St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 3, 1913

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‘ q PROPERTY LOSS a Thomas Building, one of the largest of- ) mewspaper correspondents, " ¥argo Express and the Postal Telegraph > Co. had offices, was destroyed by fire

POST-DISPATCH January “Want” Gains The January count of Post- -Dispatch Wants was pate toeiy

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LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening ‘Paper in ot Louis With the Associated Press News Service

VOL. 65. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1913-16 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT. EDITION : | FINANCIAL MARKETS

SPORTS

NO. 167.

GTS CALLED Gn BiG FIRE WN JEFFERSON CITY Building Is Destroyed and Adjacent Property Barely Is Saved. $30,000 = Members and Attaches of - Legislature Go to See Spec- tacular Burning. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 3.—The ‘fice buildings in the capital, in which the the Wells today with virtually all its contents. A number of other structures ad- joining were threatened. The fire depart- ‘ment had difficulty in getting to the fire before it gained headway. The smoke drove all occupants from the building and even the occupants of the first floor had no time to take out their effects. A force of convicts from the State penitentiary, with the fire equipment from that institution, the scene to prevent the spread of the fre from the Thomas Building to ad- joining structures. The work of these trained fire fighters, more than anything else, was responsi- bie for the fire’s being held to the build- ing in which it started. The fire attracted all the members of the Legislature and its clerical force a most of the inhabitants of the cap- was hurried to jzon street, within a half block of the Madison Hotel, and adjoined property worth $600,000. He CLOUDY AND COLDER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY

THE TEMPERATURES. fenterday’ s Temperatures. High. .27 at 6 p. m. Low..15 at 2 a. m.

ited yh WHAT That white stuff LIVING heh | LOWSR FLAT morning snow. St. hadn't for so long that an analysis of the Was Louis seen any strange substance might be in or- der and the weather forecast- er would tell you that it was in- deed what is com- monly known as snow—called by the learned aqua pura semi-frigida alba. The snow was general in the ‘Middle West and

as far south as the Texas Panhandle. Official forecast for St. Louls and vicinity: Cloudy tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight, with lowest tempera- ture about 16 degrees. Missouri—-Mostly cloudy tonight and Tues- day: colder in southeast portion tonight. Ijlinois—-Fair tonight, probably followed by increasing cloudiness Tuesday: colder tonight. stage of the river: 5.6 feet; a fall of .4 of a foot.

TOO MUCH SLEEP BREEDS CRIME, PHYSICIAN SAYS

Contends That if One Gan Take Just Seven Hours Things Will Be Normal. CINCINNATI, 0O., Feb. 3.—‘‘Seven hours’ sleep is all that is necessary for any human being, and if obtained reg- ularly keep the body and mind in a healthy state,”’ dial, The Thomas Building was on Mad- |} of of criminology. in certain hours nightly wil said Dr. Cincinnati, Foertmeyer, Coroner regarded an authority “Much of the crime of today is due on the ground this . EF to too much or too little sleep. . ty, occupied the third floor. The local z trainmen also had headquarters there. legislators learned that onl, ~ was needed to make the ames fective. Thereupon when th met today, Senator Kendrick mo resolution be taken up under a suspen- sion of the rules and xoted upon. This was done and it at once was forwarded to the House, where it also was passed. leave it for someone else to water. leged that Sidney W. Winslow, Edward Craft said Mrs. Reedy’s 18 to ® cows|p, Hurd, George W. Brown, William yielded 22 to 24 gallons of milk a day, Barbour and Elmer P. Howe violated but that by the time the milk reached } the law, first by organizing the United Clay, there was 26 to 31 gallons of it.| shoe Machinery corporation, and second, The difference, he said, was supplie:l by a system of leasing their machines from the _ kitchen faucet. Sometimes, whereby patrons were compeHed to did the watering

a valuable law library, P ment was filled with coal. » @n the second floor were the offices of _ the newspaper correspondents. and a the property of William C, Irwin. ' On the first floor were the offices of the Postal Telegfaph and the Wells Fargo Express companies. The base- The flames ascended through the air flues to the offices and drove the occupants from the building. The women stenographers On the second floor ran down stairs when the smoke first filled the offices and were unable to return to get their hats or wraps. Thomas Directs Firemen. Irwin, who ran to the street from his law office, lost everything except his which was taken from a as a rule, are long minds grow weak from too much sleep and then they acquire the ‘don’t care’ habit, which often results in crime. rest. *Men and women who commit. crime, sleepers. Their “‘Make it a rule to sleep seven hours, and you will be better for it mentaliy, physically and financially.”

