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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-02


If l were in your country, if my
feet but touched your soil, without
entering into any trance after the
fashion of the prophetesses of an
tiquity, l should be inspired; by an
altogether inexplicable reflex 1 should
feel whether good or bad were lying
in wait for you! However, since the
ocean lies between us, l am obliged
to state my deductions and calcula-
lions, basing them upon the Amer
lean hands l have read and the astral
influences dominating your heavens
during 1914.
Your country is the modern Tower
of Babel, Messieurs les Americans.
All the languages are spoken there;
opinions and ambitions clash. 1t is
like those chemical fluids which unite
and produce fire. With you the fluids
are already in the same vessel; you
cannot prevent them mixing; result:
A jet of flame shooting into the air,
an explosion as of dynamite turning
your New World upside down.
America has reached the crest of
her rise; she has come to the summit
of her ascent. She must HOLD HER.
SELF THERE NOW-eIse fall
From a financial point of view, the
storm is gathering, the thunder
growls; catastrophes!
There are too many rich. Money
is too much in the hand of one man.
1t must be divided. We, in France,
had an aristocracy of blood; you, in
America, have an aristocracy of gold.
But all the time the people are
there. You seem to be counting revo-
luton. More than 100 years ago we
had our French revolution-the poor
against the mobiles; you may yet have
yours, the poor against the rich.
What lot of troubled consciences
there ought to be among those who
are struggling to keep for themselves
the fruits of labor and saving!
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-02


the United States included-thfere
are to be disasters and upheavals. g.
My predictions for America are not
very reassuring. My calculations
continue to give me frightful catas-
trophies from the elements-foods,
earthquakes, horrible railway accl-
dents. 80.
There are to be financial crises of =
a severe nature. Business men must
be cautious. Political crises will come
and these will be hard to set to rights.
Grave conflicts between high Off
Gals; many changes of men.
War with Japan is in the air. Oh!
This is not for the immediate present,
but, mesieurs, you must bear it in
mind.
Also you will have certain repub-
lies to bring to terms. You. will be
triumphant all along the line, but
there will be menaces of war before
this is accomplished and perhaps par
tial execution.
regret that l have not seen more
hands of American men; men high in
the financial and political world.
Then 1 could speak with greater
clearness and certainty.
But this can say-with the fear
that you will see it in the very near
future-that America is to be sorely
tried during 1914. Not only will you
have atmospheric calamities and
financial crises, but you will be de-
ceived by finding your big men have
fallen short of what was expected of
them, and incapable of setting things
to rights.
Your destiny is somber, tragic. The
United States must not go OF sleep
and dream her dreams of gold.
Gold does not suffice a great peo-
pie.
Years when Saturn and Mars
dominate the heavens are severe for
new countries like yours.
-. L..
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-02

Hghtened Judgment ~ -
We can all be clairvoyants if we
only learn to see. But how many of
us live and die without having seen
a thing!
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
DECISION A BLOW
TO THAW'S LAWYER
Ex-Governor Stone Of PennSyl-
vania Hints, However, at
Further Steps in Case.

Pittsburgh. Dec. H. Dishcartened
over the decision Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States IN which Harry
Thaw is ordered returned 70 New
York To- be tried ON a conspiracy
charge. Ex-Governor William 4. stone,
Thaw's principal attorney, said to-day:
"ls 1T really truc?' ! ann awiu.ly sorry.
Well. this is the end, for there is no
appeal. can hardly believe ~.
81. along with an others interested
in the case. expected q different de-
cision. / saw Thaw about month ago
and he was just "a sane and rational
as any man I know of just as sane as
hc could be-. II Is shame that he has
10 20 back 10 Mattcawan, because he Is
no more insane than ] am.
"When ] saw him he was positive
that be would secure q favorable de-
cision from the Supreme Court and so
we all were. However, there IS moth
ing more that can be done, at least for
the present
Asked whether the orders directing
that Thaw bc returned TO New York
and tried on the charge Of conspiracy
would not ultimately act m favor 81
the famous prisoner, In that IT would
helm prove the contention that he was
sane. Governor Stone said:
"That is something ] cannot say OF
hand. Before expressing any opinion
] along those lines ] would prefer 10 see
the opinion handed down the the SUI
Drcme Court
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
FIRE BLOCKS SUBWAY
Hundreds of Persons in Panic
After Short Circuit.

