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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
TRAIN WRECKS LAID TO
SPEED STRAIN ON MEN
Slower Travel Necessary, Says
U. S. Expert-New Haven
for Greater Safety.
From The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington. Dec. Recommending
that the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Ne allowed full power TO regulate
the speed Of trains, IT, W. Belnap chief
Of the division OF safety appliances OF
the commission and special railroad wreck
Investigator. appeared to-day before the
House Committee on Interstate ana
Foreign Commerce. The committee be
gan hearings on several safety appli-
ance bills designed to minimize the
numter and seriousness of railroad
wrecks
Mr. Belnap said the Interstate Com
ity not only over the operation Of block
signals and other safety devices, but
also over the speed at which trains en-
gagged in interstate commerce are run.
Speed. he said. was the fundamental
question I'm considering legislation TO
prevent railroad disasters.
1T does not make any difference what
kind OF block signal system you USE
said Mr.. Belnap. II IL is operated under
the wrong sort OF rules. I think the
strain OF the human machinery of men
responsible for many wrecks. Many
officers ana employees OF railroads break
down carly under this strain.
You arc not going To STOP Accidents
unless you check the speed OF trains.
There are no speedometers on trains.
and we 40 not know how fast many OF
them are running when dime Is 10 be
made up. On stretches of poor road
beds, where speed Of not more than
fifteen or twenty miles is justified, it is
probable many trains are running at
fifty and sixty miles an hour. and 1t is
here the danger comes in"
Mr.. auckland. vice-president of the
New Haven. testified that his road had
received offers of $500 safety devices
from inventors following the announce
ment Of a $4,000 reward for accepta-
BILE safety appliances. The road, he
said. had already tested 1900, had in
stalled one device and Is preparing to
install another. He assured the com.
mittee OF the readiness OF the New
Haven to cooperate In promoting, by
legislation or otherwise. safety for rail-
road travellers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Miss Adams Says That
Suffrage Will End
Domestic Woes.
THINKS THEM
NOT TO BLAME
Hull House Experiences Show
III Health Is Responsible
for Dispositions.

wor,eu's votes will remedy, among
othor things the mother-in.law problem,
according to Miss Jane Adams, who
spoke last night at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music.
out of the depths of her experiences at
Hull House for twenty years ana the en-
perlences Of two women who have serVeu
as assistant judges in the municipai
courts OF Chicago Miss Adams cuiien 'he
theory that mothers-in-law are not al
,yavs TO be held responsible for the troi-
bic they make. Perhaps their health Is
moor. and their dispositions not normal
for tint reason.
One of the things the women oil Chi-
cago mean to do with their newly &C.
auired votes is to have nurses and doc
tors I'm attendance at these courts TO ex-
anime the health OF troubie-makns
mothers-in-law, as we'll as peevish wives
disconnected daughters and waywaId
boys. who appear in various combina-
tons at the courts.
There will be also a nursery and play
room, so that women who must bring
their children to court may not be dis
tracted in their testlfying by squealing.
This is only one Of the many projects
the women have in mind" said Miss
Adams 1T is astonishing to note that
these things, which formerly were con-
sidcred somewhat impractical by the gen.
tlemanly politicians. suddenly have be-
come womanly wisdom now that We are
voters.
when we 20 to the City Hall now we
scarcely know where we are, so exces-
sive is the politeness with which We are
treated
AS for the polling places being dsa-
greeable for women, we are being pro-
tected from any possible annoyance by
our tender male constituents. In every
one OF Chicago's fourteen hundred pre-
cincts they have appointed a woman
Judge of elections. We have not yet had
chance TO experience the pleasures of
voting, but we are looking forward to a
most delightful day, so many preparations
are already being made I'm our honor The
idea is killed forever that men would be
less chivalric when women voted"
The largest suffrage meeting Brooklyn
ever had waited two hours and half to
hear Miss Adams. II would have had
to wait longer il ii hadn't come across
with the cash" Mrs. Frank Cothren at
1906 started to collect subscriptions to the
amount OF 800.
Every minute you hold back the
money will cost you a minute OF Miss
Addams's speech. Mrs. Cothren threat
eneG.
IL took twenty-five minutes TO collect
SIG. and even then they could scarcely
stop the men from giving. George Horribly
started II.
81 will give 81 a month until 1915" he
said.
George can't have anything on me-"
shouted another man.
I'm as good as George Hornby"' came
from another corner OF the hall.
Controller Prendergast. who sat on the
platform. gave s.. and was seconded by
a Wilson Democrat"
Finally Mrs. Cothren put stop to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
"HIGH" POLISH EFFECTIVE
Cabinetmaker, Blown Up by
LIQUID, Goes to Hospital.

