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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03
Big BOUTS NOW
HELD IN JERSEY
Leonard-Brazzo at Wild
wood and Tendler-Cal-
lahan Bouts Important
HERMAN MEETS BURNS

New Jersey has jumped into the
front as a place for the stag.rg Of i'm
portant battles The shore resorts have
taken the lead and for the inaugural
cards at Wildwood and Atlantic City
real headlners will be seen. Jack Han
Ion. matchmaker of the Wildwood club,
signed Benny Leonard. lightweight
champion, and Jack Brazzo, IIaaletOn
citizen. for his opening show with a
good supporting card for tomorrow. At
Atlantic city Johnny Eckhart procured
Lew Tender aId Frankie Callahan to
do the entertaining on Saturday night
At Jersey city tonight Pete Herman
bantam champion, meets frankie Burns
The Leonard fight comes into notice
first because it presents brilliant
champion with the fight in the open
tomorrow afternoon. BrazzO may be
termed 4 second rater but he is one of
the few fighters who ever Knocked
/ Leonard almost through the ropes and
was willing to exchange punches freely.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03
NOTES OF THE AMATEURS

willing to travel for expenses William
phone Race 63S7 A.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

st. MaIachy's Colts. a fourteen and fifteen
year old team, is open for July 20. 81 and
all of August and would like to hear from
teams of that class having home grounds
and Offering "A suitable guarantee Owen
Doyle. manager. 1870 North Eleventh street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

Welcome A. G., travelled to the hom,
grounds of the, SralinRer A., C., and gave the
home team the worst defeat suffered by
them this year. After the dust had cleared
the Gniclal scorer % ioHnd iSIhd mat ths visitors
Welcome has July l3 omen and would like
grounds in Pennsylvania New Jersey or
Delaware and offering suitable guarantee.
Nat Holt, manager 2i2O South Millick
ST
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

=. y. II. 4. continued IS winning streak
hv easily defeating the Chadwick A.; G. by
tie g. one;sided sGoTe Of Is to a. Pit Pitcher her
game by tanning seventeen opposing bats,
men. The team has several open dates and
teams having home grounds and Offering
suitable guarantee. n. Setchick. manager,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

ST. AIoy sius G. G. has July a. m. and
eighteen TO twenty yearRld uniformed teams
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

Cayura +. &. would like to sTranee games
with any sixteen and seventeen year old
teams having home grounds and Offering a
suitable guarantee. William Farrell, man
ager. 4g57 North Reese street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

Frankford +. e. would like to hear from
any seventeen and eighteen year old travel
ing or home teams of several open dates
during the months of July and August. II.
g Fox manager. 45oG Griscom street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

Seminole A.. A., through misunderstandi
like to hear, from, a frst-class team having
home grounds and Offering suitable guar
antee Frank Bash manager. 35l7 North
Seventeenth street. or phone Tiosa 3li3
- q u
The evening world., 1918-11-02
MOTORMAN EXPERIENCED,
B. R. 7. PRESIDENT ASSERTS;
DERAILMENT The CAUSE
Col. Williams in Statement Declares
Driver of Train Had Done
Similar Work Before.

Col. Timothy S. Williams, Presi-
den OF the b. r. T., this afternoon
issued the following statement:
1T has been impossible as yet
for our office TO ascertain the
cause Of the acciden except that
1t was due TO a railment, be-
cause they have thus far been eX-
cluded from the Investigation on
the ground and from communica-
ton with most of the train crew.
80 far as your specific inquiry
relates 10 the qualifications OF the
motorman ut is not indicated who
made the inquiry, my information
is that Lewis was appointed a
guard in December. 1914; was
made a train dispatcher last jan
uary and early in September last
qualified as a motor switchman.
A motor switchman IS a motorman
who is generally used in the yards,
but who is qualified to make tips
on the main lines and who from
time to time makes extra Il. - On
the main lines.
when 1 say that he was quail
ified as a motor switchman
mean he had had the necessary
instruction in the operation of
trains and had gone through the
preliminary experience Of run
ming trains, not only on the
Brighton Line, but on the Culver
and Bay Ridge Lines"
President Williams denied that
company officials had sought to
spirit away" the motorman.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
INJURED.

