St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 23, 1907

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s, * on A P ' ' Penalized = ’ Newhall of Harvard had a chance at the “FIRST IN EVERYTHING” “VOL. 60. NO. 94. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1907. PRICE ONE CENT EDITION YALE SCORES TOUCHDOWN IN Tit FIRST HALE Cambridge Game Is Not. as Easy for the Elis as Expected. SCORE NOW IS 6 TO 6G _— Harvard Puts Up Fine Defense and Shows Aggressive Skill. COY MAKES FIRST TALLY Often for Over- Eagerness—Coy, Jones and Appollanio Stars. —__ THE LINEUP. Harvard. F ik Aen eo Ol Ff Quarterback Left halfback Sennen ( Bulletin.) Early in the second half—Yale ‘geored another touchdown. Score—Yale, 12; Harvard, 0. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. HARVARD STADIUM, CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 23.—After half an hour’s hard work Yale scored a touchdown and kicked a goal in the first half of the an- nual game with Harvard, making the score 6—)0. The towering cement starium this af- ternoon was the social as well as the sporting center of the country. There is Consuelo, who is here with her mother; Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Mr. Belmont. They, with Cornelius Vanderbilt, occupied seats on the Harvard side. Hamilton Fish of New York, the head of the United States Subtreasury, is here with his daughter to see the gient sou who bears lis name bolster up the Harvard line. \W ‘iam Ellis Corey and. his wife, who us. to be Mabelle Gill- map, came to the game in the most glittering automobile that money could buy. President Roosevelt's family is represented by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson. Yale Gets the Ball. Burr started the game at 2:08, kicking eff to Tad Jones on Yale’s 15-yard line. Yale’s quatterback ran it back 15 yards before he was tackled. Coy immediately punted out of bounds on Harvard’s 26-yard line, and on the first Crimson line-up on a fake kick, Appollonio made 4 yards through center. In the next play Newhall kicked over Coy’s head and Harvard got the ball on Yale’s 22-yard line. Wendell made 8 yards around Yale's left and on the first rush, but on the next play Appol- Jonio could not gain. With the ball on Yale's 17-yard line Capt. Parker of Har- yard dropped back for a try at a field goal. The attempt failed and the ball dropped into Yale’s hand on her 5-yard line. On the very first play Brides on a fake kick went through center and ran to the 35-yard line, where he ‘was tackled ‘by Wendell. Then Bomar took #t & yards further between Harvard's right guard and tackle. On the next down Brides was sent through center again and reached the middle of the field for another first down, and Bomar, who followed, only made two yards Here the Harvard defense stiffened and Yale made but four yards in three downs. Works On-Side Kick. A new formation was tried by Yale with most of the team on the right side, and an on-side kick developed on Harvard's side line. A question as to possession was decided in Yale. The first down Coy § startine from Harvard's 22-yard line made only one yard. On the second down Bomar catried it but two yards further. With the ball on Harvard's 13-yard Vine, Bomar and Jones dropped back to try from the field. The ball went wile and was brought out to the %-yard line Burr kicked to Tad Jones on Yale's 46- yard line, and the speedy quarterbach ran the ball to the middle of the fiel4 where he was thrown heavily by Rand Tho Harvard player was slightly injure? but soon recovered. With the ball { nthe middie of the field Yale started again for the Harvard goal The first play was an on-s'de kic* %-yard line, and althourh line. to Harvard's ball he missed it and it was Yale's ball on Harvard's 33-yard line. Yale Is Off-Side. On a play through Capt. Parker, (ov etruggied along the Harvard 20-yar:' line for a first down. Yale was pena). __ feed for holding. Yale's play to rega:r the distance was a forward pase, bi’ there was more off-side play ahd th. ball not going 15 yards, another Ya; ty pushed the Blue players back i: middie of the field. Coy on the first play started to run outside of Harvard's right end on e but was thrown back for fake kick,” @ i6-yard ioss. He immediate) kicked to Wendell on Harvard's 45. yard line who, although catching the ‘ball cleaning, dropped it in running back and was Yale's ball on Har- GREEN-EYED MONSTER STRIKES BODY BLOW AT WERREMEYER’S CUPID jj = AZT ll Fe Clayton’s ‘Marrying Justice” Re- grets It Wasn’t He Who Invented Typewriter Nuptial System. Special by Trolley to the Post-Dispatch. CLAYTON, Mo., Nov. 23—Well, well! Minneapolis has put one over on the great marrying metropolis of St. Louis County, and Justice Werremeyer is wearing crepe on his sleeve. He can’t see how it is that he didn’t think of it first—this new scheme of marriage by t\pewriter. He is poetic and eloquent, but a deaf and dumb man beat him to DEATH CLAIMS TALLY-H0 KID YOUNG PRODIGAL Joseph Curby, Who Lavishea Fortune on Friends, Dies of Consumption. Joseph Curby, ‘“‘the tally-ho kid,”’ is dead, at the age of 244. He was ‘‘a good fellow,’’ known as the most prodigal of all the “‘big spenders” in St. Louis. He died at his mother’s home, 5268 Maple Saturday morning, of quick consumption, brought on by high living. When he went home, ill, two months ago, it was for the first time in five years. He had been with ‘‘the boys’ these five years, spending an income of $2000 a month. How He Got Sobriquet. Young Curby won the soubriquet of “The Tally-Ho Kid’’ because of his fondness for entertaining his friends with tallyho four-in-hand excursions in- to the county. He was known in every avenue, roadhouse within 15 miles of St. Louis, spending large sums of money wherever he stopped. The fortune possessed by young Curby came to him five years ago from his grandfather, Joseph Curby, «at one time SHOE WORKERS Joint Executive Board Tells ahe strike of the St. Louis shoework- ers was officially called off by the Joint Executive Boot and Shoeworkers’ -Union at ll p. m. Friday, stone’s Franklin avenue. The action of the union was regard- ed as a capitulation and was taken, ac- cording to a statement issued Saturday morning, because of ‘‘the stringency in the Saturday began making ployment. These applications: were made as individua's. cept the two firms which have granted the make no concessions. The big when nine-hour day and a minimum wage of $18 manufacturing concerns of About 23,000 men, MAN WHO WALKED IN HIS SLEEP AND DIAGRAM OF HIS RESCUE DECIDE TO END BIG WALKUUI >. Striking Employes to Resume Labors. Board of the Independent in Light- and a meeting Eleventh street at Hall, money market.’’ the striking shoeworkers applications for re-em- The manufacturers, ex- union’s demands, said they would shoe strike began Sept. 18, the demand of the cutters for a a week was refused by the shoe the city. women and boys Duchess of Marlborough, favor of one of the heaviest stockholders in the Drummond Tobacco Co. Had Passion for Autos. When automobiles became more up-to- date than tallyho four-in-hands, young Curby developed into an’ automobile scorcher. Many times his chauffeur was arrested for exceeding the speed limit. Once Curby himself was arrested with his guests. “Arrest us all!’’ he said to the police- man. “Fine me $1,000,000 if you please— I’ll pay it.’ - And thus the young heuieitela became famous in St. Louis. His headquarters were in the saloon at Twenty-eighth and Olive streets, formerly owned by Constable William May of Justice Mar- tin Moore’s court. Here he _ spent al- most a fortune—but he was an obliging customer. The only work he was ever known to do was when he would take off his coat, put on a bartender’s apron and relieve the bartender at May’s sa- loon, serving drinks across the bar. But that was just fun. it. He thinks it a good tip, though, and he is in town now buying a machine. Heretofore when a man or maid couldn’t think of anything else to do with a typewriter they would idly write: *‘Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party..’’ Or maybe that other thrilling line: “This is a sample of the work done on this machine.” But nothing so prosaic for Chris. An- derson and Carrie Lemke, both of North Dakota. Deprived of speech the typewriter was a friend in need to them when they went to the Minnéapolis Courthouse to be married. Commissioner Bates wrote the questions on the machine. Then first the swain and then the maid,sat down and picked out the answers on the keyboard. The last magic line, added by the Commissioner, was: “Now is the time for all good men to know that I herewith pronounce you man and wife.’’ strikers announced in Violence Is Not Used. The strike was not characterize violence of any had nothing to do with the main of the workers on strike. composed of 21 members, the striking shoe workers for employment at the old jobs. It was debated at length and board finally decided to give up fight because of business m. to the group of union men remained to learn the decision of po board. Engineer Crushed to Death. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Nov. 23,— Louis B. Austin, an engineer on the Chicago & Alton, last night was crushed between two cars and killed. His parents are residents of Paw Paw, Mich. Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., said Infant’s Body in Rubbish. PASADENA, Cal., Nov. 23.—The body of a white child, several weeks old, was found Friday in a rubbish heap on the Berry ranch near here. It is not known whether the child was dead or alive day are out on strike. We loyes nse the places of most of t supplied We will, strikers.’’ were affected by the walkout and the the beginning that they would make no compromises. d by kind. There were one or two individuals “Arrested for alleged disturbances of ine peace, but these in- stances were isolated and personal and body The Joint Executive--Board, which. is representing every class of the shoe workers, assem- bled in the union.hall Friday evening and the proposition was made formally to declare the strike off and. authorize to apply the the conditions. This decision was announced at Il p. who the Ww. F. McElroy, vice-president of the to a reporter for the Post-Dispatch Satur- in our three factories about 1200 old have | hem. however; be able to give em- ployment to about 20 per cent of the when thrown on the rubbish heap. We Beat All Four! Again Yesterday---Friday The Post-Dispatc Carried More Columns Paid Advertising (Less Cheap Legal) than the Globe- Democrat, Republic, Star-Chronicle and Times Combined! Whyr Recause city without it. advertisers know they can cover St. Louis with the Post-Dispatch alone, and cannot cover the the sales of the Post-Dispatch in October were the largest ever made in October in the history Because of the paper. Because that month. the actual sales of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis SINS ove ae Sr cas vies us grocer than thar all the other morning and evening papers published in this city, combined. ‘Advertising that Pays Grows” ‘Advertising that Grows Pays” the circulation for the present month of Novem- ber promises to beat all previous records for old, REMEN SAVE SLEEP. WALK UN HlGh COPING a. A John Dreeland Leaves Sickbed to Crawl From Window Along Ledge. While walking in his sleep at 4:30 Sat- urday morning, John Dreeland, 80 years who had been unable to leave his bed for two days, .climbed out of a third-story window of a house at 1026 Seuth Eighth street, crawled 12 feet along a frail coping seven inches wide, and clung for 25 minutes to a rain gut- ter, until a fire company ten blocks away was summoned to the rescue. While Dreeland, whose senses had re- turned to him, hung in his perilous po- sition 40 feet above the street, James Crawley, I'imcthy Connolly and James Murnaugh, inmates of the house, took turns in holding the old man by his cut- stretched arm, which they could bare- ly reach by leaning far out of the win- dow. After almost half an hour of. peril, he was carried down a ladder by Lieut. Joseph Ogulin and Fireman Thomas Minahan of Company No. 15, stationed at Broadway and Vuientine street. He is at the City Hospital, suffering from exposure and shock. Walked in His Sleep. Dreeland had been confined to his room on the third fioor, unable to walk, for two days, as the result of a fall down a flight of stairs. The window of his room, which faces on the street, was closed as usual Friday night. Early Saturday morning Dreeland, fast asleep, arose from bed and raised the window. Clad only in a pair of trousers and a thin undershirt, he crawled out on the narrow ledge. He was 12 feet from the window when he awoke and found himself sitting on the coping, with his feet swinging in the air. He began screaming for help. His cries were heard by Jack Kin- sella, a private watchman. Kinsella called to the old man to cling fast to the gutter and roused the inmates of the house, who rushed to the room trom