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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
CATS PLAY $4,000 GAME or
HIDE AND SEEK WITH HElRS
Relatives of Miss Caroline Even, Fencs Friend IN f'sh
Against Claims of London Societies to Slice
of Estates $500 900 Residue.

Starving Cats also put IN q cla'm 'oi
ne legacy. u,
Miss Kate Cording, who gave all her
limo and money 10 the work and died
q pauper in 1913 IN tho hqu-Nivlsec.
ton Home al Battersea, established
the Animal Rescue League. Mss
Eliza Clcgg was associated m the work
with Miss Cordlng. The cat chasing
work began modestly in 1898, when
Miss Cording. who lived a. Camden
town. auncaled 20 Mrs. Zoe Constance
Morgan 10 take twenty cats week.
Then Miss Cording went about Lon
don with basket, picking up cats and
kittens. Mrs. Morgan had agreed TO
accept twenty of the homeless ANNA Il
each week. for WHICH she received the
nominal amount of 10 shillings year.
Finally the industry became impor-
tant enough 10 be taken oJer by the
ROYAL Society for the PpYention or
Cruelty to Animals. Al the time o.
her death Miss Cording and her asso-
cistes had picked up nearly half
million feline rovers.
Miss Cording's effects contained five
letters from DowaRer Queen AleXan-
drs. compimenting her on her humane
work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
WIDOW TELLS OF
TRUST in HARTMAN
Didn't Know Contents of
Her Own Will, Said
Mrs. Mackenzie.

Mrs. Charlotte L. Mackenzie. WIDOW
Of James 6. Mackenzie, whose brother
was president Of the Singer Seyins
Machine Company, yesterday compleieY
her testimony IN the trial Of Richard
J. Hartman, before Justice Weeks. r
the Supreme Court. Hartman Is a.
cused Of SWindling her out OF her q.
tire fortune OF $685. 900, which he use5
in founding the firm Of Tyson & Co
Mrs. Mackcnzie's testimony revealed
her perfect confidence IN Hartman. 50
firmly did she trust him that she was
willing TO sign any papers az his re.
quest she said her viii had been
drawn up at Hartman's request. L
was dated February l3, 1912, and from
that day until IL was produced II
court. she had never seen 10, she said
She had not inquired about is contents
and did not even know who Wit.
messed It.
The witnesses were William Z. Fo,.
ter and James Lee Kaufman, both Of
p West llth ST.. neither Of whom she
knew: Mrs. Mackenzie and her phys.
clan Dr.. L. VI. Mooney.
By the terms Of the will, which Mrs..
Mackenzie said she learned for the
first time yesterday. William S. Mae.
CURE. a former Assistant District AZ.
torney, and Hartman's lawyer, was
named chief executor and guardian o.
Mrs. Mackenzie's two minor children,
Douglas and Jean, with full power TO
manage the estate. Her country estate
was left 20 her son Douglas and the
residue Of her property was 70 be held
in trust for her children until Douglas
was thirty-hvc years old, or, in case o.
his demise, Jean reached the age o.
thirty.
Mrs. Mackenzie said Hartman prom.
ised to give her Russian oil stock IN
return for her Singer stock. She spent
two weeks in St. Petersburg with him,
she said, but never asked about the
business interests he claimed TO have
in Russia. She also said that Hartman
had never made any suggestions Of
marriage 20 her. ..
William NJ Rouse, nephew OF Mrs
Mackenzie. who al one time had charge
of her business affairs, said that be-
fore Mrs. Mackenzie went abroad she
made a will in which he was named as
chief executor. but that this VAS with.
drawn after her return.
Lewis n. Devausney. assistant cash.
Ter of the Seaboard National Bank, and
Francis Il. Sanford, an attorney, testl-
fed as TO the 100000 loan made 20
Hartman on the security Of Singer,
stock.
The trial will be continued this
morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
WILL CALL MAYOR
IN PROBE OF P. S. C.
investigation TO BE Resumed
To day. with Chief Clerk on
Witness Stand.

