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LOCOMOBILE STRIKE NEAR.
WOrkmen Threaten WnIkout he.
fore End Of Week.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn, Aug. 3.-There will
be 4 strike at the plant Of the Locomo-
bile company OF America befrre the end
OF the week. according TO announcements
made at a mass meeting OF employees
to-day.
beuourCing the pr III sharing plan OF
the Locomobile Company as a ruse to
escape granting The eight hour day and
asserting hat IL had not caught the
suckers II was intended to catch" Fred
er'ck Cederholm. a former Alderman and
now a member OF several commissions
Of the city government. made a stirring
address before several hundred workers
More concessions will be offered by
the Locomohilc Company before II is
through he said. but the demands Of
the men will be INST the eight hour
day. then more wages and then better
working conditions
George J. Bowen, business agent OF the
maChin.sts uni, n. was restrained from
speaking by the police. They refused to
allow C~cderholm l. address the work
men until he demanded permission from
the Mayor and Lieut. Gov. clifford h.
Wilson.
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WIDOW, BUT NEVER MARRIED.
Rules In Case of NaIrria
GrunwRId WcIIisch.

by a ruling Of Surrogate cohalan yes
terday Valera irunwall WellisCh was
declared To he the widow Of Victor
Neliisch. a wealthy wine merchant, who
died February II last. although she
admitted there never was a marriage
ceremony and that she did not meet
Wellisch until January =. 1912. ten years
after the statute abollShing common law
marriages was passed. As "A result Of
surrogate cohalan's decision. Louis
Kahn was removed as administrator OF
the Wellisch estate and the common
law wife was named in his place.
The facts were that Mrs. Wellisch.
then "A shop girl of 80, met Wellisch,
who was IS. in his place, the cafe Com
mercial, a T~ineshop At Second avenue
and Eighth street. He proposed mar
riage at once and without any delay
she became "A mcmbe: of his household.
The testimony showed that Wellisch
bought the young oma a wedding
ring and on January II last got "A mar
riage license. which was never used.
Wcllisch introduced the young woman
as his wife to members of his lodge.
Wellisch was stricken with heart fail
ure while walking on the street with
his wife and expired in her arms. Just
before he died he old her his prop
erty belonged to her, but on the day OF
the funeral Louis Kahn, acting in the
interest of Dir. NJ. Wellisch. las Spruce
street, and Arpard Wellisch, l15 West
Twenty-seventh street. brothers of the
decedent, removed all his important pa
pcrS from his desk and later had him
self appointed administrator. The two
brothers testified they never knew that
the woman described as Naleria Grun-
wald was Wellisch's wife.
The case is said to be the first in
which a common law wife has been de-
clared the legal wife of IA deceased per-
son since he law abolishing such mar
riages went into effect in 1902.
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For n week or two Parsons was al
the workhouse and then for som" reason
not vet clear in his %counsers mine tho
prisoner was detailed to the West SID
court in Fifty-third street. where he
now performs various duties around the
prison.
and he seems to have many stancr
friends and admirers to Judge from the
,fhdayits submitted with his own-be-
p,r tn wonder as the days passed what
had become of him, Then his name ap'
peared in a article about ar
rests at the monkey house and his
friends set to work to free him.
Most shocked of all were his en-
p,oyer. Raymond II, Iierrick, proprietor
OF Routon's Candy Company at 1873
Broadway, where Parsons was a clerk,
and the clerks employed by the frm.
so they said yesterday. when they
lea rned that Parsons had been locked
up on a charge, the real nature Of which
il uncomfortable. Many OF the clerks
are girls and all of them agree with
Mr.. Herricks affidavit that II is i'm
possible, knowing Parsons as we'll as
they do. to believe him guilty.
Mr.. Herrick employed Parsons early
last winter on the high recommendation
of Supt. Dennison of the employment de-
Dartment or the west sue I. VI, y. ~,
where Parsons was taking a night
course to enable him to get a chauffeur's
license,
Others who swore to afiida Wits sub
mitted to Judge Grain We're A. Warren
Spalding, n florist, who is clerk OF the
Calvary Baptist Church; J. Newton
williams, "A lawyer of 23s Broadway {:
President =. Raymond Estey of Estey
Bros. Company. contractors in orna-
mental iron and bronze work at 270
Union avenue, The Bronx Henry a.
Potter of All West Fifty-seventh street.
