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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
$4,000 A WEEK IN FILMS
Witness Says Trusts" Black.
list Killed This Business.

The cross-examnation Of william IL.
Swanson. general manager Of the Uni
Sersal Film Company. was continued yes
terday morning in the suit Of the govern
ment 10 dissolve the Motion Picture Pat
,nts Company as monopoly in violation
of the Sherman antitrust law
George Willis. counsel to the patents
company, endeayored to show that swan
son was denied films because he had vio-
lated certain agreements. one OF which was
that he had not supplied the Motion Pict-
ure Patents Company with full list of
his customers. Mr.. Swanson replied that
q fire I'm the Omaha office had destroyed
his records. and denied that he had pur-
posely withheld any customers names.
Mr.. Swanson said that after the Motion
Picture Patents Company had cut of his
film supply he was forced Ia close his
four Offices I'm omaha. New Orleans. ST.
Louis and Chicago. lie had been doing "A
business OF about 100000 "A week. and at
the order OF the Patents company this in
come was Immediately shut of. Counsel
for the defence tried to get the witness
to admit his business was much less than
$4,000 a week, but his testimony was
mistaken after an hours grilling.
The hearing adjourned at $50 o'clock
and will be resumed at the Hotel McAlpin
on February at 10 a. m. The govern
ment expects to call about seventy more
witnesses before the Peoples case Is
closed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
GOLD LOADED ON LINER
Verdi Will Carry S5,O50,OOO to
South America To- day.

Under the guard OF ten men, l0l kegs
of United States gold specie, amounting
10 $4,000 and weighing 20 pounds each.
were slowed away yesterday I'm the strong
room Of the Lamport K Holt liner Verdi.
which will sail this morning for Rio de
Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. The gold T.
being sent 10 South America by five
banking houses Of this city.
Ia Oh keg contained 5000 In s.. so and
81 pieces. The total weight OF gold put
into the Verdi's strong room Yesterday
was 202W pounds. The National city
Bank contributed 81 $4,000: the National
Bank of Commerce. sl.5J0Vo; Goldman.
Sachs & Co. sl.2oc.0O the Anglo-South
American Bank 10000. and the Hanover
National Bank. $4,000 With the excep-
ton OF $1,000 consigned TO bank In
Rio de Janeiro. thu entire shipment will
be distributed in Buenos Ayres.
According to Ir. Geddes. pier superin-
tendent of the line. tile Verdi took SOD
~ In gold sprce 10 South America three
Years ago. Including the shipment put
a board the liner yesterday. the superin-
tendent has handled s3G.1oo0 in gold
consigned from this port to Brazil and
Argentina
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
BOY COULDN'T HELP COURT
Seventeen Old Lad Fails to
Decide Against Either Parent.

Richard Johnson seven years old, was
brought from Washington. Conn. where
he Is at school. TO the chambers OF JUS
tice Greenbaum, Of the Supreme Court.
YESTERDAY 20 have him express his pref
erence as to whether he would be IN the
custody Of his mother. Mrs. Ethel colyer
Johnson. or his father. Richard o. John
son Johnson IL an officer Of manu-
featuring company and IN grand-nephew
OF the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
His wife il suing him for separation
and has mad. forty-fye separate alleea-
tons OF cruelty and neglect.
Mrs. johnson swore out a writ of ha-
beas corpus to get the custody OF little
Richard. whom his father had sent 10 the
Connecticut school. Justice GreenbaiITn
ordered Johnson TO bring the boy 10 his
chambers. hoping TO get from the lad
some expression Of preference as To whom
he liked the best. his father or mother.
The examination OF Richard brought
forth the statement. Il love my mamma
and love my papa which might have
been. fine state Of mind for boy or
seven, but 1t did not help the Justice
much In reaching decision.
Justice Greenbanm decided that he
would have Richard go back 10 school
for a few days until lie has had time 10
form his judicial opinion as to what TO
do with the boy,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
YERKES HEIR PENNILESS
Others Embarrassed by Delay
in Selling Estate.