Joseph p. Miller. cabinetmaker, OF No.
342 East 46th street. devised a new scheme
for heating furniture polish yesterday.
The concoction CONTAINS alcohol
He put a large bottle of the stun in a
pail OF hot water. The bottle blew up
and Miller was burned. He was taken to
Flower Hospital
Frank Stokes. of No $50 East 18th
street. who previously held no interest In
furniture polish. hot or cold, was passing
the store while the experiment was un-
der way. The plate glass window was
blown out and he was cut by glass. Tho
cuts were trivial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
NEW PARCEL POST RATES
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion Gives It's Approval.

Washington. Dec. 6.-Postmaster ueh-
oral RurIeson's PROPOSALS to Increase the
weight limit of parcel post paoh"sS
the first and second zones from l"e"'' ~
fifty rounds. to admit books 10 ''e po
Gel post. and to reduce rates III ''i' '
fourth, fifth and sixth zones was app ~
to-day by the Interstate Commerce I'm,
mission. The maximum weight OF pa' ~ %
to all zones beyond the second was :"
creased from eleven to twenty pou''uS'
The approved changes in rates anu
weights to be in effect January l. i''
follow:
To reduce the rates for the tnlrd Zohe
from cents for the first pound anu
cents for each additional pound to Genus
for the first pound and cents TOT coz
additional pound.
TO reduce the rates for the fourth zone
from S cents for the first pound ana
cents for each additional pound to cents
for the first pound and cents for each
additional pound.
To reduce the rates for the NTH zone
from cents for the first pound ana
cents for each additional pound to cents
for the first pound and cents Tor each
additional pound.
To reduce the rates for the sixth zone
from 10 cents for the first pound ana
cents for each additional pound. to y cents
for the first pound ana cents for each
additional pound.
1t is provided by the Postmaster Cen
eral. with the consent of the commission
that the rate of postage on parcels con-
tanning books weighing eight ounces or
less shall be 1 cent for each two ounces
or fractional part thereof, and on those
weighing i'm excess OF eight ounces the
zone parcel post rates shall apply. ms
is 10 be effective March is. 1911.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
FALSE ALARM COSTS LIFE
Mother in Panic Threw Baby
from Window to Street.

In the excitement that followed cries
Of Fire. Fire" heard yesterday morning
In a tenement house at No. l02 Harrison
Place. Williamsburg. Mrs Sarah Rotter
who lives on the second hoor. threw her
three-year- son Max from window.
lie was taken in dying condition to the
Williamsburg Hospital. with a fracture
of the skull.
After hurting her son through the win
dow Mrs. Rotter was about to throw
herself into the street. but her husband
restrained her. Investigation disclosed
that there was no fire at all. but that
some one had removed the tip from
gas burner in the lower hallway, causing
the flame to shoot high above the jet.
One OF the tenants saw the flaming jet.
and, believing there was fire, spread~the
alarm through the building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07

little game by telling the men they would
have to put the rest of their contributions
in the baskets the ushers were about to
pass. The money will be used for the 1915
suffrage campaign in Brooklyn. Mrs
Cothren reminded the audience that
Brooklyn's popuIation-1.eO 900, 0Oo-was equal
TO that of the states of Arizona, Idaho,
Wyoming, Texas, Vermont and Delaware.
I'm two OF which the women already had
the vote.
Mrs Edward Dreier presided. The
other speakers were Miss Fola La Fol
lette and Congressman Heating, from
Colorado.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
ESTRADA LAUGHS AT RIVAL
Former Nicaraguan President
Amused at Zelaya's Trials.

Seior Juan Estrada, former Presi-
dent of Nicaragua, who, 1t is said. was
largely responsible for the deposins Of ex-
President j. Santos Zelaya, now In this
city, arrived yesterday from Havre BY
the French liner La Savoie.
He expressed much amusement over
the fluctuations OF Zelaya since his ar
rival IN this country. and laughed
heartily when the incidents were recalled
10 him. On leaving the pier he went to
the Hotel Imperial, the first abode OF
Zelaya on his arrival In this country.
Senior Estrada said that his house in
Bluefields had been burned. and he went
abroad to stay until new building on
the old site could be ready for occupancy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Run Down Many Rumors.

