St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 13, 1910

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VOL. 63. NO. 24. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1910. PRICE ONE CENT eel

AT POSSIBLE GUT INU. R. DIVIDENDS North American Co. Exam- ining Books to Learn Rail- way’s Financial Situation.

1iRECTORS TO DECIDE -robably Will Take Up the Matter at Meeting Tues- day Afternoon. 41LE NOT PROBABLE

Report That New York Com- pany Is to Buy Railway Lines Is Reported.

James Campbell, president of the North American Co., told a Post-Dis- patch reporter Tuesday that expert ac- countants have been going over the books of the United Railways Co. to cetermine the exact financial status of the $100,000,000 St. Louis street railway cerporation. . campbell intimated the possibility of dividend cut@mn the United Railways ferred sto@ x, if the financial show- of the company proves disappoint- Te puis: in American Co. controls 70 the $25,000,000 issue of com- ‘i: o° the United Railways Co., npbell is a director. preferred issue has on the St. Louis Stock * simultaneously rumors ihat the 5 per- céht he eatirely suspended. io Consider. is reliably informed was taken orth “ss iteh ..nd question cixyu’ar monthly meeting of ‘silways directors hek ‘noon in the company's of- Third National Bank Build- aprecentatives of the North Ameri- nad. United Railways Co. were in with President Campbell at “in the Commonwealth Trust ing. Tuesday morning. here is nothing to give out just now,”’ said Campbell, in response to a question. “It is true the North Ameri- can company has ordered an audit of the United Railways books, something that has not been done since 1305. How- ever, that fact is not significant. We simply want to know where ‘we are at.’ | Campbell Speaks of Beggs. Campbell dismissed with a laugh a question as to whether John I. Beggs, in charge of the Milwaukee proper- iles of the company, had liquidated lis Uniteq Railways holdings. “T don’t think Beggs has much, if iny, of the preferred stock, but my impression is he holds some of the common.” “Is Beggs going to retire from the North American Co.?’’ was asked. “I can’t say as to that. Some time ago *-eggs informed the North American Co. rat he expected to go into the reorgan- ived St. Louis Car Co., contingent, how- ever, on that corporation raising certain funds. Just what has been done in that inatter I do not know.” In regard to the reports of a dividend cut in Railways preferred, Campbell said: “The report of Haskill & Sells, the accountants, may be submitted at Tues- day afternoon’s meeting, although that is entirely problematical. We have re- ceived from them reports from time to time and they have met our exp>cta- tions. As to dividend possibilities, that ie a matter for subsequent considera- tion.” Property Not for Sale. Campbell denied a report current in financial circles that the American Light and Traction Co., of which Emerson McMillin of New Yorx is president, and in which Campbell is heavily interested, is contemplating the purchase of the United Railways propertios, ‘The UWhited Railways is not for sale,” he added. Rallways preferred has declined within a year from $74 to $56 a share. The earnings have been well main- tained, but the operating expenses have been unusually heavy. The stock { rallied Monday to $68 a share and was practically unchanged Tuesday. -QBBIENS RETURN, BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT ELOPEMENT Members of the family of the late John J, O’Brien, wealthy boller maker, are at their home Tuesday, at 5117 Maple ave- nus, two weeks after Miss Helen O'Brien eloped with John Howland, a lifesaver, at Asbury Park, N. J. Mrs. Rosa O’Brien, the young wom- an’s mother, declined to be seen Tues- day when a Post-Dispatch reporter called. But a sister of the bride stated that the family did not care to reveal whether Mrs. Howland had returned home. Mrs. O’Brien arrived from As- bury Park Monday night. NEGROES LYNCHED IN TENNESSEE NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 13—Will Sharp and Bob Bruce, negroes, were : lynched near Tiptonvilie, Tenn., last

Indicted Heads of the Beef Trust, Charges and Possible Punishment

LOUIS F. SWIFT, Swift & Co. 6 EDWARD F. SWIFT, vice-presi- dent of Swift & Co. CHARLES H. SWIFT, director of Swift & Co. president ef of Swift & Co. EDWARD TILDEN, president of the National Packing Co., and als of the firm of Libby, McNeill & Libby. J. OGDEN ARMOUR, president of Armour & Co, ARTHUR MEEKER, manager of Armour & Co. THOMAS CONNORS, supcrintend- ent of Armour & Co. EDWARD MORRIS, president of Morris & Co. LOUIS H. HYMAN, Morris & Co. general manager of interstate trade in fresh meats. trade. by unlawful means.