Mayor Mitchell and former members
or the Public Service Commission, As
we'll as other members Of the city al
miuistratiou and present members OF
thc commission, VIII he called by the
legislative committee that ls iuvesti-
eating the commission. They will not
be called, however, until the committee
has got good groundwork 10 so on,
probably not before uCAt week.
Tho hearings viii nc resumed IN the
Board OF EstIm9'" y"".a 80 City Hall
at 10 O'Clock this morning. George T..
D9ggctt, chief clerk, VIII return to the
stand When no ends his testimony
Travis II. Whitney, secretary Of the
commission. will probably go on the
stand again. Colonel Hayward coun-
sell expects To- take up the inycstiga-
tiou Of the course of more complaints
such as was brought ont on Monday.
Although the committee does not eX-
pcct to be able 90 report before March,
and for that rea son viii ash for an OK
tension of time and more money, It
hopes 10 finish its work with the com
mission I'M this district by February
10. Members of the committee have cN-
pre- scd regret that owing to the short
time, available within which to work
they will not be able 10 go 30 deeply
into the activities Of the commission
mere as they would desire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
BUDGET MAKING BILL IN
Measure at Albany to Bunch
All Appropriations.
B From 4 STAT Correspondent o. The T1bur

Albany. Feb. 2.-Provision Tor an an
nusl budget. showing estimated rev
cnues and desired appropriations for
the current and ensuing fiscal year. is
made IN a bill introduced to-day by
Senator Sage and Assemblyman Adler
Majority Leader Harold J. Human OF
the Assembly had large part in the
preparation OF the measure, which car
ries out N part his ideas for taking
care Of the duties Of the Efficiency and
Economy Department, about to be abol-
ishcd.
The bill provides for the appoint
ment Of a permanent budget clerk for
term Of two years, who shall assist
the Finance Committee Of the Senate
and the Ways end Means Committee OF
the Assembly in preparing the budget
and presenting Il 10 the Legislature on
or before March /. The bill is 10 cover
as those IN the regular appropriation
and supply bills. In fact, appropria-
lions Of every kind arc TO be passed
upon by the two committees. The
Governor must certify 10 its necessity
before any other appropriation can be
acted on by the Legislature.
"lf all bills for special sppropria-
tons said Ny. Human, "are brought
together IN the budget instead OF being
pes sed ono by one. the Legislature will
be able 10 discriminate between those
which arc more important and those
which arc less important
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
Army and Many Orders;
Movements of WdrShibS

ic,ins Surg LOUIS LLHRFELD. resignation &C
Pass Asst Psymss,er =. NJ HACKER. detached
navy yard Washington, 20 South Dakota
Pss Assist Pzymaster = r. WILSON. detached
South DAKOTA. ~ home and avail otdsrs
Chief Gun. w. G. SMITH, dets ched Tallahassee
Chi.f M.Sh { II GILHULEY. 70 N.,,l Academy.
Mach. FRANZ SMITH. detached inspector ~
coal Baltimore 70 temporary duty Missouri
Mach. w II. MUELHAUSE. 10 Baltimore a. in
spectog OF coal.
MOVEMENTS.
ARRIVED.
ian. 5l-Sau Diego, az san Diego
Feb Lebanon a. Newport Prcmetheus o. Il
huron. IroQuois, a. Mare Island.
Jan. 30-Montana. Guantanamo for Fort .u- Prime.
La Par for Msz4tlsn-
Jan. SI-Des Noines Charleston for Port Prince
Feb Morris Nevpor, for y. v yard. Arethusa
Port Arthur. Tea. for Guantanamo, Hannibal
Boston for guantanamo. Prometheus. Mare Island
for T1burOn
Feb 2-Tennessee. AleIandris for Jans. Cluso.
Hong Kong for cruise up West River
Marietta and MachisS detached duty with
cruiser squadron. Atlantic neei. and placed IN re
UFve IN Newport Nav YErd.
Parker. at Guantanamo Bsy. ordered 10 proceed
20 nay yard. y Y.
on Departure Of Hannibal from Gusntanano
about 10Th inst. mail address ~ vessel VII
ch.nss ron In care Postmaster Of New York q"
10 care Of Postmaster 81 New Orleans. La
Benhan and Bsleh, a. Guantanamo Bay. ordered
70 Pen.scols. TO arrive BY leih Inst. for tnu
riIls'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03