II developed i'm the Surrogate court
Yesterday that one Of the benefciaries
under the will Of Charles T. Yerkes. the
Chicago traction man. had been practi-
cally reduced to penury because OF the de-
lay through court proceedings in settling
the estate She is too poor to take part IN
the litigation This beneficiary Is entitled
to 100000 from the estate OF Mr.. ferkes.
1t was also brought out before Surro-
gate Fowler that the Yerkes Observatory,
which was supported largely by MI
Yerkes. had been embarrassed by the IN
ability of the executor Of the estate 10
pay over the 100000 left for that purpose
by Mr.. Yerkes to the University OF chi
cago. which maintains the observatory.
The proceeding before Surrogate Fowler
Yesterday was a motion by Louis ;. OWs-
ley. executor In Chicago and ancillary eN-
ecutor I'm New York, for permission to
transfer TO Illinois property held IN Ne"
York. The property amounts to ND'"V'
The only claim against the estate here Is
one for 5000. and there is left unsettled
the fixing Of a transfer tax on part OIL
the estate.
The Surrogate asked for briefs, from
which he will make his decision.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
HAS AUNT'S WILL SET ASIDE
Nephew Wins Fight for $780,
600 Estate of Spinster.

Joseph G. Rintelen won his fight TO
have set aside the will OF his aunt. Miss
Elizabe Rintelen. when a jury before
Justice Benedict in the Queens County
Supreme Court. Long Island City. last
evening returned a verdict declaring the
will invalid. Miss Rintelen, who died In
1911, left her estate. valued AT $50 oCD. to
the family OF Frank Schsefcr. a truck
man, OF Woodhaven
The jury found Miss Rintelen was not
Of sound mind and memory and mentally
Incapable Of making will when she
signed the document purporting to be her
will December H. 1903. and that she was
under the restraint and influence Of other
persons TO such an extent that the docu-
ment was not her will but the will Of
such other persons.
Miss Rintelen was the daughter Of the
late Adam c. Rintelen. who made a
fortune In The Bronx. She was aJjudged
incompetent July 10. 1904. OIL the app!ica-
ton of Schaefer. who took her to his
home. She was declared competent De-
cember % 1900 also on the petition or
Mr.. Schsefer. Ii was between that time
and her death that she made her viii In
favor OF the Schaefer family. She lett
81 .o0O to her nephew on condition that he
did not contest the will.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
THAW OBJECT OF NEW LAW?
His Mother Against Proposed
Bar Association Bill.

Papers. including an open letter from
Ex-Governor Horace Boies Of Iowa ana
another signed with the name Of Mrs
Mary Copley Thaw and addressed To the
members OF the New York State Bar As
ISOLATION. were circulated last night In
connection with a report OF the commit
tee OF the association recommending
changes i'm the state laws which would
prevent successive applications FOR "A writ
of habeas corpus by persons confined in
state asylums for the criminal insane.
Declaring that this report. in It's open
~ avowed purpose is an effort To shut
the doors OF the courts against one par
ticular individual. Harry *. Thaw.' eN-
Governor Boies calls attention to the
committees statement that. while Thaw
was acquitted on the ground Of insanity
his deed IL characterized as "A foul and
cowsrdly murder in public resort This
report. Ex-Governor Boics says. goes on
further to remark that so forgetful are
the murderer's family OF their duty TO
society and their obligations To uphold
the law that they aid and abet the plot
and instead OF leaving him To his fate. rs
IL is their duty as citizens 10 do. they
claim. forsooth, that he Is an object of
persecution" Then the Ex-Governor gives
it as his opinion that the man whose
brain could conceive and whose hand
could write such words. which should
have blistered the lips and palsied the
tongue, must. like Topsy. have been born
without a mother"
Mrs. Thaw's letter 10 the members OF
the Bar Association expresses the hope
that they may not take the attitude in
future of prejudicing any application
which she or any other petitioner might
make TO the courts OF have the appear
ance OF tampering with their conscience
or INDEPENDENCE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25