The Indicted Men: FRANOIS A. FOWLER, director : The Charges: That the defendants have engaged in a combination in restraint of That the defendants have engaged in a conspiracy in restraint of That the defendants have monopolized the trade in fresh meats The Penalty: One year in the PENITENTIARY for each offense upon conviction, or a fine of $5000, or both. J. OGDEN ARMOUR,

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“BlG FOUR” OF TH BEEF TRUST AND b Trade Restraint Conspiracy Charged Against Morris, Swift and Armour.

Srecial to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—J. Ogden Ar- mour, Louis F. Swift, Edward Morris and Edward Tilden, the Big Four of the Chicago Beef Trust, were arraigned this morning on indictments returned late yesterday afternoon by a Federal grand jury. They are charged with he- ng in a’ combination in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman anti- trust law, which they are charged with having entered in a conspiracy to crush competitors and arbitrarily fix the price of meat to the consumer. Under section 2 of the Sherman anti- trust law, conviction will make them liable to a year in prison or a fine of $000, or both, at the discretion of the court. In addition to the Big Four, six lesser lights in the Beef Combine were in- dicted. No corporation was named in the indictments. Bench warrants were issugd for the indicted packers last night, but were not served, as all agreed to be in court this morning and furnish bond The attorneys for the packers are John 5. Miller, who once obtained for them the famous “immunity bath,” and Levy Mayer. It is expected two more meat pack- ers will be indicted by the Federal grand jury. The additional indictments, it is intimated, may not come until] the 10 men already named have given bond. Each must provide $10,000 personal bond on each indictment, Judge Landis re- fusing to admit surety companies as bondsmen. There are three indictments against each, all based upon the Sherman anti- trust law. The first indictment charges that the defendants, during the last three vears, have engaged in a combi- nation in restraint of Interstate trade in fresh meats, which has had for its ob- ject the elimination of competition be- tween the Swift, Armour and Morris groups of defendants in the purchase of live cattle, sheep and hogs, and in the sale throughout the United States of fresh meats. The National Packing Co. was used to get information in all markets as to what branch managers were do- ing. This information being sent to the Chicago office of the National at the end of each week, where {t was acces- sible to the defendants, they being di- rectors of the National, and used by them as the basis of orders for the next week's business. The second .indictment is practically the same as the first, except that it charges the defendants with engaging in a conspiracy instead of in a combi- nation In restraint of trade. The third indictment charges that the defendants have monopolized the trade in fresh meats by certain unlawful means: First, by means of the compbi- nation. for eliminating competition in the ptirchase ef cattle and in the sale ot fresh meats described in the first in- dictment; second, by ‘conducting the business of the National Packing Co. itself in harmony in All respects with the business of Swift, Armour and Mor- ris; third, by removing the New York Butchers’ Dressed Meat Co. from the field of competition by means of pur- chasing stock in that company from time te time, until the centro! of it was

| mtg tor ereeee to attack two lit- OTHERS INDIGIED | Tuesday, | $1300, almost all his savings of 25 years,