VINSON M’LEAN SPANKED

Daring Nurse Lands One on Heir to Many Millions. PALM BEACH, Fia., Feb. 3.—Vinson McLean, the three-year-old son of Ed- he said, Mrs. Reedy in person. He said he objected to the watering process, but that his scruples were iaid to rest by an ftncrease of his pay from $20 to $30 a month. One day, he said, Clay was at Clonmel at milking time, and Mrs. Reedy told him to water the milk if he got a chance, and if not, to let it go. He had to let it go, and Clay got only 22 gallons that day. His duty, he said, was to. keep the milk ‘up to the standard,” by watering it in the regular proportion. “T don’t know a thing about it,” sa‘d Editor Reedy, in his sanctum, “‘not a thing.”’

promise not to use any machinery made “a MRS. FERN IMA HENSCHEN. by independents and to use only that inade ‘by the alleged combine, The charge was that the Shoe Ma- chinery corporation took over the busi- ness of the Consolidated and McKay Lasting Machine Co., manufacturing 60 per cent of all lasting machines: the Mckay Shoe Machinery Co., manufac- turing 70 per cent of all heeling ma- chines and 80 per cent of all metallic fastening machines, and of the Good- year Shoe Machinery Co., manufactur- ing 80 per cent of all welt sewing and out-sole stitching machines. The Government maintained this put about 80 per cent of the business of manufacturing shoe machinery into one

ent $40,000 T0 NIECE BY THE WILL OF

IRS, EMILY SMITH

Other Property of Laclede De- AL. HENSCHEN SUED FOR DIVORCE: WED 16 MONTHS Wife Charges Son of Commis-

After passing the income tax amend- ment, the House took up and passed at 11:15 Montana time the resolution atu-| thorizing the direct election of United States Senators also unanimously. The Senate has a similar resolution before it. — WYOMING WINS THREE-STATE RACE Beats) New Mexico and New Jersey in Aspiration for In- come Amendment Honors. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 3.—Wyo-

apparent desire that New Mexico’s vote be the one to make the aenier Pr fective, but no definite plans had & ecn made for hastening tts. considération. House leaders stated that ‘the r fi- cation resolution might be taken up for a vole any time before acjoGrnment TWO MEN SLIGHTLY HURT IN COLLISION OF AUTOS — Touring Car,. ‘Driven cat Hig ‘peed, Runs Into Taxi Just Leaving Garage. - Fa i Redemeyer, 21 years old, o

typewriter, BANDIT WHOM DETECTIVE KILLED A FOOTBALL STAR HICAGO, Feb. 3.—James Higgins, the ward B. McLean of Washington, who said the other day that his reasons for having three detectives and two male nurses care for the boy was that he sion Man Threw Knives and Forks at Her. 5141 Ge 'd avenue, drove a big ing Car, igh speed, into a taxicab front of 46 Delmar boulevard, at scendant Disposeed’ Of, In- cluding Token From French concern and that, being an “undue pro- portion” of the trade, was a violation of the law. It did not allege there had window by a negro. Mayor Thomas, the owner of the building, is equipping other offices for the occupants in an- ming wrested from New Mexico today the honor of being the thirty-sixth state. mt to

