St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 6, 1909

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SUIT CALLS MAN FROM NEW YORK Physician Starts for St. Louis Believing Wife Is in City Hospital. HUSBAND IS SURPRISED Declares Published News of - Court Action in St. Louis Must Be Mistake.

Dr.- Augustin H. Goelet of New York, erroneously believing that the woman picked up on the streets and sent to the City .Hospital late Thursday was his wife, Elaine Goodenow Goelet, is hur- rying to St. Louis, accompanied by his wife's father, Robert Stevens of Orange, N. J., @ press dispatch from New York ways. Dr. Goelet, says the press dispatch from New York, expressed amazeinent when he was teld of the suit and said that his wife merely had stopped over to visit St. Louis friends while retutn- ing from St. Joseph, Mo. Dr. Goelet was under the impression that his wife had been picked up on _the street and sent to the City Hospi- tal here. The woman in the hospital answered to some extent the description of Mrs. Goelet and had, in her hand- bag, an empty envelope with Mrs. Goe- let's name on it. But the hospital pa- tient was not Mrs. Goelet. She had fond the envelope. At the hospital she was identified Fri- day morning by a man who gave his mame as Charlies Lamont of 1116 North Sarah street as his wife. He said her condition had been due to a neuralgia cure she had taken. She was released hriday afternoon and ‘left the hospital alone. At the North Sarah street ‘address it vas snid that a Mr. and Mrs. Lamont had been living there about a month, but that very little was known of them. the description of Mrs. Lamont talliéd th that of the woman at the hospital. ‘x to “physical appearance and ‘hing. Bo did a description of Mrs. Surptiors at Divorce Suit. Dr. Goelet, when told’ that his wife was suing him for divorce apd also that she was in the City Hospital here, pro- fessed utter cstonishment. “Phere must be some mistake,”’ he kept saying, ‘“‘about my wife being in the City Hospital. She had plenty. of friends in St. Louis who would go to her assistance at once if she were taken i. She was on her way back from a visit at St. Joseph, Mo., and had stopped off for a while in St. Louis. I re- ceived a letter from ner Friday morn- ing, and her stepfather telephoned me ik .t he received a letter from her Fri- day afternoon.” Separated Last June, _ The doctor appeared not to have heard before that his wife was suing him for Givoree. He repeated over and over again, “Surely, that’s a mistake.” \ Nevertheless it was learned on good gfuthority, says the dispatch from New ‘York, that Mrs. Goelet had not been liv- ing at the Goelet home. 2030 Broadway, nee June, 1908. The ‘doctor has sublet art of his offices to another phy- J and a ret now has charge — tt has. ‘been Jearned also, the dispatch , that the doctor's marriage to his first wife, Louise, was annulled by tho courts il years ago, the woman say- ing that she would not continue a union which. a court decision regarding her * trom a former husband ren- s 60 Years 0 on, Go +g ahout 60 years old. His Wife is only a little over 30. Mrs. Goe- twas in New York auring the Christ- | holidays, after an extensive trip ad ‘that: her desire for travel and geri change was responsible for her 2 — De Gortet is — related’ to the cboole omineht in the social ani at-grandfa: ‘He is a member of Nev rom peated Clinical Medi-

| FAIR AND COOLER TONIGHT CLOUDY SUNDAY IS THE WEATHER FORECAST THE TEMPERATURES.

“Do you sup- pose it is modesty that keeps Mr. Roosevelt from giving any inter - views to the press since he retired from office ?’’ asked the man from Cabanne, “we'd all like .to know when he’s going to Africa.” “No, I don’t think it’s mod- esty,’’ replied the man from Baden. “I think he wants to take the lions by surprise.’’ The forecast is: “Fair and cooler tonight; Sunday, partiy cioudy, with moderate tempera- ture; northwest winds, becoming vari- abie; minimum temperature tonight about 32 degrees.’’ The storm which has just passed over this section was central over IIlinois last might. It has moved northeast- ward... Another storm is developing in the Far West. Missouri—Fair Saturday night, with cooler in Kast portion; Sunday partly cloudy. Illincis—Partliy cloudy Saturday night and Sunday; cooler Saturday night. BALTIMORE STORM DAMAGE $2,000,000; TWO MORE DIE Small Craft Stranded After the Inauguration Day Gale on Bay. By Wireless Telegraph via Washing- ton, BALTIMORE, Md., March: 6.—Dam- age by the recent storm is estimated to have been $2,900,000 in and around Baltimore. Two more deaths were reported today as a result of injuries received in the storm. Thousands of men are at work re- pairing the railroad and commercial telegraph lines. The gale on the bay was the worst in years. A large nuim- ber of small craft are stranded on shore. ITELEGRAPH | WIRES STILL DOWN Messages sent — Washington to New York Via St. Louis. NEW YORK, March 6.—Washington continues to be isolated from New York as a result of the ‘‘inaugural’’ blizzard, insofar as direct northern connection by telegraph and telephone wires is con- cerned, The Postal Telegraph Co. transmits messages from Washington via Birming- ham and thence to this city over West- ern routes. The Western Union works by way of’St. Louis. EEE WHY NOT MAKE. WHE PAY-AS -You- ENTER Cars CAR- RY A FIREMAN?

