St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 7, 1912

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pes rs > 7 i AS co eee ae 'Mare Than Four tua Post- agg oo Want Ad House, Home and ~ ge require the usual added together rid make the comparison—the count: Last week’ Post-Dispatch .... Globe-Democrat. Republic.....-+.+. Times. see eeeaveee p_ Star... -222r0ee + ALL «nana ewes ++ 8753 | ‘four’ rat fouls POST-DIS — Only | Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. VOL. 64. NO. 261. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY var MAY 7, 1912—20 PAGES: ——————— BUDGET PROVIDES FOR FREE HAULING OF ASHES BY GITY $125,000 to Be Available for Collection of Furnace Ref- use, a Move Long Advo- cated by the Post-Dispatch —Service to Be Started Next October—$25,000 to Purchase Equipment. DELEGATES ASK AUTO, @ary expenditures, of an DELAY THREATENED $10,000,000 Appropriation to Run City Departments Likely to Be Held Up for Time Because Taussig Re- fuses to Endorse Request for a Motor Car. The appropriation budget pre- pared by Comptroller Taussig with the approval of the Ways and Means Committees of the Municipal As- sembly includes an appropriation of $125,000 to pay the expenses of mu- nicipal ash hauling. The necessity for making this ap- propriation has been persistently urged by the Post-Dispatch in its editorial and news columns. There is little doubt felt at the city hall that the appropriation bill will be passed practically as draw) up by the Comptroller and that with- in a few months the city will haul all ashes, as it now hauls garbage. : Of the amount set aside $25,000 will be expended for wagons and $100,000 for the actual hauling. The | Sareet Department will be ready to collect and haul ashes next October. First Appropriation. A bill requiring the city to haul ashes which was fathered by Council- man FEspenchied, was passed in the Municipal Assembly more than two years ago, but this is thé first time an appropriation for that purpose has been made. Members of the House of Delegates are tureatening to hoid up all avpro- priation bills, thereby depriving the city of the use of $10,000,000 fur neces- unless Comptroller Taussing will consent to the purchase automobile for the use of the delegates. ' - Comptroller Taussig has the $15,000,000 and $334.000 additional to appropriate for the city’s uses, but he says the oHuse of Delegates does not need an automo- bile. | der. Members of the House of Delegates direct issue with the comptrol- They assert that they need an au- tomobile to make junkets around the city and to East St. Louis to inspect the numerous proposed free bridge ap- proach sites, and to ride home in on rainy nights, to say nothing of an occa- sional pleasure trip to the county re- take . Borts. Their need for an automobile is so pressing, they asserted Tuesday, that they intended to hold up the Comptrol- lér’s appropriation bill until he con- sents to give them a car. The 5000 em- ployes of the city have not yet received their April salaries, and can get no money until the House of Delegates gets its auto. Council Turned Down, Comptroller Taussig provided money for about 20 automobiles for other de- partnmients which needed them, he said. The Council also made a demand for an automobile, but was turned down just like the House of Delegates. The Coun- Cilmen viewed the situation differently from the House of Delegates. and said they would vote to pass the bill. The appropriation bill was agreed upon by Comptroller Taussig and the Ways and Means Committees of the House of ‘Delegates and Council Monday. | | / The appropriation is $700,000 in excess ‘oft the appropriation bill of last year. It car- ries with it sufficient money to defray all the expenses of the city government until April, 1913. In ‘the face of the increased appropriations for practically all city departments ‘Comptroller Taussig was able to hold the tax rate to $2.22. This was done by decreasing the municipa) revenue tax 8 reents and the sinking fund tax 1 cent. This reduction enabled the Comptroller to provide for the 2 cents tax for the State capitol and 2 cents for the City Art Museum without increasing the tax rete. The Hospital Department was allowed $115,000 in excess of last year's appro- priations; the Street Department $100,000, and other departments accordingly. A apecial appropriation of $162,000 was allowed to the Park Department for extensive improvements, For rec. reation fields, baseball and tennisa grounds and public golf links tin For- est Park an appropriation of $15,000 wee meade, Eight new baseball dia- | mond» will be provided, and 32 adai- tennis courts. asive athletic grounds will be at the foot of art hill, and seats - ow ope sepnangmp 2. P, 4 : oe oe 4; > |] POPLAR BLUFF CHILD HURT BY RUNAWAY TEAM Murillo Portrait. MARY DALTON, BALL GAME TODAY President to Spend Entire Day in Cincinnati in Recreation, Without Speechmaking. CINCINNATI, May 7.