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James O'Rourke, choreman, passed through four hours of frantic distress from the time when he lost from the waistcoat in which he had left it, until policemen found the money hidden behind a bale of hay in a livery stable. Edward Ritter, husband of Mrs. Minnie Ritter, O’Rourke’s landlady, con- fessed to policemen ‘that he stole the money and hid it. O’Rourke left his waistcoat hanging for a few minutes Tuesday morning in a room at his boarding house, 621 North Theresa avenue. Ritter entered and saw the money sticking out of a pocket. He felt the money and found it consist- ed of $500 in gold wrapped inside $800 in bills. “T had never had so much money in my hands,” said Ritter in his confes- sion, “‘and I seized it before I knew what I was doing, and ran out. The only place I could think of to hide it was in the livery stable on Olive street, where my wife kept a horse. I ran over there and ‘stuck the money behind a bale of hay in the loft.” Ritter confessed after his wife, as well as himself, had been taken to the police station and questioned. The money was found in the place he described. Ritter 1s marker in a laundry. O'Rourke has for years carried his money about in his pockets, not trust- ing banks. Beside the money in the waistcoat pocket, he carried $180 in a trousers pocket, and he showeg this to the first policeman he found when, almost stunned by, his loss, he ran out into the street. CHINE SE’S SPUNK SAVES HIS MONEY The cunning of Long How. Chinese laundryman at 731 North Leffingwell avenue, foiled two highwaymen who attempted to rob him early Tuesday. The robbers entered the laundry at 1:30 a. m., just as Long was blowing water on the last piece of his midnight work. “Hold up your hands,”’ one of the men. ‘““Me so tired me can’t hold fron long- er,’ said Long, without taking his eyes from his work. “You're a game chink, ain't’ you?” said the robber as he stepped closer to Long. “I'll take the starch out of you in a minute.”’ “Starch, ha, ha,’’ laughed Long. ‘Me got no starch. That’s in the back room. Lots there. Help self.’’ ‘Hand over your money,”’ the robber, ness.”’ “Me got money but no key,” said Long. He tried the cash drawer to con- vince the robbers it was locked. Then he made siens to indicate he had lost the key. ‘‘Me can’t find key. Me help you look for it.’’ The sound of footsteps on the sidewalk caused the highwaymen to flee, and when a belated citizen passed the laun- dry a few minutes leter, Long was smiling a sly smile. The sbeve acoount of the eneounter was given by the po- lice,

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TNEGRESS WITH A TAINGH CARVER CHASES MISTRESS Servant in Kenilworth Apart- ments Starts Fight When Work Is Criticised. . — DOORS KICKED DOWN

One Man and Women Kept Prisoners Until a Boy Summons the Police.

Shrieks from women guests barric2d- ed their rooms, the giass and furniture and cries for in breaking of the police from windows, accom- Kenilworth upstairs ‘‘battle’’ 4137 om =, % Seimnaia panied a at the Lindell Veco ~_ >, Jae ve 2f).. apartments, boulevard, in whines s fairy armed with a 14-inch carving knife, was vic- tor. During the fight, Mrs. of the apartments, Cc. B. Rundel, manager was com- pelled to march up a flight of stairs, with the point of the x«nife pricking at the small of her back. he saved her life, she believes, by concealing her fears and calling the negress soothing- ly by her first name. Mrs. Rundel was ill for several days and entrusted the care of th® Souse to her negro maid, Neville Stout. Arising Monday morning, she inspected the rooms and found that dust had been. swept under the beds. She scolded the maid. _ “No white trash can talk way,’’ shrieked the necress. del called to her brother, Bowman, who was the only house. Beer Bottles as Weapons, The maid greeted him with a bom- bardment of beer bottles, most of which went wild, shattering pictures and glasses. Bowman charged through the rain of bottle and grapvled with the negress, but she wrestled Yvwrelf free. She ran into the kitshe.: and reap- peared with the carving knife. Bow- man bounded up the stairs, four steps at a time. He slammed the door of his room just as the negress hurled herself against it. He reappeared with a chair, which he fiourished over the maid’s head. She pad concealed the knife in a fold of her apron, and a woman guest seized the chair just as Bowman was ahout to bring it down. He dodged back into his reom as the knife flashed toward his face. The guest, advised by the maid “not to meddle in other folks’ affairs,”’ fled to her room shrieking and locked the door. For several minutes kicked at Bowman's smashed the panels. She thrust the knife into the room and challenged Bowman to renew the battle. He re- treated into an adjoining room. The negress then paraded the cor- ridors, waving her knife and scream- ing her opinion of the white race in general and Bowman in_ particular. Whenever a woman’s head appeared at a door, the maid charged for it, knife first. é The negress then kicked in the panels of Mrs. Rundel’s door on the first floor, crawled through the aper- ture and demanded her wages. Mrs. Runde} feared she would be murdered, but answered calmly: “Tl will have to go upstairs and get your money.” Uses Knife to Collect Pay. “Then march up quick,” said the maid, placing the point of the knife at her employer's back. When they arrived opposite Bowman's room, the negress forgot her pay, and kneeling before the broken panels, felt about the space inside with her knife, on the chance that it would encounter her foe. Mrs. Rundel darted into an- other room and locked the door. Ralis- ing a window, she called to a boy, passing in a buggy, to send a policeman. The maid marched from the house anti strélled down Lindell boulevard. She to me that Newton J. man in the the negress door, until she Mwas arrested at Vandeventer avenue and taken to the Newstead Avenue Po- lice Station. The negress was fined $10 in Judge Tracy's court Tuesday. Bowman was arrested Monday night on her charge that he swore at her and brandished his fist in her face. Judge Tracy dis- charged him. LONDON HEARS ITALIAN KING TURNED DOWN PAPA ELKINS Virginian’s Demand for Princely Privileges Said to Have Pre- vented Marriage Agreement. Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. Copyright, 1910. by the Press Pub. Co. ‘New York World.) LONDON, Sept. 138.—The London Chronicle this morning prints the fol- lowing from its Milan correspondent: “King Victor Emmanuel was will- ing to bestow on Katherine Elkins the rank of royal princess, excluding a morganatic character of marriage to the Duke of Abruzzi as not worthy of hig cousin's wife, but he could not give princely privileges to Miss El- kins’ manded ag a condition by Senator Fl- kins before he would consent to the marriage. “Bince agreement on this point ecowld not be reached the negotiations were dropped a second time”