A Substantial Repeat “a Thursday the St. Louis merchanis bought 78 columns of DISPLAY advertising in ¢ POST-DISPATCH and only 74 columns in the Globe- alt, Republic, Times and Siar COMBINED.- @ Again yesterday, Friday, the local merchants bought 57 columns of DISPLAY ad- verlising in the POST-DISPATCH and only 54 columns in the Globe - Democrat, Republic, Star and Times COMBINED @ This substantial illustration of the preference of ‘the St. ouis merchants for the POST-DISPATCH, as here _ shown, is not at all unusual, but a habit with them. @ It aaually means that .the : know by experience that the resulis from their ad-

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VOL. 6L __NO. PB. ex TARIFE REVISING 4 formal acceptances or declinations

Only Evening Paper t in St. Louis wit with both Associated Press and United Press ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1909. ——— — — * * ae 2

SPECIAL SESSION BEGINS MARCH Ia r Taft’s Plan for Congress In- cludes Only One Subject at Present.

CONSIDERS COMMISSION

President Takes Up Question of Futufe National Con- servation Body.

WASHINGTON, March 6,—President Taft today issued a call for a special session of the Sixty-first Congress, to convene March 15. The call does not mention the object fer which the special session is called. In his inaugural ad- dress the President said the special ses- sion should consider only tariff revision. The following is the text of she call: By the President of the States of America: Whereas public tmterests require that the Congress of the United _ States should be convened in extra session at 12: o0’clock nogn, on the fifteenth day of March, 1909, to re- celve such communfiication as may be made by the executive; Now, therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary oc- casion requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the City of Washington on the fifteenth day of March, 1909, at 12 o’clock noon, at which,all persons wno shall, at that time, be entitled to act as members thereof, are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States of America, the sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and of the tndependence of * the United States, the one hundred and thirty-third., “WM. H. TAFT.’ Takes Up Conservation. President Taft today considered the future existence of the National Con- servation Commission. This question was raised py an amendment to an appropriation bill and the members of the joint Committee on Co-operation, which includes Senators Nelson of Minnesota and Milton of Florida, rep- resenting the Conservation Commis- sion and Govs, Wilson of Kentucky; Deneen of Illinois, and former Gov. Pardee of California, representing the State organizations, took up the ques- tions with Mr. Taft to ascertain his construction of the amendment. The position of the joint committee is that Congress has no jurisdiction legisiate the commission out of United A proclamation: to existence in view of the fact that it, is an advisory board appointed by the Executive and serving without com- pensation. ‘Among the several thousand persons whont Mr. Taft received were delega- tions from New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas and Maine. In welcoming them to the White House Mr. Taft remarked that although he had come in like a lion—having reference to the blizzard on the 4th of March—he hoped to go out like a lamb. Collectively and individually the nine members of the Philippine Commission, through Governor-Genera! Smith, have sent to President Taft heartiest greet- ings and best wishes for a prosperous and happy administration. WOMEN DELEGATES ARE NOT “INVITED,” DECLARES WEBSTER Not Known, However, Whether They Will Attend City Party Convention. Whether the seven women, appointed as delegates to the City Party conven- tion, which will meet at the Planters Hotel Saturday evening to nominate a municipal ticket, will attend the con- vention is a matter of conjecture. “They were not ‘invited’ to attend the convention,” said Sheridan Webster, chairman of the party executive com- mittee, Saturday, “they were appointed as delegates on the recommendation of Mrs. George L. Werth. I do not yer they attend the convention, that will be an acceptance. If they stay away that will be a declination.” The women to whom delegates’ cre- dentials were sent are: Mrs. F. H. Ingalls, Mrs. Hattie Greensfelder, Dr. Sarah I. Barnard, Mrs. Ida B. Cole, Mrs. T. E. Ferguson, Mrs. Fannie Robb and Mrs. Werth. They are al] prominent in women's club work and several of them are avowed advocates of women’s suffrage. Most of the women, however, have said that they would not attend the con- vention.

|STENOGRAPHER FOR MISSING REAL ESTATE >. ‘MAN ARRESTED IN HER HOME AT MIDNIGHT 7 = 7 | —Murillo’ Portrait.