—President Taft, for the first time in several weeks today cast aside the cares of office and wor- ries of the political stump and enjoyed a day of recreation and rest. A di- versified program was mapped out for on it. In the morning the President held-an informal reception for his many friends here. In the afternoon he occupied a box at the Cincinnati-Philadelphia base- ball game. In the evening the President will attend the opening of the Cincinnati May musical festival and while it is the custom.of both himself and Mrs. Taft to remain through the musical season, he will be able to attend only the opening night, the political campaign through Ohio necessitating the cutting short of his stay here. Mrs. Taft, however, will remain to the end of the festival. WEST END BURGLAR LEAVES LOOT IN YARD Thief Takes Jewelry While Mrs. C. K. Garrison Is at Dinner, Then Is Scared Away. After stealing a coral jewelry set and a gold watch from a chiffonier drawer in Mrs. C. K, Garrison’s home at 6628 Von Versen avenue Monday night a burglar put them in one of Mrs. Garrison's stockings, When he was scared away he dropped | tite Stocking and jewelry in the rear yard and it was recovered by the police. Mrs. Garrison, a woman friend and her maid were at dinger when they heard someone walking on the sec- ond floor. Slipping out the front door, Mrs. Garrison ran to a _ neighbor’s house and telephoned the police. She thinks the burglar saw her and fled, When she returned to the house she found her bedroom had been ran- sacked. A basement window was found open. FALLS 40 FEET, BRUISED City Hospital Physicians Can Find No Serious Injury. John Lamping, 38 years old, a carpen- ter residing at 4634 Michigan avenue, feil about 40 feet from a building at 9 a. m. Tuesday, and suffered only two slight bruises on the head, so far as city hos- pital physicians could decide. Lamping was putting roof joists on a three-story building at 1405 Washington avenue. He said he did not understand what caused him to fall. The physi- cians added, ‘‘possible internal injuries’’ to his diagnosis, and held him a while to be sure he was not seriously hurt. SURVIVES 135-FOOT LEAP Chauffeur Jumps From. Bridge and Has Chance to Recover. NEW YORK, May 7.—Charles McFar- land, a despondent chauffeur, slipped by the police guard on the roadway of Brooklyn Bridge today and plunged over the rail into the water, 135 feet below. Sailors on a passing tugboat. hauled him, unconscious, aboard and brought him ashore. Hf shoulder was fractured and he suffe from internal injuries. He may recover. I et ne A ee we mame -_— me me Every Day Counts To the person who has rooms to rent. If a roomer can be found tomorrow rather than next week more than the cost. of the advertising is gained. Lose a whole week and the loss is many times the 45c or 60e that a Post-Dispatch want ad would cost for three or four daily insertions. Can you afford to lose a single day ? Circulation more than 170,000 daily. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper RS he ’ ; Seth him, official business having no place’ CHILDREN HURT BY HORSES; SPECIAL TRAN TAKES AD Runaway Team ; Dashed Into Pony Cart at Poplar Bluff— Work Cars Impressed. MAKES A MILE A MINUTE Surgeon Hurried 16 Miles May Be Able to Save 13-Year-Old Girl and 4-Year-Old Boy. — Special to the Post-Dispatch. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., May 7.