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ee ‘AUTO 1S HURLED 30 FEET BY TRAIN: DRIVER ESCAPES Railway. President Has Thrill- ing Escape From Death at Nameoki, IIL.

BROUGHT TO ST. LOUIS

E. M. Davis’ Machine Tossed Backward; Crashes Into One FHowing.

[Edgar M. Davis of 305 Union boule- vard, in the Pierce Builldinys, the Alton, Street Railway, manager of an insurcnce egency and president Jacksonville & Peoria haa when of a thrilling escape from death his automobile was struck by a Chicazo & Alton Railroad train at a crossing near Nameoki, IIL, at 9:30 a. m. TueSday. He was brought to St. Louis on the train, suffering only from cuts about the head and shoulder, and a shaking up, and was taken to the Washington Hotel. The Davis auto was hurled backward 30 feet and struck another automobile occupied by George Sleight and B. Lind- sey. Davis’ auto was injured. Davis was on the way to Alton, where he expected to meet a party of stockholders in the street railway com- pany for an inspection tour between Al- ‘on and Jerseyville. Mrs. Davis was to jvin her husband at Jerseyville. As the automobile approached the C. & <A. crossing near Nameoki, several box cars obscured the view of the main track and Davis did not see the ap- proaching passenger train. The engine struck the auto as it reached the mid- @le of the track and threw it into the roadway, where it struck the auto that. was following Davis. The train was stopped and Dav's was carried unconscious into a coach. He received two cuts on the hexd and .one on the left shoulder. His injuries.are not dangerous, his physicians say. The train was late, being due in St. Louis at 9:20 a. m., and was running fast to make up time, REFUSED WHISKY, LEAPS FROM SECOND STORY OF HOSPITAL Patient Who Broke Bonds to Jump Escapes With Broken ankle, Bruises. - George P. Dunning of 1408 Olive street jumped out of a second-story window at the hospital of the College of Phy- sicilans and Surgeons at Jefferson ave- nue and Gamble street at 11 o’clock Monday night. A broken ankle and bruises were the extent of his injuries. Dunnigan asked for a drink of whisky. When it was refused him he became enraged and it was necessary to tie him in his hed. The nurse attending him was called away for a few minutes. He broke his bonds and jumped from the window. He landed on his feet. Passers by assisted him into the hospital. THESE ARE COLD DAYS FOR 6. 0, P., BUT CHAMP CLARK SAYS “THEY JUST SUIT ME” THE TEMPERATURES,

Yesterday’s Temperatures, Maximum 89 at 4 p. mi. Mintmum 71 at 6 a. m. The G. O. P. is down and out ity dry and rock- ribbed Maine, and Democrats wi! { rule the State of Reed, and Halc, and Blaine; ‘twas ‘local causes,’’ we are told, yet one can make a strong guess ‘twas some- what national as we'l, since men were named for Congress, So get your mule, Champ Clark, and learn to put him through his paces; you'll ride to Can- non’s job, maybe, since Maine hag

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cut the traces. The Beef Trust barons hope to find, in those unpleasant laws which speak of penitentiaries.a few convenient flaws; fair Lina C. will levy on Bob Chan- ler's goods and chattels, and thereby start, it now appears, a line of logal battles; while Grace Van 8., through what vicissitudes of fate we ken not, ! down, we grieve to read, to her last solitary ten-spot. Official forecast: Partly cloudy weather tonight and Wednesday; nat much change in temperature, Stage of the river: 8.9 fect; a fall of 1.2 feet. Missouri and Illinole—Partly cloudy Tues- day night and Wednesday; cooler Tuesday night in extreme south portion.