Industry as rapidly as the conditions viii
permit. our aim should be TO establish
hearty CO. operation between employer ana
employed. individually and ccliecuFeN'
each side temporarily insisting on It's own
rights, freely recognizing the rights OF '"1
other side. and both sides recognizing the
larger right Of interest of the community
as n whole.
Il ask FOR the investigation not merely
for the purpose of publicity, but as
means OF bringing about necessary iesis-
lation. Under the protocol. OF which !
send you a copy. minimum wage boards
are established by the industry itself
through cooperation between the manu-
facturers and the workers. ask that
the state not only further this idea, but
follow II by state action. creating such
boards I'm such industries where theE
have not been created freely by those IN
the industry itself The legislative COM
mittee OF the Progressive party VIII pre-
sent to the Legislature carefully prepared
bills providing for minimum wage boards.
and the investigation for which | ASK
will. 7 believe, furnish additional grounds
for dema nding the passage of such bills"
! When Colonel Roosevelts statement
was called to the attention Of Harry A.
Gordon last night he said he believed in
| unions and their recognition in such in
dustries as were ripe for them, but he did
not believe the white goods trade was
ready for them.
Strike leaders hailed with joy Colone
Roosevelts activity In the strike, declar
| ing that as result Of his visit amonf
| the workers one firm had settled salts
factorily and several others were expecte,
| TO follow suit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
MEDAL FOR DIR. GAYLEY
Presented to Him at Chemists So
ciety Meeting.

meeting Of the Society Of Chemical
Industry was held last night In Rumford
the Perkin medal was presented To James
Gayley. NJ. f., ID. Sc. Previous To the
meeting there was an informal dinner in
the Chemists Club house. next door to
the hall.
After NJ. G. Whitaker. chairman. had
introduced Or. Gayley the medal was
presented by Charles +. Chandler. senior
American past president OF the society.
Mr.. Gayley acknowledged the honor con-
ferred upon him. after which addresses
were made by Henry NJ. Howe. Edward
Hart and Rossiter W. Raymond Many
women were present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
Walk Bridge in Rain.

Just as the fire started there was q
heavy downpour Of rain, and thousands
stood without umbrellas In the streets,
some merely watching the iiremen. others
because they could not get under shelter.
During the first part Of the blockade the
crush was dcnsest. for the crowds coming
from Brooklyn had left the cars and trains
and begun To walk. Very soon they met
head-on the stream Of pedestrians Captain
OToole and his men were sending from
Manhattan. The two crowds bucked and
charged against each other. and on both
ioadways about the centre OF the main
span women were tossed about Ike sticks
Ia whirlpool.
The crush. however, was relieved I'm a
comparatively short time. for pedestrian
traffic was stopped at the Brooklyn end
of the bridge. and the throngs leaving
New York kept along on their way like
two great centip,des. II is estimated that
there were more than nifty thousand peo-
pie on the bridge az one time. Probably
AZ many more took the subway and as
many NOR. again left Manhattan 10y way
OF the ferries and the other bridges
Mr.. Dempsey. traffic manager Of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company said
that $50 surface ears anu W elevated trains
were thrown out OF schedule. +. u.
Hutchinson, an inspector for the Public
Service Commission. complmented tie
police very highly for their work in
handling the crowds. Three men were ar
rested. as detectives thought they were
trying To pick pockets. There was no one
injured IN the huge throng, although am
balances We're called from various hos
pitfalls. The damage was not more than
500. so Deputy chief Binns said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25

1t is not often that man buys one
newspaper for forty years without
break from a single newsletter. An IN
stance of the kind is found in the case
Of c. S. Hood, president OF the HOOD
Coal Company, of Seneca Falls, \. u
who on January il wrote check 10
the order Of Robert &. Wayne, STA
toner OF that town. which completed
forty years' subscription to The New
York Tribune.
Every six months during that period
Mr.. Hood received bill from his dealer
and every six months he paid TO nave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
READ TRIBUNE DAILY 40 YEARS
Seneca Falls Business Man Gives 80h Semi-annua Check
to Dealer Who Has Handed Him His Paper Over
the Same Counter for Four Decades.

The Tribune delivered To him over the
stationers counter An Endorsement on
the back of the last check, written IN
red ink by Mr.. Hood. reads as folioWS'
This check covers the eightleth
semi annual bill rendered me by
r. c. Wayne for Tho New-York
Trihune-compIetnq forty years
subscription. during a OF which
time the papers have been dellv-
cred to me over the counter OF Mr.
Wayne, and as rule by him.
Mr.. Hood began reading The Tribune
regularly in 1Si" and he says mat lie
finds no reason to discontinue his habit
in 1913.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
FIRE, SMOKE AND RAIN
CAUSE PANIC ON BRIDGE
Great Crowds SIosh Through
Wet and Darkness When
Traffic Stops.
BLAZE SOON PUT OUT
Crush and Blockade of Home.
goers Last Two Hours, but
None Was Hurt-Great-
est Jam at Park Row.