—A run- away team of horses dragging @ wagon, tongue between them, crashed into the pony cart of Mary Dalton, 13 years old, daughter of James L. Dalton, president of the Dalton Adding Machine Co., and dangerously wounded her and two young companions. Her condition is critical this morning as is that of Max Hathaway, 4year-old grandson of Supt. Webster of the Dalton factory. Mary Mackenzie, 14-year-old daughter of a department store official, suffered only a lacerated arm and bruises. A work train of the Iron Mountain Railroad was impressed to bring Dr. Victor Cadwell, a surgeon, from Neely- ville, 16 miles away. The train, which had started on its regular journey, was halted and turned around, and with the physician aboard and instructions to make the highest possible speed, the engine and four cars loaded with negro workmen plunged on the home trip. Including the start, the trip of the freight and its load required just 17 minutes. Part of the way a speed great- er than a mile a minute was attained. Mary Dalton was scalped, a horse’s hoof or the wagon tongue striking her and splitting the skin across her eyes, nose and head. She suffered other in- juries, severe bruises and ‘cuts, but phy- sicians are hopeful that she may recov- er. Max Hathaway was badly hurt on the head, the first belief being that his skull was fractured. His condition is dangerous. Mary Mackenzie’s arm was torn and she was badly bruised.’ Little Mary Dalton recently appeared in St. Louis at an office appliance con- vention as an expert demonstrator on the adding machine. GIRL LEAVING DOCTOR STRUCK BY A CAR Miss Caroline Weber, Arm Broken, Patient of Dr. Gauen, on Whom She Called. Miss Caroline Weber, a stenographer, 20 years old, was run down by a street car almost at the door of the home of a physician, with whose family she had been visiting. Miss Weber was struck Monday even- ing as she crossed the street in front of Dr. O. G. Gauen’s residence, 815 North Jefferson avenue. She had stopped to visit the Gauens while on her way from her place of employment at Grand ave- nue and Lindell boulevard to 1918 Col- lege avenue, where she resides with her two sisters. The car hurled Miss Weber to the pavement, breaking her left arm, bruis- ing the left side of her head and injur- ing her internally. She was carried un- conscious into a barber shop and later transferred by Dr. Gauen to his home. Her condition was such that it was deemed advisable to take her home. SLIGHTLY COOLER; FAIR WEDNESDAY THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday's Temperatures. High. .S1 at 4 p. m. Low. .@7 at 5 a. m. “I see the tax —— rate isn't going to |PETTER NOT be raised,”” said PUT THOS & ; WINTER FLAN- Jiggs at the NELS A breakfast table. vex WAY JUST “The city will have revenue enough without passing around the hat.”’ “Trimmed with violets and pan- f sies and nile green chiffon bows,” mused Mrs. Jiggs. “And there is a prospect that the city will be greajs- ly benefited by that decision in the Terminal suit.”’ “Of tailored shepherd plaid with fac- ‘ings of dark blue serge.” “I don't believe you were listening to me, at all,” “O, yes, T was. Didn't you say some- this about hats and suits?” Official forecast for St, Louis and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly cooler tonight. Stage of the river: 24.8 feet; a fall of .4 of a foot, oe ang Illinclse—Generall Wednesday, slightly erally. far eaten: jotghe and w “2° CHARLES SUTTER IS SUED BY WATER GURIST FOR $300 Miss Susan Davis Says He Visited Her 35 Times at Planters, Tak- ing Lesson Each Time. CHARGE IS $10 AN HOUR She Added $160 to Bill and Tes- tifies He Paid $200—lIdenti- fies Instructions. ns ppc an casa taaeal Miss Susan Lawrence Davis, the “water cure” instructor who recent- ly got judgment against Mrs. Paul Bakewell Jr., for a fee, appeared be- fore Justice Kleiber Tuesday morning as plaintiff in a suit agairfst Charles Sutter, an electrical engineer (and contractor, for $300 which she claims is a balance due for professional services. Miss Davis, who wore a rough straw sailor hat and a linen crash suit, testi- fied that she gave Sutter 35 hours’ in- struction in “personal hygiene’ between May and July 16, 1911, and when he started on a trip to South America she gave him written instructions. She said that her minimum charge for 10 hours’ instruction or treatment at her apartments in the Planters Hotel, an hour at a time, was $100. Sutter, she said, was so much interested that he visited her 35 times for instruction. $100 Paid, $100 as a Gift. For this .she charged htm, she said, $250, and for the written instructions she added $150 to his bill. Sutter paid her $50 at the first treatment, Miss Da- vis testified, and $50 June ll. On July 15, she