ATTORNEY. FOR THE BURLINGTON DES SUDDENL! <=

, 7 J. W.. Blythe - Stricken. With Heart Disease While on: .. Hunting Trip.

DES MOINDBS, Io., March 6.—J. W. Blythe, general counsel of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Raltlroad, dropped dead at 5 o'clock this morning, . two miles out from Wapello, where he had a hunting lodge. He went to the lodge yesterday with a party of friends for a shooting trip. Just after he left the clubhouse this morning he was seized with an attack of heart disease and fell dead while his friends were rushing to his side. He was administrator of the estate of C. E. Perkins, former president of the Burlington system, and a son-in-law of the late Ex-Senator John Gear. Mr. Blythe was born in Cranbury, N. J., in 180 and was a graduate. of Princeton University. He was admit- ted to the bar in 1876, since which: time he had. been practicing law in Iowa. For the last six or seven years:he had been general counsel of the Burlington Rail- road. He was ‘regarded -as the State leader of the Iowa “standpatters.”’ “RED” SULLIVAN AND CONNORS SENTENCED TO PENITENTIARY Daniel (‘‘Red’’) Sullivan was sentenced to serve two years in’ the penitentiary Saturday by Judge Shields on his. plea of guilty to perjury in connection with his testimony . before the: grand ‘jury in the West End Physical Culture Club shooting case. He was-also ‘given. two years on his plea of guilty to false reg- istration. Sullivan decided to plead guiity after his companion, John: (Heavy) Connors, had been sentenced to.two years in pris- on by a’ jury. . Sullivan -and Connors were in the club when Connie Sullivan, shot and wounded Policeman John Hut- ton, Jan..17...Connie Sullivan . pleaded guilty and got four: years.in- the peni- tentiary. HALF-MASTED HOSPITAL: FLAG DOES NOT BETOKEN DISASTER When the flag at the City Hospital was hoisted at half mast Saturday many persons in the néighborhood kept telephones’ busy, asking what was the me tier. : ‘They. seemed to. “have an idea. that there had been some great disa: which called ‘for. the signal of met

LOCOMOTIVE T0 PAR SHOPS wr

Officials Surrender ert Four Hundred and Thir- teenth Stanza Appears. Four hundred and thirteen stanzas of verse on wheels have been sent from Alton to the Chicago & Alton repair shops at Bloomington, Ill. There they will yank the poetry up in the air with a. traveling crane and thoroughly overhaui! it, putting new riv- ets and bolts where they are most needed, fix up its. connecting ,rods and cylinders and brighten it up with fresh paint. This verse was written on a loco- motive.: That is, tne author was not plunging across the continent in an en- gine cab when he unleashed his muse— but the jingle literally was written on old switch engine 48—written. in .chalk all over the boiler, tender and cow- catcher. : Mémbers of the switching crew in Al-: ton wrote volumes of prose reports call- ing attention to the’ rickety condition of ‘‘old 48,"’- but no attention was - paid to the... Then they tried, poetry like this: This here engine's on the punk, It’s nothin’ but'a phe of junk. Up in the air it's goin’ to blow And then we’ll say “‘I told you so.”’ That’ started the ball rolling. In: a ‘few hours this lilting jingle appeared on the steam chest: » Take me up’to Bloomington And break. nie.up for. scrap, Or I’ll-explode and blow my crew Clean off the Alton map. When a few more of these ditties had been added workers in the C. & A. yards began to take notice. It-was up to every- body to be.a poet. Even the section hands took a flyer at the game, their style being rather rugged, but expreés- sive, as this sample shows: ‘Old 48 was a good old soul, Old 4 was a good: old soul, Old 48 was,.a good old soul— Yes, she.could go ten feet on a ton of coal... New verses were added so frequently ; that in time the engine became a by- word in the yards ana excited comment by passengers on .competing lines. D. A. Tuttle; Chicago’ & Alton agent, took. the: matter up with higher. officials ‘and the engine was ordered to the shops for an overhauling: Friday. | MR, PULITZER -IN- NEW YORK

4 Publisher. of ‘World ‘Returns From ‘

TOWBOAT SIN ‘ Icy. Water pact Watch- man on “The Uncle Tom,” From Kimmiswick.

