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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1915-01-15

AIs way up he found that the families
Of Harry spindler. consisting Of his
wife ana daughter. Ruth, four. and
that Of Antonio Bacculo. consisting
Of his wife and two children. Enrico.
six. and Frederick, eight. were on the
escape balconies trying to get to the
roof.
Apparently when Liccu:, saw his
neiJhbors L.. aribl,n;; upward on the
,ers he decided his best chance
would be through his apartment to
the hallway. ther to the roof
through the scuttle. At any rate.
when the fire was aSol. out hI was
found with his own child clasped In
his arms and the little Mckenny girl
lying close by near the hall door. All
had died from suffocation.
In the meantime Policeman Mich.
olas Camp, In citizens clothes, heard
the cries as he passed and ran to the
building. Taking on his heavy over
coat, he ran up the stairs to the third
moor. where flames and smoke
stopped him. He found an eighteen
months-old baby deserted In the hall
way and had no more than wrapped
his coat around her when q nine
year.old girl ran up crying that she
was lost.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1915-01-15
NORD|CA'SHUSBA
WILL TELL ABOUT
FINANCIAL DEALS
Takes Oath, but Will Not Give
Testimony Until Some
Time Later.

George w. Young. husband OF the
late Nine. Nordica, appeared this
morning before Surrogate Cohalan
and was sworn as q witness to tell at
some future time all about his finan-
ciai dealings with Nine. Nordica. He
Is trying to probate a will she made
in 1910, leaving all her property TO
him. while her sister. Mrs. Annie
Baldwin. offers the will she made at
Thursday Islands. in the Southern
Pacific. shortly before she died. in
1918.
Mr.. Young was sworn as q witness
In the matter Of the will of 1918. HIS
attorney, Emile Dreyfus. asked the
Court to adjourn his examination,
and said his side had nothing to do
with the publication Of the Nord!ca
letters in this mornings World. Sur
rogats Cohalan put the examination
over to some future date. to be do.
tsrminsd later. and Mr.. Young and
his counsel went to Part I. Of the
Supreme Court. where another phase
Of the contest IL being tried.
Copies Of five letters purporting to
have been written by the late Mme
Lillian Nordica, which were fled by
relatives who are seeking to defeat
probate Of one will the singer made,
and establish another. have been
made public.
Energetic efforts wers made BY
Colby 4 Brown Of No. 30 Nassau
Street. attorneys for George w.
Young. Nine. Nordica's husband. to
prevent FIRST the Ming and then the
publication Of the letters. A restrain
Ing order was issued by Supreme
Court Justice Goff to prevent their
being made public but service Of the
order came too late. Copies Of the
letters had already been given out by
Robert 8. Baldwin. a nephew Of the
dead singer.
Two Wills said to have been drawn
by Nine. Nordica are in existence.
One was signed IN 1910 and leaves
the bulk Of her estate to Mr.. Young.
The estate IL reputed to be worth
about 100000. Another will. said
to have Teen executed by the singer
on Thursday Island. in the Pacific
Ocean. Jan. II. 1913. leaves every
thing to her sisters and directs that
her husband have nothing but his
illegal share" Of the estate.
Mr.. Young offers the first will for
probate. The letters made public
day are intended to show that the
1910 will was not, at the time Of her
death. expressive Of Nine. Nordica's
real testamentary Intentions regard
ing her husband.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1915-01-15
Man AND BABIES
SUFFOcATED BY
WEST SIDE FIRE
Thrilling Rescues by Steeple-
Jack Mark Blaze in Crowded
Ninth Avenue House.
RISKS HIS OWN LIFE.
One Victim Found Clasped in
Dead Fathers Arms
at Door.
RISKS HIS OWN LIFE.