Serge Aa 5 oe, ear et ey Sit. aad ~ +a ae é ~ s OE TREES Rie, MEER RT LEPTIN LIES PO es 3 Gallagher, the man who shot Mayor a ago at Hoboken, N. J., died of paresis 4 ‘to serve 12 years on a charge of as- other building. He stayed on the scene and directed the firemen in their work. Several hun-] an. dred blank cartridges used by the Elks exploded and scattered the crowd. */ Louis Schirmer, manager of the Pos- tal Telegraph Co., was unable to re- move the instruments or anythi of value. The fumes of gas from burning coal in the cellar made it impossible for the firemen to enter the building. _ MAN WHO SHOT GAYNOR IS DEAD IN AN ASYLUM Paresis Kills James J. Gallagher, Who Had Been Transferred -rom Prison to New Jersey Asylum. TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 3.—James J.

| Gaynor of New York, nearly two years today at the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane in this city. He had been at the State hospital _ ince Jan. 18, 1912, having been trans- _ ferred there from the New Jersey state ' Prison, where he had been sentenced | Sault upon Street Commissioner William | Edwards of New York City, who was | With Mayor Gaynor at the time. At 4 _ Gaynor’s request, he never was pros- ’ *cuted for shooting the Mayor. _ Gallagher's act was prompted by dis- Sppointmient from having been dis- 4 fp earee from a municipal position In _ New York City. q F Panis FLOOD RISING _ TWO INCHES AN HOUR & Part of City Near River Seine _ Already Under Water and a Rain Is Continuing. _ PARIS, Feb. 3.—Fears of a repetition of the disastrous inundations which oc- | Care in £aris in the winter of 1910-11 ¥ been aroused in the last 48 hours yy the rapid rising of the River Seine. 8 water today is'mounting about two an hour. In the low lying quarters of the city, es of in the southwestern district 8 , the water has overflowed into Momste: The Rue Watt, near the Bh Bridge, was the first to be a ‘Tt is several inches under wa- F and consternation reigns among the - nts of nearby houses. i Ceased this morning tn Paris, but jues to fal! heavily in the up-' regions. ;

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slap and interfered the second one landed, all of to show that the greatest possible pre- cautions will occasionally prove inef- fective. | wanted him to be brought up a ‘“‘man’ boy,” yesterday was spanked by a wom- Soon afterward this woman, his mother’s maid, packed up and left hastily for the north. One of the detectives just outside the boy’s door heard the first resounding moment the which goes

highwayman, who was killed by Detec- tive Otten while holding up a saloon early Sunday, was @ graduate of a West Side college and a star member of its football team the last two years of his course, the police learned today. Higgins was 23 years oH, and is said to have been a chum of “Trilby’’ Thompson, who escaped from Joliet penitentiary 4 few months ago, and who is sought by the police in connection

{with several recent robberies. First in Advertising Every Sunday for Nearly 6 Consecutive Years The SUNDAY POST- T-DISPATCH yesterday, February 2d,

was, as it has been every Sunday for 305 consecutive Sun- days, or nearly 6 CONSECUTIVE YEARS, first in volume

of REGULAR BONA FIDE advertising.

The count yesterday, Sunday, Post-Dispate Globe-Democrat. . Republic.......-. February 2d, was as follows: , 251 Cols. [7st 125 ae

‘Post-Dispatch Excess Over Republic . . Over Globe-Democrat Satis ; . 126 Cols. 76 Cols.

The Want Ads POST -DISPATCH excess of Want Ads over the Globe-Democrat and Republic COMBINED .... Over Republic ae Over Globe-Democrat THE REASON: 7 Columns 45 Columns 36 Columns Sunday Circulation February 2: 318,807 Sunday increase oo last year, 20,697 Daily average for J 50100 173, 453 Gain, daily only, 10,199 st. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. ' First in Everything!

