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The Detroit times., 1916-06-14

VIENNA, June t4.-The tor.
pedoino Of the italian troop ship
Principe Umberto. June g, is Of.
feially announced today. The
ship which was conveyed by
torpedo boat deStroyers, sank in
a few minutes.
The Italian government an.
nouneed the sinking OF the
Principe Umberto a few hours
after the torpedoIng. The losses
were heavy.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
Workers On Job Early
and Citizens Are
Generous
PAST RECORDS
MAY BE BROKEN
Small Army of Girls
Volunteer Services
AS Collectors

Ting day workers whose efforts
20 run up "a big total In funds for
the white plague campaign were
somewhat dampcncd when big
ratndrops, at noon. sent them
scurryinG 60 cover, were chcered
10 learned, ut I o'clock TINT ono
hoN, turned In by Nrs. Harold
Gray, was found to contain up
wnrds Of $1,000. Mrs. Gray had
sold pennnnts and had been work.
Ing for several days. There arc
over loo money boxes ont
nmoug the volunteer workers on
Ncdnesday. according 10 Miss
Mnude Van SICKLE, the executive
secretary Of tag day.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
Visiting Doctors. Attention!

Mt Clemens has many splendid no.
tells. only 90 miles away. Frequent
car service. Come and see the bath
City."--Adv.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
|CZernOwitZ Still In
Hands of TeutOns;
Fall Near
PROGRESS MADE
TOWARD LEMBERG
Further Gains Will
Give Command of
Railway Lines

ROME, June t4.-The italian
fleet 10 now engaged in a bonn.
bardnent OF the positions on the
lstrlan coast in the vicinity Of
Parenzo and Trieste. according
to an official announcement to.
day.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
lAN's TEMPERATIHEs

Highest temperature this date In
past ~ years, 81. In ISofi lowest, ca
en- ISTN
One year ago today Highest tenn
perature, 6st lowest, ~, mean, aat
partly cloudy weather with ~ isch
rain at night,
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14

PARIS, June t4.-There we're
NO infantry attacks on either
bank OF tho Aeuse last night,
according 10 the French official
cornmunique today.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
Issues Challenge To
"Jing0ists" In Open
ing Convention
CITES RECORD
OF DEMOCRACY
Harmony Reigns SUI
preme AS Party COun-
Gil Assemblies

OF. LOUIS, Juno 14.-Wllllam
Allen White, one Of the Inner
circle Of Progressive leaders, ar.
ranged today to see Secretary Of
the Navy Daniels. He declared,
however, II was not with any
thought Of finding q way for
ProsressIves to Join the Demo.
cratic party.
~ am not for Wilson," he said.
~ admire Mr.. Wilson very much,
but that 10 as much az can
say"
COLISEUM, ST. LOUIS, June
14.-Wild cheering, flag waving
and a parade OF state standards
which bade fair to continue for
many minutes, broke out In the
Democratic convention today
when Temporary Chairman
Glynn, In his keynote speech,
predicted a victory for Wilson
In November.
ST. LOUIS. June 14.-Hailing
President Wilson as the conserya-
tor of American peace and neutral
ity and the protector of American
rights, and pointing with pride to
the progressive and remedial lesis-
lation enacted by the Democratic
party since the election of 1912,
Former Governor Martin Fl. Glynn,
OF New York voiced the challenge
of a united democracy in his key
note speech before the ST. Louis
convention today.
Mr.. Glynn said in part:
1T took Washington and his sue.
cessors so years of endless negotia-
ton to win recognition of American
neutrality. And this so years of
struggle wove the doctrine of neu-
trality so closely into the warp and
woof of our national life that to
tear II out now would marvel the
very threads of our existence"
By the records of history, Mr..
Glynn maintained that II Washing
ton and Lincoln were right, Presi-
dent Wilson Is right. The neutral,
ity that President Wilson stands for
today was advocated by Washing-
ton, by Hamilton, by Jefferson and
by Lincoln.
BY citing presidents Mr.. Glyna
justified and defended The course OF
the president in the Lusltania and
similar incidents. "In the face OF
this record" ne asked, do Repub.
Iicans realize that when they ar
raign the policy OF the president oe
he United States today they ar
-aIgn the policy of Harrison. of
Blaine. OF Lincoln and OF Grante
For the pleasure Of critlcizing a
Democratic president. are they will
ng 10 read out Of the Republican
party the greatest men tho Repub,
lean party ever had? Are they
willing 10 say that the Republican
,arty OF today condemns what Ham.
lton did in evolutionary days, what
lincoln did in Civil war days, and
What Grant and Blaine and Harrison
lid but yesterday?
"ln his policy of peaceful negotia-
ions today the president OF the
United States follows the example
iet him by the greatest presidents
which the Democratic party and the
greatest presidents the Republican
'arty ever gave this nation"
Mr.. Glynn impressed on his hear
RS that II was the business OF this
convention, representing every sec
ion OF the United States, speakine
toOntinuea on Psse I've,
A naIamar. e.rr.n- A.. ~.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14

