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REBELS VOW TO END
PRISON SELF-RULE
Anti.Osborne Inmates Say
They'll Not Participate in
Another Election.
WARDEN T N TO-DAY

ossNrNo. N. =, Dec. Sizing sings
inmate government. several prison at
tanhes announced to-day. IL about dis
rrpted because Of the interference OF
Warden r. NJ. Osborne. who has FORBID
den the seating If the ins,rgent anti
Osborne cabinet.
The anti-O sborne faction Of the Mutual
Welfare League. Of which Charles Con-
dorf. the wire Taper. Is h recognised
leader. charges that It's recent victory at
the polls has been nullified and that TO
excuse the use Of h steam roller an
officially inspired story was published
yesterday OF a mythical Jail delivery plot
by the insurgents.
An official promise of a new election
instead OF pacifying the anti-Osborne
majority. has only added fuel to the
flames. The insurgents are openly vow.
ing that self-eovernment has seen III
finish and that they will not participate
In another election
sixty delegates were chosen at the re.
Gent Et'H'-tililudl tist'iphH VI thho buIu'
ber The anti-Osborne forces control about
thrce-iifths. Before the delegates con-
,en.a they caucused and decided to elec,
now members to tho executive board
which has nine seats.
The caucus, keepers say, showed that
George Hodson. favored by Osborne. wa,
beaten for reelection. So were other
who have had the run Of the warden's
residence and office since elected to tn,
old cabinet. The %insurgent delegates
Including Gondorf, Jimmy Stuart, Petel
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SHIP CARD SHARP GETS
TERM AS DRUG SELLER
"Doc" Biegel, Who Was Driven
From England. Sentenced
to Atlanta Prison.

Doc" Henry Blegel who. he says. va
once medical adviser to Prince RadSiwil
but Is better known now as a transat-
lantic care player, pleaded guilty before
Judge julius M. Mayer In h United
States District Court yesterday to nav
ing cocaine. morphine inc heroin In his
possession In violation OF tho Harrison
act.
Well attircd and looking surprisingly
healthy for a man who had just been
cured Of the drug habit. Biegel told the
Judge that he had suffered all the tor
lures and aSonies possible to a drug
user in the throes of recovery n asked
that ne be given q charrce to become a
decent citizen. Under the judges sem
tence he will get a chance. nut after he
has served three years In Atlanta Peni-
tertiary.
Judge Mayer used Biegel's CASE NJ an
illustration Of the wisdom Of treating
drug users arrested under the Harrison
law in hospitals rather h sending
! them to ordinary jails. The Judge I'D
| vocated the establishment by Congess Of
| curative prisons or hospitals throughout
| the country in which this class Of prison.
ers might be confined.
But until Congress establishes such
| curative hospitals We shall have to re-
sort to the primitive method of sending
you Il JAIL" added the Judge.
Assistant United States Attorney
| Harold A. Content old the court that
Biegel had set up q fake business as an
importer and exporter Of drugs n In
this way had purchased large quantities
of cocaine, morphine and heroin He re-
tailed this through peddlers and made
a small fortune. Mr.. Content said.
DOC" Biegel is a graduate Of HeideI-
berg and studied medicine at anotheS
German university but never secured q
license here. Only six months before
his arrest on the drug charge he was de-
ported from London under the defence OF
the realm act. the British authorities
having learned that be ~ born IN Ger
mANy.
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Cullen. the prison bridegroom, and
others. doomed q. X. Bill Myers. Jimmy
Jasper and other pro-Osborne league ON
GERS to the political scrap heap.
Then something happened. suddenly
from the warden's office. the keepers
say. there came ar announcement that
tho old cabinet must be returned and tina
another election probably would be called.
This raised a storm and neccss!tated an
explanation.
Employees of various departments.
who have a chance to feel the popular
pulse in the prison. attribute the revolt
against the old ablne to the growing
feeling that he old guard has become
decadent.
Word had gone around the prison that
the inmates should reflect pro-Osborno
officers as u vote Of confidence for Mr..
Osborne. who is under fire by investiga.
tors. The old guard asserted that Mr..
Osborne's stump speeches had ined up
the people outside the prison. that he
had procured able attorneys to defend
indicted convicts who would beat Dis
trict Attorney Weeks, and that all that
WAS needed to make Mr.. Osborne's sup
port unanimous was the election Of his
ticket Of league officials.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec. e.-As the
investigation Of AFFAIRS at Sing Sing
prison nearS lts Close interest centres
In the story which Warden Osborne will
tell the Westchester Grand Jury to-
morrow morning. He has promised TO
give his side Of the prison controversy.
Following his testimony II Is reported
that the Jurors will make a private In
| spection OF the prison and try to see
the workings Of the Mutual Welfare
League.
DIR. Charles W. Farr. who resigned
under fire as physician avd surgeon M
| the prison. was n OF the principal wit.
nesses to-day. DIR. Matthew Eisenberg
a foreer serving n long sentence. was
brought to the prosecutors office or
crutches. Another witness WAS Charles
| Gcndorf.
Edgar L. Ryder. a lawyer of Ossining
obtained the release Of Isaac Grossmar
on $4,000 bail pending the action of tn,
Grand Jury OF a charge of perjury
Grossman was arrested on complaint o.
District Attorney Weeks. He said h,
was the victim Of a franleup and wa,
being prosecuted because he testified IL
the interest Of Warden Osborne.
Superintendent of Prisons John q
Riley frustrated to-day a plan OF War.
den Osborne to send DIR. Eiseuberg t
Auburn prison. A draft OF fifty-nine in,
mates goes up State tomorrow and Mr.
Osborne tried to have Elsenbery rams
ferred. but Supt- Riley did not assent.
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Made OF Worumbo Beaver in all
the good shades and beautifully
trimmed. II you want 70 see real
happiness buy one for some appre-
ciative man.
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The coats need no introduction
to men who have travelled, but
our prices do. Lowest in the City
by actual investigation, $3%.7S to
$3.50.
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About
Suits &
AT $19.75