Flame and smoke beneath the Brook
lyn Bridge. just at the very heart Of the
rush hour. caused alarm among the
Brooklyn bound thousands. and absolute
Is stopped vehicular traffic FOR more than
an hour yesterday evening. Frightened
and excited. hundreds Of people caught
on the bridge I'm surface cars and Brook
lyn Rapid Transit trains jumped to the
roadways and started To walk. At both
ends OF the bridge were great crowds
waiting To be carried home. and these
took To the roadways and tramped
through rain and mud. Soon there was
such congestion that absolutely all traf-
hc was shut of from the Brooklyn ter
minal.
The fire itself was Of small import. as
IL caused but little damage, but IL was at
tended by such spectacular circumstances
that IL produced utter confusion until the
Police Department restored order. Ap-
paratus summoned from many fire houses
In the lower section Of the city soon
quenchcd the flames. but the feed wires
for the trolley and Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit systems had To be repaired. and II was
wcllngh two hours before anything Ike
normal conditions were brought about.
The police kept the crowds moving on
the bridge. and diverted all vchicular traf-
hc 10 the ferries and the Manhattan
Bridge In many instances. pedestrians
were urged 10 use the subway and TO take
the ferries and other bridges. and thus
relieve the congestion. which was severe
on the bridge roadwsys at times. The
ferries did their biggest business since
the subwayS were built
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
COLONEL SMITH IN HOSPITAL.

Colonel Clinton II. Smith. secretary Of
the Park Board. is seriously III at st.
Iukes Hospital. II was said that Colonel
Smith was taken i'll about two weeks ago.
He later went from his home. In Cathe.
dral Parkway. to the hospital. Colonel
smith has ncen In the Park Department
for more than a quarter OF a century. He
was commander of the list Regiment at
the time OF the Spanish American war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
ROBERT L. LUCE DINNER GUEST

Robert l.. Luce. the recently appointed
City Court justice. was honored last night
by a diner given for him at the Manhattan
Club by about thirty friends. lawyers and
Judges Among those present were Jus
tices Mclean and Seaman. Of the ST.
preme Court; Judge Dixie. Of the County
Court, In Brooklyn; John y. Stanchheif
State Senator spooner and ex-senator
john q SAKE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
Brokers Deny Responsibility.

The Stock Exchange firm of {. !. Hud-
son & Co. OF No. Is Wall street. with
which Beavers had his dealings. was
served with notice yesterday that the
First National Bank Of High Bridge
would hold IL responsible. the banks at
torneys Leventritt. Cook n Nathan. con-
tending that speculative transactions Of
the proportions which Beaverss amount ed
TO In the last two or three months should
have raised suspicion in the minds of
the brokers that something was wrong.
Charles Hudson said yesterday that
no irregularities or Violations OF Stock
Exchange rules had been committed by
his firm. Attorneys for the bank have
vouchers representing $4,000 drawn by
Beavers to the brokerage firm from Sep
tember %. 1912. to January 3.
on December | Beavers account with
his brokers represented on margin 1000
shares Consolidated Gas. 1000 shares
Beet Sugar and 500 shares each Of New
York Central and Baltimore q Ohio.
amounting TO nearly 100000. He also
had 100000 in bonds. as follows $4,000
each in Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Erie.
Atchlson. 81. Louis 4 San Francisco. Mis-
souri, Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee &
81. Paul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
sroTesBURY BUYS cUYP WORK

Edward 7. Stotesbury. OF Philadelphia,
according to THE American Art News"
has purchased for $4,000 from dealer in
this city "A landscape by A. Cuyp. Mr..
Stotesbury, u Is added, paid So. 0Ov three
years ago at the ". s. Henry sale. for
painting By Constant Troyon. "Retour
Ia Ferme."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
HIS PLUNCES IN SUGAR
UNLUCKY FOR CASHIER
Beavers, Who Admitted $1OO.'
900 Theft, Vanishes After
Making Partial Restitution.
BANK. ACCUSES BROKERS
High Bridge Institution VIII
Try to Hold Wall Street
Firm Responsible for
Money Lost.