said, her patient gave her $100 as a gift, but she applied this on the bill for $500, thus leaving $300 still due. On cross-examination by Attorney John T. Fitzsimmons, the defendant’s counsel, Miss Davis said she was not a licensed physician and had not held herself out as such. She was a gradu- ate of the University of Ohio, she said, and took the medical course there, but did not get a medical di- Ploma. She said she taught in south- western colleges for 25 years before she took up the practice and teach- ing of the personal hygiene system founded by Emma H. Townsend of Corsicana, Tex, Fitzsimmons asked her if she taught the system to applicants as pupils or to restore health. She replied that she taught it for both purposes, and that Sutter took each course. She identified a vest-pocket memorandum book of in- structions given Sutter as to his bath- ing and diet. Says She Called at Office. Sutter testified that he was suffering from a billious attack in May of last year, and that some of his friends who knew of Miss Davis suggested that he take her treatment. Miss Davis called at his office in the Carleton Building, he said, and discussed his ailment with him. He agreed to take a course of 10 treatments for $100, he said. After taking the first treatments he arranged to take another course, but had not fin- ished the treatments when he was ready to start to South America, July 15, he testified. According to his testimony he then went to the Planters Hotel and paid Miss Davis $100 and started for South America. The first he heard of her claim for $500 was when he recefved a telegram in New York demanding that sum. A series of telegrams passed be- tween Sutter and Miss Davis, all of which were introduced. Sutter was positive in his statement that Miss Davis administered physica] treatments, and did not give him a course of lessons, as she testified. A record of Sutter’s office showing that he was absent from the city part of the time between May 24 and July 15, and could not have taken the 3% treatments, as testified by Miss Davis, was intro- duced. WOMAN IN JAIL ON CONTEMPT CHARGE Must Stay There Till She Pro. duces Children She Is Charged With Kidnaping. LA CROSSBH, Wis., May 7.—Mrs. Ruth Miles of Tomah has been sentenced to remain in jail for contempt of court un- til she produces two of her children who are now in Idaho and whom she is accused of kidnaping. Mrs. Miles was married 10 years ago to George Alingham of Tomah. Pend- ing the Court decision in a divorce suit, the mother had custody of the children with the provision that they must not te removed from the jurisdiction of the court. Mrs. Miles immediately went to Idaho and when the husband got a di- vorce and the custody of the children she refused to give them up. A year ago she removed to Los An- geles, Cal., where she married William W. Milés of Chicago. Returning to To- mah: on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. J. H. Beardsley, she was arrested on the charge of kidnap- ing, the charge later being changed to that of contempt of court. Although her mother is near death, Judge Higbee has ordered the woman confined In jail until the children are produced. TWICE-AMONTH PAYDAY UPHELD BIBLE QUOTED Missouri Supreme Court Unani- mously Concurs in Judge Brown’s Decision. PHELPS AUTHOR OF LAW Ruling Said to Affect 5000 R. R. Employes in St. Louis and 25,000 in the State. JEFFERSON CITY, May 7.—The Su- preme Court of Missouri unanimously concurred today in an opinion by Judge John C. Brown, sustaining the validity of the law requiring railroads and oth- er corporations to pay their employes twice each month. Railroads attacked this law on the ground it was unreasonable, unjust, op- MRS. ALMA DALMER. JAMES end her child. ee LL PRICE ONE CENT | SLAYER OF HUSBAND SKETCHED IN COURT AS SHE HELD HER BABY fats taba es ~~ s PAI in desl ¢ C4 gd Ain ose ae | pressive, without benefit to the work- men, paternalistic, and is class legisla- tion and contract. Judge Brown went to the Bible for points upon which to sustain the law. Even in those ancient days, he says, the right of the laborer to immediate pay- ment was conceded. “The wages of him that ts hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning,” he quoted from Leviticus xix, 13. “At this day thou shall give him his hire. Neither shall the sun get down upon it; for he is poor and