St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1908

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TC i el. digas yee A tts tne Only Sudittes Paper in St. Louis with both Associated Press and United | Press s Service VOL. 60. NO, 239, ST. ‘LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1908. PRICE ONE CoN : . F000 WRECKS STREET, ROUTS MANY FAMILIES am Breaking of Big Water Main Fills Cellars for Blocks Around. GEYSER FOR 2 HOURS Park Damaged and Convent Brick Paving Torn Up by Its Force. BREAK IS UNEXPLAINED Water Department Authorities Say Electrolysis May Have Caused It. Swirling water tore a hole 12 feet deep in Hebert street at Rauschenbach avenue early Thursday, when a 36-inch water main burst there. Spouting six feet into the air, the flood ran west two blocks to Twenty-third street, ripping “up the asphalt like paper and ruining the street. Cellars in the neighborhood were in- undated. A coat of slime and mud was deposited over the edge of St. Louis Park. Pavements were torn up, and Twenty-third street (unimproved), from Hebert north to Palm, was channeled and gulched by the flood. The main runs on the south side of Hebert street. It burst at 3:15 a. m., ‘just west of Rauschenbach avenue, and the great volume of water, working up, carried the dirt, stone and asphalt with it until a hole 15 feet in diameter and 12 feet deep yawned in the street, the torn asphalt trailing over the ragged - edges. Convent Pavement Torn. Fifty feet of brick paving around the house of the Little Sisters of the Poor . Was converted into an unsightly area ‘of upturned bricks and muddy trash. Piles of mud, recks and rubbish were -@istributed along the streets and in neighboring yards. Cellars were foloded at the homes of Mfrs. Louise Plagstert, 2361 Hebert street; William ft unke, 2500 Palm street, three blocks from the bursting main; and Mrs. Catherine Albrecht, 2306 Palm street. Piles of silt and trash were de- posited waist-high on lawns all ground. For two hours the flood raged un- abated. From the well above the main the water shot higher than a man’s - head into the air, and ran in a foaming terrent in every direction. Telephone calls were sent to the City Halli and to the Fire Department, but it was long before the water in the main Residents of the neighborhood, fear- ing that their lives, as well as their property, were endangered, escaped in fright from their homes, Some of them eesntily clad. - Disaster Unexplained. At 6 a. m. gangs of street cleaners ap- ' peared and set to work. Workmen be- gan repairing the main. They said they did not know what caused the piping to give away. At the Street Service Division of the ‘Water Department it was said that the - @eause of the accident could not be de- termined until the pipe was taken our and examined, Probably, it was said, the main; which is made of cast iron, _ had been eaten away and weakened by - electrolysis—the action of electricity es- caping from street car tracks or tele- phone and telegraph wires. MISS SPRING, BOOKED FOR VAUDEVILLE TURN, DENIES SHE TS TO MARRY SUMMER Through Her Press Agent She Ex- plains That She Hasn’t Been Divorced From Winter. ——— ee Ten minutes after Koney ‘‘flied’’ at 5:2. The Post-Dispatch score. o'clock, scores and race results, Sporting Edition eae SPORTING EXTRAS out, as the fans say, the Cardinals-Pirates game Wednesday at League Park, the first number of the Post-Dispatch SPORT FINAL was on sale downtown. SPORT FINAL was out at 5:35. The Sport Final contained a complete report of the game by innings, every play including the last out In the last inning being described, The Post-Dispatch issues a four-page SPORTING EXTRA at about 5 containing reports of ball games, of the day, and replete with sporting features. The SPORTING FINAL, four pages, issued immediately after the games are finished. The SPORTING EXTRA and the SPORTING FINAL are four-page sup- plements to the regular NIGHT Edition of the Post-Dispatch. the purchaser receives the regular NIGHT EDITION, the latest general news edition of the day. to Moeller, ending The game ended “‘box”’ and races and other sporting events containing the complete baseball With each “HLL FOR BEST” IANS KNOCKED THER CGM STORE PEDESTAL New Oklahoma Law Smoke Them Out of the Advertising Business. Special to the Post-Dispatch. GUTHRIE, Ok., April Indian, assisted by the political dian, has put the cigar-store Indian out of business. There'll be no more Sitting Bulls standing around in front of tobacco sicres in Oxlahoma umf. less they are liv? ones. 16.