St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 5, 1913

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MINT AJNING THE LEAD! — ROOM.AND / More Want Abe DOARD = Brisas tn the Post- ‘Dispatch last mon+h than a re ‘in the Globe- Democrat and Republic combined. 5 f Louis’ ONE BIG Want Medium. | V( : VOL. 65. NO. 169. CT. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1913—20 PAGES. INURSE WHO MARRIED PUBLICIST ul #MTLEBESIN,|“GAZ “GAZIPE” WILL GET YOU —_|MKFLVEY'SORDER |SOMEONESLIPPED /"2*SsMo. Maneren puaticisr WMONHEARDIN'| IF YOU QON'T WATCH OUT! ISDEFEED:ROWAT | UPRVERAND TOOK | == | TANTINOP Lt Frank Tate Springs New Word to Astonished THEATRICAL BAIT DUR | CTEFI p ARCE | —— Councilmen— “You Don’t Spell It; You Look Si sents ‘siesta st Starts at Tchatalja Hall Crowded, Building Commis- | Towed Away While Business 7 - for It; It’s Stirger or Joker.” toon After Grand Vizier De- om ‘S Joke sioner Tries to Stop Ticket Men’s League Was Trying to "parts for the Front. Selling for Safety. Raise Cash to Buy It.

EDITION a SPORTS ENDS LIFE, TELUNG = HIS WIFE, “MONEY SHARKS HAVE ME” R. L. Hall Drinks Wood Al- cohol, Mixed With Powder, After Retuning Home at 2 A. M. From Futile Quest ©

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There it is! Look out for it! ie BOMBARDED no guilty gazipe escape. IGNORED BY THE POLICESiso THE LINE “BLEW UP? lhe I —————— t— “I Have Paid Them Ten Times Over and Still Owe Them,” Declares $90 Clerk, Said to Have Been $700 in Debt. | Richard Lee Hall, 33 weane old, ‘ended Fi his life at 2:30 o'clock this morning at 90700000. e saat oats

ted Press. DON, Feb. 5—A sharp engage- began late today on the Tcha- dimes; according to a dispatch | Constantinople. The roar of the is said to be plainly audible = the Turkish capital. serine a sortie by the Turkish rt from Adrianople today, 1000 af them were taken prisoners by the jarians, according to a dispatch Sofia. Mayor Not Worried by Kansas City View of Us We Mayor Kreismann had to say about the Kansas City Star’s article on 8%. Louis: “I do not see why people outsida of St. Louis* should not’ see our defects as well as the people who live here. However, I doubt the wisdom of reprinting in a St. Louis

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baw A. Bulgaria, Feb. 5.—The bom-| “Gazipe?’’ snapped Tate. So there you are. Mach d id tl ven | nent of Adrianople continued today] “Yes. What is a gazipe?” 1 little 10-cent item to your bill—some-|“¢enan and would prosecute ug man-|/ newspaper an article of this oe + a 7 ¢. ' " s a b & +55 a wie eons thine that you didn’t get—that’s a ga- agement of the New Club Hall for vio- kind. his home, 5255 Garfield a ue, by | Y. 4 ae “Don’t Spell It; Look for It.” “Well, I don’t know that I can ex- plain it to you clearly.” “How do you spell it?’ “You don’t spell it. You look for it. 1 don’t know that it has ever been spelled, but it has been pronounced a nilllon times,’’ said Tate. “Well,’’ said Leahy, “in order that it may be placed on the official’ records and in the files of the municipal library. we will spell it g-a-z-i-p-e. Now what is it?” al sides of the city. guns brought up by the Servian “oops were trained on the principal w of the fortress. ' Bulgarian army headquarters report ‘What yesterday passed without fighting slong the Tchatalja lines.

e we r lowing wood alcohol, in which a. had been mixed. His wife heard him ediatele and re é into the kitchen. Hall. was lying on” : the floor sefni-conscious. Mrs. Hali, — asked him what was the matter, =. “The money sharks have got me,” he stammered. ‘‘Don't pay them a cent, | I've paid tciems 10 epee over and still - owe them.’ , é | eg A bottle which had osaraieen the eae | lating the building ordinances, McKelvey arrived at the hall about 1 a. m., accompanied by William Peyton, one of his deputies. He found the hall crowded to its capacity, with several hundred persons pushing their way through the entrances or lined up on the sidewalk awaiting their chance to buy tickets. After an hour's inspection, McKelvey decided that it would be unsafe to crowd any more persons into the build- ing. Elbowing his way to the entrance 8 ” 2 . ” zipe. If you want to go to Union Station and the Olive street conductor gives you a transfer which is good only on a north- bound Eighteenth street car—that’s a gazipe. If you sign a lease and afterward find a Nttle line in small type which says you’are responsible for all repairs and damages to the property—that’s a ga- zipe. The gazipe will get vou if you don’t

