St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 23, 1912

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VOL. 65. NO. 34.

NEW ST.LOUIS FAIR OPEN WITH ALL Tht OLD-TIME FEATURES Mothers and Babies Much in Evidence on First Day When Mothers’ Congress Baby Show Is Held, Awards Being Announced in Af- ternoon. REVIVAL OF RUNNING RACES AN ATTRACTION Aeroplane Exhibitions and Trial of the New Unicycle, for Which Great Speed Is Promised, Among Things on Program.

Several thousand persons were at the New St. Louis Fair, on the St. Charles Rock road, a short distance west of Wellston, Monday afternoon. It the opening day of a week’s revival of the famous annua! fair of former days. One of the big features of the opening day was the baby show under the di- rection of the Mothers’ Congress. After the visitors to the fair had had a good the babies, the judges their awards at 2 = was chance to view began announcing p. m, The first prize for triplets was award- ed to Arthur, Mildred and Mabel Bach- man, children of Mr. and Mrs. M. Bach- man of 4533 West Papin street. In the twins class the general prize went to Rosemary and Dorothy Dreyer. daugtiters of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dreyer of 6508 Hobard street. For twins from 6 months to 1 year old the prize went to Girard and Barrett Crosby, svns of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crosby of 1325 Walton avenue. , In this class the second prize was awarded to Robert and Worchester Heimbuscher and the third prize to Grace and Gladys Golden. Babies Win Two Prizes. The first prize for twins from 13 to 2%’ months old was won by Herman and HMarola Bromschwig, sons of Mr. and Mrs. H. Bromschwig, 1314 Walton ave- nue, and the second prize by Marie and Bligabeth Brady. The Bromschwig twins also worm the second general prize for all twins entered. . Rosemary and Dorothy Dreyer also won the first prize for twins from 3 to 4 years old. The second prize in that class went to Corwin and Wallace Rid- dle, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Riddle of 4059 Kennerly avenue. Other awards were: Most perfect baby, Harold Hibbert, son of A. H. Hibbert of 6706 Arsenal street, first rated at 99.98; Elizabeth Walker, daughter of William Walker of 5040 Ver- non avenue, second, rated at 99.54, and Maurice Kitchell, son of Edwin Kitchell, 3680 South Broadway, third, rated at 99.28. Boys under 1 year—Maurice Kitchell, first; John W. Cross Jr., second, and Ben Altheimer Jr., third: Girls under 1 year—Christine Bauer, _ first; Dorothy McWilliams, second, and Jane Veach, third. It had been announced that mothers who were to exhibit their babies at the baby show in the afternoon would be admitted free if their babies wore the official pink and blue ribbons show- ing they were entrants. The gatemen apparently had heard nothing of this arrangement, and about a dozen mothers who arrived early were kept waiting outside the gate until Mrs. James Nugent, one of the committee breeze, in charge of the baby show, arrived and admitted them to the grounds. A burning cigarette stub thrown into a patch of dried grass started a min- jature prairie fire which threatened a group of exhibit tents shortly after noon. The blaze, driven by a strong awept across a quadrangle, - around which about 15 of the tents are pitched, and a vigorous fight was nec- essary to save the canvas city. Seores of exhibitors, assisted by spec- tators, beat out the fire with boards, blankets and rolls of canvas. No dam- age of any consequence was done. Many Features for Children, The day's program included many fea- tures, some of them of special attrac- tion for the boys and girls who were admitted free, if accompanied by older persons. _Among the events on the card were horse and mule races, aeroplane flights and wild west exhibitions, including - broncho busting and lariat throwing. A feature of the fair that promised to arouse great interest is the revival of horse racing. Thess are the first run- _ ning contests seen in or around St. es - Louis in more than seven years. The aeroplane program provides for @atly flights by Benedict, Korn or Jan- nus in Benoist machines. Dally demonsrations of the newly in- vented unicycle, said to have marvelous 22 speed possibilities, will also be given. ee. f % -: e 2m As at the old St. Louis Fair, the event of the week will be Big Thursday, =e there will be — added attrac- | RUSHING TO CLASS, RUNS INTO AN AUTO

