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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
ROOT BOOSTED
FOR PRESIDENT
Influential Republicans to
Protest Appointment as
Delegate at-Large.

Former Senator Root will not go to
the Republican Convention at Chicago
as delegate-at-large if the plans of
certain influential Republicans are car
ried out. Instead Mr.. Root probably
will be made the favorte son OF the
Empire State. and will be supported
for the nomination for President by the
delegation.
This information came from the
inner circle of the Republican organi-
zation, and II served % emphasize the
interesting situation which has been
created 5y the passive candidacy of
Governor Whitman. also, for the Re
publican nomination.
Whether the friends of the Governor
VIII fight the proposed Endorsement Of
Mr. Root remains 10 be seen, but there
were many Republicans yesterday who
declared that unless the Governor did
mix it up with the supporters OF Mr..
Root his Presidential aspirations would
quickly vanish.
Thus far the Governor has not open
ly declared himself a candidate. His
friends have put him in the race. how
ever, and he is said to have enjoyed
the sensation so much that soma of his
lllAllildAf1 FtAN lt HdS piaNAlNoAtg NOiiN
10 the conclusion that he is the ideal
candidate TO defeat Wilson. lie has,
however, resisted all efforts TO smoke
him out into the open.
It may be that the Governor and his
friends will put up a fight 70 control
the unofficial convention. which. accord
ing to present plans, viii be held on
Washington's Birthday. The purpose
of this convention is to agree upon the
four delegates -at-large to Chicago and,
incidentally, to whoop things up for
the Republican party.
If Governor Whitman were TO con-
troll this convention he could 20 TO Chi
cago as a member of the big Four"
and also prevent the Endorsement Of
any candidate. In this case he could
still nurse his Presidential ambitions
until the psychological time arrived at
Chicago and then unload.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
THEIR PESO HARVEST
A GREEN GOODS CROP
Two Mexicans Charge Fraud in
Carranza Money Sale.

In the brave days Of DID, when
"Grand Central Pete and paper Col
lar joe used TO sell fine limitations"
Of real money to out-of-town visitors.
the purchasers never really believed
that the green goods was real money.
Most likely Santiago Garcia and Luis
Gonzaga Padilla, Of Mexico. never
heard Of the operations of these two
worthless, but two Mexicans did jump at
the chance to buy $4,000 pesos in pa
per issued By the Constituencies
government Of General Carranza, at the
Az cents rate per peso.
The purchasers say they were in
duced TO buy this amount from one
Rosendo Marquee, that he would refund
the purchase money II the goods were
not genuine and negotiable as repre-
scented. Garcia and Padilla filed a suit
in the Supreme Court yesterday
again-. Marquee TO recover sl2,s10. al
lcging that they found that 2S4.6S0 OF
the pesos they bought were couEser-
felt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
KAUFF. FREE AGENT,
SAYS JOHN N. WARD
Baseball Stars Attorney Denies
Contention of Harry Sinclair.

Benny Kauf is a free agent II there
IS any such thing in baseball law or
the law of the land" said Jonn NJ
Ward yesterday.
Ward is Kauff's attorney IN the law
suit the player brought against the
New York Giants 20 collect oonuS t9r
signing a contract with that club.
When asked if he had heard that Harry
F. Sinclair. Of the now defunct Fed
eral League. had stated that kauft be-
longed to him, Mr.. Ward said; a.,
"Kauf is a free agent. W hen the
time comes for anybody TO buy his
service they will have to deal per-
sonalIy with Benny. lie does not be.
long to the BroOkfeds, despite the TACT
that he played with them last season
or TO anybody else, and the Brookfeds
have no legal right to dispose OF his
service.
who intends to buy Kauf's services
from the Feds TO ascertain If the FEDS
have contract with him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
LOCOMOTIVE GIVES
AUTO PARTY A RIDE
Carries Car and 4 Passengers
Safely on Cow Catcher.