BAIRD. MARION. No. 2542 East 18th Street.
BARAULT. ZETHRIN. No. iOT Martense Street.
BARNEsDALE. BERTHA. No. 3l22 Mermaid
Avenue
BARNET. MRS. JOHN. No 1859 East l2,s
Street.
BoCHICHo. LOUIS. No. c54 Prospoct Road.
BOON. MARTIN. No. G35 FlAtbush Avenue.
BRENNAN. MARGARET. No. 1911 Homecrest
Avenue
CAMPO. ABRAHAM No. 5e4 Flatbush Avenue.
CARCloLO. JOSEPH r.. No. 1903 Ggth Street.
CLABIA. ROSE No. 1885 East 9th Street.
CIANCEY. SUSIE. No. 1TO4 Kings Highway
CLEARY. MARY, No. 81 Parct1e 4.venue.
COLUMBIA. ROSE. No. 1925 East 9th Street.
DAVIS. FRANK. No. lo2 Norman Street
DENCkhAN. VERA. No. ITO EldridEe Street.
Manhattan.
DESRIN, KIRK. No. 5H West 17sn Street,
Manhattan.
powp. MADELINE. So. 2s2T East 10th Street.
DUssELDoRF. MRS ALPHoNsE. No. lo28
East 22d Street .tilr
CANNON. EDITH. No. s2i Avenue p.
GODDARD. HERBERT. No. 234 Lsfferts Ave-
nue.
GORDON MRS. No. 1905 Neck Road
CUBA. NICHOLAS. No. 1896 Neck Road.
GUTHRIE. JAMES j.. No. $50 u. 10Th Street.
HALL. MARTHA. No. 27l5 n. I'D Street
HANI.EY. HELEN. Shccpshoad Bay,
HASTEY. PEARL. No. 1909 Ditmas Avcnus
HAYES. LAURA. No. 2ST y. 7h strst.
HORN. GEORGE. No. 2lOS u. f.h strost.
IRWIN. IRENE. No. i49 Lfierts Avenue: hAc-
bircd arm
jUDr. FRANK. No. GtS Eastern Parkway.
LARSEN. LILLIAN. No. 7IS Avenue U.
LAUREY. NELLIE. No. 1882 sho~e Road.
LIE. FlEDA. No. Ga W. i4th Street. Man
haitian.
LEE. HARRY A.. No. OIL Utica Avenne.
LERNER. NATHAN. No Iii4 T. Tth Street
LOWRY. NELLIE No. i7s2 Shore Road.
MGARRY. JOHN. No. 10 Avenue G.
MANDER. WALTER. No. $40 Flatbu.h Avenue
MARTENS. LAWRENCE. No. 1901 Avenue U.
MESSIEUR JOSEPH. No. 1923 Ca5Ncn Ave
| nue.
MILLER. WILLIAM. No. 56s y. 18th Street.
MITCHELL. MATILDA. No. 2GJ0 Il. l5th
Street
MULE ERNEST No 2l2i z. l3h str-,t.
| MULLER ELIZABETH. No. 304 18th Street
MURPHY. VERONICA. No 1897 Homecrest Avenue
MUsEN FRANK. No. IO2 Ocean Avenue
o'BRIEN. LARRY. No. I2ii EAst 10Th Street.
O'PRIEN. WILLIAM W. No. eel4 Kenmore Place
| PITTS. FRANK O.. No $50 Eart 10th Street
ROCHE. MARIE. No. 26i7 East 18th Street
ROTH. MARGARET No. 2sl7 East 18TH Street
SCHUBERT. ARTHUR No. 100 Webster Avenue.
sENCO. ABRAHAM. No, 52t F1AtbuAh Avenue
| SENMAN, HARVEY T., No, l0t Woodruff Avenue
| SMITH. JOHN W.. No, 255 East Sth Street
SOLOMON. EDITH. No. s2i Avenue T.
SToDIE. THE REV. JAMES. sheepahead BAY.
lsULLVAN. LORETTA. No. AT East 18th street
TORTOISE. LILLIAN No, 4 Nswkirk Avenue
WALL. RICHARD. No 1909 Beverly Road
WALSH. JOHN. No. 1905 East 9th Street
wEl lNBultG. MORRIS. No. o. WesterlAWn Ave
nue. Albany.
WISER. WILLIAM r., No 1850 East 10Th Street
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN about twenty years old
five feet inches tall and weighing ~
POUNDS, wearing a dark dress tlrce finger ring
and q gold orusa PIN fractured skull
The evening world., 1918-11-02
WOODEN CARS rs YEARS OLD
MADE UP TRAIN, SAYS LEWIS
Crowded to the Gates, Also in Violation to Law,
Declares District Attorney.