A thousand subway passengers be-
came panicstricken yesterday morn
ing, when clouds Of smoke, coming from
fire under a train, filled the 72d ct.
station. One man was badly cut when
passengers sought relief by breaking
car windows. Several women tainted
Following a short circuit, flames be
gan 70 creep up the sides of the sixth
car of a southbound train as Il was
pulling into the station. When word
spread that there was way out
through the first car there was a wild
rush for the exit, IN which a number OF
persons were bowied over.
BY the time a majority Of the crowd
had reached the platform the smoke
was so dense that the stairways could
not be located. Passengers on north
bound train, alarmed by the smoke,
piled out on 70 the platform.
A fire alarm was sounded and an am
buiance called from the Polytechnic Hos
pital. The fire was put out with hand
eXtinguishers Traffic was blocked for
half an hour
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22

Filled with the Christmas spirit, a
certain gift giver went TO the post
Office in the federal building yesterday
TO send a package by insured parcel
post. tie was directed TO 20 TO the
registry division, one fight up, and
there he found dark little room with
a long line of people trailing of from
one Of the windows.
To the genial gift giver's perplexity'
almost every face in the line wore
frown or a sour look. All who did not
look peevish looked blandiy innocent.
Several Of the more irruptlve ones
were muttering and imprecatng. One
scarlet-faced man, with q large bundle
under his arm nudgng its sharp cor
uers into the stomach OF the man ne
hind him. was lifting UP his voice IN
loud dcnunciGtion.
Not getting the idea at all and won
dering what had soured the general
Christmas spirit so. the newcomer took
his place and gradually moved toward
the window. lie wore one OF those
blandlv innocent expressions that ls'
he did until he reached the Wlndo"
and triumphantly plopped his giit oe-
fore the clerk.
you haven't got any tag on II
get a tag" the clerk said, showing me
cift aside and grabbing a bundle ou'
of the next mans hand.
The bland innocence on the genlai
ciyer's face was banished by a LOOK
of confusion. He gazed about pew
dered until he saw another clerk, VINO
larcuidlv handed him tag ana tneh
l,ert him waiting while he fumpled
sbort string out Of tangled skeIn.
"Fill il out" the dispenser OF tags
and strings said. -.
Tho gift giver found vacant spot
- a sbelf in dark corner, and waited
-o+iortIv until his neighbor got
tbroucb with a scratchy pen clogged
Win thickened ink. Then he began on
lie Rad not made more than two or
.bree entries before he realized ne
was making them wrong. MS Iace
clonded bit more. and he tore the
taq, i'm two and threw II on the uoor.
tSto did so he saw that the moor Was
Uttered with many other scratched
ard torn tags. so he knew he was not
,to onlv foolish one. He felt sure
tben that others had been misieG, as
bc had been. by the heavy black lines
an tbe tag. with indicators OF What
U,as Un 70 he written in on those lines
nrinted in small type between the
I;res 'n'' instead Of on the lines as in
other blanks he was used to filling out.
We vent timidly back TO the window
orJ asked the tag and string man ior
another outfit, and then, after ne hAa
9ound a place TO wedge in at the darE ii
sIeif with the scratchy pens and thick
Ink. he made mis- tag out with care r ana and
,,bat he thought was success. lhen
~ ut hack and Joined the end Of the
Inc, nT y by this time twice as long as at
sr', t'mt' There was only one window for
cyery one. Again, by slow inches he
moved up toward that window window anu anu
again plopped his parcel down oelo'e
@Whers are your stamps?-it isn't
stamped. sir" the clerk said. lie
banged the parcel down in the pan oi
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
HARD RULES TAKE ALL JOY
OUT OF GENIAL GIFT GIVER
He Finds Difficult Parcel Post Regulations, Enforced
Without Sense or Aid Compel Him to Take Place
Three Separate Times in Ever Lenghening Line.

a scale and said, put seventeen cents
worth OF stamps on it,
Again the genial gift giver was ban
ished from the line. His face wore an
injured scowI by this time. He began
% understand now why those people
In the line looked like such passionate
pilgrims. He looked about the dingy
little room for a stamp window and
found one over in corner with
kindly hammered old man inside.
This service is an outrage the gift
giver began.
81 know it's the stamp man agreed
How many times have you been IN
line?'
when get back it viii be my
third" the other replied. How - a
man 20 know there are no signs m
the room with instructions, and there
is no one here 20 direct you. Are you
supposed 20 know by instinct what 10
do? Why couldn't they sell me the
stamps 40 the other window after /
got an the way there? Is 1t the idea
20 make the parcel post as lnconyenl-
cut as possiblc.'
He was brushed aside By another
euraged person, who also was pos
sessed with a great desire 90 mail
present If he could solve the way 10
do 10. The erstwhiIc genial one stuck
his stamps on his package and again
took up his place at the end Of the
line. by this time three times az long
as 10 was at first. And after many
hack-ach.uC minutes he won his way
by creeping inches back to the window
for a third time.
The clerk grabbed the bundle. And
then the genial gift giver's heart
dropped three inches with a heavy
thud.
"You haven't put the value in the
clerk said. indicating a small blank
space on the tag that had escaped his
notice. He was about 10 turn away,
but with an impulse Of inspired bold
ness he grabbed a pencil out Of his
pocket and almost threw the figures
$50" into the blank space.
1T cost me only So he said TO his
neighbor as the clerk began banging
the package with a stamp, but I've
used up another five dollars worth Of
time mailing it,
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22

