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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
HUNDREDS AT FUNERAL
OF JOSEPHINE CONAN
George NJ. Cohan Collapses at
Ceremony for Sister.

The funeral of Mrs. Josephine Cohan
Niblo, actress and sister of George NJ.
Cohan. was held yesterday morning at
the Church of the Blessed Sacrament,
Seventy-frst Street and Broadway.
Hundreds of men and women who had
known Mrs. Niblo crowded the church.
A brief delay was occasioned as the
funeral procession was leaving Mrs.
Niblo's apartments in the Hotel Belle
claire. due to the collapse OF George NJ.
Cohan.
A solemn high mass of requiem was
celebrated BY Father Terence Z. Gil
martin. assisted by Father Thomas
Barry. Father John B. Kelly and tatner
John Corley. In the sacrlsty were
Monsignors Lavelle and Powers, Father
Talbot Smith and Father Joseph De-
laney.
The pail bearers were Wallace Dunn.
Samuel Harris. Dennis +. O'Brien.
Charles Osgood, Howard stevens and
Frank Bacon. Immediate members OF
Mrs. Niblo's family who attended were
Fred Niblo. the husband, son, Jerry
Cohan and his wife, and Mr.. and Mrs.
George VI. Cohan.
Among the friends were Tom Lewis,
Amelia Summerville. Mr.. and Mrs:
William Collier, Lew Fields. David
Warfeld, Harry Houdini. Louis Mann,
James ]. Corbett. +. +. Proctor. Marie
Cahill. Helen Tembrook, John j. Muir
dock. Ruth Allen. Louise Dresser.
Frank Hope, E. NJ. Robinson and Laura
Bennett.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
PLAGUE PUTS BARRIER
IN N. Y. BOYS PATH
Neighboring Towns Refuse to
eft Him In, Despite Certificate.

New York's infantile paralysis plague
has resulted in the building up of an
iron ring of quarantine about the great
or city which childish emigrants find
it next to impossible to break. And it
is not New York herself that has cast
the ring, but its neighboring towns.
A professional man living in West
Eishty-ninth Street, who did not give
his name. told the Health Department
Yesterday how he had been trying IN
vain for more than a week to get his
eieht-year- old son out of New York. he
crossed by ferry in his automobile to
Hoboken, where he was turned back.
He met the same experience at Edge
water and Englewood.
He then returned 20 New YORK and
obtained health certificate" for his
son. Armed with this, he got as far
north as New Rochelle in his motor,
where the certificate was declared
worthless. He was once more turned
homeward. His effort TO gain Federal
health certificate that would pass him
and his son through any state also
met defeat. He is still searching for
some means by which he may get his
son away.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
WILSON COAXES
MOOSE LEADERS
Mccormick Anxiously
Seeks Progressive Chiefs
for Committee Places.

Vance Mccormick. chairman of the
Democratic National Committee. is
seeking half o dozen we'll known Bull
Moose for places on the Wilson cam
paign committee.
The President is as anxious as Mr..
Mccormick to corral these Prcgressives
on the Democratic campaign commit
tee. but they are having considerable
difficulty in finding them.
Because Of the unwilingness Of
prominent Progressives to accept a
place in the limelight the selection Of
the Democratic campaign committee
has been held up. All kinds of press
urc, it was learned yesterday. are being
brought TO bear on cambridge Colby
of this city. and Raymond Robins. Of
Chicago, to get them to accept places
Mr.. Mccormick went TO Washington
last night for another conference Win
the President. He said he hoped 10
announce the names OF the members OF
the new campaign committee early
next week. He also said that Presi-
oent Wilson will be officially notified
Of his denomination at Shadow Lawn
probably August 3.
Asked as to the plans of the Presi-
dent for speech trip. MT
Mccormick said 1t was impossible 70
man out anything at this time. he
said that the President had EXPRESSED
a wish 70 get through the Far Western
states. but he believed that he would
find il impossible to go far from WASH
inOton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
Plague in Beekman;
Statewide Fight Urged

