St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 1, 1908

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“FINST IN EVERYTHING.”

VOL. 60. . NO. 254.

a eee ae a ee ee ST, LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY L 1908. é ~ PRICE ONE CENT

SAYS WI CHAMPION KISSER THE WORLD But She Exercised Her Talent on Another Man, Rich- ards Alleges. t ID

THEY PLAYED “INDIAN” It's Done by Tents and Holding Pow- wows in Them. Using Rugs as

HE SUES FOR _ $100,000

Club __‘— President Court With Kissingfests. ' Entertains Narrative of

a “% Sheciat to the Post-1 KANSAS CITY, are more kisses in the testimony of Ed- ward J. Richards t the dock when a ship comes inh. ards, who is presi Club, ig suing J. C. of a big crockery on the charge of alienating his wife's 1 the suit after his affections. He file« wife had sued him When Richards had concluded his tes- timony, he volunteered the informa- tion, “It would m listen to Hume talk to my wife.” Richards was questioned at about a party at - said the guests were Mr. Lawyer, Mr. and Mrs. Alderman, Mr. Unmarried Man, Mrs. Grass Widow, Mr. and Mrs. Richards Humes. He said Was called wore hosiery that and insisted upon manner that would display the checks to the best, rvanutage. : * What: asked the luwyer, | »“"Well,”’-said Rich Humes began to serve cocktails shortly after we lit—cocktails and other drinks. Everybody got po) “Polluted?” “Yes; drunk.”’ “Did you stay tl “You bet I did.’ “Did Mr. Humes “TIT should .say he “Did .you object?’ “Next day I did. out.” , How @id Mr.*-Alderman Say “He saw my wife ouch, and Mr. Alderman kept running his hands through ing! ‘For heaven's know her when she KO to school with _e6uch and let me * “The couch?’ : “Yes. They Man's home, didn’ t “Yes.” “Anything unusual happen?’ “No, nothing unusual. I caught Humes my wife kissing. Then tf «.°*’ You?’ “I kissed Mrs. nd Humes and my wife kissing alone on the front porch. How to Play “Indian.” “Did you ever play any games at these ee Sptties 7” . Richards laughed. “Yes, " he said, “How is Indian p "With rugs. Yo ‘Ges and hold pow-wows under them. Only two can get in a tent.” “Any other game “Oh, yes. Once I yout of the room. _my wife and Humes’ clerk was kissing Humes.”’ oe iam aid you do?” "ET sat outside and read a newspaper. ’ “eWhat's the name of that game?’ “Odd man out.’”’ os ga Mr. Richards, did you ever put clothes en's “Ropehte-coo:ni for “Weill, I dressed aps at one of the sessions at Humes’ . I didn’t use any pillows in ray up. I don't “@anced, as we were drinking. ft wanted ‘W entertain everybody and see that they ‘hed a good time.” “And where was this?” ' if % n her accustomed place on , : kissing Humes.” what brought matters OW, 1 break?’ _ week ago Sunday I saw a copy of @ Weeks’ in our home. I asked my . it. came from, and he guid a | mes p sent it over. Pike dake f. ; Se re was a fight?” started and my ‘my giasses. i, wnt eatortunatety, she fel) '~patch. “Checkers,”’ late. Richarss Story. happened ° used couch for Mr. Humes and my wife.” “You had a party once at Mr. 1 the fire and told my wife Mo.,4 May 1.—There han you can find at Rich- dent of the Ginger Humes, president concern, for $100,000. for diverce. ake a hog sick to length home. He and . Mrs. Humes’ and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Grass Widow because she suggested the name sitting around in a OO els ‘at that party?” ards, ‘‘Mr. ava. Mrs. luted.”’ rere all evening?” kiss your wife?’’ did."’ I told her to cut it act that kissing Humes on a his hair and shout- sake, man, did you was a girl? Did you er? Get off that sit there.’ ”’ to reserve the Alder- you?” Alderman, Later I “we played Indica : layed?” uuse the rugs as 2 gs found myself locked Humes was Kissing and dance the your guests?” Up in the women's remember what ! your wife during al) the to a “I tore the book up, out, taking my boy! wife struck at me. I pushed her

Equitable Life’s Office Hears That Ex-President Can- not Recover. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) NW YORK, May 1--The Evening World gives prominence today to the following: “There is a report current in financial circles, emanating from the office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, that former President Grover Cleveland is a sufferer from cancer of the stomach, and that his case has been pronounced hopeless by specialists called into con- suliation by Dr. Joseph D. Bryant of] this city, the family physician. “Mr. Cleveland remains at the Lake- wood Hotel, in Lakewood, N. J., al- though the house closed for the, season ten days ago. His wife and children are the only other guests. “A physician and nurses are in con- stant attendance, and a small staff of servants has been retained to look after the Cleveland family. “Efforts to confirm the World's state- ment that Mr. Cleveland is suffering from cancer are unavailing, owing to the extreme reticence observed by all con- nected with the case sinee the begin- ning of the former President's illness.’’