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|OPERA SINGER WHOSE - CAREER ON STAGE HAS LEFT HER BANKRUPT

SSO SY EVID IMNe7 CRACE VAN STULDDIFORD.- PRIMA DONNA FUR HIRTEEN YEARS, OW HAS ONLY $10 Grace Van Studdiford Is a Bankrupt After Losing Venture on Stage. —_-¢-------

John W. Thompson, a wealthy railroad contractor, known among theatrical folk as the “angel’’ for Grace Van Studdi- ford’s comic opera company, is the chief creditor in the list filed by her with her voluntary suit in bankruptcy. She owes him $16,000, secured by a deed of trust on her country place, ‘‘Atlasta.’’ Miss Van Studdiford, who recently di- vorced Charles Van Studdiford, member of an old St. Louis family, schedules her liabilities at $20,901. She has $10 in cash, the petition recites. Thompson lives at 17 Hortense place, and has offices’,in the Wainwright Building. He told a Post-Dispatch re- porter Tuesday that he had known the Quive family for a long time—Miss Van Studdiford was Gracia Quive—and that when she organized her theatrical ven- ture she borrowed money from him just as she would from a trust company or bank, and gave him ample security. The property on which he holds a deed of trust he values at $30,000. Lawyer Is Creditor. One of Miss Van Studdiford’s creditors is Robert L. McLaran, a lawyer, who represented her when she obtained a di- vorce in record time recently at Clay- ton. She owes him $803. Miss Van Studdiford now has apart- ments in St. Nicholas avenue, New York. Her bankruptcy petition was flied Monday. The petition claims as exempt a din- ing room set of seven pieces a bedroom set of four pieces, four gowns, two coats and two hats. The debts ‘were contracted between 1903 and 1910, except the debt of Thom},- son. Miss Van Studdiford has been a prima donna since 1897, when she was singing with the Bostonians, and has made a hard fight against financial reverses. After her marriage she twice returned to the stage to recoup her fortunes. DEAD MAN GRIPS REINS OVER HORSE, DRIVES MANY MILES Body of Early Colorado Settler Upright in Buggy as Nag Ambjed On. LONGMONT, Colo., Sept. 13.—For two hours yesterday the body of John Penquite, one of Colorado's early set- tlers, sat upright in his buggy, the hands tightly gripping the ‘reins over the old family horse, which ambled down the country roads to-the Penquite home, near here. Many passers-by hailed the o'd man, but it was not discovered that he was dead until a neighbor stopped the horse to ask Penquite for a lift.

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‘BOY, FORBIDDEN 10 TOUCH PISTOL, SHOOTS. HIMSELF Young Inventor Accidentally Pulls Trigger When Mother Calls Him.

Although the parents of Brooks Rob- ingon, a mechanical and artistic prodigy of 11, years, had warned him not to touch a revolver kept in the house, at 1268 Hamilton avenue, he seized the op- portunity when they were absent from home to get possession of the p!stol and take it to his own room on the third floor. He examined the parts of the weapon, explored the cylinder, with its six cart- ridgés, and at last, with qufckening breath, cautiously raised the hammer. At that moment his mother, re-enter- ing the house, called him from the first floor. Whirling to hide the reyolver, the boy accidentally pulled the trigger and shot himself through the abdomen. fiad the bullet not spent part of its force in passing through a thick leather belt which Brooks wore, physicians believe he would have peen kliled -instantly. The § bullet stopped just below the heart, after perforating the large intestine. Sutgeons at St. Luke's Hospital have hopes of his recovery, although his condition igs grave, The boy's room is filled with mechan- ical devices, all of which he made him- self and many of which he invented. When he tired of tools he would take up brushes and pigments and paint oil colors of unusual merit for one «0 young. He Ig the son of W. 8S. Robin- son, Western rales manager for an Ohio match company. $689,000 BEQUEST IS MADE TO CORNELL BY ENGLISHMAN Testator Desires to Show Attach- ment “to Union of Two Branches of Race.” TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 13.—Cornell University receives $689,000 uncondition- ally by the will of the late Prof. Gold- wyn Smith, probated here today, in which the value of the estate is indi- cated at $832,959. “I do this,” the will says in refer- ence to the Cornell bequest, “‘to show my affection for the university at the foundation of which I had the honor of taking part; to pay respect to the memory of Ezra Cornell and to show my attachment, as an Englishman, to the union of the two branches of our race on this continent with each other and with their common mother.’’ To relatives and old servants $60,- 550 ia. given. Toronto ‘University receives Prof. Smith's library, valued at $8300. Pictures and statuary valued at $6000, go to the art museum of Toronto. The will confirtas the will of Fon xy Gold- wyn Smith, bequeathing the Grange, the Smith homestead, to the pe ot Toronto, | The succession euties bo