which Dreeland had come. Immediately the impossibility of assisting him to re- turn the way he had gone was seen. The coping was too frail to support the weight of two men, and Dreeland, weak from terror, feared to make the at- tempt alone. Carried Down Ladder. Crawley icaned far out of the window and grasped the ol man’s hand, and Kinsella ran to summon the fire depart- ment. While Crawley, Connolly and Murnaugh, each in turn, held Dreeland “ast, he pleaded piteousiy with them not to let him fall. When the hook and ladder company arrived Ogulin and Minahan ascended the ladder, and after tieing a rope iround the old man, carried him sown ne ladder. Dreeland’s condition was said at the Mty Hospital to be not serious. He a5 ‘© near relatives and has been living at ‘be South Eighth street house for ten years. JAMES CROWLEY. WESTERN UNION CHTED BY COURT IN HADLEY SUIT Corporation Must Show Why It Is Exempt From Payment. = Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 23.—The Western Union Telegraph Co. must appear before Judge Martin in the Circuit Court here Jan, 6, under an order he issued this morning, and show cause why it should not be com- pelled to pay license in Missouri. This order was issued on a petition by Attorney-General Hadley, whose attention was called by Secretary of State Swanger to the fact that the Western Union never has paid a H- cense in Missouri, although the Post- al Telegraph Co. does. The Western Union has refused on the ground that the Federal laws exempt it from ob- servance of State regulatons. It is a New York corporation. Mr. Uadley asked that the company be forced to make a statement of its business, and the proportion of its capital stock Invested in Missouri, so that the amount of license to be paid may be determined. He asked also that a copy of its charter or articles of association be filed. The license is $50 for the first $10,000 capital invest- ed in Missouri, and $5 for each $10,000 over that. BOY IDENTIFIES ALLEGED THIEF Henry Kraemer, 12 years old, iden- tified a man arrested Saturday morn- ing as being the one he had seen com- ing down the steps of Mrs. Mary Ka- house at 1227 .North Tenth shortly after the residence had been rifled of $261. At the Carr Street Police Station the man gave his name as R. J. Bernstein and hig present ad- dress as 1014 North High street. He said he formerly lived in Springfield, TH. Bernstein admits being the man who tried to sell Mrs. Kawalski articles from a pack on Thursday, but denies the robbery. SAMUEL GOMPERS AGAIN ELECTED HEAD OF LABOR Unanimously Selected President of Federation at Norfolk Convention. NORFOLK, Nov. 2%3.—Samuel Gompers today was re-elected unanimously presi- dent of the American Federation of La- bor. walski's street, AND BY THEATER MAGNATE. iy ae os RE RS Le ala YAIR 8 See State. Wounds O. D. Wood- ward and Jack Groves, OFFICE OF KANSAS CITY POST SCENE OF AFF RAY “a ht —— Impending Discharge of a Dozen Men Cau Quarrel, and Employe, Declaring He Was Robbed, Fires on Prin- ciple Owner of Newspaper KANS morning, by an editorial writer, Besides his theatrical interests, Wood- ward is principal owner of the Post. Jack Groves !s a well-known politician and newspaper man, having held the po- sition of managing editor of the old Kansas City Times. Horn Is from Mar- shall, Mo. He is a Democrat of long standing in the party in Missouri and wi.s at one time Adjutant-General - the State. He Invested “Money. Horn charged that Wooaward and Groves had induced him to invest his money in stock in the paper and then had decided to discharge him along with 10 other members of the paper's staff, who were to go today. A quarrel arose in the office of the Post this morning over the matter. Woodward and Gréves had been to- gether for an hour In Mr. Groves’ of- fice, discussing the paper’s financial condition. Horn sat at a desk in the city editor’s office, a few feet from Mr. Groves’ door. Having finished his conversation, Woodward left Groves’ office and en- tered the large room. Instantly Horn stepped toward Woodward arid shot him in the right side. Woodward fell, and Horn shot him again twice, one bullet entering his breast above the heart and the other breaking one arm. Groves sprang from his private office and ran toward a door that led to the basement. Horn fired at him and eh fell, shot