St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 4, 1910

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nt T ells Conditions “investigator. ‘TO GET IMMUNITY iuiiidatabiieninas Man at Tells Story Also TEAMER IN MIDOCEAN ai a Brings Anchor Liner Caledonia to Rescue of Korea’s Captain da: 4) Mya fF % and Crew . 1300 ? Miles From Cape F Race. NEW YORK, March 4.—The wireless ‘once more averted a tragedy of the sea when it brought the Anchor Liner Cale- donia to the assistance of the Steamer Korea, of the Russian East Asiatic Line, which was folundering in mid- ocean last Tuesday. The Caledonia, commanded by Commo- ( jaore Walter Baxter, rescued Capt. Serpe, ~ One Mtadapsbiiest tondker has - giver to Attorney Campbell Cum- al Major, valuable to be. used at. the

of the Korea, and his crew of forty- eight men. The rescue was effected at point about 1300 miles east-northeast Race. By the time the Korea’s crew had been relieved, the vessel had a heavy list to port and her sinking seemed to be only a. question of a short time. Her seams were started by the pounding she re- ceived in A series of storms. brief announcement of the rescue and the sinking of the Corea came in a wireless to the Anchor Line’s office today. At 3:20 p. m., March 1, latitude 52:51 north, longi- tude 28:19 west, came upon the Korea which had called for help. Took off Capt. Serpe and forty-eight of the crew before boat sank. The Caledonia: is due Monday from His Unusual Actions While Kneeling Near Priest Alarms Congregation. While the Rev. Father James J. Mc- os | Ca igatio age be held in St. | and ‘Bast St. Louis. The ; probably will be in ril, aftér Mr. Major's return om | Washington, and are ex- e d to take a month. the Sacred Hea . and University streets, Thursday might, an unidentified man entered the church and approaching the altar rail Khelt im- mediately behind the preist. The congregation was momentarily alarmed as the strange actions of the man indicated that he was irresponsible. Several parishioners left their seats and started for the vestibule of the church, where they found two_police- men who proceeded to the altar and led the man away. Father McCabe was not at the pas- toral residence when a Post-Dispatch reporter called there Friday. His broth- er, Father Michael McCabe, rector of St. Michael’s Church, denied a report that the man had attempted to use @ re- volver. “My information is,” said he, “that the incident was trivial. If the man had a weapen I de not know of it.”’ Colonial Dames Seholarship. COLUMBIA, Mo., March '4.—A four- year scholarship hag. been established at the University of Missouri by the

Missouri Society of thé Colonial Dames of America. A competitive examination among high school ‘pupils will deter- raine who will receive the scholarship. from Cape Glasgow. The brief, but comprehensive air message from Commodore Baxter, who commands the Anchor Line fleet, came as soon as the Caledonia got well within the wireless zone of New York. The Korea formerly plied between Brooklyn and Libau, Russia. She was the biggest of the Russian East Asiatic Company’s steamers and has brought thousands of immigrants to America. She was equipped with wireless and it is supposed the wireless operator still was retained when the Korea was trans- formed into a freighter as the character of her cargoes, iron and ore, made here trips long and perilous, owing to the chances of rough seas displacing the great weight. When she began carrying the ore the Korea steamed between Philadelphia and Norwegian ports. She was a steel, screw steamer, built in 1889, with 6163 tonnage. Shée was 409 feet long, 49 feet wide and 19 feet deep. It is presumed in the absence of de- tails in Commodore Baxter’s report that the Korea encountered heavy seas when: half way across the Atlantic and that the great weight of iron ore which she \oarried was shifted. This list would swamp the vessel and send her to the bottom. ~ | DINAN UT Village Marshal Declares Youngsters Are Responsible for Deafening Explosions. Kirkwood, in this era of “puffs,”’ has a n r nts of its own, who Se Re ae arth ayanrtite. This is the explanation given by W. L. Kinyon. Marshal of Kirkwood, of two mysterious dynamite explos- fons which occurred Thursday night. One happened at 8:30 p. m., Un- der the United Railways bridge across the Missouri Pacific tracks at Clay ave- nue, Kirkwood. The other tore a hole in the earth near the boundary line of Tuxedo Park and Webster Groves, an hour later. Both explosions were heard for more than three miles and shook .all crockery and window panes ef the suburb. As Kirkwood is a quiet town, many of its inhabitants were shaken in their beds by the detonations, and thought an earthquake had eoccurred. No damage was done in elther case. “Thefe is a gang of idle youths in Kirkwood,” said Kinyon, “who want to wake the town up. Nothing has hap- pened for the last few months, and they are afraid Kirkwood is disappearing from the map. The dynamiters don't wish to do any harm, but merely to start something. “I Know who these boys are, and if P run across any of them [I'll lock thém up. They usually wait until I’m at the other end of the village before starting their pranks. “I can’t imagine where they got the dynamite, for none has been reported missing in the vicinity.” 40% bigger than - the 3 next best! This means that the merchants of the city of St. Louis yesterday, Thursday, March 3d, bought 84 columns of advertising spacé in the POST-DISPATCH, while on the same day these St. Lonis merchants bought only 60 60 columns i in the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times ‘all added together. yesterday, Thursday, In other words, the POST-DISPATCH earried 40% more of legitimate, bona-fide paid display ad- . Louis merchants only, Tine OONMENED, than the Globe Demberat, Republic and