““What has become of the ‘Lakes-to-the- Gulf Deep Waterway plan,’ the ‘Dig Her Fourteen Feet Through the Valley project,’ the ‘Barge Line to New Orleans’ idea and all the other movements to revive water naviga- tion to and from St. Louis: what came of them ?’’ asks the visitor to St. Louis. “Oh, I don't know; guess they’ve all got offices somewhere or other: don’t hear much of ’em any more,’ answers the complacent St. Louisan.

' Visier Goes to Front, Indicat- ing pomible Offensive Movement. F con eTANTINOPLE, Feb. 6.—Muah- 44 Feud Shefket Pasha, Turkish Grand : > Vizier and Minister of War, started for

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j og pe lagged Eats seein ey + “Well,” said Tate, “I have heard the-| watch out. ! pes | Te +t indicate that some forward action - =~ - lobby, he commanded the ticket-sellers} “When Kansas City ‘raised a million dol- Sd | s § |) contemplated by the army at Tcha- ln to close their windows. There were loud! !@™8 and more and put a line of boats on ‘ \ as : cohol, and a paper which had con- . ® talje protests from those who had been wait-| ‘¢ Missouri River, St. Louis humped herself . \ eee tained the powder, were on the sink In The #-hour bombardment of Adrian- ing for admission. and started out to raise $2,000,000 for a line ‘ a: 3 the kitchen. A glass from which Halli ople oigell Po as negpoere iid os eer. gg to New Orleans, did you get Mi RS Ny , WES nad drunk jay baalde: eieecan eee | . thus resu mn Cay OS McKelvey then went to Sergt. Mee-| ow . ve eee e SN c. Dies at the City Hospital. | deaths within the city, according to the han, who was in the lobby in charge of} aj Piehunityasey ben Se he Peicyrons WALTER 6 _ Mrs. Hall carried her husband into a a special police detail of 21 men. ; ride a 3 STEVENS. bedroom and called Dr. J. A. Lots of boats and we haven’t.’’ The physician found Dr. Letz ran to call ‘War Office's official statement. Fifty private. houses have been set on fire. #293 Union avenue.

“In the interest of safety, I demand - ASSASSINATED IN| WHO GUARANTEED Hall unconscious.

place a patrolman at the door to keep anyone from entering. Those wishing tO leave the hall were not to be re- iw flew open with a ; . “The enemy is bombarding us. One touseled red and thirty-eight common shells : a ul shrapnel have fallen in the city. a Shukri Pash mm -in- = ng me nama “s vei ’ that no more persons be admitted to this These pertinent or impertinent ques- for Higgins. * Office ar. ese ee | hall,” he said, exhibiting his badge of tions were printed in an article in the the police, and as he reached Union “healed ave sonny: office. He ordered Sergt. Meehan to] | on : aes avenue an ambulance was passing. He Kansas City Star of last Sunday, which on thé anibulahes i Hall : taken to the city hospital, where ees died at 5:15 a.m | Mrs. Hall told the police her husband. m was reprinted in Tuesday’s Post-Dis- nd a man’s