setteth: his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord and it be sin unto thee,”’ he quoted from Deuteronomy AXIV, 16. W. H. Phelps of Jasper County was the author in the Legislature of tha semi-monthly payment law. It applies to all corporations doing business in Missouri. It greatly increases the cost of the auditing departments of tha railroads and other corporations. Phelps was elected to the Legislature on his retirement from the position of legislative attorney for the Missouri Pa- cific-Iron Mountain system. He had 20 years’ experience at Jeffer- son City, having started as a protege of the late Col: John O'Day of Frisco Railroad fame. At the time of the introduction of the bill to compel bimonthly payment, Phelps declared it would affect the raijl- roads chiefly. He said 5000 railroad employes in St Louis alone would be affected, and more than 25,000 in the State. GIRL NOT ADOPTED, MOTHER TAKES HER Written Agreement of ‘Custody Insufficient to Hold Marie Schweiger, 9 Years Old. Mrs. Eva Brown, wife of F. C. Brown, 44606 Louisiana avenue, asked the police Tuesday to help her regain possession of her niece, Marie Schweiger, 9 years old, who, she says, was taken away Monday evening by the child’s mother, Mrs. Mamie Schweiger of 2205 South Twelfth street. Marie and Mrs. Brown's daughter, Margaret, 5 years old, were walking on Neosho street between Alaska street and Louisiana avenue, at 7:15 p. m. Monday, when Mrs. ectnaaloes accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Mary Fuchs, appeared and compelled the child to accompany them. Mr. and Mrs. Brown accompanied Pa- trolman Stuppe to the Carondelet sta- tion, where they exhibited a written agreement, entered into April 4, b> which Mrs. Schweiger consented that the Browns have the custody of Marte. Inasmuch as the child had not been legally adopted, the police deéclined to interfere. destructive of the rights of The Pcst-Dispatch fs the only evening newspaper in St. Louts that receives or publishes news gathered by the Asso- ciated Presa, WHITE MARBLE | BUILDING Al PINE AND BROADWAY German Saving Institution.Leases Old Mills & Averill Site for New Home. The German Savings Institution, housed at present in the\ Planters Hotel building, has acquired ‘a lease of 30 years upon the old Mills & Averill block at the southeast corner of Broadway and Pine street, and will erect théreon a modern banking building of white marble, concrete and steel. This an- nouncement was made Tuesday by the Mississippi Valley Trust Co., which ne- gotiated the lease. The parties to the transaction were the Gehner Real Estate and Investment Co., Of which Mrs. Minna Gehner is president and which owns the site, and the German Savings Institution, of which Nelson W. McLeod is president. The amount of the rental was not made public. At the expiration of the lease, the banking company will have an op- tion of renewing it for an additional 69 years. Work will begin at once razing the building now occuying the ground, and it is expected that the new structure will be completed this year. It will consist of a basement, a main floor and a mezzanine floor, and will be used exclusively by the bank. The Plans, prepared by Albert B. Groves Aas architect, have already been ac- cepted. It is estimated that the cost of the cdifice will be approximately $1365,- 0600. The building will oceupy the ertire site, 54x85 teet. and will have a lobby, with a skylight, of 44x50 feet. CARS SEIZED TO TAKE CAVALRY TO BORDER Troops at Fort Russell, Wyo., Expect Orders at Any Time to Move to Mexican Line. CHEYENNE, Wryo., May 7.—Orders have been received by the Colorado & Southern Ratlway to seize all empty tliat, box and stock cars, no matter to whom consigned, and send them to Fort D. A. Russell for shipping of the horses and equipment of the Ninth Cavairy, which ts expecting orders to move to the Mexican border at any hour. Thirty-five stock cars have been de- livered already. It is expected that more will be today. Scouts from / fort have been out all night roune ¥ up the men. (SHOOTS HIMSELF. IES AS HE TRIES “TDFREAT Wi | be held, East St.. Louisan, Who Had Been Ill, Ends His Life at Home at 2:45 A. M. Henry E. Robinson, 38 years old, arose from bed about 2:45'a: m. Tuesday at his bome, 721 North First street, East St. taking a revolver from a shot. himself in the