St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 30, 1909

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_©FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” ASSEMBLY WILL PUSH RAILWAYS INVESTIGATION United Company's Protest Unavailing, Both Houses for Prompt Action. COMMITTEE Will Be Ascertained Whether There Are Grounds for For- feit of Franchise. NAMING MILL TAX LITIGATION Corporation Declares It Impos- sible to Give Everyone a Seat at Rush-Hours. Having rejected the protest of the United Railways Co. against an inves- tigation of the service and the com- pany'’s affairs, the City Council and House of Delegates are proceeding with the appointment of a committee to make the Investigation and ascertain whether the elty has grounds for a forfeiture of the company’s franchises, and also to report whether a subway is a neces- sity. The United Railways’ protest was written on the stationery of Boyle & Priest, attorneys for the company. It Was signed by all the directors and re- plies to the three complaints «et out in the resolution calling for an investi- gation. It denies that dead tracks are illegally in the stfeets, contends that the mill tax question has not been set- tled and in regard to the imsufficient service, states that no person of com- mon sense expects the street railway company to furnish enough cars to «ive every one a. seat during rush hours. House Men Selected. The House of Delegates has already selected the men by whom it will be represented in the inquiry. They are Chairman Russe]l. and Delegate Mischel of the Rallroads Committee and. . Delegcte Holliday. Delegate Jacobs declined to accept ment. As the, Counciiman Schnejderhahn probably will be chairman of the committee. While acting president of the Council next Tuesday, in the absence of Pres- ident Gundlach, Mr. Schneiderhahn will be in a rather delicate situation because on him will devolve the duty of choosing the Council’s representa- tives. He may have to name himself. The voting trust which for three years has kept the $24,000,000 common stock of the United Railways Co. tied up so that the actual holders of the stock had no individual voice in the manage- ment of the company will expire Mon- day... Under the terms of this trust all of the common stock was in a pool in such a way that it could be voted in a block by the North American Co. With the expiration of the voting trust the St. Louis holders of about $8,000,000 of the common stock will again‘ have an opportunity to vote on questions affecting the company’s man- agement. Wight for’ Withdrawal. In the Counoll there was a vigorous fight to force a withdrawal of the resolution. This contest was precipi- tated by the presentation of a me- morial which was in substance a de- nial.of ali the statements made in Mr, Schneiderhahn's resolution and a criticism of the Council's action ; it. This memorial was signed by the directors of the com- Sppny. i Councilman Norvell offered the pro- test at the request of Capt. Robert Mc- ‘Culloch, president of the United Rail- ‘ways Co. During the warm debate on the memorial and the resolutions which followed it Capt. McCulloch and his gon, Richard, sat in the Council cham- wer, listening attentively. , - After the debate, which prece( 9d the ' geceptance of the memorial and a mo- “Yon to print it In the Council's jour- nel, Mr. Norvell introduced a resolu- tion asking the withdrawal of Mr. Schrieiderhahn’s “indictment.” The mo- tion to receive the memorial was adopt- ed unanimously, but Mr, Norvell’s reso- tution failed by a vote of 9 to 2. Coun- cllmen Norvell and ‘Davis supported it. The memorial was more than 1000 words, written on the stationery of the legal firm of Boyle & Priest, lawyers — annem Pavan cpa In its contained ‘in a joint and | i resolution passed by the - Council on Oct, 19.” Conduct of Affairs. — “The directory (of the ‘United Rall- 5 ‘ * : — Co,) feels it 1s charged in the ad- iat. a ‘of the affairs of the com- i 2 » with @ due regard for the rights ae | Interests of the public, as well as a -@ sense of responsibility as trus- | toes Gor the holders of securities te the t of many millions, most of whom TERMINAL SUED ‘BY STOCKHOLOLK appoint- | author of the résolution; { cc. C. Rainwater and Charlies McClure ol eS Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated. Press: — Service.

“VOL. 62. NO. 71.

ST.

LOUIS, “SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1909. PO ee ee

FOR $2,000,000 Owners of the Merchants’ Bridge Demand Accounting of the Association. $500,000 IN RESERVE Allegation Made That Profits Above That Sum Were to Have Been Divided. DISPUTE ON. FIGURES Net Earnings Said to Have Ranged From $509,079 to $1,542,173 Yearly.