County Prosecutor Lewis Hood has
taken no action. and stated that he would
take none until the matter was brought
TO his attention officially.
The police OF Newark appeared to be-
lieve implicitly that Mrs. Marjorie Graf
was sincere in her complaint and that
she had been pricked on the hand by a
needle or some similar instrument. But
they also were hedging at lively rate
on the many rumors of other similar oc-
currences.
I'VE have investigated many OF them, y
said Captain Tuite, of the detective force,
land we cannot find another instance that
: looks probably true. 1 do not think the
needle we have, which was found in the
theatre. had anything TO do with the
wound on Mrs. CRAFTS hand.
"All these cases we hear of are mere
rumors. When we go after them and find
the victims. It develops that the girls
deny that they ever heard of such a
thing Megaro didn't run when Mrs.
Graft left her box in the theatre, but that
might have been merely a wise precau-
ton to avoid arrest. Judge Simon Hahn,
who committed him, cannot reduce his
bond; that's up TO the Prosecuting Attor-
new. ] shall not let Miss Clark see Me-
caro- in the effort to identify him until
the regular visiting day" Captain Tuite
said that day would be when it suited the
officials at police headquarters.
Lieutenant Joseph Farrell. of the New
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
.TW0MBLY ANSWERS BOARD
Says He Resigned from Aero
nautical Society December 1.

w. Irving Twombly, who was deposed
from the presidency OF the Aeronautical
Society Thursday night, issued a state
ment last night. In which he said that the
society had misrepresented the facts when
it asserted that no formal resignation
had been received from him.
He said he sent in a written resignation
December |, and subsequently resigned
verbally at n meeting OF the directors. In
reply to the statement OF the directors,
that he was dropped because he was in
attentive 10 his duties, he gave out the
text OF letter from Lee s. Burrdge. one
Of the directors calling him 1.-THE best
president we ever had"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Vernal DAYS in Westchester.

Vernal mldness in December has caused
hydrangeas to blossom on the premises OF
Mrs. William Allen Butler in Palisade
avenue, Yonkers.
A rose bloomed yesterday on bush in
the yard of George Diehl in Bryn Mawr
Park.
The GOLF links of the Dunwoodie Coun-
fry Club are dotted with dandelions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07

ark police. who arrested Megaro. saii
Mrs. Marjorie Graf admitted that sn1
had been hearing and reading OF thl
poison needle before her experience III
the Lyric.
81 went TO the Lyric" said Lieutenai''
Farrell, after Manager Rossnagie nav
called up Headquarters and SAID that
woman had been stabbed with a needle
entered the box and sat beside MeSaro
He looked askance as If wishing TO kno"
where Mrs Graft or some one else nav
gone He was perfectly cool -"heh VIZ
finally arrested him and refused 10 nave
his people communicated with. as he Sd"
no use troubling others with his AFFAIRS
Mrs. Graf was crying and had glare
i'm her eyes that showed something mac
happened. Megaro said: She may De
woman who wants money He won't talk
at all now"
Lieutenant Kennedy. OF the sd fre'
cinct Manhattan. representing Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty. has been on lhe
trail of stories of needle poisoning III
Jersey as well as in New York, ana W
Jersey City he and man from the New
ark police force met on the same case
They found that the young woman, whose
parents are wealthy. denied that she h"u
ever even heard of such thing. mat
said Lieutenant Kennedy, had been MS
experience everywhere.
Prisoner a Church Member.
Armand Megaro is member OF the
Young Mems Christian Association III
Newark and the Baptist Church. Ills uh-
Gle, DR.. Pancrazio Megaro, OF NO. Sio iish
street. Newark, said that when he lound
that Armand. whom he brought 10 thIS
country. was not making progress In ms
studies at the College of Pharmacy ne
told him he would do well to leave. Inc
boy thought he meant TO leave MS u'lc'e >
home and did so. He has not peen pach
there IN three years. Nothing was IN
tended OF the kind.
He worked for the r. +. Goodrich Tire
Company, No. ~ New street, Newark
until last June. in charge of the heavy
tires, involving hard work, and was dls-
charged because of being frequently late
in arriving at work.
f. Bernard Patten, OF the College OF
Pharmacy ana secretary OF IHe oIus III III
OF Roeber & Kuebler, No. 80 Plain street
where Megaro worked, said the boy did
not show any moral deficiency and never
experimental with curare or any other
drug while there.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch yesterday
wanted a citizens committee 10 rid the
streets of Objectionable men, such as the
needle users.
There have been many reports recently
of the needle being used on women In
theatres and department stores. Ply
sicians have stated that It is possible for
one to be thus attacked without knowing
il at the time. Others assert that 1t could
not occur. as the body would naturally
offer a reflex action that would protect
the one assailed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Old Guard Plans 1914 Ball.