District Attorney Harry f. Lewis
of Kings County. following his first
investigation Of the accident and the
arrest of the motorman and guard
gave out this statement:
The accident undou btedly was due
to the recklesness of the motorman.
He was Incompetent, and his .ncom-
potency must have been known by the
officials OF the road who directed him
to take out the train.
From the information in my pos
session. the motorman was running
the- train at n highly excessive rate
OF speed around the curve and dis
regarded the signal. when the first
car jumped the track. and the second,
third and fourth cars buckled and
smashed. causing the deaths OF
at least So persons, while scores were
injured, many of whom will die, and
others be crippled for life.
have learned that the 8 cars
used on the train were old style
wooden cars. They were at least
twenty-five years old. They were
coaches, and only the first and
last were supplied with motors.
There was not steel bodied car
in the entire make up OF the train.
"Apain, the law was violated
by erowdina and examining these
fivS cars with passengers. They
were packed TO the gates. There
were a number of people standing
The evening world., 1918-11-02
.DAzED M0T0RMAN
|. DID NOT WANT TO
| TAKE OUT TRAIN
"My Mind Told Ne Not TO-"
He Explained to Wife in
Home Before His Arrest.

Anthony Edward Lewis. motorman
OF the wrecked train, was arrested
early this morning. arraigned later on
a charge Of homicide and held for ex-
ANIMATION on Nov. z. He was on the
verge of collapse,
OF his movements between the mo-
ment Of the crash and time of his
arrest only fragmentary reports could
be obtained. When an Evening World
reporter called this morning at the
Lewis home, No 1e0 33d Street,
Brooklyn, no one was there. But a
few minutes later Mrs. Josephine
Lewis and her baby came home from
church service.
"I don't know much about 1t at
all," the wife said My husband
went to work yesterday morning at
4 o'clock and expected him home at
80 in the afternoon. 1t was 10 In the
evening when he did come in, and 1
cannot tell you how stunned and
dazed he looked.
I'm alive was the first thing he
said to me. That's all / know. 1
don't know why 1 am alive or how
got out OF that tunnel
"He sat still for a long time, say
ing nothing. Then he turned TO me
again and said:
"T didn't want to go on that train
at all My mind told me not to take
IL out"
Lewis left his home soon after
ward, his wife said, announcing that
he was going to the Seth Street office
OF the company to report. After
ward he went to the main office Of
the company, then back to the seth
| Street office. 1t was after his ques-
tioning by company officials that he
was arrested and taken before the
District Attorney.
| other witnesses said that Lewis,
after the crash, climbed out OF his
booth and helped several women get
to the roadbed from the front plat
form. Then he became terror strlck-
en- and ned from the tunnel. When
detectives placed him under arrest
| his wife said:
Friday is a hoodoo day for my
husband. Three weeks ago he SUI
fered an attack of Spanish influenza.
| The next Friday our baby died. This
Friday this terrible accident occurs.
The Lewis couple have had three
children. Only one of these, a child
OF thirteen months, Is living.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
SMASHED CHISEL FOUND
At SCENE OF CRUSH LEADS
TO TRAIN WRECKER THEORY
Public Service Inspector Picks Up
Tool Which Appears to Have
Been Run Over by Car.