—The real In- Senator Lant- drum, a Cherokee Indian, yesterday introduced a bill prohibiting the use of Indian fig- ures as cigar or tobacco signs. It provides a fine of from $2 to $3 and from 20 days to six months’ im- prisenment for any person whe uses the wooden Indian for any ad- vertising purpose, or who has such a figure in his possesston. The bill is certain to pass both branches of the Legislature, as the large Indian vote holds the balance of power and all political parties want to keep it off the warpath. Should Study the Route. According to the advocates of the bill, any man who Can't find a cigar store without being steered by a deaf and dumb Indian ought efther to buy a map of the city, depend upon his sense of smell or stop smoking. “I never gouléa comprehend why a cigar dealer Wanted an Indian, wooden or otherwise, advertise his busi- ness,’’ said one. “An upraised tomahawk above a shewcase of cigarettes might appeal to one’s idea of the fitness of things, but it might also sug- gest to the pros- pective customer that the toma- hawk is the quick- er method of the two, after all. “Other lines of business are con- ducted without a display of statu- ary that’s usually enough to make a tobacco dealers find it profitable to use a wooden Indian for a barker, why shouldn't we find skeletons hanging around in front of automobile factories, round in front of automobile factories, or sprinkling wagons hitched before sa- loons, or statues of Bryan lining the sidewalks in front of funeral parlors? Only Comsumers Now. “Indians may have produced some to- bacco in the old days when their wives had to work for a livine, but since they've been civilized Inte knowing how to get along without working they've beceme consumers only. ‘hey don’t i a * o horse shy. If Will to MAN DABBLED Ih CUUNTY REALTY, WANTS $41, 7a . EF. L. Mendonsa Says Men Sold Him Property They Didn’t Own. Unusual financial deals aggregating $41,750 are alleged in a suit filed in the United States Circuit Court by Emanuel lL. Mendonsa of Iil., against George de Hoog and his wife, Sophia, prominent in Kirkwood; Ray- mond and Edward Picquet, brothers; F. H. Wood of St. Louis and the Wild- wood Fruit and Stock Co. of Dixon, Mo. All the defendants have been ordered by Judge Dyer to appear in court May 4, either in person or by their attorneys, to answer to the charges. The suit is a bill in equity, asking for a judgment for $41,750 and a lien on property now owned by the different de- fendants in the suit, bought, Mendonsa charges enibinie the suit, with his (Men- Jacksonville, -¢ dansa’s) - A epee SENT ee Deal. In the first count of the petition Men- donsa charges that the Picquet bro- thers ahd Wood sold him four lots in ist. Louis County, which were repre- sented‘ to be worth $40,000, and were represented to be owned by De Hoog. The other defendants claimed that they did not know De Hoog personally, Men- donsa charges. He went to Kirkwood and agreed to buy the land from De Hoog. 2 DunECT ORS U TRUST COMPANY 10 Be OUSTED Missouri-Lincoln Stockholders Vote to Get Rid of Moon and Harrison. An amendemtn to the by-laws of the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Co., giving the majority of the Board of Directors to remove any director* or directors and fill the vacancy, was adopted at a spe- cial meeting of the stockholders Thurs- day, The purpose of the amendment is to give the majority of the Board the power to remove John W. Harrison and Joseph W. Moon, members of the Board. ’ The amendment was adopted by a vote of 17,890 for and 290 against. Mr. Moon and Mr. Harrison have both sued the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Co. to set aside their notes, for $75,000 each, given in payment for Missouri-Lincoln stock. Would Not Resign. W. Frank Carter, president of the company, and other directors, took the position that Mr, Moon and Nr. Har- rison, having sued the company, ought not to remain on the Board of Direc- tors. The Board passed a resolution MISSING WOMAN WRITES HUSBAND a. — Mrs. Roseberry and Cunning- ham Send Letters to Mem- bers of Families. HE ADVISES DAUGHTER Says He Has Positions in View and Girls Must Look After House. Before they went away from the home at 4662 Page avenue, which their fam- ilies occupled in common, Dr. P. T. Cunningham, dentist and amateur play- wright, and Mrs. Beulah Lurton Rose- berry, amateur actress, wrote and post- ed melodramatic letters explaining their action in going away. The text of the letters does not indicate that they went together. Mrs. Roseberry wrote her message to her husband in a downtown department store a few minutes after she had called on him and told him she was hurrying home to get supper. She wrote that She had acc el a theatrical engage- ment at $70 a week. “Don't think I am untrue to you, wrote, ‘for I am not.’’ Dr. Cunningham’s letter was addressed to his daughter, Josephine. In it he said that he was going away to free himself from a burden of debt and that he had received two flattering business offers, one from Portland, Ore., and the other from Boston. He refers affection- ately to his daughter, Mamie, 18 years old, who wes in Chicago at the time he left home. Deserted Man Provider. Alonzo B. Roseberry is now the man of the house at 4662 Page boulevard. His earnings as a drug clerk are depended on to supply the common table, which was: Shared by the Roseberry and Cun- ninghara.families before the departure of Dr. Cunningham and Mrs. Rose- berry last Thursday. On Roereberry has devolved the care of Mrs. Cunningham and ker six chil- dren. “T am authorized to speak for M's Cunningham on all matters connected with tle disappearance of my wife and Mre. Cunningham's husiend,’”’ he said Thursday. Jewelry Is Missing. As heretofere, the two Cunningham girls, Mamie, 18, and Josephine, 17, have the use of the Roseberry parlor and the Roseberry piano. But, Josephine says, they are mourning the loss of a lot of ferninine trinkets which they have been unable to find since Thursday. Missing also are the diamonds which Roseberry bought for his wife on time payments. “All the curling irons are gone, and We can't do a thing with our hair,”’ said Josephine to a Post-Dispatch reporter. “Things were so mussed up when we went to our room Thursday night that we couldn’t find any .of our chains, lockets, hatpins or stick pins. We haven’t any idea what became of them. “We all lived like one family here, and we used Mrs. Roseberry’s things, and she used ours. Now they are all gone, ’’ she Planned a Great Play. “You know, I had been expecting for some time that papa would go away to break into the theatrical business. He Was always writing plays and Mrs. Roseberry took so much interest , in them that all the rest of us were dis- gusted. They always had their heads together over some drama or vaudeville sketch. “For the last month papa has been reading Irish books to get ideas for a play that he said would make him fa- mous. He thought that, with Mrs. Rose- berry as the leading lady, it would be a great ‘artistic triumph,’ as he called it.” Lived in One Family House. The house at 4662 Page boulevard is a two-story and mansard brick residence built to be occupied by one family. The Cunninghams moved there six weeks ago.from 3133 Pine street. Two weeks later the Roseberrys moved into the house, occupying the five rooms on the first floor. The dining room and the kitchen were used in common by both families, Mrs. Cunningham and Mrs. Roseberry taking turns at cooking the meals. In the Cunningham family were the two girls and four boys. CHILDREN OF DENTIST-PLAYWRIGHT; HOME THEY SHARED WITH ACTRESS AND HUSBAND 4662 PAGE BLVD, MAMIE CUNNINGHAM, LUNN) .s . me ee FAREWELL LETTERS OF DENTIST AND ACTRESS TO THOSE THEY LEFT DR. CUNNINGHAM TO HIS DAUGHTER My Dear Josie: I am gone. I can- not stand the worry any longer. My practice is virtually d@ad. I'm in debt to everyone and no money to meet it. I would advise you and be sure you pay close attention to if. Advertise the rooms for rent. Have your mother do cooking and nothing more. Write for Mamie. John will be able to get in the club soon. I will send as much money as I pos- sibly can, If you cannot afford to run the house with Roseberrys and others, then move into a cheaper place and do as lots of other people do. I have ordered a supply of stuff for you. You see, Josie, it is up to you and Mamie now that the family is raised. I have received two offers, one in Portland, Ore., the other in Boston, Mass. I think I have decided on the best step to get away from debt. Build up anew. Good-by, and take care of