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THIS |S MOVING DAY: VANS HAVE. RIGHT OF WAY _.. _ Business on Wheels Would Be Brisker if It Were Not Friday. “To the Front.” That may be St. Louis’ motto on all other days of the year, but not on May 1. “In the Van.” That’s the mov- ing-day motto. Don’t be ab- sent minded Fri- day night and go to the flat you lived TaAurs- day. ‘The man that moved - in Friday might. shoot you for a burglar. Of course it’s moving day. Just look at the comic papers and the moving-picture shows. Stand at Jeflerson avenue and Vlive street and look like a member of the Bottoms Gang, and see how quickly a policeman wl tell you to ‘‘move on.’’ There are three reasons for moving in St. Louis, to-wit: The roof leaks, you can’t pay your rent, or it’s May 1. Hundreds of families in St. Louis moved Friday, and if it hadn’t been Friday there might have been thou- sands. Superstition is strong, especially among flat dwellers. Many of them be- lieve all sorts of dire happenings will follow if they move on the unlucky day. There seems to be some ground for this superstition. Once a lady moved Tg

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day, and after she had her things arranged in the parlor, she found the flat was not what she expect- | ed, because there was no place _to put. her what-not. She complained to the landlord, and he said: “Lady, I know not what a what-not is.” And. so she had ‘to move again. A man moved on Friday, and thrée months later a burglar broke in and Stole the embroidered suspendiwy his wife gave him for Christmae He thought that broke the hoodoo, so he moved again on Friday and the ter- glar came back with the suspenders and handed them to him, saying: ‘You Wear them, I can’t.” These instances show, that persons who do not move on Friday are wise. Nevertheless a great many St. Louis- ans braved misfortune Friday. An officer of one of the biggest moving concerns in St. Louis estimated that more than 500 families struck the trail from Somewhere to Somewhere else. This number was 10 per cent smaller than last year, when moving day was Wednesday. The movement was mainly to the west, where, real estate dealers say, rents are from 15 to 20 per cent lower than at this time last year. Reductions are greatest for high-priced flats and detached dwellings, the demand for which has been lessened by the rapid spread of the apartment house habit. -“"Rents in North and South St. “ouls have not been reduced,” said a dealer Friday. “Moderate priced fiats and houses in those sections are always in demand.”

Prince and Mme. Gould Sightseceiag. ROME, May 1.—Mme. Anna Gould and Prince Helle de Bagan, who arrived here are spending ALLEN AND PIERC LOSE THEIR SUITS Un DIVORCE a. — Two Rich Husbands Fail in Efforts to Be Rid of Wives.

millionaire. traction and John M. Henry J. Pierce, magnate of Buffalo, N. Y., Allen, president of the Union =e Co of St. Louls were denied divorce decrees by Jud Cc. C. Allen in the Circuit Court day. Both cases had been under advisement three weeks. In handing down the de= cisions Judge Allen made no comments. None of the principals or lawyers who represented them were in court. Henry J. Pierce moved to St. Louis from Buffalo, and, after living here’a year, filed his suit for divorce. Mrs. Pierce, accompanied by their seven chil- dren, came to St. Louis, to fight the case. The defense was that Pierce did not have a legal domicile in St. Louis and moved here to obtain a decree. .He al- seeged general indignities. The case was stubbornly contested. Pierce _ testified that his wife criticised him and ex- pressed regret that she had not married someone else. He algo said she slighted his relatives. Mrs. Pierce testified that her husband’s relatives caused most of the trouble. She said their married life was com- paratively happy until 1906, when her husband had a spell of sickhess which seemed to change his nature. Miss Violetta Pierce, the _ oldest daughter, testified in her mother’s be- half and said she had acted for her fa- ther {n an effort to induce her mother to consent to a divorce. John M. Allen, who is jwealthy and ‘ives atthe Planters Hotel, sued for a divorce from Emily R. Allen after a similar suit which his wife had filed was withdrawn. His principal allegation was that Mrs. Allen had “the summer -resort habit.”’ He testified that she spent most of her time at lakes, watering places and a we tariums. Mrs. Allen’s answer was that the tke of her: health made it necessary for h to travel. Mrs. Marie Axley was granted a di- vorce by. Judge Shields from William Axley. She is 8 years old and he is 56. She lives at 1610 Carr street and had been married twice before she was wed- ded to Axley. It appeared at the trial that Mrs. Axley had rheumatism and was unable to lift herself in bed. Her husband helped.to raise her up to a sit- ting posture until, as he expressed it, he got tired of being a human derrick.