sistance or a home until she obtained
regular work.
Paving his last s. in advance for a
furu. shed room at IA west 4olh ST.
Charles Rodh. once prosperous EN- .
broidery dealer, well known throughout
the trade in this city, killed himself by
inhaling gas shortly after renting the
room. Rodh rented the room under an
assumed name. IL developed that ne
was the man arrested two weeks ago
for stealing two combs at tlttn aF.
store. valued ar SIG.
Rodh's brother Morris told the police
that his brother was q silent partner IN
an embroidery firm which failed two
wears ago. since which time he had
worked Internationally He formerly
lived az the Waldorf. the st. Regis and
other expensive hotels, his brother SAID.
He had a letter from his brother re-
Gently. asking him 20 meet him yester-
dav 10 90 20 Atlantic City, Morris said,
and instead he found note az ms
brothers old home address, l3Z west
SD ST.. telling him where his body
could be found. The dead man LETT
fourteen letters 70 friends and rela-
tives. He had a daughter, fourteen
years old. who lived with him at the
West SD ST. house.
When Mrs. Sophie Gursky and Mrs.
Barbara Fatsung. both of 50 Hudson
ST.. Passaic, y. j.. found guilty. OF
stealing bread and potatoes from last
Side stores 20 feed their starving chill
dren. were sentenced IN the city court
yesterday morning, both, almost at the
same instant. dropped their babes which
they were holding on the courtroom
floor and screamed.
The women. with the husband Of
Mrs Gursky, were caught robbing a
freight car on the Susquehanna switch
Sunday evening. Both Of the women
said their children had gone without
food for two days. The babes Of both
are not more than seventh months old.
Judge Costello allowed the. women
their liberty in the custody of Proba-
tion Officer James Strachan. They were
unable 20 obtain enough money 20 pay
their So fines yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
REPUBLICANS AND
MAYOR TALK LAWS
party Leaders Guests at
Dinner Given by Mitchell
and Frank L. Polk.
GIVEN BILLS FOR
CITY DISCUSSED
:. eQislatiOn Proposed One
Measure Plans ReOrganiza-
ton of Accounts Office.

.,...~ desired bv the municipal
LsgiS'@''.' .... .5;..,,sso5 o. tbe
sininisiraI'o' was vs. ~
rpiysrsity Club az q dinner gwen oy
vayor Mi.che. and corporation Oou"-
''a'r ", lac. night. Controller Prem
Sc. f0'N ''- -...4 .ho poa~a of
tsrgss, also ''P'7s''..'' ''o
g.amste. No definite decision was
...s.3 on any part Of the programme.
Is4'"' p.-.b-,csrs will confroi the
AZ tns N'F-o
-sx. legislature. ai me guests were
-, &, that party They were Fred
'--' e. Tanner chairman Of the state
sroA - e.-..., * Koor;~ cboir-
committee NA..-s. .--n,....7. =. n racal,
nsg Of iae ,'-.,-. -.-.r~,sr of tbe KinCs
4. Lyl'ss..,. s..s...-,.,sre Committee: Alfred
Gogl'! -b-.-~ar of the Kings County
; Na'si Co-wi+tae: Herbert Parsons.
Gshei-. .I.-t OGDEN J.. Mills. Assem-
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
FINDS XMAS FEAST
FOR 6 COSTS $6.44
Investigator Gives Menu
of Her Family Dinner
at That Sum.
TURKEYS CHEAPER
THAN LAST YEAR
Few Christmas Trees Here from
Belgium and No Mistletoe
Comes from England.