A Delaware farmer has built a
cylindrical barn, 70 feet In diameter
and "a fee, high. OF concrete. There
are lao posts, beams or other sup
ports
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14

Wayne Mineral and Turkish Baths
ADV.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14

PrintinE--the P,si. reat klnd---thnt
e. rieht--Timcs Job Dept.--Msin 45z0.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
THE WEATHER

Detroit and vicInityi showers ~
thunder storms this nfteruoong faip
tonight md Thursdnyt cooler tonightt
modernt" westerly winds.
Lower Michigan Thunder storms
this nftcrnoOni fair tonight aud en-
ThurSdnyg cooler In southcast por-
tir".
Upper Lakes Moderate west winds
on Lake SupcriUrt light 20 moderate
variable wind- becoming west on
rhi''pu nud Huront fair to-
night aud Thursday except thuuder
storms this afternoon or tonight ON
Lake Huron.
Lower Lakesi Fresh south winds
shifting to west winds with squalls
this afternoon and tOniRhti unsettled
weather tonight and Thursday WITH
prohnbly thundcrytorms. small craft
warning Indicated 10 n. "a.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-14
4 DRINK wTTIr PURPOSE
Horsford's Arid Phosphate

Agreeable ana refreshing. especial
~ In hot wcathev. II Is a remarkable
nerve tonic, Buy a bottle.--Adv,
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BARS 20 LONG BEACH VOTERS.
Justice Cropsey Orders Names ON
village Election Rolls.

The names OF twenty-five men regis
tered as voters In the village of Long
Beach were stricken from the election
rolls yesterday by order of supreme
Court Justice Cropscy. Long Beach Is
to elect it's village trustees to-day. and
the annual fight between the supporters
and opponents OF ex-senator william
H. Reynolds is even sharper than usual.
Asserting that the election officials
had permitted the registration OF men
who lived in Manhattan, New Jersey
and other points not within the village
limits, Henry +. Cochrane. representing
an anti-Reynolds cit!zeus committee
asked the Supreme o 10 purge The
rolls OF ffty-two names, one or MS
charges was that ten men were regis
tered from an abandoned shack. lie
also told the court that there were only
S79 women and children in the perma.
nent winter and summer population OF
Long Beach and that the registration
of cal voters seemed extraordinary. Mr..
Cochrane said last Ugh
I'VE intend to challenge and arrest
every fraudulent voter. and will petition
the District Attorney OF Nassau county
10 lay the whole matter before the
Grand Jury"
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account Of s25 a week at the Office Of
one man. and was paid accordingly by
other lawyers to whom he gave his
cases. He Is authority for the state
ment that the lawyer who got the best
OF his services was receiving from $50
900 to $150.000 a G He also added
that some of ire civil lawyers with whom
he used to meet for discussions on civil
matters are now wearing the ermine of
the bench.
Several witnesses are TO be examined
by the Grand Jury to-day In q general
inquiry that has been started to find
out how far reaching the game OF nc
titious accident suits had progressed
Among the witnesses to be called 10 Vic
tor Deutsch, a lawyer at 50 Park Row.
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ACCUSES LAWYERS
Of DISHONEST SUITS
"Ambulancc Chascr's' Confess
sion Said TO Name Men Since
Elevated to Bench.
IN THE PAY OF A DOZEN