TRAIN BANDITS TIE MESSENGER: |? LEE WITH GOLD - — Shipment Reported to Be One of $80,000 to St. Louis Subtreasury, er 0 POSSE HUNTS ROBBERS 2

Messenger, Found Bound and Gagged, Closely Questioned by Officials. The Pennsylvania Railroad Capital Express, from which robbers stole four bags of gold coin, said to have an ag- gregate velue of $80,000, shortly after it it left Pittsburg, arrived in St. Louis Friday noon, : | The only’ member of the crew ‘who came through .rom* the scene of the robbery to St. Louis was Pullman Con- ductor M. A. McChesney. “All I know,” he said to a Post-Dis- patch reporter, “is what’ Conductor Lafferty told me. He said that when he reached Walker's Mill, 15 miles west of Pittsburg the train stopped suddenly. The engineer told him somebody Wad given the emergency stop signal. “Lafferty ran forward to the ex- press car and found the messenger bound and gagged. He told me the robbers must have boarded the train as it was_entering the tunnel out of Pittsburg. Walker's Mill, where the robbers are supposed to have left the train, is a thickly settled mining. dis- trict. There was no chance to trace the robbers. The train remained there only a few minutes.” osses are hunting through the coun- try west of Pittsburg for the two ban- dits who, according to the express mes- senger, bound and gagged him and to. x the treasure. The messenger, Noah .:i. «. ion, left the train at Columbus, and dispatches from that city say he has been closely questioned by the officials of the Adams Express Co. there. He later retuned to Pittsburg, where he was again ques tloned. the train, bound. says he found the messenger Company Says $20,000. An official of the company in Pitts- burg said that the sum taken was not $6,000, and he believed not more than £20,000. Another official said the loss was $600, of which $400 was in cash. New York dispatches say Government detectives are working on the th@ory that the robbery w.*: planned in that city by men who knew of an intended transfer of money from the New York subtreasury to the St. Louis subtreas- ury. The bandits hi? behind two big t’ :- atrical trunks and kept silence until after the train passed Carneg.). revolvers in‘treir hands, they) stepped out, ‘ Messengers Lift Hands. “Hands up!’’ they shouted, and the messenger stood with his hands above his | head. The messenger’s repeating ifle was standing in the cormer, and one of tue robbers threw the weapon out of the ear door. “Open this. box!” one of the m>1 commanded. The messenger hesitated, but the thieves shoved ths revolvers close to his head. He openéd the iron box, and they then ordered: him to walk to the south end of the car. Paper Money Coming. “I do not think any of the money stolen from the train was coming to the St. Louis Stbtreasury,’’ said Sub- treasurer Akins Friday. “If, as reported, all of the money taken was gold and silver, I am almost certain that none of it was on its way here. The only shipment now on its way to this office so far as I know, is one of $40,000 in paper from Wash- ington, and | don’t think that was coming by that road. I am always ad- vised of inoney shipments, and 1 have not been notified that any coin, gold or silver, is coming.”’ At the office of the Adams and South- ern Express Co. it was said that noth- ing was known of the gold shipment.

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MAN LEAPS OF S BRIDGE AS. CROWDS WATCH Policeman Sées Unidentified Would-Be Suicide, but Can- not Stop Him. ee ee

A man jumped off Eads Bridge Fri- day afternoon while the structure was thronged with traffic and pedestrians. The man stood a moment on the rail and then plunged forward. His name was not known to those who saw him. A. policeman telephone the news to headquarters. APRIL’S DEBT I$ PAID AND MAY, ON ARRIVING. EXECUTES NOTE FOR MUCH SUNSHINE Weather Bureau, With a. “Fair” Forecast’ Is Security for the Promise. THE TEMPERATURES, Midnight 2 a. 4 a. 6 a. 7 a.