things. Your loving father forever, PAPA. MRS. ROSEBERRY TO HER HUSBAND My Dear Husband: I hardly know how to tell you what I am about to do. I just came from the store and when I was there tried to tell you, but could not, I received a telegram from a the- atrical company offering me a fine position at $70 a week and my cos- tumes. You know that it means so much to both of us. I accepted it at a moment's notice and am leaving in 15 minutes. Don’t think wrong of me, for my heart is breaking. I have expenses you know not of which have to be met. Try to reason this out as I mean” it. You will hear from me as soon as I get settled, and don't think I am untrue to you, for I am not. It will all come out for the best. Ever your wife, BEULAH. TOWN GOES DRY AFTER SIX When Tioga Was Founded There YEARS BY OUTVOTING WET PARTY, CONSISTING OF ONE Was Only One Legal Voter, and He Voted Saloons In. TIOGA, La., April 16.—After six years SWEET HEART tS STUDENT TWO MEN ANI NOW THEN N BOK CSE: Judge Muench issued a bench warrant Thursday against Frank Ebbeler of 1019 North Whittier street, charging per- jury. The warrant is based on testimony given Wednesday before the grand jury in connection with the bond on which “Kid” Burke was released last Friday, following which he “skipped.” Ebbeler was arrested in the grand jury ante-room after testifying before the grand jury. Shortly afterward Robert E. Kiger of 3130 Bell avenue was arrested and booked “Hold for the Circuit Attorney.” No charge was plac.d against him. Detectives were ordered to arrest Mrs. Lilian Hoffmeyer, who was found at the home of Ebbeler. She is said to be his cousin. No charge was placed against her in the books of the Central Station. The only notation was “Hold for the Circuit Attorney.” Kiger and Mrs. Hoffmeyer will proba- bly go before the grand jury Thursday. Sought Since Escape. Ever since the escape of Kid Burke, alias Sellick, the. pickpocket who snatched $1000 from the hand of Michael Hogan, an Illinois banker, in the Mer- cantile Trust Co., April 4, policemen have been looking for two men who went on Burke's bond. These men gave the names of E. R. Hickman and F. W. Phillips. They qualified as owning real estate worth $15,000, and were accepted by Judge Wil- liams after the bond had been indorsed by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John- son with the words, “This looks good to me.” After Burke had left the city the officers went through the tax books, but could not find that either Hickman or Phillips owned any property. It has been learned that Mrs. Hoff- meyer is the owner of property which she transferred to Ebbeler, and shortly’ afterward transferred back to her. Ebbeler took a note from Kiger for > Faas LIGHTING h 4 * : 3 oo. One Civil and One Crit imina Action Pending Against Union Electric. "— Se WILL HELP Lawyers Hold North Ar ri Company Is Similar to th Northern Securities. . i eee EVIDENCE IS AT Assistant Attorney - Will Find Material Pre- pared for His ee When Assistant Att Kennish begins his fight tn the 6 destroy the electric and gas light: nopoly in St. Louis he will find a ble a large amount vf valuable - : developed in civil and criminal 4 pending against the Union | Light and Power Co.. one of the ¢ public service corporations In 8t. I owned and controlled by the | rt American Co. “a Evidence which disclosés ne in which the North Angerican cog grip on the lighting utilities of tas been taken in the sult a Jones and others, in the | entitled to the very lowest + vated any customer, and could | ‘company, by injunction or su ply illumination at the lawyers, are com customer at exactly t | gardiess of quantity. Bie One civil suit and one criminal 6 are pending against the Union 1 Morgan Jones and other stock the Missouri-Edison Electric Co., # was consolidated with the eee tric, have brought suit in the 1] courts to have the merger set eo Circuit Attorney Sager about on ago filed suit against the Union Eile alleging that it had violated the @ trust laws of Missouri by ox several different independent companies. Beagas Denied Having C That the North American and controls the Union Elect Ai and Power Co. and the Lach pi 1 Light Co. has been fairly well est lished by evidence taken in the : suit. James Campbell, the wrenin tified that he bought the maj the stock of both corporations _ North American Co. - John 1 >. oS. ae a ae =" the