Several lawyers m some said TO have
advanced TO Judgeships may And them
selves badly entangled through a con-
fession made yesterday % District At
torney Swami by Abraham r. Gather Of
1857 Failes street. The Bronx, who had
Just been brought from Cleveland, where
he had been arrested by Detective her
a McConville. II was on a specific
complaint that he had attempted grand
larceny that Police Magistrate Nolan In
the Centre street court held him In $4,000
bail. Before this. however. Gather told
the District Attorney a story that in
wolves at least a dozen lawyers who
committed crimes in employing Gather
In his work
Gather. who fed when II became
known that his service to lawyers was
being investigated by the District Attor-
ney. freely admitted that he had been
an Ambulance chaser" and had for some
time made n good living by taking acci-
dent cases to lawyers who make a bust
ness Of that class Of work. Gather said
he had been engaged for n long time
and up to the time the orkm com
pensation law went into effect had no
trouble getting business for the many
lawyers who wanted his services as
'steerer."
Then II transpired that clients and
cases had to be had. and according to
! the confession. Gather had kept right on
going with the consent Of his employers
and got witnesses in dishonest suits on
the understanding that he would get one
third Of the sum collected by the lawyer.
Gather admits that he used one or
two women. as the case called for, and
one wa Lillian Brown, who also went
under the name Of S,san Gordon. She
has admitted her part OF the scheme to
Assistant District Attorney R~yttenbers
ant in three actions brought in her name
through a lawyer who IL yet TO be *.
amined.
She admitted that Gather had brought
her into the cases. They vary In char
acter. In one instance. she alleged she
had been struck by an automobile ownet
by Mrs. Bertha X. Archibald OF 1895
Fifth avenue. Anothe time she brought
suit for being hurt by an automobile
owned by r. II. Macy & Co. y THIRD
suit was against the Union Railwa.
Company. All suits were withdrawn
but the criminality In them was sub
mitted 20 Mr.. Ryttenberg. who latei
caused Gathers arrest.
In telling his story TO the District At
torney Gather said he had a drawing
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-20
LURED TO HIS DEATH BY GIRL.
Mnher Said to- Have Keen SHIN 10
Nyeuge AIleHed Insult.

The murder of Edward Maher. a clerk
IN the City Record office, In front or a
dance hal, a; !l9 pr!ggs avenue. Brook
lyn, sunday night. whore he was called
out to the sidewalk, vas cleared up yes
terday after the arrest Of Edith Ward,
II, OF 65 Knickerbockcr avenue, and
Robert katzermiller. % years Old OF
&c Newell street. BROOKLYN.
The police were told that Maher met
the girl Sunday afternoon and passed
an insulting remark about her she
went to Katzeumiller and told him she
wanted Naher 10 apologize, katZen-
miller accompanied the girl until hey
located Maher in the dance hall. The
girl lured Maher TO the street, the police
saw. where Katzenmiller ordered him 10
~apologize, and on Makers refusal Kat
xenmiller, 1t WAS alleged, shot MN
through the heart.
K~atzenmiller and the girl were COM
mitted without bail by Coroner Wagner
following the inquest. Three other men
we're held as material witnesses
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GREELEY, IN BRONZE,
j GOES WEST A BIT
Protesting %vchcmently, lie
First Smashes Huge Window
IN "Tribune" Office.
OLD BEN FRANKLIN SAD

Even the most casual observer IN the
crowds which hurried up and o Park
Row in the rain yesterday knew there
was something wrong with historic old
Printing House Square. the destinies OF
which have been presided over from
time knows when by Ben Franklin's
rusty statue. odd Ben" as he Is
Familiarity known, looked Enthusiastically
depressed In spirits and sadder than
usual. Every one agreed upo that.
And there was reason for II.
Mr.. Franklin's back was turned more
In grief than in anger. perhaps. on the
Tribune Building. where the last rites
over the statue of Horace Greeley were
being held. a crowd of several hum
drcd ra%insoaked men and women peeped
out from urdcr their umbrellas and
watched Uncle Horace. chair and all.
carefully lifted into a truck waiting at
the curb Just outside the Tribune count
Ing room. The Ave ton bronze statue
which has decorated newspaper row for
forty years was being rudely taken to
. new resting place by a company of
safe movers.
But the Horace. dead and turned
Go clay seemed to animate the statue
and resisted dumbly. First he toppled
over on one side and then on the other
and Just to spite his movers he fell
backward through the htg plate glass
window, leaving a Jagged hole and a
diagonal crack across the window pane.
Finall, the bronze was LOADED upon
the truck but the two raw boned horses
were powcrless to move II. An auto
mobile reinforced the animals and Inch
by inch. first slipping Onward, then back.
while the truck veered from side TO side
on the slippery pavement. the statue
truck began to move into the centre OF
the street a sudden lurch twisted the
editor about in his chair until he faced
the spa per office he had founded
Tina was his good-by.
The truck moved through Mail street.
UP Broadway and back through Cham
bers street until the statue was depps-
tied in the northeast corner Of CITY
Hall Park near the City Court Build
ing. There II will rest.
The statue. modelled by J. Q. A
Ward. war given to the city by the
Tribune Association. Then il was dis
covered that the statue protruded be-
yond the property line and the Park
Department decided to move II to the
Battery. But such a food of indignant
letters was received that a refuge was
liked upon In city Han Park-stll
within the confines of Printing Houa
Square.
Mr.. Gree,ey's daughters wish has
been gratitied when she said lie
his statue rest somewhere in PrintinR
House Square that his feet trodI SO Otter
IN his busy life. lie desires no place ir
any hall Of fame. bu, 10 lie left among
the u+upie-to say 10 the weary seekers
for work Y too have sought as Hot
do and found work do not despair
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URN IS PAROLED.
swami Inactive About Wire Tap
ing Hearing.

