St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 2, 1911

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LITTLE WAIF HAS “WHOOPING COUGH INBOYLE MANSION Lindell Boulevard for Days Has Been Wondering Why | the Red Sign on Home of. | When No Children “Were Known to. Late Judge, “Live There. ae BOYLE TOOK ~BOY FROM ORPHANAGE

3 Doctors in Attendance on Bright Lad Who Seems to Come of Good Breeding— All Expenses Met by Lady -. Bountiful.

NOTICE WHOOPING COUGH in This House KEEP OUT This notice has been placed here -by order of the Health Commission- er and can only be removed by an officer of the Health Department. CAUTION: All persons, except members of the family, physicians and nurses are prohibited from en- tering-this house. If it is found that persons violate the above rules, the Health Commissioner will exercise the power given him by {| charter and ordinance to have the | patient removed to the Contagious ;

_ Disease Ward of the City Hospital. ‘ ‘The presence of this Health Depart- ment placard in red letters on the front door of- the late Judge Wilbur F. Boyle's residence, at 5035 Lindell boule- - ard, opposite Forest Park, has led to s revelation of a wealthy woman's Wevotion to a homeless little boy. It was known that since Judge Boyle's

aaah three months ago, the only mem- ber of the family living in the home Miss Sidnéy Emeline -Boyle, called by her elose friends Miss Lena Boyle. ~The mystery became deeper when it Was rioted that Miss Boyle went about as usual and all of the servants were on duty. - Neighbors have been asking: . “Who has whooping cough at the Boyle home?” 4-Year-Old Orphan Patient, ‘The answer to this question could not bs obtained from Miss Boyle, but from Yersons who are familiar with her ¢har- itable undertakings it was learned Fri- day that the whooping cough patient is: Lloyd Frank, a 4-year-old orphan whose _ politeness and evidences of good breeding won Miss Boyle’s admiration, and whose @..tferings aroused her sympathy when vahe wvisited the headquarters of the Children’s Home Socte:y at 4447 Mar- | eretta avenue three weeks ago. Lloyd at that time had recently had typhoid fever and was suffering from ufier effects in t and “growth in the nose, which if unchecked wometimes affects the brain and charges child's. moral nature, often causing shape of a slight - & good child to become had. ...Miss Boyle has not decided whether she will legally adopt: Lieyd, but she is “eager that he have the best medical “gttention which her large fortune will -atford, and he is now under the care of three physicians, all specialists. First Sent to Bethesda. . On Miss Boyle's order the boy was “first taken to the Bethesda Home at “Bpring and Vista avenues. He had been - there only a short time under the care of Dr. E. W. Saunders when he devel- oped whooping cough. As there were -~peveral scarlet fever cases in the con- ~~ taglous Ward, he could not remain at » Tig. Bethesda, ie and Mrs. Roger Hayne, who do cegmeh charitable work among children, took him to their home at 1601 South _ Grand avenue, where Dr. Saunders also ‘Vives. Miss Boyle paid all of the medical _ #xpenses, and two weeks ago, when =Shovee. condition had greatly improved, _. she had him removed to her own home. eo : wines K Three Physicians Care for Him. He has been, under the constant care Dr. Saunders; Dr. Mary McLean of Delmar boulevard and Dr. Greenfield Bitder of 342 Washington avenue. hy @octors and others who have seen : ? av have been greatly impressed Tris deautiful bearing and hid well- matience In the face of suffering. oyle will not discuss the pres- the boy in her home and ex- s. that the charitable act hich she thought to keep secret had ; tisctoned by the red placard on the

irk Wine Yale Art Prizes. W HAVEN, Conn., June 2.~The ee afnounces that J, H. . a student from Anitab, Tur- winner of the Ethel Child adenoids, a glandular] ]BOY WHO WAS SAVED BY TROLLEY FENDER