Western representative of the, Well-informed lawyers say {t. sa lout ful whether the North American Co... the right to own the, stock of the L clede Gas Light Co. and the Union Bie tric Light and Power Co. similar to those in the curities case are involved in this g : sition, lawyers say. ll Simiine to Northern = The Northetn Securities Co. 4 formed to hold the stock of the ¢ = a ee es —_— American Co. — : of defeat the Prohibitionists have out- voted the local anti-Prohibition party— consisting of one man—and Tioga has gone dry. The saloon party put up a requesting them to resign. They did not comply with the resolution, and the special meeting was held to give the Board power to oust them. like to. see themselves caricatured by every man who has anything te smoke for sale. It recalls the dares wren they KILL HIMSELF $1200, which he attempted to destroy, but which fell into the hands of Mr. Sager. Neighbors say that from the time the Roseberrys went to live there the life of the two families was a matter~for Miss Spring, the little dancing sun- beam, who has been beoked fora three months’ en- gagement in light vaudeville, is re- ha to do an occasiona’! day's labor, end it offends them. To som? it semns to Sugeest that an Indian is always sur- rounded by a cloud of smoke, and as most of them have gone to the happy Mr. Carter said after this was done that a special meeting of the Board will be called within a few days to act on the matter. comment. Neighbors Were Puasled. Some of them thought Mrs. Rosebcrry was Dr. Cunningham's wife. She, like hard fight, numbered, several oth@r persons voting against him. byt he was hopelessly out- Tioga was incorporated six years ago. Tragedy at Chillicothe, Mo., Is Declared to Have Been Prisener Denie*. ~ Kiger and Mrs. Hoffmever will be asked to explain these transactions to the grand jury. After Ebbeler was locked up Wednes- day night he sent for his wife, who was permitted to talk to him. To her he said: “} have done nothing wrong. They can’t prove a thing.” the doctor, was vigorous and handsome, and always seemed happy, while “the other woman,” as the neighbors called her, Mrs, Cunningham, the overworked mother ef six, seemed always tired and listless, and never spniled. Dr. Cunningham frequently went out with Mrs. Roseberry and never wert out with his wife, the neighbors tay, When the true situation as to the doc- tor’s wife begame known there was turning to S8t. Louls to deny that she ia to be married to Mr. Summer. | “Mercy me,” she sald, through her press agent, “it's a shame the way (they § talk about us ac- After the first election it was discov- ered that only one man had pald his politax, and that under the law he was the only legal voter in the village. He bad voted for saloons. At every succeeding election liquor ‘was an issue, and the saloon party kept on paying his poll taxes and voting the Isaloons in. The opposition tried to in- duce him to move to some other piace, ‘but he continued to stick around. hanting ground or are en route there now, they don't like it. “We expect this movement to ex- tend to other states) There are more wooden Indians than there are live ones. An Indian has to be lively nowadays to keep a cigar store from starting up behind him. We hope to dispose of the wooden kind about as effectiv ely as our forefathers destroyed the rea) brand, and with iess bloodshed.” an Accident, The adoption of the amendment means that the plan to oust the two direc- tors will be carried out. The notes which Mr. Moon and Mr. Harrison are suing to have canceled were sold to the Mercantile Trust Co. as a part of the assets of the Missourt- Lincoln. Five Sundred shares of stock, which had been attached to Mr. Harri- son's note as collateral security for it, Special to the Post-LMsxitch. CHILLICOTHE, Ma, April 16.-Hol- ton Hilldrith of Downing, Mo., a sta- dent at the N School, killed self with a” olver while he was cab- |. ing on Miss Edith itunes here last’ Courthouse door tresses, Really, I ecan't think of ‘marrying until I were sold at the Wednesday at $% a share. Mr. Moon got out an injunction. to prevent the sale of 600 shares of stock attached to much shaking of heads. Dr. Cunningham began to wind up sold part of the fixtures of his dental’ his business affairs a month ago. He sre | office. phdtamcomesnged tration | cidental. night. The shooting, it is Sheiaredl was ac-