Enough favorable comment has been passed
about these clothes to make them about as
popular as a Broadway Star. They come from
the best clothes makers in America and represent
style and quality rarely, if ever. found in clothes
that sell at $22 and more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
H. B. CLAFLIN
CO. EXPANDING
Lease Worth Street Building
from NJ. B. Brandegee.

Cross & Brown Company has rented
through its downtown Office the build
ing. 49xs0. at 20-22 Worth st. for
". B. Brandegee to the H. 3. ClaAin
Company; also the store at "a Leonard
St. for NJ b. Brandegee to Sachs &
Steinberg for term of years.
Daniel Birdsall & Co. have rented
for a long term Of years AZ an aggre-
gate rental of about $4,000. the store
and basement. and West Twenty
ninth St. TO Schwabach 4 Raphael.
cotton dress goods merchants. for
many years located in Leonard st. This
store is just west of Fifth av.. where
Burton Brothers & Co.. cotton mer-
chants, are erecting at the northeast
corner Of Twenty-ninth 50. and Fifth
av.. large building for their own
occupancy.
Corn & Co have leased for |. d. &
". l. Rothschild the store l543 Broad
way. in the Gaicty Theatre Building. to
the Vassar Apparel Shops; for A. Ko-
sower and j. NJ. Adrian. as agent, the
corner store AZ us Delaney St, 10
David Kronfeld. for Round Robin
Realty Corporation. 5000 square feet
at $40 West Nineteenth ST.. 10 Adolph
Deutsch; and TOR the United Stores
Land & improvement Co.. the corner
store in the Heidelberg Building
Broadway and Forty-second St. TO the
Heidelberg Shop for a mems furnish
ing establishments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
Convention Leaders Plan
Legislative Programme
to CheCkmate Move.
LEGISLATURE MIGHT
CRIPPLE MEASURES
Feared They Will Kill Simple
Civil Practice Act-Amend-
ments Ready Thursday.
From san Correspondent o, The rribun,