Edwin NJ. Warder, Jr,, of ~ Warren
street and others, Not only do these
men assert their belief In Parsons's in
nocence, but, according to the affidavit,
he may have his old job back and his
place In the choir again whenever he is
freed,
Parsons's father holds a Federal posi-
ton of "A nature which IL told here would
perhaps nause readers to guess the
name Of the small town within 800
miles OF New York"
Judge Grain took Parsons's appeal
under a~dvisement, the court expressing
some doubt as to his right to set aside
a Judgment after a plea of guilty had
been entered by a defendant.
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ia rsOns'S tTtdaNit.
The affidavit follows in part:

The affldaNit plloN in part
Il did not remain long because the
place was foul and oppressive. As /
was going out a man took hold OF ms
arm and said he wished to speak 20 me
outside. When We got outside he
showed his badge, told me he WAS an
officer, and asked me to go with him to
the station house.
This officer came and talked to mo
at the cell door two or three times
before I was arrdigned before the Mag.s-
trate. was so shocked at the charge
and the predicament ! was in that my
senses almost left me. | was entirely
innocent OF any wrongdoing.
Il could think only Of the terrible dis
grace which would cause me the loss
OF my friends. my business position and
my position H. my church and In the choir
Of which | am a member. and most OF all
the grief and sorrow of my parents
should the news get to them. ! men
toned these things to The officer and he
told me | need have no fear OF losing
my position or suffering any disgrace
IL would take his advice, which was
to plead guilty, He said the Magistrate
would undoubtedly suspend sentence
and that would be allowed to go
home at once.
..When | was arraigued before the
Magistrate this officer talked 10 the
Magistrate. but were 7 stood I could
not hear one word he said. The MaGis-
trate then turned TO me and asked me
what | had to say, and with nothing
in my mind but 10 take the officers adj
vice and get out OF my trouble ! said
Your Honor. am guilty | was then
sentenced to three months in the work
house.
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MOVIE METHODS HELP
WIFE IN DIVORCE SUIT
Takes Husband for Drive
Which Ends at Jail-RO-
nance Shattered.

HackESsAcK. y. J.. Aug. 3.-Frank
T. Hallack. a moving picture actor n
director. who IL know on the screens
as 'Hal August Went to jail in de-
fault OF $1,000 bail to-day on "A writ OF
ne exeat in a divorce proceeding insti-
tuted by his young and attractive wife.
Corinne NJ. Hallack Of Rutherford. who
met him last Easter Monday and after
seeing him three times married him the
following Monday in Weehawken. Mrs.
Hallack's lawyer. Addison Ely. Jr., Sc
cured the writ TO insure support for her
pending Hallack's answer to the divorce
petition filed on July &c.
Mrs. Hallack. who is only 30 years
old Is the only daughter of Supt. Fred
erick r. Hooker. Of the F1intkote Com
pany of Rutherford. A girl friend in
troduced Hallack to Miss Hooker at
her apartment at li4th street and River
side Drive. She gave him Miss Hooker's
name and he sent the latter his pictur"
before they met. A week later, April
l.. the Rev. George Angleman joined
them in wedlock. Their marriage was
kept secret for some time.
Hallack visited his wife every day
for two weeks and after that, according
TO his own words. kept in close touch
with her. the approaching summer sea
son keeping him busy. On Monday he
started to visit his wife in rutherford.
She met him In a car. drove him around
town and turned him over to Sheriff
Robert y, Heath. In her petition for
divorce she alleges improper conduct
with other women in New York.
The application for alimony pending
q determination OF the suit will be heard
in Trenton mex Tuesday. Hallack
meanwhile awaits $1,000 bail. One of
his callers to-day was Mrs. Addie Sell
lars Of ll9 West Seventy-irst street.
Manhattan, who is mentioned In Mrs.
Hallack's petition for divorce,
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B. R. T. sHUNs TUBE TO BRIDGE.
Funnel Costing Ss8S,OOO Remains
burden on city.

Action by the Legislature may be
before the public can make
use of the subway connection between
the levated tracks of the Brooklyn
Bridge and the present terminus OF the
Centre street loop beneath the Municipal
Building.