Albany, July 14.-Since the infantiie
paralysis epidemic began, in June, one
hundred cases and eight deaths in sec
tions of the state outside of New YORK
CITY have been reported TO the state
Department Of Health, according TO
official announcement tonight. Ten new
cases and one death were reported dur
ING the day, the death being IN Clava-
rack, Columbia County.
The new cases reported were:
One in Beekman, Duchess County,
about four miles from Camp Whitman,
where thousands of state militiamen
are located; three at Ossining, in when
is situated Sing Sing Prison. and one
each at Florida, Coxsackie, Hartsdale,
Roslyn. Kingston and Rochester, Ulster
County, The Coxsackie victim was re-
ported as having been stricken with
the disease in West Hoboken, \. j.
DR.. Hermann VI. Biggs, State Com
missioner of Health, sent out circular
of information to-day to the health
officers of the state as further GUIDE
for them in their campaign for the
prevention and cure of the disease.
The new instructions would require
boarding house keepers, hotel man
ayers and other persons TO notify
health officers of the arrival of any
children from infected districts.
The instructions also urge health
officers 20 see that glasses, dishes,
snoons and other articles used in pub,
lie places are thoroughly disinfected
after.use. The officers were requested
especially to inspect soda water fogn-
tains. with view to enforcing this
ruling strictly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15

IN this house. Tenants and landlords
here are doing their best to prevent
he spread Of this disease. Help them
and their neighbors by not entering
this building unless you must. Above
al. do not enter the apartment marked
with special sign
Removal Rule Enforced.
The Health Department is strictly
enforcing the rule that all patients
must be removed promptly to hos
pitfalls, unless they can have care equal
70 that in n hospital at home. DR..
Louis c. Ager, of the Medical Board
of the Kingston Avenue Hospital, and
in charge of the special infantile
paralysis wards there. said yesterday
that the speedy removal of the children
TO the hospitals would lead to a much
larger percentage OF total recoverles
than could otherwise be expected.
There are now 300 cases in the
Kingston Avenue Hospital and 354 IN
the Willard Parker. Manhattan, in adj
dition to a large number in Charity De-
partment hospitals.
Mayor Mitchell. anticipating the need
of complete mobilization of the city's
hospital facilities, should the epidemic
last until fall. has sent the following
letter to Flower, New York. Roosevelt,
St. Luke's and Brooklyn Jewish hos
pitfalls, as well as TO the Hospital for
Ruptured and Crippled:
"The Commissioner Of Health has
lust placed in my hands a list of hos
pitfalls that have been invited to co.
operate with the city in the care OF
cases Of infantile paralysis. While
ON the whole there has been crafty
ing response to the appeal of the de-
partment. | note that as yet no re-
sponse has been received from your in
stitution. II is desirable that the
Health Department know as soon as
nossible the resources of the city for
the work in question, and ] would
therefore, ask for your early decision.
| need hardly add that ] hope this de-
cision will be favorable"
Magistrates in the Manhattan courts
Yesterday fined 1874 persons sums vary
ing from 81 to SO for violations of the
Sanitary Code discovered as result
of the city-wide cleanup campaign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
Progressives Misled,
President Declares

Washington. July l4.-ln reply 70
a letter from J. c. Parker, Philadei,
mia magazine editor. asking II he would
accent the leadership OF the Progress
sives Of all parties. President wilson
TODAY wrote Mr.. Parker that he had
no jealousy of independent politicai
organizations, but believed that the
Democratic party represented larger
part Of the progressive power and
thought Of the country than any otner'
The letter follows: -
az have read your letter OF July III
with a great deal Of attention and very
serious interest, and realize as keenly
"a Won do the anomalous condition by
which many of the progressive voters
of the country are being confused ana
misled. as well as the old invcterate
attractions which seem TO control the
choice of many of them in matters po-
litical In answer to the questions
contained in your letter, ! will say
that for my part ! have no jealousy
whatever of independent organizations
intended to keep the independent vot-
ers Vt the country reminded OF their
obligations and fully informed as to
parties and of the conditions under
which their votes are being solicited;
"For myself, sincerely desire and
have tried to deserve the support OF
all progressive, forward-looking men.
| believe, and think that recent expe-
riencc has confirmed the belief. that
the Democratic party represents
larger part of the progressive power
and thought of the country than any
other party, and that it can be made
the instrument and is being made the
instrument Of leadership in the direc-
ton which all men who love justice
and progress must wish to take.
at is for that reason that ! am proud
TO be its nominee and TO have the OPP
portunity to lead it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
John D. Williams Makes
an Announcement
of Plans.