william j. Burns. a private detective
who 10 alleged to nave committed a crime
when he copied certain papers In the
office of Seymour 4 Seymour. lawyers.
at 100 Broadway. appeared before Chief
Magistrate McAdoo yesterday m was
paroled until Friday. He appeared with
Francis l.. Wellman as his counsel.
James NJ. Beck had formerly been coun-
sci for Burns. but II was said that he
was engaged in a trial that prevented his
appearance.
District Attorney Swami did not gain
much Roadway yesterday in his efforts
FOR a general open hearing for those
alleged to have committed crime when
the private wires of priests and others
were tapped by the police. He got a
letter from Genera Sessions Judge
Grain saying hat n satisfactory he
would hear all sides of the controversy.
The District Attorney, although within
a few feet of Judge Grains office
throughout the day. said that he had not
talked with any one about the coming
inquiry. He also said that he had not
tried to talk with Mayor Mitchell.
Neither had he seen Peter ]. Brady.
representative Of labor alliances who are
clamoring for a hearing. All that Judge
Swami would say was that he had
not met n one Interested yesterday,
but to-day or tomorrow he might make
the required arrangements for a John
Doe investigation.
Morton d, Sultzer, who formerly had
desk room In the office OF Seymour &
Seymour and is now awaiting sentence
on a charge of larceny through a bad
check transaction. was not sentenced by
Justice Benton in the Supreme Court
Yesterday. 1t was aid nat he had
done little IN the way Of clearing up the
haze about where all the inside munitior
contracts information escaped from the
office OF J. p. Morgan & Co. II Wa also
said the District Attorney has learned
the real source Of the leak.
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He and Nh. Moss had several clashes,
one especially when the counsel asked
whether Mr.. Prendergast's hand tremo!ed
as he wrote his statement In the news
paper office. Both talked so loudly and
yehemently AZ each other that for a
Time the air was thick with such com.
nents as these: "Please keep quiet
"Will you keep quiet, Mr.. Moss MT
Chairman, I'll have to appeal to you 10
Keen counsel quiet" Are you really
,~hrough?' us Nj. Moss talking still or
again. Mr., Moss was defeated and
Mr., Prendergast said: $40 let's cut out
this nonsense" A few seconds later he
added well. I haven't commenced to
scare you"
MIR. Moss asked him how the prefer
entia, got into the final contract when
i, was not in an Offer submitted In De-
cember, 1910, Mr.. Prendergast said II
was in the 1910 offer. but like the sales
mans oyercoat In the bin you couldn't
see IT," The Comptroller gave ten rea-
sons for his vote in favor OF the ANAL
subway proposition, and lauded the con-
tracts as the best the city could get.
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CAMP CASCO. West Harrsvs'l. Es'' nav,
Maine For gent Nueu "a 20 q. i'..fs'cn
Stovrrs cove Cruising. Fis9'I. NN'.'
Sports lrt,r Scout Laws. AdDtc- El.ht
r FAII.SEN. nr!n, T. : VI A. CEilfsrs
Wee Point. y. Y.
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ROW AT RECRUITING OFFICE.
Two Held 2or 1nsu1tinE he F1ag
and an Army Sergeant.

Somebody shouted "the Government Is
rotten; who wants to fight Mexico?" In
a crowd outside a United States army
recruiting station at Bergen avenue n
149th street. The Bronx. last night.
That started a row. Sergt. william
n. Ryan Of the Eighth Coast Artillery.
In charge OF the station, n George
Fletcher, a sailor from the battleship
Oklahoma. In civilian clothes. Jumped into
It. A mar in the pack addressed un-
printable words to the American flag
and another tried to hit Ryan with his
fst. Most OF the Grove sided with the
sergeant and the sailor and were ready
to maui the insulters Of the flag when
Policeman Lanerty drove them off.
AT Sergt. Ryan's request Abraham
and Joseph Brandon. 81 and 25 years
old. we're arrested and charged in the
night court with insulting the flag and
the sergeant. They were held by Magis-
trate Krotel in $500 bail apiece for ex-
animation In the M%orrisania court this
morning.
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Camp P~ortinimicut for Girls