Secretary Walker OF the Public
Service Commission told District At
torney Lewis of Brooklyn to-day that
between 10 and IL p. NJ. last night
a cold chisel seven and a half inches
long and an inch in diameter, with
its head fiattened as If It had been
run over by a train, was found by a
Public Service Commission inspector
at the scene Of the B. r T. disaster.
The chisel was lying alongside the
rail at the point where the train
jumped the track. according to the
inspectors story.
The Public Service Commission be-
lieves the dinding OF the chisel should
be thoroughly investigated on the
theory that the tool might have been
deliberately placed upon the track
District Attorney Lewis requested
that the inspector furnish more de-
tails.
When the chisel was found flremen
| police and other rescuers had beer
working about the wreck severa
hours. It is not unlikely that one o
them dropped the tool. Admittins
this, its nattened condition still woulC
have to be explained.
Secretary Walker said the Public Ser
vice Commission doesn't attach any par
lticular significGnce TO the find.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
NEGRO HERO FROM FRANCE
IS IDOL IN UPPER 7TH AVE.
Needham Roberts, Who Was Henry
johnson Routed % Germans,
Is Being FeaSted.

Private Needham Roberts. who with
Henry johnson. both colored. Of the
18TH Regiment Col Haywood com
manding. killed or captured twenty
Germans s!ngle-handed with bayo-
nets and trench knives. Is the idol Of
the hour in the upper reaches OF
seventh Avenue.
Roberts was sent home wounded d
and up to a few days ago was in a
hospital at Lakewood. He addressed d
meeting Of negroes at Lafayette
lIall. l30th Street and Seventh Ave-
nue.. last night. and IL scheduled TO
speak at a big meeting in Carnegie
Han tonight on Monday night the
colored business men In Harlem are
going to give him a dinner
II Ia the first opportunity New
York negroes have had OF honorinl
ono OF their own heroes from over
seas Both Roberts and Johnson wer'
cited for bravery and received th'
'croix de ouerre.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
on the platforms, because they
could not aet inside.


could not get inside.
IL have learned that this was the
first timo Lewis had taken out a train.
| have not been able to learn whether
or not this man ever ran train pc
fore. understand he formerly
worked as a train dispatcher.
81 have ordered Col Timothy 3.
williams, the President of the B. X
T., and Vice President John j. Demp-
sey to appear at my office to-day and
give an explanation OF Lewis run
ming the train" 3D..
District Attorney Lewis conducted
a more thorough investigation at the
scene of the wreck this afternoon.
He then issued the following state
ment:
From a more thorough examtna-
ton of the wreck 1 find that the sec
ond and third cars were the worst
damaged and that the greater part
of the death list Is from these cars.
Both these cars struck the tunnel
well and they were ripped wide open.
"I have not changed my opinion that
the disaster was caused by the In
competence and recklessness OF the
motorrnan and the failure OF company
officials to provide a competent motor
man. 1 found no fault with the road
bed"
Mr.. Lewis said he was making Q
special investigation OF the use OF old
wooden cars and would make a state
ment ON that phase OF the matter
later.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
u BOATS CONCENTRATING
At BASES, LONDON HEARS
German Submarines Declared to Be
Rushing to Their Home
Stations.

LONDON. Nov. 2.-The German sub
marines are concentrating at their
bases. according to information re-
vealod here to-day.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
RESCUE WORK rs PROMPT.