Paterson. y. j., Dec PA west
bound New York, Susquehanna &
Western passenger engine crashed into
touring car at the crossing in Sixth
Avenue, this evening, lifted the ma
chine upon its cowcatcher and carried
il a hundred yards. without serious in
jury to the occupants of the automo-
bile.
A coal yard close to the tracks OBJ
structed the view of Charles Watts, OF
23S East Thirty-second Street. who was
driving the motor He did not see the
locomotive until il was too late. When
the train stopped it was found that
Edward lie Fevre. Of III Seventeenth
Avenue, had a wrenched back, Arthur
Watts bruised leg and his brother
Charles a wrenched ankle. Levenus lie
Fevre was not even scratched.
Diederick Wehrenberg, seventy-one,
Of Il6 West l22d Street. Mrs. William
/. Weaver. of Denver, and Mrs. Will
lam L. Scholer. of Loeb Arbor, y. J.
were knocked down by an automobile
at Lenox Avenue at l22d Street yester'
day afternoon. The machine ned. MIS-
Weaver was taken to Harlem Hospital,
where it was found she had fractured
skull and internal injuries.
Intent on a game he was playing
with several other boys, Frank becoIa
ten, OF 6S9 East lS8th Street, darteu
into the path of an automobile truck
He was thrown TO the roadway ana
killed. Coroner Healy ordered the
arrest of the chauffeur, FrederlcS
Rraunfels. but paroled him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
DEBUTANTE PONIES
FRANCE FOR VOTES
Society Chorus Girls in Re-
hearsal for Mrs. BelmOnt's
Suffrage Operetta.

Girls sfs RMS.
come put away your petuco,s ard frls.
step highs into line
Cease nos 20 repns
SHOW them TIA, se tor. can l.ar TO drill.
Left Right We can stand the pace.
Attention. Right about face.
We've done With teas and balls.
We've forgotten how 10 dance.
Vel show them what well do II vsue the chance.
1t went big, the song hit of Mrs. o.
II. p. Belmont's operctta, at the first
rehearsal yesterday afternoon at Az
Madison Avenue. Mrs. Belmont beat
the time, not noticing that she was
also beating a long suffering knight in
silver armor who stands BESIDE her
fireplace Miss Marie Dressler leaned,
rapt and beaming, over the piano. In
the corners the dainty maids of flith
Avenue who are to be chorus girls
tapped their little white boots and
whispered that it was almost as good
as real play.
Miss Elsie Maxwell read the lines Of
the play, melinda and Her Sisters
which lived up to its press agent, who
said it was a satire on society.
at doesn't take money TO get a villa
at Newport. 1t takes BRAINS says
Mrs. Malaprop.
"A perfect lady mustn't know any
thing at all. That gives her mystery
and elusive charm. That's what men
like" Mrs. Pepper is describing the
womanly ideal.
Poor Father Pepper, who has had to
paw for the expensive education OF Me
linda and her seven sisters, protests.
Education" snaps his wife. THE
only education :. woman needs now
adays is to know whom to bow TO and
when. You can know woman on
Fifth Avenue, but cut her dead on
Sixth"
Misses Dorothy Bigelow. Audrey Os,,
borne. Florence Gilbert, Louise and
Margaret Trevor, Margaret Erhart;
Gwendolyn King and Adelaide and
Ailecn Sedgwick arc among the New
York debutantes who will tale part.
Miss Pauline Disston, Of Philadelphia
will be the dancing daughter, in cos
tune Just like Mrs. Vernon Castles
and Miss Dorothy Fellows Gordon, OF
London. will be the sister who sings
better than Patti. Irving Peebe. ADD
son Miner and Ernest dc Weerth OIL
fered themselves yester lay for the
heroic roles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
WILSON ENJOYS
QUIET BIRTHDAY
Big Cake Ordered by Presidents
Bride a Feature Of Ami.
yersarV Dinner.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]


Hot Springs, Va, Dec. 28.-Ihe ceIe-
bration Of President Wilson's fifty
ninth birthday at Hot Springs to-day
was as uneventful, so far as the gen
cral public was concerned. as was
Christmas Day. Whatever festivities
there may have been were purely pri-
vate.
Mrs. Wilson had ordered birthday
cake for the President, which was made
in the hotel kitchens this morn ng.
It was a large circular loaf, elaborate
IL iced, decorated and illuminated with
candles. This was the chief figure on
.be Presidential dinner table this even
ing.
More than two hundred kilograms
arrived for the President to-day, con-
graduating him on the anniversary,
and he spent part of the day acknowl-
cdging them. Few birthday packages
are known to have arrived. 1t is
thought that the Presidents valet may
have brought some from Washington
and have had them IN hiding until to-
day. 49,,
President and Mrs. Wilson have
spent a large part Of the time in Hot
Springs writing personal letters of &C
acknowledgement of wedding gifts, Christ
mas gifts and kilograms and letters OF
congratulations and holiday greeting.
Every mail has carried from Hot
Springs huge piles Of the large white
envelopes marked simply "The White
House"
The President and Mrs. Wilson took
a motor ride this afternoon over the
warm Springs roads. They returned
lust before dark.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
10000 BRONX "BLOCKHEADS''
Justice Saws That Number Didn't know
How TO Mark Ballot.