What do you think OF when some
body says "Christmas"? Answer
quick! That's it-presents, dinner
Including TURKEY, and a green
tree all covered with lights, with the
kiddies playing about the bottom Of IT,.
Well, never mind the presents: it's
the other things we're thinking Of.
And the first of these is dinner. A re-
porter's wife went out yesterday 10
ind out what IL would cost this year
10 feed a voraclous family OF six.
After Investigation IN the Washing
ton Heights district. where nearly all
newspaper men and their families are
isolated, she figured out that the least
10 could be done for was like this:
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
SMOKE AS THEY WORK
Thieves Find Comfort as They
Loot United Cigar Stores Safe

For the fourth time in less than two
years the United Cigar Stores shop at
1926 Third av. was looted by burglars
early yesterday morning A "can open
er" had been used on the safe. and a
litter of cigarette butts and burned
matches showed that the burglars had
smoked as they worked. They obtained
$500 in cash and considerable guam
tity of cigars, cigarettes and coupons.
Another gang who used no tools,
emptied the safe in the cashiers Office
of W. ". Harrison & Co., manufactur-
ers of walking sticks, at @53 Fifth av.
They got $4,000 cash from tGe cash,er's
safe. 4 smaller safe in the basement
containing platinum, gold and silver
had also been emptied. The apparent
ease with which the strong boxes had
been opened led the police to believe
that the thieves knew the combina-
fIOug
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
Three Die, One VaniSheS
in Face of Starvation
in Festive Season.
ONE VICTIM ONCE
ST. REGIS RESIDENT
Scenes of Extreme Poverty Move
Policemen, Who Buy Food for
Starving Children.

ne gripping hand Of poverty in the
shadow OF hard times. emphasized bv
me hoHday season approaching with
hothlng 10 characterize IL as Christ
mas, developed yesterday an unusual
number OF suicides and sad stories OF
stricken families.
In one case. a toy maker out Of
work killed himself because he had
become burden 20 his wife and three
children. He could not supply food
TOT them, let alone toys FOR his and
other children.
lie was Joseph Indelicato, forty-two
years old. lie was stricken with con-
sumption, but managed until recently
20 keep the wolf away by work in his
dingy tWo-room home at 1872 Chrystie
81 The toymaker shot himself while
his family slept.
The discharge of the weapon set fire
TO his underwear and the smell Of
burning cloth aroused his wife. who
stumbled over the body Of her nus
band on the floor Of the bedroom. He
was dead when Dr.. Phillips arrived
from Gouverneur Hospital.
Then il was learned that tho family
were two months behind IN the rent
80 % MONTH, were without food, and
had been living on scanty meals for
months. Three children, Tony, thirteen
years old; Dominick, six, and Maria,
two. lived in the bare home
Ignacia, girl of eleven, has for
the last six months been in the Rock
land County Hospital for Consumptives,
having contracted the disease from her
father. Tony had been forced TO leave
school because his clothes became
so shabby Patrolmen Walsh and
Festa, Of the Clinton st. station, bought
coal and food for the family, and the
children were awakened and fed.
Saddened by the approach Of Christ
mas and being out OF work caused
Frederick Wenz, sixty-four years old.
who had q furnished room at I l.33j
Gates av, Williams burg. 20 end his life
bv inhaling gas. He was found dead
Yesterday afternoon in his room. For
the last week he told friends that he
didn't care whether he lived or died;
that Christmas meant nothing 70 him
this year inasmuch as he had no work
or money.
An investigation, following the re-
port 20 The Bronx Detective Bureau
Yesterday by Mrs. Catharine Clark, of
25O East l36th ST., that her husband
had been missing from home since No
vember 80. uncovered another extreme
case of poverty. Mrs. Clark had been
served with dispossess notice, which,
If enforced, will leave her In the street
with her three small children on
Christmas Eve The rent for the four
small rooms they occupy IS SO, and
the mother is one month behind.
Mrs. Clark explained that her hus-
band. a truckman, left home on the
morning Of November 30, saying he
was going to look for job. lie never
returned and the mother said she
feared his dependency may have
caused him 20 end his life.
Tho four rooms were found bare Of
furniture yesterday All the family
belongings and keepsakes had been
packed in no old trunks in prospect
OF the comItg eviction. For some time
neighbors had done what they could
TO keep the family in coal and gro
ccries Mrs. Clark said she had no
relatives TO whom she could 90 for as
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22

should get five times the price we did
last year" said one tree merchant.
People are buying. however. You
know. Christmas is Christmas, and
they will celebrate II II they can. What
makes the supply smaller is that the
people who cut them have been afraid
this year 20 spend too much for trees
and labor
A man In Barclay ST. store that
was filed with sweet smelling pine and
other evergreens said there Was plenty
Of holly this Christmas.
Its always q good holly year when
is a good fruit year. he said. "Al-
most all Of it is domestic holly. We
have received only 300 Of those little
holly trees from Belgium aud Holland"
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
Sheriff Busy Moving Office.