IS) v7 ADDIE RENAUD Child Trying to Keep Unbroken | Clear Record for Five Terms Knocked Down. Addie Renaud, 13 years old, 1908 Park avenue, feared she would be late for school Monday, and left her home run- ning. As she hurried across the street in front of the house, ier head down, she ran into a passing automobile, She was hurled .to the street and stunned. The car, which belongs ‘v Charles F. Prante, 3439 Halliday avenue. was driven by his son, Alvin, a student in the St. Louis Commercial College, The injured child and her sister, Hattie, were taken into the auto and driven t» the city hospital dispensary. Dispensary Surgeon Lutz dressed sev- eral lacerations of the scalp and said there was a possibility of a fracture pf the skull. Addie refused to remain at the hospital for further examination an: | was taken to her home.’ Prante was arrested. kins, a witness, told the RNobe { police ran into its rear wheel. the hospital say Abbie and her sister also gave this version of the accident. Because of this accident Abbie was compelled to miss her first day at school in five terms. She was trying to main- tain a reputation for punctuality when she was hurt. GIVES NAME THREE WAYS AND IS REFUSED LICENSE Would-Be Bridegroom From East St. Louis Becomes Mix-- Up at Belleville. A man who accompanied a woman giving her name as Mathilda Bartlett of East St. Louis was refused a mar- riage license in Belleville Monday aft- ernoon because he could give the clerk no assurance as to which of three mames he gave was correct. When the man approached Marriage License Clerk Bocquet, he said he was Alfred W. Mcliwaine, 49 years old, of Fast St. Louis. The woman accompa- rying him gave her age as 48. Bocquet filled out the proper blank, containing an oath for the man to sign. He signed ic “Frank Mackaway.” Bocquet called his attention to the difference in names and the man said: “Oh, I made a mistake. out.” Bocquet did so, and the man signed it “J. A. Mackaway.” “Well, what is your name?’ Bocquet asked. “That makes three different ones now.’ Again the man pgotested he had made a mistake, and tis time signed the oath Frank Mackaway. Bocquet refused to issue the license, and the couple announced they would procure one in East St. Louis. PEOPLE CLIMB TREES TO HEAR T. R. IN KANSAS He Tells Them That the Pleach- ers Are Going to See Game Is Run Fairly. PITTSBURG, Kan., Sept. 23.—A large crowd gathered in the public square to hear Col. Roosevelt speak here today. People who were unable to get close enough to the platform to hear him climbed trees and telephone poles, and a crowd of boys swarmed on top of a threshing machine. In the crush one woman fainted and Col. Roosevelt sent his physician to care for her. In his speech, Col. Roosevelt defended the recall of judicial decisions. He also referred to his tilt last spring with Con- gressman Campbell of Kansas after the Congressman expressed the opinion that the Colonel was “appealing to the bleachers."’ 3 “To invert language that has been given some fame in your own district,” said Col. Roosevelt, “we intend that the people shall not merely sit on the bleachers and look at the game, we in- tend that the people shall run the game.” H,. W. SAMUELS IS FREED Former Insurance | Co. Gollecter Was Accused of Embezzling H. W. Samuels, a former collector for the Western Life and Accident Insurance Co., was by Judge Miller, Monday, when ar- raigned on a charge of embezzling

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$3.75 from the company. Judge said the evidence against hy THRD SISTER ENDS FE BECAUSE. OF INREQUITED LOVE Sedalia Girl, 16 Years Old, Kills Herself. by Drinking a Cup of Lye.

ONE DIED IN ST. LOUIS Father, F. C. Dunton, in Peni- tentiary for Killing Admirer of One of Girls, Special to the Post-Dispatch. SEDALIA, Mo., Sept. 23.—Minnie Dun- ton, the third of the daughters of Frank Cc. Dunton to end, her life because of

Haw- | that the | auto was going slowly and that the giri ; - P J r s _’ g Physicians at | udge J. Hugo Grimm returned to ‘unrequited love, died here today from ithe effect of a cup of lye which shez drank last night. | She was 16 years old, Her sister, Daisy Dunton, was 17 when | she ended her Hfe in 1903 because of ‘disappointment in her love for Emil |Meyer, a street car motorman. An older sister, Jennie, took her own |life in St. Louis several years ago, and iit was said her act also was the result of disappoiptment in love, When Daisy Dunton killed herself, her father killed Meyer, her admirer, for which he is serving a 28-year term in the Missouri penitentiary. Neighbors say that the sisters were unusually fond of one another, and that the act of self-destruction by the first of the girls made a deep impression upon the two remaining sisters, so that when Daisy’s admirer ceased to return her affection she was influenced to take her own life. And now the third of the sisters has followed their exam- ple.