John n. Williams. producer Of Jus
tice," made announcement yesterday OF
his plans for his first season as an IN
dependent manager. The most promi
nent of these, of course, is concerned
with John Drew's appearance in Pen
Dennis" the production OF which mas
already been announced. After Pen
dennis" has received due consideration
Mr.. Drew will appear in Pinero's The
Gay Lord Quex," although 1t is not
anticipated that the latter production
will be made during the approaching
season.
"Justice" will reopen in New York on
October 9 and will later go on tour.
John Barrymore will be Withdrawn
from the cast in June to appear in Ed
ward Sheldons newest play, The
Lonely Heart" and o. P. Heggie will
also leave the Galsworthy play to act
in either Chesterton's Magic or
Calsworthy's "a Bit o. Love"
"Zack," a comedy by Harold Brig
house, author of "Hobson's Choice,
will be produced in New York in No
vember. with Richard Bennett in the
leading role. After the run of this
play Mr.. Bennett will be seen in an
other Brighouse comedy, silver
Tongued Garside."
Some time during the New York sea-
son Mr.. Williams will offer a revival OF
lbsen's "An Enemy of the People. a
production which will be supervised by
Mrs. Fiske.
The seasons plans of the firm Of
Comstock e. Gest are headed by a
musical version of Belasco's Sweet
Kitty Bellairs," to be seen here in No
vember. George " Hobart's sequel to
the highly successful Experience" will
also see the light in November, this
production being made in association
with William Elliott.
Mr.. Gest's personal plans are con-
cerned largely with the Manhattan
Opera House, which will be the scene
Of number Of spectacular productions.
Mr.. Comstock's individual production
will be the musical comedy GO To It.
already announced as the seasons first
attraction at the Princess. Mr.. Elliott
expects TO offer three farces by Fred
Jackson "Ba, Ba, Black Sheep" Los
ing Eloise" and Contrary Mary"
The Long Island Goodhearted Thes-
plan Society, known as "the Lights"
will offer an entertainment at the Aston
Theatre tomorrow evening. Among
those who will take part are Eddie Foy.
Richard earle, Julian Eltinge, Frank
Tinney, Roscoe Arbuckle, William
Courtleigh, Bernard Granville, Wilton
Lackaye, Cecil Cunningham. Will
Rogers, Victor Moore. Blossom Seeley
and James j. Corbett.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
Frankie's Big Imagination
Outgrows Little Adventure
Nine YearOd Whose Tale of Life in the Streets Wrung
Tears and Dimes from Listeners Proves Merely
An Overnight Runaway from Cosey Home

This is the story Of little Frank En-
glezos, nine years old and all alone in
the world.
II is the account of how a youthful
adventurer of undaunted heart had for
his extensive pantry the garbage cans
Of all downtown New York and for his
bed the soft spots on park benches or
dim corners in tenement halls. For
Frankie's father and mother were dead,
he said, and his aunt had cast him into
the city streets. For more than two
weeks he lived there. joyous waif.
At least, so he told the police.
Early yesterday morning Frank was
awakened from his carefree sleep by
Patrolman Nawrod in the basement of
the Italian theatre at 4s Bowery. He
told his adventures to Justice Mayo
later, while every adult eye in Chill
dren's Court was moist, every juvenile
one envious.
frankie had lived, he said, on refuse
and apple cores he found in the streets
and the early morning roll he occa-
sionally took from a paper bag in the
halls. He didn't want to steal, but he
didn't particularly want to starve,
either. When he was very hungry be-
tween meals he looked in bakery win
dows.
Twas Easy for Him.
Once a man had bought him penny
cake of chocolate and upon another
great occasion he had found a dime,
which he expended efficiently for a
sandwich. a bottle of ginger soda and
two all-day suckers. He said he had
never been unhappy or afraid in his
haphazard life. He declared that il
"ain't nuthin'" for a boy TO earn his
own living.
So the Children's Court wiped its
eyes and Frankie was sent to the
looms of New York Society for Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children, where
he told further details of his life on
the streets. His father and mother had
brought him from Greece to New York
when he was four years old. His
father had busted cocoanuts" in a
Brooklyn factory and had been cruel
to his wife. who had died about two
years ago. His death in June left
frankie alone in the world. The two
were buried, he said in a Brooklyn
cemetery, "by the statue of Abraham
Lincoln"
For few days his Aunt Mirobe, of
II Chrystie Street, had housed and fed
her small nephew. But one night when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
REFORMERS SPOIL
JUNKETERS' TRIP
House Committee Has
Lively Time at Buff
faIo Meeting.
"FINGY" CONNERS
PASSES THE LIE
Grabs Critic - Representative
Huddleston Averts
Bloodshed.
Re Tclesrsrh 20 ne Tribune