THREE DEALERSIN. POSTCARDS. MUST “ANSWER IN COURT. They Are hema in Post- Dispatch Exposé of In- decent hues | LIABLE TO A FINE Law Provides a $306 Penalty for the Sale of Vicious Pictures. . READY TO PROSECUTE — Falkenhainer and City Attor- ney Anderson Assist Chief. Young in Crusade. Three dealers in postcards are charged, in police court summonses issued Tues- day, with violating the law in exhibit- _ ing and selling indecent pictures, foliow- ‘ing an expose | , made by the Post- Ciypatch. They are J. J. Foster of 410 Washington avenue, a tobaceonist; M. J. stands on Broadway at Olive and Pine streets. ei, To obtain the summonses from Ay licemen Campbell and Miller exhibited to him four cards they had bonght at Foster's shop. Two of there represen - ed nude ‘water nymphs.”” Two othe « were of women partly ntde, draperies they wore being gausy. The card on which the summons was issued against Milier showed a girl in a batiing suit on the rear of a freigh+ train. That bought from Gattegno © showed a mosquito climbing a girl's lem, ~ with a suggestive line of print. summonses on the men. They will ap- pear in police court Wednesday, “~~ City Attorney Anderson, Chief of. Sei Inspector in charge here, were agreed — that, among cards bought by a Post- Dispatch reporter at five places selected at random downtown and submitted to . thern Tuesday, there were specimens — in each collection of such character as te make probable the imposition of the maximum fine of $300 against-the pro- rrieto® if they were used as evidence. Mayer's opinion was asked as an ¢x- referred to his office. Mayer recently came to St. Louls where he was associated for seven years with Anthony Comstock in his campaigns against indecency. Miller and Campbell are still at work, surnmonses. The present movement was began « by the Post-Dispatch a week ago, after the publication of «a letter signed ‘“Celtic-American,” and com- plaining against the cards sold and telling especially of their evil effect on boys and girls. bell have been at work since then. Of 10 cardS purchased at Foster's shop, City Attorney Anderson held that eight were In violation of the law. These cards were of women, in all stages of attire from nudity to scant bathing suits. The two which Anderson considered exempt were a tinted photograph of a model with a harp, and a woman in a bath- ing suit, barelegged. The harpist, ert. He observed that the match for the bathing girl might be seen on nearly any summer beach. Mayer agreed with him. Chief Young considered only two of the remaining specimens itn vio- lation of the law. He has duplicates of both. and the other of a woman draped in a sheet, or something of that sort, in 9 suggestive posture. Others Are Victous. barefooted end barelegged woman, clad with apparent view te thira was a photograph of a | clad in a robe which was the er treme of decollete, and the ivur of a bathing girl whose attitude, Two of the pictures displayed by the Weipert-Duering Drug Co., Ninth am Pine streets, are finable, in Sates drawn above their might have been a hosiery adv ment, being devoted to the Jf of four pairs of feminine legs.

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sistant City Attorney King, Special Po- A Policemen were sent out to serve the” In this — both Chief Young and Inspector , . There were four others of cnada cards which Mayer thought fmproper, Two of them were photographs of a comfort in the hottest weather. The reclining on a pier, made the picture, in Mayer's opinion, vicious. lice Young and W. 8S. Mayer, Postottios ” Chief Young says, and will ask for more : i Mille: of 927 Market street, a druggist, & ‘ and M. 8. Gattegno, proprietor of the the scant rert, objectionable mail matter being ie 4 ae from New York, © : Miller and Camp- . ee q One ts of a nude woman Anderson held, was an attempt at q