This connection. built at a cost OF
ss6s,O 600. of which s+6s.oOO was spent In
buying land and leases. has been ready
since January | and is costing the city
sl09.75 a day in interest charges. with
out any return, When II was started
the Bridge Department thought that tho
b. II. 7. would gladly use it to send its
trains through the Centre street loop
across both the Brooklyn and Williams
burg bridges. But the r.. X. r. declines
to pay the 5ia per cent inerest on the
city's investment demanded by the law
under which the tunnel vas built.
The Public Service Commission has no
right to order any company to operate
ears where a rental Is concerned. The
difficulty could be met by making the
bridge connection a legal part of the
dual rapid transit system. Such action
would have to be ratified by the Legis-
lature,
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OFFER OF MEDIATION IS
REJECTED BY
Members of Metal Trades Association Determine to
Stand Firm in Face of Demands by Machinists
and Deadlock Is Forecast.

The New York branch Of the National
Metal Trades Association. representing
a majority of the machine shops In the
metropolitan district. refused absolutely
yesterday an offer to mediate the wage
and hour differences between employers
and employees on which a shop BY shop
strike Of 10000 to $4,000 metal trades
workers is threatened.
Col. Michael j.. Reagan, state mediator
OF industrial disputes. who volunteered
his services to the machinists' heads and
to the employers. represented by Henry C.
Hunter. a lawyer OF 80 Church street.
was informed by the latter that there
was nothing to arbitrate.
As a consequence II was apparent
that a general strike OF the machinists
and other metal trades workers In the city
will probably mean a deadlock. En-
Outraged by their victory In Bridgeport
and similar concessions from manufac-
turers In Plainfeld and other cities In
New Jersey. J. J. Keppler, vice-president
Of the International Association of Ma
"'' NV iVNhi nue. 90
mapped out a fight to the finish cam
paign for eight hours and more pay.
keppler intends to pull" each shop as
the opportunity presents itself. on the
other hand, the manufacturers here. 1t
was said. have determined to refuse the
workers demands as a matter OF policy.
And II necessary. they say, they will EN-
ploy strike breakers to carry on work at
their plants.
Col. Reagan's personal services we're
offered In an effort to prevent the strike
from spreading from the Garvin Machine
Company to other factories. The Car
vim company has shut down It's plant
completely. According to the strikers at
least 700 men are out, but Mr.. Hunter
placed the number at 500. A dozen
picke;s are on duty at the works. at
Spring and Narick streets. They will re-
main on the job until a meeting Of the
strikers is held on Friday morning at
179 Narick street. when others will be
assigned TO the task Of watching the
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CoNvICTs OUT ON JUNKETs.
Warden Osborne said to Have Let
Them Visit New York.

ALBANY. Aug. 3.--That Warden Os-
borne of Sing Sing allowed long term
c~onvicts to visit New York eta some
times alone and sometimes in the com
pany of keepers, is said to be proved
by copies of Warden osborne's orders
in the possession of State Supt. OF
Prisons Riley. They We're among the
papers over which Mr.. Osborne and Pat
rick II. Mcdonald. confidential agent OF
the Prison Department, had n fight at
the railroad station in Ossining on the
day Of Becker's execution.
All of the conticts permitted to leave
the prison and go Ia New York returned
to Sing Sirs. one prisoner, Daniel
O'Day, who was serving a term of six
to tw~enty-four years for attempted muir
der in the first degree, after being re-
turned safely from such an excursion,
made an attempt to escape from Sing
sing on July "A this year and was trans
fcrred 10 Danuemora.
Gov, Glynn ordered the removal nj
Thomas j. Mccormick, Mr.. Osborne's
predecessor. as warden of Sing Sing for
permitting David A., sullivan, wrecket
of the Union Bank in Brooklyn, to act
as his chauffeur and to accompany him
and his family On automobile trips to
lOnkers and TO New York city.
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who had talked with O'Day before his
escape, and who also made arrange
ments by which the convict Murphy got
into the death house TO talk with Becker.
But Mr.. Osborne would not discuss that
report.
Nothing wrong can be brought home
to me- said the warden emphatically.
The warden said he had no doubt that
escapes from the prison were encouraged
and aided from the outside. He pointed
out that after one man had escaped ana
been brought back it was learned that
an empty whiskey bottle was found
near where he had been working.
From friends Of Mr.. Osborne certain
phs ses of the opposition to the warden
and the reasons for IL were obtained
They gave support to the charge already
made by Mr.. Osborne that an attempt
was being made to frame him up and
provide an excuse for his dismissal ny
the Superintendent OF Prisons.