A suit against the Terminal Railroad Association was filed Saturday, involv- ing nearly $2,000,000, by a stockholder in the old Merthants’ Bridge Terminal Railway Co., which the Terminal mo- nopoly absorbed. Stockholders allege that half the net earnings of the company were to have been paid to them after the Terminal had accumulated a reserve fund of $500,- 000, and that no ‘payments have been made. The suit was filed by John A. Wittig of Illinois, who held 127 shares of the Merchants’ Bridge stock, but Eugene H. Angert, his lawyer, said he repre- sented also the holders of the other shares, amounting to 17,116. It had been considered best, Angert said, to enter the suit in the name of only one stock- holder. Net Earnings $3,953,503. The reserve fund of $502,000 has bean accumulated by the ~Terminal, and since then the net earnings have umounted to $3,953,503, the petition says. The suit is for half of this—$1,976,751.00. The net earnings for three years are stated as follows: These are for the fiscal year, — ends Juno 1. The date when the reserve fund was in hand is stated as June 30, 1905. Disagreement as to Figures. Angert said that the reason for the Terminal’s failure to account lay in a disagreement as to the figures. The petition asks for an accounting of the Terminal's earnings and expenses. The deal by. which the Merchants’ Bridge Co. was taken over by the Ter- minal was consummated Aug. 17, 1893, representing the Merchants’ stockhold- ers. The Terminal bought outright 13,- 600 shares of the stock and agreed in writing, according to the petition, to pay over half its net earnings to the other shareholders after the reserve was accumulated. MADE-IN-GERMANY AEROPLANE WINS A PRIZE OF $10,000 Makes Flight of Mile and a Half in Two Minutes and 43 Seconds. JOHANNISTHAL, Germany, Oct. 390. ~—Hans Grade, the German aviator, to- day won the Lanz prize of $10,000) by fiying two and one-half kilometers (a little more than a mile and a half) in two minutes and 43 seconds. The competition was restricted to aero- planes constructed in Germany by Ger- man builders and propelled by German- made motors. After receiving the prize Grade made two more flights of about five minutes each In his monoplane.

Biplane 720 Fect in the Afr. LONDON, Oct. 30.—Flying over , the Brooklands motor track today, Lou's Paulhan, the French aviator, broke the English record for altitude, reaching the height of 720 feet. He “used a biplane. HADLEE! HADLOO! WHO CAN EARN $1000 WRITING SONG THESE FINE FALL DAYS? THE ber — Paes Pte ap

“O, it must have been awful,”’ said the eller, | “Wha asked the haberdasher, “That trip down: the river on the governors’ boat St. Paul.” **¥ea, it's no fun bumping snags an@ ecraping sand- bars.” ° "Well,

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NEW LONG-NOSE ROBBER SUSPECT HAS LONG NOSE Uncle of First Man Arrested Is Identified by Grocer as the Thief. WOMAN TELLS POLICE Rooming House Proprietor Happened to Remember Fre- quent Visitor to Meigs. A second man was arrested and iden- tifed as the “long-nosed robber” Sat- urday. His nose is Jong, He is Elmer Dreon of 3414 Rutger street, > , an & 1 —8* ae ® ee *. — —R .4 The man on the right is Elmer Dreon, the “long-nose’’ robber suspect arrested today. The man on the left is his nephew, Homer Meigs, both the ‘same age’ and ~ almost exact in’ likeness, except that the uncle's nose is longer than that of the nephew. PRICE ONE CENT | |

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menenooeevereceorererer: SooeoODIOoooOHODIGOOOOD ee — BOY HORSE mo CREET FLEEING DOCTOR, | TAFT AT DOCKS GTHERASSERTS| IN NEW ORLEANS Fight-Year-Old. Who Fired| He Reaches.City Too Late to Jail Recently Operated on Take Part in the Big Mili- for. Adenoid Removal. _ tary-Parade. Special to the Poat-Dianarch. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20.—President aft arrived here at 12:3), being more than four hours late. He did not take part in. the’ ble military parade for Which 250,000 people ‘had been waiting since 7 o’clack, ,and ‘bitter disappoint- an FLIGAT, 10 LAND SAFELY Accident Happens During Trial on U. S. Army. Field at Altitude of 25 Feet. COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct, wee Without warning the machinery of the Wright aeroplane stopped today while Lieuts. Humphreys and Foulois were rapidly sailing over the Government aviation field. The airship was at an altitude of about 25 feet when the engine stopped. The aeroplane came down in good po- sition without injuring itself or the pas- sengers. A cog of the gear wheel attached to the magneto broke, causing the trouble.

Eight-year--ld Harry McDonald, who tried to burn the County Jalil at Clay- ton after ne had stolen a horse and buggy, driven 16 miles into the’ coun- try, put the horse in; a. stable and burned both the barn and the beast, was released Saturday on a bond of $200

Woman and Two Children Burned. BRIDGE, Ontario, Oct. 30.—Shortly after midnight the house of A. Mc- Loughlin, a bookkeeper, Was _ de- stroyed by fire and Mrs. McLoughlin and her two young children were

burned to death. signed by his mother, Mrs, Mary Mc- ment ig expressed here. The local re- Donald of 5340 Goodfellow place, who '