Albany, Sept. 7.-Confdent that the
proposed constitution will be ratified
by the people at the November election.
the leaders Of the Constitutional Con-
vention are now planning a legislative
programme, to be submitted to The next
Legislature, which will carry out the
suggestions contained in the work Of
the convention.
Elihu Root, president Of the conven-
ton, will be the chairman OF the com
mittee which will draft the bills.
Other members Of the committee will
be George W Wickersham, floor lead
er; Frederick c. Tanner. Henry L.
Stlmson, and Herbert Parsons. Repub-
Leans; Senator Robert F. Wagner As
semblyman Albert f. Smith, Delaney
Nicoll and ex-Judge Morgan J. O'Brien,
Democrats.
Other representatives. Of both parties
some Of whom have not served in the
convention, but whose prominence and
ability will add to the strength Of the
committee and give increased impetus
TO its work, will be added to the com
mittee
Bosses Seek to Knife Constitution.
This programme was decided to be
necessary when it became known to the
leaders of the convention that there
would be a bipartisan knitting of the
proposed constitution. The old line
machine men have been outspoken in
their criticism of the work Of the CON
yention, and the reactionary party
bosses - Democrats and Republicans
alike-have declared that they will go
out and defeat it,
That the bosses will not be able to
carry out their work az the polls is the
firm belief of the convention leaders.
The latter feel, however. that the
bosses would be able to upset the work
and cripple the reforms intended by
the constitution makers by passing the
word TO the men they control in the
Legislature to play havoc with the work
of the convention.
Legislature Might Cripple Reforms.
A hostile Legislature could set at
naught the big reform Of the judiciary
article-the short and simple civil
practice act. This is true Of half a
dozen other articles. IN the judiciary
article the Legislature is urged to pass
a short practice act and is also for
hidden to tinker with the civil code as
it has been doing. This cuts off one
very fruitful source Of graft of GER
tain legislators. some of whom have
swelled their bank rolls to the extent
of tens of thousands of dollars each
session by amending the civil code.
This short pr.ctice act when passed
with other provisions in the judiciary
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provides for a payment Of S473,00O a
wear and is based on an approximate
number OF miles traversed by the
wagons and motor trucks between ter
minals and branch postoffces.
The contract supuiates that the
Postal Transfer Service, Incorporated.
shall be subie-t 70 fines for failure 10
deliver mail, for delay, for interference
with prompt delivery at places required.
for carrying mail in a manner inferior
or different 20 that specified, allowing
IL 20 be wet, injured. lost or destroyed
or FOR any delinquency or omission OF
duty provided for in the contract.
Il was said that complaints Of
breaches Of these stipulatlons were re
ported 20 the Superintendent Of MANS
bv officials AT various sub-statlons.
William Cadigan, according 70 Federal
authorities. has been in the secret pay
OF the Postal Transfer Service. Inc"
since February. 1914. and since that
time has destroyed about 1000 com
plants against the company Whlch
would have resulted in fnes amounting
70 $4,000 For this the clerk is said
70 have received from S25 to $50
month from the company.
In addition TO IT'S contracts here. the
Postal Transfer Service. Inc. carries
mails in Boston. II has sought TO ex-
pand its business for similar WORK ~
Chicago. ST. Paul. St Louis and BROOK
lvn. Companies who have placed com
petitive bids In these cities and who
are anxious that the Postal Transfer
Service. Inc. confne its operat! ons 10
Manhattan. are responsible FOR the
present difficulty, according 70 the lat
tiers attorney.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
TERRACE GARDEN HERE
VICTIM OF WAR ABROAD
French Patronage Gone, Ger
mans Cut. Restaurant Loses.

Terrace Garden. at Fifty eighth
Street and Third Avenue, famous as
the meeting place Of German societies
and the scene Of Teutonic celebrations,
is in financial difficulties, owing to dull
business ascribed TO the European war.
Adolph Suesskind. proprietor, yester-
day made an assignment for the benefit
Of creditors to Bernard Stahl. Liabili-
ties are estimated by Abraham Gruber.
attorney for the assignee, as between
$4,000 and 100000. and assets at the
same figures.
Nathan Nidaver. attorney for Suess-
kind. said yesterday at his office, at ll6
Nassau Street:
Terrace Garden is one of the un-
fortunate victims Of the war. Besides
serving as German headquarters. II
had up 20 year ago been patronized
by influential French societies. After
the beginning Of the war the French
withdrew their patronage and the Ger
mans did not feel like holding their
usual festivities. The result, of course,
has been a gradual shrinkage of bust
ness
The garden has been in existence
forty years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
WAL TRANSFER
HEAD ARRESTED
NSlOO,ooOFRAUD
J. J. Cassidy Held-Ac-
cused of Conspiracy to
Withhold Fines.
POSTOFFICE CLERK
SUSPECTED IN DEAL
Alleged to Have Destroyed
Complaints of Contract
Breaches for Bride.

James J. Cassidy. vice president and
general manager Of the Postal Trans
Ter Service. Inc. was arraigned yeSter-
day before Clarence 5. Houghton,
United States Commissioner. and held
in $4,000 bail for hearing on Septem-
Der rs. charged with bribing govern
ment employees in connection with a
conspiracy 20 increase his company's
profits at the expense Of the United
States.
The Postal Transfer Service has the
contract TO carry mails below Forty
second Street II is charged that this
company. by bribery. has prevented is
payment Of fines for delays in mail de
livery and other transgressions pro-
vided for in the agreement under
which il was 70 be paid $4,000 a
year.
James W. Osborne. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, and Hugh McQuillan, a
Postoffice inspector, have investigated
and are believed 20 have convincing
facts about the supposed conspiracy.
High ranking government officials have
become implicated, and Mr.. Osborne
has obtained a subpoena duces tecum
with which Postofiice inspectors Pollit
and Barber took truck load Of books,
reports and other papers in the Postal
Transfer Service.
Mr. Osborne believes the United
Sites has been plucked Of 100000
through the cooperation of a clerk Of
the Postoffice Department. William
CadigRn. and the attorney admits this
man, who is under Federal surveillance,
has made a detailed confession. Daniel
W. Hsrrigan. an assistant 10 Cassidy,
mas yet 10 be arrested as an alleged
cOnspiratOr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
100000 HANGS
ON CURTISSSUIT
Hydroplane Contracts for
Allies Involved in
Patent Fight.

