St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 25, 1906

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With Ordinance Pending, La- clede Paid Delegates’ Friend $18,625.

ANOTHER TRACT OFFERED

Manager Cowdery Refused to Purchase Section Embrac- ing Mannion’s Park.

E. G. Cowdery, vice-president and general manager of the Laclede Gas lAgnht Co., said to a Post-Dispatch re- porter Friday that he anticipated a re- port at Friday night’s meeting of the House of Delegates on the bill vacating South St. Louis streets, which now in- tersect the site of the company’s pro- posed %,000,000 plant. This bill is now in the hands of the Public Improvements Committee, which, because of the time which has elapsed since its introduction, has been actused by minority members of “holding up” the bill. The bill provides for the vacation of streets in a 200-acre tract at the mouth of River Des Peres. The proposed plant will represent at the outset. a $5,000,000 investmént, which will be later increased to $25,000,000. If this bill is not reported out and dies in committee, the gas company will have on their hands a ‘‘white ele- phant"’ in the shape of the 200-acre tract, which is mostly swamp land, and which has been bought up piece by piece dur- ing the last two years, the company paying for it nearly half a million dol- lars. Mr. Cowdery said that Edwrd Foristel, who until a month ago was drawing a Salary of $75 a month as an operator in the Fire Alarm Department of the City Hall, told him that he owned two pieces of property, which border on the tract bought yp by the gas com- pany. Foriste] said, according to Mr. Cow- dery, that the contemplated improve- ments of the gas company’s tract would injure his property. He also Said that as he was acquainted with members of the House of Delegates, he knew they would pass no bill which would injure anyone's proper- ty. Foristel Gets $18,000, So the gas company looked into the matter, and finally decided that it would find use for the ground. Thus Foristel £0¢ his $18,625. - Mr. Cowdery says he bought -the land nol because Foriste] said the House of Delegates would not pass the bill if the property were not bought, but because the gas company found that the ground would be very useful. But Foristel’s activity did not cease here. Half a dogen owners of property. along Water street, just riverward of Broadway and between Broadway and the gas company’s ground, which they bought from Foriestel, told a Post-Dis- patch reporter that Foristel took verbal options on their property. This property consists of 11 lots. But Foristel did not offer this property for sale to the gas company. Ynstead, a man who said he was A. H. Good, went to see Officials of the Mercantile Trust Co. about it. He told them that he had an option on Mannion’s Park and the property directly back of it, eleven lots, on which Foristel had obtained verbal eptions Foristel’s name wags not. men- tioned in the matter. Iie Knew Statesmen, Too. Good offered the whole property for $120,000. According to Mercantile Trust Co. officials, he seemed to have'as in- timate a knowledge of the members of 0g House of Delegates as had Foris- Mr. Cowdery, through the Mercantile Trust Co., told Good that he had no intention of buying any more property. To a Post-Dispatch reporter the Man- nion brothers, proprietors of Mannion’s ‘Park, denied Friday that they ever gave (an option to anyone onm.their property. Mr. Cowdery, with the assistance of his secretary and his chief engineer, told a Post-Dispatch reporter the history of the bill. “The bill wag introduced in November last,”’ he said. “At this time we had bought up all the property that we wanted during the course of two years, and at an outlay of about $450,000. ‘“I-think it was in December that Foristel came to see me. He said he owned the two pieces of property which face on Polk street and rentz street. At that time our bill asked only for the vacation of streets south of Lorentz Street. . Felt Sure of Assembly. “But Foristel said that if we closed up Lorentz street and raised the grade the water would be drained over on his property and would do great damage. “IT tried to convince him that such _ would not be the case. I did not suc- ceed. “He then went on to say that he was ‘quite sure the Municipal Assembly would not pass a bill which would in- jure anyone's property. “He further said that. if we did not ‘buy his property, he would do hig best to persuade the members of the House _. Of Delegates not to pass the bill. He - Bald that if we did buy his property all his objections would removed, and he was quite sure the bill would go through. ; _ “We did not buy the property because of any intimation on Mr. Foristel’s part pet the bill would otherwise not pass. ut we looked Into the matter and found out that we could make very good wae of the land In the matter of sewer a 7 ee eee s ~ - LOLI ee EN A? A EIT PLE AARNE ETE I a OER ALLL AAI LABELLED ALLEL PLEIADES ite nee DEFENDANT WN REBATE TIAL 7 Government,Fails to Prove Case Against Former Burling- ton Official.