A man and two children lost their
lives. several persons were injured.
and many thrilling rescues were
made in a fire that started apparently
from carelessness at LIS A NJ. to-day
In the basement of No. ls5 Ninth
Avenue. a five-story building be-
tween Thirty-seventh and Thirty
eighth Streets. tenanted by sixteen
families.
A rescue made by Frederick c.
Walker. a steeplejack attached to the
Fire Department. was one OF the
most difficult and thrilling ever wit
messed.
THE DEAD.
eAccuLo. ANTONIO. thirty. eight,
. chef.
sAccuLo. ENRIco. six, his son.
M'kENNY, PAULINE. three.
THE INJURED.
CAMPO, NIcHoLAs, policeman Of
the West Thirty seventh Street Sta.
tion, badly burned about hands, face
and body.
THOMPSON. HARRY. ironworksr.
No. 312 West Thirty-fifth Street,
slight burns and overcome by smoke.
BALDWIN, JAMES. No. 4s3 Ninth
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svsWsss sl,ohtly svssssWss ~ sssskss
oGMPoGv, WILLIAM. uncle u ths
dead ~, eight hurws end hsnds
badly laesratsd BY olsss.
HOW sTeePLGJAcK MADE His
REMARKABLE RESCUE.
The feat Of rescue performed By
Walker. who formerly was . IRE pa
trolman. was one Of the most daring
and spectacular Of which there IL any
record In the departments long list,
police and nremen agreed.
Walker lives at No. t0S West
Thirty-seventh Street. and was
awakened By the commotion that fol-
lowed discovery Of the IRE. with
out troubling to don more than his
trousers and shoes, he went to the
back yard. vauited fence and found
himself In the rear Of the burning
building.
He could see women and children
packed on the small rear escape bal
comics. with frightened men in the
windows. There was at the moment
no outlet, because the drop ladders
had not been lowered to the ground.
and many could not even get to the
escapes.
Nearby was . tall clothes pole. with
spikes In the side to enable . person
to climb to the top and adjust the
pulley lines. Walker ran up the pole
thirty-two feet which brought him
on q level with q two.story extern
sion between him and the burning
building. The extension was I've
feet from the pole. and Walker could
not jump the gap because there wa
not adequate foothold.
sTRApDLEs FivE-Foor GAP
THEN LEAPS TO ROOF.
Before proceeding further he cut
one Of the longest and strongest OF
the pulley lines from the pole, and
making IL into q coil hung It over his
arm. Then. keeping one foot on q
projecting spike. he srasped the top
most spike. and by stretching his legs
like q contortionist "straddled" the
ive-foot gap.
with one foot on the pole spike and
the other I'VE feet away on the ex-
tension roof. he paused long enough
to get q good balance. then propelled
himself to the roof. When an Eve
ming World reporter later expressed
incredulity. Walker promptly climbed
the pole and repeated the feat to
show how It was done.
The edge Of the extension roof.
however. wes at Its nearest approach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-14

After the dainty little striped gopher
had dulv introduced himself and he
and Frisky had started well on the
road towards friendship. Frisky seem
ed to suddenly loose his desire for run
ming around. The fact of the matter
was that a brand new friend was
twice as interesting as running around
and hunting for something unknown
So he decided to stay and visit with
the gopher awhile.
TO be sure Frisky didn't call it visit
ing-dear me, MOI He didn't even adj
nit to himself that he was waiting to
talk to the gopherl He merely found
some nice tender greens conveniently
close to the gopher's hole and started
eating them. Rabbits are that way
Won know, they make a great game of
fooling themselves.
Never in all my garden expert
ence," he said to Mr.. Gopher, "have /
found such delicious food as am now
eating in your meadow. 1 really shall
have to stay and enjoy it for a while if
Won don't mind" He turned to take a
nice big bite of some choice green
shoots and, quicker than a flash the
gopher was gone!
Now that's a nice way to treat a
guest" exclaimed Frisky Grossly.
"Just when I was going to talk to
him tool Well, never mind, / can eat
anywayi' And while he was taking
a second bite, the gopher came back
well, you are queer creature,
said Frisky in surprise Don't you
ever stay still a minute? Here 1 was
lust going to speak to you and find
YOU gone; and no sooner had / made
nm nv mind to that fact than yoI.- are
back againI Do you always treat
guests that way2"
nIied the gopher. .I always do that
Wav." He scanned the heavens care
fully: looked in each corner of the
meadow and then seated himself on
his launches at the entrance OF his
tiny hole LAS far as I can see (and
that's pretty far, assure you'd there
is no danger in sight, so will sit here
for three seconds and talk to you On,
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PROMISES OF PROSPERITY.