'VENICE A DILAPIDATED | DISAPPOINTMENT TO HIM ED Judge Grimm Back From Eu- rope Calls Munich All “Beer and Art.”’ his work in the Circuit Court Mon- day, after a vacation abroad. He and Mrs. Grimm went to Europe June 19 and returned Sunday. They visited the British Isles and nearly all the Continental countries, but Judge Grimm says he found nothing that pleased him quite as well as America. Judge Grimm nd Mrs. Grimm went up the cog road from Chamou- nix to the top of Mont Blanc and walked across ice and snow when it was midsummer in the valleys. An Englishman and his wife fell from a precipice and were killed the day the Grimms were there. Other points visited by the Grimms were Rome, where they were in a crowd of 75 that received the Pope's blessing; Venice, which the Judge declared to be a dilapidated disap- pointment; Munich, which he de- scribed as “all art and beer,” and Coblenz, Germany, where Judge Grimm’s ancestors came from and where his great-great-grandfather’s

ST. “LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23,1912—16

HIGH SCHOOL BOY'S DEVICE CATCHES A THIEF AT CASH TILL Buzzer and Alarm Clock Warn; Negro in Room, and Drawer Is Open. LAD A McKINLEY STUDENT Safe in Office of Main Street Store Pried Open, Contracts, Stamps and Valuables Taken. A burglar trap designed by a McKin- ley High School student caught a ne- gro Monday morning, who was at the cash drawer of the Schroeder Coal Co., 2925 South Broadway. For several weeks the company had

complained of thefts of stamps and change. Philip Marsh, manager of the South Side Bank Building, in which the | offices are located, asked his son Paul | tc help him catch the thief. clock with buzzer attachment, connect- d by wires with the cash drawer. When- | ever the drawer is opened, the buzzer sounds and the clock stops. Watch for an Outsider. The clock was put in the offices of the Manufacturers’ Railway, on the same floor with the coal company. Several days’ observation showed that the cash drawer was never opened by any Schroeder employe except the person au- thorized to open it. So a watch was arranged for outside of business hours. Ss. J. Sullivan, roadmaster of the rail- way company, heard the buzzer sound at 6:30 a. m. He ran into the Schroeder offices and found Walter Scott, negro janitor for the Diesel Engine Co., which has offices on another floor. Scott was in the act of closing the cash drawer. Sullivan detained the negro until po- licemen arrived. Scott was searched and $1.9 worth of stamps, some small change, three pocket knives and several trinkets were found in his pockets. Denies Opening Drawer. Seott said he had heard of the thefts in the coal offices and that when he looked in there he saw the cash drawer epen. He said he closed the cash drawer and supposed this must have started the buzzer in the other room. He said he found the stamps in a waste basket and had put them in his pocket to give to the cashier. Manager Marsh said the negro had no business in any office on that floor. Ecott was taken to the Wyoming Street Police Station. STANDARD STILL ASSIGNS TERRITORY FOR SALES Clerk of New Jersey Corporatior Testifies Subsidiaries Get 4ertain Sections. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey is still assign- ing sales territory to oil refineries of its former subsidiaries outside of its own territory, according to testimony given today at the hearing of the Wa- ters Pierce Standard Oil litigation, by Kenneth Adams, assignment clerk of the New Jersey company.

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lows: The count yesterday, Sunday, September 22nd, was as fol- Post-Dispatch, 305 Cols. Globe-Democrat.. Republic......:-. 230 113

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fr — The Want Ad Score: POST-DISPATCH excess of Want Ads ever the Globe-Democrat and Republic : Sunday Circulation: _ Average for First 8 Months This Year, St.. Louis’ ONE SiG N Shea 92 Columns 46 Columns 23 Columns 23 Columns 69 Columns 46 Columns »988 bolic acid. Paul’s scientific studies at McKinley | *4 hours without medical attention, the High enabled him to rig up an alarm | hospital physicians saved his life. UNION DEPOT DRUG STORE; DIES POOR End Comes at City Hospital to Walter E. Berryman, Known for Liberality. TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF Life Was Saved at Hospital After He Drank Acid at Scene of Former Success. - Walter E. Berryman, 48 years old, who made a fortune from the drug store in Union Station and was known to hun- dreds as a “good fellow” because of his willingness to lend or give money, died almost the city hospitai Sunday evening. Berryman tried to kill himself at the Terminal Hotel Aug. 8 by taking car- Although he lay in his room penniless at He ihad diluted the acid with liquor, they explained, thereby greatly lessening its effect. They discovered, however, that he had an ulcer of tke stomach, and that was the cause of his death. “TIT made money so fast that I hardly knew what to do with it,” Berryman once remarked to a Post-Dispatch re- porter while recovering from the effects of the acid. “The World's Fair crowds and the Sunday excursion crowds after the fair literally poured a deluge of money into my tills. Then the lid was put on, the Sunday crowds quit coming and my business dwindled,’’ At the height of his prosperity Berry- man extended his business by acquiring two West End drug stores, in addition to his Union Station property. The ven- tures proved a failure and, at last, brok en in health, he became a bankrupt. He also fell out with his wife and a sepa- ration resulted. He then became a traveling salesman for a wholesale drug house and while traveling in the South contracted ma- laria, from which he was unable to wholly free himself. He returned to St. Louis without funds and the manage- ment of the Terminal Hotel, because of long friendship, gave him a MPORRSS home, Scores of trainmen and station at- taches attribute Berryman’s failure to his liberality. He would lend money in almost any sum to any acquaintance, they say, and many failed to repay him. When cases of destitution were discov- ered among the travelers at the station, Berryman always was one of the most liberal contributors for their relief. All these drains finally depleted his busi- ness, they say. Berryman’s father, J. E. Berryman of Marshall, Mo., will arrive Monday night to take the body to Marshall for burial. STOLEN $55,000 FOUND AT BANK’S BACK DOOR