The boy was possibly five years old.
His golden curls lay about his face.
In his hand he had three clothes pins
dovetaled together.
"Hey, pop" he shouted. well beat
Glenn Curtis yet. Look at my new
flying machine"
Albert S. Janin, who was once called
inventor Of the hydro-aeroplane,
smothered Albert s. Janin. j., in his
carpenters embrace. The boys flying
machine was smashed to smithereens.
Janin sent the boy away and brought
his fist down on the table with bang.
81 tell you ! invented the hydro aera-
plane, and not Glen II. Cuctiss But
Curtss is a rich man, and I'm just
poor carpenter The board of exam
iners Of the Patent Office in Washing
ton decided ! was the inventor and
then, last week, the Commissioner OF
Patents decided | was not. III fight
Glenn Curtss in the Court of Appeals"
Janin is a dreamer, say his neigh
bors. He was born in Staten Island,
and is living a few blocks from his
birthplace with his wife and seven
children lie IS thirty-six years old,
and since he was a cadet on a Ward
steamer at nineteen, he has dreamed
Of an airboat that would initiate tho
flying fish.
Several years before Curtiss thought
of a hydro-aeroplane, Janin built the
model of one and begged friends and
strangers, amopg them Lewis Nixon,
TO supply him with the $4,000 neces-
sary TO buy a motor. Only his wife
believed in him. On January 26, 1911,
he filed an application for patent on
his design for the flying boat. On Au-
gust % Of the same year Glenn II. Cur
tiss applied for a patent on the same
counts" He brought his case before
the examiner OF interferences; Janin
didn't have the money TO hire a law
yer. lie told his story 10 Thomas A.
Hill, a patent attorney and former
president of the Aeronautical Society
Of America. Hill decided TO fight the
case without charging Janin a penny.
Janin won before the board Of eX-
aminers. Then Commissioner OF Pat
ents Ewing reversed the decision on
the ground that priority of claim was
not enough. Within thirty days Glenn
II. Curtiss will be called 10 court in
the District of Columbia. II he loses
the fight, he loses contracts with the
Allies for flying machines now being
constructed which are valued at $780,
600.
Wen win" cried Janin yesterday.
"Curtiss might as well give up his
fight now" said Thomas A. Hill, in his
office, in the WoolwCrth Building. II
have surprise in store for him which
may throw the case out OF court, so
We won't have 10 appeal at all"
Jsnin pointed out that the Curtiss
company had made several offers to
him and his attorney to stop the fight.
Even his children are talking hydro
aeroplanes. dreaming OF them, and they
listen as he argues the details Of the
case before them.
Joshua Shaw. painter, sculptor and
inventor OF the percussion cap, was
Janin's great-grandfather Janin was
creative artist even as a youngster.
Among his accomplishment at the age
OF ten was a model Of the cruiser Indi-
ana, which mas been pronounced per-
feet
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Washington. Conn. Sept. T. Miss
Jean Webster. author Of Daddy Long
Legs" and Dear Enemy" was mar
ried to Glenn Ford Mckinney. a new
York lawyer, in the Congregational
Church here at noon to-day. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev.
James O. Emerson, Of the Roxbury
Congregational Church, instead of by
the regular minister Of the Washing
ton Church, the Rev. Robert L. Carter.
This occasioned comment throughout
the summer colony. and it was general
" believed that Mr.. Carter was un-
willing 10 perform the ceremony. be
cause Of the fact that Mr. Mckinney
was divorced last spring for desertion.
The bride. who is very busy this sum
mer with the proofs of Dear Enemy"
had little TO say about the arrange
ments for the wedding. These were
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Creator of Daddy Long-Legs FIats Work on New
Drama Long Enough TO Be Married 10 Princeton
Man Amid Comments of Summer Colonists