cape cd. Mass.
seventh season. S'dshor and .raf'f' "a
treezes and pine forests. Ever ct'up tH ,'
zion. Absol.tpiv sdfo. warm s,' H.. f.H 10
Ing EHHk.Ht MRS MARY = " iH'NP. -
81 Talbot Ave, borChcster, Mass.
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Comptroller rrendergast practically
completed yesterday what he referred 70
some months ago as he 'education OF
the Thompson committee on the dual
subway contracts" lie read to the
committee yesterday morning . volu-
minous statement covering his entire
connection with the subway question
lie had anticipated every line of ques-
tioning that the committee had In mind
he seem to have forestalled what prom
Used to be an exciting session that his
examination by Frank Moss in the after
noon and the repartee that ensued
verged on the burlesque.
J. p. Morgan, returning 20 the stand
for further questioning about 'commit-
ments and obligations" In connection
with the proposed third tracking con-
tract for John +. Stevens. told the
committee that he had no recollection
Of that phrase when the late Gardner
W. Lane and William A. Read called
at his office to object to the Stevens
contract. Mr.. Morgan refused abso-
lutely to comply with Senator Thomp-
some request that he write a letter to
Itt btfP eNtCuttTS Sty lUs tHdl i've a
10 objection to the committees obtain
ing the Lane memorandum on commit
ments and obligations" Mr.. Morgan
added that he was willing that the ex-
ecutors should do rs they saw ft.
says Tie Acted for Gaynor.
The Comptroller,s review OF the sub
way situation from 1909 10 the signing
of The dual contracts included the eN-
PLANTATION OF hts change OF vote on the
lnterborouEh subway offer OF July. 1911.
The committee has been Bothered about
that incident. Mr.. Prendergast also
eNulained In that connection his
| visit to the Office of n morning news
, paper where he dictated his statement
against the proposition that some hours
before he had agreed II support. And,
TO the surprise of the committee. he
said that he had represented Mayor
Gaynor at most of the conferences pre-
, ceding the dual agreement.
The counsel to this committee" said
Mr.. Prendergast, has asked a numbe
nf witnesses who hav appeared before
1t why | changed my mind n agreed
TO a proposition with the Interborough
I company after | had voted against one
I'm the summer OF 1911. In the Board
Of Estimate the question at issue was
/ never whether no arrangement should
he made with the ~Interhorough. but al
WAYS what was the exact amount thar
should be allowed. In other words. II
was not n question of principle In be-
ing wiling to trade or unwilling to trade
with the Peterborough. but solely a
question OF the amount of dollars ana
cents TO be allowed 90 per cent. prefer
entail as against SGD"
The C,mptroller's statement laid en-
phasis on these points:
That although seven of the eight mem
bers OF the Board Of Estimate who Wen
into office on January l, 1910. were
pledged TO a platform OF munlc!pa
ownership and operation of subways. IN
clty's debt limit did not permit or sucf
- programme.
That capitalists seemed to take no In
%terest IN the tri-borouch route that wa
proposed with this intent.
That a great many persons generally
favored the extension OF the INTERIOR
ouch system as against the proposal u
build an independent system and wanted
an ARRANGEMENT made with the inter
| borough.
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PRENDERCAST "EDUCATES"
THOMPSON ON w
Comptroller Reads Committee Full History Of Attitude
Toward Dual Contracts. p. Morgan Knows
Nothing Of Commitments.

OF the third tracking contract 20 John
+. Stevens.
II cannot contradict him." said Mr..
Morgan. II can only say that I have
nc recollection Of any such statement
In that way"
Senator Thompson reviewed the COM
mittee's u~nsuccessful efforts TO get the
Lane memorandum and then asked Mr..
Morgan n he would not try to get Il.
perhaps write to Mr.. Cottlng. one Of the
Lane estate executors In Boston, and say
that he had no objection to the com
mittee's getting II. MIR. Morgan aid he
saw no reason why he should butt In
between Mr.. Lane and his executors."
The committee continues It's hearings
this morning. Comptroller Prendergast
Aneny comes next.
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MAYO BECOMES AN ADMIRAL.
Takes Fletcher's Place and IL Sue
ceeded by Conman.

Vice-Admirai Henry T. Mayo assumed
the rank OF Admiral and took command
of the Atlantic fleet at the navy yard
Yesterday. succeeding Admiral Frank =
Fletcher. who will 20 10 Washington TO
become n member of the Naval Board
The usual salutes and ceremonies
marked the change. which took place
on the deck Of the Wyoming, flagship
of the fleet.
Rear Admiral De Witt Coffman sue
ceeds Admiral Mayo as Vice-Admiral
commanding the first division. His flag.
bearing the three stars Of the Nice-Ad-
miral. broke from the masthead OF the
divisional flagship Arkansas soon after
Admiral Mayo had been installed.