Telephone Message Tells Where to Look for It, but Janitor Alone Maxes Investigation. PENSACOLA, Fila., Sept. 23.—The package containing $65,000 which was stolen from an express car on the Louis- ville & Nashville Railroad last week, was found at the back door of the First National Bank this morning by the negro janitor. The finding of the money was pre- ceded by a telephone message received at the bank to the effect that the money would be found itn the back yard. Of- ficials paid no attention to the tip, but the negro began an investigation. The money was turned over to the Southern Express Co. FAIR TONIGHT AND COOLER TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES.

“None but the brave deserve the FAIR,” said Dry- den. “For all FAIR is, is nature good,”’ plied Spenser. “TT have found out a gift for my FAIR,” exclaim- ed Shenstone. “FAIR weather someth out of the north,” mused Job. “When it is evening ye say it will be FAIR weather, for the sky is red,”’ said Matthew. “What is FARE to the FAIR?” asked Riggs. “Ten cents,”’ replied the conductor. Official forecast for St. Leuis and vicinity: Falr and slightly warmer tenight; increasing cloudiness on Tuesday, with rain and cooler weath- er by night. At T a. m, these temperatures were report- ed in the following cities: New York 60, Chi- cago 60, Boston 64. Atlanta 66, Detroit 52, Portland 50, Los Angeles 62, San Antonio 56, Indianapolis 52, Kansas City 56, Atlantic City 60. Missouri—Rain late tonight or on Tuesday; warmer tonight; cooler Tuesday in north por- tion. ‘ Tiltinois—Rain iate gone poe or Tuesday; that by re-

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MADE FORTUNE IN| (Mirs. Hank Weeke Gives Third Chapter of “Poker ‘and Politics” Poficeman Woufdn't Play in $50 Game

Bathed Him Like a Baby—lIn Pajamas He’d Pout All Day if She Didn’t Clothe Him.

Mrs. Nellie J. Weeke, who-is suing her husband, ‘“‘Hank’’ Weeke. Repub- lican city committeeman, for divorce, gave reporters Monday the third install- ment of her story of ‘‘Poker and Poll- tics’’ as she witnessed the games played. Mrs. Weeke says the infor-nal poker écluS held its sessions sometimes over Hank Weeke's various salogns, and at other times at his home at 2327 St. Louis avenue. The club met each Saturday at 2 p. m. and played until various hours Sunday “%@ were so friendly to the game that © %plain-clothes policeman from the Laclede Avenue Station was frequently a spectator and took dinne® with the poker players, and a sympa- thetic Sergeant of the North Market Street Station tipped off a friend how to get a hand in the game. Cared for Hank Like a Baby. Mrs. Weeke also devotes a chapter In this installment to telling how she had to take care of Hank, She says the po- litical ward boss and saloon keeper was as helpless in caring for himself as an infant. She says she had to wash his face as she would a baby, put on his shoes and stockings and tie his necktie. She says she shaved him every day of the five years of their married life with the exception of the days on which he would have his hair cut and then the barber would shave him. When she was away for a week or so, Mrs. Weeke says, part of the job of dressing Hank in the morning fell on Al Thomson, one of the poker play- ers. Thomson, she says, tied his ties for two weeks. Weeke would not dress himself, Mrs. Weeke says, and if she demurred he would sit around the house all day in his pajamas and ‘peeve and peut until she did dress him. Policeman Shied at 850 Game. “We had the saloon at Rankin and Laclede avenues,” said Mrs. Weeke, “when the friendly plain clothesman used to come tn on Saturday nights to eat and watch the poker players in the room upstairs. He called the first time to get his month's pay check cashed. ae eer ee ae then said:

