St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 16, 1912

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‘CUBAN PRESIDENT Barnacle-Crusted Battleship ~ Hearses Filled With Floral - By Associated Press. pA AVANA, March ing of the battleship Maine and with carrying to their last resting place the “bodies of many of her gallant sailors : /@fre going on here today. «a: old battleship is being sunk in ce smoke of the saluting of guns of war | Vessels serving for a funeral _ ‘while with all the pageantry and pomp of national mourning the bodies of the ington. 7 of Cubans and American - shoulders of Cuban sailors and artill- _ erymen through the streets of Havana. » A huge gullded hearse drawn by six a with magnificent flora Itributes om , x , * - } . eer ™ Father Chidwick then briefly drew a

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St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper

VOL. 64. NO. 209.

en ee ce ————— ST. ‘LOUIS, “SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1912—12 Jennceadl ~ 4 LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | Only Evening ‘Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

” PRICE ONE CENT |

FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS _ bk ITION

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PRECK OF MAINE 3 TOWED QUT 10 EA TO BE SUNK Battered Old Hulk Started to t Resting Place in Deep Water, Following Impres- _ sive Ceremonies in Havana - for Sailors Who Died on Board.

REVIEWS CORTEGE

Laden With Flowers: anu Emblems Are Contributed for Occasion.

16.—The eral rights connected with the sink- solemn waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the shroud ‘Ballors are being brought back to Wash- Amid a vast concourse of all classes citizens, the dead of the Maine were borne on the Hearse Bears Floral Tributes. and seyeral wagons were. all wed the procession, rat the last moment President Gomez “decided that he would not accompany ‘the procession to the wharf but he stood on the balcony of the palace ompanied by the members of the mily and reviewed the procession. iikban infantry lined the sidewaiks on mh h a great multitude reverently un- ered their heads as the bodies passed rom thé mortuary chamber in the pal- Be to the side of the harbor. ‘There the bodies were formally placed “the custody of officers of the United tates Navy, in the service of which had given their lives. the caskets, draped with Cuban and can flags and covered with swers, were borne out, a guard of mor saluted and all along the line, salute was continuous until the pro- sion reached the harbor. ra of Spanish-American Veterans. the harbor itself stood a guard of nor of Spanish-American war vet- and facing these was a#other ard of honor of Cuban soldiers. The was clear and warm with no wind ing and the inhabitants of Havana me out to witness the procession al- t to a man. tm his ovation, Father John P. Cale ck said: “These bodies of the Maine's seamen gacred mementoes of Cuba’s long erred hope and prayer made bright h a certainty which could not fail. poking back at the tragedy, Cuba must r regard the event as the first light » the horizon which foretold the day of her freedom and we hope of rity and happiness.”’ vid picture of the great catastrophe ad 4again denied the ofte-repeated that almost all the officers of the ne were on shore, saying: “| affirm over the bodies of these , that every officer of our ship, with exception of four, was on board vessel at the moment of the catas- sphé, and that of these four, only one a commissioned officer. If it were that the officers were on board I io not think any of our men would have sen saved.” — ‘The ceremonies were suspended until He hulk of the Maine in tow of the mR tug Osceola, and escorted by dome and Cuban warships, pro- to her last resting place. old battleship, her beneath great masses of offérings and escorted by war- belonging to the United States and the Cuban Navy was taken to sea. Under the salutes’ _ @annon from the Cabanas fortress is proceeding to find her last rest- Pisase in the unsounded depths of the of Mexico. INESSEAN URGED AS _ SUCCESSOR OF WILEY Dr. Lucius P. Brown, State Pure : hoot Expert and Democrat, Sa. Ragommended to Taft. INGTON, March 16--The ap- t of Dr. Lucius P. Brown, State poeeeeter . of Tennessee, to 4 W.. Wiley, was ah ae decks (su

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'GROCER IS SHORT BUT HOW MUCH? Customer Tangles Him in Mak- ing Change and He Is Not Sure What Loss Is. P. J. Klute of 2938 Rutger street being a& grocer and not a mathematician, has asked the police to solve a little finan- cial problem for him. A well-dressed, smooth-talking young

,man entered Klute’s store Friday even- ing and asked for a 5-cent jar of mus- tard. He gave a $10 bill in payment and upon receiving his change, remarked that he thought he had handed the gro- cer a $1 bill. “You certainly are an honest man,” he said. “You might have given me only 9% cents in change and I would not have discovered the mistake.”’ Then the customer produced a $1 bill, placed it with four of the $1 bills Klute had given hfm in change and asked the grocer if he would mind letting him have a $5 bill for the five $1 bills. Klute threw a $5 bill on the counter. “Here, I’m robbing you of all your vhange,’’ said the customer, picking up the $ bill and the five $1 bills. ‘I can do better than this. Just let me have my $10 bill back and I'll give you this $5 bill and the $1 bills.’’ Klute made the change, and the cus- tomer left the store. Later the gracer, in going over his cash, discovered a shortage. He told the policeman he was not sure, but thought he was out about $5.05. The policeman insisted Klute was shy $9, and the clerk at the Soulard street station to whom the report was made figured the shortage to be $6. LIVING SNAKES AT TONY BIDDLE FEAST