When 225 aliens qualified Tor citizen-
shin before Justice Giegerich in the
supreme Court yesterday the total
number Of men who have become citi-
zens in The Bronx since it became a
county passed the 5000 mark.
Tony Filipilli. who has been in the
country since 1898, aroused the JUS
tees ire by his inability to answer in
English questions rs to his age, adj
dress, etc
Come back in six months when you
have learned to talk English the JUS
tice said Forty thousand blockheads
like you didn't know how TO mark cor.
reetly the ballot for the constitutions
amendment a. the last election in this
county"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
REPUBLICANS TO woo
MISSOURI GERMANS
Want TO Nominate BarthOldt for
GOvernor-Plan Opposed.


Washington, Dec. 2S.-Reports have
reached Washington that a movement
is on foot among Missouri Republi-
cans to capitalize the large German
American vote of that state by NOM
mating ex-Representative Richard Bar
tholdt. of St. Louis, for Governor.
The rumor is highly disquleting 70
those Republican leaders who have no
desire to angle for German votes, but
rather sympathize with the utterances
Of Colonel Roosevelt on the hyphenated
American question. IL is feared that
should the Missouri Republicans carry
out the plan 70 nominate Mr. Bartholdt
the hyphen would become an issue in
the national campaign. which would
hurt the G.. o. P. much more than II
would help the ticket in Missouri.
Both sides In Missouri are making
every effort to be in a position 20 carry
the state. Formerly regarded as a
Democratic stronghold. so many farm
ers. who constituted the bulk OF the
Democratic voters, have moved TO Kan
sas and Oklahoma that the state now
is very close, and several times has
gone Republican.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
FUSION CONTROL
IF ALDERMEN ENDS
Old Board AdjournS and New
One Will Have Tammany
Majority.

The career of the fusion Board OF
Aldermen ended yesterday. When the
new board is sworn in on January 3
there will be a Tammany majority
OF 80.
With the new municipal flag draped
above him, President George McAneny,
who will resign next month, presided
at the last meeting. The faces Of
many Of the retiring aldermen wore a
look Of deep regret. There was none
Of the usual levity among the members.
A gavel, with ebony handle and ivory
knob. bound with gold. was presented
10 Alderman Frank l.. Bowling, Demo-
cratic minority leader, who is expected
TO preside over the affairs of the new
board, by President McAneny. Mr..
Bowling probably will be selected vice
chairman of the new board at the meet
ing on January 3. and will thus become
Acting President when Mr. McAneny
leaves He temporarily occupied the
Presidents chair when he received the
gsvel.
Alderman Bowling thanked the board
on behalf of the minority for the treat
ment the Democrats had received at
the hands Of the fusion majority, and
promised. if elected vice chairman. that
the Republican minority would receive
the same fair treatment.
As little matter of business for the
last session. the board passed a resolu-
tion appropriating $1,000 for the pur-
chase OF city flags. for school houses,
and defeated an Ordinance requiring
the placing of speed governors on
motor trucks.
A motion TO adjourn sine die was
carried in silence, and the local law
makers quietly stole away. "Old Tom
one OF the caretakers Of City Hall,
entered the still chamber on tip toe
ed MI. ont the lights
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
L0ST-AN AMATEUR
MARY PICKFORD, IS
Girl Whose Beauty Caused Com
ment, and Chum. Same Age,
Iured by Movies.