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pol < SOLOMON. tie TBIN DOUBLE-HEADER IS EXCUSE FOR SLEEP Policeman Declares Extra Tour of Duty Was Responsible ,; When Caught Napping. Having been shifted from the first to the second platoon, Patrolman Arthur C. Smith of the Dayton Street District had to work 16 hours in a stretch, And at 11 p. m. Thursday he was tired. He was waiting for the relieving squad at Vandeventer avenue and Natural Pridge road, when a large stone attract- ed his attention. He sat down and soon was asleep. Sergr. Thomas O’Meara, in charge of the relieving platoon, did not see Smith, and after an hour’s search reported his absence to Lieut... Walsh. A messenger was sent to Smith’s home, 5324A Patton avenue,, but Smith was not there. At 1:50 a. m. Smith telephoned the sta- tion. “I’ve been asleep,’’ he said. *“T sat down on a rock hear the Nationa! League Baseball Park and before I knew it I was out.’”’ “Napping at the base, eh?’’ remarked Walsh. “Well, I played a double-header, you kneow,”’ replied Smith. “I was on the 7 to 3 watch yesterday and in the after- neon I was shifted to the 3 to 11 watch. I was tired out.” “Come to the clubhouse—I mean the j station, and make a report,” ordered Walsh.

TWO BABIES ARE

SAVED FROM DEATH UNDER CAR WHEELS Little Girl Rescued After Motor- man Wrecks Trolley by Sudder Stop.

‘BOY CAUGHT IN FENDER

Broken Finger, Is Only Injury After MAP one Hits Him 5 te A United Railways motorman Friday saved a baby girl's life by stopping that it early stood on end and passengers were afternoon his car so suddenly turown out of their seats. This prompt rescue followed the almost equally quick | work of another motorman who dropred | his fender and picked up a boy. Mary of John Loretta of 3825 Kossuth av- enue, ran in front of a-westbound Lee avenue car. Motorman Michael Sterpa iad no time to drop his fender when he saw the child on the track. He did the only thing that remained. Putting on his emergency brakes he stopped the car in a flash. Horrified_ spectators saw the child roll under the car. The sudden stop caused the front of the car to plunge downward and plow up the dirt so that it was imp@ssible to see what had befallen the child after she disappeared. Many believed her dead. 7 A hydraulic sack was used to lift the car. Mary was found seated between the rails. The car had stopped just be- fore the trucks reached her and she was practically unhurt. Dr. G. L. Thompson found only a few small bruises on her face and shoulders. Sterpa lives only half a block from the child’s home, and she always waved to him as he passed her house. He was in an agony of suspense’ until the lift- ing of the car revealed the fact that his baby friend still lived. F'our-year-old Solomdh Eckstein of 2101 Carr. street owes his life to Motorman Gecrge M. Grimshaw of the Naturd! Bridge line. Grimshaw dropped the fen- der and reversed his car after * had run down the~child. “oom een Solomon, with only a broken finger aria bruised back to indicate his narrow escape from death, held a reception for svmpathetic neighbors at his home Fri- day and lisped his praise for the big man with the blue coat. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Fannie Eck- stein, took him with her when she went across the street to visit Mrs. Ida Barnholtz Thursday afternoon. While the women were talking, Solomon slipped from the house and started back home Loretta, 21-months-6id daughter

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HOLD-UP MEN USE ELECTRIC FLASH TQ DAZZLE VICTIM Rob Robert C. Wright of $19 and Watch on Dark Winder- ’ mere Road. YARDS FROM HOME Unlighted Street Gives Thugs Chance to Escape After Man’s Pockets Are Rifled. 100