FILE DEMURRER OTHERS

Declare Offense, if Committed, Not in Missouri Court's Jurisdiction.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 2.—Judge Smith McP..erron, in the United States District Court here this morning, sus- tained the demurrer to the indictment against George H. Crosby, former freight traffic manager of the Burling- ton Railway, charged with alleged con- Spiracy to grant rebates on freight shipments from the East to Missouri points. Judge McPherson sustained the claim that the Government, in the present trial, had failed to present sufficient evidence to show a conspiracy, and dis- charged the defendant. After sustaining the demurrer in the case of Crosby, arggments were begun on the demurrer fe the indictments against George L.¥ Thomas, the New York freight broker, and his chief clerk, L. B. Taggart, on trial with Cros- by, for alleged conspiracy. In the demurrer in these two cases, counsel for the defendants argued that the evidence so far produced by the Government, which finished its side of the case late yesterday, had failed to show any evidence of a _ conspiracy. They held further that if a crime against the interstate commerce act had been committed that it was committed in New York, where the alleged pay- ment of rebates by Thomas were made, and not in Missouri, and that, there- fore, the Missouri Court lacked jurisdic- tion. It was further argued that the court, having discharged Crosby, was bound to discharge Thomas and Taggart. These two defendants, it was argued, were not, therefore, guilty, as it takes two persons to ereate a conspiracy, it being con- tended that Taggart and Thomas must, {mn fact, be considered as one person. The cases against Crosby, Thomas and Taggart were combined for con- venience. The case against Crosby is distinct from that against the Burling- ton Railway, which is charged with granting rebates to packers on freight rates. A demurrer to this indictment was denied by Judge McPherson here on May 22, and the trial of the Burling- ton was set for May 31, in Kansas City. Government’s Case Weak. District Attorney Van Valkenburgh was disappointed by his own witnesses. Many of them, it is olaimed, gave stronger testimony before the grand jury than they gave during the trial. Some of the leading Kansas City ship- pers testified in court to having received an aggregate of about $90,000 from Thom- as, but testified that they believed the money was in settlement of claims for shortages, mistakes in classification, overcharges, etc. Although the Gov- ernment declares these terms mere sub- terfuges, and insists that the payments were made as rebates of the simon-pure variety, it was not able to produce any evidence to prove it. Many witnesses testified that they received the money without knowing positively whence it came; men un- known to them walked into their of- fices, laid down envelopes containing money and remarked that “NM was from Thomas’ office*”” The « ‘Ipts were sometimes charged to t:cight accounts, sometimes to profit and 108s. Most of the shippers testified that their firms paid Thomas, who was 4 freight broker, a small salary to route their shipments. By shipping thou- sands of tons a better rate was 5e- cured than if the shipments had been small. The money received “in set- tlement of claims” usually averaged about 10 per cent of the annual freight bills of the companies hiring Thomas, The defense Succeeded in bringing out indirectly that G. V. K. Harris, formerly a cierk in the Burlington auditor’s office at Chicago, had left the employ of the company and that simultaneously there had disappeared a large number of vouchers covering money paid to shippers in this city, St. Louis and Omaha. It is the theory of the defense that the Government has seen these vouchers, but if it has them in its possession it cannot admit it, for the reason that to do so would be to confess to having secured them surreptitiously. It was the failure of the witnesses to substantiate the evidence based upon these vouchers which disap- pointed the Government.

a ee ce —— a ee arrangements the ground will come in very handy. So we closed the deal and gave Mr. Foristel $18,625. No Option, Says Mannion. “That is the last we heard from Mr. Foristel. But a short time after that I heard that some one had obtained an option on Marrnion’s Park with the intention of selling it to us. I rang up Mr. Mannion, who denied that he had given any option. I told him that we had no intention of buying any more ground, “About this time the Mercantile Trust Co., acting for us in the pur- chase of the different pieces of ground, was approached by Mr. A. H. Good. I do not know what his ad- dress or occupation is. “Good seemed to be under the impres- sion that, as we had bought the two feces of property which Foristel said @¢ owned, we might buy the rest. “The trust company official who talked wita him told me that he seemed to have intimate knowledge of what was going on in the House -of Dele- gates “It is news to me that the owners of the 11 lots on Water street were ap- proached by Foristel. Good said he had the option on these lots and on Man- nion's Park, and didn’t mention Forils- tel’s name.”