Really extraordinary
Chiefs
q
available called
quickly
supplemented
dead delay
equaled this city
the bodies of dead
laced together.
narrowing hedged
Roman Catholic Church. and the
They administered
persons
forty OF the dead
the hfh Evidently
police
without
fully fifty feet
The evening world., 1918-11-02
B. R. 7. OFFERS To PAY
HOSPITAL AND FUNERAL
EXPENSES OF VICTIMS
Col. Williams Tells Borough Presi-
dent Riegelrann to Draw on
Company for Necessary Funds.

company Tor Necessary FUNDS.
Col. Timothy s. Williams. President
OF the b. r. T.. this afternoon sent
the following letter to Edward
Riegelmann. Borough President Of
Brooklyn:
"My Dear Mr.. Riegelmann-I am
informed that the families OF some
of the unfortunate victims Of last
nights accident are without the nee
essary funds to arrange for burials.
that some of the injured may not be
able to pay for the proper medical
treatment and that you have pro-
posed raising fund for such pur-
poses.
II desire to say TO you, on behalf
of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany, that you may draw on US for
any amount so required. Please con-
slider that the above offer Is made
without regard to any claims any OF
the injured or their families may
have by reason of the above accident
Yours truly,
"T. S. WILLIAMS,
president OF the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company"
Mr.. Riegelmann announced that hi
would suggest to Mayor Hylan thi,
afternoon that a public funeral be held
| for all the dead.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
SAILORS PLOT AGAINST
The SOVIET GOVERNMENT
Trotzky, Denouncing Cowardice,
Threatens to Court Martial Unit
Showing Signs of Panic.

STOCKHOLM. Nov. "A plot against
the Soviet Government has been dis
covered among the sailors OF the flotira
on the River Volga. according TO re-
ports from Pctrograd.
Russian War Minister TnotzISy. in an
order of the day to the Army. denounces
the cowardice and flight OF several fight
ing units. He threatens to court martial
any unit showing the least sign of panic
In the future.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
STEEP GRADE, SPEED WARNING.


grade begins the Brighton
within distance Of the mouth
into the tunnel posted the gud
Of motormen:
six HOUR"
This sign the right hand mooman side Of the track
travellers the line be plainly visible day. but
he would probably without knowing It,
reduction OF miles hour
tunnel alive
going Park
miles Lewiss admission that going thirty
the authorities make the opinion the
probable.
double carries
this sngeack tunnel that the wreck
futhmoe bears sharply off the right in
q short distance In
that derailment took
This the train against the partition WALL which Of
ung the walls
three inches.
this practically con
plete demolition curousy and the
last the other One for the they stood be
found the fact that therefore Of
The second reduced pntes twisted metal
fourth likewise
show what had been It caught the
naturally the directed evidenced
by the fact that carried entirely from It's trucks
The evening world., 1918-11-02

consider the evidence that the
train incompetent hands
understood that the Grand Jury will investigate the report
that the accident indirectly to the compnys attitude
strike Of moomen yesterday The strike
the recommenda
Federal Labor Board for the reinstatement OF "enynne
strike called OF Las to-day when
the strikers
which Lewis charge left Park Row at els o'clock
and last OF them motor cars All
DID, according
District Attorney Lewis
loaded the platforms There was an average OF at
be just
46o than 400 The
injured for 300 OF these.
Joined Lewis after his arrest
Attorney Lewis demanded of George
chief the he be produced Until that
had turned Detectives
until after had
communication with his claim
The evening world., 1918-11-02
camnnIrn parade n. Postponed.

Bird S. Coler. Commissioner OF
Charities. announced that the Demo-
cratic campaign parade which was
scheduled for Brooklyn tonight has
been called Off because OF the disas-
ter Mr. Coler was busy all night
summoninR doctors. nurses, ambu-
lances, supervising the extrication of
the dead and injured.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
MISSING.

CBelieved by relatives to have been
on the wrecked train,(
BORDEN. HELEN. twenty Ioar ye.p iOi,
oosAn Avenue. brooklyn.
LOVE. bessie, twenty years. No 90 A.
MArs AvennA
The evening world., 1918-11-02
DIED..

on Nov. 4. 1918.
ROBERT j.. beloved husband OF Isabel
Martin and eldest son OF Joseph Kane.
Funeral from residence of his sister
Margaret T. Kane. oo2 Kent Street
Monday. Nov. 4, 19ls, at $50. to
Church Of St. Saviour. Sth Avenue ana
9th Street. where requiem mass will
be offered for the reposo OF his soul.
lnterment Holy Cross Cemetery.
The evening world., 1918-11-02
yellow Fever Epidemic In Guate-
mAla.