In the deep darkness of Windermere road, an unlighted private street in the residence district, Robert C. Wright of 30 Windermere place was stopped by two men at 10:45 p. m.,, and was robbed of $19 and his Cabanne Thursday, watch. Wright, Wright, who is the son of John Ef. president of the T. Wright & Co. Cigar Co., was within 100 yards of his home at the time of the robbery. Windermere way, runs north from Delmar boulevard, leads into Windermere road, which ex- tends to Windermere place. Wright was half-way between Von Versen and Clemens avenue when the two men stepped out of an alley and one gave the order: “Hold up your hands.,’’ “O, very well,’’ replied Wright, whose first thought was that the two were joking youths of the neighborhood. But he @id not obey the command. A flashlight dazzled him, and a voice growled in his ear: “Say, we're out for business. up now, or we'll plug you.” Then Wright saw a revolver in the man’s hand, and he did as he was told. A moment later, as he saw his purse and watch drop into the other high- wayman’s pocket, the man with the re- volver ordered him to keep his hands up and walk straight ahead. Wright looked back after going a short distance, but the men hed van- ished. He said Friday that he could not describe the men accurately. He valued the watch at:$40. 100,000 TO SING AMERICA DENVER, Colo., June 2.—The Na- tional anthem sung on the streets of Denver by 100,000 persons, wil] be one of the features of the “Safe and Sane” Fourth of July celebration planned for this city. ; A great street parade, in which floats representing all nations, will take part, will stop at the tolling of the bell in the tower of a downtown department store, and the crowds in the streets, every member of which will be provided with the words of “My Country, ’Tis of Three,” will unite- in singing, Put ’em

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of this year. Republic

POST-DISPATCH Globe=-Democrat...... Post-Dispatch - - Globe-Democrat, Republic and 101 Times combined............e0e8: ‘‘ Advertising that pays grows, Advertising that grows pays.” Here follows-- the number of columns of legitimate bona fide paid advertising carried by the St. Louis newspapers during the first five months all added together. What’s the answer? In the matter of St. Louis merchants’ Thursday, the POST-DISPATCH performed its usual stunt of carry- ing more advertising than its three nearest competitors—the Globe- Democrat, Republic and Times ay all added together. 102 First in Everythin g. l 7,048 columns ......-10,355 columns - ......-6,400 Columns WHOS ck oe hk. nn boca sss» O6944 columns ia te abcics epee Colum The above figures show that the, POST-DISPATCH equaled its two nearest competitors, the Globe-Democrat and Republic, com- bined, and is greater than the Republic, Times and Star advertising yesterday, columns columns Circulation books open to all.

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| *-by his angry captors, MEMPHIS LYNGHES NEGRO PRISONER Prisoner Taken From Deputies

After He Had Been Saved From Being Beaten.

PLANTER’S WIFE ACCUSER

Fifty Men Hang Their Victim and Then Ride Around and Shoot at Body.

Specia! to the Post-Dispatch. MEMPHIS, Tenn., a negro charged with attempting to at- tack Mrs. H. L. Whitsington, wife of a young cotton planter at White Haven, rear Memphis, was hanged by a mob of 00 men half a mile beyond the city limits late last night, and his body was riddled with their bullets as it swung from a limb of a roadside tree. Mrs. Whitsington telephoned to her husband before he got home about the negro’s act, after a yard hand had driven Crump away, and he notified the Sheriff. A deputy’s posse arrested the negro and was on the way to the Mem- phis jail with him when the mob, com- posed of farmers about White Haven, overtook them on the outskirts of town, just as the negro was about to be placed on a street car, and took him Three Deputies in Charge. Three men, sworn in as deputies by Justice W. S. Knight, had the negro in charge, and they said afterward that they supposed they were beyond danger of a mob. They met several armed men on the pike, who did not offer to molest them. These men proved to be scouts for the main body of the mob. The deputies went on, unsuspecting. Presently the whole body of the mob, all the men being. mounted, galloped uy» and with leveled weapons demanded the negro. The deputies surrendered him. One of the men, who had provided himself with a stout rope, lassoed the negro with it, and thus, surrounded he was walked half a mile to an oak tree deemed sultable for the lynching. As his body swung from a limb, members of the mob galloped about it and riddled as with shots. ._Some of the men in thé mob aisarnie’ the three deputies and took them in an opposite direction from that taken by the main body, then returned’ their weapons with, instructions to continues their journey alone. Life Once Was Saved. Justice Knight says that he saved the negro’s life just after he was caught, when enraged farmers had him almost clubbed to death, before the Justice and the deputies arrived. This was the first lynching In Mem- phis or this immediate vicinity in 30 years. TIN CAN. ROUNDUP TO BEAUTIFY CITY East St. Louis: Merchant Would Offer Prizes for Big Collections. The goats of East St. Louis will have a hard timfe getting a living if Rudolph Schaefer’s plan to rid the city of the tin can nuisance becomes effective. He proposes to offer $75 worth of bi- cycles as prizes to the boys who gather the greatest number of tin cans from