Louis, and, dresser, drawer, mouth. His wife, bleeping in an adjoining ran to her husband. Robinson raised the revolver with the apparent intention of shooting her, but before he could: pull the trigger, he crumpled to the floor and died. Four children of the couple, from 4 to 1k years of ‘age, were sleeping in other rooms, and were awakened by the shot. The body was taken to the Degen- Doussard morgue, where an inquest will Rdbinson had been suffering for two weeks from stomach trouble. WITNESS SAYS ALLEN WORE ARMOR PLATE Testifies ' His Bullets Had No Ef- fect on Prisoner in Coufthouse Shooting. room, | watched with great interest. FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS —_ re ee JAMES JURY IS - SWORN: BABY rl ALLOWEDIN OUR on Panel to Try Womiai Who Killed Husband, a Eight of Remaining 1 Have Children, Forbidden to have her 6mor he ola Laby, Slyvia, with her in Judge ° : lor’s court, Mrs. Alma Palmer ee on trial for second-degree ree i the selection of the jury which is decide whether she willfully and mae lciously shot and killed her husbet Leo James, as he lay asleep in flat at 4457A Lexington avenue.. The jury panel was completed ly before noon. Of the 12 men wt try Mrs. James only two are unmarriee of the 10 marrfed men all but 2 have children. ‘ 4 The defense, in making its chall seemed eager to accept married # with children, apparently believing readily miore would sympathize © Mrs. James because she has a baby. The State, wherever possible, struck off unmarried men who indicate they might show more leniency te ~ woman than to a man defendant.’ «>> Baby Net Allowed tn Court. Shortly after court convened De Sheriff Wohradsky went to Mrs. and told her the baby would f permitted to remain in the court Mrs. James’ mother, Mrs.* beure = mer, took: the child into the ¢ : fice adjoining the courtroom, and mained there with it. f The ‘jurymen who will try: James are: SELBY T. BREEDING. goods floor manager, 6436 ‘Ver J. MULLANPHY CATES, estate, 4280 Washington a married, six children. CLAUDE L. CASH, buyer, Labadie avenue, married, children. JOHN M. COLLINS, clerk, 2901 Montgomery street, married, £ r children. GUSTAVE P. ECHERT, vette 0 maker, 3518 Itaska street, mar= ried, two children. HENRY W. FRIEDRICH, cash- ier, 4911 Terry avenue, m wie three children. JOHN F. GOLDEN, fe Ridge avenue; married, no tractor, Southern Hotel; GUSTAVUS A. GREEN, 5716 Etzel avenue; married, no dren. JOHN C. HOEFELN, clerk, South Twelfth street; a children. s FRANK HERPST, tobace@: saigge man, 2723 Madison street; « nmi fee p ried. iS, oh BENNETT B. HERIFORD, oe ' tary, 5879 Minerva avenmat i one child. Tella of Their Married Assistant Circuit Attorney Da’ his opening statement, said that © the Jameses were married they ~ apart for awhile, he at the Park and she with a private family for % she worked. In December, pa went to her parents’ home at De Janes returned to’ St. Loule In 1911, and went to work as ¢f or the Carleton Building. Mrs, Jamens turned a month later. They lived af WYTHEVILLE, Va., May 7.—Evidence that Floyd Allen wore bullet-proof pro- | tection !n the Hilfsville courthouse when the “shooting up” of the court occurred, March 14,, was brought out in the trial | of Allen here today for the murder of Prosecutor William M. Foster. Deputy Sheriff’ Gillesple testified that after the shooting began he had fired four shots at’ Floyd Allen. Gillespie wondered why the shots had not taken effect, and made a careful examination of the courtroom, but. could find no shots in the wall opposite the point from which he had shot. Before Allien was arrested he changed his clothes, and Gillespie firmly believes the Allen clansman the day of the trag- edy wore a’ breastplate or some other armor protection. ; POSTPONED GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE. . Browns vs. New York game account of rain. Park Hotel three or four weeks, aus 4 ; ‘March they moved to a Walton aw ‘boarding house. Later they bo | Cook avenue. .. | April 2, 1911, six days before thes ‘Ing, they moved to the Lex! age fiat..." Davis said ‘the State would he thet Mrs, James spent the evens immediately. preceding the 1 the home of her husband's Belle Alcorn, 2605 North avenue, and that James there, Davis said. | “We will show that it was & = night and that when Dr, Alte ¥ Clevethnd ve, Paticeiia ana anaba poned account of wet grounds.