jis, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 4 1910.

SE : peepee ee ~ ee tee ete nee auseuane ? ae: ARBITRARY FG a n E ‘wire $300 s 0.06 Shippers Unanimously Agree to Appoint a Committee to Treat With Roads. TO IGNORE TERMINAL Negotiations for Rate. Read- justment Will Be on Indi- vidual Basis. The Post-Dispatch plan of ne- gotiating directly with the heads of the railroaé proprietaries of the Terminal-Association, in the cam- paign to abolish the bridge arbi- trary, was adopted by a commit- tee of shippers Friday at the Mer- cantile Club. It was unanimously decided to call'a meeting of the St. Louis shippers at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Mercantile Club to appoint a committee of representative men to arrange a treaty with the rail- road presidents for- the readjust- ment of freight rates into the city and the abolishment of arbitrary. [t was declared useless to negotiate with the Terminal itself, as it has come to be regarded as the creat- ure of the railroads. The Termi- nal will, therefore, be ignored in the negotiations. As eight of the presidents of eastern railreads entering St. Louis have sig- nified their willingness, through the Post-Dispatch, to confer with a commit- tee of St. Louis merchants concerning the adjustment of freight rates, it is be- Heved that there will be little difficulty in arranging a conference. in the near future. Ten Months Armistice. In the meantime, the committee recom- mends that an armistice of 10 months be declared with the Terminal, so that negotiations for the solution of the arbitrary may be conducted under a flag of truce. The members of the committee, whose meeting lasted an hour, are H. W. Peters, Cc. W. Mansur, Forrest Ferguson, George W. Simmons, Charles A. Stix, Elias Michael, R. H. Stockton, Robert Holmes and Jackson Johnson. , The agreement of the committee to resort to arbitration is considered sig- nificant, for its personnel was supposed to represent the two extremes of opin- ion concerning the Terminal. Peters and Johnson were active and influential in defeating the Termnal’s Ranken tract Dill. Simmons, on the contrary, engineered the memorial signed by business men urging the House of Delegates to vacate the Mill Creek Valley acres, and Stix was the first man to sign the memorial. Hopes for Fair Legislation. Jackson Johnson, chairman of the commmittee, says it is his hope that the shippers: will be able, before the expira- tion of the proposed armistice, to obtain legislation. which will be fair both to the city and to the railroads. “Tt. will be sought,’’ he said, “to ig- nore the Terminal Association and deal directly with the railroads themselves. . “Though I am in favor of the aboll- tion of the arbitrary, I suppose that both sides will have to make concessions to reach an agreement that will be mutual- ly acceptable.” “at first blush,” said Anderston, “I should say that !f the Terminal violates the law it should be showed no more consideration than ‘anyone else, espe- cially when the fact of its guilt ‘s es- tablished by juries of panera busi- ness men. Will Continue Filing Suits. “But I do not wish to be a stumbling block. I see that Henry W. Peters signed the resolution urging a respite of penalties for the Terminal... I believe Mr. Peters is on the side of the people, and that his lead may be safely fol- lowed. ‘Therefore, though I shall not cease filing suits against the Terminal, I shall not decide whether to push the suits or permit them to lie dormant until I con- fer with the judges and the Council com- mittee. If we decide to cease prose- cuting the Terminal for the time being, the suits filed now can be revived at the end of the 10-months’ truce, as the statute of limitations does not begin to operate for a year in Police Court , Anderson has won % suits against Final Decree ree Signed With- out Comment and: Settle- ment Made in Private. DIVORCED LAST. FALL Colonel Away on His Yacht in the Tropics When the Suit-Was Filed. NEW YORK, March 4.—Mrs. Alva Willing Astor was today absolutely divorced from Col. John J. Astor. An interlocutory decree granted several months ago was confirmed by Jus- tice Mills of the Supreme Court at White Plains after, according to au- thentic information, attorneys for both sides had agreed upon a lump settlement of $10,000,000 for .Mrs. Astor and alimony of $300,000 a year. What disposition the Court has made of the two Astor children still is in doubt. Papers in the case were re- turned to Mrs. Astor’s counsel and he immediately ‘boarded a train without making public their contents. Fifal proceedings in the divorce suit cf the wealthiest of New Yorkers was of a perfunctory nature. After a pass- ing reference to the interlocutory de- gree, counsel for Mrs. Astor moved that the decree be confirmed and Attorney Lewis Cass Ledyard, for Col. Astor, made no objection. Justice Mills signed the final decree and the papers in the case will be filed later with the County Clerk in Pough- keepsie, The motion of Mrs. Astor’s counsel Was made in open court and no private cofiference of the attorneys and the Judge preceded it. Mrs. Astor brought suit in New York last October for an absolute decree of divorce. referee and the testimony was secret. Mrs. Astor charged her husband wit! Statutory offenses. Witnesses gave suc. testimony as to make unnecessary Mrs. Astor’s appearance before’ the referee. Kept Deep Secret. The D di Charles Young were the subject of un- favorable comment throughout the coun- try. The action was called a travesty on justice by many leading jurists, who argued that the courts of the country should not perform their functions at der a cloak obtained by the use money: Referee Young reported to Justice Mills and the interluctory decree was granted on’ Nov. 8, 1909. All papers in the referee's proceedings -were carefully guarded, mony was made in the petition, but. even when the suit was filed it was rumored a $10,000,000 settlement al- ready had been agreed upon. When the hearings before Referee Young had ended, Mrs. Roberta Hal- sey Crown-Hill, arriving unexpected- ly in New York from Paris, yehement- ly denied she was involved in Mrs. Astor's suit. She denied that she had been sum- moned as a witness and declared she could throw no light on the Cererenees of Col. Astor and his wife. Merely Astor’s Friend. “I a co-resppndent?’’ she exclaimed with a peal of laughter in reply to a question. “Absurd! I am merely a pass- ing friend of Col. Astor.’ She further repudiated the stories that she had ac- companied Col. Astor to Havana, to the Isle of Pines, te Burope and had made other tours with him as gossip/in Goth- am society had it. When the decision in Mrs. Astor’s suit before the réferee was reached, Col, Astor was touring the West In- des in his yacht, the Nourmahal, with his son, William Vincent Astor, 17 yeasr old. After the decree was en- tered, Col, Astor’s yacht was missing several Gays and, following a storm that had passed over the islands and wreckage was found, the Nourmahal was reported to have been wrecked and Col Astor, his son and a party of friends lost. Wireless Kept Busy. . Members. of the Astor family, and business and social associates immedi- ately began a search for his yacht and for three days the wireless system ‘ be- tween the southern coast of the United States and the stations throughout the Caribbean Sea, ashore and afloat, were kept busy. } The Astor yacht was finally found in an obscure port where it had put in to escape the storm. Mrs. Astor, who was Miss Ava iets Willing, daughter of Edward 8S. Willing, and a descendant of families prominent in early American history, was born in | Philadelphia. She was married’ Feb. 17, 1891. She has been called a typical American beauty. - . ‘Col. John Jacob Astor, great grand- son of the'founder of the famous Aster in Rhinebeck, N. Y., The suit was tried before a | No claim for ali- ‘