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tion from his face. His knowledge of the English language allowed him to only guess at what was going on. He guessed that Mrs. Gelbart was getting the worst of it. His k complexion, cropped black hair and jet-black eyes hardly gave him the appearance of a German actor. Mrs. Gelbart presented an unusual pic- ture in the Central District Station. She is one of the most beautiful women who were ever there as prisoners. The windows of the station were crowded with men, women and children who were wondering what the stylishly dressed woman was doing at the railing. The diamonds on her: fingers glistened brilliantly. In answer to the Sergeant's question, Mrs. Gelbart gave her address as 523 North Spring avenue. Gelbart said he was staying at the Madison Hotel, and Robert gave his address as 3544 Page boulevard. When they left the Four Courts, Gel- bart and his bondsman went in one di- rection and Mrs. Gelbart and Robert in another. “14 MORE than ONE MILLION people fn the city of St. Louis and contiguous territory READ the BUNDAY POST- DISPATCH EVERY Sunday. “First in everything.”

Divorce for Attic Lodger. Adolph Brueggemann of 3202 Olive street was given a divorce by Judge Sale because Mrs. Nannie Brueggemann, his wife, of 2913 Washington avenue, as- signed him to a room on the third floor while she occupieg one on the second floor. Breuggemann testified that when they moved to the Washington avenue house his wife gave him to understand that his place was on the third flobr. He said his wife sometimes went out with Wil liam Peters, a boarder at the Bruegge- mann home. ths veh ae FA ae OS ek a PALA ee 3 : > . aes “s y es . me ee + Snipa pt ELIS A ——$— . . en BT ar an ane . — outines : ’ r . i Sea te , ri ) ree ree + a gS ee & yee + As 2. ~ _ 2 » 4“ a . , » ree’ a = 7 4 f

SCHOOL FLA CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. admitted that he had taken: part in the painting of the stairs. But he would not tell who was with him. He admit- ted ¢hat he was not alone, but he re- fu to implicate anyone else by name. Principal Bryan was asked by a Post-Dispatch reporter if he regarded “Sweat-box” ethods as proper in a public school, and if he thought the treatment of Miss Adriance and

when my report is ready it will be made to the School Board. I will not Speak about 'sweat-box’ methods, but I will stand up for the methods I em- ployed. I thought they were right and justifiable, or I would not have employed them.” “What will be the punishment of those found to have committed the acts?” he was asked. “That is a matter for the School Board to determine,” said Mr. Bryan. Mr, Bryan refused to let Miss Adri- ance and young Lawler be seen in the school building. Assistant Principal Curtis was late at school Friday, and when he arrived he hurried to his room. He had a black pateh over his right eye. He recueee to stop to tell about the black patch. When Mr. Bryan was asked about the black patch, he said Mr. Curtis had been complaining about trouble with his eye for several days. Mr. Bryan smiled at the suggestion that possibly one of the pupils in the “sweat-box’’ had hit the assistant principal, and thus made the patch necessary. When the atairs were painted a week ago, inscriptions were also painted in front of the doors of some of the class- rooms. In front of one door the word “Boozer” was scrawled, while in front of another door _—— paint traced the word ‘“Doper.”’ In front of the room ip which Miss Amelia C. Fruchte teaches appeared the legeed: “Hail to Queen Amelia.”’ Janitors have scrubbed and scoured and have removed some of the paint, but much of it remaing and will show or long time. SOY we