left entirely in the hands of Mrs. 10.
seph II. Lewis, Of St. Louis, friend
of Miss Webster's.
Mrs. Lewis gathered the wild flowers
with which the little chapel was deco
rated. and Mrs. Lewis trained her own
little son and daughter TO act as at
tendants. The bride was given away
by her brother. Mr.. Lewis acted as
best man. Only few relatives and
friends were present. After the cere-
mony the bride and bridegroom lef. 20
spend their honeymoon at Mr.. McKin-
ney's hunting lodge in Canada.
Mrs. Mckinney is a niece Of Mark
Twain, and has written many popular
stories before Daddy Long-Legs" made
her famous on Broadway last winter.
She is Vassar graduate and a mem
Der OF the Women's University Club:
Mr.. Mckinney is a Princeton man, of
the class Of 81. and a member of sew
eral New York clubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
IIJDGE'SSLAYER
In NET, IS BELIEF
Police Expect to Arrest
Pot Hunter as KnOWleS'S
Murderer.

Providence, Sept. Early develop
ments are expected in the search for
the SLAYER of Judge Willis s. Knowles
and the police expect that within forty
eight hours a man who was soon to
have been tried by Judge Knowles on
charges Of pot-hunting and stealing
furniture from summer homes will be
in custody. The authorities say this
man is under surveillance in the city
and cannot escape.
Mrs. Cora (. Wardwell, Judge
Knowless housekeeper, who heard tae
shots and found the murdered man less
than two minutes after he was shot,
has recovered from the shock, and this
afternoon told her story of the shoot
ing. Mrs. Wardwel said:
Judge Knowles left the house Mon
day morning at 7:45 o'clock to catch
the o'clock trolley car for Provi-
dence. Before he went out he re-
marked that he expected to be back
early and that he would take me for
a drive in the afternoon. ] handed
him his hat as he started out and
watched him go down the driveway into
Hopkins Avenue. Just before he
turned out OF my sight he waved his
hand 10 me.
Heard a Revolver Shot.
"It seemed less than a minute after
he had passed from my view that |
heard a revolver shot. clearly heard
man exclaim, There, you d
stood terrified for a few seconds, be-
cause | did not think there vas any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
IMPORTER LOSES CHILDREN
Dumarest Suit Ends When Court De-
cides for Mother

Custody of the FIVE children Of Rene
and Rose G. Dumarest was settled on
Mrs. Dumarest yesterday by Justice
Aspinall. Of the Supreme Court. Du
marest. who is an importer, of rs
Pearl Street. Manhattan. is permitted
10 see them at reasonable times.
Mrs. Dumarest sued for a separation
on the ground of cruelty. During the
examination of Louis. the oldest child.
aged six. the boy told the lawyer for
Dumsrest that he intended TO be a
priest when he grew up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
BOY, VICTIM OF TETANUS
Wounded by Explosion of Blasting
Cartridge He Found.

William Kurt, nine years old. Of
Fifty-frst Street, Corona. is in a
serious condition in tho Flushing Hos
pitLl from tetanus, as the result o. an
accident Saturday The boy found a
blasting cartridge. and, laying IL on a
stone, dropped another stone on IT,.
There was an explosion, and Kurtz's
hands were badly burned. Lockjaw de-
veloped
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one else on the driveway but the judee
and the voice | heard was not hlF.'
after a pause of few seconos, "
more shots rang out. recovered a
senses partly and ran TO the gstews
and found Judge Knowles lying pres
trate in the road. He was lying Zee
down on the dusty highway. Seem
the Judge there in the road struck .
dumb and, without touching rim,
turned and ran back to the house y
telephone for help. called the boz
of William II. Watson, who has q,
next farm 70 the judges, and gett;sl
Mr.. Watson on the wire ! told him y
best could of what had hsppsned
William Watson, jr., son, srrivs'
ahead of his father and daughter. NJ
Lydia Handel, the boy coming over =.
a bicycle. The Watsons found Jr4'
Knowles just as had left him ID ~
road.
Knew He Had Enemies.
For the last year have had fess|
that tho judge would meet with eoy
harm because of his straightforW
ness in remarking that he lntendeo
make an example Of pothunters
rufiians whC were acting lawle'ay
the town. lie told me that he intenc.,
20 make this place q better plaes
live in. knew that he had ensn
men ne had prosecuted. .r,
About month ago, al pfaeus
the same place at which he was
yesterday, some one fired baiies y
him. but missed. In telling me o. n n
incident that night the Judge saie a
thought the bullet was fred by
less hunter, but the explanauon ~
not satisfy me, because II was nor
hunting season" ~
II was rumored here to-day thss Y;
judges body was found in brook ~ ~
a stone weighted TO II, but the ~
say there is absolutely no truth 10
story.
The body of the murdered msn
taken to-day to his former homs y
Hcckingport, Ohio, by his orosss
Horace Knowles, a real estate ofs"
of New York.