Following the precedent established
nearly half century ago. in Difference
to a large number OF requests. the Old
Guard. through its commandment Major
S. Ellis Briggs. and his STAFF. has ar
ranged for another dance. The ball Of
1914 will be held in Madison Square Gar
den on the night of Thursday, January 10.
Officers OF the army the navy and the
national guard will march in the mid
night parade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
CARDINAL 0REGLIA DIES
Dean of Sacred College Passes
AWAY at Age of 85.

Rome Dec 6.--The rope was ueePiy
grieved when told to-day that Cardlha'
Luigi Oreglia di Sante Stefano Aloysius'
dean of the Sacred College. had passed
away ast night. Although the AGED Car
dinars death had been expected. the rope
sustained n shock when Mohsishoi
Giovanni Bressan Informed him as eau
tiously as possible Of the occurrence. Ihe
Pontif had always felt toward Odrdihai
Oregla a sentiment OF great respect anu
APPRECIATED the energy with "hich ne
had conducted the affairs OF the vatican
during the interregnum between the
death OF Pope Leo XIII and his own e'ec-
ton when Cardinal Oreglia was Cham-
berlain OF the Conclave.
Baltimore. Dec. 6-Cardinal Gibbons
when asked this morning II he would be-
come dean OF the Sacred College because
of the death OF Cardinal OreSlia' SAD
THE Oldest member Of the Sacred Col-
lege Is known as the dean. In one sense
of the word. will become dean or the
Sacred College, because In NUMBER Oh
wears I am the oldest living cardinal
was born six years before Cardinal Netto'
the oldest Cardinal in point OF service
cardinal Netto was created Cardinal
in 1884 and in 1885. So II you look at
the situation from one point | am no"
the dean OF the Sacred College ana
from the other point OF view Cardinal
Netto is"
Luigi Oreglia di santo Stefano Aloysius
was eighty-hve years old, and was the
last OF the cardinals created by the late
pope Plus IL. He was made Cardinal
prIest in 1879 and Cardinal Bishop OF Ostia
I'm Issi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
M. Dejean Appointed.

Paris, Dec. s.-M. Dejean. first secretary
of the French Embassy In Washington.
has been appointed assistant general COM
missioner for France at the Panama
Pacific Exposition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
City Planning Exhibit Extended

Borough President McAneny has an
nounced that the City Planning EXhib-
ton at the Public Library will remain
open another week, closing Sunday De
cemher IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07

of this thing, and | have no doubt OF
its truth" she said. Most of the cases
are hard to trace because the victims
shun notoriety, but have been able to
get the definite facts in three cases
that is, the circumstances, although
the names are withheld. ] am investi-
eating carefully. l think what is
needed is careful publicity"
Miss Hopkins. assistant superintend
mt of the Magdalen Home, at Inwood,
said that, although none of the his
tories Of the girls there showed they
had been victims of the needle fiends,
she had heard of two cases.
The result Of the reports has. been to
spread alarm among women shoppers, not
only from New York homes. but from
neighboring towns. making them timid
about trusting themselves unprotected in
the Christmas shopping crowds.
Miss Jeanette Clark, of Newark, nine
teen years old. was taken into Police
Headquarters at Newark last night and
asked to identify a photograph of Ar
lildHu MtSdiO as budl VI tlit man WV
had prcked her with needle at the
Lyric Theatre, in that city. She failed tC
do so. Miss Clark, who lives at No III
Pacific street. Newark. was reluctant to
20 to Headquarters. Her story was that
on Thanksgiving night she went to the
Lyric Theatre and occupied box. The
seats on that aisle abut on the rail, or
are quite near the railing of the box she
occupied. AS she removed her wrap she
felt sting in her arm and soon after
became faint She went out of the box
and tottered down the aisle.
In the ladies' room of the theatre she
was revived by the matron. The matron
could not be seen yesterday. Neither
could the manager. After Miss Clark
was revived she experienced no pricking
sensation in the arm.
But every afternoon since November q
there has been an oval shaped eruption
on her arm at o'clock. The eruption
initiates very much, but leaves in a few
hours. She also has headaches frequently
since that date.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-07
Believes IL a Siqnal.