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OVE =~ duced to reduced to All our. Imported Trimmed Tuscan and Lace Hats to % regular price— $16.00 Hats reduced to $12.00 Hats reduced to $10.00 Hats reduced to $7.50 and $8.50 Lingerie Hats reduced to $5. the girlish figure. Graduating Dresses of fine white organdie; waist and skirt trimmed with Val, lace, made over drop skirt of lawn; satin girdle; sizes 14 to 18 years; $27.50 values at 817.50 Wash Skirts; two new semi- circular models, with tucked front and back of Indian Head and poplinette; lengths 32 to 38 inches, at and hand-made, at, each modeling. For the slender figure, the R. & G. Negligee Corset is a great favorite; very short, is made partly of Summer netting and cotton tape, and is very soft and flexible; has front supporters at- tached, For the average figure the P. N. 706, of batiste, with medium bust and extended hips and two cd | sacorecort SJoiamey ~ Sale of Millinery Women’s and Children’s IFTY beautiful Ready-to-Wear Hats for women re- main from the early Summer selling, and although the full Summer season has scarcely commenced, we're de- termined not to keep them another day—$8.00 values re- Trimmed Sailors—All colors; formerly sold at $3.50; $2.00 Children’s Hats, both tailored and dress, will be sac- rificed to make entire clearance of stock.

pairs strong jarratelles. WwW" greater prices. Boys’ Wool Russian, Sailor and Norfolk Suits; light Summer weight fabrics, in grays and blues; sizes 2% to 16 years, at ! from $5.00 to $10.00

Finest White Milans, trimmed with wings and formerly sold at $5.00 and $6.00, reduced to Lingerie Hats for women and children that have served their purpose as models and have become slightl soiled—formerly $6.00, reduced to ‘50 0O | duced to Dresses, Skirts, Waists For Misses and Girls | AILY arrivals add variety an@ beauty to this stock of young ladies’ garments. Garments that are practical and serviceable, and yet full of the charm and elegance desired in clothing for These qualities, conspicuous in all our assortments, are the result of special care in the selection of materials and in every little detail of tailoring. #2.25 and $3.00 ) years; price Girls’ White Lawn and Swiss Waists, sizes 6 to 16 years, in a large assortment of very new styles, plain tucked and lace trimmed Summer Corsets At One Dollar “HESE Corsets suggest Summer comfort by their dainty, airy materials and their attractive new Boys’ Clothing _ New Summer Models insist on the highest expression of art and qual- ity in our boys’ garments. ‘We believe that they are good enough to justify even ‘ The best tailors make such garments to you have to wait a week or two, and—pay double. $5.00 White Duck Tams, original] 50c to 85¢, now ase Trimmed Sailor Hats, which formerly were $1.00 and $1.25, reduced to 50e si ‘ $3 $10.00 Lingerie Hats re- $6.00 Tennis Dresses of white Irish linen, half and full length; soft collar, silk tie, new pleated skirt; sizes 14 to 18 years; prices, $9.50 and $10.00 Misses’ Regulation Sailor Dresses of white Irish linen, with navy and rose colored collars; pleated skirts; sizes 14 to 18 11.00 , $1.25 to $7.50 The Kabo 663 is particularly good for the medium slender fig- ures; newest cut with high bust and short hips, of light batiste, with front supporters. For stout figures, the Warner Rustproof 483 is especially fine; so strongly boned, and withal, very light and cool; has strong supporters attached. your order, but Linens, : in light and dark colors, and white; Russian and Sailor Blouse mod- els; 2% to 10 rs; j EW . from Havre to N today by rri hy Over 5 Hours, Pa KX Ma %.—Ali he Atlantic The record was made under on | favorable FOR THE HOME TABLE © The heusewife is daily pussied to know w it to have for dinner. Why not try. one of the” various recipes for cooking Spaghett! that are — given in our free booklet, “Spaghetfl and® Some of Its Uses''—we will gladly send it t anyone on request. ee Faust Spaghetti is a valuable food at times—it takes the place of expensive | ot During that trying period in sick headache, or other pelts They stop the pains, soothe the relief so much desired. If the irritable condition of the at regular intervals have which women so often suffer from ne ' backaché there is noth that can Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pill as , and give to a taken on first indication of pain or misery, they will Re nerves, and save further suffering. Those w Peep hems ed to dread these periods. They contain no harmful drugs,

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