SAN SALVADOR. Republic OF Saliva
dor. Nov. i.-Delegates from Guatemala
to the convention OF the Central Ameri-
can Union at La Union. Salvador, on
Nov. s will be unable to attend because
he country Is quarantined by land and
sea on account OF an epidemic OF yellow
fever
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
Who's Better-"Foghorn" Macdonald or
Kaiser

"Foghorn" Macdonald is man who
enlisted in the Canadian army when he
was SO years old His story is in the
July American Magazine. The author
Of it says
"Foghorn Macdonald is well past 81
to-day. But if the war were Just start
ing, this August, he would look a re-
cruiting officer in the eye and say he
was 80, or 10, if necessary to get his
chance to 60 and fight as a private sol
der, And he could do it, too. His gray
hair is rather thin on top of his head:
but the blue eyes, with which he scorn.
fully measures the men of the cities,
need no glasses, Nobody has to use an
ear trumpet when he speaks and he
doesn't need one himself when YOU talk.
"The kaiser is 50, only % months old
er than Foghorn Macdonald. He is king
and emperor and war lord He could.
and undoubtedly would have you sum
marily killed if You tried to put onto
his imperial person the uniform of
private soldier. wonder how long he
would last in that uniform. / wonder
how big pack he could shoulder. how
many miles he could march, how often
he could invite a husky youngster out
doors and lick him good and plenty.
wonder just how much he would fight
for the principle of liberty When you
take them for just what they are, BODY
and soul, which is the better man-Kais-
or Bill or Foghorn MacDonald?"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-01
CHICAGO CARMEN
GIVEN A RAISE
Increases on Elevated and Surface Lines
Were Ordered By War Labor Board
to Go into Effect To-day
Other Awards Made.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 1.--Motormen
and conductors of the Chicago surface
street railway lines we're to-day awarded
wage ranging from 40 to as cents an
hour by the national war labor board.
The wage awarded motormen and con-
ductors of the Chicago elevated lines
ranges from 40 cents to so cents. The
increases in both cases are effective to-
day.
Similar awards were made to trainmen
on surface lines in Detroit.
In Cleveland the trsinmen on inter
urban lines were awarded a wage rang
ing from 80 cents to AZ cents
In Pittsburg and New Orleans the
trainmen were awarded from 3S to AZ
cents, and in Schenectady from Al to As
cents.
The effective date of the wage increase
in Pittsburg is May "a, in Schenectady
May /, in New Orleans July /.
The increase is effective in Rochester
as Of June Is. Under the head of New
York state railways, Rochester city
lines get Al to As cents and interurban
AZ. A fat rate of 50h cents for the
West Shore railway was awarded.
III bhC wage was II W
so cents an hour, effective June /. In
Newark, n, j., the rate was made Al to
As cents, effective June Z. In Trenton
it was made AZ to 46 cents, effective
June o. In Scranton it was made Al
TO As cents, effective June 2.
For the East St Louis lines leity), it
was made Al to As cents, effective July /,
and for the interurban lines AZ cents.
For the Chicago 4 West Towns Rail-
way Co. it was made 43 to As cents, eff
fective Aug. 5.
For the Evanston Railway CO. it was
made Al to As cents.
For the Cleveland Railway Co it was
made AZ TO IS cents, effective May ].
Columbus Railway & Power CO.. Al to
IS cents.
Galesburg Railway, Light & Power Co.,
80 to Al cents, effective July Is.
Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway Co..
II to As cents, effective July II.
United Traction company, Albany, n.
y, all employees, additional pay to bring
minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour,
effective June 3.
The board announced that it had rec
commended to the president that special
legislation be enacted by Congress to en-