Millionaire Clubman Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day in Advance With Green ‘‘Wigglers.”’ PHILADELPHIA, March 16.—A. J. Drexel Biddle, millionaire clubman, never loved the conventional. He did not have his St. Patrick’s day feast on the Sabbath, so “‘Tony’’ gave his luncheon in advance. . And the snakes! They were the real kind—little green ones. They emerged from small green boxes and wiggled across the table. ‘The host presented two scarf pins to each of his guests; who were Charles Dalmores, Alfred Sergeant, Danfel Hutchinson III, Dr. James M. Anders, Howard Shelley, William Roecap, Joseph Hagan and Mr, Buckman. BABY IN A BARREL RESCUED FROM RIVER Well-Dressed Infant Tagged “Goodby, Willie,” Found by Raftsmen. GLASGOW, Ky., March 16.—A baby boy about 1 year old was intercepted on his voyage in a barrel down Cum- berland River today by raftsmen. The child was well-dressed and had a cosy little bed in the barrel and was seem- ingly enjoying the trip. The barrel was securely fastened to two ordinary sized sawlogs and was arranged so that the child could not in any way fall out. Pinned on its dress were the words, ‘‘Goodby, Willie.” The child was carried to a farmhouse near the river, «where kind persons are taking care of it until its mother can be located. TEXTILE WORKMEN TO REJECT PAY INCREASE

Fall River Council Wants 15 Per Cent Instead of the 5 Per Cent Promised. FALL RIVER, Mass., March 16.—The Fall River Textile Council, representing 30,000 operatives, announced today it uas virtually rejected the 5 per cent wage increase offered by the manufacturers

and has demanded a flat increase of 15 | per cent.

en WOMEN TESTIFY THEY GOT $2.50 UN LEWIS SHARES Two Witnesses Declare at Mail Fraud Trial, This Was Re- turn on $100 Put in. ADVERTISEMENTS A GUIDE Promise of 200 Per Cent ‘‘For All Time” Alleged to Have In- duced Investments. * Women witnesses at thet rial of E. G. Lewis on a charge of using the mails to defraud, testified in the United tSates court, Saturday, that they had invested their savings in Stock of the Lewis Publishing Co. in the hope of receiving 15 per cent dividends and lost their money. Mrs. A. E. Stoner, 65 years old, Montvale, Va. testified that in 1908 she sent $400 to the company to pur- ehase four of its 7 per cent notes. in December of that year she traded one of the notes to the company for one share of the preferred stock of the Lewis Publishing Co, She did this, she said, because of ad- vertisements in the Woman’s National Daily which said the company would pay a 15 per cent dividend in the follow- ing March. All she ever received, she said, was a 2% per cent dividend on the share of stock. She put in $400, and got back $2.50. ) On cross-examination she was asked whether she saw copies of the Rural New Yorker at the time that paper was attacking the Lewis enterprises. She said she did not, and added: “What I have told is just the truth.’’ Invests on Advertisement. Mrs. E. G. Hitchcock, 60 years old, of Ithaca, N. Y., testified that she bought one share of Lewis Publishing Co. pre- ferred stock in February, 1909. She did this because of an advertisement which appeared in the Woman's National Dai- ly, Jan. 26, 1909. This advertisement, as read in court, said that owing to the formation of the American Woman’s League, the com- pany was rapidly regaining its losses and would soon pay 15 per cent dividend. The advertisement further said that the starting of the Founders’ Chapter of the League would make the company so prosperous that it could pay 200 per cent dividends ‘‘for all time to come.”’ All that Mrs. Hitchcock received in re- turn for $100, she testified, was a $2.50 dividend and an interim receipt, which she has been unable to cash. Mrs, Elizabeth A. Webster of Em- erson, Neb., a farmer’s wife testified that she invested $1210 in the com-] pany'’s 7 per cent notes. Of these $900 were of the unsecuerd issue. She also bought $120 of the preferred stock. All she ever received in re- turn, she said, was $3. Her husband invested $200 in the company’s pre- ferred stock. Mrs. Webster said she didn’t pay any attention to tables of figures in the Lewis publications, but placed her faith in Lewis’ statements. Investors testifying Friday said they relied upon the truthfulness of the ad- vertisements in buying the stock. They said they’ expected to get $15 a share on the stock purchased in the fall and winter of 1908 and 1909, but got only a 2% per cent. dividend instead, and had never received anything else in the way of earnings on their investments. Questioned as to Circulars, The three witnesses who testified Fri- day were questioned closely by Lewis’ attorneys as to whether they had re- ceived letters or circulars from post- office inspectors. Two of the witnesses, J. C. Bertsch of Parsons, Kan., and William C, Ritter of McComb, O., said they had received communications from the postoffice inspectors stating that

i Continued on Page 2, Column 5. greater than 4 Here is the way the local merchants distributed their advertising yesterday, Friday: Post-Dispatch, 71 columns All four of its competitors com- WRN. odie cs 2 70 columns Judicious advertising is the business builder. The big successful stores to the judicious use of advertising. in St. Louis are monuments ‘* Judicious’’ adver- tising is advertising that is placed with mediums of established cireulation and pulling power. Mediums where all possible customers in the advertisers’ field will see it. This is the reason our local merchants always give the lion’s share of their adverfising to the POST-DISPATCH. All advertisements placed in the POST-DISPATCH are read by the buying public. advertising, This is ‘‘judicious’’ and it pays.

Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. JUNIORS ARE BEST REE CLIMBERS IN GIRLS GLASS WAR High Strung Pennants Make For- est Park University Battle a Draw. JUNIORS IN THE MINORITY

Underclass Makes a Game 3-Day Struggle to Protect the Green. Seniors and juniors, arrayed under banners of yellow and of green, re- struggled for supremacy, Saturday, in the closing day of the annual class battle at Forest Park University, Mrs: Anna Sneed Cairns’ school for young women. Forty-two pretty maidens who, barring ‘“flunks,” will be graduated this year were determined that.at 6 p. m: there should not be a green flag on the campus or in adjacent terri- tory. Twenty-six equally attractive warriors were just as determined that not a shread of yellow should be in sight when the appointed time of peace should come. Juniors Best Tree Climbers. The honors apparently were about even. Although by reason of their larger army, the senfors had planted yellow flags in every section of the campus, the juniors had proved to be better climbers and had tied their ban- ners to the topmost twigs of trees where the dignified fourth-year students did not dare to go. The juniors, however, were shocked to observe, when they had finished break- fast, that an effigy of their president, Miss Annie Brown, was suspended by a yellow cord from the cross arm of a telephone pole. Miss Gertrude Schnaid- er, the vice-president, climbed the pole, cut down the effigy and began destroy- ing senior flags. Miss Nell Peasley, president of the seniors, went to the rescue with two aids and a lively mixup followed. Street Car Decorations a Coupe. When, during a lull in the battle, the majority of the juniors decided to go Cowntown, they were further huniiliated to discover that every street car pass- ing the place carried a yellow flag on its trolley bar. A delegation of the seniors had obtained from Capt. Mc- Culloch permission to decorate each car with their colors. The juniors, never- theless, found some consolation in the fact that. six of their flags were dis- played on the campus, while the seniors had been able to keep only three in place. The class battle started Thursday afternoon while the juniors were at a reception with Mrs. Cairns. Taking advantage of the situation, the seniors tied their colors to every attainable mast, tree, pole and wire around the university. The juniors lost no time in meeting the defi. SUES Tht PARENTS UF HER HUSBAND FOR ALIENATION Mrs. Henry Bearman Seeks to Recover $50,000 From: Samuel! Bearman and Wife. spectively,

Mrs. Irene Bearman, who renounced Catholicism and embraced the Jewish faith for love of Harry Bearman, a shoe dealer at 1409 Market street, filed suit for $50,000 Saturday against her hus- band’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Bearman of 4462 McPherson avenue, al- leging alienation of her husband's affec- tions. Mrs. Bearman’s brief petition § says that she was married July 18, 1911, and that she and Bearman separated Dec. 16, 1911. She alleges that her parents-in-law deprived her of the love and affection of her husband. Bearman filed a divorce suit two months ago, alleging desertion. Philip Miller, father of a girl who al- leged she was jilted by Bearman, has a damage suit pending against Bearman’s father. “MILLIONAIRE KID” IN CLEVELAND JAIL Clerk at $60 a Month Held on Charge of Getting $49,420 by Padding Payrolls. CLEVELAND, Mareh 16.—John ¢c Jurgens, the “Millionaire Kid,” indicteg by the grand jury on a charge of pad- ding the payrolls of the Norcross c¢om- pany, @ marble concern with which he formerly was employed as clerk at $6 a month, to the extent of $4,420 was brought bere today “from Hammond,

ca Ird., where he Was afrested Thursday and gr sta irs ananpeams

i. By i ee id hee ‘has ae fa Yar e 4 ej Faas ie” fat Se a i as Ne “4 EY eee oe stead of tacking she kept straight — ahead with her bow pointed toward » the liner, a The man at the wheel of the Oceatlk blew four blasts and turned the liner off her- course, but the move, wae made too late. German Boat Aids Rescue, a Ea The Pisagua, forging through the ; water at nine-knot speed, struck the — Oceana amidships, tearing a hole in her side. Téng of water began pour- ing into the hold of the Oceana, while the Pisagua heeled over, with her bow crumpled up Ike an accordion. As quickly as possible the Pisagua was brought up into the wind, while the German boat prepared to send boats to the sinking liner. Be Sec Lifeguards patrolling Beachy ee heard the crash, and immediately a put out in boats from the New Haven ms life saving station. = FAIR AND WARMER, CLOUDS FOR SUNDAY ad “a

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