April’s bad debt has been paid, and May, on reaching the city, executed a promissory, note for unlimited sunshine on demand. The Weather Bureau, April’s chief se- curity, indorsed the note as fol- lows: “Fair tonight and Saturday; warmer tonight.” St. Louis es- caped the frost forecasted for it, but others were reported from Mississippi, Ten- nessee and many points in the Ohio Valley. The storm which was central over North Carolina yesterday moved 7 northwardly to Montreal, with heavy rains in its wake. In other parts of the country fair weather prevails. COLD WEATHER PREVENTS — . ST. LOUIS-CHICAGC GAME CHICAGO, May 1.—National: St. Louls-Chicago game postponed, cold weather. Pittsbu vehed Game 0%. PITTSBURG, Pa., May worse

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The Rev. Dr. Columbus Polk’ Goodson, former pastor of the King’s Highway Presbyterian Church, has found time for a romance in his busy life, and with the announcement of his resignation from his St: Loujs pastorate to accept a call from the Highland Park Presbyterian to marry Miss *% revival c1- ganizer at Winona’ Lake, Ind.,. June 2. Met Girl on Moon-Lit Lake, Thee time and scene of the beginning of the pastor’s romance was a moon-lit n'ght last summer wien Miss Chapinan was with her family at their country home, Bungalo Villa, at Winena Laie. Dr. Goodson was spending his vacation ‘with a party of friends and the meeting occurred when the two. parties, in launches, greeted one another aéross the water. As the two craft moveil along together, with the occupants cl.atting, the little love-god’s darts found their mark. ‘It was a Venice night,” Dr. Goodson said as he -eeulled the incident whieh was the beginning of’his happiness. The ceremony wil! be performed at the Presbyterian Church at Warsaw, In, by the bride’s father. After a Southern tour Dr. Goodson will bring his bride to St. Louis about June ., and will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac H,4 Orr of 5608 Cabanne avenue. New Home Being Prepared. A ten-room manse is being prepared by the members of the Chicago church for the new pastor and his bride. Miss Chapman and an aunt will arrive in Chicago Tuesday from Norfolk, Va., for the purpose of choosing the dec- orations for her future home. Dr. Goodson will leave St. Louts Friday evening and will take charge of his new pastorate next Sunday. The Lucas <Avente Presbyterian Church next Sunday will be united with the King’s Highway Presbyteri- an Church, Dr. W. H. Black, president of the Missour! NValiey College of Marshall, Mo., will officiate. The new pastor to take the place of Dr. Good- son has not been called, Dr. Goodson bullt the King's high- way church from a membership of fewer than 60 members to the present ro}i of 653 menibers fn five years. In addition to his salary, the church pre- sented him with an honorarium of $500 In token of its appreciation of] his services.

Sa an PLAN TO AID SAG IN ELECTRIC §

Action to Oust Will Assist -. ae a astomsiey:- Genie! Opposes Filing New , A Monopoly, but | Presecutor.

IN COURTS |CONSENTS TO JOIN FIGHT = | AFTER MAY 18)

St. Louis Should Be Re Eek He . Beli — Proc ceeding for Ouster and $134, 800 Pen- ae alties to Be Heard Before Judge = ™ Taylor Saturday.

laws of Missouri. As told in Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch, Circuit Attorney Sager sent to Mr, Had- ley a copy of his petition in the case pending in St. Louis, and an outline of what he expects to prove, and re- quested his co-operation. Opposed to_New Suit. Cireuit Attorney Sager suggested to Mr. Hadley that the suit now pending in the:Circult Court in St. Louis be dis- missed and iy cftster suit. be. | would be idvtinble: gn account of the ff crowded condition of the Supreme Court docket. i He believed that, as the case is one of special interest to St. Louis people, it would be better to try it in the St. Louis Circuit Court. The exact meth- od of procedure will be determined lat- er, when Mr. Sager and Mr. Hadley get into consultation. “T am not familiar with all of the issues in the case," said Mr. Hadley. ‘Before Mr. Sager filed his suit I had considered, informally, the lighting sit- vation in S8t. Louls and contemplated filing ouster suits. When the Circuit Atyorney filed his suit, I then de- cided to defer action. “Now that Circult Attorney Sager has invited me into the case, I shall do everything in my power to aid in the investigation and bring it to a suctess- ful conclusion. The situation in St. Loulg is one from which the people are entitled, according to my information, to relief. I shal] endeavor, in connec- tion with Mr. Sager, to bring out all of the evidence material to the lesuee involved. Must Argue Big Casés. By Long Distance Telephone From a Staff Crrenienneal JEFFERSON CITY, May 1.—Attorney-General Hadley t ‘ a Post-Dispatch correspondent today that he- has accepted Cire oi 2 Attorney Sager’s invitation to join in the legal fight to depy cr he Union Electric Light and Power Co. of its franchise and ft ize it to the amount of $134,800 for alleged violation of the anti Mr. Hadley said he would be ready to the case by May 18 and thereafter give it active attention.