Buffalo. July 14.-Frsnk c. Perkins,
r,former, intimated before the Foreign
Affairs Committee of the House of
representatives, which held a session
8, the Country Club here this after
noon. that the newspapers of William
7 (Finey) Corners were subsidized by
the electric powers interests.
Mr.. Corners was present. In early
rfe. when he was stevedore on the
puEalo docks. he was noted as a
sehter. Now he owns two newspapers
N Buffalo. has big lake freight hand
ling contracts and is chairman of the
hoard Of the recently formed Great
Lakes steamship combine. and is va
riously estimated at from 100000
20 sl0,00o.000.
When Perkins said "The Courier"
wss owned by the power interests Mr..
Conners jumped UP, grabbed him by
the coat collar and said: You're a
lar. Let's have your proof. ! ought
TO kick your head of for calling me a
thief"
Representative Huddleston, of Ala
hama, held Corners and Perkins apart
until both were calmer.
TIE members of the Foreign Affairs
Committee. other members of Congress
and the son of Speaker Clark are here,
quests of the Buffalo Chamber of Com.
merce and the Niagara Falls Board OF
Trade. All expenses are being paid by
these two organizations.
Leaders of industry. the success OF
which depends upon Niagara Falls
power want 70 impress on the Con-
cressmen the ACCESSIBILITY of permit
ing the diversion of the additional
400 cubic feet of water permissible
under the treaty between Great Brit
sin and the United States.
The committee spent yesterday at
Niagara. At this afternoons meeting
Perkins and two other reformers,
George c. Hllman and Moses Arm
stein. we're received at the request of
Mr.. Huddleston, who said he would
hold a hearing alone if the reformers
were not heard.
I'VE would be placed in the position
Of being entertained by certain people
and hearing only their side" he said:
Il would rather go and eat grass and
walk back to Washington than have
that said Of me. We are on public bust
ness and must hear criticisms, no mat
ter no wradical"
Perkins, Hillmsn and Arnstein were
allowed TO speak.
The committee is here under. cir
cumstances not expected declared
Hillman. "You are on pleasure trip.
He then handed in long typewriter
statement addressed TO President WI
son and Congress. charging that the
trip was financed by power interests,
When the statement was read CharleS
B. Miller. Of Minnesota. declared the
committee had been publicly insulted
and that Hillman must prove MS
charges or apologize.
After Perkins had had his turn KEEP.
rosentative Ragsdale declared himself
insulted. "You can't blackjack us, ne
said "You may call this junket II
you wish, but l am not answeraoie
70 you" ,.
representative Harrison, Of Mlssls,
sippi. moved that discussion cease and
the hearing be adjourned TO Washing-
ton. The committee finally decided TO
hold no hearing in Buffalo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15
First Speech, in Detroit,
Will Be a Plea for
Preparedness.
TRIP TO EMBRACE
THE PACIFIC COAST
Finishing Touches Being Put on
Carnegie Hall Speech of
Acceptance.
From a star Correspondent Of The Tribune