been unfair competition, as in the Stan- dard Oil or Tobacco cases. The Shoe Machinery officials de- clared the Supreme Court could not review the action of the Massachu- setts court because the criminal ap- peals act was repealed by not being included in the judicial code of 1912. and also said the organization of the corporation was a normal trade de- velopment. They further urged that the groups consolidated into the cor- poration were non-competing and that the leasing system was justified by the patent laws. Justice Holmes, announcing the unanimous decision of the court, said the lower court regarded the indict- ment as merely referring to the or- ganization of the company, not to the “tying clause” leases. That being tha case, he added, the. Supreme Court must accept that interpretation with- out question. He said this reduced the case to a narrow compass and pointed out that the several groups combined in the organization of the United Shoe Machinery were non-competitive. The Justice declared the Sherman law did not contemplate the doing of business by the smallest possible iso- lated units, Concerns Only One Case. Two indictments were brought against the shoe machinery officials. The deci- sion today concerned only one of these indictments. “On the face of it, said Justice Holmes, ‘‘was simply an effort for greater efficiency. The busi- ness of the several groups that com- bined, as it existed before the combina- tion, is assumed to have been legal. “It is hard to see why the collective business should be any worse than its component parts. “We can see no greater objection to one corporation manufacturing 70 per cent of three non-competing groups of patented machines collectively used for making a single product, than to three corporations making the same propor- tion of one group each. The disintegra- tion aimed at by the statute does not extend to reducing all manufacture to isolated units of the lowest degree.”’ The Justice concluded the opinion by holding that the Federal appeals act had not been repealed by the judiciary code which went into effect Jan. 1, 1912, and, therefore, the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to review the decision of the lower court fn the case. the combination,”’

Phone your Want Ad to the Post-Dis- patch, Olive—6000—Central. Your credit’s 00d if you:rent a phone, or your drug- gist will phone it.

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The will of Mrs. Emily de Mun Smith, who died a few days ago at her home, $740 Lindell boulevard, was filed Monday for probate. Mrs. Smith was the widow of Charles Bland Smith and was a de- scendant of Pierre Liguest Laclede, one of the founders of St. Louis. The biggest bequest is $40,000 to Mar- garet W. Roberts, a_ niece of Mrs. Smith. The bequest, in the language of the will, is ‘a mark of affection for one who, through life, has taken a daughter's place in my _ heart and home,” The niece also gets all the chattels in her hands not otherwise disposed of. A fleur-de-lis emblem XVIII, of France, to Mrs. Smith's father, and the King’s letter accom- panving the gift, are bequeathed to Jul- ius S. Walsh. a nephew of Mrs. Smith. The principal charitable bequests are $000 to the pastor of St. Francis Kavier’s Catholic Church, in payment of a subscription; $1000 to the Oblate Sisters of Charity and $500 to the So- ciety of Helpers of the Holy Souls. The residue of the estate is divided as follows: One-sixth to Julius Walsh, one- sixth to Edward Walsn Jr., a grand- nephew of Mrs. Smith; one-sixth to Julia Chenie Cabanne, a niece of the testator: one-sixth to Julia Chenie Gor- man, Isabelle Chenie Haley, Marie The- rese Chenie Oberbeck and George Che- nie, children of Leon J. Chenie, @ nephew of Mrs. Smith; one-sixth to Ma- rie Walsh Geraghty and Sallie Walsa Sawyer, children of John A. Walsh, another nephew, and the remaining sixth to the heirs of the testator’s dead niece, Isabelle (henie Smith. The value of the estate is not given. SECRETARY TUMULTY TO MOVE UP WITH WILSON TRENTON. N. J., Feb. 3.—Joseph Pat- rick Tumulty, private secretary to Gov. Wilson, will be secretary to the President after March 4, @tcording to an announcement by President-elect WHl- son today. Tumulty has been associated ¥ with Wilson since the gubernatorial ca™m- paign three years ago. He became his private secretary when Wilson was elected Governor, but resigned last No- vember to become Clerk of the State Supreme Court at a salary of $6000, 9 position to which he was appointed by the Governor. He continued. however, to discharge sent by Louis