J} alleys and side streets. Chief of Police Thompson said Friday he would con- sult Dr. Short, Health Commissioner, and Street Commissioner Wuersch, and if they approved Schaefer’s plan he would take steps to select several va- cant lots as depositories for the cans. After the cans are collected they will be used for building streets in the low sections of the city, or sold to dealers. Several East St. Louis streets have tin- can foundations. Schaefer is a bicycle dealer. SHERIFF TO SELL FAMOUS PAINTING Picture of De Moss Estate, Long Lost, Was Found in City“ Art Museum. Sheriff Nolte, by order of the Circuit Court, will offer for sale at the court- house, June 6, a famous painting, known ax the ‘“‘imbarkation of Emigrants at Antwerp.” The painting, by Edgar Farasyn, a Belgian, belongs to the estate of Joseph S. de Moss. {t has been on exhibition in varidus art galleries for years, and its where- abouts was unknown to heirs of the estate. Recently one of them saw it in the St. T.oculs Art Museum, after which suit for its recovery was begun. The court di- rected that the painting be sold. The proceeds will be distributed among the De Moss heirs. UNIVERSITY CASHIER ROBBED OF $13,992 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 2.—Jo-

D. Bren, cashier and accountant of seph the State University, was held up by three highwaymen on the banka, of the River near the university this morning and robbed of $13,826, which | he was carrying in a satchel. =r mA - = OL Mild

June 2.—Pat Crump, | IGARY DECLARES NATION MUST SUPERVISE TRUSTS, _ EVEN SET THEIR PRICES

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COUPLE WANT FOR CASH THAT'S GONE, CAN'T ET MARRIEB Man..Who Rents. a Home’ to Them Disappears and Doesn’t Bring Back the Change.

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When Mrs. Frances Waytus and N. Boroivicz of East St. Louis decided to get married they had not reckoned with Illinois laws and confidence men. They went to the marriage licenge office Thursday and made application for a permit to marry. When Clerk Leon Smith found that Mrs. Waytus har been divorced a month ago he re- fused the license, as a divorced person cannot marry in Illinois until a year elapses. , “Oh, very well,” Mrs. Waytus said, ‘‘we will go over to St. Louis, where they don’t have foolish laws, and get married.”’ On their way they decided to find a boarding house before being married. Seeing a sign on Collinsville avenue, they stopped to investigate. An obliging man, who represented himself as the proprietor of the board- ing house, showed them the rooms They agreed to take one at $6 a month and handed him a $10 bill to change. “I will have to run out and get this changed,”” the man said. Mrs. Waytus and Boroivicz waited two hours: for him to return. Then they reported to the police that all their wedding money had been stolen and that they could not get married unless they recovered it.

WARMER WEATHER AND CLEAR SKIES THE TEMPERATURES.

“I wonder when they'll call me,” said the haber- dasher. S “For wh at?” asked the butcher. “To tell what I know about the trusts.’’ “Oh, I guess you're safe on that score.” “Well, they’re calling Gates and PERHAPS THE. REPUBLICAN SHIP NP YFEDS a

Gary and those other magnates.” ; “But you're not in their class.” ‘‘Maybe not, but I'm in on some- thing that I know a good deal about. I have inside in- formation.”