"MODEL GAS BILL "| FIXES 40 AND 60. GENTS AS aS) Joint Committee’s Specifies Natural and Artificial Supply. Cpies f a natural gas franchise pre- pared by the city authorities were placed in the -hands~of the St. Louis Gas, Light, Heat’ and Power Co. \and the Rodgers syndicate for consideration Friday. These two syndicates haye ap plied for a franhciae to pipe natural gas from Oklahoma to St. Louis, | The model franchise provides that the price of natural gas shal) net be more than 40 cents, and that the company ac-: cepting the franchise shall file a bond of $250,000 to protect the city and shall post an additional $60,000 cash a a guar- antee of its good faith. ’ Within six months after accepting the franchise, the company must prove to the city that it has a sufficient supply of gas for \St. Louis, and must. show contracts for laying pipe lines and bullding pumping stations. The Laclede-Busch interests take the ground, according to Harry B. Hawes, that no franchise is needed by the La- clede company to supply natural gas ip St. Louis. of lighting legislation “in the ‘ upper house, thinks otherwise. The model bill is the Work of a joint committee in which Schutz heads’ thp Council representatives and Delegate Hildenbrandt those from the House. © at prescribes that the natural-artifi- cial gas franchise shall be let to the highest bidder and requires a bond to guarantee fulfillment of the terms, of which is that work must begin with- | in #ix months from the aprroval of the | franchise. The bill. will probably be passed at the next session of the Assembly, as there will hardly be time to pass it at’ the present session, which ends in April.

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