placing of the Allies loan of $780,
600, 900 in New ork must be regarded
as the greatest. transaction and the
greatest success in financial history,
writes Henry Clews, the New York
banker in his current weekly financial
review For the time being, II gives
New York unqualified primacy in the
worlds money market; and, though
London will undoubtedly regain its
leadership after the war, the impor-
lance of New York as financial cen
ter has been permanently advanced to
a close second; the strength and po-
sition of European financial centers
having meantime ! cen correspondingly
diminished. Henceforth London ano
| New York will be the controlling rae
tors in the worlds money markets
! Should they choose to work together
| as in the present instance, they viii
prove irresistible. More likely, how
ever, they will prove keen though
friendly rivals in the coming struggle
for the worlds markets; for without
support of the bankers, our mer
chants and manufacturers cannot Sc
cure the coveted trade. after which
the United States as well as the United
! Kingdom is going in search with al
its power and capabilities
The war has been largely, if not en-
tireIy, discounted. We are now dis
counting the approach of peace. Ow
ing to the numerous cross currents il
trade, it is almost impossible to pre-
dict what the ultimate effect of th'
war will be upon this country. Th
world at large cannot benefit from
wholesale destruction. Nevertheless
the United States, unhampered by tn
arrangements and interruptions falling
4 upon other nations, will be free t
continue the natural development o
its resources and to aid reconstruc
ton abroad, which will inevitable
make large demands upon American
| manufacturers. Undoubtedly the earl
future of this country promises pc
riod of prosperity resulting from re
newed internal development, as wei
as from a larger share in the world
trade. AS an offset. however, we mus
take into consideration that Europe
buying power will be temporarily i'm
paired, that the cost of production i
J Europe will be placed at the loves
; limit and that we shall not secur
these foreign markets without a strug
gle in which we may be temperate
handicapped by initiation and hig
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prices in the United States resulting
from present abnormal conditions ana
the great expansion of credit. All IN
dications point to increased domestlc
activity during the approaching
autumn and winter months
Our harvest as a whole is the largest
and best on record. This means con-
tinued prosperity on a large scale III
the agricultural districts The wnea.
crop is estimated at 1902, O2S,oVo
bushels, or III, 100000 bushels above
the record crop of 1912. Corn is flg-
ured at 3,026, 100000 bushels, or oniy
9S,OOO,0O0 bushels below the record.
Oats are expected to reach 1,5l7,OOO'-
600 bushels, or S91, 100000 above last
year. These three crops show an IN
crease of about 90 per cent over the
average of the last four years upon an
expansion for the year of about b per
cent in acreage. Prices are lower, put
the farmers are sure of satisfactory
results, and the masses will secure
cheaper food; while the railroads must
benefit unusually in the carrying OF
crops and in the stimulus to general
business they afford. This big mar
vest is the best thing that has happen
ed to the railroads in a long PERIOD
and may be of more value TO lheiii
than the small concessions granted by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The activity of the steel trade, the
largest industry in the country ana
the prospects of it's continuance for
months to come, are already matters
of common knowledge. The railroad
situation continues to improve, trafflc
is growing. Decreases in earnings are
becoming less and less conspicuous.
Important economies have been put
into effect and a number of roads are
already feeling the benefit of ad-
vanced rates. Although some COM
panies are still showing the adverse
effects of past conditions, quite
number of standard properties such
as Atchison, Pennsylvania and New
York Central are making very encour-
aging progress"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-14
IT IS BOOSTER DAY
Commercial Club Members Are
Swarming Over the City.
Endeavoring to Place 500 New
Names on the Roll.