mo such trouble has come to me
since my son married and left US said
the mother of year-old Ruth
Thatcher yesterday, lifting her glasses
and drying her tears with her apron.
81 walked about most Of last night ask
ing for her. To-day my limbs is
trcmblin' SOS can scarcely stand"
There was only a brief note to tell
OF Ruth's departure. Mrs. Thatcher
found it early Monday night. when she
returned, after an hours absence, to
the little fiat at 4i2 West Nineteenth
Street where she and her three daugh-
ters live. The scrawl read: 81 am
going on the road with Nellie with a
company. Love. Ruth
As a result OF the message the police
have sent out general alarm Tor Ruth
and for her chum, Helen O'Brien, OF
III West Twelfth Street, who is also
fifteen. Helen's nickname is Nellie.
Both are unusually pretty girls and
often went together TO the motion pict-
ures. Each IS the youngest and pet OF
her family.
81 never saw such a pretty girl as my
NelIle, sara sIIS. " pIlcH yesterday
"And her eyes, That was the trouble.
She is the baby. and people kept pras-
ing her. telling her she was prettier
than Anita Stewart and Mary Pickford
and she ought to make money. We just
laughed at her when she told US what
people said
Ruth had been worhing year in Z
department store. Nellie O'Brien. who
until last spring went to school. is a
machine operator. Nellie often visited
Ruth at the Thatcher 'omc. but at the
O'Briens' Ruth was entirely unknown.
Nellie was always silent at home, one
of her sisters said. She just gazed at
one with her great blue eyes, which
every one praised so.
Nellie. who left no note at home as
Ruth did, started out 10 work Monday
morning, saying she would not be back
to lunch. Ruth had vacation from her
store until to-day. On Monday each
wore her Christmas clothes ito show
10 her friends" The note Mrs. Thatch-
or found Monday night was the first
news of the girls departure.
Ruth wore a red velvet hat, a blue
sailor suit, white waist and fesh-color
stockings. She = five feet three inches
tai. and weighs 1870 pounds. Nellie was
Ore. sed in a dark cloth suit with Nor
folk Jacket trimmed with black fur,
black hat and black stockings. She Is
Trailer than her chum, two inches
shorter and weighs only ninety pounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
SUFFRAGE FUND 100000
Congressional Union Will Use Money
IN Secure Passage of Amendment.


Washington. Dec. 2s.-The fund BE-
IN, raised by the Congressional Union
to secure the passage of the Susan b.
Anthony amendment has passed the
s10O 900 mark. according 10 an an
nouncement of that organization to
day. Checks of $1,000 each were re-
ceived to-day from Mrs. Tiffany Dyer.
Of New York, and Miss Ella Riegel, Of
"The members of the Committee of
Investigation desired By Representa-
tive Byrnes will lead an active lie i
attempting to keep up with the
unions campaign for the Federal
amendment" says the Congressl pnal
Union, III the responses to the appeals
for funds arc rs cordial in the coming
wear as they have been in the days that
have followed the convention
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
HER EYELASHES A GOLD MINE
Pretty Girl Gets 5000 for Five Singed
BY Engine Cinder.

Bayonne, y. j., Dec. 2S.-Just how
valuable five eyelashes may be when
properly attached to pretty girl no
body knows. When removed by hot
cinder from railroad engine they are
worth 5000. or $40 a lash, in the es-
timation Of the legal department Of the
Contra, Railroad Of New Jersey here.
The road yesterday paid that sum TO
Miss Julia Porubsky, twenty years old,
in settlement of suit she filed against
it for claim resulting from the loss
of that number of lashes. She had
asked $500, but compromised, she says,
for the sum named.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
BERNHARDT GOES TO PARIS
Receivers from Her Illness and Will
Recite in London.

Andernos, France, Dec. 2s.-Sarah
Bernhard. left here to-day for Paris, on
her way to London, where, it is eI-
pected. she will recite "The Cathe-
drale." which she does seated in chair
on the stage.
She has recovered from her severe
attack Of bronchitis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
Spells 600 Words Correctly


Springfield. H., Dec. 2S. Ralph Hus-
ton. Of Kewanec, is the champion speller
among the school children Of Illinois
This was determined tonight in the
state wide spelling bee opening the
convention Of the State Teachers Asso-
citation. Young Huston spelled cor
rectly the full list Of 600 words given
out TO thirty-three contestants, repre-
senting as many eoVaties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
SNEEZERS QUIET,
BUT GRIP SPREADS
Schoolgirl Wins Poster Prize in
Campaign Against Busy
Disease.

This epidemic of grip is not to be
sneezed at. No, Stree! 1t is now
backed up by figures from the Health
Department, and will soon nave TO back
down before a pitiless campaign of pub
licity against sneezing the disease
around the town. For instance, the As
ISOLATION for Improving the Condition
Of the Poor offered a SO prize for the
best "anti-sreeze" picture poste: drawn
by pupils Of the public schools in the
entire city.
Little Miss Selma -iegel, of Public
School Sc. Manhattan, won the prize.
Her picture represents boy and girl
on the greensward, in natural colors,
with their kerchiefs doinI duty as
aprons. Beneath is this couplet:
"If you'll use these VIII ,ne'er you sneeze
You'll stop the spread of dread di sease.
This creation of Miss SiegePs Will
soon appear in the form of stamp
affixed to all the thousands OF letters
mailed daily by the Health Department.
Now for the figures! The mortality
report from the Health Department
Yesterday showed that the death rate
from influenza and pneumonia for the
last week was five times greater than
for the corresponding week of 1914.
There were about 1000 cases Of pneu-
mona.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
$12,00O,OOO GIFT DENIED
Foundation Says Report of Big Car
negie Donation for Belgisns Il Untrue.