from his house, but It was made PLAIN
that he stayed az his own risk
Another mission Of the police which
called many detectives into the district
was the breaking up Of gangs OF hood
ums who had gathered al the hrst
alarm. Many Of these were found lux
ing IN Railways, waiting for an op-
portunity TO loot some home or shop
whose owner had left it deserted.
They were bundled out without cere-
mony.
Those who left their homes at the
suggestion of the police were escorted
past the danger spots which resulted
tom cayed in sidewalks and uncovered
manholes.
The Department Of Water Supply had
numerous men at work within short
line after the break occurred. Al
though they knew in a general way
where 10 look for the trouble, the water
had risen so that II was extremely
difficult for them to get at II.
Thousands Of curious folk gathered
in a moment and pressed hard at every
point upon the police lines. From the
places 10 which the police relegated
them these persons could see but little
Of the food. Their only thrills were
furnished by the unfortunate Eighth
av. dwellers, who now and then stag
gerad past. drenched TO the knees ana
bending under the weight Of children
or furniture.
At o'clock this morning the police
warned all the big hotels and other
buildings in the neighborhood TO draw
the water from their boilers, as Water
Department men were turning on
mains as fast as they could reach
them. and at any moment the water
supply for the entire district might
fail.
Three persons were treated by an
ambulance surgeon from the Polytechnic
Hospital. Policeman Richard Byrnes
and Sergeant Murray saw two women
and man houndering in the water
at AID ST. and carried them TO kellys
Hotel. At Eighth az. and 42d st. After
a detour. the ambulance reached them,
and they were sent on their way IN
taxicabs. One woman said her hus-
band was Mayor Of Orange, y. j.
Engineers with maps from the De-
partment Of Water Supply were I'M
able to find the break. They feared
that it might extend to others of the
five water mains that cross at that cor
ncr. Representatives of the Consoli-
dated Gas Company turned of the
gas and said that, even with that pre-
caution, they feared a disastrous eA-
plosion.
Commissioner Woods and Inspector
DIVER took charge of the police ar
engagements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
$4,000 A MONTH
CUT FOR BOWLING
Compensation Commits
sioner's Estimate OF
Needs TO Be Trimmed.

j. q
AIbary Feb. D. Members OF the
state CONDENSATION Commission. whcn'
like several other state department.
probably will be reOrganized soon maze
eloauent pleas not TO be trimmed 700
closely in the money allowed tncW AZ
hearing this afternoon before the oeh
ate Finance and Assembly ways ana
Means committees. They declared t'at
they could not get along on less than
$50 900 month, while Senator sage,
chairman Of the Finance Committee,
told them he considered 100000 enough.
The commissioners assured the com
miitees that they had not been eN-
travapant. and that they had even
worked overtime without extra paw.
They declared that within the next year
the commission, through IT'S insurance
department. would be self-suppOrtlng
il is the present intention or the
Ropublicau leaders 20 give the commis-
sion $4,000 a month for the next TWO
morsths and then 70 reorganlle me
commission. witch will probably mean
the legislating Of the present commits
sion out Of Office.
Robert f. Bowling, chairman Of the
commission. expressed Indignation at
tho criticism that the New York ofiSes
were TOO extensively furnished.
at il too absurd for official notice
he said. after explaining that the fur-
niture was bought at bargain.
Others who spoke were John Mltcheil
and Howard r. Mosher, members OF the,
commission: William A. Archer. general
manager, and Professor Simon BALDWIN,
one Of the high salaried employees. lhey
all bore out the assertions OF CHAIRMAN
Bowling. while J. Mayhem Wainwright,
tho Republican member of the commits
sion. apparently disagreed with many
Of the assertions Of his colleagues. lie
believed that the salaries of many OF
the employees, including the secretaries,
could be cut. and that the commission
could get along on $4,000 month.
It was generally agreed that the com
mission could get along with more mod
est quarters than the $4,000 gear
suite in the Metropolitan Tower IN New
York, and that the main office should be
moved to Albany in accordance with
the intention Of the law. There also
seemed TO be no objection 10 elminat-
ing several of the branch Offices?
Amendments designed to place the
commission on self-suppOrting basis
after January /, 1916, have been pre-
pared by the commission for early intro
duction in the Legislature, the commits
sioners said to-day
The first amendment would provide
that the state insurance fund be main
tanned entirely by its premiums and
that it receive no state aid after July
!, 1915.
By the second it is proposed to pay
the administration expenses after the
first of next year from assessments
levied on insurance companies, the
state fund and those corporations or
individuals who insure themselves the
assessments to be levied IN proportion
10 the amount Of awards made. The
present law provides that the state
Shall aid the state fund and provide
for the maintenance Of the commission
until January, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
Ambassador Page Cables
State Department OF
New Order.
CONFISCATION TO
FOLLOW SEIZURE
Position as 10 luterncd Ships
Also Changed Oppose Any
Sort of Transfer Now.