Success of the Commercial club
campaign for 500 members was prac-
tically assured this noon when the
campaign workers reported olz MEM
bers as the result of a half days work.
Among this number were many new
memberships.
Besides getting these new members
tho men who canvasSed the business
section of the city this morning car
ried many bouquets to the club with
them this noon. Most merchants and
business men seen today were
Strong for the club and the, work 1t
is doing for Topeka.
Boys, the result of the mornings
work is entirely gratifying said f..
L. Overton, chairman CT the commit
tee of ways and means. I'VE will
have little trouble in reaching the de-
sired goal. The pep shown is great
Keep it up"
Richard Wilson and Fred Bell, styl-
ing themselves as the dirty four"
gained the honors of the morning 5
work. They reported twenty-five
memberships and $500 in cash. G. r.
the list with fifteen. and o. H. White S
committee reported fourteen. Math-
ews and Putney reported twelve and
Maddox and Van Hook came in with
thirteen.
That is the question that is being
put to many a languid merchant to-
day by the eager ones. With the
membership mark up to 500 and $40
membership fee the financial prob
lem of the officers of the club will be
reduced to a minimum. This plan
will give the club $4,000 which with
$4,000 from subscriptions to the con-
vention fund will put the club on a
sound basis.
1t does not take the energetic bust
ness man long to realize that the
Commercial club is an indispensable
by-prodUct of the city's commercial
and industrial activity. When tbs
boosters pointed out that the club was
an incubator for all the ideas thai
make Topeka bigger and better the
| business man usually signed a mem
bership card and became one OF the
boosters himself
| The present Commercial club mem
bers want the band wagon full of live
l r1fC
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SOME FANCY BOOKKEEPING,

Ry the magical method OIL cnanS-
ing its system of bookkeeping, the Ieo-
eraI treasury department on OCTOBER
1 made the net balance in the general
fund Jump from less than $41,OOO,0oo
to S12S,OOO,0O0. This rather startling
announcement comes at a time when
the net balance has been dropping at
the rate of nearly half a million DOL
lars a day for three months. me
Drincipal change made was the trans
fer of $61,OS9,225.97, which Woulo
ordinarily be carried on the liability
side of the ledger, to the asset sloe'
This amount has been carried unoer
the item of 'sDisburing Officers Bal
ances." Another change that has been
made transfers the national bank note
retirement fund from the liability to
the asset side of the ledger. This is
the second time the treasury depart
ment has made important changes IN
methods of bookkeeping, with the re-
sult that immensely larger net bal
ances are shown. On September 80,
1915. the net balance in the general
fund was $4O,S9S,S94.97 as compared
with $123,416,613 on the same date
two years ago, when Republican reye-
me laws and appropriations were in
effect. Hereafter, it will be impos-
sible to compare the treasury balance
with the balance that existed two
wears previously. While the change
in bookkeeping does not take a dollar
out of he treasury, or add dollar
thereto, it does make a better looking
balance. and prevents comparisons
with conditions as they existed under
Republican administration.
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Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

AS bad as booze is, it isn't its fault if
you start drinking it.
Sometimes friendly advice seems to
be the cheapest commodity.
If a nan could only accumulate
money as fast as he does junk,
Some people are like cowcatchers-
always to the front and never pulling
a pound.
ANY man who is constantly saying
ably does know nothing
An undertaken is in no position to
express sympathy or TO inquire Into
the state of health of any person
Money won't buy you an education,
although useful for meeting board
bills, paying tuition and such like
When young people speak lightly
of their home town they have some
thing in their heads they ought to get
out
This is also the joyous season when
a married man sizes up his Overcoat
of ancient vintage, and figures that.
with a new velvet collar, he can put
] it over for another winter
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Jauhawker Jots

AS the Wellington Journal points
out: 1t is easier to claim success than
it is to win it.
The Selden Observer wonders II
those ankle watches are to show the
kind of time the women are having.
A mirror has one mighty good char
acteristic, explains the Wichita Bea-
con. 1t will always smile back at YOU
According to one editor, the women
of today outstrip all her predecessors,
notes the Logan Republican. But, 1t
adds, he seems to have forgotten
Mother Eve.
Perhaps suggests the Leavenworth
Post. the fact that the pay of French
soldiers at the front has been raised
from one to five cents a day is proof
that there are not so many TO pay.
Something approprite in the weather
line for the name of the place was the
'sfoggy and rainy September % that
was reported to the Burlington Repub-
lican by its correspondent at DUCK
Creek. -
Many an unhappy marriage can be
traced, according to the Wichita
Eagle, to the fact that the woman in
i the case tried to outW1t cupid by
marrying the man who put the
mon e)y in matrimony-
There appear to be a few "ranchers"
left in western Kansas, notwithStand-
ing the fact that the cattle ranges are
rapidly taking their places among the
things that were. Inc stanton county
Journal advertised rs many as 43
stock brands in one OF its recent issues.
IF the weather men weren't so
blamed active" growled Una Genstet
within the hearing of the Ottawa Her
aid the other morning, Gin predicting
| a frost every time it got cool, the mar
ried men of this town would have
some peace. After the first frost or
two there wouldn't be any flowers left
| to cover UP every night"
AS the Sana Fe Mnoitor says: He
shouldn't be a bachelor long. Earl
| Wallace, one of Haskell county S
young bachelor farmers, has just fin
ished threshing out $500 bushels of
wheat 1878 bushels of oats and 1900
bushels of barley. He has added an
! other quarter section of land to his
possession, and has just finished build
ing one of the largest barns in the
| county.
The Manhattan Mercury states thai
! the following post card is held at the
| Manhattan postoffice for better direc-
| ton:
! Deer Ben and Kyle:
yer man and i Havnt heerd from
yer up till now.
Hope the enclothed money will
reech yer all right. We had to sell
Old baldy too raise it.
| "take good keer of yourself and be
| keerful of Buncoers.
/ From the folks at Home"
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANCER.