The Carnegie Foundation yesterday
denied a report that Andrew Carnegie
had sent the American Commission Tor
Relief in Belgium a gift OF Sl2'ooo'-
900 TO help the Belgian war sufferers
The foundation also denied another
rumor to the effect that Mr. Carnegie
had contributed, besides, SO to eaeh
Belgian war prisoner IN Germany,
The report came from Amsterdam,
where IL was published in the Hand.
elsblad." Mr. Carnegie himself denied
il, through the Associated Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
SAYS MORON RULES CHICAGO
Expert Classes Mayor Thompson Be-
low Normal Ten.Year-0ld.

Chicago, Dec. 2s.-According to the
Binet-Simon system, the city of Chi
cago, from Mayor Thompson down, is
largely managed by high class morons.
This statement was made by Miss
Mary Campbell, an expert formerly en-
ployed in the Municipal Laboratory.
She made the assertion in support of a
general attack made on the system. IL
was while employed BY the city that
she was privileged TO make the tests.
Mayor Thompson. according to Nj
Campbell. could not pass the test
the normal mental development o,
ten-year-old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
Wakes Up; Finds Wife in River.

Street. was telling the police of the
East l26th Street station yesterday that
his wife had slipped from the bed be-
side him and disappeared some time
after 10 o'clock on Monday night. the
the East River off 1l7th Street. She
had been i'll for a week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
Ihf Tribunf
First TO Lasf-fhe Truth:
News-EdifOriaIs-
Advertisements.
GENERAL DODGE, "a, DYING
Little Hope for War Veteran, Ex-Rep.
resentatiye and Civil Engineer.

lBy IcicsrAEh % Ihe IrlDune
Council Bluffs. Iowa, Dec. 2s.-The
condition OF General Granville NJ.
Dodge, who is i'll at his home here, is
reported as critical. He is unconscious
most Of the time and has taken no
nourishment for forty-eight hours.
Physicians hold out little hope FOR ma
terial improvement.
General Dodge was born in Danvers,
Mass. in 1881. He holds degrees from
Norwich, Vermont and Cornell univer-
sites. He was a civil engineer on sew
eral railroads until the Civil War. He
entered the army as a colonel and left
it a major general, returning TO rail
road work. He was in Congress for
several years and was president OF
many military societies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29

FOR every letter printed
in the Advisor
Department in praise or
criticism of advertisers
methods, excepting only
patent medicines, The
Tribune offers a prize of
81. payable in an order
on any Tribune adver-
tiser. Each month a
special prize of $1,000
will be awarded for the
most constructive or de
structive letter printed.
Any one is eligible to
compete and any number
Of letters may be written
by one person. Your
name will be printed or
not, as you prefer, but
unsigned letters will not
be read, as they provide
no means for making the
awards which are an in
tegral part Of our cam
paign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29

Philadelphia. Dec 2S.-The grip and
pneumonia epidemic which has been
raging throughout this city continued
to-day. Health authorities attribute
the large increase of patients reported
at the various hospitals to the warm.
damp weather which prevailed during
the day. and predict material increase
tomorrow, due to the rain which has
set in tonight.
All hospitals are using their capac-
ity forces and are not able TO make a
dent in the epidemic Since Saturday
there have been 532 deaths.
Trenton. y. j.. Dec. 2S.- Grip has
made considerable inroads here, judy
ing from the amount Of men who have
reported sick at their different places
Of employment. Fifty railroad men on
different roads running into Trenton
are laid uD with the disease, twenty
five workers in the J. l.. Mott iron
works. and it is said that a number
Of students at the Princeton University
are also victims to the disease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29

PunderSOn
w ate was
"the one man in
these United
S t a t eS tn a t
didn't know he was
alive" a girl
with brown eyes
came into camp. What
happened then is most
amuSinely told by Ceylon
Hollingsworth in "Pun-
derSOn Waite, a story
in this weeks issue of
Collieslri';Ss
THE NATIONAL WEEKLY