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ist out into the dark- a al i , oh aD SS lick gr itee Woman Nurse Attending ‘Him Mrs. Laura B. Cooke Also Exhib- strained, McKelvey said. As the Kansas City writer had not i ‘ . ‘ . . . Under Meehan’s orde ° : . dad returned home at 2a. m. after try- vant?” asked a sleepy, Ament continues. Also Killed—Stood High in. its Marked Calendar Showing | io ii. + Sean lig nacelle eo Ua PF IE ESF a RE ER | 2a oe w money to ‘pay interest: to ; a ri Ts Department of Justice. Nights Cooke Was Away. minutes no one was admitted. a Post-Dispatch reporter went forth to , ~~ Tmoney lendérs and to’ the rent of ir. Higgins?” came a ges marentiy ‘Without oe ae News of McKelvey’s command reached| find out about it, and this is what he . | $18 due on the flat in which they lived. | voice from the shadow — iD ON, Feb. 5.—The bombardment : j the managers of the ball and several of | found: al , ey She said he rarely oame home earlier r below 4 t Adrianople, which opened on Mon- " ARIS; F be 8: Eduardo Pelltter, a — TT B. Cooke of 2832 Arkansas! them, headed by “Red” Donovan, al The barge line project, which was be- . i | tthan midnight, and that-evéery night he want?” ie Pay, proceeded without interruption to- ? 7 5 de peg ir avenue obtained a divorce jn Judge|Standard Theater stage hand, pushed|ing promoted by the Business Men’s visited friends in an: effort to borrow ae : high official of the French; Depart ent!Grimm’s court Wednesday after intro-| their way into the lobby. League, has “blown up,” and a big 5 . money to get out of debt.” ie to 123 Fifteenth I oer that the Bulgarians had de-|°f Justice, was murdered in his- resi- ducing in evidence a postcard showing At first they pleaded with McKelvey |1700-ton steel barge which was success- Hall was a clerk in the auditor's of- : ' to rescind his order. Then they threat..|fully operated for several trips between es : fice of the Wabash Ratiroad. His sal-. Publicist and Mrs. Croft, Wedded]... was $90 a month, according to Mra. that her husband, Harry S. Cooke, guar- anteed the payment for gas used in Mrs. Carrie Smith’s flat at 4559A McMillan avenue. cence here today. A woman nurse who was attending as you can and bring its!” doctor; I’m the car- izgins lives two doors St. Louis and New Orleans, had been recovered by the builders under mort- gage foreclosure, and is now being op- erated on the Ohio River. ‘‘Lake-to-the-Gulf-Deep Water- i to suspend operations for 24 hours, as to give the Turkish garrison an portunity to surrender, appears to be thout foundatjon, as are many of the spread broadcast in reference to

Fires Three Shots and Holds 40, Men Back When Keeper Is_ | Hit With Towel Roller. cred. One of them shook his fist in McKelvey’s face and said: Gcvernor now, this.’’ Hall. His entire salary, for seven months has been paid to loan 2 for interest, and the loans now amount a to about $700, Mrs. Hall said. | gee

During. Christmas Holidays, Keep Marriage Secret 6 Weeks. “Major is and he won’t stand for

him was also killed. The double murder is believed to have

he |window closed. )Ponditions around and in the beleaguered | been committed by an uncaptured ac-|_ She also exhibited a calendar on which} They also threatened Sergt. Meehan.| The —_ eee | later the doorbell fort complice of the gang of automobile she had marked the dates on which} “I’m in charge of this ball,” said Don-| Way” project is stil] alive, and is plan- The marriage of Walter B. Stevens, Friend Offered Him Money. . vg ' message from Belgrade, Servia, to-| bandits whose trial is now going on|her husband remained away from home|Ovan to Meehan. “I’m in authority|ning to open headquarters In Washing-| By Associated Press. 0. How-| Secretary of the City Plan Commission| Mrs. Hall told @ Post-Dispatch report here. You can take your orders from{tom for an active campaign for appro-| PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 5.—Knocking Mow-) 71g formerly secretary of the Louisiana} er she did not know how her ste 082 3 time more violently. ail tent turnkey at the county jail, came to bé so much indebted to the

