificatc will be presented at the regular
meeting of the Public Service Commits
sion to day. That body will then or
der an advertisement Tor public hear
ing. AS two weeks must clapse from
tbo time of the first advertisement, the
hearing will probably be set down for
March 10. two weeks from Monday. -
Early next week the Public Service
Commission will adopt the contracts
for construction and operation with
the Interborough and the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company and the cer-
titicate for extensions to The elevated
lines i'm Manhattan and Tho Bronx.
They will be sent at once TO the Board
Of Estimate.
That board will formally approve
them, so that as soon as the third
tracking certificate has gone through
the formality of public hearing il
may be acted on quickly by both sides.
II the present plans are then carried
out the contracts Will then be signed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28

Every ceilarette and medicine cabinet
should contain bottle. Luytics Bros.N.
--Adyt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
Admission Came Reluctantly.

McGrath's admission came roluc-
tantly and dramatically. He had de
clarcd that hc had never done business.
nor been in a position where he had 10
do business, with the police. Henry
White. the bartender Of one of Nc
,;rath's saloons, at 1:i2d street and
Seventh avenue. had supported the
assertion. and neither could understand
why they had been summoned.
McC;rath found out when he learned
that Mr.. Whitman had in his possess
sion a little scrap Of bcsmudgcd and
torn notepapcr. on which he had sent a
message TO White. his bartender. 10
the effect that if he Whtc) had not
vet paid the protection for April and
Nav lie should pay IL that night at
: 30 o'clock 10 John Mustard, at No. ]
toutjn0ed on sixth page. third column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28

Try Adamson's Botanic ealsam for that
rasping. graveyard cough II Is sure cure.
-Adlt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28

Dennis Sweeney. the police inspector
who dominated tho Harlem graft field.
will be called upon to-day to plead TO
eleven different graft indictments.
charging bribery and extortion in that
many separate instances while he was
in command Of the 9th Inspection Dis
trict
For the first time since Captain
Walsh gave the informa ton that MAYOR
Gaynor's order forbiddinG policemen TO
enter saloons seeking excise violations
did not stop but simply transferred
the excise graft from precincts to
Headquarters. the District Attorney
got a trace yesterday Of the extent and
sy decentralization OF that graft
From the developments Of tho day il
appeared that the saloon graft Of New
York now approXimates Sl.20OUUO Il
year. The lead which opened up this
new vein Of graft information came
from J. J. McGrath. Harlem saloon
keeper. who admitted that he had paid
SO month for protection" not to
the police, but 10 his local organiZa tion
Of the Liquor Dealers Association.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
ANTEoILuvIAN WHIskeY.

Continued on third page. sixth column.
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Continued on sixth page. third column.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-23

mination against the superior trained
forces Of the greatest military power
of the day.
This is a busy world. This is a
busy, money-mad country-but it
is but meet and proper that the peo-
pie Of the country should pause long
enough one day in every year 70
pay homage TO the Great American
to drop q tear of grateful remem-
brance upon the grave of the Father
of His Country and to whisper a
brief sentence OF thanksgiving to the
God who gave to the world the man
who made the United States of 1913
possible.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-23
FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEcON

Yesterday the people OF the United
States celebrated the natal day Of
the great man-George Washington.
George Washington, the boy Of hon
esty-George Washington, the man OF
ntegrity-George Washington, the
general of indomtable will-George
Washington, the president of execu-
tive ability-George Washington, the
citizen, and ever and always, George
Washington, the MAN.
Men such as Washington are born
not made. And such men are born
but once in many centuries. Such
men are born only too seldom in
any country and when any country
can claim such man that countr!
has something OF which to be PROUD
for years and years and centuries
to come.
Leaders like Napoleon, like Alex
ander the Great, like XerXes or ever
like the great Iron Man, the Duke
of Wellington, may be found. The,
were men who for glory, through
the love of conquest and the love o
power, achieved wonders in the mill
tary world of their day and time
but they had the aiding and abet'
ting power of their nations armies
and of their nations treasures be
hind them.
Washington had none of these ac
cessories of military success. Will
nothing. except the justice of his
cause to uplift and hold him to hi,
purpose-with the support of an un.
trained body of ragged continentals'
he waged a war to successful cul-