in the right hip. Eight or ten persons were in the large room. ‘‘] Have Been Robbed, Horn handed his revolver to Willis King, an editorial writer, picked up his hat and, with the words “I have been robbed,”’ left the building at the Tenth street entrance. Woodward is in a serious condition at the University Hospital. Groves is at the German Hospital and will re- Groves formerly was managing edit- or of the old Kansas City Times when that paper was owned by Judge J. Lee Chrisman and A. A. Lesueur, formerly Secretary of State. It was while Groves was managing editor that the paper went into the hands of a receiver and was sold to W. R. Nelson, owner of the. Kansas City Star. Groves was formerly editor of the Lexington (Mo.) Intelligencer. He is about 40 years old and has mixed up in Missouri politics for years. Horn was Adjutant-General under Lon V. Stephens. Woodward is about 5 years old and is wealthy. PROMISE OF WARM SUNDAY LEADS TO SUSPICION THAT WEATHER HAS AX TO GRIND THE TEMPERATURES. Midnight 2 ERE HERE. WHo SLAPPED Mayor WELLS Ow THE Wrist? y ovuceH. quarters that the weather has an ax to grind. It seems to be in such a cajoling humor, trying to win the favor an! good will of the public. The mo- tive back of this honeyed sweetness is not apparent as yet. But this is the forecast: “Fair and some- what warmer to- night and Sunday variable wireis, be coming sou‘ herly: minimum tenper- ature about 3% decrees.’ river this mcrning AS CITY, Mo., Nov. the firm controlling the Willis Wood and Auditorium theaters i Kansas City and two playhouses in Omaha, and Jack Groves, m aging editor of the Kansas City Post, were shot and dange wounded in the office of the Kansas City Post at 11 ocledid tonight 23.—O.. D. Woodward, head’ ¢ R. C. Horn, who said he had ¢ been given a “square deal” After investing money in the paper.” KILLS HIS ae RES HME ENDS OWN LF New York Man Left Note Indicates He Was. Insane. Tras AE. oN See bio Wet OR a 6 tot NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—A double ¢ edy, wife (murder and suicide, was covered edrly totay by tiremen, wi had been called out to subdue a Ddlage 2 in the home of Nicholas Smith, @ wealthy manufacturer of New Rochelle, ; When the firemen burst into the eer after the flames had been controlled, they found Smith and his young wife — dead, each with a bullet w in ~~ body. 5: Mrs. Smith had been shot in the breast and apparently instantly killed. The bullet which killed the husband ene tered his head just pehind the left ear. On the floor beside Smith’s body wai found a revolver, with which it ig lieved the shooting was done. That Smith had killed his wife, the house in hope that it would hide crime and then killed himself, was plainly proven in a note which wie found in the room. That the act was that of an insane man seems to be simost as clearly proven by the word- — ing of the note. Had Cut Off His Hair. It was addressed to “Dear Minnie,” and in it Smith told of his intention. of killing his wife, setting fire to the house and killing himself. He sai@” that he had cut off his hair be use his head ached. The police have not learned the identity of “Minnie,” but | assume she is a relative of the dont: man. It Is believed that fully an hour en. a half elapsed between the time Mra ~ Smith was shot to death as she lay sleeping in her bed and the firing of the shot which completed the trag- edy. In this interval Smith made a . careful inventory of nearly every. - a thing of value in the house and left it with instructions that all his debts be paid. - § Two women servants were found ~~ 4 locked in a room filled with smoke, One of the women told the police that Mr. and Mrs. Smith had quarreled view lently last evening. She said also that ; she had heard the shots fired and that there was an interval of at least hour and a half between the first second. During all the time from the firing of the first shot until the men came, the woman said, she am her companion bad remained locked im — their room. a Smith was an automobile menaingy turer and had a place of ee this city. PORTUGUESE LEADERS HELD — FOR PLOT AGAINST THE Ki LISBON, Portugal, Nev. arrests were made today of Rept i ‘eaders charged with conspiracy to | > ae . rupt King Carios’ personal guard, seigg — abdicate and seat Crown Prince Lag Phillippe on the throne. ar.