The work Of moving the once Of
Sheriff Grifenhsgen from 2e9 Broad
way 70 81 Chambers st began yester-
day. The new quarters. on the third
floor Of the Emigrant Industrial Saw
ings Bank Building, will be ready for
business on Monday. The Sheriif's
Office is the only county Office that is
not in a public building.
The Office was moved from the Stew
art Building 20 its present quarters
about ten years ago by Sheriff Er-
langer, now justice of the Supreme
Court
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22

The turkeys are cheaper this year
than last. Standing in the midst Of a
heap Of pale white turkey corpses In
Washington Market, a large man in a
checked gingham ulster said yester-
day:
They're % cents a pound that is,
for the good ones. You can get any
number Of scrawny turkeys. Some
thing like this and he held up the
body Of a long deceased turkey. Deity
be yarked back the wings from the
bosom of the bird and showed a thin
chest, in which the breastbone was the
most prominent feature.
THAT guy oughter had FIVE or six
more pounds on him." ne continued
THE trouble is that there's been too
much good weather; the turkeys had
too much chance 10 run about.
"They were 30 cents this time last
year. One reason the demands not so
good is because few people are givin'
away free turkeys like the business
houses did last year"
Dealers said Christmas trees were
less plentiful and the demand not az
good as in 1913.
"Considering the small stock, we
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
THAW ORDERED BACK TO
NEW YORK FOR TRIAL

He has nevertheless moved about the
state whenever desire prompted him.
Published pictures show him casting a
tiy. hoping for a rise from a brook trout.
He made his permanent home for d
time i'm Concord, but recently bought
q house in Manchester and has lived
there.
He has often denied that he had any
idea of trying 10 Kill his wife. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw. whose relations with
White before her marriage were really
responsible for his murder, June 25,
1906. She testified at both his trials
and did not spare herself in her ef-
forts to save him from punishment for
his crime She is now dancing in vaude-
Vile and has recently expressed the
hope that Harry be kept in c5nfne-
ment
Thaw's first trial. begun Janucry %.
1907. and ended April II, resulted in a
disagreement. His second trial started
January s, 1907, and February 1 he was
acquitted on the ground that he was
insane when he shot White.
He was committed TO Natteawan NJ
once. and although he tried legal
methods and even bribery, he was not
able TO get out until his escape, a year
ago last August, which brought free
dom that is now apparently near its
end
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
Arrest Man in Death Case.

Evon Berbesky. who Is accused Of
shooting 20 death stephen Janowich
while a woman pinioned his victim
arms. was arrested yesterday on a
farm al Springfield, Long Island. He
viii be arraicned in the Manhattan
av. police court to-day charged with
homicide. The shooting followed a dis
pute over "a card game in "a saloon on
johnson av. Williamsburg.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22
Petition Is Withdrawn.

On motion Of the creditors, the bank
ruptcy proceedings against the Amer
lean Steel Barrel Company. of which
Nellie BLY, was at on" time CHIEF stock
holder and president, were dismissed
yesterday by Judge Hough 900 the
United States District Court. No one
opDoaod
New-York tribune., 1914-12-22

r.-. -r-...-...... ...-r..,- - .to C,;-,-
mai ir.ere Ju.tice Uolmes read the
J..cfsi,-
SO other phase OF the proceeding
tha. have followed the killing Of Stan
ford White was cons. .cered except che
question Of returning his slayer from
New Hampshire O. .Ee Indictment. Al.
other cue rioGs are for the state OF
New York -J decide.
Justice Holmes FIRST orerrllcc The
contention chat it was not @ crime for
q man confined In an insane asylum 20
walk out il he could, and that, there
fore. conspiracy t0 do so was not .
crime.
I've do NOT regard .t a. open 20 de-
bate" he continued, "that the with
GravaL bv coUu.va-cc. % man from
an insane asylum. 90 which he had
been committed, a. ILaw was, did tend
20 obstruct the duo admins traton or
the law. At least, -Ac Zew York courts
may so decide. therefore. the lndlct-
ment charges crime. li tHere is any
remote defect ln inc carrier proceed
lngs by winch ina" was committee
winch we are far from ihtlmatlng' Jhis
Us not the time ana place Tor mat qles-
non 20 be tired.
"Not Thaw's Trial" Says Justice.
Justice Holmes said the most serious
argument for Thaw was that # he were
insane when he contriFed hls escape,
o'.- "'l ue Auii-y 'lli"e, "uilei '!ti
ITO. INSANE -t vas e'.,sleu
To "e u'scHai yea, ana tHay MS eoH,'lle
l.el- ''4 o'neI .a'.s =" me ll0oIu 0ooID..ls re-
''-e1 '.' supreme Noul, " u'i'S
-N"- H' vas INSANE.