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NELLIE el. WEEKE...-- Started in to josh him unmercifully. “*“This must be a cheap Police De- partment.’ one said. “*What's the matter with the graft these days?’ asked Nat Goldstein. Policeman Came Oftea. ‘But the policeman would not be kid- ded into getting into a game where he had to buy $0 worth of chips to get « seat. However, he came often and got quite interested looking on. He got into the habit of coming every Saturday night for supper. He would stay about an hour, go out @nd come baek. But they never got him into the game. ‘‘We had lots of evidence that the po- lice were wise to the game. One Sat- urday night Ben Kline, a huckster whe is wealthy and who is one of Hank's ward leaders, came over to the saloon at Rankin and Laclede avenues, look- ing for the poker game. “I had gone up the street and when I came back Kline was talking to the bartender and trying to find out from him how he could get into the game. The bartender was playing “dunce,” as Hank had instructed him to do. “Kilme turned to me and asked me ebout the game. I answered him eva- sively and went upstairs and told Hank. He told me to go down and tell Kline that the game was down at the Planters Hotel. “Kiine went to the Planters looking for the poker game, but of course did not find it there that night. Sunday he was around to see us at the house. He told Hank he had been hunting for the game, and Hank asked him how he knew there was a game. Sergeant Told of Game. “*Why, a Sergeant over at the North Market Street Station told me,’ replied Kline, naming the Sergeant. “*Well, we did have a game over the saloon last night,’ admitted Hank. Then he added: ‘But, look here, Ben, those are pretty classy fellows playing in that game and they couldn’t afford to be seen by an outsider. Now some night when I have a game for fellows of your class, I'll invite you in!’ “That seemed to sult Kline all right. }and he didn’t make any further attempt to break into the ‘classy’ crowd. The only thing he said was: “They wouldn't have got any of my money. I'd have trimmed that bunch.’ “But the police were not the only ones who knew all about the poker game.

Evi F. Martin is to resign his $4000 : = job as Assistant Postmaster at &t. Iouis to take an $100 job-as Posmeean Inspector. Both he Akins say the resignation is voluntpey 2 F y* To succeed Martin, Akins snnaenili Monday that he would appoint Alber. Auterieth to the assistant postmaster. ship. Autenrieth is @ political alley, of — Fred Essen, St. Louis County boss whe with Akins and Congressman Barthold®, is an important cog in the Federal-Stai- Republican machine. Akins told a Post-Dispatch reporte: Monday that no recommendation for + change had been received, but sald that Martin had received ‘‘a very filatterin | offer to enter the inspection depar. - ee # ment. At that moment Auterieth, who is race for Sheriff in St. Louis County the primaries he found his old awaiting him. . ‘ In this election Autenrieth was Es-. sen's candidate against George A. Bode in one of the bitterest fights St. Louls County has known. Autenrieth was picked out as the strongest Possible candidate by the HEasen machine every effort of that air-tight crgavization was bent upon putting hifn across. Phe Bode’s election was 0 en ee but it was a hard blow to the Essen chine. A rallying call was s all the machine’s supporters was a general tightening of the the fall election. St. Louts County forms a large Congressman Bartholdt’s district. effort will be made there to Bartholdt to Congress with the possible majority. There has been of Bull Moose defection in the but the machine leaders have not d mined what it will amount to. Akins Praises Martin. — Akins praised Martin's efficiency ly, but sald he was not disposed to in the Assistant Postmaster’s way ‘i he desires to take the other job greatly reduced salary. “He came to this department,’ Akins, ‘“‘with a promise he to the Inspection Department time he wished. He and TI like brothers and I don’t sible to find a man who place him. The civil service would it impossible to remove him from place against his will except for cause. That shows ifn itself that withdrawal is voluntary.” “I wanted to get back to “I ike it : a g 2 Heat Hi 4c £5 - B23 Hi pel al the postmaster. He has heen like a ther to me.” Akins denied there was any back of the change and said Congress. man Bartholdt knows nothing anent. it. the St. Louis postoffice since ter Wyman'’s days. He was tendent of the money order department

During his absence his place was not filled. After he had been defeated in es