From a STAFF Correspondent Of The Tribune
Bridgehsmpton, N. T.. July IA
Charles +. Hughes will make his first
speech Of the campaign, following
his speech of acceptance, in Detroit,
August 7. This was announced here
to-day, together with other details OF
the coast-to-coast trip after the NOM
inee talked over the telephone with
his campaign manager, William T..
Wilcox. 1t is believed that Mr..
Hughes's speech in Detroit, the home
of Henry Ford, will be strong plea
for real preparedness, with a large
navy and an army adequate to the
country's needs.
From Detroit Mr. Hughes will go to
Chicago, thence to St. Paul or Min
neapolis, and from there to the Pa
cihc coast. On the coast ne will speak
in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and
possibly Los Angeles.
Mr. Hughes will leave New York
on Saturday, August 5. He expects to
be gone full month. He intends to
make about dozen speeches on his
Western trip.
Between now and July 81, when he
makes his speech Of acceptance in
Carnegie Hall, the exJustice is going
to put in most of his time preparing
for the campaign. When he leaves
New York to make his transcontinen-
tai trip he expects to have all his
time taken IN with active campaigning.
For this reason he will devote every
moment here to digesting and classify
ing the vast amount of material he has
gathered so that it can be referred tn
readily during the coming three
months fight. He will cover the ground
thoroughly in his speech OF acceptance
the finishing touches on which will DC
put during the next week. Ire
delivery of the speech will not occupy
more than an hour.
Mr.. Hughes received letters to-day
from Monmouthshire. Wales. where MS
father was born. With the letters
came a package containing book
that his grandfather, Nathan Hughes.
a publisher, printed in 1927. One OF
the letters told Mr.. Hughes that all
Wales is keenly watching the contest
and that many are praying Tor the
success Of the campaign.
Another letter received at the NOM
inee's summer home to-day, and
which caused a good deal of pleasure,
was one from the board of college ex-
aminers for Wellesley College. 1t was
addressed to Miss Katherine Hughes,
and Informed her that she had passed
the entrance examination. She Will
be a Wellesley freshman in September.
Mrs. Hughes graduated from Welles-
lev. The oldest daughter, Helen, is
graduate of Vassar. Miss katherine
prepared at the National Cathedral
School. Washington, D. c. 1t was there
that her father made his flag speech
a short time before he was nominated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-15

he had come home later than he had
to he found the door locked against
him. So had begun his idyl of the
city streets.
His Early Education.
Once on park bench he en-
countered a man who told him he was
a robber, and called frankie, the bread
winner, baby. frankie learned
things. He learned, but not at first
hand, that the market sells bigger
piece of watermelon for a cent than
the pushcerts do. He found that a
cornby sandwich was the most filling
OF all. -,
"You get two thick pieces of bread. y
he explained. "An' then there's cornby
in between. What's cornby? Why, it's
meat, of counsel"
He learned to move on without be-
ing told whenever he saw cop. he
was free to give all his time to ex-
ploring the garbage cans and to long,
joyful wanderings to the river. what
was he going to do when winter came
He hadn't thought. But when ne
grew up he was going to be a cop, and
he admitted, impersonally, that he
would run small boys in if he found
them where they shouldn't be. Only
he wished he could live in the country
and own dog.
There was something about frankie
to touch the hardest heart Sturdiiy
built, round-cheeked and innocent of
eye, he was just the kind of little
boy lots Of people have always wanted
for their own. II was hard to keep
from humping his straight little
shoulders and patting his curly head.
Sympathy Galore.
give cot two kids of my own, but
I'm darned if | wouldn't like to take
him home with me for keeps" news
paper man said.
"If ! thought there was any chance
of pulling a raise"-- said another.
And a tear slid down the sob sis
ter's cheek.
Newspaper men and officials agreed
that a story telling the truth about
the little boy would bring thousands
of offers of adoption from all over the
country. But that story will never
be written.
For. at II Chrystie Street. no one
had ever heard of frankie Englezos,
adventurer. But from a Greek gro
Gerry store lOny DeHctry emerged anu
led the inquirers around the corner
TO Forsyth Street. where. in second
story tenement. Frankie's father and
mother were very much alive-and ex-
tremely worried about their wander
ing boy. He had disappeared from
his comfortable home at o'clock the
evening before. after eating phenom
enally large dinner They had
searched for him most OF the night
and all day.
But frankie collected a whole peck
etful of sympathetic dimes yesterday.