ay speaks of the “heroic conduct” of ard Tuttle, to Mrs. Sarah

low went up and out tg : This record showed he was away 20;|Me and it will be all right.” priations for the improvement of the Recon . ‘ |® couple of Servian regiments which| It\is supposed that the crime was in- ’ . ay Weare ol bs wha 4 y Se eee _.12 ov.her assets and zood will. The balance, tlie left eye and then push ed him inside, She was at that time Mrs. Sarah his debts. He went to a loan firm In the « ‘ c » a. Woes oe on we "bes ( ‘War "yi ‘under Which Monastjr will fall to|™°tify liners of the location of icebergs | millwright. They have a daughter 17| 7 @ gia se 18 seve SLEIIELU]P | Was to be used ito purchase, other steel! As ‘Tuttle darted forward ae nee Comer. Dec. 19 last she obtained a di-|DeMenil Building and arranged with it |” — as compensation for the hel and of similar dangers. years old i ee 8 SER waa de te er 15 | barges, as it was decided that at least ad been sentenced to the penitentiary voree. in Judge Shields’ court. from her | to pay off ali ‘his bills and gave his not st to Bulgaria P ———— em f Yesterday’s Temperatures. three barges would be necessary to op-, fOr stealing some umbrellas, struck him ions husband. John F. Comer. to]for the whole amount. Since that ‘time 4 , ~ | High. .31 at 2 p. m. Low. .14 at 6 a. m.| crate the line successfully. /over the head with a ay soot FOHST; | ten’ she had been married in 1905 at/he has been paying his entire Salary i aN eet te ‘ | The first blow struck uttle on the , , . ote ae ’ Plea to Let Germans At- ; : Shippers Asked to Buy. KGwardsville, Ill. She charged him with |to this firm as interest on the n | fend Adrianople Wounded Turned To res ume _ With the open- [THIS 1S ‘Tre, A committee composed of Murray Se ee oh gs por se oe 2 nonusupport and harsh. treatment, and| The Halls were married 10 years ago oS Batre: ing of Lent, the [DAY To RENEW: Carteton, Elias Michael, Al Shapleigh. etree see “ng ta Barge, nO |. made. no detenen. and had no ehildren. “4 sage Feb. 5.—The Bulgarian Gov- where we left off last week. On Tuesday of this week the weather apparent- Herts ete RR. H. Whitelaw and other business men 0” ; — ee ee a 4) athe After. the divorce she resamed_ the Found Powder tn Trunk. nent has refused to grant the appeal Ret mec H alone carried ly made up its [RESott tr identified with the league tried to raise hy hen Tuttle fell Coleman: jumped on name of: her firat husband. who was at Mrs. Hall said that Friday night she a de by the German Empress to the mind to be moder- a fund. Shippers were asked_to pur-' him, demanding the keys. Head. al. | 0" time connected with the businesy|found a powder tn her husband's trunk — » Queer ate in all things. chase stock in the barge line and pledge, “! haven't them,” Tuttle replied, al-| , t , d burned it. That night, she said, ¢ of Bulgaria for permission for : J ge a p Ke | : : cepartment of a St. Louis paper, and j4" ‘ . ent, Z% ; nar Red Pinon exnedition al pita co umns for a while, at themselves to give it Aa certain propor- ; though he had them hidden under his who died several vears before her sec- Hall went to the trunk and apparently Fs é = to attend the Turkish sick least. After care- | tion of their business. Several banquets Sweater. “Stewart has therm.” end marriage. She went to the home of]tried to find the powder. She bellevesn 84 wounded. of local merchants’ advertising, while its three nearest fully examining were held at which the barge line and| Stewart, who was in the office, heard | elatives in Kingstree, S. C., and Ste-|he had determined then to kill himself, —- —— ytter the German Minister at Sofia competitors combined, namely, the Globe-Democrat pha Sharan iis benefits to St. Louis were the prin-;the noise. Jones and Coleman rushed |. 15 followed her there. They were % ie mete NOs Si Kitins the thoneart. Re ublic and Tj 7 . ’ day, the _forecast- cipal topics of discussion. ;for him. The trusty then fired his Fe-| |. arried in the Christmas holiday sea- FLORIDA WOMAN KILLED | = war authorities to allow German P mes onry carriec er reached the It Was the general impression | volver and stationed himself at the door eon. . / ie ~~ help to pass through their lines. 64 , conclusion that _~ rf that the barge line would be ato prevent the other prisoners from Returning to St. Louis soon afterward, IN HOT SI RIT YGS HOTEL | an Empress telegraphed Queen co umns fe one wcoonginame VP 4 cd freat thing for St. Loupis for escaping. By this time Tuttle had risen | ay, and Mrs. Stevens kept the marriage Stiike Coll ‘ Mea e to use her influence, but the : ng to happen ina ] | several reasons. It would serve to to his feet. Grabbing the revolver from), secret. and even their neighbors did| Attempts to liike Ollector | >) | tne Diceenment nnw enelh-ihaadl or 3 columns less than the POST-DISPATCH alone. sil teor - log- ‘ \ ay “. revive freight traffic on the Mississippi Stewart etree three more shots, none | not know of it until the announcement With Hatehet in Sick Man's 7 c way in the} \ P Itiver a . hem taking effect. , ,; Pinfle detiwate an bran etations make impossible the Every body knows there is nothing new in this state. at Mee ; pra ne wermonsernts te Congress. that (et Se pres te a ee aes eg, | Ce ee ee Room and Is Shot. es : . venk : - 4 5. ’ ‘ ’ ‘i nursin Mrs, omer ea a « sOrtn 4 of her request. t, but . ere was a real demand for the deepen-; Mrs. Grant Minor, the Sheriffs wife ing. M Comer lived at 912 North , M euneteneiiaaieaa i eames men ut it is the strongest kind of evidence that the There will not lig of the channel; it would make St.! immediately notified her husband and ! ¢arrison avenue. ewig worfles etscney — deg ri : i | Sald to Have Agreed to Cession merchants of St. Louis get quicker and bigger results from be much change Louls practically a seaport town and the deputies. The four prisoners were} grevens was chosen Tuesday as secre- ve i v pornos be been. Moeheall of Adrianoptle. advertising in the POST-DISPATCH than practically al] | In _ temperature, pave the way for a big river traffic placed in dark cells and the other pris-/ tary of @he fourth annual Peace Con- ee re of tht 4 early tod the ' mm NNA, Feb. 5.—The Neue Frie of its competit bined. but that may be! when the Panama Canal was opened; it| oners in their cells. i ali : ee pete peers ee ay, hi 's Constantinople fee potie ipetitors combinec the gazipe in th would b i tant f gress, which will be held in St. Louis! snooting taking place Im a room 6c- , corresponden e C e an importan actor in the’ _— May 1, 2 and 3, following the dedication ' - ; MAY 1, « te ‘upled by William’ Hull of ” ‘ha Turkish Cabinet has agreed in If any doubt as to the correctness of this statement ch aateag Aala agad the ‘ereather is try-|regulation of railroad freight rates, and BABY IS NAMED O. U. KIDD | of the Jefferson Memorial, April ®. He mr: sail. bbs e its change, so as to avoid |have a tendency toward producing bet- was a former editor and Washington Hull! stated that Mrs. Wellborn haa