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What our Globe-Democrat, Star COMBINED

with custome live merchants We do not wish to be unfair in telling this ‘‘ acy’’ story of ours, day after day, but it is 80 remark. able that we must tell again and again how the St. Louis Merchants continue their ‘‘habit’’ of buying more advertising space in the POST-DISPATCH in one day than in all of its eompetitors combined, } morning and evening, on the same Yesterday, Friday, the figures were: POST-DISPATCH, 97 Cols. Republic, Times and If you want to understand why the merchants are ; paisioter to this “‘habit,”’ drop into the stores today, of those merchants whose announcements were in the POST-DISPATCH Monge, and you will find them crowded **Advertising that pays grows. Advertising that grows pays.”’ Store for whoever persunded the Presi- aent to change his. plans. Immediately after landing Mr. Taft, accompanied by Gov. Sanders, was whirled to the residence of the Arch- bishop, where he. had: luncheon. When .it was learned that. the Presi- dent would not be in the parade many of the participants wént home and the procession w#s a'‘straggling affair. About 100,000 people were at the docks to welcome, the flest. Presidential sa- lutes were flreu, & dozen bands played national and martial airs from the shore while the orchestras on the decks of all the boats were playing as they steamed into the*harbor. Plans: to réform “the fleet at Nine- Mile Point-in the order it left St. Louls were not carried out, and the St. Paul, with the governors and newspaper cor- respondents on board; was last to dock. President Kavanaugh and Secretary Saunders of the Lakes-to-the-Guif Deep Waterway went. on ahead by ‘train to open the waterways convention at 10 a. m. SURPRISE PARTY. PROVES. FATAL Friends Call “arid Farmer Dies of -Excitement. ‘ WATERLOO, Is. Oct. %.—A surprise party proved fatal to Horace Colson, a wealthy farmer of. Jessup, Ia., last night. 2 When & score of trie s appeared un- expectedly at ‘the “fiome his ex- citement e so great. * he ¢ol- ‘laway from a doctor who operated on him recently for adenoids. Alienists have recommended the re- mioval of adenoids from the nasal pas- sage of childrén as tending toward both moral and physical improvement. It is held also that such jan operation develops the mental aptitude .of school children. Mrs. McDonald said Harry was op- erated upon recently by Dr. John’ M. Grant of 5386 North Taylor aventie and has entertained a childish fear of the physician. She said her son does not know the difference between right and wrong, and is not responsible for what he has done. Harry will appear next Friday before Judge Wurdeman in the juvenile division of the Circuit Court. His mother, who was greatly. distressed over the incident, took him home. are doing suprem- Farmer’s Wife Captures Him. About noon Friday Mrs. Emil Sandesa, wife of a farmer near Creve Coeur, about sixteen miles from St. Louis; saw a strange buggy dn the barnyard and went to investigate. A small boy ran out of the barn and yelled “Fire!” He yas followed by great volumes of smoke und puffs of flame. The barn vurned, with all its contents, Mrs. Sandoz hela the boy unti] Sheriff Grueninger and u« éeputy arrived. The horse and buggy belonged to the |J. s*.-Conrad Grocery Co. and had been left at the street corner by a solicitor who was caiiing at a house near by. When Sheriff Grueninger took .his diminutive prisoner to the jail he locked him in the women's department. The boy set his mattress on fre and wae al- most suffocated when he was rescued. -He explained the-burning of the San- doz barn by saying he had dropped a lighted match .on the hay,’ but did not mean to destroy the building, . day.

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power Chalmers-Detroit, was in third position when the race was declared off ‘other cars, the Mercedes, driven by Wishart, and the Atlas, driven by Knox, Were on the unsurpassed weather conditions the race was marred in its steady stages by the simultane- | ous presence on the course of three sep- arate sets of cars running three dis-j tinct races over the same course and, after the smaller cars had left the circuit by accidents ‘ Not until the beginning of the twen- tieth lap, when the Fiat dislodged the ji Chalmers-Detroit for first position and | was itself passed in the backstretch by the Alco, did anything like genuine Finishes Practically Alone. For a brief period it seemed then that a close finish would be witnessed, but in the twenty-first and twenty-second laps Grant widened the gap that sep- arated him from the field and finished | Up to within one lap of the finish number of laps which the leading car had finished and it was only after a vigorous protest from the entrants of the time card was announced. The time made by the winner was} age for the entifte distance of ane a 4#-horse- of the fif- teen Vanderbilt cup entries were left ft as to the reading .of, hour aver-' The small car race’ run —— ly with the day's chief event, respect- ively, the Massapequa Sweepstakes and | In point of attendance the race was}

RS. Se es 4 ae Bee: Fic Lot ae tae oe MOTOR Egg owt WAY, Li. 1: Oct. which turned the event into the hollowe te bile race ever witnessed on Long Island, Harry ¥. Grant, @ a 60-horsepower Aleo car, today won the fifth Vanderbilt et completing 22 circuits of a 12.64-mile course — 5m. Edward H. Parker, at the wheel of a‘45-ho second, 5m. 16s. behind the winner. of his safe lead to atop and » rear tires and replenish ~ $0 the fifteenth lap Knipper had 1 his lead over Grant, Alco, to at Pat yey pres « te EH PP + win —— viva ee — ap ao it was