Miss Clark told Captain of Detectives
lutte that she saw a man in the front
row OF the theatre motion to man in
the box with her in a manner that indi-
Gated he meant "That's the one" The
man in the box was foreigner with
glossy hair. She says she did not report
the matter to any one and does not know
how the story leaked out.
Miss May Lee. of Newark, who works
at No. 203 Emmett street. denied that
anything OF the sort had ever occurred 10
her, though she had been reported as
having been the victim of the alleged
needle gang.
United States Commissioner Richard
Stockton said last night he had given a
hearing to Miss Annie Ciorpita, aged
twenty-three, Of No 223 Bank street,
Newark. who charged that on November
70 George Kavorchuck, aged twenty-three'
of No. 2lG Prince street, gave her drugged
candy.
"She was Eighty" said the Commits
soner land was either insane or under the
Influence Of some drug. One moment she
could not identify her alleged assailant
and the next she knew him. l adjourned
the case until Monday for the purpose of
investigating her sanity. She is now de-
tanned in the observation ward of the
City Hospital, of Newark. / reduced
Kavorchuck's bail from 5000 to $1,000 He
is still held"
Miss Ciorpita charged that after eating
the candy she lost consciousness to such
ar extent that she was brought to New
York. and when she realized where she
was she was i'm the back room OF sa-
loon There her escort induced her TO
drink something, and she again lost con-
sciousness only TO wake in an upper room
of the same place and find Kavorchuck
with her. She was taken by him to her
home in Newark.
No chemical analysis of the needle
found in the Lyric Theatre shortly after
Mrs Marjorie Graft said she was stabbed
was made yesterday. II was not thought
by DR.. Harrison S. MARYLAND, of the City
Hospital staff, who examined the needle,
that it could possibly have carried enough
curare, a rare South American poison. to
cause stupefaction unless it had had a
coating of gelatine-if then-and there was
no evidence of gelatine on II.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-10-24
FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE
CAPTURED IN THIS CITY.

Frank Williams, colored, fugitive
from justice, was arrested in this city
by PatrOlman Fred Link Williams
was wanted in Carlisle, and was TAX
en- to that city Wednesday morning by
deputy jailer Broderick Williams
escaped from the Carlisle jail about a
week ago after tunneling through a
brick wall and dropping fifteen or
twenty feet to the ground A liberal
reward was offered for the capture of
the negro, who was being held on a
serious charge. Upon description
furnished by the Nicholas authorities
to Patrolman Link the capture of the
negro was effected at the Louisville
& Nashville passenger stationNin this
city, where the fugitive was in the ACT
of boarding train en- route to Cincin
natl. He admitted to tire arrestine
officer that he was the man wanted
when the officials at Carlisle were no
titled of his capture.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-10-24
PAIR OF SHOES LEADS TO
ARREST OF. SUSPECT

A pair of shoes which were identi-
fed as being those stolen from the
general store of Mr. c.. N. Martin at
Stony Point, several nights ago, led
to the arrest of George Wilson, col
ored, who was lodged in Jail Tuesday
by Patrolman Fred Link, on the
charge of being implicated in the rob.
berry.
The arrest of Wilson was made fol
lowing the information obtained by
officer to the effect thatza strange ne
gro had made several attempts to dis
pose of articles of goods in the negro
suburb of Claysville, which tailed
with those taken from the store OF
Mr.. Martin. A description of the ne
gro was secured, and when taken into
custody he was wearing pair of
heavy shoes of the brand sold by Mr..
Martin, who came to Paris Tuesday
morning and identified them as being
the same that had been taken from
his store.
The negro protesed his innocence
and said he had purchased the shoes
from a mrchant in Paris. The mer-
chant when n seenss .depied handling
that brand of shoes. ~ -