Louis Frietag, watchman on the tow- poat Uncle Tom, hailing from Kimms- wick, and moored:at the foot of: Victor street, awoke at’4 o'clock » Saturday morning . with .the icy’ waters. of «the Mississippi licking his hand. He was sleeping on. the.floor of the deck house. “Springing vp ‘he saw that the water was covering the ‘floor and rapidly: ris- ing.” He shotted to the other. members of the crew that the boat was sinking, and they rushed out‘and ‘sprang aboard a .arge that lay behind the Uncle Tom, and were saved. Frietag remembered he:had a walt of c.0thes and $25 of’ his ‘savings aboard the: towboat, and went back after them. While he was in the cabin the. boat: gave a lurch and*began to go down with a rush. He ran on’ deck and: sprang ‘for the barge, missed it and fell into’ the river, and would have been swept away had not the other members of the crew pulled him aboard, — The Uncle Tom now lies in 2 feet of water off shore, with. her. smokestack sticking above the — waters of. the river. “The boat was —— up from Kimms- wick Priday by her owner, J.-A. Wor- lington, who was moving: his family*to St. Louis. The household furniture was onthe barge. Iti was unloaded at 6 o’clock Friday. night and taken ‘to 6 Nicholson place, and after supper the crew, composed of Frietag,. deckhand and watchman; Engineer Frank Weav- er, Fireman Louis Bosser, Harry Baker, a deckhand, and another, went to sleep. The. boat was apparently in good con- dition when Frietag made his last: in- spection of ‘it Friday night. Why the boat foundered is a mystery, a8 no sub- marine mines, swordfish or other melo- dramatic enemies or seafaring craft have been. seen at the fdot of Victor street. CLOTHINGLESS MAN SHOCKS CROWDS IN DOWNTOWN STREET | Men. Form: Cordon * About » Him Until Ambulance —— aken to City Hospital. ~ Men who saw Alfred —— at Bev]

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Louis County. The trust deed p ner. seven different —— dec to this one piece of prope upon the same piece of property. The acknowledgments to these seven different fraudulent deeds of trust were certified to by Miss Hallen, who was also a notary public in the office of Fortner, the police allege. .The police are investigating in the belief. that a great chain of forgeries will be found. Miss Halien admits that she did not seven deeds, although she acknowledged the signature. But, she declares, she did net know she was doing wrong. As Mrs. Fortner was the wife of her em- ployer, she supposed that it was all right. Wholesale Forgeries Looked For, The police believe that the discovery of these seven alleged fraudulent deeds of trust is but the beginning of revela- tions of extensive fraudulent transac- tions on the part of Fortner, They be- crooked deals by him will be unearthed. The piece of property owned by Mrs. Fortner, who is the daughter of A. H. Handlan, is lot 38, block 5, Park View place, St. Loufis County. In July, 1907, Mrs. Fortner executed a deed of trust on this lot and borrowed money on it. Later Fortner made seven different copies of this deed of trust, forging the signature of Peter Wetzel, the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, to each one of them. The dates of the different forged deeds are July 16, 22, 24, Oct. 21, 22 and Nov. 10, 2. Fortner also forged the name of his) wife to each of the deeds, it is. al- ed. et is known that he borrowed $2600 from the St. Louis Union Trust Co. and $2600 from the Savings Trust Co., . known from whom he petite on. the other deeds. The frauds were discovered by a search of the books The stamp of the Recorder ot Deeds also the seal. The stamp which Fort- original stamp in the Recorder's of. see Mrs. Fortner sign her name to the} lieve that a long line of forgeries and] 4935 Delmar boulevard but it is not ) of the Recorder of Deeds in Clayton.) of St. Louis County was forged, and] ner had used was smaller than the]

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Information charging her with | was issued — by Assistant M. Dwight Fortner, a real estate ——— who is a e forged the indorsement on a check for $12,000 and with th the money. aie Hallen is s held a prisoner: at Pi * thinking that there 9 in it. I Z Miss Hallen was | 5969 Julia avenue att Smith and seven memb force and was taken t locked up. She and t and insulting in | et _ | her to get * * —*