The most recent addition to the
many agencies, national and local, now
engaged in the warfare on cancer is
the Department of Preventive Medi-
cine of the University of Missouri.
This department has just published in
the University Bulletin special ar
ticle on the early diagnosis and treat
ment of cancer by DR.. F. A Martin,
instructor in pathology. The purpose
of this bulletin is to call the attention
of its readers in Missouri and else
where to the campaign for the edu-
cation of the laity which is being
carried on by the American Society
for the Control of Cancer, the Ameri-
can Medical Association and other
national and state organizations, and
to give a brief general survey of the
cancer problem as a phase of pre-
ventiye medicine. The knowledge and
skill of surgeons in the treatment OF
cancer has progressed. according to
the bulletin, almost to the limits OF
what is possible and if the percentage
of cures by this, the only method of
treatment which offers reliable hope
Of cure, is to be increased, the patients
themselves must cooperate by seeking
earlier diagnosis and treatment On
examining the histories OF large
number of cases it has been found
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-14
Journal Entries

Few arguments are confined LOT
long to the proposition about which
they began.
> i. +
Almost everybody has to be salts
fled with wishing for lots of things.
- 10 T.
Some people are so pessimistic that
they think every egg is bad one
= j
What has become of the old fash
toned man who was forever boasting,
At pay as I CO."
+ = =
What makes a man fall asleep in
church. the sermon or keeping late
hours the night before?
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the girls afterward, she couldn't re-
member distinctly. But it was some
thing like this:
I'm glad you are better, Miss Heck
1 came to talk business"
stYes2"
when you came to me you recon-
mended yourself as a time saver
believe in the same thing and l have
a proposition to make to you right
now.
VERY good. Mr. Trowbridge-
We'll, Betty, If you will just run up
stairs and take off all that darn fool
ishness and let down those pretty
curls, rub off that grease and smash
those spectacles, I'm going to ask you
to marry me. But, on second thought,
1 don't believe I'll wait for that
And Betty never would tell the rest
of it-(Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicateo
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Topeka's Memorial hall is being sent
to London newspapers
They are very much interested IN
ANYTHING pertaining to war and SOL
diers over there so we are sending
picture of your beautiful building to
London" the letter stated.
In a recent issue of the Boston
Transcript, one of the largest news
papers of Boston, a four column half
tone picture of Memorial hall APP
peared. Over the picture was TINS
caption:
"Topeka's Magnificent Memorial to
Her Soldiers"
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MAY FIGHT SHELTERS
President Wilson Considering Trans
ferring Summer Home to n. j.

washington, Oct 14.-President
Wilson probably will not return to
Cornish, n. H, next summer, but IN
stead is considering transferring the
summer capital to the New Jersey
shore.
( Representative Scully of New Jersey,
and a committee will see the president
tomorrow and urge him to select a
residence on the New Jersey coast for
next summer. They have in view for
him the beautiful summer residence of
the late John A. Mccall, at Elberon,
lust south of Long Branch, named
."Shad dow Lawn"
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MEMBER;
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau Of CALCULATIONS.
American Newspaper Pubsishe1~
Association

President Wilson sounded popu-
lar chord in his speech before the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton when he declared in no uncertain
tones that the citizens of these United
States must be Americans first, last
and all the time. Any American citi-
zen who isn't so disposed should pack
his trunks and depart. This land is
as free to get out of as it is to get into.