the duties of secretary without salary. | l’ern Ima Henschen, wife of Arthur Jee Henschen, son of Ernest Henschen, the Henschen-Goerner Commission Co. of i027 North Third street,; Monday morning filed a suit for president of divorce. a The Henschens were married Oct. 3, 191% following an elopement to Clayton. The Henschen family was opposed to the marriage of the son because of his youthfulness. In obtaining the marriage license he gave his age as 22, but mem- bers of his family allege he was only 19 on his wedding day. Mrs. Henschen before her marriage had been a pressfeeder for the Stewart- Scott Press Co. She was 19 years old. Young Henschen became enamored of her after having met her at a fancy dress ball. Says He Threw Kulves. Mrs. Henschen alleges that a month after her. marriage her. husband threw knives and forks at her, threatened to hit her on the head with a milk bottle and slapped her violently in the face. She also charges that on Labor day of 1912, 20 days before the birth of her child, Fern Evelyn, her husband, with- out any notice to her, invited friends home to dinner, and when he found her lying down for a rest when he came home upbraided ier for ‘“‘being lazy and neglecting her household duties.’’ The petition charges Henschen ob- jected to his wife's receiving visits from her mother and sisters and others of her family, and that when Mrs. Hen- schen was ill in bed with her week-old baby, Henschen ordered his wife's sis- ter, May, who was visiting her, to leave the house. Charges He Threatened Her. Bhe says her husband on Jan. @B threatened to kill. her and her baby and to take his own life. On this oc- casion he later notified his wife, she declares, that he would leave her the following Sunday and never return or provide for her and the baby. Mrs. Henschen asks the custody of the child and alimony. Arthur Lee tienschen is employed by his father. The Henschens resided at 9737 Michigan avenue. F. A, and L. A. Wind are attorneys for Mrs. Henschen.

BABY BORN WITH TOOTH Boy Has Fully Developed Lower Incisor. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 2.—A son was born today to Mr. and Mra. John Sieventhall. Came into the world wWlin

to ratify the proposed amend the Federal Constitution prowding fur an income tax. The necessary three- fourths of the 48 states have now rati- fled the amendment, and it will be add- ed to the Constitution. Wyoming snatched the honor througii the unexpected action of its Legisla- ture in passing, under suspension of the rules, the resolution favoring the tax. Congress now will enact a law to levy the tax, and it probably will becomie ef- fective during the extraordinary session to ‘be called by President-elect Wilson in March. The tax itself, its provisions and its limitations, are all left to Con- gress. The new law probably will supersede the corporation tax and provide for a there has been some sentiment in favor of making the limit as low as $4000. Congressional leaders who have been preparing for the final ratification by the states estimate an income tax would bring in about $100,000,00 a year to the Government. Now that the tax is provided by the Constitution the proposed excise tax, framed by Democratic leaders in 1912 to meet the Supreme Court’s decision which held a former income ‘tax unconstitu- tional, will be dropped and some of its provisions may be included in the new law. West Virginia ratified the amendment last week. One House in New Jersey and one in New Mexico have approved it. Wyoming's ratification was wholly unexpected at this time. The Democrats have been confident of the ultimate success of the income tax amendment and have made their tariff plans with this in view. Representative Hull of Tennessee, who prepared the excise tax bill which Con- gress failed to pass last seasion, is working upon the income tax provi- sion. When finally introduced, the in- come tax will be designed to take the place of both the existing corporation tax law and the proposed excise tax. The income tax legislation must origi- nate in the House, as do the tariff bills. Delaware Passes Resolution and Clatms First Heoseors,. Dover, Del., Feb. 3.—Delaware’s Leg- islature, unaware of the action of the Wyoming solons, rushed ratification «f the Federal income tax amendment through both houses today, in an effort to be the thirty-sixth to approve ft. According to the Speaker of the House, final action was taken at 10:% e’clock Eastern time this morning, Del-

tax on all incomes above $6000, although] Monday, and both vehicles wrecked. With Fred Holeomb, a chauffeur ‘ 4866 Page boulevard, as a Redemeyer was driving east at a ed the police estimated as between 30 and — 4 males an hour. The taxicab, driven ~ by Wiley Jones, just had backed We the Columbia Taxicab Co.’s garage & :

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