existed these merchants would not favor the POST- DISPATCH by such overwhelming odds. Circulation last Sunday: $18,807 Daily average for January; vty rel to the cession of Adrianople Bulgarian conditions, but wishes @° await the issue of hostilities. The Frie Presse is regarded as the of young Turkish communica- Sa : : y ee *

WASHINGTON, ] Feb. 5.—Representa- tivetive Oscar Underwood, who has just turned 50 and looks 10 years younger, has entered the grandfather class. Under- wood’s son, who lives in Birmingham Ala., telegraphed the House leader that he is the father of a girl.. | Underwood was advised today that one of his admirers, whose last name is Kidd, had named his latest arriva)] Oscar Underwood Kidd. “: wonder if they'll correspondent of St. Louls newspapers, leaving Washington when the St. Louis World's Fair Was organized to accept the secretaryship of the exposition cor- poration. He was for a time publicity representative of the United Railways Co. During his later years In Washington he was regarded as the dean of the newspaper correspondents there, and was president of the famous Gridiron come to his apartments to give him oa medicine prescribed by his physicians 5

ter railway service at lower cost to the shipper. Last of the Big Barge. Contract between the Business Men's League and Mississippi Valley Trans- portation Co. was not to be enforced until the League raised by subscription $200,000. The fall and winter of 1911 passed without anything definite having been accomplished, although at the out- set it Was promised that the $200,000 paying an income tax. The outlook fs that there will not be enough sunshine to cause a thaw. Over- shoes will continue to be worn for looks and not for utility. ; Offictal forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday; mot much change in temperature; lowest tonight will be about 8 de- grees, Missouri—Generally fair tonight and Thurs-

a hatchet, attempting to strike man, who kille@ her. Mre. Wellborn coné@ucted the ment house where t nae curred. Her husband fs @ real estate — man of Miami, Fla. Woolman i

ASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The House} ons Committee today reported a for a delegation of Con-

to attend the unveiling of the day; not much change in temperature. raised rw Cc} of suicide after he kill : ol ‘ ld be » = Q rie} at Bt. Louie. |“ First i in By Sieete—Generally fair tontane a oa wou within @ days. The/ call him O U Kidd,” Underwood said ub. He has received a number commit o | memo eht and Th . his secretary decorations from foreigu gover ‘ : Gay; rot inuch change in temperature. Continued om Page 2, Column 3. to ¥ nme Wellborn, but eee

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