* TELL POST-DISPATCGH F ABUSES BY Ey ; The Post-Dispatch will b receive from its ( cases of unfair treatment en | criminating charges by efther # Unton Electric Light and Power Co. or the Jaclede Gas Ligh , This information a oe “Attorney-@ them in hee het 7 lef for the public his 5 as leo- tric Nght and power and monopolies. : A comparison of bills~now | ? hills a year ago is suggested | means of determining whe lighting charges are increasii If you think. your meter ts fast have (t tested and report the m sult to the Post-Dispatch, ~« * be. ' . os pee aes , ie te ie

“yj have to argue the eight-hour tele- The Franklin Manufacturing Co., 600 Holly avenue, running exactly the same machinery and working exactly the same number of hours a day in Aprii as in March and February, has received a bill for April service from the. Union Electric Light and Power Co. 8) per cent higher than the February and March bills, The meters show that the Frank- lin Manufacturing Co. consumed %1 Kilowatt hours of electricity from Dec. 18 to Feb. 2; 377 kilowatt hours from Feb. 3 to March 7, and 736 kilowatt hours from March 7 to April 8. The February bill was for $32.47, the March bill for $32.61 and the April ~il) $68.29. Said Meter Was Corrcet. Edmund D'Amour, secretary and treasurer of the company, made a com- plaint to the electrie company. He tin- sisted that he had not used any more electricity. The Union Electric insisted that its meter readings were correct. The meter was tested, with the usual result. It was reported correct, as the following letter signed by H. C. Spoehr- er, secretary of the Union Electric, shows: ‘On April 23 our inepector carefully tested the meters registering electrical energy delivered for power purposes at your premises and found them O. K. He reports no irregularity. Reading taken during the test indicates that you are using service at the rate of #2 kilowatt hours per month." written to H. L. Schaefer of 3928 Cleve- ‘an@ ayenue, when he complained that [his bills for electric light were much calli tnd Gomnelek’ tai an inspection in the presence of Fire Prevention Bureau }experts, and his meter wae found to jbde % per cent fast. Mr. Schaefer has |

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sraph law, the insurance law prohiiit- ing corporations whose presidents Te celve more than $60,000 a year salary from doing business in the State, th stock‘ pass law, and then serve @ the Board of Equalization. These mat ters will fully occupy my time u May 18 After that I will be ready Bive attention to the Union ‘ect Light and Power case." The demurrer to Mr. Sager’s sult sd set down for argument in Judge ac lor’s court in St. Louis Saturday. plan to merge all the electric light 4 power plants in St. Louis. Same Work Done in Two Months, but Light Bill Increases 80 Per Cent “and in order to get the a@@vapt. o of the $7 discount I had to pay it on o, - fore the 20th. I went to the office of ‘ompany early Monday and comp that the bill was too high, and ‘hat the discount rule be suspended un til I could have the meter teated. I told that if I wanted to eave the ah count I would have to pay the bill im mediately. I was refused even the cout tesy of a few days’ time to have matter corrected. Several dave tat the meter was tested, and, on April - I got Mr. Spoehrer’s letter saying € meter Was correct. “I anticipated that it would be con rect, although I know there ts someé- thing wrong, for there is no possible way by which we could have consumed nearly twice as much electricity . on April as we did in March and egpatos We just recently had the electric ee! put in and we are paying 10 cents a kilowatt hour, which I consider a rearonably high. “Tl have two motors, a. five and horsepower, in the plant. Uniess fT of get rellef from these unreasonably h yills, I shall put in a —— bs to. pd my factory.” ing for city Inspection ot introduced in the City Coundil ‘He has received assurances that . the dil 3 will be promptly passed by the Ce ‘ a