II was pointed out first that the
wardenship of Sing Sing always mas
been regarded as n political plum THAT
should go TO Westchester county. Ac-
cordingly the appointment of Mr.. Os-
borne. an upstate man. has been as
sailed as the invasion OF a carpetbagser
anu NtSANlltEAtA
shouting for his scalp.
Another view, set forth by MI
Osborne's friends. il that prison re-
ormers who have chung TO certain IDEAS
for a ouarter of "A century and VINO nave
their life work around those
theories are not enthusiastic wheh
another man comes forward and de-
nounces them as all wrong n seeks 10
the falsity of those theories. the
warden's friends assert that this Is
exactly the position that Mr.. Osborne
occupies at the present time. Many
other prison reformers are decrying MS
methods and would not be sorry to see
the warden all.
In the third place II was asserted tnat
Mr.. Osborne has undertaken the task OF
driving politicians away from the
prisons. He IL seeking TO break up the
connection between crooked politicians
on the outside and crooked keepers on
the inside.
Mr.. Osborne has sought TO do away
with corruption that took from prisoners
any sense OF justice they might have LETT
and to show them that there is real
Justice n decency in the world.
1t Is the fight with the remnants OF
the old prison ring, il was asserted. that
is the hardest thing the warden has to
tackle.
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plant. AT a meeting yesterday morning
the men renewed their determination to
stay out until the company grants their
demands for eight hours and a Is per
cent. raise In wages.
George X. Garvin. president OF the
company. referred all inquiries to Mr..
Hunter. who will represent all the mem.
bers OF he employers organization az
fected by strikes. Col. Reagan visited
the local machinists' headquarters at 1l6
Nassau street and then visited Mr..
Hunter. L. J. Deering. business agent
OF the district, told him the machinist
leaders were ready and willing to meet
the manufacturer for the purpose Of
arbitrating the rour and wage ques-
ton, but Mr.. Hunter told Col. Reagan
that the employers saw no reason to
accept his good Offices. Mr.. Hunter
told a reporter for THE SuN later that
no meeting with the Moi leaders had
been arranged and that If the Garvin
concern intended to treat with the
strikers 1t would do so through his
Office.
I'VE intend to stand pat" said Mr..
Hunter. 1T is the policy in this city
and II has also been determined upon
for Chicago. The Garvin plant is closed,
but we can start IL up again tomorrow
If we wish. The Garvin ompan has
no rush or penalty orders to fill. Any
how. We can get plenty of men to nil
the strikers places"
TIE New York branch of the National
Metal Trades Association represents most
OF the machine shops in the city. The
national association has an enrolment
OF $4,000 workers. Mr.. Hunter. coun-
sel-secretary of the New York branch.
In explaining the employers position az
this time OF a threatened general tieup.
especially on war munitions work. said
the manufacturers would follow the
same policy they pursued in the 1911
strike OF machinists and continue to run
their shops in spite of strikes IL they
deem II necessary to fulfil contracts.
Mr.. Keppler met the local leaders. T..
J. Deering, Michael J. Carney. William
Bramley, George Stelgenbauer and the
New Jersey business agents, Thomas
Carol n Hugh Reilly, yesterday morn
ing at ll6 Nassau street. keppler said
out OF nine manufacturers whom he had
met in Plainfield and vicinity only ono
refused to consider the eight hour day
and increased wages. He expects an adj
justment there which will obviate the
necessity for a strike,
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STRIKE OF 10000
TO-DAY Is HALTED
Mayors COnciliatOrs Get Delay
in Final Effort to Pre-
vent Trouble.
MAY CALL OUT 10000

The Council of Cancellation appointed
by the Mayor decided yesterday to make
a last attempt to-day to prevent a gen.
eral strike of the c~loakmakers.
II this effort fails, the cloakmakers'
leader. according to Benjamin Schles-
niger, president of the international
Ladies Garment Workers Union, will
call out, in addition to the 10000 cloak
makers, about $4,000 other workers, In
Guiding designers. foremen and cloak
models. Schlesinger consented last night
to delay the strike one day.
Manager solomon Polokon Of the La
dies Waist Makers Union said yesterday
that according to the constitution OF the
International Ladies Garment Workers
Union $4,000 shirtwaist makers would
have TO strike in sympathy with the
~oloakmakers, If called upon to do so.