“That's right. I own ten shares of United Railways common, and they let me, in on the ground floor of a car) every time I. give them a nickel.”

Official forecast for St. Louts: Fair temperature TAKES FARE QUI F MAN'S HIDE, AND IS FINED $10 ‘Conductor Has No Right to: Use Fists Even Though Invited, Police Court Ruling.

If a passenger cangot find his trans- fer in his pocket8, the conductor !s not allowed to try and pick the fare out of the passengers’ hide, even on the invitation,, Judge Sanders Dayton Street Police passenger’s decided in the Court Friday. Edward Leonard, 1070 seadlaneont ave- nue, conductor on the Union line, told Judge Sanders that John Condon, 2455 Plover avenue, boarded his car at 3 a. m. on the morning of May 22, and tak- ing a stand on the back platform be- gan to search his pockets for a trans- fer. When Leonard had collected the other fares he says he asked Condon, “Did you find it?” “No,” he said Condon replied, “‘it isn’t in my pockets. You'll have to take it out of my hide.’’ Leonard tried hard to get it out of Candon’s hide. He Knocked him off the platform, followed him into the street and took an even dozen punches, while Condon came back but once. Condon told Judge Sanders th”* he did not say anything about | . sing for the fare in his hide, but when he could not find the transfer offered the conductor a $5 bill. He said the con- ductor became enraged at the sight of so much money. Judge Sanders fined the conductor $15. PASTOR GOW STARTS TO SERVE FOUR YEARS

Minister Was Convicted on the Accusation of a School Teacher Who Died. JEFFERSON CITY. June 2—The Rev. Clyde Gow, who was received at the penitentiary early in the week, was today assigned to work in the ehapel under supervision of Chapiain Martin. Gow was sentenced from Lincoln County to serve four years in the peni- tentiary for caumng the death of Miss Lizzie Gleason, a school teacher of Els- berry, Mo., as the reshit of an opera- tion. He filed a motion as a poor per- son in Division No. 2 of the Supreme ‘Court today for @ rehearing. This di- vision of the court affirmed Gow's sen- tence some ten days ago.

3 STEEL MEN OF WHOLE WORLD 1 DISCUSS TRADE ~ = Corporation » Chief Says nd WASHINGTON, June 2—mibert Gary, chief executive officer ots United States Steel Corporation, r ing his testimony before the ‘Steel Trust” Investigating Cc today, denounced the Sherman. |trust law as archaic and decile: governmental control ot. which he favored, Seoul Ww come. change and would be alad it he dictate the prices of steel. ee In explanation of the reported worlds wide “‘trust” Mr. Gary said that. a conference would be held in Bruss * Jily 5 and 6 next to organize an Inti national Steel Institute similar t American Iron & Steel Institute. T latter, he asserted, was formed to p vent demoralization in trade and permit an exchange of ideas for t betterment of the steel industry. In no instance, Mr. Gary sala, h there been any attempt at an unia ful combination or an.expressed or bl plied agreement. Mr. Gary said he would do all : could, morally and legally, to furth. the proposed international institete. Increased prices are to be charged {& steel rails in the near future, accordin: to Mr. Gary. Higher cost of labor aon raw material, together with a @ for heavier rails, was given as the son for the proposed advance. ; Must Control Even Prices. Soon after the committee met tc Mr. Gary declared that enforced licity and Government céntrol of corpa ations must cume, even as to prices. © gaid he believed the Sherman anti- law was too archaic to deal with modef situations and never could fully prew great combin&tions capital. What the United tes Steel Cr ration wanted, he said, was some sponsible and official development . government to whom it could go say “what prices.can we charge just what can we do?” “Personally I believe the act,” sala Mr. Gary, ‘does not ue and never will fully prevent the Gi ganising of great combinations | ot copital. I believe we must come . enforced publicity and 0 : contro] of corporations.” - “Do you mean Government ¢ to prices?” Mr. Stanley asked.