Washington. Feb. .. Amba ssdoI
Page, at London. Cabled the state De
partment to-day that tho British feet
Rad been ordered 20 treat CargoeS o.
grain and -four destined Tor Germany
or Austria a conditional Contraband,
subject 20 seizure and Conhscaton.
This step, the Ambassador explained
followed the announcement that the
German government mad dccreeG con-
fscstion OF 10 grain and -four TO con
serve the nations iocS supply.
Ambassador Page said inc BUilS1
government had Informed HIM tina, be-
cause the steamship NIlhelmns, now
hound from New York for Hamburg
with grain and other food, had sailed
before the issuance or the German
decree. an exception would he made ~
her case. The vessel would be seized.
IL was said. but she would be released
and her cargo purchased ST invoice
price BY the British government.
Warning was given, however. that
other shipments hereafter o. similar
character, when destined for Germany
direcflv or indirectly. would be seized
as we'll ss tho vessels carrying them.
without compensation being paid.
Great BrItalns position with regard
70 the transfer Of IntcvDcd German
ships 10 American registry has under.
gone a change since the carly days OF
the war. according 70 official lniorma-
ton obtained m Washington to-day.
At the outset Of European hosulites
the British government, as related IN a
London dispatch TO The Tribune, pup
lished to-day, expressed the view that
transfers OF German vessels TO Amer r.
4.
the lanes OF transatlantic commerce
was not altogether 'uuobj Objectionable and
II might be excused Transatlantic
commerce. with the direct intention for
Germany 20 be the consigrce o. mcr-
cbsndise and foods.uFS, or. falling the
direct intention. with the ultimate
probability o. Germany becoming a
beneficiary, could not be engaged IN
without iucurr1ng such rcprlSal as the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
SHE KEPT DIARY TO
SHOW SHE'S ABUSED
Wife Aids Court with Neat
Record of Hubby's AL
legged III Treatment.

Mrs. Fannie Schmidt. Of Q West 10th
street asked the Supreme Court ycster-
DAY for a separation from Morris
Schmidt. a furniture dealer. She did
not have TO remember the dates and
circumstances of the numerous occa-
sions on which she alleged her husband
i'll treated her, for she carried diary
in which these were all written.
The couple were married in 1908. As
in many other matrimonial mlsunder-
standings. money was the cause OF the
frr tiff btween the Schmidts. The wife
said when she asked her husband for
money he abused her. They separated.
Two or three times. said Mrs. Schmidt,
she went back to live with her nus
band, but each time was compelled to
leave him.
In December, 1911, the diary said
"Fe would not speak to me. II he
had anything to say, nc said it to Viii
fred, my little SON"
On March 6. 1910, Mrs. Schmidt
wrote:
"My husband threw water in my face
and pushed his hand against my nose,
causing great pain"
Mrs. Schmidt read from another Page,
saying:
Here is an account Of where he
pulled the covers of me one cold winter
day and ! caught severe cold
Other entries read: He came home
and kissed the children and ignored
nc" 81 asked for money for mourn
ing clothes when my father died He
said, Don't talk money TO mel | mad
to get it from my brother"
Justice Ford reserved decision, but
not without first addressing few
words TO Mrs. Schmidt.
"Now. Mrs. Schmidt" said the JUS
tice, when you married you thought
you were going TO have il good and
easy. You nsgged him too much about
money. If ! grant you decree your
husband will have to maintain two
establishments.
Almost all married couples have
similar experiences. You want nice
clothes, and you think you ought to
have them. am not putting your hus-
band in the category Of saints. He
should have realized you were young
girl, and treated vo1 differently. But
you do not appreciate that married life
is not one grand sweet song. Your
differences are not serious
The Justice added that if he granted
the separation Mrs. Schmidt would
have more trouble in getting money
from her husband than she had while
she was living with him. However,
the Justice was convinced, he said, that
the couple could not live happily to-
gether
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
TRANSPLANT WHOLE BONE
Philadelphia Surgeon Gives
New Hope to Cripples,
by Telegraph N The Trb me