Should it be necessary. it was said in
an official statement by the garment
workers leaders. 1iS.0O0 ladies' gar
ment workers will be called out on
strike.
The Mayors Council of Cancellation
sent the following letter yesterday to
the international Ladies Garment
Workers Union.
The Mayors Council of Cancellation
has requested the executive board of
the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacture
ers Association and also requests your
committee to meet with IT tomorrow
morning at 10 80 o'clock, at the rooms
OF the Bar Association, AZ West Forty
fourth street, in a final. and We trust
successful. effort to adjust the differ
ences between employers n worker in
the cloak industry. We hope your COM
mittee will find 1t convenient to attend"
President Schleslnger of the union is
sued the following statement The
general executive board of the inter-
national union. in executive session, set
the day for q general strike. The date Is
being kept secret. The union officials
could do nothing else except hold them
selves in readiness for a general strike
when the rank and file of the union by
It's vote of 39,337 to ISL ordered a gen.
eral strike"
II was said yesterday that the strike
was to have been called to-day.
Upon receiving the request OF the
Council OF Cancellation last night presi-
dent Schlesinger said "Out of defer
cnce to the Mayor We have deferred the
calling of a general strike until We get
a nance to meet the Council Of Con
citation tomorrow"
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But the warden would make no COM
ment when this remark was put up TO
him. He said that Mr.. Riley was per-
fectly justified in sending for any papers
on file at Sing Sing, but he, the warden.
did not assume that Mr.. Riley would
seek to defend the actions of Macdonald.
When newspaper articles bea ring an
Albany date line and purporting to give
derelictions on his part were shown to
him he commented on some of them,
but he made 1t clear that he was not
making answer to Mr., Riley-for the
charges We're not made by the Superin-
tendent of Prisons.
One was the reference to the fact that
Convict Murphy was enabled to hold
converse with Charles Becker in the
death house on a Sunday night when a
double quartet went theSe to sing
hymns for the consolation of the con-
demned men.
Mr.. Osborne explained that the GUS
tom of letting the singers go INTO the
death house on Sunday evenings was
started before he became warden, out
that 1t was the duty Of the attendants
70 make sure that no one communicated
with the men condemned to die,
Murphy had no right to go in there"
said the warden, "and the Murphy af-
fair shows that Principal Keeper Martin
Deely, who has been suspended, did not
do his duty. If ! had not already sus-
pended him ! would do so now"
There were hints from Albany also
that Mr.. Osborne had been delinquent In
giving privileges to three men who es-
capped and to one other who escaped but
was caught. The warden said that IN
several instances those men had been
permitted outside the prison walls In
violation of his instructions to the con-
trary.
MI. Osborne would not comment on
the report, obtained from reliable
quarters, that Macdonald had been in
consultation with a convict named
bDaN. who escaped twice, Some strik-
ing details of lh" actions of one Of the
conNicts who was in close touch with
Macdonald mere Obtained to-day.
1t was assorted that a delegate of the
Mutual Welfare Brotherhood, a convict
IN high standing, Was the same person
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ANOTHER LINE WANTS
WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
Manhattan Cent Railway
Joins in Competing With
B. r. T. for Tracks.

Another bidder for the privilege Of
iamsburg Bridge appeared yesterday. II
was the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent
With the Third avenue
also after tn. contract Bridge Commits
sloner kracke now has two advan-
tageous offers to consider in case the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and
the New York Railways Company per-
sist in their refusal to allow the city
a larger share OF the profts from their
lease OF the bridge tracks.
The Three Cent Lines offer came 10
Mr.. Kracke in a letter from President
Frederick w. Rowe. He wrote:
The city owns the bridge and the
tracks on the bridge. and II ought to
own the cars II the car barn. so that
the entire equipment could be leased
upon terms giving the city appropriate
compensation, or. in the alternative,
operated by the Commissioner OF Bridges
himself"
In behalt OF his company Mr.. Rowe
offers to provide modern new cars larger
than those now in use. to erect a car
barn near the bridge and to install ele-
vator at the Brooklyn end of the bridge
so tha the many factory employees OF
the waterfront woul be saved a long
walk.
The company wants a ten year con-
tract and s per cent. interest on its
investment. Surplus profits would be
shared equally with the city after an
appropriate sum for amortization had
been set aside. At the end of the ten
years all the property would pass to the
city.
Commissioner Kracke will lay the offer
before the Board of Estimate.