1t was the goI OF i'll fortune that was
responsible for the downfall OF Abram L.
Beavers. defaultng cashier OF the flrst
National Bank. OF High Bridge y. 81
The man who. il is said. confessed on
Wednesday to having stolen between
$4,000 and $4,000 of the banks securities
and bonds. using the money in desperate
attempts TO buck the Wall Street market
was still missing yesterday. nor had any
word been received from him since ne
left his home In Glen Gardner. y. De-
Wednesday.
According to the alleged written and
signed confession OF Beavers. he lost
81 900 I'm South American diamond MIN
ing venture. When he realized, last fall'
that his money had gone he conceived the
plan OF restoring his shattered fortunes
by borrowing some of the bank Sc
curities
Beavers found il easy to take the BANK
securities without detection When Presl-
dent Chrystie went to California recent
~. the cashier was left practically In en-
tire control OF all finances.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
Asks State to Interfere.

surely" said the colonel IN the closing
paragraphs OF his letter, this represents
the ideal toward which We should strive.
with the purpose OF realizing II In each
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
Blaze in Toulouse.

IN. fire originated In Toulouse be-
meath the middle walk ~ the bridge just
opposite. the runway gate on the FIRST
level. This Toulouse was owned by the
construction company which l. doing the
tunnelling for the strcetcar loop that is 10
join the rev approach to the bridge. In
side IL were stored valuable tools and the
workmcn's overalls.
The rat pine @; the Toulouse and the
adjacent wooden framework furnish,d
line fuel for the fire. and by the time The
FIRST piece of apparatus arrived II was
blazing Justify. Deputy chief Binns ran
line of hose In. Just in time 10 be driven
back by q binding explosion The fire
had reached the feed wire supplying the
trollcys. and there was Il short circuit.
lIosemcn Iut stream on the burning
cable. but the electricity ran through the
rod Of water and BOWED tE. men over.
Th. fire was extinsuisheo in half an hour.
The trolley cars had stopped stock still
not more than a minute when the trains
went dead on their rails. when the pow er
vas turned of Ia avoid danger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
Tells Hardships Of Girls.

The colonel then takes up his own ex-
neriences among the striking workers es-
necially the foreign classes. pointing out
how their ignorance of the English Ian
euage makes them particularly helpless
under existing conditions. The ages OF
the girls he talked with. he says. ranged
from fourteen 10 eighteen years. ana their
wages were in some cases as low as );
a week. and even s. 30 a week. He found
one girl OF fifteen who worked FOR j. a
week. but had to pay with her own money
20 for the machine she worked on. An
other had to pay t32 for her machine
and tojled from S O'Clock in the morning
until at night while in summer. she
said. she had to pay 10 cents weeh
extra for ice water In the shop.
lie was particularly touched by numer'
ous instances he found OF girl workers
who had 10 support sick parents and
families consisting of several children on
the pittances they received. besides pay
ing for repairs to the machines and iof
thread and needles.
How Girls Money Goes.
lie also went into the conditions under
which the workers had to live. one girl
whom he cited as typical instance
earning 81 % week. out OF when she
maid g. month for her room and ss 50 for
breakfast and supper. leaving 81 a month
for dinner. or the midday meal. for car
fare for clothing. for medicine. Tor
dentist. for oculist. as well az for recrea-
ton. IL there was any"
In recommending the appointment OF a
state investigating committee he called
Inc attention of Assemblyman Schaap TO
the protocol under which the employers
and workers I'm the waist trade recently
arrived al a settlement calling especiai
notice 10 the remarks by julius Henry
Cohen contained therein. which he quoted
as follows:
The protocol in the dress and walls, m,
lustry. signed after deliberation. VIII
Itiue peace and economic order out OF
anarchy and chaos. Let employers gen
orally take notice. II they VIII but SIT
down and reason i'm conference with the
Dor. dynamite and sabotage viii pass out
OF this land and diplomacy and voluntary
courts OF arbitration will take their pace
Which il preferable? This Is Crisis IN
our nations industrial life. Let ms meet
IL as statesmen. not as anarchists. Inc
roectionaries OF both camps -caDital anu
sbor--are the real enemies al society.
Let us crowd them out. They have no
place in American democracy