Philadelphia, Feb. 2.-It Is asserted
that thousands of cripples may be-
brought 70 health and strength by a
surgical discovery announced by DR.. A.
Bruce Gill before the Philadelphia
Academy OF Surgery. The discovery
followed series OF experiments ir
transpIsnting entire bones with their
joint surfaces. The tests were made on
dogs. but the results indicate won
derful new field in human surgery, il
is said.
Complete bones. taken from ore foot
and inserted in another performed
their functions perfectly in their new
positions.
This new method" says Or. Gill,
will enable us TO cure nearly all Grip
pies. Hitherto bone trsnsplantations
have been attended with stiffness and
lack of power in the members treated
Now, | think, we will be able TO re-
move, .sv an affected finger joint mad
replace II with joint taken from one
o. the patients toes. The toe may be
replaced bv section of his rib. AZ
fccted nip joints may be removed and
replaced by healthy bone which will
function properly"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
PHILIPPINE ACTION URGED
Senate Committee Fears Trou-
bic if There Is Delay.

Washington, Feb. o. With recon-
mcudation for immediate passage, the
revised bill for q greater measure %
clf-goycrumcut and ultimate mde-
pcudcucc for The Philippines was pre-
scented to-day TO the Senate. The COM
mittcc report urges amendments, in
gliding a revision Of the preamble. The
substitute for the House preamble, the
report says, states in plain language
the reasons for the present bill, and de-
clarcs the purpose Of the United States
with regard to ultimate independence
and proper conditions
The Senate committee urged action
at this session, because longer delay
would "innamc and provoke political
agitation. possibly leading to disturb
succs," aud increase present business
depression nm tho islands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
GETTING RID OF
PARTISAN OFFICES
Republicans Push Work Of Re-
organizing State Departments
and Saving Money.

Albany, Feb. .. The WORK Of the Re
publicans OF the Legislature in putting
out OF business state departments
vndcr Democratic officials continued al
= merry pace to-day.
The Conservation Department. which
is under q thrce-hcadcd comm on.
one Of the members being "Pachey'
McCabc, Democratic boss of Albany
County, was the subject Of con
ference among Republican leaders Of
Senate and Assembly this afternoon.
Il is the intention 10 rcOrganlzc TINS
department, leCIslating the present
commission out OF Office. \ measure
now under cons Iteration, II is claimed.
will save the state S250.ooJ Ii wear
The three $4,000 d year commissioners
In control Of the department will be ne
placed by a singlc-hcddcd commission
with one deputy. The department VIII
then be divided into three bureaus.
Water and Drainage, Forestry. and
Fish and Game, over each o, which vii
be a superintendent. The saving. Ec-
publicans assert, VIII be made lu sal
aries and by the aboishiug Of rumcr-
Gus jobs held by political fayor'tes.
The bin aboiishing the Fire Narshals
Office Will be passed by tho Senate TO-
morrow and viii then be sent to the
Governor for approval. Several mem
bcrs Of the Public Service Commission
investigating committee, when is to
meet tomorrow i'm New York, were
held iu Albany by the Republican
leader, Senator Elon X. Brown, 80 that
there would he no danger OF not having
enough Republicans present to pass he
bill.
The measure abolishuc the Efficiency
ard Economy Department was reported
cut Of The Senate Judiciary Committee
this afternoon, and viii be passed by
the Senate i'm short order Like the
Fire Marshal's bill, it has already
passed the Assembly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03
BIBLE READING BILL OUT
Said To Be Favored by State
Education Department.

IRON SIAN correspondent q. me N1pIns. 7
Albany. Feb. . Senator Greincr's
bill making il mandatory for a prin-
cipsl or other head Of a public school
10 read az least ten verses from the
Bible az the beginning of each daily
session has been reported out of the
Assembly Public Education Committee
and will be placed ou the order OF
second reading IN the lower house to
morrow. II is still IN committee in the
Senate.
Asscmblymau Tailctt who fathercd
the bill IN the Assembly. says that the
measure has the backing Of the state
Department OF Education. The bill
provides that the scriptural verses
shall be read without sectarian COM
mCDt